Further to my post yesterday, Mr Eugenides has posted an “all bases covered” rant on the pro-Tibet protests.
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Generally speaking, and with some exceptions, I am not in favour of sporting boycotts, at least not in isolation. It seems particularly harsh, for one thing, to pick on sportsmen and expect them to salve […]
Those Parisians have extinguished the Olympic flame.
Twice.
Apparently is was so that the torch could escape protesters and be hidden on a bus. Things are getting nasty, as we saw in London, where the pocket-sized Konnie Huq was mugged by pro-Tibet protesters.
No doubt these campaigners will watch themselves on the news tonight. On their Chinese-made […]
Part one can be found here.
Abroad
Huge corporatocracies control our governments and shadowy agents work against the interest of global peace, international law, and environmental sustainability. In fact, never has it been more apparent that democracy is just an illusion and that all political parties operate within the same narrow superstructure. In the last decade - […]
The apparent isolation of Dick Cheney has been reaffirmed by a US intel report that states Iran “halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold” (NYT).
Seems old Penguin-features has finally lost his grip.
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The new report concludes that if Iran were to end the freeze of […]
Jams has an excellent review of Tuesday’s “first historic hearing… when Kaing Guek Eav (aka Duch), the head of the butchering regime’s Toul Sleng torture centre, appeared before the panel of judges, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Continue reading.
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roadside fire - Kolkata, originally uploaded by © Maciej Dakowicz.
More from this excellent photographer, here.
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More lovely coverage!
Well, just you try Googling “Alisher Usmanov” today. Within hours of the takedown, a phalanx of bloggers assembled to show solidarity with the affected bloggers.
via Tim
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He first talked with Arsenal’s bitter North London rivals Spurs and then considered an investment in Liverpool.
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Usmanov then switched to Arsenal and bought former vice-chairman David Dein’s 14 per cent stake — which he has since built up to 23 per cent.
A source told SunSport: “Alisher always wanted to get involved with Arsenal. […]
Burmese authorities are to send thousands of monks to prisons in the north of the country. Other reports suggest that ‘thousands’ of protesters and hundreds of monks have been executed in a jungle massacre.
Maybe if the place had a little oil, we’d get involved…
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I haven’t written about the democracy protests in Burma. This is not because I don’t care, naturally I do care when people demand freedom and representation in the face of a crackpot military dictatorship; I just haven’t had chance to catch up with the detail.
I’m still no expert of course, but I do have […]
Business is murky in Uzbekistan, and that in itself is an argument against him being involved in Arsenal. I wouldn’t want him to be the owner of the club.
Peter Hill-Wood, Chairman of Arsenal Football Club.
*clap. clap. clap.*
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