Early in 2020, shocked citizens and social scientists predicted the widespread imposition of extreme “non-pharmaceutical interventions” in response to COVID would prove to have horrible and costly human and economic trade-offs — turns out they were right.
Just a few months ago, the mainstream media praised Israel for its “pandemic-ending” vaccination campaign. With over 40 percent of the population “fully vaccinated” in the first quarter of 2021, Israel was well on its way to stopping community spread and clearing out its hospitals.
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Taliban clashes with women protesters during rally for equal rights near presidential palace in Kabul (VIDEOS)
https://www.rt.com/news/533965-afghanistan-women-rights-protest/
Back To Normal: Kabul Airport Reopened To Receive Aid, Taliban Fighters March In Victory Parade
https://southfront.org/back-to-normal-kabul-airport-reopened-to-receive-aid-taliban-fighters-march-in-victory-parade/
Big Brother Watch Team
Big Brother Watch has launched a new report warning against the “censorious” Online Safety Bill, and sounding the alarm on the rise of Big Tech speech police.
The first is vengefulness.
That an alleged superpower gets kicked out of a country by some local guerilla is too hard to accept. That the rush to the exit has happened in a rather humiliating way, even when caused by U.S. incompetence and not by the Taliban, only reinforces that.
Anti-Taliban rebels in training, Panjshir, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021.At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing on Friday, Russian correspondent of Sputnik asked spokesperson Ambassador Wang Wenbin how China viewed the Taliban decision to attack Panjshir and how this will affect the Afghan situation.
Ambassador Wang replied that “it is China’s sincere hope that all parties in Afghanistan will go with the Afghan people’s eager aspiration and the international community’s expectation to resolve differences through consultation and ensure a steady transition so that the people of this war-torn country can live free from war and conflict and build lasting peace at an early date.”
The New Dark Age 