Month February 2009

Stanford’s newspaper in Antigua

Newspaper veteran HG Helps tells of his days working for Stanford’s newspaper in Antigua. First off, no one in Antigua liked Stanford, something Helps originally thought odd. “Stanford go on like a he own Antigua. He want everything and the…

US may take big stake in Citi

Citigroup had its original birth with Sanford Weil buying degenerate, bottom-feeding subprime companies in the South that preyed on the poor and illiterate. Far as I can see, they’re still the same old girl they used to be. Now their…

SRI methods double rice yield

A farmer in Lombok, Indonesia, holds two rice plants of same variety. The plant on the left was grown with SRI methods and the one on the right with conventional methods. SRI not only greatly increases yield, it uses less…