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Best of the Web: NATO's hair trigger: The Polish missile incident was a close brush with nuclear annihilation

Scott Ritter
RT
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:27 UTC
Przewodow
© Wojtek RADWANSKI, Damien SIMONART / AFPAerial view of the site where a missile killed two men in the eastern Poland village of Przewodow, near the border with Ukraine on November 15, 2022
The world dodged a bullet this week, with some NATO members trying, but failing, to trigger Article 4 as a means of confronting Russia in Ukraine. We may not be so lucky next time.

The recent scandal surrounding what most of the world now agrees was an errant Ukrainian surface-to-air missile landing on Polish soil, killing two Polish citizens in the process, has exposed an ugly reality about the eastern reaches of NATO today: Despite the more reserved stance of the old NATO establishment (the US, UK, France, and Germany), the new upstarts in eastern Europe seem hell-bent on finding a mechanism that will justify NATO intervention in Ukraine.

This predilection for nuclear annihilation (no one should have any misgivings that a NATO-Russia conflict would end any other way) should send alarm bells ringing in the halls of power throughout NATO and the rest of the world, because left to their own devices, the Russophobic officials that dominate the governments of Poland and the three Baltic republics act like lemmings, running toward the Ukrainian cliff, oblivious to their fate as they chase the fantasy of NATO defeating Russia on a European battlefield.

The rush to judgment that accompanied the arrival of the Ukrainian surface-to-air missile on Polish soil serves as a stark reminder about how the supposedly defensive characteristics of the NATO Charter can be used to promote, rather than deter, conflict.
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Best of the Web: Who are the Ukrainian integral nationalists?

Thierry Meyssan - translation Roger Lagassé
Voltaire Net
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:47 UTC
Dmytro Dontsov ukraine nationalist
The German agent, thinker of Ukrainian “integral nationalism” and criminal against humanity, Dmytro Dontsov (Metipol 1883, Montreal 1973).
Who knows the history of the Ukrainian "integral nationalists", "Nazis" according to the terminology of the Kremlin? It begins during the First World War, continues during the Second, the Cold War and continues today in modern Ukraine. Many documents have been destroyed and modern Ukraine forbids under penalty of imprisonment to mention their crimes. The fact remains that these people massacred at least four million of their compatriots and conceived the architecture of the Final Solution, that is, the murder of millions of people because of their real or supposed membership in the Jewish or Gypsy communities of Europe.

Like most Western political analysts and commentators, I was unaware of the existence of Ukrainian neo-Nazis until 2014. When the president-elect was overthrown, I was living in Syria at the time and thought they were violent groupings that had burst onto the public scene to assist pro-European elements. However, since the Russian military intervention, I have gradually discovered a lot of documents and information on this political movement which, in 2021, represented one third of the Ukrainian armed forces. This article presents a synthesis of it.

At the very beginning of this story, that is to say before the First World War, Ukraine was a large plain which had always been tossed between German and Russian influences. At the time, it was not an independent state, but a province of the tsarist empire. It was populated by Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks, Poles, Rumanians, Russians, Czechs, Tatars and a very large Jewish minority supposedly descended from the ancient Khazar people.
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Best of the Web: Turkey won't accept US condolences over terror attack, blames US-funded Kurds


RT
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:49 UTC
Istiklal Avenue, Istanbul
© Ismail Coskun / IHA via APForensic experts collect a dead body after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, Istanbul
Türkiye has identified YPG militias in Syria as the masterminds behind the deadly bombing in Istanbul and will not accept condolences from the US, which has has supported them in the past.

"We have received the message, but we will not accept and are rejecting condolences from the US embassy," Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told journalists, as quoted by TASS.

Soylu's rebuke came as he updated the media on the response by Turkish law enforcement following Sunday's attack, which killed six people and left 81 others injured.

The Turkish official pointed the finger at Syria-based Kurdish YPG militias as the people behind the bombing attack, claiming that "the terror plot came from Ayn al-Arab" - the district in northern Syria where the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobani is located.
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Best of the Web: 'Not appropriate': China's President Xi reprimands Canada's PM Trudeau ON CAMERA for leaking G20 discussion


Sputnik
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:10 UTC
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Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to reprimand Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday for disclosing private discussions to the news media, in an informal exchange of words partially captured in a video recording in a busy lobby area of the G20 summit in Bali.

"Everything we discussed is leaked to the paper. That's not appropriate, " Xi's interpreter says in English near the start of the clip, adding, "That's not the way the conversation was conducted."

Trudeau is heard responding that "In Canada, we believe in free and open and frank dialogue," adding that they would "work constructively together but there will be things we will disagree on."Xi responds that they will need to create the conditions first before the exchange abruptly ends.

Comment: Tweeter Arnaud Bertrand posted the footage, along with insight into the exchange:



Notably, when Germany's Scholz recently visited China: 'Xi stressed [to Scholz] that political trust is easy to destroy but difficult to rebuild'.

And no, this is not the Chinese leader reprimanding the Canadian PM because he's talking down to someone 'on the same team', ideologically-speaking. Xi is reprimanding Trudeau because Trudeau is a despicable creature.

See also: Canada's Trudeau deletes tweet falsely claiming Iran has sentenced 15,000 protesters to death

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Best of the Web: Cocaine Rocket Man

The Good Citizen
Substack
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:24 UTC
And I think it's gonna be a long, long line.
Cocaine Man
© The Good Citizen
When a Russian S-300 missile lands in a remote region of Poland just a few miles across the border from Ukraine and nobody sees or hears it, does that trigger Article 5 of the NATO charter?

How about when a Russian S-300 missile hits a farm in a remote region of Poland and kills two Poles?

What if it was Ukraine who did it? Does that trigger Article 5 for NATO to invade Ukraine?

It appears that somewhere between the dirty bomb false flag idea getting the axe in October and Russia handing over Kherson without a fight the western intel handlers of Ukraine's poison dwarf decided to test the second and third questions intentionally.

How can we suspect it was intentional?

Anytime things shift ever so slightly toward even the faintest hint of ending this conflict, the agents of global chaos emerge with new ideas for its continuation.

New staged bodies of war crimes atrocities, new false flag missile attacks on civilians at train stations, barrages of nuclear power plants, shelling of hydroelectric dams, new economic terror ops like bridge and pipeline sabotage, and on and on.

It's all so laughably predictable now when I saw the headlines last night that Russia deliberately launched missiles at a farm in a remote area of Poland I spit out my tea and spent five minutes cleaning my monitor, before seeing more headlines that said Poland was scrambling some fighter jets and calling an emergency meeting of its NATO partners before bursting out in laughter and spraying the monitor screen again with more tea.
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Best of the Web: Donald Trump announces 2024 presidential run

Libby Emmons and Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:01 UTC

Comment: All hail the God-Emperor!


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It was only a week ago that Donald Trump announced that an announcement would be forthcoming. Teased out for months, with the former president saying that he would "very probably" run again, Trump made good on that promise Tuesday night from his home at Mar-a-Lago.

"In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States," Trump announced.

"I am running because I believe the world has not yet seen the true glory of what this nation can be," he later added. "We have not reached that pinnacle. Believe it or not, in fact, we can go very far. We're gonna have to go far. First, we have to get out of this ditch."

Comment: There is a serious battle ahead, and we can expect to see the hidden hand leveling every tactic in its arsenal to prevent another Trump win. Get your popcorn ready, folks!

On a serious note, we predict that he will not become president (officially) in 2024. Biden has explicitly stated that, if Trump is the GOP nominee, the regime will block Trump from reattaining the presidency.

See also:

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Best of the Web: Russia, India, China, Iran: the Quad that really matters

Pepe Escobar
PressTV
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:39 UTC
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Southeast Asia is right at the center of international relations for a whole week viz a viz three consecutive summits: Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh, the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Bali, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok.

Eighteen nations accounting for roughly half of the global economy represented at the first in-person ASEAN summit since the Covid-19 pandemic in Cambodia: the ASEAN 10, Japan, South Korea, China, India, US, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand.

With characteristic Asian politeness, the summit chair, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (or "Colombian", according to the so-called "leader of the free world"), said the plenary meeting was somewhat heated, but the atmosphere was not tense: "Leaders talked in a mature way, no one left."

It was up to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to express what was really significant at the end of the summit.
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Best of the Web: The real story behind drag queen story hour

Christopher F. Rufo
City Journal
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:12 UTC
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© SANTIAGO FELIPE/FILMMAGIC/GETTY IMAGESCollege professor Harris Kornstein, aka Lil Miss Hot Mess, a key figure in transforming drag performances into “family-friendly” events.
Aimed at children, the phenomenon is far more subversive than its defenders claim.

Drag Queen Story Hour — in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores — has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an expression of LGBTQ pride. The intellectual debate has even spilled into real-world conflict: right-wing militants affiliated with the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters have staged protests against drag events for children, while their counterparts in the left-wing Antifa movement have responded with offers to serve as a protection force for the drag queens.

Families with children find themselves caught in the middle. Drag Queen Story Hour pitches itself as a family-friendly event to promote reading, tolerance, and inclusion. "In spaces like this," the organization's website reads, "kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where everyone can be their authentic selves." But many parents, even if reluctant to say it publicly, have an instinctual distrust of adult men in women's clothing dancing and exploring sexual themes with their children.
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Best of the Web: How the New Left turned our sacred love for nature into secular technocracy

L.P. Koch
luctalks.substack.com
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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© L.P. Koch
In this post, and in light of the ongoing push for Climate Change policies by activists and world leaders alike, I'd like to trace some of the ideological currents that led to the emergence of the "New Greens." It is written from a German perspective: in many ways, Germany could be seen as ground zero for modern environmentalism and green politics.1

When we think about the controversies surrounding climate change these days, what usually comes to mind are images of world leaders gathering at fancy conferences, urban climate activism, or the transformation of energy and transportation systems on an industrial scale.

We often forget that such images would seem utterly strange to many of the original "greens" who were, for the most part, genuine nature-lovers. They were the kind of people who would go to the woods to watch birds, become hobby zoologists, or simply enjoy the outdoors. Who were saddened by the pollution of their local river or stream, by the dumping of litter in the forests, and by the nonchalant attitude towards flora and fauna with which urban planners, industrialists, and politicians went about their business in the name of technological and economic progress.

Comment: See also: Review: "Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection"

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Best of the Web: The Hand of Irulegi: 2,100 year-old artefact shows earliest evidence of Basque language ever found

Vicente G. Olaya
El Pais
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:06 UTC
Basque
© juantxo eganaAn archaeologist holds the Hand of Irulegi, the earliest known text in Basque script. The Hand of Irulegi, unearthed in 2021 near Pamplona, is a bronze plate containing 40 mysterious symbols. Experts believe they have deciphered its first word: ‘sorioneku’, or ‘good fortune’.
Between the years 80 BC and 72 BC, the armies of Quintus Sertorius on one side and of the generals Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) on the other had transformed Hispania into the main battlefield for control of Rome. Indigenous tribes who supported one faction in a conflict known as the Sertorian War faced immediate reprisals from the other side. This was exactly what happened to the inhabitants of the settlement located on Mount Irulegi, near the Valley of Aranguren, around five miles from present-day Pamplona in Spain's northern Navarre region. Pompey's troops attacked it, destroyed it and burned it to the ground.

In 2018 Manolo Romero, the mayor of Valle de Aranguren (a municipality bringing together eight villages located in the valley of the same name) sought help from the regional government of Navarre and from the Aranzadi Science Society (known in Spain for conducting hundreds of exhumations of Civil War-era mass graves). Researchers got to work excavating the hillock, on which the walls of a medieval castle also stand. At the foot of the fortification, the remains of a 2,000-year-old settlement were uncovered. In 2021, on the threshold of one of the houses razed during the Sertorian Wars, workers found a bronze slab in the shape of a hand and about 14.5 centimeters (5.7 in) long. Laboratory analysis confirmed that strange inscriptions were engraved on its fingers, in the form of 40 symbols distributed across four lines.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Meaning All the Way Down: The Wonders and Mysteries of Language with Juliana Barembuem



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