Economics in the Age of Abundance Now that we can all eat, what's next?
(tags: economics ) The Abdication of Moral Responsibility What happened to human rights?
(tags: middleeast syria egypt ) Seizing valuables from asylum seekers - Denmark has lost the plot, and its heart (tags: eu migration denmark ) People who are late No simple answer.
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• E Pluribus Hugo vs Slates
  Patrick May re-calculatees the 1984 Hugos; and finds that EPH works .
  (tags: sf hugos )
• What Greece Needs to Prosper
  Some interesting numbers here.
  (tags: greece )
• Mike Huckabee Is Wrong: Iran Isn’t Nazi Germany
  Calibrating rhetoric with facts.
  (tags: uspolitics iran israel middleeast )

• Fake Windows 10 Upgrade Emails Hide Ransomware
  In case it happens to you.
  (tags: internet hacking )
• British Ambassador's farewell to Lebanon
  Beautiful.
  (tags: diplomacy middleeast )
• Would Brexit leave the UK better placed to tackle the Calais crisis?
  Er, no.
  (tags: ukpolitics eu migration )

• Eric Flint on the Hugos again.
  Long, impassioned, right.
  (tags: sf sadpuppies )
• On the upcoming ethnic cleansing of supposed Haitians from the Dominican Republic
  Awful.
  (tags: race humanrights haiti dominicanrepublic )

• Rejected For a Job at The Container Store
  The American dream in reality.
  (tags: uspolitics )
• Israel’s One-State Reality
  Fascinating profile of the new president.
  (tags: middleeast )
• Time to sort NI’s road numbers?
  Admittedly nerdy.
  (tags: northernireland )

• The only thing worse than getting a PhD...
  ABDs - All But Dissertation.
  (tags: careersadvice postgraduatehell )
• ….I’m not asking them to do anything I haven’t done myself….
  John Alderdice (@AlderdiceLord) on talking to Hamas.
  (tags: middleeast northernireland )
• Roger Casement’s Execution
  An important anniversary.
  (tags: ireland )
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• Who is to blame for Iraq’s problems?
  In case you'd forgotten.
  (tags: iraq )
• How the Israel-Palestine Peace Deal Died
  Excellent reportage.
  (tags: middleeast )
• Dutch Foreign Minister on MH17 crash
  "Did they look each other in the eyes one last time in a wordless goodbye?"
  (tags: netherlands ukraine )
• Migration Stereotypes
  Looking at the facts.
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• Oud-Heverlee natuurwandeling door vier seizoenen
  A year in the natural world in our home village; lovely.
  (tags: Belgium )
• Twiplomacy
  World leaders on Twitter
  (tags: politics twitter )
• New EU-Morocco Fisheries Protocol signed today
  EU conniving in plunder of natural resources from the occupied Western Sahara (again).
  (tags: eu westernsahara )
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• Changing Depictions of Santa Claus in Science Fiction Magazines and Superhero Comic Book Covers
  Flying with Captain Marvel, 1941; arrested by Judge Dredd, 2009.
  (tags: sf christmas )
• Christmas services and Doctor Who
  " From the outside, it looks old and small and pointless. From the inside, it is much bigger than you might have ever expected. Which ( Read more... )

• Maps as War by Other Means
  "Maps are an excellent propaganda weapon against a (geo)political enemy. We trust cartography instinctively to ‘show us the right way’, and thus be truthful; but maps always reflect the mapmakers goals"
  (tags: middleeast maps )