Category Archives: Prophet

The African Americans Who Built The United States – A Belated Tribute by the US House of Representatives

Whereas the report of the Architect of the Capitol entitled `History of Slave Laborers in the Construction of the United States Capitol’ documents the role of slave labor in the construction of the Capitol;

Whereas enslaved African-Americans performed the backbreaking work of quarrying the stone which comprised many of the floors, walls, and columns of the Capitol; read more

Honey and Cinnamon: Healing for the Nations – Rastalivewire Herbal Stories

Honey and Cinnamon: Healing for the Nations

HEART DISEASES: Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins. read more

Black African Germans: Mohrs of Western Europe – by Benjamin Franklin

Black African Germans: Moors of Western Europe – by Benjamin Franklin

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And since Detachments of English from Britain sent to America, will have their Places at Home so soon supply’d and increase so largely here; why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. read more

Acetaminophen Based Pain Relievers and Acute Liver Damage

Acetaminophen based Pain Relievers and Acute Liver Damage: The Pharma-Medical Drug Dealers

Don’t Pop that Pill

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Before you pick up that bottle of pill to pop into your mouth to relieve that nagging headache, consider that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report last month found that severe liver damage and even death can result from use of popular painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen based drug like Tylenol. read more

The British Rape of Nigeria I – Adapted from Harold Smith

Mr. Harold Smith was a colonial officer posted to duty in Africa. He served in many African countries including Nigeria. As an insider in the British colonial system, Mr. Smith has a lot of interesting views and ideas to provide. Here Rasta Livewire presents excerpts of his views and accounts of colonial socio-political malfeasace of the imperialist, racists, and so-called colonists: read more

The Doubts and Hesitations of Marcus Garvey; The Day Marcus Garvey Dissed Haile Selassie I

By Marcus Garvey

The Failure of Emperor Haile Selassie

It is a pity that a man of the limited intellectual calibre and weak political character like Haile Selassie became Emperor of Abyssinia at so crucial a time in the political history of the world. Unfortunately, Abyssinia lost the controlling influence of a political personality of patriotic racial character like the late Menelik, whose loyalty to his race and devotion to his country excelled all his other qualities, to the extent that he was able to use that very strength to continuously safeguard the interests of the Ethiopian Empire. What he did so well to preserve, a cringing, white slave hero worshipper, visionless and disloyal to his country, threw away. This is the impression the serious minded political student forms of the conduct of the ex-Emperor of Abyssinia. read more

The Prophesy:Prophet Gravey Hails King Selassie I – by – Marcus Garvey in “The Black Man,” November 8, 1930

marcu-garveyRastafarians refer to this article as the Prohecy by Marcus Garvey. It welcomes the crowning of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. The article is reproduced here by Rasta livewire verbatim as it was first published in November 8, 1930 in Garvey’s Jamaican newspaper, The Blackman: read more