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Best of the Web: Nihilism, human waste, and human extinction in San Francisco

Daniel Greenfield
Front Page Magazine
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:01 UTC
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"I think mankind is doomed to extinction," Andrés Petroselli, better known as 'Cobre', told me.

Petroselli, an Argentinian muralist, has traveled around the United States of America putting up giant murals of famous people. There's a giant Quincy Jones mural in Chicago, Frank Sinatra's big blue eyes dominate a Brooklyn street, a mournful Robin Williams used to peer into San Diego, before being demolished, and a leering Michael Jackson is splashed across a storefront in Los Angeles.

Even though he's put up murals from his native Argentina, where giant Gandhis and Frida Kahlos look down on passerby, to Lafayette, Indiana, and across Spain, he's deeply concerned about global warming.

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Cheeseburger

Student fightback sees University beef ban overturned

Hayley Dixon
The Telegraph
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 14:51 UTC
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Beef burgers will now be reinstated on the menu
Students have fought back against a ban on beef on their University campus as the union voted to reverse the decision.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) student union faced backlash after agreeing to take dishes like hamburgers and spaghetti bolognese off the menu at their bars or shops in order to tackle climate change.

Now less than a month after the decision was made to ban the meat it has been overturned by the same council.

Comment: Great to see people fighting back against BS 'climate emergency' austerity measures. The plus side to all this propaganda is that naturally raised pastured animals may get on the menu through the back door, leading to greater nutrition of the general public without them even realizing it. This may lead to better functioning brains and more people waking up to the CO2 hoax.

One can dream...

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Attention

New poll shows Hillary Clinton in first place among Democratic candidates

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:28 UTC
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Hillary Clinton would be leading the race for the Democratic nomination for president if she declared her candidacy, according to a new poll.

The online survey by Harris Poll which was released by Harvard University's Center for American Political Studies shows the former secretary of state in first place with 21 per cent of the vote.

Joe Biden, the current frontrunner, would receive 20 per cent while Senator Bernie Sanders is at 12 per cent.

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Red Flag

Resident outrage as massive Greta Thunberg 'Christmas' mural goes up on 'a-political' council wall

Chris Hook
7news.com.au
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 08:48 UTC
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© Benalla Rural City/FacebookA massive mural of Great Thunberg has been painted as part of a small town's Christmas celebrations.
An 'a-political' country council is finding itself at the centre of a civic storm after a local artist painted a huge mural of teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg on the side of one of its buildings.

The image was created as part of Benalla Rural City's annual Window to Window Christmas festival, in which artists paint seasonal pictures on shop windows across the town.

The town is about 212km north-east of Melbourne in the Victorian high country.

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Bomb

Bombshell: CNBC anchor admits building 7 brought down in 'controlled implosion' on 9/11

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
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On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 p.m., World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly collapsed into its own footprint, falling at free fall speed for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second complete destruction. WTC 7 was not hit by a plane. After it collapsed, Americans were told that office fires caused a unique — never before seen — complete architectural failure leading to the building collapsing into its own footprint at the rate of gravity.

For more than a decade, many Americans never even knew WTC 7 fell — up to and including the person who was Secretary of Defense when the towers came down, Donald Rumsfeld.

In 2011, Donald Rumsfeld went on a radio and television tour to promote sales of his revisionist memoir. Of course, most hosts refused to ask him any questions of substance. However, one radio host hailing out of Chicago, Mancow Muller, was unafraid of asking hard-hitting questions.

On the show, Mancow asked Donald Rumsfeld what his thoughts were on World Trade Center Tower 7. His answer was ridiculous.
"What is building 7? ...I've never heard that before." said Donald Rumsfeld

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Bomb

Hong Kong police defuse two home-made bombs containing 10kg of high explosives found on college campus

Danny Mok
South China Morning Post
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:52 UTC
hong kong police find explosives Wah Yan College
© K.Y. ChengPolice officers display evidence of the two home-made devices.
Bomb disposal officers in Hong Kong defused two home-made devices containing 10kg (22lb) of high explosives that were found on school grounds and designed to kill large numbers of people, police said late on Monday.

Officers said the bombs were "complete, fully functional and ready to be used" radio-controlled improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and had one purpose only - to kill and maim.

A school janitor spotted the devices in the grounds of Wah Yan College Hong Kong on Queen's Road East in Wan Chai at about 5.30pm.

Alick McWhirter, senior bomb disposal officer, said the devices contained two types of high explosives: a primary high explosive, which was designed to act as the detonator and booster, and a second one based around ammonium nitrate. They were also designed to fragment and included shrapnel, in the form of nails.

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Bizarro Earth

Merriam-Webster has named "they" its word of the year


BBC
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:26 UTC
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The US dictionary also recently added a new definition of "they", reflecting its use as a singular personal pronoun for non-binary people.

Searches for "they" on Merriam-Webster's website were 313% higher this year than they were in 2018.

British pop star Sam Smith came out as non-binary in March, and in September confirmed on Instagram that their pronouns were "they/them".

Announcing their pronouns, Smith wrote: "I understand there will be many mistakes and misgendering, but all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like I see myself now."

Comment: Looks like 2016 saw where the future was headed.

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Ornament - Red

Hope or Despair — the choice facing Britain on 12 December

John Wight
Medium
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:30 UTC
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The issue of class has never more prominent or salient in British politics than now. Clear evidence of this is the paroxysm into which Britain's ruling establishment, Tory in every particular, has been pitched since Jeremy Corbyn first arrived in its midst as the most unlikely leader of the Labour Party imaginable in 2015.

Here he was, this slightly unkempt figure for whom socialism is a creed to live by rather than a pose to assume, having the temerity to be elected leader of Her Majesty's Opposition.

Worse in the eyes of his establishment-supporting detractors was the fact that his abiding commitment to the oppressed and dispossessed at home and abroad was married to an absence of personal vanity and ego — this in an age when both had become coterminous with success in politics, the non-negotiable qualification for political leadership.
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Yellow Vest

Tens of thousands march in Paris in ongoing strikes against pension reform


RT
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:16 UTC
Paris on December 10, 2019.
© TwitterParis on December 10, 2019.
Thousands of people have turned out again across France in support of ongoing strikes against proposed pension reforms by President Emmanuel Macron's government.

The Ministry of the Interior estimates some 339,000 people demonstrated throughout France, with 31,000 in the capital. The CGT union claims 885,000 protesters took to the streets on Tuesday around the country, with 180,000 in Paris alone.

While the numbers of protesters were massive, the turnout was almost twice as low compared to the protest held on December 5. Back then, 1.5 million took to the streets nationwide with 250,000 in Paris alone, according to the CGT figures.


Comment: One must bear in mind these protests have, in one form or another, been going on for over a year now and they're still able to bring together over 1.5 million people.


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Ambulance

Shooting at Czech hospital leaves at least 6 killed, suspect takes own life while being chased by police


RT
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:27 UTC
University Hospital Ostrava
© Czech policeThe University Hospital Ostrava.
Six people have been killed in a hospital shooting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The police are on the hunt for the suspected perpetrator and have ramped up security in other places.

The shooting happened on Tuesday morning at University Hospital Ostrava in the northeastern part of the country. The Czech police initially said four people were killed and two others were seriously injured. Those two succumbed to their wounds, Prime Minister Andrej Babis confirmed.

The shooting reportedly happened in the traumatology ward of the hospital.


Ostrava Technical University, which hosts the hospital, said the perpetrator was wearing a red jacket. The police released a photo of the suspected gunman on Twitter, requesting public assistance in finding him, and warning that he poses a threat. The university campus was put on lockdown.

Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said the rapid response unit and police helicopters have been deployed in response to the emergency.

Comment: Czech police say they discovered the body of the 42-year-old shooter; he had shot himself in the head:
They had earlier released two photos of the suspect. One photo appeared to have come from a document, while another was taken from CCTV footage of the suspect walking down the hospital hall. The police have not released the man's name.

Czech media, meanwhile, have identified the suspect as Ctirad V. and described him as construction worker. The man's employer, who had recognized Ctirad V. from the police photo, told reporters the suspect had claimed he had become ill and complained that "no one wanted to treat him."

The shooting occurred in the hospital's trauma ward at around 7am local time. Four people were killed on the spot, while two later succumbed to their wounds. Three more people were wounded in the hospital's waiting room. The attacker had reportedly shot his victims at close range, aiming for the head and neck.

Prime Minister Andrej Babis has cancelled his trip to Estonia and is heading to Ostrava. He called the shooting "an insane tragedy" and offered condolences to the victims and their families.

The hospital attack is the second-deadliest mass shooting in the Czech Republic. In 2015, a gunman killed eight people at a restaurant in the town of Uhersky Brod before taking his own life.


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