[American Thinker] Is the Biden administration's messy withdrawal from Afghanistan incompetence, or is it exactly as planned? Is there a hidden globalist plan aimed at empowering Islamic governments in the Mideast? If yes, how would empowering the Taliban fit in the larger plan of globalists and believers in the New World Order?
Socialists and globalists, whose home today is in the Democrat party, have been speaking about their lofty plans for decades, constantly testing the waters of public opinion and speaking from both sides of their mouths. They insert insane ideas in the American psyche, then quickly deny they really said what they said. After speaking about her dream of an open border, Hillary Clinton denied her comments by saying she meant only to call for reforms but not open borders. But if we dare take their comments seriously, we are branded conspiracy theorists.
After decades of listening to the far left, by now we, the people of America, should more or less know where the modern-day Democrat party intends to take America and how these people envision the world. Now it's up to us to put two and two together and start uncovering what the deceptive left is really telling us. Those who reject globalism and the New World Order should start analyzing and exposing globalist policies. We should stop accusing the left of being incompetent because it is not.
All we need to do is listen to globalists — their plans, lies, hidden agendas — and expose them even when they give us double-messages aimed at throwing us off if we take their words seriously. We can't be intimidated when they accuse us of being conspiracy theorists. It's time to put the socialist-globalist agenda into perspective and connect it with their policies and behavior, instead of just calling them incompetent or accuse them of not caring about the unintended consequences. This is because the consequences are actually intended.
Western globalists aim at eliminating borders between nations, and they have no problem starting themselves, in America and Western Europe. Such an agenda, if fully understood, should explain why modern-day Democrats have no fear of China while fearing and hating their own patriotic citizens who oppose globalism and love American sovereignty. It's unimaginable that Democrats defended China over their own President Trump, calling him "racist" after he referred to COVID as the "China Virus."
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The cancer started in 1948 after WW2 demobilization, the Berlin Blockade and the reintroduction of the draft when the Pre-Beltway decided to become the world's policeman. It ultimately cost you the old republic.
[UNZ] With the American media as master of ceremonies, pundits and politicians—all partners in the neocon-neoliberal joint venture in Afghanistan—are barking mad over the images coming out of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, and the reality these optics portend.
Naturally, media "reporting" from Afghanistan is nothing but an unremitting sentimental gush, aimed at creating a state of heightened emotions.
"The children; the children; the translators; the translators. Americans held hostage behind enemy lines. ’Teach the Taliban a lesson, Corn Pop,’" demanded a "macho" personality at Fox News. The same litany runs on a continuous loop.
Forbes reporters dissolved into puddles of tears at the sight of U.S. Air Force pilots bringing in plane loads of young, strong, military-aged men, unfreighted by women and children.
On August 20, about 5,700 people had been flown out of Kabul. Only 169 were American. "Make no mistake," slobbered Forbes, "lifting six times more people than an aircraft is designed to seat is a heroic achievement of logistics, skill and sheer grit."
I see a medal of commendation in the future of the Empire’s Pilot, who commandeered a U.S. Air Force C-17 to airlift 800 Afghani passengers from Kabul to Qatar.
[OneIndia] The focus in Afghanistan has changed from the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Khorasan Province (ISKP) following the deadly suicide kabooms at the Kabul Airport on Thursday.
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Last para by DoD tool. Complete fabrication or half truth?
Some things the journos didn't mention, probably because they don't know. Ground realities and nitty gritty about IS-K.
The IS-K, maybe due to their brotherhood leanings, does not enjoy Islamabad's blessings or the jamaats' goodwill. For funding they serve as mercenaries and button men for whoever needs extra manpower, needs to false flag an attack on himself, for political assassination, spreading terror, discrediting a regime, whatever. One can also outsource a proxy suicide attack to them. Make the drop, and everything from explosive to an allah-mad sasquatch are ready to deliver your intended level of mayhem. They do not distinguish between clients over religion, country, loyalty, whatever. Sometimes, you can even have them sell out their own loyalists for the right price. Because IS-K need money. There's no ISI funneling them salaries like the Hizb or the Lashkar.
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According to a Transnational Threats Project report by CSIS on Salafi-jihadist groups, IS-K's fighting force had fallen from 4000 to 800 from 2016 to 2018. When former Taliban commander, Qari Hekmatullah, pledged allegiance to IS-K in 2016 he had brought over several wahhabis to the group. His networks in north Afghanistan facilitated the Islamic State’s expansion in the province from March 2018 until his death by airstrike. They expanded in Pakistan because everyone from local jamaats to the ISI kept contracting them for political work.
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Later, to escape the FATF blacklist, Pakistan's 'anti-terrorist' [much like ANSDF's great warfighting] ops against them from 2019 onward only obfuscated their real numbers. But it is speculated they have been recruiting steadily from the wahhabis and forming covert cells in Pak, Afghanistan and India. Their grand ambitions, mentioned in their insipid charter read like a comic book villain speech. The rhetoric and random sasquatchery is just them fooling their own recruits and occasional financiers about world domination, but they're basically mercs and covert muscle.
This attack has been engineered by the ISI, I'm sure of it.
This is just one more ice cream cone that has been unwrapped for the US by the Pakistain ISI. I was thinking they'd get the taliban to do it, but those turbans are smartening up for the UNs and World banks. So... IS-K it is.
The perpetrators could be culled effectively only if the US does not pu$$yfoot around Pakistain. For that matter so could have the taliban, long ago before this fiasco ever reached the tables in Qatar.
[Foreign Affairs] How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power
Although many Americans were slow to realize it, Beijing’s enmity for Washington began long before U.S. President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and even prior to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012. Ever since taking power in 1949, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has cast the United States as an antagonist. But three decades ago, at the end of the Cold War, Chinese leaders elevated the United States from just one among many antagonists to their country’s primary external adversary—and began quietly revising Chinese grand strategy, embarking on a quest for regional and then global dominance.
The United States and other free societies have belatedly woken up to this contest, and a rare spirit of bipartisanship has emerged on Capitol Hill. But even this new consensus has failed to adequately appreciate one of the most threatening elements of Chinese strategy: the way it exploits vital aspects of American and other free societies and weaponizes them in the service of Chinese ambitions. Important U.S. institutions, especially in finance and technology, cling to self-destructive habits acquired through decades of "engagement," an approach to China that led Washington to prioritize economic cooperation and trade above all else.
If U.S. policymakers and legislators find the will, however, there is a way to pull Wall Street and Silicon Valley back onside, convert the United States’ vulnerabilities into strengths, and mitigate the harmful effects of Beijing’s political warfare. Longish, but important essay at link.
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[REGNUM] On August 26 (September 8), 1904, it became finally clear - the troops of the Manchurian army left Liaoyang. On this day, General-Advisor was appointed to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs. general - l. book
The general had a reputation for being gentle. Witte rejoiced, who believed that now was the time for a new policy. Both the rumors and the reputation were justified.
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[National Interest] Here's What You Need To Remember: With the federal deficit growing, the military is likely to see some lean years.
Is it worth sacrificing some F-35s and aircraft carriers to trim the federal budget deficit?
That’s one option on the table, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO estimates that if current spending continues, the $779 trillion deficit in 2018 will double to $1.4 trillion by 2028, which means the share of GDP eaten up by debt is soaring from 3.8 percent today to 4.8 percent.
With numbers like that, hundred-million-dollar warplanes and $13 billion aircraft carriers become tempting targets for the budgeteer.
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Instead, how about deporting illegal aliens instead of paying them to live here? And then you could let our people get back to work so you don't have to pay rent and healthcare for them and stimulate them into buying plastic crap from China? Then they could pay taxes to Uncle Sam instead of getting stimulus checks from Uncle Sam? Am I making too much sense?
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...but, but its all Central Planning (Politburo copyright).
[FOX] Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was relieved for cause after demanding that senior U.S. leaders hold themselves accountable for actions made during the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan that led to the deaths of 13 service members.
Officials confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that 11 Marines, an Army soldier and a Navy corpsman were killed in explosions near Kabul's airport Thursday. Another 169 Afghans were killed, according to two officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Scheller, a father of three who has been in the USMC Infantry for 17 years, mentioned senior military leaders including Marine Commandant Gen. David H. Berger, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley, whom he said are "supposed to advise."
"I'm not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, ’Hey, it’s a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone’? Did anyone do that? And when you didn’t think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, ’We completely messed this up’?"
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He went public and to the press. He should be relieved for cause and booted. He is correct in his statements, but he is not going to get away with public statements questioning the leadership.
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Looks like he's been relieved of duty.
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Colonel Scheller actually agrees with you, 49 Pan. According to the article
Scheller wrote in a Friday update posted to Facebook that he had been "relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence."
"My chain of command is doing exactly what I would do … if I were in their shoes," he wrote. "I appreciate the opportunities AITB command provided. To all the news agencies asking for interviews… I will not be making any statements other than what’s on my social platforms until I exit the Marine Corps."
He continued: "America has many issues … but it’s my home … it’s where my three sons will become men. America is still the light shining in a fog of chaos. When my Marine Corps career comes to an end, I look forward to a new beginning. My life’s purpose is to make America the most lethal and effective foreign diplomacy instrument. While my days of hand-to-hand violence may be ending … I see a new light on the horizon."
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The man does has a point. Maybe if someone further up the food chain had been willing to go this far, the retreat from Afghanistan would not have been such a mess.
I'm human. I can understand how someone might value position and pension over what we are seeing now. But that does not mean I respect it.
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He's likely served beyond his 18 year lock-in for retirement at 20 years. He'll never make 06, but perhaps that was never his intent. Retiring as an 05 is not so bad. Somebody had to say it. He was the somebody. He'll sleep well at night and likely go on to a very successful second career.
Meanwhile, the senior leadership in DoD remain silent, going along and getting along.
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I'll ask the question again. How many of the GO ranks resigned in protest of the direction of the war from the White House? One thing we do know having lived in the beast is that 'integrity' starts to disappear the higher the rank of the individual.
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Hope he retires to a state with an upcoming Senate opening
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For Besoeker:
Scheller, a father of three who has been in the USMC Infantry for 17 years,
Could he have served in another capacity before being USMC Infantry?
Yes he could have TW. I suspect he'll be assigned to some obscure position and will be allowed to float his way to sanctuary (18 year lock-in) for retirement at 20 years. Having been selected for battalion command, I'm sure his annual fitness reports (FITREPS) or (Officer Efficiency Reports - OER's in the army) are stellar. Battalion command in the Marine Corps is highly competitive. If for some reason he is brought up on charges and booted from the service, he'll likely still get separation pay (SEP PAY), which could be a nice check. I doubt he'll be booted. My guess is he'll drop his retirement paperwork at the earliest opportunity. He knew the likely outcome, but we've lost a fine officer.
The unspoken downside - this incident is being seared into the brain housing group of every young officer on active duty, Army, Navy, USMC, USAF, the lot.
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He did what he expected the senior leaders to do, he called bullshit and accepted the consequences in exchange for his honor.
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In a 1978 OCS discussion group with a soon to be retired Major General of significant accomplishment during his career, I remember his "silver bullet" anecdote. In the short version, it was that as a GO he had achieved more than expected career goals, and his seniority and visibility gave his actions a certain enhanced visibility. This gave him a single "silver bullet" to use onlyh once, in a career ending act of public disagreement, wherein he could publicly resign/retire because he would NOT support some order or policy that he knew was wrong. It was a way to leave with honor and integrity from a cherished insititution, but also to protect the Army from idiocy by using his one silver round to kill a terrible idea, and by extension, the author of it. WHere is that ethos in the GO ranks today? I
to protect the Army from idiocy by using his one silver round to kill a terrible idea, and by extension, the author of it.
I don't recall anything like that ever happening in US history.
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General Mark A. Milley is a Socialist/Liberal/Loser/Lier. For example he lied saying he had a confrontation with Trump in the White House Situational Room. Trump said that never happened because if there had been a confrontation he would have fired Milley on the spot.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin used his skin color to snag sweetheart positions on the board of directors for several defense contractors, raking in millions of dollars while encouraging others who complained of white supremacy throughout the US.
[SteynOnline] On the day that twelve US Marines and some 150 civilians were blown apart by suicide bombers, it was heartening to learn what real heroism is.
Until January 6th, the highlight of Michael Byrd's "law-enforcement" career was leaving his loaded Glock in a congressional men's room and paying no price. He "serves" with the grotesquely misnamed "Capitol Police", which is not a police department but a praetorian guard - a personal security team for the praetors of Congress. Lieutenant Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, a 5'2" unarmed woman, because "she was posing a threat to the US House of Representatives".
All that has been known for months by anyone who wanted to know. The only real news in NBC's Byrd exclusive was the level of his self-congratulation:
I believe I showed the utmost courage on January 6.
His interviewer, Lester Holt, did not respond: "Er, hang on, isn't that the kind of thing you're meant to leave for someone else to say about you?"
And did he have to say "utmost"? Even in as unutterably vulgar an age as ours, is even Michael Byrd incapable of imagining any "courage" greater than his own?
Ah, well, don't over-think it; it's just one of those phrases, half-remembered by Byrd from some Rose Garden medal ceremony he caught on TV: "utmost" goes with "courage" like "white" goes with "supremacist" and "domestic" goes with "terrorist".
America is a land that tends to the utmost in all things. At the end of the nineteenth century, Bernard Shaw popularized the term "chocolate soldier" - the dashing hussar who is useless in battle but looks good in a uniform. We have the tutti-frutti generals: Thoroughly Modern Milley and his chums, whose diversity ribbons from shoulder to scrotum advertise their own utmostness even as they explain why everything going wrong merely demonstrates how everything is going right.
The tutti-frutti generals report to the ice-cream commander-in-chief melting all over the lectern every afternoon. His predecessor was on telly all day every day; Mr Biden was sold to head-in-the-sand Americans as the quiet-life guy who wouldn't be in your face. Unfortunately, when your countrymen get blown up by government blunders, the citizenry expects him to be in their faces at least every now and then. Across the Atlantic, Boris and the EU chaps were on the screen responding to an all too predictable atrocity. But in the White House Joe Biden's meds hadn't yet kicked in - or, conversely, they'd shot him the juice too early and it had worn off. So, as has become familiar, the melting waffle cone was hours late in tottering across the room, squinting into the camera and reading with woozy and wooden defiance. This time he gave it the full Corn Pop:
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As a general rule, if people have to tell you how awesome and amazing they are, they are not. Mr Byrd appears to be in the final stages of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome.
I still want to know who he works for. Yeah, the Capitol Police, but dollars to donuts, he was detailed to look after someone special who would find this all quite embarrassing.
...Professor Dan Ariely, “superstar honesty researcher”...
commit fraud — he says no — or was the data set he got from an insurance company faked for some reason? People are looking into that, but in a way the problem is bigger. Whether or not it was Ariely’s fault, a study that influenced policy turns out to have been baseless. And scientific peer review, often defended as the gold standard for research, didn’t spot the problem.
But lots of stuff gets past peer review. Back in 2018, several hoaxers slipped works dubious on their face past peer review and into publication. One study, which made it into the journal Sex Roles, employed "thematic analysis of table dialogue" to determine why heterosexual men go to Hooters, a question that would seem to answer itself. Another looked at "Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon." And a third just scattered some modern buzzwords into translated passages from Mein Kampf and was published under the title "Our Struggle Is My Struggle" in a journal of feminist social work.
Meanwhile, ...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... leading names in the field of social psychology turn out to have committed research fraud to an extent that it tainted the entire field. And as The Wall Street Journal reported, "One noted biostatistician has suggested that as many as half of all published findings in biomedicine are false."
Research on "implicit bias" drives all sorts of campus and government policies on race and diversity, but the Implicit Association Test underlying it turns out to be highly dubious. In 2012, the firm Amgen set out to reproduce the results in 53 "landmark" studies in hematology and oncology. Only six of them replicated.
Indeed the term "replication crisis" is now often used to refer to a situation in which so many major and influential studies don’t produce the same results — or any results — when other researchers set out to test them. And it really is a crisis.
At one level, the problem is that billions in research money is wasted.
But really, the problem is worse: Bad research guides behavior — whether it’s government policy or drug-development budgets or energy research — in the wrong direction.
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I'm beginning to believe that contemporary science is the chimera offspring resulting from the (once thought impossible) successful mating of Marketing with Math.
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Follow the science....your genes say man or woman. (Yes, I'm aware of tiny percentage of actual genetic disorders and they don't count as normal). Follow the science....CO2 is plant food and we are STILL technically in CO2 starvation so far as the biosphere is concerned. Follow the science - THE SUN DRIVES Climate. So until these wackjobs can explain why in the 90's Mars got warmer, I'm following the science.
I'm not sure the word science means what they think it means.
We are hectored incessantly by "Science whacks" that humans are the main cause of "Climate Change (nee "global warming") with garboons of $Fed spent promoting the bovine excrement.
Yet, per FAA AC 00-68, a publication for those of a mature mental persuasion, "The sun is the dominant source of the
conditions commonly described as space weather. The term space weather is used
to designate processes occurring on the sun and in Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere,
and thermosphere, which have the potential to affect the near-Earth environment.
Emissions from the sun are both continuous (e.g., solar luminescence and solar wind) and
eruptive (e.g., coronal mass ejections (CME) and flares). These solar eruptions may cause
radio blackouts, magnetic storms, ionospheric storms, and radiation storms at Earth." [Sec. 23.1].
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Thinker] Is the Biden administration's messy withdrawal from Afghanistan incompetence, or is it exactly as planned? Is there a hidden globalist plan aimed at empowering Islamic governments in the Mideast? If yes, how would empowering the Taliban fit in the larger plan of globalists and believers in the New World Order?
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