My nurse no show today; apparently there was an accident at her farm and she herself is nursing a black eye and other injuries. It is only a minor irritation today, but if she doesn't show on Wednesday I'll have to do the baby clinic by myself again (see blog for 3 Wednesdays ago), and frankly I'm dreading that.
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I hear this morning on Al Jazeera that water levels in the Mekong River have fallen to almost unprecedented levels, threatening the economies, and indeed the very lives of millions of people who live in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Even allowing for low rainfall recently, a water level change of 30 whole centimetres was seen yesterday in Thailand, and that can only be due to the dams, no less than 4 of them, that China have erected on the river, all this without the slightest degree of consultation with her neighbours who are directly affected.
Where do the Chinese get off with this sort of "Everybody else go screw, we've got our agenda and we're sticking to it" attitude. They pump CO2 into the atmosphere like it's going out of fashion, there's not even a semblance of civil rights- remember they do not allow twitter, you tube or facebook to be accessed within their borders, yet we fall over ourselves to do business with them, because it's good for our economies. In reality we're just buying into this freedom-hating state.
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