Happy Birthday, B.S. Obama (cartoon)

U.S. dollar banknotes blur as the U.S. debt ceiling rises and its credit worthiness is cut sending world stocks tumbling towards 11-month lows on Monday, overshadowing relief that the European Central Bank was buying bonds of strugglers Italy and Spain (Xinhuanet.com/Reuters).

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Xinhua) - Obama on Monday called leaders of Spain and Italy over the euro zone debt crisis and the riotous situation in Syria, the White House said. More



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Gisele Bündchen gets a year older

Gisele Bündchen -- Bündchen was one of Victoria's Secret Angels from 2000 until 2006. Since 2004, she has been the highest-paid model in the world and the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry with an estimated $150 million fortune. Models Claudia Shiffer and Naomi Campbell have argued that Bündchen is the only true remaining "supermodel." And according to Forbes, she may become the first ever billionaire supermodel. And for all that, has she overcome suffering or all that can upset? Is age treating her more harshly as she sees her beauty fade and realizes that she is no closer to liberation?

Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen was born on July 20, 1980 in Tres de Maio, Brazil. Her parents are Vania Nonnenmacher, a bank clerk, and Valdir Bundchen, a university professor. She grew up in Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, with her 5 sisters including Patricia, who is Gisele’s identical twin. The part of Southern Brazil where Gisele is from has a large population of Brazilians of German descent.

Malcolm X: Our history destroyed by slavery

(AH) Malcolm X appears on the Chicago TV show "City Desk," March 17, 1963.

"My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather, who got it from the slavemaster. The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves. And then the name of the slavemaster was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

• The Complete Malcolm X (MalcolmXfiles.blogspot.com)