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Full article title: Overloaded but airborne: Incredible photo shows 640 Afghans on a US C-17 cargo jet - designed to carry 150 - after they ran on before soldiers could close ramp and pilot decided to take off from Kabul and save them all The first photos have emerged of crammed US cargo jets with hundreds of terrified Afghan refugees on board after they ran onto the aircraft before military personnel could close ramps on them on Sunday in their escape of the Taliban. The US has so far flown at least two C-17 cargo jets out of Kabul and...

A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified "no-fly" records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. Millions of people on no-fly and terror watchlists exposed July this year, Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko came across a plethora of JSON records in an exposed Elasticsearch cluster that piqued his interest. The 1.9 million-strong recordset contained sensitive information on people, including their names, country citizenship, gender, date of birth, passport details, and no-fly status. The exposed server was indexed by search engines Censys and ZoomEye, indicating...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee's former top vaccine official Dr. Michelle Fiscus said she was sent a muzzle one week before she was fired from her position. However, according to an investigation by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the package was sent to her from an Amazon account in her name. The case investigation finding was first reported by Axios. The state said the case was closed on Monday. After Fiscus was sent the muzzle in early July, Homeland Security was contacted to investigate who sent the package. The package did not have a return address or...

Nearly 100% of the coronavirus samples analyzed in Ohio in late July showed the highly contagious delta variant, Ohio Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said Thursday morning. “COVID-19 is now more contagious than the common cold or flu,” he said. In addition to being more contagious, evidence suggests that the viral load in patients in the early days with the delta variant is higher than when people were sick with other variants. Patients are getting sicker, faster, Vanderhoff said during his first press conference since Gov. Mike DeWine appointed him to be the department’s head, beginning...

After America was attacked by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001, my father, Republican Congressman Ron Paul, voted for a U.S. strike on the Taliban in Afghanistan for harboring the 9/11 terrorists. We were attacked, so we struck back. This is the reason we have and need a strong military: Actual national defense. But our military is not meant for nation building. Not for policing the world. Not for imposing democracy in places that have never known it. Not only are these bad ideas, but they aren’t the point of our military and they do nothing for our national defense. Unfortunately,...

Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 19:16-22 Friends, today’s Gospel is the story of the rich young man. The rich young man has a deep desire to share in everlasting life. He is hungry for the infinite good of the Spirit. He knows what he wants, and he knows where to find it. Jesus is the infinite good that the soul wants. He is God’s own self made flesh. If you want to live in friendship with God, there are certain things that you must cut out of your life. Friendship with God means a life of love; therefore, those...

Eighty-three-year-old Catholic theologian Charles-Louis Richard was shot by the army of revolutionary France on this date in 1794 in Mons, Belgium. Although not a household name to posterity, this Dominican (English Wikipedia entry | French) was in his day one of his party’s great polemicists and adver is called by Daniel-Rops the most distinguished apologist of the eighteenth century because of his Universal Dictionary of the Sacred Sciences (six folio volumes of almost 5,000 pages, completed 1765) written to counteract the famous Encyclopedie of Voltaire, the Bible of the Enlightenment. He also produced A General Dictionary of the Theological Sciences...

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday afternoon carried the water for Joe Biden after his disingenuous speech on his botched exit strategy in Afghanistan. According to reports, Joe Biden overruled his own military leaders on the withdrawal. Advertisement - story continues below Just like Barack Obama said, “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up.” The Taliban took control of Afghanistan within days as Joe Biden vacationed at Camp David. Biden crawled out of his hole on Monday and delivered an appalling speech where he blamed everyone under the sun for the chaos in Afghanistan. Joe Biden made sure to focus...

•Meta analysis using the most serious outcome reported shows 73% [56‑84%] and 86% [75‑92%] improvement for early treatment and prophylaxis, with similar results after exclusion based sensitivity analysis and restriction to peer-reviewed studies or Randomized Controlled Trials. •Statistically significant improvements are seen for mortality, hospitalization, recovery, cases, and viral clearance. 27 studies show statistically significant improvements in isolation. The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 63 studies is estimated to be 1 in 1 trillion. StudiesProphylaxisEarly treatmentLate treatmentPatientsAuthorsAll studies6386% [75‑92%]73% [56‑84%]40% [24‑52%]26,422613Peer-reviewedPeer-reviewed4286% [73‑93%]75% [61‑84%]43% [21‑59%]16,455436Randomized Controlled TrialsRCTs3184% [25‑96%]67% [54‑76%]30% [2‑50%]6,561359Percentage improvement with ivermectin treatment•While many...

T-Mobile has confirmed its servers have been hacked - but refused to confirm claims 100 million customers personal data - including social security numbers and drivers licenses - are now for sale online. The hack was confirmed Monday afternoon, with a spokesman saying: 'We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred, however we have not yet determined that there is any personal customer data involved.' T-Mobile offered no further details of the breach, or confirmation that details including the names, addresses and unique phone serial numbers - known as IMEIs - of almost its entire customer base...

A defiant President Joe Biden spoke to the world to address the calamity taking place in Afghanistan, a nightmare scenario he said on July 8 was “highly unlikely” to occur.“I had a decision to make,” said Biden, claiming the time was right to leave Afghanistan. The president was adamant, stating that the United States’ goal is “counter-terrorism, not counter insurgency or nation-building.” He added: “We planned for every contingency, including collapse.”Biden said that he had to make a choice to make as president: “The choice I had to make as your president was stick with Trump’s plan to withdraw or...

Thousands of U.S. citizens are trapped in Kabul with no ability to get to the airport. As Taliban soldiers go door to door, searching for Westerners, these U.S. citizens are now reaching out to Washington for help. “We’ve been screaming at the State Department over this issue,” one senior GOP Senate staffer told me. “This is a s---show everyone saw coming, and they didn’t do a damn thing about it until about 24 hours ago, after days of pounding on them by the Hill.” State Dept and DOD have two options: negotiate safe passage for American citizens with the Taliban,...

I would like some clarification as to the truth of the rules and situation here on the FR. Several times over the last few years it has been mandated by certain users that a prerequisite for participating here, conversing here, or donating here is mandated that you must first be a White Puritan Christian. No exceptions or you are considered a Troll. You must believe what they believe exactly or you should hit the highway. Anyone else conservative or not, are to be considered as just trolls and should excommunicate themselves and leave. This is an important clarification. Because if...

Francis Triggers Syro-Malabar Rite RevoltProgressive clergy reject pope's compromise formula for ancient liturgyKERALA, India (ChurchMilitant.com) - India's Syro-Malabar rite priests are rebelling against Pope Francis' recent letter that imposes liturgical uniformity by approving a compromise between facing the altar and facing the congregation while offering the Holy Qurbana (Eucharist). Pope Francis meets scandal-plagued Cdl. Alencherry All 456 priests of the Syro-Malabar archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly wrote to Francis Tuesday insisting they would celebrate Mass ad populum (facing the people), breaking with the ancient Chaldean tradition of offering the Holy Qurbana ad orientem (facing East).The revolt has intensified the ongoing liturgical crisis...

When asking what the opposite of love is, a common response to the question would be that the answer is hate. However, hate is not the answer. It can only be part of the answer, being that it is more of a symptom that must have a root. At the crux of all evil is selfishness. The opposite of love is selfishness. God is love; yet, God hates evil. King Solomon said, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” His father King David says in Psalms, “Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee? and am...

President Joe Biden cut his trip to Camp David short and returned to the White House Monday to deliver remarks on Afghanistan He defended his decision to bring home U.S. troops despite the Taliban's rapid capture of Kabul But he admitted that the rapid collapse unfolded much faster than anyone expected 'So what's happened? Afghanistan's political leaders gave up and fled the country,' he said But critics said it was not the decision to leave, but the manner of the abrupt departure that caused chaos Biden was originally supposed to stay at Camp David until Wednesday as part of an...

A representative of Chinese state media mocked the U.S.'s withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the Taliban takeover was smoother than the presidential transition earlier this year. Hu Xijin, an editor of the state-produced Global Times, sent out a tweet Sunday night. 'Chinese netizens joked that the power transition in Afghanistan is even more smooth than presidential transition in the US,' Hu wrote. 'What a joke. In Kabul today, the new government takeover was even more stable than when the US changed presidents,' Weibo user Chen Zhen wrote. The presidential transition between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden was the...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccinations Strong yesterday (858K) - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths reporting lagging over the Weekend) Administered: 357,292,057 (13,921,901 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 198,595,349 Fully Vaccinated: 168,689,357

This is madness. Forced vaccination with an experimental “for emergency use only” shot that has directly led to death and injury for over 500,000 Americans. Is this really happening? Are you sure this isn’t 1938 Nazi Germany? Or a communist country that provides no civil or human rights to its citizens? Because this can’t be America. That figure of over 500,000 deaths, serious injuries and adverse effects directly from the Covid vaccine is not from me…it’s not from some wild unreliable Internet rumor…it comes from the US government and CDC-connected vaccine adverse event reporting system called VAERS. Its more deaths...

Trump deserves enormous credit for ending the war in Afghanistan something Barack “surge” Obama couldn’t do as he was a useful puppet to the Military Industrial Complex. President Trump had the courage to negotiate with the Taliban and agreed a deal to get all troops out by the end of 2020 only for the neocons like Liz Cheney teaming up with Democrats in the House to stop it and punt it until well into 2021 (i.e now). To the tough guy neocons on both sides: Accept this. To the generals who don’t have a clue and think every country wants...