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IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Report: TV Networks Hide Joe Biden's Mass Migration
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
‘Obama Variant' Strikes Martha's Vineyard: Super-Spreader Birthday Bash Overwhelms Island's Only Emergency Room
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/20/2021 09:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..but not Sturgis?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/20/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  What? Ophra's tesla wand didn't kill all the bad germs?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  His name is tarnished. Barry is going have to revert back to his Christian name now.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/20/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#4  How many dead? And who?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2021 15:21 Comments || Top||

#5  hopefully all of them soon
Posted by: Chris || 08/20/2021 17:10 Comments || Top||

#6  This was obviously instigated by some terrible repub tryingTo muddy the Obama name.
Posted by: Grampaw Cooky || 08/20/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||


Fully Vaxxed Sens. King, Wicker and Hickenlooper Test Positive for COVID [New York Post]
Posted by: Albert Romolo Broccoli1007 || 08/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good - I hope they suffer, after all the crap they've put their citizens through. They've earned it.
Posted by: Raj || 08/20/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  All three have — thus far — very mild symptoms, which is what the vaccine is supposed to produce for those who don’t fight off infection altogether.

But testing positive to a nasal swab is not the same as being sick in any case — the concern is when the thing multiplies and moves from the nose to the lungs. It’s just like final daughter, who spent so much time in hospitals before she came to us that she now has MRSA resident in one nostril, where most of the time it sits quietly — her health has improved to the point that she hasn’t been hospitalized in need of the really strong intravenous antibiotics in over a year.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/20/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  So, they don't have access to better meds, or they hang around a lot of dirty people? Or both...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Pooperlicken. The mast head of Ruin Colorado.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/20/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#5  They voted for him. They deserve him.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Most infections without the jabs have mild or no symptoms too.
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/20/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Percentage wise, over 97% of all COVID infections don't result in hospitalization.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Google Whistleblower: Search Engine ‘Rewrote Algorithms to Go After Trump'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2021 06:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Old news.....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/20/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  So, someone could write an algorithm that looks for anything overlooked in a gurgle search.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||


Facebook Caves, Bans Accounts Identified by White House
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2021 06:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Breitbart News reported last month:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/08/19/facebook-caves-bans-accounts-identified-by-white-house/ On Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the administration is identifying posts to Facebook that contain “misinformation” about coronavirus vaccines and is in “regular touch” with the Masters of the Universe. Psaki specifically admitted that the administration is flagging “problematic” posts to Facebook.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/20/2021 8:19 Comments || Top||

#2  At this point it becomes an instrument of the government and should lose all protection against freedom of speech lawsuits
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 08/20/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||


Economy
OPEC tells a weak, incompetent US president to drop dead
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] At the very moment the Biden crime family administration
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
was being convulsed by its humiliating strategic failure in Afghanistan, the international oil cartel and the adjacent producers known as "OPEC-plus" added insult to injury with their defiant answer. As Rooters reported it, the major oil producers (including Russia) let word slip that they "believe oil markets do not need more oil than they already plan to release in the coming months."

On the day Biden was elected, Brent crude oil was under $40 per barrel. Today, it is nearly $75 per barrel. Likewise, average gasoline prices are currently 48% higher than they were the day Biden squeaked out his narrow, no-coattails win over former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
Biden’s request of OPEC, as we noted previously, evinced a belief that environmentalists in the United States are easily fooled — that he can placate them by restricting domestic production while simultaneously calling for more imported oil that releases exactly the same amount of carbon dioxide when burnt.

But the oil-producing nations’ response to Biden is also evidence of how much respect and diplomatic prestige he has cost the U.S. in the last week.

Biden’s gross bungling in Afghanistan, followed by his appalling attempt on national television Monday to blame everyone but himself, points to a president who has apparently lost touch with reality.
Posted by: Fred || 08/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reopen the pipeline from Canada and open up the US production you stopped Asshole Joe
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 08/20/2021 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  that would make sense. Will not happen yntil these assholes are gone.
Posted by: Chris || 08/20/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Piling on, the Brit Parliament voted to hold him in contempt. Silly Brits. Always late to the party. We've held him in contempt for decades.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/20/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Feckless Poms finally seeing things as they actually are.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  As recently as 18 months ago, we didn't need to import any oil.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#6  U.S. Net Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Posted by: Omaviper Lumumba3702 || 08/20/2021 12:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Hey Joe...forget about it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/20/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Abbot saved by the court
[HotAir] The Texas Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for school districts to require people to wear masks in classrooms — at least for now.

For cities, counties and school districts that have defied Gov. Greg Abbott by issuing mask mandates in public schools, the Thursday ruling is a victory on a technicality: The high court left in place a Travis County judge’s temporary restraining orders against Abbott’s ban on mask mandates. The court’s order cited a provision that typically requires matters to go to an appellate court before it reaches the state’s highest civil court.

Paxton asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a series of temporary restraining orders issued by state District Judge Jan Soifer that allowed Harris County and eight school districts to mandate masks in public schools. Soifer also ruled that Abbott could not enforce his executive order banning mask mandates “against Texas independent school districts.”
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/20/2021 08:33 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Texas hospital: If we have to triage ICU beds, we'll consider vaccination immigration status

Should read like this in a sane world..
Posted by: Warthog || 08/20/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Imagine having to pass of your loved one as a beaner non-white to get them triaged in a meaningful time frame.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Throw all the illegals Biden's dumped on us back across the border and we won't have an issue.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/20/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden Calls a Lid on Public Appearances and Remarks Indefinitely
[PJ Media] During the presidential campaign, the Biden administration introduced a new word into the lexicon: a "lid." His campaign has called a lid countless times without explanation, meaning it was cutting off all media appearances for that day.
The teleprompter broke? His puppeteer has Carpal Tunnel?
Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
went on vacation to Camp David just before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and gave no public remarks on the matter until more than 24 hours after the fall of Kabul. That was a speech Biden delivered from the White House Monday, after which he took no questions from the media.

He went silent again, then delivered another speech on Wednesday, this time on COVID. He took no media questions after the conclusion of this address. He sat for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Wednesday. That interview has caused yet more problems. Biden’s performance in it has been seen as heartless and incoherent.

Fox News reports that Biden has effectively called a lid, this time indefinitely.

In what appears to be a continuation of his campaign bunker strategy, and following his widely panned interview with ABC News on the stunning fall of Afghanistan, President Biden’s schedule Thursday contained no planned public remarks or press briefings.

The president took all public remarks, press briefings and pressers off his schedule as he and his administration deal with the blowback from their botched troop withdrawal that saw Kabul fall into the hands of the Taliban.
Posted by: Omaviper Lumumba3702 || 08/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kam has orders for Vietnam. Elections have consequences.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Just like the election he just has to sit back and leave it up to the Leftist Machine to get him across the obstacles. But this time Trump is not the obstacle. Savage terrorists are the ones on the move and so far The Leftist Machine has no answer yet.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/20/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3  In the mean time the international community should prosecute Biden and his top generals for the coming genecide.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/20/2021 1:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Reports indicate he has left Washington for his home state of Delaware, or soon will.

I wonder if he's often returning to his private residence because medical treatments and visits by medical personnel can be kept secret more easily because public records laws and FOIA would only fully apply when the POTUS is residing in a public facility.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/20/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  If only what's going to hit the fan only affected Bidet voters. I'd love Never Trump GOPe idiots to get an extra helping.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

~ C.S. Lewis
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#7  "Nobody does more harm than the person who feels baaaaad about doing it. Heaven protect us all from a difficult decision at the Pentagon..."

- William S. Burroughs
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden may have had an, obvious to his doctors, mental breakdown.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/20/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Kamala has been the behind the scene President. She blew it on Afghanistan
(Not that Biden's dementia infested mind could have done better), so she has hoped a plane to get as far away from the fall out as possible.

"Good Morning Vietnam!"
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/20/2021 15:10 Comments || Top||

#10  lord garth, I'm glad his doctors got right on it, few years late but .
Posted by: Chris || 08/20/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#11  I met Ed Daly owner of World Airways in Oakland Ca.in 1981. He defied the US State Department and flew Vietnamese orphans out of Da Nang in one of his planes. They tried to stop him by lying about a plane the State Dept were going to use.
Those pricks never change.


Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/20/2021 19:53 Comments || Top||

#12  The latest appears to be a shouting match btwn the Cdr, 82nd Abn and the senior British officer at the airport. Evident the CG asked the Brits to STOP their downtown operations and the kak hit the fan.

Unconfirmed of course, but likely accurate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2021 20:44 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Judge stays further work by SpaceX on Moon Rocket with Bezo's lawsuit.


This is a "voluntary stay of performance" that the court filing says "shall expire on 11/1/2021." Oral arguments are set for 10/14/2021.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  If you can’t beat them fair and square, sue them and use the government bureaucracies to gum up the works. Bezoar is an evil jerk
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 08/20/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  News should read:

BEZOS OUTBIDS SPACEX ON ROBED WH0RE BY FISTFUL OF DOLLARS.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/20/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Lawfare. Swatting. Maybe if there's some penalty for doing it?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/20/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2021-08-20
  IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds
Thu 2021-08-19
  US freezes assets of Afghanistan central banks as Taliban takeover
Wed 2021-08-18
  Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
Tue 2021-08-17
  Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US
Mon 2021-08-16
  Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace
Sun 2021-08-15
  Kabul has fallen, Taliban is killing political leadership and religious minorities in Afghanistan
Sat 2021-08-14
  Herat: Ismail Khan captured by the Taliban
Fri 2021-08-13
  Source: US tells Ashraf Ghani to step down
Thu 2021-08-12
  Bangladesh Police Arrest 3 Men Suspected of Planning Drone Attacks
Wed 2021-08-11
  Taliban takes control of border with Uzbekistan
Tue 2021-08-10
  Cuomo finally resigns!
Mon 2021-08-09
  Taliban say capital of Afghanistan's Takhar province seized
Sun 2021-08-08
  Taliban take over Kunduz
Sat 2021-08-07
  IDF attacks Hamas headquarters in response to balloon fires
Fri 2021-08-06
  Jihadists kill 30 in north Burkina Faso, says official


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