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* "Holocaust Survivor George Weidenfeld Bankrolls Rescue of 2,000 ISIS Victims:" http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/312104/holocaust-survivor-bankrolls-rescue-of-2-000-isis-victims/

* "Guards at Berlin refugee office 'used Nazi language and called for asylum-seekers to be sent to concentration camps':" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12014118/Guards-at-Berlin-refugee-office-used-Nazi-language-and-called-for-asylum-seekers-to-be-sent-to-concentration-camps.html

* Russia and Turkey are no longer talking at all. Including their military. Which means no coordination. Russia is now using planes equipped with plane to plane missiles, and are putting in surface to air missiles. Daesh has no planes, so... yeah. And not communicating between forces in the air dramatically increases chances of more planes on various sides getting shot down.

* I did watch a couple of the UN climate change speeches from Paris, though by no means all of them. Best of luck to conference attendees, and let us hope the executive agreement strategy works out as an end run around Congress.

* Ted Cruz took the terrorist who attacked planned parenthood spouting extreme right talking points from FOX News based on the hoax video about "baby parts" and a typo on a voter registration as somehow proof that the terrorist is a left wing trans activist and not someone who believes the same things as Mr. Cruz himself. After all, why would someone using the same rhetoric as the people Ted Cruz is proud to have endorse and murdering people at a Planned Parenthood possibly be considered a member of the Christian Extremist anti-abortion terrorist movement and not a member of a community that broadly believes in bodily integrity and a political movement that believes the opposite of what the terrorist stood for? Why look in the mirror when you can randomly blame an oppressed minority that has nothing at all to do with the terrorist attack, especially one that is literally being murdered at a record high rate this year?

* "Women Spies of the Civil War:" http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-spies-of-the-civil-war-162202679/?no-ist

* "Abraham Lincoln: The enduring images:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32292217?ocid=socialflow_twitter

* Thank you Tibicina for your excellent Gothmas gift of Fish Food! Thank you Brightlion for enough money for lung meds and a good quantity of Hector cat food! All the beasts are safe!

* In other news, I finished the Gothmas conversion of the livingroom last night. The window display is up. There are icicles in the Gothmas tree. Zombies, mummies, skeletons, and a vampire are invading the family creche. I have threaded candle lights through Halloweentown. Weirdly, when I turned the molding lights on after several weeks hiatus, the burnt out segment mostly lit up, I doubt it will last long, but I love the way the blue fairy lights make the living room friendly.

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* "Free Celtic knotwork coloring page:" http://thestorydragon.com/2015/11/free-downloadable-coloring-page-celtic-knotwork-wheel-by-owen-wills/

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

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* Russia is now claiming that Turkey's aggressive campaign to stop oil smuggling in the last year and their fighting against Daesh is all a clever ruse to hide them buying oil from Daesh. Meanwhile, Russian ally Assad is doing it openly, and in such quantity that he is their best customer. *side eye*

* So they found out what happened to that Air Asia flight. It seems that Air Asia refuses to do proper maintenance on their planes. The air rudder on this plane had gone out 23 times in the year previous to the crash, but rather than fix it properly, they kept bodging in back together badly. Pilots lodged repeated complaints that the plane wasn't safe to fly, which the company ignored.

So guess what happened? Yep, the air rudder failed yet again. The pilots, who didn't have the proper training for fixing it, were forced to attempt mid air repairs. In the process of trying to reboot it, they lost autopilot and the plane spiraled down into the ocean before they could stop it, killing all aboard.

I don't know anyone who was on that plane, but I know how angry I am at Air Asia executives just picturing it. I can only imagine how furious the families of the dead are. I wish the families all the best and I hope they get what revenge is available as justice isn't possible in a case like this.

* TW: Domestic Violence. "'My present to my mum was a blind eye':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039rm0x

* "Planned Parenthood a longtime target for attacks:" http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/29/planned-parenthood-a-longtime-target-of-violence.html

* "Cruz in questionable company, offers bizarre response to shooting:"

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* "Increased threats correspond to new Planned Parenthood bashing:"

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* "The Great Regression: Conservative Lies Terrorize 50 Years Of Progress:" http://reverbpress.com/politics/32783/

* "World AIDS Day 2015:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/world-aids-day-2015.html

* "Mount Horeb, WI Rebukes Transphobes, Schedules Public Readings Of 'I Am Jazz' :" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/mount-horeb-wi-rebukes-transphobes.html

* "Trans Bolivians Gain Ability To Change Gender On Identity Documents:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/trans-bolivians-gain-ability-to-change.html

* "Sophia Duleep Singh, Part 2: Suffragette Princess:" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/133945804423/missedinhistory-in-the-conclusion-to-our#notes

* "Drinking the Haterade - Attack on Planned Parenthood:"

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* On Luke Cage's Relevance: http://big-wired.tumblr.com/post/134074808018/luke-cage-was-created-in-1972-four-years

* Today I spent an hour changing the garden over. There are a couple of things i need to do when there is more light, but it was productive and satisfying.

* I watched the NHK men's final out of Nagano. It was mostly mid-ranked skaters, but Jin Boyang, who is just out of juniors and a little immature in his choreography, skated brilliantly and will likely be a God in a year or two, as he jumps like a young Pleshenko and has way better and more graceful everything else.

It was Hanyu who completely blew me away though. Yuzuru Hanyu skated the shit out of a brilliant routine based on 10th Century Japan. He's the total package: athleticism and aesthetics. I had chills. It may have been the most beautiful skate I've ever seen. He got the highest score ever in both his short and long program. I officially have a new favorite skater.

* "Some thoughts about Book vs Show Brienne:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/130735799887/some-thoughts-about-book-vs-show-brienne

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* "Free Celtic knotwork coloring page:" http://thestorydragon.com/2015/11/free-downloadable-coloring-page-celtic-knotwork-wheel-by-owen-wills/

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com