[NYPOST] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... said the Lone Star State will hire any Border Patrol agents who fear being fired after President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....... said they "will pay" for their treatment of Haitians at the border, amid false claims they used their horses’ reins as whips. "You have a job in the state of Texas. I will hire you to help Texas secure our border," Abbott, a Republican, said on "Fox News Sunday."
He said the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... put the Border Patrol agents in a difficult situation because it failed to enforce the country’s immigration laws and secure the border.
"The person who took those pictures said that the characterization that the Democrats have made about the Border Patrol using them as whips, whipping people who were coming across the border is false. They were simply maneuvering horses," Abbott continued.
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Abbott says Texas will hire Border Patrol agents punished by Biden
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#5: Right up until he takes middle and conservative america into secession. Either secession or a new Constitution is required. This Obama inspired, Soros funded, crap has to stop and those two jailed.
[Breitbart] Taliban terrorists said Sunday that Afghanistan’s skies are safe for the return of international flights, adding all technical issues at the main Kabul airport have been resolved.
Facilities at the capital’s air transport hub were badly damaged in the chaotic evacuation of more than 120,000 people that ended August 30 with the withdrawal of the last U.S. and allied troops.
AFP reports since then only charter flights have been operating to the newly declared Islamic Caliphate, although Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Iran’s Mahan Air and Afghanistan’s Kam Air have run a limited number of special flights.
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So, they won, but they don't get to dictate terms? Classical historians smirk.
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"We've got all these Stingers and nothing around here flying that we're allowed to shoot at!"
I hear they're talking to the ad group that does the 'Kidvacation Califonia' ads to work something up for them.
(I actually saw a 'Visit Australia' ad yesterday. You're not allowed to enter the country, they're on full lockdown, but make your reservations NOW!)
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[KhaamaPress] Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia, Pakistain, China, and the United States are in sync to ensure that the Taliban ...Arabic for students... abide by the promises they have made.
How?
The Taliban has promised to be respecting human and women’s rights, will not allow extremism in Afghanistan and will establish an all-inclusive government.
Subject to their understanding of Sharia law, which permits none of these things, including any obligation to keep promises made to unbelievers, including those Muslims who do not abide by the Talib takfiri code..
The Russian foreign minister said that representatives of Russia, Pakistain, and China recently visited the Taliban leaders, Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era... , and Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... in Kabul after their visit to Doha.
Lavrov said that the caretaker government announced by the Taliban does not reflect the whole Afghan society and added that they are in contact with the Taliban in this regard.
“Hey, guys? You promised to do all the things on this list.”
“Yes, yes, kafir man. But we are still making the transition — it’ll take months and a great deal of money before we have everything organized enough to think about such things. It would go faster if we had more money, though...”
Sergey Lavrov in his UN General Assembly speech also accused the US of hasty decision over its pullout from Afghanistan as there is a large amount of weapons remain which can pose a serious threat.
Only a threat in the hands of those who understand how to use them. Otherwise they’re just future bazaar items,
Russia talks about the implementation of the promises by the Taliban at a time when none of those pledges are implemented yet.
[ToloNews] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that international recognition of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... was not currently under consideration.
Lavrov was speaking on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. His comments come after the Taliban nominated a U.N. envoy, setting up a showdown over Afghanistan's seat at the world body.
"The question of international recognition of the Taliban at the present juncture is not on the table," Lavrov told a news conference.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday nominated their Doha-based front man Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's U.N. ambassador.
Ghulam Isaczai, the current U.N. ambassador who represents the Afghan government ousted by the Taliban, has also asked to renew his U.N. accreditation.
Russia is a member of a nine-member U.N credentials committee - along with China and the United States - which will deal with the competing claims on Afghanistan's U.N. seat later this year.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... has said that the Taliban's desire for international recognition is the only leverage other countries have to press for inclusive government and respect for rights, particularly for women, in Afghanistan.
[ToloNews] An Afghan female investor, Nilab, has decided to close a driving training center for women that was established a year ago in Kabul.
Nilab said that no girl or a woman has visited the center during the past month despite the interest of more than thirty women who want to learn to drive.
"I face an unclear future," Nilab said.
Mughda, who trained at the center months ago, said women need to continue their work and skill-building. "I aimed to learn to drive, to stand on my own two feet, and to not depend on anyone."
Women told TOLOnews that they should not be deprived of working and studying, as they make up half of the society.
"Not only me, all Afghan women and girls have some prominent goals. They don’t want to be in need. It is good to become a doctor, a manager and so on, to find halal (legal) food," Giti said.
In the meantime, Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... officials declared that women are permitted to work and study in accordance with Islamic laws. "Women can work in any field based on the Islamic framework," said Sayed Khosti, a member of the cultural commission.
The Taliban have so far not allowed girls to attend secondary school.
[ToloNews] A number of Afghan university students who won scholarships cannot attend international programs because the passport office in Kabul remains closed and travel documents cannot be obtained.
The students told TOLOnews they need to renew their passports or they will not be able to receive their visas.
An Afghan student, Najiullah Aryamehr, won a scholarship to study management at a Russian university last year, but he could not travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the closing of borders.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... he took an online class to learn the Russian language.
"No one hears our voices. We have serious problems," Aryamehr told TOLOnews.
According to these students, classes have already started and there is an urgent need for passports.
Mohammad Zamir Rahmani said: "We have to update our passports to get visas. We will be deprived of an education if we cannot get visas."
"We will lose our scholarships ... the fate of more than three hundred students is still unclear," said student Sekander Jamili.
Sources said that on average around 2,000 Afghan students receive scholarships from schools in India, Russia, Pakistain, China, Japan, Uzbekistan and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... each year.
More than 40,000 Afghan students benefited from scholarships over the last two decades, according to available information.
In the meantime, officials of the caretaker government said efforts are being made to employ educated people:
"There is a need for professional youth. We plan to recruit them. No one will remain unemployed," said Zabihullah Mujahid, deputy minister for culture and information.
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[WashingtonPost] As the United States withdrew its forces, Afghanistan special operators were largely moved under the command of the Defense Ministry. The shift robbed the units of a degree of independence that had insulated them from the corruption that handicapped other branches of the country’s security forces, the captain said.
He said he presented his supervisor with multiple plans to reorganize the country’s security forces and to push back the militants’ advances. But each time he was rebuffed.
"Instead, we were sent to conduct clearing operations with no support," he said. "That is not how you win a war. We were letting the enemy choose the battle space; we should have been taking the fight to them."
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"It's because of our leadership that we are in this position," he said, referring to the massive territorial losses the government had suffered in a matter of weeks. "Our leaders sell our checkpoints," he said. "They've already sold our blood."
One police commander said the only men from his unit willing to hold positions against the Taliban were drug addicts.
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WaPo, as in a US govt press release.
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The Afghan army fell apart because there never was one. They're perfectly happy living under a religious dictatorship of the worst degree. Let 'em stew in their own juices for a few centuries more.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The general who heads Sudan’s ruling transitional authority on Sunday pledged to reform the army, days after a failed coup.
"We are going to reorganize the armed forces... Partisan activities are banned in the army," Sovereign Council chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said at the opening of a military hospital in Khartoum.
"The armed forces are committed to holding elections on the date fixed for ending the transition" in 2023, he said.
"After that, the army will leave the political scene and its role will be limited to protecting the country."
Sudan is led by a civilian-military administration under an August 2019 power-sharing deal signed after president Omar Bashir’s ouster by the military in April that year following mass protests against his iron-fisted rule.
Sudan’s government said it thwarted a September 21 coup attempt involving military officers and civilians linked to the regime of imprisoned Bashir. At least 11 officers were among those arrested.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has since called for reforms within the army, a highly sensitive issue in Sudan.
A transition to full civilian rule has remained shaky, reeling from deep fragmentation among political factions, economic woes and a receding role for civilian leaders.
Paramilitary leader and Burhan’s deputy in the Sovereign Council, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, has pointed a finger of blame at politicians after the failed coup.
"Politicians are the main cause behind coups because they have neglected the average citizen... and are more concerned fighting over how they can stay in power," Daglo said.
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[AnNahar] A court in the Algerian capital on Sunday postponed the corruption trial of the younger brother of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out... , who died this month, local media reported.
Defense lawyer Miloud Brahimi requested the postponement, citing Said Bouteflika's "psychological condition" after the September 17 death of his brother.
Algerian media said the 63-year-old who served as presidential advisor appeared pale and weak at the court hearing.
The trial of Bouteflika and several co-defendants in the capital's Dar el-Beida suburb was delayed until October 10, but a defense request for their release on bail was turned down.
Said Bouteflika was detained in May 2019, a month after his brother quit office following mass protests against his bid for a fifth presidential term.
Said was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "plotting" against the army and the state, but a retrial in January cleared him of those charges.
He remains in jug on corruption charges, along with several other political and business leaders from the Bouteflika era.
The once-mighty presidential aide was long seen as the real power running the North African country after his brother suffered a debilitating stroke in 2013.
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A court in the Algerian capital has postponed the corruption trial of the younger brother of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who died this month, according to local media reports.https://t.co/IkHtI6vCef
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to press for a ceasefire in Yemen
Sullivan will be the highest-ranking Biden official to visit the kingdom when he makes the trip Monday
President Joe Biden released a CIA report that held the crown prince responsible for approving the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi
More recently, Biden green-lit the release of documents pertaining to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks
Victims' family members hope the documents help with their ongoing lawsuit against Saudi Arabia - the country where 15 of the 19 hijackers were from
As a candidate Biden said he wished to make the Saudis 'pay the price, and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are'
Sullivan is being dispatched at a moment with the situation in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has futher deteriorated
[Breitbart] A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people.
Anas Khalifa, who had been a radical Salafist preacher for around 20 years, was once one of the most prominent radical Moslems in the country but is said to have turned his back on fundamentalist ideology.
According to Khalifa, radicalism has become more and more prevalent in Sweden’s Moslem community. He told broadcaster SVT that there is a Salafist in every mosque in the country.
"They are everywhere online, they have hundreds of thousands of followers. I’m probably the only one who’s not a Salafist who has 60-70,000 followers," Khalifa said, claiming that he has seen young people born and raised in Sweden who have still become followers of Islamic radicals.
"I have travelled from Boden to Ystad, lectured in associations and mosques for several years, and I have always found someone who is Salafist there," he said, added that Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... often also behave as morality police in their communities, telling others what to do.
Problems with so-called morality police have been an issue in some areas of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... for years, and in 2018 Sweden’s centre-right Moderate Party proposed criminalising anyone caught acting in such a manner.
"They spread hatred against non-Moslems — Christians, Jews. They spread strong prejudices about other groups and minorities, and they sometimes cover that up nicely. They try to explain it and justify it in different ways, but the basic message is this hatred," Khalifa said.
Khalifa also added that, in the past, he had personally known many of the Swedish nationals who had travelled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terrorist organization, saying: "I’ve never sent anyone down, but I haven’t stopped anyone from leaving when I find out... I have blood on my hands."
Earlier this year in May, Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp claimed that Moslemholy warriors were continuing to recruit and spread their ideology in Sweden.
"It’s basically been a disaster. Especially in the area of prevention, but also in terms of legislation," Ranstorp said.
[DW] The center-left Social Democrats are ahead of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc by almost 2%, according to initial projected results. In such a tight race, the possibilities for a coalition are still unclear.
The first projected results are in for Germany's 2021 federal election, with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) on 25.8%, narrowly ahead of the center-right Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party (CDU/CSU) on 24.1%.
Both the conservative bloc and the SPD have said they want to lead the next government, and mathematically, either party could if they secure the necessary allies.
The environmentalist Greens are on course to record their best ever result, headed for around 14% of the vote. The pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) had 11.5%, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had 10.5%. The socialist Left party was hovering around the 5% mark.
Because hating Jews is clearly the most important thing. The next step after yesterday’s repudiation and missile threats.
[Rudaw] An Iraqi court on Sunday issued arrest warrants for three people accused of participating in a conference that called for normalization of ties with Israel.
Warrants have been issued for Wisam al-Hardan, Mithal Aloosi, and Sahar Karim al-Tai, the Supreme Judicial Council announced. Legal measures will be taken against other participants in the conference when they are identified, the court added.
On Friday, more than 300 Iraqis - Sunnis and Shias from across the country - met in Erbil at a conference organized by a US think tank and called for normalization of ties with Israel.
"We demand our integration into the Abraham Accords," Sahar al-Tai, an employee from Iraq’s Ministry of Culture, read from the conference’s closing statement, according to AFP. The Abraham Accords are a US-led Middle East peace initiative that saw Bahrain, Morocco, the UAE, and Sudan forge ties with Israel.
"Just as these agreements provide for diplomatic relations between the signatories and Israel, we also want normal relations with Israel," Tai said.
The conference was condemned by Baghdad and Erbil. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called it "illegal" and said ties with Israel are constitutionally rejected. Spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Jotiar Adil said the conference was held "without our approval or knowledge" and does "not reflect the views and policies of the KRG."
Aloosi, a former parliamentarian, told Rudaw that the conference called for "balanced relations between Iraq and the Israeli state," but he himself was not in attendance.
Hardan, leader of the Sons of Iraq Awakening movement, had penned an op-ed published Friday in the Wall Street Journal, stating that the conference was to demand Iraq open ties with Israel.
[JPost] SSsshhh wait for the NY Times to post it
The picture, name and address of the incoming head of the Israel Security Agency were published by Palestinian media along with the phrase "wanted," Kan reported Sunday night.
It is illegal in Israel to publish the name, but a source told Kan that because the individual is widely known in Israel's security sector and because his picture was taken at a public event, there is no cause for concern.
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Iran has reneged on allowing a recent deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency for access to its Karaj nuclear facility, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Sunday.
"The (IAEA) Director General (Rafael Grossi) stresses that Iran's decision not to allow agency access to the TESA Karaj centrifuge component manufacturing workshop is contrary to the agreed terms of the joint statement issued on 12 September," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.
"Iran from 20—22 September permitted IAEA inspectors to service identified agency monitoring and surveillance equipment and to replace storage media at all necessary locations in Iran with the exception of the centrifuge component manufacturing workshop at the TESA Karaj complex," the IAEA statement said further.
In mid-September, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi announced he had reached a deal with the new Iranian government, which was elected in mid-June, that could break the logjam which had led Tehran to block the agency’s inspections since May.
A major revelation that came out of the announcement of the deal was that various IAEA monitoring cameras had been destroyed, damaged or shut off.
However, Grossi said he had received guarantees from Iran that it would almost immediately grant access to fix and otherwise restore the cameras’ monitoring.
Based on this deal, there was a sudden wave of optimism in the West that the ayatollahs may have concluded that they had pushed their obstructionist posture and strategy of increased violations of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal as far as they could go.
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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.
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
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