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America’s heartland under water
Midwest flooding takes lives, tens of thousands homeless
(FinalCall.com) - Midwest floods are the latest weather phenomenon in a year that has already seen record tornadoes and heat waves. Though too early to predict, analysts say the cost of flood damage is likely to surpass the $21 billion losses of the Great Floods of 1993.  The Red Cross reported June 23 that for the second time in 125 years, the organization is out of money and using loans to cover its operations.
Another sign of America’s judgment
The scenes are poignant and the losses are startling, the early June floods that struck the Midwest could cost more than $20 billion in damages and a significant number of crops from the nation’s breadbasket have been lost.
Americans still not prepared for disasters
(FinalCall.com) - A tornado was the last thing residents of a Washington, D.C. suburb expected in May, but with today’s unpredictable weather, almost anything seems possible. Nisa Islam Muhammad, a Final Call staff writer, experienced the severe winds firsthand.
Iranian official: Any attack will trigger start of war
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran would consider any military action against its nuclear energy facilities as the beginning of a war, the country's top Revolutionary Guards commander said in remarks published Friday.  Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari's comments come as speculation of possible military action against Iran's nuclear energy facilities mounts.
Racial beating outside Boston
(FinalCall.com) - Seven Whites have been charged in the beating of a 17-year-old Black youth in the South Shore town of Marshfield, Mass., which is some 30 miles from the city of Boston.
Evictions, car seizures part of L.A. crackdown
LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was flanked by police Chief William Bratton and representatives from various local, state and federal agencies, when he unveiled a new gang and gun enforcement initiative aimed at stemming violence in the city.
Father Pfleger's return to St. Sabina
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - A wildly cheering crowd at St. Sabina Catholic church recently welcomed back Father Michael Pfleger. The activist Catholic priest, who was suspended over remarks made about the presidential run of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, returned to the pulpit of his south side parish after a near two-week suspension.
Man had son’s wife killed 'because she was Black'
ATLANTA - Theirs was a whirlwind relationship: The 18-year-old running his dad’s hotel in Kentucky and the 20-year-old Atlanta native hired as a clerk.  Two months after Ricky Rai started dating Sparkle Reid in October 1998, she was pregnant with their daughter, Analla, and in March 2000 they were wed.
NAACP: Halt youth life sentences in Mississippi
(FinalCall.com) - “While there is no doubt that everyone should be held responsible for their actions, a sentence which denies a child any opportunity for reform is simply unjust,” said John Payton, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
On the high wire of life, love sustains
MIAMI - At 12-years-old, Christopher Coupet is wheelchair-bound and has limited control over his body. He faces other challenges as well, but lack of a mother’s unconditional love is not one of them.
Activists protest Administration for Child Services
NEW YORK - The December 12th Movement International Secretariat, a Brooklyn-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and human rights groups used the backdrop of the United Nations Day of the African Child to charge the Administration for Child Services (ACS) with genocide against Black and Latino families.
U.S. failures in AIDS battle missing from conference
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - A three-day high-level AIDS conference offered the United States a chance to show off its international funding prowess against the pandemic, but failed to highlight the government’s failure to implement an effective strategy against the disease, said domestic AIDS groups.
Tobacco will kill 650 million smokers worldwide
UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - Of the more than 1.3 billion smokers alive today, about 650 million will eventually be killed by tobacco, according to a new UN report.  “Unlike most other causes of death, tobacco kills people during their most productive years,” added the 19-page study by the UN Ad Hoc Inter-Agency Task Force on Tobacco Control.
Prospect of Obama election buoys U.S. image
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - After a virtually relentless fall during the administration of President George W. Bush, Washington’s image abroad rebounded modestly in 2007, according to the latest edition of the annual Pew Global Attitudes Project.
High court ruling upholds rights of Gitmo detainees
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN - Rights groups are lauding the Supreme Court’s decision June 12 to reinstate the principle of habeas corpus for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Birth defects spike with U.S. use of 'special weaponry'
FALLUJAH, Iraq (IPS/GIN) - Babies born in Fallujah are showing deformities and falling ill on a scale never seen before, doctors and residents say.  The spike in deformities and deaths among children resulted after “special weaponry” was used in the two massive bombing campaigns in Fallujah in 2004.
Report: War crimes in Ethiopia intensify
UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - Ethiopia’s government and armed forces have intensified their use of violence since a battle last year against rebels in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Region, according to a new report.
African nations: Western polluters should pay
JOHANNESBURG (IPS/GIN) - The 12th African Ministerial Conference on Environment ended five days of deliberations with calls for developed world polluters to pay poor African countries for the devastating impact of global warming.
A swift kick in the bread basket
In the past America has been blessed with fertile soils and balanced weather patterns, not too hot, not too wet, not too dry, not too cold. However, agribusiness has raped America’s soil and the weather patterns are changing for the worst.
High AIDS rates force children to leave school
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (IPS/GIN) - Children who live in communities with an HIV prevalence rate of 10 percent or more obtain half a year of schooling less than children in other communities.
Media gives John McCain a free ride
John McCain gets so much fawning media coverage that it could fill a book. In fact, “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media,” analyzes the largely uncritical coverage.  “Over his career, McCain has compiled a record that is far more complex than his media image,” the authors write.
The worst is yet to come
by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
According to radio and television; and according to individual conversation; and according to conversation heard between government officials concerning their problem of trying to find a way to peace for their people, and a way to find stoppage of the fall of their money market and unemployment.
Thank you for supporting Lakotah sovereignty!
In a letter to FinalCall.com readers, Russell Means provides a brief update of events that have transpired since the December 17th, 2007 announcement of the formal and unilateral withdrawal of the members of the Lakotah indigenous nation from all agreements and treaties imposed by the United States Government on the Lakotah People.
America Kindles God's Anger, Wrath
by Minister Louis Farrakhan
Pastors today speak of the goodness of Jesus Christ, the mercy of Jesus Christ, the love of Jesus Christ, but they are a little slow in preaching the Wrath of God through Jesus Christ.
 


  
 

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Minister Louis Farrakhan
America Kindles God's Anger, Wrath
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A Vision for America
National News
America’s heartland under water
Americans still not prepared for disasters
Iranian official: Any attack will trigger start of war
World News
Tobacco will kill 650 million smokers worldwide
Prospect of Obama election buoys U.S. image
High court ruling upholds rights of Gitmo detainees
Perspectives
Another sign of America’s judgment
A swift kick in the bread basket
Media gives John McCain a free ride
Columns
The worst is yet to come
Feeding the mind on the wisdom of God
MXODUS Report—Sedona Retreat
Business & Money
Another triumph for anti-payday loans forces
The First Step of Making Good
Your Time is Priceless
Entertainment News
Ex-child soldier raps message of peace
The Queen of Soul comes home to Motown
The Exploitation and Racial Politics of Black Music
Health & Fitness
High AIDS rates force children to leave school
The Food and Its Eater
The benefits of fruit
Modern Technology
Tips for healthy computing
Web connects Black college students, alumni
Reforming universities is key to technology transfer
Features
FCN Special - New Orleans: a city still in need of repair, a people still in great despair
The hidden story in New Orleans
The Peace Mission to Africa & The Middle East
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Farrakhan: "Necesitamos un cambio de régimen en EEUU"
Millóns Más en Los Ángeles
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