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"Now, I'm gonna say this and please don't be mad or take it out of context. People, the level of heat that yall brought to Hot 97 is wonderful.

But yo, I for one worry that a lot of this rage is just pure bloodlust, some old let's-go-see-the-5pm-execution-in-the-town-square, while all the real criminals are still out there.

Tell me I'm wrong. Or better yet, tell me how we now get to the real criminals. Alright?"

"What's particularly galling is that British journalists will heap hyperbole and praise on the most derivative whey-faced rock bands whether they're aping The Stooges or the Gang of Four and yet criticise dance acts for not coming up with a new revolution every few months"

CD RELEASE PARTY for ARIEL APARICIO

SATURDAY JAN. 29TH, @ THE HOOK

10PM

featuring

BELLYFIRE (10:30PM)
ARIEL APARICIO w/ The Hired Guns (midnight)

and DJ'S JOYA GOODIES & BACKROOM SEX

The Hook is located at 18 Commerce St.(between columbia & richards) in Red Hook (click here for more info).

There will be shuttle buses going from JOYA to The Hook throughout the night starting at 10pm.

$5 cover (all door proceeds are being donated to GOD's LOVE WE DELIVER)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2005

Be Sure To Join Us for a Very Special Birthday Celebration for:

SpectacularSounds CEO, DJ White Lightning/CIA aka David H. Martin, Esq. and Tony LoGuidice, Esq. at



Frank's Lounge
660 Fulton Street (corner of South Elliot)
Ft. Greene, Brooklyn

Hip-Hop, Reggae, R&B, Reggaeton, House & Old Skool Classics, Calypso & Soca

On the 1, 2, 3 & 4's:

Spectacular Sounds! feat. DJ White Lightning/C.I.A. with Frank's DJ Tyrone

DOORS OPEN AT 10PM

21 AND OVER ~ STRICTLY GROWN AND SEXY CROWD

$5 COVER CHARGE AT DOOR | RSVP FOR THE GUEST LIST here

January 10: "I’m not aware of any others that are under contract other than the one that’s been reported on in the media. As a matter of principle, we believe very strongly that the media ought to be reporting in an objective, unbiased and fair manner." -- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan at a White House press briefing.

Yesterday: "I expect my Cabinet secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn't go forward. All our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda." -- President Bush as quoted at CNN.com.

"I've been paying attention and I been watching people steal my ways and sh-t and it's getting out of control. I'ma tell these dudes just like I tell my women 'Don't watch me, watch TV. This is pay-per-view - you got to pay for this....'"

Embryonic stem cells, hailed as a potential treatment for a range of diseases, are contaminated by an animal molecule, researchers suggest. The molecule's presence would lead the human immune system to attack the cells. The University of California team, writing in Nature Medicine, says this means such cells could not be used.

Dr Ajit Varki at the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California said,"It would seem best to start over again with newly derived human embryonic stem cells that have never been exposed to any animal products." However, regulations in the US which only allows federal funding to be given to research on embryonic stem cell lines created before 2001 would mean such an approach could not be pursued without a change in the law.

"It is no use saying torture never works; it periodically does work, and in some cases can avert a major attack."

One of the Chinese citizens sought for questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed threat against the city of Boston has been in United States custody for more than two months [emphasis added], the F.B.I. said on Saturday.

The F.B.I. said, "It appears at this time that Mei Xia Dong's motives for entering the U.S. may have been for economic reasons," the F.B.I. statement said. "The investigation thus far does not tie her to any terrorist group," it said.

Officials have said they are increasingly skeptical about the validity of an uncorroborated tip from an anonymous source that led to a terror alert in Boston on Wednesday. News media reports spoke of threats to explode a "dirty bomb," which disperses low-level radioactive material, and the F.B.I. announced it was seeking to interview 14 people, most of them Chinese, in connection with the unspecified plot.

But by Friday, Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts said that he was growing less concerned about the situation. Officials began to speculate that the tip was a hoax.

The new supplemental budget request, which would come on top of the $25 billion in emergency spending that had already been approved for the current fiscal year, would push total 2005 funding for military operations and equipment close to a record $105 billion. Since the first money was provided shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the total provided so far for the U.S. efforts against terrorism would reach more than $280 billion.

Districts around the country are pondering whether to inject intelligent design into science classes, and the constitutional problems are underscored by practical issues. There is little enough time to discuss mainstream evolution in most schools; the Dover students get two 90-minute classes devoted to the subject. Before installing intelligent design in the already jam-packed science curriculum, school boards and citizens need to be aware that it is not a recognized field of science. There is no body of research to support its claims nor even a real plan to conduct such research. In 2002, more than a decade after the movement began, a pioneer of intelligent design lamented that the movement had many sympathizers but few research workers, no biology texts and no sustained curriculum to offer educators. Another leading expositor told a Christian magazine last year that the field had no theory of biological design to guide research, just "a bag of powerful intuitions, and a handful of notions." If evolution is derided as "only a theory," intelligent design needs to be recognized as "not even a theory" or "not yet a theory." It should not be taught or even described as a scientific alternative to one of the crowning theories of modern science.

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"President Bush's soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world."

[T]hanks to unceasing alarms, many, and perhaps most, people today think [social security] is in serious financial trouble.

But is it? After Bush's re-election, I carefully read the 225-page annual report of the Social Security trustees. I also talked to actuaries and economists, inside and outside the agency, who are expert in the peculiar science of long-term Social Security forecasting. The actuarial view is that the system is probably in need of a small adjustment of the sort that Congress has approved in the past. But there is a strong argument, which the agency acknowledges as a possibility, that the system is solvent as is.

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BIOGRAPHY



Bathgate (bath∙gate) n. - your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper…

Harlem’s back! Uptown mc Bathgate (formerly known as Billy Bathgate) returns with his new single “Everything’s A Go (The Flow)” b/w “Badside” for the brand new indie hip hop label Supreme Clientele Recordings.

Starting from the ground up in the late 90’s – at park battles in the Manhattanville housing project – to spittin’ freestyle classics on countless mixtapes like Kay Slay’s Streetsweeper series and other street joints by Purple City and DJ’s like Clue, Whoo Kid, Envy, Enuff, Dirty Harry, Kool Kid and Clinton Sparks, Bathgate built an enormous underground street buzz and following for an artist without an album out or a record deal.

With his name ringin’ off in streets everywhere, a bidding war ensued that landed Bath at Virgin records. His jumpoff single “Fuck That” (aka dubbed “Bump That” for radio) became an instant hood anthem, which Rolling Stone magazine also dubbed one of their cool hip hop, singles of the year in April 2001.

After Vibe magazine tipped him as being a part of “Rap’s New Generation” alongside Remy Martin and T.I. and with “Bump That” receiving major airplay and running mixshows nationwide, demand for Bathgate’s full-length debut Dear Rich America, My Story To You was high. But major corporate restructuring at Virgin on the eve of the album’s release, resulting in much of the label’s roster being dropped and key staff being laid off, left no one to properly work the album.

With his label situation in disarray, but several tracks bangin’ on the streets, Bath stayed focused on music. He was a headline performer on Funkmaster Flex’s College Tunnel Tour with Jadakiss, appeared on Volume 3 of Flex’s well-respected vinyl-only Big Truck Series Freestyle EP’s, was featured in the soundtrack to the Project Gotham video game and wrote songs for others including Puffy, Trina, Amil (and a few others who shall remain nameless).

Now, after schooling himself on the business side to the industry, Bath is in control of his own destiny running his own label, Capital Gang Records, and inking a 12” single deal with Supreme Clientele to reintroduce himself to the hip hop game. The club heater “Everything’s A Go (The Flow)” and the more pensive “Badside” are the first two songs from his official debut album The Education and the Supreme Clientele compilation The Clientele Chronicles Vol. 1 both due in 2005.



Check out the official Bathgate website.

Listen to “Everything’s A Go (The Flow)” | “Badside”

Buy the 12" single of “Everything’s A Go (The Flow)” at Juno records here.

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You might wonder—were you someone unfamiliar with or in denial about the ways of the Karl Rove Mafia—how George W. Bush could blunder into nominating someone as attorney general so obviously implicated in the most legally questionable and morally indefensible practices of his administration. You might wonder, too, how the administration seemed to be caught unawares by the bottomless pit of scandal in the past of its initial nominee for Homeland Security secretary.

Or you could realize that such nominations were not blunders, but intentional: that they were made not in spite of Alberto Gonzales's and Bernard Kerik's unsuitability for high office but precisely because of them.

The theme of his inaugural speech, which he said is “aimed at history,” will be “Liberty is powerful, and freedom is peace.” He’s not worried about protests disrupting the day. “Protests don’t bother me. It’s a great part of democracy,” he said. “I’ve seen my fair share since I’ve been the president.”

“Television is so manipulative over there, if you watched it continuously for a week you’d really understand the rhythms of their society and culture.

I’d never heard the phrase ‘Leaders of the free world’ when I was in England or anywhere else in Europe whereas in America the president is frequently addressed as the ‘leader of the free world’. How did they figure that one out? They use the word ‘freedom’ in such a patriotic way, but this word and other ones they use are not meant for us. They are addressed to Americans in order to justify their actions, like ‘we’re going to bring freedom to Iraq’. TV is central to the delivery of these messages. They have sad programs, happy programs and news, all neatly divided across specific hours to manipulate people’s emotions easily.”

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

"Babies are less likely to survive in America than in impoverished and autocratic Cuba [emphasis added]. According to the latest C.I.A. World Factbook, Cuba is one of 41 countries that have better infant mortality rates than the U.S."

With the formal start of the second Bush administration only days away, an article in the latest New Yorker magazine suggests that Iran is now squarely in the US president's sights.

The piece by the veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that US special forces have already been operating inside Iran [emphasis added].

He also says that the administration's aims could include not just an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, but full-scale regime change [emphasis added].

"One of the most alarming vulnerabilities to emerge after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been the Federal Bureau of Investigation's continuing inability to come up with a computer system that enables field agents to act quickly in sharing information and suspicions about where the next threats may emerge. A more effective system was in the works, the bureau promised lawmakers. They poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the effort, expecting the F.B.I. to meet its goal of having the antiterrorist centerpiece - the Virtual Case File - finally up and running by December 2003, a date already a year behind the original goal.

Well, not only has Virtual Case File slipped another year behind, but it also appears close to a virtual death."

"A British Airways jumbo jet flying to New York turned back after the US objected to one of its passengers.

Three hours after take-off on Wednesday the Boeing 747, with 239 passengers, turned around after a US request that the man should not be allowed to land.

They said his name matched one on a terrorism watch list. He was met by British police on landing and was questioned, but later released [emphasis added].

BA said there was "no threat to the safety of the aircraft" [emphasis again added]."