Day: November 16, 2011

News

Vladimir Putin Wins China’s Confucius Prize for Keeping World Peace.

China’s version of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Confucius Peace Prize, was awarded to current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for his efforts at keeping world peace. The former Russian president beat out German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Yuan Longping, an “agricultural scientist.” The prize’s administration is overseen by an association under the control of […]

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The Rise of Qatar: How a Tiny Emirate in the Middle East is Turning the Arab Spring to Its Advantage.

Qatar is probably best known in the west as the home of media outlet Al Jazeera and perhaps secondly as a less grand, Dubai-esque sheikdom in the Middle East. Recent events in the Middle East such as the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of Qaddafi in Libya and the toppling of Mubarak […]

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Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: Scaling Back Expectations?

The Arab Spring has unsettled more than just the political establishment in the Middle East with dictators in Africa falling to change as well. Events like the fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime and Michael Sata’s ascendency in Zambia have upset the traditional stability African leadership has enjoyed for decades – a stability that is both […]

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State Capitalism: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

Ten years after China’s official emergence as a world economic super power with its joining the World Trade Organisation, Chinese state-owned industries are still as powerful and influential as ever. This heavy involvement on the part of the Chinese state in its economy is a source of criticism against the regime for many of its […]

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Science & Technology

Facebook Hijacked By Porn and Gore.

You may have noticed a slight difference when logging into your Facebook account yesterday: namely, the addition of streaming porn in your newsfeed. An exploit in the Facebook programming has allowed for the streaming of hardcore porn and gore to be shown in a user’s newsfeed. Not only are the images guaranteed to be be […]

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Links Between Neo-Nazi Gang and German Secret Service?

Ties linking the Neo-Nazi “National Socialist Underground” gang responsible for a string of terror bombings in Germany to Germany’s own secret service have been revealed in the wake of the suicides of two suspected members. The group is believed to be responsible for the murder of  a policewoman and nine immigrant street vendors with gun […]

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