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Best of the Web: Tom Luongo: The Great Reset is dead, long live the Great Reset

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"The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed."

- Susan Ivanova, Season 3 Opening Sequence, Babylon 5

When the World Economic Forum rolled out their advertising campaign for The Great Reset it was supposed to be the victory lap for Globalism. Coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent global financial crisis unleashed a flood of government funny money that was supposed to buy our way to their perpetual prosperity.

It failed.

Don't take my word for it. Take the word of one of the chief architects of the Great Reset, Klaus von Commie Schnitzel's right hand man, Yuval Noah Harari.

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Best of the Web: It's happening! Tucker Carlson reveals Putin interview plans


Comment: If only for the copious hysteria and seething this is generating in ultra-liberals from Brussels to New York City, we approve!


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The Ukraine conflict has reshaped the military and economic balance of power around the world but most Americans have no idea because their media has fawned over Vladimir Zelensky and refused to talk to his Russian counterpart, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday.

Carlson, who launched his own network on X (formerly Twitter) in June 2022, posted a short video from Moscow, explaining the logic behind his upcoming interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Most Western media outlets are corrupt and "lie to their readers and viewers," mainly by omission, Carlson argued. There has been no effort to speak to Putin since the conflict started in 2022, while US outlets have conducted many "fawning pep sessions" posing as interviews with Zelensky, he added.

Comment: Tucker has confirmed his interview will be released on February 8th at 6PM EST. More from RT:
Conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson has said on Instagram that his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be aired at 6pm EST on Thursday.

Carlson, who launched his own network on X (formerly Twitter) in June 2023, traveled to Moscow for a sit-down with Putin. The Kremlin confirmed the meeting on Tuesday.

The Russian president rarely grants one-on-one interviews to foreign press. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Putin has "no desire" to speak to Western media outlets that have "completely one-sided" opinions and "aren't even trying to be impartial."



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Best of the Web: Brace for impact

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© Erin Shaff/NYTUS President Joe Biden two-stepin' in S. Carolina
"It's not enough to say it's nuts, you have to explain why it's so nuts." - Terrance McKenna
"Joe Biden's" victory dance in South Carolina — down on the ol' Democratic Party Plantation, where they grows votes — didn't last long. By Sunday, a rogue satellite named Tucker Carlson was spotted orbiting over Russia, Russia, Russia, a country you have to say three times so that people get how serious it is. Carlson threatens to actually sit down in the same room with Putin, Putin, Putin — the antithesis of "Joe Biden," since Putin actually operates as head-of-state — and convey Mr. P's thoughts and opinions to the citizens of America via the rascally social media platform called "X."

Do you realize the danger of exposing Americans to what this Putin might say? Hearing him express his thoughts about the world situation in a leisurely format — which Putin does regularly among his own people (I've seen him do it!) — is liable to inform Americans that their own political leadership is a party of mental illness.

Even without this new provocation of a Carlson / Putin colloquy, folks in the land of the free and the home of the brave have begun to grok just how insane things have gone under "Joe Biden" blobism. And that darn conversation comes just egg-zackly at the moment when our Senate is attempting to package a bill tying a $60-billion taxpayer gift to Ukraine with a "border security" law that will forbid more than 8,500 foreigners on any given day to enter the USA illegally. Sweet deal, huh? Er. . . maybe not. On the House side of Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson says, "No way, José."

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Best of the Web: However bad you think Israel is, it's worse

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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

So it turns out the IDF has been running a Telegram channel featuring homemade snuff films in which Gazans are brutally murdered by Israeli forces, captioned with celebrations of the gore and pain therein like "Burning their mother... You won't believe the video we got! You can hear their bones crunch." The IDF had previously denied any association with the channel, but Haaretz now reports that it was directly run by an IDF psychological warfare unit.

This is one of those many, many times where Israel is so awful that at first you're not sure what you're looking at. You think you must be misreading the report. Then you read it again and go "Oh wow, that's SO much worse than I would have guessed."

However bad you think Israel is, you can always be sure that information will come out later that proves it's even worse.



Tucker Carlson has been spotted in Moscow, generating speculation that he's there to interview President Vladimir Putin, and the liberal commentariat are losing their minds about it.

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Best of the Web: Yemeni officials allied with West-UAE-Saudi coalition ditch 'UN recognised gov't' to join the defenders of Gaza

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The Gaza war and renewed US-UK strikes on Yemen are shattering what remains of the UAE-Saudi-led coalition. Now Yemenis of all stripes are flocking to embrace the Sanaa government and its resistance stance.
While the Red Sea military operations of Yemeni resistance movement Ansarallah have shaken up geopolitical calculations of Israel's war on Gaza, they have also had far-reaching consequences on the country's internal political and military dynamics.

By successfully obstructing Israeli vessels from traversing the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Ansarallah-led Sanaa government has emerged as a powerful symbol of resistance in defense of the Palestinian people - a cause deeply popular across Yemen's many demographics. Sanaa's position stands in stark contrast to that of the Saudi and Emirati-backed government in Aden, which, to the horror of Yemenis, welcomed attacks by US and British forces on 12 January.

The US-UK airstrikes have offended Yemenis fairly universally, prompting some heavyweight internal defections. Quite suddenly, Sanaa has transformed into a destination for a number of Yemeni militias previously aligned with the UAE and Saudi Arabia, now publicly declaring their allegiance to Ansarallah.

Comment: See also: Arab states helping Israel bypass Yemen's Red Sea blockade


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Best of the Web: The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism

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Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It's past time we call it what it is.

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If you had to capture Silicon Valley's dominant ideology in a single anecdote, you might look first to Mark Zuckerberg, sitting in the blue glow of his computer some 20 years ago, chatting with a friend about how his new website, TheFacebook, had given him access to reams of personal information about his fellow students:

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask.
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
Friend: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don't know why.
Zuckerberg: They "trust me"
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.

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Best of the Web: CIA staffer behind Wikileaks' US hacking revelations gets 40 years


Comment: 40 years!!!


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© Elizabeth Williams via APFILE PHOTO: A courtroom sketch of Joshua Schulte with his attorneys during jury deliberations in New York, March 4, 2020.
A former CIA software engineer who allegedly gave a massive trove of classified information to WikiLeaks has been sentenced to 40 years in prison by a New York judge.

US District Court Judge Jesse Furman handed down the sentence against Joshua Schulte on Thursday, falling short of the life prison term that federal prosecutors had requested. Schulte, who was accused of carrying out the largest theft of US secrets in the CIA's history, was convicted on charges of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI, and possessing child pornography.

Schulte, 35, was the source behind the so-called Vault 7 release by WikiLeaks in 2017, which revealed the methods used by the CIA to hack smartphones and other devices. The bombshell report exposed how the US spied on foreign governments, terrorism suspects, and other targets. The release also reportedly triggered a secret CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.


Comment: Indeed, this was the leak that drove the deep state psychos over the edge, and committed them to abducting Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.


Prior to his arrest in 2018, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools that he later revealed to WikiLeaks. The CIA tactics included efforts to turn so-called smart TVs - televisions with online connectivity - into listening devices. Prosecutors claimed he was behind "the most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history."

Comment: Whether or not Schulte is 'guilty', he's being punished while the departments and government agencies which carried out the illegal operations the leaks in question exposed are free to continue doing as they please. The US is now well and truly like the USSR, when it was at its worst.


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Best of the Web: Neil Oliver: Watch Out - it's lies & forever fear!

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'...instead of honest reporting we have a legion of lackeys & establishment toadies!'


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Best of the Web: International Court of Justice REJECTS most of Ukraine's case against Russia

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The United Nations' top court on Wednesday rejected large parts of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Russia bankrolled separatist rebels in the country's east a decade ago and has discriminated against Crimea's multiethnic community since its annexation of the peninsula.

The International Court of Justice ruled that Moscow violated articles of two treaties — one on terrorism financing and another on eradicating racial discrimination — but it rejected far more of Kyiv's claims under the treaties.

It rejected Ukraine's request for Moscow to pay reparations for attacks in eastern Ukraine blamed on pro-Russia Ukrainian rebels, including the July 17, 2014, downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that killed all 298 passengers and crew.


Comment: Russia was not responsible. This point is all the more glaring considering how, in just the last few days, Ukraine shot down a plane carrying 65 of its own troops.


Comment: It's telling that the ICJ has issued an order against Russia, but it has yet to do so against Israel over its genocide in Gaza.

Insight from journalist Kit Klarenberg:




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Best of the Web: Pakistani ex-PM Khan, wife, sentenced to 14 years in prison for 'corruption'


Comment: This is completely outrageous. He's really being locked up because Pakistan has elections next week and Khan keeps talking about how the CIA ousted him - a wildly popular and democratically-elected prime minister - from power...


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© AFPFormer Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra (left), arrive at a court in Lahore in May 2023.
A Pakistani court has sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to ten years behind bars. He has been charged with leaking state secrets, according to the spokesman for the politician's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI).

On Tuesday, Zulfiqar Bukhari said, as quoted by AP, that the verdict was announced at a prison in the northern city of Rawalpindi, not far from the capital, Islamabad. The same sentence was also imposed on former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

The charges relate to the so-called cipher, a classified cable sent to Islamabad by the Pakistani ambassador to Washington in 2022, shortly after the start of the Ukraine conflict. The document allegedly suggested that the US wanted to remove Khan over his neutrality regarding the hostilities.

The ex-Pakistani PM called the cipher case on Tuesday "false," adding that it "is being completed in violation of constitutional requirements and legal regulations.""This is not a trial but a fixed match outcome of which was predetermined," he added.

Comment: This is exactly what they'd love to do to Trump. Khan thought he could stave off the CIA's maneuvering to oust him by exposing a cable documenting their efforts. Then, at the outset of the Russian SMO in Ukraine, Khan flew to Moscow in a show of support for Putin and to secure major energy deals because Khan figured, correctly, that energy markets were about to go haywire as the West imposed sanctions on Russia. At that point, Washington's stooges within Pakistani military-intelligence pounced, contriving first a 'vote of no- confidence', then criminal charges, finally his arrest, and now his incarceration.

All because he wanted to finally make Pakistan a real country and not some 'wild frontier outpost' for the Anglo-American empire.

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