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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 24, 2009

  The illicit drug trade

...with Nazma Muller Daurius Figueira is a social researcher who has spent the last 20 years investigating the illicit drug trade. His areas of interest are broad yet interlocking; politics, government, the illicit drug trade, the illicit gun trade, human trafficking in the...... [view]

Posted By:  yendorke
Posted On:  Feb 21, 2009

  The Demise of the Political elite...

I pray, wish and long for your demise, For you've refused, refused to... Turn up your sleeves and serve me, Be attentive enough to understand me, Be there long enough to hear my cries, Open up you ears and listen to me. Please I beg you, beg you to... Turn your head and face me, ...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 18, 2009

  Race, class fuel social conflict on French Caribbean islands

POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe (AFP): A general strike crippling Guadeloupe and Martinique has exposed racial and class divides on the French Caribbean islands where a white elite wields power over a majority descended from African slaves. Protesters on Monday stepped up their nearly month-long...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 3, 2009

  Karzai scares Obama with Russia

MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov for RIA Novosti) - Russia may become a major factor in the presidential ambitions of the leading Afghan politicians during the country's presidential elections next summer. Speaking to the graduates of the Kabul Military Academy, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 14, 2009

  Will the war in Gaza compensate Israel for Lebanon?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Maria Appakova): "In many respects, the war in Gaza has compensated for the shortcomings of the Second Lebanon War. This time around, the decision to launch the offensive was calculated and reasoned, and the army has shown impressive...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008

  ‘Know your place’: Obama’s challenge to American racism

By: CHRISTOPHER VASILLOPULOS: “They could succeed, but they could hardly, in any real sense, return. They could expiate their crimes in a technical, legal sense, but what they suffered there warped them into permanent outsiders.” -- Robert Hughes, “The Fatal Shore” Robert...... [view]

Posted By:  darrendraper
Posted On:  Jul 1, 2008

  Parties, A Caution, and Additional Evidence

Parties I find it interesting that I've been lumped in with others as an ed-tech insider. The difficult thing about these perceptions is that those on the inside likely don't know it. I remember Stephen Downes commenting recently that he's felt just like new bloggers may feel - likes he's...... [view]

Posted By:  darrendraper
Posted On:  Jun 30, 2008

  Social Capital and EduBloggerCon

Two days later, here are some of my thoughts regarding this year's version of EduBloggerCon . Short, Shallow Version Beginning with IMHO : Ewan hopes for an EduBloggerCon that includes far too many /plug your ears, Bud / sages on the stages /end ear plugging/. Besides, it's easy to...... [view]

Posted By:  darrendraper
Posted On:  Apr 11, 2008

  Join The Club

Jon Becker wrote this about this and was noticed by him and by him and by her and by him and yes, also by me and a number of others. And while I think that she has said it very well (and the edublogger cocktail party may just be a false perception), I am positive that...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 23, 2008

  Reflections of President Fidel Castro: The Republican Candidate - (Part Four)

When in the previous reflection I asked McCain what he thought of the Five antiterrorist Cuban Heroes, I did so because I remembered what he had published on page 206 of his book Faith of My Fathers, co-written with his assistant Mark Salter: “It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes...... [view]

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