This hospital ship is arriving from what country? a. Iran b. China c. India d. Brazil e. Israel[...]
Posts Tagged ‘World’
China: China Controls the Cross
The Pew Research Center claims that there are more than 67 million Christians in China. China’s government is concerned that spread of the organized religion is “too excessive and too haphazard” in an address to Communist Party members. The Wire reports that “In April, auth[...]
May 20th, 2014 - 5:00 am § in Misc.
President Romney:Piracy on the Wane?
A Somali pirate near a hijacked Taiwanese vessel: there has not been a successful hijacking since May 2012, says the UN. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP[...]
Russia Rejects US as Tenant for the International Space Station
Russia to ban US from using International Space Station amid Ukraine crisis Under current plans, the international Space Station is to be decommissioned in 2020. The US has moved to extend that to 2024, but with the end of the US shuttle program, extending the life of the ISS is dependent on Russi[...]
China’s Crimea
Why has China not opposed Putin’s Imperialism? The commander of the US Pacific Fleet has hit out at China’s “revanchist tendencies” and warned that Asia-Pacific nations must forsake “unilateral actions and inflammatory rhetoric” or risk stumbling into a Crimea-like crisis that would [...]
March 18th, 2014 - 11:41 am § in Hypocrisy
WEALTH TAX: In a sad economy, Daddy Warbucks Wins
Why we need a wealth tax: Mercedes bringing back the Maybach Gangster rappers and royalty rejoice — two years after the brand was axed due to poor sales, the ultra-luxury limousine marque is making a return. The new ultra-luxury cars will be ultra-long-wheelbase versions of the company’s new[...]
UKRAINIAN INGRATITUDE
Monument to soldiers who died liberating Ukraine from Nazis toppled. The ‘Soviet Soldier’ – a monument commemorating the collective sacrifice of the Soviet army against Nazi forces – has been toppled in western Ukraine. This follows the country-wide fall of some two dozen Lenin statues. Yanu[...]
January 22nd, 2014 - 1:30 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Religion, Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene, UW
Seattle African American-African Diaspora Gathering w/ Ed Murray
More than ever it is vital for the Black community locally as well as nationally to establish a collective set of goals to focus our energy and resources on. Historically, religion, nation of origin, sexual preference, gender, age, class, political views have all been reasons for division. What [...]
Zealot .. a book about Jesus, called the Christ
I INTRODUCING “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” The new book from Reza Aslan From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that calls into question everything we thought we knew about [...]
I am African.
I got into a nice debate about genetics the other day. I was told African Americans are not African, genetically speaking. The debate started as a result of a comment that I made about black people needing to embrace Africa in the same way the majority of Jewish people I have met embrace Israel[...]