Another Angle 18 - July - 2006

ANOTHER ANGLE
News others won't tell you



NATIONAL:



Blacks should avoid companies that ignore them, civil rights group says
"If corporations spend their money on us, we'll spend our money with those corporations, It's real simple", said Bruce S. Gordon, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.



'fat Nick' Is Sent To Batter's Box
Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci was sentenced by a Queens judge yesterday to 15 years in prison for yelling the n-word and then winding up and striking a black man in the head with a baseball bat.



US Charging Evacuees to Get Out of Lebanon




Juan Williams Confronts William Kristol: "You Just Want War, War, War, War, And You Want Us In More War"...
On Fox News Sunday, William Kristol argued that the Bush administration’s “coddling” of Iran had “invited” the latest outbreak of violence, and that the United States should join in the current fighting. Juan Williams pushed back:
You just want war, war, war, and you want us in more war. You wanted us in Iraq. Now you want us in Iran. Now you want us to get into the Middle East. … You’re saying, why doesn’t the United States take this hard, unforgiving line? Well, the hard and unforgiving line has been, we don’t talk to anybody. We don’t talk to Hamas. We don’t talk to Hezbollah. We’re not going to talk to Iran. Where has it gotten us, Bill?
Kristol threw up his hands and didn’t answer. Watch it:

Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’

VIDEO: Rice Calls Idea That Iraq War Contributed To Regional Instability ‘Grotesque’



Condi finally gets her talking points...



INTERNATIONAL:



It's war by any other name
To them, it is legitimate self-defense. They back this argument by saying that Israel still controls the Sheba Farms, which are part of Lebanon, and still has Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. Also, they add that the Israeli tank destroyed by Hezbollah, and the soldiers captured and killed on July 12, had trespassed into Lebanon's side of the border with Israel.
Russia May Send Navy Ships to Lebanon:Source



Video: Israel kills Lebanese soldiers
Nine Lebanese soldiers were killed when Israeli war planes attacked a Lebanese Army post. The Lebanese Army has made an effort to stay neutral during this conflict.



Israeli children sign their missiles ‘with love’
Never have I witnessed such an appalling display of utter contempt for human life. And they're not even ashamed to beam it across the globe, for all the world to see.



Taleban 'take south Afghan town'



AH-FREE- KA: Combating Whiteness in the Black Imagination: Empowering...
“Thanks to the march of globalisation, our national identity, religion and culture as well as the purity of the white races are threatened with extinction…Why are there so many Muslims in the UK? Why are there so many non-ethnic Russians in Russia? It is all part of a plot by the culturally and intellectually inferior Negroid races to subsume the white nationalities.”



Mandela Celebrates on Eve of 88th Birthday
It took Mandela several attempts to blow out all the candles on the large blue-and-white cake, decorated with strawberries, the highlight of a private party at his Nelson Mandela Foundation. Laughing and applauding, some staff members helped him finish the job.



That's a demonstration: 1.1+ million in Mexico City




IRAQ:



While we are looking at Lebanon...
At least 45 people were killed and 60 others wounded Tuesday morning when a suicide car bomber detonated in a busy Kufa marketplace where day laborers gather, Iraqi police said.



BUSH CRIME FAMILY:



Bush blocked taps probe personally
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has told a Senate hearing that President Bush blocked the Office of Professional Responsibility from investigating domestic eavesdropping programs.



ECONOMY:



Super scandal may be brewing
It's hard to believe, with Randy "Duke" Cunningham rotting in prison and cash bulging from a Democratic congressman's freezer, but a potentially more serious corruption scandal is quietly percolating in Washington. We're talking about the enormous risk to the world's financial system posed by the executives who run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, abetted by their minions in Congress.



FOOD&DRINK:



CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICHES WITH BLUE CHEESE
Using roast chicken from the grocery store makes this recipe super-easy.Improv: Add sweet and crunchy accents by mixing a few chopped toasted pecans and some dried cranberries into the chicken salad. Instead of rolls, use crusty French bread or thick slices of sourdough bread.



Embracing the Primordial Pull of the Grill
With the summer grilling season in high gear, here are a number of tips for successful cooking.



REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS:



Mary J. Blige Breaks Through on Tour
People are going to get a show, but as far as what my fans expect from me, that's singing the songs. You're experiencing Mary J. Blige's breakthrough as far as her career and her life.



HUMOR?:



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