Need a quick favor

[Yerdaddy]

Last month the New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/)published an article about Cambodia selling off much of it's land to Chinese companies and interfering in the Khmer Rouge trials in order to protect China's role in the genocide. Today I can't access the New York Review of Books, but it doesn't say the site is blocked like the governments of Yemen and Thailand do. Can someone click the link above and tell me if they can load the NYRB?

[PapaBear]

It loads for me.

edit: However, I don't see anything like what you described.

[Chigworthy]

I get a "cannot display".

[PapaBear]

Here's a bit of what I see when I click it...

Volume 54, Number 18 · November 22, 2007 (http://www.nybooks.com/contents/20071122)

<table style="padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;" align="right" border="0"><tbody><tr><td> http://www.nybooks.com/images/20071122-amazon.jpg</td></tr></tbody><caption style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: center; line-height: 1em;" align="bottom">Farm workers slashing and burning a forest in the
Amazon basin so that they can plant grass for cattle pasture,
near Imperatriz, Brazil, September 22, 2003</caption> </table> <big>The Green vs. the Brown Amazon (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20819)</big>
By John Terborgh
One of the first things any Brazilian tells a foreigner is that Brazil is really two countries: the south and the north. With a highly educated population of predominantly European origin, the south, with its two great cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, is becoming an agricultural and industrial superpower, producing computers and advanced pharmaceuticals and exporting large numbers of jet aircraft to the US. Brazil has attained world-class status in forestry, ranching, and agriculture. Even more significant for the future is that largely through the use of biofuels, such as alcohol derived from sugar cane, it is one of the few countries in the world to have achieved self-sufficiency in energy. When oil reaches $100 a barrel, Brazil will be sitting pretty.
<big>Why Putin Wins (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20836)</big>
By Sergei Kovalev
I should begin by saying that I find the current president of Russia and his policies extremely offensive. I believe that Vladimir Putin is the most sinister figure in contemporary Russian history. From the very beginning of his rule he has directed—and almost completed—a broad antidemocratic counterrevolution in Russia. He has annihilated many civil rights in the country, among them such crucial freedoms as freedom of information. He has significantly restricted freedom of association and assembly, as well as the right to stage peaceful marches, protests, and demonstrations.

Tatyana Tolstaya: The Making of Mr. Putin (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/97) (May 25, 2000) <big>The Partisan (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20813)</big>
By Michael Tomasky
On The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman.

Russell Baker: The Awful Truth (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16730) (November 6, 2003) <hr> <center> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> aj_server = 'http://rotator.adjuggler.com/servlet/ajrotator/'; aj_tagver = '1.0'; aj_zone = 'nyrb'; aj_adspot = '147588'; aj_page = '0'; aj_dim ='147520'; aj_ch = ''; aj_ct = ''; aj_kw = ''; aj_pv = true; aj_click = ''; </script><script style="display: none;" type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://img1.adjuggler.com/banners/ajtg.js"></script> </center> <hr> <big>Alaska: Big Oil and the Whales (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20835)</big>
By Peter Matthiessen
On August 2 of this year, asserting a symbolic claim to almost half of the Arcti

[Yerdaddy]

Thanks Papa. I don't remember what the article was called, but I still can't load the page so it looks like it's blocked. It would have cost me $3 for the article anyway so I'll look for another way to get it. I love chickenshit governments.

[Chigworthy]

I still can't access the site. It's just as I thought. While we slept, Cambodia sold off California to China as well.

[Yerdaddy]

I get a "cannot display".

And I'll assume you're not in China or Cambodia? That's interesting. OK, maybe it's something with the server after all. I'll try again later, but I can't open any of the article links from PapaBear's second post so I'll bet it's blocked. Which sucks because I love the NYRB.

[Chigworthy]

I'm in california, and I can't access any of papabear's links either.

I did spin around the internets a little and discovered that on May 31, 2007, the New York Review of Books published an article by Nicholas D. Kristof called "Wretched of the Earth", which seems to have something to do with Cambodia.

[Recyclerz]

YD - Check your PMs

[Bulldogcakes]

What a bunch of subversives. Willfully flouting the laws of a sovereign nation.

I love it.

[Yerdaddy]

Thanks all. I got the article thanks to a member who for legal purposes I will refer to by his secret code name: Re-users Of Waste Materials.

I can access the site now, so I guess it was just a glitch. I suppose I owe the Cambodian government an apology, but fuck them, they're mostly ex-Khmer Rouge assholes anyway.

The Kristof piece looks Promising. I'll read it tonight. Thanks for the tip.

The actual piece is short but full of amusingly depressing tidbits about my new home like:

Cambodia "boasts some 343 ministers, 849 generals, 30,000 officers, and 50,000 NCOs (for 15,000 soldiers)."

and

"China is a very great country," Hun Sen declared recently. "If 1.3 billion Chinese were all to urinate at the same time, it would unleash a major flood. But China's leaders are doing good things with their partners.... When China gives, there are no strings attached. You can do what you want with the money."


Like spend it on guns, hookers and booze instead of your people. Ex-Khmer Rouge douchebag.

[FUNKMAN]

nevermind, you found it...

[Chigworthy]

Hey Yerdaddy, I don't know if you like fiction or not, but this book I enjoyed:

http://www.jefflongbooks.com/jackets/reckoning.jpg

It's a ghost story of archaelogists recovering American GI remains in Cambodia, which leads them to the ruins of an ancient city in the jungle. Darkness ensues. It's a more intelligent horror story than most authors can pull off.

[Yerdaddy]

Thanks Chig, I'll ask around about it. There are helicopter tour companies that are run by Americans who spend much of their time searching for American remains. And of course there are tremendous ruins. The locals all believe in ghosts, but then they also think that if you don't eat chicken your bruises will heal faster.

[Chigworthy]

Reading that book and watching "City of Ghosts" makes Cambodia seem like a fascinating place.