'Another Face', Caroline Jaine's Cambridge-Karachi project

Caroline Jaine, a UK based artist, writer, film-maker, with a background in diplomacy and media strategy, had paid a short visit to Karachi a few months ago for her very interesting Cambridge-Karachi project. As...

The Dangerous Reagan Cult

By Robert Parry In the debt-ceiling debate, both Republicans and Democrats wanted Ronald Reagan on their side. Republicans embraced the 40th president’s disdain for government and fondness for tax cuts, while Democrats noted that “even Reagan” raised the debt limit...

Attitudes of Hell

Hell is this: an inversion of truth - an inversion of value - a swamp, an inverted palace, with toads at the top. Consier hell to be mathematical opposite of heaven. All that is true is held to be lie, all that is lie is held to be truth. The good is seen as evil, the...

LEBOKU NEW YAM FESTIVAL 2011

Leboku is the annual New Yam Festival celebrated in Ugep, cross river state of Nigeria to honor of the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the land in Ugep, one of the five settlements of Yakurr.[1][2] The...

OZONE DAMAGE SETS ARCTIC RECORD

The ozone layer has seen unprecedented damage in the Arctic this winter due to cold weather in the upper atmosphere. By the end of March, 40% of the ozone in the stratosphere had been destroyed, against a previous record of 30%. The ozone layer protects against skin...

Floods in Sri Lanka Kill at least 18 people

Recent floods caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka have claimed the lives of at least 18 people and forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes. Authorities have already been able to provide temporary...

Planet Earth in perspective

Here is a unique video that puts our planet earth in perspective. We are one people on a planet with limited precious resources.Click the video below--its worth it....

The Karachi mix

"Go to any bazaar in Karachi, particularly in one of its older areas, like Saddar, and soon the metropolitan character of the city will start to unfold in front of your eyes… A child with hair as golden as the...

Hungary fears second toxic wave

"Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was "very likely" that an entire wall of the reservoir would collapse, releasing a fresh wave of chemical effluent. Mr Orban also said there would be "very severe" consequences for those to blame for the disaster. At least...

Tamils Welcomed in Vancouver

August 27, 2010Tamils Welcomed in Vancouver Hundreds support Tamil refugees on the MV Sun Sea by Murray BushIsaac OommenThe Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca VANCOUVER—Two hundred people assembled at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the afternoon of August 22 to show ...

At least 41 people killed in Iraq

At least 41 people killed by suicide bombers in Iraq, as BBC reported today. Is it possible to control suicide bombing? It is just like controlling one from killing himself which is impossible. Governments cannot control every people wherever than creating an environment...

Millions affected by the country's worst floods in Pakistan

The country has not recovered from the tragedy of the plane crash in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad, which killed all 152 peopl eon board, and it is now dealing with the loss of more than a thousand people due to...

Denying God the no cost, people lost!

There is no cost people incur accepting God as Lord. Neither is there any significant time and energy spent worshiping Him. But people spend their time thinking and worrying about the existence of God. In so doing they are incurring costs of time and values. Even in NowPublic...

Singing in the Rain...

Besides many Pakistani and Indian folk and pop songs and ragas, the rain playlist according to The Express Tribune published from Pakistan includes the following songs. When the Monsoon fever hits the...

See how lovely to live naturally is!

Here is a picture of one of the natural people called Hammers living in the southern part of Ethiopia. Are they not lovely?  Few years ago I got a British man living in a small house some 50 kilo meters away...

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