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Syrian Refugees Resettled in Texas, Indiana | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • Syrian families have been settled in Texas and in Indiana, the groups helping them said Tuesday, defying efforts by the conservative states' governors to stop their arrival.
  • A family of six went to live Monday near relatives already living in the Dallas area
  • Another couple and their four daughters were settled in Houston on Monday night by a different resettlement agency, Refugee Services of Texas. An additional nine refugees are expected to arrive later in the week.
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  • Meanwhile, a Syrian couple and their two small children arrived safely Monday night in Indianapolis
  • It said the family fled Syria three years ago and underwent two years of security checks before being allowed to enter the U.S.
  • But he said he welcomed them anyway because helping refugees "is an essential part of our identity as Catholic Christians."
  • But Pence indicated he wouldn't try to deny Medicaid, food stamps or other social services to any refugees who do arrive in Indiana.
  • Texas has taken in more refugees than any other state in the last five years, including about 250 Syrian refugees. But it also fought harder than any other state to stop the inflow of Syrian refugees after the attacks.
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Jordan Calls UN Refugee Claim 'Exaggerated' | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • U.N figure of 12,000 stranded refugees.
  • Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the kingdom to let the refugees in
  • The UNHCR has warned that the lives of the stranded refugees will be at risk in coming winter months if they are not admitted to Jordan and receive substantial assistance. 
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  • Momani says that "our borders are open for refugees" and that "we take care of humanitarian cases, particularly children and women."  
  • Jordan hosts about 630,000 of more than 4 million Syrians who have fled their homeland since 2011.
  • Jordan has permitted entry to small groups at a time, typically several dozen a day, citing the need for stringent security checks to weed out potential fighters alligned with armed groups.
  • U.N. refugee agency made a rare public appeal to Jordan to change its policy, while acknowledging the country's "tremendous contribution" to hosting refugees
  • "Testimony from Syrian refugees and international aid workers in Jordan ... suggests that hundreds of refugees have been arriving on a daily basis in recent weeks but have been denied access to Jordan by the authorities,"
  • Amman to take "immediate action" to assist them, saying failure to provide refugees with sanctuary could fuel a "humanitarian disaster." 
  • The group said the images show more than 1,450 tent structures, compared to 175 in April.
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    "She said women have given birth at the berm in unsanitary conditions, and that there are increasing signs of diarrhea and malnutrition among children. "
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Greece buses 2,000 refugees from border camp to Athens | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Greece has dispersed more than 2,000 refugees
  • Greece has dispersed more than 2,000 refugees
  • EU announced that over 1 million people had now claimed asylum within its borders since the start of the year.
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  • Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis continue to be allowed into Macedonia and the Balkans
  • on Wednesday 11 people were confirmed to have drowned in the Atlantic Ocean during an attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islands by boat from west Africa.
  • which includes asylum seekers from warring countries such as Somalia, as well as peaceful ones like Morocco.
  • he morning to disperse the camp,
  • Other observers speculate that those who have been returned to Athens will not remain for long, with many expected to try to reach northern Europe via Bulgaria or Albania instead.
  • On Sunday, the Spanish coastguard rescued 51 people making the journey, and on Monday another 47 people.
  • Rough estimates suggest that more than 400 people have arrived in the Spanish archipelago since the start of the year,
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Eating less meat essential to curb climate change, says report | Environment | The Guar... - 0 views

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  • There is a deep reluctance to engage because of the received wisdom that it is not the place of governments or civil society to intrude into people’s lives and tell them what to eat.”
  • Other scientists have proposed a meat tax to curb consumption, but the report concludes that keeping meat eating to levels recommended by health authorities would not only lower emissions but also reduce heart disease and cancer.
  • The research does not show everyone has to be a vegetarian to limit warming to 2C, the stated objective of the world’s governments,” said Bailey.
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  • Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions. Beef and dairy alone make up 65% of all livestock emissions.
  • Meat consumption is on track to rise 75% by 2050, and dairy 65%, compared with 40% for cereals. By 2020, China alone is expected to be eating 20m tonnes more of meat and dairy a year.
  • agricultural emissions will take up the entire world’s carbon budget by 2050, with livestock a major contributor. This would mean every other sector, including energy, industry and transport, would have to be zero carbon, which is described as “impossible”. The Chatham House report concludes: “Dietary change is essential if global warming is not to exceed 2C.”
  • “This is not a radical vegetarian argument; it is an argument about eating meat in sensible amounts as part of healthy, balanced diets.”
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Eating Less Meat Is World's Best Chance For Timely Climate Change, Say Experts - Forbes - 0 views

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  • he world’s best chance for achieving timely, disaster-averting climate change may actually be a vegetarian diet eating less meat,
  • simply suggest diets containing less meat.)
  • A widely cited 2006 report estimated that 18% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions were attributable to cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs and poultry. However, analysis performed by Goodland, with co-writer Jeff Anhang, an environmental specialist at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, found that figure to now more accurately be 51%.
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  • A widely cited 2006 report estimated that 18% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions were attributable to cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, camels, pigs and poultry. However, analysis performed by Goodland, with co-writer Jeff Anhang, an environmental specialist at the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation, found that figure to now more accurately be 51%.
  • a molecule of CO2 exhaled by livestock is no more natural than one from an auto tailpipe.
  • Today, tens of billions more livestock are exhaling CO2 than in preindustrial days, while Earth’s photosynthetic capacity (its capacity to keep carbon out of the atmosphere by absorbing it in plant mass) has declined sharply as forest has been cleared.
  • One way in which this will be particularly troublesome for livestock producers will be that crops grown for feed will be refocused on biofuel sources.
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COP21 climate talks: Watching Greenland melt from Paris - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • The outdoor exhibit, called Paris Ice Watch, is meant to focus the world's attention on the increasingly ephemeral nature of these amazing ice hunks
  • officials from 195 countries are meeting at the U.N. COP21 climate change summit to try to figure out how to curb the most disastrous consequences of global warming.
  • "Let's show the glacier is actually real. It's actually there," he told me. "It's just not some abstract thing people talk about if you're a scientist."
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  • Paris Ice Watch is a reminder that the ice is melting as they talk.Read More
  • It also might get them thinking about the fact that the Arctic is warming about twice the rate of the rest of the planet, thanks to pollution from burning fossil fuels for electricity and heat.
  • This is likely to be the hottest year on record. If all of Greenland melted, which could happen if we let climate change run amok, global seas would rise perhaps 7 meters.
  • Since we humans were able to create this mess, he told me, we can fix it.
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War on ISIS: Why Arab states aren't doing more - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • sending Special Forces. British jets have joined French warplanes over the skies of Syria. Even Germany, whose post-World War II constitution puts restrictions on fighting battles on foreign soil, is becoming increasingly involved.
  • Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are down to about one mission against ISIS targets each month, a U.S. official told CNN on Monday. Bahrain stopped in the autumn, the official says, and Jordan stopped in August.
  • Yemen -- not ISIS -- is the priority for most Arab countries
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  • Yemen is at the center of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the region's biggest powers.
  • Iran is majority Shia Muslim and non-Arab. Most of the other countries in the region -- including, and led by, Saudi Arabia -- are majority Sunni Arab, and are suspicious of Iran's motives.
  • ou're talking about a major 24/7 war. The Saudis and the Emiratis -- the two countries with the most capacity in terms of air power -- are flying fighter jets over the skies of Yemen,
  • "The Arab states, including Jordan -- after the incident with the pilot [burned to death by ISIS when his plane crashed in Syria] -- are laying low,"
  • "ISIS doesn't just exist in Syria and Iraq -- it has major constituency supporters in almost all Arab countries, including Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan.
  • They're not just fighters, they play leadership roles -- and ISIS has carried out major attacks in Saudi, both against Shiite mosques and against (other) Saudi targets.
  • They say Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are also less inclined to carry out strikes against ISIS targets if doing so helps Iran's allies in Damascus and Baghdad.
  • "It is important for any intervening army to have the backing of the central government, or at least the army in the country," Sary says, "(including) the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who everyone will see as impossible to work with."
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Muhammad Ali responds to Donald Trump's Muslim ban plan | Sport | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • “I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world,” Ali said in a statemen
  • True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.”
  • Trump’s sweeping call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”
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  • bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is,”
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First Syrian refugees from camps in Jordan and Lebanon to arrive in Canada | World news... - 0 views

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  • The first planeload of Syrian refugees from camps in Jordan and Lebanon will arrive in Canada on Thursday,
  • Another such aircraft will arrive in Montreal on Saturday, he told legislators.
  • The Liberal government plans to resettle 10,000 refugees from Syria’s four-year-old civil war by the end of the year and a further 15,000 by the end of February.
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  • Ottawa plans to accept Syrians from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 8,554 Syrians to Canadian officials for interviews.
  • As of 7 December, there were 1,451 Syrian refugees who had received permanent resident visas to come to Canada but had not arrived. McCallum said Canadian officials were now interviewing a total of 800 refugees each day in Amman and Beirut.
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Donald Trump's Calls To Restrict Muslims In The U.S. Have An Echo In Angola : Goats and... - 0 views

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  • He previously said he would "strongly consider" shutting down some mosques in the U.S.
  • there's a country that has taken Trump's rhetoric one step further and actually put one of his proposed policies — shutting down mosques — into practice.
  • Both countries are roughly three-fourths Christian (Roman Catholicism dominates in Angola) and less than 1 percent Muslim.
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  • the Angolan government has made it extremely difficult for non-Christian religious groups to practice their faith.
  • For example, the Angolan government only grants legal standing to religious groups that have at least 100,000 members. There are roughly 90,000 Muslims in the country
  • There are currently 83 legally recognized religious groups in Angola, and all of them are Christian,
  • In the wake of jihadist terrorist activities in Kenya and Nigeria in 2013, the Angolan government shut down several mosques across the country. This despite the fact that there has never been a religiously linked terrorist attack on Angolan soil.
  • They were actually demolished by the government," he says. Members of those mosques are now holding services "outdoors, in the streets," he says.
  • the government also targeted and arrested Muslim immigrants as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration.
  • As for Trump's call to prevent Muslims from coming to the U.S., Isaac says that's something that's never happened in Angola. "Angola has never called for a ban on Muslim immigrants," he says. "That could invite a terrorist attack. It would be dangerous."
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Afghan Taliban kill dozens at Kandahar airport - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Dozens of people have been killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified civilian and military airfield in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
  • At least 37 people, including many children,
  • The Taliban briefly seized the northern city of Kunduz in September.
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  • were killed in the clashes, along with at least nine militants, the defence ministry said.
  • Correspondents say the attack is a huge security failure because the attackers were able to smuggle weapons into an area supposed to have been made secure by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
  • Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, speaking at the conference, called on Pakistan to help restart stalled peace talks with the Taliban.
  • Witnesses reported that some of the militants took families hostage and used them as human shields. They said they could hear Afghan soldiers calling on the fighters to let the women and children go.
  • Separately, the Taliban claimed to have captured Khanashin district in southern Helmand province. A local official confirmed the district had fallen.
  • Militant violence has increased across Afghanistan since the departure of most Nato and US forces last year.
  • The statement by the Taliban claimed that they had killed up to 80 soldiers. This figure could not be verified.
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Amnesty report: ISIS armed with U.S. weapons - CNNPolitics.com - 1 views

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  • ISIS has built a substantial arsenal, including U.S.-made weapons obtained from the Iraqi army and Syrian opposition groups.
  • that much of ISIS' equipment and munitions comes from stockpiles captured from the U.S.-allied Iraqi military and Syrian rebels.
  • And it won't require us sending a new generation of Americans overseas to fight and die for another decade on foreign soil."
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  • These weapons, including many accumulated by Iraq over five war-torn decades, were designed or manufactured in 25 countries and range from assault rifles to tanks and anti-aircraft defense systems, the report said.
  • "ultimately reflects decades of irresponsible arms transfers to Iraq and multiple failures by the U.S.-led occupation administration to manage arms deliveries and stocks securely, as well as endemic corruption in Iraq itself."
  • he U.S. and other supplier nations have allowed them to freely flow through the region and fall into the hands of ISIS and other armed groups in the region, the human rights group charged.
  • The bulk of ISIS' arsenal, he said, is made up of older Soviet-era weapons, brought into Iraq during the Iraq-Iran War and the U.S. occupation between 2003 and 2007.
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      considers the US on the ground in Iraq as an occupation
  • Amnesty International is calling for supplier states, including the U.S., to work with Iraqi authorities to quickly implement stricter controls on the transfer, storage and deployment of arms.
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BBC - Earth - The remote lake that tells the story of humanity's birth - 0 views

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  • It was a skeleton of a young boy, discovered at Lake Turkana in the deserts of northern Kenya. He died when he was about eight years old and his bones sank into the sediments of the lake, where they were preserved for 1.5 million years. He was, and is, the most complete early-human fossil ever discovered
  • Together they span four million years of human evolution.
  • 1.9 million-year-old Homo rudolfensis, known as "skull 1470".
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  • The discovery reinforced an idea that was emerging at the time: that there was not a single line of early humans, but multiple lineages. It was already known that three other species were living in Africa around the same time: H. habilis, H. erectus and Paranthropus boisei. H. rudolfensis added to this diversity.
  • Later finds from Koobi Fora suggest that the three Homo species coexisted between 1.78 and 1.98 million years ago.
  • H. erectus are thought to be our direct ancestors. They were the first hominins to migrate out of Africa, spreading into Europe and Asia.
  • but a 2013 study suggested that H. erectus had evolved the ability to throw.
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      throwing makes them evolutionarily better, and caused h. erectus to be the group that survived
  • This may have given H. erectus the drive they needed to become more social.There is some evidence that they shared information and worked in teams.
  • In the summer of 2015, researchers announced the discovery of the oldest known stone tools, dating to 3.3 million years ago. It had been assumed that only Homo species could make stone tools, but the tools were older than any known Homo fossils, suggesting that older species like A. afarensis or K. platyops could also make stone tools.
  • a 3.2-million-year-old fossil Australopithecus afarensis, nicknamed "Lucy". Lucy's species was immediately hailed as a key contender for our direct ancestor.
  • There was a single lineage descending from apes through to Lucy, "and then out pops our immediate ancestors". To her, that did not make
  • sense.
  • Her team found fossils on the western shore of lake that demonstrated there was "diversity at the age of Lucy".
  • A. anamensis. This was the oldest species known from Lake Turkana, having lived about four million years ago.
  • another new species called Kenyanthropus platyopus, or "flat-faced man". This species lived 3.5 million years ago, when other members of Lucy's species also roamed.
  • "the common ancestor" of Homo, and largely killed off the idea that humans evolved on a single line.
  • The earliest known Acheulean hand-axes were discovered near Lake Turkana in 2011. They are 1.76 million years old and were probably made by H. erectus.
  • There was thought to be a "substantial link between the emergence of humans (Homo) and the emergence of technology", says de la Torre, but it now seems this is not necessarily true.
  • Lake Turkana has played a pivotal role in our understanding of human evolution. But that is not to say the area was particularly significant for the early humans themselves.
  • Lake Turkana was simply an ideal place for fossils to be preserved, says Spoor. "That doesn't mean human evolution doesn't happen everywhere else in Africa."
  • It allows us to see multiple species that lived millions of years apart, and compare them.
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Beijing smog: First red alert for pollution issued - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Beijing's city government issued its first red alert for pollution on Monday, ordering schools to close, halting outdoor construction and restricting car use due to hazardous air quality.
  • severe pollution will cover the Chinese capital, starting Tuesday local time and lasting for more than three days.
  • extra measures will be enforced, including closing schools, restricting car use by odd-even licensing, halting outdoor construction and other polluting industrial activity, and banning fireworks and outdoor barbecues.
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  • The red alert -- the highest level in the system -- is due to be in force until noon Thursday local time. The city is currently under an orange alert, the second-highest level.
  • aims to have its emissions peak by 2030.
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Man who fled ISIS in Raqqa: Kids patrolled with AK-47s - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Raqqa, Syria -- ISIS's de facto capital city.
  • It's illegal to leave the so-called Islamic State.
  • Life in a warzone -- with fighter jets from Russia and the U.S.-led coalition dropping bombs on the ISIS heartland --
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  • None of them have been able to attend school -- or at least a real school.
  • There is no education. Five to 11-year-old kids are in the same class. Teachers don't show up and older kids harass them."
  • "You can count the number of doctors on one hand and they only service ISIS. Every day hundreds gather for free food hand outs. It's not a lot. You stand there being humiliated trying to get something to eat."
  • "ISIS gives anything for free to people who join them. The rest of us get nothing. There is no food, electricity or money. The people join ISIS out of hunger.
  • Electricity lasts for roughly 12 hours a day.
  • "Generally, the strikes kill a relatively low number of ISIS fighters. When we were in Raqqa city, for example, the court (was) hit three times. It was empty.
  • Following the French airstrikes, ISIS cracked down on internet usage, fearing their targets might be revealed.
  • We've seen a lot of people who've been beheaded and killed, accused of being spies."
  • Kids, some as young as 10, patrol the street. They are trained in ISIS camps."You can see a 10-year-old kid holding a Russian AK47. It's surreal," he said. "That kids can shout at you and sometimes they stop you and you can't say anything because he is a member of ISIS."
  • hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees making the dangerous journey to Europe's shores.
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Saudi Arabia elections: 900 women run for office - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • More than 900 women are campaigning for public office in Saudi Arabia
  • More than 900 women are campaigning for public office in Saudi Arabia -- a first in the kingdom's history.
  • Women will only participate in elections at the municipal level.
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  • Just three months ago, Saudi women were allowed to register to vote for the first time.
  • the country remains an absolute monarchy ruled by the Saud family, which governs according to a strict Wahhabi interpretation of Sunni Islam.
  • Saudi women are forbidden to drive, and are not allowed to travel or go to school without a male guardian.
  • According to the U.S. State Department, municipal elections in Saudi Arabia fill half the seats in municipal councils, with the king selecting the other half.
  • The late King Abdullah also issued a royal decree in 2013 mandating the Consultative Council, a royally appointed body that advises the King, be at least 20% women,
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Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to be republished in Germany - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • It will not appear in its original form but will be heavily annotated to expose the "lies, half-truths and vicious tirades,"
  • December 31, 70 years after Hitler's death.
  • Their version holds meticulously documented hindsight into Nazi terror up as a mirror to the party's original declared intents. It wants to spoil these to those who may still feel attracted to them today.
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  • Germany's justice system has vowed that any republication or distribution of the original book without proper annotation is to remain illegal.
  • the still effective symbolic power of the book,"
  • "It seeks to thoroughly deconstruct Hitler's propaganda in a lasting manner and thus to undermine
  • "There is hardly any book that is more overladen with such a multitude of myths,
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No, it's not 'World War 3' - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Obama has called the Islamic State the "face of evil"
  • Pope Francis suggests the West already is at war -- a kind of "third world war."
  • We are effectively at war with ISIS right now. A U.S.-led coalition has been bombing targets in Syria and Iraq for over a year, and in recent months Russia has been doing the same.
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  • The latter operated as an alliance of cells spread across the world; ISIS, by contrast, seeks to create a geographic space within which to build a caliphate.
  • This shift in strategy perhaps explains why ISIS has been even more successful than al Qaeda at hitting so many different foreign targets with so many different methods -- from Sinai to Beirut to Paris.
  • Its fighters are obsessed with recreating Islam in its earliest form (or as they interpret it to have been, because the early caliphate was far kinder) and believe that most other Muslims have fallen from the standard -- one that includes the uses of crucifixion and slavery
  • ISIS wants to bring on the apocalypse.
  • But while ISIS' reach is global, it does not command sizable support beyond its shifting boundaries. Meanwhile, the alliance against it is one of the largest and most diverse in history, including America, Britain, France, Russia and Iran.
  • It cannot be resolved entirely by force of arms.
  • And, most importantly of all, Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria, will have to depart the stage.
  • There can be no constructive government of Syria until there is law, order and democratic elections that legitimize proper opposition parties. If we give rebels the impression that the West wants to force Assad on them again, they will resist us, too.
  • There's also a refugee crisis to confront.
  • Some American politicians have suggested a religious test for refugees seeking access to the United States.
  • This kind of prejudiced rhetoric adds to that false sense that this is a world war-style clash between conservative Muslims on one side and Christian democracies on the other.
  • we here in Europe have actual experience of living with Muslims -- and I can report that the living is easy.
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Sanders pushes new gun regulations - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for gun safety legislation.
  • The Vermont Senator called for legislative measures addressing gun violence -- including expanded instant background checks, an assault weapons ban and improved mental health capabilities, a push he first called for in a statement from his Senate office after the shooting.
  • "Who in America does not believe that it is a dumb idea to allow people to own guns who should not have them because of the criminal background or because of mental illness?" Sanders said.
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  • "In Vermont, New Hampshire and all over this country we have a lot of people who hunt. I support people's rights to hunt, it's part of our cultural heritage. But people do not go hunting with assault weapons."
  • But I say that we are a great enough country and a smart enough country that we can destroy ISIS at the same time as we rebuild a disappearing middle class, we can do both," Sanders said to cheers as he closed his remarks.
  • On Saturday ISIS hailed the two shooters who killed 14 people in Southern California as "supporters," after U.S. investigators said they suspect one of the shooters professed loyalty to the Islamist network.
  • She spoke about how the shooting is now being considered "an act of terrorism."
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Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin huddle in wake of Paris attacks - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • Later an Obama aide said the two men appeared to reach an agreement on political path forward in Syria --
  • "The killing of innocent people based on a twisted ideology is an attack not just on France, not just on Turkey, it is an attack on the civilized world,"
  • Obama said, adding later that he and Erdoğan discussed ways to fortify Turkey's border with Syria and a strategy for addressing the refugee crisis.
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  • He said airstrikes could be scaled up, as well as targeting of ISIS leadership
  • In a meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his French counterpart, the men "agreed concrete steps the U.S. and French militaries should take to further intensify our close cooperation in prosecuting a sustained campaign against ISIL," according to a Pentagon statement.
  • the White House is still not considering a ground combat role for U.S. forces in Iraq or Syria.
  • "We don't believe U.S. troops are the answer to the problem," Rhodes said.
  • Turkey has been pressing the U.S. to help establish and enforce a no-fly-zone or "safe zone" at its border with Syria, and Sunday's meeting between Obama and Erdogan led to speculation that that might be an upcoming change in policy.
  • White House official said the two men "agreed on the need for a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition, which would be proceeded by UN-mediated negotiations between the Syrian opposition and regime as well a ceasefire."
  • But the deadly Paris attacks, paired with the recent downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and bomb attacks in Beirut this week, illustrate the continued extremist threat.
  • authorities arrested 20 suspected ISIS members in the town last week.
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