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Best of the Web: Pentagon plans to 'make some UFO findings public' as US govt drops more hints of 'alien disclosure'

Ralph Blumenthal & Leslie Kean
New York Times
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:44 UTC

Comment: For a few years now there have been hints from the US govt that they're 'slowly acclimatizing' the general public to the 'UFO/'alien' reality. Of course they wait until a major mass media global distraction event like the Covid scamdemic to do it...


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Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence, where officials continue to study mystifying encounters between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles.

Pentagon officials will not discuss the program, which is not classified but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation's intelligence agencies for the coming year. The report said the program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, was "to standardize collection and reporting" on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles, and was to report at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after passage of the intelligence authorization act.

While retired officials involved with the effort — including Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader — hope the program will seek evidence of vehicles from other worlds, its main focus is on discovering whether another nation, especially any potential adversary, is using breakout aviation technology that could threaten the United States.

Comment: Drip-drip-disclosure? Perhaps. It's interesting that an ever-wider circle of 'the elite' seem to know more details...

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Best of the Web: In broad daylight: Murder of black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell spurs call for federal investigation

Mary Kay Linge
New York Post
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:37 UTC
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© Adebisi AgoroBernell Trammell, 60, was shot and killed in Milwaukee on Thursday.
The shooting death of a black Trump supporter in Milwaukee has state Republicans calling for a federal investigation.

Bernell Trammell, 60, a dreadlocked activist known for carrying handmade signs through the streets reading "Vote Donald Trump 2020," and posting them on his storefront, was gunned down by an unknown assailant on his sidewalk Thursday afternoon, police said.

"Because of Trammell's well-known political activism and the possibility that his murder could be politically motivated, I respectfully request that United States Attorney Matthew Krueger open an investigation," said Andrew Hitt, chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, late Friday.

Comment: So being a black Trump supporter now comes with a death sentence. We guess Black Lives don't Matter after all.

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Best of the Web: Portland protests have no goal except violence and anarchy

Andy Ngo
New York Post
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:35 UTC
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© AP Photo/Marcio Jose SanchezProtesters in Portland clash with federal officers.
At the end of May, rioting and looting broke out in Portland, Ore., as it did in dozens of other American cities in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd. In one night, hundreds of rioters ravaged downtown, breaking into jewelry stores, the mall and banks. They left a trail of broken windows and fires in their wake. That was seven weeks ago. And while violent protests have ebbed or stopped everywhere else, it has continued and grown stronger in Portland.

For 58 days, mass protests and riots have taken over parts of the city. Some streets and areas are literal "no-go zones" at night — either blocked by fires or teams of "guards."

Day after day, hundreds and even thousands take to the streets and claim the territory as theirs. They cycle through a number of chants like "All cops are bastards" and "F- -k the police." A large number of them participate in violent criminal acts such as arson and assault. They've made it a game to lure law-enforcement officers out of buildings so they can assault them with blinding lasers, paint, rocks and other weapons.

Those who don't engage in direct violence cheer them on, assist in "de-arresting" comrades and act as cop watchers. Rioters try, and have succeeded in, breaking into Portland police facilities. Now they're focused on the federal Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse in response to the Department of Homeland Security sending in reinforcements earlier this month.

Besides the violence and anarchy, what exactly do the rioters want?

Comment: Ngo mentions "other weapons." RT gives a rundown on what the Portland rioters have been using: ropes and electric saws, high-powered lights including lasers (three federal agents were likely permanently blinded by their use), projectiles including glass bottles and ball bearings, leaf blowers to redirect tear gas, not to mention spray paint and starting fires. Some footage of all these in action:









Police declared a riot after the fence surrounding the federal courthouse was torn down:



Meanwhile, the UN's human rights office decries the 'disproportionate use of force' by law enforcement against protesters.

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Best of the Web: Kiev foreign ministry: 'Black boxes confirm illegal interference with Ukrainian Airlines plane downed in Iran'


Al Jazeera
Sun, 26 Jul 2020 07:00 UTC

Comment: Well, well, well. Among other things, what does this mean for Iran's official stance that no foul play was involved in downing the Ukrainian Airlines plane?...


The flight recorders from a Ukrainian plane shot down by Iran confirm illegal interference, Ukraine says.
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The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on January 8 confirms the fact of illegal interference with the plane, according to Ukraine's deputy foreign minister.

Yevhenii Yenin's remarks came on Friday, a day after an international team examining the flight recorders from the jet had completed a preliminary analysis of the data in France.

"Grateful to all partners who helped bring this moment closer. Black boxes from #PS752 were read out and deciphered successfully. The transcript confirmed the fact of illegal interference with the plane," Yenin wrote on Twitter.

He also said Kyiv was expecting an Iranian delegation to visit Ukraine next week for talks.


Comment: Other media outlets are spinning the Ukrainian official's comment at him saying simply that 'Iran illegally downed the plane'.

Obviously!

But that isn't what he implied. He implied that interference took place which contributed to causing Iran to down that plane. Whether, by that, he means to suggest that Iran deliberately shot it down, or that she was tricked into doing so, remains open. However, given high levels of Iranian-Ukrainian cooperation on this matter, such an accusation is unlikely.

As we speculated at the time, it appears that Iran's air defense system operator was 'tricked' into reading the UA flight as an incoming US 'retaliatory' missile, part of which may have involved altering the radar signature of the UA plane.

And yet, within days of the incident, Iran 'ate the fault'. Why?

Well, the Iranian govt was riding on its 'propaganda victory' of successfully targeting US bases in Iraq. The accidental downing of the UA flight put a dampener on that, so they apparently decided it was best to 'make the problem go away' rather than protest innocence and imply that some third party bested their air defenses.

Was Iranian Missile Operator Tricked Into Shooting Down The Ukrainian Airlines Plane Over Tehran?

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Best of the Web: "Honey, I shrunk the people's constitutional rights!" How administrative tribunals are replacing constitutional courts

Rosemary Frei
OffGuardian
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 06:02 UTC
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Chris Weisdorf was penalized for parking improperly in December 2017 and he decided to fight the fine. But he slammed up against legal structures that give virtually unchecked power to untold numbers of administrators around the world who oversee and enforce everything from parking regulations to public-health edicts.

The parking-ticket system in Toronto, Ontario - where Weisdorf had committed his offense - had been replaced with an Administrative Penalty System (APS). The bylaw creating APS was billed as streamlining the court system. After very little public consultation and notice it was approved overwhelmingly by Toronto city council in July 2017 (there appears to no longer be a record online of the council vote).

The bylaw contains Orwellian redefinitions designed to wriggle traffic- and parking-law violations out of the category of what the Supreme Court of Canada views as criminal offenses and into the administrative category — and along with that, defendants out of the purview of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the core of the Canadian constitution.

The bylaw's redefinitions include calling offenses 'infractions,' defendants 'customers' and parking tickets 'parking violation notices.' And in what Weisdorf calls "a legal oxymoron for the ages," monetary penalties are deemed to be 'not punitive.'
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Best of the Web: Highest flooding in Europe for 500 years, historical records show correlation with abnormal cold

University of Barcelona
Heritage Daily
Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:24 UTC
As the pictures show, Verkhoyansk was hit by summer snow, which is not unknown but hardly common.
As the pictures show, Verkhoyansk was hit by summer snow, which is not unknown but hardly common.
An international research project coordinated by the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), with participation from researchers of the University of Barcelona, shows for the first time that flood pattern over the last decades in Europe have changed compared to past centuries.

The study, published in the journal Nature, concludes we are in one of the most flood-rich periods in Europe from the last five hundred years.

The study shows that, within the last half of the millennium, the last three decades are among the most important periods regarding frequency and magnitude of floods in Europe. Also, during these three decades, distribution of the floods have changed, as well as the temperature of the air and flood seasonality, with a higher percentage of floods in summer. Regarding the temperature of the air, from 1500 to 1900, floods used to take place with higher frequency during cold climate phases, while after 1990, floods increased within the context of global warming.


Comment: It would appear the 500 year old pattern still stands, because the evidence shows that our planet is now seriously cooling: Antarctica's coldest March temperature on record - a 'global warming' destroying -75.3℃/-103.5℉


The data analysis identified nine periods of floods that were more abundant and the associated regions. Among the most notable periods are 1560-1580 (western and central Europe), 1760-1800 (most part of Europe), 1840-1870 (western and southern Europe), and 1990-2016 (western and central Europe). According to the analysis, the current phase is the third most severe regarding floods. However, this data is at the expense of the duration of the current phase of abundant floods, to be concluded. Now, floods cause annual damages accounting for more than 100,000 million euros, and the general tendency of abundant floods is increasing.

Comment: If the earth changes we're seeing today are anything to go by, it's likely that these shifts to extremes in weather occur across the planet, not just in Europe, as per the study above: Also check out SOTT radio's: As well as SOTT's monthly documentary SOTT Earth Changes Summary - June 2020: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs:



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Best of the Web: Drip-drip disclosure: Pentagon UFO unit 'to publicly release some findings' after ex-official says 'off-world vehicle' found

Gena Spocchia
Independent
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC
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A Pentagon UFO unit will make some investigations public as ex-advisors suggest that "vehicles not made on this earth" were placed in US government storage.

The team will update the US Senate's Intelligence Committee on its unidentified flying object (UFO) research every six months, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Publicly named in 2019 as the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, the Pentagon unit succeeded an investigative UFO program that was said to have been disbanded prior to 2017.

One former official, Eric Davis, told The Times that he briefed the US Department of Defense in March about the retrieval of "off-world vehicles not made on this earth". The Pentagon consultant and subcontractor said objects he believed "we couldn't make...ourselves" were discovered during his time on the unit, where he has worked since 2007.

Comment: See also:
US Senate Select Committee report refers to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

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Best of the Web: Lockdowns DON'T work! Study claims forced stay-at-home orders were not associated with lower coronavirus deaths in countries around the world

Ben Spencer and Vanessa Chalmers
Daily Mail
Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:12 UTC
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Lockdowns have not had a big impact on coronavirus death rates around the world, scientists have claimed.

Dozens of countries have been forced to tell people to stay home and close shops in a bid to stop the Covid-19 pandemic since it broke out in January.

But now a study has claimed the drastic measures don't even work. They found whether a country was locked down or not was 'not associated' with death rate.

Instead the health of each nation before the pandemic largely played a role, including obesity rates and age.

It could explain why countries such as Britain - with some of Europe's worst obesity rates - have had such a high death toll.

The early closure of international borders seemed to lower cases, but did not translate to real lives saved.

The study compared mortality rates and cases in 50 different countries worst hit by the pandemic up until May 1.

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Best of the Web: Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar 'in solidarity with Black Lives Matter'

Alex Frank
The College Fix
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:01 UTC
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Also pledges to decolonize the writing center.

The English Department at Rutgers University recently announced a list of "anti-racist" directives and initiatives for the upcoming fall and spring semesters, including an effort to deemphasize traditional grammar rules.

The initiatives were spelled out by Rebecca Walkowitz, the English Department chair at Rutgers University, and sent to faculty, staff and students in an email, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.

Walkowitz sent the email on "Juneteenth," which celebrates the commemoration of emancipation from slavery in the United States.

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Best of the Web: Men's Rights attorney and advocate Marc Angelucci slain by hitman disguised as delivery driver

Corrine Barraclough
Spectator Australia
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:39 UTC
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On the Saturday before last, July 11, just before 4 pm, my dear and wonderful friend Marc Angelucci was at his home in Glenwood Drive, Cedar Pines Park, California with friends.

There was a knock at the door.

One of his friends' answered, but the delivery man said he had a package that Angelucci needed to sign for.

Marc went to the door.

Shots were fired.

A car sped away.

His friends called for help.

Paramedics arrived.

Angelucci was pronounced dead at the scene.

On a Saturday afternoon, at his own front door, formidable lawyer Marc Angelucci, 52, was murdered.

Comment: The above article was published on Monday, July 20th. Just a few hours earlier, on Sunday July 19th, a hitman disguised as a FedEx delivery driver shot dead the son of Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Angelucci was assassinated a week earlier on July 11th. (Note one difference between the two: in Angelucci's case, the hitman specifically requested that he come to the door to sign for a package; in Salas' case, the hitman did not appear to request Esther Salas herself.)

Now the media is linking the two deaths - which obviously are linked, given the shared modus operandi - but with the somewhat spurious suggestion - based on leaks from "anonymous law enforcement officials" - that their suspect in the Salas home attack was "men's rights attorney and activist" Roy Den Hollander, that he "held a grudge" against Salas, and now, despite shared interests as "men's rights attorneys", that he also "held a grudge" against Angelucci (according to "a friend of the family").

The Atlantic has in the meantime published a synopsis of "thousands of pages written by Hollander, and uploaded in bulk to the Internet Archive." The outlet provides no links to this content, and no screenshots, so we have to trust them that this "manifesto" is indeed out there somewhere. A search of the username Atlantic provided ("Roy17den") on "the Internet Archive", by which Atlantic presumably means this site, yields no such "thousands of pages of documents.")

Granting The Atlantic the benefit of doubt by assuming that the content is indeed written by Hollander, then he did seem like a "man on a mission" to "show Feminazis what's what." More than that, some of the quotes selected by Atlantic suggests a highly unstable individual - so unstable that he claims to have "contacted my buddies at the GRU" in order to "get those Clinton emails for Trump in 2016."

If an attorney-at-law involved in some fairly high-level cases in the USA were seeking to attract the FBI's attention, the CIA's attention, the NSA's attention, and the Mueller Investigation's attention, that is precisely what he would write and publish online. And yet it never landed him in hot water. Clearly then, anything that is claimed to have been written or said by Hollander - who is now dead remember, and thus cannot contest it - must be treated as suspect.

So what are we, for now, looking at?

Three dead bodies - one the son of a judge, the other two attorneys - all ostensibly connected by men's rights issues. Look deeper though and the judge in question was 4 days into investigating Jeffrey Epstein's banking with Deutsche Bank, while the now-dead suspect in both killings has a history with a US-Israeli-linked private intelligence firm.

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