Tuesday, October 11

Bad news about H5N1 flu virus

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If you did not see Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, you might want to stop by the MSNBC website and read the transcript of Robert Bazell...

America's amazing new military: getting it right all around the world

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If you heard John Batchelor's Monday interview with Robert D. Kaplan, you'll get a good laugh from reading the skewed Eastern Estab...
Sunday, October 9

The end of ignorance

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Yesterday a grief-stricken man in Pakistan sorrowfully told a reporter, "I don't know why all these disasters are happening all aro...

What Dammam turned up about al Qaeda's plans for global conquest, and Saudi Arabia's psychic police force

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Those who pooh-poohed President Bush's October 6 words about the scope of the threat posed by Islamic terror organizations have not foll...
Friday, October 7

President Bush debates the terror masters: But why now?

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In the longest speech he has ever given, yesterday President George W. Bush made specific retorts to arguments that cite Islamic principles ...
Thursday, October 6

A few words in praise of incompetence and its arch enemies

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"Pundita: Regarding your "Force vs Power" essay: a very concise analysis. I'm sure that you have also considered one of t...
Wednesday, October 5

Force vs Power and Beijing's costly cyberwar

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"Pundita, regarding your post yesterday, it seems you think the Chinese leaders are still following Mao Zedong's dictum that "...
Tuesday, October 4

Yahoo! awarded Pundita's Neville Chamberlain Prize for 2005

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With so many appeasers in the running it was a tough choice, but Yahoo.com finally nosed ahead of the pack. With assistance from Yahoo's...
Monday, October 3

China Closes Web Site That Reported Taishi Village Standoff

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“It really was one of the last resources left to us -- one of the last bastions of justice and social conscience for academics and rights ac...

Europe by the numbers

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Eric T. Miller, one of Pundita's favorite WOMS,* reports in his latest column at Tom Brown's Bankstocks about two recent lectures g...
Sunday, October 2

China: Taishi and an echo of the Bridge on the River Kwai

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Pundita: Regarding your China by the numbers post. On the idea of "grass roots" or village democracy, there has just been an att...

China by the numbers

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A reader sent me a link to an essay that analyzes China's chance for democracy by taking an extensive look at China's changing demog...

Iran by the numbers

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Pundita discovered by following a link in Spengler's China essay (see previous post) that his demographics-based analysis of Iran is the...
Saturday, October 1

Mystery disease outbreak in Shenzhen: the Casablanca Factor and bolts of lightning out of the blue

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"Dear Pundita: [Re yesterday's post ] You wrote, "So, what type of disease presents with a symptom of a "dissolving"...
Friday, September 30

China's Ebola virus reports: finally, a break in the case

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On September 24, after more than a month of reasonably patient waiting (and with a little prodding) I met with success. An Epoch Times emplo...