Monday, July 27

Question for Google: How many days do you plan to keep the death of Bobbi Brown as the top story at Google News?

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Reports obsessing over her death have only been at the top of Google News ever since the news broke that she was dead.  Who is Bobbi Brown? ...

What is NATO doing in Afghanistan? Picking its nose?

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When it's not bombing Afghan Army posts by mistake ?  When I went looking for news on the joke called Operation Resolute Support I came...

"On four continents historic droughts wreak havoc"

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"Overall, tracking droughts globally is difficult: No country outside the U.S. has a comprehensive effort to monitor it, said climatolo...

Pakistan violates ceasefire again along IB in Jammu.

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Pakistan has carried out over 13 ceasefire violations this year.  PTI via Times of India has the report   on the latest.  Now there's an...

India's Salma Dam project in Afghanistan nears completion: finally some good news

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I wasn't aware that India had also funded the building of a new Parliament building in Kabul until I read the following report.  Wonder...

Indian official: suspect Pakistan's LeT in Punjab attack; 9 dead so far, several injured; attack still in progress (UPDATED)

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UPDATE 4:00 AM EDT Frm The Hindu 'live blogging' of the incident -  Gunmen reportely holed up in an empty building -- MoS Jitend...

A few reasons it does no good for the US to attempt cooperation with Pakistan

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Quotes that highlight some U.S. evidence on Pakistan's support on terror;  from a lengthy article about the (leaked) secret U.S.-Pakist...

More on Taliban capture of military base in N. Afghanistan

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Long War Journal certainly did much better at piercing the fog of war than the Voice of America report yesterday -- but then LWJ a...

China's massive land grab in Australia -- with help from Aussie government, of course

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"With a physical footprint far larger than the city of Sydney, the Shenhua Watermark mine has been described by local farmers as agricu...
Sunday, July 26

Afghanistan: Taliban Capture Key Military Base, Claim to Have Captured Several Other Security Installations. NATO needs to act NOW

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The Obama Administration, David Cameron's government, and NATO need to stop crapping around in Afghanistan; the much-hyped U.S. airstri...

May have happened at the sub-tactical level UPDATED 6:45 AM EDT

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UPDATE to July 25 RFE/RL report below re attack on security outposts Voice of America July 26 - 5:34 AM  Taliban Seizes Key Afghan Milit...
Saturday, July 25

BREAKING NEWS: Google News Top Story not about Sandra Bland or Louisiana theater shooter!!

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It's probably only a momentary glitch in one of the bots because if it's not about mass shootings and racially-charged incidents in...

Beirut Garbage: when the streets of a major city become the landfill

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All right, that's enough pictures to convey the picture but plenty more at Google Images if you enjoy being grossed out.  And yes,...
Friday, July 24

Afghan Tragedy 3: Nation's admirable security forces under seige. They need more help from NATO.

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Members of the Afghan Army Honor Guard after a funeral for their fallen comrades at the military hospital headquarters in Kabul in Februar...

"Citigroup’s Mexico Unit Faces Widening U.S. Money-Laundering Probe"

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On Wednesday, Citigroup said it would close those branches after it agreed to a $140 million  settlement  with the Federal Deposit Insuranc...

Afghan Tragedy 2: More than met the eye in Wednesday's terror bombing

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Follow war reports long enough and develop a sixth sense about the incidents of war. I knew there was something hinky about the bombing   Ju...

WSJ didn't mention Turkey's regime also rounded up Kurds in raids on Islamic State

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SecDef Ashton Carter arriving in Kurdistan today for a surprise visit The Wall Street Journal report I featured in my earlier post to...

BoA-Merrill Lynch announces there's a global water crisis! Thanks for letting us know.

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I'm really glad such a large American institution has arrived in the 21st Century: California's drought is "a harbinger ...