Engineers of the soul
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
Scrappy Seattle three-piece Nirvana had just knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard music charts when they played Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel on Queensland’s Gold Coast, 25 years ago today.
With a blow of the whistles at 7:30am on July 1, 1916, tens of thousands of British troops went over the top and advanced on German lines in positions abutting the River Somme in France.
Papua New Guinea’s former prime minister Sir Julius Chan says that if he had been allowed to continue with the infamous Sandline operation to put down the Bougainville civil war in 1997, he would have been able to bring the island under control.
It is the final week of typically boisterous campaigning leading to Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections on Saturday, where the embattled ruling Kuomintang is expected to be defeated in both, sparking its third democratic handover of power.
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