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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Experts help Burma rebrand its dictatorship by Dr Zarni -
Dead Duck - photo - copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20944
Typo missed by Irrawaddy editors -
Burma is not a "failed dictatorship"
it's a "successful dictatorship" that maximizes the state's power and perpetuates itself.
It's a failed state that does not do what it should do -
for example, protect its people from harm.
Kyi May Kaung
Very nice--a writer meets an actress in a cafe and they fall in love--
https://www.aol.com/news/valerie-bertinelli-boyfriend-reveals-identity-031332062.html
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https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books
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The maker of this replica seems to have assumed, anomalously, that the corner towers were in the Banteay Srei style -- visually, as you can ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua55nu0X_Ro