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Bill Gates give up day job
“He has taken over the world, end of story. Live with it. Accept it. It’s done.” So said Sir Alan Sugar of Bill Gates on BBC 2’s The Money Programme last Friday night.
Seeing old black and white photographs of the dapper Sugar standing next to one of his Amstrad PCs took me nostalgically back to my first ever computer and the wonderful world of the Windows operating system.
“He has taken over the world, end of story. Live with it. Accept it. It’s done.” So said Sir Alan Sugar of Bill Gates on BBC 2’s The M... more -
What if all you could feed your kids was flour?
In the lakeside capital of the central African country of Burundi, 40-year-old Lucie Nahimana on Thursday fed her family of six "black flour," a low-quality cassava root that many here have resorted to eating because they can't afford anything else.
Thousands of miles away, in the port city of Tianjin, China, physician Ning Aimin scanned the shelves of her supermarket for yogurt, a food that was practically unheard-of here a decade ago but has become a favorite of many of China's newly affluent.
On a chilly highway outside Gualeguaychu, Argentina, 10 trucks carrying enough rice to feed 3 million people in one day sat stranded on the side of the road, casualties of a 100-day-long farm strike that's paralyzed that country's giant grain industry.
These three episodes, all on Thursday, are interconnecting pieces of what's emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing the planet: how to feed humanity in this age of skyrocketing food and energy prices...
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Elizabeth Kucinich, a Leader in Her Own Right
If you haven't seen her yet, here she is. Elizabeth Kucinich is a brilliant and compassionate thinker who knows the issues inside out. She also has more charisma than Hollywood can afford to pay for. If you haven't seen her yet, here she is. Elizabeth Kucinich is a brilliant and compassionate thinker who knows the issues inside out... more
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Many at Guantanamo had low-level or no terrorism ties
The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the spigot to wash his hands before evening prayers at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. They shouted "Allahu Akbar" — God is great — as one of them hefted a metal mop squeezer into the air, slammed it into Akhtiar's head and sent thick streams of blood running down his face.American troops dragged Akhtiar out of his home in Gardez, Afghanistan, in May 2003, flew him to Guantanamo in shackles that July and held him there for more than three years. The tribal leader from eastern Afghanistan belonged to an insurgent group and had taken part in rocket attacks on U.S. forces, American officials said.
Akhtiar was among the more than 770 terrorism suspects who were imprisoned at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. They are, the Bush administration has said, "the worst of the worst." The Islamic radicals in Guantanamo's Camp Four who hissed "infidel," spat at Akhtiar and assaulted him, however, knew something his captors didn't: The U.S. government had the wrong guy. "He was not an enemy of the government, he was a friend of the government," a senior Afghan intelligence officer told McClatchy. Akhtiar was imprisoned at Guantanamo on the basis of false information that local anti-government insurgents fed to U.S. troops, he said.
An eight-month McClatchy investigation in 11 countries on three continents has found that Akhtiar was one of dozens and perhaps hundreds of men whom the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned in Afghanistan, Cuba and elsewhere on the basis of flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments. McClatchy interviewed 66 released detainees along with a number of local officials, primarily in Afghanistan, and reviewed available U.S. military tribunal documents and other records...
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The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the spigot to wash his hands before evening prayers at the Guantanamo... more -
Abuse of detainees routine at U.S. bases in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan --American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock. The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain. U.S. troops shackled and dragged other detainees to small isolation rooms, then hung them by their wrists from chains dangling from the wire mesh ceiling.
Former guards and detainees whom McClatchy interviewed said Bagram was a center of systematic brutality for at least 20 months, starting in late 2001. Yet the soldiers responsible have escaped serious punishment. The public outcry in the United States and abroad has focused on detainee abuse at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but sadistic violence first appeared at Bagram, north of Kabul, and at a similar U.S. internment camp at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan...
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Pigeons smarter than 3-year old children?
Pigeons have been credited with having similar levels of 'intelligence' as those found in a three-year-old child, a study from Japan has claimed.
The pigeons were shown footage of themselves and scientists say they can tell the difference between live video images and previously recorded images...
Pigeons have been credited with having similar levels of 'intelligence' as those found in a three-year-old child, a study from Japan h... more -
Future Man
Jacque Fresco is a genius, architect, engineer, designer of cities and transportation modes, inventor, economist, philosopher and futurist. Did I mention that he has comprehensive plans to redesign the world? Jacque Fresco is a genius, architect, engineer, designer of cities and transportation modes, inventor, economist, philosopher and futu... more
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Man 'found illegal immigrants living in 'loft'
Just if you need a laugh, I found it very funny hearing what he said happpened and how they reacted!
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RAF pilot refuses US order to trim moustache
An RAF pilot has been ordered to trim his handlebar moustache by an American General who took offence at its length, but the British serviceman was not prepared to lose his whiskers without a fight. And for that, I salute you! An RAF pilot has been ordered to trim his handlebar moustache by an American General who took offence at its length, but the British s... more
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'Dead' man wakes as transplant surgeons prepare to remove his organs
A man whose heart had stopped beating woke up just as surgeons were about to remove his organs for donation, it was disclosed yesterday. You may read further into the link, but seriously? How can we trust organ donations after we die when this happens? A man whose heart had stopped beating woke up just as surgeons were about to remove his organs for donation, it was disclosed yesterda... more
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George, is that a nail in your head?
A DIY man Kansas was shot in the head with a nail gun – but only realised a two inch tack was embedded in his skull after a friend pointed it out. using the gun on garden decking when the accident occured.
However, neither man realised what had happened, and thought they had lost the nail.
It was only when Mr Kern saw it sticking out of Mr Chandler's baseball cap that the truth became clear: Mr Kern missed wood, and struck bone instead.
A DIY man Kansas was shot in the head with a nail gun – but only realised a two inch tack was embedded in his skull after a friend poi... more -
Australian drug trial aborted after jurors caught playing Sudoku
A three-month-long drug trial has been aborted in Australia after jurors were found to be playing Sudoku puzzles rather than listening to the evidence. A three-month-long drug trial has been aborted in Australia after jurors were found to be playing Sudoku puzzles rather than listening... more
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New threat to food system: pricey fertilizer
Can the price of fertilizer affect how much you have on the table? In this article: It powered the Green Revolution and helped save millions from starvation, but now one of the most important tools on the farm is being priced out of reach for many of the world's growers.
With food prices soaring and stocks thinning, the world is in need of bumper harvests but once one of most bountiful of commodities, fertilizer, is becoming scarce and expensive.
It's estimated that one third of the protein consumed by humans is a result of fertilizer. So high prices and spot shortages are yet another stress on the world's ailing food system.
Fertilizers are like vitamins for soil and consists of three main types, nitrogen, potash and phosphate. Can the price of fertilizer affect how much you have on the table? In this article: It powered the Green Revolution and helped save m... more -
A Genius Outside the Academy
The Hip Hop Caucus tour featuring Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. Yearwood is a minister, community activist, military chaplain, and one of the most influential people in Hip Hop. A powerful and fiery orator. The Hip Hop Caucus tour featuring Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. Yearwood is a minister, community activist, military chaplain, and one of ... more
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Card details stolen in web hack
The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website, BBC News has learned.
The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website, BBC New... more -
Desperation as Ethiopia's hunger grows while Apple faithful await 'new iPhone'
On one side of the world, we have human beings who cannot afford food to feed themselves or their children. On the other side of the world, we have wealthy people who wait in lines for 24 hours to obtain an electronic gadget.
What do you think?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7444753.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7443543.stm On one side of the world, we have human beings who cannot afford food to feed themselves or their children. On the other side of the... more -
The World's Hardest Working Shaman
Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the water
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This is not a pipe dream
Subcomandante Marcos comes to the United States with the plans for a trickle-up democratic reform to empower the downtrodden.
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Tiger sanctuaries selling bone for Chinese medicine against international law
Animal parks in China are turning tiger bones in an alcoholic "health tonic" and defying international laws aimed at protecting one of the world's most endangered species, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
(Please note that there is no real evidence that this 'medicine' works for anything or that the 'sanctuary' is SECRETLY selling this wine, and that these many tigers couldn't have possibly died entirely out of natural causes by how fresh the corpses are. There are two more pictures also in the link, and the live tigers from these parks are miserable in their concrete and wired fenced enclosures.) Animal parks in China are turning tiger bones in an alcoholic "health tonic" and defying international laws aimed at protecting one of... more -
Ocean noise from oil works is killing marine wildlfe
Imagine being bombarded by a sound so loud that it overwhelms all of your senses, blinding you to the world around you; an excruciatingly painful experience from which you can’t escape.
That is exactly what happens to marine animals that are subject to the thundering roar of drilling for oil, naval sonar, seismic surveys, supertanker propellers, and other human-made noise sources.
The result?
Mass strandings of whales...dolphins and porpoises found bleeding around their brains and ears…marine mammals and fish becoming lost on their migratory routes and ending up alone and starving in alien waters…reduced growth and reproductive rates in many fish species…and much more.
Whales, dolphins, porpoises and many other marine animals use sound to “see” underwater, yet their world is becoming increasingly poisoned by painfully loud human-made noises in our oceans. It is up to us to help end the agony for these animals.
What can you do?
The UK Government has recently published a draft Marine Bill. This new draft law includes powers to protect the marine environment. The Government has begun a public consultation to find out what organisations and members of the public think about the new draft law.
Please tell the Government that the Bill must protect marine wildlife from the many threats they face, including human-made underwater noise pollution. Encourage them to create a network of protected sites in our seas as soon as possible.
Below is where I'd like you users to please sign, the other had some blogs, articles and vidios onthe subject, sign using this link:
http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea....
Thank you for helping us protect marine animals from this deadly, pervasive pollution. Imagine being bombarded by a sound so loud that it overwhelms all of your senses, blinding you to the world around you; an excruciatin... more
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