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Best of the Web: Gaza is deliberately being made uninhabitable

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Infectious diseases are tearing through Gaza, whose healthcare system has been rendered almost nonexistent, and people are beginning to starve in massive numbers. All of this is due to concrete policy decisions made by Israel in its horrific assault on the Gaza Strip.

In an article titled "Gaza's health system is 'on its knees' as Israel pushes into Khan Younis," The Washington Post reports that the mass displacement of nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza has led to overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions that are rapidly giving rise to disease.

"Meanwhile, the Gaza Health Ministry and other medical workers said they were recording new cases of acute hepatitis, scabies, measles and upper respiratory infections, mostly among children," the Post reports. "Infectious diseases are spreading fast, said Imad al-Hams, a physician at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, as people crowd into tiny slivers of land to escape advancing Israeli forces."

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Damaging report says UK could slip back into 'Victorian' gap between rich & poor

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© GettyA new report has made found worrying trends in UK society
A report has suggested that UK is in danger of slipping back into a Victorian-age gap between mainstream society and an impoverished underclass.

Covid lockdowns had a "catastrophic effect" on the nation's social fabric and the most disadvantaged are no better off now than at the time of the financial crash.

The CSJ's Social Justice Commission's report, Two Nations: The State Of Poverty In The UK, argues that the most disadvantaged in Britain are no better off than 15 years ago, the time of the financial crash, and cites evidence that for them the jump from welfare into work is not worth it.

Some 13.4 million people lead lives marred by family fragility, stagnant wages, poor housing, chronic ill-health, and crime, the centre says.

The CSJ study also finds that the pandemic lockdowns had a "catastrophic effect" on the nation's social fabric, especially for the least well-off, where the gap between the so-called "haves" and "have nots" was blown wide open.

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© Weekly Black Lives Matter protest • Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, California • September 9, 2020 Valerie Macon/AFPWeekly BLM protest • Hall of Justice • Los Angeles, California • September 9, 2020
"All these idiots whose 'identity' is literally a 'protected class' are not protesting anything. Their whole victim act is sponsored, enabled & signal boosted by every powerful institution. The entire elaborate charade amounts to power petitioning itself."
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If you haven't discerned this yet, the Party of Chaos — Globalism's "fifth column" in America — lost ground badly in early December even as the country supposedly enters its annual Christmastime coma. You know what a fifth column is? I will explain:

It is a subversive enemy force operating inside a nation to sabotage its interests. The Party of Chaos, of course, is the party of "Joe Biden" the fictitious "president" euchered in plain sight to that position via flagrant chicanery in the 2020 Super Tuesday primary and then the free-for-all fraud-o-rama of the general election that year.

This subversive Party of Chaos (with Marxist characteristics), has worked overtime for years to mindfuck Americans into destroying their own country. Just think of the absurdities you are asked to swallow daily and the punishments meted out for opposing them. It all came to an interesting inflection point lately with the three presidents of exalted universities failing spectacularly to cover their asses in congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.

At issue was why, after years of grandstanding on the oppression of victim groups, and censoring, silencing, cancelling, and crucifying alternate opinions, they gave their students and faculty a pass in recent weeks on yelling for the extermination of Jews. Wow, did that business disorder the whole Woke cosmography! I'll tell you why:

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Ukraine struggling to find fresh conscripts

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© Sergii Kharchenko/Getty ImagesUkrainian female border guards on patrol on the border between Ukraine and Moldova
Kiev is reportedly beefing up border controls as dozens of desperate men are trying to illegally leave the country daily...

Ukraine is facing a dwindling pool of new conscripts as its military is "running out" of career soldiers, the Washington Post has reported. The newspaper noted that Kiev has considerably tightened controls on its Western borders as dozens of draft-age men try to leave the country illegally by the day.

Earlier this week, Mikhail Podoliak, a top aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, acknowledged that further mobilization in Ukraine is bound to be complicated. The official expressed hope that by honing the "propaganda element," the government would be able to improve the situation.

In its article on Friday, the Washington Post observed that, at this juncture, "even more than bullets, Ukraine needs fighters, leading to a search for new ways to mobilize the population and stronger measures against draft dodgers." It quoted a 68th Brigade assault team leader, who uses the call sign Dolphin, as saying, "Honestly, we need more soldiers. The professional military personnel are running out."

Comment: The triumphs and accolades of an empty country...approaching zero.


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401 Israeli troops killed since Oct 7th, IDF reports 1/5 of official dead killed by friendly fire

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One-fifth of troop fatalities in Gaza due to friendly fire or accidents, IDF reports

According to data, at least 20 of 105 deaths since launch of ground operations not caused by enemy fire; military says working to ensure troops' safety

At least 20 soldiers were killed by friendly fire or accidents during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, representing one-fifth of all fatalities, according to data released by the IDF on Tuesday.

Comment: The report above comes from Israeli outlet Ynet, meanwhile Russian outlet TASS, quoting another major Israeli news outlet, as of December 4th, has the total number of dead at 401:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that two more servicemen had been killed fighting the Palestinian radical group Hamas in the Gaza Strip which brings the total IDF death toll to 401, The Times of Israel newspaper said.

According to the newspaper, "the IDF has announced the deaths of 401 soldiers including the announcement today. Of those, 75 died during the ground offensive inside the Gaza Strip." The news outlet points out that the "vast majority of the others were killed in fighting with Hamas terrorists in southern Israel," almost all of them on the day of Hamas's initial attack on October 7.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.
However, there's good reason to suspect that the number is even higher than that; bearing in mind the tweet below is from November 26th. Furthermore, it has since been admitted that Israel is responsible for killing a significant number of Israelis on Oct 7th:


See also: Israel's ground war conundrum







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Harvard University President Claudine Gay copied entire paragraphs from others' academic work, claimed them as her own

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© Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesDr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington
'This is definitely plagiarism'

Harvard University president Claudine Gay plagiarized numerous academics over the course of her academic career, at times airlifting entire paragraphs and claiming them as her own work, according to reviews by several scholars.

In four papers published between 1993 and 2017, including her doctoral dissertation, Gay, a political scientist, paraphrased or quoted nearly 20 authors — including two of her colleagues in Harvard University's department of government — without proper attribution, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Other examples of possible plagiarism, all from Gay's dissertation, were publicized Sunday by the Manhattan Institute's Christopher Rufo and Karlstack's Chris Brunet.

The Free Beacon worked with nearly a dozen scholars to analyze 29 potential cases of plagiarism. Most of them said that Gay had violated a core principle of academic integrity as well as Harvard's own anti-plagiarism policies, which state that "it's not enough to change a few words here and there."

Comment: A disappointment for the DEI crowd, as Gay ticks all the diversity boxes. Damning as the evidence is, one might wonder if this dog would have been allowed to continue sleeping, if Gay had not stated even her oh-so-muted support for free speech on behalf of Palestine. Such is the reach of the Lobby.


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Polish lawmaker uses fire extinguisher on Hanukkah candles in parliament

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© Dawid Zuchowicz/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORSGrzegorz Braun, far-right Polish lawmaker from Confederation party, interacts with the media after using a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles at the parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.
WARSAW - A far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the country's parliament on Tuesday during an event with members of the Jewish community, provoking outrage and leading the speaker to exclude him from the sitting.

Footage posted on the website of private broadcaster TVN24 showed Grzegorz Braun of the Confederation party take the extinguisher before walking across the lobby of the parliament to where the candles were, creating a white cloud and forcing security guards to rush people out of the area.

Members of the Jewish community, including children, had gone to parliament at speaker Szymon Holownia's invitation for its annual Hanukkah celebrations.

The footage showed people in the vicinity covered in powder from the extinguisher.

Afterwards Braun took to the podium in the chamber where he described Hanukkah as "satanic" and said he was restoring "normality".

Asked just after the incident if he was ashamed, Braun replied: "Those who take part in acts of satanic worship should be ashamed."

Magdalena Gudzinska-Adamczyk was present at the scene and footage showed her challenging Braun as he extinguished the candles.

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750,000 birds culled in just 30 days after bird flu detected in 26 US states, 72 MILLION culled since 2022

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The Avian influenza summer break is not only over, it has been smashed. In the past 30 days, the virus has spread to 106 commercial flocks in 23 states. And California is the latest to report outbreaks — in two broiler operations in Stanislaus County and an egg-laying business in Sonoma County.

The numbers depopulated are huge — 270,000 at the Sonoma egg-laying operation and 239,900 and 254,400 birds at the two Stanislaus broiler operations. A third broiler operation in Stanislaus County has infections but has yet to make numbers available.

Comment: What with the establishment's brazen attack on farmers, and the food supply more generally, as reflected in the soaring number of suspicious food plant fires, it's reasonable to suppose that these mass culls are yet avenue for furthering the nefarious agenda: Below is just a selection of some of the other food plant fires in the last year or so:


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Poland trucker's month-long blockade of Ukraine border continues following brief lifting

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© REUTERS/Kuba StezyckiA truck driver from Ukraine waves from his truck roof while waiting in a long queue to cross the Polish-Ukrainian border at the Dorohusk-Jagodzin crossing, in Okopy, Poland, December 4, 2023.
A month-long blockade of Ukrainian border crossings by protesting Polish truck drivers was briefly lifted on Monday at one crossing, but by evening police said the road leading to it was again impassable.

The lifting of the blockade for a few hours at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk crossing had allowed vehicles and goods to pass through into Ukrainian territory. Broadcaster Polsat News earlier reported that a Polish mayor had taken action to stop the blockade because he feared it would hurt local jobs.

Comment: As with the anti-lockdown protest by truckers in Canada, that was brutally shut down by the government, truckers - workers of all kinds, actually - can a much more significant impact on geopolitics than the establishment would have us to believe.


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Yemen's Houthis claim missile attack on Norwegian ship with oil bound for Israel

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© Khaled Abdullah/ReutersThe Houthis have threatened shipping in the seas around Yemen and last month seized the Galaxy Leader
Yemen's Houthi rebels say they hit a Norwegian tanker in the Iran-aligned group's latest military operation amid Israel's war on Gaza.

The Norwegian-owned-and-operated ship, Strinda, was struck on Monday night as it passed through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait separating East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.

On Tuesday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group targeted the ship because it was "loaded with oil" bound for Israel.

Comment: See also: Israeli shipping firm forced to take route with double journey time after repeated attacks on vessels