Bring back Assad
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Now things are starting to make sense.
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Too many foreign actors actively engaged in combat in Syria and fostering internal division, in what is being labelled as a Civil War ,presented as bring down Assad regime and all will be well.
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Certainly not a land grab, and anyway who mentioned that?
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It was my first thought.
I am so confused…“In countries with no sugar tax, they contain much more glucose and often no glycerol at all, the authors say.”
I’d say that glycerol bypasses the tax definition of sugar and so they pour it into child marketed drinks to save a bit of cash.
The Phillipines Government seems to have used an Interpol red notice to justify shipping Duerte to the Netherlands where the ICC writ runs.
Good international citizen. It also serves to keep him away from domestic politics.
It’s interesting also that his daughter, current VP has dashed over to The Hague to provide legal counsel.
Asking for proof of charges, accusations of kidnapping.
It’s different when the shoe is on the other foot.
There are a lot of pinoys dancing in the street, a minority shouting support. It seems to be a generational thing, maybe. Those that remember Marcos hate him. Some younger generations drank the Koolaid.
My wife lost her uncle during Durterte’s reign of extrajudicial killings. He wasnt into drugs, just on the other side of local politics in Samar.
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Earthquake hits Naples. Theoretically not related to Vesuvius , but you’d be jumpy I reckon.
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Just after I finished Robert Harris’s Pompeii, which is an excellent read. Polanski was going to make a movie of it but it never eventuated.
Someone else made another version, not the Harris one, and apparently, it’s crap.
The Doctor Who about Pompeii episode was quite good.
Meanwhile, civilian protesters out in the streets in Greece and Serbia , blaming their governments for the rail casualties. In Serbia, there is a suspicion of Government corruption in the infrastructure collapse.
Bit brewing up between Syria (HTS) and Lebanon (Hezbollah). HTS have sent a lot of troops to the border. May be a bit of tit for tat about to happen.
Lockdown West Bank style.
A recent UN survey found that checkpoints and other physical obstacles had increased to nearly 850. Roadgates accounted for a third of all obstacles, most of them frequently kept closed.
The West Bank is approximately 5.640 square kilometres, roughly the size of Delaware. Population density is 711.3 people per square kilometre.
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