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Xmokul's Blog – August 2021 Archive (13)

In a California town of Afghanistan war veterans

OCEANSIDE, Calif. – For 61 years, Johnny Gomez has sat U.S. Marines in his tan, leather swivel chair at the Esquire Barber Shop for the "high and tight": faded on the back and sides, short on the top and finished off with a straight razor. Little has changed but the price — still a bargain at $10.

Usually, customers shuffle in and out quietly, checking an errand off the to-do list in this seaside town next to Camp Pendleton, a place where the military is life, replete with uniform…

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Added by xmokul on August 21, 2021 at 7:38pm — No Comments

India looks to an uneasy future relationship with Afghanistan

The Taliban’s swift return to power after two decades has left Afghanistan’s regional neighbors such as India scrambling to figure out how to adjust to shifting geopolitical challenges. Although wary of the new regime, Delhi is keen to protect its considerable investments built up over the years, a safeguard against an ever-present China and Pakistan.

With India evacuating its entire embassy staff comprising over 190 personnel from Kabul, it is preparing itself for the reality of…

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Added by xmokul on August 21, 2021 at 9:47am — No Comments

Scientists say this invisible gas could seal our fate on climate change

Slashing carbon dioxide emissions is critical to ending the climate crisis. But, for the first time, the UN climate change report emphasized the need to control a more insidious culprit: methane, an invisible, odorless gas with more than 80 times more warming power in the near-term than carbon dioxide.

According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the concentration of methane in the atmosphere is higher now than any time in at least 800,000 years.

With Earth…

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Added by xmokul on August 12, 2021 at 4:59am — No Comments

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