[NEWS] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Al Jazeera notes that Somali asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom are being deported to Somalia, at great potential risk to themselves, and observes the continuing and self-serving chaos in that country.


• The Atlantic debunks the myth that GLBT people are well-off relative to heterosexuals in the United States, at least, and uses a San Francisco building's history to take a look on the history of that city throughout the 20th century.


• The Atlantic Cities shares a photo essay about Rochester's subway, abandoned after more than a half-century.


• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation shares the news that some ecologists in Australia think that triage should be applied to the continent's threatened species.


• BusinessWeek notes that China's first lady Peng Liyuan may be taking Michelle Obama as a model for her position, and notes that Exxon's partnership with Rosneft (and other Western-Russian business partnerships) are looking problematic) after the Crimean annexation.


• CBC observes that the Turkish state has lost in its attack on social networking platform Twitter.


• Taking on issues of Québec City, MacLean's observes that getting back the Quebec Nordiques isn't helped by the resurgence in nationalism, adding also that despite being a potential national capital Québec City doesn't vote for the Parti Québécois.


• Open Democracy makes the argument that Scottish separatism is driven by a desire to be a normal European country, in contrast to an increasingly inegalitarian England.