I usually start with it but Globe got me first today....
"A Dunkin’ Donuts — one that is unlike almost any other in the world -- is a glimpse of a coffee gold rush, out to transform the food and social culture in the Far East. It is working well....
Isn't Dunkin' an official sponsor of the Red Sox?
And I get a front-page piece on their expansion into Asia?
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I gue$$ there will be no war with China then, right?
While in the region consider these recent articles and remarks the sugar and cream:
There is rotten North Korea making all sorts of noise preventing peace, or so I am told (gets old, sorry).
NEXT DAY UPDATE: S. Korea fires back into North’s waters
Didn't make my printed paper!
I'm happy about peace in the Philippines and piqued about climbing mountains in Nepal, but Japan raises it to a whole other level (so much for rebuilding from disaster and stuff). Turns out the police are no better there than they are anywhere.
This might surprise you:
"It’s no longer a secret that the West encouraged and supported the actions of the Indonesian army. The United States — at war in nearby Vietnam at that time — provided a list of people to be targeted for the Indonesian army and also equipment for their operations. At the height of the Cold War, America openly celebrated the annihilation of Indonesia’s Communist Party, the third-largest after the Soviet Union and China, over a mountain of corpses.
Or not. I'm surprised to see it in my newspaper, but it is only an opinion. The death toll from the CIA-supplied list was around 500,000.
“The Act of Killing” is a re-enactment of a nation’s collective memory, a killer slowly comes to grip with the moral wrong of torturing and murdering hundreds of people.
AmeriKa needs a version of that.
Neither Indonesia nor the United States has faced the truth so far. How long can we ignore what we know in our deepest hearts until we damage ourselves to a point of no redemption?
Made me think of the 9/11 cover story lies and physical impossibilities of official explanations.
Must be the caffeine.
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