CDC also has a report on eradicating Polio in Afghanistan.
long technical discussion.
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StrategyPage on the Qatar problem... blame AlJ...
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Civilian are frequently killed by their own governments and those governments do not want talk about it. This is a common thing in Middle Eastern nations and there is apparently no easy cure. Al Jazeera covers it like no one else. Qatar is also seen as siding with Iran in the current struggle between Shia Iran and the Sunni Arab nations led by Saudi Arabia. Qatar denies this and sees the blockade as more of a publicity stunt than a serious bit of statecraft.
podcast of the day:
the backstory of the Magna Carta was a debate over the king vs local power.
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censor the social media? China is already doing that.
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big drug raids here ended up with a lot of dead people here in the Philippines
to put the story into perspective:
our local paper reports the usual killings of low level politicians and business owners is still going on...and usually doesn't get a lot of publicity. Includes a murdering rapist killing himself in police custody, a guy who shot back in self defense, and something new: An IED planted for the cops that hurt some school kids.
due to libel laws, the papers don't report on the "true" stories behind all of these things, but if they happen in our town, usually I can find it out from our cook, who is related to all the local tricycle drivers who know all the gossip.
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NPR reports: Anthrax killing hippos in Zambia.
yes, and a lot of elephants died of it in Zimbabwe awhile back.
it's in the soil, and not just in Africa..
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good news for today: Malala is going to Oxford.
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