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Death of The General Lee: But what’s the big deal about the Confederate flag?

June 25, 2015 benign0 31 Comments

Warner Brothers, owners of the iconic Dukes of Hazzard franchise has reportedly terminated the licensing of “General Lee” toys. This follows a recent shooting incident in the US state of South Carolina in which nine African Americans were gunned down in a church by white gunman Dylann Roof. The Dukes of Hazzard aired on the…

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We are all still waiting for technology to make our lives better

September 17, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

You gotta give credit to those who cheer on the inroads technology is relentlessly making into people’s personal lives. Technology, they say, is “making lives better” by “empowering” ordinary people to take greater “control over their lives”. The nebulous banter seems to resonate with consumers who remain wide-eyed in anticipation for the coming of the…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

iPhone 6 and iWatch debut: Apple back to its Jobs-less style of thinking

September 11, 2014 benign0 16 Comments

Apple product announcements used to command a wide-eyed audience across the spectrum of tech savviness. But from my own personal take on what just happened yesterday and some of the stuff people wrote following the hoo-ha around the debut of the iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch, it seems to me Apple has just turned…

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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on UK Immigration, Lies in History and Wokeness Debunked by Simon Webb
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on WHO instructed Tab Baldwin to “limit” his public “apology” to just “four minutes”?
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