[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bag News Notes takes a look at the images of the Turkish lady in red, she who has become an icon of the protests.


• James Bow thinks that Conservative protests that a Canadian MP who left his party should run for a by-election are disingenuous considering the numbers of times the Conservatives benefitted from defections themselves.


• Centauri Dreams takes a look at the awesome potential of the new WFIRST telescope, an infrared telescope, to detect planets. (It could pick up rogue planets, and analyze atmospheres.)


• Daniel Drezner has some things to say about the revelations of the NSA's surveillance of communications.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis notes that, for a country set on building dams, Ethiopia is still so rural and non-electrified as to not gain much immediate benefit from hydroelectricity save as exported power.


• Noel Maurer kind of approves of the Colombian Senate. (I suspect he'd still prefer to get rid of that country's upper house, too.)


• Registan is unimpressed by a cliché-sounding profile of the Pashtuns.


• Transit Toronto's Robert Mackenzie notes that tunnelling has begun for the Eglinton LRT.


• Window on Eurasia notes that some Russians have called for extending the draft to women.