now that’s inscrutable

I wonder what real life is like in China, compared with the politically distorted dribbles the mainstream media give us

for example, why am I surprised that the “authorities” would approve this nightmarish exhibition of bloated bodies, snarling faces and deformed figures by Chinese sculptor Chen Wenling at the Asia Art Centre in Beijing?

do the Chinese have more freedom than our daily news tells us about?

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Blessed Be

lines in the sand

Nicaragua’s getting guns from Russia now

US threatens Russia

Russia likes Iran and North Korea, too

but it’s ready to take on Canada, Denmark, the US and Norway over who owns the north pole

on the other hand, W actually said no to Israel [wow! who’d’a thunk?]

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Blessed Be

sexist men make more (money)

and the point is?

btw, it works out to $666 CDN [isn’t that appropriate?]

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Blessed Be

Gore incites civil disobedience

Mr. Global Warming got enthusiastic applause when he told the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting that climate-change deniers are guilty of “a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact"

Gore said “it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture …”

I wonder what the average An Inconvenient Truth fan will wear to the barricades?

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Blessed Be

Cold War update

further to my September 11 post, Agence France-Presse’s Moscow bureau says Russian warships with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles have set sail for joint military exercises this winter off Venezuela

meanwhile, Bolivian President Evo Morales says the United States is facilitating the coup d'etat by right-wing regional governors in his country

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Blessed Be