- World War 3 has already happened, taking 5.4 million lives in a decade. The reason you've heard nothing about it is because it took place in central Africa. (H/t WPR.)
- As The Age says, Obama's endorsement of the G20 is good news for Rudd.
- Rudd will also be encouraged that Obama is chairing the UN Security Council on 24 September to discuss nuclear disarmament. Here's the draft US resolution.
- What East Asia's private sector thinks of the 'noodle bowl' of regional FTAs.
- China could become a US$1 trillion green energy market. California, meanwhile, has just mandated the toughest renewable energy requirement in the US: 33% by 2020.
- A Taiwanese submarine captain lost at sea after slipping and falling off his boat. (H/t Nosint.)
- The recession armada: a huge fleet of freight ships off southern Malaysia.
- The budget traveller's guide to sleeping at airports. (H/t Terminal Q.)
- Two anecdotes from the great recession that are too fantastic to be fictional: (1) Warren Buffett might have saved Lehman Brothers if he'd known how to retrieve voicemail; and (2) President Bush said of his own bailout bill, 'Why did I sign on to this proposal if I don't understand what it does?'
Wednesday linkage
Published 16 Sep 2009
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