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ASPI suggests
Posted By Natalie Sambhi on April 3, 2015 @ 06:00
The state news agency has taken the unprecedented step of adopting a nickname for the General Secretary: Xi Dada—roughly, Big Uncle Xi.
Kitten First Class Nermal, a gray, mackerel tabby, has been assigned to stop a known hostile from stealing documents and embedding an improvised explosive device within a computer. Instead, Nermal can be seen batting a ball of yarn around for forty-five seconds before becoming bored and then discovering an unassuming but fascinating box.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/16675316898_139cd5fdcb_z.jpg
[2] became the most authoritarian leader since Mao: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/born-red
[3] review: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/mar/30/yemen-houthi-enigma/
[4] latest Lowy Interpreter post: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2015/03/30/Yemen-crisis-domestic-affair-foreign-meddling.aspx
[5] essay: http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/15418/end-game-al-shabab-as-a-model-for-the-islamic-state-s-decline
[6] reports: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32169080
[7] discussion: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/34287
[8] 'What ISIS really wants': http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
[9] TED talk on China and the US: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_rudd_are_china_and_the_us_doomed_to_conflict#t-6756
[10] passed away: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/sarbi-the-amazing-army-dog-who-served-alongside-a-vc-winner-in-afghanistan-has-died-2015-3
[11] new breed of military working cats: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/03/military-working-cat-project-derailed-by-intriguing-box/