Libyan Rebels do what all Western Nations do with (African) Blacks: Throw them in Prisons

Editors note: How can you tell the Libyan Rebels are backed by Western powers?  By how they treat the Black population.  Under Gaddafi immigrant Blacks found work in Libya.  Now under Rebel control many Africans are facing what Blacks in Western countries face everyday; prison, discrimination, false accusations, and murder. NO DOUBT, if the rebels defeat Gaddafi. Black Africans will face the same racist conditions Black face in Europe, America and Australia.

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• African workers live in fear after Gaddafi overthrow - Yahoo! News

Tens of thousands of foreign workers have fled Libya since the armed revolt against Gaddafi's 42-year-rule began in February, with Africans afraid they have become targets for fighters who accuse them of being mercenaries for Gaddafi.

• Libya: Fears for detainees held by anti-Gaddafi forces | Amnesty International USA

People suspected of having fought for Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, in particular black Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans, are at high risk of abuse by anti-Gaddafi forces, Amnesty International said today after witnessing black Libyans being targeted in Tripoli on Monday.

• allAfrica.com: Libya: UNHCR Concerned As Sub-Saharan Africans Targeted

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has issued a strong call for sub-Saharan Africans to be protected in Libya as reports emerge from Tripoli of people being targeted because of their colour as the city fell to rebel forces.

• allAfrica.com: Libya: Rebels Now Target 'Blacks'
• AU: Libya rebels killing black workers - CBS News

Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing black people because they have confused innocent migrant workers with mercenaries, the chairman of the African Union said, citing the fears as one reason the continental body has not recognized opposition forces as Libya's interim government.

America's Moral Decay: Parents support 10yr old son living a Transgender life ie dressing up like a Girl

Editors note: Just when you think you have heard it all and that America could not slide any further into moral decay, here is yet another reason why Allah (God) is destroying this country.
Sexual depression was one of the main reasons that God destroyed nations of the pass.  This was done so those nations could not spread their deviated 'life' styles to other areas of the world.  America is a cesspool and the American people are taking a deep in the pool.  Even Christian preachers take part in the debauchery, marrying same-sex couples in the houses of God.
What make this story truly sad is the decision of the 'parents' to allow their 10yr old son to live as a girl and to broadcast their "liberal" decision to the world. 
Has America gone down the road of NO return?  It would appear so.

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And when Jackie was just ten years old, she went to her mom, crying. "I'm a girl and I can't do this anymore," Jackie said. Without hesitation, Jennifer said, "It's gonna be okay." There was no judgment or disappointment.

Jackie's family abandoned the pronoun "he." At first, they only let her wear girls clothing at home, but eventually allowed her to live as a girl full-time, at school and elsewhere. When asked, Jackie's father John says he has two daughters.  Read more...

Guatemala Syphilis Experiments Shock, But U.S. Drug Trials Still Exploit the Third World (& Prison Populations)

Even if today's research is not as egregious as the Guatemala experiment, American companies are still testing drugs on poor, sometimes unknowing populations in the developing world.

Many, like Markel, note that experimenting with AIDS drugs in Africa and other pharmaceutical trials in Third World countries, "goes on every day."  - ABC News



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Inside the spy unit that NYPD says doesn't exist

 Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of "ancestries of interest" and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn't exist.

The documents add new details to an Associated Press investigation that explained how undercover NYPD officers singled out Muslim communities for surveillance and infiltration.  - Yahoo! News

Some Corporations pay more to CEOs & lobbyist than taxes: study

Editors note: What more evidence is needed to show that corporations run the US Gov. and HATE the American people.

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Twenty-five of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study said on Wednesday.

It also found many of the companies spent more on lobbying than they did on taxes.  - Yahoo! News

Cremation? Don't want to burn the body, try 'liquefaction'

A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home.

The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.  BBC News 

Ralph Nader: 10 painful lessons of 9/11

Americans might also want to pause to recognize — or unlearn — those reactions and overreactions to 9/11 that have harmed our country. How, in this forward-looking manner, can we respect the day of 9/11?

1. Do not exaggerate our adversaries' strength
2. Do not allow our leaders to lie and exaggerate
3. Do not create a climate of fear
4. Do not tolerate presidents who violate our Constitution
5. Do not have Congress write a blank check
6. Do not allow the executive branch to engage in unconstitutional and illegal recurrent practices such as wiretapping
7. Do not let the government hide the horrors of war from the people...
8. Do not allow leaders to violate American principles with torture...
9. Do not allow your Congress to abdicate or transfer its own constitutional authorities to the president.
10. Call out those in the news media...

Read more at: – USATODAY.com

U.S. newborn death rate higher than in 40 other nations

Babies in the United States have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than do babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new report.

Some of the countries that outrank the United States in terms of newborn death risk are South Korea, Cuba, Malaysia, Lithuania, Poland and Israel, according to the study.  - msnbc.com

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10 States That Are Losing Business

To determine which states seem to be losing businesses, I used data provided by economic consulting firm EMSI of Moscow, Idaho, showing business establishments per capita. Since the data control for population, they allow for comparisons between populous states like California and Texas and less populated ones like Rhode Island and Nevada. I was interested in each state's performance over the last few years, to account for the recent recession, so I measured the change in business establishments per capita from the beginning of 2008 through the end of 2010.

I also excluded states with an unemployment rate below the national average of 9.1 percent, because those states tend to be gaining population and businesses both, and outperforming the national economy. They may be gaining population faster than new businesses right now, but that could change as business creation improves. That took eight states off the list: Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Vermont, Maine, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Maryland.  - Yahoo! Finance

American Muslims Most Tolerant in the US, Least Tolerant, White Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians

Editors note: Add Conservative to White Fundamentalist Evangelical Christian and you have the root of America's race, religion and ethnic divisions. White America will never acknowledge that they are the major obstacle to America becoming a United country.  Whites suffer from an inferiority  complex, that plays out in their supremest attitude and behavior.  Unless they get help for their sick mental state, the whole world will continue to be jeopardy.  

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Sorry buddy, Jesus is Black

A US Department of Justice study about Muslim American radicalization conducted in 2010 by researchers from two North Carolina universities argued that terrorism actually committed by American Muslims was surprisingly low. They attributed this low number to the anti-radicalization efforts of various Muslim communities and mosques in the United States. This in-depth study not only reassures law enforcement agencies that the fear of Muslim radicalism in America is overblown, but it also underscores the reality that US mosques are allies in the struggle against extremism - not a source of extremism as some right-wing pundits and politicians insist.  iViews.com

 

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Steve Jobs, one of the most influential and powerful people in the world, is a biological Arab-American with roots in Syria

Editors note: What made America great was the various ethnic groups and races adding their cultural expression and technologies to a United State.  What ruined American and never allowed the contributions of "minority" groups to be acknowledged in the media and educational institutions was/is white supremacy.  Truth is, the only reason the country has some semblance of morality, creativity, and productivity is do to the various "minority" groups, but white supremacy will never acknowledge that, not even to save its life.  And that is why the country is doomed and why there will be a Great Separation.

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Steve Jobs, arguably the most influential CEO in the world, is the biological son of an Arab American who was born in Homs, Syria, and studied at the American University of Beirut.

With accolades that include CEO of the decade and person of the year, Steve Jobs is routinely voted one of the most influential and powerful people in the world. He catapulted Apple to the world's leading technology company through the iPod revolution and innovations that followed such as the iPhone and the iPad. The creative mind of Steve Jobs is often chronicled, including his life story as the adopted child of a modest American family.  iViews.com

First Nations leaders join Keystone pipeline protest

Indigenous people from across North America are joining the White House protest against TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude oil from northern Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries in Texas.

Several First Nations leaders from Canada are making the trip to join the protest Sept. 2.

Protesters have gathered outside the White House in Washington, D.C. since Aug. 20, with actors and scientists among those opposing the pipeline. Over 250 people have been arrested.  - Yahoo! News

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Zimbabwe does not recognize Libya's Transitional National Council and Expeled the Libyan Ambassador after he declared allegiance to it.

Zimbabwe has given Libya's ambassador to Harare 72 hours to leave the country.

Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said Tuesday the decision was made after the Libyan embassy declared its allegiance to Libya's Transitional National Council.

Last week during a protest, Ambassador Taher Elmagrahi and embassy staff members burned the flag used by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. They then raised the flag being used by the anti-Gadhafi TNC.

Mumbengegwi told reporters Zimbabwe does not recognize the TNC as Libya's legitimate government.

African countries have split on whether to recognize the Libyan rebels. Some, like Nigeria, have explicitly endorsed the TNC, while many others have either been silent or stopped short of recognition.  Read more...

Costs Of Irene Add Up As FEMA Runs Out Of Cash

FEMA's role in a disaster is multilayered. It provides immediate assistance, helping victims pay for shelter and food and medical needs. Later on, it pays to rebuild schools, bridges and water treatment plants.

For instance, FEMA is still paying for rebuilding related to Hurricane Katrina, which struck six years ago this week.

FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, shown at a press briefing last week in Washington, says his agency will postpone some repair work on earlier disasters in order to pay for the immediate needs of Irene.

Dan Kaniewski, who worked at FEMA during the George W. Bush administration and now teaches at George Washington University, says Fugate is making the right decision.

"He's got to deal with the cards he's been dealt," says Kaniewski. "He has a limited amount of money, and he realizes, rightly so, that money has to be allocated for the most pressing needs. And right now, it's those individuals who have been impacted by Hurricane Irene — they need to be provided the assistance to make sure they have a roof over their heads."  : NPR


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• Farrakhan: Natural Disasters, FEMA and a Bankrupt America.
  

Watch:

• CNN Official interview: Ron Paul 'Abolish FEMA... Why not?' - YouTube

South Asian Americans Continue to Face Racism, Intimidation, Ten Years After 9/11

As we approach the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the United States, South Asian American communities throughout the country are reflecting on the decade long wave of fear and intimidation which they faced in the aftermath. During the week immediately following September 11th 2001, there were 645 reported incidents of bias or violence directed toward Americans perceived to be of Middle Eastern descent. South Asians were highly targeted because of their appearance and were involved in 81 percent of the reported incidents.  uprisingradio.org »

Guards Needed To Stop Visitors From Saluting Wax Statue of Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler

Madame Tussauds, London’s most popular tourist attraction, has hired a new guard to stand next to the wax sculpture of Adolf Hitler and politely ask visitors not to give it the Nazi salute.

The Evening Standard reports that the decision to give Hitler a guard was made after an Israeli family visiting the exhibit witnessed people heiling Hitler and complained, eventually forcing an apology from the museum, which initially said it was “apolitical,” but then apparently decided it was safe to come out against genocide.  Read more...

Afghanistan Deaths: August Is Deadliest Month Ever For U.S. Troops

August has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, where international forces have started to go home and let Afghan forces take charge of securing their country.

A record 66 U.S. troops have died so far this month, eclipsing the 65 killed in July 2010, according to a tally by The Associated Press.

This month's death toll soared when 30 Americans – most of them elite Navy SEALs – were killed in a helicopter crash Aug. 6.  Read more...

Leaks: UN to deploy forces in Libya & US in secret talks with Taliban

Afghans leak secret US-Taliban talks

The talks had mostly revolved around the whereabouts and release of US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who was seized by Taliban forces in eastern Afghanistan over two years ago, AP reported Monday, citing statements by Afghan and American officials.

According to reports leaked by officials of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government, the Taliban negotiator, Tayyab Aga, had in return demanded the release of their comrades incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and the Bagram Air Field prison, north of Kabul, where an estimated 600 Afghans are being held by US military forces.

UN to deploy forces to Libya: Report

The 10-page document outlines plans for the deployment of 200 unarmed military observers and 190 UN police officers to serve as trainers in post-Gaddafi Libya, Al-Jazeera reported on Monday.

The document, however, says the deployment would only be implemented if Libyan authorities request it and the UN Security Council authorizes it.

10 Reasons Dick Cheney's New Book Belongs in the Crime Section (And What You Can Do to Get it There)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was given a multi-million contract to write a book about his political career. According to Cheney’s media hype, the book, called In My Time, will have“heads exploding all over Washington.” The Darth Vader of the Bush administration offers no apologies and feels no remorse. But peace activists around the country are stealthily gearing up to visit bookstores, grab a stack of books, and deposit them where they belong—the Crime Section.

1.   Cheney lied; Iraqis and U.S. soldiers died.
2.   Committing War Crimes in Iraq
3.   War profiteering
4.   Violating basic rights
5.   Advocating torture
6.   Trying to prolong the Afghan war
7.   Abusing executive privilege
8.   Spying on us
9.   Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
10. Favored bombing Syria—and North Korea—instead of negotiating
Read article in detail at AlterNet

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How Israel Takes Its Revenge on Children Suspected of Throwing Stones

The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. "Lift up your head! Lift it up!" shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for he has been awake for at least 12 hours since he was separated at gunpoint from his parents at two that morning. "I wish you'd let me go," the boy whimpers, "just so I can get some sleep."

During the nearly six-hour video, 14-year-old Palestinian Islam Tamimi, exhausted and scared, is steadily broken to the point where he starts to incriminate men from his village and weave fantastic tales that he believes his tormentors want to hear.

This rarely seen footage seen by The Independent offers a glimpse into an Israeli interrogation, almost a rite of passage that hundreds of Palestinian children accused of throwing stones undergo every year.   | AlterNet

Palestinian child talks of "abuse" in Israeli prison

How Corporate and Political Forces Have Almost Neutralized All Avenues of Resistance in US Culture

The only commodity the troll state offers is fear. The corporate trolls, such as the Koch brothers, terrify the birthers, creationists, militia lovers, tea party militants, right-to-life advocates, Christian fascists and God-fearing red-white-and-blue patriots by proclaiming that, unless they vote for Perry or Mitt Romney or Michele Bachmann or some other product of the lunatic fringe of our political establishment, the American family will be destroyed, our children will be corrupted and the country will turn socialist. Barack Obama, who they whisper is a closet Muslim, will take away their guns, raise their taxes and bring homosexual couples into kindergartens.

For those, usually liberals, still rooted in a reality-based world, one that believes in evolutionary science, the corporate trolls offer a more refined, fear-based message of impending doom. If you abandon the Democrats we will be governed by Bible-thumping idiots who will make us chant the Pledge of Allegiance in mass rallies and teach the account of Genesis as historical and biological fact in our nation’s schools.

And underneath it all runs the mantra chanted in unison by all the trolls—terror, terror, terror. The troll establishment spins us like windup dolls and laughs all the way to the bank. What idiots, they think. And every election cycle we prove them right.   | AlterNet

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Alert! A Fresh Statement from Brother Muammar Qadaffi:

From the international liaison office of the Green Committees Movement "Oppressed peoples around the world, the battle has begun. Do not despair, help is nigh. Do you realize that this is the Night of Power? What is the Night of Power? It is better than thousands of other nights, it is the destiny, when the heavens are open to receive your prayers thousands fold.

Watch what is happening now in America. Did we hit them with our missiles? No, they came and struck us, 64 hits on Bab Al-Aziziya which is now destroyed, and finally I had to leave my home, where they killed many innocents. But I will never leave Libya and in this fight, it is either victory or death.  Read more...

DNA spray marks out thieves

But the next time crooks try and raid the store, they will be sprayed with DNA at the doorway as they flee, forensically linking them to the scene of the crime. The radical new technology is one way businesses are trying to fight back against crime.

''We have had security guards in the past, but it's very expensive to have security guards on 24/7 and it wasn't 100 per cent successful,'' an Angus & Coote spokesperson told The Sun-Herald.  - BlackListedNews.com

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Testing Iris Scanners At U.S. Border

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) next month will test the use of commercial iris-scanning technology at a U.S.-Mexico border patrol station.

The DHS has not yet decided whether it will ever deploy the technology, but is conducting the two-week test at a station in McAllen, Texas, for operational feasibility, DHS spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said via e-mail Monday.

"This is a preliminary test of how the technology performs -- we have no specific plans for acquiring or deploying this type of technology at this point," she said.

Currently, the backend databases the DHS would need to successfully deploy the technology don't exist, and no DHS customers are requesting the use of such technology.  Read more...

Ultimate Betrayal: Puppet Leaders stir hatred & fear to justify costly wars & troop deaths for Western Hegemony

First – let’s not labor under any delusions. Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy are heads of state in name only. It is the depravity and megalomania amongst the banks, corporations, and the institutions they have contrived, that are responsible for the most egregious betrayal in Western history. For 10 years the West’s leadership have stirred up hatred and fear amongst their populations to justify a lengthy and very costly global war that has sent US, British, Canadian, German, French, and many other troops, around the world, into dangerous adversity, and ultimately to their graves to fight “the forces of terror.”

Now, almost as if savoring the irony, the New York Times, on behalf of the corporate-financier oligarchs that presume dominion over the Western world, fully admit that Al Qaeda terrorists,men who literally killed US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan are now in Libya and are the benefactors of billions of dollars in Western aid, diplomatic recognition, training, weapons, the lending of intelligence assets, the full unwavering support of the West’s “media,” NATO-member air support, and even graced with Western special forces fighting side-by-side with them on the ground. This timely confession is also in response in part to revelations that the Libyan rebel commander now filling the streets of Tripoli with indescribable horror is a hardcore Al Qaeda leader, reported first in the Telegraph months ago, and again this week on RT and covered in depth by respected geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley.  - Land Destroyer via BlackListedNews.com

How convenient: Long-Awaited Wikileaks Secret Bank Of America Files Have Been Destroyed

Bank of America may just have dodged a bullet when it comes to the stash of its confidential information that was said last year to be in the hands of Wikileaks. After an internal feud, a break-away member of Wikileaks (Daniel Domscheit-Berg) has told Spiegel Online that he has destroyed information that he took from the organisation – and Wikileaks itself says that includes 5 gigabytes of information from Bank of America.  - BlackListedNews.com

War for Africa: 'Libya key to new US bases, cheap labor & resources'

The rebels in Libya have rejected the possibility of staging talks with Muammar Gaddafi. The National Transitional Council says they want to see him in jail - and not at the negotiating table. Middle East expert Dan Glazebrook says NATO is using the rebels to make Libya a failed state.

Mutant (H5N1)Bird Flu Strain Spreading In Asia

N1The United Nations warned Monday of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain was spreading in Asia.

A mutant strain of H5N1, which can apparently sidestep defenses of existing vaccines, is spreading in China and Vietnam, Tthe U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said in a statement Monday. It urged greater surveillance to ensure that any outbreaks are contained.  Read more...

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Is Gay the New Black? Christian Reverend Believes the LGBT Movement is the Black Movement, Majority of Blacks Disagree.

Called the “Gays Are Us” series, the project is being written by Reverend Dennis W. Wiley, an African-American pastor and doctor from Washington D.C. Using his deep understanding of the civil rights movement, Reverend Wiley makes the case that gay rights are not a white issue and that, in fact, the LGBT movement is inextricably linked to the Black community's struggle for civil rights. In fact Wiley asserts that, were Martin Luther King Jr. alive today, he’d be one of the LGBT movement’s biggest proponents. Indeed, Dr. King was known for his dedication to ending all forms of oppression, not just those that impacted Blacks.  | BET

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Nearly Half of All Babies are of Color, 2010 Census Shows

Only 50.2 percent of babies in the U.S. under the age of 1 are white, according to new Census data analyzed by USA Today. A sharp decline from 57.6 percent just 10 years earlier.

“We are almost at a minority-majority infant population,” Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who analyzed the latest Census data, told USA Today. “We probably have passed it since the Census was taken” in early 2010.  - COLORLINES

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Growing Numbers of Latinos Convert to Muslim Faith

An increasing number of Latinos in the U.S. are converting to Islam, with more Latina women than men converting to the faith.

“You feel tri-cultural, not bicultural: American, Hispanic and Muslim,” Juan Alvarado told The Venture Online. Alvarado was raised Catholic by his Dominican parents but converted to Islam when he was in college. “‘Te lavaron el cerebro.’ ‘You were brainwashed’,” Alvarado said his parents told him.  - COLORLINES

Minister Abel Muhammad In Milwaukee - Feb 2010

African Union Joins Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, And Will Not Recognize (Libyan) Rebels

African Union (AU) Libya committee chairman, South African Foreign Minister Jacob Zuma has re-iterated the 5-month constant call of the African Union for an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of NATO forces from African territory.

Zuma confirmed the Libyan capital of Tripoli was not yet under full rebel control. The vast majority of Tripoli still remains out of control of rebels who are facing stiff resistance from the armed population, who bear arms to protect themselves from the invading forces.  Read more...