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I don’t usually repost from other sources, but this one (because of the Mandela reference) caught my attention. Nurul Izzah: Chinese nationals’ experience in immigration lockup inhumane

Posted on 26 June 2022 by ilagardien

Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar said while prisons and detention centres were meant to restrict freedom of movement, it was not meant to be a place of torture and abuse. “No detained individual, regardless of nationality or background, should be subject to such harrowing conditions,” she told Malaysiakini…. “Such conditions are violations of basic human…

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You can find me here again, soon

Posted on 21 June 202226 June 2022 by ilagardien
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Tik Tok…

Posted on 21 June 2022 by ilagardien

As the day of my departure approaches, I am still waiting for the final bureaucratic things to fall into place. All that I know, for sure, is that I have a flight to Western Asia on 6 July, but that I still have not received my passport back from an embassy. I would, normally, not…

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There’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

Posted on 8 June 20228 June 2022 by ilagardien

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. – George Simmel If you cut your change you free yourself. If you cut your…

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RSS Financial Times

  • UK Power Networks: inflation prompts bout of vendor remorse from Hong Kong investor
  • To catch a rare-book thief
  • Courts backlog worsens as junior barristers quit over pay
  • Kellogg’s loses UK legal challenge over new government sugar rules
  • Uniper: the pain from Germany’s gas crisis will be widely shared

RSS Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

  • China’s household incomes and inequality in the Year I of covid
     There has been an enormous talk of the new inequalities wrought by covid-19 between and within countries: in mortality and morbidity, vaccination rates, style of life (those who had to show up physically at work vs those who could stay at home), unemployment rates, gender, age etc. But it is only now that actual information […]
  • A short essay on the differences between Marx and Keynes
     This short piece is stimulated by my recent reading of the French translation of Joan Robinson’s 1942 Essay on Marxian Economics published together with several additional texts on Marx, Marshall and Keynes written by Robinson over the years. (The translation and preface by Ulysse Lojkine.) It was also stimulated by a very nice review of […]
  • What if Putin’s true goals are different?
     By any standard indicator that measures the achievements by the extent to which the stated objectives have been realized, Russia’s war against Ukraine has been a failure. Ukraine is much more militarized than ever; it is probably one of the most militarized countries in the world right now; Russia’s security has markedly deteriorated; NATO has […]
  • From dilettantism to war: a review of Andrei Kozyrev’s political memoir
     Russia is remarkably ill-starred by having had very incompetent leaders. They have done the opposite of what they intended to accomplish. Brezhnev planned to introduce a degree of predictability in domestic and foreign policy; he presided over a long period of technological decline of the Soviet economy.  Gorbachev wanted to create a democratic federation; he […]
  • The many in one: A review of Amartya Sen’s “Home in the world: A memoir”
    No contemporary famous economist has as broad interests and knowledge, nor as diverse life experience as Amartya Sen. It is not surprising that many have been looking forward to reading the first volume of his memoirs. It covers the period from his birth in 1933 to the beginnings of his academic career in the United […]

RSS BBC World News

  • Copenhagen shooting: Gunman charged in court with murder
  • Ukraine war: What is Putin's plan now Luhansk has fallen?
  • EasyJet executive quits after major flight disruption
  • Marmolada glacier collapse in Italy kills seven
  • Copenhagen shooting: Harry Styles fans praise Danish police for attack response

RSS Channelnews Asia

  • Russia hails capture of Luhansk region, but big Ukraine battles lie ahead
  • S Korea's FX reserves fall in June by most since late 2008
  • Oh mother, Tomljanovic downs Cornet in rollercoaster
  • Nadal swats away Dutchman Van de Zandschulp to march into quarters
  • Al Jazeera reporter likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, US says

RSS Singapore Straits Times

  • Updated Covid-19 shots are coming. Will they be too late?
  • Gunman behind Copenhagen shooting to be kept in custody for 24 days: Police
  • Spain seizes first underwater drug smuggling drones
  • Wildfire rages north of Athens, 1 town evacuated
  • Brussels Airlines to cancel around 700 flights over summer holiday
  • Harry Styles devastated over Denmark shooting, cancels concert
  • Ukrainians take up new positions as Putin proclaims victory in Luhansk
  • Washington Report Podcast: Most Americans do not want Biden to run for presidential re-election
  • Pope Francis denies he is planning to resign soon
  • 18 dead in Uzbekistan unrest last week: Prosecutor

RSS Business Times

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RSS The Economist

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RSS Malay Mail

  • Cuepacs: Four-day working week proposal not suitable for now 
  • Higher Education Ministry gives six-month rent moratorium to campus food operators at IPTAs
  • Economists: Govt’s move to maintain electricity tariff shields consumers in Malaysia from direct impact of rising prices

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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

Verona

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