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Best of the Web: Vovan and Lexus strike again: American 'regime change' specialists NED claim credit for Belarus protests & boast of funding Russian opposition during prank call


RT
Mon, 17 May 2021 11:46 UTC
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© YouTube / Vovan222prankPrank with the NED leadership.
A pair of notorious Russian pranksters posing as leading Belarusian opposition figures have duped the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) into revealing the extent of US involvement in Eastern European political movements.

In a video call posted on the online channel of pranksters Vovan and Lexus, senior representatives of the American agency disclosed that they have actively financed and supported anti-government campaigns in the region. The officials from the NED, which is funded by Congress and describes its role as "supporting freedom around the world," also revealed that they are coordinating efforts with prominent political activists in a range of countries, including Russia.

The officials believed they were talking to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the figurehead of Belarus' opposition movement, and one of her advisors.

Comment: There's no better way of exposing an individual or group's nefarious dealings than getting them to admit it themselves. In contradiction to the myth of Russian 'kompromat', the reality of such is both humane and hilarious!

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Best of the Web: Europe's extreme May freeze is set to continue

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Mon, 10 May 2021 07:00 UTC
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Near-term models don't know whether they're coming or going. This meridional jet stream flow is throwing them for a loop. And after fooling many MSM publications into running headlines such as "Intense 10 day Heatwave set to strike Europe," the models have now flipped, and are forecasting yet more Arctic cold.

Below was the scene on May 8 in northern England:


"May time blizzard makes us shiver," tweeted the YorkshireSpeherdess, who runs a successful sheep farm.

"You can't believe this is May," she says in the video.

"It's just like the middle of winter."


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Flashback Best of the Web: What if Iron Dome is a bluff? Israeli rocket scientist says missile defense system 'mostly fires at virtual rockets'

Rogel Alpher
Haaretz
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 10:45 UTC
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Iron Dome is Israeli society's deus ex machina coming from nowhere to solve the problems that left us helpless. We worship it. Unquestioningly. We were told up front that it can guarantee interception of only 90 percent of the rockets launched at us, so even a little damage and a few casualties and fatalities won't cause us to doubt its efficacy.

However, Israel Defense Prize laureate and aerospace engineer Dr. Moti Shefer, whose specialty is interception missiles, says Iron Dome is a bluff. It doesn't intercept anything but rather invents virtual rockets. The explosions we hear are the sounds of Iron Dome missiles self-destructing. As of the writing of these lines, Hamas rockets have done very little damage to people and property. We see this as proof of Iron Dome's efficacy and reliability; Shefer says the number of rockets coming in from the Gaza Strip is immeasurably smaller than what Iron Dome reports and in any case they are tinpot weapons, so 95 percent of the time we are safe anyway, irrespective of Iron Dome (and the endless "open spaces" with which we have suddenly been blessed, like some new sort of manna rained down upon us by a benevolent deity).


Comment: Here's the full statement from Shefer, aired on Israeli Radio 103 during the 2014 'Gaza-Israel War':
"There is no missile in the world today able to intercept missiles or rockets. Iron Dome is a sound and light show that is intercepting only Israeli public opinion, and itself, of course. Actually, all the explosions you see in the sky are self-explosions. No Iron Dome missile has ever collided with a single rocket. Open spaces are a myth invented in order to up Iron Dome's current interception percentages. The rockets announced as intercepted by Iron Dome either never reach the ground, or are virtual rockets invented and destroyed on the Iron Dome control computer. To this day, no one has ever seen an intercepted rocket fall to the ground."

"What lands here is what's launched. The parts we see on the ground are from Iron Dome itself. We're shooting at ourselves, mainly virtually. The virtual rocket was invented in order to increase the vagueness surrounding Iron Dome. Assume that a real rocket arrives. What does the command-and-control system do? It creates nine more virtual rockets, and transmits their paths on computer graphics to the rocket launcher operators. The launcher operators see 10 rockets and launch 10 Iron Dome interceptors. People hear 10 booms, one rocket enters, and you get a 90% success rate."

In an article in Haaretz in March, 2013, the late military commentator Reuven Pedatzur cited anti-missile defense specialist MIT Prof. Theodore Postol, who after analyzing dozens of videos filmed during Operation Pillar of Defense concluded that the percentage of successful interceptions by Iron Dome was only about 5 percent.

Comment: Iron Dome is a glorified rocket show for propaganda purposes. Certainly, some rockets - sans warheads - are launched from Gaza, and no doubt with the connivance of Israeli agents embedded there, but they too are little more effective than fireworks.

But this phony aspect of the 'Israel-Palestine War' aside, the periodic aerial bombardment of Gaza by the IDF is very real.

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Flashback Best of the Web: Iron Dome is a massive Hoax - Israel is just firing blank missiles up in the air

The Paulstal Service
YouTube
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 06:01 UTC
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The Iron Dome Hoax is a rather hard one to understand and come to terms with. After all, we are told on the nightly news, night after night, that Hamas missiles are being intercepted by the almost god-like Iron Dome system, which allegedly intercepts 90% of the missiles launched toward Israel... Why lie about that?

What proof is there that Iron Dome actually is hitting missiles in the first place? Well, there actually isn't any. The few Hamas missiles actually ever launched (by the way, Hamas is a group originally created by and - to some extent at least - still controlled by the state of Israel) do not in fact even have warheads, and are basically hollow pipes and fireworks, as has been seen time and time again in previous Israel-Palestine 'wars'.

Well, it turns out the "Iron Dome" interceptor missiles are a similar scam. They are in fact not intercepting anything, but instead are exploding in thin air, making people believe the IDF is intercepting alleged Hamas rockets, when in reality they're essentially billions of dollars' worth of American taxpayers' money spent on glorified fireworks that self-detonate in the air.


Comment: The original video report is, of course, long gone. But we found this analysis elsewhere:



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Best of the Web: Standing up: 1,000 lawyers and 10,000 doctors have filed a lawsuit for violations of the Nuremberg Code


sistatiden.se
Sun, 09 May 2021 22:32 UTC
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Consumer protection trial lawyer Reiner Fuellmich says agencies 'knowingly misled governments across the world.'

Background to the new Nuremberg Trials 2021

A large team of more than 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts, led by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, has initiated legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO and the Davos Group for crimes against humanity.

Fuellmich and his team present the incorrect PCR test and the order for doctors to describe any comorbidity death as a Covid death - as fraud.

The PCR test was never designed to detect pathogens and is 100% inaccurate at 35 cycles. All PCR tests monitored by the CDC are set at 37 to 45 cycles. The CDC acknowledges that tests over 28 cycles are not allowed for a positive reliable result.

This invalidates over 90% of the alleged Covid cases / "infections" detected by the use of this incorrect test.

Comment: Here's an interview with Fuellmich, who accuses WHO Director Tedros Adhanom, Dr Christan Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin's Charité Hospital, and Dr Lothar Wieler, the head of the RKI, the German counterpart of the U.S. Center for Disease Control, of knowingly misleading governments the world over:

As he acknowledges in the interview, they're not the 'head of the hydra', but you have to start hacking somewhere, and those three are 'at the top' of what is visible, so...

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Best of the Web: 120+ retired US generals sign letter questioning Biden's mental health, 2020 election result, warn of 'tyrannical govt'


RT
Wed, 12 May 2021 17:29 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik/AP/Military Religious Freedom Foundation/NNDB/The Sun/KJNArmy Brig. Gen. Donald C. Bolduc • Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin
Vice Admiral John Marlan Poindexter • Major Gen. Joe Arbuckle
Warning that the US is in "deep peril" from a "full-blown assault on our constitutional rights," over 120 former top military brass have signed a letter outlining threats to its "survival," including Biden administration policies.

The open letter, published on Monday by a group called 'Flag Officers 4 America', questions the result of the 2020 election, President Biden's "mental and physical condition," and sounds off on a number of hot-button topics, including China, the Iran nuclear deal, critical race theory, and the border wall.

According to the group's website, the flag officers - comprising some 124 generals and admirals, many of whom have been out of uniform for decades - caution that this is a conflict "like no other time since our founding in 1776" between supporters of "socialism and Marxism" and supporters of "constitutional freedom and liberty."

Comment: That final comment perfectly encapsulates the elite's attitude. Here it is in another format, fully fleshed-out, let's say:

"Only 'vetted' political types make it to the top tier. None of the signatories of this letter are from within that elite tier, so who cares what some low-life right-wingers think about our regime! We rule, you obey. Got it?"

The open letter can be found here.

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Best of the Web: Halt COVID vaccine, prominent scientist tells CDC

Dr. Jennifer Margulis
Global Research
Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00 UTC
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© williambowles.com/The Telegraph/KJNDr. Janci Chunn Lindsay
In a public comment to the CDC, molecular biologist and toxicologist Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay, Ph.D., called to immediately halt Covid vaccine production and distribution. Citing fertility, blood-clotting concerns (coagulopathy), and immune escape, Dr. Lindsay explained to the committee the scientific evidence showing that the coronavirus vaccines are not safe.

On April 23, 2021, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices held a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this ACIP meeting was blood clotting disorders following Covid vaccines. Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay spoke to the CDC during the time set aside for public comment.

The censorship on social media in particular and the internet in general is relentless. Here is a slightly edited, annotated censorship-proof transcript of Dr. Janci Chunn Lindsay's 3-minute comment.

You can listen to her testimony on YouTube below (for now, anyway. YouTube will likely censor it).



Comment: Dr. LIndsay's partial statement, additional commentary and information follows.


Comment: Time will tell. The 'outcome has been set in motion'. It is predicated on believability by the masses, of which many are dutifully enqueue. Knowledge protects.

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Best of the Web: All breaking loose in Israel as IDF obliterates apartment buildings in Gaza, Hamas fires 130 rockets on Tel Aviv, Jews and Arabs attack each other

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 11 May 2021 16:51 UTC
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© AFP 2021 / Anas BabaRockets are launched from Gaza city, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, in response to an Israeli air strike on a 12-storey building in the city, towards the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021
Update(3:03pm): In the last hours there's been massive escalation as Hamas and Islamic Jihad has unleashed wave and wave of rockets on central Israel, and targeting Tel Aviv.

Hamas has announced that it launched 130 rockets on Tel Aviv and central Israel through its TV channels moments ago. While it's unclear if this is exaggerated, rockets appear to be landing across Israel, many slipping through the Iron Dome anti-air defenses.

Comment: Sputnik reports on the latest escalations:

Israel's 'Iron Dome' seems to be mostly, but not completely, effective:
Multiple videos shared on social media appear to depict the Israeli air defence system in action. The Iron Dome system can ostensibly be seen intercepting multiple rockets over the city, as air raid sirens sound off in the background.


So far, hundreds of explosions have been recorded across southern and central Israel, per media reports. Sirens could be heard in settlements near Gaza, Beersheba and Tel Aviv and its environs.


There have been Israeli casualties, though as usual, nowhere near the rate of Palestinians:
A woman has been killed in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv, as a volley of rockets was fired towards the city, the Israeli police said on Tuesday. A local ambulance service previously told Sputnik that three people, including a child, had been injured near Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, Channel 20 reported that one person in Rishon LeZion died as a result of the rocket attacks.
Hamas declares a victory as it claims to have 'changed the balance of power' between Israel and Palestine:
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© AFP 2021 / Ahmad GharabliIsraeli firefighters check out a burnt bus in the Israeli town of Holon near Tel Aviv, on May 11, 2021, after rockets are launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement
Ismail Haniyeh, chief of the Islamiс group Hamas, has claimed the Palestinians have managed to accomplish a "new" balance of power in their fight against Israel after the militant group intensified its rocket attacks on central areas of the Jewish state on Tuesday evening.

"We have achieved victory in the battle for Jerusalem, the defence of Jerusalem", Haniyeh said, referring to the city as "the axis of conflict".

"What is taking place right now is an honour for our people, our nation. There is a new balance of power right now", the Hamas leader argued as he pledged that his group "would not abandon Jerusalem" and would not give up "resistance".
Palestinians across the Occupied Territories have taken to the streets, encouraged by Hamas' retaliatory strikes. Netanyahu is struggling to control the situation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared a state of emergency in Lod, a mixed Arab-Jewish city that has recently seen widespread and violent rioting.


The prime minister's office announced the decision after a special meeting of the nation's top security and legal officials. Amir Ohana, the police minister, has confirmed that he will use his authority to carry out the orders.

According to the statement, Netanyahu called on law enforcement officials to ensure the restoration of public order and strengthen ground forces as soon as possible.

Alongside Netanyahu at the meeting were Ohana, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.

Earlier, Netanyahu and Gantz ordered Border Police battalions from the Judea and Samaria region to be "immediately" transferred to the area.


Local media and eyewitnesses reported that the country's police conducted an emergency evacuation of the city's Jewish residents amid violent unrest and clashes between Arabs and Israelis. According to videos shared on social media, shootings have since erupted in the city.



Hamas reports the death of one of its senior officers says The Times of Israel:
Hamas's armed wing confirmed the death of a senior commander and a number of fighters in an Israeli targeted strike.

"With pride, fortitude and defiance, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades take pride in... the martyrdom of the commander Bassem Issa," the armed Hamas branch says in a statement.

According to the terror group, Issa was Hamas's Gaza City commander in the al-Qassam Brigades.


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Best of the Web: In revenge attack, Irish police abduct Christian activist's children...

Michael J Sullivan
Freepress.ie
Sun, 09 May 2021 00:01 UTC
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Update 2, 9th May: For a ten minute interview with Pat Sweeney, the man who had his children abducted by Irish police, please go here to overdeewall.com. In the video, Mr Sweeney gives his truthful side of events, rebutting unfounded rumours being spread online of a custody battle between the two partners.

Those rumours have been spread online by Trotskyite Irish political factions who, in a feat of extreme mental gymnastics typical of the Irish far-left, decided to attack Mr Sweeney because their rival centre-right political groups were the only politicians who publicly came to Mr Sweeney's aid. The lunacy of the Irish left truly knows no bounds.

The key takeaway for our international readers is the fact that Irish people are deathly afraid of their kids being taken into care with TUSLA, the corrupt Irish child protection agency that has been involved in multiple corruption scandals in the past decade.
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Best of the Web: The American Cyber Stasi will suppress all digital dissent in Biden's dystopia

Andrew Korybko
One World Press
Wed, 12 May 2021 05:25 UTC
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The dystopian hellhole that I predicted would become a fait accompli following Biden's confirmation as President by the Electoral College is quickly becoming a reality after CNN's recent report that the US' security services are considering contracting the services of so-called "researchers" as a legal workaround for spying on average Americans. According to the outlet, these ostensibly independent contractors would be charged with infiltrating the social media circles of white supremacists and other supposedly terrorist-inclined domestic forces within the country. The report claims that the intent is to "help provide a broad picture of who was perpetuating the 'narratives' of concern", after which "the FBI could theoretically use that pool of information to focus on specific individuals if there is enough evidence of a potential crime to legally do so".

In other words, the US' security services essentially want to establish a "Cyber Stasi" of "fellow" citizens who spy on one another and produce purported "evidence" of "potential crimes" for "justifying" the FBI's "legal" investigations. CNN quoted an unnamed senior intelligence official who asked, "What do you do about ideology that's leading to violence? Do you have to wait until it leads to violence?", thereby hinting that this initiative might likely be exploited to stop so-called "pre-crime", or crimes before they occur. Put another way, even those average Americans who practice their constitutionally enshrined right to the freedom of speech to peacefully dissent against the Democrats' consolidation of their de facto one-party rule of the country might find themselves targeted by the security services depending on how the contracted "researchers" spin their words.

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