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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The snail darter, a tiny fish that notoriously blocked a federal dam project in Tennessee decades ago, should no longer be on the endangered species list, federal officials announced on Tuesday. Arguing that the fish is no longer in danger of extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun the process to delist the species, a move backed by the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that has favored lifting protections for the fish since 2019. “Thanks to the persistence of many people, the extinction of the snail darter was ultimately avoided, and today we...

The same false information that top immunization advisers and officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) promulgated months ago somehow worked its way into an article in the medical journal Science published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The information incorrectly claimed, once again, that a new study showed people with natural immunity to Covid-19 after infection benefit further if they still get vaccinated, anyway. The writer of the article appeared to use the misinformation to try to undercut the findings of the large study in Israel that found natural immunity is far superior to...

There is only one fitting response to last week’s heart-wrenching suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul: America must get out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible, and stay out, for good. Nothing good has come of America’s involvement in Afghanistan, and nothing more will come out of it, except more flag-draped coffins. Sickeningly, the US security state responded to last Thursday’s attack with a borderline glee. Sadly, ISIS-Khorasan’s (ISIS-K) gruesome attack served the forever-war lobby perfectly, as it used the tragedy to launch a final Hail Mary bid to prolong America’s interminable, objective-free crusade in Southwest Asia....

WASHINGTON — In a season of daunting wildfires and flooding, the Biden administration is taking an initial step to assess how climate change could harm financial markets — planning to launch on Tuesday a 75-day comment period on how the impacts could reshape the insurance sector. Insurers face payouts from wildfires and flooding risks that could cause premiums to rise for many Americans, but they’re also among the largest investors in U.S. financial markets, with $4.7 trillion in assets as of the end of last year, according to the Treasury Department notice being posted in the Federal Register. A senior...

I'm going outside and howl the next time I hear anybody say the debacle of the last few weeks is ENDING THE WAR. You don't END A WAR when ONLY 1 SIDE quits/gives up/surrenders. And leaves war fighting gear, people, and dogs to the enemy. Despicable. We defeated Japan and Germany and Korea. We still have thousands of troops there. We should have done the same thing to Afghanistan. The only option now is to retake Bagram and get all our stuff back. Then kill everybody who tries to stop us.

Host L Todd Wood talks with former special unit mission commander Pete Blaber on what the HELL happened in Afghanistan, and what we need to do now. Blaber gives a timeline Americans should know.

The White Coat Waste Project, a taxpayer watchdog group, has provided The Gateway Pundit with new examples of Dr. Anthony Fauci facilitating cruel and unnecessary taxpayer funded experimentation on dogs — this time in Tunisia. Documents uncovered by the organization found that the National Institutes of Health division that is led by Dr. Fauci shipped part of a $375,800 grant to the lab in Tunisia to infest beagles with parasites. The grant money funded a study published last month that detailed the horror inflicted upon the unlucky dogs. One of the tortures that the beagles were subjected to included locking...

Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is in the midst of a dead heat with Democrat challenger Terry McAuliffe in the state’s governor’s race, a Trafalgar Group survey released Tuesday revealed. The survey, taken August 26-29 among 1,074 likely general election voters, asked, “If the election for Governor were held tomorrow, who are you most likely to support?”

VIDEOA lot of attention has been focused on Joe Biden looking at his watch when the fallen service members from Afghanistan were returned to Dover Air Force Base. You can see that scene here but what was missed was the fact that Biden also NEVER stood at attention the whole time other than when he was saluting. Biden, as you can see, either had his hands behind him at parade rest or folded his hands in front of him. Everybody else, including his wife, stood at full attention with their hands and arms properly down by their sides in stark...

State media in Russia and China have been scathing of America’s withdrawal. The Americans' defeat “is humiliating for Washington and obvious to the entire world", says Russia’s official daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. "A devastated Afghanistan and a shocking humanitarian disaster… this land is filled with artillery fire and gun fire, poverty and hunger, death and parting," says a commentary in the state China News Service agency. State outlets have also heavily criticised America over recent security incidents in Kabul. A Rossiya 1 TV correspondent alleged US marines “in panic opened fire with rifles at unarmed people” after a suicide bombing outside...

The Biden administration under the federal statute was barred from reducing troops in Afghanistan to less than 2,000 without first briefing Congress about the expected impact on U.S. counterterrorism operations and the risk to American personnel. However, Biden waived the mandate, arguing that providing this information to Congress could undermine "the national security interests of the United States," according to the Washington Free Beacon. The administration reportedly assured Congress for months that U.S.-trained Afghan forces could forestall a Taliban takeover when U.S. troops left. However, the Taliban overran the Afghan National Army and took control of Kabul on Aug. 15,...

It was 20 years ago today Asia Times published Get Osama! Now! Or Else… The rest is history. Retrospectively, this sounds like news from another galaxy. Before Planet 9/11. Before GWOT (Global War on Terror). Before the Forever Wars. Before the social network era. Before the Russia-China strategic partnership. Before the Dronification of State Violence. Before techno-feudalism. Allow me to get a little personal. I was back in Peshawar – the Islamic Rome, capital of the tribal areas – 20 years ago after a dizzying loop around Pakistan, tribal territory, a botched smuggling op to Kunar, biding time in Tajikistan,...

The spokesperson for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has left Russia and reportedly gone to Finland. On Monday, independent Russian media confirmed Kira Yarmysh left the country after facing criminal charges for allegedly violating Russia’s COVID-19 restrictions....Yarmysh has be one of Russia’s several opposition figures who have left the country due to pressure by the Kremlin. She said her guilty verdict was the result of her political activism.

Soldier’s Creed I am an American Soldier. I am a warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States, and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy, the enemies of the United...

This makes Biden an accessory to gruesome executions. Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter in Kandahar pic.twitter.com/TwCkVzUrnL — Old Holborn® (@Holbornlolz) August 30, 2021 WARNING! GRAPHIC!........... VIDEOS AT LINK......................

It's easier to manufacture relatability than it is to take responsibility. The families of 13 brave young men and women are just a few moments into a grieving process that will last the rest of their days, after an ISIS-K suicide bomber stole the lives of these American service members and 170 civilians in Afghanistan last week. On Sunday, President Joe Biden met with the families of these fallen heroes at Dover Air Force Base as flag-draped caskets descended from the plane where their beaming children in uniform should have been. Those meetings reportedly didn’t go very well. Although the...

"Whether it be a vaccine, euthanasia, or aborting life in the womb, I am opposed to forced or coerced medical procedures." I am not an “anti-vaxxer.” Those five words should be a sufficient answer to any would-be accuser who states that questioning the COVID vaccines is a betrayal of medical science. No one I know is anti-vaxxer proper. Only a small portion of whom I’ve discussed COVID-19 vaccinations with are against vaccines. One hundred percent of those people, however, are 100 percent against mandatory vaccinations of the vaccine-hesitant. Like me, they are dissenters. Whether it be a vaccine, euthanasia, or...

China barely wasted any time after Biden’s botched evacuation of Afghanistan to telegraph to the world that things will be a little different going forward: in a move that could have ramifications for the free passage of both military and commercial vessels in the South China Sea, Chinese authorities said on Sunday they will require a range of vessels “to report their information” when passing through what China sees as its “territorial waters”, starting from September 1, The Hindu reported. Over $5 trillion trade passes through the South China Sea, and numerous US naval vessels cross through contested waters, much...

resident Biden is not being swept along by the currents of history, he is turning every challenge he faces into crisis and disaster.The first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency have been fraught with crises. First it was the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccine rollout. Then it was the border crisis. Then it was the economy. And now Afghanistan, where the Taliban are now reportedly hanging people by the neck from U.S.-supplied Blackhawk helicopters, and the U.S. withdrawal has left behind hundreds of Americans and perhaps thousands of Green Card holders in what now amounts to the largest hostage crisis...

The first defendant to plead guilty in the alleged scheme to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will spend the next several years in jail. A judge last week sentenced Ty Garbin, 25, to 75 months in prison on one count of “conspiracy to kidnap.” His five co-defendants have pleaded not guilty; their trial is set to begin October 12. The case made major headlines right before Election Day 2020 as early voting was underway in the crucial swing state. It was useful fodder for Democrats and Joe Biden. (SNIP) One informant, who went by the code name “Thor,” was paid...