Biden to split frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, relief
apnews.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the U.S. banking system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept.
  • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is one of the most evil things I have ever seen. It's their fucking money. You're condemning a country to starvation to finance lawsuits against the Taliban about an attack 20 years ago that they had nothing to do with. Spending the other half on some NGOs that will almost certainly hoover up as much as they can before whatever's left is thrown at some photo op meal kit delivery. And this is supposed to be praiseworthy? Absolutely evil shit. Even David fucking Milliband is calling this out for what this is.

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      tfw pirate land only has racism and cruelty instead of rum and wenches :deeper-sadness:

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        This is a reminder that everyone should watch Black Sails. It's extremely based, extremely horney, and extremely gay.

    • shiny [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The so-called Hamiltonian system introduced very high tariffs to block superior British manufactures. There was a lot of stealing of technology-- what is now called piracy. And the United States began to develop and this went from textiles, the early stages of industrialization, then right through steel and on pretty much until the First and Second World War.

      - Noam Chomsky :astronaut-2: :astronaut-1:

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Remind me again, centuries before, how did the british got so much "spanish" gold?

        Anglos are all pirates and slavers

    • VapeNoir [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      At least on a pirate ship the captain only earned twice as much as a crewmate in plunder.

  • Link [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    THIEFS HATE HIM

    Find out how he stole $7.5 billion with ONE SIMPLE TRICK!

  • apparitionist [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The other $3.5 billion would remain in the United States and be used to fund payments from ongoing litigation by U.S. victims of terrorism.

    Every single terrorist event in the last 25 years was manufactured by the FBI

    David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, urged release of the funds... “The humanitarian community did not choose the government,

    the “humanitarian community" is apparently CIA NGO PMC who agitated for war in Syria

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      U.S. victims of terrorism.

      Read that as victims of U.S. terrorism. Sadly, they won't be compensated.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      But the "humanitarian community" is saying "don't loot the funds, give them baxk"

  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Cops robbing armoured cars to use money of legal business for further "crime prevention".

    US looting wealth of a country they destroyed to give it to Americans via a "victims fund".

    :same-picture:

  • shiny [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Hey I know this playbook :fidel-sarcastic:

    The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba Afghanistan. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba Afghanistan to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.

    - Secretary of State Mallory

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I guess I didn't realize the bipartisan consensus was to pretend invading Afghanistan (and I'm assuming Iraq too) was actually in response to 911.

    With all the gnashing of teeth during the GWB administration and all the shitty books written about him, I'm shocked that he's been so quickly rehabilitated.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      “But, but the terrorists were training in Afghanistan!!!”

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    lol goddamn these Dems really fucking suck.

    Mr. Won't Do Executive Actions to Help Anyone sure will do it to loot a country we annihilated for 20 years. They're begging for Carousel at this point.

    :kitsuragi-depress:

  • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    America committing genocide in real time. So damn evil. Worst than Trump, he’s done, this country is done. Now waiting for this damn country transition to fascist state so PLA could liberate us

  • artificialset [she/her, fae/faer]
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    2 years ago

    Because it's not enough to just ruin the country once. They have to deny aid that would act as the slightest start to recovery during an economic collapse. Imeperialists are disgusting.