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Some 108 million people in China’s northeast region are being plunged back under lockdown conditions as a new and growing cluster of infections causes a backslide in the nation’s return to normal. In an abrupt reversal of the re-opening taking place across the nation, cities in Jilin province have cut off trains and buses, shut schools … Read more

The 30-year agreement between Afghanistan and China allows Metallurgical Group Corporation to access Mes Aynak, but the project has been stalled due to security concerns in the war-torn country. It also lies beneath a historic Buddhist city said to date back to the Bronze Age. The prospective mine is located 40 kilometres southeast of Kabul, in a … Read more

This is a game changer for us all. Many have started counting their final hours of life in Kabul. Nobody knows what happens next. Pray for us. — Mustafa מוסטפא 🇺🇸 Μασταφα (@CombatJourno) August 16, 2021 Biden administration ignores intelligence agency warning of a rapid collapse in Afghanistan As panicked Afghans watched Taliban fighters roll … Read more

AUSTRALIAN DR’s ARE MUZZLED The Govt sent this to all active practitioners, threatening “investigation, regulatory action” (cancellation of medical license) and even criminal prosecution, if they say anything which goes against state/media dogma https://twitter.com/Thorsome4/status/1426464645540315139 h/t Tess

A White House tweet showing President Joe Biden appearing to be on top of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan may also have inadvertently revealed the faces and locations of intelligence agents. The official White House Twitter account posted a photo on Sunday of Biden meeting by video conference with intelligence officials to hear … Read more

Robinhood dodged a major blow to its business model following a vote by the House Financial Services Committee that resulted in the quiet shelving of an initial legislative effort to ban a practice known as “payment for order flow,” FOX Business has learned. Payment for order flow (PFOF) is a practice in which discount brokers … Read more

Six months on from Kamala Harris being sworn in as Vice President, some are claiming polling figures show her as the most unpopular VP in American history. We are joined by Sharon D Austin, a professor of Political Science, and lecturer Melissa Milewski https://t.co/1z1pm4EiMw pic.twitter.com/pbxQXZs1mT — BBC Woman's Hour (@BBCWomansHour) August 16, 2021 h/t dr0id

Plus this interesting info from a FOI request pic.twitter.com/O9vZv9rRjK — VictoriaZasikowski (@v_zasikowski) August 16, 2021 I checked this claim after finding the document and it bears out. I got my son to check the maths – it is correct. Then I got him to work out how more times likely you are to die if … Read more

  Warning Of Grim Situation In Kabul, Afghanistan right now of a National Security Crisis. 5000 Known Terrorists have reportedly been released. Revealed on a special Sunday edition of War Room. https://populist.press/warning-of-grim-national-security-crisis-5000-known-terrorists-released/

The Taliban are going door to door making it known all girls over the age of 15 will be assigned a husband. (7/) https://t.co/Q5Y84AoXI7 — Judah Waxelbaum (@JudahWaxelbaum) August 15, 2021 https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1426378795699904515 All girls over the age of 15 and widows younger than 40 should be married to the insurgent fighters, a local Taliban leader … Read more

Jen Psaki ‘Out Of The Office’ Amid Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is “out of office” while the Taliban takes over Afghanistan, Fox News reported. The Daily Caller confirmed Psaki’s absence by emailing her and receiving an auto-reply that read, “I will be out of the office from August 15th-August … Read more

https://twitter.com/AlexJonesWs/status/1426675341783932929 Alex woke me up decades ago. he isn’t perfect, and i don’t really listen anymore, but he is right, you know.   h/t Dan

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427203511662653442 If you look closely you can see two people (one on each side) falling off this C-17 taking off.   h/t Mason Firefly

LIST: Canceled flights due to volcanic eruption in Japan https://t.co/59NwhxYvja — ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) August 16, 2021

T-MOBILE is currently investigating claims of a massive customer data breach which hackers claim has affected 100 million users. The data breach reportedly includes social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information. T-Mobile was first alerted to the possible breach by a forum post from a hacker claiming … Read more