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One Year Ago Somalia

By bicyclemark

Greetings from Amsterdam, where winter has set in nicely. While I have a tremendous amount of love for independent podcasters out there, I still look to many alternative and even get what I get from mainstream media podcasts as part of the quest to piece together what is really happening in our world.  One of... »

Zimbabwe Has No Oil

By bicyclemark

My good friend and longtime reader Jack wrote to me earlier in the day saying hello and asking if I’d address the forgotten issue of Zimbabwe. And he’s not the first to have done that, BadHAreDay in Lisbon has often asked me to talk more about the country-turned-tragedy. Now I haven’t taken my eye... »

Powerpoint Karaoke Or Somalia

By bicyclemark

When you’re dealing with a conference that completely engulfs your days and nights, it becomes hard to focus on anything in particular. I would like to tell you about my evening in the Turkish neighborhood Kreuzeberg, as I sat down with my dear friend blueberry girl who only takes me to the funnest... »

Somalia and Ethiopia, Looming Disaster

By bicyclemark

If you don’t care about news regarding Somalia or Ethiopia, you suck. I had to start with that, because a little bird friend of mine at a powerful network just told me that his Atlanta based network doesn’t care about news from Africa. Which is shameful and well, pisses me off. Why should you care... »

Dogs and Cats, Living Together

By bicyclemark

Precedent: Function: noun 1 : an earlier occurrence of something similar 2 a : something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind b : the convention established by such a precedent or by long practice 3 : a person... »