User:Patrick Cristiano

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, "Go to the Limits of Your Longing", The Book of Hours

The editor formerly known as PatTag2659.

About me

This user lives in the Philippines.

This user is of Spanish ancestry.

OCD

This user suffers from OCD (Obsessive–compulsive disorder)

DYP

This user has Developmental coordination disorder.

ADMU

This user is or was an Atenean.
Atenista 'to! OBF!

IB

This user is a graduate or student of the International Baccalaureate.

This user is active in simulating the United Nations.

This user was born during the Erap presidential administration.

This user lives in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila.

This user is owned by one or more cats.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the Oxford comma.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

Wikipedian life

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 1 month and 21 days.

This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user participates in
Tambayan Philippines.

This user is a member of WikiProject Current events.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Sports.

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WikiProject Football.

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WikiProject U.S. Presidents

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WikiProject Coldplay

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WikiProject Concerts.

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WikiProject Years.

This user is a participant in WikiProject COVID-19.

This user listens to music when editing Wikipedia.

This user thinks you can learn a lot by editing an Encyclopedia.

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This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...

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This user scored 562 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 1157885996).

This user has been to the end of Wikipedia. Have you?

Languages

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

fil-5

Propesyonal na nagsasalita ng wikang Filipino ang user na ito.

tl-5

Ang tagagamit na ito ay nakakapag-ambag ng Tagalog sa propesyonal na antas.

zh-1

該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。
该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。

ja-1

この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。

de-1

Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

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This user can write HTML.

Hobbies and interests

Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.

This user plays association football.

This user plays futsal.

This user plays badminton.

This user plays chess.

This user is interested in
Geography.

This user is interested in aviation.

This user enjoys travelling.

This user is interested in geopolitics.

This user enjoys films.

This user enjoys film scores.

This user loves alternative rock.

This user enjoys indie rock.

This user enjoys British rock.

This user enjoys tropical house.

This user is interested in the Philippines.

This user is interested in Germany.

This user is interested in New Zealand.

This user is interested in Singapore.

This user is interested in the United States of America.

Pop culture fandom

This user is a fan of
first-person shooters.

This user enjoys playing FIFA Career mode or any other FIFA offline modes.

FBM

Thinks that Football Manager is far better than Championship Manager.

This user plays Rocket League

This user once loved Grand Theft Auto.

This user plays Minecraft.

"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'."

- J. K. Simmons, Whiplash

This user thinks Steven Spielberg is the greatest director of all time.

This user is a Nazi-fighting archaeologist in his spare time.

B M

This user, like all other
users, has a BLACK MIRROR.

Community

This user watches Troy and Abed in the Morning.

This user's with Coco.

FG

This user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet.

This user knows that "Democracy is so overrated".

This user loves the TV series Mayday.

SNL

This user would like to give some important advice on surviving a flaming...live from New York, it's Saturday Night!!

This user is a fan of AC/DC.

am	Contrary to popular belief, this user does not look good on the dance floor.

This user is a fan of
CHVRCHΞS

This user turn the music up and got his records on.

GD

This user is an American Idiot.

This user doesn't look a thing like Jesus.

Queen

This user loves Queen!

30STM

This user is a fan of Thirty Seconds to Mars. Provehito in Altum.

This user has scaled these city walls.

VW

This user does not give a fuck about an oxford comma.

Sports fandom

This user supports the Azkals.

This user supports the Filipinas.

This user supports
Gilas Pilipinas

CN
FC

This user supports
CERES-NEGROS

CERES
NEGROS

This user supports Real Madrid.

This user is a fan of
FC Bayern Munich

This user supports
Liverpool Football Club
You'll Never Walk Alone

ASR

This user supports
AS Roma
DAJE ROMA DAJE!

OL

This user supports Olympique Lyonnais.

This user is a fan of Die Mannschaft.

RBR

This user is a fan of Red Bull Racing.

This user is a Sebastian Vettel fan

MV33

This user is a fan of Max Verstappen

This user thinks Rafael Nadal is the King of Clay!

BGSM

This user is a fan of the
Barangay Ginebra.

CHI

This user is a fan of the
Chicago Bulls.

This user strongly believes that Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete of all time.

CHC

This user is a fan of the
Chicago Cubs

Others

This user is a Boeing 777 fan.

This user is a Airbus A380 fan.

SQ

This user's favorite airline is Singapore Airlines.

This user's favorite airport is Singapore Changi Airport.

MR

This user enjoys their steak Medium rare.

This user eats the balut.

This user prefers eating pizza with pineapple.

,

This user's favorite punctuation is commas, guys, not exclamation points or whatever.

This user has stayed at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

Too many userboxes

This user may have too many userboxes ... nah, no way!!

Newsfeed

Wikipedia newsfeed

23 December 2024 –: Three people are killed and another is wounded after a series of storms since yesterday evening in Rome, Italy, while two more people are missing on the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif. (Roma Today) (Roma Today 2) (Il Messaggero)
23 December 2024 – Capital punishment by the United States federal government: Outgoing President Joe Biden commutes the death sentences of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment. The exceptions are Dylann Roof, Robert Gregory Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who received death sentences for terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder related crimes. (CBS News)
23 December 2024 –: A man is arrested and charged for animal cruelty for shooting and killing 98 kangaroos on a military base in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. (News.com.au); A man is arrested in New York City, United States, after setting on fire and killing a woman yesterday aboard a train. It is suspected that the victim was chosen at random. (Al Jazeera)
22 December 2024 – Syrian civil war: Fall of the Assad regime; Syrian mass graves; An Assad regime mass grave containing the remains of 93 civilians, including several women and children, is discovered in Qarfa, Daraa Governorate, Syria, with all of the bodies reportedly burnt alive. (SOHR); In the highest-ranking state visit since the regime change, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan holds a meeting with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus to support the transitional government. (Reuters)
22 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war: Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip; Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip kill at least 28 people. (France 24)
22 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis: The US military states that the USS Gettysburg guided-missile cruiser accidentally shot down a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and injured one of its pilots in a friendly fire incident following a series of airstrikes on Yemen. However, the Houthis claim that they shot down the fighter jet. (CNN) (Middle East Monitor)
22 December 2024 –: Residents of Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, win the world's biggest lottery, the Spanish Christmas Lottery's El Gordo €4 million prize. (DW)
22 December 2024 – 2024 Gramado Piper PA-42 crash: Eleven people are killed and fifteen others are injured when a Piper PA-42 Cheyenne crashes into shops and a hotel while taking off from the Canela Airport in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (CNN) (ASN)
22 December 2024 – 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season: The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, increases to 94. (DW)
22 December 2024 –: An Airbus EC135 ambulance helicopter crashes near a hospital in Muğla, Turkey, killing all four people onboard. (AP); At least two people are killed and eight others are missing when a highway bridge across the Tocantins River between Estreito, Maranhão, and Aguiarnópolis, Tocantins, Brazil, partially collapses. (G1); The death toll from the stampede at two food distribution events in Abuja and Okija, Nigeria, increases to 32. (DW)
22 December 2024 – Russia–Slovakia relations: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico holds a previously unannounced meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
22 December 2024 – 2024 Novi Sad protests: Around 100,000 people gather at the Slavija Square in Belgrade, Serbia, to protest against the government response to the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse and demand the resignation of President Aleksandar Vučić and the ruling Serbian Progressive Party. President Vučić is dismissive of the protests and accuses the opposition of manipulating the protestors to gain political power. (Al Jazeera) (DW) (N1)
22 December 2024 –: New Zealand rejects the Cook Islands' proposal to establish its own passports and citizenship but expresses willingness to discuss independence if initiated by Cook Islanders. (Reuters)
21 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine; At least seven Ukrainian drones strike Kazan, Russia, six of which reportedly hit residential areas, including a 32-story apartment building. (Ukrainska Pravda) (Reuters)
21 December 2024 – Haitian crisis: The Haitian government declares a one-month state of emergency amid the escalating gang violence and the deepening security crisis. (Caribbean National Weekly)
21 December 2024 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Sixteen Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and five others are critically injured when Pakistani Taliban militants launch an overnight raid on an army post in Makeen, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Arabiya)
21 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis: Sixteen people are injured in a Houthi missile attack on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in Israel. (CNN)
21 December 2024 – Constitutional crisis in Somalia: The Puntland region of Somalia announces that it will introduce a new regional currency in 2025. The region had previously shifted to use of the United States dollar in 2021, due to severe inflation of the Somali shilling. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online) (Horseed Media)
21 December 2024 – Minas Gerais road crash: Forty-one people are killed when a bus collides with a granite block that fell from a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, Brazil. (The Guardian) (G1) (O Globo)
21 December 2024 –: Ten people are killed and many others are injured in a stampede during a distribution of food and clothes at a church in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP); Nine people are killed and 13 more injured when a bus plunges into a ravine in Pa Alam, Lorestan, Iran. (AP); Two people are killed and three others are missing when an under-construction six-story building collapses in Sohana village, Mohali district, India. (Zee News)
21 December 2024 – Censorship of TikTok: The Albanian government announces a one-year ban on the social media platform TikTok beginning in 2025, following a fatal stabbing of a teenager in November in connection to a confrontation on the platform. (Al Jazeera) (Türkiye Today)
21 December 2024 – 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election: The Social Democratic Alliance, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, forms a coalition government in Iceland's Althing with the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party. Kristrún becomes Iceland's youngest prime minister at 36 years old. (CNA)
21 December 2024 – 2025 United States federal budget, Government shutdowns in the United States: The United States Senate passes a funding bill, with President Joe Biden subsequently signing the bill into law, thereby averting a government shutdown. (CBS News)
20 December 2024 – Sudanese civil war: Darfur campaign; Siege of El Fasher; The United Nations Human Rights Office reports that the Rapid Support Forces have killed over 782 civilians and wounded over 1,143 others in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, since May, and urges the RSF to halt their incursions into the city. (Al Jazeera); At least 50 people, mostly from the Zaghawa ethnic group, have been killed by the Rapid Support Forces in the past week in El Fasher, North Darfur State, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
20 December 2024 – Syrian civil war: 2024 Israeli invasion of Syria; Israeli soldiers injure a Syrian man protesting against the soldiers' presence in Ma'ariya, Daraa Governorate. (Al Jazeera); Fall of the Assad regime; The United States drops the $10 million terrorism bounty offered for capture of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani who ousted Assad. (AP) (Times of Israel); US intervention in the Syrian civil war; U.S. forces kill regional ISIS leader Abu Yusif, also known as Mahmud, in an airstrike in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. (US CENTCOM)
20 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2024 Kursk offensive; A Ukrainian missile strike kills six people and injures 10 others in Rylsk, Kursk Oblast, Russia, according to acting Kursk Oblast governor Alexander Khinshtein. Russia says that it will raise the issue of the missile strike at the United Nations Security Council. (Reuters); Kryvyi Rih strikes, Kyiv strikes; At least one person is killed and eight others are injured in Russian missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)
20 December 2024 – Islamist insurgency in the Sahel: Mali War; At least 20 people are killed in attacks on six villages in Mali's Mopti Region by suspected jihadists linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, who also destroy property during the assaults. (Reuters)
20 December 2024 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war, Israeli settler violence; Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Marda, Salfit Governorate in the occupied West Bank and deface the building's facade with anti-Arab statements, including "Death to Arabs". (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's)
20 December 2024 – Terrorism in Germany: 2024 Magdeburg car attack; Five people are killed and over 200 others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The suspected perpetrator is arrested. (Al Jazeera) (Blick)
20 December 2024 – Myanmar civil war: The Arakan Army claims to have captured the Tatmadaw's regional headquarters in Rakhine State. (AP)
20 December 2024 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; Malaysian Minister of Transport Anthony Loke announces a new search effort for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing in March 2014, to be conducted by American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity. (DW)
20 December 2024 – Rohingya genocide: The Sri Lanka Navy rescues 102 Rohingya refugees, including 25 children, that were found adrift on a fishing trawler and takes them to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. (Al Jazeera) (The Independent)
20 December 2024 –: Thirty-eight people are killed, 20 people are rescued, and over 100 others remain missing after a ferry capsizes while crossing the Busira River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP) (Al Jazeera); Eleven people are killed, 45 others are injured and 37 vehicles are destroyed after an LPG tank truck catches fire and explodes after a speeding truck crashed into it in Jaipur, India. (The Statesman); Eight people are killed and 18 others are rescued when a speedboat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Rhodes, Greece. (AP)
20 December 2024 – Australia–Solomon Islands relations: Australia agrees to provide Solomon Islands with financing, training, and infrastructure support worth AU$190 million (US$118 million) over four years to strengthen its police force as part of a renewed security partnership between the two countries. (France 24)
20 December 2024 – Hungary–Poland relations: Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Hungary's ambassador to protest the Hungarian government's decision to grant asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted under the European Arrest Warrant for alleged corruption. Poland also recalls its ambassador to Hungary Sebastian Kęciek for consultations. (AP)
20 December 2024 – 2024 Zagreb school stabbing: A child is killed and seven other people are injured in a mass stabbing at a primary school in Zagreb, Croatia. The 19-year-old perpetrator is arrested. (BBC News)
20 December 2024 –: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules that El Salvador violated the human rights of a woman denied an abortion during a high-risk pregnancy in 2013 and orders the country to implement measures allowing abortions in cases where the woman's life is at risk. (The Guardian); Guatemalan authorities rescue 160 minors from the Lev Tahor sect in Oratorio, Santa Rosa, amid allegations of human trafficking, forced marriage, and child abuse. (Reuters); The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau files a lawsuit against banks JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo for failing to protect consumers against alleged widespread fraud on the built-in payment system Zelle equating over $870 million. (Al Jazeera) (Detroit Free Press)
20 December 2024 – 2025 United States federal budget: Government shutdowns in the United States, National debt of the United States, United States debt ceiling; A funding bill ensuring full operation of the U.S. federal government service with an amendment supported by President-elect Donald Trump that would enforce a two-year suspension of the federal debt ceiling is rejected in the Republican-majority House of Representatives, with multiple Republicans and nearly all Democrats opposing the bill. A government shutdown is expected to occur if no bill is passed by midnight. (BBC News); House Speaker Mike Johnson reintroduces a funding bill without Trump's debt ceiling suspension, stating that "we will not have a government shutdown". The bill, which will fund the government until March 2025, passes the House by a vote of 336–34 and will now go to the Senate. (The Washington Post)
20 December 2024 – 2025 Belarusian presidential election: Estonia says that it will not recognize the results of the upcoming presidential election in Belarus, which it claims has already been rigged to ensure that President Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected. (ERR)
20 December 2024 –: In Italy, the Meloni government survives a confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies on the 2025 budget. (Reuters); Sam Hou Fai is sworn in as Chief Executive of Macau, succeeding Ho Iat Seng. (RTHK)
19 December 2024 – Syrian civil war: Fall of the Assad regime; Deir ez-Zor offensive, Eastern Syria insurgency; Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein warns that ISIS cells in Syria have begun reorganizing and taking new land following the collapse of the Syrian Armed Forces and subsequent abandonment of weapons depots. (Asharq News); The Baniyas Refinery, Syria’s largest oil refinery, stops operating after ceasing to receive the crude oil from Iran that previously made up the majority of the country’s input. (Financial Times); Operation Dawn of Freedom, Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war; 2024 Kobani clashes; U.S.-backed SDF forces vow to fight Turkey and pro-Turkish rebel groups in Kobani, Aleppo Governorate. (Reuters); 2024 Syrian opposition offensives; Ahmed al-Sharaa, the emir of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, makes an announcement claiming that the country is exhausted by perpetual warfare and is no longer a threat to its neighbors or the Western world. (BBC News); The Military Operations Command forces take control of several towns in Raqqah Governorate, Syria. (SOHR); Iraq announces the repatriation of members of the Syrian Armed Forces who fled after the fall of the Assad regime through the Al-Qa'im border crossing, back to Syria. (Al Arabiya); Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war; Satellite imagery reveals that Russian forces are mobilizing heavy planes at Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia Governorate and are also mobilizing ships at Tartus naval base, indicating a potential withdrawal. (BBC News); Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the Prime Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity of Libya, denounces the entry of Russian forces from Syria into the eastern part of Libya. (The Libya Observer); Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Russia helped evacuate 4,000 Iranian fighters from Syria. (Anadolu Agency); Prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals; The Syrian Interim Government announces that they have begun preparing lists of people from the former regime who were involved in war crimes, torture, and murder. (The Jerusalem Post)
19 December 2024 – Red Sea crisis: December 2024 Israeli airstrikes in Yemen; Israel carries out a series of airstrikes against the Houthis in western Yemen, damaging the Ras Isa oil facility, the port of as-Salif and several power stations in Sanaa, and killing at least nine people. (Al Jazeera); The United States Department of the Treasury announces sanctions on the governor of the Central Bank of Yemen in Sanaa, Yemen, and several Houthi officials and associated companies and vessels, accusing them of trafficking dual-use weapon components and Iranian petroleum to the Houthis. (Al Jazeera) (JNS)
19 December 2024 – Israel–Hamas war: Gaza genocide, Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip; Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of committing "acts of genocide" in Gaza by damaging water supply infrastructure and depriving civilians of clean water. (DW) (Reuters) (Human Rights Watch)
19 December 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Military aids during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, United Kingdom and the Russian invasion of Ukraine; British defence secretary John Healey announces a proposal to send military advisors to train Ukrainian forces. (BBC News)
19 December 2024 – 2024 Parliament of Abkhazia shooting: A lawmaker is killed and another is injured in a shooting inside the Parliament in Sukhumi, Abkhazia. The perpetrator, identified as MP and former Sukhumi mayor Adgur Kharazia, flees the scene. (Al Jazeera)
19 December 2024 – Mexican drug war: Two soldiers are killed after an explosion caused by a improvised landmine at a drug laboratory in Michoacán, Mexico. Three days ago, two other soldiers were killed and three more injured in Michoacán during a similiar incident. (AP)
19 December 2024 – 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season: The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Mozambique increase to 73, including 66 in Cabo Delgado Province. (Al Jazeera)
19 December 2024 –: Nine people are killed during a fire at a warehouse building of PX Mart under construction in Taichung, Taiwan. (AP)
19 December 2024 – China–India relations: Sino-Indian border dispute; Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi meet in Beijing, China, and reach a six-point consensus to maintain peace along the border, refine border management rules, resume cross-border exchanges, and work toward resolving border disputes. A follow-up meeting is planned to be held in India next year. (CNN)
19 December 2024 – Georgia–United Kingdom relations, Georgia–United States relations, 2024 Georgian post-election protests: The United Kingdom and the United States impose sanctions on Georgian officials, including Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri, in response to alleged violent crackdowns on pro-European protests. (EFE)
19 December 2024 – Hungary–Poland relations: Hungary grants political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who faces allegations of corruption in Poland. (Reuters)
19 December 2024 –: France's Directorate-General for External Security reports that four French nationals detained in Burkina Faso on allegations of being foreign intelligence agents have been released following mediation by Morocco. (ABC News)
19 December 2024 – 2024 Northeastern United States drone sightings: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration bans the flying of drones over multiple cities in New Jersey citing "special security reasons". (WPVI-TV)
19 December 2024 – Deportation and removal from the United States: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reports 271,484 deportations in the past fiscal year, the most since 2014 and almost double of the previous fiscal year. (AP) (FOX News)
19 December 2024 – Mazan rapes: The Judicial Court in Avignon, France, finds Dominique Pelicot guilty of the aggravated rape of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot, and imposes the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The 50 other defendants in the case are also convicted of crimes ranging from attempted rape to aggravated rape, and receive prison sentences ranging from three to 15 years. (Reuters)
19 December 2024 –: A Malaysian high court acquits Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former prime minister Najib Razak, of 17 charges of money laundering and tax evasion due to insufficient evidence. (Reuters); Aleksandar Šapić, the mayor of Belgrade, Serbia, announces the city will make all public transit free on January 1, 2025. (DW) (Novinite)