In what may well be the last real chance the people of Venezuela have to stop Hugo Chavez by democratic means, it looks like there’s more than a few citizens of the country who’ve had enough:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital Thursday to oppose a referendum […]
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The Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain was in Washington, D.C. earlier this month promoting his new book and spoke with Reason.tv about the next front in the war against the food police:
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The Constitutionalism of Ron Paul has ignited a debate that’s sorely needed in this country. The Founding Fathers envisioned a nation of individual States, each with its own quirks and ideas, and each with wide latitudes to set its own internal laws and policies as it saw fit. The central government was tasked […]
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It would appear that the one major industrialised nation that has consistently refused to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol is also the one….where emissions fell. As far as Netsmith knows the only one (http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/iWeb/Global%20Warming%20Politics/A%20Hot%20Topic%20Blog/86D24789-0A73-4322-B09B-6EB703FC867F.html).
The same country has a less enviable record on extraditions (http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/11/30/the-difference-between-sudan-and-the-us/#more-695) and prosecutions: perhaps we should be demanding some evidence before people are shipped off there?
Some unintended consequences here (http://jamesdmiller.blogspot.com/2007/11/politicians-pressure-colleges-to.html). Subsidy of university fees would most likely increase inequality.
HMRC seems to be conducting some customer surveys (http://www.inactualfact.com/?p=352). Is this so that they can say that, despite odd discs going missing, people are largely satisfied with them? At least they’re getting around to trying to hire some security experts (http://dizzythinks.net/2007/11/hmrc-advertises-for-security-experts.html).
The Performing Rights Society does seem to have become a tad more grasping of late (http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/11/30/more-prs-balls/).
Something of a milestone: sometime yesterday there were 3.3 billion mobile phones on the planet, enough for one in two of the entire population. Not bad for a technology (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22410), what, 30 years old, if that?
And finally (http://thedailybrute.blogspot.com/2007/11/administrative-errors.html), yes, a useful phrase to add to Ugandan discussions and tired and emotional . Administrative error , to mean deliberate cover up for as long as I think I can get away with it .
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The New York Times had an editorial this morning about the real problem with immigration in this country. The fact that many people who want to become Americans are forced to suffer with long delays before getting naturalized and residence visas.
The agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, is telling legal immigrants that applications for citizenship and […]
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Ron Paul is not just doing well at fundraising on this, his second run at the Presidency. He is raising enough to be a contender. I Just received this information from their campaign: We are closing in on three important fundraising milestones for the fourth quarter: - During the third quarter, Fred Thompson raised $9,750,821 to be used during the primary election cycle. - Not counting money that he loaned to his own campaign, Mitt…
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When I lived in England, not so long ago, one of the minor pleasures of rural life was walking across a couple of fields, along a public footpath through a copse, discovering a small medieval country church, and going inside to contemplate the divine for a few minutes. In those days, the churches were unlocked. They’re not anymore. Presumably there were local lads who would steal from the Lord even then, but not a significant…
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It always amazes me the number of businesses who use the Internet without really understanding how it has changed everything in business, not just the bits they find useful. The entire balance of power has been shifting towards information rich customers for years now and one of the things about this shift is that people's tolerance for a company's behaviour when things go wrong has also changed dramatically. It has always been the case that…
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CNN people get paid a lot of money, and no one pays me anything to engage in media politics. Yet I could rig a debate much less crudely than they did. It would be easy - I would simply pick questions, from the thousands of suggestions, that would make the Republicans look bad. I would not pick Democrat activists to ask the questions, on the contrary I would pick Republicans or real independents. There is…
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For most of my life I have been fascinated by two-man teams. Much is written in the management books about the decision making and leadership skills of individuals. Much is made of teams, of about six to a dozen or so people (a dozen being reckoned by most to be about the upper limit before factionalism sets in), and about the skill of building effective teams. But less, it seems to me, is made of…
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