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Michelle Obama On Sesame Street: Planting Gardens, Loving Vegetables (VIDEO)

Michelle Obama took her public policy message about food, growing gardens and eating... more

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Bill Yosses: White House Pastry Chef Reveals Obama And Baking Secrets (VIDEO)

Poor Bill Yosses. He's the White House pastry chef. He makes desserts for a living.... more

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Sesame Street: Michelle Obama celebrates show's 40th anniversary

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Michelle Obama makes room for classical music at the White House

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Michelle Obama Offers Tips from her Life, Covers Glamour Magazine [PIC]

The First Lady of being stylish, elegant, and fabulous, is the first ever First Lady... more

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First Lady Michelle Obama On The Jay Leno Show

Michelle Obama interviewed by Jay Leno for the 10@10 segment.

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Michelle Obama's video appealing to women on health care reform

Michelle Obama takes to the Internet to support her husbands proposed health care... more

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Secret Service determines South Carolina too hostile for First Lady visit?

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3BL Media CSR Minute: October 20, 2009

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Michelle Obama doll are latest Obama tie-in

A toy company is set to make a range of action dolls modelled on Michelle Obama.... more

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Michelle Obama Action Figure

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.A strange latest story in this world.Khalid Awan ,wrongly convicted in USA,A fabricated,false case.

I am grateful to Mr. Don Harkins the editor of THE IDAHO OBSERVER, (USA) and her associates Ms. Anne Wilder Chamberlain to help me prepare my story.

The following short note comes from them:-

KHALID
When we first began corresponding with Khalid Awan in 2007, we had no idea why he was serving time in U.S federal prison.We soon discovered Awan was one of the first of thousands of Muslims taken prisoner in the post-9/11 U.S "terror War". As the story began unfolding in our letters, we began to realize that this honest, humble and sincere man was not only innocent, but the ongoing injustice being done to him provides critical insight into the mindless, mean-spirited, bureaucratic-yes-men idiocy fueling the illegal U.S. "War on Terror" (and just about everything else that is going wrong in this country). At our insistence, Awan wrote his story and supplied us with whatever documents we requested. And now, after three months of cooperative efforts, the story of Khalid Awan can be told. We have come to know Awan as a peaceful man engaged in peaceful work, who has been wrongfully accused, detained and repeatedly convicted of crimes he did not commit because he was a Muslim with international connections and an office in New York on 9/11. Anyone who might of the Muslim belief, especially a person raised overseas who has difficulty understanding our language and our corrupt judicial system, can be arrested and detained indefinitely in this country, certainly without a trial before a jury of his peers. Khalid is one of these Muslims.

We present this to you in faith that you will realize a deeper understanding of the levels of complicity necessary for the "land of free" to tolerate the phony war on terror year after year and in hope that Awan --- and all the other million or more political prisoners being held by this country---will one day be reunited with their families.

(Thanks from the bottom of my heart to you, Mr. Don Harkin and Ms. Anne W. Chaimberlain for your devoted, caring attention in helping me expose my plight and injustices being suffered by myself and others. Your humanitarian devotion, on-going help and attitude truly an inspiration to me in my life!)

Khalid Qayyum Awan (From USA Federal Prison)

CONTACT OR MAILING ADDRESS IS GIVEN BELOW

Khalid Awan # 50959-054
USP Marion
P.O.BOX : 1000
Marion, IL 62959
USA
http://khalidawancanadian.today.com/
http://awankhalid.com/,I am grateful to Mr. Don Harkins the editor of THE IDAHO OBSERVER, (USA) and her... more

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Michelle Obama may have white slave-owner ancestor

Geneologist traces first lady's family back to unknown white patriarch, who have fathered child with black slave girl.

Michelle Obama had a great-great-great grandfather who was white and may have been the master of a black slave known as Melvinia, living in South Carolina.

The discovery of the first lady's slave ancestor on her mother's side rounds off a picture of her family tree that until now has remained elusive in crucial parts. During last year's presidential election, the Obamas made something of the slave history in her past, but the full details were never known.

Now an expert in genealogy, Megan Smolenyak, has followed Obama's family tree back five generations on both her maternal and paternal branches, with some interesting findings. The most eye-catching is the existence of Melvinia Shields, a slave girl owned by a David Paterson in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Melvinia, who was Obama's great-great-great grandmother, was passed on as property to Paterson's daughter and son-in-law – Christianne and Henry Shields – when he died in 1852. About seven years later, when she was still a teenager, she gave birth to a boy, Dolphus T Shields.

Smolenyak specialises in tracing family connections and last year followed Barack Obama's roots back to Ireland, revealing he is a distant cousin of the actor Brad Pitt. She tracked down a reference to Dolphus and his siblings in the 1870 US census.

That census is seen as a crucial document in the history of race in America as it was the first post-civil war count in which former slaves, who previously had gone unnamed as they were classed as property, were listed.

Dolphus was recorded in the census as "mulatto" – denoting one white and one black parent. The identity of the father is not known, though the fact that his surname was Shields suggests he may have been a member of the family that owned Melvinia.

"This is a very universal story," Smolenyak said. "It's a story of the spread of slavery through the south and the Great Migration of African-Americans to the north. The fact that there is mixed heritage involved will not be a great surprise to many as it was so common between masters and slaves."Geneologist traces first lady's family back to unknown white patriarch, who have... more

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Michelle Obama's Roots; From Slavery to the Whitehouse

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Breaking News – Airfarce One Nosedives

Copenhagen, Denmark – Breaking News… Team Obama got quickly into the airspace... more

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The Obamas are Movin' On Up

There's JOY in her voice, JOY in the song and JOY in the election of President Obama.... more

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Silvio Berlusconi targets Michelle Obama in new "racist" gibe

After his return from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Mr Berlusconi told a rally of... more

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Michelle Obama tells international audience why the arts matter

Michelle Obama hosted a concert this morning at the Pittsburgh Creative & Performing... more

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Dear America: Letter From a Muslim-American

I write to you, America, as a Muslim-American who is frustrated at seeing both sides of my identity spreading myths about each other. In part one of this two part article, I address America from a Muslim perspective. In part two, which will follow in the coming weeks, I shall write to the Muslim community, from an American perspective.

Dear America,

Our world today is assaulted with myriad headlines describing rising extremism and terrorism, and political instability in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Despite the plethora of bad news, most recently we have seen a day of hope marked by the end of Ramadan, where Muslims from all nations, social classes, and sects openly united in the spirit of humility, brotherhood, thankfulness, and peace.

As human beings, you and me have a tendency to let the negative marginalize the good and the true. But in this Ramadan the unity and the message of peace and humility that nearly a billion Muslims have exhibited should not go unnoticed, nor should it be underestimated.

America, even though you are part of us (Muslims) and we are a part of you, you often fear and misunderstand the one thing that unites the billion of us around the world is peace, love, and spiritual strength. You fear our religion, Islam. I write the following to not accuse anyone or apologize on behalf of any group. In part one of this article, I speak to you America, as one Muslim who is part of the majority of Muslims standing against the Ahmedinijads, Bin Ladens, and Taliban and Al Qaeda. These men have stolen my voice... our voice. The actions of a violent minority have for too long trumped the selfless and righteous actions of the moderate majority who do good in the name of Islam.

Firstly, Muslims are not a violent people and Islam is not a violent religion. I fear you overlook the fact that the faith of Muslims has been monopolized by the corrupt despots of Muslim countries and Muslim extremists. And it is the extremists whose power is bolstered by a media that has paralyzed the voice of the Muslim majority, who in fact abhor violence and terrorism.

It can be confusing even to me because on one side we only see Muslim extremists on the TV preaching hate in the name of Islam and we barely hear the majority. As I will touch on in part two of this article, Muslims have even marginalized themselves. But America, Muslims are a community of over a billion people, most of whom live in poverty within developing countries governed by oppressive, abusive, authoritarian regimes. These very regimes remain bunkered against an alienated group of extremists who are taking to the gun instead of a potentially rigged ballot. It is our mothers and daughters and sons who are being killed on a daily basis by either violent extremists or botched missile attacks by NATO. We are against violence and terrorism America, be it from Muslim extremists or NATO bombs. We are against violence because it is we who are the primary target of most terrorist attacks today. And while we may disagree with your military actions and policies, we look up to the principles that make up America... I speak of the freedom to be critical of yourself as a society and government; the opportunities awarded by the most comprehensive education system in the world; and your effortless ability to adapt in an ever transforming world.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mohsin-mohiud-din/dear-america-letter-from_b_299362.htmlI write to you, America, as a Muslim-American who is frustrated at seeing both sides... more

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Michelle Obama On Sesame Street: Planting Gardens, Loving Vegetables (VIDEO)

Bill Yosses: White House Pastry Chef Reveals Obama And Baking Secrets (VIDEO)

Sesame Street: Michelle Obama celebrates show's 40th anniversary

Michelle Obama makes room for classical music at the White House

Michelle Obama Offers Tips from her Life, Covers Glamour Magazine [PIC]

First Lady Michelle Obama On The Jay Leno Show

Michelle Obama's video appealing to women on health care reform

Secret Service determines South Carolina too hostile for First Lady visit?

3BL Media CSR Minute: October 20, 2009

Michelle Obama doll are latest Obama tie-in

Michelle Obama Action Figure

.A strange latest story in this world.Khalid Awan ,wrongly convicted in USA,A fabricated,false case.

Michelle Obama may have white slave-owner ancestor

Michelle Obama's Roots; From Slavery to the Whitehouse

Common Sense Intro

Breaking News – Airfarce One Nosedives

The Obamas are Movin' On Up

Silvio Berlusconi targets Michelle Obama in new "racist" gibe

Michelle Obama tells international audience why the arts matter

Dear America: Letter From a Muslim-American

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