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Retired Army colonel breaks down how bad Milley's actions really were

Nick Arama
RedState
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:00 UTC
Milley
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Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
Retired Army Colonel Douglas McGregor appeared with Tucker Carlson last night to talk about the bombshell information about Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley. McGregor was formerly senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump.

As we previously reported, according to information in a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley spoke with his counterpart in China and assured him that he would tell him if we were going to attack them. Milley did not tell the president about this contact with the Chinese.

On top of that, as we reported, he allegedly interfered in the ability of the president to solely dictate military/nuclear action by telling senior military officials that no action should be taken without him being involved.

This all came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke to Milley and other senior military leaders and demanded that he do something about President Donald Trump. She was told at the time that would amount to a military coup. We reported that back on Jan. 9.

But then, according to Woodward and Costa, Milley acted on it, basically subverting the chain of command at the behest of Pelosi, basically carrying out a coup.

McGregor detailed to Tucker Carlson how wrong this all was:


Comment: It is clear General Milley was not in service to his President, but to the Democratic hierarchy. Given his career should soon be vaporizing, perhaps there is a vacancy to fill on MSNBC.



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Scores of US Vessels with 'stolen Syrian oil' leave Arab republic for Iraq

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
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© AFP 2021/Delil Souleiman
Big rig oil transporters
Earlier this year, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby argued that the US military presence in north-eastern Syria is aimed at ensuring the "enduring defeat" of Daesh terrorists, and that Washington is not involved in exploiting the region's oil resources. A convoy of 70 US vehicles, including tankers loaded with "stolen Syrian oil", have made their way out of north-eastern Syria into Iraq via the al-Waleed border crossing, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) has reported.The Syrian government does not have any control over the al-Waleed border crossing and therefore deems it illegal.
"SANA cited unnamed sources as saying that the convoy included trucks carrying several cannons and military vehicles belonging to the US forces."
Friday's incident is the latest in a series of instances of the illegal smuggling of Syrian oil by the US and its Kurdish allies that have reported Syrian media over the past several months.

Last month, SANA claimed that an 80-vehicle convoy from the al-Jazeera region had been taken out of the country, again using the al-Waleed crossing. Before that, 25 more oil carriers were spotted driving through the border crossing into Iraq.

Comment: "Move along...nothing to see."

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Haiti PM Ariel Henry replaces justice minister after sacking prosecutor who wanted to charge him for assassination of Moise


Al Jazeera
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:33 UTC
Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry
© Matias Delacroix/The Associated Press / File
Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry, pictured, has replaced the country's justice minister as the country's political crisis grows
The reshuffle comes as attention turned to phone calls Henry made to suspect in President Jovenel Moise assassination.

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has replaced the country's justice minister, days after firing a chief public prosecutor who had called for Henry to be charged in connection with the July assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

The latest fractures in a deepening political crisis in the Caribbean nation also included the resignation of the secretary-general of Haiti's Council of Ministers, Renald Luberice, who said in a letter on Wednesday he could not remain under the direction of a prime minister who "does not intend to cooperate with justice, seeking, on the contrary, by all means, to obstruct it".

Comment: The Haiti hit has the stench of Deep State regime change operation all over it.

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Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft: Waging a domestic War on Terror™ and making billions in the process

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:06 UTC
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A new report has laid bare the relationship between Silicon Valley and the American state, and the trillions of dollars they have made since 9/11.

The War on Terror was a veritable feeding frenzy for defense contractors, with the sector profiting to the collective tune of trillions. However, it wasn't the only industry cashing in - as a new report produced by three US campaign groups reveals, "household names in tech like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have respectively reaped billions from selling tech to the war machine."

In all, 86% of government contracts awarded to Amazon and 77% to Google to date are said to have been related to the War on Terror. That income played a pivotal role in transforming these organizations from small start-ups, literally operating from basements, into global behemoths. What's more, the crosshairs of this effort have now been turned inward, with everything from databases to drones repurposed for domestic use.
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Short-sighted: France suspends 3,000 unvaccinated health workers without pay


France 24
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:51 UTC
protest nurse forced vaccinaton
© Jeff Pachoud AFP/File
Many nurses have been reluctant to get vaccinated over safety or efficacy concerns
Thousands of health workers across France have been suspended without pay for failing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of a deadline this week, Health Minister Olivier Veran said Thursday.

"Some 3,000 suspensions were notified yesterday to employees at health centres and clinics who have not yet been vaccinated," Veran told RTL radio.

He added that "several dozens" had turned in their resignations rather than sign up for the jabs.

That compares with 2.7 million health workers overall, Veran said, adding that "continued healthcare is assured".

Comment: So how easily does the French health system think it's going to be to replace these highly-specialized staff members? Then they will cry "the system is overwhelmed", without a thought to the idiocy of the move in the first place. This is pandering to their financial masters.

Some have noticed the glaring contradiction, valid regardless of the country:





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Russia demands answers from US ambassador over 'election interference,' as Moscow says it has proof of 'serious' sabotage efforts


RT
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:40 UTC
lavrov
© Sputnik
Russian officials are waiting for an answer after presenting the American ambassador with a dossier on purported examples of US attempts to interfere in the country's upcoming elections, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, the top diplomat claimed that the evidence was compelling, and had been presented to Ambassador John Sullivan, who was summoned for a meeting on Friday. "The evidence was given to him," Lavrov said. "It is quite serious, really. We are still waiting for an answer from our American colleagues why this is happening."

The charges, he said, relate to the refusal of US tech companies to block access to prohibited content. Last week, Russia's digital watchdog, Roskomnadzor, issued a sternly worded warning to companies like Apple and Google, as well as VPN service providers Cloudflare and Cisco, in which it said the firms were violating the country's election laws.
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Snakes in Suits

The Banality of (Financial) Evil

Charles Hugh Smith
oftwominds.com
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
cultural revolution
The financialized American economy and State are now totally dependent on a steady flow of lies and propaganda for their very survival. Were the truth told, the status quo would collapse in a putrid heap.

Go ahead and be evil, because everyone else is evil, too, because being evil serves everyone's interests far better than maintaining integrity, for integrity will cost you more than you can afford.

In other words, lying, fraud, embezzlement, misrepresentation of risk, material misrepresentation of facts, half-truths, the replacement of statements of fact with propaganda and spin: these are not the work of a scattered handful of sociopaths: they represent the very essence and heart of America's economic status quo.

Hannah Arendt coined the phrase the banality of evil to capture the essence of the Nazi regime in Germany: doing evil wasn't abnormal, it was normal. Doing evil wasn't an outlier of sociopaths, it was the everyday "job" of millions of people, and not just Nazi Party members.

Not naming evil is the key to normalizing evil. Evil must first and foremost be derealized (a key concept in the Survival+ critique), detached from our realization and awareness by naming it something innocuous.

Here is a telling excerpt from the book Triumph of the Market:
Normalization of the unthinkable comes easily when money, status, power, and jobs are at stake.... Intellectuals will be dredged up to justify their (actions). The rationalizations are hoary with age: government knows best, ours is a strictly defensive effort, or, if it wasn't me somebody else would do it. There is also the retreat to ignorance, real, cultivated, or feigned.
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Cameras installed at Iran's nuclear sites under JCPOA deactivated after other parties fail to honor commitments


PressTV
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:05 UTC
iran nuclear
© AP
FILE PHOTO: An Iranian technician walks through the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the central city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran.
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the cameras installed at the country's nuclear sites as part of the 2015 nuclear deal were deactivated due to the failure of the other parties to live up to their commitments.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday on the sidelines of a meeting of the Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Mohammad Eslami said that under regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Safeguards Agreement, the agency's cameras record data at Iran's nuclear sites just like other sites across the world.

"In addition to the obligations that Iran needs to undertake under the Safeguards Agreement and it needs to be transparent, a number of cameras were installed as part of the JCPOA. However, the other parties did not honor their commitments, so there was no need to keep the cameras," he explained.

Comment: With regards to the nuclear deal, Iran doesn't have much room to manoever, and if the West and its allies were so concerned about developments like that then it should behoove them to get them back to the negotiating table. Alas, it's likely that part of the real reason behind the JCPOA game is as much about containing Iran, and, by-proxy, its business partners, like China, as it is about genuine concerns over its enrichment program:

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Snakes in Suits

Senator demands to know "Who cuts off Biden's mic?"; "We need to know who's in charge"; "This is a puppeteer act"

Steve Watson
Summit News
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:18 UTC
senator risch
© DREW ANGERER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Leftists claim that it's 'absurd,' 'bizarre' and 'ridiculous' to suggest Biden is being muted by someone during live streams, despite clear evidence.

Republican Senator James Risch demanded Tuesday to know who is in charge of cutting off Joe Biden's microphone when he goes off script, as has been witnessed several times over the past few months.

During a hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Risch asked Secretary of State Anthony Blinken who is "calling the shots?"

"One of the things we need to get to the bottom to is who is responsible for this? Who made the decisions?" Risch said, referring to Biden's Afghanistan debacle. The Senator then added that Biden "can't even speak without someone in the White House censoring it or signing off on it."

Comment: See also: White House livestream cuts Biden mid-sentence as he goes off script

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Pirates

UK cabinet shuffle: Raab gifted deputy prime minister job despite holidaying at beach during Afghan evacuation

Rob Merrick
Independent
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:30 UTC
dominic raab
© (AP)
Mr Raab becomes justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor and deputy prime minister - after tussle with Boris Johnson
Dominic Raab has been demoted from the post of foreign secretary - but handed the title of deputy prime minister, in an apparent consolation prize.

He will become the justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor and deputy prime minister, in the first Cabinet appointment made by Boris Johnson.

Mr Raab has been in the firing line since staying on holiday in Crete as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and for criticism of his department's handling of the crisis.

Comment: Whilst maneuvers like this can provide clues as to some of the jockeying behind the scenes and who is the next favorite to become the establishment mouth piece, as we've seen over the past 17+ months of internationally coordinated, nonsensical lockdowns, with much testing of the totalitarian waters and shameless backtracking, the ones making the real decisions aren't in the public eye, and the agenda they're working towards is not guided by a democratic mandate.

Further, judging by politicians' profiteering, brazen deception and hypocrisy, during this manufactured crisis, it would appear that much of the political class suffer from character disorders: And check out SOTT radio's:


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