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Best of the Web: Lockdown backlash: Thousands defy govt orders to demonstrate at freedom rally in Dublin

John Daly
An Síbín
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:52 UTC

Comment: Just days after Ireland was placed 'partially' back into lockdown, and during which time it emerged that government ministers and other big-wigs broke their own rules to get together for a golfing holiday at a resort in the west of Ireland, the people - at least, a portion of them - are saying they've had enough...


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The protest took place against oppressive government restrictions and mandates. A HFI press release stated that the protest was held by Health Freedom Ireland (HFI) and Yellow Vest Ireland, protesting against government mandates, demanding transparency, proportionality of decisions and accountability by government officials and advisors.

The event took place today, Saturday, August 22nd 2020 at 2pm in front of the Custom House, Dublin 1. There have been mixed reports on the numbers of attendees at the event, with RTE suggesting 'hundreds' attended whereas citizen journalists claim there were thousands of people at the event.


This peaceful protest took the form of speeches and a march. Purple T-shirts were worn by supporters of Health Freedom Ireland as others wore yellow vests, many with "United Patriots" written on the jackets in solidarity. HFI has no political affiliations.

Speakers at the event included:
  • Ben Gilroy, anti-eviction and civil rights activist who spoke about constitutional rights
  • Michael Leahy, Human Rights and mental health advocate
  • Ken Duffy, motivational speaker and mental health advocate, speaking on human rights and homelessness in Ireland
  • Maeve Murran, Health Freedom Ireland co-chair, speaking about the proportionality of restrictions
  • Una McGurk, barrister and senior counsel, speaking about the impact of mandating masks without conclusive evidence
  • Prof. Dolores Cahill on the topics of natural immunity, vaccine development and testing accuracy

Comment: Irish MSM reported that just 'hundreds' of 'far-fight types' attended:

The backlash has begun...

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Best of the Web: Bait-and-switch: How they've changed the Covid conversation

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Tue, 18 Aug 2020 05:26 UTC
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Do you remember five months ago? Normally I wouldn't ask, but the world is moving incredibly fast these days.

Do you remember that it was predicted that covid19 would kill literally millions of people?

Do you remember that hospitals were going to be over-run with patients and our struggling medical infrastructure was going to collapse under their weight?

Do you remember that locking down global society was the only way to prevent this disaster? That we had to do it, regardless of how much damage it did to the livelihoods and security of countless millions of people?

Final question - do you know how many people in the United Kingdom officially died with (not of) the coronavirus yesterday?

It's 12.

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Best of the Web: Multiple studies predicted governments become authoritarian in response to pandemics

Derrick Broze
The Last Vagabond
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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Over the last eight months we have seen many governments around the world enacting authoritarian practices in the name of preventing the spread of COVID-19. All the way back in January, the Chinese government began welding people in their homes to stop them from potentially contaminating others. As the panic spread around the world eager politicians now had the excuse they needed to push policies which restrict freedom of movement and speech.

The authoritarian measures have now grown to include the following:

- checkpoints (asking about travel, checking temperatures)

- temperature screenings at some airports

- contact tracing apps cataloging all your movements and contacts

- emergency orders/executive orders supporting forced vaccinations, isolation, and quarantine

- involuntary quarantine centers/camps

- thermal drones watching people form the sky

- talk of mandatory vaccines (or making it difficult to live without vaccination)

-face recognition tech to fight covid19 (by tracking people violating lockdowns)

- discussion of immunity passports/digital certificates to travel

- censorship of alternative viewpoints

- raiding of businesses for not closing

- arrests of people violating lockdown (and this, and this)

- ankle monitors for those violating quarantine orders

- roving cops searching for people not in the "proper" places
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Best of the Web: International scholars must resist the American campaign to inject racial tribalism into science

Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz
Quillette
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:01 UTC
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"Schœlcher n'est pas notre sauveur," declared protestors who toppled statues on the French territory of Martinique earlier this year — "Schœlcher is not our savior." The reference is to Victor Schœlcher, the 19th-century politician who's long been lauded for his role in abolishing slavery in France and its colonial holdings. French President Emmanuel Macron rightly condemned the act, as did cabinet minister Annick Giradin, who denounced the destruction of monuments that embody the nation's "collective memory." And the mayor of Martinique's capital warned against la tentation de réécrire l'histoire — the temptation to rewrite history.


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Black Magic

Best of the Web: The Fatal Attractions of Techno-Fascism

Mark Petrakis
Dissident Voice
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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The enduring appeal of fascism is that it requires so little from us... so little independent thought; just our basic belief and adherence to a limited set of popularly-shared directives and narratives that once fully accepted, relieve us of the need to address stubborn questions or to fret over subtle differences of opinion and feeling. Continual propaganda is there to reassure us that we are complete, that we know all that is important to know — that we are rational, pragmatic and moral... that the science has been settled and that we are all a part of something historic.

Such a surrender to constricted narratives cuts across all classes and income brackets. Neither the most educated nor the least uneducated retain any special advantage in the face of powerful consensus-shaping propaganda.

PROPAGANDA is, of course, the life-blood of authoritarian control. Maintaining the economic, governmental and scientific frameworks of a modern technocratic "operating system" would be impossible without propaganda's divisive assault. When truth is seen as a liability to power, it must always be disallowed, with all instances of it effectively penalized.

Radio, television, the Internet and their constant enabler, popular "science" — operate today as their own religions, reliant for their success upon the unquestioning devotion of the masses. The currency that we use to pay for admission to the electronic spectacle is our attention, and in such hyper-mediated times as these, those charges mount up exponentially, until we generally find ourselves at some point, broke and spiritually exhausted by soul-crushing denial and disconnection.
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Best of the Web: Agenda ID2020: The Diabolical Agenda Within The Agenda. "Genetically Modified Humanity"

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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"A Wakeup Call to the World" - this is what Dr. Carrie Madej calls the hidden agenda within the barely talked about ID2020.

What is envisaged is a "genetically modified humanity" (GMH) so as to better control, command the world population, or what's left of it, once the Gates Agenda has been implemented.

Let that NEVER happen!

See for yourself, Dr. Carrie Madej's presentation - 21 min. video (17 August 2020). Transhumanism - "Human 2.0"? - A Wakeup Call to the World, Nanotechnology implanted in your cells - and a genetically modified human DNA.


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Flashback Best of the Web: Active presidential level national near-earth object preparedness strategy and action plan revealed

Shepard Ambellas
IntelliHub
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:26 UTC
Artist concept of asteroid impact.
© Shuttertstock / solarsevenArtist concept of asteroid impact.
Department of Defense to use kinetic weapons to defeat and or mitigate incoming city, continent killer, asteroids

The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan obtained by Intellihub reveals that a presidential level interagency working group for detecting and mitigating the impact of earthbound near-earth objects has been activated and is currently working to detect and mitigate asteroids or comets from striking our planet.

The official National Science Council plan named DAMIEN which stands for "Detecting and Mitigating the Impact of Earth-bound Near-Earth Objects" authored in June of 2018 reveals how the U.S. government has been improving "our Nation's preparedness to address the hazard of NEO impacts by leveraging and enhancing existing national and international assets and adding important capabilities across government."

The plan comprised by the National Science and Technology Council, the Committee on Homeland and National Security, and the Interagency Working Group for Detecting and Mitigating Impacts of Earth-Bound Near-Earth Objects (DAMIEN) (IWG) "builds on efforts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Energy (DOE) to detect and characterize the NEO population and to prevent and respond to NEO impacts on Earth" and has been activated through the Stafford Act which was invoked by President Donald Trump several weeks ago in order to help fight the coronavirus.

Comment: Of course, no asteroid hit Earth in April, 2020 when this was published. But such an ONGOING threat may well factor into the clearly coordinated lockdown mania around the world. Remember the words of British astronomer Victor Clube, author of The Cosmic Serpent and The Cosmic Winter, in a report commissioned by the U.S. Air Force:
"We do not need the celestial threat to disguise Cold War intentions; rather we need the Cold War to disguise celestial intentions!"
Or perhaps a "pamdemic" might do just as well?

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Best of the Web: Day After Tomorrow, today: TEN waterspouts appear side-by-side in Gulf of Mexico!


fox29.com
Fri, 21 Aug 2020 18:19 UTC
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Multiple waterspouts were spotted swirling simultaneously off Louisiana's coast on August 20, as severe storms battered the region with hail.

This footage shot by Frank Leday in the Gulf of Mexico captures at least six of the watery vortexes spiraling skyward against a blanket of dark storm clouds.

"Wow!! Ever see 6 water spouts at once?" Leday wrote on Facebook.

The storms came as the US National Weather Service predicted two tropical depressions — one in the North Atlantic and another in the Carribean — could develop into hurricanes upon hitting the Gulf. According to US media, it would be the first instance of two separate tropical storm systems in the basin in over 60 years.

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Best of the Web: The case for masks, school closings, & social isolation just collapsed!

Michael Thau
RedState
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:00 UTC
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© AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

-Theodore Dalrymple
The Annals of Internal Medicine just published a comprehensive new study on how contagious the COVID-19 virus is. And I'm sorry to report that the case for a number of popular new practices that seem to have filled some spiritual need a lot of Americans have for self-abasement just completely collapsed.

The list of practices no longer having any conceivable rationale includes:
  • Closing down schools.
  • Closing down gyms, barber shops, or any other businesses.
  • Limiting the number of patrons allowed in restaurants or other businesses at one time.
  • Mass testing for the COVID-19 virus.
  • Putting healthy people in quarantine.
  • Keeping a distance of 3, 6, or some other arbitrary number of feet away from healthy individuals.
  • Healthy individuals with no criminal intent wearing masks when it's not Halloween.
Likewise for any other humiliating rituals state and local officials plan on forcibly enacting to keep you safe from the scourge of COVID-19 that their own sense of self-worth precludes participating in.

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Best of the Web: March to fascism: Morrison says Covid vaccine likely to be mandatory in Australia, suggests that those who refuse it will starve

Brett Worthington
ABC.net.au
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:17 UTC

Comment: Again we note that it's the anglophone countries - the 'Five Eyes' plus Ireland, though Spain and France are up there with them - proving the most fascist and authoritarian of the bunch...


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© ABC News: Adam KennedyScott Morrison says he expects criticism from anti-vaccination campaigners.
Australians are likely to face mandatory coronavirus vaccinations if Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets his wish.

The nation is a step closer to gaining access to a vaccine, with the Federal Government securing an international deal to produce a vaccine frontrunner locally if trials succeed.

If that happens, Mr Morrison said Australia would have a target of 95 per cent vaccination, which would account for people with health conditions that prevented them being vaccinated.

"I would expect it to be as mandatory as you could possibly make it," he told Melbourne radio station 3AW.

"There are always exemptions for any vaccine on medical grounds, but that should be the only basis.

"We are talking about a pandemic that has destroyed the global economy and taken the lives of hundreds of thousands all around the world, and over 430 Australians here."


Comment: What an idiot. The global economy need not have been wrecked. And even if governments and media hadn't reacted like hysterical children and the economy was STILL wrecked, that wouldn't entail the necessity of mass vaccination. Recent numbers and studies suggest only 20% of the population need get the virus in order to reach herd immunity, and the vast majority of those people either experience no symptoms or recover. Remember, the virus has a 99.9% survival rate. What is Morrison smoking? Probably the same insanity all the other world leaders are smoking.

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