Esteemed Readers,
Not very pleasant things are taking place around us. Buckle up, hang in there, it's going to be a tough winter. Here we go:
- My parents hit a WOLF while driving this evening. They're OK, the wolf is dead, serious damage on the bumper, headlights and the radiator of the car.
- There was a major earthquake in Turkey again, in the Eastern city of Van. 7.2 in richter's scale. Over 600 dead, thousands injured. It demonstrated once again that:
- contractors in Turkey are either too greedy, or too ignorant or both
- state is still as incompetent and unorganized as it was in the 1999 quake
- people are generous
- civil society is in slightly better shape than it was in 1999
- NATO ended its Libya mission, probably making Colin Powell really proud! For once, the US has made a clear exit in one of its military missions in the last decades! Here the numbers since Nato took charge of Libya mission on April 1st:
- 26,000 sorties flown
- 9,600 strike sorties
- 5,900 targets destroyed
- 600 tanks or armoured vehicles destroyed
- 400 artillery/rocket launchers destroyed
- 16 countries have provided air assets
The "slaughter-a-ram-for-your-God" holiday (also called Kurban in Turkish or Eid in Arabic) is coming up soon.
I wish Happy Holidays to all my readers from all over the world.
Be merry, healthy, and try to protect yourselves from earthquakes, wolves and NATO sorties...
The bad news-weary Academic Mommy
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