Attacks On Israel Raise Concerns Weapons Sent To Ukraine, Afghanistan, Fell Ino Terrorists Hands

Those of us who have observed the progress of conflict in Ukraine with the benefit of good peripheral vision which enables us to see the big picture and work out how that local war was playing into other geopolitical 'situations'. We reported this in the hope of promting sensible discussions about how the world was polarising and we were in danger of drifting into a wider, more general and infinitely more deadly conflict because of the intransigence of certain parties not directly involved in the war.

Once issue we Boggart Bloggers and many other alt_news commentators tried to highlight was the folly of the west;s supplying high tech weapons to the crooks and thugs who run that corrupt nation, (its had to single out one nation for the title of Most Corrupt Shithole In The World but Ukraine, both pre and post 2014 is certainly a contender so it was inevitable some if not most of those weapons supllied to Kiev would end up in the hands of whoever could afford the asking price. Our fears were not really prescient, it is exactly what happened when the USA's Biden administration prsided over the panicked and shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan as the resurgent Taliban advanced on Kabul.

Our warnings were not heeded of course and now our predictions are being proved true (no wonder they call us 'conspiracy theorists', from the Kennedy assassination to the COVID hoax all our conspiracy theories have in the end plated out more or less as predicted.

And now, following the terror attacks on Israel by Hamas, a high-ranking Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commander has told Newsweek that Israel believes the Hamas terrorists were emboldened by the availability of weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to Ukraine ending up in the hands of Israel’s foes in the Middle East, including Iran.

With other military experts echoing these worries, and adding that some of the $7billion worth of military hardware abandoned to the Taliban as the US military shat themselves made an orderly withdrawal from Kabul have found their way into the hands of Hamas and other terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, ISIS and Al Qaeda the situation could become the lastest chapter in a long legacy of U.S. arms shipments being mislaid and empowering adversaries of both Israel and the U.S.A. in one of the many conflict zones that have resulted from U.S. / NATO meddling in local politics. While the focus of Western governments has been dominated by the volatile conflict playing out in Eastern Europe, some highly dangerous situations have been brewing in other unstable regions.

The Israeli commander mentioned above said the diversion of weapons, such as the Javelin shoulder-fired anti-tank missile system, was being monitored from paramilitary forces operating on both sides of the Russia-Ukrainewarand that pro-Russian formations were motivated to transfer captured U.S.-supplied weapons due to the close defense relationship between Moscow and Tehran, while pro-Ukrainian criminal elements were largely motivated by money to smuggle arms to anyone who can pay. The commander said the primary route was via the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and argued that the situation was “very dangerous”

Military equipment the US transferred to the Afghan government over the course of 16 years, left behind in Afghanistan after the US completed it’s withdrawal from the country and the Afghan national army disintegrated and ran for the hills, according to a congressionally mandated report from the US Department of Defense included: 

A total of 9,524 air-to-ground munitions, valued at $6.54 million….

Over 40,000 of the total 96,000 military vehicles the US gave to Afghan forces including 12,000 military Humvees…

More than 300,000 of the total 427,300 weapons the US gave to Afghan forces….

Less than 1,537,000 of the “specialty munitions” and “common small arms ammunition,” valued at a total of $48 million….

“Nearly all” of the communications equipment that the US gave to Afghan forces, including base-station, mobile, man-portable and hand-held commercial and military radio systems, and associated transmitters and encryption devices also remained..
“Nearly all” night vision, surveillance, “biometric and positioning equipment” totalling nearly 42,000 pieces of equipment…..

And “nearly all,” of the explosive ordinance disposal and de-mining equipment, including 17,500 “pieces of explosive detection, electronic countermeasure, disposal and personal protective equipment” also remained in Afghanistan, according to the report.

And now the terrorists are giving it back.

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Former Good Morning Britain Host Piers Morgan Predicts End Of Biden Presidency

 from WND, 7 September 2021

Former Good Morning Britain host and all - round rent-a-gob Piers Morgan has predicted that President Joe Biden's inept handling of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal could end of his presidency.

"This debacle is most definitely President Biden's fault, and he is now suffering the immediate consequences which could be politically catastrophic," Morgan wrote in a Monday piece for the U.K. Daily Mail.

"Twenty years on from 9/11, Biden has made the US look weak, spineless, cowardly, and disloyal."

With the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaching this Saturday, the Taliban now occupies pretty much the whole of Afghanistan, including the American embassy in Kabul.

"It's hard to imagine a worse, more humiliating way to commemorate a day that is so painfully etched in every American's heart. Or a more shameful one," Morgan wrote.

"It could, and should, cost [Biden] his job."

Morgan noted that former President Jimmy Carter "never recovered his presidency from the Iranian hostage debacle in 1979, and that wasn't even his fault."

In 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in a landslide, partly based on the Democrat's poor leadership during the hostage crisis.

The Iranians took 52 Americans captive and held them for 444 days.

Though it's hard to get a solid number of U.S. citizens left in Afghanistan, last week Biden put the figure at between 100 and 200.

Of course, there are many more who are not Americans but who still need to get out of the country because of their ties to the U.S. war effort.

Morgan pointed to a New York Times story that reported, "Around 1,000 people, including dozens of American citizens and Afghans holding visas to the United States or other countries, remained stuck in Afghanistan for the fifth day on Sunday as they awaited clearance for the departure from the Taliban."

“If and when the Taliban agrees to take off, we are tracking that the landing sites will be prepared to accept the expected flights,” the State Department said in an email to congressional officials that was then described to The Times.

GOP Rep. Darrell Issa’s office have had with their contacts in Afghanistan, “officials and families estimate that more than 1,000 U.S. students and children of Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders are still stuck in the country.” “There are easily a thousand more students — American born or children of SIVs — still trapped in Afghanistan,” Cajon Valley Union School District spokesperson Howard Shen said at a Thursday news conference with Issa.

 Morgan highlighted that Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal decision-making was really par for the course. The former breakfast TV host alluded to an observation famously made by former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said that Biden "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” 

In a 2014 NPR interview, Gates listed as examples Biden’s vote against an aid package for South Vietnam, his belief that Iranians’ human rights would improve following the deposing of the Shah in the '70s, as well as his opposition to Reagan’s defense buildup in the '80s, the first Gulf War in the '90s and the surge of U.S. troops into Afghanistan in 2009. 

“So on a number of these major issues, I just frankly, over a long period of time, felt that he had been wrong.” Morgan listed some of the same items Gates did but added Biden's opposition to the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden. What is different now is that Biden is no longer just a senator or vice president; he's the commander in chief.

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https://www.newsweek.com/biden-just-handed-afghanistans-mineral-wealth-china-opinion-1620722

Along with the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban is the lingering question of what will happen to Afghanistan's massive rare earths industry that remains largely untapped. Photo: AFP / -

 

From watching TV News and reading online newspapers it certainly seems Our New Unhappy Lords have decided the developed world is going battery powered,  - readers might have expected the phrase  'going green,' though there is ample evidence that the technologies being pushed by the dark forces of globalism are anything but green, in fact they are even more environmentally damaging that the technologies they aim to replace. Apart from the myth of 'clean' technologies,  it appears the cost to the consumer is not a consideration either. The world leaders attending the G7 meeting in Cornwall this June agreed to redouble their commitments to reducing CO2 emissions as rapidly as possible but did not give any thought to the far more damaging toxic shite the manufacturing processes, including mineral extraction and refining, involved in the 'clean', sustainable technologies will dump into the environment. Neither did they consider the problems of sourcing those rare, essential items without which gadgets ranging from smartphones to electronic vehicles cannot function. 

For example, the United Kingdom promised there will be no more sales of new cars that use petrol or diesel after 2030. Renewable energy and electric cars are the future, and that future is almost upon us Boris Johnson told the other reality challenged illusion dwellers. And yet Boris and his government have recently been involved in actions that will put control of the supply chain in the hands of the west's rivals for economic dominance. Let me explain:

In times past, when men were men and women were double breasted, commodities such as coal and iron were essential for an economy to function. These continue to be important of course, but as the 20th century progressed oil became the economically dominant material, not just for fossil fuels to drive the engines on industry, we use it in making plasdtics, fabrics, soap and cosmetics, a whole range of commodities if fact that Greta Thunberg and  the Exstinktion Rebellion crusties take for granted (OK, scrub the soap for the unwasshed supporters of Exstinktion Rebellion, but you get the idea,) Life would be more difficult and certainly less fragrant without oil. 

In the 21st century, however,  the green future that is being mapped out for the West will not be able to function without several other precious substances: lithium, cobalt, neodymium  are just three. Lithium is important because for a metal it is light, an excellent conductor and it is essential for building not just electric car batteries but the batteries that power a host of gadgets including the.  laptop I am typing this on and the cordless vacuum cleaner I will use later to clean up the peanuts I dropped on the floor a few minutes ago. At present there is no alternative for it and the promised new battery technologies that we are told are imminent are as much scientists pipe dreams as the inter - galactic spaceships in which Elon Musk will take them exploring distant solar systems.

But there are clouds on the horizon and the biggest of them is the political thunderhead that just formed over Afghanistan, where the abject  failure of the American government to read the situation there and the monumental ineptitude of America's demented president and his 'woke' administration has handed the government of Afhhanistan back to the brutal religious fundamentalist rebels, The Taliban, ans with it control of the future to China.

It was widely reported before the western evacuation from Kabul that China was making agreements with The Taliban that would give the chinese government exclusive access to Afghanistan's mineral wealth which is not confined to lithium, there are large deposits of several of the so called rare earth mentals and all are vital to the new technologies that according to the financial and academic establishments will drive the economies of the future. Thanks to the greed of global corporations and the incompetence of western politicians control of most of these vital resources in Asia, Africa and South America has fallen into the hands of China and other nations that are not alliers of the west.

Afghanistan has the world's largest known deposits of lithium though quantities are difficult to estimate, and rare earth metals estimated to be worth between $1 trillion and $3 trillion at current prices and the cost to western users is rising rapidly. The bad news is that Joe Biden's decision to pull American troops out of that country has unilaterally and with no handover of power to a stable authority—and as well as handing billions of $worth of military equipent to a hostile organisation  he has literally handed all of the potential bound up in those mineral deposits to Chinese communists.

Biden's botched exit from Afghanistan may be the final nail in his political coffin but its economic impact will send shockwaves through the industrial and commercial activity of advanced nations for decadess. The USA may have just gifted China an opportunity to grab  control of these valuable reserves reserves and consolidate its domination of the market in these crucial minerals.

Director of emerging markets at asset management firm AllianceBernstein Shamaila Khan told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” that minerals in Afghanistan “can now be exploited,” and with the Taliban now in control of those valuable resources and openly willing to deal with China, it is a “very dangerous proposition for the world.”

As well as litium Afghanistan has large reserves of neodymium (vital in the manufacture of electric motors for EVs and generators for wind turbines, silver, gold, mercury, and other valuable elements used in superconductors, lasers and optic instruments, batteries,  medical equipment and nuclear applications. Ahmad Shah Katawazai, a former diplomat at the Afghan Embassy in Washington D.C. said rare earths in the country were estimated to be valued between $1 trillion and $3 trillion last year. An internal Department of Defense memo in 2010 called Afghanistan “the Saudi Arabia of lithium.” (See thoughtco.com for detailed info on rare earths and their uses )

 

Mining lithium in Afghanistan for an environmentally friendlt future (Picture: Jie Zhao/Contributor/Getty Images )

 

China has become the dominant player in the global rare earths market due to the people who should ave been steering western economies sleeping at the wheel while eleted leaders were busy virtue signalling and pampering minorities. The Chinese Communist Party has used shadow curbs on their exports of lithium and rare earths as leverage during trade disputes with other countries particularly the USA, Japan and EU member states.. Figures from the U.S. Geological Survey show that priot to the dissolution of western influence in Afghanistan the world’s second-largest economy held about 35% of global rare earth reserves. China's alliance with the new theocratic government of Afghanistan and the influence this will give them over Afghanistan's reserves will further add to its ability to target hi - tech industries in other countries during economic skirmishes such as the bid to replace the US dollar with as the global reserve currency. Additionally, it would open up a steady revenue opportunity for the Islamist terror group. The Taliban has already called China a "welcome friend" in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's vast lithium reserves were identified by geological studies carried out in the 1980s under the Soviet occupation. At that time the discovery had little economic significance as laptop computers, mobile phones and digital cameras had not arrived on the scene, electric vehicles were mostly golf trolleys or short range delivery vehicles and demand for lithium had not taken off . After the Americans arrived in Afghanistan in 2001 attempts were made to set up infrastructure for exploiting Afghan mineral wealth as demand was growing rapidly. In 2007, the United States Geological Survey discovered vast deposits of iron, gold, copper, cobalt and more lithium. This discovery remained largely unknown until 2010. Yet media reports from that year confirmed its significance to modern industry, saying that Afghanistan was on course to be one of the most important mining centers in the world. An internal Pentagon memo that was unearthed at the time even stated that the country could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium." It should be noted that Joe Biden was vice president when that memo became widely known but he is not being referred to as Dementia Joe for nothing..

In 2021 little progress has been made on creating an infrastructure for mineral extraction industries mainly due to the nation's political instability and the tribalistic nature of Afghan society in rural areas. Most of the mineral wealth remains unexploited as a result of the various problems which have overshadowed Afghanistan while the nation stagnates again into almost medieval social conditions. Meanwhile rapidly rising prices for lithium, cobalt and rare earths have proved just how vital Afghanistan's mineral reserves have become. This development makes Biden's irresponsible withdrawal from Afghanistan even more difficult to recognise as anything but insanity.

Despite size, ranking 4th among the world's nations by area, China is surprisingly short on many of the vital minerals it needs to support its rapidly expanding industrial base. In recent years the Chinese government has concluded trade and aid deals with many resource rich African nations to ensure supplies of essential materials for continued growth. In return, African administrations receive revenue for opening up their countries to the Chinese. The fact that some individual African politicians seem to have become extremely wealthy very quickly in recent years is not a coincidence.

It is highly probable the same thing will happen in Afghanistan. True, there will almost certainly have to be a compromise over the appalling treatment of the 12 million-strong Muslim Uighur minority living in Xinjiang, but a similar process to the African policy by which certain Taliban and Muslim leaders become obscenely wealthy obscenely quickly will enable China and Afghanistan to reach a compromise both sidfes are happy with. News organisations in India, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, Iran and Thailand report that China is eager to forge links with the Taliban in order to gain exclusive access to Afghanistan's mineral assets as quickly as possible.

 This process is already under way, a Chinese consortium announced this week it intends to reopen the Mes Aynak copper mine near Kabul, which is believed to contain some of the largest copper deposits in the world. The consortium, consisting of the state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC Group) and another Chinese company, Jiangxi Copper, was awarded a 30-year, $2.9 billion contract in 2008 but halted work because of the pandemic. According to an unnamed source at the state-owned Global Times "We would consider reopening [Mes Aynak] after the situation is stabilised and international recognition, including the Chinese government's recognition of the Taliban regime, take place."

Most rare earth elements are atomically similar to copper, (not easy to explain in a non - technical way) and are in copper deposits. The term "rare earth" does not mean they are scarce, some a quite common, but that they are thinly distributed, meaning you have to mine a hell of a lot of bedrock and then put it through a lot of expensive and messy refining processes to obtain a small quantity of the metal.

Although guaranteeing the future availability and price of any important commodity, in this particular situation one thing seems certain: the green future promised by most of the developed world's leaders has been dealt a major blow. In both commercial and strategic terms the madness of Biden's withdrawal and surrender to extremism has been exposed as the action of a weak leader surrounded by incompetent idealogues. Was the president poorly advised by people apparently more concerned with promoting transgenderism than protecting American interests in an increasingly chaotic world? The Afghan debacle has given credibility to political commentators who claim Joe Biden is simply not up to the job? Whatever the answer, the green revolution that has been promised by every G7 nation  and The United Nations now depends on China's goodwill and how much more of the west's industrial base our leaders are prepared to surrender to the Chinese communist Party in order to secure co-operation. The blame for this economic disaster as well as the humanitarian crisis now unfolding in Afghanistan and the resurgence of Islamic State terrorism can be laid squarely at the feet of blundering Joe Biden.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Peoples Republic Of China

30 July 2021

Source page: (Chinese text) translated with Deepl.com free translator

Wang Yi Meets with Baladar, Head of Afghan Taliban Political Council

On July 28, 2021, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Head of the Afghan Taliban Political Council Baradar and his delegation in Tianjin. He was accompanied by the heads of the Taliban Religious Council and Propaganda Committee.

　　Wang Yi said that China is Afghanistan's largest neighbor, always respects Afghanistan's sovereign independence and territorial integrity, always insists on non-interference in Afghanistan's internal affairs, and always pursues a friendly policy for all Afghan people. Afghanistan belongs to the Afghan people, and the future destiny of Afghanistan should be in the hands of the Afghan people. The hasty withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan actually marks the failure of the U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, and the Afghan people have an important opportunity to stabilize and develop their own country.

Wang Yi pointed out that TTP is a pivotal military and political force in Afghanistan and is expected to play an important role in the process of peace, reconciliation and reconstruction in Afghanistan. I hope that TTP will put national and ethnic interests first, hold high the banner of peace talks, establish the goal of peace, build a positive image and pursue an inclusive policy. The various factions and nationalities in Afghanistan should be united to truly put the principle of "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned" into practice, promote the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan to achieve substantive results as soon as possible, and independently establish a broad and inclusive political structure in line with Afghanistan's own conditions.

　　Wang Yi stressed that the East-Iraq Movement is an international terrorist organization listed by the UN Security Council and poses a direct threat to China's national security and territorial integrity. It is the common responsibility of the international community to fight against the EIM. I hope that Attah will thoroughly delineate the boundaries with all terrorist organizations such as the "East-Iraq Movement", resolutely and effectively combat them, remove obstacles to regional security and stability and development cooperation, play a positive role and create favorable conditions.

　Baradar expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to visit China. He said China has always been a good and trustworthy friend of the Afghan people and appreciated the just and positive role played by China in the peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban is fully sincere in striving for and achieving peace, and is willing to work with all parties to establish a political structure in Afghanistan that is broadly inclusive and accepted by all the Afghan people, and to safeguard human rights and the rights and interests of women and children. The Taliban will not allow any force to use Afghan territory to do anything harmful to China. Atta believes that Afghanistan should develop friendly relations with its neighbors and the international community. Atta hopes that China will participate more in the peace and reconstruction process and play a greater role in the future reconstruction and economic development of Afghanistan. Atta will also make its own efforts to create a suitable investment environment.

　　On the same day, Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Jianghao held talks with Baradar and his delegation, exchanging views in depth on issues of common concern, enhancing understanding and expanding consensus.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Taliban Secures World's Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

from Zero Hedge, 26 August 2021

It's been more than a decade since we penned "The US "Discovers" Nearly $1 Trillion In Mineral Deposits In Afghanistan" in which we highlighted the colossal untapped mineral deposits that reside in Afghanistan. 

President Joe Biden's decision to rapidly and completely withdraw from Afghanistan makes even less strategic sense if readers go back to our 2010 post where we quoted "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Part 2, the 21st Century paradigm"? Which said, 

"Yet the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact. Instead of bringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country."

We continued: 

"Which is why it will be best to have the US military not only stay in Afghanistan indefinitely but to get a million man reinforcement surge."

Readers have known for a while Afghanistan was never about the opium trade or the war on terror but rather the massive deposit of minerals essential for renewable energies. 

So in the Economic Hit Man context, why would the Biden administration suddenly pull out of Afghanistan after 20 years if the play all along was about securing rare earth metals? 

We don't want to speculate the Biden administration's intentions, nor do we have any idea. Still, one thing is sure is that the Taliban now control the world's largest lithium deposits is becoming friendly with China. 

Conservative media outlet Free West Media says new relations between the Taliban and China could increase its global dominance in green energies, such as the lithium-ion battery supply chain market. 

Unbeknownst to many, the blog points China and Afghanistan share a 130-mile stretch border. For more on this, here's Free West Media's latest piece titled "Taliban now control one of the world's largest lithium deposits." 

A Bloomberg New Energy Finance Limited report in 2020 highlighted China's global dominance in the lithium-ion battery supply chain market, due to its grip on raw material mining and refining. In 2019, the US imported 80 percent of its rare earth minerals from China, while the EU states imported 98 percent of these materials from China.

China incidentally also shares a small border with Afghanistan called the Wakhan Corridor – 210km long. While the length of the border may appear insignificant, its location is crucial. Afghanistan is believed to have large deposits of gold, iron, copper, zinc, lithium and other rare-earth metals, valued at over $1 trillion. "Afghanistan may hold 60 million metric tons of copper, 2,2 billion tons of iron ore, 1,4 million tons of rare earth elements (REEs) such as lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, and veins of aluminium, gold, silver, zinc, mercury…" according to a 2020 report in The Diplomat.

But the Wakhan Corridor has been used by Islamic Uighur militants opposed to Chinese rule in Xinjiang. Chinese officials meeting with the newly installed Taliban are certainly aware of the risk that radical Islamists pose: "We hope the Afghan Taliban will make a clean break with all terrorist organisations including ETIM (East Turkestan Islamic Movement) and resolutely and effectively combat them to remove obstacles, play a positive role and create enabling conditions for security, stability, development and cooperation in the region," said a high-ranking Chinese official.

Why is this important?

Global demand for lithium is projected to increase 40-fold by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency, along with rare earth elements, copper, cobalt, and other minerals also abundant in Afghanistan. And these minerals happen to be concentrated in only a small number of pockets around the world.

The Bolivian Andes may contain 70 percent of the planet's lithium, and many analysts argue that extracting lithium from brine as in Bolivia is more environmentally friendly than extracting it from rock.

Interestingly, metallic lithium and its complex hydrides are used as high-energy additives to rocket propellants, thermonuclear weapons, or even as a solid fuel.

In 2010, the US Department of Defense called Afghanistan "Saudi Arabia of lithium" after American geologists then discovered that the country's deposits amounted to at least a trillion dollars. Lithium is an essential ingredient to produce long-lasting batteries used in electric cars in particular. The battery of a Tesla Model S, for example, has about 12 kilograms of lithium in it.

Ten years later, these metals have not yet been extracted. The Taliban is unlikely to sell the metal to Americans, and the United States views China, the world's largest lithium producer, as its main rival. And the US wants at least 40 percent of its cars to be electric by 2030. Thus the previous US-led government in Kabul had hoped that the promise of mineral wealth would entice President Trump into making a commitment to stay in the country.

"Afghanistan can be an appropriate place for US industry, and specifically the mining sector, to look at opportunities for investment," Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, the former chief adviser to Afghan President on infrastructure, human capital, and technology, once opined.

But Tom Benson, a PhD in the Department of Geological Sciences at Stanford University, has focused his research on a 16,3 million-year-old supervolcano on the Oregon-Nevada border which contains the largest lithium deposit in the United States. A number of other active volcanoes may hold the same deposits, and there is a particularly "exciting" one, called Bogoslof, in Alaska. That may be why the US has lost interest in Afghanistan.

"The Taliban are now sitting on a stockpile of one of the most strategic minerals in the world," said Rob Schoonover, an ecology expert at the US think tank Center for Strategic Risks, in an interview with Quartz. "The question of whether they will be able to play this role will be important in the future."

Could the Taliban benefit from this resource?

The exploitation of these rare earth metals could undoubtedly give the Taliban an economic advantage. Before the US retreat, the Afghan government had considered selling lucrative mining contracts to American companies. But such agreements were always discussed with the view of keeping the US military in the country and sharing the spoils. With the Taliban now leading the government, the option of involving American mining concerns is of course out of the question.

"As long as there are safer and more reliable sources (of metals, note) elsewhere, the use of Afghan minerals will remain low," said Schoonover. However, the Taliban already have experience in extracting rare stones. By mining lapis lazuli, the Taliban earns at least $300 million per year.

Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president now in exile, thought that the abundance of mineral deposits were a curse for his country. Indeed, many economists are aware of the fact that such rich deposits in developing countries generally become a source of corruption and violence, to the detriment of the locals.

The Taliban will have to find a way to participate in the global lithium trade, much larger than their lapis lazuli trade. Access to Afghan central bank reserves has been denied to the Taliban by the US. The new Afghan leadership could also have trouble in convincing Chinese investors who once lost $3 billion in 2007 in a Taliban copper mine that could not be exploited due to persistent administration blunders.

However, good reason for China to become involved in the extraction of lithium in Afghanistan may not only be the wealth it could generate, but also to avoid more ecological damage caused by lithium mining on its own soil and to limit the scope of Islamic infiltration. The extraction of this metal leads to water shortages and air pollution, but the rewards could coax Taliban leaders into addressing the Uighur headache.

So the question we ask readers: Did the Biden administration just give away Afghanistan's rare earth minerals to China? There's no way in hell that the Taliban will let Western countries mine the land. This would suggest China could soon secure mining deals and start extracting lithium, putting the country ahead of the US in the green energy space. 

 

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It is comforting to know that for one our elected representatives in the UK Parliament, or a significant number of them at least, are in tune with public opinion. These people who have shown they have enough tesicular fortitude to go off-message, are not happy about the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as a result of President 'Dementia Joe' Biden’s hasty and ill - considered Afghanistan surrender — and happily instead of mumbling mealy mouthed and mild criticisms in the corridors of power they’re determined to let the world know all about it.

Under an August 18 headline that read: Parliament to hold Biden in contempt for obstructing their processes amid the chaos Tory (Conservative Party) members of Parliament blasted the Biden a for a gobsmacking level of  incompetence that has endangered not only Afghans and Americans stranded behind enemy lines but also some of our own people.

“The UK government is now in a race against time to airlift nearly 2,000 Afghan interpreters and other staff who worked for Britain out of Kabul amid a growing backlash at Joe Biden over his decision to stick to his August 31 withdrawal deadline,” the U.K. Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.

The major UK newspaper said these interpreters have already cleared the Taliban’s security checks and are eligible to go home but now sit waiting at the Kabul airport.

They are among the 10,000 people reliable sources say are waiting for a flight out of the Afghan capita as turmoil threatens to destabilise that nation for the foreseeable future. The likely outcome of Dementia Joe's surrender to Islamic fundamentalists is a return to the war on terror as Muslim fanatics carry our terrorist attacks throughout the developed world, is not one any of us wants to see after a 20 year engagement in Afghanistan in an effort  to help the nation progress from medievalism.

But Biden’s growing list of horrifying foul ups is encouraging extremists not just in Afghanistan but around the world, and for good reason.

Some MPs joined in the chorus of relentless criticism coming from politicians and media commentators in the U.S., condemning the president’s refusal to extend the exit date for U.S. forces because Washington maintains that “an extension would leave troops at too great a risk of attack from the Taliban or Isis,” in the words of the Daily Mail.

In response to this refusal, some Conservative MPs have openly questioned Biden’s “intellectual fitness.” This is understandable as there was ample evidence that Joe Biden was in the middle stagest of senile dementia even before he was nominasted as the Dempocratic Party candidate in the 2020 US Presidential election.

Domestically, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has proven to be one of Biden's most vocal critics.

“He turned his back and walked away — an image that has come to define him and his presidency,” McCarthy said during a Wednesday media briefing, according to the New York Post.

“He turned his back on our own citizens stranded in Afghanistan, he’s turned our back on our allies and partners, he’s turned his back on his duties as commander in chief.”

To make matters worse for the failing administration in Washington, the Daily Mail pointed out the fact that Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken seemingly blamed Americans for not leaving Afghanistan “fast enough” after being told to evacuate previously.

“For many years we have urged Americans not to travel there. We’ve repeatedly asked Americans who are in Afghanistan to enroll [at the Kabul Embassy],” he said.

“And since March of this year, we’ve sent 19 separate messages to Americans enrolled in the embassy, encouraging them and then urging them to leave the country. We’ve even made clear we would pay for their repatriation.”

But, as we’ve heard from Biden himself (or mole likely the people who write the comments he reads, badly, from his ever present autocue, he maintains that the poorly executed withdrawal was still a good idea, even going so far as saying he believes history will show in his favor.

It’s everyone’s fault but his, right? As well as being senile the man is clearly delusional, but then he was always an idiot even when in his prime. Who can forget the episode 33 years ago when he delivered almost word for word, a speech originally given by the then leader of the UK Labour Party Neil Kinnock

Now near the end of our evacuation missions, the U.K.’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab asserts the country’s officials are working “as fast as [they] can” to ensure they can evacuate as many Britons and people who worked for the UK military presence as possible.

Meanwhile, criticism from MPs still rages.

“If this does destroy Biden’s presidency, you have to question his fitness for the role,” MP Bob Seely told the Daily Mail.

“You have got to question Trump’s moral fitness for the role, but you have got to address Biden’s intellectual fitness and health fitness for the role.

“I’m sorry, he is just gaga … he doesn’t have a grip. How many slip-ups before people think, yep, he can’t do the job.”

Another broadside came from MP Tom Tugendhat, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

"“To see their commander in chief call into question the courage of men I fought with, is shameful.”

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by Cockburn, Spectaor World, 19 August 2021

 

Twenty years of war in Afghanistan are over. What comes next is twenty years, or even more, of recriminations and blame for why the war ended as it did. Scholars and partisans still argue over the reasons America lost in Vietnam, so why should Afghanistan be any different?

On the plus side, the debate promises to be far more interesting. When it comes to Vietnam, partisans debate rules of engagement, bombing strategies, funding levels, and the Tet Offensive. With Afghanistan, the question could be: did gender studies cause America to suffer its most humiliating defeat ever? Cockburn wishes he was joking.

Traditionally, nations have waged war by mustering armies, defeating their enemies in battle, and despoiling their lands and cities. Only after total victory is the process of remaking a society feasible.

But America in Afghanistan sought a shortcut, and by “shortcut” Cockburn means “something that takes ten times as long but doesn’t look as nasty for TV cameras.” America hoped that with enough half-baked social engineering in the half of Afghanistan it controlled, it would eventually be rewarded with victory, and Afghanistan would become the Holland of the Hindu Kush. On Ivy League campuses, students are taught to decry “colonialism,” but the Ivy League diplomats who sought to remake Afghanistan in Harvard’s image were among the most ambitious practitioners of it in world history.

So, alongside the billions for bombs went hundreds of millions for gender studies in Afghanistan. According to U.S. government reports, $787 million was spent on gender programs in Afghanistan, but that substantially understates the actual total, since gender goals were folded into practically every undertaking America made in the country.

A recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) broke down the difficulties of the project. For starters, in both Dari and Pastho there are no words for “gender.” That makes sense, since the distinction between “sex” and “gender” was only invented by a sexually-abusive child psychiatrist in the 1960s, but evidently Americans were caught off-guard. Things didn’t improve from there. ... Continue reading >>>

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... The official narrative was designed to justify military intervention by US and NATO in Syria’s civil war, but western leaders were dissuaded fro, this course of action by Russia’s Putin and China’s President Xi. Later it was revealed that a minority report actually considered the facts, which pointed to the gas attack on Douma being a false flag attack carried out by forces attached to terrorist group Al Nusra.

US Aiding Massive Genocide in Yemen at Behest of Saudi Arabia
Civilians in Yemen are still in the grip of a major humanitarian crisis as Saudi Arabia's war on the impoverished republic continues unabated. Shocking numbers are affected including 7 million civilians facing severe malnutrition, and 19 million out of the country’s 27 million population "in need of some form of aid.

In Escalating War Of Words, Saudi Crown Prince Calls Iran’s Ayatollah “New Hitler Of The Middle East”
Saudi Arabia’s powerful, and controversial, 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as we warned earlier in the year when he was elevated to his currrent status, has in a few months has made more local (and foreign) enemies than most of his predecessors accumulated over a lifetime, appears to have decided he does not need to wait any longer for the final war that will cement the global supremacy of his particularly unpleasant brand of Islamic extremism.

UK Government Accused Of Covering Up Saudi Arabia Funding Of TerrorismA new report commissioned by David Cameron before he resigned as Prime minister has highlighted links between recent terror attacks in the UK and the funding of UK mosques by the extremist Wahhabi regime in Saudi Arabia, which "is heavily involved in exporting an illiberal, bigoted fundamentalist ideology." The report criticises Cameron's successor for "kowtowing" to Saudi Arabia's king by suppressing another government report into the funding of extremism in the UK.

White House Says It Will Fake "Chemical Weapon Attack" In Syria
The White House claims that the Syrian government is preparing "chemical weapon attacks". This is clearly not the case. Syria is winning the war against the country. Any such attack would clearly be to its disadvantage. The White House announcement must thereby be understood as preparation for another U.S. attack on Syria in "retaliation" for an upcoming staged "chemical weapon attack" ...

US Gov’t Proves Loyalty To ISIS And Saudi Arabia Bill To ‘Stop Arming Terrorists’ Gets Only 13 Supporters
In a rare outbreak of common sense, a bill barring the US Federal Government from giving money and weapons to child murdering terrorists like the head amputators, slave dealers and human organ noshers of ISIS and Al Nusra (Barack Obama's beloved 'moderate rebels',) garnered hardly any support from either the Democratic Perpetual War Party, or the Republican War Is Good Business Party.

Saudi Arabia Bids For Islamic Globalisation
soon after the suicide bomb at The Manchester Arena, I felt obliged to defriend someone on facebook, whom I have known online for around ten years. So what did this sweet lady, who writes books on medieval witchcraft and calls herself a pagan, do to piss me off? She showed herself to be a hypocrite by posting a whinge about people reacting with anger and 'hate' to this latest atrocity; "I'm all about compassion, I will not stand by and see Muslims victimised because of this." Oh yeah? And what about the dead and injured victimised by a muslim extremist?

What’s Really Happening With Saudi Arabia and Qatar Will Not Be Televised
While mainstream media is in a frenzy over what former FBI chief James Comey will say to a Congressional hearing about Donald Trump's alleged links with Russia and attempt to shut down an investigation into those links, the UK election, Islamic extremist terrorism, football's latest multi - million transfer deals, etc., as usual the really big story is hardly being reported. We bring you the story from The Anti Media,

EU Enlargement Commissioner Accuses Russia Of Flooding Europe With Migrants
We have learned that The European Union’s (EU) Enlargement Commissioner has claimed Russia is working to destabilize the continent by flooding it with migrants from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. This sounds like one of brussels' crazy and incompetent attempts to demonize Russia in the hope of eroding EU members opposition to the all out war the USA, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been pushing for ...

ISIS: Know Your Enemy - Who Of Those We Think Are On Our Side Is Helping ISIS
Who is funding ISIS, how has the terror group managed to assemble such a large, well equipped and (apparently) well fed fighting force and been able to wage a two year war against the Assad regime in Syria, the forces of the autonomous Kurds and the army of the Iraqi government, such as it is? Who is facilitating their illegal oil trade that is keeping Islamic State afloat.

Syria's President Assad Makes A Fool Of US Reporter Michael Isikoff In Interview
The ISIS uprising in Syria was one of the spontaneous revolutions kicked off by a speech Barack Obama made in which he pledged America would support extremist groups that tried to effect regime change. Like most of Obama's actions it made promises Obama could not fulfill. With the exception of Tunisia, all the so called Arab Spring revolutions have failed ...

Russia Halts Cooperation With US In Syria, Will “Intercept Any Aircraft” In Russian Areas Of Operation
As we digest the news that King Salaman of Saudi Arabia has replaced his nominated heir, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, with his son, 31 year-old Prince Mohammed bin Salman, prominent in the Wahhabi sect, the most fundamental and implacably anti Christian branch of Islam and a far more radical figure, whose most recent role in the Saudi hierarchy has seen him in charge of managing the brutal war waged by Saudi Arabia on Yemen.

Germany Foreign Minister Warns Qatar Crisis Could Lead To War As Qatar Asks Moscow For Support
German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel is worried that the blockade of air and sea ports in Qatar by Saudi Arabia and its Muslim extremist allies in the middle east could lead to a new regional war in the Gulf region. In an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, he said “There is a danger that this dispute could lead to war”

What’s Really Happening With Saudi Arabia and Qatar Will Not Be Televised While mainstream media is in a frenzy over what former FBI chief James Comey will say to a Congressional hearing about Donald Trump’s alleged links with Russia and attempt to shut down an investigation into those links, the UK election, Islamic extremist terrorism, football’s latest multi – million transfer deals, etc., as usual the really big story is hardly being reported.

Saudi Arabia Launches Chemical Attack on Sana’a, Killing Civilians
Remember when the Assad regime in Syria was accused by Obama and his Sunni extremist friends of having launched a gas attact against “morderate” head amputators and human organ noshers. Remember the screeces of horror and outrage from ‘liberals’ in mainsteam media, the wailing and gnashing of teeth about what an utter monster Assad is? …