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march 2006 a bit more detail a bit more detail assorted personal notations essays and other jottings archive for march 2006 brief note is this why have vladimir and estragon have given up on godot to go to the disco it might explain a lot about the world if they did and were trandsetters written by randy mcdonald march 31 2006 at 10 53 am posted in assorted link what s the enlightenment whatever it is madeleine bunting doesn t get it written by randy mcdonald march 29 2006 at 2 52 pm posted in assorted tagged with enlightenment brief note the end of saxony anhalt the most recent issue of the economist has an interesting article on jens bullerjahn a spd politician in the eastern german state of saxony anhalt who wants to wind up the existence of his young state in the context of pervasive economic decline and a depopulation that s going to reduce the state s population by a third over its 1990 levels of 2 9 million bullerjahn thinks that the only thing left to do is to merge saxony anhalt with the neighbouring states of saxony and thuringia thus forming a new state of middle germany merging federal units as a response to decline has been raised as a solution before in the former german democratic republic in relation to berlin and brandenburg in the 1990s i ve heard talk of this at home in relation to the whole concept of maritime union the merger of the three maritime provinces of canada new brunswick nova scotia and my native prince edward island into a single province it hasn t worked so far as such the charlottetown conference of 1864 came closest to realization but that because a conference on maritime union segued to everyone s surprise into a general discussion on the unification of what was then british north america the general consensus is that everyone s regional identities are too strong and the net benefits too sparse for maritime union ever to work do the same factors apply in east germany we ll see it s worth noting that eastern germany is in rather worse shape relative to the rest of germany than the maritimes are to canada will necessity require union in the german case written by randy mcdonald march 28 2006 at 2 57 pm posted in assorted tagged with east germany maritimes brief note whose fault is afghanistan abdul rahman the christian convert in afghanistan who was threatened with death for his conversion has been freed he s expected to seek and be given asylum in a foreign country since death threats continue to be made towards him this says rather bad things about the state of civil society and religious tolerance and the rule of law in afghanistan it s quite right to see this as proof that not very much has changed in afghanistan between the taliban era and the present official american rhetoric aside to no small extent i have to agree with noel who implicitly suggests that bush had no choice but to do what he did this is true to no small extent this is also begging the question if there s one individual anywhere on the earth who bears responsibility for the state that afghanistan finds itself in now it s him the american president is the man who ordered the retaliatory conquest of afghanistan back in 2001 after all and the man who has done the most thorough job of articulating an ideology of forced modernization in the muslim world via the conquest of hostile regimes why shouldn t he be held directly accountable that same responsibility is shared to some extent with all of the other citizens of all of the countries involved in afghanistan but he s a central figure the more that is said about an iraq that as springheel jack pointed out is nominally run by a government that isn t altogether sure if it s in fact running death squads or not the better i can only imagine what would happen to iranians in the case of war with the united states why the lies of omission sometimes i wonder how i d react if the bush administration was simply honest and admitted that it didn t care particularly about the fate of non americans written by randy mcdonald march 28 2006 at 2 51 pm posted in assorted tagged with afghanistan bush clash of ideologies brief note belarus events in belarus after that country s recent election can perhaps best be summarized by the financial times as bad in belarus the liberal opposition failed to make any inroad on the ruthless machine of alexander lukashenko the country s irascible and autocratic ruler his massive security machine employing an estimated one in 10 of the population ensured that the entire electoral process was heavily skewed in his favour even if it had not most observers reckon that the maverick dictator would have won the resultant crackdown has seen a sweeping series of arrests in response to protests in the capital city of minsk by members of the opposition here s hoping that the space they carve out today and in the days ahead will last and can be put to good use in the meantime check out belarusian blog br23 for the latest news written by randy mcdonald march 27 2006 at 11 59 pm posted in assorted urban note it s my party southbound on the dufferin bus reasonably late on a week end party night a more than presentable man 40 years old with the simple rectangular wooden head of a cane grasped in his hand on one side of the aisle an attractive woman in her late 20s wearing a skirt that ran just above her knees on the other he was talking to her politely and with smiles about a party at a place near me he named a boutique hotel with a name that s probably excruciatingly familiar to most of the torontonians reading this post and went on to talk about how his friend had managed to reserve the place she smiled back and talked with him non commitally but even so you can t come he said he s buying a round for everyone and he gave out tickets before so he wouldn t end up paying for everyone he got off shortly afterwards at my stop i didn t turn to look at the woman written by randy mcdonald march 27 2006 at 11 52 pm posted in assorted tagged with caught on the ttc toronto c22 france in the early 2160s the country is booming the pragmatic policies of the new coalition government a highly and increasingly popular government incidentally has ensured that gdp per capita has grown by a fifth in the past five years with so much more well spent money france has been gleefully going about doing things like building a prosperous titan colony accelerating the arcologisation of the french population and the designing new colonies on mars and in alpha centauri in association with its european allies it s very good indeed to be french now that the malaise of the past years has been shaken off yes fine it s true that the french economy has become so efficient that it doesn t have much money at all left for surplus spending the demiurge does say that france must either engage in cutbacks increase taxes or stop building grand projets historic experience suggests the french when presented with economic choices requiring something to be sacrificed are never happy me i m thinking lots more new arcologies and at least one more terraformed planet allons les enfants de la patrie written by randy mcdonald march 27 2006 at 11 30 pm posted in assorted tagged with century22pbem link one last v for vendetta note matociquala on why she likes the movie s v more than moore s written by randy mcdonald march 26 2006 at 8 34 pm posted in assorted tagged with links v for vendetta link critical imperatives of the french language in the francophone world people interested in the topics raised on saturday s post on the tensions within la francophonie between the french and everyone else would also be interested in kamal salhi s 2002 article in current issues in language planning 3 3 critical imperatives of the french language in the francophone world colonial legacy postcolonial policy salhi covers much the same ground but in much greater detail and with academic rigour to boot written by randy mcdonald march 26 2006 at 8 32 pm posted in assorted tagged with links brief note kyrgyzstan s travails one year after the revolution that drove out kyrgyzstan s president askar akaev news reports suggest that things are not going well for the landlocked central asian republic up to a tenth of kyrgyzstan s population of five million are migrant workers suplying funds for an impoverished kyrgyzstan that amount to half the state budget while a huge foreign debt that is now five times as large as that same state budget independence whether as a democratic state or not appears in kyrgyzstan s to be unable to reverse this country s position of dependency written by randy mcdonald march 26 2006 at 8 24 pm posted in assorted tagged with central asia former soviet union world system older entries pages about search search site archives blogroll 3 quarks daily 80 beats andrew moseman brett israel a budding sociologist s commonplace book dan hirschman a fistful of euros acts of minor treason andrew barton alpha sources 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