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Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 17 Comments: 0 Ziggy Marley Talks Road Trip Documentary Ziggy Marley Talks Road Trip Documentary Ziggy Marley and director David Alexanian discuss their six part documentary series "Marley Africa Road Trip" about Ziggy, Robbie and Rohan Marley's journey to Africa. (May 14) May 14, 2013 3:00 AM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 10 Comments: 0 Today in History May 10 Today in History May 10 Highlights of this day in history: A golden spike completes America's first transcontinental railroad; Nazis burn books in Germany; Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland; Nelson Mandela takes office in S. Africa; U2's frontman Bono born. (May 10) May 9, 2013 11:00 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 15 Comments: 0 Real News: Stephen Hawking Confirms Support of Israel Boycott Real News: Stephen Hawking Confirms Support of Israel Boycott Phyllis Bennis: Hawking's boycott of Israel will shake Israeli public the way sports boycott affected South Africa. From The Real News. May 9, 2013 12:01 AM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 16 Comments: 0 Today in History, May 2ND Today in History, May 2ND Highlights of this day in history: Nazi Germany's capital Berlin falls in World War II; Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies; Civil War Gen. 'Stonewall' Jackson killed; Nelson Mandela claims victory in South Africa vote; Singer Bing Crosby born. (May 2) May 1, 2013 11:00 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 9 Comments: 0 Restoring the Earth: Drylands Restoring the Earth: Drylands Bringing degraded land to life. John D. Liu looks examples from China and South Africa. Watch more at http://www.linktv.org/earthfocus. Apr 30, 2013 11:02 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 13 Comments: 0 Real News: Un Sanctioned Congo Real News: Un Sanctioned Congo "Intervention Brigades" Compliment Us Africa Strategy Maurice Carney: 3,000 member force intervention will further militarize Congo; US has power to sanction rebel-backers Rwanda and Uganda, but will not because they are allies in American AFRICOM strategy. From The Real News. Apr 24, 2013 11:03 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 16 Comments: 0 A Big Pill to Swallow: Elephant Contraception Catching on A Big Pill to Swallow: Elephant Contraception Catching on Contraception may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of elephants. But a new contraceptive vaccine is saving elephants in South Africa's reserves and parks. Elephants are widely threatened by poachers and ivory traders, but in protected areas they multiply quickly, outgrowing park limits. To control their numbers, many countries have been culling herds. Now contraception is catching on as a way to manage elephant numbers without outright killing or relocation. Jeff Barbee reports from South Africa. Watch more at http://www.linktv.org/earthfocus. Apr 16, 2013 9:02 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 22 Comments: 0 Earth Focus Episode 52: Fracking Goes Global Earth Focus Episode 52: Fracking Goes Global US domestic gas production is on the rise because of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock by pumping millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals underground at high pressure. Environmentalists say this gas boon threatens water supplies and pollutes air. Now, as fracking expands around the world, so does growing resistance. Earth Focus looks at three countries on the new fracking frontline: South Africa, Poland, and the UK. Reported from South Africa by Jeff Barbee and Andrew Wasley (The Ecologist) from Poland and the UK. Watch more at http://www.linktv.org/earthfocus. Apr 16, 2013 3:03 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 31 Comments: 0 NAACP President Ben Jealous: Putting People in Jail 'is How We Solve Almost Every problem' NAACP President Ben Jealous: Putting People in Jail 'is How We Solve Almost Every problem' Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joins Current TV's John Fugelsang to discuss a letter he and 174 others wrote to President Obama, calling on him to reform the criminal justice system. Jealous says America has a prison problem: "Black men in this country are three times more likely to be incarcerated than black men were in South Africa during apartheid, when they were the world's leading incarcerator." Apr 9, 2013 10:04 PM
Headline Tag: Homophobia Rating: Good Hits: 537 Comments: 1 First Gay Traditional Zulu Wedding First Gay Traditional Zulu Wedding Traditional African gay wedding a first. Apr 9, 2013 1:11 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 22 Comments: 0 South Africa: Mandela in Hospital on Easter South Africa: Mandela in Hospital on Easter Former South African President Nelson Mandela remained in a hospital on Easter Sunday while receiving treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia, the government said. (March 31) Mar 31, 2013 11:40 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Rwanda Rating: No Votes Hits: 42 Comments: 0 Beautiful Rwanda Beautiful Rwanda In summer of 2012, Mammoth spent two weeks in Rwanda, Africa filming for the country's tourism department. Music: "Equestrian" by U.S. Royalty, "Still Life" by The Horrors Mar 30, 2013 1:20 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 36 Comments: 0 'China's Michelle Obama' Steals Spotlight from President (LinkAsia: 3/29/13) 'China's Michelle Obama' Steals Spotlight from President (LinkAsia: 3/29/13) China's new president Xi Jinping is on his first overseas trip, stopping in Africa this week for an economic summit. But all eyes are on his fashionista wife, the popular singer Peng Liyuan. LinkAsia's Mark Dreyer reports on the buzz that her entrance onto the political stage has generated online. Watch more at http://linkasia.org. IMAGE: China's first lady Peng Liyuan shares a toast with South Africa's first lady Bongi Ngema as China's President Xi Jinping and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma look on: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko Mar 29, 2013 10:02 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 36 Comments: 0 Today in History for March 21St Today in History for March 21St Highlights of this day in history: Civil rights marchers head from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; The Sharpeville massacre takes place in South Africa; Randall Dale Adams released from a Texas prison; Composer Johann Sebastian Bach born. (March 21) Mar 23, 2013 1:01 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 84 Comments: 1 Big Think: Lawrence Krauss on Caveman Common Sense Big Think: Lawrence Krauss on Caveman Common Sense The physicist argues that our common sense is based on evolutionary imperatives that have less to do with the universe as it is than with what our ancestors needed to do to survive in a hostile wilderness. Transcript-- We evolved as human beings a few million years ago on the Savanna in Africa and we evolved to escape tigers, or lions, or predators. And so what makes common sense to us is the world on our scale. You know, how to throw a rock or a spear or how to find a cave and we didn't evolve to understand quantum mechanics. And, therefore, it's not too surprising that on scales vastly different than the kind of experience we had as we were evolving as a species, that nature seems strange and sometimes almost unfathomable, certainly violates our common sense. Our sense of what is common sense and what's intuition. But as I like to say, the universe doesn't care about our common sense. We have to force our ideas to conform to the evidence of reality rather than the other way around And if reality seems strange, that's okay. In fact that's what makes science so wonderful; it expands our minds because it forces us to accept possibilities, which, in advance, we may never of thought was possible. I've said that scientists love mysteries, and we do. That's the reason I'm a scientist. Because it's the puzzles of the universe that make it so exciting. Now it is true that we want to solve, resolve those and solve those puzzles. That's part of the fun of doing science is solving puzzles, basically. But each time we do, new questions arise. And I think for many of us, just as in our lives, the searching is often much more profound than the finding. It's the searching for answers through life in some sense that make life worth living. If we had all the answers, we could just sit back and stare at out navels. And I think what makes the search so exciting is that the answers are so surprising. The universe continues to surprise us in ways we never would have imagined. Well beyond our own imagination in advance, and that's all we have to keep exploring the universe. We can't just sit in a room and think about it because every time we open a new window on the universe were surprised. And that makes the whole process incredibly exciting. Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd Mar 20, 2013 12:05 AM
 
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