[GatewayPundit] On February 12, 1974, the great Soviet dissident and scholar Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released his famous essay “Live Not By Lies.” The next day he was arrested by the Marxist regime and exiled to the West.
In his famous essay Solzhenitsyn urged the Russian people to stand up to the lie. Do not let the lie consume you. Today in America, on this 4th of July we are a people who are drowning in lies from our elites. They continue each day to gaslight the American public with their more and more ridiculous statements:
– Republicans want to defund the police,
– Joe Biden is mentally stable,
– Black Lives Matter riots are mostly peaceful
– Hydroxychloroquine is not effective in treating COVID,
– Joe Biden won the election.
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What all these points are lies ?
The Democrats say these are true.
who am I to believe ?
Next thing you are going to tell me is
there is no such thing as Big Foot.
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[Town Hall] Afghanistan has always been in the “too hard” box. However, China is succeeding where others have failed, and to our distinct strategic disadvantage.
China has been rather quietly to the western observer, positive and potentially lucrative and strategically advantageous relationships with the Afghans for years. What is China seeking and how are they working to achieve their goals?
China’s aims are nearly parallel and complementary. China allied with Pakistan, never a loyal ally of the US, wants the abandoned southern bases vacated by the Americans as well as access to Indian Ocean warm water ports in Pakistan. With the US leaving particularly Bagram Air Field as well Kabul International and Kandahar Air Field, the nearest US air support facility devolves to 1,300 miles distant Qatar or a carrier group in the Indian Ocean or Persian Gulf. The US is then militarily far removed from the China mainland and the quickly evolving and changing Indian sub-continent.
Afghan mineral wealth is vast, considerable, strategic and a long-standing goal of China. As with most of the involvement of the US in Afghanistan, American citizens, as well as our politicians, diplomats and most of or military leadership have ignored what China is now on the cusp of controlling. China is also negotiating and expanding the infrastructure necessary for transport of resources and military hegemony by development of the Belt Road Initiative and related road, rail and air initiatives across central Asia.
Why were all these natural resources heretofore ignored by the US? They were not. The Washington, D.C. establishment as well as we troops on the ground knew well of these specified and partially explored riches. Efforts were made by previous US administrations to work with the Kabul government for the mutual benefit of both the Afghans and the US. The issue was, as it continues to be in Iraq, securing the production sites and transportation capability to mine, refine and transport these riches. The security situation was simply too difficult to permit exploitation of the resources.
How is China succeeding where others have failed in this endeavor? First, with the departure of the US and NATO forces a major impediment to China’s operation in Afghanistan is not only eliminated, but the ability of China to operate in and transport plunder from Afghanistan is greatly enhanced. Second, China is cagey sufficiently to better and more accepting than were US officials to understand the tribal warlord nature of the significantly decentralized governance of Afghanistan that is tribal, local and controlled by dictatorial warlords who can be optioned and bought off by cunning and ruthless Chinese methods. Remember, the Chinese are the decedents of the most successful conquers of Afghanistan who ruled this land for 500 years by use of the horrendously aggressive and brutal methods.
I have walked the ground of the city Balkh, northwest of Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan where Genghis Kahn and his sons in 1220, brutally murdered the entire population of over one-million souls and absolutely leveled the city. The Chinese will do whatever is needed to bribe, steal or eliminate any Afghans who stand in the way of their agenda.
With the US leaving, the Taliban and their allies, Al Qaida, are in ascendency and gaining ever more control of Afghan territory. As a result of this resurgence, the disrespected, largely incompetent, and highly corrupt central Afghan government largely only in partial control of Kabul, leaves Afghanistan ripe for piece-meal conquest by bribes, intimidation or force by the well-organized and single-minded Chinese.
I don't think they will put boots on the ground, or tibet the pashtuns. The Chinese will likely contract the very saleable Taliban, first weaning them away from the Pakis, and then use them to enforce whatever resource rape and empire building they want to do here.
Look for Pakistan to whine about being cut out as a negotiators for the Shura, when this happens. They will likely make a hue and cry and instigate those brilliant men in Langley to oppose China's business with the new emirs. And Langley will hop to it. Whoever's in the WH then will be appeasing Pakistain by fighting with China in Afghanistan, and the excuse given to Americans will be : We are containing China now, didn't you want just that?
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#7 Taliban may be "saleable" but are they competent - would anyone sane trust them to guard Chinese installations & personnel against terror attacks?
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Remember, the Chinese are the decedents of the most successful conquers of Afghanistan who ruled this land for 500 years by use of the horrendously aggressive and brutal methods.
Perry Mason has questions about this sentence. Decedents are people who died. Probably a Freudian typo.
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I don't understand why the Chinese want to be in Afghanistan. Sure they have mineral wealth but the cost of providing the infrastructure to get at it is a bunch and they you have to keep guarding the infrastructure.
And Afghanistan will not be able to repay loans either.
Sometime the Chinese are driven by some sort of cultural cult but they really should be able to see how foolish this is.
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China will at some point, yes, but trying to time which particular disaster is silly. Zero Hedge likes getting excited… or perhaps Russia paid them to move markets again.
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China has overextended itself and has many internal and external problems. I saw somewhere they have 17 boarder issues with their neighbors. China is a bad neighbor.
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[Regnum] The statement of the former ambassador of the separatist Kosovo to the United States, Viori Chitaku , that the battle on the field of Kosovo against the Ottoman Empire in 1389 was not attended by the Serbs, but by the "Balkan army" is completely unscientific, and therefore it is pointless to discuss or criticize these words from a scientific point of view. The Serbian historian Marko Pejovic stated this to IA REGNUM .
[American Thinker] Rep. James Clyburn (D. S.C.) is the reason Joe Biden is president. It was he who convinced South Carolina’s Black Democrat voters to throw their weight behind Biden, not Bernie, in that state’s Democrat primary, killing Bernie’s momentum. Now, Clyburn, who is the majority whip in the House, is trying to convince all Americans that a voter registration card is "I.D." Isn’t it bad enough that he already saddled us with something awful in the White House?
The centerpiece of the Democrats’ grossly misnamed "For The People" Act was that it would do away with photo I.D. requirements to vote because, Democrats’ claim, they’re racist. As far as Democrats are concerned, while Blacks and other non-Whites are capable of getting photo ID for flying, attending Democrat conventions, buying alcohol, and generally living life in the modern world, these same minorities cannot get photo I.D. to vote.
In this regard, of course, America is out of step with the rest of the world. For example, every country in continental Europe requires photo I.D. to vote. Mexico, too, requires photo I.D. to vote. In Africa, a continent with a fragile infrastructure that makes photo I.D. truly difficult to obtain, the current trend (more than 60% of countries) is to digitize people’s identities to improve election integrity. And yet Democrats assure us that American Blacks just can’t get that I.D.
The problem for Democrats is that, even as they denigrate minorities’ ability to get photo identification, most Americans think that photo I.D. is a good idea for election integrity. In April, 75% of U.S. voters gave a photo I.D. a thumbs up, with 73% of Blacks saying yes and 81% of other non-White voters saying yes. By June, the overall percentage of Americans supporting voter I.D. had soared to 80%.
Clyburn may have political values that I deeply oppose, but he’s no fool. If voters want I.D. for elections, he’s willing to lie and prevaricate to make them think that he, too, wants such I.D. On July 4, he appeared on CNN with Dana Bash, who still dreams that the "For the People" Act can be resurrected. However, she recognizes that the Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, supporting Arizona’s new voting laws, puts the Court’s imprimatur on those states requiring voters to show photographic identification. Clyburn, seeing which way the wind is blowing, suddenly enthusiastically endorsed I.D. laws. Pay attention to what he says, though, because every word is a lie:
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Agree, now we have F-ck-ups, Miscreants & Democrats...
wait...Ven Diagram indicates they all fall under the latter...
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According to the editorialist, the Axis of Evil (remember them?) and Russia all have plans for EMP attacks, this generation’s kewl new technique to win the war in one easy step. And also, according to the editorialist, the U.S. has only published an assessment of what it would take to harden the nation’s infrastructure against such an attack, but has done nothing concrete to achieve it.
But 1) given that Pentagon strategists regularly develop plans to invade Canada and Montenegro, what odds that they have not quietly developed several plans for EMP attacks on various countries, and 2) where is the evidence that any other countries have done anything to harden their infrastructure against such an attack?
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given that Pentagon strategists regularly develop plans to invade Canada and Montenegro, what odds that they have not quietly developed several plans for EMP attacks on various countries
Just so you know, that long since the 80s, the services have spent a good amount of dollars on making their tactical equipment EMP proof. It's a contributory reasons why some equipment is far more expensive than their civilian counterparts and why some things are not bought off the shelf.
There was a EMP testing rig in New Mexico with a huge wooden platform and a cloud of wiring above to generate a pulse. How big a platform, at least large enough to accommodate a 747.
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Note: you can bulid a simple small emp proof container using a small all metal trash can, 2x cans of flex seal, a cooper car jumper cable and cooper ground rod....plus some extras for under
$100. That hold 2 laptops, a bag flash drives, a 400watt fold up solar panel and 5amp 12vdc litium battery..etc.. It fact there several youtube videos and back-channel plans you can google.But to what avail?
...A dear friend and mentor who was a strategic analyst (lost him last Christmas to the goddamned COVID) was once asked about imminent threats like EMP and smuggled-in bombs, which would be 'so easy to use and utterly defeat us.'
I've never forgotten his answer. He just contemplated his reply for a moment and then said, "If it's so easy to do, is so decisive, and can create so much damage...why hasn't it already been done?"
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
07/05/2021 16:34 Comments ||
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^^^
Just need one of these: E2V RF Safe-Stop Electromagnetic Pulse Gun
THE E2V RF SAFE-STOP ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE GUN CAN STOP A CAR ENGINE BY SHORTING THE VEHICLE'S ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
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All the more reason to have an older car with conventional ignition and a carburetor. Old VW Bug is just about bomb-proof and can be maintained with minimal tools. I had one and kept it running with a basic tool kit, a few spares, and JBWeld.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 ||
07/05/2021 19:09 Comments ||
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^^^
Me too..my fleet consists of
1951 Salmson S4-61
1952 Nash Ambassador Airflyte
1953 Citroën Traction Avant
1955 Bentley R-type
All simple vehicles mechanically
with at least 20 miles per gallon rate
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The USA has more important tasks to accomplish, like teaching CRT to grade schoolers and locking down its populace to fight COVID while leaving the southern border wide open to every COVID-carrying migrant who chooses to enter the country.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
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#20
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Even if read
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Posted by: Otto Grumble2081 ||
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