By James Karuhanga Senior Researcher, Kampala GLCSS This week, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, special advisor to the United Nations (UN) Secretary General on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and director of the Earth Institute, Colombia University, USA, outlined six strategies for Uganda to meet the MDGs. His theme was Uganda’s Economic Challenges: The path out of [...]

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There’s a question in many American minds: Where’s the money?; Will there be enough to go around? Money can mean leaving or staying in and around not only the fabled Podunk, Ia. but also the “glitter gulch” called Las Vegas and wherever Americans call home. “Just follow the money stupid!” was an oft repeated cliché [...]

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Pig farmer accused of killing 50 women  Amin George Forji The landmark trial of what has been described as Canada’s largest horrific serial murder, has now opened in a court in in New Westminster, British Columbia. The accused, Robert Pickton, 57 is accused of intentionally slaughtering 26 women in the 1990s. All the women in question are [...]

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ISBN10: 1-4259-3617-2 ISBN13: 9781425936174 Publisher: AuthorHouse SoftCover, 184 Pages Being a book reviewer you develop a ‘nose’ for a good book. I read the press release for The Science Was Fun, and I just had to request a review copy. Dr Baldwin is a retired nuclear physicist; this insightful book details his life and career. At 89 years [...]

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Leonardo di Caprio may well be nominated for the Oscar for his role as the South African diamond smuggler in ‘Blood Diamond’, a film attempting to lay bare the thriving international trade in conflict diamonds that fuels wars and conflicts in several part of Africa. The movie, supported by Global Witness and Amnesty International, opened [...]

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Quasi-News and Commentary by Wordworks2001 A 50-year-old Nigerian newspaper mogul was arraigned in a Lagos courtroom last week. The charges against Mallam Bello Damagun are that he allegedly aided and supported the global terrorist group, al Qaeda, and facilitated the training of al Qaeda recruits sent from Nigeria to a camp in Mauritania. Damagun, a [...]

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While most of the world’s resources are focused on Birdflu and SARS, a disease that has been smouldering at the edges of medicine may once again become a threat: Tuberculosis. Two hundred years ago, TB was called “The White Plague”. With the increased population density in cities, it spread quickly. The poor were the main [...]

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Amin George Forji  It is often said that those who live by the sword will die by the sword. In fact, President Lansana Conte of Guinea who seized  power in the former West African French colony in 1984, and ever since ruled his country with an iron fist, is now witnessing the most defining moment of [...]

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Are you prepared for the death of your TV? Are you ready for its resurrection? Have you purchased a burial policy, or made any arrangements at the local dump? If it’s a TV as most people have known it, your “Sony” has a little more than two years to live. Feb. 17, 2009, is the [...]

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The QandO blog has a post commenting on this Fox poll (PDF file). The results of one particular question are troubling. Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week to succeed? 16-17 Jan 07 ——————Yes-No-(Don’t know) Average———–63%-22–15 Democrats———51%-34–15 Republicans——-79%-11–10 Independents——63%-19–17 This is shocking. On average, 1 in 5 Americans want the [...]

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I heard of a poll asking people how many hours of ACTUAL work their employers expected of them in an 8 hour workday. The answers varied from 5 to 7-1/2 hours. When the same pollsters went to the employers the majority answered with “8 hours”. There seems to be a disconnect here. Perhaps this disconnect [...]

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I haven’t read a news story this amusing in awhile. An anti-AIDS group is suing Viagra manufacturer Pfizer. Pfizer is using sex appeal to sell a sex product, you see, and that’s just wrong. Viagra is meant for old people, and old people sex doesn’t work so well in ads (remember Bob Dole?). So Pfizer [...]

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There has been a lot written about fraud on auction sites, particularly eBay. Perhaps, with all the competition going after their “extremely profitable business model,” they are reconsidering the importance of preventing fraud on their site? Mark Raby of the TG Daily writes: During a webcasted conference with some of the online auction site’s top [...]

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It’s a bit of a bizzare situation, as we’re the folks who actually help and rescue wild animals and advocate for their welfare, and we find ourselves on the opposite side of a very nasty war with these “animal rights” people. I’d like to see any of them pick up an injured rattlesnake and give it antibiotics and rehabilitation care before releasing it back into the wild, which is what we do. Or provide veterinary care and housing for unwanted, abandoned or abused big cats for the rest of their lives, which is what CCI does. We do what the big zoos can’t or won’t for lack of time and space. We’re the ones out there really helping and rescuing animals.

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Unhappily most of the violence and abuse of persons in the Middle East — Israel/Palestine, Iraq, elsewhere — is stimulated by two somewhat archaic human attitudes towards ‘enemies’. The first of these was explicated by Kwame Anthony Appiah, also as Barack Obama, the son of a Caucasian mom and African dad.  In a penetrating analysis [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Associated press reported that a third terror suspect absconds in Britain. A terror suspect under police surveillance has disappeared, Britain’s top law-and-order official said on Tuesday. The suspect was being monitored under the so-called control order regime, British Home Secretary John Reid said in a written statement to parliamentarians. Under [...]

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News Item: Retirement funds at stake in Clean Energy bill This coming Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to pass the Clean Energy Act of 2007, which sounds like a good thing.  Funds raised by the bill are to be earmarked for subsidizing cleaner energy resources, such as the production [...]

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The Washington Post, today, seems to be lamenting that this year’s White House Correspondent’s dinner will somehow be too nice to President Bush. In a piece titled “With Rich Little, Press Corps Is Assured a Nice Impression”, the Post sees a “controversy” brewing over the fact that an act has been hired that doesn’t treat [...]

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Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner German Turk Murat Kurnaz has told a German parliamentary committee that he faced torture and abuse during his stay there. Kurnaz claims that he was systematically subjected to sleeping on uncomfortable mattresses, over-abundant portions of yucky-tasting American food and the complete lack of shaving utensils of any kind. “See?” said the [...]

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[As a college teacher I have encountered all too many avertable health tragedies caused either by lack of medical insurance or insurance inadequate to meet the health crisis (e.g. one parent's plan that declined to remove ALL the cancerous tumors).  Even those of us with supposedly adequate insurance are all too aware of the battles [...]

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