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  • What Dubai Says About Capitalism: Not Much


    zero hedgeAuthority Authority: 765
    You sort of just knew Dubai was going to implode.  Or if you didnt, you sure should have. Bloomberg reports: Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.   The cost of ...
    1 hour ago
  • 150th Commemoration of John Brown Events Planned


    New York HistoryAuthority Authority: 133
    Margaret Gibbs, Director of the Essex County Historical Society / Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown has sent along the following notice of the 150th Commemoration of John Brown scheduled for December 6th. Regular readers of my other online project Adirondack Almanack know that I have been writing a ...
    8 hours ago
  • On November 26


    IntLawGrrlsAuthority Authority: 507
    On this day in ... ... 1832 , Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (right) was born in Oswego, New York. Twenty-two years later she graduated from Syracuse Medical College, then married a fellow medical student, though she kept her own name. The couples attempt to set up a joint practice failed because patients would not accept ...
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  • Courtney Love claims Britney was molested by her father


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    Melbourne, November 26 (ANI): Singer Courtney Love has alleged that pop star Britney Spears was molested by her father, Jamie.The late Kurt Cobain’s wife made the shocking claim on her Facebook page, reports the Daily Telegraph.She wrote: “britneys dad molested her, imagine the father that molested you owning you ...
    13 hours ago
  • The Murder of Days Begins


    fullmetalgerbilAuthority Authority: 119
    First day at work today. Lots of smelly plate scrapings gunk. Got wet. A bunch of times. Co workers not too sociable. Back dining room has piped in Frank Sinatra music. I’m convinced thats where the mafia doods hang out. The work isn’t extremely brutal or anything but it is work after all. Embarrassed myself in ...
    13 hours ago
  • "Whose house is that?"


    ElektratigAuthority Authority: 127
    After outlining his compromise resolutions individually on January 29, 1850, Henry Clay then discussed his proposed “scheme of arrangement and accommodation” as a whole. Clay maintained that his “project contains about an equal amount of concession and forbearance on both sides.” His remarks, however, were ...
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  • Color Consciousness among people of Color


    KalagenesisAuthority Authority: 104
    If your yellow you are mello,if you are light you are alright,happen to be brown stick around but if you are black GET THE HELL BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!Now we know the history of Jim Crow and color politics from the plantation system White slavers used to maintain a White skin hierarchy in the new world.In ancient times ...
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  • 459 years later


    Raw Dawg BuffaloAuthority Authority: 115
    I write this with a heavy heart and before I leave for Memphis to bury my last grandmother. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “how soon ‘not now’ becomes never.” If anytime these words ring truer today than in times past. It has been 459 years since the first inhabitants of Africa were brought to these ...
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  • Speeches from Rifka Barry Rally


    Vlad TepesAuthority Authority: 151
    A rally for Rifqa Bary held in Dorrian Commons Park in Columbus, Ohio, on November 16, 2009. Speakers included Pamela Geller, Simon Deng, Nonie Darwish, James Lafferty, Robert Spencer, and Jamal Jivanjee. Some excellent speeches here by some people who the western world needs to pay a lot more attention to than they ...
    2 days ago
  • Join the front-line in the fight against human trafficking


    ChildrenAuthority Authority: 123
    As mentioned in my previous post, local trafficking case brings the face of modern slavery home , the recent story of child trafficking out of Fayetteville, NC, has gained a large amount of media attention.   The story thus lead me to do an interview with Blog Talk Radio’s DC based show, “A Measure Of Truth ...
    2 days ago
  • The wild pig story


    Gerry Spence's BlogAuthority Authority: 112
    Someone wrote me the following: A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day, while the class was in the lab, the Professor noticed one student who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The ...
    2 days ago
  • And If I Dont Agree?


    Success Warrior: Alan B. Rowley II - Fitness Coach, Beachbody.com, P90X, InsanityAuthority Authority: 425
    Democrats are considering a 1% tax on everyone that makes between $30k-150k a year to help pay for the ongoing and escalating war in Afghanistan.  "I have a great idea.  Lets tax the middle class to fund a war that they dont want to be involved in." "Sounds good to me." Obviously, if you disagree, umm, too ...
    2 days ago
  • Movie Review: Mandinga


    Discover the WorldAuthority Authority: 124
    Slavery, Sexploitation and Incest I would never have come across this flic if not for youtubes new movie channel. This a movie about the slavery era of United States of America, when being a white man was the most privileged status one could aspire for. The movie starts off with the arrival of the sister-in-law of ...
    2 days ago
  • Slavery in U.S. Prison System


    DarkGovernmentAuthority Authority: 131
    The Justice Department reported in August that there are nearly 1.6 million men and women incarcerated in the United States — currently the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. This startling figure tops off a decade of rapid expansion of America’s prison population, fueled by a “war on drugs” that ...
    3 days ago
  • Civil War Book Review: John Brown’s War Against Slavery


    This Side of the PondAuthority Authority: 120
    The excellent Civil War Book Review of LSU recently posted Grady Atwater’s review of Robert McGlone’s John Brown’s War Against Slavery . With the 150th anniversary of Harper’s Ferry just passed, Atwater reports that McGlone’s analysis avoids the pitfalls of many Brown historians. * * * John ...
    3 days ago
  • Palmer on The Strange Science of Codifying Slavery


    Legal History BlogAuthority Authority: 482
    The Strange Science of Codifying Slavery - Moreau Lislet and the Louisiana Digest of 1808 has just been posted by Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane Law School. It appears in the Tulane European and Civil Law Forum (2009). Heres the abstract: The Digest of 1808 was the first European-style code to be enacted in the ...
    3 days ago
  • Black Kids Told to Pick Cotton in Front of their White Classmates


    Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black VoicesAuthority Authority: 157
    Filed under: News , Politics , Race and Civil Rights I received a call today from CNN for an appearance on Headline News with the amazing Richelle Carey. The story happened a couple of weeks ago, but it took me aback and I thought I would quickly share it with the AOL BV family. During a field trip to a ...
    3 days ago
  • Adam Lambert’s Racy AMA Performance Receives Extreme Reviews (Photos & Videos)


    TONIC GOSSIPAuthority Authority: 485
    American Idol host Ryan Seacrest introduced Adam Lambert’s performance at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, but Lambert’s racy show-closer was no way like the family-friendly performances you’d see on American Idol. Adam groped and dragged dancers, made out with a member of his band and wore bondage ...
    3 days ago
  • Slave rescuer Aaron Cohen interviewed in the Observer


    newsjiffyAuthority Authority: 424
    Todays Observer magazine has a fascinating interview by Carole Cadwalladr with Aaron Cohen, the founder of the Abolish Slavery Coalition . Cohen, whose book Slave Hunter: One Mans Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking was published this June, has rescued children from sex slavery and child solider ...
    3 days ago
  • Two Indian Maids Held Hostage by their Abusive Saudi Sponsor


    Migrant RightsAuthority Authority: 132
    The Saudi daily Arab Times published a story today about a sponsor who is preventing his two maids from returning to India until they pay him. Upon arrival to the Kingdom, the maids (whose real names aren’t given), discovered that their sponsor had made a deal with a recruitment agency to “loan” them to ...
    4 days ago

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