Archive for August, 2021

Air Force launches investigation after human remains found in C-17 flying out of Kabul

| August 18, 2021 | 39 Comments
Air Force launches investigation after human remains found in C-17 flying out of Kabul

We talked about at least one C-17 Globemaster III aircraft of the US Air Force being mobbed by people as it taxied and ultimately took off in Kabul the other day. I posted the video of the incident, which I’ll post again below. It’s quite graphic. TW: Disturbing images A US military plane took off […]

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Wednesday FGS

| August 18, 2021 | 10 Comments
Wednesday FGS

Reach Out and Touch Someone Police: Officer Shot Theft Suspect Who Rammed Police Vehicle Howard County police say an officer shot and wounded the driver of a car that rammed a police vehicle Monday as officers confronted a group suspected of theft. JESSUP, Md. (AP) — A Howard County police officer shot and wounded the […]

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Pentagon assessing the possibility of terrorist networks reconstituting in Afghanistan

| August 17, 2021 | 59 Comments
Pentagon assessing the possibility of terrorist networks reconstituting in Afghanistan

The Taliban is returning Afghanistan’s political status to the state it was in before the Afghanistan War began. With history repeating itself, Afghanistan is anticipated to attract terrorist groups driven from Iraq, Syria, and from other locations in the near future. Both international and regional terrorist groups may find Afghanistan as a location to base […]

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Taiwan Is Next?

| August 17, 2021 | 20 Comments
Taiwan Is Next?

I know: this is partly about China, but this BBC article has a photo included that should just make you shake your head. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497 From the article, and the photo is below the following quote:  The US suspended its evacuation from Kabul but it has now resumed. A remarkable picture from Sunday appears to show […]

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Another echo of Saigon seen in Kabul

| August 17, 2021 | 88 Comments
Another echo of Saigon seen in Kabul

This photo shows the interior of a US Air Force C-17 (possibly the one that I posted video of taxiing through a crowd with men clinging to the side as it took off, falling to their deaths). The aircraft is nominally designed to hold 150 souls at max, but they shoehorned 640 inside. This is […]

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China mocks the United States regarding Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Taiwan

| August 16, 2021 | 18 Comments
China mocks the United States regarding Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Taiwan

Our enemies and adversaries watched our actions in the Middle East. China is an example. Bringing up the Fall of Saigon, and now the Fall of Kabul, China “ponders” our utility to Taiwan should China attack them. One Global Times (CCP publication) tweet on the event: “Yesterday’s Saigon, today’s #Afghanistan, and tomorrow’s #Taiwan?” read some […]

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Interested in contributing to a successful manned Mars mission?

| August 16, 2021 | 14 Comments
Interested in contributing to a successful manned Mars mission?

NASA is looking for volunteers to live and work, for a year, in a simulated Mars environment. Volunteers will perform tasks, duties, and experiments, that are expected to be performed once we have a manned mission on the Martian surface. Researchers will gather information on the participants, and on their performance, that they hope could […]

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Biden Returns- Walk of Shame.

| August 16, 2021 | 77 Comments
Biden Returns- Walk of Shame.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan President Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Taliban fighters have entered Afghanistan’s presidential palace hours after former President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Taliban commander and leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been declared the new Afghanistan President. The former Afghanistan’s President, Ghani, had, just before fleeing the country in a helo […]

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