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The American Jobs Plan (AJP), AKA The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act, is a proposal by U.S. president Joe Biden to spend $2+ trillion on U.S. infrastructure over eight years. A Fact Sheet outlining the goals of this legislation was published in March of this year, and the 2,700-page law is now working its way through Congress. In a recent vote, 17 Republicans voted to move along this bill. It seems to have bipartisan support. This bipartisan support reveals the mental, moral, fiscal, legal, and logical collapse of the USA. The bill lacks a conceptual and logical foundation. It is...

Jeffrey Epstein's telecoms specialist will swear on oath that he saw Prince Andrew groping Virginia Giuffre on the billionaire's 'Paedo Island', it was claimed last night. Steve Scully claims to have witnessed the Duke of York kissing and grinding against a blonde woman wearing a bikini - whom he insists was Andrew's sex accuser - by a swimming pool on Little Saint James between 2001 and 2004. It comes after sources close to Ms Giuffre suggested the 'arrogant' prince has woefully underestimated the severity of the case against him. Mr Scully, 71, told the Sun on Sunday: 'I was working...

Afghanistan has been called "the graveyard of empires." While disputes about the validity of the term continue, the fact is that the country has been a battleground for empires. From ancient times until today, the country has been invaded by what is present-day India, the Greeks, Muslims of the Rashidun caliphate, Mongols led by Genghis Khan, Persians, and Sikhs. More recently, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and NATO led by the United States have had a go at establishing a presence in the nation. Why is Afghanistan so important? According to military tacticians, any entity controlling Afghanistan has a...

Wretchard summarizes Biden’s challenging week and notes the challenges are going to get even bigger: Joe Biden is facing simultaneous challenges. The collapse of Afghanistan in place of a “decent interval”; The resurgence of the Covid Delta variant in place of the anticipated reopening of society; Looming inflation and economic problems in place of the anticipated boom. The unending border crisis. It’s a dramatic reversal of fortune on all fronts. Biden failed to anticipate either the events or their speed and intensity and there is little to suggest he can handle the second order crises that is coming in its...

@disclosetv JUST IN - Afghanistan's president Ghani is relinquishing power. Interim "government" led by the Taliban to be formed. Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to become president of Afghanistan.

In 1920, in the face of Soviet aggression, Catholic Poland stood alone . By the spring of 1920 Poland was under attack from the Soviet Red Army. At the national Marian shrine of Czestochowa candles were lit and desperate prayers intoned beside the icon of the Black Madonna. The intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa was never more needed. .... Strange rumors began to circulate in Warsaw. Some claimed that in the sky above the Polish lines had appeared the Black Madonna of Czestochowa. While the Poles fought with a new resolve, the Soviets, curiously, lost theirs. One Russian rifleman...

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Pakistan's foreign minister has accused India and Afghanistan of backing a suicide bombing which killed nine Chinese workers on July 14, and called for the remaining perpetrators to be handed over to Islamabad for trial. The attack, which took place in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, left 13 people dead and dozens injured after a bus convoy carrying Chinese engineers to a construction site was rammed by a car carrying more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of explosives, according to Pakistan authorities. Two Pakistan soldiers were also killed in the attack. Speaking at a press briefing Thursday, Foreign...

Earthquakes Can even Uproot the Crops This is one of the crazy things but we know this can be possible if they can uproot the buildings then this is just crops.Following the magnitude of nearly 7.8’s earthquake that hit Nepal in April 2015.Many scientists that are surveying its damage observed that bushels of carrots scattered along the ground in various villages.See some more interesting facts about the earthquake that you may not know.

In a rare occurrence, the George Soros-funded anti-Israel Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday admitted Hamas was guilty of committing war crimes during its May conflict with Israel by indiscriminately firing thousands of terror rockets toward Israeli population centers. The attacks “flagrantly violated” the laws of war, the New York-based group said in its report. The report also acknowledged Israel’s claim that Palestinian rockets and mortars had misfired, and landed within Gaza, killing and injuring an unknown number of Palestinians. According to the report, one rocket that had fallen short above the city of Jabalya killed seven civilians and injured...

Taliban have started entering Kabul from all sides - Afghan interior ministry Three Afghan officials have also confirmed Taliban militants have entered the outskirts of the city. Kabul is the last major city that has not yet fallen to the Taliban. Taliban orders its fighters to refrain from violence in Kabul A Taliban leader in Doha has told fighters not to create violent scenes in the capital and allow safe passage to anyone who chooses to exit, according to Reuters news agency. Kabul airport remains the only route out of Afghanistan. However, women have also been told to move to...

@SkyNewsBreak Afghan officials say Taliban militants have entered the outskirts of the capital Kabul

Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash spoke to Golan Yochpaz Anat Davidov on 103FM to discuss the government's policy on combatting the rise in coronavirus cases. "I am following the numbers with concern, even over the weekend there were many verified cases and the number of patients has risen sharply. The number of verified cases is expected to rise, we hope to see the effect of the third vaccine dose. We are opening more and more wards, and dealing with such a wave is very complicated, There is already a decline in the quality of care of the hospitals, and...

“The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat” (Proverbs 15:30).

The US government has defended the legality of its mask mandates, filing a point-by-point rebuttal against a complaint in Florida that said such mandates were unconstitutional. This week's filing appeared to be the first time the government laid out a lengthy legal defense against claims that mask mandates put in place during the pandemic were illegal. The filing included 88 pages of rebuttals and another 70 pages of exhibits. ... ..."And there is no constitutional right 'to not have a policy imposed on [him],' that he thinks is harmful — that is one of the basic tradeoffs of living in...

Speaking to Martha MacCallum this week, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who served under the Trump administration, slammed Biden over the way his administration has been handling the military pullout, which was first conceived by former President Donald Trump. Pompeo, the former CIA Director and Secretary of State, revealed what Trump told the Taliban in meetings and how the U.S. would withdraw its forces from the country. “I don’t know exactly what they are doing, but we had conditions attached to how we were thinking about this withdrawal — I was part of those negotiations,” Pompeo said. “I was...

Josephine County, Ore. -- On Saturday, Josephine County Public Health Officials announced that two more people have died from coronavirus, with one of the victims being fully vaccinated. The 47-year-old woman was diagnosed on August 9th and died the following day at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center in Grants Pass. Health officials did state that the woman did have underlying conditions, but they were not specified.

Earth sizzled in July and became the hottest month in 142 years of recordkeeping, U.S. weather officials announced. As extreme heat waves struck parts of the United States and Europe, the globe averaged 62.07°F (16.73°C) last month, beating out the previous record set in July 2016 and tied again in 2019 and 2020. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. The margin was just .02°F (.01°C). The last seven Julys, from 2015 to 2021, have been the hottest seven Julys on record, said NOAA climatologist Ahira Sanchez-Lugo. Last month was 1.67°F (0.93°C) warmer than the 20th century average for...

NSW recorded 466 new cases of COVID-19 overnight with at least 60 infectious in the community and four deaths, prompting a state-wide lockdown

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At first glance, Moderna Therapeutics looks like the most enviable biotech startup in the world. It has smashed fundraising records and teamed up with pharmaceutical giants as it pursues a radical plan to revolutionize medicine by transforming human cells into drug factories. But the reality is more complicated.

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