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  1. Bouncing Bill

    Taliban Fighters Enter Kabul 1 2 3 4 5

    by Bouncing Bill

    We never learn from history. We spent 88 Billion and got nothing. It was so predictable. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday and said they were awaiting a "peaceful transfer" of the city after promising not to take it by force, but panicked residents raced to the leave, with workers fleeing government offices and helicopters landing at the U.S. Embassy. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/15/1027806863/the-taliban-seize-jalalabad-cutting-off-kabul-to-the-east

    Martyr_4_FutureJoy
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  3. Bouncing Bill

    Afghanistan Civil War

    by Bouncing Bill

    Afghanistan is not a country in the way we think of countries. It is a geographical area comprised of a number of tribes. Many of the tribes do not like the other tribes. Historically when there is no outside armies to fight they fight each other. We have seen that already beginning. The Panjshir Valley is located just over 30 miles from Kabul. The Soviets could not take it in the 1980's. The Taliban could not take it in the 1990's. I doubt that we even tried. It is long narrow complex of valleys with only one narrow road entering through a narrow entrance. There will be no peace in Afghanistan. Below is an interesting article: Several thousand anti-Taliban fighters …

    Martyr_4_FutureJoy
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  4. Bouncing Bill

    Judge reprimands Sidney Powell, other pro-Trump lawyers who claimed voter fraud

    by Bouncing Bill
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday sanctioned Sidney Powell and other lawyers who sued in Michigan to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump, and suggested they might deserve to lose their law licenses. In a highly anticipated written ruling, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit said the pro-Trump lawyers, including Powell and prominent litigator Lin Wood, should have investigated the Republican former president's voter fraud claims more carefully before suing. Parker formally requested that disciplinary bodies investigate whether the pro-Trump lawyers should have their law licenses revoked. The judge als…

    SureWord
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  5. Bouncing Bill

    First to Plead Guilty

    by Bouncing Bill

    A New Jersey gym owner and a Washington state man on Friday became the first people to plead guilty to assaulting police in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, facing what they acknowledged in plea deals could be roughly three to five years in prison under sentencing guidelines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/first-guilty-pleas-police-assault/2021/08/06/c966ab9a-f6c3-11eb-9068-bf463c8c74de_story.html

    BrotherTony
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  6. Bouncing Bill

    China may ‘gloat’ about Afghanistan now, but the Taliban’s return comes with problems

    by Bouncing Bill

    Sure, China likes to see us with a blackeye and problems. But with the Taliban in control this creates problems for China. The Western part of China is filled with non-Han Muslims who hate the Han Chinese. They now have friends in Afghanistan who probably will help them cause trouble. The two countries have a 57 mile common boarder. Both the Taliban and al-Qaeda will probably cause problems for China. From the article: There are two possible scenarios with extreme possibilities, said Victor Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization. One is that the Taliban embraces reform and peace, and the other is that the Taliban reverts to its old w…

    BrotherTony
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  7. Bouncing Bill

    GOP takes down 2020 page touting Trump's 'historic peace agreement with the Taliban'

    by Bouncing Bill

    Now, why would they do that?

    BrotherTony
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  8. Bouncing Bill

    ‘Short and not especially sweet’: Lindsey Graham called Biden over Trump support

    by Bouncing Bill

    The South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham called Joe Biden after his victory over Donald Trump to tell the president he only joined attacks on his son, Hunter Biden, as a “bare minimum” to satisfy Trump supporters. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/16/lindsey-graham-joe-biden-hunter-call-trump-support Is Graham beginning to lay the groundwork to turn 180 degrees again and attack Trump at some point in the future?

    BrotherTony
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  9. Bouncing Bill

    Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and the MyPillow Guy Are in Huge Trouble

    by Bouncing Bill

    On Wednesday, a Trump-appointed judge spanked three Trump boosters for spreading Trump’s lies in a ruling that could cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. District Judge Carl J. Nichols crafted a blistering opinion allowing three defamation lawsuits filed by Dominion Voting Systems against MyPullow CEO Mike Lindell and Trump’s lawyers, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani to move forward to trial.

    BrotherTony
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  10. BrotherTony

    Possibly coming to churches in America...Already happening in Canada!

    by BrotherTony

    I was sent this clip this morning by a pastor friend of mine. It is of a church in Canada being closed and placed under lock and key by the local sheriff's dept. It's headed to America.

    SureWord
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  11. Bouncing Bill

    Hot dates: 2 spacecraft to make Venus flyby

    by Bouncing Bill

    It is always interesting to read articles such as this. The math that must be used to utilize the gravity of a planate to change and continue a space flight toward a successful mission is way beyond my comprehension. Two spacecraft are set to swoop past Venus within hours of each other this week, using the maneuver to do a little bit of bonus science on the way to their main missions at the center of our solar system. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter probe, a cooperation with NASA, will swing around Venus early Monday, using the planet's gravity to help put it on a course to observe the Sun's poles. About 33 hours later, the European-Japanese …

    SureWord
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  12. Bouncing Bill

    Get scared’: World’s scientists say disastrous climate change is here 1 2 3

    by Bouncing Bill

    For the first time, the planet's top scientists said in a monumental report released on Monday they have definitively linked greenhouse gas emissions to the type of disasters driven by a warmer climate that have touched every corner of the globe this year: extreme rainfall in Germany and China, brutal droughts in the western U.S., a record cyclone in the Philippines and compound events like the wildfires and heat waves from the Pacific Northwest to Siberia to Greece and Turkey. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/09/climate-change-scientists-report-disastrous-502799

    SureWord
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  13. Bouncing Bill

    ‘Like a Mob’: Prosecutors Look at Trump’s Ice Rink Man

    by Bouncing Bill

    Ever since New York prosecutors hit the Trump Organization and its top financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with tax fraud charges in July, it’s been obvious they have more evidence of wrongdoing than they’ve laid out. But now, it’s certain: Prosecutors also have evidence that the executive’s son, Barry Weisselberg, received the very same kind of corporate perks that investigators allege should have been taxed as income. Barry Weisselberg is the longtime manager of the Trump-owned Wollman ice rink in Central Park. Details about the financial arrangement, as well as tax returns showing that the additional income was unreported, were delivered to the New York attorney…

    Pastor Matt
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  14. Bouncing Bill

    What Trump Got Right 1 2

    by Bouncing Bill

    Trump did some good things while in office. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/30/what-trump-got-right/

    BrotherTony
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  15. Bouncing Bill

    Trump's income tax returns 1 2

    by Bouncing Bill

    The Department of Justice said that the IRS must give Trump's income tax returns to Congress. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/justice-says-irs-must-trump-173759067.html

    BrotherTony
    Last reply by BrotherTony,
  16. Bouncing Bill

    Pro-Trump Lawyers Sanctioned in Colorado

    by Bouncing Bill
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    A federal judge in Colorado sanctioned two pro-Trump attorneys Wednesday who had filed a lawsuit after the presidential election alleging widespread fraud, with the judge saying in a scathing ruling that their claims were “disorganized and fantastical.” U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neuriter ordered Ernest Walker and Gary D. Fielder to pay the attorney fees and expenses for the defendants in their lawsuit, which included state leadership from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia; Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan and voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/08/04/pro-trump-attorn…

    SureWord
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  17. Bouncing Bill

    GDP under Trump the worse since the Great Depression

    by Bouncing Bill
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    • 262 views

    The annualized real growth in America’s Gross Domestic Product during Trump’s administration was the worst since the Great Depression, according to updated and revised government data. And quarterly GDP data, which only dates back to Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency beginning in 1953, puts Trump dead last among the dozen presidents since then, according to Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-02/trump-s-gdp-growth-was-the-worst-since-the-great-depression?sref=GzMobW41 And, if you take away the Pandemic his record is still not great.

    SureWord
    Last reply by SureWord,
  18. Martyr_4_FutureJoy

    Think on these things. (not about death and disease and fraud) Good things, helpful things.

    by Martyr_4_FutureJoy

    What good does carrot juice do, for instance, that it is used in all the healing clinics in the USA and worldwide as far as known? How about the old remedy of chicken noodle soup ? Very common in the states even over a century ago, and may be found somewhat often today perhaps ? (home-made, not commercial processed with chemicals etc) And to strengthen much or most of the body, in a healthy way, vitamin E. Not with any warnings before druglords started opposing it around 1940-1955 = it was in the pharma books prior to that totally at any dose non-toxic. Every cell of the body, blood and brain, and bones may benefit from it, and much harm comes i…

    Martyr_4_FutureJoy
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  19. Bouncing Bill

    Donald Trump’s Best Friend and Inauguration Chair, Thomas Barrack, Arrested on Federal Charges 1 2 3

    by Bouncing Bill

    On Tuesday morning, billionaire Thomas Barrack, one of Trump's closest friends, was arrested in the Los Angeles area and charged with violating foreign-lobbying laws, making false statements, and obstructing justice. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/donald-trump-friend-thomas-barrack-arrested

    BrotherTony
    Last reply by BrotherTony,
  20. Bouncing Bill

    Vaccine hesitancy morphs into hostility, as opposition to shots hardens 1 2 3

    by Bouncing Bill

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/covid-vaccines-biden-trump/2021/07/15/adaf6c7e-e4bd-11eb-a41e-c8442c213fa8_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3429480%2F60f1b5839d2fda945a07010b%2F59876e1cae7e8a681613bd00%2F8%2F72%2F60f1b5839d2fda945a07010b If they keep this up and continue to refuse being vaccinated there will be far fewer Trump supporters to vote in 2024. That is a sad state of affairs as almost all the deaths between now and then are preventable.

    Salyan
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  21. Bouncing Bill

    Man needed double lung transplant, wishes he'd been vaccinated

    by Bouncing Bill
    • 0 replies
    • 185 views

    A 24-year-old Georgia man who contracted COVID-19 and required a double lung transplant, and who remains hospitalized, has expressed his regret he did not get vaccinated for the virus, which has so far killed more than 607,000 Americans. https://www.aol.com/news/24-old-needed-double-lung-180810881.html

    Bouncing Bill
    Last reply by Bouncing Bill,
  22. Pastor Matt

    In case you missed it...here's a recap

    by Pastor Matt

    Jim_Alaska
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  23. Bouncing Bill

    Politics is causing needless deaths in the fight against Covid-19

    by Bouncing Bill

    [[Text removed admin for excessive use of large fonts]] https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/politics-needless-covid-deaths/index.html

    Martyr_4_FutureJoy
    Last reply by Martyr_4_FutureJoy,
  24. Bouncing Bill

    Can religious co-exist side-by-side? 1 2 3

    by Bouncing Bill

    I thought this a very interesting video. Who would have thought this could happen in Arabia?

    Disciple.Luke
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  25. Pastor Matt

    Is this what the world thinks of America now? 1 2 3

    by Pastor Matt

    Btw. I pray for our President.

    Pastor Matt
    Last reply by Pastor Matt,
  26. Bouncing Bill

    What you need to know about the highly contagious delta variant

    by Bouncing Bill

    The highly transmissible coronavirus variant called delta is present in all 50 states and is already dominant in many parts of the United States. Modeling shows the variant now accounts for 51.7 percent of all new infections in this country, five times the prevalence four weeks earlier, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the week ending July 3. “Although we expected the delta variant to become the dominant strain in the United States, this rapid rise is troubling,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Thursday during a White House news briefing. In some parts of the …

    BrotherTony
    Last reply by BrotherTony,


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