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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Dec 27, 2007
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I was in India when the Nandigram incidents took place, it was around March and I was traveling all over North India. At the centre of the disputew were land acquisitions meant for a Special Economic Zone(SEZ) , initiated by the West Bengal State Government (controlled by the Communist Party...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Dec 28, 2007
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That's what Bandula Gunawardene wants you to eat next year. From the bottom-line , With the price of flour shooting up by Rs. 9 per kilo with immediate effect, Minister of Trade and Consumer Affairs Bandula Gunawardena yesterday demanded Sri Lankans not to rely on wheat flour instead,...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jan 8, 2008
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According to one study, monkeys pay for sex. that's right, there are monkey-whores. .um I mean commercial sex workers. This is what TIME says, It turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought: In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia,...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jan 16, 2008
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Cafe Hayek points me to a nice op-ed on Free Trade on the NYTimes , Here's some relevant excerpts, I doubt there’s a human being on earth who hasn’t benefited from the opportunity to trade freely with his neighbors. Imagine what your life would be like if you had to grow your own food,...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jan 16, 2008
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Tyler Cowen has an interesting piece on the topic over at Mint . The article pretty much echoes what Cris Lingle had to say at a forum I was involved in late last year. The backlash against cultural globalization is inevitable and understandable. A group of people in every society have...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jan 19, 2008
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Tyler' Cowen's "Markets in everything" posts are now compiled into its own website . An awesome read.... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Nov 7, 2007
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‘Democracy’ and ‘Crisis’ are words we have come to associate them in the same sentence. In this site and elsewhere, many people have lamented over the conduct of the present administration; Its blatant disregard for anything remotely ‘democratic’ – be it in a lack of...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Oct 18, 2007
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Since the dead C.W.W. Kannangara recently celebrated his birthday, I thought I’ll recycle an old blogpost I never quite completed.. -- Sri Lanka is said to have a free education policy, the state providing education at primary, secondary, and undergraduate levels free of charge. But is that...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: Jul 8, 2007
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The Rajapakse government certainly has more than its share of morons, who are more than willing to open their mouths and forget about their heads. Keheliya Rambukwella of course has the official designation closely imitated by other aspirants such as Jeyaraj Fernandopulle and that 5th minister of...... [view]
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Posted By: deane034
Posted On: May 28, 2007
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Often you'd find free-market proponents counter questions like “so, what about the poor?” by arguing that if the market is free enough it would, given time, service the poor. The notion is of course true, for most things. A profit seeking company doesn’t mind where their money comes from...... [view]
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