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What’s in a Prophecy? ISON on track. The People’s Pope Francis makes more elitist enemies!

16 October 2013 (01:20 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/24 Mehr 1391/12 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

“If the present pope continues in the way he started, he is going to divide the Church. He’s exploding everything. So people will say: ‘It is impossible that’s he’s the Pope, we refuse him.’ Others will say: ‘Wait, consider him as Pope, but don’t follow him.'”-Bishop Bernard Fellay, Traditionalist Catholic Society of Saint Pius X

“I think his entire focus is outside the church. That’s huge.”-Phil Lawler, Catholic World News

“…..the statements he has been making are intensely problematic. Are they explicitly heretical? No. Are they dangerously close? Absolutely. What kind of a Christian tells an atheist he has no intention to convert him? That alone should disturb Catholics everywhere.”–Steve Skojec, anti-pope Catholic blogger from United States

“Is Pope Francis a wishy-washy spineless pope?  Perhaps a pawn, to be used by the liberals inside and outside the Church?…….I have more issues now with him than I did months ago!…..I will continue to pray for him, my Church and myself to come to some sort of peace….”-Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner

Controversial, and supposedly ineffective, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the now former Secretary of State for the Catholic church, retired.  Some news reports said this was Francis’s first “shake up” of the corrupt leaders of Vatican.  However, other reports pointed out that Bertone had simply reached the age limit for holding the office, and had to retire anyway. Pope Francis is replacing him with controversial, but very effective, Archbishop Pietro Parolin.  Parolin is said to have implied to a Venezuelan news source that the order that priests cannot get married is not dogma, and therefore can be debated.  Parolin also said the Church had to “return to Primitive Christianity.”

Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, of Germany, is being accused of spending church money on a private mansion.  Germans are calling him Bishop DeLux.  Reports say his mansion has a bath tub that cost $20-thousand USD!  He also insulted poor people by flying first class to India, to inspect programs for the poor.  He’s meeting the Pope this week.

The huge comet ISON is on track to make astronomical viewing history (from our point view on Earth).  A recent report from the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences confirms the comet is massive.  This after there were reports that it might be breaking up.

Turns out this is ISON’s first trip around the Sun, coupled with its large size, it means it has a lot of material to be burned up which could help it survive.  Some astronomers have predicted that if it survives its turn around the Sun it will emerge on the other side looking like a second Sun, visible during the daytime here on Earth. This seems to correspond to prophecies about the last pope.

Some amateur astronomers have reported seeing ISON.  Check out SkyandTelescope.com and Astronomy.com for advice on viewing ISON.

Business/Economics, International

Corporate Evil: Danone bribed hospitals to use its infant formula, court testimonies imply addictive ingredient being used!

14 October 2013 (03:05 UTC-07 Tango)/09 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/22 Mehr 1391/10 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

So far 13 hospital employees have been convicted of taking bribes from food maker Danone.  As many as 116 people in 85 hospitals are being investigated!

Court testimonies imply that Danone is using an addictive ingredient in its products.

The case involves hospitals in China’s Tianjin Municipality.  Those convicted so far have testified that the France based food maker, Danone, bribed them to feed Danone products to infants in the hopes the infants would become addicted!

Danone officials are also accused of paying hospital employees to convince parents to buy Danone products only.   The sinister plot was revealed by China Central Television on 17 September.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 27-30 September 2013: USAF doubles air strikes! Karzai pisses off Hagel! More proof the Great Game continues!

Badakhshan Province: Munjan District, Mujahideen overran the Afghan National Police’s (ANP) district HQ.  ANP officials said they abandoned the HQ to “avoid civilian casualties”.   ANP claim they recaptured their HQ the next day.

Ghazni Province: Deh Yak District, a van full of adults & children ran over a landmine.  Three killed, nine wounded.   In Muqur District, a U.S.-NATO air strike (aka weapons release) killed ten people.

Helmand Province: Marja City, a suicide bomber killed himself and one cop.  Three people wounded.  Two USMC generals were forced to retire early for their lack of competence regarding the September 2012 Muahideen attack on Camp Bastion.  A U.S. Marine investigation concluded that the generals “did not take adequate force protection measures within the range of responses proportionate to the threat”.

Herat Province: Mujahideen attacked a local police marital law check point.  Nine people killed, three wounded.

Kabul Province:  Kabul City, hundreds of protestors demanded the United States get the hell out!  Another report, that despite the war luxury home building is skyrocketing in Kabul City.  Property developers are taking a big risk, pouring millions of dollars into grand mansions.  I wonder where they got the money from?  Many of the homes were built in the hopes foreign occupiers would rent them, so property developers are a little worried about the supposed NATO 2014 pullout.

Kandahar Province: Report that a U.S.-NATO drone “weapons release” killed two people.

Logar Province:  Mohammad Agha District, a local political candidate was assassinated, along with three local teachers.  The district governor was wounded.  Police don’t know who did it.

Maidan Wardak Province: Jalriz District, ISAF confirms that a U.S.-NATO drone “weapons release” killed seven people.

Paktia Province: Report that a U.S.-NATO drone “weapons release” killed three people.

Uruzgan Province: A minibus full of passengers drove over a landmine.  Two people killed, many wounded.

The Afghan Ministry of the Interior claims 14 Mujahideen killed, three wounded and 12 captured in Faryab, Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktiya and Paktika provinces.

The USAF has reported that U.S.-NATO drone and manned aircraft “weapons releases” (air strikes) in the month of September were about double that of August.

The Afghan news media reported that China is pushing President Hamid Karzai to accept a new military pact with the United States.  The bi-lateral agreement is being pushed by the Obama regime as a way of legally keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the 2014 NATO pullout.  Karzai continues to insist he’s in no rush to sign such an agreement.  U.S. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, is pissed: “I hope we’ll have that agreement by the end of October, because we just can’t move without it.”

In the U.S. state of Oklahoma, the Army National Guard’s 1245th Transportation Company returned home from Afghanistan.  Armed Forces Reserve Center officials said the crowd of civilian/family welcomers was the largest ever.

At the United Nations, several Central Asian countries stated that the U.S. instigated instability in Afghanistan is the real threat to global security.  The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan said it’s all about the Great Game played by western empires, because Central Asia is rich: “The Asian continent is transforming itself into a global power house for the 21st century, with its production of more than 57% of global GDP, and this trend is expected to increase. However, this growth could be jeopardized by an aggravation of existing conflicts, illegal migration, drug trafficking, territorial claims, separatism, religious extremism and terrorism.”-Erlan Idrissov

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 24-26 September 2013: More Green on Blue, local U.S. media hides it! U.S. run hospitals actually NAZI killing fields for Afghan victims? U.S. stabs Afghan interpreters in the back! Will Afghanistan kill NATO?

Helmand Province: Lashkargah City, a car bomb exploded.  Not counting the suicide bomber; one cop killed, one cop wounded, four civilians wounded.

Kunduz Province: Khanabad District, local government officials say Mujahideen captured four Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel.

Maidan Wardak Province: Saidabad District, a U.S. airstrike (aka Weapons Release) killed five people.  Provincial government officials say two of those killed were Arabs.

Nangarhar Province: Chaparhar District, a baby girl was born with an almost complete second head!  Two headed children are not as rare as you might think, but successfully removing a second head is.  Doctors said in this case they were successful.

Paktia Province: A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant from Pennsylvania was killed.  Reports are confusing; local Pennsylvania news media has led the people of Milton to believe he was killed in combat, but in reality he was killed by a “Green on Blue” attack by Afghan government military/police personnel (aka National Security Forces).  Another U.S. troop was wounded.  The shooter from the Afghan government was killed.

The Afghan Ministry of the Interior claims 49 Mujahideen killed in police and army ops in the provinces of Helmand, Farah, Herat, Logar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Kandahar, Balkh, Badakhshan and Kunduz.  Eight Mujahideen wounded, 11 captured.

Pakistan says another artillery rocket attack was launched against them, from Afghanistan.  Two people killed, one wounded.

The U.S. Department of State has been quietly revoking travel visas issued to Afghan interpreters working for the U.S. Department of Defense.  Many interpreters have been applying for Special Immigrant status so they can move their families to the U.S. after the supposed 2014 NATO pullout, because it is common knowledge they and their families will be assassinated for helping U.S. forces.  But, suddenly the Obama regime State Department began revoking those visas.  Is this a stab in the back or is it more proof the U.S. is not leaving Afghanistan?

U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Caldwell, and Major General Gary Patton, are accused of blocking investigations into corruption and abuse at U.S. Army run Afghan hospitals.  This includes the intentional starvation of Afghan patients!  The investigation into the goings on at Dawood National Military Hospital began back in 2011.  The Joseph Mengele (NAZI doctor aka Angel of Death) like conditions of the hospital were revealed in 2011 when an inspector general released his inspection results without the customary notification to generals Caldwell and Patton.  It turns out the two generals had been blocking previous inspection results from public release!  This means the hospital was probably a U.S. run death camp for years prior.

Ignorant U.S. Army Lieutenant General, Mark Milley, recently stated the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was being reduced “…because of the society fundamentals that have changed…”.  Really?  Was he talking about society fundamentals of Afghanistan or the United States?

The U.S. Department of Defense announced the deployment of about 75-hundred to 8-thousand U.S. Army troops to Afghanistan, to take place in October.

U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, from Illinois, revealed that the United States is trying to hand over military control of Afghanistan to India: “I have long felt that the best way out of Afghanistan is through New Delhi, is to have a military alliance with India that we encourage India to roll into Afghanistan….”

In New York, U.S.A., a U.S. citizen was found guilty of trying to sell weapons, including guided missiles, to Mujahideen.  He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.  However, the federal trial was a sham.  It was only two weeks long and did not involve a jury (called a Bench Trial)!  It was part of a sting operation set up by U.S. government.  Sting operations are government set ups of people who normally wouldn’t have committed such crimes on their own.  At least five other people are being railroaded.

The Washington Times reports that the U.S. Army’s cyber intell ops in Afghanistan are so open to hackers that the DoD has given it 60 days to fix or replace the system.  Specifically, the Distributed Common Ground System (aka D-sigs, DCGS) failed a readiness test.  The warning on the cyber intell system’s failure was issued on 05 September by U.S. Command in Kabul, and made public by The Washington Times on 24 September.

According to the Fiscal Times, the high cost of U.S. led NATO operations in Afghanistan, and the bad economies of most NATO members, will kill the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  Currently, only three NATO members are meeting their payment requirements for membership: United Kingdom, United States and Greece.

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Government Evil: U.S. sanctions Iran over nuke industry, yet makes deal to sell nuclear tech to Vietnam! More proof the U.S. is the patsy of Israel & Saudi Arabia!

11 October 2013 (23:33 UTC-07 Tango 10 October 2013)/06 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/19 Mehr 1391/07 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Only days after General Giap died (the man credited with forcing the U.S. out of Vietnam) the Obama regime signed a deal to sell nuclear technology to Vietnam!  This while the United States has steadily increased economic sanctions against Iran, supposedly because the U.S. doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear technologies!

The U.S. and Vietnam fought a tens years war with each other (before that the U.S. supported France in its eight years war against Vietnam), and yet the Obama regime will allow the private sector to sell off its nuke tech to the South East Asian country?

Iran has never attacked the United States (to be clear, Vietnam never attacked the U.S. either)!  Yet the United States shot down Iran Air flight 655 killing 274 Haj pilgrims and 16 crewmen, launched a tens years war against Iran via Saddam Hussein of Iraq, launched recon drones and even special forces/CIA ops inside Iran, and has imposed economic sanctions for the past 30 years!

Can you say “What a bunch of bullshit!”?

Why can the government of the U.S. be so eager to sell nuke tech to a former enemy, Vietnam, yet continue to warmonger against Iran?  The answers are Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Saudi Arabia and Israel are afraid of an independent and strong Iran.  Never mind the fact that in ancient times the Semites seemed to always find a friend in the Iranian empire (aka Persian empire).

Israel’s NAZI Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, just days ago gave the European Union an order during news media interviews: “Stop it [Iran] now while you’re in a strong position to do so.”

Nut job yahoo then went on a lying rampage that was just amazing, basically blaming Iran for every act of terror and accusing Iran of wanting to destroy the World!

Nut job yahoo’s spoiled brat tantrum could have been the result of being informed by the Obama regime that the U.S. and the EU might ease sanctions against Iran.

Then there’s the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (K.S.A.), who benefits from the U.S. oil sanctions on Iran.  Note that the U.S. buys from K.S.A. what it would have bought from Iran, although Saudi officials deny a connection.

Just a couple of days ago, Reuters reported that the Saudi monarchy is having a shit fit over the possibility that the U.S. and EU could ease sanctions against Iran: “The Saudis’ worst nightmare would be the administration striking a grand bargain with Iran.”-Robert Jordan, former U.S. ambassador to K.S.A.

“I am afraid in case there is something hidden. If America and Iran reach an understanding it may be at the cost of…..Saudi Arabia.”-Abdullah al-Askar, chairman of foreign affairs K.S.A. Shoura Council

The U.S. wants to jump on Vietnam’s estimated $50 billion USD nuke industry market.  You know, Iranian officials have stated, in the past, that they would love to do open business with U.S. nuke corporations.  Japan and Russia have already been awarded contracts to build electricity generating nuclear factories in Vietnam.  The Obama regime took Vietnam’s word that the nuke tech won’t be used for making bombs, yet U.S. can’t take Iran’s word that they are not making a bomb?

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

Economic Martial Law: State court blocks NYC’s plan to force taxi companies to use Japanese cars!

09 October 2013 (01:22 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/17 Mehr 1391/05 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

New York City’s Bloomberg regime was trying to force taxi companies to use only cars made by Nissan!  Fortunately a New York state court blocked the economic martial law order.

The Bloomberg regime wants all taxi companies to use the Nissan NV200 minivan.  Can you say “Bloomberg is UnAmerican!”?

New York’s State Supreme Court ruled that local governments can set standards for the type of vehicles used, but cannot order companies or individuals to purchase a specific brand/model of vehicle.

The Bloomberg regime claimed that by making taxi companies use the same vehicle it would increase safety, somehow.  Taxi companies and taxi driver’s unions took the Bloomberg regime to court, and won this round.  The Bloomberg regime is appealing the state supreme court decision.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 21-23 September 2013: Karzai continues pointing finger at Obama regime! False Flag Alert: Drugs used to turn people into suicide bombers!

“In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police backed by the national army and the NATO-led coalition forces have conducted a series of operations in Kunar, Kapisa, Zabul, Uruzgan, Maidan Wardak, Logar, Paktika and Herat provinces, which left 46 armed Taliban dead.”-Interior Ministry of Afghanistan

Badakhstan Province: In Wardooj District, Mujahideen released seven captured Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel.  It’s not known what happened to the other ANA soldiers that were captured, originally the Mujahideen said the soldiers willingly joined them.

Balkh Province: In Chahar Bolok District, an explosion killed five people and wounded eight.  Witnesses say it was a suicide bomber.  In Zherai District, reports that a cop attacked his fellow cops.  At least one cop killed.

Farah Province: In Farah Rod District, government Israeli style home invasions resulted in 12 people, including a religious leader, being kidnapped.  One villager was shot and wounded.

Kandahar Province: In Shorabak District, Mujahideen attacked border police, leaving 11 dead.  Mujahideen claim they killed 16.

Kabul Province: ISAF reported two Romanian NATO soldiers were killed by explosion and gun shots in eastern Afghanistan. One of the Romanians was on his second tour.

Kapisa Province: In Nijrab District, the Afghan Interior Ministry claims 11 Mujahideen were killed in battle.  24 Mujahideen wounded.

Kunduz Province: In Chahar Dara District, a local National Directorate of Security (Homeland Security) agent was assassinated.  This is the second assassination of a government official, and police say they still don’t know who’s doing it.  However, Mujahideen claim credit for the assassinations.  In the same district an Israeli style home invasion by government forces resulted in one person being kidnapped.

Kunar Province: In Ghaziabad District a U.S.-NATO drone strike killed one man.  Afghan government officials say the man was a Mujahideen commander.  However, independent reports say at least four people were killed.

Paktia Province: In Gardez city, a Colorado National Guard Special Forces Staff Sergeant, and a Rhode Island National Guard Staff Sergeant (but resident of New Jersey), and one Specialist from California were killed by an Afghan government troop.  The Colorado Guardsman was already recovering from a previous combat wound, and was one month away from the end of his enlistment.  Also, reports that a U.S.-NATO recon drone crashed.  Mujahideen did not claim they shot it down, but confirmed a drone crashed and burned.

Zabul Province: People protested yet another U.S. led killing of civilians.  They claim U.S.-NATO forces killed two people in Shahjoi District.  One report said 10-thousand people packed the streets of Shahjoi District bazaar, protesting the U.S. occupation.

President Hamid Karzai continues to insist that terrorism is coming from outside Afghanistan.  He continues to imply it is being supported by countries like the United States, it’s the main reason he is holding off on signing a military pact with the Obama regime: “We have an appropriate analysis of the current situation of Afghanistan, and we know who are involved behind plotting destruction of Afghanistan, and those who are sending suicide bombers to Afghanistan.”

Afghan security officials say in recent interrogations of captured attempted suicide bombers, it’s been revealed that people are being drugged with Selective Serotonin Receptor Inhibitors and/or opium, then abused psychologically and physically.  A captured potential suicide bomber says people are drugged up to the point of passing out.  These drugs are the similar to those prescribed to mass shooters in the United States!

Russian officials say the opium drug industry in Afghanistan is surprisingly well managed, under the U.S. occupation.  Russian investigators have discovered huge stockpiles of illegal drugs in Afghanistan: “Around 40,000 tons of opiates are already stored there. So, in fact, they have reached saturation point.”-Viktor Ivanov, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service

Former Taliban political party finance minister, Mullah Agha Jan Motasim, says what is happening in Afghanistan is the fault of the occupiers, and the invaders have made peace impossible: “The international community bears responsibility for this……After all the bloodletting, we would have to work with people we are fighting.”

ISAF revealed that after the supposed 2014 pullout, the military occupation now known as Operation Enduring Freedom will continue under the title Operation Resolute Support.

Pakistan says a rocket launched from Afghanistan killed one person, and wounded at least one.  Pakistan also says a mortar attack from Afghanistan wounded two people.  They also claim militants from Afghanistan attacked a village in Pakistan.

The Nation reporting that the number of deaths in Afghanistan could be much higher than reported, because Afghan national and provincial governments are actually charging a fee to release such info to the media.

 

 

International

World War 3, West Asian Front: Iran announces new missiles for its F-14s, drone subs and a new aircraft carrier!

06 October 2013 (20:13 UTC-07 Tango 05 October 2013)/01 Dhu’l-Hijja 1434/14 Mehr 1391/02 Ren-Xu (9th month) 4711

Iranian military officials announced that production of their Fakour 90 air to air missiles are complete.  The mid-range anti-aircraft missile is used by their upgraded F-14 Tomcats.  They announced the development of a new long range air to air missile, the Maqsoud.

Also revealed, Iran will use its experience building super oil tankers, and their own naval ships, to build Iran’s first aircraft carrier.  Iran will launch a new destroyer next year.  New drone submarines will also be launched, but no other details were given about them.

Iranian naval officials say they will launch their first home built manned sub, the Fateh, this year.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says they’ve flown their armed UAV, the Shahed 129, for 24 hours straight.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Army claims its new UAV, the Yasir, can evade radar.  The description of its radar absorbing surfaces sounds like the Iranians were indeed able to reverse engineer the captured U.S. stealth drone.  It will be used for stealth recon missions, as an armed attack drone and as a target drone.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 18-20 September 2013: Cops killing cops, again! Senator joins Mujahideen! U.S. forces attacking schools! At least $6 trillion in taxpayer rip offs!

Badakhshan Province:  A major battle in Wardooj District resulted in at least 23 Afghan National Police (ANP) being killed, and 21 wounded.  This is from official ANP reports.  Mujahideen claim another 24 cops switched sides and joined them.  ANP officials say the Mujahideen kidnapped them.

Helmand Province: In Khanshin District dozens of ANP turned their guns on each other after an argument.  Three killed, seven wounded.   In Lashkargah city, a NATO-ISAF convoy was hit with a remote detonated land mine.  The report was made by local police.

Sar-e-Pul Province: A former police commander, as well as being a former senator in the Afghan parliament, has officially joined the Mujahideen.  Dozens of other people in the province joined the Mujahideen as well.

Kunar Province: In Chapa Dara District a U.S. drone strike killed at least six people.  U.S. officials claim they were all militants (as usual).  An investigation into a U.S. drone strike in the same province the week before revealed that women and children were killed.  It is official U.S. policy to label anyone killed in an airstrike a militant.

Maidan Wardak Province: Local government officials say a U.S. led raid on a grade school killed a teenaged student in Syedabad District.  Several students were wounded.  There are also reports that a U.S. drone strike killed seven people and wounded several others.

Uruzgan Province: In Char Chino District Mujahideen ambushed a Australian Digger patrol.  At least three Diggers wounded.  Australian Defence Force officials confirmed the attack.

Faryab Province: In Qaisar District a battle between Afghan government forces and Mujahideen resulted in several Mujahideen killed and wounded.  But it also forced the government personnel to retreat from Nawabad village.  Reports say villagers were also killed.

Kunduz Province: The independent election commission boss was assassinated.  Police don’t know who did it.

Nangarhar Province: An ANP district boss was fired after an investigation revealed he was terrifying the local population with his authority.  Specifically, he was trying to influence how people will vote in the 2014 elections.

Paktika Province: Police arrested a suspect in the assassination of a Indian woman who wrote a book about repression of women in Afghanistan.  Police say the suspect claims he is a Mujahid, however, the main Mujahideen group in Afghanistan denies they had anything to do with it: “We reject claims that Mujahideen were involved in the killing of the Indian woman. It is a propaganda by government officials to defame the Mujahideen.”

Kabul Province: In Kabul city an explosion destroyed a police vehicle.  Police say it was a magnetic bomb, no person was hurt.

Kandahar Province: The fast food bazaar known as Kandahar Airfield Boardwalk, is being closed down.  The Boardwalk was built to provide U.S.-NATO personnel with access to U.S. fast food restaurants, as well as Canadian and European restaurants and retailers, it’s being closed in anticipation of the supposed 2014 pullout.  The question is, was the Boardwalk built with tax dollars, for the benefit of U.S., Canadian and European corporations?

Pakistan says Afghan border patrol troops shot and killed five Pakistanis, and wounded three others.

In an example of hypocrisy, Afghan government officials accused Pakistan of being a safe haven for illegal drugs production.

A USA Today report said the $3 billion USD cost of returning U.S. military equipment to the United States, is “cheap”.   However, a McClatchy report said it will actually cost U.S. taxpayers $7 billion!

A report by The Nation shows the U.S. military round-a-boutly acknowledges killing innocents, in the form of payments to the surviving family members.  However, officially the payments are called “assistance” and U.S. officials continue to deny innocent people are being killed.  ISAF keeps no records of such assistance payments.  The Nation acquired a 1-thousand page CentCom report, through the Freedom of Information Act, which shows that between 2008 and 2011 massive amounts of assistance payments were made, however, the exact amount is not known because military officials redacted that info.   Taxpayers should be pissed off, because these tax dollar funded “assistance” payments are the result of tax dollar paid military and contractor personnel killing innocent people!

According to Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, at this point in the game, the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is costing taxpayers $6 trillion!  So far, taxpayers have paid for only $260 billion in interest payments on the war debt!  Who ever thinks war is good for the economy is a fool (or involved in the military industrial complex)!

Stars and Stripes reporting that a new USAF Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility is being built at a secret location in the Middle East. It will be used as a medical “hub” for U.S. personnel wounded in Afghanistan after the supposed 2014 pullout!

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 15-17 September 2013: Aussie Diggers to stay after 2014! Taxpayers screwed again! U.S. economy so bad Ace Hardware moves to Afghanistan!

Uruzgan Province: In Char Chino District, reports that a medivac helicopter was shot down by Mujahideen.  Reports say it was on fire and exploded when it hit the ground.

Helmand Province:  A female police Lieutenant was assassinated in Lashkar Gah.  Five people have been arrested.  There are reports that four people were killed by a U.S.-NATO drone strike.

Maidan Wardak Province: In Jaghatu District six people killed by U.S.-NATO airstrike.  Another person killed in another district by U.S.-NATO drone strike.  Turkish news media reporting Afghan government led night time Israeli style home invasions resulted in a major battle with Mujahideen.  It happened in Maidan Shahr town.  Dozens of people killed.  Government officials say two of those killed were from Pakistan.

Samangan Province:  A coal mine collapse killed 27 people and injured 20.  At last report at least 40 people are trapped.  Reports say an electrical short caused and explosion in the mine.  Most mining operations in Afghanistan are run by foreign companies.

Kunar Province: Local government officials claim Pakistan fired more than 40 artillery rockets into Afghanistan.  No casualties reported, but homes were damaged.  In Darah District, Mujahideen report they ambushed an Afghan government military convoy.  40 government troops killed, 25 wounded.  Five Mujahideen killed.

Nimroz Province:  In Delaram District, a bus full of people drove over a land mine.  15 people killed, at least 25 wounded.

Kabul Province: National Directorate of Security (NDS, equivalent of the U.S. Homeland Security Department) forces tried to brake up a planned suicide bombing, but firefights erupted and one bomber blew himself up.  Two Mujahideen shot and killed.

Faryab Province: Chinese news media reporting that Israeli style night time home invasions by Afghan government forces resulted in battles with Mujahideen.  At least 14 people killed.

Zabul Province: In Shahjoi District, government forces conducted an Israeli style home invasion.  Two people kidnapped.  Villagers say they later found the bodies of the two kidnap victims “brutally martyred”.

Balkh Province: In Chahar Bolak District, an Israeli style home invasion resulted in the kidnapping of a religious scholar.

Ghor Province: Teyura District, Afghan government forces rampaged after Mujahideen successfully ambushed them.  The Afghan government troops ransacked a bazaar and then killed two people because their ethnicity is the same as that of the majority of people who make up the local Mujahideen.

Farah Province: More than 200 prisoners are on hunger strike.  Prisoners claim they’ve been detained for bogus reasons, and most have been in prison for at least six months without being charged with a crime!

Iran has restated it will help Afghanistan fight illegal drug trafficking: “We are ready to make our utmost efforts to transfer our experiences to countries like Afghanistan.”-General Ali Moayyedi, Iranian national police

The U.S. state of Indiana is deploying its Army National Guard to Afghanistan.  About 130 members of the the 1638th Transportation Company are on their way.

The U.S. state of Montana saw the return of their Army National Guard soldiers.  69 soldiers of the 495th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion returned from nine months at Kandahar airbase.  Montana Army National Guard still has 145 soldiers in Kuwait.

The government of Afghanistan has approved an official trade logo for products made in their country.  It says “Afghanistan Amazingly Real”.  Yeah, when you could lose your life at any moment that makes life very ‘real’.

President Hamid Karzai has restated that he will not rush into a new military pact with the United States, despite haranguing by the Obama regime.

The Australian Defence Forces (ADF) minister says their Special Forces Diggers will stay in Afghanistan after the supposed 2014 NATO pullout.  It depends on what happens with the new Afghan-U.S. military pact that the Obama regime is pushing for.  The minister also revealed that Australia will be building up their military: “I undertake to the men and women of the ADF that the Abbott government will rebuild defence, to ensure it is properly resourced, equipped and managed”-David Johnston

According to reports out of Australia, despite claims of extreme discrimination against women in Afghanistan, the parliament of Afghanistan has more women than in the ‘democratic’ Australian parliament, and Afghanistan has more women in parliament than the parliament of United Kingdom!  I suspect the same can be said for the U.S. Congress.

U.S. home improvement retailer, Ace Hardware, feels the situation in Afghanistan is better than the crashing economy in the United States.  In 2014 Ace Hardware will open their first Afghan store in Mazar-e Sharif.  But wait, here’s the real reason; Ace Hardware is taking advantage of the ongoing U.S. contractor corruption.  U.S. taxpayer funded contractors are the primary target of Ace Hardware!

A New York based U.S. Army weapons maker revealed that U.S. tax dollars are paying for weapons for the Afghan government.  Watervliet Arsenal recently supplied the Afghan government with 918 60mm mortars at a cost to taxpayers of $6 million USD!