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Directed mass migration: UK discloses secret settlement plan for thousands of Afghans

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© Stephen Chung/ZUMAPRESS/picture allianceThe secret resettlement program was set up after a data leak compromised the identities of thousands of Afghans applying for relocation to the UK
The United Kingdom has secretly resettled thousands of Afghans who worked with British forces, the British government revealed on Tuesday.

The secret relocation scheme followed a 2022 data leak on their identities, sparking fears for their safety from the Taliban government.

What did the UK government say?

Defence Minister John Healey unveiled the scheme to parliament.

"This was a serious departmental error," Healey said, in reference to the data leak, adding that "lives may have been at stake."

The previous Conservative government put in place a secret program to help those "judged to be at the highest risk of reprisals by the Taliban," he said.

The program later became known as the Afghan Response Route. Under it, some 900 Afghans and 3,600 family members have either been brought to Britain or are currently in transit.

Eye 1

Manhattan prosecutor who handled Epstein cases is fired

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© Ted Shaffrey/Associated PressMaurene Comey, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, was fired on Wednesday.
Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maurene Comey, a Manhattan federal prosecutor who worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was abruptly fired on Wednesday by the Trump administration, according to six people with knowledge of the matter.

Though the reason for Ms. Comey's firing was not immediately clear, her dismissal immediately raised questions, given her involvement in the Epstein-related cases that have roiled the White House in recent days.

Ms. Comey was informed of her firing in a letter that cited Article II of the Constitution, which describes the powers of the president, according to two of the people.

Ms. Comey is also the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, an adversary of President Trump who has recently been under scrutiny by federal law enforcement authorities.

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Bullseye

Pete Hegseth bans Pentagon officials from infamous Aspen Security Forum

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© DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander KubitzaSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
Pentagon says Aspen Security Forum's values do not align with the US department of defence

Pete Hegseth has banned Pentagon officials from speaking at a security conference because it promotes "evil globalism".

Senior figures in the US defence department were set to speak at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado this week, following a tradition under both Democrat and Republican administrations.

However, Mr Hegseth, the US defence secretary, has blocked his department from taking part in the four-day event, which is hosted by the Aspen Institute think tank.

Kingsley Wilson, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told Just the News that Mr Hegseth's office believes it "promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the president of the United States".

Comment: The Aspen Security Forum is one of those elite gathering of those who think they know better than the peons, to wine, dine and commiserate how difficult their jobs are trying to run the world. Decades of bad ideas have incubated there.


Bizarro Earth

Documents contradict Australian government's claims over $900m deal with Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems

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© AAP/Lukas CochAustralia Defence Minister Richard Marles and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
The Albanese government claimed it had nothing to do with a $900 million contract with Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. It in fact directly signed it and closely vetted all stages of its engagement.

The federal government directly approved and signed off on the participation of Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems in a major Australian defence procurement — contrary to denials by defence ministers Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, documents obtained under freedom of information reveal.

Elbit Systems, a company deeply engaged in and profiting from Israel's genocide in Gaza, provided the drone used by the Israel Defense Forces to execute Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, along with six of her colleagues, in a deliberate and targeted attack on aid workers in April 2024.

Comment: Kinda looks like it.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: The Epstein Network, The Great Game, And Why We're All Hostages to The Devil

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Fallout from Trump's shock announcement that 'Epstein had no clients' continues, with the clamor for truth and justice from within his supporter base only growing. This week on NewsReal, we look at the meteoric and mythic rise of this ultra-wealthy 'money-manager', his obvious importance to Israeli interests, and note the impact mention of his very name is having on quelling dissent among Western leaders and influential people when it comes to speaking out about the genocide in Gaza, the single worst crime against humanity since WW2.


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MIB

Best of the Web: How MI6 helped Al Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seize Syria

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© Omar Haj Kadour / AFPHayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members at a camp in the countryside of the northern Idlib province on August 14, 2018
On May 12th, US ambassador to Syria 2011 - 2014 Robert Ford gave a talk to the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs. Over the course of his oratory, he issued a bombshell disclosure - in 2023, a British "non-governmental organisation" specialised in "conflict resolution" made him an extraordinary offer. They sought Ford's personal assistance in transforming - the Al Qaeda and ISIS-offshoot that now claims to rule Syria - from 'terrorists' into politicians.

The NGO was particularly interested in rebranding Ahmed Hussein Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad Jolani, who is now Syria's self-appointed President. Captured as a senior Al Qaeda commander in Mosul, Iraq in 2006, he was inexplicably released from US custody in 2011, just as the foreign-fomented Syrian "revolution" was brewing. Ford explained he met Sharaa on two separate occasions, first in September 2023, then in January 2024 after HTS had seized Damascus. Reportedly, he was completely unrepentant about his militant past:

Comment: Apparently MI6's de Bretton-Gordon was also busy in Ukraine. Britain is still addicted to the Great Game.


Target

'Betrayal of every American' - Barack Obama now squarely in Russiagate crosshairs

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© substack post media.s3.amazFormer US President Barak Obama
New disclosures from a Tulsi Gabbard-led working group point directly to the top, as the legacy of "Hope and Change" begins a plunge to the ocean floor...

As Matt Taibbi writes for Racket News, Barack Obama entered national politics with a smile that looked like Hope and Change. Amid rumors of family discord and disarray within the political party he once led, his face has hardened. He lately looks bitter, resentful, exhausted by the act.

In the wake of reports released by fellow Hawaiian and former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, he also has a new problem. It once seemed a lock that Obama would be remembered as the winsome hero of Shepard Fairey's portrait, but Gabbard's documents place him at the center of an unprecedented act of political sabotage, committed in his last Oval Office days as a humiliated lame-duck in the winter of 2016-2017. The new Director of National Intelligence is targeting Obama's legacy and maybe even his freedom, detailing a "treasonous conspiracy committed by officials at the highest level of our government," announcing that everyone involved "must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Red Flag

'Obvious similarity' between Ukraine and Nazi Germany - Medvedev

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© Ekaterina Shtukina/SputnikDeputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
Kiev is showing signs of dictatorship and economic degradation like the Third Reich before it fell, the former Russian president has said.

Ukraine bears similarities to the Nazi state at the end of World War II and should undergo "demilitarization,""denazification," and "democratization" in a manner similar to postwar Germany, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told TASS.

He spoke to the Russian news agency on Thursday, the 80th anniversary of the Potsdam Conference, which began on July 17, 1945. The conference was the last wartime meeting between leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It laid the groundwork for postwar Europe, including plans for Germany's demilitarization and denazification.

Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, explained that the concept of the "three D's" had originally been formulated for Nazi Germany, which he described as an aggressor state that had disrupted the international order, according to TASS.

"The 1945 Reich and modern Ukraine are, of course, very different - in scale, global role, and even (formally) in state ideology. But there is also obvious similarity."

Whistle

Tulsi Gabbard releases 'overwhelming evidence' of Obama coup plot against Trump

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© Getty Images/SOPA Images/ContributorUS Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
Declassified documents show top Obama-era officials overruled intelligence findings to manufacture the 'Russiagate' narrative, Gabbard says.

Former President Barack Obama's administration deliberately manipulated intelligence to frame Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, according to newly declassified documents released on Friday by America's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard unveiled more than 100 pages of emails, memos, and internal communications, which she described as "overwhelming evidence" of a coordinated effort by senior Obama-era officials to politicize intelligence and launch the multi-year Trump-Russia collusion investigation. She dubbed it "a treasonous conspiracy to subvert the will of the American people."

The scandal severely damaged relations between Moscow and Washington, leading to sanctions, asset seizures, and a breakdown in normal diplomacy.

Attention

So sad they think we're all so stupid

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What else could it be? The agenda and the goons running it have to believe that the people of the world are not only useless eaters, but as about as sharp as a bag of marbles.

This is very sad, but there is no other explanation for it.

Remember when you were a young idiot, say around 17 or so (just assuming a few of you were like me at that age — for the most part, an adolescent, immature, idiot). And you might get involved in some cruel joke with a less fortunate fellow idiot in your class.

I mean a kid who wasn't totally together, not really bad off (you would never do this to someone really bad off, I know I didn't), but just not as sharp as you or your cohorts. You would tease him (usually a "him"), yeah, that's what it was, innocent "teasing." And you and your buddies would laugh and laugh — you couldn't believe how naive this guy was.

He would believe anything, no matter how preposterous.

I always think of Anthony Fauci when this idea comes up. He must have gone home laughing every time he made one of his news briefs. "Now it might be a good idea to wear two masks!" Hilarious. "Can you believe that???" He probably exclaimed, "They bought that?" How f — ing stupid are these people?" That's sad. Very sad.

But tell me if you have a better explanation for the last five years. And before that as well. What else could it be?

I think at one time, way back when, they went through a bit of trouble to trick us. They had not yet had enough experience to know "the people" would buy, for a fact, anything they threw at them. They probably thought they had to go through some effort to make it at least somewhat believable. Look at the JFK assassination.