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Sizzling Soul and Top Ranking Reggae
from the 1960's & 1970's

Special Guest DJ I-Queue (from Brookyln)
making his hometown DJ debut
alongside resident DJ Anousheh

Saturday, June 5 - 10 PM
The Cloak & Dagger - 394 College Street

c'est free
c'est chic

(NB: Cloak is on the North side of College, about a block and a half east of Bathurst)

"Look, in order to catch a rat, you gotta think like one. We've been pussy-footing around the war on terrorism for years. All that time, the answer was right in front of us: In order to wipe out terror around the globe, once and for all, we've gotta beat them at their own game.

It's vital to remember that these terrorists hate freedom. Well, guess what? From now on, we're going to hate it even more. Do you think terrorists care about due process and fair treatment of prisoners? Of course not. Why should we give them the upper hand? You fight fire with fire."

Be Prepared to Reexamine Your Reasoning: What makes us omniscient? We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe we should ever apply that economic, political or miliatry power unilaterally.

If we had followed that rule in Vietnam we would have never had been there. None of our allies supported us: not Japan, not Germany, not Britian, not France. If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the mertis of our cause, we better reexamine our reasoning....

On 4/23/03 President Bush visited the Timken Company in Canton, OH, and touted the company as a demonstration of the success of his economic policies. Bush said "the future of employment is bright for the families that work here, that work to put food on the table for their children." Yesterday Timken announced it is slashing 1300 jobs from its work force, a quarter of its employees in Canton. Bush said that Timken would be successful because "high productivity that comes from steady innovation and skilled workers gives our economy a tremendous edge." But, announcing the layoffs Timken revealed that "production at the Canton bearing plants has declined 27 percent over the last five years." (White House Press Release | Cleveland-Akron News Channel 5 website | Timken Official Press Release)

Timken said that it is paring back operations in the Canton plant because it believes wages there are too high and health care benefits too generous. The Union president, Stan Jasionowski, said that Timken "never ever gave us any formal proposals" to reduce costs at the plant. Jasionowski said that he believed the layoffs were "a ploy to destroy the union in the bearing factories." (Akron Beacon Journal site reg' req'd)

As Timken fires workers in Ohio it has expanded operation abroad, especially in China. On 1/31/03 Timken announced it "established a distribution center in Shanghai, China." In 2002, "The Timken Company and NSK Ltd. formed a joint venture to build a plant near Shanghai...production is expected to begin first quarter 2004." (Timken Official Press Release)

Meanwhile, W.R. Timken, the company's chairman of the board, is a Ranger – meaning he has raised at least $200,000 for the Bush campaign. Timken's political action committee has donated $10,000 directly to Bush and $235,000 to his political allies. Other executives have chipped in $12,500 since 2000. Timken was a member of the Employers' Coalition on Medicare, a group of heavy Bush contributors who lobbied for the new Medicare law which rewards companies with a tax subsidy even if they reduce retirees' existing drug coverage. (GeorgeWBush.com | OpenSecrets.org | Center for American Progress)

1939 marked the birth of Blue Note Records and the birth of a new era in music. The label created by German immigrant, Alfred Lion, would soon evolve into a home for the finest in jazz music for ages to come. Looking back in 1969, label partner and photographer Francis Wolff wrote "By 1939, jazz had gathered enough momentum so that an experiment like Blue Note could be tried” and 65 years later Blue Note Records is still going strong as the preeminent jazz label in the world.

Now, in the Spring of 2004, Blue Note releases Blue Note Revisited, an album containing remixes, remakes, and reworks by some of the world’s most talented DJs and producers including Bugz in the Attic, Kenny “Dope” Gonzales, Madlib, JayDee aka J Dilla, Jazzanova, Kyoto Jazz Massive, and DJ Spinna to name a few.

1. What is the name of Madlib's jazz group incarnation?

and

2. What is the name of the A Tribe Called Quest song that sampled Brother Jack McDuff's "Oblighetto" remixed by J Dilla on Blue Note Revisted?

"And I don't wear jerseys, I'm thirty plus" -- Jay-Z from "What More Can I Say"

-Check out the launch event for the K1X Basketball Shoe, designed by Bobbito this Sunday (May 16) at Training Camp (41st and 6th Ave) 2pm. Beat Bobbito at H.O.R.S.E. and win a free pair! Full info at www.chiefglider.com

- "Where'd You Get Those?" Bobbito's world of Sneakers, Basketball and Hip Hop Exhibit. Opening Night, Wednesday, May 26 at the Carribean Cultural Center (408 W 58 St off 9th), 7pm-10pm with DJ Eli on the mix. Opens to the public June 2 and runs until July 30th. Film screenings to be announced. For full info, call Cynthia Carrion at (212) 307-7420 x3008.

- Project Playground Basketball launches: check out streaming video highlights of our live halftime shows including Dallas Mavericks, NBA XL TV, and U Conn!

- Bounce: from the Playground Magazine launches and the summer issue will hit newstands in June. To purchase mags visit www.fatbeats.com or select NYC newstands (including W 3rd St/6th Ave, 125th St/Adam Clayton Powell).

One by one, the reasons for sending America to war in Iraq seem to have crumbled. Investigators found no weapons of mass destruction and no proof of claims that Saddam Hussein was plotting with Al Qaeda's terrorists. A year after liberation, Washington's last, best justification for the war seemed to be the promise to transform Iraq into a model of liberty and justice. Now many Iraqis have begun to disbelieve that. Instead of the rule of law, they see not only American misdeeds but an explosion among their fellow Iraqis of lynchings, private militias and kangaroo courts. Iraqis are supposed to resume control of the country's civil institutions on July 1, and no one seems remotely ready for the job—although the latest polls say most Iraqis are passionately eager to be rid of the Americans.

Even before the Abu Ghraib scandal erupted, people were complaining of American arrogance and hypocrisy. One particularly sore topic, especially among Shiites and Kurds, was the Coalition's recent decision to rehabilitate former Baathists to help lead the armed forces of liberated Iraq. The Americans didn't make the gesture of consulting the Iraqi Governing Council before the Marines abruptly cut a deal with several Saddam-era Iraqi generals to police the strife-torn city of Fallujah.

"I take full responsibility," said Donald Rumsfeld in his congressional testimony last week. But what does this mean? Secretary Rumsfeld hastened to add that he did not plan to resign and was not going to ask anyone else who might have been "responsible" to resign. As far as I can tell, taking responsibility these days means nothing more than saying the magic words "I take responsibility."

After the greatest terrorist attack against America, no one was asked to resign, and the White House didn't even want to launch a serious investigation into it. The 9/11 Commission was created after months of refusals because some of the victims' families pursued it aggressively and simply didn't give up. After the fiasco over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, not one person was even reassigned. The only people who have been fired or cashiered in this administration are men like Gen. Eric Shinseki, Paul O'Neill and Larry Lindsey, who spoke inconvenient truths.

Since 9/11, a handful of officials at the top of the Defense Department and the vice president's office have commandeered American foreign and defense policy. In the name of fighting terror they have systematically weakened the traditional restraints that have made this country respected around the world. Alliances, international institutions, norms and ethical conventions have all been deemed expensive indulgences at a time of crisis.

Within weeks after September 11, senior officials at the Pentagon and the White House began the drive to maximize American freedom of action. They attacked specifically the Geneva Conventions, which govern behavior during wartime. Donald Rumsfeld explained that the conventions did not apply to today's "set of facts." He and his top aides have tried persistently to keep prisoners out of the reach of either American courts or international law, presumably so that they can be handled without those pettifogging rules as barriers.

... Last week he said again that the Geneva Conventions did not "precisely apply" and were simply basic rules.

The conventions are not exactly optional. They are the law of the land, signed by the president and ratified by Congress. Rumsfeld's concern—that Al Qaeda members do not wear uniforms and are thus "unlawful combatants"—is understandable, but that is a determination that a military court would have to make. In a war that could go on for decades, you cannot simply arrest and detain people indefinitely on the say-so of the secretary of Defense.

Leave process aside: the results are plain. On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq—troop strength, international support, the credibility of exiles, de-Baathification, handling Ayatollah Ali Sistani—Washington's assumptions and policies have been wrong. By now most have been reversed, often too late to have much effect. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw in the eyes of much of the world.

"These prisoners,they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals." -- Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe

Three 6 Mafia -- 2 Way Freak
Drag-On & Petey Pablo -- Dirrty
Bathgate -- Let's Go
Rell feat. Jay-Z -- It's Obvious
Dunegon Family -- 6 Minutes (Dungeon Family It's On)
Donnell Jones feat. Styles P & Lady May -- Put Me Dowmn
Freeway feat. Snoop Dogg -- We Get Around
Kurupt feat. Nate Dogg -- Girls All PAuse
Mystic -- The Life
Xzibit feat. Mobb Deep -- Eyes All Shine (Remix)
Beanie Sigel -- In the Club

Deep divisions are emerging at the top of the US military over the occupation of Iraq, with some senior officers saying the United States is facing the prospect of casualties for years without achieving its stated goal of establishing a free, democratic Iraq.

Major General Charles H. Swannack Jr., the commander of the 82d Airborne Division who spent much of the year in western Iraq, said he thinks that at the tactical level at which fighting occurs, the US military is winning. But when asked whether he thinks the United States is losing, he said, ''I think strategically, we are." [emphasis added]

Come through to hear an eclectic mix of music ranging from hip hop and house to electro-disco-punk, new wave and more spun by the Different Kitchen staff DJ’s.

Plus LOW has f-ckin’ fantastic (and cheap) food at the bar via the kitchen at Rice Restaurant upstairs, so don’t miss this (and please help spread the word too).

See you Thursday.

DIRECTIONS:

BY SUBWAY:

F train to York St.: walk 3 blocks on York (past Pearl and Adams Streets) to Washington.

A/C train to High St./Brooklyn Bridge: exit from rear of the train (coming from Manhattan), walk down Cadman Plaza West, make right at first light on to Prospect, pass under the overpass then first left on Washington.

BY CAR from Manhattan:

Over the Brooklyn Bridge - Take Cadman Plaza West Exit (stay in right lane). Right at light at end of exit ramp, bear right on to Prospect Street, drive under the bridge. Take first left on Washington Street.

Over the Manhattan Bridge - Take right on to Tillary Street. Take to end. Make right on to Cadman Plaza West, make right on to Prospect Street, drive under the bridge. Take first left on Washington Street.

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keep it up-
Andrea

At the most basic level of justice, people are no longer disappearing into political prisons, torture chambers, and mass graves -- because the former dictator is in prison, himself. -- George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address. (May 1, 2004)

Because we acted, torture chambers are closed. -- George W. Bush, Remarks at a Pancake Breakfast, Lucas County, Ohio Recreation Center, Maumee, Ohio (May 4th, 2004)

The head of a US-funded Iraqi newspaper quit and said yesterday he was taking almost his entire staff with him because of American interference in the publication.

In a front-page editorial of the Al-Sabah newspaper, editor-in-chief Ismail Zayer said he and his staff were "celebrating the end of a nightmare we have suffered from for months. . . . We want independence. They [the Americans] refuse."

The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney and Miramax said Tuesday.

The film, "Fahrenheit 911," links Mr. Bush and prominent Saudis — including the family of Osama bin Laden — and criticizes Mr. Bush's actions before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Disney came under heavy criticism from conservatives last May after the disclosure that Miramax had agreed to finance the film when Icon Productions, Mel Gibson's company, backed out.

Mr. Moore's agent, Ari Emanuel, said Michael D. Eisner, Disney's chief executive, asked him last spring to pull out of the deal with Miramax. Mr. Emanuel said Mr. Eisner expressed particular concern that it would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its theme park, hotels and other ventures in Florida, where Mr. Bush's brother, Jeb, is governor.

"Michael Eisner asked me not to sell this movie to Harvey Weinstein; that doesn't mean I listened to him," Mr. Emanuel said. "He definitely indicated there were tax incentives he was getting for the Disney corporation and that's why he didn't want me to sell it to Miramax. He didn't want a Disney company involved."

The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with close ties to Israel. Now the Israel deal is dead, he's cozying up to Iran -- and his patrons look like they're on the way out. Click for full story. (site reg req'd)