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Americans Now Ruing Their Afghan War Lies, Ruing the Power of Their Deep State

Quick notes: America's friend | Equipment losses...

• America's friend: “We are facing a full-scale invasion, composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10-15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this,” Ghani told Biden over phone.
  
  As the two presidents spoke, Taliban insurgents controlled about half of Afghanistan's district centers, indicating a rapidly deteriorating security situation. Biden instead focused on 'perception'.
  
  May be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.



• Oliver North: China will reverse-engineer weapons left in Afghanistan.. Heavy equipment transporters have been used to transport two M1 tanks from Afghanistan into Pakistan. “They’re going to be heading to the port where they will be loaded aboard a ship and taken to communist China for exploitation.”
  
  Nikki Haley: China trying to take over Bagram base
  
  Disaster At Hand: Documenting Afghan military equipment losses



• PUBG back in new avatar: Indian govt banned PUBG Mobile game along with more than 100 Chinese apps in the country.
  
  'China considers' online games as electronic drugs, so Modi's India is the target market for these companies
  
  China's crackdown on its tech companies cost investors $3 trillion.



• Mahina Khanum: Odissi dance inside Pattachitra painting




• Data Protection Regulation : WhatsApp fined $267M for not telling users how it shared data with Facebook



• Walled garden: South Korea breaks up Apple and Google app store payment monopolies



• How much is your data worth? So much that Google is paying Apple $15 billion to be the default search engine on Apple devices.

How much is your data worth? So much that Google is paying Apple $15 billion to be the default search engine in the iPhone and other Apple devices.

Google is paying $10/year per device, to get you to use a 'free' search engine.

— @mikko (@mikko) August 26, 2021





Take a night off, anti-Facebook people. #DeleteChrome - it’s no longer a trusted user agent. They’ve sided with adtech and surveillance over their users. https://t.co/5wlR014ksm

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) June 25, 2021




• Counter-UAVs: BEL to provide Indian Navy with locally developed system to counter micro drones.

Former US Ambassador on Pakistan

https://twitter.com/dubash/status/1432726031358730242

"Basically Pakistan is what happens when the Confederates win the civil war, Pakistan splits of from another country, has a slave-based cotton economy and has a military caste that runs things."

Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/qhFB1EiZRn

— dubash (@dubash) August 31, 2021

(And then black people trapped in the Confederate South try to escape to the North, but are forced to live in limbo in the North because they have no legal status. When the North enacts a Citizenship Amendment Act to give them legal status, then it receives all kinds of condemnation.)

Fwd: NPR Investigation: China has now stolen all the personal identifiable information of about 80% of Americans

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Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 8:07 PM
Subject: NPR Investigation: China has now stolen all the personal identifiable information of about 80% of Americans
To: 

If you look, just look at the Equifax breach alone, which I consider one of the greatest counterintelligence successes by the Chinese Communist Party, they have all the financial data for every single American adult," said William Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. "The Chinese have more data than we have on ourselves."

China's appetite for America's private data has been one of the biggest open secrets of modern intelligence. Intelligence officials estimate that China has now stolen all the personal identifiable information of about 80% of Americans, and it has a good start on collecting information on the remaining 20%. And while the individual breaches and numbers are worrying, the real issue is how all this information can be woven together to build on itself.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1013501080/chinas-microsoft-hack-may-have-had-a-bigger-purpose-than-just-spying

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Quick notes: Bagram airbase | Delete Chrome...

• Who Abandoned Bagram Air Base? Biden essentially blamed his generals. “They concluded—the military—that Bagram was not much value added, that it was much wiser to focus on Kabul. And so, I followed that recommendation.”
  
  - Black Hawks and Humvees - Taliban's military gains. . Biometric devices containing fingerprints, eye scans and personal details of Afghan allies.



• Can China tap Afghanistan’s lithium treasure? An internal U.S Department of Defense memo in 2010 described Afghanistan as "the Saudi Arabia of lithium" .



• Delete Chrome: “Chrome is the only major browser that does not offer meaningful protection against cross-site tracking... and will continue to leave users unprotected.” Having promised to ditch tracking cookies, Google changed its mind. “If you use Chrome, you give up your privacy”.
  
  Google “has trackers installed on 75% of the top million websites,” several times as many as Facebook. Similarly, just look at the recent reports suggesting Google will pay Apple some $15 billion this year to be the default search engine on its devices.




• Light pollution from street lamps linked to insect loss: Artificial street lights disrupt the behaviour of nocturnal moths, reducing caterpillars numbers by half. Modern LED streetlights appeared to have the biggest impact.



• Online gaming: China restricts kids’ online gaming to three hours a week
  
  - Exhausted: Youth in China, Japan and South Korea are 'lying flat' because they're exhausted and without hope
  
  - China blasts '996' excessive work culture: Chinese labor law already prohibits employees from working that long. Jack Ma called 996 culture a "huge blessing."



• ब्रह्मज्ञानावलीमाला: Sung by Swami Brahmananda, Chinmaya Mission




• Taliban 2.0: Swapped Kalashnikovs for Twitter, cricket gear and selfies with children. But they never bothered addressing human rights or women’s rights concerns. When pushed, the Taliban adopted a “women’s rights within an Islamic framework” fudge.



• Sharia hasn't changed:

Tamal Bhattacharya returned from Afghanistan, and said Taliban in 90's and Taliban now are different. But Sharia law in 90's and Sharia law now are not different.

— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 24, 2021




• India gets the refugees: While Pakistan gets celebrating Jihadis

#Pakistan in denial #Taliban gets warm welcome |

Watch | Pak-based militant organisations carrying Taliban flags take out victory rallies as they return home after Talibs take over Kabul |@AsYouNotWish @RomeshNadir @upma23 @centerofright pic.twitter.com/01b7KEcPug

— INDIA NARRATIVE (@india_narrative) August 24, 2021

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