The New York Times reported last Thursday that NATO members are finding themselves torn over the prospect of an influx of refugees from Afghanistan. Many fear a repeat of 2015 and 2016, when waves of asylum seekers from the wars in Syria and Iraq fled into Europe (See “Migrant crisis: Pass the blame,” 23 April...
Tag: aug 24 2021
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TALIBAN “INHERITS” $83 BILLION IN U.S. ARMS, MATERIAL
A group of 26 Republican senators has written to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding a full accounting of the weaponry and equipment that was allowed to fall into the hands of the Taliban upon the collapse of the Afghan government and army, which followed quickly on the heels of the withdrawal from Afghanistan of...
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WILL TALIBAN CASH IN ON $1 TRILLION WORTH OF AFGHAN MINERAL WEALTH?
The Taliban, which took over Kabul with ease last week, now finds itself sitting on top of a fortune in mineral wealth that is coveted by major world players, including China. Afghanistan, which is considered one of the poorest countries on the planet and survives on donations, is actually sitting on mineral deposits of about...
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BIDEN ON AFGHANISTAN: “FUCK THAT”
This past week, the Presstitutes have been working overtime to try and assign blame for the swift fall of Kabul to the Taliban that’s sitting on about $1 trillion in mineral deposits and a stockpile of U.S. weapons left behind worth billions… that U.S. taxpayers paid for. But regardless who suffers most politically, the fact...
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MORE THAN 1,000 KILLED IN MYANMAR SINCE COUP
As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, since 1 February, tens of thousands of protesters in Myanmar have taken to the streets to fight for democracy after a military coup overturned recent election results and arrested the civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who reportedly won by a landslide this past November. On...
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MIGRANT FLOOD. WHAT WILL BIDEN DO?
What took a year-and-a-half for the government and media to understand, we had long ago forecast in the Trends Journal. Political instability and economic fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak are being blamed for the surge in illegal migrants from new regions arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, a report said. “It used to be just, essentially,...
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THEN THEY CAME FOR OWEN SHROYER
Owen Shroyer, host of the popular Infowars program, The War Room, is the latest political target of the FBI. On the heels of findings that a U.S. Intelligence and Democrat fevered “insurrection” narrative surrounding the January 6 election fraud protest had little to support it, the FBI has pivoted. They issued an arrest for Shroyer...
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STATES THAT LOCKED DOWN LESS HAVE RECOVERED MORE
Captain Obvious probably knows it, but blue state governors, not so much. Fox Business news is reporting that Republican governors are leading the recovery in the United States, while Democrat controlled states, which generally imposed longer and tighter lockdowns, are facing much higher unemployment rates. The latest Labor Department statistics showed that governors of the...
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WANT TO CLOSE THE WEALTH GAP? SHRINK CITIES
Turns out city life can be a route to riches—but only if you are already doing well. That’s according to a wide ranging study just released by the Santa Fe Institute. Researchers analysed data from across the United States, categorizing urban residents based on income levels. They found that as large cities become mega urban...
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“COFFEE, TEA, OR DUCT TAPE?”
Once upon a time, passengers on commercial airliners were on their best behavior. Nowadays, not so much. The 20 August edition of The Wall St. Journal reports that, so far this year, the Federal Aviation Administration has initiated more than triple the number of investigations into bad passenger behavior than it did in 2020 and...