[LINK] Some Friday links

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• Alpha Sources' Claus Vistesen takes a look at the parlous state of the Icelandic economy, caught--like many central European states--between "a large current account deficit coupled with high inflation at a time when the housing bubble and consumer credit boom." Will it be a hard or a soft landing?
• Phil Hunt at Amused Cynicism wonders why religion should be privileged over other belief systems when it comes to matters of conscience.
• Centauri Dreams has two interesting posts on the Saturn satellite system, one on Titan's apparent subsurface water, the other on the discovery of relatively warm water and organic compounds being emitted by Enceladus.
• Edward Lucas compares Tibet to the Baltic States. Tibet's biggest advantage, he argues, is that the Balts never had anyone like the Dalai Lama as their leader.
• Invisible College defines "The Rule of Law, in a Nutshell".
• "Who Were the Indo-Europeans?", Language Hat wonders. There is the non-trivial question or whether or not they existed as a group, but the comments are fun regardless of your stance.
  
• Peteris Cedrins at Marginalia commemorates the 59th anniversary of the Stalinist deportations from Latvia and the other Baltic states, actions which particularly targeted the current and future leaders of those countries.
• J. Otto Pohl links to a collection of documents recording atrocities committed against Sudeten Germans during their 1945 expulsion from Czechoslovakia.