Trusted...

 

The US military negotiated a secret arrangement with the Taliban that resulted in Taliban members escorting groups of Americans to the gates of the Kabul airport as they sought to escape Afghanistan, according to two defense officials.

One of the officials also revealed that US special operations forces set up a "secret gate" at the airport and established "call centers" to guide Americans through the evacuation process.

The officials said Americans were notified to gather at pre-set "muster points" close to the airport where the Taliban would gather the Americans, check their credentials and take them a short distance to a gate manned by American forces who were standing by to let them inside amid huge crowds of Afghans seeking to flee.

Throughout the evacuation, Biden administration officials stressed that the Taliban was cooperating and senior officials stated they had committed to provide "safe passage" for Americans.

The Taliban escort missions happened "several times a day" according to one of the officials. One of the key muster points was a Ministry of Interior building just outside on of the airport's gates where nearby US forces were readily able to observe the Americans approach. Americans were notified by various messages about where to gather.

Just a thought.

Vaxed...

 

Less than 1% of fully vaccinated people experienced a breakthrough infection, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of official state data.

The federal government only reports data on breakthrough infections that result in hospitalization or death.

According to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than 0.004% of people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization, and less than 0.001% have died from the disease. That’s about 6,600 severe breakthrough cases out of more than 163 million fully vaccinated people.

But the KFF analysis shows that breakthrough infections of any kind are also extremely rare.

About half of states report data on Covid-19 breakthrough cases, and in each of those states, less than 1% of fully vaccinated people had a breakthrough infection, ranging from 0.01% in Connecticut to 0.9% in Oklahoma.

Also, more than 90% of cases – and more than 95% of hospitalizations and deaths – have been among unvaccinated people, according to the KFF analysis. In most states, more than 98% of cases were among the un vaccinated.  Just a thought.

Double...

 

Moderna Inc.’s Covid vaccine generated more than double the antibodies of a similar shot made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE in research that compared immune responses evoked by the two inoculations. 

The study is one of the first to compare levels of antibodies produced by the two vaccines, which are thought to be one of the important components of the immune response. It didn’t examine whether the antibody differences led to a difference in efficacy over time between the two shots, which both were more than 90% effective in final-stage clinical trials.

The research looked at antibody levels against the coronavirus spike protein in about 1,600 workers at a major Belgium hospital system whose blood samples were analyzed 6 to 10 weeks after vaccination. The participants hadn’t been infected with the coronavirus before getting vaccinated. Levels among those who got two doses of the Moderna vaccine averaged 2,881 units per milliliter, compared with 1,108 units per milliliter amon.

The results, published in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested the differences might be explained by the higher amount of active ingredient in the Moderna vaccine -- 100 micrograms, versus 30 micrograms in Pfizer-BioNTech -- or the slightly longer interval between doses of the Moderna vaccine -- four weeks, versus three weeks for Pfizer-BioNTech.  

Focus

 

It is their problem now.

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Yikes...

 

The first thing the Dems go for is taxing someone they say they are rich. So although NYC is very crowded all around, they wanted to give Amazon 3 Billion Dollars credit to come to NYC which would cause more congestion to the city. Rezoning various areas for a sky scrapers approved by the politicians cause more additional congestion to the city.

In the same time, they want to tax those who drive to work in Manhattan rich or just above the minimum wage.   Just taxing..

Not to mention Corona Virus' killing machines that impacted rich and poor who are exposed to it in the sardines packed trains, buses, offices of NYC.   But it is all about the collection, more money, more money.  Just a thought.

Ugly ..

 

The Sept. 14 recall to decide the fate of California Gov. Gavin Newsom is beginning to look like it could get ugly for Democrats. Recent polling has shown that the state a bastion of blue is basically split in half on the question of whether to recall the governor. 

Structural quirks in the recall system paired with the Democratic Party’s approach to the challenge could make it hard for Democrats to retain power if the recall succeeds, despite a sizable statewide advantage. 

But the worst possible outcome of the recall challenge goes far beyond Newsom. The true nightmare scenario for Democrats would be this: What if Newsom loses, a Republican replaces him, and then 88-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein becomes unable to finish her term?
This is not some kind of paranoid thought experiment.

If Newsom is replaced by a Republican and Feinstein is not able to serve until a new governor enters office in January 2023, a GOP governor would be the one to appoint someone to fill her seat, potentially tipping the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. It’s not a small thing.

Medicated...

 

 Over the last five decades, feminism has made a long march through American culture. But it isn’t clear that feminism’s fruits are helping everyone. Happiness metrics confirm that women are struggling: Suicides, depression, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted infections have all increased dramatically over the last five decades. 

Women aren’t becoming happier, just more medicated. A 2020 Pew Report showed that over 50 percent of liberal white women under 30 have some sort of mental-health issue. That statistic alone is stunning enough to indicate that something is going very wrong for the modern woman, despite the steady uptick of feminist advances.

 A crisis-pregnancy center, with unusual stories about the challenges their residents face and the rough living most have experienced  being trafficked, pimped, addicted, incarcerated, abused, and on and on. 

Crisis-pregnancy homes, do amazing work to protect and help rebuild the lives of new mothers. But it is striking to consider that as a culture do precious little to help women avoid these troublesome situations from the beginning. 

It is only when some women get this far down the road and in this much trouble that mentoring women can step in and say, “Something has to change.” And those in crisis are willing to listen because they have tried everything else.  

Earlier...

 

Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer says Andrew Cuomo is 'dirtiest, nastiest political player out there'.

The hooker-happy Spitzer, who quit the governorship in 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, said Cuomo's tough-guy image goes back to when he was an aide to his dad, then-Gov. Mario Cuomo.
"He has brass knuckles and he played hardball," said Spitzer, the self-proclaimed "steamroller." "He has a lot of enemies."
Spitzer still harbors resentment toward Cuomo for an investigation into the so-called Troopergate scandal that found wrongdoing by top Spitzer aides.
Cuomo's findings of political shenanigans started Spitzer's downward spiral, climaxing in his resignation after being outed as "Client No .9" in a prostitution sting.