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The outlook for Egypt's banking system is negative, unchanged since 2011, Moody's Investors Service said in a new report, despite recent steps towards political stabilisation.
The rating agency said that the outlook reflects continuing political and social tensions and the government's strained finances, which continue to undermine investor and consumer confidence.
Furthermore, the banks' high and increasing exposure to Caa1-rated Egyptian government debt poses a significant credit risk and ties the system's solvency to sovereign default risk. Banks' thin capital buffers are also insufficient to absorb potential losses under Moody's scenario analysis.
"Against the backdrop of the unsettled security situation and political climate, the banks' operating environment will remain difficult. This is because the outlook for foreign investment, tourism and consumer confidence remains weak, leading to subdued credit growth and low business generation for banks", said Constantinos Kypreos, Senior Credit Officer at Moody's. The rating agency forecasts GDP growth of 2.6% in 2014, well below the historical average of 4.9% between 2001-10.
However, Moody's acknowledged that the economy is relatively large and diversified, and could -- in the medium-term -- regain strength once structural and fiscal issues are addressed.
Over the next 12-18 months, Moody's expects a further rise in the banks' already high exposure to government securities, which reached 5.7 times their shareholders' equity as of September 2013. The government continues to rely on local banks to fill the funding gap in the absence of foreign funding and continues to run high budget deficits. The high exposure to sovereign paper is the major credit risk for linking the banking system's credit profile directly to that of the Egyptian sovereign. In addition, Moody's expects asset quality metrics to further deteriorate on the back of challenging operating conditions, and extensive restructuring and rescheduling of loans during the economic turmoil.
Egyptian banks reported an average Tier 1 ratio of 11.8% as of September 2013.
Nevertheless, Moody's views this capital buffer as low, given banks' large holdings of government bonds; and the high likelihood of asset-quality deterioration over the outlook period.
In addition, the national regulator applies a 0% risk-weight to the banks' holding of Egyptian government securities. Applying a risk weighting of 50% that is more in line with related global standards, the Tier 1 ratio drops below 6%.
Hoewvre, Moody's also expects Egyptian banks to remain well-funded because of their strong deposit bases. Customer deposits accounted for more than three-quarters (76%) of banking assets as of September 2013, supported by remittances from Egyptians working abroad. The large pool of deposits enables these banks to operate with minimal reliance on riskier market and/or foreign funding.
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Both taking third place, Brandon Calma at 112 pounds and Kyle Babin at 125 pounds, they will make their next stop at the regional tournament at Davison High School next Saturday.
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The war-of-words continues to wage on between "Bad Girls Club"'s Natalie Nunn and Amber Rose, as the reality star has fired more shots toward the buxom model over the weekend.
Speaking through Internet broadcast, Nunn aired out her issues with Rose over her current relationship Wiz Khalifa.
"You want to f*cking do my sloppy a** seconds, b*tch," Natalie said in her broadcast referring to Amber Rose over the weekend. "You want to f*cking come behind me and f*cking pick up my f*cking crumbs like a f*cking peasant that you are? A f*cking peasant, picking up crumbs, picking up f*cking dollars, taking your f*cking clothes off for some f*cking dollars and bending over and picking the sh*t up? ... You're a sloppy seconds a** b*tch...Amber Rose, yes, I f*cking said it, Amber f*cking Rose decided to go to Barbados the same weekend that the 'Bad Girls Club' next season, the one that's taping right now, and tried to show the f*ck up. B*tch, you got me real f*cked up. You want me to tell you why b*tch? 'Cause I'm two steps ahead of you..." (YouTube)
Over the weekend, Rose hit up Nunn and sarcastically painted her as a troubled star.
"Hey @missnatalienunn I'll pray for u girl u obviously have Psychological & Insecurity issues. U wanted some shine from my page u got it.," Rose tweeted Saturday.
"@Missnatalienunn Oh & I know where u live too I'll send u pretty roses from Wiz & I 2 let u know you'll be ok. Enjoy ur time in houston :-)" (Amber Rose's Twitter)
Nunn also responded to Rose's remarks and poked fun at her relationship with Wiz.
"So happy I can get these fakes to show their true colors!!#girlpower bullshit hahah tennis ball head hahahahah," Nunn tweeted back.
"Of course u know where I live... U mans been over plenty of times!! U can come pick up he's stuff he left too" (Natalie Nunn's Twitter)
Earlier in the year, Nunn also made an online broadcast aimed at Rose and Wiz.
"How I want to end this story is -- I wish the best of luck to Amber Rose, I wish the best of luck to Wiz. I don't wish bad on nobody," Nunn added. "I don't have a heart like that, I just don't give a f*ck. [He] was hawking me! At the end of the day, I'm just a bad b*tch. I'm grinding -- I got some sh*t coming out, I got another show about to air. We didn't tape a pilot, we taped the show and it's not behind my green money eyes. It's about Natalie being a bad b*tch. At the end of the day, I respect everything, I respect everybody. If you disrespect me, I'm going to get all in your motherf*cking a**. So if there is a retaliation video just make sure you understand what you are saying before you say anything because I got dirt and I don't like to throw dirt, I like to bury b*tchies in f*cking dirt -- At the end of the day if you have something to say -- all due respect, say what you got to say. But at the end of the day, your new sh*t was my sloppy seconds." (Ustream)
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Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin Songs
Unofficially a remake of the Hollywood film, It Happened One Night that was released in 1034, the indent movie, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin is one of the most poplar movies that Bollywood has ever released. The movie was directed by Mahesh Bhatt and its producer was Gulshan Kumar. Alongside the leading Bollywood actor, Amir Khan, the daughter of Mahesh Bhatt, Pooja Bhatt, played the leading role. Supporting cast of the movie included Sameer Chitre, Deepak Tijori, Tiku Talsania and Anupam Kher. Before Dil Hai KI Manta Nahi, another Indian movie named Chori Chori was also a remake of It Happened One Night and was released in the year 1956.
The movie follows a simple plot, as common in most Indian movies of that time and was nothing so new to be looked at. However, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin songs have been immensely popular and have been ne of the major reasons for the popularity of the movie alongside Amir Khan's realistic and touchy acting in it. Especially the tile song, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal as well as O Mere Sapnon Ke Saudagar by Anuradha Paudwal have been two of the most famous soundtracks from the movie. Other songs include Galyat Sankali Sonyachi by Anuradha Paudwal and Babla Mehta, Dil Tukhpe Agya by Abhijeet and Anuradha Paudwal, Kaise Mizaj Aap Ke Hai by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal, Dulhan Tu Dulha by Anuradha Paudwal and Debashish Dasgupta, Tu PoyarHai Kisi Aur Ka by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal and Adayen Bhi Hai by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal. 'Tu Piyar Hai Kisi Aur Ka' is also an immensely popular sound track from the movie that is popular even now, two decades after the release of the movie. Although Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin failed to receive any award or acclaim amongst the critics or at the box office, it has been popular movie, probably because of it star cast that included Amir Khan and Pooja Bhatt.
All these songs were actually popular and some of them are largely heard even now. They can be easily found on the internet and either downloaded or heard online. If you wish to know the beauty of Bollywood music and know its depth and melody, tracks from this movie are good to listen to. For the romantic ones, the title song and 'Tu Piyar Hai Kisi Aur Ka' are good choices while for the cooler ones, 'O Mere Sapnon Ke Saudagar' would work very well.
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Maariv: Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-Palestinian state under Ankara's protection
The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv's Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul.
The full translation of his report is at the bottom of the post, along with the Hebrew original. Here's the important section, though it's difficult to diifferentiate between reporting and analysis.
Israel will not be able to remain over time an independent country, and a bi-national state will be established on all of the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River in which Jews and Palestinians will live," said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a number of meetings that he held with journalists and academics, including a number of Israeli academics. Davutoglu's vision, which he revisited a number of times, is for Turkey to become a dominant force in the Middle East and further, that it will be the protector state of the above-cited bi-national state within a number of years.
Davutoglu, a professor of international relations, is considered to be the principal ideologue of the AKP, the party that is headed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In the course of the meetings with academics and journalists, which were held prior to the eruption of the recent crisis between Turkey and Israel in the aftermath of the flotilla to the Gaza Strip and the killing of nine Turkish nationals on board the Mavi Marmara, Davutoglu said he did not believe that Israel would be able to sign peace agreements with its neighbors, including the state that is to be formed in the area of the Palestinian Authority.
The central idea that was put forward by Davutoglu, which he has been trying to promote by means of a number of journalists and Turkish government officials, is that Israel as an independent state is illegitimate in the region and, as such, is destined to disappear. That assessment is rooted in a deeper ideology that aspires to restore to Turkey the historic influence it wielded during the era of the Ottoman empire, which ruled the Middle East for close to 400 years. Davutoglu said on a number of occasions that he believed that peace would be restored to the Middle East only in the wake of deep and substantial Turkish intervention.
In other words, Davutoglu and Erdogan aspire to set a new regional order — Erdogan by means of populist rhetoric and closer ties with Turkey's neighbors, Syria and Iran; Davutoglu by means of promulgating the ideological basis. This new order, as noted, has no room for Israel as an independent state. Both Erdogan and Davutoglu have been advancing a policy that promotes closer ties with Syria and Iran, and moves away from the West. Davutoglu added in his meetings with the journalists and academics that the historic powers, (Britain and France) which conquered the Middle East from the Ottomans, are the ones that are responsible for the difficult situation that currently reigns in the Middle East, since they drew the borders in a way that suited their own political and military interests, without taking into account the demographic affiliation of the region's residents.
Turkish Foreign Minister: "Israel will disappear as an independent country"
Eli Bardenstein, Maariv, November 28 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of this post]
Turkey – "Israel will not be able to remain over time an independent country, and a bi-national state will be established on all of the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River in which Jews and Palestinians will live," said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a number of meetings that he held with journalists and academics, including a number of Israeli academics. Davutoglu's vision, which he revisited a number of times, is for Turkey to become a dominant force in the Middle East and further, that it will be the protector state of the above-cited bi-national state within a number of years.
A right-wing one state solution?
Ben Dror Yemini, a senior columnist at Maariv, likes to position himself as a "centrist" by regularly and viciously attacking what he considers the "illegitimate left." Occasionally, he also finds something he considers beyond the pale on his right. He is now positively horrified by a new trend: Right-wing ideologues calling for a one state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From his Friday (May 7 2010) column (full text at bottom of post):
Whatever we think of a Palestinian state or any other arrangement, the present situation cannot go on. Tough decisions have to be made. Either separation or granting citizenship. Either separation or one state. Until now the ideological right supported the Whole Land of Israel. One state. But the right has evaded the question of citizenship for the Palestinians. No longer. The emerging trend is not just one state but also citizenship.
What apparently set off Yemini's alarm bells was a recent statement by Knesset Chairman Reuven Rivlin:
Referring to the possibility that such an agreement [two states] could be reached, Rivlin said: "I would rather [have] Palestinians as citizens of this country over dividing the land up."
Rivlin is an ideologue, one of the few true disciples of Jabotinsky left in the Likud caucus. Partition is not part of their ideology. Liberalism is, however:
"In every Cabinet where the Prime Minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership shall be offered to an Arab, and vice-versa" (Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1940)
Rivlin is also intellectually honest. When faced with the "tough question" — partition or Apartheid — he does not dodge and answers: 'Neither. Equality in one state.'
Dimi Reider has put together a comprehensive review of revisionist thinking on partition, across the Israeli spectrum.
Excerpt from column, Ben Dror Yemini, Maariv Friday Political Supplement, May 7 2010 [page 6; Hebrew original here]
For a few years it seemed to be trial balloons. The right, especially the ideological right, started to issue statements about the need to annex Judea and Samaria, while granting the Palestinians certain rights. A group identified with the right began at the same time to issue demographic assessments saying that there is actually no demographic threat, and that the Jewish majority between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River is guaranteed.
The years went by and these are trial balloons no more. Israel is accused of apartheid and even right-wing circles are feeling guilty. Even they understand that the present situation, the deadlock, of neither here nor there, can not go on forever. Whatever we think of a Palestinian state or any other arrangement, the present situation cannot go on. Tough decisions have to be made. Either separation or granting citizenship. Either separation or one state. Until now the ideological right supported the Whole Land of Israel. One state. But the right has evaded the question of citizenship for the Palestinians. No longer. The emerging trend is not just one state but also citizenship.Let's not take these statements lightly. These are not the reckless hilltop dwellers. These are not your petty racists. These are thinking people who are aware of Israel's status in the world. They are seeing the process of delegitimization. They know it is an industry of lies. They watch disbelievingly "apartheid week" being celebrated not just one week a year but everyday. They understand there is a problem. They understand the old slogans don't work anymore. They know that a new reality is emerging. It might be irreversible. They know that the partial or mass expulsion of Palestinians, contrary to the incitement of demagogues, will put a final end to Israel's legitimacy. "A nation dwelling unto itself" has its place in mythology but it doesn't work on the ground. We are neither Iran nor North Korea nor do we want to be.
So that a trend is evolving. It is not only Uri Elitzur, who may have been the first to say it, and not only MK Tzipi Hotoveli, a lawyer, who understands there is a problem and is therefore willing to grant citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in stages. Now it is also Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, who has good chances of becoming president. He is no marginal figure. He is not a backbencher. He too has said lately that between disengagement from the territories and annexation that includes granting citizenship, he prefers the latter.
Sheizaf: Settlers and Palestinians to join in protest against the separation barrier south of Jerusalem
Cross-posted from Promised Land.
An unusual protest is scheduled for Thursday in the West Bank: Settlers and Palestinians are planning to march together in protest against a section of the separation barrier Israel is constructing south of Jerusalem.
According to a report on Srugim, a national–religious news site, the protest was initiated by Eretz Shalom, a new pro-peace settlers movement. A handbill distributed by the organization (shown below), claims that the planned fence "will damage the nature in the area, hurt the residents of the [Palestinian] village of Wallaje and their fields, won't add to the security of Jerusalem, and will be a waste of state money."
The settlers invite all residents of the area, "Jews, Christians and Arabs", to meet at the border police checkpoint at 4:30pm and march together in protest.
Is this more than a gimmick? It's hard to tell. There has been some talk of peace initiatives coming from the far-right recently. Naturally, they all lead to the one state solution, with most of the settlements remaining in place and the Palestinians becoming Israeli citizens. These ideas are yet to be developed, but I wouldn't dismiss them altogether.
Many people on the left will find it hard to accept the idea of settlers talking about peace, but we should remember that not all the Jews living in the West Bank are like the radical and violent residents of Yitzhar. Some of them are from second and third generation in the settlements, and they really struggle to find a solution that will enable them to live in peace. According to another report on Srugim, the members of Eretz Shalom are not very involved in politics, and view themselves as a grassroots, regional, initiative. I think we should wish them luck. Read more…
Yediot's Kadmon on Sheikh Jarrah, 1948 and the destruction of the two-state paradigm
Yediot's Sima Kadmon is second in stature only to Nahum Barnea and this Friday (March 12 2010) her column opened the paper's influential weekend Political Supplement. Writing in the context of of the current US-Israeli crisis on East Jerusalem, she puts the symbolic, and more importantly, strategic significance (as opposed to the injustice) of Sheikh Jarrah front and center on the mainstream Israeli public agenda (full text at bottom):
But beyond the destruction of the fabric of relations between Jews and Arabs, and beyond the act of penetration and takeover of Arab neighborhoods, the measures in Sheikh Jarrah put Israel into a considerable legal, political and historic bind: if Jews can sue Arabs for ownership of property before 1948, what will prevent Arabs, who own hundreds if not thousands of properties in West Jerusalem, to claim their ownership of them? What will stop them from demanding the eviction of thousands of tenants from properties that were owned by Arabs in Talbiya, Baka, German Colony, Talpiot, Abu Tor and other neighborhoods? In all of those neighborhoods, and not only in them, Jews live in houses that once belonged to Arabs.
Is it really in Israel's interest to open up the discussion of historic rights to property from before 1948?
The reopening of 1948 is not relegated to Jerusalem. The case of the Shaya family house in Jaffa, which I wrote about here last November, is at the heart of Israel's metropolitan center. It is also happening on a massive scale in Haifa and the north.
Kadmon asks what will stop the Palestinians from exploiting this precedent to demand their properties in west Jerusalem. The answer, legally at least, is that Israel's courts recognize only the Jewish "right of return," an uncomfortable fact that has not yet been the subject of any substantial constitutional judicial debate. That, however, is only a matter of time.
The evicted families of Sheikh Jarrah have deeds to properties in Jaffa and West Jerusalem. They will go to court and work the appeals process all the way up to Supreme Court. Because they are living on the street, the judges it will not have the luxury of dragging a ruling out indefinitely. What will they do, rule that Jews and Palestinians are not equal under the law (the "A" word comes to mind) or create an earthshaking precedent and give the plaintiffs their '48 properties back? Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
In another time, I would also have added that the Sheikh Jarrah evictions undermine international trust in Israel's sincerity regarding a two state solution, but I don't think there is much of that left anyway.
It is important to note that judicial precedent gives the Israeli government the full power to step-in and stop the evictions, the issue of property rights notwithstanding. The supreme court has consistently sided with the government when it asserted that the issue is of "diplomatic importance." There are a number of cases from the period of Rabin government's "settlement freeze" in the '90s.
Perhaps the most poignant, and directly relevant example is the case of Ikrit and Birim. The residents of these two villages in the Galilee were asked (literally) by the IDF to leave "temporarily" in 1948. They have since lived nearby as internally displaced refugees, while their villages remain empty and the local Kibbutzes farm their land. The Supreme Court recognized their right to return, but ruled that the government's concern for a dangerous precedent overrode that right. A government genuinely concerned with the ongoing destruction of the two-state paradigm, would have made use of this power in Sheikh Jarrah.
Excerpt from column, Yediot Friday Political Supplement, March 12 2010
Make no mistake: from the beginning of his term Netanyahu has been taking various measures that mean increasing friction with the Palestinians in East Jerusalem, and he's doing it with the help of Mayor Nir Barkat. Barkat, elected with the massive support of the liberal, secular, not to say leftist public, has started to look like the nightmare of supporters of peace and coexistence.
Last Saturday night thousands of Jewish and Arab leftists gathered in the football field of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, to protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes and the entry of settlers in their place. The demonstration was the culmination of weekly protests that took place in the neighborhood over the past months, in constant conflict with the police. The intervention of the Supreme Court forced the police to allow the protest and gave it greater reverberation. What began with a limited number of students got bigger the more the preposterousness became known. Read more…
Gadi Taub in Yediot: It's the "Zionism of the State" vs. the "Zionism of the Land"
Future historians will be able to judge whether Israel at the end 0f 2009 was on the brink of an existential crisis or had already gone over the edge. Mainstream political actors find the second option inconceivable. The intellectually honest, however, are no longer willing to waffle, understanding that the status quo is untenable. Thus, a Likud hardliner, MK Tzipi Hotovely, endorses the one-state solution and, below, centrist author and academic Gadi Taub to assert that a showdown between the State of Israel and the fundamentalist settlers is inevitable.
The land or the state
Op-ed, Gadi Taub, Yediot, December 21 2009
Judging by the reports, it appears that the IDF is preparing to enforce the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria as if this were an attack on nuclear facilities in Iran. On the face of it, this would seem to be a serious exaggeration. The security establishment regards the inflammatory rhetoric of the settlers as if this were truly an enemy army numbering 300,000 people. But the rhetoric is far from the reality. The settlers will not try to subdue us by arms. They are used to having the state pamper them, and they believe that the "price tag" policy will deter us. Read more…
Likud MK endorses one-state solution
This is from MK Tzipi Hotovely, one of the more rightwing members of Likud:
"Israeli law should be applied on the Judea and Samaria region," Hotovely said during a conference in the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and stated she did not rule out granting citizenship to Palestinians.
The MK explained that "Judea and Samaria are a part of the land of Israel," and blamed the Palestinians for the failure of the political process. "We strongly wish to get a divorce, but the other side doesn't want to separate."
Hotovely told Ynet later in the evening, "It's unthinkable that Jews in Judea and Samaria would live under occupation and under a military regime. The distorted policy, which states that every construction permit must be approved by the defense minister harms the most basic rights.
"It's time to lift the question mark over Judea and Samaria and view the people living there as citizens with an equal status. Thinking ahead, strategically, we should consider granting gradual citizenship to Palestinians based on loyalty tests."
And with that, the usually unimpressive Hotovely became the first Likud member to face reality: you cannot settle the West Bank and talk about a solution to the Palestinian problem at the same time, unless you are ready to turn the Palestinians into equal citizens.
The "loyalty tests" part is indeed troubling, but let's look on the bright side this time: if Netanyahu is talking about two states, and the radical right about a bi-national one, it seems that Israelis are finally realizing that the occupation can't go on for much longer.
Religious freedom in Israel and the "one state reality"
On November 18 I wrote about the State Department report criticizing religious freedom in Israel and the Atlantic's Jeffery Goldberg's amazement at the fact Israelis and Jewish-Americans had all but ignored it. I attached an op-ed by Naomi Chazan that ran in that day's Yediot, which, for the first time in the mainstream Israeli media, addressed the report, slamming Israeli intolerance for Jewish religious pluralism.
On November 26, Common Ground News Service ran an article by Prof. Menachem Klein, a political scientist at Bar Ilan University, which approaches the issue from the perspective of Jewish-Muslim relations in the Israeli-Palestinian context.
Interestingly, Klein hints at the one state reality currently in place between the Mediterranean and the Jordan
No less important is the question of the return to the land. The Palestinian right of return is denied by Israel offhand. Yet, Israel upholds the principle of Jewish return to the Land of Israel. This is perceived in Israel as an exclusive right. The idea of Jewish return is what motivates the settlements in Hebron and galvanises Jewish groups to change the status quo on the Temple Mount.
The wheels of history cannot be reversed, and religion can no longer be separated from the conflict over territorial sovereignty and return.
Full article after the jump.
Mainstream Israeli jurist: Most Israeli judges helping to create 'judicial apartheid' — UPDATED
- November 19 2009 — Jonathan Cook also comments on the ruling.
After Yediot's legal affairs editor, Judge (ret.) Boaz Okon, dared use the "A" word last week, another mainstream Israeli jurist, Yuval Elbashan, follows suit. Elbashan is a well known name in the mainstream Israeli debate, usually identified with social justice issues. In a Maariv op-ed this morning (November 15, 2009) he praises a rare ruling by an Israeli judge who refused to convict a young Palestinian-Israel rock thrower Based on an argument of "selective law-enforcement" — the fact that Jewish teenagers who commited the same crimes were not convicted. He adds, however, that "until now, however, most of the judges chose to ignore the big picture and practically helped creating judicial apartheid between Jews and Arabs."
Restoring professional honor
When Justice Shadmi stated that "sectarian discrimination" and "selective law-enforcement" is practiced here, he made the court feel like a hall of justice again. So far, most of the judges chose to ignore the big picture and practically helped creating judicial apartheid between Jews and Arabs.
Op-ed, Yuval Elbashan, Maariv, November 15 2009
Routinely, Israeli courts do not give us too many reasons to be proud of them. The overburdened courts — which often entail intolerable delays of justice, combined with the ill-treatment of the misrepresented poor, and the mediocrity that spread in the system — often leave visitors feeling they are sitting in a Turkish Bazaar, where only the fittest survive, and not in the great halls of justice. Very rarely does a miracle take place in a courtroom that leaves behind a feeling that justice was served, which makes anyone involved in the world of justice feel proud of their profession. This is what happened to me last week, when I read the bold sentence that was handed down by Justice Yuval Shadmi of the Nazareth District Court.
Justice Shadmi rejected the stand of the state, which asked that an Arab minor who threw rocks at a police car be sentenced to time in prison. The parties did not argue about the facts of the case. The minor pelted police vehicles with rocks, protesting the fact that the IDF launched Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. No one disputed the minor's misdemeanor or the fact that it was perpetrated against an ideological background when he wished to stage a protest against what he called "the killing of children in Gaza." The prosecution asked the court to issue a guilty sentence and send him to prison. His attorney argued that, in recent years, the Israeli law-enforcement authorities have been employing a "selective enforcement" policy, a discriminating policy that throws the book at Arab minors while showing Jewish minors excessive mercy even when they perpetrate the same crimes, attacking security personnel for ideological reasons.
The state shamelessly argued (as if the lawyers who represented it have never heard that equality before the law is one of the bedrocks of our legal system) that the broad picture should be ignored and that each case should be judged separately because judgment should be "individual" by nature.
Admitting that the state's argument is tempting for judges because it offers an easy solution, Justice Shadmi stated: "The more I pondered over this, the more I realized that if I accepted that, I would be lying to myself." He established then that indeed the State of Israel takes different kinds of action when addressing ideologically-based misdemeanors by juveniles. When the accused are Jews — for example, when dealing with national-religious youths who attacked police officers during the disengagement or when buildings in the settlement of Amona were demolished, or when minors of the ultra-Orthodox community attacked policemen during a demonstration against violations of the Sabbath, as they saw it — the cases against them were put on ice or otherwise closed. At the same time, when the accused is an Arab minor who did similar things based on similarly ideological motivations, stay of proceedings, frozen charge sheets, and pardons are tossed out the window and the prosecution shamelessly demands that the court throw the book at them.
Shadmi established that "We should no longer accept the perpetuation of such sectarian discrimination, where the various courts' verdicts join together to form an ongoing chain of selective law-enforcement." Therefore, he stated, "If the state believes that 'ideological' crimes justify lenient law-enforcement against minors, this should be the practice vis-à-vis all minors, regardless of their national or religious affiliation."
This was not the first time that Arab defendants raised such claims. Until now, however, most of the judges chose to ignore the big picture and practically helped creating judicial apartheid between Jews and Arabs. The bold verdict of Justice Shadmi no longer allows them and other parties enjoy the privilege of turning a blind eye to such intolerable discrimination which, shamefully enough, was kept alive in institutions that should be the first to defend the persecuted, downtrodden, and suffering.
Israeli Minister: 'Bi-national state does not necessarily mean one man-one vote'
Friday's Makor Rishon, a right-wing Israeli newspaper, ran a feature on the Israeli reaction to Palestinian threats of either demanding a democratic bi-national state in the whole of Mandatory Palestine or unilaterally declaring a Palestinian State in the 1967 borders. Minister of Information and Diaspora, Yuli Edelstein, of Netanyahu's Likud party, was quoted as saying that he doesn't see a bi-national state as a threat because it doesn't necessarily imply full voting rights for the Palestinian population.
Excerpt from "And if the Palestinians declare a state", Makor Rishon Political Supplement, November 13 2009 [page 8]
Yuli Edelstein thinks that the bi-national scenario will not pose a substantial problem for Israel. "It's a threat that was always waved but there a thousand and one intermediate paths and examples from all over the world that stray from the principle of 'one man – one vote." There are all kinds of federations and confederations and other varied arrangements that can provide an answer to the right to vote."
If this is the line of strategic thinking prevalent among the Israeli right-wing elite, it may help explain why the Jerusalem Post's hardliner columnist, Caroline Glick, started advocating, also on Friday, the 'integration of the West Bank's Palestinian population into Israeli society.'
As Netanyahu knows, there is consensus support among Israelis for his plan to ensure that the country retains defensible borders in perpetuity. This involves establishing permanent Israeli control over the Jordan Valley and the large Jewish population blocs in Judea and Samaria. In light of the well-recognized failure of the two-state solution [horse feathers edited cause I just ate my dinner] … Israel should strike out on a new course and work toward the integration of Judea and Samaria, including its Palestinian population, into Israeli society. In the first instance, this will require the implementation of Israeli law in the Jordan Valley and the large settlement blocs.
Yediot's legal affairs editor: Apartheid is here — UPDATED
- November 15, 2009: Mainstream Israeli jurist: Most Israeli judges helping to create 'judicial apartheid'
It's not really news when a well-known Israeli leftist, like poet Yitzhak Laor, calls the Israeli regime between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River "Apartheid". Even (perhaps especially) if it's in an Haaretz op-ed.
When a senior editor at Yediot, Israel's largest circulation daily, dares inscribe the "A" word, it's remarkable. This morning, Judge (retired) Boaz Okon, former director of the Israeli Court System and now the newspaper's legal affairs editor, went one step further. In an op-ed, he charged that a recent ruling by the Israeli High Court of Justice, which ordered desegregation of a West Bank road based on utilitarian rather than principled arguments was the first step towards institutionalizing Apartheid in Israel:
The court thus ruled against this specific arrangement, but its ruling was still based on the assumption that segregation is allowed. The apartheid regime has already been implanted in our subconscious minds. All that is left to do now is to check whether it is proportionate…Segregation is charging at us from the territories, where apartheid already exists because there are two judiciary systems there. The court could have quelled that phenomenon by unequivocally ruling against separate roads. It did not, and thus created a situation whereby practical separation has turned into legal segregation.
Yediot's English-language website hasn't put up a translation and, based on past experience, it's unlikely that it will later, so I had the entire op-ed translated. You can read it in full after the jump.


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Lily Springer is worried about the animals that live in the 23 St. Louis County parks slated for closure in the 2012 budget.
The 10-year-old spoke to a crowd of more than 120 at a public hearing Tuesday night that gave residents the opportunity to voice their concerns about the proposed budget. She also brought a petition with 241 signatures of adults in favor of keeping the parks open.
"I love the parks," she said. "Did you ever think about the animals who live there in their natural homes in the parks? Please keep the parks for the children now and in the future."
After speaking, she asked County Executive Charlie Dooley to wear an "I Love Parks" sticker, given out at a rally before the meeting.
Lily was one of approximately 60 people who spoke at the public hearing, and out of those people, more than 50 spoke about sparing county park land from budget cuts. The St. Louis County Council chambers were completely filled, and a crowd overflowed outside of the room at the start of the meeting.
Other residents offered solutions to the budget shortfall that totals $26 million, according to Dooley.
Ballwin resident Jim Kent, who has worked for the St. Louis County Parks and Recreation Department for more than 32 years, said the county should look first at the auditor and assessor's office before other departments and then consider a countywide furlough program.
"It allows people to keep their jobs," he said. "Furloughed days would be based on the employees' salary."
Kent suggested an employee salary of $30,000 would garner three unpaid days off, a $90,000 salary would require nine days off, and the County Executive salary would equal 14 days off.
"Cuts should be started with the newly political hires, with their salaries staring between $60 and $80,000. And from what I understand, Charlie Dooley spent nearly $1 million to do this and Jake Zimmerman about $500,000," said Lemay resident Cathy Armbruster. "Don't balance your budget on the citizens' backs and don't raise our taxes."
Armbruster's anti-tax sentiments were echoed by at least five other speakers, including co-founder Ken Meyer.
Speakers acknowledged the difficult economic climate that not only the county, but they themselves are facing. Kristen Weber, a Fenton resident who spoke at the meeting, started a petition because she thought the parks were being unfairly targeted in the budget cuts.
"I have learned that residents recognize the economic hardships our county faces, we recognize that downsizing is necessary and we recognize that times are challenging, but what we do not recognize is the choice to directly target the Parks Department as to the answer to this 'alleged' financial crisis," she said.
Ron Coleman from the Open Space Council, who organized the rally before the hearing, presented a 6,000-signature petition to the council. Maryland Heights resident Kim Cuddeback also turned in two petitions totaling 6,850 signatures.
While county residents and non-residents advocated for the parks and a more in depth look at the budget, Mitch Leachman pointed to a county initiative that specifically called for the preservation of parks and open spaces.
The St. Louis County Green and Growing effort began in 2009 by Dooley with the goal of turning St. Louis County into the greenest county in America.
Leachman pointed out that the effort began during the recession when the county knew difficult economic times were ahead.
"Of the 10 priority sustainability goals for the program, at least four are directly related to a vibrant and healthy public parks system, including No. 5, to preserving open spaces," he said. "I can't make it too much plainer than the county's own documentation."
The document states, "This important governance issue also includes investing, maintaining and sustaining the system with sufficient assets in land, staffing, research and funding…"
Leachman recommended the county council reject the 2012 proposed budget.
County Council Chairman Steve Stenger (D-Affton) said he would not support a proposal that seeks to sell or close parks, nor will he accept a proposal that calls for mass layoffs, cuts in service, or a tax increase.
When District 7 Councilman Greg Quinn agreed with Stenger in his opening remarks, District 2 representative Kathleen Kelly Burkett said, "I can't believe there's anyone on this council that wants to see any parks closed…(but) if you know the money is there, please, please, please show me the money."
Stenger and Quinn both cut her off with an "I will."
The council's role is to review and approve or reject the budget. A special budget committee is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. on Monday at 41 S. Central Ave. in Clayton to futher discuss funding options.
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Christmas Message: Volkswagen Turn off BlackBerry Emails For Homebound Employees
Christmas dinner – a time for crackers, turkey, sprouts and….checking your phone?
Well not for employees of Volkswagen, for the car giant came up with a novel idea to ensure its German employees get a much needed break during the Yuletide period, by not delivering their emails to their BlackBerry smartphones when they're not on duty.
Volkswagen confirmed on Friday that some of its workers in Germany will not receive emails on their BlackBerry when they aren't working, after complaints that the lines between work and a personal life were becoming too blurred.
A spokesman for Volkswagen told the BBC: "We confirm that this agreement between VW and the company's work council exists".
Under the arrangement VW have programmed its BlackBerry servers to stop routing emails 30 minutes after the end of employees' shifts, and then start again 30 minutes before they return to work.
The staff can still use their devices to make calls and the rule does not apply to senior management, but it means that those on the scheme get weeknights free from email intrusion.
It should well have been a peaceful period in the back of German Passats this Christmas..Let's just hope Santa didn't email parents in Wolfsburg for directions this Christmas, or there'd have been a lot of unhappy kids yesterday.


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Yahoo's Eric Freeman critiques Chris Hansen in "Ball Don't Lie"
"There's always been something a little icky about Hansen's attempt to pry away the Kings — specifically, that a sale arguably more backwards than the one that turned the original Sonics into the Oklahoma City Thunder is taking place as part of a "Save Our Sonics" movement founded on the idea that Seattle was done wrong. With this ticket list, the investment group is further embracing the concept that one city can be more worthy of an NBA franchise than another based on bank accounts and careful exploitation of circumstances. This battle has relatively little to do with passion, community, and the various other positive values that get trotted out in discussions of a city's connection to its sports teams. As usual, it's about money, and the ability to apply that advantage by any means available."


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Pulse Report: G-Unit Shoots To Kill, Rick Ross & Kid Cudi Surrender, Lil Wayne Gets Grilled
Friday, Feb 12, 2010 12:55PM
In this week's Pulse Report, we're back to rock the block seven days ago to check out why G-Unit might really be shooting for the kill, peep Rick Ross and Kid Cudi copping pleas, laugh at our a**es feeling sorry for Lil Wayne and oh SOHH much more!
[Editor's Note: The views of this column do not necessarily reflect those of SOHH.com]
1. Fully Loaded Clip
D*mn, could it really be happening? Taking out 5-0 Cent from the equation, could G-Unit really be 'bout it 'bout it again? No bullsh*t, doggies, I won't even lie to y'all, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo might actually have a plan up their
G-Unit Clothing sleeves. See, even after clowning "Blue Hefner" a few weeks back over that Canada promoter situation, looks like dude got motivated and started putting in that work. "Beamer, Benz Or Bentley?" F*cking hardbody! Even after receiving the wack a** e-mail blasts from 30 mixshow promoters, I took a minute to put this sh*t into my iTunes and it's been on ever since. But let's take a second and analyze this. If 5-0 Cent was the past? Tony Yayo has the mixtapes kinda hot right now, making him present. Then the future...?
"Well the status is, I am the present, the past and the future," Banks explained in an interview. "So they can definitely look forward to that. Tony Yayo, of course. The founding members are always gonna be there. We built this up, gave opportunities to other artists that were signed including [Young] Buck and Game and so on. But as long as that structure is there, we're good. We're solid. You can look forward to me, I'm the future. This summer [for my album]. It's a tight schedule...hopefully we can push for late summer."
^ Oh sh*t! Even though y'all probably figure I'm Game > G-Unit due to an unequal comparison of relevancy and/or hot sh*t, turns out I'm f*cking with the "Punch Line King" on this. I mean, did 5-0 do what was best? Kicking out some shaky members and trying to convince people to go back wanting the "original" crew? Nah, probably not but f*ck it, can't cry now over spilt milk. But don't get it twisted, just b/c Banks has a hot record doesn't mean Ya-Yo is sleeping:
"If I was still on Interscope, I would say I would probably have to wait a long process to get my mixtape on iTunes," Yayo explained to DJ Green Lantern. "And now my mixtape's on iTunes, go pick it up -- I get my bread faster instead of waiting on the label to make moves for me. Them days is dead...We're gonna drop these independent records this summer, it's more money for me anyway, so, it's a beautiful thing. It's the do it yourself [era]. Eh yo, all those Hype Williams days are over. N*ggas used to spend half a million for a video. Now -- my videos are done in five minutes."
Now in all honesty, the old @BulldogButterworth would have likely put these fools into our new "STFU Honors" section based off their over-hyping remarks, but for this first time, I kinda believe them. Let's be clear though, 5-0 Cent is still not relevant compared to what he was capable of pulling off up through late 2005. His ship has already tanked, much like Cam'ron and his Dipset dreams. But as far as making a few extra dollars and getting somewhere along The Lox type of recognition? Yeah, G-Unit is back in that sense. Yayo will keep making street sh*t and Banks is gonna drop a decent album this summer, not as
good bad as Rotten Apple (think "Cake," "Hands Up" and "Help"), but it will be enough to keep his crew's future somewhere close by.
And with that said?
^ Still not f*cking with:
2. Brothers From Another
Not trying to sound like I'm on some sucker sh*t, but WTF is going on with all this positivity in rap? SMFH...I mean, d*mn, don't y'all miss all of those "Beef" DVDs? Well, turns out we got Rick Ross in this corner shaking hands with Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and then we got Kid Cudi pulling the Michael Jackson "Wanna play?" treatment on the dude he played "Knock Out Kings" with a couple months ago...SMFH....let's go in with
Officer Ricky Ross first.
"Yeah, bumped into Floyd Mayweather," Ross said. "Most definitely. We chopped it up like G's and after a discussion, we shook hands. So that's squashed. It's a new year, it's time to get new money. Y'all know what it is. I kept it 1,000."
SMFH...and if y'all thought that was not only wack/dumb/stuuuppppid, check out what Cudi ended up offering to the "innocent" fan he knocked out back in December.
Michael Sharpe -- the man who claims Cudi's fist connected with his face during a December show in Vancouver -- tells TMZ the rapper called him up last weekend to finally apologize, and blamed the knuckle sandwich on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol. Sharpe said Cudi also offered to fly him out to New York for an all-expenses paid weekend -- but so far, nothing is set in stone.
LOL. WTF? Aight, I hear where some of y'all are coming from. "F*ck you @BulldogButterworth, they should just stick to the music, this is a GOOD thing!" SMFH......look, I'm not here to bust b*lls or to make fun of anybody...well, yes I am, but telling me these two "alleged" and wack a** apologies are legit is faker than Nicki Minaj's a** in a dressing room with a pink monkey. Something about "truces" and "apologies" taking place just seems not only fabricated but like a cop out. Think about it for a minute, when's the last time a "good" diss record got promoted or somebody was forced to step their sh*t up? Didn't Ross just clown Mayweather a few weeks ago about nearly getting that a** whooped?
"I'ma leave that on the gangsta side, shout-out out to Diddy," Ross told DJ Envy in an interview. "It's safe to say somebody most definitely owes Diddy a dinner date. But you know, we back to business, it's a new year so we focusing on our money. Most definitely the bosses bumped heads out there, it wasn't pretty but we kept it gangsta on my side..."
And at this point, does anybody REALLY know where this Ross/Mayweather beef got started at? Oh, please don't use that "Mafia Music" lyric as a starting point, either. SMFH. Rap is getting too friendly nowadays and with everyone wanting to just bow down and all be brothers and sisters is just...well, how can I say it?
And just think, while all these dudes are hugging each other, the only one keeping it real?
^ Yes yes yes y'all, the music ain't going nowhere. If you're going "gangster," then don't compromise your image, Ricky. Cudi? We already know about your multi-faced characteristics.
3. They Shootin' (Made You Look)
LOL. Now if you're sitting there reading these very words right now, you either laughed your a** off this week or got mad as sh*t (me, too) when thinking all these "Good Bye! Farewell" messages from Lil Wayne were legit. Yeah, I got the main gist of everything, they didn't know if the judge was going to approve their already filed request for surgery work and then Wayne gets the delay, yeah, I hear that sh*t but just in the manner it all went down. First we go through non-stop interviews with Young Money and other rappers talking about what they think of Wayne's situation and then to just get sh*tted on like this? Maybe it's just me, but it feels like we were played, once again, by the politics.
A lawyer for Lil Wayne said on Tuesday that Lil Wayne needed to be treated for a "medical situation" that could not be attended to sooner, because his dentist had been out of the country performing charity work. Judge Charles Solomon granted an adjournment and rescheduled the sentencing to March 2. Lil Wayne could face a sentence of one year on the gun charge, and is scheduled to go on trial March 30 on felony drug possession and weapons charges in Arizona.
LOL. The sh*t that really had me turning was how much coverage @sohhdotcom and the other sites are actually still giving this dude. Dentists? Former cops? WTF!? Have we really scooped down so low that we can't just let a doggy breathe? D*mn.
"He probably has a bad tooth, a tooth that's abscessed," Dr. Rudd explained in an interview. "With having all of [gold and diamond material] in his mouth, it's going to be really difficult to get clean because of all of the different crevices. I don't know if they're bridges or if they are all individual. But if it's going to be two weeks [from surgery to recovery], then I don't think he's going to get them all off, because of the potential damage. Without knowing what's exactly there, it's probably decayed and the decay got into the nerve, which causes the nerve to die."
And please insert the 5-0's point of view on this sh*t:
"Lil Wayne is gonna be OK," Parker said in an interview. "While he's in jail, it's a matter of fact they may not put him with the general population because of who he is and his popularity. They might lock him down and let him come out with a supervisor and stuff like that [when he's] in the main area -- but he's definitely going to be treated differently...Wayne is from the streets, from the Magnolia Houses in New Orleans, so I'm sure those guys have been in jail or locked up at some point. So being in prison is no big deal to them."
^ Come on, really? SMFH....the only good thing about all this is that I actually believe what Wayne's lawyer is saying about not trying to get any more delays in the sentencing. I mean, at this point, get your a** in there and be home to a halfway house like T.I. come summertime.
Earlier this week we speculated that the dental surgery keeping Lil Wayne from jail for another few weeks was the removal of his famous diamond grills. We just got off the phone with Wayne's lawyer, Stacey Richman, however, and while she doesn't know what exactly the procedure is ("I'm not a dentist. I went to law school"), she assures us the grills aren't going anywhere. Also, apparently the reason things didn't get done before the scheduled sentencing on Tuesday is that Wayne's dentist recently had to go on a last-minute charity mission to Nicaragua. When asked if she expects any other postponements in the case, Richman replied, "Barring some sort of tsunami, no, but it's happened in New Orleans before, so who knows." Lil Wayne's lawyer: almost as irreverently entertaining as he is!
Ever since last Tuesday, I felt f*cked up b/c y'all even saw me say "Lil Wayne Ready For The Pen" thinking he was really headed to the clank. But looks like I'm not the only one, Game:
"N*gga, Weezy still outchea wit us............. real M.C.'s live behind #bars ere'day anyway. "Hip Hop" , they can't hold us."
D*mn, the sooner Wayne gets in there, the sooner we can pay homage and actually take a look at all the sh*t YouTube has under his name. Even though doggy is still unleashed, I will say, Young Money will stop once Wayne heads into jail. From claiming Nicki/Drake need a Wayne verse to 3 people watching Lil Chuckee's UStream casts, it's gonna get real quiet soon. Wait-and-see.
4. Jigga What, Jigga Who?
D*mmmmmn, you know the world is coming to an end (be easy y'all, it ain't the movie 2012), when your prized white pop star-turned-black respected artist gets caught up in some sticky racist sh*t. Yes, y'all know I had to toss John Mayer into this posting. Now normally I try to avoid certain topics that are being updated/changed after my posts each Friday, but this doggy DEFINITELY earned a spot on the platform with his wack a**. Instead of analyzing this from the jump, take a moment to see what we're focused on:
"Someone asked me the other day, 'What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?' And by the way, it's sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n*gger pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, 'I can't really have a hood pass. I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' .... I don't think I open myself to [black women]. My d*ck is sort of like a white supremacist. I've got a Benetton heart and a f*ckin' David Duke c*ck. I'm going to start dating separately from my d*ck."
And the most relevant, hottest group out right now? Slaughterhouse, responds.
"John Mayer will get off the hook just like Asher Roth did. Throw money, a lame apology and some good PR at us and we forget," he wrote Wednesday (February 10) evening. "@laelohood blame the writer? it was a q & a...they just write what you say. they record your words. John Mayer should should not open his mouth unless he is singing. @laelohood if the fact i have white fans makes you think imma give a pass to racist bullsh*t you dont know me." -Joell Ortiz
Am I missing out on some John Mayer news ?," he wrote. "interesting read 2 say the least..... Y do black girls get mad when u say u don't prefer 2 date them ? is that considered "racist" ? just 2 clarify, i don't share in that sentiment, but i would like 2 hear what people think about it...." -Joe Budden
Few things we have to point out. First off, I am willing to put $$$ that Mayer did not say "n*ggER" but likely DID say "n*gga" almost without a doubt. Writers/Bloggers can easily f*ck something like that up when transcribing what was said to them. Now of course he's not giving me a lane to defend his manhood Klan in regards to wanting to f*ck outside of his race, but to say he's a closet racist? SMFH...no doggies, let's be clear, if he WAS a racist, he would not have just let that stupid sh*t slip out of his mouth and would have playfully asked for another question or just lied. Does it make it right? F*ck no. Does it make him accountable for his words? F*ck yes. Will he recover from this? Yes/No. Even though I just put up @sohhdotcom's coverage of what rappers were saying, take a look at what others said about Mayer, courtesy of RapRadar:
"hmmm. ill give mayer a benefit of the doubt (remember how people misinterpreted my photo?) and assume that was a punchline gone awry." -Questlove
"My man John Mayer must love the taste of his own foot. #atleasthewashonest." -Talib Kweli
"I hear black girls say they won't f*ck a white dude I hear spanish girls say they don't f*ck with Black Dudes....are they Wilin." -DJ Clue
"Playboy set his a** up good on black history month!!!!! I hope he suck a cow d*ck!!! Gone!!!" -Nore
Now...with all that said, please share with me a moment of silence as we cherish what Mayer has decided to pass up:
5. STFU Honors
It was a nice strong week full of quotations, but only the strongest were able to survive in our weekly edition of "Shut The F*ck Up Honors." Even though Tahiry and Joe Budden held this sh*t down by just putting each other on blast, the honors this week go to a select few. From retirement bullsh*t to trying to make us think that just b/c we don't understand the bullsh*t that he writes, doggy might be right, everyone is accounted for. With that said, let's hand out the awards.
1. Kid Cudi
"I'm trying to evenly balance them out right now, but eventually I want to leave behind music and just do acting," he said. "I only got into the music business to tell my story and inspire some people. I think four albums will do it, and when I'm done with my four, five albums, I'll switch it up. Once the story is told [musically], there's nothing else to say."
2. Cassidy
I'm just a grown man now, I've been in this industry for over a decade so I'm just matured now, got my own production company, trying to put my artists on, giving another opportunity to get money. The same way Swizz started Full Surface even though he was with Ruff Ryders. Similar situation.
3. DJ Kay Slay
"This downloading sh*t f*cked up the whole music industry. The last thing you want to do is put it online cause people won't purchase it. You can't bootleg a magazine. The time that it takes to do it and the money, a n*gga aint gonna take the chance to do it."
4. Jim Jones
"Shout-outs to Cam also but everybody got their own thing that they're doing. We moving in one accord though, you'd be surprise at what's gonna happen this year. We might knock the socks off the industry. Dipset, b*tch. That's all I got to say."
5. Nas
"I love jewelry. I love cars," he said. "And part of it is because cars fascinate me. Part of it is because of what social status it represents. ... So I do talk about it [on recordings]. Every gangster I've ever known or every street dude I've ever known has a heart. They know about ... more than girls and booty-shakin'. And that's who I'm here to represent. All my peers are dead, fugitives or locked up."
***LOL!!! D*mn, I swear y'all, I have a grip of BONUS material to ink up for y'all but keep realizing the Pulse Report is still turning out a bit too long. Maybe I'll try to shorten my commentary and take a sliver off of what I put into each box of information. Once again, props @BulldogButterworth for locking in last week's Caption Diss and thanks @sohhdotcom for letting me sacrifice my vote! LOL. Yeah fools, y'all should know the routine in our comments section, I only respect remarks made no later than 48 hours after it posts, otherwise you're short. We got SOHH much to focus on these next few weeks y'all, enjoy the weekend and get ready b/c BB is always surfin' this 'net!*** -BB
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Shaq on the Kings' own Beloved Young Big Man:
If you want to be somebody, you've got to kill everybody. When I was young, it took me a while to get up for everybody. It's hard for me to get up for [Kings center] Spencer Hawes. Somebody asked me, 'Who is Spencer Hawes?' Who the -- is Spencer Hawes? And they did a big article, 'Shaq doesn't know Spencer Hawes.'
"But I get up for [Yao] Ming; I get up for those guys every day," he continued. "When you're an OK center that's trying to be good, you got to get up for everybody every night."
--Can't wait for the next game against the Suns. Perhaps, if Hawes can play out of his mind, Shaq will be able to place the name next time he's asked.
Brad Mller Trade:
League sources say the Kings have a standing offer of Shawn Marion in exchange for Brad Miller and Kenny Thomas – that deal seems to be the floor in which the Kings are negotiating from.
Brad Miller has been rumored to Miami and Chicago, although the Bulls continue to deny any interest in trades, despite recent internal disputes with young guys like Tyrus Thomas, Thabo Sefolosha and Joakim Noah. New Kings' assistant general manager Jason Levien officially starts today, you can expect his first order of business will be finding the market for the Kings' pieces and to begin working with Geoff Petrie on setting the table for the future. That's expected to start with moving Brad Miller before the February 19th trade deadline.
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A strong cold front will move through the region on Sunday and Monday, bringing us a good chance for rain.
On Sunday high temperatures will range in the upper 70's to lower 80's. The morning will begin with cloudy skies and patchy fog could develop in areas where winds are light. During the afternoon hours we'll see mostly cloudy skies, with a few rays of sun. By the afternoon we'll continue to see increasing clouds and increasing rain chances. There is a 50% chance for a shower or thunderstorm during the day time, with rain chances increasing in the evening and overnight hours.
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Members of a local group dedicated to helping runaway kids said they will now be able to help even more homeless kids in Yellowstone County.
"It can't happen soon enough." said Sheri Boelter, Executive Director of Tumbleweed Runaway Program. On Friday, the group got word they received a sizable grant from the Federal Government.
"$180,000 per year, for five years, through the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families." said Boelter.
That's a grand total of $900,000. Money Boelter said is sorely needed in Billings.
"There are between 40 and 149 homeless youths sleeping on our streets in Yellowstone County on any given night." said Boelter.
Boelter said she was grateful Tumbleweed was able to get the grant, since the program had to compete with other, similar programs across the country, in the era of government budget cuts. Tumbleweed already has plans on how to use the grant.
"We'll be able to hire two new staff people, a case manager and a youth development specialist, and we'll be able to put a youth into scattered site housing." said Boelter. The new program is called HopeLink, and according to Tumbleweed, it will be able to help up to 100 homeless youth in Yellowstone County for the next five years.
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Interesting Newsweek article (click!) on why it is a waste of time to boycott BP gas stations — do we even have any of those around here? — over the gulf oil leak.
Leak? Fountain is more like it. A million gallons a day is the current number. They're guessing, but even though BP now says they're siphoning off 15,000 barrels a day from a leak they originally guessed at 5,000 barrels a day, the stuff is still gushing out from around the lid they put on the so-called blow-out preventer.
So, pick a number.
As the article says, people are angy at BP, but boycotting them doesn't recognize all the harm that other oil companies have done, or are doing, to the Niger delta, or South America, or wherever.
And the article doesn't even mention my favorite reason to not boycott: It's a complete waste of time.
Oil is fungible, the gasoline we use in Utah all comes from the same four refineries no matter what brand is on it, and all you hurt is the local franchise dealer who only makes a nickel a gallon off gasoline anyway.
And then, yeah, the price of oil from our heavy demand for the stuff is what funds terrorism. Saudi Arabia funds radical islamic militia forces in Afghanistan, which are the guys attacking and killing our soldiers.
Why, since we're their best buddies?
Because religion outweights politics with those guys, and the Saudi version of islam is ultra-conservative and, frankly, hates American guts. We hated Saddam Hussein for offering to give $20,000 to the families of suicide bombers in Israel, but the Saudis held telethons for those same suicide bombers. (And in another article here). They collected more than $100 million for the Palestinian cause, this article says.
Yeah, our dear allies in peace.
So what to do? Reduce your use of oil. Americans are the single biggest user of oil in the world, so we hold the whip hand, in a way. If we could cut our use by 10 percent the world price of oil per barrel would plummit and there would be panic in world markets that would hit the Saudis right where it would do the most good: Their wallets.
Take two fewer trips a week. Make the next car a 40 mpg vehicle. Ride a bicycle. Walk. Never ever let your car idle for more than a minute.
Do it to stick it to BP. Do it to fight for freedom.
Do it so we can quit drilling oil wells that can turn into gushers that kill the Gulf of Mexico.


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