These statistics speak volumes
New Zealand in Level 4 lockdown
ARE YOU THOROUGHLY CONFUSED YET? QUOTE: “The wife is fully vaccinated. She’s in a different age group, and she has tested negative, but one of the things we’re going to do is retest her and also do serology, because we are not assuming she might not have been infected, perhaps asymptomatically because she’s vaccinated, and infected her partner.” About as obvious as night follows day that this would be the narrative Coronavirus: Experts fear new COVID-19 cases are just ‘tip…
US must complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by September 11, Taliban spokesperson says
RT, 17 August, 2021 A senior spokesperson for the Taliban has warned that the US military personnel in Afghanistan must be gone by September 11, after Washington redeployed soldiers to watch over the evacuation. The US must remove all its troops from Afghanistan by September 11, Suhail Shaheen, a member of the Taliban’s political office and negotiation team in Qatar, told Sky News. Shaheen said the militants remain committed to not attacking US servicemen, and their immediate goal is to…
Lessons of history
I have often talked about the Trump phenomenon and the collapse of America in such terms Lev Tolstoy on Afghanistan: “It Happened Because it had to Happen” When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it? Nothing is the cause….
Western States Face First Colorado River Water Cuts As Megadrought Drains Reservoirs
I can’t remember the last time Guy McPherson talked about the “dustbowl that never ends”. Now that it is a reality he has gone silent, it seems. Farmers in Arizona and Nevada, along with two Mexican states, will face cutbacks next year in a grim sign of what’s to come as the climate warms. Huffington Post, 17 August, 2021 Arizona, Nevada and two Mexican states that rely on the Colorado River for drinking water and irrigation will face cuts…
Chinese media threatens ‘immediate war’ on US troops in Taiwan after Senator leaks numbers
BEIJING will “immediately launch a war” on US troops in Taiwan if an American Senator’s figures are correct the Express, 17 August, 2021 Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state-run Global Times, said the US and Taiwan “must explain” figures posted by an American Senator which claimed 30,000 US troops are on the island. It comes as Beijing and Washington have suffered worsening relations over Taiwanese independence, as well as operations in the South China Sea. US Senator John…
