Tuesday, March 25, 2008

CTV will help Fascist China Stick-It-To Tibetan Resistance and Smother Foreign Outrage

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Fascist China is flipping out. Senior party cadres have been bursting blood vessels, appalled by the audacity of the " Dalai Clique ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Old Books - Sometimes the past owner is more interesting than the book

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I think it's a fairly common practice among bibliophiles to devote a few moments to Googling the name of an author previously unknown to...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Another archivist busted for selling stolen documents on eBay

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I am following several stories of runagates this week, most of them thieves or spies, (essentially the same thing) which may become Blog art...
Saturday, February 2, 2008

Ousted Tory M.P. handed Mulroney Cabinet secrets to the Russians

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KGB/SVR agent Sergei Tretyakov speaks at KGB headquarters in 1998. (Putnam photo) Imagine you are a well established book author and you ar...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Canadian Runagate - The Basic Bethune

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Last week a university student of my acquaintance launched into an excited introduction of a extraordinary and important Canadian from the p...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Fugue for a Darkening Island

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I read the PAN edition of Christopher Priest's prophetic novel, Fugue for a Darkening Island , sometime in the 1990s, and it made a last...
Sunday, January 6, 2008

LION OF THE DESERT- a DVD backgrounder

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This 1981 bio-pic pits the "lion," famed Senussi guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar against the Italian bull, 6' 4" tall Gene...