Australia shows no mercy for churches that hold spreader ceremonies.

China will reduce the income of the rich, in order to make the rest wealthier, and to eliminate the political power of the rich.

How paradoxical that the state that crushes freedom of thought for everyone will eliminate this other menace to freedom. But is there a path from there back to freedom?

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Global heating is drying Iran, and much of the Middle East, for the long term.

Americans support by a landslide the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

The military-industrial complex is pushing hard to convince us that the fall of the US-established government was a disaster. I don't think it will be worse than unending war; but I also think I won't be as bad as the Taliban's rule was before.

The new Afghan government, which will include other power groups, will have many reasons to want peace and cooperation with the US. Many reasons, that is, to keep the pledge not to allow Afghanistan to be a base for terrorism. The Taliban may even appreciate US intelligence help for fighting PISSI.

They will also have very strong interests in allowing women to do the many kinds of skilled work that Afghan women have trained to do. I think they will end up adopyin a policy resembling Iran's.

Compared with a western country, that is horribly sexist. But it would be a big step forward compared with the way most of Afghanistan has been in recent years (outside of a few cities).