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Africa for Africans - Transforming conditions in Zimbabwe right now!

Posted by TheBlackList on July 12, 2008 at 7:11pm

Africa for Africans - doing it for ourselves! Transforming conditions in Zimbabwe right now! Today, Africans from around the world are joining the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP), coming together as one people to bring our skills back to Africa and to restore our motherland. Our latest endeavor is the Zimbabwe Farm Irrigation Project. We need your help to raise $6,000 to get this project off the ground. Will you contribute?

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The Criminalityand Fraud Continues

Posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton on July 11, 2008 at 4:57pm
From The RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonThe Criminality and Fraud Continues“Fannie and Freddie Shares Slide, Dragging Down Markets Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares plummeted again on Friday — and the broader stock market followed suit — as concern mounted that the government will be forced to take over the beleaguered mortgage finance companies, which some investors fear are at risk of default. Even after a week of unprecedented losses, the companies’ declines on Friday were the sharpest yet: F
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COLONIZATIONWATCH: Propaganda insights.

Posted by BLACKWATCH - Dr. Brother Raheru Ptah Sun of Asaru on July 11, 2008 at 2:08am
Since we have seen this sort of "editing" at work, the entire situation should be suspected... as well as the media being held accountable for ignoring it.0709-lede-IRAN.jpgIn the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange). (Illustration by The New York Times; photo via Agence France-Presse)http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-ira
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1929 Redo?

Posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton on July 8, 2008 at 12:10pm
From The RampartsJunious Ricardo Stanton1929 Redo?“‘History doesn't repeat itself,’ Mark Twain said, ‘but it does rhyme.’ The similarities between economic conditions in 1929 and 2008 rhyme like hickory, dickory, dock. As early as 1935, "brain truster" Rexford Tugwell identified the root cause of the Great Depression as the failure 'to pass on a fair share of the spectacular productivity gains of the 1920s' to both labor and consumers. An enduring agricultural depression, the grossly inequitable
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Bring the Million Father March 2008 to Your City!

Posted by TheBlackList on July 7, 2008 at 11:52pm

Bring the Million Father March 2008 to Your City!

Illinois Congressman Danny K. Davis and men supporting the Million Father March welcome students back to Williams School on the first day. In 2008, men across America will lead their children, their families, their communities and their country back to school. Education in America has become an issue of national security. When American schools do not do well, the American economy does not do well. The whole country must recommit itself to edu
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The Real Operation to "Rescue" Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries

Posted by Baba Bob Shipman on July 6, 2008 at 9:16am

The Real Operation to "Rescue" Ingrid Betancourt and US MercenariesAuthor: Concerned citizens of irc.indymedia.orgIn order to understand the "rescue operation" of Ingrid Betancourt and the Northrop Grumman Corporation mercenaries who were released with her, it is necessary to piece together articles published in the media, filter the content and out of this is formed a true understanding of the facts of what happened here. A version in Portuguese is available here.1. On June 3rd, Colombian Senat
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Imperialism Watch: Iraq and Oil Resource Theft

Posted by BLACKWATCH - Dr. Brother Raheru Ptah Sun of Asaru on July 6, 2008 at 2:42am

Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history

The country's invaders should be paying billions in reparations not using the war as a reason to pillage its richest resourceAll comments (209)Naomi KleinThe Guardian, Friday July 4, 2008Article historyOnce oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly rightwing media hosts had to prove their populist credibility by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an
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Iran: War or Privatization: All Out War or "Economic Conquest"?

Posted by BLACKWATCH - Dr. Brother Raheru Ptah Sun of Asaru on July 6, 2008 at 2:00am
Watching the deals behind the saber rattling.

Iran: War or Privatization: All Out War or "Economic Conquest"?

by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, July 4, 2008Is the war against Iran on hold?Tehran is to allow foreign investors, in what might be interpreted as an overture to the West, to acquire full ownership of Iran's State enterprises in the context of a far-reaching "free market" style privatization program.With the price of crude oil at 140 dollars a barrel, the Iranian State is not in a fi
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Setting The Record Straight

Posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton on July 4, 2008 at 12:55pm
Setting The Record StraightOn July 3 the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition held their annual Black Independence Day Memorial on the site of the soon to be constructed Liberty Bell Center at 6th and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This site ironically is where George Washington held in brutal captivity nine Africans who served him without pay while he served as the first president of the United States. Since 2002 ATAC has attempted to raise awareness of the vicious legacy of slavery and have that
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A new Book that examines and critiques American culture from the perspective of a well educated and patriotic black man

Posted by Michael G. McFadden on July 4, 2008 at 12:23pm
"Disappearing Acts" is about how inconvenient facts, those that don’t fit into a culturally/politically/historically/racially favored story line or theme, are often disappeared so as to make an implausible theme plausible, and how the phenomena of fact disappearing permeates and despoils our entire culture! Disappearing Acts begins with a “pre-apology” for the book’s often angry tone, followed by a discussion of and a working definition for patriotism. The author argues that if one is a true pat
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From The Black Agenda Report: Cynthia McKinney Deserves Your Support, Obama Does Not

Posted by BLACKWATCH - Dr. Brother Raheru Ptah Sun of Asaru on July 4, 2008 at 1:05am
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=681&Itemid=1
We agree with the BAR. Nuff said.

Cynthia McKinney Deserves Your Support, Obama Does Not

Wednesday, 02 July 2008A Campaign Foreign Policy Focus by BAR executive editor Glen FordFormer Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who seems poised to capture the Green Party presidential nomination, in Chicago, this month, "is at this juncture in history the only vehicle through which progressives can both register thei
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NAACP Theatre Awards

Posted by Jim Neusom on July 3, 2008 at 3:42pm
Greetings Family,(Contact Information At Bottom Of Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again (smile)The NAACP, long renown as one of America's premier civil rights organizations, saluted Black theatre this week in Hollywood California, at the Kodak Theatre. The NAACP in fulfilling it's mission to advance and promote Black culture, presented the best in Black theatre at the 18th Annual, NAACP Theatre Awards.Black theatre plays a major role in the training, nurturing and produci
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Thank You...thank you ALL...smile

Posted by Jim Neusom on July 1, 2008 at 4:02pm
Greetings Family,It would be almost impossible for me to respond personally to all the Birthday emails, comments, and online cards I've received...Thank you ALLI am truly flattered and humbled by all the well wishers. You guys are great!Being an online journalist/bloger is kind of like being on radio...You never really know if anybody is listening...smileYour messages and comments are wind to my sails. I've literally received thousands of birthday greetings.Thank you so much...it means a lot, to
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Black Independence Day — July 3, 2008, GEORGE WASHINGTON OWNED 316 BLACK HUMAN BEINGS

Posted by Baba Bob Shipman on June 30, 2008 at 7:20pm
Black Independence Day — July 3, 2008When: Thursday July 3, 2008 at 4:30 PMWhere: Site of the new Liberty Bell Center, 6th and Market Street, Philadelphia"THE 9 WILL SPEAK THE TRUTH WE SEEK"

GEORGE WASHINGTON OWNED 316 BLACK HUMAN BEINGS AS SLAVES IN VIRGINIA AND TRANSPORTED 9 OF THEM TO AMERICA'S FIRST "WHITE HOUSE" HERE IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE 6TH & MARKET SITE OF THE NEW LIBERTY BELL CENTER.WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS OF 2008, CONSTRUCTION OF A MEMORIAL WILL RESUME AT THAT SITE TO HONOR THOSE 9
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Census Campaign For Accurate Caribbean Count Kicks-Off in New York

Posted by TheBlackList on June 29, 2008 at 9:22pm
Census Campaign For Accurate Caribbean Count Kick-Off, June 20, 2008, New York http://www.jamaicans.com/news/events/kickoff-6-2008-045.shtml Published Jun 24, 2008 The campaign to get Caribbean nationals accurately counted by the U.S. Census in 2010 will kick off officially in New York on June 20, 2008. “Being visible in America begins and ends with the U.S. Census,” proclaimed CaribID2010 chair Felicia Persaud, in announcing a campaign with widespread support among those of Caribbean descent
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