Here is an article I'd like to share.
Regards,
Ola Nwabara
From the Chicago Tribune:
A young Somali lured into a life of death
When his parents were killed in a rocket attack, the only person to show a lonely Somali boy named Abdi any kindness, or say a caring word, was a family friend named Abdufazil.
The full story can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-somalia-bomber-20111112,0,1248391.story?track=ctiphoneapp
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Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> Nov 14 04:17PM -0500
Protesters heckle Obama at fundraiser. What did they sing? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Washington – President Obama loves having protesters disrupt a big-dollar fundraiser and interrupt his train of thought. Or at least he thought the stunt at a fundraiser in San Francisco Thursday morning was "funny," according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
"You don't get that every day," Mr. Obama said after the event, per Mr. Carney, who spoke to reporters on Air Force One as they flew to their next gig in Reno, Nev.
Here's what happened at the $35,800-a-ticket event at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, according to pool reporter Carol Lee of The Wall Street Journal: Obama was in the middle of his remarks when a woman in a white suit stood up and said, "Mr. President, we wrote you
Read morehttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obama/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110421/ts_csm/378765
Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> Nov 14 04:14PM -0500
BRUTAL: Obama Has Lost 'Occupy Wall St.'
Glynnis MacNicol
(Daniel Goodman / Business Insider)
If President Obama is hoping that his support of the Occupy Wall Street movement will help his reelection chances he may want to take a look at this poll.
The New York Times reports on a poll done by a Fordham University political science professor that reveals what some have long suspected: Occupy Wall St. is mainly made up of (very) disgruntled Obama supporters.
Check out these numbers.
Sixty percent of those surveyed said they voted for Barack Obama in 2008, and about three-quarters now disapprove of Mr. Obama's performance as president. A quarter said they were Democrats, but 39 percent said they did not identify with any political party. Eleven percent identified as Socialists, another 11 percent said they were members of the Green Party, 2 percent were Republicans and 12 percent say they identified as something else.
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-28/politics/30331867_1_president-obama-barack-obama-green-party#ixzz1diULgH2D
Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> Nov 14 04:12PM -0500
Nov 14, 2011
Singer sneaks 'Occupy' protest into Obama summit
By David Jackson, USA TODAY
Updated 1h 2m ago
CAPTION
By YES LAB, AFP/Getty Images
A supporter of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests infiltrated the weekend economic summit hosted by President Obama, but few delegates a noticed.
A Hawaiian singer named Makana displayed a T-shirt that read "Occupy with Aloha," and sang lyrics that criticized corporate greed, politicians and the US economic system in general.
"I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking 'what are the consequences going to be?'" Makana told the AFP wire service.
"It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it."
AFP also reported that "Makana, who was born Matthew Swalinkavich, said the song prompted awkward stares from a few of those present but the Obamas appeared too absorbed with their guests to notice what was happening."
The AFP report:
A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the "Occupy" movement.
Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama's birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.
CAPTION
By EMMANUEL DUNAND, AFP/Getty Images
But in the midst of the dinner on the resort strip Waikiki Beach, he pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read "Occupy with Aloha," using the Hawaiian word whose various meanings include love and peace. He then sang a marathon version of his new song "We Are The Many."
"I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking 'what are the consequences going to be?'" Makana, 33, told AFP.
"It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it," he said.
Makana, who was born Matthew Swalinkavich, said the song prompted awkward stares from a few of those present but the Obamas appeared too absorbed with their guests to notice what was happening.
The performance occurred at a dinner for summit participants from 21 economies around the Asia-Pacific, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, amid a security lockdown in Waikiki.
As Makana sang, about 400 protesters including anti-globalization and native Hawaiian rights activists staged a protest march toward the dinner site but turned back after encountering the smothering security.
Makana released the song on the Internet the day before and decided to play it at the urging of fans, he said.
Inspired by the anti-capitalist movement that began with the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations in New York, it denounces Washington politicians, corporate greed and what he sees as an unfair American economic system.
The song features the refrain, "We'll occupy the streets, we'll occupy the courts, we'll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few."
He sang it "over and over" for 40 minutes, varying his tempo and delivery to avoid triggering an overt reaction.
"Whenever I felt the heat might come down, I would ease off. It was a very careful procedure," he said.
Tracy Flemming <cafenegritude@gmail.com> Nov 13 07:43PM -0800
Dictatorship falsely repackaged as Pan-Africanism
By Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa, MinneAfrica
November 04, 2011
"If a man cares not for his roots, how then can he care for his
branches?" –Doyle M. Davis
Pan-Africanism is a philosophy or movement with a plethora of
definitions but the underlying goal has always been succinct–uniting
people of African heritage. The outcome of unification is empowerment
and freedom from dependence. It was a fundamental concept in fighting
slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Advocates of 'African solutions to
African problems' still view pan-africanism as a necessity to tame neo-
colonialism and the ghosts of the inferiority complex. Some of the
movement icons include Edward Blyden, WEB Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah,
Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta and Nelson Mandela among others. Pan-
Africanism has historically been a political engine with major goals
and accomplishments towards fighting injustice, inequality and human
rights violations. In modern day Africa and the Diaspora, pan-
africanism has become more or less a philosophical and toothless
cultural phenomenon. One would need an archeologist to unearth what is
left of pan-africanism. The skeletal remains of the once dynamic
creature are currently on display in the museum known as the African
Union (AU).
Following the death of Muammar Gaddafi, numerous scholars, pundits and
media outlets condemned the National Transitional Council (NTC) and
NATO allied forces for facilitating the killing and overthrow of
Gaddafi's regime. Some branded Gaddafi as the remaining voice and
visionary of Pan-africanism and indeed an African hero. Opponents of
the UN Security Council resolution 1973 also alleged that the mission
was primarily a quest for black-gold (oil) masquerading as protecting
civilians. Before we all get carried away, I think we ought to shine
some light at Pan-Africanism and refresh our minds about the core
principles laid out by the founding fathers. Dictatorship is the
antithesis of Pan-Africanism. This movement was about nurturing
political, social and economic unity, mutual respect and creating a
climate of opportunity for all Africans. Pan-Africanism was not about
power greed, the goal was empowerment. It was about creating a new
breed of leaders– not locking them up behind bars. Pan-Africanism was
about human rights, justice and tolerance not fear and intimidation.
It is sickening that Gaddafi, Robert Mugabe, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
and others shelter under the umbrella of Pan-Africanism while
oppressing their own citizens. It has become common practice for
dictators to resort to anti-western rhetoric when questions have been
asked about their patchy and often inconsistent human-rights record
and abuse of power. The Pan-Africanism card has historically been
played effectively by the likes of Idi Amin who expelled Asians from
Uganda and Robert Mugabe who reclaimed land from white farmers in
Zimbabwe—to appease at the expense of democracy. Anyone who flies the
Pan-Africanism flag in the name of protecting Africans from carnage
and exploitation of the western world while engaging in the same
behavior he condemns is a hypocrite. Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi,
Mobutu Sese seko, Idi Amin, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Kamuzu Banda and
many other dictators don't deserve to sit on the same table as the
founding fathers of Pan-Africanism.
Leaders should never consider themselves to be under the spell of Pan-
Africanism without preparing their respective countries for the
future. This involves putting in place strong and independent
institutions of democracy that would plant the seeds of a peaceful
power transition. Pan Africanism was never about simply ranting anti-
imperialist or anti-western rhetoric. Pan Africanism is about building
a foundation from which African nations can stand on their own feet.
Having stability and independence from foreign intervention– such as
foreign aid and policy influence by the Bretton Woods institutions.
If Gaddafi and other African dictators had the interests of Africa at
heart, they would have created a free political environment in their
countries. This would involve promoting and strengthening independent
branches of government through the ideals of 'separation of powers'
and nurturing future leaders. There would have been no need for war,
turmoil and blood-shed in Libya because people would have had a
platform to make their voices heard. Instead the power hungry leaders
create a political environment in which they are the heart and soul of
the nation. Libya and other new governments have to start from scratch
to fill the power vacuum and rebuild the broken and nonexistent
political infrastructure. That's not the behavior of an individual or
leader who acts and leads in the best interest of his people or his
continent. It is rather symbolic of the current breed of African
leaders with an insatiable appetite, desire and hunger for power.
Dictators are the enemy of African unity and the sole reason Pan-
Africanism lies in ruins today. It is no secret that what happened in
Libya could happen in Zimbabwe, Uganda and a host of other African
nations. Pan-Africanism could still be relevant today if Africa had
leaders that lived up to the core principles of this movement.
Commentators who claim that the fall of Gaddafi's regime was a counter-
revolution and a battle against the vision of a United Africa are
forgetting the essence of Pan-Africanism. "If a man cares not for his
roots, how then can he care for his branches?
"Ifedioramma E. Nwana" <ienwana@yahoo.com> Nov 14 07:36PM
Thanks Tracy. It required courage, good language and style to put accross these FACTS. I hope more people will see your point and so get recruited into the true force for Pan Africanism.
Ifedioramma Eugene Nwana
From: Tracy Flemming <cafenegritude@gmail.com>
To: USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 14 November 2011, 4:43
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pan-Africanism: Dictatorship and the Ghosts of the Inferiority Complex
Dictatorship falsely repackaged as Pan-Africanism
By Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa, MinneAfrica
November 04, 2011
"If a man cares not for his roots, how then can he care for his
branches?" –Doyle M. Davis
Pan-Africanism is a philosophy or movement with a plethora of
definitions but the underlying goal has always been succinct–uniting
people of African heritage. The outcome of unification is empowerment
and freedom from dependence. It was a fundamental concept in fighting
slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Advocates of 'African solutions to
African problems' still view pan-africanism as a necessity to tame neo-
colonialism and the ghosts of the inferiority complex. Some of the
movement icons include Edward Blyden, WEB Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah,
Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta and Nelson Mandela among others. Pan-
Africanism has historically been a political engine with major goals
and accomplishments towards fighting injustice, inequality and human
rights violations. In modern day Africa and the Diaspora, pan-
africanism has become more or less a philosophical and toothless
cultural phenomenon. One would need an archeologist to unearth what is
left of pan-africanism. The skeletal remains of the once dynamic
creature are currently on display in the museum known as the African
Union (AU).
Following the death of Muammar Gaddafi, numerous scholars, pundits and
media outlets condemned the National Transitional Council (NTC) and
NATO allied forces for facilitating the killing and overthrow of
Gaddafi's regime. Some branded Gaddafi as the remaining voice and
visionary of Pan-africanism and indeed an African hero. Opponents of
the UN Security Council resolution 1973 also alleged that the mission
was primarily a quest for black-gold (oil) masquerading as protecting
civilians. Before we all get carried away, I think we ought to shine
some light at Pan-Africanism and refresh our minds about the core
principles laid out by the founding fathers. Dictatorship is the
antithesis of Pan-Africanism. This movement was about nurturing
political, social and economic unity, mutual respect and creating a
climate of opportunity for all Africans. Pan-Africanism was not about
power greed, the goal was empowerment. It was about creating a new
breed of leaders– not locking them up behind bars. Pan-Africanism was
about human rights, justice and tolerance not fear and intimidation.
It is sickening that Gaddafi, Robert Mugabe, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
and others shelter under the umbrella of Pan-Africanism while
oppressing their own citizens. It has become common practice for
dictators to resort to anti-western rhetoric when questions have been
asked about their patchy and often inconsistent human-rights record
and abuse of power. The Pan-Africanism card has historically been
played effectively by the likes of Idi Amin who expelled Asians from
Uganda and Robert Mugabe who reclaimed land from white farmers in
Zimbabwe—to appease at the expense of democracy. Anyone who flies the
Pan-Africanism flag in the name of protecting Africans from carnage
and exploitation of the western world while engaging in the same
behavior he condemns is a hypocrite. Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi,
Mobutu Sese seko, Idi Amin, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Kamuzu Banda and
many other dictators don't deserve to sit on the same table as the
founding fathers of Pan-Africanism.
Leaders should never consider themselves to be under the spell of Pan-
Africanism without preparing their respective countries for the
future. This involves putting in place strong and independent
institutions of democracy that would plant the seeds of a peaceful
power transition. Pan Africanism was never about simply ranting anti-
imperialist or anti-western rhetoric. Pan Africanism is about building
a foundation from which African nations can stand on their own feet.
Having stability and independence from foreign intervention– such as
foreign aid and policy influence by the Bretton Woods institutions.
If Gaddafi and other African dictators had the interests of Africa at
heart, they would have created a free political environment in their
countries. This would involve promoting and strengthening independent
branches of government through the ideals of 'separation of powers'
and nurturing future leaders. There would have been no need for war,
turmoil and blood-shed in Libya because people would have had a
platform to make their voices heard. Instead the power hungry leaders
create a political environment in which they are the heart and soul of
the nation. Libya and other new governments have to start from scratch
to fill the power vacuum and rebuild the broken and nonexistent
political infrastructure. That's not the behavior of an individual or
leader who acts and leads in the best interest of his people or his
continent. It is rather symbolic of the current breed of African
leaders with an insatiable appetite, desire and hunger for power.
Dictators are the enemy of African unity and the sole reason Pan-
Africanism lies in ruins today. It is no secret that what happened in
Libya could happen in Zimbabwe, Uganda and a host of other African
nations. Pan-Africanism could still be relevant today if Africa had
leaders that lived up to the core principles of this movement.
Commentators who claim that the fall of Gaddafi's regime was a counter-
revolution and a battle against the vision of a United Africa are
forgetting the essence of Pan-Africanism. "If a man cares not for his
roots, how then can he care for his branches?
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"Dompere, Kofi Kissi" <kdompere@Howard.edu> Nov 14 02:01PM -0500
Dear All
This is what governance is about. It is what development entails. It has nothing to do with phantom democracy.
PEACE
KOFI
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Uganda's first electric car proves the potential of Africa's universities
Critics claim the Kiira EV green car is just a prestige project, but it shows what research funding can achieve in Africa
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The Kiira EV car made by Makerere University students is shown before a test drive in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Photograph: Reuters
In an age of technological marvels, it may not be earth-stopping news that young engineers at Uganda<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/uganda>'s Makerere University<http://mak.ac.ug/> have made an electric car. But, as a university professor reminded me, this is big news for Uganda.
Last week, the College of Engineering Design, Art and Technology at Makerere conducted a 4km test-drive on its Kiira EV, a two-seater vehicle that runs on rechargeable lithium batteries instead of petrol. Its makers say that in motorway conditions, the Kiira EV can attain a speed of 100km/h and cover 80km (50 miles) before it needs recharging.
Although the technology has been around for decades, this is the first time anyone in Uganda has been able to part-assemble and part-manufacture a purely electric car, conspicuously green in colour to symbolise its environmental credentials.
However, despite this achievement emanating from one of the world's poorest countries - Uganda ranked 161 out of 187 countries in the 2011 human development index<http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/> - it has not been without its sceptics and critics. Questions have been raised about priorities, viability and the possibility of prestige projects that have little impact on the lives of the majority.
Nevertheless, at a time when academics and the World Bank continue to urge states to put research at the heart of the African university, Kiira may be a reminder that given the right conditions, great things can flow out of Africa<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/africa>, just like the river Nile, after which the car is named.
"Our training in institutions of higher learning has not brought out a lot of research products. I think this vehicle is a manifestation of a changed paradigm of training in our institutions, to go beyond just lectures and laboratory experiments," said Sande Stevens Togboa, an electrical engineering professor who is overall head of the Kiira project.
Togboa, a deputy vice-chancellor of the university, said the idea for Kiira EV came out of Makerere's participation in the Vehicle Design Summit, an inter-university initiative to build the car of the future. Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the summit culminated with the building, in 2008, of the prototype Vision 200, a hybrid fuel-electricity car, in Turin, Italy.
"The performance of our students [at the summit] was good," Togboa told me from Kampala. "So we announced that we would come home and build our own car."
But, now that the car has been built -at a cost of $35,000 - what happens next? One of the obstacles to Africa's universities churning out solutions to the continent's many problems is lack of funding, which has stifled ambition. In the case of Kiira EV, it took a combination of that "paradigm shift", and a visit to the university by President Yoweri Museveni two years ago. At a follow-up meeting, Museveni announced a grant of around $10m for the college's research projects over five years. If it had not been for that grant, Togboa said, Uganda's green car might have stalled at the design stage.
"Our funding situation is very poor; funding is the largest part of the problem," Togboa said of the university as a whole. "Another problem is the generations that have gone through university without active research; the younger generation needed to be reoriented."
With nearly 40,000 students, Makerere university's official research budget is about UShs 1.4bn ($540,000) a year, half of which goes to running the school of postgraduate studies, the professor said. However, specific projects in areas such as health sciences, food science and technology, and agriculture are currently benefiting from $3.1m research grants from donor countries such as Norway and Sweden.
According to a 2010 World Bank report<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/278200-1099079877269/Financing_higher_edu_Africa.pdf>, financing for research in Africa has plummeted over the decades. As enrolment in universities has surged, priority has shifted to bottom-line teaching, enough to see one cohort through the gates so another can come in.
"The inadequacy of funding has limited institutions' ability to offer adequate remuneration or to invest in infrastructure, research facilities and equipment, thereby hindering overall research capacity," the report says, pointing out that many universities are steadily losing senior research-oriented staff like Togboa to the private sector.
Some countries, among them South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Ghana, have supplemented conventional state funding for universities with competitive grants earmarked for research.
For Uganda's ambitions to be sustainable, however, it will require a well thought-out policy, rather than the personal curiosity of a leader, as happened with the electric car.
Some critics have questioned the rationale for spending research money on an electric car in a poor agrarian country with an ailing public healthcare system, and where electricity outages are the norm. One cartoon showed the Kiira being pushed by two men apparently because there was no electricity to charge it.
One commentator wrote in the Sunday Monitor newspaper of "white elephants", suggesting the car may be just another prestige project. Makerere will be out to disprove that. It is reportedly already planning to produce a 37-seater electric van.
Another charge is that the Makerere team may simply have got parts and assembled them, which would raise questions of how much of the car was actually made in Uganda.
Togboa admitted that "standard components" like the headlights, wheel, motor and batteries were imported, but, he explained, the chassis was designed and produced locally, as were other parts, such as the firmware, which controls the computerised vehicle's operations. As Makerere's vice-chancellor said at its launch, the Kiira EV is a sign of the university's great potential - making the case for long-term research funding.
* This article was amended on 11 November 2011. In the original, a sentence in the last paragraph read: "Togboa admitted that 'standard components' like the headlights, wheel, mortar and batteries were imported". This should have read "motor". This has now been changed.
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Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@yahoo.com> Nov 14 09:38AM -0800
By Graham Cluleyon
November 14, 2011
The St John Ambulance service in New
Zealand fell victim to a computer virus infection last week, according to media reports, which disabled its automated response systems across the
country.
The service, which provides 90% of
the emergency and non-emergency ambulance cover for the New Zealand population,
was struck by a malware attack on Wednesday forcing staff to allocate
ambulances manually according to Alan Goudge, communications operations manager
for the St John Ambulance service:
"Anti-virus
software protected the systems but as a result of the virus it impacted on some
of the systems services, mainly those related to paging and radio. Back-up
systems immediately took over when it was detected and the workload was managed
manually."
No details appear to have been made
available about which precise piece of malware infected the ambulance service's
systems, or how it entered the network, but in all likelihood the attack was
not targeted specifically at the organisation but simply included it amongst
its victims.
It's far from the first time that a
medical service has grappled with malware infections.
For instance, the Mytob worm hit a number of London hospitals in 2008, and in 2005 the Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in
north Seattle was hit in attack which shut down computers in the facility's intensive
care unitand prevented doctors' pagers from
working properly.
In that latter case, nurses were
said to have run charts down hallways rather than transferring them
electronically, computers in the facility's intensive care unit were shut down
and doctors' pagers were prevented from working properly. A 21-year-old man was
ultimately sentenced to three years in prisonand fined a quarter of a million dollars in connection with
the case.
The fact is that malware often
doesn't discriminate between who its victims might be. Whether you're running a
computer in your spare bedroom, or operating critical systems in a medical environment,
your PC may still be at risk.
Anyone who still thinks that
virus-writing is "mostly harmless" and only really impacts the
foolish who don't have backups, should consider what the possible consequences
of taking down the systems of an ambulance emergency service might mean.
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Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com> Nov 14 08:51AM -0800
Dear Compatriots,
Please join us in this petition campaign to stop the unconscionable hike in fuel price that is being contemplated by this regime.
We know that there is an alternative, and the alternative requires plugging the leakage in the energy sector; identifying and punishing economic saborteurs who have been responsible for the commatose nature of our refineries; and ensuring domestic refining capacity.
Please help to widely circulate this petition among your networks, and do join us in endorsing Mass Action to put a stop to this shameless initiative. On our path in the UAD, we are determined to organise and mobilise Nigerians To Return to the Streets, Retake our Country, Reclaim Our Humanity, and Occupy Nigeria!
Regards,
Jaye Gaskia
United Action For Democracy
Nigeria
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Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 1:06 PM
Subject: Petition
Dear Colleagues,
As part of our effort to mobilize Nigerian against governmnet's plan to increase the price of petrol, the attached is a petition letter to be printed, signed and returned. The idea is to be able to get as many people as possible signing on to the campaign, the signed petitions will be used for advocacy purposes in our build up to what may be a major faceoff with the government. The phone numbers are particularly important, we can include those whose numbers we have in our bulk sms service already progressing.
The Campaign is called We the People, and it is our collective initiative and campaign platform.
We will appriciate feedback.
Ken Henshaw
Tracy Flemming <cafenegritude@gmail.com> Nov 14 08:25AM -0800
November 13, 2011
A Life of Controversy
Chicago History Museum, Getty Images
Margaret Sanger in 1917.
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By Nina C. Ayoub
With uncanny timing, Jean H. Baker's new biography of Margaret Sanger
is hitting the shelves as Sanger is in the news—once again. This time
it was Herman Cain, the Republican presidential hopeful, who invoked
the ever-controversial, though long-dead, birth-control pioneer. In a
recent Face the Nation television interview, Cain charged that Planned
Parenthood had established 75 percent of its clinics in black
communities as a means to prevent the birth of black babies.
Cain is "playing his race card," says Baker, the author of Margaret
Sanger: A Life of Passion (Hill & Wang). The candidate is "using
factually incorrect information about Sanger to inhibit black women
from getting abortions," she adds, e-mailing from Goucher College,
where she is a professor of history.
"In the fact-free, let's-just-make-it-up style of partisan history,
the vilification of Margaret Sanger has become useful for those who
would defund Planned Parenthood and thereby deprive American women,
black and white, of essential health services."
"Herman Cain complains of the large political bull's-eye on his back.
He has put it there himself as he—and his party—in their chronic abuse
of history work to take Americans backward to a past when sex
education was denied, disseminating birth control was prohibited, and
undergoing an abortion was illegal."
As for Sanger, while her first clinic was established in a largely
Italian and Jewish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1916,
the activist did establish a clinic in Harlem in 1930. She was
invited, Baker writes, by leaders in the black community. Among
Sanger's supporters at the time was W.E.B. Du Bois, who Baker says was
present at the clinic's opening. "Those who would confine women to
childbearing are reactionary barbarians," wrote Du Bois in his essay
"The Damnation of Women." In later ventures in the South, Sanger
recruited a National Negro Advisory Council, whose members, including
Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and E. Franklin Frazier, "read like a who's who
of black Americans," Baker writes.
Yet, black sentiment was divided. One opponent of Sanger's was Marcus
Garvey, who saw birth control as against nature and "a white man's
trick to limit the number of blacks," Baker writes. Asked if Cain
follows in Garvey's footsteps, the scholar is skeptical. "Clearly Cain
is not the kind of authentic black nationalist that Garvey, who wanted
to increase the numbers of blacks in America, represented."
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Baker says her biography "seeks to interlard the personal with the
political, not as hagiography but as authenticity." Some of that
authenticity has to be wrestled from the subject herself. Sanger could
be, Baker writes, an "adroit fabulist," who revised accounts of her
life.
She was born Margaret Higgins in 1879, the sixth child of Irish
immigrants in the factory town of Corning, N.Y. Her mother, a devout
Catholic, would experience 18 pregnancies and 11 births before dying
young of tuberculosis. Margaret's father, an iconoclast in church
matters, seems to have inspired her defiance of authority.
Part of Margaret's way out of Corning was nursing education, as well
as marriage to an aspiring architect and artist, William Sanger, with
whom she had three children. While Sanger never became fully licensed,
it was her work as a nurse that led to an epiphany when, she said, she
witnessed a woman from the Lower East Side—desperate not to have more
children—die from a self-inflicted abortion. "Controlling conception
now became the plot of Margaret Sanger's life," writes Baker. Sanger
would become globally known for the cause and would live long enough—a
week shy of age 87—to see many of her goals accomplished, including
the creation of oral contraceptives. But her early career saw arrests
and jail time and unceasing controversy.
Sanger's first arrest came in 1914 when she fell afoul of a law
crafted by America's chief prude, Anthony Comstock, which included
bans on sending written materials related to contraception through the
mail. Sanger was indicted for her magazine The Woman Rebel, even
though that publication only advocated birth control but did not
describe it. The graphic details would fall to Family Limitation, a
pamphlet by Sanger that in four years sold more than 160,000 copies in
the United States. Sanger also personally gave demonstrations of the
proper use of pessaries and spermicides in the clinics she
established.
Sanger was as passionate about her sexuality as her politics. She
pursued sex with a frankness and enthusiasm that concurred with her
philosophy of a liberated life for women. "Sex had become something
she could study through practice," the author wryly observes. Sanger's
partners included two husbands, but also numerous extramarital
relations with, as she put it, "chemically fascinating men."
She succeeded in getting contraceptives into the hands of women by
exploiting the laws that allowed condoms for the prevention of
venereal disease, a central concern as America mobilized for World War
I. "The army which is the least syphilized will, other things being
equal, win," said an official of the American Social Hygiene
Association. She enlisted physicians for her clinics who agreed to
have an expansive notion of disease so as to be able to prescribe
birth control to all women who asked. Some feminists have condemned
Sanger for contributing to the medicalization of women's reproduction.
However, her reputation has been vastly more tarnished by links to
eugenics.
Though abhorrent and indefensible by today's standards, Baker says
that Sanger's eugenicist views must be seen in the context of her era.
Baker also identifies W.E.B. Du Bois as a eugenicist for, among other
things, his notion of a "talented tenth."
Tentatively in the late 1910s and wholeheartedly by the 1920s, "Sanger
became a fellow traveler and then a promoter of the eugenics
movement," Baker writes in the book. She casts Sanger's initial ties
to eugenics as a strategic, pragmatic choice. In the beginning, Baker
adds in an e-mail, "Sanger embraced the eugenicists because they were
scientists who would bring authenticity to her efforts to encourage
birth-control research. She needed their imprimatur." By the late
1920s and early 1930s, "Sanger had embraced some of the harsher
positions of the eugenicists, though in two important ways she opposed
the standard views of their establishment: She never accepted ideas
about the hierarchy of races." Sanger's approach was "individualistic—
that some individuals (never ethnic groups or African-Americans)
carried genetic material that should not be passed down to their
descendants."
Sanger, argues Baker, "never believed in the popular position of Teddy
Roosevelt (who never gets called out about this) of more children from
the fit and its derivative, fewer from the unfit." Also, while she did
indeed support the practice of involuntary sterilization, she
"positively opposed what we call castration—removing ovaries and
testicles by surgery. She came to support the ruling practice of our
day—vasectomy and salpingectomy, which retained the sexual feelings
she felt were so important for all individuals."
So ultimately, how does Baker feel about her controversial subject?
"I ended up admiring Margaret Sanger for her commitment, her
perseverance, her ability to retain over a long career her passion for
a cause that has changed all of our lives." But, she adds, "Often our
heroes have messy lives and don't do the things we would like them to
do."
Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com> Nov 14 07:28AM -0800
So 'the Great Michael Jackson' whose killer was found guilty, is presumably one of our Great Pan Afrikan heroes and leaders? And he joins the pantheon including the recently 'murdered' Gaddaffi, the embattle Assad, the paramount ruler of Yemen......this is getting more and more interesting by the day!
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On November 7, Michael Jackson's doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death.
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"Anunoby, Ogugua" <AnunobyO@lincolnu.edu> Nov 13 10:40PM -0600
One may believe as one please. Beliefs are chioces. They neither determine nor disprove facts.
There were no nuclear weapons in Mohammed's time. The Koran could not have a passage on Mohammed stating "categorically that nuclear weapons are out" or in.
Iran has consistently stated that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. Some people believe Iran. There are those who do not. It is instructive that the disbelievers have presented no hard verifiable evidence that the Iran claim is untrue.
Let us not forget that Saddam Hussein said that Iraq had no nuclear weapons. There were those who believed that he did and acted on their belief. The rest as they say is history.
If I may ask, does Islam approve of weapons of mass destruction? Does anyone know of a widely respect Islamic leader who is on record as stating that nuclear weapons are allowed in Islam and that Iran' assertion is untrue?
On a matter as serious as the claims that Iran is is developing nuclear weapons and lying about it, my position is that those who love to consume palm wine are usually concerned about the palm wine and not the palmwine tapper. The Iraq experience is too recent and costly to be ignored.
oa
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dear oa
i can't believe that there are more than 3 people on earth who could
take seriously your statement that iran's public statements about their
nuclear program or the use of nuclear weapons under islam mean anything
whatsoever. why are you stating this??
further, i have read the qur'an, and despite searching all day and night
for 348 years still have not found that elusive passage in which
mohammed stated categorically that nuclear weapons are out.
ken
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Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> Nov 14 06:46AM -0800
The question about whether or not Islam permits the use of nuclear
weapons or psychotronic weapons or more advanced weapons, is a thorny
one, not just an ethical one but if it comes to a showdown then Iran
is in for a spectacular showcasing of what smart weapons can do, with
Iran as the testing ground.
Who wants to see that?
http://www.google.se/search?q=Islam+and+nuclear+weapons&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:sv-SE:official&client=firefox-a
During the last three years of the Iran-Iraq War, I read the Tehran
Times regularly and contributed a few supportive letters too. A hadith
that appeared on the last page of every edition ran: "Teach your sons
swimming, archery and horsemanship." as these are considered
legitimate sports and aligned to training for warfare...
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=ppwl&cp=50&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=Teach+your+sons+swimming%2C+archery+and+horsemanship&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=Teach+your+sons+swimming,+archery+and+horsemanship&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a9c2f2b04d44c7c3&biw=1255&bih=844
In retrospect, some scholars looking back at what happened with Islam
have concluded that with the passage of time after the initial rapid
spread of Islam which early on took Spain and by 1683 had the
Ottomans already knocking on the gates of Vienna, eventually suffered
a decline as the empire got soft with luxurious living and lost the
art of warfare because they did not advance the science of making
weapons or keep abreast of the latest development in weaponry and were
therefore overcome by their enemies who had superior weapons. Today
the oil kingdoms of Islam spend astronomical sums on defence ( Saddam
owed the US some $87 Billion by the end of the war with Iran and
Saddam also invaded Kuwait who was not pumping enough protection money
to Saddam who had been protecting them from great harm, during the
Gulf War.)
A year before the Iran - Iraq war ended the enemies of Iran were
already dancing because Iran had run out of weapons and was so
isolated despite the genius foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati that
there was nowhere they could buy from not even at the most exorbitant
prices , from Brazil.... and we should note that Saddam used
chemical weapons on the Kurds in Halabja and on the Island of Faw,
Iran did not respond in kind ...
Iran's weaponry should not be underestimated nor should the US be
underestimated should al-Qaeda want to go nuclear on them....
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=ppwl&cp=26&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=Iran%27s+military+technology&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=Iran%27s+military+technology&aq=0v&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a9c2f2b04d44c7c3&biw=1255&bih=844
One of the reasons for Iran wanting greater military capability is
that they do not want to be dependent on foreign suppliers of weapons.
Sounds like enemy propaganda, but paradoxically, as variously
reported, Iran was accused of getting a lot of weaponry from Israel
during their 8-year-war with Saddam's Iraq.....
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sugexp=ppwl&cp=51&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=Israeli+support+for+Iran+during+the+Iraq+-+Iran+war&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=Israeli+support+for+Iran+during+the+Iraq+-+Iran+war&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a9c2f2b04d44c7c3&biw=1255&bih=844
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/
Yona Maro <oldmoshi@gmail.com> Nov 14 05:06PM +0300
State of the World's Street Children: Research brings together a
comprehensive collection of literature about street children from the last
decade. It draws on over 400 pieces of research, determining where advances
have been made in the knowledge about this often over-looked group and
dispelling some unfounded assumptions. It also identifies where the gaps are
in current knowledge to reveal areas where further exploration is needed.
The book is aimed at scholars, researchers, practitioners, NGOs and anyone
with an interest in street children.
http://www.streetchildren.org.uk/_uploads/publications/State_of_the_Worlds_Street_Children_Research_final_PDF_online.pdf
Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> Nov 14 08:59AM -0500
Operation Somalia: The US, Ethiopia and now Kenya
Oct 28, 2011 06:24 EDT
By Aaron Maasho
Ethiopia did it five years ago, the Americans a while back. Now Kenya has rolled tanks and troops across its arid frontier into lawless Somalia, in another campaign to stamp out a rag-tag militia of Islamist rebels that has stoked terror throughout the region with threats of strikes.
The catalyst for Nairobi's incursion was a series of kidnappings by Somali gunmen on its soil. A Frenchwoman was bundled off to Somalia from northern Kenya, while a British woman and two female aid workers from Spain, abducted from a refugee camp inside Kenya, are also being held across the border.
The incidents caused concern over their impact on the country's vital tourism industry, with Kenya's forecast 100 billion shillings or revenue this year expected to falter. The likes of Britain and the United States have already issued warnings against travel to some parts of the country.
Kenyans have so far responded with bravado towards their government's operation against the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group. Local channels regularly show high approval ratings for the campaign, some as high as 98 percent.
"The issue of our security is non-negotiable," one commentator told a TV station in the wake of the announcement. Another chipped in with: "We've been casual to the extent of endangering our national sovereignty. Kenya has what it takes to get rid of this dangerous threat once and for all."
Isn't that what the Ethiopians said in late 2006?
After repeated threats of jihad against the predominantly Christian nation, Addis Ababa wasted little time in deploying thousands of highly-trained and battle-ready troops to Somalia against the Islamic Courts Union, the precursor to today's al Shabaab.
It routed them quickly and the group's leaders retreated to exile, giving way to the much more militant and aggressive al Shabaab. Addis Ababa then found itself bogged down in near-daily bouts of urban warfare and finally withdrew two years later citing mounting costs and a lack of regional will to sort out the situation.
Al Shabaab have since controlled large swathes of southern Somalia against the internationally-backed government's control of the capital.
Ethiopia's ill-fated mission followed a US foray in late 1993. In a bid to capture clan leaders who were trampling on the humanitarian relief following the downfall of dictator Siad Barre in 1991, Washington sent soldiers to enforce a UNmission.
The operation ended in disaster. Two Black Hawk choppers were shot down and 18 servicemen killed. The bodies of several soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu and a hasty withdrawal followed.
Though Kenyan troops have already encroached inside Somalia on a number of occasions and are well-trained and supplied, questions remain over how they will cope with a potential guerrilla war against fighters hardened on years of skirmishes in the remote region.
With Kenya keeping a tight lid on details of the operation, the media is asking what the desired end game is. Initially, there was speculation that Kenya wanted to secure a buffer zone along its long, porous frontier with Somalia.
Government spokesman Alfred Mutua said on Thursday the aim was only to dismantle al Shabaab's network and leave, not spending an hour longer than necessary in Somalia.
Kenyan soldiers may well find themselves in a different scenario to that of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian troops were at the vanguard of the fight against Somalia's Islamist militants. In this case, an African Union force of 9,000 has more or less secured Mogadishu, Western allies are providing Kenya with technical support and Somali government troops and allied militias are fighting alongside the east African country.
Will Kenya ultimately prove its doubters wrong and secure gains that have eluded its peers? Or will this be another ill-fated operation that will end up in an embarrassing withdrawal?
Yona Maro <oldmoshi@gmail.com> Nov 14 05:06PM +0300
A Profitable and Resource Efficient Future: Catalysing Retrofit Finance and
Investing in Commercial Real Estate is the product of the Retrofit Finance
& Investing Project, a cross-industry, multistakeholder initiative of the
World Economic Forum launched in 2010.
The report equips policy-makers and industry leaders with the information
and tools needed to build and scale retrofit markets around the world. It
highlights the business potential waiting to be tapped by multiple
industries and underscores the acute importance for government leaders to
take action now: to ensure a resource-secure, low-carbon future and to
benefit from the economic and job creation potential that retrofitting
promises. It calls to action the range of existing and potential
stakeholders to fully and jointly participate in growing a healthy retrofit
market, including government, financial service institutions, investors,
property owners, utilities, equipment manufacturers, energy service
companies and other related industries. Finally, it provides
industry-specific recommendations to enable their participation.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IP/IU/WEF_IU_CatalysingRetrofitFinanceInvestingCommercialRealEstate_Brochure_2011.pdf
MsJoe21St@aol.com Nov 14 09:05AM -0500
Sounds like a plan as my Dad would say to cheer a solution. The CEMAC
region - the six countries in Central Africa already have CEMAC passport.
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_Nairobi Star_ (http://www.the-star.co.ke/) (Nairobi)
_East Africa:_ (http://allafrica.com/eastafrica/) EAC to Drop U.S. Dollar
As Regional Currency
Kennedy Lesiew and Jessica Nyaboke
11 November 2011
____________________________________
Residents of the East African Community no longer have to use the dollar a
s a medium when changing currencies from one member state to another.
Deputy director in charge of regional integration Alice Yalla said traders
operating within the region can now directly change their currency to the host
nation in accordance with the exchange rates.
Speaking to the Star in Eldoret, Yalla said the move is a great saving to
traders who have been losing up to 35 per cent of their currency's value
during the exchange. She said with the establishment of banks which are
operating across the region, residents can now withdraw money through the ATM
when in any member state in the desired currency.
Yalla said the region is yet to achieve the goal of having a common
currency but hoped that they will beat the April 2012 deadline. "Plans are
underway to harmonize the education systems and curriculum at every level of
learning so that all graduates member states can fit in the job market ." Said
Yalla adding that the process will assist in bridging skills due to current
shortage of labour in the market.
Yona Maro <oldmoshi@gmail.com> Nov 14 05:05PM +0300
The National Planning Commission's vision and plan for 2030 charts a 20
year path towards achieving the overarching vision embedded in the
Constitution that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. It breaks the
five-year electoral cycle to allow for long-term planning.
The plan opens the way for:
- The mobilization of society around a commonly agreed set of long-term
goals
- Greater coherence in government's work between departments which can
only be achieved if there is a common understanding of long-term objectives.
- The development of a broad consensus to encourage business and society
to think about the long term. This will provide a basis for making
trade-offs and prioritising major decisions.
http://www.npconline.co.za/medialib/downloads/home/NPC%20National%20Development%20Plan%20Vision%202030%20-lo-res.pdf
Yona Maro <oldmoshi@gmail.com> Nov 14 05:04PM +0300
This is the first African edition in the GSMA Mobile Observatory series and
provides a comprehensive review of the African mobile communications
industry. The report focuses on how mobile operators and African
governments can work together to continue the remarkable growth story of
the African mobile industry. The benefits that mobile services have already
brought to hundreds of millions of Africans can be extended to those who
have yet to connect. By so doing, the African continent can continue to
bring not only communication services, but also improved financial
services, healthcare and education to its people and drive an increase in
the economic wealth and development.
http://www.gsmworld.com/documents/African_Mobile_Observatory_Full_Report_2011.pdf
Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng <gapenteng@hotmail.com> Nov 14 09:13AM
Have we noticed that "the market" has replaced two governments in Europe?The two new prime ministers in Greece and Italy are unelected heads of governmentwho both worked for Goldman Sachs and are darlings of the international financial system. This makes a mockery of democracy and undermines the West's moral right to lectureanyone on the subject.
Kwasi
Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng,
Journalist & Communications Consultant
Accra
President,
Ghana Association of Writers
PAWA House, Accra
Pablo <pidahosa@yorku.ca> Nov 14 08:37AM -0500
Brilliantly and succinctly put, Kwasi. Since when did the very invisible, but secret, hands of bondholders replace the will of the people!? In markets we trust to overthrow elected governments, and then no commentary.The language and practices of "the market" have long replaced agency and will of the people-- that there's nothing more paramount than securing the confidence of big private and institutional investors. That's why, despite my reservations about pitching tents outside of all banks (central or otherwise) and treasuries, the principle that they are standing for is unimpeachable.
If ever we saw global class rule at work, here it is.
Pablo
Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com> Nov 14 02:56AM -0800
Dear all,
Starting from Sunday [13/11/11] u will begin getting messages from We the People bulk SMS. Pls text yes to 08163687116 or 08054628325, these are the Campaign numbers, call either at any time to get updates on the Nigerian peoples struggle to resist fuel price increase. Also invite your friends to sign up. Broadcast to all your friends! Post on your Face book status!
The We The People Campaign, is an initiative ...of the United Action For Democracy [UAD], with which we seek to build the broadest possible coalition of willing and committed individuals and organisations against fuel price increases, for the immediate restoration of full domestic refining capacity, for the immediate idenitification and punishment of the cabal sabotaging the petroleum and energy sectors; and with which we also seek to mobilise active support for every experession of struggle of our peoples against tyranny and exploitation! For example during last week, we organised with Ogoni people protest marches to stop the Landgrab in Ogoniland, and to compel the implementation of the UNEP on the restoration of Ogoni land and environment.
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awori <awori.achoka@gmail.com> Nov 13 08:06PM -0800
Please tell the ignorant anarchists that the basis of Christian
philosophy is African culture.
Europe is nowhere in the Old Testament but Egypt is mentioned 500
times.
AA.
On Nov 13, 6:58 pm, toyin adepoju <toyin.adep...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
"Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com> Nov 13 09:57PM -0500
"i wonder how many on this list read Persepolis, the graphic novel by
marhane satrapi. she paints an awful picture of that war, after its initial
patriotic phase of iranians defending their country." kenneth harrow <
harrow@msu.edu
I thought you said novels are supposed to be fictional, nay fictive,
narratives that need not be factual recapitulation of events. You said this
in defense of Chimamanda's alleged distortion of the history and sociology
of the Igbo society in her novel. Not being an Igbo, I am in no position to
make any judgment on the accuracy or facticity of the accusation against
Chimamanda (whose novels I've never even read), but I was struck (unnerved
is more like it) by your argument that fidelity to historical facts is
outside the province of the novelistic enterprise. That, you said, belongs
to history and anthropology. Now you are inviting us to gaze at a
historical event through the lenses of a novel!
Farooq
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Journalism & Citizen Media
Department of Communication
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road, MD 2207
Kennesaw, Georgia, USA 30144
Cell: (+1) 404-573-969:
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.com<http://www.farooqkperogi.blogspot.com>
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/farooqkperogi
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/farooqkperogi
"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either
proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com> Nov 13 06:00PM -0800
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Dear All,
Please kindly find attached a Call for Papers for an edited book on Critical Perspectives on African Development
Lawrence
Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Senior
Lecturer of Philosophy
Department
of Philosophy and Religions
University
of Abuja, Nigeria
--- On Sat, 11/12/11, ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: ugwuanyi Lawrence <ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com>
Subject: Call for Papers on Critical Perspectives on African Development
To: ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011, 6:31 PM
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