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POPSConservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor Go to clip source to see image. Late Update: An emailer points us to a picture of a Papua New Guinea tribesman wearing identical head-dress, feathers, and clothes to the man in the image forwarded by McKalip. So that suggests that McKalip's image was based on a Papua New Guinean, rather than an African. But it seems unlikely that McKalip himself was aware of this when he forwarded the email. It was he who first used the term "witch doctor" in our phone interview, and he didn't quibble with our suggestion that the image played on stereotypes of Africans.
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POPSComment Response to Glenn Beck's Verbal Attack On a 7-Year Old Girl 5. The only option for victims of white racism is not to flee from it, but turn on it until it is destroyed, no matter how long it takes. I realize that is not an option that pigs lke Beck are willing to entertain, but that's his problem. What Beck Said: BECK: She has told the Westchester Journal News that "white people are devils. And should be gone. We should be away from those devils and we should still be in Africa." I will gladly send you a ticket. You want to go to Africa? I will personally purchase your airfare. I'll do it. It's one-way. You have to sign a contract that you will never return to the United States. Of course, if you go there, remember -- I mean, they seem to be having a problem with the bird flu.
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POPSDon't Worry Be Happy if you are a communist in ZAF
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is often seen wearing a Mao cap and is known for breaking out into his favorite tune: "My mother was a kitchen girl, my father was a garden boy. That's why I am a communist." But his new wheels have soured his relationship with his close ally COSATU, the country's largest labor organization. COSATU has asked ministers to return their costly cars and instead opt for cheaper ones favored by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who bought two cars for the same price as Nzimande's one. "Nzimande was the one least likely to go on a profligate expedition ... when the (SACP) often rails against the excesses of unchecked capitalism," said a Wednesday editorial in Johannesburg's daily newspaper The Star. But the SACP has defended Nzimande, saying the German luxury sedan was bought on the recommendations of the police VIP protection unit. The rule book for ministers also allows for such purchases. over the limit....sorry not much more anyway.
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POPSPolio surge in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates more: But it is made from a live polio virus — albeit weakened — which carries a small risk of causing polio for every million or so doses given. In even rarer instances, the virus in the vaccine can mutate into a deadlier version that ignites new outbreaks. The vaccine used in the United States and other Western nations is given in shots, which use a killed virus that cannot cause polio. So when WHO officials discovered a polio outbreak in Nigeria was sparked by the polio vaccine itself, they assumed it would be easier to stop than a natural "wild" virus.
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POPSRacism quotes “I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.” Nelson Mandela quotes (South African Statesman First democratically elected State President of South Africa (1994), “A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.” A. Whitney Brown quotes “The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.” Pierre de Coubertin quotes (French Educato
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POPSTea Party Activist Uses Racist Picture of Obama Experience some of the tea party activists up close and personal as I have done and you won't be the least bit surprised that one prominent member of their "movement" fowarded this racist picture of President Obama. It was supposed to be "funny stuff." But pressed on what was funny about an image that plays on racist stereotypes about Africans, McKalip declined to say, instead offering to talk about why he opposes Obama's health-care proposals. "I have a busy day," he said eventually, before ending the call.
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POPSWhy Africa depends on handouts Western farm subsidies undercut African agriculture: Subsidized US-grown crops are sold in Africa at less than it cost to produce them, making Africa-grown crops impossible to sell, and driving African farmers out of business.
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POPSAfrican's must embrace Affirmative Action programs. "You need to increase white and minority participation. If your countries lag in pale faced immigrants, buy them! If you country cannot buy them...steal them! America is not ignoring you and we will help! Starting Monday, my administration will begin the first part of a process to export up to 12 million Mexicans from the United States to various parts of Africa." For those unfamiliar with the programm, Afirmative Action programs are in effect in America. The actual word was coined in 1965 by those people who make words like this before there are actual programs in place like this! Websters meaning of afirmative action means this...an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women; also: a similar effort to promote the rights or progress of other disadvantaged persons.
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POPSVirgin Islands researchers unveil slavery records In the photos: The Three Queens - leaders of the riot that helped end slavery in the Virgin Islands. The Three Queens of the Virgin Islands memorial commemorates three former slaves who led an 1878 revolt for improved working conditions. (Slavery had been abolished in the Danish West Indes in 1848.)
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POPSAfrica Vs. The Arab World ~ Anne Bayefsky, 07.12.09
Why does Obama treat the two so differently? http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/12/obama-africa-ghana-egypt-mubarak-opinions-contributors-anne-bayefsky.html Before the Muslim world Obama donned the role of apologist-in-chief. Over and over again his examples of shortfalls in the protection of rights and freedoms were American: the "prison at Guantanamo Bay," "rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation," impediments to the "choice" of Muslim women to shroud their bodies. Christian Africa was to be treated to no such self-flagellation. In a rare tongue-lashing for Africans from any American president, he chastised: "It's easy to point fingers and to pin the blame of these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict ... But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy ... or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants …
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POPSModern Know Nothing Loves to Hide His Hate Behind Front Organizations Seems he must have learned well from old time CIA and Communist methods of using reasonably sounding front organizations to gather up money and support for rabid anti-immigrant views and white supremacy beliefs. He even uses some fronts to advocate rigid immigration rule and help to convince West Africans to stay where they are. If it looks fair - sort of - but smells very conservative in some aspects - it might be a front for racists.
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POPSVote for one of the 5 questions below: With increased attention to African issues, and with that, (hopeful) increased funding, where does the accountability lie in terms of allocation and responsibility of funds? Do you believe that the targets will be met by the G7, if the targets are met by the G7, what should be the next step, if the targets are not met by the G7 then what? Why should we Africans expect Pres. Sarkorzy, Chancellor Merkel and PM Berlusconi to live up to their 2005 promises and Gleneagles commitments while many of our leaders are not living up to their promises to eliminate grand corruption nor are they meeting their commitments to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)?
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POPSBBC: " biggest toxic dumping scandal of the 21st century" The waste was generated as the result of an oil deal spanning three continents. Trafigura bought a consignment of cheap and dirty heavy oil with a high sulphur content. Instead of putting it through a refinery, Trafigura tried to clean it up, using a do-it-yourself method, so they could sell it on at a massive profit. They used a ship called the Probo Koala which they stationed off Gibraltar as a rough and ready refinery. Caustic soda and a catalyst were added to the oil which reacted with the sulphur and settled to the bottom of the tank. Trafigura were then able to sell the oil, but left with a toxic sludge at the bottom of the tank. The Probo Koala went to Amsterdam where they attempted to unload this sulphurous tar as if it were normal ships' waste, which would have cost a few thousand Euros. ... BBC
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POPSBBC: "Incredible Human Journey" One of the Very Best of TV this year A tiny tribe of about 200 crossed the Red Sea from Africa to Arabia during a 2,000 year window when the Sahara was greened and sea levels lower. Arabia's coast was an Eden then. From those 200, ALL Asians, Europeans, and other 'races' evolved, except Africans from whom we all evolved and human life began. The repeat is on Tue 12 May 2009 21:00 BBC HD. Part 2 is again next Sun 10 May 2009 21:30 BBC Two South Pacific was also very interesting. "The South Pacific islands are the most remote in the world. Their extraordinary isolation has created some of the most curious, surprising and precarious examples of life found anywhere on Earth; from giant crabs that tear open coconuts, to flesh-eating caterpillars that impale their prey on dagger-like claws"
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POPS1964: Malcolm X on Zionism 
"The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians. Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people. And the continued low standard of living in the Arab world has been skilfully used by the Zionist propagandists to make it appear to the Africans that the Arab leaders are not intellectually or technically qualified to lift the living standard of their people ... thus, indirectly "educing" Africans to turn away from the Arabs and towards the Israelis for teachers and technical assistance. "They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as f
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