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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Michigan Pummeled By Claims Of Racism In Water Pollution Crisis Killing Black People And Making Many Ill
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Shocking Video Released Of Police Officer Engaging In Excessive Force Against 14-Year-Old Black Girl In Texas Resulting In Suspension (Video)
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Reports contained in the New York Times indicates the few white teens at the party were not harassed by police, with officers heading straight for the black teenagers in acts of abuse and discrimination. The video has gone viral causing outrage online. As a result of the uproar, authorities announced officer Casebolt has been suspended, placed on administrative leave, while an internal affairs probe for police brutality and excessive force is conducted.
The New York Times also reported there are racial tensions in the neighborhood among some residents, "In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, a black teenager named Tatiana said her family was hosting a cookout for friends when a woman insulted them, prompting a 14-year-old family friend to respond. Tatiana said a white woman had then told her: 'You need to go back to where you’re from' and to 'go back to your Section 8 home (welfare based housing).' Tatiana said that she had replied, 'Excuse me,' and that then another white woman hit her in the face and 'both women attacked' her."
June 8, 2015 - McKINNEY, Tex. — No lives were lost. The incident played out at a suburban pool party, not an urban neighborhood struggling with crime and drugs. But perhaps it was that suburban setting that helped make the images so powerful and disturbing. Now a video of a police officer pointing a gun at teenagers in bathing suits and shoving a young black girl’s face into the ground has become the latest flash point in relations between the police and minorities.
The cellphone video, taken at the community pool in Craig Ranch, a racially diverse subdivision north of Dallas, has set off another debate over race and police tactics, with activists calling for the officer to be fired and others arguing that the blame should fall at least in part on the teenagers.
The video appears to show the officer, David Eric Casebolt, briefly waving his handgun at young partygoers who approached him as he tried to subdue the teenage girl on Friday. The officer ultimately immobilized the girl by putting her facedown on the ground and placing a knee on her back.
Chief Greg Conley of the McKinney Police Department said that the video had prompted an internal affairs investigation and that Officer Casebolt, a patrol supervisor, had been placed on administrative leave. One adult man was arrested on charges of interfering with the duties of a police officer and evading arrest, Chief Conley said. The 14-year-old girl who had been immobilized by Officer Casebolt was “temporarily detained” but ultimately released to her parents, he said...
Brandon Brooks, 15, who shot the video, told a TV station that Officer Casebolt had not confronted him, one of the few white teenagers at the party. “I was one of the only white people in the area when that was happening,” he told the station. “You can see in part of the video where he tells us to sit down, and he kind of like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down.”
Friday, May 15, 2015
New York Times Rips Mariah Carey’s Vegas Residency To Shreds
On May 7, 2015 the New York Times issued a scathing review of Mariah Carey’s Vegas residency entitled “Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas.” The newspaper pointed out the fact Carey’s voice has significantly deteriorated, as the Judiciary Report has stated for the past few years. The New York Times review stated of Carey:
“But the notes have not been there for Ms. Carey of late: Some performances have been markedly off-base, the subject of intense scrutiny. Ms. Carey is still durable, and sometimes excellent, but her once-transcendent voice is like decaying manufacturing machinery: It still churns, but the product might be polished or dinged. You don’t know until it happens.”
“When it came to the notes, though, the struggle was real” and “’Fantasy’ featured Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who died in 2004, rapping via video, and he felt more alive than Ms. Carey, who was right on stage” and “even Ms. Carey’s movements were kept to a minimum. Several times, she was wheeled out on stage - singing in a pink convertible, singing on a Jet Ski, singing on a round bed.”
The New York Times also accused Carey of lip sync some of her show, “But as the night wore on, it became increasingly unclear whether the sounds coming through the speakers were coming from her mouth.” The article goes on to state Carey is contracted to perform 50 shows over 2-years at the Coliseum at Caesar’s Palace. Considering Carey’s barely done 3 shows and there is already a problem, her residency is going to be very difficult, as I anticipated months ago.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The Site Is Again Proven Right About Lindsay Lohan's Horrible Habits Behind The Scenes
The New York Times proverbially ripped Lindsay Lohan a new one this month, exposing her terrible behavior behind the scenes, which has rendered her a nightmare to work with. Lohan is involved in the yet-to-be-released low budget film "The Canyons" and the New York Times witnessed the making of the film for weeks and saw the actress behave like a complete terror.
Her publicist wisely tried to have the journalist removed from the set, knowing what Lohan is truly like, but failed. Hence the article destroying the little that was left of her career. And believe me, it is a good read. It took me a couple hours to read, re-read and absorb the 11 pages of insanity that is Lindsay and my left eye started twitching a little bit, but it was worth it.
The derivative film Lohan managed to disrupt and distort also features a porn star named James Deen (watch Harvey Levin at TMZ stalk him for personal reasons). Lohan kept showing up for work late, trying to change script lines (not just coke lines) and was terrified of getting close to Deen during their orgy scene, reportedly due to him being well-endowed.
What's ironic is Deen has reportedly slept with thousands of women, but he is the one that probably caught something from Lindsay. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Lohan is doing pornography now. She needs to take a good look at what she's done to her life, to go from big budget studio films to low budget porn that can't even find a film festival or distributor.
The New York Times article confirmed many things the Judiciary Report has stated about Lohan for years, warning people to be careful of employing her if they value their film projects. I wasn't trying to be mean. I was being practical. I know what I'd heard about Lohan and what I've witnessed regarding her as well for the past few years. There's no prettying it up. Therefore, I couldn't understand why anyone would hire her. Inviting someone with her proclivities into your work or life would be very unwise. Now you see it for yourself via the New York Times piece on the one time hit actress.
When you write and or direct a project, you want things to go well, with only positive memories attached to it. After all, you will remember the experience for life. Hiring Lohan will turn it into a nightmare full of bad memories, stress and frustration. Why would you want that.
Lohan's name recognition is not enough to fix the trouble associated with her and she has been losing her acting ability as well. There are hundreds of professional actresses in Hollywood, the British and Canadian film industries, who can act better than Lohan can now. Why not choose one of them - and they'll actually show up on time and not try to play writer and mess up your script.
I was also right about the Liz & Dick project (As Predicted Lindsay Lohan’s Elizabeth Taylor Biopic 'Liz And Dick' Bombs). A year before the film was released, I stated it was a mistake hiring her. However, they did it anyway and went on to suffer for it with poor ratings and reviews.
Once people saw the movie, they gave it horrible reviews and branded it a laughingstock. Lifetime, who is good with television dramas, wasted money on a interesting project made with the wrong actress - Lindsay. I stick to my original assessment. "Liz & Dick" should have been made with Megan Fox. The resemblance is there and she can act well enough to have pulled it off without the film turning into a joke, as it has with Lohan.
But there is a reason some keep hiring Lohan. She is in the Hollywood "Illuminati" as they call themselves. They are the ones, who have been pulling strings to get Lohan work, as she sexually services their male and female members and parties and has kept quiet about the twisted stuff they get up to behind closed doors.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Rape Accuser Of Former IMF Chief Caught In A Recording Talking About Setting Him Up
Dominique Strauss Kahn
This is a follow up to the June 6. 2011 article Former IMF Chief Pleads Not Guilty To Rape Charges And Cites U.S. Gov Frame Up. In the aforementioned article, the Judiciary Report wrote about the claims of former IMF Chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, alleging the Obama Administration had him framed for rape, as a means of ousting him from the influential post and replacing him with someone more in tune with the President's political and financial agenda.
Fast-forward three weeks and the Strauss-Kahn criminal case is falling apart on the government's end. Evidence has been unearthed indicating his accuser, was caught on a prison recording, conspiring with her drug dealing boyfriend, to set up the IMF chief. She is now facing the possibility of perjury charges.
The case against Strauss Kahn has fallen apart and his has been released on bail, removed from house arrest. A number of other reported discrepancies and lies have been uncovered regarding his accuser, as published by the New York Times.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
New York Times To Charge To Read Site
New York Times
The award winning New York Times newspaper, has announced their website will no longer be free in any measure, as they will begin charging the public to read articles online or by mobile phone. Aww, I'm gonna miss reading their paper (LOL).
Bloggers have put some newspapers and magazines out of business. People increasing rely on blogs for news, rather than actual newspapers. This prompted major papers to open their own blogs, but it just wasn't the same, as it has been too corporate to fit in the blog structure.
Newspapers and magazines will have to rely on ad revenues online to compensate and compete. Technology has changed the newspaper and magazine game and they have to adapt. Look at the bright side. It's not as bad as what Napster did to record stores.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Miss Haiti: Wyclef Jean Is An Unsuitable Candidate
Miss Haiti Sarodj Bertin
Beautiful, Miss Haiti, Sarodj Bertin, has publicly stated, singer Wyclef Jean, who is running for President of the island nation, is not suitable for the job. Bertin, who is a lawyer by trade, stated, “I really admire Wyclef, he’s a great singer and a really recognized Haitian artist – but I do not know if he’s going to arrive to his political objectives. After the earthquake, we need someone that really knows this position and has studied politics, and really knows Haitian society. We’re not in a place right now where we can just try people out. If Wyclef thinks he has the capacity then maybe he can arrive, I wish him good luck, but I we need to look at really moving the country forward politically.”
She is correct in her assessment. Haiti is in the worst shape it has ever been, due to January's devastating earthquake. The situation in Haiti can be somewhat likened to the flood crisis in Pakistan, in that their next head of state, has to be the absolute best their country has to offer, to undertake the massive rebuilding and reorganization effort required to return their respective nations to some semblance of normality.
It is not your average election, as it has come at the most crucial point in Haiti's history and Jean is not the best man for the job. He has many problems of his own, financial and otherwise, necessitating someone with a greater knowledge of Haiti's problems and the understanding of how to remedy them, be elected to office. The New York Times has also uncovered serious problems with Jean's Yele charity in Haiti (Star's Hopes to Lead Haiti Draw New Scrutiny). Haiti needs someone that can get the job done. One should not vote on sentiment, but sense.
Side Bar: The people of Haiti should also take Bill Clinton up on his offer, of any rebuilding assistance he can provide, as he has knowledge of dealing with government crisis. Just keep him away from any nubile Haitian government interns and everything should be fine.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Desiree Rogers Pushed Out
Obama on Desiree Rogers: she was fine like Halle Berry, but we had to let her go!
According to an article in the New York Times, the former Social Secretary of U.S. President, Barack Obama, was pushed out, due to her high profile, interviews she granted and glamorous looks. There were also rumored run-ins with the First Lady, Michelle Obama.
Obama Social Secretary Ran Into Sharp Elbows
Published: March 11, 2010 -
Ms. Rogers had appeared in another glossy magazine, posing in a White House garden in a borrowed $3,495 silk pleated dress and $110,000 diamond earrings. But if the image was jarring in a time of recession, Mr. Axelrod was as bothered by the words and her discussion of “the Obama brand” and her role in promoting it, according to people informed about the conversation.
“The president is a person, not a product,” he was said to tell her. “We shouldn’t be referring to him as a brand.” The confrontation that day between Ms. Rogers, the White House social secretary, and Mr. Axelrod, the senior adviser to President Obama, put at odds two longtime Chicago friends of the first family...
Friday, December 18, 2009
Lieberman vs. Franken
"Video: Lieberman-Franken Exchange" - C-SPAN
This site has run tasteful articles such as "Megan Fox Is A Pothead" and "Rihanna Has Herpes" and other little literary gems with subheadings such as "Black people fighting" and "White people fighting." Pure class, baby! You won't find that kind of indignity and grace or liability in the pages of the New York Times. Therefore, it's only fair we include Jewish people too.
Jewish senators Joe Lieberman and Hollywood actor turned Congress guy, Al Franken, exchanged icy stares and semi-harsh words today during a health care debate.
It's too bad they didn't go gangsta rap. That would have made for higher ratings and hospital bills.
Franken shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step Thursday of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, currently is the target of liberal wrath over his opposition to a government-run insurance plan in the health care bill.
Franken was presiding over the Senate Thursday afternoon as Lieberman spoke about amendments he planned to offer to the bill. Lieberman asked for an additional moment to finish — a routine request — but Franken refused to grant the time...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Obama Agrees With Bush On Wiretapping
President Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama is reneging on a campaign promise he made regarding transparency in government and honoring the Constitution, by asserting State Secrets Privilege, in having an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lawsuit thrown out of court, which was brought on behalf of a group of people, alleging they have been wrongfully, unlawfully and unethically wiretapped.
The mere fact the government is moving to have the lawsuit tossed out of court, lends credence to the EFF's claims. Clearly, something very egregious is going on and this is indeed a cover-up.
Thanks to the New York Times, the public has learned the White House, under George W. Bush, had been engaging in warantless wiretapping. The public learned the U.S. FBI has been reading citizens emails, scanning bank accounts and engaging in warantless wiretapping thanks to the Sound Off Column.
We've learned through Fox News the FBI routinely uses roving cell phone bugs (mobile phones), even when one's cell phone is turned off, to surreptitiously listen into conversations being held in the same room the phone is located. Other items hit the news such as the FBI's spyware program CIPAV.
The public also learned over a decade ago that the NSA routinely spies on select U.S. citizens via Echelon in England, as a technical, but unethical way to sidestep U.S. law, regarding spying on domestic citizens.
As many surveillance tools have now been uncovered, one can deduce, as there are only a number left that remain hidden, this case is based on covering ongoing behavior the government told the nation and the world it denounced and discontinued, but clearly have not, much to the chagrin of the Constitution. Such conduct erodes the nation's name.
I agree with the EFF regarding the current administration's about face, as it is indeed, "Incredibly disappointing." The public expected more.
Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.
In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently. A civil liberties group criticized the move Friday as a retreat from promises President Barack Obama made as a candidate...
The Bush administration invoked the privilege numerous times in lawsuits over various post-9/11 programs, but the Obama administration recently announced that only a limited number of senior Justice Department officials would be able to make such decisions...
The lawsuit was filed by a group of individuals who claimed the government illegally monitored their communications. To proceed with the case, Holder said, would expose intelligence sources and methods...
Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco that is pursuing a similar lawsuit against the government, called Holder's decision "incredibly disappointing."
"The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases, even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration's abuse of the state secrets privilege," said Bankston.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Terrorists Think Beyonce Is The Bomb
Beyonce thinks she is the bomb, as the phrase goes. Apparently terrorists think so too, but not in the sense she does, as they want to bomb the weave wearing witch right out of her Dereon duds (Can I turn a phrase or what).
Threats are being issued if she tries to put on one of her usual half naked performances in Egypt. This is after Malaysia protested her planned show as well.
They may even devise a special booty bomb just for her. On the first butt shake it detonates. I know one thing, that weave would survive the blast. In short, don’t come to Egypt with your butt hanging out.
Side Bar: you can’t get this kind of insightful, mature journalism reading the New York Times.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
New York Times Slams Obama Praise For FBI
Hear Hear! U.S. President Barack Obama and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller The New York Times slammed President Obama's decision to praise corrupt FBI Director Robert S. Mueller and co. yesterday. Mr. Obama should be careful in his dealings with Mr. Mueller. He and others routinely provided former President George W. Bush with illegally obtained information and a very false sense of security, whilst engaging in wrongdoing and telling the world, "Trust me, I'm the President." Where did that get George W. Bush? He is now ensconced in the anus, excuse me, annals of world history as the worst president ever. When you stand with criminals, you will fall with them as well. In Praise of Help That Hurts Published: October 20, 2009 - Give a president — any president — seven minutes in the office of a law enforcement agency, and you are bound to be splattered by the praise words flying everywhere. You are not, of course, in any danger of being clubbed with candor. So on Tuesday, when President Obama stopped by the F.B.I.’s offices in Lower Manhattan on his way to a political fund-raiser, the accolades were lavished on all present, like a middle-school soccer league awards ceremony where everyone is a winner. Just a few weeks ago, a team of F.B.I. agents and New York police investigators arrested a man who they said was planning a bomb attack. Others were charged with lying to investigators. This was an example, Mr. Obama said, of cooperation among federal and local authorities, a state of grace much discussed and rarely achieved, given the enduring attachment to turf. “You’re showing us what focused and integrated counterterrorism work really looks like,” Mr. Obama said. Well. Actually, there are serious, unsettled questions about whether “integrated counterterrorism work” is really all that we saw with those arrests last month... So was the city’s intelligence division working with the F.B.I., and did it just happen that a reasonable decision to question the imam turned out badly? Or did the division simply jump into another agency’s investigation? That depends on whom you ask. In Congressional briefings, two competing narratives have emerged, according to an official who was present and, because of the elephantine institutional egos involved in the dispute, did not want to be named. The police department said that it was working all along with the F.B.I., through a joint terrorism task force that includes both F.B.I. agents and city police officers, according to the official. But some federal agents were outraged, the official said... For now, the full facts about the questioning of the imam also remain unanswered. Even so, the gloss of unambiguous success was laid on by the presidential visit on Tuesday. “Your collaboration earned the respect and gratitude not just of New Yorkers but of Americans everywhere,” Mr. Obama said. Well, maybe not everywhere. |
Friday, October 16, 2009
Nobel Committee Defends Obama Award
Thorbjoern Jagland of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway
The Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, have leapt to the defense of U.S. President Barack Obama, the recipient of this year's Peace Prize.
Many have spoken out, stating the President has not done anything of great accomplishment yet, to merit receiving the award. The criticism has been quite heavy and harsh, with some even calling for the award to be rescinded.
The Examiner.com pointed out an article in the New York Times, published days before the award was bestowed upon Obama, hypothesizing when and how the committee should rescind a Nobel Prize given to a recipient deemed unworthy of such an honor.
Yes, it's getting ugly out there.
AP Newsbreak: Nobel jury defends Obama decision
OSLO – Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday's announcement, four members of the five-seat panel told The Associated Press that they had expected the decision to generate both surprise and criticism.
Three of them rejected the notion that Obama hadn't accomplished anything to deserve the award, while the fourth declined to answer that question. A fifth member didn't answer calls seeking comment.
"We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done."
Jagland singled out Obama's efforts to heal the divide between the West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe.
"All these things have contributed to — I wouldn't say a safer world — but a world with less tension," Jagland said by phone from the French city of Strasbourg, where he was attending meetings in his other role as secretary-general of the Council of Europe.
He said most world leaders were positive about the award and that most of the criticism was coming from the media and from Obama's political rivals.
"I take note of it. My response is only the judgment of the committee, which was unanimous," he said, adding that the award to Obama followed the guidelines set forth by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite, who established the Nobel Prizes in his 1895 will.
"Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year," Jagland said. "Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?"
Aagot Valle, a left-wing Norwegian politician who joined the Nobel panel this year, also dismissed suggestions that the decision to award Obama was without merit.
"Don't you think that comments like that patronize Obama? Where do these people come from?" Valle said by phone from the western coastal city of Bergen. "Well, of course, all arguments have to be considered seriously. I'm not afraid of a debate on the peace prize decision. That's fine."...
Should the Nobel Peace Prize Committee have the power to revoke unworthy prizes?
October 11, 6:26 PM Miami City Buzz Examiner Robbin Swad - In an almost eerie foreshadowing of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to President Obama, the New York Times online published an article just days prior to Obama's winning, discussing the suitability of reversing past honorees who received the Peace Prize. Randy Cohen, syndicated columnist and ethics writer for the New York Times' Sunday magazine authored a post entitled, Taking Back Nobel Prizes in which Cohen makes the following argument:
"Past winners comprise a roster worthy of esteem, but the list also includes a few clinkers, people who, in retrospect, seem curious choices at best. On Friday, when this year’s winner is disclosed, shouldn’t the Norwegian Nobel Committee do what we encourage in other realms: acknowledge error, and then rescind those past awards bestowed on the conspicuously undeserving?"
Cohen posted his reflections a week before the world learned that President Obama was to earn the prize. In the past few days, following Obama's "victory", various observers both nationally and internationally have noted that the selection of President Obama was premature, at best and unearned at worst. A surprised Barack Obama additionally echoed such sentiments:
"Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.
To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace."
It is true that awards are usually presented for achievements, as in fait accompli. Despite the Nobel Peace Prize committee's judgment, the jury is still out on the success of the President's actions, as in Iraq and Afghanistan. And who can predict how yet-to be agreed-on talks with North Korea on nuclear issues will fare? Combine all Obama's many international policy question marks to Obama having been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize only weeks after arriving fresh from the campaign trail back in February-- some have argued that Obama's prize is undeserved. Nonetheless, the Nobel Committee has stated, that it is the "hope" for peace embodied in President Obama that impresses them-- indeed, the "world"-- immensely.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population." ...