August 9, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Riots liveblog: British Parliament recalled, 16,000 police on streets tonight, but no army or curfew.
- Young London rioters lack a legitimate future—nothing to lose, no reason to obey.
- Watching the riots, Egyptian bloggers debate the differences between looting and protesting.
- Riots organized not through social media, but on BlackBerry Messenger.
- China's massive spending on new Silk Road in Xinjiang region fails to quiet ethnic tension, inequality.
- Repression of Shia underclass worsens in Bahrain, with protestors portrayed as terrorists.
- TMN's Matt Robison on his "Brokers With Hands on Their Faces Blog."
- Looking back longingly on the not-so-distant past is nothing new—it's just happening faster now.
- Drug dealers attack guards protecting uncontacted Amazonian tribe.
- In war with Berlusconi for control of Italy's media, Murdoch aligns himself with the left.
- Dictators' wives are sometimes victims but usually enthusiastic partners, must share blame.
- Mao held meeting in pool to humiliate Khrushchev, who needed water wings.
- Things heard in the Condé Nast elevators do not stay in the Condé Nast elevators.
