Delta Air Lines to Impose $200 Monthly Charge on Unvaccinated Employees, Adds Testing Requirements.

Airline will add charge for unvaccinated employees enrolled in healthcare plan. Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 US a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $40,000 USD.

CEO Ed Bastian said that all employees who have been hospitalized for the virus in recent weeks were not fully vaccinated.


https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/delta-air-lines-to-impose-200-monthly-surcharge-for-unvaccinated-employees-add-testing-requirements-11629902326

This is still better than getting laid off.

Former Afghan Minister Syed Sadat Now Works As A Pizza Delivery Guy In Germany

In Germany, a former Afghan minister works as a pizza delivery person. Al-Jazeera Arabia tweeted the images of Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, who served as Afghanistan’s communications and technology minister, Syed Ahmad Sadat is currently based in Leipzig, Germany, where he arrived in December of last year after fleeing Afghanistan.

Sadat became a member of Ashraf Ghani’s cabinet in 2018 but he left in 2020 owing to disagreements with him. He then fled Afghanistan and relocated to Germany.

Sadat verified that these are his images, according to Sky News. After his money ran out, he began working as a food delivery professional for the German company Livrando, according to Sky News.

From 2005 to 2013, Sadat served as a technical advisor to Afghanistan’s communication and information technology ministry; a position he held for more than two decades. From 2016 to 2017, he was the CEO of Ariana Telecom in London.

On August 15, the Taliban took full control of Afghanistan when they took Kabul, the capital city. Ghani, the president at the time, departed the nation the next day. He is believed to be in the United Arab Emirates.

Syed Ahmad Sadat told Sky News that he never expected the civilian administration in Afghanistan to fall so swiftly in response to the current events.

He also told the news station that his narrative would act as a “catalyst” for changing the way high-ranking people in Asia and the Arab East conduct their lives. Sadat, who was once encircled by security personnel, now delivers pizza on a bicycle.

Sadat graduated from Oxford University with two master’s degrees in communications and electronic engineering. He worked for Aramco and the Saudi Telecom Company for 23 years in the communications area for more than 20 organizations in 13 countries, including Saudi Arabia.

https://in.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/former-afghanistan-minister-syed-ahmad-102123072.html

He fled last December. Maybe he sensed what was coming as well.

AmazonTopaz:


Awwn this story made me teary

Yes. I felt emotional reading that too. Being a refugee or asylum seeker is tough on its own as well. I pray their dreams come true as they settle in their new country.

I am sure if I check the FP, there is going to be news about violence. It's almost a daily occurence. May God help the country.

Even Arewa youths are feeling the heat. They no longer care much about defending the irresponsible government of Bubu, their kinsman. Never been this worse in Nigeria.

CutieKing:


Hahaha… bandits along Lagos Ibadan road??,coming from Sahara reporter??.
These people don’t practice journalism again,they have turned to bloggers and propaganda machines .

LMAO!!!

Just say bandits and Fulani herdsmen are as gentle as doves.

How do you solve a problem when you pretend that the problem doesn't exist?

Fulani herdsmen have been kidnapping and robbing on that road for the past few years. It's common knowledge for Lagosians that ply that route..


I wonder if you would continue "LMAO" at Sahara reporters after watching the burial video of the woman:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=650373179273680&id=100007696205822

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4427425327297340&id=1044338125606094

Afghan all girl robotics team members land in Mexico.

Mexico has pledged to aid Afghan women and girls. Mexico’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard said on August 18 that the country had begun “processing of the first refugee applications of Afghan citizens, especially women and girls who have requested it,” with the aid of Guillermo Puente Ordorica, ambassador of Mexico in Iran.

Also in other news, Banks are beginning to re-open in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Everything looks calm': Family rescued from Afghanistan reflects on new life in Canada – CTV News

TORONTO:
One of the first families to land in Canada after escaping the Taliban in Afghanistan are speaking out about the life-and death ordeal they faced just weeks ago.

Ehsan Saadat and his family were able to walk through a Toronto park after completing their mandatory COVID-19 quarantine period, telling CTV National News their first observations after landing in their new home country.

“My first impression when I landed in Toronto, I just saw that everything looks calm, looks safe,” said Saadat.

As a researcher whose previous work was presented to Canadian officials and aid groups, Saadat was eligible to apply and secure spots for himself, his wife and four children on a rescue flight and not a moment too soon.

“I was scared,” he said of living in Afghanistan with the news of the Taliban taking city after city. “My wife was scared, I was scared.”

And while Canada offered him and his family a lifeline to escape, the process of getting on a flight out of Kabul had extremely high stakes.

Saadat received an email from Canadian authorities on Aug. 5, detailing how the family could access their rescue flight with one major condition.

“It’s important that you and your family members do not share information beyond your immediate family until after you arrive in Canada,” Saadat said, reading the instructions warning him not to tell anyone about their leaving.

Saadat kept the secret from his extended family, though it pained him.

“I remember when my brother took us to the embassy, and he hugged my children – that time was difficult,” he said, getting noticeably emotional.

The family were only able to bring some wedding photos and other small mementos from their life in Afghanistan, things that Saadat said were to show his children as they grow up so they won’t forget where they came from, and to answer their questions in the future “where are we from and what were our customs.”

Now Saadat says his immediate goal is to try to find a job. He holds a Master’s degree in educational administration.

“I don’t want to be a burden for the government,” he said, adding that his children have big dreams of their own.

“The older one wants to be a judge, the second one could be a prosecutor and the third one wants to be a police officer,” he said. “My son wants to be a doctor.”

Uganda welcomed first group of Afghans. Uganda is a temporary host though.

PrideofLincoln1:
Tell the people in Northeastern part of Nigeria, Laduna, Plateau and other States being kidnapped and killed by Boko Haram terrorists that they are not violent. Tell the people in the South that are being raped, maimed, kidnapped and killed that by Cow herders that have the same beliefs as Boko Haram that it means nothing. Bubu is silently sympathetic to the cause of Boko Haram and so are some of his top Government officials and Minister Pataki. Danger is looming in Nigeria when Boko Haram fighters caught are being rehabilitated and enlisted in the Army. Like i said, Nigeria is on the precipice and i hate to see her fall off the cliff.

And just now on FP. This one has gone past Bornu state.

PrideofLincoln1:
Tell the people in Northeastern part of Nigeria, Laduna, Plateau and other States being kidnapped and killed by Boko Haram terrorists that they are not violent. Tell the people in the South that are being raped, maimed, kidnapped and killed that by Cow herders that have the same beliefs as Boko Haram that it means nothing. Bubu is silently sympathetic to the cause of Boko Haram and so are some of his top Government officials and Minister Pataki. Danger is looming in Nigeria when Boko Haram fighters caught are being rehabilitated and enlisted in the Army. Like i said, Nigeria is on the precipice and i hate to see her fall off the cliff.

This was just 2 days or 1 day ago.

Some on this thread like to defend terrorists and extremists.

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes says he is quitting right wing group FBI labels 'extremist'

Andrew Buncombe
Seattle
Thursday 22 November 2018

Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far right wing Proud Boys group, said he was quitting – a day it was revealed the FBI had listed it as an “extremist organisation with ties to white nationalism”.

In a video posted to YouTube, Mr McInnes, also a founder member of Vice Media, said he was “officially disassociating” himself from the Proud Boys “in all capacities, forever”. He said he was doing to help the legal problems confronting several members charged after attacking demonstrators in New York, who were protesting a speech he was delivering.

“I was told to use the term “stepping down” but I refused because that makes no sense. I was never the leader, only the founder. Although, the media will likely say, ‘Gavin McInnes Steps Down as Leader of Extremist Hate Group Proud Boys’ because that’s how they roll,” he said.

The 48-year-old, described by the New York Times as a “Brooklyn hipster turned far-right provocateur”, established the Proud Boys in 2016, claiming it was “a fraternal organisation” interested in defending so-called western values.

He has denied it is extremist or violent, even though he has a record of making racist, misogynistic and otherwise offensive remarks. He has used a racial slur to describe African American senator Cory Booker, said he admits he is Islamophobic, and has insulted foreign cultures from India to Australia.

The group has also repeatedly been associated with violent attacks, including against anti-fascist protesters. Members of the group allegedly took part in last summer’s far right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one protester was killed. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have blocked the organisation.

More recently, around half-a-dozen members of the group have been charged after clashing with anti-fascist protesters following a speech Mr McInnes delivered on October 12 at the Metropolitan Republican Club, on New York’s Upper East Side.

The announcement by Mr McInnes, who could not be contacted on Thursday, came just days after it was reported that FBI considered the group “extremist organisation with ties to white nationalism”.

“The FBI has warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific Northwest and that some Proud Boy members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia; Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington,” the document added.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), an Alabama-based watchdog group, has described the the organisation as both “extremist” and a “hate group”.

“Their disavowals of bigotry are belied by their actions: rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,” the SPLC says of the group. “They are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.”

wirinet:


It was because the last three US administrations had practically been lying about the true situation of the war in Afghanistan. The war was simply a drain pipe of trillions of dollars of tax payers money.

Trevor Noah captured the Afghan debacle one year ago, even before the present administration took office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgbIUWWAJQ

The U.S was actually losing the war to the Taliban but the government along with the press made it seem like they are winning.

Some mentions in the video. Same thing a couple of posters have said on here asper the Afghan troops not putting up a fight.

Basically, the Afghans are the Taliban, and the Taliban are the Afghans. They are Afghan military force soldiers in the day, but Taliban at night. How do you win a war when you don't even know who's the real enemy? America and NATO got swindled by the Afghans.

wirinet:


What do you want Biden to do? Redeploy another 100,000 troops into Afghanistan to fight the Taliban?

Or further spend billions of dollars.

Good for them.

PrideofLincoln1:
Please don't get me started about these Latinos with complex thinking they're white. It's very common in fact with Cubans and Puerto Ricans. You see how these so called Nazi loving cultists try to defend the Founder of Proud Boys by posting his pucture saying he's darker than someone. What kind of juvenile and stupid defense is that. Evil is evil and Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio and other deplorable groups like Nazis, Klans and White Supremacists are evil. When i call these guys cultists, some people on our side doesn't like it but i am proven right again. These guys are pure evil that loves their oppressors. Ask any of these Coons and Cultists what do they have in common with these Proud Boys and Nazis they defend. Cultism is when you sell your soul to the devil knowing the devil will take you to hell with him and that's what these losers are about. You remember Herman Cain lost his life when he attended Trump's Hate Rally during the presidential campaign and he and many Coons there failed to wear facemask and he ended up catching coronavirus and his life was terminated by his stupidity. Coons die with their leaders and these coons are not different.

Very stupid defence. You can take the man out of the village, but you can't take the village out of the man..

Ibime:


Na useful idiot. Clayton Bigsby of KKK

See the nazi scums saluting nazi style. That Cuban Latino is just a useful idiot like Candace and the rest of the coon bunch. In addition, a lot of latino suffer from inferiority complex anyway. Some of the darker skinned ones hate being referred to as Black.

He has also been sentenced to 5 months in Jail..Proud boys defenders and lovers on the thread are not going to be happy.

Please go easy on Basilico. When someone lies so much and doesn't even realise it.

Goodvibes007:
Basilico's BLM below:

Oh lawd. They are not only dumb. They are also foolish.

basilico:


Trump has support of all the republican voters.
What ideals do the top republican have if the voters are not with them? It seems to you that the elite know whats best for the masses

During a "Save America" rally in Cullman, Alabama, former President Donald Trump heaped praise on controversial Georgia lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

In a video shared by Vox reporter Aaron Rupar, the former president can also be heard describing the so-called QAnon Congresswoman as "so smart," "brilliant," and an "incredible" woman.

"She's a brilliant woman, she's doesn't get credit for it," he said. "But we all know about that stuff."

Trump also referred to Greene, a supporter of the former president's efforts to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, as a "warrior."

"Everything I said about Georgia is true," he continued.

Trump repeatedly claimed victory in Georgia following the 2020 presidential election, a false statement that belies President Joe Biden's nearly 13,000-vote win there. He also tried to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the results, Insider previously reported.

Greene, a fiercely loyal ally to the former president, also promoted baseless conspiracy of voter fraud in her home state and called for the results of the presidential election in Georgia to be decertified.

The House of Representatives voted to remove Greene from all committee roles in February 2021 in response to violent and incendiary remarks made about prominent Democrats.

She has promoted numerous far-right conspiracy theories and controversial viewpoints, including QAnon, Pizzagate, and comparing COVID-19 safety protocols to the persecution of Jews under the Nazis.

PrideofLincoln1:
Wailers from Umudike indeed. I hope they are wailing at Bubu mortgaging their future because America is doing very well under President Biden who has created more jobs in America than Trump did in 4 tragic years in office. That's an undeniable fact.

They still have years to wail. It's always a delight to see.

ono:


Very convenient for you to say old joe is humane and all. What Trump faced in the hands of demonrats in his 4-year stint at the White House is better experienced than imagined. I am surprised he survived all of that: Impeachments, scandals, ''Russia Russia'', Kevin Clinesmith, etc etc. He held a rally somewhere in Alabama yesterday and the crowd the man can still pull while out of office cannot be matched in any way or form by slowpoke, dimwit, rigged-in, old XiBiden!

Wailers.

Sharia police are blind to these ones.

This we already know.

benalvino3:


Respecting and not under-rating your enemy is not praising them. Saying they are smart fighters is not praising them. Saying they are good and allowing women to go to school that's praising them for what they are not.

Why don't you go and lecture the journalist at business Insider how to speak and write their mother tongue

basilico:


Truly the afghans who helped ISAF are at risk back home if their cover is blown. Reports are saying Taliban are already rounding up families at night But saying something else during the day.
Their evacuation is humanitarian.
It serves two purposes dear to the left - humanitarian and mass import of immigrants.
Time will tell how soon the immigrants will integrate into their new society, whether they will live off host taxpayers and whether they will form criminal gangs.

These are not the first Afghan refugees admitted into Western countries.

Don't be a prophet of doom. Wish them well and hope that they will integrate well. A property developer I know is from Afghanistan. The Syrians (over 50,000) Canada admitted doing well. Some are even creating businesses of their own, some are buying farms for cultivation, and others are in the employment line.

basilico:


President Trump told the crowd, “Our
military is being given to the enemy.”

You can go ahead and praise the Taliban too.

benalvino3:


The desperation to tie Republicans to this is crazy.

Taliban burnt a woman for bad cooking, they have been killing people and beating women that did not fully cover themselves but I don't know how you guys thinks women going to school is something to praise them for.

Deflection from original post I replied to.

If Canada & Britain's withdrawal in 2014 and America's withdrawal in 2021 pains you and Basilico so much, you can both send a petition Buhari to send in Nigerian troops

benalvino:
This Afghan woman just told Biden that he just destroyed the world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ARC9kAUa0

Afghan men failed them. The same men that switched sides and did not out up a fight. The same ones that welcomed their Taliban brothers and family members with kisses and hugs.

I don't know when Afghanistan became the world.

If Canada & Britain's withdrawal in 2014 and America's withdrawal in 2021 pains Nigerians so much, they can petition Buhari to send in Nigerian troops

benalvino:


That's a certain thing I am surprised to see salford push propaganda for the taliban. His reasoning falls between lines that Biden has messed up so now he wants us to think the Taliban is good so it seems like Biden knows what he is doing. Shameful

Normally I would not reply, but your orange god is doing the same thing you accuse me off.

Appreciation post. The US troops are doing an excellent job. Kudos to them.