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China, Russia and the Veto Power – A Reminder of Fela’s Song “Beasts of No Nation”

China, Russia and the Veto Power – A Reminder of Fela’s Song “Beasts of No Nation”

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass China, Russia and the Veto Power – A Reminder of Fela’s song "Beasts of No Nation" Once again, I am baffle over the absurdity of the United Nations Security Council’s "power to veto", also referred to as the [Read More]

Protect the Internet from SOPA & PIPA

Protect the Internet from SOPA & PIPA

By: Charles S. Mombo #SeeMombo, #FlashMobB2C,@burnedbrass,@WWCLICK Help us stop Internet censorship legislation Today ChocolateCity.cc and all member of our affiliated network of websites owned & powered by our parent company WWClick.com, Inc. joins with other sites in [Read More]

Republican Presidential Hopeful Jon Huntsman says Donald Trump’s Talks Pure Bullshit

Republican Presidential Hopeful Jon Huntsman says Donald Trump’s Talks Pure Bullshit

Republican Presidential Hopeful Jon Huntsman says Donald Trump's Talks Pure Bullshit! While speaking with CNN’s Mary Snow, Republican presidential hopeful, Jon Huntsman, dismissed Donald Trump’s Republican Presidential candidate version of "The [Read More]

December 1 is World AIDS Day

December 1 is World AIDS Day

December 1 is World AIDS Day Since December 1, 1988, the first ever global health day, World AIDS Day, was held for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate those who have died of it. While [Read More]

Joe Sullivan – Life in Prison for 13-year-old Kinky Hair Colored Boy for allegedly raping a 72-year-old White Woman.

Joe Sullivan – Life in Prison for 13-year-old Kinky Hair Colored Boy for allegedly raping a 72-year-old White Woman.

By: Charles S. Mombo Joe Harris Sullivan, now 35-year-old, is still serving a life term for a non-homicide crime committed, since 13-year-old, for raping a 72-year-old elderly white woman. Image Source:Agence France-Presse/Getty Images What happened to a 72-year-old elderly [Read More]

The Republic of South Sudan becomes Africa’s 54th Country

The Republic of South Sudan becomes Africa’s 54th Country

By Charles S. Mombo Article Sponsored by SEO and Social Media Marketing Consultants Article Source: Alliance of Profession Africans Manute Bol, the late Southern Sudanese freedom fighter and former star of the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Today, Saturday, is the birth of [Read More]

Liberian Citizenship–Blacks Only Need Apply

Liberian Citizenship–Blacks Only Need Apply

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass, @charlessmombo #burnedbrass, #Liberia   Liberia’s Motto states, "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here". Having a land of their own was a dream come through for the ex-slaves coming from America. A country of their own was a [Read More]

By 1867 about 18,858 Blacks migrated to Liberia – what states did they come from?

By 1867 about 18,858 Blacks migrated to Liberia – what states did they come from?

By: Charles S. Mombo In the spring of 1880, a group of 150 African-Americans from Arkansas was living in temporary quarters at Mt. Olivet Baptist Chapel on 37th Street in New York before going to Liberia. Because the ACS had chartered the only ship that regularly went to [Read More]

Osama Bin Laden was not Geronimo

Osama Bin Laden was not Geronimo

Geronimo E-KIA – Osama Bin Laden an enemy killed in action!   Osama Bin Laden was not Geronimo Since President Barack Obama ordered the successful nail-biting “dead or alive” "surgical strike" on the highly fortified compound of Osama Bin [Read More]

Barack Obama’s other son – Mark Obama Ndesandjo

Barack Obama’s other son – Mark Obama Ndesandjo

Mark Obama Ndesandjo The mixed-race son of a brilliant but troubled Kenyan academic, Barack Obama Sr., and a white Jewish American woman, first came to America's attention after his emotionally wrenching book about his search for identity and self. Mark Obama Ndesandjo, [Read More]

Libya war financially deprived Liberia and Mali

Libya war financially deprived Liberia and Mali

By: Charles S. Mombo Source: Café Liberica #CafeLiberica, @CafeLiberica Operation Odyssey Dawn - US And Allied Forces Strike LibyaThe trigger down effect of the United States, UK, and France’s bombing of Libya and the freezing of billions of dollars of assets [Read More]

Sarah is begging for attention, should Michelle Oblige?

Sarah is begging for attention, should Michelle Oblige?

By: Charles S. Mombo Twitter: @charlessmombo The title of my article is so vague and nebulous that I feel the need to explain who Sarah and Michelle are. Michelle Robinson Obama, 46 year-old, is the wife of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and the [Read More]

The White House Summit on Community Colleges

The White House Summit on Community Colleges

With more than 250,000 students annually at nine colleges, spread throughout 36 cities in the greater Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the largest community college system in the United States. Today, October 5, 2010, the White House [Read More]

MaLinda Sapp, wife of Pastor Marvin Sapp died of colon cancer

MaLinda Sapp, wife of Pastor Marvin Sapp died of colon cancer

Pastor Marvin and MaLinda SappChocolate City wants to express its deepest condolence to the Sapp family for the passing of MaLinda Sapp. Sapp, 43 year-old was the wife of gospel singer Marvin Sapp. She died of colon cancer. Sapp was co-pastor along with her husband at the [Read More]

Denying Citizenship to Children Legally Born to Illegal Aliens

Denying Citizenship to Children Legally Born to Illegal Aliens

Arizona DemonstratorsHere We Go Again! If Arizona Republican Senator John Kyl and his fellow Republicans had their way, they would kick-out all Latinos including the legal ones out of Arizona. Yesterday, while appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" the Senator [Read More]

President Obama Fired Gen. McChrystal for Insubordination

President Obama Fired Gen. McChrystal for Insubordination

Firing a general for insubordination and disrespect to the Office of the President of the United States is nothing new in this country's history. On April 11, 1951, President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur of his duties as Allied Commander of United Nations [Read More]

Don’t blame Obama – National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional

Don’t blame Obama – National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional

By: Charles S. Mombo - National Day of Prayer is UnconstitutionalI can almost predict that on May 6, 2010, President Obama will not issue a proclamation for the National Day of Prayer; nor would he interrupt his busy schedule to meet with religious leaders to hold an event [Read More]

Michelle Obama and the short shorts debate

Michelle Obama and the short shorts debate

Mrs. Obama disembarking Air Force One after vacationing at the Grand Canyon - Photo Credit: APBIG DEAL! So what if she chooses to wears shorts or bare those firm and beautiful arms? While disembarking from Air Force One after vacationing at the Grand Canyon, Mrs. Obama was [Read More]

President Obama Approves $2B For Cash For Clunkers

President Obama Approves $2B For Cash For Clunkers

Source: WeBuyJunk President Barack Obama signed a bill that adds B into the Cash for Clunkers programToday, President Barack Obama signed a bill that added more money into the the Cash for Clunkers program. Late Thursday evening, in a rush to finish business before their [Read More]

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed to Supreme Court

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed to Supreme Court

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and President Barack ObamaJudge Sonia Sotomayor, 55 year-old, was confirmed today to the Supreme Court. Justice Sotomayor replaces Justice David Souter. SeeMombo.com Bookmark ChocolateCity.cc Hide Sites [Read More]

Supreme Court Agrees with New Haven White Firefighter

Supreme Court Agrees with New Haven White Firefighter

New Haven Firefighter Photo Source: Horace WilliamsThe U.S. Supreme Court made a decision on June 29, 2009 regarding the case of Ricci et al vs. Destefano et al.   Basically in 2003, 118 New Haven, Connecticut firefighters took examinations to qualify for promotion to [Read More]

Republicans Criticize Black Caucus over Cuba Visit

Republicans Criticize Black Caucus over Cuba Visit

Teodoro Obiang, the ruler of Equatorial Guinea and Africa's worst dictator was invited to Washington and met Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who called him a "good friend." Reps. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, and Frank Wolf, R-Virginia, two White Republican [Read More]

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment

Regional and state unemployment rates were nearly all higher in February. Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, while all 50 states and the District of Columbia had higher rates than a year earlier, the Bureau of [Read More]

Life Term for Rape – Cruel and Unusual for Joe Sullivan?

Life Term for Rape – Cruel and Unusual for Joe Sullivan?

Joe Harris Sullivan, now 35-year-old, is still serving a life term for a non-homicide crime committed, since 13-year-old, for raping a 72-year-old elderly white woman. Image Source:Agence France-Presse/Getty Images On May 4, 1989, someone robbed a 72-year-old White woman in [Read More]

3.4 million Stalking Victimization in the United States

3.4 million Stalking Victimization in the United States

According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) today, an estimated 3.4 million persons identified themselves as victims of stalking during a 12-month period in 2005 and 2006. About half of these victims [Read More]

CIA exchanges Viagra for information in Afghanistan

CIA exchanges Viagra for information in Afghanistan

ViagraThe Washington Post said it was one of a number of enticements being used. In one case, a 60-year-old warlord with four wives was given four pills and four days later detailed Taleban movements in return for more. "Whatever it takes to make friends and influence [Read More]

Congress reduced Obama’s Secretary of State salary

Congress reduced Obama’s Secretary of State salary

Hillary ClintonCongress voted Wednesday night to reduce the Secretary of State’s salary back to its pre-2007 level of $186,000 to conform to a clause in Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution which stipulates that a member of congress cannot be appointed to a [Read More]

Custom official arrested for harboring illegal alien

Custom official arrested for harboring illegal alien

Lorraine Henderson, Boston, Massachusetts-area port director Lorraine Henderson, Boston, Massachusetts-area port director for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was arrested today on suspicion of encouraging one of her cleaning ladies, an alleged illegal immigrant to [Read More]

Berlusconi – a history of controversial remarks

Berlusconi – a history of controversial remarks

Silvio Berluscon and Barack Obama - photo credit (Reuters )The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi is known for making controversial, irresponsible, dumb, insensitive, groundless, racist, stupid and uncouth remarks.  Premier Silvio Berlusconi has too often put [Read More]

Open Letter to Americans: Declaration of Economic Emergency

Open Letter to Americans: Declaration of Economic Emergency

Declaration of Economic Emergency to Prevent the Economic Implosion of the United States of America. By P. Nathaniel Boe, Esq. Mr. P. Natheniel Boe, Esq.Today, September 29, 2008, the Great United States of America is near a point of unprecedented Economic Implosion or [Read More]

Report: 2007 United States Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage

Report:  2007 United States Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage

Source: http://www.census.gov The U.S. Census Bureau held a news conference today, August 26, 2008, to release two reports: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007, containing findings from the Current Population Survey (CPS); and Income, [Read More]

Obama to bring down the wall for acceptance speech

Obama to bring down the wall for acceptance speech

DENVER – Breaking the mold of traditional political Conventions, the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today announced that Senator Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at Denver’s INVESCO Field at [Read More]

Rice: Israel undermines Palestinian state

Rice: Israel undermines Palestinian state

The persistent building of Jewish homes on disputed land by the Israel’s undermines the U.S.-backed attempt to write an Israeli-Palestinian peace draft this year and invites questions about Israel’s motives, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. Using [Read More]

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House

In his book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” Scott McClellan, who was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most [Read More]

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Singer Whitney Houston is dead at 48

Singer Whitney Houston is dead at 48

Singer Whitney Houston is dead at age 48 The legendary and gifted singer Whitney Houston has died at age 48. Houston [Read More]

30-years correspondence between Peyton Skipwith, a former slave to Liberia and his master, John Hartwell Cocke

30-years correspondence between Peyton Skipwith, a former slave to Liberia and his master, John Hartwell Cocke

By: Charles S. Mombo John Hartwell Cocke, a slave master, corresponded with Peyton Skipwith, a slave to in Liberia for [Read More]

President Obama’s Impressive “Accommodation”- Catholic Church Contraceptive Fiasco

President Obama’s Impressive “Accommodation”- Catholic Church Contraceptive Fiasco

By: Charles S. Mombo @burnedbrass   President Obama’s brilliant political move, which he called an [Read More]

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