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Blacks still waiting on other races to save them
Michael
A. Dingwall (michael_a_dingwall@hotmail.com)
Recently, the People’s Republic of China hosted a special conference in the Chinese capital with many African nations in an effort to foster better relations between China and black Africa. The conference, which involved over fifty (50) African leaders, resulted in a promise by the Chinese to double the aid that it gives to Africa. Like so many other cases, isn’t this another example of the fact that black nations around the world continue to wait on others to rescue them from themselves?
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Not wanting to apply our brains, we wait on others to solve OUR problems |
In return for the aid that they will be getting from China, these black nations will, among other things, provide the rapidly growing Chinese economy with much needed raw materials, especially oil. Already, China’s hyperactive economy is sucking up one-third of all the oil Africa exports. Some concern was raised as to whether China should be a little more discrete with its aid to Africa, considering that many of these African nations have serious human rights problems. However, my concern for our black nations is much more than that.
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| Language: Cultural and Plural symbolisms in a society
Paul Andrew Bourne (paulbourne1@yahoo.com)
One scholar, writing in the early 1900s, argues that language is more than the phoneticians’, grammarians’ and etymologists’ tools of dialoguing and/or techniques of formal writing; it is the emergence of a society’s expressions and cultural history, which is underpinned by social and system integration (see for example, Firth 1937; Durkheim 1953). Another pragmatist supplies the thought that it has its own history “…not only in the sense of historical grammar, but also in the history of the actions which are performed through the mediation of language common to a plurality of agents” (Whatmough 1956, 183). “Language is the whole systematic background of grammar, dictionary, and usage. …Language is the typology of the common element in your speech and mine...” (Firth 1937, 17). There is not better summary of Firth’s writing but the monograph of the writer himself. The writer cites that:
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Paul Andrew Bourne
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"Language is an element of culture that contributes to every aspect of human relationships"
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The notions men have about language derive from their particular type of society and cultural inheritance, and especially from their religion. The first step must therefore be a review of what the great peoples who have shaped our civilization have thought about great peoples who have shaped our civilization have thought about utterance and writing, speech and language. The various branches of linguistics cannot be seen in proper proportions and perspective without some sort of fundamental philosophy of language (Firth 1937, 1).
Chief among Firth’s perspective is how language explains the practices of a group of people - their life, attitudes, opinions, institutions, and the humanness (verbal and non-verbal attribute) that is within its structure. It is a social behaviour, and can be liken to a biological organism. Of which the evolution of its being is gradually unfolding to a systematically whole, in order to foster non-primitive civilization.
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| Cuban oil and ethanol could prosper in Havana’s hunt for energy supplies
Danielle Ryan (coha@coha.org)
Hurdling over the barriers erected by Washington policymakers, Cuba, with increasing gusto, is turning to its oil and ethanol sectors to achieve energy security, despite the U.S. embargo. Cuba has slowly made progress through the operations of both state-owned and foreign enterprises, by means of new oil explorations and a stepped-up search for new energy alternatives, such as ethanol.
Cuba Opens Its Doors
Although Cuban oil exploration originally got underway in the 1960s, very little production actually took place during that period. During the 1970s, however, two factors led to an increased interest in oil-related matters: the discovery of the Varadero oil field on the Cuban coast in 1971, and the growing petroleum allocations from the Soviet Union. However, after the Soviet bloc unraveled in 1991, Cuba was cut off from its traditional supplier, thereby beginning its “special period” of harsh energy realities. The Soviet-built Cienfuegos refinery had not been completed and the country started to experience a severe shortage of oil. As the U.S. rallied its allies to collectively impose an embargo on Cuba, the island’s inhabitants were forced to drastically change their daily habits to accommodate the major disruptions of electricity through
repeated outages as well as the fitful functioning of natural gas supplies. For example, many Cubans, who normally used automobiles or jitneys as their primary source of transportation, were now forced to use bicycles. As a result of these hardships, Cuban energy officials had no choice but to turn to capitalist markets.
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| Recommendations for United Nations Improvement presented
MEDIAINFO-DPI (Mediainfo@un.org)
Recommendations to strengthen and better coordinate the UN’s work in the fields of development, the environment and humanitarian assistance were issued on 9 November by H.E. Mr. Shaukat Aziz, the Prime Minister of Pakistan; H.E. Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, the Prime Minister of Norway; and (via videomessage) H.E. Mrs. Luísa Dias Diogo, the Prime Minister of Mozambique - the three co-chairs of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence.
Commissioned early this year in response to a call by the 2005 World Summit for greater coherence in the development-related agencies, the Panel of 15 eminent international figures has conducted a six-month consultative process. They have met with the UN Chief Executives Board and conducted field visits with representatives of Member States, the UN system, inter-governmental fora, international financial institutions, academia and civil society organizations.
Prime Ministers Aziz and Stoltenberg presented the Panel’s report to Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the morning of the ninth, and later to the General Assembly. After participating in an informal exchange with the Assembly, they held a press conference in Room S-226 at UN Headquarters.
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| Letter to Mr. Bush and Mr. Osama - The 72 Virgins War
Marc Kramis (marc@kramis.com)
Dear George and Osama,
It is time to end the war on terror. Neither religion nor government can win. Religion and government were created to serve people, when they kill people they fail their sole function.
We reached this global dilemma because we were afraid to learn new truths. This war is over preconceived ideas about Jehovah/Allah/God and what each persuasion thinks their God is and wants. Everyone is convinced only they can be right. No one wants to know any other truth.
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