<p>A law-abiding citizen, <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/doctor-who-treated-a-naxalite-is-now-behind-bars/46880-3.html"><strong><font color="#4088b8">Dr. Binayak Sen</font></strong></a> who was actively involved in community service in Chattisgarh has been put behind bars. His crime? He investigated a few fake encounter cases in the Naxalite hit districts of the state. Sen used to teach community health workers, ways of treating common ailments like, malaria and cholera. […]
Carbon Offsetting
<div> </div> <p> </p> <div> </div> <p> </p> <p>“Be a hero! Save the world from global warming!” reads a Google ad on a webpage about carbon offsetting. As much as we might all like to think of it that simply, the reality is it’s just a little more complex. Carbon offsetting is basically the process of reducing the net […]
The Bias of Mainstream Media
<h3>Conglomerate Media: No Room for in a Democracy </h3> <h3>Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to use other sources for their news and information besides mainstream media.</h3> <hr /> <p>Our new conglomerate media is limiting our news and sanitizing our wars and disasters</p> <p>A video called Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4">Learn what is really […]
Verizon Wireless Pulls Plug on BlackBerry 8830 Features – Rips off Customers
Verizon Wireless, a long time heavyweight in wireless communications, has been disabling the GPS feature on the BlackBerry 8830 handsets it sells, after advertising the feature as one of the device’s selling points. In fact the Blackberry 8830 comes equipped with a fully functional gps locator and tracking system but Verizon Wireless their customers to […]
Corruption & Unending Problems in Africa
Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]
Africa’s Billionaires
Africa’s Billionaires Egypt is represented by the Sawiris dynasty patriarch Onsi and the new generation Naguib, Nassef and Samih. South Africa’s representation is more varied with entries from the Oppenheimer family, the Rupert family and Donald Gordon. Here is how they pan out according to Forbes Magazine. Naguib Sawiris (Egypt) African Rank No.1 – World […]