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19:19:00 02/03/12
Global Ethics Corner: The Arab Spring Turns One Year Old: What Next?
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As the Arab Spring celebrates its one-year anniversary, the West is cautiously awaiting the next step. Will democracy flourish in the Middle East and North Africa? Or will authoritarianism and fundamental Islam be the basis for the new governments born from the revolutions of 2011?
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16:53:13 01/17/12
Random aka Mega Ran - "Lookin' Up": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Random aka Mega Ran - "Lookin' Up": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Random, aka Mega Ran, Big Ran or Random Beats. Teacher, Rapper, Hero. Born Raheem Jarbo in Philadelphia to a southern mother and African father, Random's songs are filled with all of the heartache, pain, triumph, tragedy and fun that come with everyday living. A Philadelphia native and Phoenix transplant, graduate of Penn State University and middle school instructor, Random speaks to the everyman, transcending race or class barriers."I never want anyone to predict my next move," he says. You can, however, expect the unexpected from Random, hence the name. After teaching himself to make beats on the MTV Music Generator software for PlayStation, Random landed a job at a Philadelphia studio as a producer and engineer. During downtime, he would create his first demo tape. This led to Random signing with indie label RAHM Nation Recordings and releasing his debut album, The Call in 2006. Random made waves by going way left of his backpack roots when he released "Mega Ran" in 2007. It was an album completely comprised of sampled 8-bit beats from the hit video game series "Mega Man." The album (and its follow up, Mega Ran 9) virtually exploded after video game corporation CAPCOM offered Random a special licensing agreement, and calling on Ran to perform at Comic-Con and other special events. In 2009, Random signed a deal with Japanese record label River City Records and released RANDOMONIUM, a collection of previously released material. In 2010, Random collaborated with ... From: sxsw Views: 178 3 ratings Time: 03:39 More in Music
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16:53:13 01/17/12
Random aka Mega Ran - "Lookin' Up": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Random aka Mega Ran - "Lookin' Up": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Random, aka Mega Ran, Big Ran or Random Beats. Teacher, Rapper, Hero. Born Raheem Jarbo in Philadelphia to a southern mother and African father, Random's songs are filled with all of the heartache, pain, triumph, tragedy and fun that come with everyday living. A Philadelphia native and Phoenix transplant, graduate of Penn State University and middle school instructor, Random speaks to the everyman, transcending race or class barriers."I never want anyone to predict my next move," he says. You can, however, expect the unexpected from Random, hence the name. After teaching himself to make beats on the MTV Music Generator software for PlayStation, Random landed a job at a Philadelphia studio as a producer and engineer. During downtime, he would create his first demo tape. This led to Random signing with indie label RAHM Nation Recordings and releasing his debut album, The Call in 2006. Random made waves by going way left of his backpack roots when he released "Mega Ran" in 2007. It was an album completely comprised of sampled 8-bit beats from the hit video game series "Mega Man." The album (and its follow up, Mega Ran 9) virtually exploded after video game corporation CAPCOM offered Random a special licensing agreement, and calling on Ran to perform at Comic-Con and other special events. In 2009, Random signed a deal with Japanese record label River City Records and released RANDOMONIUM, a collection of previously released material. In 2010, Random collaborated with ... From: sxsw Views: 178 3 ratings Time: 03:39 More in Music
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07:41:54 12/28/11
On "If I were a poor Black kid"...
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[ VIDEO ] Joe Hicks discusses the controversy over Gene Marks' blog post at Forbes entitled " If I were a poor Black kid ". Basically he asks, "Why can't white people contribute to the national dialogue on race and racism?"
It does seem like a cop out to just tell someone that they have nothing to say because they're not a poor Black child so they can't relate in any way. I've had a white geography teacher in high school - GO FALCONS - who said that he could relate because he was poor. Of course the conclusion could be that he thinks all Blacks are poor, but that's only a thought and not necessarily based on reality.
All the same Marks bounces off of a recent speech by President Obama in Kansas where he discussed the gap between the rich and the poor:
> The President’s speech got me thinking. My kids are no smarter than similar kids their age from the inner city. My kids have it much easier than their counterparts from West Philadelphia . The world is not fair to those kids mainly because they had the misfortune of being born two miles away into a more difficult part of the world and with a skin color that makes realizing the opportunities that the President spoke about that much harder. This is a fact. In 2011.
I am not a poor black kid. I am a middle aged white guy who comes from a middle class white background. So life was easier for me. But that doesn’t mean that the prospects are impossible for those kids from the inner city. It doesn’t mean that there are no opportunities for them. Or that the 1% control the world and the rest of us have to fight over the scraps left behind. I don’t believe that. I believe that everyone in this country has a chance to succeed. Still. In 2011. Even a poor black kid in West Philadelphia.
It takes brains. It takes hard work. It takes a little luck. And a little help from others. It takes the ability and the know-how to use the resources that are available. Like technology. As a person who sells and has worked with technology all my life I also know this.
If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible. I would make it my #1 priority to be able to read sufficiently. I wouldn’t care if I was a student at the worst public middle school in the worst inner city. Even the worst have their best. And the very best students, even at the worst schools, have more opportunities. Getting good grades is the key to having more options. With good grades you can choose different, better paths. If you do poorly in school, particularly in a lousy school, you’re severely limiting the limited opportunities you have.
And I would use the technology available to me as a student. I know a few school teachers and they tell me that many inner city parents usually have or can afford cheap computers and internet service nowadays. That because (and sadly) it’s oftentimes a necessary thing to keep their kids safe at home than on the streets. And libraries and schools have computers available too. Computers can be purchased cheaply at outlets like TigerDirect and Dell’s Outlet . Professional organizations like accountants and architects often offer used computers from their members, sometimes at no cost at all. You will see at the end of this posting links to several rebuts to Marks' comments. I will add my two cents just as Hicks and those other links have.
I didn't go to the very best schools in Chicago. I'd say my old elementary school was an average at best school and my old high school - when I attended - was one of the worst. My marks weren't that great in elementary school but for some reason my marks in high school were often in the honor roll range. With that in mind though I consider that a fluke today.
My time in high school wasn't a time to seek out options. I never thought of my grades as a ticket mainly because they were had too easy. It was never a challenge academically and who knows how that would've been weathered. The serious challenge was in college where I struggled to keep up.
If only I had the tools back then that the young people have today to help me study and understand the various subjects. I wouldn't just be ahead of my peers but it would be light years ahead of them. But when I was in public school most of those tools did not yet exist.
In spite of the nay sayers - and I will get to one in a moment - Marks isn't wrong. Make the best grades you can where you are take advantage of all the tools you can. Don't have a PC at home go somewhere to use one, especially the library. At that there are people at your school who if you establish a relationship with them will help you move forward.
This nay sayer, well is making more of this than he realizes:
> No believer in Bell Curv-ish nonsense about black intellectual inferiority, Marks makes clear that the children about whom he speaks are no less capable than his own kids. Of course, one wonders just how much of a compliment Marks really intends for this to be, given his strange habit of dissing his offspring, on more than one occasion, as rather unintelligent, unmotivated, promiscuous and even inclined to petty criminality. Not sure what kind of asshole says things like this about his children in print, but I suppose we can leave that discussion for another day.
No doubt Marks would say that he was simply encouraging poor African American kids to take personal responsibility for their success. He might even say that by acknowledging unfair and unjust structural inequity (and even, indirectly, white privilege), he was doing so in a politically ecumenical way. Certainly Marks would perceive his words and intentions as quite different from those of right-wingers whose hectoring of the poor so often involves blaming those at the bottom of the nation’s economic hierarchy for their station in life. To Marks, poor black kids are not to blame for the position in which they find themselves, but they nonetheless hold the keys to their own liberation, and if they would simply follow his sage counsel they could surely make it, like anyone else: even the cerebrally challenged and oversexed spawn who slumber each night just down the hall from he and his wife.
There is much one could say about Marks’s advice — rather typical bootstrapping fare about studying hard, coupled with a more modern emphasis on becoming a techie like him, and thereby, presumably, an irresistible college or job applicant — and most of it has been said already. Like, for instance, this piece , or this one , or this one , or maybe this one , all of which eloquently critique the privileged and naive mindset displayed by Marks, and explain how even when poor kids of color do everything right, the structures of society are too often set up to help them fail anyway.
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And it’s this last point that we might do well to explore further. Fact is, Gene Marks knows his readership at Forbes . He knows that it includes virtually none of the people to whom he is ostensibly offering advice, which means that he isn’t really giving them advice at all; rather, he is inviting his mostly white, mostly affluent audience to engage in a perverse moralistic voyeurism at the expense of impoverished African American youth, almost none of whom that readership will ever meet, and whom they will, in fact, go out of their way to avoid. He is offering a kind of secret white-male handshake to others in the club, assuring them that the problems of urban poverty are not theirs to fix, that they are off the hook as it were, and isn’t that a relief? That Marks may not be as vile in his desire to blame the poor for their status as some, hardly acquits him of the charge that by pandering to the biases of his readership, he has, with some 700-odd simple (and simplistic) words, managed to reinscribe all the worst of their prejudices, many of which one can see on grand display in the readers’ comments section of the original article. Make no mistake, Gene Marks’s column is contempt cloaked as compassion and bigotry dressed up as benevolence. And it can do nothing but contribute to the indifference and even antipathy towards the poor that those who rely on Forbes for insights already possess in ample supply. Starting with that last paragraph it's true, Forbes may not have a significant audience in poor inner city communities. Without having to purchase a subscription you can always go to a library to access past issues of magazines. Also with internet access you can access magazines as well and blog posts such as this one which surely don't require a subscription.
As for Mr. Tim Wise who wrote the above excerpts, how is he going to call that man out for what he refers to his kids. Yeah it may be wrong to say your kids are very bright, but somewhere out there some parent is doing it. I also recognize that Marks is merely a commentator who is definitely using his platform to say what he wants to say.
The main point surely Marks is making is that his children are not much different than poor inner city children. Just that they have different opportunities living in a different part of the Philadelphia area than the inner city children. Perhaps even different expectations from parents, perhaps different staff and different schools. He didn't write the "poor black kid" piece to denigrate his children.
I think what he wrote was real. It shouldn't be impeached merely for that reason. That alone is weak! Although to Mr. Wise's credit he is at least has some suggestions for Marks to put his money where his mouth is. Marks could always help get the information out aside from using his platform at Forbes.
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17:30:23 11/25/11
Thank You - For the Occupation, For the Intensity, For Lettin' Me Be Myself Again
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It's like the old-timers always said: Don't quit before the miracle happens.
While the Arab Spring showed that people can still accomplish the impossible, Our political debate was frozen in corporate cynicism. Now everything has changed. For the United States, spring came in autumn. Who says miracles don't happen?
Like a Prayer
A few months ago I prayed for something. Granted, it wasn't the kind of prayer that's sanctioned by any ecclesiastical authority. And, okay, maybe it wasn't exactly a "prayer." I guess the technical term for it would be "blog post." But trust me, it was a prayer.
I'd been asked to write something for the Fourth of July, and I wrote we have to fight a new war, a " war of independence from corporate politics ." To be honest, those words felt Utopian even as I wrote them. Still, I never doubted them. The words were born out of the desperate sense that so many of us shared, a sense that our society is collapsing. And that it will keep on collapsing unless we change the way we think.
I wasn't arguing for any particular policy or platform. "The problem isn't just with politicians, or even the system," I said then. "The problem is dependence itself."
Oh, come on. How starry-eyed can you get? Stop depending on politicians? Declare psychic and political independence from celebrity-driven politics and media-made leaders? I'd always considered myself a realist, but this was almost embarrassingly idealistic.
Except for the fact that it happened.
Passionate Intensity
Like so many others, I had grieved and raged over the lack of commitment displayed by good people. Cynics, robber barons, and American warlords are hard at work degrading - and downgrading - this country. In a strange set of parallels, we were reenacting the stories of the Third World countries we'd invaded. Like them, we were becoming a nation where servile or fearful politicians served a cynical oligarchy while the people's way of life died all around them.
Some might call it karma - or simply "payback."
But whatever you call it, the forces of hate and greed were running wild. The "two-party" system seemed to offer nothing in response except a) posturing, b) surrender, and c) a politics of compromise that seemed to amount to little more than ... well, see "a)" and "b)", above. Good people were fighting for better policies, and I tried to play my part. But too many of us focused on the prose of politics and not its poetry.
Meanwhile, too many politicians got lazy quoting Bill Clinton's hack line: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It can be, of course. But before our eyes, the "good" became the enemy of the "perfect" and the mediocre became the enemy of the good. Then the cynical became the enemy of the mediocre, and democracy began to die.
Meanwhile the other side gained its momentum with every passing month, fueled by a pseudo-populist movement ginned up by corporate-funded political hacks. A nation that had rejected the politics of greed and oligarchy at the ballot box was even more suffocated by it than before. No wonder so many people were uninspired, discouraged, despondent. Some people quoted William Butler Yeats:
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
The good people who did burn with passionate intensity were in danger of turning the torch on themselves. " The game is over," wrote Chris Hedges . "We lost. The corporate state will continue its inexorable advance until two-thirds of the nation is locked into a desperate, permanent underclass."
As boom times came back to Wall Street, depression - emotional as well as economic - entombed the majority. But the suffering of the majority turned invisible inside the Beltway, as politicians debated deficits in a broken economy. It was like debating water conservation while the house burned down.
The Condition of Everything
Miles of commentary have been written about the Occupy movement. As the occupations gained steam, people criticized them for their lack of specific policy demands. But they were right not to issue specific demands. They were declaring independence from a frame of mind, a set of assumptions that led to passive acceptance of an unacceptable system.
And they had passionate intensity.
I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again: When OccupyDC marched down K Street, in the early days of the movement, a young security guard asked an older one what they were protesting. "I'm not sure," said the older man. "But I think they're objecting to ..." He circled his hands to indicate the environment around him. ".... the condition of everything. "
By objecting to the condition of everything, the Occupiers changed the political dialog in this country. By rejecting leaders and insisting on self-governance through General Assemblies, they taught us by example how to escape emotional dependence. Like William Butler Yeats, they understood that you can't distinguish the dancer from the dance.
One of the movement's most articulate and forceful advocates is Chris Hedges.
Recalling Democracy
The Wisconsin uprising had been going on for months, even in the dark days of July. The miracle of Wisconsin is that it's still going on. People there occupied their capitol to protest laws designed to break the middle class, laws written by corporate America's "ALEC" division. Then they mounted recall efforts against recently elected GOP State Senators, reducing their majority and draining resources from their coffers.
Now Gov. Walker is facing a recall. The struggle in Wisconsin isn't about "Democrats" against "Republicans." It's about resisting politicians that are wholly-owned subsidiaries of corporate America.
The people of Wisconsin showed the country how to resist. Now they're showing us how to persist.
And just this month, Ohio voters rejected an ALEC-inspired initiative to strip that state's workers of rights. Maine voters rejected a move to overturn election-day registration, another attempt to restrict the ability of lower-income citizens to vote. And Mississippi rejected a definition of prenatal rights so extreme that many anti-abortion advocates were disturbed by its implications for the rights, health, and safety of women.
Like I was saying: Miracles.
Radical Innocence
But elections aren't the point. They can be a reflection of the change we need, but they're not the change itself. The real changes are personal. "When I remake a song," said Yeats, "it is myself that I remake." The Rolling Stones said "It's the singer, not the song."
We misunderstood our own power. We were being distracted and manipulated by fear and anger. Our minds, our souls, were being manipulated by what the Native American poet and activist John Trudell calls "the mining of the essence." One of the reasons we were powerless is that we believed we were powerless. That's even true economically. "All money is a matter of belief," said Adam Smith.
We needed to push our fear and anger away to see the obvious truths all around us: The corporations rule our political process. That our democracy is dying. That Wall Street is filled with people who broke moral (and sometimes actual) laws and forced the rest of the country to pay the price. We had to see with fresh eyes.
"All hatred driven hence," wrote Yeats, "the soul recovers radical innocence."
Our political process has become too cynical. Even reasonable and very moderate ideas favored by a majority of Republican voters, as well as others - a breakup of five or six too-big-to-fail banks, a public option health plan that's only available to one American in twenty - were declared impossible.
We needed an infusion of radical innocence, the innocence of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. We sometimes think of innocence as something childlike and weak. But innocence has great power. Innocence changes the world.
We needed that radical innocence,and we got it. What we do with it now is up to us.
Can we commit ourselves to moving forward, to persevering against all odds? The future's unwritten. But we know what's happening right now. The political dialog has shifted in a way that seemed impossible a few months ago. I don't know how you feel about that, but I know how I feel.
I feel thankful. So thankful, in fact, that I'm gonna let Sam & Dave tell you all about it. Take it away, fellas:
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21:29:29 11/12/11
Baby Born 11:11 on 11 November
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A baby born in Oxford has been given the middle name Poppy to mark her 11:11 GMT birth time on Armistice Day.
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18:44:00 11/07/11
Teacher Feature Pamela Wells
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"If you walk and play the game of life long enough there will be good days and bad days, COC Football Coach Garett Tujague said. " "I try to teach to my players that every single day of life is a football game to me." Tujague has been coaching at COC for 15 years went on to say,"Lunch is halftime," Tujague said from his office, At halftime coaches evaluate how the first half of the day has gone and then at halftime you make adjustments to finish the game strong." This father of three was born in San Diego. His last name is pronounced a bunch of different ways, with original roots in France but the name has been Americanized. He has lived in Japan, San Diego, Thousand Oaks and Pleaston, CA "I have always loved sports," Tujague said. "I was constantly going from one sporting event to another. I played all different types of sports in my youth." He played football, baseball, wrestled and ran track. Its football that tugs at Tujague's heart the most. "I love the discipline in the game and the comradery," Tujague said. Football is a sport that breaks one down physically and mentally. It's that aspect of the sport that intrigues Tujague. He sees it as great release to exert his will into another human being. He was born into a sports family. His dad was a football player, his mom played tennis and he and his two brothers played football in college on scholarships. It should be no shocker that his kids have the sporting bug in them. He has two daughters and a son. His oldest daughter plays soccer, his middle daughter does competitive cheers and jumps horses, and his seven year old son plays football. Tujague is not worried that his son gets a few bumps and bruises in the game. "He gets bruises but that is how the path of life is," Tujague said. "He gets right back up." Although he never played professionally, Tujague is right where he is supposed to be. "My favorite part about being coach is the ability to make a difference," Tujague said. "The impact that we us as coaches make on a player is huge." And that is why he hates it when a player does not reach his full potential. It frustrates him when a player does not meet his full potential. "When my will for them to be successful is greater than theirs," he said. "I hate it when you have good athletes who are good people and they do not see that in themselves ... It can be very frustrating to see them fall short of that mark."
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15:01:00 11/04/11
Conversation: Syrian-American Rapper Omar Offendum
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Conversation: Syrian-American Rapper Omar Offendum
For more on this story visit Art Beat: to.pbs.org Born in Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents and raised in America, hip-hop artist Omar Offendum uses his lyrical talents to bridge his Middle Eastern roots to his Western upbringing. That Offendum is gaining fans during the Arab Spring is no coincidence. His songs, often political, resonate with Arab youths, many of whom have embraced one of America\'s most popular forms of protest music: hip-hop. From: PBSNewsHour Views: 945 23 ratings Time: 07:03 More in News & Politics
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15:01:00 11/04/11
Conversation: Syrian-American Rapper Omar Offendum
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Conversation: Syrian-American Rapper Omar Offendum
For more on this story visit Art Beat: to.pbs.org Born in Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents and raised in America, hip-hop artist Omar Offendum uses his lyrical talents to bridge his Middle Eastern roots to his Western upbringing. That Offendum is gaining fans during the Arab Spring is no coincidence. His songs, often political, resonate with Arab youths, many of whom have embraced one of America\'s most popular forms of protest music: hip-hop. From: PBSNewsHour Views: 945 23 ratings Time: 07:03 More in News & Politics
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22:00:00 10/17/11
Lesley Hazleton and Paradise in the QurĂĄn
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Lesley Hazleton, (born 1945) is an award-winning British-American writer of Jewish background whose work focuses on the intersection of politics, religion, and history, especially in the Middle East. She reported from Israel for Time, and has written on the Middle East for numerous publications including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Nation, and The New Republic... A psychologist by training and Middle East reporter by experience, British-born Lesley Hazleton has spent the last ten years exploring the vast and often terrifying arena in which politics and religion, past and present, intersect. Her most recent book, After the Prophet: the Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split, was a finalist for the 2010 PEN-USA nonfiction award. She lived and worked in Jerusalem for thirteen years -- a city where politics and religion are at their most incendiary -- then moved to New York. She came to Seattle to get her pilot's license in 1992, saw the perfect houseboat, and stayed. By 1994, she'd flown away all of her savings, and has never regretted a single cent of it. Now her raft rides low in the water under the weight of research as she works on her next book, The First Muslim, a new look at the life of Muhammad. Lesley Hazleton sat down one day to read the Koran. And what she found -- as a non-Muslim, a self-identified "tourist" in the Islamic holy book -- wasn't what she expected. With serious scholarship and warm humor, Hazleton shares the grace
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12:05:05 09/01/11
Charity Spotlight: Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
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Natasha Thomas, Project Associate for the Newborn Screening Program at Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA), joins Jerry Franz, host of the Health Matters at Work podcast series, to discuss how her organization works on behalf of adults and children with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells, is one of the few diseases that is regularly diagnosed at birth. Through mandatory genetic testing of infants born in the United States, sickle cell disease is identified early which allows for immediate treatment. However, since the testing for sickle cell disease began in the 1970s, there are some people born earlier who were never properly diagnosed. Sickle cell disease is most prominent in those of African, South American, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Indian descent, as well as those from countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Symptoms of the disease include joint pain, jaundice, chest pain, paler than normal skin and fatigue.
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04:46:23 08/30/11
Lowkey Ft Immortal Technique Voices Of The Voiceless
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Verse 1: (Lowkey) "From West 10 to the West Bank, I write righteous rhymes with my right and wrestle the devil with my left hand, Never work for a Zionist, never been a yes man, My art is like Rembrandt painting pictures of death camps, The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom, This is for everyone of Saddam's Kurdish murder victims, And all the pure souls that never had the chance to speak, Truth pumps in my arteries and causes my heart to beat, For soldiers haunted and tortured by guilty memories, Who realised too late to reveal their real enemy, It's all dead wrong For every victim of racist persecution from Auschwitz to Hebron, My words may sting cowards, For people that were atomised by the Thermate in the Twin Towers Those living through the wars, Ask me what I do this for, Put the world in its place before it put you in yours, Chorus: (Singer) What happens under darkness shall come to light, Can't silence us even though you try, (Lowkey) You can try to avoid us but it's pointless You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless (Singer) Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, Come what may we will survive, (Lowkey) You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless Verse 2: (Immortal Technique) Keep my third eye hidden under my New York fitted, A crazy unmarried man that deserves to be committed, The future is encrypted in my troubled lyrics, Dream that I've been somewhere for weeks, then wake up in a couple minutes, Sweat dripping with visions of population control, Thoughts overflowing my world like the melting of the North Pole, My people are targeted by military crack committees, So I'm bucking at the feds like natives in Rapid City, Reality savage, my words are like a riot in Paris, The voice of the voiceless, that voice is social imbalance, So stand strong or sit harder in your mental palace, Blinded inside a Kingdom united to its old habits, But now, Middle Passage coming, War Chant, African drumming, Gatling gun humming, Rapid fire mechanism, reckless living, That checks the rhythm of perfectionism, Slave condition, While you're singing God save the system, (Chorus) Verse 3: (Lowkey) Detain my body, but you can't imprison my mind, If it's my time I'll probably die with my fist in the sky, These are the thoughts of a man who can't escape from his coma, Cries of a young virgin girl who got raped by them soldiers, (Immortal Technique) Birthing a screaming bastard, post colonial nation, Subject to childhood diseases, famine, war and inflation, Education moulded you into your masters image, And you forgot who the fuck you were before the war was finished (Lowkey) You're hearing the ghosts of Nagasaki, You're hearing Hiroshima, Beautiful babies being born with the weirdest features, You might never see me in the charts, But Inshallah my seed can see peace in Iraq, (Immortal Technique) But peace and freedom can never be given, That's historically forbidden, Cos only collision is the recipe, Changing the course of destiny, So I'm strapped with weaponry, (Lowkey & Immortal Technique) Cos the government don't give a fuck about protecting me. (Chorus)
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04:46:23 08/30/11
Lowkey Ft Immortal Technique Voices Of The Voiceless
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Verse 1: (Lowkey) "From West 10 to the West Bank, I write righteous rhymes with my right and wrestle the devil with my left hand, Never work for a Zionist, never been a yes man, My art is like Rembrandt painting pictures of death camps, The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom, This is for everyone of Saddam's Kurdish murder victims, And all the pure souls that never had the chance to speak, Truth pumps in my arteries and causes my heart to beat, For soldiers haunted and tortured by guilty memories, Who realised too late to reveal their real enemy, It's all dead wrong For every victim of racist persecution from Auschwitz to Hebron, My words may sting cowards, For people that were atomised by the Thermate in the Twin Towers Those living through the wars, Ask me what I do this for, Put the world in its place before it put you in yours, Chorus: (Singer) What happens under darkness shall come to light, Can't silence us even though you try, (Lowkey) You can try to avoid us but it's pointless You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless (Singer) Take our freedom, Can't take our pride, Come what may we will survive, (Lowkey) You can try to avoid us but it's pointless, You can never avoid the voices of the voiceless Verse 2: (Immortal Technique) Keep my third eye hidden under my New York fitted, A crazy unmarried man that deserves to be committed, The future is encrypted in my troubled lyrics, Dream that I've been somewhere for weeks, then wake up in a couple minutes, Sweat dripping with visions of population control, Thoughts overflowing my world like the melting of the North Pole, My people are targeted by military crack committees, So I'm bucking at the feds like natives in Rapid City, Reality savage, my words are like a riot in Paris, The voice of the voiceless, that voice is social imbalance, So stand strong or sit harder in your mental palace, Blinded inside a Kingdom united to its old habits, But now, Middle Passage coming, War Chant, African drumming, Gatling gun humming, Rapid fire mechanism, reckless living, That checks the rhythm of perfectionism, Slave condition, While you're singing God save the system, (Chorus) Verse 3: (Lowkey) Detain my body, but you can't imprison my mind, If it's my time I'll probably die with my fist in the sky, These are the thoughts of a man who can't escape from his coma, Cries of a young virgin girl who got raped by them soldiers, (Immortal Technique) Birthing a screaming bastard, post colonial nation, Subject to childhood diseases, famine, war and inflation, Education moulded you into your masters image, And you forgot who the fuck you were before the war was finished (Lowkey) You're hearing the ghosts of Nagasaki, You're hearing Hiroshima, Beautiful babies being born with the weirdest features, You might never see me in the charts, But Inshallah my seed can see peace in Iraq, (Immortal Technique) But peace and freedom can never be given, That's historically forbidden, Cos only collision is the recipe, Changing the course of destiny, So I'm strapped with weaponry, (Lowkey & Immortal Technique) Cos the government don't give a fuck about protecting me. (Chorus) My TIP JAR
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09:14:03 08/08/11
Seth Morrison - The Ordinary Skier Trailer 2
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For Seth Morrison, skiing is much more than a sport or job, it's a way of life. It's not a privilege he was born with; it's a passion he discovered on his own. Through hard work and dedication, Morrison has become one of the best skiers in the world. The Ordinary Skier traces his journey from the middle class suburbs of Chicago to the Colorado Rockies and into the underground ski-bum subculture that would eventually become Freeskiing. This is the story of how a collection of misfits turned an elite sport upside down, and how an ordinary kid chased his dream and became one of skiing's most iconic heroes.
Coming Fall 2011
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23:47:45 07/26/11
A Closer Look At Herman Cain 2012
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In the 2012 election, the voters must know their options inside and out. Herman Cain seems to speak as a true blue constitutional realist at first glance, but the Reality Report does not conclude without a closer look. This is Gary Franchi with a thorough policy view of the GOP nomination hopeful, Herman Cain. Cain is Tennessee born, Georgia raised, and finished his masters in computer science at Indiana's Purdue University. Since then, he's taken the roles of a talk radio host, national columnist, author of four books, CEO of Godfather's Pizza, CEO of the National Restaurant association, and even Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City . He is staunchly against abortion and gay marriage But what is his express plan for the country if he were the commander in chief? Here he is in a group of New Hampshire supporters speaking on the proper role of government. http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28041/herman-cain-on-the-proper-role-o 0:05-:025 "Provide for ... ... the free market system." It seems simple enough, but what does that mean for his economic policy? http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28042/herman-cain-on-the-o-reilly-fact From 2:03- 2:09 "That is correct. I would lower the... ...cap gains rate to 0." http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28043/herman-cain-on-the-economy-let 0:48- 1:21 "My proposal is ... with the American public" Cain goes on to unveil his five phase economic plan. He proposes to #1.Lower the TARP corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% and lower individual income tax rates... #2." take capital gains to zero... #3. "suspend taxes totally on foreign repatriated profits.. #4. "give every worker in America a 6.2% raise by providing a real payroll tax holiday for a year for the employee and the employer." #5. " make tax breaks permanent or indefinite. He is also an avid supporter of the fair tax replacing the tax code, and wants to repeal the 16th amendment. On The O'Reiley Factor, Cain expounds on how he believes his plan will pay for the national debt. http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28042/herman-cain-on-the-o-reilly-fact Cut 1: "But how do you get the 14 tril. + debt down... ...going in the right direction." 2:14- 2:57 Cut 2: "But Bill ... ... your revenue stream is going to drop." 2:30 - 4:16 So all in all, Cain claims to be small-business focused and plans to eliminate the debt by fast pennies rather than slow dollars. But with the handling of money comes the handling of major foreign policies as well. How would he deal with our current situation? http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28046/herman-cain-on-israel-our-frien 0:04 - 0:47 "First of all that is very complicated... you're messing with the United States of America." You realize that saying you will have a plan in the future is not a plan, right? And even if there were a plan, it would not be your choice alone as the executive branch. The constitution gives war declarative powers to congress. Do we want another Libya? Or in today's case, another Yemen? http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28047/herman-cain-s-nancy-pelosi-momen 0:00-0:50 So once he's been advised by the same people who advised Bush and Obama, then he will know. I'm relieved. Foreign cautions aside, the Middle East by and large holds the energy economy over the world's head. Here's how Herman Cain foresees his response. http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28048/herman-cain-on-energy-dependen 1:06 - 1:41 "Drill baby, drill. ... to become energy independent." Ok, maybe we’ll go back to foreign policy. Immigration: http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28049/herman-cain-s-immigration-plan 0:47 - 1:10] "I know we can build a fence... and yes, Mr. President, it will have alligators in it." If he has no direct plan for the debt, no real plan for his steps in the Middle East, and no mention of relieving the energy crisis besides drilling, he will need that fence to keep us in (if he can pay for it). But among the most appalling of all is his prior support for TARP and his skittish nature to answer about the Fed. Tarp: http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28050/herman-cain-supported-the-tarp-b Source http://004eeb5.netsolhost.com/hc133.htm 0:18-1:02 "No, I do not. ... the time to debate.. decisions." Do the American people want a president who can so boldly compromise the free market for a plan whose execution he was ignorant of? What does that tell us when Cain can tell us one thing today, and in his column say, "Wake up, people! Owning a part of the major banks in America is not a bad thing. We could make a profit while solving a problem.." America is waking up. And we see and question who is in the system for the status quo. The Fed: http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28051/herman-cain-discusses-the-federa 1:50 - 2:12 "Here's a suggestion .... They will." Herman Cain has a history of working at the Federal Reserve before. However his comments are quit curious that he once said this about auditing the fed before his run for office. http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28052/herman-cain-on-the-federal-reser So which one is it, Herman? Are you pandering to Ron Paul's audience or are you pandering to the Fed? How can you say on one hand that auditing would be a waste of time and money, and praise Ron Paul's efforts to audit on the other? Perhaps your run for office changed your mind. In any case, we gave Mr. Cain the platform to speak clearly on the issue of currency and here is what he said. http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28053/election-2012-herman-cain-on-wa 3:48 – 406 “The reason that the federal reserve… of Kansas city.” We know your past in the Federal Reserve, and we also know that because of it, these kinds of debts are inevitable as the dollar weakens with every major printing. And that doesn’t help congress, but it usurps it from its constitutional powers. My concern is your sincere respect for the constitution. Especially when you say things like this: http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28054/herman-cain-opposes-construction 2:50 - 3:00 "The people ... have the right to do that" http://rtr.org/videos/23102/28055/herman-cain-needs-to-reread-the 0:24 - 0:33 "For the benefit of those... ... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." And for the benefit of those accusing others of ignorance, that was the Declaration of Independence. The United States needs a President who really knows the constitution. You cannot swear to uphold what you do not know. Only one candidate has wholeheartedly dedicated his career to the protection of the constitution, and that is Ron Paul. For the Reality Report, I'm Gary Franchi.
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21:59:23 05/10/11
Almanac North May 6 2011
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Topics: "Local Reaction to Osama bin Laden Killing" & "Adolescent Mental Health Awareness"Description: Americans born in the Middle East react to the death of Osama bin Laden and how it will impact the war against terrorism. And professionals from the Human Development Center share information that can help parents and caregivers determine if their child is suffering from a mental health issue.Guests: Kim Matteen, Human Development Center; Saprina Matheny, Licensed Clinical Social Worker at HDC; Dr. Khalil "Haji" Dokhanchi, UWS Professor/Native of Iran; Dr. Imran Hayee, UMD Professor/Native of Pakistan
