Oil Corruption in Equatorial Guinea - New York Times
Blog | greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com | Jul 9, 2009
A new report from Human Rights Watch highlights how bad things can happen when oil wealth in Africa meets a corrupt dictatorship, and urges the Obama administration to take a tougher stance with Equatorial Guinea.
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/oil-corruption-in-equatorial-guinea/
Michael Shtender-Auerbach: Hardware Risk: China Targets PC Manufacturers
Blog | www.huffingtonpost.com | Jun 10, 2009
What happens when the Chinese request all PCs include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shtenderauerbach/hardware-risk-china-targe_b_213800.html
NVP Andrea E. Brooks Will be Missed
Blog | www.afge.org | Apr 29, 2009
UnionBlog is a publication of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) -- the largest federal employee union representing 600,000 federal and D.C. government employees nationwide.
http://www.afge.org/index.cfm?Page=UnionBlog&FuseAction=View&BlogID=651
Inspiration Friday: An Artist Celebrates Your Rights
Blog | www.fastcompany.com | Oct 17, 2008
Check out this extraordinary video – a motion-graphical interpretation of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The video was created to commemorate the 60th anniversary of its adoption by the United Nations. (More on that below.)
Martin Luther King’s Deeper Legacy
Blog | principledprofit.com | Apr 7, 2008
Great tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. in an Op-Ed by Taylor Branch in todays New York Times. The article goes waaaaay beyond the standard establishment tributes, and even the progressive pieces that recognize the unity of his call to end racial injustice and his call to end the Vietnam
http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/martin-luther-kings-deeper-legacy/2008/04/07/
RJC - Republican Jewish Coalition
Here's another example of some unheralded but very good work by the Bush Administration - this time in support of human rights and freedom around the world. (The President's fight against AIDS in Africa is a similar tale.)
http://www.rjchq.org/Blog/blogdetail.aspx?id=c9cd2a05-28b9-4900-9b84-7ad851d21d99
Journalism and the World : Russia continues crackdown on dissenting views
Just so no one thinks I am a "Johnny One Note" by always talking about China, the AP reports that Russia has banned the entry of the director of Human Rights Watch.
http://www.spj.org/blog/blogs/ijc/archive/2008/02/21/18482.aspx
BrandDigital | BrandSimple: The Blog » Main
Retailing is a tough business. Start to fool around with things that have drawn people to a particular store for generations and it becomes even tougher. Fool with the very name of the store and it has the potential to become downright unpleasant.
Medical Spanish
The Daytona Beach News Journal states that Spanish skills continue to give workers an edge in the marketplace. The article states that the need is greatest in healthcare, educational, and emergency services.
http://wardspeaking.com/blog/index.php/category/medical-spanish/
witness :: Influxinsights
96.15234375) The coverage of the recent and continued protests in Burma, shows just how powerful amateur footage can be. In a country closed to most journalists and censoring news, the amateur is often only way people in the outside world can see what's going on.
