2021-08-21
Worthy
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Highlights From The Comments On Aducanumab - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten
This is an interesting point. We sometimes see politicians “cutting in line” and managing to get advanced drugs that the FDA hasn’t yet made available to the general public. We usually interpret this as unfair privilege, and I think that’s a completely accurate interpretation. But that requires a sort of covert acknowledgment that these drugs are probably being delayed too long - otherwise, these politicians are heroes for taking potentially-dangerous substances and testing them out for the rest of us.
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Long, excellent China, Semiconductors, and the Push for Independence - Part 1 - by Lillian Li - Chinese Characteristics
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Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
Economicon
Poilitcks
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What we’re seeing the Biden administration actually do – keep creating destructive, chaotic messes, shooting itself in the foot, shooting us in the foot, reducing our allies to exit-seeking cynicism and causing our enemies to cheer in disbelief, throwing trillions of dollars around like children with silly string, piloting an under-scheduled space-cadet presidential figure around, meeting the media with arrogant silence, incoherence, and snark, shrugging at the Constitution, ignoring the earnest appeal of the people on matters like border security and “CRT” in the schools – is what the Trump administration was relentlessly accused of for four straight years, but never actually did.
Everything that Biden’s backup singers in the Election Fortification Cabal (Time’s word, not mine) alleged without evidence that Trump’s administration was doing, the Biden administration is now doing.
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The White House’s readout of a call between Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron on the crisis in Afghanistan leaves out an impassioned plea from the French president that the US and its allies have a “moral responsibility” to evacuate Afghan allies.
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Instapundit: FROM A FRIEND WITH MILITARY EXPERIENCE AND CONNECTIONS
Biden’s statement that he has seen ‘no question of our credibility from our allies’ has said allies furious. Every NATO country has people trapped in Afghanistan and they tend to be trust fund babies or friends of trust fund babies. Every prime minister’s phone is blowing up with VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE asking how they’re going to get their kids or their kids’ friends out of Afghanistan and every ally is blowing up the phones of the White House and State Department and getting jack shit from them.
And they’re all blaming ‘America’ but they also know it’s on Biden.
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Arizona Dems Panic Over Upcoming Election Audit Results, Issue Preemptive Rebuttal | ZeroHedge
Crime / Police
Security / Militaria
Afghanistan
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Taliban jihadis in US gear stage mockery of iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo
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I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.
This brings us to a third, more compelling and quite disturbing theory—the one that my Afghan friend, the court translator, puts forward. On the basis of his hundreds of interactions with these young men in his professional capacity over the past several years, he believes to have discovered that they are motivated by a deep and abiding contempt for Western civilization. To them, Europeans are the enemy, and their women are legitimate spoils, as are all the other things one can take from them: housing, money, passports. Their laws don’t matter, their culture is uninteresting and, ultimately, their civilization is going to fall anyway to the horde of which one is the spearhead. No need to assimilate, or work hard, or try to build a decent life here for yourself—these Europeans are too soft to seriously punish you for a transgression, and their days are numbered.
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The American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the sins of empire
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I understand that the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division has told the commander of the British special forces at the Kabul airport to cease operations beyond the airport perimeter.
Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army's 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.
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Afghans are forced to choose between staying safe and staying online - Rest of World
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Who is Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Talibon's de facto leader?
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Taliban are rounding up Afghans on blacklist – private intel report.
World
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The Lion and the Porcupine - by Angelica Oung - Taipology
It is time for Taiwan to become a porcupine nation, one that doesn’t hope to take on China in a marquess of Queensbury type combat, but to deter an attack by the stronger party by making it clear we will take you down with us. Asymmetric warfare is the name of the game, or as political scientist Ian Oxnevad puts it: if you’re down pieces in a chess game and you still want to survive, find a way to put pressure on their king.
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China marks Tibet anniversary with call to accept Communist Party rule
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Chinese think America's weak Afghanistan exit is no laughing matter
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Australian police clash with lockdown protesters; hundreds arrested
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China allows couples to have third child to avert a demographic crisis
Health / Medicine / COVID
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The world needs a proper investigation into how Covid-19 started
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Covid Vaccine Booster Shot Review Postponed by CDC Amid Debate
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Science Can’t Keep Up with Virus, Creating Worry for Vaccinated
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Mississippi officials warn against using livestock ivermectin
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Maker of Popular Covid Test Told Factory to Destroy Inventory
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WHO seeks 'best minds' to probe new pathogens that jump from animals to humans
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FDA set to grant full approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion
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Covid-19 hospitalizations are getting more expensive for unvaccinated patients
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The CDC Only Tracks a Fraction of Breakthrough Covid-19 Infections