[ToloNews] The government on Saturday announced that it would pay three months' worth of overdue salaries to employees in one round.
A front man for the Ministry of Finance, Ahmad Wali Haqmal, said that the payments were begun on Saturday. "Only one months' worth will remain unpaid in this fiscal year after we pay the salaries of the past three months. After that we will pay the salary of the next month," he said.
According to the ministry, only the employees of the ministries of health, higher education and the academy of science of Afghanistan will receive extra pay for specialized skills.
The ministry said that it has collected over 27 billion Afs in revenue from customs and taxes.
"The Islamic Emirate collected about 27 billion Afs in revenue. Our income will increase day by day," said Miraj Mohammad Miraj, an official at the Ministry of Finance.
Afghanistan relies mainly on foreign aid to support its government institutions and development projects.
However the Finance Ministry said that it has been planning to support the national budget with domestic income as the foreign aid is suspended.
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Not just the other third world countries; read earlier this am that US Navy personnel are taking out loans because they haven't been paid. (Sorry - link down the memory whole)
#US Secretary of State #AntonyBlinken says his country is investing in #Africa without imposing unsustainable levels of debt, as he witnesses the signing of contracts worth more than $1 billion in Senegal’s capital Dakar.https://t.co/QwUlpMm82J
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani says that #Lebanon needs to demonstrate that its Hezbollah movement can “change its behavior” to mend a rift with Arab states.https://t.co/iXtrzEfMr3
The leaders of #Armenia and #Azerbaijan will meet in Brussels in mid-December to discuss tensions that have led to border clashes with several troops, the #EU says.https://t.co/YpHTcnKrU1
[DW] Tales From the Border Episode Four takes us to an informal migrant camp in the woods not far from the Serbian border with Croatia. Here we meet a group of men — mostly from Syria and Iraq — who have decided to leave the official camps to squat in an abandoned house in the forest.
While they cook over a campfire, the men talk about how the police and army from various countries work to push them back, and their journeys after leaving their home countries. Many talk about trying to cross the border into Romania, which is also not too far away from the camp, after they realized that the way through Croatia and Hungary is almost completely impossible.
Some men have tried to cross more than 40 times in five months over various borders.
Cymbals, prayers and Chaldean Catholic liturgy resound in Mosul’s Saint George monastery, where Iraqi faithful mark the restoration of two churches destroyed by #ISIS in their former stronghold. #Iraqhttps://t.co/SoKEiPOMBR
Very long — you’ll want a cup of coffee and a comfy chair to read the whole thing at the link, dear Reader, but here are the highlights:
[Jpost] 2014 was a turning point for the IDF in its battle against Hamas' tunnel systems. Here's how they managed to attack the Gaza Strip with such precision during Operation Guardian of the Walls.
The tunnels were dug by hand and jackhammers, as heavy machinery was out of the question – it would have attracted too much attention from the drones constantly hovering in the skies above.
Every battalion had its assignment and was responsible for the burrowing in its area of operations. Budgets were allocated according to a detailed plan, and deadlines were set for each stage of the project.
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President Biden and his team get all the credit for this one.
[IsraelTimes] ’We support Paleostinian NGOs’ role monitoring human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses wherever they occur,’ Linda Thomas-Greenfield says after visit to region.
United States Ambassador to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Linda Thomas-Greenfield appeared on Saturday to wade into the issue of rights groups outlawed by Israel, when she said Washington "support[s] Paleostinian NGOs’ role monitoring human rights abuses wherever they occur."
Israel in late October declared six civil groups to be linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP). The announcement sparked a firestorm of coverage and condemnations, as most of them received European and international funding.
On Saturday, Thomas-Greenfield, who recently completed a visit to Israel and the West Bank, tweeted: "This week, I had the chance to meet with civil society leaders in Ramallah. I was inspired by their work to advance democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity for the Paleostinian people.
"We support Paleostinian NGOs’ role monitoring human rights abuses wherever they occur."
Thursday saw European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... High Representative Josep Borrell declare that Israel had yet to send definitive proof that the six banned Paleostinian organizations were linked to the PFLP.
"We are asking for answers from the Israeli government, and we have not yet received convincing answers," Borrell said in a closed-door meeting of international donors to the Paleostinians in Oslo.
Borrell’s speech, like others given at the conference, was not public. The Times of Israel received a transcript of the address from another official.
Israeli officials have doubled down on the designation despite international criticism, repeating that there is "ironclad" classified evidence that proves the organizations’ terror links.
The six Paleostinian organizations in question — al-Haq, Addameer, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Defense for Children International — Paleostine, Bisan, and the Union of Paleostinian Women’s Committees — are prominent and well-established groups.
In late October, Defense Minister Benny Gantz issued orders that classified all six as terror groups. After an investigation by the Shin Bet, Israeli authorities alleged that the PFLP had used the organizations to successfully channel funds from European donors to the terror group.
The PFLP, which avowedly seeks to destroy Israel, has a long history of violent mostly peaceful attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. The US, the EU, and much of the international community classify it as a terrorist organization.
While in Ramallah, Thomas-Greenfield pressed Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... on the issues of human rights and payments to security prisoners in Israeli jails, according to her office.
She "emphasized the importance of respecting human rights and avoiding actions that undermine the prospects of a two-state solution, such as settlement activity, evictions, incitement to violence, and payments to individuals imprisoned for terrorism," a US readout said.
"We do not accept in any way the classification of six Paleostinian civil organizations as terrorist by the occupation authorities," Abbas told Thomas-Greenfield during their meeting, according to the official PA news outlet Wafa.
[IsraelTimes] Pentagon head vows to prevent Tehran getting nukes, says Washington committed to diplomatic outcome but will examine alternatives if Tehran isn’t willing to engage
Who now believes his strong words will translate to strong action before it is too late?
America’s top defense official vowed Saturday to prevent Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to counter its "dangerous use" of suicide drones in the Mideast, as negotiations remain stalled over Tehran’s tattered atomic deal with world powers.
United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s comments in Bahrain at the annual Manama Dialogue appeared aimed at reassuring America’s Gulf Arab allies and Israel, as the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... tries to revive the nuclear deal which limited Iran’s enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
"The United States remains committed to preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. And we remain committed to a diplomatic outcome of the nuclear issue," Austin told an event put on by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
"But if Iran isn’t willing to engage seriously, then we will look at all of the options necessary to keep the United States secure," he said.
"Iran should be under no illusion that it will manage to undermine the relationship between the US and other countries in the region," Austin said, according to the Walla news site.
Austin’s remarks come after the US’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan raised concerns about America’s commitment to the Middle East, as defense officials say they want to pivot forces to counter perceived challenges from China and Russia.
"Let’s be clear: America’s commitment to security in the Middle East is strong and sure," Austin said, according to Rooters. "But Iran’s actions in recent months have not been encouraging — especially because of the expansion of their nuclear program."
The defense chief reiterated that in the opinion of the Biden administration, diplomacy is "the tool of first resort."
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When have they ever been serious?
Look, you convinced the Ukraine and Omar of Libya to give up theirs and where did that get them. Ain't going to happen. File under self inflicted wound.
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Hey, I've got an idea! Let's go to war with them! The same generals that couldn't beat a bunch of goat-fuckers with small arms in Afghanistan are going to win in Iran for sure.
[JPost] Birds of a feather..etc., etc.
Lebanon's Hezbollah movement condemned Britain’s decision to proscribe Palestinian militant group Hamas as a terrorist organization, the movement said on Saturday.
Britain's interior minister Priti Patel on Friday said she had banned Hamas, in a move that brings the UK's stance on Gaza's rulers in line with the United States and the European Union.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
