Thursday, October 29, 2020

29 October - Signs of the Times

 

Signs of the Times - Best of the Web


BEST OF THE WEB: Woman decapitated, two others killed in Islamist knife attack in French church - killer shot, arrested - arrests made in other cities
Comment: The church where this atrocity occurred in Nice is the city's 'Notre Dame' (and it even looks like the bigger one in Paris). This is not coincidental. Islamists/jihadists/patsies/whatever carrying out such attacks in lockstep with the French government's major announcements of ever-encroaching lockdown measures is also not coincidental. There is indeed science and methodology to the 'Covi
Coming off the worst quarter in history, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace ever in the third quarter as a nation battered by an unprecedented pandemic started to put itself back together, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Third-quarter gross domestic product, a measure of the total goods and services produced in the July-to-September period, expanded at a 33.1% annualized pace, ac
"Boris Johnson? Who is he?" asked Lucy. "Why, it is he that has got all Covidia under his thumb," said Mr Tumnus. "It's he that makes it always Covid. Always Covid and never Christmas; think of that!" - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (with a few changes) Were he around today, I have no doubt that C.S. Lewis, one of the 20th Century's greatest intellects, would be utterly scathing o
Protests erupted across Europe last night as thousands of angry demonstrators called on their governments to reconsider a second-round of lockdown restrictions. In Italy, violence was reported in at least two major northern cities, Milan and Turin, as vast crowds protested freedom-limiting restrictions enforced to tackle a second surge in coronavirus cases. Witnesses said a number of luxury stores
Born in Ravensburg in 1938, Klaus Schwab is a child of Adolf Hitler's Germany, a police-state regime built on fear and violence, on brainwashing and control, on propaganda and lies, on industrialism and eugenics, on dehumanisation and "disinfection", on a chilling and grandiose vision of a "new order" that would last a thousand years. Schwab seems to have dedicated his life to reinventing that nig

Yesterday

So, according to the corporate media, this is it for Russian-backed Hitler. Game over. The walls are closing in. It's the last days of the Trumpian Reich. Get those vuvuzelas ready! Yes, apparently, the American people, who were all a bunch of Putin-worshipping, white-supremacist neo-Nazis when they elected Trump in 2016, have come to their senses and are going to deliver a landslide victory to "S
Stoic philosopher Epictetus believed that honorable character and a life of wisdom begin with a clear understanding of one basic principle: "some things are within our control, and some things are not." How we are perceived by others — our popularity — is ultimately outside our control; we should focus on character, not reputation, because "trying to control or change what we can't only results in
Biden family business partner-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski told Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tuesday night that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is "compromised" by communist China. "If Joe Biden is elected president, which could very well happen," Carlson said, "how does this constrain his ability to deal with China?" "So I think Joe Biden and the Biden family is compromised," Bobuli

Oct 27

Singapore has temporarily halted the use of two influenza vaccines as a precaution after some people who received them in South Korea died, becoming among the first countries to publicly announce a halt of the vaccines' use. South Korea reported that 48 have died as of Saturday after getting flu shots but said it would carry on with the state-run vaccination programme as they found no direct link
Thousands of protesters descended on the British capital on Saturday to call for an end to coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on businesses in the UK, which they described as a form of "tyranny". In a Breitbart London exclusive video, protesters were seen singing: "I would rather be a human than a slave", "We are the 99 per cent", and "You can shove your New World Order up your ass". The 'Stop
The whole planet has every reason to be terminally puzzled at how all those lofty Enlightenment ideals Thomas Jefferson embedded in the 1776 Declaration of Independence ended up with... Trump vs. Biden. Jefferson borrowed freely from Locke, Rousseau, Hume to come up with an eminently quotable Greatest Hits, featuring "self-evident" truths such as "all men are created equal", "unalienable rights",

Oct 26

A major study out of Denmark that sought to examine the efficacy of face masks at limiting the spread of COVID-19 has reportedly been rejected by multiple academic journals amid hints that the study found face coverings are not effective in protecting individuals from the coronavirus. Masks have been among the most persistent and controversial flashpoints of the COVID-19 epidemic for months. Healt
First rains of the season in Lebanon bring along frightening whirlwinds to the destroyed Beirut port area. Some viral videos are circulating on the web of the whirlwind/tornado at the site of the explosion at Beirut Port. On 4 August 2020, a massive amount of ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port city, the capital of Lebanon, exploded, causing at least 203 deaths, and around 6,500 injuries.
"Treason doth never prosper; what is the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - Sir John Harrington. As Shakespeare would state in his play Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," like a fish that rots from head to tail, so do corrupt government systems rot from top to bottom. This is a reference to the ruling system of Denmark and not just the foul murder that Ki
Introduction The British public's widespread compliance with the Government's draconian diktats has arguably been the most remarkable aspect of the coronavirus crisis. The unprecedented restrictions on our basic freedoms - in the form of lockdowns, travel bans and mandatory mask wearing - have been passively accepted by the large majority of people. Despite the lack of evidence for effectiveness o

Oct 25

Yes, you are right. We have gone quite mad. I know that many people are thinking this, but dare not say so. I will be accused of all kinds of terrible things for taking this view - but that is another aspect of how crazy things are. Yes, coronavirus poses a risk. No, our response to it is not intelligent or useful. In fact, I think it is increasingly damaging and will soon become more so. The key
"People like the Bidens — and the Clintons for that matter — they don't have to take formal bribes," explained "The Ingraham Angle" host. "There is no need for any smoking gun. They simply do everything possible while in office to help rich people and to fight off movements ... that would force big business to pay higher wages." "During the years between 2000 and 2016, a lot of middle-class folks

Oct 24

In a day when half the US population remained transfixed by the ongoing revelations about the contents of Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell" and the other half was doing everything in its power to ignore the news which the socials have conveniently been desperate to censor, a far less noticed but perhaps just as important investigative report authored by the unknown Typhoon Investigations, was rele
Former Vice President Joe Biden used his son Hunter Biden as a "bag man" and got 50% of the "bribe money" from foreign entities, Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax TV. Appearing Tuesday on "Greg Kelly Reports," Giuliani, who says he is in possession of a copy of a hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden, said the current Democrat presidential nominee could have used several "flunkies" as a "bag m

Oct 23

The story I will tell my grandchildren someday will go something like this: A totalitarian regime — China — flipped out and locked down an entire city when they discovered a new virus. Most of the world's leaders, throwing out a century of hard-earned knowledge about how to manage through infectious disease outbreaks, ended up doing the same thing in a panicky week fueled by trumped-up death model
The harm caused by lockdowns is much worse than the disease of COVID-19. That's the argument from numerous public health officials and economists around the world, including an Alberta expert in infectious disease and critical care, Dr. Ari Joffe of the Stollery Children's Hospital and the University of Alberta. "I'm truly worried the (lockdown) approach is going to devastate economies and the fut
On December 6, 2015, Joe Biden ordered Ukraine President Petr Poroshenko to fire Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, threatening to withhold $1 billion in US aid to the Poroshenko government if he did not do so. Newly revealed evidence taken from Hunter Biden's laptop, in the form of an email dated November 2, 2015, from Vadym Pozharskyi to Devon Archer and Hunter Biden at their Rosemont Sen
The story I will tell my grandchildren someday will go something like this: A totalitarian regime — China — flipped out and locked down an entire city when they discovered a new virus. Most of the world's leaders, throwing out a century of hard-earned knowledge about how to manage through infectious disease outbreaks, ended up doing the same thing in a panicky week fueled by trumped-up death model
Wait until Scranton hears about this. One of Joe Biden's ways of contrasting himself with President Trump has been to declare the election a battle of Park Avenue values vs. Scranton, Pa., values. Now we learn that Biden has secretly been playing footsie with China. The statement Wednesday night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make
Brazilian health authority Anvisa said on Wednesday that a volunteer in a clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca AZN.L and Oxford University had died but added that the trial would continue. Oxford confirmed the plan to keep testing, saying in a statement that after careful assessment "there have been no concerns about safety of the clinical trial." Comment: Actually, vacc
The gong sounds for Round Two of The Great VIRAL Debate. Track this debate's progress in our Coronavirus Debate Section. Dr Piers Robinson is our chair. Off-Guardian is your host. The proposition under debate is: SARS-COV-2 merits suppression measures in order to combat the virus rather than the herd/community immunity approach Dr Rancourt, arguing against the proposition, responds to Tim Anderson

Oct 22

Unless you've been living under a rock, you're likely already very aware of the scandal going down in the Biden family. No, not the one about Joe not being able to remember what state he's in or what office he's running for. The Hunter Biden scandal. The big one. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published a story titled, 'Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian busine
Comment: ...and the names of every 'elite' scumbag in it have been redacted. Hence 'unsealed' is in quotes... A deposition detailing the seamy relationship between Ghislaine Maxwell and the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was released Thursday just before a court-imposed deadline, after months of wrangling by her defense lawyers to keep the sordid documents from the public eye. The newly unsealed t
I've been suspicious from the start. Back in March, when this novel virus first swept in from the East and countries across Europe started bolting their doors even before cases mounted, I remember saying to people, 'Blimey, what aren't they telling us yet?' It was clearly killing people, but not in numbers that warranted the complete shutdown of society, I mused, as I cleared my desk and left the

Oct 21

Kemi Badenoch tells Commons debate on Black History Month that schools must offer opposing views. Schools which teach pupils that "white privilege" is an uncontested fact are breaking the law, the women and equalities minister has said. Addressing MPs during a Commons debate on Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch said the government does not want children being taught about "white privilege and the

Oct 20

Alexei Navalny has opened his US media campaign on Sunday with interviews on CBS Television and the New Yorker magazine. Wearing a new white shirt, he has also opened a new version of the attempted assassination. In Navalny's fresh plot, he now says he was poisoned when he was putting on clothes in his hotel room in Tomsk, and then touched a water bottle. "We know that I was poisoned in the hotel
A teacher beheaded on a street near Paris on Friday afternoon has been named as Samuel Paty by French Education MinisterJean-Michel Blanquer. The suspected killer, who was armed with a knife and a plastic pellet gun, was later shot dead by officers in a nearby town, police said. French authorities have launched an anti-terror investigation. President Emmanuel Macron called it an "assassination" an

Oct 17

It started with smoking. The 1960s and 1970s saw little popular objection to legislation restricting advertisements by private companies purveying a legal product. Little objection was raised thereafter when these same companies were banned from promoting their wares at all. Broadly shamed, even smokers have mutely accepted confiscatory taxes on cigarettes. As laws to protect the public from passi
Moncef Slaoui, the official head of Operation Warp Speed, told the Wall Street Journal last week that all Warp Speed vaccine recipients in the US will be monitored by "incredibly precise . . . tracking systems" for up to two years and that tech giants Google and Oracle would be involved. Last week, a rare media interview given by the Trump administration's "Vaccine Czar" offered a brief glimpse in

Oct 16

Hamodia has exclusively obtained a full recording of a conference call New York Gov. Andrew Cumo had with Jewish leaders last Tuesday, in which he said he would limit houses of worship to 50% occupancy in areas seeing a COVID-19 uptick, just hours before a public press conference in which he limited it to 10 attendees. "The current rule ... in any indoor gathering ... it's 50% of capacity," the go

Oct 15

[But concern may be in order] I suppose most people believe the trials on vaccines for COVID19 will be looking to demonstrate that they reduce the risk of infection, death, or serious illness - or suchlike. Also, you may have heard that several vaccines could be ready for use early next year 2021. Maybe even later this year. As Dilbert may retort: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, let me pause and wip
Facebook announced on Wednesday they will be "reducing" the spread of the new New York Post story about Hunter Biden, which claims new emails and photos shed light on his foreign business dealings, as it undergoes a review by "third-party fact checking partners." Comment: See the article on Sott: Smoking-gun email in forgotten laptop reveals Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Comment: And that may be a conservative estimate... The World Bank said on Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, wiping out more than three years of progress in poverty reduction. Releasing its flagship biennial report on poverty and shared prosperity, the multilateral development lender said that an additional 88
Who benefits from lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society? Look no further than the emerging global oligarchy. In October 2019, a pandemic simulation exercise called Event 201 - a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - concluded that a hypothetical new coronavirus may end up kill

Oct 14

Comment: Twitter and Facebook are censoring this report... from one of the largest US media outlets. In any other year, such revelations as these would force a candidate out of the race. But this is 2020, so the rest of the media is just ignoring the Post's reports... Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year b
French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday a nighttime curfew would be imposed in the greater Paris region as well as in eight other cities around France hard-hit by the second wave of Covid-19 infections. As virus numbers continue to rise in France, the president announced that nine cities and surrounding areas will be subject for a curfew from 9pm to 6am for at least four weeks. Mac
In the city's Barkas area, a man was washed away by the turbulent floodwater. Heavy rain disrupted life in Hyderabad on Wednesday, causing severe waterlogging in several areas and submerging low-lying places. Traffic was also disrupted in several parts of the city. At least nine people, including children, were killed in Hyderabad late on Tuesday after a wall collapsed due to the rain. The city ha
Prominent Colorado Democrat Khristopher Jacks, who sits on the executive committee for the state's Democratic party and chairman of leftist organization "Our Revolution" was caught on undercover footage by Project Veritas promoting a violent agenda for far-left Democrats if President Trump wins in November.. "I am going to do everything morally acceptable to win. I will lie. I will cheat. I will s

Oct 13

A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them. A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 "case-patients," who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care fa
It seems that this election is not just about which candidate gets elected -- it is ultimately about America's commitment to empirical facts, its extraordinary Constitution and its determination to maintain its leadership role in the world by refusing to allow cheating and corruption, in either its elections or its governmental institutions. One can only hope that the ideals of the Founding Founde
One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the "Cold War" or the "War on Terror" narratives. A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted by a preponderance of facts. Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples, but the phenomenon is better obs

Oct 12

A pledge by Biden to support the Great Reset would pose a grave threat to liberty and free markets in the United States A radical movement called the Great Reset embraced by some Democrats poses a grave threat to liberty and free markets in the United States and around the world. While former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't endorsed the movement, his ties to it are growing as he changes his long-h
The US military has partnered with more than a dozen companies for "large-scale experimentation" with 5G technology, including efforts to enhance the "lethality" of certain systems, in what's slated to be a $600 million project. Dubbing 5G tech a "foundational enabler for all US defense modernization," the Pentagon announced the massive research initiative on Thursday, which will hand hundreds of
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies. Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop "using lockdowns as your primary control method" of the coronavirus. He also claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty - with no men

Oct 11

Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance between Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Soviet communists in a wide-ranging interview with the Rossiya TV channel, released Wednesday as the 2020 vice presidential candidates prepared to debate. The president said the Kremlin would be open to working with whoever sits in the Oval O
Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance between Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Soviet communists in a wide-ranging interview with the Rossiya TV channel, released Wednesday as the 2020 vice presidential candidates prepared to debate. The president said the Kremlin would be open to working with whoever sits in the Oval O

Oct 10

The UK Prime Minister's remote speech to his party conference saw him dismiss the idea of returning to normality. Is he using Covid-19 to follow the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' agenda, as many have warned? 'It's not really about public health or a virus. They have another agenda.' That's what the so-called 'conspiracy theorists' have been saying since March, when the first British lockdow

Oct 05

Statement comes just days after he asked for more help COVID lockdowns were thrown into chaos today after a mayor declared war on tough new restrictions - and vowed: "We will defy the government" despite asking for new measures just days ago. Middlesbrough mayor Andy Preston fought back after Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the latest measures in a Commons address. A ban on different house

Oct 04

There is not much special about Logan, Ohio. Sure, there's the Paul A Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum in South Logan, and every year musicians strum a bunch of washboards at the Washboard Music Festival (cancelled this year because of the Covid apocalypse, of course). But Logan usually has a pretty relaxed, 'small-town America' vibe. That was until what can only be described as a violent confronta

Oct 03

Comment: Whatever is going on here, the timing - weeks before Trump's likely re-election - is strange... President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday. Trump's positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president severa
Comment: Whatever is going on here, the timing - weeks before Trump's likely re-election - is strange... President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday. Trump's positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president severa
General Stanley McChrystal delighted the left and the war-loving neoconservatives today by joining his name to the ranks of military-industrial complex "national security" professionals supporting Joe Biden. This development should not be surprising. While Trump enjoys overwhelming support from the military rank and file, the brass has been largely corrupted for some time. As the President himself
I was on the bus the other night with my wife. There were only 3 of us not wearing masks on our public transport, which mandates mask wearing but with medical exemptions. Across the aisle was an attractive, healthy looking young woman, perhaps mid 20s wearing a mask. She was pregnant, I'd guess in the 2nd trimester. According to the US NIOSH (National Institute for Safety and Health) there are now

Oct 01

Boris Johnson's effusive response to a tweet from Bill Gates, which the public couldn't comment on, and the draconian restrictions imposed on the UK without debate are indicative of the way democracy has been suspended in 2020. Prime Minister Johnson (or at least the person operating his account), doesn't respond to ordinary members of the public raising issues with him on Twitter. He doesn't resp
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' captain's call to maintain a strict mandatory mask order over summer is ridiculous and could badly backfire, health experts warn after the Premier revealed his decision goes further than the health advice. Mr Andrews announced an indefinite crackdown for mandatory masks on Sunday, including banning face shields, scarfs and bandannas and requiring a "fitted mask th
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton OK'ed a plan to smear then-rival Donald Trump with accusations about Russian election-hacking to distract from her email scandal, newly-declassified papers appear to show. Clinton approved an advisor's proposal to "vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services" in July 2016, according to information dec
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of a flu viral specimen during a TED Talk and told the audience that it was what the greatest catastrophe of our time would look like. The real threat to life, he said, is 'not missiles, but microbes.' When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth like a tsunami five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pande

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