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Four Taliban members swapped for Bowe Bergdahl now in Afghan government

New York Post: The four members of the so-called “Taliban Five” who have joined the new government are Acting Director of Intelligence Abdul Haq Wasiq, Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs Norullah Noori, Deputy Defense Minister Mohammad Fazl, and Acting Minister of Information and Culture Khairullah Khairkhah. The fifth member of the Taliban Five, Mohammad Nabi Omari, was appointed governor of eastern Khost Province last month.

(Khairullah Khairkhwa is the Taliban’s Acting Minister of Information and Culture)

Afghan outlet TOLOnews published a list Tuesday of members of the new “caretaker” government, which features several familiar faces who helped run the war-torn country between 1996 and 2001 — when the Taliban were forced from power by US-led NATO forces following the 9/11 attacks.

Wasiq, Fazl, and Khairkhah all held positions in the former Taliban government — Wasiq as a deputy intelligence chief, Fazl as army chief of staff, and Khairkhah as interior minister.

(Abdul Haq Wasiq is the Acting Director of Intelligence in the Taliban’s government.)

Norullah Noori is the Taliban's Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs.

(Norullah Noori is the Taliban’s Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs)

Mohammad Fazl is the Deputy Defense Minister.

(Mohammad Fazl is the Deputy Defense Minister.

According to assessments written in 2008 by leadership at Guantanamo Bay and later made public by Wikileaks, Wasiq “utilized his office to support [Al Qaeda] and to assist Taliban personnel elude capture” and “was central to the Taliban’s efforts to form alliances with other Islamic fundamentalist groups to fight alongside the Taliban against U.S. and Coalition forces” in the early days of the Afghanistan war.

The same assessments said that Fazl was alleged to have had “operational associations with significant al Qaeda and other extremist personnel.” Read More

The Great Computer Chip Shortage Of 2021 Is Just Heating Up

Zero Hedge: The great computer chip shortage of 2021 will likely get worse before it gets better.  This conclusion was reached following brief study and anecdotal review.

Moreover, while COVID lockdowns may have initially triggered the shortage, several decades of shortsighted decisions and simmering geopolitical tensions make it much more than a matter of fixing a few broken links in the supply chain. 

Here’s why…

The world’s top two leading chip companies are Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics.  These two Asian firms, combined, control more than 70 percent of the semiconductor manufacturing market.

The U.S., which was once a leader, lags behind in chip manufacturing after major – and shortsighted – shifts in the business models in the semiconductor industry over the last 15 years.  But this could change…assuming the U.S. government can bend the semiconductor market to better meet its will.

The global semiconductor shortage and geopolitical tensions with China have now prompted Washington scrutiny of the supply chain.  Suddenly, the U.S. government doesn’t like how semiconductor manufacturing is concentrated in the hands of a small number of Asian companies.  There is now a push to bring manufacturing back to American soil.

The U.S. government has earmarked billions of dollars and is reportedly looking at strategic alliances with other nations.  The U.S. government, however, has a terrible track record for economic intervention. Read More

Biden: “Climate change is real. We’re living through it now. We don’t have any more time”

Breitbart: President Joe Biden struggled Tuesday during a discussion on extreme weather threatening the country, inexplicably declaring that tornadoes were no longer referred to as tornadoes.

“Looks like a tornado — they don’t call them that anymore — that hit the crops and wetlands in the middle of the country,” Biden said. “In Iowa, in Nevada, in —it’s just across the board.”

“Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water, Or a path for the thunderbolt’ Job 38;25

The president spoke about extreme weather and tornadoes during a visit to New Jersey after sudden rains and flooding led to the deaths of over 50 people in the Northeast. Biden paused and returned to his notes, reminding Americans that “we are all in this together.”

It’s unclear what Biden was referring to, but perhaps was talking about the devastating derecho storm in August 2020 that damaged millions of acres of crops in Iowa. Read More

NASA Admin: We Have No Plan For A UFO That Turns Out To Be Aliens

Daily Wire: The Senate is set to take up the issue of restarting a shuttered Pentagon program that looked into Unidentified Aerian Phenomenon (or UAP), but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may not be ready with a plan for when a UAP or a UFO becomes an alien encounter.

There were [a]giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.” Genesis 6:4

According to an interview with PBS’s “Firing Line,” former Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson, who is now NASA’s administrator, says that the agency has not crafted a plan for an alien encounter, even though the agency has worked in tandem with researchers exploring the possibility of alien life — and has sent messages into the universe on Earth’s behalf. Read More

How ‘vaccine passports’ would turn America into a Communist China-style surveillance state

LifeSite News: In 2007 researchers with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to look into using China’s cutting edge technology, mass surveillance capabilities, and top-down government power to control the behavior of Chinese citizens down to the most minute measure.

“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads” Rev. 13:16

The scheme would analyze, track, and score every aspect of Chinese citizens’ lives including their spending habits, their care or recklessness in driving, their social media posts, how politely they stood and waited for a train, and how hard they worked.

People could bump up their scores for good behavior, but would lose points for acting in an “untrustworthy” manner as determined by the CCP. High scores could get participants discounts, rewards, and other perks. Low scores would lead to losses of freedom and privileges.

Now, more than halfway through 2021, China’s social credit system is not isolated to East Asia.

Amid a worldwide totalitarian response to a not-so-very lethal virus that originated in Wuhan, China, the communist social credit system has spread like a communicable disease, infecting some of the freest, most democratic western nations in the world.

Those with their finger on the cultural pulse have begun to warn that so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports open the door to a China-style social credit system in an America that is rapidly deteriorating into a technocratic surveillance state.

But what is the Chinese social credit system, and how do mass data collection, privacy violation, censorship, and “cancel culture” in the U.S. compare with it? Read More

Those Were the Headlines of the Year 5781

Jewish Press: You may remember 5781 as a year defined by just the Coronavirus, vaccinations and elections, but looking back at our headlines, even we were surprised at how busy and packed a year it was, and how much more actually happened that affected our lives.

Join us as we take a journey back through some of the stories and headlines that helped define 5781. And may 5782 be a better year for all of us. Read More

Labor Day: Real Wages Are Falling in the Biden Economy

Breitbart: It’s not your imagination: it really is harder to make ends meet these days.

Real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.1 percent from June to July, seasonally adjusted, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender.” Proverbs 22:7

Businesses across America are paying their workers more as they struggle to fill a record number of open positions. Wages increased four-tenths of a percentage point in July. But prices are rising even faster. The Consumer Price Index rose five-tenths of a point.

This means that workers are worse off than they were a month earlier.

Zoom out the time frame and things are even worse. Real average hourly earnings nosedived 1.2 percent from July 2020 to July 2021.
The change in real average hourly earnings combined with an increase of 0.6 percent in the average workweek resulted in a 0.7-percent decrease in real average weekly earnings.
So we’re working more and earning less.

The government tracks a category of job holders called “production and nonsupervisory employees.” In other words, everyone but the bosses. From July 2020 to July 2021, real average hourly earnings decreased 1.1 percent, seasonally adjusted.
When inflation started to pick up earlier this year, many pundits said that there would be a “silver lining” of wage increases. Read More

Biden State Dep’t Says It Has No Resources To Rescue Trapped Flights In Afghanistan

Daily Wire: Responding to claims that it is blocking flights carrying Americans and lawful permanent residents (LPRs) from leaving Mazar-i-Sharif (MAZ) airport in Afghanistan, the Biden administration’s State Department reportedly admitted that it has few resources available to facilitate the evacuation and that they have no “reliable” information about the trapped flights.

“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion” Proverbs 18:2

As the Daily Wire noted Sunday, there are conflicting reports as to who is preventing planes carrying individuals rescued by a non-governmental organization (NGO) from taking off from MAZ.

Individuals associated with an organization handling the flights that the State Department is the only obstacle to the chartered planes leaving the airport, but sources close to the situation told the Daily Wire Sunday that while the State Department is not negotiating landing zones, the Taliban is also making significant demands, effectively creating a “hostage situation” on the ground in Afghanistan.

A State Department official, however, told the Washington Free Beacon, that the State Department’s hands are tied, and that they have no resources on the ground to assist or even to provide reliable information on the passengers.

“We do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace—whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region Read More