[AmnestyInternational] Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters killed six Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... people in a deliberate attack against the ethnic minority in Afghanistan’s Ghor province, Amnesia Amnesty International said today following a new investigation.
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Same old. Too bad vastly more Hazaras preferred sucking on Uncle Sam's sweet teat and buggering each other than fighting for their freedom. Now they are truly buggered. Again.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Biden administration moved Wednesday to establish a foundation for managing $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan funds, according to sources, skirting Taliban ...Arabic for students... in their efforts to having hands on what is known to be the last shot to stabilize country’s economy.
This came a month after, United States President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... ’s administration said it will press ahead with talks on releasing billions of dollars in Afghanistan’s foreign-held assets, after continued pressures by the international community.
With Several international partners, the US government announced the creation of a foundation based in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... that will use the money help address the unfolding economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where more than half of the population are starving.
"Pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14064, President Biden set a policy of enabling $3.5 billion of Afghan central bank reserves to be used for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan while keeping them out of the hands of the Taliban and other malign actors," said US Treasury department in statement.
"The Afghan Fund will protect, preserve, and make targeted disbursements of that $3.5 billion to help provide greater stability to the Afghan economy," the statement further said.
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It's American taxpayer money. Put it back in the Treasury. (But there is no graft in that)
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Sooo....they freeze 3.5B, then set up a trust of 3.5B which the frozen 3.5B can borrow against?
I'm sure at 0% interest, culturally sensitive and all.
*Raises hand*
Question. It looks to me like the policy is to pay off/buy out local interests as an international foreign policy - Syria, Egypt, Libya Ukraine, Afghan, Africa Horn, just shoveling it out.
So...what happens when the dollar becomes comparatively worthless? Print off another Trillion in 'Infrastructure' to make up the difference, but obviously there is a spiral there, and C-130s can only carry so many pallets of cash.
[DAILYSABAH] As more than 170 were killed in 48 hours of fighting between Baku and Yerevan, the spokesperson of Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said that a political will is needed by Armenia to establish permanent peace in the region and resolve remaining disputes
Armenia is not ready to accept delimiting borders as well as the reality following the 2020 war, which saw Azerbaijan regain large swathes of its territory in the Karabakh region, the spokesperson of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said.
That does seem to be the consensus. Though it doesn’t sound like Azerbaijan would be any more accommodating if they were losing rather than winning.
Speaking to Daily Sabah in an exclusive interview, Leyla Abdullayeva said: "The Azerbaijani side wants peace and normalization in the region. We never wanted tensions because we regained our occupied lands and we are working to reconstruct these areas and bring back life to the territories."
On the reasons lying behind the latest festivities between the two sides on the border, Abdullayeva said that conflict erupted after the Armenian side started its provocations and Azerbaijan responded to these military targets. Another reason was what Abdullayeva called a "sabotage group" entering Azerbaijan’s territory and trying to plant landmines on supply routes despite an ongoing process of peace talks.
Since November 2020, 242 people have become victims of landmines, according to the Armenian foreign ministry. Abdullayeva said that Armenia accepted to provide the Azerbaijani side maps of the locations of the landmines but that these were not accurate.
"According to statistics, of the mentioned 242 cases, 50% have occurred outside the areas designated in the maps provided by Armenia. The issue is that Armenia is still continuing to massively plant landmines on Azerbaijani soil," she explained.
She said that only in Lachin 1,300 landmines were found while it was written on the mines that they were produced in Armenia in 2021.
"In 2020, the country signed a trilateral statement ending hostilities, started the normalization process but in 2021 mines produced in Armenia are planted in Azerbaijan. This is another indicator that Armenia violates its commitments taken by the trilateral statements," Abdullayeva said.
Abdullayeva highlighted that Azerbaijan would in no way want to start a renewed conflict and endanger its investments in the region as the country has engaged in a massive multibillion-dollar reconstruction of the areas liberated in Karabakh following the war.
Among these investments is the first international airport in the region, Fuzuli International Airport, already inaugurated, infrastructure as well as a second international airport in Zangilan, next to the border, to be opened at the end of September and the third one in Lachin planned to be inaugurated in 2024.
"So, many civilian people are currently working in the area. Azerbaijan has also started the return of former IDPs to the liberated territories. All these indicate that there is no interest from the Azerbaijani side to have these festivities in the region."
After the conflict ended, Azerbaijan launched a massive reconstruction initiative in the liberated Karabakh region.
In July, Azerbaijan began the process of returning its people to land recaptured from Armenian forces in what Baku calls "The Great Return." The oil-rich country has vowed to repopulate the recaptured lands.
Renewed festivities
A total of 71 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in the latest skirmishes with Armenia.
Although an Armenian official said that a cease-fire was agreed between the two sides late on Wednesday, Abdullayeva told journalists that there is no official cease-fire but currently calm on the ground — although with high tension.
The fighting was the deadliest in almost two years, since a six-week war in 2020 left thousands dead and saw Azerbaijan regain significant previously occupied territory in Karabakh.
Abdullayeva reiterated that it was also the Azerbaijani side that initiated the grinding of the peace processor after the war and presented five principles upon which the comprehensive peace agreement should be built on. "Unfortunately, the Armenian side has not reciprocated the unilateral steps taken by Azerbaijan."
"The deliberate provocations of Yerevan show that Armenia is not ready to accept the post-conflict realities in the region. It is also not ready to recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan," she said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... on Tuesday, Armenia's security council asked for military help from Moscow, which is obliged under the treaty to defend Armenia in the event of a foreign invasion.
Moscow is an ally of Yerevan through the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) military alliance, but it also retains close friendly relations with Baku.
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I'll bet if Russia did send a contingent to fight alongside them, the globalists would get NATO countries to support those islamic fuckers against a Christian country.
[IsraelTimes] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... ’s condition was said to be critical last week after surgery due to bowel obstruction, but to have improved in recent days
Improved? Bummer. Based on the headline, I’m sure we all were hoping for sepsis.
Iran’s Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He SurveysAyatollah Ali Khamenei is gravely ill after undergoing surgery last week for a bowel obstruction and has canceled all public meetings, being too weak to even sit up, The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Friday.
Khamenei’s health deteriorated early last week when he began experiencing severe stomach pains, the report said, citing four people familiar with the matter. The supreme leader had surgery at a makeshift clinic set up in his home, and his office canceled all public appearances for the rest of the week.
The 83-year-old’s condition was considered critical but has since seen an improvement. However, ars longa, vita brevis... he is still being monitored closely by doctors, according to the paper.
The Iranian government rarely comments on the health of its supreme leader and has not done so in this case either.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said on Friday that Khamenei would attend a religious ceremony with university students the following day but the NYT speculated that he might not be able to attend given his condition.
It said Khamenei recently traveled to Mashhad to perform a religious ritual at one of the holy Iranian city’s shrines, during which he told confidants that it might be his last such trip, given his age.
But in a possible indication that Khamenei’s condition was improving, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi traveled to Uzbekistan on Friday — a trip analysts told the New York Times he would not have taken if he thought Khamenei’s death was imminent.
Raisi is also scheduled to travel to New York next week, where he will address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
Questions regarding Khamenei’s health have made headlines several times in recent years and there have even been false claims about the death of the supreme leader, who has ruled Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... since 1989.
Khamenei underwent a successful prostate cancer operation in 2014.
The report comes with Iran looking increasingly unlikely to reach an agreement with Western powers on reentry to the nuclear deal that would limit its atomic ambitions.
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"By the grace of God and with the good prayers of devotees, the gentleman (Ayatollah Khamenei) is in good health and is busy vigorously carrying out his plan according to his routine," the official, Mehdi Fazaeli, said on Twitter.
Someone is lying….
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I wonder if it was bad curd,
in tzatziki left out too long.
Or maybe an immamiyah turd,
that won't be washed out with oolong.
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