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October 23, 2021
Today’s musicians juggle an oversaturated market, leading them to question how they can stand out among the herd. With Apple Music and Spotify playlists
May 30, 2021
The 25 Best Whodunit Movies of All Time By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News On 5/30/21 at 9:00 AM EDT Predictability is the last thing audiences want out of their entertainment, so most stories contain at least some element of surprise. And nothing uses the concept to its advantage quite like the classic whodunit. A challenge for the filmmaker and the viewer alike, this particular subgenre keeps viewers guessing until the final reveal and, furthermore, uses that guesswork as a basis upon which to ...
April 2, 2021
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 31 March 2021 In the recent past, I have had to be drawn into a number of media interviews on the desirability of zoning political offices and the agitations for a president of Igbo extraction in 2023. Over the weekend, I spoke on this issue on Democracy Today on the Africa Independent Television and was also on The Podium, the current affairs programme of Love 104.5 FM, Abuja on Monday, March 29, 2021. As a political scientist and prominent member of Nigeria...
March 12, 2021
Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim that Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed told the BBC in 2014 that his great-grandson will be “back on a camel”, implying that the wealthy emirates development is diminishing. The claim is false: Sheikh Mohammed did not make such comments in the interview, where he said he aimed for Dubai to become “number one”. A similar quote has previously been attributed to Saudi politician Ahmed Zaki Yamani and...
January 27, 2021
Reported By Jackson Elliott, Christian Post Reporter | Monday, January 25, 2021 Read more at https://www.christianpost.com/news/parents-too-afraid-to-oppose-crt-in-schools-says-activist.html?uid=03bea79789 Critical race theory has infiltrated Christian private schools and parents aren’t speaking up because they’re afraid, said one education activist. Elana Yaron Fishbein started an organization called “No Left Turn in Education” to help parents take the lead in the education of their...
January 27, 2021
Elana Yaron Fishbein started an organization called “No Left Turn in Education” to help parents take the lead in the education of their children and to show people who oppose critical race theory that they have allies. Among its slogans is “education, not indoctrination.” In only a few months since its beginning in August 2020, her Facebook group grew dramatically. Today, her group has chapters in 18 states. “Many parents say ‘how can you be against it (CRT)?’ until you open i...
January 18, 2021
January 17, 2021 Share When a single individual such as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has the power to dictate to the president of the United States what he can say or not, we know that the ultimate form of monopoly capitalism is at play. Corporations such as Twitter and Facebook, which live off the wealth created by the input and sharing of messages by millions of ordinary people around the world, remind me of the wealth generated by slave labour and the indentured serf whose work got transl...