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Archive for January, 2017

January 27th, 2017 - 1:01 am § in Misc.

NOLLYWOOD IS FALLING APART 2

Chinazor Onianwah  Lagos, Nigeria · Just saw the movie 30 Days in Atlanta on a cable channel here. Brilliant cast: Richard Mofe Damijo is of the caliber of Sidney Poitier. The casting was superb. If you saw Coming to America with Eddie Murphy, you could tell that Akpors and Richard would finally [...]

January 27th, 2017 - 12:34 am § in America

Great Progress on Seattle Tunnel

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January 27th, 2017 - 12:16 am § in Misc.

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January 26th, 2017 - 3:03 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics

GOP outraged by efforts to delegitimize president

Who ever heard of such crass behavior? Read story here.[...]

January 26th, 2017 - 1:27 am § in Misc.

Theresa May and Donald Trump Discuss Reunification

Theresa May is going to offer President  Donald Trump the ultimate deal …. reunification of the US and its mother country, the UK. When she arrives in the U.S. nest Griday, Prime  Minister  May plans to welcome the new president to the global stage by offering to invite the former colonia[...]

January 26th, 2017 - 1:11 am § in Misc.

David Brewster: Arts Coverage Dies

David Brewster Ominous, but unconfirmed, rumors about cuts in arts coverage at NYTimes and WSJournal. Not long ago, Times folks said that non-New York readers particularly liked paper for foreign coverage and arts stories. But still, both papers need to make staff cuts. Another factor: a lot of arts[...]

January 25th, 2017 - 11:51 pm § in Misc.

A Jew dies in Milwaukee

Born Itzek Markowski in Poland in 1924, and known in his youth as “Prisoner 144346,” Jack Marcus died Tuesday in Milwaukee. A tailor by trade, he spent his retirement by speaking at schools about the Holocaust. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel tells his story here. Briefly summarized, when[...]

January 25th, 2017 - 10:01 pm § in Politics

Rescuing hostages in the Trump era

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January 25th, 2017 - 9:46 pm § in Politics

All of Trump’s top aides are using private email accounts

“Top members of President Trump’s team are alleged to have email accounts on a private server,” according to AOL News, which says “a recent Newsweek report,” revealed that “staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have acti[...]

January 25th, 2017 - 8:39 pm § in Politics

What is patriotism?

Patriotism is loyalty to a country, not a leader, party, or ideology. Which raises the questions, what is a country, and why have one? Rebecca Gordon, who teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco, writing in Mother Jones, explores these questions here. Her article is worth reading. &nbs[...]