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Best of the Web: United Nations GA vote declares Israel must get rid of its nuclear weapons

Tovah Lazaroff
The Jerusalem Post
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:29 UTC
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© Mike Segar/ReutersPRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, last week.
Israel must dispose of all its nuclear weapons and place its nuclear sites under the International Atomic Energy Agency's purview, the United Nations General Assembly's First Committee stated in an initial 152-5 vote.

The five nations that opposed Friday's resolution on the "risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East" were: Canada, Israel, Micronesia, Palau and the United States. Another 24 countries abstained, including European Union members.

The annual resolution submitted by Egypt to the UNGA in New York was sponsored by the Palestinian Authority and 19 counties including Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

Comment: Is time finally running out for the terrorist state of Israel? Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Best of the Web: 141 people dead after colonial-era bridge collapses in India's Gujarat state


The Guardian
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:29 UTC

Comment: Update 31 October 2022

The death toll has risen to 141 people.


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Rescue operation under way following failure of pedestrian suspension bridge in city of Morbi
At least 81 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge over a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging hundreds of people into the water, officials have said.

Authorities said that more than 150 people were on the suspension bridge over the Machchhu River in the city of Morbi at the time of the collapse.

TV footage showed dozens of people clinging on to the cables and twisted remains of the bridge as emergency teams struggled to rescue them. Some clambered up the broken structure to try to make their way to the riverbanks, while others swam to safety.

Prateek Vasava, who swam to the riverbank after falling from the bridge, told 24 Hours local news channel that he witnessed several children fall into the river.


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Best of the Web: 120 dead after street stampede during Halloween celebrations in Seoul, South Korea

Elizabeth Haigh
Daily Mail
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 20:30 UTC

Comment: Update 30 Oct 2022

Final death toll: 153 dead.


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Dozens of people have reportedly died after a huge crush in the South Korean capital Seoul
A massive stampede has left at least 120 people dead and hundreds more injured after a fatal crush amongst a 100,000-strong crowd on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the South Korean capital Seoul.

An official from the National Fire Agency initially said around 100 people were injured during the deadly crowd surge on Saturday night in the Itaewon leisure district of Seoul.

It is believed that hundreds of thousands had gathered in Itaewon, Seoul to attend the city's 2022 Halloween Festival, but a crush occurred shortly after 10pm local time.

Comment: More images can be found at the article page, here.



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Best of the Web: Meet the spooks, mercs and chickenhawk politicos enlisting as NAFO trolls

Alexander Rubinstein
The Grayzone
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:16 UTC
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Read part one of Alex Rubinstein's ongoing investigative series on NAFO, "How the pro-Ukraine NAFO troll operation crowd-funds war criminals."

While fundraising for a notoriously brutal militia in Ukraine and trolling critics of the proxy war, the membership roll of "North Atlantic Fellas Organization" has filled up with NATO suits, congressional chickenhawks, neocon operatives, mercenaries and intel agents.

When he is not shedding performative tears over the fate of US democracy or publicly guffawing over the apparent assassination of Iranian military officials, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has sought to define himself as a leading opponent of perceived antisemitism in Washington DC. When his colleague, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, mildly criticized of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 2019, Kinzinger called on congressional leaders to strip her of top committee assignments.
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Best of the Web: Did West Africa's ebola outbreak of 2014 have a lab origin? - And the critical covid connections

Sam Husseini
husseini.substack.com
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:26 UTC
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Africans who charged that the outbreak had lab origin were dismissed. Scientists they accused were the loudest in dismissing the possibility of lab origin for Covid. Were the Africans right all along?
Independent Science News just published the in-depth investigative piece "Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?" by virologist Jonathan Latham, the editor of ISN, and myself. I believe the piece's ramifications are profound and have a serious bearing on what has transpired with the Covid pandemic.

Synopsis: The Ebola outbreak of 2014 was a disaster for West Africa. Over 11,000 lives were lost amidst intense negative social and economic consequences. The 2014 outbreak of Zaire Ebola (as the species is known) is today commonly cited as a bona fide example of a natural zoonosis that began in the country of Guinea. However, as is widely known, the 2014 outbreak was puzzling on multiple levels. The greatest of these puzzles is that all previous Zaire Ebola virus outbreaks occurred in the Congo basin, which is thousands of miles away. Additionally, to this day, despite extensive sampling, no animal source of Zaire Ebola virus in West Africa has ever been identified. At the same time, in Sierra Leone, not far from the border with Guinea, is the town of Kenema which hosts a U.S.-funded virus research facility. The research focus of this lab, which is run by the U.S.-based Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium, are the viral hemorrhagic fevers of which Ebola is one.

Comment: There's lots of damning evidence showing that some outbreaks and illnesses can be traced back to bioweapons research, particularly those located in close proximity, or connected to, US biowarfare laboratories that are dotted across the planet: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

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Best of the Web: Spineless 'progressive' Dems formally retract call for diplomacy as Ukraine war hawks silence dissent

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:49 UTC
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That didn't take long... the 30 Houses Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has early Tuesday afternoon issued a complete retraction of their letter sent to the Biden White House urging diplomacy on Ukraine, per an official statement [emphasis ours]:
"The Congressional Progressive Caucus hereby withdraws its recent letter to the White House regarding Ukraine."

"The letter was drafted several months ago, but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting. As Chair of the Caucus, I accept responsibility for this. Because of the timing, our message is being conflated by some as being equivalent to the recent statement by Republican Leader McCarthy threatening an end to aid to Ukraine if Republicans take over. The proximity of these statements created the unfortunate appearance that Democrats, who have strongly and unanimously supported and voted for every package of military, strategic, and economic assistance to the Ukrainian people, are somehow aligned with Republicans who seek to pull the plug on American support for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian forces."
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Best of the Web: The EU's energy security now rests in Turkey's hands

Karin Kneissl
The Cradle
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:00 UTC
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© The CradleEurope has sought to bypass Russian gas with disastrous results. Turkey, which has been positioning itself as an energy hub for the past two decades, is set to reap the benefits
"Geography is the constant of history," is a quote attributed to the German statesman Otto von Bismarck. Today, those words ring true as we witness geography altering global politics, finance, and alliances.

The geostrategic importance of Turkey has rarely been as clear to European politicians as it has been in recent months, as the continent grapples with a burgeoning energy crisis this coming winter.

Whether it is grain exports from the Black Sea region or the flow of energy supplies from the eastern producing countries, the Bosphorus and the links to Eurasia are once again playing a decisive geopolitical role, as they so often have throughout history. The fact is, Turkey is now crucial for the security of Europe.

Pipeline politics

Comment: See also: Global finance vs global energy: who will come out on top?

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Dirty Nuke False-Flag? US Military on Stand-by to Fight Russian Troops in Event of 'Atrocity'



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Best of the Web: The spike protein is disrupting immunity in millions after Covid infection OR vaccination

Marina Zhang
Epoch Times
Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:30 UTC
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Multiple studies have shown that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is a highly toxic and inflammatory protein, capable of causing pathologies in its hosts.

The presence of spike protein has been strongly linked with long COVID and post-vaccine symptoms. Studies have shown that spike proteins are often present in symptomatic patients, sometimes even months after infections or vaccinations.

The numbers of long COVID and post-vaccine cases have been climbing in the United States, increasingly posing as a healthcare problem.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that around 7 percent of Americans are currently experiencing long COVID symptoms, which would be over 15 million people. Some people with long COVID have been so debilitated that they cannot go to work, the same has been reported in people experiencing post-vaccine symptoms.

Comment: Another interview by The Epoch Times with pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole on the same subject.



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Best of the Web: How the pro-Ukraine NAFO troll operation crowd-funds war criminals

Alexander Rubinstein
The Grayzone
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:31 UTC
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Celebrated in mainstream US media for its anti-Russian trolling, the Twitter operation known as NAFO was founded by a Polish antisemite to raise money for a militia that has hosted war criminals, white nationalists and wanted murderers.

Whether they know it or not, anyone who has checked Twitter for recent coverage of the Ukraine proxy war has likely encountered at least one of the thousands of trolls that comprise NAFO, or the "North Atlantic Fellas Organization." Thanks to the efforts of NAFO and its "fellas," any journalist or prominent figure critical of Ukraine or NATO on Twitter is likely to receive hundreds of replies accusing them of being paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin (or even performing fellatio on him) from accounts with Shiba Inu dog avatars.

Since its inception several months ago, NAFO has earned gushing praise from the Washington Post, which hailed it for "show[ing] that the tables could be turned on Russia, when it came to trolling." The arms industry-funded, Washington DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), meanwhile, hosted an online panel highlighting NAFO as an instrumental weapon in the Russia-Ukraine infowars.
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Best of the Web: Major internet cable cut in South of France - THIRD such incident this month

Bill Toulas
Bleeping Computer
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:25 UTC
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A major Internet cable in the South of France was severed yesterday at 20:30 UTC, impacting subsea cable connectivity to Europe, Asia, and the United States and causing data packet losses and increased website response latency.

Cloud security company Zscaler reports that they made routing adjustments to mitigate the impact. However, users still face problems due to app and content providers routing traffic through the impacted paths.

"Zscaler is working with the content providers to have them influence their portion of the path," reads a notice from Zscaler.

"If you experience slowness with specific applications, especially applications hosted overseas, please contact the application provider and refer them to this trust post."

Comment: Regarding the update at the bottom of the article: Considering sabotage may be the cause may indeed be speculative, but with 3 similar incidents in one month, and a number of others from just the last year, it seems rather reasonable to suspect that they may be linked in some way. It is also reasonable to suppose that these incidents are linked to the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, that, notably, also occurred this month:

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