Author: J.P. Knowles

The White House announced President Joe Biden’s plans to visit the sites of terrorist attacks that took place in New York City on September 11, 2001, on the 20th anniversary of the tragic event.

Biden is scheduled to appear in honor of the nearly 3000 people who lost their lives in the most deadly attack to take place on American soil.

President Biden and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden plan on visiting the Pentagon, Ground Zero in New York City, and the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the site of the plane that crashed when 93 American heroes saved countless lives by thwarting the plane’s hijackers.

President Biden, who has faced a lot of heavy criticism for his withdrawal of the United States military out of Afghanistan, not to mention the ongoing crisis at the border, and how he has handled COVID, has plummeted in public opinion polls.

Many families of the 9/11 victims have publicly requested that Biden not attend any remembrance ceremonies.

A woman called in a false bomb threat this week when she arrived at the airport in Fort Lauderdale too late to board the flight.

Marina Verbitsky, 46, along with her husband and child arrived late at the gate too late to board their flight out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night.

“She became very angry because they were not allowed to board the plane,” according to the Broward County arrest reports. “She was using profanities toward the employees and when she was notified the plane was taxiing to the runway with her checked luggage she stated there was a bomb in her luggage.”

The plane, which was already on the runway, had to be rerouted and evacuated so that the Broward Sheriff’s Office threat management unit could inspect the plane.

Verbitsky is accused of telling airport employees a bomb was in her checked luggage after arriving at her gate too late to board the plane.

After a thorough inspection, the threat was determined to be unfounded. Verbitsky was arrested and is facing one count of false reporting concerning planting a bomb, explosive, or weapon of mass destruction.

This is the second bomb threat at the Fort Lauderdale-Airport in just three months.

President Biden received a letter from forty-one congressional Republicans raising serious concerns about the State Department’s “rushed and incomplete vetting of Afghan evacuees” who were brought to the U.S. from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

“We are concerned that inadequate criminal and security background checks are being performed by the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of State on evacuees in their country or origin, and in other countries in which they have resided or to which they traveled before being brought to the United States,” the U.S. representatives, led by Rep Yvette Herrell, R-N.M., wrote in the letter.

In the letter, the GOP members of Congress insist that the United States should “honor its promise” to help “Afghan nationals and their families who have risked their lives to support U.S. and Coalition forces, applied for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, and are now fleeing the Taliban.”

However, the letter also questions the process used by the DHS to perform background checks, that involves the use of national security and intelligence databases within the United States.

“DHS has released illegal aliens screened under the same U.S. government databases who were wanted for murder, as well as know MS-13 members,” the Republicans wrote. “DHS cannot reliably assess the criminal background of a person from Bolivia, let alone Helmand Province. In fact, this vetting has already failed in the case of Afghan nationals. An Afghan male convicted of rape in the United States and deported by DHS was evacuated from Kabul, allowed to enter the United States, and not caught until he arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport.”

In the letter, Republicans demand the Biden administration answer questions on the status of Americans left in Afghanistan, security checking and evacuee vetting, and information on the release and resettlement of Afghan evacuees into the American homeland.

The letter asks for clarification of “the number of those U.S. citizens still remaining in Afghanistan” and “what communication they had with U.S. officials prior to our August 31, 2021, departure,” as well as the “reasons why they were not repatriated.”

The Republicans asked for the totals for the number of American citizens, SIVs, and lawful permanent residents brought to America. The deadline for response is Sept. 15, 2021.

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder was walking in Los Angeles on Wednesday when he had eggs thrown at him.
Elder was walking through a Venice neighborhood with members of his campaign team when the attack happened

Videos taken of the incident show the first egg flying through the air and narrowly missing Elder. A member of Elder’s team is then seen putting his arm on Elder’s back and saying; “We’re getting egged from behind.”

Not long after that, another egg was hurled at Elder and his team. It is not clear if Elder or his team were hit by any eggs.

Several people got physically aggressive towards Elder’s team, one woman wearing a gorilla mask appeared to slap one member of the team in the face.

Elder’s team escorted him to the waiting SUV and they left.

It is not known at this time what prompted the egging incident.

For the purpose of reducing violent crime, the city of San Francisco in California has announced the implementation of a scheme that will pay citizens $300 per month if they do not shoot someone.

According to a Fox News report, the organization, dubbed Dream Keeper Fellowship, “will pay ten individuals who are at high risk of being on either end of a shooting $300 each month in exchange for their commitment to not being involved in such crimes.” This implies that persons who are at high danger of being shot are also eligible for the program, however, it is unclear how this is determined. The initiative will officially begin in October.

Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told Newsweek that the program is not “transactional,” as it may seem.

“It’s not necessarily as cut and dry as folks may think. It’s not as transactional as, ‘Here’s a few dollars so that you don’t do something bad,’ but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood,” she told the outlet.

From Newsweek:

Participants will be paired with life coaches from the city’s Street Violence Intervention Program and will be considered “community ambassadors” who work to prevent violence. They will work on their professional, personal, and community development and will be thought of as “partners” in engaging community members and decreasing violence.

Davis said the program will attempt to find the “root causes” of violence, which she said in “so many ways are economic.”

“In many cases, sadly, the common denominator is that these folks do not have any sort of income. And so part of what we’re trying to do is make sure that money is not a barrier to turning your life around,” Breed said, according to The Telegraph.

Individuals who take part in the program can earn even more money by acquiring a job, enrolling in school, or even mediating situations that could result in violent confrontations. In other words, the program will compensate people for performing tasks that they should have been performing regardless. What happens if and when the money is no longer available? Will people continue to labor or will they abide by the law? Will they be required to be compensated in this manner indefinitely?

As reported by Newsweek, the initiative in San Francisco is modeled after one implemented in Richmond, California, which according to the American Journal of Public Health was responsible for a 55 percent reduction in gun homicide. Because this assertion is so bizarre, even the left-wing publication Mother Jones questioned whether paying people not to shoot others was genuinely effective in reducing crime or whether the city had simply been lucky.

Jackie Johnson, a former Glynn County district attorney, was indicted on Wednesday for suspected misconduct in the murder investigation of Ahmaud Arbery.

Following her indictment for allegedly disregarding her responsibilities in the administration of a case involving the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Johnson surrendered herself to the Glynn County sheriff’s office on Wednesday morning, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC). Johnson was charged with one count of official misconduct.

A former Georgia DA was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly showing preference to the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery last year, court documents show. https://t.co/kO23NkRQNU

— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 4, 2021

Travis McMichael was charged with murdering Arbery by shooting him at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun.

According to Brunswick News, the homicide took place when Arbery ran past McMichael’s home, where McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William “Rodie” Bryan armed themselves and chased Arbery in a pickup truck.

Johnson was charged by a grand jury on Sept. 2 with obstructing a police officer and reportedly ordering two officers not to arrest McMichael, according to the AJC.

Reports from the AJC state she was also charged with violating her oath of office by allegedly offering “special treatment” to McMichael’s father, who was also charged in the case and failing to treat Arbery and his family with dignity.

Johnson served as district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit for 11 years but was forced to resign in November 2020 following widespread criticism and complaints on her handling of the case.

After 20 years of progress, the Taliban has once again seized power in Afghanistan, and things have quickly unraveled for the women there.

Since the Taliban take-over in Afghanistan, they have made promises to allow women more rights than during their previous reign, “within Sharia law.” It’s already looking as though this is not going to be the case.

Lara Logan, a veteran foreign and war correspondent, gives an account of what life was like under Taliban rule.

“It is a long slow death,” she said. “If you’re unlucky. If you’re lucky, you’ll just be slaughtered quickly, because that is what life is like for women under the Taliban, a long slow death.”

“It is the end of freedom, it is the end of possibility. It is the end of hope,” Logan said. “It is the end of light.”

“It is the beginning of a life of possible sexual slavery, which is a nice way of saying being raped every day by a man you don’t love,” she continued. “Being denied the ability to love. You are denied the ability to have your own family. To have privacy. To have a dream.”

When Kabul fell to the Afghans in 2001, the city hadn’t seen the face of a woman in more than eight years, Logan told Fox News.

In the past 20 years, with the help of the United States, girls have been allowed an education, and women have been allowed to work and have more rights.

Logan claims that when the Taliban says it will be more permissive with women as long as it is within the bounds of Sharia law, what they are not telling you is what that entails.

“What they’re not saying is will they allow women to work, will they allow women to be treated by a male doctor, will they allow young girls to go to high school,” she added. “No, no is the answer.”

Logan told of an interview she had with a Taliban commander in the back seat of a car.

“He was looking through the window of the car and there were two Afghan women waiting to cross the road and they had the full hijab on but their faces were not covered by the burka,” Logan said. The commander began “spewing vitriol, hatred” then told Logan, “if you were not here right now, I would kill those women myself.”

“They have dishonored me, they have dishonored Allah, they have dishonored the Taliban, they have dishonored the Islamic Emirate, I am filthy right now,” the Taliban commander told her.

Reports are already pouring in of women being terrorized since the recent take-over. Two Afghan female journalists report they’ve been barred from their newsrooms and hid in fear of being killed by the Taliban. Both women live in fear of being found and killed. There’s another report of a pregnant woman being killed in front of her husband and children upon returning from her job.

Logan said the Taliban’s promises to allow women more freedoms than they had during their previous rule are just “propaganda talking points as agreed upon by its political masters and backers.”

Several newly released documents reveal the depth of U.S. funding of coronavirus research in Wuhan, China. Senator Rand Paul claims the documents show that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci lied during his testimony to Congress.

Fauci has been unwavering in denying that the National Institutes of Health-funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Paul called Fauci out in a tweet Tuesday saying that the NIAID director had “lied again.”

“And I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus research at Wuhan,” Paul said.

The Intercept reported that the U.S. government gave $3.1 million to American health organization EcoHealth Alliance to fund bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)

The report showed nearly $600,000 of that federal money was used in part by the WIV to find and alter bat coronavirus that could spread to humans and infect them.

The documents also showed that experimental research on genetically engineered mice with human cell receptors was conducted at the Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, and not the WIV as previously believed.

“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful,” Rutgers University chemical biology professor Richard Ebright wrote in a Twitter on Tuesday.

Neither Dr. Paul nor Dr. Fauci has held back when it comes to challenging the other.

During a July hearing on the COVID-19 variant, Paul accused Fauci of “lying” about gain-of-function research.

“I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,” Fauci said. Adding that the research Paul referenced was “judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function.”

“You do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially,” Fauci said

Paul responded by saying that the NIH’s judgment “defines away” work that was gain-of-function research.

“You’re dancing around this because you’re trying to obscure responsibility,” Paul added.

Last week during class 9-year-old student got up to get a drink of water. The child then forgot to put his mask back on so his teacher did what any completely unreasonable psychotic adult would do, she taped it back onto his face.

The mother of the young boy was outraged to learn the substitute teacher at the Las Vegas elementary school taped a mask on her son’s face humiliating him in front of the entire class.

“I was furious, furious!” the mother who wishes to remain anonymous exclaimed. “I was scared for my son on what kind of long-term effect it is going to have on him socially, the fact that the entire class was laughing.”

She claimed that the teacher had not reminded the boy to put his mask back on.

“She, instead, pulled him up in front of the classroom in front of all of the students and she then taped the mask across the top of his face,” she said. According to the mother, her son said that other students had also had masks taped onto their faces.

In a statement from the Clark County School District, it is “aware of the isolated incident and is dealing with the employee through proper channels. the principal proactively notified the family of the investigation.”

The mother is demanding the teacher resign in light of the alleged incident at the Reedom Elementary School in Mountain’s Edge, Las Vegas.

The head of the Los Angeles teachers union asserted that “there is no such thing as learning loss,” despite mounting evidence of huge educational reductions associated with a year of distant study.

Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, told LA Magazine that “It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.”

When schools were forced to close in early 2020 due to coronavirus, the union insisted that instructors not be required to teach remotely for more than four hours per day, while earning a full day’s pay. Teachers frequently just posted tasks for pupils to download and complete independently.

According to LA Magazine, over two-thirds of children generally ignored this form of school, and nearly none of the district’s 229,000 elementary school students logged on at all.

Staying at home has also contributed to children’s obesity, which is a major risk factor for coronavirus.

Last school year, when the union called for the closure of all schools, it emphasized far-left ideology, claiming that “the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States underscores the profound equity and justice challenges arising from our profoundly racist, intensely unequal society.”

They called for the “defunding of police,” the establishment of housing as a human right, and a prohibition on charter schools, which are popular with racial minorities but have been accused by the union of “draining resources” from the union members’ employer.

Austin Beutner, the superintendent, resigned on June 30, stating in his resignation letter that “UTLA leadership was urged to evaluate all possible options for [returning to classrooms with full compensation]. None of this would be acceptable to them.”

Parents filed lawsuits (one claiming that “UTLA and its president Cecily Myart-Cruz have shackled the current well-being and future prospects of LAUSD students”) and requested the recall of school board members.

Myart-Cruz, on the other hand, gloated: “You may recall the Governor.” You have the option of recalling the school board. How, on the other hand, are you going to recall me?”

Myart-Cruz had sought an increase in property taxes in an effort to help those who were floundering in their classes, but the proposal was shot down by the people. Despite the fact that Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom offered $2 billion in additional funding for schools that would open by April 2021 (apparently to address the same budget issues that were the basis for a property-tax increase), Myart-Cruz rejected the offer because she believed it would disproportionately benefit “white and wealthier schools.”