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Best of the Web: Yet again! Boeing 737 flight departing San Francisco with 139 passengers loses external panel mid-air

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:32 UTC

Comment: At this point, one starts wondering whether sabotage is afoot...


Unitee Airlines
Literally, not a day goes by without Boeing suffering some major incident, whether it is doors and tires falling off, runway excursions, engine fires, hydraulic leaks, pilot seats flailing around the cockpit and slamming the yoke and, OH YEAH, a "suicided" whistleblower who told a close friend if anything happened to him, it most certainly wasn't suicide. Well, we can now add one more: a United Airlines flight - because it's never American or Delta... always United - that took off from San Francisco International Airport Friday morning landed in Oregon with a missing external panel, abc7 reported citing to officials.

As the NY Post notes, United Airlines Flight 433 departed from San Francisco around 10:20 a.m. local time and landed safely at its intended destination, Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, about 70 minutes later, according to airport officials and flight data.

Once the plane reached the gate, an external panel was found to be missing, halting operations at the airport while a runway safety check was conducted, airport director Amber Judd told The NY Post.

Amazingly, there was no indication of a problem and no emergency was ever declared during the flight, which had 139 passengers and 6 crew members on board, according to United.

Comment: Boeing might be forced to come out with a new PR campaign with words like "Trust the experts" and "safe and effective". As the article suggest, we might also see another whistleblower 'commit suicide'.

For more of the recent Boeing woes, see:

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Light Saber

Best of the Web: Houthis go hypersonic? How Ansar Allah's advance in missile tech could scupper US warmongering in the Middle East

Illya Tuskanov
Sputnik
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:07 UTC
Ansar Allah yemen houthi
© Ansar Allah Media officeHouthi naval missiles on parade in Sanaa, September 2023.
A military source close to Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement has informed Sputnik that the militia has carried out a successful test flight of a hypersonic missile and is preparing to add it into its arsenal. Sputnik asked a leading Russian military observer about the development's strategic implications.

Sputnik's source has indicated that the new Houthi missile can accelerate to speeds up to Mach 8 (nearly 10,000 km per hour), and that it is powered by a solid fuel engine - which typically reduces launch preparation time dramatically and eases transport.

Comment: It's unlikely to thwart the evil empire's presence there entirely, however it is probably going to make them reconsider their airstrikes on Yemen:

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Quenelle

Best of the Web: Explosive Secret French Military Report Makes Shocking Admissions: "Ukraine Can't Win!"

Simplicius
Simplicius76 Substack
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:29 UTC
Macron Boneparte
It's come to light that according to sources from the French Marianne paper, Macron's entire recent mental manqué resulted from a secret series of 'assessments' by the French military that not only provided an absolutely disastrous picture of the actual realities on the ground in Ukraine, but in no uncertain terms even concluded quite frankly that:
Marianne magazine
"Ukraine cannot win this war militarily."
"Ukraine cannot win this war militarily," concludes the first report, written in the fall of 2023, following Kiev's disastrous ground offensive. It praises the Russian forces as the new "tactical and technical" standard of how to run defensive operations and debunks the media myth of "meat assaults."

Comment: Good to know that some behind the political class are able to access things a little more realistically. The French military must have choked on their morning croissant, when they heard their president talking about sending French troops to fight Russia.

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Michael Brenner: The West's Reckoning?

Michael Brenner
ScheerPost
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:19 UTC
Joe Biden, Usa, Israel, Ukraine
The West has set itself on a path of collective suicide — both moral and economic.

Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them - unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities. The last are personal as well as political. Therein lies a puzzle. For, as a consequence, the West has set itself on a path of collective suicide. Moral suicide in Gaza; diplomatic suicide - the foundations laid in Europe, the Middle East and across Eurasia; economic suicide - the dollar-based global financial system jeopardized, Europe deindustrializing. It is not a pretty picture. Astoundingly, this self-destruction is occurring in the absence of any major trauma - external or internal. Therein lies another, related puzzle.

Some clues for these abnormalities are provided by their most recent responses as deteriorating conditions tighten the vise - on emotions, on prevailing policies, on domestic political worries, on ginger egos. Those responses fall under the category of panic behavior. Deep down, they are scared, fearful and agitated. Biden et al in Washington, Macron, Schulz, Sunak, Stoltenberg, von der Leyen. They lack the courage of their stated convictions or the courage to face reality squarely. The blunt truth is that they have contrived to get themselves, and their countries, in a quandary from which there is no escape conforming to their current self-defined interests and emotional engagement. Hence, we observe an array of reactions that are feckless, grotesque and dangerous.

Comment: If we consider that the upper echelons of the so-called "elite" consist of individuals resembling humans but exhibiting psychopathic traits, wielding influence and control over key positions in the West, it sheds light on the current state of affairs and their motivations.

Psychopaths lack a conscience and compassion, being driven solely by wishful thinking, power, control, and greed. Unfortunately, neither Europe nor the USA boasts genuine state leaders or politicians willing to dissent and engage in critical thinking.

Currently, Russia stands as the sole country within modern civilization that upholds respect for humanity and actively opposes the encroachment of pure psychopathic malevolence seeking to dominate our planet.

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Cult

Best of the Web: Pathocracy: Belgian opposition politician JAILED for 'racist memes', barred from running for office

Lauren Walker
Brussels Times
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:07 UTC
Dries Van Langenhove
Dries Van Langenhove
Dries Van Langenhove, the founder of the far-right movement Schild & Vrienden, has been sentenced to a one-year effective prison term for violations of the racism and negationism law.

The Ghent correctional court announced its sentence for Van Langenhove, a former MP for the Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang, on Tuesday.


Comment: That's Belgium's leading opposition party, by the way.


He has been given up to one year of effective imprisonment for violations of the racism and negationism law, including denying the Holocaust.

He also has to pay a €16,000 fine and loses ten years of his civil rights, taking away his right to vote, but also the right to be elected or hold public office. He was also handed down ten months of suspended imprisonment for violations of the weapons law. Van Langenhove was again not present at the hearing.

The final sentence is more lenient than what was initially requested by the prosecution (a two-year prison sentence and a fine of €24,000). However, the Ghent court judge used strong language in the sentencing, stating that the accused was "an instigator of racism and negationism."

Comment:


The memes that landed him fines and prison time.

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Gingerbread

Best of the Web: Macron fires back for first time at claims wife, 70, was born a man

Dana Kennedy
New York Post
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:28 UTC
brigitte macron
French President Emmanuel Macron has angrily hit back at longstanding conspiracy theories that his 70-year-old wife Brigitte was born a man and is transgender, calling them "false and fabricated."

Macron, 46, was unusually candid and emotional about the ongoing speculation in certain right-wing circles about Brigitte Macron, whom he married in 2007.

"The worst thing is the false information and fabricated scenarios," Macron said at an International Women's Day event in Paris Friday after he guaranteed the right to abortion in France's Constitution.

"People eventually believe them and disturb you, even in your intimacy."

Brigitte's lookalike daughter, attorney Tiphaine Auzaine, 40, who rarely gives interviews, also addressed the painful rumors in an interview late last month in Paris Match.

Comment: Here's the complete original research into Brigitte Macron's murky background:

From Jean-Michel to Brigitte Trogneux, Lies at The Elysée

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Star of David

Best of the Web: Israel's ultra-orthodox threaten to 'go abroad' if drafted, Sephardic Chief rejects conscription for Haredim


The Cradle
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:24 UTC
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
© Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.
The army says it needs additional manpower to prosecute the genocide in Gaza and drafting religious students is necessary

Speaking on 9 March, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared that Haredi (ultra-orthodox) religious students must not be drafted "under any circumstances, no matter what" and that if they are forcibly enlisted, the Haredim would "go abroad."

"Without the Torah, without the kollels, without the yeshivas, the army will have no success," he declared.

Comment: For such an allegedly patriotic and eschatologically enthusiastic people, Israeli officials, citizens, and settlers, have been rather quick to abandon ship:

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Galaxy

Best of the Web: Earth's interactions with Mars may drive deep-sea circulation, 'surprising' new study suggests

University of Sydney
Phys.org
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:24 UTC
mars earth rock
© The University of SydneyLead author Dr. Adriana Dutkiewicz from the EarthByte Group in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.
Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming patterns and the speeding up of deep ocean circulation.

They discovered a surprising 2.4-million-year cycle where deep currents wax and wane, which in turn is linked to periods of increased solar energy and a warmer climate.

The study, published in Nature Communications, tackles the questions of how geological-timescale climate change affects ocean circulation and how this could help scientists model future climate outcomes. The researchers sought to find whether ocean-bottom currents become more vigorous or more sluggish in a warmer climate.

Comment: And so the scientists admit that these processes could have a significant impact on our climate; aren't they essentially admitting that the (readily debunked) models much touted by global warmists are missing a significant piece of data?

Could it be that it's not Mars that's impacting the deep-ocean dynamics and, instead, it's that both Mars and the Earth are being impacted by the same, greater force? Such as the influence of the Sun?

Either way, it's a timely, and fascinating, finding: Also check out SOTT radio's:




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Airplane

Best of the Web: Boeing whistleblower found dead in carpark ahead of legal deposition against corporation's corrupt practices

Theo Leggett
BBC
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:36 UTC
john barnett
© John BarnettJohn Barnett was a former quality control manager at Boeing.
A former Boeing employee known for raising concerns about the firm's production standards has been found dead in the US.

John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

Comment: While the controversy around Boeing's lax production standards is being spun as a diversity issue, it seems there's little in Barnett's complaints about diversity-hires being the root of the problem. It more appears that the age-old issue of penny-pinching and corner-cutting.

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Yoda

Best of the Web: Why the US is trying to imprison Assange: Report from inside the Court

Richard Medhurst
Al Mayadeen
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20 UTC
julian assange
© Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by A. MakkiThe prospect of the United States- a foreign government- imposing its laws on British soil to snatch a foreign journalist should scare anyone who is serious about press freedoms
Richard Medhurst is a British journalist who has covered Julian Assange's extradition case from inside the court since 2020. In this article, he explains what took place in the latest hearings, why the United States is trying to extradite the WikiLeaks founder, and why everyone should care.

Julian Assange is an Australian journalist in the United Kingdom, and the founder of WikiLeaks. He published documents that were given to him by a US soldier called Chelsea Manning, which showed US war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and much more.

The United States want to extradite Assange from the UK to America, and put him on trial for publishing these classified documents. They are threatening him with 175 years in prison.

The reason this case is so serious is because it essentially makes journalism illegal.
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