THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF MANY IN A SERIES ON THE SUBJECT PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING.

Predictive programming, what is it? It’s a technique used to subconsciously implant thoughts or ideas into ones head over a period of time to help shape ones view of the coming world around them. The elite running this world are Fabian Socialists, which means they implement their agenda slowly through many generations. They found that through forms of entertainment such as fictional books, music and especially tv shows/movies that humans are much more susceptable to outside influences. While we are being entertained our critical thinking process shuts off and we fall into an almost hypnotic trance like state. The ideal condition for programming our minds for the coming changes the elite intend to bring throughout society. We are given this “accidental” view of history through the predictive progamming techniques. We never look back at history and think why out of all the infinite possiblities did history follow this or that path. We never ask what was it behind those events in history that caused them to happen. And that’s all by design. The elite of this world are control freaks. They have their hands in every pot on this planet. Think about this for a minute, why do we call the body of rock we live on floating through space a planet. the answer should become more evident as we go on.

As I was saying, the elite of this world are control freaks. They are deathly scared of anything outside of their grasp. They must have total control in order to keep their agenda running. They cant afford to have any “X” factors in this world. “X” factors are the unpredictables, the rebels, the ones outside the control system that threatens to disrupt all the control mechanisms that keep the masses inline and ignorant of the world around them. Any time an “X” factor pops up its either instantly subverted and taken over by the elite or squashed out of existence as quickly as possible to prevent the elite from losing control over us (the profane or useless eaters. Just 2 of the many lovely names they have for us at the bottom).

We are given this superficial view of history and the world around us and told everything is just accidental. Which couldn’t be farther from the truth. These Fabians work in long term agendas, planning things 10, 20, 50, sometimes even 100 years into the future. They are able to plan that far into the future easily because well, there’s no guess work involved in which way the world is gonna move when you are the ones that are in control of the way it moves in the first place. And that all made possible by predictive programming.

Now you still may not be sure what I mean by predictive programming. You probably want some more explanation and examples. Well, that’s not a problem.

Think about the last movie you saw or the last song you listened to. Did you think about it or analyze what is being presented to you through it or did you just sit there and just shut off your brain and just enjoy it? No need to lie, we both know that about 99.9% of the time (I’m just as guilty as you are of this) you shut off your brain and enjoyed it. Thats predictive programming. The subliminal indoctrination of the masses into a certain agenda through the use of hidden messages and symbols through various forms of communication/education/entertainment.

See Hollywood is a highly fraternal place. All the big movers and shakers there, all the big stars and celebrities we are conditioned to worship and see being superior to us, are all members of some sort of secret order, the most prominent one being Freemasonry. When you understand the purpose of these secret orders and who are members, and the things pushed by those specific people through various form of entertainment  it becomes even more clear.

The name Hollywood is symbolism in itself. The wood of a Holly tree or Holly-wood is used as the staff or wand in many occult rituals/spells  in these secret orders. So when you hear the phrase “movie magic” its just a esoteric (or hidden) symbolism for these secret orders and the spells (predictive programming) they cast upon the profane (you and me) through music, television and movies to guide society in certain directions and create certain elements in our culture that weren’t present before.

All the latest trends, hip bands, cool clothes, tv shows and movies, anything and everything, whatever you can think of, its all been given to us by design. There is nothing in this world that exists that hasn’t been authorized to exist. And it only exists for a purpose. These psychopaths at the top don’t just give us stuff cause they are being nice and think “hey! this would be really nice for all the slaves at the bottom”. The world doesn’t work like that. It’s all given to us for the specific purpose of  subconsciously indoctrinating us into slowly accepting the idea of a New World Order or a scientifically controlled socialist-eugenics one world government.

The more you research these topics the more evident it becomes. There’s too much information to cover to write it all in this blog. It would take me many many years and many many books of writing to explain it all. What I’m presenting is just a condensed surface view of the world around us. In the next few posts on this subject (predictive programming) I’m going to be posting a bunch of videos that shows all the hidden symbolism and indoctrination into this new world order control grid through the world of entertainment and Hollywood.

Last but not least I’d like to personally thank Alan Watt (cuttingthroughthematrix.com). A lot of the information I’m presenting in this predictive programming series I learned from him. I encourage you all to please visit his website cuttingthroughthematrix.com and buy his books and send him donations and make sure you tune into his daily show. Thank you Alan for all your years of hard work and putting all the pieces together making it easier for us to understand the bigger picture.

Recently, I was traveling across the US. As I was waiting at one of the gates, a man sat down next to me. To say he was ‘large’ would be a gross understatement. This man was grotesquely overweight, and nearly as wide as he was tall. As we waited for the plane to be refueled, he began to eat a cheeseburger, the sheer effort of which had him panting, wheezing, and sweating. It was, in short, a nauseating experience.

Of course, there are those who would object to my diatribe. One could argue “It’s the right of a person to choose his or her own weight or amount of consumption!”. Really? If there’s a man who is sitting next to me starving, is it my “right” to devour a steak dinner in front of him? When a child dies of starvation every five seconds, is it the right of a country to be suffering from obesity?

Yet the wealthy countries of the world continue to get fatter, and the poor countries stand in lines handfuls of rice. Sickening, isn’t it? The most obese state in America (Mississippi), is only 2,300 km from the second most impoverished country in the western hemisphere (Haiti). This is obesity we’re talking about- the result of constant binging on food- it’s not an epidemic, it’s not something that people cannot control. In a world where the vast majority of humanity lives in poverty and every year, fifteen million children die of starvation and malnutrition, this kind of egomaniacal indulgence is, as I’ve pointed out, sickening.

Of course, the companies selling the food aren’t exactly helping the situations. It is, after all, in the best interests of these corporations to exacerbate humanity’s propensity to gluttony. The more willing the public is to stuff food down their throats, the higher the demand, the greater profits for the food industry. As a result, the food industry will do all it can to convince you that your happiness hinges on your consumption or that food is a central part of tradition (just look at Christmas). They will attempt to sell the greatest amount of food to the greatest number of people for the lowest cost of production possible (and of course, cheap production tends to mean the food will be low in quality and nutrition). Everywhere you look, there are advertisements telling you to eat this or to drink that. Granted, the obesity level is due largely to individual choice, but at the same time, the food industry plays a significant role.

So what’s the relation of obesity in the West and other so-called “developed countries” to the starvation in others? Well, think of it this way. Aside from the now rare family-owned farm, we get our food from corporations. Since the purpose of Capitalism is capital (money), corporations will naturally attempt to maximize their profits by selling high-quality foods for exorbitant price and low-quality foods for next to nothing. Those who have little or no money to begin with (those who are, for example, living in areas that have been devastated by disease or drought) are of course, unable to purchase any food at all. This leads to the people of these areas to become dependent on charity- a solution which merely prolongs the suffering of the impoverished (exactly why charity doesn’t work is a topic for another day). Of course there are those who would claim that all these people need to do is begin farming in their own countries- conveniently forgetting that the materials and resources needed for farming are controlled by massive corporations. What possible reason would these companies have for simply donating material? Corporations usually don’t rise to the top of the economic food chain through altruism. Of course, when the majority becomes hungry enough, everything becomes a source of food- including the juicy, Capitalist pigs wallowing around at the top of the social spectrum.

Ah, more hypocrisy from the elite…do as we say and not as we do.

Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.

Visitors watch a visual display about the environment before the opening of the summit in Copenhagen Photo: REUTERS

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

“We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

As well 15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders, the Danish capital will be blessed by the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Helena Christensen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Charles. A Republican US senator, Jim Inhofe, is jetting in at the head of an anti-climate-change “Truth Squad.” The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.

At the takeaway pizza end of the spectrum, Copenhagen’s clean pavements are starting to fill with slightly less well-scrubbed protesters from all over Europe. In the city’s famous anarchist commune of Christiania this morning, among the hash dealers and heavily-graffitied walls, they started their two-week “Climate Bottom Meeting,” complete with a “storytelling yurt” and a “funeral of the day” for various corrupt, “heatist” concepts such as “economic growth”.

The Danish government is cunningly spending a million kroner (£120,000) to give the protesters KlimaForum, a “parallel conference” in the magnificent DGI-byen sports centre. The hope, officials admit, is that they will work off their youthful energies on the climbing wall, state-of-the-art swimming pools and bowling alley, Just in case, however, Denmark has taken delivery of its first-ever water-cannon – one of the newspapers is running a competition to suggest names for it – plus sweeping new police powers. The authorities have been proudly showing us their new temporary prison, 360 cages in a disused brewery, housing 4,000 detainees.

And this being Scandinavia, even the prostitutes are doing their bit for the planet. Outraged by a council postcard urging delegates to “be sustainable, don’t buy sex,” the local sex workers’ union – they have unions here – has announced that all its 1,400 members will give free intercourse to anyone with a climate conference delegate’s pass. The term “carbon dating” just took on an entirely new meaning.

At least the sex will be C02-neutral. According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants’ travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of “carbon dioxide equivalent”, equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough.

The temptation, then, is to dismiss the whole thing as a ridiculous circus. Many of the participants do not really need to be here. And far from “saving the world,” the world’s leaders have already agreed that this conference will not produce any kind of binding deal, merely an interim statement of intent.

Instead of swift and modest reductions in carbon – say, two per cent a year, starting next year – for which they could possibly be held accountable, the politicians will bandy around grandiose targets of 80-per-cent-plus by 2050, by which time few of the leaders at Copenhagen will even be alive, let alone still in office.

Even if they had agreed anything binding, past experience suggests that the participants would not, in fact, feel bound by it. Most countries – Britain excepted – are on course to break the modest pledges they made at the last major climate summit, in Kyoto.

And as the delegates meet, they do so under a shadow. For the first time, not just the methods but the entire purpose of the climate change agenda is being questioned. Leaked emails showing key scientists conspiring to fix data that undermined their case have boosted the sceptic lobby. Australia has voted down climate change laws. Last week’s unusually strident attack by the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, on climate change “saboteurs” reflected real fear in government that momentum is slipping away from the cause.

In Copenhagen there was a humbler note among some delegates. “If we fail, one reason could be our overconfidence,” said Simron Jit Singh, of the Institute of Social Ecology. “Because we are here, talking in a group of people who probably agree with each other, we can be blinded to the challenges of the other side. We feel that we are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys.”

As Mr Singh suggests, the interesting question is perhaps not whether the climate changers have got the science right – they probably have – but whether they have got the pitch right. Some campaigners’ apocalyptic predictions and religious righteousness – funeral ceremonies for economic growth and the like – can be alienating, and may help explain why the wider public does not seem to share the urgency felt by those in Copenhagen this week.

In a rather perceptive recent comment, Mr Miliband said it was vital to give people a positive vision of a low-carbon future. “If Martin Luther King had come along and said ‘I have a nightmare,’ people would not have followed him,” he said.

Over the next two weeks, that positive vision may come not from the overheated rhetoric in the conference centre, but from Copenhagen itself. Limos apart, it is a city filled entirely with bicycles, stuffed with retrofitted, energy-efficient old buildings, and seems to embody the civilised pleasures of low-carbon living without any of the puritanism so beloved of British greens.

And inside the hall, not everything is looking bad. Even the sudden rush for limos may be a good sign. It means that more top people are coming, which means they scent something could be going right here.

The US, which rejected Kyoto, is on board now, albeit too tentatively for most delegates. President Obama’s decision to stay later in Copenhagen may signal some sort of agreement between America and China: a necessity for any real global action, and something that could be presented as a “victory” for the talks.

The hot air this week will be massive, the whole proceedings eminently mockable, but it would be far too early to write off this conference as a failure.

In a previous post, I commented how classism (the categorization of the public based on wealth) has become a new form of racism. To drive the point home, I thought I’d write a short post on the subject of gated communities.

For any of you who don’t know what a gated community is, it’s a middle or upper class (usually upper class) residential area surrounded by a fence/gate/barrier (and occasionally a guard post). There may also be various rules within the community governing such things as speed limits and the like.

At first glance this might seem harmless or perhaps even slightly Marxist in nature. What could be wrong with a group of people living together, protecting themselves with a wall, and regulating their neighborhood? Absolutely nothing- if this was the Stone Age and there were dire wolves and smilodons wandering around outside. In reality these gated communities exist solely as a form of segregation.

It may sound harsh, but let’s look at the facts. A gated community isn’t any more secure than a regular neighborhood. The few walls too tall to simply clamber over can be conquered with the aid of a footstool, and if there’s a guard at the gate, he’ll probably be little more than ornamental- if a burglar wants to get into the community, chances are he’s not going to try to stroll in through the gate. In short, the walls are pointless- serving only to act as a symbolic separation between those within and those without.

And of course, that’s not the only issue. As mentioned, there are often various rules within the community, especially in regards to speed limits. Now one might wonder why this is an issue. Well, when it comes down to it, there isn’t any good reason for the community creating separate rules. The laws of physics are the same both inside and outside the community, rain falls on both the gated and ungated roads alike, and the sidewalk isn’t going to stop icing over once it enters Whitewood or Sun Mountain or whatever pretentious name the community has. The sole purpose of these rules is separation from those outside.

So what’s the big deal? The problem with these gated communities isn’t the walls or the rules, but the psychological and ideological effects they have. The walls and barriers that serve merely to separate rather than protect make a pretty elitist statement- that those inside wish to be separated from the rest of society. The purposeless rules do the same, creating the illusion that things are different inside the community. Considering that those inside the communities are almost always more wealthy than those outside, gated communities only perpetuate classism. Let the facts be faced, segregation is wrong no matter what the rationale behind it. No matter where the line is drawn that seperates “us” and “them”, that line is wrong.

“Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up”

Franklin Graham, head of powerful Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is also the head of a $ raising scheme called Samaritan’s Purse. Franklin, got to know Palin early this year in Alaska and he invited her to North Carolina. She accompanied him as the Boone-based international relief agency he heads delivered 44,000 pounds of groceries to Alaskan families who had been hit by a harsh winter in villages along the frozen Yukon River.

Samaritan’s Purse has an office in Alaska, and Franklin Graham owns a cabin in the state. At least that’s what it’s called, but it is located near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve where only the elite own property. There are no real estate listings around the lake, but there is a vacation rental, which is currently unavailable, that costs around $7000 per month.

One would think that Franklin would be a little worried about his association with Caribou Barbie , a known wolf and wild animal hunter, while living in an area that is essentially a wild life preserve. But for some reason the elite seem to think that Barbyspin is going to save their a$$es from the wrath of disgruntled folks who are demanding accountability for the outright criminal waste of our heritage and treasure…G:

Nov. 23, 2009

En este episodio salen temas de grupos que han sacado álbumes este año. Ya que llegamos al fin de año quiero repasar álbumes, o artistas que en muchos casos no he puesto en otros episodios. Como los siguientes:

Heaven & Hell
Slayer
Chimaira
The Haunted
Kreator
Static-X
Mudvayne
Fear Factory
Dope
Sister Sin
Lacuna Coil
Marilyn Manson
Rob Zombie
God Forbid

También se habla sobre lo siguiente:
The Devil You Know, World Painted Blood, Megadeth, Tom Araya, Rob Arnold, The Elite, The Infection, Versus, Thrash, Cult Of Static, Tony Campos, Prong, Wayne Static, Dave Mustaine, The New Game, Arkaea, Mechanize, Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne, No Regrets, Motorhead, Switchblade Serinade, I Like It, Lamb Of God, Shadow Life, The High End Of The Low, Kobetasonik, Kerry King, Fox News, Halloween, George Bush, Doc Coyle, Earthblood

El podcast se puede descargar en formato que prefiere desde aquí:

O escucha online aquí:

“Not around here, shit…” Been a min since we posted anything up here, things have been hectic with shows, interviews and getting projects completed but you know we took some pics along the way….. Shoutout to our cinematic brothers Rada & Eddie….  So take a walk with us as we take you through the trials of The International Outfit…. Timeline after the Jump

Sunday, August 30th 2009:

Ok so we weren’t supposed to be on this show but thanks to our boy Dro in NY we was on…  SeDrew Price with a lil help from Trayo…

Sunday September 20th 2009:

So after killin the Vegas leg of the DXC… Dro was nice enough to invite SeDrew to perform at the DXC in San Fransisco and we jumped at the opportunity….

So after a 9 hour drive from LV to SF, Price did what he always does and killed the show… Our photographers didnt make the trip but the IPhone got us a few flicks…

Wednesday, October 14th 2009:

SeDrew’s buzz in Vegas grows by the day but what the Vegas people dont really know is that outside of Vegas the water is bubbling as well… thanks to Adib and 110ent SeDrews is gaining a small following out in Los Angeles…..

On the Oct. 14th in L.A. SeDrew hit the stage at KRESS Nightclub for the ((Pure Talent)) Showcase Concert. Sorry no pics for this one but take my word for it the show was dope…..

Friday, October 30th 2009:

Even though “The Oufit” its trying to hit as many cities as possible… Vegas is and will always be HOME….. so thanks to Mikey VIP, Halloween Eve was the setting for a Vegas night to remember…. 

After setting up shop in the Beauty Bar with CD Giveaways and MathAddicts Tees…. Trayo & SeDrew rocked the crowd like a Vegas Party is supposed to rock. Check the Pics:

Trayo kicked it off first but since Rada was his hype man and was holding the camera he dont got no pics… well this pic here should do… UPDATE: I’m still pissed we dont got no pics of Trayo performing but I found another pic that Rada took before he performed and I thought it was comedy…. I hope he dont kill me…lol

Ok Back to the Action:

Oh yeah and dont trip we have some footage from the show that we will be releasing soon enough so check back when you can…

Friday, November 6th 2009:

Still hyped from the Vegas show, Adib came through and blessed us with another L.A. jumpoff this time at Cinespace on Hollywood Blvd.  So we hit Cali and showed them how the LV Rebel gets down.. Vegas Stand Up!!!

And thats that, we been moving around, grinding, making our way to the top. Big things are beginning to happen and it is only a matter of time.  If you are a previous fan we Salute you and if you are new go download the mixtapes and see why you are even here…

Report: 237 millionaires in Congress By: Erika Lovley November 6, 2009 12:00 PM EST

Talk about bad timing.   As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress. Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall. CRP says California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, with a net worth estimated at about $251 million. Next in line: Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), worth about $244.7 million; Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), worth about $214.5 million; Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), worth about $209.7 million; and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), worth about $208.8 million. All told, at least seven lawmakers have net worths greater than $100 million, according to the Center’s 2008 figures. “Many Americans probably have a sense that members of Congress aren’t hurting, even if their government salary alone is in the six figures, much more than most Americans make,” said CRP spokesman Dave Levinthal. “What we see through these figures is that many of them have riches well beyond that salary, supplemented with securities, stock holdings, property and other investments.” The CRP numbers are somewhat rough estimates – lawmakers are required to report their financial information in broad ranges of figures, so it’s impossible to pin down their dollars with precision. The CRP uses the mid-point in the ranges to build its estimates. Senators’ estimated median reportable worth sunk to about $1.79 million from $2.27 million in 2007. The House’s median income was significantly lower and also sank, bottoming out at $622,254 from $724,258 in 2007. But CRP’s analysis suggests that some lawmakers did well for themselves between 2007 and 2008, even as many Americans lost jobs and saw their savings and their home values plummet. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) gained about $9.2 million. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) gained about $3 million, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) had an estimated $2.6 million gain, and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) gained about $2.8 million. Some lawmakers have profited from investments in companies that have received federal bailouts; dozens of lawmakers are invested in Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. Among executive branch officials, CRP says the richest is Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro, with a net worth estimated at $26 million. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is next, worth an estimated $21 million. President Barack Obama is the sixth-wealthiest, worth about an estimated $4 million. Vice President Joe Biden has often tagged himself as an original blue collar man. The CRP backs him up, putting his net worth at just $27,000. He’s hardly the worst off. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), freshman Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.), Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.) and Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) each a net worth of less than zero, CRP says. One caveat on those numbers: Federal financial disclosure laws don’t require members to list the value of their personal residences. That information could alter the net worth picture for many lawmakers. Even so, Levinthal said, “It is clear that some members are struggling financially. “Over a calendar year, one’s wealth can change drastically. Many peoples’ investments took a nose dive over night in the last year,” he said. A number of lawmakers are estimated to have suffered double-digit percentage lossed in their net worth from 2007 to 2008. The biggest losers include Kerry, who lost a whopping $127.4 million; Warner lost about $28.1 million; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) lost about $11.8 million; and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost about $10.1 million.

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Trapped in our minds as we are, we sometimes ridicule those whose minds and ideas differ from our own. Rather than accept or celebrate such differences, we find them personally offensive or threatening, and so lash out at those who dare to be different—that is, different from ourselves. There’s a lot of that around these days, displays of public scorn, mockery, bitterness.

Where do these tongue-lashings come from? These dyspeptic outbreaks? These trainloads of sour grapes? These sneering, snide, and brutal attacks?

That’s easy. They stem from the scornful ones sensing they are on the outs—have lost what they might have had—so are themselves being scorned and put down. In a word, from a sense of personal threat or defeat. Which cannot be publically admitted, yet calls for retribution, so is thereby transmuted into derision, casting blame, finding fault. That way, the defeated cloak themselves in the virtue of the truly superior, and the successful are demonized as dishonest, disingenuous, disgusting, and generally despicable. If the ploy gets enough coverage, the losers pass as winners among their fans. 

As in bullfighting, the art of the faultfinder is in stunning and then exhausting the designated victim, leading to delivery of the fatal thrust. The spiteful predator turns his prey’s virtues into faults, then dismembers the wretched carcass while still alive. Such is the vindictive politics of our day. Whatever you do, don’t take defeat lying down. Rise up and be a man; show your stuff. Rant and rave—and make sure to notify the press. Better yet, be the press. That way you can make sure every slur gets the coverage it deserves. Even if it doesn’t deserve any coverage all, it enters the public mind as if it were news, not bluster.

Illusion, it all comes down to illusion. To deceiving a public that loves sports and spectacle more than truth. It doesn’t matter what you claim, just come out swinging. The audience will side with you and fill in the blanks. They’ve been taught, after all, that life is a multiple-choice test. Feed ‘em the answer; they’ll love it.

No one likes to be publically humiliated. To be humbled—brought down in the eyes of the people. Particularly not those who thrive in the limelight. If exposed as mere mortals, their reflex is to divert attention by shedding light on someone else’s faults, which brings to mind their particular enemy. If he doesn’t have conspicuous faults, it doesn’t matter—just make them up. Deride his accomplishments, smear his virtues, mock his integrity—again and again. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to get traction as a cynic because the public is nothing if not gullible and loves a good fight.

One defense against slings and arrows is to deflect them toward an innocent party. Turning the tables is easy, just spin your vices into virtues (such as speaking your mind), and your opponent’s virtues into vices (such as his not seeking your advice or sharing your values). Spiteful feelings are always an undercurrent when one side wins over another. But when those feelings vent as outrage directed at the other team, igniting violent speech and acts (as after a soccer game when the home team loses), then attitudes are shown to have consequences, like road rage escalating to assault and battery.

The damning of the president by Fox News and others is no game—it is a calculated strategy to dull the brilliance of his aura in order to undercut the stature and power of the man. At best such attacks are distractions; at worst they disrupt judgment, attention, and consciousness itself. These are not personal slights. They are corporate onslaughts, campaigns by organized groups to ruin a man whose intelligence and influence they are afraid of. This is not the work of envy, hurt pride, or rabblerousing on the fringe—this is out-and-out war.

How did we get to this point? And once here, why do we tolerate such behavior? Put simply, there are two classes of people, leaders and followers. The division between them is told not by ability but by wealth. Those without cash, work; those with cash hire the best lawyers, PR fronts, muscle, and outside agitators to see that their wills are imposed on their lesser brothers and sisters. This is a laughable interpretation of “survival of the fittest,” but it has become the bumper-sticker wisdom of our age and our nation. You needn’t bother getting elected, you can buy your way to power. Not only can you, but you must; only millionaires need apply for membership in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. They are ushered into office by the very corporations whose interests they serve. This is far too important a process to be left for the people to screw up by electing the wrong person.

What a sad little story: the collapse of one of the greatest ideas ever advanced by the human mind—with its checks and balances, one vote and equal opportunity for each unique person, and peaceful transfer of power from one generation to the next. A vision rent in two by assuming there are two classes of people, the haves and have-nots, one superior to the other, the nobler (wealthier) class having an obligation to govern on behalf of their dependents. Viewed from the top, that division into classes is a convenient fiction; from the bottom, a life sentence to hard labor.

But consciousness does not come in two classes. There is only one class of consciousness, and it is responsible for promoting the wellbeing and happiness of its owner. It is the social system that has grown up around consciousness that is corrupt in favoring a small but aggressive elite over the general population. Privilege is concentrated at the top, duty at the bottom—the difference told by a cultural mindset calculated to keep power and wealth on the high side of the boundary between the two classes. That is the structure which looms so large in the cynical attacks on the president and the policies he favors, including a fair and decent public healthcare option covering all Americans. Wealthy individuals and corporations fear losing their influence, so their agents scream bloody murder to discredit the commoner whom the people elected to restore balance and judgment throughout the nation and the world.

The voice of consciousness advises treating others as you would have them treat you: with respect and compassion. The voice of status takes a different approach: the elite know best what is good for you; let us rule. The issue rides on whether all people are assumed to be equal or not. Which is it to be, power to the people or power to the elite? That question is at the heart of the fracas. Through experience we know that mutual respect is a better strategy than lording it over others to get your way, then berating them if they don’t bow to your will. Democracy allows for human differences under the umbrella of equal rights and respect. Taking dominion over others is a sure sign of dissent, which invariably leads to schisms, hard feelings, and violence. That is the Fox News route; the Obama route is to regard those who differ from yourself with respect, then see what you can work out together.

My special guest on Voices from the North Wednesday, October 21^st was activist Ashiya Austin, co-founder of the Coalition for Humanity in Australia. Here’s a lady unafraid to speak from her heart contrary to messages perpetuated in mainstream media. I interviewed her two years ago when she visited New Zealand from her then home base of Byron Bay in New South Wales in Australia. At the time she was on a mission to protect the whales of the Southern Ocean from illegal whaling.

Now she has a new bee in her bonnet. She’s here to wake people up to the dangers of the Swine Flu vaccine and to the (as she claims) agenda behind the apparent scare of today. I urge you to listen to the interview. It has shades of Orwell’s 1984 or a Ludlum novel. And Ashiya claims it’s really happening. With the news in the last days in America I can hardly believe the timely nature of this interview. I’ve got some other pressing writing currently so this is it for now. I’ll be posting more soon.

Again, Ashiya outlines the dangers in the Swine Flu Vaccine and in the concerns she and others have of an agenda to use the vaccine to depopulate the world. Yes, you read this correctly. This is a controversial interview I urge you to listen to with an open mind. It contains an audio clip of retired Finnish Chief Medical Officer Rauni Kilde and another of the catchy rap Flu Song.

Here’s the link to the talk I did on October 21st with Ashiya Austin. I won’t say, ‘Enjoy,’ as I usually do. I will say, ‘Be informed.’

http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25355635-Ashiya-Austin-and-the-Swine-Flu-Vaccine

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Why The Dollar May Not Be Doomed  

Courtesy of Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds

dollars

It seems a given now that the U.S. dollar is doomed to either slow depreciation or devaluation. Perhaps–but the consensus seems too easy. Yes, money supply and liquidity have exploded as the Fed and Treasury fight deflation, and yes, history suggests expanding the money supply debases the currency.

That the dollar has been debased is clear enough if we measure the dollar’s value in gold. Priced in gold, the dollar has lost over 2/3 of its value in a mere decade. Courtesy of contributor Harun I., here is a chart of gold:

Where it took less than $300 to buy an ounce of gold in 2001, it now costs about $1,000. Thus the dollar has lost 70% of its purchasing power when priced in gold.

Correspondent Jim S. observed that this depreciation has been a trend for the entire 20th century:

At the barbershop, the barber asked me if the dollar was at risk of failing. The dollar is not at risk of being wiped out, IT ALREADY HAS BEEN WIPED OUT, and the world is moving on. From 1789 to 1912, the dollar appreciated a full 11%. From 1912 to 2001, it has lost 95% of its value under the fractional reserve banking system of the Fed Reserve, massively overleveraged further since the inventive application of credit derivatives since the ‘90s.

In 2001, a dollar index of $1.2 (as charted by the Dollar Index) existed and now it is at about .76. This recent drop results in a dollar loss greater than 95% from the 1912 value. The dollar HAS been destroyed in the proper historical perspective!

A world-wide move underway, recognizing that the dollar is now unsustainable as a reserve currency, to a new form of reserve currency/currencies, will take some time, and, our dollar will remain as the reserve currency for a while as something new emerges. Regional currencies may evolve in the meantime: Yuan? AMERO? EURO? A worldwide, single, unified currency is too utopian for applicability.

Regional currencies have yet to be proved sustainable either. We are in limbo with a sinking dollar. Geopolitical instability of increasing scope, including at least cultural and resource wars, are in the offing before anything gets settled. Remember the ‘100 years war’?

Indeed, debased currencies and the evaporation of sound money are related to economic and social turmoil. Bankrupt regimes and empires have long attempted to solve the imbalance between their stupendous spending and declining tax revenues by reducing the silver or gold content of their coinage–in other words, "inflating their way to prosperity."

It never worked. Bad money drove out good money, meaning people hoarded gold, silver and sound money and quickly passed off the depreciating "bad" money onto some other sucker.

But the ease of extending this trend in the dollar troubles me. Things rarely turn out as the 97% consensus expects. (By some measures, "dollar Bulls" have been reduced to a near-statistical-noise 3%.)

So let’s ask cui bono: who benefits from the collapse of the dollar, and who would benefit from its appreciation?

In general, those with debts to pay would benefit, as debt can be paid with "cheaper" (depreciated) dollars. Those holding the debt would not benefit, as their income would continue to decline in purchasing power.

So the question boils down to this: who holds the debt and assets? Pu another way: who would benefit from the dollar actually rising in value? The answer: the rentier-financial Elites. They’re the ones collecting rent and interest payments, and a depreciating dollar is not in their interests at all. The falling dollar benefits those paying down debt (debt-serfs), not those to whom they pay rent and interest.

That the top 1% own 2/3 of the productive assets of the U.S. is simply fact, as is the rising level of income inequality. Please consider this chart:

Note that the last extreme of inequality was reached just before the Great Crash of 1929. The dynamic is this: as the rentier-financial Elite (what I call the Plutocracy) over-reaches , then their share of the national income rises to extremes. Their over-reach creates tremendous imbalances in the financial system, however, which lead to financial crisis.

At that point, the State (central government) places some modest restrictions on the Plutocracy’s ability to over-reach (overleverage, fraud, embezzlement, etc.), and income inequality falls.

That the vast majority of the national wealth and income is held by the top 1% of households has been documented in a number of books:

The Rich and the Super-Rich, A Study in the Power of Money Today
(out of print, but used copies are available)
Ferdinand Lundberg

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Kevin Phillips

The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills

Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance
G. William Domhoff

Strangely enough, the mass media presents the Federal Reserve and the Treasury as "in charge" of the dollar’s decline. Those agencies certainly control the strings of money supply and liquidity, but who sets their agenda? The bureaucrats? No, the bureaucrats (Bernanke et al.) are hired hands, following an agenda set by others– those who control concentrations of wealth and thus political power.

From this perspective, the entire outrageous bailout of the financial sector makes perfect sense. Question: who held most of the stock, bonds and other financial assets which would have been rendered worthless had the sector been allowed to collapse? It wasn’t Joe Homeowner; some 80% of the financial assets of the nation are owned by the top few percent of households.

So naturally the agenda sent down to the Congress and agency apparatchiks was simple: backstop the horrendous private losses with government (taxpayer) funds. The profits are private but the losses must be socialized/passed to the taxpayers. And so it was done, even as the citizenry pounded their "representatives" with emails running 300-to-1 against the gigantic bailout of the stupendously wealthy.

In The Royal Scam, Anonymous Correspondent suggested the rentier-power Elite could shift their assets out of the dollar and then swoop back in after the devaluation to scoop up the assets for a pittance.

That is a scenario worth pondering, to be sure, as it would solve the Federal Government’s massive debt at the same time.

But just as a thought experiment, consider the alternative: that the power Elite sets the agenda of a rising dollar. Since the power Elite owns a staggeringly large amount of assets held in dollars, a rise in the dollar would increase their purchasing power as rents and interest are paid in dollars. A decline in the dollar would not serve their interests.

So if a rentier-financial Elite does hold political influence, why have they allowed the dollar to plummet? Perhap their assets and income were growing faster than the dollar was declining. Now that their assets and income are no longer growing faster than the dollar is declining, the agenda is about to change: strengthen the dollar.

Lastly, we might ask who else internationally might benefit from a rising dollar. How about the Chinese, Japanese and oil exporters who hold dollar-denominated debt?

We might also note that exporting nations desperately want a stronger dollar which then weakens their own currencies, making their goods more competitive in the U.S. market.

If we line up all those who benefit from a rising dollar, we find some reason to anticipate a reversal in the dollar’s decline.

Here is a chart of the dollar:

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Photo: courtesy of TIME.  

Nietzsche, Freud, Bernays, Barrie, Kafka, and Disney ushered in Western selfishness, paving the way for the rampant nihilistic consumerism of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In Nietzsche, Kafka, and Freud we see romantic dandies, shouting out their terror and terribleness to the world. These are humans who believe themselves to be monsters, and will only be happy when the world is made monstrous.

Barrie, Bernays, and Disney are the “good” side of the horror – they decided that what humans most needed was to return to childhood. Their project was to condemn the human soul to perpetual youth.

These are “great” men precisely because what the West needed during it’s Empire’s rule in late capitalism to perpetuate itself is existential angst (so it’s suffering can compare to the weaponized death, mass starvation, and disease it continually causes) and perpetual youth (so it can never take responsibility for it’s actions).

Any and all people who serve that purpose are lauded by the elite, and those who are particularly valuable, as each of the pathetic humans listed above, are called great by those same elite and each of their servants and devoted slaves.

We have a Flickr account and you should definitely check it out (down t’bottom there t’right) since we’ve set it up we’ve had an astounding 22,964 views! I now bring to you the top 20 most viewed pics so let’s see exactly what those horny girls & boys have been looking at jerking off over.

In reverse order:

# 20    

Aww happy birthday Chacey! (let’s hope someone bought you a razor eh bb)

#19

Mmm arms. Lovin’ the ripped shirt Zac. Taking tips from Westwick?

#18

Red suspenders FTMFW! Can’t wait for Gossip Girl Season 3

#17

Oh Zac…this is SUCH a good look bb *sigh*

#16

Looking sharp Efron DN we love us some suit!porn

#15

One of the best GG eps…….EVER

#14

Love love love this my favourite Zac photo-shoot

#13

ghr;thjotwrywaklnbkngzbnd;flkwaeroipo  *TRU FAX*

#12

ILY CRAWFORD that is all

#11

A young Chace Crawford. On a beach. Topless. Nuff said.

YOUR TOP 10

#10

That reminds me to apologise to the Orion Cinema, Burgess Hill for any erm…mess. 

#9

WANT

#8

YES THEY ARE

#7

Looking so good Kellan. I spent ages trying to find an untagged version of this so if anyone knows…

#6

Chace drunk? I am shocked and stunned…

#5

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THIS PIC IS SO POPULAR

#4

Awww bb *pets him*

#3

this

#2

Gorgeous. Just lush.

YOUR NUMBER ONE VIEWED PHOTO

Oh Kellan…

RADAR IS OFF FOR A HOSE LAY DOWN. IT’S BEEN HOT Y’ALL.

The 19th century saw the rise of two related phenomena – a global imperialist network dominated by the West and existentialist philosophy. This philosophy was taken for THE modern problem, and psychoanalysis developed soon after to solve the problem.

Nietzsche and Freud were the two great servants of the Western ruling class – one to invent a grand reason for existential despair (the Death of God) and the second to invent a perpetual machine to keep Westerners focused on themselves and not on the world they are in the process of destroying.

The point of psychoanalysis is not to work or to cure, but to act as a shower, washing neurotic dirt off the body (real or perceived, it hardly matters) which due to the corrupt West simply piles up again. Psychoanalysis is a game.

The neurotic perpetually seeks to “cure himself” – the most successful neurotic turns inward to such an extent that the outside world barely exists at all – hence the rise in asceticism in the West.

Existentialism has been ridiculously profitable for Western capitalists – it’s progress enabled Western corporations to run rampant over the world, gaining great power and wealth.

The point of Existentialism is not to *describe* Western culture as meaningless, but to *invent* Western culture as meaningless – to will that the world as dominated by that culture be meaningless. Existentialism didn’t describe a world in despair but created a world in despair, to depress it’s victims (who believe themselves *enlightened*!) and make sure they wouldn’t stand in the way of world domination by global capital.

We now live in existentialism’s aftermath. A corporate totalitarian nightmare.

Everyones gotta pay the bills right? or sometimes you’re contractually obliged to do things that make you look….a bit of a twat (awww*zac*). Lets look at some of our top 5 Dirty Neon boys commercial apperances:

Chace: dosomething.org

frickin’ adorable

Ed: k-swiss

fucking obscene

Jackson: ProActiv

words fail me!!

Kellan: with love hilary duff fragrance

HOT like burning..

Zac: danimals

oh dear: say CHEESE

what do you think: which one floats ya boat?

!!!bonus!!!

BEHIND THE SCENES K-SWISS WITH ED (warning may cause jizz…)

JACKSON RATHBONE FOR MASTERCARD (epicness!)

As you can see coming out of the EZIE camp this year we have already dropped 2 ridiculous bangers. First up was “Trayo – The Warm Up” and the second was “SeDrew Price – The Day After Tomorrow” Both have gotten a good buzz and although the whole world ain’t listening YET… some people are.  Of those people some have a blog or write for specific companies and some of those have expressed their thoughts and views on these 2 mixtapes. Check out the reviews after the jump:

For Trayo’s cd “The Warm Up”  the blog site “Amplified Grammer” wrote a dope ass review that really showed that he truly listened to the tape and gave it a unbiased listen. “The first joint I heard from Trayo was called “I’m From The Eastside” and from the jump, the booming track grabbed me. That, mixed with Trayo’s gruff lyricism had me on the L train looking like a bobblehead (pause).”  Amplified stated he liked the mixtape feel but really liked Trayo’s work over the original beats. “Songs like “Big Guns ft. Tony Boy” and the aforementioned “I’m From The Eastside”, the title track, “The Warm Up”, and the epic, “Street Stories” (A track where Trayo tells three different stories from the perspective of three different personas), only make you realize just how inept some of these label A&R’s are.” So take a min and check out the review http://amplifiedgrammar.blogspot.com/2009/05/trayo-warm-up-mixtape.html. And if you havent yet, then stop sleeping and download “Trayo – The Warm Up” NOW!!!!http://www.zshare.net/download/6070285195ef65c7/

SeDrew Price dropped his CD “T.D.A.T.” only just a few days ago however already has had a bit of press. A writer from the “Associated Content” listen to SeDrews mixtape and wrote a great review that really helps to see the listeners perspective of the mixtape. The writer Christopher Hundley, seems to have a strong ear for Hip Hop and showed that in his evaluation: “The musicality of the mixtape immediately draws you in: the trumpets, the organs, the eerie sound effects…and the vocals. His vocals bounce off the beat but always fall in the right place recalling the off-kilter flows of the Pharcyde or E-40.” Like any listener he found his own personal favorites but gives praise to the full pakage: “Winners include Quarantine, Cheerleader, Lewis and Clark, and the sparkling Follow Me, whose marching band inflected beat vaguely recalls Outkast’s Bombs Over Baghdad, with a flow as quick as that of either ATLien. But while you may have some favorites, the album is a far better listening experience as a cohesive whole.” Click right here to see the entire review: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1974060/sedrew_prices_tdat_the_day_after_tomorrow.html?cat=33. And just in case your here and didn’t get “SeDrew price – The Day After Tomorrow“  yet…. then click here and Download NOW!!!! http://www.zshare.net/download/62976528966bd450/

As an art form, music is pure and without judgement, but depending on who you ask it can be used and understood in any number of ways. For some, it can be a hobby, others a get-rich-quick scheme, a reason to dance, an escape, or even just a simple distraction. For a select few, however, music is truly a way of life. Artists like SeDrew Price experience music in this way, using music as a way to  translate the most genuine part of one’s self. In his long-awaited mixtape, “The Day After Tomorrow,” Price reaches a new plateau in his music and produces his most authentic representation of his experiences, dreams, and struggles, through sound. With an already unparalleled wordplay and vicious flow, “TDAT” delivers in the most refreshing and unexpected way. Amplifying his trademarked sound, Price produces his best mixtape to date and gives his following what they’ve been patiently waiting for… and then some. We’ve kept you waiting long enough, now we’ll let “TDAT” speak for itself. Click the link after the jump, download, and get ready to be transplanted through time to “The Day After Tomorrow.”
 
Click Here For:
“The Day After Tomorrow”
http://www.zshare.net/download/62976528966bd450/

www.SeDrewPrice.com

www.twitter.com/SeDrewPrice

www.twitter.com/ezient

Hello, fellow Elite members! I will start off in saying that you have to join the Elite to participate in this colossal event (so get to the Elite page and join us if you haven’t yet).

Now, these strategies will hopefully be passed by the limited filter Club Penguin uses. You will learn these instructions before tomorrow at 9:00 PST, and will follow them when I shout. I will have the normal Elite uniform on, however I will be wearing the sombrero (this will make me highly noticeable). Just follow the orders:

(I do a corny CP joke): Attack

(I do the ‘et’ sing): Retreat

Me: Crowd around me and follow my moves (including throwing snowballs). This will be helpful to break apart lines.

Nacho: Follow the orders of either of these three Nacho officials: Akabob22, Puckley, Z Person Man (if I call ‘me’, then return to my control).

Good-bye: I am logging off and am putting the power with the next highest Elite at the time (when I do so, will that highest person assume my uniform with the sombrero?). When I give my powers away, the highest person will use the powers for their needs.

If I get on, the powers return to my grasp.

Here is the times again, and remember to start at the Forest. We are allied with the Nachos:

The 3 Day War begins on Tuesday! I just want to tell you it’s all day thing, like a real war. You do NOT have to stay on the whole day. You may come on and off. Also, MAKE SURE TO LISTEN TO THE HIGHEST RANK ON CHAT (for Nachos)! The leaders probably won’t be able to be there the whole day, so make sure to listen to the highest rank there.

Remember: It is CP Armies vs. Riffy8888’s Taco Army and fans. Riffy’s Army and fans will being wearing PURPLE!!

Where: Outback

–Meet at the Forest

When: Tuesday, July 21st, Wednesday, July 22nd, Thursday, July 23rd

Time:

Starts: 12:00 PM, EST, Tuesday, July 21st

8:00 AM, Alaskan Time
9:00 AM, PST
10:00 AM, MST
11:00 AM, CST
12:00 PM, EST
5:00 PM, Uk
7:00 Miroos Standard Time
Ends: 10:00 PM, EST, Thursday, July 23rd

Battle Map

I can’t copy pictures, so can someone add the Battle Map for me?

Key:

Blue- Ice Warriors
Green- ACP
Yellow/Orange- Nachos
Red /Black- UMA
Red- Fire Warriors
Orange- Watex Warriors
Black- Dark Warriors
Brown- Other Armies
Purple- Tacos/ Riffy Fans
Town- Neutral/ Recruiting

So this means we must completely obliterate Riffy! If the picture doesn’t show above, then just visit http://nachoarmy.com/ . They’ll have the picture.

So be there at the forest tomorrow at 9:00 am PST and watch the Chaos unfold!

We Waddle On… To Victory!
Pengbro2

When creating timeless music, no time frame that can shape the final result. SeDrew Price has encountered that head on as his new anticipated mixtape “TDAT” has been delayed and given its last coat of shine. The light is shining brighter than ever and the mixtape is almost here. With the last single “Highlight” giving the fans a feel of the versatility and sick wordplay that separates him from the average MC, the anticipation is increasing by the minute and on Tuesday July 21st the wait is over. . So while u wait for “TDAT” download “Highlight” enjoy the music and be ready cause Tuesday July 21st is “The Day After Tomorrow.”
 Link & CD Cover & Back After the Jump.

Click Here For:
Highlight
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6277237832b7ba80

www.SeDrewPrice.com

www.twitter.com/SeDrewPrice

www.twitter.com/ezient

www.myspace.com/ezientertainment

As some of you have heard, I have joined the Nachos as a spy for us (The Elite).

The first battle I did with them (on July 8th) made me seem like I was with them. I’m not. People who still visit the Elite Page know that Lucky4069 has betrayed us and started an Army called the Shadow Troops. Eamafa (who is also a sergeant in the Elite) is with them, too.

But back to the point: the first battle I did with the Nachos was merely revenge for Lucky and Eamafa betraying us.

But, as I have been within the Nachos’ ranks for a couple of days, I have attained information that they are planning to use the Music Jam as an advantage.

We need to keep our heads up and stay vigilant.

We Waddle On… to Victory!
Pengbro2

Las Vegas is an unexpected destination and a man-made phenomenon.  Surrounded by miles upon miles of darkness, its concentrated cluster of bright lights makes it one of the few cities easily identifiable from outer space.  Tucked within a bowl-shaped valley and enveloped by mountains on all sides, if it weren’t for Las Vegas’ literal and figurative electricity, Las Vegas probably wouldn’t attract much interest.   The same is true for the talented artists living in Vegas who are making sparks in an otherwise bleak environment.   In a city where “What Happens Here Stays Here” SeDrew Price is a prime example of the kind of local energy that makes Sin City more than just a spot on the map or a place to visit.  Thanks to his high-voltage presence and serious lyrical ability, SeDrew Price stands out as a self-made star amidst a backdrop not known for breeding musical talent.  Delivering serious static electricity over a DJ Babu track, here is SeDrew’s his latest single off the upcoming mixtape T.D.A.T (7.02.09), “Quarantine.”  So download and enjoy this sample, cuz with T.D.A.T. on the way, Vegas is about to get a whole lot brighter.

Link & Artowrk After the Jump.

 
Click To Download:
“QUARANTINE”
http://www.zshare.net/audio/62063026a9afc52d/

www.SeDrewPrice.com
www.twitter.com/SeDrewPrice
www.myspace.com/ezientertainment
www.twitter.com/ezient

With its bright lights, late nights, and a slogan to awaken the trouble-maker in everyone, Las Vegas is the number-one playground and tourist destination in the United States. While Sin City may be an attraction for the world’s pleasure seekers, Vegas natives are the real forces to be reckoned with.  Thanks to his hardwork, determination, and a genuine passion for hip hop, up-and-coming artist Trayo is just that: a force. Trayo’s powerful second mixtape, titled “The Warm Up,” blends hard hitting beats and a lyrical flow that will leave you contemplating keeping every track on repeat. His refreshing sound separates him from the sea of average emcees, and is proof that what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.  Consider “The Warm Up” the light to the fuse that will blow open the doors to international recognition of Las Vegas’ hip hop talent.  So after the jump download, enjoy, tell a friend and be on look out for Trayo, ’cause this is only The Warm Up!!!!

 

I give this book a 2.5 out of 5 stars.

Description:

From the top, you can see everything . . . except yourself.

When Casey McCloy steps into the elegant Bramford building, she’s overwhelmed. Fresh from the Midwest, she’s moved to New York’s Upper East Side to live with her grandmother and attend the prestigious Meadowlark Academy. Here all that matters is who you know. The girl to know is Madison Macallister: popular, pretty, platinumblond. She’s not just Casey’s new classmate and neighbor; she’s an icon. So Casey aims to get in with Madison and her gorgeous gal-pals from the start. As the reigning queen of coolness, Madison is capable of destroying reputations with one welltimed whisper. Better to be on her good side.

But after a city-haute makeover from her new frenemy Madison, Casey is wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and meeting the right people-including Drew, the boy-about-town who Madison thinks belongs to her and her alone.

I really wanted to like this book because I heard good things about it but I guess it just was not for me.  I feel like the story of the small town girl moving to the big city to live among the rich and snooty has been done many times so I really wanted something in this book to distinguish itself.  While I loved Casey’s grandmother and Casey herself was pretty likeable I found a lot of the relationships between the characters to be a bit unbelievable.  For instance, I could understand why Drew was doubting any future with Madison but I did not really see any compelling reason that he would like Casey instead.  He made mentions of liking classic movies and wanting to go to museums but other than running into Casey once in a museum you don’t see him discovering the little things about her that would make him fall for her.  I will say the little side bits that Banash tosses in there had my attention more than the Madison-Drew-Casey love triangle.  I wanted to learn more about Sophie’s problems, Phoebe’s issues and what is going to happen with Sophie’s brother.  So I will say the temptation is there to pick up the next book but I will not be in any rush.