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Best of the Web: 2020: The year the vaccine pendulum swings?

Jefferey Jaxen
The Highwire
Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:01 UTC

Something incredible is happening in America.

A grassroots movement which has patiently, but inexorably, developed for decades has burst through to the mainstream. Its growth can no longer be ignored by Big Pharma-controlled media, as concerned citizens now regularly crowd state capitols.

First, in late December and then again early January, the nation watched as New Jersey's state capitol was twice occupied by parents and families battling against a pair of aggressive, Constitution-cancelling pieces of legislation.

Best of the Web: If slowing growth, unsound financial systems and the coronavirus don't trigger a market meltdown, central banks will

Gary Biddle
South China Morning Post
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:00 UTC

© Getty Images / AFPPeople walk past the New York Stock Exchange on February 12. US stocks have rallied to an all-time high this month despite worries over sluggish economies in China and Europe and the coronavirus outbreak.

In July 2007, the Post published my article with the headline "Get ready for stock market collapse". Three months later, share prices slid into the abyss of the global financial crisis. I haven't predicted a market collapse since. I am predicting one now.

Back in 2007, signs of a market collapse were evident in overpriced shares, investor complacency, and fast-sprouting hedge funds and brokerage accounts. China was then an emerging economic power with ample debt capacity to cushion the world's fall.

But both China and US got their responses to the global financial crisis wrong. Rather than stimulating consumption that still lags, China stimulated investment despite its industrial overcapacity. The US stimulated consumption (remember "cash for clunkers"?) rather than investing in new technologies, worker retraining and still creaking infrastructure.

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Best of the Web: REVEALED: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria

Ian Cobain, Alice Ross
Middle East Eye
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 06:02 UTC

The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.

A number of leaked documents seen by Middle East Eye show how the propaganda initiative began in 2012 and gathered pace the following year, shortly after the UK parliament refused to authorise British military action in Syria.

Drawing upon British, American and Canadian funding, UK government contractors set up offices in Istanbul and Amman, where they hired members of the Syrian diaspora, who in turn recruited citizen journalists inside Syria.

These journalists, many of them young, were commissioned to produce TV footage, radio programmes, social media, posters, magazines and even children's comics.

Best of the Web: How Jewish-American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel

Ian Lee
CBS News
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:04 UTC

It's a tense stakeout, waiting for Jimmy Julius Karow to appear. He is a wanted man and is considered dangerous. Accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Oregon in 2000, he fled to Israel before authorities in the U.S. could apprehend him or figure out where he went. Karow has been running from U.S. law enforcement ever since. Currently INTERPOL, an inter-governmental policing organization that works with 194 countries, has a Red Notice to alert police worldwide that he's a fugitive.

Two years after he fled the U.S., Karow was convicted by an Israeli court of child molestation in a separate case. He served time and was released. Now another alleged Israeli victim has come forward, saying he began abusing her when she was 5-years-old, and continued for years.

Karow has successfully evaded authorities by moving between communities in Israel for almost two decades, and he is not alone.

A widespread problem

A CBS News investigation has found that many accused American pedophiles flee to Israel, and bringing them to justice can be difficult.

Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an American organization that tracks accused pedophiles, has been trying for years to find Karow and help bring him to justice.

Comment: As bad as this is, it's not the worst of it. Child trafficking and pedophiles in or originating in Israel are rampant. One example:

Best of the Web: Trump, Roger Stone, and The Guardian: Seeing through the lies - US edition

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:58 UTC

The Guardian newspaper has taken the art of obfuscation, false implication and the subtler forms of journalistic lying to new heights in its very extensive coverage of the Roger Stone sentencing saga. It has now devoted fourteen articles in the last fortnight to this rather obscure episode of American political history. Yet in not one of those articles - nor in more than a dozen articles about the Stone case that preceded it over the last few months - has the Guardian informed its readers what Stone was actually convicted of doing.

Stone was convicted of giving false testimony and misleading the FBI, because he claimed to be a conduit between Wikileaks and Trump when he was not. There was no conduit between Wikileaks and Trump. Stone was also convicted of witness intimidation, because once his fantasies got him into trouble he tried to browbeat my friend Randy Credico into backing up his tale.

The Guardian has, in a feat of some skill, contrived to give its readers the impression that Stone has been convicted for Trump/Wikileaks links, when that is in fact the precise opposite of the truth.

Stone has been convicted for fabricating the existence of Trump/Wikileaks links, of which there were none.

Best of the Web: Bloomberg can declare Trump 'Bernie's new bro', but he can't hide from being compared to a fellow billionaire

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:40 UTC

Billionaire Democrat candidate Michael Bloomberg has tried to equate his democratic socialist rival Bernie Sanders with the party's bogeyman, President Donald Trump. But if anyone resembles Trump, it's Bloomberg.

The candidate has spent over half a billion dollars remaking the 2020 primary in his own image, seeking to accomplish with sheer brute financial force what others must finesse by appealing to voters on the issues they care about. Even Trump, who has arguably redefined the Republican Party in 2016 with a largely self-funded effort, secured his party's nomination as much with showmanship as with bottomless pockets.

But so far, if polls are to be believed, Bloomberg's plan is working - despite never setting foot on a debate stage, he has surpassed double digits in some state polls. Tuesday's NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll has him running an improbable second with 19 percent of the vote.

Best of the Web: Weighing down childhood: Are vaccines and glyphosate contributing to childhood obesity?

Children's Health Defense
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:56 UTC

Over the past several decades, the experience of childhood has changed fundamentally for many American children. Impairing their ability to climb trees and run races, over a third are encumbered — at even the youngest ages — with runaway weight and associated sequelae like high blood pressure. As of 2015-16, about 13.7 million U.S. children and adolescents — roughly one in five (18.5%) — were obese, and another 17% were overweight. Even worse, a third of those classified as obese fell into the category of "extreme obesity."

In the adolescent age group (12- to 19-year-olds), obesity prevalence — at 21% — has quadrupled since the 1980s, generating $14 billion in annual direct health expenses. Researchers are even more concerned, however, by the worsening picture in 2- to 5-year-olds. Studies show that early-onset weight gain has long-term risks; when children start kindergarten overweight, they are four times more likely to become obese by eighth grade as normal-weight kindergartners. In less than a decade (from 2007-08 to 2015-16), the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in the 2- to 5-year age group rose from 10% to 14%. In the most recent two-year cycle, this sharp increase in preschool-age children — particularly boys, African Americans and Hispanics — prompted researchers to fret about the obesity epidemic having become "endemic." At a societal level, experts warn that "The obesity epidemic threatens to shorten life expectancy . . . and bankrupt the health care system."

The dramatic surge in childhood obesity began in earnest in the late 1980s. Given the growing evidence that environmental chemicals are key obesity triggers, it makes sense to consider what exposures may have increased over the same time period. Vaccines and glyphosate are two culprits that readily come to mind — and published evidence supports a link.

Comment: While the continually plunging quality of diet is no doubt at least partly responsible for the growing obesity epidemic, toxicity and inflammation are likely playing a huge role (perhaps moreso than diet quality). We've all seen people with garbage diets who seem to be relatively unaffected, while others need to pay strict attention to what they eat or pay consequences. Genetics can only explain so much, and the above article connects some dots that give a clearer picture than the mainstream calories-in-calories-out model will allow.

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Best of the Web: Scandal-ridden OPCW now using Twitter's "hide replies" function to silence dissent

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:01 UTC

When Twitter first implemented its "hide replies" function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote it I was imagining the function being used by overt manipulators like cable TV pundits and Washington Post columnists, and think tank operatives like Neera Tanden who vocally supported the implementation of the function.

What I absolutely was not expecting, as paranoid and conspiracy-minded as I am, was a highly regarded UN-associated international chemical watchdog group using the function for that purpose.

Best of the Web: Syria: Aleppo intl airport receive first flight ending 8 years long shutdown

RT
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC

© SANA via APIn this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian officials and journalists disembark a Syrian commercial plane after it landed at Aleppo Airport, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. The Syrian commercial flight on Wednesday from Damascus, marked the resumption of internal flights between Syria's two largest cities for the first time since 2012.

A Syrian Air flight has landed at Aleppo International Airport for the first time in years, marking a milestone in the recovery of the city, which has been returning to normal life from the abyss of its civil war.

The commercial flight, carrying Syrian officials and journalists, landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, some 40 minutes after taking off from the capital, Damascus. The arrival of the Airbus A320 has become a symbolic message, marking the resumption of flights between Syria's two biggest cities.

Footage taken on the spot showed a crowd of people that came to the airport to welcome the first flight. Some cheered and waved Syrian national flags, others held placards with portraits of President Bashar Assad.

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Best of the Web: The plasma universe and Max Planck's musical space-time revisited

Matthew Ehret
Rising Tide Foundation
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:51 UTC

Near the end of 2019, signals arrived to Earth from the Voyager 2 spacecraft which have shaken the foundations of modern physics, and brought into question what are the forces and principles shaping the space time of stars within galaxies (and implicitly galaxies within clusters of galaxies). The data which NASA scientists received from Voyager 2 have catapulted mankind's ability to finally answer the old question of "what is in the "space" between stars or even between galaxies within our universe? As Voyager Project scientist Ed Stone stated:

"The Voyager probes are showing us how our sun interacts with the stuff that fills most of the space between stars in the milky way Galaxy."

What did Voyager 2 encounter?

As Voyager 2 exited the Heliosphere (the spherical boundary shaped by the sun's electro-magnetic field) and moved into the interstellar medium on November 5, 2019, the five sensors still functioning on the craft which was launched in 1977 alongside Voyager-1, measuring magnetic field intensity, cosmic radiation flux and plasma density produced surprising results. As the magnetic field intensity from the sun was no longer felt, an ocean of extremely dense cosmic radiation and plasma was encountered. Voyager-2's results corroborate those same measurements which occurred on the faster moving Voyager-1 when it traversed the Heliosphere in 2012 proving that this was not a "localized phenomenon".

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Best of the Web:

Best of the Web: 2020: The year the vaccine pendulum swings?

Best of the Web: If slowing growth, unsound financial systems and the coronavirus don't trigger a market meltdown, central banks will

Best of the Web: REVEALED: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria

Best of the Web: How Jewish-American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel

Best of the Web: Trump, Roger Stone, and The Guardian: Seeing through the lies - US edition

Best of the Web: Bloomberg can declare Trump 'Bernie's new bro', but he can't hide from being compared to a fellow billionaire

Best of the Web: Weighing down childhood: Are vaccines and glyphosate contributing to childhood obesity?

Best of the Web: Scandal-ridden OPCW now using Twitter's "hide replies" function to silence dissent

Best of the Web: Syria: Aleppo intl airport receive first flight ending 8 years long shutdown

Best of the Web: The plasma universe and Max Planck's musical space-time revisited

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