[8am] Local sources in Ghazni have reported that the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... have blocked the entrances to girls’ educational centers in Jaghori district of this province.
Reliable sources from Jaghori have informed Hasht-e Subh that on Monday, May 29, the Taliban warned the officials of educational centers in this district that they are not allowed to admit girls until further notice.
The closed centers include those that offer English language, computer, and academic subjects.
It is reported that these educational centers were closed one day after the enforcers of the Taliban’s Command for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice issued warnings regarding the attire of women, girls, and boys in Jaghori district.
According to recent Taliban warnings, boys in Jaghori are prohibited from wearing shirts and trousers, while girls are not allowed to wear "tight" clothes.
The enforcers of the Taliban’s Command for the Promotion of Virtue in Jaghori have warned of severe actions against violators.
Jaghori is considered one of the most densely populated districts in Ghazni. According to statistics, this district currently has nearly 100 public schools, several private schools, and educational centers.
Although the Taliban had previously banned girls from entering educational centers, in Jaghori district, girls used to attend these centers.
[8am] Local sources in Nimruz province have reported that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has issued a warning to barbers in Zaranj city, urging them to refrain from shaving their customers’ beards. Even the wymyns?
According to the sources, the Taliban’s Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Nimruz issued a warning to all barbers in Zaranj on Monday, May 29, advising them against shaving and trimming their customers’ beards, reducing the length of their hair in Western styles, and displaying "illicit" pictures in their barbershops.
In a notice issued to these barbers, it is stated that the "offenders" who disregard the warning and engage in such activities will face legal consequences starting from Tuesday, May 30, and will not have the right to file complaints.
Some barbers in Nimruz claim that the purpose of the Taliban’s legal pursuit in promoting virtue is to imprison them.
These barbers further state that the restrictions imposed by the Taliban have resulted in a loss of their customers.
It is worth noting that following their seizure of power, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions on the social life of citizens in the country.
[8am] According to local sources in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, doctors at the Provincial Hospital have gone on strike in response to the assault on one of their colleagues by a Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighter.
Sources reported to Hasht-e Subh that doctors at the Provincial Hospital in Herat initiated a work stoppage on Thursday, June 1, due to the assault on one of their colleagues by Taliban fighters.
A source from the Hospital in Herat stated that this is the second time in the past two weeks that doctors at this hospital have been assaulted by Taliban fighters. The source added that about two weeks ago, another doctor was assaulted without any reason by a Taliban fighter.
Additional sources add that following this incident, the doctors at this Hospital in Herat have stated that they will continue their strike until they receive security guarantees and their safety is ensured.
It is worth noting that after the Taliban’s takeover, fighters from this group have been repeatedly accused of harassing and mistreating employees in various offices, including doctors who have filed numerous complaints against the behavior of these fighters. The lack of law and unfamiliarity with urban and administrative norms are cited as major reasons for the conduct of Taliban forces.
Not discounting that they are by nature and training vicious bullies, as well.
[8am] Local sources have reported that the organizer of an exhibition in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... has been arrested by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... . The incident occurred on Thursday, June 1, at the Handicrafts and Agricultural Products Exhibition in Herat city.
According to the sources, the arrest took place after male journalists and other men entered the women’s section of the exhibition. The presence of men in this section prompted the Taliban’s morality police to detain the organizer.
Following the arrest, the exhibition was disrupted and unable to continue.
The Taliban have not yet issued any comments regarding the situation in Herat.
It is worth noting that last year, the Taliban also prevented several exhibitions from taking place in western Kabul.
[BakhtarNews] The Vice and Virtue of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... Department suspended two of the ombudsman for mistreating citizens in that province.
The Vice and Virtue department of the Herat stressed the ombudsman to treat people, said Sheikh Aziz-ur-Rahman Mahajer, head of Vice and Virtue of Herat province, in a statement said received by Bakhtar News Agency.
He said that two of the ombudsman were suspended from their duties after people’s complaints were received by the department.
Any complaint on the ombudsman’s duties will be strictly investigated, said Sheikh Aziz-ur- Rahman.
The Herat Department of Vice and Virtue has 140 ombudsmen and in weekly meetings, it has always emphasized to all of them that they should treat people gently and not interfere with their privacy, he added.
All the ombudsmen of this department are religious scholars and have graduated from the courses on the compilation of noble hadiths said Aziz-ur-Rahman.
He reminded saying that the burden of the Ombudsman is to invite and preach people to on the right path and they succeeded in prohibiting 85% of contradictions with the cooperation of the people in Herat so far.
[KhaamaPress] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... ’s Supreme Court has announced that two convicts accused of allegedly stealing in the Khusamand district of eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province were flogged in public.
The Supreme Court on Saturday in a statement said that Taliban security forces arrested the criminals who confessed to their crimes.
According to the announcement of the Taliban’s Supreme Court, the convicts were punished in public so it should be an example for others.
Although the method of punishment was not specified in the announcement, local sources reported that convicts were lashed in public.
The Taliban authorities started lashing convicts accused of different crimes, which prompted widespread condemnations from human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations and the international community last year.
Last month, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... released a comprehensive report, indicating during the past six months, 274 men, 58 women and 2 boys were flogged in public. As per this report, another convict was publicly executed by Taliban officials.
The UN has repeatedly called on the de facto authorities of Afghanistan to immediately stop public execution, and respect human rights, dignity and values.
Since the group’s return to power in August 2021, the Taliban have issued restrictive policies banning women and girls’ education, work and public engagement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... the group has resumed practicing strict Islamic Sharia laws in social, cultural and legal matters, prompting widespread criticism from the people of Afghanistan and the international community.
[Breitbart] The Turkish defense ministry announced Saturday it will be sending a commando battalion to northern Kosovo in response to a NATO request for troops to help quell violent unrest.
The request came from NATO’s Joint Force Command Naples, the ministry said in a press statement posted on its official Twitter account, and the battalion will join the alliance´s peacekeeping mission in the region, known as KFOR, as a reserve unit.
A defense ministry official said around 500 Turkish troops would be going to Kosovo. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with ministry regulations.
NATO announced on Tuesday that it would be sending 700 troops to bolster the force in the area. KFOR currently consists of almost 3,800 troops, including some 350 from Turkey.
Violent clashes with ethnic Serbs on Monday left 30 international soldiers – 11 Italians and 19 Hungarians – wounded, including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices.
The clashes grew out of a confrontation that unfolded earlier after ethnic Albanian officials elected in votes overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs entered municipal buildings to take office and were blocked by Serbs.
“We urge restraint and dialogue to resolve these developments in northern Kosovo which endanger regional security and stability,” the Turkish statement read. The Turkish commando battalion will be deploying to the Sultan Murat Barracks in Kosovo on Sunday and Monday.
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The Balkans and the grinding edge between Serbian Christians and Albanian Muslims going back centuries. Erdoğan sees everything through the Ottoman Empire filter and sending his modern "Janissary" commando's is yet another theatrical gesture for domestic consumption. Will they show up with the funny hats?
Just as the Christians are deserting the Middle East, so too are the Jews pulling out from most of the world, having better places to be than where they ae actively unwanted. First the Middle East, then the former Soviet Union, now Western Europe. Current trends suggest that soon the Jewish community will be exclusively in Israel and America.
[IsraelTimes] Antisemitism and the dwindling of European Jewry are eroding the hopes of some devoted activists to raise families in the communities they run.
All but two of Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs’ seven children have left their native Netherlands, raising their own children in Israel and beyond.
This means that the Dutch chief rabbi, whose family has lived in the Netherlands for generations, and his London-born wife Blouma rarely get to bask in the warmth of the large family they have devoted much of their lives to establishing.
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[AnNahar] Prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll that shows support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high.
When the mainstream parties refuse to notice the needs of the citizenry, the citizens turn to others for answers, In America that made Donald Trump president. In Europe this tends to result in bloody revolution — Alternativ für Deutschland is a good deal safer for all involved.
The DeutschlandTrend survey, conducted monthly by infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD, that was released on Thursday puts voter support for Alternative for Germany at 18%, on a par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats. In the 2021 election, Scholz's party received 25.7% of the vote, while Alternative for Germany, or AfD, got 10.3%.
"This (...) is a disaster and should be understood as an alarm signal for all parties of the center," said Norbert Roettgen, a senior politician for the main opposition Christian Democrats, whose support stood at 29% in the poll of 1,302 voters conducted from May 30-31. The margin of error was up to 3 percentage points.
Roettgen said his own center-right party should ask itself why it hasn't profited as much from voters' unhappiness at the government.
His party colleague Serap Guler said the strong support for AfD should alarm all democratic parties.
"We bear responsibility for changing this again quickly," she said late Thursday.
AfD previously hit 18% in the DeutschlandTrend survey in September 2018 amid discord in then Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's coalition government.
Scholz's three-party coalition with the environmentalist Greens and the libertarian Free Democrats has faced strong headwind recently over high immigration and a plan to replace millions of home heating systems in the country. Germany's military support for Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion is also rejected by a sizeable portion of the populace, though it has majority support.
AfD and its affiliates have come under scrutiny from the country's domestic intelligence agency, BfV, for its ties to hard boys. The head of the agency warned recently of "astonishing parallels" between the present and the 1920s and 1930s, which saw a rise in political extremism and authoritarianism that culminated in the Nazi dictatorship.
About two-thirds of those who supported AfD in the poll said they did so in protest over other parties, rather than because they were convinced by the far right's policies. Still, AfD stands a chance to win in three state elections in eastern Germany next year, which would put mainstream forces in the awkward position of having to form a broad coalition against the strongest party.
Sawsan Chebli, a member of the Social Democrats, tweeted after the polls were published: "The AfD is at 18 percent. People, wake the hell up!"
[IsraelTimes] Iranian navy chief claims alliance will also include Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, India and Pakistan; announcement comes after UAE said it was leaving US-led force.
All coastal water navies; not all — if I recall my globe correctly — sharing the same waters, which will make the alliance interesting. But it sounds impressive...
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You POS, yet you persist
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Special Ed Joe.
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My mother set up a school and sheltered workshop for mentally retarded, multiply handicapped children and adults, so this has a special resonance for me.
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I apologize, Trailing Wife. I don’t like the anti-Semitic stuff. I will go back to ignoring him.
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My mom worked a similar vein, tw. Pondering that just this morning, I was, and shedding the odd tear, reading about Maturin's "idiot child" in one of the later O'Brian books. Crying not so much because it's a straightforward yet sensitive bit of writing, nor even from envy, but out of regret at never having read it aloud to Ma to get her take on it. Could say that about the whole series, I guess. Endless nautical evolutions and birds-n-bones bits wouldn't have been her thing, but she'd have loved the humorous framing of 'em. Could've made it work with a little editing. Oh, well... maybe next life. [comes back as nondescript roach in guano cave]
[AlAhram] Hannibal Qadaffy, son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... , who has been held in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... for more than seven years, began a hunger strike Saturday to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said.
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Someone who is really committed to a hunger strike is just choosing a slow motion suicide. Of course, many hunger strikers are just doing it for show.
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"How can a political prisoner be held without a fair trial all these years?" Qadaffy, who is married to a Lebanese woman, wrote in his statement.
The true story here is how he said that with a straight face.
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[NPASYRIA] Hundreds of Iraqi refugees are preparing to leave Hawl camp, east of Hasakah, on Sunday for their country, within the framework of coordinated operations between Iraq and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
The batch, which is scheduled to leave on Sunday, includes 168 families, numbering 658 people, according to what an official in the camp revealed to North Press.
That’s a lotta ISIS from Iraq, but Iraq is ready for them.
The trip was supposed to take place on May 16 but was postponed two days before by the Iraqi side without indicating the reason, according to a previous statement by the camp administration.
An official in the camp administration, who spoke not for attribution, said, "after a 20-day halt in the trip, preparations were completed for the release of a new batch of Iraqis tomorrow from the camp to their country."
The refugees together with their belongings were moved to the camp’s reception area in preparation for their departure, following the visit of an Iraqi delegation to the camp.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian advisers are in Syria arming terror groups there with powerful roadside kabooms to step up attacks on US forces there, the Washington Post reports.
The report, citing leaked documents and intelligence officials, say this is part of a move by Iran, in cooperation with Russia, to try to drive the US from the region.
The report says elite Quds Force unit members are equipping and training local groups with "powerful armor-piercing roadside kabooms intended specifically to target US military vehicles and kill US personnel."
The report says groups have already tried unsuccessfully to carry out such attacks, including in February when US-allied Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria seized three bombs.
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
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
