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The United States Withdrawal from Afghanistan Raises a Number of Issues

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By James O’Neill*

Australia has announced the rapid withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, shortly after United States president Joe Biden announced that United States troops would be withdrawn by September of this year. The decision was made with an unseemly haste — before any plans had been formulated for the fate of the thousands of Afghanistan workers who had been employed by the Australian forces.

Entirely missing from newspaper reports of the speedy, one might say uncomfortably fast, withdrawal was any contemplation of why they were there in the first place, and what lessons may be drawn from this wholly misbegotten exercise.

The Australian troops had been in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years. It will be recalled that the ostensible reason for the invasion was that Afghanistan was harbouring, and refusing to give up, Osama bin Laden, the alleged perpetrator of the attacks of the United States of 11th of September 2001. The Taliban, not unreasonably, asked for evidence of bin Laden’s culpability, which the Americans refused to supply. Entirely missing from mainstream media commentary at the time was any discussion of why the United States was so keen to occupy Afghanistan.

There were two main reasons, neither of which appeared in the western mainstream media, including in Australia which was one of the first countries to offer its troops to take part in the invasion and subsequent lengthy occupation.

The first of these reasons was geography. Afghanistan is an extremely well-placed country to be a base for United States operations against its neighbours who almost uniformly share a distaste for United States global hegemony. First and foremost, amongst those countries is China, which has never accepted the legitimacy of the United States presence in the region.

Another country is Iran who, since the overthrow of the Shah’s regime in the 1970s has been an object of American antipathy. This antipathy extended to imposing a massive number of sanctions on the country which had a devastating effect on its economic viability. These were not directly eased by the nuclear deal with the United States and some European nations, a deal that was in any case unilaterally abandoned by the Trump regime in 2018. The United States and Biden is making a half-hearted and highly qualified attempt to renegotiate its return to the deal, thus far without success.

Biden’s plan to withdraw United States troops from Afghanistan was never as clear cut as mainstream media reports have suggested. Troops would be left there to guard the key assets. More significantly, in terms of numbers, a force of non-regular troops, mercenaries, numbering up to 10,000 were to remain in Afghanistan to protect United States interests.

Those interests have never been clearly defined. They include, obviously, an attempt to retain the Afghan government in power. This is at best a forlorn hope. After nearly 20 years of occupation the United States government has spectacularly failed to train a government capable of surviving without United States military support. It was initially suggested that the government could survive up to a year.  That now seems highly improbable.

The second main reason to doubt the veracity of a complete United States withdrawal is the great unmentioned in mainstream media reports: the role of the United States in the control of Afghanistan’s heroin trade. During the last period of Taliban control preceding the United States and Allied invasion in 2001, they had succeeded in radically reducing the role of heroin production in all areas of the country that they actually controlled.

One of the most outstanding features of the post-invasion era was the immediate restoration of Afghanistan’s role in world heroin supply, now firmly controlled by the Americans. That production has increased steadily year by year of the occupation. Afghanistan now accounts for more than 80% of the world’s heroin supply.

It is remarkable how little attention is paid to this phenomenon in mainstream media accounts of events in Afghanistan. The United Nations publishes annual figures of the role of Afghanistan in being the world’s major supplier of heroin. Yet none all that ever appears in the Australian media for whom the role of heroin is one of the great unmentionables.  It has been reported in overseas publications that one of the roles of the Australian forces in Afghanistan was to assist in protecting the heroin crop.

The continued protection of this crop is one of the major tasks of the United States military forces that will remain. That is not expected to last as the Taliban have indicated that the role of heroin is as unacceptable to them now is it was in the 1990s.

The Americans are also trying to establish friendly relations with other of Afghanistan’s

neighbours, and particularly the former Soviet republics that share Afghanistan’s borders. In this they are having limited success. The countries concern are fully aware of United States motives for their interest. They have alternative sources of development, in particular being part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and also interest from the Russians in the latter’s promotion of the Eurasian Economic Union. That grouping currently has Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan as members and Uzbekistan (a neighbouring country of Afghanistan) with observer status.

Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan and is currently the object of special United States attention. Therefore, although the United States is nominally withdrawing from Afghanistan, it has not lost interest in the region. Its clear intention is to try and gain a foothold in neighbouring countries and therefore be in a position to continue making trouble for both Russia and China.

The question is, to what extent will Australia participate in this attempted destabilisation of those countries. Australia gives willing obedience to United States wishes and picking fights with China as it is currently doing is not a good sign.

The other outstanding question is what will happen to the Afghanistan drug trade. The Americans will not be willing to give up this major source of off-the-books revenue. It is one of the biggest issues facing what is surely an incoming Taliban government.

Geopolitical analyst. He may be contacted that jamesoneill83@icloud.com

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  1. Missing here, is the primary reason for the invasion. The Brzezinski policy focused on the Caspian Basin oil and gas, which was intended to be pipelined down through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the sea ports on the Indian Ocean.

    It was the CIA who wanted the heroin and, consequently went into alliance with the oil industry.

    But the CIA is so 1960s in its motivation. They are currently in the way of much more powerful lobbies who are focused on mRNA-induced eugenics, creating famines through creating water shortages and poisoning water to destroy food farmers, holding nations to ransom with high water prices, and inciting civil wars.

    All pretty simple really.

    • Wait ’till humanity colonizes space, mate. You’ll see water (i.e. fuel, and oxygen) f**kery by those same miscreants on a grand scale!

  2. Is there any truth anywhere post 911?
    Oz like most places is crown zionist occupied territory, now with covid protocols, a smart surveillance state of the ccp world government. Simply put, game over. The bs is overflowing, as all positions of influence here are handed to ccp officials enforcing this Orwellian nightmare on steroids. They’re here and more are coming everyday, as domestic air travel has now ceased.
    Overseas wars of occupation, with dismantling of all industry here past two decades, were prepared in advance to make way for this global covid dictatorship. We are now watching the consequences of inaction against satanists that control with no mercy (serco camps everywhere), this once upon a time, innocent nation. Sending boys, and now girls, as mercenaries for the bankster elite has been ‘normal’ since 1914. What have we gained from 107 years of continuous wars of occupation? Lockdown, cannot sell or buy without the mark, accepting the new normal.
    It’s all done sealed and delivered, if you still can’t see the obvious, just look at who’s driving the bentleys with p-plates. This place is now the launching pad for the one communist global belt, run by bloodsucking oligarchs addicted to andrenochrome, a way bigger problem than smack addiction. Smart compliance enforcing slavery here.

    • Ant65, Dunno where you get the idea that all domestic air travel in Ozz has ceased, I’ve just come in from my garden after counting no less than FOUR such flights over flying my place in the last 20 minutes.These flights start around 0530 and continue throughout the day with sets of four every two to three hours, incoming or outgoing.
      Twice a week, we have the international flights arriving at around 1530 in the afternoon. From where I sit, in my back yard, there’s heaps of domestic AND international flights arriving and departing.

      • In Perth the international flights mostly seem to sneak in before dawn then apparently continue on after fuelling up – if Qantas, appearing to be domestic morning flights. Because of the scamdemic, not much chance of them taking on domestic passengers.
        Before scamdemic they more frequently seemed to come in the afternoon or early evening.

      • From what I’ve seen it’s not exactly hard to get an air-ravel exemption
        And according to someone I spoke to yesterday, the traffic on the Perth – Mandurah Hwy has been no lighter than usual per the latest “shutdown”

        • An unlawful restriction, by definition, is one that the respective proscriber doesn’t have the capacity to enforce

  4. Had to check my calendar month, thinking it must be April.
    Satire can be very diverse and add value.So…

    Don’t sweat, Tasmania can cover any and all opioids for the world. Its a bit passé though, like the narrative, now that fentynal is the go too.Don’t get me wrong, there is still a need for the old ways.Toyota and its white paint supply chain can still do well.
    Though not as well as China(read CCP) who must control both, the end opioid value add(heroin) and the synthetic version.

    Sorry, seem to have woken(lol) grumpy today

    • Simon, Had to laugh at your assertion that China is allegedly controlling the heroin trade. IF, that were true, and I don’t believe for a micro second it is, I would say the pigeons have come home to roost. After all, which nation was it, that destroyed their dynasty with heroin in the first place ??? L.O.L. I’d say it’s KARMA.

  5. The only logical reason the belligerent US would let the riches of Afghanistan go is so that they can concentrate their forces for a war with their stumbling block Russia and China who are thwarting their aim for a NWO and total world control.

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    https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2018/06/10/reasons-for-the-usas-illegal-occupation-afghanistan-has-significant-oil-natural-gas-and-strategic-raw-material-resources-not-to-mention-opium/

  6. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken strict precautions in its preparations to mark its 100th anniversary. Beijing is heavily guarded. Knife stores are required to ask for ID and report customers’ information to the police. Restaurants in restricted areas have been forced to close their doors. The CCP is arresting people going to Beijing and blocking any social media account that might not show enough self-censorship.

    The CCP might look strong on the outside, but in reality, it is extremely nervous. Despite decades of tight control and brainwashing, the Chinese people are well aware that the communist system is against human nature and will not last long.

    Since its takeover of China, the CCP has killed an estimated 80 million Chinese people. During its existence, it has never stopped its campaigns to purge different groups, every time picking a new group to target. Its primary targets have been those who represented the best of the Chinese people and their culture.

    In the 1950s, the CCP took property from landowners, confiscated private businesses from business owners, and killed millions whom they called “capitalists.” Many of its victims were the most well educated and the most successful in Chinese society—often those who imparted the best of Chinese culture, handed down to them through a long family history.

    Epoch Times Photo
    A Chinese landowner is executed by a communist soldier in Fukang, China. (Public Domain)
    The Chinese people have a long tradition of being loyal to their family and their spouses. When CCP officials reached the cities, they divorced their wives and married city girls. The Chinese also had a long history of respecting and supporting those who lived in temples. But the CCP forced monks to marry.

    All communist countries have experienced famine. It’s an inevitable result of the communist system. In China, the Great Famine from 1958 to 1962 is estimated to have killed around 40 million people. In thousands of cases, people were driven to insanity and turned to cannibalism.

    There is one such story that is widely known. A father and his two children, a boy and a girl, were the only ones left in their farmhouse. One day, the father drove his daughter out of the house. When the girl came back, her brother had disappeared. There was a layer of white foam floating in the wok, and a bone had been thrown by the stove. A few days later, the father added water to the wok and then asked his daughter to come over. The girl was so scared that she hid behind the door, crying and begging: “Da, don’t eat me. I will tend the grass and keep the fire for you. If you eat me, no one will work for you.”

    China has a history of 5,000 years of civilization. For most of that time, China was the envy of surrounding countries. The people were civilized and led stylish lives. Even kings from other countries chose to stay and even die in China. Communism, however, has brought famine, poverty, and an endless war against the Chinese people.

    The Chinese have a tradition of being extremely respectful toward the elderly, showing respect to their parents, grandparents, and teachers. “One day my teacher, life-long my father,” as the old saying goes—he who teaches me for one day is my father for life.

    However, in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution, teenagers were encouraged by communist officials to beat their parents and teachers. In Beijing alone, more than a thousand teachers were beaten to death by their students. As a young man, Bo Xilai—the future mayor of the super city Chongqing who would go on to visit the United States as a high-ranking official—stomped on his father’s chest, breaking several of his ribs. This kind of act was unheard of during 5,000 years of Chinese history.

    The CCP used teenagers to search civilians’ homes and destroy antiques, artwork, and traditional objects they found, as well as public artwork, temples, and so on—anything that could remind people of traditional Chinese culture.

    The Chinese culture was always believed to be divinely inspired. But communist ideology is against humanity and against human nature. Anything that represents traditional culture and principles is an obstacle to enforcing its ideology.

    Epoch Times Photo
    Communist Party cadres hang a placard on the neck of a Chinese man during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The words on the placard states the man’s name and accuse him of being a member of the “black class.” (Public Domain)
    After using teenagers to destroy traditional objects and overthrow political opponents, the CCP sent those same teenagers to the remote countryside to get “educated.” Doing so prevented a potential revolution and demands from them for employment. These young people faced many years of pain and hopelessness.

    The CCP also shut down universities and sent intellectuals to the countryside to do farm work for “reeducation.” Many musicians had their hands ruined by hard labor. Countless writers, artists, professors, engineers, scientists, leading experts, and cultural elites—the people who traditionally carry a country’s knowledge, skills, and cultural spirit—committed suicide.

    Worst of all, when the CCP came to power, it outlawed religion, dismissing it as an “opium of the people.” It uses atheism to destroy people’s belief in God, taking away people’s belief in moral standards.

    The most severe religious persecution campaign by the CCP targets Falun Gong practitioners. In terms of the persecution’s scale and severity, it is unprecedented, targeting 100 million practitioners of the spiritual discipline, as well as their families and friends. Falun Gong teaches traditional meditation, which has been a core part of Chinese tradition since ancient times, and the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

    To carry out the persecution—which is now entering its 23rd year—CCP leader Jiang Zemin promoted anyone who supported this persecution, forcing people to oppose truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. In promoting people who opposed goodness, the CCP placed those who were most capable of committing evil in the top positions in Chinese society.

    Epoch Times Photo
    Falun Gong practitioner Chi Lihua and her daughter Xu Xinyang hold two “before and after torture” pictures of Chi’s husband and Xu’s father Xu Dawei. He was sentenced to eight years for practicing Falun Gong in China, when his wife was pregnant. After he was released, his 8-year-old daughter saw him for the first time, but only for 13 days, before he died from injuries sustained during the severe torture he suffered in prison. Xu Xinyang is now 16 years old. (Jennifer Zeng/The Epoch Times)
    The forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners—whereby healthy individuals are killed for their organs to be sold for profit—has been supported and carried out by the military, police, courts, hospitals, and prison system. As a result, the entire country has become morally bankrupt.

    Once the CCP began to profit from killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs, it could not stop its business of killing for profit. It has continued this practice in Xinjiang Province.

    The destruction of Chinese traditions, the damage to the moral standard, and the persecution of people of faith have been the biggest crimes of the CCP.

    The Party has killed more people in China than the number who died in the two world wars combined. Beyond killing, it has made every effort to destroy the spirit, culture, and dignity of the Chinese people. Fully aware that it’s the enemy of the people, the CCP has always been in an existential crisis.

    This is why when top CCP leaders speak at anniversary events, they always try to make a strong appeal, and appear like they represent the Chinese people. Actually, the CCP has taken the Chinese people hostage, for fear that they will rise up and overthrow it.

    • Falun Gong In the Media: What Can We Believe?

      “FalunGong also have their own media (Li, 2005b), and are heavily involved in the EpochTimes, a free newspaper that is most well known for its polemic”

      “…………..Generally, practitioners do not know if the information in the media is accurate. They themselves get most of their information from reading press releases, and usually if I asked them if something was true they replied, “Yes – I read it in the newspaper”. FalunGong also have their own media (Li, 2005b), and are heavily involved in the EpochTimes, a free newspaper that is most well known for its polemic Nine commentaries onthe Chinese Communist Party, which Li promotes (Li, 2005c)

      ……………Regarding his spiritual status, Li was ambiguous when speaking to the Western media.While he said modestly to ABC news, “Don’t make me into a God” (implanting the idea that one could easily make this mistake when encountering him), to Time magazine,“You can think of me as a human being”, and to The Times “I’m not saying I’m higher than Jesus Christ,” he is more forthright with disciples (Dowell, 1999, answer 30;Greenberg, 1999, p. 2; Kirsta, 1999, para. 34). At conventions he claims not just to be a God, but the best God, superior to Buddha and Jesus whom he dismisses as merely teaching 16 carat gold paths compared with his 24 carat gold path (Li, 1998c, 2003a). He also encourages veneration, telling disciples that his spiritual body is so large that, if he appeared in it, disciples would be looking upward from under his big toe (Li, 1999)…………

      https://www.academia.edu/655693/Falun_Gong_In_the_Media_What_Can_We_Believe

  7. Sorry, for balance to my previous, and for the article.

    Think those troops coming home from the “coalition of the willing” are needed to shore up domestic defence issues in their lockdown domicile or “house”. Me either

  9. The Chinese premier made the comment during a speech on Thursday to mark the centenary of the ruling Communist Party (CCP). Addressing a crowd of people at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Mr Xi condemned foreign powers that are trying to “bully” his country.
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    “Only socialism can save China, and only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China,” he said.

    “We will never allow anyone to bully, oppress or subjugate China.

    “Anyone who dares try to do that will have their heads bashed bloody against the Great Wall of Steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.”

    He added: “No one should underestimate the resolve, the will and ability of the Chinese people to defend their national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
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    President Xi’s comments follow increasing tension over Taiwan and Hong Kong.

    In recent months, the US has increased its support for Taiwan which has enraged nationalist Chinese who see the sovereign nation as a breakaway province of China.

    In addition, China has faced criticism over allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang and strict crackdowns in Hong Kong.

    During the CCP speech, the Chinese premier reaffirmed China’s “unbreakable commitment” to unifying with Taiwan.

    He added that China would “fulfil the Chinese Dream of great national rejuvenation.”

    The speech was also marked by a fly-by of helicopters in formation spelling “100” and a 100-gun salute.

    According to some reports, as many as 70,000 people gathered in Tiananmen square to watch the speech – most of them maskless.

    Tang Renwu, a professor of public management at Beijing Normal University, told Reuters the tough talk was in response to US and Western efforts to “contain” and “suppress” China.

  10. This article brought to mind the era of Terry and myself. We were either voluntary enlisted or conscripted into a war zone based on the lies of politicians, industrialists and bankers who would collectively financially or politically benefit a huge amount. They got the public behind them by espousing the doctrine of removing dictators like Hoa Chi Ming from ruling the country of Vietnam. After that War some of those bankers and industrialist got into bed with those same communists to gain control of Vietnam’s resources.

    Today’s politicians, bankers and pharmaceutical industry have reversed the situation by getting the public to back dictators around Australia. Using the panic manufactured by the non-existing novel virus, these traitors are seen as heroes by the dumbed down public, for now.

    However, just like the Vietnam War days the public awareness is very slowly awakening. Look out you treasonous politicians when the public and legal fraternity start to show their wrath. The difference between the two eras is that you overstepped the mark this time by breaking the Nuremberg Code, which ironically was instigated by politicians of the past.

    • “very slowly awakening”
      You could get all the football players from North Melbourne and swap them with all the players from South Melbourne so they were wearing each other’s clothes, and my guess is the crowd would still be screaming for red or blue, their traditional allegiance.

  11. A couple of excellent articles on China

    • The Chinese Miracle, Revisited – Pepe Escobar (reposted from The Saker)
    https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/the-chinese-miracle-revisited

    • US vs China: The Taiwan Issue – Brian Berletic/Tony Cartalucci (Land Destroyer)

    Brian mentions the ‘Eagle Act’ (Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement Act).
    Yes, apparently, they can make that stuff up …

    From the Pepe Escobar article …

    “What the whole world saw, in practice, was the manifest efficiency of the Chinese governance system, capable of designing and implementing extremely complex geoeconomic strategies after plenty of local and regional debate on a vast range of policy initiatives.

    Compare it to the endless bickering and gridlock in Western liberal democracies, which are incapable of planning for the next quarter, not to mention fifteen years.

    […]

    Chinese exceptionalism means respecting Confucianism – which privileges harmony and abhors conflict – as well as Daoism – which privileges balance – over the boisterous, warring, hegemonic Western model.”

    So all we have to do now is figure out who is in controlling this policy of ‘Western’ hegemony – that is, who owns and controls all major media corporations as well as Google, Facebook. Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram, that virtually saturates the administration of Biden (and that of Trump before him), and also controls the CDC and Big Pharma, particularly all ‘Western’ vaccination manufacturing corporations.

        • Jekyll island etc is just another step on the way.
          The jew is the bagman, just as Biden jr is the bagman, how would jailing the bagman affect anything.
          Interesting to consider how South Africa was taken down and economically destroyed (starting roughly during the baby-boomers five-year “revolution” of 1967). No doubt the big South African business operations are still going strong with private armies delivering diamonds to London & Israel, gold to Swiss vaults etc.
          South Africa was undermined (at least superficially) partly by a program of lefties who followed the doctrines of colour coding (divide and conquer). The focus was rugby football, there were impassioned protests against the redneck governments of South Africa while the “terrorist” Mandela was sanctified and politically installed to make the transition.
          The same destiny must be underway for Australia. Now the globalist miners have their infrastructure in place they are working to automate everything. They can isolate their biggest mines in the north-west and use socialist economics to destroy the cities. The states and commonwealth are converted to a corporations and the citizens are converted to property of the corporation, by virtue of dying and new ones being born, completes the conversion, hence a need to kill off old ones, and bring in new ones who will willingly covert to corporate property via citizenship ceremonies.
          The problem is we have too many dummies, who for example sit watching corporate football on TV and believe they are somehow participating in sport.
          They fail to understand, what is on TV is an illusion. They yell at the TV which is simply a type of electric light-box. They feel a totally imaginary sense of participation, which they reinforce by chit-chat with other TV viewers. Even at the end, the winner is decided by a big bag full of cocaine. These people are as dumb as a bull attacking a cape. They only know red and blue.
          Lazy and stupid as cattle, they watch on dumbly as their own get taken down.

  14. I heard years ago there were only 4 LNG terminals around the world then China started buying all the Australian gas and there were 200 terminals last time I heard, the enthusiasm of some dumb politicians to sell all the LNG to China led to all sorts of electricity crises on the east coast over the last decade. Now it appears China has found a new place to get LNG. Hooray !!! We can have ours back again and all get on LPG conversion cars, fuel will go back down to 50c a litre like it was about 1980 or whatever, it’s going to be great (sorry just teasing).
    I didn’t watch this video yet just include it as a source, preliminaries run for about 10 minutes before they even mention Turkmenistan

  15. What is the difference between US funded and armed al-Qaeda in Syria and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?

    “The Diplomat” says –

    Officials acknowledge that the withdrawal so far has largely involved removing or otherwise disposing of mountains of equipment.

    “…….The al-Qaida extremist group led by Osama bin Laden was the immediate target of the U.S. invasion, and while bin Laden was killed 10 years ago and much of the group’s capacity has withered, it remains a worry. A June 1 United Nations Security Council report said al-Qaida remains linked to the Taliban………”

    https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/us-pullout-from-afghanistan-half-done-but-questions-remain/

    But in Syria –

    “It Started in Daraa on March 17, 2011: The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria. Who Was Behind the 2011 “Protest Movement”?

    The war on Syria started eight years ago in Daraa on the 17th of March 2011.

    The following article first published in May 2011 examines the inception of the jihadist terrorist insurgency.

    It recounts the events of March 17-18, 2011 in Daraa, a small border town with Jordan.

    Media reports have finally acknowledged that the so-called “protest movement” in Syria was instigated by Washington. This was known and documented from the very inception of the Syrian crisis in March 2011.

    It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli and allied supported “jihadist” death squads?

    From Day One, the Islamist “freedom fighters” were supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey’s High Command. According to Israeli intelligence sources (Debka, August14, 2011):

    NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters spearheading the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. … NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for beating back the government armored forces. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011)

    This initiative, which was also supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, involved a process of organized recruitment of thousands of jihadist “freedom fighters”, reminiscent of the enlistment of Mujahideen to wage the CIA’s jihad (holy war) in the heyday of the Soviet-Afghan war: ……………”

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-who-is-behind-the-protest-movement-fabricating-a-pretext-for-a-us-nato-humanitarian-intervention/24591

  16. When’s the penny going to drop, with someone on the screens revealing that vaccines are made in bio-terrorism laboratories! The same places where man made viruses are concocted. Don’t be fooled by the hype, there is no virus that originated in east suburbs a few weeks ago. Releasing it, on the streets, would endanger the goons enforcing it. Much smarter to inject directly into the bloodstreams of all breathing. Freemason secret society members pulling the levers, on all bases loaded, are murderers who must be tried for crimes against humanity. There are five bsl4 factories here, all manufacturing simultaneously with global franchises, proving we have one world slavery. Australia is their blueprint for crown zionist communism. Wave 2 is the elimination of all small business, with permanent lockdown the only ones standing will be the mega super barns that are coles woollies aldi and bunnings. The bloodsuckers orchestrating this planned hell control all corridors of power in every nation, don’t line up for their luciferase jabs.

    • ” … someone on the screens revealing that …”
      Where has the African model on SBS evening news disappeared to, did she get sick of reading all the lies, did her friends and family ask her why she was presenting lies every night, and how would this look in a few years, did the pressure get too much ?

  17. Priests and nuns were forced to kneel down in front of a large bonfire, watching helplessly as the flames devoured their sacred instruments and burned their skin.

    In another Chinese city, students wearing red armbands hit Catholics with sharp wooden sticks, throwing one priest into a fire pit after he collapsed in pain. They beat one nun to death after she refused to stomp on a statue of the Virgin Mary.

    One Catholic priest was buried alive in Beijing after declining to give up his faith.

    Unsettling as they might be, these acts of brutality documented by Hong Kong-based missionary Sergio Ticozzi were hardly out of the norm for faithful Chinese during the frenzy of the decade-long Cultural Revolution from 1966, when all forms of religious practices were declared “superstitious” and banned.

    Nor was such repression unique to that particular period during the regime’s more than 70 years of ruling China.

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    Belief in a higher power is anathema to the atheist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that for 100 years has sought to command absolute loyalty and control over its members and the Chinese people.

    “They just cannot handle an allegiance other than to the state,” Sam Brownback, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, told The Epoch Times.

    As a result, successive Party leaders have launched campaign after campaign to crush and control people of faith in China.

    Mao Zedong, the first CCP leader, who oversaw one of the most thorough campaigns to dismantle Chinese religious life, compared religion to “poison” in a conversation with Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama. In his autobiography, the Dalai Lama recalls Mao telling him in 1954 that religion “undermines the race” and “retards the progress of the country.”

    Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin in 1993 declared religious freedom to be “unsuitable for Party members” and told Party members to “patiently educate” those with faith to help them “get rid of religious shackles.”

    Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Christianity—the five religions the regime has officially sanctioned—remain under rigid state control, with Party officials setting the terms on how they operate.

    Chinese officials for religious affairs have stressed the need to “guide religion with socialist values” and for devotees to possess “gratitude toward the Party.”

    Under the Party’s rules, members also face possible expulsion for believing in religion or engaging in “superstitious activities.”

    CHINA-RELIGION-POLITICS-CATHOLIC
    Worshippers walk past the shadow of a cross at the entrance to the “underground” Zhongxin Bridge Catholic Church, after a service celebrating the Feast of the Ascension in Tianjin, on May 24, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
    Marking the Party’s centennial, the heads of six state-level religious associations met in June and extolled the CCP leadership. Expressing resolve to “always follow the Party,” they pledged to begin an education campaign to deepen “love for the Party” among their religious circles.

    Pastor Bob Fu, the founder of Christian human rights group China Aid, described the CCP as the “world’s largest extreme atheistic Party.”

    “[The] CCP has committed the worst religious persecution and crimes against humanity,” Fu told The Epoch Times.

    In the words of Sam Brownback, the CCP is “at war with faith”—be it Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, or the Falun Gong meditation discipline.

    “It’s a war they will not win,” Brownback said.

    ‘Zero-Tolerance Policy’
    One year after the CCP took power in 1949, Chinese troops marched into Tibet and forced upon the Tibetans a 17-point agreement to legitimize the CCP’s rule. Yet despite rosy promises of Tibetan autonomy on paper, Beijing turned the region into a surveillance state and installed labor camps.

    The Dalai Lama, the region’s spiritual leader, went into exile in India in 1959 after the regime brutally crushed an uprising, killing tens of thousands of Tibetans. In the 20 years following, about 1.2 million Tibetans have died under the regime’s repressive policies, according to estimates by the Tibetan government-in-exile. More than 150 have resorted to setting themselves on fire in a desperate act of defiance.

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    Police routinely monitor private correspondence, search homes, and examine phone records in search of forbidden content such as “reactionary music” from India, according to the latest U.S. State Department report. Provincial officials also banned students from participating in religious activities during school holidays. The report cited 273 Tibetans being “detained in violation of international human rights standards as of late 2019.”

    CHINA-BUDDHISM-RELIGION-RIGHTS
    A nun walking amid the debris of demolished houses at the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute in Sertar county in southwest China’s Sichuan province on May 29, 2017. (Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images)
    A Tibetan herder named Lhamo, a 36-year-old mother of three, was detained in June 2020 for sending money to her family in India. The family members who saw her two months later found her “badly bruised and unable to speak,” according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch. She died days later at a local hospital and was immediately cremated.

    With the current Tibetan spiritual leader in his 86th year, Beijing has made clear it wants a hand in selecting his successor. In a white paper issued in May, China’s State Council said it had identified and approved “92 reincarnated Living Buddhas”—indicating its intent to choose the next Dalai Lama when the current one passes away.

    “The CCP practices a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to religious believers,” Lobsang Tseten, executive director of U.S.-based Tibetan activist group Students for a Free Tibet, told The Epoch Times. He added that the “CCP’s arbitrary rule in Tibet is a direct threat to every aspect of the life of a Tibetan.”

    ‘Sinicizing’ Churches
    The CCP’s suppression of Catholic and Protestant churches has also intensified under current leader Xi Jinping’s watch.

    Chinese authorities have removed thousands of crosses from churches, arrested pastors, ordered the removal of Christian images, and aggressively pursued a “sinicization” policy by establishing “patriotic churches,” in which pictures of Jesus Chris and the Virgin Mary are replaced with portraits of Xi or Mao.

    Screenshots from videos uploaded by ChinaAid show the destruction of Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen in China’s Shanxi province on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. (ChinaAid)
    The Chinese regime is also reinterpreting and retranslating the Bible to promote “Chinese-style Christianity,” with one Chinese ethics textbook twisting a story from the Bible to have Jesus stone a woman to death while claiming himself a sinner.

    In 2017, at least four cities and one province restricted Christmas celebrations, banning displays of Christmas decorations, themed performances, and promotional activities. Communist officials in one university banned activities related to Western religious holidays in the name of helping the younger generation “build cultural confidence.” One Christian this January received a hefty fine of 160,000 yuan ($24,733) for celebrating the holiday.

    Underground churches have proliferated as a result of the regime’s oppression. In response, Chinese officials have detained church members and handed lengthy prison sentences to pastors.

    Wang Yi, a pastor in central China’s Chengdu who founded one of the country’s largest unregistered Christian churches, was sentenced to nine years in prison in December 2019 for “illegal business operations” and “inciting to subvert state power,” a charge the regime frequently uses to silence dissidents.

    In April, Radio Free Asia reported that Beijing was running secret brainwashing facilities, which usually involve torture, in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province to force Christians to give up their faith.

    ‘Each Day the Party Is Becoming Bolder’
    In the far west region of Xinjiang, over 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities are currently being held in Chinese internment camps—which the regime calls “vocational training centers” ostensibly used for “curbing extremism”—where they face forced labor, torture, sexual abuse, political indoctrination, forced abortion, and forced sterilization.

    Led by the United States, a growing number of countries, including Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, have recognized the suppression campaign as a form of genocide.

    “The genocide of the Uyghurs is ongoing still, and each day the Party is becoming bolder,” Rushan Abbas, executive director of Washington-based nonprofit Campaign for Uyghurs, said in a June 30 statement, one day ahead of the CCP’s centennial celebration. “This is our final wake-up call that the CCP must be stopped if we are to preserve a global system of dignity and order that is respected by all.”

    A recent report by two Washington-based organizations—Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and Uyghur Human Rights Project—showed that at least 28 countries in the world were “complicit in China’s harassment and intimidation of Uyghurs.” Many of these countries had strong economic ties to China, including those that have signed up to China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI, also known as One Belt, One Road).
    “As China expands its role globally through the BRI, more states will likely become locked into relations of dependence, increasing China’s ability to coerce or co-opt them to assist in targeting diaspora members and exiles,” according to the report.

    ‘We Can Make You Disappear’
    Nowhere is the CCP’s hatred for religion more evident than in its bloody suppression of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline with slow meditative exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, according to its website.

    Out of fear of Falun Gong’s popularity in China, then-leader Jiang on July 20, 1999, launched a brutal persecution against adherents. Top Chinese officials gave secret orders to “destroy them politically, bankrupt them financially, ruin their reputation,” according to a former military colonel who attended the meeting.

    Since then, millions of Falun Gong adherents have been held in prisons, labor camps, psychiatric hospitals, and other detention facilities in China. Hundreds of thousands have been tortured in those venues in a bid to force practitioners to give up their belief. An untold number have died under China’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting, with their organs cut out to be sold on the transplant market.

    The persecution has continued to this day.

    Over the first five months of 2021, 599 Falun Gong practitioners are documented to have been sentenced for their faith; one of them, 81 years old, received nine years, according to data from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that monitors the persecution of the faith group. More than 15,000 were documented to have experienced harassment or arrests last year.

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    Lured by handsome bonuses, police and local officials last year began a sweeping “Zero-Out Campaign” going after adherents country-wide, Minghui reported. The adherents were told to sign a statement renouncing their faith or see their pensions, careers, or children’s education imperiled.

    “We can make you disappear if we say the word,” one officer from China’s northernmost province Heilongjiang allegedly told an adherent.

    Guo Zhenfang, from Chifeng city in Southeastern Inner Mongolia, died in June, one day after his trial. At the hospital, his family found bloodstains on his nose and a wound around his knee cap. His back from the waist down had turned “purple-red,” according to Minghui. Dozens of plain-clothed police officers blocked the family from further examining the body and sent it to the crematorium without their consent.

    Lü Songming, a former history teacher at a middle school from southern China’s Hunan Province, spent a total of 14 years in jail. He lost around 20 teeth to beating, forced labor, electrocution, and other forms of torture. When he was released in 2018, he had only six teeth left and was no longer fit to work. He suffered from frequent heart failure, eventually dying in March at the age of 53.

    ‘A Real Weakness’
    Former Ambassador Brownback observed that increasingly in Xi’s China, brutal, inhumane tactics from the Mao era are making a comeback.

    But in its rush to assert power over China’s faithful, Brownback said, the regime is “showing a real weakness.”

    “They must be feeling the loss of control, and so they are being far more repressive and brutal,” he said.

    Beijing’s human rights and religious freedom abuses are costing the regime its global image, while at home, it is hurting its ability to maintain its rule, said Brownback.

    “Communism and faith just have great trouble co-existing, and faith will not be subdued, so eventually the communism will fall,” he said.

    What remains of the CCP’s 100-year legacy, said Pastor Fu, will be its record as “the single political party through which the largest number of human lives were arbitrarily lost … in the whole of human history.”

  18. China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years

    The Western world has become Judaised and strayed far from its Christian roots.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10776023/China-on-course-to-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.html

    Isaiah 9:15-16, “The elder and the lifted of face, he is the head; and the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail ( symbolising a snake! ) For this peoples leaders are led astray, and its guided ones are destroyed”.

    Russia, China and South Korea in the meantime are turning to Christianity in droves.

    MATTHEW 20:16 KJV “So the last shall be first, and the first last”

    China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years

    By Tom Phillips, Liushi, Zhejiang province

    2:00PM BST 19 Apr 2014

    It is said to be China’s biggest church and on Easter Sunday thousands of worshippers will flock to this Asian mega-temple to pledge their allegiance – not to the Communist Party, but to the Cross.

    The 5,000-capacity Liushi church, which boasts more than twice as many seats as Westminster Abbey and a 206ft crucifix that can be seen for miles around, opened last year with one theologian declaring it a “miracle that such a small town was able to build such a grand church”.

    The £8 million building is also one of the most visible symbols of Communist China’s breakneck conversion as it evolves into one of the largest Christian congregations on earth.

    “It is a wonderful thing to be a follower of Jesus Christ. It gives us great confidence,” beamed Jin Hongxin, a 40-year-old visitor who was admiring the golden cross above Liushi’s altar in the lead up to Holy Week.

    “If everyone in China believed in Jesus then we would have no more need for police stations. There would be no more bad people and therefore no more crime,” she added.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10776023/China-on-course-to-become-worlds-most-Christian-nation-within-15-years.html

    • Christianity can be easily moulded into “you will own nothing and be happy”.
      Equally, religion has regularly been used as a scapegoat for cultural & skin colour differences leading to mass-scale conflict.
      How easily we are led, before, a guy with a book and a big gold hat, now just the MSM official transmissions cover 90% of it.

      • 1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”.

    • Happy 50th birthday JA.
      Will he be able to leak a picture of the cake, or is there no cake, in case he hangs himself with it.

  21. Re: main story, any talk of the US getting out of Afghanistan must be a ruse, under Trump or Biden, unless they are going to get their smak from Tasmania, in that case it would explain the increase in property values. The strategic aspect of Afghanistan is probably more important. Who knows what infrastructure has been installed. Maybe binLaden is in his cave working as Chief Technical Officer.
    The CCP is doing their best to emulate Russia. Back when Russia calmly let go of the Soviet Union, I thought they want to keep the oil for themselves. They quietly started marketing the oil and building the military. Putin announced some months ago he could fly a missile over Antarctica and land it anywhere he wanted, travelling at mach 17 (20,000 km/h). We saw the evidence supplied by Kevin Woodman here, who was watching google earth and you could see the rocket trails going from the far north above Moscow / Petersburg, going straight over Wuhan, straight past Western Australia and landing in Antarctica, treaty or no treaty.
    A treaty is a worthless thing so Taiwan has been supplied with something much better, a critical chip factory, Israel also tipped to get one, this is their absolute guarantee the US will defend the place(s) to the death.
    So Russia is now totally liberated from US$ hegemony and there can be no challenges, unlike Iraq and Libya who were destroyed for trying to leave. China wants to follow and is trying to disguise its vulnerability and weakness by appearing militarily strong. China cannot so easily escape US$ hegemony because the US owes them a huge amount of money. This will be tied up in all sorts of trade deals. Thanks to Chinese greed for US$ the Federal Reserve has no doubt achieved a huge market penetration it could otherwise not have dreamed of.
    Before the Wuhan flu appeared, there was talk of the US not redeeming its debt for anything, the reasoning being that Mao in 1949 cancelled all debts the previous Chiangkai Shek government had accrued. Now Trump has come up with trillions of dollars in reparation for the Wuhan flu.
    They are dangling these amounts in front of the CCP in the same way as the fraudulent government here dangles “travel” in front of us all in return for taking the injections.
    The CCP is trapped between debt, Taiwan and Afghanistan. They pretend to be powerful and belligerent by picking on the Philippines. They desperately want Russia to help them. They cannot even make their own jet engine turbines. Too many secrets are not given to them. Their great technological achievements are all decades old. They are quite smart in terms of extending their manufacturing and demographic range offshore, but it’s all old tech and very soon will be replaced by robotics. One of their great assets is that they have removed so many layers of counter-productive bureaucracy. It doesn’t matter though because all that is just civilian stuff, simply there to engage useless eaters, and keep them at their work-stations. The CCP may try to partner with Russia and other states but the territorial expansions are just about finished I should think, it is all unravelling now, Dicktator Dan is exposed, Andrew ROBb’s treasonous leasing of Darwin is coming undone, Indonesia is moving it’s capital presumably with an eye to pushing China back. The CCP can take only the weakest places. Even little Burma has fought back, once they found out what was going on.
    China is like a bossy man with no shoes, looking for a new wife.

  22. Some footage of speeches at last Saturday’s world wide rallies- Truth Justice Freedom for Children.

    Of particular note for me Nellie at the Brisbane Botanical Gardens approx 32 minutes-42 minutes

    https://youtu.be/kQgzk-p6C58 thank you Nellie you have no idea how significant this is for me –I can relate with every word—yes generational RAMCOA- experiments, programming torture

    and Rachel Vaughan’s speech at Adelaide– may not open

    Naomi first my speech 26 6 21.mp4

    Survivors Unite . Do not Underestimate our Power

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