I don’t think this is ‘getting shot from both sides’ material, I think this is a question of post, and pull up a chair (or per llogar-hi cadires as we say in Catalan). When the loony right meets the looney left. Robertson vs Chavez. I don’t even need to write a post, since Tim Worstall [...]

For more direct information on the Bangladesh bombings you can visit the Bangladeshi blog The 3rd world view. (hat tip to Sargasso)
BTW, remember last year’s bombings in Bangladesh. Haven’t had time yet to delve deeper into this, hence this small linkdump.

A while back I asked about EU policies toward China. There’s now a section on the Europa server devoted to just that question.
“There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay than on the continent of Australia. … Bombay is the future of urban civilisation on the planet. God help us.” (p. [...]

Well actually it’s called ?Treasure Hunting Ship;? in Chinese, the CNOOC bid for Unocal. Read some intersting discussion and analysis here.

At age 76, in the Philippines.

“People are concerned. They would rather it was happening on an aircraft carrier stuck in the middle of the Atlantic than in Auchterarder”
Peter Everett, Chairman of the Community Council, Auchterarder, Scotland on the up-coming G8 meet.
“The rapid rise of China as a trading economy is unprecedented, but inevitable due to its size.”
Morgan Stanley Economist Andy [...]

This decision is long overdue. That doesn’t make it any less welcome.
Argentina’s Supreme Court overturned two amnesty laws Tuesday that had prevented the prosecution of hundreds of military officers, soldiers and police linked to this country’s “dirty war,” in which tens of thousands of people may have been slain.
The ruling allows the reinstatement of hundreds [...]

Give me one real live anarchist over a bunch of yipping libertarians any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
And so it was that the nation’s most militant labor organization, the brotherhood of Big Bill Haywood and Joe Hill, came to publish the lyrics of “Run, Cthulhu, Run,” a Lovecraftian parody of the bluegrass [...]

Well, this isn’t the end of Africa’s suffering, but it is a start.
“British Finance Minister Gordon Brown said the deal would provide 100 percent write-offs immediately for 18 countries and that more countries would qualify for relief later.” The debt deal is very good news for people in the 18 countries that will immediately benefit,” [...]

His name is Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze, he has been a judge in the supreme court, and he appears, at this stage at least, as an interim, compromise candidate:
The action came after lawmakers gathered following a day of demonstrations and under a warning by the military of possible intervention if the spreading chaos isn’t quelled.
Congress rapidly [...]