[AlAhram] Afghanistan's Taliban ...Arabic for students... government launched a programme to tackle hunger on Sunday, offering thousands of people wheat in exchange for labour.
The scheme will be rolled out around Afghanistan's major towns and cities and employ 40,000 men in the capital alone, the Taliban's chief front man said at a presser in southern Kabul.
"This is an important step for fighting unemployment," Zabihullah Mujahid said, adding the labourers must "work hard".
Afghanistan -- which is already suffering from poverty, drought, electricity blackouts and a failing economic system is now facing the onset of what may be a harsh winter.
The Taliban's food-for-work scheme will not pay labourers, targeting those who are currently unemployed and most at risk of starvation during the winter.
The two-month programme will see 11,600 tons of wheat distributed in the capital, with about 55,000 tons for elsewhere in the country, including 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... , Jalalabad, Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif and Pol-e-Khomri.
Work for the labourers in Kabul will include digging water channels and catchment terraces for snow in the hills to combat drought.
Mujahid and other bigwigs, including agriculture minister Abdul Rahman Rashid and Kabul mayor Hamdullah Nomani, cut a pink ribbon and dug a small ditch at a ceremony in the rural Rish Khor area of the capital to launch the programme.
A good idea. There’s mathematics to be found in clothing design (3-dimension irregular topography), art, chemistry, and lab skills in cosmetology, and other intellectual skills in the various trades.
[ToloNews] Dozens of female high school and university students have joined vocational centers to learn tailoring and cosmetology as the women and girls have been banned from school and university since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... takeover.
According to these girls, sitting at home is very difficult for them, therefore they are willing to learn a profession.
"It has been a couple of months that we are at home since schools and universities closed. We have to learn a profession or a job, because we can’t sit like this at home," said Samira Sharifi, a student.
"I want to learn a profession for my future to help my family, we want our schools to be opened so that we can carry on with our education," said Mahnaz Ghulami, a student.
Most of the trainees in the vocational centers are the students of high schools and universities.
After the closure of high schools and universities across Afghanistan, 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... female students have started gaining vocational training in the province.
"We have decided to learn tailoring along with our education," said Shaqaiq Ganji, and student.
"It’s necessary for every woman to learn tailoring to help her family and her husband, especially in this bad economic situation," said Laili Sofizada, a teacher.
Due to the closure of schools and universities, the number of students in vocational centers doubled compared to recent years.
"Our classes had the capacity of 20 to 25 students but we increased it to 45 students, because most of the students have lost their spirit, and their schools and universities have closed," said Fatima Tokhi, director of technical and professional affairs at the Herat department of labor and social affairs.
The Labor and Social Affairs department of Herat said the department is working to provide more opportunities for Herat girls and women to learn vocational training.
"The art and professional sector and the kindergarten departments have started their activities, we support them and supervise their activities," said Mulla Mohammad Sabit, head of the labor and social affairs of Herat.
During the past two months, most of the women and girls who worked in state and private institutions lost their jobs and are trying to learn handicrafts and vocational training.
[ToloNews] The former US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said the US was losing the war to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... so it chose peace negotiationsdeal as an alternative.
Talking to CBS News, Khalilzad said the US military tried many times to strengthen its position on the battleground, but it failed. "The negotiation was a result of--based on the judgment that we weren’t winning the war and therefore time was not on our side and better to make a deal sooner than later."
Khalilzad blamed the then-president Ashraf 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... for the disintegration of Afghanistan’s security sector, saying his escape triggered the chaos in the Afghan capital.
That seems an incomplete way of looking at it...
He said the Taliban was in discussions with him about forming a power-sharing government and including some officials of the Ghani administration in the next government. All these things did not happen because Ghani did not stay, he said.
Khalilzad said Ghani did not want to let go of power, and discredited Ghani's remarks about fleeing Kabul to avoid bloodshed, saying they were not true. "So, the question is, why did President Ghani do what he did? If he was willing to step aside for the sake of peace, imagine if he had offered that a year ago, six months ago -- that somebody that's mutually acceptable could have led the government. But he did not," he said.
There was nobody mutual, since the Taliban would accept no one not their own. They were in it for the reconquest.
According to Khalilzad, the US has largely succeeded in suppressing Al Qaeda- the reason it went to Afghanistan--but has failed in building a democratic Afghanistan.
No, the Afghans failed to build democracy despite two decades of aid and support. Horses and water, donchaknow.
He said the two decades of US involvement has transformed Afghanistan and now "the Taliban are going to have a hard time putting them back in the box the way they had put people in the 1990s."
Hopefully true. Possibly wishful thinking.
Khalilzad said the US wanted a different outcome for the Afghan peace talks, preferably a power-sharing government with the Taliban instead of what happened on August 15.
That was definitely wishful thinking.
Khalilzad said the Taliban has lived up to its promise of cutting ties with terrorist groups
...for a given value of cutting that means binding more firmly...
and not allowing Afghanistan to be used for staging attacks against the US and its allies. "They are not allowing plotting and planning operations by al-Qaeda against the United States," he said.
But what happens despite their forbidding is clearly not their responsibility, or even interest, right? Nor anything at all by anyone not Al Qaeda, since not-Al Qaeda isn’t being forbidden anything...
According to Khalilzad, if the Islamic Emirate does not form an inclusive government and does not respect the rights of Afghans, the relationship between Afghanistan and the US will not become normal.
A terrifying threat for a Dark Ages culture, to be sure.
Khalilzad also warned of a possible civil war if the Afghan economy collapses. He said if the "Taliban don't move toward more inclusiveness, respecting the rights of the Afghan people, and then honoring their commitment to us on terrorism; there will be no move towards normality and there shouldn't be. There should be no release of funds. So their economy could collapse and in that collapse a new civil war could start."
What was their reconquest if not a civil war for the last decade or so?
Khalilzad said Afghanistan has many problems, and the US should help it come to an agreement on a formula that is acceptable by urban and rural Afghans, and by secular and religious Afghans, to end troubles in the country.
‘Taint no sech thing, Buddy Boy. And so the troubles will not end.
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There was nobody mutual, since the Taliban would accept no one not their own. They were in it for the reconquest.
TW,
Absolutely true, ma'am. But on the other hand, one can make an argument that the Talib might have outsmarted themselves: since the economy there was utterly and completely dependent on US dollars to function, they are looking at a level of financial crash so apocalyptic that even the Talib are stunned, with no guarantee that the rest of the world will make up for that in anything like the numbers needed. But - they had the military advantage, and they used it.
You have to wonder though if there isn't some turban in Kabul right now who's wondering what would have happened if they had stopped outside of Kabul and the major cities, and then launched a peace offensive - "Hey, we're the new, improved Taliban; we're nice guys and we've seen the light, We don't want to tear the place up, come on and talk to us, and bring your media. Let's talk about a peaceful transfer of power, say in ninety days or so."
If they had done something even close to that, would the Biden Administration have sent the troops back in? Maybe, but there would have been a lot of screaming about it, and all it would have taken to derail it would have been a couple of suicide bombers. And once it was all over, with speeches and handshakes at the airport, and the Talib reverted to their true stripes, would we have done anything? Damned unlikely.
Mike
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As long as you allow your enemy a base of operations free from interdiction or destruction there is no way to 'win'.
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The deal-points here are (1) the Talibs as Mike K points out are now desperate for US cash and (2) the Biden regime needs the Talibs to be nice guys after all, because that makes the Kabul Katastrophe look somewhat better in advance of the mid-terms. So, a couple of months of no-beheadings and the cash flow resumes. (And Khalilzad will generously offer to administer the cash distributions.) The memorandum of understanding has probably already been drafted.
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Of course, in the interest of not breaking any domestic rice bowls, the cash distribution would be accomplished by the LockheedRaytheonGD Hypersonic Cash Dispenser, which can deliver a bundle of $20's to Abdul's Flower Shop with unerring accuracy. Yours for only $2.2 trillion.
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I think the GOPe, CIA and Pentagon owe the American people about $3 trillion in reparations. Start by pauparizing the Boosh and Cheney famblies into the second decade of the 25th century.
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/\ Forget the money. How about everyone in the grade of GG-14 and above just fok'n resign on Friday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Æthiopia conducted two air strikes in Tigray on Sunday as the government intensifies a nearly week-old campaign of aerial bombardment against the rebellious forces who control most of the region.One strike hit the western Tigray area of Mai Tsebri, targeting a training site of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), government spokesperson Legesse Tulu said. The other hit the northern Tigray town of Adwa, targeting a military manufacturing facility controlled by the TPLF, the government said in a statement.
"I can confirm there was a successful air strike in Mai Tsebri targeting training site of illegal recruits of the TPLF and a depot of heavy artillery," Legesse said.
It was not immediately possible to verify the claim as communications are down throughout most of war-hit Tigray.
TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda told Rooters he had verified with colleagues that an air strike hit near a local hospital in Mai Tsebri.
Getachew said there were no casualties to his knowledge. He said he had no information about the strike on Adwa. "The government makes it sound as though all of the Tigray region is a training center. It doesn’t make any sense, we don’t have all these training centers."
"Today in Adwa, a center that the terrorist group TPLF was using to manufacture military equipment was destroyed by an air strike," the Government Communications Service said in a statement posted on Facebook.
Æthiopian federal forces and forces loyal to the TPLF have been fighting for almost a year in a conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 2 million.
Mai Aini and Adi Harush Refugee Camps, which host thousands of Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n refugees, are both in the vicinity of Mai Tsebri.
Legesse said the refugee camps were not affected by the strike.
Representatives from Æthiopia’s Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs and the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... High Commissioner for Refugees did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
[Breitbart] London’s leftist mayor Sadiq Khan is making £25,000 grants available to change street names in a Black Lives Matter-inspired diversity drive.
The so-called "Untold Stories" grants are to be backed by a £1 million fund of public money, which campaigners will be able to use to hire consultants, remunerate impacted residents, and so on throughout the renaming process — which is not as simple as might be supposed, having an expensive knock-on effect on emergency and postal services, for example.
They will be administered by the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, established by Mayor Khan after the BLM violence sparked by the death of George Floyd in America crossed the Atlantic to decide whether monuments and memorials to historic figures deemed "problematic" by the modern left should be removed.
"London’s diversity is its greatest strength but for far too long our capital’s statues, street names, and buildings have only shown a limited perspective on our city’s complex history," Khan asserted, in comments reported by The Telegraph.
"I’m determined to do everything I can to ensure our public realm presents a more complete picture of everyone who has made London the incredible city it is today," he vowed.
#3
And about those Bronx kids celebrating the other day... was thinking "Moonteenth," except it happened back around new moon, couple of weeks before posting. But how about...
Soonteenth!, or De End of Deconstruction
A Democrat minister pray,
"Lawd, hasten de glorious day
When word dat dey asses
Was freed reach de masses...
But send it de roundabout way!"
[his mindless flock piously bray]
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Ottoman Turkish lira weakened more than 1 percent to a record low of 9.74 against the dollar in early Asia trade after President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had order the expulsion of the ambassadors of the US and nine other Western countries.
The lira edged back to 9.72 by 1807 GMT from Friday’s close of 9.5950. It had already hit record lows last week after the central bank cut its policy rate by 200 basis points, despite rising inflation, in a shock move derided as reckless by economists and opposition politicians.
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[GEO.TV] JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman ...Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty... has said that the government which "gave birth to rigging" in the elections has "no right and reason" to hold local government elections in the country, Geo News reported on Sunday.
The Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM) president said that the alliance wants free and fair elections at the earliest.
"Saving the nation and country from this government is tantamount to sympathy towards the nation and is the need of the hour," said Fazl.
He claimed that people are turning up in huge numbers to the PDM-led anti-inflation protests being held across the country.
"The incumbent government is illegal, incompetent, and cruel, and it has been imposed on the nation," he added.
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Lotta people here in the USA saying the same thing.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel’s deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... may shelve its plan to reopen a US diplomatic mission for Paleostinians in Jerusalem after Israel voiced opposition to such a move.The Jerusalem consulate was subsumed into the US Embassy that was moved to the contested city from Tel Aviv in 2018 by the administration of former President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... -- a reversal of US policy hailed by Israel and condemned by Paleostinians.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this month reiterated Washington’s plan to reopen the consulate as part of efforts to repair Paleostinian ties. He did not give timelines.
"I believe that I have good reason to think this will not happen," Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll told Israel’s Ynet TV.
"The Americans understand the political complexity," Roll said. "We have very good relations ... We don’t believe in surprising them. I don’t think they will try to surprise us."
US Embassy spokespeople could not immediately be reached for comment
Israel deems all Jerusalem its undivided capital and says it would not consent to reopening the consulate. The Paleostinians want the city’s east for their own future, hoped-for state.
Reopening the consulate could weaken nationalist Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and undermine his fragile cross-partisan government, Israeli officials have argued.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israel plans to build more residences for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, a government ministry said on Sunday, adding to those announced in August by the new ruling coalition."Tenders for 1,355 homes in Judea and Samaria have been published," a construction ministry statement said, referencing the biblical names used widely in Israel for the West Bank.
The new accommodation adds to the more than 2,000 residences which defense sources said in August would be authorised for settlers in the West Bank.
Final approval is expected from the defense ministry this week for those homes.
About 475,000 Israeli Jews live in settlements in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law, on land Paleostinians claim as part of their future state.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six-Day War of 1967 and exercises full administrative control across much of the territory, where more than two million Paleostinians live.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the former head of a settler lobby group, opposes Paleostinian statehood and has ruled out formal peace talks with the Paleostinian Authority during his tenure, saying he prefers to focus on economic improvements.
The tenders come after Israel last week gave approval for 4,000 Paleostinians to register as residents of the West Bank, the first such move in the Israeli-occupied territory in 12 years.
The new Jewish homes are to be built in seven settlements, according to the ministry statement.
Israeli colonization of the West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem has continued under every Israeli government since 1967.
Construction accelerated, however, in the last few years under former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Since mid-June his successor Bennett has led a coalition of parties, ranging from the far right to leftist.
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[Rusvesna] A video appeared on the Web showing Syrian soldiers blocking the path of an American military convoy on a section of the M4 highway according to "Russian Spring" from the Syrian Arab Republic.
The published footage shows how, after a short dialogue, the American servicemen were forced to redeploy the convoy and leave.
The Syrian government army stopped the American occupants in the area of the Al-Qaziya checkpoint in the south-west of Qamishli (Al-Haseke province). The convoy of the American forces consisted of five MRAP armored vehicles and was moving in the direction of Qamishli. Syrian soldiers prevented the US convoy from passing the checkpoint, forcing them to retreat to the positions of the Kurdish armed formations.
We will remind that earlier the US special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said that the United States is not going to withdraw its troops from Syria in the near future, justifying its military presence by the fight against terrorism in the region.
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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...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...
[Breitbart] London’s leftist mayor 
...Deobandi holy man, known as 
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
