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• What Dubai Says About Capitalism: Not Much

  
  zero hedge — 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 ...
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• 150th Commemoration of John Brown Events Planned

  
  New York History — 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 ...
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• On November 26

  
  IntLawGrrls — 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 News — 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 ...
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• The Murder of Days Begins

  
  fullmetalgerbil — 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 ...
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• "Whose house is that?"

  
  Elektratig — 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

  
  Kalagenesis — 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 Buffalo — 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 Tepes — 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 ...
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• Join the front-line in the fight against human trafficking

  
  Children — 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 ...
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• The wild pig story

  
  Gerry Spence's Blog — 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 ...
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• And If I Dont Agree?

  
  Success Warrior: Alan B. Rowley II - Fitness Coach, Beachbody.com, P90X, Insanity — 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 ...
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• Movie Review: Mandinga

  
  Discover the World — 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 ...
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• Slavery in U.S. Prison System

  
  DarkGovernment — 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 ...
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• Civil War Book Review: John Brown’s War Against Slavery

  
  This Side of the Pond — 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 ...
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• Palmer on The Strange Science of Codifying Slavery

  
  Legal History Blog — 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 ...
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• Black Kids Told to Pick Cotton in Front of their White Classmates

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — 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 ...
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• Adam Lambert’s Racy AMA Performance Receives Extreme Reviews (Photos & Videos)

  
  TONIC GOSSIP — 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 ...
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• Slave rescuer Aaron Cohen interviewed in the Observer

  
  newsjiffy — 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 ...
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• Two Indian Maids Held Hostage by their Abusive Saudi Sponsor

  
  Migrant Rights — 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 ...
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