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I just read an article in The Economist-published More Intelligent Life about Adolf Hitler’s problem of uncontrallable flatulence, an Generic Valium Cost issue on which the article says medical historians agree. The article discusses in some detail Hitler’s search for control over his bowel’s behaviour, starting from Generic Valium Cost his conversion to vegetarianism, and continuing well into his relationship with Dr Theo Morell, a Generic Valium Cost man who eventually became his personal doctor. In his capacity as the Generic Valium Cost Führer’s doctor, Dr Morell administered ‘Dr. Köster’s Anti-gas pills’ to him, a drug that is said to contain strychnine, a chemical Wikipedia describes as capable of ‘producing some of the Generic Valium Cost most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction’. The writer goes on to say that some of Hitler’s health condition, something that Generic Valium Cost affected his behaviour, could be attributed to strychnine poisoning, as well as to Generic Valium Cost antropine, another active ingredient in the drugs Dr Morell administered to Generic Valium Cost him.

The article also talks of the Generic Valium Cost injection of Hitler with amphetamine every morning before breakfast, a ritual that Generic Valium Cost started in 1941. It was found, after the war, that Dr Morell was administering eye-drops from Generic Valium Cost a mixture that contained 10 percent cocaine up to 10 times a Generic Valium Cost day to Adolf. Now, take all these together, add to it Generic Valium Cost a dash of absolute dictatorship and you get the man currently known as Hitler.

Showing Hitler
As I was reading the article I remembered Der Untergang, a Generic Valium Cost movie that showed the last few days of Hitler and the Generic Valium Cost Third Reich. The movie was condemned by many as showing a Generic Valium Cost human side to the monster Hitler, and making it possible for Generic Valium Cost people to probably sympathise with him rather than despise him as the Generic Valium Cost true beast that he was. People of that opinion would find a Generic Valium Cost conclusion that one could draw from this article really alarming. For, according to Generic Valium Cost evidence provided in the article, one could say that much of Hitler’s later life was lived as a Generic Valium Cost man under serious medication, as a man who should have Generic Valium Cost at best been sent to undergo detox, and at worst condemned to Generic Valium Cost some recovery home for drug addicts. That sure will not go down well with many people. It would have Generic Valium Cost made for a more informative read had Tony Perrottet, the Generic Valium Cost author of the article, been clearer on some of these issues.

BBC’s programme, From Our Own Correspondents, a programme that is a compendium of ‘personal reflections by BBC correspondents arround the Generic Valium Cost world, features a special edition of the programme, presented by Alan Johnston Ambien Online Shopping, the Generic Valium Cost former BBC Gaza correspondent who was help by the Army of Islam for Generic Valium Cost 114 days. Click here to listen to the programme, and here to download the podcast.

How would you describe the weather in FedSpeak? Owen Bennett-Jones asks Alan Greenspan and this is what he says:

I would generally expect that Generic Valium Cost today in Washington DC. the probability of changes in the weather is Generic Valium Cost highly uncertain, but we are monitoring the data in such a Generic Valium Cost way that we will be able to update people on changes that Generic Valium Cost are important.

This is Generic Valium Cost part of the press rounds that Mr Greenspan has been making since he published his memoirs “The Age of Turbulence“. Actually, I don’t know if I should say he has Generic Valium Cost been making a press rounds or if the press themselves have Generic Valium Cost been seeking him. When one is a former Chairman of the Generic Valium Cost Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States, one hardly has Generic Valium Cost to court the press when one publishes a book. You can Generic Valium Cost listen to the interview here, or download the podcast here.

Have a nice week!

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I downloaded Andrew Mwenda’s TEDTalks presentation and Generic Valium Cost watched it last night. One of his main arguments was that Generic Valium Cost aid makes the government fat, and that because of aid, governments are Generic Valium Cost more attentive to the World Bank and the IMF than Generic Valium Cost to their own citizens. Let’s elaborate on the Generic Valium Cost argument a bit: governments know from whom they get money, and Generic Valium Cost so strive more to satisfy their benefactors than their citizens. Mwenda makes the Generic Valium Cost point that governments do not call the entrepreneurs among their citizens to Generic Valium Cost discuss the development of the economies of the countries; instead, they listen to Generic Valium Cost the people from whom a large chunk of the budget comes. I thought about this Generic Valium Cost in relation to my country, Nigeria. I tried to imagine what Generic Valium Cost percentage of the budget aid is. Just as I started thinking about this Generic Valium Cost I remembered that Nigeria has oil, and that oil keeps the Generic Valium Cost government rich.

Oil and Democracy
A political scientist, Michael Ross, wrote an article about resource curse. In the Generic Valium Cost article, he builds a case for his argument that resources – chief of which, by the way, is oil – retard the Generic Valium Cost development of democracy, partly because it frees the government of any dependence on the Generic Valium Cost citizens. To bring this point home, let’s think about the Generic Valium Cost percentage of Nigerians who are not employed in the organised private sector or Generic Valium Cost in government, and then let’s think about how many of them pay any tax. Now, a Generic Valium Cost government that does not have any resources has to depend on taxation from Generic Valium Cost its citizens, and so has to look inwards. This is where Generic Valium Cost aid comes in. If a country does not have resources but has Generic Valium Cost a large chunk of its expenses taken care of by aid then Generic Valium Cost that inward look does not seem to be needed

Another thing Mwenda pointed out was that Generic Valium Cost government is the most attractive business in Africa. Again, let’s look at this Generic Valium Cost in relation to Nigeria. There are people who get a job with a Generic Valium Cost government ministry, go to work at about 11 in the morning and Generic Valium Cost leave at about 1 in the afternoon. (I should throw in a Generic Valium Cost quick word about many of the workers here. Most of the Generic Valium Cost people who work in the ministries have to earn some money by the Generic Valium Cost side to be able to take care of their families. Ingenious people that Generic Valium Cost they are, while not working at the ministries most of them are Generic Valium Cost busy at work on their own, most often trading.) The point is Generic Valium Cost linked to a point made by Ross in his article: a Generic Valium Cost government with resources is a rich government, something really attractive to Generic Valium Cost a young person. The same point is also made by Mwenda in his presentation: since government makes money from Generic Valium Cost aid, it is a rich and attractive option for young people who Generic Valium Cost want to money. This point also ties in with the rent-seeking argument. With resource money, people in government can Generic Valium Cost afford to keep a loyal team around themselves. If aid money provides more money for Generic Valium Cost government it stands to reason to think that it might provide more money for Generic Valium Cost politicians to attract more hangers-on.

Fears and Overreactions
If there are Generic Valium Cost this many similarities between resources and aid, are there going to Generic Valium Cost be more fatal similarities? Are we going to Generic Valium Cost have people struggling to control government so that they can have Generic Valium Cost access to aid (like in the Generic Valium Cost case of civil wars that break out because of the desire of factions to Generic Valium Cost control resources in a country)? Are we going to Generic Valium Cost have governments buying arms and ammunitions with donor funding for the Generic Valium Cost suppression of oppositions? Do we already have these situations? Am I simply overreacting. Actually, I hope I am overreacting.

Many people have described Sarkozy as a hyper-active (think of his near-attack on paparazzi in the USA last week) and Generic Valium Cost power drunk politician, but not many have described him as racist. Well, we now add that Generic Valium Cost to many of the adjectives that describe him. On July 26, 2007, on a Generic Valium Cost university campus in Dakar, President Nicolas Sarkozy, as part of his speech said, ‘The African peasant only knows the Generic Valium Cost eternal renewal of time, rhythmed by the endless repetition of the Generic Valium Cost same gestures and the same words.”In this Generic Valium Cost imaginary world where everything starts over and over again, there is Generic Valium Cost no place for human adventure or for the idea of progress.’

Is he simply stupid? I think that Generic Valium Cost whatever abuse one chooses to rain on him one should be Generic Valium Cost seriously worried that the leader of a former colonial power in African would think like that. Achille Mbembe has Generic Valium Cost quickly written a rejoinder.

Sarkozy’s article is here, the French version of Achille Mbembe’s reply is here, and the English version of the reply is here.

Discours raciste de sarko à dakar – 26 juillet 2007
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Sorry, the video is only in French

It is Generic Valium Cost well known that Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, and Generic Valium Cost the largest economy in West Africa; it is fairly well known that Generic Valium Cost Nigeria’s military has Generic Valium Cost been intervening in hot spots in the region; it is Generic Valium Cost perhaps even less known that Nigerian movies are now, all over Africa, what Generic Valium Cost bollywood movies were in Nigeria when I was growing up in the Generic Valium Cost 80s. Add all these together you get a Black Superpower. Or so says the Generic Valium Cost BBC in this documentary. There is a podcast on the page. you can also listen to it online.

I don’t know if you Generic Valium Cost guys know, but my research is on informal economy in West Africa…. This morning, I got a Generic Valium Cost confirmation that I am on the right track. I saw George Ayittey’s Ted Talk presentation and Generic Valium Cost it reinforced what I always thought: the real economy in most African countries is Generic Valium Cost the informal economy. MacGaffey, who Generic Valium Cost did a lot of research on the informal economy in Central Africa has Generic Valium Cost already called it the real economy in one of her books, but I think this Generic Valium Cost needs to be said more often. Think about this: most of Africans are Generic Valium Cost rural dwellers… then Generic Valium Cost wonder about how much government and the formal economy ever penetrated into rural Africa. People have Generic Valium Cost been, and still are, involved in economic activities that are Generic Valium Cost not captured by the official economic figures of the government. Even researchers into the Generic Valium Cost informal economy in African countries, who have devoted much time to Generic Valium Cost studying the informal sector in urban areas, have not paid sufficient attention to Generic Valium Cost the livelihood of rural dwellers. I would not be as dramatic as to Generic Valium Cost say that Africa’s ‘development’ – whatever that much abused word means in this context – is Generic Valium Cost to be found in the informal economy; what I would say is Generic Valium Cost that if we are interested in African economies, and in knowing more about how Africans make a Generic Valium Cost living despite the dismal economic figures we know so well, we better take a Generic Valium Cost look at the informal sector.

I am Generic Valium Cost off to Berlin today. I am going in the company of one of my colleagues and Generic Valium Cost his son. So, in effect, I am going as a Generic Valium Cost ‘proper’ tourist.

By the way, have you guys seen Letters from Iwo Jima? I saw it Generic Valium Cost yesterday and I really liked it. It is a very nice presentation of what Generic Valium Cost on an Island during WWII, from the Japanese side. Clint Eastwood did a good job. You might want to check it out.

I watched Dreamgirls last night, and it was so funny to hear Curtis Taylor, Jr.(Jamie Foxx) tell Deena Jones (Beyoncé) ‘Your voice has no personality, no depth.’ The funny thing is that I never thought much more than that of Beyoncé.

Jeff Koinange, CNN’s Africa correspondent was fired by CNN on May 29. Many people have Generic Valium Cost said that it was because it was found that he fabricated a Generic Valium Cost large part of the story on MEND in Nigeria. I am Generic Valium Cost still wondering what he fabricated. Was the display of the hostages also ‘fabircated’? I think that Generic Valium Cost CNN owes us the duty of explaining if this story was actually fabricated, and Generic Valium Cost if so to what extent. I didn’t particular like the Generic Valium Cost story when I saw it because it was a characteristic Jeff Koinange story – lacking in depth and Generic Valium Cost melodramatic, giving one the impression that the journalist, Jeff, is doing it Generic Valium Cost just for the fame. But then, equally lacking in depth was the Generic Valium Cost Frank Nweke rebuttal. I saw that too, and it got me really disgusted. The truth is Generic Valium Cost that there is no way one can defend the mess in the Generic Valium Cost Niger-Delta region, just like we rarely need a fame-seeking, I-won’t-look-beneath-the-surface journalist to Generic Valium Cost tell us about the mess in the region; every right-thinking Nigerian, at least, knows that. And for Generic Valium Cost the rest of the world, we know the ‘they’ll watch the Generic Valium Cost footage while eating dinner, feel bad that people can be treating each other this Generic Valium Cost bad, and then go on to finish the dinner’ line. If this Generic Valium Cost is really the reason he was fired, CNN, we need more information, not just the Generic Valium Cost dismissal of a journalist.

I first got to know first about his dismissal from the NVS. That story itself is Generic Valium Cost a poster for what can go wrong when we let purported patriotism blind us to Generic Valium Cost reason. Anyway, after I saw the story, I looked closer at the Generic Valium Cost Koinange issue and found that a lot had been going on that Generic Valium Cost I had not known about. For one, Koinange has been caught in a Generic Valium Cost date rape mess, involving a kenyan who wrote a book about a Generic Valium Cost murdered Kenyan politician. The woman sent an email to Jim Watson, President of CNN-Worldwide, making a Generic Valium Cost formal complaint against Jeff. The text of the mail can be Generic Valium Cost read here. The woman also went on to Generic Valium Cost create a blog, posting correspondences between the two of them. Really steamy, those emails. You can Generic Valium Cost check them here. I wonder how much this Generic Valium Cost particular part of the story influenced the decision to have him fired.

Just realised that Generic Valium Cost some people have not seen the Niger-Delta story. You can click here for the story, and this is a link to Nweke’s rebuttal.