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Get A Functional Unity Calendar for Your City

A Functional Unity Calendar for Your City? What would it mean if all or most progressive African (Black) organizations and institutions in your city all used a single online calendar to post their events and to check the events of other organizations and institutions? And what if the calendar allowed for great detail; including contact phone, web and email information? And what if the calendar was dynamic: letting you post events months and years ahead? And what if the calendar and a dedicat
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Economic Armageddon

From the RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonEconomic Armageddon“It is often reported in the headlines of newspapers that a certain gentleman or woman had been brutally beaten up for failing to pay the debts due to a money-lender. In Malaysia, money-lenders are often referred to as “Ah-Longs”. This is even the case when the debt is paltry. If the money-lender adopts the “soft method” in recovering a loan, it may encourage defaults and non-payments. Brutality ensures full compliance! So is the case wi
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Jeffrey B. Perry newest book Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. "Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of class and r
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Georgia
Family, I'm in tears as I type these few lines. My co-worker recently lost her mother who was only 54 years old. She died of cancer in October 2008. My co-worker and friend is currently reading Somebody Prayed for Me, and she just called me in tears after reading the story "One Moment With You" and the poem "Always In My Heart." These are pieces dedicated to the memory of my maternal grandmother who raised me, nurtured me, loved me, and taught me about being a strong woman. She died at the age o
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Crystal Ball gazing

From The RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonCrystal Ball Gazing“In the real estate realm, the proverbial ‘other shoe’ hasn’t dropped yet, but certainly is dangling - and that’s commercial real estate. As homeowners writhe in agony and stop spending, retailers will go out of business, businesses of all stripes will suffer and commercial real estate will implode. The leverage left over from just the private equity foray into commercial real estate in the acquisitive 2006-2007 period is staggering. Ref
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Two sides of a coin,Heads or TailsTwo sides of a story,Fact or FictionTwo Sides, leading to the following examples:Past or PresentTop or BottomYes or NoWrong or RightMake or BreakHeaven or HellTwo sides of a face,Evil or GoodVision of “Janus”, Roman mythological god of “Gates” & “Doors”Two opposing facesBeginnings” & “Endings”Which side does you heart lie???Two sides of an issue,Black or WhiteWhat is in-between???CONFUSION!!!Imbalance of the spiritual realmArmageddon, inevitableManifestation of
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Need Money - How Good Is Your Business Plan

Greetings Family,(Contact Information At The Bottom Of The Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again...smileIn these troubling economic times many Black business are looking for funding…..Have you considered Business Plan Competitions?If you are new to business and have no track record, or credit history; If you don't have a rich uncle or Angel financier; you can enter these competitions and not only get great advice on improving your plan, but Hard Cash Grants as well. On ave
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It is perhaps expedient for me to begin this article by acknowledging that I am also contributing to a debate which has been raging for a long time, and to which thousands of Nigerians all over the world have contributed their own opinions. While I do not want to appear repetitive, it is instructive to note that I will definitely not have the last word on this matter, for as long as the debate continues to rage. Hence I am not daunted to contribute to it, because my little voice will add more to
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Dear Reader, before you think or say “Oh my God, not another essay about Nigerian corruption from this guy”, please bear with me. First, the issue of corruption in my country has been a passion with me since childhood. Secondly, this is not another article about the consequences of corruption in Nigeria, but to narrate some personal political experiences. So please forgive me.When I consented to coordinate the plans for the presidential ambition of a particular Presidential hopeful between 2004
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How Americans Were Duped and Sold a Pack of Liesjuly06leb_img_38.jpg(At left: Stacks like these have evaporated from circulation due to hoarding and concentration of cash by deep pocket financiers.)The assessment of the so-called Financial Meltdown and the gov’t “bail out” appears to be a constantly shifting premise. So we must continually strive to accurately sum up what is taking place amid the lies and spin. And while the search for the truth seems to be an endless, unrewarding task, we must keep two principles
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One of the continuing challenges posed by unprecedented urbanization in developing countries, including Nigeria, is the provision of adequate and affordable housing. Over the last three decades, Nigeria, like several developing countries, has emphasised public housing schemes, but with little success (Ogu and Ogbuozobe, 2001)According to the 2006 Census, (please note that this particular population census efforts are very challenging due to several social cultural problems) Nigeria has a populat
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"The chattering classes still blame desperate borrowers for not reading the fine print, but perhaps they should reserve some vitriol for Wall Street's watchdog. If there's one lesson the commission should have learned long ago, it's that booms aren't fueled by market forces alone, but also by healthy doses of fraud, deception, and unchecked opportunism. And it's invariably everyday folks who pay the price. ‘The SEC, instead of watching Wall Street, insulates it,’ notes Aguirre. ‘The subprime iss

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Imagine the military technology of “Raytheon” in the hands of Corporate Criminals, Schlumberger Limited “Raytheon has sold its technology to extract oil from shale and tar sands to Schlumberger, a leading oilfield services company. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.”http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/feature/rtn08_oil_shale/Hypothetically speaking, what if Schlumberger Limited changed the name of the company, transitioned services to going green, and opened up the doors to “g
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"What is truth?" Pilate asked. As for Pilate, he sought no answer from Jesus for his question. Instead, he washed the responsibility from his hands (Matt. 27:24) and walked away from the truth. In Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, Pilate's wife answers her husband: "If you will not hear the truth, no one can tell you."Truth, when trying to define it, extends from honesty, reality, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The term has no s
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I have just returned from Nigeria, which in itself is not news to anybody, and I also visited our capital city, Abuja. Abuja is arguably one of the most beautiful cities in sub-Saharan Africa. If we don’t want to go that far, then it is the only beautiful city in Nigeria. It has got much about everything that a modern city should have – imposing beautiful public and government buildings; private abodes with exquisite out-of-this-world architecture (most of these are actually castles or villas, a
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Greetings Family,(Contact Information At The Bottom Of The Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again...smileThey call me the Digital Drummer because I pass messages of interest and concern from one website to another like the drummers of old Africa. One such message I came across lately, was originally written by Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief of TechRepublic.com. It was a good video Blog (see http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=895&tag=nl.e101). One that inspired me to p
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Georgia

Nothing says WINNER like a FREE MP3 Player!

Want to curl up with a good book and register to win a FREE MP3 player?It's EASY! Purchase your copy of the inspirationally uplifting anthology, Somebody Prayed for Me, and email proof of purchase to somebodyprayed4me@yahoo.com. You will then be registered for our March 15, 2009 drawing!Many will enter but only ONE can win.To find out how you can purchase your copy of Somebody Prayed for Me, visit the website at www.SomebodyPrayed4me.webs.com.Be INSPIRED and register to WIN a FREE MP3 Player tod
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Real and ruthless is the tune of STP Music Group’s newest remedy Novakane. While most newcomers attempt to pull off their "one big hit" by matching it with a dance move, Novakane represents for the true hip-hop fans who still respect raw expression without the games and gimmicks. Ferocious as a Chicago wind, Nokavane’s approach is numbing to the senses. And he intends to keep it that way.Novakane is currently #75 on the R & B/ Hip Hop ChartsShawty Said has received over 10,000 bds spinsCurrently

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From the RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonSince You’re Giving Away All That Money . . .“The financial meltdown has been and will continue to plunge the working class into levels of destitution worse than those seen in the “Great Depression.” As a prelude to this banking, Wall Street and our government squanders taxpayer money on idiotic schemes to prop up bankrupt Illuminist banks, Wall Street, insurance companies and select Illuminist corporations. In that process faithful workers are thrown onto
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