Oh yeah, I remember this going around when it was released.
It appears to be out of an Afghanistan-focused analysis-nonprofit funded by Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund?? It seems solid, but I couldn't judge their competence / resilience to hoaxes.
Making the job of The Onion's writers increasingly difficult. Would it be better or worse if they put out a true story every now and then, and challenged people to find the real ones?
Has that guy annoyed about traffic considered using his government position to implement transit oriented development and bike and pedestrian friendly infrastructure? Hopefully if he's on twitter he can follow some urban planning nerds.
3: Video at the link is titled: "TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults."
I love 'we couldn't defeat the Taliban but working in an office defeated the Taliban.'
According to the story, there's an actual report?
Relatedly, my wife worked in a school last year with a lot of recently arrived Afghan refugee kids, literally straight off the air lift into a shitty bed and breakfast in King's Cross and a school in Camden. One of the little boys told her how much he missed his old life, where he basically hung around outside all day herding goats, helping out a bit around the farm and playing with his friends all day, and now he had to sit in school all day being quiet and behaving well. He definitely didn't see his new life as a step up.
One of the little boys told her how much he missed his old life, where he basically hung around outside all day herding goats, helping out a bit around the farm and playing with his friends all day
There was a recent story about a 10yo girl who was found after having been separated from her family and lost in the mountains. I noticed this detail:
Shunghla, who arrived in the US from her native Afghanistan two years ago, was wearing only a T-shirt and pair of jeans when she went missing.
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The family told officials that they frequently spend time in the high-altitude backcountry of the Cascade mountains because it reminds them of Afghanistan.
It reminded me of the chorus of the Christy Moore song, "City Of Chicago"
To the City of Chicago / As the evening shadows fall / There are people dreaming / Of the hills of Donegal
Or, in this case, the mountains of Afghanistan.
7: PGD had a similar story from his mother, who as a child was a refugee in a number of places including a Siberian refugee camp under Stalin. I saved the text but I can't find it on here after trying three search engines.
The only part I'm not sure of is if it was PGD or someone else.