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US tells Americans to leave Kabul airport 'immediately' due to another 'imminent threat'

Caroline Vakil
The Hill
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:40 UTC
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© DOD / Sgt. John Jackson
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a security alert on Saturday night stating that Americans near the airport "should leave the airport area immediately," citing a "specific, credible threat."

"Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of Kabul airport (HKIA), including the South (Airport Circle) gate, the new Ministry of the Interior, and the gate near the Panjshir Petrol station on the northwest side of the airport, should leave the airport area immediately," the embassy said.

"U.S. citizens should avoid traveling to the airport and avoid all airport gates at this time," the embassy added.

The stark warning from the State Department comes just hours after President Biden said that he was notified by officials that an attack on the airport with in the next 24 to 36 hours was highly likely.

"Our commanders informed me that an attack is highly likely in the next 24-36 hours. I directed them to take every possible measure to prioritize force protection, and ensured that they have all the authorities, resources and plans to protect our men and women on the ground," Biden said. "They assured me that they did, and that they could take these measures while completing the mission and safely retrograding our personnel."

Details were not immediately clear of what the "specific, credible threat" might be.

Comment: According to both US spokesmen and the Taliban, the two are currently 'sharing intelligence' on potential attacks. It would be interesting to know the source, if any, of this latest 'threat.' (The first one, prior to the recent bombing, was related to western intel by the Taliban.) It is awfully convenient...

After the retaliation strike that apparently killed two 'high-profile' targets, the Pentagon announced it had started to pull US troops out of the Kabul airport - 4000 out of 5800 troops apparently remain, but the Pentagon will not provide any more updates as the pull-out continues, the deadline for which is in two days.

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US shot civilians during Kabul airport explosion mayhem, eyewitnesses tell BBC


RT
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:37 UTC
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© AFP / Wakil Kohsar
A US soldier stands on guard as Afghans gather on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul on August 20, 2021
Some of the dozens of civilians reportedly killed in a suicide blast outside Kabul's airport may have been shot by US soldiers amid the chaos caused by the deadly explosion, according to the BBC.

Eyewitnesses who survived Thursday's attack, which claimed at least 95 lives and left 150 people wounded, told the British public broadcaster that not everyone who died that day had been killed by the suicide bomber.

Mohammed, a taxi driver from London, had traveled to Kabul to help his family secure safe passage out of the Afghan capital. He and his wife were killed in the explosion outside the airport's Abbey Gate, while two of their children remain missing. His brother and others interviewed by the BBC's correspondent in Kabul said that their family and relatives weren't killed in the blast, but by gunfire in the resulting "confusion." Mohammed's brother claimed that the firing came from the direction where US soldiers guarding the airport's perimeter were stationed.

Comment: Another interview circulating on Twitter supports the above allegations:


See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Chaos Biden's Bay of Pigs?




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Red Flag

Senior government source says Ontario will introduce COVID-19 vaccine passport system

Antonella Artuso, Brian Lilley
Toronto Sun
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Chris Young /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario Premier Doug Ford attends an announcement at Toronto's Ontario Place, on July 30, 2021.
Ontario government has said that it already provides proof of vaccination.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will announce next week that his government will introduce a COVID-19 vaccine passport system, a senior Progressive Conservative source says.

The document would provide proof of vaccination status where needed to access non-essential businesses and public spaces.

Comment: Will the normally sedate Ontarians stand for this trampling upon their rights and the imposition of an apartheid state? Probably; they're simply not built like the French. Then again...

See also:

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Snakes in Suits

We are witnessing incompetence on a colossal scale

Michael Snyder
The Most Important News
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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These days, it is a surprise when someone actually does something competently. It is often said that if you want something done right you have got to do it yourself, and today that is more true than ever. Just think about it. How often have you had a delivery delayed or messed up? How often have you had someone supposedly "fix" something but it isn't actually fixed? How often have you purchased something that breaks shortly thereafter? And don't even get me started on the complete and utter incompetence that we see in the tech industry. How hard could it possibly be to release a piece of software that is not riddled with all sorts of nightmarish bugs that need to be "patched" as soon as possible?

Sadly, in our upside down society some of the most incompetent people that you can imagine end up running entire organizations, and if you are particularly corrupt and useless you may get to be a politician.

By now, you are probably thinking that I am going to talk about Joe Biden in this article, and you are right.

In this era of extreme incompetence, it somehow seems appropriate that sleepy Joe is presiding over our "idiocracy".

Barack Obama knew that this could happen. According to Politico, he once said that nobody should "underestimate Joe's ability to **** things up".
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Arrow Down

US officials deny ever giving Taliban list of evacuees

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:47 UTC
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U.S. officials gave the Taliban a list of American citizens and Afghan allies to grant access to Kabul's airport, U.S. and congressional officials told Politico.

In the early days of the evacuation, the joint U.S. military and diplomatic coordination team at Kabul's airport gave the Taliban a list of people the U.S. wanted to evacuate, Politico reported.

The list included Afghans who served alongside the U.S. during the war and sought special immigrant visas. Also listed were U.S. citizens, dual nationals and lawful permanent residents.

But after thousands of visa applicants arrived, the State Department asked applicants not to come to the airport. Since then, the list given to the Taliban didn't include the names of Afghans, Politico reported.

Comment: Of course they'd never give the Taliban a list. Who would think that the US - who gifted an estimated $85 billion dollars worth of military equipment and sensitive data to the Taliban - would ever give them something as dangerous as a list?

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Syringe

Argentina's president charged with breaking quarantine to host party


Reuters
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 20:29 UTC
Alberto Fernandez
© Gabriel Bouys/Pool via REUTERS
Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez speaks during a brief joint news conference with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (not pictured) at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, May 11, 2021.
Argentine prosecutors have charged President Alberto Fernandez with allegedly breaking a mandatory quarantine, local media reported on Thursday, when he and his partner hosted a birthday party last year with friends.

Dailies Clarin and La Nacion reported the news, citing prosecutors, who did not immediately respond to a comment request from Reuters.

The case against Fernandez has grabbed headlines in past weeks as Argentina imposed stricter lockdowns than most countries to deal with the pandemic. In July of last year, Fernandez himself had banned all social gatherings before hosting one for the birthday of Fabiola Yanez, his partner.

Comment: See also:

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No Entry

Afghanistan: Whatever the future brings, one thing is for sure, Britain and the US should STAY OUT

Cynthia Chung
cynthiachung.substack.com
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
BidenJohnsonAfghans
© AP/Getty Images/KJN
US President Joe Biden • British PM Boris Johnson • Street scene in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan has become the United States' longest military engagement in history, lasting 20 years.

Similar to the Vietnam War (which lasted 19.5 years), there has never been a positive military objective for "winning" in Afghanistan such that American troops could finally leave.

As Col. Prouty has stated in his book, not one of the six U.S. administrations who oversaw the Vietnam War ever stated a positive American military objective for that war. The generals sent to Saigon were told not to let the "communists" take over, period. As Prouty makes the point repeatedly in his book, this does not constitute as a military objective. (For more on this refer to my paper.)

46 years later, it would appear the United States has not learned from this hard bled lesson. Today, the U.S. is repeating the same foolish "strategy" in Afghanistan against the Taliban. On August 15th the capital of Afghanistan fell to the Taliban forcing President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country, ending the rule of the Afghan government.
Taliban territories maps
The Taliban take-over has been spurred by the Biden Administration's handling of American troops exit from Afghanistan, which was pre-planned over a year ago.

However, there is something not quite right about all this.
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Republicans file impeachment articles against Blinken over Afghan disaster, call for Biden's resignation

Joseph Clark
The Washington Times
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:27 UTC
Blinken
© Olivier Douliery/AP
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
House Republicans on Friday introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of State Antony Blinken for "high crimes and misdemeanors" leading up to the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Republican Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Andy Harris of Maryland co-sponsored the resolution. They said "inexcusable failures" on behalf of Mr. Blinken led to the lives lost in Thursday's terrorist attack in Kabul and "set a horrible precedent on the international stage."
"Secretary Blinken's complete and utter failure of managing this avoidable catastrophe makes him unfit for leadership, and I hope my colleagues will join me in pushing for his removal."
State Department spokesman Ned Price brushed the calls for Mr. Blinken's impeachment aside Friday, saying there were more pressing matters at hand:
"Secretary Blinken is focused on one thing and one thing only: the evacuation of American citizens and our allies and partners."
At this time, the impeachment articles have virtually no chance of advancing in the Democratic-run House.
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Who profits from the Kabul suicide bombing?

Pepe Escobar
The Saker
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Taliban pressconference
© AFP/Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid holds press conference in Kabul
ISIS-Khorasan aims to prove to Afghans and to the outside world that the Taliban cannot secure the capital

The horrific Kabul suicide bombing introduces an extra vector in an already incandescent situation: It aims to prove, to Afghans and to the outside world, that the nascent Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is incapable of securing the capital.

As it stands, at least 103 people - 90 Afghans (including at least 28 Taliban) and 13 American servicemen - were killed and at least 1,300 injured, according to the Afghan Health Ministry.

Responsibility for the bombing came via a statement on the Telegram channel of Amaq Media, the official Islamic State (ISIS) news agency. This means it came from centralized ISIS command, even as the perpetrators were members of ISIS-Khorasan, or ISIS-K. Presuming to inherit the historical and cultural weight of ancient Central Asian lands that from the time of imperial Persia stretched all the way to the western Himalayas, that spin-off defiles the name of Khorasan.

The suicide bomber who carried out "the martyrdom operation near Kabul airport" was identified as one Abdul Rahman al-Logari. That would suggest he's an Afghan, from nearby Logar province. And that would also suggest that the bombing may have been organized by an ISIS-Khorasan sleeper cell. Sophisticated electronic analysis of their communications would be able to prove it - tools that the Taliban don't have.
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Bizarro Earth

What happens when the technocrats hold all the cards?

Patrick Wood
Technocracy News
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
technocrats
As editor of Technocracy News & Trends, I am not particularly satisfied in reporting story after story, day after day, on various aspects of the so-called Covid pandemic. Why fight the propaganda machine? Does it really matter? Aren't other sites covering it anyway?

After replaying these questions every morning in light of Technocracy, I always come to the same conclusion:
IT'S NOT JUST A STORY, IT IS THE ONLY STORY!
This is Technocracy's coup d'état. It specifically started on January 30, 2020 when the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic, calling for emergency powers, lockdowns, social distancing, masks, vaccines, etc.

I flatly predicted this coup in 2015 in Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation. There was no way at that time to understand the means of the coup, but it was clear to me that it was coming, that it had a timetable and intention:
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