Archive for June, 2009

Us vs Them Splits

June 28, 2009
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Us vs Them Splits

Painting my part of the house we call the politburo, I'm listening to the most recent edition of Radio Open Source. Chris's guest, investor, teacher, writer and sometimes politcian Juan Enriquez, touc
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Flying Blind

June 22, 2009
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Flying Blind

When the Obama Administration took over in January, along with a few new faces in the US congress, there were sure to be changes in how the government does business. Soon after, Defense Secretary Gate
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bm306 Videojournalist in Somalia

June 16, 2009
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Journalist Ruud Elmendorp just returned from Somalia where he observed and reported on the state of things in that country. This complicated journey involved getting protection from the African Union
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The Foreign Correspondent

June 12, 2009
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The Foreign Correspondent

Perhaps fitting that during my return from Slovakia yesterday, I had the Current Podcast playing an episode that examined the career of journalist Joe Schlesinger. Joe was born in Bratislava, on one
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On the EU Elections

June 8, 2009
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On the EU Elections

I wrote a piece for the Guardian on the Dutch vote during last week's European Parliamentary elections. Here's an excerpt: The headlines on Friday morning in Amsterdam looked not unlike those in the
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Unimportance of Borders

June 6, 2009
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Unimportance of Borders

"When I was a kid, we arrived at this border, on our way from Austria to Slovakia (Czechoslovakia) and we would have to stand at this border sometimes from 24 hours.  They would search every inch of o
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Mobile StoryCorps

June 3, 2009
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Mobile StoryCorps

You've heard me mention one of my top 5 programs to listen to, NPR's StoryCorps podcast. Today I listened to a beautiful edition of the program dedicated to letting individuals and pairs of people tel
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bmtv102 Failure to Yield

June 2, 2009
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The Union of Concerned Scientists put out a report recently which runs down the last decade of genetically modified crops. As you know thats a topic that greatly concerns this website; what geneticall
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