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More cheers as the Robert E. Lee statue is sawed in half to be transported to a state government storage facility.

It was erected in 1890, during the heyday of the ‘Lost Cause’ revisionism, a movement in the Southern US that sought to reinterpret the causes of the 1861-65 American Civil War and paint Confederate figures as heroes.
🤔 Facebook has said it doesn't read WhatsApp messages. An investigation, however, has found this was a lie.

A new investigation, conducted by the non-profit organisation ProPublica, has revealed that WhatsApp employs more than 1,000 contract workers across the US who examine "millions of pieces of users' content" – and use Facebook software to do so.

This contradicts Mark Zuckerberg’s claims in 2019 that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption had made it impossible even for the service itself to access users' messages, let alone Facebook.

Well, it turns out there is a way.

Read more about the investigation on our website.
📆 A source in the Taliban (banned in Russia) has told Sputnik that the inauguration ceremony for the new Afghan government is scheduled for 11 September.

Oh, the irony.
#URGENT: Saudi Arabia backs full declassification of US 9/11 docs to 'end baseless allegations'
🛫 The US Department of State refused to approve private flights from Afghanistan that could evacuate a number of American citizens and Afghan refugees, Fox News reported, citing leaked emails.

The alleged documents were said to have been provided by a military lawyer and retired US Marine, Eric Montalvo, who carried out a number of evacuation flights from Afghanistan.

Officials reportedly told Montalvo that he was allowed to conduct flights and deliver asylum seekers to “another destination country”, but not to the US, which would only approve charters to other receiving countries.

Meanwhile, reports claimed that nearly 1,000 people are still waiting for evacuation flights.
🧐 The Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organisation supported by VP Kamala Harris, in August bailed out a man accused of domestic assault. Weeks later, he killed a man in a road rage incident.

George Howard has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder for allegedly shooting 38-year-old Luis Damian Martinez Ortiz on August 29, media reported.

Innocent until proven guilty?
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🐬 The consequences of Ida affected not only humans, but also animals. The poor dolphin became stuck in the Louisiana area due to flooding after a hurricane.

Fortunately, a rescue team was able to pull the dolphin out of the pond and bring it to the site for a veterinarian examination.

😊 Watch the video to see the rescue
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👩‍⚖️ Alderwoman Chantia Lewis, a Democrat running for the US Senate seat for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was charged with embezzlement, theft by fraud, misconduct in public service, and two campaign finance offenses (willful filing of a false report and willful consent to misappropriation of funds).

She is charged with improperly taking over $20,000 from her campaign budget and city reimbursement fund for personal use between April 2016 and June 2020.

💸 This is how the money flowed freely into the Democrat's pocket
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a Republican-sponsored voting restrictions bill, also known as SB1, into law. The state is among at least 18 others that have introduced similar restrictions, such as the limitation of drive-thru and mail-in voting, since…
📥 Seven key changes in the new Texas Voting Act:

▪️ prohibition of 24-hour voting and restricts the window in which counties can propose voting from 6 am to 10 pm EST;

▪️ prohibition of so-called "drive-thru" voting, except for those who cannot physically enter a polling station;

▪️ no longer allows electoral authorities to send unsolicited applications to registered voters for voting by mail;

▪️ implementation of mandates to vote by mail;

▪️ makes "ballot harvesting,", or collecting votes cast by others, a felony of the third degree;

▪️ allows observers greater freedom of movement inside polling stations;

▪️ requires Texas Secretary of State to check voter lists on a monthly basis
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🇺🇸🇦🇫Former US special envoy for Guantanamo Lee Wolosky will lead the Biden administration's legal efforts on resettling Afghan evacuees in the United States, Axios reported.
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🇺🇸🌍🦠President Joe Biden is expected to recommend a global summit to strategize a collective response to the coronavirus pandemic, Politico reported citing two sources familiar with the matter.

Biden aims to schedule the summit close to the high-level week at the United Nations General Assembly, which begins on September 20, the report said.
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📥 Seven key changes in the new Texas Voting Act: ▪️ prohibition of 24-hour voting and restricts the window in which counties can propose voting from 6 am to 10 pm EST; ▪️ prohibition of so-called "drive-thru" voting, except for those who cannot physically…
🤔 Why do the Dems care about this law? Why are they so adamantly against it?

Here's the thing: The Dems assert that any law that hinders access to the ballot box for any eligible voter will potentially impinge on black and Hispanic voters more than white voters. A 2014 Government Accounting Office study suggested that voter ID laws might reduce voting as much as 2-3 percent.

Typically, turnout among minority voters, expressed as a percentage, is lower than that of middle-class white voters. Thus, any law that hinders access to the ballot could affect black and Hispanic voters more than white voters, according to the academic
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Why is it that nobody talks about the horrible job being done by the Biden Administration on COVID-19, often referred to as the China Virus? Are they using the same coverup methods that they are using on the greatest embarrassment in the history of our Country, the incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan—leaving dead warriors, hostages, and $85 billion worth of the highest-grade Military equipment behind? No Military event in our Country has ever been so poorly handled. We could’ve left with dignity, honor, success, nobody killed, and our equipment. But we didn’t!
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45th President Donald J. Trump to Hold a Rally in Georgia

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Perry, Georgia, on Saturday, September 25, 2021, at 7:00PM EDT.

Saturday, September 25, 2021, at 7:00PM EDT
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, Delivers Remarks

Venue:
Georgia National Fairgrounds
401 Larry Walker Pkwy
Perry, GA 31069
 
Timeline of Events:
2:00PM – Doors open and Live Entertainment Begins
5:00PM – Pre-program Speakers Deliver Remarks
7:00PM – 45th President Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks
 
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All requests for media credentials must be submitted by Thursday, September 23, 2021, at 7:00PM EDT.
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Just watched as a massive crane took down the magnificent and very famous statue of “Robert E. Lee On His Horse” in Richmond, Virginia. It has long been recognized as a beautiful piece of bronze sculpture. To add insult to injury, those who support this “taking” now plan to cut it into three pieces, and throw this work of art into storage prior to its complete desecration. 
 
Robert E. Lee is considered by many Generals to be the greatest strategist of them all. President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day. Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia, and except for Gettysburg, would have won the war. He should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war was over, ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation and imploring his soldiers to do their duty in becoming good citizens of this Country. 
 
Our culture is being destroyed and our history and heritage, both good and bad, are being extinguished by the Radical Left, and we can’t let that happen! If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in a complete and total victory many years ago. What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!
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Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️Tropical Storm Mindy hit Florida on Wednesday, and is expected to bring heavy rains across the state's northwest.

▪️Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been mocked online for using the term “menstruating person" while discussing a Texas abortion law.

▪️A group of Republican senators has demanded hearings relating to the recent US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and sworn testimony from Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, General Mark Milley, General Kenneth McKenzie, and General Scott Miller.

▪️Louisiana has decided to delay its autumn elections due to the significant damage caused by Hurricane Ida.

▪️A mother who made a false bomb threat on a plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was just worried that her child would miss school, media reported.
🇦🇫 A bunch of protesters waved Afghan flags and chanted ‘Free Afghanistan’ only 100 metres from a Harris-Newsom rally in San Leandro, California on Wednesday
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🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden declares September 10-12 Days as National Days of Prayer and Remembrance to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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The NYPD has arrested Reginald Bellot, 28, in connection with the rape of a 70-year-old woman in her apartment building in the Bronx.

The assault happened back on 27 July at around 2 a.m., when the woman was coming home to her apartment in the Belmont neighbourhood, police say. The suspect, wearing two masks, grabbed the victim, took out his gun, and forced her to go to a staircase. There, he sexually assaulted and raped her at gunpoint.

The woman didn’t immediately report the crime, although she sustained injuries across her body, police say. Only around a week later did she go to a hospital for a medical check-up, where the incident was then reported to law enforcement.

The NYPD released footage of the suspect on 3 August – and apprehended Bellot a month later.
🧑‍⚖️ The Biden administration is planning legal action against Texas over its abortion law, the WSJ has reported. The lawsuit could be filed in the coming days.

On what grounds is Biden planning to sue the state?

It isn’t clear, but, according to the report, the upcoming lawsuit will "pursue an argument that the Texas law illegally interferes with federal interests".