On the dusty tarmac of an airport in Northern Afghanistan, six planes have been waiting for days.
Thousands of Afghans seeking to escape Taliban rule have converged in the vicinity of the airstrip, located outside Mazar-i-Sharif, on the promise of a charter flight out of the country.
But since Sept. 3, the planes have been stranded. The final flight out of the sleepy airport left Sept. 2.
Into this taut and fluid situation stepped an unlikely personage: Glenn Beck, the far-right radio host who made a name for himself on the Obama conspiracy circuit.
As Afghanistan collapsed over the past months, Beck claimed to have raised more than $35 million to finance what he describes as a massive evacuation effort for Christians, American citizens, and vulnerable Afghans. Beck says he has done that via a Utah group he founded called Nazarene Fund, which has been working with another Beck-founded charity called Mercury One to organize charter flights.
Like many of Beck’s broadcasts on TheBlaze, the Afghan ones have been filled with a mix of exaggeration and invective, with most of the right-wing firebrand’s ire directed not at the Taliban but at “laughing” bureaucrats in the State Department and the Biden White House. With the six charter planes blocked from leaving Mazar by the Taliban, Beck has claimed that lollygagging diplomats and an uncaring Biden has left thousands of American citizens and vulnerable Afghans to the mercy of the new regime.
Beck’s bomb-throwing came as the State Department began to face mounting criticism from those involved in the charter flights, who saw Mazar as a means to quietly evacuate thousands of vulnerable Afghans and some American citizens in the days after the U.S. withdrawal. With global attention still focused on Kabul, people familiar with the evacuation effort said, Mazar offered a discreet escape route.
But as the Mazar window remained open in the first days of September, people involved said, the State Department struggled to develop consistent guidance on how private charters could secure approvals for the flights – a complicated process occurring in a near-warzone that involves vetting passenger manifests and getting destination countries to issue landing authorizations.
Meanwhile, Beck trained his megaphone on the delicate evacuation effort. At times, even Beck has admitted to being asked to tone down his “fat mouth,” as he called it, not always with success.
Answer:
A Painter and Print maker
Explanation:
An artist who portrays the personality of places in watercolour and screen print.
"I believe that art makes people feel better - by looking at it, by making it and by learning the stories behind it."
"I've been making and teaching art for over 40 years and its brought me so much pleasure and made my life richer than I could ever have imagined. I live in Masham in the Yorkshire Dales with my artist wife Josie Beszant. The front of our home is the Masham Gallery (run by Josie since 1994 and the main outlet for my work). We share another part of our home with Happy House Masham. This is a space online and in real life where we examine and practice what makes humans happy."
Answer:
Advertising with a positive appeal is always made in spite of its negative impacts.
Explanation:
No.1. Every advertiser tries their best to make the best product available to the consumer.
No.2. Every advertiser is aware of the negative effects or outcomes of the side effect. They try their best to allay fears of the consumer and make the product presentable.
No.3. Negative effects should be reduced or eliminated to a normal level. The advertiser should try to focus on the positive side, rather than bringing out its negativeness.
