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American Sports Coaches Are Held to Higher Standards Than Our Failing Military Generals

Via Revolver News

Seven NFL head coaches lost their jobs last year. Matt Patricia of the Detroit Lions was let go after winning just 13 games in three seasons. Doug Marrone of the Jaguars was sacked after his team went 1-15 in 2020. Doug Pederson of the Philadelphia Eagles won a Super Bowl in 2017, but even that couldn’t save him. Pederson was sent packing after three disappointing seasons capped off with a 4-11-1 disaster.

Is the head coach always the problem with a bad NFL team? Obviously not. But a head coach is the highly-compensated captain of a $200 million operation, and his job is to win. Coaches who don’t win get fired, because being a perpetual, complacent loser is unacceptable.

The ongoing collapse of the U.S.-backed regime in Afghanistan is the geopolitical equivalent of an NFL team going 0-16 twenty seasons in a row. Perhaps it’s worse than that, in fact. The Afghanistan disaster is the equivalent of an NFL All-Pro team taking on a Division III liberal arts college, being shut out, and then crashing the team bus into a ditch.

But unlike an abject failure in sports or (arguably) business, there will be no accountability whatsoever for the Afghanistan disgrace. And until America rediscovers the ability to hold its leaders accountable, it will always be a nation in decline.

America’s defeat in Afghanistan was no ordinary defeat. Even comparisons to the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 are insufficient. South Vietnam was a real state. When Richard Nixon sought to “Vietnamize” the war, he was initially successful; South Vietnamese troops fought on for several years after American troops were gone. The country only began to collapse thanks to a severe economic crisis caused by the 1973 oil shock, coupled with a major cut in U.S. aid. Even then, the first provincial capital in South Vietnam only fell in January 1975, two years after America’s departure.

Afghanistan is far different, and far worse. Afghanistan’s army was large, and nominally well-equipped. As President Biden himself noted, they had an air force and the Taliban did not. The country was still set to receive billions in U.S. aid.

And despite all that, within a week, the territory held by the “Afghan government” went from half the country to the runway of the Kabul airport.

The immediate, total, and absolute implosion of the Afghan government the moment U.S. troops were no longer propping it up reveals that the entire nation-building effort in Afghanistan was fundamentally fraudulent. The Afghan National Army, the Afghan government, the Afghan state did not actually exist. They were a sham put on for voters and journalists, a Potemkin village built to fool gullible lawmakers.

This sham wasn’t invisible by nature. It was hidden by commanders who wanted to extend the war and hide the truth. One of those guilty commanders? None other than current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and “white rage” aficionado Mark Milley. MORE.

Could It Be a Population Reduction Plot After All?

By Paul Craig Roberts

Last year once I realized that the Covid campaign was a fear campaign and not a scientific or medical campaign, I understood that the operating agenda was not a public health agenda. It became clear that there was a profit agenda and also a control agenda in which civil liberties and their legal and constitutional protections were being cast aside.

Having studied at four top universities in days gone by when education, not propaganda, was education’s purpose, I am able to comprehend most scientific reports sufficiently to understand the gist of the reports, but in the case of Covid when in doubt I rely on virologists and medical school professors to vet or correct my conclusions. Having had famous professors including Nobel prize winners who were mocked in their earlier years by establishment opinion and having myself experienced resistance to my own innovative scholarship, I was aware that truth is often rejected until opponents are simply overwhelmed by the evidence. For my Oxford University professor, Michael Polanyi, a physical chemist, it took a half century for his theory of chemical absorption to win over Einstein’s disapproval. In the meantime a number of his students had won the Nobel prize in science. E.P. Wigner in physics. Melvin Calvin in chemistry. His son John Polanyi in chemistry. Michael Polanyi was the most intelligent and civilized person I have ever known. He would certainly be disheartened to see the disregard of evidence in universities and media today and by public authorities.

Experiencing the Covid Deception, I am alarmed that today evidence itself has lost its authority. Throughout the Western World, agendas take precedence over truth. This is most certainly the case with Covid-19.

We are living under a Covid policy that has no evidence whatsoever in its support. Lacking any evidence for the ruling policy, suppression of the actual facts is the operating principle. The utterly corrupt public health authorities, dumbshit ignorant politicians, and scum presstitutes repeat lies over and over, relying on constant repetition to turn the lie into truth. The vast bulk of the world’s population, lacking the education and energy to think for itself, is satisfied to have the media tell them what to think.

The public health authorities, dumbshit politicians, and scum presstitutes censor the scientists and doctors who actually understand the health challenge and know what to do to get it under control, thus preventing information other than the controlled narrative from reaching the public.

Here is the known information that is suppressed:

The Covid vaccine does not protect against acquiring Covid, nor does it prevent vaccinated people from spreading the virus.

The Covid Vaccine has massive adverse effects and is on course to cause more illnesses and deaths than Covid. Among the adverse effects are infertility and spontaneous abortion.

The vaccine trains the virus to evolve variants that escape the vaccine.

The lethality of the Covid virus has been massively overstated.

The number of Covid cases were massively overstated by a defective PCR test.

The outbreak of new cases ascribed to the Delta variant are worst in the countries with the most heavily vaccinated populations.

Known cures such as HCQ and Ivermectin are intentionally blocked from use by official protocol.

Large numbers of top level scientists and doctors are calling for a halt to Covid vaccination. These calls are suppressed by the scum presstitutes and ignored by official authorities.

Why? Is it just profit? Is it just control? Or is there a darker agenda? MORE.

Washington public school forces unvaccinated student athletes to wear ankle monitors: parents

Via The Post Millennial

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly forced to wear an ankle tracking monitor for volleyball practice at Eatonville High School in Washington state as a condition of participating in team sports. This was required of both vaccinated and unvaccinated students.

According to her mother who spoke anonymously to The Post Millennial, her daughter was at a practice for the public school’s volleyball team and texted her that she was being asked to put on an ankle monitor.

The teen did not answer the mother’s follow up texts or calls. The mother assumed she was playing during practice and attempted to contact the school via phone. No one at the school was able to answer her questions about the monitor, so she drove to the building.

The mother spoke to an employee in the school office, as well as a coach and was informed there was a meeting last week discussing the ankle monitoring program for unvaccinated teens. The program was allegedly designed for contact tracing in the event of a positive COVID test of a student.

The TraceTag device used by the school was made by a company called Triax. According to their website, the device was created for the purposse of “maintaining social distancing guidelines” and to provide “real-time insight into whether these guidelines are being observed” for construction and other manufacturing businesses, but makes no mention of school use on the website.

The devices provide “…a visual and audible alarm, so individuals know when to adjust their current distance to a proper social distance.”

Additionally, the monitors provide “Passive collection of worker interactions for contact tracing should an individual test positive.”

According to Triax, the device “…is affixed to any hardhat or worn on the body for proximity detection and contact tracing.”

The mother identified the coach as Gavin Kralik, who told her that the device would inform the players when they were too close together and was only used for indoor sports. She was also informed that the device would be used for contract tracing so that in the event of a positive test, non-vaccinated students would have to quarantine for up to 14 days. Vaccinated students would not have to quarantine.

The devices were not mentioned in the district’s back-to-school policies for fall 2021. MORE.

The Fentanyl Flood Into The US: Why Can’t We Make It Stop?

Via Zero Hedge

About 11 times every hour, about 250 times a day, an American citizen dies of a drug overdose. The most frequent culprit is fentanyl. The most popular mode of delivery is fentanyl-laced heroin, fentanyl mixed with cocaine, or illegally produced OxyContin pain pills containing fentanyl. And it’s not just hardcore addicts who are dying.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports overdose deaths skyrocketed to a mind-boggling 93,000 last year, a 29 percent increase over the previous year. The death rate is now so frightening a bipartisan group, called Families Against Fentanyl, asked the president to declare the synthetic opioid an official weapon of mass destruction.

Think about this. Ninety-three thousand Americans dead in one year. That’s more than we lost during the entire Vietnam War. That’s more than the population of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Palo Alto, California; or St. Joseph, Missouri.

So, where is all this fentanyl coming from, why does it keep pouring into this country year after year and why has the U.S. government been unable to stop it?

The short answer to the first question is China, the same country that unleashed the COVID-19 virus upon the world.

But China is only a cog, albeit the largest one, in a far-flung supply network that seems impossible to disrupt. Laboratories in China produce fentanyl and ship the man-made poison to the United States via international mail. Our postal system tries to control the flow, but it’s an impossible task. Also, Chinese drug lords send large amounts of fentanyl to associates in Mexico and, to a lesser degree, Canada. Operatives then move the deadly product across the U.S.-Mexico border and, less frequently, across our northern border.  MORE.

Sri Lanka Bans Drunk Driving While Riding On Elephants

Via AFP News

Sri Lanka will issue captive elephants with their own biometric identity cards and ban their riders from drinking on the job under a wide-ranging new animal protection law.

Many rich Sri Lankans — including Buddhist monks — keep elephants as pets to show off their wealth, but complaints of ill treatment and cruelty are widespread.

The new measures are aimed at protecting the animals’ welfare and include strict regulations around working elephants, as well as mandating a daily two-and-a-half-hour bath for each creature.

Official records show there are about 200 domesticated elephants in the South Asian nation, with the population in the wild estimated at about 7,500.

The new law will require all owners to ensure that animals under their care have new photo identity cards with a DNA stamp.

It also brings in multiple regulations for working elephants.

Baby elephants can no longer be used for work — even cultural pageants — and cannot be separated from their mother

Logging elephants cannot be worked for more than four hours a day and night work is prohibited.

There are new restrictions on the tourism industry too — from now on, no more than four people can ride an elephant at once, and they must sit on a well-padded saddle.

Their use in films is banned, except for government productions under strict veterinary supervision, as is allowing their riders to drink while working.

“The person who owns or has the custody of such elephants shall ensure that the mahout (rider) is not consuming any liquor or any harmful drug while employed,” Wildlife Protection minister Wimalaweera Dissanayaka said in a gazette notification dated Thursday. MORE.

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