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• Vikings and Pirates and Taxes, Oh My!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Today’s episode of “ Hagar the Horrible ” could be an epigraph for the new Fall 2009 issue of Cato Journal . This issue includes Greek economists Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis on “Vikings in Greece: Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy” as well as Peter Leeson, ...
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• White House Taps Former Gates Foundation Executive for Foreign Aid Chief

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  President Obama has chosen Rajiv Shah, a medical doctor and currently a senior official at the Agriculture Department dealing with food security, to run the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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• NYT > World: Japan Pledges $5 Billion in New Afghan Aid

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Japan said that it would dramatically increase its nonmilitary aid for projects including clearing land mines and rehabilitating former Taliban fighters.
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• Rajiv Shah to Head USAID

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Laura Rozen at Politico reports that Rajiv Shah will be  nominated to head USAID . The 36 year-old Shah currently serves as the USDA Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist and has previously managed a $1.5 billion vaccine fund for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hill ...
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• Food Imports Wreck Farming and Create Famine

  
  Scragged — Authority: 123
  Time Magazine  recently explained how the Ethiopian agricultural system was destroyed by food aid so that the country remains in a state of perpetual famine and will need food aid to avoid starvation for the foreseeable future.  Weve also discussed a German professors computer models which demonstrate that doing ...
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• Japan Pledges $5 Billion in New Afghan Aid

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 142
  Japan said Tuesday it will dramatically increase its non-military aid for projects including clearing land mines and rehabilitating former Taliban fighters.
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• Letter: Money to Fight AIDS

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  To the Editor:.
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• Educate boys, or theyll go to war

  
  FP Passport — Authority: 683
  A World Bank researchpaper posted today finds that countries with a high proportion of youngmales with low levels of secondary education are significantly more conflict-prone.The combination of these "youth bulges" and low rates of secondary education isespecially likely to lead to conflict in low- and middle-income ...
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• NYT > World: China Pledges $10 Billion to Africa

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . China offered African governments a multibillion-dollar package of financial and technical assistance.
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• China Pledges $10 Billion to African Nations

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 563
  The New York Times reports on the Forum on African-China Cooperation currently underway in Egypt: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged to grant African countries $10 billion in low-interest development loans over the next three years, establish a $1 billion loan program for small and medium-size businesses, and ...
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• China Pledges $10 Billion to African Nations

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  China offered African governments a multibillion-dollar package of financial and technical assistance, stepping up a courtship that has gained Beijing access to oil and minerals.
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• £8 Billion Foreign Aid Budget Untouched, But £350 Million Cut off British Youth Training

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  The Government’s austerity measures include a £5 billion reduction in spending in Britain. This includes a £350 million cutback in job training for young British people — while the £8 billion foreign aid budget remains untouched. According to newspaper reports, official Government documents show that the ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• NYT > World: U.N. Says U.S. Delays Led to Aid Cuts in Somalia

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The American government has delayed food contributions out of fears they would be diverted to terrorists.
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• U.N. Says U.S. Delays Led to Aid Cuts in Somalia

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 142
  The American government has delayed food contributions out of fears they would be diverted to terrorists.
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• Egypt’s Trappings of Democracy

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Rannie Amiri writes in The Middle East Online that “it is always amusing to see how authoritarian regimes endow themselves with the  trappings of democracy  - a  party, parliament, ‘elections’ as if they somehow confer legitimacy to otherwise undemocratic governance.” Specifically, President Hosni ...
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• Evangelical Ducks Aside as U.S. Aid Is Redirected to Kill Ugandans with HIV/AIDS

  
  Truth Wins Out Blog — Authority: 562
  With the help of more than $200 million annually in U.S. taxpayer funds — including millions earmarked for antigay “AIDS prevention” –Ugandan political and religious leaders have shown the world that their new idea of internationally funded AIDS prevention and care is to execute the nation’s gay people if ...
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• Interview: U.N. Undersecretary-General John Holmes

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 772
  The top humanitarian official for the United Nations tells FP how to do aid in a time of war. Here’s a hint: it’s not pretty.
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• Congress debates permanently repealing a restriction on abortion funding

  
  The Uncooperative Bloggers — Authority: 118
  Nothing in the Healthcare bill to prevennt federal dollars going for abortion and now this... From Congress.org: As part of the State Department funding bill, the Senate could consider whether to make permanent Obamas repeal of the controversial so-called Mexico City policy. When in effect, the policy prevents ...
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