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Lebanese Air Force is in such bad shape they're selling helicopter rides to raise operating cash. I *think* that's an ancient DeHavilland "Otter" parked in the background, for all that I can't find any website that says they operate those. And right behind that - is that the tail of a North American F-86 "Sabre" poking out? It certainly looks like it to me, although again, I can't find any documentation on the Lebanese having any, although pretty much everyone else in the Free World did. Perhaps it's at an air museum?

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Heh. In North Korea, if you accept your discharge from the Army, then it's off to the mines with you! Also, the mining ministry gets not only a list with the names of retiring soldiers, but also a list of 'their personal items', so you effectively get plundered as well as enslaved. That ought to increase military re-enlistments.

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Haiti has an opening for a new dictator. Who will claim the glittering prize? The picture of the soldiers guarding the Presidential Palace (set to guard the place *after* the assassination, of course) is a classic. Exactly one soldier is acting like he's on duty. The other four are slouching around, schmoozing, talking on the phone, etc. while the steps of their nation's house are covered in trash. Even if you're the one out of five with some sense of duty, what good does it do in a culture like Haiti's? This probably furnishes a clue as well as to why the assassins hired foreign mercenaries to do the job.

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Famine time again in Ethopia. Literally, during my lifetime, they happen about every fifteen years. And despite that, and despite what recurring famines should tell you about your country's population level, , they just keep packing more in.
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