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Best of the Web: Why greens love lockdown

Ben Pile
spiked-online
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Getty Images"Green"
Over the past year, the response to the Covid-19 pandemic has caused untold damage to people's lives. Discussing whether draconian policies are effective, or whether there may be other ways of managing the crisis, has been muted by angry ripostes - you will be branded a 'denier' or a 'granny-killer'. To disagree is to have blood on your hands.

But surely, despite these tensions, most people want the whole thing to be over? It doesn't seem so. One tendency seems to hope that lockdown is just the dawn of an age of confinement. Greens, after a year at home on full pay, believe this is the beginning of a bright new era of global environmental consciousness and good international governance, in which lockdown will be the norm.

The question at the centre of this bizarre, anti-human dystopianism is, 'Will Covid help us save the planet?'. That was asked by last Sunday's edition of the BBC's Big Questions. spiked's Fraser Myers, outnumbered by George Monbiot, Extinction Rebellion activists and neo-Malthusian population-obsessives, appeared on the show. He was interrupted every time he tried to counter the greens' celebration of locking people in their homes. Such is the BBC's absorption into the green and lockdown orthodoxies that it apparently could not find, in a population of 65million people, more than one dissenting voice.

Comment: See also:

Right of reply: Lockdowns contradict a century of pre-Covid science

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Migrants in Mexican camp brave icy nights as the chance to enter US nears

Daina Beth Solomon
Reuters
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Asylum Seekers camp
© John Moore/Getty ImagesAsylum seekers' makeshift camp, Matamoros, Mexico across border from Brownsville, Texas
Roberto Manuel wore two shirts, three jackets and four pairs of pants to brace himself for subzero temperatures in Matamoros, the Mexican city opposite Texas, where he lives in a flimsy tent while waiting to resolve an asylum claim in the United States.

"It was cold last year, but not like this with ice," the 43-year-old said on Tuesday evening by phone from the encampment, where he is among about 1,000 migrants, most from Central America, hoping to be granted refuge across the border.

Manuel, from Nicaragua, has lived there a year and a half under former President Donald Trump's controversial Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program that makes asylum seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings. He is hopeful that President Joe Biden will make migration policies more humane, ending the uncertainty of his life in limbo on the border so he can make plans to work with a friend in Miami.

In fact, Biden's administration has said a new process will gradually begin in coming days to allow thousands of MPP asylum seekers to await courts' decisions within the United States, a policy change that should eventually empty the camp. But Manuel said he is fuzzy on the details.

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Thousands of Israelis return to normal life with forged 'Green Passes' as vaccine refuseniks are otherwise barred from venues


RT
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 16:34 UTC
Israeli vaccine certificate
© Israeli Ministry of Health
While Israel prepares to welcome only vaccine recipients into gyms, hotels, and other venues, thousands have been making their own 'Green Pass,' the easily-counterfeited credential the country is using to prove vaccination.

The Green Pass looks complex enough, with the secure-looking QR code on the lower-right side, but the code is just made up of the same details printed on the pass in normal letters and numbers, cybersecurity expert Ran Bar-Zik revealed in a Facebook post earlier this week. The pass can thus be easily forged by anyone with a graphics program and a printer.
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Posted by Ran Bar-Zik on Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Israel will officially reopen businesses from gyms and hotels to malls, museums and libraries on Sunday. However, only those who can prove they have been vaccinated or had Covid-19 will be welcome in the gyms, hotels, and swimming pools, and only they will be allowed to attend sports and cultural events.

Comment: Human nature in the crosshairs? Those who want to avoid the jab may require more than cut and paste solutions:
Israel's health minister has confirmed the country plans to stop unvaccinated people from working in certain jobs but failed to elaborate on what they might be, adding anyone found forging vaccine certificates will be jailed. Flanked by senior Ministry of Health officials, Edelstein urged everyone to get vaccinated in order to help bring life back to "almost normal."

Israel is leading the world in vaccinations, with almost seven million jabs administered - the equivalent of 79 doses per 100 people. The nation has also seen falling Covid-19 deaths, reporting zero fatalities in an observation of 523,000 people who were fully vaccinated.
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How Israel plans to operate a COVID 'green pass,' and prevent forgeries

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177,000 voters removed from voter rolls in January after certifying Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes in November

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:30 UTC
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Michigan now admits after 'certifying' the 2020 Presidential election, that more voters should be removed from their voter rolls than there were votes won by Joe Biden in the race. Mixed with other suspected fraud, (like 141,000 ballot drops at 6am the day after the election) all the ballots in this state should be forensically audited to determine the full extent of the election fraud.

There was so much fraud in Michigan in the 2020 election it is difficult to know where to start. There were late-night ballot dumps in Michigan like other states:

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Impartial math shows wind energy failures worsened Texas's deadly power losses

Daniel Turner
The Federalist
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:03 UTC
texas snow storm power failure
Texans shivered as power grid failed in the face of the February snowstorm
We can learn from what happened in Texas if we have a serious and necessary conversation about renewable energy. But will we?

Why did Texas lose power? Math โ€” apolitical, non-ideological, and sometimes cruel math.

During such an extreme cold for which Texas is mostly unprepared, the demands on the electric grid exceeded its output capacity. The majority of Texans heat their home with electricity, and, under typical circumstances, it makes sense. Why spend money to bring natural gas heat into the home when it's very likely you can go an entire winter without turning it on? As temperatures plummeted, Texans turned on and turned up the heat.

But something else was happening. The extreme cold was impacting all electricity production. All of it: coal, natural gas, nuclear, but most of all wind.
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Lucasfilm president excoriated for bragging about EMPOWERING WOMEN after firing Gina Carano


RT
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:41 UTC
gina careno
© Reuters / Mario AnzuoniActress Gina Carano poses at the premiere for the television series 'The Mandalorian' in Los Angeles, California, November 13, 2019.
The Oscars' Twitter feed forced to wipe flood of negative comments

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, fresh from firing actress Gina Carano from The Mandalorian for political incorrectness, made the ironic decision to speak about empowering women and hearing their voices. It didn't end well.

The Oscars posted the video on Tuesday, featuring Kennedy speaking about its scientific and technical awards. Kennedy, who fired Carano last week over "abhorrent and unacceptable" social media posts, said in the video that "women are helping to redefine science and technology in the movies, and that means a brave, bold future without limits for each and every storyteller."

Comment: To illustrate the vehemence of the backlash against Kathleen Kennedy and Disney+, the video posted by ThatStarWarsGirl is simply a scroll through the now deleted comment feed. It is 44 MINUTES LONG.

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Facebook will debunk myths about climate change, stepping further into 'arbiter of truth' role

Salvador Rodriguez
CNBC
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:10 UTC
polar bear
© Paul Souders | Getty ImagesA polar bear in Repulse Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada.
Facebook announced Thursday it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the "arbiter of truth" role that the company once renounced.

The social media giant said it is adding a section to its climate change information hub that will features facts with accurate information about misconceptions and falsehoods. This will include the fact that polar bear populations are declining because of global warming, as well as the fact that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere harms plant life.

The company said it plans to rely on experts from George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the University of Cambridge to identify and debunk climate change myths.

Comment: In other words, Facebook will continue and even ramp up their censoring topics about climate change - as they did, and still do, with topics such as Covid-19, US elections fraud, and many others.

Everything that is not in line with the global warming scam will be censored.

All data shows that our planet is rapidly cooling, and according to researchers who are able to analyze the available data and see the objective reality as it is an Ice Age has already started.

What will they blame when crops increasingly fail and food shortages became a bigger problem to ordinary people around the globe?

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Indonesia makes Covid-19 vaccines compulsory, punishments for those who refuse


The Star
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:12 UTC
Indonesia vaccine coronavirus
© AFPIndonesia seeks to inoculate 181.5 million people in 15 months to achieve herd immunity
Indonesia has made coronavirus vaccination for citizens compulsory and is set to allow the private sector to help inoculate the population to reach herd immunity faster.

A regulation amended earlier this week now means people who are eligible for vaccination but refuse a jab can be penalised.

Sanctions could involve fines, delays or suspension of social aids, or delays or suspension of access to public services.

"(Relevant) ministries, government agencies, local (provincial, city) governments have the authority to enforce the administrative sanctions," said the amended regulation signed by President Joko Widodo on Feb 9. The newly issued regulation allows local governments to draw up details of the penalties.

Comment: In South Korea the PM has warned against relaxing restrictions to help businesses struggling to keep their businesses afloat after nearly a year of lockdown:
Speaking during a televised government meeting on Wednesday, Chung urged the public to strictly observe the existing rules. Earlier this week, Seoul eased some restrictions, including lifting the ban on nighttime entertainment facilities as well as extending the restaurant curfew by one hour to 10 pm.

Restrictions were relaxed to help businesses struggling with the impact of the anti-coronavirus measures, Chung said, warning that the spread of the disease continues.
Korea mask
© Reuters / Kim Hong-JiFILE PHOTO. Women wearing face masks walk under an umbrella as it snows in Seoul, South Korea.
"We've eased distancing to help small business owners maintain their livelihoods, not to keep a slack rein on the virus," he stated. "The third wave is not over ... now is never the time to loosen up."

South Korea has already seen a new spike in infections. On Tuesday, it registered some 600 new cases, the highest daily tally in 39 days. Still, the country remains rather mildly affected by the coronavirus with some 84,000 cases and more than 1,500 deaths registered since the beginning of the pandemic. The figures are quite low compared to those seen in the worst-hit countries, particularly given South Korea's massive population of nearly 52 million.

Seoul is also preparing to begin its mass-vaccination campaign that is expected to target the nation's healthcare workers during its first stage. On Wednesday, South Korea's drug safety ministry gave the final approval for a shipment of 1.57 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine.

The first batch of the jab, produced locally by SK Bioscience, is expected to be delivered next Wednesday with mass vaccination scheduled to start on February 26.


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Wanted man chooses prison over lockdown, as psychologists report surge in mental health issues in general population

Jedidajah Otte
The Guardian
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:15 UTC
prison jail
© Justin Nugent/AlamyPolice said the man was 'heading back to prison to serve some further time on his own'.
A wanted man handed himself in to police in West Sussex to avoid having to spend any more time in lockdown with the people he lives with.

The man, whose identity was not disclosed, presented himself voluntarily to Sussex police on Wednesday afternoon, reportedly in the hope of getting some "peace and quiet".

Police said the man, who was "wanted on recall to prison", handed himself in to Burgess Hill police station and was in custody and heading back to jail.

Comment: When a recidivist opts to VOLUNTARILY return to prison rather than remain 'free at home', you get an idea of how bad life in the West has become for many tens if not hundreds of millions of people:

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A question for leftists: Why are all the evil people on your side?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:37 UTC
deal with the devil
The media these days is saturated with tales of "evil conservatives" and our heinous plans for world domination through "insurrection". In fact, most mainstream articles that cover recent events including the election and the protests at the capitol make a point to always mention "white supremacy" and "terrorism" in the same breath as the word "conservative". This is an entirely deliberate propaganda tactic called "word association" or "word redefinition"; change the subtext of a word or group label in the minds of the masses and you can often change perception from positive to negative.

In other words, Conservative = Racist/Terrorist. It doesn't matter if it's not true, it just matters that people are conditioned to subconsciously make the connection.

How about an example:

I've offered numerous criticisms of Trump and his administration over the years, but none of those criticism had anything to do with what leftists have been regurgitating since 2016. To them, Trump's "racism" was verified fact, yet when I ask any social justice warrior to produce an actual quote of Trump saying something racist, they can't seem to dig anything up.

By extension, leftists have a bizarre obsession with Russia and the theory that Russia is an ever present hand of god in US politics, yet, none of them can produce any concrete proof that Russia has meaningful influence in American elections or affairs.

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