Puppet MastersS


Bad Guys

WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named 'Mu' that appears resistant to vaccines


France24
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:10 UTC
coronavirus
The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January 2021.

Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a "variant of interest", the global health body said Tuesday in its weekly pandemic bulletin.

The WHO said the variant has mutations that indicate a risk of resistance to vaccines and stressed that further studies were needed to better understand it.

"The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape," the bulletin said.
Read More...
Eye 2

Report says US 'negotiated secret arrangement with Taliban' to help get some Americans to Kabul airport

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:08 UTC
Airport Kabul
© U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Isaiah CampbellEvacuees wait to board a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 23.
The Biden administration reportedly worked out a previously undisclosed arrangement with Taliban extremists to help bring U.S. citizens to the airport in Kabul.

"The U.S. military negotiated a secret arrangement with the Taliban that resulted in Taliban members escorting groups of Americans to the gates of the Kabul airport as they sought to escape Afghanistan," CNN reported.
"The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the arrangements, which have not been disclosed until now because the US was concerned about Taliban reaction to any publicity as well as the threat of attacks from ISIS-K if its operatives had realized Americans were being escorted in groups."
The Taliban allegedly escorted some Americans a few times a day from a staging area near the airport to a gate that was manned by U.S. forces. U.S. forces were able to watch some of the escorts take place.

Comment: Biden's administration has gone on as it began, in confusion and chaos. All according to a larger plan?

Read More...
Arrow Down

Putin calls it: US has nothing to show for two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, despite efforts to impose Washington's own values

Rachel Lloyd
RT
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:55 UTC
US soldiers evacuate afghanistan bagram
© Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesUS Army soldiers walk to their C-17 cargo plane for departure May 11, 2013 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the crisis in Afghanistan is of Washington's making, arguing that efforts to reform the country have failed and saying the global community must now work together to prevent tragedy.

In a meeting with students on Wednesday, Putin criticized what he said amounted to the US' mishandling of its presence in Afghanistan, which ended abruptly in August when the Taliban took the capital, Kabul.

"The result is one tragedy, one loss... American troops were present in this region, and for twenty years they tried to civilize people, and to introduce their own norms and standards of life in the broadest sense... including in the political organization of society," he continued. "The result is zero, if not to say that it is negative."

Comment: Russia has been consistent in its message that peace will only be possible with respectful dialogue, not the imposition of one group's views over another.

Read More...
Bad Guys

Biden takes 'responsibility' for disastrous Afghanistan withdraw, spins mission as 'extraordinary success'

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:07 UTC
Biden head down
President Biden, in a defiant address to the nation Tuesday, defended his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan and shouldered full "responsibility" for the move -- while also blaming former President Trump and the Afghan security forces for the crisis leading to the Taliban takeover of the country.

The president, from the White House Tuesday, addressed the nation just a day after the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan, marking an end to America's longest war.

The president touted one of the "biggest airlifts in history," noting more than 120,000 individuals were airlifted to safety from Kabul, saying that "no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history," calling the mission an "extraordinary success."

The president described the rush to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies as a mission of "mercy." But he also noted the terrible toll.
Read More...
Attention

Best of the Web: July transcript reveals Biden pressured Afghan President Ghani to create 'perception' Taliban wasn't winning 'WHETHER TRUE OR NOT'

Rob Crilly & Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:21 UTC

Comment: This is exactly the thing they impeached Trump for!!!


Joe Biden President Ashraf Ghani
President Joe Biden wanted the now-departed Afghan president to create the 'perception' that his government was capable of holding off the Taliban - an indication he knew it was only a matter of time before the US ally fell to the Islamic group even while reassuring Americans at home that it would not happen.

In the last phone call between Biden and his Afghan then-counterpart Ashraf Ghani, the American president said they needed to change perceptions of the Taliban's rapid advance 'whether it is true or not,' according to excerpts published on Tuesday.

The call took place on July 23 - weeks before the fall of Kabul - but Biden on Tuesday repeated his assertion that his team was caught flat-footed by the rapid Taliban takeover of the country.

Comment:


Read More...
Eye 1

RAF prepared to attack Afghanistan despite western withdrawal, officer says

Sam Hancock
Independent
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:37 UTC
Afghanistan RAF
© MoD/Reuters
The RAF is prepared to launch air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan - if the situation presents itself, according to a senior officer.

It comes after the terror network's Afghan offshoot, Isis-K, claimed responsibility for the attack on Kabul airport, which was carried out on Thursday and killed two Britons, the child of a British national, as well as 13 US service personnel and hundreds of Afghan civilians.


Comment: Except it seems that not only did the Pentagon know about the upcoming attack, a significant number of those who died did so as a result of gunfire coming from the US side: Who profits from the Kabul suicide bombing?


While the international community appears to have accepted the reality of Taliban rule, the UK and US remain willing to take on Islamic State, also known as Daesh.

Comment: Similar comments were made by the UK's defence minister back in April, that it 'reserved the right to attack the ungoverned spaces', so clearly they had this option in mind even before the shameful events of the withdrawal.

It's unlikely that the West is going to leave Afghanistan alone anytime soon - it's a critical node in China's Belt & Road Initiative after all - but it has sufficient nefarious resources at its disposal that it doesn't necessarily need to wage an open war: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?



Read More...
Info

Biden Administration launches civil-rights probes against five states over mask-mandate bans

Caroline Downey
National Review
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:41 UTC
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
© Jonathan Ernst/ReutersU.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona addresses the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021.
After President Biden gave the cue to Education Secretary Cardona, the Department of Education has launched civil-rights probes against five Republican-led states that banned mask mandates in public institutions.

"The Department has heard from parents from across the country - particularly parents of students with disabilities and with underlying medical conditions - about how state bans on universal indoor masking are putting their children at risk and preventing them from accessing in-person learning equally," Cardona said in a press release.

OCR will investigate whether the states in question have violated Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which deal with discrimination.

Comment: See also:

Read More...
MIB

Best of the Web: 'I was recruited by UK intelligence to spy on ISIS and got thrown under the bus' - claims ex-militant awaiting trial in Dagestan


RT
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:49 UTC
Azamat Ayvazov
© RTAzamat Ayvazov claims he was recruited by the UK special services to spy on ISIS militants in Syria but was then abandoned there.
A former ISIS militant, awaiting trial in Russia, claims he had been recruited by UK agents to spy on the terrorist group. The man told RT he ended up fighting in the terrorists' ranks, allegedly, after being abandoned in Syria.

Azamat Ayvazov, 33, who is in a pre-trial facility in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, gave an exclusive interview to RT's Ilya Petrenko, who became interested in the unusually talkative ex-militant's side of the story.

The man claims that ending up in the ranks of the notorious terrorist group was never his intention, and instead holds himself to be a victim of "geopolitical games."

Ayvazov left Russia some 10 years ago, gaining refugee status in the UK. Following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, he ended up on the radar of the British secret services, as they allegedly screened "Muslim-looking" individuals.

Comment: Terroristic organizations like ISIS/ISIL, Al-Qaeda, and many others are created, financed and commanded by the PTB through the Intelligence agencies. They need them, so they can cause terror and fear among the population.

They represent the secret unofficial army and they are using it to strip the basic human rights of the targeted population, to invade and destroy countries that oppose them, and to globally install totalitarian police state.

But don't worry. They are doing it for our own good.

See also:

Read More...
Bomb

Best of the Web: Pentagon knew about Kabul suicide bombing 'hours in advance,' report claims, but troops on the ground say they weren't protected


RT
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:48 UTC
kabul bombing casualties troops coffins
© AP Photo / Manuel Balce CenetaA Marine Corps team handles the remains of US troops killed in a suicide attack near Kabul airport at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, August 29, 2021.
US military leaders knew in advance that a "mass casualty event" was planned at Kabul airport, a Politico report reveals. However, accounts from the troops in harm's way suggest that nothing was done.

A suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last Thursday killed more than 150 people, including 13 American troops. The bombing provoked the US into launching two drone strikes, one targeting an alleged "planner" and "facilitator" with the group responsible, and another supposedly wiping out "multiple" would-be suicide bombers but reportedly annihilating a family and children alongside them.

The initial bombing didn't take US officials by surprise. The US embassy in Kabul had warned Americans to stay away from the airport due to "security threats" and, in the hours before the suicide attack, Pentagon leaders held a conference call to prepare for an imminent "mass casualty event," according to a Politico report on Monday.

Comment: See also:

Read More...
Broom

'War is over - Taliban won': Final US flight leaves Kabul airport, ending Afghanistan airlift


RT
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:11 UTC
Airport Kabul
© U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Isaiah CampbellEvacuees wait to board a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 23.
The last three US military transport planes have departed the Hamid Karzai Airport just ahead of the August 31 deadline, officially ending the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has confirmed.

The last C-17 Globemaster transport lifted off from Kabul at 3:29pm East Coast time, General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the CENTCOM officially announced on Monday, calling it "the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan."

With the last US military flight departed, McKenzie said every single US service member had now left Afghanistan. However, he acknowledged that the US did not manage to evacuate everyone it wanted to.

Comment: Foreign troops may be out of the country, but we can be sure that the war on Afghanistan is not over: Pepe Escobar: Blowback: The Taliban target US intel's shadow army

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?



Read More...