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Old Aug 15, 2016, 6:37 pm
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transpac
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Prefacing this with the obvious: in a dictatorship there is no reliable free press so no mainstream outlets cover anything other than what the Junta spews out ("poll says 99.3% of the people are happy").

If the press say anything which can be remotely viewed as negative, and this extends to covering let's say "flooding in the north" too much, they will be subject to imprisonment. The Junta wants only positive stories which "return happiness to the people".

So, with that said, rumors spread pretty quickly and there is absolutely no way to verify some/all of the things one hears. And whoever perpetrated the 11/12 August bombs would obviously be interested in sowing fear even if they had no more bombs left. But there are whispers of a continuing and expanding effort, so I might recommend additional caution when out and about. Although that sounds lame as one never seems to know where a bomb might go off. It seems like most of these bombs do go off after dark, if that's any help.

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