I came a across a tag called " mgd".  I thought to myself "Would past-Justino really have though it useful to tag himself drinking Miller Genuine Draft?  What a schmuck that past-Justino is"

Turns out MGD stood for Millennium Development Goals.  Goals that the world community set for the world at the turn of the Millennium.  Things like reduce ( Read more... )

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So the media and some human rights activists are pointing to public statements, like this one,  as signs that China is finally being shamed into speaking on darfur by international pressure.  While it is change of policy to speak publically on the genocide that is taking place in Darfur, it is also clear that mouth pieces like Liu Guijin are merely ( Read more... )