“Taliban militants pulled guns on United Nations aid workers and took off with 3.7 tonnes of Australian flour meant to be delivered to some of Afghanistan's poorest families as the war-torn country faces a catastrophic famine.”
“The Australian Government donated the vital baking staple through the World Food Program as part of a $100 million handout which also includes other UN agencies.”
Humanitarian aid, either directly or through UN and local agencies, will be taxed by the Taliban. The Taliban will seize materials when they choose, or they'll tax the organizations involved.
Or both.
Sending aid to Afghanistan is funding terrorism. Period.
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This year governments across the developed world have issued a flurry of policies designed to ‘nudge’ people to get the vaccine, such as requiring vaccine passports to enter leisure venues.
In some countries, those nudges quickly turned into shoves. In November, Austria pioneered the ‘lockdown for the unvaccinated’, making it illegal for the unvaccinated to leave the house without a state-mandated excuse.
The big news announced on Tuesday was that the administration would buy and distribute half a billion at-home tests to anyone who asks because, he said, testing is key to getting COVID under control.
But Biden promised the same thing last year. In fact, the very first item on his seven-point plan was to “fix Trump’s testing-and-tracing fiasco to ensure all Americans have access to regular, reliable, and free testing.”
Enter 3 retired U.S. Army Generals: Major Generals Paul D. Eaton and Antonio M. Taguba and Brigadier General Steven M. Anderson.
In a WaPo opinion piece, “3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection,” they contend that events in 2020 revealed an incipient military coup and that, to save our nation, the U.S. military must act preemptively—radically and unilaterally.
▪China's coronavirus has now killed more than 806,400 Americans, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
▪Biden sees China merely as a "competitor," not, more appropriately, as an adversary or enemy.
There are Chinese business links with Biden's family and with members of his administration and doubtless he wants to accommodate donors wishing to do business in China. Biden speaks as if he has never let go of his decades-old benign view of the nature of Chinese communism.
If we were truly concerned about threats to our democracy, then two at the top of the list would be a compromised media and a rogue military.
But the left isn’t concerned about saving democracy; it is concerned about destroying Trump because… he is the Samson who can pull down the entire corrupt superstructure of the uni-party ruling elites who are so out of touch that they can’t even conceive of a stolen election.
the Senate operates exactly as the Framers intended, deep-freezing legislation that lacks a sustained popular mandate.
As Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single & numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden & violent passions, & to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate & pernicious resolutions.”