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Setting cities free? « « Beyond Green Beyond Green: "What we need isn’t enterprise zones or HS2: it’s a shift in the public and policy mindset towards the creation of compact, concentrated, efficient and empowered cities beyond the commuter belt."

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Guadalajara is in trouble - car trouble

Guadalajara is in a state of emergency | Carfree MX: "It is unfortunate that the Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone, with a population of more than 4 million 600 thousand according to INEGI, currently has a higher index of cars per inhabitants than Mexico City."

Everyone who sees cars as the future should visit and try breathing for a day.


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The lethal automobile circa 1920

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City – Carbusters: "“The automobile as a death dealing instrument was unanimously decided upon as the greatest present day menace to public safety.” These words were not written in 1960s Holland or 1970s New York City but in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920."

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You thought the Georgia-Russia situation is calm?

Georgia-Russia: Learn to Live like Neighbours - International Crisis Group: "Three years after their August 2008 war over the South Ossetia region, tension is growing again between Russia and Georgia, and talks are needed to restore stability and create positive momentum in a situation that is fragile and potentially explosive."

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Cameron on the wrong track

Cameron’s Plan to Limit Social Networking Access Unwise | Human Rights First: "Washington, DC – U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron says his government is “working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.” Human Rights First today called British Prime Minister David Cameron’s suggestion the wrong antidote to cure social unrest. "

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Guatemala Courage in The Face of Death Threats

Expert witnesses receive death threats after Guatemala massacre trial | Amnesty International: "Four staff members of a forensic anthropology team in Guatemala have received death threats after testifying at a recent high-profile trial over a 1982 army massacre that left 250 villagers dead. ... The threat came after a judge in Guatemala City sentenced four former soldiers from an elite army unit to 6,060 years in prison on 2 August for their role in a 1982 massacre in Dos Erres village in Guatemala’s northern Petén region. "
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Peirce's understanding of logic is similar to the core ideas in the Socratic dialectic

Joseph Ransdell, "Peirce and the Socratic Tradition" at ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: "Had it not been for the formal work of Aristotle, the Stoic logicians, Kant, Boole, and DeMorgan, Peirce doubtless could not have reconceived and generalized the principles of logic as he did and been able to arrive finally at his own conception of logic as semiotic. But there is a core of ideas in Peirce's understanding of what logic is which is similar to the core ideas implicit in the practice of Socratic dialectic, and these ideas are not available in Aristotle or in the thinking of any of the other formalists who developed logic after Socrates and Plato, as far as I can see."

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