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Oliver Stone on Syria, Jeremy Corbyn, Russia, Snowden, One-sided news, American foreign policy and imperialism. and the CIA involvement in Hollywood.
The Pokemon Go craze exists in war-torn Syria, too, and some of the country’s children are tapping into the app’s popularity in an appeal to be rescued.
The Revolutionary Forces of Syria, a coalition made up of some of the country’s opposition groups, tweeted a heartbreaking series of photos of children holding up Pokemon character drawings with inscriptions written underneath.
The app uses augmented reality, which allows users to capture Pokemon in real-world locations.
“There’s a lot of #Pokemon in #Syria…Come rescue me!!!” the young boy in the picture above holding a drawing of Pikachu wrote.
In the photo below, the boy wrote: “I am in the Kafr Nabl in Idlib’s countryside come rescue me.”
The country has been locked in a civil war since 2011. Relentless airstrikes pound many of the major cities, leaving people very few opportunities for survival.
Almost 12,000 children have been killed in the last five years and more than 2.3 million have had to leave the country, according to statistics from Save the Children.
(CNN)More than 50 State Department officials signed an internal memo protesting U.S. policy in Syria, calling for targeted U.S. military strikes against the regime of Bashar al-Assad and urging regime change as the only way to defeat ISIS.
The cable says that U.S. policy in the Middle East has been “overwhelmed” by the
It calls for a “judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process.”
CNN reviewed a draft of the memo, which has since been classified. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the memo’s existence.
The internal memo was sent throughout the “dissent channel,” a mechanism for State Department officials to offer alternative views on foreign policy without freedom from retaliation or retaliation. It was established in the 1960s during the Vietnam War to ensure that senior leadership in the department would have access to alternative policy views on the war.
WASHINGTON — When word circulated in Washington this week that Bouthaina Shaaban, who is a top adviser to President Bashar al-Assad ofSyria and who has been under sanction by the United States government, would appear two blocks from the White House at an antiterrorism news conference, the Obama administration reacted with alarm.
John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, called Dr. Shaaban a “propaganda mouthpiece” of the Assad government, which President Obama has said must go, and the Treasury noted that any transaction with a person designated on one of its blacklists was prohibited.
Dr. Shaaban did not arrive in person on Thursday, but she did appear via Skype video at the National Press Club, where she delivered a 20-minute speech followed by an extraordinary and at times contentious one-hour question-and-answer session with journalists and others.
Seated at a desk with a Syrian flag behind her and one pinned to the lapel of her blazer, Dr. Shaaban defended her government defiantly, assailed the Obama administration as being insufficiently committed to defeating the Islamic State and blamed Western news media for perpetuating what she called a “false narrative” about Syria and Mr. Assad’s government.
“We would love American officials to say the truth to their people and to the world about what’s happening in our country, because covering the truth is costing us blood,” Dr. Shaaban told an audience of several dozen in a nondescript meeting room at the National Press Club, where her image appeared on two large digital screens.
“The question is, why does the United States refuse to cooperate with Russia in fighting terrorism in Syria?”
Dr. Shaaban’s presentation was a direct challenge to the approach the Obama administration has taken in Syria, where the United States has worked to empower rebel groups and shepherd international peace talks aimed at bringing about a political transition there and an end to hostilities.
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A young British girl unwraps a package from her mum — a stuffed animal. The child’s face breaks into a smile. But after this moment, her life in a war-torn London is stark: She gets a serving of gruel, reads in the dark, tries to keep warm with a cigarette lighter — then narrowly escapes a bombing, nearly drowns and is separated from her mother, who sacrifices her spot on a tugboat so her daughter can flee.
The 1 minute, 34 second video — “Still the Most Shocking Second a Day” — has amassed over 314,500 views in the five days since Save the Children released it. It’s the sequel to their 2014 viral video, “The Most Shocking Second a Day.” The ads, created by the global charity to raise awareness and funds for the Syrian refugee crisis, have gathered a ton of attention, both negative and positive, for using a British girl – not a Syrian girl — as the main character, and London – not Damascus or Aleppo or any other Syrian city – as the setting.
Are You More Sympathetic Because She’s British, And Not Syrian?
Photo: Save the Children
I thought I had a rough day….and here is a pic that puts things in perspective.
Syrian boy sleeping between his parents.
From today’s Funeral of the 45 children martyrs that were killed yesterday by the “moderate rebels” in their school yesterday in Homs,Syria.
The funeral was also followed by a sit-in where parents and people carried signs saying we will not forget….we will not stay silent
More details about the terrorist car explosion here
STOP ARMING THOSE TERRORISTS
