A Water Crisis Threatens the People of the Middle East

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – The bloom of the Middle and Near East in the 20th Century that has become the spectacular urban expansion of the 21st century may be built on sand that is running out water beneath it. As populations have expanded, growing states in this region have been relying on pumping water from underground to match the rain shortfalls the region is now experiencing as far as sustaning human life at this expanded populated level.

The nations are choosing to keep pumping from below, but the waters are running out as rain fails to replenish what was taken out. The added concern for this region comes from the potential for climate change to drive the temperatures up even higher, and also what would be the expected prolonged droughts from such a change. It could well be that these regions simply will not be able to provide for the amount of humans that live here, with our best technology, and our best planning factored in.

The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it are becoming uninhabitable. : Futurology

From www.reddit.com
2021-08-22 14:07:31
/u/filosoful
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Such problems are familiar in many parts of the Middle East — where water is simply running out.

The region has witnessed persistent drought and temperatures so high that they are barely fit for human life. Add climate change to water mismanagement and overuse, and projections for the future of water here are grim.

Some Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Iraq and Jordan, are pumping huge amounts of water from the ground for irrigation as they seek to improve their food self-sufficiency, Charles Iceland, the global director of water at the World Resources Institute (WRI), told CNN. That’s happening as they experience a decrease in rainfall.

“They’re using more water than is available routinely through rain. And so groundwater levels are consequently falling because you’re taking water out faster than it’s being replenished by the rainfall,” he said.

That’s what’s happening in Iran, where a vast network of dams sustains an agricultural sector that drinks up about 90% of the water…

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Son of Legendary Mujahideen Commando Resists Taliban in the Panjshir Valley

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – A last remnant of Taliban resistance in Afghanistan remains in the Panjshir Valley, in the Northeastern regiion of the embattled country. A legend in his own right, Ahmad Massoud, the leader of what the Taliban themselves refer to as the Panjshir state, is also the son of a legendary mujahideen Fighter and Commando Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was assassinated just before the successful 9/11 assault on America led by Osama Bin Laden.

The American military appears not to be a factor in the fate of this holdout area within Afghaanistan that has managed to muster a resistance force of some 9.000 fighters peppered throughout the mountains that catacomb the valley the Taliban must walk into and claim.

Taliban Says “Hundreds” Of Fighters Heading For Holdout Afghan Valley

From www.ndtv.com
2021-08-22 16:59:19

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Afghanistan Crisis: Panjshir, north of Kabul, is long known as an anti-Taliban bastion.

Dubai:

The Taliban said on Sunday that “hundreds” of its fighters were heading to the Panjshir Valley, one of the few parts of Afghanistan not yet controlled by the group.

Since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, flickers of resistance have begun to emerge with some ex-government troops gathering in the Panjshir, north of Kabul, long known as an anti-Taliban bastion.

“Hundreds of Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are heading towards the state of Panjshir to control it, after local state officials refused to hand it over peacefully,” the group wrote on its Arabic Twitter account.

Since the Taliban took control of the country following a lightning charge into the capital Kabul, thousands of people have made their way to Panjshir, according to a spokesman for anti-Taliban forces.

In Panjshir, Ahmad Massoud, the son of legendary mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud who was assassinated by Al-Qaeda two days before the September 11, 2001 attacks, has sought to assemble a force of around 9,000 people to counter the terrorists, the spokesman, Ali Maisam Nazary, told AFP.

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Chinese State News Gets Preferential Treatment from Our

Twitter and Facebook Like China Better than They Like Americans

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – China’s state news media outlets are clearly dedicated to spreading misinformation on a daily basis that serves the interests of one man, Chairman Xi, the absolute fascistic dictator of China and head of the Chinese Communist Party, the big brother of the American Democrat National Committee. These organizations are given free reigh on American social media platforms, operated, owned, and run by human beings who openly hate America, the Bill of Rights, and liberty in general. These platforms regularly remove American citizens from their platforms for allegedly spreading misinformation while they continue to allow an enemy of the American people, the CCP (DNC ally and inspiration), to spread disinformation on their platform designed to destroy the American democratic republic limited by a bill-of-rights-based constitution.

They win because they have allies in our boardrooms, not because they’re clever. They’re jsut really good at offering bribes, like access to a massive money-making market in exchange for acting more in line with the CCP than our own Bill of Rights.

Xinhua Infiltrates Western Electronic Media, Part 2: Relationships with News Agencies and Distribution Services

From jamestown.org
2021-08-17 18:31:43

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Author’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part article series in China Brief exploring methods by which Xinhua and other Chinese state-owned media organizations are seeking greater presence and influence for their propaganda material in English-language online media. The first article examined recent examples of “advertorial” advertising, in which Xinhua content has been hosted on the websites and promoted in the e-mail advertising of prominent English-language news and foreign affairs publications (China Brief, April 12).

Introduction

Xinhua, the state news agency of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), serves a role very different from that of its nominal counterparts in democratic states, such as Britain’s BBC, Germany’s Deutsche Welle, or Taiwan’s Central News Agency. Xinhua (新华 or “New China”) functions as the official mouthpiece of China’s ruling party: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, reinforcing a long-standing…

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US Claims It’s Protecting Afghanis By Scrubbing the Internet of the Afghan War

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – The United States State Deparment has made it clear it is attempting to delete from the Internet the history of the Afghan War in the name of protecting the Afghanis who stood with the US against the Taliban. The move could be on its face just what it says it is, but given the nature of an emboldened state that now has the full coopreation of the massive corpostates that support and enable it, and even move coervcively against its opponents in ways the state itself can’t, one should be paying close attention to attempts by this government to gaslight Americans into being whatever the state wants to believe about what actually happened in Afganistan.

The US Is Removing Records of Its War in Afghanistan From the Internet

From www.vice.com
2021-08-18 16:19:27
Matthew Gault
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America’s war in Afghanistan is vanishing from the internet. Federal agencies are wiping websites of videos, articles, and photos and saying it must be done to protect the lives of the Afghans left behind who may face retaliation from the Taliban.

State Department Spokesperson Ned Price told the Associated Press that the process of scrubbing online evidence of Afghans working with coalition forces “is of the utmost importance” and that State’s policy is “only to remove content in exceptional situations like this one. In doing so, department personnel are following records retention requirements.”

The United States Agency for International Development—the agency in charge of much of the more than $100 billion America spent reconstructing Afghanistan—is also purging records. “Given the security situation in Afghanistan, and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our staff, partners, and beneficiaries, we are reviewing USAID public websites and social media…

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Black Man Gets CRT Cancelled from His California School District

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – The American standards of the Bill of Rights are under direct assault as DNC operatives and their fanatical true believers attempt to coercively unleash on American chidlren an ideology of hate and bigotry that promises to end evil by perpetuating worse evil than the evil they profess to be fighting. It will be our immigrants, it will be our very disenfranchised that will see more clearly than the white suburban ‘allies’ could ever see, just how dangerous it is to go down the road of defining humans based on their race,their gender, their sexual orientation, etc.

One person that fits into that category is the black man, who has faced centuries of real discrimination that has performed habits of action that continuously diminishes their agency and their humanity. One black man sees that the ones promising him relief from this real injustice are worst than the injustice he actually faces. This black man went to a school board meeting in his California School District and layed out just how damanging this ideology of hate and fear is not just to the people it allegedly targets (white heterosexual males and cisgendered females) but it also diminishes the agency and humanity of the people it allegedly is seeking to rescue.

If Whie Americans were as truly “woke” (not Orwellian woke, as the CRT folks are), then this whole awful experiment would be over, and we could get to the adult business of actually righting the injustices of the past, and the ones still occuring.

Black Father’s Impassioned Plea on Critical Race Theory Leads School District to Ban It – RedState

From redstate.com
2021-08-22 11:45:16

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And another one bites the dust.

A black father in Colorado delivered an emotional speech in which he thoroughly destroyed Critical Race Theory during a school board meeting last week — for which he earned a standing ovation from other parents. Moments later, the board members voted to ban CRT in the district.

Coincidental? Dunno.

But I do know the number of school boards — and states — banning CRT continues to increase, as more and more angry parents speak out against the radical-left orthodoxy, which teaches (indoctrinates) that “virtually all white people contribute to racism” — simply and solely by virtue of the color of their skin, and as a result must spend their entire lives atoning to people of color for the “sin” of being born white.

Colorado school district bans critical race theory after black father delivers rousing speech: ‘We are not victims of America’

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— Tim Gradous (@tgradous) August 21, 2021

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Washington State Attempts to Force Christian Ministry to Accept LGBTQ Values As Their Own

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – Next to California, Washington State might be the most unamerican of all our 50 states, having fully embraced CCP values over Bill of Rights Values. The Washington Supreme Court has recently ruled that religious organizations must have members and employees that live lifestyles the religion does not approve of. The Ministry is the Seattle Union Gospel Mission and it is seeking relief from SCOTUS. It remains to be seen how “American” SCOTUS is at this point, but either way, at least our American remnant will know what is real versus what is hoped after the ruling, or the decision to not invervene, occurs.

Seattle Homeless Ministry Asks Supreme Court to Help After LGBT Lawsuit Tries to Force It to Violate Christian Beliefs

From www1.cbn.com
2021-08-17 20:06:55

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Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission has filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide its case after the Washington Supreme Court ruled in favor of a bisexual lawyer who sued the mission over its faith-based hiring policy.

Attorney Matt Woods sued Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission in 2017 when the nonprofit refused to hire him to its free legal aid clinic after he disclosed he was in a same-sex relationship, the Seattle Times reported.

The mission, one of the largest homeless services nonprofits in the Seattle area, argued it was exempt from the state’s anti-discrimination law as a religious employer. A King County Superior Court judge agreed, dismissing Woods’ lawsuit.

However, the Washington state Supreme Court overturned the judge’s decision in March, kicking Woods’ case back to the lower court and questioning whether the exemption applied to a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic within a religious organization.

Nonprofit’s Public Credibility Lost if Attorneys Do Not…

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EU Wants to Have Diplomatic Relations with Taliban without Recognizing Them

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

EU eyes talks with Taliban but no plans to recognize them

From www.pbs.org
2021-08-17 19:27:45

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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has no immediate plans to recognize the Taliban after their sweeping victory in Afghanistan but will talk with the militants to ensure that European citizens and Afghans who have worked with the EU can leave safely, the bloc’s top diplomat said Tuesday.

Speaking after leading emergency talks among the EU’s foreign ministers, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also underlined the importance of opening talks with the Taliban to help prevent a new exodus of refugees as a humanitarian crisis unfolds in the conflict-ravaged country.

“We have to get in touch with the authorities in Kabul, whatever they are. The Taliban have won the war, so we will have to talk with them,” Borrell told reporters. “This dialogue will also have to focus on the means to prevent the return of foreign terrorists.”

“It’s not a matter of official recognition, it’s a matter of dealing with” the Taliban, Borrell said.

The EU has…

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DNC Sentate Prepares to Turn on Biden over Afgan Withdrawal Fiasco

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

Senate Democrats pledge to investigate Biden’s ‘flawed execution’ of Afghanistan withdrawal

From www.independent.co.uk
2021-08-17 20:52:28

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Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a scathing assessment of Joe Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and pledged his committee to investigate its “flawed execution.”

The senator said the committee would “seek a full accounting” of the US exit, Donald Trump’s “flawed negotiations” with the Taliban, and the Biden administration’s failure to anticipate the rapid collapse of Afghan security forces despite assurances.

“Congress was told repeatedly that the Afghan Defense and Security Forces were up to the task, that it had the troops, equipment and willingness to fight,” the senator said in a statement issued by the committee on 17 August.

“To see this army dissolve so quickly after billions of dollars in US support is astounding,” he said.” The American and Afghan people clearly have not been told the truth about [Afghan security forces’] capacity and deserve answers.”

The statement from…

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Turks Admint that Taliban is Their Ally

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

The Taliban Consider Turkey An Ally — Greek City Times

From greekcitytimes.com
2021-08-22 16:21:38

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Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in Jerusalem on Sunday that the Taliban considers Turkey as an ally.

I have to say that this is something that has created a very positive element, our cooperation, to address climate change and the results of climate change. @IsraelMFA

— Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) August 22, 2021

I will meet with the Israeli Minister of Energy, @KElharrar, afterwards to speak about energy cooperation, interconnectivity, renewables, gas. We can really create a lot of things, beneficial for our three countries, for the region and also for Europe. @IsraelMFA

— Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) August 22, 2021

Our objective today was also to find new ways to institutionalize our participation of strategic partners of our trilateral scheme. Luckily, they are many. And we believe that other countries eventually will share the same principles with us and the same values with us.@IsraelMFA

— Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) August 22, 2021

You, @yairlapid,…

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FBI Warns Silicon Valley that Chinese Spies Are Among Their Ranks

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

FBI to Silicon Valley firms: your Chinese and Russian workers are spying on you

From boingboing.net
2021-08-19 13:35:09
Rob Beschizza
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There are your conclusions about the extent of the threat from foreign governments, but then there’s your government’s conclusions about the extent of the threat from them, you and the people you associate with. The FBI is reportedly warning Silicon Valley companies—in secret—that their Chinese and Russian workers may be forced to (or simply paid to) spy on them.

But the risk to tech companies is real, the FBI says: Employees are being persuaded, or more typically, coerced by foreign autocracies into stealing information or handing over login credentials. In one case [FBI special agent Nick] Shenkin worked on, Chinese government agents threatened to deny an employee’s mother dialysis back in China if he didn’t steal proprietary information from a large hardware/software company.

“This is a quotidian activity,” Shenkin told Protocol in an interview. “This is a massive fundamental activity that bolsters and is one of the mainstays of many autocratic countries and their…

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