Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for all members of the military by mid-September, or “immediately” upon Food and Drug Administration approval, whichever comes first, according to a memo he issued August 9.
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These dehumidifiers may pose fire risk; 2 million recalled in Canada and U.S.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says about 2 million dehumidifiers made by New Widetech are being recalled in the U.S. because they can overheat and catch fire, posing fire and burn hazards.
The recall also includes about 380,000 dehumidifiers in Canada and about 25,000 in Mexico.
New Widetech is aware of 107 incidents of the recalled dehumidifiers overheating and/or catching fire, resulting in about US$17 million in property damage.
America — the dying city on a hill
The tragic reality is that today’s United States is no longer Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill. It is, instead, a republic in decline
LONDON — It was the land of capitalism, freedom, the melting pot and the American dream: its deep imperfections notwithstanding, I always held it to be a self-evident truth that there was much the United States of America could teach Britain. On visits during my teenage and student years, I was enthralled by the dynamism, the can-do attitude, the work ethic, the quality of life of the middle classes, the commitment to religious freedom and civil society, the brilliance of the universities, the romance of its great cities and the lifestyle epitomized by the homes and cars of its suburbs.
I remain hopeful that the USA will regain its senses. Trump was revitalizing America, teaching it to have a backbone again. The Pharisees chased him from the Temple.
Iran blasts ‘inhumane’ US on anniversary of Hiroshima bombing, calls for denuclearization of world
The Iranian government called out the United States in a statement commemorating the 76th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and called for a world without nuclear weapons.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, declared on Saturday that the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, showed the world that the US “spares no inhumane efforts and acts to achieve its illegitimate and irrational objectives.”
To The Biden Administration: No Visa, No Negotiations with Iran Regime’s Mass Murderer
The Biden administration has signaled that it is in a hurry to negotiate with the government of Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, a mass murderer who is known as the Butcher of Tehran, in order to revive former US President Barack Obama’s catastrophic 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — which Iran never signed — and lift sanctions against the Iranian regime.
Just last month, Iran was exposed in an attempt to kidnap a dual US-Iranian citizen, Masih Alinejad, from her home in New York City.
Lawsuit filed against US State Dept for allegedly concealing info on ‘abusive’ anal-swab testing of American diplomats in China
A nonprofit organization in the US has sued the State Department, claiming the Biden administration is unlawfully withholding records of American diplomats who allegedly have been subjected to anal swab Covid tests by Beijing.
Judicial Watch, a conservative non-partisan educational foundation, filed the lawsuit on Friday. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the organization had previously requested the State Department to provide “non-identifying records of US diplomatic personnel being subjected to invasive COVID-19 ‘anal swab’ tests by the Chinese government.” However, no response has been provided within a legitimate time period.
Australia to Pay Millions in Reparations to Indigenous People: What This Means for U.S.
As lawmakers continue debating reparations in the U.S., Australia’s prime minister said Thursday his country will pay millions of dollars in compensation to Indigenous people forcibly taken from their families.
For decades, a debate on reparations has been ongoing in the U.S., but it gained renewed attention last year as people around the world marched in protest of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in May 2020 [of an OD-Ed] while in Minneapolis police custody.
Canadian border officers to strike ahead of opening to vaccinated U.S. travelers
Nearly 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency employees are going on strike beginning Friday –– just three days before the border is set to open to vaccinated U.S. travelers on Monday. Union members warn this could cause long delays at the border.
DHS: Cartels earn up to $6 billion a year from smuggling migrants
Smuggling migrants into the U.S. earns cartels and others involved in the practice as much as $6 billion a year, a senior Homeland Security official told Congress.
That staggering figure is much higher than other public estimates, though experts said they wouldn’t be surprised if the actual amount were higher still.
South Florida ‘ISIS Imam’ Refers to Jews as ‘Lowest of the Lowest’
Anti-Semitic mosque plans 30,000-square-foot-plus expansion project.
South Florida imam Fadi Yousef Kablawi (Qablawi) admits to hating a multitude of people, including many if not most of his fellow Muslims. He refers to them as kafirs, the Arabic term for unbelievers or enemies. Yet, his greatest wrath is directed towards Jews. He recently described them as “the lowest of the lowest.” The US government believes Kablawi is a member of ISIS and a danger to society. Others believe he has encouraged terrorist acts from his followers, one of which sits in prison for threatening to murder the heads of local colleges. Now, the mosque he heads is looking to expand in a big way. What will stop this growing menace in Miami?
America has become its own worst enemy
Like the Soviet Union, the US is dying from despair
Thirty years ago this month, the Cold War ended with a failed coup in Moscow. As was remarked by many at the time, Marx’s dictum that history repeats itself as farce proved true for the Soviet Union, the state that had defined itself by his ideology.
Biden Administration “Surrenders” to Germany on Russian Gas Pipeline
The Biden administration has reached an agreement with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that allows for the completion of a controversial natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.
The July 21 deal to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would double shipments of Russian natural gas to Germany by transporting the gas under the Baltic Sea, has angered the leaders of many countries in Eastern and Western Europe; they argue that it will effectively give Moscow a stranglehold over European gas supplies and open the continent to Russian blackmail.
America’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Into Socialism
Just seven weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Among the largest spending bills in history, it was passed without the vote of a single Republican.