Nepalese cut water to palace, PM residence
This protest in Nepal is one more battle in the worldwide fight against water privatization. Another front is in Northern Ireland with the We Won’t Pay campaign.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month January 2007
China and India face up to global warming
Not only have India and China realized they have a serious problem with global warming they, unlike the irrational denizens of the White House, plan to do something about it. India, another rapidly industrialising third world country, also warned yesterday…
US attacks inside Somalia
Today Bush will announce plans to “surge” the wars in Iraq as US fighters attack targets in Somalia. How many more civilians will die? And how fast will the resistance in Somalia grow because of this US assault? Plenty fast…
Yikes. Good point.
Iran has made a Saddam level miscalculation: they are putting existential pressure on nuclear power without nukes of their own.
Blogging and hosting
As I write this, all Blogger blogs are returning a “500 Internal Server error” which means about a zillion blogs, including some quite large ones, are down. This makes me realize this stuff can happen to any web hosting service.…