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David Brooks, Social Psychologist,
Mark Liberman at Language Log looks at the science behind David Brook's
latest column in which he claims there is a fundamental differences between the thought processes of individuals in Asian "collectivist" societies and Western "individualist" ones. (
via)
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at 7:57 AM on August 14, 2008
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"The really disturbing thing about Lagos’s pickers and venders is that their lives have essentially nothing to do with ours. They scavenge an existence beyond the margins of macroeconomics. They are, in the harsh terms of globalization, superfluous."
The Megacity, George Packer in Lagos.
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at 1:09 PM on December 11, 2007
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As Beijing prepares for the Olympics next year it is trying to clean up some of the shadier sides of the city. Apparently, one way of doing this is going to the popular bar street,
Sanlitun, and
arresting and beating all the men who appear to be of African decent, even if one happens to be the
son of a diplomat.
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at 7:47 AM on October 4, 2007
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The Trap.
Are you a young, college educated liberal who can't afford health care or a place to live? In his new
book,
Daniel Brook says you are getting screwed by being forced to choose between a job that you would actually like or selling out so you can have a middle class lifestyle.
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at 10:08 PM on September 29, 2007
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Stockman agreed that supply-side theory was, in Greider's words, "only new language and argument to conceal a hoary old Republican doctrine: give the tax cuts to the top brackets, the wealthiest individuals and largest enterprises, and let the good effects 'trickle down' through the economy to reach everyone else." Said Stockman: "It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down' .. . Kemp-Roth [the supply-side tax bill] was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate."
Reagon's Budget Director,
David Stockman "was indicted for defrauding investors and banks of $1.6 billion while chairman of Collins & Aikman Corp., an auto-parts maker that collapsed days after he quit."
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at 10:37 PM on March 30, 2007
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Chinese Christians in
House Churches throughout the country have heard "a call from God for the Chinese Church to preach the Gospel and establish fellowships of believers in all the countries, cities, towns, and ethnic groups between China and Jerusalem. This vision is no small task, for within those nations lay the three largest spiritual strongholds in the world today that have yet to be conquered by the Gospel: the giants of Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism." They call this movement
Back to Jerusalem.
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at 8:50 AM on March 20, 2007
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I don't believe they'll give up on the bases and the oil. Nor will its successors, Republican or Democrat. So I think that's what we will be doing, staying forever. Unless the rest of us, outside the government, force change on the leadership of the Democrats as well as the Republicans, which will be difficult and take a long time.
From DailyKos comes an excellent series of interviews with
Daniel Ellsberg; leaker of The Pentagon Papers. Part 1:
The Pentagon Papers and the Overlooked 1968 Leaks, Part 2:
Judith Miller, the New York Times and Government-Controlled Press, Part 3:
The Cult of Secrecy in Government and Its Undermining of Democracy, Part 4:
Whistleblowing and Effective Activism, Part 5:
Iraq/Vietnam Parallels and Other Foreign Policy Fiascos and Part 6:
Bush, the Next 9/11 and the Approaching Police State.
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at 7:57 PM on March 23, 2006
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Slavomir Rawicz
was a Polish calvary officer, who was imprisoned by the Soviets and eventually taken to a prison in Siberia. With 7 companions, including one mysterious american, he escaped and journeyed to the south, crossing Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and Tibet before making it to British India. Or at least this is what he claims in his book "
The Long Walk." Nobody has ever found
evidence that he was ever in russia or that any of his
companions ever existed. Oh and he also claims to have seen
Yetis.
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at 12:58 PM on March 17, 2006
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Every weekly meeting causes me to feel ashamed. I listen to people lie. I listen to people lie shamelessly and authoritatively. And you cannot refute them. You cannot stand up and say, "You are lying. What are you lying?"
Tolerating lies is regarded as wisdom. Those who are anxious to speak the truth are regarded as being victims of too much hormone. People make fun of themselves this way, and then wisely say: "Those naive actions will only bring even worse consequences. Be mature, be rational, be practical. Research more issues and talk less about theories."
This was written by an employee at
The Beijing News after three of it's head editors were
fired from their positions last week. The paper, one of the most progressive newspapers in China, was taken over by editors from
The Guangming Daily, a paper directly controlled by
"The Ministry of Publicity". Via
Eastwestnorthsouth who translated the original blog post as well as
this one written by another member of the staff at
The Beijing News.
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at 10:31 PM on January 2, 2006
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What's Going On In Balochistan?
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part 2)
Deception and treachery. Live and let die. The ultimate zero sum game. Repetition of bloody history: Call it what you may, something is happening in the Pakistani province of Balochistan that defies comprehension on any conventional scale. From a posting at
The Agonist. According to the article
Balochistan may be the key to future developments in Central Asia. Two former KGB agents report that Russian, Indian, Iranian and American agents are all supporting a resurgent insurrection which is
becoming increasingly active. Why would these countries do this? Two easy answers:
Oil pipelines and
China's Gwadar Port.
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at 12:53 AM on February 28, 2005
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