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Flashback Best of the Web: French govt orders hospitals to "be prepared to treat thousands of soldiers in potential major war by March 2026"

Gabriela Galvin
Euronews
Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:43 UTC
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France is preparing its health system for a scenario in which it may have to treat thousands of soldiers returning from combat, in what its health minister says is a precautionary measure.

In a letter to regional health authorities dated July 18, the French health ministry reportedly directed hospitals to be ready for a potential "major engagement" by March 2026.

The ministry said France's hospitals should be aware of the "limitations in wartime" and be ready to care for both French and foreign soldiers in the event of a major conflict.

It said hospitals should be prepared to treat thousands of soldiers within a period of 10 to 180 days, according to the French satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, which first reported the letter last week. Euronews Health has not independently verified its contents.

Comment: In hindsight, perhaps it wasn't "war with Russia" they had in mind...

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Best of the Web: Meteor fireball behind mysterious flash and boom over Vancouver, British Columbia on March 3


CTV News
Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:21 UTC
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A flash and loud boom heard across Metro Vancouver sent shockwaves heard as far away as Washington State. St. John Alexander reports.

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Star of David

Best of the Web: Operation Epic Disaster: The arrests that prove the US-Israel war Was built on coercion, not precision

Freddie Ponton
21st Century Wire
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:58 UTC
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© 21st Century Wire
Read this sentence carefully. Read it like your understanding of the war depends on it... because it does.
"In Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested Mossad agents planning on committing bombings in those countries."
Tucker Carlson spoke those words on March 2, 2026. While the United States and Israel were still basking in the afterglow of "Operation Epic Fury", still selling the world the story of a surgical precision campaign that had eliminated Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a single night of dazzling tactical brilliance, their own intelligence operatives were apparently sitting in handcuffs in Riyadh and Doha — caught red-handed, planning to blow up the very Arab capitals that host America's largest military bases in the region.

Not Tehran's agents. Not IRGC proxies. But rather, Israeli intelligence agents from the Mossad, who reportedly have been arrested by America's own allies for plotting to bomb them.
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Best of the Web: Spain refuses to provide military support for US attack on Iran

Miguel González
El Pais
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:24 UTC
Washington has withdrawn its tanker planes from the Morón air base in Seville after being denied permission to use it in Operation Epic Fury
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© David Arjona (EFE)Military aircraft at the Morón air base in Seville.
Spain is refusing to support the U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran and has distanced itself from the position adopted by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, which have shown themselves willing to undertake "proportionate defensive action" in response to Tehran's attacks on the Persian Gulf countries and Cyprus. "Each country makes its own foreign policy decisions. Spain has a very clear position: Europe's voice must be one of balance and moderation at this time, working towards de-escalation and a return to the negotiating table," Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Monday. "A logic of violence, as we are seeing, only leads to a spiral of violence, and unilateral military actions outside the United Nations Charter, outside any collective action, have no clear objective. Europe must defend international law, de-escalation, and negotiation," he insisted.

Comment: Trump has threatened to 'end all trade with Spain'.

He did so in front of the German Chancellor, who's visiting DC.

The Chancellor AGREED with the American president.


The EU is all but dead.

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Star of David

Best of the Web: Israel strikes girls' school in Iran, killing up to 160 (UPDATED)


Al Jazeera
Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:02 UTC
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An Israeli strike has hit an elementary girls' school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing at least 51 people, state media reported, as the immediate civilian cost from Israel and the United States' huge bombardment of Iran comes into sharper focus.

Iran's Mehr news agency also reported that at least two students were killed by an Israeli attack that hit a school east of the capital, Tehran.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera's Mohammed Vall said of the attack on the girls' school, "There are new reports confirming the number of people killed in that strike has now gone above 40. That's a civilian target, and that's one of the targets that might really become problematic with regards to this campaign by the Americans and the Israelis, who are saying that they are targeting only military targets and they are trying to punish the regime, not the people of Iran.


Comment: Tass reports:
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei said that the strike by the United States and Israel killed up to 160 schoolgirls in the southern city of Minab.

"The Zionist regime's attack on the school in the city of Minab killed 150-160 of our girls, which is a terrible crime," he said, as quoted by ISNA.



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Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: The Talented Mr. Newsom

Alex Berenson
Unreported Truths
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:15 UTC
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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom could be our next president. But does anyone - including him - know what he stands for? A detailed look at his life suggests the answer might be no.

California has every natural and economic advantage: a long, beautiful coast, great weather, a generations-long stranglehold on cultural production in Los Angeles and advanced technology in Silicon Valley.

Yet years of Democratic misrule have made the state so unlivable its taxpaying residents are fleeing en masse. Building houses, or high-speed rail, or anything else in California is nearly impossible. Meanwhile, the state has done all it can to make itself a home for unemployable illegal migrants, including offering them free medical care.

One might think this record would make Gavin Newsom, California's Democratic governor, an unattractive presidential candidate.

One would be wrong.
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Best of the Web: Israeli troops fired 900+ rounds at Gaza medics - report


RT
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:06 UTC
Red Crescent workers protest
© Getty Images/Anadolu/ContributorRed Crescent workers • April 2025
Hundreds of rounds were fired at aid workers during a March 2025 massacre at Tal as-Sultan, an independent investigation says.

Israeli soldiers fired over 900 rounds at a convoy of clearly marked emergency vehicles in Rafah in 2025, killing 15 Palestinian aid workers, some of them shot at close range, an independent investigation has found.

The attack took place on March 18, 2025 in the Tal as-Sultan area of southern Gaza, where local responders had been dispatched to collect wounded civilians. Fifteen Palestinian aid workers were killed, including medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society and members of the Civil Defense.

The victims were traveling in five ambulances and one fire truck, all clearly marked and operating with emergency lights, when they came under sustained gunfire, according to a report released on Monday by independent research agency Forensic Architecture and audio investigation group Earshot.
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Telescope

Best of the Web: Caltech astrophysicist fatally shot on porch of his rural home

Clara Harter
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:43 UTC
Carl Grillmair
© IPAC / CaltechCarl Grillmair worked at Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. He was a principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, and his research earned him numerous accolades.
  • An acclaimed Caltech astrophysicist was fatally shot on his porch in Llano early Monday.
  • A suspect, Freddy Snyder, 29, was arrested and charged with Carl Grillmair's slaying as well as carjacking and burglary.
  • Among the scientist's accomplishments was the 'ingenious discovery' of water on a planet outside our solar system.
An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of the Antelope Valley on Monday morning. A suspect in the shooting has been charged with murder.

Comment: This is the third "highest profile" tragic loss in less than 4 years.

First one was back in 2022, in what was a classical missing 411 case: Body found in Chile identified as Warwick University professor Tom Marsh: 60-year-old was found dead two months after vanishing from remote mountain observatory

Second case: Who was Nuno Loureiro? MIT professor gunned down in apartment near university

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Best of the Web: 5,000 flights cancelled as US east coast digs out of record 3 FEET snow - over 600,000 properties without power

Ana Faguy
BBC
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:52 UTC
A groundskeeper clears snow from the walkways inside the Trinity Church graveyard in lower Manhattan during a snow storm, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in New York.
© Seth WenigA groundskeeper clears snow from the walkways inside the Trinity Church graveyard in lower Manhattan during a snow storm, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in New York.
A major storm hit the US east coast on Monday, bringing record-breaking snow that caused disruptions for millions and thousands of flight cancellations.

Parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts have seen nearly 37in (94cm) of snowfall, with more than 19in in New York City's Central Park, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.

Weather warnings stretched from North Carolina to northern Maine, with some in place further north in parts of eastern Canada.

More than 600,000 properties on the US east coast endured power outages, while the Boston Globe - a major US newspaper - said it will not go to print for the first time in its 153-year history due to the storm.

Travel across the region has been severely limited, with some states and cities implementing travel bans during the worst period of the storm.

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Best of the Web: "A Different Species": Epstein's Pseudo-Elite Psychopathy

Harrison Koehli
Political Ponerology
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:11 UTC
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© Stephen OgilvyJeffrey Epstein, 1980
The partial release of the Epstein files has prompted some interesting responses. Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost posted:

From the Epstein files, you can see how he saw himself as spiritual elite, an awakened elect, above standard morality. That "elect" status gave him a moral blank check that licensed the predation. His transhumanist POV was also a part of this frame.
Comedian Duncan Trussell took this observation even further, comparing the Epstein revelations to a hypothetical disclosure of alien life in conversation with Jeremy Corbell:
With the Epstein files you get a form of catastrophic disclosure, not disclosure of UAPs or extraterrestrial life, disclosure of the fact that the super elite — they don't follow the same laws we do. They don't have the same view on ethics, morality. It's almost a different species, in fact. And watching the sort of impact that that's having on the psyche of people who probably haven't gone as far out on thin ice as you and I have is really interesting, because you're looking at people getting red-pilled in the most extreme way, where you look at these emails, it's not just emails Epstein wrote. It's emails to Epstein from people who were sucked in by that power, into that orbit. And even though Epstein wasn't like, "I'm going to puppeteer this person," just something about hanging out with that, seeing the hedonism, seeing what it's like to be in a room with all these very powerful people — it's seductive. Just standing next to it makes you want to become part of it. And that doctor, what's his name? Attia.
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