Various
What a busy busy world today...
1. Russians withdraw from the 1990 CFE Treaty ... let's hope we don't get eyeball-to-eyeball tank stand-offs in Berlin again.
1.1 Speaking of tanks - Australia had an APC rampage - tsk, how retro. ;-p
[interesting what Google finds under 'tank rampage' ... I think the Beebs needs to be more careful about its article headline choices]
2. Zai Chien Starbucks! Now forbidden in the Forbidden City.
3. Apparently PM Brown believes in independent foreign policy from the US. Good on him, but I'm going to wait for some real changes.
4. Czech Republic: controversy swirls around legal methods of castrating sex offenders. It does sometimes seem to echo Kafka.
5. Awesome! Music festival in Brazzaville
6. EU increases inspections powers to combat flagrant violations of the Basel Convention.
1. Russians withdraw from the 1990 CFE Treaty ... let's hope we don't get eyeball-to-eyeball tank stand-offs in Berlin again.
1.1 Speaking of tanks - Australia had an APC rampage - tsk, how retro. ;-p
[interesting what Google finds under 'tank rampage' ... I think the Beebs needs to be more careful about its article headline choices]
2. Zai Chien Starbucks! Now forbidden in the Forbidden City.
3. Apparently PM Brown believes in independent foreign policy from the US. Good on him, but I'm going to wait for some real changes.
4. Czech Republic: controversy swirls around legal methods of castrating sex offenders. It does sometimes seem to echo Kafka.
5. Awesome! Music festival in Brazzaville
6. EU increases inspections powers to combat flagrant violations of the Basel Convention.