Credit where credit's due, this time to the EFF - she sounds like the sort of person we want in Parliament. City Press
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"he slower, more sustainable route, through the development and elevation of young leaders, has been surer, delivering Lindiwe Mazibuko and Mmusi Maimane to the upper reaches of the party. On Sunday, it seemed to veer into a ditch, with Mazibuko departing stage left for Harvard amid talk of a clash with Zille. It is a serious loss. Mazibuko is no longer just a precocious talent. She is a skilled politician, case-hardened by facing down her internal critics and an angry Zuma. But not hardened enough for whatever is coming next in the DA. Maimane complements Mazibuko, but whether he can play the same role is an open question. The ANC can afford to squander some talent. The DA cannot, and black talent least of all. The DA needs Mazibuko badly, for the 2016 local elections, and for a Parliament where it will compete with the EFF." Business Day
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A generally interesting and balanced piece on the public school system in Shanghai.
"If you don’t study, you’re not cool. That may be the most useful lesson the rest of the world can glean from what Shanghai is doing right." Newsweek
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"According to a 2006 French study, pedestrians are 1.4 times more likely to receive a traumatic brain injury than unhelmeted cyclists. We can also approach it from the perspective of injuries per million hours from a 1996 Australian study looking at head injury risk before the beginning of any helmet laws...
Risk of head injury per million hours travelled:
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"he slower, more sustainable route, through the development and elevation of young leaders, has been surer, delivering Lindiwe Mazibuko and Mmusi Maimane to the upper reaches of the party. On Sunday, it seemed to veer into a ditch, with Mazibuko departing stage left for Harvard amid talk of a clash with Zille. It is a serious loss. Mazibuko is no longer just a precocious talent. She is a skilled politician, case-hardened by facing down her internal critics and an angry Zuma. But not hardened enough for whatever is coming next in the DA. Maimane complements Mazibuko, but whether he can play the same role is an open question. The ANC can afford to squander some talent. The DA cannot, and black talent least of all. The DA needs Mazibuko badly, for the 2016 local elections, and for a Parliament where it will compete with the EFF." Business Day
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A generally interesting and balanced piece on the public school system in Shanghai.
"If you don’t study, you’re not cool. That may be the most useful lesson the rest of the world can glean from what Shanghai is doing right." Newsweek
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http://anarchyofproduction.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ufo.jpg?w=530
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"According to a 2006 French study, pedestrians are 1.4 times more likely to receive a traumatic brain injury than unhelmeted cyclists. We can also approach it from the perspective of injuries per million hours from a 1996 Australian study looking at head injury risk before the beginning of any helmet laws...
Risk of head injury per million hours travelled:
- Cyclist - 0.41
- Pedestrian - 0.80
- Motor vehicle occupant - 0.46
- Motorcyclist - 7.66"
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"Central to the South African story is a myth once embraced almost exclusively by whites but which has become embedded in the worldview of much of the middle class. It sees the poor as irrational barbarians, prey to the promises of any demagogue. And so any populist who seems to be urging the black poor to rise up and seize the wealth of the affluent is assumed to enjoy mass support. This explains why Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was assumed to be an icon of the poor and why Malema and the EFF have taken over this mantle.
This fantasy ignores overwhelming evidence that living in poverty is no bar to rational thought and that poor people are perfectly capable of knowing who represents their interests and who does not." Sacsis
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"For the first time ever, many of the farmers who supply Mexican drug cartels have stopped planting marijuana, reports the Washington Post. "It's not worth it anymore," said Rodrigo Silla, a lifelong cannabis farmer from central Mexico. "I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization."" Mother Jones
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