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YBNL Boss, Olamide grooves in with yet another brand new hit song for the month of July 2019 and this one is titled Shibinshi (Eyan Ekerencha) featuring Enimony and Oja crooner, Reminisce.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYeaU8HdXI


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Israel denounces Gaza war crimes investigation by UN
And this really, would be laughable if it wasn't so damn disgusting. It is also a high-irony alert. From Jurist:
In an interview with a reporter, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the probe is an attempt to demonize Israel and that it has no moral ground. Palmor also condemned the UNHRC as unreliable and having the worst history of all the organizations within the UN. The criticism came the same day that the UNHRC announced the appointment of South African judge Richard Goldstone to head the fact-finding mission. Israel has not said if it will cooperate with the probe, which was originally approved by the UNHCR in January.
The impetus for the probe was a report [authored by UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk], which criticized Israel for failing to take adequate precautions to distinguish between civilians and combatants in their offensives in the region. Both Israel and the US criticized the report, calling the rapporteur's views "anything but fair." An internal Israeli military investigation found earlier this week that war crimes had not been committed in the offensive despite individual reports by Israeli soldiers. Israel has already disputed a previous report to the UNHRC that accused it of human rights violations. In January, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said that it lacked standing to investigate possible war crimes in Gaza.
Sweet Jaysus in a speedo..demonize Israel and that it has no moral ground? Dude, you are so full of shit, your eyes better be brown. Morally, Israel is so bankrupt, when it comes to Palestine..I can't even begin to point out the obvious here…but let me try..
Letting Israel's military investigate their own war crimes is tantamount to the fox guarding the henhouse.
Their own soldiers reported various war crimes during the latest Gaza seige.
Plenty of news reports are out there..including numerous videos of Israel bombing civilians homes.
More civilians were killed than Hamas soldiers in Gaza, by all news accounts. This one alone states 1,434 Palestinians, including 960 civilians were killed.
Violations of the Geneva Conventions which require the military to distinguish between military targets and surrounding civilians.
From The Guardian:
The Guardian has compiled detailed evidence of alleged war crimes committed by Israel during the 23-day offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this year, involving the use of Palestinian children as human shields and the targeting of medics and hospitals.
A month-long investigation also obtained evidence of civilians being hit by fire from unmanned drone aircraft said to be so accurate that their operators can tell the colour of the clothes worn by a target.
Some of the most dramatic testimony gathered by the Guardian came from three teenage brothers in the al-Attar family. They describe how they were taken from home at gunpoint, made to kneel in front of Israeli tanks to deter Hamas fighters from firing, and sent by Israeli soldiers into Palestinian houses to clear them. "They would make us go first so if any fighters shot at them the bullets would hit us, not them," 14-year-old Al'a al-Attar said.
Israel isn't above the law or the Geneva Conventions. That they would kill more civilians than Hamas soldiers and use children as human shields turns my stomach. Watch all three parts of The Guardians investigation into Israel war crimes here.
Team Torture?
Watching KO tonight, and using his phrase as my post title..his biggest story for me was about the ABC newstory last night that there was actually a "Team Torture" which met in the White House and included all the central players discussing which torture methods to use on which terrorists. From the ABC report:
The advisers were members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, a select group of senior officials who met frequently to advise President Bush on issues of national security policy.
At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The ABC news story video below.
As Jonathan Turley said tonight on Countdown..its not a question of whether war crimes were committed..its a question of whether anything will be done about it.

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This most recent TV ad for the Google Pixel 3 shows a collection of unfortunate photos of people that just happened to be taken at the wrong moment. Cue lots of missed moments, obstructions and weird facial expressions. The commercial then demonstrates how Pixel 3 phone users can get their best shot using Top Shot.
Advert Music: Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi le Temps). Artist: Frank Sinatra.
Preview or download at iTunes, Amazon.
The Pixel 3 ad music is Frank Sinatra's version of the song Let Me Try Again, which can now be downloaded either as a single or as part of the legendary American singers Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back album.
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Members of the House of Representatives are voicing their concerns about the local and state tax burden on Illinois families because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Naperville, and Rep. Sean Casten, D-Downers Grove, are urging the IRS to address what they call the disproportionate tax burden on Illinois taxpayers because of the changes in the law, which limit the state and local tax deduction, according to a news release.
Underwood and Casten wrote a letter expressing their concerns about IRS efforts being "insufficient."
"Illinoisans are already facing higher federal taxes due to the Republican tax law, which places a uniquely large burden on middle-class families in the Illinois 6th and 14th Congressional Districts," Underwood and Casten wrote in the letter.
The representatives argued that the law limited the state and local tax deduction to only $10,000 for individuals and families. They called that part of the law a "devastating financial blow to many."
They said state and local taxes are used to fund law enforcement, first responders, public education and a number of other services that "contribute to the well-being of our communities."
"We urge your attention to this important matter and request an update in writing on the IRS's actions to address these burdens on Illinois taxpayers no later than Feb. 12," they wrote.
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Etienne Charles, trumpet great and music professor at Michigan State, has a sabbatical this year and this has him going non-stop literally all over the globe. The praise he gets as he travels the world keeps coming. In March, the New York Times called him a jazz "composer to be reckoned with" and more recently the jazz magazine Downbeat said he "delivers his ebullient improvisations with the elegance of a world class ballet dancer."
Chief Officer Bernadette Paponette cuts a striking figure in her hijab and crisp, black and white uniform. Then there is her effusive smile. She is second in command only to the captain of the vessel and is the only female Chief Officer serving onboard Nidco's water taxis.
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Serving in the vineyard of fashion and having produced countless top models and beauty queens, Jacqueline Koon How, fondly called Aunty Jacqui, transferred the baton of stewardship to her granddaughter, Faith Armour, recently at the San Fernando City Hall Auditorium.
It was standing room only as those in the packed cultural space at Atherly's, opposite Skinner Park, San Fernando, last Sunday, were treated to performances by some of T&T's world-class artistes.
Calypsonian Relator (Willard Courtney Harris) returns on Saturday, October 12, from 7 pm, to the Trinidad Theatre Workshop (TTW), at 6 Newbold Street, St Clair, for another intimate performance in the vein of his previous performance at the that venue earlier this year. Theatre patrons and visitors, music lovers and friends of the TTW can "sip and chat" with this world class performer and master of extempo. Anything can happen that night.
The Women in Art Organisation of T&T will be hosting their annual Members' Exhibition in September 2019. This will be opened on Monday, September 23, by the organisation's patron, Zalayhar Hassanali, at 6.30 pm. The location will be the Art Society Gallery, corner Jamaica Boulevard and St Vincent Street, Federation Park. It will be closed on Republic Day, and will continue from Wednesday Spetmeber 24 until Saturday, September 28. The gallery is open from 12 – 6 pm daily.
Fans of Downton Abbey are being given the chance to stay at the stately home where the TV series is set.
As far as the calendar of events is concerned, the Carnival 2020 season is already in full swing. With at least a dozen mas bands already launched and Randy Glasgow Productions and the T&T Carnival Bands Association (TTCBA) launching another 25 in November, Kalicharan Carnival kept the momentum going last Sunday with a prelude to its C2K20 presentation—Street Jam—aboard the Liquid Lounge vessel.
Beauty queen and first runner-up to the Miss India TT crown Dishaana Sewdass plays the lead role of Kiara in the theatre production of Niyantran: Secret Controller. Together with a cast of talented actors, Sewdass is now heading for the stage at Chinmaya Mission, Calcutta#1, Freeport on September 28, at 6.30 pm.
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Suddenly the door has opened on several opportunities for me to make more money. Life does become what life does. I have worked hard but realized that things come in their own time. You can try and push to make something happen but it will only happen when the time is right. Stay open and work hard and opportunities will appear. But you must be open to see them and prespared to accept them.
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A sweet-with-a-kick sauce that is a great subsitute for any recipe that calls for BBQ, or as a delicious dipping sauce with our Steak Skewers.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
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Rohit diagnosed with a serious injury will not play in India vs England test series
In-form batsman Rohit Sharma has been diagnosed with a serious tendon injury in the upper part of the right leg and due to this he has been virtually ruled out of the five-Test series of India vs England.
The 29-year-old may have to undergo surgery in England, but at a vital phase of his career when the Mumbai middle order batsman has given sufficient hints of finding his own space in Test match cricket, his absence from the seminal home series has to be regarded as a major blow to India's campaign against Alastair Cook-led England team.
On Wednesday at the Cricket Centre here, the BCCI's senior National selection committee has chaired by M.S.K. Prasad consulted by coach Anil Kumble, conferred with captain Virat Kohli on a video conference and pinned their faith on Baroda's Hardik Pandya for the crucial all-rounder's berth in the Test squad.
Ishant is back
The committee has also convinced about the chikungunya-affected fast bowler Ishant Sharma's state of health, following with his long spells against Orissa and Karnaraka in the Ranji Trophy which has reinstated him in the team. It has also retained Haryana all-rounder Jayant Yadav and Karnataka middle-order batsman Karun Nair.
Jayant served as a replacement for Ishant for the second Test against New Zealand, while Karun has came in for Shikhar Dhawan for the third Test
The absence of any clear information after the final one-day against New Zealand which was held at Visakhapatnam, where Rohit has damaged a considerably heavier lower limb of his body and did not field, had raised several doubts about his fitness.
There were question marks against the openers K.L. Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, but then the severity of Rohit's injury was not known until Prasad had explained it in dramatic fashion.
Since making a spectacular debut against the West Indies in November 2013, Rohit has curbed his natural instincts and managed to make scores of 35, 68 not out, 82 , 51 not out and 42 against New Zealand while batting at No. 6.
Rohit's misfortune could open up a chance for Karun or Pandya and the team's think tank will mull hard before further choosing the eleven for the India vs England first test at Rajkot.
Prasad, who had appeared genuinely disappointed at Rohit's troubles, said that "unfortunately we have all seen on TV that Rohit Sharma is now badly injured. There is scope for some surgical intervention. He is going to be assessed, and if required he might have to undergo a surgery.
The Team for first two India vs England Tests: Virat Kohli (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), R. Ashwin, Wridhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Karun Nair and Jayant Yadav.


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GUELPH, Ontario, March 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Recurrent Energy, LLC ("Recurrent"), a leading North American solar energy developer, from Sharp Corporation. The transaction was supported by Export Development Canada (EDC)'s issuance of Performance Security Guarantee of up to $75 million to backstop letters of credit issued against project development obligations by Recurrent Energy. In addition, in conjunction with the acquisition, Credit Suisse will provide Recurrent Energy with a US$150 million, one year senior secured bridge loan.
The acquisition of Recurrent has increased Canadian Solar's total solar project pipeline by approximately 4.0 GW to a total of 8.5 GW, including an increase in its late-stage project pipeline by approximately 1.0 GW to 2.4 GW. Recurrent's seven late-stage projects totalling approximately 1.0 GW are located in California and Texas and are expected to be built and connected to the grid prior to the ITC expiration at the end of 2016.
This transaction significantly increases Canadian Solar's late-stage project pipeline in low risk geographies. Recurrent's seven late-stage projects have long-term power purchase agreements with investment grade counterparties, and are expected to generate significant US dollar denominated cash flow after completion, serving as the cornerstone for the launch of Canadian Solar's own Yield-Co in the quarters ahead.
With the closing of the transaction on March 30, 2015, David Brochu has been appointed Recurrent's new Chief Executive Officer to replace Arno Harris. Michael Metzner, Recurrent's Chief Financial Officer is also stepping down from his role. This management transition had been planned in advance.
Mr. Brochu previously served as Recurrent Energy's Chief Operating Officer, a position he assumed in June 2014. Before that, Mr. Brochu served as Recurrent Energy's Senior Vice President of Development, where he oversaw all development activities, including the build out of more than 315 MW of solar PV projects in two years. Mr. Brochu was previously President and CEO of UPC Solar, a Chicago-based solar PV developer with a pipeline of projects in Ontario, Canada and the United States, which Recurrent Energy acquired in 2009.
"I am honored to lead this exceptional team, with our new parent Canadian Solar, as we further strengthen our position in North America's solar energy market," said David Brochu, CEO of Recurrent Energy. "We look forward to transitioning our business model to own and operate assets, as we embark on construction of more than 1 GW of solar PV projects over the next two years."
"With the acquisition of Recurrent Energy our significantly expanded, globally diverse project pipeline places Canadian Solar firmly among the leading global solar energy companies," said Dr. Shawn Qu, Canadian Solar Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that with David's leadership and experience at Recurrent, we can continue to build on our proven solar energy development track record to create lasting value for our shareholders."
About Canadian Solar Inc.
Founded in 2001 in Canada, Canadian Solar is one of the world's largest and foremost solar power companies. As a leading manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and provider of solar energy solutions, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified pipeline of utility-scale solar power projects. In the past 14 years, Canadian Solar has successfully deployed over 8 GW of premium quality modules in over 70 countries around the world. Furthermore, Canadian Solar is one of the most bankable solar energy companies worldwide, having been publically listed on NASDAQ since 2006. For additional information about the company, products, and projects, please visit www.canadiansolar.com.
About Recurrent Energy
Recurrent Energy is redefining what it means to be a mainstream clean energy company, with a fleet of utility-scale solar plants that provide competitive clean electricity. The company has more than 4 GW of solar projects in development in North America. Additional details are available at: www.recurrentenergy.com
About Sharp Corporation
Sharp Corporation is a worldwide developer of innovative products and core technologies that play a key role in shaping the future of electronics. As a leader in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and digital technologies, Sharp offers one of the broadest and most advanced lines of consumer electronics, information products and electronic components, while also creating new network businesses. Sharp Corporation employs 50,637 people in the world (as of September 30, 2014) and recorded consolidated annual sales of 2,927,186 million yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014. For more information, please visit Sharp's Web site at http://sharp-world.com.
Safe Harbor/Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These statements are made under the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by such terms as "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates," the negative of these terms, or other comparable terminology. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include the risks regarding general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; risks associated with any acquisition or disposition activities; the successful integration of acquired companies; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of solar grade silicon; demand for solar products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand in our project markets, including Canada, the U.S., Japan and China; changes in customer order patterns; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling price; delays in new product introduction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; utility-scale project approval process delays; utility-scale project construction delays; utility-scale project cancelation due to failure to obtain all the necessary permits; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; trade protectionism in Europe, the U.S. and India; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20-F filed on April 28, 2014. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward looking statements are reasonable, it cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, or achievements. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. All information provided in this press release is as of today's date, unless otherwise stated, and Canadian Solar undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/canadian-solar-completes-the-acquisition-of-recurrent-energy-from-sharp-corporation-300058297.html


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I woke up New Year's morning with a nervous stomach. It was finally 2012, the year that I'd been talking about casually since people started asking me, "will the Affordable Care Act survive?" As I wrote in the epilogue to my new book, Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States, health reform has to jump two big hurdles in 2012 to survive. The first is the Supreme Court ruling on its constitutionality, with three days of oral arguments in March now just a few weeks away. The second, of course, is the election for President.
On the campaign trail in Iowa, Rick Santorum baldly revealed why the right is so intent on killing the promise of good health care for all: Santorum said it would make people "dependent" on the government. As I write in my book: "The right understands that if the Affordable Care Act is implemented, it will create a bond between the American people and government, just as Social Security and Medicare have done. The last thing that the corporate and ideological right want is for a new health care pillar to be added to the foundations of government social insurance."
The battle over the Affordable Care Act needs to be understood in its historic context. While the legislation that passed was certainly compromised from an ideal law, it will for the first time – when its key measures are implemented in 2014 -establish a government responsibility to make decent health care affordable to almost everyone. Following a century of failure, during which the United States emerged as the only developed nation to guarantee health care, the passage of the ACA needs to be understood as a remarkable accomplishment.
That history weighed over the battle that began in 2008, when I helped found Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a coalition that as health care historian Paul Starr told me, was the first time that there was a major grassroots, field campaign to pass reform. Fighting for Our Health is the story of that campaign, starting from its early roots in 2003, when Yale professor Jacob Hacker (pdf) and I (pdf) separately developed a new policy approach, the public option. We each envisioned the public option as a way to bridge the gap between those who championed single-payer government health insurance and reforms based on expanding private health coverage. As I write: "It is impossible to overstate how important the idea of the public option was to creating the powerful unified coalition that became HCAN."
In 2008, many of the largest multi-issue progressive organizations came together under a common set of principles to form HCAN. During the next two years, HCAN ran a $48 million coalition, grassroots and media campaign, with field partners organizing pressure on members of Congress and actions aimed at the health insurance industry in 44 states. Our strategy included turning Congressional supporters into champions, like Washington State's Patty Murray, who met 11-year old Marcelas Owens at a rally of 5,000 in Seattle in May, 2009. That meeting with Owens, whose mother had died because she didn't have health insurance, led Marcelas to the U.S. Senate, to become a target of Glenn Beck and finally to stand next to President Obama, wearing matching powder-blue ties, when he signed the ACA.
The story of how Marcelas Owens ended up at the White House is one of many that I tell in Fighting for Our Health, each aimed at capturing the drama and illuminating the strategy that drove us to victory. I describe:
How we organized small businesses in the districts of conservative Democrats, taking them on Main Street tours.
The biggest story missed by the press, how we beat the tea party attacks by turning out more people than they did at Democratic town halls and rallies from mid-August through Labor Day in 2009.
How we thanked House Democrats who voted for the bill and spanked Democrats who voted against it in 2009, a key strategy in getting a majority of House members to vote for the final legislation in 2010.
The campaign we ran on TV and in the streets to get the message out, "If the insurance companies win, you lose."
The tension with the White House, which tried to stop HCAN from defending a strong bill.
At the end of the day though, we were all on the same side, celebrating passage of legislation that – if it survives 2012 – will make affordable health care a right in the United States. To see that promise fulfilled, we'll need the President, Congressional Democrats and activists to make it clear why the Affordable Care Act will be a huge step forward in creating a country that works for the 99%. We'll need to remind the public that once the ACA is implemented in 2014, it will mean that losing your job, retiring early, or starting a small business won't result in losing access to affordable health coverage. It won't mean you could go medically bankrupt.
The ACA became law because of the passion of activists and Democratic elected officials for creating a more just America. We defeated the Republican part, the tea party, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the health insurance industry. In 2012, we need to do it again.
Fighting For Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States will be released on February 1, 2012. You can preorder a copy here. You can also follow us on twitter and Facebook.
I'm an Institute Fellow at the Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. From 2008 to 2010 I was National Campaign Manager for Health Care for America Now (HCAN).


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The Documented Life Project: Weeks 45 thru 48
categories: Art Journal #5, Art Journaling, Challenges, The Documented Life Project
Week 45 – Add a Tab
Created using Gelatos, washi tape and tabs.
Week 46 – Incorporate fabric onto your page.
I hate how this turned out. I just wasn't feeling very artsy this day.
Week 47 – Add a map and document about it.
Created using a torn map page, Distress Inks and a Sharpie marker.
Week 48 – Depict Gratitude in a Creative Way
Created using Distress Inks, Sakura Identi-Pens, Uniball Signo White Gel Pen and cardstock.
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I would swear I'd commented on this before and owe you a huge apology… this series of pages has to be among my most favorite that you have ever done because they are simple and beg for you to come back and fill them later… the tabs and rainbow colors is the sort of page I'd like to turn in to a canvas! LOVELOVELOVEReply


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Is the way of living portal of The Star Media Group. The essential idea of a spread-sure technique is that a forex pair has a high and low price that it normally trades between. In the present day, when markets could be traded on a near 24-hour basis, opening range" is much less outlined by a time range-the market open-than it's by the events that encompass that vary.
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I feel we can agree that choppy markets are a standard occurrence in the market. You'll be able to see these flat chart patterns in stocks, futures and generally even bitcoin. Likewise, the low value acts as main support level by which price can't seem to break as nicely.
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Absence of a Basic Trend – Since bears and bulls can't overpower each other, we've a flat value action on the chart. Which means that there isn't any existing pattern that may be traded. Range Sure Trading is a trading technique that identifies inventory buying and selling in channels, horizontally with no particular prediction of bullish or bearish pattern.
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The market capitalisation of the safety displays knowledge from earlier buying and selling day. The concept of range trading is to capitalize on the tendency of prices to revert to the mean. Vary buying and selling will bear in mind both extreme zones and a trader will look to place a commerce in opposition to the potential zones of assist and resistance that form the vary.
When the Aroon Down indicator (in pink above) is above the 70 line and the Aroon Up indicator (in greed above) is beneath 30, then the market is trending downwards. A range-bound buying and selling technique refers to a method by which merchants buy on the assist trendline and promote at the resistance trendline degree for a given stock or choice.
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On condition that most people base their place measurement on their stop dimension, this might lead to very small positions or, relying on the market and your capital, no commerce. Bonus tip: One of the renko chart strategy best pairs for trading vary-bound strategies are currency crosses. By crosses, we imply those pairs that do not embody the USD as one of many currencies in the pair.


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February 23, 2008 – LIMIT MY INTAKE
I have become quite a recluse – for me, anyway. I feel as if I'm home all the time – whenever I'm not at work or family events or spending time with Dad, anyway. I just feel as if I don't have any energy left after my obligations are through.
Typically, when I walk in the door, I have a long list of things I should/could do, and then my butt hits the couch and all bets are off. Once I'm shut in that house, I'm not going out again until I absolutely have to. I busy myself at home a lot, watch a lot of TV, read books, avoid almost all phone calls and hide out. It's been nearly two months since I filed for divorce and I'm not feeling the desire to do much. I think A LOT, read a lot, mull over my situation a lot, wonder where I want my life to go, reflect on how I got here, catalogue the mistakes I've made, note personality traits I might need to change… then I think about my dad, how precious and fleeting life is, how painful this all is… then I feel so all alone. And then the phone rings, and I choose not to pick it up. There are so many people reaching out to me. I know I should pick it up and reach back. But I just feel like I want to be alone for a while, like I have a lot of internal work to do.
I'm exhausted and lost and I'm taking full advantage of my new cozy, warm home.
I have recently picked up Dr. Richard Taylor's book again, Alzheimer's: From the Inside Out. I find it fascinating to be able to get a glimpse of Alzheimer's from a patient's point of view. It's probably the closest I'll ever get to seeing my dad's point of view. And if I can just understand it and where they're coming from better, maybe I'll be able to relate better to my dad along the way. And so I force myself to read it, even sometimes on days when I don't want to because I know it'll depress me. But I can never read many chapters in one sitting – it's too emotional. I find that I put it down for days or weeks at a time. Then, when I feel stronger, I force myself to pick it back up again. The other book my mother gave me, The 36 Hour Day, is just WAY TOO HEAVY for me right now.
I'm still trying so hard to get back on my own two feet, live independently and await my divorce. I can't take on the whole world all at once. I have to limit my intake for my own good.


text: (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bank AG is predicting volatile markets are here to stay, helping the lender arrest two years of declines at its debt-trading business..Its forecast that full-year trading revenue will rise is bolder than that of its peers. While other U.S. And European trading behemoths are also predicting a boost to trading, they've restricted themselves to the shorter term..Traders crave volatility, or movements in asset prices, because it spurs clients to make bets and hedge their investments, and 2017 promised to be a year of lucrative uncertainty with Donald Trump taking office, Brexit and elections in Germany, France and The Netherlands. Instead, more chaotic markets didn't appear until early this year as central banks continued to pump billions of dollars into economies..Deutsche Bank was overly optimistic the year before, predicting higher trading revenue for 2017 in its annual report published early last year. Instead, the unit's income fell to the lowest since the financial crisis in 2008..While some other big investment banks like Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan have also issued optimistic outlooks based on recent market volatility, they have limited their forecasts to the first months of the year. Deutsche Bank didn't give any guidance on its first-quarter results in its annual report and didn't provide specific targets for full-year trading..Bigger Loss.Deutsche Bank had a full-year net loss of 735 million euros ($906 million) last year, it said. That's higher than the initial estimate of 500 million euros published in February as the bank was hit by a decrease in deferred tax assets in the U.K. and higher-than-expected expenses for bonuses in the fourth quarter, a spokesman said..Also See: Bonus Drought Over as Deutsche Bank Tries to Keep Best Talent.Deutsche Bank rose as much as 1.1 percent in Frankfurt trading and was up 0.5 percent at 12.84 euros as of 1:46 p.m. The stock has declined 21 percent in the last 12 months, compared with a 1.1 percent gain on the Bloomberg Europe 500 Banks and Financial Services Index..Fees for mergers and acquisitions advice were slightly up last year but the bank missed out on Germany's biggest deal so far this year, the 22-billion-euro acquisition of Innogy SE by EON SE. That could earn the participating investment banks as much as 70 million euros ($86 million) in fees on each side of the deal, according to an estimate from research firm Freeman & Co..More M&A.Deutsche Bank said it expects to grow market share in its origination and advisory business, driven by a recovery in equity origination, higher advisory revenues and more cross-border M&A transactions..Chief Executive Officer John Cryan has been promising a return to "prudent growth" ever since the bank raised capital in a share sale a year ago. Instead the bank has shrunk in every single quarter since. The CEO expressed disappointment about the results at the bank's annual press conference in February and promised that he would finally restore both growth and a positive bottom line to the bank in 2018.."As we look forward, the focus has to be trained squarely on revenues and profitability," Cryan wrote Friday in his letter to shareholders. "We have laid a strong foundation to continue to grow with our clients. The market environment for our business also improved at the beginning of the year.".Cryan also highlighted the bank's continued focus on cutting costs. The lender said in February that it will miss its adjusted cost target for 2018 by about 1 billion euros as failed to complete several planned asset disposals. The CEO elected not to take a bonus for the third straight year..Expected cost synergies from the merger of its German retail bank subsidiaries have been delayed from this year into next and the bank is also anticipating higher costs for its preparations for Brexit and implementation of the MiFID regulation, it said in the annual report. Expenses on litigation and restructuring as well as credit costs likely will also rise, the bank said..To contact the reporters on this story: Steven Arons in Frankfurt at email@example.com, Nicholas Comfort in Frankfurt at firstname.lastname@example.com, Donal Griffin in London at email@example.com. .To contact the editors responsible for this story: Dale Crofts at email@example.com, Ross Larsen .©2018 Bloomberg L.P.


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The White House has provided additional information on implementing a Jan. 30 executive order directing federal agencies to reduce regulation and control regulatory costs. This effort is likely to affect import, export, and other trade-related regulations issued by agencies such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Commerce, although the extent of this impact remains unclear.
EO 13771 requires executive departments or agencies publicly proposing or otherwise promulgating new regulations to identify at least two existing regulations to be repealed. In addition, any new incremental costs associated with new regulations must be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least two prior regulations.
This order does not apply to regulations associated with national security or foreign affairs functions; regulations related to agency organization, management, or personnel; or any other category of regulations exempted by the Office of Management and Budget. Some trade agency officials have said they are still trying to determine which of their regulatory actions might qualify for these exemptions.
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Agencies. A cabinet department is considered a single agency for purposes of EO 13771 compliance. The order does not apply to independent regulatory agencies.
Regulatory Actions. EO 13771 applies to (a) significant regulatory actions that have been finalized and impose total costs greater than zero and (b) significant guidance documents (e.g., significant interpretive guidance) reviewed by OIRA that have been finalized and impose total costs greater than zero. It covers regulations issued after noon on Jan. 20 even if they are finalizing a proposed rule issued before then.
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Entity Formation Series :: Part 2 – What Type Of Entity Should You Form?
After you have made the decision that it is time for you to form an entity, the next two decisions that need to be made are: (1) what type of entity should be formed; and, (2) in what state should the entity be formed? While these are two distinct questions, neither one of them can truly be answered without considering the other. This is because of the fact that entities are creations of state law, and state laws governing entities are not all the same.
While these questions can only truly be answered in conjunction, I am going to break them down into independent questions for our purposes. Of the two, it is usually easier, in my opinion, to first make the decision as to what type of entity to form. While the state where the entity will be formed should certainly be a factor in this decision, I am going save my analysis concerning that aspect of the decision-making process for my Post: Entity Formation Series Part IV – Where to form your Entity: Texas vs. Delaware. So, now let's get down to brass tacks: What type of entity should you form?
When evaluating what type of entity you should form, the business model of the company in question is generally going to be the first factor that should considered. Usually, business models, when viewed extremely broadly, are going to fall into one of two distinct categories:
(1) Market-Disrupting Business Model. Under this model, the founders are usually (but not always) creating a tech startup that they believe has the potential to disrupt a market, eventually becoming a massive company, that receives venture-capital funding, goes public, etc. (i.e. the founders think they have a Facebook, Uber, Snapchat, Airbnb, etc. type of idea); or,
(2) Any Other Business Model. This is the category that covers every other type of business model.
99% of companies will fall into Category Two, with the remaining 1% fitting into Category One.
If your business model falls into Category Two, you should likely form an LLC for the reasons listed in my Post: Entity Formation Series Part III(a)– Why a Limited Liability Company is (usually) the Best Entity Vehicle for Most Business Models, which explains why the LLC is the best entity choice for business models that are not seeking to disrupt a market.
If your business model falls into Category One, you should likely form a corporation because of the reasons listed in my Post: Entity Formation Series Part III(b) – Why a C Corporation is (usually) the Best Entity Vehicle for those Businesses with a Market-Disrupting Business Model.
While this rule is a vast over-simplification and there are certainly situations where it should be deviated from, it can be a helpful gatekeeping tool that allows founders to break very complicated decisions into much simpler, binary decisions. While this may be beneficial for purposes of clarity, it is probably not the best way to actually make difficult decisions, so I would please advise you to contact a local attorney to help you make these choices.
If you are unsure as to whether you are going to operate under the Category One or Category Two business model, then you likely need to do some further soul-searching, market research, or whatever it is you need to do to determine what the goals are for your business moving forward. If you are truly stuck on the fence, then my advice would be to lean towards the LLC.
There are several reasons why this is my recommendation. First, only a miniscule percentage of businesses that start out wanting to be market disruptors ever receive any venture-capital funding (the percentage of companies that begin with a goal of receiving VC funding that actually end up achieving this goal is tough to precisely calculate. Numbers vary based on the article or study that you read, but it is possible that less than 0.05% of companies [or only one out of every 2,000] that is started will receive any VC funding). Do not let this discourage you if you do think you truly have a market-disrupting business model and the skills necessary to achieve great levels of success. While the low end of the spectrum provides that perhaps less than 0.05% of companies will achieve VC funding, other articles calculate that the odds are closer to three to five percent for VC-seeking companies.
If you truly have a great idea and can execute it, then you can certainly achieve VC-levels of funding; it happens all the time. Otherwise, there would be no Facebook, Uber, etc., and numerous other, smaller companies that have achieved great financial success. You simply need to make an honest evaluation of your business's potential to achieve its goals when pursuing a market-disrupting business model, and an assessment cannot be honestly completed without knowing that the odds of receiving VC funding are against every business that is starting out. A failure to receive VC funding does not necessarily mean that a business, even those initially operating under a market-disruption business model, cannot be successful. There are countless businesses that make their owners tremendously wealthy and happy even if they never become one of Silicon Valley's hottest companies.
Second, you can always convert your LLC to a corporation in the event that it is in position to receive VC funding. While it is true that this process will require additional legal and other related costs, having to convert your LLC to a corporation because you are in position to receive millions in outside investment is a good problem to have. Because of these two reasons and because, generally, the benefits of operating an LLC outweigh those of operating a corporation, I would recommend that an LLC be the entity of choice for most businesses with the exception being those companies whose business models and goals clearly fall into Category One above.
Now that I have provided a general rule that you can use as a starting point for deciding the type of entity your business should be, we need to address the other, related decision that was referenced at the beginning of this post: "Where should I form my entity?"
For some information on this decision, see my Post: Entity Formation Series Part IV – Where to Form your Entity: Texas vs. Delaware.
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Date Posted: 2007-08-09
The OIWC, a non-profit group created to build stronger relationships between local citizens and foreign wives on Okinawa, is hosting a Welcome Tea at the Butler Officers Club at 11 am August 29th. The OIWC says the tea is open to all women with SOFA status who live on Okinawa.
Formed in 1953 by the wife of the Chief Executive of the Ryukyu Islands, Mrs. Higa, the OIWC meets regularly to exchange cultural customs, holiday traditions, hobbies and daily rituals. OIWC spokesperson Loretta E. Robertson says monthly events hosted by OIWC include luncheons, cultural events, bazaars, cooking classes and community service projects.
Luncheons are held the first Monday of each month at various restaurants and cultural centers across the island, sharing friendship and culture while enjoying varied cuisines and entertainment from Japanese and foreign dancers, singers and musicians. The luncheons are $20 for on-base events, and ¥2,800 for those held off base. It sponsors annual Christmas and Spring bazaars to raise money for local charities both on base and in the local community. OIWC also has smaller cultural groups that meet to accommodate member needs.
Information on the OIWC is available from Ms. Robertson, 6117-323272, or by visiting the OIWC website, http://www.freewebs.com/oiwc/.


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Something does not feel right when a group of ecologists gather on a concrete campus in the middle of a city, especially when we're talking about the subject we're talking about is restoration of rivers and lakes to their near-pristine condition (see Constable, Turner, Gainsborough post). Aston University gives us a little inspiration by providing a muddy ornamental pond, just large enough to justify naming their conference suite "the Lakeside Centre".
One other reflection from the meeting is how little reference official literature now makes to the Precautionary Principle. This states that where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. It is enshrined in Article 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (follow link) but somewhere on the road between theory and practice high ideals collide with reality. In some cases the Precautionary Principle even seems to be inverted. The irony is that it is precisely those areas where scientific data do not permit a complete evaluation of risk that regulators are likely to prevaricate. Environmental regulation involves "carrots" and "sticks", with criminal prosecution as a last resort. And the foundation of criminal law is the principle of "beyond reasonable doubt", which does not sit comfortably with the Precautionary Principle. Moreover, most regulation places if not a cost on a business then, at the very least, a limit on profitability. The correlations ecologists find in their noisy datasets don't necessarily translate into causation and, maybe, it is wrong to put these constraints on businesses without stronger certainty than most readings of the Precautionary Principle imply?
Another jargon phrase much loved by modern governments is "evidence-led policy" – again, a principle that is impossible to argue against yet, at the same time, contradictory, in some respects, to the Precautionary Principle. Somewhere between having enough of a hunch to invoke the Precautionary Principle and enough certainty to satisfy a ministerial edict on evidence-led policy, most public servants (or, more likely, committees of public servants) will get cold feet.
Perhaps they are right? I'll finish back at the Lakeside Centre at Aston University where I am thinking through the implications of tighter standards for rivers, in particular. Environmental regulation does not exist in isolation: they translate into the "sewerage charges" you'll find on your next water bill. The tight standards required for the Water Framework Directive means that these costs will creep upwards over the next few years. The least we can do is make sure that you'll see some benefits as a result.


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anjlfan replied to anjlfan's topic in Presale Area #U2eiTour 2018Here are pics of the email. I am not great at screen shots so I used the snipping tool.
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anjlfan posted a topic in Presale Area #U2eiTour 2018I was shut out for tickets to the Boston Show. Wasted a ridiculous amount of time refreshing the Ticketmaster page hoping new tickets would appear and spent money on the membership that was not even expired to get the code! I wake up this morning to find an email from Stub Hub offering me tickets to U2!!!!! I don't follow Stub Hub, I've never received emails from them in the past, I've never bought tickets from them! How did they get my email address...and if this horrendous presale was supposed to eliminate the scalper....how are they offering me tickets? Did anyone else receive an email from Stub Hub? Did this site sell my information to them? I've been a fan since 1984 and have been to more concerts than I can count but I am so frustrated by this whole presale! This is so not how U2 usually acts!
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anjlfan replied to mnel13's topic in Presale Area #U2eiTour 2018This is not fun! this was supposed to prevent scalpers...well then who is getting all the tickets???? I am sure GA will be all over the scalper sites. I can't any good seats and I've been trying since 1:00 for Boston!
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anjlfan replied to beachangel's topic in Presale Area #U2eiTour 2018No email yet. I am part of Innocence...
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anjlfan replied to colby_martin's topic in Boston - Gillette StadiumI called the MBTA and they said Gillette has to order the train. I called Gillette and they said the MBTA makes the decision. I've tweeted to a couple of news organizations to see if they can get to the bottom of this. They had a train for the Springsteen concert.
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anjlfan replied to colby_martin's topic in Boston - Gillette StadiumWhen I went to the 360 show in 2009 it was a Sunday. Driving there wasn't too bad (came from NH) coming home was not pleasant. I am thinking of sleeping in the parking lot until the traffic subsides.
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anjlfan replied to anjlfan's topic in Boston - Gillette StadiumMy friend who I am going with said there is a train from Boston to Mansfield which is the next town over. I guess you could uber to the stadium. The problem with that is getting home that night. You would have to uber back to Mansfield and the traffic is HORRIFIC. I get the stadium shows but Gillette is not the best as far as getting out after the show. I am dreading it. I would definitely try to find some busses that are heading down. My friend is going to head down the night before by train to Mansfield and I am going to drive down the day of the show. I sadly have to go to a bridal shower at noon so I am going to have zoom zoom zoom down there.
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anjlfan posted a topic in Boston - Gillette StadiumHi all, Been to MANY U2 concerts all the way back to 1987 but this will be my first GA experience. Any suggestions on how this will work, will they let us line up early, how to get a good spot, and lastly, WHY are they not running the train from Boston? I appreciate any information! So excited for this concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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anjlfan replied to colby_martin's topic in Boston - Gillette StadiumI was hoping the train would run. You can take a train to Mansfield and Uber to the show. The worst part of Foxboro is getting out of there. 3 /12 hours after the 360 show. Didn't get home to NH until 4:00am.
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anjlfan replied to vertigojds's topic in Boston - Gillette StadiumI too have hard tickets to the show for GA. I was happy about this given that I lost the debit card I used to purchase the tickets way back when. Any idea about what time Gillette will let us line up?
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Posted by Pip Lincolne at May 18 2018, 2:23pm
It goes without saying that childhood today is way different from how we grew up. Our kids will never properly understand how well connected they are!
Here's a bunch of things we want them to know about our own ye olden daysyears …
1. Technology was MUCH different
"What do you meeeeeaaaan there was no internet when you were a kid?" our children wail in disbelief. And granted, it does seem unfathomable, kind of like saying there were no cars or there was no electricity. It's all very horse and carriage dot com.
But even though we missed out on having ideas, answers and information at our fingertips (hello encyclopaedias!), the less busy brains we had back then made up for it.
Perhaps our internet-savvy kids will grow up less universally able to handwrite a beautifully legible letter. But they make up for it in their language skills and their exposure to concepts, places and people we were never privy to.
2. We had fewer music choices
It is pretty impossible to imagine that when we were kids, we only listened to the music that the radio served up (which could be classical music if you got unlucky in the car with your tired mum on the way home from school!) OR what you had on CD.
Very often our music exploration involved flopping in a beanbag beside our older siblings and trying to make sense of whatever now-retro classic they were going totally nuts for on the TV program, Countdown.
There was most certainly not millions of tracks at our fingertips – nor handily curated playlists like Retro Rewind on Kinderling Kids Radio to serve up our favourite tunes.
3. Home was a haven
When we got home, we were cosied up in our little haven, far from the dramas of school. No internet – and no mobile phones – meant no after-school messaging. No social media pressure. Nobody pestering you or bullying after-hours, unless they had the courage to phone you up on the landline, which nobody ever did.
When we were kids, home was a place to retreat from the world and slot into the chores and routines that provided a comforting foundation to operate from. The lack of mobile phones and social media meant that our parents knew much more about what was going on in our lives (when we were within their four walls, at least).
There was no clandestine drama and no messaging into the wee hours of the morning and definitely no social media hangovers the next day. I'm sure we slept better, as a result!
4. Collecting was everything
With way less screen and gaming time and no social media use, we had heaps of times for other things, like collecting! While there's been a bit of a resurgence when it comes to collecting things of late (like Woolworths collector cards!) it's not as ubiquitous as back in the day.
Collecting seemed to fill the same gap that perhaps gaming does now, as we appreciated, gathered, learned, sorted and discussed whatever the objects of our affection were at the time. The social element you might see in gaming now was perhaps mirrored a little in the chatter and swap of old school collecting.
5. Multi-tasking was not a thing
Kids today seem to have evolved at pace, adopting skills we never needed to have and having the ability to learn more in a day than we might in a week or more (thanks internet!)
Back then, we worried about not missing the school bus and getting home in time for a honey sandwich – and a few cheeky spoonfuls of Milo fresh from the tin - in front of Round The Twist.
Now, kids are very often being picked up from school, iPad in hand from the get-go, ready to catch up on their favourite show or song or game as they sip their green juice, ask us if the meal service delivered today AND remind us it's our turn to look after the class iguana this weekend.
Back then, the closest we got to multi-tasking was eating a Roll-Up while watching that scene in Matilda when she makes her own breakfast.
Oh yeah, and we were allowed to eat Roll-Ups back then, too.
This post originally appeared on Babyology.
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Israel expels residents of Amona West Bank settlement, testing rule of law in Israel
- Israel approves large settlement – first new settlement in West Bank in decades
Israel expels residents of Amona West Bank settlement, testing rule of law in Israel
Jewish settlers lock arms inside a house as Israeli security forces try to evict them. (EPA)
Under court order, Israeli security forces began on Wednesday the forced eviction of settlers from the Amona settlement in the West Bank.
In 2014, Israel's High Court ruled that the Jewish settlement had been built on private Palestinian land, and that the settlement was illegal. The court ordered the government to evacuate and demolish the community by December 25, 2016. But under fierce pressure from settlers and their Knesset supporters, the government in late December secured a 45-day extension from the court until February 8.
Israel's government had hoped that the expulsion would go smoothly, as they had made an agreement that the evacuated settlers could move to an adjacent plot of land on the same hilltop as Amona. However, local Palestinians objected to this plan, saying that the adjacent plot was also privately owned by Palestinians, and an Israeli human rights group Yesh Din petitioned the court on behalf of the Palestinians to prevent this agreement. Last month, the court agreed with the Palestinians, and issued a temporary injunction halting the construction of the new settlements.
So Israel's government had to back off from the offer of the adjacent settlement, and replaced it with an offer to move to the Ofra settlement, which was farther away but was considered legal under Israeli law. This new offer was considered unacceptable by Amona residents, although it was finally accepted on Wednesday.
Amona activists set up makeshift roadblocks and other defenses, as an army of thousands of unarmed police officers on Wednesday came to Amona to carry out the evacuation and demolition orders. By Wednesday evening, 20 police officers were injured and 12 protesters were arrested.
Pinchas Vallerstein, who represents the Jewish settlers, was unhappy about the evacuation, but said that it was necessary:
If you want to live in a democratic society and that's important to you, you can disagree with a decision that the court makes, but at the end of the day, you have to live by it.
However, Abdulrahman Saleh, the mayor or a nearby Palestinian town, has little faith in Israel's legal system. He says,
I feel the democracy in Israel is just for their people. But for Palestinians, either in [historical Palestine] or here – it is like [Syria's president] Bashar al-Assad, it's dictatorial. And for their people, it is 100 percent democracy.
Times of Israel and CS Monitor
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Israel approves large settlement — first new settlement in West Bank in decades
For the first time in 20 years, Israel announced that it will build a new settlement in the West Bank. Previous announcements of new settlers' homes in the West Bank have been homes added to existing settlements.
The new settlement will have 3,000 homes. This is the third announcement of this type since Donald Trump became president on January 20. The previous announcements were for 2,500 housing units in the West Bank, and 550 in East Jerusalem. At the time that the 2,500 housing units were approved, Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the expansion was just a "first taste."
Many people believe Netanyahu is pursuing an extremely aggressive new settlement building policy because Trump is more sympathetic to settlement construction than Barack Obama. According to Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi:
The silence of the new American government, including those who actively support the settlements in the White House and the administration as a whole, has emboldened Netanyahu to persist with his settlement activities.
Israel claims that the new West Bank settlements are legal under international law, but many in the international community disagree, saying not only that they're illegal but also that they're a barrier to a "two-state" peace deal. This refers to the fantasy that there will be some kind of negotiation that will lead to an agreement that Israel and a Palestinian state will exist side-by-side in peace and harmony. Generational Dynamics predicts that Arabs and Jews will re-fight the 1948 genocidal war between Arabs and Jews that followed the partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel. BBC and CNN and Jerusalem Post
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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, Amona, West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ofra, Hanan Ashrawi, Pinchas Vallerstein, Abdulrahman Saleh
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