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- Africa Still in Doldrums
++Repost++ This was lost in the update.
The BBC has an article titled “How sustainable is African growth?” where, despite the title, they print optimistic they suggest that Africa’s economy may finally be on the up and up.
How sustainable is African growth?
African economies grew last year at an average rate of 5%, but how much of [...]
- Aqtau-BTC?
NOTE: This should have been posted a few days ago when it was first announced, but due to downtime it couldn’t be. ComingAnarchy is back and on top of things.
Kazakhstan to export oil through US-backed Caspian pipeline
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that his oil-rich former Soviet republic in Central Asia would pump large amounts of [...]
- Schröder out the door?
As some ComingAnarchy readers might know, important elections were held in Germany a few days ago in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It is Germany’s most populous state, most industrialized state and also the state with the highest unemployment rate with over a million people unemployed. The Social Democrats or SPD, haven’t lost an election [...]
- Beijing Diplomacy, Kim Jong Il Style
Time for everyone’s favorite subject: Sino-Japan relations!
Chinese Vice Premier Wu arrived in Tokyo a few days ago with the plan to meet PM Koizumi—but decided to cancel the meeting at the last minute. She cites “sudden duties.” Does that mean she leaves? Nope, she went on to deliver a speech to a [...]
- Review: Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Lost During Switch and Reposted
I’ve recently made the unfortunate choice to trade my hard earned Euros for a book called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Having read a few reviews before it was published, it piqued my interest. Perkins was supposed to be an EHM, or Economic Hit man. He traveled [...]
- 21st Century Silk Road
BTC pipeline the ‘new Silk Road’
A pipeline that will carry oil for the first time from the Caspian sea to the Mediterranean was opened yesterday, marking the emergence of the Caspian region as a new force in the world’s oil markets.
“This is the Silk Road of the 21st century,” said Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkey’s president, [...]
- Central Asian Ethnic Groups
FINALLY back to blogging. That was a hard five days.
Yet more fun with maps, this time with Central Asia.
Like many of my cartographic finds, this one answers a few questions but makes me ask many more. What does it really mean that one group is the majority in a certain area? When [...]
- We’re back!!
That was not the smoothest transition ever, but we are back to blogging here at CA. Sorry for the interupption in service. Also, it looks like we lost a couple of posts and some comments, so I hope my compadres can repost what they had written before the site went down. I apologize for that [...]
