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Kamala Harris cancels plans to campaign for CA Dem Governor Newsom in recall election

Martin Walsh
Conservative Brief
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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© Evelyn Hockstein/APUS VP Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris has canceled plans to travel to California to campaign for Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom in his recall election.

Harris canceled her plans after a terrorist attack was carried out on Thursday in Afghanistan that resulted in nearly a dozen American servicemembers being killed as well as dozens of Afghans.

Harris, a former senator from California, had planned to campaign for Newsom on Friday but will return back to Washington, D.C., after her brief trip to Asia. KTLA 5 reported:
"Newsom is facing a recall election on Sept. 14 to decide whether he will stay in office or be replaced by another candidate, with conservative talk radio host Larry Elder leading a sprawling field of potential replacements in recent polls."
Joe Biden was to meet with a bipartisan group of governors across the United States who approached the White House to help resettle Afghans fleeing the country, which was taken over by the Taliban. He was also set to have his first in-person meeting with Israel's new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett.

Both meetings have been canceled after four U.S. Marines were killed in explosions that claimed numerous other casualties in Kabul.

Comment: With no shortage on diplomatic chaos, the State Department backpedals. To be fair, none of the US agencies involved in Afghanistan are exempt, but choice is choice and there is no upside:
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Moscow meddling bad, Western interference good: Ahead of next month's Russian elections hypocrisy is on full view...again

Glenn Diesen
RT
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:21 UTC
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© Russia AFP/Olga MaltsevaVoting in Saint Petersburg
In recent years, the media has become obsessed with purported Russian interference in US elections. While the claims turned out to be entirely unsubstantiated, the West itself openly engages in efforts to influence votes abroad.

The difference is that when America or its allies do it, it's called "promoting democracy." Now, a campaign to undermine the legitimacy of Russia's parliamentary elections, due to be held next month, is explicitly linked to power politics. Any criticism of that approach, however, is denounced as an attack on democratic values themselves, in the wordplay used to legitimise the meddling.

Regime change

The US has a track record in this area. Washington has openly bragged about interfering in the 1996 Russian election to preserve Boris Yeltsin's hold on power and keep out the Communists once and for all. However, its playbook is different when Washington wants to kick out the incumbent government rather than keep it in. A large apparatus for social engineering is unleashed under the guise of supporting "civil society" and democracy promotion in foreign countries.
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America must deal with '2 peer opponents' for first time now that Russia & China are cooperating militarily - US Strategic Command head

Jonny Tickle
RT
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:33 UTC
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The close military cooperation between Russia and China is cause for great concern, and the authorities in Washington must seriously reconsider its current strategy of "containment" towards the two large Eurasian superpowers.

That's according to Admiral Charles Richard, the commander of United States Strategic Command, who spoke in an online forum discussion with the Hudson Institute.

According to Richard, the US has never before "faced two peer opponents" with nuclear weapons and high-technology systems, noting that China's rapid progression in nuclear, space, and cyber technologies means that Washington must think carefully about its next steps. In particular, Richard stated that China, unlike the US and Russia, is not constrained by treaties regarding its nuclear forces.


Comment: It may be true that China isn't constrained by any Western treaties, however it is creating a new order with Russia where it no doubt will sign up to numerous similar commitments, moreover China has shown itself to be a much more responsible and trustworthy player on the world stage than the US. Further, despite the US supposedly being constrained by numerous treaties and laws, that rarely constrains it from destabilizing world peace, and it does so by either unilaterally withdrawing or outright ignoring them, knowing that it will almost never be taken to task.


Comment: It's because of the West's impotence in the face of the might and ingenuity of Russia and China that the deep state in the US, Britain, Israel, et al, that the favoured strategy is now hybrid warfare. It's also looking increasingly like the focus of the security state is actually targeting their population at home: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Chaos Biden's Bay of Pigs?



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War pimp Panetta says 'we'll have to go back go Afghanistan' to get ISIS now, after Kabul bombing


RT
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 17:45 UTC
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Leon Panetta, one in a host of voices of the US national security establishment objecting to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, says Joe Biden will have to "go back in" to deliver on a pledge to avenge the deaths of troops in Kabul.

Panetta, who headed the CIA between 2009 and 2011 before moving to replace Robert Gates at the helm of the Pentagon, went on CNN to predict a forever war on terrorism in America's forceable future, including in Afghanistan.

"I understand that we're trying to get our troops out of there. But the bottom line is we can leave a battlefield, but we can't leave the war on terrorrism, which still is a threat to our security," he told the OutFront program.


The Obama-era official was commenting on President Joe Biden's promise to go after the Afghan branch of terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), which claimed credit for the Thursday bomb attacks in Kabul. The bombings claimed dozens of lives, including 13 US soldiers. Panetta said Biden was right to promise to retaliate against the people who orchestrated the bombings, and that pledge may require him to act against his withdrawal plan.
We're gonna have to go back in to get ISIS. We'll probably have to go back in, when Al-Qaeda resurrects itself - as they will with this Taliban [government].
The Taliban has been promising to deny access to Afghanistan territory under its control to international terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda, as the Islamist militant movement seeks international recognition of its power in the country. Taliban fighters, who were guarding the perimeter of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, were among the victims of the Thursday attack.

Comment: The fact that a total non-entity like Panetta amounts to anything in this world is a testament to the selection process at work in American politics.

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CENTCOM commander reveals US intelligence-sharing operation with Taliban

Isaac Schorr
National Review
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:38 UTC
Kenneth McKenzie
© Yuri Gripas/ReutersU.S. Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie Jr. briefs the media at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., March 13, 2020.
General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the United States Central Command, revealed an intelligence-sharing operation between the U.S. and Taliban on Thursday at a Department of Defense briefing, just hours after attacks at Hamid Karzai International Airport killed at least twelve U.S. service members and 60 Afghan civilians.

According to McKenzie, the Taliban and U.S. share a "common purpose" of finishing the ongoing evacuation mission by August 31.

"As long as we've kept that common purpose aligned, they've been useful to work with," said the general.

McKenzie said he didn't believe the Taliban intentionally allowed Thursday's attacks to occur, but conceded he didn't know for sure.

Nevertheless McKenzie said the U.S. has been sharing "versions of this information [regarding threats to the airport] with the Taliban so that they can actually do some searching out there for us," though he stipulated that the U.S. "cuts down" the intelligence before handing it over to the Taliban. He also said that the U.S. "thinks" attacks have already been "thwarted" by the terror group that the U.S. deposed from power in 2001. The intelligence-sharing program has been in effect since August 14, McKenzie said.


Comment: According to the Taliban, they were the ones to initially warn the Americans about the imminent attack.


Some experts have criticized the Biden administration for not expanding the perimeter around the airport and instead entrusting the Taliban to secure the area.
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Snowden: The all-seeing "i": Apple just declared war on your privacy

Edward Snowden
edwardsnowden.substack.com
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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"Under His Eye," she says. The right farewell. "Under His Eye," I reply, and she gives a little nod.

By now you've probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth's proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15⁠ — almost certainly in mid-September⁠ — with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets. We're told that other countries will be spared, but not for long.

You might have noticed that I haven't mentioned which problem it is that Apple is purporting to solve. Why? Because it doesn't matter.

Having read thousands upon thousands of remarks on this growing scandal, it has become clear to me that many understand it doesn't matter, but few if any have been willing to actually say it. Speaking candidly, if that's still allowed, that's the way it always goes when someone of institutional significance launches a campaign to defend an indefensible intrusion into our private spaces. They make a mad dash to the supposed high ground, from which they speak in low, solemn tones about their moral mission before fervently invoking the dread spectre of the Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse, warning that only a dubious amulet — or suspicious software update — can save us from the most threatening members of our species.
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Taliban claims 'no proof' ever offered that Osama bin Laden was involved in 9/11 attacks

Ben Wolfgang
Washington Times
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:53 UTC
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© AP Photo / Mazhar Ali KhanOsama bin Laden in 1998 file photo from his hideout in Afghanistan.
Taliban leaders tried to rewrite history this week, arguing that there is "no proof" longtime al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was involved with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In an interview with NBC News that aired Wednesday night, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid mostly deflected questions about whether the Islamist group can and will guarantee that Afghanistan won't be used as a base of operations for terrorist organizations moving forward.

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France 'will not back down' from sanctioning unvaccinated care-workers; boosters will be given to aged in September


RT
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:26 UTC
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© AFP / Pascal GUYOT; AFP / Pascal GUYOTVaccine protest in Montpellier. (R) A vaccine clinic in Montpellier.
France's prime minister has confirmed that Covid booster shots for the elderly and care-home residents will begin next month, and that the government will impose sanctions on caregivers who are not vaccinated by September 15.

Speaking to French media outlet RTL on Thursday, Prime Minister Jean Castex clarified the dates for the next phase of the country's vaccination campaign, which is poised to launch next month for "the most vulnerable members" of the public.

Comment: Why such hurry? Covid has been proven over and over to be a relatively mild illness. Even in those with co-morbidities, the prognosis can still be positive. There is something suspicious about the contradictions and yet lockstep actions of so many countries.

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Ruling class increasingly calls upon the private sector to make lives of the "unvaccinated" difficult

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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Terry McAuliffe
Is anyone sick of being ruled and owned yet? The ruling class is not letting up and increasingly calling upon businesses in the private sector to help them roll out the permanent slave state.

They aren't even trying to hide the fact that they want to own us, our bodies, and our minds at this point. Gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe is just one of the tyrants calling on businesses to mandate Covid-19 vaccines after promoting efforts to make the lives of those who are unvaccinated more "difficult." Joe Biden has already tried this play right out of the slave owner's handbook:

The Ruling Class Urges Businesses To Mandate COVID Vaccines For Employment

It's like these rulers know they cannot do this alone. The slaves have to help them and sadly, all too many are all too ready to help make this planet a permanent prison. This only gets worse though as more people start to figure out what's really going on.
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If Britain violates Russian territorial waters again, Moscow's forces will make things 'much more difficult,' ambassador warns

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:25 UTC
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© Reuters / Sergey SmolentsevFILE PHOTO. British Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender arrives at the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine June 18, 2021.
Moscow's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Andrey Kelin, has warned London that there will be consequences in the event of a repeat of the incident in June when a British ship crossed into Russian territorial waters near Crimea.

Speaking to state broadcaster the BBC, Kelin urged Britain not to try the same maneuver again, suggesting that the Kremlin would not hesitate to order decisive action to protect its sovereignty. He explained that the Russian Navy would make it "more difficult" for a repeat incident to happen.

On June 23, the British warship HMS Defender purposely violated Russia's territorial waters, crossing three kilometers (two miles) over the border near Cape Fiolent, on the Crimean Peninsula. While Moscow described the incident as breaking the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, London said the boat had passed peacefully through Ukrainian waters. Following the incident, the British ambassador in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Comment: Britain wouldn't stand a chance, and it knows it, that's why it has to resort to such petty antagonistic games. But the increasing incursions along the borders of, and into territories belonging to, Russia and China, are notable, even if they do only reflect the impotence of the West:

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