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the Taliban is creating a large-scale camera surveillance network for Afghan cities that could involve repurposing a plan crafted by the Americans before their 2021 pullout.

I see that the Taliban is taking notes from it’s Western occupiers. London has more security cameras per capita than Beijing and Los Angeles isn’t far behind. Kabul is slacking.

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Black people can’t possibly have a better grasp of what’s going on in their backyard than white people on the other side of the planet.

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Who’s consuming? China, the single biggest driver of increasing oil consumption for the past few decades, is predicted to hit peak oil this year and their oil demand is collapsing due to the massive market share of EVs in the Chinese market.

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You mean, African countries aren’t happy about austerity measures under IMF loans? No way…

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Yes, but think of the profits.

Where are those profits going? Definitely not to you, that’s for sure.

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Not clarifying the curbs is the entire point. Biden wants to reduce US investment into China in aggregate and doesn’t care where that happens. The “totally tight and totally limited” curbs are just a cover that Biden is using to justify his policy.

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Oil lobby makes whatever claim it takes to make more profit

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Hundreds, thousands, millions. It’s all the same because people died and the people that died weren’t white.

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Didn’t a bunch of Muslim countries actually ask China about Uyghurs (and even visit Xinjiang) and they left unanimously content with the response?

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