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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 8-Jun-2010
Week of June 7 - Hiatus

Web Log - June, 2010

Week of June 7 - Hiatus

Until then, a special thread for comments and postings

For the rest of this week, my job (the one that actually pays a salary, as opposed to this one) will be taking up all my time, and I'll be unable to write daily reports.

I've set up a comment thread in the forum to which anyone can post comments. If time permits during the week, then I'll post there as well.

Web site readers are encouraged to post their own brief news reports on breaking events, if they think that other readers of this web site will find them interesting.

I expect to be posting regularly again at the end of the week. Until then, here's a bumper crop of additional links, following today's entertainment video, a reprise of the mind-blowing production number "June is bustin' out all over" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel:

Additional links

With the first anniversary approaching of last year's June 12 elections, Iran's government has stopped the street protests for now, but replacing them is a flood of protest and resistance music that can be heard throughout Tehran. NY Times

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that joint operations by American and Iraq forces have left al-Qaeda in Iraq "devastated." Associated Press

Yemen has become the base for Al-Qaeda on Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and it's now the world's leader for training camps for terrorists intent on carrying out attacks on Western targets. US and Yemeni forces are cooperating to a significant extent to disrupt and destroy AQAP in Yemen. London Times

The euro will be dead in five years, according to a survey of top economists, some of whom believe that it will be dead within a few weeks. Telegraph

Gross U.S. public debt is now 88% of GDP. Soon it will reach 90% which, according to economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, is the point at which a country's economy is affected by a vicious circle. NY Times

Many computer printers print almost invisible yellow dots in your documents so that the police can identify whether a document came from a particular printer. This is a list of printers that do or do not display tracking dots. Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Obama administration is beginning an elaborate campaign to sell the public on the health care bill. NY Times. But Democratic candidates are going to avoid public meetings this summer, to avoid the voter rage they ran into from Tea Party supporters last year. NY Times

The Chinese are unhappy with America's strong support for South Korea in the Cheonan warship sinking incident. The flash point between America and China is expected to be Burma (Myanmar), which recently was accused of developing nuclear weapons with North Korean help. Asia Times

North Korea's Kim Jong-il had a major government shakeup this weekend, apparently in preparation for naming his son Kim Jong-un as his successor. London Times

However, a key ally of Kim Jong-il was mysteriously killed in a traffic accident last Wednesday, indicating that the succession infighting may already have started. Telegraph

German authorities are already concerned about a renaissance of left-wing violence in the country, and now are particularly concerned about a terrorist cookbook in wide circulation among left-wing militant groups. It explains how to outfox the police, saw down power poles, stop trains, and make bombs. Spiegel

Gays are furious at Elton John for playing a gig at Rush Limbaugh's wedding to Kathryn Rogers this past weekend. Pop Eater

Psychologists have determined that Darth Vader suffered from borderline personality disorder. Fox news

Senators miss a simpler time when they could do abominable things in peace. The Onion

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