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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Video: 60 Minutes on the Blackwater 61 Plane Crash 


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Watch the video - it's all kinds of f-cked up!


Related:

Senate Committee Says the Contractor, Blackwater Is Armed and Dangerous. [ABC News]

Blackwater Allegedly Put a Prostitute on their Payroll. [via Gawker]

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

60 Minutes on the Haiti Crisis 


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More insane video. I know you've probably seen this or seen/heard similar elsewhere but sometimes it just needs to be out out there again and again so people can be reminded of just how great the devastation and the need is. And frankly, Haiti wasn't in such great shape before the earthquake to be 100!

Related:


The Rachel Maddow Show on the Dire Medical Need in Haiti. [video]


HELP HAITI:
- Donate $10 to the Red Cross' Haiti relief effort by texting the word 'Haiti' to 90999. Your cell carrier will charge you bill $10.

- Text 'Yele' to 501501 to donate $5 toward Haiti relief via Wyclef Jean's Yele organization.

- Click HERE to make a one-time credit or debit card donation to Doctors Without Borders' Haiti Earthquake Response effort.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

60 Minutes interview with President Obama 


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Speaking on the situation on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Video: Michael Vick 60 Minutes interview 



Read more here.

[spotted via RapRadar]

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Video: LeBron James on 60 Minutes 



Story here.

And if you don't have the patience to watch the whole thing, here's the video of just LeBron's ridiculous, one-handed, underhand, half-court shot.

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Barack Obama on 60 Minutes 



Watch part II here.


Previously:

Barack Obama on 60 Minutes in November.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Barack Obama on 60 Minutes 



More videos:

Barack on The Personal Transition.

Barack on a Father's Promise.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Saul Williams & Cam'ron: Reppin' the Best and Worst in Hip Hop 

Cam'ron on 60 Minutes:



More: Part 2 - listen to those kids (from a church group no less!), truly sad....

Even more:


- Rapper Cam'ron says Snitching Hurts His Business and violates his "Code Of Ethics." LOL!

- Cam getting super-flagrant as usual.

Excerpt from Saul Williams' "Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey":

"[T]oday we are at a crossroads, because the institutions that have sold us the crosses we wear around our necks are the most overt in the denigration of women and thus humanity. That is why I write you today, Ms. Winfrey. We cannot address the root of what plagues Hip Hop without addressing the root of what plagues today's society and the world.

You see, Ms. Winfrey, at it's worse; Hip Hop is simply a reflection of the society that birthed it. Our love affair with gangsterism and the denigration of women is not rooted in Hip Hop; rather it is rooted in the very core of our personal faith and religions. The gangsters that rule Hip Hop are the same gangsters that rule our nation. 50 Cent and George Bush have the same birthday (July 6th). For a Hip Hop artist to say "I do what I wanna do/Don't care if I get caught/The DA could play this mothafukin tape in court/I'll kill you/ I ain't playin'" epitomizes the confidence and braggadocio we expect an admire from a rapper who claims to represent the lowest denominator. When a world leader with the spirit of a cowboy (the true original gangster of the West: raping, stealing land, and pillaging, as we clapped and cheered.) takes the position of doing what he wants to do, regardless of whether the UN or American public would take him to court, then we have witnessed true gangsterism and violent negligence. Yet, there is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch by censoring the leaves.

Name calling, racist generalizations, sexist perceptions, are all rooted in something much deeper than an uncensored music. Like the rest of the world, I watched footage on AOL of you dancing mindlessly to 50 Cent on your fiftieth birthday as he proclaimed, "I got the ex/if you're into taking drugs/ I'm into having sex/ I ain't into making love" and you looked like you were having a great time. No judgment. I like that song too. Just as I do, James Brown's Sex Machine or Grand Master Flashes "White Lines". Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is how the story goes. Censorship will never solve our problems. It will only foster the sub-cultures of the underground, which inevitably inhabit the mainstream. There is nothing more mainstream than the denigration of women as projected through religious doctrine." (Click here for more.)

Someone with more time and insight than me could probably connect the dots between these two things but right now, right here it ain't gonna be me. On a related note though, I happened to catch an episode of the MTV show "Parental Control" today and I was way more offended by the content of that show than any rap record I have ever heard. But maybe that's just me?

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