Here’s a New Blog about Development Aid

Aid Watch
Here’s a new blog from NYU and William Easterly that focuses on questions around development assistance.  Probably worth a look from time to time.

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The Shoe attacker and American foreign policy

On Sunday morning President Bush suffered a rude awakening from an Iraqi news reporter at a press conference in Baghdad.  The attack consisted of the reporter throwing both of his shoes and yelling ” this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog”.  While to Americans the throwing of a show is slightly humorous, in the [...]

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Water is new depleted resource

The United States is facing a water shortage that is leading to the third year in a row of drought. Many say that while we are focusing mostly on oil in the next few years the attitude will adjust as many see water shortages. Water is a resource that is being over used in the [...]

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Oil Crisis in Nigeria

Oil is a large contributor to the national income of Nigeria. However, the country sees an overwhelming amount of poverty and destruction. The gap in the link from oil contributions to the government budget and the common public is the steady and past history within the government. Yet, recently attacks have been made on oil [...]

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100 Billion not to be controlled by World Bank

With the recent convention for climate change in Poland there has been much talk about possible solutions. One step towards sustainability that is being worked on is a fund for developing countries to build clean carbon economies that will not pollute in an exponential fashion. However, the allocation and regulation of the funds has been [...]

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Torture with Defense Secretary to blame

 
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is said to have orchestrated abuse toward prisoners at Guantanamo bay. The type of abuse that was similar to the case in Iraq. The Senate came out with a report solely blaming Rumsfeld and his deputies for knowledge and guidance over the acts of torture. Unlike some cases of abuse, the [...]

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Life, Liberty, and Access to the Internet

From-> FP -> Must Reads -> http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_plan_for_broadband/
Technology blogs and commentators are applauding a part of President-elect Obama’s plan for economic recovery laid out in his most recent weekly address: the promise to make broadband internet access available in every corner of the country, and to push hospitals and doctors’ offices to improve care [...]

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Tony Blair Comments on Obama

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From -> NPR -> Tony Blair On Obama, US Foreign Relations.
Transcript->http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=97789900
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Another quickie weekend post: It looks like the world has warmed up to President Elect Obama and is continuing to stay that way. Tony Blair, in an NPR interview, gives Obama the thumbs up [...]

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Score Against The Pirates

After weeks and weeks of sustained attacks from pirates around the Somali coast, the “good guys” (as noted by a Fox newscast member) scored a point when “a Danish warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden to guard against piracy actually ended up rescuing seven suspected Somali pirates who were adrift with a broken motor in [...]

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An All-Around Depressing Post…

High unemployment rates. Cheap gas. Economic recession. …There are several problems tied into the current economic situation, and as it gets worse, more analysis has gone into the relation of these issues. Unemployment peaked to 6.7% as 533,000 jobs were lost in November. This number is particularly significant because according to the New York Times, [...]

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