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May. 20th, 2013 03:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* It is thought Hesbulah may be helping Assad. Government forces may have taken or be in the process of taking Qusair, but rebels dispute the claims.
Refugee numbers are expected to reach 3 million by the end of the year as there are approximately 10 thousand new refugees in camps every day.
* 51 people are confirmed dead in Oklahoma after a particularly devastating tornado, with at least 120 injured. 24 children are missing from an elementary School, with seven of their school mates already listed amoung the dead. They are still searching for survivors and bodies, so this isn't any sort of final total. These things are always heart breaking, but there is something particularly terrible about parents sending all those children off to school and never seeing them again. There are no words, really.
* Tornado season continues to get worse every year because of climate change. Congress continues to do everything possible to prevent measures to slow or mitigate the damage on the grounds that God trumps science and reality. (Seriously, the ones not insisting all the data is imaginary are claiming that it's god's will so we shouldn't stop making it worse. Look it up). After all who cares if mere humans die or lose their homes. Who cares if crops fail and the planet is starting to burn. Remember, what matters is that the oil companies are the richest businesses in the history of the world and they can afford to buy congress people out of their record profits.
* "Family album of last tsar surfaces in Russian museum:" http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/family-album-of-last-tsar-surfaces-in-russian-museum-14398
* "The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from:" http://www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_modern_history_of_swearing_where_all_the_dirtiest_words_come_from/
Refugee numbers are expected to reach 3 million by the end of the year as there are approximately 10 thousand new refugees in camps every day.
* 51 people are confirmed dead in Oklahoma after a particularly devastating tornado, with at least 120 injured. 24 children are missing from an elementary School, with seven of their school mates already listed amoung the dead. They are still searching for survivors and bodies, so this isn't any sort of final total. These things are always heart breaking, but there is something particularly terrible about parents sending all those children off to school and never seeing them again. There are no words, really.
* Tornado season continues to get worse every year because of climate change. Congress continues to do everything possible to prevent measures to slow or mitigate the damage on the grounds that God trumps science and reality. (Seriously, the ones not insisting all the data is imaginary are claiming that it's god's will so we shouldn't stop making it worse. Look it up). After all who cares if mere humans die or lose their homes. Who cares if crops fail and the planet is starting to burn. Remember, what matters is that the oil companies are the richest businesses in the history of the world and they can afford to buy congress people out of their record profits.
* "Family album of last tsar surfaces in Russian museum:" http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/family-album-of-last-tsar-surfaces-in-russian-museum-14398
* "The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from:" http://www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_modern_history_of_swearing_where_all_the_dirtiest_words_come_from/