[LINK] Some Friday links

First off, welcome Toronto journalist Antonia Zerbisias' blog Broadsides and Toronto Star web editor Patrick Cain's Map of the Week to my blogroll.

• Amused Cynicism carries the news that "Conservative immigration spokesman Damian Green was arrested and detained for several hours for his part in leaking documents that were embarrassing to the government." Can my British correspondents fill me in on this?


• Centauri Dreams reports on the fact that there are signs of subsurface water on Saturn's moon of Enceladus, hinting at the possibility of life.


• Crooked Timber's Daniel writes about how, thanks to Ireland's remarkable economic boom, it is no longer the case in mainland Great Britain that Irish people are seen as constituting a systematically disadvantaged ethnic group. This sort of thing has obvious implications for other ghettoized minority groups.


• A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh reports on how the likely very negative impact of the world economic crsis on the fragile economies of the Baltic States has inspired some people in the Latvian government to start arresting peopel warning of a currency crisis. Peteris Cedrins has more at Marginalia.


• Far Outliers quotes from Halberstam a description of just how shabbily Mao was treated on his 1949 visit to Moscow by the Soviet government.


• Finally, Torontoist's Hamutai Dotan writes about how some people are trying to subvert the consumerist message of massive North American sales day "Black Friday" (today) with not only "Buy Nothing Day" but with a "Sell Nothing Day."