US Military's Anti-Drug Campaign In Afghanistan Ends In Failure

Hundreds of airstrikes failed to curb opium trade…

The Trump Administration’s attempt to curb the Afghanistan opium trade with hundreds of military strikes against “drug labs” has come to an end a little over a year after it began. Officials have concluded it is a failure.

“The fight against illicit narcotics does not appear to be a consistent priority either for the international community or the Afghan government.”

“To put it bluntly,” SIGAR has said, “these numbers spell failure.”

The Pentagon had previously claimed that the airstrikes had cost the Taliban an estimated $42 million over the year. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction expressed doubt about this, noting that “no ground verification takes place” and that no efforts are made to determine what was actually destroyed.

This has been the go-to strategy for US airstrikes worldwide, with officials not following up on strikes in some cases to avoid creating a paper trail on civilians killed. In the case of Afghanistan, however, it may be that what they hoped they were destroying was more important than what they expected to find if they actually looked.

Yet even the $42 million estimate, for several hundred airstrikes, is not only a bad return on the massive cost of such a campaign, but also a paltry amount of the estimated overall drug trade flowing through Afghanistan.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-23/us-militarys-anti-drug-campaign-afghanistan-ends-failure

China blocks 17.5 million plane tickets for people without enough ‘social credit’

he Chinese government blocked 17.5 million would-be plane passengers from buying tickets last year as a punishment for offences including the failure to pay fines, it emerged.

Some 5.5 million people were also barred from travelling by train under a controversial “social credit” system which the ruling Communist Party claims will improve public behaviour.

The penalties are part of efforts by president Xi Jinping‘s government to use data-processing and other technology to tighten control on society.

Human rights activists warn the system is too rigid and may lead to people being unfairly blacklisted without their knowledge, while US vice-president Mike Pence last year denounced it as “an Orwellian system premised on controlling virtually every facet of human life”.

Authorities have experimented with social credit in parts of China since 2014. Points are deducted for breaking the law, but also, in some areas, for offences as minor as walking a dog without a lead.

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/02/24/china-blocks-17-5-million-plane-tickets-for-people-without-enough-social-credit/

Gay & trans sex education to be taught to FIVE-YEAR-OLDS in UK & opting out is ILLEGAL

The UK Conservative government is set to announce plans for the introduction of lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism for primary school students, despite an official petition against the move, signed by over 100,000.

The Sunday Times reports that the new curriculum has been finalized after a six-month consultation with the Department of Education, and will be rolled out across UK schools starting from the 2020-21 educational year.

It will be taught to pupils from the age of five, and it will be illegal for parents to take their children out of the classroom for the lessons in secondary school, meaning that at least a term’s worth of sex education classes – and likely far more – will be attended by each student.

A popular petition to parliament demanding that the opt-out be retained for the length of the child’s school education will be debated in the House of Commons on Monday, though it is not expected to affect the schedule for the implementation of the legislation.

Tango Makes Three - a story of two gay penguins for primary schoolers. © Simon & Schuster

The proposal has encountered resistance from conservative communities, including some Muslims and Jews. In a letter expressing opposition, prominent rabbis expressed fears that some parents would rather take their children out of the education system altogether – which they are allowed to do – rather than subject them to the new curriculum.

https://www.rt.com/uk/452301-gay-trans-sex-education-children/

>>5363205

link me

Venezuelans Now Regret Giving Up Their Guns – This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace

In 2012, Venezuela’s dictator-for-life President Hugo Chavez had his rubber stamp legislature pass the Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law. The public generally supported it at the time. The law stripped law-abiding Venezuelans of every firearm and round of ammunition they could legally own.

As the country and its citizens have increasingly benefitted from the wonders of Bolivarian socialism, it appears that the public now regrets their support for total civilian disarmament.

“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. “The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population.”

If only the citizens of Venezuela had the right to keep and bear arms as a check against government tyranny.

Once again, another nation demonstrates what can and frequently does happen to a disarmed populace. The despotism pushed by the authoritarian ruling class can proceed full force, with no realistic threat of opposition from the people they subjugate.

As the corruption, theft, graft, and fleecing of the treasury and the people continues. The public now is reduced to literally picking through trash for food as millions flee the country.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/12/luis-valdes/venezuelans-now-regret-giving-up-their-guns-this-is-what-happens-to-a-disarmed-populace/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=partner&utm_term=stp&utm_campaign=stp&fbclid=IwAR1NwwJUrxMbLq4PxxAAuvBo8r_2RlX_DC7z_Oll8Ob0zn6zsQPHuU0o5hw

‘PR stunt to justify intervention in Venezuela’: Experts slam US regime change ‘gangsterism’

The battle over ‘humanitarian convoys’ is just a big PR operation designed to provoke scenes of violence and justify further US intervention to oust Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela, political experts have told RT.

“This is an attempt to set out a pretext for some kind of intervention,” political analyst and journalist John Wight told RT. “The Red Cross and all the other international aid agencies are refusing to touch this because they know that this is a Trojan horse, deployed to try to foment the kind of scenes we're seeing at the border.”

Considering the US history of regime-change operations in Latin America, in particular how the hawkish US envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams helped smuggle weapons into Nicaragua, William Mallinson, a professor at Guglielmo Marconi University in Italy, warned that “leopards don’t change their spots.”

We’re seeing a very big PR operation… US doesn’t care about welfare of Venezuelan people.

The crisis in Venezuela was to a high degree “directly caused by the United States' sanctions and embargoes,” Mallinson said, asserting that opposition leader Juan Guaido was simply picked by the US to do their bidding, selected to secure Washington’s political and economic interests.

While Mallinson stressed that the US-led ‘humanitarian’ intervention might be aimed at keeping the country “as much as possible away from Russia and China,” Wight slammed the American policies as a pure form of “gangsterism.”

“Does anybody really think that Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton Elliott Abrams care one bit about the welfare of the Venezuelan people?” he wondered, rhetorically. “These are thugs in tailored suits whose views are far closer to Al Capone than to Thomas Jefferson.”

This is gangsterism masquerading as statecraft.

“They want their hands on the oil, this regime change; and this is about US hegemony, red in tooth and claw,” Wight added.

https://www.rt.com/news/452274-venezuela-us-intervention-gangsterism/

>>5363256

They should've pulled the US troops protecting the poppy fields out and then bombed them not the village of locals who live near by

'poppy bush' yet people never make the connection as to why he's called that

>>5363313

lurk moar newfag

>>5363336

NOTABLE

Richard Branson Joins Venezuelan Regime Change Effort

As I write this, there is a false flag underway on the border of Venezuela and Brazil.

It looks like two people were killed and a dozen wounded after Venezuelan troops opened fire on locals. The confrontation is part of an effort to deliver “aid” to the crisis-wracked nation (thanks in large part to US sanctions).

Of course, the Maduro government doesn’t trust USAID, a US government funded agency that specializes in “democratic” color revolution and undermining elections around the world under the banner of “humanitarianism.”

WHEELS UP 🛫: Another plane transporting @USAID food & medical supplies is on its way to #Colombia, where we are pre-positioning aid for the people of #Venezuela #EstamosUnidosVE pic.twitter.com/0bQq8cannG

— Mark Green (@USAIDMarkGreen) February 22, 2019

Here’s a clueless rich guy pushing a “concert” in favor of oligarchic rule by the Venezuelan elite.

We are on a bridge, today we want to build a bridge of hope #VenezuelaAidLive pic.twitter.com/qcPgriPy8x

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) February 22, 2019

And here’s the “entertainers” who are headlining Venezuela Aid Live, a PR effort to make the violent overthrow of a democratically elected leader soft and squishy and palatable to liberal America.

These entertainers are, naturally, almost completely braindead on Venezuela, the CIA’s efforts to overthrow the Hugo Chavez government, and the bottomline—handing over the nation’s oil wealth to transitional corporations and banksters.

All Together For Venezuela #LineUp #AidVenezuela #AyudaVenezuela pic.twitter.com/qMQyZ1Zexk

— Venezuela Aid Live (@VenezuelaAid) February 22, 2019

Fortunately, some of us understand what’s going on behind the scenes of this rich man’s concert—regime change.

Roger Waters, formerly of the group Pink Floyd, understands what’s behind Branson’s concert on the border of Venezuela and Brazil.

The Red Cross and the UN, unequivocally agree, don’t politicize aid. Leave the Venezuelan people alone to exercise their legal right to self determination. pic.twitter.com/I0yS3u75b6

— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 18, 2019

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/71231/richard-branson-joins-venezuelan-regime-change.html

More proof this is a cabal op

>>5363373

low IQ resorts in insults when confronted, sad

>>5363380

Notable

Interesting af

“We Want Them Now!” President Trump Demands Deep State Turn Over ‘Missing’ Strzok-Page Texts and DNC Server

President Trump ripped “Crooked Hillary Clinton” and the Deep State coup plotters Sunday morning in a tweet.

The President also asked, “Where’s the server that the DNC refused to give to the FBI?” and demanded the ‘missing’ Strzok-Page texts be handed over “now.”

TRUMP: The only Collusion with the Russians was with Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee…And, where’s the Server that the DNC refused to give to the FBI? Where are the new Texts between Agent Lisa Page and her Agent lover, Peter S? We want them now!

Here are the cold, hard facts:

The DNC server was allegedly “hacked” by the Russians nearly three years ago, yet the FBI still has not done a forensic inspection of the servers to confirm they were hacked, and if hacked, by whom?

We now know that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid millions of dollars for a fraudulent Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Christopher Steele reportedly gathered Russian intel and put together a garbage dossier which was then used to obtain a FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

Crooked Hillary Clinton colluded with foreigners during the 2016 election to illegally spy on her political opponent, Donald Trump.

FBI’s chief of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page were caught exchanging anti-Trump text messages over the summer of 2017.

In what is believed to be the most damning text exchange between the FBI lovebirds was a discussion about an “insurance policy” to keep Trump out of office.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office…that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected…but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok text messaged to Page in an Aug. 15, 2016 exchange, referring to Andrew McCabe.

“It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40,” Strzok added.

Other profanity-laced text messages between Strzok and Page showed their contempt for Donald Trump.

Thousands of text messages sent between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are still ‘missing.’

In December, Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a partially redacted report describing its investigation into the recovery of text messages between Strzok and Page.

According to the IG report, the text messages sent between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok about the Mueller probe were ‘lost’ because their phones were conveniently reset to ‘factory settings’ by the someone in the DOJ.

In other words, Mueller’s office scrubbed clean both Peter Strzok’s and Lisa Page’s phones.

When will Mueller be charged with obstruction of justice?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/we-want-them-now-president-trump-demands-deep-state-turn-over-missing-strzok-page-texts-and-dnc-server/

Chicago's Cook County Votes To Dismantle 'Racist' Gang Database

Officials in the Democratic stronghold of Chicago's Cook County, Illinois voted on Thursday to completely dismantle their database of more than 25,000 known or suspected gang members, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

The reason? The database is racist and inaccurate, according to opponents, as most of the people linked to gangs are black and Hispanic (meanwhile most victims and killers in Chicago are black males aged between 15 and 35, often with gang affiliations).

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-24/chicagos-cook-county-votes-dismantle-racist-gang-database

Bush Funeral “Envelope Affair” Solved: The Mexican Standoff Inside the Beltway

Trump Enters Uneasy Truce with Deep State

http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/02/bush-funeral-envelope-affair-solved-the-mexican-standoff-inside-the-beltway/

>>5363614

Conclusion

The POTUS has been completely taken over by forces that are way too powerful for any one individual to take on.

The current composition of his cabinet clearly indicates that his major campaign promises will not be fulfilled. The number of Neocon warmongers alone is enough to start World War III. His war cabinet was quite purposefully constituted to advance the fascist side of the New World Order agenda. While the communist side is being humbled like never before, their control of the major pillars of Deep State have made them an implacable foe for Trump.

Therefore, the theater of war that involves the Mainstream Media (MSM), the U.S. Intelligence Community, Big Tech and Big Social Media will not demilitarize. Trump has exposed the MSM “fake news” like no other leader in world history; he has also taken his wrecking ball to the other primary pillars of Deep State. The Powers That Be (TPTB) will not forget the irreparable damage that he inflicted; nor will those individual power players forgive his unparalleled truth-telling about their sedition and sellouts, sins and shortcomings.

This “uneasy truce” is also why the President is zealously promoting, not only the extremely dangerous 5G roll-out, but also a future 6G technology paradigm. Israel has kept their 3G networks frozen in place because Tel Aviv acknowledges the inherent health dangers and risks; and yet they were the primary developers of 5G technology. Why, then, is Trump pushing a completely untested 5G model? See 5G ROLL-OUT CATASTROPHE: An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump

KEY POINT: Just because there is a truce in effect does not mean that Deep State won’t keep up the constant pressure on Trump. A promise not to impeach, or do an Amendment 25, or assassinate him, is one thing; the determination to prevent his re-election is quite another. Therefore, the MSM insanity will continue forthwith as it also supports the ever-present “divide and conquer” strategy employed by the Black Nobility over the centuries. The outworking of this in-your-face vendetta by the CIA’s Mockingbird Media against Trump for exposing fake news is, after all, an integral component of their stealthy scheme to destroy the American Republic. TPTB aim to make a flaming example of him so that no other leader even thinks about leaving the reservation of political correctness.

There is no defeating Deep State except by the sheer force of people power and posing the very real threat of violence against the 1%. The Shadow Government has had the planet in total lockdown for centuries so how can one man possibly bring down such a deep and wide power structure, especially when most of it operates completely under the radar.