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Best of the Web: Over a Million Palestinians Are About to be Forced Into Egypt at Gunpoint

Palestinians Are About to be Forced Into Egypt
It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples.... If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us.... The only solution is a Land of Israel...without Arabs. There is no room here for compromises... Yosef Weitz (1890-1972) former director of the Jewish National Fund's Land Settlement Department
The IDF's recent airstrikes on civilian areas in Rafah mark the beginning of the final phase of Israel's massive ethnic cleansing project. On Monday, Israel bombed a number of locations where Palestinian refugees were huddled in tents after fleeing Israel's onslaught in the North. Videos of the destruction appeared on a number of Twitter-sites which showed a deeply-cratered wasteland in the middle of makeshift encampments. Not surprisingly, women and children made up the bulk of the casualties with no evidence of Hamas to be found anywhere. According to a witness at the site, body parts and carnage were strewn across the landscape. This is from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:

Biohazard

Best of the Web: Big Pharma tested 'secret bioweapon targeting Slavic DNA in Mariupol, Ukraine', video tour shows biowarfare laboratory

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© AFP 2023 / ANDREY BORODULINMariupol, Ukraine
It is no surprise the city of Mariupol became the destination of choice for Big Pharma's tests on psychiatric ward patients as such testing is forbidden in Western countries, experts told Sputnik.

Major Western pharmaceutical companies tested rheumatological drugs on patients, including infants, in a psychiatric ward of a hospital in the city of Mariupol alongside Ukrainian officials for several years, according to documents obtained by Sputnik.

The tests were carried out when Mariupol was under Kiev's jurisdiction - until May 2022, when Russia seized control of the city.

Comment: RT reports:
RT tours secretive former Ukrainian medical research lab

The Russian city of Mariupol was a testbed for large-scale medical research on local civilians while under Ukrainian rule, a trove of recently discovered documents suggests.

RT's Steve Sweeney visited a disused psychiatric ward in the city, which has been undergoing rapid reconstruction after being incorporated into Russia following a referendum in late 2022.

In December of last year, a construction team made a shocking discovery at the disused ward, finding documents as well as medication and medical equipment related to secretive research conducted while the city was part of Ukraine.

The experiments took place for years in at least eight medical facilities across Mariupol, with leading Western biotech corporations allegedly benefiting from them, according to the documents.

"We've found documents that suggested thousands of people have been involved in the experiments, with the trials carried out for major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, and others. Blood and other samples were collected and then sent to labs and clinics in Europe and the US for testing. The results of which are unknown," Sweeny explained.

The research was not only conducted on adults, but also on children and babies, the documents suggest. As well as being ethically questionable, the experiments on minors likely made the clinical trials illegal, a Russian doctor told RT on condition of anonymity.


While it's difficult to track all the participants of the experiments, witnesses are now coming forward with their testimonies about the research. A local man whose mother took part in the trials claimed the research was not safe.

"My mother got sick, they gave her drugs. I asked her what medication she was taking, but she did not give me a clear answer. She said that the drugs were simply given from a white box. Her condition worsened over the course of a month and then she died," the man told Sweeney.
Note that Putin sounded the alarm back in 2017 that genetic data of Slav's was being harvested, and in 2023 China called for an investigation into the known plans that the US was developing a bioweapon intended to target those with particular genetics.

In light of this, and amidst the contrived coronavirus crisis - with Covid itself being a bioweapon - Russia announced it would construct 14 biosafety facilities on its borders.

Furthermore, this exposè comes alongside reports that Ukraine is now the organ harvesting, child trafficking, and surrogacy, capital of the world: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

More chilling testimony:





Mail

Best of the Web: Mail-in ballot fraud study finds Trump 'almost certainly' won in 2020

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A new study examining the likely impact that fraudulent mail-in ballots had in the 2020 election concludes that the outcome would "almost certainly" have been different without the massive expansion of voting by mail.

The Heartland Institute study tried to gauge the probable impact that fraudulent mail-in ballots cast for both then-candidate Joe Biden and his opponent, President Donald Trump, would have had on the overall 2020 election results.

The study was based on data obtained from a Heartland/Rasmussen survey in December that revealed that roughly one in five mail-in voters admitted to potentially fraudulent actions in the presidential election.

After the researchers carried out additional analyses of the data, they concluded that mail-in ballot fraud "significantly" impacted the 2020 presidential election.

They also found that, absent the huge expansion of mail-in ballots during the pandemic, which was often done without legislative approval, President Trump would most likely have won. The report's authors wrote:
"Had the 2020 election been conducted like every national election has been over the past two centuries, wherein the vast majority of voters cast ballots in-person rather than by mail, Donald Trump would have almost certainly been re-elected."
Over 43 percent of 2020 votes were cast by mail, the highest percentage in U.S. history.

Comment: The current election protocol requires critical examination and crucial changes to the vote and verification process. As that will most surely fail, requirements will change: Want to vote? Get chipped.


Cruise Missle

Best of the Web: A tale of two breadline massacres

Ukraine shells bakery Lysyschansk
© Associated PressRussia says Ukrainian shelling of bakery in Lysyschansk on February 4, 2024, killed at least 28
The collective West has displayed a hypocrisy breath-taking in scope as it shamelessly and publicly adheres to double standards motivated entirely by utilitarian considerations and political favouritism.

All breadline massacres are equal, Orwell might have written, whilst adding that some breadline massacres are more equal than others. Such a thought comes to mind after February 4, 2024, when a Ukrainian armed forces projectile killed 28 residents in the city of Lysychansk, Lugansk region, and wounded several dozen. The civilian victims were standing in line in front of a local bakery, intending to buy bread.

Those with a memory that goes back longer than fifteen minutes (unfortunately neither the majority nor even a significant minority nowadays) may recall that a similar incident took place in Sarajevo, during the war in Bosnia, on May 27, 1992. The victims of that incident were also waiting in line to buy bread when a projectile landed nearby and killed several dozen of them.

Blue Planet

Best of the Web: What could have been: Study says electoral fraud prevented Trump victory in 2020

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The Heartland Institute claimed fraudulent mail-in votes swung the presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden

Mail-in ballot fraud "significantly" impacted the 2020 US presidential election, handing President Joe Biden his victory, according to a study published by conservative think tank the Heartland Institute on Friday.

"Had the 2020 election been conducted like every national election has been over the past two centuries, wherein the vast majority of voters cast ballots in-person rather than by mail, Donald Trump would have almost certainly been re-elected," the report stated, citing survey data collected in December.

As many as 28.2% of mail-in voters potentially committed some form of fraud, acting in ways that were "under most circumstances, illegal," the institute's data suggested.

Dig

Flashback Best of the Web: Anti-Putin Russian outlet fact-checks Putin's claim that Lenin conspired with the US to break up Russia into smaller countries... and finds it to be true!


Comment: Whenever his haters 'fact-check' him, they discover that Putin's knowledge of history is sublime. Putin's remarks about a little-known fact of US meddling in Russian affairs over 100 years ago were part of this riveting answer he gave to a British Sky News reporter during his marathon Q&A in December...


(The relevant portion begins at 04:36)


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Last week, at a press conference with 500 journalists, Vladimir Putin reiterated his suspicions about American intentions toward Russia, recalling that one of President Woodrow Wilson's advisers once endorsed the partition of Russia, writing more than a century ago:

"It would be better for the whole world if a state in Siberia and another four states emerged in the European part of what is now greater Russia."

The quotation is real — it belongs to Edward House, Wilson's informal chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy during World War I.

To find out more about America's proposal to carve up the Russian Empire (and to get some much-needed historical context), Meduza turned to historian Alexander Etkind, who recently authored a book about William Bullitt, the U.S. diplomat sent to negotiate with Lenin on behalf of the Paris Peace Conference. It was Bullitt who devised the plan in 1918 to partition Russia.

Comment: No, what Putin's 'allusions' to Russian history reveal is that he knows history, and that he goes deep into it to find answers to the pressing problems of today.


TV

Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson also met whistleblower Edward Snowden and Biden sexual assault victim Tara Reade in Moscow

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© Associated PressEdward Snowden was granted asylum in Russia in 2013. NSA whistleblower featured heavily in Russian media before seeking more privacy in his family life.
Tucker Carlson met with NSA leaker Edward Snowden while in Moscow, according to Semafor.


Comment: Russian news agency TASS confirmed the meeting.


The former whistleblower featured heavily in Russian media before seeking more privacy in his family life.

Mr Snowden was initially granted asylum in Russia in 2013 after leaking a trove of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents, and then was granted permanent resident status in Russia in 2020.


Comment: Snowden may have narrowly escaped a fate similar to that of Julian Assange, who is currently suffering cruel and unusual punishment in prison in England.


That year, he announced his decision to seek duel citizenship, stating in a tweet that "after years of separation from our parents, my wife and I have no desire to be separated from our son."

Comment: Here's an example of how Western media conduct interviews:


The following is an interesting article explaining why Putin chose to explain the history of the region to a Western audience:
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He is saying: We have our own unique historical existence and our own world. You have no right to impose your historically nihilistic reign of instant-gratification upon our existence.

The separation between the Western and Russian world is not just a separation between two civilizations. It is a separation between two completely different relationships to history itself.

For the 'Western world' is just as ignorant of its own history, as it is of Russia's!

To appreciate the gap between the Western and Russian world, is the only way Russia and the West can ever come to an understanding.

But that will take an education far greater than what can be communicated in a few hours.

This animation shows the build up to Russia's SMO:




Bad Guys

Best of the Web: German foreign minister's grandfather was 'ardent Nazi' - Bild

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© AP / Aaron FavilaAnnalena Baerbock gestures during a press conference in Makati, Philippines, January 11, 2024
Annalena Baerbock's office said she had no idea that her ancestor was a committed follower of Hitler.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's grandfather was "an unconditional National Socialist" who had read 'Mein Kampf' and fully stood with the Nazi regime, according to documents seen by the tabloid Bild.

Baerbock has spoken publicly about her grandfather's wartime experiences, telling an audience in 2022 that Waldemar Baerbock returned to Germany from the east in early 1945 "as a defeated soldier."

What Baerbock did not mention was that her grandfather was an officer in the Wehrmacht, and had been awarded one of the Third Reich's highest military honors, the War Merit Cross with Swords in 1944, Bild reported on Thursday. The cross was bestowed on soldiers for "special services when deployed under enemy weapons or for special services in military warfare."

Comment: See also:


Putin

Best of the Web: Putin 'tried everything possible' to make peace - Ukrainian diplomat

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© Cem Ozdel / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Delegations from Russia and Ukraine meet in Istanbul, Türkiye on March 29, 2022.
The possibility of compromise was "very real" in April 2022, a key negotiator from Kiev's side has said

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally sought a peace agreement with Ukraine in April 2022, according to Ambassador Aleksandr Chaly, a senior member of the Ukrainian delegation.

Chaly expressed this perspective during an event at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) in early December, where he dissected the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The ex-deputy foreign minister is an associate fellow at the Swiss government-funded foundation. His remarks drew media attention after a video of the event was released on YouTube last week.

Comment: The article adds to the list of articles that document what the Ukrainians and Russians tried to achieve. Putin talks about de-Nazification. Does that translate to de-NATOification, if what Russia wanted most of all, was for Ukraine to stay neutral and give up on NATO membership?

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November 27, 2023 The Jews and Boris Johnson: Zelensky's top political ally looking for scapegoats as Ukrainian elites begin to accept the war is lost In this article Tarik Cyril Amar writes:
Regarding the peace negotiations that took place in Belarus at the end of February and the beginning of March 2022, Arakhamia tells Moseichuk that the Russian delegation had one "key aim": to make Ukraine accept neutrality and give up on NATO membership. In Arakhamia's own words, "everything else" Russia talked about, such as demands regarding "denazification, Russian-speaking populations, and blah-blah-blah" was merely "cosmetic political seasoning."

Let that sink in: Here is a prime negotiator for Ukraine and one of the Zelensky regime's top men stating explicitly that all that peace really required at that very early stage in the large-scale war was Kiev committing to neutrality and giving up on its NATO ambitions. The war could have stopped in the spring of 2022; that is, one-and-a-half very bloody years ago. And for Kiev, this would have come at the price of giving up on a NATO ambition that is based on a false promise encapsulated in the foul compromise of the 2008 Bucharest summit. A pledge which the West has no intention of keeping, as demonstrated again at the 2023 Vilnius summit.

Arakhamia's admission proves, once more, that there have always been viable alternatives to war. Western information warriors still denying this empirically established fact simply refuse to face their own terrible responsibility for stonewalling negotiations throughout. Likewise, Arakhamia demonstrates that everyone in Ukraine and the West who insisted that Moscow's war aims were maximalist (whether to obliterate Ukraine as a state or to march right through it to, at least, Berlin) were flat out wrong, whether by mistake or on purpose. At least, that's if we believe Arakhamia, who had direct experience with real representatives of Russia and not the fantasy creatures populating the minds of all too many Westerners, from Yale to Berlin. And note: Arakhamia has absolutely no reason to embellish Moscow's record.
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One thing is clear: Kiev has chosen to see itself as literally unable to make peace without Western permission.
After Belarus there were talks in Türkiye:

November 22, 2023 Boris Johnson derailed Ukraine peace deal - key Zelensky ally The article has many links to articles that describe how the peace negotiations were derailed. In the article there is:
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson played a key role in derailing a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, telling Ukraine to "just continue fighting," top Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia has said. Arakhamia, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky's parliamentary faction, was the chief negotiator at the botched peace talks in Istanbul, held early into the ongoing conflict.

The MP made the bombshell revelation on Friday in an interview with the Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel. "Russia's goal was to put pressure on us so that we would take neutrality. This was the main thing for them," he said. "And that we would give an obligation that we would not join NATO. This was the main thing."

However, Kiev did not actually trust Moscow to keep its word and did not want to reach such a deal without third-party "security guarantees," Arakhamia claimed, while revealing the lead role in derailing the agreement was played by Johnson.
When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kiev and said that we would not sign anything with [the Russians] at all. And [said] 'let's just continue fighting.'
The pivotal role played by Johnson in Ukraine's decision to scrap the draft agreement with Russia - signed by Arakhamia personally in Istanbul - has long been rumored, with initial reports on the matter emerging in Ukrainian media as early as May 2022. Until now, however, it was neither denied nor confirmed by any of the parties involved.
March 29, 2022: Highlights from Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Turkey
January 22, 2022: 'Threat of Russian invasion is no more than last year' says Ukrainian parliament leader
January 18, 2022: UK sends 'defensive weapons and small number of British troops' to Ukraine whilst also inviting Russia for diplomatic talks
September 04, 2016: Rasmussen: It's time for NATO to provide Ukraine with lethal weaponry


Putin

Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson committed 'treason' to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin... and the World loved it!

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The volume of vitriol poured on American journalist Tucker Carlson by Western media and politicians was something to behold.

Carlson traveled to Moscow to conduct an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The interview consisted of a full uncut exchange involving dozens of questions that lasted for more than two hours. It was aired on Carlson's website and other social media platforms.

In the hours leading up to the interview, the former Fox News host was pummeled by the political and media establishment in the United States and Europe. Their reaction was nasty and hysterical. Carlson was denounced as a "traitor" and a "useful idiot". There were calls for him to be arrested on returning to the U.S. and also to be banned from traveling to the European Union.

A telling reaction, too, was that after the interview was published, the Western media and politicians tended to ignore the event as if it did not happen.

Ironically, though, despite the concerted effort to suppress it, the interview has exploded with eager public viewing around the world. Within hours of airing, the interview had been seen by an estimated 100 million people. It will continue to gather millions of more viewers over the coming weeks.

An amusing aside is the scale of viewer figures far eclipses those of the Western media outlets that were vilifying Carlson over his encounter with Putin. Yet these marginal media outlets (one can hardly call them "mainstream" any longer due to their diminishing audience ratings) presume to deem what the majority of people should or should not watch. They include the likes of CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, the Guardian, and so on. Presstitutes all, as American writer Gerald Celente inimitably labeled them.

There are several conclusions to draw. One is the insidious malign control - or at least attempted control - of communication, views, and narrative by Western states and their media.