BEWARE...SOME DAYS ARE NOT VERY PRETTY. I GET CRABBY LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE DO. AND I DO SPEAK MY MIND.
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO TRUE, REAL, EVERYDAY FEELINGS LIKE MINE.(But I think you would enjoy it)
DON'T FORGET...FREEDOM OF SPEECH !
YOU tore up every order that Trump wrote the day you took office. You could have torn this one up too. But then YOU would have to take responsibility for YOUR ACTIONS, and YOU ARE TOO WEAK TO DO THAT !
( Biden is a disgrace to America. And just think that there are actually people out there too stupid to read the facts. Biden has slapped the faces of every soldier.)
Taliban supporters hold mock funerals with coffins draped with American flags
Taliban leaders took over control of the Kabul airport Tuesday
Photos emerged Tuesday showing Taliban supporters in Afghanistan holding a mock funeral while hoisting coffins draped with flags from the U.S. and other NATO countries.
Reuters obtained
some of the photos that were taken in Khost on Tuesday, less than a day
after the last U.S. troop left the country after a nearly 20-year
engagement.
The
U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending
America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely
to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a
frantic exit of 123,000.
Crowd carries makeshift coffins draped in NATO's, U.S. and a Union
Jack flags during a pretend funeral on a street in Khost, Afghanistan
August 31, 2021, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.
ZHMAN TV/via REUTERS
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The Reuters report said footage from the mock funeral was shared widely on social media.
Taliban leaders took over control of the Kabul airport Tuesday
and marked the departure of the last U.S. plane from the country by
taking a symbolic walk across the airport's sole runway, according to a
report.
"The
world should have learned its lesson and this is the enjoyable moment
of victory," Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, said in a
livestream video. He spoke to reporters at the Hamid Karzai
International Airport and said Americans "could not achieve their goal
through military operations," according to Al Jazeera.
The
Biden administration has insisted that the U.S. is unwavering in
commitments and placed much of the blame for the crisis in Afghanistan
on the country’s military and the Trump administration.
"The
previous administration’s agreement said that if we stuck to the May 1st
deadline that they had signed on to leave by, the Taliban wouldn’t
attack any American forces," Biden said on Tuesday.
"But if we stayed all bets were off. So we were left with a simple
decision: Either follow through on the commitment made by the last
administration and leave Afghanistan or say we weren’t leaving and
commit another tens of thousands more troops going back to war. That was
the choice. The real choice between leaving or escalating."
Family members of some US service members killed in Kabul airport attack slam Biden
Family members of some US service members killed in Kabul airport attack slam Biden
Misty Severi
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Family
members of some of the 13 U.S. service members killed in a terror
attack outside Kabul's airport last week chastised President Joe Biden
for his response to the deaths of their loved ones.
The wave of
criticism follows the deadly attack on Thursday, for which an Islamic
State affiliate claimed responsibility. Biden traveled to Dover Air
Force Base in Delaware on Sunday with his wife Jill and top members of
his staff, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, to meet with the
families and honor the troops as their remains arrived in the United
States. The backlash has also expanded into the political sphere, with
conservative critics such as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee attacking the president for looking at his watch during the ceremony.
One
of the sisters of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, Roice, said her family
left the room when it was time to meet the president because they did
not want to speak with the person they blamed for her brother's death.
McCollum's pregnant wife Jiennah was the only one in the group to remain and speak with Biden.
In an interview with the Washington Post,
Roice said Jiennah was frustrated with the president's response, which
she said felt scripted and shallow. According to Roice, he spoke about
the death of his own son and paid no attention to their personal loss.
"You
can't f*** up as bad as he did and say you're sorry," Roice said. "This
did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands."
McCollum's mother Kathy also spoke to the press, calling into SiriusXM’s radio show The Wilkow Majority for an interview, blaming Democrats for electing Biden in the first place.
"My
son is gone, and I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the
election or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son," she
said. "With a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn't even know he's
in the White House who still thinks he's a senator."
Kathy McCollum did not attend the ceremony to honor the fallen soldiers Sunday.
Their
father James McCollum wanted to join the military when he was younger
but could not because of health issues, Roice told the Washington Post.
However, he passed the love of the military on to his son.
“Rylee just loved it. He wanted to be so patriotic,” Roice said.
Paula
Knauss, mother of Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, criticized Biden for his
withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan by the end of this month,
claiming it disgraced everyone who fought in Afghanistan over the past
20 years.
"You can't have a hasty withdrawal after 20 years of
war," she said. "Because it's beyond me. It disgraces the name of all
those who have fought in the past and who are now on ground, foreign
ground fighting right now. My son's [82nd] Airborne is still there, and
they deserve to be protected."
The other service members killed
Thursday were Navy corpsman Max Soviak and Marines Hunter Lopez, David
Lee Espinoza, Kareem Nikoui, Jared Schmitz, Daegan Page, Taylor Hoover,
Humberto Sanchez, Johanny Rosario, Dylan Merola, and Nicole Gee.
Following the attack, Biden delivered a speech to the nation from the White House.
"We're outraged as well as heartbroken," he said,
"To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes
America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We
will hunt you down and make you pay."
A Terrified Bank Teller Cowered Under Her Desk During A Robbery, But Was She A Victim Or The Heist’s Mastermind?A Terrified Bank Teller Cowered Under Her Desk During A Robbery, But Was She A Victim Or The Heist’s Mastermind?
Jill Sederstrom
As
Calia Kane cowered under the desk of the bank where she worked,
following the demands of the three masked gunman who had burst through
the Wells Fargo Bank doors just moments earlier, she struggled to
control her breathing.
“I just felt like time froze for a minute and I had to tell myself this is really happening,” she said on the latest episode of “Super Heists,” airing Monday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNBC.
But
what others around her didn’t realize was that Kane, an 18-year-old
honors student, was the mastermind behind the brazen Bala Cynwood,
Pennsylvania robbery.
Kane
had carefully orchestrated the heist with her boyfriend, Marquis
Wilson—an up-and-coming Philadelphia-area rapper who had hoped to use
the ill-gotten gains to launch his music career.
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Wilson
and fellow bank robbers Malcom Moore and Martril Foster made off with
more than $81,000, but they wouldn’t be satisfied by the single hit and
would ultimately head down a path that would send all four to prison.
Kane’s
foray into crime was a stark contrast from her happy childhood, growing
up in an affluent suburb with a supportive family, including her
father, who made a career in the FBI.
“Growing up, our family like epitomized the American dream,” Kane said of the family’s house on a hill and pool in the backyard.
Kane's
future looked bright. She had graduated high school as an honors
student and had her choice of colleges before her, but the 18-year-old
wanted to take the first semester off to find a job.
She was hired at a local Wells Fargo bank, but a chance meeting at a local bus stop would quickly derail her from her course.
“I
think a lot of times her being naïve it allows her to get taken
advantage of because people see that and they prey upon that,” Kane’s
older sister Jessica Atkins told “Super Heists.”
Kane ran into Moore and his friend Wilson, who initially told her he was a youth minister.
“He looked fun, he looked alive,” she said. “I did feel like it was the stars aligning.”
She
was immediately intrigued and called Wilson a few days later, only to
realize his claims of being a religious leader had been nothing more
than a pick-up line.
Kane
was undeterred and continued to talk with Wilson, who told her of his
dreams of becoming a successful rapper using the name Carpe Diem.
“It
was after listening to one of his songs that I told him I loved him,”
she told “Super Heists.” “It literally all happened so fast.”
But,
Wilson told her that his money problems were slowing down his dreams
and after their first date, he asked if he could rob her workplace.
Kane
initially tried to talk him out of the plan, but after he told her how
he planned to pull the job off, she realized he would need her help to
make a successful getaway.
“Every plan he proposed, it was like Swiss cheese,” she recalled. “There were so many flaws in his plans.”
The
group planned to pull off the heist on Nov. 4, 2013 during Kane’s
regular shift. As an employee at the bank branch, she was able to offer
her accomplices valuable information, like instructing them to park in a
spot in the parking lot that wasn’t captured by surveillance cameras
and agreeing to signal the robbers during a lull in business.
They
also tried to recruit a third man to act as the lookout, but their
first choice backed out of the deal and they enlisted Foster to take the
man’s place.
They planned to split the cash, but Kane decided she’d rather have her proceeds go to Wilson’s goals of achieving stardom.
“In
a perfect world, Marq would have become the famous rapper he had
aspired to be and I would have been his trophy wife and we’d have
several kids by now in a mansion,” she said.
On the day of the robbery, the impatient gunmen burst into the bank just before 11 a.m., even though Kane was not prepared.
The armed men forced the customers to lay on the ground as they barked commands.
“Marq
was so callous and amused at the fear that he was instilling in
everyone in the bank,” Kane told “Super Heists.” “One of the tellers was
actually threatened directly. He laughed and said, ‘You don’t want to
die for the bank’s money, do you?’”
According to Montgomery County Det. Walt Kerr, the men took off with more than $81,000.
“Most
bank robberies are a couple thousand dollars,” Kerr told the show.
“This was the largest that I had ever seen in my career.”
The
bank robbers fled to Georgia, while Kane stayed behind to talk with
investigators. But the stolen loot would vanish as quickly as it had
appeared after the trio were stopped in North Carolina for speeding and
authorities confiscated the large bag of cash believing it had been
related to drug dealing.
The
group decided to hit another Wells Fargo bank to re-gain their money
and this time Kane not only helped with the planning, but also assisted
by going inside the bank on Nov. 12, 2013 to scout the location and
count the number of customers before the robbery.
This time the group made off with about $80,000, using a rented moving van to aid in their getaway.
The
thieves fled to Georgia to lay low, but Kane became increasingly
concerned about what she said was a controlling and abusive relationship
with Wilson.
Investigators
were also trying to find creative ways to try track down the bank
robbers, by releasing the surveillance tape of the bank robbery to the
public and offering a $10,000 reward for information.
The
reward attracted the attention of the man Wilson had initially tried to
recruit for the job and he reached out to authorities to share what he
knew.
It was the tip investigators had been waiting for to identify the suspects in the brazen robbery.
The
man told authorities that the robbers had been working with someone on
the inside and after tracking down Wilson’s phone records they were able
to identify Kane as a willing participant in the heists.
“I
would never say that I regret the time I spent in prison,” Kane told
“Super Heists” about getting caught. “I needed that time. It literally
makes me sick to my stomach to know that I was able to love somebody so
hard who didn’t care about me at all.”
To learn more about how authorities were able to take the crew down and where they are today, tune in to "Super Heists,"Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNBC.
