Category Archives: Politics

Iran going mad?

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There must be a plan, but when it involves

a) sacking 40 of your ambassadors
b) sacking 8 heads of your biggest banks
c) having your stock exchange plummet 25% in 4 weeks time
d) choosing two candidates to head your oil exports, who know nothing of the oil business whatsover, and having the first voted against and the second calling it quits just hours before the vote
e) following a religious leader as a politician who is more hard-line than Khameni
and
f) getting the Atomic Energy Agency to submit your nuclear power programme to the UN security council

either something’s going wrong, or it’s not such a good plan…

Traffic cops not necessary

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In the Ukraine ALL traffic cops were fired in one fell swoop – and what changed to the safety and traffic situation? Exactly NOTHING!
Get rid of them here!

From his subordinates Yushchenko demanded – and received – a plan to dissolve the DAI and by the beginning of July the deed was done, the executive order signed.

Ukraine’s once-feared traffic police ceased to exist.

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But that’s not the way it turned out. Drivers in the Ukrainian provincial cities of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv reported traffic was moving quite normally and most drivers were obeying regulations, even though there were few, if any, traffic cops around to enforce them.

US backs a Nuclear India

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush, in a dramatic policy shift, promised India full cooperation on Monday in developing its civilian nuclear power program without demanding that it sign a major nuclear arms control treaty.

From Reuters

What about Pakistan? They sure won’t be happy… will this jeapordise the ongoing peace processes that are finally progressing in Kashmir?

Personal World Map

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The world is sperical, and if you’ve ever seen a map, you may think you know how ffar away bits and pieces of it are from you. And that would be vaguely true, in a geographical sense (well, the maps we see are generally not very geographically correct, but that’s a different story), but in terms of how long it takes you to get from A to B or in terms of how much it will cost you to get from A to B it’s a whole different story.
So this map shows you the distances based on cost and travel time from your point of reference (ie. where you are on the map). Interestingly, Africa is very isolated from almost everywhere, whereas the US and Europe are very very close indeed.