Meteor fireball over the sky of Brittany on September 5, 2021.
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Meteor fireball over the sky of Brittany on September 5, 2021.
For this event, we received 5 videos and one photo.
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Dutch politician Thierry Baudet addresses protesters at Dam Square in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 5, 2021.
Dutch politician Thierry Baudet addresses protesters at Dam Square in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 5, 2021.
Crowds of protesters gathered in Amsterdam's Dam Square on Sunday for a 7km (4 mile) march through the city's canal-lined streets and back to the square, all in protest of the center-right government's coronavirus policies.
Video footage showed a seemingly endless column of protesters marching along the route, with some observers claiming that the actual group of demonstrators was up to 3km (1.8 miles) long.
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Hundreds of people forced their way into the Forum des Halles shopping center on Saturday, amid a nationwide string of demonstrations against the Covid-19 restrictions and mandates. The group was seen chanting 'Freedom!' inside the mall, which is partially underground and connected to the metro transit hub of Chatelet-Les Halles.
To restore public order, authorities deployed a riot police unit, BRAV-M, a French acronym for the Motorized Brigades for the Repression of Violent Actions - even though the crowd was not even technically defying the ban on entering shopping centers without a health certificate, since Forum des Halles is one of a handful of Paris venues exempt from the coronavirus pass mandate.
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A mannequin, dressed in a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), stands at the entrance to the laboratory of the Vector enterprise of the State Scientific Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk, Russia.
A mannequin, dressed in a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), stands at the entrance to the laboratory of the Vector enterprise of the State Scientific Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Speaking at the New Knowledge conference in the Russian capital on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova praised the project as vital for the country to deliver. The order to establish it came from President Vladimir Putin himself, and officials are now "actively working" on plans for it, she said.
"Today we believe that this project is one of the most important, because this won't be the only pandemic that we will have to face in our lives," Golikova added. The first 15 "high security" laboratories will be up and running by 2024 and will deal with viruses that are "very, very contagious, and lead to fatal diseases," she said. At present, the country only has three such labs, but there are hopes to lift this number to 36 by 2030.
Comment: The threat of being attacked with bioweapons is likely one reason for this huge project, but what could be the other possible motivations? Considering current events in our world, one wonders whether some of those backing this initiative in Russia are also aware of the possibility of outbreaks of other kinds, that history shows have erupted during similarly tumultuous times:
- Putin claims someone is harvesting Russian bio samples for obscure purposes - US Air Force admits to collecting genetic data for 'research'
- New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection
- The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19
- Ethnic-Specific Weapons: Leaked Documents Reveal US Diplomats in Georgia Trafficking Human Blood And Pathogens For Pentagon Biowarfare Laboratory
- Medieval plague outbreaks picked up speed over 300 years
- 536 AD: Plague, famine, drought, cold, and a mysterious fog that lasted 18 months
- The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists
- Behind the Headlines: Who was Jesus? Examining the evidence that Christ may in fact have been Caesar!
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White House Press Secretary Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington
White House Press Secretary Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington
It must have something to do with all those TV lights, the undivided attention of the audience and the sheer power of being the intermediary between the President of the United States and the world's press that turns perfectly ordinary people into power-crazed monsters prepared to say or do anything to keep mud from sticking to their employer.
Comment: Par for the course:
- Biden silent, Press Sec Psaki 'out of the office' as Taliban conquer Kabul
- Duck and weave: Psaki refuses to provide number of 'breakthrough' cases of COVID in the White House
- Psaki backdates crime surge in attempt to undercut links to protests, cop defund push, but cold statistics tell the real story
- What's there to fact check? USA Today covers for Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki wearing a hammer-and-sickle hat
- Blast from the past: Things we have (not) missed about Jen Psaki
Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what it is, not "insanity" or "an overreaction," but, in fact, a new form of totalitarianism, a globalized, pathologized, depoliticized form, which is being systematically implemented under the guise of "protecting the public health."
In order to oppose this new form of totalitarianism, we need to understand how it both resembles and differs from earlier totalitarian systems. The similarities are fairly obvious — the suspension of constitutional rights, governments ruling by decree, official propaganda, public loyalty rituals, the outlawing of political opposition, censorship, social segregation, goon squads terrorizing the public, and so on — but the differences are not obvious.
Whereas 20th-Century totalitarianism (i.e., the form most people are generally familiar with) was more or less national and overtly political, New Normal totalitarianism is supranational, and its ideology is much more subtle. The New Normal is not Nazism or Stalinism. It is global-capitalist totalitarianism, and global capitalism doesn't have an ideology, technically, or, rather, its ideology is "reality."
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The Schuylkill River exceeds its bank in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that hit the area.
The Schuylkill River exceeds its bank in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that hit the area.
In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding but hadn't braced for such a blow from the no-longer-hurricane, the storm killed at least 46 people from Maryland to Connecticut on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
At least 23 people died in New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said. At least 13 people were killed in New York City, police said, 11 of them in flooded basement apartments, which often serve as relatively affordable homes in one of the nation's most expensive housing markets. Suburban Westchester County reported three deaths.
Officials said at least five people died in Pennsylvania, including one killed by a falling tree and another who drowned in his car after helping his wife to escape. A Connecticut state police sergeant, Brian Mohl, perished after his cruiser was swept away. Another death was reported in Maryland.
Sophy Liu said she tried using towels and garbage bags to stop the water coming into her first-floor New York City apartment, but the flood rose to her chest in just a half hour. She roused her son from bed, put him in a life jacket and inflatable swimming ring and tried to flee, but the door stuck. She called two friends who helped her jar it loose.
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Australia's Premier Daniel Andrews announces the extended lockdowns on Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Australia's Premier Daniel Andrews announces the extended lockdowns on Wednesday, September 1, 2021
On Wednesday, the jump in new cases to 120 signalled that the chance of Victoria returning to COVID zero in the community has gone, and the government and health officers have acknowledged it. While the daily numbers are not in the same league as NSW's, the pathway back to more freedoms is the same - high vaccination rates.
Comment: For those with eyes to see, it's clear that Australia (and New Zealand) have been used as a testing ground for how far draconian restrictions on civil liberties can be taken. There has been no lack of petty tyrants willing to enforce them.
- Global lockdown: Sydney calls in more troops, New Zealand won't open borders till next year, Tokyo may extend state of emergency
- Australia puts 7mn people under strict lockdown after 26 Covid cases in Victoria, allowing travel for food, work & vaccinations
- Melbourne police force protesters to wear muzzles before arresting at 'Freedom Day' rally against fascist lockdown
- Australian capital Canberra goes into snap lockdown over ONE 'case' of Covid, first in more than a year
- 'Full-blown fascism' comes to Australia: PREGNANT woman handcuffed & charged with inciting anti-lockdown event on Facebook
- New Zealand police can now enter homes to look for 'people gathering'
- New Zealand acclaimed 'world leader' in handling Covid-19 as it announces enforced relocation of 'infected' to 'quarantine centers'
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Social media footage shows flooding in Williamsburg area of Brooklyn
Social media footage shows flooding in Williamsburg area of Brooklyn
Some people were trapped in the flooded basements of their homes, while one body was retrieved from a vehicle that was swept away.
The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called it a "historic weather event".
At least 8cm of rain fell in just one hour in New York's Central Park.
The US National Weather Service declared a flood emergency in New York City, Brooklyn and Queens, and issued tornado warnings for parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Comment: From Floodlist:
While parts of Louisiana are still under water after storm surge and torrential rain from Hurricane Ida, remnants of the storm have moved north, dumping heavy rainfall and causing flooding in parts of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Maryland.UPDATE 02/09/2021:
Destructive floods hit parts of Southwest Virginia in the previous 24 hours.
Record Rainfall
National Weather Service (NWS) Eastern Region reported 48 hour rainfall totals of over 7 inches (177.8 mm) in several areas. Coatsville, Pennsylvania recorded 8.62 inches (218.95 mm) and Stockton in New Jersey 8.04 inches (204.22 mm). Most of this rain fell during a 12 to 24 hour period to late 01 September, NWS Eastern Region said.
New York City saw its rainfall record broken for the second time in a few weeks. The National Weather Service (NWS) recorded 3.15 inches (80 mm) of rain in New York's Central Park in one hour, far surpassing the 1.94 inches (49.27 mm) that fell in one hour during Tropical Storm Henri which was a record high at the time.
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Rainfall in north east USA after remnants of Hurricane Ida 30 August to 01 September 2021.
Several tornadoes touched down in New Jersey, wreaking destruction through communities as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the East Coast, also triggering New York City's first ever flash flood emergency amid a massive downpour.Meanwhile the flooding continues:
Twisters were spotted in multiple locations across New Jersey on Wednesday evening, with dramatic videos circulating on social media showing massive funnel clouds touching down.
Extensive damage to homes was also seen in other videos making the rounds, as well as flooded streets in Hoboken.
Street turns into river as flash floods wreak havoc in Toledo
On Thursday, parts of mainland Spain as well as the Balearic Islands were on the national weather agency Aemet's yellow alert level for rain and thunderstorms.
Train services were still affected on Thursday morning. At 8.30am, the railway company Renfe notified interruptions on the high-speed Madrid-Toledo line between the stations of La Sagra and Toledo, as well as additional disruptions on the Tarancón-Huete line (between Aranjuez and Cuenca) and the Teruel-Zaragoza line (at Cariñena).
In Catalonia, weather stations recorded rainfall of 77mm in just 30 minutes. The heavy rain triggered flash floods on city streets and damaged ground-floor properties in municipalities of the Montsià and Baix Ebre areas of Tarragona province. In the small coastal town of Alcanar (population 9,300), record rainfall of 167mm caused flash floods that dragged vehicles out to sea.
Comment: Just add this to the list of cities rising up against vaccine passports and draconian lockdown measures. As the governments keep pushing, more people will continue to stand. It's going to reach boiling point eventually.
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