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2021-09-04 d
FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS OF POLITICAL CROCODILES

Unworthy of the Sacrifice

Our leaders are like spoiled rich kids, breaking soldiers—their toys—with impunity.

In the past week, I’ve learned that our soldiers were put in harm’s way by a group of politicians, generals, and bureaucrats whose quality as leaders and human beings it is difficult to understate. They are so fantastically corrupt that they spent two decades funneling trillions of dollars in aid they knew wasn’t helping to a puppet government which had its greatest achievements in the areas of fraud, child rape, and heroin production. They are so pants-shittingly incompetent that somehow it didn’t occur to any of them that it might be a bad idea to have the Americans with guns leave before the Americans without guns. And they are so unashamedly self-serving that none of them will face any consequences for any of it.

“Human beings,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the 2005 essay collection that turned out to be his last book, “are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.”

Vonnegut was right. Our so-called leadership are spoiled rich children. And one of the toys they broke was my friend and neighbor Andy.

Staff Sergeant Andrew McCaffrey was a hero. In 2003, he lost his right arm below the elbow to a hand grenade. He could have returned home and collected benefits for the rest of his life. Instead, Andy trained himself to shoot left-handed and became the first soldier in U.S. Army history to return to combat duty after losing a limb. He served three more tours in Afghanistan. It was an act of courage, sacrifice, and dedication of which the politicians who sent him to war and the generals who commanded him were unworthy.

The same grenade blast that took his arm also inflicted a traumatic brain injury that affected his personality over time. After returning stateside, Andy became increasingly violent and erratic, culminating in a court martial and his eventual retirement from the Army. He found community among other veterans, but during the Covid lockdown turned increasingly to alcohol to self-medicate. In the early hours of August 19, 2020, he took his own life in his Arlington, Virginia apartment, not 50 yards from where I slept.

My wife and I first became aware of Andy as “the guy who says ‘f—’ a lot.” We’d hear him out in the courtyard yelling “F— this” and “F— that,” to anyone or no one, in a Don Corleone rasp. Understandably, we avoided him for several months. But when I found myself unemployed and quarantined, I decided that if I was going to make it through this pandemic with my sanity intact, I’d need to meet my neighbors. To that end, I bought some lumber and constructed a bench for the courtyard, hoping that it would foster a sense of community. I also constructed the bench in the courtyard, since there wasn’t much room for woodworking in my one-bedroom apartment.

Andy saw me sawing and drilling and asked what I was up to. I, more than a little intimidated, told him. His face lit up. He told me he knew just the thing and dashed off to the dumpster. With the help of his wife Karen (on whom he doted), Andy dragged a block of wood so heavy that the trash collectors refused to haul it away over to my bench. I dutifully sanded and painted it, and it became a footrest, a table, a bar.

Over the next several months, it served all those functions. A group of around 10 neighbors, all of us working remotely or not at all, began congregating several nights a week beneath the warm Virginia starlight and the red brick buildings that surrounded our courtyard on three sides. We drank, talked, smoked cigarettes, listened to music, let the dogs frolic—we got each other through.

On such nights, Andy would contribute some excellent anecdotes, many of them about barfights. He got in so many barfights that he’d developed a gentlemen’s agreement with the Arlington cops: He would go quietly as long as they’d promise not to handcuff him. Apparently the two parties had reached this agreement only after Andy had demonstrated several times that he could instantly escape from handcuffs by simply removing his prosthetic arm. When his favorite bar finally banned him, he unleashed a stream of invective against its absentee Canadian owner that rose to the level of poetry: “That maple syrup drinkin’ motherf—er! He doesn’t understand the situation on the ground!”

He also added to the courtyard décor. His contributions—solar powered string lights, lawn flamingos, and an absurd number of bird feeders—were of questionable taste, but everybody was just a little too scared of him to say anything about it. They’re all still there.

Sometimes he would talk about the war. He frequently boasted about his “million-dollar education” as a special forces soldier. I never got a comprehensive explanation of what he did in Afghanistan, but the impression I formed was of a stone-cold operator wearing a T-shirt, ballcap, and desert camo pants; sporting a non-regulation beard; and popping in and out of the base as it suited him. He regaled us with tales of intrigue, how he’d play informants off against one another until he had some Taliban big fish dead to rights. Then and only then would he hand his intel off to some colonel who would order a raid and claim all the credit. He took pride in his work and in being, as one FDNY firefighter told him, the “instrument of vengeance” for 9/11.

The vengeance was what mattered to Andy. He thought the nation-building side of it was bunk. He told me once that he thought the War in Afghanistan would never be won and that American troops would never leave. I guess he was half right.

As the summer wore on, Andy’s despair displaced his pride more and more. He fell and cracked a rib and began mixing his prescription painkillers with whiskey. We all worried about him. One night, he seemed ready to open up, and we thought it might do him some good. We spoke kindly to him, asked occasional questions, and urged him to take better care of himself. I remember two snippets of conversation:

First, I asked him how he felt about everything he’d done in Afghanistan. “I loved it,” he said. “And I hate that I loved it.” He didn’t just sacrifice his arm and his mental stability to the idiots who couldn’t build a functioning army with 20 years and $80 billion, who thought it would be a good idea to hand biometric data on Afghan translators over to the Taliban. He gave them his innocence, his sense of right and wrong, and of his own place on that continuum. Of that sacrifice, they were also unworthy.

Then I asked him if he regretted ever having gone to war and whether, knowing the toll it had taken, he would do it again. He thought for a moment: “I don’t know. I really don’t know.” Of course he was ambivalent. His sense of self was bound up inextricably with being a soldier. The Army had given him a skillset, a community, a purpose, an entire identity. He couldn’t simply wish all that away. What would be left? He was what they made him. They made him what he was. But unlike God, who so loved his broken creatures that he died for them, the politicians and generals who formed Andy from the clay had no problem breaking him, tossing him aside, and making a mockery of the cause for which he fought.

Andy stood up to go inside but couldn’t keep his balance. I caught him before he fell, draped his arm over my shoulder, and led him toward his building. Thankfully, he lived on the first floor. My shoulders strained under his near-dead weight, my heart under his pain. Later, I tried to imagine what such despair must feel like, and the best image I could come up with was sliding down into a pit. The incline is steep, and the soil is loose. You fall faster and faster, grasping at roots that protrude from the pit’s walls. One root is your wife and another is your friends and another is a movie you still haven’t seen and another is your pride and another is God, but none of them hold, and finally you run out of roots. And you stop grasping. And you just fall.

We reached his door, and he told me he could make it to bed just fine. Not knowing what else to do, I made the sign of the cross over his chest and said, “Bless you, Andy.”

“Thank you,” he said. “I’m not very religious, but thanks. Bless you too.” Then he went inside. As far as I know, mine were the last words anyone ever spoke to him. One of Andy’s friends, who has lost other comrades the same way, told me he thinks those words saved Andy’s soul. I hope so. I’m more worried for the souls of those who drove him to it—unrepentant reprobates whose negligence and dishonesty spat in the face of Andy’s sacrifice, botching the war, bungling the withdrawal, and then patting themselves on the back for doing it.

The sacrifices Andy made—physical, mental, and spiritual—are incalculable, but they are sacrifices countless soldiers have made before him. It is upsetting to view the consequences of such sacrifices up close (though perhaps anyone who supports sending troops into harm’s way should be forced to), but even having done so, I still cannot deny they are sometimes necessary. If that is the case, however, then the people who make those sacrifices have a right to expect a baseline level of care and competence from the people demanding them.

Last week, I watched [illegitimate] President Biden insist that he made no mistakes and gaslight anyone who suggests otherwise. I also watched him compare—with a straight face—the bloated, brain dead politico-military establishment that produced this debacle to the voice of God. When Isaiah responded “Here I am, send me,” he knew God might be sending him to his death (as indeed he was), but Isaiah could also trust that his agenda was something more than improvised political ass-covering.

Perhaps most depressingly, we all watched soldiers on transport planes being sent back to Afghanistan to guard Hamid Karzai International Airport (the name of which represents just one more of the fruits of failure handed out to all the major players in this tragicomedy). And all because our president didn’t realize that if you’re being eaten by a tiger and have managed to pry its jaws open, you should probably pull your head out before your hands.

Who would agree to suffer for such a stupid, craven, inept excuse for an empire? How can we expect thousands of Andys to sacrifice what’s best in them to what’s worst in our society?

We can’t. “People,” one Afghanistan vet wrote, “can no longer bring themselves to love and serve a country that has dispensed with the pretense of loving and serving them.” Unfortunately, no civilization can long endure without people willing to make such sacrifices. If we want to keep ours, we must strive to be worthy of those men and women and demand that our leaders do the same. (read more)

2021-09-04 c
FOREIGN GODS & INFANTILE SACRIFICE

Texas and the Cracked Idols [of Child Sacrifice]

The slaves of Moloch, Mammon, and Baal still walk among us, offering up their bloody [human] sacrifices.

Behold, as I looked on social media, those places of inner darkness, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth, and I rejoiced and I asked, where are your gods now?

As Texas’s heartbeat abortion law went into effect this week, the servants of Moloch furiously raged. Women and their male “allies” (not men, exactly—many acolytes in the mystery religions of the ancient world prostrated themselves) wailed their tired lamentations, about sharia law, about Christian fascism, about the self-hatred that must drive other women to defend the unborn. Some 60 million human babies have been offered up since Roe confirmed our Punic piety in 1973, [consumed] through the [holocaust] of syringe and scissors [and curettes] and forceps. One would think that was enough to slake any amount of blood thirst, but the Lone Star State’s effective ban of [human] sacrifices after the sixth week of pregnancy elicited the fury and despair of the passionate religious beholding an obscenity.

It was, for abortion activists, a violation of the sacred, a defilement of their high places and casting down of altars. By now you know the thrust of the Texas law, but let me summarize it once again. It bans abortions after the point that an ultrasound can detect the unborn baby’s heartbeat, which can come as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, rather than tying protection to some sort of definition of “viability” for the infant. “Our creator endowed us with the right to life and yet millions of children lose their right to life every year because of abortion,” Governor Greg Abbott said as he signed the bill this past Wednesday.

Perhaps it is unfair to associate America’s cult of “reproductive rights” with a minor deity of Canaan when an older, greater god would do. Mammon rules the land, and it is in his service that women so eagerly unsex themselves, and turn the safety of the womb into a grave. A woman must, so the argument goes, be able to choose whether her child will live or die because there should be no difference between a man’s and a woman’s experience or opportunities in the market. If he will, by nature, not be burdened with a pregnancy nor by the most intimate nurture of a newborn life, then she must, by law and technology, be made able to slough off the necessities of biology, the better for both to give themselves to economic production, living sacrifices to Mammon.

From the perspective of the whole war against abortion in America, the victory in this Texas battle is primarily significant for the introduction of an innovative tactic, a tactic essentially having to do with law but misperceived as being of a piece with Mammon—the liberal sees his gods everywhere. The legislation permits private parties to file civil lawsuits against people who either intend to or do perform or aid an abortion after a heartbeat has been detected, and success in court entitles the plaintiff to at least $10,000 in damages. While Mammon’s servants typically sue the enforcing government officials before restrictions on abortions go into effect, tying the initiatives up in interminable and punishingly expensive legal battles, those officials are not the enforcing parties here, and so a court cannot enjoin their enforcement of the law.

America is a litigious country and Americans are a litigious people. The potential for damages per abortion successfully challenged in suit is not so much a bounty as it is the recovery of expenses for something no civilization can survive without: the enforcement of law. One might suggest that such dollar amounts ought to go to expecting mothers, to support them in caring for their children, to which I and Texas say: Yes, of course, we can do both. Undiscussed in the controversy around the heartbeat bill has been the Texas legislature’s commitment of $100 million to the state’s “Alternatives to Abortion” program, which includes everything from counseling and employment training to carseats and housing support. Initiatives such as this one will be just as vital to winning the long war as each legislative and judicial victory.

It was the private civil lawsuit enforcement tactic that let the law go into effect without interference from the liberal holy of holies, the U.S. Supreme Court. And it is that inaction that makes the faction for “choice” feel betrayed, shocked that their temple, which has given them miracles like same-sex marriage, would fail now to defend this bloody sacrament. The faithful who burned candles to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who kept vigil, who protest at the appointed times, and march in the bacchanals during the sacred month—they must now come to grips with the possibility that there really is a time for every purpose under the heaven: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to win 5 to 4, and a time to lose 5 to 4.

All this reminds me of another Canaanite fertility god, Baal, whom the Lord put to shame by the prophet Elijah on Mount Carmel. Elijah challenged those who ate at Jezebel’s table (I wonder if Jezebel has a nice expense account), the prophets of Baal and Asherah, to call on their god for divine fire, that the sacrificial bull might be consumed.

So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made. And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.”

But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention. And before that silence the hysteria of abortion’s advocates has mounted to fresh heights. No, the Supreme Court has not overturned Roe by declining to act in this case. It has only decided there is no one to enjoin from allowing the law to go into effect.

But, praise the Lord, His truth is marching on, and there will be more heartbeat bills and Roe will be overturned and, eventually, the slaughter of 60 million will be ended. And so, to those who seethe, again I ask, where are your gods now? (read more)

2021-09-04 b
FOREIGN-BORN PEDOPHILES
(What did you expect? Mohammad himself married a 6-year-old girl and waited until she was NINE YEARS OLD to consummate the marriage when he was 53 years old.).

Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.

U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the “wives” of much older men. While child marriage is not uncommon in Afghanistan, the U.S. has strict policies against human trafficking that include prosecutions for offenders and sanctions for countries that don’t crack down on it.

One internal document seen by The Associated Press says the State Department has sought “urgent guidance” from other agencies after purported child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Another document, described to the AP by officials familiar with it, says Afghan girls at a transit site in Abu Dhabi have alleged they have been raped by older men they were forced to marry in order to escape Afghanistan.

The State Department had no immediate comment on the documents or the veracity of the details in them. Officials say that they take all such allegations seriously but that many of them are anecdotal and difficult to prove, particularly amid the crush of Afghan evacuees at multiple locations in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

An Aug. 27 situation report sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad as well as military command centers in Florida points to potential issues involving young girls and older men, some of whom claim to have more than one wife at Fort McCoy, a sprawling 60,000-acre (243-square-kilometer) Army base in Wisconsin. Relevant portions of the document, titled “Afghanistan Task Force SitRep No. 63,” were obtained by the AP.

“Intake staff at Fort McCoy reported multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families,” the document says. “Department of State has requested urgent guidance.”

There was no immediate indication from the military or from the departments of homeland security and health and human services, which run the facility, that such guidance had been received.

At the same time, U.S. officials in the United Arab Emirates have expressed similar concerns, sending a diplomatic cable to Washington warning that some young Afghan girls had been forced into marriages in order to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

Officials familiar with the cable say it describes allegations by several girls at the Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi that they had been sexually assaulted by their “husbands” and seeks guidance on how to handle such cases. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal communications. (read more)

1. More Bullets Were Fired Than Were in Sirhan’s Gun

Sirhan’s gun had eight bullets in it. According to officials, three of Sirhan’s bullets hit Kennedy (a fourth went through his coat), and five bullets struck the other victims.

But one bullet was also lost in the ceiling space. And crime scene photos show investigators pointing to bullet holes circled in doorframes and a ceiling panel.

Investigators found twelve points of entry in the six victims, with three bullet holes photographed in the ceiling. LAPD criminalist DeWayne Wolfer said “it’s unbelievable how many holes there are in the kitchen ceiling.”

An audio tape made by Polish journalist Stanislaw Pruszynski recorded thirteen shots. Analysis of the tape found that it showed the gunshots to be coming from two separate directions.

2. Kennedy’s Killer Shot Him from the Back, Not the Front

L.A. County Coroner Thomas Noguchi’s report—which mysteriously went missing from the LAPD’s final report—found that Kennedy had been hit by three bullets from the rear, including one in his head behind his right ear. This conclusion rules out Sirhan who was identified by all witnesses as having shot at Kennedy from the front.

3. Kennedy’s Killer Shot Him from Close Range—Sirhan Was Too Far Away

Noguchi, Wolfer and Pasadena criminalist William Harper, drawing on forensic and eyewitness evidence, all concluded that the shots which killed Kennedy came from close range—a point of near direct contact. Sirhan never got anywhere near that close—he was at least three feet away.

4. Two Guns and Two Shooters

Sirhan’s gun was never matched to the bullets that killed Kennedy. William Harper, who survived an assassination attempt on the eve of his scheduled testimony before a grand jury investigating the handling of firearms evidence, concluded that two .22 caliber guns were involved in the assassination.

Evan Freed, a photographer who was standing near Kennedy when the shooting started, said that another man besides Sirhan—who looked like Sirhan but was wearing darker clothing—fired the first shot at Kennedy and that a man made a failed attempt to grab him afterwards and he ran out of the pantry

Other witnesses confirm the same story, observing a man with a gun under a newspaper and a woman with a polka-dotted dress running out of the room.

Donald Schulman, a runner for Los Angeles TV station KNXT, reported on the air minutes after Kennedy’s assassination that, after Sirhan fired his gun, a security guard—referring to Cesar—fired back and struck Kennedy three times.

Schulman also stated that he spotted two revolvers other than Sirhan’s and that both had been fired—an observation confirmed by testimony and statements introduced at an official hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court.

5. Karl Uecker

One of the most important witnesses was, Karl Uecker, a maitre d’ at the Ambassador Hotel, who was the first one to grab Sirhan during the shooting in an attempt to subdue him. He told filmmaker Ted Charach that Sirhan could not have been the killer. He stated:

“Sirhan at no time was firing from behind Senator Robert Kennedy. No! No! Not an inch from Kennedy’s head—I don’t believe that it was Sirhan’s gun firing back from an upward direction. I think I would have seen it. I was the closest one. In order for Sirhan to get that close to Senator Kennedy from behind he would have had to pass me and didn’t pass me at that point. I had him very tight, pushed against the steam table while Senator Kennedy staggered back and Mr. Schrade dropped to the floor first. So this does not fit with what Mr. Fitts [prosecuting attorney later promoted by Governor Reagan to California’s Superior Court] told the jury.”

Uecker also said that he saw a guard—Thane Cesar—who brandished a gun which was odd. He testified that he had grabbed Sirhan after the second shot, not the fourth shot—which would further prove the existence of a second shooter because Kennedy was shot three times under the arm and twice in the head, and seven bullets were recovered from six victims.

Investigator Lisa Pease wrote that, “if Uecker had grabbed Sirhan after the second shot, then someone else had to have shot Kennedy at least twice, as Kennedy had provably been shot four times from near-contact range.”

6. Kennedy Was Killed from an Elevated Position

Not only was Kennedy shot from the back, but witnesses saw someone shooting at him from an elevated position twelve to sixteen inches above Kennedy’s head, with knee or body on a steam table.

This could not have been Sirhan who was identified by four credible witnesses, including Uecker, as shooting at Kennedy from the floor on a slightly upward trajectory, which made sense since Sirhan was four inches shorter than Kennedy.

Uecker specified further that he pushed Sirhan up on a table after he grabbed him in a headlock; he was not on a table before.

Richard Lubic, a 31-year-old television producer and campaign aide, heard a voice—“Kennedy you son of a bitch”—and then heard two shots from what sounded like a starter pistol at a track meet.

The shots came from a man who had his knee on a small table or air conditioning vent and lifted himself up on his knee to obtain elevation while shooting. He had bare arms when firing; Sirhan was wearing long sleeves. (read much more and review references)

2021-09-03 g
SEND THEM BACK

Biden / Mexico Dumping Thousands Of Fake Refugees In Remote Guatemalan Jungle

Thousands of fake refugees are being flow from Texas to southern Mexico and deported to Guatemala via a remote border crossing into the Guatemalan Jungle. Mexico is obviously doing this to ensure that they do not come back into Mexico and try to head north again to the land of El Dorado (a.k.a. U.S.A.).

It seems doubtful that Biden and Mayorkas have had a sincere change of heart. I think they must be doing this because it’s creating political problems for them that may very well cause them to lose Congress next year.

These sudden expulsions may be related to a recent court order requiring Biden to re-start the Remain In Mexico Program, reported last month by the Gateway Pundit.

Federal Judge Orders Biden to CONTINUE Trump’s Extremely Effective “Remain in Mexico” Policy

(read more)

See also: Biden Starts Returning Some Fake Refugees To Central America

Biden has started flying some mass asylum fraudsters to Southern Mexico, where they can cross over to their Central American Homelands. These are people, who do not fit the exceptions Biden has made to Title 42, the Public Health Law, and who have been crossing the border repeatedly. Title 42 does not allow those into the country, who may be bringing disease. Biden made some exceptions via executive orders for minors and pregnant women.
See video on Bitchute: Biden Returning Some Fake Refugees To Central America

See also: EXCLUSIVE U.S. starts flying migrant families into Mexico far from border

2021-09-04 f
THE COVID-CON VI
We reported in 2021-08-25 e:

The CDC Screwed Up

In their latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, at the bottom of the table on page 3, they tell the world one way they cheat.

They inform us they define "unvaccinated" as being less than 14 days after receipt of the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine or if there is no vaccination registry data. Is that how you define "unvaccinated"?

Blood clots or heart inflammation caused by the spike protein mRNA shots often kill within a few days after getting a dose of the gene therapy mislabeled as a vaccine.

Thus, their reported spike in "unvaccinated" hospitalizations and deaths could be entirely within the recently "vaccinated" population.

Because the mainstream media selectively follow the CDC "science," I am sure they employ the identical definition.

Yesterday, Dr. Simone Gold corroborated our assertion:

The CDC is now listing vaccinated COVID-19 deaths as UNvaccinated deaths
if they die within 14 days of the vaccine.

Wow. pic.twitter.com/paxPfDp9lo

— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) September 2, 2021

2021-09-03 e
THE COVID-CON V
Delta variant deception (here and here) and heightened WuFlu fear-mongering had their desired effect:
(See more accurate unemployment data here.)

Breaking News
Jobs Report Huge Miss
There will be lots of excuse-making about the BLS jobs report coming in significantly below consensus (whisper numbers were higher).

There are 10,000,000 job openings. Delta played a role but there are much deeper issues= workers’ strike. https://t.co/HCfz1cdJmR

— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) September 3, 2021

Jobs Report Disaster
Details are even more disappointing.
Black unemployment rate surged to 8.8% from 8.2%. This would be top story/take if Trump were in office but won’t be mentioned anywhere today (Powell will take note).
0 Leisure jobs
-3K Construction
-28.5K Retail

— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) September 3, 2021

2021-09-03 d
THE COVID-CON IV
We reported two days ago, from a large Texas study:

This large study reveals there have been more than twice the reported "cases" meaning that the mortality rate is LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT IS REPORTED. WuFlu is no worse than real flu. The Feds have some serious ‘splainin’ to do.

Now, the CDC admits the same nationally:

CDC admits twice as many people had covid as previously thought. Which means death rates are half.

It also means covid is less lethal which means the category of death with covid becomes even dumber.

Which means deaths are far lower.

Also where did the flu go? pic.twitter.com/o0CCfT3gBE

— Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️ (@jackmurphylive) September 3, 2021

2021-09-03 c
THE COVID-CON III

The Left’s Hysteria About Kids And COVID Is Much Worse Than [the Government PsyOp Called] QAnon

While the left loves to play up QAnon, they pshaw away the fact that Democrats' entire rationale for ruling right now is a set of far more destructive conspiracy theories.

Continuing to keep kids locked into masks and out of normal life is a mass hysteria based on conspiracy theories far worse than [the government PsyOp called] QAnon. It has no basis in science, data, or reality. It is entirely a psychotic power play that sane people must refuse to allow to control our lives, because it’s hurting kids and destroying our nation’s future.

It’s now more than a year after the world learned that COVID thankfully poses lower risks to children than does the annual flu. In 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control, “fewer kids died of COVID-19 than of heart disease, ‘malignant neoplasms,’ suicide, and homicide — not to mention birth defects, which killed hundreds of times more.”

We’ve never shut children off in pods, muffled their faces and those of everyone they see, limited them to small groups, or stuffed them into substandard virtual “learning” for the flu, suicide, or heart disease, because that would be ridiculous. It would hold their futures hostage to fear porn. Yet doing exactly that is still what top U.S. “experts” and politicians demand.

Former Food and Drug Administrator Dr. Scott Gottlieb, for example, went on TV this past weekend to insanely recommend masking children and injecting them with experimental COVID treatments even though the flu poses a higher risk to them and flu shots have never been a requirement for attending school.

Gottlieb “said the ‘two best things’ schools can do to curb the spread is testing twice a week and keeping students in ‘geographic pods’ and “social pods” so they do not ‘intermingle with the entire student body,’ but instead stick with the people in their classrooms,” the Hill summarized of Gottlieb’s appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “… He also touted the importance of wearing masks and getting eligible children vaccinated.”

“The two best things schools can be doing right now is frequent testing, twice a week testing, and also keeping students in geographic pods,” @ScottGottliebMD says. pic.twitter.com/Xz05NuZ3OJ

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 29, 2021

Quite plainly, just about everything he said contradicts the evidence available for more than a year about children’s risks from COVID. Perhaps Gottlieb is auditioning for a Biden administration post, because his advice matches that administration’s also anti-science demands of schools.

What crises this administration is causing in every single sphere, domestic and foreign.
https://t.co/huoXClAjsw

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 18, 2021

Children are almost never endangered from COVID-19 nor do they spread it, and masks have not been proven to provide any protective effect in schools. Even leftist outlets like New York Magazine and The New York Times are admitting this now, while the Biden administration and other Democrats such as Gov. Gavin Newsom continue to falsify scientific discoveries.

“Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective,” New York Magazine reported last week of findings from a large-scale CDC study. It continued:

In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms. Conspicuously, there’s no evidence of more outbreaks in schools in those countries relative to schools in the U.S., where the solid majority of kids wore masks for an entire academic year and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. These countries, along with the World Health Organization, whose child-masking guidance differs substantially from the CDC’s recommendations, have explicitly recognized that the decision to mask students carries with it potential academic and social harms for children and may lack a clear benefit.

Numerous studies indicate masking children is counterproductive based on their near-zero transmission and fatality rates versus the social and developmental harms of covering everyone’s faces indefinitely. Meanwhile, European countries have had kids back in school for the entire previous school year, and are jettisoning masks and quarantines — because that’s what real-world data supports.

Front-page news in Berlin: public health officials will no longer order contact tracing and quarantines for students who might have been exposed to Covid in school. Only the kids who actually test positive will be sent home for remote learning. 1/2https://t.co/Jfvw99H1WK

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 28, 2021

Florida provided a great real world observational study over the course of the school year last year with 40 districts with masks required policies and 27 without. The result was no statistical difference in school cases per enrolled students in person.

Follow the data

— Kyle Lamb (@kylamb8) August 17, 2021

Yet schools in Florida, and more so throughout many parts of Europe did not and do not have mask mandates for kids, with varying age cutoffs, and there is no correlated explosion of cases originated in those schools

— David Zweig (@davidzweig) August 10, 2021

The same people insisting, against the evidence, that children need to be masked and kept in “pods” are the same ones telling you to inject them with experimental treatments against a disease they are at low risk from and for which natural immunity is clearly a much more effective protection. Mmhmm, sure, buddy. I’m definitely going to take “guidance” about what to put into my children’s bodies from the CNN equivalent of a horn-wearing shaman.

“Guidance” is not even close to the extent of their dangerous lunacy, either. Our Orwellian national security agencies have also declared that disagreeing with the Biden administration’s lunatic COVID demands is evidence that one is a “domestic terrorist.” It sounds like another conspiracy theory, but it’s a fact.

The government has declared your right to object to their covid measures as terrorism.
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— Mayor Of Fort Collins (@MayorOfFoCo) August 14, 2021

Easing COVID restrictions will embolden terrorists, apparently. They're calling you terrorists for not wanting to be locked down. pic.twitter.com/ihhLEPv7uo

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 15, 2021

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to hide. It would be easier to do the former if we weren’t living inside an apparently inescapable and amped-up 2020s version of the Salem witch trials. Unlike then, these conspiracy theorists control world governments, mass media, schools, community organizations, and millions of people’s jobs. They control trillions of dollars and the world’s most costly — if not its most effective — national security state.

They also refuse to accept any limits on their power, such as the Austin, Texas schools demanding families continue living under their COVID hysteria in blatant defiance of the elected governor and state Supreme Court — defiance that governor and Supreme Court would never display if the tables were turned. While the left loves to play up the [government PsyOp called] QAnon conspiracy theory because it overlaps with some Donald Trump supporters, they pshaw away the fact that Democrats’ entire rationale for ruling right now is a set of conspiracy theories they’ve trained half the nation to venerate like demonic idols.

The US panic about covid and kids—something unique, unfolding here unlike anywhere else in the world—is a mass hysteria.

I’m sorry, but the Democratic Party is the party of delusional mass hysteria right now. Full stop, that’s what it is. It’s QAnon-level alternative reality.

— Genève Campbell (@bergerbell) August 11, 2021

This is why BlueAnon makes QAnon look like a joke [that it is]. It’s one thing to be deluded. It’s another thing for delusions to run your entire society. (read more)

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THE COVID-CON II

Dr. Scott Atlas: Science Killed Itself Over COVID-19

'Science is not supposed to be about intimidating, or abusing, or censoring data ... There is never supposed to be 'an accepted view' of science.'

Since the start of the COVID-19 [fake] pandemic, the American people have been told to “follow the science.” Yet for a year and a half, they’ve heard contradicting messages from self-appointed prophets of “the science” like Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

We learned that politicians who claimed their decisions were science-driven often ignored scientific findings that didn’t fit certain political narratives. We discovered that scientists are fallible human beings, and some would let personal interests and political views cloud their judgment.

Is science itself one of the victims of the COVID-19 [fake] pandemic? I asked Dr. Scott Atlas at the 13th annual Freedom Conference hosted by the Steamboat Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit organization. Formerly a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, Atlas is now a senior fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution.

Atlas has been under constant attacks by the left and the corporate media since he served as a special adviser to former President Trump and a member of the White House coronavirus task force from August to November 2020. The New York Times and the Washington Post ran hit pieces on Atlas, questioning his qualifications despite his distinguished career and scholarship.

Google-owned YouTube also removed a 50-minute video of Atlas’s interview with the Hoover Institute. Twitter took down his tweet that questioned the effectiveness of masks.

[Politicized] ‘Science’ Destroyed Its Own Credibility

Atlas has refused to be silenced. He has a lot to say about how the scientific field and Americans’ trust in it have been tremendously harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Science has been not just a victim,” he told me, “but actively participated in the self-destruction of its credibility.”

To prove his point, Atlas referred to the now infamous letter published in Lancet, which denounced the lab-leak theory as a “conspiracy” that created “fear, rumors, and prejudice.” Facebook “fact-checkers” used the letter to censor discussion of the lab-leak theory for more than a year.

It then surfaced in The Daily Mail that Peter Daszak, president of Eco Health Alliance, orchestrated a group of scientists to write the letter without disclosing the EHA’s close financial ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Now many scientists accept that the WIV lab-leak theory is just as probable as the natural origin theory.

Atlas also faulted leading scientific publications such as Nature and Lancet for playing “important roles in enabling, encouraging, and enforcing the false narrative.” In June, journalist Ian Birrell cited one source who estimated the publisher of Nature had sponsorship agreements worth millions of dollars from Chinese institutions.

“Science is not supposed to be about intimidating, countering interpretation of data, or abusing, or censoring data,” Atlas said. “Science is not supposed to have a view. Science is only about data and the scientific process. There is never supposed to be ‘an accepted view’ of science.”

Stop Censoring the Scientific Process [to Promote the Fake Pandemic]

Politicians and pundits also lost people’s trust by advocating regulations that were not based in fact. “The phrase ‘follow the science’ should never be uttered again by people who do not know actual data. They must stop,” Atlas said. “They have no credibility whatsoever when they get up and say, ‘follow the science.’ It’s clear many of them don’t know the science, don’t understand the science, and they are not using the science to make the recommendations.”

How can science and scientists recover from this trust deficit? “It depends on only one thing — the visibility of the scientific process, which by definition is about the visibility of the data,” Atlas said. “There should be no censorship of views and interpretation of different data. Do not intimidate or issue harsh condemnations of people just because you disagree with them. Let the truth prevail by the data.”

He has received hundreds of emails from other scientists who have encouraged him to remain outspoken while afraid to speak up themselves. “The saving of science really depend[s] on scientists to come forward and to be unafraid to say that the objectivity of science and [the] scientific process itself has been contaminated and impeded,” he continued. “When more scientists come forward, there hopefully will be a reversal of that [trust deficit]. There is no such thing as science without the evidence being visible and debates being current. Science doesn’t exist in any other way.”

How can we do a better job of fighting back the next time our ruling class tries to send us into crisis mode? We have to recognize what the data revealed about this current [fake] pandemic, Atlas said, citing several recent studies (including one by Eran Bendavid and other scientists of Stanford University) showing that lockdowns didn’t work to keep COVID-19 from spreading while imposing their own severe additional costs.

Never Let [Totalitarian] Lockdowns Destroy Lives Again

Lockdowns destroyed people, Atlas said, by “shutting down medical care, stopping people from seeking emergency medical care, increasing drug abuse, increasing death by suicide, more psychological damage, particularly among the younger generation. Hundreds and thousands of child abuse cases went unreported. Teenagers’ self-harm cases have tripled.”

Atlas also noted the increase of other deaths like tuberculosis, caused by the world’s focus on COVID-19. The World Health Organization warned in 2020 of up to an additional 400,000 deaths from tuberculosis because of the diversion of resources to COVID-19. “Mortality data showing that anywhere from a third or half of the deaths during the [fake] pandemic were not due to COVID-19,” Atlas said. “They were extra deaths due to the lockdowns.”

Besides causing health issues, the lockdowns have enormous economic costs, especially for poor people and developing countries. The Bangladesh economy’s shutdown during the pandemic, Atlas noted, was forecast to wipe out about $3 billion and close to 900,000 jobs off the nation’s economy with a devastating effect on the nation’s poor.

“We can never use the lockdown strategy again,” Atlas emphasized. Instead, we should offer targeted protections for high-risk people but no lockdowns of low-risk people. Other scientists, such as the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration, have advocated for the same approach.

Atlas offers additional advice on how to prepare for the next pandemic based on lessons learned from COVID-19 in his upcoming new book, “A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America,” which is available for preorder now.

Ultimately, Atlas said, the most important lesson to learn from the COVID-19 [fake] pandemic is that individuals must take responsibility for their own health-related decisions. We should never surrender our autonomy and capability to assess our risk tolerance to bureaucrats or the so-called expert class. (read more)

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THE COVID-CON I

A Look At Scientific Evidence Suggesting Face Masks Damage Your Health

Scientists have found significant impaired thinking or concentration after only 100 minutes of mask use, correlating significantly with reduced blood oxygen levels in the test subjects.

As [totalitarian] mask mandates and habits return across the United States, clear and convincing scientific data from before and after 2020 suggest masking has negative health consequences that outweighs its utility.

Earlier this year, a group of German doctors and biomedical scientists looked at the available data on the negative health effects of face masks, published both before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, as catalogued in the U.S. federal government’s biomedical database, PubMed. They found significant evidence of “relevant, undesired medical, organ and organ system-related phenomena accompanied by wearing masks,” with “clear, scientifically recorded adverse effects for the mask wearer.”

I Can’t Breathe

Covering the airways with masks makes breathing harder, due to the air resistance they generate and the moisture they collect inside. According to one 2020 study: “Ventilation, cardiopulmonary exercise capacity and comfort are reduced by surgical masks and highly impaired by FFP2/N95 face masks in healthy individuals.”

Masks also create “dead space” air between the mask surface and the face, which remains trapped at the end of every breath out, and gets rebreathed right back in. Dead-space air is stale, potentially containing 20 times the CO2 concentration of normal room air, along with hundreds of other substances excreted by the human body through the lungs, including toxins.

Mixed with those are traces of the chemicals, such as formaldehyde, used to make or preserve the masks. Plastic microfibers slough off the fabric, have recently been found lodged in the sinuses of patients diagnosed with irritant rhinitis, and may make it all the way into the lungs.

Because of the increased resistance to breathing and trapped dead-space air, masks make it harder for the lungs to remove CO2 from the blood, and to supply the blood with oxygen. Multiple experimental studies with N95, surgical, and other masks, some published in prestigious journals like Nature, provide evidence that all common kinds of face masks can result in statistically higher blood CO2 levels or lower blood oxygen levels in healthy individuals, or both.

The body reacts to this imbalance by increasing its resting pulse and breathing rates, which can be dangerous to those in poor health. Data reviewed by Taiwanese scientists show the “elderly or patients with reduced cardiopulmonary function have a higher risk of developing a severe respiratory failure while wearing a mask.”

Slowing Thinking and Concentration

Now, healthy adults are able to safely raise their pulse and breathing for short periods to levels much higher than the increases seen with masks. Indeed, temporary pulse, breathing, and blood CO2 increases are healthy and beneficial effects of physical exercise.

The argument that masks are therefore safe for healthy adults, however, ignores health problems associated with long-term, chronic mask use. According to data reviewed by the German scientists, “[e]ven slightly but persistently increased heart rates encourage oxidative stress” and arteriosclerosis.

Even “slightly increased breathing rates over long periods,” the German scientists note, may cause “high blood pressure, cardiac dysfunction and damage to blood vessels supplying the brain.” Over extended periods of time, “small increases in carbon dioxide in the inhaled air” have been linked with asthma, high blood pressure, and neurological problems.

Other harmful effects of mask wearing show up much quicker. In 2020, Chinese scientists reported experimental results with human test subjects using multiple common mask types, including surgical masks and N95s. They found significant impaired thinking or concentration after only 100 minutes of mask use, correlating significantly with reduced blood oxygen levels in the test subjects.

A 2020 article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology reported that 24 percent of 343 surveyed medical staff, who wore a mix of surgical and N95 masks while working their shifts, began to experience impaired cognition from one to four hours after starting their shifts. Readers of all professions who have been forced to mask up at work during the [fake] pandemic might sympathize with the article’s conclusion: “Wearing masks for a prolonged amount of time causes a host of physiologic and psychologic burdens and can decrease work efficiency.”

A Whole-Body Stress Response

In addition to impaired thinking and performance, increased blood CO2 levels can also cause psychotropic effects. High levels of CO2 poison mammals. The brain stem reacts to increased CO2 in the blood by letting the body know that it needs fresh air, activating a whole-body stress response.

Indeed, mindfulness practices often help lower stress and anxiety through the use of deeper breathing techniques, which slow breathing rates and help lower blood CO2 levels. On the other extreme, psychiatrists use CO2 inhalation to clinically trigger panic attacks in consenting patients when testing for certain psychiatric disorders. Torture squads take advantage of the same CO2-triggered panic effect during waterboarding.

Do governments, employers, and schools have the legal authority to subject Americans to the same stressor at work in waterboarding? Mask mandates are making an especially strong comeback in the nation’s primary and secondary schools. What are the long term effects of masking on the bodies and brains of children, which are particularly oxygen-hungry as they grow and learn?

Yearning to Breathe Free

This article does not contain legal advice. For that, readers are encouraged to hire their own lawyers or contact this one privately. At the same time, it is a matter of fact that [totalitarian] mask mandates rely on the threat of government force to, quite literally, limit the public’s freedom to breathe. In principle, as the sine qua non of all aerobic life, respiration is the fundamental freedom. Various fundamental constitutional rights may therefore be implicated in mandatory masking.

The fundamental right to bodily integrity in Anglo-Saxon law predates the Constitution, and has long been applied as protection from medical quackery. According to the Supreme Court, the doctrine of informed consent to medical treatment is based on the idea that “[e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body,” including the right “to refuse treatment.”

The doctrine of informed consent is “firmly entrenched in American tort law,” on both federal and state levels. In Massachusetts, where this author practices law, doctors owe patients a legal duty to disclose any “significant medical information” that would be “material to an intelligent decision by the patient” whether the patient should agree to any “diagnostic, therapeutic or invasive procedures, medical interventions or treatments.” Doctors are required to know and disclose any relevant medical information that would be known to any other “average qualified physician” in their field of practice.

Violations of Informed Consent

The Food and Drug Administration defines and regulates face masks as medical devices when used for protection against COVID-19. A year and a half into the [fake] pandemic, significant medical information that face masks may pose serious health and safety risks is now available.

Certainly, medical information promoting the safety and utility of wearing face masks is also available (mostly limited to studies on wear times of an hour or less), but doctors must provide patients with all significant medical information. Instead, information about the negative health effects of face masking is mostly limited to medical literature. The public remains uninformed, its consent overruled by [totalitarian] mandates.

Given the known health risks of masking, the courts should apply the doctrine of informed consent to mask mandate challenges. Other ways to fight against masking in court, like product liability lawsuits against mask manufacturers, should also be considered by enterprising libertarian lawyers. May a thousand class actions bloom, and may we all get the right to breathe free. (read more)

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SPIKE PROTEIN DAMAGE RECAP

The world will soon be divided between the DAMAGED vaccinated and the undamaged, “super powered” unvaccinated who will inherit the Earth

Vaccine pushers are trying to divide the world into vaxxed vs. unvaxxed by denying unvaccinated people access to society (via vaccine passports). But they’re in for a shock… and a twist. The real division that will unfold is between the damaged vaccinated people vs. the undamaged unvaccinated people.

Damaged vaccinated people will:

Suffer cognitive damage that unfolds a lot like accelerating mental retardation.
Suffer cardiovascular damage that prevents them from carrying out normal, mundane tasks like carrying a bag of groceries up a flight of stairs.
Suffer infertility and reproductive damage that makes them unable to reproduce.
Suffer autoimmune damage that leads to extreme risks of ADE and hyperinflammation upon exposure to future circulating pathogens.

Undamaged people, on the other hand, will appear to possess “super powers” in their abilities to think and function in a normal, healthy way. While the vaccinated half of society will be mentally and physically disabled, unvaccinated people will maintain their full faculties and their ability to have children and participate in society.

The vaccinated think they got passports to freedom, but they really bought tickets to Hell

The real irony in all this is how vaccinated people think they are being granted access to the world via vaccine passports, but they will mostly spend the rest of their existence in hospitals, couches, beds or coffins because their bodies and brains will not function the way they used to. By taking vaccines, many of these people who imagine they are superior to others will actually end up:

Unable to achieve successful pregnancy or carry a child full term.
Unable to participate in outdoor activities requiring any real level of exertion.
Unable to work jobs other than menial labor, due to loss of cognitive function.
Unable to meaningfully socialize with family and friends due to losses in cognition and short-term memory.

(The good news is that I believe people who turn to nutrition can overcome a lot of the spike protein damage from early vaccines, but they must stop poisoning themselves with booster shots, or nothing can save them.)

In essence, those who take spike protein injections in their quest for a vaccine passport are actually signing up for a lifetime of vaccine suffering. They will be prisoners in their own bodies for as long as they live, which may not be much longer if they continue to take spike protein “booster shots.”

Those very booster shots, of course, are far easier to promote to people who have already been cognitively damaged by the first two shots, suffering from impaired reasoning and emotional instability. We are now witnessing this in vaccinated people as they scream and condemn others in wild-eyed rants that you can find on TikTok and YouTube.

Witness some of the insanity for yourself:

(video)

If you want to have “super powers” compared to the damaged, disabled vaccinated masses, just invoke natural immunity and beat covid with your God-given immune system. Before long, you will be among those of us who inherit the Earth as the vax-damaged recede into their homes, hospitals and coffins, all victims of the suicidal delusion that imagines spike protein bioweapons will somehow protect you from a pandemic. (read more)

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TEXAS ABORTION RULING RECAP II (from a more neutral observer)

Supreme Court Refuses To Halt Texas Fetal Heartbeat Law On Procedural Grounds

“it is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention”

The Supreme Court just issued one of the biggest non-abortion abortion rulings in memory. It was a non-abortion ruling because by 5-4, with Roberts voting with the liberal block, the court found the case not ripe for judicial intervention. But it’s related to abortion, so according to the left, it’s the end of the world, and we’re already in that movie with the women in red robes and head coverings.

Actually, the law is not a ban on abortion, contrary to the common terminology applied to it. The law authorizes private rights of action by citizens against abortion providers who perform abortions after a heartbeat is detected or without trying to detect a heartbeat. This threat of private lawsuit reportedly has caused abortion providers to stop rendering services. Structuring the law this way apparently was a deliberate attempt to avoid federal judicial scrutiny.

And that’s the judicial rub. The government is not enforcing the law, private citizens are. But none of those private citizens have yet filed a suit under the law, so there’s nothing for SCOTUS to decide yet. The Court left open that there might be other procedural ways to judicially challenge the law, and made clear it was not ruling on the merits.

Here’s the majority opinion (emphasis added):

The application for injunctive relief or, in the alternative, to vacate stays of the district court proceedings presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is denied. To prevail in an application for a stay or an injunction, an applicant must carry the burden of making a “strong showing” that it is “likely to succeed on the merits,” that it will be “irreparably injured absent a stay,” that the balance of the equities favors it, and that a stay is consistent with the public interest. Nken v. Holder, 556 U. S. 418, 434 (2009); Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, 141 S. Ct. 63, 66 (2020) (citing Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 555 U. S. 7, 20 (2008)). The applicants now before us have raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law at issue. But their application also presents complex and novel antecedent procedural questions on which they have not carried their burden. For example, federal courts enjoy the power to enjoin individuals tasked with enforcing laws, not the laws themselves. California v. Texas, 593 U. S. ___, ___ (2021) (slip op., at 8). And it is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention. Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l USA, 568 U. S. 398, 409 (2013) (“threatened injury must be certainly impending” (citation omitted)). The State has represented that neither it nor its executive employees possess the authority to enforce the Texas law either directly or indirectly. Nor is it clear whether, under existing precedent, this Court can issue an injunction against state judges asked to decide a lawsuit under Texas’s law. See Ex parte Young, 209 U. S. 123, 163 (1908). Finally, the sole private-citizen respondent before us has filed an affidavit stating that he has no present intention to enforce the law. In light of such issues, we cannot say the applicants have met their burden to prevail in an injunction or stay application. In reaching this conclusion, we stress that we do not purport to resolve definitively any jurisdictional or substantive claim in the applicants’ lawsuit. In particular, this order is not based on any conclusion about the constitutionality of Texas’s law, and in no way limits other procedurally proper challenges to the Texas law, including in Texas state courts.

By mentioning challenges in Texas state courts, SCOTUS invites such lawsuits. Reportedly a Travis County, Texas, judge already stayed the law, but I’m not sure what the implications of that are and if SCOTUS was aware of it, one would think it would have been mentioned. That would have been an easy way to dispose of the case.

Roberts, joined by Breyer and Kagan, dissented, arguing the case was important enough at least to issue a stay until it could be fully argued and heard:

The statutory scheme before the Court is not only unusual, but unprecedented. The legislature has imposed a prohibition on abortions after roughly six weeks, and then essentially delegated enforcement of that prohibition to the populace at large. The desired consequence appears to be to insulate the State from responsibility for implementing and enforcing the regulatory regime. The State defendants argue that they cannot be restrained from enforcing their rules because they do not enforce them in the first place. I would grant preliminary relief to preserve the status quo ante—before the law went into effect—so that the courts may consider whether a state can avoid responsibility for its laws in such a manner. Defendants argue that existing doctrines preclude judicial intervention, and they may be correct. See California v. Texas, 593 U. S. ___, ___ (2021) (slip op., at 8). But the con-sequences of approving the state action, both in this particular case and as a model for action in other areas, counsel at least preliminary judicial consideration before the program devised by the State takes effect.

Breyer, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, argued in dissent that the procedural posture was irrelevant:

I recognize that Texas’s law delegates the State’s power to prevent abortions not to one person (such as a district attorney) or to a few persons (such as a group of government officials or private citizens) but to any person. But I do not see why that fact should make a critical legal difference. That delegation still threatens to invade a constitutional right, and the coming into effect of that delegation still threatens imminent harm.

Sotomayor, joined by Breyer and Kagan, wrote one of her signature fiery and quotable dissents:

The Court’s order is stunning. Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand. Last night, the Court silently acquiesced in a State’s enactment of a law that flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents. Today, the Court belatedly explains that it declined to grant relief because of procedural complexities of the State’s own invention. Ante, at 1. Because the Court’s failure to act rewards tactics designed to avoid judicial review and inflicts significant harm on the applicants and on women seeking abortions in Texas, I dissent.

Expect more litigation. Probably today in the state and lower courts. I would not be shocked if the case came back to SCOTUS in a different procedural posture and the court issued a stay at that time. (read more)

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TEXAS ABORTION RULING RECAP I (from the Left)

Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion ban [law] in place

Nearly 24 hours after a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state went into effect, the Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed what it had previously only implied through its failure to act the night before: The court rejected a request to block enforcement of the law, which abortion providers say will bar at least 85% of abortions in the state and will likely cause many clinics to close, while a challenge to its constitutionality is litigated in the lower courts. The vote was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court’s three liberal justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – in dissent.

The case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, had come to the court on an emergency basis on Monday, with a group of abortion providers asking the justices to intervene. It was the first major test on abortion rights for the Roberts court since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020, and Ginsburg’s replacement by the conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett was likely decisive in the outcome.

The court’s inaction on Tuesday night that allowed the Texas law to go into effect and its brief order on Wednesday night denying any relief to the abortion providers unquestionably represented a victory for abortion foes, but the five-justice majority emphasized (and Roberts in his dissent reiterated) that the court was not endorsing the constitutionality of the law. The ruling also revealed a court that is deeply divided, not only on the merits of the case but also on the procedures that the court uses to resolve these kinds of emergency appeals.

The law, known as S.B. 8, is one of several so-called “heartbeat bills” that Republican legislatures have enacted around the country as part of an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the Supreme Court held that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb. That benchmark, known as viability, occurs around 24 weeks of pregnancy, but S.B. 8 prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy – a time measured from the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period and before many [women] realize that they are pregnant. To make it harder to challenge the law in court, particularly before it went into effect, the Texas law does not rely on government officials to enforce the ban. Instead, it deputizes private individuals to bring lawsuits against anyone who either providers or “aids or abets” an abortion, and it establishes an award of $10,000 for a successful lawsuit.

Texas abortion providers went to federal court in July, seeking to block it before its Sept. 1 effective date. They argued (among other things) that the law violates their patients’ constitutional right to end a pregnancy before viability. When the district court denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case on Aug. 25, things moved quickly. The defendants went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which granted their request to put the remaining district-court proceedings, including an Aug. 30 hearing on the abortion providers’ request for a preliminary injunction, on hold. The court of appeals also denied the abortion providers’ request to fast-track the defendants’ appeal, prompting the providers to seek emergency relief in the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon.

In a one-paragraph, unsigned order issued just before midnight on Wednesday, the court acknowledged that the providers had “raised serious questions regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law.” But that was not enough to stop the law from going into effect, the court explained, because of the way the law operates. Specifically, the court observed, it wasn’t clear whether the state officials – a judge and court clerk – and the anti-abortion activist whom the abortion providers had named as defendants “can or will seek to enforce the Texas law” against the providers in a way that would allow the court to get involved in the dispute at this stage.

In his dissent, which was joined by Breyer and Kagan, Roberts described the Texas scheme as “unprecedented.” By deputizing private citizens to enforce the law, Roberts stressed, the law “insulate[s] the State from responsibility.” He wrote that because of the novelty and significance of the question, he would stop the law from going into effect to preserve the status quo and allow courts to consider “whether a state can avoid responsibility for its laws in such a manner.”

Breyer wrote his own dissent, which was joined by Kagan and Sotomayor, in which he acknowledged the procedural challenges posed by the Texas law but expressed skepticism as to “why that fact should make a critical legal difference” when “the invasion of a constitutional right” is at issue.

Sotomayor, joined by Breyer and Kagan, described the court’s order as “stunning.” “Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny,” she wrote, “a majority of the Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand.”

Both Breyer and Sotomayor also noted that, within the first day that the Texas law was in effect, clinics in the state began turning away most or all abortion patients.

Kagan’s dissent, joined by Breyer and Sotomayor, focused largely on the process by which the court reached its ruling on Wednesday night. She complained that, “[w]ithout full briefing or argument, and after less than 72 hours’ thought, this Court greenlights the operation of Texas’s patently unconstitutional law banning most abortions.” The result, she concluded, “is emblematic of too much of this Court’s shadow-docket decisionmaking — which every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend.”

The Texas case will now return to the lower courts, where litigation will continue. Meanwhile, the justices have already agreed to weigh in on a challenge to the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy; they are likely to hear oral argument in that case in December, with a decision to follow sometime next year. In that case, Mississippi and its supporters have urged the court to formally overturn Roe and Casey. (read more)

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REPLACEMENT RECAP
(illegitimate Biden regime wants to accelerate Great Replacement policies)

Biden’s New Plan to Destroy American Sovereignty Using Fake Refugees

Just when it seems things are getting better, Biden and open-borders radical, DHS Secretary Mayorkas, are now plotting to encourage a new and even much larger surge at the border that would be a giant, diabolical step towards totally disenfranchising current American citizens via a wave of fake refugees, that is mostly economic refugees. A great majority of them are people, who would not qualify for asylum under the current asylum process, but who would say and do anything to gain access to the U.S. They will even greatly endanger their own children in the process or indenture themselves to a cartel to pay the high cost of smuggling them from their homeland across the border.

He has proposed to bypass Congress and change regulations so that those coming across the border illegally, would be granted asylum not by a court, as now is the process, but by bureaucrats, many of whom will be sympathetic to the radical cause of open borders. This regulation will be challenged in the courts, but everyone should be aware this is what they are doing. It is a gun held to the head of American sovereignty and we just do not know, yet, whether it will go off.

I first read about this on Discover the Networks, which referenced a Breitbart article. Breitbart talks about the asylum fraudsters coming for your jobs, but in the long run the purpose of bringing them here is to destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. and disenfranchise the American people, that is, achieve Obama’s utopian, progressive “transformation” of America into just another international community in the global village that has no independent sovereign rights.

It seemed incredible to me, but I found this very recent DHS post date August 22, 2021, which confirms the articles, albeit in sanitized bureaucratic language to somewhat camouflage the actual intent of the rules change.

DHS and DOJ Publish Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Make Asylum Process More Efficient and Ensure Fairness

This regulatory change would allow bureaucrats to grant asylum as soon as the illegal crosser has passed a low-bar “credible fear” interview. The credible fear interview is just a first attempt to determine whether the person has a real fear of persecution, due to immutable characteristics that he/she may have. It is based largely on the “honor system” and for that reason is an invitation for those, who want to manipulate the system, to lie. People can be trained to say the right things to pass the interview.

It would be the old catch-and-release process on steroids. By the old procedure, they would be released with a court date, which most would skip or lose their case, thereby living illegally in the U.S. and getting an automatic deportation order. With the new system, they would be released with asylum granted already by a bureaucrat (not a judge) and permission to live in the U.S. legally for the indefinite future with no pending court case.

The credible-fear interviewer is required, by law, to make an attempt to verify the claims, but if they cannot be verified, the statements must be accepted as “true” and the claimant will be welcomed to indefinite legal residency in the U.S. to await the next mass asylum. If it takes a few years until their children become old enough to vote for progressive “transformation”, that is not a problem. It is a long-term plan. It has been in the works for decades already. (read more)

See also: How Obama/Biden DHS Aids & Abets Child Trafficking By Cartels – Federal Court Opinion

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AFGHANISTAN RECAP IV

Exclusive: In secret texts, U.S. military officials lamented leaving Americans behind in Kabul

"We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," Army colonel wrote in a frantic series of texts that detail how a group of Americans were rejected at airport as rescue flight awaited.

President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an "extraordinary success," while his Pentagon portrayed a prosaic, workaday process to repatriate Americans still stranded in the war-torn country.

But text messages between U.S. military commanders and private citizens mounting last-minute rescues tell a far different story, one in which pleading American citizens were frantically left behind at the Kabul airport gate this past weekend to face an uncertain fate under Taliban rule while U.S. officials sought to spread the blame between high-ranking generals and the State Department

"We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division wrote Sunday in frustration in a series of encrypted messages that detailed the failed effort to extricate a group of American citizens, hours before the last U.S. soldiers departed Afghanistan.

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The text messages and emails were provided to Just the News by Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent who was among the private citizens working with private networks and the military to rescue stranded Americans.

Yon told Just the News that a group of Americans were abandoned at the Kabul airport, pleading for help as military officials told them they were finished with evacuations.

"We had them out there waving their passport screaming, 'I'm American,'" Yon said Tuesday while appearing on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

The heart-wrenching scenes unfolded this weekend as the U.S. military prepared to exit the capital city on Monday, leaving both the airport and most of the country under Taliban control.

"People were turned away from the gate by our own Army," Yon said.

After the episode ended and the Americans scattered to safehouses to avoid being captured, Yon wrote a stinging email to an Army major whose team had tried to coordinate the rescue before abandoning it.

"You guys left American citizens at the gate of the Kabul airport," Yon wrote Tuesday to the commander. "Three empty jets paid for by volunteers were waiting for them. You and I talked on the phone. I told you where they were. Gave you their passport images. And my email and phone number. And you left them behind."

He added: "Great job saving yourselves. Probably get a lot of medals."

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Yon's account, backed by three dozen text and email exchanges with frontline Army officials in Afghanistan, stands in sharp contrast to the claims of the Biden White House that U.S. citizens would not be left behind in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

"I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in an Aug. 23 press briefing. "They are not. We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home." President Joe Biden earlier this month underscored that position, saying that the United States would evacuate every American who wanted to leave the country.

With the American military no longer in Kabul, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, John Kirby, acknowledged Tuesday that Americans in fact were left behind. He described a calm, diplomatic scenario for bringing those people home.

“Right now I think the tools we have available to us and that we're going to use as a U.S. government is going to be more in the diplomatic, economic lanes, and we don't really see a military role right now," Kirby told MSNBC when asked if the U.S. military would rescue the stranded Americans.

Pentagon officials declined to immediately comment on the text messages Yon provided.

But Kirby on Tuesday couched the repatriation efforts as similar to how the U.S. would help, for example, a citizen who inadvertently crossed the wrong border.

"It's not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world," Kirby said. "We have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time, and we do everything we can to try to facilitate safe passage."

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) the top Republican on the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, first raised concerns in a letter Monday to the Pentagon that Americans had been knowingly and willingly abandoned. Reached late Tuesday, Johnson told Just the News the text messages confirmed his worst fears and raised questions about whether the Biden administration has been misleading the public.

"I'm not sure what planet President Biden and members of his administration are on, but here on planet Earth, his withdrawal from Afghanistan is an abysmal failure," the senator said. "What we've been hearing from people working the evacuation is completely different from the administration's rosy spin.

"These texts confirm my worst suspicions and should serve as further justification to dramatically increase the vetting process before granting refugees legal status and rights."

Those involved in the rescue efforts described a volatile, frightening effort to get Americans into the airport and aboard planes.

"I personally know and was involved in an operation two nights ago," Yon told Just the News. In that mission, Yon and a tight cadre tried to shepherd four American citizens — a woman and three children — onto an evacuation flight. First, the group had to get past Taliban checkpoints and through the gate to the airport.

"We had Taliban take them to the south gate," Yon said. "That's how they got through the checkpoint."

Once at the gate, the family stood waving passports, screaming that they are Americans. But, Yon said, American forces would not come out to get them.

There commenced a series of messages and phone calls from the helper group trying to reach someone who would open the gate for the family.

The helpers made contact with an Army colonel who had knowledge of the evacuation process. In a text exchange viewed by Just the News, the colonel messaged Yon and others that people were being turned away from the airport.

Using short hand for American citizens, Yon wrote: "Any AMCITS?"

"Yes. All of them," the colonel responded. In a follow on text, he wrote: "Yes, we are f*cking abandoning American citizens."

While the helper group worked frantically to get the Americans through the gate, members texted one another to say they had seen National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on CNN saying that neither he nor U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie were told that Americans were abandoned.

"Hey did they end up just taking off?" one correspondent texted the helper group. "Because the National Security Advisor just told Tapper that neither he nor McKenzie had heard anything about Americans being left at the gates."

The correspondent noted that the private group heard differently from a lieutenant colonel (O-5): "Given we had comms with an O-5 on the ground, that means CENTCOM C3 is s--t, or someone is lying."

Text messages viewed by Just the News showed the helper group describing their efforts — and failures.

One man wrote how he spoke to the American mother, and sent photos of her family's passports to Americans inside the airport.

"The Americans recognize it's her and agree but I've been told General Milley won't let them in," the man texted.

The helper group strategized on whether they should send money, how much, and to whom. Ultimately, the family did not get into the airport.

"We get them to the gate, and the U.S. Army completely fails this saying, 'Oh, we can't do it, because the Department of the State tells us we can't do it," Yon told Just the News.

Others have reported similar situations at the airport.

"I have messages from Americans outside Kabul [airport]'s gates who are now stranded in Afghanistan," Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) tweeted on Tuesday. "It's reprehensible that Pres. Biden's left behind Americans along with Afghans who fought along side us, but has no problem leaving our Southern Border wide open to anyone who wants to come."

Waltz, a combat veteran and a former Green Beret who served in Afghanistan, has noted that private citizens have rallied to save people the Biden Administration left behind.

Democrats have offered similar concerns about the Biden administration's efforts, including Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy captain and NASA astronaut.

“Leaving any American citizen behind is unacceptable, and I will keep pushing this administration to do everything in its power to get our people out," he declared Tuesday.

The private citizens have met with successes and lost opportunities — such as the effort to rescue the American mother and her young children.

"The Taliban would have let them in," Yon said. But no one on the Americans side opened the gate.

"This is the kind of insanity that we're down to," he said. (read more)

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AFGHANISTAN RECAP III

If Austin thinks what just happened in Afghanistan was “heroic” and “historic” then he is truly sick.

That was an absolute disaster that should never have happened how it did!

You can’t rewrite history by simply lying!

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) September 1, 2021

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See also:

Retired Generals And Admirals Send Out Blistering Letter Calling For Biden’s DoD Officials To Step Down

Flag Officers 4 America, a group of retired generals and admirals, wrote an open letter calling for Joe Biden’s Department of Defense officials to step down after the result of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

The letter brings up the body count left behind by the Biden team, including the 13 service members who died violently.

“The retired Flag Officers signing this letter are calling for the resignation and retirement of the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) based on negligence in performing their duties primarily involving events surrounding the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. The hasty retreat has left initial estimates at ~15,000 Americans stranded in dangerous areas controlled by a brutal enemy along with ~25,000 Afghan citizens who supported American forces.”

Part of the letter points out the aspects of the failed withdrawal that most Americans are angry with, including leaving behind a huge depository of taxpayer-funded weapons.

“The consequences of this disaster are enormous and will reverberate for decades beginning with the safety of Americans and Afghans who are unable to move safely to evacuation points; therefore, being de facto hostages of the Taliban at this time. The death and torture of Afghans have already begun and will result in a human tragedy of major proportions. The loss of billions of dollars in advanced military equipment and supplies falling into the hands of our enemies is catastrophic. The damage to the reputation of the United States is indescribable. We are now seen and will be seen for many years, as an unreliable partner in any multinational agreement or operation. Trust in the United States is irreparably damaged.”

The letter concludes with a warning about American enemies who might take advantage of this moment, including China and Russia. The letter also criticizes using training hours to teach “wokeness” to new recruits.

“Moreover, now our adversaries are emboldened to move against America due to the weakness displayed in Afghanistan. China benefits the most followed by Russia, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and others. Terrorists around the world are emboldened and able to pass freely into our country through our open border with Mexico.”

In addition to military matters, Flag Officers 4 America, also raises the alarm on border security on their website.

It states, “Open borders jeopardize national security by increasing human trafficking, drug cartels, terrorist entry, health/CV19 dangers, and humanitarian crises. Illegals are flooding our Country bringing high economic costs, crime, lowering wages, and illegal voting in some states. We must re-establish border controls and continue building the wall while supporting our dedicated border control personnel. Sovereign nations must have controlled borders.” (read more)

See also: Group of 87 retired generals call on Austin and Milley to resign following botched Afghan withdrawal

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AFGHANISTAN RECAP II

To Those Who Served In Or Have Been Impacted By The War In Afghanistan,
You Are Not Alone

This is a really hard time for many who are inextricably connected to America's longest war, but you don't have to face it on your own.

These past few weeks have not been easy to witness in regards to the events in Afghanistan. As images and video of the Taliban sweeping back into power and the chaos at Hamid Karzai Internation Airport flooded the news, many began wondering what was the point of nearly 20 years of war and thousands of U.S. and allied troops killed.

Before I became social media director here at The War Zone, I, like many of you, served. I deployed to southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2011 as a Marine and have been asking myself why did we expend so much blood and treasure for this result and if my time and energy spent there was all just a waste. It is impossible to reconcile all of those lives lost and all those broken minds and bodies while watching the very people who killed and maimed us come back into power so easily.

Many people are hurting from these events, and no one group has a monopoly on this pain. Active duty, reserves, veterans, contractors, families or friends, an entire community around this war is feeling the effects of the last several weeks, months, and years. But we do not need to “suffer in silence” and we do not need to carry this pain alone.

Comparisons to the fall of Saigon in 1975 are easy to make with the countless similarities. One aspect of the fall of Afghanistan and the fall of Saigon that could not be more different is the social environment and the mental health resources we have access to today. We learned our lesson in how we treat the men and women we ask so much of, and though we still have a ways to go, we are leaps and bounds ahead of where we were in 1975.

We want to share with you all some of those mental health resources in the hopes they can help in some way.

Maybe the best resource is one that is completely free—each other. Whether it is here in the comments section, or out in the offline world, reach out to your friends and family and check in on them. Connecting with an old friend is incredibly powerful for both parties involved.

Make that call or send that text, you could save a life.

We understand that there are many more resources than those we are about to share, but these are what we are familiar with, please share any more you have in the comments below.

The Department of Veterans Affairs

The VA is a great place to start for mental health resources and support for both veterans their families.

The Veterans Crisis Line allows veterans, their families, and their friends to call, chat online, or text. You can call them at 1-800-273-8255 (this is also the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) and press 1, text at 838255, or chat online here. These services are confidential, run 24 hours a day, and the VA does perform follow-ups for those who connect via the crisis line. If you or someone you know is in crisis, this is a good place to start.

The War Vet Call Center is another confidential call center that runs 24/7 but is geared toward combat veterans and their families. They can be reached at 1-877-WAR-VETS (1-877-927-8387).

The Women Veterans Call Center, as you have guessed, caters to female veterans and the unique challenges they face as well as their families, friends, and caregivers. Call 1-855-VA-Women (1-855-829-6636) from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. ET Monday through Friday and 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m Saturday. You can also chat online with them during those same hours.

Real Warriors is a program through the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health And Traumatic Brain Injury, or DCOE for short. They provide information and resources about psychological health, Posttraumatic Stress, and traumatic brain injury. Call them at 1-866-966-1020 24/7 or chat online.

As we mentioned above, veteran caregivers are impacted by all of this as well, and the VA provides support for those individuals as well. Caregiver Support can be reached at 1-855-260-3274 from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday. You can also find a local Caregiver Support Coordinator here.

Military OneSource

If you are active-duty or have been out for less than a year, you can use Military OneSource for support and resources in just about everything that comes with active-duty life. They also have mental health resources that you can access outside of the traditional military healthcare networks.

Peer-to-peer support is available 24/7, by phone, or via a live chat function. Call them at 800-342-9647 or start a chat with them here.

In addition to that, Military OneSource provides confidential specialty consultations in a variety of areas, including mental health. Call the same number above to get that started.

These are some of the government-funded resources we all have available to us. There are some great groups and charities that also work in this space.

Charities

Headstrong is a veteran-founded organization that connects military members, veterans, and their family members with confidential treatment at a network of providers at no expense to the individual regardless of when they served. To get started, click here.

Mission 22 offers a variety of services including a virtual program, a wellness program, access to Crossfit, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Judo, and retreats and other programs with partner organizations such as Warfighter Outfitters.

Mission 22 also has programs for families like their Mission Troopers Equine Program that is geared toward the children of veterans.

Give An Hour is an organization that provides free mental health services to individuals through a network of professionals who donate their time. They have a network geared toward veterans in particular as well.

These are just a handful of organizations and resources that work to tirelessly support veterans and their loved ones. We encourage you to access them if there is any need at all, you deserve it and so do the ones you love.

Above all else, remember you are not alone. Not in the feelings you may be having towards this situation and not in the fight to get through this troubling time. (read more)

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AFGHANISTAN RECAP I

According to the Associated Press:

American service members killed in Afghanistan through April: 2,461.

U.S. contractors: 3,846.

Afghan national military and police: 66,000.

Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states: 1,144.

Afghan civilians: 47,245.

Taliban and other opposition fighters: 51,191.

Aid workers: 444.

Journalists: 72.

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EMPIRE OF DELTA DECEPTION
(We covered this Delta Deception 5 August 2021 in, How [Can They Claim] the Delta Variant Spreading If There is No Direct Delta Variant Test? 2021-08-05 d. The Delta Deception bears another look.)

Bombshell: PCR Tests Can’t Identify Delta Variant; It’s All Fiction

This is not a joke; it’s real

Oooo. The Delta Variant. It’s everywhere.

Watch out. It’s under your rug. It’s in the clothes closet. It’s on your toothbrush.

And it’s The Unvaccinated who are spreading it. Those devils. We, who are pure, must be protected from the unvaxxed Unclean.

Fauci, god of soccer moms, rises every morning saying DELTA, goes on television saying DELTA, and goes to sleep praying to DELTA.

Read this from the Texas Department of State Health Services FAQ: “How can I tell if I have the Delta variant? Do labs report that to the state? That information may not be readily available. The [PCR] viral tests that are used to determine if a person has COVID-19 are not designed to tell you what variant is causing the infection. Detecting the Delta variant, or other variants, requires a special type of testing called genomic sequencing. Due to the volume of COVID-19 cases, sequencing is not performed on all viral samples. However, because the Delta variant now accounts for the majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States, there is a strong likelihood that a positive test result indicates infection with the Delta variant.”

Boom.

I can assure you, the number of patients whose samples are genetically sequenced is tiny, contrasted against the number whose samples are simply run through the standard PCR.

So there is no way to know that the Delta variant now accounts for the majority of COVID cases in the US. And using the standard PCR, there is no way to know ANY specific patient has the Delta. It’s all fiction.

We have this from the American Lung Association: “Regular COVID-19 tests do not detect which variant is involved in a patient’s case—that information does not change the approach to care or therapy. The variant identification requires genomic sequencing, a process separate from regular virus tests and one that not all labs are able to do or do not do on a routine basis for patient care but are done more for public health monitoring.”

Let me break down how this game works. To be excessively generous, let’s say that 3 out of every 1000 positive PCR tests in America are sent to high-level labs, where genetic sequencing is done.

A certain percentage of THOSE sequencing tests come up positive for the Delta Variant. Based on these results, MODELS are constructed.

Now we’re REALLY into fake science. The models estimate what percentage of ALL positive PCR tests are really positive for Delta.

I’m sorry to break this newsflash, but modelers are notorious charlatans. Their dense calculations are as far from science as a Model-T Ford is from a spaceship.

But based on models, public health agencies—who desperately needed a new con, because COVID case numbers were declining—blasted through their media assets the new revelation: THE DELTA MONSTER IS LOOSE AMONG US.

But it gets even worse. Why? Because you can bet the farm that the current model pushing the omnipresence of the Delta Variant was never challenged. It was never handed to several groups of independent scientists who went over it with a fine-toothed comb. That’s called verification. That’s called the Scientific Method. You may have heard of it.

The most notorious modeler in the world, Neil Ferguson, of the London Imperial College, bankrolled by Bill Gates, made a prediction early in 2020: by that summer, there would 500,000 COVID deaths in the UK, and 2 million in the US.

It was this absurd prediction, swallowed whole by Boris Johnson, and swallowed whole by Donald Trump, on the urging of Tony Fauci, that led to the original mass lockdowns in US and the UK. And then other nations followed suit.

As my long-time readers know, all this is just the tip of a very large iceberg. For the past year, I’ve been proving the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t exist, the tests and case numbers are meaningless, and the highly destructive vaccine is unnecessary.

But I make frequent forays into the fantasy world of official science, to illustrate that, even within that lunatic bubble, internal contradictions and outright lies abound. (read more)

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EMPIRE OF EXAGGERATION

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Demographic Data for Texas

The Texas Coronavirus Antibody REsponse Survey (Texas CARES) measures the percentage of participants who have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 virus in their blood (this measurement is called “seroprevalence”). All Texans 5-80 years of age can participate in the survey. Participants complete an informed consent, fill out a questionnaire, and then receive a blood draw at 3 time points (each 3 months apart) to determine if they have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The data on this page presents these results in real time (Note: updated weekly). For permission to use this data and analysis, please contact TexasCares@uth.tmc.edu. [Editor's Note: Of course we failed to ask for permission. The gatekeepers at "TexasCares" can look up what "fair use" means.]

[Editor's Note: This large study reveals there have been more than twice the reported "cases" meaning that the mortality rate is LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT IS REPORTED. WuFlu is no worse than real flu. The Feds have some serious ‘splainin’ to do.]

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EMPIRE OF DILATION AND CURETTAGE
(Today in Texas, birthing persons are suddenly unable to have an inconvenient fetus killed. LEFT GOES BERSERK. Small victory for federalism?)

Texas Heartbeat Law Goes Into Effect, Banning Most Abortions Since SCOTUS Hasn’t Acted Yet

The pro-abortion people have lost their minds because God forbid Texas is trying to stop infanticide.

The Texas heartbeat law went into effect on Wednesday, September 1, at midnight.

The law places the most restrictions on abortion since the Supreme Court legalized abortion [nationwide] in 1973.

The pro-abortion people wanted SCOTUS to step in because the law could stop 85% of the abortions in the state. Many clinics will have to close.

SCOTUS received the challenge to the bill on Monday, which “centered on the preliminary question of what rules should apply in Texas while abortion providers continue to challenge the ban in lower courts.”

SCOTUS has not answered.

The Law

The legislation states basic biology: “pregnancy begins with fertilization” and “occurs when the woman is carrying the developing human offspring.” The authors said pregnancy is also determined by the date of a female’s last period.

Also from the bill:

Sec. 171.202. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The legislature finds, according to contemporary medical research, that:
(1) fetal heartbeat has become a key medical predictor that an unborn child will reach live birth;
(2) cardiac activity begins at a biologically identifiable moment in time, normally when the fetal heart is formed in the gestational sac;

The gestational sac is the “structure compromising the extraembryonic membranes that envelop the unborn child and that is typically visible by ultrasound after the fourth week of pregnancy.” It is not the placenta.

The law forbids a physician from knowingly performing or inducing “an abortion on a pregnant woman.”

The physician can perform or induce an abortion if “the physician has determined, in accordance with this section, whether the woman’s unborn child has a detectable fetal heartbeat.”

So the abortion can only happen in a medical emergency. Rape and incest do not count. The person who impregnated the woman “through rape or incest could not sue.”

The Texas Heartbeat Act allows private citizens to “bring a civil action against any person who”:

(1) performs or induces an abortion in violation of this chapter;
(2) knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise, if the abortion is performed or induced in violation of this chapter, regardless of whether the person knew or should have known that the abortion would be performed or induced in violation of this chapter.

The person cannot “have a connection to an abortion provider or a person seeking an abortion.”

Pro-Abortion People Losing Their Minds

Those who approve of infanticide are going nuts on social media. The hyperbole is off the wall. People who supposedly “believe the science” about everything ignore basic biology.

[Editor's Note: Molly Jong-Fast is the daughter of Erica Mann Jong, author of, Fear of Flying.]

If you’re not in a rage about Texas Republicans overturning roe you’re not paying attention

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 1, 2021

Nothing worse than walking my teenage daughter to school and explaining to her how Republicans used the shadow docket to overturn Roe in the state of Texas.

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 1, 2021

Good morning. Texas is still the most dangerous state in which to give birth, and if it was a country it would have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates of any country in the global North.

— Melissa, Apocalyptist (@MelissaFloBix) September 1, 2021

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It is now after midnight central time and there has been no ruling from the Supreme Court on the Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. That means the law has officially taken effect. An emergency request to block the law remains pending at SCOTUS.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) September 1, 2021

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.

Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 1, 2021

Biden on Texas abortion ban: “This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.” pic.twitter.com/uaNhKHmZap

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 1, 2021

AN INCREDIBLE MOMENT IN THE FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Extremely proud of @GovAbbott and the great people of Texas for fighting to protect our most vulnerable – children – and mothers from the predatory abortion industry.

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 1, 2021

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EMPIRE OF DESPERATION
(Who could have foreseen that bankers and financiers, along with administrators and professionals, would flee from a Stone Age theocracy? Anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.)

Taliban wrestle with Afghan economy in chaos, humanitarian crisis

Summary

Prices soar, currency plunges, shops close
Taliban struggle to keep banks, services, medical care running
Crowds line up outside Kabul banks for scarce cash
Thousands flee to border crossings with Pakistan, Iran

Sept 1 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers struggled to keep the country functioning on Wednesday after the final withdrawal of U.S. forces, with foreign donors alarmed about an impending humanitarian crisis.

Two weeks since the Taliban's sweep into Kabul brought a chaotic end to 20 years of warfare, the Islamist militants have yet to name a new government or reveal how they intend to rule.

In an administrative vacuum, prices have soared and crowds have gathered at banks to withdraw cash.

Heavily armed fighters have imposed control on the capital, but Taliban officials were grappling with keeping hospitals and government machinery running following the end of a huge airlift of foreigners and Afghans who had helped Western forces.

The new, Taliban-appointed central bank head has sought to reassure banks the group wants a fully functioning financial system, but has so far given little detail on how it will supply funds for it, bankers familiar with the matter said.

Qatar's Al Jazeera television reported that Qatari technical experts had arrived at the Taliban's request to discuss resuming operations at Kabul airport, currently inoperable.

The foreign minister of neighbouring Pakistan, which has close ties to the Taliban, said he expected Afghanistan to have a new "consensus government" within days.

In Washington, where the end of America's longest war has sparked the biggest crisis of President Joe Biden's administration, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said the United States is looking at all possible options and routes to continue to help Americans and legal permanent residents leave Afghanistan.

Washington would keep having conversations with the Taliban that serve U.S. interests, she told reporters, adding the United States would look at how it could give aid to Afghanistan without benefiting any government that it forms.

People fearful of life under Taliban rule rushed to the borders.

In Panjshir province, members of local militias and remnants of former military units were still holding out under the leadership of Ahmad Massoud. Senior Taliban leader Amir Khan Motaqi called on them to put down weapons and negotiate.

"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is home for all Afghans," he said in a speech.

The Taliban have declared an amnesty for all Afghans who worked with foreign forces during the war that started when they were ousted from power in 2001 over their refusal to hand over al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the [false flag] Sept. 11 attacks.

Taliban leaders have called on Afghans to return home and help rebuild. They have promised to protect human rights in an effort to present a more moderate face than their first government, which enforced a strict version of sharia law, including banning women from education and employment.

PRICES SOAR

But their more immediate concern is staving off economic collapse. Afghanistan desperately needs money, and the Taliban are unlikely to get swift access to the roughly $10 billion in assets mostly held abroad by the Afghan central bank.

The Taliban have ordered banks to reopen, but strict weekly limits on withdrawals have been imposed.

The acting central bank governor, Haji Mohammad Idris, met members of the Afghanistan Banks Association and other financiers this week, said two bankers who attended the meeting. The militant group was working to find solutions for liquidity and rising inflation, they quoted Idris as saying.

"They were very charming and asked banks what their concerns were," said one of the bankers who requested anonymity.

Long lines have formed at banks, the currency is sinking, inflation is rising and many offices and shops remain shut.

"Everything is expensive now, prices are going up every day," said Kabul resident Zelgai.

Outside the capital, humanitarian organizations have warned of impending catastrophe as severe drought has hit farmers and forced thousands of rural poor to seek shelter in the cities. But foreign donors are unsure about whom to speak to.

Taliban officials have said the problems will ease once a new government is in place, and have urged other countries to maintain economic relations.

Bankers outside Afghanistan said it would be difficult to get the financial system running again without the bank specialists who joined the exodus. "I don't know how they will manage it because all the technical staff, including senior management, has left the country," one banker said.

The European Union will need to engage with the Talibanbut will not rush into formally recognising them as the new rulers of Afghanistan, a senior EU official said. (read more)

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EMPIRE OF PERCEPTIONS

Report: Biden Told Afghan President Ghani to ‘Project a Different Picture’ of the ‘Spiraling Situation’

“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban. And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”

Do you guys remember the left exploding over former President Donald Trump supposedly threatening to withhold aid from Ukraine if the government did not investigate then-candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter?

I wonder if they will say anything about a phone call between now-President Joe Biden and then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

Reuters received the transcript and audio of a 14-minute phone call between Ghani and Biden on July 23.

Biden spent most of the time concentrating on “perception” of Afghanistan:

In much of the call, Biden focused on what he called the Afghan government’s “perception” problem. “I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”

Biden told Ghani that if Afghanistan’s prominent political figures were to give a press conference together, backing a new military strategy, “that will change perception, and that will change an awful lot I think.”

The American leader’s words indicated he didn’t anticipate the massive insurrection and collapse to come 23 days later. “We are going to continue to fight hard, diplomatically, politically, economically, to make sure your government not only survives, but is sustained and grows,” said Biden.

So even if it is not an accurate picture, Ghani needed to project it. Um, okay.

Biden also promised Ghani aid if he “could publicly project he had a plan to control the spiraling situation in Afghanistan”:

“We will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is,” Biden said. Days before the call, the U.S. carried out air strikes to support Afghan security forces, a move the Taliban said was in violation of the Doha peace agreement.

The U.S. president also advised Ghani to get buy-in from powerful Afghans for a military strategy going forward, and then to put a “warrior” in charge of the effort, a reference to Defense Minister General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi.

Despite that “spiraling situation,” Biden told Ghani he had “the best military.” He reminded Ghani he had “300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well.”

Ghani told Biden they “need to move with speed.” He appeared somewhat more realistic than Biden when it came to the Taliban:

Ghani told Biden he believed there could be peace if he could “rebalance the military solution.” But he added, “We need to move with speed.”

“We are facing a full-scale invasion, composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10-15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this,” Ghani said. Afghan government officials, and U.S. experts, have consistently pointed to Pakistani support for the Taliban as key to the group’s resurgence.

Then Ghani promised Biden the Afghani military would focus on major cities in Afghanistan. Biden approved, even though he admitted he is “not a military guy”:

Afghanistan was promising a shift in its military strategy, to start focusing on protecting “population centers” – major cities – rather than fighting to protect rural territories. Biden referred approvingly of that strategy. He said that doing so would help not just on the ground but in the “perception” internationally that was required to shore up world support for the Afghan government.

“I’m not a military guy, so I’m not telling you what a plan should precisely look like, you’re going to get not only more help, but you’re going to get a perception that is going to change …,” Biden said.

Ghani, for his part, assured Biden that “your assurance of support goes a very long way to enable us, to really mobilize us in earnest.”

The Taliban started taking over cities two weeks after the phone call. The terrorist group took over Kabul in one weekend.

Ghani fled Afghanistan on August 15. (read more)

After more Psaki word salad, @JacquiHeinrich returned to the Biden/Ghani call: “Was the President in any way pushing a false narrative in that call with the Afghan president?

Psaki: “It’s pretty clear…I’m not going to go into details of a private conversation.” (4/4) pic.twitter.com/Y6YM6LvHVY

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 1, 2021

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EMPIRE OF GRAVEYARDS VI

Taliban supporters held a mock funeral with coffins covered in US, UK, French, and NATO flags as troops left the country in Afghanistan’s Khost pic.twitter.com/63mLJ5O1Rh

— TRT World (@trtworld) September 1, 2021

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EMPIRE OF GRAVEYARDS V

.@DeptofDefense has ordered ALL military working dogs to be left behind in #Afghanistan. They also said any Americans left there are free to leave whenever they want. WTFO?!?!@SecBlinken, @AmbRice46, @JoeBiden & all the top generals should be arrested now! This is not American!

— Jonathan T Gilliam (@JGilliam_SEAL) August 30, 2021

UPDATE!!!! Our efforts of rescuing has expanded to 46 military working & now we are coordinating with our contacts & flights to get the dogs and rescue people out of Kabul on same plane.
Thank you for all your help! This is a mess! #Afghanistan https://t.co/3vaYMaMAyd pic.twitter.com/OAtPXANxb6

— Veteran Sheepdogs of America (@VetSheepdogsUS) August 29, 2021

#CharlotteMaxwellJones and her service animals were LEFT in #Kabul. The SERVICE dogs were released on the tarmac. They were at the airport for SIX DAYS beforehand! There was room on those planes. I’m ashamed of you @POTUS @VP @SecDef #OperationHercules #NoAmerican https://t.co/4jqYyBQvpS

— Whitley Purnell (@PurnellWhitley) August 30, 2021

Not a great day for America’s service dogs that are still in the airport pic.twitter.com/atVle05Y2F

— Gabrielle Gallardo (GG) (@ryfxyz123) August 30, 2021

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EMPIRE OF GRAVEYARDS IV
(Please remind me. Is it called the Pentagon or the Pentagram?)

Afghan journalist Ali Latifi @alibomaye tells me he went to the house where 10 family members including 6 children were killed by a US drone strike and that, tragically, they had been issued with special visas and were about to leave the country #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/WF2SDRLyAZ

— Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) August 30, 2021

Funeral prayers of 10 #Afghan civilians killed yesterday in #US drone strike in #Kabul. The missile targeted a car full of civilians near #KabulAiport. The youngest victim was a 2-year-old child. 💔

This is America’s #WarOnTerror!#Afganistan #USA #Kabul_Airport #Taliban #Hrw pic.twitter.com/r4Cge6AX87

— Atik Liman (@atikul_liman) August 30, 2021

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EMPIRE OF GRAVEYARDS III
(Please remind me. Is it called the Pentagon or the Pentagram?)

👀 Kirby says it’s okay that we left U.S. military assets and weapons behind for the Taliban because they don’t “pose a threat to the United States or pose a threat to neighboring nations.” #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/O9fnaQTnSd

— John Cooper (@thejcoop) August 31, 2021

Per prevaricating Pentagon spokesman:
they don’t “pose a threat to the United States or pose a threat to neighboring nations”

-2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP’s
-75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc
-45 UH-60 Blachhawk Helicopters
-50 MD530G Scout Attack Choppers
-ScanEagle Military Drones
-30 Military Version Cessnas
-4 C-130’s
-29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tocano Ground Attack Aircraft
208+ Aircraft Total
-At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
-61,000 M203 Rounds
-20,040 Grenades
-Howitzers
-Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
-162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Comunications Gear
-16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
-Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
-Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Googles
-10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
-Recconaissance Equipment (ISR)
-Laser Aiming Units
-Explosives Ordnance C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
-2,520 Bombs
-Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops all operational
-Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
-Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of .50 caliber
-Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
-US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics

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EMPIRE OF GRAVEYARDS II
(Please remind me. Is it called the Pentagon or the Pentagram?)

🚨🚨🚨🚨 Per former Deputy Assistant SecDef Roger Pardo-Maurer, the DoD had foreknowledge of the Kabul bomber AND denied permission to fire to the Predator drone that had a lock on the bomber. pic.twitter.com/ZDh27drdwu

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 31, 2021

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EMPIRE OF GRAVEYARDS I

PLEASE SELECT YOUR PREFERRED HEADLINE:

Stone Age Taliban Apparently Execute War Criminal
OR
Islamic Fundamentalists Discourage Afghan Women From Becoming Pilots

Whichever headline you selected, this was still a barbaric act by insecure and ignorant men.

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