August 31st was a day of freedom protests across Australia in front of government legislative buildings at the state and local level.
Some protests also reported in New Zealand.
Hundreds at the New South Wales state legislative building in Sydney...
Police in New South Wales responding to protests at 79 different sites according to ABC News Australia.
And at least one arrest was made by police outside the Lismore Council Chambers...VIDEO LINK
The police in New South Wales have so far reported more than 150 arrests and more than 570 "penalty infringement notices" imposing multi-thousand dollar fines on the recipients.
The protests at multiple locations in New South Wales many near the northern border with Queensland and in Queensland itself outside the legislative building in Brisbane.
Mainstream media describing the crowd in the hundreds in Brisbane but also reporting a "lockdown": at the legislative building asserting the crowd was threatening to breach the building....
Back in New South Wales the Byron Shire Council chambers the site of a mass protest involving hundreds of people. Byron Shire a border area community in the northern part of the state...
Meanwhile in Brisbane this group of protesters were outside the Governor General's residence....
Making an appearance in northern New South Wales on his horse Michael Corrigan ("The Lone Horseman"). An earlier protest appearance by Corrigan riding his horse netted him a 7000 dollar fine (5119.26 US dollars)...
And at the closed down border between the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland this huge procession of protesters including horseman Michael Corrigan...
MORE DETAILS WILL BE POSTED LATER....
What we are learning is that this protest was called as a "silent protest" and that it encompassed not just locations in Australia but some in New Zealand as well.
Two women, one in Australia and the other in New Zealand, described as "leaders" of the protest were arrested...THE GUARDIAN UK...
"At the moment you are under arrest for incitement"
Those words spoken to Monica Smit who was pulled over by Victoria Police today and here embedded in a mainstream media piece calling her an "Anti-Vaxxer" is the video of Smit in her car when the arrest occurred...
"Are You Vaccinated? Yes. No. or Prefer Not To Answer."
That's the line of questioning and the options to answer for more than one million Walmart associates across the United States.
Managers across the retail giant working towards a Friday deadline to collect the information.
One exception is Montana where a state law bans employers from requiring vaccination.
Walmart is not asking the vaccination question in Montana and will not longer offer a 150 dollar financial incentive there for vaccination.
Idaho's Republican Governor Brad Little mobilizing the National Guard and bringing in a US Defense Department "response team" to be sent of northern Idaho.
Also federal contract workers will be brought into the state to deal with what Little says are staff shortages at the state's hospitals.
Little pleading for more vaccination in the state saying:
"We need more Idahoans to choose to receive the safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine. It's our ticket out of the pandemic."...IDAHO STATESMAN
Here in Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Tom Wolf ordering masks in all K-12 schools and child care centers effective next Tuesday September 7th.
Figures from Israel's Health Ministry confirmed a record number of COVID-19 cases in the country. The largest one day total ever reported through the day Monday was initially 10,947 but later revised to 11,077....THE TIMES OF ISRAEL REVISED TOTAL
Officials are putting out explanations for the high number in the midst of a massive "third dose" vaccination campaign that has already reached more than two million Israelis...THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND LOCKDOWN PROTEST "LEADERS" AMONG THE ARRESTED
(UPDATED WITH LINK TO SPECIAL REPORT ON STORY)
A DAY OF PROTESTS ACROSS AUSTRALIA'S NEW SOUTH WALES STATE OPPOSING THE COVID LOCKDOWN.
THE DEMONSTRATIONS AT 79 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS LED TO MORE THAN 150 ARRESTS AND 570 "NOTICES OF INFRINGEMENT" WHICH INVOLVE HUGE FINES FOR THOSE CITED...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA ..
PROTESTERS ALSO GATHERED AT PARLIAMENT IN QUEENSLAND'S STATE CAPITAL OF BRISBANE....
THERE WERE SIMILAR PROTESTS ON A SMALLER SCALE OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS TODAY IN NEW ZEALAND AND ACCORDING TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALANDER BELIEVED TO BE "LEADERS" OF THE PROTESTS WERE ARRESTED.....THE GUARDIAN UK
"While a 70 percent double dose gives those of us vaccinated freedoms, 80 percent double dose allows us to look at international travel, welcoming home all Australians"
Some of today's pitch from New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian as the strict lockdown continues and new positive COVID tests in the state continue to soar past 1000 a day...RADIO NEW ZEALAND
WORD OF ANOTHER DAY OF PROTEST IN AUSTRALIA THIS ONE SET FOR SATURDAY AUGUST 18TH. A LOCATION IN DOWNTOWN MELBOURNE ALREADY ANNOUNCED.
THE INFORMATION POSTED AT THE "SPECIAL EVENTS CHANNEL" OF TELEGRAM.
In California and now Nevada thousands ordered to evacuate in the face of the massive Caldor Fire.
The fire has already destroyed hundreds of homes and is now threatening more in the Lake Tahoe region...KCRA SACRAMENTO
Election reform legislation passing the Texas legislature controlled by Republicans. Democrats call it "restrictive". They want federal action to stop the new law that will be signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott...THE INDEPENDENT UK
THE TALIBAN FIRED GUNS INTO THE AIR IN CELEBRATION AS THE US MILITARY PULLED OUT OF AFGHANISTAN LAST NIGHT.
TODAY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DEFENDED THE DECISION TO PULL OUT OF AFGHANISTAN WHICH HE CALLED A 'FOREVER WAR'....AFP FRANCE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A RUSSIAN CRUISE MISSILE TEST IN THE ARCTIC. A WARSHIP FIRING A KALIBR CRUISE MISSILE SAID TO HAVE HIT A LAND TARGET ONE THOUSAND KILOMETERS AWAY...TASS RUSSIA
Telegram founder Pavel Durov critical of big tech and other big corporations use of the internet.
Durov noting the censorship of Apple and Google that includes apps along other corporate use of internet including use of private data that in the end "keeps us distracted with low-quality entertainment"...TASS RUSSIA
NEW YORK STATE OPENED UP A WINDOW FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE LAWSUITS TO BE FILED THAT WERE BEYOND THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
BY THE TIME THE WINDOW ENDED ON AUGUST 14TH NEARLY 11-THOUSAND LAWSUITS WERE FILED.
THE JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY ANALYZED THE LIST OF LAWSUITS AND FOUND AT LEAST 150 OF THEM WERE LINKED TO JEWISH INSTITUTIONS....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
"Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" Executive Producer Mike Richards is leaving his job. Richards backed away from hosting "Jeopardy" earlier this month when questions were raised about his comments on a podcast...SPUTNIK RUSSIA
COVID NUMBERS VIA WORLDOMETERS TODAY NEW POSITIVE TESTS IN THE US 156,002 AND WORLDWIDE 607,337.
A WEEK AGO TODAY THE NUMBERS 147,619 AND 654,477.
CORONAVIRUS STATS FROM WORLDOMETERS FOR SELECTED NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD NEW POSITIVE TESTS INDIA 43,064, THE UK 32,181, IRAN 31,319, TURKEY 21,893, MALAYSIA 20,897 AND FRANCE 19,543.
RUSSIA 17,813, THAILAND 14,666, THE PHILIPPINES 13,827, JAPAN 13,638, VIETNAM 12,607 AND INDONESIA 10,534.
CUBA 6,344.
CANADA 2,906.
AUSTRALIA 1,244.
That's the way it really is Tuesday August 31st, 2021 Day 533 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 533 of America and the World held hostage.
Israel's vaccine passport (Green Pass) will now apply to any staff at health and educational institutions and employees of facilities where customers are subject to vaccine passport rules.
Tonight the coronavirus cabinet approved a new regime of controls that include antibody testing for children too young to be vaccinated in order to enter various public locations.
Unvaccinated teachers in schools required to get twice a week COVID tests.
In any "red" cities in Israel Grade 8 to 12 classes with less than 70 percent vaccination rates will be required to study remotely.
On Sunday the positive COVID test rate in Israel was 7.81 percent...HAARETZ
There's one state in the USA where employer vaccine mandates are prohibited by law.
Montana's legislature passed the law earlier this year that was signed by Republican Governor Greg Gianforte in May.
The only modification Gianforte asked for was that health care facilities can require the unvaccinated or those who won't reveal vaxx status to wear masks and take other precautions.
The law defines requiring vaccination as a condition of employment to be discrimination in violation of the state's human rights laws...FORTUNE
THE LOCKDOWN IN NEW ZEALANDS LARGEST CITY AUCKLAND EXTENDED FOR TWO MORE WEEKS WHILE THE RESTRICTIONS ARE BEING EASED IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.
THE GOVERNMENT IS ALSO ACKNOWLEDGING A DEATH RELATED TO THE PFIZER CORONAVIRUS VACCINE...REUTERS
"Vaccination is the key in terms of our freedom and reducing the spread of the virus....But at 70 percent double dose, life will be better than it is today"
SOME OF THE WORDS TODAY FROM PREMIER GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN OF THE LIBERAL PARTY OF PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON.
THE FACTS ON THE GROUND IN AUSTRALIA'S MOST POPULOUS STATE NEW SOUTH WALES AND ITS LARGEST CITY SYDNEY TODAY:
A lockdown even tighter in the Greater Sydney area remains in force.
The World Health Organization projecting 236-thousand more COVID deaths in Europe in the next 90 days and Dr. Anthony Fauci talking about 100-thousand more here in the US during the same period.
Both are linking their death projections to the lack of vaccination....MARKET WATCH
THE THIRD "BOOSTER SHOT" VACCINATION CAMPAIGN HAS LAUNCHED IN FRANCE. THOSE OVER THE AGE OF 65 ELIGIBLE...(BFM-TV FRANCE GOOGLE TRANSLATION)
Russia and the UK talking about mutual recognition of vaccination certifications...TASS RUSSIA
ISRAEL THROWS PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT A LIFELINE FOLLOWING PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING WITH JOE BIDEN
ISRAEL IS EXTENDING A LOAN TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. THE AMOUNT IS 155 MILLION DOLLARS. THE LOAN NEEDED TO STAVE OFF FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.
THE DEAL WILL ALSO ALLOW 16-THOUSAND MORE PALESTINIANS TO WORK IN ISRAEL.
THIS LOAN OFFER CIRCUMVENTS AN ISRAELI LAW THAT CONFISCATES PALESTINIAN TAX REVENUE TO OFFSET THE PA'S PAYMENTS TO TERRORISTS KILLED, WOUNDED AND IMPRISONED BY ISRAEL.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS A MEETING BETWEEN DEFENSE MINISTER BENNY GANTZ AND PA PRESIDENT MAMMOUD ABBAS.
THAT MEETING FOLLOWS THE MEETING LAST FRIDAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE BETWEEN US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NAFTALI BENNETT...TIMES OF ISRAEL
(Updated) "The End" in Afghanistan seemed near today with tomorrow's deadline for a US pullout and the departure of key diplomatic staff from Kabul Airport.
At around Midnight local time (330 pm Eastern US Time) three C-17 planes left the airport signaling the end of the US presence in Afghanistan.
North Korea appears to have resumed operation of its key nuclear reactor that produces fuel for nuclear weapons.
The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations reports that since early July there are indications that the reactor at Yongbyon is operational again....ASSOCIATED PRESS-INDIA TODAY
THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV SAYS THAT THE US GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO DRIVE A WEDGE INTO ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY.
LAVROV SEES A US EFFORT UNDERWAY TO UNDERMINE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX FELLOWSHIP WITH ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY.
HE ADDED THAT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN RUSSIA DEFENDS "TRADITIONAL SPIRITUAL AND MORAL VALUES" THAT ARE "UNDER ATTACK BY NEOLIBERAL ELITES" IN THE WEST....TASS RUSSIA
China imposing a very strict limit on the use of video games for those under the age of 18. Use will only be permitted for one hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays...BBC NEWS
THE CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR TODAY FROM WORLDOMETERS NEW POSITIVE TESTS IN THE US 119,642 AND WORLDWIDE 515,873.
A WEEK AGO TODAY THOSE NUMBERS 111,134 AND 511,411.
CORONAVIRUS STATS IN SELECTED NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD TODAY VIA WORLDOMETERS NEW POSITIVE TESTS IRAN 33,780, THE UK 26,476, THE PHILIPPPINES 22,366 AND JAPAN 19,314.
MALAYSIA 19,268, RUSSIA 18,325, THAILAND 15,972 AND VIETNAM 14,224.
ISRAEL 7.960.
AND IN CANADA 6,444.
That's the way it really is Monday August 30th, 2021 Day 532 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 532 of America and the World held hostage.
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTING AROUND MIDNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT EASTERN US TIME)
An update on mask orders across the USA with our exclusive sourcing.
Some of the larger states and communities imposing mask orders this week.
State of Illinois
State of Washington
Shelby County, Tennessee (Memphis)
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (Charlotte)
Some less populated places like Imperial County, California and Hamden, Connecticut imposed mask orders in the last week.
But one big discernable trend this last week was the imposition of mask orders in well known university communities.
Alachua County, Florida (University of Florida)
Lancaster County, Nebraska (University of Nebraska)
Clemson, South Carolina (Clemson University)
Oxford, Mississippi (University of Mississippi)
As far as the US Centers for Disease Control is concerned there is a high rate of community transmission of COVID-19 in more than 3000 US counties or 93 plus percent of US counties....CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL COVID DATA TRACKER
Israel expanding its "third shot" coronavirus vaccine campaign to include everyone 12 years and older....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Experts say the "third shot" campaign will bear fruit even as the positive test rate for COVID-19 in Israel has risen to over 7 percent...TIMES OF ISRAEL
MEANWHILE INCREASED SECURITY FOR ISRAEL'S EDUCATION MINISTER WHO OPPOSES VACCINATION ON SCHOOL CAMPUSES.
AN ADVISOR TO YIFAT SHASHA-BITON APPARENTLY MURDERED EARLIER THIS MONTH WHILE SHE HERSELF HAS BEEN THREATENED WITH DEATH OVER HER OPPOSITION TO VACCINATION IN SCHOOLS DURING INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS.
ISRAEL'S ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS INTERVENED TO REVERSE HER SCHOOL VACCINATION POLICY.
More coronavirus news later in the summary...
HURRICANE IDA STRIKING THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COAST TODAY. IT CAME ASHORE SOME 30 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISLE AND 90 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF NEW ORLEANS
THE STORM RAPIDLY INTENSIFIED OVERNIGHT WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS REPORTED AT 150 MILES PER HOUR THIS MORNING.
THE HIGH WINDS KNOCKING OUT POWER ACROSS THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA WITH THE STORM NOW BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND BATON ROUGE WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 105 MILES PER HOUR AS OF 11 PM EASTERN US TIME.
PLENTY OF DAMAGE REPORTED IN LOUISIANA TONIGHT WITH FLOODING IN MANY LOCATIONS...
In Afghanistan today a US strike aimed at a suicide bomber in the streets of Kabul. Local media reports civilians were killed and wounded the Pentagon says there were no civilian casualties...TASS RUSSIA...TASS RUSSIA STORY TWO
President Joe Biden at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to meet with the families of those killed in the terrorist attack at the Kabul Airport last Thursday...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro sees three alternatives in his future:
PRISON
DEATH
VICTORY
Bolsonaro referring to the presidential election next year in his speech to Evangelical Protestant leaders this weekend.
Bolsonaro facing the former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva next year and is trailing in many of the election polls...THE GUARDIAN UK
ACTOR ED ASNER, WHO PLAYED THE ROLE OF 'LOU GRANT' IN THE MARY TYLER MOORE TELEVISION SERIES, DEAD AT THE AGE OF 91.
ASNER KNOWN POLITICALLY FOR LEFT OF CENTER VIEWS. HE WAS A PRESIDENT OF THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD WHO HAD A LONG CAREER ON THE SCREEN AND DOING VOICE-OVERS....
What are the consequences of vaccination?
From the death of a BBC Radio broadcaster due to a blood clot following vaccination to the blood disorder that's taken defensive end Vinny Curry of the heavily vaccinated New York Jets off the field for several months questions raised?
Some questions have found answers and others are still looking...THE DEFENDER
WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR TODAY IN THE US 37,262 NEW POSITIVE TESTS AND 452,679 WORLDWIDE.
A WEEK AGO TODAY THE NUMBERS 30,810 AND 451,510.
CORONAVIRUS STATS IN SELECTED NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD VIA WORLDOMETERS NEW POSITIVE TESTS TODAY INDIA 43,368, THE UK 33.196, IRAN 31,516, JAPAN 22,748 AND MALAYSIA 20,579.
RUSSIA 19,286, THE PHILIPPINES 18,528, MEXICO 17,546, TURKEY 17,332, THAILAND 16,536 AND VIETNAM 12,796.
ISRAEL 4,913.
IN CANADA 1,577.
That's the way it really is Sunday August 29th, 2021 Day 531 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 531 of America and the World held hostage.
The "Anti-Semitism" notion regarding the opponents of the vaccine passport and forced vaccination in France may have dented into the mass protest numbers slightly as one considers the estimates from both the government and protest organizers.
The organizers reported 357,100 protesters last Saturday the government 175,503.
The government expects 200 protests today with 180,000 participants. Four of the protests planned in Paris.
New negative ideas about the protests put out to the media on Friday in a "confidential" government report saying that:
"conspiracy and sectarian aberrations"
exist within the ranks of protesters with everything from Scientology to Q Anon cited in the report.
The first procession in Paris started late this morning with a number of live video streams from Paris including this second one linked in this post.....
Demonstrators in the streets of Albertville in southeastern France today...
"Liberte"
or
"Freedom"
the cry of protesters in southwestern France in Perigueux in southwestern France today....
Thousands moving through the streets of Bordeaux today with some pressing into the police lines at times. Bloodied protesters visible in this video the blood drawn by the police...BORDEAUX PROTEST AUGUST 28, 2021
The official government estimate of protesters this evening 160,000 at 222 different locations but the organizers will give us their usually much higher estimate tomorrow...surprise it came out early tonight the total 319,290.
Getting back to today's protests this one held in Saint Denis in the French Indian Ocean territory of Reunion....
Welcome to your weekend....lets go with music first in the early 1980's I listened to some London radio stations on the satellite dish working at a TV station.
All the hits on Capital Radio and the news on LBC but also BBC Radio London with music and guests. One day I shouted to my buddy in the other room that I had a show on with musical guests "The Troggs". He was a fan of that group...
"WITH A GIRL LIKE YOU"-THE TROGGS
"THE MORE I SEE YOU"-CHRIS MONTEZ
"LETS LOCK THE DOOR (AND THROW AWAY THE KEY)"-JAY AND THE AMERICANS
Hey your HIPAA trained host in a HIPPACRITICAL world...
"What is your vaccination status?"
a living slap in the face to the notion of privacy of heath records in the 1996 HIPAA law here in the USA.
DAY 530 OF THE DICATORSHIP OF COVID 19, DAY 530 OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD HELD HOSTAGE
Going back to one year ago Friday August 28th, 2020 we had 49,601 new positive tests for COVID-19 in the USA a year ago in the summer virus killing heat without the vaccine.
Now on Friday August 27th, 2021 we had 190,370 new positive tests for COVID-19 in the USA in the summer virus killing heat with the vaccine.
What's coming next as we get into the colder weather?
In Canada an epidemiologist resigned from a science panel this week saying "grim" predictions regarding COVID-19 being held back from public view for political reasons...
AN UPDATE ON 'FULL VACCINATED' REVEREND JESSE JACKSON AND HIS WIFE JACQUELINE HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19
Reverend Jackson now transferred to a rehab facility to deal with Parkinson's Disease symptoms. His wife Jacqueline moved to an Intensive Care Unit for treatment. Both were admitted to Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago last Saturday...
AUSTRALIA UPDATE-ZERO COVID ZEALOTS BIG FAIL ON NEW SOUTH WALES LOCKDOWN
Da, da, da, da, da the theme with Rolf Harris.....
They locked down New South Wales state and they locked down Greater Sydney Australia's largest city in the name of preventing coronavirus spread and they utterly failed.
As vaccination rises COVID rises now the mantra is about vaccination with the government poobahs trying to switch from their COVID spread fail to tout vaccination instead.
(SATURDAY 9 PM EASTERN US TIME)
Some who have died of COVID found in their homes they preferred to die there. "On The Beach" mate...
They are going to allow five guest weddings for the prisoners in New South Wales starting next Friday the insanity of it all catching up.
Its now Saturday evening and I'm back at the keyboard a day to remember a "mentor" of mine and spend time with my wife its a new life for me in this month of August and I am fully enjoying changes.
Late August is the time I remember going to the beach before school started after Labor Day that's the way we did it back then.
I loved country music but the popular music played as I played the machines in the arcade on the Boardwalk and from August 1976 this song played as I spent my summer at the shore...
"DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART"-ELTON JOHN AND KIKI DEE
"HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE LOVED BY YOU)"-JAMES TAYLOR
"ROCK THE BOAT"-HUES CORPORATION
I went to different beaches from Ocean City, New Jersey down to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and one constant were the Atlantic City radio stations booming down the coast over the salt water WMID (1340) and WOND (1400)....
A SUMMER AIRCHECK FROM WMID ATLANTIC CITY IN 1973....
PROTESTS CONTINUED IN FRANCE TODAY OPPOSING THE VACCINE PASSPORT AND FORCED VACCINATION OF SOME WORKERS...I WILL WORK MORE ON THE POST TO FILL IT OUT INCLUDING THE ESTIMATE OF THE ORGANIZERS OF THE PROTESTS TOMORROW....
AFGHANISTAN: ITS CAUSING MUCH PAIN FOR MANY PEOPLE BUT THERE WAS NEVER ANY WILL TO WIN THIS WAR, IT WAS FUTILE AND IN VAIN
Pakistan's military intelligence created the Taliban. How many of them have died in the last 20 years at the hands of our military forces?
I hear the crickets.
I composed some thoughts it is truly sad how George W. Bush led God-fearing patriotic Americans into this escapade in the first place exploiting our Faith and Patriotism.
Neither he nor Joe Biden nor anyone in power was ready, willing or able to get to the root of the Taliban in Pakistan just as the US military did not bomb the supply lines start at Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam decades ago.
Fear of nuclear weapon nations like Pakistan and the USSR prevented military victory of the World War II style in the minds of the policy makers at the top in both major parties.
They always had to fudge with drama and emotional appeals to distract from the truth.
Donald Trump committed the USA to extraction from this multi-trillion dollar disaster....
"A determined Taliban, backed by parts of Pakistan's intelligence apparatus, has defeated the United States and its client state in its longest war. Joe Biden inherited this failed two trillion dollar, time consuming enterprise. He did what his predecessor agreed to do, what his country formally committed to do, and what he promised to do. He ended it.
In implementing the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden is guilty of negligence..."
As the Republican "disciples" of the late John McCain tear into Joe Biden for his pathetic failure in Afghanistan the question that the Lindsey Graham's and the W Bush acolytes like Liz Cheney need to answer is:
"What would you have done differently?"
On September 11th, 2001 President George W. Bush and his band knew the score Pakistani military intelligence was behind the Taliban but Pakistan was a nuclear power aligned with China so tough talk and bribery to allow US supplies to flow through Pakistan would turn out to be policy.
The only thing the US really did to miff Pakistan was to kill Osama Bin Laden on its territory his Al Qaeda a creation of Saudi origin (15 of 19 9/11 hijackers Saudis) and its grassroots followers and Saudi Arabia not on a US target list at all.
Saudi Arabia a business ally of the US jihadist followers of Bin Laden and Saudi-Gulf Arab money would fuel the post 9/11 policy in Libya and Syria of using jihadists against governments deemed enemies of the US in the Middle East region.
That policy fully endorsed by the late Senator John McCain and his many followers including Senator Lindsey Graham.
Afghanistan was another Vietnam with the focus on limiting casualties but there still were many.
That limiting of casualties a tough task in the Kabul airport evacuation scenario playing out.
The last war America really won was World War II. When General Douglas MacArthur sought to win the Korean War by taking it to the Chinese Communist enemy President Harry Truman fired him. That set the stage for the policies that played out in Vietnam and beyond to now include Afghanistan.
The names of the political parties and politicians don't matter the policy pattern has been set. The Afghan War had no victory plan no wonder its players like the Afghans lacked the will to fight. They weren't going to be allowed to achieve the military victory against Pakistan needed to end the war.
President Donald Trump had committed to the Afghan pullout last year but certainly did not want it to play out this way. He took a tough negotiating stance with the Taliban.
"The Afghanistan Disaster wouldn't have happened with Trump. The Taliban knew I would rain down fire and fury if any American interests or personnel were harmed, the likes of which have never been seen. This is a catastrophe of historic proportions."
Getting back to how it all started it started with leadership that was not committed to a total victory following 9/11 only another Vietnam and while we salute those who served it must be said that their lives were thrown into another Vietnam-style war with deaths, injuries and mental health issues resulting.
And what of the Western advocates of intervention in Afghanistan who decry the religious zealotry and or brutality of the Taliban yet allow and excuse the same zealotry in other Islamic nations like Saudi Arabia.
Columnist Peter Hitchens called out the British equivalent of late John McCain and other "Neoconservatives" of the Cheney-Bush tradition in a recent column, namely British MP Tom Tugendhat:
"Let us turn to the mysterious, fascinating ex-soldier Tom Tugendhat, who was garlanded with praise for his odd, rambling speech in Parliament on Wednesday.
I may be mistaken but he seemed to be arguing that Britain should have stayed in Afghanistan to save it from the repression of the Taliban.
Yet back in February 2018, the same Tom Tugendhat told the Abu Dhabi newspaper The National that he though very highly of the Saudi regime, perhaps the closet rival to the Taliban on Earth for repression of women, lack of freedom in general, religious intolerance and savage, steel-bladed criminal justice: 'I welcome enormously the reforms that Mohammed bin Salman has conducted recently.
He is rightly showing a vision for Saudi Arabia that sees her taking a place as a player in the global economy and I think this is incredibly positive, not just for Saudi Arabia, but for the world.' Eight months later the Saudis murdered the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
This incessant making of allowances for the Saudis, a central part of our foreign policy implicating every Cabinet and the Royal Family itself makes a nonsense of our pose as the enemies of repression in the Islamic world.
So I personally could do with a great deal less of the noisy piety. Good deeds, if you can manage them, should be done in private and without bombast. And they begin as they always have, at home."
Peter Hitchens "Mail On Sunday" Column August 21, 2021-LINK
And indeed perhaps the time has come to look at the home front instead of other "fronts" around the world to get our own house in order in the midst of the disarray of our socially liberal increasing totalitarian society that Hitchens sees in his column warning of:
"Our Liberal Taliban"
not just a UK phenomenon but a US one and also in Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well across the globe in fact.
Getting Our Own House In Order-Putting America First Perhaps.
For the sake of argument yes but as I consider the 20th anniversary of 9/11 I have to consider the broader issue of moral bankruptcy and the role I have played in it.
The moral bankruptcy matter deserves more attention in a future post.
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE EXPECTED TO CONCLUDE BY 11 PM EASTERN US TIME FRIDAY)
A US Marine Corps officer relieved of duty for demanding accountability over the handling of Afghanistan but first...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS EXPECTED TO PROTEST IN FRANCE TOMORROW OPPOSING THE COUNTRY'S VACCINE PASSPORT AND FORCED VACCINATION OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS.
MEDIA IN FRANCE REPORTING ON A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT THAT WARNS ABOUT:
"conspiracy and sectarian aberrations"
WITHIN THE RANKS OF THE PROTESTERS.
THE REPORT MENTIONS EVERYTHING FROM SCIENTOLOGY TO QANON IN ITS DETAILS.
(BFM-TV FRANCE GOOGLE TRANSLATION)
"The FDA is virtually controlled by Pfizer. Pfizer has control, not Johnson and Johnson, not Moderna, but Pfizer has control over the FDA"
President Donald Trump speaking in a radio interview discussing the vaccine and vaccination. Trump's comment posted on social media (Gab)...DONALD J TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA
Children aged 12 to 15 can be vaccinated with the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. The Australian Technical Advisory Group saying its safe and effective for that age group....ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
Natural immunity is longer lasting lasting and stronger than immunity from vaccination alone. That is the result of research done in Israel....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
IN FRANCE A DECISION BY A COURT IN VERSAILLES HAS LED TO THE SUSPENSION OF THE VACCINE PASSPORT IN SHOPPING CENTERS IN THE YVELINES PREFECTURE.
THE LAWYERS WHO OBTAINED THE ORDER SERVING NOTICE ON OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN THE ILE-DE-FRANCE REGION AROUND PARIS TO HONOR THE ORDER OR FACE LEGAL ACTION...(BFM-TV FRANCE)
A job board for jobs without vaccine mandates. Its been set up on the Gab social media network in recent days drawing tens of thousands of members...GAB NO VAX MANDATE JOB BOARD
THE US SUPREME COURT RULING 6-3 THAT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL DOES NOT HAVE JURISDICTION OVER EVICTIONS.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION USED A CDC ORDER IN AN ATTEMPT TO STOP EVICTIONS OF RENTERS THAT HAVE BEEN RESUMED FOLLOWING A LONG DELAY CAUSED BY THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION...CNN
REPUBLICAN SHERIFFS IN RURAL OREGON TOUTING THEIR OPPOSITION TO DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR KATE BROWN'S MASK ORDERS.
THE SHERIFF'S ASSERTING THEY WILL NOT ENFORCE SUCH ORDERS BUT THE STATE HAS NOT ASKED THEM TO DO SO. IT RELIES UPON HEALTH OFFICERS TO DO THAT...OREGONLIVE (SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE STORY)
More coronavirus news later in the summary.....
At the White House today Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meeting US President Joe Biden. Their meeting delayed by yesterday's terrorist attack in Afghanistan.
A major topic of discussion Iran and its nuclear program...TIMES OF ISRAEL
TWO US MILITARY SHIPS SAILED THROUGH THE TAIWAN STRAIT TODAY. A NAVY GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER AND COAST GUARD CUTTER MADE THE PASSAGE THE EIGHTH TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR...BNN BLOOMBERG
AFGHANISTAN- MARINE CORPS OFFICER RELIVED OF DUTY AFTER DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY,
FINAL EVACUATIONS UNDERWAY, MASSIVE MIGRATION EXPECTED OUT OF COUNTRY (UPDATED)
US Marine Corps Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller relieved of his duties and leaving the military after posting a video saying:
"I demand accountability"
regarding the actions of senior leadership in regards to Afghanistan....THE GUARDIAN UK
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The final flights are being loaded at the Kabul airport as the US led military operation winds down.
France wrapped up its evacuation efforts in Afghanistan today with US and British troops preparing to pull out within hours....BBC NEWS
Some rescue missions staged in the Kabul area this week outside the airport details of Australian operations were revealed tonight...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
The Taliban is telling the residents of Kabul to turn over their weapons and ammunition within a week along with any vehicles they have owned by the government...TASS RUSSIA
MEANWHILE THE UNITED NATIONS REFUGEE AGENCY IS PROJECTING THAT AROUND A HALF A MILLION PEOPLE WILL FLEE TALIBAN RULED AFGHANISTAN....RADIO FREE EUROPE-RADIO LIBERTY..
ALSO WORD LATE TONIGHT THAT A US DRONE STRIKE KILLED A MEMBER OF ISLAMIC STATE IN AFGHANISTAN BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING OF YESTERDAY'S DEADLY TERRORIST ATTACK...RAW STORY
US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell hinting that some of the "stimulus" may be pulled out of the banking system this year.
Powell, speaking at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in Wyoming, also said that the coronavirus situation is being monitored to see the economic impact of the "Delta variant"...BBC NEWS
SIRHAN SIRHAN CONVICTED IN THE 1968 ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY RECOMMENDED FOR PAROLE IN CALIFORNIA.
HIS PAROLE NOT OPPOSED BY THE LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND SUPPORTED BY RFK'S SONS.
SPEAKING AT TODAY'S VIRTUAL HEARING DOUGLAS KENNEDY TOLD SIRHAN:
"I do have some love for you"
WRITING IN FAVOR OF PAROLE ROBERT F. KENENDY JR. RECALLED MEETING SIRHAN:
"who wept, clinching my hands and asked for forgiveness"
HIS PAROLE IS NOT FINAL YET IT IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW BY CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM....CNN
A new left-wing cabinet in Peru approved by the county's Congress today. The vote follows weeks of controversy surrounding the cabinet picks of Peru's new leftist President Pedro Castillo....METRO US
Hurricane Ida crossed the western tip of Cuba this evening but the National Hurricane Center is warning of a threat to the central Gulf coast in and around New Orleans.
Landfall anticipated Sunday afternoon or evening to the southwest of New Orleans.
An NHC advisory forecasts the storm building to Category 4 status winds possibly sustained at 135 miles per hour...CURRENT NHC ADVISORY HURRICANE IDA...
Oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico cut back in anticipation of the hurricane's arrival over the energy producing fields of the gulf...METRO US
German media giant Axel Springer SE planning to buy news website Politico with a price tag that's over one billion dollars. The website launched by Robert Albritton in 2007 focuses on inside the Beltway politics.
Albritton will stay on as publisher of Politico and a tech news website that's also part of the deal....BNN BLOOMBERG
In Australia's Queensland state tags will be placed on the license plates of electric and hybrid cars to warn first responders and others about the shock danger.
Depending on the situation battery packs in the vehicles are said to be lethal... ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
MORE ON THE INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT REGARDING COVID-19'S ORIGIN. IT CAME UP WITH AN INCONCLUSIVE REPORT SAYING CHINA'S COOPERATION WOULD BE NEEDED TO FIND ANSWERS.
US INTELLIGENCE DOES NOT CONSIDER COVID-19 TO HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON.
THE US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY DIVIDED ON WHETHER THE CORONAVIRUS CAME FROM ANIMALS OR A LAB ACCIDENT...BNO NEWSROOM TWITTER
China is out with its vaxx stats. Over two billion shots reported to have been given with 890 million people "fully vaccinated".
That is approximately 64 percent of China's entire population...TASS RUSSIA
THE CORONAVIRUS STATS VIA WORLDOMETERS NEW POSITIVE TESTS IN THE USA TODAY 190,370 AND 711,276 WORLDWIDE.
THE NUMBERS A WEEK AGO TODAY 151,108 AND 682,208.
THE WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS STATS IN SELECTED NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD NEW POSITIVE TESTS TODAY INDIA 46,805, THE UK 38,046, IRAN 36,279, BRAZIL 27,345, JAPAN 24,976 AND MALAYSIA 22,070.
MEXICO 20,633, RUSSIA 19,509, THAILAND 18,702, TURKEY 18,340, FRANCE 18,249 AND THE PHILIPPINES 17,447.
ISRAEL 4,033.
IN CANADA 3,778.
And that's the way it really is Friday August 27th, 2021 Day 529 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 529 of America and the World held hostage.
The deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan including comment from retired Army colonel W. Patrick Lang asking "What you get for trusting jihadis, 13 dead so far" but first...
Are Nazi terrorists a threat in Australia's New South Wales state?
That's where coronavirus restrictions are being harshly enforced by the New South Wales Police with thousands of Australians fined up to 5500 Australian dollars (3,976.06 US dollars).
Opponents of COVID restrictions have been described around the world as "far-right extremists".
Now the story from the NSW Police is that they are tracking over one thousand people "linked to Neo-Nazi groups and right-wing extremism" in the state with a population of nearly 10 million people...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
The distributor of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in Japan suspending use of 1.63 million doses in three lots. Reports of foreign particles mixed in the vaccine... BNN BLOOMBERG
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR DEMOCRAT J.B. PRITZKER ORDERING VACCINATION FOR TEACHERS, COLLEGE STUDENTS, HEALTH CARE WORKERS ALONG WITH AN INDOOR MASK MANDATE...CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Israel's Health Ministry putting out word late last night that 10,001 new coronavirus cases were verified in the last 24 hours.
This number on par with record numbers in late January before vaccination began in earnest.
Unvaccinated people in the minority of those cases with vaccinated people said to be a slim majority...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
NEW RESEARCH TOUTED IN ISRAEL CLAIMING A PEAK EFFECTIVENESS IN THIRD DOSE VACCINATION SOME 16 DAYS AFTER INJECTION.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH SHOWING 86 PERCENT EFFECTIVENESS IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING INJECTION BUT THIS NEW RESEARCH SHOWS 95 PERCENT EFFECTIVENESS IN PREVENTING INFECTION AT THE 16 DAY MARK...TIMES OF ISRAEL
In Australia a record number of positive tests in New South Wales state (1,029) today with the government telling the vaccinated they will enjoy:
"Freedoms"
starting on Monday September 13th small outdoor gatherings allowed in many areas of the state but not for the millions in the most locked down portions of Greater Sydney. In the tightly locked down parts of Sydney the households of the vaccinated can gather outside for only one hour at a time...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN REMAINS COMMITTED TO HER:
"elimination strategy"
PUNCTUATED BY A NATIONWIDE LOCKDOWN WHERE ONLY 277 CASES ARE SO FAR REPORTED OUT OF A POPULATION OF ALMOST FIVE MILLION...THE GUARDIAN UK
AFGHANISTAN-TERRORIST ATTACK WARNING TO CLEAR AIRPORT AS EVACUATION WINDS DOWN, DEADLY ATTACKS MATERIALIZE LATE IN THE DAY US MARINES, NAVY MEDIC KILLED
(NEWS, COMMENT, ANALYSIS-UPDATED)
Its a set of events that seemed to work in concert with each other the warning for civilians to stay away from Kabul airport because of a terrorist attack threat as the military evacuation of civilians winds down.
The late news is that the last flights are indeed leaving the airport today.
But late in the day terrorist attacks of the kind common in Afghanistan did materialize outside the Kabul Airport with explosions and gunfire.
At least 90 dead in latest reports. More than 150 others are wounded....TASS RUSSIA
At least 13 members of the US military are among the dead. 15 reported wounded..FOX NEWS...
President Joe Biden spoke late this afternoon saying the "mission will continue" and regarding the terrorists 'we will hunt you down'.
COMMENTING ON TODAY'S DEVELOPMENTS AT HIS "turcopolier.com" BLOG RETIRED US ARMY COLONEL PAT LANG LONG-TIME MIDDLE EAST MILITARY ATTACHE AND FORMER DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL SAYS THE US MUST RESPOND TO THE ATTACK QUICKLY BECAUSE MORE ATTACKS ARE ON THE WAY...'WHAT YOU GET FOR TRUSTING JIHADIS, 13 DEAD SO FAR'
"This tragedy should never have been allowed to happen"
Part of the reaction from President Trump on social media today....DONALD J TRUMP GAB
A LEGAL ASSAULT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY WITH THE FILING OF A LAWSUIT BY US CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS.
THEY ACCUSE TRUMP, HIS CAMPAIGN AND OTHERS INCLUDING ROGER STONE AND THE PROUD BOYS OF BEING BEHIND EVENTS AT THE US CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6TH.
THE PLANTIFFS REPRESENTED BY A GROUP CALLED "LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW"...FULL LAWSUIT DOCUMENTS...
ALSO COMING OUT OF THE SHADOWS TODAY LT. MICHAEL BYRD, THE CAPITOL POLICE OFFICER WHO SHOT AND KILLED AIR FORCE VETERAN ASHLI BABBITT AT THE US CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6TH.
BYRD APPEARING IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NBC NEWS ANCHOR LESTER HOLT.
BYRD SAYING HE BELIEVED HE 'SAVED COUNTLESS LIVES'...
Tropical Storm Ida has formed in the Caribbean west of Jamaica and south of Cuba. The storm with minimal wind speed of 40 miles per hour this evening expected to impact the Cayman Islands and the western portion of Cuba.
Late tonight the National Hurricane Center added a Hurricane Watch for the northern Gulf coast from Cameron, Louisiana to the Mississippi-Alabama border...NHC ADVISORY TROPICAL STORM IDA
VIA WORLDOMETERS THE CORONAVIRUS STATS IN THE US TODAY 169,953 NEW POSITIVE TESTS AND WORLDWIDE 712,031.
THOSE NUMBERS A WEEK AGO TODAY 154,917 AND 722,258.
THE WORLDOMETERS CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN SELECTED NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD TODAY NEW POSITIVE TESTS THE UK 38,281, IRAN 36,758, BRAZIL 31,024, MALAYSIA 24,599, JAPAN 24,321 AND MEXICO 21,250.
FRANCE 19,683, TURKEY 19,616, THAILAND 18,501, INDONESIA 16,899, THE PHILIPPINES 16,313 AND VIETNAM 11,575.
IN CANADA THE NUMBER 3,349.
IN AUSTRALIA ITS 1,112.
That's the way it really is Thursday August 26th, 2021 Day 528 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 528 of America and the world held hostage.
The massive wave of federal bailout money associated with COVID-19 sent out to the states will help Oregon taxpayers this year.
A 1.9 billion dollar "kicker" rebate going to Oregon taxpayers with federal COVID emergency money seen as a big contributor to the record breaking rebate...OREGONLIVE
(LINK UPDATED, STORY UPDATED) ISRAEL'S HEALTH MINISTRY AGAIN REPORTING NEAR RECORD COVID-19 CASES 9,891 DIAGNOSED IN NUMBERS RELEASED LATE LAST NIGHT...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
THE "THIRD DOSE" VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL OVER THE AGE OF THE 30 AND EXPECTED TO BE AVAILABLE TO ALL ELIGIBLE AGE GROUPS BY NEXT WEEK.
1.65 MILLION 'BOOSTER SHOTS' ADMINISTERED SO FAR.
EXPERTS ARE SAYING IF FIVE MILLION 'THIRD SHOTS' ARE REACHED THE NUMBER OF INFECTIONS WILL DECLINE...TIMES OF ISRAEL
DELTA AIRLINES IMPOSING A 200 DOLLAR MONTHLY SURCHARGE ON UNVACCINATED EMPLOYEES...BBC NEWS
In the Pittsburgh area the North Allegheny School Board meeting this evening adjourned as citizens attended the meeting refused to comply with a Monday federal court order mandating masks in school district buildings.
The board had previously voted 6-3 to make masks optional but a group of parents and students went to federal court obtaining the order...PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Also here in Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Tom Wolf calling on the Republican led legislature to support a mask mandate for schools. Its a local option in Pennsylvania's 500 plus school districts right now...CBS PITTSBURGH VIDEO REPORT
The US intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 requested by President Joe Biden reported to be "inconclusive"...BBC NEWS
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Washington. Bennett meeting US President Joe Biden at the White House tomorrow. Today he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Meanwhile in Israel Palestinian protesters moving against the border fence with Gaza setting tires on fire and drawing tear gas from Israel's military....TIMES OF ISRAEL
Why did the police in Portland allow fighting between the "Left" and "Right" on city streets Sunday afternoon?
The fighting ended with gunshots and police arresting one man opposed to the Leftists. Mayor Ted Wheeler says the hands-off strategy is the right one...OREGONLIVE
AFGHANISTAN NEWS
Russian military aircraft active in the Afghan evacuation bringing home nationals from Central Asian nations...TASS RUSSIA
Late today the US and UK warned nationals to stay away from the Kabul airport due to concern over a possible terrorist attack.
The BBC News Blog continues to report developments related to Afghanistan....BBC NEWS BLOG AFGHANISTAN
The security situation in some parts of Syria has deteriorated according to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pederson.
Speaking to a Security Council meeting Pederson noted northeastern Syria where some 900 US troops are based, the Idlib region where government forces, jihadists and Turkish troops are mixed together and the southern Daraa governate where jihadist forces have again appeared to stage occasional attack on government forces...TASS RUSSIA
THE DEPARTURE OF US VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS FOR HANOI, VIETNAM DELAYED OVER A HEALTH INCIDENT REPORTED AT THE US EMBASSY THERE.
THE INCIDENT MAY INVOLVE THE 'HAVANA SYNDROME' WHICH WAS FIRST OBSERVED AMONG US AND CANADIAN DIPLOMATS IN CUBA INVOLVING VERTIGO, NAUSEA, HEADACHES AND HEAD PRESSURE AMONG OTHER SYMPTOMS...CNN
From Worldometers coronavirus numbers today in the US 171,737 new positive tests and 716,555 Worldwide.
Those numbers a week ago today 158,127 and 692,886.
Coronavirus stats via Worldometers for selected nations around the world today new positive tests India 46,397, Iran 39,883, the UK 35,847, France 23,706, Malaysia 22,642 and Japan 21,570.
Turkey 19,970, Russia 19,536, Indonesia 18,671, Thailand 18,417, Mexico 18,262, Germany 12,490 and Vietnam 12,096.
The number for Cuba 8,637.
In Canada 3,198.
And that's the way it really is Wednesday August 25th, 2021 Day 527 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Day 527 of America and the World held hostage.
