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Canada to relocate Afghans who assisted in war amid ‘rapidly deteriorating’ security situation (Washington Post) Canada announced plans Friday to resettle Afghans who aided the Canadian military and the country’s embassy and could face danger because of their work, as the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion and the Taliban mounts offensives to regain territory. Canada’s “path to protection” will be open to Afghans with a “significant and enduring relationship” with the Canadian government, although officials did not elaborate on how that would be defined. Those eligible, they said, could include interpreters, locally engaged embassy staff members, as well as a host of other locals who assisted the war effort such as cooks, drivers, cleaners, security guards and their families. The announcement followed weeks of pressure on Ottawa from lawmakers and advocates to resettle Afghan interpreters and other locals. Some veterans said they were so frustrated by the lack of a government plan that they were using their own money to relocate former Afghan colleagues to safer parts of Afghanistan. The governments of other NATO allies who fought alongside U.S. forces have also faced calls to do more to aid Afghan interpreters or to expedite their resettlement. In Australia, a retired army general burned his service medals in protest of what he said was a lack of government action.

The days of vaccine lotteries are waning. Here come the mandates. (USA Today) Getting a COVID-19 vaccine in summer 2021 could have given you a shot at a million dollars. Soon, not getting one could cost you your job. Health officials and politicians have tried to stay positive in recent months as vaccination rates plummet, turning to ad campaigns touting giveaways and lottery drawings. And then the ultra-contagious delta variant arrived. Now health officials say the nation’s lagging vaccine rates are creating a spiraling public health crisis as the unvaccinated rapidly get sick and the protective power of vaccines is given a “stress test.” A growing chorus of voices say people who resist vaccinations should face pressure—and consequences. Some hospital administrators agree, and healthcare workers who refused to get vaccinated have been fired or quit in New Jersey and Texas. In New York City, public health workers who refuse to get vaccinated will face weekly COVID tests. “Getting the vaccine (should be) the easy choice,” Dr. Leana Wen, a proponent of vaccine mandates, told USA TODAY. “Opting out has to be the hard choice.” Wen, an emergency physician and public professor at George Washington University, is among experts who say vaccine requirements should be seen as akin to laws against drunk driving and other reckless behavior.

Covid Explodes in Cancun, Los Cabos as New Wave Hits Mexico (Bloomberg) A third coronavirus wave fueled by the highly contagious delta variant is battering two of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations on opposite coasts, Los Cabos in the Pacific and Cancun on the Caribbean. In Cancun, cases have soared to a point where the Hard Rock hotel has set aside two floors for guests with symptoms. Some hotels say they offer discounts for those in quarantine until they’re no longer contagious. In Baja California Sur, where Los Cabos is located, authorities are again rushing to add beds to strained hospitals, which reached 75% capacity last week before improving to 62% on Thursday. Beaches in the town of La Paz were ordered closed, though local media show many ignoring the order. Since Mexico hasn’t limited who can fly during the pandemic, both domestic and international tourists have flocked to the resort areas. Like much of Latin America, Mexico has been slammed by Covid, among the worst hit in the world.

Venezuelans Enduring Day-Long Waits to Fill Gasoline Tanks (Bloomberg) Venezuela’s capital city is once again rationing gasoline after output at state-owned refineries slumped, forcing motorists to endure day-long queues to top off tanks. Shortages have returned to Caracas, prompting drivers to prowl the streets for open filling stations as lines stretch for blocks in some areas. Because of breakdowns at Petroleos de Venezuela SA fuel-making plants, gasoline output has crashed by more than 40% since the end of June, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Struggling with the impact of U.S. sanctions and scant foreign investment, PDVSA has been hit by failures at several of its largest plants. Just two of six refineries are currently operational, according to three people with direct knowledge who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the situation.

Germany: Devastating floods raise fears for future (The Week) Entire towns in western Germany were devastated last week by “the flood of the century,” said Susanne Scholz at Express, and the whole country is in shock. The images on TV news looked like they were coming from a tropical monsoon zone, not our first-world nation. Never did we think we would see our own citizens “trapped in houses on the verge of collapse, in danger of being swept away by masses of water.” Days of torrential rain caused rivers to burst their banks in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, and in neighboring Belgium and the Netherlands. While authorities say it’s too early to put a price tag on the damage, the images of submerged homes and electrical stations, obliterated bridges, and cars crumpled by fallen trees tell a tale of vast material loss. “The German language hardly knows any words for the devastation that has been wrought,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel. She praised the thousands of volunteers who came to bail water, load sandbags, and search for survivors. “Disaster control clearly failed,” said Peter Tiede at Bild. State and local authorities responsible for evacuation warnings relied on smartphone apps that many Germans don’t have—and service was out anyway because the storms had downed the cell towers. Only old-fashioned sirens work in such emergencies, yet our few loudspeaker vans never left the depots. Public radio, meanwhile, “was playing pop music while hundreds of people were being washed away, houses collapsing, villages razed to the ground.” It’s simply inexcusable. “How bad will it get when such a flood hits a major city like Cologne or Hamburg instead of villages and small towns?”

To reach a peace deal, Taliban say Afghan president must go (AP) The Taliban say they don’t want to monopolize power, but they insist there won’t be peace in Afghanistan until there is a new negotiated government in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani is removed. The Taliban have swiftly captured territory in recent weeks, seized strategic border crossings and are threatening a number of provincial capitals—advances that come as the last U.S. and NATO soldiers leave Afghanistan. Memories of the Taliban’s last time in power some 20 years ago, when they enforced a harsh brand of Islam that denied girls an education and barred women from work, have stoked fears of their return among many. Afghans who can afford it are applying by the thousands for visas to leave Afghanistan, fearing a violent descent into chaos. The U.S.-NATO withdrawal is more than 95% complete and due to be finished by Aug. 31.

Heavy rain in India triggers floods, landslides; at least 125 dead (Reuters) Rescue teams in India struggled through thick sludge and debris on Saturday to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll from landslides and accidents caused by torrential monsoon rain rose to 125. Maharashtra state is being hit by the heaviest rain in July in four decades, experts say. Downpours lasting several days have severely affected the lives of hundreds of thousands, while major rivers are in danger of bursting their banks. In Taliye, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of the financial capital of Mumbai, the death toll rose to 42 with the recovery of four more bodies after landslides flattened most homes in the village, a senior Maharashtra government official said. Parts of India’s west coast have received up to 594 mm (23 inches) of rain, forcing authorities to move people out of vulnerable areas as they released water from dams about to overflow.

Vietnam locks down capital Hanoi for 15 days as cases rise (AP) Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern Mekong Delta region. The lockdown order, issued late Friday night, bans the gathering of more than two people in public. Only government offices, hospitals and essential businesses are allowed to stay open. Earlier in the week, the city had suspended all outdoor activities and ordered non-essential businesses to close following an increase in cases.

Thousands protest lockdown in Sydney, several arrested (AP) Thousands of people took to the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Saturday to protest lockdown restrictions amid another surge in cases, and police made several arrests after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic bottles and plants. There was a heavy police presence in Sydney, including mounted police and riot officers in response to what authorities said was unauthorized protest activity. Police confirmed a number of arrests had been made after objects were thrown at officers. Greater Sydney has been locked down for the past four weeks, with residents only able to leave home with a reasonable excuse. In Melbourne, thousands of protesters without masks turned out downtown chanting “freedom.” Some of them lit flares as they gathered outside Victoria state’s Parliament House. They held banners, including one that read: “This is not about a virus it’s about total government control of the people.”

Power outages cripple parts of the Middle East amid record heat waves and rising unrest (Washington Post) Record heat waves and crippling energy shortages across much of the Middle East are plunging homes and businesses from Lebanon to Iran into darkness and stirring unrest as poor families swelter while many of the rich stay cool with backup generators. Power outages have pushed hospitals to a crisis point. Family businesses are struggling to survive. In some cities, the streetlights barely work. Temperatures in several Middle Eastern countries this summer have topped 122 degrees Fahrenheit—50 degrees Celsius—including in Iran, which hit 123.8, and Iraq, which nearly matched last year’s record of 125.2. Decades of neglect and underinvestment have left power grids unable to cope. Drought has crippled hydroelectric generation. Economic crises roiling several countries mean governments are now even struggling to purchase the fuel needed to generate power.

Over 71% of Lebanon’s population risks losing access to safe water—UNICEF (Reuters) The United Nations warned on Friday that more than four million people in Lebanon, including one million refugees risked losing access to safe water as shortages of funding, fuel and supplies affect water pumping. “UNICEF estimates that most water pumping will gradually cease across the country in the next four to six weeks,” a statement by the U.N. body said. Lebanon is battling an economic meltdown that has propelled more than half of its population into poverty and seen its currency lose over 90% of its value in less than two years. The financial crisis has translated into severe shortages of basic goods such as fuel and medicine as dollars run dry. UNICEF said that should the public water supply system collapse, water costs could jump by 200% a month as water would be secured from private water suppliers.

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Terrifying scope of Capitol assault turning into clearer as Washington locks down for Biden's inauguration Days after the assault, at the same time as safety reinforcements arrive, some lawmakers inform CNN they now worry for his or her security. Whereas some Republicans argued President Donald Trump’s unprecedented second impeachment will solely inflame divisions, federal officers warned that extremists, after seeing the outcomes of final week’s assault on the US Capitol, at the moment are probably extra emboldened to hold out assaults on the January 20 inauguration and all through 2021. An inside FBI bulletin disseminated to regulation enforcement this week warned that “armed protests” are being deliberate in any respect 50 state capitols and in Washington within the days main as much as Biden’s swearing in. Federal regulation enforcement businesses issued pressing bulletins calling for help securing the nation’s capital, which now bristles with street blocks and metal boundaries to wall off the “Folks’s Home” and can host as many as 25,000 Nationwide Guard — a stronger navy footprint than the US has in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria mixed. By Friday, the FBI had obtained 140,000 digital ideas relating to the assault, together with images and video, federal officers had opened 275 prison investigations, charged roughly 98 people, and brought 100 people into custody. As senior administration leaders who would usually take the lead remained silent for days — together with the heads of the Justice Division, the Division of Homeland Safety and the President himself — federal officers launched the most in depth counterterrorism probe since September 11, 2001, and continued planning to fortify Washington. “Our posture is aggressive. It will keep that means by the inauguration,” FBI Director Christopher Wray mentioned at a Thursday briefing on inauguration safety. He added that the company was monitoring “in depth” on-line chatter about additional potential armed protests and issued a warning to the lads and lady who wreaked havoc on the Capitol. “We all know who you’re, for those who’re on the market,” Wray mentioned, “and FBI brokers are coming to search out you.” The home terrorists struck at a time when the US authorities is confronting the worst recognized cyberattack by a international adversary in its historical past, with Russia suspected of penetrating tons of of companies and quite a few federal businesses. Their bloodshed and destruction come as Covid-19 claims document day by day dying tolls and a jobs disaster is brewing, with practically 1 million folks submitting for unemployment advantages for the primary time final week. The riot, fueled by Trump’s lies about his definitive election loss, uncovered the attain of baseless conspiracy theories which have radicalized Individuals to the purpose that they laid siege to their very own Capitol. The occasions of that day elevate questions on intelligence failures, the navy’s torpid response as panicked lawmakers pleaded by phone for assist, and regulation enforcement’s potential blind spots or willful ignorance concerning the risks posed by white supremacists and right-wing nativists. These teams fashioned a flamable combine with the anti-Semites and QAnon conspiracists rampaging on January 6 to create an existential disaster for the Republican Celebration, which faces the selection of remaining in thrall to Trump and his extra poisonous supporters or breaking away. It creates a problem for the bigger nation as effectively, in accordance with CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein, who mentioned the trajectory of Trump’s “white nationalist extremism has been very clear” for the final 4 years, as are the potential prices to US safety whether it is left unchecked. “President Trump has offered an unlimited quantity of oxygen to this very harmful ideology,” Brownstein advised Jake Tapper on Thursday. “And except everybody concerned, the Justice Division, regulation enforcement, Congress, may be very critical about imposing penalties and taking the menace severely, this might turn out to be a gradual drumbeat by the Biden presidency.” “The query is, can we extra broadly ship a sign that claims we aren’t going to tolerate and look the opposite means as this metastasizes,” Brownstein mentioned. Ideologically motivated violence Already, hundreds of armed pro-Trump extremists are plotting to encompass the US Capitol forward of Biden’s inauguration, in accordance with a lawmaker briefed by safety officers Monday. A joint US authorities intelligence bulletin mentioned the January 6 assault, meant to disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory, could have given extremists of differing ideological stripes a strategy to join. The bulletin warned that the riot “may be very probably a part of an ongoing pattern wherein (extremists) exploit lawful protests, rallies, and demonstrations, and different gatherings to hold out ideologically motivated violence and prison exercise.” A number of protection officers have advised CNN that the Nationwide Guard and regulation enforcement count on explosives like pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails for use in any coming unrest. They’re assuming perpetrators will include excessive “aggression,” mentioned one senior protection official, who added, “their intentions are very critical.” Pipe bombs that would have performed critical harm had been planted outdoors the Republican and Democratic occasion headquarters in Washington final week however did not go off. The experience behind the bombs and the convenience with which the raucous crowd appeared to mill concerning the Capitol complicated with little resistance raised considerations individuals had insider assist and navy experience. Not less than two US Capitol Law enforcement officials had been suspended and at the least 10 extra are below investigation for allegedly enjoying some kind of position, CNN reported. Michael Sherwin, the performing US legal professional in Washington, DC, confirmed Friday that “we’re seeing indications that regulation enforcement officers, each former and present, possibly who’ve been off responsibility, collaborating on this riot exercise.” “We do not care what your career is, who you’re, who you’re affiliated with, in case you are conducting or engaged in prison exercise, we are going to cost you and you’ll be arrested,” Sherwin mentioned. Army members A part of that hunt is for “a number of” folks presumably concerned within the killing of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, in accordance with two regulation enforcement officers. On Friday, Steven D’Antuono of the FBI’s Washington Area Workplace mentioned his investigators are “making progress” on the investigation and are “anybody and everybody” who could also be concerned. He didn’t give specifics on the scope of the investigation. Within the days after the assault, court docket information and information studies additionally confirmed that present and former US navy members participated within the riot. The information triggered unprecedented statements from the leaders of main safety businesses who felt the necessity to remind their women and men their loyalty is to the Structure. On Tuesday, the America’s most senior navy leaders condemned the violent invasion and reminded service members of their obligation to assist and defend the Structure and reject extremism. The Protection Division has noticed a rise in white supremacist ideology amongst active-duty service members and veterans, a senior protection official advised CNN. The following day, US Secret Service Director James Murray despatched company workers a message urging them to recollect their mission and stay skilled through the upcoming inauguration. “We’re anticipated to behave in a non-partisan method,” his memo mentioned. Video pictures of a Capitol Police officer carrying a MAGA hat through the invasion and of one other taking selfies with rioters left lawmakers deeply shaken. In accordance with the Wall Avenue Journal, the officer seen carrying the trademark purple cap put it on as a part of a ruse to rescue greater than a dozen trapped law enforcement officials through the riot. The officer has been suspended and an investigation is underway. “There have been these acts of heroism, however subsequent to that, there have been additionally assaults of betrayal,” Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York mentioned Tuesday on Instagram Stay. “And to run within the nation’s Capitol and never know if an officer is there that can assist you or to hurt you can be fairly traumatizing.” “I didn’t know if I used to be going to make it to the tip of that day alive,” Ocasio-Cortez mentioned. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that many, many members of the Home had been practically assassinated.” Some members are asking for bulletproof vests, contemplating getting their very own safety and taking different steps, akin to altering their routes to work, lawmakers advised CNN. In the meantime, some Republicans expressed outrage at metallic detectors put in on the entrance to the Home chamber. Many Home lawmakers are contemplating one other appalling risk: that the mob bought help from a few of their colleagues. Thirty-one members of Congress despatched a letter to the performing Home Sergeant at Arms, performing Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the performing chief of the US Capitol Police asking them to analyze “uncommon” and “regarding” excursions they noticed and reported to the Sergeant at Arms on January 5. “Lots of the Members who signed this letter, together with these of us who’ve served within the navy and are educated to acknowledge suspicious exercise, in addition to numerous members of our workers, witnessed a particularly excessive variety of outdoors teams within the complicated on Tuesday, January 5,” the letter states. The teams of six to eight, who wore MAGA attire, in accordance with Democratic Rep. Mary Homosexual Scanlon of Pennsylvania, “may solely have gained entry to the Capitol Advanced from a Member of Congress or a member of their workers,” the letter mentioned. Coordination “I form of assumed it have to be a brand new member who did not know the foundations or one thing,” Scanlon of Pennsylvania, one of many co-signers, advised CNN. “There have been individuals who had been roaming round within the halls, apparently below the steerage of congressional workers” at a time when excursions have been canceled because of Covid. Not less than one right-wing conspiracist mentioned he coordinated the rally the place Trump spoke earlier than the riot with three Home Republicans: Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, who spoke earlier than the President took the stage and urged the gang to “begin taking down names and kicking ass.” Brooks, Gosar and several other different Home GOP lawmakers are going through criticism for his or her incendiary language within the hours, days and weeks earlier than the siege. Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who’s affiliated with the QAnon motion and recurrently spreads right-wing conspiracy theories, has additionally come below scrutiny for tweeting about Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s whereabouts because the assault was unfolding. On Friday, Pelosi introduced retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, a former vice director with the Joint Chiefs of workers, would lead a evaluate of the Capitol’s safety. She added that, “if, the truth is, it’s discovered that members of Congress had been accomplices to this riot, in the event that they aided and abetted the crime, there could should be actions taken past the Congress when it comes to prosecution for that.” Later that day, when requested if they’re investigating allegations that Capitol Police and lawmakers had been concerned within the riot, D’Antuono of the FBI’s Washington Area Workplace mentioned they may “go away no stone unturned” and are ” every bit of the puzzle.” Sherwin, the performing US legal professional for Washington, DC, advised reporters earlier within the week that “we’re vital felony instances tied to sedition and conspiracy.” Proof of planning Proof uncovered to date, together with weapons and ways seen on surveillance video, suggests a stage of planning, a federal regulation enforcement official mentioned. And court docket filings are providing stunning new particulars. One memo in a submitting Friday seeks to increase the detention of Jacob Anthony Chansley, the face-painted QAnon believer who rallied folks contained in the Capitol carrying a horned headdress and carrying a six-foot spear and a bullhorn. Prosecutors describe those that took over the Capitol as “insurrectionists” and provide new particulars about Chansley’s position within the violent siege final week, together with that Chansley left a notice on the dais the place Vice President Pence had stood that morning saying, “It is solely a matter of time, justice is coming.” Chansley later advised the FBI he didn’t imply the notice as a menace however mentioned the vp was a “child-trafficking traitor.” Earlier than he was arrested, Chansley additionally advised the FBI he needed to return to Washington for the inauguration to protest. In a separate case, prosecutors in Texas alleged {that a} retired Air Power reservist who carried plastic zip tie-like restraints on the Senate flooring could have supposed to restrain lawmakers. It was one of many many chilling particulars to emerge as investigators tracked down among the most recognizable faces from the riot. Authorities apprehended the person in broadly circulated images carrying a Accomplice flag inside Capitol Hill, one other who had worn a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt and the Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller. Federal officers additionally charged Peter Stager, a burly bearded man, with beating a DC police officer with a flagpole that had an American flag on it. “Everyone in there’s a treasonous traitor,” Stager mentioned in a video obtained by the FBI. “Demise is the one treatment for what’s in that constructing.” A couple of arrests counsel the obvious murderous intent of some within the crowd. One man from Alabama faces 17 prison counts, largely for possession of a number of weapons, together with a shotgun, a rifle, three pistols and 11 Molotov cocktails, in addition to ammunition and shotgun shells with out registration, in accordance with an indictment. After residing in his truck in DC for a few week, the person parked it a few block from the Capitol on January 6, in accordance with court docket paperwork. Police began looking the truck after recognizing a firearm deal with and located the weapons, in addition to a stun gun, a number of machetes, a crossbow; a number of large-capacity ammunition-feeding units; and tons of of rounds of ammunition, in accordance with a memorandum that prosecutors filed January 12 in assist of his detention. Additionally within the truck: the handwritten notice with Indiana Rep. Andre Carson’s identify and an added commentary that he’s “one among two Muslims in Home of Reps.” The second man is alleged to have pushed from Colorado to Washington, DC, a day earlier than Trump’s rally with greater than 2,500 rounds of ammunition and an assault rifle. He’s mentioned to have texted acquaintances that he needed to shoot or run over Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi and shoot DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, in accordance with court docket information. “If I had a extra regarding threats case come earlier than me, I do not keep in mind it,” Justice of the Peace Decide Michael Harvey of the DC District Courtroom mentioned Thursday. Some lawmakers’ experiences made them fear that the rioters had a stage of cautious preparation that belies the narrative of a protest that wheeled uncontrolled. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts Democrat, advised CNN that somebody eliminated panic buttons put in all through her workplace that had been recurrently examined and maintained. An investigation is underway, mentioned Pressley, who mentioned the invention was “definitely unnerving.” Carson, whose identify was on the notice discovered within the automobile stuffed with weaponry and ammunition, is amongst a rising record of lawmakers vital of regulation enforcement’s dealing with of the insurgency. “This can be very disturbing to study from press studies that I used to be one among a number of people recognized in an inventory of ‘good guys’ and ‘dangerous guys’ focused for assaults,” Carson mentioned in an announcement offered to CNN. “As a former regulation enforcement officer, it’s particularly disappointing to see the failure of regulation enforcement officers, together with the U.S. Capitol Police, to inform people like myself that we had been focused and in danger from the indicted terrorist and his co-conspirators.” Failures Investigators will probably be asking how federal authorities missed so many purple flags, why they had been so underprepared and gradual to react. The FBI and the Division of Homeland Safety did not problem menace assessments concerning the potential of violence on the US Capitol forward of final week’s lethal assault, in accordance with a supply conversant in the matter and a senior DHS official. Sometimes, the FBI and DHS will produce a joint menace evaluation for high-profile occasions and ship it to regulation enforcement officers and related stakeholders. However no such report was compiled by both company for the January 6 certification of Biden’s victory, a controversial occasion for the President’s followers. The Washington Put up reported Friday that three days earlier than the assault, an inside Capitol Police intelligence report warned that offended Trump supporters may assault “Congress itself.” The 12-page report describes a state of affairs eerily just like the one which unfolded, with the President’s enraged backers attempting to cease Biden’s certification and overturn the election outcomes. A day earlier than the chaos erupted, an FBI outpost in Virginia issued an inside warning that extremists had been coming to Washington ready to commit violence. The Put up additionally reported that dozens of individuals on a terrorist watch record got here to Washington for the January 6 occasions. The vast majority of them had been suspected white supremacists with monitor information so disturbing they had been placed on the nationwide Terrorist Screening Database as potential safety dangers. 4 federal businesses introduced Friday they’re opening investigations into their very own roles on January 6. The Division of Protection, Division of Homeland Safety, Division of Justice and the Inside Division will all study their preparations for the occasions in Washington that day which will have performed an element in permitting rioters to breach the Capitol. These businesses and others at the moment are getting ready for rioters to descend on the Capitol once more. The Secret Service is taking the lead on Biden’s inauguration safety planning. The Nationwide Mall will probably be closed to most of the people on Inauguration Day, in accordance with an official conversant in discussions. There will probably be no massive screens, no bathrooms and the general public won’t be able to get right down to the Mall the place historically hundreds collect to look at the brand new president be sworn in, the official mentioned. The President-elect and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are nonetheless anticipated to take their oaths of workplace on the West Entrance of the US Capitol throughout a considerably scaled-down occasion. Biden mentioned this week that his group had been receiving briefings within the wake of the violence and that he was “not afraid of taking the oath outdoors.” CNN’s Katelyn Polantz, Christina Carrega, David Shortell, Marshall Cohen, Nicky Robertson, Ellie Kaufman, Geneva Sands, Zachary Cohen, Oren Liebermann, Barbara Starr, Jamie Crawford, Jamie Gangel, Jake Tapper, Alex Marquardt, Jeff Zeleny, Kate Sullivan, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, and Brian Todd contributed to this report. Supply hyperlink #attack #Bidens #Capitol #clearer #inauguration #locks #Politics #scope #Terrifying #TerrifyingscopeofCapitolattackuncoveredasWashingtonlocksdownforBiden'sinauguration-CNNPolitics #Washington

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How Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S.

One late fall evening 40 years ago, a worn-out white Gulfstream II jet descended over Fort Lauderdale, Fla., carrying a regal but sickly passenger almost no one was expecting.

Crowded aboard were a Republican political operative, a retinue of Iranian military officers, four smelly and hyperactive dogs and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the newly deposed shah of Iran.

Yet as the jet touched down, the only one waiting to receive the deposed monarch was a senior executive of Chase Manhattan Bank, which had not only lobbied the White House to admit the former shah but had arranged visas for his entourage, searched out private schools and mansions for his family and helped arrange the Gulfstream to deliver him.

“The Eagle has landed,” Joseph V. Reed Jr., the chief of staff to the bank’s chairman, David Rockefeller, declared in a celebratory meeting at the bank the next morning.

Less than two weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1979, vowing revenge for the admission of the shah to the United States, revolutionary Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran and then held more than 50 Americans — and Washington — hostage for 444 days.

The shah, Washington’s closest ally in the Persian Gulf, had fled Tehran in January 1979 in the face of a burgeoning uprising against his 38 years of iron-fisted rule. Liberals, leftists and religious conservatives were rallying against him. Strikes and demonstrations had shut down Tehran, and his security forces were losing control.

The shah sought refuge in America. But President Jimmy Carter, hoping to forge ties to the new government rising out of the chaos and concerned about the security of the United States Embassy in Tehran, refused him entry for the first 10 months of his exile. Even then, the White House only begrudgingly let him in for medical treatment.

Now, a newly disclosed secret history from the offices of Mr. Rockefeller shows in vivid detail how Chase Manhattan Bank and its well-connected chairman worked behind the scenes to persuade the Carter administration to admit the shah, one of the bank’s most profitable clients.

For Mr. Carter, for the United States and for the Middle East it was an incendiary decision.

The ensuing hostage crisis enabled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to consolidate his theocratic rule, started a four-decade conflict between Washington and Tehran that is still roiling the region and helped Ronald Reagan take the White House. To American policymakers, Iran became a parable about the political perils in the fall of a friendly strongman.

Although Mr. Carter complained publicly at the time about the pressure campaign, the full, behind-the-scenes story — laid out in the recently disclosed documents — has never been told.

Mr. Rockefeller’s team called the campaign Project Eagle, after the code name used for the shah. Exploiting clubby networks of power stretching deep into the White House, Mr. Rockefeller mobilized a phalanx of elder statesmen.

They included Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state and the chairman of a Chase advisory board; John J. McCloy, the former commissioner of occupied Germany after World War II and an adviser to eight presidents as well as a future Chase chairman; a Chase executive and former C.I.A. agent, Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr., whose cousin, the C.I.A. agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr., had orchestrated a 1953 coup to keep the shah in power; and Richard M. Helms, a former director of the C.I.A. and former ambassador to Iran.

Charles Francis, a veteran of corporate public affairs who worked for Chase at the time, brought the documents to the attention of The Times.

“Today’s corporate campaigns are demolition derbies compared to this operation,” he said. “It was smooth, smooth, smooth and almost entirely invisible.”

Records of Project Eagle were donated to Yale by Mr. Reed, the campaign’s director. But he deemed the material so potentially embarrassing to his patron that Mr. Reed, who died in 2016, stipulated that the records remain sealed until Mr. Rockefeller’s death. Mr. Rockefeller died in 2017 at the age of 101.

Some of the information may embarrass others as well. Hawkish critics have often faulted Mr. Carter as worrying too much about human rights and thus failing to prop up the shah.

But the papers reveal that the president’s special envoy to Iran had actually urged the country’s generals to use as much deadly force as needed to suppress the revolt, advising them about how to carry out a military takeover to keep the shah in power.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Carter did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for Mr. Carter at the time of the crisis was not immediately available.

After the hostages were taken, the Carter administration worked desperately to try to free the captives, and on April 24, 1980, authorized a rescue mission that collapsed in disaster: A helicopter crash in the desert killed eight service members, whose charred bodies were gleefully exhibited by Iranian officials.

The hostage crisis doomed Mr. Carter’s presidency. And the team around Mr. Rockefeller, a lifelong Republican with a dim view of Mr. Carter’s dovish foreign policy, collaborated closely with the Reagan campaign in its efforts to pre-empt and discourage what it derisively labeled an “October surprise” — a pre-election release of the American hostages, the papers show.

The Chase team helped the Reagan campaign gather and spread rumors about possible payoffs to win the release, a propaganda effort that Carter administration officials have said impeded talks to free the captives.

“I had given my all” to thwarting any effort by the Carter officials “to pull off the long-suspected ‘October surprise,’” Mr. Reed wrote in a letter to his family after the election, apparently referring to the Chase effort to track and discourage a hostage release deal. He was later named Mr. Reagan’s ambassador to Morocco.

Mr. Rockefeller then personally lobbied the incoming administration to ensure that its Iran policies protected the bank’s financial interests.

The records indicate that Mr. Rockefeller hoped for the restoration of a version of the deposed government.

At the start of the Iranian upheaval, the papers show, Mr. Kissinger advised Mr. Rockefeller that the probable conclusion would be “a sort of Bonapartist counterrevolution that rallies the pro-Western elements together with what was left of the army.”

Mr. Kissinger, in a recent email, acknowledged that the prediction “reflects my thinking at the time” but said “it was a judgment, not a policy proposal.”

But Mr. Rockefeller evidently continued to advocate for some form of restoration long after the shah fled Tehran.

As late as December 1980, Mr. Rockefeller personally urged the incoming Reagan administration to encourage a counterrevolution by stopping “rug merchant type bargaining” for the hostages and instead taking military action to punish Iran if the hostages were not released. He suggested occupying three Iranian-controlled islands in the Persian Gulf.

“The most likely outcome of this situation is an eventual replacement of the present fanatic Shiite Muslim government, either by a military one or a combination of the military with the civilian democratic leaders,” Mr. Rockefeller argued, according to his talking points for meetings with the Reagan transition team.

An heir to his family’s oil fortune, Mr. Rockefeller styled himself a corporate statesman and personally knew many White House officials, including Mr. Carter. He had known the shah since 1962, socializing with him in New York, Tehran and St. Moritz, Switzerland.

As Tehran’s coffers swelled with oil revenues in the 1970s, Chase formed a joint venture with an Iranian state bank and earned big fees advising the national oil company.

By 1979, the bank had syndicated more than $1.7 billion in loans for Iranian public projects (the equivalent of about $5.8 billion today). The Chase balance sheet held more than $360 million in loans to Iran and more than $500 million in Iranian deposits.

Mr. Rockefeller often insisted that his concern for the shah was purely about Washington’s “prestige and credibility.” It was about “the abandonment of a friend when he needed us most,” he wrote in his memoirs.

His only advocacy for the shah, Mr. Rockefeller wrote, had been in a brief aside to Mr. Carter during an unrelated White House meeting in April 1979.

“I did nothing more, publicly or privately, to influence the administration’s thinking.”

Yet the Project Eagle papers show that Mr. Rockefeller received detailed updates on the risks to Chase’s holdings, and that even his aside to Mr. Carter in April had been planned out the previous day with Mr. Reed, Mr. McCloy and Mr. Kissinger.

Over lunch at the Knickerbocker Club in New York, Mr. Carter’s special envoy to Tehran, Gen. Robert E. Huyser, told the Project Eagle team that he had urged Iran’s top military leaders to kill as many demonstrators as necessary to keep the shah in power.

If shooting over the heads of demonstrators failed to disperse them, “move to focusing on the chests,” General Huyser said he told the Iranian generals, according to minutes of the lunch. “I got stern and noisy with the military,” he added, but in the end, the top general was “gutless.”

Mr. Rockefeller had his own special envoy to try to help the shah: Robert F. Armao, a Republican operative and public relations consultant who had worked for Mr. Rockefeller’s brother Nelson, the former governor of New York and former vice president.

Mr. Armao became one of the shah’s closest advisers, and after Nelson Rockefeller died at the start of 1979, he reported to the Project Eagle team at Chase nearly every day for more than two years.

“Everybody had the hope that there would be a repeat of the 1953 events,” Mr. Armao recalled recently, referring to the American-backed coup that restored the shah the first time he fled.

When the shah’s rule became untenable at the start of 1979, the State Department first turned to David Rockefeller for help relocating the Iranian monarch in the United States.

“Not large enough for my very special client,” Mr. Reed wrote to a Greenwich, Conn., broker who had offered two estates priced at around $2 million each — about $7.4 million today.

But while the shah tarried in Egypt and Morocco, an Iranian mob briefly seized the American Embassy in February. Diplomats warned that admitting the shah risked another assault, and Mr. Carter changed his mind about offering haven.

Mr. Rockefeller refused to deliver this bad news to the shah, afraid that it would hurt the bank by alienating a prized client.

“The risks were too high relating to the CMB position in Iran,” he responded, referring to Chase Manhattan Bank, according to the records.

Instead, Mr. Rockefeller scrambled to find accommodations elsewhere — first in the Bahamas, and then in Mexico — while strategizing with Mr. Kissinger, Mr. McCloy and others about how to persuade the White House to let in the shah.

During a three-day push in April, Mr. Kissinger made a personal appeal to the national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and a follow-up phone call to Mr. Carter. Mr. Rockefeller buttonholed the president at the White House.

And in a speech, Mr. Kissinger publicly accused the Carter administration of forcing a loyal ally to sail the world in search of refuge, “like a flying Dutchman looking for a port of call” — the seed of what became a “who lost Iran” campaign theme for the Republicans.

Mr. McCloy flooded the White House with lengthy letters to senior officials, often arguing about the danger of demoralizing other “friendly sovereigns.” “Dear Zbig,” he addressed his old friend Mr. Brzezinski.

Finally, in October, Mr. Reed sent his personal doctor to Cuernavaca, Mexico, “to take a ‘look-see’” at the shah.

He had been hiding a cancer diagnosis. The doctor, Benjamin H. Kean, determined that the shah needed sophisticated treatment within a few weeks — in Mexico, if necessary, Dr. Kean later said he had concluded.

But when Mr. Reed put the doctor in touch with State Department officials, they came away with a different prognosis: that the shah was “at the point of death” and that only a New York hospital “was capable of possibly saving his life,” as Mr. Carter described it at the time to The Times.

With that opening, the Chase team began preparing the flight to Fort Lauderdale.

“When I told the Customs man who the principal was, he almost fainted,” the waiting executive, Eugene Swanzey, reported the next morning.

The plane’s bathroom was malfunctioning. The shah and his wife hunted in vain for a missing videocassette to finish a movie. And their four dogs — a poodle, a collie, a cocker spaniel and a Great Dane — jumped on everyone. The Great Dane “hadn’t been washed in weeks,” Mr. Swanzey said. “The aroma was just terrible.”

When Mr. Reed met the plane on its final arrival in New York, he recalled the next day, the shah seemed to be thinking, “‘At last I am getting into competent hands.’”

But as he checked the shah into New York Hospital, Mr. Reed was circumspect.

“I am the unidentified American,” he told the inquisitive staff.

Mr. Reed, Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Kissinger met again three days after the hostages were taken.

“Noted was the feeling of indignation as being high and nothing useful to say,” read the minutes.

The White House said the shah had to depart as soon as possible, but Project Eagle continued.

“The ideal place for the Eagle to land,” Mr. Reed wrote to Mr. Armao on Nov. 9, forwarding a brochure for a 350-acre Hudson Valley estate.

A week later, Mr. Rockefeller personally urged Mr. Carter in a phone call to direct the secretary of state to meet with the shah about “the current situation.” Mr. Carter did not and the shah soon departed, for Panama, then Egypt.

Only after the death of the shah, on July 27, 1980, nine months after his landing in Fort Lauderdale, did the Project Eagle team shift to new objectives. One was protecting Mr. Rockefeller from blame for the crisis.

Over roast loin of veal and vintage wine at the exclusive River Club in New York, Mr. Rockefeller and nine others on the team gathered on Aug. 19. Amid discussion of a laudatory biography of the shah by a Berkeley professor that the team had commissioned, some warned that a Rockefeller link to the embassy seizure would be hard to escape.

Why was the shah admitted? “Medical treatment/DR recommended,” one said, using Mr. Rockefeller’s initials, according to minutes of the dinner. “This association cannot be ignored.”

But Mr. Kissinger was reassuring. Congress would never hold an investigation during an election campaign.

“I don’t think we are in trouble any more, David,” Mr. Kissinger told him.

The hostages were released on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1981, and a few days later Mr. Carter’s departing White House counsel called Mr. Rockefeller to inquire about how the release deal affected Chase bank.

“Worked out very well,” Mr. Rockefeller told him, according to his records. “Far better than we had feared.”

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His name is Jake Wood and his story started with a simple Facebook post: “I’m going to Haiti. Who’s in?” It was January 2010, and the island of Haiti had just suffered a devastating earthquake with a still-disputed death toll of between 100,000 and 315,000.

Jake had only been out of the U.S. Marine Corps for a few months, and was planning to enroll in business school when he began seeing the pictures of the devastation in Haiti and thinking how much it reminded him of similar scenes from Iraq and Afghanistan, where he had served two tours of duty. He realized that the skills he had acquired in the service, including the ability to adapt to difficult conditions, work with limited resources and maintain security in a dangerous environment, were sorely needed. And that was when he put out the Facebook message. Wood persuaded his college roommate, a firefighter, to join him. Within minutes of seeing Wood’s Facebook post, another friend and former Marine, William McNulty, signed on. Interest quickly snowballed, and three days later, he and seven others were in the Dominican Republic, heading into neighboring Haiti with medicine and equipment.

Over the next three weeks, more than 60 volunteers — mainly from medical or military backgrounds — followed Wood’s lead and made their way to the stricken country to join his group. They set up triage centers in camps, treating whoever they could, and helped ferry people to hospitals. Wood estimates they helped thousands of Haitians.

They called their group Team Rubicon, in reference to the phrase “crossing the Rubicon,” which means passing a point of no return. Little did they know how prophetic that name would prove to be. All along, Wood thought of his sojourn to Haiti as a one-time event, still planning at that time to return home and start business school. But, as so often happens, life had other plans for Team Rubicon.

In the beginning …

Wood and McNulty did some thinking and talking …

“We realized we were more effective than many organizations that were down there with us. We also realized that most organizations weren’t engaging vets on their own. So we said, ‘Let’s try to improve this.'”

And that is just what they did! Team Rubicon became a nonprofit, and in the first two years the group built an army of more than 1,400 volunteers — 80% of them military veterans — who respond to disasters and help those in need. They ran 14 missions in those first two years, running triage clinics after the Chile earthquake and the flooding in Pakistan. They traveled to Sudan and Myanmar to help people caught in regional conflicts. And in 2011, they removed debris and assisted in search-and-rescue missions following tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Joplin, Missouri.

In 2011, however, a personal tragedy caused the group to subtly change its focus. One of the members of Team Rubicon and Wood’s best friend, Clay Hunt, committed suicide. Hunt had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor’s guilt. It was a shock to Wood, as Hunt seemed to be adjusting well. He was literally a poster boy for returning veterans, appearing in a public-service announcement for a veteran’s advocacy group. And Wood felt guilty …

“It was tremendously difficult to feel like I had let him down, knowing that we had survived two wars together but that when things were easy and it had come to peace, that I wasn’t there enough for him. That has been a very tough battle for me, dealing with that.”

Clay Hunt

Hunt’s death made the group realize that while the job they were doing was important, so was the way in which doing the job was helping the veterans, giving them focus, making them feel useful. So the group changed the way it viewed itself, refocusing its own mission: Instead of being a disaster relief organization that uses veterans, Team Rubicon became a veterans’ support organization that uses disasters as opportunities for continued service.

“We’re giving them a reason to come together … and that community lasts long after the mission,” Wood said. “Right now, Team Rubicon is focused on how we can … get them involved in as many ways as possible.”

There are many, many success stories within the group, but here is one of the first …

Nicole Green served in the Air Force for four years, working as an intelligence officer in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. For her, finding Team Rubicon has been life-changing.

“When I got out of the military, it was very stressful,” she said. “You feel alone. You meet people who don’t understand your background.”

Green volunteered for the group’s first domestic mission, in Tuscaloosa. She enjoyed it so much that she helped out in Joplin less than a month later.

“I felt that I was doing something meaningful with my life again … using a lot of the same skills, but in a way that [was] constructive instead of destructive,” Green said. “And I was with other people who understood me … focused on a common goal. That was really a great feeling.”

Since its inception, Team Rubicon has grown by leaps and bounds and has participated in over 175 missions. The team now has about 33,000 members, and in 2016 Wood lamented that there just weren’t enough natural disasters to keep them all busy. He may feel a bit differently this year!

Remember Hurricane Harvey that hit the Houston area in August? Team Rubicon was there with floodwater rescue teams conducting door-to-door searches in and around Houston while reconnaissance teams conducted preliminary damage assessments. One team conducted an evacuation and cleared two full neighborhoods in neighboring Beaumont. A second rescue team conducted five evacuations, including two elderly residents and their daughter, and yet another conducted 21 rescues and evacuated 27 canines at an animal shelter.

And Hurricane Irma? Team Rubicon was there, too, with operations in Clay, Brevard, and Collier Counties, Florida. So far they have been conducting damage assessments, debris removal, muck‐outs, sawyer operations, and spontaneous volunteer management services to affected communities. This response is only the start of what will be long-term operations.

Team Rubicon expects to remain in both Texas and Florida for some time, helping residents recover from Harvey and Irma. And then came Maria …

It took them a few days to collect the needed equipment and supplies and get there, but Team Rubicon reached San Juan, Puerto Rico on September 25th, fully three days before the U.S. even lifted the Jones Act and committed to sending aid. Team Rubicon has been assessing hospitals for structural damage, assessing community needs, removing debris, and helping out wherever help was needed.

My time and space are limited, but if you are interested in learning more about Jake Wood and Team Rubicon, there is an excellent article/interview by author/editor Kyle Dickman. It is a bit lengthy, but a fascinating read.

In 2013, Mr. Wood gave a Ted Talk …

According to Team Rubicon’s website, their mission statement is …

“Team Rubicon unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams.”

Take a look at the website … I think you will be impressed. They are a class A organization, and their Board of Advisors include such notable retired Generals as Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus.

William McNulty and Jake Wood

I have the utmost admiration and respect for Mr. Wood and co-founder William McNulty for the great things they are doing. What started as a one-shot adventure has turned into a lifetime passion. We will never know just how many people suffering from natural disasters have been helped by the volunteers of Team Rubicon, nor the number of veterans whose lives were improved, perhaps even saved, by knowing that they still have value, that they are doing good things to help others.

Good People Doing Good Things — Team Rubicon His name is Jake Wood and his story started with a simple Facebook post: "I'm going to Haiti.

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