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NUKES: Uranium Mining poses serious threat to indigenous nations.

NUKES: Uranium Mining poses serious threat to indigenous nations.

Extracted from Human Health Impacts on the Navajo Nation from Uranium Mining by Erin Klauk Radioactive pollution is a serious threat to the welfare of the Navajo peoples. Some Navajo miners were exposed to high levels of radioactivity in mines and mills. One 1959 report found radiation levels nin...

Discommunication — the rewiring of thought in the digital age

Discommunication — the rewiring of thought in the digital age

AS technology changes our communication habits, human behaviour is increasingly becoming programmed. Eventually, we won't be able to get around without an iPod, let alone understand each other without rushing off to blog our troubles away, like some agony aunt turning to the confession box and ba...

MORE Power Pontifications, CAPE TOWN SPLITS and RED ONE

MORE Power Pontifications, CAPE TOWN SPLITS and RED ONE

AMAZING to see wealthy property owners in Cape Town brandishing their colonial cudgels at the new enemy — "Eskom" and the old foe "black majority government" while the city still searches for a mayor that isn't wearing nappies, or carrying a whip like a librarian. Truth is, whatever the major par...

Power Pontification and RED ONE

Power Pontification and RED ONE

AMAZING to see wealthy property owners in Cape Town brandishing their colonial cudgels at the new enemy — "Eskom" and the old foe "black majority government" while the city still searches for a mayor that isn't wearing nappies, or carrying a whip like a librarian. Truth is, whatever the major par...

Boycott Yahoo and Google

Boycott Yahoo and Google

Apparently some companies like Yahoo and Google are assisting human rights abuses in China. Not only has Yahoo turned over account details and email of dissidents, but Google has installed censorware as part of its effort to appease authorites. What would have happened if the apartheid regime had...