by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  September 7, 2021

• If Washington is going to deter a militant China, it needs the support of democratic India. Unfortunately, India looks like the country most immediately — and perhaps most adversely — affected by the Biden-created debacle. As a result, New Delhi could decide to side not with America but with a Chinese ally, Moscow.
• India saw the Afghan government as a friend in blunting extremism in neighboring Pakistan, which has always defined itself as India’s enemy.
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By Devvy Kidd, NEWS WITH VIEWS           |September 6th, 2021

As I said at the end of my last column, COVID Injections: Killing, Permanently Disabling Nurses, Doctors, Teachers, you always need to go back to the genesis of the problem.  Identify is first because if you don’t know what the problem is, how can one possibly solve it?  I’ve made dates bold because this is very important.

February 3, 2020:  President Trump declares a public health emergency.  Based on what?  His staff informed him computer models predict 2.2 million will die; reportedly it was Fauci the Faker who delivered that canard.  Where did that number come from?  Prof. Neil Ferguson.  His ‘models’ have been rightfully shredded but the damage was done.[1][1A]

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By Victor Rosenthal

America has suffered a defeat of military and psychic proportions that have yet to be measured.

I once thought that future historians would be likely to use 9/11 as the date that marked the end of the American era, the one that started with the end of the Second World War and represented the flowering of one of the greatest national colossi in history, the nation and time that gave us (for good or ill) atomic energy, men on the moon, and the most incredible consumer culture ever seen.

But now I think that the date they will use will be 31 August 2021, the day a senile man who was never more than an empty suit sustained by narcissism at his best (and today he is definitely not at his best), placed America’s tail between her legs and told her to run.
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By Valerie Walsh, AM THINKER

My county recently re-instituted an indoor mask mandate. In reading through the exemptions in the public health order I found this exception to mandated face coverings:

“Exceptions. Individuals performing any of the following activities are exempt from the Face Covering requirements of this Order while the activity is being performed:

a. Individuals who are hearing impaired or otherwise disabled or who are communicating with someone who is hearing impaired or otherwise disabled and where the ability to see the mouth is essential to communication”

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Physician tells Times of Israel of ‘beautiful’ moment when formerly connected twins first looked at each other and cooed after ‘massively complex, life or death’ 12-hour procedure

By NATHAN JEFFAY, TOI

Conjoined twins, newly separated at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, look at each other for the first time, on September 5, 2021. (courtesy of Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba)

Doctors in Israel have successfully separated twins conjoined at the head for the first time — and say that after the 12-hour “life or death” operation, both babies are likely to live completely normal lives.

Dr. Isaac Lazar told The Times of Israel of the remarkable moment on Sunday when the girls looked at each other for the first time, after a year connected at their heads but unable to see one another, and of the “unbelievable joy” that the parents felt.

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Herd immunity in a month? Health officials say Israel close to herd immunity thanks to recent spate of infections, booster shot campaign.

Arutz Sheva Staff , Sep 06 , 2021 8:08 AM

COVID-19 vaccine

Israel appears to be nearing herd immunity for the novel coronavirus, top health officials say, suggesting that the fourth wave of mass COVID outbreaks – and potentially the pandemic as a whole – could finally be nearing the end.

According to a report by Kan Monday morning, a number of unnamed senior Health Ministry officials said that if the recent spike in coronavirus infections continues through the next few weeks alongside the rapid mass vaccination campaign for the third dose of the COVID vaccine, Israel will be well-positioned to reach herd immunity within a month or two.

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Dr. Aiman Mansour, JISS

The dour forecasts regarding Lebanon’s future are based on fundamental facts that cannot be amended: A corrupt and rotten government and the dominance of Hezbollah. Under these circumstances, a possible alternative to current Israeli policy may be to reinforce the role of Syrian patronage, which has been undermined since 2005.

The continued deterioration of Lebanon is obvious. The country’s government is rotting and corrupt. Young people and families of means are fleeing the country; sects clash with each other and within themselves over political dominance; and prominent clans prevent a fairer distribution of resources. Religious, ideological, and local identities dominate. The loyalty of the public to the state as an established framework never has been solidified. In a way, Lebanon never fully has become a unitary state, and it is not expected to become one in the foreseeable future.

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BY TYLER DURDEN, ZERO HEDGE       SUNDAY, SEP 05, 2021 – 01:30 PM

Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News,

They fixed the problem, twice. That’s the good news. The first time filmmaker, former BBC and Channel 4 journalist, and Rebel Wisdom co-founder David Fuller put together a video criticizing ivermectin advocates was on August 4th. Called “Ivermectin For and Against,” it was taken down by YouTube, on the grounds that it constituted medical misinformation.

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By Caroline B. Glick

The four farmers of Arugot Farm, located on the eastern side of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, were tense last Monday morning. They had just gotten word that the next day, 100 soldiers were set to storm their farm and uproot their vineyard, planted six years ago in memory of Ezra Schwartz.

Ezra, 18, of Sharon, Massachusetts, was one of three people killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at vehicles stuck in a traffic jam at Gush Etzion junction in 2015. Five of Ezra’s friends from yeshiva were wounded in the attack, which occurred just a few dozen meters from where Naftali Frankel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach were kidnapped and murdered the previous summer. Their abduction and execution set off a chain of events that led to the 2014 summer war with the Hamas regime in Gaza.

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https://rumble.com/vm31ql-the-goal-is-ending-our-freedoms.html

By Rachel Ehrenfeld, AM THINKER

The Biden administration used military, commercial and charter flights to secretly fly more than 123,000, mostly undocumented and unidentified Afghans out of the country. Reportedly, 50,000 to 100,000 have already been transported to the U.S.

Who are these Afghans?

We know the Biden “airlift” did not­­­ carry most of the Afghans who aided the U.S. forces, translators, and others who already held or were cleared for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV).
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by Eytan Gilboa, Middle East Quarterly   Fall 2021 (view PDF)

As the worldwide mass demonstrations during the latest war between Israel and Hamas vividly illustrate, every conflict is fought twice: first on the battlefield, then in public opinion. Having failed to destroy the State of Israel upon its birth and in ensuing decades of terrorism, the Palestinians waged a sustained propaganda battle to win over Western hearts and minds, especially in the United States, the foremost world power and Israel’s staunchest and most longstanding ally.

Turning Israel’s struggle for survival upside down—with aggressors turned into hapless victims and vice versa—the fake Palestinian narrative of unblemished victimhood has made inroads into American public opinion. This has been especially true since the onset of the Oslo “peace process,” which transformed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) overnight from the world’s leading terror organization into a (supposed) peaceable political actor.

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T. Belman. This is not news to us or the EU.  It is common knowledge. Nothing significant will come out of this investigation.

During EU committee hearing, UNWRA chief says the issue needs to be addressed but is criticized for being short on det

By Dan Verbin, INN       , Sep 03 , 2021

The commissioner-general of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, had admitted that Palestinian Arab textbooks contain anti-Semitic content and glorification of terrorism, while maintaining, without giving specifics, that his agency is capable of revising the material so that the offending sections are not taught.

In a hearing of the EU parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Lazzarini acknowledged that anti-Semitism, intolerance and glorification of terrorism are present in PA textbooks used in UNRWA schools, Eureporter reported.

He also contended that the agency had removed the hateful content from textbooks used in its schools after allegations of anti-Semitic learning materials surfaced.
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T. Belman. In Feb 2016, Alex Maistrovoy and I wrote Contemplating, a US-Russia Alliance in which we foresaw such an alliance.

By Peter Skurkiss, AM THINKER

Vaccines are a multibillion-dollar industry, and the revenue from them is rapidly growing with the advent of the ones for COVID. The prime example is Pfizer. The company estimates 2021 sales for its mRNA vaccine will be $33.5 billion. And that number will grow as Pfizer and President Joe Biden are already advocating for vaccine booster shots.

The history of Big Pharma has shown that it has never been shy about using money to buy influence. Recipients of drug company money include individual doctors and hospitals, politicians, new outlets which rely on pharmaceutical advertising, and organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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T. Belman. The war against Israel is part of the forever war. Accordingly its a lesson for Israel, too.

Israel should never withdraw from Judea and Samaria and should reconquer Gaza. She should dedicate herself to victory and not coexistence.

Are we sure we shouldn’t have maintained a presence in Afghanistan?

By Don Feder, FPM

Imagine after Pearl Harbor, FDR announcing, “We’re getting into this to bring human rights to Japanese women” or “Our goal in this war is give Germany a democracy.” He would have been laughed out of office.

There was only one legitimate reason to go into Afghanistan after 9/11 and it’s the same reason that should have impelled us to stay – not human rights, democracy or nation-building – but saving our nation.

We went to Afghanistan to root out terrorism, to destroy Al Qaeda’s infrastructure, to disrupt its network – and, quite frankly, to kill as many terrorists as possible.

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To Understand U.S. Response to Taliban, Look at Syria and Libya

By Kyle Shideler, AM GREATNESS      September 3, 2021

In the wake of the bungled U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, many Americans may be wondering how the U.S. government found itself closely cooperating with, and even relying upon, an enemy with whom we were at war for 20 years.

The Taliban maintains its intention to enforce Sharia Law, harbors al-Qaeda, and includes a designated terrorist group among its organizations.

Yet the head of U.S. Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, praised the Taliban for their assistance with the U.S. evacuation, calling the jihadist group “actually very helpful.”

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China on the cusp of a ‘profound transformation’