"The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Vijay Prashad

#Islamic Quotes #Essence Quotes #Oil Quotes

“I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.”
“Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.”
“I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.”
“It's important for women to understand that it's bad enough that we don't make dollar-for-dollar what men do, but when you distill that down to women of color, our Latinas and our African American women, it's even less than that 78 cents.”
“Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old”
“Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.”
“Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.”
“Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.”

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