Month: May 2012
Entertainment
Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 11 – ‘The Other Woman’ Review and Synopsis
The episode opens with SCDP throwing around ideas about the Jaguar advertising campaign. Peggy is left out of the action and watches as her male counterparts feast on lobster courtesy of Roger. One of the reps from Jaguar wants to sleep with Joan in exchange for throwing business SCDP’s way. ‘Why didn’t you tell him […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 9 – ‘Blackwater’ Review and Synopsis
The much anticipated invasion of King’s Landing by Stannis Baratheon’s army is the focus of this episode, one that has promised a lot of action in addition to some resolution of lingering plot threads. Whether Cersei’s trust in Westeros’ own version of napalm is misplaced will be put to the test. ‘If the city falls, […]
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Television
Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 10 – ‘Christmas Waltz’ Review and Synopsis
We discover that Lane is a tax cheat and apparently has not paid his taxes to the sovereign back home in England. A friend tells him that it can all go away if he pays $8,000 in back taxes which is a massive amount. When his wife Rebecca asks him what he is doing awake […]
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Game of Thrones: Season 2, Episode 8 – ‘The Prince of Winterfell’ Review and Synopsis
Asha Greyjoy arrives on horseback to Winterfell. To Theon’s dismay, her greeting is less than warm and her approach less than respectful. She lets him know how stupid killing the Starks was in terms of their worth. In a moment of tenderness, she attempts to convince him to come home to the Iron Islands instead […]
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North Korea News Today
Pirates in North Korea? Chinese Fishermen Held Hostage in DPRK
A mix of 29 Chinese and North Korean fishermen were taken hostage by armed men on a gunboat while fishing in the Yellow Sea between the People’s Republic of China and the Korean peninsula. It was not immediately clear if the hostages were held by North Korean authorities or an unaffiliated group. Thus far there […]
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News
Iceland and Greenland Discuss Adopting the Canadian Dollar as National Currency
The economic downturn has claimed many victims: individual citizens, corporations, countries and potentially entire monetary unions (such as Greece in the euro). Iceland is no stranger to economic hardship, becoming the first nation to declare sovereign bankruptcy in years when it did so in 2008. In order to jumpstart the economy, use of the loonie […]
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News
Chinese Defense Strategist Li Xiaojun Urges Australia to Pick a ‘Godfather’
- May 16, 2012
- Alliance
- Allies
- ally
- Asia Pacific
- Australia
- balance of power
- Bob Carr
- China
- Cold War
- Defense
- Defense strategiest
- Defense strategy
- East Asia
- Foreign Minister
- Li Xiaojun
- Military
- military alliance
- military build up
- military strategy
- People's Republic of China
- PRC
- United States
- United States of America
- US
Defense strategist Li Xiaojun advocated that Australia choose a ‘godfather’ between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, calling Australia’s close military alliance with the U.S. a throwback to the Cold War era. Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr met with his counterpart and future Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Australia to celebrate 40 […]
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News
Newly Elected French President Francois Hollande Declares: ‘My enemy is the world of finance.’
- May 16, 2012
- 2012 French Presidential Election
- Austerity
- Continental Politics
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Economics
- Euro
- Euro Crisis
- Euro-skepticism
- Europe
- European Union
- Fifth Republic
- financial crisis
- France
- Francois Hollande
- Francois Mitterand
- Monetary Union
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Parti socialiste
- PS
- public sector
- Single-Currency
- Socialism
- Socialist Party of France
- The Union for a Popular Movement
- unemployment
- Union pour un Mouvement Populaire
Francois Hollande, fresh off of his victory over former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, declared during the campaign that the ‘world of finance’ is his enemy and now he has a chance to make good on his promises to dilute the power of the financial sector in French politics. Among his proposals include increasing taxes on […]
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News
Talks to Form Greek Coalition Government Collapse – New Elections Expected as Euro Zone in Turmoil
- May 15, 2012
- Alexis Tsipras
- Antonis Samaras
- Austerity
- Bailout
- Chryssi Avgi
- coalition government
- Euro
- Euro bonds
- Europe
- European Central Bank
- European Debt Crisis
- European Union
- eurozone
- Finance
- financial crisis
- Golden Dawn
- Greece
- Greek
- Greek Debt
- Greek debt crisis
- IMF
- Karolos Papoulias
- left coalition
- leftist coalition
- Monetary Union
- New Democracy
- Pan Hellenic Socialism
- PASOK
- socialist
- Sovereign Debt
- SYRIZA
Greek President Karolos Papoulias has announced that talks to form a coalition, technocratic government have failed and new elections are expected. Evangelos Venizelos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), has presided over three failed coalition talks and is now instrumental in forming a caretaker government to chaperone Greece into its next round of elections. […]
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Television
Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 9 – ‘Dark Shadows’ Review and Synopsis
This episode opens with a shot of Betty weighing out her cheese to accompany her morning toast to the soundtrack of a thunderstorm. This is likely as a part of a new diet regimen and Betty’s absence from the past few episodes makes her return a remarkable thing. Back at SCDP, Don reviews the work […]
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