Canada’s Shame

Kevin Newman: The canal where the bomb went off was the only way out

The only way out of Afghanistan for hundreds of approved immigrants to Canada was through a sewage canal bordering the Kabul airport. On Thursday, an explosive device was detonated at that site.

Until early Wednesday, soldiers from Canada had joined other nations guarding that canal. Then they left and, according to eyewitness texts and images, were replaced by armed Taliban fighters.

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Wuhan Flu: The Conspiracy Theories Are Now Just Spoiler Alerts

American Thinker;

Australia is planning ahead for mass detentions of people in the name of suppressing COVID. A thousand bed facility that won’t be ready until the end of the year is being constructed about a hundred miles inland from Brisbane, in Queensland Australia.

But all is not lost.

From September 13, NSW residents that are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be given new freedoms.

Residents of hotspots can leave home for an hour of recreation on top of their exercise hour, while people in other areas can meet five others outdoors.

Truinnerashuvaduprezure

Now 22 minutes late for his 5pm live broadcast.

Well, that was brutal.

It’s a shit show : U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies to grant entry into the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport, a choice that’s prompted outrage behind the scenes from lawmakers and military officials. […] “Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official

Explosions At Kabul

Bumped for Update: New explosions reported in Kabul in the past few minutes.

Just felt the shockwave of very large explosion in Kabul. The whole house shook. #Afghanistan.

More here from @HabibKhanT.

“We have reached out to the Taliban…”It’s bizarre listening to the commander of CENTCOM say we are relying on the Taliban to protect us and we are sharing intelligence with them.

(Reports from earlier in the day continue below.)

@AndrewDesiderio

BREAKING — Our sources describe absolute mayhem right now at HKIA.

-Several U.S. casualties
-U.S. troops returned fire after first explosion
-NATO troops ordered to leave airport gates immediately

Nobody knows anything, but I’ll try to update as reliable information come out. (Some of the purported photos being retweeted by blue checkmarks include scenes of old events).

Updates follow below.

Chaos and Confusion at the Kabul Airport as the 82nd Airborne Begins Evacuation Ahead of Schedule

There are multiple reports of an explosion at the Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport. According to Glenn Beck, this is the British gate and there are preliminary reports of a dozen injured British citizens. Beck reports that three U.S. Marines have been injured in the blast and one infant has been killed. He is live on air from the region and stated that the 82nd Airborne is beginning to evacuate as we speak. Private planes from his non-profit, assisting in the evacuation, are still at the airport, and confusion and chaos abound. […] Journalist Lara Logan is also in the region attempting to assist in facilitating evacuations. In monitoring the situation, she reports speaking to special operations officers who are vomiting as they realize they will be evacuated and leave Americans and their allies behind.

Flights halted: The Taliban have blocked all roads to the airport and are not letting anyone through — even if they have a passport from a Western country.

The adults are back in charge: U.S. Leaving Behind 75,000 Vehicles, 600,000 Weapons, 208 Aircraft In Afghanistan

With at least twelve US service members now reported dead, a question from @JackPosobiec: Where is the President?

Safe And Effective ®

Prof Francois Balloux; (Thread)

This preprint is a bit of a bombshell.

The results point to natural infection affording longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization due to the SARSCoV2 Delta variant than vaccine-induced immunity.

Read it here: Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity

Another paper in preprint just out from Osaka University: The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines

A Disease so Deadly

Federal COVID-19 briefings stopped during election

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) hasn’t held a single COVID-19 briefing since the announcement of the federal election on Aug. 15 and doesn’t plan to provide any more in-person health updates until it’s over, Global News has learned.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, PHAC had been providing at least weekly updates in person on the progress of the coronavirus and the country’s response in dealing with it.

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