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By: Rashid Suleiman In the days before the Second Liberation, there were African presidents. Then there was the African president. His name was Kamuzu Banda. Banda confounded both friend and foe. He blew cold and hot, played saviour and the devil all once. He was considered one of Africa’s most influential leaders in the last 50 years. [...]

This web page has the following sub-sections:The historic struggle for control of resourcesThe Middle East at the center for struggle over control of resourcesA divided people; The West's support for dictators and monarchies over democraciesGlobalizationPolitical leaders are in between a rock and a hard place; the struggle for people's support The historic struggle for control of resourcesAs we sa

So the political PR game is to now humanize dictators by making them more accessible or currently “with the times.” They tried it first by putting Bush on game shows and his family on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of her face. Luckily it didn’t take too long for my eyes to wander below the face. Turns out Michelle was an attempted Bond girl (lost out to Eva Green) What’s with the Bond girls though? I mean this girl isn’t anything spectacular. Is [...]

1. Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937 - ) Mengistu assumed the presidency of Ethiopia in a military coup which ousted Haile Selassie in 1974. His links with the Russians and his ruthless nature earned him the tag ‘the red terror’. Using so-called ‘neighbourhood commitees’, Mengistu had as many as 1.5 Million of [...]

Audio version here Daniel 2:18 He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. (NIV) A lot has been made of yesterday’s visit by the President of Iran to Columbia University in New York. I watched the live debate yesterday because it was an historical moment. Right from

Funny thing about this mommy blog of mine - I can go days without posting anything about Chicky. It's not that I don't want to write anything about her, I do. That kid is an endless source of entertainment, as most toddler are, and that's what makes it so difficult to write anything about her. She's constantly doing something funny or amazing or supremely frustrating that it's hard to keep up.Two, in general, is hard. It's hard for me but, more importantly, it's really hard for Chicky. There's growing pains to contend with, like the two shoe sizes Chicky grew this summer alone. There's new words to learn. There's learning how to put the emPHAsis on the correct sylLAble, and getting phrases just right by repeating them 20 gajillion times in a row. There are social norms (in our house we don't throw blueberries into our drinking cups just to watch the milk splash) and mores (it's really not necessary to announce, loudly, every time someone burps or breaks wind) to ad

   Let me first mention that I did not watch the Democrat debate last night as I am not voting for any of these socialists, and they are all the same anyway. It doesn’t matter who you vote for on the Democrat side, there is no difference. That, and I didn’t care to hear about how bad America is.   So now I read some of the quotes from the Debate (I can’t help myself, I guess part of me wants to get aggravated at them in some sick, twisted way), and I see that Obama wants to talk to all the dictators in the world today. I never thought I would ever say this, but here goes. I agree with Hillary on this one point. Barack Obama’s offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive “I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive,” Clinton was quoted in an interview with the Quad-City Times that was posted on the Iowa ne

From Byron York:Sen. Barack Obama’s closest political adviser, David Axelrod, wants you to know that Obama did not say what he appeared to say at Monday night’s Democratic debate here in Charleston. A questioner, speaking via debate sponsor YouTube, asked whether, in the spirit of “bold leadership,” the candidates would “meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration…with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries.” Obama had a ready answer.“I would,” he said without hesitation. “And the reason is that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them — which has been the guiding principle of this administration — is ridiculous. Ronald Reagan and Democratic presidents like JFK constantly spoke to the Soviet Union at a time when Ronald Reagan called them an evil empire. And the reason is because they understood that we may not trust t

What is it about deranged megalomaniacs and very odd moustaches?Robert Mugabe sports the moustache equivalent of a Brazilian - it's the weirdest piece of hairy lip decoration.Adolf Hitler was famous for his unfashionable toothbrush moustache. You can't really take this parallel much further because many of the moustache weilding dictators had fairly unremarkable upper lip hair (Franco for instance) or none at all (Idi Amin). I guess in their position you adorn yourself as you like because nobody is going to advise you about looking like an idiot.(c) Hal Westhead 2005

The Frogs desiring a King(Illus by Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset)The Frogs were living as happy as could be in a marshy swampthat just suited them; they went splashing about caring fornobody and nobody troubling with them. But some of themthought that this was not right, that they should have a kingand a proper constitution, so they determined to send up apetition to Jove to give them what they wanted. "Mighty Jove,"they cried, "send unto us a king that will rule over us and keepus in order." Jove laughed at their croaking, and threw downinto the swamp a huge Log, which came down splashing intothe swamp. The Frogs were frightened out of their lives bythe commotion made in their midst, and all rushed to the bankto look at the horrible monster; but after a time, seeing that itdid not move, one or two of the boldest of them ventured outtowards the Log, and even dared to touch it; still it did notmove. Then the greatest hero of the Frogs jumped upon theLog and commenced d