Sunday, November 27, 2016

A Prayer.....

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Syrian government troops have pressed into rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Aleppo, as a two week-long offensive there grinds forward, appearing to push rebel defenders closer to defeat.  
The government gains bring the Assad regime another step closer to re-taking Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, held by rebels since 2012.

The fall of Aleppo would be a major victory for Assad and his ally Russia, whose intervention in September last year has pulled the Syrian president's regime back from the brink of collapse. Since November, Russia has intensified its bombing campaign across Syria, as the government has appeared increasingly emboldened.

1- Efforts by the U.S. to broker ceasefires for Aleppo fell apart ..............
2- The Assad regime appear determined to retake the city, despite protests from Western countries that they are committing war crimes by indiscriminately bombing civilians and targeting hospitals.
3- The Obama administration has warned Russia no military victory is possible in Syria, but Assad has repeatedly said he will take back all areas of the country.

Let us keep the Country as one piece. Let us not support any opposition. We have done that for sometime and the outcome is full destruction of a country, 11 million people are refugees, and thousands killed.
For God 's sake, let us help end the fighting even if Russia won in our eyes. let us pick a different fight where countries are not destroyed.

The conflict may be ending soon but the suffering is not... It is a defeat of  our  Humanity?

Just say a prayer.

Refund..?

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Shopper...

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Season...

Originally published in November 2014. The cartoonist's

Half-off

Originally published in 2010. The cartoonist's homepage,

Run..run?

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A former deputy mayor in the eastern city of Wenzhou, Yang, 70, is wanted in China for allegedly embezzling more than $40 million. She had sat atop the list of China's 100 most-wanted graft suspects who Beijing has asked Interpol to help apprehend.

With Chinese investigators closing in, Yang Xiuzhu fled first to Hong Kong in 2003, then Singapore, France, the Netherlands and Italy, said the party watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. 

The Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog says it has taken custody of 37 of the 100 most-wanted graft suspects since launching its "Sky Net" campaign to apprehend them in April 2015. They include both Yang and her brother who is suspected of graft and bribery and returned to China late last year.

A Chinese police official was elected president of Interpol last week, setting off alarm bells among rights advocates who worry about abuses and a lack of transparency within China's legal system. 

U.S. and Chinese diplomats and law enforcement representatives plan to meet in Beijing next week to discuss fighting transnational crime through the China-U.S. Joint Liaison Group on Law Enforcement Cooperation. You can run but not hide, not any more.