www.instablogs.com Jubilant China China has another reason to cheer. The successful hosting of Olympics followed by a textbook perfect launch of Shanzou VII carrying three astronauts into the space for countrys third manned space flight and first space walk, has left the country euphoric

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Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with host Russ Roberts about the economics of the housing market with a focus on the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The conversation closes with a postscript on the current financial crisis.

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Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing Market

FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN Media Release July 18, 2008 FRETILIN opposes Decree Law creating Economic Stabilization Fund “Today FRETILIN expresses great concern about the Economic Stabilisation Fund proposed in the revised budget, which in our view is full of illegalities and lacks transparency.” This statement was made by the FRETILIN Parliamentary Leader, Aniceto Guterres, in a media release yesterday, July 17. The Decree Law was approved by the Council of Ministers and proclaimed by the President of the Republic, Ramos-Horta, on July 14. FRETILIN called on MPs in the government coalition to join it in voting against the proposed law, as they did recently over the proposed firearms law

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FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN Media Release July 19, 2007 FRETILIN: Growing opposition to Gusmão’s maladministration and bad governance There is growing opposition to the misadministration and corruption of the Gusmão government with members of a key parliamentary committee and a key independent parliamentary consultative body rejecting the government’s request to withdraw from the Petroleum Fund an amount greater than the benchmark “sustainable income”*. The defacto Gusmão government wants the additional money from the Petroleum Fund for its revised budget.

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Media Release: FRETILIN: Growing opposition to Gusmão’s maladministration and bad governance

FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN Media Release July 22, 2007 FRETILIN condemns secret plan to create monopoly for vital supplies in Timor-Leste Aniceto Guterres, FRETILIN leader in parliament yesterday condemned the proposal by the Gusmao AMP government to create an Economic Stabilisation Fund using US$240 million of money from the Petroleum Fund. “It is a secret plan to create a monopoly in the supply of vital fuel and building materials, as well as vital rice and other foodstuffs, in the hands of one or two businesses linked to the ruling party and ministers in the government,” said Guterres. “Information we have indicates this is part of a secret plan to deliver all these vital contracts into the hands of a few well-connected businessmen at the expense of others who would otherwise be able to compete to bring down prices, but cannot do so with the bulk the government is purchasing,” said Guterres

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Media Release: FRETILIN condemns secret plan to create monopoly for vital supplies in Timor-Leste

FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN Media Release Dili, Timor-Leste, 6 August 2008 FRETILIN welcomes President’s decision to await outcome of opposition parties’ request for judicial review of 2008 revised budget FRETILIN today said it welcomed President Ramos Horta’s decision to wait until after the request by FRETILIN, KOTA/PPT and PUN to the Court of Appeal to undertake a constitutional review of key aspects of the revised budget of USD$425.6 million, which will see this year’s original annual budget increased to more than USD$773.3 million, before he would move to promulgate it into law. President Ramos Horta’s decision to await the outcome of the court’s constitutional review of aspects of the revised budget was announced yesterday (Tuesday 5 August) on Timor-Leste’s state owned television. FRETILIN parliamentary leader Aniceto Guterres said, “The President’s decision is a wise and prudent one, expressing caution and concern over the legality of a number of aspects of the revised budget proposed by the Gusmao de facto Government

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Media Release: FRETILIN welcomes President’s decision to await outcome of opposition parties’ request for judicial review of 2008 revised budget

FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN Media Release August 18, 2008 FRETILIN, opposition parties and some AMP MPs join forces to increase budget allocation for poverty stricken veterans FRETILIN, KOTA-PPT, PUN, ASDT and other AMP MPs joined forces to amend the budget presented by the Gusmao de facto Government, to immediately start paying the liberation war veterans’ pensions, at a cost of US$20 million. “Our proposal succeeded despite strong opposition by de facto Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and Finance Minister Emilia Pires to the very end,” said Josefa Soares Pereira, FRETILIN Parliamentary Party Secretary and MP. Soares and FRETILIN MP Osorio Florindo put forward the proposal during the budget debate which ended on 31 July 2008, in the Timor-Leste National Parliament, because the government could not explain why veterans were going to be made to wait a further six months or more for payment of their much needed pensions.

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MEDIA RELEASE: FRETILIN, opposition parties and some AMP MPs join forces to increase budget allocation for poverty stricken veterans

FRENTE REVOLUCIONARIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN Media Release September 23, 2008 Government unable to champion onshore LNG plant from Greater Sunrise – Mari Alkatiri The de facto AMP government lead by Xanana Gusmão is showing itself to be totally incapable to provide the legal, technical and economic arguments that can convince the Greater Sunrise joint venture partners that a pipeline to Timor-Leste and an onshore LNG processing plant is the best and most viable option for the field’s development, said the former Timorese Prime Minister Dr Alkatiri today.

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Media Release: Government unable to champion onshore LNG plant from Greater Sunrise – Mari Alkatiri

FRENTE REVOLUCIONÁRIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE FRETILIN KOMUNIKADU IMPRENSA 23 Setembru 2008 GOVERNU LA KONSEGUE ARGUMENTA ATU LORI KANU GAZ NIAN HOSI GREATER SUNRISE MAI TIMOR-LESTE – Mari Alkatiri Governu defaktu AMP nian ne’ebé lidera hosi Xanana Gusmão hatudu ona katak sira la iha liu kapasidade atu ható argumentu legal, tékniku no ekonómiku ne’ebé bele konvense parseirus esplorasaun Greater Sunrise nian atu dada kanu no hari estasaun prosesamentu gaz nian iha Timor-Leste nia rai laran, maske opsaun ida ne’e mak diak liu ba dezenvolve kampu ne’e, Eis-Primeiru-Ministru Mari Alkatiri dehan ohin. Dr Alkatiri mak halao negosiasaun ba Tratadu Tasi Timor nian no Tratadu kona ba akordu balu ne’ebé halo ba Tasi Timor nian (CMATS). Nia koalia kona ba Greater Sunrise iha Dili hafoin hetan malu ho deputadus FRETILIN nian hodi diskuti akontesimentus ikus liu kona ba kampu ne’e tamba rona foin dadauk ne’e hosi media katak parseirus sira seluk hakarak halo prosesamentu gaz hosi Greater Sunrise iha Darwin

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Komunikadu Imprensa – GOVERNU LA KONSEGUE ARGUMENTA ATU LORI KANU GAZ NIAN HOSI GREATER SUNRISE MAI TIMOR-LESTE – Mari Alkatiri

Karol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about wildlife management in Africa. Their conversation focuses on community-based wildlife management in Namibia, a policy to give communities the incentives to protect wildlife and avoid the tragedy of the commons.

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Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa

space. He was initially reluctant to consider sales training but a friend insisted after he’d experienced 500% growth in his first quarter working with Marcus. Mark now no longer does free consulting

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Keith reports on the GOP’s economic policies of undoing everything that FDR put in place and how to fix it with John Talbott. … Countdown Keith Olbermann Deregulation Economy John Talbott

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Countdown: Undoing Regulations

Barack Obama is meeting with his top economic advisers, looking to carve an economic policy that could determine whether he wins or loses the election. Dean Reynolds reports.

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Proposal (RfP) procedure. Rosoboronexport, which has been lobbying for the contract since March 2007, switched its offer last month into direct state-to-state negotiations, trying to sell a dozen S-400 missile systems worth $4 billion (Zaman, July 21)

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Türkiyenin muhtemelen 2009-2010 deki Hava Savunma Sistemi (S-400) Füzeleri kalkanı

There is always a debate on whether these are worth investing in or not.  Whatever the side of the argument you are on it is worth having the ability to create and display these tags well. Wordpress is a wonderful tool but has some out of the box deficiencies.  The creation of meta tags is one but this can be addressed by adding plugins which extend the functionality of the core package. One plugin I have adopted is the excellent Headspace2 which is modular and gives you the ability to control many aspects of your code as seen by the search engine spiders.

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Robert Shiller of Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current housing mess and related financial market problems. Shiller argues that the decade-long run up in housing prices was a bubble where speculative fervor outweighed any economic fundamentals. He also discusses the genesis of the Case-Shiller housing price index and his idea for how it might be used to reduce risk in the mortgage market.

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Shiller on Housing and Bubbles

Treasury Committess prepares to question BOE policy makers on inflation report; King, other MPC member, prepare to answer politician’s quetions; BOE officials prepare to defend inflation report outlook; Report by Elliott Gotkine of Bloomberg News; Analysi

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Jonathan Rauch, of the Brookings Institution and the Atlantic Monthly, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the Chevy Volt, GM’s planned electric car. Due to the transparency of GM’s effort, Rauch was able to spend a great deal of time on site at GM writing a piece for the Atlantic Monthly on GM’s plans and hopes

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Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture