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Maximus Cúchulainn

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China working a week of Sundays in 2013- I do not miss BJ's zany decisionmakers: RT @taniabranigan @beijingcream beijingcream.com/2012/12/heres-…


Willful ignorance of facts part 2 - Parallels b/t Rubio and Maoist visit to N Korea RT @NYTimeskrugman Grand Old Planet nyti.ms/T8FOGv


Willful ignorance of facts RT @goldkorn: Economist piece on Chinese Maoists on vacation in North Korea econ.st/SZnfnZ


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Crystal Ball Prediction: When ALL popular votes are tallied (will take days), Obama will win popular vote.


The @lifehacker site is down due to hurricane #sandy - serious stuff! First real impact I've felt in S'pore.


Just saw bus ad for "Angry Birds Eyewear" in S'pore. If it were 中国 I'd reckon it highly creative piracy, but seems to be legit licensing.


Singapore Mega-Church Faithful Invest in Malls - materialistic sheeple, a global epidemic. bloom.bg/NLQjfX


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Reuters Runs Interference for Elite Corruption, Scrubs Article That Shows How Banks Get Out of Jail Free: Marcy ... bit.ly/Rsz8EF


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Hu Jintao walks like a character from South Park. He moves front and side-to-side, but his head never moves.


Another Global Times gem: "dark-skinned foreigners" robbing Foshan taxis"tall and masculine compared to local Chinese" globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/…


V. interesting discussion on perception and brain disorders on Charlie Rose at the moment. Reminds me of Plato's cave.


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Most Chinese believe officials: it's fog not smog. State so effective it can tell folks night is day and day is night, and doth not protest.


Stumbled on a great old article on Swedish corruption, hypocrisy and telling people what they want to hear to get ahead guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug…


Well worth reading: @isaacstonefish article on Christian missionaries operating inside North Korea, for Foreign Policy: goo.gl/GbNaF


CN's ancient myth of a righteous central gov @Bendilaowai: All #Wukan ppl …Want cntrl gov 2 intervene, trust the communist party…


Huntsman's speech that youth will "take China down" was dumb- didn't differentiate b/t "China" and the CCP. Make that switch & he's dead on.


Nice one Wall Street. Surely the US 人肉搜索 will swing into action? theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/…


Movember: a great idea & surprising success. S/t I notice- 'taches aren't as impressive as those in photos of yore, e.g. US Civil War era.


Finally figured out how to collapse "What's hot" on Google+. That was really annoying. Need to delete it completely. Sergey Brin, listening?


They need to add "unfettered." @chinahearsay: Forbes: U.N. Declares Broadband Access A Basic Human Right forbes.com/sites/randalll… Absolutely


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