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China erases billionaire actress & businesswoman Zhao Wei from the internet

Jamie Seidel
News.com.au
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:06 UTC

One of China's most famous and richest actresses has been completely erased and the Chinese government is thought to be behind it.

She has millions of adoring fans. She's worth billions of dollars. But Beijing has all but erased actress Zhao Wei from history. And they won't say why.

Zhao's name won't be immortal. Her entire internet existence has been scrubbed.

All serials and chat shows featuring her have vanished from major Chinese online streaming sites. She no longer even appears in the online credits for the movies she appears in.

Comment: What exactly happened with billionaire businesswoman Zhao Wei remains to be seen, but erasing someone from the internet, on the face of it, appears to be a rather extreme, and not necessarily constructive, move.

However, with regards to the other issues highlighted, clearly China is taking a stand against demoralization and corruption in its society. Whether Westerners would agree with how it's set on achieving these goals is another issue. But, considering the state of the West these days, it can hardly claim to be a model that should be emulated.

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Evidence mounts that Biden manufactured weeks-long false narrative on Afghanistan

John Solomon
Just the News
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:59 UTC

The long saga of the Russia collusion scandal — during which law enforcement, media, political operatives and intelligence assets manufactured a two-year illusion of a Trump-Russia conspiracy that did not exist — raised questions about a new era of political warfare in which false realities could be foisted upon the American public.

The bungled, bloody U.S. exit from Afghanistan now has some fearing the Biden administration practiced deception by omission and commission to create a two-month false narrative that misled Congress and the American public by making the situation in and around Kabul look better than it was.

Two powerful pieces of evidence emerged this week that strongly suggest the Afghan exit wasn't just a case of incompetence but rather an intentional effort to use PR lipstick to disguise a Biden plan that was secretly willing to accept chaos and stranded Americans as a possible outcome to avoid further military casualties during the exit.

On Wednesday, Reuters published a leaked transcript of a call that quoted Biden asking the soon-to-flee Afghan president Ashraf Ghani to offer a narrative to change the "perception" of the Taliban's rapid advance in Afghanistan, "whether it is true or not." Biden is quoted as as telling the Afghan president:

"I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban. And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture."

The White House did not dispute the account of the July 23 call, even though it suggested that an American president asked a foreign leader to assist in creating a potentially fake story.

Jewish Chronicle's libel payouts were a small price to pay for smearing Corbyn and the left

Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook Blog
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC

The Jewish Chronicle, a weekly newspaper that was saved from liquidation last year by a consortium led by a former senior adviser to Theresa May, has been exposed as having a quite astonishing record of journalistic failings.

Over the past three years, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), the misnamed and feeble "press regulator" created by the billionaire-owned corporate media, has found the paper to have breached its code of practice on at least 28 occasions. The weekly has also lost, or been forced to settle, at least four libel cases over the same period.

According to Brian Cathcart, a professor of journalism at Kingston University in London, that means one in every four or five editions of the Chronicle has broken either the law or the IPSO code. He describes that, rather generously, as a "collapse of journalistic standards" at the paper.

IPSO, led by Lord Edward Faulks, a former Conservative minister, has repeatedly failed to launch any kind of formal investigation into this long-term pattern of rule and law-breaking by the Jewish Chronicle. He has also dragged his feet in responding to calls from a group of nine individuals maligned by the paper that IPSO urgently needs to carry out an inquiry into the paper's editorial standards.

What Afghanistan's Saigon moment teaches us about America's 'humanitarian wars'

Maram Susli
RT
Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:38 UTC

© Antonio Olmos/The Observer
US Army helicopter evacuates injured soldier of the 101st Airborne in Panjwai district, 2010.

What we've just witnessed in Afghanistan is a historical repeat of the 'Saigon moment'. But the final hours of the US occupation have been accompanied by a cacophony of neocons decrying the decision to end the war.

They cite women's rights, regional stability and anti-terrorism as reasons the US should have remained in Afghanistan. But those were the very reasons cited for starting the war in the first place, back in 2001. How many more decades do they expect the world to be held hostage to the narratives of 'the humanitarian war'? It's now, at the end of the US's longest war, that we must reflect on the past 20 years, and consider how it was that those false "humanitarian" narratives led us to this point.

Some of the most grave human rights violations occurred at the very onset of the war.

In the first months, the US dropped thousands of yellow cluster bombs around Afghan villages. They resembled aid packages - also yellow. Children would rush to collect what they believed to be food, only to end up dead after picking up and setting off an explosive device.

In an incident now known as 'the convoy of death', Taliban fighters who surrendered to the Afghan Northern Alliance were stuffed into sealed shipping containers and allowed to asphyxiate as they were driven across the desert - allegedly under the watchful eye of the CIA.

Catherine Austin Fitts' approach for dealing with vaccine mandates

Jon Rappoport
blog.nomorefakenews.com
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 01:28 UTC

"If I taught a college course, I'd take students through a year of tracking a descending trail of government documents, moving down into finer and finer detail as we go; and at the bottom of the trail, which is Hell, we would either find a vacuum, nothing at all, no meaning, a blank; or the clear evidence of intent to do great harm, and to evade discovery. That's where the details take you, when you break them down far enough."
-Richard Bell

My longtime friend and colleague, Catherine Austin Fitts, who founded and heads up a marvelous and essential organization, Solari (solari.com), has suggested an approach to dealing with vaccine mandates.

This is an individual strategy, and it's much more. It could open a wide legal and financial doorway for every person who wants to exercise free choice when it comes to COVID vaccination.

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'Righteous' drone strike in Kabul killed 'at least one' ISIS-K terrorist, Pentagon says amid reports of seven dead children

RT
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:19 UTC

The US drone strike in Kabul that allegedly killed seven children was "righteous," followed proper procedures, and eliminated "at least one" person who was a "facilitator" for ISIS-K terrorists, the top US military officer said.

Sunday's strike had targeted a vehicle in Kabul, which the US Central Command said represented an "imminent" threat to the evacuation efforts ongoing at Hamid Karzai International Airport at the time.

Local media and the Taliban, however, said that 10 civilians were killed as a result - seven of them children.

Addressing reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley repeated the claim by CENTCOM that "secondary explosions" were evidence that the vehicle was intended to attack the airport. He told the reporters:

"At this point, we think that the procedures were correctly followed, and it was a righteous strike and that "at least one" person who was killed was a "facilitator" for the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K). It was ISIS-K that claimed responsibility for last Thursday's suicide bombing outside the airport, which killed an estimated 200 Afghans and 13 US troops.

"Were the others killed? Yes. Who are they? We don't know," Milley said, adding there would be an investigation.

Initially, CENTCOM said that there were "no indications" of civilian casualties from the "self-defense" strike.

Comment: The US general implies blowing up seven children was an acceptable tradeoff for one possible terrorist. No apology necessary. It's just standard procedure.

Pro-Life Win: SCOTUS lets Texas six week abortion ban stand

Paul Bois
Breitbart
Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC

In a pro-life victory, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 on Wednesday not to block the new Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal challenges to that law proceed in lower courts.

A narrow majority of justices held that the abortion-provider plaintiffs had failed to meet the high standard required for the Supreme Court to issue an injunction blocking a law before it goes into effect.

Signed in May by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Senate Bill 8 effectively bans abortions in the Lone Star State the moment a fetal heartbeat is detected, which often occurs after six weeks of pregnancy. Since women do not often detect pregnancy prior to the sixth week, the law effectively bans abortions in the state. Multiple states have tried to implement similar measures only to be blocked by the courts.

The five-justice majority of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, and Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett did not issue a published opinion with their decision, so the precise reasoning of the Court remains unclear, including whether the Texas law would survive a constitutional challenge on the merits when that question is squarely before the Supreme Court.

Taliban reportedly launches offensive in Panjshir Province after negotiations with resistance failed

Sputnik
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:40 UTC

The developments come as the Taliban* is expected to announce a new Afghan government on 2 September. It was also earlier reported that resistance forces in Panjshir had pledged to continue fighting the movement.

The Taliban has launched a military operation in the Afghan province of Panjshir after negotiations with resistance forces, headed by Ahmad Massoud, allegedly failed, Al Jazeera reported on 2 September, citing a Taliban source.

The resistance forces earlier said that they would continue fighting the Taliban as their negotiations did not bear fruit.

The Taliban reportedly offered the resistance forces one or two seats in the government they were trying to form, but the resistance turned the offer down.

Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem told Sputnik that the movement was not going to take Panjshir by force, dismissing media reports that the leaders of the resistance had declared the negotiations failed and the Taliban were planning to force their way into the province.

Comment: Taliban says 'thanks, but no thanks' to the resistance deal:

The resistance forces in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Panjshir said on Wednesday that they would continue fighting the Taliban as their negotiations did not lead to any results.

Earlier in the day, Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem told Sputnik that the movement was not going going to take Panjshir by force, dismissing media reports that the leaders of the resistance had declared the negotiations failed and the Taliban were planning to force their way into the province.

"After the negotiations fell through and the last Taliban attack, it was decided that the negotiations are over and fighting against the Taliban will take place in Panjshir and other regions of Afghanistan," the National Resistance Front said in a statement.

According to the Front, the Taliban offered it one or two seats in the government they were trying to form, but the resistance turned the offer down.

As Afghan war ends, $24bn bump for Pentagon budget approved by House

RT
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 08:56 UTC

Just after the US military's wasteful Afghanistan mission came to a close, House legislators marked almost $24 billion in extra defense spending supposedly needed to maintain America's competitive edge against Russia and China.

Comment: The US spends more than Russia and China combined and still struggles to compete.

The House Armed Services Committee held a marathon session on Wednesday to markup the spending under the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Lawmakers from both parties joined forces to defy President Joe Biden's intention to keep the Pentagon budget at $715 billion for next year, essentially keeping it at the same level as last year. Instead, an extra $23.9 billion was set to be poured into weapons procurement, research and other areas.

The financial boost was proposed by Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the ranking Republican member on the committee, who welcomed the passage of his proposal as a snub to Biden from his own party.

Comment: In ponerized US institutions, incompetence surely has reached critical levels, but it's also clear that corruption is diverting those funds for more nefarious purposes; the question is: what are these unfathomable sums of taxpayers money being spent on?

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Never fear: America's empire builders have another pawn to fuel their apocalyptic chess game - Ukraine

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:45 UTC

The Ukrainian President's trip to Washington has drawn out the West's "Russia-watchers" in force. Among them is Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Moscow who has since morphed into a prolific, if unreliable, commentator.

In a new op-ed in the Washington Post, McFaul makes it clear he sees Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting with President Joe Biden as in need of a loud battle cry, appealing to the American government and the public to rally behind Ukraine's calls for support. But, as is customary in the Stanford professor's output, Kiev is really just an excuse, almost reduced to a mere pretext.

Quote of the Day

State power has its own limits defined by the fact that it is authority that reaches people from outside. State power cannot oversee and dictate the creative states of the soul and mind, the inner states of love, freedom and goodwill. The state cannot demand from its citizens faith, prayer, love, goodness and conviction. It cannot regulate scientific, religious and artistic creation. It should not intervene in moral, family and daily private life, and only when extremely necessary should it impinge on people's economic initiative and creativity.

- Ivan Ilyin

Exactly the same Faustian Bargain is being offered by Comrade Ardern here in NZ. Trouble is, there is no further plan, no "what happens next", and...

Martin Harris

winters and summers come and go and the downfall of earth is constantly wrongly predicted. summer is here; [Link] +1

rakarb

He's bloody moron and West's stooge. He was kissing frau Merkel's ass only a few weeks ago.

sinip

No way. Have you noticed that conspiring is practically, the most common social activity in existence? So how could that be?

sir_isO

RT = CNN So this piece is likely agitprop. "The beatings will continue until morale improves." Please, just follow the $cience.

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Puppet Masters

China erases billionaire actress & businesswoman Zhao Wei from the internet

Evidence mounts that Biden manufactured weeks-long false narrative on Afghanistan

Jewish Chronicle's libel payouts were a small price to pay for smearing Corbyn and the left

What Afghanistan's Saigon moment teaches us about America's 'humanitarian wars'

Catherine Austin Fitts' approach for dealing with vaccine mandates

'Righteous' drone strike in Kabul killed 'at least one' ISIS-K terrorist, Pentagon says amid reports of seven dead children

Pro-Life Win: SCOTUS lets Texas six week abortion ban stand

Taliban reportedly launches offensive in Panjshir Province after negotiations with resistance failed

As Afghan war ends, $24bn bump for Pentagon budget approved by House

Never fear: America's empire builders have another pawn to fuel their apocalyptic chess game - Ukraine

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