Globally Urban

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NEW YORK - Producers K-Salaam & Beatnick will release their forthcoming album, Whose World Is This?, with VP Records on July 29th, 2008. K-Salaam and Beatnick pose this thought-provoking question “Whose World Is This?” to an A-list selection of some of the world’s most prominent hip hop, reggae and spoken word artists.
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Tuesday night’s show at Nectar was a beautiful aberration in Seattle’s rare relationship with international dancehall. Thanks to the venue’s addition of booker Colin (aka the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-the-Nectar) Johnson, one of the Caribbean’s biggest ragga stars came to the Northwest to brighten up a dismal day in recent Seattle weather. The show was sold out, and the [...]

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The title of “video vixen” has drawn stereotypical comparisons in the Hip Hop industry. Many are labeled as nothing more than sultry sex kittens who use their sexuality to get their way in the entertainment industry. Vixens such as Karrine “Superhead” Steffens have made it rather difficult for some of these [...]

A police psychologist with more than 30 years’ experience in police crises and training says Canada has been “brainwashed” into buying the Taser along with the justification for its use by its American manufacturer.Michael Webster, who has managed hostage-takings and kidnappings and trained or worked with Vancouver police, RCMP, Europol, [...]

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in March that Iran had detected a new highly pathogenic strain of wheat stem rust called Ug99.

The fungal disease could spread to other wheat producing states in the Near East and western Asia that provide one-quarter of the world’s wheat. The [...]

Her latest book, Rogue Economics, studies the destabilising effect of economic globalisation, focusing in part on why more than half a trillion dollars worth of aid sent to Africa since the 1960s failed to reach the intended destination - developing the nations’ economies.
That huge amount of aid, which includes money [...]

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