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Betting against ChinaI find this horribly convincing: Chang argues that inconsistencies in Chinese official statistics - like the surging numbers for car sales but flat statistics for gasoline consumption - indicate that the Chinese are simply cooking their books. He speculates that Chinese state-run companies are bu... |
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1989 and the 'end' of CommunismHistory is an interesting thing, often said to be "written by the winners"... but is it? Certainly in much of Eastern Europe, the end of Communism did not neccisarily means the end of communists. James Mark is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Exeter and he has written a... |
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The panopticon state approaching at breakneck speedThis comes as no surprise whatsoever... All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer's personal communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which websites they are visiting. Despite widespread opposi... |
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More reflections on the end of the Soviet empireDavid Thompson - a blogger who seems to find some superb photos for his site, by the way - has a nice roundup connected to the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, about which Perry de Havilland has already had some thoughts. As a reminder, here is a film I mentioned some time ago, based i... |
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All your images belong to usThe latest power grab by what the news simply calls 'the experts' is photoshopped images. Calling for advertising rules to be changed to restrict the use of airbrushed images, the group of 44 academics doctors and psychologists say that the pictures promote unrealistic expectati... |
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Oh noez, the Berlin Wall has fallen!There is a very revealing article in the Guardian (natch) called 'East Germans lost much in 1989'. The 'money quote' (in GDR Marks of course) is: On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a y... |
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