An explosion has caiused multiple fatalities and injuries at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. Among the fatalities are children and US Servicemembers. The attack happened just outside the gate of the airport.
Here is what the meainstream media is saying right now:
Two suicide bombers struck a packed crowd outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 12 American service members and scores of Afghan civilians, officials said.
In the final days of its 20-year presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. military sustained one of the highest single-day American tolls of the war.
“Today is a hard day,” said Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., head of the United States Central Command. And he warned that the danger was not over.
“We have other active threats against the airfield,” General McKenzie told reporters at a news conference in Washington.
The bombs were set off near a crowd of families at the airport gates who were desperately hoping…
Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., chief of U.S. Central Command, said that after an explosion at the airport’s Abbey Gate, where Americans were searching potential Afghan evacuees, gunmen opened fire. Another blast later occurred at a hotel outside the airport. He attributed the attack to the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility, and indicated that U.S. military action in response is possible.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. The attacks killed at least 60 Afghans and 12 U.S. troops, Afghan and U.S. officials said.
The U.S. general overseeing the evacuation vowed the United States would “go after” the perpetrators of the bombings, and warned that more such attacks are expected. U.S. President Joe Biden later echoed those sentiments in an address to the nation in which he spoke directly to those responsible for the attack.
“We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden said.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command said the attacks would not stop the United States from evacuating Americans and others, and flights out were continuing. He said there was a large amount of security at the airport, and…
The U.S. State Department issued a dire warning late Wednesday urging any Americans near certain parts of the Kabul airport to “leave immediately.” Hamid Karzai Airport remains the only viable means of egress for the majority of Americans in Afghanistan, but the State Department tweeted, “#Afghanistan: Due to threats outside the Kabul airport, US citizens should avoid traveling to the airport and avoid airport gates unless you receive instructions to do so. Those at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately.” Australia and the United Kingdom issued similar warnings to citizens. The airport has been center stage for the American military’s withdrawal from the country and the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens and Afghans who worked with the U.S.
The Pentagon says “a number of U.S. service members were killed” or wounded.
“We can confirm that a number of U.S. service members were killed in today’s complex attack at Kabul airport,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement on this morning’s attack. “A number of others are being treated for wounds. We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack.
An explosion outside Kabul airport on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including children, and wounded many Taliban guards, a Taliban official told Reuters.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said a second explosion went off outside the airport in the Afghan capital, adding that at least 13 were killed and 15 injured.
What we know so far
Two explosions went off outside the Kabul airport.
At least 13 people have been killed and more than 15 injured.
US officials say one of the explosions appears to be a suicide bomb.
A United States official said US service members were among the wounded, adding he was citing an initial report and cautioning that it could change. He said there were casualties but did not know how many or of what nationality.
Kabul’s Emergency Hospital said in a tweet that it has received more than 30 patients so far while six others were already dead on arrival.
Thousands of people have been gathering outside the airport in recent days….
Two explosions, suspected to be suicide bomb attacks, killed at least 13 people including children outside Kabul airport, a Taliban official said.
This number of fatalities was also reported by the Russia’s Foreign Ministry.
Scores of people have also been injured in the attacks at the airport’s Abbey Gate and the nearby Baron hotel.
It comes after the UK and US had warned of a “highly lethal” terror attack and urged people to stay away from the airport for their own safety as thousands are desperately attempting to flee after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed there have been at least two explosions. He said on Twitter: “We can confirm that the explosion at the Abbey Gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of US & civilian casualties.
“We can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, a short distance from Abbey Gate. We will…
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there had been “no reported UK military or UK government casualties”, but the US Pentagon press secretary, John Kirby, confirmed a “number” of US military personnel were killed
The Taliban said at least 11 people had been killed in the blasts, although there has been no confirmation of this.
Mr Johnson called the attacks – reported to be carried out by suicide bombers – “barbaric” and “despicable”.
But he said the operation to evacuate people would continue “according to the timetable we have got”.
A former Royal Marine who was near to the explosions close to Kabul airport has said his vehicle was targeted by a gunman.
A number of people are feared to have been killed in at least two explosions outside the airport after warnings that a terror attack could be launched.
Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing, who founded the Nowzad shelter, is aiming to get 200 dogs and cats out alongside his staff.
Mr Farthing, who was outside the airport in a car, said: “We’re fine.”
But he added that “everything is chaos here at the moment”.
A Russian transport helicopter was looted at the Kabul airport during the chaotic scramble to flee Taliban militants following the group’s sudden takeover of Afghanistan, the aircraft’s operator UTair confirmed to The Moscow Times on Wednesday.
Unidentified individuals boarded the Mil Mi-8MTV helicopter on Aug. 17, two days after Kabul fell to the Taliban and the Afghan government fled the country, said Natalya Melekhova, a spokesperson for Russia’s third-largest airline UTair.
“They opened a container with airborne rescue equipment, which contained tools and unopened food supplies. The inner lining was also damaged. Our engineering staff put things back in order on board and performed the work necessary to guarantee safe departure,” Melekhova said.
She added that the helicopter and all UTair personnel were moved to a secure location on Aug. 22.
The Russian Telegram channel Baza had reported earlier Wednesday that…
The DNC-led American military has declared its intentions to switch the bulk of its efforts in Afghanistan to troop withdrawal rather than rescue of allies and American citizens in the last few days before the Taliban-imposed August 31st deadline occurs. The move is being met with cries of indignation from the many Americans who have ties to American citizens and allies still trapped in Taliban hell.
The move makes it clear to those still trapped in Afghanistan that if they want to get out, American soldiers might no longer be there to help them.
Whatever the DNC-led American military says, it is doubtful that many more Americans or allies will be evacuated over the last few days barring a massive overrun of the airport by desperate humans hoping to avoid being murdered, raped, or enslaved by the Taliban, the poster children for Islamo-fascism.
The US troops will be prioritised in the evacuation from Kabul while evacuations will continue for people from the area.
The roughly 5 400 troops at the airport will be brought to zero by 31 August.
More than 10 000 people were at Kabul airport waiting to be evacuated.
The US military will continue evacuating people from Kabul airport until a 31 August deadline if needed, but will prioritise the removal of US troops and military equipment on the last couple of days, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
There are about 5 400 troops at the airport, a number that President Joe Biden says is set to go down to zero by the end of the month, depending on cooperation from the Taliban.
The US deadline on reporting on the origins of the Covid-19 virus breakout that turned into a worldwide pandemic is almost here, and insiders are reporting that the Biden adminsitration is about to declare that the virus did, in fact, come from China, and, specifically, a leak in the Wuhan Lab.
If the Biden administration does follow through with this, or, more accurately, if the leaked reports are true, then this telegraphs the DNC’s attempts to limit the power that China currently has over them, as their de facto ally and inspirtation, but ultimately competitor for hegemony over the world. The DNC-CCP relationship is complicated, and while they still yet need one another, they also ultimately will have to compete with one another for control of the neo-fascistic-socialist model that China perfected and the DNC wants to emulate here in America.
The Biden administration will only follow through with this if they perceive they no longer need the CCP as much as they once did, specifically the Chinese market to fund their anti-American activities on our shores. If they release an equivocating report, it telegraphs that their need for that anti-american funding from a Chinese market is still very much needed.
Time is running out on speculation and soon we will see just where the DNC stands in its assessment of its power compared to that of the CCP, its frenemy.
President Biden’s 90-day deadline for an intelligence report into the origins of COVID-19 is fast approaching. But the American desire for a U.S.-led investigation is not shared by China – a country that continues to push the world, including CBS News’ Ramy Inocencio, to look outside of Wuhan for answers.
We have said it before and we’lll say it again, the top two threats to state power are anonymity in value exchange and self-sufficiency among its citizens. Anonymous cryptocurrencies offer opportunites for both such threats to state power, but the second part of that potential to undermine state power is based on the first part, anonymous value exchange.
The EU is fully aware of this and, using scapegoating to justify tyranny once again, is using the narrative that the state must know every value transaction in its lands else mobsters and terrorists can exchange wealth without being found out by the state. Certainly this is true, ‘criminals’ will benefit from anonymous exchange of value but, perhaps, the self-sufficiency among the vast majority of non-criminals will lead to a neutralization of the potential ways in which these same criminals can attack the non-criminals.
The creation of absolute state monitoring of value exchange, however, only creates more opportunities for the same ‘criminals’ to hurt non-criminals by making people dependent on centralized systems that are far easier to disrupt than non-centralized systems are.
The EU is now prepared to make sure that all cryptocurrency exchanges are traceable, starting with the still biggest one, Bitcoin.
Cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, Coinbase and Kraken could be forced to collect the details of people sending and receiving crypto under new rules proposed by the European Commission.
The EU’s executive branch announced the potential change on Tuesday as part of a package of reforms aimed at tackling financial crime within the bloc.
“The aim of this package is to improve the detection of suspicious transactions and activities, and to close loopholes used by criminals to launder illicit proceeds or finance terrorist activities through the financial system,” the Commission said in a statement.
The American media, aka DNC Pravda, are trying to convince you that the Taliban are reformed, that you should give them a chance to prove they’ve grown up, and anyone who doesn’t see this racist and/or bigoted. Yet, while they pontificate on the benevolence of the Taliban, with one Canadian official referring to the Taliban as their brothers, the killings of people who don’t believe the Taliban way have already begun, and our American media, DNC Pravda, is silent.
The Taliban has vowed to play a global role in tackling climate change and world security, despite their shocking track record of orchestrating civilian executions and eroding the rights of women and minorities.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a member of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, told Newsweek: “We believe the world has a unique opportunity of rapprochement and coming together to tackle the challenges not only facing us but the entire humanity.
“These challenges ranging from world security and climate change need the collective efforts of all, and cannot be achieved if we exclude or ignore an entire people who have been devastated by imposed wars for the past four decades.”
This bizarre attempt to rebrand comes a day after UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, cited multiple credible reports of serious human rights violations committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan including “summary executions” of civilians and Afghan security forces who had surrendered.
An allegedly American publication that claims to be literally for the national interest, called National Interest, has published an opinion piece by anti-Americanist Eleanor Lopatto, who, mercifully for National Interest, appears to have only written just this one article for the publication. What she writes is nothing but CCP-styled anti-american agit prop aimed at vilifying more than half of Americans, subhumanizing people who are skeptical about the efficacy and safety of vaccines, and feeding the enemies of the Ameircan people outside our soils the grist they need to propagandize this anti-American hate on our own social media platforms, and to even sue us out of existence for the damage this insane woman would have you believe they committed.
The ‘writer’ (content marketer for the CCP’s little bro, the DNC) has claimed that the resistance to the vaccine worldwide, especially in the Balkans,can be laid squarely at the feet of America, the evil Empire that allows disinformation on its platforms. This is the safety first, liberty non-existence type person we’ve all seen far too often get the limelight in a world where freedom is defined as being obedient and subservient to the experts, be they scientists, teachers, or government officials. This is Chinese Communist thinking, not American Bill of Rights thinking, and this woman just outed herself as a hater of the very nation-state that made her protected, privileged little life possible in the first place.
You will see more stories like this, as first their low-ranked sycophants test the tolerance of anti-American narratives on the general public. If there is no great outrage, MSNBC and CNN will be speaking the same language as this anti-Americanist, the seditionist-at-heart, Eleanor Lopatto, a woman who makes a very dangerous neighbor to anyone she lives next to, for she is the type that would turn in Anne frank for violating the law, being Jewish while being alive.
Not only is this woman creating narratives our enemies can use against us (including using our own courts to sue the allaged offenders), but she’s also pushing the narrative that Chairman Xi would dearly love to be pushed, that freedom is dangerous, and free speech and free press are too much for the weakminded many masses to have access to, or participate in. And she does so on a publication that LITERALLY calls itself “National Interest” while publishing what could EASILY have been CCP agit prop.
As a matter of fact, the particular style is remarkably similar to that of CCP agit prop aimed at destroying America and American morale, so much so that one would not be suprirsed to learn she was writing from her Uncle’s CCP basement in China, using an American psuedonym to hide her CCP agent identiy. I mean, I don’t really think that’s the case, but, it certainly is possible.
There’s a saying that when the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold. Now some of the world’s most robust immune systems are struggling with a bad case of QAnon.
The three Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—are some of the best-prepared on Earth to defend against the evolving threat of modern information campaigns. Their governments, businesses and civil societies honed their skills against Russian information and cyber warfare for nearly a decade before the United States uncovered evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The coronavirus panedemic was a major stress test for the Baltics, forcing intelligence and strategic communications analysts to reconfigure their Russia-centric threat models in order to face a tsunami of misleading information coming not just across their Eastern border, but from every corner of the Earth. The Latvian Strategic Coordination Department coordinated crisis communications while also…
Onlyfans came rouring onto the scene the last couple of years with Bella Thorne igniting the fire when she made over $1 million in less than 24 hours on the app by offering nudes of herself to paying fans, called paypiggies in the industry vernacular.
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The banks have declared that having a small monpopoly on the financial markets is hardly a danger to people at all, as of course they will use their considerably state-protected monopolistic advantage fairly and equally to all who simply obey the law. That, my friends, was a lie, and one that OnlyFans is exposing, though it’s not the first such proof that banks have decided to use their considerable state-protected financial industry monopoly to punish people who behave immorally according to their particular unaccountable standards of morality.
So the banks have decided that women, and even men, yes, men too, having the capacity to sexually exploit themselves and getting almost all the profit from that exploitation is just outside of their allowable moral standards. So they shook down OnlyFans and gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse. If they didn’t evnd the nude sex stuff, their ability to exist as a company would be over, as the cabal of banking would freeze them out of being able to process payments.
This is not at all a moral defense of sexually exploiting yourself for money, but it is a defense of a pluralistic society having the capacity to act on their preferences without being coercively manipulated by monopolistic corporations. First they came for the self-sex-exploiters, then they came for me, if you get my drift (though they came for a WHOLE LOT of people before they ever got around to shutting down the self-sex-exploiters).
After OnlyFans received the offer they could not refuse, they announced that the nude sex stuff’s gots ta go. As could be predicted, what followed next was nothing but outrage and scorn at OnlyFans, a company that now totters on the edge of existence itself, having ridden the great wave of viral for the past year. The CEO of OnlyFans quickly came out and spilled the beans on the offer that could not be written, the offer that came from the cabal of banks that decided this was just not morally acceptable, and their capacity to destroy us economically is all the justification they need to use that state-protected monpolistic advantage to force their morality on the rest of us.
Is it legal for the banks to do this in the alleged land of the Bill of Rights? Possibly so. This is why some have suggested creating a market bill of rights to reign in the out-of-control power of the monopolies that have almost all demonstrated a willingness to use their state-protected monppolistic advantage to deny basic rights that not even the government can deny. Whether the govenrment approves of it or not, this is de facto facsism, where the state uses market power to violate our rights legally because it’s not, at present, illegal for companies to do so.
If we are to be a people ever again, we must have an identity that does not destroy the multiplicities of identities our diverse lands possess. That identity is the Bill of Rights. And if we are to fulfill the promise that such standards offer, it is time to extend these rights to the marketplace as well as the government square, else fascism will continue to reign in this land and the Bill of Rights will continue to die until we all look around and realize this diversity has no unity anymore, and then, well, nations such as that implode or are taken over by stronger nations.
The OnlyFans censorship by our banking institutions should be the final wakeup call for us all, the proverbial canary in the coal mine that just let you know there’s poison in the air, something must be done.
Banks are to blame for OnlyFans’ ban on sexually explicit content, according to the online subscription service’s founder.
The platform, which is popular among sex workers, recently announced new rules coming into effect in October that prohibit “any content containing sexually explicit conduct”, though non-sexual nudity will still be permitted.
Initially the London-based company said the move was being introduced due to pressure from financial partners, leading some to assume payment processors Mastercard and Visa were behind it.
However, chief executive Tim Stokely has revealed it was “unfair” banks who prompted the change over concerns about “reputational risk”.
He named three banks – the UK’s Metro Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon.
“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,” he told the Financial Times.
“We pay over one million creators over 300 million dollars every month, and making sure that these…
Again thanks to the illegal decision by Federal judges to allow the Sandy Hook lawsuit to go forward targeting gun manufacturers for crimes that use their made guns, an anti-American DA from San Fransicso is attempting to use lawsuits to destroy what laws could not, our right to bear arms. The DA in question is suing ghost gun manufacturers, that is, manufacturers that create kits that enable people to make their own ghost guns (guns that are not registered by American big brother).
This is a form of lawfare that the DNC has been using to destroy liberty in our land, destroy political opposition without openly violating our rights (though, in fact, they do, and it’s simply a failure by the courts to see how allowing these lawfare acts to continue DOES assault our freedoms, or maybe it’s more a willing ignorance on their part as they all seem to go to the same parties together, the judges and the politicians and the ceos of corpowoketarianizm).
Chesa Boudin, the anti-American rogue judge in the rogue citiy of San Fransisco is attempting to drive up the cost of gun production to destroy our ability to bear arms. Its a classic fascist move, to use commercial liability as an idirect assault on liberties that the state itself would not get away with violating. If this man were the DA in an American city, he would be removed immediately for violating his oath of office, to defend the Constitution of the United States, not the CCP agenda.
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s district attorney said Wednesday he is suing three California companies that make and distribute “ghost guns,” the untraceable, build-it-yourself weaponry that accounted for nearly half the firearms recovered in gun killings in the city last year.
District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced the lawsuit at a news conference, alongside advocates of tougher gun laws.
The suit names Blackhawk Manufacturing Group, GS Performance and MDX Corp., three companies that are not based in San Francisco but are responsible for producing a large share of the firearms found in the city and elsewhere in the state, Boudin said.
“Guns are flooding our streets. Enough is enough,” Boudin said. “It is not enough to wait until after someone has been shot and killed by a firearm. We must get to the root of the problem.”
Boudin’s lawsuit comes amid mounting criticism over his response to rising crime rates and a wave of anti-Asian violence in the city, which has…
As corpowoketarianizm continues to extend its reach and its assumptions about what it can or cannot do to employees, customers, citizens in a Bill of Rights limited Democratic Republic, such as America is, the test of their attempt to subvert American standards for more Chinese Communist Party type standards will be challenged in the courts. If the courts fail us, we are left with the realization that the enemy has won and we have no nation to fight for.
Part of this process can be seen in the case of Professo Dan Ravicher, a former teacher at the University of Miami Law School who was let go allegedly to make room for a non-white professor. The complaint charges the school with firing him for being white. Let’s see if we have any remnant of America left in our courts or not.
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2021-08-24 04:09:03
Ashley Carnahan – University of Southern California Excerpt:
Former University of Miami Law Scool Professor Dan Ravicher has filed an Equal Opportunity Employment Commission complaint against his former employer after it forced him out of his professor job.
The federal complaint alleged a breach of contract, defamation and discrimination against him based on race and gender. It comes after Ravicher and his attorney brought up the same concerns in a June letter to the private Florida university to no avail.
The EEOC filing alleged Miami Law treated the conservative professor differently because he is a white male who supported President Donald Trump. Ravicher has not heard from the EEOC as of August 23, according to a Twitter message to The College Fix. He filed the complaint on July 28.
Former Dean Anthony Varona violated Title VII and the Florida Civil Rights Act, Ravicher alleged. Ravicher paraphrased Varona’s assertion that…
The Afghanis who are trapped behind enemy lines, which is their whole country now (save for one valley), have been told by the Taliban that they are no longer permitted to leave. The Biden administration seems fine with this declaration, and, so far, seems more interested in ‘honoring’ the Taliban than rescuing our allies and even our citizens, commiting to the Taliban created August 31st deadline, not the comittment to make sure all our allies are safely removed from murderers who most assuredly want them dead.
Taliban leaders said Tuesday they will no longer allow Afghans to leave the country and that they expect the U.S. to complete its full military withdrawal from the Kabul airport by Aug. 31.
The declaration from Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid at a press conference Tuesday could greatly complicate U.S. evacuation efforts. American military aircraft over the past week have flown out thousands of Afghan translators and others believed to be at risk of reprisal from the Taliban, but the insurgent group — which controls checkpoints outside…
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