21 July, 2009 (06:47) | AH, UK, austria-hungary, dutch, europe, exclave_enclaves, france, french, geography, germany, history, indonesia, iran, iraq, islam, israel, language, lebanon, linguistics, malaysia, maps, middle_east, montenegro, netherlands, orthodox-christian, pakistan, philippines, religion, russia, scotland, serbia, singapore, spain, spanish, thailand, turkey | By: jrittenhouse
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
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14 April, 2009 (19:02) | politics, thailand | By: jrittenhouse
Short version: two large and rampaging political movements in Thailand, one weak and ancient King who has never had much actual power, and the cops and the military, which has on and off run the country over the last century or so. The ‘red’ group is a wildly populist group run by a guy named [...]
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3 December, 2008 (13:00) | corruption_govt, government, politics, thailand | By: jrittenhouse
Interesting discussion on the recent government crisis in Thailand here.
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