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Best of the Web: Two dams collapse following torrential rain in China's Inner Mongolia


RT
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:36 UTC
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© Getty Images / CostfotoHulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China, July 18, 2021.
Two dams in Inner Mongolia's Hulunbuir have collapsed following torrential rain, according to an announcement from China's water ministry on Monday, citing concerns about the safety risks of aging infrastructure in the region.

The two dams failed on Sunday afternoon after a torrential downpour saw 87 millimeters of rainfall in the area over the weekend and 223 millimeters at a nearby monitoring station. As one of the dams reached maximum capacity, water came over the top before the entire infrastructure was washed away in minutes, resulting in substantial damage.

A video shared by a Chinese individual online shows the moment that water breached the banks of a dam and began flooding out of the reservoir.

Comment: The dams may be in need of repair but it's likely that, as we're seeing all over the world, the sheer amount of rain was a significant factor behind their collapse: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Best of the Web: Gotcha, suckers! On 'Freedom Day', UK govt declares mandatory vaccinations for all adults "anywhere large crowds gather"

Heather Stewart
The Guardian
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:58 UTC
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Days after the French govt declared mandatory vaccinations for 'anyone in contact with the elderly or frail', the British govt has declared likewise for 'anyone anywhere large crowds gather'...
Vaccine passports will be compulsory to enter packed venues such as nightclubs in an extraordinary U-turn announced by Boris Johnson hours after clubs were allowed to open for the first time in 16 months.


Comment: Extraordinary only to sleeping people.


In a move that provoked an immediate backlash from Conservative backbenchers and the entertainment sector, the prime minister said that from late September, once all adults have had the chance to receive two jabs, Covid vaccine certificates would be made mandatory in England.


"I should serve notice now that by the end of September, when all over-18s will have had their chance to be double jabbed, we are planning to make full vaccination the condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather," he said.


Comment: Forget the nightclubs part - that's just the crack-in-the-door through which this will be expanded out to all activities.


Unlike at pilot events, where customers have been allowed to show evidence of a negative test, they will have to prove they have been double-jabbed amid concerns in government about vaccine uptake among young people. Some 35% of 18- to 30-year-olds are unvaccinated, he said.

Addressing younger people directly, Johnson said: "Some of life's most important pleasures and opportunities are likely to be increasingly dependent on vaccination."


Comment: The quiet part is: "That's why we're targeting those opportunities first. We'll get you all in the end..."

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Best of the Web: The demonization of the unvaxxed

Karen Hunt
OffGuardian
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 06:45 UTC
The Plague
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"Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison."

Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
In The Silver Chair, book 6 of CS Lewis's magnificent The Chronicles of Narnia, the first pages describe a "mixed" school, meaning for boys and girls, that was...
not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it. These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others. All sort of things, horrid things, went on...[and] the people who did them were not expelled or punished. The Head said they were interesting psychological cases and sent for them and talked to them for hours. And if you knew the right sort of things to say to the Head, the main result was that you became rather a favorite than otherwise."
The school is called Experiment House and it's a drab, dull place where, even though it gives the appearance of "everyone doing what they liked," it's really a place where everyone must fit in and those who don't are singled out and persecuted.

The two heroes of the story, Scrubb and Jill, don't fit in at all, and are being chased by a group of bullies when they come up against the wall at the back of the garden. They are trapped, with nowhere else to turn. In the wall is a door that is always locked. But on this occasion, it opens.
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Best of the Web: Britain to launch covert special forces operations against Russia & China, military chief tells media


RT
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 19:36 UTC
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The UK Special Forces are about to concentrate on some new covert counter-state tasks with a focus on Russia and China, Royal Marines Brigadier Mark Totten revealed to the Times.

The British Royal Marines are to take over some of the "traditional" roles of the nation's special forces units - the Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS) - as they are preparing for some new "higher risk" counter-state tasks, Totten said.

The brigadier himself is in command of a 4,000-strong "future commando force" that is about to share the burden of the special forces such as in maritime counterterrorist missions or some "partnered operations" that involve some "higher risks."


Comment: Firstly, if they're telling us, it's likely they've been at it for a while now. Regardless, if Britain's recent incursion into the Black Sea is anything to go by these operations will probably be unimaginative and executed shockingly poorly.


Comment: A month or so after the Biden administration made the strange announcement that it would launch a series of cyberattacks against Russia, a number of high profile hacks against American businesses occurred. Notably, despite US media claiming that Russia was to blame, the source of attack likely came from within the CIA. And so, bearing that in mind, and the fact that Russia and China are already well aware of what the Brits have likely been up to for a while now, who is this warning really intended for?

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Perfidious Albion: If Russia is a Rogue State, What is the UK?

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Best of the Web: Biden's Vaccine "Strike Force" Plan Stinks Of Desperation

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
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If there is one rule liberty minded people need to remember, it is that the establishment does not like losing control of the narrative. And when they do, noticeably weird things start to happen. For example, it is becoming painfully obvious that the narrative on the experimental mRNA "vaccines" has slipped right through the fingers of the Biden Administration, and as a consequence they are now in a scramble to get millions of vaccines injected into as many skeptical arms as possible before the public organizes for a full push-back against the agenda. It seems to me that they are in a bit of a panic.

The issue became more evident since January when various government entities and the media began to openly complain about the number of vaccine doses that were being thrown in the garbage because of expiration. Why were the vaccines expiring before use? The media spin suggests that it was due to "government mismanagement", while officials at the state level have admitted that it has been due to a significant drop in demand.

In the meantime, Biden has shipped over 500 million covid vaccine doses overseas in June while at the same time claiming that the US was on track to meet his 70% vaccination goal by July 4th. Needless to say this never happened. The Biden admin now claims that the US population is now 67% vaccinated, and if this was actually true then it would be very close to meeting Anthony Fauci's original guidelines for herd immunity. So why all the frantic hype about unvaccinated people?
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Best of the Web: Congressional corruption: Nancy and Paul Pelosi are making millions trading stocks in companies she actively regulates

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:24 UTC
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© Nicholas Hunt/Getty ImagesU.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (L) and businessman Paul Pelosi
The Speaker, already one of the richest members in Congress, has become far richer through investment maneuvers in Big Tech, as she privately chats with their CEOs.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is the sixth-richest member of Congress, according to the most recent financial disclosure statements filed in 2019. As the California Democrat has risen through party ranks and obtained more and more political power, her personal wealth has risen right along with it. Pelosi "has seen her wealth increase to nearly $115 million from $41 million in 2004," reports the transparency non-profit group Open Secrets. Even by the standards of wealth that define that legislative body — "more than half of those in Congress are millionaires" — the wealth and lifestyle of the long-time liberal politician and most powerful lawmaker in Washington are lavish.

And ever since ascending to the top spot in the House, Pelosi and her husband, Paul, keep getting richer and richer. Much of their added wealth is due to extremely lucrative and "lucky" decisions about when to buy and sell stocks and options in the very industries and companies over which Pelosi, as House Speaker, exercises enormous and direct influence.

Comment: Pelosi exhibits many signs of sociopathy. Her callous treatment those she considers inferior, plus the attitude that 'rules don't apply to me' argue for it.

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Best of the Web: Death toll exceeds 150 as Germany and Belgium hit by devastating floods

Jon Henley
The Guardian
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:05 UTC
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Stranded residents in Liege, Belgium's third-largest city
The death toll from catastrophic floods in western Germany and Belgium has risen to more than 150, local authorities have said, as emergency services continued their search for hundreds still missing.

The German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said he was "stunned" by the devastation caused by the flooding and pledged support to the families of those killed and to cities and towns facing significant damage.

"In the hour of need, our country stands together," Steinmeier said on Friday afternoon. "It's important that we show solidarity for those from whom the flood has taken everything."


Comment: Indeed it is not abstract, which is why their barmy narrative for what is happening, and why it is happening, has almost no bearing on reality.

The role humanity plays in this planetary/cosmic 'weather system' lies in the power of its 'collective psychic state', which, you may have noticed, was placed in dire straits a year ago when global totalitarianism was instituted... by national governments on behalf of some as-yet-undisclosed One World Government. In general, when humanity suffers, extreme weather events increase.

So compounding that suffering with more planet-saving strictures placed on humanity... will only accelerate extreme weather events.

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Best of the Web: 34% rise in lightning strikes across India in 2020-21 over previous years, leaving 1,697 dead


cseindia.org
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:13 UTC
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The number and frequency of lightning strikes is increasing globally. The proverbial bolts from the blue are killing more people every subsequent year. Between April 2020 and March 2021, 18.5 million lightning strikes were recorded in India. This was a 34 per cent increase from the 13.8 million strikes between April 2019 and March 2020.

These statistics were shared at a webinar on lightning strikes here today, organised by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down To Earth magazine. The webinar attempted to understand why lightning strikes were increasing in numbers, and their connection to climate change and growing urbanisation.

Some of the states that have been at the receiving end of these strikes are Punjab, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal. In Punjab, the increase in number of lightning strikes has been a staggering 331 per cent annually, while in Bihar — where 401 people lost their lives to lightning strikes during the year — there was a 168 per cent rise. Overall, 1,697 people were struck down dead by lightning in India between March 2020 and April 2021.

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Best of the Web: Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger: Website has morphed into playground for rich and powerful manipulators, and that's called 'propaganda


RT
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:46 UTC
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger
© Getty ImagesWikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger wrote that the site is now “badly biased."
Wikipedia fails to reflect relevant viewpoints on hot-button topics and describes center-left establishment worldviews, its co-founder Larry Sanger said. This consensus reality is prone to nefarious manipulation by powers that be.

"There is a big nasty complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say," Sanger said this week, blasting the current community culture at Wikipedia. "There are all kinds of tricks that people can play to 'win' it."

Sanger, who launched — along with Jimmy Wales — the world's premier website for reference materials, has become a vocal critic of his brainchild. He jokingly called himself "ex-founder," referring to both his criticism and Wikipedia's attempts to distance itself from his person. This week he talked about what he sees as a problematic change in the online encyclopedia to Freddie Sayers, the host of UnHerd magazine's show Lockdown TV.

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Best of the Web: White House 'flagging' posts for Facebook to censor over COVID 'misinformation'

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 06:43 UTC
Jen Psaki
© Samuel Corum / Pool via CNP / SpJen Psaki said Facebook needs to take decisive action against the posts.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday the Biden administration is identifying "problematic" posts for Facebook to censor because they contain "misinformation" about COVID-19.

Psaki disclosed the government's role in policing social media during her daily press briefing after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on companies to purge more pandemic posts.


Comment: What they actually mean is that the whole narrative about the Covid pandemic and the safety of the vaccines is starting to fall apart. Normal people have started asking questions which is not a good sign for their outrageous lies.

They desperately search and track people telling the truth because it destroys the official story. The censorship is becoming more and more overt, to the point where the White House has plainly admitted it.

It is indeed a brutal battle for our minds and souls. Will people start to see through the lies or continue to believe in them?


The demand for censorship — and Psaki's admission of government involvement — follows a series of flip-flops from health officials who contradicted themselves throughout the pandemic on issues such as mask efficacy, as well as censorship of claims that later gained credibility, such as the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

Comment: See also:

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