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More US troops in Afghanistan than publicly announced, NY Times reports

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A Special Forces soldier secures the perimeter at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in February 2020.
The United States has about 1,000 more troops serving in Afghanistan than it has publicly acknowledged, a New York Times report said.

The number of American service members in the country was officially reduced to 2,500 in the final days of the Trump administration — the lowest level since the start of the war — but the number actually dropped to around 3,500, the newspaper reported Sunday.

The discrepancy is the result of some special operations forces being "off the books" and some temporary and transitioning units being in theater, the report said. It cited unnamed American, European and Afghan officials.

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Eye 1

Irish Scientists Overseeing Covid Response: "Go After People, Not Institutions - People Hurt Faster Than Institutions"

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Ireland's 'Zero Covid' experts, citing notorious US political radical Saul Alinsky, want to 'crush, control, and chase' the virus out of Ireland...
As we've all been told (ad nauseum) since the pandemic began, Covid policies are informed by "the science" and the scientists who proffer those policies to governments, who then impose them on the population. A distinction should, however, always be made between science and scientists. The former is a process, the latter are ordinary people with their own biases, agendas and, sometimes, disturbing psychological profiles, as we shall see.

With its current total lockdown set to enter a fourth month, and no end in sight, Ireland stands out as the nation whose government has implemented the most draconian response on the planet to SARS-CoV-2 - certainly in Europe.

While the Irish government has its own scientific advisory group on this virus ('NPHET' - National Public Health Emergency Team), most public statements on SARS-CoV-2 and the need for lockdowns have been made by a group called 'ISAG' - Independent Scientific Advisory Group. Founded in June 2020 by Dr. Anthony Staines, Professor of Health Systems at Dublin College University, Gerry Killeen of University College Cork, and Tomás Ryan, associate Professor at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, ISAG claims to be "independent of government" while it actively and successfully lobbies government ministers to push ISAG's policies. Other notable group members include Northern Irish public health physician Gabriel Scally, and Irish doctor Sam McConkey.

Black Magic

'Obey!' - Biden outlines post-pandemic dystopia in "dark & hopeless" first address

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President Joe Biden delivered his first prime-time address last night since the beginning of his 'unity' reign.

However, out of the gate, he took a shot at his predecessor, seemingly blaming Trump for the spread of COVID-19.
"A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked," Biden said, apparently forgetting that he called then-President Trump xenophobic for quickly imposing a ban on travel into the United States.
Such assertions were to be expected, but as LibertyNation's Graham Noble warns, one sentence from Biden's speech should terrify Americans:
"We will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated."
Not the CDC, not the science, but the government will tell you what you can and cannot do if you're not willing to be Big Pharma's guinea pigs. And that message was clear as the rest of the speech was basically variation of the theme:
"please, please, please, get vaccinated because it is your duty as Americans,"

Comment: See also: Joe Biden's Covid-19 speech was carrots and sticks, with Americans as the proverbial donkey


Health

Fauci torched for backtracking '6 feet': Based on the science? 'Think again'

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Researchers say there is evidence to support CDC easing guidelines from six to three feet in classrooms.

Dr. Anthony Fauci backed a new study that recommends reducing coronavirus-related physical distancing guidelines for in-person learning from six-feet to three in the classroom.

The Biden medical adviser was asked about a new Massachusetts study that found "no significant difference in coronavirus spreading" between 6 feet of physical distancing versus a reduced 3 feet in a Sunday appearance on CNN's "State of the Union."

Comment: The distancing regulations are completely fabricated. They'll change them when it's convenient to do so. Need to change the distance from 6 feet to 3 feet? Here's some science that says that's OK. Want to increase it to 20 feet? Here's some other science. Keep on dancing, monkeys.

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People 2

London mayor savaged for plan to cut numbers of 'white men' in science and engineering

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Sadiq Khan arrives to participate in a rally to support his re-election campaign in London, Britain, March 3, 2020.
Mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants fewer white men working in science and engineering. His plan to "fix" the situation has sparked a furious backlash online.

"There's no good reason why 65% of people working in science and engineering should be white men," Khan tweeted on Saturday, citing figures from the British Science Association. Khan went on to claim that "inequality costs people's futures & the economy billions," but reassured voters that "we're working on fixing it."

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Red Flag

Video evidence of 'massacre' by UK special forces in Afghanistan mysteriously VANISHES - report

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Video allegedly showing a "rogue" SAS unit committing war crimes in Afghanistan has supposedly disappeared, as an investigation into the squad's alleged "massacres" has been plagued by missing evidence and silence from witnesses.

Saifullah Yar was just 19 when his family were shot dead in an SAS raid on their Afghan village in 2011. When British military investigators flew to Kabul in 2017 to investigate the raid, he told them he was handcuffed and led away from his father, brother and two male cousins. He heard two sustained bursts of gunfire, and when the Brits departed, his relatives were dead, their bodies riddled with bullets.

Video footage of the raid was apparently captured by US air support overhead, but according to a new Sunday Times report, American authorities mysteriously lost the footage, and were unable to provide it to a British court, where Saifullah has brought a judicial review into the fatal raid.

Comment: Previously: 'A perpetual motion machine of killing': Alleged cover-up of civilians murdered by UK special forces in Iraq and Afghanistan


Russian Flag

Maria Zakharova on ten years of war in Syria

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Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

March 15 marks ten years since the outbreak of mass unrest in the Syrian Arab Republic. Outside interference rapidly transformed the internal political process into an armed conflict, in which illegal armed groups came to the fore. The country has been subjected to unprecedented aggression by international terrorism.

Thanks to the decisive contribution of Russia, it was possible to defeat ISIS and inflict irreparable damage on other structures of the terrorist international. As a result of the concerted efforts of the partners in the "Astana format" - Russia, Iran, Turkey - a stable regime of cessation of hostilities is provided in most of the territory of the SAR. Yet, separate hotbeds of tension still remain in Idlib, where the terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra and allied bandit formations have dug in, as well as in the zones of the illegal US military presence in Trans-Euphrates and At-Tanf.

Taking an uncompromising position on international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and providing military assistance to eliminate it on Syrian soil, Russia firmly and consistently stands for a political settlement of the internal conflict in Syria. We are deeply convinced that it has no military solution. We are committed to the political process, led and carried out by the Syrians themselves on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 2254. We are doing our best in contacts with the Government of the SAR and representatives of the opposition to promote it.

Syringe

How the NATO Alliance is fighting Russian's Sputnik V vaccine with subsidies from state budgets and the Gates Foundation, hidden by the Financial Times

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When the organ claiming to be the world's leading financial newspaper conceals the large price subsidy for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines manufactured by the NATO allies, in order to accuse Russia of price gouging the poor, you can be sure you are watching an information warfare attack.

And when the concealment of the vaccine subsidy operation run by GAVI and COVAX hides the fact that the UK, US, and the Bill Gates (lead image, right) and Melinda Gates Foundation are paying 92% of the $10 billion scheme, then you realise that Covid-19 vaccines are a weapon of war.

A war, not only against Russia, but also against China.

GAVI stands for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation. Originally established with $750 million from the Gates Foundation in 1999, it is based in Geneva and Washngton, DC, and directed by an epidemiologist, Seth Berkley (lead image, centre). He's an American doctor whose previous jobs were also funded by Gates and several NATO governments, and before that by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Comment: John's article does not look to the efficacy of vaccines per se, no, that is another big subject - see here for how it is going:

Objective:Health - Holocaust 2.0 - Vaccine Deaths on the Rise in Multiple Countries

However, John is exposing the financial legerdemain using Covid-19 vaccines as a "weapon of war" by the NATO Alliance. Gates, and by extension the pharmaceutical industry, knows and has publicly stated that vaccines are "The Best Investment I've Ever Made" in an industry with 20-to-1 returns. Russia and China are thus being discouraged from being in this vaccine club, and all the stops seem to be put into play in this medical war.

Thomas Jefferson



Stop

America's critical race delusion must be stopped

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According to information obtained from a Buffalo Public Schools district whistleblower instead of working on practical measures to improve the district's dismally low academic performance, administrators have implemented "equity based instructional strategies." The centerpiece of this view is that "America is built on racism," a view propagated by district diversity czar Fatima Morrell. She has also proclaimed that "America's sickness" leads some to believe that blacks are "not human," making it easier to "shoot someone in the back seven times if you feel like it."

The view that education should be shaped through a framework that claims to resolve racial disparities is an appeal to an emerging scholarship known as critical race theory (CRT). This story is an all too common one in which American public institutions are being plagued by this ahistorical anti-American ideology. It is a negativist theory that relies on the ability to find racism in every facet of society and is propped up daily by divisive media talking heads who push discordant content for views and clicks.

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It's time for Red States to start nullifying federal law

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Red skies and a storm brewing!
As we all know, the last election was a "tipping point" election on many different levels. An election won with the use of illegal last-minute changes to state election laws has led to a rogue regime that threatens the very foundations of America. This is being achieved through highly questionable executive orders, the decimation of the concept of national sovereignty and an attack on fossil fuels, the lifeblood of our economy. Moreover, Biden is converting our military into a social justice agency and transforming our intelligence services into witch-hunters for conservatives who dared to protest a stolen election.

More alarming is the left's goal to make its political power permanent by granting amnesty to 20-30 million illegal aliens, granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court, and normalizing the censorship of conservatives, not to mention the institutionalizing of election fraud, especially in key swing states.

There is little doubt, if history is our guide, that should the left achieve permanent political power, future elections will just become "show" elections, our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights will be diminished, if not gutted, and our economy will become permanently stagnant as with all other socialist economies in the world. It will be the beginning of the end of America as we know it.


Comment: Some admit we are well down that road.


Comment: Common sense, law of the land, public vigilance and active resolve are necessary to uphold and enforce the power of the people. These protections are only as good as their utilization.