"The depopulation of Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago, that is, the compelled expulsion of the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Diego Garcia and the other islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) by the United Kingdom, at the request of the United States of America, began in 1968 and concluded on 27 April 1973 with the evacuation of Peros Banhos atoll.
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On April 1, 2010, the British Cabinet announced the creation of the world’s largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) which consists of most of the Chagos Archipelago, homeland of the Chagossians. The MPA will prohibit extractive industry of all kinds, including commercial fishing and oil and gas exploration. Some Chagossians have claimed that this MPA was created to prevent the islanders from returning to the islands.
On December 1, 2010, a leaked US Embassy London diplomatic cable exposed British and US communications in creating the marine nature reserve. The cable relays exchanges between US Political Counselor Richard Mills and British Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Colin Roberts, in which Roberts 'asserted that establishing a marine park would, in effect, put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago’s former residents'. The cable (reference ID '09LONDON1156')[citation needed] was classified as confidential and 'no foreigners', and leaked as part of the Cablegate cache."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_fro...
Yeah, it would be really awesome to just click a few times to see make up of a politician's district.
Hope the project does well.
My Congressional District: https://www.census.gov/mycd/
Other tools from census.gov: https://www.census.gov/data/data-tools.html
I have the same question for the United States project. Why YAML for congress-legislators? It is certainly better than creating their own custom format, but I still have to do work if I want to import the data into a database or Excel.
1. http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/
2. http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/decennial-ce...
Perhaps maybe the disconnect is in that I -- and maybe op as well -- are thinking in the context of people as a whole, and you are thinking in the context of people as members HN.
https://www.google.com/search?q=congressional+district+demog...
For the majority of the (US at least) population? Absolutely yes. Hence the term "circumvention". No way this fight is won, at least at this point, over a battle of logic.
In this day and age, instigating change needs to be as simple as possible.
Maybe what I'm saying doesn't make sense. If so, apologies.
Edit: All snark aside though, this really is awesome. I can imagine all kinds of useful things that come out of this sort of structured data, including just interesting information (like demographic patterns of various politicians, etc).