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William Kamkwamba on Daily Show with Jon Stewart
After having to drop out of school to help his family due to famine in Malawi, William Kamkwamba went to the library and found a book called “Using Energy”. From this book, the 14 year old created his own windmill to harness energy in his small African Village.
During the interview, Jon Stewart calls him the closest real life version of MacGyver. The story William tells at the end had me cracking up.
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The book mentioned, “The Boy Who Harnessed Wind” is currently #10 on Amazon.
Creative Lunch: Chris Blackwell – Joost
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Common on Tavis Smiley
Vodpod videos no longer available. Common discusses his album, his role in the upcomming Terminator movie, and working with Kanye West and his mentor No I.D.
Pakistani Ambassador on Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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What’s going on right now in Pakistan is a big deal and can affect us all. I’ve posted an interview before with Fareed Zakaria and ex-President Musharraf but it was kinda long. Here’s a video that’ll explain the problems for all my slackers out there.
Interview with Dumbfoundead
If you guys haven’t seen this guy battle you can go to my post back a couple months ago or just type his name in youtube. He’s a problem.
Busta Rhymes On Islam, “Arab Money”, And New Album | Vlad TV
Vodpod videos no longer available.Busta discusses his new album, his past problems, and his Islamic faith. He also goes into the controversy surrounding a version of Arab Money where he took verses out of the Koran.
Despite all that, when he went to Turkey (a Muslim country) the people went bananas when he performed the song. Shouldn’t be surprising though, considering Turkey has one of the youngest Muslim populations in the world.
Jim Rogers on the Global Economy [video]
Him Rogers was on bloomberg the other week, where he was asked about the state of the Global Economy. For those of you not familiar with Jim Rogers, he was the cofounder of the Quantum Fund along with George Soros (the man who made a billion in a day). There’s not too many people in the world who I’d trust more to predict the global economy than those two men.
Jim hasn’t really changed his tune much, he said he’s buying commodities (i.e. corn, soy, coffee, sugar, gold, copper, etc.) and he also predicts that there’s gonna be a world wide food shortage.
Pakistan – “The Most Dangerous Country in the World?”
[5/17/2009] Fareed Zakaria Interview w/ Pervez Musharraf (former President Pakistan)
Many call Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world. It’s a country that has nuclear weapons but most don’t have constant electricity. The president (Asif Ali Zardari) doesn’t control the whole country and he must deal with Afghan Taliban coming in and attacking the government.
Thier neighbor Afghanistan is in not in good shape either at the moment. Their President Hamid Karzai, only controls under 50% (yes, less than half!) the country and many jokingly call him the Mayor of Kabul.
If the world doesn’t assist these two governments, problems in these countries could destabilize the world. So yeah it’s kinda a big deal.
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