Sign to Unrelease Jdilla from MCA

Geffen Records (now merged with MCA) has an entire album of Jay Dees sealed in the vaults- sign this petition to help un-release this eminent masterpiece.

Thanks to Ian for sending this in.

Uncertainty about Weapons Inspector’s Suicide

A member of pariament (Norman Baker)AAyesterday challeneged a judiciary committee’s conclusion that a whistle blower weapon’s inspector took is own life.AA The evidence surrounding the death definitely seems a little strange given that Dr. Kelly does not fit the MO of suicide victim.AA The news story provides several challenges to the official explanation of the suicide.

If you were following the British news two years ago you will remember Dr. Kelly as the ninja who accused Tony Blair of "sexing up" intelligence in Iraw.AA Check out some of the excerpts or read the full article.

"Baker also said that paramedics who attended the scene where Kelly’s body was found in Oxfordshire noticed that he had lost little blood and was "incredibly unlikely" to have died from the wound they saw.

Police said that 29 tablets of pain-killer coproxamol were missing from a packet in his home, but all that was found in Dr Kelly’s stomach was the equivalent of one-fifth of a tablet, Baker said.

Volunteer searchers who found his body said he was slumped against a tree, rather than lying prone, as police stated."

Article Via: Yahoo News

Adobe’s Platinum Status

"Electricity consumption has been reduced by 35 percent; irrigation water use has decreased by 75 percent."

No, Abode hasn’t sold a million copies of Photoshop [actually, they probably have, but that’s not the point]. It has, however, finished work on its headquarters in San Jose, Cali., and received the USGBC‘s LEED [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] Platinum rating. Not only is this the highest status currently awarded by LEED standards, but the Adobe headquarters is the first commercial building to receive the rating.

Now, I know what you’re thinking…our government funds a green building initiative? I had a hard time believing it myself, but its true! Of course, it was established during the Clinton/Gore years, so no props to the oil hungry Bush administrtion on this one.

Article from ArchRecord

Independent Mega-Cities?

Shanghai
"London mayor Ken Livingstone is the latest civic leader to hanker after independence. Is the nation state under threat from the rise of the super-city?" [link] from the BBC.

With cities of tens of millions of people, continuously growing, some speculate that these mega-cities will continue distancing themselves from the countries within which they are located, increasing the powers of the city-state. And you thought foreign relations were hectic now…my ninja, please.
"The most important place to London is New York and to New York is London and Tokyo," Prof Sennett says. "London belongs to a country composed of itself and New York." [same link].

Welsh MC Devvo and Shady Pies Hold It Down

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I’m not sure what that is, but knowing those Carthridge mothas, all is good- just takes a couple minutes to take itAAin. Repping what would be known as "Chav Culture," MC Devo talks about the studio and "Shady Pies" then plays a track for the Devvo to rap over.

Last line of video: "I ain’t givin’ you me number cuz we ain’t got one!"

[ed: I don’t know if these cats are elite… or patently ridiculously, you be the judge.AA But definitely watch through to the end, as that’s when the music video comes on, idd’nit?]

http://www.fat-pie.com/

What is More Right? People Are Hurting Everywhere!

Enough is Enough, a Zimbabwean blog, has a brilliant article on the current sociopolitical state of the world:
"The past weeka€™s events in the Middle East have confirmed Zimbabweana€™s fears that in eyes of the world some lives are intrinsically more valuable than others. And we now know without a doubt that our lives, those of millions of Zimbabweans ravaged by years of misrule and the extinction of democracy in our homeland, are less valuable than those of the Israeli people."

Read the Full Article

Glass Should Be Washed Down With More Glass

"After fifteen years of digging his teeth into tube lights, liquor bottles and even spectacles, Kishan Suryavanshi dreams of feasting on the windscreen of a supersonic jet."

Speech and glass sounds in Hindi.

The Hackable Election

Bradblog (Brad being an official ninja) has another great post about Mikel Haas and San Diego’s hackable election. The post claims that the elections in San Diego were intentionally set up with known-to-be-hackable voting machines. My question is, why the bloodclot would you use electronic voting machines?!?

For those of you less well-versed in our nation’s illustrious legacy of voting fraud, almost every electronic system is hackable, if not immediately upon creation, eventually. And I don’t just mean voting machines. From the alarm clock in your car to your computer. When electronic voting machines first came out I thought to myself, this must be a conspiracy. Furthermore, ninjas knew nothing about it!, meaning it must be a bad conspiracy. Very bad.
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Bart Van de Vel

Bart Van de Vel, an artist whose depth is amazing, is hosting an ongoing wallpaper exhibition. Basically these have been my desktops for the past year or so. Check out his free beautiful prints!