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 Abyei: 2,391 households displaced by attacks need assistance About 2,391 households displaced by recent attacks on the disputed Abyei area are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, a local official said. Last week, armed men believed to be from the Sudanese Misseriya community attacked some villages of Dinka Ngok including the Amiet market, leaving more than 40 people dead and 26 others injured. Santino Deng, Head of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in Abyei, told Radio Tamazuj Tuesday last week’s attacks have displaced about 2,391 households. The families were displaced from four different villages including Kolom, Amiet, Noong and Dokura, according to the relief official.  “Amiet alone has 1,716 households equivalent to 8580 individuals, Noong has 225 displaced households which is equivalent to 1,125 persons, Dokura has 199 households with 995 individuals and Kolom has 250 households with 1,250 individuals,” Deng explained. Deng further said the IDPs are expected...

  Russia warns G20 of global impact of sanctions Samizdat | April 21, 2022 Sanctions imposed on Russia are creating serious risks to the global economy, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said via video link at a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Washington, DC on Wednesday. “Excessively loose budgetary and monetary policy pursued in recent years in developed countries created inflationary pressure last year, and the sanctions imposed against Russia not only further strengthened it, but also led to new risks in the economy,” Siluanov said. Spiking prices for energy and agricultural produce will hit developing and low-income countries, the minister warned, adding that some countries will face severe social consequences. According to Siluanov, Russia has never refused to fulfill its obligations and continues to comply with all contracts’ terms, while shipments of goods across the global markets are being artificially restrained by sanctions, triggeri...

  Kosti is of Greek origin, or Nubian  There is a popular story that has its roots in the early twentieth century, that a Greek merchant called “Costa” or “Kustinio” resided in this area, and he brought sugar, salt and other goods to the nomads, bought milk from them and made cheese. And that the Kosti region, before it was called by this name in connection with the Greek, was called the name of Abbas and was corresponding to the region of Zainouba, an area whose roots go back to the thirteenth century AD, where a Nubian princess lived.  The archaeological discoveries in the areas east and west of the White Nile indicate the presence of churches in an area dating back to the sixth century AD, where the Christian kingdoms (Alwa, Moghara and Nobatia) prevailed. The proof of the existence of a Nubian civilization in this region, this fact denies the origin of the name. The inhabitants of that region, according to the notorious narration, date back to the beginning of the sec...

  Song of Songs (detail), Enrico Salfi, ca. 1900-1930. Wikimedia A Nitpicking Lover in Song of Songs 1:7 Prof.Marc Zvi Brettler The woman in Song of Songs wishes to know where her lover will be, asking: “Why should I be like an ʿōṭǝyâ (כְּעֹטְיָה).” Translators struggle with this phrase, and suggest meanings as disparate as “be veiled like a prostitute,” “be as a wanderer,” or even “pick at my nits.” How do scholars use ancient translation, cognate words, and content to translate a word in the Bible whose meaning is so obscure? The woman in Song of Songs wishes to know where her lover will be, asking: “Why should I be like an ʿōṭǝyâ (כְּעֹטְיָה).” Translators struggle with this phrase, and suggest meanings as disparate as “be veiled like a prostitute,” “be as a wanderer,” or even “pick at my nits.” How do scholars use ancient translation, cognate words, and content to translate a word in the Bible whose meaning is so obscure? A Nitpicking Lover in Song of Songs 1:7 Song of Songs (d...

 Kiir replaces deputy minister of public service South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Monday evening fired the deputy minister of public service who is a senior member of the South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA). Deputy Minister Gen. Khalid Botrous Bora – who held the position for more than two years – was sacked in a decree read out on state media. No reasons were given for firing him. His removal comes after President Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar and SSOA leaders agreed on the unification of the armed forces' command as stipulated in the 2018 peace agreement. In another decree, President Kiir replaced Khalid Botrous with Gen. Julius Tabuley Daniel, who is also a senior member of SSOA. Both Khalid and Tabley are belonging the National Salvation Front (NAS) faction, which is an organization within the South Sudan Opposition Alliance. In early April, the parties to the peace agreement signed a security deal in Juba that sets out terms of integrating SPLA-IO and SSOA com...

Pharaoh Tutankhamun destroying his enemies, ca. 1327  B.C.E , painting on wood (detail). Egyptian Museum of Cairo   Freedom from the Egyptian Empire Prof.Ronald Hendel Exodus as cultural memory of the demise of Egypt’s 400-year rule over Canaan. Archaeologists and Egyptologists tell us that there is no evidence for the Exodus.[1] This presents different problems for various types of biblical scholars. How do we make sense of the central narrative in the Bible if there is no evidence for it? If the Exodus didn’t happen, where did the story come from? Why would the ancient Israelites accept this as the story of their origins? I think it unlikely that such a central story would come from nothing. I will argue that the Exodus is a cultural memory of a historical era that really happened and for which there is (literally) tons of evidence. A Response to Defenders of the Exodus Account as History First, I will address three arguments often marshaled by defenders of the historicity o...

  Understanding the Progressive Mind II. Fri Apr 8, 2022David Horowitz225 comments [Order David Horowitz's new book -- I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax Is Killing America: HERE.] In a previous article, I explained that “progressivism is a criminal mentality.” By progressivism, I mean every political philosophy that regards itself as “revolutionary,” or “transformative,” that describes itself as socialist, communist, fascist or jihadist – or that believes “the moral arc of the universe that bends towards justice.” The belief that history is marching towards justice is a cult ideology refuted by the mass genocides of the modern era, which were  carried out by Marxists and Nazis. The belief that the world is marching towards justice, that progressives are “on the right side of history” is a delusion that will justify any atrocity and already has. That is why today’s progressives are advancing the same genocidal agendas that the West defeated in World War II and the Cold War. Le...

  The illusion of Evidence-based Medicine by aletho By Robert W Malone MD, MS | March 28, 2022 In 1990, a paradigm shift occurred in the development of new medicines and treatments. An idea so big, that it was supposed to encompass the whole of medicine. It was to start initially at the level of pre-clinical and clinical trials and work all the way through the system to the care and management of individual patients. This new concept for how medicine would be developed and conducted is called evidence-based medicine (EBM). Evidence-based medicine was to provide a more rigorous foundation for medicine, one based on science and the scientific method. Truly, this was to be a revolution in medicine - a non-biased way of conducting medical research and treating patients. Evidence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." The aim of EBM is to integrate...