Peering into a contaminated water well: The Solomon Islands report on sanitation and safety in the Solomon Islands. Pictured below: Joycelyn Lai of the SI Young Women’s Christian Association and the 20,000 signatures of the Amnesty International petition in support of Pacific women’s human rights.HARDLY surprising for the Pacific cynics. At the beginning of the [...]
Photo: Del Abcede / PMCTHE MOST astonishing unreported story in this week’s Pacific Island Forum in Auckland was a remarkable shift by the United Nations chief over West Papua. And the local media barely noticed. For all the hoo-ha about “converting potential into opportunity” at the predictable annual political talkfest, this was the most dramatic [...]
Yes, it’s true that in a practical sense the DoJ’s move to block the AT&T / T-Mobile merger puts the deal’s approval on shakier ground. Contemporaneous, similar concerns noted by FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, aren’t any more hopeful for the deal either. But, much as the left-leaning anti-merger crowd has crowed that you can stick [...]
Thierry Dusautoir … beat the All Blacks in New Zealand in 2009 in his first match as France captain. Photo: L’Êquipe By Jerome Pugmire THIERRY DUSAUTOIR comes across as the mild-mannered type, softly spoken to the point of being shy when he’s outside the playing arena. Then there’s Dusautoir the France captain, who morphs into [...]
Bouma school kids singing in the rain. Below: Alan fishing – “it all helps”; Claire with the fishing family. Photos: Alan Eyes CAFÉ PACIFIC publisher’s sister Claire and her husband, Alan Eyes, currently governor of Rotary District 9920 with a responsibility for the Pacific islands, are currently on a field trip to Fiji looking over [...]
Left-leaning foundation giving grows FACTOID: Over the past ten years, left-of-center foundations have given well over 0 million to like-minded public interest groups focused on “transforming” U.S. communications policies. Source: FoundationSearch.com Media Freedom
Post-Gaddafi Libya … doomed by the oil and water hijack? Photo: Neon Tommy, USC: Annenberg School for Journalism. Below: Pepe Escobar. BRAZILIAN journalist Pepe Escobar, author of Globalisation: How the Globalised World is Dissolving into Liquid War, has an uncanny knack of slicing through the hypocrosy and exposing Western duplicity. His articles since the start [...]
Libyan rebels celebrate the capture of Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli. Photo: Hamza Turkia/XinHua By Mohamed Salem via MediaMonitor MUAMMAR GADDAFI and his sons are now on the run, fleeing from the Libyan people, yet already the doomsayers and prophets of disaster have lined up to tell the world it isn’t worth it, that Libya [...]
FCC Robo-Comments and an Apparent Funky Two-fer
By Admin on August 29th, 2011
Lately I’ve been critical of the comment-taking process at the FCC (seen here and here). That in its effort to create an open, citizen-centric environment, its openness has allowed, or makes ripe for the possibility, that the comment-making process at the FCC can be gamed. I look at the recent AT&T merger as a case [...]