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Best of the Web: G‌reta sues civilization for disappointing her, unleashes tirade at world for 'stealing my dreams'

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© Reuters/Carlo AllegriThunberg at the UN climate action summit
The United Nations' secretary-general António Guterres wanted international leaders to bring plans, not speeches to the Climate Action Summit being held in New York today. Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people don't seem to have much faith in these plans. On Monday, hours after Thunberg addressed assembled leaders at the summit's opening ceremony, the group of activists announced they were suing five of the biggest carbon polluters in the world — Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey — for violating their rights as children by failing to adequately reduce emissions.

"You are failing us," Thunberg said, gazing at the crowd with fury. "We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line." Together with 15 international young people, each of whom have been affected by climate change, she filed a lawsuit arguing the carbon-polluting countries are violating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states children have the right to life, health, and peace. The United States is the only country not to have ratified this convention, and so is not included in the lawsuit, despite its high levels of pollution.


Comment: So that means the U.S. will not have to deal with the legal annoyance stemming from a hypocritical (and meaningless) lawsuit. Point to Trump!


Comment: All the issues listed at the end are the result of natural environmental forces. The Sahara used to be green and lush, Central Europe was arid steppe. Climate shifts and humans have nothing to say about it. We can only observe and adapt.

Greta is a media creation of larger globalists forces. Like Syrian child Bana before her, she doesn't understand the issues she is fronting, and the true ramifications of her "message". She is being emotionally ginned-up to spout fear-mongering gibberish, and being rewarded with a media spotlight. The adult abusers exploiting this poor child should be publicly shamed, starting with her mother. Watch as she goes into full melt-down at the UN today:


Seriously, this child abuse has gone on long enough.

Update 11:30pm CET

Check out the stink eye she gave The Donald at the entrance to the UN:


If looks could kill!


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Flashback Best of the Web: In order to 'fulfill prophecy of third temple', are Israelis planning to destroy Al-Aqsa mosque?

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© Mahmoud Illean/APIsraeli police, Dome of the Rock mosque, Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City
The iconic golden dome of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque, located on the Temple Mount or Haram el-Sharif, is the third holiest site in Islam and is recognized throughout the world as a symbol of the city of Jerusalem. Yet, this ancient site that dates back to the year 705 C.E. is being targeted for destruction by increasingly influential extremist groups that seek to erase Jerusalem's Muslim heritage in pursuit of colonial ambitions and the fulfillment of end-times prophecy.

Some observers may have noticed the growing effort by some Israeli government and religious officials to remove the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque from the Jerusalem skyline, not only erasing the holy site in official posters, banners and educational material but also physically removing the building itself. For instance, current Knesset member of the ruling Likud Party, American-born Yehuda Glick, was also the director of the government-funded Temple Institute, which has created relics and detailed architectural plans for a temple that they hope will soon replace Al-Aqsa. Glick is also close friends with Yehuda Etzion, who was part of a failed plot in 1984 to blow up Al-Aqsa mosque and served prison time as a result.

"In the end we'll build the temple and it will be a house of prayer for all nations," Glick told Israeli newspaper Maariv in 2012. A year later, Israel's Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel stated that "[w]e've built many little, little temples...but we need to build a real Temple on the Temple Mount." Ariel stated that the new Jewish Temple must be built on the site where Al-Aqsa currently sits "as it is at the forefront of Jewish salvation." Since then, prominent Israeli politicians have become more and more overt in their support for the end of Jordanian-Palestinian sovereignty over the mosque compound, leading many prominent Palestinians to warn in recent years of plans to destroy the mosque.

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Best of the Web: Is the Deep State dragging Trump into war with Iran?

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© YouTubeSecretary of State Mike Pompeo
Should we chalk it up to coincidence theory that just days after Trump gives John Bolton the boot as his National Security Adviser, Iran is blamed for an attack on a Saudi oil facility, forcing Washington to forego any hope of peace with Tehran?

One day before Bolton's abrupt departure from the White House, Trump had reportedly discussed with his security advisers the possibility of easing sanctions on Tehran in an effort to create the "right conditions" for a possible meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations later this month.

"We'll see what happens," Trump told reporters last week. "I do believe they'd like to make a deal."

Now we may never know how things may have turned out because one week later that comment looks like a page torn from ancient history.

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Best of the Web: Jordan Peterson enters rehab after wife's cancer diagnosis

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© GettyJordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and anti-political-correctness crusader, has checked himself in to rehab in New York, his daughter has revealed.

The "12 Rules for Life" author has sought help trying to get off the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam, his daughter Mikhaila Peterson said in a video posted to her YouTube account Thursday.

"I've never seen my dad like this," the 27-year-old diet blogger said in the eight-and-a-half-minute video. "He's having a miserable time of it. It breaks my heart."

The elder Peterson, 57, began taking the addictive medication to deal with stress from his wife's battle with cancer and other health problems earlier this year, his daughter said.

He tried to quit cold-turkey over the summer after his wife, Tammy Roberts, "miraculously" recovered from complications with a kidney surgery, Mikhaila said.

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Best of the Web: The good soldier: Tulsi Gabbard shooting straight on the Middle East

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© Fox NewsTulsi Gabbard
Most of the Democrat "leaders" and presidential candidates on offer of late are useful for little more than comedy television, if one considers hyper-political snipery (all done with proper parliamentary procedures) as comedy. It may be so, but we often find that some antacids are probably necessary after watching Jerrold Nadler's Incredibly Contrived Compleat Impeachment Fairy Tale. And, yes, my sarcasm is showing. But Tulsi Gabbard is a completely different story. She found favor with Tucker Carlson on Fox, and she has been on with Fox time and again to talk about very significant matters regarding Middle East policy, and she appears to be at least somewhat correct. She was correct enough to chagrin her interviewer in this video:

Tulsi drew two extremely significant points, one which makes a lot of sense and one which smacks of liberal progressivism. The sensible one is is that the notion that the US should commit its forces to yet another Middle East war, this one with Iran, is absolutely correct.

While it is extremely unlikely that her interpretation of President Trump's tweet is accurate, here is what she actually reacted to. Read for yourself:

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Best of the Web: Will Russia be driven from the West?

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American opponents of readmitting Moscow to the former G8 fail to understand the consequences.

Two years ago, I asked, "Will Russia Leave the West?" The world's largest territorial country — sprawling from its major European city St. Petersburg to its vast Far Eastern territories and long border with China — Russia cannot, of course, depart the West geographically. But it can do so politically, economically, and strategically. Indeed, where Russia belongs, where it should seek its identity, security, and future — in the East or in the West — has divided the nation's policymakers and intellectual elites for centuries.

In our times, as I also pointed out two years ago, a Russia departed, or driven, from the West would likely mean "a Russia — with its vast territories, immense natural resources, world-class sciences, formidable military and nuclear power, and UN Security Council veto — allied solidly with all the other emerging powers that are not part the US-NATO Western 'world order' and even opposed to it. And, of course, it would drive Russia increasingly afar from the West's liberalizing influences, back toward its more authoritarian traditions."

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Best of the Web: Paying the piper: Netanyahu election loss means he will now face corruption charges


Comment: Something to drink to this Friday evening...


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Benjamin Netanyahu, ex-Prime Minister of Israel
As this week's election results and exit polls continue to make grim reading for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister not only faces the possible end of his political career but also a probable court appearance and potentially even jail due to allegations of corruption.

Netanyahu had hoped to pass legislation that would prevent him from being indicted on multiple allegations of corruption — but he can only do so if he remains prime minister. Netanyahu denies any wrongdoing and has said he is the victim of a politically orchestrated "witch-hunt" by the media and the left. But he may have to make that case in court.

With 97 percent of the votes counted as of Thursday afternoon, both Netanyahu's right-wing bloc in the Knesset and the centrist and left-wing bloc led by the Blue and White party fell short of the 61 seats needed to form a government in the 120-seat Parliament.

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Best of the Web: The Middle East's only Jewish ghetto

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© Enzo Apicella (RIP)Separation Wall (A to Zion-the Definitive Israeli Lexicon)
The results from Tuesday's Israeli elections have confirmed what many of us have known for a long while. The Jewish state is an ultra-nationalist right-wing swamp. Israel is more hawkish than ever. There is not a single Jewish Israeli Left wing party. The Democratic Party is led and mentored by a war criminal. What is left of Israel's Labour Party has very little to do with peace, harmony and reconciliation. In fact, that Party is also led by a person wanted for war crimes.

As things now stand, although Bibi's right/religious block has shrunk, Israel is more right-wing than ever. The longest-serving Israeli PM cannot form his natural right/religious coalition. Most Israeli commentators agree that the only way out of the current political stalemate is with a wide ultranationalist government led by Likud, Blue and White and others. Such a coalition will be brokered in the coming days by the rabid nationalist zealot Avigdor Lieberman who has skillfully made himself into Israel's king-maker.

Comment: Since this was written, Netanyahu was defeated and Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party will need to form a coalition to take power in Israel. Sadly, nothing Gilad has said above will change.


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Best of the Web: Desperate central bankers grab for more power (and hint at ousting Trump)

Conceding that their grip on the economy is slipping, central bankers are proposing a radical economic reset that would shift yet more power from government to themselves.
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Central bankers are acknowledging that they are out of ammunition. Mark Carney, the soon-to-be-retiring head of the Bank of England, said in a speech at the annual meeting of central bankers in August in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, "In the longer-term, we need to change the game." The same point was made by Philipp Hildebrand, former head of the Swiss National Bank, in an August 2019 interview with Bloomberg. "Really there is little if any ammunition left," he said. "More of the same in terms of monetary policy is unlikely to be an appropriate response if we get into a recession or sharp downturn."

"More of the same" meant further lowering interest rates, the central bankers' stock tool for maintaining their targeted inflation rate in a downturn. Bargain-basement interest rates are supposed to stimulate the economy by encouraging borrowers to borrow (since rates are so low) and savers to spend (since they aren't making any interest on their deposits and may have to pay to store them). But over $15 trillion in bonds are now trading globally at negative interest rates, yet this radical maneuver has not been shown to measurably improve economic performance. In fact new research shows that negative interest rates from central banks, rather than increasing spending, stopping deflation, and stimulating the economy as they were expected to do, may be having the opposite effects. They are being blamed for squeezing banks, punishing savers, keeping dying companies on life support, and fueling a potentially unsustainable surge in asset prices.

Comment: Trump is irate at the US central bank for its apparent attempt to induce economic recession in time for next year's election season, while the banksters are maneuvering to thwart all such 'economic nationalist' leaders by formalizing their decades-long encroachment on all key areas of government. So there's a lot more to Trump's Twitter attacks against Fed chairman Jay Powell than meets the eye...

Brown is right; the banksters are correct that monetary policy ought not be separated from fiscal or overall government policy... but the obvious solution in that case is for the banksters to give up their faux 'independence' and return the issuance of money from the shadows to open national oversight.

Instead, they're moving in to take it all...


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Best of the Web: Breaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange

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The role of journalism in a democracy is publishing information that holds the powerful to account — the kind of information that empowers the public to become more engaged citizens in their communities so that we can vote in representatives that work in the interest of "we the people."

There is perhaps no better example of watchdog journalism that holds the powerful to account and exposes their corruption than that of WikiLeaks, which exposed to the world evidence of widespread war crimes the U.S. military was committing in Iraq, including the killing of two Reuters journalists; showed that the U.S. government and large corporations were using private intelligence agencies to spy on activists and protesters; and revealed how the military hid tortured Guantanamo Bay prisoners from Red Cross inspectors.

It's this kind of real journalism that our First Amendment was meant to protect but engaging in it has instead made WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange the target of a massive smear campaign for the last several years — including false claims that Assange is working with Vladimir Putin and the Russians and hackers, as well as open calls by corporate media pundits for him to be assassinated.