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The Afghan president on Monday blamed the American troops' speedy pullout for the worsening violence in his country and said that his administration would now focus on protecting provincial capitals and major urban areas in the face of the rapidly advancing Taliban. "An imported, hasty" peace process - a reference to Washington's push for negotiations between Kabul and the Taliban - "not only failed to bring peace but created doubt and ambiguity" among Afghans, Ghani said in his address to Parliament.... ...The Taliban are now trying to seize provincial capitals after already taking large swaths of land and scores of...

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The American Medical Association (AMA) faced intense backlash late last week and over the weekend after calling for sex to be removed as a legal definition on the public part of birth certificates. The backlash came in response to a tweet from WebMD that highlighted the call from the AMA. WebMD’s report claimed: Requiring it can lead to discrimination and unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity does not align with their designation at birth, namely when they register for school or sports, adopt, get married, or request personal records. (Good grief)

David Peace has motor neurone disease, a terminal illness which gradually affects the brain and nerves. He says he intends to travel to a Swiss clinic to end his life before his condition prevents him from making the journey. David, who lives in central London, is one of a number of people behind renewed calls to update England and Wales assisted dying laws to allow terminally ill people, with six months to live, the right to end their life, subject to strict criteria. A second reading of the assisted dying bill is due to take place in the House of...

Protesters demanding an end to the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation were arrested outside the U.S. Senate building on Monday. ...Some photographs posted to Twitter showed long lines of people waiting to be arrested by law enforcement officers from the United States Capitol Police (USCP).. ....The group is demanding the Senate and the White House eliminate the filibuster, pass all provisions of the For the People Act, fully restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. The protest coincided with the arrival of more than 100 state legislators who...

“For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it” (Proverbs 3:26-27 KJV).

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients announced on Monday that the Biden regime is moving rapidly toward mandatory vaccinations.Zients hosted a press conference with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Rochelle Walensky appearing behind him remotely on screens. He aggressively shilled for the administration’s coercive measures meant to promote vaccine compliance.“We’re also working with states to encourage vaccinations through incentives, which have made a difference throughout the vaccination effort. Last week, the President called on states and local governments to use funding they have...

Iowa is to pay five protesters in support of the Black Lives Matter movement $5,000 each to settle a lawsuit after they were banned from the premises of the state Capitol last year, the Associated Press reported....The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa filed a lawsuit on behalf of the five individuals and their lawyer is to receive $45,000 as part of the settlement.... ....Iowa is also withdrawing their verbal and written bans so the individuals "may continue to enter and use the Iowa Capitol Complex on the same basis and under the same terms as any other law-abiding...

Over 600,000 Chinese citizens applied to another country for asylum from 2012 to 2020, with annual applicants increasing seven times in the past nine years, media reported recently.A number of British media reported in the past week that, based on data obtained from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the annual number of mainland Chinese applying for refugee status overseas from 2012 to 2020 increased from 15,362 to 107,864.The number of Chinese asylum seekers was stable from 2000 to 2009 in the range of 15,000 to 25,000 every year. In 2010, the number suddenly dropped to around 8,000, and...

Millions of people are currently confined to their homes in China as the regime races to contain its largest COVID-19 outbreak in months, driven by the spread of the Delta variant. The surge has caused concerns about the efficacy of Chinese vaccines against the highly infectious strain.Chinese health authorities have blamed the Delta variant for a rise in infections spanning 14 provinces and including Beijing. The recent outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, was first reported on July 20 in the eastern city of Nanjing, where nine airport workers were identified by routine tests.On Aug. 2,...

One of the hallmarks of totalitarian states is their creation of archetypes to teach the masses proper behavior. The Soviets created Pavlik Morozov, a fictitious 13-year-old who betrayed his parents to the State and became an example for generations of Soviet youth. Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth, where he creates non-existent war heroes, like Captain Ogilvy, who die doing heroic and symbolic stuff to rally the proletariat.Keeping that in mind, a few days ago, an Alabama doctor named Brytney Cobia authored a Facebook post that soon became viral.I’ve made a LOT of progress encouraging people...

A statewide analysis reveals that 37 Texas counties show voting discrepancies in the 2020 election but not enough to change the outcome of President Joe Biden's win, the Associated Press reported. Researchers from the University of Florida conducted the analysis in Texas' 254 counties and found mistakes in both Republican and Democratic counties. Former President Donald Trump was listed by the Texas secretary of state as receiving 5,890,347 total votes but got 223 more, according to the findings. Meanwhile, Biden's listed total was 5,259,126, but he received 155 more. "It's not a huge number," Texas' elections director, Keith Ingram, told...

“The 2,700 pages of the so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill released Sunday night by Breitbart News show the commission Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) wife sits on will receive double the funding if passed, in a way to possibly ensure Manchin’s swing vote to secure the bill.”

Meanwhile, in (no lockdown) Sweden. pic.twitter.com/G4h5Ibo7B8— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 2, 2021 The mainstream media don’t want you to look at this chart or think critically about how Sweden ended up in statistically the same place as most other Western countries without lifting a tyrannical finger. Full story on Sweden… Grand total of 9 deaths in July.In the month of July, Sweden recorded a grand total of 9 deaths with Covid in a nation of over 10 million. Lowest mask compliance in EU, least locked down country in EU from beginning, and just 41% fully vaccinated. Also codes Covid...

"DC Police tonight confirm Officer Kyle deFreytag (assigned to 5th District) died by suicide July 10th. He is the 4th police officer who defended US Capitol on 1/6 to take his own life ⁦@nbcwashington" Jackie Bensen Twitter

The incipient “Great Reset” is a multi-faceted beast. We talk a lot about vaccine passports and lockdowns and the Covid-realated aspects – and we should – but there’s more to it than that.Remember, they want you to “own nothing and be happy”. And right at the top of the list of things you definitely shouldn’t own, is your own home.The headlines about this have been steady for the last few years, but it has picked up pace in the wake of the “pandemic” (as has so much else). An agenda hidden on back pages, behind by Covid’s meaningless big red...

As we have reported, a team of Goldman analysts has been closely monitoring the most recent delta-variant-driven surge in COVID cases in Europe (the trajectory of the outbreak will have an important impact on bank's economic projections, particularly for the eurozone). In working out its projections, the team was among the first on Wall Street to adopt the view that delta would have a minimal impact on the growth outlook for developed nations with high vaccination rates (though Goldman of course is not alone).In its latest note, the Goldman team "stress-tested" its projections for the European economy (and by extension,...

Olympic athlete drops out, non-binary participant insulted, director of the games fired.

Despite boasting a war chest of more than $100 million, Trump is reportedly refusing to extend any help to his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who is now struggling under a mountain of legal fees that could leave the former New York mayor entirely broke.

There’s plenty of time for Biden to get instructions from the “real” president other than at his Birthday Party