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Best of the Web: Hateful hypocrisy: In hate crime-obsessed Britain, vilifying Covid vaccine 'refuseniks' comes with establishment approval

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We hear so much in woke Britain about 'hate crime' and how terrible it is. But right now, we're in the midst of an extremely nasty campaign against those who don't wish to take a Covid vaccine and somehow that's deemed acceptable.

"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp." From George Orwell's '1984.'

"Selfish idiots." "Refuseniks." "Anti-vaxxer loonies." "Holding the country to ransom." "A menace to their own health and ours." "They're like drink drivers." Just a few of the insults that have been hurled at Brits who, despite the biggest drug promotion campaign in our history, have decided they don't wish to take one of the new-on-the-market Covid vaccines.

Freedom of choice? Bodily autonomy? They seem to have gone out of the window, along with all the other basic rights we have lost in Britain these past 15 months. The date is 2021, but we're actually living in Orwell's '1984,' with its daily 'Two Minutes Hate.'

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Best of the Web: Use of fear to control behavior in Covid crisis was 'totalitarian', admit scientists

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© Chris Jackson/Getty ImagesOne scientist said the Government ‘was very worried about compliance and they thought people wouldn’t want to be locked down’
Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about 'unethical' methods

Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour have expressed regret about 'unethical' methods used to control behaviour in Covid crisis and admitted they should be considered 'totalitarian'.

Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people's behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was "unethical" and "totalitarian".

Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government's Covid-19 response.

The group warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase "the perceived level of personal threat" from Covid-19 because "a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened".

Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the team, said: "Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It's not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature, I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people."

Comment: This is only what we've been saying here for many months - and is now being admitted to by an all-too-timid few.


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Best of the Web: Global cooling underway: Record-breaking cold blasts Australia and Canada

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Arctic air continues to descend unusually-far south, while Antarctic air continues to ride anomalously-far north. The culprit is low solar activity, namely its weakening of the jet streams, and the upshot is COOLING across the lower-latitudes (where us humans reside).

AUSTRALIA

Swathes of Australia are shivering through a record-breaking cold snap, with the frosty mornings set to continue across eastern parts through the weekend.

The mercury in Sydney dropped to 8.6C (47.5F) at 7am early Thursday, marking the fifth-straight day of mornings below 9C (48.2F).

Not since the year 1967 has Sydney experienced a colder streak in May.

Back then, the temperature fell below 9C (48.2F) for six nights in a row.

Comment: Crazy weather in Edmonton, Alberta - Heavy snowfall on May 18


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Best of the Web: Gaza death toll hits 200 - Biden continues blocking UN call for ceasefire - Palestinians call for general strike UPDATES

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© Ashraf Amra/APA ImagesPalestinians inspect destroyed homes in Beit Hanoun in Northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2021
The Latest:
  • Gaza death toll hits 212, including 61 children and over 1,400 injuries, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health; 17 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank.
  • 10 Israeli casualties, including one child.
  • According to UN OCHA on May 16, there are 38,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) seeking protection in 48 UNRWA schools across Gaza. Over 2,500 people have been made homeless due to the destruction of their homes.
  • The Biden Administration is reportedly blocking a UN Security Council statement calling for a ceasefire for the third time. This reflects a traditional pattern on the part of the U.S.: Israel "feels it needs" to destroy a certain amount of opposition in Gaza before the U.S. will join calls on it to cease fire, Barbara Plett Usher observed on BBC today.
  • Thirty Senators, almost all Democrats, have signed a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire "to prevent any further loss of civilian life and to prevent further escalation of conflict in Israel and the Palestinian Territories."
  • That letter and the news and political climate in the United States are "dangerous" signs to Israel about its operations, Chuck Freilich, a former national security aide in Israel, said today on i24 News. The letter equates Israel's actions and Hamas's, a sign of a "collapse" in sympathy for Israel on the Democratic side in the U.S. Today it is hard to find a young Democrat who supports Israel, and a similar trend is occurring inside the Jewish community, Freilich warned.
- updated 6:41 pm GMT

Palestinians call for massive general strike throughout historic Palestine on May 18:


Comment: And the carnage in Gaza continues unabated as Hamas fights back:

Update 16/5/2021 12:16 Israel stages new round of heavy airstrikes as Hamas continues to fire rockets from Gaza.
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© Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images.jpgGaza City after Israeli airstrike Monday, May 17, 2021
Sunday's airstrikes hit a busy downtown street of residential buildings and storefronts over the course of five minutes just after midnight. The Gaza Health Ministry said 16 women and 10 children were among those killed, with more than 50 people wounded. The main coastal road west of Gaza City, security compounds and open spaces were among the targets hit and damaged a line feeding electricity from the only power plant to large parts of southern Gaza City. It was was the deadliest single attack.


Update 17/5/2021 8:01 Israel downplays Palestinian response:
Israeli military claimed only 60 rockets had been fired at Israeli cities from Gaza a decrease from 120-200 the previous nights. Recent Israeli airstrikes destroyed 15 kilometres of militant tunnels and the homes of nine alleged Hamas commanders, though they were unlikely to be home at the time due to going underground when the fighting began.
Update 17/5/2021 10:08 Blinken claims he has yet to see evidence of Hamas operating from the media building struck down by Israel:
Blinken, while delivering remarks in Copenhagen, said he has asked Israel for evidence to bolster its claim that Hamas was operating in the building, according to the AP. He said that he personally has "not seen any information provided."

Netanyahu, in a Sunday interview, told host John Dickerson on CBS's Face the Nation that an intelligence office for Hamas, that plots and organizes the terror attacks against Israeli civilians, was housed in that building "so it is a perfectly legitimate target."
Update 17/5/2021 11:32 Israeli Air Force and Navy attack Hamas submarine off the coast of Gaza:
The IDF released footage showing the destruction of an "unmanned diver vessel" in the northern Gaza Strip, with the footage said to be filmed Monday.

Update 17/5/2021 11:56 Netanyahu vows no end to conflict as a a top Islamic Jihad commander is killed by Israeli airstrike:
Israel claims: It has neutralized more than 130 terrorists in the last week, while Palestinian militant groups had fired more than 3,150 missiles at Israel, killing 10. IDF said that Hussam Abu Harbeed, Islamic Jihad's northern division commander of 15 years, had been killed in an airstrike. The tweet was accompanied by a video of the attack on Abu Harbeed's compound:


Update 17/5/2021 14:11 Mixed message. US Secretary of State claims US is working behind the scenes to end violence while intending to sell $735M worth of bombs to Israel:
Blinken announced on Monday the Biden administration was working "intensely," in a "behind the scenes" effort to restore peace to the region. "We are ready to lend support if the parties... seek a ceasefire," as the Biden administration is pressing ahead with a massive arms sale to Israel.

The bulk of the shipment consists of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS) kits. These kits bolt onto ordinary 'dumb' bombs, transforming them into precision-guided munitions. Lawmakers have 20 days to object. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin): "US aid should not be funding" Israel's military activities.
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© Reuters/Ibraheem Abu MustafaIsraeli air strike in Gaza City May 17, 2021
Update 17/5/2021 14:18 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeals to Pope Francis to help end the massacre as Tehran weighed in:
Erdogan told the Pope that:
"all of humanity should be united against" Israel and should punish it for its "savagery. Palestinians will continue to be subjected to a massacre unless the international community punishes Israel... with sanctions."
Pope Francis described the mounting death toll as:
"terrible and unacceptable." "In these days, violent armed clashes between the Gaza Strip and Israel have taken over, and risk degenerating into a spiral of death and destruction."
Tehran reiterated its support for Palestine:
"The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the new round of brutal aggression by the Zionist regime against the defenseless people of Palestine and the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in the martyrdom of dozens of civilians, including women and children, and the destruction of many residential buildings."
Update 17/5/2021 14:34 Lavrov condemns the attacks pledging help with peace negotiations:
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© Said Khatib/AFP/Sputnik/Press Service of the Russian Foreign MinistryRussian FM Sergey Lavrov • Israeli airstrike on Rafah, Gaza Strip
"We condemn the strikes that are being launched from the Gaza Strip to residential areas [in Israel']. We also, of course, condemn the completely unacceptable strikes on civilian targets in the Palestinian territories.

"Now, everything depends on the negotiability of the parties and their goodwill. We will do everything to help them find agreements to calm down the present, extremely dangerous, hot phase of the conflict and to start direct negotiations as soon as possible."
Update 17/5/2021 17:44 Tel Aviv supposedly gave US 'smoking gun' evidence of Hamas presence in razed media tower according to The Jerusalem Post and anonymous sources, however this is not verified.
The owner of the building was left with rubble.
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Israel has killed 58 Palestinian children in one week of airstrikes on Gaza UPDATES


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Best of the Web: Trump gave military orders to get out of Middle East, Africa, Germany - Pentagon traitors disobeyed

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Axios' "Off the rails" series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol.

One important piece is only now beginning to emerge: Former President Donald Trump's last-minute bid to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan and swaths of the Middle East, Africa and even Europe ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration — and why he blinked.

John McEntee, one of Donald Trump's most-favored aides, handed retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor a piece of paper with a few notes scribbled on it. He explained: "This is what the president wants you to do."
  1. Get us out of Afghanistan.
  2. Get us out of Iraq and Syria.
  3. Complete the withdrawal from Germany.
  4. Get us out of Africa.
It was Nov. 9, 2020 — days after Trump lost his re-election bid, 10 weeks before the end of his presidency and just moments after Macgregor was offered a post as senior adviser to acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller.

As head of the powerful Presidential Personnel Office, McEntee had Trump's ear. Even so, Macgregor was astonished. He told McEntee he doubted they could do all of these things before Jan. 20.

"Then do as much as you can," McEntee replied.

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Best of the Web: Vovan and Lexus strike again: American 'regime change' specialists NED claim credit for Belarus protests & boast of funding Russian opposition during prank call

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© YouTube / Vovan222prankPrank with the NED leadership.
A pair of notorious Russian pranksters posing as leading Belarusian opposition figures have duped the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) into revealing the extent of US involvement in Eastern European political movements.

In a video call posted on the online channel of pranksters Vovan and Lexus, senior representatives of the American agency disclosed that they have actively financed and supported anti-government campaigns in the region. The officials from the NED, which is funded by Congress and describes its role as "supporting freedom around the world," also revealed that they are coordinating efforts with prominent political activists in a range of countries, including Russia.

The officials believed they were talking to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the figurehead of Belarus' opposition movement, and one of her advisors.

Comment: There's no better way of exposing an individual or group's nefarious dealings than getting them to admit it themselves. In contradiction to the myth of Russian 'kompromat', the reality of such is both humane and hilarious!

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Best of the Web: Europe's extreme May freeze is set to continue

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Near-term models don't know whether they're coming or going. This meridional jet stream flow is throwing them for a loop. And after fooling many MSM publications into running headlines such as "Intense 10 day Heatwave set to strike Europe," the models have now flipped, and are forecasting yet more Arctic cold.

Below was the scene on May 8 in northern England:


"May time blizzard makes us shiver," tweeted the YorkshireSpeherdess, who runs a successful sheep farm.

"You can't believe this is May," she says in the video.

"It's just like the middle of winter."


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Flashback Best of the Web: What if Iron Dome is a bluff? Israeli rocket scientist says missile defense system 'mostly fires at virtual rockets'

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Iron Dome is Israeli society's deus ex machina coming from nowhere to solve the problems that left us helpless. We worship it. Unquestioningly. We were told up front that it can guarantee interception of only 90 percent of the rockets launched at us, so even a little damage and a few casualties and fatalities won't cause us to doubt its efficacy.

However, Israel Defense Prize laureate and aerospace engineer Dr. Moti Shefer, whose specialty is interception missiles, says Iron Dome is a bluff. It doesn't intercept anything but rather invents virtual rockets. The explosions we hear are the sounds of Iron Dome missiles self-destructing. As of the writing of these lines, Hamas rockets have done very little damage to people and property. We see this as proof of Iron Dome's efficacy and reliability; Shefer says the number of rockets coming in from the Gaza Strip is immeasurably smaller than what Iron Dome reports and in any case they are tinpot weapons, so 95 percent of the time we are safe anyway, irrespective of Iron Dome (and the endless "open spaces" with which we have suddenly been blessed, like some new sort of manna rained down upon us by a benevolent deity).


Comment: Here's the full statement from Shefer, aired on Israeli Radio 103 during the 2014 'Gaza-Israel War':
"There is no missile in the world today able to intercept missiles or rockets. Iron Dome is a sound and light show that is intercepting only Israeli public opinion, and itself, of course. Actually, all the explosions you see in the sky are self-explosions. No Iron Dome missile has ever collided with a single rocket. Open spaces are a myth invented in order to up Iron Dome's current interception percentages. The rockets announced as intercepted by Iron Dome either never reach the ground, or are virtual rockets invented and destroyed on the Iron Dome control computer. To this day, no one has ever seen an intercepted rocket fall to the ground."

"What lands here is what's launched. The parts we see on the ground are from Iron Dome itself. We're shooting at ourselves, mainly virtually. The virtual rocket was invented in order to increase the vagueness surrounding Iron Dome. Assume that a real rocket arrives. What does the command-and-control system do? It creates nine more virtual rockets, and transmits their paths on computer graphics to the rocket launcher operators. The launcher operators see 10 rockets and launch 10 Iron Dome interceptors. People hear 10 booms, one rocket enters, and you get a 90% success rate."

In an article in Haaretz in March, 2013, the late military commentator Reuven Pedatzur cited anti-missile defense specialist MIT Prof. Theodore Postol, who after analyzing dozens of videos filmed during Operation Pillar of Defense concluded that the percentage of successful interceptions by Iron Dome was only about 5 percent.

Comment: Iron Dome is a glorified rocket show for propaganda purposes. Certainly, some rockets - sans warheads - are launched from Gaza, and no doubt with the connivance of Israeli agents embedded there, but they too are little more effective than fireworks.

But this phony aspect of the 'Israel-Palestine War' aside, the periodic aerial bombardment of Gaza by the IDF is very real.


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Flashback Best of the Web: Iron Dome is a massive Hoax - Israel is just firing blank missiles up in the air

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The Iron Dome Hoax is a rather hard one to understand and come to terms with. After all, we are told on the nightly news, night after night, that Hamas missiles are being intercepted by the almost god-like Iron Dome system, which allegedly intercepts 90% of the missiles launched toward Israel... Why lie about that?

What proof is there that Iron Dome actually is hitting missiles in the first place? Well, there actually isn't any. The few Hamas missiles actually ever launched (by the way, Hamas is a group originally created by and - to some extent at least - still controlled by the state of Israel) do not in fact even have warheads, and are basically hollow pipes and fireworks, as has been seen time and time again in previous Israel-Palestine 'wars'.

Well, it turns out the "Iron Dome" interceptor missiles are a similar scam. They are in fact not intercepting anything, but instead are exploding in thin air, making people believe the IDF is intercepting alleged Hamas rockets, when in reality they're essentially billions of dollars' worth of American taxpayers' money spent on glorified fireworks that self-detonate in the air.


Comment: The original video report is, of course, long gone. But we found this analysis elsewhere:




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Best of the Web: Standing up: 1,000 lawyers and 10,000 doctors have filed a lawsuit for violations of the Nuremberg Code

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Consumer protection trial lawyer Reiner Fuellmich says agencies 'knowingly misled governments across the world.'

Background to the new Nuremberg Trials 2021

A large team of more than 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts, led by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, has initiated legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO and the Davos Group for crimes against humanity.

Fuellmich and his team present the incorrect PCR test and the order for doctors to describe any comorbidity death as a Covid death - as fraud.

The PCR test was never designed to detect pathogens and is 100% inaccurate at 35 cycles. All PCR tests monitored by the CDC are set at 37 to 45 cycles. The CDC acknowledges that tests over 28 cycles are not allowed for a positive reliable result.

This invalidates over 90% of the alleged Covid cases / "infections" detected by the use of this incorrect test.

Comment: Here's an interview with Fuellmich, who accuses WHO Director Tedros Adhanom, Dr Christan Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin's Charité Hospital, and Dr Lothar Wieler, the head of the RKI, the German counterpart of the U.S. Center for Disease Control, of knowingly misleading governments the world over:

As he acknowledges in the interview, they're not the 'head of the hydra', but you have to start hacking somewhere, and those three are 'at the top' of what is visible, so...