Monsoon rains are serious business in India.
Farming accounts for 14.5% of India's $1.83 trillion GDP, and though its share is declining, agriculture still accounts for a whopping 58% of the total employment in
the country.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22750169

@hisah @ycsun - my fellow Chiefs, we made hi$tory http://www.businessdaily.../-/5h325uz/-/index.html <Trickin' da $ystem>

So local corporates got suckered into selling making way for foreigners? What a bunch of weak hands. Being on the ground, you would have thought they would have read the mood better.

Too much politricks Smoke I suppose, missing the Signal - Peace..

The UK government is
expected to apologise to
those tortured during the
Mau Mau uprising in
Kenya in the 1950s, the
BBC understands.
Compensation for the victims is also expected to be announced.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22790037

The committees will investigate how the two companies are allegedly exporting 1,200 kilogrammes of gold per month when their combined annual production is less than 50 kgs.

http://www.businessdaily.../-/13kce1mz/-/index.html

NSA stands for Never Say Anything. Watch what you say when communicating with the United States. Like boiling a frog, Americans are slowly being stripped of their fundamental rights.

"The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries....

It is not known whether Verizon is the only cell-phone provider to be targeted with such an order, although previous reporting has suggested the NSA has collected cell records from all major mobile networks. It is also unclear from the leaked document whether the three-month order was a one-off, or the latest in a series of similar orders..."

Read more:

http://www.guardian.co.u...rds-verizon-court-order


Have you heard of the Utah Project?

"Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy....."

Read more:

http://www.wired.com/thr...12/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

Afrika hoyee!