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Aid to developing world falls for second year | Business | guardian.co.uk
“At the 2005 Gleneagles summit, G8 countries committed to pledge an additional $50bn in aid by 2010. Three years on, this target now looks to be missed by as much as $30bn, said Oxfam, enough to save 5 million lives.”
(tags: aid debt g8 internationaldevelopment poverty)
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Nick’s article on Ecuador from the latest Red Pepper. “We need a vision of growing qualitatively not quantitively.”
(tags: ecuador internationaldevelopment latinamerica nickbuxton redpepper)
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Report backs freer use of data | Technology | The Guardian
“work is under way on a government “information incubator” to encourage experiments with “mashups” and other innovative uses of government data”
(tags: fordevblog freedata government uk web2.0)
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No Impact Man: How FDR got us to carpool
One World War II poster read: “When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler! Join a Car-Sharing Club TODAY!”
(tags: carsharing environment fdr propaganda reduction)
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What’s Alan Watching?: The Wire: David Simon Q
“I don’t think it’s cynical about human beings. I think that’s why viewers were so committed and loyal, because the human beings that were traversing this rigged game were entirely worth the time spent following them.”
(tags: davidsimon interview thewire tv)