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According to reports a poll on Thursday showed support for the christian democratic union was 22% and the social democratic party 23%. Reportedly the cdu which was formed in 1945 was the result of a merging of several parties and all ideologies. They were said to have remained in power until 1969 when a coalition of the social democratic party and the free democratic party came to power until 1982. They reportedly sought better relations with east Germany. They have since formed coalitions.

According to a report the spd were the strongest party in Germany before the nazi party came to power in 1933, they voted against new legislation that overruled individual rights and were banned. Criteria of the spd who are said to be pro-Europe and a member of the party of European socialists is said to the socially disadvantaged, the social needs of workers and the economy.

The book ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ was published in 1949 and later became a film starring Richard Burton. Set in the future, it was reportedly the last published work by British author George Orwell and tells the story of a corrupt, sadistic and repressive regime.

The main character grew up during an atomic war and wants to do his own thing. The thought police arrive and he is taken away and tortured until he agrees that they are right even when they are wrong. He is told that he will survive but remember nothing, that his memory will be obliterated and he will have no future. The thought police, thought to be equated to the military police arrive when the man’s behaviour begins to attract attention. He had already murdered a girl, gotten a room with another and was behaving strangely.

Set in Oceania, the proletariat lived in their own areas and were controlled by media, newspeak and constant surveillance. Controlled protest groups were formed to deal with dissent. Socialism was demonised. People with other political ideas apologised publicly saying they were sick and had a mental condition. A major enemy of the state was said to be a former member of the inner party who wrote a fictional book entitled ‘The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism’. Oligarchy was said to need poverty in order to survive. There were ongoing wars.

According to a report Thursday’s attacks outside Kabul airport were the work of suicide bombers, possibly Sunni i.s. terrorists. America’s commanders were said to be working with the Taliban to prevent another attack. Reportedly, according to a Taliban spokesman people will be allowed to leave after the u.s. withdrawal on Tuesday. According to the report Taliban have asked Turkey to operate Kabul airport. Turkey as part of the u.n. may suggest more talks with the former said to be western backed government. Reportedly Afghan citizens fear more attacks which have caused more to think about leaving.

According to reports the league of nations British mandate for Palestine was replaced by u.n. trusteeship, as were other league of nations mandates. Reportedly the Harrison report of 1945, compiled by the u.s. representative to the intergovernmental committee on refugees enquired into mandatory Palestine in relation to the future of survivors of concentration camps. According to the report the effect was that President Truman wrote to the British prime minister saying that helping war refugees return home should be given first priority.

Reportedly between 1944-47 various Israeli underground groups campaigned against British rule. According to reports, on 15 May 1945 directly following the termination of the league of nations mandate for Palestine and Israel’s independence there was an invasion by members of the Arab league.

According to reports the league of nations became the united nations in April 1946. Various plans were compiled, the first reportedly being the Morris-Grady plan of July 1946 which proposed the self rule of jewish and arab states under British supervision, except for Jerusalem and the Negev which would remain under direct British control. Reportedly the plan failed which was followed by the London conference, September 1946-February 47. Another plan proposed by British foreign secretary Ernest Brevin suggesting a limited five year u.n. trusteeship was said to have failed due to no partition. According to reports the u.n. partition plan of 1948 recommended independent arab and jewish states with an international arrangement for Jerusalem, Samaria and Bethlehem.

Reportedly, from 1948 Palestinians believed to be a threat were moved with their families to Gaza. According to a report Egypt annexed Gaza in 1949 which remained under Egyptian control until the six day war of 1967 when Israel took back Gaza and annexed the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza blockade followed due to the threat of terrorism.

Reportedly the u.s. withdrawal from Afghanistan is going ahead as planned though the u.n. disagree. The u.n. spokesperson on human rights may be using criteria from the old regime. Claims are that there have been executions of some civilians and recruitment of child soldiers. Reportedly according to an Afghan citizen, women’s rights are the issue. According to reports, during the taliban’s previous rule from 1996-2001 women were not allowed to work and girls not allowed to go to school.

A reason for a western presence in Afghanistan is reportedly the safe departure of those who feel it may be in their best interests to leave.

According to a report the exchange of fire between Hamas and Israel has resulted in criticism of both sides. Reportedly the conflict began with hamas who fired rockets into Israel in protest at the threatened evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, east Jerusalem and clashes on the Temple Mount.

Reportedly the war in 1948 between Israel and the Arab league resulted in east Jerusalem being annexed by Jordan. According to reports the six day war between Israel and Jordan, Egypt and Syria in 1967 resulted in Israel taking back Samaria Gaza and east Jerusalem though they gave Palestinians the Temple Mount.

The reclaiming of territory is not recognised by the u.n. Reportedly Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 which resulted in displacing Jewish residents was followed by Hamas being voted in, in January 2006. Israel are said to have not permitted entry to all goods, such as construction material. Reportedly hamas tunnels, used for the kidnap and murder of Israeli citizens is the reason. Some tunnels were said to have crossed the border into Egypt and are thought to be connected to the obtaining of artillery.

Reportedly the battle in May was resulted in the deaths of 129 Palestinian civilians including women and children and thought to be ten Israelis. Among Israeli targets were said to be four high rise buildings. According to a report warnings were given and there were no fatalities though businesses and homes were destroyed including the Al Jazeera and u.s. based AP news agency offices.

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According to reports al qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden, a saudi Arabian in 1988 in Pakistan to fight in the Afghan soviet war. Al qaeda were reportedly implicated in two bombings occurring simultaneously in u.s. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. The attacks were said to be carried out by egyptian Islamic jihad, founded in the late seventies, according to the u.n. the jihad organisation was affiliated to al qaeda. Bin Laden became wanted by the fbi.

Reportedly the 9/11 attacks on the world trade centre and the pentagon in 2001 were carried out by nineteen hijackers, fifteen were from saudi Arabia, two from the united Arab emirates and one from Egypt. According to the report four teams consisted of a trained pilot and three or four men whose job it was to overcome the passengers and crew.

The hijackers were said to have mainly arrived in the usa from January 2000 and three were said to have undergone flight training in Florida. The fourth pilot reportedly arrived from Saudi Arabia in 1991. He was said to have studied english for a few months at the university of Arizona before going home. According to the report he returned in 1996, studied english in the university of California and took flight lessons in Arizona, receiving his commercial pilot’s licence in 1999. Reportedly he went back to Saudi Arabia to try to find a job as a pilot. He was said to have been turned down at the civil aviation school in Jeddah.

Of the nineteen hijackers four were reportedly known by the CIA. According to a report two of the hijackers fought for muslims in the Bosnian war. They and others were said to have been chosen by Osama bin Laden to take part in a mission to pilot commercial airliners into the world trade centre buildings, the pentagon and the Whitehouse, but the fourth plane reportedly crashed.

One of the hijackers was reportedly photographed at an al qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur with another who was believed to have been involved in the bombing of the u.s. navy ship uss Cole in October 2000. Reportedly al qaeda had training camps in Afghanistan and elsewhere. According to the February 2020 US peace agreement the Taliban will not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups including al qaeda to use Afghanistan to threaten the security of the U.S.

Saint Augustine is believed to have been born in 354 in a roman province in present day Algeria. His mother was said to have been a Christian. At 17 he went to Carthage, Tunisia to finish off his education where he became interested in manichaeism, a dualistic religion, and began a relationship with a girl who gave birth to a son, Adiodatus.

Augustine became a teacher, and reportedly through manichaen contacts obtained a post in Milan where he lived with the unnamed girl and their son. After ten years as a manichaen he became a skeptic and got involved in a new movement of platonism. Reportedly, in 381 Catholicism was declared the only legitimate religion, prohibiting other christian beliefs such as Arianism which is of the opinion that Jesus is not pre existent, but seperate and subordinate to the father. In 382 there was said to have been a decree from roman emporer Theodosius I for the death of all manichaen monks.

In 385 according to reports, Augustine’s mother, Monica joined the family and tried to arrange a marriage for Augustine. His partner of 14 years left but the marriage did not go ahead.

Everyone was turning to catholicism and reportedly in 387 Augustine and Adiodatus were baptised. According to reports Monica died and Augustine and Adiodatus returned to north Africa. Soon after Adeodatus died. Augustine reportedly sold his estate, gave the money to the poor and in 391 was ordained a priest, later becoming the bishop of Hippo. Along with saint Paul he is said to have been a major influence on the early church.

Amongst his writings was a book entitled ‘The City of God against the Pagans’. Themes reportedly were; suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the existence of free will versus an all knowing god and original or ancestral sin. Thought to be in his later years a controversy was a belief that an individual acts in good faith by God’s grace rather than by choice. Augustinian teaching is upheld in the protestant church, especially his theology of salvation and divine grace.

According to a report North Korea are facing a severe economic crisis and the people are suffering from food shortages. According to the report a number of western experts believe the u.s. should coordinate some relief from u.n. sanctions. The u.s. via nato reportedly regulate u.n. sanctions which sometimes include prohibiting the sale of oil and freezing individual assets.

According to reports, new polish legislation which prohibits non europeans from owning controlling stakes in polish media has been criticised in the lower house and by the eu, and is seen as an attack on independent media.

Reportedly in 2020 the polish government purchased a media company that owned 20 of Poland’s 24 regional newspapers and has undue influence on tv and radio. According to reports the new legislation will make Discovery a u.s. media group sell its shares in TVN, said to be the country’s main remaining independent broadcaster.