Category Archives: Africa
John the Baptist has been misrepresented by scholars of both Christianity and Islam.” —Ace Knight
The author re-examines the conventional ideas about the relationship between the Baptist and the Christ that most people have accepted for centuries as gospel truth. He uncovers manifest discrepancies in the biblical narratives that have dominated European and even Muslim thought.
Lament for humanity: a 50 year reflection
Human activity drives 200 species of life (birds, animals, fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians, plants) to extinction each day and 80% of the world’s forests and over 90% of the large fish in the ocean are already gone.
Robert J. Burrowes Global News Centre
(TASMANIA) Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the ‘USS Sturgeon’ sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship ‘Montevideo Maru’ which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it.
Activist Angela Davis Demands Justice With A Call to Action to Exonerate Ex Black Panther & Cuban Exile Assata Shakur
Civil Rights Activist, Professor Angela Davis appears on Democracy Now!, The War and peace Report.
Global News Centre
Submitted by Ace Knight
Assata Shakur is an activist who rose to prominence with Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.
By Staci Wilson via FanBread provides Democracy Now broadcast interview translation
This post has been edited by Kai EL’ Zabar
Meet 9-Year-Old Anaya Lee Willabus, Brooklyn’s Youngest Author
Global News Centre
By Chris Butera
Submitted by Ace Knight
Brooklyn has a new author, and she’s only nine-years old.
On Saturday morning, the Mill Basin Library hosted Anaya Lee Willabus for a book signing of her first published work: “The Day Mohan Found His Confidence.” This book follows young Mohan as he struggles at home and school. He finally discovers that when he has the support of friends and family, he can accomplish many things.
Tim King discusses John the Baptist with Ace Knight
John the Baptist by Artist Toni L. Taylor
Tim King Global News Centre
Ace Knight: “John the Baptist has been misrepresented by scholars of both Christianity and Islam”
CIA torture and the U.S. President
The declared intention of the CIA comes under the protocol of protecting the American homeland, but how? One is morally alarmed when one reads that American troops have, according to an article by Mia De Graaf for Mail on line & Associated Press (8 December 2014) that we could be facing a sharp rise in terrorism and associated violence because of American CIA torture tactics, which many reports and acres of research record that such abhorrent tactics do not generally work, besides being illegal according to international law. It is immoral and unethical.
Clive Hambidge Global News Centre
(LONDON) America is so alarmed by the CIA technique writes Graaf that. “Troops have been deployed at American posts across the world ahead of the release of a report into CIA torture tactics “ This still to be de-classified 6,000 page long report will inform the world about how Al Qaeda suspects are held in covert locations “across Europe and Asia.” And there violated in the most abhorrent manner.
RENDEZVOUS AT DA VINCI’S JOHN THE BAPTIST
Global News Centre
Submitted by Robert Bangor
April in Paris! What a perfect time to visit the world’s most beautiful city! Mitchell and Margaret Ritchie had decided to take a well-earned holiday from their responsibilities in New York. Their eldest son was following in his father’s footsteps and had become an officer in the marines; their younger son was in a business school being groomed to take over Mitchell’s business when he retired. Margaret was now active in social services, especially those concerning fallen women and unwed mothers. It was a Saturday, and they were moving slowly through the collection of art and artifacts in one of the world’s greatest museums: the Louvre.
The threats and costs of war
The direct and indirect costs of war
By John Scales Avery
(JUST) The costs of war, both direct and indirect, are so enormous that they are almost beyond comprehension. Globally, the institution of war interferes seriously with the use of tax money for constructive and peaceful purposes.
Today, despite the end of the Cold War, the world spends roughly 1.7 trillion (i.e. 1.7 million million) US dollars each year on armaments. This colossal flood of money could have been used instead for education, famine relief, development of infrastructure, or on urgently needed public health measures.
In memory of Cecil the Lion: let’s hunt with cameras not guns
The late Cecil the Lion
The brouhaha following the killing of Cecil the Lion by Dr. Walter Palmer, an American dentist, has put a much needed spotlight on so-called trophy hunting, the stalking and killing of wild animals for sport.
Ralph E. Stone Global News Centre
(SAN FRANCISCO) My wife and I were privileged to go on a number of African safaris in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, and even Zimbabwe. We watched animals; we did not shoot them except with a camera. We went on each safari in an open land rover. The animals in the game reserve are so used to land rovers, we could drive within a few feet of animals with little or no notice. Viewing wild animals up close in their natural habitat is fascinating and very entertaining. We watched female elephants with their young. The babies were cute trying to learn how to maneuver their trunks to put food in their mouths. We watched a group of lionesses stalking a herd of cape buffalo waiting for one to stray from the herd; a female cheetah stalking and then killing an impala; huge crocodiles sunning themselves; silver-backed gorillas with their families; chimpanzees and all sorts of monkeys and baboons; a wide variety of birds; thousand upon thousands of wildebeests gathering for their annual migration north; giraffes; hyenas; zebras; deer and antelope; hippos; lemurs; and white black rhinos; and much more.
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