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Americans, Afghan commandos evacuated through secret CIA base outside Kabul

Celine Castronuovo
The Hill
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 21:02 UTC
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U.S. officials reportedly conducted a weeks-long mission last month that evacuated hundreds of American citizens, Afghan special forces and their family members through a secret CIA base outside of Kabul.

The New York Times first reported Wednesday that the CIA base was used in the U.S. military's ongoing evacuations last month, and Politico reported that based on documents and conversations with a senior administration official, a defense official and a congressional official, the mission included U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans, including Afghan commandos.


Comment: What about the Americans left outside the Kabul airport? What about the military dogs that were being held at the Kabul small animal rescue and were left behind?


A U.S. official, who like the others spoke to Politico on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, confirmed that the CIA was involved and "worked closely with other agencies to facilitate in various ways access to the airport for American citizens and Afghans at risk."
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Blue Planet

"Russia is our key partner": Vietnam proposes creation of free-trade zone between ASEAN & EAEU


RT
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:00 UTC
Golden Horn
© Sputnik / Alexander Kryazhev
Golden Bridge over the Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok, Russia, August 30, 2021
Hanoi has proposed the establishment of a free-trade zone between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Eurasian Economic Union to boost regional cooperation, Russia's Eastern Economic Forum has heard.

"I offer a number of steps that will allow concluding an agreement on free trade between ASEAN and the EAEU. This may serve as a basis for mustering efforts of all countries to intensify regional cooperation," Vietnam's Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien stated on the sidelines of the forum in Russia's Vladivostok.

"Vietnam has good prospects of cooperation with the Russian Federation. Russia is our key partner, we have all possibilities to expand cooperation with the EAEU, while Russia can also gain access to a huge market," he stressed.

Comment: Clearly the West's demonization campaign is not working, because Eurasian integration continues apace:

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Putin

30 Years after Communism fell, Putin offers alternative to Globalism - which is why our ruling class hates him

Wayne Allensworth
V Dare
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Putin
Thirty years ago this month, Communist hardliners in the Soviet Union launched the "August Coup" against Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist government. It failed and instead the Communist Party itself was suppressed, after 74 years of totalitarian power. Hopefully the current communist coup in the U.S. will similarly fail — but it's worth examining why our managerial globalist regime enabling it retains a hatred for Russian's current ruler, President Vladimir Putin, that is as intense as it seems inexplicable.

From "Russiagate" to charges that anti-globalists are shilling for Putin, the shrill accusations of Russia being behind every nefarious activity the global managers can imagine, to the comparisons of Putin to Hitler...On and on the trail of hatred goes, for fear is behind it.

Understanding the obsessive fear and loathing of Putin's Russia requires historical memory, something our society is woefully short on, but it's necessary for anyone seeking such understanding to back up to the end of the Cold War and recall the circumstances that gave rise to globalism.

The Fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The Soviet Union remained standing, but was fragile, reeling from Gorbachev's policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring"), which had unleashed a firestorm of previously pent-up popular frustrations. The Soviet economy was in shambles. The Soviets were losing their Eastern European satellites and nationalism was pulling the USSR apart at the seams.

Comment: See also: Putin blasts World Economic Forum honchos at Davos gabfest

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Cult

DHS insider blows whistle on international child sex trafficking gangs exploiting 'Reasonable Fear' loophole


Project Veritas
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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Project Veritas released a new video today featuring a Department of Homeland Security [DHS] insider blowing the whistle on a federal government "loophole" that enables migrant gang members to get away with sex trafficking and other crimes.

The DHS insider sat down with Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe and explained how the current immigration system is broken.

Comment: Notably, the whistleblower also said:
"This is not a DHS, or a Justice Department program, this is the whole Government. [...] So DHS, Justice Department, State Department, a lot of entities are involved in this".
See also:

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Star of David

Biden reaffirms US' half-century of support of Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal - report


Source
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:49 UTC
Bennett Biden
© REUTERS / JONATHAN ERNST
For the past 50 years, the US has agreed not to pressure Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, with the "tradition" going back to President Nixon.

President Joe Biden has reaffirmed the United States' long-held agreement with Israel that Washington will not pressure the Jewish State on its alleged nuclear arsenal, in exchange for which, the latter will not use, test, or threaten the use of their nuclear arsenal, Israeli media reported Wednesday, citing an unnamed official.

The long-held agreement between the two nations was reportedly discussed during the meeting between Biden and Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett over the past weekend.

Comment: See also:

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Bomb

US military had drone lock on Kabul suicide bomber, didn't take the shot: former official

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:20 UTC
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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Pardo-Maurer spoke about the suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport on Thursday, saying that the "Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was."

The suicide bombing, which took the lives of 13 members of the US Armed Forces, happened while evacuations of Americans and Afghan allies were underway during the final days of the 20-year war in that nation.

Director of MRC Latino, Jorge Bonilla posted the interview with Pardo-Maurer said the Department of Defense also knew "where and when" the attack would happen. He said that "a Predator drone had a lock on him," and that the DOD "refused to grant permission to fire upon that bomber."

Comment: There are multiple reports coming from multiple sources saying the Pentagon knew in advance about the eminent attack, yet did nothing to stop it. There may be an explanation for this, but so far it seems that the upper echelons of power wanted this tragedy to happen, as it likely served some nefarious agenda.

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Cult

Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Vaccine Heist

Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:39 UTC
Story at-a-glance
  • Judy K. Brown's book, "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story," details the conspiracy of silence surrounding the biggest alleged pedophile and sex trafficking mogul of our time, Jeffrey Epstein, and his network of rich and powerful people, which includes Bill Gates
  • Corruption is rampant throughout our public health agencies and medical organizations. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and the Medicine & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the U.K.
  • The Gates Foundation also owns shares in Pfizer and BioNTech, raising questions about corruption in the FDA and IHMA, both of which appear to have given Pfizer's COVID shot preferential treatment despite overwhelming safety concerns and questionable effectiveness
  • The Gates Foundation is also a primary funder of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which was responsible for the grossly inaccurate modeling that led to several governors ordering COVID patients to be sent into nursing homes
  • Gates is now calling on the western world to sacrifice itself in order to stave off climate change. But the climate change crisis, like the COVID pandemic, is a red herring, used to justify the implementation of the Great Reset
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Jeffrey and his pals
In the video below, Russell Brand discusses Judy K. Brown's book, "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story," which details the conspiracy of silence surrounding the biggest alleged pedophile and sex trafficking mogul of our time, Jeffrey Epstein.

The media's refusal to dig into the Epstein story, Brand says, suggests the media are part of a corrupted establishment that protects the rich and powerful, no matter what. One rich and powerful person who enjoys the legacy media's protection is Bill Gates.

Gates and Epstein

Brand cites an article in The Daily Beast,1 claiming Gates had dozens of meetings with Epstein between 2011 and 2014 alone, typically at Epstein's Manhattan home. When news of Gates' relationship with Epstein emerged in 2019, Melinda Gates reportedly contacted a divorce attorney.

According to The Daily Beast, Gates "encouraged Epstein to rehabilitate his image in the media." If true, this suggests Gates may indeed have been closer to Epstein than he's been letting on. An anonymous source who claims to have been present at several of the meetings has said the two were "very close."
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Dominic Raab: UK intelligence said Kabul 'unlikely' to fall this year

Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 09:58 UTC
Raab
© AsiaNews.it/The Guardian/KJN
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab • Kabul riot
Dominic Raab has said the central assessment of the UK government was that Kabul was "unlikely" to fall in 2021.

The UK foreign secretary also disclosed he had overseen high-level talks between the UK and Pakistan to discuss the Afghan crisis and would be heading to the region imminently.

He told MPs on the Commons foreign affairs select committee:
"The central assessment that we were operating to, and it was certainly backed up by the JIC (joint intelligence committee) and the military, is that the most likely, the central proposition, was that given the troop withdrawal by the end of August, you'd see a steady deterioration from that point and it was unlikely Kabul would fall this year."
He said contingency planning and testing of such an assessment took place, adding: "That was something widely shared by Nato allies."


Comment: This is what transpires for government leadership and oversight when sloppy work, iffy judgement and vindictive accusations come together. Raab is certainly not alone in such debacle.

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Book

Ben Rhodes' book proves Obama officials' lies, and his own, about Edward Snowden and Russia

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Ben Rhodes
© Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Ben Rhodes, then-Deputy National Security Advisor to US President Barack Obama
It is hard to overstate the sociopathy of US national security officials: their casual willingness to blatantly lie about the gravest matters is limitless.

Ever since Edward Snowden received asylum from Russia in 2013, Obama officials have repeatedly maligned his motives and patriotism by citing his "choice" to take up residence there. It has long been clear that this
Book cover
© New York Times
narrative was a lie: Snowden, after meeting with journalists in Hong Kong, intended only to transit through Moscow and then Havana on his way to seek asylum in Latin America. He was purposely prevented from leaving Russia — trapped in the Moscow airport — by the very Obama officials who then cynically weaponized his presence there to imply he was a civil-liberties hypocrite for "choosing" to live in such a repressive country or, even worse, a Kremlin agent or Russian spy.

But now we have absolute, definitive proof that Snowden never intended to stay in Russia but was deliberately prevented from leaving by the same Obama officials who exploited the predicament which they created. The proof was supplied unintentionally in the memoir of one of Obama's senior national security advisers, Ben Rhodes, entitled The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House. It is hard to overstate how dispositively Rhodes' own book proves that Obama officials generally, and Rhodes specifically, lied blatantly and cavalierly to the public about what happened: a level of sustained and conscious lying that can be explained only by sociopathy.
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Windsock

Can Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi lead Libya, and in what direction?

Vladimir Odintsov
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Saif al-Islam
© Reuters/Ammar El-Darwish
Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters
Obari, Libya • November 19, 2011
After the events of 2011, when Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was not only overthrown but also brutally murdered, Libya effectively ceased to exist as a single state, continuing to be a tidbit for businesses and outside players. In a struggle between two quasi-states inspired by themselves, these competing outside players have long tried to seize power in the country by using the supposedly legitimate Government of National Accord, led by Fayez al-Sarraj in the West and the military bloc led by Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar in the east of Libya. The fighting has gone on for several years with varying success, and it has shown that neither of these two leaders enjoys the serious support of the majority of the Libyan people.

The internal and internecine tensions between the two camps and the multi-tribal composition of the country's population have never allowed the Libyan conflict of the past decade to be resolved. Although, against this background, certain outside players still managed to solve some business interests, the volatility of the internal political situation did not allow anyone to gain a guaranteed foothold in the country, which objectively forced the search for an internal political consensus by holding full-scale elections in Libya.
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