It’s not as if we don’t get our fair share of warnings — as in, these Billy Joel lyrics from last century: “… Every child had a pretty good shot … to get at least as far as their old man got… Something happened on the way to that place: they threw an American flag […]
Navigating Through the Invisibility of the Stricken
Remember how so few Americans responded to New Orleans’ residents in their honest-to-gosh hours (and hours, and hours) of need after Katrina? Well, that look-the-other-way behavior haunts this nation still as Americans continue to lose their houses and their jobs. What, you don’t believe in the concept of victimhood? Most of us no longer do […]
Toyota’s ‘Just-in-Time’ System and the Akihabara Killings
Posted by Chris Salzburg to Global Voices Online (Note: the translation in this post was a collaborative effort by blogger and translator nofrills, blogger and GV author Taku Nakajima, user Saifis, and GV editor Chris Salzberg) When Tomohiro Kato killed 7 people and injured many more in Tokyo’s Akihabara district last month, the details of […]
Wastage Management System in Savar
This is a common scenario of any industrial area to dump their liquid waste or chemical waste into any nearby natural water body. But I really thunder to think that, how fool they are to understand how worst its effect could be on the surrounding? Whether they are not aware about their surrounding community or […]
Is Sarkozy the Problem with Sino-French Relations?
Posted by John Kennedy to Global Voices Online Okay, this post comes inspired by GVO Lingua. Bush is coming to the Olympics, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pegged his decision on the outcome of talks between Beijing and the Dalai Lama, currently underway. Pending that, many Chinese netizens are now telling Sarkozy not to […]
The Philosophical love
(Come with me readers; let us go to see what that young couple is talking about under the tree in the engineering college campus) Jay Shree: “Hi, Vijay, you seemed to be giving Surya money, is it not?” Vijay: “yes, honey, he badly is in need of it for his books and […]
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