Wednesday, January 30, 2019

GOOD STUFF 013119 YOU MAY HAVE MISSED


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SOME QUESTIONS WILL NEVER BE ANSWERED!




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She heated the stone and then pressed against the chest of her eight-year-old daughter. She stopped only when her daughter cried out in pain and the heat from the stone had left a bruise on the child’s body. “When they [police] asked me why I did it, I said to them: it’s a tradition,” Maureen explains, recalling her interrogation as bewildered social workers googled “breast-ironing” on the internet.


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Milton Friedman warned us that if you put Big Government in charge of the Sahara, there would eventually be a shortage of sand. But who could believe that a country run on Marxist principles could ever run out of crap? Yet Kim Jong Un has demanded that North Koreans provide the government with over 220 pounds per day of human manure to use as fertilizer to revive the agricultural sector. If the people don’t meet their daily quota, they have to supply over 600 pounds of compost or livestock manure, according to Radio Free Asia.


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After a quarter-century of researching China, Anne-Marie Brady is a veteran of Chinese government spying and harassment. "I was prepared for pressure in China," says the 52-year-old New Zealander, a well-regarded professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. "But I always felt safe in New Zealand. So that changed." Last week she wrote to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern seeking police protection. It was her first direct appeal to Ardern, but her third in a series of pleas to escalating levels of officialdom.


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The 2020 Democratic presidential race has just begun, but party insiders and strategists are running out of terms to capture the potential for chaos if several candidates raise enough money — and win enough delegates — to keep the race competitive deep into the primary calendar.

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