News broke yesterday that China suceeded in pressuring Cambodia into deporting a few dozen Uighurs who had escaped the country after the riots there a few months ago. Not going to go into the whole Uighur debate, I’ve posted about that before on here, but those guys have it pretty rough. And now it comes …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Richard Holbrooke at the Council on Foreign Relations
I went to a talk last night by Richard Holbrooke at the Council on Foreign Relations in DC last night. My firm is a member and I attend these events regularly in NY and last night was one of my favorites. Holbrooke is one of the most polished diplomats I’ve heard speak and he spoke …
Pirate Stock exchange
I couldn’t believe this story, the Somali pirates have set up a stock exchange to help fund their activities. Pretty egalitarian too those pirates, not only for the jihadi fat-cats, even the common-folk can get involved, read to the end and check out the young woman who did pretty well after contributing an RPG she got, uh, from alimony.