Category Archives: politics

Place Your Bets. (Then Lie In Them?)

Posted on June 29, 2012 by cecilie

Storm clouds gathering over Pui O; over man and beast, dog and frog. Or are they? Two weeks ago we had another damp squib in a series of never-ending damp squibs from the Hong Kong Weatherage Department or whatever it’s … Continue reading →

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Islam: Free Choice For Women All Round (By Becoming A Non-Person)

Posted on June 13, 2012 by cecilie

What, you thought I’d swung around Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of an afternoon? Or perhaps sashayed back to the year 700? No, this photo was taken in Wan Chai two days ago. That was only a few minutes after I had … Continue reading →

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Chewing Through Scenery, One Tree at the Time

Posted on June 8, 2012 by cecilie

This is how they do it: Take a thicket in sleepy backwater Pui O and cut down all the trees. Then fill the empty space with building rubble from all the village houses that have been stripped bare to the … Continue reading →

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Important Documentary

Posted on April 30, 2012 by cecilie

The US is under attack. Threatened by islamists from all over the world, streaming unhindered in across its borders and, increasingly, by enemies inexplicably placed in key positions in its government, it is growing weak and blind to the danger. … Continue reading →

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Before and After Breivik, Part 1

Posted on April 28, 2012 by cecilie

I’m so, so glad I don’t live in Norway anymore so I don’t have to see the smirking loser Breivik’s face splashed across the front page of every newspaper day in and day out. The trial continues apace, with Breivik … Continue reading →

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Paying for Your Own Annihilation

Posted on April 25, 2012 by cecilie

A couple of Sundays ago, April 15th to be exact, I threw a Titanic party and felt the usual fare, Sichuan food, wouldn’t do to commemorate the tragedy. We needed dairy and salmon. Off I trotted to the Wellcome Shop … Continue reading →

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Victory: Rare Bout of Sanity Hits Hong Kong Lawmakers!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by cecilie

Seems like Lantau is saved (for now) – all the parties shot down the incinerator proposal at Legco today. Rest in peace, idiotic ideas from the environmental ‘protection’ department! So we brace ourselves for the next onslaught, because they have … Continue reading →

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Why Can’t We Have Water?

Posted on April 9, 2012 by cecilie

So true. Efficiency really is life. I was thinking that yesterday as I sat on the bus from Yeung Gong (Yangjiang) to Guangzhou, said to take two and a half to three hours. But because of rain and many other … Continue reading →

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Last Stand Against Insane-erator

Posted on March 11, 2012 by cecilie

This is our last chance to stop the deranged plan to ruin one of Hong Kong’s most beautiful and unspoiled vistas (see film above) for the sake of a 1972-style technology rubbish incinerator which will add greatly to the overall … Continue reading →

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Boycott Anything Jewish, Including…

Posted on March 8, 2012 by cecilie

While his brother in arms and fellow relentlessly logical ideologue Ahmadinejad waits fervently for the 12th imam to arrive and take the world apart, Iranian chief dude Ali Khamenei is busy keeping the anti-Israel, well, anti Jewish, really, sentiments alive. … Continue reading →

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