Monday, 16 November 2009

On Saturday, thousands of passengers were stranded in Xianyang International Airport in Xi'an, Shaanxi, due to the dense frog, China Central Television reported yesterday, as recorded byPeople's Daily online.

Who could they be talking about?

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As EU controls on pollution get ever-more rigorous, our manufacturing base ups anchor and goes elsewhere ... like China, where it is destroying the environment and lives. And all our little greenies do is prattle about CO2! They should be ashamed.

(via WUWT)

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Sometimes the writing comes easy. Other times, it is a hard slog and you have to fight for every word. This one is one of the latter, another piece in the continued exploration of Afghan history.

Relatively short, it covers the period from 1947 to 1953, the period of and immediately after the partition of India. These events had a profound effect on Afghanistan and, in many respects, represent a major failure of British foreign policy. In the space of six years, the country changed from a cordial friend of Britain, well on its way to becoming a client state of the USSR – and we let it happen.

Of these events, I knew next to nothing until I started researching them. I am almost ashamed of my own ignorance.

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