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By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 11:57am |

Turkish-Russian hegemony scored a majore Victory - but we're still counting votes and waiting for a loser to cry "Uncle", so we may not have noticed.

If a territory falls in the woods, and we're too busy playing post-mortem blame games and who caused the success, did it really fall?

W/o further adieu, the late great Karabakh entity - conflicted, but with some historical claims to existence (certainly more recent than some recreated nation-state). Like Crimea, might makes right quicker than detente.

So where does that leave us? Or the newly formulated Biden government as it confronts the post-Brixit Euro-Mideast playing field? Caspian's not a friendly ghost.

https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/security-and-defence/the-nagarno-karab...

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Ethiopia: last comment I posted on my news thread on topic, 11/21 thru 11/25, was a tweet, it might behoove everyone to notice it

Biden’s National Security Advisor @jakejsullivan https://t.co/vdtZhr0x2g
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) November 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 4:51pm

Hindu-Muslim kissing scandal

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/23/media/a-suitable-boy-netflix-india-in...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 1:25am

Germany tests Hydrogen trains

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/23/business/hydrogen-train-siemens/index...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 1:36am

It's unfair to go by looks alone, but this woman just comes across as a nice person - i guess fits my American standards lens perhaps - and then you read what she's going through just trying to push a basic freedom. Heartbreaking.

I mean, this isn't Pussy Riot rabble rousing - it's just the right to go to the DMV and get your license. But they're stuck in another era (with out gov's support, sadly - at least we swapped administrations)

Loujain al-Hathloul, who fought Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, has become one of the kingdom's most prominent prisoners. She appeared before a judge on Wednesday, shaking uncontrollably, to learn she was being sent to terrorism court, her family said.https://t.co/FwvRpTFbXu
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 26, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 10:53am

geez....Thanks for posting that. I hadn't been paying much attention to them lately; really still running a tight ship over there, aren't they? With things really speeding up on the electric car front, what are they going to do when oil is $1 a barrel?

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 11:10am

Ride women, it seems...

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 11:14am

wow

Facing crises at home, Lebanese flee to Africa, especially Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Senegal. This world, it was only the other day that African workers who had “fled” to Lebanon were being tormented and cast out!https://t.co/cpjamOEnSR
— Charles Onyango-Obbo (@cobbo3) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 3:06am

nobody gets into Thailand until this summer:

In a speech made yesterday, the Thai prime minister made it clear that they wouldn’t be opening the floodgates to allow foreign tourists back in until the public had been vaccinated. And this probably wouldn’t happen until May or June next year: https://t.co/lsmjO4scca #Thailand pic.twitter.com/cjyiMQFrnf
— Richard Barrow in Thailand (@RichardBarrow) November 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 3:09am

Like in art-In a Year of No Trade Fairs, Germany Takes It Hard. Some big companies say they can do without them. But trade fairs are essential for those that can’t afford an international sales force, and play an important role in the German economy. https://t.co/JvZOTX1unI
— alain servais (@aservais1) November 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 3:13am

Russian intrigue in Africa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/revealed-un-sudan-experts-...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 4:43am

BREAKING: Another Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizaddh, has been assassinated, Iranian media report. Iran has blamed Israel for past assassinations of nuclear scientists. https://t.co/YL9AwwPLPf
— Negar Mortazavi (@NegarMortazavi) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 2:08pm

Here's Iranian protesters blaming the U.S. and the IAEA, I guess Israel and IAEA are still considered puppets of the US hegemon among certain circles there

This assassination is a move towards war and away from diplomacy. If Iran retaliates this will further escalate into a military confrontation. But even if Iran doesn't retaliate, this just made diplomacy harder and more complicated for Rouhani, which is they key result here. https://t.co/QnLkjZn33t
— Negar Mortazavi (@NegarMortazavi) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 3:38pm

Uh, more like Israel did the work & Trump just applauded.
Kinda like Saudis did the bonesawing.
Turks took out the Kurds.
Russians occupied Azov Sea & dropped chemical weapons on civilians in Syria.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/28/2020 - 5:16am

During the Obama admin, 4 Iranian nuclear scientists were killed and one was nearly killed

While the Obama admin (of which Brennan was a part of) denied US involvement & condemned violence, language like this was never used@JohnBrennan should weigh in on those killings as well pic.twitter.com/vI3fx8qjSj
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 4:29pm

Amid a row over US pork imports, lawmakers from Taiwan’s opposition party hurled buckets of pig guts in the self-ruled island’s parliament pic.twitter.com/xEj9gSmBwM
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 2:13pm

Japan has no answers:

In the Japanese employment system, the line between a job for life and nonregular workers with few benefits and lower pay is drawn early, and the result is a sharp class divide. ⁦@imakiky⁩ ⁦@BenjaminDooley⁩ https://t.co/yTKuTT2kTi
— Motoko Rich (@motokorich) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/28/2020 - 2:09am

Yeah Japan REALLY has NO answers:

13,000+ suicides in Japan this year compared to less than 2,000 covid-19 deaths

The Japanese suicide rate has risen to the highest rate in at least half a decade, police data revealed this week. While suicide has long been a serious and widespread issu https://t.co/1JlrQzdd9W pic.twitter.com/GegoV5f4Ao
— Media Hub Ireland (@MediaHubIreland) November 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/01/2020 - 9:27pm

EU diplomats really taking the continental union thing seriously.https://t.co/tDWKSD2dGA
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) December 1, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 2:27am

Whom among us has not circumvented a pandemic lockdown to engage in a bit of innocuous but ribald old in-and-out?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 2:38am

Yeah, but during this pandemic sensible people limit their orgies to a simple menage a trois

by ocean-kat on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 12:00pm

According to French customs a menage a trois is a simple relationship, hardly an "orgy" to speak of. At the lower end 10 might suffice, but certainly puts a crimp in the style. Surtout la mode, non?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 1:29pm

First monoliths, now cave friezes - wassup?

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/amazon-rainforest-ice-age-painting...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 5:16pm

China has tried to keep these camps secret from the world.

This look inside a Xinjiang detention center is the result of years-long, painstaking, and innovative reporting from @meghara and @alisonkilling on one of the most important stories of our time.https://t.co/iYkkAhX7C3
— mat honan (@mat) December 3, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/03/2020 - 3:14pm

Modeling Uyghur crackdown (thread)

In the city, outside the camps, there was also a crackdown on religious practice, with house to house searches, looking for evidence that the people living there were practising Muslims – a Quran, even books with Arabic script.
— Alison Killing (@alisonkilling) December 3, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/05/2020 - 8:22am

I swear, there's all kinds of real serious shit going down on Twitter just like on dagblog, you just have to know where to look:

There's a U.S.-China arms race in the field of Bad Tweets. pic.twitter.com/0w3KIh5ei7
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) December 4, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 12:33am

MBS doesn't want you to see this:

It takes a lot to shake me...few documentaries have shaken me as much as 'The Dissident' did.

The evidence @bryanfogel lays out in this documentary will infuriate you.

I hope you all will watch it when it premieres on all VOD platforms on January 8. https://t.co/OiJ9P0KXgj
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) December 4, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 5:55pm

Recent @washingtonpost op-ed on France/terrorism: "the recent attacks were carried out by deeply disturbed individuals, lone wolves with no ties to international terrorist networks." There is much wrong with this myth: it is hard to know where to begin https://t.co/k2mb8Vx7pw
— Phil Gurski (@borealissaves) December 5, 2020

op-ed is by Karen Attiah

by artappraiser on Sat, 12/05/2020 - 5:58pm

Good news/bad news India

The #Eluru incident is just the tip of an iceberg. The Govt's negligence & the deterioration of healthcare services across AP stands exposed today. It's a shame for any Govt if it can't provide basic necessities like safe & clean drinking water to our people (3/3)
— N Chandrababu Naidu #StayHomeSaveLives (@ncbn) December 6, 2020

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/07/asia/india-mystery-illness-intl-hnk-s...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 12/07/2020 - 5:11am

Brexit NY trucking meltdown:

This is going to be a monumental jam, with knobs on.#Kexit pic.twitter.com/YdAJuE9lJt
— Deborah #3.5% #WearAMask #ReJoinEU (@DNewtonC) December 1, 2020

It really is atrocious, absolutely no main stream media interest in the issues facing HGV drivers on a daily basis, coming through Calais, facing life threatening situations, to bring you the stuff you want to buy! #noonecares #migrants #calais @TrucknDriver @Comm_Motor @RHANews https://t.co/jbXx0D1XQ2
— Patch (@cabmutt) December 4, 2020

Time for action please @EmmanuelMacron . @rhanews need your help to stop these terrible attacks https://t.co/3lYgfcsqQR
— Steve Bowles (@rbtsteve) December 4, 2020

A reminder of what @BorisJohnson said on 7 Nov 2019:

“If somebody asks you to do that, tell them to ring up the Prime Minister and I will direct them to throw that form in the bin.

“There will be no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind. You will have unfettered access.” https://t.co/dLo7QDC59h
— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) December 2, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/08/2020 - 6:46am

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