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EDITORIAL
There are two main
Deep State teams that benefit from the Defeat
Narrative currently filling every facet of the
mainstream and alternative media.
One team promotes the Defeat Narrative knowing a demoralized nation is easier to conquer. This debacle was planned. There was no intelligence or military failure. Our leaders wanted this outcome. The oft-repeated narrative and graphic images of defeat serve the sinister agenda of the Great Reset. There can be no hegemons in the new world order. The last remaining superpower had to be taken down a notch or two or three. A smaller team apparently promotes the Defeat Narrative hoping a significant number of Americans will demand the return of the military to Afghanistan to rescue those left behind on purpose and to make things right. This team represents the merchants of death. We have covered the Afghan debacle not to promote the Defeat Narrative, but to reiterate how corrupt, depraved and degenerate the military and civilian leaders of America are. Afghanistan is not worth another American life lost or another dollar spent. Let the Graveyard of Empires become an empire of graveyards. Expect much more death and chaos in that very poor country. Forget about them and pay attention to what our corrupt, depraved and degenerate military and civilian leaders have planned for us. The American military is transporting Taliban militants to America. Out of 122,000 flown out in the last two weeks only about 6000 were U.S. citizens. The Afghan "refugees" are not being vetted. Remember the Trojan horse. Our leaders have opened the gates to a modern version of the Trojan horse. Remember these words. Know that our government created the Taliban, financed the Taliban, allowed the Taliban to take control in 1996, fought the Taliban half-heartedly for twenty years and has now returned Afghanistan to them. Unfortunately, it is bringing a bit of Afghanistan to America. 2021-08-31 g DARN THAT KHALILZAD The Afghanistan Debacle, Zalmay
Khalilzad and The Great Reset
2021-08-31
fMuch of the world is shocked by the apparent incompetence of the Biden Administration in the human and geopolitical catastrophe that is unfolding in Afghanistan. While Biden speaks out of both sides of his pre-scripted mouth, stating that everyone else is to blame than his decisions, then stating “the buck stops here,” only adds to the impression that the once sole-superpower is in terminal collapse. Could it be that this is all part of a long-term strategy to end the nation state in preparation for the global totalitarian model sometimes called the Great Reset by the Davos cabal? The 40 year history of the Afghan US war and the Afghani Pashtun who shaped the policy until today is revealing . The airwaves of mainstream media across the globe are filled with questions of military incompetence or intelligence failure or both. It is worthwhile to examine the role of the Biden Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the State Department, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad. For the one figure who has shaped strategic US foreign policy since 1984 in the Administration of Bush Sr., and has been US Ambassador to both Afghanistan and to Iraq at key times during the US wars there, as well as the key figure in the present debacle, astonishingly little media attention has been given the 70-year old Afghan-born operative. The Shadowy Khalilzad Khalilzad, an ethnic Pashtun born and raised in Afghanistan until High School, is arguably the key actor in the unfolding Afghan drama, beginning with the time he was the architect of the radical transformation under Bush Jr of US strategic doctrine to “preventive wars.” He was involved in every step of the US policy in Afghanistan from CIA training Taliban Mujihideen Islamists (organization banned in Russia) in the 1980’s to the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to the Doha deal with the Taliban and the current disastrous collapse. The May 8 1992 New York Times reported on a leaked Pentagon draft ,later called the Wolfowitz Doctrine after the Pentagon official under then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Paul Wolfowitz had been charged by Cheney with drafting a new US global military posture following the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to the Times leak, the document argued that, “the US must become the world’s single superpower and must take aggressive action to prevent competing nations—even allies such as Germany and Japan—from challenging US economic and military supremacy.” It further stated, “We must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.” It was de facto a declaration of unilateral imperialism. At the time Zalmay Khalilzad worked under Wolfowitz as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, where he was tasked with drafting the new doctrine, working with Wolfowitz and outside consultants, including Khalilzad’s doctorate professor at the University of Chicago, RAND neo-conservative “godfather”, Alfred Wohlstetter. Wolfowitz had also studied at Chicago under Wohlstetter. This group became the core of the so-called neo-conservative warhawks. Khalilzad once said Cheney personally credited the young Afghani for the strategy document, allegedly telling Khalilzad, “You’ve discovered a new rationale for our role in the world.” That “discovery” was to transform America’s role in the world in a disastrous way. Khalilzad’s highly controversial policy proposal, while it was later deleted from the published document by the Bush White House, reappeared a decade later as the Bush Doctrine under Bush Jr., also known as “preventive wars” and was used to justify the US invasions of Afghanistan and later Iraq. Bush jr., whose Vice President was Dick Cheney, initiated the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, urged on by his Afghan adviser, Zalmay Khalilzad, using the excuse that Osama bin Laden, the alleged architect of the 911 attacks, was hiding under protection of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, so the Taliban must be punished. In May, 2001, some four months before 911, Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had named Khalilzad as “Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues.” The “other regional issues” was to become huge. Khalilzad had headed the Bush-Cheney Transition team for the Department of Defense. His influence twenty years ago was enormous and largely hidden from public view. Former Khalilzad boss Wolfowitz was Number Two at the Bush Jr. Pentagon and former Khalilzad consulting client, Don Rumsfeld was Defense Secretary. Bush declared war against the Taliban regime for refusing to extradite the Saudi Jihadist Bin Laden [who had nothing to do with planning or executing the false flag 9/11 attacks.] There was no UN role, no debate in Congress. It was the new US doctrine from Khalilzad and Wolfowitz and their neo-con cabal, that might makes right. Here began the 20-year US debacle in Afghanistan that never should have begun in any sane world of rule by law. Taliban Origins The origins of the Taliban come out of the CIA project, initiated by Carter Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1979, of recruiting and arming radical Islamists from Pakistan, Afghanistan and even Saudi Arabia, to wage irregular warfare against the Soviet Red Army then in Afghanistan. The CIA code-named it Operation Cyclone and it lasted ten years until the Red Army withdrew in 1989. A Saudi-CIA asset, Osama bin Laden, had been brought into Pakistan to work with the Pakistani ISI intelligence to draw money and Jihadists from the Arab states into the war. A significant number of radicalized Afghan Pashtun students called Taliban or “seekers” were recruited from radical madrassas, some in Pakistan where the ISI protected them. That CIA war became the longest and most costly CIA operation in its history. By 1984 Khalilzad was in the middle of it all, as US State Department Afghan specialist. During the latter part of the 1980’s CIA war in Afghanistan, working with radical Islamist Mujahideen and Taliban mercenaries, Khalilzad emerged as the most influential US policy figure on Afghanistan. By 1988 Khalilzad had become the State Department’s “special advisor” on Afghanistan under former CIA head, George Bush Sr. In that post he was the one who dealt directly with the Mujahideen, including the Taliban. By then he had become close to Jimmy Carter’s Afghan war strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Joining the US State Department in 1984 after teaching at Brzezinski’s Columbia University, Khalilzad became Executive Director of the influential Friends of Afghanistan lobby where Brzezinski and Kissinger associate, Lawrence Eagleburger were members. The Friends of Afghanistan, with USAID money, lobbied Congress for major US support to the Mujahideen. Khalilzad also successfully lobbied to give advanced US Stinger missiles to the Mujahideen. During this period Khalilzad had dealings with the Mujahideen, Taliban, Osama bin Laden and what came to become al Qaeda (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). In the George W. Bush Administration, Khalilzad was named Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan in early 2002, and was directly responsible for installing CIA asset Hamid Karzai as Afghan president in 2002.Hamid’s brother, warlord of the country’s largest opium province, Kandahar, was paid by the CIA at least since 2001. Khalilzad was clearly aware. Khalilzad himself had reportedly been “selected” by CIA recruiter, Thomas E. Gouttierre, when Zalmay was an AFS exchange High School student in Ceres, California in the 1960s. Goutttierre headed the CIA-financed Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. That would explain his later career rise to extraordinary influence in US Afghan policy and beyond. Notably, the disgraced current Afghan “President in flight,” Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the American-appointed “co-president” of Afghanistan, was a classmate of Khalilzad in the early 1970s as an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, as were both of their future wives. Small world. By 1996 following several years of civil war among the rival factions of the CIA-backed Mujahideen the Taliban, backed by Pakistan’s ISI, took control of Kabul. The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan by 1996 was a direct consequence of Khalilzad’s arming and backing of the Mujahideen in the 1980s, including of Osama bin Laden. It was no accident or miscalculation. The CIA was in the business of weaponizing political Islam and Khalilzad was and is a key player in that. Khalilzad served as board member of the Afghanistan Foundation during the Clinton years, which advocated that the Taliban join forces with the anti-Taliban Mujahideen resistance groups. During the end of the Clinton Presidency Khalilzad played a key role in shaping the military agenda of the next President with his role in the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), together with Cheney, Wolfowitz, Don Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and others who played key policy roles in the George W. Bush presidency. After the 911 [false flag] attacks in 2001 Khalilzad orchestrated the Bush war against Taliban in Afghanistan and became Bush Envoy to Afghanistan. By November 2003 Khalilzad was US Ambassador to Afghanistan where his hand-picked President,Karzai, was installed. In February 2004 Ambassador Khalilzad welcomed US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and a Brigadier General Lloyd Austin in Kabul. Austin knows Khalilzad. By December 2002 Bush had appointed Khalilzad to be Ambassador at Large for Free Iraqis to coordinate “preparations for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.” Khalilzad and his PNAC neocon cronies had advocated a war to topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein since the late 1990s, well before 911. Two years later after the US war against Iraq began, Khalilzad was made Ambassador to Iraq. No one person has been more responsible for the rise of radical Islam terror groups from Taliban to al Qaeda in those two countries than Zalmay Khalilzad. No “Intelligence Failure” In 2018 Khalilzad was recommended by US Secretary of State and former CIA head Mike Pompeo, to be US “Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation” for the Trump Administration. There was no hint of reconciliation from Khalilzad or Taliban. Here the wily Khalilzad entered into exclusive US-Taliban talks with their exiled envoys in Doha Qatar, the pro-Taliban Gulf state that houses leading Muslim Brotherhood figures as well as Taliban. Qatar is reportedly a major money source for the Taliban. Khalilzad successfully pressed Pakistan to release the co-founder of Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the key strategist of the Taliban victory in 1996, so that Baradar could lead the talks with Khalilzad in Doha. Then-President Trump reportedly approved that Khalilzad would negotiate in Doha solely with the Taliban, without the Kabul regime present. Baradar signed the February 2020 “deal” negotiated by Khalilzad and Taliban, the so-called Doha Agreement, in which the US and NATO agreed to a total withdrawal, but without any Taliban power-sharing agreement with the Kabul Ghani government, as Taliban refused to recognize them. Khalilzad told the New York Times of his deal that Taliban had committed to “do what is necessary that would prevent Afghanistan from ever becoming a platform for international terrorist groups or individuals.” This was highly dubious and Khalilzad knew it, as Taliban and al Qaeda have been intimately linked since the 1980s arrival of Osama bin Laden in Afghanstan. The current leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is reportedly alive and in Taliban safe haven inside Afghanistan. In short, this is the “deal” Khalilzad struck with the Taliban for then-President Trump, a deal which was accepted by the Biden Administration with only a minor change stating initially that September 11, 2021 be the date of final US pullout. Talk about symbolism. The fall of Afghanistan was not the result of an “intelligence failure” by the CIA or a military miscalculation by Secretary Austin and the Pentagon. Both knew, as did Khalilzad, what they were doing. When Austin approved the secret dark-of-night abandonment of the strategic Bagram Airbase, largest US military base in Afghanistan, on July 4, without notifying the Kabul government, it made clear to the US-trained Afghan army that the US would give them no more air cover. The US even stopped paying them months ago, collapsing morale further. This was no accident. It was all deliberate and Zalmay Khalilzad was central to all. In the 1980s his role helped create the 1996 Taliban takeover, in 2001 the Taliban destruction, and now in 2021 the Taliban restoration. The
real gainer in this insanity is the globalist
agenda of so-called Davos “Great Reset” cabal who
are using it to destroy the global influence of
the United States, as Biden domestically destroys
the economy from within. No
nation, not Taiwan, not Japan, not Philippines,
not India or even Australia, nor any other nation
hoping for US protection in the future will be
able to trust Washington to hold its promises.
The [orchestrated] fall of Kabul is
the end of the American Century. Little
wonder the China media is filled with schadenfreude
and jubilation as the discuss Silk Road deals with
the Taliban. (read
more) F. William Engdahl is
strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a
degree in politics from Princeton University and
is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics,
exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” DARN AWFUL These reports out of Kabul are too awful
to believe
At this point, there are only two conclusions that can be drawn from what's happening in Afghanistan, beginning with Biden's decision to jettison Trump's careful plan and continuing through to the present day: (1) Everyone in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon is so incompetent that a roomful of drunk kindergartners could have handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan better than they have, or (2) What we're witnessing is deliberate. I can believe that of Biden, who is a Chinese puppet. That the Pentagon brass would engage in this conduct means that they too are on the Chinese payroll which is a very distressing thought. Alternatively, it's deliberate because these people have been so steeped in America-hatred that they are willingly sabotaging America to destroy it. They are the contents of the Trojan Horse. [They are deliberately demoralizing America because a demoralized nation can be conquered. This debacle was planned. The narrative and graphic images of defeat serve a sinister agenda.] Further support for complicity rather than incompetence comes from Lara Logan: Correct. and can be
STOPPED BY THE US IF IT CHOOSES TO DO SO. Spent
all night on
the phone with dozens of military & Intel people involved & the consensus: if the American people knew what capability we have that we are not using, they would be STUNNED. https://t.co/PmG5L30GSz — Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 28, 2021 For the past five days, at least once a day, I receive a submission from someone that ends with these words: God help us. That's never happened before. These authors understand, as I do, and I'm sure you do, that with the current configuration of the White House, the State Department, and Pentagon, God's help is all that we have left. (read more) 2021-08-31 e DARN IT. HISTORY DOES MATTER. The
Thirteen-Hundred-And-Eighty-Nine-Year War
During an interview regarding the recent suicide attack on Kabul airport, a former Navy SEAL quipped that no one making military decisions for the United States seems to have read a history book. Lack of knowledge, he implied, is partly why America [was thrust into an unwinnable war by the George Bush cabal of neocons. While the powers-that-be behind the inept and illegitimate Joe Biden have engineered] a humiliating and unconscionable defeat in Afghanistan, [George Bush and the entire Military-Industrial-Congressional complex own this defeat.] Here, then, is a short skeletal history of Muslim-Christian relations beginning with Islam’s founding in 622 AD by Muhammad, an Arab military leader intent on unifying the Arab world and conquering the rest. The lessons learned might put us on the right path forward. Muhammad died in 632 and, soon thereafter, his followers began Muslim military advances into the [Orthodox] Christian Levant. In your mind’s eye, if you can picture the Mediterranean Sea on your left, the landmass to its right – Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and part of Turkey—is known as the Levant, which means the place where the sun rises. A great trading center in ancient and medieval times, conquering the Levant was the Muslims first great conquest over the [Orthodox] Greeks at the Battle of Yarmuk, in 636, only four years after Muhammad’s death. Jerusalem surrendered in 638. Islam pushed on vigorously after this battle, sweeping over North Africa, uniting Arab countries, and setting its sights on conquering Constantinople, the [Byzantine] capital. Today, Constantinople is known as Istanbul and is part of Turkey. In 717, however, at what is known as the Siege of Constantinople, 80,000 Muslim troops and 1,880 galleys laid siege to the city. Possessing the equivalent of napalm, a fire that is very difficult to put out, the Greeks set fire to the galleys and after a year of siege and attack without success, Muslim forces retreated. This [Orthodox] Christian victory is thought to have slowed Muslim conquest of Europe but Islam penetrated Europe by crossing the Gibraltar Strait into Spain. Not content, in 732, Muslim forces moved north into what is now France. At this time France, western Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands were part of the Frankish Empire, led by Charles Martel, or Charles the Hammer, and his victory over the Muslim attack at the Battle of Tours, in France, is credited with reversing Islam’s spread in Europe. Christianity, not fully established in Western Europe at this time, began to unify Western Civilization around the Roman Catholic Church. [Throughout Europe, peasants believed Muslims were followers of a demon called the Termagant. The Church encouraged that belief.] So, here is one of the great moments of history. Were it not for Charles Martel, Europe would have been swept up in the advance of Islam instead of the advance of Christianity. One of the differences is Christianity’s mental openness to science and intellectual inquiry – hence the rise of the great universities of Europe and Europe’s eventual influence on America. The story does not end here. The struggle continued back and forth for another 1,289 years. Muslim Turks defeated the [Orthoxox] Christian Greeks at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. The Greeks had re-conquered the Levant in the 1100s but lost again at the Battle of Hattin in 1187. Back and forth it went. Muslim victories – then Christian victories – finally ending at the Siege of Acre in 1291 when the last of the Crusader influence was dispelled from the Holy Lands and the Hospitallers moved to Cyprus and Rhodes, where they held out until 1523. Islam had conquered [a large part of] Spain. Islam had conquered the Holy Lands. Islam had conquered the Levant. Islam laid siege to the [Byzantine] capital, Constantinople, which surrendered in 1453. That surrender marks the end of the Roman Empire [in the East] and a victory for the Muslim Ottomans. Painstakingly, Western Civilization began to fight back. Spain was [partially] re-conquered at the Battle of Navas de Tolosa in 1212. A fleet of the Holy League, mostly from Spain and Venice, fought the last rowing naval battle at Lepanto, in 1571, routing the Muslims. Finally, in 1683, the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire fought it out literally at the gates of Vienna. The Ottoman defeat there meant that Islam ceased to be a menace to the West, especially with the Ottoman Empire’s and caliphate’s final dissolution on March 23, 1924, after World War I. [What is now the middle and upper Atlantic seaboard of the] United Sates of] America was colonized by Christian Europe, specifically Protestant Christian Europe, beginning in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia, and Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Americans take for granted the intense battle for humanity’s mind that this history represents. The notion of natural individual rights through a Creator; the notion of the development of the person (male or female); the notion of personal Liberty; the notion of people as a reflection of the divine—the undergirding of our way of life is the result of being on the Western side of this [long] war. We are now at the [end of the historically inconsequential] Battle of Afghanistan, 2021. Because our military and political leaders have not read a history book, they deem it a 20-year war, but they are wrong. [Editor's Note: The concluding apocalyptic claptrap has been omitted.] (read more) 2021-08-31 d DARN SHAME THE VACCINE HESITANCY NARRATIVE IS SO WRONG Who’s Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer
May Surprise You
Big media has been in overdrive pushing COVID [spike protein mRNA gene therapy] vaccinations, at least after Joe Biden was ensconced in the White House. Remember that when Donald Trump was still president, the vaccines were suspect, simply because Trump played a major role in their development and rollout. Before the election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were vaccine-hesitant. Both cast doubt on the COVID vaccines, still in clinical trials last fall. Biden said, “I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don’t trust Donald Trump.” Did he believe Trump was cooking up the vaccines in the White House basement, the sole decision-maker regarding approval, ignoring the pharmaceutical companies creating the vaccines, overseen, and ultimately approved by the FDA, not the president? Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, cast similar doubt saying, "I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about. I will not take his word for it.” Again, it is the FDA, not the White House that is charged with approving vaccines. Trump can say what he wants but if the regulatory authorities say otherwise, that’s as far as it goes toward approval or usage. Look at hydroxychloroquine as an example. In a hyper-politicized country, Americans tend to believe those with whom they identify politically. Hence those on the right supporting hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic and those on the left, like Fox News's Neil Cavuto, saying “it will kill you.” If the future president and vice president were vaccine-hesitant, expect many Americans to adopt that view.  Once there was a new
occupant in the White House, the vaccine narrative
flipped and the administration embraced the new
[spike protein mRNA gene therapy shots called]
vaccines as if Biden and Harris conceived of and
developed them, rather than having the vaccines and
a robust rollout dropped on their laps when they
strolled into the White House.
At present, the
U.S. is 51 percent fully
vaccinated. While that may not seem like success, if
you break it down the numbers are more favorable.
62 percent of adults and 81 percent of the elderly
are fully
vaccinated. Another segment of the
population has natural immunity based on
having had COVID. Given natural infection as a
second and more
robust pathway toward herd immunity, America has
done well. Certainly better than countries like New Zealand, with only 24 percent of adults fully vaccinated and very little natural immunity as they are an island nation that has been largely cut off from the world for the past 18 months. Their population is being hit by COVID now with the inevitable surge [of just one] case [in mid August in Auckland] once this highly contagious virus variant got a foothold in the country. Who
isn’t yet vaccinated in America and why? There
is vaccine hesitancy, which according to Wikipedia “is a
delay in acceptance, or refusal of vaccines
despite the availability of vaccine services.”
It’s not simple and straightforward, either.
“Vaccine hesitancy is complex and context
specific, varying across time, place and vaccines.
It is influenced by factors such as complacency,
convenience, a fear of needles, or a lack of
understanding about how vaccines work.” Hesitancy is relative resistance, in comparison to those who are genuinely anti-vaccine, refusing any and all vaccines. A vaccine-hesitant person may be O.K. with routine childhood immunizations or a flu shot, but not the COVID or shingles vaccines. An anti-vaxxer would say 'no' to all of the above. Leaving aside the rationale or flaws behind these views, who are the vaccine-hesitant and why? The media has reported on this group and, not surprisingly, their characterizations may be inaccurate. Last March, Forbes reported that 49 percent of Republican men and 47 percent of Trump supporters will refuse any vaccine, setting the narrative for who is to blame now for the delta variant surge. Unknown then but known now is that the vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission. According to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky: “Vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus." [...]What is the media not saying about the vaccine-hesitant? As reported in Summit News, “A new report by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh has found that the most highly educated Americans are also the most vaccine hesitant.” This was not a survey of a few hundred, but of 5 million Americans. They found a U-shaped curve with the greatest hesitancy among the least and most educated. “The most common concern for those who are hesitant to take the vaccine is potential side effects, with a lack of trust in government close behind in second." So much for the media narrative that only the missing-teeth, knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal Trump supporters are against vaccination. Political party affiliation does not account for this as those with doctoral degrees tend to vote Democrat. Pew Research found, “highly educated adults also increasingly have liberal attitudes and values.” Why not with [these new] vaccines [that are gene therapy and not traditional vaccines]? A decision to be vaccinated involves looking at evidence, scientific studies and their validity, weighing risks and benefits, then arriving at a decision. This is the scientific method, something that most people with advanced degrees are quite familiar with. Are they seeing red flags in their analysis that the less-scrutinizing, including the media, are missing? Maybe they are thoughtfully, rather than blindly, following and questioning the science. For the uneducated, they may be more susceptible to conspiracy theories. Or perhaps they just mistrust the government and heavy-handed vaccine mandates which burden lower socio-economic groups far more than the Uber Eats and Whole Foods crowds that seem to do just fine under even the most draconian lockdowns and mandates. Public trust in government is quite low, at 24 percent, according to Pew Research. If the government says to take the vaccine, three of four may question that. Is that vaccine-hesitancy or government hesitancy? Another
group, not mentioned as vaccine-hesitant, is
blacks. According to the Kaiser
Family Foundation, the white
vaccination rate is 1.3 times higher than for
blacks. This is not education level-related but
instead may be a mistrust of “government
benevolence,” a remnant of the Tuskegee syphilis studies
where the U.S. government withheld disease
treatment in blacks as an experiment to learn the
natural history of syphilis. To be clear, for the benefit of any reader eager to report this article and author to the medical licensing board as being anti-vaccine, this is not medical advice for or against the vaccine. Instead, it is a commentary on who is vaccine-hesitant and why, an important public health concern if widespread vaccination is the goal. Rather than painting with a broad brush and making vaccine-hesitancy a political issue, the media should explore who is actually hesitant and why. Name-calling, condescension, and disparaging criticism will not win converts who have legitimate concerns. This is especially relevant after flip-flopping narratives, as in one month being told if you get vaccinated you no longer need to wear a mask, then the next month being told to mask up, even if outside and even if you are vaccinated. Regardless of motivations, disparate groups of Americans, independent of political affiliation, are vaccine-hesitant, contrary to the media narrative. It’s a public health disservice for the media to politicize everything, including the COVID [spike protein mRNA gene therapy so-called] vaccines. (read more) 2021-08-31 c DARN SHAME THE VAXX HURT OR KILLED YOU- THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE. Some actual news
About Moderna adverse event reports Covid vaccine maker Moderna received 300,000 reports of side effects after vaccinations over a three-month period following the launch of its shot, according to an internal report from a company that helps Moderna manage the reports. That figure is far higher than the number of side effect reports about Moderna’s vaccine publicly available in the federal system that tracks such adverse events. Vaccine manufacturers like Moderna are legally required to forward all side effect reports they receive to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, where they are made public each week. Run by the Centers for Disease Control and Food & Drug Administration, the VAERS system is crucial to tracking potential problems with vaccines. It helped scientists determine the Covid vaccines may cause heart problems in young adults. The reason for the gap is not clear. Moderna may simply still be processing the reports, though the number of reports about Moderna’s vaccine in VAERS from the first half of 2021 remained almost flat this week. Moderna and IQVIA, the company that works with Moderna to handle the reports, did not return emails for comment. The 300,000 figure comes from an internal update provided to employees by IQVIA, a little-known but enormous company that helps drugmakers manage clinical trials. Headquartered in North Carolina, IQVIA has 74,000 employees worldwide and had $11 billion in sales last year. Earlier this week, Richard Staub, the president of IQVIA’s Research & Development Solutions division, sent a “Q2 2021 update” which was labeled “Confidential - For internal distribution only.” A person with access to the presentation provided screenshots of the relevant slide, which clearly explains the 300,000 side effect reports were received over “a three-month span” - not since the introduction of the vaccine in December - and differentiates between them and “medical information queries.” The slide does not make clear what three months are covered but refers to the “global launch” of the vaccine, which essentially took place in the first quarter of 2021. Whether the slide is referring to January through March or April through June, the 300,000 figure dwarfs the number of reports in VAERS for the Moderna vaccine for either period. A query of VAERS this morning reveals roughly 110,500 adverse events reports worldwide for Spikevax completed from January through March. All but 650 were in the United States. VAERS also includes 78,000 reports completed from April through June, including 71,400 in the United States. Those figures overstate the number of reports Moderna has provided, because they include many reports from patients, physicians, and other health-care providers, as well as those from Moderna. — VAERS was established in 1990 and is jointly managed by the CDC and FDA, which contract with General Dynamics to administer it. It has struggled to keep up with the hundreds of thousands of reports it has received about the Covid vaccines since their rollout began in December. For much of the spring, it lagged months behind in making reports public. VAERS is usually characterized as a voluntary system. But physicians and healthcare providers are required to report certain serious post-vaccine side effects, including deaths. However, the CDC and FDA have no real way to check if they are doing so. Healthcare providers do have discretion over whether they report less serious side effects. Many have decided not to do so for the Covid vaccines, because the volume of reports is already so high. However, vaccine manufacturers must forward ALL reports they receive, as the VAERS Website makes clear. It distinguishes between healthcare providers, who are “strongly encouraged” to report various events, and manufacturers like Moderna, who “are required [emphasis added] to report to VAERS all adverse events that come to their attention.” Moderna’s stock has nearly quadrupled this year as sales of the Covid vaccine have soared. On Thursday, the company reported $4.4 billion in sales and $2.8 billion in profits for the second quarter. As of today’s update, VAERS contains more than 3,000 reports of deaths following Moderna vaccinations. (read more) 2021-08-31 b DARN RIGHT II President Joe Biden Joe
Biden This msg is for you! I know my face is etched
into your brain! I was able to look you straight in
the eyes yesterday and have words with you. After i
lay my son to rest you will be seeing me again!
Remember i am the one who stood 5 inches from your
face and was letting you know i would never get to
hug my son again, hear his laugh and then you tried
to interrupt me and give me your own sob story and i
had to tell you “that this isn’t about you so don’t
make it about you!!!” You then said you just wanted
me to know that you know how i feel and i let you
know that you don’t know how i feel and you do not
have the right to tell me you know how i feel! U
then rolled your fucking eyes in your head like you
were annoyed with me and i let you know that the
only reason i was talking to you was out of respect
for my son and that was the only reason why, i then
proceeded to tell you again how you took my son away
from me and how i will never get to hug him, kiss
him, laugh with him again etc… u turned to walk away
and i let you know my sons blood was on your hands
and you threw your hand up behind you as you walked
away from me like you were saying “ ok whatever!!!
You are not the president of the United States of
America Biden!!!! Cheating isn’t winning!!!You are
no leader of any kind! You are a weak human being
and a traitor!!!! You turned your back on my son, on
all of our Heros!!! you are leaving the White House
one way or another because you do not belong
there!MY SONS BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!!! All 13 of
them, their blood is on your hands!!!! If my
president Trump was in his rightful seat then my son
and the other Heros would still be alive!!!! You
will be seeing me again very soon!!! Btw as my son
and the rest of our fallen Heros were being taken
off the plane yesterday i watched you disrespect us
all 5 different times by checking your watch!!! What
the fuck was so important that you had to keep
looking at your watch????You are nobody special
Biden!!! America Hates you!!!!!
— Shana Chappell, mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui Instagram deleted her account after this post:.   2021-08-31 a DARN RIGHT I It’s not surprising no one has been fired for the debacle in Afghanistan. These people stole an election. They’re not accountable to the public. They’re not accountable to anyone. We won’t get accountability for Afghanistan until we get accountability for Nov. 3 — Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) August 31, 2021 2021-08-30 h VERITIES VIII (How many American citizens were left behind in Afghanistan?) — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *A few minutes ago, five or six planes took off from Kabul Airport. According to sources, it seems that the Americans have completely evacuated the airport.#Afghanistan #Taliban #Kabulairport — PNews360.com (@pnews360) August 30, 2021 *JUST IN – Three C-17 Globemasters have left #Kabul airport just before midnight local time. All U.S. troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan now, according to unconfirmed reports. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 30, 2021 *Moments ago, all the occupiers withdrew from Kabul airport, ending the nearly 2 decades of occupation. Congratulations to all Afghans and Muslim on this great victory and freedom from the shackles of foreign occupation. — Talib Times (@TalibTimes) August 30, 2021 *#BREAKING — Shah fahad (@SFahad51198922) August 30, 2021 *These Americans are a mother with 3 children. This family will only survive if USG opens South Gate to get them. WHERE IS @POTUS ! https://t.co/hahQVAFPQs — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *Taliban now demanding phone calls from US citizens to vouch for every family on a manifested bus in order to get to the gate.” — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *"Right now, the only
way anyone is being let through the gates is by @SecDef telling
Milley to open them up"
gates= Kabul airport HKIA Milley = Gen. Mark A. Milley — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *On the retired Special
Ops PATRIOTS who are rescuing people in
Afghanistan: "These guys in theater right now are
becoming scared that they and their families will
become targets back home. If they make it home."
— Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *The state dep and military command at the airport have informed several former spec ops guys running these private ops that they have no exit assistance and they are at the mercy of the TB. They are sitting ducks for the terrorists all these guys have been fighting for 20 yrs.” — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *Report that buses of female American citizens were turned away at the gate at Kabul airport today from retired Army ops involved in the rescue efforts. — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *Update from special ops leader on just the women on the bus – “I was told they are safe.” He said State Department involved. — Emily Miller (@emilymiller) August 30, 2021 *🚨From a U.S. Congressman friend… FYI from our contacts – “South gate will be the point for all remaining American citizens at the airport, by arrangements only. Last American citizen departure via C-17 is planned 23 hours from now which is 30 August at 1700 Zulu.” — The Truth Gazette (@Truth_Gazette) August 30, 2021 *Trapped outside the airport in Kabul like so many others, women in Afghanistan please for help… pic.twitter.com/HdKPaZyoA8 — Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 30, 2021 *From JBS XO: “Read this thread and weep. I can say it is accurate. Details released soon. The “All American” Division needs to change its name. Eternal SHAME on Donohue and Milley.” https://t.co/V7C7B8koOv pic.twitter.com/eWxZek7kgv — Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) August 30, 2021 *#BREAKING: Secretary of State Antony Blinken ignores reporters’ questions following speech on US withdrawal. pic.twitter.com/uX58aGNRaM — Forbes (@Forbes) August 30, 2021 *NEW! President Trump: “Never in history has a withdrawal from war been handled so badly or incompetently as the Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition to the obvious, ALL EQUIPMENT should be demanded to be immediately returned to the United States… pic.twitter.com/2LP5sYLYJW — Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) August 30, 2021 *See also: Afghanistan Evacuation and Retired
Special Ops Rescue Mission- UPDATE 8/30 9pm ET
Updates on the Biden withdrawals, Americans left behind, Afghan allies "The retired special ops teams in Afghanistan have millions in private funding and “assets.” But the U.S. government will not work with them. I just spoke to my contact Mark on the phone." "They are all communicating on which [American] generals are intentionally betraying their own citizens." 2021-08-30 g VERITIES VII (Two versions of who knew what and when about suicide bomber last Thursday at Kabul Airport.) 1. (below) Pentagon-friendly version with details from 3 classified calls. 2. Independent version. Pentagon knew about Kabul suicide
bombing ‘hours in advance,’ report claims, but
troops on the ground say they weren’t protected
US military leaders knew in advance that a “mass casualty event” was planned at Kabul airport, a Politico report reveals. However, accounts from the troops in harm’s way suggest that nothing was done. A suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last Thursday killed more than 150 people, including 13 American troops. The bombing provoked the US into launching two drone strikes, one targeting an alleged “planner” and “facilitator” with the group responsible, and another supposedly wiping out “multiple” would-be suicide bombers but reportedly annihilating a family and children alongside them. The initial bombing didn’t take US officials by surprise. The US embassy in Kabul had warned Americans to stay away from the airport due to “security threats” and, in the hours before the suicide attack, Pentagon leaders held a conference call to prepare for an imminent “mass casualty event,” according to a Politico report on Monday. The report says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke on Wednesday with senior Pentagon leaders – including Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Peter Vasely, commander of American forces in Afghanistan, and Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division at Kabul Airport. Milley warned of “significant” intelligence indicating that ISIS-K, a regional offshoot of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terror group was plotting a “complex attack,” and the brass in Afghanistan stated that the attack would likely take place at the airport’s Abbey Gate, where droves of Afghans had gathered in the hopes of a spot on an evacuation flight. The attack was due to take place within the following 24-48 hours, according to notes from the conference call detail. The White House reportedly left it up to Austin and the generals to prevent this attack as they saw fit. In a separate call afterwards they discussed pressing the Taliban to step up security outside the airport, even while knowing that the militant group couldn’t be relied on, and mulled but ultimately rejected closing the Abbey Gate, as doing so would prevent the ongoing British evacuation operation. Hours after the second call, the bomber struck, the devastating blast ripping through flesh and bone at the packed gate. Austin and Milley were reportedly at the White House at the time, preparing to brief President Joe Biden on the threat. While the Politico article details a frantic yet failed attempt to prevent a massacre, accounts from US troops on the ground in Kabul tell a story of negligence. The Abbey Gate entrance to the airport packed rows of people between two concrete walls, a perfect environment to amplify the destructive power of a suicide bomb. Looking at video footage of the crowds there the day before the blast, Marine Corps veteran and former Trump administration official Adam Korzeniewski asked “why weren’t there defensive emplacements built?” @CENTCOM
Task Force 51/5 CG - why weren’t there defensive
emplacements built?
https://t.co/qycNGm6u8t — Adam Korzeniewski 🇺🇸 (@RealAdamK) August 29, 2021 Multiple troops stationed at the airport messaged a veteran-run Instagram business page, claiming that they had received word of an incoming suicide bomber, but were instructed by superiors to continue “police calling” (picking up trash) regardless. Instagram post Instagram post Another said that their commanders had precise information about what the suicide bomber looked like, and what time they would strike, down to the hour. “All day on the radio it was a countdown,” the service member posted. Instagram post These accounts are unverified but, taken with the Politico article, point to a military leadership entirely forewarned yet inexplicably unprepared for the deadliest day for the US military since 2011, when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying Navy SEALs was shot down over eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans. As of Monday, the US is set to depart Afghanistan for good in less than 24 hours. The bombing and subsequent drone strikes, however, have increased calls for American military and political leaders to be held accountable. Biden insisted they
planned for all contingencies. We need to know
who was in charge of this “planning.” Americans
deserve accountability.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 30, 2021 * I woke up today to
learn that no one has been fired for the Afghan
debacle. If I were a Democrat, I'd be giving up
all hope for the next two national elections.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) August 28, 2021 * We'd rather do this
than jail the incompetent generals and seize the
personal bank accounts of lockheed and raytheon
executives and distribute proceeds to fallen
soldiers' families https://t.co/tQ7m9fXYza
— Darren J. Beattie (@DarrenJBeattie) August 29, 2021 Thus far,
the only member of the military fired over the
Afghanistan debacle has been Marine Lt. Col. Stuart
Scheller, ironically after he posted a video
demanding “accountability” from his superiors.
The Pentagon maintains that Kabul airport is still under threat. “We’re in a particularly dangerous time right now,” spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday. “The threat stream is still real, it's still active, and in many cases it's still specific.” (read more) 2021-08-30 f VERITIES VI (Two versions of who knew what and when about suicide bomber last Thursday at Kabul Airport.) 1. Pentagon-friendly version with leaked details from 3 classified calls. 2. (above) Independent version. Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’
attack at Kabul Airport hours before explosion
Detailed notes of three classified calls provided to POLITICO show top Pentagon officials knew of imminent threat, but struggled to close Abbey Gate. Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty event,” according to classified detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO. During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of “significant” intelligence indicating that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a “complex attack,” the notes quoted him as saying. Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was “highest risk,” and detailed their plans to protect the airport. “I don’t believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,” Austin said, according to the classified notes. On a separate call at 4 that afternoon, or 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Kabul, the commanders detailed a plan to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon Kabul time. But the Americans decided to keep the gate open longer than they wanted in order to allow their British allies, who had accelerated their withdrawal timeline, to continue evacuating their personnel, based at the nearby Baron Hotel. American troops were still processing entrants to the airport at Abbey Gate at roughly 6 p.m. in Kabul on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest there, killing nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. service members. In the week before the attack, President Joe Biden and top administration officials repeatedly spoke in public about the general threat ISIS posed to the airport. Biden even cited that threat as a reason not to extend the military mission beyond Aug. 31. The president warned this weekend that an additional ISIS attack was “highly likely.” This account of the internal conversations among top Pentagon leaders in the hours leading up to Thursday’s attack at the airport is based on classified notes from three separate calls provided to POLITICO and interviews with two defense officials with direct knowledge of the calls. POLITICO is withholding information from the Pentagon readouts that could affect ongoing military operations at Kabul airport. The transcript of these three conference calls, authenticated by a defense official, details conversations among the highest levels of Pentagon leadership. It makes clear that top officials were raising alarm bells and preparing for a potential attack that they had narrowed down to a handful of possible targets and a 24-48 hour time frame — projections that ended up being deadly accurate. “This story is based on the unlawful disclosure of classified information and internal deliberations of a sensitive nature,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said in a statement. “As soon as we became aware of the material divulged to the reporter, we engaged Politico at the highest levels to prevent the publication of information that would put our troops and our operations at the airport at greater risk. “We condemn the unlawful disclosure of classified information and oppose the publication of a story based on it while a dangerous operation is ongoing,” he continued. The White House declined to comment further. The intelligence about the security threat at Kabul airport detailed on the calls was relayed up and down the chain of command, according to a second defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss top-secret conversations. The White House took the threats seriously and supported the commanders taking action as they deemed fit, the official said, adding, “There was no micromanagement from Washington of the effort to try to prevent this" attack. Measures to avert an imminent attack included closing two airport gates permanently, notifying Taliban checkpoints of the potential threat and asking them to account for it in their screening procedures, limiting foot and vehicle traffic through a number of gates, and issuing alerts to American citizens warning them of specific threats at specific locations, the official said. “U.S. forces at HKIA were aware of and accounting for a variety of threats, and exercising extreme vigilance,” the official said, using an acronym for the Kabul airport. “We took numerous actions to protect our forces and the evacuees, but no amount of effort will completely eliminate the threat of a determined enemy.” Frustration with the Taliban Austin kicked off Wednesday’s discussion by saying the threats would increase in the next 24-48 hours, and instructed his team to remain “laser-focused” on evacuating American citizens from the city. The day before, U.S. and coalition forces had flown a total of 19,000 people from Kabul in military and commercial aircraft, the Pentagon said. Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, and Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue, the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division, called in from the Kabul airport to detail threats to three airport gates, where U.S. troops were moving in Americans and Afghans slated for evacuation. Along with Abbey Gate, the South and West Gates were also under threat, they said, according to the written notes of the call, which did not identify which of the two was speaking. According to the notes, Vasely and Donahue discussed how the Taliban were undertaking additional security measures and pushing back the crowds outside the airport due to the threat. Throughout the evacuation effort, the Taliban have instituted curfews and expanded the security perimeter around the airport in an effort to help the Americans increase security, the defense official said. But the military leaders on the call expressed frustration with the Taliban’s persistent lack of cooperation, noting that militants were turning potential evacuees away at the gates. Since the American military team in Kabul last engaged directly with Abdul Ghani Baradar, the leader of the Taliban, “it takes more bandwidth to get things moving,” Vasely and Donahue said, according to the written notes of the call. “If a person wants to leave but they get turned away by [the Taliban] at [the Ministry of Interior meetup] location, we have instructed them to call us 24/7,” they said, according to the notes of the meeting. The team had “frequent and constant communications with the Taliban” multiple times a day to try to resolve issues as they cropped up, the defense official told POLITICO. “Many times they were successful, but that doesn’t mean that in subsequent hours or days we wouldn’t have a similar problem pop up again.” (read much more) 2021-08-30 e VERITIES V (Much of New Orleans is below sea level. It is critical they generate enough electricity to keep the drainage pumps operating at full capacity. Saturated soil within the levees and flood walls could lead to failure.) "A slow-moving
Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish
customers without power due to “catastrophic
transmission damage.”
— Entergy New Orleans * BREAKING @WWLTV: New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board has lost all three feeder lines from Entergy. That means the agency lost 12 megawatts of 60-cycle power to run its newer drainage pumps and is left with only Turbine 6 to make 15 megawatts in-house. #HurricaneIda — David Hammer (@davidhammerWWL) August 30, 2021 *“Although we have lost
all Entergy power, our teams are working quickly
and decisively to make up for this with our
self-generated power sources, including Turbines
4, 5, and 6 and EMD, as well as backup generators
located at our drainage pumping stations. The
Entergy loss of power is a significant loss of
power for our 60 hz pumps and the 25 hz pumps we
power through the frequency changers, but we are
using our self-generated sources of power to drain
stormwater and pump drinking water into the city.
This power loss also impacts our sewer pumping
stations. Currently there is no backup power to
operate any of those that were impacted. We are
assessing how many of the 84 stations are impacted
but the number may be very significant. We have
worked to obtain backup power for some of these
stations & we will mobilize those units when
it is safe to traverse the city. In order to
prevent sewage backups, we have asked residents to
limit water usage at home, thus decreasing the
amount of wastewater we must remove."
Although we have lost all Entergy power, our teams are working quickly and decisively to make up for this with our self-generated power sources, including Turbines 4, 5, and 6 and EMD, as well as backup generators located at our drainage pumping stations. — SWB New Orleans (@SWBNewOrleans) August 30, 2021 2021-08-30 d VERITIES IV COVID Vaccine Injury Reports Jump by
27,000 in One Week, FDA Pulls
‘Bait and Switch’ With Pfizer Vaccine Approval
2021-08-30
cVAERS data released Friday by the CDC showed a total of 623,343 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 13,627 deaths and 84,466 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 20, 2021. Data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 20, 2021, a total of 623,343 total adverse events were reported to VAERS, including 13,627 deaths — an increase of 559 over the data released last week. There were 84,466 reports of serious injuries, including deaths, during the same time period — up 3,416 compared with the previous week. Excluding “foreign reports” filed in VAERS, 488,318 adverse events, including 6,128 deaths and 38,765 serious injuries, were reported in the U.S. between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 20, 2021.between Dec. 14, 2020 and Aug. 20, 2021. Of the 6,128 U.S. deaths reported as of Aug. 20, 13% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 18% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 32% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated. In the U.S., 360.3
million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as
of Aug. 20. This includes: 203 million doses of Pfizer, 143 million doses of Moderna and 14 million doses of
the Johnson
& Johnson (J&J). The data come directly from reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. Every Friday, VAERS makes public all
vaccine injury reports received as of a specified
date, usually about a week prior to the release
date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further
investigation before a causal relationship can be
confirmed.
The most recent reported deaths include a 15-year-old boy (VAERS I.D. 1498080) who previously had COVID, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in May 2021 and died four days after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine on June 18, when he collapsed on the soccer field and went into ventricular tachycardia; and a 13-year-old girl (VAERS I.D. 1505250) who died after suffering a heart condition after receiving her first dose of Pfizer.
This week’s total U.S. VAERS data, from Dec. 14, 2020 to Aug. 20, 2021, for all age groups combined, show:
BBC radio host died of COVID vaccine complications, coroner confirms An award-winning BBC radio host died as a result of complications from her first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine, coroner Karen Dilks concluded. Lisa Shaw, 44, received her first dose of AstraZeneca on April 29. On May 13, she was taken by ambulance to University Hospital of North Durham after having a headache for several days. She was transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where she received a number of treatments, which included cutting away part of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain. She died May 21. According to the BBC, Tuomo Polvikoski, a pathologist, told the coroner Shaw was fit and healthy before receiving the vaccine. When asked about the underlying cause of the fatal clotting on her brain, Polvikoski said the clinical evidence “strongly supports the idea that it was, indeed, vaccine-induced.” FDA grants full approval of a Pfizer vaccine, critics blast agency for lack of data, scientific debate The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Aug. 23 granted full approval to Pfizer’s “Comirnaty” COVID vaccine [unavailable in the U.S.] for people 16 years and older — without allowing public discussion or holding a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss data. This is the first COVID vaccine approved by the FDA, and is expected to open the door to more vaccine mandates by employers and universities. According to The Washington Post, Pfizer’s vaccine approval was the fastest in the agency’s history, coming less than four months after Pfizer/BioNTech filed for licensing on May 7. According to an article published Aug. 20 in the BMJ, transparency advocates criticized the FDA decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval — an important mechanism used to scrutinize data. Last year the FDA said it was “committed to use an advisory committee composed of independent experts to ensure deliberations about authorisation or licensure are transparent for the public.” But in a statement
to The BMJ, the FDA said it did not believe a
meeting was necessary ahead of the expected full FDA
approval. Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who serves as a consumer representative on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, said it’s concerning that full approval is based on only six months’ worth of data — despite clinical trials designed for two years — and there’s no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed. FDA approval letter causes confusion, raises questions Buried in the fine
print of Monday’s approval of the Pfizer Comirnaty
vaccine are two critical facts that affect whether
the vaccine can be mandated, and whether Pfizer can
be held liable for injuries, according
to
Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr. and Dr. Meryl Nass.
The FDA decreed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine under the EUA should remain unlicensed — but that it can be used “interchangeably” (page 2, footnote 8) with the newly licensed Comirnaty product. Second, the FDA said the licensed Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine and the existing EUA Pfizer vaccine are “legally distinct,” but said their differences do not “impact safety or effectiveness.” Kennedy and Nass said EUA products are experimental under U.S. law. Both the Nuremberg Code and federal regulations provide that no one can force a human being to participate in this experiment. Under 21 U.S. Code Sec.360bbb-3(e)(1)(A)(ii)(III), “authorization for medical products for use in emergencies,” it is unlawful to deny someone a job or an education because they refuse to be an experimental subject, they wrote. At least for the moment, the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine has no liability shield. Vials of the branded product, which say “Comirnaty” on the label, are subject to the same product liability laws as other U.S. products, Kennedy and Nass said, adding that “Pfizer is therefore unlikely to allow any American to take a Comirnaty vaccine until it can somehow arrange immunity for this product.” On Thursday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote the FDA raising similar concerns and questions about the agency’s approval of the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine. In his letter, Johnson asked FDA Acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodruff why the FDA didn’t grant full licensure for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that is already in use and available in the U.S., and how the agency will ensure that those being vaccinated under mandates will receive the FDA-approved version. As COVID surges among fully vaccinated, CDC fails to properly track breakthrough cases As The Defender reported Aug. 24, the most recent data from the CDC shows 9,716 breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalization or death as of Aug. 16. However, the agency states those numbers are underreported. On May 1, the CDC made a decision to stop tracking all breakthrough cases and instead only track cases in the fully vaccinated that resulted in hospitalization or death. That leaves public health officials without the full data that can answer questions as the new Delta variant spreads. In an interview with PBS News Hour, Jessica Malaty Rivera, an infectious disease epidemiologist and research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and former science communications lead at the COVID Tracking Project, said not tracking breakthrough data with as much granularity as we would hope is “basically creating blind spots in our understanding of the true impact of the virus, especially the variants that are circulating so widely in the United States.” The New York Times recently published data from seven states — California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Virginia — that keeps particularly detailed records on breakthrough cases. Analysis showed that in six of the states, breakthrough infections made up 18% to 28% of all newly diagnosed cases of COVID in the past several weeks, and 12% to 24% of all COVID-related hospitalizations, with reported deaths higher than the CDC’s original estimate of .5%. Pfizer scheme to churn out ‘variant-specific’ vaccines will lead to more variants, experts warn Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday told Fox News the company has a system in place to turn around a variant-specific jab within 95 days in the likelihood a vaccine-resistant COVID strain emerges, but experts warn that strategy will backfire. Bourla said Pfizer hasn’t identified any variants that could escape the vaccine yet. However, that statement contradicts the findings of numerous studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which show waning immunity against the Delta variant. Dr. Peter McCullough, board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and clinical lipidology, said in a recent podcast: “There are clearly sources of information to suggest that once we start vaccination and we get more than 25% of the population vaccinated, we will allow one of the variants that’s in the background to emerge because it’s resistant to the vaccine.” “That [theory] makes sense,” McCullough said. “Just like an antibiotic, once we get to a certain percentage of coverage with an antibiotic, we’ll allow a resistant bacteria to move forward.” According to Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA and DNA vaccines, worldwide expert in RNA technologies and Harvard-trained physician, continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants. Even if we had complete uptake in vaccines and complete masking, Malone said, CDC data makes it clear that at best we can slow the spread of Delta but we can’t stop it. New CDC studies show waning vaccine immunity to Delta variant Two studies released Aug. 24 by the CDC showed fully vaccinated Americans’ immunity to COVID is waning as the Delta variant now makes up 98.8% of U.S. COVID cases. One study found vaccine effectiveness among frontline healthcare workers declined by nearly 30 percentage points since the Delta variant became the dominant strain in the U.S. The analysis also concluded COVID vaccines were only 80% effective in preventing infection among the frontline healthcare workers. The second study examined 43,000 Los Angeles residents 16 and older. Between May 1 and July 25, 25.3% of COVID infections occurred in fully vaccinated persons and 3.3% were in partially vaccinated persons. The CDC cautioned in its report that vaccine effectiveness “might also be declining as time since vaccination increases and because of poor precision in estimates due to limited number of weeks of observation.” The publication of
the new studies followed a week after the CDC
released its first three
reports on vaccine efficacy — which also showed
waning vaccine protection against the Delta variant. (read
more) VERITIES III The FDA did NOT grant full
approval to the Pfizer shots
You may have heard that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot received FDA approval this past Monday. Politicians, national health officials, and journalists are breathless with excitement about how this approval will finally induce the remaining "vaccine-hesitant" into stepping forward to receive their jab. The FDA even has a press release on its website about it. There's just one problem. If you read the actual letters that the FDA sent to Pfizer on August 23, 2021, you'll see that the FDA did no such thing. In the sense that the term "FDA approval" is generally understood, this drug is not approved by the FDA. It is still under EUA (Emergency Use Authorization). It is still an experimental drug. The FDA sent two letters. The first one was a letter of BLA (Biologics License Application) approval to COMIRNATY, and the second was a letter of EUA extension. The BLA approval letter approves Pfizer's application for a license to label its COVID-19 drug with the brand name COMIRNATY. This letter also spells out the terms and requirements for nine additional clinical trials over five years, and yearly status reports, to study the acknowledged occurrences of myocarditis and pericarditis that have followed the administering of the Pfizer shots. This license to label and manufacture is not a full approval of the drug, which clearly is still subject to many years of clinical trials. The EUA extension letter extends the term of the EUA for the current drug and authorizes (licenses) the experimental use of the brand-name drug COMIRNATY. In the first paragraph on page 2, this letter references the license approval letter. In the second paragraph on page 2, the August 12 EUA is re-issued to include the name-branded drug in the emergency use authorization, and to add "language regarding warnings and precautions related to myocarditis and pericarditis." In the last paragraph on page 4, the EUA nature of the drugs is re-iterated, and COMIRNATY is additionally authorized for use for individuals aged 12 through 15 years. The mRNA gene therapy shots are still experimental. Mandating them is still wrong — by a wide variety of ethical standards. Dr. Meryl Nass, M.D. found the truths that the FDA buried in the blather of these letters and offers a theory about why it was done this way. The drug-manufacturers were granted immunity from liability for the drugs produced under the EUAs. The granting of the license re-applies the customary liability for injury and death caused by the product. Pfizer, the health officials, and the politicians get to take a fictitious victory lap for the "approval," while Pfizer-BioNTech continues to stealthily enjoy immunity from product liability because there are many millions of the unlicensed doses on the shelves and in the manufacturing pipeline that will be administered first. The licensed version will not arrive on shelves or be jabbed into arms for many months to come. Of great concern, considering the factual content of the FDA EUA letters to Pfizer, is the breezy way the press release on the FDA website repeatedly uses the words "approve" and "approval" in reference to the Pfizer drug. If only there were a word for intentionally saying things to the public that do not match reality... COMIRNATY seems like an unusual name for anything, much less a cutting-edge-technology gene therapy. Out of idle curiosity, I ran the name through an anagram solver. For a result, it gave TIROMANCY, which is divination or prophecy by examining how curds form during the coagulation of cheese. How apropos. That's something I'm willing to try for forecasting the results of the next election! (read more) 2021-08-30 b VERITIES II The Suspicious FDA "approval"
of the Pfizer Vaccine
The whole thing stinks. On Monday, the FDA “approved” the Pfizer COVID-19 (which will be marketed as COMIRNATY) “for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.” If you want an “approved” dose of COMIRNATY – too bad. It’s not yet available. You can still get the Pfizer Vaccine authorized under the Emergency Use Authorization, however. Much has been discussed about whether this is a real “approval” – and I won’t repeat that. I’ll walk through the source documents and data, showing just how weak this purported approval really is. The Effectiveness is “unknown.” The FDA says COMIRNATY is “safe and effective in preventing COVID-19 in individuals 16 years of age and older.” How effective? They state (~6 months after dose 2) that it is “91% effective in preventing COVID-19 disease,” citing to a study where Pfizer observed “77 cases of COVID-19 occurring in the vaccine group.” This leaves us with an important question. The Pfizer study is from a “follow-up through March 13, 2021.” That is over 5 months ago. Is the FDA using outdated data in support of the COMIRNATY approval? In other words, how long does the effectiveness really last? Pfizer has an answer for us. According to its August 23, 2021 fact sheet, “The duration of protection against COVID-19 is currently unknown.” If you’re looking for data on the waning effectiveness of the Pfizer Vaccine against COVID-19, you have to search for yourself. You won’t find it with the FDA or Pfizer, underscoring an apparent effort to cherry-pick the data for the “approval.” According to one UK study of over 400,000 people
(a study that is, by the way, much more rigorous
than the one cited in the FDA approval), the
“effectiveness fell to 74% five or sixth months
after receiving both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.” The news out of Israel is worse. For those who received two doses of the Pfizer Vaccine in January 2021, the vaccine is “only 16% effective against symptomatic infection.” Pregnancy As we have observed, the CDC has promoted a misleading message on the risks the vaccines present to pregnant mothers. They used self-reporting studies that were racially skewed studies (~79% white and 1.4% black) and limited to looking at miscarriages from weeks 6-20. (This caused them to omit from the study 35 self-reported pregnancy losses at less than 6 weeks.) The new approval mentions a study on the Pfizer Vaccine exposure during pregnancy to be completed in 2025. Four years from now pregnant women will know whether this vaccine is safe. As for the current data? Here’s what the COMIRNATY package insert says about there being “insufficient” information on the vaccine risks to pregnancy. Ok Techno, I’m with you so far… but did Pfizer do any studies on whether the vaccine was safe for pregnant women? YES! They did toxicology studies on female rats. Risks to the young. This gets us to the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis in young people (especially young men). According to the Summary Basis for Regulatory Action from the FDA (dated August 23, 2021), “safety surveillance reports received by FDA and CDC identified serious risks for myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of COMIRNATY.” Despite this, the
FDA says the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the
risks. That’s their opinion and they’re entitled to
it, I guess. What is concerning is that they are
turning this cost-benefit opinion into a mandate. In
other words, they don’t think you can make this
cost-benefit decision for yourself. They’ll make it
for you. Take for example Dr. Fauci telling CNN’s
Anderson Cooper that “the time is come, enough is
enough.” This is the same guy who was warned that sequences of COVID-19 looked engineered. Did he share that with the American public? No; instead, he told National Geographic that this virus “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.” To put all this in perspective: the
same people who supported gain of function research
at Wuhan are now in charge of approving the
vaccines. Who are we to doubt their judgment? (read
more) VERITIES I I served in Afghanistan as a
US Marine, twice. Here’s the truth in two sentences
What we are seeing in Afghanistan right now shouldn’t shock you. It only seems that way because our institutions are steeped in systematic dishonesty. It doesn’t require a dissertation to explain what you’re seeing. Just two sentences. One: For 20 years, politicians,
elites and D.C. military leaders lied to us
about Afghanistan.
Two: What happened
last week was inevitable, and anyone saying
differently is still lying to you.
I know because I was there. Twice. On special operations task forces. I learned Pashto as a U.S. Marine captain and spoke to everyone I could there: everyday people, elites, allies and yes, even the Taliban. The truth is that the Afghan National Security Forces was a jobs program for Afghans, propped up by U.S. taxpayer dollars — a military jobs program populated by nonmilitary people or “paper” forces (that didn’t really exist) and a bevy of elites grabbing what they could when they could. You probably didn’t know that. That’s the point. And it wasn’t just in Afghanistan. They also lied about Iraq. I led a team of Marines training Iraqi security forces to defend their country. When I arrived I received a “stoplight” chart on their supposed capabilities in dozens of missions and responsibilities. Green meant they were good. Yellow was needed improvement; red said they couldn’t do it at all. I was delighted to see how far along they were on paper — until I actually began working with them. I attempted to adjust the charts to reflect reality and was quickly shut down. The ratings could not go down. That was the deal. It was the kind of lie that kept the war going. So when people ask me if we made the right call getting out of Afghanistan in 2021, I answer truthfully: Absolutely not. The right call was getting out in 2002. 2003. Every year we didn’t get out was another year the Taliban used to refine their skills and tactics against us — the best fighting force in the world. After two decades, $2 trillion and nearly 2,500 American lives lost, 2021 was way too late to make the right call. You’d think when it all came crumbling down around them, they’d accept the truth. Think again. War-hungry hawks are suggesting our soldiers weren’t in harm’s way. Well, when I was there, two incredible Marines in my unit were killed. Elitist hacks are even blaming the American people for what happened last week. The same American people that they spent years lying to about Afghanistan. Are you kidding me? We deserve better. Instead of politicians spending $6.4 trillion to “nation build” in the Middle East, we should start nation building right here at home. I can’t believe that would be a controversial proposal, but already in Washington, we see some of the same architects of these Middle East disasters balking at the idea of investing a fraction of that amount to build up our own country. The lies about Afghanistan matter not just because of the money spent or the lives lost, but because they are representative of a systematic dishonesty that is destroying our country from the inside out. Remember when they told us the economy was back? Another lie. Our state of Missouri was home to the worst economic recovery from the Great Recession in this part of the country. I see the boarded-up stores and the vacant lots — one of which used to be my family’s home. When our country’s elites were preaching about how they had solved the financial crisis and the housing market was booming, I watched the house I joined the Marine Corps out of sit on the market for two years. My dad finally got $43,000 for it. He owed $78,000. The only way out is to level with the American people. I’ll start. With the two-sentence truth about what we are seeing in Afghanistan right now: What happened last
week was inevitable, and anyone saying differently
is still lying to you.
Cole County native Lucas Kunce is a Marine veteran and antitrust advocate. He is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. (read more) 2021-08-29 m THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XIII (The Alzheimer in Chief orders Pentagon to wantonly kill Afghan children.) #US drone strike kills Afghan civilians ▪️Nine #Afghans, inluding six children,
were killed in a US drone strike in #Kabul. — EHA News (@eha_news) August 29, 2021 *7
civilians, including 4 children, were killed, 4
others were injured in a #US drone attack today in
PD15 of #Kabul. — Naseeb Zadran (@NaseebKhanZ) August 29, 2021 *https://t.co/Fc0fVBxhrL Because Biden isn’t
really going after terrorists, he wants to play the
tough guy by shooting something — I Fucking Hate the left ! (@Always_DJTrump) August 29, 2021 *Afghanistan airstrikes: 3 children killed in US drone strike targeting ISIS-K suicide bombers in Kabul, officials say https://t.co/6JIERN98gD — News Bht (@newsbht1) August 29, 2021 *U.S. @CENTCOM UOTH airstrike in residential area on ‘vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent’ ISKP threat to the airport. Reports of civilians and children being killed. Statement says ‘assessing possibilities of civilian casualties, though no indications at this time’ https://t.co/3ncuiExldU pic.twitter.com/HyttbR4TKK — amitabh p revi (@amitabhprevi) August 29, 2021 2021-08-29 l THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XII The Alzheimer in Chief's
State Department and Pentagon
want to leave Americans behind in Kabul. The illegitimate Biden regime is truly "The Synagogue of Satan." America,
you need to know this: Biden is
not letting US citizens through
the airport gates. It has been
impossible to get anyone through
for the last 24 hours.
This administration has been lying about their intent to save Americans. Unforgivable. — Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX August 28, 2021 * They have been beaten by the Taliban at check points and told to leave and come back with large sums of money. Biden is going to get them killed! Enough!! We have put someone who gives a damn in charge RIGHT NOW! — Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) August 29, 2021 *US citizens are not being allowed into Kabul international. Biden has ordered the gates closed. Our fellow Americans will soon be left behind. Unbelievable and unforgivable. — Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) August 29, 2021 *I'm hearing from people very close to TF Pineapple that the State Dept. is actively blocking the private extractions of Americans by our private operators. Why? Why is the US Govt. leaving Americans stranded to be killed in Afghanistan? Something very sinister going on. — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) August 29, 2021 *Now being told that State Dept. is telling nations surrounding Afghanistan not to allow private jets handling the private extractions to land and/or refuel. This is inexplicable and evil. — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) August 29, 2021 *All that stands between these Americans & safety/home is the US govt & military. — Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 28, 2021 *All true. Getting similar from sources on ground. https://t.co/GXs5m94SAs — Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) August 28, 2021 *Talking to a woman, a US citizen, who worked as a translator for the US for more than ten years, who was not able to get into the Kabul airport yet again today. She will try again tomorrow but is completely terrified. — Clarissa Ward (@clarissaward) August 28, 2021 *This sentiment is rampant with our cases on the ground at HKIA. Taliban now beating US Passport holders at the gate. Tear gas too. https://t.co/gWt7u1O1bg — Kristina Baum (@kristinabaum) August 28, 2021 *On Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd pressed Secretary of State Blinken on the U.S. giving the Taliban what a Pentagon official called a “kill list” with American and ally names. Blinken denies it but then admits they handed them bus manifests with names. pic.twitter.com/CNTVpykufj — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 29, 2021 *The Taliban have offered Joe Biden a deal: unfreeze the Afghan funds and they will extend the deadline. — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 29, 2021 *NATO
statement: — Herbert Buchsbaum (@herbertnyt) August 29, 2021 *UPDATE – BBC sources in #Kabul contradict the Pentagon's denial, saying the Taliban already entered and control part of the military section of the airport.https://t.co/Bf1AsOzA9X — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 27, 2021 2021-08-29 k THE STATE OF THE DISUNION XI (The Alzheimer in Chief sees deadly consequences of his mistake; seems to be bored and impatient.) Biden
appears to check his watch during
the dignified transfer ceremony at
Dover Air Force Base.
— Benny @bennyjohnson August 29, 2021 2021-08-29 j THE STATE OF THE DISUNION X (Mostly in Democrat-run states, over-reaction to the fake pandemic destroyed jobs, jobless tenants couldn't or wouldn't pay rent, so an Air Force veteran landlady with three properties now sleeps in her car. Editor's Note: Don't worry landlady, BlackRock wants to buy your properties.) "I don't understand how they can give my
private property to somebody to live for free.
I bought that property. I fixed it up with my blood, sweat and tears." New York landlord
Brandie LaCasse is sleeping in her car while being
owed a year's worth of rent.
— Newsweek @Newsweek August 28, 2021 2021-08-29 i THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IX The Collegiate Experience
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Hyperbole? I wish. The modern American college, striving to be all things to all students, admitting the highly qualified as well as the totally unqualified, is no longer the ticket to the good life it was two to three generations ago. The scarcity premium that once gave a high value to a bachelor's degree, when only 10% of high school graduates attended college, no longer exists. For too many, the investment no longer pencils out. However, these diminishing returns are not yet discouraging attendance. Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, wrote, "Education is not to reform students or to amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, (and) inflame their intellects." While that sentiment might seem quaint and totally out-of-date to those born after the year 2000, it is still true. * For example, college instruction was apparently wasted on this narcissist: College
is the way life should be: walkability, access to
gyms and green spaces, libraries, community
building, lenient substance laws, etc.
They’re mini-utopias that provide escape from declining society, but you must go into lifelong debt for that 4-year respite. Pure evil. — Ara Hagopian @ara_hagopian August 28, 2021 * There should be
socialism, but only for people who are less
attractive than I am.
— Ara Hagopian @ara_hagopian August 28, 2021 Just taught my first
class of fiction-writing 101. My students are
incredibly smart, creative, and funny. They have
great insight.
I’m not as cynical as some others- I don’t think college is a “waste of time”. I think it can be a beautiful thing that enriches people’s lives. — Ara Hagopian @ara_hagopian August 27, 2021 I think I might have a
hidden talent for drinking. I’ve had like 15 shots
and I only feel pleasantly buzzed lol
— Ara Hagopian @ara_hagopian August 21, 2021 * * 2021-08-29 h THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VIII Recall that on Friday, the political hack installed as mayor of New Orleans by the Democrat party machine said the following:  Mayor LaToya
Cantrell on Friday said that with little time left
before Hurricane Ida reaches Louisiana, residents
should get ready to hunker down and ride out the
storm.She told a news conference there wasn't enough time to establish the highway contraflow procedures necessary to move all residents out of the city before the storm's expected landfall Sunday afternoon. "We are not calling for a mandatory evacuation because the time simply is not on our side. We do not want to have people on the road, and therefore in greater danger,” Cantrell said. She reiterated that New Orleanians inside the city's levee protection system are safe, but said that residents outside of the levees were under a mandatory evacuation order and should get out as soon as possible. How many constituents followed her advice? How many regret following her advice? BULLETIN Hurricane Ida Intermediate Advisory Number 14A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092021 100 PM CDT Sun Aug 29 2021 ...EYE OF EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE IDA MOVING OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA... ...CATASTROPHIC STORM SURGE, EXTREME WINDS, AND FLASH FLOODING IN PORTIONS OF LOUISIANA... SUMMARY OF 100 PM CDT...1800 UTC...INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- LOCATION...29.2N 90.3W ABOUT 20 MI...30 KM W OF GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA ABOUT 55 MI...90 KM SSW OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...150 MPH...240 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...930 MB...27.46 INCHES (read more) 2021-08-29 g THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VII Justice long-delayed. Sirhan
Sirhan will be released.
* Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot from behind. Sirhan, the patsy, was in front, firing wildly. * Look up the story of Nina Rhodes-Hughes, eyewitness to the assassination. * Count the number of gunshots in the assassination tape recording made by Montreal Gazette reporter Stanislaw Pruszynski. Sirhan's gun held just 8 bullets. * Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. accused Thane Eugene Cesar of murdering his father, claiming Cesar fatally shot him from behind. * The LAPD unit that "investigated" the assassination was run by CIA operatives. * The LAPD
and LA DA knew two hours after the fatal shooting of
Robert Kennedy that he was shot by a second gunman
and they had conclusive evidence that Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan could not and did not do it. The official
record shows that [the prosecution at Sirhan’s
trial] never had one witness – and had no physical
nor ballistic evidence – to prove Sirhan shot Robert
Kennedy. Evidence locked up for 20 years shows that
the LAPD destroyed physical evidence and hid
ballistic evidence exonerating Sirhan, and covered
up conclusive evidence that a second gunman fatally
wounded Robert Kennedy.
*— Paul Schrade (These tweeters are ignorant of the facts.) WTH. “California
parole panel votes in favor of release from prison
for Sirhan Sirhan”
— Mark Hemingway @Heminator August 27, 2021 * Insane. Paroling RFK’s
assassin would be a crime against the whole
nation. It’s bad enough that this savage killer
was spared the death penalty. The panel’s vote
must be urgently reversed, and this murderer must
never see the outside of a prison.
— Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze August 28, 2021 2021-08-29 f THE STATE OF THE DISUNION VI (It's a rebranded chapter of The Great Replacement. Not a single Afghan should be given a path to U.S. citizenship. They do not deserve it and We The People do not need them.) EVACUATIONS: Psaki Says, ‘I Don’t Think We Can Guarantee’ Evacuation Of All Americans Who Want To Leave Afghanistan After August 31st. pic.twitter.com/rdZc1D67Hc — Forbes (@Forbes) August 27, 2021 *Secretary of State
Blinken tells ABC about 300 Americans remain in
Afghanistan who “want to leave” ahead of Biden’s
Aug. 31 deadline for U.S. forces to completely
withdraw.
— Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews August 29, 2021 * One reason the # of
Afghans is so high is that people are bringing
their entire extended families, regardless of
whether anyone meaningfully aided war effort or
faces a particularized threat. Perception of an
unrestricted policy surely helped drive oversized
crowds to airport.
— Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze August 28, 2021 * Those who are praising
Biden’s deadly incompetence—in which the distant
relations of randomly-chosen Afghan nationals
regardless of need were evacuated, while the very
nationals you would deem a priority were
excluded—are elevating partisan fealty above
personal integrity. 1/9
— Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze August 28, 2021 * Regardless of who you
think ought to be evacuated from a pop. of
40m—and, just as important, to where—the one
inescapable fact is that if someone is stranded,
Biden and Biden alone is the one who stranded
them. An uncomfortable truth for some partisans,
but an undeniable one. 2/9
— Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze August 28, 2021 * For those believing we
should resettle inside the U.S. (not regionally)
anyone professing desire to leave a fundamentalist
Islamist regime, how many people would that
require us to accept? And would that depopulation
accelerate or delay needed societal reform in the
Muslim world?
— Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze August 28, 2021 2021-08-29 e THE STATE OF THE DISUNION V (Chaos in Kabul) .@POTUS45: "If the Democrats could fight wars as well as they execute Election Fraud, we would have obliterated all of our many enemies throughout the World, and would have nothing to worry about!" pic.twitter.com/GpMO46zrNQ — Natalie Harp (@NatalieJHarp) August 27, 2021 *Embarrassing. #Israel #USA pic.twitter.com/RhFSCrTG1H — Isiah O’Merreighn (@IOMerreighn) August 27, 2021 *Pentagon will not release names of the 2 ‘high-profile’ ISIS planners killed in single U.S. drone strike: Kirby — Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) August 28, 2021 *Anyone else feel like we’re being catfished? The same people who had no idea Taliban were planning to take over the country and didn’t plan to get Americans out knew exactly where to find two specific people. If it even happened, I’d venture they “weren’t high” profile at all! — Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr August 29, 2021 * So the US Government
knew so little about what was happening in
Afghanistan that they had no idea the Afghan
Security Forces would evaporate and the Taliban
immediately take over, but they were able to find
within 24 hours the precise ISIS-K "planner" to
kill? OK.
— Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald August 28, 2021 * They aren’t high
profile if the Democrats aren’t releasing their
names.
— Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell August 28, 2021 * BREAKING: US Embassy in Kabul just issued an alert about a “specific, credible threat” to #HKIA. Directed US citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and avoid airport gates. Defense official tells me it’s a suicide vest threat pic.twitter.com/LEvsqfs9LO — Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) August 29, 2021 2021-08-29 d THE STATE OF THE DISUNION IV (if this be treason) This testimony from @RepJimBanks is a must-watch and shocking on so many levels. pic.twitter.com/EG7wpiKH4L — Owen Paterson (@OwenPaterson) August 28, 2021 *(giving aid and comfort to the enemy) A mind-blowing graphic
in today's Times on what $85bn worth of lost
equipment means in practice for the Taliban:
— Will Brown @_Will_Brown August 29, 2021 2021-08-29 c THE STATE OF THE DISUNION III “feckless, dementia
ridden piece of crap”
Kathy
McCollum, the mother of slain U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.
Rylee McCollum calls into the Wilkow — Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 28, 2021 2021-08-29 b THE STATE OF THE DISUNION II The Political Establishment Has been Telling
Us for the Past Twenty Years that it wants to
overthrow the Afghan institutions that have evolved
over the past centuries and rebuild or “nation build”
the entire country in their image.
Now, they are telling us that they want to overthrow the American institutions that have evolved over the past centuries (the Constitution, the nuclear family, religion, free-market capitalism, traditional morality, the ideas of liberty and a free society) and “build back better,” Senile Joe’s campaign slogan, sometimes also referred to as “The Great Reset.” The results of their previous twenty years of efforts of building Afghanistan back better are currently on display at the Kabul airport. Only a moron would expect anything different in the U.S. or anywhere else. The spectacle of senile, confused, mumbling, staring-into-space, drooling, tripping and stumbling old Joe Biden, who was the biggest joke and clown in Washington over the past half century, demanding to be empowered to rebuild all of American society is the biggest farce in the history of farces, even worse than the farce of the Soviet Union. — Thomas DiLorenzo 2021-08-29 a THE STATE OF THE DISUNION I (Any leader, orator or prominent citizen who calls a proposed war of choice, a cakewalk, is an imbecile or insane or both. Such a man should be taken out immediately and shot in the thigh, severing his femoral artery. That bit of mercy will give him a very short time to make frantic and painful peace with his maker. It is far better for that one to be shot than for thousands to die needlessly in a bellicose misadventure. (Nicht wahr?) If the niceties of law prevent such an eminently rational course of action, merely ignore the insane imbecile.) AS long as we have no personal knowledge of
war, we cannot conceive where those difficulties lie
of which so much is said, and what that genius, and
those extraordinary mental powers required in a
general have really to do. All appears so simple, all
the requisite branches of knowledge appear so plain,
all the combinations so unimportant, that, in
comparison with them, the easiest problem in higher
mathematics impresses us with a certain scientific
dignity. But if we have seen war, all becomes
intelligible; and still, after all, it is extremely
difficult to describe what it is which brings about
this change, to specify this invisible and completely
efficient Factor.
______________________Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction, which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war. Suppose now a traveller, who, towards evening, expects to accomplish the two stages at the end of his day’s journey, four or five leagues, with post horses, on the high road—it is nothing. He arrives now at the last station but one, finds no horses, or very bad ones; then a hilly country, bad roads; it is a dark night, and he is glad when, after a great deal of trouble, he reaches the next station, and finds there some miserable accommodation. So in war, through the influence of an infinity of petty circumstances, which cannot properly be described on paper, things disappoint us, and we fall short of the mark. A powerful iron will overcomes this friction, it crushes the obstacles, but certainly the machine along with them. We shall often meet with this result. Like an obelisk, towards which the principal streets of a place converge, the strong will of a proud spirit, stands prominent and commanding, in the middle of the art of war. Friction is the only conception which, in a general way, corresponds to that which distinguishes real war from war on paper. The military machine, the army and all belonging to it, is in fact simple; and appears, on this account, easy to manage. But let us reflect that no part of it is in one piece, that it is composed entirely of individuals, each of which keeps up its own friction in all directions. Theoretically all sounds very well; the commander of a battalion is responsible for the execution of the order given; and as the battalion by its discipline is glued together into one piece, and the chief must be a man of acknowledged zeal, the beam turns on an iron pin with little friction. But it is not so in reality, and all that is exaggerated and false in such a conception manifests itself at once in war. The battalion always remains composed of a number of men, of whom, if chance so wills, the most insignificant is able to occasion delay, and even irregularity. The danger which war brings with it, the bodily exertions which it requires, augment this evil so much, that they may be regarded as the greatest causes of it. This enormous friction, which is not concentrated, as in mechanics, at a few points, is therefore everywhere brought into contact with chance, and thus facts take place upon which it was impossible to calculate, their chief origin being chance, As an instance of one such chance, take the weather. Here, the fog prevents the enemy from being discovered in time, a battery from firing at the right moment, a report from reaching the general; there, the rain prevents a battalion from arriving, another from reaching in right time, because, instead of three, it had to march perhaps eight hours; the cavalry from charging effectively because it is stuck fast in heavy ground. These are only a few incidents of detail by way of elucidation, that the reader may be able to follow the author, for whole volumes might be written on these difficulties. To avoid this, and still to give a clear conception of the host of small difficulties to be contended with in war, we might go on heaping up illustrations, if we were not afraid of being tiresome. But those who have already comprehended us will permit us to add a few more. Activity in war is movement in a resistant medium. Just as a man in water is unable to perform with ease and regularity the most natural and simplest movement, that of walking, so in war, with ordinary powers, one cannot keep even the line of mediocrity. This is the reason that the correct theorist is like a swimming master, who teaches on dry land movements which are required in the water, which must appear grotesque and ludicrous to those who forget about the water. This is also why theorists, who have never plunged in themselves, or who cannot deduce any generalities from their experience, are unpractical and even absurd, because they only teach what every one knows—how to walk. Further, every war is rich in particular facts; while, at the same time, each is an unexplored sea, full of rocks, which the general may have a suspicion of, but which he has never seen with his eye, and round which, moreover, he must steer in the night. If a contrary wind also springs up, that is, if any great accidental event declares itself adverse to him, then the most consummate skill, presence of mind and energy, are required; whilst to those who only look on from a distance, all seems to proceed with the utmost ease. The knowledge of this friction is a chief part of that so often talked of, experience in war, which is required in a good general. Certainly, he is not the best general in whose mind it assumes the greatest dimensions, who is the most overawed by it (this includes that class of over-anxious generals, of whom there are so many amongst the experienced); but a general must be aware of it that he may overcome it, where that is possible; and that he may not expect a degree of precision in results which is impossible on account of this very friction. Besides, it can never be learnt theoretically; and if it could, there would still be wanting that experience of judgment which is called tact, and which is always more necessary in a field full of innumerable small and diversified objects, than in great and decisive cases, when one’s own judgment may be aided by consultation with others. Just as the man of the world, through tact of judgment which has become habit, speaks, acts, and moves only as suits the occasion, so the officer, experienced in war, will always, in great and small matters, at every pulsation of war as we may say, decide and determine suitably to the occasion. Through this experience and practice, the idea comes to his mind of itself, that so and so will not suit. And thus he will not easily place himself in a position by which he is compromised, which, if it often occurs in war, shakes all the foundations of confidence, and becomes extremely dangerous. It is, therefore, this friction, or what is so termed here, which makes that which appears easy in war difficult in reality. As we proceed, we shall often meet with this subject again, and it will hereafter become plain that, besides experience and a strong will, there are still many other rare qualities of the mind required to make a man a consummate general… — Carl von Clausewitz: On War, originally Vom Kriege (1832): Friction in War (BOOK 1 • CHAPTER 7) Permission is hereby granted to any and all to copy and paste any entry on this page and convey it electronically along with its URL, http://www.usaapay.com/comm.html ______________________ 2021 ARCHIVE
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