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Lavrov: Despite US humiliation in Afghanistan, Russia not gloating over chaos & only 'worried about region,'


RT
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 18:20 UTC
Kabul Afghanistan
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Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 23, 2021
While the fall of Kabul to the Taliban as American troops beat a hasty retreat may have tarnished Washington's reputation and slashed its ambitions, Russia isn't rejoicing over the events, the country's foreign minister has said.

Speaking as part of a campaign event ahead of next month's parliamentary elections, Sergey Lavrov warned that regional instability is far from a cause for celebration. "People have written that we are gloating over events in Afghanistan," the top diplomat said. "But there has been no such feeling."

"We are very worried about some of our closest allies and neighbors, which border both Afghanistan and the Russian Federation and have visa-free travel agreements." According to him, Russia is also concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Central Asian nation, given the history between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.

Comment: If the US withdraw from Afghanistan actually wasn't just a 'botched operation', here we might have some insight on why things went down the way they did. The US may have 'sacrificed' it's hold over Afghanistan in order to release a new wave of chaos in the Middle East and beyond.

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Did the US support the growth of ISIS-K?

Alex Rubinstein
realalexrubi.substack.com
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
ISIS-K
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ISIS-K
The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored military outfit and even former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who called the group a "tool" of the United States as journalist Ben Norton recently noted, characterizing Karzai as "a former US puppet who later turned against the US, and knows many of its secrets."

So what exactly is ISIS-K and what is it's history? After ISIS's Afghanistan variant became a household name overnight following a suicide bombing at Kabul's airport that killed more than 170 people and wounded more than 200, the group's history demands renewed scrutiny.

Back in May, I tweeted that "I must not be the only one expecting a so-called 'rise of ISIS' in Afghanistan in the near future..."

I wrote this because mass-casualty terrorist attacks are repeatedly used as justification by the United States for continuing its occupations of foreign countries: the "counterterrorism mission," or the "terrorist threat." And it has been a long time since the Taliban has taken credit for any such acts.

In fact, all the way back in August 2016 — a little over five years ago — Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Iranian media that "In cooperation with the nation, [the Taliban] has prevented the terrorist group from gaining a foothold in Afghanistan."
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Pelosi's Jan 6 committee demands telecom companies turn over GOP reps phone records

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:41 UTC
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 select committee, which recently put together a blacklist of conservative influencers and journalists, has now expanded its scope to demand that telecommunications companies deliver phone records of certain GOP lawmakers.

Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said that phone records requests would be submitted for "several hundred" people.

In response to this, Rep. Jim Jordan (OH), whose presence on the committee was vetoed by Pelosi, said "Rifling through the call logs of your colleagues would depart from more than 230 years of Congressional oversight. This type of authoritarian undertaking has no place in the House of Representatives and the information you seek has no conceivable legislative purpose," CNN reports.

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Biden slammed after appearing to check watch while greeting bodies of fallen soldiers

John Solomon
Just the News
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:38 UTC
biden checks watch
Conservatives light up Twitter after scene a Dover Air Force Base.

Already under fire for a messy Afghan exit plan, President Joe Biden on Sunday endured fresh criticism for apparently checking his watch while greeting the bodies of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base.

Footage showed the president glancing down at the watch on his left wrist midway through the ceremony, shortly after placing his hand over his heart to salute the caskets of soldiers who died in the bombing in Kabul last week.

Comment: The guy can't even remember what state he's in; can we really expect him to grasp an abstract concept like tact?

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Bad Guys

Hunting Russians abroad? US asking allies to arrest Russians who will then be extradited to the US, Moscow claims


RT
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:32 UTC
Viktor Bout
© Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov
FILE PHOTO. Journalist during the video link "Moscow - New York" on "The Case of Viktor Bout: the verdict. What's Next".
American jails now hold more Russians suspected and convicted of crimes than those of almost any other foreign country, as Washington pushes for them to be transferred there from third countries, Moscow officials have revealed.

Speaking to RIA Novosti on Monday, Grigory Lukyantsev, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Commissioner for Human Rights, said that more than 50 Russians have been detained by third countries at the request of American officials.

"In terms of persecution, a glaring example is this practice used by the US of actually hunting down our citizens abroad and arresting them in other nations on the orders of American law enforcement agencies who are attempting to bring them to justice in the US," Lukyantsev said. "Since 2008, more than 50 such cases have been known, and, unfortunately, the number of such cases continues to increase."

Comment: It appears the US is engaging in more desperate hybrid war tactics, and China hasn't been spared its game of 'hostage diplomacy' either: China court upholds death sentence against Canadian who tried to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine

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Pepe Escobar: Blowback: The Taliban target US intel's shadow army

Pepe Escobar
The Cradle
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:29 UTC
Kabul

The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel's own 'shadow army,' amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda?
So we have the CIA Director William Burns deploying in haste to Kabul to solicit an audience with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, the new potential ruler of a former satrapy. And he literally begs him to extend a deadline on the evacuation of US assets.

The answer is a resounding "no." After all, the 31 August deadline was established by Washington itself. Extending it would only mean the extension of an already defeated occupation.

The 'Mr. Burns goes to Kabul' caper is by now part of cemetery of empires folklore. The CIA does not confirm or deny Burns met Mullah Baradar; a Taliban spokesman, delightfully diversionist, said he was "not aware" of such a meeting.

Comment: Amidst its 'official' withdrawal, in just the last few days, the US has overseen two incidents that resulted in the murder of over a hundred Afghan civilians along with 13 US military personnel. Notably, that's more civilian death due to US actions in Kabul than has been attributed to the Taliban during their 'takeover' of the entire country: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:


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Major law firm confirms FDA deceived America with its confusing 'approval' of Pfizer vax; highlights religious belief rights

leohohmann
LeoHomann.com
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:18 UTC
Biden
© Alex Wong/Getty Images/KJN
US President Joe Biden
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Aug. 23 it had granted full approval to the first Covid "vaccine" under the brand name Comirnaty, the mainstream media immediately ran with the narrative. Joe Biden jumped in front of a microphone and told businesses they needed to "step up" the mandating of vaccines for their employees. Dr. Anthony Fauci told national media outlets he expected a whole host of new "mandates" to be fueled by the "approval" of the Pfizer jab.

There's only one problem. The "approval" given by the FDA was not for the Pfizer jab currently available in the U.S. market.

The devil is always in the details. Some of us weren't fooled. See our article, which has over the past three days received nearly 150,000 reads: FDA 'playing bait and switch' with Americans, tricking them into believing shots currently being offered have been granted full approval when they have not.

But because we and a few others looked beneath the facade and checked the facts of what the FDA actually did and not what the media and Joe Biden's administration said it did, we took some heat. Even some of our own subscribers questioned whether maybe we got it wrong.

No, it was the corporate media who got the story wrong. And as a result, thousands of Americans no doubt capitulated and went ahead and rolled up theirs sleeves, thinking they had no other choice legally than to succumb to their employers' mandates.

Today, on Aug. 27, the Orlando, Florida-based Liberty Counsel, perhaps the most respected Christian legal firm in the nation, issued a press release that confirms our story.

Below is the release, published in full from Liberty Counsel.

Comment: Certainly the information that the current Pfizer vaccine was and still is unapproved has been out there. At least now there should be no doubt that the public has been side-swiped by massive coercion and programmed hysteria. Our 'mental and emotional herd immunity' apparently doesn't extend to bouts of paranoia foisted on an unsuspecting public primed for a specific reaction. Will the distinctions and legalities in this article make a difference? To those who believe vaccines are the way to go, likely not. To those who refuse...it is up to you.



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The mRNA vaccine's poisonous potions: Medical malpractice or 'slow motion genocide'?

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
World Health Org
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The British Medical Journal [BMJ] announces that the FDA is set to grant full approval to the Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data:
"Transparency advocates have criticized the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer's application for full approval of its COVID-19 vaccine."
Bmj box
The original understanding was to hold a public discussion before approving the experimental mRNA gene therapy, falsely called vaccine, before that inoculation is fully approved as a vaccine.

The approval of the Pfizer mRNA poison is a perfect precedent for approving all other mRNA poisonous potions - thereby making the attempt at reduction of human life ("depopulation") on earth official - the eugenists have officially won the race. Although this was predictable, there was hope that counter-voices and real science, as expressed by hundreds and thousands of scientists, might prevail.

So far, this diabolical agenda is overwhelming. It is overrunning the entire UN system, all 193 UN member countries, and foremost the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN-unit which people hope and trust will defend their interests.

Wrong!

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Pace of US evacuation flights from Afghanistan slowing one day before Biden's deadline

Lucas Y. Tomlinson, Brooke Singman
Fox News
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
US planes Kabul
© Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
USAF aircraft queue as part of the evacuation process in Kabul, Afghanistan
U.S. evacuation flights from Kabul are slowing, officials told Fox News Monday, just a day before President Biden's Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and complete the mission to evacuate American citizens and vulnerable Afghans from the country.

The flights, according to officials, are continuing, but at a reduced pace, ahead of Biden's deadline. Those officials, though, add that it is not accurate to say the U.S. evacuation flights "have ended."

The deadline for all U.S. troops and diplomats to be out of Afghanistan is 3:29 p.m. EST Tuesday - 11:59 p.m. local time in Kabul, U.S. defense officials told Fox News. It will mark the first time in nearly 20 years that no U.S. troops will be on the ground in Afghanistan.

According to the White House, on Sunday, a total of approximately 1,200 people were evacuated from Kabul. The White House said that evacuation was the result of 26 U.S. military flights, 26 C-17s, which carried approximately 1,200 evacuees, and two coalition flights, which carried 50 people.

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Sen. Graham: Biden should be impeached for 'dereliction of duty' on Afghanistan

Pam Key
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Graham
© Rod Lamkey/CNP/Sipa USAS
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation called for President Joe Biden's impeachment for the chaos of U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Partial transcript as follows:

ED O'KEEFE: Sure. In your view, what kind of consequences should the president face for the decisions he made on Afghanistan?

GRAHAM: Well, did he get good advice and turn it down? Did he get bad advice and take it? What the hell happened? Whose decision was it to pull all the troops out? Was it good advice, ignored? I just don't know. I think he should be- be facing a lot of consequences here, because the one thing he wanted to do, and he's a decent man, it's not about him being a decent man, is he wanted to end the war in Afghanistan and make sure we didn't have to deal with it in the future. He's done the exact opposite. General Biden's fingerprints are all over this. He's created the conditions for ISIS to flourish in Afghanistan. They've doubled the number of troops available because of the jailbreak. A terrorist organization called the Taliban is now in charge of the country. The likelihood of an attack on our homeland is through the roof. It was medium a month ago. It's got to be high as hell right now.


Comment: As soon as Biden is no longer a useful idiot he will exit stage left, escorted.

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