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dt-stole-my-heart · 5 years

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3, 7, 9, 13, 16, 17, 22, 27, 30, 33, 41, 44, 47, 51, 56, 61, 63? ^^

Thanks for the ask @sinnerlilly ❤🙈 Here are your answers:

3. The person you would never want to meet?

- probably Erdogan

7. What shirt are you wearing

- a light grey Supernatural hoodie

9. Bright room or dark room?

- depends on what I'm doing but generally dark room

13. Your worst enemy?

- my part-time anxiety

16. The last song you listened to?

- Upside Down by Jack Johnson

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

- Trump, Erdogan or Putin. Either is a great choice

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?

- I don't think I have any talent really

27. An Angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. "Be brand-specific" it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don't drink booze there's something you can figure out... so what's it gonna be?

- I don't drink alcohol but I would probably take Karlsberg Urpils (a German beer brand) so I can give it all to my friends

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You just have enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the one thing you're going to save from that blazing inferno?

-my Queen vinyl box with all of Queen's studio albums. It's of material and psychological value for me. Second choice would be my acoustic guitar

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn't think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?

- I fortunately haven't lost anyone close to me yet so I think I'd say Freddie Mercury

41. What is your favourite milkshake flavor?

- depends on my mood, either Oreo or mango

44. What do you want to be when you graduate?

- I'll be studying physics... so physician :D

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?

- Is there anything I haven't done yet, you regret?

51. Are you a good liar?

- no

56. What do you like on your toast?

- everything really

61. Do you often read your horoscope?

- no, I don't believe in astrology

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?

- dragons definitely

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newstfionline · 6 years

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Trump to call for unity, face skepticism in State of Union (AP) The White House says President Donald Trump will call for optimism and unity in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, using the moment to attempt a reset after two years of bitter partisanship and deeply personal attacks.

Communities reconsider tasers (Reuters) At least 49 people died in 2018 after being shocked with a Taser by police, according to a Reuters review of police records, news reports and court documents. In the California county San Mateo three people died in nine months after being shocked. Despite there being no uniform standards governing police use of Tasers, some communities now are considering more restrictive policies following allegations that the weapons were used excessively or deployed against people with physical or mental conditions that put them at higher risk of death or injury.

Judge Approves Massive Puerto Rico Debt Restructuring Deal (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge approved a major debt restructuring plan for Puerto Rico on Monday in the first deal of its kind for the U.S. territory since the island’s government declared nearly four years ago that it was unable to repay its public debt.

8 Killed in Possible Water Dispute in Southern Mexico (AP) Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero are investigating the killing of eight people in what may have been a dispute over control of a natural spring in an opium-growing area, an official said Monday.

British Economy ‘Stalling’ Amid Intensified Brexit Worries (AP) A closely watched survey shows that the British economy is not far away from shrinking amid intensified Brexit uncertainties.

Fire Kills Eight in Paris Apartment Block (Reuters) Flames ripped through an apartment block in Paris, killing at least eight people and injuring 36 early on Tuesday, authorities said.

Greek and Turkish Leaders to Discuss Array of Issues (AP) Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is making a two-day visit to NATO ally Turkey for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on an array of issues that have strained the relationship between their two countries.

Russia Must Develop New Missiles to Counter U.S. Before 2021: RIA Cites Defense Minister (Reuters) Russia must develop a new land-based cruise missile and a new land-based hypersonic missile before 2021 to respond to Washington’s planned exit from a nuclear arms control pact, the RIA news agency cited the defense minister as saying on Tuesday.

Russia Backs Talks Between Venezuela’s Maduro and Opposition: RIA (Reuters) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the crisis in Venezuela could only be solved by getting the authorities and the opposition to talk to each other, the RIA news agency reported.

Third of Himalayan Glaciers Can No Longer Be Saved: Study (AP) One-third of Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, threatening water sources for 1.9 billion people, even if current efforts to reduce climate change succeed, an assessment warns.

Asia greets year of the pig, farewells the dog (AP) The Lunar New Year is being celebrated around Asia with lanterns, performances, decorations and food. People are bidding farewell to the year of the dog in the 12-year Chinese astrological cycle and welcoming the year of the pig with hopes of happiness and fortune.

North Korea Protecting Nuclear Missiles, U.N. Monitors Say, Ahead of Summit Talks (Reuters) North Korea is working to ensure its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities cannot be destroyed by military strikes, U.N. monitors said ahead of a meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials to prepare a second denuclearization summit.

Two Bodies Found After Floods in Australia’s Queensland (Reuters) Australian authorities pulled the bodies of two men from a storm water drain during cleanup efforts after catastrophic flooding in the northeastern state of Queensland, police said on Tuesday.

Afghanistan Lacks Pilots, Engineers to Handle Black Hawk ‘Copters, U.S. Watchdog Warns (Reuters) The United States risks providing Afghanistan with state-of-the-art Black Hawk helicopters that the country’s embattled air force does not have the pilots to fly nor the engineers to maintain, a U.S. watchdog said on Tuesday.

Iraq doesn’t want a role watching Iran (Reuters) Iraqi President Barham Salih has responded to President Donald Trump’s comments that he would ask troops stationed in Iraq to “watch” Iran. “Don’t overburden Iraq with your own issues,” Salih said. “The U.S. is a major power ... but do not pursue your own policy priorities, we live here.” Iraq is in a difficult position as tensions between its two biggest allies, the United States and Iran, increase.

Tens of Thousands Pack Stadium for First Papal Mass on Arabian Peninsula (Reuters) Tens of thousands of Catholics and several thousand Muslims attended an unprecedented public celebration of Mass on Tuesday by Pope Francis, the first pontiff in history to visit the Arabian Peninsula.

Burkina Faso Forces Kill 146 Jihadists After Civilian Attack (AP) Burkina Faso’s commander general says armed forces have killed 146 jihadists in three counterattack operations in the northwest near its border with Mali.

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grimelords · 7 years

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2018 predictions?

I think I already made some but let me gaze anew into the crystal ball. A screenplay written by neural network trained on tvtropes.com nominated for the palme d’or, trump gets attacked by a bird, saltbae makes a surprise reappearance in erdogan’s parliament, bitcoin price mysteriously follows the euro exactly for three months before plummeting, a horse mistaken for big dog causes international incident, legoland embroiled in melting child scandal, cuban missile crisis 2: south china sea, the ‘evil eye’ and doing everything in your power to avoid it replaces astrology among teens, new kind of meat discovered, slowed down polka is the new soundcloud genre, minor island nation disappears without a trace.

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mideastsoccer · 6 years

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Papal visit boosts UAE effort to redefine concepts of tolerance

By James M. Dorsey

A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr

The United Arab Emirates is projecting itself as a leader of inter-communal and inter-faith harmony with the first ever visit by a Catholic pope to the Gulf and an inter-faith conference that is as much about dialogue as it is about absolute political control.

There is no doubt that the UAE is a leader in the Muslim world in promoting concepts of religious tolerance and prevention of religiously packages militancy.

The UAE has bolstered perceptions of its leadership by declaring February, the month of Pope Francis’s visit and the conference, a month of tolerance. The UAE is one of a few if not the only country that has a government ministry of tolerance.

The UAE, unlike its ally and more powerful neighbour, Saudi Arabia, increasingly allows adherents of other faiths like Jews, Christians and Hindus, to openly worship and practice their beliefs.

“Today, the UAE is home to 200 different nationalities, more than 40 churches and approximately 700 Christian ministries. Sikh and Buddhist temples welcome multinational congregations. Last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke ground for a new Hindu temple. Evangelical Christian ministries abound in the country. The Jewish community is vibrant and growing,” Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador to the United States, noted in an op-ed in Politico.

In hosting the pope as the star of an inter-faith dialogue organized by the UAE-sponsored Council of Elders, entitled International Interfaith Meeting on Human Fraternity in the United Arab Emirates, the UAE hopes to cement its position as the icon of Muslim tolerance.

The council is a brainchild of Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the revered 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning.

It groups Muslim scholars that in its words purportedly are “known for their wisdom, sense of justice, independence and moderateness…(to).,,to promote peace, to discourage infighting and to address the sources of conflict, divisiveness and fragmentation in Muslim communities”

The council is part of a broader UAE and Saudi effort that includes groups like the Global Forum for Prompting Peace in Muslim Societies and the Sawab and Hedayah Centres that aim to counter the influence of controversial, Qatar-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more political and militant Islamist forces.

The effort targets any political expression of Islam and promotes an interpretation of the faith that dictates absolute obedience to the ruler. It competes with Turkish efforts to globally promote a more activist form of Islam supportive of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarianism and Morocco’s projection of itself as a paradigm of Islamic moderation.

Timed to coincide with the council’s meeting, Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, a former Saudi justice minister and secretary general of Saudi Arabia’s Muslim World League, once a major vehicle for the propagation of the kingdom’s intolerant ultra-conservative strand of Islam, highlighted his inter-faith outreach in an op-ed in Newsweek magazine.

“I have travelled to the Vatican to elevate interfaith understanding with His Holiness, Pope Francis. I visited the Grand Synagogue of Paris and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I welcomed the highest-level delegation of U.S. evangelical Christian leaders ever to visit Saudi Arabia… Among my proudest achievements (as justice minister) was licensing Saudi Arabia’s first women lawyers. I also reformed the Saudi judiciary system,” Mr. Al-Issa wrote.

While segments of the justice system were indeed reformed, it remains a system that equates atheism with terrorism, enables authorities to imprison people for the slightest expression of criticism and allows for an anti-corruption campaign that lacks transparency and accountability and has the appearance of a power and asset grab.

In line with ultra-conservative precepts, Mr. Al-Issa’s past track record includes denunciation of witchcraft defined as including, among other things astrology, the use of plants for medicine, palm-reading, and animal calling.

In a bid to deprive the council as well as the league of a monopoly on Muslim empathy with non-Muslim groups, Iranian-born Australian Shiite Muslim imam Mohamad Tawhid tweeted on Sunday about his visit to Auschwitz, one of Nazi Germany’s foremost extermination camps for Jews.

“I am proud to be the first ‘Shia’ Muslim Imam to pay his respects at Auschwitz,” Mr Tawhid said in a tweet hashtagged #NeverAgain and featuring a picture of himself sporting a black T-shirt with the slogan #WeRemember.

While there can be no doubt that the UAE’s example of tolerance of non-Muslim belief systems constitutes an important contribution to more harmonious inter-faith relations, there is also little question that it is part of an effort to fortify autocratic rule in the greater Middle East and cement an environment that is intolerant towards any form of criticism or dissent.

In doing so, the UAE’s advocacy of religious tolerance and political intolerance is part of a global struggle about values that underlies tectonic shifts shaping a new world order. That struggle involves a redefinition of concepts of tolerance designed to ensure autocratic regime survival and enhance ways of avoiding and/or resolving conflict without bolstering transparency, accountability and a free flow of ideas.

The dark side of the UAE’s concept of tolerance manifests itself in the country’s conduct together with Saudi Arabia of its four-year old war in Yemen, the 20-month old rift in the Gulf with Qatar, and its harsh repression of dissent and freedom of expression

In a letter to the pope, Human Rights Watch called on Pope Francis to use his visit to press the government to address “the serious human rights violations by its forces in Yemen and to end its repression of critics at home.”

The human rights group asserted that the Saudi-UAE military coalition in Yemen had “indiscriminately bombed homes, markets, and schools, impeded the delivery of humanitarian aid, and used widely banned cluster munitions. Domestically, UAE authorities have carried out a sustained assault on freedom of expression and association since 2011. And the many thousands of low-paid migrant workers in the country remain acutely vulnerable to forced labour.”

Sarah Leah Whitson, the group’s Middle East and North Africa director argued that the Pope was in a position to capitalize on the fact that the UAE is sensitive about its international image that is to a significant extent dependent on projecting itself as a cutting-edge proponent of tolerance in the Muslim world.

In a more hard-hitting comment, Islam scholar Usaama al-Azmi warned that “whether engaged in brutal wars like the one in Yemen with hundreds of thousands displaced and tens of thousands killed, or crushing dissent and political liberties at home, the UAE government is no better than its neighbour next door. Yet its savvy PR means that such matters frequently fall below the radar of international observers.”

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title and a co-authored volume, Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa as well as Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa and recently published China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom

#islam #islamic #uae #saudi arabia #saudi #yemen #yemen war #human rights #middle east

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