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Press Watchdog Calls For US Plan To Evacuate Afghan Journalists

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Afghanistan: The RSF chief said the NGO has received dozens of urgent evacuation requests. (File)
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Paris:
Reporters Without Borders called Saturday on US President Joe Biden to make "a special plan for evacuating endangered Afghan journalists" from Taliban-controlled Kabul.
RSF said the United States currently seemed to be concerned only with the evacuation "of its own citizens and former employees".
"This is blocking the evacuation of those on the lists of sensitive persons who are in danger," it added.
"We are receiving dozens and dozens of urgent evacuation requests," said RSF chief Christophe Deloire.
"Our problem today is not getting visas or seats on planes, it is making it possible for these people to access planes."
The NGO is calling on the US to postpone the end of its military operation at Kabul airport so journalists and rights activists from various countries and organisations can be identified and given access.
"It will be materially impossible to complete the evacuation of all those in great danger, including Afghan journalists, by 31 August," it said.
"The image of the United States as a defender of press freedom and human rights is at stake," Deloire said.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said it had received "hundreds of requests for help" from Afghan journalists, mostly women, who are "in panic and fear".
The Taliban, looking for a Deutsche Welle journalist now based in Germany, shot dead a member of his family on Wednesday and seriously wounded another, German radio reported.
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Taliban Takeover Prompts Relief, Women's Rights Fears In Afghan Cities

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Kabul:
After 20 years of devastating war, Afghans in cities far from the capital Kabul are feeling a mix of relief and dread about what awaits them under the Taliban.
The triumph of the hardline Islamist group and the mass surrender of government forces has brought a long-desired respite from fighting, which has left tens of thousands dead and millions homeless since 2001.
"The people are very happy. There will be no more corruption, and maybe no more bombings," a journalist in the southern city of Lashkar Gah, in Helmand province, told AFP.
But whether women can work, get education at all levels and be able to mix with men are some of the most pressing questions.
A school principal in the northeastern city of Kunduz, where the Taliban traditionally have less influence, told AFP the group was permitting education of girls of all ages, but under strict segregation.
"The Taliban said if women are teaching girls, then there is no problem," he said over WhatsApp.
"Women teachers can go to school but they cannot work together with men."
In another diktat, the Taliban told him no music or singing was allowed.
But in the markets and in health clinics, women could still be seen without male chaperones, he observed.
The Taliban they spoke to did not say if the new rules had come from above or were being locally implemented.
The militants have repeatedly promised a different kind of rule to their brutal regime of the 1990s that saw women confined to their homes, most entertainment banned, and punishments including stonings and public executions.
They have pledged to respect progress made in women's rights, but only according to their strict interpretation of Islamic law.
The Taliban rebranding is being treated with scepticism, with experts questioning whether it will be a short-term bid to seek international recognition and a continuation of vital aid.
Wearing burqa out of fear
A midwife who works for a foreign NGO in Lashkar Gah said she was told to stay home until there was more clarity from the Taliban.
"I'm really not happy because I need the money," she said.
The Taliban have not yet formed a government, leaving room for differences in how they are asserting their authority in newly seized territories.
An employee at Lashkar Gah University, who said many of his female colleagues still attended work this week, met with Taliban officials after they asked about next semester's curriculum.
"It was new to them. They are just villagers," he told AFP over WhatsApp.
Some women in the city, out of fear, had resumed wearing the all-enveloping burqa -- already common in the deeply conservative south, he observed this week.
But he recounted how the militants -- who once arrested men for not letting their beards grow -- did not interfere when he went to the barber for a shave this week.
In Herat, a cosmopolitan city just 150 kilometres (100 miles) from the Iranian border and influenced by Persian culture, men and women previously walked together in parks at night.
Not anymore.
An employee of the local university, concerned about her professional future, says that she now has to work without men, and worries about receiving her salary.
In Afghanistan's second-largest city of Kandahar -- the capital of the first Taliban regime -- the owner of a trendy cafe has kept his establishment open.
"The Taliban have so far not created any problems," he said.
But the customers are no longer coming.
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US Urges Citizens To Stay Away From Kabul Airport As Crowd Chaos Grows

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Kabul:
The United States advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid travelling to Kabul airport on Saturday as thousands gathered trying to flee the country almost a week after the Islamist terrorists took control.
The advisory came after Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar arrived in Kabul for talks with other leaders to hammer out a new Afghan government after the Taliban's lightning advance across the country.
Images circulated on social media this week of Afghans rushing towards a US C-17 transport plane and clinging to its side. A separate video showed what appeared to be two people falling from a military plane as it flew out of Kabul.
Since then, crowds have grown at the airport where armed Taliban have urged those without travel documents to go home. At least 12 people have been killed in and around the single runway airfield since Sunday, NATO and Taliban officials said.
"Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport, we are advising US citizens to avoid travelling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a US government representative to do so," the US Embassy advisory said.
The chaos was not the responsibility of the Taliban, an official of the group told Reuters. "The West could have had a better plan to evacuate."
Switzerland postponed a charter flight from Kabul because of the chaos, its foreign ministry said.
"The security situation around Kabul airport has worsened significantly in the last hours. A large number of people in front of the airport and sometimes violent confrontations are hindering access to the airport," the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
The Taliban completed their sudden advance across the country as US-led forces pulled out, coinciding with what German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday was the "breathtaking collapse" of the Afghan army.
The Taliban official said the group planned to ready a new model for governing Afghanistan within the next few weeks, with separate teams to tackle internal security and financial issues.
"Experts from the former government will be brought in for crisis management," he told Reuters.
The new government structure would not be a democracy by Western definitions, but "it will protect everyone's rights", the official added.
The Taliban, who follow an ultra-hardline version of Sunni Islam, have presented a more moderate face since returning to power, saying they want peace, will not take revenge against old enemies and will respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law.
When in power from 1996-2001, they stopped women from working or going out without wearing an all-enveloping burqa and stopped children from going to school.
Baradar will meet terrorist commanders, former government leaders and policy makers, as well as religious scholars among others, the official said without elaborating.
Russia said it was important to establish good and neighbourly relations with Afghanistan. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday that the European Union has not recognised the Taliban nor was it holding political talks with them.
About 12,000 foreigners and Afghans working for embassies and international aid groups have been evacuated from Kabul airport since Taliban insurgents entered the capital, a NATO official said.
"The evacuation process is slow, as it is risky, for we don't want any form of clashes with Taliban members or civilians outside the airport," the NATO official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
"We don't want to start a blame game regarding the evacuation plan."
Harrowing Tales
Individual Afghans and international aid and advocacy groups have reported harsh retaliation against protests, and roundups of those who had formerly held government positions, criticised the Taliban or worked with Americans.
"We have heard of some cases of atrocities and crimes against civilians," said the Taliban official on condition of anonymity.
"If (members of the Taliban) are doing these law and order problems, they will be investigated," he said. "We can understand the panic, stress and anxiety. People think we will not be accountable, but that will not be the case."
Former officials told harrowing tales of hiding from the Taliban in recent days as gunmen went from door to door. One family of 16 described running to the bathroom, lights off and children's mouths covered, in fear for their lives.
Baradar, the chief of the Taliban's political office, was part of the group's negotiating team in the Qatar capital of Doha.
Reported to have been one of the most trusted commanders of the former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar, Baradar was captured in 2010 by security forces in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi and released in 2018.
The delay in forming a new Afghan government or even announcing who will lead a new Taliban administration underlines how unprepared the movement was for the sudden collapse of the Western-trained forces it had been fighting for years.
The Taliban, whose overall leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, has so far been silent publicly, must also unite disparate groups within the movement whose interests may not always coincide now that victory has been achieved.
As Western nations have struggled to speed up evacuations, President Joe Biden confronted criticism about the planning for the withdrawal of US troops.
"I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies," Biden told reporters after a speech from the White House on Friday. "As a matter of fact, the exact opposite ... we're acting with dispatch, we're acting, committing to what we said we would do."
He insisted every American who wanted to would be evacuated.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the situation outside Kabul airport "very dire and difficult", as several member nations pressed for evacuations to continue beyond a US deadline of August 31.
 
 
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World Economic Forum pushes new form of surveillance – turning your heartbeat into a digital ID

The World Economic Forum (WEF), that gave us the “Great Reset” concept, is at it again, “glimpsing” into the future, this time <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/covid19-long-term-effects-society-digital">trying to predict the consequences of the response to the pandemic.</a>
The WEF went to the trouble of creating a video to illustrate a write up on its site that talks about what the organization calls long-term effects of the COVID pandemic, divides these into five categories, and stresses the central role of “digital transformation” affecting economies, people, and governments.
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A new, innovative form of invasive mass surveillance features in passing in one of the categories of these long-term effects.
The predictions touch on the way office workers forced to work remotely will live and work going forward, suggests that people will be increasingly boxed in and physically constrained in their everyday activities to what’s referred to as “15 minute (away from home) spaces” like restaurants and gyms we’ll be likely to go to in the future.
Other points concern the rise of food delivery and what the WEF, which teamed up with US consulting firm Cognizant to produce this, calls “ghost kitchens,” then the future of education, which is said to likely be a hybrid of homeschooling and students attending classes in schools.
But what’s particularly interesting is how the WEF envisages the future of security: putting to use a little-thought-of unique biometric marker: the human heartbeat.
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This <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/27/238884/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/">tech has already been developed by the Pentagon</a>, that has produced a device to identify what reports refer to as a person’s cardiac signature. This was done at the request of US Special Forces, who wanted to be able to pinpoint their enemies from as far as 650 feet away.
But in the future, as predicted by the WEF, the “enemy” will be everybody – not only security targets, but also, for instance, “opted-in shoppers as they enter a store, to personalize their visit.”
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The device, an infrared laser, will also help with bypassing the problem of people being told to wear masks, but then many mass surveillance facial recognition systems ending up “stumped” by them.
Then there’s the “advantage” of these lasers’ long range use. Today it’s 650 feet way – but as Pentagon’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office’s Steward Remaly remarked in 2019, “I don’t want to say you could do it from space, but longer ranges should be possible.”
 
 
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San Francisco Prepares To Suspend Cops And Firefighters Who Refuse To Disclose Vaccination Status

San Francisco is preparing to suspend nearly two-dozen employees with the police, fire, and sheriff’s departments who have refused to disclose their vaccination status, while hundreds of employees from other departments are about to be similarly put on notice, according to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-moves-to-suspend-police-fire-and-16399089.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
The city sent notifications to 20 employees in the police, fire and sheriff’s departments for failing to meet an Aug. 12 disclosure deadline, while employees from other departments – including Public Health and the Municipal Transportation Agency, could receive similar letters next week.
The city is recommending a 10-day unpaid suspension for 11 Police Department employees, seven Fire Department employees and two employees in the Sheriff’s Department.
“The health and well being of city employees and the public we serve are top priorities during our emergency response to COVID-19,” reads the letter which was obtained by the Chronicle. “Your failure to comply with the vaccination status reporting requirement endangers the health and safety of the city’s workforce and the public we serve.”
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The letters will arrive as San Francisco grapples with <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/San-Francisco-has-among-the-highest-coronavirus-16383566.php">a surge in coronavirus cases</a> fueled by the delta variant, with the unvaccinated making up the overwhelming majority of those who are hospitalized or killed by the virus. The data shows that the vaccines are extremely safe and very effective at preventing severe COVID-19.
San Francisco was the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/S-F-will-require-all-city-workers-to-be-16269840.php">first large city in the country</a> to require all municipal employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, unless they have a valid religious or medical exemption. All employees had to report their vaccination status to the city by Aug. 12, and those without valid exemptions must be inoculated 10 weeks after the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the vaccines. The Department of Human Resources already gave employees a two-week extension to report their status. -SF Chronicle
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According to the report, the city says that failure to get the jab could eventually lead to firings. 
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Former Officials Say Trump Planned to Keep Special Forces in Afghanistan to Prevent a Collapse

Former senior Trump administration defense and intelligence officials watching the disaster unfolding this week in Afghanistan say that the incoming Biden administration rejected their plans for a stable withdrawal, which included keeping a small unit to conduct counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Taliban if necessary.
Three former senior officials told Breitbart News that the small force of about 800 U.S. troops would have been left in place to continue the counterterrorism mission, but to also provide intelligence and logistical support to the Afghan military and prevent the kind of collapse the world is witnessing now in Afghanistan.
“That was the hope…to be able to do the drone mission and the counterterrorism support, and also advising specifically the Afghan Special Forces who were doing a lot of the [counterterrorism] efforts…And Biden just pulled them out as well,” one former senior defense official said.
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“We were going to be leaving a small force behind regardless,” a second former senior defense official said, adding about former President Donald Trump, “When things started to go bad, he’s changed. I mean, he had a history of changing his mind when it, when he realized it was going to go badly.”
“He didn’t want to continue a forever war of nation building in Afghanistan, but did he literally say, you know, have no one on the ground? No,” said a third former senior administration official, who pointed to Trump leaving 900 U.S. troops in Syria. “I can’t get into like specific details, but I think that is broadly consistent with what I was saying about his approach to issues.”
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