250 volunteer searchers scouring "an area about 6 miles from the last confirmed sighting of Shaniya." found her body on Sunday (11.16.09). She was dumped along "Walker Road, off N.C. Highway 87, near the Lee-Harnett county line... about 100 feet off Walker Road." The little five year old was… Read full post »

The recent history of relations between the US and Haiti has been an adversarial one. US foreign policy in Haiti has been controlled by right-wing elements in the US--with primary c/…

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President Obama's half-brother Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo holds a press conference prior to a book launch in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 4, 2009. Ndesandjo, who has lived Southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, has broken his silence and launched his debut novel. (Mike Clarke-AFP/Getty Images)

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Over at WIRED, they seem to have disabled the comments on the article "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All." The writer Amy Wallace hinges her pro-vaccines argument on the "herd immunity" concept. From the title, one gathers that some members of the "herd"… Read full post »

The international community has evidently concluded that there is no justice in Haiti. Sexual predators who have been operating with impunity in Haiti are being extradited to their countries of origin to face criminal charges. Douglas Perlitz was extradited to the US. Now John Duarte, a priest who ha… Read full post »

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” -- John Adams

There is considerable fallout from President Obama's decision not to meet with the Dalai Lama in Washington this week. The 73 year old spiritual… Read full post »

Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guantánamo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless…

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Africans auctioned off like property

Slave Auction Poster 1769: "To be sold, a cargo of ninety-for prime, healthy negroes, consisting of thirty-nine men, fifteen boys, twenty-four women and sixteen girls. Just arrived... from Sierra-Leon."

Racial discrimination in America did not end with sla… Read full post »

"The Secret Service has found the mastermind behind the “Should Obama Be Killed?” Facebook poll—and it turns out to be a kid. After a chat with the young perp and the parents, the agency has decided not to press charges, a spokesman said. “This is something

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GMA's Chris Cuomo mistakenly called Sarah Palin's memoir "Going Rouge" instead of "Going Rogue." This Freudian slip is understandable on many levels. Sarah Palin is a former beauty queen, turned politician. She won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant in 1984. At the pageant, she played the flute as her… Read full post »

 

 

1. He is continuing Bush era "preemptive wars" and expanding war into Pakistan with immoral and indefensible drone attacks.
   
   
2. He is holding "enemy combatants" without charges at prisons around the world.
   
   
3. He started negotiating healthcare reform from a compromise position and did not
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Yesterday on the news, it was reported that a young woman who suffered premature menopause at the age of 13 was the recipient of a successful ovary transplant from her twin sister. Since the transplant, Stephanie Yarber has given birth to two children and is…

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Photo: Philly.com

A police officer in Philly who came to work on Sept. 3rd with a cornrow hairdo was taken off the streets and busted to desk duty for two days by his black superior officer Inspector Aaron Horne. Thomas Strain was ordered to cut his hair to look more/… Read full post »

In 2007 CNN aired a report called:
Invisible Chains: Sex, Work and Slavery
"The world's largest employment category for children under 16 is domestic work in the homes of others."

In this 2007 CNN report, a segment by correspondent Joe Johns is from the Dominican Republic. It is about the exploitatio… Read full post »

New 9/11 Probe Looks Headed for NYC Ballot
Group has enough valid signatures for Nov. referendum: city

A New York City group has secured enough valid signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot to force a new investigation into the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A press release fro… Read full post »

I didn't feel very passionate about writing this post. I thought -- to post anything about the Joe Scarborough dead staffer story is to beat a dead horse. Of course the tragedy still poses a lot questions for people because of the bizarre nature of the incident. Lori Klausutis death… Read full post »

Gawd, I hate Huffington Post! What a bunch of partisan, influence peddling, star-struck (Curtis, Jong, Baldwin... et al), knee-jerk reactionary, liberally racist, non-journalist, blog whoring byatches. Their joker moderators must inhabit oxygen deprived cubicles. I am so sick of their censorship. Huf… Read full post »

I'm guessing because the missing letter is C? As in 33 Companies have pulled their advertising from Glenn Beck's TV and radio Programs. Color of Change is being credited with running the most successful boycott of a TV program ever. Their campaign started to protest Glenn Beck calling Presi… Read full post »

You may have heard about how an Anonymous blogger punked the "birthers" by posting a fake Kenyan birth certificate. In no time, the birthers' ditsy lawyer Tippy Hedren... uhmm sorry honest mistake, you see this chick Orly Taitz is for The Birds too -- presented this fake birth certificate in… Read full post »

"Robert Novak died this morning at 78, after a year-long battle with brain cancer, the Sun-Times reports. Known, to his delight, as the “Prince of Darkness,”... Novak’s “Inside Report” column has been syndicated since 1963. He was at the center of the Valerie Plame scan… Read full post »

The H1N1 virus is not as deadly as the common cold. The panic and fear being generated by the government, the media and unscrupulous doctors at the CDC stands to enrich the powerful pharmaceuticals who will make gianormous profits from any mandated vaccination. Preparations for forced inoculations in… Read full post »

Posters of President Barack Obama as the Heath Ledgers character "The Joker" from the Batman movie "Dark Night" are said to be "popping up" in Los Angeles and Atlanta. No one has taken responsibility for the tasteless prank. Conservatives are delighted of course. Says Ignatious Reilly (really!) on R… Read full post »

Coup in Honduras

Hillary Clinton called… Read full post »