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Best of the Web: Anti-Lockdown Resistance: North Carolina Beach reopens after Navy serviceman's ocean protest

Peter D'Abrosca
National File
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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A Navy Master Chief defied town orders and entered the ocean on a closed beach.

After a photo of a Navy Master Chief in full uniform entering the closed ocean in Emerald Isle, North Carolina went viral, the town announced that it will reopen its beaches.

Photos made the rounds of the serviceman standing in the ocean facing the shore with a sign in front of him reading "Land of the Free."

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Best of the Web: Greenland has gained 27+ gigatons of snow and ice over the past 5 days alone - MSM silent

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:30 UTC
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Despite decades of doom-and-gloom prophecies, Greenland's Ice Sheet is currently GAINING monster amounts of "mass" — 27 gigatons over the past 5 days alone (April 14 - 18, 2020).

Crucial to the survival of a glacier is its surface mass balance (SMB) - the difference between accumulation and ablation (sublimation and melting). Changes in mass balance control a glacier's long-term behavior, and are its most sensitive climate indicators.

On the back of substantial SMB gains over the past few years, the Greenland ice sheet looks set to continue that trend in 2019-20. From April 14 through April 18, 2020, the world's largest island added a monster 27+ gigatons to its ice sheet. According to climate alarmists, this simply shouldn't be happening in a warming world. In fact, it might as well not be happening as developments like these NEVER receive MSM attention, meaning alarmists are NEVER privy to the full and unalarming picture...

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Best of the Web: The Waco siege: What happened when the Feds laid siege to the Branch Davidian compound

Sam Jacobs
Ammo
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 06:07 UTC

Comment: On 19 April 1993, 27 years ago today, an abominable crime took place in the United States. US federal agents ended their 51-day siege of a Christian community in Waco, Texas by killing 76 people, including 25 children and two pregnant women. The media painted the victims as 'terrorists' and 'pedophiles' who 'wouldn't come out of their cult compound' because they were 'bent on destruction'. Nothing could be further from the truth...


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The siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, is an important event in American history because it directly led to one of the biggest terrorist attacks on American soil - the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. It's not necessary to defend this act of terrorism to understand why the entire freedom movement of the time was so incensed by it. Indeed, it stood as a symbol of federal overreach and the corruption of the Clinton Administration.

It's important to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the siege of Waco, just as it is important to do so with the siege of Ruby Ridge or the attack on the American consolate in Benghazi. With every event, it is important to stick to the facts and what can be extrapolated from them to make the strongest argument about what went wrong and why, and what could be done differently in the future.

Background: Who Are the Branch Davidians?

The Branch Davidians were a tiny offshoot of mainstream Seventh-Day Adventism. This stemmed from an earlier split between the main church and a group called Shepherd's Rod, The Rod or the Davidians. It was effectively a reform movement within Adventism, albeit with some beliefs considered heretical by the mainstream church, none of which are important or relevant for this discussion.

The Branch Davidians were established some 20 years later, and a much more radical departure from Seventh-Day Adventism born from disappointment at the failure of earlier prophecies to materialize. There was some wrangling over the leadership of the group after the death of its founder, but Vernon Howell, better known to the world as David Koresh, ultimately won out over the wife and son of the founder.

Comment: See also: And if you're looking for something worth watching during this 'global siege' we're all currently under...



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Best of the Web: The viral 'infodemic': Corona1984 is Fake News OVERLOAD

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:18 UTC
Infodemic
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It's silent. It's deadly. It's spreading all around the globe. And, if you're not careful, it'll get you next!

The viral pandemic? No, silly! The viral infodemic.

Haven't you heard? There's a tsunami of fake news that's coming to get you! And if you plebs don't behave properly then your rulers are just going to have to shut down the internet for your own good.

If you haven't heard the term "infodemic" yet, then lucky you. But trust me, you're going to be hearing about this idea ad nauseum in the coming months, so you better get prepared.

So what is an infodemic, exactly? Good question. Let's turn to everybody's favorite global health agency, the World Health Organization, for that answer, shall we?

On February 2nd they released a situation report on the novel coronavirus outbreak that had a section on "Managing the 2019-nCoV 'infodemic'." This report helpfully explains that an infodemic is "an over-abundance of information - some accurate and some not - that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it."

Oh, no! Too much information? Say it ain't so! If only someone can save us from this terrible scourge of having to use our own brains and apply a little discernment to the information we encounter!
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Best of the Web: Bombshell COVID-19 discovery: Smokers are far less likely to contract illness - Scientists 'astonished'

Sam Blanchard
The Daily Mail
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:35 UTC

Comment: Holy Geebus, we really are near The End! A British daily has published evidence that smoking tobacco protects people from COVID-19!


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Forced into a form of social isolation for the last 20 years, smokers are in fact best positioned to cope with viral pandemics
When world-famous artist wrote a letter to the Daily Mail saying he believes smoking could protect people against the coronavirus many scoffed. Mr Hockney wrote: 'Could it not be that smokers have developed an immune system to this virus? With all these figures coming out, it's beginning to look like that to me.'

Understandably the claim was brushed off as laughable and 'rubbish' by many.

But is it?

A leading infectious disease expert at University College London, Professor Francois Balloux, said there is 'bizarrely strong' evidence it could be true.

Comment: Wow.

It finally happened.

A mainstream article that has no choice but to acknowledge a strong scientific signal that smoking tobacco protects people against certain viruses.

It only took them 20-freaking-years of crappy science and precisely the wrong medical advice - and a farcical 'pandemic' - to figure it out!

Well, we told y'all so.

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Best of the Web: Germans decry 'out of proportion' Covid-19 lockdown measures with multiple protests against 'social distancing'


RT
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:37 UTC
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German citizens expressed their anger with what they call extreme Covid-19 lockdown measures in several demonstrations that included cages, empty chairs and sit-ins, yet all were carried out to keep safe distances.

At a demonstration in Munich's Marienplatz on Friday, citizens in medical masks and all adhering to social distancing guidelines under the watchful eye of police protested what they called the "absurdity" of the measures.

"I actually protested an absurdity, I sat on a park bench, that was at a time, i.e. last week, when it was still forbidden and that's why I was arrested," Thomas Prudlo, a member of the Ecological Democratic Party (ODP), said. "I almost see a piece of cabaret there, because a million joggers could jog past me, but an old grandmother was not allowed to sit on the park bench." He explained that he protested these "out of proportion" measures and got arrested.

Comment: In the US citizens are also getting restless and upset about the draconian lockdown measures being employed against them. The governor of Minnesota eased lockdown rules after outraged residents took to the streets to demand an end to the lockdown.

Trump called for multiple states governed by Democrats to be 'liberated' from strict stay-at-home orders. The vague message earned heated reactions, with everyone reading their own meaning into it.

Trump called on residents of Minnesota, Michigan, and Virgina to "liberate" their states, according to a tweetstorm sent out on Friday.

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Best of the Web: Israeli TV: US intel warned IDF, NATO of coronavirus threat November 2019; claims dismissed by...US intel


RT
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:22 UTC
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© Ariel Schalit/APIsraeli police during coronavirus lockdown
American intelligence passed an early warning about the coronavirus to Tel Aviv and NATO as far back as November, Israel's Channel 12 claims, even after a top US medical intel officer dismissed a similar report just last week.

The broadcaster aired a story on Thursday alleging that the US intelligence community shared classified information about a new viral outbreak in China with the Israeli military and senior NATO officials. With nobody willing to go on record to confirm the report, however, the story is based on murky anonymous sourcing, leaving it a mystery where the claim originated. The Channel 12 broadcast said, as cited by i24 News:
"Still in November, the IDF held a first discussion regarding what impact this unknown disease would have were it to reach the Middle East. How would we be affected? How would it affect our neighbors?"
A similar report from ABC last week stated that the Pentagon's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) warned that an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan could become a "cataclysmic event" in a document compiled last November. But the story was swiftly shot down by NCMI director Colonel R. Shane Day, who insisted "No such NCMI product exists" and that the report was simply "not correct."

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Best of the Web: Where are the Skripals today? No one knows but their British and American jailers

Eric Zuesse
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:42 UTC

Comment: It's hard to believe this 'major incident' nothing-burger occurred in 2018. It seems like a lifetime ago now...


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© Peter Nicholls ReutersA police officer stands outside the London Road cemetery where the grave of Alexander Skripal; son of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal; is seen covered with a tent, in Salisbury, Britain
On 4 March 2018, both Sergei Skripal and his daughter who was visiting from their shared home country of Russia, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in Salisbury England, and — though both survived — neither of them has been allowed to communicate to the public except under the watch of their British court-appointed 'guardians'. They also have been prohibited to communicate with any Russians. Repeated efforts by the Russian Embassy to be allowed to communicate with them have been rejected by the UK Government. The BBC reported on 18 May 2018, that, "Ms Skripal was released on 9 April and was moved to a secure location. It is not known whether Mr Skripal has been taken to the same location as his daughter." UK's National Health Service issued a news-release that same day headlined "Sergei Skripal discharged from Salisbury District Hospital". Efforts by (at least) Ms. Skripal, to communicate with members of her family in Russia, and also with her fiancé, also in Russia, have been blocked by the UK Government. No legal charges have been filed against either of the Skripals.

Comment: How to understand the 'Skripal Saga' now in the era of the apocalyptic 'Covid-19 plague'?

Like many other nothing-burger 'incidents of global importance' since 9/11, it was a mediatized event. Something really happened, but that something was insignificant and blown up into a 'major deal' by the media for the purpose of distracting us all while the Powers That Be and their authoritarian followers busily laid plans for a hostile global takeover of the human population.

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Best of the Web: Coronavirus - Lies, damned lies and statistics

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:18 UTC
Lies, Damned lies and Statistics
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The numbers are in on the great Covid-19 pandemic . . . but unfortunately those numbers are unreliable. From mendacious models and puffed-up projections to dodgy death data and tainted tests, today on The Corbett Report James highlights what the accredited scientists and award-winning researchers are saying about the pandemic pandemonium of 2020.

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Flashback Best of the Web: Putin claims someone is harvesting Russian bio samples for obscure purposes - US Air Force admits to collecting genetic data for 'research'


RT.com
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:53 UTC

Comment: In light of the 'Covid-19 pandemic', we're re-running this report in which the Russian govt raised the alarm over possible schemes afoot to implement bio-hacking via viral means. To be clear, the suggestions made by the Russian govt several years ago are 'apples' compared with the 'oranges' we're facing in the current scenario. So while there is no clear or direct connection, the point to be made is that messing with viruses and bacteria for 'geo-political and social engineering purposes' is very much a thing among the powerful...


Putin says someone collecting bio samples
Russian genetic material is being harvested all over the country, purposefully and professionally, President Vladimir Putin has said, possibly hinting at the US Air Force's earlier move to acquire Russian tissue samples.

Putin was presiding over a meeting of Russia's Human Rights Council Monday, when he was informed of live broadcasts from polling stations during the recent regional elections being inundated with foreign viewers.

Council member Igor Borisov said the statistics showed that nearly a million views came from abroad. He hinted at a sinister motive behind those viewings.

Comment: The US Air Force has responded to the reports by saying that the biological samples have been collected for "research". The use of Russians for the research was also explained by Air Force spokesman Capt. Beau Downey:
The request [by the research center] did not specify where the samples should be received from, but to continue the study, similar samples were required. Since the supplier originally provided samples from Russia, suitable for the initial group of diseases, the control group of the samples should also be of Russian origin," he said. "The goal is the integrity of the study, not the origin [of the samples]."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Russian intelligence is aware that foreign NGOs are collecting genetic information from the population:
"Some emissaries are really carrying out such activities, representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other bodies. Such cases were registered, and security services, the president naturally have this information," he said.
If the Kremlin and Putin are openly talking about this, you can be sure that Russian security services are going to be paying very close attention to the activities of NGOs in Russia. It's worth pointing out that the CIA is well-known for farming out clandestine activities to various US-government funded NGOs who are really just fronts for Deep State activities. Whatever is going on, it does not seem to be as benign as the Air Force says it is.

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