The US State Department has been accused of blocking dozens of Americans from fleeing Afghanistan after failing to tell the Taliban it had green-lighted charter flights.
On Sunday, Reuters reported that the delay had been caused by Biden administration officials not telling Taliban leaders it had approved the departures of the chartered flights from an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, 260 miles north of Afghan capital Kabul.
An exasperated flight organizer hit out at the State Department over the fiasco, saying: ‘They need to be held accountable for putting these people’s lives in danger.’
The Taliban have fought their way to the capital of Panjshir, the last Afghan province holding out against their rule, and seem on the brink of total victory.
The group posted pictures on social media showing Taliban fighters standing in front of the gate of the governor’s compound. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement, saying Panjshir was under the control of Taliban fighters.
“With this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war,” he said.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Erin O’Toole, promised a federal proof-of-vaccine system if his party gets elected, which means that those who support civil liberties are going to be left with few options as all major parties support the invasive practices.
It was just a few weeks ago that President Joe Biden left his vacation in order to handle a couple of photo opportunities. One was to deliver a speech at the White House regarding the crisis in Afghanistan while the other was to conduct an interview with ABC News to try and salvage his credibility.
In the ABC interview, Biden said that he was committed to leaving American troops in Afghanistan until anyone who wanted to leave the country was out. He said that he was committed to providing these Americans a safe exit from the country.
Let’s say you used to be the popular kid who got invited to all the posh parties? When you walked by, everyone would stage whisper (so you could hear) how marvelous your wardrobe was.
They all wanted selfies with you. They texted their friends so say they’d seen you – almost shook hands with you. Everything you did seemed so “woke,” so “2015.”So, what if you still come off as so “2015” when it’s 2021?
What if you’re a one-trick pony. And that trick – your “woke-ism” – increasingly comes across as condescending, repetitive, spoiled, preachy, shallow? Dare I say, even hypocritical?
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday said that Pentagon leaders lied to Americans about Afghanistan for years and actively worked to undermine former President Donald Trump after he challenged their record on the war there.
During his opening monologue, Carlson said that the first meeting Trump had with the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, “it didn’t go well” because the new president told them they were “all losers” because they “don’t know how to win anymore.”
“It was a harsh assessment, obviously though arguably true,” Carlson said, going on to note that regardless of how they feel about the commander-in-chief, they are bound by the Constitution to follow his orders.
The Establishment Media Is Once Again Doing Trudeau’s Bidding
The establishment press has gotten the message to push the Liberal narrative and protect Trudeau in order to defend their source of forced taxpayer-funding.
Let’s talk about incidental COVID hospitalizations
A lot of people in Canada are concerned about unvaccinated people getting infected with COVID-19 and filling up the hospitals. Some people are even floating the idea of yet another lockdown.
However, many health experts believe the number of incidental hospitalizations will increase in the fall – this means people who test positive for COVID but aren’t suffering from the virus. Why isn’t this being discussed?
Meat counter prices rising to ‘spook zone’ levels: food expert
As barbecue season simmers down, the cost of meat is still rising across Canada, even as year-to-year demand wanes.
Several culprits are pushing the upward-trending price tags, food distribution professor Sylvain Charlebois told Global News on Friday.
Small Business Administration used unconstitutional racial preferences despite warnings
The Agriculture Department knew its racial preferences for black and non-white farmers were unconstitutional. But it provided race-based debt relief anyway, until judges ordered it to stop doing so, as the Daily Wire reported earlier.
US to give each incoming Afghan evacuee up to $2,275 in aid
The State Department plans to spend as much as $2,275 for each evacuee as the relocation effort unfolds in communities across the country over the next few months, according to a department official. The money is to be used for housing, food, other necessities and enrolling children in school.
USDA announces racial preferences in new ‘climate smart agriculture’ funding
New $50 million ‘racial equity and justice’ grant program announced, despite federal judge’s order to department to stop race-based loan forgiveness.
Rich people and rich corporations including international banks rule the world and their primary goal is to make money the monopolistic capitalist way. Their ideology is not necessarily fascist or communist but most power-hungry oligarch tyrants basically prefer a one party system which has been corrupted by money. In China about 50 families own all the important wealth in the country, but almost all are members of one party, the CCP. In the United States many corporate oligarchs are neither fascist nor communist in their ideology but believe in controlling a one-party system which today seems to be the Democrat party.
What is life like for those left behind when the last foreign troops flew out of Afghanistan? Four people from cities and provinces around the country told the BBC they had lost basic freedoms and were struggling to survive.
Hello all, from Siena, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I’m spending the night here before heading out tomorrow with a friend to make a pilgrimage, more on which tomorrow. Meanwhile, Ross Douthat’s column today makes for extremely sobering reading. He writes that America looks like a declining empire – an observation that I have heard again and again over the last eight days from worried European conservatives…
Our nation’s senior-officer educational institutions no longer teach warfighting—and that must change.
We must reckon with the hard truth that the United States has lost another war. Though errors made by policymakers certainly played a part, our military lost in Afghanistan because it no longer knows how to fight and win wars. This wasn’t because our military professionals lack will or effort but because they have forgotten the real purpose for which militaries exist. Nowhere is this truer than in America’s war colleges—the schools our nation established to teach officers how to fight and win wars. The plain fact is that these schools no longer teach warfighting. This may sound incredible—even unbelievable—but it is true.
In the aftermath of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, there’s going to be a refugee crisis. The Taliban’s reign will be brutal, but that’s only the start of Afghanistan’s problems. As Andrew Stuttaford explained on August 24, the Afghan economy is going to collapse, and it threatens to undo all of the gains in the standard of living the country made over the past 20 years.
Many who oppose allowing Afghan refugees to resettle in the United States wonder why they don’t go live in other Muslim countries instead. After all, they argue, refugees would be able to assimilate better in countries more similar to the one they are leaving, and the U.S. wouldn’t have to support any new people as they adjust to a completely different culture — win-win.
The first time I heard about ivermectin was from my doctor early on in the Era of Covid-hysteria. The United States still had a functioning President, we had yet to arm the Taliban or give them lists of Americans and Afghan ‘allies’ they might want to execute, and a vaccine against the worst scourge since the Black Death was, if the experts were to be believed, years, maybe decades away.
Of course, the experts weren’t to be believed. Donald Trump’s Manhattan Project approach to getting a vaccine developed in record time bore fruit. Pfizer had the first vaccine ready to go before the 2020 election, but selflessly waited until just after the election to make the announcement. They, and the other drug companies in on Operation Warp Speed, have been playing the opening bars of Pink Floyd’s song ‘Money’ nonstop at corporate headquarters ever since. Everyone must be vaccinated, twice (plus boosters) at government (i.e. taxpayer) expense immediately and forever.
Let’s say you used to be the popular kid who got invited to all the posh parties? When you walked by, everyone would stage whisper (so you could hear) how marvelous your wardrobe was.
They all wanted selfies with you. They texted their friends so say they’d seen you – almost shook hands with you. Everything you did seemed so “woke,” so “2015.”
Unfortunately there are just enough voters to give the national embarrassment called Trudeau a second minority.
Trudeau’s bus has just been swarmed. It is blocked from the front and both sides. pic.twitter.com/RztUktkXU9
