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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Law enforcement officials have completed their investigation...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Law enforcement officials have completed their investigation into whether a U.S. Senate candidate and former State of Alaska official illegally obtained a fishing license for a sportfishing event two years ago and turned it over to a special prosecutorial branch of the Department of Law, an official said Thursday.
Kelly Tshibaka, a former commissioner in the state Department of Administration and a Republican candidate for Senate, received the license during an event on the Kenai River in 2019.
Records show she received the permit in August 2019, eight months after she moved to Alaska to take the commissioner’s job, the Anchorage Daily News has reported. To obtain a resident fishing license, state law says the person must have lived in the state for 12 consecutive months before applying for a license.
Tshibaka signed the license application, acknowledging she had read the rules for residency. She also indicated on the license that she was a resident for 15 years, 8 months.
A person could be fined up to $300 for knowingly violating the law on fishing licenses, a misdemeanor.
“After a thorough investigation by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers into the media reports regarding Mrs. Tshibaka the investigation has been completed and will now be reviewed by the Alaska Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions,” Department of Public Safety spokesperson Austin McDaniel said in an email to The Associated Press.
When asked if it were unusual to involve the special office, he said in a follow-up email that law enforcement regularly works with prosecutors when building cases.
“Due to the circumstances involved with this investigation, the Alaska Wildlife Troopers requested an independent review of the case by the legal experts at the Alaska Department of Law,” McDaniel said.
Tim Murtaugh, a senior adviser to Tshibaka’s campaign, said she attended the 2019 Kenai River Classic in her capacity as commissioner.
He said her confirmation hearings were public and it was well-known she had just returned to the state.
“The event organizers asked if she had a current fishing license, and when she said she didn’t, they issued her one,” Murtaugh said in an email to the AP.
“The form was filled in for a license that expired after one day, going from August 22nd to the 23rd, which is only available to non-residents. This shows clear intent to purchase a non-resident license, not a resident license,” he said.
Tshibaka announced her resignation from the state on March 29, the same day she said she would challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Murkowski, who was critical of former President Donald Trump, was censured by the Alaska Republican Party, which later endorsed Tshibaka in the race. Trump also has endorsed Tshibaka.
Murkowski has not announced whether she will seek reelection next year. However, last month Kevin Sweeney, a consultant to Murkowski’s campaign, said she had raised about $1.15 million in the second quarter of this year and had $2.3 million on hand.
That, Sweeney said, “strongly positions” Murkowski for a reelection bid.
Murkowski on Monday declined to discuss reelection plans.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Seattle Storm are heading to the White House to celebrate their 2020 WNBA championship.
The team was formally invited by President Joe Biden to visit Monday afternoon. The Storm play at the Washington Mystics on Sunday.
“I think for a very long time, up until 2016, going to the White House was an honor. It wasn't necessarily political. It was to meet the president of the United States. The person who holds that office acknowledging your team's success,” said Seattle guard Sue Bird, who will be making her third trip to meet a president. “It was an incredible honor. Even when you watch a movie like ‘Forrest Gump,’ I'm dating myself a little bit, you understand in that movie what an incredible honor it was. It wasn't political. I think that all shifted in 2016.”
With former president Donald Trump out of office, Bird said she was happy to be going back. Many WNBA players including Bird have been outspoken in their embrace of social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, which Trump characterized as violent, radical ideology. Trump was also critical of Bird's fiancee, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe.
“Now that it's back in a place where it's considered an honor and you're recognized by the highest office in the country is exciting, it's fun,” Bird said. “It's not just about meeting the president or hopefully the vice president is there. It's about the whole experience of being in the White House. Having a day that's about your team and celebrating what you've accomplished.”
In addition to her two previous White House visits, Bird has been invited three other times after winning championships — once with UConn and twice with the Storm — but couldn't attend.
The Storm, who have won four titles, will be joined by the team's ownership group and WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert. The team last visited the White House in 2011.
No NBA or WNBA team has visited the White House since the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016 — Barack Obama's last year in office.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former fiancee of Larry Elder said Thursday that the...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former fiancee of Larry Elder said Thursday that the conservative radio talk show host now running for governor in California showed her a gun during a heated argument in 2015.
Elder, widely seen as the leader in the Republican field running to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in next month's recall election, issued a statement saying “I have never brandished a gun at anyone." Elder, who is seeking to become California's first Black governor, noted that he grew up in South Los Angeles, an area with high violent crime.
“I know exactly how destructive this type of behavior is,” he said.
Alexandra Datig's accusation, first reported by Politico, comes with less than four weeks until the Sept. 14 election and at a time when mail-in ballots already have arrived at voters' homes. Elder said he intended to “stay focused on the issues” that inspired the recall drive by Republicans upset with Newsom's progressive policies and handling of the pandemic.
Datig, 51 and a longtime Los Angeles resident, said she worked on Elder's show and they lived together during their 18-month romantic relationship from 2013 to 2015,. A letter and other records provided by Datig to The Associated Press – including an April 6, 2015, email in which she wrote about the collapse of their engagement — sketched a portrait of an emotionally abusive relationship in which Elder routinely was using medicinal marijuana to excess.
Datig claims Elder was high during the 2015 argument and went to a cabinet where he kept his gun “and made sure it was in my view.”
“He did not point it at me, but he wanted to make sure that I knew that he was checking" to see it was loaded, she told the AP.
Threatening another person with a firearm could be a criminal offense but Datig said she never reported it to police.
Elder did not specifically address that claim about cannabis use in questions submitted to his campaign by AP. His statement in response to Datig’s claims of abuse referred broadly to “salacious allegations.”
“People do not get into public life precisely because of this type of politics of personal destruction. I am not going to dignify this with a response — it’s beneath me,” Elder wrote. A short time later he tweeted: “They’re coming at me with every dirty trick because they know what’s coming on September 14."
Datig supports one of Elder’s Republican rivals, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. Earlier this week Faulconer began targeting Elder for criticism and specifically questioning his attitudes about women, noting among other things that Elder had written that employers should be able to ask women if and when they plan to get pregnant.
“Larry Elder doesn’t have the judgment or character to lead our state,” Faulconer said in response to Datig’s allegations.
Another Republican in the race, state Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, said in a statement that he found Datig's claims disturbing.
“I believe that any woman who comes forward deserves to be heard, and Ms. Datig’s deeply troubling account should be treated with the utmost seriousness. Mr. Elder should be given every opportunity to respond,” he said.
Elder entered the race in July and Datig said she waited until now to come forward because she initially didn't think he would be competitive.
“I didn’t take it seriously but when Larry started to trend and become the frontrunner, I became extremely concerned,” she said.
The documents provided by Datig described months of emotional distress from the unraveling romantic and business relationship. “I feel trapped and afraid,” she wrote in the mail.
Datig also provided the AP with a copy of a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2014 barring her from speaking about the “personal and business affairs” of Elder and his business, Laurence A. Elder & Associates, Inc. She said she was breaking it to go public with her accusations.
A March 31, 2015, letter from her attorney to Elder asked for $6,000 in monthly support for Datig for one year, to cover expenses including rent, car and health care costs. She also asked for $195,000 for public relations, marketing and other services she said she provided for his show.
The two ultimately signed an agreement on April 13, 2015, for Elder to pay Datig $20,000 and cover the cost of her $5,000 legal retainer and $185 to dry clean her wedding dress. Elder agreed he and his assistant would sign a nondisclosure agreement regarding anything to do with Datig, that he would write her a letter of recommendation for her work product, and that they two would “halt mutual insults."
Datig refers to herself as a sex trafficking survivor and has publicly disclosed working for so-called former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, who was convicted in the mid-1990s of running a high-priced call-girl ring, a conviction that was later overturned. Fleiss was later sentenced to federal prison for cheating on her taxes and laundering call-girl profits. In a 2013 interview with KCAL-TV, Datig described becoming an informant on Fleiss.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts says he’s feeling “really, really good” and is eager to return soon to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup from a stint on the injured list with right hip inflammation.
The All-Star outfielder has been on the IL since Aug. 8. He was diagnosed with a bone spur in his hip and recently received a second cortisone injection.
“It's the first time I've felt normal in a long time,” Betts said Thursday after a workout on the field before the Dodgers hosted the New York Mets. “There's no pain at all. Hopefully, I can stay on this path.”
Betts said his hip had been bothering him since the start of spring training in February. He described the pain as being so intense that it “locked me up pretty good.”
“I hope it just can get through the season and let it heal and not have to worry about it anymore,” he said.
Manager Dave Roberts said Betts could potentially return as early as next week. The Dodgers visit NL West rival San Diego for a three-game series starting Tuesday and return home next Friday to host Colorado. Roberts said Betts would decide whether or not he needs a rehab assignment first.
“Maybe just a couple at-bats and we'll go from there,” Betts said. “I would like to at least get hot, then cool off, then get hot and get back running around just to make sure. I don’t want to go out there and have to come out of the game.”
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — DeWanna Bonner scored a season-high 31 points and grabbed 11...
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — DeWanna Bonner scored a season-high 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Connecticut Sun beat the Minnesota Lynx 82-71 on Thursday night.
Bonner made 10 of 11 free throws — and Connecticut went 23 for 25 from the line — to help reach 30 points for the first time this season. It was her fifth double-double.
Jonquel Jones added 20 points and seven rebounds for Connecticut (17-6) despite being in foul trouble. The Sun turned it over 17 times but outrebounded the Lynx 31-23.
Sylvia Fowles led Minnesota (13-9) with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Layshia Clarendon added 15 points and Napheesa Collier scored 11.
Connecticut continues its five-game homestand on Tuesday against Las Vegas in a battle for sole possession of first place. Minnesota lost back-to-back games against Connecticut following an eight-game winning streak.
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Tucson police say charges are pending against the impaired driver of a vehicle that hit a pedestrian in a convenience store parking lot who later died from his injuries.
Police identified the victim of Tuesday night's collision at a Circle K on East Grant Road as 29-year-old David Lamberto.
An initial investigation determined that Lamberto had been sitting, squatting and acting erratically in the parking lot before he was struck at about 8:30 p.m., police said in a statement Thursday.
The blue 2007 Ford 500 hit him when it turned into the parking lot and proceeded to drag him as it pulled into a parking lot.
Lamberto was taken to Banner University Medical Center where he later died.
Police at the scene determined the driver was impaired at the time, police said.
Investigators say the driver's impairment and the pedestrian's erratic behavior are major contributing factors in the collision.
The driver's name has not been released.
“The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending at this time,” police said Thursday.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The former school resource officer accused of hiding during a South Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead will have to convince a jury that he wasn't criminally negligent, a judge ruled Thursday.
Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss the child negligence charges against former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson, the Sun Sentinel reported.
Peterson, 58, had worked as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time of the February 2018 shooting, has been charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors have said that Peterson failed to come to the rescue as Cruz was making his way through the school’s hallways. The law that Peterson is accused of breaking specifically applies to caregivers, but defense attorneys argued during a hearing Wednesday that a law enforcement officer doesn’t fit the legal definition of a caregiver.
Prosecutors are arguing that school resources officers are inherently different from other law enforcement officers and should be considered caregivers.
Fein ruled that a jury can decide whether a school resource officer should be considered a caregiver and noted that a jury instruction will be included to that effect.
Cruz faces the death penalty if convicted in the Valentine’s Day 2018 massacre in which 17 people were slain and 17 others were wounded. Cruz’s lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors are insisting that his fate be decided by a jury trial.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Two teenagers were facing murder charges for a street-racing crash that killed three people and critically injured a fourth in a Los Angeles suburb, authorities said Thursday.
Hamlet Aghajanyan, 19, of Burbank and a 17-year-old boy were taken into custody Thursday, police said.
Aghajanyan has been charged by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office with three counts of murder and one count of reckless driving, Burbank police said in a statement. He remained jailed on a $6 million bond.
The other youth, whose name wasn't released, was at a juvenile detention facility and prosecutors will determine whether to charge him with murder and reckless driving, police said.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the two had legal representation.
Authorities contend that Aghajanyan was driving a Kia and racing the other boy's Mercedes-Benz on Aug. 3 in Burbank when the Kia broad-sided a Volkswagen that was trying to make a turn.
The impact tore the Volkswagen in half and flung three people from the car. Killed at the scene were Jaiden Johnson, 20, of Burbank; Natalee Moghaddam, 19, of Calabasas and Cerain Baker, 21, the son of actor and comedian Tony Baker.
A fourth person in the car was hospitalized with critical injuries.
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WHAT WILL SHOHEI DO NEXT?
The Shohei Ohtani road show heads to Cleveland after the two-way superstar thrilled opposing crowds in Detroit.
Ohtani’s Los Angeles Angels — whose playoff chances are slim at one game over .500 — will play two games at the Indians' home ballpark before both teams head to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the Little League Classic on Sunday night.
After that, LA travels to Baltimore for a three-game series against the major league-worst Orioles that’s expected to include Ohtani’s next mound start — perhaps a rare opportunity for Baltimore fans to feel some buzz.
Against Detroit, Ohtani had his longest mound start of the season, winning his fourth consecutive start with an eight-inning performance on Wednesday night. He also hit a towering, 430-foot homer — his major league-leading 40th of the season — that Tigers fans waiting for Miguel Cabrera to hit No. 500 couldn't help but admire.
Ohtani followed it up with a 2-for-3 day as the Angels rallied from an eight-run deficit to beat the Tigers on Thursday.
OPTIMISM IN HOUSTON
Astros manager Dusty Baker has reasons to feel good about his AL West-leading club even after an uninspired seven-game trip.
Houston went 3-4 on the road against the Angels and Royals and begins a weeklong homestand on Friday by hosting division rival Seattle. The Astros lead Oakland by 2 1/2 games, which hasn't escaped Baker's notice.
“I’ve been scoreboard watching every day,” Baker said. “Scoreboard watching is something I do between innings when I’m not thinking about what to do. We’re just looking forward to the finish line. We have a ways to go, and we haven’t played our best ball yet.”
One thing that's making Baker sanguine about the future is having Aledmys Díaz in the lineup. Díaz went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs, including the go-ahead single in the 10th inning of a 6-3 win at Kansas City on Thursday.
“You can tell what (Díaz) means to this club (by looking at) the six weeks he was out,” Baker said.
SUB-BASEMENT
The major league-worst Baltimore Orioles haven't even come within two runs of a win in the past week.
The Orioles dropped their 15th straight game on Thursday, falling 7-2 to the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays. And most of them haven't been close.
According to ESPN Stats & Info, the Orioles are the first team since 1900 to lose 15 straight games by multiple runs. The closest Baltimore got was a 6-4 loss to Detroit on Aug. 12.
The Orioles have been outscored 138-42 during the skid, allowing an average of 9.2 runs per game.
After dropping four at Tampa Bay by scores of 9-2, 10-0, 8-4 and 7-2, Baltimore hosts another first-place team for a three-game series this weekend: NL-East winning Atlanta.
The Arizona Diamondbacks had the worst record in the majors for much of the season, but Baltimore now owns that distinction. Arizona is coming off a three-game sweep of Philadelphia and has won six of seven overall.
OCTOBER PREVIEW
Brandon Lowe knows this weekend may not be the last time the Rays face the Chicago White Sox in 2021.
The AL Central leaders visit the AL East leaders for a three-game series starting Friday.
“This is going to be kind of what we’re looking at postseason-wise, I feel like,” Lowe said. “You know the White Sox are going to make it, we feel like we’re going to make it. I think the games are going to be a little bit tougher, it’s going to be a little bit lower-scoring ballgames but it’s going to be a hard-fought battle for the whole series.”
Tampa Bay has won 11 of 14, and perhaps a playoff preview could lure a few more fans to Tropicana Field. In their four-game sweep of Baltimore, the Rays drew a total of 22,754 paying customers — an average of 5,689 per game.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A man sitting in a black pickup truck outside the Library of Congress told police Thursday that he had a bomb, prompting a massive law enforcement response to determine whether it was an operable device, law enforcement authorities said.
Police evacuated multiple buildings around the Capitol after officers observed the man holding what appeared to be a detonator, U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said. The man’s name was not immediately disclosed.
Police negotiators were communicating with him as he wrote notes and showed them to authorities from inside the truck, according to three people who were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
“My negotiators are hard at work trying to have a peaceful resolution to this incident,” Manger said. “We’re trying to get as much information as we can to find a way to peacefully resolve this.”
The episode began about 9:15 a.m. when the truck drove up the sidewalk outside the library, Manger said. The driver told the responding officer that he had a bomb, and was holding what the officer believed to be a detonator, The truck had no license plates.
Police sent snipers to the area near the Capitol and Supreme Court and evacuated multiple buildings on the sprawling Capitol complex. Congress is in recess this week, but staffers were seen calmly walking out of the area at the direction of authorities.
The nation’s capital has been tense since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
Fencing that had been installed around the Capitol grounds had been up for months but was taken down this summer. A day before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, pipe bombs were left at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington. No one has been arrested yet for placing the bombs.
The RNC, not far away from where the truck was parked Thursday, was also evacuated over the threat.
The area was blocked off by police cars and barricades, and multiple fire trucks and ambulances were staged nearby. Also responding were the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police, FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The White House said it was monitoring the situation and was being briefed by law enforcement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hourslong standoff Thursday that prompted a massive police response and the evacuations of government buildings and businesses in the area.
Police did not immediately know whether there were explosives in the vehicle, but authorities were searching the truck in an effort to understand what led the man, identified by law enforcement officials as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, to drive onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress and make bomb threats to officers.
The standoff was resolved peacefully after roughly five hours of negotiations, ending when Roseberry crawled out of the truck and was taken into law enforcement custody. But the incident brought the area surrounding the Capitol to a virtual standstill as police emptied buildings and cordoned off streets as a precaution. Congress is in recess this week, but staffers were seen calmly walking out of the area at the direction of authorities.
The episode unfolded during a tense period in Washington, coming eight months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and and one month before a planned rally in Washington that law enforcement officials have been preparing for.
The incident began about 9:15 a.m. when a truck with no license plate drove up the sidewalk outside the library. The driver told the responding officer that he had a bomb, and was holding what the officer believed to be a detonator. The truck had no license plates.
Police negotiators spent hours communicating with Roseberry as he wrote notes and showed them to authorities from inside the truck, according to the two people and a third person also briefed on the matter, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.
“My negotiators are hard at work trying to have a peaceful resolution to this incident,” U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said earlier in the day. “We’re trying to get as much information as we can to find a way to peacefully resolve this.”
While police continued negotiations, video surfaced of Roseberry on Facebook Live inside the truck, which was stuffed with coins and boxes. He was threatening explosions, making anti-government threats and talking about what he believes are the ills of the country, including the U.S. position on Afghanistan, health care and the military.
He said Democrats needed to step down, then also said he loved the president, Democrat Joe Biden. Facebook removed the videos a few hours after they were apparently filmed. Roseberry did not appear to have a specific demand for law enforcement other than to speak with Biden.
Videos posted to his Facebook before the page was taken down appears to show Roseberry at the Nov. 14 rally attended by thousands of Trump supporters to protest what they claimed was a stolen election. One video appears to be filmed by Roseberry as he’s marching with a crowd of hundreds of people carrying American flags and Trump flags and shouting “stop the steal.”
Roseberry’s ex-wife, Crystal Roseberry, said she had seen images of the man in the standoff at the Capitol and confirmed to The Associated Press that it was her ex-husband. She said had never known him to have explosives, but that he was an avid collector of firearms.
The nation’s capital has been tense since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
Fencing that had been installed around the Capitol grounds had been up for months but was taken down this summer. A day before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, pipe bombs were left at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington. No one has been arrested yet for placing the bombs.
The RNC, not far away from where the truck was parked Thursday, was also evacuated over the threat. Officials are also jittery over a planned rally in September in D.C.
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The Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan comes just weeks after China's public expression of support for the insurgent group.
Experts say China is taking a pragmatic approach to Afghanistan, given its past record of engagement with the Taliban.
China was one of the few governments that reached out to the Taliban and established relations with it in the late 1990s, said Sean Roberts, a professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington.
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The Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan comes just weeks after China's public expression of support for the insurgent group.
Experts say China is taking a pragmatic approach to Afghanistan, given its past record of engagement with the Taliban.
China was one of the few governments that reached out to the Taliban and established relations with it in the late 1990s, said Sean Roberts, a professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington.
China “started that process in about 1998, urging the Pakistan government, which is a close ally of China," Roberts told VOA. "And in 1999, the Chinese Foreign Ministry sent a delegation to Afghanistan to meet with top Afghan officials. And in 2000, the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan met with [then-Taliban leader] Mullah Omar."
Containing Uyghur militants
In those meetings, Roberts said, the two sides set up opportunities to help the Taliban government in Afghanistan with telecommunications and opened a flight route between Kabul and Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where most of the population is Muslim and where China shares a 50-mile (80-kilometer) border with Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor.
"And the Chinese state requested that the Taliban do anything in their power to ensure that there were no Uyghur militant groups in Afghanistan that could threaten China," Roberts told VOA. The Taliban had more or less ensured that the small group of insurgent Uyghurs from China who formed the East Turkistan Islamic Party, also known as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), was immobilized from that time onward, he said.
China's relations with Afghanistan since September 11, 2001, have been pragmatic and farsighted, said Hasan Karrar, a professor at the University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan.
"After 9/11, China extended tacit support to the Anglo-American-led offensive to oust the Taliban while maintaining that that retaliation must be in keeping with the U.N. Charter, and in which the Security Council must play a leading role."
FILE - Equipment and machines are seen near a copper mine in Mes Aynak, Logar province, Feb. 14, 2015.
Copper project
Raffaello Pantucci, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and a senior associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London, told VOA that the Chinese anti-Taliban push changed when China's state-owned company bid and won a $2.83 billion contract to exploit a copper mine at Mes Aynak, about 20 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Kabul, in 2007.
Then, according to Pantucci, Beijing slowly became more open to engaging with the Taliban as a faction alongside the Afghan government. China continued to engage with both sides, waiting to see who came out on top, and "now is kind of a culmination of that hedging, which is basically continue to support whoever has taken control."
"To crystallize that in a way is the fact that a lot of attention was paid to the fact that Wang Yi met with Mullah Baradar in the very public meeting in Tianjin a few weeks ago," Pantucci said. "Before that, President Xi [Jinping] had actually called and spoken to President [Ashraf] Ghani and expressed his continued support for the Afghan government."
On July 28, when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the Taliban's co-founder and deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Tianjin, Wang pointed out that the Taliban are an important military and political force in Afghanistan, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry's website.
Wang also stressed that the Taliban would make a clean break with all terrorist organizations, including the ETIM, and resolutely and effectively combat them to remove obstacles.
ETIM is designated as an international terrorist organization, although the U.S. removed it from its terrorist list in November. According to a U.N. report in June, the Turkistan Islamic Party, also a widely accepted alias of ETIM, has several hundred members.
According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry's report, during the meeting, Baradar said the Taliban would never allow any force to use Afghan territory to engage in acts detrimental to China.
Two key issues for China
Mushahid Hussain Syed, chairman of Pakistan's Senate Defense and Defense Production Committee, told VOA that when it comes to Afghanistan, China has two issues that are important to both China and Pakistan.
"First, that Afghan soil should not be used against China," Syed said. "Secondly, when a new government formally takes over Kabul with the representation of Taliban, it is yet to be seen if they opt to become a part of the Belt and Road Initiative of China, of which CPEC [China-Pakistan Economic Corridor] is an integral part."
FILE - Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority walk past a mosque near the Erduoqiao neighborhood in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
According to Monika Chansoria, a senior fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo, the perennial paranoia over anything that could stoke the flames of Islamic fundamentalism in Xinjiang continues to grip China's leadership.
"It also cannot be forgotten or ignored that the two-decade-long global anti-terror campaign following the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S. were supplanted by China to conveniently channelize its domestic agenda of suppressing China's aggrieved and repressed Muslim population, namely the Uyghurs in Xinjiang," Chansoria told VOA.
The Chinese concerns and stakes will likely drive it toward "managing" the Taliban, Chansoria said. "The Taliban would seek to use China's 'veto' power to rescue it internationally. Besides, along with China, it would want to see the Taliban-Pakistan-China triangle emerge to drive the regional agenda, geopolitically and geoeconomically."
Beijing, quite palpably, will be sure to extract a quid pro quo from the Taliban in terms of guarantees in relation to Xinjiang, and it will look for unlimited access to Afghanistan's rich mineral wealth, which is geographically vital for the Belt and Road Initiative, according to Chansoria.
VOA's Urdu Service contributed to this report.
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The former fiancee of Larry Elder said Thursday that the conservative radio talk show host now running for governor in California showed her a gun during a heated argument in 2015.
Elder, widely seen as the leader in the Republican field running to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in next month's recall election, issued a statement saying “I have never brandished a gun at anyone." Elder, who is seeking to become California's first Black governor, noted that he grew up in South Central Los Angeles an area with high violent crime.
“I know exactly how destructive this type of behavior is,” he said.
Datig's accusation, first reported by Politico, comes with less than four weeks until the Sept. 14 election and at a time when mail-in ballots already have arrived at voters' homes. Elder said he intended to “stay focused on the issues” that inspired the recall drive by Republicans upset with Newsom's progressive policies and handling of the pandemic.
Datig, 51 and a longtime Los Angeles resident, said she worked on Elder's show and they lived together during their 18-month romantic relationship from 2013 to 2015,. A letter and other records provided by Datig to The Associated Press – including an April 6, 2015, email in which she wrote about the collapse of their engagement — sketched a portrait of an emotionally abusive relationship in which Elder routinely was using medicinal marijuana to excess.
Datig claims Elder was high during the 2015 argument and went to a cabinet where he kept his gun “and made sure it was in my view.”
“He did not point it at me, but he wanted to make sure that I knew that he was checking" to see it was loaded, she told the AP.
Threatening another person with a firearm could be a criminal offense but Datig said she never reported it to police.
Elder did not specifically address that claim about cannabis use in questions submitted to his campaign by AP. His statement in response to Datig’s claims of abuse referred broadly to “salacious allegations.”
“People do not get into public life precisely because of this type of politics of personal destruction. I am not going to dignify this with a response — it’s beneath me,” Elder wrote. A short time later he tweeted: “They’re coming at me with every dirty trick because they know what’s coming on September 14."
Another Republican in the race, state Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, said in a statement that he found Datig's claims disturbing.
“I believe that any woman who comes forward deserves to be heard, and Ms. Datig’s deeply troubling account should be treated with the utmost seriousness. Mr. Elder should be given every opportunity to respond,” he said.
Elder entered the race in July and Datig said she waited until now to come forward because she initially didn't think he would be competitive.
“I didn’t take it seriously but when Larry started to trend and become the frontrunner, I became extremely concerned,” she said.
Datig supports one of Elder’s Republican rivals, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. Earlier this week Faulconer began targeting Elder for criticism and specifically questioning his attitudes about women, noting among other things that Elder had written that employers should be able to ask women if and when they plan to get pregnant.
Faulconer did not immediately comment on Datig's claims about Elder.
The documents provided by Datig described months of emotional distress from the unraveling romantic and business relationship. “I feel trapped and afraid,” she wrote in the mail.
A March 31, 2015, letter from her attorney to Elder asked for $6,000 in monthly support for Datig for one year, to cover expenses including rent, car and health care costs. She also asked for $195,000 for public relations, marketing and other services she said she provided for his show.
Datig also provided the AP with a copy of a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2014 barring her from speaking about the “personal and business affairs” of Elder and his business, Laurence A. Elder & Associates, Inc. She said she was breaking it to go public with her accusations.
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Investigators are considering whether toxic algae blooms or other hazards may have contributed to the deaths of a Northern California couple, their baby and the family dog on a remote hiking trail, authorities said.
The area in the Sierra National Forest where the bodies were found on Tuesday had been treated as a hazmat site after concerns were raised about the deaths being linked to potentially toxic gases from old mines nearby.
But the hazmat declaration was lifted Wednesday, and Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese said he didn't believe the mines were a factor, the Fresno Bee reported Thursday.
“This is a very unusual, unique situation,” said Kristie Mitchell, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office. “There were no signs of trauma, no obvious cause of death. There was no suicide note."
John Gerrish, his wife, Ellen Chung, their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, and their dog were all found dead on a hiking trail near Hite’s Cove in the Sierra National Forest. A family friend had reported them missing Monday evening.
The area around Hite's Cove was the site of a hard rock gold mining operation in the mid-19th century.
The bodies were transported to the coroner’s office in Mariposa for autopsies and toxicology exams, Mitchell said.
The State Water Resources Control Board said Thursday it was testing waterways in the area for any toxic algae blooms.
The couple were known to be avid hikers. Their friend, Mariposa real estate agent Sidney Radanovich, said Gerrish was a San Francisco-based software designer who, with his wife, “fell in love with the Mariposa area” and bought several homes there, a residence for themselves and rental investments.
“They were such a loving couple. They loved each other quite a bit,” Radanovich told the San Francisco Chronicle. “He loved showing the baby all sorts of things and explaining them to her.”
The sheriff’s office was investigating the deaths along with the California Department of Justice.
Sheriff Jeremy Briese said chaplains and staff were counseling family members.
“My heart breaks for their family,” he said.
The remote area where the bodies were found had no cellphone service, Mitchell said. The hiking trail ran through an area of forest known particularly in springtime to have spectacular wildflower displays.
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Japanese actor Sonny Chiba who wowed the world with his martial arts skills in more than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” has died. He was 82.
Chiba, known in Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday.
Japanese media said had been hospitalized near Tokyo with COVID-19 and died from pneumonia.
Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world. He did many of the stunt scenes himself.
His overseas career took off after his 1970s Japanese film “The Street Fighter” proved popular in the U.S.
American director Quentin Tarantino listed the work as among his “grindhouse,” or low-budget kitsch cinema, favorites.
Tarantino cast Chiba in the role of Hattori Hanzo, a master swordsmith in “Kill Bill.”
Chiba appeared in the 1991 Hollywood film “Aces,” directed by John Glen, as well as in Hong Kong movies.
Chiba’s career also got a boost from the global boom in kung fu films, set off by Chinese legend Bruce Lee although critics say Chiba tended to exhibit a dirtier, thug-like fighting style than Lee.
“A true action legend. Your films are eternal and your energy an inspiration. #SonnyChiba #RIP,” American actor Lewis Tan said on Twitter.
New York-based writer and director Ted Geoghegan called him “the great Sonny Chiba.”
“Watch one of his films today,” Geoghegan tweeted, followed by images of a fist and a broken heart.
Other fans mournfully filled Twitter threads with clips of his movies and photos.
Born in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, Chiba studied at Nippon Sport Science University trained in various martials arts, earning a fourth-degree black belt in karate.
Chiba set up Japan Action Club in 1980, to develop a younger generation of actors, including protege Hiroyuki Sanada, who is among Hollywood’s most coveted Japanese actors, landing roles in “The Last Samurai” and “Rush Hour 3.”
Chiba is survived by his three children, Juri Manase, Mackenyu Arata and Gordon Maeda, all actors. Japanese media reports said a wake was being held Friday, but did not give details of funeral arrangements.
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Three Albuquerque police officers were shot and another was injured while responding to a robbery Thursday, leaving law enforcement officials and elected leaders frustrated as New Mexico's largest city continues to grapple with a record-setting year of deadly violence.
Authorities said one of the officers was hit at the base of the neck, just above his bulletproof vest, and was listed in critical condition. One officer was shot in the forearm, and another was saved by his vest when he was struck in the chest by gunfire. The fourth officer was hit in the eye with shrapnel.
While the investigation is ongoing, Police Chief Harold Medina said multiple people were detained and the person believed to have fired at officers was in custody. That suspect was shot but is in stable condition, he said.
Medina called on the criminal justice system to come together to find ways to intervene and curb the violence, citing the “revolving door” that many residents have blamed for persistent crime problems and the latest rash of shootings. He also acknowledged that not all people can be saved.
“People need to want to get help, but some people need to stay in jail," he said. “And that is something we can't be afraid of saying. It needs to be said. Our courts need to hear it. Our prosecutors need to hear it, and our community needs to voice their frustration and ensure that we start making the changes to keep bad people in jail.”
He said frustration among law enforcement and the community has been mounting, but Thursday marked a pinnacle.
The officers were responding to reports of a robbery Thursday morning when they were fired upon. Authorities initially closed roads and nearby schools were put on lockdown after the shooting as officers swarmed an area near a coffee shop in a commercial district on the city's northeast side.
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller called it a horrible scene and asked for residents to pull together for the officers and their families.
The city has been struggling with a record number of homicides this year, and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham just this week announced she would reassign more state police officers to New Mexico’s largest city in an effort to help ease the burden.
Republican lawmakers have asked for the Democratic governor to call a special legislative session to address what they have described as a public emergency, saying the state needs tougher criminal statutes and that repeat offenders need to remain behind bars.
Albuquerque officials acknowledged recent tragedies, including a school shooting last week that left a 13-year-old student dead. The police chief also noted it was nearly 16 years ago to the day that the city lost two veteran police officers in a deadly shooting rampage committed by a man with a mental illness.
“It's a very emotional time,” Medina said.
Lujan Grisham's office said the governor was horrified by Thursday's events. Spokeswoman Nora Meyers Sackett said the administration is keenly aware of the public safety issues facing the Albuquerque area and that the additional state police officers began working with local law enforcement Tuesday.
“The governor has committed to substantial public safety investments, including an effort to fund and support 1,000 new police officers statewide over the next decade, in the coming legislative session,” Sackett said, adding Lujan Grisham looks forward to Republican support of initiatives aimed at helping local jurisdictions combat violent crime and keeping repeat violent offenders locked up.
Dr. Steven McLaughlin, an official at University of New Mexico Hospital, was among those who briefed reporters Thursday afternoon. In his two decades working at the hospital, he said he has seen violence in the city escalate. He said the emergency room sees gunshot victims every day.
“Gun violence is a public health emergency that we're facing,” he said, adding that investments need to be made in research to better understand the causes.
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The former school resource officer accused of hiding during a South Florida school shooting that left 17 people dead will have to convince a jury that he wasn't criminally negligent, a judge ruled Thursday.
Broward Circuit Judge Martin Fein declined to dismiss the child negligence charges against former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson the Sun Sentinel reported.
Peterson, 58, had worked as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Nikolas Cruz who was 19 at the time of the February 2018 shooting, has been charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors have said that Peterson failed to come to the rescue as Cruz was making his way through the school’s hallways. The law that Peterson is accused of breaking specifically applies to caregivers, but defense attorneys argued during a hearing Wednesday that a law enforcement officer doesn’t fit the legal definition of a caregiver.
Prosecutors are arguing that school resources officers are inherently different from other law enforcement officers and should be considered caregivers.
Fein ruled that a jury can decide whether a school resource officer should be considered a caregiver and noted that a jury instruction will be included to that effect.
Cruz faces the death penalty if convicted in the Valentine’s Day 2018 massacre in which 17 people were slain and 17 others were wounded. Cruz’s lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors are insisting that his fate be decided by a jury trial.
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The waning days of July amounted to a sea change for the Angels’ bullpen.
Left-hander Tony Watson, a trusted high-leverage reliever, was traded to the Giants. Another veteran lefty, Alex Claudio, was released. Right-hander Dylan Bundy moved back into the starting rotation.
The three veterans were replaced by Jose Quijada, Austin Warren and Sam Selman, whom the Angels acquired from the Giants for Watson. Warren had never appeared in a major league game. Quijada and Selman had 52 big league appearances between them. Outside of closer Raisel Iglesias, the bullpen roles were in flux.
Since Aug. 1, the bullpen has been a pleasant surprise. Their 3.46 earned-run average is down from 4.77 before. They’ve allowed fewer walks and home runs on a per-inning basis, while striking out more batters and leaving more runners stranded on base.
Between the sixth inning Saturday and the second inning Thursday ― a span of five games in three cities ― the Angels’ bullpen threw 15 consecutive innings without allowing a run. It’s been a boon for Manager Joe Maddon, and it’s not limited to one or two individual performances.
“There are more options,” Maddon said. “Obviously Warren has definitely made an impact. (Rookie Andrew) Wantz can make an impact too. (Steve) Cishek’s been throwing the ball as good as I’ve seen. (Junior) Guerra has gone from just wanting to pitch long to pitching at anytime. (Mike) Mayers, here’s a guy who’s absolutely resurfaced. His last three outings are exactly what he looked like in the mini-season last year. Quijada, we know he has a big arm, but now all of a sudden he’s throwing strikes and he’s able to get righties with his changeup too. Selman is a really nice Swiss Army knife who can do things against both sides.”
Iglesias was unavailable Thursday. The task of closing out a 13-10 win fell to Warren, who was making his ninth major league appearance. He retired all six batters he faced ― including future Hall of Famer Miguel Cabrera ― on a mere 17 pitches.
After notching his first career save, Warren said he would be keeping the game ball for himself.
“My confidence is pretty high right now,” the 25-year-old right-hander said. “I’ve gotten into some big situations. I love getting the ball in situations like that. I hope I keep getting the ball in situations like that.”
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The Angels will keep their starting rotation in order for their three-game series against the Indians. Right-hander Jaime Barría and left-hander Reid Detmers will start Friday and Saturday in Cleveland, opposed by left-hander Sam Hentges and right-hander Triston McKenzie, respectively.
Sunday’s game will be played at Little League headquarters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a national broadcast on ESPN and ESPN2. Rookie left-hander Jose Suarez will take the ball for the Angels against another rookie, Cleveland right-hander Cal Quantrill.
“(Suarez) doesn’t really get over-amped about anything in a sense, in a good way,” Maddon said. “I’m sure he’ll handle it well. It’s a minor league setting. It’s a neat ballpark. Once he gets out there and warms up I think it’ll be familiar to him. I was there a couple years ago and thought the field was prepped really well. The lights were good.”
Pitcher Patrick Sandoval returned to California for further testing on his back. The left-hander’s season is in jeopardy after suffering a left lumbar stress reaction. … Right-hander Alex Cobb, on the 10-day injured list with inflammation in his wrist, has resumed a throwing program and “didn’t feel anything” Wednesday, Maddon said. … The Angels signed right-handed pitcher Jimmy Herget, who elected free agency Sunday after being designated for assignment by the Rangers, and assigned him to Triple-A Salt Lake. Herget, 27, allowed four earned runs in four games out of the Rangers’ bullpen this season.
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Angels RHP Jaime Barría (2-1, 4.71 ERA) at Cleveland LHP Sam Hentges (1-4, 7.95 ERA), 4 p.m. Friday, Bally Sports West, 830 AM
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DEL MAR — Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, known in most quarters as “Big Money Mike” because of his penchant for winning the big stakes races, isn’t ready to ride off into the sunset just yet.
Smith turned 56 earlier this month and he’s been blessed to ride some of the all-time greats in the sport like Justify, Zenyatta, Skip Away, Arrogate, Azeri and Songbird. But he’s not finished, not even close to calling it a career.
“I’m still learning. I’m still having fun, trying to figure out how to be as consistent as possible,” Smith said this week as he prepares to ride Royal Ship, the 7-2 second choice on the morning line, in Saturday’s $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar for another Hall of Famer, trainer Richard Mandella.
They’ve both won Del Mar’s signature race four times, but this is the first time they’ve teamed up together in the big one.
“We both got four, so I’d like to go to five together,” Smith said. “He’s run quite a few in here and I’ve ridden quite a few in here, but we’ve never teamed up. So it’s kinda cool that we are this year.”
It’s that competitive fire in his belly that keeps Smith going. He keeps himself in excellent shape and enjoys riding the $8,000 claiming races as much as he does the major stakes races.
“If I get beat in the big one, if I can just win that last claiming race, I feel like I’m back again,” he said with a laugh. “Every horse means a whole lot to their connections. It’s not just about me and the horse. There’s a lot of people who put in a lot of time and a lot of money. … It’s nice when you can make everybody happy. It doesn’t happen too often, but when it does, it’s a good feeling.”
But what about when that fire in his belly goes out?
“I don’t think it will ever be out of me,” Smith said. “I think someone’s just gonna have to drag me off and say that’s it. I’ve always thought, well maybe someday I’ll wake up and it (competitive fire) won’t be there, but it just seems to be getting stronger and stronger. I don’t think it’s ever going to go. In fact, the more people tell me it’s going to go away or it’s getting close, the more the fire flames. I just wanna keep going.”
He said he enjoys the horses as much as ever.
“I love being able to help one win the big one, help develop them and get them to that place,” Smith said. “There’s nothing quite like it when you’re able to get it all together and pull it off. It’s a pretty cool feeling, and you can’t feel that anywhere else. You’ll never get that rush on your couch or surfing or anywhere else. You gotta be surfing on a horse. That’s the best place to be.”
As for Royal Ship, a victory Saturday would make the man who has won more Breeders’ Cup races (26) than anyone the king of the Pacific Classic. He’d break a tie with the late Garrett Gomez for most victories in the race that will be run for the 31st time this year.
“I love Del Mar,” Smith said. “Any kind of record that you can have here, I would just be so honored to have. I’m blessed to be tied for (the record), and I’d love to have it all my own.I’m tied with a great man, God rest his soul. Garrett Gomez was like my little brother. I would like to just give him a punch in the arm and tell him, ‘I got one over on you.’”
Royal Ship goes into the Pacific Classic off a third-place finish in the San Diego Handicap on July 17, behind Express Train, the 3-1 favorite Saturday, and Tripoli. There are nine horses entered, and seven are graded-stakes winners.
“I’m still looking for a race that I think this horse that I’m riding has in him,” Smith said.
“I’ve always thought he’s better than what he’s been running, and he’s started to train like that now. I know if he runs his A race … just running the way he’s been running, he’s gonna be a horse to reckon with. But if he’ll jump up and give me that one that I know is in himthen I can see him running extremely well.”
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Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Saturday Aug. 14 Smith says the race’s distance of a mile and a quarter will be a major help.
“A mile and a sixteenth (San Diego Handicap’s distance) ain’t a sprint, but it would play more to a sprint side than say a mile-and-a-quarter side,” he said. “We kinda found out about this horse that he’s got stamina. He stays, and stays, and stays and stays and that’s where he gets the better of most of them. He can keep on running.”
Just like Smith keeps on riding. Get used to it, too, because he’s not ready to hang ’em up.
“I’m really competitive,” he said. “I love horses. I love the competition. I love riding still. I love getting the opportunity to ride for great owners and trainers and amazing horses. I’m living the life. I should be paying to do this stuff, not getting paid. I still wanna ride so bad. I see no stopping me yet.”
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Torrance, Calif.’s Elias Emerson (21) celebrates as he returns to the dugout after scoring during the second inning of a baseball game against Hooksett, N.H., at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Hooksett, N.H., second baseman Jacoby Acevedo (5) tags out Torrance, Calif.’s Dicen Miyake (20) during the sixth inning of a baseball game at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)
Hooksett, N.H.’s Ryson Michaud (19) celebrates after stealing second, then going on to score on errors during the third inning of the team’s baseball game against Torrance, Calif., at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Torrance, Calif.’s Elias Emerson (21) steals second as the ball gets away from Hooksett, N.H.’s Keith Townsend during the second inning of a baseball game at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Torrance, Calif.’s Skylar Vinson (14) celebrates as he returns to the dugout after scoring on a single by Elias Emerson during the second inning of a baseball game against Hooksett, N.H., at the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The sun sets behind Lamade Stadium during a baseball game at the Little League World Series tournament between Torrance, Calif., and Hooksett, N.H., in South Williamsport, Pa., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The Torrance Little League team jumped out to an early lead and beat New England, 10-2 Thursday night in its first-ever appearance in the Little League World Series.
The West Regional Tournament runner-up had the largest margin of victory on the first day of the competition.
Andrew Nuruki had a pair of hits and drove in two runs for Torrance. Elias Emerson had a single, a walk, drove in two and scored two.
Gibson Turner pitched into the fourth inning, didn’t allow an earned run and struck out five.
Torrance will play on Saturday, facing Ohio (a 1-0 winner over Tennessee on Thursday).
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The following story will become common over the next few years. For now, however, the event being brought to your attention for the sheer fun of it remains as fascinating as it is entertaining and it's Ford that is benefiting from this.
At the heart of the story in question is the company's best-selling model, the F-Series pickup truck. In fact, the hybrid version can, thanks to its ProPower Onboard equipment group, power a number of electrical devices, even a house for a few days. We saw the same kind of scenario in Texas during the cold wave there last winter.
Now, it's a wedding that has been saved thanks to the F-150. No, the couple weren't in the middle of a fight. It’s rather a major power failure that occurred during the ceremony, spoiling the festivities. Fortunately, two guests, Ford employees, took advantage of their F-150 PowerBoost to come to the rescue.
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What's interesting is that this story reached social media thanks to Ford CEO Jim Farley. Quite naturally, the latter grabbed the buck to enjoy free publicity by sharing the footage recorded by one of the wedding guests. Ironically, the ceremony took place not far from Ford's headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
The maximum power capacity available with the F-150 PowerBoost is 7.2 kW. As standard, it comes with 2.0 kW in the gasoline versions and 2.4 kW with the electrified model. Of course, with the all-electric Lightning version, arriving next year, the same capacity of 2.4 kW will be standard, but it will be possible to add more with 9.6 kW, as well as two additional outlets, 120V in the bed, just like a 240V outlet as well.
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I don't think people understand the chaos that is raining right now in the capital, uh, the brutality and the efficient, lethal Itty the taliban are using right now to ensure their rise to power. There's been no shortage of people expressing their support and aspirations to continue to support, call it as he comes over and I know that there's gonna be a, that for all the others that come, it's going to be a similar scenario, similar story.
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Time was running out for Mohammad Khalid Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer who spent years working alongside the American military.Hunted by the Taliban, he was hiding with his family in Kabul, constantly moving from place to place as they tried — and failed — several times to reach a rendezvous point where they could be rescued.After at least four attempts in as many days, the family finally was whisked away by helicopter Wednesday in a dramatic rescue — called Operation Promise Kept — carried out under cover of darkness by the U.S. military and its allies, said Robert McCreary, a former congressional chief of staff and White House official under President George W. Bush, who has worked with special forces in Afghanistan.The rescue of Khalid, as he’s called by friends, came after frantic efforts by his supporters in the U.S. military, who said he was a brother in arms who helped save countless lives and faced certain death if found by the Taliban. They sought help from members of Congress and the Defense and State departments.“I don’t think people understand the chaos that is reigning right now in the capital, the brutality and the efficient lethality the Taliban are using ... to ensure their rise to power as they eliminate their greatest threat, which are these military and special police,” said U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. Major Chris Green, who worked with Khalid in Afghanistan.Khalid and his family were unable to get inside the airport where the Taliban controlled the entrances. He was widely known because of his position as police chief in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province and from television appearances, including one in which he challenged the Taliban to a fight, supporters said.Green said he was “incredibly happy ... elated,” when he learned that Khalid and his family were safe, noting that some of his American rescuers had worked alongside Khalid, which he called “serendipitous.” McCreary said multiple allies, including the British, helped, and that Khalid, his wife and their four sons, ages 3 to 12, were “safe in an undisclosed location under the protection of the United States.”Officials said other Afghan partners, including police and military, also deserved to be saved and that more rescue efforts were in progress, but they could not discuss details.Khalid's friends said he had no intention of leaving Afghanistan, and planned to stand with his countrymen to defend his homeland after U.S. forces were gone. But the government collapsed with stunning speed, and the president fled the country.“He fought until he had nothing left to fight with,” Green said. “He was wounded. He was surrounded. His forces were not being resupplied. And echelons above him in the government had already begun to make their exit plan ... and striking deals. So people like him who were fighting were left stranded, and they were left without support.”McCreary said Khalid originally sought protection only for his family while he kept fighting. Khalid and other fighters were completely surrounded by the Taliban last week and their location overrun, McCreary said.When the Afghan government fell, that’s when “we quickly changed gears to also work on getting him to safety.”At one point, rescuers lost contact with Khalid for several days, “and we all assumed that he was killed,” McCreary said. “Just last week, we thought it was over, and then we were just going to ... keep working harder to protect his family.”Khalid's supporters said it would have been unthinkable to leave him behind after his years of partnership with Americans.Khalid came to the rescue in March 2013, when a special forces detachment in eastern Afghanistan’s Wardak province suffered an insider attack. Someone dressed in an Afghan National Security Forces uniform opened fire, killing two Americans.When the outpost was almost simultaneously attacked from the outside, a U.S. commander called on Khalid, who within minutes raced into the valley with a quick-reaction force to defend his American partners.In 2015, when Khalid lost part of his right leg in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, friends in the U.S. military helped get him medical care and a prosthetic leg outside the country. A month later, he was again leading special police operations in Afghanistan alongside the U.S., Green said.Along the way, he helped apprehend al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders. He went on to serve as police chief in Ghazni province and then Helmand province, where he was wounded again last month in a mortar attack and continued to direct the resistance from his hospital bed.Khalid's family has applied for refugee status in the U.S. based on fear of persecution, but it's unclear how long that process might take or if they will be approved. Translators, interpreters and others who worked for the U.S. in Afghanistan are eligible to apply for special immigrant visas, but current Afghan military members or police officers are not, supporters said.His supporters said it was most important to get them out of harm's way and then figure the rest out later. People who are top Taliban targets because of their work with U.S. forces deserve special consideration, McCreary said.“No one wants to live with the guilt of turning our backs or not ... honoring our promises," McCreary said. That commitment and the collaboration it took to rescue Khalid “makes you proud to be an American."
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UNVACCINATED IN WISCONSIN, VERSUS THOSE WHO HAVE THEIR SHOT. JO YCE: NEWLY-RELEASED DATA ALSO SHOWS AN ALARMING RISE IN CASES. 12 NEWS’ KENT WAINSCOTT IS HERE TO BREAK DOWTHN E NUMBERS. KENT? KENT: THE NEW DATA FROM DHS SHOWS HOW EFFECTIVE THE VACCINES IS AT PREVENTING SERIOUS IL LNESS, AND ALSO HOW RAPIDLY THE DELTA VARIANT IS SURGING ACROSS WISCONSIN. TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NUM.RS IN JULY, NEARLY THREE TIMES AS MANY UNVACCINATED PEOPLE CONTRACT CEDOVID, AS TESTED POSITIVE AMONG THOSE WHO ARE FULLY-VACCINAT.ED AND THE GAP IN HOSPITALIZATIONS IS EVEN GREATER. NEARLY FOUR TIMES AS MANY UNVACCINATED PEOPLE CONTRACTED COVID AND WERE HOSPITALID, COMPARED WITH THOSE WHO ARE VACCINATED. AND PERHAPS THE MOST ALARMING NUMBER IS RIGHT HERE, THE SURGE FROM MONTH TO MONTH WITH THE DELTA VARIT.AN ABOUT 4.5 TIMES AS MANY UNVACCINATED INDIVIDUALS CONTRACTED COVID IN JULY COMPARED TO JUNE, AND IT’S NEARLY NINE TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE VACCINATED WHO CONTRACTED COVID IN LYJU DR. RYAN WESTERGAARD: WE’RE BRACING FOR THE PANDEMIC TO GET WORSE. KENT: STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY WITH THE DELTA VARIANT SURGING, NEWLY RELEASED DATA CONFIRMS THAT THE VACCINES WORK. >> WE ARE STILL SEEING MUCH LOWER RATES OF CASES, MUCH LOWER RATES OF HOSPITALIZATIONS AND MUCH LOWER RATES OF DEATHS AMONG THOSE WHO ARE FULLY VACCINATED. KE:NT BUT A RISE IN CASES AMONG THE FULLY-VACCINATED WHO MAY NOT HAVE SYMPTOMS OR EVEN BE TESTED FOR COVID RAISES ANOTHER CONCN.ER IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS COULD BE MORE WIDESPREAD IN WISCONSIN THANHE T NUMBERS INDICATE? >> I THINK IT’S GENERALLY TRUE OF VACCINATED AND UNVACCINATED CASES THAT WE UNDERTEST TH.EM THAT’S BEEN THE MOST DEVASTATGIN ASPECT OF THIS VIRUS, IS ITS ABILITY TO BE CAUSE INCTFEION AND BE HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE BEFORE SYMPTOMS STAR T. JOE:YC BRACING FOR THE WORST. THOSE ARE SOBERING WORDS. KENT, ARE THOSE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED ABOUT THE RATE OF VACCINIOATNS IN THE STATE? KE:NT THEY’RE ENCOURAGED E STATE HAS TOPPED THE 50% THRESHOLD, BUT THERE’S A CATCH. BECAUSE THE DELTA VARIANT IS MORE INFECTIOUS THAN PREVIOUS VARIANTSHA TT MEANS MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO BE VACCINATED IN ORDER TO REACH HERD IMMUNITY. THEY SAY EVERYTHING WE ARE DOING TO SLOW THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS WE HAVE TO DO BETTER AND MORE . JOYCE: KENT WAINSCOT
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Related video above: Breakthrough cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin more than doubleThree senators said Thursday they have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, a high-profile collection of breakthrough cases that comes as the highly infectious delta variant spreads rapidly across the United States.Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., all said they have tested positive for the virus. Almost every member of the Senate spent long hours together on the chamber's floor last week in an all-night session of budget votes before leaving town for August recess. King said he began feeling feverish Wednesday and took a COVID-19 test at his doctor's suggestion. "While I am not feeling great, I'm definitely feeling much better than I would have without the vaccine," King said. Wicker's office said he tested positive for the virus Thursday morning."Senator Wicker is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, is in good health, and is being treated by his Tupelo-based physician," a statement from his staff read. "He is isolating, and everyone with whom Senator Wicker has come in close contact recently has been notified."Hickenlooper announced his positive test a few hours later. "I feel good but will isolate per docs instructions. I'm grateful for the vaccine (& the scientists behind it!) for limiting my symptoms," Hickenlooper tweeted. "If you haven't gotten your shot—get it today! And a booster when it's available too!"The breakthrough cases emerged the day after U.S. health officials announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to Americans. They said the shots are needed to shore up their protection against the delta variant amid signs that the vaccines' effectiveness is waning over time.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. had announced Aug. 2 that he had tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated. "Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery to my good friends and colleagues," he tweeted Thursday."If you have not already done so please #GetVaccinated," Graham added.Dozens of members of Congress have reported testing positive for COVID-19. Rep. Ron Wright, R-Texas, 67, died from the disease early this year while Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, R-La., 41, died in December before being sworn into office. d
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XRP and Cardano lead the weekly growth in CoinGecko’s top 40 cryptocurrencies by capitalization.
XRP has risen in price over the past week by 59%. Cardano added 47% to come in third in the rankings and edged out Tether (USDT) and Binance Coin.
The XRP token hit its highs in nearly three months on Sunday at around $ 1.35. The sixth cryptocurrency started last week at about $ 0.78.
The latest development in the case was the SEC’s refusal to hand over the evidence to the Ripple defense team, despite the judge’s insistence. On top of that, the lawsuit seems to have attracted more media attention to Ripple.
Thus, the nightmare of the lawsuit turned into a decisive marketing event, writes xrp-buy. According to PrimeXBT, Ripple’s litigation will soon end and not in favor of the SEC.
DonAlt, an independent market analyst, believes that the coin may accelerate and not return to a price below the dollar.
XRP is showing strong growth and is separating from Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market, according to Santiment. XRP whales are coming back to push the coin up. Since August 10, about 14 whales have joined the Ripple network, holding over 1 million XRP tokens.
Cardano ranked third by market cap on Friday. Cardano’s meteoric rise comes amid the announcement of the launch date for smart contracts on the mainnet as part of the Alonzo update on September 12th.
The upgrade will enable the deployment of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications. At the beginning, smart contracts will be launched on the testnet. Alonzo is split into three phases, and only at the very end will the network roll out updates to the mainnet.
If all goes according to plan, Cardano will join the list of blockchains that could provide decentralized finance (DeFi) and the NFT economy. Until the end of the year, investors should wait for several updates to the asset maximums, writes freedmanclub.
Another digital asset that saw significant gains last week was Dogecoin. The sixth cryptocurrency gained 34% in a week, but lagged behind the first two leaders of the race.
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Jennifer Aniston can give lessons on how to stay on friendly terms with exes because she does it very well, and this is her main secret.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the Friends star admitted that a lot of work needs to be done to maintain a friendly relationship with a person with whom you once had romantic feelings.
See also: Jennifer Aniston peppered Instagram photos of ex-husband Justin Theroux
Jennifer noted that it was hard for her to experience breakups with men, which were sometimes not easy at all. One has only to remember her divorce from Brad Pitt, who spun an affair with Angelina Jolie on the side.
I can forgive. I think forgiving is very important. Otherwise, it just accumulates as toxic waste. There is nothing worse than holding a grudge. Look, people can do things that cannot be forgiven, but you have to let it go and say, “Look, we are all human. We make mistakes.” Holding any grudge is like taking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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The actress added that in such moments it is better to focus on the people and things that are happening to you here and now, and not drag the burden of the past with you.
See also: Alex Rodriguez first commented on relationship with Jennifer Lopez
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Singer and actress Selena Gomez stated that she has rediscovered the joy of creative work thanks in large part to the fact that she has given up on social media.
In an interview with the magazine Elle Gomez, 29, details her new career advancements as well as the public attention she has faced after a series of mental and physical health issues.
“My [системная красная] lupus, kidney transplant, chemotherapy, mental illness … all of this, to be honest, should have knocked me out of my rut. Every time I went through something, I thought: “What is this time? What else do I have to deal with? ”- said the actress.
In 2014, Gomez learned that she had lupus, and four years later she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Gomez admitted that she then felt relieved after learning the doctors’ verdict, but she was greatly upset that her health attracted attention on social networks and tabloids.
Four years ago, she was the most watched person on Instagram – and yet, being loved by millions of fans, she revealed. that I fought the negativity that often surfaced in the comments.
While Gomez uses Instagram and Twitter to encourage acceptance of herself and other goals, she often does so indirectly. In an interview, she said that since 2017, she has been providing images and quotes to her assistant, who posts them on social networks on her behalf.
According to her, the abandonment of social networks allowed her to focus on projects and cases that affected her personally. One example is HBO’s Max Cooking Series Selena + Chef, which reportedly helped raise $ 360,000 for 23 nonprofits over two seasons.
The lack of access to social media also taught Gomez to be more mindful.
“I don’t have them on my phone, so there’s no temptation. I suddenly had to learn to be with myself. It was annoying at first because I used to be able to watch other people’s lives for hours, ”she said.
Last year, pop singer Justin Bieber told about her fight against Lyme disease.
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American actress Julia Roberts surprised fans with a new figure: the star again became slim and thin, although, according to her, she did not go on any diets. Viva writes about it.
Fans drew attention to the figure of the star in early October in London, where Julia appeared in a stylish beige suit.
Fans on social networks said that recently the celebrity has lost a lot of weight and now looks just “Thumbelina”. Soon, Roberts herself told what actually happened.
“I’ve lost so much weight that now I wear a couple of sizes smaller pants! To be honest, I didn’t even aim for this. The filming of the new project “Coming Home” was not easy: I was constantly on my feet, all day running through the stairwells in high heels, carrying huge bags. This activity has replaced cardio training for me “,– she said in an interview with one of the tabloids.
Julia Roberts spoke in more detail about filming her first series in an exclusive interview with FACTS, “I love high heels, but I never learned to walk on them.”
As previously reported by “FACTS”, the American press claims that 50-year-old Julia Roberts is soon preparing to become a mother again. Moreover, she allegedly expects to improve relations with her husband, operator Danny Moder, by increasing the family. The spouse is often jealous of a movie star, and she behaves too demanding and constantly monitors him. On this basis, disagreements arose, which the couple hopes to settle after the birth of their fourth baby.
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The 25th overall pick from Clemson may have some doubters entering the league, but he has the skillset you look for in modern NFL backs.
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Whenever a team drafts a franchise quarterback, that quarterback’s play essentially becomes a referendum on the administration that picked him. Such will almost inevitably be the case for Jacksonville Jaguars’ first overall pick Trevor Lawrence, who is the most important rookie from the 2021 class.
But he’s not the only one who has a lot to prove at the NFL level. Many analysts questioned Jacksonville’s use of the 25th pick in the 2021 draft, with which the team selected Clemson running back Travis Etienne. Considering the diminishing value of the position and the play of undrafted rookie James Robinson in 2020, the pick was a bit head-scratching, to say the least.
But in Etienne, the Jags staff sees a dynamic player who can make an impact both on the ground and through the air, as the most successful modern backs (e.g. Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara) can.
Etienne’s preseason debut was a bit lackluster. He saw just one carry as the backup to Robinson (who himself only saw three carries) and it went for just two yards.
That doesn’t exactly leave us much to talk about this week, but NFL Network’s Lance Zierlein still felt comfortable naming Etienne the most pivotal rookie for the Jaguars outside of Lawrence.
I’m not going to make the obvious selection of Trevor Lawrence for this spot so we can take a deeper look at the Jaguars’ draft class. Cornerback Tyson Campbell has all the traits and has generated some buzz this summer, but let’s not overthink it. Etienne is a slasher with very good power and he’s developed into quite a pass-catcher. His Clemson pedigree and ability to help on all three downs should give Lawrence an even better chance to succeed as a rookie.
Robinson likely still projects as the No. 1 back, but he was asked to contribute an unsustainable amount of carries, and having Etienne as a change of pace back should ease his workload tremendously.
We’ll likely see an expanded role for Etienne in the coming preseason games, as it remains largely unclear in what capacity the team intends to use him. But it seems like a safe bet that Etienne will see a lot of action as the team’s third-down back in 2021.
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After taking a strong-armed, accurate quarterback with the first-overall pick, it’s no secret that the Jacksonville Jaguars want to be a team that airs the ball out downfield. With targets in the receiving game like D.J. Chark Jr., Laviska Shenault Jr., and Marvin Jones Jr., the team will certainly have the opportunity to do that.
But some of Jacksonville’s other moves this offseason make it very clear that coach Urban Meyer doesn’t want this offense to be a one-trick pony. The team has bolstered its run game quite a bit, adding Carlos Hyde in free agency and Travis Etienne in the draft. Further, the team added two primarily blocking tight ends in Chris Manhertz and rookie Luke Farrell.
Meyer discussed these additions, and he said that he wants the team to be balanced between the rushing and passing attack.
“[In] free agency I think you see we hit that really hard with Carlos [Hyde] and [Chris] Manhertz and in the draft with Luke Farrell. We thought he was the best blocker in college. That’s one way to extend [the] run, extend the formation. I’m a big believer, I’ve always been a big believer in that, and so is Bev [Offensive Coordinator Darrell Bevell]. We’ve had that conversation, not recently but when I hired him, and I saw his history of balanced offense and he believes in that as well.”
Bevell is primarily known as a “quarterback whisperer” of sorts, but especially during his tenure in Seattle, he ran an offense that made good use of the run game, as well.
Starting running back James Robinson is coming off a 1,000-yard season as an undrafted rookie, and Jacksonville will almost certainly lean on him as Lawrence gets comfortable with the NFL game. And it’s clear that even once he does, Meyer wants the run game to continue to be a viable option.
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With their roster being trimmed down to 85, the Jacksonville Jaguars have released an unofficial depth chart for their second preseason game of three, which will be against the New Orleans Saints.
There was only one change in terms of starters from the first unofficial depth chart, and that was Damien Wilson being named the No. 1 at MIKE linebacker. All of the other changes were very limited and tied to bubble players.
The updated unofficial depth charts for the offensive, defensive and special teams units are as follows:
Offense
Position Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 WR DJ Chark Laquon Treadwell Collin Johnson Jeff Cotton Jr. Tavon Austin LT Cam Robinson *Walker Little LG Andrew Norwell Ben Bartch Derwin Gray C Brandon Linder Tyler Shatley KC McDermott RG A.J. Cann Tre’Vour Wallace-Simms Austen Pleasants RT Jawaan Taylor Will Richardson Jr. Garrett McGhin TE Chris Manhertz James O’Shaughnessy *Luke Farrell Ben Ellefson *or Tyler Davis QB Gardner Minshew II *or *Trevor Lawrence C.J. Beathard Jake Luton RB James Robinson *or Carlos Hyde *Travis Etienne Jr. Dare Ogunbowale Devine Ozigbo Nathan Cottrell WR Laviska Shenault Jr. Jamal Agnew Pharoh Cooper *or Josh Hammond WR Marvin Jones Jr. Phillip Dorsett II *Jalen Camp Tevin Jones
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Position Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 DT Malcom Brown Dawuane Smoot *Jay Tufele NT DaVon Hamilton Doug Costin Daniel Ekuale DE Roy Robertson-Harris Adam Gotsis Taven Bryan *Kenny Randall OLB Josh Allen Jihad Ward Aaron Patrick MIKE Damien Wilson Shaquille Quarterman WILL Myles Jack Chapelle Russell Quincy Williams Dakota Allen OLB K’Lavon Chaisson Lerentee McCray *Jordan Smith CB Shaquill Griffin Tre Herndon CJ Henderson Chris Claybrooks Jameson Houston CB Sidney Jones IV *or *Tyson Campbell Luq Barcoo *Corey Straughter Lorenzo Burns FS Rayshawn Jenkins Andrew Wingard Daniel Thomas *or Brandon Rusnak SS Josh Jones *or Jarrod Wilson *or Rudy Ford *or *Andre Cisco
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Position Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Kicker Josh Lambo Logan Cooke Holder Logan Cooke Long snapper Ross Matiscik Punter Logan Cooke PR Jamal Agnew Pharoh Cooper Corey Straughter KR Jamal Agnew Pharoh Cooper
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Griffin didn't have an ideal contract year in 2020, but after signing a big free-agent deal in Jacksonville, expectations are high.
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Though the result was a sizable deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars, cornerback Shaquill Griffin didn’t have an ideal contract season in 2020 with Seattle. He struggled to stay healthy, and when he was on the field, he wasn’t exactly a shutdown player.
However, Jacksonville believes that last season was an anomaly for Griffin, and as a result, it gave him the biggest contract on the team this offseason. His play in 2021 has only become more crucial with rumors circulating that the Jaguars could be looking to trade former ninth-overall pick C.J. Henderson, who enters into his second year.
The Jags certainly hope Griffin becomes a shutdown corner, and according to ESPN (in collaboration with PFF), he’s the team’s most likely bounce-back candidate in 2021.
What went wrong: Griffin played through nagging injuries for the Seahawks last season and had moments in which he didn’t look like his normal self. Relative to the rest of the league, he wasn’t terrible, but his seven touchdowns allowed and 64.8 coverage grade overall were well below his 2019 standard. Griffin was one of the five highest-graded outside corners in the league that season and ranked first among the group in forced incompletion rate (22.8%). How he fares playing a higher rate of man coverage in Jacksonville will be important. –– PFF Outlook for 2021: With cornerback CJ Henderson working his way back after a stint on the Jaguars’ reserve/COVID-19 list, Griffin has been the No. 1 corner in camp and has played like it. He already has one interception and nearly had another. Griffin, who signed a three-year, $44.5 million deal with Jacksonville in March, has had good one-on-one reps against Marvin Jones Jr. and DJ Chark Jr. (before Chark’s broken finger) and has frequently been called out as a “winner” in coach Urban Meyer’s winner-loser drills. “I haven’t set any expectations, one day at a time,” Griffin said. — Michael DiRocco
Griffin had a solid debut for the Jags in the preseason, totaling three tackles in the loss to Cleveland. He and Henderson looked like the two best corners in that game, which is a sign that Jacksonville wanted to see.
Some have been skeptical of how much the team invested in Griffin, but as a capable starter in a secondary that was one of the worst in the league last season, he should be a difference-maker in 2021.
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One of the Jags' 2020 draft picks who showed promise last year is now back from Reserve/COVID-19.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars made some roster moves Thursday by activating safety Daniel Thomas from the Reserve/COVID-19 list. The team also waived cornerback Luq Barcoo alongside the decision.
We have made the following roster moves: Activated S Daniel Thomas from the Reserve/COVID-19 list. Waived CB Luq Barcoo. pic.twitter.com/GNNahGoArk — #DUUUVAL (@Jaguars) August 19, 2021
Thomas was placed on Reserve/COVID-19 on Aug. 6, so he’s been on the list for nearly two weeks. Now, with his activation, he has a chance to play in Monday’s game against the New Orleans Saints and push for a roster spot.
At the moment, the Jags have Thomas as their No. 3 safety behind Rayshawn Jenkins and Andrew Wingard. He’s there at the No. 3 spot alongside Brandon Rusnak, so it appears a good performance could be needed to stick around through the next wave of cuts.
The Jags drafted Thomas last season in the fifth round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He registered two starts and played in 10 games before going on injured reserve last November. He exited his rookie season with 18 combined tackles, and blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown.
As for Barcoo, the Jags signed him as an undrafted free agent out of San Diego State last season. He played in three games for the Jags and started in one and was able to accumulate 10 total tackles as a rookie.
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After moving on and having a child with Anthony "AE" Edwards, the popular social media influencer has revealed that the father of her son has cheated with 12 women and put them all on blast via her Instagram page.
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Amber Rose has lived much of her dating life in the public eye and has been attached to the likes of famous men, notably Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa. After moving on and having a child with Anthony “AE” Edwards, the popular social media influencer has revealed that the father of her son has cheated with 12 women and put them all on blast via her Instagram page.
Via her Instagram Stories feed, Rose, 37, shared with her 21 million followers the details of what she discovered regarding Edwards’ alleged infidelity. While not naming the women by name, Rose was clear that the 12 individuals she was aware of all knew that he was in a relationship and taking care of a family.
“I’m tired of getting cheated on and being embarrassed behind the scenes. All 12 of y’all bums (the ones that I know of there’s probably more” can have him,” Rose began in her statement. “Y’all very much knew he was in a relationship with a baby and y’all decided to f*ck him anyway. I saw all the texts and DMs. Y’all were well aware but y’all don’t owe me loyalty so it’s whatever.”
She added, “I can’t be the only one fighting for my family anymore. I’ve been so loyal and transparent but I haven’t gotten the same energy in return. I’ll never say the girls name because I’m not in the business of ruining lives but y’all know who y’all are.”
Rose then turned her anger towards her mother, writing, “My raging narcissistic mom can get the f*ck out of my life too. On my kids.”
The statement ended with, “I’m tired of being mentally and emotionally abused by people that I love. I’ve been suffering in silence for a long time and I can’t take it anymore. That’s why I’ve been so quiet. I’ve been a shell of who I use to be but I refuse to let anyone damage me anymore. Family or not.”
Rose’s Instagram page is scrubbed save for one post from 2020. It isn’t known if AE Edwards has addressed the matter.
On Twitter, the chatter is growing as Amber Rose’s name trends. We’ve got the reactions below.
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Chloe x Halle are featured in Flaunt magazine with dual spreads showcasing their individual, unique personalities. The dynamic duo is slowly dismantling how fans were introduced to them in 2014 singing familiar pop covers on YouTube. These two are ascending to greater heights.
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Chloe x Halle are featured in Flaunt magazine with dual spreads showcasing their individual, unique personalities. The dynamic duo is slowly dismantling how fans were introduced to them in 2014 singing familiar pop covers on YouTube. From The Kids Are Alright, which was an ode to their adolescence, to their most recent project Ungodly Hour, embodying the intricacies of growing and glowing up, these two are ascending to greater heights.
Chloe tells Flaunt, “When our experiences and story change, so will the lyrics and the melodies and the feel of the music.”
The two have both grown tremendously as singers, actors and performers. As a duo, the two utilized the time throughout the quarantine portion of the impending pandemic to give fans a dose of at-home live performances. We watched in our homes as the young girls we met became grown women. Each sister with her own personality and style that both share effortless grace.
Chloe flaunts her curves, fierceness and sex appeal in her cover story, and Halle remains soft, sweet and somewhat of a mystery in her spread.
“As we are evolving and creating—the music will evolve along with us.” Chloe shares with the publication.
Though Chloe x Halle may still appear to be angels in the eyes of many of their fans, Halle urges people to recognize them both as imperfect humans. The 21-year-old star just wrapped filming the newest adaptation of The Little Mermaid and joyfully reunited with her sister. Their brief separation during filming allowed for the sisters to transform in their personal art forms as individual superstars.
“We were perceived as these angels in a way that could do no wrong, kind of like these perfect human beings,” Halle explains. “We kind of wanted to flip the narrative of that perception, because we are so tired of being that.”
Chloe x Halle have more to prove to their fans. They want to explore their separate creativity, which is far more expansive. Take a look at the two cover stars Chloe and Halle Bailey as they take over Flaunt magazine for the “Future Experience” story featuring these absolutely stunning images.
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Kandi Burruss is no stranger to switching up her hair to don a new look. From her iconic short red cut in her debut season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, to her Hollywood glam look at the Pre-Grammy's Gala, Kandi is the ultimate hair chameleon.
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has supplied the culture with 30 years of great music, snarky one-liners, prosperous businesses, and unforgettable hairstyles. The singer made her notable come up during a time in the 90’s where elaborate updo’s, pin-straight doobies with the tight curls on the end, and short pixie haircuts was the staple girl-next-door look. Since then, her style has transcended to a level that makes her one of those fun celebrities you love to watch for hair inspiration.
When Kandi steps out on the Hollywood scene, she fully commits to her looks. From head to toe, there’s no ensemble or hairstyle that she isn’t willing to try. Over the years, she’s given us an array of stylish do’s worth recreating for yourself. From her iconic short red cut in her debut season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, to her Hollywood glam look at the Pre-Grammy’s Gala, Kandi is the ultimate hair chameleon.
It’s in a Black woman’s DNA to switch up her hair and wear each style proudly. Our favorite Georgia peach got the assignment, and she executes it each and every opportunity she gets. Although it was difficult to narrow down the best Kandi Burruss hairstyles to just 10, we were up for the challenge. Check out 10 times she showed her hair chameleon superpowers.
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The New York Mets will meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first game of a four-game series on Thursday night from Dodger Stadium.
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The New York Mets will meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first game of a four-game series on Thursday night from Dodger Stadium.
The Mets are coming off a 5-2 win over the San Francisco Giants last night and will look to keep that momentum going into tonight’s game. As for the Dodgers, they have been hot while riding a six-game winning streak. We’ll see if they can keep that going tonight.
This should be a great game, here is everything you need to know to catch the action tonight.
New York Mets at Los Angeles Dodgers
When: Thursday, August 19
Thursday, August 19 Time: 10:05 p.m. ET
10:05 TV Channel: MLB Network
MLB Network Live Stream: fuboTV(watch for free)
MLB Odds and Betting Lines
MLB odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds last updated Monday at 8:00 p.m. ET.
New York Mets (+165) at Los Angeles Dodgers (-200)
O/U: 9
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The New England Patriots will meet the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2 of the NFL Preseason on Thursday night from Lincoln Financial Field.
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The New England Patriots will meet the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2 of the NFL Preseason on Thursday night from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
The Patriots are coming off a 22-13 win over the Washington Football Team last week and saw some promise from young quarterback Mac Jones. They threw two fourth-quarter touchdowns to take the game away from Washington. Meanwhile, the Eagles will look to bounce back after a 24-16 loss to the Steelers where they fell apart in the second half. It’s likely will see more of Jalen Hurts this week and that should bode well for Philadelphia.
Don’t miss this game, here is everything you need to know to stream the action on Thursday night.
New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles
When: Thursday, August 19
Thursday, August 19 Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
7:30 TV Channel: NFL Network
NFL Network Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)
How to watch the NFL this season
fuboTV has complete local NFL coverage (CBS, FOX, ESPN), plus NFL Network and NFL Network Redzone . FuboTV includes every network you need to watch every NFL game in your market. fuboTV is available on your phone, tablet, desktop, TV, connected TV Devices including Roku. Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV plus many more. *Regional Restrictions Apply*
NFL Football Odds and Betting Lines
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New England Patriots (-1) vs. Philadelphia Eagles
O/U: 38.5
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LeBron James saw it as another reason to be motivated.
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It’s wild to think that LeBron James is going to turn 37 years old next season, and he’s still among the most impactful players in the league.
He led the Lakers to an NBA title in the 2020 Orlando bubble. And while the Lakers struggled last season largely due to injuries, LeBron still had a year that was statistically on par with his second stint in Cleveland.
He remains very good — like, one of the best in the league. But according to some NBA execs and scouts, LeBron is no longer *the* best.
ESPN published a survey this week that polled 10 anonymous execs and scouts. The best player in the NBA was among the topics, and the poll was split 5-5 between Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant. LeBron received no votes. Via ESPN:
The only other name even mentioned by those polled was James, though he ultimately didn’t receive any votes. It was clear all three stars were on a level unto themselves at this point.
Well, LeBron wasn’t too happy with the honorable mention. He took to Twitter on Thursday to emphatically say thanks for giving him some added motivation.
THANK YOU! As if I didn’t need more to⛽️ ME! #Washed👑 — LeBron James (@KingJames) August 19, 2021
LeBron had a similar reaction to the jokes about the aging Lakers roster. So, yeah, this is becoming a recurring theme for LeBron this offseason.
Despite not getting a best player vote, LeBron and the Lakers were picked to reach the NBA Finals in that same survey. They weren’t completely discounting James there.
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New Hampshire will meet California in the 2021 Little League World Series on Thursday night live from South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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New Hampshire will meet California in the 2021 Little League World Series on Thursday night live from South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
There will be 16 teams participating this year all from the U.S. and the tournament will feature a double-elimination bracket. Teams that fall in their first game will still have the opportunity to get to the final while the two teams that can outlast their bracket will face each other in the LLWS Final and get a shot at the championship trophy.
We have you covered throughout the 2021 Little League World Series, here’s everything you need to watch all the action, streaming information as well as the schedule below.
New Hampshire vs. California
When: Thursday, August 19
Thursday, August 19 Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
7:00 TV Channel: ESPN
ESPN Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)
2021 Little League World Series Schedule
Thursday, August 19
Game 1: Hawaii vs. Connecticut, 1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 2: Tennessee vs. Ohio, 3 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 3: Nebraska vs. New Jersey, 5 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 4: New Hampshire vs. California, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN
Friday, August 20
Game 5: Pennsylvania vs. Oregon
Game 6: Michigan vs. Florida
Game 7: Lousiana vs. South Dakota
Game 8: Washington vs. Texas
Saturday, August 21
Game 9: Loser 2 vs. Loser 4 – 1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 10: Loser 1 vs. Loser 3 – 3 p.m. ET, ABC
Game 11: Loser 6 vs. Loser 8 – 6 p.m., ET, ESPN
Game 12: Loser 5 vs. Loser 7 – 8 p.m., ET, ESPN
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Nebraska will meet New Jersey in the third game of the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon.
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The 2021 Little League World Series will begin on Thursday afternoon with four games live from South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
There will be 16 teams participating this year all from the U.S. and the tournament will feature a double-elimination bracket. Teams that fall in their first game will still have the opportunity to get to the final while the two teams that can outlast their bracket will face each other in the LLWS Final and get a shot at the championship trophy.
We have you covered throughout the 2021 Little League World Series, here’s everything you need to watch all the action, streaming information as well as the schedule below.
Nebraska vs. New Jersey
When: Thursday, August 19
Thursday, August 19 Time: 5:00 p.m. ET
5:00 TV Channel: ESPN
ESPN Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)
2021 Little League World Series Schedule
Thursday, August 19
Game 1: Hawaii vs. Connecticut, 1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 2: Tennessee vs. Ohio, 3 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 3: Nebraska vs. New Jersey, 5 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 4: New Hampshire vs. California, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN
Friday, August 20
Game 5: Pennsylvania vs. Oregon
Game 6: Michigan vs. Florida
Game 7: Lousiana vs. South Dakota
Game 8: Washington vs. Texas
Saturday, August 21
Game 9: Loser 2 vs. Loser 4 – 1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Game 10: Loser 1 vs. Loser 3 – 3 p.m. ET, ABC
Game 11: Loser 6 vs. Loser 8 – 6 p.m., ET, ESPN
Game 12: Loser 5 vs. Loser 7 – 8 p.m., ET, ESPN
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The 2021-22 season will likely be the Arizona Coyotes last in Gila River Arena after the city of Glendale opted out of their lease agreement.
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The 2021-22 season will be the last for the Arizona Coyotes in Glendale.
On Thursday, the city of Glendale told the Coyotes that they are pulling out of their joint lease agreement with the franchise, meaning Gila River Arena — the team’s home since 2003 — will no longer be usable to the team after June 30, 2022. The team’s administrative space, which also resides in Gila River Arena, will have to be vacated as well come next June as the team scrambles to find a new home.
The writing has been on the wall for the Coyotes and the city of Glendale for some time, considering in 2016 the Glendale City Council opted out of a long-term agreement with the club, instead renewing the lease on a year-to-year basis. Still, the news is nonetheless a painful blow to the Coyotes franchise and their fans, as this feels like yet another step back for a team that has never really gotten off the ground.
The Coyotes woes as a franchise stretch back to its days as the original Winnipeg Jets, which moved to Arizona in 1996 after financial troubles couldn’t keep the team in Canada. The financial issues would continue to plague the Coyotes over the years, as in 2009 then-owner Jerry Moyes turned the franchise over to the league after declaring bankruptcy.
Though the Coyotes eventually stopped the bleeding and maintained their status as a NHL franchise, Arizona has never ceased being a handful of steps behind other teams in the league. From ownership issues to former general manager John Chayka’s abrupt resignation and then suspension from the league due to pursuing opportunities with other clubs while still under contract with the Coyotes to their arena situation, nothing has gone right for this franchise from an off-ice perspective.
The @ArizonaCoyotes statement on Glendale kicking them out of arena after this season. pic.twitter.com/q1n2dBZrXS — Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) August 19, 2021
And those issues have bled into the team’s on-ice performance as well. As of 2021, the Coyotes are the oldest franchise to never play in a Stanley Cup Final. Arizona has made the playoffs just once in the last nine seasons, and have seen nine playoff runs total since moving to the desert in 1996. In the past, the Coyotes have garnered a reputation of taking on other team’s bad or unplayable contracts in an effort to get to the salary cap floor, not to build a competitive hockey team.
Their roster for the 2021-22 season, while a step in the right direction, is focused more on rebuilding for the future rather than winning now, a painful process as any fanbase in sports knows.
I know it’s a bit of a meme to dunk on Coyotes fans’ misfortune or speculate which city could be in the running for a relocation franchise should things not work out in Arizona’s favor, but this entire situation is so unfortunate. Hockey clearly works in the desert, if the Vegas Golden Knights are any indication since their inception in 2017. The state of Arizona too is no stranger to building and cultivating new hockey markets, considering the success of the Arizona State Sun Devils after their recent move to NCAA Division I hockey.
There is obviously still time for the Coyotes to find a solution, whether that be moving to Phoenix, Tucson, or Tempe, where the franchise has been looking to build a new arena for some time. Other options are to relocate to Footprint Center, where the Phoenix Suns play in a building not suited for hockey, or try their hand at wild cards such as Chase Field or Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
This next year for the Coyotes is a make-or-break one. If the Coyotes can’t find a solution that sticks, they’ll continue to toil in the basement of the NHL on and off the ice with a passionate but small fanbase that can’t make inroads. And, if the worst does come to pass, relocation out of Arizona to Houston, Quebec, or elsewhere is likely in the cards for the Coyotes.
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More than 40billion dollars worth of trade deals are expected to be sealed at the Intra-African Trade Fair(IATF) 2021 scheduled for Durban, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa in November this year.
The IATF 2021 will provide a unique and valuable platform for businesses to access an integrated African Market of over 1.2billion people with a Gross Domestic Product of over 2.5trillion dollars created under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Mr Denys Denya, Executive Vice President, Finance, Administration and Banking Services at Afreximbank, said the trade fair would make AfCFTA a possibility.
Mr Denya was speaking at the first Country Roadshow held in Accra as a prelude to IATF 2021.
The Roadshow is to raise the awareness of the private sector about the substantial benefits of attending the second edition of IATF 2021, which will take place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa from 15 to 21 November 2021.
IATF 2021 will be on the theme:" Building Bridges for a Successful AfCFTA."
He said Afreximbank had initiated a number of products like the Pan-African Payments and Settlement Systems, AfCFTA adjustment facility, African collaborative scheme and the trade fair.
He said over the years, the Bank had disbursed 1.7billion dollars to support Ghanaian companies.
The Executive Vice-President said Ghana had vital industries to promote Intra-regional trade and the participation and contributions of the private sector was key in the implementation of AfCFTA.
Mr Denya said the trade fair would play a significant role in making Intra-African trade a reality by providing a sustainable platform for buyers and sellers, investors and governments to connect and exchange trade investment information.
He called on the business community to participate in the event and take advantage of showcasing their product and investment opportunities.Mr Hebert Krapa, the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, said government remained committed to the implementation of the AfCFTA agreement.He said government would continue to collaborate with the private sector to promote Intra-regional trade.He said the African free trade area agreement when fully implemented would close the trading gap on the continent.
The Deputy Minister said the fair would give government the opportunity to improve in the participation of Intra-African Trade.
He assured the organizers of Ghana’s full participation in the fair.
IATF2021 will provide a platform to promote trade under the AfCFTA and will bring together continental and global buyers and sellers, and will enable stakeholders to share trade, investment and market information as well as trade finance and trade facilitation solutions designed to support intra-African trade and the economic integration of the continent.
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The problems that have come with the hastily and unplanned implementation of the much-touted FSHS program are not ending anytime soon. The problems, my checks in the schools, have reached an alarming stage where headmasters of secondary schools are...
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The problems that have come with the hastily and unplanned implementation of the much-touted FSHS program are not ending anytime soon. The problems, my checks in the schools, have reached an alarming stage where headmasters of secondary schools are having sleepless nights on how to feed the students.
I recently took some time off and visited some of the secondary schools.
Apparently, many parents had complained to me of the unfortunate situation that their wards are being subjected to under the poorly implemented FSHS program.
The lamentation of parents took center stage in the editorials igniting discussion of the issue on the media with parents on one side and government on the other side.
The minister of education Hon Yaw Adutwum was all over the media desperately offering unconvincing explanations. So I decided to go to the schools to ascertain the true situation.
I discovered many but the damning of all the challenges that I discovered was the acute shortage of food. It's worrying to know that our students are fed with what is available and not what they should be fed with. The problem is so serious that, headmasters now engage in bater with other secondary schools.
Headmasters will reach out to their colleagues and arrange an exchange of foodstuff with them. For instance, one who has sugar will exchange some rice with another school. It is that serious!
If we recall, there was a publication in the media that, students now go to the dining hall with their own sugar and bread. The schools could only provide raw porridge and so a student who needed anything to blend with the porridge will have to provide that for himself.
We perhaps thought it was one of these media exaggerations and so very little attention was paid to the story. Unfortunately, today this is where the situation has deteriorated to.
The quantity of food served to a student in the dining hall is one ladle per student.
In some cases, they are served with less than a ladle of rice without stew! It is also worth mentioning that, the shortage of food has significantly affected the quality of food that is served to the students.
My checks further revealed that the problem is faced by almost all the secondary schools but it is profound in the village schools. Their situation is much more severe than I have described earlier.
What is more alarming is the negative impact that the problem will have on the students especially the final year students. They are currently writing the WASSCE and I can only imagine the suffering that they will be going through having to struggle to feed and to also study to write their exams.
Then I asked the headmasters why they were not complaining about their situation? Most of them were emphatic in their responses, they fear they will lose the headship. If they complain publicly, they will be misconstrued to be sabotaging the government as has been the new excuse by the government to victimize public sector workers.
Even as they spoke with me, they constantly pleaded that I don't disclose their names in any conversation. One headmaster told me, "I'm left with few months to go on retirement, therefore I will not speak up to be demoted. What we can do is what we are doing".
I think parents whose wards are writing the WASSCE should take a keen interest in what their wards are being fed with. If possible they should provide their wards with convenient foods to supplement the inadequately poor food that the schools are feeding the children with.
Before I end, I want to ask the government, where is the FSHS money? Where are the money and students are starved to death?
Where are the money and headmasters are running helter-skelter looking for food to feed students? So after all the noise about the program, this is the sorry state of the flagship FSHS program 4 years into its implementation?
Indeed our education is in serious crisis and something urgent must be done to avert further deterioration of the program.
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Dr. Kwame Kyei is said to have handed over a viral audio of alleged match-fixing to the Ghana Police Service's CID.
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Board Chairman of Asante Kotoko, Kwame Kyei
Dr. Kwame Kyei is said to have handed over a viral audio of alleged match-fixing to the Ghana Police Service's CID.
An audio leaked online a few days ago that captured Dr. Kwame Kyei, along with some previous Asante Kotoko management members, attempting to bribe referees in order for the Ghanaian giants to lose their FA Cup game against Berekum Chelsea.
Dr. Kwame Kyei's name was referenced in the three-minute audio chat, along with the previous club General Manager, Yves Coker, and the former operations manager, Perusha.
Following a thorough investigation, it was discovered that the tape was fabricated in order to damage the reputation of, Dr. Kwame Kyei. According to Kessben Sports, Dr. Kwame Kyei will not let this go unchecked, as he has reported the incident to the CID so that those who were responsible may be dealt with.
According to a deep throat source from Dr. Kwame Kyei's office, as reported by KessbenOnline, there have been three suspects thus far, all of whom claim to be fans of the team.
Yves Gyambibi Coker, assistant to the Kotoko board chairman, pledged that they will get to the bottom of the matter in order to clear their names and that those behind the audio would be dealt with.
“We shall get to the root of the audio this time and I will prefer no one intervenes since I’m going to be stubborn this time to rescue my smeared reputation” Coker posted on Facebook
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As the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is scheduled to start in January, Ghana coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor is hoping European clubs will release players for the tournament.
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As the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is scheduled to start in January, Ghana coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor is hoping European clubs will release players for the tournament.
The AFCON which was held in the summer of 2019 in Egypt has been scheduled to take place in January 2022.
According to CAF, the move to play the tournament in January 2022 is as a result of unfavorable weather conditions in Cameroon in the summer.
Black Stars coach Akonnor hopes the change will not affect his team selection as the European leagues will be in full session during the AFCON tournament.
“I do not have a favorite team in the draw, but I hope that the European clubs will help us by leaving their players for us during the tournament next January because it is an official tournament and we have permission for that from FIFA.”
He added: “We are ready for any competitor who will fall with us in the draw. We have been preparing for a long time and are ready for the African Nations Cup.”
“We have a good team, and we are able to win the title,” he stressed.
Ghana has been drawn in Group C with Morocco, Comoros and Gabon.
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The Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has admonished the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to flush out foreign restaurants, hotels and outlets which do not sell locally manufactured beverages.
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The Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has admonished the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to flush out foreign restaurants, hotels and outlets which do not sell locally manufactured beverages.
Chief Executive Officer of GIHOC Maxwell Kofi Jumah laments almost all restaurants, hotels and liquor shops owned by foreigners do not patronize local drinks, a situation he describes “as an insult to the Ghanaian economy because you cannot operate a liquor shop or restaurant in America without selling American manufactured liquor”.
Mr Kofi Jumah wants strict measures to monitor, flush out and disband all outlets be they restaurants, hotels and liquor shops which do not sell local drinks.
He explained that “this move will strengthen local beverage manufacturers, boost their market base and enhance the local economy”.
GIHOC is a government-owned industrial hub noted to be a giant in the alcohol manufacturing and distillery industry.
GIHOC, like any other government institution, was on the brink of collapse until the current administration took over some four years ago.
CEO Maxwell Kofi Jumah is of the view that the long-term measures to ensure the sustainability of GIHOC and other local beverage manufacturers demands constant monitoring and flush-outs of influx of foreign liquors on the local market.
The former Asokwa MP and KMA mayor, who has now been reappointed as GIHOC CEO, was addressing the media during a mini staff durbar at GIHOC’s Asuofia Achiase outlet in the Ashanti Region.
Mr Kofi Jumah further appealed for swift intervention to save Ghana’s beverage industries.
“I am hereby charging the Ghana Tourism Authority, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Finance and all allied agencies to take up the task and ensure local manufacturers are not threatened by foreign cheap and poisonous liquors.”
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Members of the University Teachers Association (UTAG) are yet to decide whether to return to lecture halls within their various Universities to work, following a report from the Association that it has suspended its strike.
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Members of the University Teachers Association (UTAG) are yet to decide whether to return to lecture halls within their various Universities to work, following a report from the Association that it has suspended its strike.
The Association on August 18, 2021, released a report that it was ready to sit at a negotiation table with the government and National Labour Commission from Monday, August 23, 2021.
Members of the Association from August 2, 2021 laid down their teaching tools and stayed off teaching, examinations and invigilation, marking of examination scripts and processing of results until further notice.
The decision to embark on an industrial strike, according to the National Executive Committee of the Association from a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by its National President Professor Charles Marfo, was borne out of the government’s refusal to heed the calls by the association to improve their worsening conditions of service.
It included the research component of the Book and Research Allowance, market premium, and non-basic allowance.
In an interview with the National President, he emphasized that the Association had “suspended” the strike and not “called it off” entirely.
However, he said that only meant members were to return to teach students in their various institutions.
The Ghana News Agency upon observation in some Universities including the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Cape Coast, the University of Ghana, the Ghana Institute of Journalism realised lectures and other academic activities were still not ongoing.
Students were either spotted moving to and fro their hostels, halls, and libraries among others, while information reaching the team was that some students had gone home.
A reliable source told the Agency that Executives of the Association had up to the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, to meet up with their constituents (Lecturers on Campuses) to deliberate whether to agree to go back to the lecture halls or disagree to the request.
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2021-08-20 01:45:48+00:00
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Augustine Evans Adotey wants to return to his old team Medeama SC, according to FMIG.
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Augustine Evans Adotey wants to return to his old team Medeama SC, according to FMIG.
After a roller-coaster season, the much-experienced manager was recently dismissed from his duties at Karela United in the Premier League. Karela had a strong start to the season, but faded out of contention for the league title and ended outside the Top 4 in the end.
The team cut ties with him at the end of the season and moved on.
Adotey, the assistant coach of Ghana's national U-20 team, is keen to return to management, and according to FMIG sources, he has been in negotiations behind the scenes for the vacant coaching position at Medeama SC.
Adotey joined Medeama SC as an assistant coach in 2013. Following his appointment as interim head coach, he guided the team to their first Ghanaian FA Cup victory and a fourth-place finish by the end of the 2012–13 Ghanaian Premier League season. In November of 2017, he left the team.
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The Jomoro CPP Parliamentary candidate in the December 2020 elections, Mr Patrick Ekye-Kwesie has reminded the government and operators that the discovery of oil and Gas in the Tano Basin has not benefited the people of Jomoro.
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The Jomoro CPP Parliamentary candidate in the December 2020 elections, Mr Patrick Ekye-Kwesie has reminded the government and operators that the discovery of oil and Gas in the Tano Basin has not benefited the people of Jomoro.
He noted that though the discovery of oil itself does not automatically translate into development, the strategies and economic framework, and policy decisions of the government must create the enabling environment for investment through renowned systems of development guided by empirical research.
This was contained in a press release issued by Mr.Ekye-Kwesi at Beyin and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Takoradi.
The release said since the announcement of Ghana's oil find, there has been much literature on oil discovery and its impact on the economy.
“However, it is difficult to assume the views of young and old people in Jomoro who are beneficiaries or victims of the decisions being made today”, it said.
It lamented that, "there is growing despondency among the youth in Jomoro as a result of the national neglect being experienced by people around the oil rig".
"We are tired of failed capacity building promises to the chiefs and good people in Jomoro", It said.
It indicated that the youth were demanding full sensitization on the local content laws and the Petroleum Management Act for the people of Jomoro since it had been shelved for long.
"The youth is demanding without provocation, the corporate social responsibility of all operators in the Tano Basin including contractors and vendors".
In addition, "we are demanding without hesitation, the status of the much talked about Fertilizer Plant in Jomoro and its associate infrastructure which is not viable".
It said, "the youth also want to be abreast of the proposed Petroleum Hub in Jomoro and its current status especially to have more education on the compulsory acquisition of our farmlands".
The youth is asking for routine safety briefing of the flaring of gas by the various players especially Ghana National Gas Company.
It reminded the government that it would be economically wise to construct a crew change port in Jomoro to reduce cost in embarking from Takoradi.
The release appealed to the Member of Council of State who is a daughter of Jomoro, Madam Eunice Buah" to put Jomoro at heart and speak to the President about their neglect despite feeding Ghana."
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2021-08-20 01:45:42+00:00
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Veteran football administrator, Abbey Pobee, has advised the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, to settle issues with regards to the Black Stars structure before the start of the Nations Cup next year.
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Veteran football administrator, Abbey Pobee, has advised the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, to settle issues with regards to the Black Stars structure before the start of the Nations Cup next year.
Ghana have been handed a tricky draw in Cameroon after drawing Morocco, Gabon and Comoros in Group C of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.
In the past, there has been agitations between the team and the management of the Black Stars over bonuses affecting the country at major tournaments.
But Abbey Pobee is calling for an early look into the amount to be paid as bonus to the players.
"The new Sports Minister is aware of issues with regards to bonuses, per diem and appearance fees. It ruined our team during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil which called for the establishment of an ad-hoc committee," he told Hello FM.
"Unfortunately, none of the Sports Ministers has made use of the committee's recommendations. I think the Minister should let us know if the players will be paid $5,000 or the old $10,000 as winning bonus, then again will they be given an appearance fee? He should let us know if he'll make use of what is in the white paper.
"Due to the problems, the county has faced about the payment of bonuses I always urge every President to make Ghanaians know his plans about that to avert future occurrences.
"The President should have a Special Assistant for Sports. We all know about what happened when the $25 billion budget for AFCON and World Cup qualifiers was presented in a breakfast meeting among the stakeholders. That meeting was interestingly chaired by the President.
"The President should sit up on the bonus structure issues of the Black Stars."
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2021-08-20 01:44:40+00:00
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A fifty-five year old man, Paulus Okine met his untimely death whilst trying to escape from the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital (ENRH) COVID-19 Centre in Effia near Sekondi in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
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The fifty-five year old man, Paulus Okine
A fifty-five year old man, Paulus Okine met his untimely death whilst trying to escape from the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital (ENRH) COVID-19 Centre in Effia near Sekondi in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
The deceased was referred to the COVID-19 Centre from the Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department yesterday August 18, 2021.
Mr Christian Baidoo, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of ENRH who made this known to the Ghana News Agency, said in the morning of August 19, security personnel at the COVID-19 Centre spotted the deceased leaving the Centre.
He said the security personnel inquired why he was leaving, but the deceased reportedly threatened to harm the security man if he pursued further.
According to the PRO, after a while Paulus Okine was found lying in a prone position near the Nurses Quarters about 250 metres away from the COVID-19 centre”.
Mr Baidoo said Clinicians from the Hospital later confirmed the body as dead, while the case has been reported to the Sekondi District Police Command who joined Management to the scene.
The body has since been deposited at the Hospital’s morgue pending investigations.
Madam Justina Amo Yartey, Deputy Director of Nursing Services (DDNS) of the Hospital, therefore advised the general public to observe the COVID-19 protocols since the disease was real.
According to her, the victim was allegedly leaving the COVID-19 Centre for doubt of contracting the disease when he met his untimely death.
DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, Western Regional PRO of the Ghana Police Service confirmed the incident and said the body had been deposited at the Hospital morgue pending autopsy while investigations were ongoing.
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Mr Eugene Eshun-Elliot, the Korle Klottey Constituency Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged members of the Party to work extra hard to improve on its 2020 polls to win power in 2024 elections.
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Mr Eugene Eshun-Elliot, the Korle Klottey Constituency Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged members of the Party to work extra hard to improve on its 2020 polls to win power in 2024 elections.
He applauded the branch executives for their efforts in ensuring that the NDC beat its main opponent, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in both presidential and Parliamentary elections in the 2020 elections.
Mr Eshun-Elliot gave the advice when addressing the Korle Klottey branch executives of the NDC at their maiden meeting after the 2020 polls, at the Party’s headquarters at Adabraka in Accra.
The meeting comes in the wake of former President John Dramani Mahama’s “Thank You Tour” of the Northern Region, while the Korle Klottey Constituency Executive Committee simultaneously embarked on outreach aimed at reviving political activism of the branches to increase members of the Party at the polling station level, he told the Ghana News Agency in an interview.
The Constituency Secretary charged the branch executives to work assiduously to ensure ultimate victory in December 2024 and that they should ensure that the Constituency became an NDC bona fide seat.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's administration to allow the new Special Prosecutor to work without interference.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama, has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's administration to allow the new Special Prosecutor to work without interference.
Government, he said, must also ensure that the Office was given all the support to undertake its work.
The new Special Prosecutor, Kissi Adjabeng, was sworn into office earlier this month.
His appointment followed the resignation of Martin Amidu, who was the appointee in that position.
A statement from the office of the former president and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Thursday said Mr. Mahama during his thank you tour of the Northern Region recounted the complaints of the previous Special Prosecutor that prevented him from doing his job effectively and expressed the hope that the new one will get the needed cooperation.
“The first Special Prosecutor did not get the kind of cooperation he needed to be able to do the work that he had been given. We heard him complain about funding of the office, in terms of logistics and finance to recruit the kind of personnel that he needed to do the job.
“We also heard many complaints where the executive and the political establishment had attempted to interfere in his job.
The beauty of the Special Prosecutor is the independence of the office and his ability to investigate corruption notwithstanding whose ox is gored. When you take that independence away, it robs the office of its usefulness” he stressed, adding “we hope that those things will be corrected under this new Special Prosecutor”.
Mr. Mahama maintained that what would determine whether Mr. Agyabeng will be successful or not will depend on how he was able to investigate and prosecute corruption cases that had come up within the last five years involving appointees of the current government.
“I hope that he will move that expertise and brilliance into the job of investigating corruption across board… the fact that this particular President and government appointed you, are you going to be able to cut through that and be able to go into investigating acts of corruption that are taking place, not only under the government but with people who are very close to the centre of power? That will determine whether he is successful or not” he concluded.
Former President Mahama is in the third of a scheduled 16-Region tour to thank Ghanaians for the support given him and the NDC, and voting for him and the NDC’s parliamentary candidates in the December 2020 elections.
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Governance Lecturer at the Central University, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah has proposed the establishment of a National Emoluments Commission to check salary payments to public officials.
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Governance Lecturer at the Central University, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah has proposed the establishment of a National Emoluments Commission to check salary payments to public officials.
Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah made this proposal while discussing the peaceful settlement between government, the National Labour Commission and the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
UTAG has agreed to suspend their strike action following a consultative meeting with the government and the National Labour Commission on Wednesday, August 18, 2021.
The three parties have over the weeks had a rough relationship but have finally come to terms.
In a statement signed by the Education Minister, Yaw Osei Adutwum, and the UTAG President, Prof. Charles Ofosu Marfo, the parties resolved to reach a consensus.
" . . whilst the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in conjunction with the National Labour Commission (NLC) is taking steps to DISCONTINUE all legal processes (i.e., National Labour Commission vs. University Teachers Association of Ghana, Suit. No. IL/0116/2021) against UTAG, UTAG will also take steps to SUSPEND the on-going strike action;
"That government acknowledges the need to improve the working conditions of University Teachers and shall treat this with all the seriousness it deserves," a memorandum of agreement sighted by Peacefmonline.com read.
Addressing the issue on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', Dr. Otchere-Ankrah complained about the inconsistencies in the salaries of some public officials.
He advised that the salary structure should be streamlined believing it will help resolve the labour issues in the country.
'' . . National Emoluments Commission to assess it sector by sector . . .they should look at all the parameters, risk, commitment as well as the number of working hours and so forth . . . if we don't establish a proper structure for it and we leave it like that, it will get out of hands some day," he said.
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Civil Society Organisations have urged government to initiate discussions on Agyapa Royalties deal as “promised last year” to avoid another rush agreement and conclusion of the deal.
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Civil Society Organisations have urged government to initiate discussions on Agyapa Royalties deal as “promised last year” to avoid another rush agreement and conclusion of the deal.
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), who made the call said civil society was still waiting for an open discussion on the Agyapa Royalties Deal, to ensure that it resonates and serve the public good at the end of the day.
“We are waiting to see how robust the next Agyapa will look like and how the valuation will account for the concerns we earlier raised”, Mr Benjamin Boakye, Executive Director of ACEP said on Thursday in Accra.
Mr Boakye was speaking to the media at the close of a two-day training for journalists, which aimed at building their capacity to understand, and use the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and the Annual Petroleum reports, to track, monitor and report on resource revenue expenditure in Ghana.
ACEP in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, organised the training that intended to improve the capacity of the media to effectively inform citizens and demand government accountability on the management of extractive resources.
Mr Boakye explained that since the last time, in 2020 when President Akufo-Addo instructed that engagements should be done with all people who have had issues with the transactions of the deal, such an engagement had not happened yet.
“We only saw one forum in Legon with students who didn’t even ask any questions and that couldn’t have been the engagement.
“So, we are happy and ready to engage and share our thoughts with the government. If the principle is to really do something new, that will benefit Ghana, nobody should be afraid to engage and debate”.
He said the government must also be able to debate what was informing the action of investing Ghana’s gold royalties, and ensure that, “we are exhausting the conversation on such a national estate that we want to sell a portion to confirm that we are doing the right thing”.
Civil society is not claiming superiority but what it is saying is that, we must debate the deal and get the best out of it, Mr Boakye said.
He noted that all that the CSOs wanted was to judge it based on the agreement that had been sent to Parliament and, “we can be cleared that the public interest is being served.”
Commenting further on the deal, Mr Boakye, explained that the current state of the Agypa deal vis a vis the projections in the 2020 and 2021 budgets and how much monies Ghana made from gold royalties, if it was allowed to go on, would have made, “us sold ourselves very cheap to the investor”.
In an attempt to raise capital to cushion the national economy amidst COVID-19 devastation to most world economies, Ghana embarked on a plan to leverage the country’s gold royalties in an “innovative financing solution in which it would assign a significant portion of its future gold mining royalties to an offshore company it had created in return for a $500 million cash up front.
The government through that transaction, was hopeful to raise non-debt cash up front by floating almost half of its shares in the company on the London and Ghana stock exchanges.
The Agyapa deal has been described as a creative solution to Ghana’s current economic constraints, but is also said to be fraught with higher risks since most of the country’s current gold production was included in the deal.
The call for further public consideration and consultation would, therefore, create the opportunity to strengthen the deal for the benefit of the country, some experts have argued.
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The University of Ghana Branch Secretary of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Prof. Ransford Edward Yaw Gyampo says teachers have been cheated for too long and it is a discomfort he wants an end to.
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The University of Ghana Branch Secretary of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Prof. Ransford Edward Yaw Gyampo says teachers have been cheated for too long and it is a discomfort he wants an end to.
According to him he wants Ghana’s constitution to recognize the hard work of teachers just as "Article 71 benefits politicians."
“They [politicians] look good and turn around to tell us [teachers] to tighten our belts whilst they are eating to get potbellies," he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show 'Ghana Montie'.
Prof. Ransford Gyampo who was discussing issues concerning teachers also wants Ghana’s constitution to be revised to at least benefit all.
“The politicians know themselves that the article 71 makes them unpopular. They will not know peace so long as that discrimination persists," he insisted.
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2021-08-20 01:44:16+00:00
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The high hostel fees being charged by some university managements in Ghana is badly affecting students in Ghana, the President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) Emmanuel Boakye Yiadom, has told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
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The high hostel fees being charged by some university managements in Ghana is badly affecting students in Ghana, the President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) Emmanuel Boakye Yiadom, has told President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He pleaded with the president to deal with the university management that create artificial shortage of accommodations on campuses in order to profiteer from the students.
He said this when he and some of the other executives of NUGS paid a visit to the President at the seat of government to table some concerns before him.
Some students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on Friday, July 16 demonstrated over what they describe as outrageous hostel fees.
The students took to the principal streets of KNUST and marched peacefully through to all the seven traditional halls on campus amidst chanting war songs.
The number of protestors gained momentum as they walked through the halls.
There was heavy police presence to ensure a chaos-free incident.
One of the leaders of the protesting students who identified himself as Nii, while speaking on Akoma FM’s current affairs and political show GhanAkoma told sit-in host Sir John that “our main aim is to let authorities know our plight. We are paying so much”.
“Some of the hostels have increased their fees by 50 percent, so you see we are not only crying for ourselves, we are crying for our parents and guardians so we will march from campus to the rent control office for authorities to know our situation,” he said.
The NUGS President told President Akufo-Addo on Thursday August 19 that “There has been an issue of astronomical increase in hostel prices over the years on our various campuses and this is something that has been affecting Ghanaian students for long.
“As a union, we have made certain contacts and we have realised there are certain deliberate attempt by some university management just to create an artificial shortage on campuses so we are also calling on your highest authority to a certain point get to the university management to be flexible on the Build, Operate and Transfer policies in the various universities.”
On the ongoing impasse between the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the National Labour Commission (NLC), he called on the president to intervene and ensure that the issues that have resulted in the strike are resolved.
He noted that the strike is negatively affecting students in the country, a situation that warrants the intervention of the president.
“As a union we commend our minister and other government agencies in their ability to get UTAG to return to the negotiations because this is a matter that is really affecting Ghana students.
“At the end of the day we will still plead with both parties to take away all forms of entrenched positions such that the negotiations processes will not be prolonged or delayed. At this point we will call for your intervention and help situate that our lecturers return to the classrooms.”
Mr Akufo-Addo told them that UTAG has agreed to return to the classroom after a long drama of negotiations.
The president further said a road map has been put in place to resolve the issues and he hoped that this road map will be adhered to by all parties.
“All of us are happy that the University lectures have agreed after some long drama negotiations to suspend the strike we are hoping very much some soring binding arrangement will be finally agreed on by the parties. There is a road map that has been established and hopeful both parties will make sure that this road map is carefully implemented,’ Mr Akufo-Addo said.
The application filed by the National Labour Commission (NLC) against the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has been struck out the Labour Division of the Accra High Court.
Lawyers of the NLC had told the court that the two parties had reached agreement on the matter.
UTAG and NLC were reported on Wednesday August 18 to have taken steps to discontinue the court case over the strike action by the union.
This was reached on Wednesday, August 18 after officials of UTAG and NLC had a meeting to discuss the way forward.
They are also taking steps to return to the negotiation table.
A statement said “That both parties (Government and UTAG) agree that there is a need to get back to the negotiating table from the week beginning Monday, August 23, 2021.
“That a road for negotiation, as agreed at previous consultative meetings between the parties, which imposes a one-month mandatory period beginning 23rd August 2021 for negotiations, shall be signed by both parties;
“That whilst the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations in conjunction with the NLC is taking steps to discontinue all legal processes against UTAG, UTAG will also take steps to suspend the ongoing strike action;
“That government acknowledges the need to improve the working conditions of University Teachers and shall treat this will all the seriousness it deserves.”
Earlier negotiations between the state and UTAG broke down, compelling the NLC to seek intervention from the courts.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama has said Ghanaians are going through unbearable difficulties at this time.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama has said Ghanaians are going through unbearable difficulties at this time.
He said the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the people into severe frustrations.
He however urged Ghanaians to continue to observe all the protocols outlined to tackle the virus.
He said this while speaking at the Gbewaa palace in Yendi as part of his thank you tour.
“I know times are not easy, times are heard.
“We have a new disease they called Covid-19 that is why you and I are sitting here with our faces covered.
“Because of this disease we need to protect ourselves and so I will urge everybody to continue to take the protection seriously because it is a disease that we don’t know how it behaves.”
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The Ministry of Finance has rubbished claims by the Minority that the government had already spent Ghc600 million on the yet to be constructed agenda 111 district hospital.
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The Ministry of Finance has rubbished claims by the Minority that the government had already spent Ghc600 million on the yet to be constructed agenda 111 district hospital.
The Minority’s spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson had claimed that Appendix 4D of the 2021 Mid year review, the Akuffo Addo Goverment had already spent GHC 600 million in the year 2020 on Agenda 111.
He said the amount was spent even before they cut sod for its commencement of the project.
But the Ministry in a statement indicated that although the amount had been released by the Bank of Ghana, it has not been utilized yet.
The statement revealed that only Ghc36 million had been released as part of pre-construction stage.
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2021-08-20 01:44:47+00:00
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Egbert Faibille, has disclosed that as part of government’s local content agenda in the petroleum sector, the Commission is to sponsor a 10-month training course of 150 technicians at the...
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Commission, Mr. Egbert Faibille, has disclosed that as part of government’s local content agenda in the petroleum sector, the Commission is to sponsor a 10-month training course of 150 technicians at the Takoradi Technical University.
Mr. Faibille made this known yesterday during an event dubbed ‘Around the World Series’ at the ongoing Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, USA.
Mr. Faibille is part of a government delegation led by the Minister for Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh. Others include senior officials of the Ministry as well as heads and senior managers of various energy sector agencies.
Tracing the background to this development, Mr. Faibille stated that in the Commission’s engagements with International Oil Companies (ICOs) on local content engagements, it had emerged that there were deficiencies in the skill sets and qualifications of the mid-level technicians that the Commission sought to get engaged by the IOCs.
He stated that the Commission, under the leadership of the Ministry of Energy, was seeking to reverse this by rolling out a number of training programmes for high-end international certification for Ghanaian youths, and that in the instant case, the 150 candidates had been selected from a total of over 2,000 young Ghanaians who had been examined.
Speaking on this issue, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Energy, Mr. Kwasi Obeng-Fosu explained that, these candidates will on the completion of their training be issued City and Guilds certification and come out as process technicians, instrumentation technicians and mechanical technicians.
He quoted Mr. Fabille, “When we started our journey, we were looking at the high-end engineering and geoscience training. But over the period, we forgot, possibly, that we would have FPSOs in our waters, for which you would still need mid-level specialist technicians to perform key roles, just as a hospital needs both doctors and laboratory or dispensing technicians,”
The result, he noted, was that when the FPSOs came, in a certain deficiency came to light, and the idea now is that if a person is coming into the country as an expatriate technician for say 2-3 years, then by the time the person leaves, there should be in his or her place a Ghanaian technician ready to take over who has understudied the expatriate and has been trained up to their standard both in terms of certification and practical experience. Ultimately, he noted, this would drive down the cost of running the FPSO.
Touching on service provision and in-country spend as part of the local content conversation in the sector, Mr. Faibille stated that this hovered around 67-70% and lauded international oil companies like Tullow for their commitment to this. However, he called for diversification of the supply base, noting that it is the same companies that supply the same services for the same oil companies. This he called a market failure. “Tullow and others must be more welcoming of other suppliers so that the chain of monopoly is broken, else the local content story will remain stagnant’, he remarked.
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A 25-year-old student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been found dead in his room at Adoato, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
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A 25-year-old student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been found dead in his room at Adoato, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
A carpenter had to break his door for the family to gain access into the room after the mother tried entering without success.
The police has conveyed the body to the mortuary and launched investigations into the matter.
Meanwhile, a total of 417 attempted suicide cases have been recorded in the country for the first half of the year, the Deputy Director of Mental Health at Ghana Health Service, Dr Amma Ampomaa Boadu, has disclosed.
The Ashanti Region topped with 61 cases followed by the Eastern Region with 60 cases.
Speaking to the media at the mental health literacy training programme organised by the Mental Health Authority for some journalists in Kumasi, Dr Boadu said the Upper East came third with 47 cases while Greater Accra and Central regions had 37 cases each.
Dr Boadu said the Volta region recorded 35 cases, Oti region, 22; Bono East region, 21; and Western North region, 17.
Bono, North East, and Upper West regions recorded 16 cases each.
Others are Western region, 14; Ahafo region, 11; Northern region, 4; and Savanna region, 3.
She noted that media reportage on suicide cases contributed to the increasing cases while mental health challenges also played a major role.
Dr Boadu said her office will continue to intensify the advocacy and promotion of mental health and also train more health workers to be able to identify common mental health disorders.
She noted that when people have challenges and go to facilities, they sometimes do not have the medications.
She called on the government and civil society organisations to invest more in mental health.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Prof Akwasi Osei, also said mental illnesses have risen, which is contributing to attempted suicide cases in the country.
He noted that mental health issues have not been given the necessary attention they deserve because the nation has inadequate mental health facilities to take care of patients.
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Kelvin Yeboah netted for SK Sturm Graz in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League playoffs against NS Mura of Slovenia.
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Kelvin Yeboah has been given Black Stars call-up
Kelvin Yeboah netted for SK Sturm Graz in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League playoffs against NS Mura of Slovenia.
The Ghanaian attacker not only scored but also gave an important assist to help his team achieve a critical away win over their opponents ahead of the second leg in Austria on Thursday next week.
The hosts struck first with Ziga Skoflek in the third minute, before Jakob Jantscher equalized for the visitors after 18 minutes.
Yeboah in the 60th minute put in a beautiful cross that Omar Kiteishvili expertly hit with a close range header to make it 2-1.
Three minutes later, Yeboah made it 3-1 for the Black and Whites with a stunning shot from the middle of the box into the bottom left corner of the goal.
The 19-year-old was substituted after 75 minutes as his team triumphed 3-1 away ahead of the return match in a week.
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Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Western Regional Minister has appreciated the Sekondi Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (STCCI) for creating an online business enabler to grow local enterprises in this COVID-19 driven era.
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STCCI is a registered independent business association with global affiliation
Mr. Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, Western Regional Minister has appreciated the Sekondi Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, (STCCI) for creating an online business enabler to grow local enterprises in this COVID-19 driven era.
" I have always held the belief that the people of Sekondi Takoradi have great minds and solutions to drive our Enterprise growth pole. This is another made in Tadi and comparable to Alibaba in business", he said.
The Regional Minister said this when he officially launched the www.chambersmarket.com, a business directory and marketplace portal developed by the Chamber to help indigenous, small, and medium-size enterprises organise and trade with the world.
He said the quest to make the Sekondi Takoradi Financial Services Hub for the Region greatly hinged on such innovations from the private sector which also connected with government's desire to create jobs.
"...And this is why STCCI and the Hamberg Chamber of Commerce initiative in this so called "new normal" space is very laudable to still keep businesses active...this platform even afford a more brighter prospect for working from home, resilience in business", the Minister added.
Mr. Henry Nii Aryi Cobblah, who presented on the technicalities of the www.chambersmarket.com, described it as a platform with a global outlook giving businesses the connection, recognition, and reputation so deserved.
It would also grow entrepreneurs, create business opportunities and linkages, and definitely, an important tool in the pandemic and what businesses have to learn.
Mr. Benjamin Nii Kpani Addy, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of STCCI said the marketplace portal would enable small businesses and trade associations to advertise and promote their wares to the world.
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Two women have been hit by a stray bullet at Tutuka a suburb of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.
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Two women have been hit by a stray bullet at Tutuka a suburb of Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.
An eyewitness said some gun wielding men shot sporadically on their way to bury the Dagomba chief of the area.
The mourners were on their way to the Kyekyewere cemetery when the incident occurred.
The two victims whose names have been given as Sister Abena, roasted corn seller and Aunty Adwoa, fried chicken vender ply their trade at the Tutuka market.
The two are currently receiving treatment at the AGA Hospital.
They are in a stable condition according to a nurse at the hospital.
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The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has run out of Johnson and Johnson vaccines delivered for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
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The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has run out of Johnson and Johnson vaccines delivered for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.
The Municipal Health Directorate was supplied with 9,007 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccination but three-days into the exercise it has runout; Dr. Esther Priscilla Biamah-Danquah, Municipal Health Director told the Ghana News Agency in Kpone on Thursday.
She attributed the shortage to the large public interest in taking the jab, therefore “we have made a request for additional 1,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine”.
Dr Biamah-Danquah appealed to the residents to exercise some restraints as all efforts have been ignited to get more vaccination.
She mentioned that the various vaccination centers would receive another batch of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines today to continue with the exercise.
Dr Biamah-Danquah was, however, skeptical if the days would be extended, and encouraged residents who are yet to take the vaccination to get vaccinated to protect them against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as the third wave kept causing havoc in the country.
During a tour of the Kpone-Katamanso vaccination center, the Ghana News Agency observed that the shortage had slowed down the process at the various centers doted across the municipality.
On the first day of the exercise, the Municipal Health Directorate disclosed that about 9,700 people were expected to take the Johnson and Johnson vaccination in the Kpone-Katamanso municipality, which aimed at fighting against the spread of the virus.
Dr. Biamah-Danquah said 78 Health Officials have been deployed to the various designated locations to administer the jabs to residents.
She explained that the municipality had taken delivery of about 9,007 vaccines for the five-day exercise.
The exercise is ongoing in about 10 designated locations, which included: Kpone Polyclinic, Zenu Health Center, Katamanso Health Center,
Apollonia Health Center, 1MRS MICHEL Camp, New Crystal Hospital, Oyibi Health Center, Valley View University Hospital, and Gbetsile Clinic.
Meanwhile, Mr Solomon Tettey Appiah, Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assembly continue to mobilize the resident to participate in the exercise.
Mr. Appiah told the Ghana News Agency in Kpone that, the exercise served as key component in the fight against COVID-19, “we must encourage everyone who qualifies to participate for our collective interest”.
He, however, cautioned those who participated in the first vaccine not to attempt to take this jab as they are already protected from the first vaccine.
The Kpone-Katamanso MCE also encouraged the residents to continue to adhere to all the COVID-19 protocols as taking the jab is not a certificate to stop using the nose mask, washing of hands under running water, regular usage of the hand sanitizer, and other preventive measures.
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The maiden edition of Royal Hallmark Magazine, a brand under the Favoured Brands Network Production will be launched on August 21, this year at the Kumasi Cultural Centre in the Ashanti Region.
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The maiden edition of Royal Hallmark Magazine will be launched in the Ashanti Region
The maiden edition of Royal Hallmark Magazine, a brand under the Favoured Brands Network Production will be launched on August 21, this year at the Kumasi Cultural Centre in the Ashanti Region.
The Royal Hallmark Magazine is a dedicated African magazine that is purely focused on projecting African and especially Ghanaian culture and tradition to the world.
The magazine seeks to champion the plan of supporting and uplifting and portraying the vibrant African tradition and culture to the World as well as promoting personalities who have been pacesetters of Ghana’s culture over the years.
The 60-page magazine would feature dynamic and influential traditional leaders from the continent and diaspora, cultural Ambassadors, traditional dancers and groups, high-life and gospel musicians, and as well feature exclusives topics.
Some names to be featured in the first edition is one of Africa's Great Kings, His Majesty Tchiffi Zie Jean Gervais from the Ivory Coast, Prof. Frederick Owusu Nyarko (Pd. D), Ambassador for Culture Ghana among others.
Ohemaa Ofousa Aduanwomah Amoakoa Ahoufe, Kwahumanhemaa (Queen Mother) of Minnesota, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Favoured Brands Network Production, speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview from her United States base said Africa and for that matter, Ghana has a unique culture worth showcasing to the world.
She said for a very long time, Africa as a continent has not been able to market its culture and tradition to the world and therefore have not been able to command the needed respect, which she believes the outdooring of the magazine will be the turning point.
“I’m hopeful Royal Hallmark Magazine would spearhead the agenda of promoting African culture and tradition as well as educate various countries on the continent and the world about the several cultures that make Africans unique,’’ she said.
The magazine is targeted at creating awareness of the African culture among the youth and position their minds to believe and have confidence in the culture, God has given the continent.
The launch is expected to bring together Chiefs and traditional rulers from all parts of the country and promises to be spectacular.
Organisers said Ashanti Region being the hub of Ghana's culture, promises to deliver something extraordinary to outdoor, the only magazine that highlights African culture and tradition, leaders and stakeholders in the industry.
While the ceremony would have Fapempong Acheampong, spoken word a poet, Ohenenana Kofi Owusu Nyarko, Ancestral Poet, Ambassador for Culture Ghana, also grace the occasion.
There would be performances from young Ghanaian poet, Ink Weaver, while WESCO cultural Group from the Wesley College of Education will also entertain the audience with some cultural dances with other surprises to be unveiled on the day.
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San Antonio COVID-19 cases are still on the rise as the number of fully vaccinated people slowly ticks upward.
Metropolitan Health District Director Claude Jacob said during today's COVID-19 briefing that there are 1,340 new cases as of Thursday evening and seven new deaths, including two city employees. That brings the number of COVID-related deaths in Bexar County to 3,710.
The seven-day rolling average is 1,597 cases, and 1,382 total COVID-19 patients in area hospitals with 212 new admissions as Thursday, Jacob said. Of the new admissions, 22 of those were pediatric cases. Children under 12 are still not eligible to receive the vaccine.
There are 371 COVID patients in the ICU and 253 on ventilators. About 87 percent of COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated. Jacob said an average of 200 COVID-19 patients are entering area hospitals daily.
County Judge Nelson Wolff said area hospitals received 295 nurses to help manage the surge of COVID-19 patients and he expects 315 more soon.
San Antonio has 65.9 percent of its eligible population now fully vaccinated, and 81.1 percent of the eligible population has received the first dose of a vaccine. The positivity rate remained at 16.9 percent.
Wolff said the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld San Antonio's injunction on Thursday, even as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues San Antonio ISD Superintendent Pedro Martinez. SAISD is requiring students and staff to wear masks, and all staff to receive the vaccine.
Today, over 50 legislators signed and sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott asking him to ensure full funding for public schools whether students attend in person or virtually.
Wolff called Martinez a "hero" for standing up for the safety of children, and he had a few words for those opposing mask mandates believing their rights are being violated.
"You do not have the constitutional right to pass along your disease to someone else," Wolff said.
Even with the injunction upheld, Wolff said it could still go to the Texas Supreme Court before a trial date in December.
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A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job. Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) anchor Shabnam Khan Dawran denounced the jihadist regime, in power since its takeover…
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A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job.
Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) anchor Shabnam Khan Dawran denounced the jihadist regime, in power since its takeover of Kabul on Sunday, for denying her access to the RTA headquarters on the grounds that she is a woman.
“I wanted to return to work, but unfortunately they did not allow me to work. They told me that the regime has changed and you cannot work,” said Dawran said, according to Afghan cable news network Tolo News, where Dawran once worked.
Taliban didn’t allow my ex-colleague here in @TOLOnews and famous anchor of the State-owned @rtapashto Shabnam Dawran to start her work today.
” Despite wearing a hijab & carrying correct ID, I was told by Taliban: The regime has changed. Go home”#Afghanistan #Talban pic.twitter.com/rXK7LWvddX — Miraqa Popal (@MiraqaPopal) August 18, 2021
The Taliban also appear to have taken over RTA’s television broadcast, replacing its regular programming with radical Islamist propaganda. An RTA journalist identified as “Khadija” confirmed the move to Tolo.
“There has been a change in the programs, they broadcast their desired programs, there are no female presenters and female journalists,” Khadija reportedly said. The journalist also added that the Taliban also banned Khadija from entering the offices and that the two were some of several reporters and other journalists prevented from entering the RTA headquarters.
Dawran appears to have responded to the ban by going on a tour of Indian media, contacting multiple Indian news networks via phone to denounce the Taliban for banning her from her job. In an interview with India’s Times Now, she stated that the crackdown was not limited to female journalists, but women in general.
The Taliban, she said “are imposing their strict rules in Afghanistan. Women are not allowed to do outdoor activities.”
#Listen | ‘Taliban are imposing their strict rules in Afghanistan. Women are not allowed to do outdoor activities’: Shabnam Dawran, Afghan Journalist, tells TIMES NOW. pic.twitter.com/4By6yd3qtn — TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) August 19, 2021
Reports from Kabul indicate that the streets are largely devoid of women, though it remains unclear if women are staying home out of fear, actively being trapping in their homes, or a mixture of both. Taliban jihadis have vandalized the many images of women’s faces throughout the capital in advertisements and billboards, which women have taken as a clear threat to their wellbeing.
Dawran’s testimony contradicts the many assurances from Taliban spokesmen since their ascent to power in the capital this weekend that they would respect women’s rights – though always caveated as only those rights granted by the Taliban’s interpretation of sharia, or the Islamic law. During a press conference designed for an international audience Tuesday, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid addressed women’s rights on several occasions, and in one case took a question from a woman journalist.
“The issue of women is very important. The Islamic Emirate is committed to the rights of women within the framework of Sharia. Our sisters, our men have the same rights; they will be able to benefit from their rights,” Mujahid claimed. “They are going to be working with us, shoulder to shoulder with us. The international community, if they have concerns, we would like to assure them that there’s not going to be any discrimination against women, but of course within the frameworks that we have.”
When asked directly about women’s rights in practicing journalism, Mujahid was less clear.
“Just wait and see what the future government is going to say,” he responded. “Our laws, when it comes to media and other essentials are going to be such that everybody should be able to work but within the framework of the Islamic Sharia laws.”
Widespread reports from Kabul indicate that the Taliban is persecuting both men and women in journalism. Tolo News itself reported a visit from Taliban “inspectors” Monday, who confiscated all weapons on the premises and claimed they were there to “keep the compound safe.”
Taliban entered the TOLOnews compound in Kabul, checked the weapons of the security staff, collected govt-issued weapons, agreed to keep the compound safe. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/LhuMI7Z90u — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) August 16, 2021
The German media organization Deutsche Welle denounced the Taliban for home invasions against at least three of its journalists in Afghanistan and the murder of a relative of another.
“The Taliban have raided the homes of at least three DW journalists, Nematullah Hemat of the private television station Ghargasht TV is believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban,” the outlet reported, “and Toofan Omar, the head of the private radio station Paktia Ghag Radio, was, according to government officials, targeted and shot dead by Taliban fighters.”
Taliban jihadists have also harassed CNN journalist Clarissa Ward, reporting from Kabul. She has managed to continue conducting journalism at press time, asserting Taliban leaders have granted CNN special permissions, but expressed concerns that these may soon be revoked.
Shots ring out behind @clarissaward – as she stands less than 200 yards from the entrance of the Kabul airport. “It’s definitely chaotic, she says. “It’s definitely dangerous.” pic.twitter.com/3iNgULO0fO — Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) August 18, 2021
Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported Thursday that the Taliban used Kabul’s mosques to announce a strict curfew, banning people from leaving their homes after 9 p.m.
“Members of the Afghanistan Islamic Emirate [the formal name for the Taliban] have announced the curfew in every mosque of Kabul and have shared their contact numbers in case people need help after the banned time,” Khaama reported. “The members have also been busy arresting thieves in the city and are punishing them differently which has been appreciated by the citizens.”
Khaama also noted that the Taliban have not announced a reinstatement of the strict dress code that existed when it last controlled the country in 2001, which bans “wearing jeans by boys and girls.” They have also not banned music, but Afghans are notably abstaining from listening to music anyway out of fear.
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The Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington admitted that the new vaccine mandate for all teachers in the state will be arbitrarily applied. Teachers who file for religious exemptions will not be policed by the department.“No, we’re not going to fire a bunch of teachers” in October, Superintendent Chris Reykdal told Q13 Fox host Brandi…
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The Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington admitted that the new vaccine mandate for all teachers in the state will be arbitrarily applied. Teachers who file for religious exemptions will not be policed by the department.
“No, we’re not going to fire a bunch of teachers” in October, Superintendent Chris Reykdal told Q13 Fox host Brandi Kruse in an interview.
“No, we’re not going to fire a bunch of teachers”: The head of Washington’s public school system hints that many teachers and staff can easily get around the new vaccine mandate. #Q13FOX pic.twitter.com/UeNAbybdFT — Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) August 19, 2021
The rule indicates that all teachers and school staff must be show proof they have been injected with experimental Covid-19 shots in order to go to work. But the language of the rule allows for religious and deep-felt philosophical convictions to be grounds for exemption status. Staff simply needs to file for an exemption and they will apparently be allowed to go to work.
Washington is among a growing list of states that are requiring proof of vaccination for employees who work towards the public interest, including teachers, medical professionals, and law enforcement. But pushback has been swift and steady from those who either do not want to get vaccinated or who believe in privacy rights as well as medical choice rights.
As with many of these “mandates,” allowing exemptions and failing to check them thoroughly makes them essentially strongly worded recommendations. As Todd Myers, Environment Director for Washington Policy Center, noted on Twitter, “Create a rule and then announce it will be arbitrarily applied. In Washington state we now make rules without legislative oversight, and then apply them based on political expediency. There are terms for that system. ‘American’ isn’t it.”
Create a rule and then announce it will be arbitrarily applied. In Washington state we now make rules without legislative oversight, and then apply them based on political expediency. There are terms for that system. “American” isn’t it. #waleg https://t.co/Ik9KCfBfQZ — Todd Myers 🐟🌲🐝 (@WAPolicyGreen) August 19, 2021
While it’s good that many of these “mandates” are allowing for easy exemptions, Reykdal notes that tens of thousands may get the jab anyway out of ignorance of their rights or based on pressure applied by peers. That, folks, is the goal: Gaslighting people into submission.
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Ex-Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon suggested former President Donald Trump should run for House speaker and lead an impeachment effort against President Joe Biden, and then resign in order to run for the White House again in 2024.The former Breitbart editor, who now hosts his own popular podcast, said Biden’s mishandling of the Afghanistan crisis…
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Ex-Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon suggested former President Donald Trump should run for House speaker and lead an impeachment effort against President Joe Biden, and then resign in order to run for the White House again in 2024.
The former Breitbart editor, who now hosts his own popular podcast, said Biden’s mishandling of the Afghanistan crisis would be “one of the big charges eventually brought” against him.
“This thing is going to be huge,” Bannon said during a recent podcast episode.
“That’s why I say, hey, Donald Trump should be elected the speaker of the House after [Republicans] have the sweeping victory in November ’22, at least for 100 days, take the gavel from [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, gavel him in, start the impeachment process,” Bannon continued. “In 100 days, punch out and go run for president of the United States in 2024.”
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Several other Trump allies have floated the idea, noting that there is no provision in the US Constitution or House rules requiring that the speaker be an elected member of Congress. However, others have dismissed it due to the troubling precedent it would set.
Trump, for his part, said in June that it was “highly unlikely” he would pursue the speakership, though the idea of replacing Pelosi was “interesting” to him.
Even without Trump, Republicans would consider impeaching Biden if he “takes an illegal action,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
“But we’re not going to move impeachment for political purposes,” McCarthy added, noting he does not want to be like the Democrats, who impeached Trump twice for political reasons.
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Some House Republicans believe Biden has already violated the law in a way that merits impeachment.
Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, cited Biden’s recent decision to implement a new eviction moratorium despite the Supreme Court’s warning that any federal extension of the policy would be unconstitutional, as well as Biden’s refusal to crack down on illegal immigration at the southern border.
“The President is derelict in his duty, having repeatedly said he lacks the authority to extend the CDC’s eviction moratorium, then extending it anyway,” Gibbs said in a statement.
“His actions on the border represent a negligence in keeping America secure,” Gibbs continued. “We need to cut this off at the pass now and show we will not stand for clearly unconstitutional actions.”
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Advertisements The Department of Defense will require all U.S. military troops to take the COVID-19 vaccine by September 15th. The Associated Press earlier reported on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s memo. The AP reported that “the deadline could be pushed up if the vaccine receives final FDA approval or infection rates continue to rise.” “I will…
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The Department of Defense will require all U.S. military troops to take the COVID-19 vaccine by September 15th. The Associated Press earlier reported on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s memo.
The AP reported that “the deadline could be pushed up if the vaccine receives final FDA approval or infection rates continue to rise.”
“I will not hesitate to act sooner or recommend a different course to the President if l feel the need to do so. To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force,” the Defense Secretary added.
An Armed Forces member refusing to take the vaccine is subject to punishment under the U.C.M.J., the AP’s report noted. The punishment for refusal to obey an order may escalate up to court martial.
“Some unvaccinated service members have suggested they’d get the shot once it’s required, but others are flatly opposed,” the report said.
Now, some of those ‘flatly opposed’ soldiers are filing a lawsuit in court against the coming military vaccination mandate. Those listed on the lawsuit as defendants are Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Health & Human Services Xavier Becerra, and Janet Woodock, Acting Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration.
“Plaintiffs Staff Sergeant Daniel Robert, U.S. Army, and Staff Sergeant Holli Mulvihill, USMC, individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated active duty, National Guard, and Reserve servicemembers, as documented survivors of COVID-19, file this action against the Department of Defense (“DoD”), seeking a declaratory judgment that the DoD cannot force them to take a COVID-19 vaccination under existing military regulations, federal regulations, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution,” the plaintiffs’ legal complaint states.
“The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin (the “SECDEF”) has publicly notified Plaintiffs, via Memo, that he will seek authorization from the President of the United States of America (the “President”), to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine on or about September 15, 2021,” the plaintiffs note. “Upon information and belief, the DoD is already vaccinating military members in flagrant violation of its legal obligations and the rights of servicemembers under federal law and the Constitution.”
“Army Regulation 40-562 provides documented survivors of an infection, a presumptive medical exemption from vaccination because of the natural immunity acquired as a result of having survived the infection,” the legal complaint added.
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“General examples of medical exemptions include the following… Evidence of immunity based on serologic tests, documented infection, or similar circumstances,” the lawsuit cites.
“Plaintiffs also seek a declaratory judgment on the separate basis that the Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”) DoD COVID-19 Vaccine mandate, which they have been notified is imminent, cannot be issued in violation of 10 U.S.C. §1107 [U.S. Code] and its implementing regulations, including DoD Directive 6200.2, the FDA regulation of biologics at 21 C.F.R. § 50 et seq., as well as the law regarding informed consent 50 U.S.C. 1520 (‘The Nuremburg Code’),” the lawsuit added.
Legal analysts cite prior situations that suggest that legal challenges to the COVID vaccine order may fail in court.
“Legally, vaccines under emergency use authorization require service members to grant ‘informed consent’ to receive one, which they are allowed to withhold,” U.S. News reports. “The law states a president may override that concern in the ‘interests of national security,’ according to an analysis from Duke University’s Lawfire blog in February.”
Robert Sanders, chair of the National Security Department at the University of New Haven, pointed to the case of troop vaccination to protect them from anthrax. A follow-on case found such orders did not violate troops’ constitutional rights because, “The requirement to place the needs of the nation above a service member’s personal welfare applies in peacetime as well as in war.”
Professor Sanders gave his assessment of legal challenges to the military vaccination order. “I believe such challenges will fail on the merits under the history of the anthrax vaccine’s military litigation,” he said.
The plaintiffs are also submitting in their lawsuit expert testimony from Dr. Peter McCullough, M.D., who is board certified in internal medicine and was the Chief Fellow at William Beaumont Hospital. In addition to being a cardiologist, he also holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.
The relevant portion of the doctor’s testimony is submitted in text image format below:
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“To put it concisely and bluntly, people who have naturally created antibodies resulting from contracting and recovering from the Virus should not receive any inoculation against the virus or any family or variant thereof becuase it will do more harm than good,” Dr. McCullough is testifying.
The Pentagon has yet to formally issue the vaccine mandate, but the order is expected to be issued in September.
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FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter runs towards crowd outside Kabul airport, Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2021, in this still image taken from a video. REUTERS TV/via REUTERS August 19, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About two dozen U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan sent an internal cable last month warning Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the potential…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About two dozen U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan sent an internal cable last month warning Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the potential fall of Kabul to the Taliban as U.S. troops withdrew from the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The newspaper said the confidential cable sent through a so-called dissent channel was signed on July 13 and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and accelerate an evacuation.
The administration has been criticized for leaving efforts to get American diplomats and other citizens, as well Afghan allies, out of the country, until after a Taliban takeover was well underway.
U.S. officials declined to confirm specific details or share the contents of the cable.
“I think the cable reflects what we’ve said all along, which is nobody had this exactly right in predicting that the government and army of Afghanistan were going to collapse in a matter of days,” White House deputy national security adviser Jonathan Finer told CNN.
A source familiar with the situation said the State Department took on board the concerns of those who drafted the cable, including by condemning the Taliban’s atrocities ahead of the group seizing the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said diplomats’ views shared with Blinken through the channel were incorporated into policy and planning.
“We value constructive internal dissent. It’s patriotic. It’s protected. And it makes us more effective,” Price said.
(Reporting by Simon Lewis and Eric Beech; editing by Grant McCool)
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During the presidential campaign, the Biden administration introduced a new word into the lexicon: a “lid.” His campaign called a lid countless times without explanation, meaning it was cutting off all media appearances for that day.
Joe Biden went on vacation to Camp David just before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban 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 Stephanopolous Wednesday. That interview has caused yet more problems. Biden’s performance in it has been seen as heartless and incoherent.
Related: British Parliament Holds Joe Biden in Contempt for Afghanistan Catastrophe
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 press conferences 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.
Biden has taken public appearances off his schedule without explanation. Reports indicate he has left Washington for his home state of Delaware, or soon will.
Kamala Harris has announced a trip to Singapore and Vietnam after being silent throughout the Afghanistan crisis.
Afghanistan remains a chaotic and extremely dangerous tinderbox with thousands of Americans stranded at its heart and surrounded by the Taliban while they await evacuation.
But Joe Biden has walked away again and called a lid.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was consistently wrong about the outcome of the unconditional withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan, insisting that a Taliban takeover was “highly unlikely” Sunday, as the jihadis swept into Kabul after the collapse of the government. Blinken was incorrect when he asserted that the unconditional U.S. withdrawal, a…
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was consistently wrong about the outcome of the unconditional withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan, insisting that a Taliban takeover was “highly unlikely” Sunday, as the jihadis swept into Kabul after the collapse of the government.
Blinken was incorrect when he asserted that the unconditional U.S. withdrawal, a concession long sought by the Taliban, would not result in the fall of Afghanistan.
Secretary Blinken assured that the fall of Afghanistan after the departure of U.S.-led NATO troops was a far-fetched notion, even as the Taliban seized territory and U.S. intelligence warnings months before the withdrawal ultimately determined the rapid collapse of the Afghan government and military was probable.
Even the State Department’s own intelligence and research division described the failure of the Afghan forces to prevent the Taliban from conquering territory as a red flag, noting that the deteriorating security conditions could result in the collapse of the Kabul government, the New York Times learned from unnamed Biden administration officials.
Blinken defended Biden’s withdrawal plan to the bitter end. Contradicting his own department’s intelligence, Blinken provided an optimistic assessment even as the Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after the collapse of the Afghan government and declared victory.
“The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely,” Blinken told CNN Sunday.
A day after the Taliban entered Kabul, Drew Holden, a freelance commentary writer, noted that Blinken has consistently been wrong about what the complete U.S. military withdrawal would mean for Afghanistan and the American embassy personnel.
Holden wrote on Twitter thread:
One of the most consistently wrong people is Antony Blinken, Biden’s Secretary of State. He said of the withdrawal: “as the United States begins withdrawing our troops, we will use our civilian and economic assistance to advance a just and durable peace for Afghanistan.” … In April, while visiting Afghanistan, Blinken told Afghan President Ashraf [Ghani] – who has since fled the country – that Blinken was there to “demonstrate literally, by our presence, that we have an enduring and ongoing commitment to Afghanistan.” … I’m…not sure that one came to pass. But perhaps Blinken’s worst prediction was from June where he said the US withdrawal wouldn’t lead to “some kind of immediate deterioration in the situation” that could happen “from a Friday to a Monday.”
In April, while visiting Afghanistan, Blinken told Afghan President Ashraf Gandhi – who has since fled the country – that Blinken was there to “demonstrate literally, by our presence, that we have an enduring and ongoing commitment to Afghanistan.” pic.twitter.com/wdFSBRaxxG — Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) August 17, 2021
There were a lot of bad predictions about the Taliban. In April, US Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad told lawmakers that the new Taliban would behave better because “international recognition” would prove an incentive. Doesn’t look like it. pic.twitter.com/bKDkojdukm — Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) August 17, 2021
CNN noted that President Biden declared last month, “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
Then the network asked Blinken, “how did President Biden get this so wrong?”
Blinken changed the subject, saying it was appropriate for the U.S. military to pull out because it had accomplished its mission.
“The objective that we set, bringing those who attacked us to justice, making sure that they couldn’t attack us again from Afghanistan – we’ve succeeded in that mission, and in fact, we succeeded a while ago,” he said.
The thousands of Americans and Afghan allies who remain stranded in Kabul, partly because the Taliban has blocked nearly all roads to the U.S.-controlled airport that provides the only way out, suggest the mission is not over.
Biden deployed 6,000 troops, an increase from the 2,500 there before the withdrawal, to help rescue the Afghan allies and the estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
Despite the reports of Taliban checkpoints, Blinken told NBC News Sunday:
We’ve been very clear with the Taliban that any effort on their part to interrupt our operations, to attack our forces, to attack our personnel, would be met with a very strong, decisive response. And that’s exactly why the President sent 5,000 forces in to assure that we can proceed in a safe and orderly manner. And so far, that’s what’s happened.
During the same interview, the secretary conceded that the Biden administration knew that the Taliban was strong enough for a takeover, claiming that it was already for any contingencies, citing the deployments of the 6,000 troops. However, conditions on the ground suggest the Biden administration was ill-prepared for the Taliban marching into Kabul
Blinken said:
We’ve known all along that the Taliban was at its strongest position in terms of its strength since 2001, when we came to office. That was the fact. And we’ve said all along, including back then, that there was a real chance that the Taliban would make significant gains throughout Afghanistan.
He shifted blame for the rapid deterioration of Afghanistan away from the withdrawal plan, and to the inability of the Afghan security forces to secure their country despite the billions of dollars the U.S. spent on training and equipping them.
Like Biden, Blinken appears to stand by the administration’s withdrawal decision.
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Former President Donald Trump explained in a statement Thursday the order in which President Joe Biden should have conducted the Afghan withdrawal: get all Americans out first. “First you bring out all of the American citizens. Then you bring out ALL equipment. Then you bomb the bases into smithereens,” Trump’s statement said. “AND THEN YOU…
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Former President Donald Trump explained in a statement Thursday the order in which President Joe Biden should have conducted the Afghan withdrawal: get all Americans out first.
“First you bring out all of the American citizens. Then you bring out ALL equipment. Then you bomb the bases into smithereens,” Trump’s statement said. “AND THEN YOU BRING OUT THE MILITARY.”
“You don’t do it in reverse order like Biden and our woke Generals did. No chaos, no death—they wouldn’t even know we left!” said Trump.
Trump’s critique of Biden’s withdrawal underpins the unknown amount of Americans still trapped in the collapsed country since Sunday. Estimates have ranged from 10,000 to 40,000, with the Associated Press reporting Thursday 15,000 Americans are stranded. The United States has evacuated only about 2,900 Americans since Sunday. Russia has offered to evacuate Afghans.
Breitbart News reported Wednesday the U.S. embassy in Kabul announced a “first come, first serve basis” for flights out of the country at the airport surrounded by the Taliban. “Please be advised that a significant number of individuals have registered and space on these flights is available on a first come, first serve basis,” the notice reads. “You may be required to wait at the airport for a significant amount of time until space is available.”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has stated nearly 4,500 American troops are protecting the airport, while the State Department evacuates those trapped amid the chaos and increased brutalization by the Taliban within the country: An Afghan man sent me this video which he said was raked outside Kabul airport today. How are Americans and Afghans supposed to get through this? pic.twitter.com/PjRTvof5p5 — Jeff Schogol (@JeffSchogol) August 19, 2021 The New York Times reported Thursday Taliban terrorists are “intensifying” their searches for individuals “they believe worked with U.S. and NATO forces, including among the crowds of Afghans at Kabul’s airport.” The Taliban has said it will “kill or arrest their family members if they cannot find them” Meanwhile, a Washington Post columnist tweeted that Biden left so much military equipment behind in the country that he gave the Taliban an air force:
“Among the items seized by the Taliban are Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft.” Great, we gave the Taliban an air force.https://t.co/cn6bhfDHRc — Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) August 19, 2021
From 2003-2019, the American taxpayer sent the following to Afghanistan:
75,898 vehicles
599,690 weapons
162,643 pieces of communications equipment
208 aircraft
6,191 pieces of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance equipment
7,035 machine guns
4,702 Humvees
20,040 hand grenades
2,520 bombs
1,394 grenade launchers.
And as of June 30, 2021, Afghanistan “had 211 U.S.-supplied aircraft in their inventory,” the Hill reported
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America’s humiliation in Afghanistan goes on. It’s going to get worse, quite possibly much, much worse, before it’s over, assuming it ever is. But the many reasons it didn’t have to be this way are already coming into clearer focus. Start with the decision made sometime before Independence Day 2021 for the July 6 U.S.…
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America’s humiliation in Afghanistan goes on. It’s going to get worse, quite possibly much, much worse, before it’s over, assuming it ever is. But the many reasons it didn’t have to be this way are already coming into clearer focus.
Start with the decision made sometime before Independence Day 2021 for the July 6 U.S. pullout from Bagram Airfield, the massive operations and supply center for air power, the decisive element of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan.
That the Bagram withdrawal was pulled off at night without prior notice to our Afghan allies was a huge warning sign of the epic disaster President Joe Biden was setting about. Watching closely were the Taliban, Beijing, Moscow, and numerous other centers of evil in the modern world.
But not only was Bagram the heart of U.S. air cover for its own withdrawing forces and for those it built up in the Afghan military, Bagram was an essential asset in the inevitable evacuation of tens of thousands of American civilians and Afghans who helped the U.S.
Bagram could also have provided decisive leverage for the U.S. in the post-withdrawal period, especially in the event of the Taliban victory over the central Afghan government in Kabul. It’s not entirely analogous, but the U.S. ability to maintain its naval base at Guantanamo in Cuba is instructive in this regard.
Another key decision that was made prior to Independence Day didn’t prompt an embarrassingly well-publicized midnight departure because it was carried out behind closed bureaucratic doors in Foggy Bottom.
That was the “pausing” of a special program then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo established to coordinate and expedite the emergency evacuation of U.S. forces and civilians in crisis situations.
Pompeo saw the need for special capabilities that weren’t coalesced in the State Department, so, being a military veteran, he set in motion the creation and establishment of the Crisis and Contingency Response (CCR) bureau.
The key task assigned to CCR was logistically coordinating the multiple official elements required to do a successful mass evacuation. And as it happens, the Pompeo team had already conducted such an evacuation on a worldwide scale that brought home the need for something like the CCR.
That was the return of an estimated 100,000 Americans from points around the world as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, beginning with the rescue of 800 in Wuhan, China, ground zero of the international disaster that has since killed more than three million people, including in excess of 660,000 Americans.
Pompeo gave the official go-ahead to stand up the CCR in September 2020. Congress was informed in November and the program was in place and available to President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken when they took over the White House and the State Department in January 2021.
But instead of taking full advantage of CCR in their planning for the withdrawal, Biden and Blinken decided to kill the program. They called it “pausing” for a “policy review,” but anybody who knows anything about bureaucratese knows that’s another way of saying “we’re putting this one in the deep freeze, never to be seen again.”
And so they did. Now there are unknown thousands of Americans trapped in Afghanistan, subject to the will of the Taliban thugs who will stoop to any brutality, including beheadings, cutting off limbs, beating to death, skinning alive, etc. etc., to get what they want.
And what will they want when they realize in a couple of weeks that they have been handed thousands of valuable hostages who can be ransomed, sold to eager buyers in Beijing, Moscow, and every cartel headquarters in Mexico, or paraded before cameras for horrifying executions designed to terrify the American public as cells spring into deadly action on our shores after being planted here by al Qaeda, ISIS and dozens of other terrorist groups who have been infiltrating this country through the Southern border since Biden knocked down Trump’s wall?
Yes, read that paragraph again.
“Debacle” doesn’t begin to describe what Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken — actively aided and abetted from before day one of their administration by the mainstream media and big tech — have brought upon America.
God help us.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that he strongly supported vaccine mandates for all eligible school teachers and employees. Fauci made the comments during an interview by Jake Tapper on his CNN show. "For anybody listening right now, any school districts or teachers, do you think," Tapper asked, "if we're talking about protecting kids, the smart…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that he strongly supported vaccine mandates for all eligible school teachers and employees.
Fauci made the comments during an interview by Jake Tapper on his CNN show.
“For anybody listening right now, any school districts or teachers, do you think,” Tapper asked, “if we’re talking about protecting kids, the smart decision would be for school districts and states to mandate vaccines for all those who are eligible for teachers, faculty and staff at schools?”
“I feel strongly that way, Jake, I really do,” Fauci responded.
“I mean we want to protect our children, we want to keep them in school physically in the classroom. We’ve spoken often on this show on the deleterious effects of keeping kids out of school physically, mental health issues, social developmental issues,” he explained.
“But if you’re gonna do that, you’ve got to create a safe environment. And there are a few ways of doing that. One of the most important ways is to surround the children with people who are vaccinated if they are eligible to be vaccinated. And that means teachers and personnel in the school,” Fauci continued.
“We got to maintain the safety of the children at the same time we provide them with an education in a way that does not hinder them in the way virtual learning does,” he concluded.
Tapper responded, “An important lesson for anybody in a school board, or teachers’ union, or school administrator to hear.”
Fauci has said previously that he expected that local organizations would order their own vaccine mandates without the federal government issuing a national command.
“This is very serious business,” Fauci said in August. “You would wish that people would see why it’s so important to get vaccinated. But you’re not going to get mandates centrally from the federal government.”
Fauci also said Thursday that vaccines for children younger than 12 should be approved soon but he could not say when that might be.
“I hope that will be soon, but I can’t guarantee it,” he said.
Here’s the video of Fauci’s comments:
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To my knowledge, Cacklin’ Kamala Harris hasn’t been seen since the Afghanistan crisis exploded. This silence contrasts with her attitude in April, when she suggested that she shared responsibility for Joe Biden’s Afghan policy, since she was “the last person in the room” when Biden made the decision to withdraw.So, where is Kamala? Preparing to…
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To my knowledge, Cacklin’ Kamala Harris hasn’t been seen since the Afghanistan crisis exploded. This silence contrasts with her attitude in April, when she suggested that she shared responsibility for Joe Biden’s Afghan policy, since she was “the last person in the room” when Biden made the decision to withdraw.
So, where is Kamala? Preparing to depart on a trip to Singapore and Vietnam:
Harris is due in Singapore on Sunday. She will be the first U.S. vice president to visit Vietnam and arrives in the country on Tuesday and departs next Thursday.
What message will she bring? At the beginning of this month, before the debacle in Kabul, she was arrogant:
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to travel to Singapore and Vietnam later this month, becoming the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit Asia so far. “Her trip will build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s message to the world: America is back,” her office said in a statement.
I’ve never understood that theme. Was America somehow away during the four years of the Trump administration, some of the best years this country has ever experienced? Maybe she means the swamp is back. In any event, her speechwriters will have to tweak that message in light of recent events.
Harris can’t pretend to ignore the fiasco in Afghanistan:
The [senior White House] official on Thursday said Harris would continue to work on issues tied to Afghanistan while on her Asia trip. “It’s been an overwhelming focus and priority of the whole team including the vice president. And she will continue to work on those issues, and be in constant contact with Washington and her colleagues during this trip,” the official said.
If Harris has had an “overwhelming focus” on Afghanistan over the past weeks, and has worked on “issues” relating to that country, her contributions have been kept quiet so far. I suppose that will change when she gets to Asia; she can’t possibly avoid answering questions about Afghanistan from local reporters. Can she?
We will soon find out.
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Pakistan has played a critical role over many years in helping China suppress the Uyghur expat community within its borders, according to an August report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. Beijing is currently orchestrating a genocide against the ethnic group in its northwestern Xinjiang province.…
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Pakistan has played a critical role over many years in helping China suppress the Uyghur expat community within its borders, according to an August report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs.
Beijing is currently orchestrating a genocide against the ethnic group in its northwestern Xinjiang province.
Bradley Jardine, director of research at Oxus, blasted the government of Pakistan’s Islamist prime minister, Imran Khan, for its involvement, saying, “it is urgent that the international community recognise that Imran Khan has not only been silent on the plight of the Uyghurs, but that his government has been fully complicit in China’s crackdown.”
The August report, published prior to the Taliban’s conquest of Kabul, outlines efforts by Chinese neighbors Afghanistan and Pakistan to repatriate the Uyghurs living within their borders to China. While many of these nations have formal extradition treaties with Beijing, and return China’s political targets through those conventional channels, Beijing’s methods to track its dissidents are often less direct. Digital surveillance, separating families at border checkpoints, funding “educational” operations for Uyghur expats to indoctrinate them, threatening relatives still in the country, are just some of the methods the report details by which China oppresses Uyghurs beyond the national borders.
The joint report heavily emphasizes Chinese efforts in Pakistan, dividing the communist regime’s anti-Uyghur operations in the country into four distinct phases beginning in 1991. The first of these, 1991-2001, was marked by the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Muslim, Turkic nations to Xinjiang’s West. Pakistan arrested or deported 27 Uyghurs to China during this period.
From 2001-2008, with the outbreak of the War on Terror, China reportedly coaxed the Pakistanis into handing over or detaining another 17 under security pretenses. The third phase, 2009-2014, saw an escalation of Chinese efforts and the surrender or arrest of yet another 16. The current phase has been marked by a dramatic increase in extra-legal repression while official diplomatic efforts have thus far seen yet 16 more Uyghurs arrested or deported.
Pakistan is closely allied to the Communist Party of China. The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) forms a critical component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s investment scheme to expand its influence in developing nations. Beijing aims to restore the Silk Road trading network between Asia and western Europe by offering high-interest loans to developing nations to build infrastructure and requiring them to hire Chinese companies for the projects. When the debtor nation defaults on the loan, China seizes control of the project.
Both Pakistan and China share borders with war-torn Afghanistan and mutual rival India, making Islamabad’s cooperation a necessity for Beijing. Pakistan’s Islamist prime minister, Imran Khan, took power in 2018. Reports at first indicated his government was concerned Islamabad could not handle the onerous Chinese loans it had taken out for BRI projects, though Khan has yet to make any public statements to that effect and the country remains a committed member of the initiative.
Khan, an adamant proponent of political Islam who has called for global blasphemy laws against criticizing the religion, publicly rejected the reports of Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang this year. Khan’s phrasing indicated the merits of the Chinese denials were not his primary motivation.
“Because of our extreme proximity and relationship with China, we actually accept the Chinese version,” he said before blasting the Western world as “hypocritical” for highlighting the issue. “There are much worse human rights violations taking place in other parts of the world such as in occupied Kashmir.”
In Khan’s own backyard, however, the Ex-Chinese Association, a state-supported organization, is reportedly funding schools in Uyghur neighborhoods, teaching them Mandarin, and working to instill loyalty to Beijing, even as the Uyghurs living in Pakistan would technically owe loyalty to Islamabad.
The Chinese Communist Party is conducting a genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, known as East Turkestan among the natives who consider the Han Chinese invaders. The United States believes Beijing has detained up to 3 million Uyghurs, as well as members of other Muslim-majority ethnic groups such as the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, in its elaborate network of over 1,200 concentration camps.
Escapees from these facilities tell of egregious human rights violations, many of which directly target the ethnic group’s ability to sustain itself, such as forced sterilization and abortion. This comes alongside communist indoctrination, compulsory education in and use of Mandarin, forced labor, brutal torture, and systemic rape.
China acknowledges the existence of these camps but labels them “vocational training” centers. The official Party line insists the Uyghurs need such “training” to effectively participate in the Chinese economy and would otherwise become prime targets for jihadist recruitment. “Graduates” of these camps often become slave laborers in Han Chinese-majority areas far from their homeland. Beijing has moved to silence Uyghurs highlighting the genocide and denounced camp survivors as “actors” working against the regime.
Xinjiang, in China’s far West, has been part of various Chinese realms historically, including the Hang and Tang dynasties, though their control of the area was both tenuous and intermittent. Mandarin is not indigenous to the region nor is Chinese culture. The Uyghur lands did not become a permanent part of the Chinese state until the Qing acquisition of Xinjiang in the 1700s. The Qing, however, were a Manchurian dynasty, not ethnic Han Chinese.
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Three Senators, who all received the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, announced Thursday they tested positive for the virus after experiencing “mild symptoms.” Senate Democrat caucus members John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Angus King (I-ME), as well as Republican Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), are the latest to contract the virus since Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced he tested positive after attending…
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Three Senators, who all received the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, announced Thursday they tested positive for the virus after experiencing “mild symptoms.”
Senate Democrat caucus members John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Angus King (I-ME), as well as Republican Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), are the latest to contract the virus since Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced he tested positive after attending an event with several other senators on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) houseboat.
Hickenlooper’s office released a statement saying the senator received a positive Chinese coronavirus test “after experiencing mild symptoms.” Hickenlooper said he’s “feeling much better and will continue to isolate at the direction of the Congressional Attending Physician,” adding, he is grateful to have gotten the vaccine and encouraging others to get it.
In a lengthy statement, King said he tested positive for Chinese coronavirus Thursday morning after taking the test as a precaution after “feeling mildly feverish” on Wednesday. Since the virus hit the nation’s shores last year, he tried to take all the necessary precautions and have a “work-from-home mindset.”
“I will keep everyone posted in the days ahead of the healing process, but I urge everyone to remain vigilant, follow the guidance from health professionals, and get vaccinated if you haven’t been,” he added.
Wicker, in a statement, also said the senator tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus. Wicker said after having “mild symptoms,” he “immediately” sought out a test. “Senator Wicker is fully vaccinated against [Chinese coronavirus] COVID-19, is in good health, and is being treated by his Tupelo-based physician,” the statement added. “He is isolating, and everyone with whom Senator Wicker has come in close contact recently has been notified.”
Breitbart News reached out to each office to determine if the senators were in attendance at Manchin’s houseboat; Wicker and King both responded saying they were not, Hickenlooper’s office did not respond.
Manchin’s office also did not respond to questions about if any of the senators were on his boathouse or if his office would provide a list of all attendees.
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A 33-year-old woman named Khatera who claimed to have been brutalized by the Taliban said in their eyes, “women are not living, breathing human beings, but merely some meat and flesh to be battered.” She was shot by the insurgents in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province in 2020 and her eyes were gouged out. Khatera has been…
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A 33-year-old woman named Khatera who claimed to have been brutalized by the Taliban said in their eyes, “women are not living, breathing human beings, but merely some meat and flesh to be battered.”
She was shot by the insurgents in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province in 2020 and her eyes were gouged out. Khatera has been living with her husband and child while undergoing treatment in Delhi since November, News18 reported Monday.
“It was her father, a former Taliban fighter, who conspired the attack on her, she told News18 in Delhi on Sunday,” the outlet continued:
Khatera, a former police personnel, was brutalised by the Taliban last year in October when she was two months pregnant. On her way back home from work, she was accosted by three Taliban fighters who checked her ID first, then shot her multiple times. She took eight bullets in her upper body and indiscriminate knife injuries all over. The Taliban pierced her eyes with knives after she fell unconscious and left her to die.
She also described what the militant group has reportedly done to other women. Khatera claimed:
They (Taliban) first torture us (women) and then discard our bodies to show as specimen of punishment. Sometimes our bodies are fed to dogs. I was lucky that I survived it. One has to live in Afghanistan under the Taliban to even imagine what hell has befallen on the women, children and minorities there.
Afghan mom blinded by Taliban claims they feed women’s bodies to dogs https://t.co/phnM2L5da0 pic.twitter.com/Bx55p2pfP8 — New York Post (@nypost) August 19, 2021
Speaking about the horrifying incident, Khatera noted it was possible for her to move to Kabul then go to Delhi for treatment because she had the money.
But, “This fortune is not available for all. Women and anyone who disobeys the Taliban die in the streets,” she stated.
A group of women in Kabul, Afghanistan, held a protest Tuesday to demand the radical Islamist Taliban respect their rights, Breitbart News reported.
However, Taliban leader Waheedullah Hashimi stated Thursday, the group would not implement democracy in Afghanistan because its culture and Islamic sharia law did not support such a political system.
“There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country. We will not discuss what type of political system we should apply in Afghanistan because it is clear. It is sharia law and that is it,” he said.
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Diego Guerrero, 7, watches a video on a mobile phone, with the weak internet signal he receives at home in the village of Sotomo, outside the town of Cochamo, Los Lagos region, Chile, August 8, 2021. Picture taken August 8, 2021. Sotomo is one of two places in Chile to be chosen for a pilot project run by billionaire Elon Musk to receive free internet for a year. The signal is received via a satellite dish installed on the school’s roof, which transmits through a Wi-Fi device and only works from noon to midnight, because of a constrained supply of diesel to the generator that supplies power to the town. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza Diego Guerrero, 7, watches a video on a mobile phone, with the weak internet signal he receives at home in the village of Sotomo, outside the town of Cochamo, Los Lagos region, Chile, August 8, 2021. Picture taken August 8, 2021. Sotomo is one of two places in Chile to be chosen for a pilot project run by billionaire Elon Musk to receive free internet for a year. The signal is received via a satellite dish installed on the school’s roof, which transmits through a Wi-Fi device and only works from noon to midnight, because of a constrained supply of diesel to the generator that supplies power to the town. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza
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By Pablo Sanhueza
SOTOMO, Chile (Reuters) – After half an hour’s windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet.
His school is located in the hamlet of Sotomo, around 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital Santiago in the region of Los Lagos and inhabited by just 20 families.
A rain-drenched scattering of brightly painted wooden and tin houses, Sotomo stands out against a mist-swathed row of rocky outcrops jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. It can be accessed only by boat.
For decades, its inhabitants have survived by catching mussels and fish to sell at market, a five-hour round-trip away by boat.
Now, it is one of two places in Chile to be chosen for a pilot project run by billionaire Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, to receive free internet for a year.
Starlink, a division of SpaceX, aims to roll out 12,000 satellites as part of a low-Earth orbiting network to provide low-latency broadband internet services around the world, with a particular focus on remote areas that terrestrial internet infrastructure struggles to reach.
Since October, it has been offering https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-set-tout-starlink-progress-cost-demand-hurdles-linger-2021-06-29 a ‘Better Than Nothing Beta’ program to subscribers in the United States, while also running pilot trials in other countries. In Chile, a second antennae will be installed in Caleta Sierra, a small fishing port close to the arid northern deserts.
The plan is key to generating the funds that SpaceX needs to fund Musk’s dream https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight-idINKCN1N50FC of developing a new rocket capable of flying paying customers to the moon and eventually trying to colonize Mars.
For Diego, aged 7, stable internet is a dream enough.
“I really like the internet because we can do homework,” he said. “It’s faster so we can do more of it.”
Starlink did not reply to a Reuters request for comment. SpaceX chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said in a July statement about the Chilean pilot: “Starlink was designed for remote communities like those in Caleta Sierra and Sotomo. High-speed connectivity can have a transformational impact on these communities.”
BROADENING HORIZONS
Diego’s favorite subject at school is math. He wants to be a sailor, and loves to go out on his father Carlos’s fishing boat.
Carlos, 40, has more ambitious plans for his son and hopes the window onto the world the new internet connection will give him will broaden his horizons.
He takes Diego to school daily by boat, often battling wind and rain to get him there.
“I didn’t have the option of going to school so you do it whatever the conditions, good or bad weather or pandemic, even if it’s difficult,” he said.
“If he has a good education, he has that option and is eager to do it, then you have all the hopes of any father, that maybe one day all the children from Sotomo can go on to professional jobs.”
Using tablets provided by the education ministry, the school’s seven pupils can now tap into online learning material, watch films, do virtual museum visits and try out video calls to children in other schools.
Their sole teacher at Sotomo’s John F Kennedy School, Javier de la Barra, said he also looked forward to using it for professional development.
The signal is received via a satellite dish installed on the school’s roof, which transmits through a Wi-Fi device to most of its facilities and outdoor patio. Eventually, the plan is to extend it to the rest of the hamlet.
It only works from noon to midnight, because of a constrained supply of diesel to the generator that supplies power to Sotomo.
Nonetheless, said de la Barra, it is a significant advance on the patchy mobile internet signal that residents currently can get on their phones by leaning out of windows or paddling out into the bay.
The Starlink antennae was installed in July and inaugurated earlier this month in a ceremony attended by Transport and Telecommunications Minister Gloria Hutt.
She said she hoped Starlink would prove key in bridging Chile and the wider region’s digital divide – an issue laid bare with the advent of coronavirus lockdowns that left people without good internet struggling to work or study.
Chile has among the highest internet penetration rates on the continent, with 21 million mobile internet connections among its population of 19 million as of March 2021, according to government figures.
But as the families in Sotomo can attest, having mobile internet does not mean you can always get a signal.
“I love living here,” said Carlos Guerrero. “It’s tranquil, my family is without stress, but we do lack connectivity, roads, electricity and drinking water.
“What would be great is if all these services could be extended around our community, not just to a small part, so everyone could enjoy them.”
(Reporting by Pablo Sanhueza, writing by Fabian Cambero and Aislinn Laing, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
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August 20, 2021 By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kurt Campbell, the White House’s top Asia adviser, declared last month that a historic change in U.S. foreign policy was afoot, one that would shift U.S. focus away from the Middle East to Asia, where China’s growing might has cast shadows…
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By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Idrees Ali
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kurt Campbell, the White House’s top Asia adviser, declared last month that a historic change in U.S. foreign policy was afoot, one that would shift U.S. focus away from the Middle East to Asia, where China’s growing might has cast shadows over Washington’s allies.
“It will be painful, in all likelihood. We’ll see some real challenges in places like Afghanistan,” Campbell told an Asia Society webinar, a blunt assessment of what since has come to pass as the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country has sparked a humanitarian crisis.
Officials argued that withdrawing from Afghanistan would free up time and attention of senior U.S. political and military leaders, as well as some military assets, to focus on the Indo-Pacific.
But experts and former officials say President Joe Biden’s poorly executed troop withdrawal from Afghanistan appears – in the near term and possibly for much longer – to be undermining the very goal of freeing the United States to concentrate on China, something successive presidents have sought, only to be pulled back to the Middle East.
Contrary to the planned quick pullout, Biden has been forced to send in thousands of troops to protect the evacuation of U.S. personnel and Afghans potentially subject to Taliban retribution, while the chaos has unleashed a political storm at home.
Biden has said the original Aug. 31 deadline for troop withdrawal now may be extended to finish the job.
Moreover, the United States was forced to move its lone aircraft carrier in the Asia-Pacific, the Ronald Reagan, to the Middle East in June to help with the withdrawal. As the situation in Kabul has deteriorated, jets from the carrier have been flying over the city to provide extra security.
While the redeployment may only be short-term, the need to divert the carrier from the Asia-Pacific has raised questions about U.S. ability to project power there.
U.S. operations in Afghanistan are also likely to continue to consume the attention of senior officials who might otherwise have their eyes on Beijing.
“As Assistant Secretary for the Indo-Pacific, Ely Ratner has Afghanistan in his portfolio. Where do you think his primary focus is for the next three months or longer?” said Eric Sayers, a defense policy expert at the American Enterprise Institute.
Others warn that terrorist groups will likely reestablish themselves in Afghanistan under the Taliban, raising the prospect that the United States will need to return in some fashion, much like it returned to Iraq to combat the rise of Islamic State.
David Sedney, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, dismissed claims by U.S. officials that counterterrorism operations could be conducted from outside the country as a mirage.
“No one who is serious about counterterrorism believes it,” he said. “The United States is going to pay a terrible price for this at some point in the future. Another 9/11.”
‘PROTECTION OF OTHERS’
For Campbell, architect of former President Barack Obama’s halting pivot to Asia, building U.S. bona fides in the Indo-Pacific has meant making good on unfinished business and Afghanistan was an enduring distraction.
Yet the chaotic evacuations from Kabul have evoked images of the 1975 U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, a country Vice President Kamala Harris will visit next week to push back on China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
That trip, which includes a stop in Singapore, will make her the latest in a string of senior officials to travel to Asia as part of Biden’s effort to step up engagement there.
“Our strategic competitors around the world would have liked nothing more than to see us in Afghanistan for another 5, 10, 20 years dedicating even more resources to Afghanistan while it remained in the midst of a civil war,” a senior U.S. official told Reuters.
But the hasty pullout following a failed 20-year project in Afghanistan appears to have shaken some of the very allies Washington hoped to bolster with its Indo-Pacific push.
In Chinese-claimed Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday responded to the chaos in Afghanistan by saying the self-ruled island had no choice but to boost its own defense.
“It is not an option for us to do nothing ourselves and rely only on the protection of others,” she said.
China’s state-controlled media have seized on Afghan developments, portraying U.S. support for allies as fickle.
And while experts are quick to dismiss most geopolitical comparisons of Afghanistan and Taiwan, there is general concern that this latest blow to American prestige undermines Biden’s pledge that U.S. leadership was back following the isolationist tendencies of the Trump administration.
“As bin Laden said back around 2001, this is an issue of demonstrating who was the stronger horse. The U.S. appears to be producing nags and mules, rather than racehorses,” said Dean Cheng of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, referring to Osama bin Laden, whose orchestration of the 9/11 attacks led the United States to invade Afghanistan.
“Taiwan and other East Asian states will be thinking about this.”
(Reporting by Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Idrees Ali in Washington, additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in Taipei; editing by Jane Wardell)
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MADRID (Reuters) – Thirty-seven migrants are feared dead after a dinghy carrying dozens of people capsized off the coast of Spain’s Canary Islands, the sole survivor to have been found so far told Spain’s maritime rescue services on Thursday.
A rescue helicopter carrying the survivor – a 30-year-old woman who appeared exhausted and shaken – and two corpses landed at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria airport, in the Canarian capital, after a cargo ship found them 135 miles away from the coast.
The woman told rescue workers that 40 migrants were aboard the dinghy, but maritime rescue services said there no signs of anybody else near where the vessel capsized.
The woman has been hospitalised with severe dehydration, according to Spanish news agency EFE.
So far this year more than 7,500 migrants have made the dangerous crossing from the West Africa coast to the Canaries archipelago, over twice as many as in the same period in 2020, which itself saw an eightfold increase from 2019.
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An entire family in China has been tortured to death in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution of faith, leaving behind a 13-year-old boy. Even before the young boy was born, his parents had been arrested and persecuted multiple times because of their faith in Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), a traditional…
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An entire family in China has been tortured to death in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution of faith, leaving behind a 13-year-old boy.
Even before the young boy was born, his parents had been arrested and persecuted multiple times because of their faith in Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), a traditional Chinese self-cultivation and discipline that has been violently persecuted by the CCP since July 1999.
Over 13 years ago, new mother Yang Xue, her 9-month-old baby son, and her persecuted elderly mother were brought into a detention center in Suizhong County, Liaoning province, where they learned Yang’s husband had died in police custody, reported the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Fan Dezhen, who weighed 150 pounds and was healthy before the arrest, was 55 days into his detention when he died; he was only 33 years old.
When Fan’s family saw his dead body in the morgue, they were left in shock. His face was twisted, eyes wide open, limbs bruised, and anus loose; there was an inch-long cut on his abdomen, and he was merely skin and bones. The family inquired about his severely bruised body, but a guard said, “Dead people are all like this!”
Fan Dezhen died at the age of 33 after enduring persecution in China. (Courtesy of Minghui.org)
In the years that followed, Yang’s parents, too, were persecuted to death for the same reason. Last year in November, Yang herself succumbed to death at the age of 41 after enduring years of abuse and distress. Their teen son is now orphaned and left to fend for himself in the communist country.
The family tragedy resulting from the CCP’s persecution detailed in this report is just one of the countless many where young children are left orphaned after their families are persecuted to death for refusing to give up their faith.
Father Persecuted for Faith
Yang, who studied fine arts at Yanshan University in Hebei province, worked as a designer in Shenyang, Liaoning province, before returning to her hometown in Suizhong County to work as an art teacher.
She and her husband—like millions of other Chinese people—practiced Falun Gong. However, after former CCP leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide campaign of persecution to eradicate the peaceful practice in July 1999, countless law-abiding adherents were pronounced “state enemies” overnight, leading to mass arrests across China.
A large group of Falun Gong adherents practice their meditation exercise in Shenyang city, China, before the persecution of the practice began. (Courtesy of Minghui.org)
Fan decided to stand up for his spiritual belief and honor his fundamental right to freedom of faith, so he went to Beijing in 2001 to appeal for his rights to practice. However, he was detained at the Huludao City Labor Camp, Liaoning province, for a period of three years.
To coerce him into renouncing his faith, prison guards shocked him with electrical batons and brutally beat him. The persecution deformed his face and left his body injured and swollen.
In October 2002, Fan went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Guards ordered criminal inmates to force-feed him after cuffing his wrists and shackling his ankles onto a metal bed frame all day. During one of the torture sessions, a feeding tube that was forced into Fan’s lungs almost choked him to death.
As Fan’s health deteriorated, the officials released him to avoid being blamed for his condition. After a period of time, to escape constant harassment from communist officials, Fan left his home and did odd jobs in order to make ends meet. However, he still couldn’t escape police monitoring and surveillance.
In 2004, when visiting another Falun Gong adherent’s house, a police officer who was already waiting inside the house arrested him. He was arrested for the second time and detained in Huludao City Detention Center, and was again mercilessly beaten and force-fed. He wasn’t released until he’d been persecuted to the brink of death, once again.
His third arrest occurred on Sept. 17, 2005, when he was working on the second floor of Huludao City House Appliance Shopping Mall and a few plainclothes police arrested him at 2:00 p.m. During his second detention at Huludao City Labor Camp, he was again tortured brutally before being released.
His last arrest before dying was on Feb. 25, 2008. The Suizhong County Domestic Security Division had arrested both Fan and his wife along with 11 other Falun Gong adherents on that day.
Fifty-five days after being in the detention center, on April 20, Fan’s family learned from the head of the detention center, Wang Xueping, that he had “suddenly died from malnutrition.”
Fan’s mother-in-law, Yi—who herself had faced detention and persecution at the infamous Masanjia labor camp in 2001—fainted on hearing the news. After she regained consciousness, she questioned Wang: “I just came here six days ago and delivered 200 yuan for him. When I asked you how he was doing, you told me he was having two meals each day and was in good spirits. How did he just die suddenly?”
However, another police officer angrily told the family: “Even if we beat him to death, what can you do?”
Later, in the morgue, Fan’s father demanded to videotape his deceased son’s bodily injuries, but the guards refused and announced that the cremation would happen the next day. At the crematorium, officers demanded family to sign the cremation agreement, which had fabricated details of the death.
The family refused to comply and said, “He was tortured to death, why should we sign it? He died at your place, you should be responsible for it!” To which the head of the detention center replied that they have no evidence.
Yi insisted on hiring a lawyer to investigate the cause of her son’s death. However, the guards cremated Fan’s body that day without his family’s consent.
Entire Family Passes Away
Fan’s elderly in-laws were not spared persecution, either. Yi, despite her old age, was constantly harassed; her condition dramatically worsened after Fan’s death in 2008. In 2011, Yi was once again arrested for her faith. She died at the age of 59, on April 20, 2013. A year later, Yi’s husband, who was in his 60s, also died.
Yang’s family tried seeking justice for Fan, but authorities refused by saying that “no one would dare to investigate the case.” In order to block Fan’s wife from filing more complaints to readdress the case, the authorities in Suizhong sentenced Yang to prison for four years. As she was still breastfeeding her son, she was allowed to serve prison time at home.
Faced with continued harassment, Yang was often forced to go into hiding. While her young son, who grew up without a father, would consider every kind man who bought him gifts or treated him nicely as his dad.
On Nov. 2, 2020, Yang lost her life at the age of 41 after enduring years of trauma.
Her teen son is left without a family.
Daksha Devnani Daksha Devnani writes stories about life, traditions, and people with uncompromising courage that inspire hope and goodness among humanity
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An NYPD cop jumped down onto the subway tracks at a Bronx station Wednesday and saved a man who fell, moments before a train arrived at the platform, a new video posted by cops shows.
“When a sick strap hanger lost consciousness and fell on the subway tracks in the Bronx, @nypdtransitbureau officers didn’t hesitate for a moment to put his safety ahead of their own. We’re also grateful to the Good Samaritan who courageously helped,” the NYPD wrote in an Instagram post with the video Thursday.
The clip shows an officer climbing down from the platform at the 149th Street And 3rd Avenue in the South Bronx at about 11 a.m. Wednesday and pulling the man up to safety with help from a Good Samaritan and the cop’s partner.
The NYPD officer jumps onto the tracks to assist the person who fell. NYPD
A woman can be heard yelling “Hurry up!” and just after they climb up from the tracks, the train can be seen rolling into the station.
The victim, who was described as a 60-year-old man from Queens apparently got dizzy, cops said, and was taken to Lincoln Hospital conscious and alert.
“We just did what we were there to do, which is to help and serve the public,” said the Transit District 12 officer, Ludin Lopez. “We were doing a station inspection. It was just right place right time.”
Lopez said the passenger was “completely out of it” when he was pulled to safety.
Other straphangers can be heard cheering in the video — a moment Lopez said was a “good feeling.”
“It just made me feel like this is what I came here to do and I felt very fulfilled by that,” he said.
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Home construction fell sharply in July, adding to evidence that elevated construction costs and surging house prices continued to be a headwind for the housing market. Housing starts fell 7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.534 million units last month, according to a Commerce Department report (pdf). While this is the slowest…
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Home construction fell sharply in July, adding to evidence that elevated construction costs and surging house prices continued to be a headwind for the housing market.
Housing starts fell 7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.534 million units last month, according to a Commerce Department report (pdf). While this is the slowest pace since April, it remained 2.5 percent above the July 2020 figure.
Building permits—a leading indicator for future construction—climbed 2.6 percent in July, reversing a three-month falling trend. Still, the gains were confined to the multi-family home segment, with single-family house building permits dropping by 1.7 percent over the month, suggesting little relief from the housing shortage that is driving up prices and increasingly pushing prospective buyers to the sidelines.
Homebuilders have been hit by rising material and skilled labor costs, which, combined with a shortage of housing stock, have sent home prices soaring. The median price of an existing single-family home in the United States surged by 22.9 percent in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the year-earlier period, hitting an all-time high of $357,900, the National Association of Realtors said in an Aug. 12 report.
Rising home prices have increasingly sidelined prospective buyers, with a recent National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) report showing that the main reason people actively looking to buy a home gave for not pulling the trigger on a purchase was the inability to find one within their price range. Two-thirds of active buyers in the second quarter of 2021 spent three months or more searching for a home but remained empty-handed.
The Commerce Department’s new residential construction report also showed that the number of houses authorized for construction but not yet started in July rose by a monthly 2.6 percent to the third-highest reading on record, reinforcing the view that builders remained hesitant to begin new projects.
“While the demographics and interest for home buying remain solid, higher costs and material access issues have resulted in lower levels of home building and even put a hold on some new home sales,” NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz said in a statement.
The Aug. 18 Commerce Department report followed an Aug. 17 survey from the National Association of Home Builders that showed builder confidence plunging to a 13-month low in August because of higher material costs and home prices, with a cooling effect on demand.
“Buyer traffic has fallen to its lowest reading since July 2020 as some prospective buyers are experiencing sticker shock due to higher construction costs,” NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke said in a statement.
Even as the cost of lumber has come down from its historic peak of $1,711 per thousand board feet in May, materials costs remain an issue, compounded by shortages of land and labor.
While the Commerce Department report showed that single-family home completions rose 3.6 percent to a rate of 954,000 units in July, realtors estimate that single-family housing starts and completion rates need to be in a range of 1.5 million to 1.6 million units per month to close the inventory gap.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Tom Ozimek Reporter Tom Ozimek has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education. The best writing advice he’s ever heard is from Roy Peter Clark: ‘Hit your target’ and ‘leave the best for last.’
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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) reported 43 apps on Wednesday for illegally transferring user data, warning companies to fix the issue within a week. The illegal behavior included transferring users’ location and contacts, and harassing users with pop-up windows, according to an MIIT statement. The ministry said if the 43 apps, which included…
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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) reported 43 apps on Wednesday for illegally transferring user data, warning companies to fix the issue within a week.
The illegal behavior included transferring users’ location and contacts, and harassing users with pop-up windows, according to an MIIT statement.
The ministry said if the 43 apps, which included Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat, Tencent Map, and Tencent Video, were not fixed within the set week then punishment would follow.
The authority also called out Alibaba’s e-reading app, iQiyi’s video streaming app, and travel agency Trip.com’s platform.
MIIT has issued eight rectification lists this year to its homegrown tech companies, and apps included were accused of illegally collecting users’ personal data.
Last month, the ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing was ordered to take down its apps from the country’s app stores. China’s cybersecurity regulator claimed the company had illegally collected and used personal data. This move came days after the company raised $4.4 billion in its U.S. IPO.
A taxi driver uses the Didi Chuxing app while driving along a street in Guilin City, in China’s southern Guangxi Province on May 13, 2016. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)
WeChat said on July 27 that it temporarily stopped registering new users as its security technology was upgraded “to align with relevant laws and regulations.” Three days before the announcement, Beijing’s anti-monopoly regulator fined WeChat’s parent company an estimated $77,100 for its anti-competitive behavior in China’s music market.
Recently, the regime’s tightened grip has expanded to overseas-based companies.
On Aug. 5, the U.S.-based language-learning app, Duolingo, was found unavailable to download on Android app stores in China, including those operated by Huawei Technologies, Tencent Holdings, and Xiaomi.
The Chinese authorities kept silent on the app’s disappearance, but Beijing has “strictly banned” education institutions providing overseas courses to Chinese students while announcing a crackdown on for-profit after-school tutoring courses on July 24.
In the first six months of this year, over 370 apps were taken down with MIIT claiming those companies refused to rectify their operations after receiving a warning, state-media Chinanews.com said.
On Tuesday, Beijing’s anti-competitive regulator issued a set of draft rules restricting the use of user data and banning unfair competitions.
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Civilians prepare to board a plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan August 18, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Handout via REUTERS August 20, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) -G7 foreign ministers urged the international community on Thursday to unite in its response to the crisis in Afghanistan to prevent it from…
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Civilians prepare to board a plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan August 18, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Handout via REUTERS Civilians prepare to board a plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan August 18, 2021. U.S. Marine Corps/Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/Handout via REUTERS
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LONDON (Reuters) -G7 foreign ministers urged the international community on Thursday to unite in its response to the crisis in Afghanistan to prevent it from escalating, British foreign minister Dominic Raab said in a statement.
Taliban militants seized control over the weekend in an upheaval that sent thousands of civilians and Afghan military allies fleeing for safety. Many fear a return to the austere interpretation of Islamic law imposed during the previous Taliban rule that ended 20 years ago.
“The G7 Ministers call on the international community to come together with a shared mission to prevent the crisis in Afghanistan escalating,” said Raab’s statement after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers.
Britain currently holds the rotating leadership of the G7, which also includes the United States, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and Canada.
“The crisis in Afghanistan requires an international response including intensive engagement on the critical questions facing Afghanistan and the region: with the Afghans most affected, parties to the conflict, the UN Security Council, the G20, international donors, and with Afghanistan’s regional neighbours,” the statement said.
The UK said on Wednesday it would double its humanitarian and development aid to Afghanistan to 286 million pounds ($390 million) this year.
Karen Pierce, UK ambassador to the United States, said Britain wanted to use a meeting of G7 leaders next week to work out “how to preserve the gains we’ve made and how to stop it becoming a breeding ground for terror.”
Pierce told broadcaster NPR’s “All Things Considered” program that Britain and the United States had been in almost daily contact with the Biden administration since NATO agreed on the decision to withdraw forces from Afghanistan.
She said Britain hoped to coordinate with partners and allies on any acceptance of a new Afghan government “so that we’re all working on the same basis, so that we all understand the priority we want to give to countering terrorism, to human rights, to regional stability and to humanitarian issues.”
Separately, Raab said late on Thursday that the UK and Turkey were working together in Afghanistan to ensure evacuations continue safely. He thanked Turkey for its commitment to safeguarding the Kabul airport alongside British troops.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Raab in a call that the world should guide and support Afghanistan as it moves to a new government instead of putting more pressure on it.
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Al-Qaeda in Yemen congratulated the Taliban terror group on Wednesday for its successful takeover of Afghanistan this week, vowing to continue its own jihad on the Arabian Peninsula. “This victory and empowerment reveals to us that jihad and fighting represent the (Islamic law)-based, legal, and realistic way to restore rights (and) expel the invaders and occupiers,”…
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Al-Qaeda in Yemen congratulated the Taliban terror group on Wednesday for its successful takeover of Afghanistan this week, vowing to continue its own jihad on the Arabian Peninsula.
“This victory and empowerment reveals to us that jihad and fighting represent the (Islamic law)-based, legal, and realistic way to restore rights (and) expel the invaders and occupiers,” Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said in a statement issued August 18, according to the SITE Intelligence group, a global terrorism monitor.
“On Sunday [August 15] AQAP fighters in Yemen’s central governorate of Bayda and southern province of Shabwa celebrated the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan with fireworks and by firing gunshots in the air,” local residents told Agence France-Presse this week.
Both AQAP and the Taliban are terrorist organizations based on Sunni Islam. The two groups have maintained close ties over the past two decades. The Taliban seized Kabul on August 15, quickly ousting the Afghan national capital’s U.S.-backed, democratic government from power. AQAP referred to the Taliban’s toppling of democracy in Kabul in its Wednesday press release.
“As for the game of democracy and working with simple pacifism, it is a deceptive mirage, a fleeting shadow, and a vicious circle that starts with a zero and ends with it,” the group, which is active primarily in Yemen, said.
Al-Qaeda’s statement condemning democratic systems of government came two days after the Taliban confirmed it would rule Afghanistan through an administration based on Islamic law, or sharia.
New 2-page statement from #AlQaeda in #Yemen congratulates #Taliban on victory in #Afghanistan. #AQAP concludes that this:
– Heralds wider triumphs & a new era of Islamic rule
– Proves #jihad is the way to achieve goals
– Reveals the “democracy game” & peaceful means as a mirage pic.twitter.com/4zyOEu6Btv — Elisabeth Kendall (@Dr_E_Kendall) August 19, 2021
“There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country,” Waheedullah Hashimi, a senior Taliban commander, told Reuters on August 17. “We will not discuss what type of political system should we apply in Afghanistan because it is clear [sic]. It is sharia law and that is it.”
Hashimi told Reuters he would join a meeting of Taliban leaders later this week in which the commanders plan to discuss “issues of governance.”
The U.S. government accused the Taliban of sheltering al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s previous rule over the country from 1996-2001. Washington cited Al-Qaeda’s alleged presence within Afghanistan to justify the U.S. invasion of the country in the fall of 2001, following Al-Qaeda’s jihadist attacks on America on September 11 of that same year.
Washington considers AQAP to be the most dangerous branch of Al-Qaeda’s global terror network. The U.S. military has carried out drone strikes against AQAP fighters in Yemen since 2001. The administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that it “conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),” in January 2020. Al-Rimi is believed to have been killed via drone strike, though the Trump administration did not disclose specific details of his death.
Trump’s administration worked towards establishing peace between the Taliban and Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government in Kabul throughout 2020, continuing the efforts through the end of Trump’s presidency in January 2021. Washington established the peace process by agreeing to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end America’s nearly 20-year-long military occupation of the country, but only if the Taliban also agreed to cut ties with al-Qaeda. AQAP’s statement on Wednesday expressing support for the Taliban’s ouster of Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government suggests al-Qaeda remains closely linked to the Afghan-based terror group.
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Sally Satel, a psychiatrist who is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, described how the left-wing social justice agenda is making its way into mental health and counseling programs. “Until roughly five years ago, people seeking mental health care could expect their therapists to keep politics out of the office,” Satel wrote in…
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Sally Satel, a psychiatrist who is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, described how the left-wing social justice agenda is making its way into mental health and counseling programs.
“Until roughly five years ago, people seeking mental health care could expect their therapists to keep politics out of the office,” Satel wrote in a Substack column published last week. “But as counselor education programs and professional organizations across the country embrace a radical social justice agenda, that bedrock principle of neutrality is crumbling. Mental health professionals—mainly counselors and therapists—are increasingly replacing evidence-driven therapeutics with ideologically motivated practice and activism.”
Critical race theory, once a fringe academic movement based on systemic racism and judging people based on racial identity, has made its way into institutions across the United States. Satel, who is also a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, provided several examples of how the dogma is apparent in psychotherapy.
The professor notes how “anti-racism” training has become “impossible to ignore” in the counseling field. For instance, the University of Vermont’s graduate counseling program aims to “structurally align” its framework with the group Black Lives Matter.
Likewise, when George Floyd died last year, the counseling center at Johns Hopkins University called for people to “consider us one of many resources in the difficult but necessary work of engaging with internalized bias, recognizing privilege, and aligning values of anti-racism and allyship with embodied and sustained practice.”
“Central to the ideology that’s creeping into the field of mental health care is a growing aversion to recognizing personal responsibility and agency,” Satel wrote. “One colleague of mine who works in a prominent psychiatry department told me that during a group discussion of the growing problem of stress and suicide in black youth, her colleagues were unwilling to discuss explanations that pointed to factors coming from within beleaguered communities.”
But while the prominent psychiatrist described the many left-wing developments in her field, she also “feel[s] stirrings of optimism” due to the launch of a group called the International Association of Psychology and Counseling (IAPC). IAPC is a non-profit group “dedicated to excellence in education and clinical practice.”
The founder, clinical mental health counseling professor Brian S. Canfield at Florida Atlantic University, intends to have the group assist counseling to go back to “its roots of liberal education” as well as to “professionalism where advocacy should be the domain of individual conscience, not one’s professional identity.”
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Commentary The United States’ military mission in Afghanistan has collapsed in chaos and ignominy. The catastrophe has many parents. But surely “the experts” upon which our leader relied bear much blame. They were the ones who often failed to comprehend the power of religious belief and the role pride in Islam played in the Taliban’s…
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The United States’ military mission in Afghanistan has collapsed in chaos and ignominy. The catastrophe has many parents. But surely “the experts” upon which our leader relied bear much blame.
They were the ones who often failed to comprehend the power of religious belief and the role pride in Islam played in the Taliban’s unyielding commitment to victory. They were the ones who thought we could remake Afghanistan into a western liberal image. They were the ones who failed to comprehend the intractable tribal nature of Afghan society.
To say the least, Afghanistan has vividly exposed the utter stupidity of our vaunted foreign policy and national security experts. Our hapless Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, for example, assured us that Kabul would not fall from “Friday to Monday.” He was right. It fell from Friday to Sunday.
And what are we to make of the vaunted internationalists at the United Nations? After President Biden’s godawful speech signifying nothing, the State Department held a press briefing, during which spokesman Ted Price reiterated an unintentionally hilarious United Nations Security Council statement urging the Taliban government to be “inclusive and representative—including with the full, equal and meaningful participation of women.” I’m sure the barbarians will get right to including women as soon as they are finished raping them.
The hubris of these whizzes might be tolerable if they were adept at technocracy. But they stink at it. Indeed, every American debacle in my lifetime has “the experts’” fingerprints all over it. There was the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Vietnam. The farce of the missing Iraq WMDs. The list goes on and on.
What’s that you say? The Cuban Missile Crisis worked out very well? Indeed, it did. But that was because JFK ignored the advice of military experts to bomb Cuba.
What about the collapse of the Soviet Union? Once again, that salutary event was hastened because President Reagan ignored experts’ widespread disdain of the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program and forged ahead anyway, which helped break the communists’ treasury.
Look at China. Our China-hand experts were sure that if we boosted the country’s economy the Chinese people would demand increased freedom to go along with their improved standard of living. Not only did that demand not materialize—except in the now crushed Hong Kong citizens’ reaction to the loss of their once existing freedoms—but we are looking increasingly like China instead of it looking more like us.
Worse, we are now dependent on that tyranny for much of our manufacturing and mining of crucial natural resources like rare earth metals. Great job, experts!
Foreign policy is far from the only field afflicted with debilitating expertitis. The public health failures during COVID could—and no doubt will—fill several books. But the botched investigations and repeated mendacity surrounding the question of whether the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, are particularly enraging—not to mention the U.S. funding of “gain of function” research conducted there championed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Speaking of the hubris of the expert class, Fauci wrote last year that WHO and the U.N. should be empowered to “rebuild the infrastructure of human existence” in order to avoid future pandemics. Considering their repeated record of abject failure, putting the international experts in charge of such an all-encompassing project would probably return us to the caves.
And look what has happened in the medical sector where our experts are helping drive the transgender moral panic. Major medical journals and associations even promote puberty blocking for children despite its being, at best, entirely experimental and potentially physically harmful to the patients. Good grief, the American Medical Association even urges that we stop listing the sex of children on birth certificates!
And we haven’t even yet mentioned the misbegotten California public policies recommended by climate change experts that have reduced the once Golden State to a third world environment of rolling blackouts, out-of-control wildfires, and inadequate water storage because no new reservoirs have been built for decades—this, even though the state’s population grew exponentially. Good grief, farmers in the Central Valley have begun plowing under their precious almond trees!
Failure after dismal failure has caused mass distrust in the expert class and a concomitant collapse of confidence in our institutions. This is a profound crisis. We need expertise. People who know what they are talking about and who can explain complicated issues to policy makers and the people are essential to the proper operation of sophisticated democratic societies.
But to do that job right, experts need to be apolitical. They need to provide as objective advice as they can when wearing their “expert” hats. Most of all, they need to put personal ideology aside in the performance of their duties and welcome heterodox opinions. For example, it wasn’t ideology that created the triumph of the moon landing. It was dispassionate excellence in rocket science and engineering.
The problem is that too many of our current “experts”—in foreign policy, law enforcement, science, education, the medical intelligentsia, the list goes on and on—have become highly politicized. Some even now think they should be deciders rather than advisers. That attitude doesn’t make policy more expertly based, it makes expertise more politically motivated, which is to say, it ceases being expert at all.
Creating a paradigm in which we can again safely rely on experts will require a great culling of the faux specialists now perched in powerful government and think tank sinecures. Frankly, mass resignations or firings may be the only efficacious remedy for what ails us. The time has come for that great sorting out to begin.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Wesley J. Smith Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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Police in east-central China’s Henan province said Wednesday they were investigating a 60-year-old woman for allegedly assaulting a government worker after he asked her to present a Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passport” before entering a building this week. The woman “slapped an anti-epidemic worker after she was asked to register her health code” to enter a building in…
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Police in east-central China’s Henan province said Wednesday they were investigating a 60-year-old woman for allegedly assaulting a government worker after he asked her to present a Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passport” before entering a building this week.
The woman “slapped an anti-epidemic worker after she was asked to register her health code” to enter a building in the northwestern Henan city of Jiaozuo on August 16, according to China’s state-run Global Times.
A woman in Henan slapped an anti-epidemic worker after she was asked to scan a health code when entering a building. Local police are investigating the case. https://t.co/DDcKCf0H31 pic.twitter.com/CyXslTsSp5 — Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 18, 2021
A video reportedly surfaced on Chinese government-controlled social media on Monday showing the woman trying to hit the government worker with her handbag “several times” after he asked her to scan a health code via a Chinese government smartphone app before he would allow her entry to the building. The government worker “managed to dodge it [the woman’s purse] a few times, but she eventually hit him,” the Global Times detailed.
“Property management of the building said on Tuesday [August 17] that they called the police, who confirmed the case but refused to reveal further details,” the newspaper reported.
A similar incident took place also on August 16 in Beijing, when a resident of the city surnamed Li “refused to scan a health code when entering a building,” according to the Global Times. The person reportedly “insulted and pushed around” the government health worker who asked for a health code. Police in Beijing’s Dongcheng district said Wednesday they had “detained Li for causing bad social influence.”
China’s health code app is part of a “common process” in the country that allows government authorities to easily track Chinese coronavirus cases and close contacts, according to the Global Times. China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) currently requires people to present a health code via a government-approved app on their personal smartphones before they are allowed entry to public spaces due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. The app shows an individual’s health status, including whether the person has received a Chinese coronavirus vaccination and, if so, how many doses. It also conveys Chinese coronavirus test results. Additional information, such as a person’s national I.D. number, may be registered through a code on the app. This data allows the CCP to monitor a citizen’s movement by mapping out his or her registered visits to public spaces.
The health code scanning system employed by China is often referred to informally as a “vaccine passport” and has been mandated by a number of other countries to pressure their populations into receiving Chinese coronavirus vaccinations during the ongoing pandemic. The vaccine passport system has faced a tremendous backlash worldwide for its violation of a person’s civil liberties, including individual rights to privacy and bodily integrity.
China’s vaccine passports are an extension of a pre-existing “social credit” system used by the CCP to assign citizens numerical scores based on how well or poorly they follow the party’s mandates. People risk a lower social credit score through actions as seemingly mundane as jaywalking or expressing criticism of the Chinese government online. A person’s score drops even lower if he or she commits more serious offenses or crimes. A low social credit score restricts an individual’s ability to take certain actions such as purchasing airline tickets, acquiring property, or taking out loans.
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Parents livid after learning Klein ISD teacher gave questionnaire asking students if they've been vaccinated A Klein ISD teacher appears to have violated the district's policy by handing out a survey asking students if they were vaccinated against COVID-19. HOUSTON - Do you think it’s appropriate for a teacher to ask your child his or…
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On the first day of school, yesterday, a Klein Oak High School teacher gave her students a questionnaire asking if the students have been vaccinated against COVID-19. One mother we spoke to, who does not want to be identified, told us she sent an email to the teacher, principal, and the Klein ISD Superintendent.
“It was none of her business and I did put that all in caps,” the mom said.
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The Klein Oak High School teacher apparently gave her class a list of five questions to be filled out in class.
The questionnaire asked the students to tell three things about themselves. It also asked were they virtual or in-person last year and if they are vaccinated.
“I think it’s not an appropriate question to ask because if she got sick what is she planning to do to blame the unvaccinated kids?” the mom asks. “Is she going to stay away from all the kids that answered that question that are unvaccinated?”
The upset mom says her son, who’s a Freshman at Klein Oak, felt he would be treated differently based on how he answered.
“This vaccination is political,” the mom said. “To me, it seems too political. She said it was for her personal record and if she happened to get sick she had an idea of where to start.”
According to the family, the teacher told the class she was asking because she has cancer.
“I’m sorry she has cancer but that doesn’t give her an excuse to give the question out,” says the mom we interviewed.
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Klein ISD says it is aware of the teacher’s questionnaire and says it’s against policy for teachers to ask students their vaccination status.
According to the district, teachers received training over the summer and were told they are not allowed to ask students if they received the COVID vaccine. A spokesperson for the district says the matter is now before Human Resources and says Klein ISD is calling parents of the students involved to apologize.
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All sorts of military hardware — Humvees, guns, even drones — was left behind when President Biden recalled U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The media even asked if the Pentagon had a plan in place to keep it from falling into the Taliban’s hands, to which Major General Hank Taylor replied, “I don’t have the answer…
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All sorts of military hardware — Humvees, guns, even drones — was left behind when President Biden recalled U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The media even asked if the Pentagon had a plan in place to keep it from falling into the Taliban’s hands, to which Major General Hank Taylor replied, “I don’t have the answer to that question.”
That was Monday’s Pentagon briefing. Now, Axios is reporting that U.S. officials are concerned those weapons could end up in the hands of ISIS, China, or Russia:
AXIOS: U.S. officials concerned weapons left in Afghanistan could be seized by ISIS or handed over to China or Russia — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) August 20, 2021
They JUST realized this?!
Holy hell…we are so screwed. — Tami (@Tamiisright) August 20, 2021
They’re not the only ones concerned — Andy Lancaster (@andylancaster) August 20, 2021
Most Americans are. — Chris 🇺🇸 (@cryptochris369) August 20, 2021
We have some real sharp ones on the payroll, I tell ya. — Common Sense Variant (@TheThirdQuarter) August 20, 2021
I’ve got some bad news for those US officials concerning where ISIS got the weapons they already had…. or all those spanking new Toyotas they drove around…. or all the matching cammies they were wearing. — Carlos Danger (@AngryChair9881) August 20, 2021
The rest of us, living in the real world, have been screaming this for a week. — Jennifer (@JenniferNPL1) August 20, 2021
That ship has sailed….😳 — DeeLee (@BeachesPlease20) August 20, 2021
The important shit’s already in their hands, or Iran’s — Atlas Shrugged 🇺🇸 (@saintlysinner5) August 20, 2021
Hard to imagine this current regime is concerned with anything. — StoneWallStogie (@irrelevant_ucla) August 20, 2021
They’re only saying this now because Trump said it yesterday during interviews. They’d be lost without him. — Hannah (@Hannah5309) August 20, 2021
Destroy it now before it’s turned against the population. Don’t wait. — #RetakeBagram (@TheWuhanClan) August 20, 2021
Don’t fret … Axios is also reporting Thursday night that the Biden administration is considering airstrikes to blow that stuff up:
BREAKING: Biden administration considering launching airstrikes on equipment left behind by US troops in Afghanistan – @Axios — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 19, 2021
“Planned for all contingencies” — S. (@RuffledSnob) August 20, 2021
They decide this like 12 weeks later?? 🤦♂️ — Scott Assistant to the Regional Manager (@theDJScott) August 20, 2021
I’ll take “That cow already left the barn” for $1000. — HeatMiser (@HeatMis98573442) August 20, 2021
Little late for that. They literally already packed up all the weapons on their new Toyota pickup trucks. — iGGY (@windycityiggy) August 20, 2021
Possibly a tad late — azcat92 (@azcat92) August 20, 2021
If eye-rolls counted as cardio….this whole tweet would make me skinny. — King Neens 🥤 (@TheNinoDaniel) August 20, 2021
It’s already been moved. But good strategy. — (((TheRemoteZombieOperatestheJewishSpaceLaser))) (@Shwarmaonthesp1) August 20, 2021
Was this part of contingency plan? — EJG (@EJGSH) August 20, 2021
Considering? Amateurs are running the highest levels of our government. — Ed Harrell (@ed_harrell) August 20, 2021
Was Joe listening to my two year old when he suggested it yesterday over a sippy cup of milk? — Kevin Dalton (@NextLAMayor) August 20, 2021
If I wasn’t clear, Joe had the sippy cup of milk — Kevin Dalton (@NextLAMayor) August 20, 2021
Since the Taliban’s spokesman is on Twitter, maybe he could jump in and let us know if they’ve moved any of that hardware yet.
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Pentagon can’t answer if the US is taking any steps to keep military hardware out of the hands of the Taliban https://t.co/p9g23dtI4a — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 17, 2021
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The world’s children cannot afford more empty promises at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), youth activists including Greta Thunberg said, after a U.N. report found virtually no child will escape the impact of global warming.
In the first index of its kind, published on Friday, U.N. children’s agency UNICEF found that almost all the world’s 2.2 billion children are exposed to at least one climate or environmental risk, from catastrophic floods to toxic air.
Last week a U.N. climate panel of the world’s top atmospheric scientists warned that global warming is dangerously close to spiralling out of control, with deadly heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme events likely to keep getting worse.
Thunberg, 18, said the UNICEF index confirmed children would be the worst affected, and when world leaders meet in Glasgow in November for COP26 they needed to act rather than just talk.
“I don’t expect them to do that, but I would be more than happy if they could prove me wrong,” she told journalists ahead of the index’s publication on the third anniversary of Fridays For Future, a now-global youth movement that started with her solo protest outside her Swedish school.
Thunberg was joined by young activists around the world including Mitzi Jonelle Tan, 23, from the Philippines, who spoke of doing homework by candlelight as typhoons raged outside or fearing drowning in her bed as floodwaters filled her room.
After months of extreme weather and dire warnings from scientists, world leaders’ “empty promises and vague plans” were no longer enough, Tan said.
“There’s no excuse for this COP… to not be the one that changes things.”
Henrietta Fore, UNICEF executive director said young people globally were leading by example, pointing to a survey by the organisation that found nine in ten of them in 21 countries felt it was their responsibility to tackle climate change.
They were more at risk than adults in the “increasingly unrecognisable” world they stood to inherit, she said, being less able to survive extreme weather events and more susceptible to toxic chemicals, temperature changes and disease.
The UNICEF index showed around 1 billion children in 33 mostly African low-emission countries faced a “deadly combination” of extreme weather and existing issues like poverty, making them uniquely vulnerable.
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On Wednesday, co-founder of the Afghan women’s football league, Khalida Popal, spoke to Reuters from Copenhangen. In a video interview, she said that she had always told women “to stand strong, to be bold, to be visible,” but she has changed her message.
“Today I’m calling them and telling them, take down their names, remove their identities, take down their photos for their safety. Even I’m telling them to burn down or get rid of your national team uniform,” she said.
“And that is painful for me, for someone as an activist who stood up and did everything possible to achieve and earn that identity as a women’s national team player. To earn that badge on the chest, to have the right to play and represent our country, how much we were proud.”
“They are so afraid. They are worried, they are scared, not only the players, but also the activists… they have nobody to go to, to seek protection, to ask for help if they are in danger,” she said of the current situation. “They are afraid that any time the door will be knocked.”
“What we are seeing is a country collapsing,” she added. “All the pride, happiness to be there to empower women and men of the country is like it was just wasted.”
A spokesperson for FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, reportedly said the international soccer body shared “concern and sympathy with all those affected by the evolving situation. We are in contact with the Afghanistan Football Federation, and other stakeholders, and will continue to monitor the local situation and to offer our support in the weeks and months to come.”
The Taliban recently claimed that women would have rights under their rule, but have gone on to reportedly commit violence against women and anyone who assisted the previous government.
As The Daily Wire reported, “Fox News published a photo Tuesday of an Afghan woman lying in a pool of her own blood after being shot by a Taliban militant in Afghanistan’s Takhar province. That same day, a Taliban spokesman publicly announced that the new regime would ‘provide women with environment to work and study, and the presence of women in different (government) structures according to Islamic law and in accordance with our cultural values.’”
“The Taliban are ‘intensifying’ their search for Afghans who helped the United States and have a ‘list of people’ they intend to ‘question and punish,’ according to a Thursday report from The New York Times, based on a document prepared by the United Nations,” The Daily Wire reported on Thursday.
Zarifa Ghafari, who was a female mayor in Afghanistan, has said that she and her family were waiting for the Taliban to discover and murder them.
“I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can’t leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?” she said.
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