[LINK] Some Friday links

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• Andrew Barton compares the funding and other problems of public transit in Toronto and New York City and puts Toronto ahead, not least because of the sharp cost increases in New York City that might prompt an exodus of passengers from that system.


• Edward Lucas considers the implications of NATO-associated wargames and their implications for greater Norden.


• A Fistful of Euros' Douglas Muir observes the tenth anniversary of the beginning fo NATO bombing of Serbia and the continuing consequences of Serbian nationalism among the young.


• Joe. My. God reports that following a suit by a group of descendants of Holocaust survivors, Germany has banned an ad comparing the Holocaust's victims to animals killed in slaughterhouses.


• Paul Wells' wonders if the Swedish government's apparent willingness to let Saab go under reflects the relatively much higher level of research and development spending in Sweden. Goodbye sunset industries?


• Language Hat links to resources on Australian Aborigine languages and quotes Orham Pamuk on his love for Gustave Flaubert.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Scott Lemieux argues convincingly that US Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia is a homophobe.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution takes a look at the long-ternm impact of the stimulus package associated with German reunification in 1990. The results weren't pleasing.


• Towleroad reports on how the Moroccan government, in the run-up to elections, is repressing gays, feminists, and religious minorities.


• Windows on Eurasia reports that the Russian government's plan to modernize the military by instituting a new class of sergeants has been put on hold.

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