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Last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan leaves Kabul
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-Great Cultural Revolution
‘Woke' US soldier threatens Americans, says they ‘become the enemy' if they don't obey under martial law
[BizPacReview] A video clip of a female U.S. Army soldier who appeared to threaten to shoot American citizens if martial law is ever declared and they refuse to comply with orders has gone viral on social media and triggered widespread backlash.The clip went viral thanks to Jeremy Darling, a black conservative who posted a snippet of the larger clip to his own TikTok and added his own commentary, warning that the soldier’s words "should be cause for concern."

The soldier’s words were as follows: "Understand that if active-duty military actually get deployed within the United States, that weapon is not just pointed at other people, other countries. It’s pointed at you. If you do not get in your house when I tell you to, you become the enemy. Martial law."

It’s like that, huh?

Watch the clip either at Darling’s TikTok or via the tweet below:

Who is this woman? An investigation revealed that she’s a 35-year-old self-identified "lesbian" who goes by the pronouns "she/her." Sounds about left.

Furthermore, she runs the "Lord Daddy Nugget" TikTok account, which is where she posted the original video that Darling later cropped.
She also runs the @Nuggetsnchicken Twitter account.

The clip of her shared by Darling triggered massive, massive, massive outrage, some of it initially mistakenly aimed at Darling.

Here’s a small sample of that outrage (*Language warning):

Everyone go spam #misterdarling on tiktok

She is hoping she gets the chance to shoot Americans who are standing up to this COVID nonsense

Absolutely evil and disgusting

Is this the white rage they’re talking about?

— PHUCC fear 👊 (@phuccfear) August 27, 2021

Notice how the latter Twitter user called her an "imperialist bootlicker." This suggests the user is a left-winger, meaning her remarks offended some on the left as well.

But despite the massive backlash, some defenders pushed back on the anger by claiming she’d been taken out of context.

To check whether this defense is valid, it’s necessary that the full video she’d shared to her TikTok account be examined.

The full video begins with Miss "Nugget" sharing a video of another TikTok user named Jodi angrily ranting about the military’s lack of action in regard to authoritarian coronavirus diktats being imposed on the American people.

"This is a message for our United States military, the Air Force, the Army, the Marines, the Navy, Coast Guard, Space [Force], everybody that considers themselves a person that would defend this f—king country. Where are you? We thought the military took an oath to protect this country. They took an oath to protect our Constitution. That includes enemies foreign and domestic," Jodi says.

"Where are you, military, because if you’re leaving it up to the American people, you need to let us know, because everybody’s on the edge of their seat. You got millions and millions of gun owners that are ready to walk out and start a complete f—king bloodbath, and we’re beginning to wonder where our f—king military is," she adds.

After the conclusion of the clip, Miss "Nugget" responds by accusing Jodi of being a domestic terrorist and warning her of the consequences of martial law being declared.

"I mean, I’m no expert, but that sounded like a terroristic threat, with you talking about a bunch of gun owners going out and starting a bloodbath. Like have you never heard of the Insurrection Act?" she says.

"There’s reasons why the military doesn’t deploy within the U.S., and if they did, your ’good ole boys system’ is not going to fare well for you. Martial law. You know, where your rights get curtailed. You don’t have all those same freedoms that the Constitution guarantees at that point, so be careful what you wish for, and stop opining about things you don’t understand," she adds.

Watch the full TikTok video here.
Ms Nugget took her post private.
It sounds as if Miss "Nugget" got the impression that Jodi wants martial law to be declared in the United States. Jodi’s made her own account private, so it’s impossible to check her original video and determine whether she had indeed made such a demand.

"Nugget" has, for her part, claimed via Twitter that she’d just been trying to be "informative of the insurrection act."
The whole thing, which sounds to me like the lady is recommending against calling out the military against a domestic situation:
Posted by: 746 || 08/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She must live in the barracks. Anyone who lives off post and their families will be compromised. As you see in Afghanistan, the environment of civil wars is not civil.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone should remind her of what the Nuremberg trials said about war crimes and just following orders.
Posted by: Ruprecht || 08/29/2021 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect she'd get shot in the back of the head by one of the people who understand the oath they took.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/29/2021 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Muttering "Be afraid of me, be very afraid" into a phone camera (and posting it on the web, and later taking it down when called out) is pretty much as tough as this type gets.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/29/2021 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Apropos of nothing in particular, in Michigan last year there were about half a million deer hunting licenses sold. That is 500,000 people - men, women and youngsters - who hang out in the woods and ambush human-size mammals.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/29/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  with "Large" rifles
Posted by: 746 || 08/29/2021 10:25 Comments || Top||

#7  ^-- Thus their call for sensible gun control.

Where firearms are held by the Feds and only allowed to civilians in limited numbers under very controlled conditions - like the civilian is not white, east-asian, christian, or conservative.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/29/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||

#8  You are a truck driver, cunt. Many of us vets with real combat training would cut you down faster than you could blink.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/29/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#9  This vermin is just extending the Left's insane hatred to its logical conclusion.

The same sentiments - minus the military affiliation - are being spouted every minute of every day by thousands of NYTimes commenters.
Posted by: Snang Ghibelline2130 || 08/29/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Many of us vets with real combat training would cut you down


A waifish, but butch Ms. Nugget
up and thought "Ah! Fuggit!
I'll show 'em wot's wot."

A practiced hollywood stare,
on a face like a mare,
she proceeded with sidearm to trot.

Through the streets she cantered
while Vader smiled, hunkered,
drawing a bead with his point 5 nought.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/29/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#11  The military just dismissed that Marine officer who criticized the chain of command. So what happens to this creature?
Posted by: Matt || 08/29/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#12  ..a direct commission and field promotion to the commissar EEO office?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/29/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Ida Will Be One Of The Strongest Hurricanes To Hit Louisiana Since The 1850s, Governor Says |NBCNEWS
[NBCNews]

Update from Skidmark at 17:58: Videos Show Mounting Destruction as Hurricane Ida Moves Inland
Posted by: Angeretch Thrath1053 || 08/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Storm tracker: Follow Ida's path
Posted by: Jereling Unavising3245 || 08/29/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2 
Category 4 Hurricane (major)
Sustained Winds: 130-156 mph 113-136 kt 209-251 km/h
What to expect:
Catastrophic damage will occur: Well-built framed homes can sustain severe damage with loss of most of the roof structure and/or some exterior walls. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.
Posted by: Jereling Unavising3245 || 08/29/2021 0:13 Comments || Top||

#3 

Buy an extra emergency (5gal) can of Gas now.
Prices started bumping $2.98 for 87 octane here in Eastern-Middle GA. Up 20cents from last week.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/29/2021 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember the Colonial Pipeline Hack back in May 2021?
Colonial Pipeline, delivers about 45% (100M/Gal a day) of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. The pipeline runs through South Louisiana. The Phillips 66 refinery in Westlake, the CITGO refinery in Lake Charles and the Delek U.S refinery in Krotz Springs feed into it.

YES, I hope and pray I am 100% wrong.

But has the oil industrial learned anything from the previous Hurricane related outages in the last 12 years and actually applied it?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/29/2021 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Project Cirrus – Hurricane Modification
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/29/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#6  But has the oil industrial learned anything from the previous Hurricane related outages in the last 12 years and actually applied it?

So basically you expect to be able to spend the last twenty years trying and succeeding to drive out of business all the people in production down on the Gulf Coast of the US but you think you'll still be able to drive down to the Kwik-E-Mart and buy a tank of gas at $ 2.00/gal?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/29/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#7  If / when New Orleans gets hit, think the press will hang it around Biden's neck like they did with Bush and Katrina? Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Living below sea level in a coastal community has it's benefits. Biden and his media support cadre will see to it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#9  it will miss New Orleans

they will get lots of rain and some 50mph wind

further west in Louisiana will be the devastation
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/29/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#10  As of right now the storm is aimed at the heavily industrialized corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and has already hit the oil patch south of that corridor. Whether you live in Louisiana or in Montana, fill up your tank.
Posted by: Matt || 08/29/2021 14:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Raj, it will all be because of Climate Change™ and OrangeManBad somehow...
Posted by: magpie || 08/29/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||

#12  I just went to Accuweather and they said the Inner Eyeball is coming ashore there now. If it weren't a couple hour drive I'd go over and have a look, I've never seen the Inner Eyeball before.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/29/2021 16:01 Comments || Top||

#13  ThankFully infrastracture hardening funding was stolen awhile back
Posted by: Gluter Mussolini5141 || 08/29/2021 16:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Live Bourbon Street webcam
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/29/2021 16:36 Comments || Top||

#15  Probably the only time that street's clean.
Posted by: Raj || 08/29/2021 21:14 Comments || Top||

#16  Bourbon street not smelling like piss would be worth a drive, especially if you got to see the Inner Eyeball. I've never seen the Inner Eyeball, but if you turn your head fast enough, you can see your own ear.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/29/2021 21:19 Comments || Top||

#17  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Posted by: Frank G || 08/29/2021 21:39 Comments || Top||

#18  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Some of the things written on Rantburg....
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/29/2021 23:32 Comments || Top||


Rock artist Dave Grohl introduces his arch nemesis on stage
[JamBase] Foo Fighters had a special surprise to end their concert at The Forum in Los Angeles last night, as the band was joined by 11-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell for a performance of "Everlong." Bushell’s guest appearance came following her 2020 drum battles with Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl and their adorable video chat a few months later.

"One day I picked up my phone, and my friends were all texting me asking if I had seen this shit? And I clicked on the link and I see someone is challenging me to a drum off. So I’m like, ‘Isn’t that nice?’ I kind of brush it off," Grohl said as per Consequence as Nandi’s drum kit was rolled on-stage. "But all my friends tell me, 'no dude, you have to step up. This is the real deal. This is a drum off."

"So I respond. I said alright, I’ll play nice. But then she comes back, and she whoops my fucking ass in front of the entire planet,” the Foo Fighters frontman explained of their multiple drum offs. “Round three! I do something else, and she comes back and kicks my fucking ass again. Tonight was the first night I came face to face with my arch nemesis!"
More at the link including two videos.
Delightful.
Posted by: badanov || 08/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Mother of slain Marine unleashes on 'treasonous' Biden in surprise call to radio show: 'You did this to my son'
[Blaze] The mother of a United States Marine killed in the terrorist attack outside the Kabul airport last week tore into President Joe Biden during a radio interview on Friday, placing ultimate blame for her young son's death at the feet of the president.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2021 15:59 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden still went to watch the bodies to be transferred from the incoming flight. This was a calculated move.

Anyone care to explain why he did this?
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/29/2021 18:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ He HAD to. If he hadn't made that minimal effort he'd be TOTALLY under fire this week
Posted by: Frank G || 08/29/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Makes sense.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 08/29/2021 18:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Isn't FOX news calling him the 'Comforter in Chief'?

The media will be showing that clip for the next week.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/29/2021 18:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Bidet botched it and looked at his watch while standing on the tarmac. Caught on camera, already on the internet.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/29/2021 19:22 Comments || Top||

#6  ^^^
Posted by: Slerelet Pholurt3539 || 08/29/2021 20:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Fucking virtue signaler, black mask outdoors. I have words....
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/29/2021 23:30 Comments || Top||


US 'experts' who created Afghanistan mess should be fired for malpractice
[NYPOST] Imagine a surgeon who repeatedly operates on the wrong organ, or a pilot who misses a landing time and time again, maiming and killing scores of passengers. We would revoke their professional licenses, without delay.

Why then do we tolerate the so-called national security "experts" at the helm of the US government, who pursue, for decades, ruinous policies that cost trillions in hard-earned taxpayer money and countless American lives?

The Afghanistan collapse has proven that the US government’s ignorance of foreign cultures and mindsets can no longer be tolerated. After 20 years of immense effort by American war fighters, intelligence personnel, diplomats and aid workers to turn Afghanistan into what Westerners consider a normally functioning society, it has reverted to the same chaotic and brutal place that it has been for centuries.

It is reasonable for Americans to ask: Will anyone in the US government be held accountable for sinking $2 trillion and sacrificing more than 6,000 of our fellow citizens’ lives to achieve what was unachievable in the first place?

The reason America had to spend 20 years in Afghanistan involves a profound lack of foreign cultural expertise in the intelligence and national security communities, in which I proudly served as an intelligence officer and specialist in Russian doctrine and strategy. Failure to understand the adversary, as Sun Tzu taught us — whether it’s Afghan snuffies or Russia conducting unrestricted cyber warfare and sabotaging our elections — results in unrealistic policy goals and deficient war fighting strategies, and ultimately leads to defeat.

US planners failed to anticipate how the snuffies in Afghanistan might adapt, fight and stymie the world’s most sophisticated and technologically advanced military. The Death Eaters’ employment of essentially homemade improvised bombs (IEDs) enabled them, the weaker side, to prevail over US forces. IEDs were responsible for 60 percent of all American fatalities and half of the total US casualties in Afghanistan, and they mitigated US advantages in resources, technology and ground combat.

The US government "experts" ignored four fundamental issues while engaging in a protracted conflict in Afghanistan: how corrupt the Afghan government bureaucracy is; how hard the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
-inspired snuffies — whose Afghan identity is wrapped up in resisting foreign invaders — would fight; how resourceful a weaker power can be when faced with a more powerful opponent; and how alien the Western concepts of democracy, women’s rights and the like, are for a tribal, patriarchal Afghan culture. These are not complicated issues to wrap your brain around.
You can add in having a safe haven and support from an outside source. The Talibs are controlled by the Quetta Shura. Quetta isn't inside Afghanistan. Senior Talibs travel around freely with Pak ID cards and passports.
With proper expertise and by taking stock of the Soviet quagmire in Afghanistan in the previous century, America could have avoided the exorbitant losses incurred by the longest war in US history. Instead, after the American military quickly achieved its initial objective of defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan, the establishment continued to press on with the usual, and doomed, mission of nation-building, security assistance, and training and equipping the incapable Afghan army.
Rather than recognizing the legitimate Rabbani government of Afghanistan and supporting it, they invented the "Southern Alliance" and put Pashtuns in power. Karzai -- a Pashtun -- promptly turned on us. The Biden administration seems to be determined to repeat that mistake by refusing to treat with the Pandjir Valley alliance under Masood, Jr.
What’s worse is that the government bureaucracy went to great lengths to conceal its incompetence behind the rubric of classified information, an approach which I experienced first-hand. My former agency, the DIA, censored significant portions of my book, which reveals the deficiencies of the intelligence community in its understanding of Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
and the Russian threat to America.

Once-confidential government documents about Afghanistan contain impressions from 400 direct participants in the Afghan war, ranging from generals to diplomats. They lay bare the stark contrast between the actual situation on the ground and the mischaracterizations and outright lies presented by government officials to Americans for almost two decades.
Sounds an awful lot like Vietnam, doesn't it? In 1969 we had McNamara. Today we have swarms of MBAs.
Washington think tanks and "Beltway bandit" consulting firms are bursting at the seams with "experts" who mucked things up for America by conjuring up "pie-in-the-sky" policy ambitions and wrongheaded warfighting strategies. These unelected babus bureaucrats rotate in and out of the government, dragging our country into endless and unwinnable wars that spill blood and waste our treasure. Few, if any, of these "professionals," as they like to call themselves, are held accountable for creating crisis after crisis across the globe.

At this point, no matter how well-meaning the establishment’s desire to remake the world in America’s image by removing every tyrant, every terrorist, and every sign of injustice and poverty, the relentless pursuit of unachievable outcomes is no longer an innocent mistake.

It is reckless. And it’s professional malpractice.

Posted by: Fred || 08/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  My simple advice would be to sit still for a moment and try and entertain the possibility in their great tactical minds, that maybe trusting moslems to fight moslems, provide right intel on moslems, do anything good with your money is a bad idea. And most importantly, if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. But who's listening...


Sun Tzu! Waste of time!
Pashto, Urdu, Dari... heh!
Learning ghoul yammer?

We'd rather just mime,
'buc-ket', 'wat-ter'...
and at them snootily stammer.

God forbid that we be rid
of these dubious helpful Moors
reporting in their pajammers.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/29/2021 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Expert worship serves everyone poorly in lots of endeavors.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/29/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  No one in our gov't was held accountable after 9-11. Nothing will come of this either.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  can't blame experts entirely

the whole cultural momentum has been to underestimate the awfulness in Islam and the awfulness in Afghanistani culture
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/29/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
Hattip lotp. Hard words, clear thinking — just ignore the socialist anti-Americanism and other -isms, and the demand at the end for open borders. But the authors are as hard on Afghanistan’s Communists, the Soviets, and sentimental Western feminists as they are on America. A taste:
[AnneBonnyPirate] A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britannia and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.

First, the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have defeated the United States.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


China-Japan-Koreas
Mongol Army - Tactics, Logistics, Siegecraft, Recruitment
Posted by: badanov || 08/29/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Still The Power Behind The Throne
[New American] 2021 is a big year for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an organization that often is heralded as the most influential think tank in America, if not the entire world. Prominent on the Council’s website (cfr.org) is its centennial page, "Celebrating A Century," a self-congratulatory promo of the organization’s accomplishments over the past hundred years. The promotional features an impressive cavalcade of pictorials, videos, and articles showcasing the Council’s worldly influence and power, as demonstrated by the hundreds of presidents, prime ministers, princes, potentates, politicians, kings, diplomats, and dictators — including mass-murderers — who have graced the organization’s meetings, and/or have written for its famed journal Foreign Affairs.

The CFR does indeed wield unparalleled influence in political, financial, business, media, and academic circles, and is regularly showered with accolades by "the great and the good." It is the public face, the brain trust, and the central nervous system of what critics refer to as the Deep State — the unelected "permanent government" that has hijacked our country.

In April 1945, just days before the end of World War II, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius journeyed to Pratt House, the CFR’s headquarters in New York City. He had come, he said, to "bear witness, as every Secretary of State during the past quarter of a century, to the great services and influence of this organization in spreading knowledge and understanding of the issues of United States foreign policy." Every secretary of state since then has continued the tradition. As you will see in the accompanying table showing CFR influence in the State Department (pages 26-27), Secretary Stettinius and almost every one of his successors — until the Trump administration — has been a member of the Council. And now, with the enthronement of Joe Biden, that CFR control of the State Department has resumed, with CFR member Antony Blinken taking over as secretary, and a bevy of Council members filling out the top posts at State and in the rest of the Biden Cabinet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2021 04:06 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't think they don't 100% mean it.
Posted by: Cesare || 08/29/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Rovere’s choice of the word "Presidium" was apropos. He obviously was comparing it to the murderous, unelected, and unaccountable gang of criminals that ran the Soviet Union

"Presidium?" The shadow gov't? Yes, we already have it, may have had it for some time. Includes the puppet parade duo of Biden and Kam. The actual Presidium membership is classified. Most of us have no need to know.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  The Establishment used to be competent.

George Kennan, Dean Acheson, John McCloy, and Paul Nitze truly were wise men. They succeeded, brilliantly.

The current crew are virtue-signaling clowns.
Posted by: Thrusoting Grineger9102 || 08/29/2021 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  ^If you reward virtue signaling...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/29/2021 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The Garbage Elite
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/29/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden Drone Strikes White House After Vowing To Kill Those Reponsible For American Military Deaths In Kabul
[Babylon Bee] President Joe Biden has finally stepped up delivering harsh remarks regarding those responsible for the deaths of our troops in Kabul. The President has authorized deadly force to deal with all who caused this tragedy.

"We will not rest until those responsible for this senseless, avoidable crisis in Kabul have been removed from this Earth," said a forceful Biden. "We will unleash everything within our military’s arsenal to stop those who allowed this to happen!"

Unbeknownst to Biden at that very moment, a US military drone was activated and given the White House as its target. Before Biden could finish his speech he was pulled away urgently and briefed on what he’d just done.

"Aw c’mon man! I said kill the terrorists. Not us! What’s the deal, man?" said Biden.

"I’m sorry sir, but unfortunately you said to kill those responsible, Mr. President," said General Milley. "The drones are quite literal, sir. There’s nothing we can do."

At publishing time, Biden had tried to give the drones new orders to kill those who wish to harm our country, but the drone’s path remained unaltered.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/29/2021 11:37 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  New grocery store in D.C.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/29/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I saw the headline and thought, "Please be 'Not Bee".

That's largely sarcasm. Probably.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/29/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
31[untagged]
15Taliban/IEA
5Islamic State
5Antifa/BLM
3Sublime Porte
2Human Trafficking
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  Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
Fri 2021-08-27
  Karzai, Abdullah house-arrested by Taliban in Kabul
Thu 2021-08-26
  Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-22
  9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks
Sat 2021-08-21
  U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol
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


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