Israel Pulls Funds; May Encounters Reality; The Uniting Begins; Think Turtle; SAM the Builder; and Memories of AI

Israel

Prime Minister cuts funding to UN israelnationalnews

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to cut $2 million from Israel's payments to the UN, in light of the hostile proposals adopted by the UN Human Rights Council last week.

Unifying Away from the Reformation; Disappearing Pastors; Adopting Russia; Superbug Spread; Growing Neurons; The Date Your Heart will Fail; Robot Street; Smiling Venus; Galileo's Time; and 10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid

False Unity

'Unity' call on Reformation anniversary bbc

A statement from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York has said the split caused "lasting damage" to the unity of the Church - something that contradicted the teaching of Jesus and left a "legacy of mistrust and competition".

Christmas Unity; Globalization Rally Cry; The Failing Justice League; EU's Grip; RT Swipe; Red Square Drill; Bomb Rain; Settling Outposts; New Order in Town; Programming Required; Alt-Right All Twittered Out; Big Gas; Animals See Again; Satellite Palooza; Smart Men Hit Asteroid; Space Engine; Faster Than Concorde; and Plant Robots Dreams

False Unity

Amazon Christmas advert 2016: Imam and priest push festive message of friendship independent.co.uk v

A spokesman for Amazon told The Independent: "Our casting reflects this: the gentleman playing the vicar is a practising vicar in London, the gentleman playing the imam is a devout Muslim and the principal of a Muslim school. We used an actual church and mosque for our scenes within the places of worship."

Oh, Amazon...

Transcending on SCOTUS; Unreformed Pope; Genetic Reveal; Chief Failure; Duterte's Shoal Thing; UN or Occupy; and Unmarked Driverless Cars

Society

5 things to know: Transgender case lands in Supreme Court sfgate

Grimm was allowed to use the boys' restroom at his high school for several weeks in 2014. But after some parents complained, the Gloucester County School Board adopted a policy requiring students to use either the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender or a private, single-stall restroom. Grimm says that policy violates Title IX, a federal law that bars sex discrimination in schools.

Also see US Supreme Court agrees to hear student privacy case adflegal v

CoverBoy; Sudan Persecution; Pope Advising Lutherans; Seedful; CRISPR Sickle; Instant Vaccines; Graphene Silk; AI Underground; Kill Jobs, Save the World; AI Traffic Cop; China Tops AI; Kobi, My Landscaper; Returning Fire; and Russia's Inflated Military

Society

Meet CoverGirl’s first-ever CoverBoy, James Charles usatoday v

CoverGirl ambassador Katy Perry took to Instagram to break the news that the beauty behemoth had signed the 17-year-old New York-based makeup artist. "Just wrapped another great CoverGirl shoot. Honored to have the pleasure to announce the very first CoverBoy, James Charles!" the pop artist captioned a photo of herself posing alongside Charles in all his contoured glory.

Imagine and Believe; Strange Church Fellows; Levi Plans; Brazilian Jews; Turkey Threatens EU; Street Rate of Death; NK Can Reach LA; China's Nose Punch; Atheists in Devil Suits; 'Christian' Delisted as Hate Speech; Anthrax in Russia; Moving Pictures; Printing Solar Cells; Self-Directed Robot Sings Badly; and The AI Way

Sorry for no post yesterday, and for the particularly, currently 'old' news today...my Internet was down yesterday! This update catches up on the news you didn't even know you missed over the unscheduled long-weekend...

False Unity

Pope to young on Poland trip: Believe ‘in a new humanity’ washingtonpost

Pope Francis told young people who flocked by the hundreds of thousands to his words Sunday that they need to “believe in a new humanity” stronger than evil, and cautioned against concluding that one religion is more violent than others.

If you remember, Imagine was played quite a bit last year by various so-called 'globalists'. Sounds like P.J., himself, took a page from Lennon this week:

“People may judge you to be dreamers, because you believe in a new humanity, one that rejects hatred between peoples, one that refuses to see borders as barriers and can cherish its own traditions without being self-centered or small-minded,” Francis told his flock.

Trudeau's Pride; Public Accommodating Churches; Social Justice VBS; Religions Unite in Munich; Search Paranoia; Italy's Chaos; 100,000 Missile Threat; Manhattan Cleanup; Plasma, Que Rica!; Dumb AI = Smart AI; Stocking Up; Juno's Jupiter; and Buddha's Maybe Skull

Society

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau marches and dances in Toronto Pride parade 9news.au v

Thunderous applause greeted Mr Trudeau as he paraded down a main Toronto street on Sunday local time, waving a Canadian maple-leaf flag bordered with a rainbow.

Also see Syrian refugee marches beside Justin Trudeau in Canadian pride parade

Peaceless in France; Bracing in Israel; Making Russia Great, Again; Poland Builds Up; Turkey Stares Down; Racing for Scrolls; Orthodox Unity; AI's Bach; Human Genome Proposal; Diving HUDs; and Expensive, Tiny Floating Plants

Peace

France felt 'compelled to act' on Middle East peace talks theguardian

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, and UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, attended, along with representatives from the Arab League, the European Union and key Arab states. Israeli and Palestinian representatives were absent.

Also Middle East peace talks open without Israeli, Palestinian representatives and Israel can sigh relief at parve Paris communique

Nano Engines; Animal Truckin'; High-Speed Organ Printing; Printing Offices; Pepper n' Pizza; Fire Fighting HUD; About Face; United in Apostasy

Today's a heavy on the tech side, though there's also an article on more religious uniting - this time the Church of England and Scotland brought together by homosexuality.

Nanotechnology

Powering nanotechnology with the world's smallest engine phys.org

...we have now produced nano-engines that can be operated with beams of light to work pistons, pumps and valves. Made from gold nanoparticles bound together by a heat-sensitive chemical, our machines are strong, fast and simple to operate, making them extremely practical for future applications.