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This Video Destroys
Critical Race Theory
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This from my English girl friend:
The Taliban are now in possession of more Blackhawk helicopters than
166 other nations around the globe !! Basically Biden gifted Taliban
20 billion dollars $ worth of most dangerous military hardware in the
world.
Thanks to US, Taliban has an air force now, 11 military bases.
that includes an army of well-trained soldiers equipped with latest
weapons and gadgets, well-planned military bases but most importantly,
something the Taliban never dreamt of—an air force.
in the three months from April to June 2021, the US handed over to
the Afghan National Defense and Security forces (ANDSF) six A-29 light
attack aircraft, 174 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles
(Humvees), about 10,000 2.75 inch high-explosive rockets, 61,000 40-mm
high explosive rounds, 9,00,000 rounds of .50 calibre ammo, and
20,15,600 rounds of 7.62 mm bullets.
The Afghan Air Force (AAF) operates three types of helicopters which
include the 45 UH-60 Blackhawks, 50 MD-530s, and 56 Mi-17 helicopters
besides its A-29 Super Tucano fighters (23 in number), C-130 Hercules
transport aircraft, C-208 utility aircraft, and AC-208 fixed-wing
aircraft.
In total, the AAF has an inventory of 211 air platforms of which 167
were operable as of June 30, 2021.
The 11 bases and military complexes recently handed over to the ANDSF
are New Antonik, Kandahar airfield, Camp Morehead, New Kabul Complex,
Blockhouse, Camp Stevenson, Camp Dwyer, Camp Lincoln (Camp Marmal),
Camp Arena, Bagram airfield and the Resolute Support headquarters
(RSHQ) which was handed over to the Afghan government on June 6, 2021.
It is nothing but the Americans to be blamed for this mess. They did
it in Iraq & now Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world before. They
are root cause for distrubing the peace in this world.
They have never won a war except come back with body bags & their
tails between their legs.
Looks like it's China's well planned waged war - Coronavirus, US
Elections and now Afghanistan. 😱
They plan to get minerals with trillions & also get easier
> connectivity to European market.
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This was written and posted before Biden's Afghanistan disaster. I believe, in view ofanother Biden disaster, it is worth being re-posted
Democrats Will Ruin the Climate
They’ve wrecked the cities and the border. Why would climate policy be different?
By Daniel Henninger
Wonder Land: Democrats have wrecked the cities and the border. Why would climate policy be any different? Images: Zuma Press/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
Notwithstanding that we are passing the 18th month of a global Covid-19 pandemic that has killed 4.3 million people and crushed national economies, the United Nations decided that what the world needs just now is more bad news, as summarized by the New York Times : “The new report leaves no doubt that humans are responsible for global warming, concluding that essentially all of the rise in global average temperatures since the 19th century has been driven by nations burning fossil fuels, clearing forests and loading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane that trap heat.” What’s more, the report says climatic destruction is going to get worse no matter what we do. I do sometimes wonder what it would be like to be alive when the world ends.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change even includes an interactive atlas depicting that global warming’s ruin will be everywhere, meaning there’s nowhere to hide. Now what?
My short answer: Don’t put the Democrats in charge of Noah’s Ark. It will sink.
If only for the sake of discussion, let’s stipulate the U.N.’s climate report may be right that warming is a problem. One still may pose a practical political question: Instead of mitigating the world’s climate challenge, what evidence exists that these progressive advocates—Democratic politicians or affiliated scientists—would do anything other than make it worse if we put them in charge of the solutions?
The currently observable reality is that progressives, who have now captured the Democratic Party at all levels of government, don’t seem able to run anything anymore—not cities, not Covid, not a national border. Why would letting them run climate policy be different?
Whatever one thinks about the “root causes” of the rise in violent urban crime or the more than one million migrants apprehended at the southern border in the current fiscal year, both stand as significant case studies in political mismanagement.
The nonresponse to the overrun border by the Biden administration and to urban violence by progressive mayors in Chicago, New York, Washington and Portland, Ore., suggests this high-probability scenario on climate: They will make mistakes, the world will go to hell, and then they will deny we are in hell—and what’s worse, insist that we keep doing the same manifestly wrong things.
Even more fantastically, the progressives offload responsibility for their policy failures onto us with constant guilt-tripping: The cities are a mess because of systemic racism. The world is burning because “humans” have used fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution.
One may question the progressives’ ability not only to govern but even to do politics effectively. The idea of systemic racism, often allied with teaching some version of critical race theory, is so extreme that it simply falls outside a strong majority’s consciousness of the real world. No surprise, an active refusal to adopt those ideas is under way among parents in public and private schools.
A similar mystery is why the progressive greens, and the climate press for that matter, actually believe it is effective politics to describe life on Earth as at the edge of a cataclysmic apocalypse—with the world engulfed over the next 30 years in hurricanes, wildfires, floods and melting icebergs. And that avoiding doom will require uncapped public spending and ceding authority over daily life to unseen climate scientists. These claims are beyond any politics that normal people can process.
The Covid-19 pandemic, a real event requiring constant public vigilance, has reached a state of personal and political fatigue. But the progressive version of the Democratic Party is oblivious to how many guilt-laden political burdens they can load onto the body politic. Past some point of incomprehension, people tune out or resist. With the climate apocalypse, resistance is simple: Stop caring. It’s hopeless.
It was not always this way with Democrats. After it became clear that Vermont’s three-year experiment in a single-payer healthcare system had manifestly failed to control costs, its then- Gov. Peter Shumlin admitted as much and ended it in 2014. Still, single-payer advocates dismissed Vermont as too small to disprove their idea, and progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have persisted.
With climate regulation, we have the test case of California, the world’s fifth-largest economy. Progressive-run California for years has been the most climate-correct state in the union, and the most screwed up.
By suppressing the use of fossil fuels and natural gas while elevating solar and wind, California has created an electrical grid that performs poorly under stress, causing statewide power outages. Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to shut down the state’s only nuclear power plant, which is emissions-free, in 2025.
New York’s defrocked Gov. Andrew Cuomo closed the state’s Indian Point nuclear plant in April. This Wednesday, amid a heat wave, the Con Edison utility text-messaged residents that if the power goes out, “Reply HELP for help.”
If only life under progressive mis-governance were that easy.
And:
What is the logic behind Biden's desire to enrich Russia?
Joe Biden Wants OPEC to Drill
The White House pleads for more foreign oil. The U.S.? Not so much.
By The Editorial Board
We thought we’d seen everything, but there it was Wednesday morning in black and white on the White House website: Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, imploring the cartel of oil exporting nations to pump more oil. Talk about a political climate change. This is the same Biden Administration that has spent six months doing everything it can to crush U.S. oil production.
“Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery. The price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic,” Mr. Sullivan’s statement said. “While OPEC+ recently agreed to production increases, these increases will not fully offset previous production cuts that OPEC+ imposed during the pandemic until well into 2022. At a critical moment in the global recovery, this is simply not enough.”
Someone pass the smelling salts to Tom Steyer, the climate crusader who surely fainted when he heard that one. Oil production is beneficial? Fossil fuels are essential to economic growth? The world needs more petroleum to be burned to release more CO2 into the atmosphere?
Perhaps Mr. Sullivan missed Monday’s U.N. report that the world will soon be as hot as Hades if we keep pumping oil. In a single, brief statement, he managed to contradict President Biden’s entire energy message as a candidate and in office. But as it happens, Mr. Sullivan wasn’t talking out of his hat.
On Wednesday Brian Deese, the White House economic council chief, wrote to the Federal Trade Commission to investigate oil-price fluctuations. This is a hardy perennial whenever White House officials fret that rising gasoline prices are becoming an issue. Blame “anti-competitive” practices. Perhaps Mr. Deese found the letter in a White House file cabinet. This means inflation is showing up as a bigger political problem in the polls than Democrats let on.
Allow us to help. How about asking Congress and your own regulators to take their foot off the neck of U.S. oil and gas drillers? Before the pandemic, the U.S. had become the world’s largest oil producer. Thanks to private innovation, the end of the U.S. oil export ban passed by the GOP Congress in 2015, and President Trump’s deregulation, America has had to import far less foreign oil. The U.S. reduced the strategic leverage of foreign producers such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
But since taking office, the Biden Administration has killed the Keystone XL pipeline to transport oil from Canada and the Bakken Shale to Gulf Coast refiners; canceled oil leasing in Alaska; suspended oil leases on federal land, even after a court ruled the moratorium illegal; increased fuel-mileage standards for cars, which favors electric vehicles; and invoked the Endangered Species Act as part of a strategy to reduce drilling on private land in the West. No doubt we’re missing something.
Someone should ask Mr. Biden, on his next stop for ice cream, why the President thinks oil produced by foreign dictators in Russia, Iran or Saudi Arabia is more desirable than oil drilled by American entrepreneurs.
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While playing tennis, Saturday, when I wrote this, I kept thinking how blessed I am to be at The Landings enjoying life while Afghanistan women,children and family members are and will be slaughtered over the ensuing weeks because an delusional American president acted precipitously for political gain.
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