NY Times: BOB HERBERT: A Less Than Honest Policy

December 29, 2009 OP-ED COLUMNIST A Less Than Honest Policy By BOB HERBERT There is a middle-class tax time bomb ticking in the Senate’s version of President Obama’s effort to reform health care. The bill that passed the Senate with such fanfare on Christmas Eve would impose a confiscatory 40 percent excise tax on so-called [...]

Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff Says to Tune out ‘The Left’

Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Worry About the Left By Jonathan Weisman http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/12/18/rahm-emanuel-dont-worry-about-the-left/ Turn off MSNBC. Tune out Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann. The White House has its liberal wing in hand on health care, says White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “There are no liberals left to get” in the Senate, Emanuel said in an interview, shrugging off [...]

Breakdown FM: w/ Davey D on All Day Play Radio #2 Remember the Time When Hip Hop Was Raw?

// Breakdown FM w/ Davey D on All day Play #2 You can peep this podcast click the link below.. http://www.alldayplay.fm/episodes/episode-2-0 Remember The Time… 01-Notorious BIG “Whatcha Wanna Do? (DJ Noodles remix) (New York) 02-DJ Shadow Beats  (Davey D Speech mix) 03-Kanye West  w/ Adam Levine ‘Heard ‘Em Say’ (Chicago) 04-Christion ‘No Place’ (Oakland) 05-Christion [...]

Breakdown FM w/ Davey D on All Day Play #1 Open Hearts & Minds On a Cold Rainy Day

// Breakdown FM w/ Davey D on All Day Play #1 Open Hearts & Minds On a Cold Rainy Day Link to slamming new podcast on All Day Play Radio-The Bay Area’s Newest Radio station http://www.alldayplay.fm/media/5322/view   01-Grandmaster Caz  w/ Willie Bobo ‘Fried Chicken Necks ‘ (Davey D Hot 97 Protest remix) (New York) 02-Paris [...]

Oakland Launches a New Radio Station-All Day Play FM is Here…

// Youth Radio Launches Eclectic Music Site All Day Play.fm It’s launch day for AllDayPlay.FM, a music blog, radio stream, and podcast platform featuring a roster of prominent San Francisco Bay Area DJs. The latest online venture from Oakland-based award-winning producer Youth Radio, AllDayPlay.FM provides one stop listening, downloading, and news for fans of “urban [...]

Obama Accepts Noble Prize &References Dr King Says Non-Violence is not an Effective Method For Heads of State

// Posting up excerpts of  acceptance speeches for the Nobel Peace Prize by both President Obama and Martin Luther King. The natural thing is to make comparisons and perhaps demand that Obama be more King-like especially as he is sending 30 thousand more troops to Afghanistan… I think its good to see both speeches to see how each [...]

Operation Small Axe Film on Oscar Grant Comes to LA

// If you live in LA, you may wanna come out to check the film Operation Small Axe. It will help bring folks up to speed about the upcoming Oscar Grant trial which is being moved to LA. Not only will you learn about Oscar Grant, but you also learn how the Oakland Police department [...]

Lil Wayne Recruited by DEA to Go to Mexico Check Out Drugs

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Former Employee of Bank of America Blows Whistle on Horrible Banking Practices-How is Your Bank Treating You?

// By now many of y’all may have seen this video of a former Bank of America employee who decided to blow the whistle and alert the world about what really goes on behind closed doors at the height of this country’s recession. It’s interesting that this young woman came forth, because it was just [...]

Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of African-American Mothers?

// Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of African-American Mothers? By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation. With Michelle Obama in the White House, I expected a resurgence of the Claire Huxtable stereotype. Instead, hideous depictions of abusive, irresponsible black moms are everywhere. http://www.alternet.org/media/144190/why_is_the_media_so_obsessed_with_horrifying_images_of_african-american_mothers_/?page=entire Bad black mothers are everywhere these days. With Michelle Obama [...]

Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries

// This is one of the reasons the music industry has become more ruthless in its approach toward things.. I can only imagine what they are doing to the artists.. From my take one of the reasons they rushed to change contracts and put what we now know as 360% Deals is to ensure that [...]

Naomi Klein Throws Down in Copenhagen..COP15 President Says Failure is Not An Option

// This is Naomi Klein speaking at Klimaforum 2009… Note you will have to turn up the volume to hear her… Last chance to save the world says Naomi Klein Klimaforum is not about giving charity to the developing world its about taking responsibility and the industrialized countries cleaning up our own mess, Naomi Klein [...]