2021-08-29
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Hurricane Ida Makes Destructive Category 4 Landfall in Louisiana
> Ida's center crossed the coast near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, > at 11:55 a.m. CDT. Maximum sustained winds were 150 mph, > making Ida a high-end Category 4. -
"Extremely Dangerous" Hurricane Ida Almost Category 5 Strength As It Nears Louisiana | ZeroHedge
Hurricane Ida has rapidly strengthened into a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 MPH, just seven mph shy of a Category 5. The storm is set to strike Louisiana later this afternoon/evening, and on the same day, 16 years ago, Hurricane Katrina struck the area.
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Astra rocket fails to reach space during test launch for US military | Space
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Our Sense of Smell Could Be Nudging Us to a More Balanced Diet
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Obit
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
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Marc Bernier Is Fourth Anti-Vaccine Radio Host to Die of Covid This Month
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UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask
The 88-year-old psychology professor explained to the student that he could die from COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and age-related problems, Bernstein said in an email to The Red & Black.
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Eric Clapton's 'This Has Gotta Stop' Appears to Take on Covid Vaxx
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Cook County judge strips mother of parental rights over vaccination status
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Texas man who led anti-mask protests in name of ‘freedom’ dies of Covid-19
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No one knows how many Indigenous women are murdered each year. That makes the deaths hard to stop.
Three years later, there is still no definitive count of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the U.S., in part because of underreporting of crimes and police reports that misclassify Native American women as white or Hispanic. Police generally do not document victims’ tribal affiliation — often, police forms lack a field for this information — which means even tribal governments don’t understand the scope of the problem among their own citizens.
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
Economicon
Poilitcks
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Washington voting rights march marks Martin Luther King anniversary
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Colorado County's Voting Machines Banned After Security Breach : NPR
Griswold said the person's presence violated the rules for several reasons. "He is not an employee — you have to be an employee to attend these. You also have to be background checked and the County Clerk's office specifically misled my office saying that he did comply with the rules."
- HN thread very interesting initial voting patterns and reaction to that. Propaganda pushback. Interesting comments too; "of course they should prosecute people for publicizing the back door access methods"
Crime / Police
Security / Militaria
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What we know about a US weapon in space | Popular Science
The weapon was originally supposed to be declassified as the culmination of the Space Force’s launch: not only did the Pentagon have a new branch, but it had weapons in orbit, too. With the timing now delayed a second time, three big, ominous questions remain: Why would the military want an anti-satellite weapon, why put it in orbit, and what are the dangers of such a weapon?
Afghanistan
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American University of Kabul students and alumni trying to flee were sent home
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Opium prices triple in Afghanistan after Taliban announces poppy ban
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I actually spent most of the day on Thursday trying to source additional aircraft for some of these folks and even a couple of government agencies whose existing contractors pulled their aircraft out of rotation after taking ground fire.
Was on a concall which included folks on the ground at HKIA when the bombs went off. It's really bad over there. Even worse than the news is showing. There's no fuel left at HKIA since early in the week, so the only aircraft that can get in and out have to have range for a round trip. The civilians who have been coordinating air traffic evacuated Thursday morning.
Sadly, it's only gonna get worse...and this whole disaster (and what's to come) was all 100% avoidable.
I also will give a shout out to Franklin Graham and the folks at Samaritan's Purse. They are in the thick of it and have been really moving a lot of folks out. They immediately chipped in to help one of the child protection/trafficking interdiction orgs that I work closely with.
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Elite SAS troops rescued in dramatic desert operation - Asia Times
A team of 20 elite Special Air Service soldiers (SAS) were left stranded in the province of Kandahar, hundreds of miles from friendly forces when militants took over, according to a report in the UK’s Daily Mail online. As enemy Taliban fighters closed in for the kill — there would be no mercy in this part of the world — they sent an SOS request to Special Forces bosses back in Britain calling for immediate extraction.
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U.S. diplomats are unlikely to stay in Afghanistan after troops leave.
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Afghanistan: US drone strike 'eliminates airport bomb threat'
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Dan Crenshaw, Lara Logan Bring the Most Disturbing Reports Out of the Kabul Airport Yet – PJ Media
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Explosion Rocks Kabul, Rocket Reportedly Hits House Near Airport | ZeroHedge
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Biden to attend dignified transfer at Dover for those killed in Afghanistan - CNNPolitics
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Due to a specific, credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of Kabul airport (HKIA), including the South (Airport Circle) gate, the new Ministry of the Interior, and the gate near the Panjshir Petrol station on the northwest side of the airport, should leave the airport area immediately.
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US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
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The Taliban Are Searching People’s Phones for English Language Messages
World
Health / Medicine / COVID
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CDC: Unvaccinated Marin County teacher caused big Covid-19 outbreak in school
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Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns
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"Stories like this happen going on since the beginning of the pandemic. I’m shocked at the number of people who casually skip over the body bags and refrigerated trailers to declare COVID to be vastly overblown."