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Canadian Peculiarities
This morning I was walking around campus with a mate of mine that was visiting from Manchester, UK and we were talking about some of the odd things that he had noticed since arriving last Thursday. One thing in particular that had struck him as extremely peculiar was behavoiur surrounding the lift (or the elevator here). Unlike in the UK, he... (read more)
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K-!2 Opportunity to Create a Win for Us All in Innovative Energy Compeition
Students Invited to Submit Their Creative Energy Project Entries
Web site: http://www.ignitingcreativeenergy.org/
Johnson Controls, a global multi-industrial leader in energy efficiency and sustainability, invites kindergarten through 12th grade students across North America to enter the Igniting Creative Energy competition. The challenge, a... (read more)
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Body Count Nation
By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com:
Judging by our wars, we're not much more advanced than ancient civilizations.
It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE.
From the ninth to the seventh centuries BCE, the palace walls of the kings who ruled the Assyrian Empire were... (read more)
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Satyam: One among the many corporate frauds
A head reeling corporate scandal has been exposed. Satyam the fourth largest software giant of India has finally agreed its misdeeds. The fraud is above Rs.7000 crores. In the own words of Ramalinga Raju, 54 year old USA MBA returned founder chairman of Satyam “The gap in balance sheet arose because of inflaed profits over several... (read more)
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equity
living in a republic where a great deal of youthful people earn just for bread, i've made up my mind that i would be a channel through which almost every one of them will be glad that they ever exist. my reason for joining TIG is fundamentally to seek out for ways that i can help the helpless in my society appreciate the fact that there is life... (read more)
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The inconvenient truths about the West and Zimbabwe
The inconvenient truths about the West and Zimbabwe
WAY FORWARD: Arthur Mutambara
•In this article, MDC leader Arthur Mutambara looks at the difficulties in implementing the September 15 GPA, the unhelpfulness of western interventions in Zimbabwe's domestic politics while interrogating existing strategies for achieving democracy in... (read more)
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The Life of a Woman and Child in the Middle East
"A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual act such as forplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not... (read more)
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State genocide in Gaza
Today, tewelve days into a campaign of extermination by Israel, the Gaza strip is the largest open-air prison camp the world has seen. Commentators the world over are outraged by the carnage of the 1.5-million Gazans and the complicity of bourgeois governments in the West. True to form, the US vetoed a UNSC resolution condemning the ground... (read more)
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War Child Song
Moved by the lyrics of Bob Dylan, Voice of Avril Lavigne and video making of War Child Canada.
It is time for us to explore and understand, and find remedial steps of war by empowering youth, filling them with rejoices.
It is recommended that teachers and others use this video to initiate a discussion in the class (and elsewhere) on peace.... (read more)
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A Special World
A Special World
A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.
Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.
And though at times a thread may break
A new one... (read more)
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"Conspiracy"
It has occured to me that I am in love with change. Though it may sound perverse, I also relish the extreme diversity and multitude of problems that force me to feel the need to act. The need to act is innate, and in my mind, is on a plane with satisfaction: global warming, destruction and starvation all providing a certain high that I cannot... (read more)
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Quick Note/minor procrastination/Getting things done!!
Aggghh! Applications cannot be easy for anyone!!
Phew, but I just realized something that brought me temporary relief.
So as my side note: LOVE what we can do with electronics now. But ... as an English major ... who tried to make it all electronic ... NOTHING beats writing notes with your hand on a sheet of ruled paper!
I guess I'm... (read more)
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I Need Advice on my Relationship Of 1 1/2 years almost 2
I have been dateing this guy for almost two years and i love him so much and i have a problem though....
my step dad doesnt like him and he doesnt know im still with him and his mom talks to my dad all the time but he never seems to get the point that i am inlove with him. we are igaged and the only ppl who know r my friends not even his... (read more)
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Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
The genocide taking place in Gaza has split the world acutely into 2 classes; Politicians and non-Politicians. Those in Politics had their shameful 'neutral' stance and every other person with consience had an opposite stance. This is one of the cases that suggest that their might be a little hope in the future of this world...
Jewish... (read more)
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Day 12 of Israeli War On Gaza - who will stop this war??
Day 12 of Israeli War On Gaza
Death toll 710, injured 3200 and most of them Civilians
Deadly Outcomes of Israeli Ground Military Operation:
1-Air raid targeted a group of militants in Slaah El Din street east of Gaza City. No one was reported to be wounded.
2-Air raid targeted an open space and agrictultral fields in Al Nusairat... (read more)
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