Norway: Infection Fatality Rate for Flu .1%, Infection Fatality Rate for COVID .05%
August 18th, 2021Via: Peak Prosperity:
All of New Zealand Goes to Maximum Lockdown After One Covid Case in Auckland
August 17th, 2021Via: Business Insider:
New Zealand is back in strict national lockdown after one 58 year-old-man tested positive for COVID-19, with no immediate evidence that he’d traveled abroad.
REPORTER: “So there’s no US actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else?” MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: “I don’t have the answer to that question.”
August 16th, 2021REPORTER: "So there's no US actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else?"
MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: "I don't have the answer to that question." pic.twitter.com/m0wGN1fcFR
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 16, 2021
— CT POLICE LIVE (@CTPOLICELIVE) August 16, 2021
NEW ? Taliban with weapons taking a helicopter ride reportedly over Herat, Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/oZM8k17WkM
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 16, 2021
Free Society Dwindles as Permission Requirements Grow
August 16th, 2021Via: Reason:
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bonanza for government officials, allowing them to extend authority that they then exercise with relatively little oversight or restraint in ways that would have been inconceivable in the past. It has accelerated the transformation of previously free societies into permission-based states, where things once done as a matter of right are now considered privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power. Case in point: the Biden administration reportedly discussed making travel within the United States conditional on vaccination status but is holding back out of fear that the public has yet to be sufficiently softened-up for such an intrusive restriction.
Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban
August 16th, 2021Flashback 2009: ‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan
And now, here’s an actual AP headline from today, “Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban.”
The Afghanistan operation was primarily about shoveling trillions of dollars into the gaping maw of the U.S. military industrial complex and getting kilotons of opium out the other end.
Another curiosity: Priceless mineral deposits have been kept in the ground by all of the chaos. I still don’t understand how this fits into the picture, but oil companies definitely benefited from the slow adoption of electric vehicles. What would EV batteries cost now if Afghan rare earths had been in play over the last decade?
Well, what we got instead was the U.S. sending trillions of dollars to the usual suspects, and a U.S. armed flip flop army that now presides over skyrocketing opium production and priceless, but untapped, mineral reserves.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried.
I consider the potential for pipelines to be mostly noise. As for the 9/11 component of the narrative, it’s like the American Dream. As George Carlin said, “You have to be asleep to believe it.”
Via: AP:
Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not only political power but also U.S.-supplied firepower — guns, ammunition, helicopters and more.
The Taliban captured an array of modern military equipment when they overran Afghan forces who failed to defend district centers. Bigger gains followed, including combat aircraft, when the Taliban rolled up provincial capitals and military bases with stunning speed, topped by capturing the biggest prize, Kabul, over the weekend.
A U.S. defense official on Monday confirmed the Taliban’s sudden accumulation of U.S.-supplied Afghan equipment is enormous. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and so spoke on condition of anonymity. The reversal is an embarrassing consequence of misjudging the viability of Afghan government forces — by the U.S. military as well as intelligence agencies — which in some cases chose to surrender their vehicles and weapons rather than fight.
Apache Helicopters Chase Afghans Swarming A C-17 On Kabul Airport’s Runway
August 16th, 2021Via: The War Zone:
Any security perimeter or containment measures aimed at keeping U.S. aircraft and personnel safe at Kabul International appear to have failed. As thousands of Afghans flocked to the airport in a desperate attempt to escape the Taliban, they have now taken to the runway, in effect shutting down the evacuation operation.
Video coming out of Kabul via Sowaibah Henifie shows huge crowds of Afghans swarming a C-17 that is taxiing while an Apache gunship flying just feet above the ground tries to push them away from the moving airlifter.
Taliban Says Afghanistan War Over as President Flees
August 15th, 2021Those guys sure seem to like their new U.S.-provided rifles. I’ve indicated U.S. weapons with green arrows.
Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)
Nice ACOG too:
The Scope That Changed Everything
There’s a reason the Trijicon ACOG® (Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight) is the official medium-distance engagement optic of the Marine Corps and U.S. Special Operations Forces.
Fascinating.
This may become the most infamous — and devastating — press conference ever held by an American President. pic.twitter.com/j4kKwyPDVm
— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) August 15, 2021
Via: Al Jazeera:
The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
Related: A New Narco-State Is Blossoming in Afghanistan Under the Taliban
Taliban Enter Afghan Capital, U.S. Evacuates Diplomats by Chopper
August 15th, 2021Biden, last month: "The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." https://t.co/cMx5e2xjtn
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) August 15, 2021
Via: Reuters:
Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in “from all sides” but gave no further details.
Kids Game
August 14th, 2021Via: PBS:
Latest from Dr. Michael Yeadon [???]
August 13th, 2021Update: Dr. Mike Yeadon on Telegram
Multiple people told me to look for updates from Dr. Yeadon on Telegram: t.me/robinmg
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Does anyone know where Dr. Mike Yeadon is posting updates/information? Blog, social media, etc?
In case you have not seen this Mike Yeadon podcast.https://t.co/mZemgYvyFM
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) August 13, 2021
