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...honest about this: China's long overdue development, whilst in many ways impressive, has primarily been underwritten by profit-driven Western corporations. Corporations have moved to manufacture in China en masse because of very cheap labour, minimal regulation and the ability to externalize other costs, namely the environmental impact. This has then indirectly improved China's lot. How has China otherwise added value or changed the world for the better in modern times? Innovations? Improvements to the human condition? Global benevolence? Becoming the world's temporary sweatshop and biggest copycat does not place one in the league of great nations...
...Chechen presidency in 2007 from his father, who was assassinated three years earlier in 2004. He has been ruling the volatile region in Russia's North Caucasus since, alternately garnering praise for bringing stability to the region and criticism for enshrining new laws banning alcohol production and gambling whilst legalizing polygamy. Tatiana Lokshina, the deputy director of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch in Russia, told TIME that Chechnya's population is "paralyzed by fear" under Kadyrov's government. She says Kadyrov's administration is using the ongoing battle against separatist insurgents as an excuse for what she calls...
...Watching a LOT of fashion mistakes go past whilst waiting for the bus," a British Twitterer pouts. "This is why I don't use public transport...
...London around the same time as Davies in Liverpool. Davies shows a righteous class contempt for the excesses of Britain's "fossil monarchy," such as "the Betty and Phil Show," his phrase for the marriage of Prince Philip to Elizabeth II. "Even more money was wasted on her coronation... whilst in England's green and pleasant land the rest of the nation survived on rationing in some of the worst slums in Europe...
...follows shopping mall cop Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen) as he embarks on a mission to catch a flasher who preys on unsuspecting women in the mall parking lot. When Detective Harrison (Ray Liotta) from the local police is called in to take over the case, Ronnie increases his efforts whilst trying to impress the cosmetics sales assistant, Brandi (Anna Faris from the “Scary Movie” series). Along the way, he must also find time to fall in love, kill a few cocaine dealers, and attempt to achieve his dream of becoming a police officer.Those expecting...