moderntime.livejournal.com
oh! the drama! - so much modern time
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So much modern time. A child of marx and coca-cola. Oct 11th, 2012 at 5:06 PM. Top of the journal.]. This is the journal of an overeducated, indie, totally pretentious, snarky, Hong Kong-born, Los Angeles-raised ex-New Yorker masquerading as a bright young thing working in Beijing, China. Cry with our heroine as she discovers the deadly subway squish! Cheer as our heroine triumphs against deadly mosquito infestations, water and power outages, truly awful squat toilets, and crazy taxis! I also write the.
israel-arab.livejournal.com
A History of Violence: israel_arab
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A History of Violence. It’s very important to make the distinction between terror groups and freedom fighters, and between terror action and legitimate military action." So said the former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, at a commemoration last week of the sixtieth anniversary. So when Israel insists that it has a long-standing 'problem' with terrorism, it has a very good point. Make sure no one sleeps at night in Gaza". On salon.com Sandy Tolan. The attacks on Lebanon:. Unfortunately, unli...
400words.wordpress.com
The tyranny of structurelessness | 400 words
https://400words.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/the-tyranny-of-structurelessness
039;In the struggle between you and the world, back the world' – Franz Kafka. The tyranny of structurelessness. Leave a comment ». As Jo Freeman detailed in the classic essay. From the last few days make this clear beautifully. As Richard Seymour also points out, the fetishisation of the power of headless decentred networked movements to overcome the ‘old centralised, top-down, upright, phallic feudal army without contradiction’ ignores the fact that power itself is diffuse, distributed, with...The best ...
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Why I won’t be voting Labour anytime soon | 400 words
https://400words.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/why-i-wont-be-voting-labour-anytime-soon
039;In the struggle between you and the world, back the world' – Franz Kafka. Why I won’t be voting Labour anytime soon. I fear that anyone following my twitter feed this morning may well have inadvertently got the impression that I don’t like Jack Straw. Just to correct that most unfortunate impression, then: I f*cking absolutely detest Jack f*cking Straw. This is the man who sacked (and nearly drove to an early grave) Craig Murray. Could bring himself to make a statement distancing himself from his rac...
china-expats.livejournal.com
Expatriates in China
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Where the laowai are. A community for expatriates in the Middle Kingdom. Please read the userinfo page before you post. Thanks! Piercing parlor in Beijing. What should I do in Beijing? Preparing for a trip to China. I Heart Beijing, Do You? Apple stores in beijing? Traveling outside of china. I am going to be in Beijing for a bit next January and I was wondering if you would mind answering some questions? 2 Do the streets have any english characters? 3 How much does a typical meal out cost? I'm intereste...
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Mystery Romanian Tory donor condemns plans to privatise blood service | 400 words
https://400words.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/mystery-romanian-tory-donor-condemns-plans-to-privatise-blood-service
039;In the struggle between you and the world, back the world' – Franz Kafka. Mystery Romanian Tory donor condemns plans to privatise blood service. Privatising the blood service is a frankly appalling idea. A leading contributor to the Conservative Party has condemned Government plans. To privatise the blood service. 8216;We know from all the evidence that fragmenting services, outsourcing and contracting out, damages that ethos and more importantly damages the smooth running of the service. Laquo; José...
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Changing the rules of the game | 400 words
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039;In the struggle between you and the world, back the world' – Franz Kafka. Changing the rules of the game. Leave a comment ». Over a million people under 25 are currently unemployed in the UK. These are young people brought up in an environment in which every part of their lives is determined by their ability to compete with each other and with people on the other side of the world. Do the recent student protests mean that they have come to reject this whole social model? January 8, 2011 at 6:10 pm.
foodtube.livejournal.com
Tasty Crispy Silkworm - Food Tube
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Tasty Crispy Silkworm - Food Tube. Nov 30th, 2006 09:53 pm. Appealing Chinese name - "tasty crispy silkworm". What it really is - deep fried silkworm pupae. Location - posh Beijing restaurant. This week I went to one of the best restaurants in town to try one of the most visually appealing things on the menu. Before I came to China I was unaware that silkworms were edible, let alone served at fancy restaurants like this one, but here they are. I don't have any problem with eating pupae, probably because ...
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José Saramago’s ‘Seeing’ and the Middle East revolutions | 400 words
https://400words.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/jose-saramagos-seeing-and-the-middle-east-revolutions
039;In the struggle between you and the world, back the world' – Franz Kafka. José Saramago’s ‘Seeing’ and the Middle East revolutions. Leave a comment ». Reported that the same had happened in Cairo after the authorities had abandoned the city. In Saramago’s ‘Seeing’, the government leaves an unnamed city in an unnamed country to its own devices in response to a more gentle and mysterious kind of democratic revolution:. 8216;They could have staged a revolution, but then many people would undoubtedly hav...
