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On Tuesday, Townhall covered Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s insistence that there were no private evacuation flights being blocked by the Taliban. “We have been assured, again, that all American citizens and Afghan citizens with valid travel documents will be allowed to leave,” stated Blinken. “It’s my understanding that the Taliban has not denied exit to anyone holding a valid document.”
Roughly 24 hours later, Blinken has reversed his position and admitted that the Taliban is, in fact, blocking chartered evacuation flights from departing Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport in northern Afghanistan.
“As of now, the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart,” Blinken confirmed in remarks from Ramstein Air Base in Germany. “They claim that some of the passengers do not have the required documentation,” he added without explaining why the United States was taking the Taliban’s claim that some evacuees were lacking proper documentation as an acceptable excuse for blocking the flights. Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken: “The Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart.”
These flights include American citizens. pic.twitter.com/HbJVMAsFHt — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 8, 2021 Stating the obvious, Blinken admitted that “there are limits” to what the Biden administration can do “without personnel on the ground” but insisted the administration is “working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground.”
While Blinken, Biden, and Pentagon officials insisted that there would continue to be a diplomatic presence at the U.S. embassy in Kabul in the days leading up to Kabul’s fall to Taliban fighters, Biden’s humiliating and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan meant that no military or diplomatic presence could remain in-country. So yet again, President Biden and his administration are left to rely upon the Taliban’s goodwill which, as highlighted by the hostage situation in Mazar-i-Sharif, has worn out.
And again, without any American troops or diplomats remaining in Afghanistan, it’s unclear what exactly Blinken is referring to when he said his department and the Biden administration are doing “everything in our power” to get those flights and the evacuees aboard them safely […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
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