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Best of the Web: Cosmic phenomenon? Strange waves pulse through cloud in skies over northwestern Syria


Comment: We are most certainly not in Kansas anymore...


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© FILE PHOTOWhat was strange about this was not the clouds, but something apparently moving THROUGH the clouds...
Alien hunters and conspiracy theorists of all sorts do not need much to get them to seek traces of extraterrestrial guests or secret governmental programmes. A clip said to be filmed in Aleppo, with a stripe-like pattern in the clouds, inspired the most bizarre assumptions, as well.

Online commenters latched onto the footage of smoke ripples in the sky, said to be filmed in the Aleppo countryside in Syria, to reinforce claims that weather control weapons exist. Although its authenticity cannot be confirmed, the clip prompted conspiracy theorists' imagination to fly. It was posted on Twitter by a user with the handle Ahmad1618A, who describes himself as "an activist here to deliver the voice of Syrians."

The video shows a cloud in the bright sky with smoke, moving upwards in a stripe-like pattern. The show lasts a few moments. The author of the video suggested in the caption that it was an electromagnetic interference, "whose source has not yet been determined."

Comment: Note also the UFO at 19 seconds...

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Best of the Web: Cocaine, assassination, child prostitution: Rampant criminality among French elites exposed by ex-'Prince of Coke' drugs kingpin


Comment: The following is a translation of this sputnik.fr article. We have improved the initial translation done by mbs.news.

Gérard Fauré was a drugs kingpin in France who currently, in 'retirement', is causing quite a stir in the francosphere. Fauré has provided dozens of names of celebrities, state officials including police officers and politicians (some of whom are still alive), along with serious accusations. The whole French media sphere is talking about it, but to date Fauré has net been sued once. Which suggests that his claims have credence.

Fauré used his prison time to write 10 books. Only 3 of them have been published so far.


The prince of cocaine is back. Despite his retirement, Gérard Fauré, seventy years old, does not remain unemployed. After a first opus in 2018, he publishes a second volume of his memories, darker, with always more revelations on the drug and gangster scene.

Sputnik interviewed him again - an interview that will take your breath away.

Screenshot of the interiview of Gérard Fauré conducted by Sputnik
© SputnikScreenshot of the interview of Gérard Fauré conducted by Sputnik
Here he arrives in a brand new German sedan in a town in the Yvelines. "Copyright," jokes Gérard Fauré when he welcomes us to his home. Other than that, nothing has changed in his apartment since 2018, where we had first come to The Dealer in Tout-Paris: The Supplier of The Stars Speaks. After 30,000 copies sold (some claim twice as much) and millions of views on YouTube, the former gangster has re-offended.

He published the rest of his memoirs in January, The Prince of Coke. Two more opuses are said to be in progress. A movie adaptation is even mooted. And, for the moment, no defamation complaint, nor reprisals.

Comment: Gérard Fauré's claims provide yet further corroboration of the essential correctness of claims made by child witnesses Régina Louf (in the Belgian Dutroux scandal) and Fanny (in the French Alègre scandal) along with numerous others.

They all describe the same thing: widespread and heavy use of hard drugs among certain sections of the elites, rampant organized pedophilia and collusion between politicians, celebrities, journalists, lawyers and policemen.

Fanny and Régina Louf were silenced through intimidation, including bogus prison sentences. Silencing Fauré might be more difficult: he knows prison, he likes to write and he has evidence.


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Best of the Web: Report on Ukrainegate, and why there will never be a real investigation

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Zlochevskii and Biden
Introduction

American and Ukrainian government and court documents seem to show that the Barak Obama administration and certainly various State Department, CIA, and DNC officials (such as the whistleblower who shall not be named and Alexandra Chalupa) conspired to frame then presidential candidate Donald Trump and perhaps Russia in trumped up collusion conspiracies. If things are as the documents suggest, this was nothing other than an attempt first to defeat Trump at the ballot box and after that failed to overthrow a legally elected president in a color revolution from above by impeachment. The operation was not limited to 'just' the discredited Steele Dossier, the overinflated Russian troll factory's work on social websites, and false reports of Russian hacking of state election commissions. It may very well include the fake of an alleged Russian hack of Democratic National Committee servers in a broad and running conspiracy. These measures evolved into what the lawyer of one of the conspirators himself called at the time a "coup".

It appears that new data show that the Obama administration through Burisma, the gas company on whose board former VP Joe Biden's troubled son Hunter served, and PrivatBank, both owned by Ukrainian criminal oligarch Igor Kolomoiskii and in which $8 billion in US aid were 'lost', laundered money or at least covered up Kolomoiskii's theft of US government economic assistance both to take kickbacks and perhaps to finance Ukraine's ultra-nationalist-neofascist-dominated volunteer battalions fighting the Donbass civil war without congressional approval. These battalions, neofascist groups such as Right Sector and their members have committed war crimes and some of their members have been involved in terrorist attacks targeting government officials and journalists. In 2018, matters went too far, and Congress blocked the neofascist Azov Battalion from receiving military training. In connection with all this and in the wake of the collapse of the Democrats' impeachment effort against President Trump, relevant documents now have been submitted to Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), and the senators in turn have requested Secret Service documents on the travels of VP Joseph Biden's son Hunter Biden and received from the Treasury Department documents "highly sensitive and closely held financial records about Hunter Biden and his associates".

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Flashback Best of the Web: Canada has a monumental Ukrainian Nazi problem

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The monument to Roman Shukhevych, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army from 1943 until his death in 1950, has stood at the entrance of the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in North Edmonton, Alberta, since mid-1970s. Shukhevych is lionized by some for his fight for Ukrainian independence against Poland, the Soviet Union and later Germany. But critics of the monument say it glorifies a Nazi henchman who sided with Germany in hopes of winning independence for Ukraine. (Photo courtesy of John-Paul Himka)
A Canadian monument to a hero of an anti-Soviet nationalist uprising in Ukraine is raising questions about the manipulation of historical memory for political purposes.

Critics of the monument say Roman Shukhevych was also a ruthless Nazi henchman and honouring him plays into the hands of the Kremlin propaganda machine that seeks to delegitimize the very idea of Ukrainian statehood.


Comment: Indeed, Canada clearly has a 'Nazi apologist' problem. Among other things, it voted against Russia's anti-Nazism resolution at the UN.


The bronze bust of Shukhevych, one of the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (known under its Ukrainian acronym UPA) during WWII and immediately after, has stood quietly at the entrance of the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in North Edmonton, Alberta, for 45 years.

Shukhevych's stern gaze has greeted generations of Ukrainian-Canadians who came to the centre for various community activities, oblivious of the national hero's messy wartime record of mass murder and ethnic cleansing.

Comment: One solution would be to give these nutcases their state: carve it out of western Ukraine and call it the People's Democratic Republic of Galicia, or Volhynistan or something.

It should be pointed out that Canada was initially reluctant to absorb these Ukie Nazis, until the British govt pressured her into it...
Members of the Galicia Division were initially prohibited from entering Canada due to their membership in the SS. But in 1950, Britain made an appeal to the Commonwealth for volunteers to accept a total of 9,000 division members who were at that time residing in the UK after being disarmed by British troops at the war's end.

When Canada's External Affairs Department, prompted by complaints from the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), raised concerns about the division's ties to the Nazis and role in Nazi atrocities, the British government insisted that it had carried out background checks. "While in Italy these men were screened by Soviet and British missions and neither then nor subsequently has any evidence been brought to light which would suggest that any of them fought against the Western Allies or engaged in crimes against humanity," claimed the British Foreign Office. "Their behaviour since they came to this country," added London, "has been good and they have never indicated in any way that they are infected with any trace of Nazi ideology."

With this letter serving as political cover, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and his cabinet declared that Galicia Division members would be permitted to immigrate to Canada unless it could be proved that they had personally committed atrocities against civilian populations based on "race, religion or national origins." Simply having been a Galicia Division member would not be considered a valid reason to prevent entry, even though after the war all Waffen-SS members had been deemed complicit in war crimes.

The immigration of Nazi and Nazi-allied war criminals continued for more than a decade after the war and was a significant factor in Canada's emergence during the Cold War as a political-ideological centre of far-right Ukrainian nationalism.

Speaking to a CBS 60 Minutes programme in 1997, Canadian historian Irving Abella, who is currently Professor for Canadian Jewish history at York University, bluntly summed up the political climate of the time. "One way of getting into postwar Canada," he said "was by showing the SS tattoo. This proved that you were an anti-Communist."
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Best of the Web: Confused Irish columnist: 'Shock election victory for Sinn Fein was a one-off protest vote against globalisation - Little to do with nationalism'


Comment: The author is surely confused: what is a 'protest vote against the embrace of globalism by a country's establishment' if not nationalism?


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Irish (nationalist) eyes are smiling
In 2011, in what seemed like a laying to rest of the mad ghosts of Anglo-Irish history, the Queen was cheered to the rafters in Dublin.

But the building in which this celebration of amity took place had its own rather haunting presence. It was the spanking new Convention Centre, a glamorous, ultra-modern monument to the optimism of the Celtic Tiger years. By the time of the Queen's visit, it looked out on a landscape of shattered dreams. From the top floor, you had a panoramic view of abandoned building sites on the other side of the Liffey, testaments to the folly that created a spectacular banking crisis, vicious austerity and deep disillusion with the political system that had brought such pain.

If you stand there now, what is most striking is not what you see but what you don't see: those jagged gaps that less than a decade ago made Dublin's docklands look like a mouthful of broken teeth. Nearly all the holes have been filled in by headquarters of multinational companies and the lawyers and bankers who serve them.

Comment: Yes, the exit poll strongly suggested housing and healthcare were by far the biggest factors in Irish voters voting for Sinn Fein.

However...

Besides running the risk of looking a fool for reading the result as indicative of Irish support for globalization - a remarkable piece of mental gymnastics given that 'the Southern Irish' just voted for a nationalist party for the first time ever! - the author is missing something important.

People tell themselves narratives - not lies necessarily, more like 'reasons' and justifications - about why they do what they do, but the real motivation is often something vague, something emotional, and something few of them can actually put their finger on.

Here is a major clue that Brexit, the rise of English nationalism, and the rise of nationalism generally, did have an effect on Irish voters:

In January this year, as part of ongoing centenary celebrations marking the Irish War of Independence, the resulting Civil War, and the birth of what was then the 'Irish Free State', the Dublin government thought it would be a good idea to include in official commemorations the 'Black and Tans', a militia force of WW1 vets and hardened criminals put together by Churchill to terrorise the Irish population into withdrawing their crucial support for independence fighters.

No doubt today's globalist ideology of 'inclusiveness and diversity' played a role in blindsiding Dublin elites to what happened next: a popular backlash so strong that PM Leo Varadkar was forced to pull the plug on any such commemoration. The Wolfe Tones' Irish rebel song 'Come Out Ye Black and Tans' subsequently went to number 1 in the UK & Ireland iTunes music chart!

That, more than 'persuasive arguments' and 'appeals to people's intellects, is what swings elections in unexpected directions. Then as now, the Dublin intelligentsia are convincing themselves that this is all just a blip and will blow over soon. "Kids today don't understand nationalism like we do," they convince themselves, and "they'll surely see sense in the end."

Don't count on it. The genie which Dublin elites spent a century containing is now out of the bottle, and Irish nationalism has reunification of the island in its sights.


Arrow Up

Best of the Web: Syrian Army captures long-time jihadist stronghold in west Aleppo - City finally free of terrorists' shelling attacks

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© Agence France-PresseSyrian Army troops advance in East Ghouta
The jihadist defenses in western Aleppo have completely collapsed after a short battle with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) at the outskirts of the provincial capital.

According to a military source in western Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army captured the strategic Al-Mansoura District this evening, following the withdrawal of Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from this area.

Al-Mansoura had been a long-time stronghold for the jihadist rebels before its capture by the Syrian Arab Army this evening.

In addition to capturing Al-Mansoura, the Syrian Army also took control of several sites at the western outskirts of Aleppo, including the last building blocks near the Scientific Research Building.

These areas captured by the Syrian Arab Army on Saturday were captured in one day, but they were fought over for most of the war.


Comment: As of February 16, the Syrian Army also took the town of Kafr Da'el:
According to a field report from western Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army managed to capture the key town of Kafr Da'el after the jihadist rebels withdrew from the area this afternoon.

The report said the Syrian Arab Army is now pushing further north of Kafr Da'el as they attempt to besiege the remaining jihadists that are still holed up inside the Anadan Plain region.
And foiled an attack on central Syrian oil fields:
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the engineering units of the Syrian Army "managed to disable and land 5 drones electronically" during their attempted attack on the oil facilities.

These attacks on Syria's oil facilities have become more frequent, as unknown groups attempt to further harm the Syrian economy.

In a statement issued in June of last year, the Ministry of Oil announced a sabotage operation targeting its oil installations in the coastal city of Baniyas, where the oil terminals linking the Baniyas refinery and the oil terminals located under the Mediterranean waters were bombed.

Homs refinery, founded in 1959, is one of the largest refineries in Syria and it consists of a number of distillation units of all kinds and naphtha improvement to raise octane.

The refinery produces domestic gas, premium and regular gasoline, aircraft kerosene, heavy and light diesel, fuels of all kinds, sulfur, hydrogen gas, oxygen, and others.
In fact, they have retaken 23 villages west of Aleppo, a terrific achievement!

Locals are celebrating their liberation:




Red Flag

Flashback Best of the Web: Most teachers quite disturbed about their unions' push for sexualization and indoctrination of school children

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28-year veteran California teacher Rebecca Friedrichs
Speaking in the nation's capital, a 28-year veteran California teacher explained that most teachers are disturbed by the decades-long push to indoctrinate and oversexualize school children by teachers' unions dedicated to far-left cultural and political causes and not the well-being of kids.

"When you hear that teachers are behind comprehensive sexuality education or that teachers agree with the sexualization of children, that's a huge deception," said Rebecca Friedrichs.

On the contrary, "America's real teachers are deeply distrubed by the sexualization of our children," said Friedrichs.

"America's real teachers have been silenced and bullied by the very organization that is pushing the sexualization of children: That is, labor unions," she declared.

Bullseye

Best of the Web: Orbán: 'It's forbidden to say so in Europe, but migration is an organized invasion'

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán - the only head of state in Europe who's been willing to take any real action to stop the ongoing migrant invasion of Europe - on Thursday spoke of the mounting migratory pressure on Hungary's southern border.

Following a routine inspection of Hungary's border fence with his Slovak counterpart, Peter Pellegrini, Orbán said that Hungarian authorities have started to prepare for an expected increase in the number of organized migrant caravans attempting to enter the country illegally as the weather improves, Remix News reports.

During an impromptu press conference, Prime Minister Orbán took the opportunity to express his gratitude for Slovakia's support, saying: "This is hard work which we would have a hard time doing without help and our allies.

Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: Why is Bloomberg's long history of egregious sexism getting a pass?

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In December 2015, employees at Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control organization funded by Mike Bloomberg, arrived at work to find a holiday gift on their desks from their employer: the former mayor's 1997 autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg. Flipping through the book, staffers found themselves uncomfortably reading their billionaire founder's boasts about keeping "a girlfriend in every city" and other womanizing exploits as a Wall Street up-and-comer.

"A few people started immediately going through it and sending the cringe-iest parts around on email chains," one former Everytown employee told me. "Hardly the most controversial things he's said, but it's still a bad look."

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Best of the Web: Andrew McCabe's case shows hypocrisy of Democrats claiming 'No one is above the law'

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© REUTERS/Joshua RobertsAndrew McCabe
After months of hearing that President Donald Trump must be impeached because "no one is above the law," America found out that this talking point doesn't actually apply to Democrats such as ex-FBI deputy director Andy McCabe.

As his lawyers triumphantly announced on Friday, the Department of Justice decided not to press criminal charges against McCabe "after careful consideration" of the inspector-general's report that said he lied to investigators and leaked to the media.

"Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the Government at this time, we consider the matter closed," said the DOJ letter. It sent waves of glee through the 'Resistance' establishment, which set up and propagated for years the 'Russiagate' hysteria aimed at removing Trump from office.