TALIBAN: “The stakes are extremely high”

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Michael Yon@MichaelYon

August 18, 2021

TALIBAN: “The stakes are extremely high”

18 August 2021
Panama City, Panama — Central America

In 2001, I was with my old Green Beret friend Steve Shaulis. At his home in Florida. We had gone through Green Beret selection together, Defense Language Institute, and other interesting places.

And so there we were. Florida. Six months before the 9/11 attack. Little did we know that al Qaeda attackers were not far away from us in Florida.

We were preparing to scuba dive in the night Atlantic under a full moon. We walked off the beach into the blackness of the sea.

That night, back from the depths, faxes were coming in from Pakistan and/or Afghanistan. A fax rattled in from Steve’s friend, author Ahmad Rashid.

Steve already did business in Afghanistan and was often there, constantly asking me to come along, though I never did. Instead, I was in places like Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica. Steve would tell stories of how the Taliban thought he was a professional wrestler. Taliban were not supposed to watch television but they did, and they loved wrestling, and Steve would talk like he know all the champions.

When Taliban at checkpoints found music tapes, they would take out the cassettes, rip out the tapes and wrap those tapes around car antennae. No music allowed. Taliban censored the old fashioned way.

And Steve would often say Afghanistan and the Taliban would boil over. We both paid close attention to al Qaeda. Steve knew where al Qaeda lived in Afghanistan. And the home of Mullah Omar. The Taliban leader.

And so, Steve handed me this book, TALIBAN, saying reading this was prep for the future. I read it.

When the second airplane hit a Twin Tower, I called Steve. He still knew where they were. This was passed along. Nobody ever acted on the information. I will never forget that. Perfect targeting information was ignored.

Later, Mullah Omar’s home was bombed. Steve, back in Afghanistan, went to his home. Found a false roof that had been made of truck tires. When American bombs hit the roof, the roof did not collapse. Tires and false roof were spread around the compound. Steve walked inside and found the ceiling spalded but not penetrated.

We never got Mullah Omar. He seems to have died of natural causes years later. And years later, I was in a nearby village as American taxpayer dollars rebuilt his mosque. I wrote that correctly. We rebuild Mullah Omar’s mosque.

I’ll say it again. We. America. Rebuilt. The Taliban leader’s mosque. This was about 2011. I was with the unit that did this.

Many things happened. I was in so many firefights and bombings and rocket and mortar attacks that it was like a looping war movie. The idea that war is 99% boredom is bullshit. My wars were not boring. Someone else’s might have been. My wars were a lot of war.

Steve had offices all over Afghanistan. When the clown General Stanley McChrystal declared jihad on me instead of Taliban, I simply went with Steve’s people and others. His office got blown up in Kandahar barely missing me. The Taliban were not after Steve but his neighbor. Chemonics. But truck bombs are big and wrecked the neighborhood. If you websearch you will find this attack. I think it was about April 2010 in Kandahar. I don’t remember.

There were so many bombs and firefights they all started to blend. Taliban don’t quit. And people who don’t know much would say, “Let’s send the SEALs! Send the A-10s.” SEALs got loads of name recognition due to the movie thing. We sent every Delta and Green Beret and Ranger and SEAL and Marine and infantryman and A-10 in the arsenal. A-10s were rolling in all the time. A-10 and drone and helicopter strikes was so common that you hardly would look up to see.

Steve would send his airplanes for me to get me around. When we were rolling alone, we alerted US forces so we didn’t get killed. We’d bring brightly colored trashcan lids as recognition symbols, that sort of thing.

I had an amazing front row seat to ultimate incompetence. So amazing. The story untold. Not by our low-ranking people. They were great, on whole. But the higher the rank and into DC and London…it was bad. Really bad.

When Ahmad Rashid’s book came out in 2001 before the war, it was not a bestseller. A university press with a tiny print run. When 9/11 exploded, likely only a thousand people had read TALIBAN. Steve was probably the first reader. Steve had been with the author Ahmad Rashid in Pakistan and Afghanistan during research. I was likely one of the first hundred readers of TALIBAN — still months before the 9/11 attack.

And the towers fell. TALIBAN became essential reading. Became a bestseller. And I became a famous war correspondent.

It all seemed so sad. So obvious. Like the ending still unfolding with US citizens trapped and a killing field unfolding.

But today is not the ending. Only the end of the American war. This is a new beginning and will continue.

Now watch Taiwan and the islands. And watch the streets of America. It all seems so obvious.

Make sure to read the attached final paragraph from TALIBAN. This is the very last paragraph in the original book TALIBAN. This paragraph echoed in my mind during the war. The author was right:

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Cooties Kill

Beware of Lice — the Government, and Typhus

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Yonezawa, Japan
Mind Dump, sans edit

This is important. I am in a rush to meetings so this is sans edit:

I am in Yonezawa. Scene of great historical famine. I have come by bullet train to study famine and a man named Yozan Uesugi. Yozan was adept at spotting famine in advance and getting his people through famine.

This morning, I write from a small Japanese cafe. On breakfast menu is akadewa "tea". A bean tea that I am drinking. This tea was used during the great Tenmei Famine. Encouraged by Yozan Uesugi. Yozan. The people still drink the tea and have many other "famine food" items on local menus.

Now in 2023, conditions for global famine are growing. Japan is at great risk.

Some things always go with Famine. War, Pandemic, and HOP.

HOP is the Human Osmotic Pressure of migration. The tidal push and pull of humanity.

In famine, most people die not from starvation but from disease. Diseaes such as Famine Fevers. One of the most serious famine fevers is Typhus. Not to be confused with Typhoid. Typhus and typhoid are entirely different. Even medical professionals mix the names.

Each morning years I receive daily typhus media updates from Google Net Alerts. Below is my actual Net Alert from yesterday:

I track Epidemic Typhus because Epidemic Typhus travels with war and famine. Not to be confused with scrub typhus or murine typhus. I do not pay attention to murine or scrub typhus. I pay full attention to epidemic typhus. Epidemic typhus is spread by head lice and by body lice.

Epidemic typhus is a no-kidding super-killer when it hits critical mass. Or, as Dr. Chris Martenson might say, "case case case, cluster cluster BOOM!" During the last century we seldom see a BOOM of epidemic typhus because. We see many cases such as in American homeless camps. And some clusters. But not many BOOMs at this time.

This is why:

1) Thanks to smart people, we now know lice spread epidemic typhus. So fight the lice. Thus Army/ Marines -- short hair. (Coincidentally, ivermectin is used against lice).

2) Typhus is caused by bacteria that is effectively fought back with antibiotics. Unfortunately, this is 2023. Supply chains are breaking down. And those antibiotics come from drug companies. Drug companies are openly killing people

These are the two most recent books I read on typhus. One is from 1868 and might be considered outdated, but it's not. There is much to learn from old books such as how we still behave in the face of the unknown while we fumble around searching for answers. We bump into things a lot.

In famine, most people do not starve to death. We tend to die from disease long before we burn our final calorie.

A main culprit of famine death is Epidemic Typhus. Epidemic Typhus occurs in cold, hot, wet, dry. Doesn't matter. The lice live on us. And they mate like crazy and spread madly.

Epidemic Typhus is one of the famous Famine Fevers. Relapsing fever is another.

Famine Fevers onset usually some months after famine sets in.

At issue with Epidemic Typhus is that it does not need famine to spread. Famine only creates conditions for lice to spread.

Epidemic Typhus has many names such as War Fever, Famine Fever, Ship Fever, Naval Fever, Camp Fever, and Hospital Fever. This might provide a clue as to how it spreads.

This typhus is found in homeless camps in places like California. It's there right now. But is down to the case-case cluster-cluster level only because society has not broken down at this time. There is nothing on earth stopping another vast outbreak of epidemic typhus -- other than lice control, and antibiotics whose supply, quality, and efficacy, are in question.

This bacteria is endemic to large swathes of earth such as in Texas and can spread as quickly as airplanes fly with body and head lice.

Cooties is an old term for lice. And so the cooties game we learned to play was survival training. For most modern children, cooties is just a game. But in upcoming years those homeless camps and millions of hungry "migrants" will not be a game. Epidemic Typhus can kill millions.

The Dutch hate typhus on a deep cultural level. Dutch even use diseases for curse words. A Dutch person might say "optyfussen!" Typhus off! (If you look up optyfussen online, notice how often typhus is confused with typhoid.)

Typhus is so under control today that most doctors I have mentioned it know very little about typhus. I only pay attention because I study war -- and famine goes with war like smoke with fire. And typhus goes with famine and war...like smoke with fire.

I sense we are heading into a period during which typhus will make a comeback and will kill massive numbers of people. But people who study typhus even for a couple hours will have a serious advantage. Beware the Cooties!

Epidemic Typhus is like a giant mindfield. But this mindfield is also marked by signs. Read the signs. Walk around the mindfield like it does not exist.

Even leftist media admit the homeless camps are typhus camps:

Curiouser and curiouser -- this website below identifies itself as the American Academy of Pediatrics and now recommends not sending home from school children with lice. Are they going Medieval in creating more Epidemic Typhus?
I do not find this surprising. Not surprising because my paradigm is that WEF/CCP are intentionally depopulating most of the world population. At times when you find yourself astonished, this can be a sign that it's time to reexamine your paradigm. Surprise is an indicator that a paradigm needs adjustment or even to be thrown out. Or at least to be recalculated. By this time, it should be clear that democide is unfolding globally.

The same website promoting lice breeding by leaving cooties-ridden children in school, also promotes death jabs for infants and children:

In closing, I have some research appointments on famine here in Japan. This mind-dump sans-edit was sparked by a Texas friend who happens to be in Charlotte, North Carolina. She remembers our conversation in Texas about lice and typhus. She messaged this photo today from North Carolina -- which really got me going. And she found this website: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hair-fairies-opens-newest-location-in-charlotte-300500636.html

[Please excuse the roughness of this dispatch...in a rush.]

Links to the "pediactric" murder website:
https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2022/american-academy-of-pediatrics-applauds-cdc-approval-of-safe-effective-covid-19-vaccines-for-children-ages-6-months-and-older/

https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2022/american-academy-of-pediatrics-updates-report-on-controlling-and-treating-head-lice-in-children-adolescents/

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