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HBO’s new movie Oslo, released this weekend, lionizes a pair of Norwegian diplomats behind the 1993 Oslo Accords.
The historic agreement established the Palestinian Authority carved out areas of Palestinian control in the West Bank and Gaza, and formally recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), which had heretofore been deemed a terrorist organization.
The film, based on J. T. Rogers’s Tony Award-winning play of the same name, focuses on the efforts of real-life diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen (played by Andrew Scott) and his wife, Mona Juul (played by Ruth Wilson), to get Palestinian and Israeli negotiators to come to a deal.
In a scandal that rocked Norway last fall but barely made news in the U.S., Norway’s leading business daily, Dagens Naeringsliv, or DN, revealed details of Rød-Larsen’s personal and professional connections with the late sex trafficker. The diplomat subsequently resigned from his position as president of the International Peace Institute (I.P.I.), a New York-based nonprofit think tank headquartered across the street from the U.N.
Sketchy business dealings are not new for Rød-Larsen. The diplomat briefly served as Norway’s planning minister during a social-democratic government in 1996. After less than two months, he was forced to resign when journalists revealed his involvement in a tax fraud. In 1997, Rød-Larsen paid a fine of 50,000 kroner (a little less than $6,000) for backdating stock options in order to profit in the lead-up to a bankruptcy.
What the movie leaves out is Jeffrey Epstein, the smirking Banquo’s ghost at many elegant dinner parties these days.
DN’s investigation revealed that Rød-Larsen had privately borrowed money from and visited “Jeff,” as he referred to him in e-mails, in his Manhattan lair at least 20 times in the years after Epstein did jail time in 2008 and 2009 for what turned out to be a massive sex-trafficking operation.
Rød-Larsen also reportedly sent Epstein flowers for his birthday in January 2018.
A pariah in Norway, Rød-Larsen has Hollywood on his side. Juul, meanwhile, is
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Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.
They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.
I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.
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Keep in mind, my son is 4 years old, so everything is an original to him.
I had to work late into the evening yesterday, and he was just going to bed when I got home. I had left home for the office nearly 14 hours prior, had a long day, lots of meetings, traffic, etc.
When I walked through the door, I was exhausted, run down, and starving. My wife hugged me and asked how my day was, and I replied, "Done. It was a good day, but has got me exhausted. I just want to grab a bite and go to bed. I'm hungry."
From my son's bedroom, I hear him shout, "Hi Hungry! Nice to meet you!"
Not only did it make me laugh, but I completely forgot about how hungry and tired I was. I went to his bedroom, and we laughed together about it. It was exactly what I needed.
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I heard parents named their children lance a lot.
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He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.
and not:
Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:
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It’s for Hispanic attacks
Without missing a beat he asks "Daddy, do you know how much room you need to grow Fungi like that?"
I did not know.
So he tells me "as Mushroom as possible!"
So proud.
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He was so brave and even tried to encourage us, the family around him, with his last breaths. He kept whispering to us to Be Positive.
He said, “Change the batteries in your hearing aid”.
So far no one has given me a straight answer.
She was pretty mad when I only picked seven up
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 40%. (I'm a bot)
> NEW YORK - For the third time in a week, the US is blocking a joint statement from the Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, two diplomats involved tell The Times of Israel.
> Member states still have until Monday at noon to mull over statement, and negotiations over the matter are ongoing, two Security Council diplomats told ToI. During the open meeting, the US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that the US is "Working tirelessly through diplomatic channels to try and bring an end to this conflict."
> Fourteen of the 15 Security Council members sought to issue a joint statement, which requires unanimous approval, after closed emergency meetings on Monday and Wednesday.
> They were rebuffed by the US, which said it wanted more time for its own diplomatic efforts to play out, according to several Security Council diplomats.
> Asked after the meeting if the US planned to back the joint statement being drafted, an official at the US mission told ToI that "Right now we are focused on the intensive diplomatic efforts underway, including those Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield discussed at today's Security meeting."
> Speaking to reporters following the emergency session, Mona Juul from Norway's foreign ministry said her government "Strongly believes that the Security Council should speak with one voice and send a clear message urging an immediate cessation of violence and reconfirming our support to the two-state solution. Norway will continue our dedicated efforts to pursue council action."
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