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A disturbing video report reveals extreme violence outside the Kabul airport at the north gate Saturday. “Source sends me another disturbing video of violence and chaos outside the Kabul airport The video was today, approx 1200-1300 Kabul time, and immediately outside airport at the north gate, per source of video,” Alex Thompson tweeted the video: “I got to the gates and was about to show my passport, but the Taliban got it, and he said you are not allowed to go through and wouldn’t give it back,” one Afghan-American on the ground relayed to the Post. “I was lucky a...

Seven people in the crowds near Kabul airport died amid the chaos of those fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, bringing the total killed in the last week to 20. The MoD said in a statement on Sunday that "conditions on the ground remain extremely challenging but we are doing everything we can to manage the situation as safely and securely as possible".SnipOn Saturday, Sky News watched as UK paratroopers began pulling people from the mayhem before medics checked vital signs of those left on the floor after a crush and then covered bodies in white sheets. Sky Chief Correspondent...

The KC Fed Jackson Hole conference is a US policy makers’ Davos, an uber-elite US location. You would think that the KC Fed would hold their conference in Kansas City or Omaha, Nebraska as a show of support for the working men and women. But nooooo. They have to hold it where Liz Cheney (GOPe, WYO) lives. And other elites have expensive vacation homes. (Bloomberg) — When U.S. Federal Reserve officials head to their annual mountain retreat next week to talk economic inequality, they’ll be sitting in the country’s wealthiest county. Jackson Hole, a rural community near the majestic Grand...

A pandemic-tightened labor market has given willing and able workers more of an upper hand with their employers for the first time in generations. While workers are trying to take advantage of this rare moment of opportunity, economists are less convinced. Worker power is the ability of an employee to command higher wages and benefits and set terms about their working conditions. Since the 1950s, worker power has generally been on the decline as the power of corporations and shareholders grew and union strength fell. But now the nation has the most job openings it has ever had since the...

A Belgian woman was barred from visiting a chimp at Antwerp Zoo after keepers determined that the two were spending far too much time together. The woman claimed she had a “affair” with the animal. The bizarre ‘love story’ made the headlines across Belgian media on Friday, after Antwerp Zoo slapped a restraining order of sorts on Adie Timmermans, a long-standing visitor. Over the past four years, Timmermans paid weekly visits to the zoo, seeking contact with one particular animal – a 38-year-old chimpanzee called Chita. The two then interacted through the enclosure’s glass, waving and blowing kisses at each...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Aug. 21. The Star, of this city, says it has positive in formation that BEAUREGARD withdrew his forces last night to a mile in the rear of Fairfax Court-house, owing, as the Star alleges, to a fright caused by a supposed advance of the Union troops. The Department has accepted a regiment of mounted rangers, to be raised in Colorado Territory, which has been tendered by Judge PETTIS, of that Territory. CHAS. B. SHAW, of Virginia, was to-day appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department, in place of J.R. YOUNG, of Mississippi, who was granted all future time...

Tony Blair has blasted US President Joe Biden's 'imbecilic' decision to withdraw American troops from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, calling the scuttle 'tragic, dangerous and unnecessary' and claiming the move had 'every Jihadist group round the world cheering'. Mr Blair, who was in Downing Street when London sent British troops into the Middle Eastern country 20 years ago following the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington - said Britain has a 'moral obligation' to stay until 'all those who need to be are evacuated'. In a 2,700 article on the threat of 'radical Islam', the former British prime minister...

You know what your favorite beer is, but how does it stack up against other beer drinkers' tastes? One company may have your answer, after they've compiled a list of the world's most-searched beer brands on Google. Some of these winners might surprise you. New research by Maxima Kitchen Equipment, a U.K. brand, has analyzed Google search data from the past month to determine the most-searched beers from the 50 most popular beer brands worldwide (with U.S. and U.K. data broken out on their own). Keep reading to find out whether your go-to brew landed on the shortlist and learn...

The massive tonnage hauled by freight rail every year means that most American consumers own goods transported on freight trains. Biden wants to ensure passenger trains have the right of way. There are approximately 233,000 miles of railroad track in the United States, and 143,361 total miles operated for all freight railroads in North America.

Gubernatorial candidate Allen West said his wife, Angela, was wrongfully arrested and jailed in the Dallas area late Friday night. According to West, his wife, who was driving with their young grandson, was suspected of drunk driving. However, he said she wasn’t drinking alcohol before the incident. In a video posted early Saturday morning via Twitter, West said his wife had gone to dinner at PF Chang’s in Dallas while he was visiting Waco. He said his wife and the people at dinner confirmed that she only had water and lemonade. Even more, West argued that his wife shouldn’t have...

U.S. defense officials say that the military is looking for alternative ways to get Americans, Afghans and third-country nationals safely to the airport in Kabul following threats from the Islamic State, according to reporting from NBC News. Two defense officials told NBC News that they are tracking specific threats from ISIS against the Kabul airport and those trying to get to the airport. With that, alternative ways are being developed to get people to the evacuation zone, the officials explained. “We are executing an alternate path,” a defense official told NBC News. This includes gathering smaller groups of people at...

Far-left Labour MP Richard Burgon has backed calls for the UK to pay war reparations to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, echoing demands from socialist front group the Stop the War Coalition. On Tuesday, the Labour MP for East Leeds, Richard Burgon, said there “is no military solution in Afghanistan”, adding that “the focus now should be on reparations and supporting refugees.” “The crisis in Afghanistan is the result of 20 years of disastrous military intervention. Just as in Iraq & Libya, backing US-led invasions led to a huge loss of life,” the Secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs continued....

Hey, Joe Biden voters, are you happy now? Your boy Dementia Joe owns it all now — the catastrophe in Kabul, open borders, rampant inflation, skyrocketing urban crime, the destruction of American energy independence, endless nonsensical lockdowns over a mild virus that is killing almost no one, not to mention so many public misstatements by the doddering old clown that his own cabinet secretaries have to correct his insane lies even before he shuffles off to Marine One for the flight back to his weekend assisted-living facility in Delaware. But no more mean tweets, right? And that’s all that matters,...

The Pentagon on Sunday activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet that will allow commercial airlines to assist with the Biden administration’s evacuation of Americans and Afghans at risk of reprisals by the Taliban, according to a report. The program will enable 20 airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, among others, to support the evacuation efforts of US citizens and Afghans with special immigrant visas from Europe and the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported. The airlines wouldn’t fly into Afghanistan, where the Biden administration is struggling to evacuate thousands from Hamid Karzai International Airport in...

A Clearwater man is facing a charge of robbery with a deadly weapon after deputies say he tried to steal a Snickers bar from a Largo WaWa gas station. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office arrested 49-year-old Erick Minto after responding to a call from the WaWa on Walsingham Road, where deputies say an employee was threatened over the chocolate, caramel, and nougat bar. Plant City woman arrested for stealing Bentley from Clearwater Beach home, police say According to an affidavit from PCSO, Minto attempted by force to take a Snickers bar, “with intent to temporarily or permanently deprive” the employee...

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time John 6:60-69 Friends, we come today to the end of the extraordinary sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Before this, Jesus told his listeners, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you." Well, today, we have the denouement of the story. We hear that "many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, ‘This saying is hard; who can accept it?’" Notice that we are talking about Jesus’ followers. And yet they find this teaching impossible to take. If his words were meant in...

A man suing the US over mask mandates said he'd seek oral arguments in front of a federal judge. Lucas Wall filed a 1,500-page response after Biden's administration sought to dismiss the lawsuit. Wall filed 218 exhibits, including medical studies, news clippings, and blog posts. Lucas Wall, a frequent flyer who's suing the Biden administration over federal mask mandates, has pushed back on an effort to get his lawsuit dismissed. On Wednesday, he filed a behemoth legal response, which renewed his argument that mandates were unconstitutional. "It will take court action to ensure Americans will no longer have to give...

On Friday, ex-Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who killed Osama bin Laden, appeared in a Fox News interview where he said President Biden “surrendered to the Taliban” and should be impeached for our catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the interview with Will Cain, O’Neill ripped into Biden and everyone involved in helping him execute the withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We have these people who are in charge who are a disgrace,” O’Neill said. “I’m amazed that there hasn’t been at least 30 generals and admirals that haven’t resigned or been fired today.” Cain then asked O’Neill how he feels about the administration...

20 years ago Joe Biden was a wise-cracking Democrat politician on top of his game. Whether you liked him or not, nobody could deny he had a way with words and knew how to work a crowd. Fast forward to now, however, and the picture is not so rosy when it comes to the former vice president’s cognitive health. The latest developments have left many Americans demanding Joe Biden to take a mental health evaluation! Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is no laughing matter. The real problem s that the Democrats knew about his mental decline almost a decade ago and...