Only 2,500 Americans Reportedly Rescued this Week from Kabul Out of 17,000 Civilians – Pentagon Won’t Say Why US Soldiers Not Permitted to Leave Airport on Rescue Missions

Major General Hank Taylor told reporters that only 2,500 Americans have been rescued in Kabul this week out of 17,000 civilians. There are an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Americans stranded in the country.

When asked by Lucas Tomlinson from FOX News why US Soldiers are not leaving the airport perimeter to rescue Americans Major General Hank Taylor and John Kirby would not answer.

French and UK troops are reportedly rescuing their citizens in Kabul. US troops are not permitted to leave the airport grounds.

Again, from 10,000-20,000 Americans are stranded inside the country.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/2500-americans-reportedly-rescued-week-kabul-17000-civilians-pentagon-wont-say-us-soldiers-not-permitted-leave-airport-rescue-missions-video/

Over 200 arrested, at least 7 police injured amid chaotic Covid-19 protests in Australia

Thousands of people hit the streets of Australia's largest cities on Saturday, defying coronavirus lockdowns. The protest got particularly chaotic in Melbourne, devolving into clashes between anti-lockdown marchers and police.

An estimated 4,000 protesters gathered in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria's capital, defying the enduring anti-coronavirus restrictions. The unauthorized protest was met by a large police force that included riot and mounted units.

Footage from the scene shows some protesters brawling with officers, as law enforcement responded with pepper spray and pepper ball rounds. Some 218 protesters ended up being detained, including three arrested for assaulting officers, according to Victoria state police.

The arrested now face fines of AUD$5,452 ($3,900) each for breaching public health guidelines. Six police officers ended up hospitalized suffering various injuries including suspected broken noses and concussions.

Smaller protests took place in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) with some 250 people showing up in the city's center according to local police. Some 47 people were charged with breaching public health orders or resisting arrest, while more than 260 fines ranging from AUD$50 ($35) to $3,000 were issued. One police officer was hospitalized suffering injuries to his neck and head.

On Friday, NSW authorities extended its Covid lockdown, with nearly a half of Sydney's five million residents set to remain under a nightly curfew until mid-September. In Melbourne, a similar order is already in place, with around a quarter of Australia’s population remaining under tight restrictions requiring residents to stay at home with rare exceptions.

The protests came as Australia, which had kept an extremely tight grip on Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, registered its worst single-day increase in cases of the virus. The states of Victoria and New South Wales reported a total of 886 new cases, with the majority of them originating in Sydney.

https://www.rt.com/news/532717-australia-covid-lockdown-protests/

Germany's Largest Amusement Park Segregates Vaxx'd From Unvaxx'd With Colored Wristbands

Germany's Robert Koch Institute, a government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention, declared this week that the fourth wave of coronavirus infections has begun. The Western European country is the continent's economic powerhouse and doesn't want to crush its economy by reinstating lockdowns and businesses closures. So, at least one amusement park in the country is getting creative with COVID wristbands showing whether guests are vaccinated or unvaccinated.

Germany's largest amusement park, called Europa-Park, began to label its guests Monday with different colored wristbands. Vistors who received white wristbands were vaccinated, and those who weren't vaccinated but received a rapid test within 24 hours received a colored one, according to German tabloid newspaper Bild.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/germanys-largest-amusement-park-segregates-vaxxd-unvaxxd-colored-wristbands

Mississippi health dept warns against taking ‘toxic’ livestock ivermectin after state’s poison control center bombarded with calls

Mississippi residents are falling ill after turning to ivermectin-based animal medication, apparently in an attempt to self-medicate against Covid-19 – prompting authorities to warn against the potentially toxic treatment regime.

In a bulletin to healthcare providers dated August 20, the state’s health department revealed that at least 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center had involved ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.

Around 85% of the callers exhibited mild symptoms of poisoning, but one individual was instructed to undergo medical screening due to the amount of ivermectin reportedly ingested.

The memo urged physicians in the state to explain to their patients that they should not take any medications intended to treat animals and should only use ivermectin if they are prescribed the drug by a doctor.

“Animal drugs are highly concentrated for large animals and can be highly toxic in humans,” the Mississippi health department warned, adding that symptoms associated with ivermectin toxicity include rash, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, neurologic disorders, and potentially severe hepatitis requiring hospitalization.

No hospitalizations linked to ivermectin toxicity had been reported to the Mississippi Poison Control Center or the Mississippi State Department of Health, the message said. The Mississippi Free Press later reported at least one hospitalization due to ivermectin toxicity. Authorities confirmed the case but said it wasn’t clear if the patient was a resident of Mississippi.

Ivermectin is an anti-parasite medication dating back to the early 1980s. The drug has been hailed by some as a low-cost antidote to coronavirus, but its effectiveness against the disease has been a hotly debated topic since the start of the pandemic. According to US health authorities, there is currently insufficient evidence to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19.

Media reports detailing the surge in poison control calls caused ‘ivermectin’ to trend on Twitter, with social media users mocking Mississippians’ interpretation of “herd immunity.”

In the past few weeks, the state has seen a spike in Covid-19-linked hospitalizations and deaths – a phenomenon blamed by some authorities on Mississippi’s low vaccination rate.

Since the start of the pandemic, slightly more than half of the state’s Covid-associated hospitalizations have been among people ages 65 and older, with the same age group accounting for the vast majority of deaths from the disease.

The state is known for lagging behind much of the rest of the United States when it comes to public health. The average life expectancy in Mississippi is 74.6 years, making it one of the worst places to live in the country in terms of human longevity.

While coronavirus continues to haunt the state, Mississippi has also seen an explosive increase in drug overdose deaths since the start of the pandemic.

https://www.rt.com/usa/532692-animal-ivermectin-poisonings-mississippi-coronavirus/

PM Johnson says UK will work with Taliban to ‘find a solution’ for Afghanistan

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the UK will work with the Taliban to “find a solution for Afghanistan,” and defended Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, who was holidaying as Kabul fell to the Islamist militants.

“What I want to assure people is that our political and diplomatic efforts to find a solution for Afghanistan, working with the Taliban, of course if necessary, will go on,” Johnson told reporters on Friday.

After a whirlwind advance across Afghanistan in the wake of the US withdrawal which commenced in May, Taliban fighters entered the capital city of Kabul less than a week ago, triggering a scramble by Western governments to evacuate their citizens via Hamid Karzai International Airport. As the militants entered Kabul and assumed the duties of government, UK Foreign Secretary Raab was holidaying on the Greek island of Crete, and delegated to a subordinate to get in touch with the minister’s counterpart in Kabul to arrange the evacuation.

With the Taliban takeover, that contact never happened, and Raab has subsequently faced calls to resign. Johnson stood by Raab on Friday, saying that he “absolutely” has confidence in his foreign secretary, and that “the whole of the government has been working virtually round the clock” to deal with the rapid collapse in Afghanistan.

Raab uttered similar words in a statement on Friday, touting the UK’s evacuation of more than 1,600 UK nationals, Afghan staff, and other countries’ citizens since Monday.

The evacuation process is still ongoing, and Johnson has pledged to welcome more Afghans to the UK too. The PM promised to resettle 20,000 “more vulnerable” Afghans in the UK.

https://www.rt.com/uk/532664-johnson-taliban-raab-kabul/

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VIDEO: Thousands protesting lockdowns in Australia results in police firing rubber bullets and tear gas, 6 cops hospitalized, and massive fines levied

https://www.theblaze.com/news/australia-lockdown-protests-melbourne-video

Australia’s State of Victoria Sold Out to the Soros-Backed Strong Cities Network (SCN) with PRIVATIZED POLICE

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Florida School Districts Now Have One Day To Drop Mask Mandates Or DeSantis Will Strip Funding

DeSantis is preparing to strip the funding of school districts violating Florida law by requiring students wear face masks

Earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned mask mandates for schools. Still, some school districts sought to openly flaunt the rule of law by instituting their own mask mandates, provoking DeSantis to take action on Friday and give them 48 hours to rescind their mask mandates or face being stripped of funding. Now, the school districts have just over one day to respond.

On Friday, DeSantis gave the first two school districts flaunting the rule of law 48 hours to reverse course and drop their controversial mask mandates. Now, almost a day later, these schools have continued to defy the Florida governor and have just over one day to stop breaking the law. At present, it appears these school districts have yet to comply.

Should they refuse, “The Florida Department of Education said it will then start gradually withholding state funds – equal to 1/12 of the salaries of the school board members, monthly – ‘until each district demonstrates compliance,'” per a statement released to the media.

To make the order more punishing for the school board members who made the unscientific decision to mask children, the order prohibits the lack of funding from impacting “student services or teacher pay” and will instead directly take money meant to pay those behind the decision.

Earlier this month, DeSantis announced a policy that would allow parents to remove their children – and their taxpayer funding – from these school districts and instead send them to private schools who do not require masks in violation of Florida law with a voucher representing the taxpayer funds tied to the students. This, predictably, resulted in uproar from public school advocates and teachers unions, who sought to defend the right of school districts to break Florida law.

Also this month, the CDC admitted it over counted Florida’s COVID-19 case numbers by nearly 10,000 by attributing an entire weekend’s worth of cases to a single day. While the CDC eventually corrected its mistake, it never offered an apology, and local media used the error to slam DeSantis and his pro-freedom COVID-19 policies.

https://nationalfile.com/florida-school-districts-now-have-one-day-to-drop-mask-mandates-or-desantis-will-strip-funding/

9/11’s heartbreaking cancer toll after 20 years: 24K cases, over 1,500 deaths

With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 weeks away, the number of cancers among Ground Zero responders and others who lived, worked or went to school near the World Trade Center has risen to 23,710, including 1,510 people who died, health officials say.

Experts are not shocked at the rising toll, saying more cancers would normally be expected in the aging group. But they cite ongoing studies that raise red flags, and warn of a “third wave of disease.”

Ongoing studies show several cancers have hit those exposed to toxic chemicals around Ground Zero at higher rates than the general population: thyroid, prostate and blood cancers such as leukemia.

“It is a warning sign that we can expect other cancers to be showing up at significant rates in the future,” Dr. Michael Crane, medical director of the WTC clinical center at Mount Sinai Medical Center, told The Post, ”We can’t let our guard

About 400,000 first responders and others breathed in toxic dust and air pollutants released by the destroyed Twin Towers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.

The federally funded WTC Health Program has 112,042 enrolled responders and “survivors.” Of them, 65,037 have certified WTC-related illnesses as of June 30. Another 4,627, including those with cancer, have died, but the program does not track the cause of death.

One of the first afflicted was retired NYPD Detective John Walcott, who worked months at Ground Zero and at Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, sifting debris for human remains. Stricken with acute myeloid leukemia in 2003 at age 38, doctors suspected the trigger was benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that permeated the WTC site from burning jet fuel.

Now 57, Walcott survived the disease thanks to a petty officer in the German Navy, Olaf Gierszewski, a registered donor whose bone marrow matched Walcott’s. An extraction jetted to New York was given to Walcott in a blood transfusion.

“I’m one of the lucky ones. I’m still here,” said Walcott, a married dad. Still, chemotherapy damaged his heart and nerves in his hands and feet. “You live in constant pain, but it’s a billion times better than leukemia.”

Reggie Hilaire also calls himself lucky. Then a 35-year-old NYPD cop who tallied 850 hours at Ground Zero and Fresh Kills, he came down with thyroid cancer in 2005 and multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, in 2006.

“My doctor said, ‘You’re too young to have multiple myeloma,’” which usually strikes people in their 60s or 70s. “‘It has to be a mistake’” But it wasn’t.

Hilaire’s thyroid — with a golf-ball sized tumor — was removed. The blood cancer has remained dormant so far. He needs a check-up every six months at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

“Like a volcano, it could come up at any time,” he said.

Hilaire, a father of two, has befriended several fellow cops with 9/11-linked cancer, some who died. Ronald Richards, an NYPD bomb-squad detective and 9/11 responder, succumbed to multiple myeloma in 2015 at age 45, leaving his wife and four daughters.

Doctors predict more cancers ahead.

Dr. Jacqueline Moline, director of the Northwell Health WTC Health Program in Queens, told The Post she expects more lung and colon cancers, as well as mesothelioma. That deadly lung disease caused by exposure to asbestos, which was found in abundance at Ground Zero, takes 20 years or longer to emerge.

“I think we are already in the third wave of diseases – which is cancers and diseases of latency,” Moline said in an email. “And the cancers will continue to accumulate as time passes, in a steady fashion.”

https://nypost.com/2021/08/21/as-20th-anniversary-of-9-11-nears-23000-ground-zero-cancer-cases-reported-and-1510-deaths/

Inside the luxurious lives of disgraced, deposed leaders in Dubai

Just days after Ashraf Ghani fled his homeland — allegedly with a helicopter stuffed with more than $169 million in cash — the former Afghan president emerged in his new safe haven: Dubai, a veritable Disneyland for deposed despots.

Dubai accepted Ghani, who has denied escaping with such riches, on “humanitarian grounds.”

If history is anything to go by, unlike other refugees in Dubai who live in tent communities in the desert, the former Afghan president is living a life of luxury in his new home.

The United Arab Emirates, which is comprised of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and five other principalities, welcomes disgraced leaders with aplomb — especially ones who have hordes of dubiously gained cash or who could be useful in diplomatic chess games.

While Ghani finds his footing — and his daughter, Mariam, lives an artist’s life in a luxury Brooklyn loft — here are some fellow high-end refugees he can hang out with while he’s spending time in the UAE:

https://nypost.com/2021/08/21/inside-the-luxurious-lives-of-disgraced-deposed-leaders-in-dubai/

Texas AG Sues San Antonio School System Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Staff

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) over its decision to impose a vaccine mandate on staff as a condition of employment.

Paxton’s complaint (pdf), filed on Aug. 19 at the District Court in Bexar County, Texas, seeks a temporary restraining order against a decision announced by SAISD Superintendent Pedro Martinez imposing a vaccine requirement for staff.

Citing rising infections and the spread of the Delta variant, Martinez wrote in an Aug. 16 letter to staff members that “we strongly believe that the best path forward as a school district is to require all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19. And the timing is now.”

Staff have until Oct. 15 to comply, Martinez said, with exemptions allowed on grounds of religion or having a qualifying disability that puts people at risk of side effects from the vaccine.

Paxton argued in the lawsuit that SAISD and Martinez, who is also named in the complaint, are deliberately violating state law by disregarding Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning vaccine mandates.

“In flouting GA-38’s ban on vaccination mandates, Defendants challenge the policy choices made by the State’s commander in chief during times of disaster,” Paxton wrote. “But the Texas Legislature made the Governor—not some patchwork of county judges, city mayors, or superintendents—the leader of the State’s response to and recovery from a statewide emergency.”

The attorney general said in a statement that more lawsuits could be forthcoming.

“If other governmental entities continue to blatantly disregard state law, I will sue every single one of them,” Paxton said.

Abbott’s executive order (pdf) prohibits any “government entity, including a county, city, school district and public health authority” and “any public or private entity that is receiving or will receive public funds” from enforcing mask or vaccine mandates.

“The new Executive Order emphasizes that the path forward relies on personal responsibility rather than government mandates,” Abbott said in a July 29 statement, adding that “vaccines, which remain in abundant supply, are the most effective defense against the virus, and they will always remain voluntary—never forced—in the State of Texas.”

The Epoch Times has reached out to Martinez’s office for comment but did not receive a response by publication.

https://www.ntd.com/texas-ag-sues-san-antonio-school-system-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-for-staff_664374.html

EU Commission President: Taking Afghan Migrants Is ‘Our Moral Duty’

MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.

Ursula von der Leyen made the remarks on Saturday when she and EU Council President Charles Michel visited a reception center for evacuees established by Spain’s government near Madrid.

“This resettlement of vulnerable people is of utmost importance. It is our moral duty,” Von der Leyen said. Offering “legal and safe routes globally, organized by us, the international community, for those who need protection” must be a priority of next week’s G7 meeting on the Afghanistan crisis, she added.

The EU’s top officials toured the facility that Spain has set up at the Torrejón military airbase near Madrid along with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who said it has the capacity to hold 800 people.

Two planes sent by Spain’s government have already arrived at the air base. A first plane brought back five Spaniards and 48 Afghans who had worked for Spain and their families. A second flight arrived late on Friday night with 110 more Afghans. A third flight with another 110 passengers has left Kabul for Dubai, which Spain is using as a stop-off point before the evacuees are flown on to Madrid.

The air base is also receiving flights from the European Union External Action service with other evacuees from Afghanistan airlifted out of Kabul by other EU countries.

EU officials and those of member states like Spain, however, recognize that the main hurdle to getting people out of Afghanistan is helping them reach and gain access to the airport. Spain says that its flights have had empty seats.

Von der Leyen said EU delegation members are constantly at the airport to try and help. “It is very difficult situation, it is changing by the minutes, but there is intense work being done to make the best of a very difficult situation.”

The evacuees that reach Spain’s air base are expected to spend up to three days there before moving to welcome centres in other parts of Spain or continuing their journeys to other European countries.

Sánchez said that the response from other EU members has been positive and that part of those who have arrived have already left for other countries in the bloc.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/08/21/eu-commission-president-taking-afghan-migrants-is-our-moral-duty/

Biden State Department Sent Out BLANK US Visas, Which Were Printed and Filled Out by Everyone in Kabul – Including Taliban

Stolen elections have consequences.

Biden’s State Department sent out BLANK US visas, which were then printed and filled out by everyone in Kabul – including the Taliban.

The Biden regime is flying thousands of unvetted Afghans to the US.

We have no idea who these people are.

David Fox, an American in Kabul told ABC News about his experience trying to get out of Afghanistan.

“For me, as a father, I have to weigh the risks of these different options…The airport is very dangerous,” Fox told ABC News.

Mr. Fox held up a US visa form that the State Department emailed to tens of thousands of people, including Afghans.

The visa form was blank – no name, no serial number, no bar code was on the form and the Afghans were able to print the document.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/biden-state-department-sent-blank-us-visas-printed-filled-everyone-kabul-including-taliban-video/

Australian health official says online shopping may kill you…

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/australian-health-official-says-online-shopping-may-kill-you/

Nassau County Legislature Passes Controversial Bill Allowing Police To Sue Protesters

MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Lawmakers in Nassau County passed a controversial bill Monday that allows police to sue protesters in certain cases.

As CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan reported, the measure to protect Nassau Police from hate crimes is sparking controversy.

“This bill is a clear act of retaliation against Black Lives Matter,” said civil rights attorney Frederick Brewington.

Minority leaders and activists rallied to reject a Nassau legislative bill that would elevate police officer to “a protected class of first responders,” allowing cops to seek financial damages from protesters.

“This is trying to shut down and dampen and chill the voices of those who would dissent and raise their voices against abuse by police,” Brewington said.

The bill passed by a vote of 12 to 6, with one lawmaker absent.

In a statement after the vote, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said:

I’m proud of the dedicated first responders who’ve made Nassau the safest County in America, and I will continue to stand against defunding the police. My Administration is committed to protecting the brave men and women of law enforcement who keep us safe. There were many speakers today who questioned this legislation. Now that it has been passed by the Legislature, I will be making an inquiry to the Attorney General’s Office to review and provide some advice.

The bill garnered national attention when a legislator who caucuses with the Democrats proposed enhancing the local human rights law by allowing the county to sue on behalf of police officers for discrimination if they are harassed, menaced or injured.

“I, for one, do not go to work everyday thinking this is the day I’m going to get assaulted, bit, punched, stabbed, and oh well that’s just part of my job,” said Brian Sullivan with the Nassau County Correction Officers.

The penalty for discriminating against a cop would be up to $25,000 per violation, $50, 000 if it occurs when participating in a riot. Officers could seek triple the usual allowable civil penalties.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/08/02/controversial-bill-in-nassau-county-would-allow-police-to-sue-protesters-for-discrimination/

Supreme Court pauses reinstatement of Remain-in-Mexico border policy

The Supreme Court late Friday paused a lower court order that would have required the Biden administration to restart the Trump-era practice of instructing migrants to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings on Saturday.

While temporary, the order signed by Justice Samuel Alito granted the Biden administration more time to fight off the reinstatement of a controversial border policy it has strongly denounced as ineffective. The suspension of the lower court order expires Tuesday at midnight.

Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, directed the Biden administration to revive the so-called "Remain in Mexico" program, saying it was unlawfully terminated earlier this year.

Kacsmaryk ordered federal officials to implement the Trump-era border policy, officially named the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), until it is "lawfully rescinded" and the government has the capacity to hold all asylum-seekers and migrants subject to mandatory detention under U.S. law.

The Biden administration argued that such a judicial requirement would force the government to continue the Remain-in-Mexico policy "in perpetuity," since the U.S. does not have sufficient detention space in migrant holding facilities.

After Kacsmaryk refused to suspend his ruling, the Biden administration asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene. On Thursday night, the appeals court declined to pause Kacsmaryk's order, agreeing with the premise of his legal opinion.

In the emergency request it filed before the Supreme Court on Friday, the administration said the rushed revival of the MPP program would "severely disrupt" operations along the U.S.-Mexico border and "threaten to create a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis."

Administration officials have also said they can't implement the MPP policy without the consent of the Mexican government, which would have to accept non-Mexican migrants returned by the U.S.

Reinstating the program by Saturday would have been "nearly impossible," Assistant Homeland Security Secretary David Shahoulian wrote in a court declaration earlier this week.

In a statement to CBS News on Friday, the Mexican foreign ministry said the revival of the Remain-in-Mexico rule would be a "unilateral measure" by the U.S. As of Friday afternoon, the Mexican government had not received an official notification regarding a policy change, the ministry said.

Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to questions on Friday related to operational plans to reinstate the MPP policy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/remain-in-mexico-border-policy-supreme-court-pauses-reinstatement/

Executive Order Authorizes Forced Quarantines, Isolation Facilities, Involuntary Commitment

On Friday, Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued an executive order that has many Tennesseans concerned that it gives the state permission to call out the State Guard and National Guard “in connection with certain health care and emergency services operations.”

A statewide conservative coalition with influence called Tennessee Stands has said they believe the governor’s orders are “exceptionally concerning.”

Some things contained in the order sound like something out of Orwell’s 1984 and it’s disturbing coming from a Republican governor. Things like the construction of “temporary quarantine and isolation facilities.” Wait, what? What does Bill Lee know that the rest of us don’t? Why do they need isolation facilities?

Another item in the order is “Telephone assessments for involuntary commitment cases are permitted.” Involuntary commitment? At first, that does not sound good and it makes it seems like the state is expecting an awful lot of COVID cases, so many that telephone assessments will be necessary because on-the-ground staff will be overwhelmed with people.

It’s been explained though that assessments of patients who are going through a mental health crisis can be done by telephone for involuntary commitment cases and, for that to happen, the pre-screening agent must be reasonably unable to evaluate them in person.

Under the order, out-of-state health care providers will be allowed to practice in Tennessee, and retired medical professionals will be able to easily reenter the health care workforce. Again, what does Lee know that we don’t? Why does he believe a more dangerous outbreak will come to Tennessee, especially when hospitalization numbers are down compared to last year regarding the Delta variant? Between most people being vaccinated and herd immunity, there is no real reason to act like the world is coming to an end.

The order allows out-of-state health care providers to practice in the state so long as they’re helping to treat COVID-19. It also allows retired medical professionals to reenter the workforce more easily by the Commissioner of Health granting them a license, certificate or registration to show they are still allowed to practice.

The order also gives permission to recent graduates of nursing school who haven’t yet received their license to practice under supervision.

http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/executive-order-authorizes-forced-quarantines-isolation-facilities-involuntary-commitment/

https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/pub/execorders/exec-orders-lee83.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2NbXp6TrYHZerUnWGmI8HTq0Y2JcUqVaUcCi3gLbwxxGiXNO8I6RJWvfI

Syria Shot Down 22 Israeli Missiles, Russian Military Claims

Syria’s air defense forces have shot down 22 missiles launched by Israeli warplanes during an airstrike against targets in Syria, the Russian military said Friday.

Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, head of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria, said six Israeli fighter jets targeted facilities in the provinces of Damascus and Homs from Lebanon’s airspace late Thursday.

Kulit said Syrian air defense units downed 22 of the 24 missiles launched by the Israeli warplanes with Russia-supplied air defense systems Pantsyr-S and Buk-M2.

There was no immediate reaction from Israel, which rarely comments on its military operations in Syria.

Kulit’s statement followed a report by the Syrian state news agency SANA that Syrian air defense units responded to an Israeli airstrike targeting the Damascus countryside and the central province of Homs. There were also no immediate reports of any casualties.

Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria in the course of the country’s civil war.

https://anti-empire.com/syria-shot-down-22-israeli-missiles-russian-military-claims/

Son of exiled Afghan president Ashraf Ghani REFUSES to comment on unfolding crisis - as it's revealed he's an economics professor living a quiet life in a $1.2million Washington, DC townhouse with his Democrat powerhouse partner

His Afghan government leader father reportedly fled Kabul in a helicopter stuffed with $169million in cash and four cars - but Tarek Ghani leads an altogether different existence as an economics professor residing in one of America's most genteel neighborhoods.

Life for the 39-year-old son of exiled Ashraf Ghani could not be more different to the horror unfolding on the streets of the Afghan capital where the Taliban are beginning to exert their rule of terror and killing.

He and wife Elizabeth Pearson own an immaculate $1.2million red-painted town house just a mile from the Capitol building in a charming Washington DC enclave, its patchwork of streets lined with trees and other similar upscale properties.

The power couple bought their three-bedroom, three-bathroom home for $959,000 in 2018 and it has rocketed in value since the Covid pandemic. The area's average real estate prices are in the country's top seven percent.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/08/exclusive-son-of-exiled-afghan.html

Neocons and Ex-CIA Operatives Warn US Should Brace For 9/11-Style Attacks After Fall of Afghanistan

The Taliban* marched into Kabul last Sunday, bringing a formal end to the West’s deadly, twenty-year $2.2 trillion experiment in nation-building.

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan has increased the global terror threat to its highest level since the 11 September 2001 terror attacks, and a new al-Qaeda* attack on America may be in the offing, neocon researchers and a former CIA operative speaking to Fox News have suggested.

Tom Copeland, director of research at the Centennial Institute, a neoconservative think tank at Colorado Christian University, believes that the Biden administration’s decision to pull US forces out of Afghanistan completely will allow al-Qaeda to reconstitute itself.

“Having an entire country as a safe haven will give [al-Qaeda] more physical space and more breathing space to reconstitute and go back to planning major events, so I think the US withdrawal itself is a large part of that threat,” Copeland suggested.

Copeland expects al-Qaeda to fully resume operations in Afghanistan with the West gone, resulting in the threat of new attacks against the US, which is now ‘blind on the ground’ due to a lack of military bases, a CIA presence and an Embassy.

“Even though we may be better organized to defend the homeland than we were in 2001, this withdrawal is going to leave us with a much more limited window into what the terrorists are doing inside Afghanistan,” he said.

Victor Davis Hanson, a neocon historian who adamantly supported the Bush administration’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s, echoed Copeland’s sentiments, suggesting that “the next three and a half years…will be our most dangerous since the 1950s of the Cold War.”

“Jihadists now have a centrally-located haven that has a proven record of successfully launching anti-Western terrorist operations; the Taliban are far more jubilant now than in the past, given the climatic defeat of the entire NATO coalition, and, finally, they feel there no longer exists US deterrence,” Hanson argued.

Paul D. Miller, a former soldier and CIA operative, told the network that he is “confident” in assessing “that the US is at higher risk of international terrorism today than at any point in the last 20 years,” claiming that al-Qaeda was “on the run” until Biden’s withdrawal, but now can calmly begin to plotting new attacks in as little as half a year from now.

“That doesn’t mean we’ll have an attack in six months, it does take time to plan these spectacular events…I don’t think it’ll happen then, but I think in the next four or five years we should anticipate at least efforts by al-Qaeda and ISIS and other groups that may form in the aftermath here,” he said.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202108211083677267-neocons-and-ex-cia-operatives-warn-us-should-brace-for-911-style-attacks-after-fall-of-afghanistan/

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ISIS Calls Taliban ‘Apostates,’ Dismisses Afghan Take Over as a ‘Delusional Victory’

The Taliban has fought against the local ISIS affiliate with US air support

ISIS has come out against the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan, declaring the Taliban “apostates” in a weekly newspaper released by the group, according to Arab media reports.

According to a report from Arabi21, ISIS accused the Taliban of implementing a “deficient” version of Sharia law when they previously ruled over parts of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. ISIS slammed the Taliban for negotiating with the US in Doha, Qatar, which led to the US withdrawal.

“The victory of Islam will not come via hotels in Qatar nor the embassies in Iran and China,” ISIS said Thursday in its newspaper Al-Naba. “The victory signed and protected by the US and Qatar and its media, and hailed by Syria, Iran’s scholars and the Muslim Brotherhood is delusional!”

It’s no secret that the Taliban and ISIS are sworn enemies. The Taliban has fought battles against a Central Asian ISIS affiliate known as ISIS-K, which was started by Pakistani militants who previously fought under the umbrella of the Tehrik-e Taleban Pakistan (TTP).

The US has actually provided air support for the Taliban while they were fighting against ISIS in Afghanistan’s northeast Kunar province. A unit of the US Joint Special Operations Command was flying drones in support of the Taliban that called themselves the “Taliban Air Force.”

On Thursday, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said while the US is evacuating people from the Kabul airport, it is “laser-focused” on a possible ISIS-K attack. “One of the contingencies we are very focused on, laser-focused on, is the potential for a terrorist attack by a group like ISIS-K, which of course is a sworn enemy of the Taliban, so we will keep working to minimize the risks and maximize the number of people on planes,” he said.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/08/20/isis-calls-taliban-apostates-dismisses-afghan-take-over-as-a-delusional-victory/

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=2 doctors kidnapped as shaky truce with gangs hinders relief efforts in Haiti

Two surgeons, one an orthopedic surgeon treating earthquake victims from the Southern region, have been kidnapped in Haiti’s capital — underscoring the fragility of a gang truce designed to allow humanitarian aid to traverse a corridor to the nation’s hardest-hit victims.

In response to the kidnappings in the capital of Port-au-Prince, one hospital network has declared a two-day shutdown, closing its doors Thursday and Friday to all patients, except for emergencies. The abduction of one doctor led to the death of a mother and her unborn child, after the pregnant woman, suffering from severe high-blood pressure, could not reach a hospital in time for a lifesaving cesarean section.

“It’s unacceptable,” said Dr. Ronald Laroche, the founder of DASH, a network of eight private hospitals and clinics that operate in the capital. “Kidnapping is one thing. But the fact that the mother and child died is unacceptable.”

Kidnappers have contacted the families of both doctors, but it is unclear how much ransom has been demanded — or who is responsible for the abductions.

In an interview with the Miami Herald, Prime Minister Ariel Henry, himself a doctor who worked at Bernard Mevs Hospital, said that the government was not depending on the supposed gang truce to get humanitarian aid to quake victims in the South. Police security, he said, had been increased in the area of Martissant, and officers have been given additional equipment.

In an address to the nation Wednesday night, Henry said he had ordered additional security for aid vehicles leaving Port-au-Prince and traveling on the national road from Martissant to the worst-hit regions of the south.

Haiti, he said, has confirmed nearly 2,200 deaths and more than 12,268 injuries from the earthquake. There are also 684,400 people — or about 40% of the population of the three quake-struck regions — in need of humanitarian assistance.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/08/2-doctors-kidnapped-as-shaky-truce-with-gangs-hinders-relief-efforts-in-haiti/

Pentagon spokesman defends remarks that Kabul wasn't in 'imminent' danger of falling to Taliban

John Kirby says his remarks two days before Kabul's fall were 'true' at the time

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby stood by his comments last week that Kabul was not in "imminent" danger even though two days later the Afghan capital collapsed into Taliban control.

Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson pressed Kirby during a Pentagon news conference Saturday about his statement on Aug. 13 that "Kabul is not right now in an imminent-threat environment."

"How could you get that so wrong?" Tomlinson asked.

Kirby explained that he was sharing the best information he had at the time while acknowledging the public "ridicule." He said the situation in Afghanistan changed "dramatically" two days later but his comments at the time were an "accurate" reflection of the Defense Department assessment.

"In the moment that I said it, based on what we knew at the time, it was a true statement," Kirby said Saturday. "And yes, two days later, things dramatically changed. I readily admit that things moved very, very quickly."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-spokesman-defends-remarks-kabul-taliban