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fear of a red planet: The View From The Polling Station
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Thursday, 7 May 2015. The View From The Polling Station. Posted by Gilman Grundy. The whole of the SNP is laughing at you southerners. BTW Where did the Labour Party unearth Milliband and his tablet of promises. Definitely barking mad. 10 May 2015 at 18:24. The whole of the SNP is laughing at you southerners. Where did the Labour Party unearth Milliband and his tablet of promises. Definitely barking mad. 11 May 2015 at 05:15. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The View From The Polling Station. The Man ...
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fear of a red planet: Why is political criticism seen as a personal insult?
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Friday, 17 April 2015. Why is political criticism seen as a personal insult? This graph from Alex Massie's latest post. Over at The Spectator says a great deal about the current state of British politics:. Most prominent on this graph are the Scottish Nationalists, whose grass-roots supporter's ability to see any criticism, however substantiated by fact, as an insult to which they are entitled to respond with insults, will be familiar to anyone who has attempted to follow the development of "The 45".
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fear of a red planet: What Beijing still gets out of Hong Kong
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Sunday, 21 June 2015. What Beijing still gets out of Hong Kong. Whilst the propaganda value of Hong Kong's return to the motherland may well have been long since used up on the mainland, and the essential failure of the "One Country, Two Systems". However, this threat seems pretty empty when you consider just how much especially the PRC elite, with their HK bank accounts, HK property, HK ID cards and so-forth actually benefit from the HK SAR's continued existence. Posted by Gilman Grundy. My Kafkaesque L...
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fear of a red planet: The United States: Rogue State.
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014. The United States: Rogue State. There's pretty much no other way to read the details of the CIA's torture program. If the United States does not investigate these crimes and punish those reponsible it will be little better than Sudan, Syria, Iran, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, and other countries where human rights are regarded by those in power as having little consequence, except that we may at least hope that the torture program is no longer operational.
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fear of a red planet: UK Visas & Immigration on Ai Wei Wei: Embarassing, stupid, and wrong
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Thursday, 30 July 2015. UK Visas and Immigration on Ai Wei Wei: Embarassing, stupid, and wrong. It is therefore with intense embarrassment and not a small measure of anger that I read of the UK Foreign Office's decision to limit Ai Weiwei's visa to the UK for the preposterous reason that he has a criminal records undeclared on his visa application form by a certain A. Cramer, entry clearance manager at the UK's Beijing embassy. UPDATE: The decision has thankfully been reversed. Posted by Gilman Grundy.
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fear of a red planet: In Hong Kong: a bizarre end to Beijing's electoral reform program
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Thursday, 18 June 2015. In Hong Kong: a bizarre end to Beijing's electoral reform program. Was almost tailor-made to be rejected by Hong Kong's pro-Democracy camp. The end result is that just enough votes were cast ( 36. Casting a vote for the package would hardly have been a stretch. Whatever ignominy might be involved in voting for a defeated package, it can hardly be as bad as turning up and then refusing to vote for the package that you supposedly support. And despite the claim of some pro-Beijing po...
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fear of a red planet: July 2015
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Thursday, 30 July 2015. UK Visas and Immigration on Ai Wei Wei: Embarassing, stupid, and wrong. It is therefore with intense embarrassment and not a small measure of anger that I read of the UK Foreign Office's decision to limit Ai Weiwei's visa to the UK for the preposterous reason that he has a criminal records undeclared on his visa application form by a certain A. Cramer, entry clearance manager at the UK's Beijing embassy. UPDATE: The decision has thankfully been reversed. Posted by Gilman Grundy.
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fear of a red planet: Douche, Interrupted
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Saturday, 20 June 2015. If you haven't already, please go and read this masterful take-down by Alec Ash of yet another China expat memoir expounding the same lazy tropes as every other self-published expat memoir does. Over at Beijing Cream. I'm not even going to mention the title of the book, since it is somewhat incredibad, but here's the money quote from the review:. Hey – can I buy you a drink? 8221; Her reply is “. OK First, toilet”. And I know how she feels. Go read the whole thing. The capital in ...
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fear of a red planet: "Ambiguous warfare" in Manchuria and the Ukraine.
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Monday, 25 May 2015. Ambiguous warfare" in Manchuria and the Ukraine. An ambiguous situation created by the presence of locally-based troops. Japanese troops were already based in Manchuria to supposedly defend their railway there, a situation that made it not immediately clear that an invasion was in fact underway. In the Crimea, Russian soldiers were already present due to their basing rights in the peninsula. The parallels to Russian propaganda outlet RT. And CCTV 9) hardly need be pointed out. May be...
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fear of a red planet: As seen in Havana
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Saturday, 7 February 2015. As seen in Havana. Posted by Gilman Grundy. Where in Havana was that? At the entrance to the Granma. 8 February 2015 at 02:48. A hipster-ish cafe/hostel near the docks. Nah, I kind of doubt that Granma was bothered too much to protest in defence of free speech! 8 February 2015 at 02:51. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). As seen in Havana. Accumulating Peripherals (decent reportage from Vietnam). Balding's World (good China economics analysis). Killing Time On Sport.
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