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Best of the Web: 'They are children of the same foul spirit': George W. Bush compares 9/11 terrorists to 'domestic extremist' threat at home


RT
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:41 UTC
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© REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinGeorge W. Bush speaks during an event commemorating 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 in Pennsylvania
Former President George W. Bush has used his speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to call out "violent extremists at home."

While visiting Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Bush, who was president at the time of the deadly terrorist attacks, compared the foreign terrorists behind 9/11 to the supposed domestic extremists in the US today.

"We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come, not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within," the former president said.

Comment: The war of terror is coming home: And check out SOTT radio's:


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Best of the Web: Larry delivers record-smashing summer snow to Greenland, +"Lives at stake" in European gas shortage

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:33 UTC
A webcam still showing blizzard conditions at Summit Station, a weather research station at Greenland's highest point.
© Arctic Research Support and Logistics ServicesA webcam still showing blizzard conditions at Summit Station, a weather research station at Greenland's highest point.
LARRY DELIVERS RECORD-SMASHING SUMMER SNOW TO GREENLAND

Hurricane-force gusts topped 100 miles per hour at Kulusuk Airport near Greenland's southeast coast, while record-smashing accumulations of summer snow battered the world's largest island.

The snow reached blizzard conditions at Summit Camp, a weather station at the island's highest point more than 10,000 feet above sea level, with winds and snow so heavy that visibility was reduced to all-but zero.

"Ex-hurricane Larry is still haunting us," wrote the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).

"Any way you cut it, this is going to be one for the record books," said Josh Willis, a lead scientist with NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission (who I assume will soon be out of a job).
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Best of the Web: NYT throws Biden under bus, exposes US drone strike as war crime - family murdered, not ISIS

Matthieu Aikins, Christoph Koettl, Evan Hill and Eric Schmitt
New York Times
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:27 UTC
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© Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesRelatives and neighbors survey the damage to vehicles in the courtyard of the home of Mr. Ahmadi.
It was the last known missile fired by the United States in its 20-year war in Afghanistan, and the military called it a "righteous strike" — a drone attack after hours of surveillance on Aug. 29 against a vehicle that American officials thought contained an ISIS bomb and posed an imminent threat to troops at Kabul's airport.

But a New York Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver's co-workers and family members in Kabul, raises doubts about the U.S. version of events, including whether explosives were present in the vehicle, whether the driver had a connection to ISIS, and whether there was a second explosion after the missile struck the car.


Comment: In other words, every major facet of the story told by the U.S. military.


Military officials said they did not know the identity of the car's driver when the drone fired, but deemed him suspicious because of how they interpreted his activities that day, saying that he possibly visited an ISIS safe house and, at one point, loaded what they thought could be explosives into the car.

Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group. The evidence suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family.

While the U.S. military said the drone strike might have killed three civilians, Times reporting shows that it killed 10, including seven children, in a dense residential block.


Comment: A fittingly psychopathic end to a pointless, evil war. No one will be held accountable.

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Best of the Web: Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October for large events, stated goal is to 'encourage' young people to be injected


BBC
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:42 UTC
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People in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and many large events from 1 October.

The vaccine passport plan was formally approved by Holyrood after the SNP and Greens voted in favour.


Comment: This is the SNP that was mired in scandal recently: Salmond inquiry: Scotland's former First Minister details 'malicious plan' launched against him by current FM's husband & former SNP allies


Some businesses have complained of a lack of detail about how the scheme will work in practice.

The proposals were opposed by the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.

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Best of the Web: China returns to 'full Covid': Millions are again under lockdown 'because of the delta variant'

Jane Li
QZ
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:12 UTC

Comment: This article is a month old, but it summarizes the state-of-play with 'handling the Covid pandemic' in China, whose government has 'fallen into lockstep' with the West since June this year. For most, this development is 'obvious' because they believe China has been the fount of all things draconian since January 2020.

But in fact, life there returned to normal in the summer of 2020. We wrote at the time that this was likely due to Chinese authorities initially going on 'full bioterror alert' when they discovered that SARS-CoV-2 was man-made, but then dialling back the panic when they realized how benign it was.

But a year later, that has all changed. Now the Chinese government has adopted the fundamentally anti-scientific 'Zero Covid policy' of some Western countries, to the point of tamping down its economic output to 'save lives'. The narratives the CCP is telling its people are now practically identical to those of the Western Order. All have fallen into confluence...


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© GettyJab 'em, stab 'em, poke 'em and prod 'em. China's Covid-19 'countermeasures' are now in 'totalitarian harmony' with Western ones
Since March last year, China's new Covid-19 infections have remained low after the government controlled the pandemic by sealing the country's borders and imposed strict lockdowns. But in recent months, the country began to see small-scale outbreaks driven by the delta variant.

In May, the southern city of Guangzhou saw China's first Covid-19 outbreak caused by that variant, which scientists say is more easily transmitted than other strains of the virus, and may cause more severe illness.


Comment: It doesn't.


While most recent outbreaks were quickly confined to the region where they started, that has not been the case with the new outbreak that originated last month in Nanjing in eastern China. Though the numbers of new infections are low, state-run media have called the outbreak China's most serious since the early days of the pandemic because of the number of provinces affected. China reported 328 local cases in July, nearly equal to the number of cases reported in the previous five months, and cases have been confirmed in at least two dozen cities.

Comment: Indeed, that last narrative is also exactly what Western governments are using.

In response to Zhang Wenhong's tepid call for 'totalitarianism-lite', state media is doubling down on the country's official Zero Covid policy. Bloomberg reports:
Right now it's nearly taboo in China to even suggest a different approach. In a commentary published over the weekend by a health news app run by the official People's Daily newspaper, former health minister Gao Qiang called for stronger measures to keep the virus out of China while blasting the U.S., U.K. and other countries for easing too early.

"Their sole reliance on vaccination and pursuit of the so-called 'co-existence with the virus' have led to a resurgence of the virus," he wrote. "This is a misstep in Covid decision-making caused by the deficiencies in their political mechanism and the result of upholding individualism."
Right! So Western leaders aren't strict enough on their people because they are too weak in the face of pushback from citizens and their queer concerns for 'individual rights'.

Another non-sensical Global Times editorial on August 1st concluded:
...in addition to our humanitarian achievements, our ultimate success will include the fact that China will be able to develop faster than the UK and the West that can afford much higher death toll, and that we will clearly outperform them in terms of moral and practical achievements.
So they're spinning this as a 'geopolitical win'. Which it most certainly is not. It's 'geopolitical capture', if anything. China is fully under the thumb of who or whatever is controlling this global operation.

This month, the Chinese government has reported that it's unhappy to see that just two-thirds of its population is 'fully vaccinated'... while at the same time it too is changing its definition of 'fully vaccinated' to intoduce 'booster shots'.

Meanwhile, 'Chinese ports choke over zero tolerance Covid-19 policy', and 'China's factory inflation hits 13-year high as materials costs soar'...

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Best of the Web: Huron University College professor refuses to abide by school's vaccine mandate in the name of ethics

Simran Singh
The Toronto Star
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:15 UTC
Julie Ponesse
A Huron University College professor is speaking out against the institution's vaccine mandate, questioning the ethics of "coercing people into medical procedures" for those refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The professor states in the video, which has since been removed from YouTube, that she fears for her employment.

Julie Ponesse, an ethics professor at Huron University College which is affiliated with Western University, describes it as "ethically wrong" to require staff and students to be fully vaccinated, despite the policy also being encouraged by Ontario health officials.

"I am facing imminent dismissal after 20 years on the job. Because I will not submit to having an experimental vaccine injected into my body," said Ponesse in the video.

"I don't work in a high-risk environment. I'm not a doctor in an emergency room. I'm a teacher. I'm a university professor," she adds.

This video comes amid a statement released Tuesday by Western University President and Vice-Chancellor Alan Shepard, after a "disturbing trend" involving several large gatherings near the campus in London, Ont., during frosh week.
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Best of the Web: Australians shocked after NSW health officer says post-lockdown Sydney will be a 'new world order'


RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:12 UTC
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© Nine NewsNSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant
Dr. Kerry Chant, the Chief Health Officer of New South Wales, sent social media into a frenzy on Thursday, after she referred to a post-lockdown "new world order" during a Covid-19 press conference.

After State Premier Gladys Berejiklian had unveiled her administration's plan for Greater Sydney's path to freedom out of lockdown, Dr. Chant revealed the new vaccine requirements for workers and customers when the city reopens.

Both parties at reopened businesses would have to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Dr. Chant announced, and workplaces would "have some system of checking that." But it was her next comment that really stirred up a storm.

Comment: Observation would yield the idea that while the citizens of Israel is being used to test out the extremes of vaccination protocols, Australia and New Zealand are labs for gaming the limits of societal controls that can be imposed. New World Order indeed.





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Best of the Web: Political Ponerology And The Rise Of Totalitarianism In The West

Harrison Koehli
The Postil Magazine
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
“Allegory of Bad Government,” by Ambrogio Lorenzetti; painted ca. 1338-1340.
© “Allegory of Bad Government,” by Ambrogio Lorenzetti; painted ca. 1338-1340.
Seventy years ago, the thankless task of ideological indoctrination in Polish universities fell upon the communist leadership and their approved instructors. The people would learn what was best for them, even if it killed them. Today, by contrast, the students seem perfectly happy to indoctrinate themselves. No government coercion necessary. Things have a way of coming full circle, and then some! "The Legutko Affair," covered in last month's issue of The Postil should demonstrate that. But before discussing the present state of affairs, we must return to the past. The time is 1951, just a few years after the imposition of communism. The place: the gothic lecture hall at Jagiellonian University, Professor Legutko's alma mater.

Previously, students had heard lectures here by scholars like Roman Ingarden, a student of Husserl. But when the students were herded into the hall that year to attend the recently introduced Marxist-Leninist indoctrination lectures, a new man appeared at the lectern, informing them he was to be their new professor. This particular class of students — soon to graduate with degrees in psychology — were about to learn some important lessons about the nature of totalitarianism. In a twisted way, these were actually lessons in psychology, though that certainly was not their professor's intention.

First of all, the man spoke nonsense unfitting of a university, and the students immediately recognized this — or at least most of them did. Second, he wasn't even a real professor. The students soon discovered that he had attended high school, but it was unclear if he had ever actually graduated. Third, this new "professor" treated the students with contempt and barely concealed hatred. His tyrannical teaching style mirrored that of the communist party leadership — whom he had to thank for his new, "socially advanced" position.
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Best of the Web: Record rainfall floods streets in Lot-Et-Garonne, France - 2 month's worth of rain in a few hours (5 inches in 3 hours) - Floodwater over 2 metres deep

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:31 UTC
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Nearly two months of rain fell in just a few hours in Lot-et-Garonne Department in southwestern France late on 08 September 2021.

Streets of the city of Agen were inundated with over 2 metres of water, according to the city government. Around 70 firefighters were deployed to the area and teams responded to around 130 incidents, mostly flooded cellars or buildings. No injuries or fatalities were reported. Local authorities opened the set up an evacuation centre in the town hall. According to local media reports, firefighters rescued around 20 people.

Areas of nearby Boé, Nérac and Marmande were also affected and several roads in the area closed. In Boé, part of the roof of a supermarket collapsed under the weight of the rain.

Météo France said between 19:00 and 22:00 on 08 September, the La Garenne station in Agen recorded a record 128.8mm of rain. As much as 80.5 mm of this total fell in just one hour. The 24-hour rain record previously was 73.6mm on from February 1990.


Comment: Only a week earlier on September 1, a similar deluge struck nearby in another part of southern Europe, see: Heavy rainfall causes destructive flash floods in Spain - 3 inches of rain recorded in just 30 MINUTES

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Best of the Web: After decades of propaganda warfare and stealth invasion, the idea of a free America is hanging by a thread

Leo Hohmann
LeoHohmann.com
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
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The abandonment of Americans in Afghanistan foreshadows the abandonment of freedom-loving patriots in the American homeland

America has been playing with fire for years, disrespecting its Constitution and allowing, even encouraging politicians to pander to the fears of an ever-present boogieman over the higher values of individual freedom and responsibility.

Boogiemen are very effective tools in the arsenal of those waging psychological warfare against a nation. They are effective because a good boogieman usually brings legitimate scary qualities to the table.

Islamic terrorists are legitimately scary.

Invisible viruses that spread throughout the population are legitimately scary.

People are willing to give up freedoms under the illusion that it's only a temporary inconvenience. "Just go along and soon all will return to normal," they say.

After the attack that killed 2,900 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, politicians came under pressure to "do something" to prevent another such attack by Islamic militants against innocent civilians.

Rather than just bombing the Taliban into oblivion and leaving its God-forsaken land, the politicians responded by occupying Afghanistan and launching a doomed effort to transform that nation into something it never wanted to be. At the same time they were failing at nation-building in Afghanistan, the politicians embarked upon sweeping extra-constitutional "reforms" here at home.
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