Posted by Mariza on October 12, 2009 ·
There has been much controversy about Barack Obama being awarded Nobel peace Prize for 2009. It is indeed intriguing that President of United States of America who is sending more troops and is engaging in a war in Afghanistan should be declared as an ambassador of global peace.
Interestingly Obama even maintained a tactical silence when Israel was [...]
Posted by NARUTO on October 10, 2009 ·
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy was busted with 400 illegal copies of DVDs. The disks contained a documentary on the own president and they were produced by the service of audiovisual of the Presidency of the Republic.
Initially, 50 legitimate DVDs were given to political and personalities, but the demand was very larger.
According to The Inquirer, [...]
Posted by Mariza on September 8, 2009 ·
Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was a 21 year old Marine who succumbed to injuries in Afghanistan recently. Julie Jacobson of Associated Press had captured a picture of Bernard as he lay in the mud after an ambush. The picture was published recently on front pages and it has sparked a debate in America. It is intriguing that instead of war which is killing [...]
Posted by GSerrano on September 6, 2009 ·
Perma-tanned Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is right in the eye of the press freedom storm. Media have been grinding him to a pulp lately. He even says that he feels sorry for his country because media report “the opposite of reality.” Hence, Berlusconi has brought more than one local newspaper to court. His lawyers are also considering [...]
Posted by GSerrano on September 6, 2009 ·
North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation at the UN in a letter [...]
Posted by Anna on September 6, 2009 ·
There is no rest, no respite. Since the Delhi HC verdict decriminalising homosexuality not a day goes by without someone throwing a tantrum and demanding the return of the infuriating law; it appears the homophobic of this country are even more obsessed with homosexuality than the LGBTs! The most interesting thing about these oppositions are people [...]
Posted by Mariza on August 20, 2009 ·
The swine is in the news these days thanks to the swine flu which is spreading fast globally across various countries. The Swine flu getting attention in developed countries is understandable. Not many killer diseases or killing living conditions stalk people there. But it getting attention in developing nations and even under developed countries is [...]
Posted by Mariza on August 19, 2009 ·
BJP, the main oppostion party in India has finally stopped hiding its communal feathers and has openly acted against one of its own senior leaders Jaswant Singh for writing a book praising Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah who was also one of the principal architects of bloody India-Pakistan Partition.
The fact that Jaswant Singh had blamed congress [...]
Posted by NARUTO on August 18, 2009 ·
It is almost always prohibited to copy, to distribute, to reproduce or to modify most of the products that has as raw material the information, the technology or the knowledge. Now, there are proliferated in the world whole movements that defend the flag of the collaborative system of knowledge production (such as Open Source Software), creating tangible [...]
Posted by Carlos on August 17, 2009 ·
When the whole world is worried about the Swine Flu infections, Indians have been more than just worried. Most TV channels, newspapers, and all forms of media have devoted all time and space for the Swine Flu related coverage. The most important advice has been to maintain personal hygiene and cleanliness in order to avoid and prevent infections.
However, [...]