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Blogs from Burma

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Another column of thousands of people are coming to their way to reinforce the peaceful demonstrators who are in confrontation with armed military troops.
A respectful old monk is in the vanguard of the column singing national anthem and holding flags of fighting peacock.
Despite peaceful demonstrators having been beaten to break up the crowd, the demonstrators [...]

Be with Burma

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Have you been following the swelling peaceful protests in Burma, the monks with their world trembling calls for Dialogue? The way they first asked the people not to join them out of a concern for safety and then, when the movement had grown and the monks were filling the streets and the people couldn’t be [...]

1 in 4 Mammals are Endangered

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The western gorilla, a Chinese dolphin and even coral are all at the top of the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) priority cases, according to the organization’s Red List released Wednesday.
Furthermore, one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70 per cent of the world’s assessed plants are also endangered.
“This [...]

They keep the truth

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

With world leaders locked in a dance where they communicate through small and large acts of terror and torture, in a time tainted by the deep deep trauma of environmental collapse and the knowledge of our and our parents responsibility for it, it is no wonder truth gets badly treated in swings of hysteria and [...]

Open Source Advocates in Iran Speak Up

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

This from Taliya News, an interesting window into IT in other parts of the world..
Tehran, March 5, Taliya News –
Member of Board of Directors and Manager of Linux Persian National Project reiterated in an interview with CITNA,
“Taking advantage of open source software leads to lowering dependence on foreign made software, technologies, expertise, and [...]

Go Linux Go Green

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Ahh Treehugger, supporting those guys sneakily bringing the peeps around to the wide and wonderful world of open source…
Microsoft’s Vista is taking a beating. It’s expensive. Greenpeace says it’s going to generate mountains of eWaste by trashing at least 10 million PCs. Here’s an idea – why don’t you try what this guy did [...]


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