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Within hours of last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read "solidarity" — and his friends were shocked.

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Within hours of last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read "solidarity" — and his friends were shocked.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-16 17:33:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20151117/suicide-bombing-beirut.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 350386 [Title] => Send Filipino troops to join a UN ‘force’ in Lebanon? We’ll spend millions to try to rescue them later [Summary] => Speaker Jose de Venecia must be kidding, or more accurately grandstanding, when he offers to send Filipino troops to join any United Nations "force" to restore peace in war-ravaged Lebanon. They must be laughing at the very notion, in fact, all over the world.
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This is because we fritter away our funds making our politicians millionaires, and pogi projects made them, from top to bottom, look and "smell" good in pursuit not of the general welfare but of the next election.
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Within hours of last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read "solidarity" — and his friends were shocked.

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Within hours of last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read "solidarity" — and his friends were shocked.

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This is because we fritter away our funds making our politicians millionaires, and pogi projects made them, from top to bottom, look and "smell" good in pursuit not of the general welfare but of the next election.
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