With every new publication Wikileaks just confirms it's now just an agency of the Russian Goverment whose purpose it's to undermine the confidence of the american people in their institutions.
I'm from Nicaragua and this is new to me. But it does not surprise me. The ruling party have made billions from Venezuelan oil. They control the import, distribution and final sale of gas to customers. It's not in their interest to change the energy sources.
Internally there's have been development in renewal energy, but these have been done by investors close to the Government and they mostly sale each watt as it was produced from bunker. This is possible because they own all the energy business in the country.
It seems Nicaragua rejected the Paris agreement as it didn't go far enough [1]:
> As world leaders gathered in the French capital in November 2015 to reach an agreement on fighting climate change, Nicaragua's lead envoy explained to reporters that the country would not support the agreed-upon plan as it hinged on voluntary pledges and would not punish those who failed to meet them. That was simply not enough, Paul Oquist argued.
That leaves Syria, which may actually have other problems these days. The US seems to be pretty much alone in this.
This kind of actions are important now more than ever for western societies. We have to remember that Russia is committed to destroy democratic institutions using fake news as one of its tools. Using fake news is an old trick to distort reality. In the pass it was done controlling state media or a good part of it. Now is making it into your Facebook feed.
A prion that infected people rapidly, through saliva-to-blood contact, and had similar symptoms to rabies without the rapid death would be very similar to traditional zombie lore.
The protein would probably also have to effect the olfactory glands, creating an attraction to uninfected humans.
It's hard to tell if you've been sincerely misled or if this is just a joke. Either way, though, it's not really plausible. The closest thing to a "zombie" that we get in nature are ants that are infected by Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. This fungus causes the infected ants to crawl to a fungus-friendly location on a leaf and remain there until the fungus kills it and produces more spores.
In the I Am Legend novella (a big contributor to modern zombie), the infected are more like vampires and retain their intelligence. The book is notable for the primary theme it introduces, the otherness of the zombies (in earlier depictions they are largely undead plot devices)
Romero's Night of the Living Dead also plays with the otherness theme, but the dead are numb and more ghoulish than vampiric.
28 Days Later finally has something I would agree is rabies inspired. It probably contributed to the frantic behavior of zombies in several recent movies.
"The roots of the vampire myth stretch back nearly as far. Tales of vampire-like creatures, formerly dead humans who return to suck the blood of the living, date to at least the Greeks, before rumors of their profusion in Eastern Europe drifted westward to capture the popular imagination during the 1700s.
In its original imagining, though, the premodern vampire differed from today's in one crucial respect: His condition wasn't contagious. Vampires were the dead, returned to life; they could kill and did so with abandon. But their nocturnal depredations seldom served to create more of themselves.
All that changed in mid-19th century England—at the very moment when contagion was first becoming understood and when public alarm about rabies was at its historical apex. Despite the fact that Britons were far more likely to die from murder (let alone cholera) than from rabies, tales of fatal cases filled the newspapers during the 1830s. This, too, was when the lurid sexual dimension of rabies infection came to the fore, as medical reports began to stress the hypersexual behavior of some end-stage rabies patients. Dubious veterinary thinkers spread a theory that dogs could acquire rabies spontaneously as a result of forced celibacy.
Thus did rabies embody the two dark themes—fatal disease and carnal abandon—that underlay the burgeoning tradition of English horror tales. Britain's first popular vampire story was published in 1819 by John Polidori, formerly Lord Byron's personal physician. The sensation it caused was due largely to the fact that its vampire, a self-involved, aristocratic Lothario, distinctly resembled the author's erstwhile employer."
I would like to add that maybe the problem are not the [micro|macro]-loans, but people. Loans are basic bricks for an economic development in any society. Sadly, they can't save a bad business from failure.
So my point is that maybe a poor borrower investing in a bad business will end up poorer. Other scenario, mentioned in the article, are poor people lending money for non productive expenses.
A basic financial advice applies here: Invest in a productive business and try not to borrow money for non productive expenses.
I think you basically reiterate the point here: if you are in poverty, you don't have enough money for basic necessities (read: non-productive expenses); therefore, you can choose to spend any extra money on those necessities, or go without.
