The Guardian-The UN security council voted unanimously today to approve an additional force of 3,500 police and soldiers for earthquake-devastated Haiti, amid rising concern over outbreaks of looting by desperate survivors and the re-emergence of notorious gang leaders who escaped when the country's prisons collapsed. The extra security forces will bolster the UN stabilisation force of some 7,000 troops who are already in the country. The vote came as relief efforts turned from the search for survivors buried under the rubble to the delivery of much needed food, water, shelter and medical assistance to some 250,000 Haitians in most need, many of them living on the streets ,who have seen little or no aid a week after the catastrophe.• 3,500 more police and soldiers approved, Pressure mounts to distribute food and water
Controversial talk duo's "accidental" racial slur. Mike Greenberg of The Mike and Mike in The Morning Show called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a coon. The firestorm has generated YouTube buzz and the host released a public statement apologizing for his discretion.
I just came home from the Knicks game and found out about the mess that was created by my garbling a sentence on our show this morning; I apologize for not addressing it sooner.
And I'm sorry that my talking too fast - and slurring my words - might have given people who don't know our show the wrong impression about us, and about me.
I feel horrible about that, because nothing could be further away from who I am and what our show is about.
I would never say anything like that, not in public, or in private, or in the silence of my own mind, and neither would anyone associated with our show, and I'm very sorry that my stumble this morning gave so many people the opposite impression.
The video appears on YouTube.
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thedailybeast.com: In an exclusive email to The Daily Beast, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who was exiled to France in 1986, offered quake victims comfort and an $8 million pledge of support. Duvalier’s dramatic departure to France was celebrated all around Haiti, and was seen as the closure of a dark period of terror that began under “Baby Doc’s” father, Francois Duvalier, known as “Papa Doc.” The transition to democracy after his departure has been rough. Reclusive former Haitian ruler Jean-Claude Duvalier has lived in France since he fled his homeland nearly a quarter-century ago. But Duvalier, famously known as “Baby Doc,” emerged from the shadows via email late Friday night. In an exclusive email to The Daily Beast’s Eric Pape, Duvalier offered comforting words in the aftermath of the earthquake that leveled the country he once led, lauding the international “wave of solidarity,” and asking Swiss authorities to direct $8 million to emergency relief efforts.
AlJazeeraEnglish : One year after his inauguration, Obama still draws plenty of strength from America's black community, which invested high expectations in his candidacy from the start. But polls show white approval of his presidential performance has faded. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman looks into the status of race relations in the US in the first of a series of reports on the first 12 months of Obama's historic presidency from inside America and around the world. 18 Jan 10
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, this young man who envisioned millions to believe in change. A change that demanded all Americans are to be treated equal in the racially segregated South. A man who would be celebrated across the country on this third Monday, a leader to envision Civil Rights for all Americans. If Dr. King was still alive, he would have celebrated his 81st birthday.
According to Wikipedia, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in January 1957, in the afterglow of the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory and consultations with Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, and others, Dr King invited some 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. Their goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. In addition to Rustin and Baker, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth of Birmingham, Rev Joseph Lowery of Mobile, Rev Ralph Abernathy of Montgomery, Rev C.K. Steele of Tallahassee, all played key roles in this meeting.
Today, the SCLC still holds true to these standards, combat discrimination, focus primarily on education, voter registration, and support for local struggles.
As we celebrate the birthday of Dr. King, I want to remind those who are reading that King was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-Americancivil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.
Before Anthony Sowell, there's a little known serial killer named Larry Bright who stalked and killed Black women in Peoria, IL, between 2001 and 2006. Like the Sowell murders, this one had been under the radar of media and police as well.
Serial Killer Larry Bright : Investigation Discovery: "Peoria, Illinois serial killer Larry Bright, 38-years-old at the time of his arrest, was a momma's boy. He liked to watch the news with her nearly every day, and even though he became excited when the news of one of his kills was splashed across the television screen, he became nervous that his mother might detect the thrill and exhilaration that he always experienced during those mother and son moments."
Let's ignore the Rush Limbaughs of the world. By George Cook Letstalkhonestly.com
Let's stop giving hate mongers like Rush Limbaugh's and Pat Robertson the one thing they crave. Attention!
This past week both Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh made hateful comments concerning the earthquake in Haiti. Comments that wont be reprinted here because of their despicable nature.
It's time that the media and especially bloggers turn a deaf ear toward the hateful speech of people like Rush Limbaugh. He thrives on not only the hate that he spews but the firestorm it creates. He loves when bloggers jump on his comments and reprint them for millions more to see, watch, or read.
We have to realize that in our anger when we repost his comments we are only further spreading them to the masses. Sad as it may be every time he says something hateful and it's blown up online his audience actually grows not decreases.
Some of this may just be curious people trying to see if this type of hate is actually on the radio but then there are others who love the message and have found a messenger they were only vaguely familiar with.
Rush Limbaugh is a hate monger and it's time to just ignore him. He accused President Obama of using the earthquake to build bridges to the black community while never saying that he was using it to build his ratings and bring publicity to himself.
Let's al pretend he doesn't exist when he spews his hate. Let's let him be in that dark part of the world he chooses to dwell in alone. Let's focus on the positive out thee and the people who are really trying to change the United States and the world for the better.
There's a major earthquake in Haiti yesterday. Devastating loss of lives and property in Western Hemisphere's most impoverish nation. They need our prayers and assistance. Here are severallinks:
The Guardian-The UN security council voted unanimously today to approve an additional force of 3,500 police and soldiers for earthquake-devastated Haiti, amid rising concern over outbreaks of looting by desperate survivors and the re-emergence of notorious gang leaders who escaped when the country's prisons collapsed. The extra security forces will bolster the UN stabilisation force of some 7,000 troops who are already in the country. The vote came as relief efforts turned from the search for survivors buried under the rubble to the delivery of much needed food, water, shelter and medical assistance to some 250,000 Haitians in most need, many of them living on the streets ,who have seen little or no aid a week after the catastrophe.• 3,500 more police and soldiers approved, Pressure mounts to distribute food and water
