This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don't think fear is a very effective way of dealing with things—of responding to reality. Fear is just another word for ignorance.”

- Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist

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In the early years of the 20th century, many circuses toured Northern Ireland and provided entertainment, stunts and plenty of excitement to crowds.

 

Although photographs of the acts in progress were not possible due to the dim lighting conditions inside the circus tent, local photographer Herbert Cooper was able to take photographs of the clowns, acrobats and animals outside as they practiced their acts and of the local people. Had mingled with. People.

 

About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting in a jungle area near the northeastern border with China, lamented that he’d never seen such intense action.

His commander in Myanmar’s 99th Light Infantry Division had been killed in fighting in Shan state the week before and the 35-year-old career soldier said army outposts were in disarray and being hit from all sides.

Japan has approved the world's first 'self-amplifying mRNA' Covid vaccine, despite only testing it on 800 people, no control group and only checking antibody levels not infection rates. Medicine regulation died with Covid.