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What will be the outcome in Uganda? It's still too oily to tell.<br>
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Wikipaedia sez:<br>
<blockquote>Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile
soils, regular rainfall, <br>
and sizable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt. <br>
The country has largely untapped reserves of both crude oil and natural
gas.<br>
</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/14177583">http://www.economist.com/node/14177583</a><br>
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"What's good for the goosed is good for Uganda."<br>
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On 3/15/2012 4:57 AM, David Johnson wrote:
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:38 AM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [BA_Report] The KONY Scam / Farewell Kucinich /
Racist Empire / Obama Role Model? - BAR March 14</div>
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<h2 style="font-weight: normal;" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><b><a
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title="Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony "
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/social-media-scam-alert-top-ten-ways-tell-kony-phony"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/social-media-scam-alert-top-ten-ways-tell-kony-phony">Social
Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony </a></b></h2>
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<p><b>by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon<</b></p>
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mce_style="font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;">A week ago Invisible
Children released a video that was immediately picked up and promoted
by every corporate news and entertainment outlet till it went "viral".
Kony 2012 allegedly "promote awareness" of and contributes to the end
of child soldiering in Africa. But is that really what it's about? Is
it, like the old Save Darfur war dance, another propaganda campaign to
justify US intervention in Africa?</span> </div>
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href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-farewell-congressman-kucinich"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-farewell-congressman-kucinich">Freedom
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size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>b</b></font></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>y BAR editor and senior
columnist Margaret Kimberley</b></font></font></font></font></div>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Times"><font
size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">With the gerrymandered defeat
of Dennis Kucinich, the Congress has lost its last, best progressive.
"Called crazy or wacky, Kucinich is nothing more than what other
Democrats ought to be." Kucinich stood firm, when all in the
Progressive and Black Caucuses folded. "If there is no room for one,
not even </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>one</i></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"> true Democrat, then there should no longer
be any allegiance to that party."</font></font></font> </div>
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mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/us-empire%E2%80%99s-achilles-heel-its-barbaric-racism">The
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen
Ford</b></font></div>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">American racism will always
cripple its ability to occupy non-white countries, whose people the
U.S. fundamentally disrespects. "The United States cannot help but be a
serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those
who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist
nation." The latest atrocities in Afghanistan are just par for the
course.</font></font></div>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen
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<div style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">It has fallen mainly to
Republicans to challenge President Obama's military flaunting of both
U.S. and international law. A North Carolina congressman named Jones
has submitted a resolution that would hold Obama liable to impeachment
if he attacks Syria or any other country without an act of
authorization from Congress. It is an action that "should have emanated
from the Congressional Progressive and Black Caucuses, rather than the
Republican Right."</font></font></div>
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face="Times, Times New Roman"><font size="2"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, a heroine of the
whistleblower movement, tells her story in the book </font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>No Fear: A Whistleblowers Triumph Over
Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA</i></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif">. She is also an editor and columnist for
Black Agenda Report, and has graciously allowed us to serialize her
book. This is the latest installment.</font></font></font> </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>by Paul Street</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The last refuge of the Obama
apologist is to hold up the president and his family as role models for
Black America, especially Black youth. The reality is that Obama has "</font></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">put a technically black
presidential face on each of what the democratic socialist King called
'the triple evils that are interrelated'</font></font><sup><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/#sdendnote1sym" name="sdendnote1anc"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/#sdendnote1sym"><sup>i</sup></a></font></font></sup><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> - economic exploitation
(capitalism), racism." This alleged role model is better described as
"the latest and re-branded out-front Don Corleone for the biggest mob
outfit of all time - the white-owned and white-run American
State-Capitalist Empire."</font></font> </div>
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most intelligent of all peoples." Today's tests, championed by
corporations and the Obama administration, are designed to "prove that
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working-class kids - belong at the bottom." Occupy movement teachers
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president and first Black attorney general have so twisted the
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American citizens be indefinitely detained, they can also be
assassinated by their own government at the will and whim of their
President." Eric Holder's interpretation of the nation's basic law is
both sinister and incompetent. "Holder sounds a lot like former Bush
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Democratic Party, mainline civil rights organizations have "dropped the
ball" on affirmative action, said Donna Stern, of By Any Means
Necessary. "They are very much responsible, in terms of their
inactions, for the loss of rights that were gained during the civil
rights movement. Their deep ties to the Democratic Party" means not
talking about race, if they can avoid it," said Stern. Detroit-based By
Any Means Necessary mounted student demonstrations outside federal
district court in Cincinnati, where lawyers argued that referendums on
affirmative action be outlawed. "A white majority does not have the
right to vote up or down whether minorities have equal rights," said
Stern.</font></font></div>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">When the history books are
written, Obama is going to be known as the assassinations president,"
said Kevin Alexander Gray, the Columbia, South Carolina-based writer
and political activist. "Everything that he has done in regards to the
Constitution and transparency and protecting human rights and the due
process rights of all people, regardless of nationality, has been a
failure." Attorney General Eric Holder's narrow definition of "due
process" of law is really "the due process of the star chamber.
Traditional civil rights organizations have not moved to "checked"
Obama because "they are all in the tank for the administration," said
Gray.</font></font></div>
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1 General Strike</b></font></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">In an Open Letter to Occupy
Wall Street and the movement's supporters, OWS activist Dennis Trainor
called a proposed May 1 general strike "one of the biggest
opportunities to demonstrate our power, and that we have not gone
away." Organized labor cannot be expected to be central to the action,
because "the right to strike, for unions, has been all but taken away."
Rather, the strike would mobilize student and community groups in
targeted cities. Trainor's latest documentary, "Which Side Are You On?"
is scheduled for release at the end of April.</font></font></div>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
color="#4c1900"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Bring Me the Head of
Ed DeMarco!</b></font></font></div>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">President Obama must fire
Federal Housing Finance Agency acting director Ed DeMarco because he
"has flatly refused to do any kind of principal reduction for the
millions of 'underwater' homeowners that are suffering, that are
drowning in debt because of how the banks crashed the economy," said
Tracy Van Slyke, co-director of New Bottom Line. The coalition of
faith-based and community organizations demand a "minimum of $300
billion in principal reduction." Van Slyke claims New Bottom Line and
other Occupy Wall Street-related efforts have "moved the administration
far along from where they were. We have moved the dial."</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0.06in; margin-bottom: 0in;"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Scholar and activist Paul
Street finds it curious that at study of 68 most influential Wall
Street firms shows the fat cats giving Mitt Romney 12 times as much
money as Obama. "The real test will come when Obama and Romney go up
against each other," said Street, author of </font></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>The Empire's New Clothes:
Barack Obama and the Real World of Power</i></font></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">. He notes that Obama has held
a record 191 fundraisers in the last year. "It would be pretty ironic"
if Wall Street abandoned Obama, said Street, "because he has given them
everything they wanted."</font></font></div>
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March 23-25</b></font></font></div>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The United National Anti-War
Coalition's conference, in Stamford, Connecticut, "is THE antiwar
conference and, perhaps, the main conference on the left, this year,"
said UNAC spokesperson Joe Lombardo. The Obama administration plans new
aggressions, at home and abroad, which is why they are narrowing the
definition of "due process" of law. "What they're really doing," said
Lombardo, "is preparing for increased military and economic attacks,
and they don't want to see an opposition and a protest movement built
up." </font></font></div>
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