When Corruption Becomes a Way of Life, and What to Do about It
VICKSON NCUBE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PAN AFRICAN FEDERATION OF ACCOUNTANTS | JUNE 15, 2017
Levels of corruption in Africa are symptomatic of the levels of moral decay that have engulfed African society. African society is drowning in a “have all, possess all” mentality that has become an endless orgy of spend and gain. Position and power have become keys to accessing resources meant for the general good and converting them for private good. We will be forgiven in concluding that the scrambles we see for power on our continent is no longer driven by a desire to serve but by waiting turns to loot. We have seen changes in ruling parties in various countries that have not resulted in a fall in levels of corruption.

This situation is compounded by the messaging by those who seek to fight corruption. The anti-corruption message is made very complicated by a multiplicity of terms and definitions—fraud, misappropriation, money laundering, illicit financial flows, and so on and so forth! These have left average citizens wondering what this is all about. Should we not just use as simple term like theft?

BlackAdam65:
Op these people are not just antichristian they are antiGod

O people, keep your duty to your Lord; surely the shock of the Hour is a grievous thing.


22:2 The day you see it, every woman giving suck will forget her suckling and every pregnant one will lay down her burden, and you will see people as drunken, yet they will not be drunken, but the punishment of God will be severe.


22:3 And some people dispute about God without knowledge, and follow every rebellious devil.


22:4 For him it is written that whoever takes him for a friend, he will lead him astray and conduct him to the punishment of the burning Fire.

Ancient Mesopotamian Transgender and Non-Binary Identities - by Morg Daniels
The most highly venerated deity in Ancient Mesopotamia was Inanna, who was also known as Ishtar after the two were merged. She was known as the Queen of Heaven and was the goddess of sex, war and justice. She also was believed to have the ability to change a person’s gender. This power of Inanna’s, the ability to change a man into a woman and vice versa, is well accounted for in multiple poetry fragments and is indicative of the existence of people living outside the gender binary in ancient Mesopotamia. The words of Enheduanna, Inanna’s High Priestess in the city of Ur in the 23rd Century BCE, attest to this. In her Passionate Inanna she writes: ‘To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna. / To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.’ (115-131). The exact meanings of the original Sumerian cannot be known for sure; the passage could instead relate simply to gender stereotypes, but this is not the only instance of ancient references to people living outside the gender binary.



In fact, individuals living outside of the gender binary were heavily involved and associated with the cult of Inanna, and her cult members and priests were known for their androgyny and blurring or destroying the gender binary. The gender-blurring members of her cult have often been included in poems and dedications written for her, often with Inanna personally transforming the gender of her devotees. One such example is the pilipili, a group of cultic performers in Inanna’s Sumerian festivals. The name pilipili is referenced within Passionate Inanna (80-90) in relation to an individual named pilipili who is transformed by Inanna. They are raised as a woman, the Sumerian for young woman (ki-sikil) being used to describe them, and Inanna blesses them, handing them a spear ‘as if she were a man’ and renames them ‘pilipili’. From this point forward they are referred to as ‘the transformed pilipili’. We cannot know for sure what the word ‘transformation’ means in this context, and especially since Sumerian did not use gendered pronouns it is difficult to reconstruct the exact meaning, but one interpretation is that through the blessings of Inanna, the pilipili transitioned into a man. Even if Sumerian did not use gendered pronouns, the possible phallic connotations of the word ‘spear’ add more weight to this theory.


In Sumerian times, priests for Inanna known as the gala were said to have been created by the god Enki to sing laments for her, one of their central roles in her temple. From the beginning of the Old Babylonian Period, their role was heavily expanded, and mourning rites originally sung by women replaced over time by members of the gala. Men who joined the priesthood in devotion for Inanna became women for all intents and purposes, adopting female names and singing in the Sumerian eme-sal dialect, reserved for feminine speakers to render the speech of female gods. The gala were heavily involved in her temples, performing elegies and lamentations, presiding over religious rites and healed and looked after the sick and poor. They were respected members of the community, closely related to the care of their community. The possibility of the gala undertaking ritual castration has been suggested frequently, but there is little evidence to support this – and regardless it would not be confirmation or validation of anyone’s gender identity. We cannot make assumptions about the gender identity of all of the gala, of course. There were gala who were cisgender women and others who were married to men or women with children. This could be due to gala priests being associated with multiple gods and only the gala of Inanna were living possible trans lives, or perhaps the gala were a group with a huge range of sexualities and gender identities, much like our own society today.

About 20000 Negroes Joined the Original KLUKLUX KLAN KKK A Hidden Side of History



The Ku Klux Klan, which is commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group. And anyone who is familiar with their history will sure have a lot to say about their hate for black people in America.

But one thing that would come as a surprise to many is the reports that the KKK has black members.  Many African-Americans would argue that this is a lie. Of, course, it will be a hard pill to swallow. But before we refute this, let us read through. At the end of this expose, then we can share our views.

Dr. Amos N. Nelson, who is a Pan-African thinker, scholar, author, and a professor of psychology at the City University of New York, wrote extensively on this subject. He said that one of the last things today's biased media wants people to know is that there were Negro members of the Ku Klux Klan.

He said that no one has ever written a book about them to the best of his knowledge though such a book would be of great historical interest. In fact, very little documentation of this part of American history has survived. The little that has survived speaks volumes and proves that Americans do not know their own history. He gave his own sources of information and quoted from them.

His first source of Negro Klan membership is the book, "The Ku Klux Spirit", by J.A. Rogers, who was a noted Negro historian of the 1920s. The book ‘Ku Klux Spirit’ was first published in 1923, by Messenger Publishing Co. It was later republished in 1980, by Black Classic Press. On page 34 of his book, a passage read: "A fact not generally known is that there were thousands of Negro Klansmen. These were used as spies on other Negroes and on Northern Whites."

In the 1920s, there were plenty of original Klansmen still living and also many other people of both races who lived during the Reconstruction Era.  It was possible for J.A. Rogers to have interviewed many. Of course, why would a Black historian make such a thing up? And assuming he did make it up there would have been many people who would have objected. His book would not have lived to this day. But it actually did.

Dr. Amos N. Wilson’s second source is a book written by Albion Winegar Tourgee, a Carpetbagger. In 1880 he published his book titled "A Fool's Errand", (New York: Fords, Howard and Hubert). It was then republished in 1989 by Louisiana State University Press as, "The Invisible Empire". On page 79 of his book, a passage read: "There were no Colored men in the band (of Klansmen) that night. Their hands were not covered. I could see their boots and pants, and I could judge from their hands and feet. Most of them were genteel people, besides being white people. I could also have told by their language if there had been any Colored people among them. Their language was that of white men, and cultivated men."

 

So, why does Albion claim that no Colored men were riding with the Klan that night unless he had seen Colored men with the Klan previously? The men were in their robes since he had to look at their uncovered hands to see that no Colored men were among them. If he was not telling the truth, why would a Carpetbagger, of all people, ever make such a thing up?

Dr. Wilson’s third source is, "Ku Klux Klan, It's Origins, Growth, and Disbandment", a book by J.C. Lester (one of the six founding fathers of the first Ku Klux Klan) and D.L. Wilson (another early Klansman). The book was originally published in 1884. The book was then reprinted in 1905. In that edition, Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D., added an introduction to give more credits to it. Again in 1905, there were still many original Klansmen who would have argued the contents of the book. In the introduction, this was Fleming's statement: "Many of the genuine Unionists later joined in the movement (the KKK), and there were some few Negro members, I have been told."

Now, this latter book we are told that there were "some few Negro members". In the one before it we were told that there "were thousands of Negro Klansmen." But that should be relative. When we consider that the original KKK had over 400,000 members, "some few Negro members" could have amounted to several thousand Blacks.

Dr. Wilson’s fourth source is a more modern book, titled "Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography", by Jack Hurst. On page 305 it quoted: "...(the Klan was) reorganized to oppose radical proponents (the Radical Republicans) of what it perceived to be Black domination, NOT to scourge Blacks themselves. Although it has been written that Ku Klux Klan ranks were open only to the more than 100,000 honorably discharged ex-Confederate veterans, the hierarchy in some areas and some instances seems to have accepted and even recruited Blacks, provided they went along with Conservative-Democratic political philosophy. In Memphis of late 1868, sixty-five Blacks organized a "Colored Democratic Club" under the watchful eye of Klansman-editor Gallaway - - who according to an account in the Appeal, "made a motion on behalf of the White men present, that they give employment and protection to Colored democrats."

DONALD TRUMP’S JEWISH BACKGROUND

Donald’s great-grandparents, Christian Johannes Drumpf and Katherina Kober, had sons, Christian Drumpf and Christ Christ.[16] Christian was Sleazy Freddy’s father. By his name, Christ Christ, may have converted to Judaism. Nevertheless, Donald’s great-grandmother, Kathernia Kober, may have been Jewish.[17]

What we know is that the surname Kober is German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a derivative of the personal name Jakob or Yakov. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Kober “basket”, Middle High German Kober, hence a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker or perhaps a nickname for someone who carried a basket on his back.[18] The Kallstadt, Pfalz – Rhineland-Palatinate area where they lived in Germany comprised the Jewish communities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during Medieval times.[19]