27th Jun2010
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27th Jun2010
Did Tyler Perry Fire His Staff over Boondocks Leak?
Did you hear the one about Tyler Perry cleaning house after his portrayal as the leader of a homoerotic cult in the “Pause” episode of The Boondocks? Word has it that many of the allegations raised in that episode were so accurate that Perry concluded it was an inside job.
Our source also says that Madea is giving pink slips to his entire staff [not the shirtless boy wonders of course] starting Friday – – he wants to control any leaks of information about ”the compound!!” [via Carlton Jordan]
The Boondocks has had no trouble making enemies this season. Earlier in May, we saw will.i.am throw a bitchfest on Twitter after Aaron McGruder’s animated series pegged him as an Obama dickrider.
CHECK THE EPISODE OUT HERE – THE BOONDOCKS SEASON 3, EPISODE 8 – PAUSE
26th Jun2010
Towards the Eighteenth Brumaire of General David Petraeus?
Prodded doubtless by forces above and behind the Oval Office, Obama has ousted General McChrystal in favor of General Petraeus, who now combines the post of CENTCOM theater commander with that of NATO commander in Afghanistan. This is a move deriving from the inherent fecklessness and incompetence of the Obama administration, especially from the imperialist point of view. Recent events have highlighted Obama’s total lack of executive ability, leaving him weakened as he faced the bizarre flap about some barrack-room gripes by McChrystal’s staff collected by a correspondent from Rolling Stone magazine. Because of Obama’s weakness, he felt obliged to react to the scuttlebutt peddled by Rolling Stone, when a stronger president could have dismissed it or ignored it. As Fletcher Pratt once wrote, Abraham Lincoln was capable of laughing an attempted coup d’état out of existence with an off-color joke. Obama is far too weak for that.
As for General McChrystal, he was critically weakened and made vulnerable to ouster by the total failure of his counterinsurgency strategy, with the Marja offensive faltering and the Kandahar offensive indefinitely delayed, even as NATO losses rise exponentially, President Karzai turns towards Tehran and Beijing, and many of the NATO coalition partners prepare to defect.
25th Jun2010
CIA Gives Blackwater Firm New $100 Million Contract
The Central Intelligence Agency has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source.
The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 million, said the industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the deal, which is classified.
“It’s for protective services … guard services, in multiple regions,” said the source.
Two other security contractors, Triple Canopy and DynCorp International, put in losing bids for the CIA’s business, the source said. (A DynCorp spokeswoman says the company did not bid on the contract.)
The revelation comes only a day after members of a federal commission investigating war-zone contractors blasted the State Department for granting Blackwater with a new $120 million contract to guard U.S. consulates under construction in Afghanistan.
CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano stopped short of confirming the contract, saying only that Xe personnel would not be involved in operations.
“While this agency does not, as a rule, comment on contractual relationships we may or may not have, we follow all applicable federal laws and regulations,” Gimigliano said.
25th Jun2010
25th Jun2010
Some Of US Taxpayers’ Money Leaks To Taliban
US taxpayer dollars are finding their way to the pockets of the Taliban, according to a new 75-page congressional report about the military’s use of Afghan security firms.
The firms are used to ensure the safe passage of supply convoys. If the US doesn’t pay up, almost without fail the convoy gets attacked.
The American military hires trucking companies to deliver supplies to their bases in Afghanistan and leaves it up to the companies to protect themselves. The truckers then pay local security companies or warlords to escort their trucks.
24th Jun2010
George Soros Says the Euro is a Flawed Construct
The euro is a flawed construct and Germany’s budget savings policy is making it harder for other countries in the currency bloc to regain competitiveness, billionaire investor George Soros said on Wednesday.
Soros said the euro was an incomplete currency from the start as the European Union’s Maastricht Treaty established a monetary union without a political union.
“The euro is a patently flawed construct,” Soros, who earned $1 billion in 1992 by betting against the British pound, said in the text of a speech for delivery at Berlin’s Humboldt University.
He also criticized Germany’s attitude toward the EU.
“By insisting on pro-cyclical policies, Germany is endangering the European Union. I realize that this is a grave accusation but I am afraid it is justified,” he said.
24th Jun2010
We Are Change San Jose Document Cop Armored Vehicle
Cops in Campbell, California, tool around the streets late at night in a military-style armored vehicle. One wonders if the cops were on a joy ride or if they were on their way to bust some pot smokers and kill their dogs. Or maybe they were engaged in an operation to get late nighters accustomed to the idea that the police are now little different than a military occupation army.
24th Jun2010
Desperation: Beanie Sigel Disses Drake, Jay-Z (Again) & Memphis Bleek (Again)
Beans might be is certainly holding some secret over Jay-z’s head (ahem)…I mean but
24th Jun2010
24th Jun2010
Mos Def To Co-Star On HBO’s ‘Enlightened’
Mos Def has joined HBO’s upcoming Mike White/Laura Dern comedy series Enlightened as a regular. The single-camera comedy stars Dern as a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening and decides to live an enlightened life, which creates havoc at home and work. Mos Def will play her new boss when she returns to work. This marks Mos Def’s first full-time series gig. He recurred on Comedy Central’s Chapelle’s Show and recently did a memorable guest stint on Fox’s House. At HBO, he starred in the 2004 movie Something the Lord Made, which earned him an Emmy nomination.
24th Jun2010
Stalley Visits His Alma Mater (Video)
Stalley and Creative Control travel back to his high school in Ohio.
24th Jun2010
Fabolous Investigated For Possible Connection To Murder Of Memphis Bleek Associate G Baby
Police are investigating a possible link between hip-hop star Fabolous and the murder of an upstart rapper near a Queens nightclub, the Daily News has learned.
NYPD detectives aren’t sure what role, if any, the Brooklyn rapper might have played in the March killing, but a surveillance video shows Fabolous leaving Club Amazura seconds before a mystery gunman blasted Greg (G-Baby) Brown in the back.
“[Fabolous] is about to get in the car as the shooting goes down,” said a police source who watched the video.
Police and G-Baby’s relatives say the rappers – both from Bedford-Stuyvesant – had a longstanding beef, though a source said they’d put it behind them.
“My son was going to talk to Fab in a car, and he got shot three times,” grieving mother Roxanne Brown said. “I don’t know what’s going on. I just want to know who killed my son.”
Homicide investigators have yet to interview Fabolous, whose real name is John Jackson, and won’t until they get more information on his possible connection to the slaying. Police haven’t made an arrest in the March 13 shooting, and Fabolous hasn’t been named as a suspect.
