The situation requires a Jefferson. There isn’t one. For whatever reason, the strident, terrifying voices of eternal hostility to tyranny over the mind of man, of give me liberty of give me death, are stilled. The words are mouthed, but without the spirit to back them up. The cultural forces which produce that kind of [...]
Read more →The ‘Ndrangheta, the Italian organised crime group, does yearly business equivalent to some 3 percent of Italy’s economy and more than the total of that of some small European nations, according to a study on Wednesday. The crime group, which has overtaken the Sicilian Mafia for control of drug trafficking, was responsible for the slaying [...]
Read more →The United States is “stuck” with its war-on-terror detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because it cannot figure out what to do with prisoners who cannot be charged or set loose, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT Gates told lawmakers that he still believes that the prison should be closed, but has not [...]
Read more →http://www.nbc5i.com/community/16330040/detail.html vs. about, what, $0.20 a mile for gasoline? it’s going to move pretty fast when it starts.
Read more →The crisis has focused attention on the obscene inequities of this era – the world’s 1,100 richest people have almost twice the assets of the poorest 2.5bn. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto051520081439544376&page=2 My contention has always been that wealth concentration of this kind requires and implies the political oppression, usually implying force, of those on the losing end of [...]
Read more →Mr. Hauser uncovered the means to answer these questions definitively. On this page in 1993, he stated that “No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America tax revenues have remained at about 19.5% of GDP.” What a pity that his discovery has not been more widely disseminated. The chart nearby, updating the [...]
Read more →NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO’s. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this. http://ngoinabox.org/
Read more →Since late March, 74,000 people had registered on a Facebook page created and run by Maher and a few other young Egyptians, most of them newcomers to activism. Even some of Egypt’s older, more disillusioned proponents of democracy had let themselves hope that a social networking Web site created by American college students could become [...]
Read more →The idea is to extend the mast of the Spar above the deck, and then to hang a lightweight deck as a tensile structure, akin to a bridge, off the mast. This is a good idea because tensile structures are cheap compared to compression structures. The cables would probably be fairly light, and number in [...]
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