Sunday, 30 December 2012

Andrew Exum: From Benghazi to Blackwater

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Bronx Woman Charged With Murder as a Hate Crime in Subway Attack

A law enforcement official said that Ms. Menendez had “told the cops it was an act against Muslims,” and cited the Sept. 11 attacks. The victim, Sunando Sen, was born in India and, according to a roommate, was raised Hindu.

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DJ Brainchild: Dego Mix (Free Download)

Tracklist:

ego "Da Fuzz" (feat. Matt Lord)
4hero "Hold It Down" (feat. Lady Alma)
Silhouette Brown "They Can't Tell Us"
DKD "Future Rage"
Dego "DNP" exclusive
Dego "Love & Hate You" (feat. Obenewa)
Dego "Sparkling Minds (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow)
4hero "Something In The Way" (feat. Bembe Segue & Kaidi Tatham)
Silhouette Brown "Strawberries In Vinegar"
2000Black "Lose It" (feat. Face)
DKD "Natty Head"
Dego "They Never Know" (feat. Sarina Leah)
Dego "We Are Virgo" (feat. Kaidi Tatham)
Tek 9 "Interlude"
Dego "Whatever" (feat. The Luv Bugz)
Capitol A "Doing It Up"
Dego "Valentines" exclusive
Dego "Pushing You To Begin" (feat. Ferraz)
2000Black "So Right" (feat. Ferraz)
MM Black "2000 Black" (feat. Roy Ayers)
4hero "Universal Love" (feat. Carol Cosby)
Tek 9 "You Got To Slow Down"
Jacob's Optical Stairway "Jacob's Optical Illusion"
Da One Away "Trash Da Junk"
2000Black "If You Got 3 Wishes"
2000Black "Forgot The Steel Pans"
Focus "Having Your Fun" (4hero Remix)
2000Black "Got Me Puzzled" (feat. Face, Dego & Kaidi)
Dego "Right From Wrong" (feat. Tosin Tao)
Dego "Road Lessons" exclusive

FWMJ vs dego

Part 1: Elitism, Greed, The Common Denominator & The Underground

Part 2: Occupy, Kreayshawn, The Death of Black Music & Austerity

Yoko Ono Talks About Other Beatles’ Resentment Of Becoming ‘Paul’s Band’

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Eight Are Charged With Victor Jara's 1973 Murder

Glenn Marzano: Stop Breakin' Down (A short film about Robert Johnson)

I completed "Stop Breakin' Down" in 1999 while a student at Loyola Marymount University. It was my thesis project. Synopsis: Who was Robert Johnson? The world knows him today as one of the fathers of the Delta Blues. But who was he, really? Everyone who knew him had a different opinion. To his field-hand stepfather, Robert Johnson was a dreamy kid who refused to work in the cotton fields and longed to play the guitar. To Blues great Son House, Johnson was a pesky teenager trying to wish himself into being a great guitar player, a dime-a-dozen kid without talent but desperate to succeed, who hung around juke joints bothering musicians to "sit in" on a set. To itinerant blues guitarist Ike Zinneman, Johnson was an ambitious young man who absorbed the guitar technique of other musicians like a sponge, a kid with a phenomenal ear for music who became great faster than anybody could have imagined. To the audiences who heard him play all over the South and up into Chicago and New York, he was the arrogant, handsome black man who played better than anybody had ever played, who wanted greatness so much that he went down to a Mississippi crossroads one midnight and sold his soul to the Devil in return for a short life and a talent that would live forever. "Stop Breakin' Down," looks at these different interpretations of Johnson's life. The script is structured around the night of his murder, linked to flashbacks to his youth, his relationship with Son House, and two possible reasons for his sudden acquisition of the blazing guitar technique: the crossroads legend, and the influence of Ike Zinneman. (25 minute Short Film)
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