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Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the White House on Sunday afternoon to call on the international community to help those fleeing Afghanistan. The large group of Afghan protesters held up signs saying “speak for the silenced” and “don’t let history repeat.” They were chanting “the Taliban are terrorists” and “stop killing Afghans.” The protests followed the Taliban’s take over of Afghanistan’s capital Sunday, as the government collapsed and the president fled his own country.She said she was at home on Sunday watching the coverage of the Taliban taking over Kabul and felt like she had to come down...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged the Taliban and all other parties to exercise the utmost restraint in order to protect lives and expressed particular concern about the future of women and girls in Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents entered Kabul https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/talibans-rapid-advance-across-afghanistan-2021-08-10 and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan on Sunday, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a U.S.-led invasion. "There continue to be reports of serious human rights abuses and violations in the communities most affected by the fighting," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in...

As panicked Afghans watched Taliban fighters roll into the capital city of Kabul Sunday, sealing the collapse of the U.S.-backed government there, many Americans were left wondering how top Biden officials could have been so wrong in their recent proclamations that Kabul would not easily fall. Just days ago, a U.S. military analysis reported by ABC News predicted that Kabul could fall within 90 days -- not by the weekend. "This is a crisis of untold proportions," Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told NBC News Sunday as Taliban militants swept into Kabul. "This is an intelligence failure. We underestimated the Taliban...

Random twists of place: How quiet is quantum space-time at the Planck scale?February 12, 2021 | Craig Hogan Fermilab scientists have been conducting experiments to look for quantum fluctuations of space and time at the smallest scale imaginable according to known physics. At this limit, the Planck length, our classical notions of space and time break down.Imagine the ratio of the size of the universe compared to a speck of dust. That’s about how big the speck of dust is compared to the Planck length, 10-33 centimeters. The Planck time is how long it takes light to travel that distance.Quantum...

Nearly 900 state employees and more than 200 of their spouses took advantage of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s vaccine incentive offer after he rolled it out last month, records show. The Republican governor announced the offer — $100 for employees and $25 for their spouses — as COVID-19 vaccination efforts stalled amid spiking case numbers and hospitalizations. “We are hopeful the enhanced incentive encourages any individuals on the fence regarding the COVID-19 vaccine,” Dan Tierney, a DeWine spokesman, said Wednesday. A day earlier, DeWine said his office has told every health department in Ohio that the state will be there...

Christian Hungary Is Not the ProblemInstead of attacking Orban, European progressives should fix their own countries.The brutal death of a French Catholic priest last week is grimly symbolic of liberal Europe’s direction under its open-borders ideology. The priest was beaten to death by a Rwandan immigrant to whom he had given shelter. The immigrant was a known threat to the French authorities: a year ago he had been arrested for trying to burn down the Cathedral of Nantes.The French have become accustomed to these horrific stories in recent years. In 2020, a Tunisian immigrant beheaded a woman and killed two...

Former President Donald Trump Sunday called on President Biden to “resign in disgrace” over his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and other issues. “It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the Border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy,” the former president wrote in a statement. The Taliban has rapidly taken control of most of the country as insurgent forces enter the capital city of Kabul, where U.S. troops have been sent to evacuate the embassy. Mobs of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s top general said Sunday that the United States could now face a rise in terrorist threats from a Taliban-run Afghanistan. That warning comes as intelligence agencies charged with anticipating those threats face new questions after the U.S.-backed Afghan military collapsed with shocking speed. Less than a week after a military assessment predicted Kabul could be surrounded by insurgents in 30 days, the world on Sunday watched stunning scenes of Taliban fighters standing in the Afghan president's office and crowds of Afghans and foreigners frantically trying to board planes to escape the country. Gen. Mark Milley, the...

BREAKING REPORT: US Abandons American Citizens in Afghanistan — Tells Them to Go Hide, "Shelter in Place".. Airport taking fire.. https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1427064793186410496

Last Days in Vietnam: A Moral Obligation With just 24 hours in which to complete an evacuation of Americans still in the embassy in Saigon, Ambassador Martin decides to airlift as many South Vietnamese as possible to safety from the advancing North Vietnamese Army, in this video adapted from American Experience: Last Days in Vietnam.

(Worth watching at link - Can't believe the tone from CBS - sounds like Fox)

When does it start? Many of us were at our respective State Capitols on January 6th, peaceably doing our civic duty. One would think the time has come to do it again, except this time don't stop. Joe must go, and he must take his entire gang of communists and other dregs of society with him. This includes the whore from Canada and the ancient mafia princess from San Francisco.

MASS OF THE AGES: Episode 1 — Discover the Traditional Latin Mass

A Taliban commander claimed he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay in a triumphant speech from inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul as the militants declared an Islamic state of Afghanistan after the country's president joined thousands of Afghan nationals in a mass exodus.

WADSWORTH, Ohio — For years, an Ohio woman has wondered about the son she gave up for adoption more than three decades ago. What does he look like? What does he do for a living? Was he happy? Well, thanks to the popular DNA genetic testing service 23andMe, she now has those answers and more. Melanie Pressley was just 18 when she got pregnant with her first child — a boy. Her boyfriend at the time wasn’t supportive and wanted her to get an abortion. Pressley refused and continued on with the pregnancy. But eventually, she knew she couldn’t keep...

There are scenes of utter panic and chaos at Kabul's Hamid Karzai international airport as tens of thousands of people try to fly out of the country. People have been flocking there since last evening in a last desperate effort to escape the Taliban. There were earlier reports that civilians had been injured on the tarmac as the attempts to flee at times resembled a stampede. The 6,000 US troops tasked for security duty in Kabul will now instead be sent to secure the entire perimeter of the airport, reports say. The US Department of State and Department of Defense...

Taliban officials declared victory and the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after occupying the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday. Appearing in a Twitter video alongside other Taliban leaders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s cofounder, pronounced victory in the battle for the nation. “We have achieved an unexpected victory,” he said. “Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way.” Baradar said the Taliban have appointed him to be “leader of Afghanistan” and take the reigns of government. Pakistani authorities arrested Baradar in 2010,...

Dear Mr Bush- You as well as your brother Jeb ran your mouths the prior four years, criticizing our President, Donald J Trump. You seemed especially upset over a few trespassers at the Capital on January 6th. This after no one heard a peep from you between the years of 2008 to 2016 when police officers were routinely assassinated at work and embassy workers were dragged through the streets in the Middle East. Now Mr Bush, America has turned tail in Afghanistan which you got us involved in, for good reason in my opinion, and the sacrifice you asked many...

According to a new report by the Financial Times (FT), China has offered to build a road network for the Taliban if they can ensure peace in Afghanistan following the United States (US) military’s withdrawal from the country. FT quoted senior Pakistan-based tribal leaders with close ties to the group as saying that Beijing has offered “sizeable investments in energy and infrastructure projects” throughout the nation, which would help boost local commerce and trade.

Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies are a game-changer in fighting this disease, according to the doctor. Prior to the treatment's availability, if someone tested positive for COVID-19 but wasn’t severe enough to be hospitalized, that person then isolated at home. "Now we can say we actually have something that can decrease your risk of hospitalization and improve your chances of survival if you have features that place you at risk for progressing on to more advanced forms of COVID-19," said Dr. Robert Gottlieb with the Baylor Scott & White Research Institute. This comes as hospitals and ICUs are facing another surge, with...