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African American Leaders Call For Boycott of BP, Arco, and Amoco Gas Stations
A group of prominent black leaders including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have announced a boycott of BP PLC, saying the oil company gouges customers and racially discriminates in its business practices. A BP spokesman defended the company's diversity, saying 15 percent of BP's U.S. employees are black. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business
Some of the medical involvement in torture defies belief. In one of the few actual logs we have of a high-level interrogation, that of Mohammed al-Qhatani(first reported in TIME), doctors were present during the long process of constant sleep deprivation over 55 days, and they induced hypothermia and the use of threatening dogs, among other techniques. According to Miles, Medics had to administer three bags of medical saline to Qhatani — while he was strapped to a chair — and aggressively treat him for hypothermia in the hospital. They then returned him to his interrogators. Click the image below to read more...

 

The FBI-CIA Entrapment Tag Team
A Minnesota man, Ilyas Ali, stands accused of selling a whole lot of hashish and heroin so he might buy Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and sell them to the dreaded al-Qaeda who would, of course, take out 747s packed with kindergarten children and grandmothers. Ali, a naturalized US citizen born in India, and two Pakistanis will be sent to San Diego to face charges. But...Ali says he was set-up by FBI agents! It was a good old-fashioned American ethic that ensnared the hapless Ali -- a greedy and unchecked desire for money. After $100,000 was stolen from his St. Paul, Minnesota, grocery store, Ali was befriended by two men he later identified as FBI agents; one claimed to be a drug dealer and the other a weapons specialist. As the drugs-for-weapons plan matured, Ali told an AP reporter from a jail, the FBI agents paid to fly him twice to Pakistan and once to Hong Kong. The agents said they would finance the whole sordid affair. "We just said OK, OK, because we wanted the money," Ali told Dirk Beveridge of AP. He had no drug connections and claims not to know anybody in al-Qaeda. Moreover, he says there is a tape of his conversation with the FBI agents. "There is absolutely nothing in that tape," Ali said. "We didn't mention the Stingers. The only one who mentioned the Stingers was the federal agent." Click the image below to read more...

 

How the U.S. Government Destabilized Foreign Governments
The people of the world hate America because of America’s policies. They do not hate the American people; they hate the American government. Is the American government a Satan or is it a benevolent Uncle Sam? Click the image below to read more...

 

Reflections of the Tulsa Resistance of 1921
In the spring of 1921, a war broke out in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hundreds were killed and wounded on both sides. The conflict stemmed from an armed standoff over the attempted lynching of a Black man who was, after the battle, proven innocent of assaulting a White woman. White mobs began to attack Blacks individually. Click the image below to read more...

 

AV Voice Changer Software Diamond Edition
You can freely adjust voice settings and apply effects to enhance sex appeal or characteristics. Built-in Voice Comparator helps simulate people's voices by comparing and hinting. Compatible with most voice chat clients: Yahoo Messenger(YIM), AOL Instant Messenger(AIM), ICQ, MSN, PalTalk, Odigo, Netmeeting and Roger Wilco; and PC2Phone programs: Net2Phone, Dialpad, Go2Call, DeltaThree, MaxPhone. So, if you get a phone call from a loved one saying that their plane has been hijacked by Arabs, it may not actually be the person you think it is on the phone! Click the image below to read more...

 

Check out another beautiful, chocolate sister coming on the scene, by the name of Bria Myles. She originates from Los Angeles and has made appearances in several music videos. She considers her biggest accomplishment with landing the cover of King Magazine this year. Click on her images below to check out her personal website and show her some love. Also...stay tuned for her interview with AwesomeBods in the near future!

 

Congress and Judges Gagged
Khaled el-Masri was wrongfully detained and allegedly tortured abroad by the American goverment. Now he seeks justice, but as we can see, the current justice system is eroding our the things that protect our democracy. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

The Bush Code of Secrecy
How the White House is covering up CIA abductions, brutal interrogations and spying on Americans. Click the image below to read more...

 

The Abu Ghraib Files
279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison. Click the image below to check it out...

 

Resolution to Discourage the Use of 'N' Word and Mark It Out of the Dictionary
Attorney Roy Miller of Atlanta, Georgia is calling on all persons to mark the "N" word out of their dictionaries on August 1, 2006. Additionally, Attorney Miller is challenging black groups, clubs and organizations to adopt resolutions discouraging the use of the "N" word against a child or to describe a child and to make the resolution a part of their guiding principles. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

FBI Report Confirms Violent Crime in Nation on the Rise
FBI statistics confirm what big cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Cleveland and Las Vegas have seen on the streets: Violent crime in the U.S. is on the rise, posting its biggest one-year increase since 1991. In Philadelphia, homicides jumped from 330 in 2004 to 377 in 2005, a 14 percent increase, according to the FBI.

 

Cameroon Girls Battle Breast Ironing
26% of Cameroonian women undergo a procedure known as ‘breast ironing’ in which they are held down as girls as their breasts are literally flattened to make them less attractive to boys. It is usually carried out by mothers often, it seems, out of concern that a girl’s educational chances might be ruined by pregnancy(and probably fears of HIV as well). Hence the prevalence of breast ironing may be related to the relative economic importance of schooling in a deeply impoverished society.Whatever the root, and cultural relativism aside, it is a repellent practice – yet a society which practices this mass form of sexual repression and violence receives no censure internationally.

 

Here's another lovely hispanic model by the name of Steena Hernandez I came across recently. She originates from Odessa, Texas and is currently residing in New York. Her resume includes everything from modeling, commercials, print to stage plays! Click her images below to check out her personal website and show her some love.

 

Class Warfare: The Minimum Wage Goes Down
The GOP just shafted the working people of America. By rejecting an attempt to raise the minimum wage, the Republican-controlled Senate showed that it is far more interested in lining the pockets of its campaign contributors than – as Paul Krugman wrote in a New York Times op-ed on Monday – arriving at a "new New Deal" and working to "rebuild our middle class." The 52-46 vote was eight short of the 60 needed for approval. The measure drew the support of eight Republicans (four of them are up for re-election in the fall.) Click the image below to read more...

 

Secret Government or A Free Press?
France, Germany and courts in Japan could teach America a thing or two about one essential aspect of democracy: Their governments are more willing to make sure that journalists have the means to act as watchdogs on the people in power. Click the image below to read more...

 

America's Endless Race Wars And Massacres
Massacre is an acquired taste. The United States is arguably the only country on the planet whose national personality and self-image is rooted in centuries of unremitting expansion through race war punctuated by massacre. An excellent article, originally featured in the Black Commentator. Click the image below to read more...

 

The Deadliest War In The World
Simmering conflict in Congo has killed 4 million people since 1998, yet few choose to cover the story. See the forgotten nation...and what's needed to prevent the deaths of millions more. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

Thizz, Grills, The Town, Malcolm X and Da' Youth
I refuse to be a slave to pills, alcohol and the ghetto the government has created for me. I am no one's prostitute. I am somebody. I am strong. I am proud. That is the gift that Malcolm has left us - open it. An eye opening article, I came across recently, by César A. Cruz. Click the image below to read more about it and pass it on to your people...

 

Technology Created to Block Digital Video Cameras
Associate GIT Professor Gregory Abowd, who led the study, says the camera-neutralizing technology shows commercial promise in two principal fields—protecting areas against espionage photography and stopping video copying. A lot of people see this technology being used anytime police break out the riot gear or anytime the government wishes to keep it’s activities hidden from the prying eyes of the media. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

Check out this beautiful Vietnamese model by the name of Kathy. Originally from Guam, she currently resides in Florida and carries an impressive resume. She done everything from modeling, promotions, magazine covers, commercials, videos and voice overs! Make sure you click on her pics below to check out her personal website and show her some love.

 

Supreme Court Upholds No-Knock Police Search
The Supreme Court made it easier for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting, a sign of the court's new conservatism with Samuel Alito on board. The court, on a 5-4 vote, said judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announce their arrival. Click the image below to read more...

 

How Washington Created a New Enemy
Let’s see if we can find a lesson from history that may have prevented this: Funding and arming an oppressive, militaristic regime against what we consider to be the greater of 2 evils. This support of murderers and tyrants then leads to well entrenched anti-American sentiment in the country(region), and turns the country into a haven for terrorism fueled by unresolved economic and social desperation. Sound familiar anyone? Analysts say Washington has been playing with fire in Somalia, where its support for a warlord alliance has ended up boosting Islamic militias, which now hold the capital Mogadishu. Click the image below to read more...

 

African American Students See School As A Tough and Dangerous Place To Learn
Black and Hispanic students see school as a more rowdy, disrespectful and dangerous place than their white classmates do, a poll says. The findings suggest that many minority kids are struggling in the equivalent of a hostile work environment, according to Public Agenda, a nonpartisan opinion research group. Click the image below to read more...

 

African-American Voters Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List
The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad or lose your vote! Click the image below to read more about it...

 

A Father Speaks Out Against the Iraq War
"The Bush Administration lied about the war. They lied to my son. They lied about weapons of mass destruction. They lied about Iraq and September 11th. And they lie about other things." Imagine losing your child in a war based on lies and misinformation. This past Father's Day, Fernando Suarez del Solar remembered his son. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

Hip-Hop And Net Neutrality: Battle For The Internet
Unless the Senate steps in, the House's recent vote for the COPE Act marks the beginning of the end of the Internet as an engine of new competition, entrepreneurship and innovation. Click the image below to learn more about this issue...

 

Check out this beautiful sister by the name of Xaviera Sparks. She caught the modeling bug after attending many of her fathers photoshoots. Today, with a foundation of acting, singing, dancing and modeling under her belt, she still follows her passion for the art form and continues her pursuit of excellence in all forms of media. Make sure you click her images below to check out her personal website and show her some love.

 

25 Years After HIV/AIDS Epidemic Began, Infections May Reach 100 Million in Africa
No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history. Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair. Nice article, by Terry Leonard. Click the image below to read more...

 

Big Business...is the Real Power in the White House
In his very first months as president, Bush passed a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest 1% of Americans, a redistribution of money from poor to rich that will leave the most affluent a staggering $477bn better off over a 10-year period. That, rather than any religious crusade, has been the true hallmark of the Bush era. In every sphere it has been the wealthy, and particularly big business, who have been the true beneficiaries - and often architects - of Bush's policy. Click the image below to read more...

 

Fort Lewis Soldier Refuses To Go To Iraq
A lieutenant says he is going to refuse to go, saying it's an unjust war. Anti-war groups are rallying to his defense. Click the image below to read more...

 

Local Black Newspaper Asks the Question...Why Can't Blacks Work Together?
A local black newspaper, the Capital City Courier, has published a provocative cover story entitled Why Can't Blacks Work Together...that created a buzz throughout its central Illinois circulation area and is now rippling across the nation. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

Does Oprah Winfrey Have a Bias Against Black Men?
Dr. Boyce Watkins, author of What if George Bush were a Black Man? and recent guest on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch agrees with the rapper Ice Cube that Oprah Winfrey often discriminates against certain genres when it comes to having black men on her show. "Her show is catered to an audience that doesn't have much respect for black men, especially rappers like Ice Cube," says Watkins, who openly critiques Winfrey, Bob Johnson and Bill Cosby in his book. Click the image below to read more about it...

 

Vida Guerra Does Playboy
If you haven't heard the news flying around the bloggersphere recently regarding Vida Guerra, let me fill you in. Somehow a blogger(MannysBabes) got his hands on some of the pics that appears in the issue of Playboy, that features this hispanic...queen of booty...bombshell. Click on her pic below to check them out!

 

U.S. Moves in Secret to Squash Suit Against AT&T
A privacy-rights group reported recently, that the Bush administration is filing secret arguments with a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against AT&T over its alleged participation in the government's electronic surveillance program. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

US Government has Long History of Abusing Personal Information
President Bush has assured Americans that their government isn't spying on them, but history explains why many remain uneasy about this week's news that their phone records have been turned over to federal agents. The government has a long track record of abusing personal information that's gathered in the name of national security. From the Red Scare in the 1920s to illegal wiretaps during the Nixon era, Americans have struggled to find the right balance between individual rights and collective security. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Reports Said to Confirm Lawsuit Linking AT&T to Data Mining
It's not just phone calls, it's e-mail, too, according to a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of turning over vast amounts of domestic phone and Internet traffic to the National Security Agency. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public-interest "digital rights" group with headquarters in San Francisco, said a recent report in USA Today, on an alleged massive telephone-monitoring program appears to confirm allegations made in its lawsuit against AT&T. That class-action lawsuit, filed Jan. 31 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, alleges that the phone company lets the NSA scoop up voluminous phone and e-mail traffic at AT&T telecommunications centers. Click the image below to read more.

 

Scientists Call Diebold Security Flaw Worst Ever
Computer scientists say a security hole recently found in Diebold Election Systems' touch-screen voting machines is the "worst ever" in a voting system. Election officials from Iowa to Maryland have been rushing to limit the risk of vote fraud or disabled voting machines since the hole was reported recently. They also report that this hole, created for upgrades, could be exploited by someone(republicans) with nefarious plans. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

The Spies Who Shag Us
I know you're shocked – SHOCKED! – that George Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant. That's nothing. And it's not news...but this is: The snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration's Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization of the FBI – though it is better described as the creation of a private KGB. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Commission: North Carolina Should Pay Compensation for 1898 Racial Violence
A state-appointed commission is urging reparations for the 1898 racial violence that killed 2,000 black residents. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Although you may have seen her hitting up the runways modeling the hottest designer clothes and in some of your favorite music videos, Mercedes Padilla who was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, is not just a pretty face. The talented young lady is currently pursuing her career in the entertainment industry while attending school full time where she is majoring in Business Management. Her love for music has and still is taking her places she has only imagined. Click her pics below to check out her personal website and show her some love.

 

From Civil Rights to Silver Rights
Jackson, Mississippi entrepreneur, business consultant and author offers insight, analysis and solutions for African Americans to create a legacy of wealth.

Today’s African American leaders occasionally motivate and instigate, but few have the foresight of author and entrepreneur, James Covington. He uses his experience as the CEO of two successful Internet businesses and the president of an information and technology consulting firm to bring wealth building strategies to the African American community in his book, “From Civil Rights to Silver Rights.”

Covington challenges African Americans to embrace Silver Rights (wealth creation) as the dominant issue of the 21st Century and not Civil Rights. He calls on Black leaders, particularly in business and politics, to embrace wealth creation as the focus of a new movement for African Americans.

“From Civil Rights to Silver Rights” highlights the challenges and accomplishments of the 19th and 20th Century trailblazers. Covington reminds readers of the painful cost of slave labor with hopes of motivating a new era of torchbearers to seek wealth creation with the same passion and vigor that their ancestors embraced in their fight for freedom.

“From Civil Rights to Silver Rights” acknowledges the contributions that civil rights leaders have made during the last decades of the 20th Century. However, Covington is calling for new, effective leadership to engage this new struggle for wealth.

“From Civil Rights to Silver Rights” offers tangible solutions. Covington’s Circle of Wealth principle encompasses seven players who must drive the process of wealth creation in the African American community. The book introduces readers to a unique business organization with the power to create a new African American business class and perhaps a new generation of millionaires.

Former President Bill Clinton’s Agriculture Secretary, Mike Espy had this to say in the book’s foreword.

“In the most appropriate turn of a phrase, my longtime friend, James Covington, has rendered an invaluable service to the African American community, and as such, his book From Civil Rights to Silver Rights is a must read. To everyone concerned about generating wealth in the black community and arming the next generation with the tools necessary to create wealth and prosperity, this book should be on their reading list.”

“From Civil Rights to Silver Rights” is now available online. Click the image below to purchase your copy today.

The Eternal Value of Privacy
Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying. Let's put that spurious argument out to pasture once and for all. Interesting commentary by Bruce Schneier. Click the image below to read more.

 

The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool
A little-known California firm called Narus makes the deep packet-inspection technology said to be the basis of the NSA's internet surveillance. Click the image below to read how it works.

 

AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence
Former technician Mark Klein gives a firsthand account of finding a secret room routing U.S. internet traffic straight to the NSA -- along with documents he says prove his case. Another bomb dropped on Bush's secret spying program. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Iraq is Disintegrating as Ethnic Cleansing Takes Hold
Across central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale. Interesting story by Patrick Cockburn in Khanaqin, Iraq. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Sky Spies Watch Us from Space
Combining and analyzing aerial imagery from satellite photos, a little known Defense Department agency provides info on nuclear sites, terror camps, troop movements and natural disasters. It spends more time these days watching U.S. soil. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Rice & Rumsfeld Block Access to Secret Detainees
The United States has again refused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) access to terrorism suspects held in secret detention centers, the humanitarian agency said recently. The statement was issued after talks in Washington between ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger and senior officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Feast your eyes on this lovely model by the name of Jennifer Pierre. This lovely sister has been doing her thing on the net for a minute now. Her experience encompasses everything from film, music videos to commercials and modeling. Click her images below to check out her personal website and show her some love.

 

NSA Killed System That Sifted Phone Data Legally
The National Security Agency developed a pilot program in the late 1990s that would have enabled it to gather and analyze massive amounts of communications data without running afoul of privacy laws. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, it shelved the project -- not because it failed to work -- but because of bureaucratic infighting and a sudden White House expansion of the agency's surveillance powers, according to several intelligence officials. Click the image below to read more.

 

Protesters Arrested at Halliburton Meeting
At a recent Halliburton shareholders meeting...100 people turned out to protest and sixteen paid for it with their arrest. Inside, the company beat off an internal effort by shareholders to hold its behavior to human rights standards and reported record earnings. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

U.S. Military Loses Guns & Prisoners
The U.S. government has lost track of over 200,000 machine guns that were supposed to be used by the Iraqi police. The 99-ton cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a U.S. base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have vanished. This, along with the escape of five Iraqi inmates from a newly-built high security prison should be raising new questions about the competence of the U.S. occupation. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

FBI Said to Seek Phone Records of Reporters
On an evening when every politician in the Washington was trooping in front of the television cameras to add their commentary to the slurry of blather that is the immigration "debate," and most Washington reporters were trying to figure out whether White House political czar Karl Rove will be indicted this week, little attention went to what could turn out to be the most significant story of the day. But as journalists wake up to the fact that they have apparently become the latest targets of the Bush-Cheney administration's abusive eavesdropping, that should change. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Pentagon Report Said to Find Killing of Iraqi Civilians Deliberate
A Pentagon report on an incident in which U.S. Marines shot and killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians last November will show that those killings were deliberate and worse than initially reported, a Pennsylvania congressman said recently. An interesting, but not surprising story. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Here's another exotic model we'd like to introduce to you by the name of Lora Vang. She claims her nationality as Hmong. Like a lot of beautiful, Asian models...Lora's career started on the Import Tuner scene. Click her images below to check out her personal website and show her some love.

 

The Perfect Bushman
General Michael C. Hayden is the perfect Bush nominee. He doesn't know the Constitution. Especially as it applies to his job. He loudly proclaims that he and his department know it better than most. He blithely breaks the law. When he's asked a difficult question, he simply ignores it. Most important, the media, led by the New York Times, gives him a pass on all of that. Great article by Larry Beinhart, so click on the image below to read more.

 

Secret CIA Prisons Exposed
CIA officers soon learned one thing for sure—prisoners sent to Bright Light and [other CIA secret prisons] . . . were probably never going to be released. "The word is that once you get sent to Bright Light, you never come back," said the CIA's Counterterrorism Center veteran. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

NSA Stymies Justice Dept. Spying Probe
The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. OPR counsel H. Marshall Jarrett recently submitted in a letter, which was shared with the The Associated Press, "We have been unable to make any meaningful progress in our investigation because OPR has been denied security clearances for access to information about the NSA program,". Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Keeping tabs on SOCOM
Special Operations Command(SOCOM) is the branch of the U.S. military concerned with aspects of modern warfare that occur away from the public eye, underneath the radar of other states and the mainstream media. It has, unsurprisingly, benefited massively from the War on Terror and Iraq. In January 2005, it emerged that underneath SOCOM, Rumsfeld had established an organization known as the "Strategic Support Group." Since then, information on the SSB, SOCOM and its relationship to other government bodies has been sparse. Reports have detailed the growing role of Special Operations Command worldwide, but what are they doing? An interesting article I came across recently. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

Supreme Court Officially Emasculates Taxpayers
In a unanimous decision recently, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a lower court ruling that would have invalidated massive taxpayer giveaways to Corporate America. The Supreme Court has long been the victim of a hostile takeover by Big Money interests. It is a court now headed by a corporate lawyer that has repeatedly gone out of its way to protect Corporate America's ability to bleed the middle class dry. This recent ruling is particularly egregious. Not only did the court strike down an important ruling, but it essentially emasculated taxpayers' ability to bring any such lawsuits against their own government in the future. How's that for democracy. Click the image below to read more about it.

 

The Venus Revolution Project
The legendary Hottentot Venus was Saartjie Baartman from South Africa. In the year 1810, upon seeing her enormous buttocks, an Englishman convinced her that she could make a fortune if she visited Europe and exhibited herself. Saartjie traveled through England and France where she was exhibited under the description, 'La Vénus Hottentote‘. The image and story of "The Hottentot Venus" swept through European pop culture for many years. While Saartjie Baartman became an icon that forever changed Europe; she also became the subject of many degrading scientific and medical experiments that formed the bedrock of European myths about black women that exist even now.

Make sure you check out this interesting project I came across recently. Damn...you truly learn something new every day. Click the image below to check it out.

 

Check out this beautiful senorita by the name of Bernadette Valez. Born in New Mexico, she now makes her home in Lubbock, Texas. Bernadette's eager to expand her modeling into more casual and editorial assignments as well as film and television. Her lingerie, swimwear, and fitness images portray a girl with an extremely athletic and fit body, but with a very appealing feminine and exquisite presence. Click her images below to visit her personal website and show her some love.

 

     

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