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LJ user beth4ever accidentally discovered (online) a group of volunteers feeding the homeless in the Moscow subway and at train stations, and decided to join them. Here's her account (RUS),...
"Commentary South Africa" report on the opportunity Jacob Zuma failed to take to clear up, "once and for all, the ridiculous notion that showering can ‘purify' someone of recently-transmitted HIV”...
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Emergency SMS (short message service) could have helped the situation in Suriname, says Taran Rampersad: “Millions being spent world wide for disaster communication, and nobody wants to go with the cheapest solution that integrates into existing emergency communication and replaces ancient things which, by their nature, are allowing more damage than necessary.” Parts of Suriname have been experiencing catastrophic flooding for the past week.
Geoffrey Philp pays tribute to Edward Kamau Braithwaite on the occasion of the Barbadian poet's birthday.
Living in Haiti has opened the eyes of T&T & Tribe, a family of US missionaries, to the fact that “advertising works”: “We have not felt any burning desires to go get a bunch of junk that we did not know existed prior to seeing the commercial, the billboard, or hearing the radio advertisement.” They're nevertheless awed by the advertising campaign launched by Irish-owned cellular service provider Digicel, which recently entered the Haitian market.
Alice Backer gives reporter Kevin Sites “two thumbs down” for his Flickr photo journal of Haiti. “The photo journal does what mainstream journalists usually do when they show Haiti: show the very worst and the very worst *only*. Some would argue that the shock created by the pictures helps bring attention to the problems. Hmmm… only partially. At this point Haiti is dealing with a “helplessly hopeless and darn right cursed” image that MSM tend to feed into.”
Ariel Vercelli is currently in Colombia garnering support for the adoption of Creative Commons licenses (ES). He recently gave a talk at the Politécnico Grancolombiano about “Creative Commons licenses in Latin America and their potential for collaborative production of content.” Carolina Botero (ES), currently in California, is one of the leaders of Creative Commons in Colombia.
As per usual a post on Oil Wars has inspired an absolute avalanche of comments. The fodder: why wasn't Venezuela elected to the new Human Rights Council when China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan were?
Fractured Earth on the plight of the Jarawas in the Andaman Islands. “Some of you may be aware of the rapidly deteriorating situation of the Jarawa of the Andaman Islands. We are told that they number around 300. A new epidemic of measles has struck them, with children who were born after the last epidemic in 1999 being affected.”
With 4.5 million mobile phone subscriptions being added everyday, the face of technology in India is diverse. Kamla Bhatt in a podcast with a cabdriver from Delhi. “I met Mr. Sharma, 72 years old, a couple of months ago when I was visiting New Delhi, and he drove me around the city. The first thing he did when I got into his cab was give me his business card.”
TOL's Belarus Blog considers it a good idea to protest the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) leader's support for Lukashenko’s regime. WFTU “boasts of 129 million members in 130 countries.”
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...