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Pete Rock & CL Smooth – The Midnight Wrecka
23rd Aug2011
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23rd Aug2011
Microsoft To Gmail: “You Been Reading My Email??” (Video)
Microsoft made the following video spoofing Google’s Gmail for its Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) event, which is a gather of its salesforce.
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley got it from an attendee, and while Microsoft hasn’t officially commented, it looks real — it has the “Contoso” brand that Microsoft uses in a lot of its demos. (Microsoft actually owns the copyright so nobody else can use that name.)
This ad isn’t airing publicly and is not meant for official distribution — it’s really just to fire up the troops — but it is a little bit misleading.
The video shows the “Gmail Man” reading through people’s letters looking for keywords to serve up ads. This is what the personal version of Gmail does.
However businesses can turn the ads off — that’s one of the things businesses get by paying for Google Apps. So there’s really no advantage for Microsoft‘s Office 365 here.
23rd Aug2011
Mumia Abu Jamal – Against Japan’s Nuclear Dangers
Brothers and Sisters of Japan: Health and strength and survival for the people of Fukushima and surrounding regions.
As we survey the long and terrible history of nuclear disasters afflicting Japan, we note that none of these were natural, and all of these were intentional.
One was acts of war as seen in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as when the U.S. dropped A-bombs on Japan. The other, of course, was the installation, construction, and faulty maintenance of nuclear power plants in a region known as prone to earthquakes. In a sense, these defective nuclear power plants were a kind of capitalism bomb of Fukushima, for these structures are often built by government grants for private profits and then, when they fail, they destroy everything within miles, even at a molecular level.
We should recognize that shortly after the disaster at Fukushima, Germany announced it would shutter its own nuclear power plants – all of them. What does that tell you? Until that happens globally, we will see many more Fukushimas.
Down with nuclear poison.
Thank you very much. From death row, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
23rd Aug2011
22nd Aug2011
Vixion Allure – Love In The Wrong Place
Vixion Allure – Love In The Wrong Place
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22nd Aug2011
Flash Blog: Cinder Blocks for Adults By: Eric Blair
What’s going on in the headlines today? Well, in Philadelphia children under eighteen have a curfew because of flash riots. The mortgage crisis in United States is still a major problem but financial institutions are fine. There are 13.9 million unemployed U.S. citizens today. London is burning because of Police brutality against a young man and a community fights back with a riot. There are still troops in Afghanistan dying; we’re still fighting a war with a fractured economy. The Polar Ice Cap is almost gone from Global Warming. The Stock Market is playing ping pong with investments. School budgets are being cut but war budgets continue to grow. There is a famine crisis in Somalia, Africa. I wake up every morning to be presented with these bleak highlights and too many people turn a blind eye to what’s really happening in the world only to praise these idiotic Hollywood stars. I do not give a f**k about Kim Kardashian’s wedding when I am worried about affording groceries. Too many people give these stars too much power when there are greater and dire issues in this world. You’re a nimrod if you didn’t know there is a famine going on in Africa but you would watch two homosexual men gossip like two barnyard hens on Youtube about Rihanna. Why should you care about Rihanna, Angelina Jolie, Jay-Z, or Tom Cruise? They’re not starving. All four of those celebrities gross income can fund thirty percent of the war in Afghanistan. Why would I praise these people like they’re Gods or care about their life when children have no bed to sleep in? I don’t care about people “twitting” about nonsense. It enrages me to see people taking intellectuals for granted and ignorance is fashionable. This world is becoming extremely backwards, we can protest our government because we are the government. Instead of standing up and shouting, so many people just shrug it off since it’s not affecting them directly. People are dying everyday for their beliefs, during warfare, and hunger; how can anyone just shrug that off? How can so many people live so carelessly and still buy two hundred dollar shirts when jobs aren’t secure anymore? Each new day is scarier than the next. I realized life was turned upside down when Osama Bin Laden was killed and the world rejoiced as if it was a holiday. This one man’s death didn’t change a thing; the world is darker than ever. Each day I open my eyes I question God, why? Where are you, God? People are becoming savages all over again. It’s the stone age but with “twits” and nukes. Men are shooting up buses with AK-47s, children are running rampant through a city, and our government is more militant than a helping hand. Where is the dawn when there is so much darkness surrounding us? Thinking about our world in crisis makes my eyes tear up. I do not care about celebrities or obtuse trends, I care about humanity because I am a Humanist; I want us to survive. How can we survive when no one trusts one another and only care about themselves? How can we build a new world when we’re using cider blocks to build a wall around ourselves?
22nd Aug2011
Entourage: Season 08, Episode 05 – Motherf*cker (Ful Video)
Episode Summary: All the troubles of episodes past are seemingly over as Shauna coaches Vince for a Vanity Fair interview. Turtle’s there too, just ’cause, and suggests Vince throw in a plug for his new restaurant venture. Then the boys meet Sophia, the VF writer, some lovely English lass with a very proper accent. “I’m entirely yours,” Vince tells her. Uh huh.
Eric, Scott and Johnny try to do damage control on the Andrew Dice Clay situation, in that there is no situation since he’s not on Johnny’s Bananas anymore. But their pow wow is cut short when E reveals he has a meeting with Sloane’s ex-stepmom or some such woman of tangential relation. Turns out Melinda wants E to rep her. Awk-ward.
In Ari’s world, Mrs. Ari marches the kids (who have aged rapidly since last season) into his office — they’re going to Disneyland! Except his daughter doesn’t want to, and now Babs doesn’t want Ari to go either — Dana Gordon is due in for a meeting about a Taylor Lautner film. Awk-ward!
Back at the interview, Vince is not-so-subtlely hitting on Sophia, who asks about addictions, his relationship with his father and other light, flirty conversational topics. Shauna isn’t impressed with Vince’s flirting. Neither am I — dude should be so much smoother than he is. Shauna calls the interview, but not before Vince tries to ask Sophia out a couple dozen times.
During a taping of a Johnny’s Bananas episode, Jamie Kennedy critiques Drama’s reading, which of course Drama doesn’t take kindly to. Everyone wants Dice back, no one more so than Drama, who’s considering giving Dice some of his salary. Drama shows up at Dice’s apartment to try to talk him back on the show. Conveniently, Dice’s son just found out he got into Princeton, so now dad has to find some source of income. Drama offers to even the score by giving Dice some of his salary. It’s all very kind, but Dice isn’t having any of it and thinks the network will cave. Drama? He’s not as hopeful.
Disappointments abound at Ari’s office — first, Ari announces the kids are going to the zoo instead of Disneyland; then Lautner doesn’t show, disappointing Ari’s daughter; then Ari’s son reveals to Dana that Mrs. Ari hates her; then Dana cuts the meeting short and walks out of the office.
Trying to make amends for his own meeting one awry, Vince calls Sophia to let her know that Shauna wasn’t happy with the interview. Come to my hotel, he suggests, no funny business, I swear. Sophia relents.
E meets with Melinda, and talk of business turns to talk of their exes. She makes him admit that he’s not over Sloane. “I’m moving forward,” he tells himself, though no one believes it. Are we taking bets on an Eric/Melinda hookup yet?
Ari ends up taking the kids back to Mrs. Ari instead of Disneyland, the zoo or even a Bobby Flay restaurant. Mrs. Ari gives him a verbal lashing for always putting work first, and ends the conversation with this stunner: She’s filing for divorce. For once, Ari is speechless.
Drama begs producer Phil for help getting Dice back on board. Phil tells Drama that the network is behind him, but Dice? Not so much. And now, Drama’s considering walking.
Vince and Sophia meet again and talk about Carl Ertz. She somehow connects Vince’s compassion for Ertz with some emotional (mis)connection to his dad. Vince tells her that his dad walked out on the family and it’s because he was raised by his mother and grandmother that he has an appreciation and respect for women (er, Seasons 1-7 would refute that). He then asks her out for a drink again, and she turns him down again. So respectful!
Ari, wasted, calls Dana. Shockingly, Dana offers to keep him company. She’s lonely, he’s lonely. A match made in Hollywood heaven.
Oh but wait! It’s Melinda and Eric keeping each other company. Naked! In bed! That did not take long at all. E’s phone rings. Please let it be Sloane. Yep! She’s pissed that he didn’t call her to ask about repping Melinda. Turns out the whole meeting was Melinda’s way of getting back at Terrance. E was played! But Melinda still wants him to represent her, so at least Eric will be getting commission.
22nd Aug2011
Mumia Abu Jamal – National Debts
NATIONAL DEBTS
[col. writ. 7/30/11], (c) Mumia Abu-Jamal
Amidst the political brinksmanshlp occasioned by the rising of the national debt ceiling, a question arises.
What is the nation’s debt?
Of the 14.3 trillion cited in published accounts, over a quarter of that amount, or $4.4 trillion, is the projected costs of the mad adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, in military material expenditures, wages, financial supports to occupation governments, and perhaps the most steadily increasing price tag: medical bills for tens of thousands of those wounded in the wars–costs that will continue to accrue for the rest of their lives.
Indeed, the needless, wasteful and disastrous wars (talk about weapons of mass destruction!) account for 31% of the rampaging national debt!
003, be saddled with this stunning burden of trilIions?
That is not fair.
Yet, it is they who will suffer the effects of cuts in social services, like Medicare, Medicaid, and lengthened work lives in order to access Social Security, and worsening schools as teachers are bullied by anti-union ideologues barking for their corporate masters on Wall street.
How is THIS their debt?
And as we speak of ‘national debt’, why do we not discuss the almost immeasurable debt owed to the Cherokee, Lenape, Iroquois, Navaho and Seminole clans and nations?
I’ve never heard that discussed.
What about the debt owed to millions of Mandinka, Wolof, Ashanti, Akan, Fula and Pular clans and nations stolen for centuries from West Africa to enrich and build this nation?
These debts are not, and have never been tallied up.
Was this just a freebie?
Meanwhile, the political class loads more and more burdens on the backs of the people, to please their billionaire and corporate sponsors.
All they can do is promise more.
(c) ’11 maj
22nd Aug2011
Jesus Christ Claims Tim Tebow Not Ready To Be NFL Starter
Jesus Christ, noted Son of God and football analyst proclaimed Monday that second-year Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow lacks the pocket presence, arm strength, and passing accuracy necessary to be a starter in the NFL. “Tim’s place is at the right hand of the other backups on the bench, and his earthly works show that he deserves to dwell there all the days of his life,” said Lord and Savior of all mankind, adding, ““It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for Tim Tebow to complete a pass against the Cover-2”. “For Tebow must have faith in coach Fox’s plan, and pay his dues by wearing the headset, and by calling in plays from the clipboard while watching from the sidelines.” Christ also asked Tebow to stop praying to Him and asking to be made the number one quarterback in the depth chart, claiming “that’s never going to fucking happen.”
21st Aug2011
Von Pea – Thanks For Your Children Feat. Elucid, Che Grand (Video)
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21st Aug2011
Catch Up: Rich Kidd – Represent Feat. King Reign Shaun Boothe & Richie Sosa
Rich Kidd – Represent Feat. King Reign Shaun Boothe & Richie Sosa\
