Web ? 'Pipes', Innit ? That joke is mouldy by now.
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BEST OF THE WEB: Swarm of near-Earth comets linked to recent ice giant Encke's breakup
The
longest-studied comets in our solar system have inspired ancient myths,
religious fervor and modern scientific controversies. Now, the
discovery of 88 asteroids and meteoroids orbitally aligned with one of
them, Comet Encke, suggests that they all formed from the relatively
recent breakup of an even bigger, icy comet. The findings are welcomed
by those who believe Comet Encke and the other pro
Taurid
Meteor Stream pummels planet in human history; remains menace; Nobel
Prize? A comprehensive study of the Taurid meteor stream confirms a
central understanding of astronomer Dr. Bill Napier and the Comet
Research
Oct 18
"The
Sun is god!" cried JMW Turner as he died, and plenty of other people
have thought there was much in his analysis. The Aztecs agreed, and so
did the pharaohs of Egypt. We are an arrogant lot these days, and we
tend to underestimate the importance of our governor and creator. We
forget that we were once just a clod of cooled-down solar dust; we
forget that without the Sun there would have been
When
it comes to both coronavirus and climate change, the purist route is
doomed to failure Zero Covid is dead. Australian Prime Minister Scott
Morrison said as much last week, finally accepting that the delta
variant has made it impossible for one country to eradicate a disease
which has become endemic elsewhere. For the moment, New Zealand persists
with its miserable cycle of lockdowns, but, wit
Oct 17
Delta
Air Lines is ditching a vaccine mandate for employees, according to
company CEO Ed Bastian, who notably emphasized the "divisiveness" of
such an order. Bastian said announcing a plan to get all employees
vaccinated, without enforcing a mandate, has worked, allowing the
company to reach a 90% vaccination rate. The CEO, according to Fox
Business, said: "The reason the mandate was put in by [th
So,
hey, they've started mounting sniper rifles on robodogs, which is great
news for anyone who was hoping they'd start mounting sniper rifles on
robodogs. At an exhibit booth in the Association of the United States
Army's annual meeting and exhibition, Ghost Robotics (the
military-friendly competitor to the better-known Boston Dynamics)
proudly showed off a weapon that is designed to attach to it
The
Biden administration is releasing enormous numbers of migrants into the
U.S., often with little to no oversight At least 160,000 illegal
immigrants have been released into the U.S., often with little to no
supervision, by the Biden administration since March - including a broad
use of limited parole authorities to make more than 30,000 eligible for
work permits since August, Border Patrol docu
Armored
vehicles have rolled into Beirut as the Lebanese capital descended into
chaos, with crowds led by Hezbollah and Amal groups demonstrating
against Tarek Bitar, the lead judge of the port blast investigation.
Beirut resembled a warzone on Thursday as the army deployed armored
vehicles to a divided area of the city where deadly skirmishes erupted
following an attack on a protest. The army dec
Oct 16
Comment:
Whoa, is that a threat!? The deputy secretary at the US Treasury has
put Americans on notice that the only way to end the plague of empty
shelves around the country is for every resident to be vaccinated. The
frank warning came off as a threat to many. Wally Adeyemo, the Biden
administration's second-highest official in the Treasury Department,
appeared to publicly blackmail the still-siz
The
Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after he was stabbed several
times during a surgery at his constituency in Essex, police have said.
Amess, 69, an MP since 1983 who had represented Southend West in Essex
since 1997, was attacked at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. He is the second
MP to be killed in just over five years, after the murder of Jo Cox.
Essex police said a 25-year-old man had been
Oct 12
India
is facing a looming power crisis, as stocks of coal in power plants
have fallen to unprecedentedly low levels and states are warning of
power blackouts. States across India have issued panicked warnings that
coal supplies to thermal power plants, which convert heat from coal to
electricity, are running perilously low. According to data from the
Central Electricity Authority of India, nearly
Over-the-counter
aspirin could protect the lungs of COVID-19 patients and minimize the
need for mechanical ventilation, according to new research at the George
Washington University. The team investigated more than 400 COVID
patients from hospitals across the United States who take aspirin
unrelated to their COVID disease, and found that the treatment reduced
the risk of several parameters by almo
"I
am concerned about the possibility that the new vaccines aimed at
creating immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have the
potential to cause microvascular injury to the brain, heart, liver and
kidneys in a way that does not appear to be assessed in the safety
trials." Dr J. Patrick Whelan "We are dealing with evil. In case you
hadn't noticed." Robert W Malone, MD, Twitter Question- Why
The
long-awaited American financial crisis appears to be on its way.
Inflation is increasing, energy prices are out of control, and debt
levels are already unsustainable. Washington has few tools left, and an
awful lot to lose. An American financial and currency crisis seems to be
building, ready to flood the world and result in dramatic shifts in the
international distribution of power. However,
Russia
is locked into yet another standoff with an American tech company. This
time, it's YouTube, which has taken down two of RT's German-language
news channels and provoked a furious response from Moscow's most senior
officials. The decision, understood to have been taken over allegations
the broadcaster tried to circumvent a 'community standards strike'
handed down over 'medical misinformation'
Oct 11
I've
seen some nauseating sights in my time - flyblown corpses, regurgitated
kebab on student drinking nights, any show involving Piers Morgan - but
rarely have I seen anything more emetic than delegates rising to
applaud Prime Minister Boris Johnson's closing speech at the
Conservative Party Conference. Sure, if Bojo had just been addressing a
meeting of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet or, w
Militant
groups in northern Mali's Kidal region have been trained by French
officers, Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga claimed in an interview
with RIA Novosti, saying two-thirds of his country is "occupied by
terrorists." Mali has evidence that French forces present in its
territory with a mission to counter terrorist groups have been instead
"training" militants, the transitional government'
Comment:
Like almost all of the 'rule by decree' by Western regimes throughout
the last 18 months, this too is bluff... Yes, we've heard all about Joe
Biden's alleged vaccine mandate for private companies employing 100 or
more people. It was all over the news even before he announced it on
September 9. His announcement has jeopardized the employment of millions
of Americans and increased worker sh
Los
Angeles faces a broadening lawsuit as 871 city firefighters have filed a
notice of intent to sue over the public employee vaccine mandate passed
by City Council, seeking $2 million per plaintiff. Sandra Mitchell
reports for the KTLA 5 News at 6 on Oct. 8, 2021.
Southwest
Airlines canceled more than 1,800 flights this weekend, disrupting the
travel plans of thousands of customers and stranding flight crews — the
airline blamed the meltdown on a combination of bad weather, air traffic
control and its own shortage of available staff. "I know this is
incredibly difficult for all of you, and our Customers are not happy,"
Alan Kasher executive vice president o
Southwest
Airlines canceled more than 1,800 flights this weekend, disrupting the
travel plans of thousands of customers and stranding flight crews — the
airline blamed the meltdown on a combination of bad weather, air traffic
control and its own shortage of available staff. "I know this is
incredibly difficult for all of you, and our Customers are not happy,"
Alan Kasher executive vice president o
Oct 10
Which
future wins out in the unfolding battle over humanity will be shaped by
the decisions and discoveries we make (or fail to make) in the days
ahead. In my last article "Guterres and the Great Reset: How Capitalism
Became a Time Bomb", I made the case that the time bomb justifying a
Great Reset of civilization was set into motion over 50 years ago. In
that location, we were introduced to a cast
Oct 09
Swedish
health authorities on Wednesday suspended the use of Moderna's COVID-19
vaccine for those ages 30 and under, saying the move was done out of
precaution. The reason for the pausing is "signals of an increased risk
of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the
pericardium" — the double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots
of the main vessels, Sweden's Public Health
Heavy
rain has battered a northwest region of Italy bordering France and
caused flooding and mudslides. No casualties were reported. The hardest
hit city in Liguria on Monday was Savona on the coast. Towns in the
region's hilly interior also suffered flooding and landslides as some
streams overflowed banks. A bridge collapsed in the town of Quiliano.
And Italian news reports said the COVID-19 vacc
Contrary
to the MSM's agenda-driven narrative, the South Pole has been suffering
unprecedented cold this year. Between the months of April and
September, the South Pole averaged a temperature of -61.1C (-78F).
Simply put, this was the region's coldest 6-month spell ever recorded,
and it comfortably usurped the previous coldest 'coreless winter' on
record — the -60.6C (-77F) set back in 1976 (solar
It's
time the mainstream media stopped LYING to the public A Public Health
England report released Thursday September 23rd shows that 77% of
Covid-19 deaths between August 23rd and September 19th 2021 were among
the vaccinated population, with 73% of the deaths being among the fully
vaccinated, and 4% of the deaths being among the partly vaccinated. Yet
the mainstream media continues to blatantly
Swedish
health authorities on Wednesday suspended the use of Moderna's COVID-19
vaccine for those ages 30 and under, saying the move was done out of
precaution. The reason for the pausing is "signals of an increased risk
of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the
pericardium" — the double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots
of the main vessels, Sweden's Public Health
Oct 08
Prominent
physician Dr. Peter McCullough recently provided a well-documented
lecture on the "catastrophe" of COVID-19 "gene-transfer" vaccines, the
"loaded weapon" of the spike protein they produce, and the high
effectiveness early treatments. He also detailed the malfeasance, fraud,
and conflicts-of-interest committed by U.S. medical officials.
McCullough, who has made the case that he is the wor
Oct 05
September
29, 2021, YouTube banned and deleted our channel, and the channels of
several others, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for violating its
community guidelines. This despite the fact that much of our content has
been up for over a decade and never had any complaints from YouTube. As
you will see below, this is a blatant example of how government,
technocratically-led nongovernmental organi
Canadian
military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out
propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released
Canadian Forces report concludes. The federal government never asked for
the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet
authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the
Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed b
Heavy
rain has battered a northwest region of Italy bordering France and
caused flooding and mudslides. No casualties were reported. The hardest
hit city in Liguria on Monday was Savona on the coast. Towns in the
region's hilly interior also suffered flooding and landslides as some
streams overflowed banks. A bridge collapsed in the town of Quiliano.
And Italian news reports said the COVID-19 vacc
Oct 04
Sen.
Rand Paul rebuked Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra
yesterday over vaccine mandates ordered by the Biden administration at
the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing
yesterday. Paul attacked Becerra on two crucial issues. First, he
criticized Becerra's description of those advocating natural immunity as
"flat earthers." Second, he emphatically chal
A
Yahoo News' investigation reveals that, through much of 2017, the CIA
weighed up whether to use wholly extrajudicial means to deal with the
supposed threat posed by Julian Assange and his whistleblowers' platform
Wikileaks. The agency plotted either to kidnap or assassinate him.
Shocking as the revelations are - exposing the entirely lawless approach
of the main US intelligence agency - the Yaho
Contrary
to the MSM's agenda-driven narrative, the South Pole has been suffering
unprecedented cold this year. Between the months of April and
September, the South Pole averaged a temperature of -61.1C (-78F).
Simply put, this was the region's coldest 6-month spell ever recorded,
and it comfortably usurped the previous coldest 'coreless winter' on
record — the -60.6C (-77F) set back in 1976 (solar
Oct 03
A
specter is haunting the world: the increasing prospect of a new
totalitarianism. Unlike the specter of communism, this specter
originates from those in power and not from underground revolutionaries —
although communism may always be an undertaking of elites. Rather than
haunting only Europe, this specter casts its long shadow across the
future of all humanity, such that one wonders how one migh
The
Vatican will begin requiring employees to get vaccinated or submit to
regular coronavirus testing starting this Friday, the city-state
announced Tuesday, according to reports. There is no exemption at the
moment and those without proof of vaccination or a negative test will be
considered "unjustly absent" and won't be paid, the Washington Post
reported. Pope Francis was vaccinated in January a
Marine
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, the officer who went viral for blasting the
military's leadership amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, has
been sent to the brig, according to a report. "All our son did is ask
the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too
scared to speak out loud," Scheller's father, Stu Scheller Sr., told
Task & Purpose. "He was asking for account
Dozens
of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of Los Angeles and New York face
shocking wait times of up to four weeks and railyards and trucking
routes are hopelessly clogged due to the lack of manpower to unload
goods - with an expert warning that the government needs to intervene or
face spiraling inflation and unemployment. The backlog of billions of
dollars of toys, clothing, electronics, veh
Oct 01
This
isn't an overreaction to Gates' latest foray into the news cycle. It's
an observation based on a long pattern of statements and behavior by the
founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men who has ever lived
which, were any of us normal people guilty of them, would result in our
being institutionalized. Bill Gates is crazy. And he's dangerous,
because he's willing to put untold sums of mon
The
Biden administration has included a vaccine enforcement mechanism in
the $3.5 trillion, 2,465-page 'Build Back Better Bill' which will enable
the government to enforce fines on employers whose employees do not get
the vaccine. The mechanism, buried on page 168 of the Democrats'
'reconciliation' spending bill, will allow a tenfold increase in fines
for businesses with 100 or more employees that
Comment:
On September 24, 2021, an anonymous group published the following
document about COVID-19 which was shared on Twitter by Dr. Robert Malone
and is now doing the rounds on social media. It outlines complete
disease function, treatment (and mistreatment), and goes on to show how
the subsequent handling of the outbreak is not just criminal but a
criminal conspiracy of enormous magnitude. This
Sep 30
The
Biden administration has included a vaccine enforcement mechanism in
the $3.5 trillion, 2,465-page 'Build Back Better Bill' which will enable
the government to enforce fines on employers whose employees do not get
the vaccine. The mechanism, buried on page 168 of the Democrats'
'reconciliation' spending bill, will allow a tenfold increase in fines
for businesses with 100 or more employees that
The
Vatican will begin requiring employees to get vaccinated or submit to
regular coronavirus testing starting this Friday, the city-state
announced Tuesday, according to reports. There is no exemption at the
moment and those without proof of vaccination or a negative test will be
considered "unjustly absent" and won't be paid, the Washington Post
reported. Pope Francis was vaccinated in January a
The
life expectancy of American men dropped by more than two years during
the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found. Oxford University said in
the study published Monday that the life expectancy among men fell by
2.2 years in 2020, the largest drop since World War II, according to
Reuters. Life expectancy fell by more than six months compared to 2019
for 22 of the 29 countries analyzed for the
We
get a lot of e-mails and private messages along these lines "do you
have a source for X?" or "can you point me to mask studies?" or "I know I
saw a graph for mortality, but I can't find it anymore". And we
understand, it's been a long 18 months, and there are so many statistics
and numbers to try and keep straight in your head. So, to deal with all
these requests, we decided to make a bullet-po
Sep 29
Months
before COVID19 was sprung onto the world, warnings of a "financial
Armageddon" and calls for a "global hegemonic synthetic currency" were
being made by leading figures running the WEF and Bank of England. These
statements had been made by former and current Bank of England
Governors Mark Carney and Mervyn King respectively and should not be
ignored as the world sits atop the largest financi
Sep 27
Former
JCU Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says the Great Barrier Reef is now
experiencing "record high coral cover". "This is data that's been
accumulated over a little while now and it shows ... it's actually at
record high coral cover," he told Sky News Australia. "We've got more
coral on the Great Barrier Reef now than we did when records began in
1985. "We've got twice as much coral as we had aft
In
2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador's
embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder,
spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the
legality and practicality of such an operation. Some senior officials
inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing
Assange, going so far as to request "sketches" or "optio
With
the terrorist-fighting government of Mali in talks with a private
Russian military firm, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told
Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov to bluntly stay out of Africa, allegedly
calling it "our place." The modern EU bureaucracy may seem light years
away from the rapacious colonial powers of olden Europe, but geopolitics
seemingly still reigns in Brussels, with the fight t
Sep 24
The
British prime minister is seeking to fashion himself as a switched-on
leader on climate change - but isn't it all just more hot air and
bluster from one of the world's biggest confidence tricksters? Boris
Johnson was doing his best Greta Thunberg impression at the United
Nations yesterday. According to BoJo, we have been acting like a
16-year-old and "it's time for humanity to grow up." Intere
Sep 22
Well,
then I might as well address it. I am talking about this whole AUKUS
affair and France losing huge contact on submarines for Royal Australian
Navy. At this stage I am not interested in technical minutiae of this
whole scandal, because it is useless anyway to concentrate on technical
details of something which may change many times before, and if, it
comes to fruition. I am, however, as alway
The
Taliban's lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan last month put Iran in
a very difficult position. On the one hand, the Islamic Republic has
traditionally been opposed to the self-declared "Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan" (IEA), especially after some of its members killed Iranian
diplomats in 1998 and the group's prior rule of the country saw it
oppressing the Shiite minority. On the other han
In
the wake of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary
of the mass murders of September 11, 2001, the corporate mainstream and
alternative media have been replete with articles analyzing the
consequences of 9/11 that resulted in the US invasion of Afghanistan and
its alleged withdrawal after two decades of war. These critiques have
ranged from mild to harsh, and have covered is
The
state of Victoria, Australia, was shaken by its biggest onshore
earthquake in recorded history on 22 September. Some buildings were
damaged but no one was seriously hurt. The magnitude 5.9 earthquake
struck at 9:15am local time, according to Geoscience Australia. The
epicentre was in the Alpine National Park about 120 kilometres east of
Melbourne, at a shallow depth of around 10 kilometres. Pe
An
earthquake has caused damage in Melbourne in an unusually powerful
shake for Australia. The magnitude 5.9 quake hit 80 miles northeast of
Australia's second-most populous city near the town of Mansfield at a
depth of six miles, Geoscience Australia said. While there was some
damage to buildings, there were no serious injuries, authorities said.
Images showed damage to brickwork in Chapel Street
Sep 21
After
three years of a fragile ceasefire and a campaign of assassinations of
Syrian government 'loyalists' by embedded fundamentalist armed groups,
the Syrian flag has once more been raised in Daraa Al Balad. Western
media persists in portraying the emergence of extremist armed groups in
Daraa, south of Damascus, as the "cradle of the revolution" to overthrow
the Syrian government. The reality is
Comment:
They're so supremely confident these days, unassailable in their
position as 'Rulers of the World', that they can gloat about their
crimes... Iran's top nuclear scientist woke up an hour before dawn, as
he did most days, to study Islamic philosophy before his day began. That
afternoon, he and his wife would leave their vacation home on the
Caspian Sea and drive to their country house in A
The
world is watching in horror as Covid chaos unfolds on the streets Down
Under, with heavy-handed elite police piling in on lockdown protestors
using an arsenal of weapons that would be the envy of any authoritarian
regime. The online images are all too familiar: helmeted and masked
police in body armour with batons held high, clubbing protestors lying
on the ground as incapacitating pepper smok
Pfizer
admits Israel is the great COVID-19 vaccine experiment According to a
recent Israeli news report, which I posted on Twitter1 September 13,
2021, Pfizer admits it's treating Israel as a unique "laboratory" to
assess COVID jab effects. Whatever happens in Israel can reliably be
expected to happen everywhere else as well, some months later. In other
words, the Israeli population is one giant t
MELBOURNE
DYSTOPIA Melbourne has spent 228 days in lockdown since since March
2020. The state is set to notch up a grim world record for the most days
spent under stay-at-home laws when it passes Buenos Aires on September
23. People have lost everything, and the past 12 months have seen
unprecedented shifts. Yet, despite spending more time in lockdown than
most of the world, citizens of Melbourne
Like
most people in the developed world, Kirsten Gjesdal had long taken for
granted her ability to order whatever she needs and then watch the goods
arrive, without any thought about the factories, container ships and
trucks involved in delivery. Not anymore. At her kitchen supply store in
Brookings, S.D., Ms. Gjesdal has given up stocking place mats, having
wearied of telling customers that she c
Surging
energy prices in Europe are hurting more than just consumers. The price
spikes have started to hit industrial activities, threatening to deal a
blow to the post-COVID recovery in European economies with a triple
whammy of reduced consumer purchasing power, lower industrial
production, and higher operating costs. Giant European firms, from
chemicals and mining to the food sector, say sky-hi
The
UK's meat industry has warned that problems regarding the supply of CO2
could halt production in coming weeks with some firms reporting as
little as five-days' supply of the gas used to stun animals before
slaughter. Speaking to Sky News on Monday, Nick Allen of the British
Meat Processors Association told Sky News that the UK was just weeks
away from seeing British-produced meat start to disa
Global
shipping costs are reaching rarely seen levels, putting strain on
logistics teams and product purchasers alike. Here's a closer look at
some of the reasons for this phenomenon. Worsening Container Delays
Create Bidding Wars Port backups were among the issues of the early days
of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, they persist now, limiting the
number of containers each port can efficient
Europe
is bracing for a difficult winter, having turned to weather-dependent
sources of energy like wind and solar power over fossil fuels while
natural gas storages have run low. "It could get very ugly unless we act
quickly to try to fill every inch of storage. You can survive a week
without electricity, but you can't survive without gas," Marco Alvera,
CEO of Italian energy infrastructure compa
Europe's
soaring energy markets are exposing the risk of power blackouts this
winter, especially if freezing weather worsens the region's already
exceptionally low natural gas inventories, according to Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. While higher gas prices can trigger supply and demand
adjustments to offset the tight market, these are largely already priced
in, Goldman analysts including Samantha Dart s
Milley
colluded with China, our chief military rival, to undercut the elected
president of the United States There's something about the term "deep
state" that sounds paranoid, even nutty. As of just a few years ago, you
mostly heard the phrase from relics on the far-left, the kind of people
who lecture you about the United Fruit Company and the toppling of
Mosaddegh. The term,
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