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    On 2016. 12. 29. at 8:40 AM, a said:

     

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    She could be a bombshell for sales in their shoe store - Choose a pair of shoes and meet Barbara Palvin!

     

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    This has been a great year for her.

     

    17 hours ago, CandleVixen said:

    I am just gutted over Carrie's and Debbie's passing. My heart goes out to Billie, Todd and Gary the wonder pup. Carrie taught me as a young girl to be feisty and fierce and still be a lady, and as an adult, she taught me that you can handle any thing that life tosses your way with grace, wit and humor. 


    In StarWars: The Old Republic, characters are coming together to honor her and Debbie's memory on House Organa on Alderaan. There's postings across social media with the hashtag #ForceForCarrie if you would like to see videos and screen shots. 

     

    RIP Carrie & Debbie

     

     

    Too bad there were no significant female characters in movies of the '80 (except for Sigourney Weaver).

    1 hour ago, Sanni said:

     

    Ashley Graham did too :smile: She played Jessica Rabbit.

     

    I thought that an advent calendar ends on 25th December.

     

    Still, Barbi wins hands down, Stella is not bad, and I'd rather not comment the Roger Rabbit & Blade Runner scenes.

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    "... the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that he decided to go along with the ambitions of America's Sunni allies to create and arm a Syrian opposition army to overthrow the regime in the first place.
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    In fact, however, Iran regarded Syria as crucial to its ability to resupply Hezbollah, whose large arsenal of missiles was in turn a necessary element in Iran’s deterrent to an Israeli attack. “Syria had been Iran’s and Hezbollah’s security in depth,” the ex-official said, but Obama's advisers “didn’t have a clue” about Iran’s overriding national security interest in preventing Assad’s overthrow by the overwhelmingly Sunni opposition backed by a Sunni international coalition with US support.
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    In May 2013, Hezbollah troops from the Bekaa Valley intervened in support of a regime counteroffensive to retake the city – obviously at Iranian urging.
    That Iranian-Hezbollah intervention resulted in the biggest defeat of rebel forces of the war up to that time.
    But instead of questioning the soundness of the original decision to cooperate with the Sunni coalition’s regime change strategy, Obama’s national security team doubled down on its bet.
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    The Obama administration even agreed to the Sunni states’ provision of anti-tank weapons to an armed opposition now openly dominated by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.

    That culminated in a Nusra Front-led command’s conquest of Idlib province and the subsequent Russian intervention, which the administration’s national security team obviously had not anticipated either.

    Obama and his advisers blundered on Syria in thinking that they were not getting into a high-risk war situation.

     

    But there is a deeper level of explanation for the willingness of Obama and his advisers to go along with the inherent risk of another regime change policy – even if Obama was half-hearted about it at best and limited direct US involvement in it.

    The administration was unwilling to be at cross-purposes with its Sunni allies, the former official recalled, because of the direct US military interests at stake in its alliances with those three states: the Saudis effectively controlled US access to the naval base in Bahrain, Turkey controlled the airbase at Incirlik, and Qatar controlled land and air bases that had become central to US military operations in the region.

     

    What was a disastrous blunder in terms of the consequences for the Syrian people, therefore, was the only choice acceptable to the powerful national security institutions that constitute what has become the US permanent war state.

    Their first concern was to ensure that existing military and intelligence arrangements and relationships were not jeopardised."

     

    http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/behind-real-us-strategic-blunder-syria-2049258334

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    A BRITISH truck driver has raised thousands of pounds for the family of Lukasz Urban, the Polish driver who was found dead in the truck used by a terrorist to attack the Berlin Christmas market on Monday.

    Dave Duncan used the crowdfunding website, GoFundMe, to raise £85,504 a day after the attack, because he was in a state of shock.

    Duncan wrote on the website: “Although I did not know Lukasz, the story of his untimely departure shocked and disgusted me.

    “So as a fellow trucker, I decided to reach out to the trucking community and beyond to help in some small way.

    “RIP Lukasz… from the truckers of the UK and beyond.”

     

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/746690/British-truck-driver-crowdfund-campaign-polish-driver-Urban-Berlin-terror-attack