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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday implored an audience at the Venice Film Festival to resist indifference to his country’s conflict with Russia as the months-long war rages on. Appearing on the festival’s Sala Grande screen, Zelensky told the global film industry audience that Russia is staging “a primitive plot in three acts for the world to make three dramatic mistakes. To get used to the war. To put up with the war. To forget about the war.” More than half a year since Russia first invaded, the war in Ukraine is “a drama based on real-life events” that is...

Joe Scarborough on Wednesday minced no words about the Senate Republicans who say the country now needs to “forget” the deadly U.S. Capitol riot incited by former President Donald Trump.

1. My goal for 2019 was to lose 10 pounds. Only have 14 to go. 2. Ate salad for dinner. Mostly croutons & tomatoes. Really just one big round crouton covered with tomato sauce. And cheese. FINE, it was a pizza.. I ate a pizza, are you happy ? 3. How to prepare Tofu: a. Throw it in the trash b. Grill some meat, chicken or fish 4. I just did a week's worth of cardio after walking into a spider web. 5. I don't mean to brag, but I finished my 14-day diet food supply in 3 hours and...

Despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to clarify comments made during his election campaign that a Palestinian state would not emerge under his tenure, the White House will nevertheless "still evaluate" its policy on the Middle East peace process, Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Thursday. The prime minister's comments, he said, call into question his commitment to the pursuit of peace and have forced the US government to reassess the the government's stance. With a sharpened tone since first reacting to Israel's election results on Wednesday,Earnest characterized Netanyahu's suggestion that Arabs were voting "in droves" against him...

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In secret negotiations with Iran, Argentina has offered to "forget" the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, in exchange for improved relations between the two countries. According to the Argentine weekly Perfil, which broke the story yesterday, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is personally involved in the talks. The Argentinean Foreign Ministry has so far declined comment. (Snip) According to the article, Timerman made the offer via Syrian President Bashar Asad and Foreign Minister, Walid Moallem, who were brought in as mediators.

Elephants Never Forget I usually don't pass on these motivational type stories, but this one is actually really interesting. Mykle Mbembe was a student at UCLA who graduated in 1985. After the ceremony he decided to return to his home country of Zimbabwe and visit his tribe, before he started his career as an architect. One day while on a hike he came upon a distressed young bull elephant. The elephant was holding one foot in the air while trumpeting loudly. Mbembe approached the elephant with caution, and discovered that the creature had a large piece of wood lodged deep...

One of Rudy Giuliani’s early achievements as mayor of New York City was to make people think twice about urinating on the streets. “If somebody was urinating on the street,” he once told the New York Times, “the reaction would be, oh, we can’t do anything about that. And then the idea would start to develop that there must be some inherent human right to urinate on the street. So the police started ignoring all kinds of offenses. They’d even stand by when drug deals were going on. The police became highly skilled observers of crime.” Something had to be...

The purveyors of revisionist political history are back at work this week, inspired by the death of Enron Corp. founder -- and convicted felon -- Kenneth Lay to revive the myth that were it not for Enron and Lay, California wouldn't have experienced its 2001 energy crisis. ... --snip-- Attorney General Bill Lockyer had the good manners to remain silent about Lay's death from heart disease three months before he was to be sentenced for lying to mask the failing company's condition. It was Lockyer who in 2001 told an interviewer that "I would love to personally escort Lay to...

WASHINGTON – Cutting gasoline taxes is not a good way for the country to deal with soaring energy prices, President Bush's top economist said Tuesday. “One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use,” said Edward Lazear, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers. “Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem ... because what it would do is it would encourage us to use more oil, not less and that is the way we got to the situation right now,” he...

Forget empress, let's have concubines, says prince By Colin Joyce in Tokyo (Filed: 04/11/2005) A Japanese prince has shocked the country with an attack on plans to let women ascend the imperial throne. Prince Tomohito, 59, the emperor's cousin and fifth in line to the throne, became the first member of the imperial family to speak out on the issue when he called on the nation not to abandon tradition. Under the constitution, the monarchy plays a purely symbolic role and members of the royal family are forbidden from making political statements, even on matters of direct concern to them....

New York Times Urges: Forget 9/11 By Isaiah Z. Sterrett Oct 21, 2004 Forget about 9/11. It’s no longer important. In fact, it never even happened. Just ask Tom Friedman. In a truly revolting column entitled “Addicted to 9/11,” Friedman recently argued that Americans should forget about the slaughter of 3,000 of our fellow countrymen. “[M]any Americans,” he wrote, “are worried…that terrorism is transforming us and our society, when it was supposed to be about uprooting the terrorists and transforming their societies.” (By “many Americans” Friedman means “me and Al Gore.”) Yes, terrorism is transforming our society. Whereas four years...

Fallen Embers* * Originally written by Joshua Sharp, age 17, on September 9, 2004 * * * * Feedback welcomed at: placidrage.at.myfastmail.com * * * * Please do not distribute this speech without attaching this message. * * Three years after we watched the tallest New York City skyscrapers tumble, it seems that the images have been lost in our head. Most of us cannot even imagine a 1300-foot tall skyscraper, let alone imagine dozens of office workers jumping out of their windows for an agonizing five, six, seven seconds of falling to their death. We forget the pictures of...

U.S. environmental groups on September 15, 2003 blasted the Bush administration for failing to appeal a Wyoming court injunction that blocked a Clinton-era rule designed to protect millions of acres of federal forest land. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) addresses supporters during a Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign fundraiser while in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, September 15. (Larry Downing/Reuters) Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) meets with families of victims killed in a March 1988 chemical gas attack, at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq (news - web sites) town of...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's working elephants are to be fitted with reflective patches on their rears to prevent fender-bending road accidents that sometimes result in more than a damaged trunk. The Wildlife Trust of India introduced the reflectors this week to help drivers spot the working jumbos at night in the Indian capital. "The butt-reflector, roped to the howdah (seat), costs just 100 rupees ($2) and is the simplest way to protect them," said trust program director Aniruddha Mookerjee. Working elephants are often used at weddings, festivals and by the tourist industry and often have to walk long distances...

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The molecule that helps us... erm, forget it August 28 2002 at 05:59PM Paris - A molecule which helps the brain delete unwanted information could be to blame for the memory loss which creeps up with old age, according to a Swiss study that was published on Thursday. "Not everything that we learn is useful, so the brain needs a mechanism to prevent itself being burdened by unhelpful details," said researchers Alcino Silva and Sheena Josselyn in the article in the British journal Nature. Studies on mice by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich found that those in...

Washington’s favorite political pastime – finger pointing – returned to full pre-9/11 glory this week with revelations the White House, a full month before the attacks, was briefed about fears Osama bin Laden’s gang of thugs might hijack airliners. So the White House went into the all-to-typical defense mode of saying “we didn’t do nuttin’ wrong” and another old Washington game of “what did you know and when did you know it” began. Publicity-hungry Democrats, frustrated over trying to find an issue that would stick against George W. Bush, jumped on the issue and immediately claimed this to be...