whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...tralised brutality and authority. I remember the story of the protester in Genoa. Given the number of police attacked and severely injured it is somewhat surprising that only one protester got kil...

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Actually the police in Europe shot a protestor dead in Genoa, many more have been badly wounded, and others have had long sentences. If capitalism is so great, and has all these wonderful \"solutio

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...te. That is how democracy works. If you\'re brave enough. It takes no bravery to throw stones at the police of a European country. You know they won\'t do anything other than - at worst - pen yo...

4. Zimbabwe's Hope Deterred
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...How do they retract from this previous position? Tsvangirai has previously threatened to rid the army and police force of incompetence. Both the head of the army, General Constantine Chiwenga, and the...

5. The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o;t pay a road surcharge to drive in your area, any more than you pay a monthly subscription to the local police. The reason for this is one of “fairness”; everyone benefits from these se...

6. Xenophobia and the end of the African Renaissance
(Analysis/Analysis)

...a commission to be set up to investigate the causes of the turmoil. The violence is spreading. The same police who usually hassle African economic migrants for bribes while threatening them with dep...

7. Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
(Analysis/Analysis)

...trict control of their 200 mile exclusion zone but left the deep oceans open to all (after all, who would police it). Governments issued permits. It didn't help. Rogue elements could too easily...

8. Zimbabwe: the Hollow State
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...sult is that the only formally employed people left in the economy are working for the state as teachers, policeman, bureaucrats, street sweepers and the like. Most formal businesses are closed as the...

9. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ant. Lawyers were murdered. Opposition activists dropped out of helicopters in Namibia. This is what a police state does. "By embarrassing the government so often we may have, inadvertently, ...

10. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ssage to associates overseas on a Yahoo email account. Yahoo passed that information over to the Chinese police, and Shi was arrested. At great personal risk, Shi's mother Gao Qinsheng accepted...

11. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d one of our senior politicians, Councillor Simon Grindrod. He reported this matter to the Caledon Square police on Tuesday 15 May and they are currently investigating it,’ says De Lille. De Li...

12. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y with an international presence handed information on the activities of its journalists to an autocratic police state. A few of these journalists were subsequently arrested, tortured, and imprisoned...

13. Mama Jackie - the "Angel of Soweto" - assaults a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y women and children from the Trust were arrested and charged with public violence when they attacked the police who had arrived to arrest Maarohanye for the kidnapping. Once again she embarrasses he...

14. The 'War Against Corruption' starts with ending the 'Culture of Entitlement'
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d soon there isn’t anything left to take. Tackling corruption requires investigation and incorrupt police and judiciary.  This can be in short supply.  Rather, nip the whole thing bef...

15. We're from Mars and we want to help: four lessons in development
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...the power of the state (from newspapers, to NGOs, to independent judiciary, corruption investigators, and police). Everything else must be bought and sold otherwise the shear advancement, sophisticat...

16. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r and indulge in consumer action.  If you didn’t like the Trabant you had to take issue with a police-run, Soviet-era, state. Social development has been a lot like a centralised Soviet-ru...

17. The carnage on South Africa's roads
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...al fatalities and South Africa's economic powerhouse, has recently enjoyed the spectacle of their own police chief, Robert McBride, rolling his car in a drunken accident.  Witnesses at the sc...