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2020-05-02 Afghanistan
Afghanistan likely facing coronavirus 'health disaster' - US watchdog
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-02 00:19|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
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#1 So, get the troops out!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-02 04:02||   2020-05-02 04:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess those rare earths can wait.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 06:00||   2020-05-02 06:00|| Front Page Top

#3 China is already stepping in, rare earths.

PS, please forward to Mecca ASAP.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-02 06:06||   2020-05-02 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 China pretty much has the rare earth market cornered...has for years....add that to the list of supply chain concerns out of China.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 06:11||   2020-05-02 06:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The Chinese dominance may have peaked in 2010 when they controlled about 95% of the world's rare earth production, and prices for many rare earth oxides had risen over 500% in just a few years. That was an awakening for rare earth consumers and miners throughout the world. Mining companies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and other countries began to reevaluate old rare earth prospects and explore for new ones.

High prices also caused manufacturers to do three things: 1) seek ways to reduce the amount of rare earth elements needed to produce each of their products; 2) seek alternative materials to use in place of rare earth elements; and, 3) develop alternative products that do not require rare earth elements.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-02 06:46||   2020-05-02 06:46|| Front Page Top

#6 I say let the Chinese step in. What the Hell are they going to do with it? Work some imaginary magic of the kind they fantasize about in Africa. 2 marvelously pestilential, blood soaked locations that are financial black holes. I can't think of a better project for Emperor Xi.
Posted by Cesare 2020-05-02 07:55||   2020-05-02 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Chinese think they have a problem with their own Muslims now, all I can say is 'pass me the popcorn'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-02 08:18||   2020-05-02 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Don't you mean fried bat wings?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-05-02 08:23||   2020-05-02 08:23|| Front Page Top

#9 The enemy of the enemy is my friend?
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 08:25||   2020-05-02 08:25|| Front Page Top

#10 We've never have heard about STDs in the ME. I'm sure it's a horror story.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-02 09:11||   2020-05-02 09:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Scroll to the top of the thread for video

pic.twitter.com/rbSvWxwllK
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-02 10:32||   2020-05-02 10:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Afghanistan is soon going to become an Afghanistain for Asia anyway. I don't know why anyone should bother. And it's so sparsely populated, they are already practically distanced from one another. Maybe they could spread out a little further. It's a place even a fucking virus would come to die of boredom in.

Trust only the US Congress and their 'brain trust' to care.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-05-02 12:40||   2020-05-02 12:40|| Front Page Top

#13 The best thing we can hope for is to get out of Afghanistan and get the Chinese embroiled in this endless quagmire instead.

If we had a functioning CIA they would be actively trying to cause this outcome to occur.
Posted by Thurong Whusomp1457 2020-05-02 14:37||   2020-05-02 14:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Afghanistan has 2335 cases and 64 deaths. The case growth rate is about 12%.
Posted by KBK 2020-05-02 20:01||   2020-05-02 20:01|| Front Page Top

#15  Scroll to the top of the thread for video

Nicely illustrative find, Skidmark. Let’s see what the numbers look like two to three weeks from now.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-02 21:47||   2020-05-02 21:47|| Front Page Top

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