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Texas group launches scholarship for white men ONLY... because they 'need an equal shot'
Post Date: 2011-02-28 17:15:15 by A K A Stone
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A non-profit group has launched a college scholarship for a demographic it claims are under-represented in society - white men.
The Former Majority Association for Equality will give grants of $500 to any man from Texas who is at least ‘25 per cent Caucasian’, has good grades and can demonstrate they are in need.
Its founder Colby Bohannan claims whites feel ‘excluded’ when they apply to college and that they are ‘left out’ when it comes to funding.
The provocative move risks a backlash by anti-racism groups but college officials in Texas have said there is little they can do to prevent it.
Mr Bohannan, a former Texas State University student and Iraq veteran, said the group was ...
Teddy Kennedy rented entire whorehouse for one night
Post Date: 2011-02-28 13:29:52 by Happy Quanzaa
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Late U.S. Senator Edward 'Ted'Kennedy 'rented out a Chileanbrothel for the entire night', claimed FBI files Late U.S. senator Ted Kennedy has been accused of renting an entire Chilean brothel and seeking meetings with communists who had left-wing views. The information came to light after a Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch - the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption - who put pressure on the FBI to release the material. Their file on the late senator, who died from brain cancer in August 2009, was released but contained a large amount of blacked out information - until now. The statements previously withheld include ...
US Moves Forces Near Libya 'In Case' As World Pressure On Muammar Gaddafi Grows
Post Date: 2011-02-28 13:21:24 by Brian S
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THE US has moved armed forces near Libya but won't say what they are for as Libyan jets reportedly fire on ammunition stores The Pentagon says it's moving some armed forces in the region near Libya in case they're needed, but is not saying what they might be needed for. Defence Department spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan says Pentagon planners are working on various options and contingency plans as the violence aimed at overthrowing the government continues in the North African nation. Lapan told reporters today that as part of that planning, the Pentagon is repositioning some naval and air forces. The US has a regular military presence in the Mediterranean Sea and farther to ...
Libya Warplanes Bomb Rebel-Held Arms Depot, As Anti-Gadhafi Protesters Amass In Tripoli
Post Date: 2011-02-28 13:10:01 by Brian S
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Libyan warplanes bombed an arms dump inside a rebel-held eastern district on Monday, two senior security sources said, as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Tripoli to demonstrate against long-time leader Muammar Gadhafi. "It's true, they hit an arms dump in Djabiya. No one was hurt. It happened at around 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon," said Fathi Abidy, a member of the security council set up by the temporary administration in Libya's main eastern city Benghazi. Another senior security source confirmed the same information. Also on Monday, the Libyan government said it would send an envoy to Benghazi, promising to deliver food, medicine and medical equipment ...
Gadhafi Stimulus Plan: pass out cash
Post Date: 2011-02-28 12:13:15 by Happy Quanzaa
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Christiane Amanpour in Tripoli: Gadhafi Doles Out Cash to the People Tensions High in Libya's Capital, Citizens Complain About Waits at Banks and Bakeries I've just returned from the center of Tripoli, Libya, after a drive around town. Like all journalists here, my team and I were driven and accompanied by government employees, but they did take us precisely where I asked to go. What we found was normal traffic in the streets, people walking, or at cafes and restaurants. At just about every bank we saw, there were long lines of men and women waiting for the cash handouts that Col. Moammar Gadhafi had just announced. The leader was giving each family 500 dinars, the equivalent ...
Senators Lieberman, McCain Call For Aid, Arms For Libyan Provisional Government
Post Date: 2011-02-27 14:20:32 by Brian S
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Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- The United States and its allies should recognize and arm a provisional government in Libya, and also impose a no-fly zone that would prevent Libyan aircraft from attacking anti-government protesters there, two leading U.S. senators said Sunday. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who caucuses with the Democrats, told CNN's "State of the Union" that the Obama administration needs to do more to help protesters oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. "I think the world has to do more," Lieberman said. "I'd begin with the imposition of a no-fly zone so that Gadhafi can't be attacking ...
Libya Rebels Gear For Fight In City Near Capital
Post Date: 2011-02-27 14:16:51 by Brian S
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ZAWIYA, Libya (AP) -- Hundreds of armed anti-government forces backed by military defectors who control the city closest to the capital Tripoli prepared Sunday to repel an expected offensive by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi surrounding Zawiya. Two prominent U.S. Senators said Washington should recognize and arm a provisional government in rebel-held areas of eastern Libya and impose a no-fly zone over the area - enforced by U.S. warplanes - to stop attacks by the regime. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton echoed President Barack Obama's demand for Gadhafi to relinquish power. "We want him to leave," she told reporters traveling with her Sunday to a U.N. meeting ...
Arab League Boss Amr Moussa Says He Plans To Run For President In Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-27 14:15:51 by Brian S
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CAIRO — Arab League chief Amr Moussa said Sunday he plans to run in Egypt's presidential elections expected later this year. Egypt's former foreign minister declared his candidacy a day after a constitutional reform panel appointed by the country's new military rulers recommended far-reaching reforms that relaxed eligibility rules governing who can run for president. The changes, if adopted in a national referendum, would open presidential elections to more competition and impose a two-term limit on future presidents — a dramatic shift from a system that allowed ousted leader Hosni Mubarak to rule for three decades. Moussa told reporters the amendments were still ...
Man-Child tells Ghaddafi to leave now or he's going to get really really mad, stomp his feet, hold his breath, and whine to the UN
Post Date: 2011-02-26 22:15:53 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama says Kadhafi must 'leave now': WHouse President Barack Obama called on Moamer Kadhafi to "leave now," declaring that the Libyan leader had lost his right to rule after attacking his own people to put down a popular uprising. Obama's most direct demand yet that Kadhafi step down was made in a telephone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to coordinate their response to the crisis, the White House said. "The president stated that when a leader?s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now," it said. Hours later, the ...
Russia To Sell Syria Cruise Missiles
Post Date: 2011-02-26 19:36:36 by Brian S
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Russia vowed Saturday to fulfil its contract to supply Syria with cruise missiles despite the turmoil shaking the Arab world and Israel's furious condemnation of the deal. "The contract is in the implementation stage," news agencies quoted Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as saying. Russia and Syria Russia says may sell more arms to Syria / Ynet Defense Minister Serdyukov tells Bloomberg Moscow conducting 'serious assessment' of how sale of weapons to Syria may affect 'existing balance of forces in region.' Army chief says Russia won't supply S-300 missiles to Iran Full Story Russia initially agreed to send a large shipment of anti-ship Yakhont cruise ...
Attack Cripples Iraq's Largest Refinery, Kills 1
Post Date: 2011-02-26 19:19:23 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD – Gunmen stormed Iraq's largest oil refinery and bombed the facility Saturday, forcing operations to shut down at a time when Iraqis are already suffering through electricity shortages and lines at the gas pump. The attack north of Baghdad casts doubt on the Iraqi government's ability to protect its vital infrastructure and could shake already nervous international investors. If not fixed swiftly, the shutdown will likely further fuel anger over a lack of public services that led to violent nationwide protests last week. "It probably couldn't have come at a worse time for (Prime Minister) al-Maliki and his government," said Raad Al-Kadiri, an energy ...
New Egyptian Democracy uses batons to disperse crowds by force
Post Date: 2011-02-26 18:33:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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Egypt protesters dispersed by forceArmy uses batons to break up demonstrations in capital Cairo demanding purging of Mubarak loyalists from government. The Egyptian army has used force to disperse activists gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak loyalists from the interim cabinet. Egyptian soldiers fired in the air and used batons in the early hours of Saturday to disperse the crowd, the Reuters news agency reported. Demonstrators had also gathered in front of the parliament building in Cairo, where police beat protesters and used tasers to suppress the crowds, an Al Jazeera producer in the capital reported. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, ...
FRANCE: New Leader of the Free World?!
Post Date: 2011-02-26 07:15:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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It appears that French President Sarkozy has become the first head of state to call for Gaddafi’s removal from power. ”Mr. Gaddafi must go,” he said. Glad to see the French are now leading the Free World.
Smearing Ron and Rand Paul
Post Date: 2011-02-25 21:25:24 by jwpegler
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Another day, another vitriolic and personal David Horowitz attack on a conservative who doesn't meet his purity test. Today he amplifies Gary Bauer's call to action against a proposal from Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., to cut foreign aid to Israel. Long ago Bill Buckley drummed the anti-Semites out of the conservative movement, and the movement thrived as a result. But the Jew-haters have returned. For years the Texas crackpot, Ron Paul, has been attacking America and Israel as imperialist powers — the Great Satan and the Little Satan, and calling for America’s retreat from the battle against our totalitarian enemies. Clever switcheroo there, implying that Paul refers to ...
US Imposes Sanctions On Libya (what a crock of inept bullscat!)
Post Date: 2011-02-25 21:05:53 by Brian S
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(02-25) 17:40 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is imposing unilateral sanctions on Libya because continued violence and unrest there poses an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to America's national security and foreign policy. He says a series of financial sanctions he formalized on Friday target the government of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi while protecting the Libyan people's assets. The penalties name Gadhafi and several family members. Obama acted after hundreds of Americans were safely evacuated from Libya following days of bloodshed across the country. Militias loyal to Gadhafi have been firing on protesters who have been demanding ...
The Final Death of the 20th Century
Post Date: 2011-02-25 18:04:00 by jwpegler
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The last few weeks have been among the most exciting and promising in recent memory. People all over the middle east are rising up against the tyrants who have lorded over them for decades. Even Colonel Gaddafi -- a brutal dictator, who has been in power for 42 years -- is fighting for his survival. This should tell us all that something very big is happening in the world. The turmoil isn't just occurring in the middle east. Beleaguered taxpayers in Europe and America have staged their own revolutions as well -- booting out fiscally irresponsible politicians who have run up their public debt and torpedoed their economies. In America, the Tea Party movement helped spur an electoral ...
Western Media Ignore Iraqi Demand For Freedom
Post Date: 2011-02-25 17:18:08 by Brian S
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US- and Zionist-beholden Western media have been reporting the Arab Revolution underway in countries including Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Libya , Egypt , Jordan , Yemen and Bahrain . However while pro-Zionist, Western media and politicians laudably support the courageous protests for democracy in these countries, there is extraordinary silence in relation to the demands for democracy in Occupied Palestine and Occupied Iraq in which the indigenous inhabitants live under the tyrannical rule of genocidal European invaders rather than under the tyrannical rule of Western-backed indigenous dictators. In the racist Zionist-controlled Occupied Palestinian Territory post-invasion excess deaths ...
Hundereds of Americans trapped in Libya while Obama parties
Post Date: 2011-02-25 13:15:33 by Happy Quanzaa
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'What took you so long': Stricken Libyanrescue boat finally leaves Tripoli, but whydid they take so long to depart? • Boat packed with U.S. citizens finally sets sail • Experts ask why a bigger boat wasn't used like the Greeks and Turkish • Libyans refuse to let U.S. chartered planes land Hundreds of Americans trapped aboard a rescue ship that was too small to sail in rough weather have finally left Libya this morning. The 167 stranded U.S. citizens have been holed up on the Maria Dolores since Wednesday, as rough weather has prevented the ship from leaving. The Dolores left Tripoli at 6:37 am EST and is expected to reach its destination port of Valetta, Malta ...
Protesters Killed as Iraqis Stage 'Day of Rage' Protest
Post Date: 2011-02-25 12:26:59 by Brian S
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Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Friday in a nationwide "Day of Rage" inspired by uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations. At least five people were killed in clashes with security forces. News reports say the deaths occurred as demonstrators tried to storm government buildings in at least two Iraqi cities. At least three of the people were reported killed in the northern city of Mosul, while at least two were said to have died in Hawija. Protesters also tried to push between concrete blast walls on a bridge leading to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone of government buildings and embassies. Friday's demonstration, planned for weeks, is ...
US Military 'Fully Involved’ In Talks On Libya Options
Post Date: 2011-02-25 12:24:47 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – The US military has been "fully involved" in high-level talks on Washington's response to the crisis in Libya and is assessing options to be presented to the White House, a senior US official said Thursday. "We have a wide range of tools -- financial, sanctions, multilateral actions -- and we are considering all of them," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. "The military is fully involved in these discussions and doing its own thinking about options that can be presented to the president" and commander-in-chief Barack Obama. Crowley said a multitude of US agencies and departments have been meeting "constantly ...
U.S. Evacuees Leave Libya After 3 Days Stuck In Port By Rough Seas
Post Date: 2011-02-25 11:38:24 by Brian S
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The ordeal of hundreds of American and other foreign evacuees stuck on a ferry in a Libyan port for three days finally ended when the ship put to sea, heaving for the island of Malta. The Maria Dolores left Tripoli's As-shahab port Friday at 1.37 p.m. local time (6:37 a.m. ET) to make the journey to Valetta, Malta. The State Department initially said the vessel was carrying 285 evacuees including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. But it said Friday that more passengers were added before departure. Most of the passengers have been aboard the catamaran since Wednesday, but high seas prevented it from leaving. The voyage to Malta was expected to take some eight ...
South Korea Drops Leaflets Into North About Egypt, Libya Democracy Protests
Post Date: 2011-02-25 00:36:47 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - South Korea's military has been dropping leaflets into North Korea about democracy protests in Egypt and also sent food, medicines and radios for residents as part of a psychological campaign, a legislator said on Friday. The campaign was aimed at encouraging North Koreans to think about change, conservative South Korean parliament member Song Young-sun said. The food and medicines were delivered in light-weight baskets tied to balloons with timers programed to release the items above the target areas in the impoverished North, Song said in a statement. South Korea's defense ministry declined to confirm the move, citing its policy of not commenting on sensitive issues ...
Understanding Muammar Gaddafi's View Of Obama Through Wikileak
Post Date: 2011-02-24 21:39:13 by go65
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It has been quite a ride, watching the pop-political entertainment machine try to slice the Arab Spring into easy partisan talking points. Glenn Beck has his democracy-is-bad-for-Muslims, Google-is- pushing-dominos-to-the-caliphate theory. Sarah Palin came forward with a muddled call for more transparency from the White House, followed by a more direct shame-on-Obama-for-not-quickly- condemning-Libya-violence Facebook post, which came right before Obama condemned the violence after a delay to ensure the safety of U.S. citizens in Libya. There have been regular cries from the right, at CPAC in particular, that Obama cared more about betraying its ally Hosni Mubarak than confronting the ...
Prime Minister Warns Iraqis To Stay Away From Friday Protest
Post Date: 2011-02-24 17:26:42 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister warned his people to boycott an anti-government protest planned for Friday, saying it was being organized by supporters of the ousted Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave no proof for his assertion in a nationally televised speech Thursday, which echoed similar blanket statements he has made before blaming terrorists and Saddam loyalists for an array of problems in the country. Religious figures including anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the leader of Iraq's majority Shiite community also have raised doubts about the rally. Al-Maliki's warning came around the same time a suicide bomber killed 11 people ...
Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middle East Uprising Trend
Post Date: 2011-02-24 16:47:47 by Godwinson
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Max Keiser on Revolts: Americans Joining Middle East Uprising Trend RussiaToday | Feb 21, 2011 Dozens of people have been reported killed in the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight as violence continues to spread across the country. Key administrative buildings have been set on fire, with thousands of anti- government activists still on the streets calling for an end to the 41-year rule of Colonel Gaddafi. To find out more about how the Middle East upheaval is impacting global economic patterns, we're joined live now by RT's financial guru Max Keiser...
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