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Laura Leebove and Evan Lucy write on Billboard:
On the day Nas' untitled Def Jam album hit No. 1 on The Billboard 200, the rapper joined political groups Color of Change and MoveOn.org, along with fans and protesters, outside of the Fox News building in New York to protest the network's portrayal of African-Americans.
Color of Change and Move On delivered several boxes containing a petition signed by more than 620,000 people to support their cause, although Fox News refused to accept them.
Nas briefly spoke to the crowd of nearly 100 people and urged them to "stop the racist smears on the Obamas and black Americans." In his speech, he cited examples of remarks made by Fox reporters that he and supporters found to be racist, including a reference to Michelle Obama as Barack Obama's "baby mama," and a fist bump between the couple as a "terrorist fist jab."
Color of Change director Andre Banks said the campaign began about a month ago as an e-mail to the group's members. After hearing Nas' Fox-themed song "Sly Fox" a couple of weeks ago, he wanted to contact the rapper in hopes to get his support.
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Color of Change director Andre Banks said the campaign began about a month ago as an e-mail to the group's members. After hearing Nas' Fox-themed song "Sly Fox" a couple of weeks ago, he wanted to contact the rapper in hopes to get his support.
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann reports:
Senator John McCain... Now staking his candidacy entirely on the surge. Entirely on his claim that he believed in the need for a surge of U-S forces in Iraq ... even before President Bush did. Tonight has proven that he does not understand one of the fundamental facts about it.
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The New York Times Magazine carries an unusually insightful story about drugs and addiction. Just shows that the establishment media does occasionally report on real life:
Where does a junkie’s time go? Mostly in 15-minute increments, like a bug-eyed Tarzan, swinging from hit to hit. For months on end in 1988, I sat inside a house in north Minneapolis, doing coke and listening to Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and finding my own pathetic resonance in the lyrics. “Any place is better,” she sang. “Starting from zero, got nothing to lose.”
After shooting or smoking a large dose, there would be the tweaking and a vigil at the front window, pulling up the corner of the blinds to look for the squads I was always convinced were on their way. All day. All night. A frantic kind of boring. End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
After a while I noticed that the blinds on the upper duplex kitty-corner from the house were doing the same thing. The light would leak through a corner and disappear. I began to think of the rise and fall of their blinds and mine as a kind of Morse code, sent back and forth across the street in winking increments that said the same thing over and over.
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SHERYL GAY STOLBERG writes in the New York Times:
During the four years he spent as President Bush’s “body man,” or personal aide, Blake Gottesman acquired an eclectic set of job skills. He emerged from the experience schooled at reading presidential moods, expert at handling Mr. Bush’s Scottish terrier Barney, and adept at carting around the mundane necessities of presidential life, including Sharpies for autograph-signing, hand sanitizer for shooing away germs and money to pay the rare restaurant tab.
President Bush handing his dog, Barney, to his assistant, Blake Gottesman, in 2004.
Now, after a two-year hiatus, Mr. Gottesman is back at the White House, with the lofty title of deputy chief of staff, responsibility for overseeing day-to-day operations and a $172,000-a-year salary. (With six months left in Mr. Bush’s term, he will earn only half that.) He is 28.
His return, after receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School (he has the rare distinction of being accepted even though he is a college dropout) provides a glimpse into life in the dwindling days of the Bush White House, a time when vacancies can be difficult to fill... read more
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As Disinfo publisher Gary Baddeley blogged about months ago, our response to the Harris Poll "What Are Your Favorite Books of All Time?" is finally here. Here is the overall top ten as determined by Disinfo readers on MySpace:
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
6. Slaughterhouse Five , Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
8. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
9. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
10. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Because your list was dominated by fiction, with 9 out of 10 titles, here the top ten list for non-fiction (read more)... read more
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1. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
6. Slaughterhouse Five , Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
8. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
9. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
10. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Because your list was dominated by fiction, with 9 out of 10 titles, here the top ten list for non-fiction (read more)...">
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The infamous fugitive, long charged with war crimes, was not in a distant monastery or a dark cave when caught at last, but living in Serbia’s capital. Nor was Radovan Karadzic lurking inconspicuously, but instead giving public lectures on alternative medicine before audiences of hundreds.
With a flowing beard, Radovan Karadzic lived openly in Belgrade, despite being under indictment on war crimes charges.
He was hiding behind an enormous beard, white ponytailed hair topped with an odd black tuft, and a new life so at odds with his myth as to deflect suspicion. On a dreary, rainy Tuesday in Belgrade, the day after Mr. Karadzic’s capture, foes and supporters alike were left to marvel at what appeared to be his complete metamorphosis. As Serbs grappled with the repercussions of his arrest, and his place as a symbol of crimes carried out in their name, they were also left to sort out the two lives of a single man.
The fatigues-wearing leader of the Bosnian Serbs was unrecognizable in a guise that was part guru and part Santa Claus. As Dragan Dabic, the former psychiatrist worked for years in a clinic in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, practicing alternative.. read more
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Reality Sandwich's article and interview with DMT scientist Rick Strassman:
"Dr. Rick Strassman, pioneering psychedelic researcher and author of the book, DMT — The Spirit Molecule, discusses his new book, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, Zen Buddhism, psychedelics and spirituality, Old Testament prophecy and more in this fascinating interview. Dr. Strassman conducted the first federally approved psychedelic research in the US in nearly a generation with the compound dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in New Mexico in the mid 1990's.
Though expecting mystical raptures and deep psychological insights, in his study he was astonished to find many of his volunteers reporting unexpected encounters with strange and sometimes disturbing alien beings with advanced technology in what amounted to classical UFO "abduction" experiences. Unable to explain away the volunteers' experiences, he concluded that these were genuine encounters with independent sentient beings in otherwise normally invisible dimensions." read more
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The Spirit Molecule, discusses his new book, Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies, Zen Buddhism, psychedelics and spirituality, Old Testament prophecy and more in this fascinating interview. Dr. Strassman conducted the first federally approved psychedelic research in the US in nearly a generation with the compound dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in New Mexico in the mid 1990's.
Though expecting mystical raptures and deep psychological insights, in his study he was astonished to find many of his volunteers reporting unexpected encounters with strange and sometimes disturbing alien beings with advanced technology in what amounted to classical UFO "abduction" experiences. Unable to explain away the volunteers' experiences, he concluded that these were genuine encounters with independent sentient beings in otherwise normally invisible dimensions."">
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Folks, thing are getting mighty serious here at disinfo.com, and now for something completely different.
Everyone loves a good laugh, and in the age of electronics, high-tech hijinks are just waiting to be pulled off. So snuggle up to your screen and get ready to unleash all sorts of shenanigans as we present the 25 best high-tech pranks known to man. Our apologies in advance to your friends and co-workers. read more
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Most people hate things that they believe are "aspects" of themselves, for example a tendency to overeat, to maintain a poor diet, or to give in to rage. However, according to Charles Eisenstein, those are just symptoms.
To speak metaphorically, no one would care about being sick if they didn't have a cough with a clogged/runny nose. People focus on getting rid of the symptoms when they're sick and when they're gone, they consider themselves healthy again. And with my limited knowledge of biology, that's normally true. But the same doesn't go with our personality or created self.
A poor diet or anger problems are only reflections or symptoms of the way we think.
Eisenstien gives the example in terms of alternative explanations:
"Let me give you an example. A motorist cuts in front of me. Here are two of the stories that offer themselves for my attention:
(1) "How could she? Learn to drive, lady. The nerve of some people. I'd certainly never do that. People are always cutting in front of me, and not just in traffic. They are so selfish. Why isn't it ever my turn? I'm always so considerate, and look what I get? Nothing. No one even notices..."
(2) "That lady must be in a hurry! I'm glad I was able to slow down and read more
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symptoms.
To speak metaphorically, no one would care about being sick if they didn't have a cough with a clogged/runny nose. People focus on getting rid of the symptoms when they're sick and when they're gone, they consider themselves healthy again. And with my limited knowledge of biology, that's normally true. But the same doesn't go with our personality or created self.
A poor diet or anger problems are only reflections or symptoms of the way we think.
Eisenstien gives the example in terms of alternative explanations:
"Let me give you an example. A motorist cuts in front of me. Here are two of the stories that offer themselves for my attention:
(1) "How could she? Learn to drive, lady. The nerve of some people. I'd certainly never do that. People are always cutting in front of me, and not just in traffic. They are so selfish. Why isn't it ever my turn? I'm always so considerate, and look what I get? Nothing. No one even notices..."
(2) "That lady must be in a hurry! I'm glad I was able to slow down and ">
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Photo leaked from a US military computer network of a detainee held by the United States with face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked.
Photo of a detainee held by the United States, with his face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked. According to digital camera metadata the image was taken on Feb 9, 2003 03:49:25. The 6 Aug 2004 is also mentioned in relation to this photo. The facial wiring is clearly non-medical. The location of the detainee is unknown, possibly the US Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan. Although there is a resemblance to the US Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh, the connection is superficial. The negative image to the right was created by Wikileaks to draw attention to certain regions of the photo on the left. Wikileaks staff have verified that the photograph came from a US military computer network. read more
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Photo of a detainee held by the United States, with his face wired, lips sewn, red eyes and torso sacked. According to digital camera metadata the image was taken on Feb 9, 2003 03:49:25. The 6 Aug 2004 is also mentioned in relation to this photo. The facial wiring is clearly non-medical. The location of the detainee is unknown, possibly the US Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan. Although there is a resemblance to the US Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh, the connection is superficial. The negative image to the right was created by Wikileaks to draw attention to certain regions of the photo on the left. Wikileaks staff have verified that the photograph came from a US military computer network.">
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Consumerist reports that, bizarrely, Viacom is sending bogus copyright ownership claims and illegal posting notices to independent filmmakers posting their own movies on YouTube. The films in question contain not one iota of Viacom content, and are clearly the property of the filmmakers. However, based on nonsensical claims, Viacom is gaining control over the videos and the ability to collect data on who is watching them. Read the full story for examples.
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