Soldier4Love In The Black Diaspora: Fw: Daily digest for February 16, 2011

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NEW YORK (AP) Somali pirate who attacked US-flagged ship in 2009 is sentenced to over 33 years in prison

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Malcolm X on the Assasination of Lumumba in the Congo

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Malcolm X points to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in Africa by Moise Tshombe (with the help of the CIA) as a clear example of post-Colonial foreign interference. Lumumba was the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Ten weeks later, Lumumba's government was deposed in a coup. He was subsequently imprisoned and murdered, with clear signs pointing to the support and complicity of both Belgium and the United States.

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Official: Veteran diplomat to be U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Pakistan

Amy Cox | February 15, 2011 at 10:48 am | Categories: Pakistan | URL: http://wp.me/pH2GF-2wI
Former ambassador Marc Grossman will be named this week to replace the late Richard Holbrooke as the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior Obama administration official said.

The official was not authorized to speak on the record about who would assume the position as the Obama administration's point man in the volatile region.

Grossman is currently vice chairman of the Cohen Group, a Washington-based consulting group headed by former U.S. defense secretary and senator William Cohen.

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Feds: Seven men charged with conspiring to supply Taliban

Amy Cox | February 15, 2011 at 10:46 am | Tags: CNN's Logan Burruss | Categories: Taliban | URL: http://wp.me/pH2GF-2wF
Seven men, including two Americans, have been charged for allegedly conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles and cocaine to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, according to a U.S. Justice Department statement released Monday. Read more of this post

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Please take action to beat back the polluter assault on our clean air standards.
The U.S. House of Representatives could start voting as early as today on polluter earmarks to gut critical funding for America's landmark clean air programs that save lives and grow our economy.

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Saved 160,000 lives in 2010 and has easily saved millions of lives over the last 40 years;

Provided $30 in total economic benefits for every $1 invested in pollution controls;

Decreased the level of airborne lead level 92% since 1980; and

Cut acid rain pollution by more than 63%.

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