Written by Oiwan Lam The Hong Kong Education Bureau is planning to make patriotic education compulsory for primary and secondary school children. The objective of the Moral and National Education Curriculum is to build “national harmony, identity and unity among individuals”, help the students to “develop a sense of belonging to the motherland”, “support national […]
Latin America’s African Roots Explored
Latin America’s African Roots Explored An article in UrbanMecca.com announced http:/www./urbanmecca.net that Black in Latin America, a new four–part series “on the influence of African descent on Latin America”, is the 11th and latest documentary film from renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. I’m impressed with the ideas brought out in the PBS series concerning […]
Sec. Clinton welcomed Muslim Brotherhood member to U.S.
While the debate over the Muslim Brotherhood’s links to terrorism and terrorists continues within the Beltway, the Obama administration and upper-echelon intelligence officials ignore an incident that deserves full disclosure. Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an order allowing a radical Islamist with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to enter the United States and tour American cities in […]
Innovation of the Week: For Pest Control, Following Nature’s Lead
<i>Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s <a href= “http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/innovation-of-the-week-for-pest-control-following-nature%E2%80%99s-lead/”>Nourishing the Planet</a>.</i> <p>It might feel counterintuitive, but the more varieties of vegetables, plants, and insects that are included in a garden, the less vulnerable any single crop becomes. Mans Lanting of <a href="http://www.etc-international.org/">ETC Foundation India</a> wrote in <i><a href="http://ileia.leisa.info/index.php?url=getblob.php&o_id=200558&a_id=211&a_seq=0">LEISA Magazine</a></i> in 2007 that the best method […]
Fighting Global Malnutrition Locally
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog. Every year, 5 million children worldwide die from malnutrition-related causes, including immune-system deficiency, increased risk of infection, decreased bone density, and starvation. But a variety of local efforts are hoping to turn things around. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country struggling with […]
Egypt: Crackdown on the Egyptian Da Vinci Code
Published in 2008, Dr. Youssef Zidane‘s Azazeel (Beelzebub) created a stir followed by resentment. Today – in 2010 – Dr. Zidane is being accused of blasphemy and defaming Christianity and as insulting any of the ‘heavenly faiths’ is illegal in Egypt, Zidane could face up to five years behind bars. Back in 2008, Zeinobia wrote We got our own Da Vinci Code […]
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