The Taliban tracked down and killed 4 Afghan counterterrorism agents, in one case pulling out all their fingernails, report says

 Yahoo

Looks like Americans to me.

• Taliban death squads are hunting down Afghan counterterrorism agents, The Sunday Times reported.

• Four victims, trained by US and UK forces, worked for the National Directorate of Security.

• the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan has been characterized by violence.

"Elite Taliban death squads have tracked down and killed at least four Afghan counterterrorism agents since August 22, The Sunday Times reported.

"The men were members of two units working out of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and had been trained by British and US forces, the newspaper said.

"A brother of one of those killed told The Sunday Times the Taliban came for his brother at their home outside Kabul in August.

" 'My brother was shot three times in the head and once in the chest and I was shot twice in the left shoulder and arm," the man said, per the newspaper. "I don't know how I survived.' ". . . 

26 Lancet scientists who trashed theory that Covid leaked from Chinese lab have links to Wuhan | Education News

Tony Branco

 Daily Mail Online via (educationviews.org)

• The Lancet letter published in March 2020 called claims that Covid-19 originated in lab ‘conspiracy theories’
• It was signed by 27 scientists from across the globe working in virology and other medical science fields
• The widely-read letter effectively ended all debate about origins of the global coronavirus pandemic
• Investigation by The Telegraph has found 26 out of 27 had connections to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology

Of the 27 scientists who wrote a letter in The Lancet medical journal dismissing the possibility that Covid-19 originated from a Wuhan lab, 26 have links to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or its benefactors, a new investigation has revealed.

On March 7 last year, the influential journal published the letter in which the 27 scientists said they ‘strongly condemned conspiracy theories’ surrounding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has impacted all corners of the world.

All debate into whether Covid-19 had man-made origins or leaked from the lab in Wuhan – the Chinese city that was ground-zero for the virus – was effectively shut down by the letter.". . . 

Source: 26 Lancet scientists who trashed theory that Covid leaked from Chinese lab have links to Wuhan | Daily Mail Online

Why You Can’t Watch the ABC Miniseries “The Path to 9/11”

 American Greatness

How the Clinton Administration’s 9/11 coverup is disturbingly similar to the Biden Administration’s lies about his Afghanistan debacle.

"On September 6, 2006, the ABC television network aired “The Path to 9/11,” a three-hour documentary, written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh and directed by David Cunningham, which covered the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against our country. The program broke with other accounts of the causes of the 9/11 attacks— including by the 9/11 Commission—by casting substantial blame for the attacks on the incompetent foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. 

"This program aired only once. A DVD was produced but can no longer be purchased on Amazon.com. The reason? Former Clinton officials and their allies put heavy pressure on the Walt Disney Company—which owns ABC—to censor and suppress the film because it went against their false narrative absolving Clinton’s policies for contributing to the 9/11 attacks and instead putting the blame on the Bush Administration.

"What’s stunning about this story today is how similar it is to the denials and outright lies about the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by Biden officials, and the mainstream media’s willingness to change the subject away from a major foreign policy failure by a Democratic president.". . . 

Meghan McCain slams CNN's Brian Stelter for tweeting claim that the real leaders of 9/11 were ANCHORMEN 'with political leaders in bunkers or out of sight'

And of course, by extension, CNN's people.

T-Gate (tech-gate.org) (From the  UK Daily Mail Online)  "CNN host Brian Stelter has been slammed for tweeting a claim that the ‘real leaders’ of 9/11 were news anchormen – and adding that ‘political leaders were in bunkers or out of sight’. 

"Stelter tweeted a quote from an article written by AP writer David Bauder, saying: ‘Network TV anchors were the closest thing that America had to national leaders on 9/11. They were the moral authority on that first day’. 

"He then added, ‘especially with political leaders in bunkers or otherwise out of sight’.  

"DailyMail.com columnist and former host of The View, Meghan McCain was one of the first to criticize Stelter, saying: ‘I don’t know what this is even designed to mean other than to be incendiary on a dark anniversary’.

‘First responders led & ran into danger and died. Mayor Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, George Pataki, President Bush, Chuck Schumer…. there were many real leaders leading us,’ McCain tweeted in response to Stelter’s initial tweet. "...

..."Stelter’s tweet was met with a furious response, with Twitter users reminding him that the true heroes and leaders of 9/11 were the firefighters, police officers and paramedics.   

"Stelter responded to the backlash in a follow-up tweet, writing that he merely quoted the piece he shared. 

" ‘I remember,’ Stelter said. ‘Please send your objections to the author of the story or the person he quoted.’ 

"However, several social media users ignored Stelter’s response, adding that the host included own input to the tweet."... 

As long as we're discussing media hacks: Nicolle Wallace hijacks solemn observance of 9/11 to defend Biden's dictatorial vaccine mandate (bizpacreview.com)  

...Responding to a question by anchor Brian Williams about how historians will look back on the day and the wearing of masks, Wallace went to bat to defend President Joe Biden’s dictatorial vaccine mandate, an unnecessary interjection of the vaccine politics that the administration and its media allies have used to bludgeon their enemies with into what should have been a solemn occasion....

Lara Logan drops dynamite Fox News segment on Biden's sweeping vaccine mandates

Thank you for not using the word "bombshell".

 American Thinker   "On Thursday, "President" Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. broke another of his promises by requiring vaccine mandates on most, but not all, American citizens.  The next day, Fox News aired a terrific seven-minute segment by Lara Logan titled "Mandate Nation," and it's really worth watching (see below).

"Ms. Logan began the show reporting on new directives to OSHA not to report on COVID vaccine side-effects.  She then segued into recent reports from the U.K. and Israel that report on serious problems with the vaccines.

"One feature of the segment that conservatives will appreciate is the montages from other channels, like MSNBC and CNN.  Their "commentators" are so crazed that it's surreal.  These un-American fools actually think Biden "didn't go far enough."

"The Biden Mandates are a civil rights issue, and they should appall lovers of freedom.  Do watch Lara:"

(If YouTube takes down the video, you can also find it at FoxNews.com after you sit through a commercial or two.)

9/11 photographers reveal behind-the-scenes horror of iconic images

 NY Post

"Photographers who shot some of the most unforgettable images on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days after remember[ing] the stories behind the pictures.". . . 

Read the full article here.

The Years We Wasted

Mark Steyn; September 11, 2021

"There are honorable ways to lose a war. This was not one of them. We have dishonored the dead of 9/11 and insulted their sacrifice."

. . . "We shall not resume our anniversary observances today. The war is lost, at home and abroad. On the domestic front, we doubled the rate of Muslim immigration to the west and began assimilating ourselves with Islam's strictures on freedom of expression and the like. The decade-and-a-half since the Danish Mohammed cartoons has been one long remorseless surrender on core western liberties. When a school teacher gets beheaded in the street, there is no outrage at the act, just a mild regret that he should have been foolish enough to provoke his own fate. Even the milder jests from the immediate post-9/11 era - the cartoon of the woman trying on new burqas in the changing room and wondering, "Does my bomb look big in this?" - would not be published today:

"In the broader society, our rulers quickly determined that it was easier to punish us than our enemies. The post-9/11 security state surely helped soften up western populations for the Chi-Com-19 lockdowns, in which entire nations have been reduced to TSA-administered airports.

"As for the war overseas, it ended with a military that can do everything except win handing the keys to Afghanistan back to the guys who pulled off 9/11 - and apologizing for the two-decade inconvenience by gifting the mullahs with some of the most expensive infrastructure on the planet plus an air force, approximately five assault rifles for every Taliban fighter, and express check-in for the forty-seven per cent of the Afghan population that apparently served as US translators.

"The position of the United States is far weaker than it was twenty years ago. Around the planet, the assumption of friends and enemies alike is that the American moment is over and the future belongs elsewhere. They are making their dispositions accordingly. It is not a question of wishing "the post-American world", but of accepting the known facts.". . . 

Police seek woman in Larry Elder attack as his supporters claim a double standard

 "When a male aide confronted the woman who threw the egg and missed, she slapped him in the face."

Yahoo   "As the Los Angeles police investigators try to identify a woman wearing a gorilla mask who threw an egg at Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder in Venice, some of the talk show host's supporters are complaining that the Wednesday incident that forced Elder to cut his campaigning short is not generating more outrage.

"The gorilla mask prompted conservative commentators to suggest that the incident was racially motivated, given the white supremacist history of dehumanizing Black people with ape imagery.

"Two law enforcement sources told The Times on Friday that the department was working the case as a misdemeanor battery because the woman gave no indication she was moved by hate in a video taken at the scene. But they stressed that no decision will be made until she's identified and police get more details about what happened."

According to a police statement: "As the aide and Mr. Elder continue walking to their vehicle, the aide was approached by a male, white, bald, wearing a grey t-shirt yelling profanities at him, who struck him in the back of the head. During that altercation, an unknown individual approached the aide from the side and struck him in the face.”

VIDEO – Veterans, Educators, and Parents Stand Against Race-Shaming and Other ‘Critical Race’ Tactics

 Legal Insurrection

Video of our May 23 event. Asra Nomani: “What we are facing right now is a battle for the future of America. It is a national security battle. It is a battle for the hearts and souls of our children. And it is a battle for our own personal lives. It is very existential. And I want everybody to really feel the magnitude of what this moment is that we are in.”  

. . . "And we’re here to present an alternative view that may not be necessarily heard in Barrington or in Rhode Island or nationally, but is extremely, extremely important. There are a lot of parents’ groups rising up against what is loosely called Critical Race Theory, and there are different variations. And we’ll talk about that tonight. But one thing I want to emphasize to everybody is this is not a partisan issue. This is not Republicans versus Democrats. It’s not left versus right. This is what’s in the best interest of the children and what’s in the best interest of the country…"

In September 2020, our concerns are realized. A BLM banner was hoisted over our Memorial, and it was to grace our townhall skyline for the next five months. Subsequently, the town council shot down several Barrington United Veterans Council requests for compromises, from allowing us to move the flagpole or to move the monument itself…

9/11 - 20 Years Later

 

Stilton's Place: 9/11 - 20 Years Later (stiltonsplace.blogspot.com)

9/11 JUMPERS is a video which was quickly banned by the American and international media  Some on the American left - the "intelligentsia" - felt those victims deserved their fate, calling them "Little Eichmanns".

Remembering 9/11 and Biden's debacle - American Thinker  . . . "America is twenty years post 9/11 — twenty years in Afghanistan, over two thousand military personnel dead, and billions of United States dollars spent.  What did America get in exchange?  Nothing!  Now President Biden, incomprehensibly, after his ignominious retreat from Afghanistan with Americans and allies abandoned behind enemy lines, is talking about our Afghanistan partners.  Something is terribly wrong with this picture.  Whether traitorous or just plain corrupt, Biden has betrayed twenty years of sacrifice, the dead and maimed sacrificed for nothing, taxpayer billions up in smoke, and billions more in cash and weapons in enemy hands."

9/11, Twenty Years Later - Brian Stewart, Commentary Magazine  A new book highlights the enduring failure of liberalism’s approach to terrorism

Afghan Fallout: Biden Blows Up His Entire Case For Being President

Tony Branco

 Issues & Insights  "For most of the past week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis of his young administration, the president who won the White House on a promise of competence and compassion has had trouble demonstrating much of either.”

"That’s not us saying that. This is how the New York Times described the Afghanistan debacle, which is as sure a sign as any of how much trouble President Joe Biden is in right now.

"But we’d go further than the Times. Biden’s backers – and Biden himself – didn’t just portray Joe as competent and empathetic. They said he was experienced, thoughtful, trustworthy, and had sound judgment. That he’d unite the country, and restore America’s standing in the world. That he was, unlike Donald Trump, presidential. It was the basis of Biden’s entire presidential campaign, in fact.

"As a reminder, here’s what 70 so-called Republican national security officials said when endorsing Biden in August 2020: “We believe Joe Biden has the character, experience, and temperament to lead this nation. We believe he will restore the dignity of the presidency, bring Americans together, reassert America’s role as a global leader, and inspire our nation to live up to its ideals.”

"Who can say any of that now with a straight face?". . .  Looks like Bruce the Boss can:

Lessons We Didn’t Learn from What We Were Forbidden to Say ›

  American Greatness

Twenty years after the jihadist terrorist attacks that redefined our country and triggered a global techno-security system with endless mission creep, we hand our security to the Taliban and China? 

"America has not learned the lessons of 9/11. The lessons were lost as they were being

learned. 

"Foreign pressure on political leaders in Washington, intellectual laziness or dishonesty in the intelligence community, and political correctness-turned-wokeness made it so.

"American society repeated those unlearned lessons as the global pandemic spread from China.

"The unlearned lesson goes like this: Trust your instincts about who was responsible for crimes perpetrated against you. Ask tough questions to find out who was behind them, and ruthlessly hold those top enablers accountable. Suspect those who deny the obvious and who discourage honest inquiry. Resist those who abuse their authority and erode constitutional rights in a misguided quest for “security” and “safety.” If you see something, say something loudly and ceaselessly.

"In both man-made cataclysms, powerful foreign interests imposed extraordinary pressure to prevent the American public from demanding that the obvious funders and state sponsors be held accountable. 

"Those “America Last” interests imposed forms of censorship and self-censorship. They did it to prevent the people from asking unwelcome questions and discussing inconvenient truths.

"The Trump Administration showed uncommon courage in stomping the establishmentarianism of both political parties by holding the Chinese Communist Party responsible for the pandemic. But it was stomped on in return—not by the Chinese regime as much as the president’s political opponents at home. Within months (and sometimes within days, as a chronology of the narratives proves), American leaders in journalism, politics, health, and science began echoing the Chinese party line. ". . .