(SERVICE IS RETURNING TO THIS BLOG AS OF MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME FOLLOWING DOWNTIME FOR PERSONAL COMMITTMENTS MOST OF SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, NEWS OF SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL BE COMBINED INTO ONE POST THAT BEGINS WITH SUNDAY'S DATE 8/15)
(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH MONDAY EVENING)
The coronavirus restrictions tightening in Australia's second largest city Melbourne with a curfew and closure of playgrounds. The city already in a lockdown...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA
THE LATEST CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL DATA ON DEATHS AND INJURIES FROM THE FOLLOWING COVID VACCINATION RELEASED LAST FRIDAY AUGUST 13TH SHOWING AN ALMOST TEN PERCENT UPTICK IN SERIOUS INJURIES THE TOTAL THROUGH AUGUST 6TH.
THE TOTAL NOW 77,490. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS NOW STANDS AT 12,791.
TOTALS FOR THE US INCLUDE 36,871 SERIOUS INJURIES, 5,859 DEATHS AND A TOTAL OF 451,049 ADVERSE EVENTS...THE DEFENDER
More COVID news later in the summary....
AFGHANISTAN NEWS
(UPDATED NEW INSERTS THROUGHOUT MONDAY)
A rapid advance of the Taliban into Afghanistan's capital city Kabul this weekend.
Frantic crowds seen swarming Kabul's airport on Monday morning....
Dead and wounded reported at the airport during the day Monday amidst gunfire....
This video embedded in the linked story shows a crowd trying to grab onto a huge US Air Force transport plane as it moves on a runway....SOUTHFRONT
The US flag lowered at the embassy in Kabul Sunday with staff relocated to the airport with the US military taking over air traffic control....ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS...Some six thousand US troops securing the airport.
The Taliban in the streets of Kabul in captured US Humvees with the country's president fleeing to the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan...
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China and Russia are recognizing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. The Russian ambassador says the situation is better at least during the first days of Taliban rule than it was under the previous government of President Ashraf Ghani...TASS RUSSIA
The headline on the French media website BFM-TV translated into English reads:
"The Taliban Return To Power: The Deafening Silence Of Joe Biden"
France and other nations including Germany and Australia making their decisions regarding military commitments to the Kabul airport to support the evacuation of their citizens and those who worked with their military forces in Afghanistan.
While some six thousand US troops are now committed to the airport in Kabul the UK has decided to update its original commitment of 600 soldiers to 900.
President Joe Biden spoke about the situation in Afghanistan on Monday afternoon....
"What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary. It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American History"
President Trump's reaction to President Biden's handling of Afghanistan. The former President calling on Biden to "resign in disgrace" over his handling of Afghanistan, the coronavirus and the southern border....DONALD J TRUMP GAB SOCIAL MEDIA....
BBC NEWS BLOG AFGHANISTAN
The massive wildfire in Jerusalem continued to spread Monday forcing more evacuations.....HAARETZ ISRAEL...Israel is appealing for international assistance to deal with the inferno and hopeful the threat to Jerusalem can be stopped.
Israeli authorities say the fire was set either by accident of deliberately...TIMES OF ISRAEL
POLAND RECALLING ITS AMBASSDOR TO ISRAEL, THE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER CONDEMNING ISRAEL AS A SPREADER OF:
"anti Polish hatred"
POLAND'S PRESIDENT HAS APPROVED THE NEW LAW PASSED BY PARLIAMENT THAT WILL END RESTITUTION CLAIMS FROM DESCENDENTS OF WORLD WAR II VICTIMS. THE LAW ANGERED ISRAEL WITH ITS FOREIGN MINISTER YAIR LAPID CALLING IT...
"Holocaust Denial"
AND:
"Anti-Semitic"
HAARETZ ISRAEL
TIMES OF ISRAEL
WHY IS JULIAN ASSANGE BEING IMPRISONED UNDER CONDITIONS RESERVED FOR TERRORISTS AND GANG LEADERS (MOBSTERS) LONG AFTER HIS SENTENCE WAS COMPLETED FOR HIS ORIGINAL ARREST IN MAY OF 2019 AS A PERSON WHO SKIPPED BAIL?
ASSANGE NOW IN AN EXTRADITION PROCEEDING BEING SOUGHT BY THE US FOR RELEASING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ .
JOURNALIST PETER HITCHENS ASKING THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE IN THE UK ABOUT THE MATTER...PETER HITCHENS TWITTER
An update on some US localities imposing mask (muzzle orders) in the last week:
Philadelphia
Dallas County, Texas
Jackson County, Missouri (Kansas City)
Hartford, Connecticut
Raleigh, North Carolina
Fayetteville, Arkansas
(NEXTRUSH EXCLUSIVE SOURCE)
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR SUNDAY AUGUST 15TH VIA WORLDOMETERS IN THE US 30,933 NEW POSITIVE TESTS AND 469,864 WORLDWIDE.
SOME STATS FOR SELECTED NATIONS SUNDAY NEW POSITIVE TESTS IRAN 36,736, THE UK 26,750, TURKEY 18,847, THE PHILIPPINES 14,749 AND SOUTH AFRICA 10,139.
IN ISRAEL 3,703 AND CANADA 977.
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR MONDAY AUGUST 16TH VIA WORLDOMETERS IN THE US 103,697 NEW POSITIVE TESTS AND 520,405 WORLDWIDE.
THOSE NUMBERS A WEEK AGO TODAY 102,375 AND 522,382.
CORONAVIRUS STATS FOR MONDAY IN SELECTED NATIONS VIA WORLDOMETERS NEW POSITIVE TESTS IRAN 41,194, THE UK 28,438, THAILAND 21,157 AND RUSSIA 20,765.
MALAYSIA 19,740, JAPAN 17,836, INDONESIA 17,384 AND THE PHILIPPINES 14,610.
ISRAEL'S NUMBER IS 7,253.
IN CANADA ITS 4,002.
That's the way it really is Sunday August 15th and Monday August 16th, Days 517 and 518 of the Dictatorship of COVID-19, Days 517 and 518 of America and the World held hostage.
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