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Bullseye

Best of the Web: The NATOstan Clown Show

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The charade has come to a point that - diplomatically - is quite unprecedented: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lost his Taoist patience.
American hysteria over the "imminent" Russian invasion of Ukraine has exploded every geopolitical Stupid-o-Meter in sight - and that's quite an accomplishment.

What a mess. Sections of the U.S. Deep State are in open revolt against the combo that remote controls Crash Test Dummy, who impersonates POTUS. The neocon-neoliberal axis is itching for a war - but has no idea how to sell it to an immensely fractured public opinion.

UKUS, which de facto controls the Five Eyes spy scam, excels only in propaganda. So in the end it's up to the CIA/MI6 intel axis and their vast network of media chihuahuas to accelerate Fear and Loathing ad infinitum.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'




Quenelle - Golden

Best of the Web: 'Hundreds of thousands' of Australians flood streets to protest vaccine mandate

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© James Ross/AAPCrowds in Melbourne protest against mandatory vaccinations and lockdown measures on Saturday.
A fresh round of rallies against mandatory Covid vaccination has hit Australia, with hundreds of thousands protesting in dozens of cities. Aerial footage captured huge crowds blocking central streets.

New rallies all across the country happened on Saturday, as people demonstrated for more freedom in relation to coronavirus vaccination. Organized by the Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccination group, massive protests swept central Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, along with 30 other cities and towns in Australia.

Claiming that vaccine mandates are discriminatory, people protested outside parliamentary buildings and blocked central streets, calling for resignations in state governments and an end to what some call "tyranny."

Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: Cull, track and control

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The most salient feature of totalitarianism is control of movement, which entails tracking each citizen. Before the internet era, this could only be achieved roughly.

The state knew John Smith lived on Lumumba Street and worked on Stalin Avenue. If Smith wanted to spend a night at a woman's apartment, she had to register him at the neighborhood police station. Big Brother entered the bedroom, but not totally, for he couldn't hear all the sibilants, exhalations and squishes. Daytime movement was generally unmonitored, but the state always knew where you were at night.

Smith's ID card also prevented him from moving to the next city, much less getting a better job there, so he was stuck in Bidenstadt, his hometown.

Smith was free, though, to walk into any state store to browse, for as long as he wanted, its empty shelves.

Now, the state knows where Smith is all the time. At 5:51:15PM, this scowling man is again at Blather Bar, next to Red Levine, who, despite his name, also has alternative right tendencies. Vein-popping fans of Steve Sailer, each has left hundreds of fist-pumping comments, under "sigofnig" and "xxxxrabbi."

For the state, the whole point of tracking is to reward or punish, mostly the latter. In the past, you'd be invited to the police station, or just dragged off the street. Now, punishment can be much tidier, and instant, even for the tiniest sin. That's where the vaccine, green, access or health passport comes in.

Comment: You can follow the herd, you can fight the pied pipers, or you can renounce the whole thing and seek community with others who renounce it and ride this thing out. It won't last much longer...


Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Leaked Zoom call shows US, European diplomats secretly planning Ethiopian 'transition government' with rebel TPLF leader

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© Youtube/Jeff PearceDonald Yamamoto was one of a group of former ambassadors and current diplomats for the United States, Britain and EU who had a Zoom meeting on Sunday, November 21, to encourage and try to help the TPLF, and there’s evidence to prove it: a secret phone-cam video of the two-hour meeting.
Video footage has emerged of several Western diplomats meeting with leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), showing them frankly discussing plans to overthrow Ethiopia's democratically-elected president, Abiy Ahmed. Abiy arrived at the front lines on Wednesday to take personal control over the effort to halt the TPLF's offensive.

Top US, UK and European Union diplomats with longstanding connections to Ethiopia during its 27 years of TPLF rule met on Zoom on Sunday with a "chief representative" of the TPLF, trading ideas about the group's potential to seize power and the Ethiopian National Defense Force's (ENDF) ability to stop it.

Comment: For further insight, check out Andrew Korybko's The latest offensive & defensive developments in the US' hybrid war on Ethiopia.

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'




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Best of the Web: Venezuela's socialists win elections in landslide - so US refuses to recognize them

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© Reuters/Carlos Garcia RawlinsVenezuela campaign rally
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the November 21 mega-elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas. So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera speaks about the elections, the historic victory of the ruling party of President Nicolás Maduro, and Washington's attempt to de-legitimize the process.


Venezuela's November 21 regional elections were monitored by the European Union.

Comment: The US would rather be consistently wrong than admit it.


Boat

Best of the Web: Migrant smugglers kill 34 people in deadliest day of illegal Channel crossing


Comment: The question is; if the Belarus government is coordinating directed mass migration in Eastern Europe, who is doing it in Western Europe and is thus guilty of manslaughter?


Search to rescue
Dozens of people including a young girl have died trying to cross the Channel to the UK in an inflatable dinghy, officials say, in what is the deadliest incident since the current crisis began.

Two survivors are in intensive care while police have arrested four people suspected of being linked to the drownings. The International Organisation for Migration said it was the biggest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting data in 2014.

Boris Johnson, who held a Cobra meeting on Wednesday to discuss the incident, said he was "appalled" by the tragedy. He then suggested the French government had not always approached the problem of the crossings "in a way we think the situation deserves". People trafficking gangs were "literally getting away with murder", he said. However, later France's President Emmanuel Macron said Britain needed to stop politicising the issue for domestic gain.

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said that the dead included five women and a girl. He told an impromptu news conference in Calais that the boat that sank had been "very frail", and compared it to "a pool you blow up in your garden".

He said 34 people were believed to have been on before it sank.


Eye 1

Best of the Web: UK govt stuffs "stunningly draconian" anti-protest powers into new 'policing' bill, rushes it through parliament

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Priti Patel has quietly been stuffing even more punitive anti-protest powers into the policing billIt is, without hyperbole or caveat, a piece of law which would sit more easily in a dictatorship than a democracy
She's done it very quietly. Away from prying eyes, in the parts of parliament which journalists don't pay much attention to, Priti Patel has effectively criminalised the act of protest. The Government waited until the final stages of a bill's legislative process and then suddenly proposed a series of amendments, leaving reporters and human rights groups very little time to raise the alarm.

The mechanism she's used is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, which first went before the Commons in March for its initial debate, and is now being turned into something even more alarming in the House of Lords.

The bill was already a stunningly draconian piece of legislation. One of its chief provisions was to allow police to impose severe restrictions on protests on the basis of noise. If they were loud enough to cause "serious unease, alarm or distress" to a single passer-by - a description which covers any demonstration at all - the police power was triggered.

Comment: The UK has been implementing a raft of insidious new legislation of late that actually legalizes criminality committed by the establishment whilst at the same time snatches any remaining freedoms from the average citizen. Which is not surprising because protests against the encroaching police state, the lockdowns and the experimental injections, are growing, and its clear the economy and food supply are on the precipice of a collapse: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Rejecting The Cure - Massive Freedom Rallies Around The World




Black Magic

Best of the Web: Lethal Injection; Frontline E.R. Doctor Gives Chilling Account of Unusual Vaccine-Induced Illness

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"Americans are scared to death.... People are walking off the job, not because they want to lose their jobs, but they don't want to die from the vaccine! ... They say, 'Listen, I don't want to die. That's the reason I'm not taking the vaccine.' It's that clear." Dr. Peter McCullough
A report in the U.K. Telegraph explains how the Covid-19 vaccine has led to a sharp rise in excess deaths. Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Nearly 10,000 more people than usual have died in the past four months from non-Covid reasons, as experts called for an urgent government inquiry into whether the deaths were preventable....

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that England and Wales registered 20,823 more deaths than the five-year average in the past 18 weeks. Only 11,531 deaths involved Covid." ("Alarm grows as mortuaries fill with thousands of extra non-Covid deaths", UK Telegraph)
Mortality is rising because more people are dying. And more people are dying because more people have been vaccinated. There's a link between rising mortality and the Covid-19 vaccine. Naturally, the media wants to shift responsibility for the fatalities to "delayed treatments" and "the lack of preventable care". But this is just a diversion. The primary cause of death is the injection of a toxic pathogen into the bloodstreams of roughly 70% of the population. That's what's causing the clotting, the bleeding, the pulmonary embolisms, the heart attacks, the strokes, and the premature deaths. It's the vaccine. Here's more

Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Russian ex-admiral claims NATO submarine caused Kursk sinking that killed 118 Russian sailors

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© Sputnik / Pavel LvivA fragment of the wheelhouse of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the memorial to 'Submariners who died in peacetime' in Murmansk.
The catastrophic sinking of the Russian nuclear-powered Kursk submarine more than two decades ago was the result of a collision with a stricken NATO vessel in the Barents Sea, a former high-ranking navy chief has insisted.

The Kursk sank on August 12, 2000 at a depth of 108 meters, claiming the lives of all 118 crew members and sparking the first major international crisis of Vladimir Putin's presidency. An official investigation commissioned by the Russian government ruled two years later that the incident was the result of a torpedo explosion, which then triggered the detonation of ammunition on board.

Comment: A portion of the auto-translation of Popov's interview:
According to him, the collision occurred on the bow of the Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk's torpedo tube was damaged, an explosion occurred, the first compartment was flooded, and the submarine hit the bottom.

"Detonation of the entire torpedo ammunition and deprivation of the first compartment. Not only the first - the first, the second, the third. And the fourth is destroyed too. The second explosion is the most powerful. And the foreigner also suffered from the first collision, from her own collision, and from the second powerful explosion, which is why she also lay on the ground until her ability to move was restored, but with limitations, "the admiral explained.

The SOS signals that day were sent not by the Kursk, but by the nearby NATO submarine, which was damaged, he added. Anti-submarine aviation of the Russian Navy found it off the coast of Norway.



Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: Belgian govt increases restrictions on 'the unvaxxed' - Eurotroopers clash with protesters at freedom rally in Brussels' EU Quarter

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Tens of thousands crammed into Brussels' EU Quarter to let the European Commission know what they think about its rules
Europe descended into a third day of violent carnage on Sunday as tens of thousands of people in Belgium took to the streets to protest against the return of strict lockdown rules aimed at curbing a rise in Covid infections.

Nearly 40,000 people descended on the capital Brussels to protest against new anti-Covid measures banning the unvaccinated from entering restaurants and bars.

Some protesters were seen throwing projectiles at riot police and in response, officers fired water cannon and tear gas at the group. Police have made some arrests, but it is not immediately clear how many.
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"Take your Covid vaxx and shove 'em up yer ar$e" was a popular chant at the protest
Video footage from Brussels shows a large group of protesters shouting at police as some light flares and throw them at the officers. One man can even be seen mooning at them.

The protests descended into chaos, with some of the protesters seen setting fires on the streets while others threw rocks through the windows of local businesses including a post office. Two police cars have also been damaged.