Who needs Nazis when you’ve got G4S?

“In more ways than you might realise, G4S is securing your world,” the company states on their website. Whether it is meant to sound as ominous as it does is hard to tell. I suppose for a company that makes billions selling security, intimidation is a vital part of…

Hot and Cold Media- Week 2

When we think of our world our mind can be limited of the barrier around us. Some may think large and see the whole universe, where some may only see the community around us being our instant surroundings. Somehow we are all connected and a lot of the time its by media or…

McLuhan

As we know from his book, The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan’s ideas about the postmodern era were way ahead of his time. Many of his concepts are just beginning to surface. I find the accuracy of his idea from such a long time ago amazing but at the same time a little eerie.

BRICS Bank: A good step forward

31 March 2013

At the recently concluded annual BRICS Summit in Durban, the leaders of participating countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa agreed in principle to establish a new development bank to mobilise resources for…