The Taliban swept into Kabul today, despite President Biden’s assurances last month that such a takeover could never occur, and well ahead of the timetable estimated by most analysts. President Ashraf Ghani and his close associates vacated the presidential palace and fled the country. Helicopters were busy all day carrying American citizens to the airport before the Taliban could reach it. Those left behind were advised to shelter in place until the means can be found to get them out of the country. Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has recalled Parliament from its summer recess to debate the debacle in Afghanistan.
In other news, Scottish police raided more than 14,000 illegal house parties during the Corona lockdown.
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Alabama and Louisiana Team Up on Big Tech Censorship Reporting System
Alabama’s and Louisiana’s state attorneys general have launched an initiative to address censorship on social media.
In both the states of Alabama and Louisiana, the public can report incidents of censorship on social media through a social media complaint form.
“We look forward to compiling this information to see, in fact, what’s going on through social media and whether or not there are specific instances or circumstances in which we believe there may be violations of the law,” said Steve Marshall, the AG of Alabama.
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Employers Want to Use AI to Monitor Employee Health in Realtime
As lockdowns have meant more people than ever are working from home, it’s also introducing a new wave of surveillance measures that are entering homes.
Some businesses are now deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to determine if their employees are indeed sick by remotely monitoring their vital signs on their smartphones.
Binah Teams, an artificial intelligence platform, monitors employee vital sign status by checking their smartphone to check for signs of illness.
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On Sunday, Chief White House medical advisor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci called for Americans hesitant to get the coronavirus vaccine to “put aside” their concerns about personal liberty and recognize the “common enemy” of COVID-19.
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Foo Fighters’ Alaska Tour is Only for the Vaccinated
Rock band Foo Fighters will only permit fully-vaccinated concert-goers or those with a negative COVID test result to attend their Alaska shows. Ticketmaster announced on Saturday that they must receive the test result 48 hours before the show.
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Google Whistleblower Says Google News Altered Its Algorithm Against President Trump
Google changed its news search algorithms in order to target Donald Trump, according to Zach Vorhies, a Google whistleblower and author of a new book titled “Google Leaks.”
The new book Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Suppression investigates how Big Tech suppresses views to go against the mainstream narrative. During his career as a software developer, he worked for both YouTube and Google, but resigned after learning of the suppression of conservative voices.
Using Google’s internal search engine, Vorhies discovered 950 pages of these plans and made them public on Project Veritas with James O’Keefe.
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Hundreds Protest Vaccine Mandate in Bangor Sunday Afternoon
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) — Hundreds lined the sidewalks outside Broadway Park this afternoon in Bangor to peacefully protest the new vaccine mandate for Maine’s healthcare workers.
“To be mandated to do something, or lose my job is just not OK, and we need to take a stand,” said Jackie Foraker, who organized Sunday’s protest.
Healthcare workers, their friends, and family members gathered in solidarity Sunday afternoon to voice their opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate announced by Governor Mills last week.
The mandate states that by October 1st, Maine will require all health care workers to be fully vaccinated.
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Internet Archive Wants to Prove Its Emergency Library Doesn’t Affect Book Sales
The Internet Archive is requesting sales data from publishers to prove that its digital library had no significant impact on book sales.
The website was sued by major publishers, including Harper Collins, Hachette, Penguin Random House, and John Willey, who accused it of piracy and copyright infringement.
The Internet Archive (IA) launched a new service, the National Emergency Library, last year in March to help learners who could no longer access physical libraries due to the pandemic. NEL was created from IA’s Open Library, giving people access to millions of scanned books for consumption during quarantine.
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Lawyers Receive Surge of Calls From Soldiers Not Wanting to Get COVID-19 Vaccination
In the wake of the Pentagon seeking to make the COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for military service members, lawyers in law offices across the country say they have experienced a surge in calls from service members looking for options if they don’t want to get vaccinated.
CNN spoke with five law firms that focus on military law about the surge in calls, including the law office of Joseph Jordan in Killeen, Texas.
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Man Stabbed at LA Anti-Vaccination Protest Leaves Hospital
The man was stabbed and a news reporter was kicked after a fight broke out Saturday between anti-vaccination demonstrators and counterprotesters in front of LA City Hall.
A man who was stabbed when a Los Angeles protest against vaccine mandates turned violent has been released from the hospital, police said Sunday.
The identity of the man with the stab wound was not released and no information was given about the extent of his injury, the Los Angeles Times reported.
No arrest has been reported in connection with the stabbing, or in the attack on KPCC radio reporter Frank Stoltze, said Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The violence drew condemnation from elected officials…
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Protesters Cause a Stir Over Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s COVID Vaccine Mandate for Employees
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is situated along the town line between Lebanon and Hanover, two communities with among the highest vaccination rates in New Hampshire, a state with one of the highest vaccination rates in the nation, that sits snugly in the country’s most vaccinated region.
The area would seem to be an unlikely location for a COVID-19 vaccination protest. At least until about a week ago.
Last Saturday was the first day passing motorists would see the hand-painted placard reading “SueDHMC.com, No Forced Vax” propped up against a military-style truck adorned with American flags parked at the intersection of Lahaye Drive and Route 120, across the street from the entrance to the DHMC campus.
The vehicle belongs to Alexandria, N.H., resident David Lheureux, whose wife, Nicole, is a licensed nursing assistant at DHMC. The truck remained parked on the corner throughout last week to protest Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health system’s requirement that its 13,000 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30.
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Report: Diversity ‘Bureaucrats’ Outnumber History Professors at Top Colleges
A new report from the Heritage Foundation reveals that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” personnel represent 3.4 positions for every 100 tenured faculty.
Co-authors Jay Greene and James Paul describe the promotion of diversity on college campuses “has become a central concern of higher education.” Universities routinely create positions to channel significant resources toward programming and curricula.
Speaking with Campus Reform, Greene added, “Rather than being an effective tool for welcoming students from different backgrounds, DEI personnel may be better understood as a signal of adherence to ideological, political, and activist goals.”
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A student at Virginia Tech University was told by a teaching assistant that “White people cannot experience racism” when asked why she received a low grade on her final paper.
Students in the Nations and Nationalities class at Virginia Tech were asked to complete a paper describing a hate group from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list, and analyze how that group justifies its worldview, according to Alyssa Jones, a student in the class.
Jones is also the president of the Virginia Tech University Turning Point USA chapter and a campus ambassador for The Leadership Institute, the parent organization of Campus Reform.
Jones told Campus Reform that she decided to pick “the New Black Panther Party with the focus of the essay being on separatism.” According to the SPLC, the NBPP has “encouraged violence against Whites, Jews and law enforcement officers.”
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White House Outs Intelligence Officials, Locations in Twitter Post
In a Twitter post published by the White House Twitter account Sunday depicting a video conference with President Joe Biden and his national security team, the White House appears to have inadvertently revealed the identities and locations of intelligence officials in the Middle East.
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Witness Says Victim in Washington Middle School Shooting Was Defending Friends When He Was Shot
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder for the shooting death of another 13-year-old at Washington Middle School on Friday.
Police say Juan Saucedo fatally shot Bennie Hargrove during a bullying incident outside the school during the lunch hour.
According to a criminal complaint, another 13-year-old student told police Saucedo had shown him and several other students a gun that he brought to school.
The student told police Hargrove walked up to Saucedo at lunch to tell Saucedo to “stop bullying his friend” and that he “didn’t want to fight” but wanted him to “leave his friends alone.”
The complaint goes on to say that is when Saucedo pointed the gun at Hargrove, shooting him multiple times.
When police arrived at the school, they found Hargrove with several gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.
Saucedo’s father told officials that he noticed his gun was missing around noon on Friday. He called his wife to see if she had taken the gun, and she said no. He then went to the school and saw his son being handcuffed.
Saucedo has been charged with an open count of murder and unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school premises.
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Yakima Protesters Object to Mask and Vaccine Requirements
Hundreds of people attended a rally and protest Saturday along North 40th Avenue at Chesterely Park in Yakima against COVID-19 vaccine requirements and mask mandates.
Many attendees at Saturday’s rally carried colorful signs and yelled and waved at passing motorists. The rally followed protests at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on Thursday and Friday concerning required vaccinations for staff.
Gov. Jay Inslee said Aug. 9 that Washington state employees and most health care and long-term care workers would be required to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18.
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10 Muslims Charged for Sexual Assault, Child Luring, And Trafficking of 15-Year-Old Girl
This has gone on for decades in Britain, while authorities did nothing, cowering in fear of being labeled “Islamophobic.” And now it has come to Canada, where it will likely flourish for the same reason.
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Breaking: Trudeau Drops the Writ, Federal Election Set for September 20
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially dropped the writ on Sunday from Rideau Hall, confirming what four separate sources within the government said on Thursday. He met with Governor General Mary Simon early Sunday morning to call a snap election for September 20.
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Arsonists Accused of Starting Wildfires Across Sicily and Southern Italy
Raging wildfires in Sicily and Calabria are being blamed on arsonists, with one Italian mayor offering a five-year tax exemption to those who can identify any of the people behind the fires.
The mayor of the Sicilian town of Linguaglossa, Salvatore Puglisi, stated that he would reward anyone who came forward with information on any arsonists, saying: “Those who denounce arsonists will be exempt from taxes for five years.”
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Of course. What else could he possibly be but mentally ill? Jihad? What’s that?
“Bremen: Man threatens to blow up the tram,” translated from “Bremen: Mann droht Straßenbahn in die Luft zu sprengen” by Florian Zinn, Nord 24, August 11, 2021 (thanks to Medforth).
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More Than 14,000 Illegal Scots House Parties Raided by Cops During Lockdown
Scots cops raided more than 14,000 illegal house parties in the last year while trying to enforce coronavirus lockdown rules.
At times they were dealing with more than 200 a day, according to figures obtained by the Sunday Mail which outline the toll of Covid restrictions on policing.
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Reflections on Kurt Westergaard and Sharia Speech Suppression
Among 12 caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, “it was Westergaard’s image that would change my life,” the paper’s cultural editor Flemming Rose wrote. As he detailed in his 2014 book, The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech, Kurt Westergaard, who died July 14, ignited a firestorm over the right to criticize Islam.
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UK Citizens Could Face Social Media Surveillance to Get Gun License After Recent Shooting
After the recent shooting in Plymouth UK, a former Metropolitan Police commissioner is calling for police forces to scour the online activity of citizens who apply for a gun license in the UK.
In response to the shooting on Thursday, Lord Stevens, former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, urged police forces to carry out thorough online checks on people applying for firearm licenses.
Apparently, police must search the social media accounts of people applying for firearms licenses in order to ensure that people holding extremist beliefs are not procuring lethal weapons. Men who express “hatred” for women online should be classified as potential terrorists because they hold “extreme, dangerous” views.
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UK: Boris to Recall Parliament as Afghanistan Withdrawal Branded Biggest Blunder ‘Since Suez’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly recall Parliament in order to debate the crisis in Afghanistan, which has been described as the biggest foreign policy blunder “since Suez”.
Following Taliban forces taking over many cities throughout Afghanistan and entering the capital of Kabul on Sunday morning, Boris Johnson will recall parliamentarians from their summer recess for at least one day this week to debate the situation in Afghanistan.
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UK: Judge Spares Paedophile Mahdi Alishieshi From Prison, Praises ‘Strong Academic Capabilities’
A paedophile who sexually assaulted a pre-teen girl in Manchester has been spared prison by a judge who praised his “strong academic capabilities” and “prospect of a bright and successful future”.
Mahdi Alishieshi, now 20, admitted to molesting a “particularly vulnerable” aged just 11 or 12, kissing her and touching her over and underneath her clothes, according to a LeedsLive court report.
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When jihadis attack, the mainstream media does everything it can to restore focus upon a feared “anti-Muslim backlash” and the threat of “white supremacy.” The barbarism and ruined lives are forgotten, as in the case of this young Manchester Arena jihad bombing survivor who suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and was found by her father, dead in her bedroom, four years after the jihad attack. May the once-enthusiastic, life-loving Eve Aston never be forgotten. Yet even the 9/11 victims were virtually forgotten amid the onslaught of the “Islamophobia” subterfuge.
“Manchester terror survivor found dead in bedroom 4 years after bombing,” by Leah Sinclair, Yahoo News, August 8, 2021.
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UK: Muslim Appears in Court, Accused of Encouraging Violent Jihad During Mosque Speech
At the mosque, Deghayes allegedly told children that “jihad is compulsory” while making stabbing motions. Deghayes is also apparently the brother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes and the father of two jihadis killed in Syria. In 2018, “he was charged with assaulting Einas Abulsayen, who claimed he rammed her face into the carpet and pushed his fingers up her nose in an attempt to remove the jinns or evil spirits from her body.”
Why did he push his fingers up her nose?
“The Prophet said, ‘If anyone of you rouses from sleep and performs the ablution, he should wash his nose by putting water in it and then blowing it out thrice, because Satan has stayed in the upper part of his nose all the night.’“ (Bukhari 4.59.3295)
Abubaker Deghayes, if all this is true, is a devout, knowledgeable, committed jihadi. What benefit did Britain gain, and does it gain now, by his presence and that of his family?
“Brighton man appears before Old Bailey judge on charge of encouraging terrorism,” by Frank le Duc, Brighton & Hove News, August 9, 2021.
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UK: Thousands of People Attend Anti COVID Vaccination Passport Protest in Southend
Thousands of people attended a protest in Essex against government plans for vaccine passports this weekend.
Many anti-vaccine passport protesters lined the streets in Southend-on-Sea yesterday afternoon (August 14), showing their disagreement about government plans to vaccinate children as well as introducing vaccine passports.
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Anger in Lebanon After Fuel Tank Explosion Kills 28 and Injures 80
Lebanon’s National News Agency said the explosion followed scuffles as people crowded to get petrol.
After the incident, protesters attacked the Beirut home of premier-designate Najib Mikati to demand his resignation, clashing with anti-riot forces.
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COVID-19: 92 Women Held Over Illegal Gathering in Saudi Village
Saudi police have arrested 92 women for attending a gathering that violated rules against COVID-19 as authorities in the kingdom are cracking down on unlawful gatherings to limit the spread of the contagious ailment.
The gathering took place in a village in the governorate of Ahad Al Masarihah in the south-western region of Jizan, a spokesman for the region’s police said.
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Hacker Group, Not Israel, Behind Cyberattack on Iran’s Train System — Report
Cybersecurity company Check Point names opposition group Indra, which it says inflicted ‘nation-state-level damage’ in July assault
(AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)A shadowy group — not Israel — was behind a July cyberattack on Iran’s railroad system that according to state media caused “unprecedented chaos” at train stations and reportedly led Tehran to attack an Israeli-owned ship a few weeks later, according to a new report.
The report, released Saturday by the Israeli- American cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies, named the Iranian opposition group Indra as the actor behind the attack, which it characterized as having inflicted “nation-state-level damage.”
During the July 9 attack, the hackers posted fake messages about alleged train delays and cancellations on display boards at stations across Iran. They also urged passengers to call for more information, listing the phone number of the office of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
On the following day, the Iranian transportation ministry said a “cyber disruption” had affected its computer systems, taking down its website and links associated with it.
In its report, Check Point said those assaults were carried out using a version of a hacking tool deployed in previous attacks on Iranian interests in Syria that Indra — which is named for a Hindu war god — had claimed responsibility for in 2019 and 2020.
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Syria: Christian Population Reduced by Two-Thirds in a Decade as Christians Flee Jihad
How much attention is this getting in the mainstream media? How much attention is the media givingthe genocide against Christians in Africa?
The mainstream media prefers to promote “Islamophobia” initiatives, and unvetted, suicidal mass migration policies, which allow some of the same jihadists who are murdering Christians in the Middle East and Africa an easy opportunity to enter Western countries and live off taxpayers while continuing their jihad.
The jihad worldwide continues with cover from a far-Left, activist media and an increasing number of intimidated conservatives.
“Syria’s Christian population reduced by two-thirds since 2011: party,” by Karwan Faidhi Dri, Rudaw, August 9, 2021.
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The British government has confirmed that it has “already resettled over 3,300 Afghan staff and their families” in the United Kingdom as the Taliban is poised to overrun the country.
The Home Office, the government department led by Priti Patel MP which is broadly responsible for borders, policing, and national security in Britain, announced on Sunday morning that the Afghans “who have worked for the UK” are already in the country, adding that Boris Johnson’s government “will continue to fulfil our international obligations and moral commitments.”
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Boris in July: ‘There is No Military Path to Victory for the Taliban’
Prime Minister Johnson claimed as recently as last month that “there is no military path to victory for the Taliban” in Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Johnson, who has previously compared himself and U.S. President Joe Biden to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, had strongly backed the Biden-led withdrawal, and like the Democrat leader had asserted that a quick Taliban victory was unlikely.
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Boris Claims Fallen Soldiers Did Not Die ‘In Vain’ As Taliban Retake Afghanistan
Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed the deaths of over 400 British soldiers in Afghanistan was not “in vain” as the Taliban retook the country from the Western-backed regime in Kabul.
“I don’t think that it was in vain. If you look back at what has happened over the last 20 years there was a massive effort to deal with a particular problem that everybody will remember after 9/11. That was successful,” the Prime Minister said on Saturday, possibly in reference to the slaying of Osama bin Laden in 2011 — although that took place at a compound in neighbouring Pakistan, where the jihadist sheikh had been living just miles from the Pakistani military academy unmolested.
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German Leftist Party Leader: Hey, Let’s Send Aid to the Taliban
Why not? Western countries fund “Palestinian” jihadis, as well as jihadis in Syria and elsewhere. Why not in Afghanistan? The money will never run out, and there will never be any negative consequences to this for the West. Right? Right?
“‘Aid’ to the Taliban? Leftists want to talk to terrorists,” translated from “‘Hilfsgelder’ an Taliban? Linke wollen mit Terroristen ins Gespräch treten,” by Johanna Tschavoll, Exxpress, August 13, 2021.
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‘Greatest Defeat in History!’ Trump Calls on Biden to ‘Resign’ on Eve of Taliban Victory
Mr Trump, 75, blasted the US president over the Taliban’s swift takeover following the withdrawal of US troops from the country after almost two decades on the ground. In a lightning surge, terrorist forces took control of the capital Kabul on Sunday, two weeks ahead of Mr Biden’s deadline for the full withdrawal of American troops on August 31.
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India: New Jihad Group Courts Leftist Support by Calling Itself the People’s Anti-Fascist Front
As India’s Independence Day nears, jihad terrorist attacks have started to shake India’s union territory of Jammu & Kashmir, which shares a border with Pakistan. The former Indian state has suffered decades of insurgency and terrorism owing to India’s Western neighbor, and this attack was nothing new or surprising.
On Thursday, August 12, a powerful bomb was hurled at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jasbir Singh’s residence in the Rajouri district of Jammu & Kashmir by jihad terrorists from a newly formed local jihadist outfit. Images from the scene show extensive damage caused to the building due to the explosion. Security personnel are still probing the attack, and investigations are underway.
Veer, the four-year-old nephew of the BJP leader, was killed as the strong explosion ripped through the house; seven other family members, including another minor who is seven years old, have sustained severe injuries in the attack. Though the little one was rushed to the government medical college and hospital in Rajouri almost immediately, he succumbed to his injuries at midnight. His body was handed over to his family for the last rituals.
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India: Muslim ‘Journalist’ Arrested With Two Grenades, Was Arrested for Jihad Activity in 2019
Other establishment media “journalists” in India, as well as in the United States and Europe, both Muslim and non-Muslim, practice jihad of the pen, for the same goals.
“CNS News Agency journalist Adil Farooq caught with grenades in Srinagar, was earlier arrested in 2019,” OpIndia, August 10, 2021.
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Pakistan: Another Christian Girl Kidnapped and Converted to Islam
She claims she converted of her own free will, after being kidnapped. What would have happened to her if she hadn’t said that?
“Faisalabad: another Christian girl kidnapped and converted to Islam (VIDEO),” by Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews, August 5, 2021.
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Pope Francis Prays for ‘Battered Population’ of Afghanistan
ROME — Pope Francis called for an end to armed violence in Afghanistan Sunday, urging Christians to pray for peace in the country.
“I join in the unanimous concern for the situation in Afghanistan,” the pope told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly Angelus message.
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Reports: President Ashraf Ghani Flees Afghanistan
President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday following the arrival of Taliban forces to the nation’s capital, Kabul, Afghan outlet Tolo News reported.
Tolo added that, according to Taliban sources, Ghani had agreed to a formal resignation. Ghani reportedly took his top aides with him.
Reuters reported on Sunday the Taliban were still working to confirm Ghani’s whereabouts as of press time. Ghani’s office declined to comment on his apparent abandonment of the nation, refusing to “say anything about Ashraf Ghani’s movement for security reasons.” The outlet suggested he was bound for neighboring Tajikistan, like many Afghan troops fleeing the battlefield.
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Taliban Sweep Into Afghan Capital After Government Collapses
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s capital Sunday after the government collapsed and the embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners, signaling the end of a costly two-decade U.S. campaign to remake the country.
Heavily armed Taliban fighters fanned out across the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman and negotiator, told The Associated Press that the militants would hold talks in the coming days aimed at forming an “open, inclusive Islamic government.”
Earlier, a Taliban official said the group would announce from the palace the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the formal name of the country under Taliban rule before the militants were ousted by U.S.-led forces in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, which were orchestrated by al-Qaida while it was being sheltered by the Taliban. But that plan appeared to be on hold.
Kabul was gripped by panic. Helicopters raced overhead throughout the day to evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound as staff destroyed important documents, and the American flag was lowered. Several other Western missions also prepared to pull their people out.
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Taliban Pick Up US Weaponry Left for Afghan Military, Worth Billions of Dollars
Eminently preventable, but our military was too concerned with being woke to make adequate preparations.
“Taliban pick up billions’ worth of US weapons left for Afghan military,” AFP, August 14, 2021.
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The same deep state that created the Taliban & invaded Afghanistan on false pretexts is humiliated in the Middle East yet again.
Now they’re all denying responsibility & crying about it on Twitter.
Seethe more.
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Turkmenistan: Internet Users Forced to Swear on Quran That They Won’t Use VPNs
Turkmenistan is ostensibly a secular state, but clearly it has a strong Islamic character. A former Soviet Republic, Turkmenistan has retained much of its previous totalitarianism, now with an Islamic cast. This was a natural fit, as the two elements of the Marxist-Islamic red-green axis share a taste for terror and repression as tools of the state.
“VPNs Are Not A-OK: Turkmen Internet Users Forced To Swear On Koran They Won’t Use Them,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 10, 2021.
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World Leaders Blame Biden, Express Disappointment With Afghanistan
World leaders are speaking out about their disappointment with the security situation in Afghanistan, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson going so far as to pin the blame on President Joe Biden and the United States.
Johnson said it was “fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold,” but urged western leaders to work together to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a “breeding ground for terrorism.”
“I think it is very important that the West should work collectively to get over to that new government — be it by the Taliban or anybody else — that nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror and we don’t think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status,” Johnson told Sky News.
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Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham ridiculed the drastic stay-at-home orders that have been enforced across the New South Wales capital for two months.
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Mali: Muslims Raid Three Villages, Murder 51 People, Torch Homes
Remember: the only reason why anyone would oppose jihad violence is “racism” and “bigotry.”
“Mali conflict: at least 51 people killed in attack by suspected jihadists,” by Emmanuel Akinwotu, Guardian, August 9, 2021.
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Algerian Arrested After Boat Migrant Killed During Attempted Channel Crossing
French police have arrested a young Algerian man after a migrant died off the coast of Dunkirk during an attempt to cross the English Channel.
The Algerian, a possible people-smuggler, is believed to have played a role in the death of the migrant, who lost his life after a migrant boat with 36 people aboard began to have engine trouble off the coast of Dunkirk and then started to sink.
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Two other piquant items in the report below: “The suspects are refugees from Afghanistan whose asylum applications were rejected. They have been convicted several times for drugs and assault. But they were not deported.”
Why not? Would it have been “Islamophobic” to do so?
Also, Leonie’s older sister was previously beaten up by Muslim migrants.
This is Austria under multiculturalism.
“Chancellor Kurz promises Leonie’s family police protection,” translated from “Kanzler Kurz verspricht Leonies Familie Polizeischutz,” Bild, August 8, 2021 (thanks to Medforth).
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Greece: People-Traffickers Caught Giving Migrants Fake COVID Papers for Flights
Greek police arrested three members of a people-trafficking ring on suspicion of supplying migrants with fake coronavirus documents intended to allow them to fly to other European countries.
The three men, two Egyptian-born Greek citizens, aged 18 and 22 and a foreigner aged 20, were arrested last Sunday at Athens International Airport after a multi-day investigation. Police also took two migrants into custody as part of the operation.
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Migration Crisis: Greek Islands Brace for Up to 500,000 Refugees as Afghanistan Falls to Taliban
The Taliban have defeated Afghanistan’s government forces and have taken control of most of the country with Taliban fighters already in the capital of Kabul sparking fears of an unprecedented migration crisis that could see of more than 500,000 refugees leaving the country and seeking haven in Europe via the Greek islands.
According to government sources, Greece has warned its EU partners of the impending crisis which could see the Greek islands once again bear the brunt of another regional crisis.
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More Than 618,000 Pakistanis Have Been Deported From 138 Countries in the Past Six Years
In a major embarrassment for Pakistan, a nation celebrating its 74th Independence Day, or shall we say, “Foundation Day”, more than 618,000 Pakistanis have been deported from 138 countries in the past six years. The myriad immigration malpractices that have resulted in this deportation primarily include entering countries illegally or by producing fake documents.
The second claim to fame of Pakistanis worldwide is migrating to other countries with counterfeit IDs; harassing non-Muslims for following different faiths and levying bogus blasphemy charges on them remains their first claim to fame.
You will find Pakistani migrants everywhere, be it a First-World Western country, the gold-and-oil-laden Middle East, or any other Third-World developing nation. With an ever-plummeting economy and unstable governments in their Islamic Republic, there is hardly any part of the world that Pakistanis have not tried to flee to seek better living conditions. In their desperate search for a better life, they often end up in foreign lands with forged IDs, and are deported.
Interestingly, 72% of the total deportations have been from friendly Islamic nations, including Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE; so reports News International.
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Sweden Forced to Pay Rapist Migrant £70k/$96k for Trying Him as Adult
A Syrian migrant has been awarded 840,000 Swedish kronor (£70k/$96k) in damages after a court mistakenly tried him as an adult in a case involving kidnapping and rape.
The Syrian, who is now said to be 18-years-old, was initially put on trial in the spring of 2017 along with his brother and found guilty of kidnapping and raping two women in the city of Malmo. He was found guilty of several counts including aggravated rape, extortion and theft.
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More than 2,000 Channel migrants have arrived in Britain in the first half of this month — and 150 made the perilous journey yesterday alone.
At least seven children were among the arrivals at Dover, just days after an Eritrean migrant tragically lost his life in an attempted crossing.
The 27-year-old man died from suspected cardio-respiratory arrest on Thursday after being picked up from the water on the French side of the Channel.
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“UK: Muslim… Accused of Encouraging Violent Jihad During Mosque Speech”
Given the contents of the Quran, it appears to be enforced with the same alacrity as sex trafficking charges when it comes to this sort.
“The same deep state that created the Taliban & invaded Afghanistan on false pretexts is humiliated in the Middle East yet again.”
What? The Taliban was created, armed and funded by Pakistan and there is much documentary evidence to support this. I was in Peshawar in 1994 and witnessed at first hand the militant groups assembling outside the city prior to crossing the Afghan border.
Who created, armed and funded Pakistan?
The same people who funded the Karakorum Highway, China. Yes, America did arm them too and conveniently looked the other way while the Pakis built their bomb.
‘No one cares about us’: Crying Afghan girl shares fears of ‘dying slowly in history’ in viral video as her country is taken over by the Taliban
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9897005/Crying-Afghan-girl-shares-fears-dying-slowly-history-country-seized-Taliban.html
Let her go to the partisans! Freedom must be endured – only then is it worth something. And demanding it on a silver platter is parasitism!
Yes, you are right.
I remember that about a decade ago, an iranian lesbian muslima entered germany as a refugee because she couldnt make party and drink alcohol and be together with her lover.
I was dumbstruck.
She was born after Khomeni took power, so she knew from the start of her life that LGBTQ… people in Iran are hung as soon as they are found. So instead of hiding (you know what the people in Nazi-occupied Europe did) she wanted to live openly.
She even told about the guys who studied electrotechnology who could build wonderful disco-lights and the chemistry students who made great alcohol.
I dont know how much the Barion will allow mw to write, but:
students of electrotech can not only built disco-lights, they can also build detonators.
And chemistry students can make things that go BOOM.
She should have been sent to meet and talk to every still living Resistance-fighter of WWII, get a few lessons by Special Forces operatives about how to identify and fool the Religious Police and some knowledge about how to draw them into traps – lethal ones preferable.
Then she should have been sent back.
But no, she was granted asylum and is still asking western people to remove the Ayatollahs in Iran.
She doesnt want to get her hands dirty, of course.
Something like that is beneath her. That is what kuffrs are for.
If this is the best that can be done to protect girls, boys and women from half men savages? Then the west is in poor shape. Still can’t import enough Koran savages into the midst of what is still a non Muslim society. Someone better get back in there and rally those good men. Go back after the Taliban with a vengeance they can’t imagine right now. No wait……Can you hear those Muslims laughing? Poor old Christian west thinks it’s creating a nu different kafir loving mosque dweller on its own turf. “One of the great religions etc.”
Islam will push us until we snap, when we do, all hell will break lose, the weak among us will be run over, the feminaxi’s slapped into submission, the elites and their political pawns dragged out of whatever hole they are hiding in, the 3rd worlders will run for the borders, for people will be in no mood for mercy or quarter, and the days of the ruthless strongmen of the Pinochet/Franco mold will take over. Weak feckless people destroyed democracy, they deserve the mailed fist of ruthless people to right the ship again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpzhr3YCl3c
the Taliban took over the amusement park
Dear Swedes, I do not know your language. Today I selectively tried to find information on criminals using keywords: a father and his two sons, who had raped an underage girl in Sweden. But I did not find information anywhere and the head of the criminal was heavily shaded – the shade of the hair was not even visible.
Can you help me clarify?
Hmmm I wonder what could possibly have changed her tune…upcoming elections maybe?
https://gettotext.com/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-does-not-want-any-afghan-refugees/