Posted in Analysis, Editorial, world on Dec 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Recently the light socket in our thirty year old ceiling fan began failing. It started blinking off and on. We figured we would go to the store and buy a replacement for the light portion of the ceiling fan and be done with it. Of course it isn’t that easy anymore.
We were told by the [...]
Posted in available Data, world on Dec 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Aftermath of the deadly blast in Peshawar
At least 20 people have been killed and 70 injured in a suspected car bombing in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
The blast hit a heavily populated area outside a Shia mosque near the central Kissa Khwani bazaar.
It was not immediately clear who was [...]
Posted in Video, world on Nov 28th, 2008 No Comments »
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Posted in Analysis, world on Nov 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Mumbai: Institutional Paranoia And Obama’s Foreign Policy
By Cernig Friday Nov 28, 2008 3:00pm
There are a lot of conflicting reports coming out of the Indian subcontinent right now, and no-one seems to have told their right hand what their left hand is doing. For instance, The UK’s Telegraphreports Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Mumbai, saying [...]
Posted in Current Events, world on Nov 18th, 2008 No Comments »
http://www.livingextremes.org/2008/09/05/vogue-india/
The Indian edition of Vogue Magazine recently published a series of photos using impoverished villagers as models for expensive luxury goods. Almost 500 million people in India live on less than $1.25 per day. Still, India’s fast-growing economy is becoming a huge marketplace for luxury goods. Vogue’s campaign highlights the unsettling wealth gap in an [...]
Posted in Editorial, world on Aug 25th, 2008 No Comments »
It was a pleasure for the first couple weeks of August here @ 47670 it was oh so cool. The wind was kinda chilly and so when it got 80degress it was nice with a breeze. My wife and I got busy outside and built new brick edging in front of the house and side [...]
Posted in web3.0, world on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Top tech tip for August 18, 2008
How to store your files online
Thanks to a growing range of services, it’s now possible to keep all your personal digital information in the Internet “cloud,” as they’re calling it these days. Everything from documents and e-mails to photos and music can be stored–often for free.
The benefits of storing [...]
Posted in Analysis, world on Aug 17th, 2008 No Comments »
GAO Study: Most US corporations avoid income tax
By: SilentPatriot @ 9:00 AM - PDT
…which is precisely why John McCain’s plan to give them more tax breaks is exactly what our ailing economy needs, right?
Posted in Hidden Hand, world on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »
In May 1996 Madeleine Albright, who was then the Clinton Administration’s ambassador to the UN, was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to years of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq,
We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, [...]
Posted in Analysis, Uncategorized, world on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Are we truly this insane or completely uncaring that its OK for our President of the United States to be attending games while the world is yet again thrown into crisis. Seems this President is always doing something else rather than responding to crisis. Sept. 11, 2001 he was too busy reading a book about [...]