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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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ET Blogs & Diaries reports that Meles Zenawi is now arresting elementary school children…..Even elementary school children have now joined the protest. The joke is that after Meles arrests the 10 year olds, the next protesters will be kindergarten children. The world leaders like Blair and Bush seem to be content in supporting this children killer. However, Ethiopians in the Diaspora are turning all stones to expose this brutal man and his brutal suppression of dissent
Chippla's writes on some final thoughts of politics in Nigeria in 2005…”Nobody is indispensable in Nigeria not even the President“
The Paradise Lost Podcast links to the Zimbabwean blogs of 2005 and the best of the year's stories..
Soul on Ice has a year end review of some holiday readings and a Happy New Year to all.
Molara Wood writes about an alternative Christ figure - Ela a Yoruba god….This is Ela, one of the many sculptures to be found in the Osun Grove in Osogbo. Ela is the equivalent of Jesus Christ in the Yoruba pantheon of the gods”
Nazret.com points to an article in the Washington Post on the large Ethiopian community living in the Washington DC..”Hoping to Own the Run-Down Place That's Home“……….More than two-thirds of the renters in this crumbling, 31-unit building are immigrants from Ethiopia. Most started out staying with relatives or friends, then worked at menial jobs, often in hotels or restaurants, and rented the first apartment that became available.”
According to Iranian blogger, Khabgard, a new software has been developed to help Iranian bloggers to design their own blogs. This Software, psycho, was developed by Aidin Nasiri . (Persian)
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...