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The US president has agreed with a Pentagon recommendation to stick with his planned withdrawal deadline, despite pressure from NATO allies, an administration official has told Reuters news agency. However, Mr Biden has asked for contingency plans to be made to stay longer should it be necessary. US officials will also tell the Taliban that being able to remove troops by next Tuesday will depend on whether the insurgents continue to cooperate. The Pentagon had recommended the US stick to the initial date because of security risks to American forces at the airport. UK government officials have previously said British...

VIDEOThe specter of Larry Elder becoming the next governor of California due to the recall election of Gavin Newsom is so horrifying to liberals that they are now engaging in over-the-top scaremongering. One example was the interview by Alicia Menendez on her MSNBC Sunday show with Los Angeles Times columnist columnist Jean Guerrero. The terrified tone in Guerrero's fast paced voice adds to the horror show aspect of the interview resulting in some rather comedic entertainment.

It has now been 90 days since President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to investigate the origins of Covid-19, but the public may have to wait a few more days to view an unclassified version of that report. In May, Biden told US intelligence agencies to "redouble" their efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the possibility that it emerged from a lab accident, and report back to him in 90 days. After months of work, that review ended Tuesday. An administration official says they are now working on briefing Biden on the findings first and...

Seven people have fallen ill after consuming a variety of food and drink from kitchens at Darmstadt Technical University in Germany, in what police suspect may have been an attempted poisoning. Several students and members of staff experienced nausea and some watched their arms or legs turn blue after using kitchen facilities and a drinks machine Police suspect poisoning at German university as students turn blue Several people experience nausea and some watch their limbs change colour after using campus kitchens Darmstadt’s Technical University’s Lichtwiese campus. Darmstadt Technical University’s Lichtwiese campus, where students and staff became ill. Photograph: Frank Rumpenhorst/AP...

We’ve just got to get people vaccinated.. After the FDA fully approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine, Anthony Fauci immediately issued a decree via his permanent CNN propaganda platform that it is time for nationwide vaccine mandates. Fauci declared that “There was some poll that showed about 30% of people who are not anti-vax, they were just waiting to get what they felt was the real final stamp of approval, which we just got today with the Pfizer product.” He continued, “And those 30% are saying when that occurs, they will feel very, very comfortable about getting vaccinated. So right away,...

Former British military commander Colonel Richard Kempt has blamed Pakistan for the Taliban’s return and warned of possible Taliban nuclear weapons. Kemp says Pakistan has a huge role to play in the Taliban’s growth, survival and return.

Was Joe Biden’s utter foul-up of the Afghanistan withdrawal an anomaly, or part of a life-long pattern? Few people have had the opportunity that Biden has had to influence and direct U.S. foreign policy. Yet, Biden has a distinct incapability to make effective foreign policy decisions. As has been documented over the last 46 years, Biden gets it wrong on everything, all the time. Questionable VotingJoe Biden opposed offering aid to the South Vietnamese in 1975 when they were at the height of their war against the North Vietnamese. This helped the North to prevail and install its brutal regime,...

The only resident of Nebraska’s only one-person town was surprised when she heard the news. The U.S. Census Bureau was reporting Monowi’s population had exploded by 100% and was now home to two people, according to 2020 results it recently released. “Well, then someone’s been hiding from me, and there’s nowhere to live but my house,” Elise Eiler said Wednesday. “But if you find out who he is, let me know?” His name is Noise, and he was created by an algorithm to try to protect Eiler’s personal information. Monowi didn’t add another resident to its population, but the Census...

G7 meeting is over, so I guess we'll hear about that

The U.S. has provided an estimated $83 billion worth of training and equipment to Afghan security forces since 2001. This year, alone, the U.S. military aid to Afghan forces was $3 billion. Putting price tags on American military equipment still in Afghanistan isn’t an easy task. In the fog of war – or withdrawal – Afghanistan has always been a black box with little sunshine. Not helping transparency, the Biden Administration is now hiding key audits on Afghan military equipment. The Taliban has seized US weapons left in Afghanistan worth billions — possibly including 600,000 assault rifles, some 2,000 armored...

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BEIRUT — An explosion shook the base of an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens of fighters, opposition activists said. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the explosion at the base of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in the country. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion near the village of Ram Hamadan was either an accident during training or a drone strike. It said 20 fighters were killed or wounded in the explosion. Step news agency, an activist collective, said at least...

Meghan McCain has compared Vice President Kamala Harris to mentally ill movie villain the Joker after she laughed when asked about the deadly crisis in Afghanistan. “This may be some kind of real issue (like Joaquin phoenix in the joker),” the former host of “The View” wrote alongside a clip of the VP chuckling wildly last Friday while halting a reporter asking her about the crisis. Phoenix’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Batman’s nemesis in the 2019 movie showed the Joker’s descent into madness marked by his menacing laughter at inappropriate moments.

Last week, the White House announced that it would stop approving new permits to import Russian-made firearms as well as ammunition. The ban, which is part of a new round of sanctions against the Russian government over its alleged poisoning and imprisoning of dissident Aleksey Navalny, is set to go into effect on Sept. 7, 2021. “Pursuant to the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (the CBW Act), the United States will impose a second round of sanctions on the Russian Federation over its use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in the August 2020 poisoning...

I see that Jen, the Raggedy Doll™ currently in charge of official government propaganda, again denies reality as is her wont: The RD™ had no comment regarding the irresponsibility level involved in planning a major military withdrawal before you got American citizens, allies, documents incriminating your allies, computers containing security data, weapons and equipment out of the country. I wonder where she thinks that plan falls on the irresponsibility scale? Related loose end: I see that Biden is now considering extending the Afghanistan withdrawal deadline beyond his own August 31st deadline. Is it irresponsible to say that is no longer...

CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting in Kabul on Monday with the Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, as the United States looks for an extension of Biden’s own deadline of August 31 to remove all Americans from Afghanistan.The Taliban said yesterday that they see the August 31 date as a “red line” and will refuse to grant the U.S. additional time to leave.CNBC:A Taliban spokesman told Sky News that the group will not accept such an extension.“It’s a red line. President Biden announced that on 31 August they would withdraw all their military forces. So if they...

The rollout of Pfizer NSE 1.68 %’s Covid-19 vaccine in India is facing another hiccup over the indemnity issue. The company is insisting that the government bear the liability for all its vaccines administered in India even if an adverse event claim is made outside the country, sources aware of the deliberations told ET. The company has sought an extension of indemnity for vaccines administered in the country even if the person subseq ..

FDA Pfizer authorization (Comirnaty): Key points to consider and discuss. These points are an aggregate of many minds, including Dr. Robert Malone. 23 Aug 2021 General talking points • Why mandates if herd immunity isn't possible? • What happens 8 months after boosters? • What's the plan for the next variant? • Why we're messing with vaccine injury liability if the vaccines are safe and effective? • DOES NOT GIVE FULL APPROVAL • Extends EUA to allow supply of current Pfizer under EUA because limited supply of BioNTech version. More at PDF link...

Charles Glasser, the brilliant media lawyer, posted to his Facebook page last week an item about a panel discussion scheduled for a media law trade group. “Why Doesn’t the Public Trust the Media? A New Survey Suggests It’s Because They Don’t Understand Journalists’ Mission,” the panel is entitled. There’s no link to the survey mentioned, but it’s not hard to figure out why people don’t trust the media anymore. It’s because they have a hard time figuring out who is a journalist and who is an activist. Was Chris Cuomo a journalist when he was interviewing his brother, Andrew, on...

Note: Dr. Singleton is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS. In Patrick Henry’s June 4, 1788, speech, “A Wrong Step Now and the Republic Will Be Lost Forever,” he pleaded for less power to the federal government and the preservation of states’ and individual rights as a condition for ratification of the Constitution. We got our Bill of Rights, including freedom of religion, speech, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. We also have the right to be secure in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.”...