Month January 2008

Tata Nano. Global warming microcosm

The Tata Nano has just been released in India. It’s the world’s cheapest car, just $2500, and it expected to revolutionize transportation in India, where people are already lining up to buy it. Environmentalists in western countries seem are horrified…

Stock market gets the wobbles

So, Bank of America is buying Countrywide before it craters completely. Quite an end to what once was the biggest mortgage company in the country.  They have 54,000 employees.  Tens of thousands of them will probably be losing their jobs.…

China blogger beaten to death by police

For the “crime” of filming a confrontation by police with villagers. The killing has sparked outrage in China, with thousands expressing outrage in Chinese Internet chat rooms, often the only outlet for public criticism of the government.