What's Happening in the World?
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Sep 3, 2011 at 5:01am
Today I was so preoccupied with reflecting upon Margaret Thatcher's legacy that for the first time in quite some time, I didn't check the news at all. In fact, I lost track of time.
It's a nice feeling, actually. Tell me, should I check? Do I have to? Is there anything I urgently need to know?
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Jul '10
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Texas A&M is leaving the Big 12
Aug '10
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As the old joke goes, Missiles launches detected from Soviet soil, America responds. News at 11. You're on the right track. Relax.
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I felt it was my obligation as a professional editor of Ricochet at least to have a look at the news. There did not seem to be any immediate reason to duck and cover, so after five minutes I decided I'd done my job.
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I should not have clicked on this link. Don't click on it, it will depress you.
Aug '10
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Not depressed by the link, but by the atrocious editing - terrible. Loved the second comment there, especially,
"I have been trying to debate with my friends the pain capitalism has brouht (sic) onto us as humans, but as you might well know its quite difficult to debate against capitalists. The perspective with which you've written your article enriches my debate."
You know what makes me sad - They do! I think the 100 million dead due to the quest to achieve socialist nirvana or the additional 100 million from the environmental movement (the DDT ban alone) gives the good Prof far more to answer for than worrying about whether or not Johannesburg has enough water.
Jul '10
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The successors to Journ-o-List have settled on a meme: Governor Perry is dumb and pays too much money for rent. Next up: he keeps a Confederate flag in his top dresser drawer.
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I learned from Ricochet members about this Solyndra business. It sounds so Third-World.
Nov '10
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Didn't the Israeli ambassador just get kicked out of Turkey? Not the day to take a break from the news, Claire.
May '10
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Hmm:
And that's the way it is.
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That was yesterday's news, and frankly, it's not huge news by the standards of this region.
Nov '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
That was yesterday's news, and frankly, it's not huge news by the standards of this region. · Sep 3 at 6:04am
Crikey.
Apr '11
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1) Some 250,000 diplomatic dispatches from the US State Department have accidentally been made completely public. The files include the names of informants who now must fear for their lives. It is the result of a series of blunders by WikiLeaks and its supporters.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783778,00.html
2) "A large storm system churning in the Gulf Of Mexico grew Friday into Tropical Storm Lee, beginning a Labor Day weekend-long assault that could bring up to 20 inches of rain in some spots from Louisiana"... including New Orleans.
3) Global Recession, Right Here, Right Now: Japan's Capital Spending Plummets; Eurozone PMI, UK PMI, US ISM ex-Inventory, China Exports in Contraction
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/09/global-recession-right-here-right-now.html
4) Iran is moving its most sensitive nuclear-fuel production to a heavily defended underground military facility outside the holy city of Qum
http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-02/news/30106449_1_fuel-swap-centrifuges-bomb-grade-fuel
5) Charting Two Centuries Of Business Booms And Depressions: From 1775 To 1944
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/bb/issue/5069/download/85250/1943chart_busibooms.pdf
Oct '10
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"...I didn't check the news at all. In fact, I lost track of time. It's a nice feeling, actually. Tell me, should I check? Do I have to? Is there anything I urgently need to know?..."
Takes me back a few decades to The Kingston Trio:
They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls....
Jun '10
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"Culture continues its descent." Specific facts not relevant.
Apr '11
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I'm really enjoying your book on Thatcher. We could use someone of her caliber. All countries could.
Belarus is one that needs some monetarism, right now.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/belarus-hyperinflation-update-food-runs-out-friendly-foreigners-take-advantage-favorable-exchan
Edited on Sep 3, 2011 at 8:46amNov '10
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Well, that article is just another in the endless stream of "my life is terrible and it's all someone else's fault". But I took heart in this article (from the NYT! from Steven Pinker!) acknowledging that there even is such a thing as self control.Perhaps just a baby step, perhaps the start of something more important? Could even more awkward notions - like individual responsibility and self-reliance - be just over over the New York horizon?
(Ok, it's from yesterday, but time moves slowly up here, and the only time the NYT is worth reading is when it's already been filtered - in this case by Arts and Letters Daily)
Aug '10
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On Hot Air: POTUS who "opposes regulatory burden" about to create emergency condition in Texas.
Nov '10
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Claire, I'm just curious: Is there any particular reason you were reflecting on Thatcher today? I adore the woman. BTW I read your book twice (so far).
Nov '10
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Surprised no one mentioned that the Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza
Certainly not good news.
Jul '10
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Earlg: Surprised no one mentioned that the Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza
Certainly not good news.
That was March's saber rattling. When they follow through the Turks will be revealed to a coming American administration, and certainly the American people, as an unrepentant terror monger. Should Turkey leave NATO, or the United States?