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Isn’t it exciting!  Two new nations left the terrible never medalled at the Olympics club this summer:  Gabon and Bahrain (who won with a woman athlete to boot!).  Gabon is in former French West Africa and Bahrain, where we used to/still have a base, is an island in the Persian Gulf. Gabon’s medal came in [...]

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I did not know the men’s 800 could have so much fun!  I haven’t had this much fun since I ran 800s and was cheered at an away team match by the home team’s crowd!  Led by a girl much much better looking than Paris Hilton!  (My nearest competitor was from the third school invited, [...]

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While there is one more Batswana athlete due up on August 6-8 (Nijel Amos in the men’s 800), certainly the African nation’s best chance for a medal was dashed which Amantle Montsho finished a disappointing fourth in the finals of the women’s 400 meter this afternoon.  One good thing:  USA got gold and bronze and [...]

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More news on Botswana’s Olympic team:  This Nigerian report says the African nation will field five athletes to the Olympic Games in London.  Leading up the charge will be Amantle Montsho: “We are sure that we will be sending quality not just numbers,” BNOC chief executive officer, Tuelo Serufho added. He said it was good [...]

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The Washington Post has called for the United States to intervene in Mali.  Well, they actually called for NATO to intervene in the African nation.  But NATO is something of a sock puppet for the USA in that NATO cannot legally commit troops without an unanimous vote of the nations in NATO.  Here’s some of [...]

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Fox News in an exclusive report (probably because the MSM won’t cover bad news about the UN often) says the United Nations Environment Programme, its arm for environmental issues, is a financial and administrative shambles: The United Nations Environment Program, the flagship for environmental consciousness and creation of a new era of “global environmental governance,” [...]

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