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After years of debate, Boulder, Colorado names Nablus a sister city - Palestinians - Haaretz

Nablus is a very pretty town, with a community of Samaritans living nearby, Jews who speak Arabic and consider themselves to be Palestinians. They have Israeli citzenship because Jews and can move in and out of Nablus, so a lot of them drive taxis. When I was over there I left most of my luggage in a room I just rented in Nablus, and then had to leave town for a meeting. Then the Israelis locked down Nablus for months. So this good Samaritan taxi driver got us our luggage back. For a fee, obviously, but still.
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New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal told Egypt on Thursday that if it did not clarify by midnight whether it planned to call a vote on a draft UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, then they reserved the right to move ahead with the text, diplomats said.*
The ultimatum came hours after Egypt postponed a UN vote on a Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements following pressure from Israel and Trump, who had called on members to veto it.
With Palestinian support, UN Security Council members issue ultimatum on Israeli settlements - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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And there we are, Obama doesn't veto: No veto: UN Security Council adopts anti-settlement resolution; U.S. abstains - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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Yeah, finally. Was that so hard?
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In which the Great White Saviour rescues one culture's pets from another culture's food festival.

Saved from dog meat festival, 37 dogs en route to Montreal

Something something hens battery cages hypocrisy.

Oh, they're aware. Duh.

Fast Facts on Battery Cages in Canada : Humane Society International

Now sure how they pulled the World Police getting the dogs out of China, though
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Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher 'suffers massive heart attack on flight from London to Los Angeles' - Mirror Online
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No, 2016. You can't do this. NO. BAD YEAR. BAD.

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Fisher was "forced" to lose something like 35 pounds for The Force Awakens. Losing that much weight so quickly is not healthy, since you lose muscle mass (including cardiac muscle mass) as well as fat when you're on a starvation diet.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if her dramatic weight loss contributed to the heart attack.

As such, the insistence that actors (particularly those who happen to be female) should be thin at all costs was likely a contributing factor.
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MORALS. They're for other people.
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Faylaq al-Sham called on all militant groups in Northern Hama to limit what it called as "Jund al-Aqsa barbarism", and urged the al-Nusra Front (recently renamed to Fatah al-Sham Front) to find a rapid solution to prevent Jund al-Aqsa's provocative acts.

The group also threatened to withdraw from regions in which it is fighting against the Syrian army in case of continued aggressions by Jund al-Aqsa.
Faylaq Al-Sham Threatens to Leave War on Damascus as Infighting Intensifies among Terrorist Groups

Or they could join the ceasefire and then wait for the army to finish Jund al-Aqsa, which is not included.

Syria ceasefire agreed, backed by Russia and Turkey | Radio New Zealand News
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This should probably go in the "Security - What Security?" thread but no one has created it yet.

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The article delivers exactly what the headline says (no clickbait here), and more. Smart kid.
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"But apart from that, what have the UN ever done for us?"
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According to conservative's the UN is weak and do nothing, by which they mean, hasn't attacked Russia or China yet a conflict which the UN was formed to avoid.

The UN is restricting our inalienable right to randomly punch other countries just for fun. Boo! The US requests the UN to do a beer shotgun or step off bro!
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Strange how they have been bragging about all the money they spend to 'save' these third world lives, yet the third world sucks ass, still, in 2016.

How about some clean drinking water?

Ohh, Libya was doing that project, clean drinking water to the continent, then the Democrats overthrew his government and destroyed the water canals.

Why is that?

It couldn't just be a scam, where you the western citizen, are funding the elites' life style...
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According to conservative's the UN is weak and do nothing, by which they mean, hasn't attacked Russia or China yet a conflict which the UN was formed to avoid.

The UN is restricting our inalienable right to randomly punch other countries just for fun. Boo! The US requests the UN to do a beer shotgun or step off bro!
Well if the US wants out of the UN, a few things need to occur.
  • Disarm all nuclear weapons. Rogue nations outside international law cannot be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction.
  • Failing that, expect Cuba to accept that overdue delivery, as well as various 'deterrents' appearing on the Mexican and Canadian borders.
  • Release from the rogue state New York City as the de facto capitol of the UN. It would make a lovely free port city.
  • Allow for a State's right to secede from the rogue state.
  • Once all that is seen to, UN nations must impose political and economic sanctions on the rogue state.
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Welp, this isn't a good start to the year. :sadcheer:

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And in Syria a ceasefire between the government and most rebels is/may now be the cause of fighting between the rebels:

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One of the largest rebel factions in northern Idlib, Faylaq Al-Sham, reportedly suffered heavy casualties after a group of unknown assailants carried out an ambush inside the town of Kaftin.

Rebel activists claimed on Sunday that at least ten bodies of Faylaq Al-Sham fighters have been identified so far in Kaftin, while the others still remain unknown.

The assailants also seized Faylaq Al-Sham's weapons and supplies in Kaftin before they fled the area.

Some activists have blamed Jund Al-Aqsa for the ambush on Sunday, despite a number of inconsistencies in the accusations.
Jund al-Aqsa is an al-Qaeda franchise and has often been accused of a string of unsolved attacks on other factions in Idlib. The article adds though that Jund al-Aqsa doesn't have much of a presence in Norther Idlib.
Rebel faction suffers heavy casualties after ambush in northern Idlib

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Al-Nusra Front (that recently renamed to Fatah al-Sham) is preparing war plans to force Ahrar al-Sham militant group out of Idlib after reports said the latter has signed the ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and Turkey between the Syrian government and some militant groups, dissident sources said on Saturday.
Sources close to the dissident groups in Northwestern Syria said that Al-Nusra has prepared war plans to capture the entire Idlib province and force Ahrar al-Sham back across the border into Turkey after the latter militant group joined the ceasefire agreement between the Syrian government and the so-called moderate dissidents that tasks Ahrar al-Sham to assign a new mission to all its militants that used to fight against the Syrian government to stand against the Al-Nusra Front as a terrorist group and open war on the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Idlib.

Meantime, media sources reported that Turkey has warned all militant groups in Idlib that merger with al-Nusra would amount to "suicide" as Ankara has agreed to separate al-Nusra Front and extremist commanders from other groups in Northern Syria.
Dissident Sources: Al-Nusra Readying for Battle to Drive Ahrar Al-Sham out of Idlib

If Jabhat al-Nusra/Fatah al-Sham/al-Qaeda should push the others out of Idlib, that would open the way for full-scale government attacks supported by Russian airpower and even Turkish support (or at least lack of support for the rebels in the border regions where they sometimes shell government forces).
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The lack of evidence for the claim can weigh ever more heavily on public opinion. And the dangers of creating further hostility with Russia can enter the consciousness of additional people.
Meanwhile, we have a man planning to be president later this month whose business dealings clearly violate the U.S. Constitution in terms of not only foreign but also domestic corruption. That's a perfectly overwhelming case for impeachment and removal from office that doesn't require opposing a single incident of mass murder or offending a single Pentagon contractor.
Beyond that, Trump is becoming president after election day intimidation, the partisan-based removal of voters from the rolls, and opposition to attempting to count paper ballots where they existed. He's arriving with the stated policies of unconstitutionally discriminating against Muslims, murdering families, stealing oil, torturing, and proliferating nuclear weapons.
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