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Iran executes nuclear scientist reputed to have spied for U.S.
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India-Pakistan
Why were hospitals better in Pakistan during the colonial times?
[DAWN] Blah blah blah article that concludes the Pak govt lacks vision.

Someday somebody might look into "the roots of colonialism." Each tale is different, and some colonies were worse than others, but a common thread was natives who were unwilling to abide by civilized norms in relations with Europeans. North Africa was the home of pirates from about the time it was colonized by Moslems. India was the home of warring dynasties who were as rapacious with each other as the English, Portuguese, or French were. Spanish oppression of their colonies was pretty horrible, but the people they displaced used to rip the hearts out of people. Subsaharan Africa was pretty uniformly awful.

Why were hospitals better in Pakistain in colonial times? Because the condescending colonialists assumed the "white man's burden" and took care of their charges, not perfectly but better than the current crop of ruling babus.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I had to come see if the title was a trick question. Fred's comments made it worth the visit.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/08/2016 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Because all the best Pakistani and Indian doctors are now in the US practicing medicine. Have you been to a hospital lately?
Posted by: Spats B. Hayes7625 || 08/08/2016 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Because all the best Pakistani and Indian doctors are now in the US practicing medicine. Have you been to a hospital lately?

Yes. It's pretty scary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/08/2016 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Judging from my last encounter with a Pakistani doctor, the Pak health care system should be getting better by the subtraction of these quacks and shamen that foist themselves off as physicians.

BTW did you see the article in the NYT, I found the full journal article that medical malpractice in the US is the THIRD leading cause of death in the US...I wonder if there is a connection between all of these "doctors" from Pakistan and the rising death rate in health care?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/08/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#5  "After all, what have the Romans done for us?"
Posted by: Pappy || 08/08/2016 20:41 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s new propaganda: Claiming to expel al-Qaeda officials
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran is attempting to spread news that it is sending some al-Qaeda officials to other countries with the aim of improving how it is perceived in the international media.

Al-Qaeda's ties to Iran have been proven in four instances. The first was last March, when a New York District Court ordered Iran to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the 9/11 attacks and to a group of insurers. The second is an Iranian foreign ministry's statement admitting that al-Qaeda officials had passed through Iran. The third is late al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
's documents which prove Iran's absolute support and official cover up for al-Qaeda. The fourth is developments related to arresting the group's officials, such as al-Qaeda front man Sulaiman Abu Ghaith who was detained while holding an Iranian passport.

Iran has had many aims behind harboring al-Qaeda officials such as exploiting the group to perform operations against neighboring countries, such as Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and other Gulf states, raising negotiation ceilings with Western countries, mainly the United States, and protecting itself from the group’s attacks. Al-Qaeda has not targeted any Iranian site inside or outside Iran. The biggest proof of these aims is Iran's negotiations with the West regarding Saif al-Adel
...holed up in Iran from 2002 until 2010, when he made bail and moved back to the Pak-Afghan border...
and extradition of Abu Hafs al-Mauritani to Mauritania.

Iran's recent act of expelling al-Qaeda officials to other countries only aims to cloud the attention of observers of the situation, as al-Qaeda will not give up on Iran and vice versa. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
Iran's desire to steer clear of rigorous media coverage have expedited Iran’s own media propaganda, so much so that it is sending al-Qaeda officials to other countries in the East and West.

It is Iran that is nurturing al-Qaeda. This is as clear as day.
Posted by: Fred || 08/08/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Home Front: Culture Wars
VDH: Imagine There's No Border - A world without boundaries is a fantasy.
[City Journal] Borders are in the news as never before. After millions of young, Muslim, and mostly male refugees flooded into the European Union last year from the war-torn Middle East, a popular revolt arose against the so-called Schengen Area agreements, which give free rights of movement within Europe. The concurrent suspension of most E.U. external controls on immigration and asylum rendered the open-borders pact suddenly unworkable.

The European masses are not racists, but they now apparently wish to accept Middle Eastern immigrants only to the degree that these newcomers arrive legally and promise to become European in values and outlook--protocols that the E.U. essentially discarded decades ago as intolerant. Europeans are relearning that the continent’s external borders mark off very different approaches to culture and society from what prevails in North Africa or the Middle East.

A similar crisis plays out in the United States, where President Barack Obama has renounced his former opposition to open borders and executive-order amnesties. Since 2012, the U.S. has basically ceased policing its southern border. The populist pushback against the opening of the border with Mexico gave rise to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump--predicated on the candidate’s promise to build an impenetrable border wall--much as the flood of migrants into Germany fueled opposition to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Driving the growing populist outrage in Europe and North America is the ongoing elite push for a borderless world. Among elites, borderlessness has taken its place among the politically correct positions of our age--and, as with other such ideas, it has shaped the language we use.

The descriptive term "illegal alien" has given way to the nebulous "unlawful immigrant." This, in turn, has given way to "undocumented immigrant," "immigrant," or the entirely neutral "migrant"--a noun that obscures whether the individual in question is entering or leaving. Such linguistic gymnastics are unfortunately necessary. Since an enforceable southern border no longer exists, there can be no immigration law to break in the first place.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/08/2016 09:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They will always be illegal aliens. Changing the words does not change the facts, only the perception. That perception change is designed to lie and mislead. Progressives do that all the time.
Posted by: Throger Fleart9627 || 08/08/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||



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