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Comment Predict it? I can! (Score 1) 72

Natural disasters happen where construction standards are poor and people have built on poor foundations and in low lying areas. Earthquakes don't really destroy everything, unless we're talking about living in shantyville. Raise construction standards for the poor and cease disasters. Hell, raise standards for poor areas and remove hundreds of different disasters that come with being poor, like crime and violence.
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Submission + - China Bans All Military Personnel from Blogging (google.com)

eldavojohn writes: China has banned every member of its military from blogging — even personal non-military blogs. From the announcement of the new regulation, "Soldiers cannot open blogs on the Internet no matter (whether) he or she does it in the capacity of a soldier or not. The Internet is complicated and we should guard against online traps." While the official word seems to not be translated to English yet, the same apparently goes for websites or homepages owned by soldiers with no indication to whether or not this applies to sites like Facebook or Renren (which the USMC bans). Similarly, as of 2007, the US requires active duty soldiers to clear any material with a superior officer and Israel had to cancel an operation due to a Facebook status. A military blog aggregating site claims only a few Chinese military blogs indexed but it looks like as of June 15 that list should get even shorter.

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