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Best of the Web: New 'Foreign Malign Influence Center' is just an official cover for US intel interference in DOMESTIC politics

Scott Ritter
RT
Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:44 UTC
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© ReutersDirector of National Intelligence Avril Haines
The Director of National Intelligence has ostensibly created a new "center" for the sharing and analysis of information and intelligence about foreign interference in US elections. Its real focus is much more nefarious.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced in a statement on Monday that it was creating a new intelligence "center" focused on tracking so-called "foreign malign influence," reported Politico. This new entity, known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, was mandated in the recent intelligence and defense budget authorization acts, representing the reality that the impetus for its creation came from Congress, and not the intelligence community.


Comment: Wherever, it came from the fascists who now rule America unchallenged.


For example, the most recent defense expenditure authorization required that the ODNI establish a "social media data analysis center" to coordinate and track foreign social media influence operations by analyzing data voluntarily shared by US social media companies. Based upon this analysis, the ODNI would report to Congress on a quarterly basis on trends in foreign influence and disinformation operations to the public. As envisioned by Congress, the intelligence community would determine jointly with US social media companies which data and metadata will be made available for analysis.

In short, the intelligence community, using data obtained from the social media accounts of American citizens, will report to Congress how this data influences the political decision-making of these same American citizens.

If this does not make the most ardent defender of the US Constitution ill, nothing will.


Comment: 'Tis a shame 'ardent defenders of the constitution' didn't get behind Trump when he was trying to salvage said constitution, eh Mr. Ritter?

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Best of the Web: CDC now recommends wearing a seat belt even when you're outside the car


Babylon Bee
Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:40 UTC
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The CDC has issued brand new recommendations regarding the wearing of seat belts. Health experts there are now recommending people wear a seat belt, even when outside the car.

"This guidance is especially important if you're in a large group of people at the park or an outdoor event," said Dr. Stiku Pumybum. "Risk of collisions leading to bone breaks or concussions dramatically increase in large groups of people. Billions could die!"

When pressed regarding what gives the CDC authority to comment on seat belt usage, they clarified that these were simply recommendations based on the latest scientific research, for the sake of public health. When further asked how exactly a seat belt that's not anchored to anything can protect anyone, they replied with a statement saying "SHUT UP IT'S SCIENCE!"
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Best of the Web: Indian study finds smokers and people in blood group O less vulnerable to Covid-19

Jacob J
International Business Times
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:23 UTC

Comment: The 'Covid surge' in India - like the rest of this nonsense - is probably mostly media hype. In the meantime, here's some real 'Covid news' out of India...


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An Indian study has found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus nearly spares smokers and people with 'O' blood group. The serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) also found that vegetarians also have less sero-positivity than the rest of the population.

The pan-India serosurvey studied the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in people. One of the authors of the study said the paper was recently peer-reviewed.

While smokers and vegetarians had lower sero-positivity, those with blood group 'O' were found to be less vulnerable to the disease, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported, citing the study.


Comment: We're unsure what to make of this vegetarian signal in their data. India has the highest percentage of vegetarians in the world - by far - at up to 40%, while just 12% of its population smokes. Meanwhile, blood group O people, generally, function best on a high (animal) protein diet.


Comment: By April 14th, when this 'Covid surge in India' made international headlines, more than 111 million people had been vaccinated in that country. So the vaccines aren't working, but smoking sure seems to.

For clarification, the smoking-Covid statistics listed for each country above are phenomenal. What it means is that SMOKING TOBACCO, not 'getting the jab', is the only real 'Covid-preventative medicine'.

As we've been pointing out for - ooh - 20 years now, the official message on smoking tobacco has covered up its health benefits. What's worse is that governments today are moving fast to ban smoking outright - just when it's finally getting the credit it deserves as arguably the most potent anti-viral 'on the market'...

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Best of the Web: Speaker of Russian Duma: 'Covid-19 may have leaked from US lab'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:56 UTC
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© geoblog.ruChairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin in Moscow
Covid-19 may have originated in an American lab as a result of an accidental leak. That's the unverified claim of Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia's State Duma and a leading member of the ruling United Russia party.

Speaking to fellow lawmakers on Tuesday, Volodin suggested, without providing any scientific evidence to back up his claim, that Covid-19 leaked from "an American laboratory" in Wuhan, China.
"Based on the silence of America's satellite states, and the way the US itself is silent, one conclusion can be drawn: quite obviously, this is due to the fact that they had some kind of leak in those laboratories."
Volodin went on to call for the US to stop the research he says caused Covid-19, and suggested that Washington begins to work out how to "compensate all the countries that suffered from it." If these studies are not stopped, the world will be "held hostage to more and more situations," he said.

"Clearly, it was found in Wuhan. But again, whose lab is it in Wuhan? An American lab. They funded it," Volodin claimed, again offering no evidence for his assertion.


Comment: That's easily demonstrated: the Chinese BSL-4 lab in Wuhan was indeed partially funded by the US government. Additionally, US scientists worked there. But that's likely besides the point. Somehow, the viral outbreak 'coincided' in Wuhan, and was likely brought there by US soldiers participating in the military games the city hosted in October 2019. The only question is; were those 'vaccine test subjects' knowingly sent there?


Comment: The Russian government has no doubt been briefed by its Chinese counterpart, but is cautious in revealing what it knows (or suspects).

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Best of the Web: Hypocrisy and hatred on display as 'inside the tenters' smear London anti-lockdown marchers

Neil Clark.
Sputnik
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:44 UTC
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© Reuters/Toby MelvilleDemonstrators march during an anti-lockdown 'Unite for Freedom' protest, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, April 24, 2021
There was a huge turnout for Saturday's peaceful march against lockdowns and vaccine passports in London, with people from all walks of life attending, but media coverage was either non-existent, dismissive or hostile, proving it was clearly a protest the power elites disapproved of.

On Saturday, along with tens of thousands of other people I attended the 'Unite for Freedom' march in London. It was the first time I had been amongst a large crowd since Cheltenham Gold Cup Day 2020, just before the first lockdown, and it felt absolutely great. It was wonderful to be in a mass of humanity again and to meet and talk to some very nice people. Man is a social animal: only misanthropes and billionaire computer software tycoons love lockdowns. 'Only connect', as E.M. Forster would have said: Live in fragments no longer.
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Best of the Web: Corporate media and other race-baiters have incited more violence than Trump ever did

Kylee Zempel
The Federalist
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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When you can convince people racism is rampant, you ignite a flame of division and destruction that can only end with bodies on the ground and cities leveled.

Adam Toledo is a name that has likely saturated your newsfeed over the past month. He was a 13-year-old Mexican-American boy who was fatally shot by a police officer on Chicago's West Side not one month ago.

This week, that name was overshadowed by Ma'Khia Bryant, a black teenager who died at the hands of law enforcement in Ohio. In both cases, leftist politicians and Twitter-verified "journalists" couldn't get the story out fast enough, absent facts, video, or nuance — but the headlines wrote themselves: "Racist Cop Shoots Unarmed Minority."

Also in both cases, the stories turned out to be completely wrong. On Wednesday we learned that Bryant wasn't just standing in her driveway unarmed, or just casually holding a knife, or even dueling with another armed kid in a "knife fight" when the officer discharged his weapon. After the officer arrived, she lunged with a knife at another black girl she had pinned against a car, after having already charged a different girl nearby. She was armed and dangerous. And the officer, although accused of being a racist pig by even the White House, instead saved at least one black girl's life.
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Best of the Web: Is the coronavirus vaccine a ticking time-bomb?

Dr. Doug
Aletho News
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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Will a vaccine to SARS-CoV-2 actually make the problem worse? Although not a certainty, all of the current data says that this prospect is a real possibility that needs to be paid careful attention to. If you stay with me, I'll explain why.

First, let's set aside the debate surrounding the topic of whether vaccines work and the negative health consequences due to the components of the vaccine. No matter where you stand on the vaccine issue, I'm not asking anyone to capitulate on this point. I'm just asking that this issue be set aside, because in this instance this argument is completely irrelevant. Even without bringing any other issue into the vaccine debate, a coronavirus vaccine is a highly dangerous undertaking due to a peculiar trojan horse mechanism known as Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE). Regardless of someone's conviction about vaccines, this point needs to be acknowledged. In the remaining portion of this article, I'm going to explain how ADE works and the future perils it may bring.

For a vaccine to work, our immune system needs to be stimulated to produce a neutralizing antibody, as opposed to a non-neutralizing antibody. A neutralizing antibody is one that can recognize and bind to some region ('epitope') of the virus, and that subsequently results in the virus either not entering or replicating in your cells.

Comment: And for another angle on the monumental problems with these vaccines, don't miss:



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Best of the Web: A crisis of hypocrisy: The real disaster is The Establishment

Gary Jordan
Wake TF Up Weekly
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
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© amazonaws.com/Unknown/KJNReactor disaster Fukushima, Japan • Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry
Having been reminded on a daily basis, the entirety of ours lives, of the litany of crises that lurk just around the corner; the endless threat to survival, the impending doom, the imminent disasters and the threats to life, we know when Earth Day comes around what to expect as the scaremongering drivel of the establishment and their media mouthpieces accelerate their efforts at frightening the living daylights out of us. It is a key date in the calendar of the alarmists and they don't waste a second of it.

Whether it be the threat of terrorism, the deadly viral outbreak, the incoming asteroids, the nuclear apocalypse, the extinction of the bees or the racist White Supremacists, we're told there's always a reason for us to be scared and therefore a reason to put more money into the pockets of parasites, more control into the hands of predators. Hence, nobody should have been surprised when the aristocrats were rolled out for the chattel on Earth Day to wag their fingers and lash their tongues, reminding the masses of what a nuisance they are as a species and condemning the untold damage they continue to inflict on the environment. The world's facing an immediate catastrophe they tell us, and it is all our fault.

Our way of life throughout the generations, we are told, has been one of selfishness and gluttony and, as a result, we are to blame for the devastation. It is up to us now to fix it. The good news, of course, is that it is not too late. Luckily we can face the challenge of climate change in the same way we have been facing the challenge of the pandemic over the past year - by giving up our liberties and freedoms and sacrificing everything we hold near and dear. This seems to be the one-size-fits-all fix for every major world issue.

As long as we place our implicit trust in the powers-that-be, doing what we are told, then we can get through it all. We are all in this together supposedly - and that even includes limousine-riding, private jet-flying, Climate Czar himself, John Kerry, who implored us all on Earth Day to put more pressure on our governments regarding climate change, declaring that we need to be more aggressive in reducing CO2 emissions.

It was remarkable to hear this when we consider that only 24 hours or so earlier he didn't appear to give a shit about the environment.

Comment: Many will agree with the slams against elitist John Kerry. They are justified. His positive contributions to 'the people' are scant compared to his obstruction and slimy diplomacy as Obama's Secretary of State (just ask Lavrov!). If that was his job description, he nailed it.

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Best of the Web: Ice Age Farmer Report: Oregon Bill to BAN Livestock - Stunning War on Farming/Ranching


Ice Age Farmer
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 14:21 UTC
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Oregon Bill IP13 would criminalize raising food animals in the state, and reclassify animal husbandry practices as "sexual assault." The bill specifies that animals can only be eaten after dying of natural causes (at which point, aged/diseased meat is not good). Oregon's 12,000 beef producers raising about 1.3 million head of cattle are slated for elimination, as traditional farming and ranching is shut down in favor of lab-grown meat and indoor farms owned by the technocrats -- a perfect way to force the population into perfect slavery. Christian breaks it down in this Ice Age Farmer broadcast.


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Best of the Web: Canadian police return with SWAT to local church run by Artur Pawlowski

Kim Coulter
National File
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:52 UTC
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Calgary Pastor Artur Pawlowski has been arrested upon his return to Canada from a months-long speaking tour in the United States.
National File spoke to Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski concerning the second attempt to disrupt church services in order to carry out what Pawlowski refers to as "tyrannical interference."

Pawlowski has refused to discontinue services or aid to local homeless throughout the entire duration of these COVID19 lockdowns, and has accumulated nearly 30 tickets for these violations.

Pawlowski believes the local police will continue to try to make an example of him due to his activism that spans over the last decade. This was made clear to him when the police returned to his church for a second time.

This time they brought 10 officers and were accompanied by a SWAT team.

Canadian police have interrupted church service twice in violation of Canadian Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46) in order to perform checks to insure the church is following Covid Social distancing protocols.

Pawlowski has made it clear to these officers on both occasions that he will not permit the invasion on God's House during a holy service, regardless of a court order.


Comment: The cops look somewhat ashamed. They should be.

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