What will the future of traffic look like? Are there any positive aspects of our current traffic situation? This post points towards answers to both. It discusses both the traffic trends in the Brazilian megacity of Sao Paulo as well as the democrat

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For some reason, a lot of Web terms have multiple versions. This is partly because Web-related words are relatively new and haven't had a chance to settle into standard, agreed-upon forms. Another reason is that American English words in general have a tendency to morph over time. Proving that America really is a democracy, unacceptable word

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Democrats do a lot of good for America. They focus on the country rather than the world and they make the economy better. But spreading democracy to camel riding people of far away countries is not their only goal in life. I am proud of the democrats. However I voted for George Bush.

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Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son Bilawal has been chosen to take over her Pakistan People’s Party, after her assassination on Thursday. He will become leader in a ceremonial capacity while he finishes his studies at Oxford University.

Bilawal told journalists at the Bhutto family home: “My mother always said democracy is the best revenge”

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A write up about a company by the name of Semco that is run by a democracy... Interesting stuff to say the least. There is also a link to an interview with Semco's CEO. Money quote:

"You don’t need to read Dilbert cartoons to realize that “democracy” and “company” are usually complete opposites. But what would actually happen if the boss

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I hope Saturday Night Live will have Ron Paul host their show. I'd bet that would be one of the highest rating shows in the last decade. Traditional media is absolutely, positively, one hundred percent biased against him. (This is not an endorsement for Ron Paul. I'm still undecided but I do believe democracy should be based

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It’s that time of year again when people everywhere ask me who I’m voting for and I reply with three little words: I don’t vote.

That’s the point I normally hear the other person say, “What?! You don’t vote? Not voting is the worst thing you can do! Apathy breaks Democracy. If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain ab

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Are we living in a corporate controlled democracy?

Half of the world lives with very little in a poor environment; many are starving or very sick with no chance of surviving. Meanwhile most of us in our democratic free-enterprise societies are consuming wildly. The more we get the more we want, prodded on by constant sly ma

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Greece is located on the tip of the Balkan peninsula. Greece sits between the east and the west at the crossroad of three continents. Traveling to Greece can be a life changing experience for some. It is the birth place of history, philosophy, democracy and traditions such as the Olympics. Greece has been a melting pot of cultu

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Athens is the capital of Greece. A few thousand years ago it used to be a state. The first state which implemented democracy. It was also the first state that under democratic rule engaged in imperialistic and colonial expansion. Socrates, Plato and many more Athenians have defined western thought. Many ideas that define societ

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Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the XIth Panchen Lama of Tibet today turns 19. He has been missing for the past thirteen years along with his parents. There has been no information about his well being and whereabouts till date.

Although numerous governments and independent organizations in the past have consistently pressed the Chine

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Bijender Sharma writes: China’s state media today morning announced that 17 Tibetans have been sentenced between three years to life imprisonment in connection with the Lhasa revolt in March 2008. It is the first instance of a group of Tibetans handed down with harsh prison terms since protests broke out in Lhasa and various T

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Armed police checkpoints set up by the Burmese military regime are continuing to prevent almost all foreign experts in sanitation, nutrition and medicine from reaching cyclone survivors in the Irrawaddy delta. Their names and passport numbers are being taken down and they are being sent away: "No foreigners allowed." Some aid

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Europe is now debating whether to regulate the status of blogs because of the potential threat they pose to democracy in the world. The Culture Committee has taken it upon themselves to protect the interests of the web, and in doing so is setting out to become the first democratic region in the world to regulate the freedom of

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We were first made aware of the new proposal to regulate bloggers in Europe from a report on dn.se (EU vill registrera bloggare). Drafted by "Estonian Socialist" Marianne Mikko it sees a risk in the unregulated power of bloggers to influence and put undue pressure on the journalistic profession as well as political events.

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