Posted on 07/30/2021 11:27:28 PM PDT by weston
Overnight there was an apparent firefight at the airport, likely against some elements of Taliban forces. Taliban leadership continues to say that they will not interfere with evacuation operations and that it is even safe for Afghans there to return home. Within the past hour as i type this, air traffic at the Kabul air port is shut down again as Afghans swarm the runways and tarmacs. One commercial plane has essentially been taken over by the crowds and unable to depart. In one video, an Afghani apparently tried to tie himself to the wheel of a C17, and was observed falling from the plane shortly after take off. Other videos of Afghanis running along side a C17 trying to get on as it taxied out for takeoff with some sitting main landing gear door.
Afghan military plane has reportedly been shot down over Uzbekistan according to their defense ministry. No word yet on type of aircraft.
Taliban have started door to door search looking for govt officials, former police & security forces members & those who worked for foreign countries NGOs or infrastructures in Afghanistan.
Two people are dead and two have recovered after being infected with melioidosis — a disease that had never before been detected on contiguous US soil. Melioidosis has now been seen in Georgia, Kansas, Texas and Minnesota, LiveScience reported. The only other known cases of melioidosis in the US were in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
None of the four patients claimed to have traveled outside the country prior to becoming sick between March and July of this year. NOTE - No mention of them coming into contact with one of the millions of illegals that have poured across the border this year
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3920606/posts?page=572#572
Thanks!
Thank you! I didn’t know about Zulu, but figured the London clock wasn’t “sprung forward”, or they just lazily used or altered an old photo.
Thanks again, glad I didn’t lose any sleep over it. 🤯
For not going to be anything like collapse of Vietnam, it sure sounds a lot like the collapse of Vietnam.
No one is more spunky than you are!
Except there’s airplanes instead of boats.
Tennessee, I’m in East Tennessee- it is capitalized because there are three distinct areas of Tennessee. Although I don’t know why.
I do have an account there but I keep forgetting to get on.
Thanks for the Ted statement.
Any calls, yet, from ANY Senator for resignation and/or impeachment??
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
OPEC is laughing at Biden
zerohedge
@zerohedge
OPEC+ SEES NO NEED TO RELEASE MORE OIL INTO MARKET AT THE MOMENT BEYOND WHAT IS ALREADY PLANNED DESPITE U.S. CALLS - FOUR OPEC+ SOURCES
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1427312851660771333?s=20
Oh yes Andy Griffith is great for escaping.
I finally figured out after your post why I’m not feeling relaxed or that I get enough down time. If I’m not reading politics stuff then I’m reading my kindle, and right now I’m reading a book about what life was like for an average German family in the Hitler era. When I do my warm compresses on my eyes, I listen to my library app and right now I’m listening to a book about the Hitler Youth.
I think I need to find a book that is just relaxing and Escapish. The books I am reading are too close to real life.
Dion Nissenbaum
@DionNissenbaum
More video of chaos at Kabul airport as US officials say American forces have shot two dead and three others have been run over by departing US military planes. Others appear to have fallen to their deaths while clinging to side of US Air Force planes.
https://twitter.com/DionNissenbaum/status/1427276685620224007
Hassan I. Hassan
@hxhassan
One of the most iconic and symbolic scenes of our generation. US Air Force *excuses* itself through fleeing (and falling) young Afghans at Kabul’s airport, among other insane scenes
https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/1427273539032424461
“The decision to move our exit from May to now makes it all his.”
Thank you, good point.
Good for them. Americans First!
Well, my first guess was that some know-it-all millennial at the WH assumed that Moscow observed Daylight Savings Time and programmed the clock to the wrong time! LOL
It’s usually the simple answers...😉
One headline I thought (hoped) we’d never see...
Hamas congratulates Taliban for ‘defeating’ US
Jerusalem Post ^ | August 16, 2021 19:17 | Khaled Abu Toameh
Posted on 8/16/2021, 12:02:56 PM by Olog-hai
In response to the Taliban re-conquest of Afghanistan, Hamas on Monday congratulated the Afghan people for “defeating” the US.
“but the R’s should at least be calling for it.”
Yes, where are the gutless cowards, other than Cruz and a handful of others.
Anne of Green Gables.
Or Fifty Shades of Gray, depending on mood. 😉
I just followed you
I don’t know how to do much else there. I keep forgetting to get on and learn
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