Tuesday, May 17

"Jim Rogers is over there sipping tea at Cafe Pushkin"

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The quote is from Max Keiser's riff on Bloomberg's  Russia Should Foment a Bond Market Revolution . No wonder the State Department ...
Monday, May 16

The worst part of the Ben Rhodes Affair: Metadata analytics meld with propaganda

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So much has been written about the Ben Rhodes Affair since the news broke May 5 that an entire genre has sprung up, in which opinion writers...
Sunday, May 15

In India, Facebook showed its true face

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The following passages are pulled from Rahul Bhatia's in-depth report for the Guardian, The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback ...
Saturday, May 14

Oh no, one of my supports is leaving his post at Twitter

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Crikey; just last week I mentioned to readers that Leith Fadel's feisty, often hilarious remarks at his Twitter page were helping keep ...

Erdogan's slam on Europeans is almost dead-on accurate

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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Erdogan: West more concerned about "animal & gay rights than plight of 23mn Syrians"...
Tuesday, May 10

4 people in the public eye keeping me sane during Obama regime's final months

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1. Souleymane "Jules" Faye singing Senegal . I don't know the specific meaning of the lyrics -- they're probably in Wolof...
Saturday, May 7

A Muslim mayor of London is the least of Britain's problems

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The Sovietization of the United Kingdom . This is almost beyond belief but it's actually happened in London. Well, Soviet-style collecti...

Apocalyptic mix: natural forces, human error, megapopulations, 1960s thinking

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"Poorly planned humanitarian responses can have unintended ill effects. Dumping aid into a country can drive its merchant class out of ...
Thursday, May 5

Is Turkey's political freefall masking a struggle for the country's soul?

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During the 18th century, the French began to colonize [Senegal]. Senegalese Muslims took a variety of responses to French colonization. Esp...