Day: August 4, 2022

Biden Funds the Jihad While Taking Out One of Its Leaders

Biden Killed the al-Qaeda Chief While Sending a Billion Dollars to the Taliban

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/08/02/biden-killed-the-al-qaeda-chief-while-sending-a-billion-dollars-to-the-taliban-n1617741;

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Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead, or at least that’s what Old Joe Biden tells us, and he wouldn’t lie to us, would he? Anyway, while he and his handlers are taking a victory lap over taking out the big, scary al-Qaeda honcho, the fact is that Zawahiri was first declared dead in November 2020 and has only surfaced once since then. He was 71 years old and much more a man of the past than of the present. His killing, in other words, is more a matter of PR than evidence of an effective counterterror strategy. And meanwhile, Biden’s handlers are undermining the effectiveness of what little counterterror strategy they have by sending hundreds of millions over to Zawahiri’s friends, the Taliban.

According to a Tuesday report from The Foreign Desk, the U.S. “has pledged an additional $55 million in aid to Afghanistan.” This is just the latest in a more or less non-stop money train since the Taliban took over: “Over the past fiscal year, this totals to over $1 billion to humanitarian, economic, and military assistance aid to Afghanistan.”

Biden’s foreign policy wonks would likely insist that this money was not sent to the Taliban but to other groups that are operating in the country. The Taliban may be in control, says Biden’s State Department, but there is still a massive humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan that we cannot ignore. Unfortunately for that narrative, however, the aid money that is being sent to Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of the Taliban despite all the denials and claims to the contrary. “Now,” says The Foreign Desk, “humanitarian aid to the Afghan people is lining the pockets of the Taliban at the expense of innocent Afghans and American taxpayers alike.”

There is an important reason for this: “The Taliban’s ‘Monitoring and Control Plan of NGOs’ provides them with oversight and control of movements and work of various NGOs, including the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and the World Food Program.” Thus if the U.S. government sends money to any of those organizations, there is nothing that they can do to keep the Taliban from seizing the funds.

The Foreign Desk adds: “The Afghan people are desperately in need of this aid to ensure access to basic food and water, education, and health services. However, this Taliban program requires Afghan citizens and foreign NGOs to submit to the Taliban’s brutal rule in order to ensure they receive the necessary aid to survive. The U.S. cannot ensure that its humanitarian funding is being used as it was intended. More than likely, it’s only bolstering the Taliban’s repressive regime.” So the American taxpayers are funding the Taliban’s consolidation of power in Afghanistan, thanks to Old Joe Biden.

Related: Joe Biden Thinks Killing Zawahiri Will Make Us Forget He’s the Master of Disaster

So while the administration crows over killing a septuagenarian holed up in a Kabul villa, it’s forking over hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the very people who are allied with the old man’s group, share his goals, and want to bring about by force the same ideal society he envisioned.

That’s not foreign policy. That’s not a counterterrorism strategy. That’s pure madness. Or, in other words, just a normal day in the Biden administration.

Meanwhile, speaking of Old Joe Biden lying, here is Old Joe lying again on Aug. 16, 2021, as the Taliban rolled into Kabul: “We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. We did that. We severely degraded al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”

Sure, he didn’t exactly say that al-Qaeda had been driven out of Afghanistan, but the international chief of al-Qaeda was living in Kabul. That’s not exactly “degraded.” Nor is there any indication that al-Qaeda cannot use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again.

Ultimately, the killing of Zawahiri, if it really happened, isn’t going to change anything. Al-Qaeda was never a movement built around a charismatic leader, and it won’t dissipate because of Zawahiri’s death. It will choose another leader and go on. The U.S. took out Yesterday’s Man. Biden may score some political points, but he certainly hasn’t done any serious damage to the global jihad. In fact, in the guise of sending humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, he’s still busy financing it.

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SEE ALSO: https://thenewamerican.com/media-ignores-russia-connection-of-slain-al-qaeda-leader/

Venezuela provides Iran with 1,000,000 hectares of ‘farmland for cultivation’; OR NUCLEAR MISSILE BASES AIMED AT THE U.S.?

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/venezuela-provides-iran-with-1000000-hectares-of-farmland-for-cultivation;

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One hectare is the size of two and a half football fields. So imagine the expanse of a million hectares. Iran’s use of it may not necessarily be (as reported) only for farming, given the nefarious and deceptive regimes of Iran and Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Even if it is used strictly for cultivation, the close friendship between Venezuela and Iran should be a deep concern to absentee America.  

Maduro hails Iran as a partner “in the fields of science, technology, agriculture, oil and gas, petrochemicals, tourism, and culture.” Friendship goes beyond economics. Last year, reports emerged that Venezuela was hosting Palestinian jihadists including Hizballah and Fatah cells involved in money laundering, drug dealing, and jihad activity. 

In 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned an antiterrorism conference in Colombia about the Iranian proxy Hizballah’s presence in Venezuela, and an exiled former mayor, Antonio Ledezma, stated that Hizballah would participate in overseeing Venezuelan regional elections. Ledezma called Venezuela “a den for terrorist groups.”

In June, “Maduro paid a visit to Tehran and signed a 20-year partnership agreement on cooperation with Iran in various fields.”

Venezuela also offered last year to supply natural gas to Mexico last year. By befriending Mexico, Iran and Hizballah will have a clear path to infiltrating the U.S., especially given Biden’s lax immigration policy.

“Venezuela Provides Iran with 1 Million Hectares of Farmland,” Tasnim News Agency,  July 26, 2022:

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Venezuela has allowed Iran to use one million hectares of its farmland for cultivation, an Iranian official said.

Speaking to Tasnim, the Iranian deputy interior minister for economic affairs highlighted the added value that the products and services provided by domestic knowledge-based companies would create in other countries, as in South American nations.

According to Mohsen Kousheshtabar, Venezuela has provided Iran with one million hectares of farmland for cultivation while the world is grappling with the shortage of strategic reserves.

He said such a major plan for extra-territorial cultivation reveals that Iran has become so great and strong and has reached such a high level in scientific exchanges that other countries are reaching out to the Islamic Republic.

“It definitely signifies the technical knowledge of these (Iranian) knowledge-based companies that has transpired at the international level,” he said.

In June, President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro paid a visit to Tehran and signed a 20-year partnership agreement on cooperation with Iran in various fields….

Palestinian Authority trains hundreds of children to be jihad terrorists

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/palestinian-authority-trains-hundreds-of-children-to-be-jihad-terrorists;

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The abusive practice of training children to become jihadists in the Palestinian territories is common, yet conveniently ignored by the mainstream media, globalist governments, and so-called human rights groups. None of these groups care to protect children from the robbery of their innocence or they're being placed in harm’s way as they are brainwashed into thinking how honorable it would be to blow themselves up in the pursuit of jihad against Jews.

Countries who support the Palestinian “resistance” to “free Palestine” and obliterate Israel “from the River to the Sea” are simultaneously supporting the abuse of Palestinian children.

 In the meantime, the jihad war against Israel continues to gain steam, as does the Palestinian propaganda war internationally.

“PA recruits and trains 100’s of child terrorists,” by Maurice Hirsch, Palestinian Media Watch, July 29, 2022:

Every summer the PA trains and recruits hundreds of would-be child terrorists
Shamefully, the UN ignores the child abuse
But when child terrorists are killed carrying out acts of terror, the UN attacks Israel for defending its citizens
The 2022 summer-time Palestinian Authority abuse of Palestinian children and its process of recruiting them as child terrorists has started. At “the Buds of Construction and Liberation” summer camp, run by Fatah’s Central Hebron branch, hundreds of Palestinian children had individual pictures taken holding AK-47 rifles. The Fatah branch uploaded multiple photo albums of these pictures to its Facebook page.

[Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Hebron Branch, July 19, 2022]

Leaving no room for misconception or doubt regarding the organizers of the event, the armed children had their pictures taken in front of a large poster with former PLO/PA/Fatah leader Yasser Arafat on the left, and current PLO/PA/Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas on the right. The Fatah logo, which includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine,” was placed at the top in the center.

The text on the poster and the accompanying Facebook post reads: “The Fatah Movement Central Hebron branch – The Buds of Construction and Liberation camp”

The following are just some of the pictures posted by Fatah (additional pictures appear at the bottom of this report):

This picture showing a PA Security Forces member and a young camp participant posing with AK-47 rifles, also appears alongside those taken in front of the poster

On June 23, 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres released his annual report on “Children and armed conflict” (CAAC). The report lists areas of conflict, the different actors relevant in those situations, and the alleged violations of the rights of children. Countries or actors found to have committed “grave violations” of the rights of children can be put on the Secretary-General’s so-called “blacklist.”

The six “grave violations,” according to UN Security Council resolution 1539 (2004), are: Killing or maiming of children; Recruitment or use of children by armed forces or armed groups; Attacks on schools or hospitals; Rape or other sexual violence against children; Abduction of children; Denial of humanitarian access to children….

China surges forces toward Taiwan, conducts live-fire drills as Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits

Image: China surges forces toward Taiwan, conducts live-fire drills as Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits

China fires missiles in largest ever drills off Taiwan

27 Chinese warplanes enter Taiwan’s air defense zone after Pelosi's visit

Chinese military surrounds Taiwan with military drills

BY J.D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-03-china-surges-forces-toward-taiwan-nancy-pelosi-visits.html;

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(Natural News) After making a series of bellicose statements before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan on Tuesday, China then engaged in what many saw as a series of provocative military actions.

According to reports, the Taiwanese government said that some of its websites had been hit with a cyberattack after Pelosi landed on Tuesday, as Chinese naval vessels including an aircraft carrier battle group moved into waters closer to the island. Beijing, meanwhile, vowed “targeted military actions” as well.

At the same time, Taiwan has put its military on high alert and has warned its citizens to be ready, while also seeking to reassure them.

“The Chinese maneuvers aim to intimidate our citizens psychologically… We are closely monitoring the situation and have strengthened our preparations… We have confidence and the ability to protect our security,” said a Taiwanese government statement.

“The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is on high alert and will launch a series of targeted military operations to counter this, resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and resolutely thwart external interference and ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist attempts,” defense ministry spokesman Wu Qian said in a statement condemning the visit, according to The Hindustan Times.

Earlier Tuesday, the Taiwanese government announced that someone had launched a cyberattack against the island.

“Taiwanese authorities confirmed Tuesday that the Office of the President’s website fell victim to an overseas cyberattack that caused the site to be down for 20 minutes, according to local reporters. The president’s office reportedly confirmed that Tuesday’s attack traffic was 200 times that of a normal day,” Fox News reported.

For her part, Pelosi, a California Democrat third in line to the presidency as House speaker, was undeterred, claiming upon landing that the U.S. “stood with” the people of Taiwan.

In addition, 26 Republican senators who are usually at odds with Pelosi over legislation nevertheless backed her trip.

“We support Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan,” they said in a statement.

“For decades, members of the United States Congress, including previous Speakers of the House, have traveled to Taiwan. This travel is consistent with the United States One China policy to which we are committed. We are also committed now, more than ever, to all elements of the Taiwan Relations Act.”

“The Speaker has the right to visit Taiwan and the Speaker of the House has visited Taiwan before, without incident,” said White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby. “As have many members of Congress, including this year.”

“Put simply, there is no reason for Beijing to turn a simple visit, consistent with long-standing U.S. policy into some sort of crisis or conflict, or to use it to increase aggressive military activity in or around the Taiwan Strait,” Kirby added.

The Epoch Times reported as well:

Likewise, the Republican statement issued Tuesday underscores that there is no change to the United States’ longstanding policies and norms of behavior regarding China and Taiwan.

The CCP considers Taiwan to be a breakaway province that must be united with the mainland and has not ruled out the use of force to accomplish such. Taiwan, for its part, has been self-governed since 1949, has never been controlled by the CCP, and has an independent democratic government and thriving market economy.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an interview with Fox News that he thinks the Chinese are simply saber-rattling. He referenced similar bellicose warnings in 1997 when he visited Taiwan after he was invited by China to give speeches there.

“They backed down,” he said Monday, referring to the Chinese government. “Their current bluff is just that.”

“Look, they are harassing Taiwan every week. They are flying aircraft into Taiwanese space. They recently announced a live-fire zone off of Taiwan,” he added. “They’re doing all they can to rattle the Taiwanese people, who are 24 million free people with a free election and a free news media, who produce, by the way, about 67 percent of the world’s high-value computer chips. So it’s a very important place.”

Sources include:

TheEpochTimes.com

FoxNews.com

HindustanTimes.com

Association of American Medical Colleges unleashes new curriculum standards that force medical students to go woke in order to practice medicine

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-03-medical-school-curriculum-force-students-woke.html;

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(Natural News) In order to graduate from medical school in the United States, students will now be required to embrace the “woke” dogma of anti-white racism, among other left-wing “values.”

The Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) new “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Competencies” is supposedly just another valuable “skillset” in a “physician’s education.”

“For graduating medical students, the competencies include ‘describ[ing] the impact of various systems of oppression on health and health care (e.g., colonization, White supremacy, acculturation, assimilation),” reports the National Association of Scholars (NAS).

“For graduating residents, they include ‘promoting social justice and engag[ing] in efforts to eliminate health care disparities,’ and for faculty physicians, ‘teach[ing] how systems of power, privilege, and oppression inform policies and practices and how to engage with systems to disrupt oppressive practices.”

The purpose and goal of these new “competencies,” as they are calling them, is to reinvent modern medicine through the lens of left-wing politics. And with that comes an underlying message that white people are bad and must be treated differently by the medical system of the future.

“Ultimately, these new competencies provide a blueprint for infusing the themes of identity politics – ‘intersectionality,’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘microaggression,’ ‘allyship’ – into medical education,” NAS explains.

NAS warns that new AAMC competencies threaten “sound medical education

Much like how preschoolers do not need to be indoctrinated by their teachers into transgenderism in order to move on to kindergarten, medical school students do not need to be thinking about race and skin color while learning how to practice medicine in a supposedly neutral way.

Corrupting the medical school curriculum in this manner will only further erode the quality of medical education and render it even more impotent that it has already become under the guidance and control of the pharmaceutical industry.

NAS warns that these new competencies from the AAMC will only stand to degrade the quality of “sound medical education” in this country, not to mention the implications they will have on academic freedom.

Despite a wave of criticism following the release of its initial draft of the competencies, the AAMC appears to be doubling down with affirmation that they will, in fact, be imposed on the medical education system.

“We believe this topic deserves just as much attention from learners and educators at every stage of their careers as the latest scientific breakthroughs,” said the AAMC president and the chair of the AAMC’s Council of Deans in a joint statement.

Not only are the new competencies not scientific in any way, and thus do not belong in medical education, but they are overtly politically and ideologically charged, forcing left-wing politics on students.

“Concepts such as ‘intersectionality’ and ‘allyship’ connote substantive political positions; to declare that faculty and students must embrace them clearly violates academic freedom,” NAS says. “But perhaps more significantly, these concepts are often interpreted idiosyncratically to enforce a narrow and damaging orthodoxy.”

“At medical schools that adopt the competencies, it will undoubtedly become harder for students and faculty to voice support for a meritocracy or skepticism toward ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors. Such views, after all, are commonly labeled ‘oppressive.'”

What we are witnessing with these changes is the continued obliteration of American medicine, which is already mostly a racket and a scam thanks to the garbage that medical school students are already being exposed to.

This latest injection of anti-white racism into the curriculum, and pandering to the Cult of LGBT, might just be the final nail in the coffin for Western medicine.

The latest news about the woke infestation that now plagues almost every American institution can be found at Wokies.news.

Sources for this article include:

NAS.org

NaturalNews.com