You already know that the president has commuted the jail sentence of SCOOTER LIBBY.
SCOOTER had been convicted of obstructing investigators in the case of who leaked confidential security information regarding U.S. operatives in the so-called War Against Terror.
Was it ever in question?
“Iraq Should be more like Israel, now that’s success.” – G DUBBZ
The expectations for Iraq have finally bubbled down to a concession that shiite over there will happen everyday. This was said by Middle East experts long before the U.S. invasion. We (the United States) actually destabilized the region by first bombing Afghanistan and pushing Afghan refugees into Iraq, and then by bombing Iraq and removing SADDAM HUSSEIN from control. What you have in the region now are millions of homeless, displaced, refugees that have only anger to supplement their desire to live.
We’ve placed our soldiers in a cauldron of hate and fear as they try to normalize the region by killing off all the people that appear to be against the program. Some of the troops that we’ve sent to the desert are wilting under the intense heat and pressure to survive in that hostile environment. Who can blame them? They are no more criminal than the cowards that ordered them into the desert in the first place.
Where there’s smoke theres usually a burning car bomb, and the latest roadside IED deaths are calculated and compiled by private security firms that are placing mega-million dollar bids to patrol the region as some sort of quasi-military unit that oftentimes have jurisdiction over the actual military servicemen. These defense contractors recognize war as a business enterprise and would probably do their best to make sure that the golden wheels keep spinning.
The biggest loss in the Iraqi clusterfuck was the death of the spirit of CINDY SHEEHAN. She was this country’s greatest patriot for several years and we all willfully allowed her to be stripped naked and stoned. Who could have thought that America would become the western Iran theocracy? GOD bless CASEY SHEEHAN. GOD bless his mom.
Celebrate Indepence Day by supporting independent music and the movement of rebellion. Kill your Black Entertainment television.
For a solid week the planet of Brooklyn will be home to some of the most progressive, trendsetting musicians you can hear right now. Don’t get it twisted, the Afro Punk movement is Hip-Hop. More Hip-Hop than your T.V. sets or your radio since all that shit is programmed by the Tall Israelis anyhoo.
The Afro Punk Film and Music Festival is your chance to catch my favorite band GAME Rebellion as well as some other tight groups do their thing with a swing and swagger that only comes from cooking a gumbo filled with Public Enemy, The Clash, Bad Brains, Big Daddy Kane and FishBone to name a few, but it ain’t just music either party people. Afro Punk is a lifestyle bitches! Take a look at all the events that are popping off this week.
Afro Punk Brooklyn Block Party
Sunday July 1st 12pm-5pm
Clinton Street (between Willoughby and Myrtle Aves)
DJ RICH MEDINA on the set
bring your children
*FREE – FREE – FREE – FREE – FREE – FREE – FREE – FREE*
GAME Rebellion Live In Concert!
Thurs July 5th 8pm
SouthPaw
125 Fifth Avenue
also featuring…
CX KidTronik
Whole Wheat Bread
The Objex
Brooklyn Museum of Art ‘Target First Saturdays’
Saturday July 7th 5pm-11pm
Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue
Afro Punk Festival wrap concert featuring…
The Exit
Dragons of Zynth
The Smyrk,
with DJ sets by CX Kidtronik and King Cole
Go to AfroPunk.com for more info on the film festival and other performers.
BROOKLYN STAND UP!
The Huffington Post is arguably one of the blogosphere’s most influential websites. In the nearly two years that the site has been active it has become a bellwether for freedom of speech and progressive political thought. The website is gearing up to post a daily feed from volunteer contributors regarding the 2008 United States presidential campaign.
Your favorite blogger, DALLAS PENN, respectfully submitted a letter of intent to join the fray of writers and since I am a registered Republican I volunteered to document the campaign efforts of RUDOLPH GIULIANI. Unfortunately for me the Huffington Post doesn’t deem my writing skills worthy of their bandwidth. So instead I will continue with my own posts describing the people and the politricks that will lead up to Election ’08 right here at DP Dot Com.
Even though my drops about politricks usually appear to fall on deaf ears(no Foxy Brown’s stolen hearing aid) I will be persistent in my quest to remind the Huffington Post, ne, the world wide web, that the voices of Hip-Hop whether they be urban or suburban speak as one clamorous boom bap against poverty and injustice.
Your loss, Huff Post. You bitches!
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You Down With G.O.P.? DALLAS PENN is the creator and editor-in-chief of the daily Hip-Hop blog dallaspenn dotcom. He is also a featured columnist for XXL Magazine and is known throughout the internets for his short videos on affordable food – ‘Ghetto Big Mac’ and ‘Bodega’. From his parents’ basement, DALLAS PENN tackles not only music and art, but the gorgeous mosaic that is American culture. Sometimes serious and occasionally hilarious, DALLAS PENN is that type of magical Negro that so many Americans wish all Blacks could be. From politics to religion, from sports to love, he examines why we do the things that we do and celebrates that we do anything at all. Dallas Penn and his merry band of players can always be found online at dallaspenn dot com. Or sometimes on VH1’s The Best Week Ever. But only if you do a Google search. |
It was only four years ago that some marketing genius created the most used useless political slogan evar. “Vote Or Die!” was plastered onto billboards, streetlamp signs and busty chanteuse’s t-shirts in an effort to sell more t-shirts I presume. It’s not just the fact that the slogan “Vote or Die!” has no common sense attached to it, but isn’t the act of killing yourself counterintuitive to the political process? Maybe I don’t know the full backstory and maybe someone had already copywritten “Vote To Live!”, but what I do know is that propaganda is that last way to attract young people into the arena of political thought.
Four years ago when Hip-Hop music was a stronger cultural force across mainstream America it was believed that the generation that used the artistic movement of Hip-Hop to frame their lives would be a proactive (damn you DIDDY) and progressive force. It turns out that the Hip-Hop generation for all of it’s early bluster about partying for the right to fight are only interested in partying primarily. And fighting secondarily. Rights? Not so much. This may be the most politically impotent generation evar although the money and capital that they transfer is enormous.
Why haven’t BARACK OBAAMA or HILARY CLINTON made overtures to target this demographic? Because they know that when the time comes for people to come to the polling stations all the people under thirty-five will be doing something else. Probably working at their jobs in the service industry without union representation or retirement options. Meanwhile, these same Senators vying for the presidency have been tacitly dismantling the country’s social security system. This is all going down while we snap our fingers and ‘walk it out’ to rap music’s care free choruses. It’s no longer a matter of who will ring the alarm. The real question is who will even care?
I see the election season in 2007 as a training ground for the 2008 campaigns. There are surely councilpersons and state assembly seats up for grabs this year. All of our responsibilities are simple and clear. Uncover the candidates early in the process before they place their placards on lampposts. The first thing we need is to find out who believes in education over prison, the environment over oil, and peace over war. In this way we can send a message to the larger public that we have not forsaken our obligations as citizens, nor have we comprimised our humanity. If we can’t even muster this effort we might as well go back to the “Vote Or Die!” proposition and just kill ourselves.