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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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This post is a about Michael Totten’s report “A Dark Corner of Europe” Part 1. You need to read this article for this post to make sense. Michael Totten’s article is mostly very good article, and I, perhaps unfairly, am focussing only on the negatives here.
Michael Totten is a great independent journalist who I [...]
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Little or no blogging for the next few days folks. I am reposing in Denmark on a “Leadership Secrets of Hamlet” conference. Later in the week I plan to reform the Danish opposition parties, but only after I have set up a dual monarchy to rule the Kingdoms of Kosovo and Christiania.
Oh damn it, I [...]
Moon River alerted me to something by The Nonist on Flâneurs:
This is a map by de Lauwe of all the movements made during one year by a student living in the 16th Arrondissement of Paris. Her itinerary forms a small triangle with no significant deviations, the three apexes of which are the School of [...]
Freddy Hagen is an extraordinarily talented Danish photographer.
Recently he returned from a trip to the Middle East and has uploaded some slide shows.
One in particular is a must see, Cairo Megacity. It is a slide show with music and both the music and photographs are utterly beautiful.
His other slide shows are also superb. Don’t miss [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Financial Times has great story about that profoundly strange and beautiful country, Japan:
In Japan, the trees are blue. So are the traffic lights, even though they look decidedly green to uninitiated outsiders. The Japanese do have a word for green, but when it comes to foliage and traffic signals, blue is the preferred term.
Blue [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Last November Danica from Belgrade and Beyond posted that famous travel documentary maker Michael Palin was spotted in Belgrade with his crew.
Well the first episode of the resulting series - Michael Palin’s New Europe - went out on the BBC last night and apparently Belgrade comes off brilliantly. As one UK friend commented [...]
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an englishman in osaka explains “the gaijin dilemma” or whether to acknowledge other gaijin (Europeans).
I have this problem in Serbia.
There are comparatively few foreigners in Belgrade (compared with other capital cities). As a consequence coming across other foreigners puts added pressure on one to do the expatriate social dance. I actively avoid foreigners here. Most [...]
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No need for ground crew. Ecologically friendly. Transcontinental passenger transporter.
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