[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Andrew Barton is unimpressed by much of the recent fuss over surveillance in airports in Canada, on the grounds that airport security is defensible and there are better things to fight against.


• The Burgh Diaspora builds from a brief Demography Matters post I made, about the likelihood of the resumption of patterns of migration from Mediterranean to northern Europe regardless of what happens to the Eurozone, and wonders why people won't migrate from Mediterranean Europe to points elsewhere in the world. (I agree that they will; Europe's borders are not impermeable, at least not for citizens of European countries.)


• Crooked Timber's Maria Farrell thinks that sharp cuts in the British military undermine fundamentally the attractiveness of the military as a career option in the United Kingdom.


• The suicide attempt of former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase after his conviction on charges of corruption, Eastern Approaches notes, highlights the novelty of a Romanian judicial system that actually does deal with abuses of power at the highest levels.


• Geocurrents notes how the staging of the Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine is evocative of the Holocaust and (in Ukraine) of present-day anti-Semitism.


• Marginal Revolution takes note of strongly pro-Russian sentiment in Cyprus, to the extent that some Cypriots would welcome a Russian bailout, not a European Union one.


• Noel Maurer, at The Power and the Money, notes that Mexico's rising competitiveness relative to China, as Chinese wages rise, has to led to a recovery of the Mexican export manufacturing sector and to growth in jobs. The problem is that this is job growth is not paralleled by wage growth.


• The spread of an Internet meme in Kyrgyzstan, Registan notes, explains much about Kyrgzystan's internal divisions, between Russophones and Kyrgzy-speakers and between rural and urban areas.