Earthquake resistant housing in Peru - a BBC news - some things do work - sometimes change occurs in development with a push from a different direction - thanks C... - good work ---
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Good story - 14 yr old released - but military still tried to screw him by not telling his lawyer when he would be released - presence of lawyer probably prevented him from being in prison in Afghanistan ---
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Slavery - ended? - not - more slaves than ever in human history - 27 million - read and weep ---
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Healthcare around the world - socialized? - hardly - but many countries do better than the US - often at half the cost ---
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Healthcare and women - the inability of pregnant women to get insurance and resulting lack of prenatal care is a prime reason for our high infant mortality - women are charged up to 140% more for insurance - women stay in undesired jobs because of insurance etc. etc. ---
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Have the Republicans become a weird religious cult? - disconnect from reality? - questions/comments by a Brit - our global image - regardless they seem to control the message - why does the MSM conduct itself as an umpire as if both sides have facts? ---
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Sentiment - more ways to manipulate us - will algorithms rule society? - opinions are more important than real knowledge - really horrible ---
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Transboundary water issues - political - power driven - asymmetrical - many in current areas of conflict - Afghanistan/Pakistan area - Middle East ---
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Obama needs to follow this... as he did in the campaign:
When you study military history don't read outlines on strategy or the priciples of war. Read biographies, memoirs, historical novels...Get at the flesh and blood of it, not the skeleton. To learn that Napoleon won the campaign of 1796 by manoeuvre on interior lines or some such phrase is of little value. If you can discover how a young unknown man inspired a ragged, mutinous, half-starved army and made it fight, how he he gave it energy and momentum to march and fight as it did, how he dominated and controlled generals older and more experienced than himself, then you will have learnt something.
--- Field Marshall Lord Wavell
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First or Second Amendment? - guns at political events - interesting juxtaposition ---
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Tom Coburn - guns at political events is ok - after OK City? - don't tighten terrorism laws - sorry to admit I was born in OK - Daniel Bell in Dispossessed - right is most afraid of change which might hurt its power i.e. change to a more liberal gov't - draws parallels among - JFK - his assassination - Clinton - OK City - Obama - ??? - threats against Obama are 400 times that against Bush - Frank Rich ---
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Militias - how many? ---
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Newspapers should go back to print? - interesting - advertising is down both places - print is still more income - but ---
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Honduras coup - US corporations and CIA involved? - John Perkins of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - a great book - provides some details - believable? - of course ---
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Native American Peltier denied parole - another case of - let's not look at new facts or wrongs that were committed in the trial - someone needs to suffer whether guilty or not ---
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60s/80s - sunny - nice - is fall coming? -
