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Taliban leaves shocked students in tears by unexpectedly extending ban on girls in school

Ahmad Mukhtar
CBS News
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:11 UTC
girls afghanistan school closed
The Taliban government in Afghanistan announced the closure of girls’ secondary schools, hours after they reopened for the first time in nearly seven month
The Taliban's de-facto government in Afghanistan announced Wednesday that schools would remain closed to high school-aged girls across the country until a plan is drawn up that will allow for their education to resume in accordance with Islamic Sharia law and Afghan culture. The news came as a surprise after an earlier indication from the country's education ministry that all Afghan children would be able to return to classrooms, and it left many students in tears.

Aziz Ahmad Rayan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education, said Wednesday at a news conference that the directive had come down from Taliban leadership that "all girl's school and high school above grade 6 should be informed to suspend their lessons until further notice and a plan is drawn in accordance with Afghan culture and Islamic law."

The decision to keep older girls out of school was made in the southern province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, in a high-level leadership meeting in the presence of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, according to a Taliban minister who attended the discussion.

Comment: Perhaps this move is a bargaining chip in the tussle over Afghanistan's assets that were stolen frozen by the U.S.?

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NPC

Home Depot's 'privilege' memo leaked online


RT
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:20 UTC
home depot
© Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images
Home Depot in Canada has come under fire after a Twitter user leaked what appears to be an in-house worksheet educating workers on the concept of privilege as it pertains to race, religion, sexuality, and social status.

The document titled 'Unpacking privilege' attempts to define the different types of privilege and how it manifests in everyday life and encourages Home Depot workers to confront their own privilege and discuss it with "uninformed" family members, colleagues, and friends, even if it's "not an easy conversation" and the other person is being "defensive."

Some of the definitions presented in the worksheet include: Social Privilege - "special, unearned advantage or entitlement, used to one's own benefit or to the detriment of others" and White Privilege - "societal privileges that benefit white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of color under the same social, political, and economic circumstances."
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Light Sabers

Israeli lawmakers tear into Zelensky for Holocaust comparisons in Knesset speech


The Times Of Israel
Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:59 UTC
Zelensky
© Screen capture: YouTubeUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Knesset lawmakers on March 20, 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's speech to the Knesset on Sunday evening was received with mixed responses from Israeli lawmakers, with some calling it "outrageous" and others supporting the "distressed" president.

Several MKs harshly criticized Zelensky for drawing comparisons between the Holocaust and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and seemingly ignoring some Ukrainians' complicity in the Nazi-led genocide.

"I admire the Ukraine president and support the Ukrainian people in heart and deed, but the terrible history of the Holocaust cannot be rewritten," Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel tweeted.

Hendel noted that part of Nazi Germany's genocide of Jews "was also carried out on Ukrainian land." He added that while "the war is terrible, the comparison to the horrors of the Holocaust and the Final Solution is outrageous."

Hebrew media outlets quote unnamed senior ministers railing at Zelensky's "outrageous comparison."

"Zelensky also distorted the part his country played in the murder of Jews," they said, according to the Ynet news site.
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Footprints

Head of National Institutes of Health caught off-guard by first questions on email urging 'takedown' of the Great Barrington Declaration

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:47 UTC
Dr. Francis Collins
© Michael Reynolds/Pool/Getty ImagesDr. Francis Collins speaks in Washington on Sept. 9, 2020.
Dr. Francis Collins, a top U.S. health official, was caught off-guard when he was asked for the first time about a report issued by members of Congress that revealed new information, including the email Collins sent urging a "takedown" of the Great Barrington Declaration, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times.

Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) until Dec. 19, 2021, called for a "quick and devastating published takedown" of the declaration, which called for a more balanced approach to combating the COVID-19 pandemic, in an email in October 2020.

The email, sent just days after the document was authored by three epidemiologists, was made public by a congressional panel near the end of 2021.
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Arrow Down

Army drops 'leg tuck' from fitness test after women struggled with it


Breitbart
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:44 UTC
army leg tuck exercise
© U.S. ArmyRecruits demonstrate leg tucks which develop core stability
The Army announced Wednesday it was scrapping the "leg tuck" from its Army Combat Fitness Test for good, and replacing it with a plank, after data showed women were failing at even doing one.

"The Army's decision to remove the leg tuck comes after a study from RAND concluded that the exercise did not correctly measure core strength in all Soldiers, as it relied on Soldiers' upper body strength as well. Instead, the plank exercise provides all Soldiers a similar testing experience and allows the Army to accurately assess all Soldiers' core strength," an Army press release explained.

The leg tuck was one of a six-event test, aimed at testing a soldier's core strength. It required soldiers to hang from a bar and raise their knees to their elbows. The minimum to pass was one leg tuck.

Comment: There may be some validity to amending the test to take sex-based anatomical differences (gasp!) into account, but it still comes off as sketchy, and pandering to the woke wing of military brass.

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Cross

Mother Superior reported to the Vatican for Covid vaccine stance & prayers for jab deaths, rejects recent UK news article as 'misinformation'

Emily Mangiaracina
Life Site News
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:55 UTC
Marilla
Twitter screenshot of Mother Marilla
Mother Superior responds to Sunday Times article on complaints against her submitted to Vatican Mother General Marilla clarified 'misinformation' and provided a backstory to shed light on statements shared in a recent article.

The Mother Superior of London's Tyburn convent issued a statement in response to an article saying she was reported to the Vatican after sisters complained they felt "under pressure not to have the vaccine."

Mother General Marilla, whose revelation that she had received 50 prayer requests for people who died after COVID jabs went viral last year, responded yesterday to the Sunday Times article "Antivax Mother General reported to the Vatican," to correct misinformation about her and her convent, and provide missing information about her approach to COVID "vaccination" for her sisters.

Comment: Perhaps despite the best efforts of some in the Vatican, reflected in some of Pope Francis' more recent comments, it would appear that darker forces hold a greater sway over the Holy See:

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Chess

Russian chess star banned by International Chess Federation for political statements


RT
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC
Sergey Karjakin
© Soeren Stache / picture alliance via Getty ImagesFIDE has suspended Sergey Karjakin.
Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin has been hit with a six-month ban by the chess authorities after the 32-year-old issued support for Russia's military operation in Ukraine.

Karjakin, who was born in Crimea and changed his nationality from Ukrainian to Russian in 2009, will miss the forthcoming Candidates Tournament between June 16 and July 7 barring a successful appeal, after the International Chess Federation (FIDE) imposed sanctions.

Karjakin had already found himself blacklisted from several chess events due to his political stance, with chess organizations in both the UK and Norway telling him that he is no longer welcome.

He has also been the subject of bans by the Grand Chess Tour and from Chess.com.
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Stock Up

Russian stocks on the rebound after markets reopen


RT
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:26 UTC
moscow stock exchange
© The Telegraph
Trading was suspended since February 28

Russia's stocks continued to rise sharply on Thursday as the Moscow Exchange reopened for limited trading this week, after suspending most of its transactions on February 28.

The ruble-based MOEX benchmark went up more than 11% to 2,743 points. The dollar-denominated RTS index of leading Russian stocks was down slightly, to 888.59 points.

The Moscow Exchange resumed trading in 33 Russian equities, including shares of Gazprom, Sberbank, Aeroflot, and other domestic firms. Oil majors Rosneft and Lukoil were both up by 20% and 16%, respectively. Aluminum company Rusal rose more than 14%, while Norilsk Nickel jumped more than 22%.

Short-selling on stocks will be banned, the central bank announced earlier. Foreign investors will not be able to sell stocks or OFZ ruble bonds until April 1.

The MOEX nosedived on February 24, when Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. On February 28, trading was suspended until further notice as Western sanctions targeting Russia's financial system threw stock markets into turmoil.

Comment: Putin has handily reminded the world that true wealth lies in tangible resources such as oil and gas with Russia's insistence that unfriendly countries will have to pay for their commodities in rubles. It's likely the same demand will be made for other products such as fertilizer. The death of the petrodollar has arrived.

Putin flips sanctions, demands rubles for Russian gas from 'hostile' countries, says credibility of dollar and euro is 'destroyed'

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Attention

Spain hit by yet another mass protest over rising prices


France 24
Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:14 UTC
Spain protest
© Pierre-Philippe MARCOU AFPTens of thousands of farmers and others from the countryside warned the Spanish government their lifestyles are in danger
As many as 150,000 farmers, ranchers and hunters marched Sunday through Madrid to protest the Spanish centre-left government's failure to tackle soaring prices exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The mass demonstration came a day after thousands of demonstrators, called by the far-right Vox party, protested against rising food, energy and fuel prices.

Hoisting Spanish flags and blowing whistles, demonstrators walked Sunday through the central avenues of the capital, often led by tractors blaring their horns.

Slogans stamped on protest banners read "Costs continue to rise," or "We are ranchers on the way to extinction" and "S.O.S rural world."
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Eggs Fried

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: (June 2022) Pulling the plug on civilization


Adapt 2030
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:39 UTC
food
The awareness of the world not having the usual supply of food available for the global population will tear the threads of civilization. Through the past a 4X increase is common as events line up for energy disruptions, grain export stoppages, weather extremes and supply chains barely if it all functional. When the awareness reaches main street and mama bear, our world will shift, here is a timeline.

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