DoD had Foreknowledge of Kabul Airport Bomber – Denied Permission to Fire Predator Drone that had Lock on Him – 13 US Heroes Dead

Roger Pardo-Maurer, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2001-2006), joined Jorge Ramos on Univision Noticias on Monday to discuss the unfolding disastrous withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan.

During their conversation, Pardo-Maurer told Ramos the Department of Defense had foreknowledge of the Kabul Airport suicide bomber but denied permission to fire a Predator Drone missile once they had a lock on him.

13 US servicemen and women were killed in the blast along with over 100 Afghans.

The US Department of Defense allowed the bomber to murder 13 Americans.

Life means nothing to these people.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/breaking-dod-foreknowledge-kabul-airport-bomber-denied-permission-fire-predator-drone-lock-13-us-heroes-dead/

Biden State Department Left 600 of Its Own Journalists Behind in Afghanistan

They lied.

The Biden administration stranded hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans in Afghanistan as they fled the country earlier this week.

And now there are reports that Joe Biden and Secretary of State Tony Blinken stranded 600 State Department journalists and family members behind in Afghanistan.

They abandoned the reporters and their families when they left the country, after promising to bring them out.

The Washington Post reported:

The administration was warned early and often about the 600 or so employees, contractors and family members who worked for U.S.-sponsored news organizations under the umbrella of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a federal agency funded by Congress. They include journalists working for the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio LIberty (RFE/RL) who have worked in Afghanistan for years — at great personal risk. The Taliban has killed four RFE/FL journalists since 2016 through suicide bomb attacks, and the company’s journalists routinely receive death threats from the extremists.

Now, the leaders of these organizations say the State Department promised to get their vulnerable people out of the country before the Aug. 31 troop withdrawal deadline, only to later renege on that promise amid the chaos and confusion at the Kabul airport. They describe a harrowing ordeal for these Afghans, who were repeatedly turned away by our own troops at the airport gates and whose personal information was handed over to the same Taliban fighters they are fleeing from.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/biden-state-department-left-600-journalists-behind-afghanistan/

"We Are F**king Abandoning American Citizens" Says Livid Army Colonel In Leaked Afghanistan Texts

Encrypted text messages between an Army colonel and a former Special Forces soldier working on a private effort to extricate stranded Americans from Afghanistan reveal that the US evacuation was anything but the 'extraordinary success' President Biden declared on Tuesday.

"We are fucking abandoning American citizens," said an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division in an encrypted Sunday text message to Michael Yon, who revealed the message to Just the News.

Yon told Just the News that a group of Americans were abandoned at the Kabul airport, pleading for help as military officials told them they were finished with evacuations.

"We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American,'" Yon said Tuesday while appearing on the John Solomon Reports podcast. -Just The News

"People were turned away from the gate by our own Army," said Yon, the former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent.

Yon's account, which he shared with JTN's John Solomon, is backed by three dozen text and email exchanges with frontline Army officials in Afghanistan.

The stranded Americans eventually scattered to safe houses to avoid capture by the Taliban, after which Yon wrote a 'stinging email' to an Army major whose team abandoned the rescue effort.

"You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport," wrote Yon on Tuesday. "Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind."

"Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals," he added.

While the helper group worked frantically to get the Americans through the gate, members texted one another to say they had seen National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on CNN saying that neither he nor U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie were told that Americans were abandoned.

"Hey did they end up just taking off?" one correspondent texted the helper group. "Because the National Security Advisor just told Tapper that neither he nor McKenzie had heard anything about Americans being left at the gates."

The correspondent noted that the private group heard differently from a lieutenant colonel (O-5): "Given we had comms with an O-5 on the ground, that means CENTCOM C3 is s–t, or someone is lying."

According to the private rescue effort, the US Army was told by the State Department not to rescue the Americans.

"We get them to the gate, and the U.S. Army completely fails this saying, 'Oh, we can't do it, because the Department of the State tells us we can't do it," Yon told Just the News.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-are-fking-abandoning-american-citizens-says-livid-army-colonel-leaked-afghanistan

=Victoria premier extends statewide lockdown, again, as Aussie police granted power to covertly HACK citizens’ phones & alter data

Victoria’s premier has announced that a statewide lockdown will remain in place until most residents are vaccinated, just days after Australia adopted new legislation giving sweeping surveillance and spy powers to police.

Draconian measures covering the entire southeast Australian state will only start to be eased once 70% of the population receives at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, Premier Dan Andrews decreed on Wednesday. The government said it hoped to reach this target on or around September 23.

In a written statement, Andrews claimed that lifting restrictions would “overrun” the state’s healthcare system. With a population of around 6.6 million, Victoria currently has less than 60 Covid hospitalizations.

The entire state has been under strict lockdown for nearly a month. After shutting down non-essential activity in Melbourne, Andrews decided to extend restrictions to the entire state on August 5, citing the alleged detection of Covid-19 in wastewater 236km (147 miles) from the city. He was later forced to admit that the sewage in question had actually tested negative for the virus. Nonetheless, the statewide lockdown, which was only supposed to last seven days, has remained in place.

Currently, Victorians are not allowed to venture more than five kilometers (3.1 miles) from their homes – and only for “essential” activities. Andrews promised to increase the travel radius to 10km once the state’s vaccination benchmark is met.

https://www.rt.com/news/533645-victoria-lockdown-australia-police-data-hack/

Biden Administration Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Federal Websites

The War in Afghanistan has always been a black box, but the Biden administration just made matters worse.

According to an admission obtained from the State Department, Biden officials recently directed federal agencies to scrub their websites of official reports detailing the $82.9 billion in military equipment and training provided to the Afghan security forces since 2001.

The scrubbed audits and reports included detailed accounting of what the U.S. had provided to Afghan forces, down to the number of night vision devices, hand grenades, Black Hawk helicopters, and armored vehicles.

Reports further quantified 208 aircraft and helicopters; 75,000 war vehicles – including 22 Humvees, 50,000 tactical vehicles and nearly 1,000 mine resistant vehicles; and 600,000 weapons – including 350,000 M4 and M16 rifles, 60,000 machine guns, and 25,000 grenade launchers.

The State Department admitted to removing the reports but justified the move as a way to protect Afghan allies. According to a spokesperson:

“The safety of our Afghan contacts is of utmost importance to us. The State Department advised other federal agencies of to [sic] review their web properties for content that highlights cooperation/participation between an Afghan citizen and the USG or a USG partner and remove from public view if it poses a security risk.”

It’s worth noting that the Biden administration already put these partners at risk when officials provided lists of Afghan nationals to the Taliban in a misguided attempt to clear them for evacuation. The Taliban, a known terrorist organization with a history of murdering Afghan citizens working alongside U.S. forces, should never have been trusted with those names.

In addition, many of the removed audit reports merely quantified military equipment without identifying personnel. Here are two important examples:

Government Accountability Office (GAO): OpenTheBooks.com reposted an audit of U.S. provided military gear in Afghanistan (August 2017) after it was removed from its official location.

Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR): OpenTheBooks.com reposted an audit of $174 million in lost ScanEagle drones (July 2020) after the report was removed from its official location.

U.S. taxpayers paid for these audits and the U.S.-provided equipment, and citizens should be able to follow the money and hold the Biden administration accountable.

A GAO spokesperson also confirmed in a request for comment its receipt of the directive: “the State Department requested we temporarily remove and review reports on Afghanistan to protect recipients of US assistance that may be identified through our reports and thus subject to retribution.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-administration-erased-afghan-weapons-reports-federal-websites

=Ann Coulter SHOCKS critics by praising Biden’s ‘balls’ on Afghanistan withdrawal compared to ‘wuss’ Trump

Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter left many critics surprised and confused with tweets praising Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, despite the president facing criticism for the haphazard operation from left and right.

Coulter marked the last day of the US’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan this week by doing something she rarely does: praising a Democrat.

The Fox News regular thanked Biden for fulfilling Trump’s long-held promise to end the military conflicts in the Middle East. Before stepping down from his position, Trump had helped construct a deal with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan by May of this year. Biden’s plan extended evacuation efforts to the end of August, and the administration has received heavy pushback from both Republicans and Democrats amid a disorganized exit that left allies behind. Dozens of civilians were also hurt or killed by a suicide bomb attack by ISIS-K at the airport, as well as 13 US service members.

Coulter went on to refer to Trump as a “wuss” for failing to fulfill his promise of a full Afghanistan pullout, saying Biden “had the balls” to pull off the feat.

“Trump REPEATEDLY demanded that we bring our soldiers home, but only President Biden had the balls to do it,” she tweeted, adding examples of Trump calling for an end to the military conflict.

While Coulter has become more critical of Trump in recent years, she has still remained an outspoken firebrand conservative, rarely heaping on other Democrats the sort of praise she offered Biden, which led some jaws to drop on social media.

“Hell: you are cleared to freeze over now. I completely agree with Ann Coulter,” MSNBC host and Biden supporter Joe-Ann Reid tweeted in response to Coulter.

“‘I agree with Ann Coulter’ has for more than a decade been my designated signal that I am being held at gunpoint and to immediately alert law enforcement,” ‘The Wire’ creator and outspoken liberal David Simon added.

The US’ evacuation operation ended on Monday night, minutes before an August 31 deadline, with more than 120,000 American civilians and Afghan allies being evacuated from the country. Trump has criticized Biden for his handling of the operation, originally having called for the president to stick to the original timeline and later claiming the mission would have run smoother and without as much incident had he still been president.

https://www.rt.com/usa/533661-ann-coulter-biden-trump-afghanistan/

Joe Biden Says Texas Abortion “Heartbeat” Law Violates Constitution

Joe Biden immediately came out and attacked Texas for its “heartbeat” abortion law.

The “heartbeat” law will effectively outlaw abortions in the state after 6 weeks and also gives any citizen – including those outside Texas – the right to take legal action against anyone who ‘aids and abets’ the termination of a pregnancy after the cut off point.

The Supreme Court did not respond to the ACLU’s lawsuit by the Tuesday night deadline.

The Marxists at the ACLU flipped out Tuesday night when the Supreme Court ignored their emergency request to block the 6-week abortion ban.

Joe Biden reacted to the “heartbeat” law quicker than he commented on 13 dead US service members.

Biden hid from the American people for 8 hours after 13 US service members were killed by a suicide blast in Kabul.

But he immediately released a statement on Texas’ new abortion bill.

That’s all you need to know about Joe Biden’s priorities.

“This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century,” Biden said in a statement on Tuesday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/joe-biden-says-texas-abortion-heartbeat-law-violates-constitution/

Ohio Judge Orders Hospital To Treat Ventilated COVID-19 Patient With Ivermectin

A Butler County judge in Ohio has ordered a hospital to administer Ivermectin to a ventilated COVID-19 patient, granting an emergency relief filed by the patient’s wife.

Butler County Common Pleas Judge Gregory Howard ruled last week that West Chester Hospital, part of the University of Cincinnati’s health network UC Health, must “immediately administer Ivermectin” to patient Jeffrey Smith following his doctor’s prescription of 30 mg of Ivermectin for 21 days, the Ohio Capital Journal reported.

Smith, 51, is a Verizon Wireless engineer in Butler County. According to the lawsuit (pdf) filed by his wife Julie Smith, Smith tested positive for COVID-19 on July 9, and he was admitted to West Chester Hospital on July 15. On the same day, he was moved to an intensive care unit (ICU).

Smith’s condition continued to decline, and he was placed on a ventilator on Aug. 1. By Aug. 19, the ventilator was operating at 80 percent volume, with Smith’s chances of survival dropping to less than 30 percent, court documents read. At that time, the hospital claimed to have exhausted all options in its COVID-19 treatment protocol.

“At this point, there is nothing more the defendant can do, or will do, for my husband,” Julie wrote in an affidavit included in her complaint.

“However, I cannot give up on him, even if the defendant has,” Julie continued. “There is no reason why the defendant cannot approve or authorize other forms of treatments so long as the benefits outweigh the risks.”

Julie had read about some lawsuits reported by Chicago Tribune and The Buffalo News where patients in severe condition from COVID-19 later recovered after being given Ivermectin.

These patients had won lawsuits forcing their hospitals to treat them with Ivermectin. The plaintiffs in these cases were all represented by attorney Ralph Lorigo, chairman of New York’s Erie County Conservative Party, who later became one of Julie’s attorneys.

According to court documents, Julie requested that the hospital treat her husband with Ivermectin, but the hospital refused to even though she offered to release them from “any and all” responsibility.

Julie then sought medical advice from Dr. Fred Wagshul, who later prescribed Ivermectin to her husband. But the hospital still refused to do so, prompting her to file a lawsuit against the hospital.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ohio-judge-orders-hospital-treat-ventilated-covid-19-patient-ivermectin

Serial Rapist Officer Gets Just 2 Years for Sexually Assaulting Multiple Women on Duty

Tallahassee, FL — Phillip Golightly, 39, of Quincy, Florida, was sentenced last week to federal prison for the repeated on-duty sexual assault of multiple women. The serial rapist will be behind bars at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee for just 24 months for abusing his badge to abuse his victims.

Golightly — whose last name tended to predict his prison sentence — pleaded guilty to the sexual assaults in October of last year. The sentence was announced on August 27 by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

According to the Department of Justice, while employed as a U.S. Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer, Golightly sexually assaulted female inmates who were then under his custodial, supervisory, and disciplinary authority at the Federal Correctional Institutions in Marianna and Tallahassee, Florida.

He’ll now be locked in the same prison he used to abuse the women under his supervision.

According to the US Attorney, Golightly’s prison sentence will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender and will be subject to sex offender conditions.

Though he originally faced 15 years, his badge apparently granted him special privileges and he will be a free man in less than 24 months. Meanwhile, his victims who he attacked while they were caged under his authority will have to live with the fact that their abuser will be free — possibly before them.

Sadly, as TFTP reports on a regular basis, Golightly’s case is anything but isolated.

In a sample of 158 police officers who’ve been charged with sexual assault, sexual battery, or unlawful sexual contact with somebody under their control, at least 26 have been acquitted or had charges dropped based on the consent defense, according to a Buzzfeed review of a Buffalo News database of more than 700 law enforcement officers accused of sexual misconduct.

These numbers are indeed startling.

“Cultural shifts happen, but what we need to see is a policy shift,” said Terra Burns, an advocate in Alaska who has worked to expand police sexual assault laws. “There’s a long entrenched history of institutionalized rape culture that has to change.”

Indeed, one need only browse through our archives to see the brutal reality that is police sexual misconduct. Arguably, the reason it is so pervasive is the fact that they can get away with it with little to no consequences.

Unfortunately, while the actual laws written in the United States against rape appear harsh, at first glance, in reality the cops, the prosecutors, the judges, and eventually juries go soft on rapists and pedophiles, especially rapists and pedophiles who wear a badge.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/serial-rapist-officer-gets-just-2-years-for-sexually-assaulting-multiple-women-on-duty/

Top vaccine officials leave FDA amid infighting, political pressure — now there are warnings of a 'mutiny'

A pair of top vaccine regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration resigned this week reportedly as a result of growing turmoil and disagreement within the agency as political pressures reportedly complicate the administration's scientific work.

Dr. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review, and her deputy, Philip Krause, announced their intentions to leave the FDA with little fanfare on Tuesday. In a memo sent to news publishers, the FDA framed the decision as a simple retirement, thanking Gruber and Krause for their service but offering no reason for their forthcoming departure.

It seemed peculiar that two key vaccine officials would "retire" from the agency in the middle of a global pandemic and at a time when their expertise was most needed. Gruber, a veteran vaccine regulator, had been with the FDA for 32 years.

Sure enough, there was more bubbling under the surface.

In a report published Tuesday evening, Politico indicated the pair's departure was the result of increasing frustration over the Biden administration's top-down approach to managing the pandemic, specifically as it pertains to administering booster shots for adults:

FDA officials are scrambling to collect and analyze data that clearly demonstrate the boosters' benefits before the administration's Sept. 20 deadline for rolling them out to most adults …

… On Tuesday, two top FDA vaccine regulators resigned — a decision that one former official said was rooted in anger over the agency's lack of autonomy in the booster planning so far. A current health official said the pair, Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, left over differences with FDA's top vaccine official Peter Marks. Now the agency is facing a potential mutiny among its staff and outside vaccine advisers, several of whom feel cut out of key decisions and who view the plan to offer boosters to all adults as premature and unnecessary.

POLITICO spoke to 11 current and former health officials and people familiar with the matter who described growing exasperation with the administration's disjointed process for implementing its booster plan. Those sources said there is little coordination between federal health agencies, even as two top FDA officials try to guide the rollout.

The news outlet characterized Gruber and Krause's exit as a symptom of a greater problem brewing within the FDA, even warning that a potential "mutiny" could be just around the corner.

What else?

Paul Offit, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pennsylvania who sits on FDA's vaccine advisory committee, shared a similar sentiment, claiming the administration has pushed ahead on boosters without allowing FDA scientists to meaningfully weigh in.

"[It was] the administration's booster plan; it wasn't the FDA's booster plan," Offit told Politico. "The administration has kind of backed themselves up against the wall a little bit here."

Moreover, disagreement over vaccine boosters may not be the only hot-button topic causing discord within the agency. The Hill reported on Monday that FDA regulators are facing "growing pressure to authorize vaccines for children under 12," something the agency has so far been reluctant to do.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/top-fda-vaccine-officials-resign

Facebook and Google Partner Compiles Report On How to Manipulate People To Get The Vaccine Using Their Reputation, Public Image, Shopping Habits, Religion

NATIONAL FILE Has Obtained Resonate's Report

A Facebook and Google partner that uses artificial intelligence to compile data from tracking people’s web history has put together a report that outlines ways to mentally program people to get the Coronavirus vaccine. NATIONAL FILE has obtained a copy of the cynical report from Resonate, a company based in Reston, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. area that goes out of its way to denounce “racism” and employs executives who previously worked for the Washington Post, AOL and other corporations. The report is called Moving The Needle: How To Reach The Vaccine-Hesitant And Resistant. The report gives tips on how to manipulate people’s values of “safety,” “reputation and public image,” “social clout,” and even their religion and shopping habits to coerce them to get the vaccine. The report explicitly states, “DRAW THEM TO VACCINATION SITES BASED ON THEIR SHOPPING PREFERENCES.” The report also compiles information on the children of vaccine-hesitant people and vaccine resisters.

Resonate’s listed partners include Facebook and Google. Resonate acknowledges that its data collection allows its clients to “gain a deeper understanding of every consumer who engages with your digital media presence across all platforms including Facebook, Linkedin, etc.” This Facebook and Google partner has used people’s personal information to build an extremely creepy profile of the “Vaccine-Hesitant” community. And Resonate makes it clear that they are tracking people’s “web traffic” in order to build their research. Here are some screenshots from Resonate’s website describing how they get their information from “web traffic” and how they partner with Facebook, Google, Oracle, and others.

Resonate offers “5 TIPS FOR REACHING THE UNVACCINATED” including “APPEAL TO THEIR CORE VALUES AND DRIVERS,” stating, “consider emphasizing the social clout from getting vaccinated” and “DRAW THEM TO VACCINATION SITES BASED ON THEIR SHOPPING PREFERENCES.”

The Resonate company is drenched in social justice activism. On its website the company Resonate states, “We denounce prejudice by embracing diversity. We support the equal rights and equal treatment of all people. We recognize each of us needs to be a catalyst for change, to illuminate the best in all of us, to help build a better country, where intolerance of any race, religion, or culture will not be allowed to stand.”

On June 4, 2020, the company’s CEO stated: I am appalled by the tragic and gut-wrenching events that unfolded this week. Respect, inclusion and diversity serve as a foundation of our company’s culture, the basis of our strength and the fuel for our innovation and shared success. We don’t tolerate racism and we stand against racism in any form. We believe the only path forward is an inclusive society that treats all people equally, with dignity and respect. As a company, our emphasis has always been on understanding people and the richness of who we are as unique individuals. With this central to our culture, we stand for the equality of all people, for our freedom of expression and for the pursuit of liberty. We denounce prejudice by embracing diversity. We support the equal rights and equal treatment of all people. We recognize each of us needs to be a catalyst for change, to illuminate the best in all of us, to help build a better country, where intolerance of any race, religion, or culture will not be allowed to stand.”

https://nationalfile.com/facebook-and-google-partner-compiles-report-on-how-to-manipulate-people-to-get-the-vaccine-using-their-reputation-public-image-shopping-habits-religion/

CDC says unvaccinated should delay travel this labor day weekend

Americans unvaccinated against COVID-19 and eyeing travel plans this Labor Day weekend should reconsider, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said during a White House briefing Tuesday.

Overall, the health agency advises delaying travel until becoming fully vaccinated, defined as two weeks post-second dose, or two weeks following the single-shot developed by Johnson & Johnson.

“First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not traveling,” Walensky said during the virtual briefing.

“…People who are fully vaccinated and who are wearing masks can travel although given where we are with disease transmission right now, we would say that people need to take these risks into their own consideration as they think about traveling,” she said.

The comments were prompted by a journalist also questioning why the administration hadn’t taken a tougher stance on advising against travel, while the agency’s travel warnings caution against visiting countries faring better than the US in terms of COVID-19, Associated Press’ Zeke Miller noted, citing Puerto Rico and Canada, which each logged daily averages of roughly 5,700 and 3,000 cases, respectively, per federal figures and data compiled by the World Health Organization.

The US, on the other hand, reported a seven-day moving average of 129,418 cases on Aug. 29, according to CDC data. What’s more, the latest federal figures indicate that over 93 percent of US counties are grappling with high levels of community COVID-19 transmission.

Walensky said the agency receives Travel Health Notices and monitors the notices daily for testing capacity and case rates to update travel-related guidance by country in real-time. The CDC requires mask use during travel on “planes, buses, trains and other forms of public transportation traveling into, within, or out of the United States and while indoors at US transportation hubs such as airports and stations,” the guidance reads. After travel, the CDC advises monitoring for COVID-19 symptoms and should symptoms crop up, isolate and seek testing.

According to the CDC, unvaccinated travelers who must travel should seek testing several days prior, mask up during travel and while indoors at airports and stations, avoid crowds, maintain physical distance and practice hand hygiene. Unvaccinated travelers should undergo testing 3-5 days after traveling and self-isolate for 7 days upon returning, regardless of the test result. Travelers who opt not to undergo testing should isolate for a longer period of 10 days.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/01/cdc-says-unvaccinated-should-delay-travel-this-labor-day-weekend/

Investment Firm Backed By Top American Universities Partners With ‘Socialist’ China-Backed Fund.

Hillhouse Capital – a private equity firm funded by America’s top universities and is invested in companies including Zoom and Apple – struck a $1.5 billion deal with a Chinese Communist Party-owned investment fund.

Hillhouse Capital partnered with the “wholly state-owned” Hangzhou Capitol on a billion-dollar fund “to invest in sectors including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and new energy vehicles,” according to Chinese state-run media outlet China Global Television Network (CGTN).

Hillhouse Capital, which was funded with $20 million in seed capital from the Yale University Endowment, is reported to be backed by America’s most prestigious universities. Following a Stanford University investment of $200 million in 2015, the fund was “investing money for at least six of the 10 wealthiest universities in the U.S.,” including Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has also invested nearly $1 billion with the Beijing-based fund.

These investments are now being used, however, to contribute to the growth of the Chinese Communist Party.

A press release from Hangzhou Capital – which pledges to be “guided by Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era” – reveals that its partnership with Hillhouse Capital is part of a broader Chinese regime-backed effort to turn the city into a “leading and exemplary benchmark for national advancement.”

“The implementation of the “National Digital Economy First City” strategy focuses on value investment to empower outstanding enterprise development, optimizes industrial layout and accelerates the cultivation of new kinetic energy, and creates new impetus for Hangzhou to become a model city ​​for high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone in Zhejiang Province,” the group adds.

Hillhouse Capital’s partnership with a Chinese state-owned enterprise also calls into question its sizable investments in companies such as Zoom, Uber, Apple, TikTok parent company ByteDance.

Article Seven of China’s National Intelligence law stipulates that “any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work according to law.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/hillhouse-capital-partners-with-hangzhou-capital/

Secret CIA Compound Known As ‘The Salt Pit’ Used To Avoid Taliban Checkpoints And Evacuate Thousands

A secret CIA compound outside Kabul reportedly served as a base of operations for evacuations that avoided Taliban checkpoints.

Eagle Base — which until 2004 was home to the notorious prison known as the Salt Pit — was used from Aug. 15-Aug. 28 to assist with evacuation efforts after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, according to a report from The New York Times published Wednesday.

According to the NYT report, analysts looked at “satellite imagery, corporate records, active fire data and flight paths” in order to determine how Eagle Base was used in the days before it was demolished and abandoned for good.

“Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters flew evacuees from the compound to Kabul airport to avoid Taliban checkpoints. Flight data shows that three Mi-17s made at least 35 flights there since the Taliban took control on Aug. 15,” Evan Hill, a visual investigator for the NYT, tweeted Wednesday.

“Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters flew evacuees from the compound to Kabul airport to avoid Taliban checkpoints. Flight data shows that three Mi-17s made at least 35 flights there since the Taliban took control on Aug. 15,” Evan Hill, a visual investigator for the NYT, tweeted Wednesday.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/01/secret-cia-compound-salt-pit-avoid-taliban-checkpoints-evacuate-thousands/

Adam Sandler Says Netflix Made Him Change China Plot in LeBron James-Produced ‘Hustle’

Adam Sandler has revealed that Netflix made him change a major plot element involving China in his new basketball-themed movie Hustle because the streamer doesn’t do business there.

In an interview with “The Dan Patrick Show,” Adam Sandler said the movie’s original plot saw his character traveling to China to find a new NBA star. But Netflix put its foot down, demanding the filmmakers change the country.

“It was written originally that I find a player in China and somehow, Netflix is not in China,” Sandler said. “So they were like, ‘Would you guys please make it that we find someone in Latin America or Europe?’ The next thing you know, I’m in Majorca [Spain]…[but] it was originally, ‘Find a player in China.'”

Hustle, which doesn’t have a release date, is co-produced by LeBron James through the NBA star’s SpringHill Entertainment company.

Sandler, who serves as a producer of Hustle, said they cast real-life Spanish NBA star Juancho Hernangómez after the plot changed from China to Spain.

“[Hernangómez] acts so much better than me in every scene,” Sandler said. “It’s just like, goddamn it. This guy is falling, crying in the middle of a scene, doing the right thing. Every joke he says, I’m like, ‘He said it smoother than I would have.’”

Netflix has had a long relationship with Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production company to make movies and TV series. Last year, the streamer extended its deal with Happy Madison to include an additional four movies.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/01/adam-sandler-says-netflix-made-him-change-china-plot-in-lebron-james-produced-hustle/

Afghans Who Worked for British Authorities Can Resettle Permanently Under ‘Operation Warm Welcome’

Afghans evacuated from the now Taliban-controlled country who worked for the British authorities will be given indefinite leave to remain under ‘Operation Warm Welcome’, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.

Rather than the five years’ residency previously offered to the thousands of Afghans set to be brought in under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), the new arrivals will be given “immediate indefinite leave to remain, alongside funding for school places and healthcare”.

Those Afghans under the ARAP scheme already in the country with temporary leave will be allowed to apply free of charge to convert their status into indefinite leave, giving Afghans “the certainty and stability to rebuild their lives with unrestricted rights to work and the option to apply for British citizenship in the future”, a Downing Street press release said on Wednesday.

“We owe an immense debt to those who worked with the Armed Forces in Afghanistan and I am determined that we give them and their families the support they need to rebuild their lives here in the UK.

“I know this will be an incredibly daunting time, but I hope they will take heart from the wave of support and generosity already expressed by the British public,” Prime Minister Johnson said as he announced Operation Warm Welcome.

So far, more than 8,000 people eligible for resettlement under ARAP, for Afghans and their families who previously worked for British authorities now deemed at risk from the Taliban, have been flown to the United Kingdom. This figure is higher than the initially projected 5,000 interpreters and others given by the government for this year, with Home Secretary Priti Patel saying two weeks ago that the figure could be as high as 10,000.

The ARAP scheme sits alongside two others being developed by the Conservative government, including the Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), a refugee programme that will bring in 20,000 Afghans — the government says mostly women, children, and religious and other minorities — in the coming years. The government aims to resettle 5,000 ACRS Afghans by the end of this year alone.

Number 1o detailed that under Operation Warm Welcome, “the government” will be making available at least £12 million for extra school places, English language support, and specialist teachers for Afghans resettled under ARAP.

There will be additional taxpayer-funded resources for up to 300 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships at British universities. Additional funding being allocated includes £3 million for the NHS and £5 million for councils across Great Britain, including for topping up the costs of renting properties.

Liaison officers will also be made available to assist the migrants with getting a National Insurance (social security) number, accommodation, registering with a General Practitioner, and “more tailored support, as required”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/01/afghans-who-worked-for-british-authorities-can-resettle-permanently-under-operation-warm-welcome/

Seven Cops in Mexican Border State Arrested for Cartel Kidnapping Plot

Seven municipal police officers in the border state of Nuevo Leon face kidnapping charges over their alleged roles in taking victims on behalf of a cartel led by one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives.

The case took place this week when detectives with the Nuevo Leon State Investigations Agency (AEI) raided the San Pedro Municipal Police headquarters and arrested seven officers. They were identified as Cristina Guadalupe N., Jorge Alberto N., Urias Jahaziel N., Luis Antonio N., Jesus Eduardo N., Oziel Alejandro N., and Oscar Eduardo N. Mexican law restricts the release of surnames for those accused of criminal violations.

San Pedro is a wealthy suburb near Monterrey and is where most U.S. Consulate employees are assigned to live. The case began on July 22, when an unnamed citizen called the police department to report damages to his home, information released by the AEI revealed.

The seven officers responded to the house and allegedly kidnapped him for several hours before turning him over to gunmen working for an independent cartel led by Jose Rodolfo “El Gato” Villarreal Hernandez. The crime boss listed by the FBI as a Most Wanted fugitive for a 2013 cartel hit in the Dallas area. El Gato’s gunmen forced the victim’s family to pay $2 million pesos ($100,000 USD).

Upon learning of the kidnapping, the AEI worked to track the kidnapping suspects and with the help of San Pedro Police.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/09/01/seven-cops-in-mexican-border-state-arrested-for-cartel-kidnapping-plot/

The medical-industrial complex, like the military-industrial complex, is a threat to democracy

The public has caught on to the use of fear to shape opinion in support of costly wars that give free license for control under the guise of security. But now it’s falling for the same illusion from the medical-industrial complex.

Seeing the Taliban parading around Kabul looking like GI Joe in their newly acquired US battle fatigues, posing with the finest weaponry that American taxpayer money can buy, leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of even the most ardent supporters of foreign military intervention.

And after seeing billions more flushed down the drain in a failed attempt to overthrow other governments – like Syria’s, where massive funding was provided for CIA and Pentagon programs to back ‘rebel’ proxy fighters against the Syrian army; or Iraq’s, which hasn’t brought about the kind of blindly pro-Western puppet government that the US and its allies had hoped for – public opinion in favor of these foreign military adventures is waning.

The notion of war being a catalyst for democracy has been repeatedly exposed as a false pretext. The biggest loser is the military-industrial complex, which thrives on making and selling weapons for these wars. With the public less prone to trusting Western leaders’ excuses for launching them, how will they continue to justify the transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to private sector cronies and enablers? War has always provided a blank check for spending – because apparently safety is like a Van Gogh painting, in that you can’t dare place an upper limit on its value. Until now, people have bought into the notion that allocating too little to the defense sector could represent an existential threat to their own wellbeing.

But now the public is catching on to the charade. They view the link between terrorism at home and war efforts abroad as increasingly tenuous, if not counterproductive. Even defense spending itself has pivoted in recent years, with industry leaders citing cyberwarfare as a greater threat than terrorism.

This pivot has allowed the defense industry to redirect spending to a sector cloaked in an even thicker fog of war, at a time when conventional battlefields and related lies have become too transparent for governments’ tastes. The general public largely lacks the ability to make sense of what’s happening in cyberspace. In cyberspace, even experts have trouble proving and providing reliable evidence of attack attribution. Cyberattacks are susceptible to being exploited as propaganda to support a government’s political objectives.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/533624-digital-health-pass-democracy-threat/

Lawyer defending 17 alleged Capitol breachers goes missing

John Pierce has been unreachable and missing court dates since early last week

John Pierce, the attorney defending 17 clients charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has gone missing.

His missed an Aug. 24 court hearing for one of his clients, and nobody has seen him since.

On Wednesday, Pierce's associate told a judge the defense attorney had contracted COVID-19 and was in the hospital on a ventilator. The associate also allegedly told a prosecutor Pierce had been in a car accident.

Later on, a different associate told a reporter that Pierce was in the hospital being treated for dehydration and exhaustion.

This week, the Justice Department got involved, informing several judges that no one had heard from Pierce in a week and that "multiple" phone lines for his law firm seem to have been disconnected.

Pierce's disappearance is endangering the rights of his clients, whose cases have come to a standstill.

The self-described, pro-Trump populist came out swinging at the outset of the defense proceedings for his many clients, promising he would force the government to hand over video footage of the Capitol from several days before and after the incident.

He also said he would demand information about every officer on duty throughout the complex that day, as well as subpoena House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other likely hostile witnesses.

"I'm like Gerard Butler in '300.' I'm in the hot gates at Thermopylae, holding the pass against the million-man Persian army," said Pierce in an interview prior to his disappearance.

Last year, Pierce was publicly fired by Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man charged with murder at a racial justice protest last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse relieved his attorney of his position following allegations that a charity arranged for the defense had engaged in financial misdeeds.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/lawyer-defending-17-capitol-breachers-goes-missing

Soros-Backed Lawyer Kills Virginia Parents' Recall Effort

A Virginia attorney backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros on Friday killed off an effort to recall a Democratic school board member who opposed reopening schools last year, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon.

The Open Fair County Public Schools Coalition, a parents group, earlier this year met the signature requirements to recall Fairfax County school board member Elaine Tholen, saying she neglected her duties as an elected official by refusing to reopen schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

James Hingeley, a lawyer in Virginia with ties to the Soros-funded Justice and Safety PAC and to Tholen (the target of the action he was brought on to defend), dismissed the action in a court filing Friday.

Hingeley, who serves as Albemarle County commonwealth's attorney, was assigned to argue the case by Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano, who recused himself from the proceedings. Fox News reported that Descano had received $600,000 from the Soros organization. Descano was also paid thousands of dollars by Tholen, the target of the recall effort, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.

While Descano recused himself from defending the recall, Hingeley did not. The Beacon reported that Hingeley had actually campaigned alongside Tholen in 2019. Hingeley also received $5,000 from the same Soros-funded PAC as Descano, according to Fox News.

Descano is battling a recall effort of his own.

Tholen filed a motion to dismiss last week the action with Fairfax County Circuit Judge Richard Gardiner. He denied the motion, ruling that a trial would determine the veracity of the coalition's allegations.

Rather than argue the coalition's case, Hingeley sought to have it dismissed. He said he had completed his own investigation into the parents' petition and called their accusations "improper." Gardiner said in last week's hearing that his hands were tied in the matter and that he had to approve Hingeley's request, which he did Friday.

''It felt like the fix was in," said Dee O'Neal, a leader with the coalition. O'Neal, who was in the meeting with Gardiner and Hingeley, said the outcome was obvious from the start.

"It was clear he wasn't going to represent us. He told us he didn't represent us, but the people of the county," O'Neal said. "The first thought that came to my head was, if this guy is going to be defending Elaine Tholen and the county, who's defending the petition?

"It was definitely political. I mean, I don't care what party you vote for. It felt planned," O'Neal said. "We weren't given a fair shake because of the person who was there to defend us."

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/soros-school-board-public-schools-elaine-tholen/2021/08/27/id/1034100/

21 Times Joe Biden Promised to Leave ‘No One Behind’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/30/21-times-joe-biden-promised-to-leave-no-one-behind/