• thecookingsenpai@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Sometimes I really need to have these news thrown on my face, is incredible that we tend to forget these situations most of the time

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    I love and promote life-long education for all peoples. This sucks. I can’t imagine how much it sucks to be told you “can’t.”

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      • Foreign donations: The Taliban receive financial aid from certain countries, such as Pakistan, Iran and Russia, as well as private citizens from Pakistan and several Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar¹²⁴. This may account for a significant proportion of their revenue, possibly up to $500 million a year¹.

      • Drug trade: Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, which can be refined to make heroin. The Taliban tax every stage of the drug production and smuggling process, from poppy farmers to traders¹²³. This is one of their main income sources, generating between $100 million and $400 million a year¹.

      • Mining and trading minerals: The Taliban exploit the rich mineral resources of Afghanistan, such as copper, gold, iron, coal and gemstones. They extract and sell these minerals to local and foreign buyers, often through illegal channels¹²⁵. This may bring them another $100 million to $400 million a year¹.

      • Taxation and extortion: The Taliban impose various taxes on the people and businesses in the areas they control, such as a 10% cultivation tax on opium farmers, a 2.5% wealth tax (zakat), and a 10% tax on harvests (ushr)¹²⁵. They also extort money from development and infrastructure projects, as well as from transport and telecommunication companies¹²⁵. This could add another $300 million to $500 million a year to their coffers¹…

      Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/26/202 3 (1) Afghanistan: How do the Taliban make money? - BBC.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46554097.

      (2) Who funds the Taliban? Where the Afghanistan militants’ funding comes …

      https://inews.co.uk/news/world/taliban-who-fund-supplies-weapons-afghanistan-funding-explained-1158494.

      (3) Taliban - Wikipedia.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban.

      (4) Who are the Taliban funded by? Inside its £1 billion fortune.

      https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1477515/Taliban-funding-income-arms-Afghanistan-latest-evg.

      (5) How is the Taliban funded: Where do the militant group get money and …

      https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/taliban-where-weapons-money-funds-b1911655.html.

      (6) en.wikipedia.org.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban.

      • 420stalin69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        Lmao the Taliban have practically eliminated the opium production in Afghanistan. Just like they did before the US invasion.

        It was under US rule that opium production returned and surged.

        So you’re talking made up bullshit.

      • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        Drug Trade

        LMAO i trust you’ll believe a US government rag whining about the Taliban’s successful anti-opium campaign (opium the US puppet regime definitely disapproved of, right?)

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        Drug trade: Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, which can be refined to make heroin.

        The illicit drug trade isn’t just heroin, it’s moving opioids into India so they can be resold to the pharmaceutical industry for our legal-opioid epidemic.

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        Drug trade: Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium

        lol, lmao

        i wonder what happened in 2001 in afghanistan…

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    Too bad US had to overthrow the socialist secular government in Afghanistan and then subject it to decades of unending destruction. US regime is directly responsible for everything we see happening in Afghanistan today.

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    I don’t wish to disparage people’s spiritual beliefs, but I’m sorry nobody should have to go around wearing anything like this, no matter what faith you come from. You should have the freedom to EXIST as yourself and show who you are. This niqab stuff is abuse.

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    This is what you are asking for in Gaza if you support the Palestinians. They want this bullshit world wide, they don’t even hide it either.

    Feel bad for these people who suffer under religious rule. It holds back so many world changing minds. I know women who escaped Iran, who’s now funding Islamic jihadism in the region, and gone on to literally world changing Alzheimer’s research that’s making people’s lives better. Had she stayed in one of these backwards shit hole misogynistic countries, we would never benefit from her mind. That’s only part of the problem with this garbage.

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    Just twenty more years of war! In and out, tactical. We’ll do it right this time. We need more opium. I mean we care about the women of Afghanistan.