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New USA turns blind Chinese lawyer out of its Beijing Embassy
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-15657573185067784442012-05-02T20:13:00.004-04:002012-05-02T22:33:08.056-04:00PoliticsUSA: Diplomatic failure: USA turns China dissdent lawyer out of Beijing Embassy where he had fled for sanctuaryI got the info on this rapidly-developing story on today's evening news in Toronto. Here are 2 subsequent print dispatches from major news horses. All in all, I'm wondering what this toying with Chen by the USA and China has to do with the volatile political situation within the Communist hierarchy of China. I also wonder at the naïveté of Hilary Clinton, USA Secretary of StateAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-64572174972605962012-05-01T09:03:00.001-04:002012-05-01T09:24:02.267-04:00PoliticsFrance: 2nd round Prez elections: Polls say Sarkozy 47%, Hollande 53% toward final vote
PoliticsFrance: Prez vote 2nd round: Only way way for Sarkozy to win
Sarkozy 47%, vs Hollande 53%, says Le Monde, one of the great dailies in Paris, France.— Politicarp— below is reposted from The Economist's feature Élysée (May1,2k12)
Number-crunching
The only way for Sarkozy to win
Apr 30th 2012, 8:39 by S.P. | PARIS
SECOND-ROUND polls continue to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-74226235762935013712012-05-01T04:58:00.000-04:002012-05-01T07:26:58.439-04:00Juridics: Enviro/Pollution: India & Bulgaria casesI once helped philosopher Hendrik Hart with the formulation of the key phenomena of any economic activity taken as a whole, including operationally. I can't remember all the details, but it's in his book Understanding our world: An integral ontology (Lanham, Maryland USA: University Press of America / Institute for Christian Studies Toronto, 1984; 2002). What I didn't have was Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-75023846655140178202012-05-01T04:00:00.000-04:002012-05-01T04:31:28.446-04:00Juridics: AcademicsLawSchools: Affordable Care Act b4 USA Supreme Court challenges, in oral argumentsThe distinguished Randy Barnett posted this on Volokh Conspiracy (April 30) blog regarding the USA's Affordable Health Act insofar as structured in terms of "individual mandate" :
Academic Reaction to Oral Argument before the Supreme Court on the Affordable Car Act's challenge
My version of the headline, Lawt.
Burnett posted text below: 30 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT
I just read Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-67205282520547892592012-04-29T20:54:00.000-04:002012-04-30T01:25:17.766-04:00PoliticsMali: Transitional govt: Kidnapped Swiss Christian woman released in Timbuktu
Kidnapped Swiss Christian Freed Amid
Mali’s Unrest
Kidnapped Swiss Christian Freed Amid Mali’s Unrest
Rebels release Beatrice Stockly as country forms transitional government.
04/27/2012 Mali (CDN)-Separatist Islamist rebels released a Swiss Christian woman
kidnapped by a private militia on April 15 amid political turmoil in Timbuktu, Mali,
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New EconomicsJamaica: Hard Times on the tropical island
Yesterday New Québec page launched: First item: Separatism au Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-8898075499363709402012-04-26T21:23:00.001-04:002012-04-26T21:23:30.965-04:00EconomicsJamaica: Hard Times: Tropical island shoulders many problems, looks mostly to tourism
There's no reformational Christian movement in Jamaica, a country where one of the leading l+ts is the marxist intellectual C. L. R. James (now deceased), known and beloved wherever Caribbean-born scholars dwell. But most budding scholars leave the island and others in the Carribbean (Mr James maintained a home in Trinidad, sponsored by the Oil Fields Workers union Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-36872474002607918932012-04-23T23:40:00.000-04:002012-04-23T23:40:13.805-04:00PolitcsFrance: Prez Elections: Socialists win over Sarkozy's center/r+t in 1st round
France has conducted its Presidential election, resulting as usual in no absolute majority — so a second round is necessary between the two leading candidates emerging from the first round, all others struck from the ballot for the second round which will take place May 6.
France is on the precipice of possibly defaulting on its balance of payments from its national treasury and, on the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-14082673557253000682012-04-22T18:22:00.000-04:002012-04-22T18:28:50.471-04:00Updated: Table of Contents / Index (Apr22,2k12)
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Previous Romney Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-71837645149284004242012-04-22T18:19:00.000-04:002012-04-22T18:30:23.724-04:00Earth Day: Origins in Lenin: Evangelicals reject anomalies in scientific evidence on climate changeToday is Earth Day. See the comment by Politicarp in the refWrite Calendar for April. Scroll down to the blog entry for April 22, c+ting the newest empirical anomaly of more ice not less in areas of the Himalayas. Let's celebrate the day, whether Lenin is at its root or not. Let's celebrate even in face of the anomalous new evidence claimed. Let's not get Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-12241144024689626512012-04-22T11:40:00.001-04:002012-04-22T11:50:34.757-04:00PoliticsEgypt: Military junta: Disqualifies 3 leading Prez candidates and 7 more out of 23
Egypt's military junta has arrogated to itself the role of arbiter for acceptable candidacies to the office of the country's President, after the displacement of former dictator Hosni Mubarek. The Presidential election is scheduled for May 23-24.
An interesting development in the wake of the junta's action is the possiblity of a split between two potential candidates with Muslim Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-53528104298865144522012-04-02T09:31:00.000-04:002012-04-22T18:32:31.388-04:00EconomicsCanada/DRCongo: Mining Company: 8 year delay by Anvil Mining, Ltd to pay victims
I'm musing on this one r+t now. Hmmmmm. What do Congolese -- presumably of the Democratic Republic of Congo [not of Congo Republic (Brazzaville) — It proves later that my presumption was quite factually incorrect, as well, as you see I must reverse the order to "presumably of the Congo Republic (Brazzaville), not the DRCongo (Kinshasa)] — What do Congolese have Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-91928731756681084372012-03-04T07:13:00.000-05:002012-03-04T14:56:40.230-05:00March 4: Visitors from around the globe ... calendar notes ... today's index
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Law scholar Eugene Volokh documents the decision by which the Supreme Court of Nevada struck down the conviction of a Mr Rosales who tried to create an open season on law officers:
The State supported its criminal anarchy charge with evidence of graffiti sprayed on buildings throughout Reno[, Nevada]. This graffiti encouraged killing of police officers and violently attacking their families. ItAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-46294989001156440282012-03-01T20:47:00.001-05:002012-03-01T21:11:47.037-05:00JuridicsIsrael: New Prez Supreme Court: Activist Prez Dorit Beinisch retires, replacement Asher Gunis in past advocated judicial restraint
JERUSALEM (JTA) — It ordered the West Bank security fence rerouted because it cut through private Palestinian property.
It overturned state-backed discrimination against Arab Israelis on issues of land distribution and ruled against the Israel Defense Forces’ use of military methods deemed to cause “disproportionate” harm to Palestinian civilians. It overturned Israel’s ban against political Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-57447809999001261412012-02-26T00:09:00.000-05:002012-02-26T00:09:05.688-05:00PoliticsSyria: Minorities: T+m to abandon Assad and Baathist Party in order to negotiate and strike a deal with majority Sunnis
Syria’s civil war rages,
as Alawites press on
by Daniel Brodie 02/21/2012 23:01
Being an unprotected minority in the Mideast is often a painful reality which the Alawites, Druse, Christians and Kurds know all too well.
By Reuters
Syria’s military is escalating its offensive on the country’s Sunni rebels; however, the violence in Syria is not likely to end in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-86329461660486600252012-02-26T00:07:00.000-05:002012-02-26T00:07:26.566-05:00PhilippinesEconomics: Downturn: Increases migrant and transient poverty
Church:
Unemployment drives Pinoys' migration
Catholic bishops in the Philippines have taken notice of how joblessness drives many Filipinos "to look for jobs abroad."
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) issued the statement in the observance of National Migrants' Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-2238208463610015112012-02-25T09:03:00.001-05:002012-02-25T09:06:00.539-05:00EconomicsUK: Squibs from FT newsletters: Greek austerity, ,News squibs with URLs ("teasers," a form of advertizing) from a helpful variety of Financial Times (London UK) email newsletters. You can't beat FT for robust clear wr+ting that is quintessentially current, on the panoply of economics and business news. FT is a paid subscription online resource, it's emails are free and, well, squibby.
— EconoMix, refWrite Frontpage columnist for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-8454710897740844852012-02-23T01:22:00.001-05:002012-02-23T01:40:34.966-05:00PoliticsFrance: Presidential Campaigns: Frontrunners in marathon toward April 22 first roundThe President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is campaigning as tho his hair were afire. Despite his experience and t+m at the helm, his bid for a new term under the party banner of the UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire = Union for a Popular Movement, to which are allied a number of micro-parties). The votes will occur presumably in two rounds — the first on April 22, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8044807.post-21645545877841651152012-02-21T20:48:00.000-05:002012-02-22T23:36:15.675-05:00PoliticsRussia: Presidential candidate: Mikhail Prokhorov comes from new business elite
Russian Presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov left the gilded halls of extreme business success, a captain of industry he, to enter the fray of Russian electoral politics. From his success in the mining industry, Prokhorov, has diversified his portfolio (as Wall Street woud term it), bringing into his campaign regional bases where his enterprises have personnel and local clout, as Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16772525823462216671noreply@blogger.com0