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Month August 2008

CNN interview with Vladimir Putin

Tran­script of CNN inter­view with Vladi­mir Putin. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Update, 2 Sep 2008: video added.

Never a better time to boycott U.S. goods

U.S. second-quarter growth came in a little higher than expec­ted today, on the back of exports which grew at a 13.2% annual rate, thanks to a weakened dol­lar. Res­ult: fears of reces­sion this year quelled. Seems to me there’s never been a bet­ter time to boy­cott U.S. goods.

Free Gaza boats successfully break Israeli blockade

Over the week­end a group from the Free Gaza Move­ment, includ­ing my good friend Ken O’Keefe, set out in boats from Cyprus and suc­cess­fully broke Israel’s contempt­ible eco­nomic block­ade of Gaza. Ken emailed through a few pho­tos today, with this mes­sage: Some pic­tures to share of a day that may have largely ignored in the West, but was deeply…

The grotesqueness of inequality

I was reluct­ant to post this at first because it sug­gests the Demo­crats will save the day. They won’t. How­ever, it’s nice to know this sort of thing gets talked about occa­sion­ally in the halls of power of the United States of Amer­ica. Of course it’s not a prob­lem isol­ated to the U.S. either. Via…

It’s a good thing, Jane

Jane Clifton muses on the emer­gence of blog­ging and it’s rela­tion­ship with old fash­ioned journ­al­ism, com­plain­ing that “it’s hard to tell whether the inform­a­tion pro­viders are accur­ate, biased or simply mali­cious.” “The Blo­ger­ati” responds in good fash­ion, but what I like that blog­ging brings to the table is exactly what Clifton fears: uncer­tainty about who is telling the truth. One…

A glitch in the media matrix

The NZ Her­ald has pub­lished a remark­able edit­or­ial today which offers rare insight into just how well our “free” media sys­tem serves to under­mine demo­cracy, while the back­ground story offers great insight into how much National Party politi­cians deplore demo­cracy and how deplor­ably dis­hon­est they can be in the lead up to an elec­tion. As an aside: the only politicians…

Email bankruptcy

I recently cleared my email inbox at work and put meas­ures in place to keep it that way. It took a couple of solid days hard graft to make sure things were prop­erly filed or oth­er­wise taken care of. Now I’m giv­ing my per­sonal email the same treat­ment. The prob­lem here is that I’m deal­ing not with thousands…

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