Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 301 Comments

For the past couple of weeks I have been attempting to draw attention to this segment from a June 23rd congressional hearing.  Given the events of the last 24 hours, that specific segment gains a higher level of importance. {Direct Rumble Link}  PLEASE WATCH:

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley:

“Bagram is not necessary, tactically or operationally for what we are going to try to do here with Afghanistan. Consolidate on Kabul in defense of their government“.

Full Video Segment Below:

BACKGROUND: People have wondered how the Biden administration could get the collapse of Afghanistan so horribly wrong and botched completely the withdrawal of U.S. forces. To that point there is a little known Question and Answer session by Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO, CD05) that deserves some attention.

On June 23rd, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee about their budget requests. Rep Doug Lamborn took this opportunity, he only had 4 minutes, to ask some very specific questions about Afghanistan and his concerns for early reports of the Taliban surging back into control.

Lamborn asked about the hazard of closing Bagram AFB given the tenuous nature of reliance on one airport in Kabul. Lamborn also asked about the evacuation of U.S-Afghan allies and the risk to women and girls if the Taliban were successful.

What Def Sec Austin and General Milley said in response totally explains why the White House was blind-sided by the Taliban. [WATCH Video at 01:06:56, Prompted]

Given the nature of what has happened in Afghanistan, those totally wrong estimations of the situation in the region should be enough to see both Secretary Austin and General Milley fired.  At the very least, reliance on this inept and totally wrong outlook explains why the Biden administration had no idea what was about to happen.

Congressman Doug Lamborn’s questioning was directly on point, and in hindsight, stunningly prescient.   Great job by Lamborn!

Hopefully, Austin was wrong when he said that any defense of women and girls in Afghanistan will be contingent upon the U.S. embassy in Kabul.  The U.S. embassy in Kabul is no longer there, the Taliban have it.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 1,008 Comments

The installed occupant of the White House, Joe Biden, will be delivering a national address following the Kabul Airport terrorist attack that killed 12 U.S. servicemembers and wounded dozens more.  The effort is scheduled to begin at 5:00pm with livestream links below:

White House Livestream – Fox News Livestream – PBS Livestream – Alternate Livestream

Posted originally on the Conservative Tree House on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 194 Comments

From the office of U.S. President Donald Trump:

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 100 Comments

On August 19, 2021, Joe Biden revealed his “Knock On Wood” strategy for Kabul airport operations.

On August 26, 2021, 12 U.S. Military Servicemembers were killed, 15 wounded.

The ‘knock on wood’ strategy did not work.

There is no distinguishing ideological difference between ISIS, ISIS-K, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, The Islamic State or the Taliban.  All media who are reporting on a difference between the groups are only parsing the situation, attempting to make it appear complex, and obfuscating on behalf of the Biden administration.

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 246 Comments

A Pentagon briefing with Spokesperson John Kirby and General McKenzie took place earlier. The latest update on the suicide bombers around the Kabul International Airport shows that 12 U.S. Military service members have been killed and 15 wounded.  Press Briefing below:

Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 815 Comments

Two suicide bombing attacks in Kabul have resulted in American, allied and civilian casualties.  Both blasts were just outside the gates of the Kabul International Airport.  One detonation at the “Abbey Gate”, and the second detonation appears to have happened between the Baron Hotel and the “Baron Gate” entrance.

There are U.S., U.K. and civilian casualties.  The Associated Press is reporting 13 fatalities. Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby confirmed some of the original, albeit sketchy, details:

♦ Associated Press – KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two suicide bombers and gunmen targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport Thursday, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. At least 13 people were killed and 15 wounded, Russian officials said.

A U.S. official said the complex attack was “definitely believed” to have been carried out by the Islamic State group, whose affiliate in Afghanistan grew out of disaffected Taliban members who hold an even more extreme view of Islam.

At least 13 people died and 15 were wounded, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry, which gave the first official casualty count. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby also confirmed the blasts, saying one was near an airport entrance and another was a short distance away by a hotel.

The U.S. official said members of the U.S. military were among the wounded. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations.

Even as the area was hit, the official said evacuation flights continued to take off from Kabul airport, which Western governments earlier warned was a target.

One explosion went off in a crowd of people waiting to enter the airport, according to Adam Khan, an Afghan waiting nearby. He said several people appeared to have been killed or wounded, including some who lost body parts.

The Taliban condemned the attack, saying it happened it an area controlled by U.S. forces. (read more)

♦ Reuters Newswire – WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – There were at least two explosions near Kabul’s airport amid a huge and chaotic evacuation effort from Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon said, with civilians and U.S. service members among the casualties of what was described as a “complex attack.”

A source familiar with U.S. congressional briefings said U.S. officials strongly believe that the Afghan affiliate of Islamic State, known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), after an old name for the region, was responsible. ISIS-K is opposed by the United States and the Taliban.

A Taliban official said at least 13 people were killed in the blast, including children, and many Taliban guards were wounded. A U.S. official, citing initial information, told Reuters as many as 5 U.S. military personnel may have been hurt, including at least one seriously.

A surgical hospital run by an Italian charity said it was treating more than 60 wounded. The attacks came after the United States and allies urged Afghans to leave the area because of a threat by Islamic State militants. (read more)

Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com AUG 22, 2021 AT 6:12 PM

Google Leaks- The Truth Comes Out

Kent Heckenlively is a human dynamo. He’s a high school science teacher, a family man, a heroic truth teller. He’s also an excellent, prolific, and successful writer who has penned many best-selling books. He teamed up with Zach Vorhies, a former employee of Google, to help him reveal the truth in their latest book, “Google Leaks, A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship.” 

Zach personally witnessed Google’s turn to the dark side. Determined to stop Donald Trump, Google’s began suppressing free speech. They preferred communist totalitarianism, Chinese style.

Vorhies revealed how Google was doing it, thus sacrificing his career and risking future success. This is the price heroes pay for telling the truth, and it’s something we must all do eventually if we want to preserve our freedom.

Order your Book here!

— Ben Garrison

Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Re-Posted Aug 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I am new to your blog but I’m here because your reputation precedes you. I was told unlike everyone else commenting on the World Economic Forum, even Nigel Farage said you were the alternative to Davos. My question is this. Why has the WEF been so influential with all of these governments? Is there a common link?

Thank you

WH

ANSWER: Schwab’s philosophy and what he has been preaching is that we can construct the future, which was the same concept of Karl Marx. He does not believe in nature, but believes in global warming as we are always the cause. This is an inherent problem with many academics in economics. They think they can regulate the economy to create nirvana.

The reason economists since Marx have rebelled against laissez-faire economics is because they believe that they should not be just observers. They want to tinker with the world. Just before his death in 1946, John Maynard Keynes told Henry Clay, a professor of social economics and adviser to the Bank of England that he hoped that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” would help Britain out of the economic hole it is in. “I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.” Keynes came to see he was wrong before he died, but this is the sad lesson that all economists must face one day. The economy is like a rainforest that is so complicated that it is not simply about planting a bunch of trees. So many species have evolved and they are all interconnected.

Nigel Farage came and spoke at our 2019 World Economic Conference and said that we were the alternative to Davos. Effectively, I see the economy more as a physicist where I observe how it works rather than a Marxist declaring how it should work. That is why our WEC has been the alternative to the WEF. There must always be polar opposites. I do not believe we can “construct” the future. Our greatest problems have always been our own stupid attempts to manage the future. Each attempt inevitably ends up being in the self-interest of politicians to retain power at the expense of the real future. That is what this Great Reset is all about and Schwab is a classic CONTROL FREAK who is pushing to control the entire world because the reason Marx failed was not that his ideas were wrong, but that he only had China and Russia.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Aug 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Marty, Socrates has done a fantastic job of tracking Pfizer. What do you expect from 2022 which is a major turning point on your model?

Thanks for a great system

AG

ANSWER: Something is very strange when it comes to Pfizer. The rally should not extend beyond 2022 and the two key months ahead will be October 2021 and then February 2022. This virus also resides in animals on a very broad level. That means there is absolutely NO POSSIBLE WAY any vaccine will ever end COVID. It will be like the flu and return seasonally, for it will evolve. Sometimes we get the Bird Flu and others the Swine Flu. Smallpox was eradicated because it was confined to humans, and to this day its origins remain a mystery. That means this hype over COVID is a deliberate fraud. The American version of our Witch Doctor, Anthony Fauci, now admits that the vaccines are less effective against this new strain they call the Delta version.

Meanwhile, even the notorious corrupt Snoopes had to admit this is TRUE. Despite demanding everyone gets vaccinated, the White House said its own staff DOES NOT need to be vaccinated provided they are routinely checked. So why is the White House the entire exception? Even the military is demanding 100% compliance.

Meanwhile, the head of Pfizer admitted that a new variant would emerge that is resistant to their vaccines. Indeed, there is already such a variant in South America. They call this one the Deadly Lambda variant, and it could be vaccine-resistant. Israel already has reported Pfizer’s vaccine is only 39% effective and 50% with the Delta variant were fully vaccinated. There are genetic risks to this vaccine as there are with others. There is no government action that states if you have x, y, or z, do not get vaccinated. This is the real crime. The problem with this wholesale drive to vaccinate is that COVID is not so lethal, but the vaccines will cause the virus to mutate to beat the vaccines. Like antibiotics being over-used, they are becoming useless as diseases evolve to defeat them. This is like a war that never ends against nature where it is how it thins the herd – not Gates or Schwab.

Something is just not right, and there is nobody trustworthy in the mainstream press or government anymore. The vaccines run the risk of actually making us perhaps more vulnerable to mutation of COVID that I remain convinced was deliberately released. Herd immunity does not seem to be even possible in this circumstance because of the mutations. Regardless of the debate over these vaccines, the charts do not lie. I do not see Pfizer continuing this rally beyond 2022. So if we look at the charts, perhaps the vaccines fail to work, or something is waiting in the wings that will not be positive for Pfizer. Additionally, there is a rising alternative to the vaccines, which appears to be even more effective — antibody therapy rather than altering your DNA. The government has been providing that here in Florida.

Meanwhile, the most dangerous agency is the CDC. They have purchased the vaccines and then they distribute it so they have legally become the provider. That makes them liable but it would be a tough road to sue these people who are totally insane and out of control. It is the CDC that has imposed eviction moratoriums without constitutional power and it is the CDC who is demanding COVID passports. This agency has become a serious threat to the very foundation of freedom and in the pure totalitarian spirit, nobody there stands for election so the people have no right to vote them out of office. This is the very definition of TYRANNY!

Posted originally on the conservative house on August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 102 Comments

To say COVID fear is running amok in Australia would be the understatement of the year.  Rather than add my own editorial to their announcements, it is much more effective to read their own words.  None of this is a spoof, everything in quotes is exactly as proclaimed by officials and compliant media.  You cannot make this stuff up folks.  [New South Wales Article] – [Queensland Article]

♦ The Premier of the New South Wales directorate (Sydney area) is Comrade Premier Gladys Berejiklian.  She has announced a magnanimous position to relieve the stress upon the year long lockdowns.  As the Australian news is reporting:

(Via NINE NEWS) […] “From September 13, households living in the NSW government’s LGAs of concern will be allowed to spend an additional hour of recreation outdoors, as long as all adults in the household are fully vaccinated.  This is on top of the already-permitted hour of exercise, meaning households will be able to visit a park, Ms Berejiklian said.  However, people must take this hour within the current and ongoing curfew hours, which will continue.” [9pm to 5am]

“Outside the LGAs of concern, through the rest of Greater Sydney and regional NSW, five people will be allowed to gather outdoors, as long as all adults are fully vaccinated.”

“People who live alone can nominate one designated family member or friend to visit for companionship. However, “Singles bubbles” will be required to be registered on nsw.gov.au” (read more)

Masks are mandatory everywhere outside the home except for when exercising. Authorized workers must carry a New South Wales essential workers permit and present their papers at each checkpoint during travel or transit.

♦ Moving slightly north to the Queensland Directorate, they are proud to announce a new COVID Quarantine Camp being built to the West of Brisbane in a place near Toowoomba.

The nearest hospital is two hours away, but that didn’t stop Queensland’s Comrade Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk from signing a lease on the remote area to build a 1,000 bed involuntary quarantine camp for persons who test positive for COVID-19.

Comrade Annastacia Palaszczuk said construction has begun on Thursday for a dedicated regional quarantine facility at Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba following months of discussion. The premier said the fit-for-purpose facility will be ready by the end of the year and will eventually have the capacity for 1,000 beds.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday the facility does not meet national guidelines but wished the state “every success”.

The federal government has previously said it was not in favor of a quarantine facility at Wellcamp because it did not meet the criteria of being within easy access of a passenger airport terminal or tertiary hospital.

BRISBANE TIMES –  […] “The facility, near Toowoomba, would be almost a two-hour drive from the nearest tertiary hospital in Brisbane but could accommodate international passenger flights along with the limited overseas freight that already lands at the site.  

Positive patients would be transported either by ambulance or airlifted to Brisbane’s existing COVID hospitals.

Asked if the Prime Minister knew about the announcement, the Premier said, “I’m quite sure he does now,” confirming she had not spoken to him and federal approval was still needed for such flights to be redirected to Wellcamp, which she hoped would come once the “heat” was out of the issue.

“We can bus people from Brisbane up here if we have to,” Ms Palaszczuk said. “If you build it, they will come.” (read more)

“G’day Mates.  Don’t worry, it’s just a shower”…