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bantustans, bikinis and burkas
….Looking for an equal whites amendment… The general thesis here is probably correct as expounded by Doug Saunders.. But the devil is in the details. In genreal one can conclude that Islam is a religion of peace. Salafist kooks and … Continue reading
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Tagged bernard lewis, Bruce Bawer, Daniel Pipes, doug saunders globe and mail, Gustave Bauernfeind, Jacob Vigdor, Joseph Farquharson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Steyn, Niall Ferguson, oriana fallaci, Schreyer paintings German, shimon peres
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re-write the book: wait for the director’s cut
There is such a wide gap of perception regarding Islam and Muslims in general in the West that does not permit a reconciliation of views; each is sharply juxtaposed against a given context that does not permit a synthesis. At … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, bernard henri-levy, Charles Clement Boniface Ozdemir, Christopher Hitchens, doug saunders globe and mail, Jeremy Sidney, John Wayne, Mark Steyn, Niall Ferguson, Omid Djalili, Peter Sellers Award for Comedy, Robert Redeker, Samia Ghali, Stephane Gatignon
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boer’n again but not so free
A ruinous price of victory. The British victory over the Boers more closely resembled defeat. It was the war that broke the imperial spirit… From many parts of the world young men volunteered to fight with the Boers: Germans, Frenchmen, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphonse de Neuville, General Sir William Butler Boer War, Lloyd George The Boer War, Lord Kitchener Boer War, Louis Botha Boer War, Niall Ferguson, Paardeberg Boer War, Paul Kruger Boer War, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling The Boer War, The Boer War, Timothy Parsons author, Winston Churchill Boer War
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grease the wheels: gentlemen’s agreements
Return of the dance of the Seven Sisters. The seven occidental oil companies that control world supply, distribution and refining won’t likely arise again. But it is still oil that greases the wheel that makes the world spin. No matter … Continue reading
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bargaining: nice guys finish last
The silent language. The subtle ways in which people communicate by means other than words. … Throughout the Middle East bargaining is an underlying pattern which is significantly different from the activity which goes under that name in our culture. … Continue reading
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Tagged Asawan Dam fiasco America, Asma Assad, bashar assad, Franklin Roosevelt Saudi Arabia, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Guennadi Gatilov, Gul Cooperation Council GCC, Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger Syria, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Niall Ferguson, Niall Ferguson Syria, Romena Jewish neighborhood, Suez Crisis United States, Vladimir Putin Syria, Zhang Jian economist
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120 billion dollar bash
End of the Euro? It does seem that three is a crowd. And with the Euro, The American dollar and China as a nimble but nonetheless elephant in the room, it may be the Euro will slowly be dismembered and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alen Ginsberg, Angela Merkel, European Growth Pact, European Stability Mechanism ESM, francois hollande, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Larry Rivers, Marcel Duchamp, mark blyth, Niall Ferguson, Simon Tilford, Tom Wassermann, watson institute
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reaction of the little angry men
This piece is quite good; from Wilhelm Reich, it also seems to capture the contradictions in his own character and the manner in which his own life was a tormented combination of forces he did not necessarily understand. After all, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Madoff, Cen Wenling, China Cultural Revolution, Chinese artist Chen Wenling, Franz Kafka, General Douglas MacArthur, Hannah Arendt, Korean War, Li Yuan, Mao Zedong, Niall Ferguson, SINO-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Slavoj Zizek China, Wilhelm Reich
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dragons and dungeons
A clash of civilizations? Certainly an odd juxtaposition; the people of the book, the covenant on Mt. Sinai with the people outside the pale of settlement with any monotheistic religion. But, on a social and cultural level, China is a country … Continue reading
get rich quick : bubbles in biloxi
He was brilliant. But he was something of a scoundrel. Some of the ideas were there that bore resemblance to John Maynard Keynes. Some of the ideas were there that resembled the classic stock swindle and Ponzi scheme, mortgage backed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Madoff, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Law, John Law Mississippi Bubble, John Maynard Keynes, Lady Catherine Senor, Lord Banbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montesquieu, Niall Ferguson, Philippe d'Orleans, Voltaire, William Hogarth
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