Monthly Archives: August 2008

Beijing City of No

August 5, 2008 – 1:37 pm

No dog-eating. No messy streets. No Internet access. No cars. No spitting. No Chinese. Beijing has spent billions to show Western visitors to the Olympics a China without Chinese and without fun. No pirated DVDs, no beggars, no street artists, no loiters. Lots of police and auxiliary security guards to insure Beijing remains a city […]

By Peter | Posted in Asia, Liberty, Sports | Comments (0)

Anti-Crack Island Thailand

August 5, 2008 – 1:24 pm

Fed up with the traffic of contraband drugs into the Thai prisons, correction authorities are exiling a 1000 of the country’s most serious drug offenders to a high-tech facility designed to eliminate the smuggling of narcotics. The location of the prison will be in Nakhon Ratchasima province. Mobile phones will be useless inside the cell […]

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Solzhenitsyn RIP

August 4, 2008 – 7:46 pm

Solzhenitsyn’s A DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH introduced the Soviet gulag to the world. Stalin had been dead 7 years. if Koba had been alive, neither the book nor the author would exist today. Luckily Beria killed his stricken boss and the great writer was exiled to Vermont with his 2nd wife and her 11 year-old […]

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Barack-Paris Connection 2005

August 4, 2008 – 6:28 pm

McCain might have taken the low road with his comparison of Barack Obama to Paris Hilton. Personally I’d rather go out to a basketball game with Barack and head home with Paris, but the Illinois senator beat the septuagenarian’s reference to the fashion femme fatale by 3 years. www.newscaster.com brought this 2005 quote to the attention […]

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Bangkok Diamond Hoax Redux

August 4, 2008 – 2:01 pm

Last week Bangkok Post reported the theft of a 2,100-carat diamond worth 315 million. The theft was committed by a middle-aged man who escaped on a motorcycle. Don Muang police responded to the robbery reports and questioned the supposed owner, a 71 year-old Chanthaburi native, who claimed to have purchase the stone from a friend […]

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