What Im listening to; Hip Hop list...

For me, Im all about the old school. A list of stuff Im listening to these days:

Death Mix I - Afrika Bambaataa Afrika Bambaataa Death Mix
Unity - Afrika Bambaataa
Rapper's Delight-Roller Babies
Scott Made Me Funky-D-Nice
Fantasy-Debbie Deb
Roller Rooster Rap Dance-Fresh Female
It's Rough-The Imperial Three
Nothing To Me-Jacqueline
Somebody Else's Guy-Jocelyn Brown
B Boys Style (Club Vocal)-Lil' Jazzy Jay
Gangster Rock-Little Starsky
Positive Life-Lovebug Star-Ski and the Harlem World Crew
Needle to the Groove-Mantronix
Ain't No Need Of Crying (Long Version)-The Rance Allen Group
Oops Up Side Your Head-Sharlok Poems (L.A. Symphony)
The Funky Side of Life-Sound Directions
New York Computer Break Dance-Stax
Starski Live At The Disco Fever-Lovebug Starski
You've Gotta Believe-Lovebug Starski
MC Story-MC Chill
Feel The Horns - Cold Crush Brothers
Yeah, Yeah That’s It (Rumor Rap)-Vicious Rumor Club
South Bronx Subway Rap - Grandmaster Caz

Ten Things You're Not Supposed to Know about the Swine Flu Vaccine

Haven't had the Vaccine yet. Kinda torn on whether I want to do it or not.

Let's not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults have never been tested and won't be tested before the injections begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically tested on hundreds (or thousands) of people before being unleashed on the masses, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely.

And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent any safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple into vaccine injections is simply amazing...

I don't know what Im going to do, but if I do take it, I'll have to ignore the 10 items in this report.This is not for the easily scared.

Detroit: A city for sale, and very few takers

Poor, poor Detroit:

The total number of abandoned and vacant properties in the city of Detroit has skyrocketed from 46,000 to 78,000 over the past three years. According to data obtained from the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response and compiled by the Detroit Free Press, the total area of these properties approaches that of the entire city of Boston.

Read more here.

Report: Secret Service Can't Handle All Threats

Can federal agents keep track of all the white supremacist groups hating on President Barack Obama?

Probably not.

A new internal government report says the U.S. Secret Service is not equipped to handle the unprecedented number of death threats against Obama, according to the Boston Globe.

The report, a Congressional Research Service document, is not only raising questions about funding and staffing for the Secret Service, but it also examines how the 144-year-old agency plans to protect the nation’s first black president.

“A key difference this time is that the federal government - the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy - is headed by a black man," the report said. “One result has been a remarkable rash of domestic terror incidents since the presidential campaign, most of them related to anger over the election of Barack Obama."

Read more here.

NUD (Non Urban Dictate)

Tom Joyner wants this information to reach his listeners... You have probably heard of 'NUD' as a result of the Tom Joyner morning show related to Comp USA . NUD (Non Urban Dictate) is the acronym for a very subtle and little-known marketing term specifically directed toward people of color.

'Non Urban Dictate' These three words essentially mean that a company is not interested in the Black consumer. A NUD label means that a company does not want their marketing and advertising materials placed in media that claim an urban audience (black folks) as their main target. There are legitimate reasons for companies not using urban radio. It may be that Blacks don't index high in certain categories or that a company's strategy is to market to the Black consumer down the road after they have established a strong position in their primary target. But, NUD
usually means that a company is not interested in the Black consumer. Companies evade discrimination liability by embracing it as theory rather than policy. As a service to Black consumers, the Urban institute will list all companies that have a N UD policy. Armed with this information, we feel that Black consumers will be able to make informed buying decisions.

Here's a list of Companies with NUD policies:

1. Starbucks

2. Jos. A Bank

3. Comp USA

4. Weight Watchers

5. Keebler

6. Life Savers

7. Continental Airlines

8. Northwest Airlines

9. America West Airlines

10. HBO - Apollo Series

11. Paternal Importers

12 Calico Corners

13. OMScot

14. Pepperidge Farms

15. Ethan Allen

16. Busy Body Fitness

17. Mondovi Wines

18. Builders Square

19. Pottery Barn

20. Lexus

21. Aruba Tourism

22. Ciba Vision

23. Kindercare

24. Grady Restaurant

25. Eddie Bauer

26. Don Pablo

Please spread this information on to any other consumer that you
consider a friend and advise them to do likewise.
Remember, you CANNOT act wisely unless you are informed wisely.

Big bum contest banned

Wild as it is in Brazil, Im surprised:

Officials in Brazil's biggest city took legal action to ban a contest to find the schoolboy or girl with the biggest bum.

A court in Sao Paul declared the Biggest Ass in School competition, promoted by Mix Radio in schools across the city, illegal.

The radio station had invited pupils to take pictures of their classmates' - and even teachers' - backsides, reports Terras Noticias Populares.

Here, we don't have contests like this, we got music videos.

Read more here.

For African Immigrants, Bronx Culture Clash Turns Violent

No matter how you cut it, it's Black on Black violence. Black people unite.

The owner of Café de C.E.D.E.A.O., named for the coalition of West African nations, envisioned it as a community hub in the Bronx neighborhood of Claremont, where Americans would try his wife’s cassava soup and realize it’s not so foreign after all. But a year in, the owner, Mohammed M. Barrie, said he could count the number of American patrons on one hand.

Meanwhile, he and his customers have been taunted, he said, and his restaurant’s window urinated on. Someone tried to break into a diner’s car. Then there is the bullet hole in the front window, a mark from a gunshot through the window late one night last summer.

“Those people, they don’t respect African people,” said Mr. Barrie, a Sierra Leone native who settled in the United States in 1998. “I pay my bills, I pay my taxes, they still ...” He trailed off.

Read the rest in the NY Times.

Boy trapped in balloon above Colorado, Found alive was hiding the whole time


Dumb, really, really dumb.

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010

Everybody needs to read this from Project Censored.

These are the stories that are not being covered by the corrupt corporate media.

Top story? US Congress sells out to Wall Street. Ok well, no sh-t. But check it out here.

Black “Lil’ Monkey” Baby Doll



Wow, this sucks. Who would buy such a stupid idea? Really stupid.

The Human Cost of War: The Images the Corporate Media Doesn't Want You to See



It is costing the people of Afghanistan more than anyone. Perhaps one of the most jolting things about watching the film is seeing image after terrible image of civilian suffering: desperate families mired in refugee camps, pain-stricken schoolgirls attacked with acid by the resurgent Taliban, countless injured men, women and children who are the "collateral damage" from errant U.S. bomb strikes. It is a punch-to-the-gut reminder of just how sanitized this war -- which Obama has always called the "right front" of the so-called war on terror -- has been.

From: ALTERNET

Do White Teens Really Think MySpace is "Ghetto"?

I still frequent Myspace. I like to find out about new musical artists. That's what its there for, really.

Earlier research showed that the social networking choice between Facebook, MySpace and Xanga was based on the users' race, ethnicity, and education, with Latino students trending toward MySpace, white students trending toward Facebook, and Asian and Asian-American students trending towards Xanga. Interestingly, there were no discernable social networking trends for black students.

In the meantime, Danah Boyd discovered that white teenagers believe some social networking sites like MySpace are "ghetto" (their words), while others are "more cultured" (again, their words), which dictated why one SNS gets used more often than the next.

From Alternet.

I like to think that its not that people think Myspace is "ghetto", its just played out. It seems that new concepts creep up (Facebook, Twitter, etc), there is bad publicity surrounding MYSPACE, and the novelty of being friends with Santa Claus and Fred Flinstone just wore off. I think the whole "ghetto" characterization is silly, offensive, and has nothing to do with anything.

Teen beaten to death caught on tape!!



Rough stuff. Thing about this is that we all have to stop going for that raw reality video, stick our necks out, and do the right thing. I think this boy could have been saved, straight up.

Obama Facebook Poll: "Should Obama Be Killed?" Pulled From Site, Secret Service Investigate - UPDATED (PHOTOS)

Trifling Republicans, why do they always lean so much toward inciting violence?

A poll was posted on Facebook asking users to vote "should Obama be killed?"

The responses include: "yes," "maybe," "if he cuts my health care," and "no."

Chilling. See more on Huffington Post.

Fox TV's Bizarre New Cartoon Comedy Is a Minstrel Show, Pure and Simple

It could be because for the first time America has a black president and the First Lady is a sista, and together with their two beautiful black daughters overnight improved the international image of black people, let alone Americans. But leave it to the diabolical minds at Fox Networks to pick up where BET left off with the debut of their newest show “The Cleveland Show,” where in just 22 minutes they managed to portray black mothers as unmarried promiscuous sexual objects, black teenage girls as headed down the same path as their mothers, young black boys as sexual deviants, and black people period as being unable to speak anything other than Ebonics — all in the name of comedy. Read more at Alternet.

D.C. Students Walk Out of Class to Protest Teacher Layoffs

Proper education is a big problem across the country. This is happening in DC:

WASHINGTON - More than 100 D.C. teenagers walked out of class Monday because they're angry about the way they say their teachers are being treated.

Students from four D.C. public high schools converged on the school system's headquarters Monday. They're upset about impending teacher layoffs recently announced by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.

"I am out there because I want to make a difference," said James Jones. "I think that it's crazy that they're laying off all these teachers. I'm in the 11th grade. I'm trying to graduate next year. I love my teachers."

Read the rest at WJLA

FCC's 'Open Internet' rules come under fire

The Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) proposals to ensure all traffic on the Internet is treated equally has come under fire from some wireless providers and politicians. The FCC wants to ensure that Internet Service Providers (ISP) cannot slow down or block bandwidth-hungry usage such as video streaming.

However, mobile operators claim that this new regulation would serve to damage innovation in the industry. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said that doing nothing was not an option, and previously stated that the rules were "not about government regulation of the Internet".

Check out the rest on AfterDawn!

ACORN is being targetted by the right in a classic COINTELPRO type attack.

COINTELPRO is an infamous abbreviation for Counter Intelligence Program - a series of illegal projects in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted under the direction of its long time director J. Edgar Hoover to discredit organizations that Hoover viewed as "un-American" or "subversive".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Amongst the groups and individuals subjected to this organized campaign were the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Martin Luther King, Jr., The Black Panther Party, The Nation of Islam, the NAACP, and others who engaged in civil rights activism during the 1950's, 1960's, and early 1970's. Approximately 85% of the FBI's effort was focused on liberal activist groups seeking civil rights equality for African Americans. The other 15% of the COINTELPRO effort was focused on white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

Read the rest on Demopedia!

The distracting benefits of ACORN hysteria: Wall Street, defense contractors and the insurance industry v. the poor and dispossessed

Earlier this week, I wrote about how the Fox-News/Glenn-Beck/Rush-Limbaugh leadership trains its protesting followers to focus the vast bulk of their resentment and anxieties on largely powerless and downtrodden factions, while ignoring, and even revering, the outright pillaging by virtually omnipotent corporate interests that own and control their Government (and, not coincidentally, Fox News). It's hard to imagine a more perfectly illustrative example of all of that than the hysterical furor over ACORN.

ACORN has received a grand total of $53 million in federal funds over the last 15 years -- an average of $3.5 million per year. Meanwhile, not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars of public funds have been, in the last year alone, transferred to or otherwise used for the benefit of Wall Street. Billions of dollars in American taxpayer money vanished into thin air, eaten by private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, led by Halliburton subsidiary KBR. All of those corporate interests employ armies of lobbyists and bottomless donor activities that ensure they dominate our legislative and regulatory processes, and to be extra certain, the revolving door between industry and government is more prolific than ever, with key corporate officials constantly ending up occupying the government positions with the most influence over those industries.

Check this out on Salon!

Video: School bus beating coverage by Fox News



FOX News trips me out. Now white people are playing "the victim"? Come on!