Now I should actually say Wright, Obama and Fox News, but to be honest, main stream media in general is at fault, and this whole fiasco with Reverand Wright, is one of many occasions that the media has been responsible for misrepresentation. By the time you guys will be reading this, Wright would have already spoken publicly for the first time since the whole issue blew up, as an interview he had is scheduled to air tonight (25th April - see below for links to the PBS interview). But I still wanted to say my piece about the whole issue...
Poking around the internet today, I started to wonder, "Exactly how many websites are out there on the internet?" At that moment I started to hope that someone had been keeping count. To my joy, after a bit more poking and searching, I managed to find out that someone had, Netcraft, and they had the number at around 160million, which then this got me thinking about lots of other stuff, like how it's all managed...
"People across Zimbabwe are anxiously awaiting the final election results, which have been slow to emerge since the close of polling on Sunday." [BBC News]
The people of Zimbabwe aren't the only ones that are "anxiously awaiting". I must say that I'm greatly interested and awaiting the results too, as I am sure many other African around the world are. But while we do wait, let's not jump to conclusions and let's not generalize...
So, how many people noticed that this month was Women's History Month? It's nearly over now, and ...well...I didn't notice a difference. Well, let me explain what I mean...
Easter Sunday is now behind us, and we're probably trying to finish off those chocolate easter eggs that were bought. This year in the USA it's expected that people will spend over $95million on eggs alone. This is dispite the fact that energy costs are steadily increasing, and the price of the eggs have also increased more than expected. However, the Easter tradition in the USA and other Western countries is still going strong, and when the time comes the chocolate producing companies will probably report record breaking profits once again. My question is how much of the money makes its way back to the people who slave over the cocoa farms and their families and communities, slave being the opporative word. In this entry, part II of the Cocoa Revealed series, I would like to delve into the cocoa industry a bit, just to see exactly what is going on, and also to see how Fair Trade is helping...
