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Why oh why did I agree to an 11h interview? I'll have to get up at 9 or something. I don't even care for this interview anymore. Sigh.

In other media news, I'm disappointed that the CBC is replacing the noon newscast with reruns of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. If it had been new episodes, it would have been hilarious. On the other hand, having been deprived of cable for a long time now, I'm glad that they're replacing the evening newscasts with BBC News. I'm kinda let down that it's the half-hour, boiled down newscast though. With 15 minutes on the Gaza Strip Withdrawal, there isn't much time left for other news.

Cindy Sheehan vigils

Once again, it's all about the small number of American lives lost, and total ignorance of the iraqi dead.

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Holy mother of god. India's government has introduced a landmark bill aimed at guaranteeing 100 days of employment each year to every rural household.

One member from each of India's 60m rural households will earn a minimum daily wage of 60 rupees (£0.76). [via bbc]

India, which already had the world's largest affirmative action programme (reservation policy, enshrined in the constitution), will now have the world's largest social welfare program. Or maybe I should call it a workfare program, but I think that's a hugely positive advancement either way.

I'm excluding China from "world's largest", due to its communist model, where the whole society is a welfare program, but then again, looking at the poverty in rural China, it's not like the world is rosy out there, far from it.

Bless Congress.