US ends campaign to destroy Taliban drug labs in Afghanistan

The U.S. military has ended a controversial bombing campaign that targeted Taliban drug labs across Afghanistan, without appearing to significantly disrupt the group’s ability to generate revenue from the illegal narcotics trade.

In its most recent report on Wednesday, the Defense Department Inspector General said the operation was officially terminated during the last quarter of 2018.

The campaign, known as Operation Iron Tempest, was launched in November 2017 to hurt the Taliban financially. It was part of the Trump administration’s broader strategy for Afghanistan, which relaxed rules of engagement in a bid to push the insurgents to the negotiating table.

From its inception, critics described the campaign — which included costly strikes by American aircraft and special operations raids — as a waste of resources, not least because the facilities it targeted could be rebuilt within days at little cost.

A year of airstrikes and raids led to “insurgent confusion, concern, and changes to their tactics, techniques and procedures,” the IG report said, citing the 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force — Afghanistan. But it didn’t specify how much revenue the Taliban lost — the main aim of the campaign.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/us-ends-campaign-to-destroy-taliban-drug-labs-in-afghanistan/

"Are You Ready." Humble Pie.. Rockin The Fillmore live

Vaccine debate makes more people question safety and effectiveness – so the industry has SHUT DOWN all discussion

In a certain province in China, more than 99 percent of all the children have been vaccinated against measles with the MMR vaccine, but the disease still runs rampant. Do not speak of this case study in America, especially if you work in the fake news “MSM” media or are employed at the highly corrupt CDC, or you will be fired. Do not post this article on social media or YouTube either, or you will be banned, blacklisted and demonetized.

The theory of vaccines is legitimate, but today’s vaccines contain so many neurotoxins, genetically modified bacteria, heavy metals, foreign animal proteins, live combinations of deadly viruses, and severe allergens, that anybody in their right mind wants legitimate answers to valid questions, but won’t get any.

That’s why medical doctors and the entire pro-vaccine community shuts down all discussions of vaccines, and no longer tries to push the propaganda in the news – because the more they talk about it, the less people believe in modern vaccines and the less patients accept the dogma. The vaccine skeptics are winning the war, just by simply discussing the repercussions of getting vaccines. The bottom line is you’re safer getting the diseases than getting the vaccines, and it’s been that way for the past few decades. Read the facts.

https://newstarget.com/2019-02-25-vaccine-debate-makes-more-people-question-safety-and-effectiveness.html

Crew safe after aircraft makes ‘hard landing’ at Camp Humphreys

No one was hurt after a U.S. military aircraft “experienced a hard landing” Monday in South Korea, an Eighth Army spokeswoman said.

The cause of the incident on the Camp Humphreys airfield is under investigation, Lt. Col. Peggy Kageleiry told Stars and Stripes in an email.

“No injuries [were] reported and the crew is safe,” she said.

The aircraft was identified only as a fixed-wing aircraft assigned to the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade. No information about its condition was available Tuesday.

Camp Humphreys operates the Army’s most active airfield in the Pacific region and is nearing completion of the largest transformation project in Defense Department history. The installation will be home to nearly 36,000 soldiers, civilians and their families when finished.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/crew-safe-after-aircraft-makes-hard-landing-at-camp-humphreys/

>>5392694

Matthew 24:24KJV)

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Historic shift: Populism now as big as social democracy in Europe

There are obvious reasons for the Social Democrats’ bitter attack on so-called right-wing populism and migration criticism in the run-up to the EU elections this spring.

According to social-liberal think tank Timbro’s new populist index, more than one in four voters in Europe are now voting for populist parties – which is the same number of people who vote for social democratic parties.

Populism as a political force in Europe is now twice as strong as liberalism and equal to social democracy. It is a historic shift that we see, says Andreas Johansson Heinö, publishing director at Timbro.

A total of 71 million, corresponding to 26.8 percent, of Europe’s 264 million citizens entitled to vote chose to cast their vote on a populist party at the last national election in their country.

Unlike three or four years ago, when growth took place both on the left and on the right, the development is now explained exclusively by a growing right-wing populism.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/historic-shift-populism-now-as-big-as-social-democracy-in-europe/

Google Clash Over Global Right to Be Forgotten Returns to Court

Google’s battle against French proponents of a worldwide “right to be forgotten” enters a decisive phase at the European Union’s top court on Thursday, in a case that highlights the growing tensions between privacy, freedom of speech and state censorship.

Ahead of a ruling later this year, an adviser at the EU Court of Justice will on Jan. 10 deliver an opinion on whether the world’s most-used search engine can limit the geographical scope of the privacy right to EU-based searches.

Google has been fighting efforts led by France’s privacy watchdog to globalize the right to be forgotten after the EU court’s landmark ruling in 2014 forcing the search engine to remove links to information about a person on request if it’s outdated or irrelevant. The Alphabet Inc. unit currently removes such links EU-wide and since 2016 it also restricts access to such information on non-EU Google sites when accessed from the EU country where the person concerned by the information is located.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/google-clash-over-global-right-to-be-forgotten-returns-to-court

>>5392816

Are you do have knew at this.. you been paying attention to this board at all and what's actually going on

Airstrikes targeted militant camp in Pakistan – Indian Foreign Sec.

Indian jets carried out airstrikes against a militant camp in Pakistan, in an escalation of tensions between the two countries following the February 14 suicide bombing attack in the disputed Kashmir region.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said that the airstrikes hit a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Pakistan’s Balakot, when speaking at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Gokhale that a “non-military pre-emptive action” was conducted after a “credible intelligence was received that Jaish-e-Mohammad was attempting other suicide terror attacks in various parts of the country, and the fidayeen jihadis were being trained for this purpose.”

“In the face of imminent danger, a preemptive strike became absolutely necessary,” said the Indian top diplomat.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/airstrikes-targeted-militant-camp-in-pakistan-indian-foreign-sec/

Big Banks Toxicity: A Global Plague

Our federal systems of justice are failing the U.S. citizenry, miserably. It is a fact, beyond consternation that federal agencies’ willful blindness has fostered Goldman Sachs toxicity to the point that Sachs personnel are brazenly and flagrantly ripping off their own clients.

Now Goldman Sachs toxicity has spread worldwide!

Compounding the issues of our nation’s economic security is the ability of Goldman Sachs to get “planted” deep state agents into our watchdog systems (like Jay Clayton, Colm Connolly, James Lackner, Maryellen Noreika, Clifford White III, Andy Vara and Ellen Slights).

In the past week alone there have been stories of fraud flooding the Internet with increased verbosity.

Now, Goldman Sachs is warning a stock market slump approaches.

Question is, why are federal authorities allowing this crap to thrive to the point that it is putting us on the border of a recession?

Didn’t our watchdog agencies learn anything from the slickness of pre-2008?

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/02/big-banks-toxicity-a-global-plague.html

Amazing Performance by Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In

Fluoride exposure during pregnancy linked to increasing number of children with ADHD, says study

Fluoride is a known neurotoxin, and yet for some reason, this toxin continues to contaminate public water supplies around the country. Water fluoridation is a highly controversial practice upheld by local municipalities nationwide, but research continues to show that fluoride is far more dangerous than you might think.

Recently published research has found a link between prenatal exposure to fluoride and risk of ADHD. In fact, it appears that fluoride may be a key contributor to the rising rates of ADHD — and who knows what else.

Some 70 percent of the United States fluoridates its water, even though most developed countries abstain from such an abhorrent practice. Make no mistake, while authorities claim that water fluoridation is for the “greater good” of public health, it still amounts to mass medication of the public at the government’s behest. Essentially, municipalities that fluoridate their water are medicating the people dependent on public water supplies by force — rendering water fluoridation an ethical issue as well as a health issue.

https://newstarget.com/2019-02-25-fluoride-exposure-during-pregnancy-linked-to-children-with-adhd.html

>>5392955

Afghanistan opium crop hits new record level

Opium production in Afghanistan has again hit record levels and is likely to boost terrorism and increase supply of cut price heroin around the world, the United Nations has warned.

Three years after British combat troops and aid officials left the country’s Helmand province, farmers there are now estimated to have a third of arable land set aside for drug production.

More than 90 per cent of the heroin on Britain’s streets is thought to come from the country and the UK spent tens of millions of pounds trying to tackle the trade and wean farmers off the crop.

But figures released from the UN’s drugs and crime agency said production had almost doubled in the past 12 months. Helmand, the hub of opium production, has seen the the area under poppy rise by four-fifths.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/15/afghanistan-opium-crop-hits-new-record-level/

>>5393020

when the war 1st started a buddy of mine spent 18 months over there. I remember it well .. and after the U'S invade the opium production went up almost 800% if memory serves.. explanation please.. wait don't bother I know the answer

B.B. King with Slash "The Thrill Is Gone". Amazing.

>>5393056

Are you really that naive…Thank God for Trump

North Korea launches 'highest ever' ballistic missile

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42160227

North Korea often provoked Trump with nuclear tests and missile launches during his first year in office. Here is a timeline

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/14/timeline-of-north-korea-missile-launches-in-trump-first-year.html

North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/world/asia/north-korea-missile.html

>>5393092

I like to whistle while I Work/Troll/Play/Post

>>5393124

Religion is for people trying to keep themselves out of hell… And spirituality is for people that have been there

Fed Meeting Minutes Confirm Quantitative Tightening Will End This Year

Minutes of the Jan. 29-30 Fed meeting released Wednesday confirmed what Fed Chairman Jerome Powell only hinted at in his post-meeting press conference. Quantitative tightening, the shrinking of the Fed balance sheet as securities mature, will end later this year. The Fed minutes, which read like a central bank mea culpa for the December stock market swoon, pushed the Dow Jones and other indexes higher. Stocks continued to fluctuate after the Fed meeting minutes as investors focused on Fed rate hikes possibly back on the table down the road.

https://www.investors.com/news/economy/fed-meeting-minutes-confirm-quantitative-tightening-will-end-this-year/

AI ‘Deity’ To Preach Buddhism In Japanese Temple

Robots have many uses in Japan, from ‘comforting the sick and aged, and disposing of hazardous nuclear waste’ to preaching Buddhism in the pulpit. Technocrat inventors think this is a wonderful advancement for humanity. Really? ⁃ TN Editor

A Japanese robot has been created to preach the teachings of Buddha in colloquial language at the Kodaiji Temple in the ancient city of Kyoto.

As Mindar gave its speech on the Heart Sutra and humanity, English and Chinese subtitles were projected on the wall as music played in the background.

The chief steward of the temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward Tensho Goto during a news conference said: “If an image of Buddha speaks, teachings of Buddhism will probably be easier to understand,”

He added: “We want many people to come to see the robot to think about the essence of Buddhism.”

Another official connected to the temple explained how the robot would “help people who usually have little connection with Buddhism to take an interest” in the religion.”

Mindar, which is about 195 centimeters tall and weighs 60 kilograms, was constructed by Tokyo-based A-Lab Co.

It is primarily made of aluminum, with silicone used for its face and hands.

The robot will be revealed to the public between March 8 and May 6.

Japanese researchers have been developing robots to revolutionise labour within Japan.

Uses for the burgeoning technology including teaching children, comforting the sick and aged, and disposing of hazardous nuclear waste.

https://www.technocracy.news/ai-deity-to-preach-buddhism-in-japanese-temple/