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Another interesting snippet re international aid and Africa: Tech Central Station - False Hope "Thus, the international aid system has essentially served to reward policies that slow down development, whatever the initial intentions of its advocates. Under such circumstances, the implementation of the rule of law in Africa, necessary
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"The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem." Source: SPIEGEL Interview
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On the Live 8 website it states that: "Every single day, 30,000 children die, needlessly, of extreme poverty. On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful statistic. 8 world leaders, gathered in Scotland for the G8 summit, will be presented with a workable plan
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Someone suggested to me the other day that I ought to join th eAustralian Labor Party. I replied that I was unable to commit to a party that upheld socialism as one of its core values. It made me recall a quote from Winston Churchill on socialism: "Socialism is
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) One little problem with Livy's idea is that a last hope may still lead to a stupid and unnecessary war. Many wars seem
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A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants him to work overnight to do a release and then to front up to work again early tomorrow morning. This
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Seth Godin makes an interesting point about a new digital divide: "I think a new divide has opened up, one that is based far more on choice than on circumstance. Several million people (and the number is growing, daily) have chosen to become the haves of the Internet, and
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Was reviewing the pictures on the Blogtalk Downunder Flickr and it occurred to me just now that I have not seen so many Mac notebooks in one place ever before. Then I went to check out one of the tools that was recommended Tinderbox - which only works on Macs.
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Just back from the Blogtalk Downunder conference that was held here in Sydney over the past few days. The conference was organised by the education department from the University of Technology Sydney, and the attendees were largely academics and teachers. There were a few industry people there, notably Trevor Cook
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In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of
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Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: "Honey, you must be very young. It's not just about how hard you work. The ole' boy's network is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough
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Am reading a new book by a first time fiction author, it is called "Z" by Jonar Nader and it has some really interesting ideas. He has written some other good non fiction stuff previously . Check out his website for more info http://www.logictivity.com/