The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The government of northern Zaire province felt consternated over the death of Cabinda's deputy governor for economic, technical and community-based...
The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The government of the north-western Zaire province felt this Wednesday in Mbanza Kongo city, consternated over the death of the Angolan musician and...
The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The Angolan minister of Fisheries and coordinator of the Cabinet Supervision Team to north-western Zaire province, Salomão Xirimbimbi is due to visit...
The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
At least forty members for polling stations in the northern Zaire province benefit since last Monday of a training on electoral issues in the...
The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The second secretary of the ruling MPLA party in the northern Zaire province, Pedro Armando Makita last Thursday visited the provincial and district...
Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly the Belgian Congo, Zaire and Republic of the Congo) has a history of over a century of misery. From King Leopold and the Belgian rubber plantations to the current chaos in central Africa, the Congolese people have been victims of those with power who simply take what they want and do as they please. The First Congo War led to the toppling of 32-year Mobutu...
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Adam Hoch child's "King Leopold's Ghost": an Analysis King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hoch child is a historical and well-crafted narration of King Leopold II of Belgium and his suspected ambivalent government in the colony that he claimed to be his own such as Congo, Belgian Congo, and Zaire. In...
Overcoming Bias (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Followup to: The Bedrock of Fairness In "The Bedrock of Fairness", Xannon, Yancy, and Zaire argue over how to split up a pie that they found in the woods. Yancy thinks that 1/3 each is fair; Zaire demands half; and...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008 | Technology
My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel chips a couple of years ago. Since then I’ve bought seven Macs for myself, as [...]
The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Angola's Fisheries minister, Salomão Xirimbimbi, over the weekend called on economic agents in Zaire Province to increase production, taking into...
Overcoming Bias (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Followup to: Moral Complexities In the dialogue "The Bedrock of Fairness", I intended Yancy to represent morality-as-raw-fact, Zaire to represent morality-as-raw-whim, and Xannon to be a particular kind of attempt at compromising between them. Neither Xannon, Yancy, or Zaire represent...
