Category: Society
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Taliban, justice, ideals...
Taliban mobile courts are expanding in Karachi, thus leading to an increased influence of the Taliban in the commerce capital of Pakistan. As local state courts cannot fight corruption, more and more Karachi residents are choosing to bring their complaint to the Taliban. [1] Western countries should soon realize a simple truth if they want…
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UAV + Stupidity: A new "war"...
MIT research has shown the obvious: that the best UAV operators are people who can perform dull mundane tasks. [Air International, January 2013, p. 68] Technology promoting stupidity once more. Say goodbye to the good old warriors you knew. Now the brainless people are taking over...
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US Navy, AEGIS, data, information, Parmenides, ONE...
Having data is not the same as having information. Other nations have SM-3 missiles (1). But not one of them can use them to shoot down a satellite as USA did... (2) Having a set of destroyers is not the same as having a Navy. Other nations have AEGIS-like destroyers (3). But not one of…
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Africa, imitation, disease...
Major pharmaceutical companies are increasingly looking to harness Africa's opportunity, lured by an emerging middle class across the continent's growing urban centers. Although the total size of the African market is still small compared to other global regions, analysts say that the continent's big cities hold the key to unlocking the industry's lucrative potential as far…
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Gang rapping: A "priviledge" of G20...
Another woman - this time a tourist from Switzerland - was raped in India. The woman was camping with her husband at a village in Datia district on Friday during a cycling trip when they were attacked by seven or eight men. The assailants overpowered the husband before gang-raping his wife. [1] You see, it…
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