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Live Stream of The 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner with President Obama and Conan O’Brien

• April 27, 2013 • Comments Off

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The President and The First Lady at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Saturday, April 28, 2012

• April 29, 2012 • Comments Off

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The President and Seth Meyers at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, April 30, 2011

• May 1, 2011 • 1 Comment

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The President at the the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

• May 10, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in American Politics, Bailouts, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Obama Administration, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Stimulus Bill
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Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

• May 10, 2009 • 2 Comments

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The South Texas school district said it would delay a decision on terminating the chief who led the schools’ response to a school shooting.
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The Guardian, UK

Kenya election: shifting alliances and economic woe to fore August 8, 2022
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London museum to return 72 Benin treasures to Nigeria August 7, 2022
Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897A London museum is to return 72 treasured artefacts, including its collection of Benin bronzes, to Nigeria in what experts described as an “immensely significant” moment.The Horniman museum said it would transfer the ownership of the historic objects […]
Russia’s private military contractor Wagner comes out of the shadows in Ukraine war August 7, 2022
Mercenary group does not officially exist but is playing a more public role and openly recruiting in RussiaRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesThree billboards in the Ural city of Ekaterinburg shine a light on what was once one of Russia’s most shadowy organisations, the private military contractor Wagner.“Motherland, Honour, Blood, Bravery. WAGNER”, one of t […]
Uganda’s suspension of LGBT charity a ‘clear witch-hunt’, say campaigners August 6, 2022
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Revealed: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president August 6, 2022
Special unit spread fake news about leftist politician, Oginga Odinga, seen as threat to British interests in 1960sBritish cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president Oginga Odinga in the 1960s in “black” propaganda operations, newly declassified files reveal.The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm, the Information Research Department (IRD), targeted th […]
Death toll reaches 36 in eastern DRC as protesters turn on UN peacekeepers August 5, 2022
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Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed August 8, 2022
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The BBC

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