From Persian Paradox:
Iranians flock out of homes to take refuge in nature. It is considered now, as the Day of Nature. Iran harbors a very diverse and beautiful natural environment... As I began work in 1997, we had 4.75 percent of the land devoted to protected areas, by 2005 when I left this figure had rose to 7.5%. This amounts to 16 National Parks, over 93 Protected areas, 24 Natural Monuments and several Wildlife Refuges.
Alas, The environmental protection has deteriorated under the present president.
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Strategypage notes that Russia, China and Iran sort of support NATO in Afghanistan: Iran and Russia because of their growing drug problem will get worse if NATO stops fighting the drug gangs, and China because they worry about the radicals training their small Muslim minority.
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GetReligion discusses a Saudi fatwas ordering Kuwait to stop building churches for their OFW.
Can they actually do this? and how much of it is geopolitical: An attempt of the Saudi Sunnis to take over the oil rich area (ancient Arab empire) to keep out the Shiite Iranian (Persian empire) with the Arab Shiite Iraqis in the middle?
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StrategyPage also discusses how Washington and their lawyers are trying to micromange the war... and why this is bad.
Yeah, they will do the same thing to doctors if the Obamacare bill is implemented: don't treat the patient, follow the bureaucrat's guidelines.
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Will democracy come to Burma?
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The trouble with Ice fishing:
More than 600 anglers stranded on an ice floe in the Russian far east have been rescued.The operation to airlift them off the ice involved 48 people, two helicopters and 11 ships, the emergencies ministry said.
The 675 fishing enthusiasts were carried out to sea when the floe, off the island of Sakhalin, broke free.
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