Australian police clash with anti-lockdown protesters

Police in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney have clashed with thousands of people protesting against Covid lockdowns.

In Melbourne, mounted officers used pepper spray when elements of a 4,000-strong rally broke through police lines.

Police arrested 218 people, and at least seven officers were injured.

In Sydney, where lockdown measures have been extended for another month, more than 1,000 officers dispersed protests.

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Fleeing Americans beaten by Taliban in Kabul, Pentagon chief tells Congress

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told members of Congress on a conference call Friday that Americans attempting to evacuate Afghanistan have been beaten by the Taliban, directly contradicting President Biden’s assertion that U.S. citizens were not being blocked from the airport, two lawmakers told The Post.

Striking a decidedly more concerned tone than the commander in chief, Austin called the abuse of Americans at the hands of the Taliban “unacceptable” as lawmakers sought answers on how the Biden Administration is attempting to get U.S. citizens and allies out of the country.

“Within 30 minutes of Biden saying it publicly, the Secretary of Defense directly contradicted him,” one senior GOP lawmaker told The Post.

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Liberal campaign covers big miles, but questions linger over reason for snap election call

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau spent the first week of this late-summer election campaign hitting the battleground ridings he needs to get the majority he seeks.

The path to a Liberal majority runs largely through the suburbs of Canada’s largest cities. And the opening moves of the campaign tour foreshadowed the Liberal’s election endgame.

But what was missing was a compelling reason for why Trudeau chose to seek a third mandate in the middle of a fourth wave.

He’s so vain. Convinced of his invincibility in light of his amazing Covid response. Seriously.

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US general tells British special forces: Stop rescuing people in Kabul, you’re making us look bad

I understand that the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division has told the commander of the British special forces at the Kabul airport to cease operations beyond the airport perimeter.

Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.

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O’Toole softens stance on conscience rights but stays hard for legalization of sphincter relaxant

Mom’s apple pie. Erin likes it with Poppers!

O’Toole reverses campaign pledge on conscience rights, says doctors must refer patients

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he believes doctors must refer patients seeking services like abortion or medical assistance in dying to another provider if they object to performing these procedures themselves.

O’Toole faced questions Friday about his position on conscience rights for health professionals after a promise to uphold them appeared in his party’s election platform.

Conservative push to explore legalizing ‘poppers’ is unexpected and practical

Last week, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner sent an open letter to the Health Minister advocating for the legalization of alkyl nitrites (colloquially known as “poppers”). Poppers are a liquid recreational drug commonly used by gay and bisexual men as a sexual aid. They have been functionally banned since 2013, but are nonetheless widely available through a grey market, sometimes by being labelled as a “leather cleaner.”

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Biden’s week of blame and tumult after Kabul fall

Declaring his support for the Afghan war decades ago, Joe Biden warned: “History is going to judge us very harshly, I believe, if we allow the hope of a liberated Afghanistan to evaporate because we are fearful of the phrase nation-building or we do not stay the course.” Will this be the week that history judges his presidency?

West Wing assistants tapped at keyboards, heads down, while aides chatted away as if business as usual, belying the chaos unfolding in the wider world.

The stunning fall of Afghanistan back into Taliban hands as the US was ending its 20-year war had brought about a crisis gripping all corners from Kabul to Camp David.

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People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier will not be allowed to participate in sham they call federal election debates

Leaders’ Debates Commissioner David Johnston has confirmed that leaders of five political parties will be invited to participate in the upcoming election debates – but People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier is not among them.

The leaders of the Bloc Québécois, Conservative Party of Canada, Green Party of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada and New Democratic Party met the criteria to take part.

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CBS accused of eco-overreach after claiming CLIMATE CHANGE ‘helped strengthen’ Taliban

CBS has been accused of spinning fanciful, Greta Thurnberg-inspired yarns about the disastrous outcome of the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan, after claiming that the Taliban received outside support from climate change.

The American news outlet published an exclusive report on Friday that endeavored to shine a light on what may have caused the trillion-dollar debacle in Afghanistan, ending with the complete collapse of the Afghan National Army on August 15 just weeks after US-led coalition forces accelerated their exit from the country.

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Independent Canadian MP blasts Trudeau’s COVID-19 jab mandate as a ‘criminal’ election ploy

Independent Canadian MP Derek Sloan has called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s politicization of COVID-19 vaccines as a “criminal” election ploy.

“It’s clear that the Liberals will say or do anything to win a few votes and Justin Trudeau just a few months ago called vaccine passports a divisive issue. It is clear that they are willing to turn on a dime to anything, to gain them power,” Sloan told LifeSiteNews.

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Ontario reports 689 new Covid cases … and … This Election Only – Government Vaxx Gets You Government Dead At No Charge!

Ontario reports 689 new Covid cases … and … This Election Only – Government Vaxx Gets You Government Dead At No Charge!

Ontario sets new multi-month high for COVID-19 cases for 2nd straight day; 1 new death

Ontario topped its multi-month high for daily COVID-19 cases again on Saturday, with 689 cases detected and one new death reported.

It’s the highest count of cases in Ontario since June 5 when 774 cases were found.

Burial costs covered for Canadians killed by approved vaccines

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the department of health will pick up the tab and says the new program “addresses a longstanding gap in Canada’s national immunization programming by providing a timely, no-fault financial support mechanism for all people in Canada, in rare instances where they are seriously and permanently injured performing a public good, being immunized.”

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The U.S. Government Under Four Presidents Misled The American People For Nearly Two Decades About Progress In Afghanistan, While Hiding The Inconvenient Facts About Ongoing Failures Inside Confidential Channels

The documents include highest-level “snowflake” memos written by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the George W. Bush administration, critical cables written by U.S. ambassadors back to Washington under both Bush and Barack Obama, the deeply flawed Pentagon strategy document behind Obama’s “surge” in 2009, and multiple “lessons learned” findings by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) – lessons that were never learned.

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Conservative opposition to mandatory vaccinations is ‘irresponsible’ and ‘dangerous,’ says Trudeau

Speaking to reporters at a campaign stop in Winnipeg, where he announced new sick pay benefits, Trudeau said “protecting Canadians is job one of the government,” and Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s pledge to make the unvaccinated take rapid tests rather than shots is a “mistake” that threatens public health.

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Top Google Engineer Reveals Their Anti-Trump Algorithms

From removing a “don’t be evil” clause in their code of conduct to wrongly firing an ethics researcher, Google has been caught in a web of scandals over the last few years.

And now, top engineer Zach Vorhies is quitting Google. He worked for the company between 2008-2013 and later returned in 2016 as a Senior Software Engineer, where he wrote code for Google’s YouTube app. The reason Vorhies decided to quit Google is what caught everyone’s attention. It’s not a surprise that former president Donald Trump was fighting media in every corner for four years, but little did we know how much Google algorithms had it out for him too.

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US embassy issues security alert for Kabul airport

The US embassy in Afghanistan has issued a security alert advising American citizens to avoid travelling to Kabul’s airport.

In its advisory on its website, the embassy warned of “potential security threats outside the gates” of the airport.

“We are advising US citizens to avoid travelling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a US government representative to do so,” it said.

Thought Joe had this under control?

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