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The world watched this week as images of women were painted over on beauty parlours in Kabul. The symbolism was impossible to miss. After twenty years of limited — though steadily increasing — freedoms, the concealment of the women of Kabul, and Afghanistan, had resumed. After the Taliban announced that it will respect women’s rights “in accordance with Islamic law” on Wednesday, a woman was reportedly killed for not wearing a burqa and another was beaten to death in front of her four children for refusing to cook for them. Women for the Taliban are the first target for enforced...

A week after the Fall of Kabul, the flailing hegemon continues to embarrass itself: America's official deadline for total withdrawal from Afghanistan is August 31st, so half the remaining time has already elapsed, and in that time, according to the Department of Defense, it has evacuated just 2,500 Americans - or about 350 per day. That seems an under-performance - or, as The New York Post's front-page headline distills it, "DUMKIRK". The soi-disant "superpower" now resembles one of those stories you see from time to time on Eyewitness News: the 700-lb bedridden guy unable to get up, even to go...

Australia should look at Israel to learn how to deal with Covid-19 once the country has achieved a high vaccination rate, a leading diseases expert has said. Professor Tony Blakely of the University of Melbourne said Australia can 'learn a lot' from Israel which under one of the fastest jab rollouts in the world has vaccinated 78 per cent of over 12s, the majority with Pfizer, but is suffering a surge in cases. Australia has targeted a 70 per cent vaccination rate to start living more freely and without lockdown; and 80 per cent to get back to 'normal' life...

T-Mobile continues to investigate a data breach from the past week that compromised the personal information of tens of millions people, and not just active subscribers. The data includes names, driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers and device identification (IMEI and IMSI) numbers for subscribers, former customers, and prospective customers who may have been interested in T-Mobile service at one point. And the breach includes customers of Metro by T-Mobile too. That means almost anyone who has given their information to T-Mobile could be affected.

President Biden address(es) the nation on the situation in Afghanistan as well as the administration’s response to Hurricane Henri.

This is an Excerpt on the vaccines and Ivermectin taken from the Frontline Covid Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) Frequently Asked Questions (GAQ) Page: WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON VACCINES? We get a number of questions about vaccines from people anxious about their safety and efficacy. We fully understand your concerns about these new vaccines and the potential side effects. Our research and clinical expertise are in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 and our protocols contain a range of medicines, that have proven to be extremely effective. The decision to get vaccinated is a personal one, and should be a...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday to discuss Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Blinken was pressed on the Biden Admin’s efforts to extricate Americans stuck in Afghanistan behind enemy lines. Advertisement - story continues below Thousands of Americans are stranded in Afghanistan in a potential hostage situation as terrorist factions block roads to Kabul airport with checkpoints. Americans are reportedly being beaten and harassed by Taliban terrorists. .... Snip.... Meanwhile French, British and German special forces are rescuing their countrymen. Secretary Blinken on Sunday said “the best way to do this” is to leave Americans...

Click here to read the full articleHere’s an arti­cle that Kamala is try­ing to cov­er up. It’s from April 25th when she was brag­ging about pulling all troops out.Har­ris says she had key role in Biden’s Afghanistan with­draw­al decisionThe vice pres­i­dent con­firmed she was the last per­son in the room before Biden made the deci­sion to move for­ward with with­draw­ing U.S. troops.Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris con­firmed Sun­day that she was the last per­son in the room before Pres­i­dent Joe Biden made the deci­sion to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.In an inter­view with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of...

Olivia Troye, a “former advisor to Vice President Mike Pence” who has received widespread praise from corporate media for repeating left-wing talking points on cable news shows, is a far-left activist who has displayed a George Floyd poster, a book by anti-Trump activist Alexander Vindman, a poster of what appears to be masked doctors, and a book authored by an organization that was co-founded by Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright. “There were cabinet mtgs about this during the Trump Admin where Stephen Miller would peddle his racist hysteria about Iraq & Afghanistan,” Troye claimed in a Twitter thread that received...

Rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee. At least 10 people were killed, including twin toddlers who were swept from their father's arms, according to surviving family members. Authorities feared the death toll could rise. The flooding in rural areas took out roads, cellphone towers and telephone lines, leaving families uncertain about whether their loved ones survived the unprecedented deluge. Emergency workers were searching door to door, said Kristi Brown, a coordinator for health and safety supervisor with Humphreys County Schools....

Lloyd Austin said in an interview that aired Sunday that some intelligence assessments predicted the Taliban would gain control of Afghanistan within months of a U.S. troops withdrawal – in stark contrast to President Biden's July claims there were no such reports. 'I know the president has said that the intelligence absolutely did not show that anybody – that the Taliban could take over in 11 days. What's the earliest you were aware that that could happen?' ABC News' Martha Raddatz asked the Defense secretary in a pre-taped interview. 'There were assessments that ranged initially from one to two years...

PHOENIX - Arizona's Attorney General announced on Aug. 20 that businesses within the State of Arizona can require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. A summary of a legal opinion written by Attorney General Mark Brnovich was posted to the Attorney General's website on Friday, amid ongoing debate over vaccine mandates. "While public health measures may be pursued during emergencies, they cannot trample constitutionally guaranteed liberties," Brnovich wrote. "Arizonans should be free, without coercion, to make medical decisions regarding vaccination that they feel are best for themselves and their families."

Will the Church Defend Conscience Rights in the Age of COVID?Will the Church Defend Conscience Rights in the Age of COVID?Liberal Catholics normally extol the rights of conscience and favor a loose interpretation of rules. But they have turned strict and dogmatic on all matters related to COVID. They treat the unvaccinated as sinners beneath contempt. “Let’s start replacing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ with ‘vaccine stupidity’ or ‘vaccine selfishness,’” says Michael Sean Winters at the National Catholic Reporter.Pope Francis has joined the collectivists in casting vaccine use as compulsory. “I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine,” he has said. The...

First, there’s the extremely significant fact that the plesiosaur surfaced around 250 million years ago and died out around 66/65 million years ago. Plesiosaurs, the fossil record has conclusively shown, lived in saltwater environments: our planet’s oceans. Loch Ness, however, is a freshwater loch. Yes, there is evidence of the occasional plesiosaur in a freshwater environment all those millions of years ago, but the bulk of the cases are not suggestive of entire colonies of the beasts inhabiting freshwater bodies. It’s far more likely and plausible that they wandered into them and died there. And, yes, there are both a...

I was standing at the bar at the Legion post one night minding my own business when this FAT ugly chick came up behind me, grabbed my behind, and said, "You're kinda cute. You gotta phone number? I said, "Yeah, you gotta pen?" She said, "Yeah, I got a pen". I said, "You better get back in it before the farmer misses you." Cost me 6 stitches...but When you're over seventy.............who cares? I went to the drug store and told the clerk ... "Give me 3 packets of condoms, please." Lady Clerk: "Do you need a paper bag with that,...

The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure to join early and leave your questions in the chat section. Always a fast-moving show. Wide-ranging discussions include emerging global issues, US military degradation, national cultural instability, attacks on freedom from the left and recent news stories. A good resource for ideas to prepare for possible events and for equipment evaluations and suggestions. Subscribed listeners can ask questions in the comments...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lectured American Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call Monday for the allegedly “hasty” American withdrawal from Afghanistan and warned him not to seek help from Beijing on the issue while working to “contain and suppress China.” Wang’s alleged comments surfaced in the Global Times, a Chinese regime media outlet, and contrasted significantly to the brief description of the conversation published by the U.S. State Department. “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with PRC [China] State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi about developments in Afghanistan,” the State Department noted on...

Canadian Dr. Charles Hoffe has administered 900 doses of the Moderna mRNA vaccine. After a number of these patients complained of persistent fatigue he decided to test for blood clots. He found that 62% of these vaccinated patients had microscopic blood clots. While these clots are not large enough to cause a immediate health danger, he is concerned that from a longer term perspective the vaccines might pose a serious risk. He speculates that "the vaccines stimulate the body to produce billions of spike proteins. The hope is that these will cue the body's immune system to develop antibodies to...

I asked a clerk at Walmart if they had any female to female USB connectors. He look at kinda strange and left. About the time I was done looking he came back and said they didn't carry them. I thought in today's world he might have been confused by the sexists pronouns that everyone wants to avoid.

Civil rights leader Rev. (Jesse Jackson)—who is fully vaccinated—and his wife, Jacqueline Jackson, were both hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a statement on Saturday.Jesse Jackson, 79, received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021 during a (during a publicized event) and urged others to get the vaccine as soon as possible. It’s not clear if his wife, who is 77, also got the vaccine.[snip] COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP ((Chinese Communist Party) virus.