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- Field Recording
Regarding the audio version of the Far East Travelogue, Davesgonechina asks:
Technical question, Curzon, what did you use for field recording? You got some decent sound there.
Good question—and thanks for asking, as I was thinking of making this a post.
First of all, skip the trendy I-Pods. You have to buy the microphones seperately, and the [...]
- Uzbek gives to China
Speaking of Uyghurs in prison :
From CTV.ca
A Canadian Muslim activist faces possible execution as Uzbek authorities confirmed Friday the man was deported to his native China.Huseyincan Celil, a 37-year-old naturalized Canadian citizen, was sentenced to death in China for human rights work he did on behalf of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province.
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The [Uzbek [...]
- Southern Italy Would Turn into Pakistan
The following is part of an email exchange between Chirol and a very close Italian friend. This friend worked at the polls in the recent referendum and had this additional information to add since microstates and devolution have been all the rage recently. The title of the post is a rather humorous comment from him [...]
- Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace @ ComingAnarchy
One of the first commenters at this blog was Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. The commenter chose the alias to follow ComingAnarchy’s theme of using famous yet underappreciated figures from history to write anonymously on the internet. But who was this Dr. Wallace and what did he do?
Wikipedia has the story. A biologist [...]
- The Devolution Caravan Keeps Moving
Oh ye of little faith! Microstates are coming. In the Balkans, you could write it off as Yugoslav leftovers. In Spain, perhaps some legacy of the Spanish Civil War. Today it’s Scotland. And the trend is becoming clearer by the day. The only question is who’s next!
IJ pointed out the following. Looks like I missed [...]
- As of yesterday…
...the UN welcomes it’s 192nd member.
Many congratulations.
- The Neighborhoods
As I’ve said, I’m currently living in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. But where is Chelsea? Although New York is pretty dry when it comes to the names of its streets (numbered east-west streets and numbered north-south avenues), Manhattan is a quilt of neighborhood, each with its own history and character. Click [...]
- The Uyghurs of Guantanamo
It was Younghusband who first pointed out at the blog that Chinese nationals were in the top ten of those held at Guantanamo, with the most detainees of any non-Muslim majority nation. But the the Chinese detainees were Uyghurs, the Turkic Muslim people of western China. Like Tibet, there are murmurs of discontent [...]
- Indian Inroads in Central Asia
By now, it’s somewhat of a cliche to discuss the new Great Game. We’ve all been reading about the scramble for Central Asia and the Caucasus and know who the two biggest players are at the moment, Russia and the United States. On top of that, we constantly hear about the Chinese. Yet, the most [...]
- For Queen and Country
COIN is the new black in military circles these days. Owing to this, many people have Malaya on the mind. The Malayan Emergency was one of Britain’s most successful small wars, and for good reason. The Brits went the extra mile in this longest of long wars. From Inside the SAS: (pp.27)
Under Calvert, the Regiment [...]
