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Clinton on Transparency

Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable. ~ US

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Doublespeak

Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., “downsizing” for layoffs), making

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The Politics of Food

By Joel Salatin American farmer Joel Salatin, the star of the documentary Food Inc, has become a “pin up boy” for the growing food “re-localisation”

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Brodsky on Gold

By Paul Brodsky In practical terms, we can’t lower rates below zero and we can’t raise them. What about debt-focused quantitative easing? That won’t work

Quote-du-Jour

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The odds of dying on an airplane as a result of a terrorist hijacking are less than 1 in 25 million ­ which, for all