Dick Morris: Obama vs. First Amendment The Federal Communications Commission is about to launch a direct assault on the freedom of the media to cover news as it chooses. The program, called the Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs, involves requesting information from all radio and TV stations, as well as newspapers, about how they cover news, who decides what gets covered, and what criteria they use in the decision. The FCC will also conduct a “content analysis” of one week’s coverage to decide whether each of eight “critical” categories of news is being given adequate attention. While the results of the study will not impose mandatory changes on the media’s news decisions, the “recommendations” from the FCC will carry the weight of law because all radio and television stations must come up for license renewal every eight years. No surprise, the “critical areas” include such liberal topics as the environment and economic opportunity. • What is the news philosophy of the station? • Who are your main competitors?
Yoruba religion The Yorùbá religion comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practices of the Yorùbá people. Its homeland is in Southwestern Nigeria and the adjoining parts of Benin and Togo, a region that has come to be known as Yorùbáland. Yorùbá religion is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder. It has influenced or given birth to a host of thriving ways of life such as Lucumí, Umbanda and Candomblé.[1] Yorùbá religious beliefs are part of Itan, the total complex of songs, histories, stories and other cultural concepts which make up the Yorùbá society.[1][2][3] Beliefs[edit] According to Kola Abimbola, the Yorùbá have evolved a robust cosmology.[1] In brief, it holds that all human beings possess what is known as "Àyànmô"[4] (destiny, fate) and are expected to eventually become one in spirit with Olódùmarè (Olòrún, the divine creator and source of all energy). Prayer to one's Orí Òrún produces an immediate sensation of joy. Olódùmarè[edit] Divinities[edit]
DOD omits details of secret disclosures in 'Zero Dark Thirty' report - The Hill's DEFCON Hill Pentagon investigators intentionally omitted details of possible disclosures of top-secret information to the makers of "Zero Dark Thirty" in their final review of the department's involvement in the film. The movie was a fictionalized chronicle of U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism operations leading up to the May 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The Pentagon inspector general's final report, released Friday, said the Department of Defense (DOD) and CIA took all appropriate measures to protect sensitive details, including the identities of CIA operatives and Special Operations Forces members, from becoming public. "We did not identify any instances whereby any special operations tactics, techniques and procedures-related information" were provided to filmmakers Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow, the report said. Rep. “It appears political pressure is the reason that it’s going to be held,” King said. Panetta was CIA chief at the time of the bin Laden raid.
Yoruba literature Yoruba literature is the spoken and written literature of the Yoruba people, the largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria, and in Africa. The Yorùbá language is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, as well as in dispersed Yoruba communities throughout the world. Writing[edit] Mythology[edit] Ifá, a complex system of divination, involves recital of Yoruba poetry containing stories and proverbs bearing on the divination. A divination recital can take a whole night. Fiction[edit] The first novel in the Yorùbá language was Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of A Thousand Demons), although the literal translation is "The bravery of a hunter in the forest of demons", written in 1938 by Chief Daniel O. Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was greatly inspired by Fagunwa, but wrote in an intentionally rambling, broken English, reflecting the oral tradition. Senator Afolabi Olabimtan (1932–1992) was a writer, along with professor, and politician. Theatre[edit] See also[edit] Oríkì References[edit]
Internet Companies Want Permission To Reveal Details of NSA Spy Program Eurasia Review By VOA Three big Internet companies want the Obama administration to let them reveal details of federal court orders to turn over information about their users to U.S. spy agencies. Google, Facebook and Microsoft say they want everything transparent and out in the open. Google’s chief legal official said Tuesday his company has “nothing to hide.” Google says media reports that it gives the spy agencies unlimited access to information about its customers are not true. The National Security Agency has acknowledged leaked newspaper reports that its program called PRISM collects emails and other data from Internet companies. A former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, leaked the story about PRISM and NSA monitoring of telephone calls to The Guardian and Washington Post. He said it is important to reveal what he says is the government’s massive surveillance program on private citizens. The U.S. says information gathered by the NSA has foiled terrorist plots. About the author: VOA Visit VOA's website
Cheikh Anta Diop Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Diop. Cheikh Anta Diop (né le 29 décembre 1923 à Thieytou - mort le 7 février 1986 à Dakar) est un historien, anthropologue, égyptologue et homme politique sénégalais. Il a mis l'accent sur l'apport de l'Afrique et en particulier de l'Afrique noire à la culture et à la civilisation mondiale. Ses thèses restent aujourd'hui discutées, et sont peu reprises dans la communauté scientifique[1],[2],[3], en particulier au sujet de l'Égypte antique. Cheikh Anta Diop a cependant été un précurseur pour ce qui concerne l'importance et l'ancienneté de la place des Africains dans l'histoire, confirmée par les études actuelles. L'homme et l'œuvre[modifier | modifier le code] Cheikh Anta Diop est né le 29 décembre 1923 à Thieytou, dans le département de Bambey, région de Diourbel (Sénégal). Cheikh Anta Diop meurt dans son sommeil à Dakar, le 7 février 1986. Antériorité des civilisations nègres[modifier | modifier le code]
Former NSA Boss: This Leak Teaches The World That America Can't Keep Secrets We've been trying to understand why the NSA and its supporters are both trying to play down the seriousness of the leak, while also claiming that it's incredibly dangerous, and I think we may finally have an explanation from former NSA and CIA boss Michael Hayden, who has given the most bizarre explanation yet: “It informs our adversaries. It puts American companies at risk internationally for simply complying with our laws,” said Mike Hayden, a former director of the NSA and a former director of the CIA. Actually, I think it teaches the exact opposite. Separately, that same report notes that within the NSA, people are freaking out: The impact of the leak inside the NSA has been enormous. If this was no big deal and just the revelation of a basic internal government computer system to deal with statutorily authorized data collection, then why would they be freaking out so much?
Wole Soyinka. All you want to know about. Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy A large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats even if personal privacy is compromised, and most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll. Fully 45 percent of all Americans say the government should be able to go further than it is, saying that it should be able to monitor everyone’s online activity if doing so would prevent terrorist attacks. A slender majority, 52 percent, say no such broad-based monitoring should occur. Graphic Public reaction to NSA monitoring The new survey comes amid recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s extensive collection of telecommunications data to facilitate terrorism investigations. But with a Democratic president at the helm instead of a Republican, partisan views have turned around significantly. The reversal on the NSA’s practices is even more dramatic.
Mali needs more than a call to arms | Wole Soyinka My mind, frankly, was on anything but peace as I entered the United Nations conference hall to participate in a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence event. On that same day – 21 September 2012 – yet another UN resolution had been released on the crisis in Mali. I felt overwhelmed by the ponderousness of the UN machine. That the UN, in association with African political leaders, recognised the danger posed by fundamentalist aggression to the Sahel and west Africa was not in doubt. The sense of urgency, however, lagged so far behind my own that it was a marvel I did not invade the conference hall with a banner, screaming: TAKE BACK MALI – YESTERDAY! The security council had already set out a "roadmap" for a west African force of intervention in the Sahel – it required the secretary general to report back on "progress" a few months later. Before the conference, I had button-holed senior Nigerian officials at every opportunity.
Glenn Greenwald on How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a "Massive Surveillance Apparatus" This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: To talk more about the National Security Agency, we’re joined by Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald from Hong Kong, where he’s broken a series of articles about the NSA over the past week based on information provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Since we last spoke to Glenn on Friday, he’s broken two more major stories about the NSA. Glenn, welcome to Democracy Now! GLENN GREENWALD: The primary point that I think needs to be made from all of these stories, and particularly from the very courageous outing, self-outing, of Ed Snowden, is that there is this massive surveillance apparatus that is being gradually constructed in the United States that already has extremely invasive capabilities to monitor and store the communications and other forms of behavior not just of tens of millions Americans, but of hundreds of millions, probably billions of people, around the globe. AMY GOODMAN: On Saturday, U.S.
AFRIQUE DU SUD • Mamphela Ramphele, une intellectuelle noire contre l'ANC Le principal parti d'opposition sud-africain, l'Alliance démocratique, a annoncé ce 28 janvier, que l'ex-femme d'affaires Mamphela Ramphele, devenait sa candidate pour affronter le président Jacob Zuma lors des élections générales prévues au deuxième trimestre. Après une vie de femme d’affaires, d’universitaire et de militante dans le champ social, Mamphela Ramphele s’apprête à jouer son quatrième acte : elle se lance dans la politique. L’ex-directrice générale de la Banque mondiale chargée du développement humain – et ancienne compagne du militant Steve Biko – vient d’annoncer la création de la “plateforme politique” du dernier parti sud-africain en date, Agang (“Construisons” en langue sesotho [l’une des onze langues officielles d’Afrique du Sud]), en vue de l’élection présidentielle de 2014.
NSA leak is treason, says Feinstein - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is guilty of treason, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday. “I don’t look at this as being a whistle-blower,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calf.) said. “I think it’s an act of treason.” The whereabouts of Snowden were unclear Monday as authorities ramped up an investigation that could lead to his extradition and prosecution. The White House ducked questions about Snowden even as it came under conflicting pressures from across the political spectrum to either prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law or show leniency. Republican lawmakers urged the Obama administration to extradite Snowden “at the earliest date” possible, after he revealed on Sunday that he was responsible for one of the largest intelligence leaks in U.S. history. Democrats like Feinstein also said the source behind the leak of the NSA’s Internet and phone surveillance programs must be prosecuted. “He took an oath — that oath is important,” she said.
Central African Republic Becoming Worse For Children By Carimah Townes on January 4, 2014 at 2:50 pm "Central African Republic Becoming Worse For Children" As deadly violence escalates in Central African Republic, child endangerment has reached an alarmingly high level. According to UNICEF, vicious attacks are now specifically waged against the young. In what many people are calling a potential genocide, the outbreak of violence in CAR stems from the coup against former President Francis Bozize in March of last year. In this context, child suffering is not new, as a litany of dangers and side effects have affected children since the earliest clashes. Among many grievances impacting the young are food insecurity and inaccessible medical treatment. A joint effort by France, the European Union, and the United States is underway to provide assistance to the country.