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- Who is the enemy?
Well, there goes the fifth one. Over the past week four submarine communications cables have been cut and one damaged leaving more than a billion people throughout the Middle East and Asia Internet-blind.
SeaMeWe-4 near Penang
FLAG near Alexandria
FLAG near the Dubai coast
FALCON near Bandar Abbas
SeaMeWe-4 near AlexandriaNobody seems to know what the hell is going on [...]
- Serbia Chooses
This weekend’s elections in Serbia brought a sigh of relief to those all over the EU. Boris Tadic was victorious over nationalist Tomislav Nikolic. While most news outlets are emphasizing Serbia choosing Europe and pro-Western, it would behoove them to remember that with regard to Kosovo, the entire country is of one mind. Tadic, who [...]
- The big issue of 2008: climate change
I was struck by the prominence of climate change in The World in 2008 – the annual forecast by The Economist. In 2008 the two big events will be the US presidential election and the 2008 Olympics in China. But the underlying issue of global warming featured heavily in articles throughout the magazine.
Nancy Pelosi claims [...]
- The sad convolutions of a pacifist constitution
Defense Minister troubled over legal issues if UFO arrives
Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday that he was troubled over potential legal issues if a UFO arrives in Japan, requiring action by the Self-Defense Forces, Japanese media reports.The subject was triggered by a question from oppositional lawmaker Ryuji Yamane, who argued the government should attempt to [...]
- Helping Both Sides?
Today’s German Tagesschau hints at something (German link) I’ve also been wondering, namely, why the Turks are claiming such wild success having deal “strong blows” and stood up against terrorists when almost nobody has been killed and no proof has been given that anything of value was hit.
It is one thing for the Kurds [...]
- If the Romans could see us now…
Sent from a reader:
The city of Rome will light up the Coliseum, which has become an international symbol of capital punishment this evening, when New Jersey repeals its death penalty. Rome’s Colosseum, once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, has become a symbol of the fight against capital punishment. Since 1999, the first [...]
- King of Spain v.s. King of Spin
Spanish King Juan Carlos tells Chavez to “shut up”.
Chavez repeatedly interrupted Spanish PM Jose Luis Zapatero at the Ibero-American summit in Chile last weekend, calling former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar a “fascist.” Zapatero, a socialist who defeated Aznar at the polls after the Madrid bombings, argued with Chavez openly that Aznar was [...]
- Gender Gap 07
The World Economic Forum’s annual Gender Gap report has been released. Here are some of the ranking highlights:
Of interest Top 5 Ranked Bottom 5 Ranked 18 Canada (down by 2) 31 America (down by 6) 73 China (down by 3) 91 Japan (down by 3) 97 Korea (up by 4) [...]
- This is Zimbabwe
One of the newer entries to the “Regional Specialists” category of our blogroll is This is Zimbabwe, a blog by Sokwanele, a democratic civic movement in Zimbabwe. Their daily posts are real and dirty glimpses as to how life is in a country where the most recent monthly inflation figures were over 25,000%. [...]
- Ungoverned Megacities
The head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, has made an unusually public statement for a man and indeed an agency that usually remains invisible.
[...] Mumbai, Mexico City and Jakarta, saying they had become partially ungovernable. He noted the rise of private security firms to protect wealthier residents in sealed communities or to [...]
