The problem with starting a company that is supposed to be good for the environment is that the owners have a big moral dilemma (e.g. a market opportunity) when faced with the waste (e.g. byproducts) they produce. The NYT reports that industrial chemists in America are seeking ways to make profit from biofuel beyond its … Continue reading The Challenges of a Bio-Refinery Model
Justice has evidently been served for four men wrongly sent to prison. It has to do with how the FBI intentionally withheld information and then fought to justify the conviction of innocents. Boston.com has a recent time-line of events including the fact that three of the four were sentenced to death on the testimony of … Continue reading Federal judge rules against FBI for false convictions
Read this BBC article backwards. It spoils the punch-line, but helps clarify an official British perspective on trade with Africa: Britain’s acting High Commissioner to Kenya, Ray Kyles, said it was not the job of foreign governments to encourage their corporate investors to pay tax. “Matters about tax are a matter for the Kenyan government,” … Continue reading UK Companies Cheat African Taxes
by Roald Dahl In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn’t read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew … Continue reading The Pig