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Kirby: 'No use in responding' to a 'handful of vets' complaints on Biden's botched Afghan withdrawal

Emma Colton
Fox News
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:01 UTC
John Kirby Afghan military withdrawal
© AP Photo/Susan WalshNational Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on May 28.
'Obviously no use in responding. A "handful" of vets indeed and all of one stripe,' Kirby said in a 'reply all' email chain

On the anniversary of 9/11, White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby dismissed the concerns of military veterans critical of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, writing in response to a Fox News Digital press inquiry that there's "no use" weighing in on the veterans' views.

"Obviously no use in responding. A 'handful' of vets indeed and all of one stripe," Kirby said in a "reply all" email chain Wednesday afternoon that appeared to be intended for White House staffers, but which also included Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital had reached out to the White House earlier Wednesday afternoon regarding critical comments from four veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., who blasted Kirby for his Monday press conference that they said provided "cover" for the Biden administration's 2021 withdrawal.
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Bizarro Earth

Member states to swear fealty to United Nations

Yudi Sherman
Gold Report
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
united nations
On September 22nd, dignitaries from around the world will gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a meeting called Summit of the Future.

At the conference, world leaders will sign Pact for the Future, an accord in which member states will pledge their allegiance to the UN as a central, unifying government.

"We, the Heads of State and Government, representing the peoples of the world, have gathered at United Nations Headquarters to protect the needs and interests of present and future generations through the actions in this Pact for the Future," the document begins.

"We recognize that the multilateral system and its institutions, with the United Nations and its Charter at the centre, must be strengthened to keep pace with a changing world."
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Warning

Harris and Trump debating on Titanic - Moscow


RT
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:24 UTC
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© CNN/mediadc.brightspotcdn/worldatlas.com/KJNFormer US President and candidate Donald Trump • Vice President Kamala Harris
Who cares what happens on the Titanic "15 minutes before the iceberg," the Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman has said.

The US presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris lacked substance and was largely irrelevant considering that their country is going full speed ahead towards disaster, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has argued.

Speaking on Radio Sputnik on Wednesday, she said she did not consider it a high-profile event. It mattered as much as the outcome of a hypothetical wrestling match on board the ill-fated Titanic during its trip across the Atlantic Ocean, she claimed.

"Who do you think won? Why would that matter? The iceberg is 15 minutes away."

Extending the metaphor, she said neither Trump nor Harris intended to get to the wheel to change the course of the ship. America is on its way to a "total, global disaster" and the rest of the world is trying to prepare for it, she suggested.
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Cruise Missle

UK approves Ukrainian missile strikes deep inside Russia - Guardian


RT
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:27 UTC
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© Mark Schiefelbein/APUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken • Vladimir Zelensky • UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy • Kiev, Ukraine • September 11, 2024
The Western media is manufacturing public consent for the move, according to a Russian senator.

Washington and London may have already decided to let Kiev use long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia and are now seeding the narrative through the media, Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov has said.

Britain has already given the green light for the use of Storm Shadow missiles, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous government sources. London, however, is not expected to announce the move publicly, the sources claimed.

Pushkov wrote on Telegram on Wednesday.:
"The decision to strike Russian territory is clearly being prepared. There are too many conversations and hints about it for it to be reversed. Even if it has not been made yet, it looks like it will be a matter of days. The leak via The Guardian is not accidental. Public opinion is being prepared."
Limitations on the use of Western-supplied weapons were originally put in place to allow the US and its allies to claim they were not directly involved in the conflict with Russia, while arming Ukraine to the tune of $200 billion. Kiev has been clamoring for the restrictions to be lifted since May, however.

According to The Guardian, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken "gave the strongest hint yet" about permitting Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles against Russia during his visit to Kiev on Wednesday. The decision is "understood to have already been made in private," the British outlet claimed.

Comment: It may only take one step over the line for the US to trigger consequences of a magnitude never-before-seen in the history of our planet as we know it.
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Footprints

Hungary hits back at Hillary Clinton


RT
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:44 UTC
Hillary
© Jacek Boczarski/Getty ImagesHillary Clinton • Democratic National Convention • Chicago, Illinois • August 19, 2024
Balazs Orban has accused the Democrats of trying to jail their political opponents and import migrant voters.

Failed US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should look in the mirror before accusing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of stifling democracy, one of Orban's senior advisers has argued.

Clinton took to X on Wednesday to harangue former President Donald Trump for praising Orban during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris the previous night. Clinton described Orban as a "democracy-killing Hungarian dictator," sharing a 2018 article claiming that his strict immigration policies, controversial judicial reforms, and expulsion of liberal financier George Soros' Open Society Foundations NGO amount to "soft fascism."

Balazs Orban, the political director of Viktor Orban's office and no relation to the prime minister, responded shortly afterwards. He wrote on X:
"Dear Mrs. Clinton, May I share with you what I think the death of democracy is: the desire to imprison your political opponents, the failure to organize elections transparently, and the attempt to replace dissatisfied voters with migrant voters. Which country do you think this applies to?"

"Every reasonable person thinks of this when reading your remarks: 'first take the log out of your own eye'."

Comment: Personified toxicity destroys itself.

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Arrow Up

Kim Jong Un vows to exponentially boost nuclear arsenal in response to US escalation

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:45 UTC
Kim and group
© KCNA/ReutersNorth Korean Leader Kim Jong Un
While on Tuesday VP Harris and former president Trump were squaring off in a debate which only touched on foreign policy a couple of times, and briefly related to Ukraine and Gaza, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un issued statements vowing to "exponentially" boost the nation's nuclear arsenal.

Kim gave a speech marking the 76th founding anniversary of his government at the start of this week. He said that a nuclear overhaul is needed to defend the country from "hostile" forces and that North Korea faces "a grave threat" as a result of the "reckless expansion" the United States-led military bloc in the region.

North Korea will "redouble its measures and efforts to make all the armed forces of the state, including the nuclear force, fully ready for combat," he stated.

In particular Kim was reacting to a new US-South Korean defense agreement signed in July. The new agreement allows for the integration of US nuclear weapons and South Korean conventional weapons to defend the peninsula from the nuclear-armed north if need be.

Pyongyang has been seen as engaged in heightened nuclear saber-rattling over the last year, especially following the US decision to at times park a nuclear submarine at South Korean port. The north has also frequently condemned joint US-South Korean military drills, which it denounces as "invasion rehearsals".

Comment: North Korea was USA's to lose...and did in record time.

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Big Bomb

Pentagon orders study of potential nuclear strike in Eastern Europe


RT
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:38 UTC
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© imaginima/Getty ImagesBombs away! No holds barred!
The program will model a scenario in which the region faces an atomic disaster, documents show.

The US Defense Department has ordered a study to simulate the impact of a nuclear conflict on global agriculture. According to a solicitation notice posted on a government procurement platform, the study will focus on regions "beyond Eastern Europe and Western Russia," which in the simulation is the epicenter of the hypothetical nuclear weapons deployment.

The project will be spearheaded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC).

According to the notice posted earlier this week, the ERDC has already chosen Terra Analytics, a Colorado-based company that specializes in advanced data visualization and analyses, as the contractor. However, it states that other potential contractors are invited to share their proposals if they are able to provide similar services.

Comment: As one door closes...another one opens.

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Network

Spain's PM calls China 'defender of peace' during 4-day visit in Beijing about bilateral ties, Palestine

Riyaz ul Khaliq
Andalou Agency
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:42 UTC
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As defenders of peace, both countries share desire to put an end to conflicts as soon as possible, says Pedro Sanchez
Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday.

Xi met with Sanchez in Beijing during the Spanish premier's four-day official visit to China.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two discussed bilateral ties and regional and international issues. They also exchanged views on the Israel-Hamas war.

The meeting came as the death toll from Israel's attacks on Palestinians climbed to nearly 41,000.


Comment: Conservative estimates have the true number to be over 100,000: 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children, Gaza government data reveals


While both countries have called for a cease-fire in Gaza, Spain is the first European nation to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

Comment: Indeed, China has been one of the few superpowers to be so outspoken about the rights of Palestinians and the injustice they're suffering. Spain has, too, however it seems to be a little more limited being so much more beholden to its alliance with the ailing unipolar order: This meeting is all the more notable because it also exposes the West's attempts to demonise China as evidently baseless.

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Dollar

World should ditch dollar - Russian security chief


RT
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:36 UTC
Dollars
© Getty Images / Pineapple Studio
Countries cannot rely on the currency of a nation with multi-trillion-dollar debt, Sergey Shoigu has said.

Washington's abuse of the dollar is a major selling point for BRICS, which is fostering the transition to a multipolar world order, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has said.

America's control over the global reserve currency and the financial system based on the dollar has increasingly been unnerving other nations, as the US government has leveraged it to damage other countries with sanctions and asset seizures, he claimed.
"It is [now] obvious for everyone that whatever savings they have may end up in someone else's pocket rather than their own," Shoigu said in an interview published by Russian media on Tuesday.
Governments therefore "realize that they need to go away from the US-dependent financial system. There is a need for a structure that would not be so monopolized and dependent on US domestic laws," he added. The current system "cannot stand."

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Star of David

'Brutal act of genocide' - Scores killed, injured in Israeli missile strikes on Mawasi tent camp admin


Palestinian Chronicle
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:16 UTC
Israel massacre crater mawasi
© Social mediaA horrific massacre was committed by Israeli occupation forces in Mawasi, east of Khan Yunis. Isreali missilesleft a crater 9 meters (30 ft) deep
The Israeli occupation army carried out a new massacre at dawn on Tuesday by targeting the tents of displaced Palestinians in Mawasi Khan Yunis, southwest of the besieged Gaza Strip, claiming the lives of scores of Palestinians, including women and children, and injuring many others.

The official news agency WAFA reported per medical sources that at least 40 Palestinians were killed and 60 others injured.

Search efforts are still underway to locate missing Palestinians.

"We are facing one of the most heinous massacres since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and (..) entire families disappeared in the sand due to the concussion missiles," the Palestinian Civil Defense was quoted by WAFA as saying.

Comment: More from the massacre site:

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They were peacefully sleeping in their tents, now their bodies disappeared into the sand.

lsraeli warplanes target a tent camp to the west of Khan Yunis with five missiles, killing and tearing apart more than 40 displaced Palestinians.

More than 20 tents, along with who were inside disappeared into a massive hole done by the airstrike.

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This is the aftermath of Israel's massacre in Mawasi - Gaza's "only humanitarian area".

Rescue teams had to dig through the crater with their hands.

In an overcrowded camp where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are living in makeshift tents, even the smallest bomb can cause immense damage and casualties.

Yet Israel used U.S. made MK-84 bombs here. What reason could there be to drop a bomb that powerful here except to kill as many men, women, and children as possible?


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