Saturday, January 3, 2009

Second Set of Black and White Twins Born

Blackvoices.com

We mix so well ... the four Durrant girlsDefying the odds for a second time, a mixed-race couple in England is once again celebrating the birth of twins who have a different skin color, reports Britain's Daily Mail.

In 2001, Dean Durrant (who is black) and Alison Spooner (who is white) had twin daughters, with one looking just like Durrant and one just like Spooner. Seven years later, Spooner gave birth to another set of twin girls, and once again, one infant has the same pigmentation as her father and the other baby takes after her mother. Read more...

Black Middle Class in Crisis

by Zenitha Prince

The current economic crisis has waged a particularly severe attack on the Black middle-class in the United States, experts say.

For African-Americans, “2008 was not a good year,” said Algernon Austin, director of Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, “and unfortunately, it looks like things will get worse.” The adage that when America sneezes, Black America catches a cold has held true, making it almost inevitable that African Americans would bear the brunt of the country’s financial woes, economists say. Read more...

NAACP Report Shows TV Industry “Seriously Short” in Achieving Diversity

by James Wright

Threatening political action if the situation doesn’t improve, the nation's largest civil rights organization has blasted the television industry for falling “seriously short” in achieving diversity by not increasing minority representation on programs and in decision-making positions.

Benjamin Jealous, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, said, “At a time when the country is excited about the election of the first African-American president in U.S. history, it is unthinkable that minorities would be so grossly under-represented on broadcast television.

Jealous was responding to a 40-page report released on Thursday by the NAACP Hollywood Bureau titled “Out of Focus, Out of Sync – Take 4.” Read more...

Obama's win brings firsts for black press

Nia-Malika Henderson

Barack Obama’s election as president is prompting major changes in the nation’s black press, ushering in a series of firsts that editors say will reshape print, Internet, radio and television coverage aimed at African-American audiences.

Essence, the top selling magazine among black women, will have a full-time White House reporter for the first time. Ebony magazine will add a White House reporter, either full-time or as needed. Its sister publication, Jet magazine, will have a weekly two-page Washington report in every issue. Read more...


Friday, January 2, 2009

US: Economic stress drives rise in child abuse and domestic violence

Kate Randall

As the recession deepens, social workers and medical professionals expect the situation to worsen. And while more women and children--the primary targets of this violence--become victims, funding for programs to assist them is being cut back. The impact is being felt in states across the country. Domestic violence shelters in Texas are experiencing an unprecedented jump in families seeking emergency assistance. Of the 29 shelters surveyed by the Allstate Foundation this year, 83 percent reported a dramatic increase in hotline calls, walk-ins, and/or families staying at their shelters.

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Soaring Rates of Rape and Violence Against Women in US

The National Crime Victimization Survey, based on projections from a national sample survey, says that at least 248,300 individuals were raped or sexually assaulted in 2007, up from 190,600 in 2005, the last year the survey was conducted. The study surveyed 73,600 individuals in 41,500 households. Among all violent crimes, domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault showed the largest increases. Except for simple assault, which increased by 3 percent, the incidence of every other crime surveyed decreased. "The numbers in this survey show an alarmingly high rate of sexual violence in this country," said Sarah Tofte, researcher for the US Program at Human Rights Watch. "This should serve as a wake-up call that more must be done to address the problem in the US." The projected number of violent crimes committed by intimate partners against women increased from 389,100 in 2005 to 554,260 in the 2007 report. By comparison, the number of violent crimes against men by intimate partners went down. "Domestic violence is often a hidden crime, and these numbers are a stark reminder of how serious and widespread this problem is," said Tofte. "The Obama-Biden administration should make prevention and protection against all forms of domestic and sexual violence a top priority."

College Loan Slavery: Student Debt Is Getting Way Out of Hand - Let's read this one more time

Nan Mooney

It seems all a graduate can do these days is hang on and hope the new administration brings about some kind of economic change that will work in their favor. But for many, hope feels like a pretty tenuous thing. "I feel like I'm on the Titanic," says Golden. "Who got out first? The rich people. Everyone else was just left to drown." For years, young people have been banking on the message that acquiring job skills and an education will pave the way to financial security. Instead, for many, the quest for a college degree has only dumped them even deeper into the financial pit. For a country depending on coming generations to get us out of the economic mess we currently find ourselves in, such lack of faith in a brighter future truly is a petrifying prospect. - Read more...



The US Army Document That Proves the US is the World's Number One Sponsor of World Terrorism

In a 'manual' which is officially to be released only to 'students from foreign countries on a case-by-case basis only', the US Army outlines a program of what it now calls 'irregular warfare', in fact US state sponsored terrorism, insurgency, and PSYOPS.

1-21. Waging protracted IW depends on building global capability and capacity. IW will not be won by the United States alone but rather through combined efforts with multinational partners. Combined IW [Irregular Warfare, euphemism for TERRORISM] will require the joint force to establish a long-term sustained presence in numerous countries to build partner capability and capacity. This capability and capacity extends U.S. operational reach, multiplies forces available, and provides increased options for defeating adversaries. Read what constituent activities of IW

The Technocracy and the Genetic Engineering of Humanity

By Carolyn Harris

We already live in a world of ‘haves and have-nots’, but in the future could that gap widen into an immense chasm resulting in a technocracy with two-tiers of genetically engineered humans? Predictions have been made with regards to robotics and genetic evolution, and there is data to back each theory up. This article briefly investigates each claim. Read more...


Another Jew Caught Spying for Israel

Former Army Employee Pleads Guilty to Acting as Israeli Agent

Lev L. Dassin, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ben-Ami Kadish pleaded guilty earlier today to a one-count information charging him with participating in a conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the Government of Israel.

In summary, according to statements at Kadish’s guilty plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz, the Information and other documents filed Manhattan federal court:

Kadish is a former employee of the U.S. Army’s Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey ("the Arsenal"). On numerous occasions from about 1980 through 1985, Kadish provided classified documents relating to the U.S. military – including some relating to U.S. missile defense systems – to an agent of the Government of Israel, Yossi Yagur, who photographed the documents at Kadish’s residence.Kadish, 85, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. Read more...


Liberal Whites' Ignorance and lack of Action Against White Racist the Real Problem to Race Relations

One of the main problems with race relations is not racist whites but 'liberal' whites that are ignorant of and underestimate how ingrained racism is among their people.

The presidential race and victory of President Elect Barack Obama has brought the sickness of white supremacy to the forefront. From conservative white radio host to white elected officials to their own FAUX News network; the hatred, fear and ignorance of white America is once again rearing it's ugly head.

Question is, do whites have the desire to face their demons and the fortitude to destroy them or, in this age of economic hard-times, give into their demons and bringing about the worst event in American history - Race War.

If the history of the white man is any indication to the future of race relations, Black people, brace yourself for the worst.

While many would like to hide their head in the sand and ignore the very real issue of what happens when the water hole sinks and survival of the fittest begins. I would gather face the challenge head on.

Scapegoating and placing the blame on the minority and weak occures when those in power and control don't want to face their own sins and shortcomings. Combine that with the shrinking of resources, jobs and necessities of life and you are looking at a powder keg ready to explode.

Now facts have surfaced that whites where killing Blacks in the after math of Hurricane Katrina. But the manifest hatred toward Blacks did start with the residents of Algiers Point, the mainstream media labeled Black refugees, Blacks were abandoned by their own government for weeks without water or food. They were rescued only to find themselves in toxic mobile homes and the story goes on and on.

That was only a sign of white America's disdain for Black Americans. We saw it in the first OJ trial and Jena 6. We see it when it comes to reporting missing Black children and white corporate crime (ie Madoff) compared to Black street crime.

The real evidence of the sickness of white supremacy came out during PE Obama's run for President and continues till this very hour. None of the darker races are immune form the sickness, as seen with the genocide in Palestine (illegally called Israel), the unjust embargoes toward Cuba, the neglect in Haiti and Africa, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the militant posture toward North Korea and Iran and the story goes on.

If we can not get alone together in peace, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, Separation is The Answer. It may not seem sensible or feasible now (nor did the Exodus to the Children of Israel) but give it time, if 'liberal' whites don't make a firm stand against the hate speech on conservative radio and TV America is headed toward a deep, dark pit.

Take it or let it alone.

White community adapts to Obama reality

By Andrea Shalal-Esa

Worried by racial tensions churned up by the U.S. presidential election, teachers at one U.S. high school braced for the worst in their majority white community the morning after Barack Obama was elected the country's first black president. Read more....

A Focus on Violence by Returning G.I.’s

By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and DAN FROSCH

For the past several years, as this Army installation in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains became a busy way station for soldiers cycling in and out of Iraq, the number of servicemen implicated in violent crimes has raised alarm.

Nine current or former members of Fort Carson’s Fourth Brigade Combat Team have killed someone or were charged with killings in the last three years after returning from Iraq. Five of the slayings took place last year alone. In addition, charges of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault have risen sharply. Read more...


Barack the 'Magic Negro'

More disrespect from sick white people.

Katrina's Hidden Race War

By A.C. Thompson

A vigilante shot Donnell Herrington twice shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. CHANDRA MCCORMICK AND KEITH CALHOUN

Facing an influx of refugees, the residents of Algiers Point could have pulled together food, water and medical supplies for the flood victims. Instead, a group of white residents, convinced that crime would arrive with the human exodus, sought to seal off the area, blocking the roads in and out of the neighborhood by dragging lumber and downed trees into the streets. They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about fifteen to thirty residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply "didn't belong." Read more...


Israel gets a free pass to commit genocide

The present conflict is the deadliest since Israel occupied Gaza and the West Bank in the Six Day War of 1967.

Amazing, are we living in the 21st Century or the Dark Ages? Israel can and has killed, in it's latest assault and insult to the pain and suffering of the Palestinians, over 300 people.

War crimes by the illegal state of Israel continue to go unchecked by western powers and it appears, like pass war crimes by the illegal state of Israel, that nothing will be done, at least by White western countries, but there is a God and He will not be mocked.

Make no mistake, if the tables were turned and the Palestinians were the dominate power and bombing the Israelis, killing over 300 innocent citizens, the 'white' western world would be bombing the Palestinians back to the dark ages and the leaders of Palestine would either
be killed or captured for war crimes.


Israel's War Crimes

By
Richard Falk

Editor's Note: This statement was issued December 27 in response to Israel's attack in Gaza by Professor Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Territories and a longtime member of The Nation's editorial board.


The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.


Collective punishment
Targeting civilians
Disproportionate military response

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Save the date: English nears a milestone

By Ruth Walker

It's April 29, 2009 – plus or minus a few days. That is when the English language is expected to acquire its millionth word. This prediction comes from Global Language Monitor, an organization in Austin, Texas, which uses proprietary software to track and analyze trends in language. "Global English" is its particular focus. Read more...


Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Study: Murders Among Black Youths on the Rise

By Lara Jakes

The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study shows. The study, to be released Monday by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston, comes as FBI data is showing that murders have leveled off nationwide.

Not so for black teens, the youngest of whom saw dramatic increases in shooting deaths, the Northeastern report concluded. Last year, for example, 426 black males between the ages of 14 and 17 were killed in gun crimes, the study shows. That marked a 40 percent increase from 2000

Similarly, an estimated 964 in the same age group committed fatal shootings in 2007 - a 38 percent increase from seven years earlier. The number of offenders is estimated because not all crimes are
reported, said Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox, who co-authored the study. Read more...

MLK Web Site Is Really a Racist Trap

One of the highest ranked Web sites on Dr. Martin Luther King is one run by a White-supremacist group whose goal is to convince youths that the slain civil rights leader was much less than a hero, scholar and peacemaker.



The late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.


On “martinlutherking.org” there are downloadable fliers “to pass out at your school.” One of those “educational” fliers asks: “Which holiday honors a philanderer, a drunk, a liar, a plagiarist, and a cheater?” The answer: “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.” Read more...


Stop NBC From Promoting Coulter's Hate

By Eric Burns

As you know, Ann Coulter has a long history of making controversial statements. In media appearances and her syndicated column, Coulter haslikened President-elect Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler repeatedly, called Al Gore a "total fag," and written that without affirmative action, African-American Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) couldn't get a job "that didn't involve wearing a paper hat." She has also repeatedly discussed potential acts of violence against people she doesn't like or with whom she disagrees, including saying of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' crème brulee."

Call NBC and ask why they are reportedly again helping Coulter promote her late st book despite past condemnations by NBC staff for her history of reprehensible comments. Read more...

Who Is Protecting, Ponzi master, 's Accomplices?

By Edward Manfredoni

The mainstream press has failed in its responsibility to inform the public concerning the means by which Bernie Madoff pulled off his $50 billion scam. The press is filled with human interest stories of the charities and individuals, whom Madoff defrauded. But there has been a dearth of information as to the method by which Madoff stole $50 billion.

The press has stated that Madoff could perpetrate his fraud because his firm was a broker-dealer. This is fallacious. Madoff could only have perpetrated this scheme if his firm were self-clearing, in other words if Madoff’s firm processed its own trades. Madoff’s firm was self-clearing and, therefore, printed its own trading sheets. This is an important fact that has not been widely reported. Read more...

Gaza relief boat carrying Cynthia McKinney rammed by Israelis

RawStory

An Israeli patrol boat intercepted a yacht carrying three tons of medical supplies to Gaza in international waters early on Tuesday as it attempted to run an Israeli blockade. According to those on board, the patrol boat accused the relief vessel of being involved in terrorist activity and then deliberately rammed it, forcing it to return to port in Lebanon.

Among the yacht's 16 passengers were doctors, journalists, and human rights activists, including former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). McKinney spoke to CNN from Lebanon, telling John Roberts, "Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and once on the side." Read more...



Vegetarian 101

Some of the leading killers in America today, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, and strokes, are directly linked to meat-based diets. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in America today, and it is caused by the build-up of cholesterol and saturated fat from animal products in our arteries. The only two doctors in human history who have successfully reversed heart disease have included an exclusively vegetarian diet as a part of their programs. The average vegan cholesterol level is 133 (compared to 210 for meat-eaters); there are no documented cases of heart attacks in individuals with cholesterol under 150. Other health problems tied to clogged arteries, like poor circulation and atherosclerotic strokes, can be virtually eliminated with a vegan diet. Read more...

Are Black Women Getting Smaller?

By LAUREN COX

Study Says Black Women Are Growing Up to Be Shorter, But Can't Explain Why


An economist in Germany has noticed a curious trend among Americans: For the past 50 years, black women have been shrinking with each new generation.

Young black women today are nearly an inch shorter than white women their age and about half an inch shorter than black women born in the late 60s, according to an analysis of CDC data by John Komlos, a professor of economics at the University of Munich in Germany. Read more...

Monday, December 29, 2008

Stop the Massacre in Gaza! New Orleans Residents To Join World Protest

Muhammad

(Blogger's Note: The following information was distributed by the New Orleans Human Rights Group)

Indiscriminate bombing by Israeli Military forces and prolonged siege of the Gaza Strip, supported and funded by the United States, has led to:

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At least 280 Palestinians, including scores of children and other civilians, brutally murdered in less than 24 hours by the Israeli Occupation Forces
* Over 600 Palestinians wounded in mass bombing by the Israeli Occupation Forces
* No medical care in the Gaza Strip for the wounded
* No food supplies
* No fuel


The Israeli Government has promised to continue to escalate its attacks against the Gaza Strip and acts of mass murder against the Palestinian people.

WE SAY NO MORE KILLINGS IN OUR NAME!  Read more...

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.

[Prof. Panarin]In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America 'Disintegrates' in 2010

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.

In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger."

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. Read more...

[Igor Panarin]