Check it. Rush Limbaugh Apologizes To Sandra Fluke For Calling Her A ‘Slut’.
“After a media and political firestorm, Rush Limbaugh issued an apology on Saturday for calling student Sandra Fluke a “slut” on his radio show this week.” -HuffingtonPost
Check it. Limbaugh apologizes for comments on Georgetown University student.
“Limbaugh, on his radio show earlier this week, called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” after she discussed the high cost of birth control during an informal hearing held by congressional Democrats.” -FoxNews
Examine. Obama descend dans l’arène et défend une étudiante insultée par la droite conservatrice
Le président pris le parti d’une étudiante en droit, insultée par le présentateur de radio ultraconservateur Rush Limbaugh pour avoir défendu une des mesures contenues dans la réforme de l’assurance-maladie. Celle-ci prévoit que les dépenses de contraception pour les femmes, notamment la pilule, soient remboursées par les employeurs, y compris les institutions religieuses les structures appartenant à des institutions religieuses.
Senate Dems blocked ‘conscience exemption’ amendment, drafted by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo), to let insurers pass on contraceptive coverage for “religious” or “moral objections”.
Conscience, is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong.
Hypocrisy, is the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have.
Repubz are shitflipped on the definition of Conscience, and Schooled in the Practice of Hypocrisy.
Check it. Senate Dems stop ‘conscience exemption’ to Obama birth control coverage policy. “The Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, shorthanded as ‘the conscience amendment’ and authored by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., was ‘tabled,” or set aside, on a 51-48 vote.” -Fox News
Preachin the pulpit, the self described moral and vainglorious declared righteous, on the “right”, who never ever ever ever have sex out of the holy high role sanctification, continue to fucking try and bullshit the world.
Check it. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and the curious case of the coverup of his extramarital affair with a lobbyist who is now his wife.
Check it. Blunt Lied To Colleagues And Media During Majority Leader’s Race Over Wife’s Status.
“WOE UNTO YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed talk moral righteousness on how to live outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness”. Zealots, bullshiters and Hypocrites.
Check it. “In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” -Matthew 23:28
After mad public screaming and crying over its practice of limiting the unlimited, ATT changes some shit, Check it. AT&T changes things on data-limits; the company “backed away from an unpopular service policy after smartphone subscribers complained that the company placed unreasonable limits on its ‘unlimited data’ plans.” –Boston.com
Check it. AT&T Ends All-You-Can-Eat
“AT&T Inc. pulled the plug on its all-you-can-eat plan for smartphone customers, telling subscribers they will see much slower speeds if they exceed a new monthly usage cap.
The new limit, which applies to some 17 million subscribers, means users of the No. 2 U.S. carrier have little choice but to start paying more as they download more video, stream more music and use more apps.” -WSJ
ATT. is an American multinational telecommunications amalgamated amalgamation conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the second largest monopoly of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. As of 2010, AT&T is the 7th largest company in the United States by total revenue, as well as the 4th largest non-oil company in the US (behind Walmart, General Electric, and Bank of America).
The company began its existence as Southwestern Bell Corporation, one of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies created in 1983 as part of the break-up of the original AT&T due to the United States v. AT&Tantitrust lawsuit. It changed its name to SBC Communications Inc. in 1995. In 2005, it purchased its former parent company, AT&T Corporation (originally known as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company), and took on its branding, with the merged entity naming itself AT&T Inc. and using the iconic AT&T logo and stock-trading symbol.
Remember when there was more than 3 phone companies and there was competition? Me neither, even though the interwebs do. The current skull fucking jars the brain.
(PageFive – Music) La Fouine – Vécu (feat Kamelancien)
La Fouine
Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his alias La Fouine (English: The Weasel) or Fouiskin (born December 25, 1981 in Trappes, Yvelines), is a French rapper of Moroccan origins from the city of Trappes, Yvelines in the Paris western suburbs. He is an established figure in French rap. La Fouine signed with Sony Records in 2003 and released his debut album, Bourré au son, in 2005. La Fouine released his second album, Aller-Retour, on March 12, 2007. The American beatmaker Focus produced four songs on the album. His most recent album, Mes Repères, was released on February 23, 2009 and is two times gold record in France. His new album, a double CD intituled “La Fouine Vs Laouni” released on February 14.
He has also his own label “Banlieue Sale Music” and his own clothing line called “Street Swagg”.
Kamelancien, also known as the Kamelanc’, whose real name is Jdayni Kamel Houari, is a French rapper born on 13 May 1980 and originally from Oujda, Morocco.
He was born in France in 1980, and grew up in Gentilly, Val-de-Marne. According to Kamelancien, he has always wanted to be a rapper and began writing lyrics in 1993.
His clash with The Weasel
The two rappers had an ongoing beef that lasted several years. Finally the two reconciled.
Check it.
Son clash avec La Fouine
Le clash, ce sera avec un autre rappeur, qui comme lui est marocain et monte en puissance: La Fouine. Et c’est Kamelancien qui lance les hostilités en le clashant sur un son nommé Reste Vrai. Il lui reproche notamment de trop vouloir s’inspirer des américains, en l’occurrence Snoop Dogg, et le traite de “visage tordu”. En 2005, La Fouine lui répond sur le morceau Ferme ta gueule en l’insultant à plusieurs reprises, se moquant de son rap et de “sa voix trop bizarre”. Il lui reproche de n’être présent que sur des featuring et des compilations, et de n’avoir jamais sorti ni d’album, ni de single. Enfin, il lui reproche également d’avoir changer de comportement envers lui sans aucune raison. Kamelancien rapplique aussitôt avec son titre Crise cardiaque et va même le menacer ouvertement dans l’émission Couvre feu animée par Jacky Brown. Ce clash opposant deux rappeurs marocains en train de monter, aux styles complètement différents, l’un originaire de Oujda et représentant le 94 et l’autre originaire de Casablanca et représentant le 78, sera l’un des plus célèbres de l’histoire du rap français, chacun y allant de son petit pique en direction de l’autre au fil des années. Cependant, éprouvant des regrets par rapport au fait qu’il ait insulté la mère de Kamelancien, ayant perdu sa propre mère quelque temps plus tôt, La Fouine s’excuse en direct sur Skyrock, une radio nationale française, pour les propos tenus.
Epilogue
Finalement, six années après, les deux rappeurs finiront par se réconcilier en mai 2011, le mois où Kamelancien devait sortir son nouvel album. En effet, c’est suite à l’initiative de La Fouine qui décide de l’inviter à son concert au Zénith de Paris, une invitation que Kamelancien honore car il l’a trouve très respectable. A la surprise de tous donc, Zaho présente ce soir là et La Fouine commence à entamer le tube de Kamelancien, Quand ils vont partir (feat Zaho), une chanson que La Fouine apprécie particulièrement, lui qui a perdu sa mère quelque temps auparavant. Puis débarque à la surprise de tous Kamelancien qui poursuit la chanson. Le public est réceptif et manifeste sa joie de voir les deux rappeurs ensemble, chose improbable auparavant. Les deux MC promettent, devant tout le monde et de manière officielle, que la hache de guerre et définitivement enterrée, qu’“ils ont muri” et qu’ils vont collaborer à l’avenir pour “faire évoluer le rap français”. Quelque temps après, les deux rappeurs coopèrent en effet, au point de faire un featuring ensemble, Vécu, qui connaît un grand succès (le clip a été vu plus de 8 millions de fois, dont le premier million en seulement l’espace de trois jours
Present
En novembre 2010, il annonce son retour en signant avec le label Karismatik (label indépendant où se trouve Kenza Farah) et sort dans la foulée Lion du désert, le premier extrait de son nouvel album prévu pour Mai 2011. Il en profite pour changer son pseudonyme en Kamelanc’. Mais il quitte en Mai 2011, le label pour signer chez la nouvelle structure crée par Banlieue Sale S-kal Records avec Sultan, MLC , Najim, V&K , Bass 54 et A2P et Jihan ainsi que le grand Farid dit “Rnad”. L’album est donc repoussé à 2012.
Check it. Google Privacy Policy Doesn’t Meet EU Standards, French Agency Says. “A French independent privacy body criticized Google’s newly-revamped privacy policy this week, saying that there is not enough transparency in how Google plans to use its data… At issue is a new, unified privacy policy that consolidated Google’s 70 or so privacy policies across its products down to one, and will pull data from users logged in to Google. That new privacy agreement takes place tomorrow, or March 1.” –PCMag.com
Check it. Google privacy policy changes March 1: How to clear your search history, account information. “The first and easiest way to use Google but keep the company from collecting information on you is to use the company’s services without signing in to your account. YouTube, Search and Maps don’t require users to be logged in to use the services, though even signed-out users will still see ads based on their search terms, etc.” –Washington Post
And
Check it. Google’s controversial new privacy policy breaches data laws, says EU.
“Google’s controversial new privacy policy appears to violate European law, EU authorities said in an email to Google CEO Larry Page on Tuesday – just two days before the new guidelines are set to come into force.” –Mail Online
After 2 or 3 days without power, toilette’s, or showers. Check it: A disabled cruise ship arriving at Seychelles port, after days at sea being towed w/o power.
Another Italian Cruiseboat bringin all da charms of 15th Century SeaTravel, minus scurvy.
On da interwebs:
Check it. Disabled Italian cruise ship arrives safely in Seychelles port. “A disabled cruise ship is arriving in port in the island nation of the Seychelles after three days at sea without power.
The Costa Allegra has been at sea with more than 1,000 people onboard and without electricity since a fire in the generator room on Monday. There are no toilets, showers or lights. The cause of the fire is unknown.” –Fox News
Check it. Stricken Costa Allegra passengers arrive at port in Seychelles.
“Passengers on stricken Italian liner the Costa Allegra have arrived in the Seychelles after enduring sweltering heat as the ship was slowly towed to port, two days after a fire disabled it.” –Telegraph.co.uk
The ship is from the same fleet as the Costa Concordia, which flipped over, off the Italian coast in January, killing 32. Check it. BBC
Due to the civil war in his native Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, he escaped at the age of ten with his mother to France. He grew up in the Paris suburbs, in the département of Yvelines.
Like so many young people in the French suburbs, he fell in love with hip-hop. He began at 14 years old to write hip-hop music for the first time. After a feature on a compilation of underground artists, he founded in 1998, the crew Frères Lumière. With it, he launched the single être né quelque part. After high school, Youssoupha decided to put his music career on hold and go to university.
In 2003 he went back into the music business, on the project Bana Kin. Under this name he brings together Congolese rappers in the album Tendance, in which he appreciates and gives tribute to the culture and music of his native country. A year later he joined the collective 3ème Underground. Besides these endeavors, he also worked as a solo artist and signed with Bomayé music, the label of his associates Philo. In 2005 he released his first solo album, recommencement Eternel, which promptly became the Street Album of the Year nominee. He then signed with the label Hostile.
By the end of 2006 Mixtape avant l’album appeared. The critics were highly positive of Youssoupha and voted him one of the most promising talents of French rap. His debut album on Hostile was A chaque frère, released in early 2007. The working title of Negritude was of great interest to the general public, generating popularity quickly, and the album was a huge success. Following this, Youssoupha took a break at home, but was always present with various ongoing projects.
In early 2009 he came back topping the charts fast and furious with the song La vie est speed for the film Fast and Furious 4. Later that year, he released Sur les Chemins du retour, his second album. Check it.
Check it. Youssoupha: Biographie, vidéos, extraits audio, dates de concerts et forum autour du rappeur français: Official Site.
He was sixteen during the genocide. His mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi. An armed group entered the family home, killing his parents and siblings. Cornelius was a powerless witness to the massacre, he was spared because he hid behind a sofa. He fled to Zaire after days of walking, and found refuge with a German couple who were friends of his parents.
In July1997, he left Germany to continue his studies in communications at the Concordia University of Montreal. A few months after arriving in Quebec, he made the acquaintance of Peter Gage and Martin Gardy (aka Gardy Fury), with whom he formed the group R’n’B O.N.E.
He dropped out of the band in January2001, to pursue his solo career.
In 2002, he participated in several projects. He composed and wrote the title Tonight for compiling R & B COCKTAIL 2 (Ghetto R & B / Sony Music ), and the title If only we loved the album Hip Hop Folies (Sony Music), featuring; Passi, Daddy Mory, K-mel, Sniper, Nâdiya, Sheraz, MBE, Nathalie Loriot, and The Weasel.
Cornelius is working with the Red Cross to raise awareness of Canadian children victimized by war.
Toujours dans la même année, il est sollicité pour écrire la chanson représentant la France au concours Eurovision, ce qu’il accepte. Il dévoile la chanson Vous c’est nous lors de l’émission spéciale, présentée par Michel Drucker et Claudy Siar, au cours de laquelle les téléspectateurs français élisent la jeune Virginie Pouchain, révélée chez Pascal Sevran, comme l’artiste qui ira défendre les chances françaises à Athènes. Mais ce titre ne semble pas convaincre les organisateurs du concours et Corneille est invité à revoir sa copie. Finalement, c’est un autre titre, Il était temps, composé en urgence, qui sera retenu. Malgré tout, le succès ne sera pas au rendez-vous, Virginie Pouchain n’arrivant qu’en vingt-deuxième position sur un total de vingt-quatre participants, à l’issue de la finale.
Le 9septembre2006, il épouse Sofia De Medeiros, sa compagne depuis cinq ans, dans une petite cérémonie au cœur des Laurentides, au nord de Montréal.
Après un album anglophone, il revient sur la scène française avec un quatrième album studio co-écrit avec son épouse, intitulé, tout simplement, Sans titre, sorti le 19octobre2009. Entre temps, le 9avril2010, il a eu un heureux évènement, la naissance d’un premier enfant, un petit garçon, Merrik. Check it.
Check it: Corneille.ca – Site officiel de l’artiste Corneille – The official site of the artist Corneille.
WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration announced a blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to Protect Consumers Online.The blueprint will guide efforts to give users more control over how their personal information is used on the Internet and that their personal informatin is safe online.
“American consumers can’t wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information is safe online,” said President Obama. “As the Internet evolves, consumer trust is essential for the continued growth of the digital economy. That’s why an online privacy Bill of Rights is so important. For businesses to succeed online, consumers must feel secure.”
According to the Statement, the advertising industry also committed not to release consumers’ browsing data to companies who might use it for purposes other than advertising, such as employers making hiring decisions or insurers determining coverage.
Check it.WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE: We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to Protect Consumers Online Internet Advertising Networks Announces Commitment to “Do-Not-Track” Technology to Allow Consumers to Control Online Tracking -The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
Check it. The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: Are We the Consumers, Or Are We the Product?
“Yes, we want Google, Facebook, and all other online services to keep our information private. But if we want them to remain free, something’s gotta give” -Bloomberg Buisnessweek
Check it. Money Minute: Privacy ‘bill of rights’ isn’t good enough [Video]
“The White House’s privacy guidelines are just that — guidelines. They’re voluntary, and companies can still decide how much (or little) privacy protection to offer users. But the bigger issue here is the lack of an opt-in provision. As it stands, the administration’s privacy bill of rights would still require people to opt out of having their personal info used or shared by websites.” -LA Times
Not Enough
The major problem is as the LA Times David Lazarus points out, this blueprint does very little by being a voluntary program. In this age of less regulation of business, business interests come before consumers and individual privacy rights.
Check it. Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations.
Try look: “motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium.” -CBS Tampa
Check it. Obama Returns to Florida for Campaign Cash, Speech on Energy.
“President Barack Obama is promoting his administration’s energy and economic policies in response to Republican criticism over rising gasoline prices and raising campaign money in the battleground state of Florida today” -Bloomberg
Check it. Money Minute: Can we drill our way to lower gas prices?
“Gas prices are climbing — again. And as they go up, calls are growing in some quarters for more domestic oil drilling.
But can we drill our way to energy independence?
The answer, experts say, is no. And it’s a simple math problem. The United States consumes more than 20% of the world’s oil every year and a similar percentage of natural gas. But we have only about 1.6% of proven oil reserves and only about 3.8% of proven gas reserves.” -LA Times.
Hoa, who mahke da cost?
Try Look: Who’s to blame for rising oil prices? Speculators.
“Oil prices are determined mainly by the combined behavior of oil traders on markets, the most important one being the New York Mercantile Exchange. When traders believe that oil prices will rise, they buy oil futures in the hope of selling them down the road for a profit. Such buying increases oil prices, and, eventually, the price of gasoline, heating oil, and many other products.Oil prices started to rise because traders saw clear signs that the US and global economy were rebounding after the Great Recession, creating more demand for oil. The weakening dollar and fears that Middle East turmoil would disrupt oil supplies have also pushed prices higher.”
“Data released in March 2011 by Bart Chilton, commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, suggest that speculators have increased their positions in energy markets by 64 percent since June 2008. That’s the highest level on record.”
” -The Christian Science Monitor
Trickle up economics
Check it. Oil speculation seen adding $600 to your gas bill.
“Oil market speculation will cost U.S. households more than ever in 2011, a consumer group predicts, and the drain on household incomes will increase unless government rules to curb it are imposed.”
“In 2011 oil prices traded in a range between about $80 and $100 a barrel.
Without speculation, the price of crude oil would instead fall somewhere between $60 and $75 per barrel”, according to the Consumer Federation of America . -CNNMoney
