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The march began peacefully in the Afghan capital Kabul as demonstrators first went to the country’s Defense Ministry to pay homage to soldiers who died fighting the Taliban. “We are here to gain human rights in Afghanistan,” said 20-year-old protester Maryam Naiby, the Associated Press reported. “I love my country. I will always be here.” Things got ugly after the women then marched to the presidential palace. After initially trying to engage with the protesters, Taliban special forced rushed the crowd and shot into the air. They also fired tear gas, sending the women fleeing. Though the Taliban have promised...

On her MSNBC show this morning, host Tiffany Cross and provocateur par excellence Elie Mystal vented their fury at the Texas law limiting abortions. And in doing so, they made a number of outrageous and absurd statements. Cross turned to Mystal for solutions, ways to block the Texas law. Mystal said there were no easy solutions, but urged Biden to go "buck wild." Someone with diminished command of his faculties going buck wild? Biden should hire a "force" of "doctors" and send them into Texas to perform abortions. A veritable invasion of Texas by an army of Biden abortionists! Get...

My sister and I are the primary caretakers of our elderly mom. She's 89 and disabled and has issues with memory due to age and TIAs. She has been to the ER twice this week. Once by ambulance...second by general admission. We were NOT allowed by the hospital to be with her. We had no way of knowing treatment for her was administered or diagnosis...even tho they gave us a "# to call". That proved useless. She was sent home with a UTI she was sent home with but they failed to treat her for it...even tho it was logged....

The Biden administration’s decisions over when to administer coronavirus vaccine boosters are triggering turmoil within the Food and Drug Administration, frustrating regulators and sparking fear that political pressures will once again override the agency’s expertise. FDA officials are scrambling to collect and analyze data that clearly demonstrate the boosters' benefits before the administration’s Sept. 20 deadline for rolling them out to most adults. Many outside experts, and some within the agency, see uncomfortable similarities between the Biden team's top-down booster plan and former President Donald Trump's attempts to goad FDA into accelerating its initial authorization process for Covid-19 vaccines and...

Amrullah Saleh, 48, is the former vice president of Afghanistan, who escaped Kabul as the Taliban advanced to join Ahmad Massoud and the National Resistance Front in the Panjshir Valley. The remote, 70 mile long valley, bordered by high mountains, is a geographical stronghold and the last province in Afghanistan to hold out against the Taliban. After peace negotiations failed, battle has now been joined with each side claiming territorial gains and heavy casualties in the past 48 hours. In a courageous and moving dispatch from the frontline, Saleh - whose leader, President Ashraf Ghani, fled Kabul for the UAE...

CELEBRATING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS "Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." -Oscar Wilde It is natural and understandable to feel pangs of envy when we see someone else get promoted while we may have not been; or to see someone else get a NAM and we were not recognized for our hard work. It is human. Life is full of many disappointments large and small, and it is tough to accept that others may enjoy greater fortune when we are equally deserving. How...

In the presentation - later uploaded for free viewing - Dr Canaday makes a range of claims, including: that the vaccine is a "medical device" that doesn't produce a cellular immune response, might contain hidden magnetic metals, can be 'shed' onto the unvaccinated, possibly doesn't offer protection as strong as natural infection, can cause miscarriages and infertility, has minimal efficacy, and has killed several thousand people - including dozens in New Zealand that haven't been reported that PCR tests don't work, can't tell the difference between the COVID-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus and influenza that there's growing evidence the virus was manufactured,...

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate JD Vance will visit Marietta again Saturday as part of the Washington County Fair Parade. He is one of several who have filed for the soon-to-be-vacated seat of U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), who decided not to run for reelection in 2022. ¯¯¯ Question: What made you decide to run for U.S. Senate? Vance: I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a poor manufacturing town located in the rust belt of Ohio. My grandparents moved there from Appalachian Kentucky hoping that their children would have better lives than they did. I believed in the American Dream,...

member of the Proud Boys was shot in the leg at an Olympia, Washington rally against vaccine and mask mandates. Social media accounts associated with street terror organization ANTIFA have already claimed responsibility for the shooting. Video filmed by a citizen journalist at the scene features a man describing being shot in the leg. Reports indicate the cameraman may have been injured by shrapnel at the scene. Sources indicate that Washington Proud Boys member Tusitala “Tiny” Toese was shot in the altercation, with an individual resembling the Toese receiving medical treatment following the shooting. Footage of the aftermath of the...

The Taliban indicated that it would work with the Peoples Republic of China and even called the communist country a "trustworthy friend." Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy director of the Taliban’s office in Doha, Qatar, said the terror group would "take effective measures" to protect Chinese institutions and personnel in Afghanistan and would allow China to continue its expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative. "China has been a trustworthy friend of Afghanistan," Hanafi said in a Thursday phone call with Chinese assistant foreign minister Wu Jianghao, according to a statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. "The Afghan Taliban is willing...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPROVERBS 6Warnings Against Folly 6 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger, 2 you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion—[a] and give your neighbor no rest! 4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like...

Scientific research is becoming one of the casualties as the Taliban again take control of Afghanistan, say experts who have lived and worked in the region. Kenneth Holland, PhD, dean of academics, research and international affairs at O.P. Jindal Global University in India, was president of the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul from 2017 to 2019. "The people of Afghanistan are losing one of their most valuable national assets -- the scientific mind," he told WebMD. Holland says that researchers, funded by the United States government and grants from other Western organizations, "are now in danger, since the Taliban...

[H/T AMorePerfectUnion]ransomnote: I did not title the video - I copied the title provided with the video. The governor does not make the statement 'dropping like flies'. He reads statistics.West Virginia - VACCINATED PEOPLE DROPPING LIKE FLIES (rumble.com)“I’m going to give you a few stats now about what’s going on In West Virginia but ah, West Virginia is seeing a 26% increase in positive cases of people that are fully vaccinated over the last eight weeks. Read that one more time. West Virginia is seeing a 26% increase in positive cases in people that are fully vaccinated, and a 21%...

A majority of adults, at 53 percent, say that President Joe Biden's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan is to blame for the death of 13 U.S. service members as a result of a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport on August 26. This is according to a Washington Post-ABC News conducted August 29-September 1 and released on Friday. "Thirteen members of the U.S. military and at least 170 Afghans were killed near the Kabul airport in a suicide bombing by the Islamic State. How much, if at all, do you blame this attack on Biden's handling of the withdrawal...

McDougall confirmed during a search of the building, officers discovered multiple unrefrigerated bodies in various states of decomposition, including some that were badly decomposed. Human fetuses were also discovered on the premises. Police have not provided a total body count, or given any sort of explanation about why the bodies were decomposing or why fetuses were on the property. So far, no one has been arrested in connection with this case... The Downard Funeral Home is owned by Pocatello resident Lance Peck and his wife. Peck has a history of licensing violations... Additionally, Downard Funeral Home was previously in charge...

More hospitals see lawsuits from family members of COVID-19 patients seeking the drugAs hospitals continue to admit COVID-19 patients, some are contending with demands from family members to attempt to treat their loved ones with ivermectin. Just last week, the CDC warned healthcare professionals to steer patients away from the drug. But that hasn't stopped the pressure on hospitals, and the outcomes of new legal cases to force hospitals to provide the drug to struggling, ventilated patients have been mixed. In the case of Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois, a Sangamon County judge earlier this week ruled in favor...

[H/T Travis McGee]SNIPThe schoolgirl, who has received a single coronavirus jab, was soon diagnosed with a blood clot in her lung following numerous blood tests, X-rays and CT scans - which doctors said was Covid-related. SNIPThe 17-year-old said she received her first Covid vaccine on August 11 but soon began to feel unwell and initially believed the symptoms were a side-effect of the vaccine.But when she developed a cough she decided to take a Covid test on August 14 which came back positive. SNIPMs Evans then went into ten days of isolation and said during this time she was 'constantly...

Pro-choice advocates in Texas have been offered a faint ray of hope from a possibly unexpected source this week – Satanists. Purportedly in the name of religious freedom, The Satanic Temple has hit back hard against the state’s recent institution of draconian anti-abortion laws. The Massachusetts-based religious group has filed a letter with the US Food and Drug Administration to make the case that abortion is the faith-based right of its members. The Satanic Temple argued that under The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was created to allow Native Americans access to peyote for use in rituals, its members...

Explanation: Not the Hubble Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 29. The snapshot was taken at 3:17am from Space View Park in Titusville, Florida. That's about 3 minutes after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-23 mission to resupply the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage of the rocket rising through still dark skies. The lower bright dot is the second stage continuing on to low Earth orbit. The...

Omar bin Laden, the son of archterrorist Osama bin Laden, apologized for his father's actions and said he plans to visit Israel together with his wife. Omar was expected to be his father's heir and the future leader of the Al Qaeda terror group, but he has rejected the task. In an interview with Yediot Aharonot, the younger bin Laden spoke about a meeting in which his father asked several of his young children to be martyrs, and described the horror he felt at that. "My father hated his enemies more than he loved his sons," Omar told the Israeli...