Brethren and sistren, let us together go forward to the glorious past! Herewith, more logs shoved into the fire under the pot.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice officials have allegedly warned shopkeepers in Mazar-e-Sharif, the bucolic provincial capital of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan, not to sell anything to women who are not wearing hijab, according to the local sources.
Let us note here, dear Reader, that hijab is a general concept of womanly modesty as well as specifically that unattractive head scarf.
The shopkeepers were informed of the new order, according to the sources, on Monday morning, August 29, in the famous Blue Mosque of Mazar-e-Sharif city and they were warned of the consequences if they failed to obey the order.
Shopkeepers stated that serious action will be taken against them if they sell products to women who do not wear hijab, as per the new order. They have also been ordered to close their shops during the prayer and attend the congregation.
In Takhar province in northern Afghanistan, during the previous week, it was reported that Taliban forces purportedly used whips to take several shopkeepers to congregational prayers.
Additionally, a written directive was delivered to the shops and inhabitants of Kabul’s 7th district stating that they had to be present in the congregation during the prayer and that anyone absent will not have the right to complain.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice previously declared that all Afghan women must wear the hijab.
The Taliban statement that mandated hijab for Afghan women preferred the all-encompassing blue burqa, Chadari which became a global icon of the Taliban’s prior Death Eater tenure from 1996 to 2001, as a suitable covering.
Finally defined in the final paragraph, by which time the reader’s attention has wandered elsewhere, muting indignation about a bunch of anonymous blue blobs in their moving purdah.
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"You need a hijab, ma'am? Who knew?
Call the cops, boy. It sucks to be you,
Here at Mad Kabul Bob's
Wholesale House of Hijabs,
Where there's always a Catch-22!"
Cut them ALL loose! The whole hellish organization. Visualize a river of pink slips.
Of course, they will fight like hell to prevent this. They murder people with drones, they're not going to meekly bow out just because our Congress passes some stupid law. They'll just call it Russian disinformation and nullify the results. Remember when we passed a law against the NSA spying on us and they ignored it and did it anyway?
This brave man was one of the many whistleblowers prosecuted by Obama. He did time in federal prison for speaking out. Pay attention when he speaks, and please share this around.
[TheRealNewsNetwork] Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, first as an analyst, and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas in Bahrain, Athens, and Pakistan, where he was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.He became the sixth whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration and was sent to prison for two and a half years.
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Much said. Much left unsaid, such as 'regime change' methodologies, foreign conflict ownership, domestic mischief, DoD schisms and funding competitions.
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While it is abundantly clear, the current CIA has creeped outside its official mission guidelines, that it was created and designed for. "...officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and performing covert actions..."
The CIA's real mission of addressing Foreign threats is still a needed task. ...IF... it can be put back on track and re-focused solely to what it's mandated mission is.... MINUS the DC DEEP STATE Political abuses.
Yes!, some Staff Flushing and mission updating is needed after 75+ years (Sept 18, 1947)?
Just ask yourself, could anyone or anything survive in the DC Swamp that long without being infected or politically corrupted?
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...IF... it can be put back on track and re-focused solely to what it's mandated mission is...
Mandated mission? Its "mandated mission" is doing exactly what it's doing. It overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran a few years after Truman established it. It arranged for the overthrow of the Australian government in 2010. At what point do we understand that that's what the CIA is for?
Fixed in the post. It just needed a moderator to open the hood and slam it closed again without touching anything, though I did add the text from the YouTube page to aid future searches.
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...We need a CIA. We just don't need this CIA.
Agreed. Without "a CIA" we would quickly have dozens of "baby CIAs" running cowboy operations all over the globe ...and likely end up running 'sting operations' on each other.
[SHAFAQ] Iraqi and international figures and bodies commended the powerful Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry... 's decision to ease the tension in Iraq after instructing his followers to withdraw from Baghdad's Green Zone.
"Thank you Moqtada al-Sadr," Iraq's parliament speaker Mohammad al-Halboosi tweeted, "your decision is in the size of Iraq. It deserves our appreciation."
A statement by media office of al-Siyada bloc said that the head of the Sunni alliance Khamis al-Khanjar held a phone call with al-Halboosi and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani, to discuss the situation in Iraq.
The leaders called for preserving the security and stability in the country and pursuing dialogue to lead Iraq to safety.
The head of al-Nasr bloc, Haidar al-Abadi, said, "all the armed people shall withdraw immediately. There is no explanation for the state to stand idly and watch, especially after the speech of Sayyid Moqtada al-Sadr."
"The wisemen of Iraq shall find solutions to prevent abysmal infight, jeopardizing the lives of the people, and undermining the state," he said.
"Sayyid Moqtada al-Sadr proved he is a descendant of the Sadrist school that made sacrifices for its religion and people," the head of the Islamic Supreme Council, Homam al-Hammoudi, said in a statement.
Al-Hammoudi ascribed al-Sadr's position as "brave and responsible."
"There is no contrast between reform and state. They complete each others," he added, "hand by hand, the state is preserved and rectified by reform."
UNAMI in a tweet welcomed "the most recent moderate declaration by Sayed Moqtada al-Sadr."
"As stated yesterday: restraint and calm are necessary for reason to prevail," it said.
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Allowing him to breath after you have both the cause and opportunity to end that ranks right up there with the German General Staff in 1917 sending Lenin to St.Petersburg.
[IsraelTimes] PA health ministry says 85 killed so far this year, including attackers, rock-throwing teens and uninvolved civilians
At least 85 Paleostinians have been killed in the West Bank so far this year as Israeli forces stepped up their nightly raids in cities, towns, and villages, making it the deadliest since 2016.
The military says the vast majority of those killed were members of terror groups or stone-throwers who endangered soldiers. The tally, from the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, includes Paleostinians who carried out attacks inside Israel.
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[IsraelTimes] IAEA reports to its members that three cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges have been brought online at underground facility
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has begun uranium enrichment with new advanced centrifuges at its underground Natanz nuclear site, according to a confidential ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report seen by the Rooters news agency on Monday.
The report said Iran is pressing ahead with its rollout of IR-6 centrifuges at the site. The centrifuges are far more efficient, and can more easily switch between enrichment levels.
IAEA inspectors verified on Sunday that Iran was feeding uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, the material centrifuges enrich, into the first of three cascades, or clusters, of IR-6 centrifuges installed at the Natanz underground Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP), Rooters said, quoting from the confidential IAEA report to member states.
The centrifuges are being used "for the production of UF6 enriched up to 5% U-235" the IAEA said.
Of the remaining two IR-6 cascades, one was engaged in passivation using depleted UF6, a process performed before proper enrichment is started, and the other has not yet been loaded with nuclear material, the UN agency reported according to Rooters.
IR-6 centrifuges, the country’s most advanced model, can enrich uranium to at least 60%. Iran has been using its existing devices at an above-ground site in Natanz for that purpose for nearly a year, Rooters reported. Uranium enriched to 60% is nearly weapons-grade.
In July, Iran announced it was using new IR-6 centrifuges to enrich uranium to 20%. The IAEA reported in June that Iran had 43 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity — a short step to 90%. Nonproliferation experts warn that’s enough fissile material for one nuclear weapon if Iran chose to pursue it.
Under the terms of its 2015 nuclear agreement with world power, Iran is only permitted to enrich uranium to 3.67% purity. The deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear program to prevent the production of a weapon. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... after the Trump administration pulled the US out of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018 and reimposed its own sanctions, Iran dropped many of its commitments to the pact and has ramped up uranium enrichment.
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.
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[SHAFAQ] Iraqi and international figures and bodies commended the powerful Shiite 
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
