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Best of the Web: US West Coast wildfire death toll rises to 23; More than 500,000 Oregonians evacuate as 100 major fires devastate nearly 4.4 million acres

Valerie Edwards
Daily Mail
Fri, 11 Sep 2020 05:42 UTC
Hundreds of homes in Phoenix, Oregon (mobile home park pictured), have been lost due to wildfires in the state
© Getty ImagesHundreds of homes in Phoenix, Oregon (mobile home park pictured), have been lost due to wildfires in the state
West Coast authorities have reported that at least 23 people have died in wildfires that are raging in California, Oregon and Washington state, as more than 500,000 Oregonians are forced to evacuate due to 100 major fires that have devastated nearly 4.4 million acres across 12 states.

A Northern California wildfire became the state's deadliest of the year Thursday when authorities announced seven more deaths. Officials said the number may rise as searchers looked for 16 missing people.

Three other deaths have been confirmed in Oregon and one in Washington state, authorities said.

Authorities in Oregon said Thursday night that more than 500,000 people statewide were forced to evacuate due to wildfires. The latest figures come from the Oregon Office of Emergency Management. That's over 10 per cent of the state's 4.2 million population.

More than 1,400 square miles have burned this week in the state. Authorities say the wildfire activity was particularly acute Thursday afternoon in northwestern Oregon as hot, windy conditions continued.

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Best of the Web: The Science of Masks


The Model Health Show
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:22 UTC
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Comment: The Model Health Show is the #1 Health & Fitness Podcast on Apple Podcasts and has been featured in several mainstream outlets such as Forbes, ESPN, Dr.Oz, MSN and many more. What follows is an excellent video on mask efficacy, dangers of wearing masks, and how to boost immune function.



Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: At least 23 dead as massive wildfire sweeps through US Western states - California sky turns 'apocalyptic orange'


RT
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 02:37 UTC
Fires light up a hillside behind the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California
© AP: Noah BergerFires light up a hillside behind the Bidwell Bar Bridge in Oroville, California.
The remains of three people were discovered north of Sacramento near the site of a large-scale wildfire, which has left several others seriously injured as rescuers search for 12 missing persons amid the blaze.

Two of the deceased victims were discovered in one location, while the third was found separately, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said, noting they had not yet been identified.

Out of 85 missing persons reports filed in relation to the fire, 12 have not yet been located, he added. Several others were severely wounded after being trapped overnight in the inferno, dubbed the 'Bear Fire,' according to CalFire Battalion Chief Sean Norman.

"We were rescuing people most of the night. We had several critical burn injuries of civilians we were able to rescue and bring into the fire station and then get them off the hill," the fire chief said.


Comment: US media is reporting that at least 23 people have died as a result of these wildfires so far.

See also: Wildfires prompt evacuations across Oregon and SW Washington - over 2.5 million acres burnt in former

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Best of the Web: John Pilger: The Stalinist trial of Julian Assange

John Pilger
Consortium News
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:48 UTC
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© Reuters/Peter NichollsSupporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are seen outside the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court September 7, 2020.
Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, John Pilger gave this address outside the Central Criminal Court in London on September 7 as the WikiLeaks editor's extradition hearing entered its final stage:

When I first met Julian Assange more than 10 years ago, I asked him why he had started WikiLeaks. He replied: "Transparency and accountability are moral issues that must be the essence of public life and journalism."

I had never heard a publisher or an editor invoke morality in this way. Assange believes that journalists are the agents of people, not power: that we, the people, have a right to know about the darkest secrets of those who claim to act in our name.

If the powerful lie to us, we have the right to know. If they say one thing in private and the opposite in public, we have the right to know. If they conspire against us, as Bush and Blair did over Iraq, then pretend to be democrats, we have the right to know.

It is this morality of purpose that so threatens the collusion of powers that want to plunge much of the world into war and want to bury Julian alive in Trump's fascist America.

Comment: "He forced us in the West to look in the mirror." But alas, the West refused to 'see'.

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Best of the Web: The Lockdown: A definitive presentation on the damage to South Africa

Delphia
The The Duran
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:23 UTC
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PANDA (Pandemic~Data & Analysis) considers explanations that allow us to count the human costs of COVID-19 in South Africa.

PANDA is a collective of leading actuaries, economists, data scientists, statisticians, medical professionals, lawyers, engineers and business people, working as a collective to replace bad science with good science.

The video contains a detailed and compelling presentation by three PANDA members.


Comment: The 'human costs' are not part of the the Great Reset calculus, except as cudgel to compel populations to bend to tyranny.

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Best of the Web: Tennessee woman who died 6 months ago receives letter claiming she has coronavirus

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

Comment: This story sums up the whole farce...


Whittington
© Local 24 News
A Tennessee woman died six months ago, but that didn't stop the Shelby County Health Department from sending her a letter notifying her that she tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus and needed to self-quarantine, her bewildered son said Thursday.

Troy Whittington said he was surprised when he opened the letter this week from the Shelby County Health Department. He knew what was in that letter was false.

Whittington said a letter arrived from the Shelby County Health Department for his mother, Sandra Whittington. The letter says she has been diagnosed as COVID positive and needed to isolate.

That would be difficult, according to her obituary: the 66-year-old died February 16th. That was weeks before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Shelby County.

"It's been six months, almost seven, since she passed away," he added. "There was no testing that was done at that time. On her death certificate it was stated she died, what the cause of death was, and it was not COVID-19. It was COPD."

Comment: Will she also vote in the upcoming election?

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Best of the Web: Fabricating a pandemic - Who could organize it and why

Gregory Sinaisky
OffGuardian
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 05:22 UTC
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It is difficult not to notice something contrived in the currently announced "pandemic" of the Novel Covid-19 virus. Media coverage of this event has all the hallmarks of a coordinated hysterical campaign, namely:
  • the use of emotions instead of numbers and logic (for example videos showing allegedly overflowing hospitals and morgues, which can easily be staged or occur due to a natural situation unrelated to Covid-19)
  • the refusal to even mention the most obvious counter-arguments (for example, the media will never compare the number of deaths caused by flu in recent years with Covid-19 deaths)
  • and the complete censorship of all opinions that disagree with the mainstream media narrative, even those that come from recognised experts.
We have witnessed the publication of numerous fake stories, like the CNN report about bodies being left on the streets in Ecuador which was later debunked. We have frequently seen hysterical headlines that are not supported in any way by the contents of the article.

Finally, the national, as well as the local coverage, is always vague, never saying who exactly is ill or what they've got, or whether they are at home or in a hospital, and they never say how they treat the disease. Vagueness in media is a sure sign of lying.

Out of any proportion to reality, the mass media continues to drone on ominously that this is the New Normal, and that we might as well get used to it, that the world will never be as it was before the coronavirus. This is nothing more and nothing less than classic psychological warfare.

Why would a viral outbreak require "psy-ops", that is, unless something larger was afoot?
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Best of the Web: Melbourne police force protesters to wear muzzles before arresting at 'Freedom Day' rally against fascist lockdown


RT
Sat, 05 Sep 2020 02:18 UTC
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© AFP/William WESTPolice tackle anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne, Australia, on September 5, 2020
Dozens of arrests have been reported amid a heated anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne, Australia, where hundreds gathered to demand an end to Covid-19 measures, meeting a heavy police presence and at times clashing with officers.

A sizable crowd descended on Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on Saturday morning for the 'Freedom Day' rally, calling on state authorities to rescind Victoria's stage-four coronavirus restrictions, which include a nightly curfew.

Chants of "scam!" erupted from the crowd at certain points, apparently led by an elderly man, who was also heard saying: "I can't believe this is my country! This is my Australia. I was born and bred here - for 82 years!"

Comment: That's a more sanitized account of what went down at the protest. The police in fact forcibly 'masked' anyone not wearing a muzzle, before arresting every one of them.



Melbourne police are also entering homes to make arrests of people who 'made anti-Covid social media posts':

Australian authorities also appear to be advertizing for 'Covid-19 actors', presumably for the purpose of creating 'realistic scenes' of people in various stages of 'suffering from the Covid'.

It's all 'plausibly justified' by the policy position of the Australian govt: they've stated they intend to 'wage war on the virus'. Literally ANY expression of 'the virus' found anywhere is to be eliminated - a scientific impossibility.

In reality of course it's simply 'taking control for the sake of taking control'. Australia may just be a grim glimpse into what authorities are hoping to implement globally:

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Best of the Web: COVID - why terminology really, really matters

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
drmalcolmkendrick.org
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:17 UTC
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When is a case not a case?

Since the start of the COVID pandemic I have watched almost everyone get mission critical things wrong. In some ways this is not surprising. Medical terminology is horribly imprecise, and often poorly understood. In calmer times such things are only of interest to research geeks like me. Were they talking about CVD, or CHD?

However, right now, it really, really, matters. Specifically, with regards to the term COVID 'cases.'

Every day we are informed of a worrying rise in COVID cases in country after country, region after region, city after city. Portugal, France, Leicester, Bolton. Panic, lockdown, quarantine. In France the number of reported cases is now as high as it was as the peak of the epidemic. Over 5,000, on the first of September.

But what does this actually mean? Just keep to the focus on France for a moment. On March 26th, just before their deaths peaked, there were 3,900 hundred 'cases'. Fourteen days later, there were 1,400 deaths. So, using a widely accepted figure, which is a delay of around two weeks between diagnoses and death, 36% of cases died.
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Best of the Web: Did vaccines really save the world?

J. B. Handley
jbhandleyblog.com
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:31 UTC
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Since 1900, there's been a dramatic 74% decline in mortality rates in developed countries, largely due to a marked decrease in deaths from infectious diseases. How much of this decline was due to vaccines? The history and data provide clear answers that matter greatly in today's debate about vaccines as the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19 pushes us towards a vaccine that might be mandated for everyone.

Since 1900, the mortality rate in America and other first-world countries has declined by roughly 74%, creating a dramatic improvement in quality of life and life expectancy for Americans.

The simple question: "How did this happen?"

Why did the mortality rate decline so precipitously? If you listen to vaccine promoters, the answer is simple: vaccines saved us. What's crazy about this narrative is how easy it is to disprove, the data is hiding in plain sight. The fact that this easily-proven-false narrative persists, however, tells us a lot about the world we live in, and I hope will encourage parents to reconsider the veracity of many of the narratives they've been fed about vaccines, and do their own primary research.

1970, Dr. Edward H. Kass

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Standing before his colleagues on October 19, 1970, Harvard's Dr. Edward H. Kass gave a speech to the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America that would likely get him run out of this same profession today. At the time, Dr. Kass was actually the President of the organization, which made the things he had to say about vaccines and their impact on the reduction in American mortality rates even more shocking, at least by today's standards. Forty-eight years after Dr. Kass' speech, vaccines have taken on a mythological status in many corners of our world, hyped up by the people who benefit the most from their use. Of course vaccines saved the world. Of course every child should get every vaccine. If you don't vaccinate, you will enable the return of deadly childhood diseases. If you don't vaccinate, your child will die. If you question vaccines, even a little, you're an "anti-vaxxer" who should be shunned and dismissed!

But what if most of the history about the role vaccines played in declining mortality isn't even true?
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