[LINK] Some Friday links

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• James Bow reacts to Pat Robertson's evil and highlights the malign consequences of foreign intervention in Haiti.


• Centauri Dreams announces that, for the first time, astronomers have acquired the spectrum of an extrasolar planet.


• Daniel Drezner is unimpressed by the Israeli government's humiliation of the Turkish ambassador.


• Global Sociology writes about the recent anti-immigrant pogrom in the southern Italian town of Rosarno, pointing out that the same immigrants who are so hostile are the same immigrants whose superexploitation makes the town's citrus harvests possible.


• Hunting Monsters comments on the peculiar powers of the Icelandic president--apparently the office's veto powers were exercised for the first time with the bank settlement.


• At the MacLean's's website, Paul Wells of Inkless Wells celebrates the fact that the Liberal Party's recent ads attacking the government's proroguing of Parliament is actually an offensive, the first in quite some time.


• Marginal Revolution observes that Haiti's children are particularly vulnerable.


• Murdering Mouth points out that, economically speaking, the 1990s saw infinitely more progress than the Aughts.


• Noel Maurer reacts with surprise at the news that Margaret Thatcher wanted to acquire an island from Indonesia or the Philippines, jointly with Australia, for the resettlement of boat people.


• Gideon Rachman suggests that ordinary Chinese are sympathizing with Google in its dispute with the Chinese government.


• Slap Upside the Head observes that Prince Edward Island has finally updated its laws to fully acknowledge same-sex marriage on official documents.


• The Dragon's Tales links to recent research suggesting that tree growth in a warmer Arctic will accelerate global warming, since their dark colour absorbs heat better than tundra.


• Torontoist's Cal McLean writes about Toronto's punk scene.


• Towleroad announces the news that China just had its first public gay wedding.