Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians WWW.BBC.COM A US inquiry has found a drone strike in Kabul in late August killed 10 innocent people, a US official says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Yep, same old pieces of shit: Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Yep, same old pieces of shit: Taliban ban girls from secondary education in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians WWW.BBC.COM A US inquiry has found a drone strike in Kabul in late August killed 10 innocent people, a US official says. Oopsie daisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted September 21, 2021 Share Posted September 21, 2021 Afghanistan: Fighting off hunger under the Taliban WWW.BBC.COM For most Afghans staving off starvation is the biggest challenge since the Taliban returned to power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 ‘Necessary for security’: veteran Taliban enforcer says amputations will resume | Afghanistan | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Nooruddin Turabi, prisons minister in the new Afghan government, says executions and amputations will resume, but possibly not in public Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 24, 2021 Share Posted September 24, 2021 Still the same reprehensible lot they've always been and always will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 God damnit Fort Bliss: Female service member assaulted by group of Afghan refugees KFOXTV.COM Officials with Fort Bliss said a female soldier was assaulted by a group of Afghan refugees who are being housed at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. The female soldier was allegedly assaulted on September 19. Fort Bliss officials said theFederal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the case. Fort Bliss provided the following statement: We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Afghanistan's LGBTQ community say they're being hunted down after Taliban takeover WWW.CNN.COM LGBTQ people in Afghanistan who spoke to CNN say they need help to escape Taliban fighters before they are discovered and forced to face the new regime's brutal laws. Quote As soon as the Taliban recaptured Kabul in August, Balkhi and her family went into hiding. The names of Balkhi and five other LGBTQ people inside Afghanistan who spoke to CNN for this story have been changed for safety reasons -- Balkhi chose to use the name of a famous female Afghan poet who she considered "brave" and a "hero." The 20-year-old university student is one of hundreds of LGBTQ people in Afghanistan who are urging advocates outside the country to help them escape the Taliban regime. Two LGBTQ activists outside of Afghanistan told CNN they had separate lists each with hundreds of names of people who want to flee. "The situation gets worse every day ... fear of arrest is part of life now and I have such stress that I can't even sleep," Balkhi told CNN by text message from an undisclosed location. It's not clear yet how severely the Taliban will enforce its strict religious laws against Afghanistan's LGBTQ citizens. No official statement has been made, but in an interview with Germany's Bild newspaper in July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexuality -- stoning or being crushed under a wall. In response to a request for comment, a Taliban spokesman told CNN they had no official plans for their LGBTQ population yet. "When there is anything I will keep you updated," he said. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Afghanistan News: Afghanistan withdraws from General Assembly debate, UN says | World News - Times of India TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES.COM South Asia News: UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan's ambassador to the United Nations pulled out of delivering an address to world leaders at the General Assembly later Mond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Female Afghan judges hunted by the murderers they convicted WWW.BBC.COM Six former female judges who have gone into hiding speak to the BBC from secret locations across the country. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Where women took shelter from abuse, Taliban now in control - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM The Taliban are trying to figure out, now that they are back in power in Afghanistan, how to handle some of the country's most vulnerable women — those in shelters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Fears grow for photojournalist arrested by Taliban as executions resume | Afghanistan | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Taliban deny Morteza Samadi, 21, has been sentenced to death but family concerned for his safety after he was detained while covering women’s protests in Herat Quote Fears are growing for a photojournalist who has been detained by the Taliban for more than three weeks after being arrested while covering the women’s protests in Herat. Morteza Samadi, 21, a freelance photographer, was one of several journalists who were arrested at street protests at the beginning of September. All were quickly released except Morteza, whose whereabouts is not known. Some of those detained in Kabul have alleged they were badly beaten and tortured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 UK officials return to Afghanistan to meet Taliban for first time since takeover | UK news | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Diplomats visit Kabul to raise issue of ‘safe passage’ for Britons leaving Afghanistan and rights of women Quote British officials have gone to Afghanistan for the first time since the country fell to the Taliban, meeting the group’s senior leaders in Kabul to discuss the humanitarian crisis and safe return of British citizens. It marked the first open contact between the Taliban and western officials since the capture of the country in August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Man Boris is really getting desperate to get a trade deal signed isn't he? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 BBC News - Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers WWW.BBC.CO.UK A bomber hits a mosque used by minority Shia Muslims in the deadliest attack since US forces left. Quote A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz has killed at least 50 people, officials say, in the deadliest assault since US forces left. Images on social media showed bodies and debris inside the mosque, used by the minority Shia Muslim community. More than 100 people were injured in the blast in the northern city. No group has said it was behind the attack, but Sunni Muslim extremists, including a local Islamic State group, have targeted the Shia community. They consider Shia Muslims to be heretics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 So they can hit mosques but we can't!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Afghanistan: Suicide attack hits Kandahar mosque during prayers WWW.BBC.COM Three blasts at a Shia mosque in Kandahar kill at least 37 people during Friday worship. Quote At least 37 people are dead and 70 more injured after three explosions tore through a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in the Afghan city of Kandahar. Pictures from inside the Bibi Fatima mosque show shattered windows and bodies lying on the ground, while other worshippers try to help. The BBC has been told it was a suicide bombing. A local reporter quoted by Reuters news agency said eyewitnesses described three suicide attackers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 Not to excuse their ignorance but it doesn't matter if they're not good at geography. Most people shouldn't have to be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Not to excuse their ignorance but it doesn't matter if they're not good at geography. Most people shouldn't have to be! As long as they know about Jesus that's all that matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I’ve never gotten the whole, “these dum dums can’t find X on a map,” gotchas. I feel like people would do even worse on, “what part of your body is this muscle in,” trivia, and that stuff is inside you. Who cares? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucoe Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 58 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: I’ve never gotten the whole, “these dum dums can’t find X on a map,” gotchas. I feel like people would do even worse on, “what part of your body is this muscle in,” trivia, and that stuff is inside you. Who cares? People love to feel superior to other people. That's always been the case. I have lots of students in government classes that can't point to a lot of countries on a map, but rather than shame them, I prefer to teach them as to why these areas are important to them and their lives. And sometimes, nothing you do or say will make a student care one iota about a place that's located across the planet. Historically, this has always been the case, where people only care about things that immediately affect them. And often, they don't have a clue how something might affect them, even when that thing could be the reason for their life and death. Part of me blame our cell phone environment, where people think that having a smart phone is a replacement for knowledge. I've had students who google something during a lecture and spout it off as if they knew the answer right then and there. And then I'll ask them a follow-up question that doesn't allow them to fill in the blank with google trivia, and they immediately realize they have no idea how to even answer the question. That's where much of our world is these days. We think we're more intelligent because our technology is better; we're anything but that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Afghan baby girl sold for $500 by starving family WWW.BBC.COM The BBC’s Yogita Limaye witnesses first-hand the extreme poverty engulfing millions in Afghanistan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 The problem isn't that we could find Afghanistan on a map and they couldn't, the problem was that once we found it on a map we stopped looking at it (and they didn't). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 A fantasy of mine would be to find one of those people trying to do the "gotcha!" geography challenges in times square or wherever they do it, challenging the interviewer (who is basically pretending they're smart), to a country-name-off. Hint-Hint: I can get almost every country. The only things I mix up is I can never differentiate Honduras and Guatemala for some reason, and hardly anyone can ever remember every single Caribbean or Pacific country. I always forget like Vanuatu or whatever. Or I can't remember whether the Marshall Islands are a country or not. I take it personally because I never graduated high school. The whole "gotcha, look how stupid people are!" is a pandering, lazy, nincompoopian, rusty butt fuck of a gag that I wish would die. The only thing that gives me comfort is that I believe in my heart of hearts that there are actually plenty of people that fucking own the interviewer every time they do it, but they don't make the edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 On 10/18/2021 at 10:59 AM, Kal-El814 said: I’ve never gotten the whole, “these dum dums can’t find X on a map,” gotchas. I feel like people would do even worse on, “what part of your body is this muscle in,” trivia, and that stuff is inside you. Who cares? In general you are correct but an exception should be made for anyone supporting combat operations in a foreign theater. If you support the bombing of a country and putting its civilians’ lives at risk, along with the lives of our troops, and you can’t even find it on a goddamn map, you deserve to be publicly shamed, preferably to tears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said: In general you are correct but an exception should be made for anyone supporting combat operations in a foreign theater. If you support the bombing of a country and putting its civilians’ lives at risk, along with the lives of our troops, and you can’t even find it on a goddamn map, you deserve to be publicly shamed, preferably to tears. I agree the handful of people who decide if we should go to war should know where that country is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 More than 20 killed in attack on Kabul military hospital WWW.BBC.COM There were two explosions and gunfire at the site of the Sardar Daud Khan military hospital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 I dunno, I still have a pretty good time laughing about the coworker who insists the USSR was a submarine and Mexico is part of South America. The other alternative is crying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 11 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I dunno, I still have a pretty good time laughing about the coworker who insists the USSR was a submarine and Mexico is part of South America. The other alternative is crying. Mexico is south of America 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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