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Bastian Brinkmann

Bastian Brinkmann

Bastian is from Deutschland. You can find Bastian’s tweets at and website at www.bastianbrinkmann.de.

Redakteur Süddeutsche.de. 35 Prozent Journalist, 35 Prozent Volkswirt, 30 Prozent Sonstiges.

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Rather than forced labor and sweatshop conditions, workers told of homesickness and the desire to earn more money-two impulses that seemed to drive each other for workers planning to go home once they’d earned enough. The homesickness had been alleviated, somewhat, by more Foxconn-led extra-curricular activities, with one worker elated to share that “now I have a girlfriend.” And the drive for money satiated, somewhat, by a large pay raise a few months prior. It wasn’t paradise, either.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Bastian Brinkmann The real Foxconn.

    March 25, 2012
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An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children’s TV show “My Little Pony” that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Bastian Brinkmann Die Geschichte hinter dieser Richtigstellung der New York Times.

    January 7, 2012
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“Let there be light,” He said, and there was light. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening—the first night. On the second day, God separated the oceans from the sky. “Let there be a horizon,” He said. And lo: a horizon appeared and God saw that it was good. And there was evening—the second night. On the third day, God’s girlfriend came over and said that He’d been acting distant lately. “I’m sorry,” God said. “Things have been crazy this week at work.” He smiled at her, but she did not smile back. And God saw that it was not good.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Bastian Brinkmann Der New Yorker macht Mario Barth in toll.

    January 6, 2012
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, an academic at New York University, has made some impressively accurate political forecasts. In May 2010 he predicted that Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, would fall from power within a year. Nine months later Mr Mubarak fled Cairo amid massive street protests. In February 2008 Mr Bueno de Mesquita predicted that Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, would leave office by the end of summer. He was gone before September.
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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    Bastian Brinkmann Der Economist zeigt, was die Spieltheorie so kann.

    September 14, 2011
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a culture of coarseness and brutality
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Bastian Brinkmann Die Vanity Fair über Rupert Murdoch and The Vicious Circle of nis News Corp.

    September 8, 2011
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Abdel Majid Mlegta ran the companies that supplied meals to Libyan government departments including the interior ministry. The job was "easy," he told Reuters last week. "I built good relations with officers. I wanted to serve my country." But in the first few weeks of the uprising, he secretly began to work for the rebels.
Estimated reading time: 19 min
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    Bastian Brinkmann Reuters erzählt die Geschichte, wie die Rebellen in Libyen an geheime Gaddafi-Infos gekommen sind.

    September 7, 2011