Author Loretta Napoleoni has kindly written this guest post for Madam Miaow who requested that she draw pictures to explain what all the fuss is with the US demanding that China revalues its currency. It could alternatively be titled “Economics for Dummies” but here it is made easy (easier/easyish). Many thanks, Loretta. BTW, 1 Chinese […]
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This is the future if the Tea Party and their UK equivalents get their own way. Shocking and barking mad. Hat tip to Claire M Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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O-SPAN Classic: CIA Accidentally Overthrows Costa Rica American foreign policy in its full glory. (Follows a short trailer.) More brilliant stuff from The Onion. Hat tip John Booth via The Lobster. To rewatch it you have to either reload this page or click through to The Onion site — sorry, it’s their strange set-up. Madam
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So, Miliband Minor gets the job. No surprises there considering he’s been falling over himself to prove that he’s as much in the US’s pockets as Tony Blair was. The whole filial conflict in the Labour Party leadership contest has been one big pantomime to me with Ed rebranding himself as a lefty to mop
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Here’s an interesting poem sent to me from Australia. It reflects how Chinese are feeling about the current climate of anti-Chinese sentiment being expressed in some quarters which is sometimes like something out of the 19th Century. AN AWAKENING MESSAGE A Poem by D L LinPublished by the Washington Post April 2008 When we were
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Great video doing the rounds that sums up industry ineptitude over the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. OK, laughs over. Steel yourselves for this, for what it’s worth: “Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico Sea Floor Fractured Beyond Repair“ A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for Prime Minister Putin by
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