On Wednesday the British parliament reconvened in an emergency session to allow MPs to vent their spleen over the situation in Afghanistan. It was a scene of self-righteous and delusional posturing and indignation over why the UK had allowed the collapse of the Kabul government and had been too subservient …
Read More »‘Active bomb threat investigation’: Buildings on Capitol Hill told to evacuate over suspicious vehicle (WATCH LIVE)
On Thursday, panic descended on Capitol Hill, Washington as staff were told to evacuate buildings and reports emerged that police were investigating a possible explosive device in a pickup truck. In a tweet, US Capitol Police said they were “responding to a suspicious vehicle near the Library of Congress” and …
Read More »Son of anti-Soviet mujahideen commander pleads for US to supply weapons & ammo against Taliban
The pitch was published by Massoud in The Washington Post, where a modern-day Charlie Wilson could presumably read it, and is worded in no uncertain terms. “The United States and its allies have left the battlefield, but America can still be a ‘great arsenal of democracy,’ as Franklin D. Roosevelt …
Read More »‘Is it anti-vax to be concerned?’: Magazine editor reports changes to period after Covid jab, the latest in over 30,000 UK women
Lara Prendergast, an executive editor at London’s Spectator magazine, raised some concerning questions in a column on Thursday after reporting that she had been affected since receiving her first Pfizer dose in May. Noting that it is an “uncomfortable” and sensitive topic to discuss – indicating that the true number …
Read More »Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan is ‘moral victory of Islamism over the West’ – top Merkel ally
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan was a “severe defeat of the West” and a “moral victory of Islamism over the West,” Bavarian Minister-President Markus Soeder said, as quoted by German media. The fact that on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 [terrorist attacks] the Taliban is back and is stronger …
Read More »‘The people of China have spoken’: Beijing urges release of Huawei executive as 6 million petition Canada to drop extradition case
On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reiterated Beijing’s demand that Canada release Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou and the US drop its fabricated charges against the tech executive. The spokeswoman, citing a Global Times petition, said that in less than 24 hours, 3.5 million people have put their name …
Read More »Yes, the Taliban’s extreme, but I secretly welcome this defeat of the US ideology of globalism, liberalism and consumerism
As I write, blue- and pink-haired Silicon Valley tech workers are desperately scrambling to determine what is acceptable for us to say on social media about Afghanistan. “What can we permit them to think?” they are wondering. Perhaps they are waiting for their overlords to tell them what is going …
Read More »Russia won’t deploy troops to Afghanistan, instead focusing on making ‘peaceful’ contact with Taliban, top Moscow officials reveal
The deputy head of the country’s Foreign Ministry, Alexander Pankin, told journalists on Thursday that Moscow is not considering stepping up troop deployments through its military deals with neighboring nations. Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan, is a member of the Russian-backed Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which binds former Soviet Republics …
Read More »‘Feminist’ writer begs for therapy donations after her attack on white woman’s Asian cookbook backfires
Roslyn Talusan – a Filipina Canadian who has written for Vice, Refinery29, and the A.V. Club, among other publications – sparked social media controversy after she publicly called out white author Pippa Middlehurst for writing a book about dumplings and noodles. “Why did a white woman write a cookbook about …
Read More »Ex-Facebook data scientist says Russia not driving Covid-19 conspiracies online, warning Americans really have themselves to blame
In an article for the UK’s The Guardian on Wednesday, former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang said that the allegations had become a convenient way to blame Moscow, rather than face up to the worrying trends. According to her, the networking giant relentlessly focuses on whether posts are “authentic,” and …
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