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The (German) Ministry of Foreign Affairs just confirmed something to the ARD studio that Taliban spokesman Naeem had tweeted tonight. Germany is providing 100 million euros in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. So discussed in Doha / Qatar. ARD is a German public broadcast network.
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Captain Obvious - please pick up the white courtesy phone...
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If none of the world's largest mining concerns found anything worth exploiting there in the past 20 years, that means it's not there. Afghanistan may be the world's strategic gravel reserve, but nothing more. One trillion. Three trillion. The magic numbers are in as perpetual flux as the COVID stats.
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Confucius say, "Heavenly place,
Afghanistan, fit for great race
Chasing tar-baby, catching
In rosy new patch...
And for watching Brer Rabbit reach space."
[France24] After years of accusations that Islamabad was covertly backing the Taliban, Pakistan overtly hailed the fall of Kabul on Sunday. Experts say geostrategic concerns about its enemy India motivate Pakistan’s pro-Taliban stance — making it unlikely to change course, even amid fears that the militants’ control of Afghanistan accentuates the jihadist threat at home.
Islamabad’s reaction to the Taliban’s victory was the opposite of the despair in Western capitals: Their triumph showed that Afghans had "broken the shackles of slavery", Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asserted.
Khan’s special assistant Raoof Hasan framed the fall of Kabul — for many, a moment encapsulated by footage of hundreds of Afghans running alongside a departing US plane, desperately trying to flee — as a "virtually smooth shifting of power from the corrupt Afghan government to the Taliban".
Perhaps most tellingly, Pakistani Climate Minister Zartaj Gul Wazir singled out the country’s perennial antagonist India as the audience for her delight, in a subsequently deleted tweet: "India gets an appropriate gift for its Independence Day".
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This should actually come as a surprise to no one.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] Speaking to IRIB TV on Tuesday, former Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan Fada-Hossein Maleki made the remarks in reaction to the ongoing development in Afghanistan and the flee of Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury... from the country in the wake of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... advances.Ghani's decision of disarming the Afghan Army, surrendering, and finally fleeing the country was treason, he said.
Referring to the determining role of Ghani in recent Afghanistan developments, Maleki noted that Ashraf Ghani had a mission to hand over the country to the Taliban.
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Yah think?
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For a given value of inclusive that only includes the Talibs and excludes everyone else, just like the first time round.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] After the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took over Kabul and other cities from the former Afghan government forces they held a presser in Kabul on Tuesday afternoon.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the front man of the group started the presser by greeting the attending global media.
Mujahid said Afghanistan is now an independent country after expelling foreign troops. He said that Afghans have the right to be independent.
He declared Afghanistan an Islamic Emirate. He added that "we do not want any external and internal enemies."
A strong Islamic and inclusive government will be formed very soon, according to Mujahid.
The front man assured the residents of Kabul that their security will be guaranteed, adding there will be full security for all diplomatic missions and aid organizations.
The front man further assured all countries and the international community that they will not be threatened from Afghanistan.
He further said that Afghans have the right to have their own regulations and rules.
He added that women can have activities and work and go to school based on the Islamic rules. He stressed that women will not be discriminated against based on Islamic Sharia. He said that the Taliban are committed to the rights of women under Islamic laws.
The Taliban front man concluded by saying that media can continue their work in Afghanistan on the condition that they do not endanger Afghans unity.
In answer to questions put forward by journalists, mujahid called on Afghans not to leave the country and return to live in their homeland. He reiterated a general amnesty for all Afghan officials who worked with the former government.
He later said that "Our struggle was to form an Islamic government."
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Reruns. I've seen this part before. Who controls the power. Who supply's the water. I go home. In walks the bureaucrats. Old blood disputes addressed with a flare of finality.
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The cable was sent through the "Dissent" channel which indicates a large number of DOS personnel disagreed with ongoing policy. This could be a career killer now that they have been proven right.
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Wait until the TB start lining up the LGBT crowd and start mising them down. The Foggy Bottom crowd will REALLY have something to bitch and mian about.
[All Africa] There are doubts that most of the people that who are surrendering to military authorities are not actual Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters but those trapped in enclaves, sources told the Daily Trust. The few among them who carried out arms against the state and locals before they surrender lost out of the power game and were left with no option but to go for the "amnesty window" availed them by the federal government, it was learnt.
When contacted on Wednesday, the Director of Defence Information (DDI), Maj.-Gen. Olufemi Sawyer, dismissed the claim while urging Nigerians to stop heating the polity.
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AQAP: "This victory shows that jihad and combat is the legitimate, realistic way to recover our rights, expel the invaders and occupiers... and return the Islamic nation to its glory... As for the games of democracy and peaceful methodologies, these are deceptive illusions."
‘Mr Johnson had been attempting to get Mr Biden on the phone to discuss Kabul falling from Monday morning. The pair eventually talked at close to 10pm on Tuesday.’
[Breitbart] A Texas judge has struck down President Joe Biden’s enforcement orders for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, commonly known as “sanctuary country” orders, that released into the United States countless criminal illegal aliens from local, state, and federal custody.
In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Drew Tipton issued a preliminary nationwide injunction sought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) that prevents the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing the orders that have kept many criminal illegal aliens in the U.S. since Biden took office.
In February, the orders instructed ICE agents not to arrest and deport illegal aliens who had not been identified as terrorists, gang members, or were not recently convicted of an aggravated felony in the U.S.
As a result, illegal aliens charged and convicted of child sex crimes, armed robbery, drunk driving, burglary, cocaine trafficking, grand theft auto, heroin trafficking, credit card fraud, money laundering, and other crimes have been released into American communities rather than being turned over to ICE agents for arrest and deportation.
Tipton’s ruling, though, blocks DHS from continuing to implement the orders:
Although this case involves many issues of administrative and immigration law, its core concerns whether the Executive Branch may implement a policy that directly conflicts with laws that Congress enacted. The answer is no. In the end, through all their detailed explanations of the Executive’s seemingly unending discretion, the Government substantially undervalues the People’s grant of “legislative Powers” to Congress. [Emphasis added]
Because the States have demonstrated that there is a substantial likelihood that portions of the Memoranda direct Executive Branch officials to act in a way that is contrary to Sections 1226(c) and 1231(a)(2), those sections of the Memoranda cannot stand and are hereby enjoined. Additionally, the Court enjoins the sections of the Memoranda described above because the States have demonstrated a substantial likelihood that the policy concerning detention of certain aliens set forth in the Memoranda is arbitrary and capricious under the [Administrative Procedure Act] APA and the Memoranda fail to comply with the APA’s notice and comment requirement. [Emphasis added]
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This Preliminary Injunction is granted on a nationwide basis and prohibits enforcement and implementation in every place the Government has jurisdiction to enforce and implement the January 20 and February 18 Memoranda. [Emphasis added]
In addition, Tipton orders the Biden administration to provide a monthly report on the number of illegal aliens who were released into the U.S. the previous month after ICE agents did not detain them.
The court asks for each illegal aliens’ name, the crime they are charged and were detained for, as well as the reason that they were not detained by ICE agents and the ICE official who made the decision not to detain them.
Tipton orders the nationwide preliminary injunction to remain in effect pending a final resolution in the case “or until a further Order from this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or the United States Supreme Court.”
The case is Texas v. U.S., No. 6:21-cv-00016 in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
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Like the guy at Weasel Zippers calls him: President Applesauce Brains...
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“ Biden has struggled to overcome a stutter ever since he was a boy, and has been open about the challenges of public speaking, and the decades of work he put in to improving his presentation.”
BULL. SHIT.
The man was a motormouth who loved nothing so much as the sound of his own voice. Watch any pre-2019 video. He could talk the ears off a brass monkey until he started sun downing.
[EN.MEHRNEWS] In a tweet on Wednesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif ...foreign minister of the Medes and the Persians, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values... wrote, "For all their talk of democracy & War on Terror, events in Afghanistan & statements by US & NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... officials prove: They invaded & occupied Afghanistan & elsewhere ONLY to pursue their own interests—but couldn't even achieve that.""US/NATO now have clear obligation to compensate," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert climbed the cocoanut tree, looking for ships. He saw none. He looked in the other direction and saw Irene, vigorously scrubbing her backside... in a tweet on Sunday night, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif welcomed the establishment of a Coordination Council by Afghan leaders. "Violence & war—like occupation—never solve problems. Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... welcomes the announcement by @KarzaiH on forming a Coordination Council by Afghan leaders."
He also stressed that Iran is ready to continue its efforts for the spread of peace in Afghanistan.
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[EN.MEHRNEWS] The spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry reacted to the latest IAEA report, noting that the nuclear programs and actions of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... are in full compliance with the NPT and Iran's commitments.
Saeed Khatibzaded said, "Iran's compensatory JCPOA measures have been under the framework of the nuclear deal."
"The scaling down procedure has been in response to the widespread violation of the JCPOA and Resolution 2231 by the United States and the non-full compliance of other JCPOA parties, especially the three European countries, to their obligations," he added.
He underlined that Iran will pursue its peaceful nuclear program solely on the basis of the needs and decisions of its government and within the framework of its safeguard obligations as far as the US and other parties refuse to fully comply with their JCPOA obligations.
He assured that in case the other parties return to their obligations under the JCPOA and Washington fully and effectively lifts unilateral and illegal sanctions against the Iranian people, Iran will return its compensatory measures.
The UN nuclear watchdog said in a report to member states on Monday seen by Rooters, that Iran has made progress in its work on enriched uranium metal despite Western warnings that such work threatens talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
"On 14 August 2021, the Agency verified ... that Iran had used 257 g of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 in the form of UF4 (uranium tetrafluoride) to produce 200 g of uranium metal-enriched up to 20% U-235," the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency claimed, adding that this was step three in a four-step plan by Iran. The fourth includes producing a reactor fuel plate.
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Special Envoy @Rob_Malley tells @politico: US is thinking of contingencies in case the JCPOA talks collapse including signing a wholly separate deal with new parameters and another is a slate of punitive actions US would impose on Iran in conjunction with the E3
[TASS] The Russian and Syrian military significantly reduced the capabilities of turbans active in Syria but attempts to present some groups as part of the political opposition complicate the fight against terrorism, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Vasily Nebenzya said, addressing the UN Security Council on Thursday.
"Thanks to the consistent efforts of the Russian and Syrian military, the capabilities of terrorist organizations active in Syria, namely ISIS, have been significantly reduced," he pointed out. "At the same time, some terrorist cells carry on with their activities and still pose a serious threat," Nebenzya added.
According to the Russian envoy, the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... group formed on the basis of the Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... organization is the biggest one. "According to various estimates, its strength ranges between 10,000 and 15,000. The fight against this terrorist organization is complicated by attempts to present it as part of the political opposition," Nebenzya said.
"Hurras ad-Din, a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, is another terrorist organization that continues to pose a danger in the region," he noted, adding: "Various sources estimate its strength between 3,500 and 5,000 members, half of whom are foreign Death Eaters."
"Russia will continue to provide the necessary assistance to the Syrian authorities in combating the terrorists," the Russian envoy emphasized.
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[France24] After years of accusations that Islamabad was covertly backing the Taliban, Pakistan overtly hailed the fall of Kabul on Sunday. Experts say geostrategic concerns about its enemy India motivate Pakistan’s pro-Taliban stance — making it unlikely to change course, even amid fears that the militants’ control of Afghanistan accentuates the jihadist threat at home.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Arabic for 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...foreign minister of the Medes and the Persians, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
