Top 10 Country GDP Ranking History (1960-2017)

Fascinating video chart. The hegemony of USA, the rise and relative fall of Japan and now the rise of China. UK is so, so.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2010 Liu Xiaobo

A brave and good decision by the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Committee to ignore the childish and immature bullying by Peking CPC clowns. 

Bearing in mind its history - China has an absolute right to be sensitive to other countries criticising its own internal affairs.  However this gormless, goon like response to entirely legitimate international concern, about it locking up a genuine non-violent poet and democratic, just makes it look like a nasty, brutish and real mafiosi state.