“Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here’s your chance to find out.” [via Pop Culture Junk Mail]
The Real Map of Europe names each country in its own (primary?) language—a simple democratic idea that delivers a blow to the anglocentric tradition.
The Other Face of Fanaticism by Pankaj Mishra.
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Ten Greenpeace activists, including John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace in the United States, and Rashida Bi, leader of the Bhopal Gas Victim Women's Union, unloaded 250 kilograms of the waste. Three activists abseiled down the Dow Benelux building and hung eight huge photographs depicting Bhopal and a banner which called on Dow to clean up Bhopal.Greenpeace gives Dow Chemical taste of Bhopal waste. c.f. Bhopal bloopers: how Dow and Burson-Marsteller made a big stink even stinkier.
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At cheesedip.com: many links re Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s recent decision not to run for re-election. Also: blowing up the big Marcos head.
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"Tell me, is there any point?" she asked. "Here, I have to work and earn my living. Death will come in its own time, and when it takes me away, I will be happy that I have been released from this world and its suffering."The shunned widows of Varanasi on the Ganges.
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National ID for Philippines?
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