Archive for February, 2009
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Dambisa Moyo: halt all western aid to africa in 5 yrs
Dambisa Moyo is someone to look out for in the coming months, she’s coming out with a book called Dead Aid. NYTimes magazine interviewed her, I agree with some of her points about dependency and exploitation but strongly disagree with her neoliberal thoughts and microfinancing-as-a-panacea ideas. Still, I’m looking forward to the book, as it [...]
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Bobby Jindal does it again. Blatant disregard for the state he supposedly “governs”
Bobby Jindal, the offensive Republican governor of Louisiana just refused, yes *refused* to accept $90 billion in federal stimulus funds. Why? Maybe because he’s trying to be a Republican standing on principle? (like the republicans in congress who refused to vote for the federal stimulus bill). We need some accountability here, of all Republicans who [...]
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Rodney King forgives officers and mourns for the 56 who died in LA riots of ’92
VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip Damn. I’m moved by Rodney King’s forgiveness of the LAPD cops who beat him and who sparked the 1992 LA riots (killing 56 people and seriously wounding a city). Though I don’t forgive the cops for their brutality that continues through today [...]
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
On apes and dehumanization. and that little cartoon.
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
*Yawn* Another misguided article about twitter. Another waste of time.
The sheer number of articles in mainstream press about the social networking platform “Twitter” are cause for nausea. (Twitter is a platform by which one can send out 140-character messages, known as tweets, to however many other people are following their page. Some call it “microblogging”). I dig Twitter and I use it to share [...]
