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On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:23:04 -0700,  Alan says...  

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> On 2024-09-10 15:00, AlleyCat wrote:
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> > On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:50:50 -0700,  Alan says...
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> >>> So... it's was just a coincidence that both SHE and the reporter "wanted" to talk about Afghanistan?
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> >> You don't know what the reporter wanted to talk about.
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> > You don't know what the reporter wanted to talk about.

> I'm not the one claiming to know.

> That would be YOU, Pussey.

Yes.

She knew and others know she knew. We know what the reporter was going to ask, you just have to play your 
faggot childish games.

It was 2021, stupid... WHEN it had just happened. What ELSE was she going to ask. THAT'S why she cut off the 
reporter before she could ask such a damaging question. Harris wanted to get out ahead so it wouldn't look 
bad for her and Biden.

Point is, she cackled and cut off the reporter.


Kamala Harris Laughs When Asked About Americans Stuck in Afghanistan

Vice President Kamala Harris' response to a reporter's question about Americans stranded in Afghanistan has 
raised more than a few eyebrows.

Harris has been out of public view and silent about the Taliban take over in Afghanistan.

When asked about the Americans who have not yet been evacuated as she was departing for Singapore on Friday, 
Harris let out her signature nervous laughter.

 "Hold on, hold on, slow down, everybody," she said, struggling to contain the giggles. "Hahaha. Um, I want 
to talk about two things. First, Afghanistan - we couldn't have a higher priority right now."

"And in particular, our priority is making sure that we safely evacuate American citizens, Afghans who worked 
with us, Afghans at risk including women and children - and that is one of our highest, if not the highest 
priority right now."

"Kamala Harris laughs when a reporter starts to ask her about Americans trapped in Afghanistan"

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1429456040043720708

Harris did not let the reporter finish her question.

The Republication National Committee promptly seized on the awkward moment, sending out the clip from their 
RNC Research Twitter account.

In April, Harris claimed that she had a key role and was 'the last person in the room" when Biden chose to 
remove US troops from Afghanistan.

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1386312983576514561

Vice President Harris says she was the last person in the room with President Biden when he made the 
Afghanistan troop withdrawal decision: "I have seen him over and over again make decisions based exactly on 
what he believes is right" #CNNSOTU https://cnn.it/3dUbjap

The video of Harris laughing off the chaos was released hours after President Joe Biden laughed about his 
tanking poll numbers during a White House press conference about the Afghan crisis and Tropical Storm Henri.

WASHINGTON, DC- @JoeBiden is confronted with new @CBSNews poll, suggesting "majority of Americans no longer 
consider (him) competent, focused or effective".

He laughs, denies seeing the poll, and cites statistics of total dead and wounded in Afghanistan, from a 
notecard.

https://twitter.com/breeadail/status/1429548436819427328

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Harris Laughs At, Shuts Down Questions As She Says Afghanistan Is Her Highest Priority

Vice President Kamala Harris chuckled at and cut off a reporter to say that Afghanistan is the 
administration's top priority.

Harris, who is currently traveling through South Asia, was asked about the situation in Afghanistan, where 
the United States and other Western countries have been rapidly working to get their own citizens as well as 
Afghan refugees out of the country since the Taliban took over.

"Hold on. Hold on. Slow down, everybody," she said when approached with questions after disembarking from her 
voyage. "Hahaha. Um, I want to talk about two things. First, Afghanistan - we couldn't have a higher priority 
right now."

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'She Can Go To Hell': Vance Blasts Harris Over Afghanistan Withdrawal In Harshest Rhetoric Yet

The Republican Vice Presidential Nominee's Remark Was In Response To A Question About An "Incident" That 
Occurred When Trump Visited Arlington National Cemetery This Week.

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio condemned Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday over the Biden administration's 
handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the Democratic presidential nominee "can go to 
hell."

Vance's comment at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, was his harshest language yet toward Harris on the campaign 
trail. It came in response to a reporter's question about an "incident" Monday when former President Donald 
Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery with family members of service members who were killed during the 
2021 attack at Abbey Gate at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the final days of the withdrawal.

"Three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her 
job, and there hasn't been a single investigation or a single firing," Vance said. "Sometimes mistakes happen 
- that's just the nature of government, the nature of military service. But to have those 13 Americans lose 
their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful."

Vance said that if they're going to discuss a story related to Abbey Gate, "it's that Kamala Harris is so 
asleep at the wheel that she won't even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at 
Donald Trump because he showed up. She can, she can go to hell."

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Vance's remarks. The Harris 
campaign declined to comment.

Follow live coverage of the 2024 campaign here

Asked about his comments by NBC News, Vance said he was frustrated.

"Sometimes I get frustrated, and sometimes I get pissed off. And I think Kamala Harris' failure of leadership 
at Abbey Gate is something to get frustrated and angry about," Vance said.

He also accused the Harris campaign of 'trying to make a massive political issue" of the incident at 
Arlington National Cemetery, in the Virginia suburbs of Washington.

"The fact that Kamala Harris wants to make that an issue when she refuses to show up, refuses to even call 
the families whose children are dead because of her leadership, I think that's something that justifies a 
little bit of frustration, and I certainly showed that today," Vance said. 

In a statement Monday, Harris marked the third anniversary of the attack at Abbey Gate by saying her "heart 
breaks" for the pain and loss experienced by the victims' families.

"I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families and I will always honor their 
service and sacrifice," she said, adding, "President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end 
America's longest war."



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Canada:

'Worst In The World': Here Are All The Rankings In Which Canada Is Now Last

Most Unaffordable Housing, Highest Cell phone Bills And Worst Rate of Acute Care Beds, To Name A Few

If you spend any time on social media, it's likely that you've seen this 
graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international 
indices which feature Canada near the top spot. "Canada is broken? I don't 
think so. Neither does the world," reads a caption.

Next time someone rants on how about how "broken" Canada is; or how badly we 
are doing on the international stage... share some facts.

Numbers don't lie, Felicia.

https://archive.is/o/LnFRL/https://twitter.com/DIGuideBradley/status/1554545079314010112

Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract 
indices such as "quality of life" and "peace," there are plenty of far more 
empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the 
developed world.

There's plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive 
list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.

WE HAVE THE MOST UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a 
club of the world's 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked 
against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear 
champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to 
average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was 
No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.

Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That's Canada 
on the extreme right.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/840da40d6fa3b7fef6fcccdfc1637d24e0786760.webp

WE HAVE THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WIRELESS COSTS

Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world's most 
expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again 
dominated. Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive 
place in the world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the 
average Canadian the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone 
plan with at least 100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that 
kind of cell phone plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/822bcfe750687b1ef6288ee7df5606fd15629289.webp

Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile 
data as companies in France or Ireland.

Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile 
data as companies in France or Ireland. Photo by Rewheel

WE HAVE THE LOWEST RATE OF ACUTE CARE BEDS AMONG PEER COUNTRIES

Canada's health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple 
fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times. 
Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by 
rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A 
ranking by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as 
to why. When ranked against peer countries, Canada's rate of per-capita acute 
care beds was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care 
beds for every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.

TWO OF THE PLANET'S "BUBBLIEST" REAL ESTATE MARKETS ARE IN CANADA

For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of 
overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with 
"bubbly" real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was 
second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth. 
Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in 
the top ten.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/1961e904e18e8cb533ff42c2eae7beb611827bd4.webp

Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble 
risks," and they're both in Canada.

Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble 
risks," and they're both in Canada. Photo by UBS Global Real Estate Bubble 
Index 2021

WE RACKED UP COVID DEBT FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt 
in the history of human civilization. So it's rather remarkable that amidst 
this international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone 
else. Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country's rate of public 
and private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP. 
While a handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the 
pandemic with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it 
came to how quickly that debt had been accumulated.

Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of 
Vancouver Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by (Photo by Jason Payne/ PNG)

https://archive.is/LnFRL/5b7e25218f55d343b998db94c6748b57312dafaf.webp

THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS (ALMOST) THE MOST INEFFICIENT IN THE WORLD

Last year - just as the global supply chain crisis got going - the World Bank 
decided to rank the performance of the world's 370 major ports. Authors weighed 
factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took 
to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of 
Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the 
Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it's not like our other 
ports are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north 
to Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/ac861be6fb2f37d1463e7670c232b5cd548d5395.webp

Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. Photo by World Bank Group


Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo by Peter J. 
Thompson/National Post

https://archive.is/LnFRL/b32f7be38081069e5e696a0029996f6f3adaa760.webp

TORONTO PEARSON IS THE WORLD'S MOST-DELAYED AIRPORT

Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is 
feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last 
month, CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports 
were seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was 
Toronto Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport 
experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place 
finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed. 
Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its 
scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the 
world.

WE'RE ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST ECONOMIES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT

A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows 
into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually 
every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period; 
Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by 
more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign 
investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business 
Council of Canada noticed the same trend. "Canada is the second-worst in the 
OECD on openness to foreign direct investment," it concluded.

https://archive.is/LnFRL/222c5fba154990485338650dcb55e413d85e080c.webp

WE DRIVE THE MOST FUEL-INEFFICIENT VEHICLES IN THE WORLD

In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the 
world's private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in 
driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the 
average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone 
else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the 
heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse, 
cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of 
other countries where that was similarly the case.