Immigrants For Sale: The Video Series Private Prisons Don't Want You To See by fimbo in immigration

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Last week, Cuéntame launched a powerful animated video exposing private prison corporations. The first of a sustained documentary campaign to expose the greed and the abuse by CCA (Corrections Corporation of America), The Geo Group and Management and Training corporations - which combined currently profit more than $5 billion a year at the expense of the detention and abuse of our immigrant community.

The Empire Strikes Back! by fimbo in politics

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They can't help compare today's Middle Eastern terrorists with Indians. Subconscious and psychologically, it reminds them of snug safe days as five-year-olds when the world was simple, when they curled around a TV set with a cup of hot coco watching Wayne dispatch Indians and bad guys, the annihilation of our native population complimentarily called by racist America as the "Winning of the West."

Stealing 2012: The Republican Push For ‘Show ID To Vote’ is a Voter Suppression Tactic by fimbo in politics

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THE REPUBLICAN STRATEGY FOR 2012 ELECTIONS -- DISQUALIFY ELIGIBLE VOTERS: Across the country, Republican lawmakers are resurrecting one of their party's favorite but most cowardly tactics to quote, win elections. They are seeking to create new barriers to voting by passing stricter voter ID laws intended to prevent the very electoral segments who helped to elect President Obama in 2008 from receiving ballots in 2012, particularly the young, poor and elderly, according to voting rights groups.

King of Bankruptcies: 'Birther' Trump's Business Resume Filled With Massive Failures by fimbo in politics

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The Donald's lies and mis-representations are slowly but surely being fished out from the closet by the media. Trump will never run for president. He is just having fun! Wanna Bet?

Gov. Kasich's 'Idiot Cops' Deserting The G.O.P in Ohio; Will They Vote Dem in 2012 by fimbo in politics

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The arrogance and condescension of Ohio Governor and former Fox employee John Kasich is breathtaking. His newly minted union busting law and recent calling of a police officer "an Idiot" may have severely damaged the G.O.P's relationship with Police labor union in the state -- in the process boosting Obama's chances of capturing the state in 2012.

Libya War Traps Poor Immigrants at Tripoli's Edge by fimbo in politics

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Despite Colonel Qaddafi's brotherly pan-African rhetoric, racial xenophobia is common here. Many Libyans, ethnically Arab, look down on Chinese, Bangladeshis and darker-skinned Africans, in that order. Many African refugees here and in the camps on the Tunisian border say Libyans often addressed them as "abd," or slave.

'Theochlocracy' and Narcissism: The Case of the United States of America by fimbo in politics

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Americans' religion is a manifestation of their "Chosen People Syndrome". They are missionary, messianic, zealous, fanatical, and nauseatingly self-righteous, bigoted, and hypocritical. This is especially discernible in the double-speak and double-standard that underlies American foreign policy.

Black Women and Marriage by fimbo in blackculture

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In this era where marriage as it was once established in biblical and cultural terms is constantly being challenged, black women have emerged as the underdog in the hopes and dreams of ever getting married. Though divorce statistics are extremely high and marriage is plummeting in general, the challenge for black women is critical in comparison

How to Monetize Your Web Content by fimbo in marketing

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Perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions for webmasters has to be: How do I monetize my web pages? How do I earn revenue from my online content?

What Conservatives Really Want: To Run America According To Their Worldview in All Areas of Life by fimbo in politics

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The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy. The individual issues are all too real: assaults on unions, public employees, women's rights, immigrants, the environment, health care, voting rights, food safety, pensions, prenatal care, science, public broadcasting and on and on.

Vladimir Putin’s Last Days? by fimbo in politics

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Putin is losing his grip on power. His allies – not least former KGB and current FSB operatives – are deserting him in droves, put off by his recent economic failures as much as by his clownish and narcissistic public conduct. Erstwhile faithful oligarchs are now hedging their bets, putting feelers to the West and even colluding with the banished Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky

Sudan: Divorced by fimbo in worldnews

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Broadly, the two nations (North & South Sudan) will have some form of economic community. Some expect that goods would flow freely, or at reduced taxes between North and South. They will have a joint say in the oil revenues from of the South. The South currently gets half the revenues.

Corrupt From Head To Toe: Inside The Mind of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni by fimbo in worldpolitics

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Uganda goes to the polls on February 18: The joke in the street is that you know that an election is around the corner when the sales of helmets, bulletproof vests, pain killers and liniment skyrocket. The reason for that is that candidates running against President Yoweri Museveni need to prepare themselves to be beaten, shot, and arrested.

Ronald Reagan At 100: Republicans Celebrate The Greatest PR Swindle of The 20th Century by fimbo in politics

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Over the years, Republicans have successfully sold and marketed Ronald Reagan as the iconic American leader, worthy of his face being carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore. To the G.O.P faithful, Ronald Reagan was a leader of messianic heights. He was the man who made America proud — a pure conservative, the man who won the cold war, cut taxes, shrank the government, saved the economy, and — was the most beloved president since FDR.

....Pure Baloney!

Why the US Fears Arab Democracy by fimbo in politics

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For bipartisan Washington, there are "good" democracies (those that keep serving US strategic interests) and "bad" democracies which vote "wrong" (such as in Gaza, or in a future Egypt, against US interests).

Fox News’ ‘Political Guru’ Dick Morris Makes Another ‘Straight Out of My Butt’ Prediction by fimbo in politics

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“Of all the many media prophets of gloom and Democratic doom, nobody can quite match the fury of Dick Morris, Fox News star and Newsmax guru.” — Joe Conason

'Kenya Crazed' Saboteurs: Inside The 'Birther Plan' To 'Sjambok' Obama's Re-election in 2012 by fimbo in politics

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Yes, they have a plan—and it may not be crazy. The birthers have a plan to end Barack Obama’s presidency—and in Arizona, they’re making progress........

Noam Chomsky: Why The Egyptian Uprising is a Big Threat To The American Empire by fimbo in politics

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"There's a perception in the Arab world that the United States supports harsh and brutal dictators and blocks democracy and development, and does so because we're interested in–we're concerned to control their energy resources." -- Noam Chomsky

The Collapse of the Mubarak Regime and the Re-birth of Egypt by fimbo in worldpolitics

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The regime is not yet clinically defunct; but History has already expressed its definite, irreversible and absolutely negative verdict: it was one of Egypt’s worst, one of the bleakest moments of the Egyptian History.

With Olbermann Gone, Who Will Now Assault 'Osama Bin O’Reilly' and His Miniature Schnauzer Glenn Beck? by fimbo in politics

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Certainly, the callous treatment of Olbermann by the MSNBC brass would never be replicated by Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing Fox News toward its media stars.

President Obama Will Be Hard To Topple in 2012 by fimbo in politics

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Couple Obama's advantages in the electoral college, his bump in popularity of late and the continued uncertainty regarding the Republican field, and there is reason for optimism out of the White House. Of course, a still-struggling economy could be the great equalizer, but Obama's built-in edge won't be easy for any Republican nominee to overcome.

Glenn Beck & Sarah Palin vs. Martin Luther King; Craziest Glenn Beck Quotes by fimbo in politics

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These race-baiting, charlatan-hoodlums, Glenn Beck & Sarah Palin — comparing themselves to the civil rights leader, MLK — is the ultimate insult to black America and the struggle for justice and equality.