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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:35:15 GMT -8
Cold? Go stand in the corner. It's 90 degrees.
The Taliban Don't Think Things are Bad Enough for the Afghan People
Three major non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have halted work in Afghanistan after women were banned from working for them by the Taliban.
In a joint statement, Care International, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Save the Children said they would be unable to continue their work "without our female staff".
The aid groups are "demanding" that women can continue to work for them.
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have been steadily repressing women's rights.
The latest edict on NGOs came just days after the Taliban banned women from attending university.
Abdel Rahman Habib, spokesman for the Taliban's ministry of economy, claimed female workers at the foreign aid groups had broken dress codes by not wearing hijabs.
The Taliban threatened to cancel the licence of any organisation that did not swiftly comply with the ban.
The leaders of Care, the NRC and Save the Children said the organisations "would not have jointly reached millions of Afghans in need since August 2021" were it not for their female staff.
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:39:40 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Incumbent New York state Senator John Mannion (D), who officially won reelection by 10 votes (out of 123,148 cast) over challenger Rebecca Shiroff after a recount and judge's ruling
Attorney General Merrick Garland, for ordering prosecutors to treat crack cocaine the same as powder cocaine, a move toward ending sentencing disparities that hurt Black communities
President Biden: makes $4B for taxpayers from petroleum reserve by selling high and buying low; welcomes Zelenskyy to White House; Q3 economic growth revised up to 3.2%; unveils plan to reduce homelessness by 1/4 in 2 years
The North Carolina Supreme Court, for blocking the MAGAts' 2018 anti-Black voter ID law and ordering the state Senate map be redrawn due to gerrymandering
The Postal Service, which will turn a lot greener thanks to the Biden administration's order to replace gas-guzzling delivery vans with one of the largest electric-vehicle fleets in the nation
3M, for announcing it'll stop making "forever chemicals" and work to discontinue their use across their product line within 3 years
The January 6 Select Committee, for pulling no punches in its final report, which includes multiple referrals to DOJ for criminal prosecution of Trump and his abettors
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, for traveling to Washington D.C. to reaffirm his country's strong alliance with the U.S. and vow in a speech to Congress to clobber Putin for good in 2023
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for ordering Wells Fargo Bank to pay over $2 billion to bilked customers and a $1.7 billion penalty for rampant fraud
Anyone who didn’t give a crap about the massive human rights violation teeming with corruption in Qatar that was thinly disguised as a soccer tournament
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:42:09 GMT -8
They're Dropping Like Flies in Russia
A major Russian shipyard that specialises in building non-nuclear submarines said its general director had died suddenly on Saturday after 11 years in the job, but gave no details.
Admiralty Shipyards, based in the western port of St Petersburg, announced the death of Alexander Buzakov in a statement. He had been in the job since August 2012. ........... Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces General Alexei Maslow is suddenly deceased.
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:43:31 GMT -8
Some People Can't Get Enough Losing
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:44:56 GMT -8
Oops!
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:47:19 GMT -8
Parts of Russia are Full of Shit. Literally.
As Russia has launched relentless strikes on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, leaving millions without electricity, water and heat, towns across Russia have been beset by their own, utility-related disasters.
A huge gas pipeline explosion outside St. Petersburg last month, major fires in two separate Moscow shopping malls allegedly caused by dodgy welding, and faulty power grids that have left tens of thousands without heat and electricity are just some of the incidents reported since Russia’s efforts to obliterate Ukraine’s infrastructure that began in October.
In late October, two sewer pipes burst in the southern city of Volgograd, flooding several streets with feces and waste water, and leaving 200,000 of the 1 million residents without water or heating for several days.
Ilya Kravchenko, a local lawmaker who collected testimony from more than 1,000 victims of the incident and filed a lawsuit against the corporation that owns the sewer system, said the sight was “not pretty.”
“This is the worst year on record. The city has never had so many problems,” Kravchenko said.
A few weeks later, a similar, though less drastic sewage problem in the town of Pervouralsk, a small city west of Yekaterinburg, provoked residents to drag buckets of fecal water to the offices of the local water council in protest, claiming authorities had neglected the problem for years.
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:50:53 GMT -8
A Message From Mordor
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Post by mhbruin on Dec 25, 2022 9:53:40 GMT -8
We Need All the Peace and Goodwill We Can Find
Merry Christmas. Happy Hannukah.
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Post by hasben on Dec 25, 2022 13:50:26 GMT -8
Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year to you and to all of the readers of your posts who never reply.
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Post by sagobob on Dec 25, 2022 15:52:20 GMT -8
It's really a message from the most self-absorbed sociopath in the history of man.
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