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Enemy Forces

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

The Missouri National Guard, in reacting to protests in Ferguson, officially referred to protesters as "enemy forces".

That's what you'd expect the forces of a government of occupation to say about the occupied people.

Trafficking vs Smuggling

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

Don't confuse trafficking people with smuggling people.

US Senate cafeteria

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

A cook in the (outsourced) US Senate cafeteria is on strike. He has to work 70 hours a week and still needs food stamps, so low is the pay of the company that has the contract.

Ebola virus through sex

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

It is not easy to convince men in Sierra Leone to stop transmitting Ebola virus through sex.

Witches

dimanche 26 avril 2015 à 14:00

People in New Guinea still believe that deaths are caused by curses, and seek to kill the "witches" responsible.

Persecution of "witches" is common in Africa. The idea that it is possible to kill by magic seems to be a world-wide pattern of superstition; it was found in most places in the world. The awareness that this is impossible is due to modern rationalism.

In Mexico, according to a book I read, some "witches" really can kill — with toxic bacteria or fungus they find in caves, not with curses.