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 Wealth Gap Widens Between US Whites, Minorities      :      Information Clearing House: ICH

Wealth Gap Widens Between US Whites, Minorities : Information Clearing House: ICH July 26, 2011 " Associated Press " --- The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels since the U.S. government began tabulating them a quarter-century ago. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data. The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the recent economic meltdown, which ravaged housing values and sent unemployment soaring. It also offers the most direct government evidence yet of the stark wealth divide, a disparity between predominantly younger minorities whose main asset is their home and older whites who are more likely to have 401(k) retirement accounts or other stock holdings. "I am afraid that this pushes us back to wha

NATO Strike Kills 7 at Libya Hospital -- News from Antiwar.com

NATO Strike Kills 7 at Libya Hospital -- News from Antiwar.com A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment was visible among the twisted wreckage of the building, the Associated Press reports , after being taken on a government tour of the site. “In this whole area there is no military,” an ambulance driver told the AP.

Bill O'Reilly: Media Labeling Norway Killer Breivik 'Christian' Because 'They Don't Like Christians' (VIDEO)

Bill O'Reilly: Media Labeling Norway Killer Breivik 'Christian' Because 'They Don't Like Christians' (VIDEO) Bill O'Reilly sternly criticized the media for describing Anders Behring-Breivik , the man who has admitted to committing the mass killings in Norway, as a Christian, saying that such a thing was "impossible." O'Reilly singled out the New York Times, which called Breivik a "Christian extremist" in an article. Breivik also referred to himself as a Christian, as did the Norwegian police, and his 1,500 page manifesto has been described as coming from a Christian perspective. In the manifesto, he writes that he does not have a "personal," religious relationship with Christ, believes in Christianity "as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform," which he says "makes [me] Christian." To O'Reilly, though, it was "impossible" that Breivik is a Christian. "No one beli