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Best of the Web: The Fed's protection of "Oath Keepers" kingpin Stewart Rhodes breaks the entire Capitol "Insurrection" lie wide open

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Yale Law School '04 graduate Elmer "Stewart" Rhodes, III
Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 ("1/6") with one simple question: what relationship do the FBI and Army Counterintelligence have with Stewart Rhodes?
Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.

The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America's largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military.

Hourglass

Best of the Web: The Covid Cult has been slowly killing America's economy and there's not much time left

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Sometimes it's important to step away from a problem in order to better understand it. I recently went on a trip across the Pacific Northwest to revisit some old stomping grounds and to take a break from the often disconcerting developments of today's world, at least for a little while. We all need a vacation from the information war at times, and though I was happy for the rest, I am also happy to be back. After traveling on the road across four states I was able to gauge the general condition of the US in terms of the social and economic effects of the pandemic mandates and covid propaganda. I have some good news, and some bad news...

The good news is that the propaganda has not been all that effective in most places. The overall picture looks something like this:

In the majority of rural and semi-rural areas, as well as cities in red counties regardless of the state, the majority of people were NOT wearing masks and the bulk of businesses were not demanding that people wear them. The vaccine ads and propaganda were also at a minimum. This includes Washington State and Oregon, which have been notorious lately for their draconian restrictions. While Washington has technically lifted mandates (starting only a couple days ago), the pressure to vaccinate is ever present there. Oregon was the worst state I passed through in terms of business pressure and mob pressure, but even in most towns I visited the ratio of masked cultists to normal unmasked people was around 50/50.

Most of the businesses I entered said nothing to me about not wearing a mask. And, so far there doesn't seem to be any major push for vaccine passports, though, I suspect this will come soon enough.

Attention

Best of the Web: Deadly blast at Romania's largest oil refinery, explosion at Bangkok chemical plant 3 days later

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The blaze was eventually 'stabilized', officials said
A powerful blast at Romania′s biggest oil refinery on Friday has killed one person and left at least four other workers injured.

Around 50 firefighters were deployed to the scene after the explosion rocked the Navodari Petromidia refinery on the Black Sea coast.

The refinery's operations "have been stopped as a security measure," said the Kazakh KazMunayGas (KMG) group that owns the oil processing site.

Comment: Also this week two other major explosions occurred: Other fires and blasts in the news recently:


Syringe

Best of the Web: 15,472 dead, 1.5M injured (50% serious) reported in European Union's database of adverse drug reactions for COVID-19 shots

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The European database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, which also tracks reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID-19 "vaccines."

A subscriber from Europe recently emailed us and reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries.

The total number of countries in Europe is much higher, almost twice as many, numbering around 50, although there are some differences of opinion as to which countries are technically part of Europe.

So as high as these numbers are, they do NOT reflect all of Europe. The actual number in Europe who are reported dead or injured due to COVID-19 shots would be much higher than what we are reporting here.

The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots: From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (753,657) are serious injuries.

Comment: There it is in black and white with only a small but significant percentage of the vaccinated global population tallied. It's an incredible compilation with more foreboding results to come.


UFO

Best of the Web: 70 years of cover-ups over UFOs are finally coming to an end. I believe we're on the verge of a profound breakthrough

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© Stock photo/Getty ImagesUFO on Country Road
The policy of denial and debunking evidence of encounters with 'alien spacecraft', that's been in place since the 1950s, is crumbling. Even ex-US presidents and CIA directors admit there's something out there we can't explain.

It's often said that when mankind acknowledges that 'life' in the universe has been confirmed and an intelligent civilization reaches out to us, that 'contact' will be the most profound moment in human history. So, almost everyone is in agreement as to the ramifications of such 'contact', but have we actually not had an ongoing engagement between humans and super-intelligent creatures from other planets for decades?

Today, on World UFO Day, as we approach the summer of 2021, the world is potentially on the brink of learning something that most people will be astonished and perhaps shocked by.

Comment: Close encounters of the real kind...Are you ready?

If the Powers That Be believe they are, they're not! They're far too materialistic to understand what's poking out from 'behind the veil'...


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Flashback Best of the Web: WikiLeaks vs. Donald Rumsfeld's Lies: An Eyewitness Account

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© Agence France-PresseDonald Rumsfeld
The new memoir by former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has drawn wide criticism for his failure to accept any blame on the Iraq and Afghanistan fiascoes, and his claims that when he and others promoted falsehoods about Iraq WMD they were merely minor "misstatements," not lies. But among his other misdeeds was offering misleading statements to the American public about the progress of the war in Iraq, often blaming journalists for being far too critical.

WikiLeaks' massive "war logs" release on Iraq last October exposed Rumsfeld in this regard over and over, but were quickly forgotten by mainstream journalists — even though the material was not "political" or even from the media but rather from U.S. soldiers on the ground. That's one reason I cover them in-depth (along with all the other WIkiLeaks releases and current controversies) in my new book The Age of WikiLeaks.

Comment: Another neocon warmonger down. But his evil actions reverberate to this day.


Putin

Best of the Web: Putin: Even if Russia had sunk British warship, it wouldn't have started WW3 - US & UK know they couldn't win

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© Reuters / Ministry of Internal Affairs of GeorgiaThe British Royal Navy warship HMS Defender approaches the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia, June 26, 2021.
President Vladimir Putin has slammed the violation of Russian territorial waters by British warship HMS Defender as a "provocation," He also claimed that London's American allies had a hand in last week's incident, near Crimea.

However, apparently casting doubt on NATO's Article V collective defense pact, the Russian leader claimed that even if Moscow had sunk the vessel, it wouldn't have led to World War III.

Comment: Putin went on to charge that the US and UK were deliberate in the provocation:
Putin charged that the U.S. aircraft's apparent mission was to monitor the Russian military's response to the British destroyer.

"It was clearly a provocation, a complex one involving not only the British but also the Americans," he said, adding that Moscow was aware of the U.S. intentions and responded accordingly to avoid revealing sensitive data.

The Russian leader lamented that the move closely followed his summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva this month.

"The world is undergoing a radical change," he said. "Our U.S. partners realize that, and that's why the Geneva meeting took place. But on the other hand, they are trying to secure their monopolist stance, resulting in threats and destructive action such as drills, provocations and sanctions."

Even though the West doesn't recognize Crimea as part of Russia, Putin said the naval incident took the controversy to a new level.

"They don't recognize something — OK, they can keep refusing to recognize it," he said. "But why conduct such provocations?"

Putin insisted Russia would firmly defend its interests.

"We are fighting for ourselves and our future on our own territory," he said. "It's not us who traveled thousands of kilometers (miles) to come to them; it's them who have come to our borders and violated our territorial waters."

Dmitri Trenin, the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, warned that last week's Black Sea incident presages a new, riskier level of confrontation.

"Fresh attempts to expose Russian 'red line' deterrence as hollow -- whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea -- would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect," Trenin said in a commentary.
"This would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario."



Ice Cube

Best of the Web: French town hit by freak June hailstorm - up to 60 centimetres of accumulated hail

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Sapeurs-pompiers des Vosges
A French town has been hit by a freak hailstorm that left locals clearing drifts of ice in the streets with shovels and snow ploughs.

The hail struck the town of Plombières-les-Bains in the Vosges mountains on Tuesday morning.

Romain Munier, head of communications for the local emergency services, told French media: "There were up to 60 centimetres of accumulated hail" while in the wider area, "up to 10 millimetres of water accumulated in six minutes".

Locals were pictured clearing the street of ice with shovels and snow ploughs after the storm passed and the fire and rescue crews for the Vosges area said they had received 56 callouts in total.



Syringe

Best of the Web: Covid-19 outbreak at 95% vaccinated Belgian nursing home slays 12 residents


Comment: Using '2020 official virus science', either the vaccines didn't work, or they killed these people...


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The nursing home in Nivelles, Belgium
An investigation is underway into how a care home in Nivelles in Walloon Brabant came to be infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus, while 95% of the residents and 75% of staff were fully vaccinated.

According to the latest studies, the vaccines in use at present offer reliable protection against the Delta variant - the most virulent of the four variants so far uncovered.

Yet the home suffered an infection of 55 of its 119 residents. Most suffered relatively mild symptoms - although symptoms among elderly and infirm people can quickly change from mild to something much worse.

Nevertheless, 12 people died. According to figures from the health institute Sciensano, 34 people aged over 65 - not all of them in care homes - died in the week of 14 to 20 June in the entire country, down from 252 in the week of 4 to 11 April.

The investigation will now enquire into how the variant came to be present in the home, and why it had such a devastating effect.

At the same time, it will look into the odd situation whereby, while residents were being felled by the Delta variant, staff were becoming infected with the Alpha variant, formerly known as the British or Kent variant.

Comment: Ah, we see.

Last year it was "BUT PEOPLE ARE DYING!"

This year it's "meh, people die all the time."

Got it...


Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: HUGE anti-lockdown protest hits London, as city braces for weekend of demonstrations

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Thousands of protesters are marching through London demanding an end to lockdown restrictions. The weekend will be a busy one for the city's police, with climate change and anti-austerity protests also taking place.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's recent decision to push back the UK's reopening until later next month was an unpopular one, and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday to show their discontent. Starting out from Hyde Park, throngs of people marched through the centre of the British capital, demanding an end to coronavirus-related restrictions.

Estimating crowd sizes is an inexact science, but attendance easily reached the thousands, if not tens of thousands. Some estimates put attendance into six figures.

Comment: Lockdown Sceptics reports that some mainstream sources have actually bothered to report the protest unlike previous media blackouts:
Stop Press: BBC News has actually covered the protest, although it describes the number of protestors as "thousands" and is at pains to point out that the numbers aren't just made up by anti-lockdown protestors: "Whether it was austerity or Palestine, lockdown or the NHS, campaigners of all ages and backgrounds wanted to make their voices heard today."

Stop Press 2: The Evening Standard covered the protest in a surprisingly balanced way. The Guardian, on the other hand, did not.