[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Burgh Diaspora writes about the tensions, in Newfoundland, between permanent residents who are willing to exploit the mineral and forestry resources of their home and summer residents who want to keep things as is.


• At Crooked Timber, John Quiggin suggests that most of the disparity in income between the United States and (western) Europe can be traced to the fact that the richest 1% of Americans are so much richer.


• At Eastern Approaches, Edward Lucas translates and reproduces a speech by a Polish foreign minister, traditionally skeptical of Russia, who's strongly in favour of a reset; the Russian-Polish reconciliation continues.


• Geocurrents examines relatively new regionalist movements in Spain, in Andalusia in the south and in Leon and Asturias in the north. Substantially products of Spain's post-Franco decentralization, they're still interesting.


• GNXP's Razib Khan interviews Hugh Pope, expert on the Turkic world, asking him questions about its prospects and current state.


• Landscape and Urbanism's Jason King photoblogs a recent visit he paid to the San Juan Islands, off of the coast of Seattle (and Vancouver).


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer points out that a recent Russia-China oil deal isn't nearly as ridiculously biased towards China as some commentators suggest.


• Slap Upside the Head observes that it isn't right that an ex-gay ministry receive charity status from the Canadian government.


• According to Towleroad, a majority of people in the Colombian capiital of Bogota support same-sex marriage.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Uzbekistan government fears that the turmoil among ethnic Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan could destabilize Uzbekistan.


• The Yorkshire Ranter observes that Brazil is conducting its census with Windows-equipped smartphones.