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• Pondering The Troubles

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  Two bombs planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated on Thursday night in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, but no injuries were reported as police quickly evacuated the area following phoned warnings. This is pretty much the way it’s been going for a century now. One group starts to fight ...
  1 week ago

• Well, that’s you unqualified to be President then Mr. Gingrich

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  Newt Gingrich has pledged that on his first day as president he will set up a constitutional showdown by ordering the military to defy a supreme court ruling extending some legal rights to foreign terrorism suspects and captured enemy combatants in US custody. The Republican contender told a forum of anti-abortion ...
  1 week ago

• I get tired of all the mail stating the President hasn’t accomplished anything. Here is an impressive list of accomplishments!

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  · First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. · First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. · First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States · First President to violate the War Powers ...
  1 week ago

• Canadian returns to Korea, admits murder of girlfriend

  
  The Marmot's Hole — Authority: 516
  From the Chosun Ilbo: A Canadian has turned himself in to Korean police and confessed to murdering his Korean girlfriend three years ago. Police quoted the 38-year-old identified only by the initial S. as saying he decided to turn himself in because he was riven by remorse. [...] The woman was drowned near Dongjak ...
  1 week ago

• Ethnoburbs and white flight

  
  The Plaid Bag Connection — Authority: 111
  In preparation for doing fieldwork in the Chinese ethnoburbs of the San Gabriel Valley, I’m (re)reading Min Zhou‘s (周敏) Contemporary … Continue reading »
  2 weeks ago

• Eccentric, you say?

  
  The Marmot's Hole — Authority: 516
  Yeah, I’d say this is odd behavior: A Chinese man detained after throwing firebombs at Japan’s Embassy in Seoul as a protest over Tokyo’s wartime sexual enslavement of Asian women has shown eccentric behavior such as singing South Korea’s national anthem and cursing Japan in fluent Korean, officials said ...
  2 weeks ago

• Living in China: Limits to the inflow of Foreign Workers likely to be set

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 103
  China ’s top legislature began to deliberate a draft law on exit and entry administration, which aims to cope with the surging overseas visits by Chinese and the influx of foreigners. The draft, in all 8 chapters and 90 articles, makes stipulations mainly on the exit and entry of Chinese and foreign citizens, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Koreans fear the wave of foreigners

  
  The Marmot's Hole — Authority: 516
  According to an article published in Korea Times (January 16, 2012), about 64% of Koreans surveyed were worried about possible foreigner demonstrations and  riots.  What will bring on these riots? As the main reasons for conflict between Koreans and foreign nationals, most respondents cited differences in language, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Delhi Metro through foreign eyes: global system lacking global etiquettes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 535
  Hurrying down the steps of a Delhi Metro station, I jump into the first available train. Eyes stare at me. I am not only the lone woman in the train car but also the only foreigner.Like 1.5 million other people in Delhi, I ride on the Metro every day. To get to work, I [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Beijing Details Foreigners’ Mandatory Social Insurance Participation

  
  China Briefing News — Authority: 462
  Following the promulgation of a national decree ordering foreign employees’ mandatory participation in China’s social insurance system, Beijing recently issued its own implementation details in a bid to strengthen the enforcement of the new policy. Continue reading →
  3 weeks ago

• Santorum’s santorum problem

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  This might not be widespread news over here as yet. But Rick Santorum, while running for President (actually, at present, for the Republican nomination for such) has something of a problem. It’s delicately referred to as Santorum’s “ Google Problem “. Nothing illustrates this better than what Mr Santorum ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not the result that I would want

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  Sarko will lose the presidency to a socialist no one has ever heard of, who will beat Marine le Pen by less than 5% of the (low turn out) popular vote in the run off; No . The result I would want is for Marine Le Pen to win the presidency. No, not because I’m some ghastly Poujadist, racist or in love with women ...
  4 weeks ago

• That burning Russian submarine

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  You do have to slightly wonder about things in Russia, even now . Fire brigades are still struggling to put out the fire which quickly engulfed the submarine’s rubber-coated outer hull. OK, nuclear sub, missiles, rubber coating on hull, all terribly advanced technology. Russia’s Defence Ministry said ...
  4 weeks ago

• French politicians ignorant fuckwit froggies

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  That’s not quite how Martin Feldstein puts it but it is what he means : The French government just doesn’t seem to understand the real implications of the euro, the single currency that France shares with 16 other European Union countries. French officials have now reacted to the prospect of a credit rating ...
  4 weeks ago

• Absolutely spot on

  
  Tim Worstall — Authority: 548
  A piece in The Guardian, of all newspapers, which just nails the point under discussion. In August 1991, when Communist party hardliners tried to wrest back power , fear was the magic component they lacked. Some people got scared, to be sure – but enough did not. Radio journalists continued reporting on the coup ...
  5 weeks ago

• Clicky Clickys Top Albums Of 2011: Jay Edition

  
  :: news, reviews and opinion :: since 2001 :: online at clickyclickymusic.com :: — Authority: 405
  And here we are at the end of 2011. If you had told us a year ago that the things which transpired this year were coming, we would not have believed you. While for much of the year, and much to our frustration, music had to take a back seat to real life, that only increased its importance to this writer. Cross-country ...
  5 weeks ago

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