Daily Archives: 09/11/2016

Guyana– Latest News from various sources – September 11, 2016

Guyana: LATEST NEWS – 11 September 2016 – Kaieteur News… (see other News sources at the end of this entry) 

2016 US Presidential Elections: Candidates on Militarism and War – By Rosaliene Bacchus

Three Worlds One Vision

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Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, catapulting our nation into what has become an endless War on Terror. With our strategy of fighting terror with terror, we have ignited the Middle East into sectarian wars that have fractured the nations of Iraq and Libya, fueled the emergence and spread of ISIS, threatened the destabilization of Syria, and forced over 65 million people from their homelands.

While the military-industrial-financial complex salivates with endless wars, we-the-people must bear the burden of such wars. Where do our presidential candidates stand on this issue, if unchecked, that could transform us into a nation of empty bombshells and drive our world into a nuclear holocaust?

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China’s Tech-Savvy, Burned-Out and Spiritually Adrift, Turn to Buddhism

China’s Tech-Savvy, Burned-Out and Spiritually Adrift, Turn to Buddhism

Music: Prince Buster – five great tracks from the King of Ska

Prince Buster – five great tracks from the King of Ska

By Erin MacLeod – https://www.theguardian.com –  Friday 9 September 2016

Prince Buster … Iron fists, golden voice.

Prince Buster

Celebrate the life and music of one of Jamaican music’s all-time greats with these five brilliant recordings

Prince Buster was a multifaceted fellow: not just the King of Ska, but also a producer, singer, soundsystem owner and boxer (Prince was his boxing nickname, and he converted to Islam after meeting Muhammad Ali). He was also a man who, as both producer and artist, led changes in Jamaican music. It was his introduction of the guitar chord on the afterbeat instead of the downbeat that gave birth to ska; he led the move to slowing down ska’s frantic pace into rocksteady; he was there when dub was born.     Continue reading

Guyana Government News Brief – September 9, 2016

GINA logoGuyana Government News Brief – September 9, 2016