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Monday Night Movie Suggestion:
"Lord of War" - 2005 - Directed by Andrew Niccol
Movie type: Crime/Drama
Summary: In the early 1980s, Yuri Orlov, the eldest son of a family of Ukrainian refugees, is visiting a Brighton Beach restaurant, where he witnesses a Russian mobster kill two would-be assassins holding Kalashnikov rifles. The incident inspires him to go into the arms trade; Yuri muses that the constant need for weapons is similar to the human need for food and thus he can make a fortune.
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"Lord of War" - 2005 - Directed by Andrew Niccol
Movie type: Crime/Drama
Summary: In the early 1980s, Yuri Orlov, the eldest son of a family of Ukrainian refugees, is visiting a Brighton Beach restaurant, where he witnesses a Russian mobster kill two would-be assassins holding Kalashnikov rifles. The incident inspires him to go into the arms trade; Yuri muses that the constant need for weapons is similar to the human need for food and thus he can make a fortune.
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The United States: farmers and dealers of Afghanistan's opium.
A few weeks ago, we covered the origins of HSBC (6 posts) during the opium wars with China "thanks" to the British East India Company.
Today, with the United States pulling troops out of Afghanistan, a lot of people are wondering what the last 20 years were all about.
In the above video, we see Abby Martin taking a big poke at the situation in 2013 and anybody that has been following our channel can now clearly see that nothing has changed since the East India Company.
In the 20th century, the U.S. have been given the role of 'property manager' by the previous administrators of the world, the British Empire, which is today called globalism.
Abigail Martin on RT - Aired 14-11-2013
A few weeks ago, we covered the origins of HSBC (6 posts) during the opium wars with China "thanks" to the British East India Company.
Today, with the United States pulling troops out of Afghanistan, a lot of people are wondering what the last 20 years were all about.
In the above video, we see Abby Martin taking a big poke at the situation in 2013 and anybody that has been following our channel can now clearly see that nothing has changed since the East India Company.
In the 20th century, the U.S. have been given the role of 'property manager' by the previous administrators of the world, the British Empire, which is today called globalism.
Abigail Martin on RT - Aired 14-11-2013
U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan - The New York Times - 14-10-2010
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.
The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.
While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war.
“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.”
The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion.
“This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines.
American and Afghan officials agreed to discuss the mineral discoveries at a difficult moment in the war in Afghanistan. The American-led offensive in Marja in southern Afghanistan has achieved only limited gains. Meanwhile, charges of corruption and favoritism continue to plague the Karzai government, and Mr. Karzai seems increasingly embittered toward the White House.
So the Obama administration is hungry for some positive news to come out of Afghanistan. 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.
The corruption that is already rampant in the Karzai government could also be amplified by the new wealth, particularly if a handful of well-connected oligarchs, some with personal ties to the president, gain control of the resources. Just last year, Afghanistan’s minister of mines was accused by American officials of accepting a $30 million bribe to award China the rights to develop its copper mine. The minister has since been replaced.
Endless fights could erupt between the central government in Kabul and provincial and tribal leaders in mineral-rich districts. Afghanistan has a national mining law, written with the help of advisers from the World Bank, but it has never faced a serious challenge.
“No one has tested that law; no one knows how it will stand up in a fight between the central government and the provinces,” observed Paul A. Brinkley, deputy undersecretary of defense for business and leader of the Pentagon team that discovered the deposits.
The New York Times - 14-10-2010
Link with paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.
The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.
While it could take many years to develop a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are profitable, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war.
“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.”
The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion.
“This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines.
American and Afghan officials agreed to discuss the mineral discoveries at a difficult moment in the war in Afghanistan. The American-led offensive in Marja in southern Afghanistan has achieved only limited gains. Meanwhile, charges of corruption and favoritism continue to plague the Karzai government, and Mr. Karzai seems increasingly embittered toward the White House.
So the Obama administration is hungry for some positive news to come out of Afghanistan. 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.
The corruption that is already rampant in the Karzai government could also be amplified by the new wealth, particularly if a handful of well-connected oligarchs, some with personal ties to the president, gain control of the resources. Just last year, Afghanistan’s minister of mines was accused by American officials of accepting a $30 million bribe to award China the rights to develop its copper mine. The minister has since been replaced.
Endless fights could erupt between the central government in Kabul and provincial and tribal leaders in mineral-rich districts. Afghanistan has a national mining law, written with the help of advisers from the World Bank, but it has never faced a serious challenge.
“No one has tested that law; no one knows how it will stand up in a fight between the central government and the provinces,” observed Paul A. Brinkley, deputy undersecretary of defense for business and leader of the Pentagon team that discovered the deposits.
The New York Times - 14-10-2010
Link with paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
NY Times
U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan (Published 2010)
The nearly $1 trillion in untapped deposits are enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, officials said.
Our comments on above article and situation on Afghanistan
The fact that the Taliban was able to walk into Kabul without any opposition, in spite of "America training the Afghan forces for 15 years and George Bush even saying that the Taliban regime was coming to an end as early as 2001", is very odd. There is more to this story.
We would argue that the United States' record of doing business and transferring technology or at least sharing technology (see Wuhan lab funding for 'gain-of-function/bioweapon" research) with China is quite extensive and that there is potentially a deal that was struck at some point over the last couple of years by the "deep state" apparatus with regards to Afghanistan's resources.
A deal for that "green lithium" trillion dollar mining contract struck between the U.S, Afghanistan, the Taliban and China. Either way, the Afghani people were not invited to the table for a discussion.
Is this the "build back better smart city green deal"?
The fact that the Taliban was able to walk into Kabul without any opposition, in spite of "America training the Afghan forces for 15 years and George Bush even saying that the Taliban regime was coming to an end as early as 2001", is very odd. There is more to this story.
We would argue that the United States' record of doing business and transferring technology or at least sharing technology (see Wuhan lab funding for 'gain-of-function/bioweapon" research) with China is quite extensive and that there is potentially a deal that was struck at some point over the last couple of years by the "deep state" apparatus with regards to Afghanistan's resources.
A deal for that "green lithium" trillion dollar mining contract struck between the U.S, Afghanistan, the Taliban and China. Either way, the Afghani people were not invited to the table for a discussion.
Is this the "build back better smart city green deal"?
OpIndia
‘We will not leave until the mission is complete’: Watch what former US Pres George Bush had said after defeating Taliban in 2001
The speech that former US President George Bush delivered after the USA's victory over Taliban in 2001 has gone viral. | OpIndia News
Afghanistan Wanted Chinese Mining Investment. It Got a Chinese Spy Ring Instead - Foreign Policy - 27-01-2021
Part 1 of 3
Desperate to jump-start its economy, Kabul is sick of waiting for Beijing to tap the country’s mineral wealth.
The arrest in Kabul on 10th December 2020 of an alleged Chinese espionage ring has prompted Afghanistan to recalibrate its relationship with China, its resource-hungry giant neighbour to the East. Afghan government officials said that the country has terminated oil and gas contracts with China and is seeking to renegotiate the terms of a massive mining concession that has been nearly dormant since it was inked by China more than a decade ago.
The Afghan officials said they busted an alleged Chinese espionage ring operating in Kabul to hunt down Uighur Muslims with the help of the Haqqani network, a terrorist outfit linked to the Taliban. A senior security official said the ring had been operating for six or seven years. Afghan authorities have cooperated with China in the past on the detention and deportation of Uighurs suspected of terrorist activity, but officials said they were shocked at China’s duplicity.
“Is this the behaviour of a friend?” said one. Another source said the presence of the Chinese cell—widely reported by Indian news outlets, though notably not by Afghan or international media—was revealed to Afghan authorities by Indian intelligence.
The arrest has prompted Kabul, which is seeking to put its economy in order as it faces an uncertain future with the unfolding peace process, to use the incident as “leverage” against Beijing, one official said, especially in terms of renegotiating multimillion-dollar mining concessions.
“We have put them on notice—make progress on the contract or we will reissue the tender. This sector is very important to the Afghan economy and it’s time to get moving,” one of the officials said. “We want to make progress on major national projects. It has been many, many years, we have given (China) security, and we need to see returns and economic benefits.”
No deadline has been set for the renegotiation of the contract, though the official said that China had submitted a “five-page overview of where they’ve made progress.”
Neither China’s foreign ministry nor the embassy in London responded to requests for comment. The mining company, China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC), could not be reached.
The hardball tactics with China are a reflection both of the Afghan government’s frustration with the slow pace of mineral development in the country, and its desperate need for fresh sources of income as the United States, international forces, and many international donors are pulling up stakes. Afghanistan is dependent on international aid for 40 percent of its gross domestic product, the World Bank said in 2018. Aid levels are expected to halve by 2030, making it imperative that the government find alternative sources of funding.
Afghanistan has vast mineral deposits, including coal, copper and iron ore, talc, lithium and uranium, as well as gold, precious stones, oil and gas. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 [OpenMinds: Wonder if they are basing themselves on G. Bush's comment in 2001 or if this has actually been proven? In which case, somebody resurrected the Taliban...], the sector has been seen as the potential backbone of a post-war economy—and still is. But few major miners will risk venturing into the war-ravaged country—and China’s decision to discontinue work at Mes Aynak is indicative of even Beijing’s disinclination to operate in the face of insurgent threats at the site.
The Afghan government had high hopes for the huge copper deposits at Mes Aynak, about 40 km southeast of the capital. China’s state-owned MCC struck a $2.83 billion deal for a 30-year lease on the site in 2007—but has done little to develop it in the meantime. MCC has spent $371 million at the site, according to figures supplied by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.
Part 1 of 3
Desperate to jump-start its economy, Kabul is sick of waiting for Beijing to tap the country’s mineral wealth.
The arrest in Kabul on 10th December 2020 of an alleged Chinese espionage ring has prompted Afghanistan to recalibrate its relationship with China, its resource-hungry giant neighbour to the East. Afghan government officials said that the country has terminated oil and gas contracts with China and is seeking to renegotiate the terms of a massive mining concession that has been nearly dormant since it was inked by China more than a decade ago.
The Afghan officials said they busted an alleged Chinese espionage ring operating in Kabul to hunt down Uighur Muslims with the help of the Haqqani network, a terrorist outfit linked to the Taliban. A senior security official said the ring had been operating for six or seven years. Afghan authorities have cooperated with China in the past on the detention and deportation of Uighurs suspected of terrorist activity, but officials said they were shocked at China’s duplicity.
“Is this the behaviour of a friend?” said one. Another source said the presence of the Chinese cell—widely reported by Indian news outlets, though notably not by Afghan or international media—was revealed to Afghan authorities by Indian intelligence.
The arrest has prompted Kabul, which is seeking to put its economy in order as it faces an uncertain future with the unfolding peace process, to use the incident as “leverage” against Beijing, one official said, especially in terms of renegotiating multimillion-dollar mining concessions.
“We have put them on notice—make progress on the contract or we will reissue the tender. This sector is very important to the Afghan economy and it’s time to get moving,” one of the officials said. “We want to make progress on major national projects. It has been many, many years, we have given (China) security, and we need to see returns and economic benefits.”
No deadline has been set for the renegotiation of the contract, though the official said that China had submitted a “five-page overview of where they’ve made progress.”
Neither China’s foreign ministry nor the embassy in London responded to requests for comment. The mining company, China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC), could not be reached.
The hardball tactics with China are a reflection both of the Afghan government’s frustration with the slow pace of mineral development in the country, and its desperate need for fresh sources of income as the United States, international forces, and many international donors are pulling up stakes. Afghanistan is dependent on international aid for 40 percent of its gross domestic product, the World Bank said in 2018. Aid levels are expected to halve by 2030, making it imperative that the government find alternative sources of funding.
Afghanistan has vast mineral deposits, including coal, copper and iron ore, talc, lithium and uranium, as well as gold, precious stones, oil and gas. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 [OpenMinds: Wonder if they are basing themselves on G. Bush's comment in 2001 or if this has actually been proven? In which case, somebody resurrected the Taliban...], the sector has been seen as the potential backbone of a post-war economy—and still is. But few major miners will risk venturing into the war-ravaged country—and China’s decision to discontinue work at Mes Aynak is indicative of even Beijing’s disinclination to operate in the face of insurgent threats at the site.
The Afghan government had high hopes for the huge copper deposits at Mes Aynak, about 40 km southeast of the capital. China’s state-owned MCC struck a $2.83 billion deal for a 30-year lease on the site in 2007—but has done little to develop it in the meantime. MCC has spent $371 million at the site, according to figures supplied by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.
Part 2 of 3
Afghan media reported last year that the inactivity at the site had cost the government $2 billion in lost revenues. Meanwhile, the Taliban is striking it rich by tapping into Afghanistan’s mineral wealth. The insurgents earn hundreds of millions of dollars annually from mining alone, according to some sources.
[OpenMinds: And there it is. The U.S and Afghanistan only had one buyer for the minerals. China thought they could get a better deal if the Taliban took over (perhaps even funded them to make a comeback) and they called the U.S. and Afghanistan's bluff. There are no mineral buyers in the world except China and the U.S. had no leverage to force business with China that most likely took offense to Afghanistan trying to strong arm them. The U.S. could not have taken the minerals back to the U.S. to manufacture stuff without raising suspicion about the initial reasons of the war in the first place. This is China's way of making the world capitulate and a collectivist society is also the Western's elite favourite way of ruling over a population. After all, in this channel we've documented enough history to show that "capitalists" funded "communism" in order to open up markets and plunder a country's resources]
Haroon Chakhansuri, the minister of mines and petroleum, told Foreign Policy that if the copper project at Mes Aynak was not reframed in “mutually agreed terms” the contract would be retendered. Afghanistan is opening its extractive sector to other countries, he said, citing a memorandum of understanding written on Sept. 10, 2020, with Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries.
But some observers say that targeting China will yield little for Kabul: Its neighbour is just too close and too big. Javed Noorani, an expert on Afghanistan’s extractives sector, said years of disingenuous rhetoric around renegotiations had already cost Afghanistan dearly.
Afghanistan has little choice but to try and open up one of the areas of its economy that has the potential to bring in billions of dollars to cash-strapped federal coffers. Afghanistan’s government, which is heavily dependent on dwindling amounts of foreign aid, is facing the possibility of being forced by the United States and its allies into a power-sharing deal with the Taliban. America has pulled out all but the last 2,500 troops in the country, as part of a peace deal then-President Donald Trump brokered with the terrorist group in 2020, but they must all leave the country by May. That withdrawal has undermined the Kabul government and led to a big spike in Taliban violence.
Mes Aynak, one of the world’s biggest untapped copper sources with an estimated 5.5 million metric tons of high-grade metal, has been plagued by allegations of corruption and collusion between Beijing and the Taliban to secure the site so work could commence.
The former minister of mines, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel, was fired in 2009 following accusations, which he denied, that he had accepted a $30 million bribe from MCC. And the then–general manager of MCC, Shen Heting, was kicked out of the Communist Party—a career-ending blow—for corruption in 2017.
“Both parties to the Aynak copper contract are anything but honest,” Noorani said, adding that some Afghan officials had benefited financially from “not implementing the terms of the MCC contract.”
Early plans for Mes Aynak included a smelter, coal-fired power plant, and rail link. MCC had “completed the exploration of the central deposit and submitted the final draft feasibility study of the mine in 2015,” the minister said—but no progress had been made since. One of the senior officials said the Afghan government has reminded China of that country’s “surprisingly strong back-channel contacts with the Taliban. They could have smoothed the way for the development of the [Mes Aynak] mine, but they’ve chosen not to do that”.
Foreign Policy - 27-01-2021
Afghan media reported last year that the inactivity at the site had cost the government $2 billion in lost revenues. Meanwhile, the Taliban is striking it rich by tapping into Afghanistan’s mineral wealth. The insurgents earn hundreds of millions of dollars annually from mining alone, according to some sources.
[OpenMinds: And there it is. The U.S and Afghanistan only had one buyer for the minerals. China thought they could get a better deal if the Taliban took over (perhaps even funded them to make a comeback) and they called the U.S. and Afghanistan's bluff. There are no mineral buyers in the world except China and the U.S. had no leverage to force business with China that most likely took offense to Afghanistan trying to strong arm them. The U.S. could not have taken the minerals back to the U.S. to manufacture stuff without raising suspicion about the initial reasons of the war in the first place. This is China's way of making the world capitulate and a collectivist society is also the Western's elite favourite way of ruling over a population. After all, in this channel we've documented enough history to show that "capitalists" funded "communism" in order to open up markets and plunder a country's resources]
Haroon Chakhansuri, the minister of mines and petroleum, told Foreign Policy that if the copper project at Mes Aynak was not reframed in “mutually agreed terms” the contract would be retendered. Afghanistan is opening its extractive sector to other countries, he said, citing a memorandum of understanding written on Sept. 10, 2020, with Australia’s Fortescue Future Industries.
But some observers say that targeting China will yield little for Kabul: Its neighbour is just too close and too big. Javed Noorani, an expert on Afghanistan’s extractives sector, said years of disingenuous rhetoric around renegotiations had already cost Afghanistan dearly.
Afghanistan has little choice but to try and open up one of the areas of its economy that has the potential to bring in billions of dollars to cash-strapped federal coffers. Afghanistan’s government, which is heavily dependent on dwindling amounts of foreign aid, is facing the possibility of being forced by the United States and its allies into a power-sharing deal with the Taliban. America has pulled out all but the last 2,500 troops in the country, as part of a peace deal then-President Donald Trump brokered with the terrorist group in 2020, but they must all leave the country by May. That withdrawal has undermined the Kabul government and led to a big spike in Taliban violence.
Mes Aynak, one of the world’s biggest untapped copper sources with an estimated 5.5 million metric tons of high-grade metal, has been plagued by allegations of corruption and collusion between Beijing and the Taliban to secure the site so work could commence.
The former minister of mines, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel, was fired in 2009 following accusations, which he denied, that he had accepted a $30 million bribe from MCC. And the then–general manager of MCC, Shen Heting, was kicked out of the Communist Party—a career-ending blow—for corruption in 2017.
“Both parties to the Aynak copper contract are anything but honest,” Noorani said, adding that some Afghan officials had benefited financially from “not implementing the terms of the MCC contract.”
Early plans for Mes Aynak included a smelter, coal-fired power plant, and rail link. MCC had “completed the exploration of the central deposit and submitted the final draft feasibility study of the mine in 2015,” the minister said—but no progress had been made since. One of the senior officials said the Afghan government has reminded China of that country’s “surprisingly strong back-channel contacts with the Taliban. They could have smoothed the way for the development of the [Mes Aynak] mine, but they’ve chosen not to do that”.
Foreign Policy - 27-01-2021
Part 3 of 3
Noorani said that as the biggest consumer of copper—51 percent of global production and growing—and owner of copper mines across the world, China’s interest lay in controlling prices on the London Metal Exchange. “So they are not going to let Aynak be retendered and will continue to hold the contract,” he predicted.
Those aren’t the only hurdles to speedier development. The mine is on the site of an 1,800-year-old buried city founded by Buddhist monks who mined the copper and left behind a trove of historical treasures. The only activity at the site for years has been archaeologists working to preserve Buddhist artifacts. A presidential decree last year—approving open-pit mining, preservation of the ancient city and relocation of the relics—aimed to push the Chinese into action.
“We expect our partners to resume the development process of the project, based on mutually agreed terms. If not, we will have to consider alternative options to create an enabling investment environment for potential investors,” Chakhansuri said.
Chakhansuri added that the project had been stalled due to “technical issues,” including protection of the cultural artifacts and the method of extraction. With the approval of the open-pit method, the government was now preparing for the resumption of negotiations, he said.
Meanwhile, looking ahead to a time when the United States no longer has any presence in Afghanistan, China has reportedly (by the Financial Times) been negotiating infrastructure contracts with the Taliban leadership, with whom ties go back to its 1996-2001 regime.
Foreign Policy - 27-01-2021
Link with paywall:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/27/afghanistan-china-spy-ring-mcc-mining-negotiations-mineral-wealth/
Noorani said that as the biggest consumer of copper—51 percent of global production and growing—and owner of copper mines across the world, China’s interest lay in controlling prices on the London Metal Exchange. “So they are not going to let Aynak be retendered and will continue to hold the contract,” he predicted.
Those aren’t the only hurdles to speedier development. The mine is on the site of an 1,800-year-old buried city founded by Buddhist monks who mined the copper and left behind a trove of historical treasures. The only activity at the site for years has been archaeologists working to preserve Buddhist artifacts. A presidential decree last year—approving open-pit mining, preservation of the ancient city and relocation of the relics—aimed to push the Chinese into action.
“We expect our partners to resume the development process of the project, based on mutually agreed terms. If not, we will have to consider alternative options to create an enabling investment environment for potential investors,” Chakhansuri said.
Chakhansuri added that the project had been stalled due to “technical issues,” including protection of the cultural artifacts and the method of extraction. With the approval of the open-pit method, the government was now preparing for the resumption of negotiations, he said.
Meanwhile, looking ahead to a time when the United States no longer has any presence in Afghanistan, China has reportedly (by the Financial Times) been negotiating infrastructure contracts with the Taliban leadership, with whom ties go back to its 1996-2001 regime.
Foreign Policy - 27-01-2021
Link with paywall:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/27/afghanistan-china-spy-ring-mcc-mining-negotiations-mineral-wealth/
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Afghanistan, Iran-Contra Affair, ain't nuffin' but conspiracy theories brah!
Abigail Martin on RT - Aired 11-12-2013
Abigail Martin on RT - Aired 11-12-2013
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America's founding fathers and hemp
In the previous video, Abigail mentions President Reagan comparing the Contras being morally equivalent to the 'founding fathers' and goes on to make a sarcastic remark: "yeah, if our founding fathers were also international drug traffickers".
National Institute of Drug Abuse article says the founding fathers grew hemp on their own farm. In fact it was illegal not to grow it on your farm at one point. They say there is no proof that they smoked it although it was used "for medical purposes". This website gives you more details on it.
Jamestown, under the British Empire, was the first colony in America to cultivate hemp in 1607 and it went on to have a huge impact in early America for everything from clothing, food, rope, sail cloth and even to help with military efforts.
We know they did ship it internationally and it was considered a drug.
Did they really only smoke tobacco and didn't touch weed except for medical purposes?
Trevor Moore - 26-03-2013
In the previous video, Abigail mentions President Reagan comparing the Contras being morally equivalent to the 'founding fathers' and goes on to make a sarcastic remark: "yeah, if our founding fathers were also international drug traffickers".
National Institute of Drug Abuse article says the founding fathers grew hemp on their own farm. In fact it was illegal not to grow it on your farm at one point. They say there is no proof that they smoked it although it was used "for medical purposes". This website gives you more details on it.
Jamestown, under the British Empire, was the first colony in America to cultivate hemp in 1607 and it went on to have a huge impact in early America for everything from clothing, food, rope, sail cloth and even to help with military efforts.
We know they did ship it internationally and it was considered a drug.
Did they really only smoke tobacco and didn't touch weed except for medical purposes?
Trevor Moore - 26-03-2013
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Cover-up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair
At the time of the affair 1986-1987, George H. W. Bush was vice-president under R. Reagan.
He then became president but before the end of his presidency he pardoned all of those indicted or convicted.
Former Independent Council Walsh noted that in issuing the pardons, Bush appeared to have been preempting being implicated himself by evidence that came to light during the Weinberger trial, and noted that there was a pattern of "deception and obstruction" by Bush, Weinberger and other senior Reagan administration officials.
Full VHS documentary here
Unknown VHS author - Distributed 1988
At the time of the affair 1986-1987, George H. W. Bush was vice-president under R. Reagan.
He then became president but before the end of his presidency he pardoned all of those indicted or convicted.
Former Independent Council Walsh noted that in issuing the pardons, Bush appeared to have been preempting being implicated himself by evidence that came to light during the Weinberger trial, and noted that there was a pattern of "deception and obstruction" by Bush, Weinberger and other senior Reagan administration officials.
Full VHS documentary here
Unknown VHS author - Distributed 1988
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New from John Klyczek - The country's 2nd largest teachers union heavily lobbied the CDC to not reopen schools. While they framed their efforts as health and safety focused, there is more than meets the eye to the union's push for indefinite remote learning.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/08/investigative-reports/american-federation-of-teachers-sells-out-to-rockefellers-trilateralists-and-big-tech/
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/08/investigative-reports/american-federation-of-teachers-sells-out-to-rockefellers-trilateralists-and-big-tech/
Extract from above article:
"By data-tracking students’ biopsychosocial algorithms through public-private wraparound services, community schools provide pay-for-success pipelines for “social impact investments” from for-profit corporations, non-profit foundations, and global governance institutions, such as IBM, the Rockefeller Foundation, and UNESCO, all of which have ties with the AFT (American Federation of Teachers).
Endorsed by the Trilateral Commission, “[g]lobal impact invest[ments]” finance community pipeline services based on “predictive analytics” extrapolated from students’ cognitive, behavioral, and socioemotional learning metrics, which can be aggregated into Social Credit Scores that are recalibrated according to the student outcomes resulting from such pay-for-success programs.
In turn, corporate oligarchs can leverage predatory impact investments as a means to socially engineer students’ thoughts, feelings, and actions by making their access to jobs, healthcare, and other social programs contingent upon their Social Scores, which are calculated based on how the students perform when carrying out the stipulations of their “community-based” pay-for-success assignments."
Historically, slavery was limited and it was getting people to do things through coercion and force. Modern day slavery is limitless and is psychologically engineered from birth. "Cradle-to-career".
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" => You'll be a slave and you won't even know it.
"By data-tracking students’ biopsychosocial algorithms through public-private wraparound services, community schools provide pay-for-success pipelines for “social impact investments” from for-profit corporations, non-profit foundations, and global governance institutions, such as IBM, the Rockefeller Foundation, and UNESCO, all of which have ties with the AFT (American Federation of Teachers).
Endorsed by the Trilateral Commission, “[g]lobal impact invest[ments]” finance community pipeline services based on “predictive analytics” extrapolated from students’ cognitive, behavioral, and socioemotional learning metrics, which can be aggregated into Social Credit Scores that are recalibrated according to the student outcomes resulting from such pay-for-success programs.
In turn, corporate oligarchs can leverage predatory impact investments as a means to socially engineer students’ thoughts, feelings, and actions by making their access to jobs, healthcare, and other social programs contingent upon their Social Scores, which are calculated based on how the students perform when carrying out the stipulations of their “community-based” pay-for-success assignments."
Historically, slavery was limited and it was getting people to do things through coercion and force. Modern day slavery is limitless and is psychologically engineered from birth. "Cradle-to-career".
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" => You'll be a slave and you won't even know it.
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Afghan Opium - The "5 eyes" intelligence agencies - Bohemian Grove: Cremation of care
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The conspiracy theory behind the words "conspiracy theory"
Was it in a fortune cookie? Maybe started off as a prank? Maybe it was CIA kind of thing to discredit those that speak the truth?
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Was it in a fortune cookie? Maybe started off as a prank? Maybe it was CIA kind of thing to discredit those that speak the truth?
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'Screw your freedoms, I like brown shirts'
Correction:
Richard says Arnold's dad was named Adolf. His name is actually Gustav.
That's okay, we still love you. 😜
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Correction:
Richard says Arnold's dad was named Adolf. His name is actually Gustav.
That's okay, we still love you. 😜
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Austrian Archives Reveal Nazi Military Role of Actor’s Father - 14-08-2003
"[...] documents in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, reviewed by The Times this week, show that Gustav Schwarzenegger had a deeper involvement in Hitler’s regime than the Wiesenthal Center had uncovered. Hier said the documents were unavailable to the center’s researchers when they investigated the matter.
One document in particular shows that Gustav Schwarzenegger was indeed a member of the Sturmabteilungen, also known as the “storm troopers” or “brownshirts.” He joined the SA on May 1, 1939, according to the entry in the archive file -- about six months after the storm troopers helped launch Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and thousands of Jews were hauled off to concentration camps.
The records contain no other information about his activities with the SA. And, with the exception of Kristallnacht, the force had lost its position of dominance to the SS as far back as 1934. Without further documentation, it is difficult to draw conclusions about what Gustav Schwarzenegger did with the SA, said Ursula Schwarz, a researcher with the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. At the same time, she noted, one had to apply to join the SA, unlike, say, the German army, which Austrian males were required to join after their country was annexed in 1938.
The Austrian documents also show that Gustav Schwarzenegger served with German Army units that saw some of the most brutal bloodshed of World War II, including the invasions of Poland and France and the German rampage through Russia and the siege of Leningrad."
Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-14-me-father14-story.html
"[...] documents in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, reviewed by The Times this week, show that Gustav Schwarzenegger had a deeper involvement in Hitler’s regime than the Wiesenthal Center had uncovered. Hier said the documents were unavailable to the center’s researchers when they investigated the matter.
One document in particular shows that Gustav Schwarzenegger was indeed a member of the Sturmabteilungen, also known as the “storm troopers” or “brownshirts.” He joined the SA on May 1, 1939, according to the entry in the archive file -- about six months after the storm troopers helped launch Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and thousands of Jews were hauled off to concentration camps.
The records contain no other information about his activities with the SA. And, with the exception of Kristallnacht, the force had lost its position of dominance to the SS as far back as 1934. Without further documentation, it is difficult to draw conclusions about what Gustav Schwarzenegger did with the SA, said Ursula Schwarz, a researcher with the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. At the same time, she noted, one had to apply to join the SA, unlike, say, the German army, which Austrian males were required to join after their country was annexed in 1938.
The Austrian documents also show that Gustav Schwarzenegger served with German Army units that saw some of the most brutal bloodshed of World War II, including the invasions of Poland and France and the German rampage through Russia and the siege of Leningrad."
Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-14-me-father14-story.html
Los Angeles Times
Austrian Archives Reveal Nazi Military Role of Actor's Father
Arnold Schwarzenegger began many years ago to seek the truth about his father's past, according to the founder of L.A.'s Wiesenthal Center.
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Monday Night Movie Suggestion:
"Chain reaction" - 1996 - Directed by Andrew Davis
Movie type: Action/Crime/Drama
Summary: Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason by the "powers that be".
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"Chain reaction" - 1996 - Directed by Andrew Davis
Movie type: Action/Crime/Drama
Summary: Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason by the "powers that be".
Click here to view and/or download.
Comments on "Chain reaction" (1996 movie)
If you watch the above movie, you will find it very interesting that 'they' are telling you how the world works.
Certain foundations serve as fronts for CIA operations. We could mention Norman Dodd's interview and his role in the 1953 Reece committee to find out about "tax exempt foundations and their 'unamerican' activities". The Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Amnesty International have all had involvement with intelligence agencies and have served a purpose to subvert governments, socially engineer a population, fund education, funnel tax exempt money to preferred businesses,...
Some corporations are joint ventures between countries that are portrayed to be "adversaries or enemies". We've covered in the Antony Sutton series how American technology and funding was provided to the nazis since 1930 onwards and also to the Soviet Union post WWII.
One of today's modern partnership is the Wuhan lab with America funding some of the research for the benefit of both countries.
We could also mention front companies/organisations used to finance and bring about revolutions such as AIC. Richard Grove covered a great section of it here.
What is also interesting to note in the above movie are the overlaps between FBI and CIA duty and their "rivalry", congressional hearings that just seem to be for show, and foundations working with government research agencies such as DARPA.
This movie reveals these accurate connections but dramatise them so that 'normies' dismiss it as "it's just a movie". Point this out and you're a conspiracy theorist.
The fact that this film shows you these connections is yet again circumstantial evidence about intelligence agencies working with Hollywood.
If you watch the above movie, you will find it very interesting that 'they' are telling you how the world works.
Certain foundations serve as fronts for CIA operations. We could mention Norman Dodd's interview and his role in the 1953 Reece committee to find out about "tax exempt foundations and their 'unamerican' activities". The Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Amnesty International have all had involvement with intelligence agencies and have served a purpose to subvert governments, socially engineer a population, fund education, funnel tax exempt money to preferred businesses,...
Some corporations are joint ventures between countries that are portrayed to be "adversaries or enemies". We've covered in the Antony Sutton series how American technology and funding was provided to the nazis since 1930 onwards and also to the Soviet Union post WWII.
One of today's modern partnership is the Wuhan lab with America funding some of the research for the benefit of both countries.
We could also mention front companies/organisations used to finance and bring about revolutions such as AIC. Richard Grove covered a great section of it here.
What is also interesting to note in the above movie are the overlaps between FBI and CIA duty and their "rivalry", congressional hearings that just seem to be for show, and foundations working with government research agencies such as DARPA.
This movie reveals these accurate connections but dramatise them so that 'normies' dismiss it as "it's just a movie". Point this out and you're a conspiracy theorist.
The fact that this film shows you these connections is yet again circumstantial evidence about intelligence agencies working with Hollywood.
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The Century Club - British intelligence infiltration of CIA
The Schwabs' nazi past covered here
The Quandts' nazi past covered here
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The Schwabs' nazi past covered here
The Quandts' nazi past covered here
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British intelligence agency origins
As we've extensively covered previously too, HSBC also came out of the British East India Company in order to finance the "commodity trades" (including opium into China) and how today the CIA and US military is now running the opium operations in Afghanistan thanks to the "special relationship" that Britain has with the US all since the inception of the Pilgrim Society which also had a big role within AIC and bringing the 1917 Bolshevik take-over of tsarist Russia which is in part covered in this post and the following 2.
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As we've extensively covered previously too, HSBC also came out of the British East India Company in order to finance the "commodity trades" (including opium into China) and how today the CIA and US military is now running the opium operations in Afghanistan thanks to the "special relationship" that Britain has with the US all since the inception of the Pilgrim Society which also had a big role within AIC and bringing the 1917 Bolshevik take-over of tsarist Russia which is in part covered in this post and the following 2.
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