the meat of the story is a bit grim, but this fact^^^ isn’t: “”Irony is the glory of slaves” is the quotation Seth likes. See also Nüshu, the same story from a very different angle
via jamie kenny, yr go-to source for the chinese underbelly
Tag: Blood & Treasure
the map dwarfs the territory
Vast Reuters info-diagram of China and how to understand it: not that I can actually get it to scroll down or anything
(courtesy jamie at blood and treasure, naturally)
“just” an “accident” mlud
The Ranter — who was there — makes the argument that the NHS demo’s encounter on Saturday with a carful of armed police was probably mischance, bad as it looked. Which may well be true, but, as this seriously terrifying comments thread reveals, the unintended can nevertheless easily become catastrophic.
(As the thread also reveals, weaving away from the thread-topic via the Olympics to the De Menezes shooting, the unplanned can sometimes be enormously valuable and clarifying. But this is not an excuse Sir Ian Blair can help himself to)