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Genocide Continues in Sudan


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Sudan's president, Gen. Omar al-Bashir -- an indicted war criminal -- is now ferociously targeting the 1 million Nuba and various other peoples to ensure that oil-rich Southern Kordofan remains under Khartoum's control.
Though this area sided with South Sudan in the civil war that raged from 1983-2005, the state of Southern Kordofan was, under the terms of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005, left behind when the South seceded last month.
Ever since Bashir seized power in a 1989 military
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Most people know now that Rupert Murdoch presides over the News Corp media empire, and that he is fighting for his reputation after being forced to sink his scandal-laiden British newspaper News of the World, the most widely read English tabloid in the world. But few people know that Murdoch also owns Zondervan, the world's largest publisher of Bibles. For 23 years, the News Corp family has included the leading seller of the best-selling book in history. 

 

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Canton Jones inks 6-figure music deal

Canton Jones partners with Vicki Mac Lataillade and Central South

Central South Distributors and Christian hip-hop artist, Canton Jones have entered into an exclusive licensing deal with his CAJO International label. The first product to come from this agreement is the just release Kingdom Business 3, which arrived in stores on August 31, 2010. “I’ve been in this business for 35-years, but I have seldom seen an artist with the talent, intelligence and versatility like Canton Jones,” says lege
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capt.photo_1275929110532-1-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=xfehe7CD.ydwvL7IRcp8lg--Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP Plc seeks to double the amount of oil it captures from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, while the U.S. Gulf Coast will be struggling with the environmental mess from the huge spill for years, the Coast Guard said on Monday.

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who leads the government's relief effort, said London-based BP hoped to collect 20,000 barrels (840,000 gallons/3.18 million liters) per day in its latest effort to contain the worst spill in U.S. history,

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Yo, I'm honored to announce DJ Sean Blu A.k.A The Six Million Dollar Man as the official DJ for the Oracle Magazine. Sean Blu is focused and seasoned DJ that has an impeccable talent that reaches the STREETS and CHURCHES alike.

DJ Sean Blu has been making noise since he was “knee high” – from plowing through his father’s record collection to drumming beats - he’s had a fever for music!

Mixing the flavor of DJ Chuck Chill Out, Marley Mal and the Control Show, Kiss FM, and DJ Red Alert, he has c
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FILE - In this April 16, 2009 file photo, a youth watches a crime scene from behind his home's fence after a man was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, MexicoAP – FILE - In this April 16, 2009 file photo, a youth watches a crime scene from behind his home's fence …

MEXICO CITY – After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.

Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked.

"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," K

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FILE - In this April 16, 2009 file photo, a youth watches a crime scene from behind his home's fence after a man was murdered in Ciudad Juarez, MexicoAP – FILE - In this April 16, 2009 file photo, a youth watches a crime scene from behind his home's fence …

MEXICO CITY – After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.

Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked.

"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," K

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Jan BrewerAP – FILE - In this Monday, April 20, 2009 file photo, Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer listens to a question …

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.

State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program te

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An FBI investigator searches a car at a service station in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, May 13, 2010, in connection with the investigation into the attAP – An FBI investigator searches a car at a service station in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, May 13, 2010, …
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An FBI investigator searches a car at a service station in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, May 13, 2010, in connection with the investigation into the attAP – An FBI investigator searches a car at a service station in Brookline, Mass., Thursday, May 13, 2010, …


WATERTOWN, Mass. – Three Pakistani men who authorities say supplied funds to Times Square car-bomb suspect Faisal Shahzadwere arrested Thursday in a series of raids across the Northeast as the FBI followed the money trail in the failed attack.

Investigators said it was not yet clear whether the three men knew how the money wa

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JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has bitterly criticized the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon as having "let us down," prompting outrage Wednesday in South Africa.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said she could not forgive him for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 alongside F.W. De Klerk, according to Tuesday's Evening Standard, a British newspaper. The white president released Mandela and went on to participate i

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