Posted on Saturday, 10 May 2008 by 克莱夫
We travel not for trafficking alone:
By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
James Elroy Flecker
This is a section of the tour I’ve been looking forward [...]
Filed under: Athens, BaltiCCycle, Beijing, Crotos, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, athens to beijing, cycles | Tagged: Amir Temur, brutal, dictatorship, pyramids, Russian Federation, Samarkand, skulls, Timurlane, USSR | No Comments »
Posted on Tuesday, 6 May 2008 by 克莱夫
After I posted the item about the tea stain remover I did a search, using the slogan, to see if I could find who might have instigated this heinous campaign. The results were disappointing with only this site and QQ News returned with the full slogan, all other hits were irrelevant. Out of [...]
Filed under: China, Comment-China, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, UK, attitude, nutcases, tea, west | Tagged: advertisement, Ariel, bird-brained, disgrace, lunacy, mountain out of a molehill, Procter & Gamble, stain, storm in a tea cup, tea, tea-stain | 4 Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 27 March 2008 by 克莱夫
The ‘b’-word has been mentioned in the press. Again. At the time of Mr Spielberg’s disengagement with BOCOG there was some talk of boycotting the 2008 Olympics in protest over China’s involvement with Darfur, but it then faded away. Since the recent troubles in Tib@t the topic has been revived and the [...]
Filed under: 2008, Beijing, China, Comment-China, Darfur, Tib@t, UK, USA, Xizang, games, olympic, politics, west | Tagged: boycott, fatuous, gesture, hypocrisy, lesson, teach | No Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 21 February 2008 by 克莱夫
I was passing the time in a reading room recently, working my way through the newspapers of the day, as one does, filling in bits of crossword puzzles, dozing and drinking tea, though not necessarily in that order. Stuffed away in a corner was the remnants of a backcopy which I idly glanced through [...]
Filed under: 1908, Dorando Pietri, Italy, London, Marathon, eccentricity, games, olympic | Tagged: medal, runner, running, skinny, winner, Carpi | No Comments »
Posted on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 by 克莱夫
Some people have been talking about it, many others have been ignoring it, the majority still haven’t got their heads around it but it is happening now.
When China began its current economic revival and subsequent march to power for most people, myself included, this was something unimportant. It was happening thousands of miles way on [...]
Filed under: China, Comment-China, UK, USA, attitude, culture, economics, finance, global issues, politics, prosperity, west | Tagged: prudence, buying power, credit, debt, dollar, Made in China, reserves, saving, spending, spendthrift, Sterling, thrift, USD, yuan | No Comments »
Posted on Monday, 28 January 2008 by 克莱夫
Here is another book giving a different angle to mainstream media to help you fill in more spaces of the Middle East jigsaw puzzle.
The author, Said Hyder Akbar, was born in Afghanistan, left while he was a child during the Russian occupation, moved to Pakistan and then to the USA with his family. He comes [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Islam, UK, USA, freedom, global issues, politics | No Comments »
Posted on Monday, 21 January 2008 by 克莱夫
This is not exactly a ‘hot off the blogosphere’ posting as the book I have just completed reading was published several years ago. However, the lessons to be learned are as horrifying and as relevant now as they were in 2006. Just as Mr Murray states in his book many of us believed that being [...]
Filed under: UK, USA, Uzbekistan, corruption, death, freedom, global issues, murder, politics, truth | No Comments »
