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Taliban vows to give 'safe passage' to those wishing to leave after deadline

Henry Samuel
Independent.ie
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 02:30 UTC

Ninety countries have received "assurances" from the Taliban that anybody wishing to leave Afghanistan after tomorrow's deadline will be granted "safe passage" to do so, according to a joint statement signed by the countries yesterday.

British and French troops have already left Kabul and US military personnel will be out of Afghanistan before the August 31 date set by President Joe Biden, raising fears for thousands of Afghans eligible for evacuation still trapped.

The joint statement said:

"We have received assurances from the Taliban that all foreign nationals and any Afghan citizen with travel authorisation from our countries will be allowed to proceed in a safe and orderly manner to points of departure and travel outside the country.

"We have the clear expectation of and commitment from the Taliban that they can travel to our respective countries. We note the public statements of the Taliban confirming this."

Some Afghans however have said they gave little credence to such "assurances".

Israel widens 3rd COVID booster shot to those aged 12 and over

The Times of Israel
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 05:33 UTC

Those who've had 3rd dose, or 2nd dose within past half-year, will be exempt from full 7-day quarantine when returning from abroad with 'Green Pass' to expire 6 months after last dose

Israel on Sunday made booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine available to everyone age 12 and up who received the second shot at least five months ago, in an effort to combat spiraling coronavirus infections.

"From today the third dose is available to everyone," Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said. The new policy is effective immediately and those eligible should set up appointments with their health providers, the Health Ministry said.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett urged all Israelis to get the booster. "This is a privilege that no other country has," he said Sunday, after the new policy was announced.

Israel — the first country to officially offer a third dose — began its COVID booster campaign on August 1, rolling it out to all those over age 60. It then gradually dropped the eligibility age, expanding it last week to anyone 30 and older. As of Sunday, over 1.9 million Israelis had received the third dose.

Coronavirus NOT leading cause of death in UK, four times as many lives lost to heart disease, dementia, cancer

Ethan Ennals
Daily Mail
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:00 UTC

The most striking finding is that, despite the prevailing focus on the dangers of Covid, it is killing very few people compared to other deadly conditions

Is it time to stop obsessing over Covid figures? Statistics reveal virus is NOT the biggest killer - with heart disease, dementia and cancer each claiming four times as many lives in an average week last month

They're the figures that have ruled our lives for the past 18 months; decided our freedoms; deepened our fears.

The Covid dashboard published on the UK Government website has offered the public a window into the state of the UK's epidemic, displaying daily Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths, both nationally and regionally, since April 2020.

Some people have avoided looking at the figures - published at 4pm every day, including weekends. But a surprising number of us have become secretly addicted to poring over them.

Comment: See also: The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Pandemic is Over! (If You Want it)

Showering with biological men: Female inmates in US & UK recount sexual abuse from 'trans' prisoners

RT
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:59 UTC

Women in the US and UK who were forced to live alongside biological men in prison have told RT that policies designed to protect transgender rights have led to violence and sexual assault against female inmates.

Tomieka Johnson was sentenced to 50 years behind bars by a California court in 2012 after she killed her abusive husband during a physical altercation. Johnson, a former highway patrol officer, told RT that she shared a cell with with a transgender prisoner who was "very violent and very vulgar." The inmate would reportedly force women in the prison to clean the bathroom and wash the floors, leading to interactions that reminded Johnson of the domestic abuse she once suffered.

And although the inmate in question identified as a woman, the biological male allegedly had a girlfriend whom he would "beat" and "choke" regularly. According to Johnson, the prisoner in question sometimes became violent if his 'girlfriend' rejected his sexual advances.

Comment: It is absolutely insane that judges would be more interested in virtue signalling to the trans lobby than providing safety of female prisoners. It's already egregious to have biological males invading women's spaces in the wider world, but in prison these women have nowhere to escape to. It's disgusting.

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Green gets the gold: The high-stakes game of waste and recycling industries in North America

Rosemary Frei, MSc
rosemaryfrei.ca
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:01 UTC

Can you name the conglomerate that has equipment and trucks on many streets and construction sites in Ontario and elsewhere in North America -- but that few people give a second thought to?

Not sure?

Here are three clues.

For more than a decade the enterprise has quietly acquired scores of other companies, and scooped up hundreds of lucrative contracts from cities and towns across the continent.
Along the way it's significantly increased the privatization and vertical integrati on of sectors including the hauling and processing of garbage and recycling, and infrastructure development. It now has the bronze position among the top players in the North American waste-management industry.
Canada and the U.S. are dotted with (as an educated guesstimate) about 10,000 of this group of firms' vehicles and machinery. They're all painted lime green.

FBI allegedly funded white supremacist publisher: court documents

Ken Silva
The Epoch Times
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:16 UTC

The FBI allegedly paid a publisher of white supremacist literature more than $144,000 over 16-plus years to serve as a confidential informant, according to recent filings in an ongoing domestic extremism case.

These allegations were made earlier this month by Kaleb Cole, an accused member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen. Cole was arrested in February 2020 for allegedly participating in an Atomwaffen intimidation campaign against Jewish people and journalists of color.

On Aug. 13, Cole filed a motion to suppress evidence seized during the FBI's search of his Texas home. According to Cole, the FBI failed to disclose the sordid background of one of its confidential informants in the bureau's application for a search warrant.

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Thirteen police officers injured at protests against health passes in France's Marseille

Sputnik
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:05 UTC

Thirteen law enforcement officers received injuries during protests against the COVID-19 health passes in the French city of Marseille, the Bouches-du-Rhone police said on Saturday.

"Police prefect expresses its support to the 13 injured police officers," the police department tweeted.

It added that three people had been arrested.

Almost 160,000 demonstrators took part in the nationwide rallies against the health passes on Saturday.

The media's addiction to Covid-19 'fear porn' is perpetuating an ever-worsening cycle of societal damage across the world

Eva Bartlett
RT
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:53 UTC

Over the past year and a half, hysterical media reporting on matters Covid-19 has reduced some people to a fearful state of unquestioning compliance - including a great number of otherwise critically-thinking journalists.

With screaming headlines in bold and large font such as, 'Will this nightmare ever end?' and 'Mutant virus skyrockets...' and 'Fear grows across the country: VIRUS PANIC', and 'Coronavirus horror: Social media footage shows infected Wuhan residents 'act like zombies', it is no wonder many people are in a state of panic.

In times when many are suffering mentally and physically under unnecessary and prolonged lockdowns, the incessant fear porn is causing excessive anxiety, which in turn will affect the health & mental well-being of some, if not many.

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China bans exams for six-year-olds stating pressure 'harms health', limits gaming time for under-18s

Hong Kong Free Press
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:53 UTC

© Noel Celus/AFP.
Students leave school after finishing the first day of the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), known as Gaokao, in Beijing on July 7, 2021.

Beijing on Monday banned written exams for six- and seven-year-olds, as part of sweeping education reforms aimed at relieving pressure on pupils and parents in China's hyper-competitive school system.

China's exam-oriented system previously required students to take exams from first grade onwards, culminating in the feared university entrance exam at age 18 known as the gaokao, where a single score can determine a child's life trajectory.

"Too frequent exams... which cause students to be overburdened and under huge exam pressure," have been axed by the Ministry of Education, according to new guidelines released Monday.

Comment: South China Morning Post reports that the under-18s will be restricted to gaming for one hour a day on weekends and public holidays:

Beijing has issued a new rule limiting the gaming time for players aged under 18 to between 8pm and 9pm only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays, marking the country's most stringent measure yet to tackle gaming addiction among young people.

The National Press and Publication Administration (NAAP), China's top watchdog for gaming and other forms of online media, formally issued the rules to combat gaming addiction among teenagers, according to a report by state media outlet Xinhua.

The previous rules, introduced in 2019, limited the play time for minors to no more than 90 minutes each day and 3 hours on statutory holidays.
© AFP
China’s top watchdog for gaming and other forms of online media, formally issued the rules to combat gaming addiction among teenagers.
While the direct impact on Chinese gaming companies such as Tencent Holdings and NetEase may be limited as players under 18 currently account for only a small part of revenues, over the longer term the new rule could gradually erode the country's player base.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

The notice also states that companies must strictly implement the real-name registration and login system in their games and not provide access to video games for those who are unregistered.

The gaming unit of Tencent said in a statement on Monday that it supports the new regulation and will implement the new requirements as soon as possible.

"Many parents have said that the gaming addiction problem among teens and children has gravely affected their ability to learn and study as well as their physical and mental health, even causing a series of societal problems," a spokesperson for NAAP told Xinhua.

Parents and experts in the West report similar issues, and, notably, the recommendations are that children's gaming time needs to be restricted.

NAAP said that gaming companies are the main entities responsible for stopping children from becoming addicted to games. Beijing's heightened scrutiny of the industry in recent months has already hit the stock prices of Chinese gaming giants such as Tencent, NetEase and Bilibili.

After a state media article described video games as "spiritual opium" earlier in August, Tencent, the world's largest gaming company by revenue, lost US$43 billion from its market valuation in a matter of hours. Tencent has lost more than US$400 billion in value since a high in February.

In their recent quarterly reports this month, Tencent and Bilibili both emphasised that they have faithfully implemented the anti-addiction measures required by state authorities and that minors have become a small portion of their overall user base.

Tencent said that players under 16 accounted for just 2.6 per cent of its gross gaming receipts in China, with those under 12 accounting for just 0.3 per cent. Bilibili said that minors contributed only 1 per cent of the company's gaming revenue.

Whilst these various bans can and will be circumvented for those who are sufficiently determined, it seems that China's government is attempting to foster a society that it considers will be the most beneficial for its people:

Rand Paul: 'Hatred for Trump' blocking research into ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:31 UTC

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested researchers are not pursuing ivermectin as a possible COVID-19 treatment because of their disdain for former President Trump. Paul told dozens of constituents at a meeting in a suburb just south of Cincinnati on Friday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported:

"The hatred for Trump deranged these people so much, that they're unwilling to objectively study it. So someone like me that's in the middle on it, I can't tell you because they will not study ivermectin. They will not study hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump."

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Americans last week not to take ivermectin, a drug sometimes used to treat parasitic worm infections in humans and livestock. "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it," the FDA said in a widely shared tweet.

In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded after a series of trials that hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by Trump during his presidency, "had little or no effect on preventing illness, hospitalization or death from COVID-19."

A reporter at the event in Ohio pressed Paul about those warnings from the CDC and FDA.

"I don't know if it works, but I keep an open mind," Paul responded.

Comment: Those who want to skew information will slander the messenger and disavow the proof.

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Society's Child

Taliban vows to give 'safe passage' to those wishing to leave after deadline

Israel widens 3rd COVID booster shot to those aged 12 and over

Coronavirus NOT leading cause of death in UK, four times as many lives lost to heart disease, dementia, cancer

Showering with biological men: Female inmates in US & UK recount sexual abuse from 'trans' prisoners

Green gets the gold: The high-stakes game of waste and recycling industries in North America

FBI allegedly funded white supremacist publisher: court documents

Thirteen police officers injured at protests against health passes in France's Marseille

The media's addiction to Covid-19 'fear porn' is perpetuating an ever-worsening cycle of societal damage across the world

China bans exams for six-year-olds stating pressure 'harms health', limits gaming time for under-18s

Rand Paul: 'Hatred for Trump' blocking research into ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment

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