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....it happens very seldom

that the Economist is in agreement with Fidel Castro.   But too much is too much, also for the Ultra-liberals from my favourite newspaper.  They criticise explicitely the silly policy of the American government to fancy the production of Ethanol from maize.  This is not ecological, this is against free trade, this is against globalization

Ethanol | Castro was right | Economist.com

Mehr zu Links und Rechts und "human nature"

Dieser post bezieht sich auf einen anderen, https://johanneskeizer.com/node/216, in dem ich schon einmal versucht habe das unterschiedliche Verhaeltnis von linken und rechten Werten zu einer menschlichen Natur zu fassen. Ich wuerde jetzt ergaenzen: Traditionell unterstreicht die Rechte natuerliche Tendenzen der menschlichen Natur: Eigensucht, Male Chauvinism, Kinship instead of Society, das Recht des staerkeren, waehrend die Linke, diese menschliche zu sublimieren (und zu negieren versucht: Freiheit, Gleichheit, Bruederlichkeit - und zur Not mit Gewalt.

What kind of rights are possible

The below linked article from the Economist supports my opinion that it is inappropriate to speak about the right of housing, the right of food, and so on. Limiting essential rights to a few, will make it easier to enforce them:
- free expression of opinions
- not being jailed without a proper legal treatment by the authorities
- protection against violence from others
- state of law
this are basic principles that also can be enforced by a simple decision of will.

Kochi in February 2007

Important Resources Hotels in Fort Cochin The Koder House, old Jews Patrician house, finely restored directly in front of the fishing nets www.koderhouse.com koderhouse@sify.com (150 - 300) 0091 4842218485/6/7/8/9 Hotel Arches Hotel simpler but with nice rooftop restaurant that serves also beer (hidden) 00914842215050 www.hotelarches.com reservations@hotelarches.com Old Harbour Hotel One of the Hotels I liked most, also directly in Fron of the Fishing Nets.

International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries

From February 20 -23 I participated in the ICSD in Bangalore, organized by ARD Prasad from the Documentation, Research and Training Center of the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore. My group presented the Ontology based electronic FNA journal and the proposal for an AGRIS OAI architecture. I was furthermore Theme Speaker in the session on "Institutional Repositories and Case Studies" and participated in the concluding Panel discusion on "Semantic Web and Digital Libraries:Research & collaborations".

Keynote Speech at the eFarmer central Europe conference

I was invited to deliver a keynote at the Central Europe Conference of the eFarmer project (eFarmer Central European Conference 2007). The title of my presentation is "Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure for Agricultural Research and Technology" (see attached file). The eFarmer project has been granted by the EC in the context of the eContent Program.

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