Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Very worthy read!-----The Ides of August
The Ides of August
"...Two decades ago, young people in Kandahar were telling me how the proxy militias American forces had armed and provided with U.S. fatigues were shaking them down at checkpoints.
...I and too many other people to count spent years of our lives trying to convince U.S. decision-makers that Afghans could not be expected to take risks on behalf of a government that was as hostile to their interests as the Taliban were.
...For two decades, American leadership on the ground and in Washington proved unable to take in this simple message.
I finally stopped trying to get it across when, in 2011, an interagency process reached the decision that the U.S. would not address corruption in Afghanistan.
It was now explicit policy to ignore one of the two factors that would determine the fate of all our efforts.
That’s when I knew today was inevitable......Read all!
CO2 Coalition Director Disagrees with UN's 'Code Red' Report, Disputes 'Climate Crisis' Claims | CBN News
CO2 Coalition Director Disagrees with UN's 'Code Red' Report, Disputes 'Climate Crisis' Claims | CBN News
"...If we look at what India and China are both doing.
"...If we look at what India and China are both doing.
They are moving full-speed ahead with coal-fired electricity generation," he said.
"What India is doing... they are snubbing their nose at the U.N...
"China is going full-speed ahead.
"China is going full-speed ahead.
In fact, if you look they have more coal-fired electricity generation facilities planned and under construction right now than there is in the entire United States," Wrightstone added.
"So any reductions that we in the western world do will be dwarfed by both India and China."...Read all.
"record hot summer"???
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"Just in case you are buying all the fear porn in our corrupt news media about this somehow being a "record hot summer," know that it is actually one of the coolest summers any of us have experienced in our entire lifetimes:
"Just in case you are buying all the fear porn in our corrupt news media about this somehow being a "record hot summer," know that it is actually one of the coolest summers any of us have experienced in our entire lifetimes:
Trump bashed President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal at rally - TheBlaze
Trump bashed President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal at rally - TheBlaze:
"Do you think that [General George S. Patton] was woke? I don't think so. He was the exact opposite," Trump declared, and then skewered current "woke" U.S. military leaders, such as General Mark A. Milley who defended studying critical race theory in the military.
Trump also blasted "woke generals" in his first post-presidential rally that was held in June.
"You know what woke means? It means you're a loser," Trump gibed. "It's true. Everything woke turns to sh**."
Biden State Department Sent Out BLANK US Visas, Which Were Printed and Filled Out by Everyone in Kabul - Including Taliban (VIDEO)
Biden State Department Sent Out BLANK US Visas, Which Were Printed and Filled Out by Everyone in Kabul - Including Taliban (VIDEO)
- Biden’s State Department sent out BLANK US visas, which were then printed and filled out by everyone in Kabul – including the Taliban.
"The Biden regime is flying thousands of unvetted Afghans to the US.
We have no idea who these people are.
...Mr. Fox held up a US visa form that the State Department emailed to tens of thousands of people, including Afghans.
The visa form was blank – no name, no serial number, no bar code was on the form and the Afghans were able to print the document...Read all.
History for August 24
History for August 24 - On-This-Day.com
Cal Ripken, Jr. 1960 - Baseball player
- 0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
- 0410 - The Visigoths overran Rome. This event symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.
- 1814 - Washington, DC, was invaded by British forces that set fire to the White House and Capitol.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark, NJ, took about 19 hours.
- 1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect. The agreement was that an attack against on one of the parties would be considered "an attack against them all."
- 1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect.
- 1991 - Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party.
Monday, August 23, 2021
Fox News reporter corners Pentagon spox over prediction he made just two days before Taliban took Kabul - TheBlaze
Fox News reporter corners Pentagon spox over prediction he made just two days before Taliban took Kabul - TheBlaze:
The cable, sent via the State Department's confidential dissent channel, warned of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation, the two people said.
The cable, dated July 13, also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban, one of the people said.
President Joe Biden infamously promised last month that Afghanistan would not fall.
CA Drought: State Water Regulators Investigate Missing Water On Russian ...
"Water that should flow downstream is mysteriously missing along Russian River.
John Ramos tells us where officials believe that water is going."
The next president of America?-----Kamala Harris Laughs When Reporter Starts to Ask Her About Americans Trapped in Afghanistan (VIDEO)
Kamala Harris Laughs When Reporter Starts to Ask Her About Americans Trapped in Afghanistan (VIDEO)
"Both Biden and Harris hid from the public for several days as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
Kamala Harris walked over to a gaggle of reporters on the tarmac before boarding her flight to Singapore.
Harris laughed when a reporter started to ask her about Americans trapped in Afghanistan.
...The Taliban is confiscating US passports and driver’s licenses.
But Kamala Harris’ priority is to travel to Singapore and Vietnam to discuss regional security issues...Read all.
Everything old is new again!-----30 Years Later: Remembering Crown Heights
- Anti-police policies and anti-Semitism that fueled riots 30 years ago are on the rise again
...The police struggled to deal with the riots in the face of anti-law-enforcement sentiments in then-New York City mayor David Dinkins’s office and among city leadership.
...Self-proclaimed civil rights leaders stepped in to fan the flames.
On the afternoon of Aug. 20, Al Sharpton showed up to address a growing crowd of black protesters in Crown Heights and called for the arrest of Lifsh, the Jewish driver who hit the 7-year-old boy.
"We are on the verge of an explosion," threatened Sharpton, who claimed that "apartheid ambulance services" run by the Jewish community were responsible for the child’s death...Read ALL!
READ MORE: From Anti-Semitic Agitator to Democratic Power Broker: The Preposterous Resurrection of Al Sharpton
READ MORE: From Anti-Semitic Agitator to Democratic Power Broker: The Preposterous Resurrection of Al Sharpton
New bill would prohibit Michigan employers from implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates
New bill would prohibit Michigan employers from implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates:
If passed, a new bill would prohibit Michigan employers from mandating their workers get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The bill would also get rid of mask requirements for unvaccinated employees.
Old, fat, past smokers and blacks warned!!!-----BREAKING CRUISE NEWS - CDC SAYS THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT CRUISE
"BREAKING CRUISE NEWS - CDC SAYS THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT CRUISE
The CDC just issued new warnings for people going on a cruise.
If you are on this list they are telling you to reconsider the cruise.
Are you on the list?
I am."
He's 3rd in line of Presidential succession-----Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Leaving Stranded Americans to Get to Kabul Airport on Their Own is "the Best Way to do This" (VIDEO)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Leaving Stranded Americans to Get to Kabul Airport on Their Own is "the Best Way to do This" (VIDEO)
"Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday to discuss Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Blinken was pressed on the Biden Admin’s efforts to extricate Americans stuck in Afghanistan behind enemy lines.
"Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday to discuss Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Blinken was pressed on the Biden Admin’s efforts to extricate Americans stuck in Afghanistan behind enemy lines.
- Thousands of Americans are stranded in Afghanistan in a potential hostage situation as terrorist factions block roads to Kabul airport with checkpoints. Americans are reportedly being beaten and harassed by Taliban terrorists.
Lunch video-----Oregon Students Can Now Graduate WITHOUT Being Able To READ
"On this week’s episode of the Campus Countdown, Campus Reform video reporter Addison Smith discusses the declining academic standards in Oregon’s lower education system.
This year, Oregon high school seniors, in accordance with a bill signed by Gov. Kate Brown that suspends academic requirements for graduation, will be able to graduate without the ability to read or do math....Read all!!!
Taliban fighters are 'hunting down' journalists, carrying out revenge executions against Afghans who worked with the West - TheBlaze
Taliban fighters are 'hunting down' journalists, carrying out revenge executions against Afghans who worked with the West - TheBlaze:
Despite promising "amnesty" to Afghan residents who worked with Western governments and organizations during the last 20 years of U.S. military occupation, Taliban forces in Afghanistan are now reportedly "hunting down" journalists and other supposed dissidents in order to execute them.
Totally nuts!-----EU shamed as forests destroyed to make green energy: 'From burning one climate to another' | Science | News | Express.co.uk
EU shamed as forests destroyed to make green energy: 'From burning one climate to another' | Science | News | Express.co.uk
- THE EU has been shamed by campaigners, who claim the bloc is "sacrificing forests" after it published proposals that would allow trees to continue to be burned for fuel.
"It came after the European Commission unveiled its forest strategy, which includes a goal to plant three billion trees across the bloc by 2030. 
...According to reports, around 20 percent of the energy the EU counts and subsidises as “renewable” comes from logging and burning forest wood.
...Lina Burnelius, project leader at Protect the Forest Sweden, said the commission had failed to address one of the key drivers of forest degradation – counting forest biomass as renewable energy...Read all.
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