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2016-03-19 18:53
May all beings be happy,May all beings be peaceful,May all beings be harmonious,May all beings be liberated,May all beings be filled with compassion,May all beings be filled with loving-kind… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Woke up this morning to this song on the radio.There's no better way to bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the new.May there be peace on earth. Morgen zal het vrede zijn(Marco Bo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
First, after numerous concessions, and turning a blind-eye to economic and social woes of the two new members of the European Union, Bulgaria and Romania were allowed to (limp) in. And now… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
Here's a paper I'm pretty proud of having written for one of my courses at uni.Basic argument is that international law, in the past and today, is largely, whether consciously or not, a Euro… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
If you’re a white you’re an expat. Every other foreigner is an allochthon.[1] This differentiation (or perhaps a better word is segregation) is even entrenched in the officia… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
Love him or hate him, President Chen Shui-bian does have a few things to say:about the 988 Chinese missiles pointed at Taiwan... about the recent embezzlement scandals... and about the denia… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
Six foreign activists unfurled a banner on the Great Wall of China today. Scribbled on it was the official slogan of the 2008 Beijing Olympics: “One world, one dream”. Celebratin… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
No, no surprise. But as the new Human Rights Watch 2007 Report on China says: Authorities greeted rising social unrest—marked at times by violent confrontation between protesters a… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
...the Burqini.Yes, now fully veiled Muslim women no longer have to shy away from the beach and taking part in water-sports, because an Australia-based company developed a line of swimwear… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
Worrying news carried by several international media that China has the ability to shoot down objects in space. This means the country has the potential to shoot to spy or other communicatio… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
"I watched Bush's speech with some people who thought it would be a good idea to take a sip of liquor every time he told a lie. Three days later my head is aching.”David Swanson Mr… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
America’s foreign policy elite increasingly came to perceive the US as a Gulliver tied down and oppressed by political midgets, with their laws of nations, treaties, and multilateral… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
The Netherlands was chastised by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today for violating the prohibition on torture. The Court decided in the case of Somali asylum seeker Sala… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
After almost five years of idleness, the International Criminal Court is about to proceed with its first ever case.The Pre-Trial Chamber today confirmed charges against Thomas Lubanga, who i… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
A conference of African leaders in Beijing late last year confirmed China’s ‘clout’ on the continent, whereas the Chinese president Hu Jintao is once again on a whirlwind… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
Ban Ki-Moon was in The Hague today, the first time in his official capacity as the new UN secretary-general. He met with the Queen, Prime Minister Balkenende, and visited the ICC, ICJ and IC… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
You’d think this kind of thing couldn’t possibly happen today, but three couples refused to get married in a Belgian municipality because the alderman for civic affairs is&hell&hellip…Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
It took over ten weeks, but it appears that the two biggest parties of the last parliamentarian elections, and a smaller fringe party, are about to close the deal on a new cabinet. Ther… Read More
2008-12-13 00:32
Six months ago, he said that those Muslims who want to stay in the country must “rip out and throw away half of the Quran ”. Today, in an opinion piece in a Dutch newspaper, he w… Read More
2007-08-08 19:56
I've not written about politics for a while, partly because I've had so much other things to do, but this is one issue that really gets to me.It may be boring, but this is something I'm been… Read More
2007-02-15 13:38
Just read that a Taiwanese student producer just won the Silver Bear price at the Berlinale International Film Festival!The short film is called "Mei", by Arvin Chen who produced the movie a… Read More
2007-01-30 15:29
Has to be one of the greatest satires I’ve seen in a long time Read More
2007-01-08 20:37
Just got this petition from a friend. An eighteen year old Iranian girl faces the death sentence for unintentionally stabbing to death one of three men who tried to rape her and her niece.Ur… Read More
2007-01-02 00:28
The annual New Year’s firework display at Taipei 101! I was there last year, and it’s pretty amazing to see it live! (scroll down to the bottom of the page!) Read More
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