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Trump: Remaining troops in Afghanistan should be home 'by Christmas'


RT
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:45 UTC
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© Reuters/Tom Brenner/PBSTrump and troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan November 28, 2019.
President Donald Trump has hinted that all US soldiers in Afghanistan could come home by Christmas, seemingly going against his own national security adviser, who said more than 2,000 troops would remain beyond the new year.

"We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!" Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening, exactly 19 years to the day after the US invasion of the country in 2001.

Though the missive did not indicate any shift in policy, the suggestion of a full withdrawal by the holiday is at odds with the timetable laid out by National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien just hours earlier on Wednesday, when he told an audience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that the administration would retain some 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan in early 2021.

Comment: 'Should be' and 'shall be' are two different promises.

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Arrow Down

'Undecided voters' at NBC-Biden town hall once told MSNBC they were voting for Biden...now not so much

Joe Concha
The Hill
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:39 UTC
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© NBC NewsPresidential candidate Joe Biden
An NBC town hall with Joe Biden billed as consisting only of "an audience of undecided Florida voters" included two Cuban American voters who told MSNBC in August they were voting for the former vice president, according to a Tuesday report in the Washington Free Beacon.

Moderator Lester Holt told viewers at the top of the broadcast on Monday night:
"Welcome to tonight's town hall, where we are surrounded by dozens of undecided voters and where Democratic candidate Joe Biden will answer our questions and make his case tonight."
One question at the event came from attorney Peter Gonzalez. Six weeks ago, Gonzalez told MSNBC on Aug. 23 that "if we get four more years of Trump, good luck, and good luck with the future attracting younger voters."

An MSNBC on-screen graphic read "Voting for Biden" underneath Gonzalez as he spoke. The network promoted Gonzalez's comments on its official Twitter and Facebook pages at the time.

Comment: Optics are more important to Biden's campaign than reality. Participants were 'swamped' with bias.

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Snakes in Suits

Turkey, Greece agree on talks, confidence building measures, Ankara says


Reuters
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 08:39 UTC
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© RavaTurkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu
Turkey and Greece agreed on confidence-building measures and holding bilateral exploratory talks after weeks of tensions in a dispute over maritime rights in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. He was speaking after meeting his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias for the first time since the dispute between Ankara and Athens flared up.

Speaking to state media after the Global Security Forum in Slovakia, Cavusoglu said Turkey would host the first round of exploratory talks once they resume, but that the two NATO members were working on setting a date.

Comment: The ongoing question was whether Turkey would risk a war with Greece by continuing to drill for oil and gas in Greek maritime waters without support in the EU - given a withdrawal would show that Ankara failed to produce an economic justification for its actions or a diplomatic solution to the territorial dispute.

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Bad Guys

The elite say too much democracy is undemocratic, but they just want to stop the 'wrong sort of people' winning elections

Frank Furedi
RT
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:07 UTC
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© Getty Images / Karanik Yimpat / EyeEm
Many in the establishment believe democracy has gone too far. But there is little to back up this line of thinking - it's simply a realisation that their opinions are being drowned out by populists.

'Democracy works better when there is less of it' warns Financial Times commenter Janan Ganesh. As far as he is concerned, "no global trend is better documented than the crisis of democracy," by which he means that too often people vote against the advice of the elites.

Ganesh joins the ranks of a small army of leader writers in the mainstream media who condemn democracy and the supposed stupidity of the electorate. "Too much democracy is bad for democracy" says a headline in The Atlantic. The Economist concurs and claims that "too much democracy threatens freedom."
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Light Saber

Trump will not 'waste my time' participating in virtual presidential debate with Biden

Mark Moore
The New York Post
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:55 UTC
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President Trump on Thursday said he won't "waste my time" participating in a virtual debate with former Vice President Joe Biden, responding to an announcement by the Commission on Presidential Debates that the candidates would be in remote locations for the contest next week.

"No, I'm not going to waste my time in a virtual debate," Trump said on Fox Business.

"That's not what debating is all about. You sit behind a computer and do ... and then they cut you off whenever they want," he continued.

He said the commission is trying to protect Biden.

The president said he just learned about the change in the format Thursday morning.
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Magic Wand

Kamala Harris' tacky dalliance with Elle leans into gender stereotypes to cover for her lack of appealing policies

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:45 UTC
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© Twitter / ELLE magazine
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris has graced the cover of a fashion magazine, complete with a platitude-laden interview. Can this hypocritical exploitation of her gender distract from her horrible record?

Harris appeared on the cover of the November issue of Elle, which featured an interview with the candidate "on the power of optimism." It's exactly as platitude-laden as that tagline suggests, and the writer even seems to tire of Harris' pandering, admitting "sometimes it does sound a little like Harris was raised inside a Hallmark card" - though she has no problem helping Harris bury her old image as a corrupt prosecutor, replacing it with that of a reformer. But worse than that, the slickly-produced cover package is taking advantage of an odious double-standard, one that is as sexist as the candidate's supporters claim her critics are.
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Gold Bar

Towards a new gold standard? Or a currency war with China?

Peter Koenig
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Chinese gold
Rumors have it that the remaining months of 2020 may bring drastic and explosive changes in the world's financial system. But such "doomsday" rumors have been floating around every beginning of fall during the last few years. Why? - The US dollar is getting weaker and weaker. It is not quite on a free fall, but still remains a major trading currency and a key world reserve currency. And for many economists that's difficult to understand.

However, it is unlikely that that the collapse of the dollar will come from one day to the next. That would not be good for the world economy, as still too many countries depend on the dollar.

Facts are,
  1. China's foreign exchange reserves have just increased to US$ 3.112 trillion equivalent, of which about US$ 1.3 trillion denominated in US-dollars - and in general forex-reserves continue to grow;
  2. Within short, possibly by the end of 2021, the Chinese yuan, or renminbi (RMB) could become the world's third largest reserve currency, after the US-dollar and the euro, surpassing the Japanese yen and the British pound, reported by CNBC;
  3. According to Morgan Stanley , at least 10 regulators (i.e. Central Banks and similar forex regulating institutions) added the yuan to their reserves in 2019, bringing the total to 70 - and rising;
  4. According to the FED, the US economy could lose in excess to one third of its GDP up to the end of 2020 or mid-2021, while China's economy is expected to grow by 1.3% (IMF) in 2020, and by China's own estimate up to 3.5%.

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Target

Joe Biden is the subject of federal criminal investigation into his role in Spygate and activities in Ukraine

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 13:34 UTC
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Joe Biden is now the subject of an active federal criminal investigation into his role in the CI probe directed at Trump's 2016 campaign.

Recall, Joe Biden was in a January 5, 2017 secret Oval Office meeting discussing General Flynn's phone calls with Russian Ambassador Kislyak with Obama, Yates, Comey, Rice and Brennan and 7 days later he sought to unmask Flynn.

Then-Vice President Joe Biden sought to unmask General Flynn on January 12, 2017 — the same day David Ignatius published his WaPo article about Flynn's communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

The criminal investigation into Biden also includes his actives in the Ukraine.

"Ukrainian witnesses are cooperating," says Paul Sperry.

Comment: Biden is clearly as corrupt as they come. But don't expect the 'never Trumpers' to believe it. Or even care.

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USA

Homeland Security report finds White supremacy 'the most consistent and lethal threat'

Stephanie Pagones
Fox News
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:12 UTC
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© AP Photo/Andrew SelskyIn this Sept. 7, 2020 photo, a protester carries a Proud Boys banner, symbol of a right-wing group, while other members start to unfurl a large U.S. flag in front of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore.
White supremacy extremism accounted for more fatal attacks than any other domestic violent extremist group since 2018.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security considers White supremacists and other "domestic violent extremists" as presenting "the most persistent and lethal threat" to the nation, the agency revealed in a report on Tuesday.

The DHS's "Homeland Threat Assessment" found that White supremacy extremism accounted for more fatal attacks in the U.S. than any other domestic violent extremist group since 2018, with eight of the 16 violent reported from 2018 through 2019. It also caused the majority of related deaths, with 39 of the 48, the report states.

Comment: Anyone paying attention knows that the vast majority of violence they see on their TV screens, or in their own neighborhoods, is not the result of 'white supremacists'. The anti-police sentiment behind Antifa and BLM is simply being blamed on a different bad guy. It's so transparent as to be laughable, but it remains to be seen whether or not the American public buys it.

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Bullseye

SOTT Focus: As Boris Johnson Announces Britain's 'Great Reset', Were The Covid 'Conspiracy Theorists' Right All Along?

Neil Clark
RT
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:32 UTC
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson
© Reuters / TOBY MELVILLEBritain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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 lockdowns were imposed and our lives were turned upside down.

Those 'conspiracy theorists' were denounced, as always, as 'cranks' and 'flat-Earthers' but here we are in October, and, let's face it, there is absolutely no sign, despite very low numbers of deaths 'with' Coronavirus, that we are returning to anything like normal. In fact, in his keynote speech yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson specifically ruled out a return to normal, not even with a vaccine.
"After all we have been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. We have lost too much. History teaches us that things of this magnitude - wars, famines, plagues, events that affect the vast bulk of humanity, as this virus has - they do not just come and go. They can be the trigger for economic and social change."
When I heard Johnson utter those words I thought, 'where have I heard this stuff before?' Well, the answer is in the book 'Covid-19: The Great Reset' by Klaus Schwab, the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, and Thierry Malleret. They too, like Johnson, invoked the Second World War as the trigger for fundamental changes, not only to the global order and global economy, but to society and the way human beings interact with one another. Like Johnson, they don't want to return to normal. "Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is never."

Instead, Schwab and Malleret want a world changed forever by a virus which they admit is only 'mild' compared to others in history. Covid-19 is seen as the catalyst for the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'.

Comment: What seems to be going on this year is that leaders like Johnson - familiar as they are with the rarefied atmosphere of elite transnational clubs like the Davos Set and the WEF - are, to one extent or another, 'in the know' about upcoming Earth Changes.

Some of them, certainly, are simply enjoying the power trip of telling everyone what to do, but it's our view that they must also have strong 'positive' motivations for embracing 'Covid-1984'. They're not idiots; they know that most of their 'subjects' are suffering, and they know that history shows that soon many if not most people will begin actively seeking - or at least tacitly supporting - the overthrow of government.

We suspect that the increasingly explicit linkage being made in the media between 'fighting the Covid' and 'saving the planet from climate change' speaks to the elites' awareness of major planetary upheaval coming down the pike.

'Boris' Johnson in his above speech mentioned one of the likely manifestations of this upheaval: plague. Not 'fake plague', as Covid-19 is, but actual, population-decimating plague - which, he correctly referenced, is a recurring historical phenomenon.

Then there's the current daily pinging of this planet by asteroids. The media reports incidents these, quietly, but it's safe to say that this is being watched very closely by the powerful. Finally, the elites are probably aware that 'climate change' always culminates in sudden-onset ice age conditions.

Heck, we've been aware of and warning about this 'macro-scenario' for the last two decades. But in their circles, they prefer to keep this quiet. They want people to 'stay home', 'keep quiet' and comply because they have 'a plan' to 'guide civilization' through this 'transition'.

The question everyone has to ask themselves then is: on the basis of government policy thus far into the 'Great Upheaval/Reset', do you trust them to have ordinary people's best interests at heart?

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