Gain Of Function, Loss Of Credibility

The Intercept has used the Freedom of Information Act to pry documents from the NIH. The topic is NIH grants to study bat viruses in a partnership of EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Some of the "news" is old since the grants were mentioned in already-published studies. But some details ave been added.

Its a bit of a blow to Dr. Fauci's remaining credibility on the question of whether the US funded 'gain-of-function' research conducted by the Chinese. I'll gloomily guess this won't matter - the battle lines around Fauci have been clear for a while and I doubt there are many willing to shift sides. Just to recap, back in May Sen. Rand accused Dr. Fauci of approving gain of function research and Fauci denied it, vehemently. Over time the gist of his defense seem to be, it couldn't be gain of function research because the NIH review board OK'ed it. The BBC and the WaPo explain (I'll come back to the WaPo below.)

Still, here is Caroline Downey at the National Review:

Newly released documents appear to contradict Dr. Anthony Fauci’s repeated claims that the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

The internal documents detail the work of EcoHealth Alliance, an American research non-profit which used NIH funding to research novel bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab. Among the documents, which were obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request, is a previously unpublished EcoHealth Alliance grant proposal filed with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, which is run by Fauci.

...

Fauci has repeatedly insisted during his Senate testimony that the research being funded by the NIH at the WIV did not qualify as “gain-of-function” under the NIH’s current definition. But critics, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, have accused Fauci of playing semantic games by excluding research which makes bat coronaviruses more transmissible — the commonly accepted definition of “gain-of-function” — from his more convenient definition.

Dr. Richard Ebright, biosafety expert and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, has also disputed Fauci’s claims. Primarily, he has rebutted Fauci’s chief declaration that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV]” as “demonstrably false.”

Ebright told National Review that the NIH-financed work at the WIV “epitomizes” the definition of gain-of-function research, which involves working with “enhanced potential pandemic pathogen (PPP)” or those pathogens “resulting from the enhancement of the transmissibility and/or virulence of a pathogen.”

We'll see if these latest revelations move the needle.

BACK TO THE WAPO: They are very intent on defending Fauci and nod along to what I find to be an utterly convincing explanation about gain of function research. The emphasis is on intent rather than results, which seems to me to be beside the point:

Update, May 19: The National Institutes of Health issued a statement to The Fact Checker which in part said: “NIH has never approved any grant to support 'gain-of-function’ research on coronaviruses that would have increased their transmissibility or lethality for humans. The research proposed in the EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. grant application sought to understand how bat coronaviruses evolve naturally in the environment to become transmissible to the human population.” When gain-of-function research was paused, “this grant was reviewed again and determined by experts to fall outside the scope of the funding pause.”

The gist of the controversial experiments was to mix and match different segments of different existing bat viruses to see if any of the resulting combinations could be dangerous. Its a fair and relevant questions since bats, and consequently their viruses, tend to co-mingle. But their defense, roughly paraphrased, amounts to 'this is not gain-of-function because we didn't know whether these recombinations would be infectious or not'. C'mon, man. "I wasn't playing with explosives, I was playing with random chemicals and never guessed they'd explode." No Nobel prizes there.

To be fair, the viruses the Chinese have told us about don't look enough like SARS-Cov-2 to be a smoking gun. But have they done undisclosed, unpublished work? Ah, well...

 

Comments

[Neo]

From TheIntercept FOIA:
One of the grants, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” outlines an ambitious effort led by EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses. The research also involved screening people who work with live animals. The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed. The documents raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that Daszak has aggressively dismissed.
http://shydw.whu.edu.cn/index.php/category/about?lang=en

[Neo]

Rose Water waveMcGowan @rosemcgowan

@HillaryClinton You are a shadow leader in service of evil. You are the enemy of what is good, right and moral. You represent no flag, no country, no soul. You eat hope, you twist minds. I’ve been in a hotel room with your husband and here comes the bomb.
https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/1433654286160957441
And she made the comment while linking to an article about abortion

[Narciso]

they only lie about life and death issues, but lets trust them

https://www.theblaze.com/news/glenn-beck-taliban-hostage-planes

[Narciso]

oh

https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/06/new-january-6-stories-that-complicate-the-media-narrative/

[Narciso]

oh about that

https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/stagflation-rears-its-ugly-head-in-us-payroll-data/

[GUS]

Tom, the lines may have been, but to even infer that the sides are morally equivalent is ridiculous.
FRAUDSKI has been obvious all along. His hubris should earn him the rest of his life in prison.

[GUS]

Tom, the lines may have been, but to even infer that the sides are morally equivalent is ridiculous.
FRAUDSKI has been obvious all along. His hubris should earn him the rest of his life in prison.

[Narciso]

oh never mind

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1435256769765416964

[Narciso]

but its sciency!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/07/can-no-justification-whatsoever-october-lockdown/

[Melinda]

Clarice's National Pulse link, where the National Archives has flagged the US Constitution for thought crimes.

Clarice's Link .

[Narciso]

well it is over a hundred years old after all, sarc

https://nypost.com/2021/09/06/flooding-of-illegal-units-belies-progressives-self-righteous-claims/

[matt - deplore me if you must]

2 weeks to flatten the curve
No Masks!
Masks!
respirators of death
Cutting off investigations into HCQ and Ivermectin, which seem to have some efficacy
moving recovering patients into assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
Endless lockdowns

This is where Fauci and the science has led us.

[GUS]

The biggest and most serious problem with the CONSTITUTION, is that NO TRANNIES were involved in writing it. Although some of our founders did dress funny and wear wigs.

[GUS]

Matt you forgot 2 masks, and Dems, like Peloser, Shitmer, Beetlejuice etc, partying.

[Melinda]

Now the Guinea Coup makes sense.....

Aluminum Prices Soar to Ten Year Highs After Guinea Coup Strangles Bauxite Supplies
Written by TradersCom
Category: Commodities
Published: 06 September 2021

Aluminum futures prices soared to their highest in more than a decade after a coup in Guinea fueled concerns over Bauxite feedstock supplies. China gets half of it's supplies from Guinea and is already struggling with output.

https://traderscommunity.com/index.php/news#:~:text=Aluminum%20Prices%20Soar,struggling%20with%20output.

[Melinda]

So, Liberty Unyielding has a web crawler, FYI. Might be a nice tool:

Linkie .

[Narciso]

remember the hotel california,

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/north-west-frontier-india

hey wasnt deripaska big in guinea

[Narciso]

news from 2009

http://johnhelmer.net/the-lumumba-replay-russian-mystery-figure-enters-guinea-negotiations-to-save-rusal-threaten-camara/

[Narciso]

your partners science experiment kills 4 million people, why are you still employed?

[Narciso]

it's like dunder miflin for terrorists,

https://twitter.com/thomasjoscelyn/status/1435277123531464704?s=20

[Narciso]

whats next

https://uncoverdc.com/2021/09/07/cdc-vaccine-push-for-pregnant-women-based-on-flawed-study/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Its a bit of a blow to Dr. Fauci's remaining credibility...--

His remaining credibility is a thing in the same way as Madonna's chastity, Snoop Dog's sobriety and Joe Biden's, well, pretty much everything are.

[Neo]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34145166/
Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

[Narciso]

from the beginning

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/roots-americas-defeat-caroline-glick/

[Melinda]

Bobby Rajesh Malhotra ツ ψ @Bobby_Network
3h
A @zerohedge analysis on the new FOIA: Fauci & GoF Funding @ WIV via @EcoHealthNYC. You'll also find one of my beginner's threads in the article, though I'm no match for #DRASTIC-research by @BillyBostickson et al. which brought the actual paradigm shift.
zerohedge.com/covid-19/massi…

Bobby Rajesh Malhotra ツ ψ
@Bobby_Network
This thread is embedded in the Zerohedge FOIA analysis.

twitter.com/Bobby_Network/…

Bobby Rajesh Malhotra ツ ψ @Bobby_Network
@PeterDaszak on Gain of Function-experiments, Dec. 2019:

"You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily"

"... inserting the spike protein into a backbone of another virus"

"[...] insert these other related diseases and get a better vaccine.”

Peter?
bit.ly/3sNBxQv

https://twitter.com/Bobby_Network/status/1435315775666069506

[Melinda]

The described ZH post from earlier this AM:

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/massive-foia-release-proves-fauci-funded-wuhan-research-construct-sars-related

[Narciso]

I knew they were gaslighting us,

https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/06/what-did-the-capitol-celebrity-cops-do-to-roseanne-boyland/

[Melinda]

Information Flooding: How the corporate media and the CDC's poison control centers used an internet propaganda technique to publish hundreds of "ivermectin poisonings" articles.

Hundreds of articles were based on six calls in Kentucky and nine calls in Minnesota.

The vast majority of calls to the CDC's fifty-five poison control centers have been people asking about the right dosage of ivermectin to take.

To put this into perspective, over 100,000 people call poison control centers about Tylenol each year.

Moreover, no one dies from ivermectin in a typical year, yet Tylenol accounts for 56,000 annual emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and almost 500 deaths.

So why is the corporate media flooding the public conscious with stories about ivermectin poisonings❓

Pfizer and Merck are getting ready to launch expensive new anti-viral pills that can provide preventative and early outpatient treatment for COVID-19.

Because Ivermectin remains cheap, effective, and safe it continues to pose a massive threat to pharmaceutical companies' profits.

Therefore, the corporate media uses internet propaganda techniques to flood information into the public conscious about ivermectin poisonings.

Pharmaceutical companies' profits are also why the CDC, NIH, and FDA refuse to acknowledge safe and effective multi-drug treatment protocols or established science like natural immunity.

America's health institutions are so captured and compromised that they refusing to treat COVID-19 patients until they are hospitalized or dying.

They are even threatening to take away doctors' medical licenses for treating patients.

In other words, our health institutions are killing people so pharmaceutical companies can make billions.

https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/the-great-ivermectin-deworming-hoax/article_19b8f2a6-0f29-11ec-94c1-4725bf4978c6.html

https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/1588

[Narciso]

and across the pond,

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/07/world-ignores-investigation-finding-france-was-complicit-in-the-rwandan-genocide/

now balladur who was in charge when the merde hit the hat, is a top man,

[Melinda]

The Federalist
The Amazon Web Crackdown Threatens Patreon, Substack, And You
If servers like Amazon Web Services will shut you down, that inherently threatens the economic independence of anyone who dares have different ideas.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/07/how-the-amazon-web-hosting-crackdown-threatens-patreon-substack-and-you/

[Melinda]

Fresh Wauck. Pass the chips, please...

News Flash: Fauci Lied

Mark Wauck
21 min ago
1
Well, not exactly news, but it is the big story today.

What’s new is that The Intercept has obtained something like 900 pages pertaining to two grants from the US Government to Peter Daszak’s Eco-Health Alliance, for research performed in Wuhan. While the additional facts that emerge from these documents can’t conclusively prove how Covid-19 was released to the world, they do increase the plausibility—which is already extremely high—that one way or another Covid-19 is the result of work done in Wuhan. In other words, it doesn’t have a natural origin.

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/news-flash-fauci-lied

[Narciso]

one thing seems to lead to another, st fauci's reputation is only obtainable through fraud and omission of facts,

[Melinda]

OK, just what in Baltimore that ISN'T fraudulent seems to be the easier question::

JT Badenov
@cbinflux
Report on Baltimore high school reveals ghost students were attending ghost classes hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/…. #CharmCity #12OclockBoys

https://twitter.com/cbinflux/status/1435325076182863877

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/09/07/report-on-baltimore-high-school-reveals-ghost-students-were-attending-ghost-classes-n414267

Public Schools defrauding taxpayers?

Who knew?

[Narciso]

well the wire made the point no?

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/09/doj-retreating-in-court-from-defending-biden-admin-anti-white-discriminatory-racial-preferences/

[Narciso]

well that's awkward

https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1434245760455954434

[Narciso]

ok then

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/09/07/joe-biden-doesnt-think-tornadoes-are-called-tornadoes-anymore-n2595432?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky3

[Jane]

Narc,

He is a racist thru and thru!

[Melinda]

Two Young Boys Immediately Stop What They're Doing When They Encounter Military Funeral: 'Their Parents Should Be So Proud'

https://www.westernjournal.com/two-young-boys-immediately-stop-encounter-military-funeral-parents-proud/

[Melinda]

Narc-

CIA? Really? Getting to the core corps, aren't we?

[Melinda]

CEO, CFO and Boston-Area Spinal Device Company Charged in Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/ceo-cfo-and-boston-area-spinal-device-company-charged-bribery-and-money-laundering-scheme

[Melinda]

NEW - The CDC downgraded the definition of "vaccine" from a product that produces immunity to a preparation that stimulates an immune response for protection.

Today: https://cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm

Archived (as of August 26, 2021): http://web.archive.org/web/20210826113846/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm">https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20210826113846/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm

@disclosetv

https://t.me/disclosetv/4535

[Melinda]

Mark Steyn - IPCC Official Admits Global Warming Is A Lie To Redistribute Wealth

https://t.me/disclosetv/4535

[Rick Ballard]

Mel,

So Almostavax now meets the CDC definition a vaccine.

Is there anything science can't do?

We're SAVED!!!

Sorta...

[Narciso]

floor wax or desert topping

https://www.steynonline.com/11674/subterranean-tone-sick-blues

[Narciso]

I remember the dogtrainer piece, that insisted the now taliban ministers, were not taliban ministers,

[Narciso]

how is that possible

https://www.theepochtimes.com/sweden-announces-it-will-remove-most-remaining-covid-19-restrictions_3985787.html

[Melinda]

Jim Banks
@RepJimBanks
General Milley: Bagram “not much value added…”

China: We will take it …

Paul D. Shinkman @PDShinkman
SCOOP: China mulling occupying Bagram air base after "humiliating" U.S. withdrawal.

More here: usnews.com/news/world-rep…

https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1435377004514267139

https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-09-07/china-weighing-occupation-of-former-us-air-base-at-bagram-sources

[Narciso]

he was looking in the mirror,

he's like one of the colonel blimp parodies on black adder, except they actually killed the enemy

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Next up; vaccine - this stuff we try to make you take that does nothing or alternately makes you worse, but take it because shut up.

The sickening thing is, if they wrote those exact words in a press release there would be millions of twitterati and enlightened, benighted dunces defending it as "Science! You dolts!"

[Momto2]

The uproar over Ivermectin being a "horse medicine" is only fooling the ignorant.
Ignorant: Adj. "Lacking knowledge or education; uninformed."

It's not unusual at all for humans and animals to take some of the same medicines in different doses (of course!) Once my 3-legged dog and my husband were both taking Gabapentin. I routinely gave foster dogs Bufferin, Pepsid, and Benedryl - straight from my human medicine cabinet and with my vet's permission.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--NEW - The CDC downgraded the definition of "vaccine" from a product that produces immunity to a preparation that stimulates an immune response for protection.--

That seems like a tacit admission that ADE is at least a concern. So my tertiary definition above may still be in play.

[clarice]

Talk about way back machines:
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
· 3h
Biden: “By 2020 [we’re going to] make sure all of our electricity is zero emissions"

[Narciso]

maybe he should have gotten my cousin vinny

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/jacob-chansley-qanon-shaman-albert-watkins-january-6/2021/09/07/id/1035393/

[GUS]

Dearest liberal "scientists". Ever hear of FUROSEMIDE?????? Animals use it. Please make sure your pets don O.D. on it.

[Narciso]

i'm sure this is coincidence

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966561/Early-stumble-El-Salvador-starts-Bitcoin-currency.html

[Narciso]

indeed

https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1435223611606978565

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I noted that the young men were from Batesville, IN. Isn't that the home of Batesville Casket?

I would think that everyone in that town has some understanding of death and its meaning. I wish we all did. Maybe there would be more compassion int the world.

Great story.

[Pinandpuller]

“An honest man falls in love with an honest woman; he wishes, therefore to marry her, to be the father of her children, to secure her and himself. All systems of government should be tested by whether he can do this. If any system—feudal, servile, or barbaric—does, in fact, give him so large a cabbage- field that he can do it, there is the essence of liberty and justice. If any system— Republican, mercantile, or Eugenist—does, in fact, give him so small a salary that he can’t do it, there is the essence of eternal tyranny and shame.”

~G.K. Chesterton

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

Hey Man, you been over to the front door of Duquesne University yet to nail up a 95 all caps character thesis about suicide?

[GUS]

I have friend who is a Professor at DUQUESNE. A former Catholic priest, who got married.
The all caps is mine. They can't use it.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Milwaukee City Councilwoman Chantia Lewis, who is running for the Senate seat held by Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), was charged for allegedly stealing $21,000 from her own campaign and lying about it.

[MissMarple2]

matt,

Yes, Batesville, Indiana is the home of Batesville Casket.

Wonderful story.

[MissMarple2]

Do you guys remember me talking about my dad driving up to a castle in Italy and bringing some sort of scientist to the seashore, where he was picked up by a US Navy submarine?

Going through photos and papers this afternoon I found a postcard from the 40's with a photo of a castle. It is labeled "LERMA - Castello Marchese Spinola - Dettagilo." (The label is printed, not handwritten.)

On the back is my father's written message to someone here n the US, probably my grandparents or possibly my mom.

It says: " Stayed here on one of my business trips. All furniture is 17th century or older, Canopies over the beds, etc. Excellent wine. This is in the heart of the mountains, north of Genoa."

Well, I found the place which is still in existence as both a resort and winery! Here is the link to their web site:

https://www.oasicastellodilerma.it/en/castello-di-lerma-english/

The photo on the post card is looking up from below the round tower.

So there is a place he went to. The Italian printing company has the date 1941 on it. I assume he bought the postcard in Italy and made a note on it and brought it home, since it doesn't have a postmark or stamp on it.

I would never have been able to discover this much without the internet. I wonder what his other business trips were?

[MissMarple2]

Best of Nextdoor
@bestofnextdoor

"HARASSMENT CAT?!"

Tweet with a bunch of replies which are pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1435348085035528194

[Davod]

MM2. How wonderful. The internet is good for so many things.

[Momto2]

What a great find, MM! Cleaning out my parents' house, I found 2 letters my dad wrote to his mother during WWII. One of them tells of the rejoicing on his ship when the war was over. He was the radio operator and therefore the first one to know. The letters are typed (in all caps, GUS!!!) on onion-skin paper. A real treasure!

[MissMarple2]

Momto2,

I am trying to sort out these things because I want my grandkids to know about their family history.

Oral histories are great, but written is better, at least to have a few tangible items to let our descendants know that these were real people.

[MissMarple2]

Good night, everyone!

[Melinda]

MM-

Written establishes provenance, not oral.

I’m sorry for the loss of your cousin. My prayers for you and yours.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Seems to me a good lawyer with a client with that many issues could have got his guy off...unless Shamanix was determined to cop a plea.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Also seems to me a DOJ that wasn't asshoe would not have forced a guy with that many issues who no one has accused of doing anything violent to cop to a felony.

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-heckled-new-jersey-americans-afghanistan

Biden heckled in New Jersey for stranding Americans in Afghanistan: 'He will leave you behind'
Biden was speaking to police in Manville when onlookers erupted

Video included. This wasn't an organized protest, just a spontaneous outburst from a local couple. I'm sure there is a lot of pent up anger in Manville after the 3rd or 4th major flooding event in the last 20 years.

[jim nj]

https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/us-troops-rage-at-their-leaders-will-grow-unless-theres-deep-reform/

[jim nj]

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/back-to-school-with-common-sense

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/american-homeschooling-goes-boom

maybe keep an eye on Bari Weiss this week?

[jim nj]

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/taliban-completes-conquest-of-afghanistan-after-seizing-panjshir.php

and 4 days earlier

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/national-resistance-front-repels-multi-day-taliban-assault-on-panjshir.php

I'm just guessing, but my sense is that the NRF lost at least one pass into the Panjshir Valley after a back-and-forth battle of several days.

Much of what is out there is propaganda or psy-ops, but people are wondering what changed? Was it just an overwhelming attack by the Taliban? Brute force, or was there something else, like the rumors that the Pakistani ISI introduced an aerial component into the battle?

The Indian press is running with this.

My sense is that the Taliban are in the valley, but don't "control" it. That would imply a devastating loss by the NRF. It's more likely that the NRF withdrew from a conventional battle that they were losing in order to preserve their forces.

[jim nj]

The Taliban spent 20 years fighting the "man." Now they are the "man."

It's a new war.

[jim nj]

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/secretary-of-state-blinken-this-is-not-a-hostage-crisis/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20210907&utm_term=Jolt-Smart

Secretary of State Blinken: This Is Not a Hostage Crisis

"One of the complications that the administration’s statements choose to ignore is that the Taliban is not a particularly coherent, disciplined, or coordinated governing force. An assurance from one Taliban leader about safe passage may not filter down to the men in their late teens with M4 rifles at any particular checkpoint. Even if the Taliban wanted to keep their promises about safe passage — an extremely debatable contention — they may not be capable of keeping it; there are simply too many hot-tempered, heavily armed young men who are enjoying their newfound power over everyone they encounter."

The Taliban are bargaining with the world on what they want. In the meantime, the Taliban are bargaining with each other over what posts they want.

[jim nj]

Local Taliban to the national Taliban, "I have these hostages, what am I bid."

Afghanistan would be a great place to hold the next international competition for special forces.

[Len]

Good morning. Biden being heckled is good. College students chanting, "F@#$ Biden" is encouraging, too.

[MissMarple2]

jim nj,

I concur!

Working on my Kroger order. Back after while.

[clarice]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9968219/Four-Taliban-leaders-freed-prisoner-swap-Bowe-Bergdahl-join-new-government.html

[Jane]

I agree Len! Hope it goes National and global too!

[Jim Eagle]

They(Taliban) should invite Bowe to join them as special emissary to the US.

[Melinda]

Well, well, well. "You've lost Another submarine?"

Another Wirecard? EY Slammed Over Work With Swiss Conglomerate Looted By Oligarch's Family

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/another-wirecard-ey-slammed-over-work-swiss-conglomerate-looted-oligarchs-family

[GUS]

Jim Nj, that heckling of SLOPPY JOE was just another CONSERVATIVE INSURREDTION.
I can always tell, a conservative insurrection.
There are no weapons.

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

Why didn't I ever run into accountants like that when I was running my eBay business? Here I was deducting miniscule stuff like postage and printer paper when I could have been writing off champagne and caviar!

By the way, I wonder if the attempted robbery of Bulgari Jeweler's in Paris is somehow wound up in all of this.

[MissMarple2]

GUS!

So true, and a good laugh this morning!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-spent-majority-of-summer-below-million-viewers

When my local friend goes to the Y for a workout, they have CNN on the big screen and she switches to Fox on the treadmill. She says the contrast is unbelievable.

[MissMarple2]

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/09/08/the-biden-administration-really-didnt-see-this-coming-in-afghanistan-n2595504

Do take the time to view the short video clip at the end.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/milley-afghan-forces-not-designed-appropriately-to-secure-nation-in-lessons-learned-following-withdrawal

[Melinda]

So, either an AI bot wrote this, or CBS has fully outsourced its writing to China....

LeatherAl
@AllanKirkhart
By "thousands of minutes", you mean a day, right? If not, why are you writing headlines like a lying pig would?

CBS News @CBSNews
Patients forced to wait thousands of minutes in rural Texas ER: "We've never seen this. Ever." cbsn.ws/2YA3fX1

https://twitter.com/AllanKirkhart/status/1435599177745043468

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9967195/Bombshell-leaked-emails-State-Department-refused-greenlight-Afghan-evacuation-planes-Report.html

[James D.]

MM, facebook says it's your birthday. So Happy Birthday!

[Neo]

I must have missed this in Art Appreciation Class:

Biden artwork cannot be fully appreciated without a snoot full of coke.

[Neo]

Apparently, the Taliban have painted over the George Floyd "I Can't Breath" mural in front of the US Embassy.

This brings logic to the US military studying CRT .. the Taliban are white supremacists.

[MissMarple2]

Thanks, James D!

[henry]

Yep.

Someone should have probably suggested this to Dane County Circuit Court judge John Hyland, whose snide, condescending response to this columnist’s recent critique served only to reveal how thin-skinned and dangerously soft on crime the Dane County Circuit Court has become.

https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2021/09/dane-county-judge-inadvertently-reveals-a-troubling-culture-of-coddling-criminals/

[Narciso]

this reminded me of an episode, that teddy roosevelt had in the tail end of the 1904 race, the perdicaris affair, (this is the alt reality version)

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/glenn-beck-afghanistan-planes

[Narciso]

a primer

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-perdicaris-affair

[Narciso]

we're dealing with a pashtun crowder, in sy haqquani, the family business being terrorism, ransom, and opium, probably not in that order

and there's no raylan on the horizon,