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The US on Tuesday afternoon reached the conclusion that Russian warplanes attacked an aid convoy in Syria, killing 20 people.  The aerial onslaught also destroyed 18 out of 31 UN and Red Crescent trucks carrying food, clothing, and medicine from Turkey to besieged areas of Syria.  Russia and Syria have denied carrying out the attack, although Russia says its surveillance drones discovered the convoy had been accompanied by a militants' pickup truck armed with a heavy mortar gun.  Either way, the UN has suspended all aid convoys to Syria, meaning the people get to continue to suffer in the five and a half year proxy war.

US President Barack Obama, who leaves office in January, gave his last speech before the United Nations General Assembly going on at the headquarters in New York City.  He sought to bolster the morale of liberal democracies at a time of increasing tensions between East and West, and the rise of normalized fascism in the latter.  Mr. Obama warned of "a crude populism - sometimes from the far left, but more often from the far right- which seeks to restore what they believe was a better, simpler age free of outside contamination".  Clearly referencing the bruising presidential race to pick his successor, he said, "History shows that strongmen are then left with two paths - permanent crackdown, which sparks strife at home, or scapegoating enemies abroad, which can lead to war."

Critics are calling out Donald Trump, Jr., the son of the fascist US presidential candidate, for an anti-immigrant twitter fart that was soaked in nazi and white supremacy dog whistles.  A photo of a bowl of Skittles candy was captioned with a question if just "three could kill you, would you take a handful?" The company that makes Skittles tersely said, "Skittles are candy.  Refugees are people.  We don't feel it's an appropriate analogy."  Others tweeted photos of the horrific photo of dead refugee toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose washed up body become the defining image of the Syrian refugee crisis in September 2015; others used the picture of now-famous Omran Daqneesh, whose stunned gaze from under blood and dust briefly refocused the attention of millions on the fighting in Syria; US security Analyst Malcolm Nance showed Jewish refugees from Europe who were rejected by the United States, only to be sent back and die in the Holocaust.  

But Trump, Jr.'s tweet was actually much more sinister than it appeared on the surface:  Historians quickly pointed out the origin of the poisoned foodstuff actually came from nazi propaganda comparing European Jews to poisoned mushrooms.  The original author of that particular analogy was found guilty of atrocities during the Nuremberg Trials and hanged as a war criminal.  The recent change to Skittles candy is a neo-nazi reference to the killing of Florida black teenager Trayvon Martin, who was out at night buying Skittles candy when he was shot dead by a self-styled neighborhood watchman.  BTW, Donald Trump, Jr. was already under criticism for telling a Holocaust joke last week.

One final note:  The photo of a bowl of Skittles candy used by Trump Jr. was stolen from UK photographer David Kittos - once a child refugee who had to flee his home in war-torn Cyprus in 1974.  "This was not done with my permission, I don't support his politics and I would never take his money to use it," Mr. Kittos said.

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Greece has sent a ship to house some of the 5,000 refugees routed from the Moria camp on the Island of Lesbos after a fire raced through, destroying most of the tents and shanties.  Priority will be given to families, because the ship can only host about a thousand people.

The FBI and police had previously investigated and cleared the suspect in a series of bombings and attempted bombings around New York City and New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami.  This was after his father Mohammed Rahami accused his son of being a terrorist and contacted law enforcement; when the FBI came out, the father retracted the terrorism claim, but told investigators that his son had fallen in with the wrong crowd.  "But they check almost two months, they say, 'He's OK, he's clean, he's not a terrorist,'" the elder Rahami told reporters.  "Now they say he is a terrorist. I say OK," he added.  Ahmad Khan Rahami has been charged with attempted murder for the gunfight with cops during his apprehension on Monday - no charges yet for last weekend's bombings.

Botswana is deporting a US fundamentalist christian preacher who has called for the stoning deaths of gays and lesbians.  "We don't want hate speech in this country. Let him do it in his own country," said President Ian Khama, as he personally ordered the arrest of "pastor" Steven Anderson, who was previously barred from entering South Africa because of his bullschnitt.

The daughter of a British peer was killed by vigilantes in the "war on drugs" waged by screwball Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.  45-year old Maria Aurora Moynihan was on bail from a drugs arrest; her murdered body was found on a Manila street this month with a sign warning "drug pushers" and "celebrities".  Her father was Baron Anthony Moynihan, a Lord whose life devolved into links with drug smuggling, fraud, and prostitution.  More than 3,000 people have been killed by cops or vigilantes in Duterte's insane bloodbath.

Hollywood's highest-profile power couple is splitting up.  Angelina Jolie filed divorce papers against Brad Pitt, citing "irreconcilable differences" over child-rearing methods.  Gossip sites are claiming the reason is Brad's reputed appetite for weed and alcohol; others claim he was caught messing around with one or two actresses co-starring in his latest film.  Brad was actually married to Jennifer Aniston when his relationship with Angelina Jolie began on the set of whatever largely forgotten piece of crap movie they were making at the time.