fear of a red planet
Thursday, 12 June 2008

Closing down . . . . .

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It looks like envelope-pushing expat mag par excellence The eXile has finally been shut down by the Russian government as a result of an ...
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Saturday, 24 May 2008

And the 2008 award for wackiest conspiracy theory goes to . . . . .

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Whoever made this video explaining how the US caused the Sichuan earthquake by manipulating the ionosphere using the High Frequency Active ...
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Monday, 19 May 2008

Why an invasion of Burma is impossible

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A very interesting piece on the death of liberal interventionism from the Acumulating Periferals Blog . Money Quote: These kinds of interven...
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008

The Earthquake

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7.8 on the Richter scale, an incredibly powerful earthquake, luckily China is perhaps better prepared than other nations of similar size and...

"There are certain places in the original text which are incompatible with Chinese sensitivities"

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A fascinating look into the translation process that foreign books undergo from Paper Republic . Here's a snippet from an interview with...
Sunday, 11 May 2008

"Foreigners pose risk to stability, says academic"

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Setting aside the fact that this could even be a headline in a serious newspaper like the Hong Kong English-language South China Morning Pos...
Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Holy S**t!

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If you haven't seen this photo of the ash-plume of the Chaiten volcano in Chile being struck by lightning - go take a look. Sometimes M...

The CCP's war on reality continues . . . . .

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China's ruler are now attempting to impose their world view on online maps services like Google maps by insisting that they depict China...
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Monday, 5 May 2008

"Should I start worrying now?":

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A question I never asked myself during the 2003 SARS crisis until I rolled home from a going away party to find a notice on the door of the ...
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Memories of the labour camp . . . .

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Followed a link from the latest War Nerd piece to this utterly fascinating site written by a former Japanese soldier who was captured by t...
Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Sport and nationalism

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I've been trying over the past month or so to try and fit all of the recent events in London, Paris, China and elsewhere into some kind ...
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Monday, 28 April 2008

Is your 'Free Tibet' flag made in China?

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More evidence that China really does make everything from the BBC Chinese website . It seems that a company situated near Shenzhen has been ...
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Is this the end of Chinese civilisation as we know it?

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Chas and Dave take on China , who will win? The dynamic duo from the East End of London or the super power of the future?

Losing our way

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It seems that every time I look at the news I discover that the United States has done another thing I had thought that reasonable democrati...
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