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Apr 18, 2010 22:38

The siege of Cadiz as central in the defeat of Napoleon.

Newsreel of the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. (The Allied signatories in order are Macarthur as Allied Supreme Commander, the US, China, UK, USSR, Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, New Zealand.)

Looking at the nuclear alertness issue. A shortage of Helium3 is Read more... )

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Africa Wars tcpip April 19 2010, 05:11:59 UTC
Good article. A little scratching on more successful part (e.g., Botswana) may reveal a solution.

WRT to Zimbabwe, I like to say that the country was very well managed under Mugabe's first wife.

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Re: Africa Wars erudito April 19 2010, 08:54:41 UTC
A little scratching on more successful part (e.g., Botswana) may reveal a solution.
Have a dominant tribe surrounded by lots of little tribes that it does not feel threatened? Have Sir Seretse Khama as your founding President?

WRT to Zimbabwe, I like to say that the country was very well managed under Mugabe's first wife.
Nice wit, but a thin thread to run a country on.

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Re: Africa Wars tcpip April 19 2010, 10:27:27 UTC
Botswana has a very different approach to the "resource curse"

http://www.theiu.org/films/silver-bullet-i-the-human-right.html

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Re: Africa Wars erudito April 21 2010, 13:20:02 UTC
The film actually isn't very informative. I gather, from a quick look around, that Botswana has some form of resource rental tax which is ploughed into useful infrastructure.

I am not sure, however, that my points are independent of that. (I.e. there may be a virtuous circle between good politics and good policy.)

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Re: Africa Wars tcpip April 19 2010, 10:30:35 UTC
Oh, and WRT Zimbabwe, you are right of course, and it underlines the point of institutions which you are justifiably fond of.

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