Recently, the right leaning billionaire Rupert "I like my pockets phat not flat" Murdoch purchased the Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal-second best-selling newspaper in the US) in a 5 billion dollar deal that made him one of the most influential men on the fucking planet. The news media mogul now has amassed such an empire that he is virtually untouchable. Below is a list of some of the wanker ass companies he manipulates through ownership::
-Harpercollins Publishing- A leading worldwide consumer book publisher.
-Fox Entertainment Group+Broadcasting company= Lots of Television Stations around the US
-Twentieth Century Fox Films
-MySpace
-IGN Entertainment- An Internet video game company.
-New York Post
-Wall Street Journal
-DirecTV
-The Weekly Standard- Washington-based weekly political magazine focused on the neocon right-wingers.
-magazines, publishing companies, European & Asian newspapers, film companies, cable companies, etc...
Enter the Rupert Murdoch dark ages...$$
^^Rising Voices in Latin America
If you have some time read this great article about the often untold stories of Afro Latin Americans..Three thumbs up...
A Rising Voice : Afro Latin Americans...published in the Miami Herald..
720 Son!
jake Brown lands a 720 then falls 50 feet to the bottom of a very big halfpipe...then walks away like nothing...warrior status...
As seen on the wack ass x-games..
The Great Wealth Transfer in the US
I read this great article yesterday while I was at the vet (my parents cat had a fish hook stuck in his mouth) and figured that this was worth creating a link for. It basically goes into the insane profit margins earned by some top CEOs.
The Great Wealth Transfer
It's the biggest untold economic story of our time: more of the nation's bounty held in fewer and fewer hands. And Bush's tax cuts are only making the problem worse.
by PAUL KRUGMAN posted in the Nov 2006 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.
An excerpt:
The reason most Americans think the economy is fair to poor is simple: For most Americans, it really is fair to poor. Wages have failed to keep up with rising prices. Even in 2005, a year in which the economy grew quite fast, the income of most non-elderly families lagged behind inflation. The number of Americans in poverty has risen even in the face of an official economic recovery, as has the number of Americans without health insurance. Most Americans are little, if any, better off than they were last year and definitely worse off than they were in 2000.
The man who knew too little, Alberto Gonzales-US Attorney General
Whats with all the hating on Gonzo? Can the man get a little slack? Just because he has a short term memory and can't seem to recall whether he dismissed nine U.S. attorneys who were supposedly investigating Republican politicians and he seems to have lied under oath in front of congress, so what? The man is dealing with the pressures of running the United States Department of Justice. Its not easy being the chief lawyer of the US government under a president like GW.
Below is one man who has stood by Gonzo, Stephen Colbert. Watch and learn...
He doesn't recall a lot below:
GW Bush male cheerleader for hire=)
Not sure if anyone cares but from what I found in the article below our president was a former male cheerleader? I always figured that he had a certain flamboyant attitude that suggested, "he has spirit." And if this article is true, well then now I know where he learned how to move the crowd and get people on their feet. That GW is quite the entertainer.
Ever the showman, George W. Bush below, with a group of friends dressed in wigs in a skit
ANDOVER, Mass. -- Perhaps there have been other presidential candidates who have dressed in drag, flaunting their legs from beneath a (fairly short) white skirt. But George W. Bush is probably the only one who has done it in front of a camera.
A photograph showing George and friends wearing wigs and employing falsies to fill out their sweaters appears in a yellowed copy of the school newspaper of Phillips Academy here in Andover, near Boston. It was 1963, and George, then a high school senior and head cheerleader.
Bush's Male chearleader roommate.
You will note in The Atlantic article quoted earlier how “in 1984 Bush flew to Tennessee to accompany the Republican Senate nominee and Bonesman ('67) Victor Ashe on a seven-city tour.” Victor Ashe- besides having been a fellow Skull and Bones member, roommate and cheerleader with George W. Bush – has a public reputation of being a sodomite in Knoxville, Tennessee where he is mayor.
Getting to know "The Iceman"
After watching this compelling documentary about the life and times of a mafia hitman named Richard Kuklinski aka the Iceman, I came to the conclusion that under this mean exterior was a normal guy trying to sort out life’s problems with lots of violence! In a nutshell, this guy is a strait psychopath willing to kill anybody who looked at him strange. Check the links for the full story on why he killed b/c this guy is for real..One of the more disturbing recounts in this documentary has to when he discusses how he tied up victims in a cave and left them there to be eaten alive by rats. All the while he also left a video camera to film the inhumane death of course. Now thats movie material people...
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Ever Wanted to Hire A Privatized Mercenary Army?
Well, if the thought ever occurred to you that you might need protection from some gun toting enemy, look no further than Blackwater security. These US trained commandos are the best money can buy. I know this because my own government is using this organization for a host of functions, most notably fighting terrorists in Iraq. It wouldn't be of much interest to me that the US of A is doing this other than the fact that this is just another example of private firms winning lucrative contracts to rebuild/guard/fight in Iraq. It seems obvious to me that somebody (CEOs) must be profiting off this unpopular war and one way to do is award contracts to corporations with ties to heads of state. Anyways, I found this video and thought it was interesting.
Also, check out this article about Blackwater's role in the Post-Katrina mess.
hip hop videos that don't suck.....
Artifacts- Wrong side of the tracks
Channel Live- Mad Izm (Feat. KRS-One)
Kurios- Uptown Shit