Photo: An oil tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz after allegedly being attacked by Iranian boats. (AP/ISNA)
Jackson Gothe-Snape and Emma Machan, ABC News Online: Understanding the Strait of Hormuz: narrower than Bass Strait, carrying one fifth the world's oil
Australia is sending a warship, surveillance aircraft and Defence Force personnel to a stretch of Middle Eastern water called the Strait of Hormuz.
Here's why.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 21, 2019
How Britain Lost the War It Never Wanted with Iran -- Matthew Petti, National Interest
Kashmir: DW reporter's first-hand account of the 'siege' -- Rifat Fareed, DW
Trouble in Sri Lanka -- Taylor Dibbert, Washington Times
The Sources of Chinese Conduct -- Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs
China buffeted by shifting Nigerian political winds -- Lin Nguyen, Asia Times
Young Libyans chose danger at sea over peril at home -- AFP
Abdalla Hamdok: Who is Sudan's new prime minister? -- Al Jazeera
Don't Restore a G-8 With Russia -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
Merkel's government delivers on promises, but voters aren't convinced -- Rebecca Staudenmaier, DW
German-U.S. Ties Are Breaking Down -- Matthias Gebauer et al, Der Spiegel
G7 or G5? Trump and Johnson add unpredictability to French summit -- John Irish, Marine Pennetier, Reuters
Huawei will ‘dominate the world’ -- Gordon Watts, Asia Times
Huawei is beginning 6G research — a mobile network that may move far beyond the smartphone -- Alan Weedon, ABC News Online
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British SOCIALIZED Health Care: Eugenics in Action
"The obese will die a decade earlier than the rest of us; see it as a selfless sacrifice in the fight against demographic imbalance, overpopulation and climate change."
https://news.sky.com/story/michael-buerk-let-obese-people-die-early-to-save-nhs-money-11778620
Or place a "fat tax" on items that are a primary contributor to the problem which would help pay for the medical care deemed necessary.
In this country I'd put them on the soda industry for starters.
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