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Best of the Web: Himalayan glacier bursts in India causing flash flooding & destroying dam, 150 feared dead

Devjyot Ghoshal, Saurabh Sharma
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Sun, 07 Feb 2021 11:19 UTC
glacier breaks in Uttarakhand's Joshimath
Glacier breaks in Uttarakhand's Joshimath
As many as 150 people were feared dead in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and crashed into a dam early on Sunday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream.

"The actual number has not been confirmed yet," but 100 to 150 people were feared dead, Om Prakash, chief secretary of Uttarakhand state where the incident occurred, told Reuters.

A witness reported a wall of dust, rock and water as an avalanche roared down a river valley.

"It came very fast, there was no time to alert anyone," Sanjay Singh Rana, who lives on the upper reaches of Raini village, told Reuters by phone. "I felt that even we would be swept away."

Comment: The Indian Express reports that just two days earlier, an avalanche occurred at the glacier. Which doesn't bode well for the Barry Glacier in Alaska where it's predicted that a landslide induced mega-tsunami 'could happen at anytime'.

With the above in mind, a recent study revealed that melting icebergs are a key feature of an ice age.

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Best of the Web: The mainstream bubble

Ralf Arnold
OffGuardian
Sat, 06 Feb 2021 07:34 UTC
Translation by S. Robinson

mainstream media
At the beginning of the already memorable year 2020, a term forced its way into public and private consciousness, which should increasingly determine and overshadow all of our lives: The "novel corona virus", also called SARS-CoV-2. The name was officially announced by the WHO on February 11th. After that everything happened in quick succession.

At first I saw the pictures of Chinese people with masks only in the Tagesschau (the flagship evening news program by ARD, one of the two main public broadcasters in Germany; S.R.), which was not an unusual sight, but soon corona also reached our newsroom.

On the day when the first suspected corona case surfaced in our region, I was urged by our news chief to use it as a "lead story", i.e. as the first report in the next news program.

At that time I was already extremely skeptical and found it excessive to use a mere suspected case as the lead story. However, I couldn't escape the general excitement around me and put the message on "one". But a bad feeling remained and that should intensify massively over the next few weeks.

A dynamic set in that seemed unstoppable.
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Flashback Best of the Web: Meet Norm Eisen: Legal hatchet man and central operative in the 'color revolution' against President Trump


Revolver
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Norm Eisen
© UnknownNorm Eisen, Lawfare Ninja Supreme
In our report on Never Trump State Department official George Kent, Revolver News first drew attention to the ominous similarities between the strategies and tactics the United States government employs in so-called "Color Revolutions" and the coordinated efforts of government bureaucrats, NGOs, and the media to oust President Trump.

Our recent follow-up to this initial report focused specifically on a shadowy, George Soros linked group called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which convened "war games" exercises suggesting the likelihood of a "contested election scenario," and of ensuing chaos should President Trump refuse to leave office. We further showed how these "contested election" scenarios we are hearing so much about play perfectly into the Color Revolution framework sketched out Revolver News' first installment in the Color Revolution series.

This third installment of Revolver News' series exposing the Color Revolution against Trump will focus on one quiet and indeed mostly overlooked participant in the Transition Integrity Project's biased election "war games" exercise — a man by the name of Norm Eisen.

As the man who implemented the David Brock blueprint for suing the President into paralysis and his allies into bankruptcy, who helped mainstream and amplify the Russia Hoax, who drafted 10 articles of impeachment for the Democrats a full month before President Trump ever called the Ukraine President in 2018, who personally served as special counsel litigating the Ukraine impeachment, who created a template for Internet censorship of world leaders and a handbook for mass mobilizing racial justice protesters to overturn democratic election results, there is perhaps no man alive with a more decorated resume for plots against President Trump.

Comment: If Democratic leadership is aware, in cahoots, and approves these methods (and there is no reason to doubt it for a minute) the plots against Trump have been pre-planned, massive and all-encompassing. He is therefore not without justification to counteract these multiple ploys in any and all ways possible. We, the peeps, only glimpse the menace after the fact if we are astute enough to notice. Only knowledge of just how diabolical the scope and determination to oust Trump is now, and has been since he threw his hat in the ring for 2016, gives proper perspective. For a look at 'The Playbook" go here.

Tucker Carlson taps into the diabolical workings of this group and airs these views and theories:

See also:
Transition Integrity Project: Is This Soros-linked Group Plotting a 'Color Revolution' Against President Trump?

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Best of the Web: MSNBC host suggests killing American citizens with drone strikes

Paul Sacca
Blaze Media
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
drone strikes on americans
© Twitter @Lukewearechange video screenshot


Is this the 'unity' that Biden promised?

During a discussion regarding domestic terrorism, MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace floated the idea of the U.S. government killing American citizens with drone strikes.

Wallace brought up the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin that was released to all law enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security last week. The bulletin, which is in effect until April 30, warns that the DHS allegedly received information that there is the threat of "ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence."
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Best of the Web: 'If we did it': TIME magazine reveals the 'shadow campaign' that 'saved' the 2020 election

Molly Ball
TIME
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:13 UTC
time election
© Ryan Olbrysh for TIME
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.

The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump's ouster.

A second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. "It was all very, very strange," Trump said on Dec. 2. "Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted."

In a way, Trump was right.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain - inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests - in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.

Comment: Un-be-lie-va-ble. It's almost as if they want you to know they stole the election, just to rub it in your face.





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Best of the Web: Documenting the White House Youtube channel's manipulation of 'dislike' stats - with pictures!

Zoe Phin
phzoe.com
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:58 UTC
white house youtube home page
© The White House/YouTube
I've seen screenshots of YouTube modifying dislikes of White House videos. I decided I would do a thorough analysis myself. I wrote a script to check video stats every 80 seconds for 24 hours - for all videos on White House's YouTube channel.

The collected data is archived here and here. The format is space-separated "CSV", as follows:
code white house stats
© Zoe Phin
Here is a sample of the most egregious manipulation:

Comment: Zoe has gracious posted her code here (scroll to bottom), for anyone who wants to continue her research.

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Best of the Web: New Defense Secretary orders military-wide 'pause in regular activity' to 'root out white nationalism from ranks'

Corey Dickstein
Stars and Stripes
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Austin/Troops
© Manuel Balce Ceneta/APSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits National Guard troops deployed at the U.S. Capitol and its perimeter, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will direct a military-wide stand down to address extremism within the ranks, he told top military leaders in a meeting Wednesday, according to his top spokesman.

Austin wants all military units to take an operational pause to discuss extremism as he works to grasp the full scope of the issue and better address the longstanding problem, John Kirby, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, told reporters Wednesday. The pauses are expected to occur within the next 60 days, but Austin has yet to determine how the stand downs are to be completed, Kirby said:
"The intent is to reinforce the [Pentagon's] policies and values with respect to this sort of behavior and to have a dialogue with the men and women of the force and to get their views on what they are seeing at their level. He wants commands to take the necessary time to ... speak with troops about the scope of this problem. It's a two-way conversation."
Austin spoke frankly with the acting service secretaries and uniformed service chiefs about his concerns about extremism in the military, including white supremacism, said Kirby, who attended the meeting. The new defense secretary, who is the first Black leader of the Defense Department, wants the service leaders to better grasp how pervasive the issue is within their formations and work with leaders to stamp it out, Kirby said.

The leaders concurred with Austin's belief the issue was problematic and perhaps more pervasive than past Pentagon officials have known, Kirby said. "One of the first things he said was: 'This is a leadership issue, and it's leadership that goes all the way down ... to small-unit leadership level,' " he said.
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Best of the Web: Explore economist Thomas Sowell's remarkable life in new documentary

Jack Elbaum
The Federalist
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:19 UTC
thomas sowell
© Free To Choose Network / YouTubeAmerican economist, social theorist, and political philosopher Tom Sowell
The past ten months have proved we live in a senseless world. There are large groups of people on both sides of the aisle who have no regard for reality, or what were once considered the normal and expected rules of polite society. One man, however, has never been swayed by the prevailing winds of the political moment over his illustrious 50-year career, keeping himself grounded in empiricism, fact, and logic: economist Thomas Sowell.

While he has published more than 50 books on subjects such as economics, race, and history, there is still a good chance that Sowell is the national treasure you've never heard of. The recently released documentary, "Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World," successfully introduces Sowell both to those who've never heard of him and dives deep into the lesser-known aspects of his life for those who are already avid fans.


Narrated by Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley, the documentary takes the audience through Sowell's life from his birth in North Carolina to his time as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he still works today. For the most underappreciated public intellectual of our time, this film is a well-deserved tribute to a magnificent career.

Sowell and Education

"Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World" appropriately begins with Sowell's childhood. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1930, and both of his parents died by the time he was only a few years old. He was adopted by his great aunt and raised by her, as well as her two adult daughters. When Sowell was eight, they moved to Harlem to gain access to greater opportunities than were available in the Jim Crow South.
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Best of the Web: Regime intends to keep thousands of soldiers in Washington DC for months to come - Perhaps even permanently

Karen Graham
Digital Journal
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:56 UTC
washington military patrol
DC Green Zone
As the National Guard's deployment to the Capitol enters its second month with no solid end yet in sight, GOP lawmakers are questioning whether thousands are uniformed troops are still needed to protect the Capitol.

On Wednesday, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton penned an op-ed for Fox News stating that the National Guard troops still in Washington should leave the Capitol grounds as soon as possible, despite Defense Department and local law enforcement plans.

"I'm aware of no specific, credible threat reporting... that justifies this continued troop presence," wrote Cotton, a former soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Thus, I believe the rest of these soldiers should also go home to their families and civilian jobs."

Cotton went on to say, "The lesson of the Capitol riot is not that we should quarter a standing army at the Capitol just in case, but rather that our security measures should be calibrated to the actual threats."

Cotton's op/ed came on the same day that 11 GOP House members requested a briefing from acting Army Secretary John Whitley on any ongoing threats to the Capitol as well as an explanation for why the National Guard troops were still in Washington, according to Defense News.

Comment: Ms. Pittman - brand new on the job after DC bosses fired the previous guy for the January 6th riot - wouldn't have suggested a permanent military presence in the American capital without supportive signals from on high...

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Best of the Web: HR 127: A new bill in Congress would literally end your 2nd amendment rights permanently

Michael Snyder
End Of The American Dream
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:49 UTC
constitution
If a new bill that has been introduced in Congress eventually becomes law, the 2nd Amendment will still be in the U.S. Constitution, but for all practical purposes the rights that it is supposed to guarantee will be dead and gone. H.R. 127 was submitted on January 4th, and if you have not read it yet you can find the full text right here. It contains a lot of technical language, and so in this article I am going to try to break down what it means very simply. Now that the Democrats control the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, there is going to be a major push to ram through some form of gun control legislation. If it is not this bill, it will be another one, so we need to be diligent.

One of the biggest things that H.R. 127 would do is that it would create a national firearms registration system that would literally be accessible by anyone...
HR 127 establishes a federal firearms registration system that will be accessible by federal, state, and local governments, including the military - even the GENERAL PUBLIC! The system will track the make, model, and serial number of all firearms, their owners, the dates they were acquired, and where they are being stored.
So if your neighbor, a co-worker, or someone that just wanted to rob your home wanted to know how you were armed, all they would have to do would be to look it up in the firearms registration system.

This bill would also apply retroactively.
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