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From the land of the credible, but extremely bizarre, a lawsuit in Hawaii by two scientists contends that a project in Europe could potentially create a black hole that would eat the earth. This isn’t as crackpot as it sounds as the international project has an eight billion dollar budget, and the story appeared in [...]

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If you want to realize just how scary the neocons are, then you might want to check out John Bolton’s piece in the LA Times in which he argues that the way to ensure peace in East Asia is for the US to recognize Taiwan diplomatically. He seems to think this would be the [...]

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Considering the fact that virtually everyone under 35 that I meet in China is working in PR, you would think the government would be able to run a halfway decent campaign. And yet this T1bet situation has shown the stunning misconceptions that the country has about what will create good press coverage.
As I’ve mentioned before, [...]

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They can block all of the websites that they want, but anyone smart enough to find my site can find this article, or this one, or this one. The best disinfectant is always light.
Here is the sad truth:

Government handlers shouted for the journalists to leave and tried to pull them away during the 15-minute protest [...]

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It is great political fodder to talk about the horrors of outsourcing, and indeed it can be a major problem when there are no corresponding training programs to give workers skills they need to be competitive when their jobs go elsewhere. On the other hand, sometimes outsourcing part of the production line makes it possible [...]

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I once heard someone ask a Bush apologist if George W. was not the worst president ever, who was worse. The answer, after several moments of thought, came back Rutherford B. Hayes (it may have been someone else from the same era). The fact that someone who voted for Mr. Bush twice would have such [...]

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YouTube is unblocked. This clip is old but it brings a smile to my face and sums up my sentiments beautifully:

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Something strange happened in the last week: the Chinese media/government propaganda machine began heavily covering “Tebet” (certain places and people will be spelled creatively). For the first few days of the uprising the government tried to keep things as quiet as possible, blocking dozens of sites and forcing Western media out of the area. Yet [...]

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Not to scare anyone, but the State Department is warning Americans they could be watched by the government during the Beijing Olympics. You know, not in a warrantless-home-searches-in-the-middle-of-the-night kind of way, real intrusive stuff. They are advising Americans to be vigilant while in China. The report said:

All hotel rooms and offices are considered to be [...]

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In the long view, China has a tenuous claim claim, at best, to the region I will henceforth refer to as “TWC.” Yet, despite their shaky moral standing, it is possible, just possible, that Beijing responded appropriately this time around. However, their shutting down of the international media sealed the negative storyline that has [...]

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