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T.D. Jakes on Michael Brown: Racial Profiling Puts Black Men 'on the Endangered List'

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(PHOTO: REUTERS/LUCAS JACKSON) BY  STEPHANIE SAMUEL  , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER Protesters gesture as they stand in a street in defiance of a midnight curfew meant to stem ongoing demonstrations in reaction to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 17, 2014. The group of protesters angry at the shooting death of Brown, a black teenager, by a white police officer remained on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Sunday minutes past the declared curfew, as police began to clear the streets in a tense standoff. Texas Megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes blamed racial profiling for the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, saying America is far from being a post-racial society and that racial profiling is putting black men "on the endangered list," in a blog published on Huffington Post.com. In the essay posted Tuesday morning , Jakes wrote "We are a far cry from the post-racial, peace and love society envisioned by '60

Slave Trade

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Young boys wait to be loaded aboard a slave ship The labor-intensive agriculture of the New World demanded a large workforce. Crops such as sugar cane, tobacco and cotton required an unlimited and inexpensive supply of strong backs to assure timely production for the European market. Slaves from Africa offered the solution. The slave trade between Western Africa and the America's reached its peak in the mid-18th century when it is estimated that over 80,000 Africans annually crossed the Atlantic to spend the rest of their lives in chains. Of those who survived the voyage, the final destination of approximately 40% was the Caribbean Islands. Thirty-eight percent ended up in Brazil, 17% in Spanish America and 6% in the United States. It was a lucrative business. A slave purchased on the African coast for the equivalent of 14 English pounds in bartered goods in 1760 could sell for 45 pounds in the American market. A slave's journey to a life of servitude ofte

National Guard Arrives In Ferguson, But Clashes Continue

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Credit: www.newsnet5.com FERGUSON, Mo. -- Strict new protest rules and the presence of the National Guard in Ferguson didn’t prevent fresh clashes with police on Monday night, the ninth night of unrest since unarmed black teenager  Michael Brown was shot dead  by a white police officer on Aug. 9. Police fired several rounds of tear gas into the crowd after a small number of protesters reportedly threw bottles at the officers. Shots were fired, and the cops ordered everyone without media credentials to disperse, then evacuated the media center as well. "Air smells like gun powder,"  the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery tweeted . "Not like tear gas. Gun powder."   Read more >> Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/ferguson-protests_n_5689963.html?ref=topbar

Trayvon Martin’s Mom: ‘If They Refuse to Hear Us, We Will Make Them Feel Us’

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Sybrina Fulton of Miami, Fla., mother of Trayvon Martin, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Stand Your Ground" laws October 29, 2013 in Washington DC.Win McNamee—Getty Images SybrinaFulton is the mother of Trayvon Martin and the founder of the Trayvon Martin Foundation. In a letter to the family of Ferguson teen Michael Brown written exclusively for TIME, Fulton reflects on what the families now share. I wish I had a word of automatic comfort but I don’t. I wish I could say that it will be alright on a certain or specific day but I can’t. I wish that all of the pain that I have endured could possibly ease some of yours but it won’t. What I can do for you is what has been done for me: pray for you then share my continuing journey as you begin yours. I hate that you and your family must join this exclusive yet growing group of parents and relatives who have lost loved ones to senseless gun violence. Of particular concern is that so many

YouTube video purportedly captures witness backing police version in Ferguson shooting

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A purported conversation captured on a YouTube video apparently shot in the immediate aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown has a possible witness saying the unarmed 18-year-old charged at the officer who fired the shots that have led to more than a week of sometimes violent demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Amid angry condemnations of the police and pledges to move away from the mean streets of Ferguson, one man describes what he saw as he witnessed the shooting. He seems to describe how the 6 foot, 4 inch, 300-pound Brown tussled with Police Officer Darren Wilson and charged him, an account that may corroborate Wilson's story and cast doubt on claims of other purported witnesses who say Wilson shot Brown as he ran away, his hands in the air.   Read more >> Source:   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/18/youtube-video-captures-purported-witness-backing-police-version-in-ferguson/?intcmp=trending

U.S. Officials: No Evidence Of Direct Russian Link To Malaysia Plane Crash

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Credit: huffingtonpost.com By KEN DILANIAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia was responsible for "creating the conditions" that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but they offered no evidence of direct Russian government involvement. The intelligence officials were cautious in their assessment, noting that while the Russians have been arming separatists in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. had no direct evidence that the missile used to shoot down the passenger jet came from Russia. The officials briefed reporters Tuesday under ground rules that their names not be used in discussing intelligence related to last week's air disaster, which killed 298 people. The plane was likely shot down by an SA-11 surface-to-air missile fired by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the intelligence officials said, citing intercepts, satellite photos and social media postings by separatists, some o

The Ukraine Deception: US/EU-Directed Coup D’état Exposes Itself

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Credit: storyleak.com The Ukraine Deception: US/EU-Directed Coup D’état Exposes Itself by  Michael Thomas There’a an old adage that goes something like this: “The more guilty one is in the perpetration of a dastardly crime, the more likely they are to  accuse innocent parties  of the very same atrocity.”  There is no better example of this on the various geo-political battlefields dotting Planet Earth than the recent color revolution in the Ukraine.  A violent revolution which was directly overseen and coordinated by the US-EU espionage agencies. Their highly calculated and preplanned coup d’état orchestrated in Kiev is as transparent as the  audiotape of foul language  used by Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State, in her conversation with the US ambassador to the Ukraine. The various collaborators who participated in the execution of this coup d’état include all the usual susp

Ex-Malaysian prime minister speaks about missing airplane

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Credit: nydailynews.com Ex-Malaysian prime minister says CIA, Boeing 'hiding' missing airplane Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, made the dramatic claims on his personal blog. ‘The plane is somewhere,’ he said. ‘Someone is hiding something. It is not fair that MAS and Malaysia should take blame.’ So far, the White House and the State Department have not commented on the former pol’s accusations. A former Malaysian prime minister is accusing the CIA and Boeing of “hiding” what really happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. In a post on his personal blog Sunday, Mahathir Mohamad suggested the CIA remotely seized control of the Boeing 777 jet in midair and that a search for the aircraft in the Indian Ocean is a “waste of time.”   Read more >> Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/cia-boeing-hiding-missing-plane-pol-article-1.1798229

JESUIT ANTI-POPE CALLS ON THE WORLD GOVERNMENT TO DESTROY MIDDLE CLASS AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION

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Credit: theunhivedmind.com JESUIT ANTI-POPECALLS ON THE WORLD GOVERNMENT TO DESTROY MIDDLE CLASS AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION Pope Francis: UN should encourage ‘legitimate’ redistribution of wealth Published time: May 10, 2014 11:06 Get short URL http://rt.com/news/158088-pope-francis-un-redistribution/ Pope Francis has called on the UN to do more to help the poor and encourage the “legitimate redistribution” of wealth. “In the case of global political and economic organization, much more needs to be achieved, since an important part of humanity does not share in the benefits of progress and is in fact relegated to the status of second-class citizens,” Francis told Ban Ki-Moon on Friday. During his latest meeting with UN officials, the Pope said that despite the decrease in poverty, “the world’s peoples deserve and expect even greater results.” An awareness of everyone’s human dignity should encourage everyone “to share with complete freedom the goods which Go

Operation American Spring to hit D.C. to oust Obama

Operation American Spring to hit D.C. to oust Obama, Biden, Boehner, Holder A group of self-described revolutionary-style patriots with a million mobilized militia members are heading to downtown Washington, D.C., this week to bring a simple message to political leadership, from President Obama to House Speaker John Boehner: Get out. They’re called the Operation American Spring — and they’re vowing to oust the likes of Mr. Obama, Mr. Boehner, Attorney General Eric Holder, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Raw Story reported. “We are calling for [their] removal … as a start toward constitutional restoration,” said retired  Army Col. Harry Riley , the leader of the group, Raw Story reported. “They have all abandoned the U.S. Constitution, are unworthy to be retained in a position that calls for servant status.”   Read full story >> Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/ne

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki Subpoenaed Over Hospital Deaths

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Credit: toovia.com Eric Shinseki, VA Secretary House Veterans Affairs Committee says subpoena is only the second in committee history, as some call for resignation May 8, 2014 12:45PM ET A House committee voted Thursday to subpoena  Veterans Affairs  Secretary Eric Shinseki over perceived failings and delayed treatment at VA hospitals that may be linked to as many as 40 deaths. The subpoena, which Veteran Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., said was just the second in the history of the committee, is aimed at turning over correspondence between Shinseki and other VA officials since early April. Miller noted that previous attempts to extract information about waiting times for treatment at the Phoenix VA hospital had not received adequate response. Read More  >> Source: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/8/shinseki-subpoenava.html

White House: Americans 'literally destroying the Earth'

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Credit: wnd.com White House: Americans 'literally destroying the Earth' Congressman blasts Obama for 'global-warming alarmism' by: BOB UNRUH A  new report from the White House on Tuesday  explains how Americans “literally are destroying the Earth,” according to a critic, and lists threats ranging from longer growing seasons and carbon dioxide to rising ocean levels and less ice in the Arctic. Or is that more ice? Whatever. Because  meteorologist Brian Sussman, who authored “Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam,”  said the agenda, and the report, are not necessarily linked to reality. “Today the Obama administration released its gloom and doom National Climate Assessment. According to the 800-page report the carbon pollution created by Americans is literally destroying the Earth as we know it,” he said. But consider the source, he suggested. Strongly. “The assessment is being fronted by Obama’s handpicked

Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points

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credit: tweet buzz Judicial Watch: Benghazi Documents Point to White House on Misleading Talking Points (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that on April 18, 2014, it obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department documents . They include  a newly declassified email  showing then-White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes and other Obama administration public relations officials attempting to orchestrate a campaign to “reinforce” President Obama and to portray the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack as being “rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy.”  Other documents show that State Department officials initially described the incident as an “attack” and a possible kidnap attempt. The documents were released Friday as result of a June 21, 2013, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the Department of State ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State  (No. 1:13-cv-00951)) to gain access to documents a

Supreme Court green lights detention of Americans

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Credit: World Net Daily A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court means the federal government now has an open door to “detain as a threat to national security anyone viewed as a troublemaker,” critics of the high court’s ruling said. The high court by its own order this week refused to review  an appellate-level decision that says the president and U.S. military can arrest and indefinitely detain individuals. Officials with  William J. Olson, P.C.,  a firm that filed an amicus brief asking the court to step in, noted that not a single justice dissented from the denial of certiorari. “The court ducked, having no appetite to confront both political parties in order to protect the citizens from military detention,” the legal team told WND. “The government has won, creating a tragic moment for the people – and what will someday be viewed as an embarrassment for the court.” WND reported earlier when the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorizatio

Government policy to force strong readers in schools to learn phonics

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Government policy to force strong readers in schools to learn phonics is 'a form of abuse', claims leading educator Credit: The Independent Children who are fluent readers are being damaged by the Government’s insistence on using synthetic phonics in the classroom, a leading academic warns today. Dr Andrew Davis, from Durham University’s School of Education, argues that the insistence on being taught to read through phonics is tantamount to “a form of abuse”. In a pamphlet to be launched tomorrow night, he will claim rival camps in the debate over how to teach children to read are acting like “religious fundamentalists”. The evidence that phonics or any other prescriptive method for teaching children to read is fundamentally flawed, he says. Able readers, he argues, are likely to be put off by the Government’s requirement that they read books specially written only to feature words for which they have been taught through phonics in class - rather than a wide

Pentagon’s secret X-37B plane breaks space longevity record

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One of the US Air Force’s most mysterious projects – an unmanned space-faring plane – has broken its own longevity record by staying in orbit for more than 469 days. There aren’t many details floating around in public regarding the X-37B – a classified project that’s seen three launches into space thus far – but a new reportby the IDG News Service suggests the plane is being used to test out the Air Force’s new space capabilities while also boosting the intelligence community’s surveillance capacity. Launched back in December 2012, the Boeing-designed X-37B has been floating above the Earth ever since. The plane looks like a smaller cousin to NASA’s pastspace shuttle models, and has been designed with quick turn-around times in mind, so that it can easily be re-launched after landing. Although few people know exactly what the vehicle is intended for, astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told IDG it seems clear one of the big features is the plane’s ability to stay in spa

Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural rights Patriot Act

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Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms. Courtesy of www.CampaignForLiberty.com. Edited by FreeTheNation.com Source: Youtube

Dead Judges Don't Lie

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Credit: davidicke.com Dead Judges Don't Lie: Canada's Biggest Scandal There are nine dead judges connected to the Canadian water exports scandal - Canada's Biggest Scandal. Quote: Each of them committed crimes on the bench as part of the Canadian government strategy to destroy the whistle blower lawyer and the lady who was assisting him and each of them died after the lawyer and the lady turned the tables on them and started to publish their crimes. They started dying in January, 2006, and the latest died in January, 2010. Some dropped dead, suddenly, after their crimes were exposed, and others developed illnesses and died a few months later. The judges and their dates of death are: James Taylor, deceased, January 10, 2006; Sid Clark, sometime in 2007; Robert Edwards, November 5, 2007; Justice Antonio Lamer, November 24, 2007, Allan McEachern, January 5, 2008, Ralph Hutchinson, March 20, 2008, Hugh Stansfield May 7, 2009 David Vickers November 15,