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Guerrilla Snorefare: The big chill
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Sunday, 26 October 2008. Winter is coming my friends. The chill air is undulating over the Mongolian steppe and wrapping its frosty serpentine scales over the northern capital. The time for God's Monkeys to head indoors is nigh. Sake season is upon us. Static and stale cigarette smoke will be our constant companions for the next three months. The urban desert of a Beijing winter is about to intrude itself on our existence. SIGH. I hate being cold. Danwei...
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Guerrilla Snorefare: Spin, intrigue, openness and a (lack of) protests
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Monday, 20 October 2008. Spin, intrigue, openness and a (lack of) protests. Just when we thought that the right to protest, a flickering flame tenuously linked to the hope of the Olympic dream and the dodgy old deal-making bastards at the IOC was over, a new wave of hope. Has poured petrol on the flame of Freedom Of Speech. In a curious Orwellian twist, when I googled "China" news just before writing this post, the next entry. That came up was:. 1) The d...
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Guerrilla Snorefare: A scary future
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Thursday, 2 October 2008. President McCain has been dead for two months. President Palin has declared war on Russia. And abortion. And moose. And green activists. She has personally said she wants to "kill herself some non-believers." Under the umbrella of job creation and healthcare,. Thankfully it looks less and less like this is actually going to happen. According to this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 8* Plus Eight Star.
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Guerrilla Snorefare: The October blues
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Sunday, 12 October 2008. For me, shopping is an unreasonably stressful experience. The indecision, the resentment that I have to part with hard-earned cash, the complete lack of an ability to discern the quality and style of an item of clothing, and the pesky sales people, all conspire to make the experience something to dread. Life as a laowai. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. 8* Plus Eight Star. Absurdity, Allegory and China.
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Guerrilla Snorefare: Capitalism takes a backward step
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Thursday, 2 October 2008. Capitalism takes a backward step. In the Economist talks a man who claims that China is becoming less capitalistic:. But what about the growing cohort of Chinese companies starting to strut the world stage? The most diligent China-watchers have little idea if it is a private or state firm. They do, however, agree that Huawei’s opacity is a microcosm of China’s distorted economy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Helping out My...
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Guerrilla Snorefare: Chinese Democracy
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Monday, 13 October 2008. No, this is not about politics. Fools. My first Guns 'n' Roses album was Appetite For Destruction. I didn't buy it - I swapped it for Michael Jackson's Thriller. It must have been sometime in the early nineties. Nevermind was all the rage, Kurt Cobain was still alive, and I was just becoming musically aware. Nirvana was the background music of my early teenage years, but GNR was souffle to my ears. AXL: On a crusade for democracy.
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Guerrilla Snorefare: Sino-US triangulation
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Friday, 10 October 2008. Even in theses strange days, it is a strange situation indeed when the sale of $6.5 billion of arms is seen as a welcoming sign of return to balance. But this is the crux of the argument in this article. From the Associated Press:. Though China reacted angrily, the deal is also a sign that the sometimes shaky three way relationship between China, Taiwan and the U.S. is moving back into balance. At the end of the day, although Ma ...
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Guerrilla Snorefare: July 2008
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Thursday, 31 July 2008. Good news on the Games front. Ah, something positive. To talk about for a change:. Olympic fans who failed to secure tickets for the main events can now look forward to the next best thing: watching the Games on huge TV screens across the capital. Even of you can't make it to the stadium, like me and nearly everyone else in the city, this looks like its going to provide a pretty good time. Links to this post. I must admit the open...
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Guerrilla Snorefare: Gymnasts not underage after all?
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Wednesday, 1 October 2008. Gymnasts not underage after all? Is in the clear. But China's bronze-medal winning team in Sydney is still under suspicion. China's gold medal gymnasts are in the clear. Its team that won the bronze medal eight years ago, however, still faces questions. International gymnastics officials on Wednesday closed their 5. Mike Walker, a computer security expert, told The Times how he tracked down two documents that he says had been r...
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Guerrilla Snorefare: Skype censorship
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Many blogs have been written. This is one of them. Thursday, 2 October 2008. China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as Tibet or Communist. Party, according to a group of Canadian researchers.The massive surveillance operation of TOM-Skype, a joint venture between Chinese mobile firm TOM Online and Skype, owned by US online auction house eBay, was alleged by Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto research group. View my complete profile.
