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Friday, December 31, 2010

5 years after Katrina, New Orleans targets last FEMA trailers; holdouts face fines in new year

By CAIN BURDEAU
Go to fullsize imageNew Orleans once had more than 23,000 FEMA trailers, and for many people still living in them, they are akin to permanent homes. These residents say they will find it hard to make the city's deadline.

Edwin Weber Jr., 62, lives with his brother in a trailer crammed with stuff. He was seething at a "notice of violation" letter taped to his door shortly before Christmas.

The letter said he would be fined — up to $500 a day — unless he took "immediate action" to move out. He said the notice was "worthy of Ebenezer Scrooge himself." | StarTribune.com



Thursday, December 30, 2010

Former Israeli president convicted of rape

By ARON HELLER

Former President Moshe Katsav was convicted Thursday of raping an employee when he was a Cabinet minister, the most serious criminal charges ever brought against a high-ranking official in Israel and a case that shocked the nation. Full Story »




Kozol on The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

The Shame of the NationDespite the gains made after the 1954 desegregation ruling Brown Versus Board of Education, schools today are more segregated than ever. My guest Jonathan Kozol, well known for his books about the American educational system and children’s rights, such as Savage Inequalities, has a new book out. It’s called “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” Kozol visited 60 schools in 11 states over a five-year period and found that schools in the US are racially segregated, and that wealthy white suburbanites receive far better facilities and resources for their children than poor children of color. Kozol believes that a new civil rights movement will be necessary to eradicate the injustices of the educational system. Read more & listen...

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South American countries recognize Palestinian state

The Mainstream Media has driven the American People Insane and Europeans Know It



The U.S. has 59 million people medically uninsured; 132 million without dental insurance; 60 million without paid sick leave; 40 million on food stamps. Everybody in the European Union has cradle-to-grave access to universal medical and a dental plan by law. The law also requires paid sick leave; paid annual leave; paid maternity leave. When you realize all of that, it becomes easy to understand why many Europeans think America has gone insane. | AlterNet


UK feared Israel would use nukes, archives reveal


British officials were concerned Israel would use its nuclear weapons in a potential war against its Arab adversaries, secret documents from 1980 released from the British National Archives revealed, according to a Wednesday AFP report. 
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

How the Blood Sucking Banks Bled the American People Dry

In The Card Game, a follow-up to the Secret History of the Credit Card and a joint project with The New York Times, Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over attempts to reform the way the industry has done business for decades.  FRONTLINE: PBS

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Corp. Betrayal: Many U.S. companies are hiring ... overseas


By PALLAVI GOGOI

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One reason why U.S. unemployment remains as high as it is

Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn't anyone hiring?

Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat. - msnbc.com



Monday, December 27, 2010

Big Brother Training: 'Win The Lottery' For Driving Under The Speed Limit

Craig Howie

Imagine you could win the lottery just by driving safely. The intriguing concept is simple: All fines exacted from speeding motorists are put into a pot, to be paid out to one law-abiding driver selected in a "lottery."  Read More...

Why Do Media Commentators Get It So Wrong on Islam?

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By: John L. Esposito

A few days ago, controversial radio/TV host Glenn Beck, in a stunning display of ignorance (if not bigotry), picked a number out of his imagination and declared, without offering any proof, that ten percent of all Muslims (which means 150 million) are terrorists who want to overthrow the U.S. government. Beck is too smart to be that stupid! But, of course, he's smart enough to know he'll get lots of attention from his media and internet following. Beck's comments earlier this week are not the first time he and other major TV commentators have spun a tale that Muslims, as a group, want to destroy America. The cumulative effect of the confrontational rhetoric of Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and many others who hammer away at portraying Islam and Muslims as fundamentally different contributes to a popular culture in which seeing 1.5 billion Muslims as potential enemies has become embedded. Read more...

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Wikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs

by Mike Adams

Wikileaks continues to rock the political world by shedding light on conspiracies, corruption and cover-ups. The latest batch of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveals what can only be characterized as a U.S.-led conspiracy to force GMOs onto European countries by making those countries pay a steep price if they resist.  Read more...

The Working Poor

The Working Poor Families Project has just released their policy brief for the winter of 2010-11. What they have discovered is that the number of working poor in the United States is higher than they have ever seen it before and it continues to increase at a staggering pace. The following are some of the key findings for 2009 that were pulled right out of their report....The Economic Collapse




Swine flu pandemic outbreak sweeping through Britain even though 70 percent were vaccinated last year


by Mike Adams

A swine flu pandemic is sweeping through Britain despite the fact that 70 percent of Britain's over-65 population was vaccinated against swine flu last year. This year, that number is nearly the same -- 68.5% -- but flu vaccine proponents insist that until everyone is vaccinated, the flu will continue to infect people.  Read more...


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Teena Marie, known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' dies at 54

Teena Marie, the "Ivory Queen of Soul" who developed a lasting legacy with her silky soul pipes and with hits like "Lovergirl," "Square Biz," and "Fire and Desire" with mentor Rick James, died on Sunday. She was 54.- Forbes.com

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Spill: Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented?

Over the past decade, BP vaulted from an energy "also-ran" to one of the biggest companies in the world, gobbling up competitors in a series of mergers that delivered handsome profits for shareholders. But an investigation by FRONTLINE and the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica shows that BP's leadership failed to create a culture of safety in the massive new company. As BP took increasingly big risks to find oil and extract it, the company left behind a trail of mounting problems: deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations. Each time, BP acknowledged the wider flaws in its culture and promised to do better. The FRONTLINE/ProPublica investigation shows that the rhetoric was empty. From the refineries to the oil fields to the Gulf of Mexico, BP workers understood that profits came first. FRONTLINE: | PBS

Wikileaks,the Espionage Act, and the Constitution

Constitutional law and national security scholars testified on the constitutionality of prosecuting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act. Among the topics addressed were the nature of journalism, the extent of constitutional protections of the press in protecting the ..  - C-SPAN Video Library


Terrorist may poison the food supply (but the food companies already have)

by Mike Adams

I have news for CBS, the federal government, and the terrorists: If you really want to poison the U.S. food supply, just use aspartame. It causes neurological disorders and yet remains perfectly legal to dump into foods such as diet sodas and children's medicines. You don't even have to dump it into the food supply in secret, either: You can do it right out in full view of the public. Heck, you can even list this chemical right on the ingredients label!  Read more...

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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Executions fall due to cost, lack of lethal drug

By Chris Michaud

The United States executed fewer people this year, in part because there is a shortage of the drug used in lethal injections and because executions are too expensive in tough economic times, a report released on Tuesday said. - Yahoo! News


Thursday, December 23, 2010

Masonic Roots May Be Traced To Moses (Musa) 4,000 B.C. And Ancient Egypt

By Mother Tynnetta Muhammad

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b3GHoGMBNpY/SxsSKIAKjzI/AAAAAAAAExA/oB1FhtQWLuc/s320/Freemasonry+And+The+Oath+Of+Nimrod+The+Masonic+Connection+To+The+Ancient+Babylonian+Mystery+Religion.jpgIn my current research covering some of the deeper roots of modern Masonry with its use of symbolic language and signs, it appears that traces of its cryptic messages can be traced to the history of Moses, the Great Law Giver and Builder of modern Western civilization. It is the Jewish people in particular who emerge as the greatest benefactors of Moses' teachings causing them to excel over their other brethren of the Caucasian Race. To better understand this historic background, we must turn to Moses' work and mission which converges into two distinct assignments. On the one hand we must review the biblical account of Moses in Egypt and his freeing of a few hundred thousand Israelites,a sign of the Black Man's history in America today, and a little known history of Moses,as taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, which shows him as the great civilizer of the White Race in the caves and hillsides of Europe. In the Jewish Kabbalah system, the language used to conceal great truths centers around the use of letters, numbers and words with cryptic or hidden meanings behind the scriptural texts which is generally only known or interpreted by the Jewish Rabbis and other scholars.  Read more....




A Case for Separation

By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad states in The Muslim Program: “We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally to all, regardless to creed or class or color. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.”

This is a human need and a human right that not only belongs to us as Black people, but it belongs to every human being on this earth. It would be wonderful if we could get this under the leadership that is in power in the United States. But let's be honest with ourselves. There is no way under this present mentality that we could get freedom, a full and complete freedom. Racism and White supremacy as a mentality and institutional racism that poisons the human mind and spirit will not allow, not only us to have full and complete freedom, but racism and White supremacy does not allow Whites a full and complete freedom to develop in a proper way. Read more...





Hundreds pack church, remember Mississippi hanging victim

By Jesse Muhammad

FJ_carter12-21-2010.jpgAs the entourage of Black limousines pulled up to Ark of Covenant Church, it was hard to tell who was the mother of Frederick Jermaine Carter, the young man found hung from an oak tree early this month.

In this moment usually reserved for grieving, Brenda Carter-Evans wore a bright smile despite overlooking the casket of her son, whose death she says “was not in vain.”  Read more...


The Unholy Alliance Between Israel and South Africa’s Apartheid Regime

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You'd think with all the recent ink, with both Foreign Affairs and the UK-based Guardian articles “Bringing Israel's Bomb Out of the Basement” and “Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa (SA) nuclear weapons,” that Israel's nuclear arsenal would be big on the WikiLeaks list of revelations. And if that's not enough you'd think the July 8 Israeli daily Haaretz headline, “Report: Secret Document Affirms U.S. Israeli Nuclear Partnership,” could of at least raised speculation that Israel's nuclear weapons capacity in WikiLeaks, would of been forthcoming.  Read more,,,



X-MAS Comes with heavy price

By Starla Muhammad

Tis' the season to be broke. The so-called holiday season is once again upon us and despite a deep recession, continuing job losses and families struggling, millions of Americans are preparing to deck the halls and empty their wallets, making retailers happy and credit card companies ecstatic. However, how high is the price to be paid for this spending and quite possibly going into debt under the guise of celebrating the birth of Jesus. » FULL STORY




Who really controls Africa’s ‘blood-diamond’ trade?



http://townipproject.wikispaces.com/file/view/diamondsprice.jpg/34019019/diamondsprice.jpgNeither Taylor nor Campbell has ever had any influence in the international diamond trade. Liberia is a major producer of diamonds, but the mining and marketing of these gems are not controlled by the government or anyone else on the African continent. This lack of control of the national economies of both Sierra Leone and Liberia can be traced back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries when Britain and the United States established these areas as colonial outposts under the guise of providing a homeland for former enslaved Africans from the British and U.S.-controlled territories in the Western hemisphere.  Read more...



History of Blood Diamonds in Africa

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Experts claim that the illegal sale of blood diamonds has produced billions of dollars to fund civil wars and other conflicts in various African nations, including Sierra Leone (where conflict ended in 2002), Angola, Liberia, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Most of the time, the people behind these civil wars and rebellions oppose legitimate governments and desire control over the area's lucrative diamond industry.   Read more...

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Blood Diamond: Beyond the Bloodshed — Video

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Netanyahu to formally call for release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard

By Natasha Mozgovaya and Barak Ravid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will issue a formal public request in the coming days to U.S. President Barack Obama to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
This will mark the first formal request by Israel for the release of Pollard.  Read more…

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Nearly 1 in 4 fails military exam

Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the U.S. Army fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can't answer basic math, science and reading questions, according to a new study released Tuesday.
The report by The Education Trust bolsters a growing worry among military and education leaders that the pool of young people qualified for military service will grow too small. - Yahoo! News

UN: Launching of the International Year of Peoples of African Descent



U.S. Backed Declaration Could Have a Big Impact in Indian Country

Osha Gray Davidson
In a move that garnered little media attention — but which could have a big impact in Indian Country — the Obama administration has endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The State Department announced the change in the U.S. position, saying that the Declaration “while not legally binding or a statement of current international law—has both moral and political force.” - Forbes

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Local Community Radio Act Passes in Congress

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Community radio advocates are celebrating a major victory after the Senate approved the Local Community Radio Act on Saturday, one day after its passage in the House. The bill will open up more of the radio dial for Low Power FM, with the FCC now mandated to license thousands of new stations. We speak with Hannah Sassaman of the Philadelphia-based Prometheus Radio Project. Read more...

Employed But Struggling: Report Finds 1 in 3 Working Families Near Poverty

William Alden
Almost a third of America's working families are now considered low-income, earning less than twice the official poverty threshold, according to a report released Tuesday by the Working Poor Families Project. The recession, which has incited layoffs and wage cuts, reversed a period of improvement: Between 2007 and 2009, as the recession set in, the percentage of U.S. working families classified as low-income grew from 28 percent to more than 30 percent.  Read more...



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