Lunch Break - Be more afraider edition

Be afraid: Taliban noose tightens on Pakistan
Flu Note 1: E.U. urges no travel to U.S. and Mexico.
100 days, 100 mistakes: Read it here.
Happy Birthday! Mr. Shakespeare.
Reinventing Collapse. I believe this may become the essential book of the next few years. And this post on Mr. Orlov's blog makes the case for eliminating the IRS.
Flu Note 2: Australia has set up surveillance procedures for travellers from the Americas.
Be more afraider: North Korea begins extracting plutonium
Conservative, Catholic, and Decriminalized: Portugal decriminalizes drugs and guess what...Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success.
In case you missed it: Nicolas Sarkozy puts Barack Obama in the doghouse
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Music:
It's The End Of The World As We Know It by REM