Marley Marl Presents The Symphony feat. Big Daddy Kane, Craig G and Masta Ace, Live @ Big Daddy Kane 20th Anniversary Show in NYC *warning some explicit language*
There's another piece of this puzzle that is also borderline illegal, which is that in addition to the $700 billion that we are discussing, the $700 billion bailout, there's another $2 trillion that's been handed out by the Federal Reserve in emergency loans to financial institutions, to banks, that actually we don't really know who they're handing the money out to, because, apparently, it's a secret. They could be handing it out to a range of other corporations -- I think they are -- but they're saying that they won't disclose who has received these taxpayer loans, because it could cause a run on the banks, it could cause the market to lose confidence in the institutions that have taken these loans. Once again, that represents an additional $2 trillion.
Expectations for Barack Obama, already high, jumped even higher when his aide and longtime confidante, Valerie Jarrett, announced that the President-elect plans to create a White House office dedicated to urban affairs. That would make good on a promise Obama made in a June speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "We need to stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution," he said. "Strong cities are the building blocks of strong regions, and strong regions are essential for a strong America." Obama's point was that urban policy would be part of a broad plan to boost the economy of metropolitan areas, including suburbs. Obama's point was that urban policy would be part of a broad plan to boost the economy of metropolitan areas, including suburbs.
Now you see now how that worked out. Because more than anything else, smart won Tuesday night. Whatever you think about all of Obama's policies or all of his politics, whatever you think about his vision for America, he was the smartest guy on the stage with all those other Democratic candidates at the start of this, and he was the smartest guy on the stage when it was just he and John McCain left standing at the end. Nobody is calling out McCain as dumb because he lost. But he lost because he ran an even dumber campaign against Obama than Hillary Clinton did. First, they thought they could scare the country off Obama and could not, neither one of them. Then they both seemed to think they could run on all their experience in a year when the country
2008 may go down as the year when hip-hop culture finally learned to grow up and stop depending on corporate interests whose priorities are not really the well-being of the music and musicians. This year, political and economic conditions converged to create a perfect storm, giving hip-hop no option but to sink or swim. Sales of rap recordings, both offline and online, have been in steep decline. It's not about piracy so much as people simply refusing to buy what's being pushed on them. Sluggish sales have resulted in record-label executives being very selective about the acts they get behind, and the few performers and groups they have decided to promote are being nickel-and-dimed at every opportunity.
Peace! It’s time to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the World’s first, largest and most legendary grassroots Hip Hop organization: The Universal Zulu Nation! For the events in NYC, simply bring in a flyer, print out a flyer or bring in your Zulu I.D. and get in for only $10 at the events from Thursday, Nov. 6 through Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. Sunday’s Meeting of the Minds is FREE!!! See you there!
One of the provisions of the FCC approval over the merger of XM and Sirius was the promise of leasing out a portion of the satellite spectrum to minority broadcasters. However, since the merger officially began, there has not been any word about the fate of the channels to be leased. According to Ars Technica, time is running out for the FCC to decide which broadcasters will lease the channels. As part of the merger qualifications, Sirius XM has four months since the merger to give at least one "qualified entry" from a minority owned broadcaster access to lease four percent of Sirius and XM's combined channels, which adds up to a dozen in all.
Cornell University’s Ithaca, New York campus is set to host two days of performances and discussions with some of Hip-Hop’s pioneers next week, to mark the school’s historical acquisition of a collection of documents from Hip-Hop’s early days. The collection, titled “Born in the Bronx: The Legacy and Evolution of Hip Hop,” was recently presented to the school library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections as a gift from author and collector Johan Kugelberg. It consists of almost one thousand sound recordings, textile art, books and magazines, as well as the archives of Bronx photographer Joe Conzo, Jr. and more than five hundred original flyers designed by pioneering flyer designers like Buddy Esquire and others.
In the first hearing on the government’s justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release. The judge, Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court in Washington, also ruled that a sixth Algerian man was being lawfully detained because he had provided support to the terrorist group Al Qaeda. The case was an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, which critics have long argued swept up innocent men and low-level foot soldiers along with high-level and hardened terrorists.
Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday. Holder, a former U.S. attorney who served as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton, would be the nation's first black attorney general. One of his top priorities, according to a person familiar with his thinking, is to rebuild the department's reputation after its fiercely independent image was tarnished by charges of political meddling by the White House during the Bush administration.
President-elect Barack Obama is calling for a new program focused on keeping homeowners facing bank foreclosure from losing their homes and wants to see some form of government assistance provided to the nation's struggling auto industry. In an interview with "60 Minutes," to be aired on CBS on Sunday night, Obama said efforts to restore the nation's economy "have not focused on foreclosures and what's happening to homeowners as much as I would like." "We've got to ... set up a negotiation between banks and borrowers so that people can stay in their homes. That is going to have an impact on the economy as a whole," "And, you know, one thing I'm determined is that if we don't have a clear focused program for homeowners by the time I take office, we will after I take office."
President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is reviewing limits on stem-cell research and the expansion of oil and gas drilling, among other issues, members of the team said Sunday. While Obama prepared to make his first post-election visit to the White House today, his advisers were compiling a list of policies that could be reversed by the executive powers of the new president. The assessment is under way, aides said, but a full list of policies to be overturned will not be announced by Obama until he confers with new members of his cabinet.
The election of America's first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, the white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters' comfort with a multiracial demography, expects Mr. Obama's election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element. "The vitriol is flailing out shotgun-style," says Mr. Levin. "They recognize Obama as a tipping point, the perfect storm in the narrative of the hate world – the apocalypse that they've been moaning about has come true."
The phenomenon is noticeable in developing nations. Over the past decade, millions of people in these societies have climbed out of poverty. But the global recession is pushing them back down. Many seem furious with democracy and capitalism, which they believe led to their shattered dreams. It’s possible that the downturn will produce a profusion of Hugo Chávezes. It’s possible that the Obama administration will spend much of its time battling a global protest movement that doesn’t even exist yet. In this country, there are also millions of people facing the psychological and social pressures of downward mobility. In the months ahead, the members of the formerly middle class will suffer career reversals.
The small child with a bullet-shattered wrist was crying alone in a house full of corpses when he was found last week by a stranger fleeing a gunbattle between rebels and pro-government militias in eastern Congo. The man carried the boy from the village of Kiwanja to a tiny hospital several miles away and the two- or three-year-old infant spent the night screaming and his days silent, medical staff said. One week later, the boy's name is about all they know. The tragic story is just one of many being told here after Congo's recent explosion of fighting began in August, displacing 250,000 people. The violence has shattered hopes the nation's first-ever democratic election in 2006 would usher in a peaceful era.
Miriam Makeba, the South African recording artist known as ``Mama Afrika'' who was exiled from her own country during apartheid, died of a heart attack last night after giving a concert in Italy. She was 76. The Grammy-winning Makeba ``collapsed as she was leaving the stage,'' South African Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said in an e-mailed statement today. Makeba, who brought the music of her continent to a global audience in the 1960s, had been performing at the Vastel Volturno in the province of Caserta, 35 kilometers (22 miles) northwest of the city of Naples. "One of the greatest songstresses of our time, Miriam Makeba, has ceased to sing,'' Dlamini Zuma said.
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