“June is the wet season in Ghana, but here in Accra, the capital, the morning rain has ceased. As the sun heats the humid air, pillars of black smoke begin to rise above the vast Agbogbloshie Market. I follow one plume toward its source, past lettuce and plantain vendors, past stalls of used tires, [...]

That, my dear reader, is the title of the Independent article I read last Sunday evening in my inbox. Somehow, I wasn’t surprised to see that it was about British Petroleum..aka BP. It’s the description of a Canadian drilling project which environmentalists and people with a modicum of common sense brand BP’s method of ‘extraction’. [...]

Watch this short commercial by Brad Whitford about the two bills that greatly differ with regards to the retroactive telecom immunity that BushCo is trying to shove down our throat. Chris Dodd, bless his heart, has promised to filibuster the craptastic one. DiFi hasn’t said how she feels about the bill.
 

 
Call DiFi and tell that [...]

there are many things that puzzle me but one that has continuously perplexed me is the complexities of the american ghetto. i still wonder how one of the richest countries on the planet can have such places- and how we can continue to live happily and wilfully ignorant that there are indeed folks [...]

PART VI: CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA
“Our Wonderful Corporate Media.”
By PraeterOne and BibleBelted
Warner Brothers Pictures, Morgan Creek, New Regency, Warner Brothers Animation, a partial stake in Savoy Pictures, Little Brown & Co., Bullfinch, Back Bay, Time-Life Books, Oxmoor House, Sunset Books, Warner Books, the Book of the Month Club, Warner/Chappell Music, Atlantic Records, Warner Audio [...]

Money of course..lots and lots of it. From Glen Greenwald’s column at Salon:
Then again, AT&T is the second largest contributor overall to officials in Congress, having poured into the Beltway a total of $38 million in campaign contributions for the election cycles for which these records are available. Verizon is in [...]

Its a bitch when the news division is expected to turn a profit like the entertainment division of most networks and huge conglomerates. But, its a disgusting fact in todays profit-driven world ain’t it?
So, to that end, the BCC will make the majority of the cuts in the division which is supposed to enlighten and [...]

for all of you folks who are wondering whether or not that you forgot to ‘fall back’- you didn’t. used to be at the end of october or something like that. not anymore- not since 2005. that’s right- now you get to wait until november. anyone who reads anything i read [...]

Cellular towers are becoming a part of our modern landscape equivalent to when billboards began to multiply a few decades ago. And like billboards, they are a mixed blessing at best and an environmental blight to many people. Each year in North America an estimated 4-5 million birds per year are killed in [...]

Are you kidding me? This is your technology report for the weekend people. The CD was created 25 years ago today, at least according to the BBC.
More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and it remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads. The CD was jointly developed by [...]