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No, the Afghan fighters are not going to build an 'inclusive regime'

Vladimir Danilov
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:07 UTC
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Taliban fighters sit in a pickup truck at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.
Twenty years after American troops ousted the Taliban (a movement banned in the Russian Federation) from power in Afghanistan, militants of this group announced the formation of an interim government. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid stressed that the government he announced has a temporary status, de facto, with all acting cabinet members. Other appointments are expected to be announced at a later date.

Contrary to experts' expectations and pressure from both opposition forces and the international community, the old guard of Taliban fighters won vital positions in the country's new leadership. Other political forces, including secular authorities, militias and women, are not represented. By doing so, the Taliban have already violated their earlier agreements with the Americans to establish a coalition government, based on which the US, in fact, withdrew from Afghanistan.
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Prince Andrew finally served court papers in sex-assault lawsuit after attempts to avoid them

Lee Brown and Rebecca Rosenberg
New York Post
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:47 UTC
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre has sued Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew has finally been served court papers over his sex accuser's lawsuit — after his police guards and security were initially ordered not to accept them, according to court papers filed Friday.

Cesar Sepulveda filed an affidavit in the Manhattan federal lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre confirming that he had served the papers to Andrew at his Royal Lodge home at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 27.

He detailed how he had been repeatedly rebuffed in previous attempts to hand over the documents in which Queen Elizabeth II's 61-year-old son is accused of first-degree rape tied to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring.

Sepulveda said the day before the papers were successfully served, he had been told to wait at Andrew's main gates, where police officers — including Andrew's head of security — repeatedly claimed they could not reach anyone inside.

Comment: Has the long arm of the law snagged Andrew at last? Or has a decision been made to hang him out to dry?

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"Not now, not ever": RNC to sue Biden over vaccine mandate as GOP governors go ballistic


Zerohedge
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 05:45 UTC
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Republicans clapped back over the Biden administration's unprecedented 'jab or your job' Executive Order for federal workers and contractors, and a 'jab or test' mandate for corporations with over 100 employees. 600,000 postal workers are oddly exempt.

The sweeping new vaccine requirements, which completely ignore tens of millions in America who have recovered from Covid-19 and have natural immunity, will affect as many as 100 million Americans.

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That was the point: Ex-Mossad chief recounts how & why 9/11 changed West's security policy, pushing it closer to Israel

Elizabeth Blade
Sputnik
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:43 UTC
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Shortly after the assaults, the delegations of many Western countries visited Israel to learn how it secures its airport. They also wanted to find out how to classify people and how to spot those who could potentially present a danger to society.

Danny Yatom, the former head of Israel's spy agency, the Mossad, remembers well that tragic Tuesday, 11 September 2001, when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. A third plane hit a part of the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defence.

The last one -- with which the al-Qaeda terrorists planned to hit the White House -- fell in an open field following a clash between the passengers of the aircraft and the extremists. At that time, Yatom had already left the Mossad but he was still an important figure within Israel's security apparatus and someone who had been linked to key players of Israeli politics.
"I remember I was sitting in my office. When I saw one airplane colliding into the World Trade Center, I immediately said that that was not an accident. It was a terror attack. Initially, some people were doubtful. When the second plane hit the building, everyone realised that I was right."
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Light Sabers

EU implicitly threatens Hungary and Poland to change rule of law if they want recovery money payout


RT
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:01 UTC
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The European Commission has called on Hungary and Poland to do more to address the EU's concerns about their maintenance of the rule of law if they want their pandemic recovery money.

On Friday, European Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said the EC was still withholding funding from Visegrad partners Hungary and Poland because the two nations were yet to address the EU's recommendations concerning the rule of law.

Speaking in the Slovenian town of Brdo, following a meeting of eurozone finance ministers, Gentiloni told a news conference that while some progress had been made, it wasn't enough. "I hope that we can be able to make progress in near future, but we are not yet there," he noted.

Comment: Poland and Hungary have butted heads with the EU on numerous issues, from Russian vaccines, Russian gas, to the dispute over mass migration, and the laws banning LGBT propaganda aimed at children, and, whilst they do have some bargaining power, in the end, the EU behemoth won't relent until it has near total control; and we can see just how the EU seeks to exert its pressure:

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Denmark to end lockdown & Covid 'digital pass', no longer considers Covid-19 "a socially critical disease"

Jan M Olsen
Independent.ie
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:47 UTC
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The return to normality has been gradual, but now digital proof of having been vaccinated is no longer required when entering night clubs. People sit outside a restaurant for outdoor service in Roskilde Denmark
After 548 days with restrictions to limit the spread of Covid-19, Denmark's high vaccination rate has enabled the Scandinavian country to lift all domestic restrictions.

The return to normality has been gradual, but now the digital pass — a proof of having been vaccinated — is no longer required when entering night clubs, making it the last virus safeguard to fall.


Comment: Meanwhile, over in the UK, they're just about to start enforcing Covid IDs for nightclubs, despite similarly high rates of uptake following an equally coercive and scandal-ridden roll out: Scotland to launch vaccine passports on 1 October for large events, stated goal is to 'encourage' young people to be injected


More than 80% of people above the age of 12 have had two vaccinations.

Comment: Lest we forget that, back in November of 2020, Denmark was one of the first countries to threaten mandatory and even forced injection, and it only backed down following nationwide protests. Prior to that, on the unfounded notion that mink could spread coronavirus, it illegally slaughtered millions of them, destroying a national industry and creating a serious biohazard in the regions where they were dumped. It also rejected mask mandates based on its own studies that showed that they were ineffective, only later to enforce them, and then scrap them again. It's government also railroaded its health authority into condoning lockdowns, eventually downgrading it from a regulatory to an advisory role, in order to remove any further influence it may have on policy.

Taken together, whilst it appears to be a positive development that they're dropping the lockdown restrictions, and it's shows that no science is driving the continuation of the lockdowns elsewhere, there's no guarantee that the nefarious forces pushing this agenda won't snap their fingers and have Denmark slap its people back into lockdown: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it)



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'High-risk activity': Ardern advises hospital visitors against sex with patients during Covid

Eva Corlett
The Guardian
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 05:57 UTC
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Jacinda Ardern (pictured) has amused fans after breaking from her typically unflappable demeanour during Thursday's Covid press conference when asked about a sexual escapade in Auckland Hospital.
New Zealand prime minister's face shows full range of emotions after being asked about Auckland patient's liaison that health chief called a 'high-risk activity'.

New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern may have kept her cool through a global pandemic, but a question about a patient and a visitor having sex at an Auckland hospital had the typically unflappable leader struggling to contain her expressions.

Ardern and the director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield were giving their daily Covid-19 press conference, when a reporter asked them whether an allegation involving a patient and visitor who had "sexual relations" at Auckland hospital was considered a "high-risk activity, in the current climate".

Comment: Apparently it's not enough that the government is telling you where you can go, who you can see and what you can do. They want to regulate where and when you can have sex, too.

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AOC mocked by conservatives after Texas abortion ban argument

Emily Crane
New York Post
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:03 UTC
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Texas Gov. Abbott “deeply ignorant,” questioning whether he is “familiar with a menstruating person’s body.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being criticized for her use of the term "menstruating persons" as she lashed out at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over his new six-week abortion ban.

The far-left New York congresswoman called Abbott "deeply ignorant" on Tuesday over the Lone Star State's new law that prohibits almost all abortions after the six-week mark — including pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest.

"I don't know if he is familiar with a menstruating person's body. In fact, I do know that he's not familiar with a female or menstruating person's body because if he did, he would know that you don't have six weeks," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Comment: Much like Trudeau's creative use of language, AOC is simply not going to be taken seriously if she insists on using language in this way. Ideological virtue signalling does nothing but eliminate vast swaths of your potential audience - the message simply gets lost in the noise.

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Fauci never lies? CNN, NYT, WaPo & other MSM outlets IGNORE report showing US funded coronavirus research in Wuhan before pandemic


RT
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:10 UTC
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© Reuters / J. Scott Applewhite
Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as he testifies on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, US on July 20, 2021.
America's biggest media outlets refused to cover the news this week that the US funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology years before the Covid-19 pandemic - a fact Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied.

More than 900 documents were obtained by The Intercept, following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) that revealed the NIH gave millions of dollars in grants to the US NGO EcoHealth Alliance. Nearly $600,000 was used at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, at least partially "to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans."

"Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments," The Intercept reported, publishing quotes from several people concerned about the relation between the research and the health crisis affecting the world today.

The grant used to research bat coronaviruses was active between 2014 and 2019. Former president Donald Trump shut down a decision to renew the funding in 2020, after Covid-19 became a global pandemic.

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'China should send warships inside US territorial waters' in retaliation for another US incursion into South China Sea, says Chinese news outlet run by top Chinese diplomat


Yahoo
Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:00 UTC
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A nuclear-powered submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the South China Sea, April 12, 2018.
The Global Times called on People's Liberation Army Navy warships to travel to "U.S. military bases in the Asia-Pacific and the U.S. allies' coastlines to conduct close-in reconnaissance operations and declare freedom of navigation." The editorial added that "the U.S. will definitely see the PLA show up at its doorstep in the not-too-distant future."

This isn't simple ranting. The Global Times operates under Central Foreign Affairs Commission Director Yang Jiechi. Its words represent a credible threat.


Comment: As it is, it's not exactly a 'credible threat', because the US has proven that it's reckless, China has shown it is very measuresd in its responses. And so it's more likely that this outlet - which is not an official diplomatic source, despite its boss - is simply playing the US at its own game of hot-air and belligerence.


Why is China so furious?

Comment: Despite this incident being mostly a war of words, overall, it would appear that the situation is heating up:

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