Kwtia

There is a contest to name a new batch of 7 wonders...anyone want to nominate this deal with the devil-maker?... Then Lonely Planet suggest Belfast and Beirut are 'must see' cities...anyone want to nominate this other town of tears as a tourist destination?
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Germanwatch says that the US and Saudi are among the top five worst countries dealing with climate change...ahh good to know who our best friends are...good to know they are always helping to set an example in transparency, progress, rule of law, justice...and other fancy things.
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Shorts:
Al-Jazeera launches their new English channel---Because turning Darfur into the hell on earth is apparently not grisly fun enough, Sudan has decided to invade Chad---Ethiopia got arms from over 10 countries and counting, but the ones in the headlines are Iran and Syria---Pakistan has decided it's finally time to change rape laws, to now help the victim and not the rapist---O.J. Simpson writes a book about how he would have done it, if he hadn't done it, and wanted to pretend to have done it...erm...if he hadn't...yeah, what he would have done if he had killed his wife and her lover...cuz he did, no, didn't...a book...don't buy it, unless of course you have had Tamiflu recently and are experiencing one of the many documented cases of delirium and 'other unusual psychiatric behaviour'---If you wait long enough however, Global Warming, that thing everyone sucks at avoiding, will wipe out birds and you won't need to take Tamiflu no more...
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It's a lovely blue out again and there is one bird left chirping all on it's own...must feel sort of like all the lonely souls trying to make a difference in this place...keep chirping, someone will join you and then you'll realise it's suddenly springtime...
And then the typical kwti summer will come and singe your wings...but that's just me being cranky...