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Big Business Wants Your Food to be Genetically Modified
2007-02-09 06:35:02
We recommend you learn how greed in multinational corporations can directly affect your health. The link below presents the case of the multinational Monsanto corporation working in conjunction with the FDA to quietly slip dangerous GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) ...
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DAHACO To become a world class ground handling company .
2007-02-02 06:29:01
DAHACO is the “one stop” airport ground handling service provider for all airlines operating scheduled and non-scheduled flights into both Dar and Kilimanjaro international airports. DAHACO has a sole concession granted by Tanzania Airports Authority (TAA) to conduct business in Dar es Salaam, while at Kilimanjaro, the concession has been granted by Kilimanjaro Development Comp any (KADCO). ...
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Tanzania Portland Cement (TPCC) a market leader in the cement industry in
2007-02-02 06:29:01
Tanzania Port land Cement Company Ltd. (TPCC) was established by Cementia Holdings AG of Switzerland in 1959. In 1962, Cementia Holdings AG in collaboration with Tanganyika Development Company (now Tanzania Development Corporation) started to build the cement factory at Wazo Hill in Dar es Salaam. The Government of Tanzania was ...
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The CIA Mind Control Projects part 1
2007-02-02 00:28:02
The Secret Agenda of Mind Control Please note: the letters and numbers after each paragraph denote the book and page number from which the information was taken. BB?Bluebird ...
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WikiSeek : a search engine that indexed Wikipedia sites
2007-02-01 12:27:01
WikiSeek is a search engine that has indexed only Wikipedia sites, plus sites that are linked to from Wikipedia. It serves two purposes. First, it is a much better Wikipedia search engine than the one on Wikipedia (and has been built with Wikipedia?s assistance and permission). Second, the fact that it also indexes sites that ...
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US plans to ?fight the net? revealed
2007-02-01 12:27:01
By Adam Brookes BBC Pentagon correspondent A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for “information operations” - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. Bloggers beware. As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer. From influencing public ...
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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006
2007-02-01 12:27:01
Top 25 Censored Stor ies of 2006 #1 Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government #2 Media ...
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How Stock Fraud can crash U.S. Economy
2007-01-31 00:25:02
The negligence of government regulatory agencies and the media is becoming worrisome as a major scandal, unknown outside the financial community, is bankrupting ...
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Ethiopian Indigenous Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspiratio
2007-01-31 00:25:02
Sources: World War 4 Report, Issue 97, April 2004 ?State Terror in Ethiopia : Another Secret War for Oil?? http://www.ww4report.com/97.html http://www.allthingspass.com Z Magazine Online, ...
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Africaid to address issues on poverty, health and economic empowerment.
2007-01-31 00:25:02
Africaid is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in Kenya in 1997 to address issues on poverty and health among others. We have in the past been actively involved in the HIV/AIDS and economic empowerment. Fanaka (Swahili word for prosperity) Program provides training and financial services to the poor but economically active women in Kenya who ...
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LiquidAfrica provides financial information and an electronic brokerage in
2007-01-29 12:24:02
LiquidAfrica provides Internet-based financial and economic information and an electronic brokerage infrastructure for African markets, in partnership with leading African brokerage firms serving a variety of African and Africa-focused investors. LiquidAfrica’s platform offers automated order placement and administration and distribution of primary and secondary offerings, private placements and other third party products, as well as access ...
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19-year-old Nigerian poised to join NFL
2007-01-29 12:24:02
Louisville defensive tackle Amobi Okoye wants to be a top 5 pick in the upcoming NFL draft, help his team to the Super Bowl as a rookie and do a good job managing all that money. Being able to legally grab a beer with his teammates will have to wait a couple of years. The 19-year-old Okoye ...
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African Development Bank combats poverty and improves the lives of people i
2007-01-29 12:24:02
The ADB is a multilateral development bank whose shareholders include 53 Africa n countries and 24 non-African countries from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It was established in 1964, with its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d?Ivoire, and officially began operations in 1967. The African Development Bank is the premier financial development institution of Africa, dedicated ...
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Right and wrong in biotechnology:what we don?t know tells us what we can?t
2007-01-28 00:22:02
by John Henry Crosby At the heart of the ongoing debates on embryonic stem cell research and human cloning is the question of the ontological and moral status of the human embryo. While the debate has been multifaceted, the central questions have ultimately concentrated on the treatment due the human embryo brought into existence by in ...
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A Chinese Biogas Manual: Popularising technology in the countryside
2007-01-28 00:22:02
Uses diagrams and pictures to show how the basic design of the biogas pit can be adapted for construction in different soils, from sandstone to sheer rock, which should encourage other developing countries to embark on their own biogas programmes.
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We will light candle on top of Mount Kilimanjaro which will shine beyond ou
2007-01-26 06:21:01
“We will light candle on top of Mount Kilimanjaro which will shine beyond our borders,giving hope where there is despair, love where there is hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation.”
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Open source software: The five step migration guide
2007-01-25 18:20:05
Using open source software within your organisation needs to be carefully evaluated. Experience in the IT sector has shown that everything that is free is not good, but that there are sometimes hidden costs and other pitfalls in cutting costs in the computing environment.Open source software (OSS) currently powers some of the biggest network servers ...
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Gun Control in Tanzania
2007-01-25 18:20:05
Small-arms fire: A police officer lights a bonfire of confiscated rifles at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma, Tanz ania . Some 2,000 guns were surrendered last year under a program to rid the country of illegal weapons.
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this is MyAfricaToday.com
2007-01-25 18:20:05
MyAfrica Today Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and one of the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. Registered in United States, with offices in Michigan, Dar es salaam, Nairobi and Kampala., MyAfricaToday is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa ...
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From Tanzania to South Korea - What?s Going On?
2007-01-25 18:20:05
Claudia Rosett January 7, 2007 9:10 PMWe now have yet another example of why the UN ought to hold public confirmation hearings for top appointments. Of course, given some of the creepier regimes holding UN seats, there?s no guarantee that a public confirmation process would result in higher quality UN top staff (witness how even ...
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UK?s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) alleged that $12 million was paid in bribes
2007-01-25 18:20:05
By Paul Redfern, Special Correspondent Nairobi Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete says his government will not interfere with investigations, by officers from the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), into allegations that $12 million was paid in bribes to secure the controversial Watchman radar system for Tanzania.The president’s brief comment, which came during a high level three-day visit ...
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MADENGE : The Classic Tanzanian comic character
2007-01-24 18:19:02
Madenge is a small boy whose favourite occupation is to outsmart both his age mates and adults. His talk is full of slang words, as new Swahili words invented in the streets quickly become part of the general vocabulary. Magazines like Sani have always been good sources for finding the latest new Swahili expressions, for example ...
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Generous Katagira is a young woman with a huge responsibility
2007-01-24 18:19:02
by Dale Hanson Bourke, member of Opportunity International Board of Directors Generous Katagira is a young woman with a huge responsibility. As the manager of the Ntungamo office of UGAFODE, Ltd., an Opportunity International program, she has four loan officers working for her and 649 clients receiving loans. Another 834 women and men are going ...
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Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance to reduce poverty, diminish the vulnerabil
2007-01-24 18:19:02
The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) has taken over 25 years of microfinance activities, programmes and banks that were administered by sister agencies within the Aga Khan Development Network. This amounts to a portfolio at the end of June 2006 of over US$ 52 million in outstanding microloans to over 97,000 beneficiaries in 12 ...
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Mlogik :an African start-up that provides mobile services using open source
2007-01-24 18:19:02
Mlogik is an Africa n start-up that designs and sells value-added mobile services using open source technologies. With headquarters in Mauritius, Mlogik?s objective is to extend its network throughout Africa by the end of 2006. he mobile industry has never ceased to developing, not even in the early 2000?s when the technology sector experienced turbulent ...
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