[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterlin wonders, perhaps disingenuously, why India needs Russia's advanced new T-50 stealth aircraft.


• Centauri Dreams considers plans to protect a large portion of the far side of the moon from radio pollution, to keep its environment pristine and suitable for telescope observatories.


• Daniel Drezner is unimpressed by China's lack of engagement with the international community on issues like the Chinese currency--this may have changed recently, with the renminbi floating up a bit, but enough?


• At A Fistful of Euros, Alex Harrowell has grim pictures and stories taken from a trip to recession-droned Budapest.


• The Grump Sociologist highlighted the remarkable news that Chinese companies are gaining prestige--in China--by hiring random white guys and presenting them as executives of foreign corporate partners to their own, prospective, domestic partners.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the Stanley Cup, won by the Chicago Blackhawks, is going to be presented at Chicago's pride parade.


• Noel Maurer at the Power and the Money is profoundly unimpressed with those who say that BP's willingness, under government pressure, to immediately start compensating victims is somehow immoral or illegal.