"So much of this respect comes because you and Professor Gloria Emeagwali are far, far away from uncle-tomfoolery..." etc
Dear Respected Professor Biko Agozino,
So much of this respect comes because Professor Gloria Emeagwali are far, far away from uncle-tomfoolery/the despicable House Negro "we sick massa" mentality: You are close enough to the spirit intended in Ojogbon Falola's most profound appeal to "African Scholars"
Absolutely, as you say: "Let Ukraine recognize the independence of the People's Republic of Donetsk and stop persecuting citizens who speak Russian. Unless it is all lies that they have been fighting and killing thousands of their own citizens and banning the teaching of their language in the past eight years."
True: And to date, I have never known you to utter a lie / transparent calumny.
Kudos!
As dear Burning Spear sings even "Christopher Columbus" is a damn blasted liar: he never, he never discovered Jamaica..."-
However, with regard to Marshall McLuhan being prophetic, without being too pedantic, can we not use the term "prophetic" in a non-religious sense and thereby avoid coming to blows/ nuclear war/ a fatwa passed/ a contract put out on our heads for blasphemy, alternately heresy, a fatwa passed by e.g. the fanatically orthodox powers that be?
I should like to refer you to the interesting discussion that occurs in Modern British Philosophy; Conversations with Ninian Smart (only 11 pages - originally broadcast on BBC Radio in the winter of 1970 – 1971)
The problem with the traumatised Biden and people like him is that they are only so slowly recovering from the nightmare hangover that still lingers on in their heads/ and the general American psyche, so long after the McCarthy era, so that in the popular American imagination the mere mention of Russia gets the Bidens & the Biden countrymen & countrywomen hallucinating "Communism" – and talking about orthodoxy, just imagine someone like Billy Graham telling his flock about Holy Russia which became a Christian country at least more than five hundred years before Columbus discovered America, imagine Rev Billy Graham still caught up in the McCarthy era fear of "the Ruskies" therefore telling his flock after viewing the churches in Russia, in the then USSR - " they are not Christians, they are Muslims: look at their domes!"
But as for Jokerman , he still does not seem to know what time it is and doesn't mind fomenting war in Europe hoping that this will weaken Russia whilst he and his family have nothing to worry about their personal safety over there in Washington D.C.
Very interesting, what Trump says about the latest developments in Ukraine
Hopefully, Trump who has just started a new social media platform will pr will not continue where he left off, pursuing Hunter Biden's vested interests in Ukraine
The propaganda war is likely to escalate; unfortunately, propaganda itself can be so subtle that the uninitiated the uninformed, the ignorant and the gullible cannot so easily distinguish between truth and fiction because the distinction/s can get awfully blurred. When I was in Nigeria during the cold war years (1981-1984 ) I listened a lot to Moscow Radio which featured some extraordinary jazz pianists- pianists with a classical music background ( just like Keith Jarrett) and for balance since one only had occasional access to Time and Newsweek, I read all the Novosti press stuff that somehow was in circulation, in Port Harcourt , all this before the arrival of Internet…
Here's an example of wrong information: Sweden's main newspaper Dagens Nyheter had this to report about the heavily rigged elections that were conducted on 6th August 1983; " A Triumph for Democracy" they wrote, thus misinforming their readers, as if the Swedish Embassy in Lagos was completely unaware of what was goin' on, but the reporter was probably sitting somewhere in Pretoria sending updates live and direct from there
Just in case I may sound more Eurocentric than normal, I'd like to ask the USA- Africa Dialogue Series what's going on with the USA's AFRICOM program in Africa having established more than 40 American Military bases in Africa and the implications thereof
Gilbert Scott-Heron: "work for peace": the military and the monetary
On Thursday, 24 February 2022 at 19:30:13 UTC+1 biko...@yahoo.com wrote:Oga Cornel,No be me talk am, na Pilger lie say McLuhan dey Prophetic. Na lie.Let Ukraine recognize the independence of the People's Republic of Donesk and stop persecuting citizens who speak Russian. Unless it is all lies that they have been fighting and killing thousands of their own citizens and banning the teaching of their language in the past eight years.BikoOn Feb 24, 2022 11:04 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
Respected Professor Biko Agozino,
Most importantly Russian forces are finally on the move (land, sea, air) and apparently that's all that Swedish TV is interested in at the moment (non-stop). How are things over there in Virginia where I understand the CIA headquarters are located?
How many ways to skin a cat?
Of course, "the encoding is always decoded in different ways" - the heavily coded Torah itself is interpreted/ understood at more than seven levels ( by the specialists) and the Christian fun-da-mentalists also have their own understandings. I was thinking about the latter yesterday when I read Erick Ybarra On Vigilius which starts with what could well be an aside to some of the disputes about book versus blog publishing in this series:
"Usually I do not take serious interest in online personalities and their slew of (self-published on Amazon) books. This is because generally, their content is low quality (as compared to mainstream authors) and short, reading much more like a series of blog posts than a serious literary endeavor.", writes Craig Truglia, an Eastern Orthodox Church missionary in Cambodia…
It's funny that you should refer to him as "Prophet McLuhan" when you know full well (or don't you?) that Muhammad – sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the last prophet - and that the Quran is the Last Message, and that just as my Muslim tutor Adel Hamza (of Mansoura, Egypt) used to inform me, by definition, a Muslim is someone who does not tell lies, speak less of a prophet of the Omniscient ever telling a lie….
In concluding his on the whole rather negative coverage of Marshall McLuhan in the Fontana Modern Masters series, Jonathan Miller wrote,
"And yet I can rehabilitate no actual truth from what I read. Perhaps McLuhan has accomplished the greatest paradox of all, creating the possibility of truth by shocking us with a gigantic system of lies. "
Of war and peace, the truth just twists – and this is no singing zone, it's now war, and clouds of war that we're talking about and the truism that "with war, the truth is the first thing to be thrown out the door" (I said so)
As dear John Pilger makes clear in this article, indeed, the lie is the message now.
The big lie, the nice fat lie, the evil black lie, the presidential lie, the little lily-white lie, all of which are spouted from the mouths and pens of the 419 con men, and above all, in this crisis, the White House lies: Pilger says "Biden lies about Russia", and it is not at all surprising to have a liar sitting at the Oval Office, or that in the usually turgid media language, he is someone known as a compulsive liar and a paranoid hypochondriac, often embracing what Shakespeare has defined as "the lie circumstantial" and "the lie direct"
Predictably, over here in Sweden (little America) there is some fear about the possible nuclear in the air, so we have Professor Porter (Anglo-Swede) talking about "The Russian Bear"
I repeat, if there could be a moratorium of an agreed x number of years during which Ukraine and the remnants of the former Warsaw Pact countries should not join NATO then that would signal the end of the crisis but former Comedian Zellenskyy is "as stubborn as an illiterate goat " - he could have avoided all this but is being "inspired" by people like Biden to " fight". In the final analysis, in my opinion, it's the comedian, the useful idiot and his instigators that should be held fully responsible
--On Thursday, 24 February 2022 at 05:34:31 UTC+1 biko...@yahoo.com wrote:"In 1964, McLuhan famously declared, "The medium is the message". The lie is the message now." Prophet McLuhan was wrong, according to Stuart Hall, because the encoding is always decoded in different ways - hegemonic, reformist, or revolutionary interpretations - irrespective of the media or the message.BikoOn Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 18:58:51 GMT-5, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:--
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