[LINK] Links Roundup

[rfmcdonald]

• Can Sao Tomé e Principle handle the impending influx of oil revenues? People on the ground are concerned, given the precedents of Equatorial Guinea and Angola.


• At Christianity Today's weblog, there's a roundup of reactions to the kibboshing of intelligent design by a Pennsylvania court. The actions of ID activists didn't help the cause.


• It isn't surprising that a missionary religion would fear the defection of its nominal members to other faiths. Especially given Algeria's history of colonization, it makes sense that Algerian Muslim leaders might fear Christian missionaries and their converts, even if there's no proof of their existence.


• Hosted at the Friends of Tuva website, Ronald McMullen's article "Tuva: Russia's Tibet or the Next Lithuania". Might the Tuvan republic's history of independence start a chain reaction of secessions? Tatarstan or the North Caucasus is more likely to serve as a trigger, but as McMullen argues, Siberia shouldn't be neglected.


• Via chrishansenhome, video footage of a devoutly Christian woman's reaction, on Trading Spouses, to the infiltration of a demonic New Age woman into her home. Her God, it seems, isn't a God of love.


• There are fourteen ways to commit suicide in Shanghai, 13 if you exclude the rude option of jumping in front of the train and messing with everyone's schedules.