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“And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: Revelation 3:14,20 (New King James Version) At what point do people just say no to the strongarm tactics of the gummit? It should be obvious the masks do not work as does locking down businesses is a complete failure but those are fine for dictators. As long as they look like they are doing something the housewives will be happy and vote them into office. Results do not matter to a politician,...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani delivered a televised address on Saturday in a bid to rally troops defending Kabul as the Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations. Advertising Ghani said he was ordering the Afghan military to remobilise as they seek to defend the capital from the Taliban after the insurgents’ astonishing blitz through Afghanistan over the past week. “In the current situation, the remobilisation of our security and defence forces is our top priority, and serious steps are being taken in this regard,” he said. The focus must also be...

Popular talk radio host (and patriot) Dan Bongino has said that a pretty safe bet is to believe the opposite of whatever the media tells you. Knowing that the media truly is the enemy of the People (with obvious exceptions, of course), it would only make sense for them to try to get us to believe their narrative. Most are haters of God and freedom–that’s not an overstatement when you look around and see how they’ve helped bring America to its knees. The compromised media is much more of a threat to the safety and security of the United States...

A grieving woman who lost her fully vaccinated father to Covid on Tuesday oddly claimed her father would have suffered even more if he didn’t get the experimental vaccines. “I saw my dad, how sick as he was… I can’t imagine how much more he would have suffered if he had not gotten the vaccine,” Yvonne Rodriguez told KSAT. Because the 76-year-old man was diabetic and had heart problems, his daughter made sure her “at-risk” father was fully vaccinated. In fact, both Rodriguez’s father Patricio Elizondo and her mother Sylvia Elizondo were fully vaccinated. Sylvia passed away three months ago...

A Taliban offensive is encircling the Afghan capital and there’s increasingly only one way out for those fleeing the war, and only one way in for U.S. troops sent to protect American diplomats still on the ground: Kabul’s international airport Having abandoned Bagram Air Base — which served as the American military's main hub in Afghanistan — ahead of the final U.S. pullout at the end of the month, the U.S. military will now have to rely on flying people out of the Kabul airport. “We will be able to move thousands per day but that’s just the airlift capacity,”...

The speed of the Taliban’s advance across Afghanistan in the past few weeks left US veterans who served in America’s longest war “stunned and dismayed.” The withdrawal was “a betrayal of American and international forces, said Army Staff Sgt. Seamus Fennessy

August 16, 1977: A Tragic Loss Presley was found dead in 1977, after suffering heart failure at the age of 42. His untimely death was linked to his years of prescription drug use.

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 13. The following persons were to-day appointed: Brig.-Gen. DAVID HUNTER to be a Major-General of Volunteers. Lieut.-Col. H. STONEMAN, United States Cavalry, to be Brigadier-General of Volunteers. Major W.T. SMITH, Topographical Engineers, United States Army, to be a Brigadier-General of Volunteers. Capt. HENRY W. BENHAM, Engineers, United States Army, to be Brigadier-General of Volunteers. The river steamer Resolute to-day brought up ten contrabands, the property of a Secessionist named BROWN, living near Machacdge. The steamer was fired on from the house, when the crew went ashore, burned the buildings, and brought off the contrabands. Gen. PORTER, the...

The real worry is the gap between what the country produces and what average folks can afford to consume. Inequality is eating our economy

One of MSNBC's most popular liberal hosts is seriously considering leaving the cable news network according to a Daily Beast report.Rachel Maddow has been the top ratings host for the progressive network, but her contract is ending next year, and the negotiations with MSNBC are not going well.

Background: Gastrointestinal disorders are frequent in COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 has been hypothesized to impact on host microbial flora and gut inflammation, infecting intestinal epithelial cells. Since there are currently no coded therapies or guidelines for treatment of COVID-19, this study aimed to evaluate the possible role of a specific oral bacteriotherapy as complementary therapeutic strategy to avoid the progression of COVID-19. Methods: We provide a report of 70 patients positive for COVID-19, hospitalized between March 9th and April 4th, 2020. All the patients had fever, required non-invasive oxygen therapy and presented a CT lung involvement on imaging more than 50%....

The situation in Afghanistan is dire. But it is not too late to deploy forces to stabilize it, and ultimately turn it around. We can at least avoid the worst outcome, a collapse and slaughter that would be a catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan and a strategic and moral disaster for the United States. We know this is doable: General John Allen, who served as commander of the International Security Assistance Force from 2011 to 2013, laid out a realistic plan for salvaging the situation and avoiding the complete collapse of Kabul. Would a bold intervention now commit us...

President Joe Biden’s team has increasingly grown defensive following the swift Taliban seizure of key Afghan cities after he withdrew American troops. West Wing officials voiced their frustrations with former President Donald Trump in conversations with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan. The officials complained that Trump only left them with 3,000 troops in Afghanistan, forcing them to withdraw because there was no way to keep the peace with such a small force, according to the report. There was an early peace in Afghanistan, team Biden argued, only because Trump agreed to leave on May 1. That was an argument that White...

A Teaneck woman who was attacked and suffered a broken bone in her leg in Staples last summer after asking a fellow customer to put on a mask has filed a lawsuit against the business. Margot Kagan, 55, says in court papers a lack of supervision and security left her “boxed in” and vulnerable to the woman who allegedly attacked her near the fax machines at the Hackensack store. There was “no reasonable way to alight from a foreseeable event,” states the suit, filed last week in Superior Court of Bergen County. “(The) foreseeable event was a fellow patron who...

August 15, 2021 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemnity Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption Covington, KY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.These readings are for the Vigil Mass on the evening before the feastThese readings are for the day of the feast itselfThese readings are for the Vigil Mass on the evening before the feast:First reading1 Chronicles 15:3-4,15-16,16:1-2 ©They brought in the ark of God and put it inside the tent that David had pitched for itDavid gathered all Israel together to bring the ark of God up to the place he had prepared for it. David called together...

The Taliban has been seizing territory in Afghanistan at an alarming rate, having captured all or parts of 10 provincial capitals from the Afghan National Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) in the past week. Far from representing a reason for Joe Biden to halt the withdrawal, however, this rapid deterioration in Afghan security has exposed the bankruptcy of US policies for at least the past 15 years – and the stark unwillingness to tell the truth by a generation of senior US leaders. After President Bush’s initial objectives of disrupting al-Qaida and punishing the Taliban were accomplished by March 2002, the...

USGS has estimated “thousands of fatalities” and “tens of thousands of injuries in poor mountainous communities." “High casualties are probable and the disaster is likely widespread,” a statement from the agency released around an hour after the quake said. "Past events with this alert level have required a national or international level response." Jerry Chandler, Haiti's director of civil protection, confirmed deaths had occurred but said he doesn't "yet have an exact toll." "We're still collecting information," he told AFP. CHURCH CRUMBLES DURING CEREMONY Images posted to social media also showed significant damage to buildings including collapsed homes and rubble...

36 days ago, President Biden told the American people that the Taliban would not take over #Afghanistan after he ordered the removal of U.S. troops. https://twitter.com/polarisnatsec/status/1426225950312837122

U.S. consumer sentiment fell in early August to the lowest level in nearly a decade as Americans grew more concerned about the economy’s prospects, inflation and the recent surge in coronavirus cases. Consumer sentiment in U.S. plunges on concerns about virus, economic prospects “Consumers have correctly reasoned that the economy’s performance will be diminished over the next several months, but the extraordinary surge in negative economic assessments also reflects an emotional response, mainly from dashed hopes that the pandemic would soon end,” Richard Curtin, director of the survey, said in the report. The expectations gauge plummeted almost 14 points to...

A report that the Biden administration is discussing the possibility of vaccine passports for interstate travel drew outrage on Friday across social media. The Associated Press, noting President Biden has become more "aggressive" in his push for COVID-19 mandates, reported "more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed" by the White House. But the administration is "worried that they would be too polarizing at this time." An administration official told the AP "the interstate travel...