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Clearing House for Left Wing Propaganda
What is 'Media Matters for America'
By Rick Gordon
Media Matters for America [MMA] was excreted from the anal minds of David Brock and George Soros back in 2004. They make the effort of presenting themselves as a 'research and information center' dedicated to monitoring analyzing and correcting any information presented to the Public that is not in line with the official progressive agenda.
They monitor all conservative news and media - print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet sources. In many cases they dictate the content of progressive Democratic Party controlled media.
The stated purpose of Media Matters was to combat what they call 'conservative misinformation' they define conservative misinformation as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda.
For decades the Left had monopolized Mass Media. Broadcasting and print media with rare exceptions were geared toward the destabilization of Civil Liberties and advancement of the progressive left wing authoritarianism. The perpetuation of the Lefts False Narrative was challenged by the arrival of a media source that challenged their distortions.
Orwellian 1984 was so close they could almost taste it - complete and absolute totalitarian control of society was sitting on their plates like a juicy sizzling steak only to be snatched as they took knife and fork in hand.
Starting in the early 90s, the right wing and conservative movement began to display an uneasiness and outright disgust with the blatant distortion and vigorous indoctrination being perpetrated by the Left. They began to produce and promote a somewhat more balanced media presentation.
Although they were far from the levels of devious expertise employed by the left , who've had decades of experience, their meager attempts to resist Big Brother did not go unnoticed. Leftist rabble rousers were in an uproar, I mean how dare anyone resist their agenda, how dare they employ the underhanded and devious tactics which the left believed to be their exclusive domain.
Americans hold the media in very low esteem, they have very little confidence in the main stream media to report ANYTHING fairly. In a 2011 Gallup poll a 60% majority reported a perception of media bias, with 47% saying that it was too liberal. Continually year after year since 2002 more Americans polled believe that the media shows brazen liberal left wing bias. [5]
The majority of America had been made to see through the facade.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors conducted a survey in 1997 to ascertain the political persuasions of media contributors, 61% of reporters stated that they were members of, or sympathized with the Democratic Party. While 15% chose the Republican Party. Bear in mind that these are 'educated' people who have been thoroughly indoctrinated by left wing academia. Presently with the rise of Fox News- which tends to slant towards the right - those numbers would probably differ somewhat.
The Daily Caller in 2012 published an expose that revealed the extent to which MMA had become engaged in dictating the content of media reports. Newspapers such as the NY Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times all took dictation from Media Matters. The Caller reported that by 2008, "Media Matters staff had the direct line of MSNBC president Phil Griffin, and used it. Griffin took their calls [and orders]' !
'We were pretty much writing [MSNBC's] prime time,... But then, virtually all the mainstream media was using our stuff stated one former Media Matters employee.' -[1]
MMA Dictates the content of many mainstream media reports
MMA Engages in underhanded mud-slinging tactics against conservatives attempting to label them as liars and racists. A brainwashing tactic known as Jamming.
MMA attempts to create the illusion that conservatives dominate the mainstream media
MMA Had regular contact and strategy sessions with political operatives within the Obama Regime [6]
MMA conspired with Attorney General Eric Holder's office in an effort to discredit and suppress news stories about scandals plaguing the Justice Department Dictates the content of many mainstream media reports. [7]
MMA released a study of guest appearances on major network shows such as ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press , covering the period of 1997 - 2005. The 'study' examined thousands of guests according to their political persuasion. They concluded that Right wingers were offered dramatically more opportunities to appear on the shows, thus attempting to negate the Rights claim to under representation.
What they failed to acknowledge or even consider was the fact that with extremely rare exception - the hosts were generally opinionated Liberals and leftists whose sole purpose for presenting Right wing advocates was to lambaste and attack their beliefs, some of the hosts were well known for what could be described as 'Ambush - Journalism' . Dan Rather, a disgraced so-called journalist was one of these 'un-biased hosts'.
Who is Behind Media Matters
The Clintons played a small role, Hillary claimed at one time that she had ' helped to start and support ' Media Matters, although it is uncertain if that was before or after she dodged sniper fire in Bosnia. The de-facto founder David Brock consulted with leading Democratic Party upper echelon, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and others. He also presented his idea to potential socio-fascist funders, who promptly lined up to bankroll his cause.
George Soros was one of those financiers. Soros, as well as Media Matters for America, for years denied that Soros was the controlling force behind the organization. Media Matters, vigorously denied over the years conservative accusations of being funded by the buffoonish billionaire and political activist. However in 2010 Soros peeked out of from behind the veil and publicly dumped One Million dollars directly into their laps.
'In view of recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence, I have now decided to support the organization' Soros stated. Prior to 2010 Soros had never openly contributed to Media Matters but remained secretive, behind the scenes, supporting and controlling them clandestinely it is surmised. One of the largest donors to Media Matters for America is a blatantly and obnoxiously far-left capital reservoir - the Tides Foundation. Tides documents clearly demonstrate that the group gave over $4 million to Media Matters from 2004-2009 alone. Soros is one of the primary financiers of the Tides Foundation as well as other similar subversive philanthropies.
Soros controlled Open Society Foundation dumped millions of dollars into groups such as MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress, Democracy Alliance, and others ,these Soros front organizations funneled much of that money directly into Media Matters. Byron York, an investigative journalist for the Washington Examiner as well as the National Review pointed out that another Soros affiliate that financed Media Matters was the New Democratic Network.
York also suggested that the donors for MMfA suggested a strong left wing bias and an agenda that went beyond media criticism. [8]
'donors read like a Who's Who of those who have financed the new, activist Left. Besides Buell and Hindery, donors to Media Matters include Peter Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corp., who has contributed more than $7 million to the 527s in partnership with his friend, the financier George Soros.' - Byron York
War on Fox News
Since its inception Media Matters for America has incessantly hounded and scrutinized Fox News. Its hoard of paid staffers scrutinizes every aspect of the network. Its corporate officers, hosts, guests, curriculum, financial dealings and so forth. Should Fox fail to dot an i or cross a T Media Matters mongrels salaciously await the opportunity to pounce, and pounce they do. No other mainstream media outlet has ever had to endure the relentless assaults and vindictive attacks endured by Fox.
Media Matters Executive Vice President Angelo Carusone declared in December 2013 The war on Fox is over...And it's not just that it's over, but it was very successful. To a large extent, we won. However what Carusone failed to acknowledge is that Fox News ratings are very strong, in fact stronger than its two primary rivals combined.
'As recently as last month, a poll showed that Fox News is the most trusted source of information about the most important issue in America today: ObamaCare. Fox News beat "friends and family," NPR, President Obama, and every rival news network. As recently as last month, Fox News absolutely crushed CNN and MSNBC in the ratings. In both total viewers and the all-important 25-54 age demo, Fox News beat both of them combined. Moreover, out of over 100 channels, Fox News is #2 in all of cable..... Fox News isn't just dominant; it's competition is in deep, deep water and either drowning or barely treading water.If that's a victory for Media Matters, I'd love to know what defeat looks like.' -John Nolte - breitbart.com [2]
'According to its strategic plan for the next three years, a copy of which was provided to The Huffington Post, Media Matters envisions shifting its focus to new, increasingly influential targets, including Spanish-language media, social media streams, alternative online outlets and morning and entertainment sources. It will enhance its state media and issue-based monitoring, as well as continue its focus on right-wing radio and legacy outlets.' [3]
Juan Williams has been a contributor to many varied Media Outlets, including Fortune, Ebony magazine, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, TIME , Gentlemens Quarterly and appears on a number of television programs - Nightline, The Oprah Winfrey Show and others. He is a man with a mind of his own, indebted to neither Right nor Left. He is however a journalist, not a propagandist unlike many of his colleagues.
Williams was fired by NPR News following politically incorrect comments he made on the Fox News The O'Reilly Factor.
'Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous. ..... Christians shouldn't be blamed for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.'
Williams in 2011 spoke out on Media Matters attacks on Fox - '...They are digging up dirt on people. They are trying to ruin peoples lives and reputation because they disagree with their politics. And, in specific here, what they disagree with is conservative politics and they really dont like Fox News. So they are going after everybody associated with Fox News including the likes of me...' [4]
Footnotes - References
1. Daily Caller Article
2. Media Matters Declares Victory Over Fox.
3. Media Matters Declares Victory 'The War On Fox Is Over
4. JUAN WILLIAMS SLAMS MEDIA MATTERS
5. Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias
6. Discover The Networks - MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
7. Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press - Daily Caller
8. National Review
Magabook
Mumblit
USA Life


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The Hunger for More
2004 studio album by Lloyd Banks
50 Cent (exec.)
Black Jeruz
Danja
Diaz Brothers
Greg "Ginx" Doby
K1 Mil
Ron Browz
Scram Jones
Sha Money XL (also exec.)
Chad Beatz
Thayod Ausar
Lloyd Banks chronology
(2004) Rotten Apple
Special Edition cover
Singles from The Hunger For More
"On Fire"
Released: April 27, 2004[1]
"I'm So Fly"
"Karma"
The Hunger for More is the debut album by Lloyd Banks, released June 29, 2004 on G-Unit Records and Interscope Records.
1.1 Concept
3.1 Critical response
3.2 Commercial performance
4 Track listing
4.1 Special edition
The hit singles from this album include "On Fire", "I'm So Fly", and "Karma". Features on this album include 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, and The Game.
During the first week of The Hunger For More's release, a distribution house in Manhattan was robbed of approximately eight boxes of the CDs (200 copies). A New York record store had nearly 100 copies of the CD stolen from its racks by a single perpetrator on the album's first day in stores, though they were later recovered.[2]
Concept[edit]
During an interview Lloyd Banks explained the reason behind naming the album. He said:
When I say The Hunger for More, it could be referring to more success. It could be more money. Or Respect. More power. More understanding. All those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.[3]
Recordings[edit]
" We had a studio on the tour Bus. I wrote on the road, going through different situations, constantly touring. 50 was out there, Snoop Dogg was out there, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, a lot of people and I'm tryin' to find my lane at the same time as goin' through all the ins and outs.[4] "
" I recorded about 50 tracks and I had 50 choose the tracks for the album. "Chips it down" meaning that when the finances are not there, you realize that you need money for everything, and you know that money can change everything. It is talking about the move from having nothing to having all the money and the cars and jewelry.[5] When I'm doin' records for my album, I'm givin' you the same thing I'm givin' you on the mixtapes, but I'm also givin' material that I don't care about getting an (oooh or wow) at the crowd. I do it to basically to tell you stuff you need to know. You understand. If I said you need to know this is what to expect from my neighborhood its kinda like a message at the same time you see good news travel slower than bad news. Yanno so if you grow up in the suburbs or you out of the country or whatever maybe my personal experiences will make you appreciate your neighborhood better. So it's certain things that when I make a record or my album where I'm tellin' you I don't care about your *oooohs and ahhhhs* I just feel like you need to know this.[5] "
Critical response[edit]
Professional ratings
AllHipHop [6]
Blender [10]
E! Online B−[11]
HipHopDX [12]
Los Angeles Times [13]
RapReviews (8/10) [14]
Rolling Stone [15]
Vibe [8][9]
The Village Voice (mixed) [16]
Upon its release, The Hunger for More received positive reviews from most music critics.[17] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[17]
Commercial performance[edit]
It was released in 2004 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with week-one sales topping 433,000.[18] The album remained at #1 on the Billboard 200 in the 2nd week, selling close to 164,000 copies in the United States.[18] "That's the kind of debut that veteran artists have," says Banks. "That showed me that following 50's moves and studying the way that he played the game had put me in an incredible position." The album has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA.[19][20] The album also achieved Platinum status in Canada[21]
Track listing[edit]
1. "Ain't No Click" (featuring Tony Yayo) Havoc 4:25
2. "Playboy" (featuring DJ Whoo Kid) Ron Browz 4:32
3. "Warrior" Thayod Ausar 2:47
4. "On Fire" (featuring 50 Cent)
Luis Resto
5. "I Get High" (featuring 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg) Hi-Tek 4:09
6. "I'm So Fly"
7. "Work Magic" (featuring Young Buck) Scram Jones 4:27
8. "If You So Gangsta"
Sha Money XL
9. "Warrior Part 2" (featuring Eminem, 50 Cent and Nate Dogg) Eminem 3:38
10. "Karma" (featuring Avant) Greg 'Ginx' Doby 4:38
11. "When the Chips Are Down" (featuring The Game)
12. "Til the End" (featuring Nate Dogg) Eminem 5:09
13. "Die One Day" Baby Grand 3:14
14. "South Side Story" Diaz Brothers 4:10
Deluxe Bonus Track
15. "Just Another Day" Tone Capone 3:29
UK & Japan Bonus Tracks
16. "Take A Good Look" J-Hen 2:53
Special edition[edit]
The album was also released in a special edition, which featured a bonus track and different packaging (including a CD booklet on dollar bill-style paper). It also included a 25-minute DVD with the video for "My Buddy", a clip for "Smile" and "A Day in the Life of Lloyd Banks."[3]
The Bonus Track on the Special Edition, "Just Another Day", contains lyrical interpolations of Queen Latifah's song of the same name.
Certifications[edit]
Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[22]
Platinum 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[23]
Platinum 1,000,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
Charts[edit]
Charts (2004)[24][25]
Dutch Albums Chart 52
French Albums Chart 37
German Albums Chart 45
Irish Albums Chart 36
Swiss Albums Chart 65
UK Albums Chart 15
Canadian Albums Chart 2
U.S. Billboard 200 1
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 1
U.S. Billboard Top Rap Albums 1
^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/on-fire-mw0001704811/releases
^ "For The Record: Quick News On Lloyd Banks, Michelle Branch, Hoobastank, Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Usher & More". MTV. 2004-07-01. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ a b Jonathan Cohen (May 19, 2004). Lloyd Banks Feeds The 'Hunger'. Billboard. Accessed October 22, 2007.
^ "MVRemix Urban Interviews Lloyd Banks | G-Unit | US and Canadian Underground Hip Hop and Soul - exclusive interviews, reviews, articles". Mvremix.com. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
^ a b [1] Archived December 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ "The Hunger For More - Exclusive Hip Hop News, Interviews, Rumors, Rap & Music Videos". AllHipHop. 2004-07-01. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ David Jeffries (2004-06-29). "The Hunger for More - Lloyd Banks | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ "VIBE.com: Llyod Banks - The Hunger For More (G Unit/Interscope)". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2007-03-07. Retrieved 2017-04-27. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
^ Vibe. Books.google.com. p. 159. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ "Blender :: guide". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2006-10-19. Retrieved 2017-04-27. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
^ "Lloyd Banks - The Hunger For More". HipHopDX. 2004-06-27. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ Robert Hilburn; Dean Kuipers; Randy Lewis (2004-07-18). "Buzzes and bumbles abound". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ "Feature for June 29, 2004 - Lloyd Banks' "The Hunger for More"". Rapreviews.com. 2004-06-29. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ Lloyd Banks (2004-08-05). "Lloyd Banks: The Hunger For More : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2017-04-27. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
^ O'Connor, Christopher (2004-09-07). "Life After 50". Village Voice. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
^ a b "Critic Reviews for The Hunger For More". Metacritic. Retrieved on 2011-05-14.
^ a b Harris, Chris (2006-10-18). "Lloyd Banks Can't Catch Rod Stewart's Classics In Race For Billboard #1 - Music, Celebrity, Artist News". MTV. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
^ Winning, Brolin (June 8, 2014). Exclusive Interview with Lloyd Banks Archived February 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. MP3.com. Accessed July 31, 2007.
^ Searchable Database Archived June 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. RIAA. Accessed July 31, 2007.
^ "Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA): Gold & Platinum - June 2004". Cria.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
^ "Canadian album certifications – Lloyd Banks". Music Canada.
^ "American album certifications – Lloyd Banks". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.
^ BillBoard. Lloyd Banks – Artist chart history. BillBoard. Accessed October 22, 2007.
^ aCharts. Lloyd Banks – The Hunger For More. aCharts. Accessed October 23, 2007.
Review of The Hunger for More from USA Today
Rotten Apple
H.F.M. 2 (The Hunger for More 2)
G-Unit albums
Beg for Mercy
T.O.S: Terminate on Sight
The Cold Corner 2
V.6: The Gift
A.O.N. (All Or Nothing) Series Vol. 1: F.N.O. (Failure's No Option)
"Hands Up"
"Beamer, Benz, or Bentley"
"Any Girl"
"Start It Up"
"I Don't Deserve You"
"So Forgetful"
Featured singles
"P.I.M.P."
"Twist It"
G-Unit Records
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The Census counts prisoners as residents of the towns where they're incarcerated.
One crusading lawyer from Northampton thinks this little clerical matter is a big problem for American democracy.
Peter Wagner spends most of his time crunching numbers, but he knows the power of a good story. One of his favorites is about Michael Cady, a late-19th-century homeless New Yorker who would serially plead guilty to vagrancy so he could live in the Tombs prison. Cady became such a fixture that the wardens paid him to run errands. On one of these he decided to register to vote, but he made the mistake of listing the Tombs as his address. He was arrested and convicted of illegal registration. No one, the court said, not even a homeless man voluntarily committing himself to incarceration, could be said to actually live in jail.
Wagner agrees — though it's not what one would expect from a lawyer devoted to the cause of prisoners' civil rights. And if Michael Cady was wrong, then the United States Census's policy of counting prisoners where they're incarcerated rather than where they're from is also wrong. And that's exactly the point that Wagner has fervently dedicated himself to making over the past four years.
Working out of the Northampton-based Prison Policy Institute, a small research organization he cofounded, Wagner has become the leading public critic of what he calls the "prisoner miscount." He has amassed data on 10 states (he is currently working on a study of Massachusetts), showing the repercussions from the federal down to the county level. He has testified at state redistricting committees and Congressional briefings and has written op-eds, law review articles, and letters to the editor. In recognition of his work, he was recently awarded a fellowship by the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute for his work.
"Peter has not only taken this issue farther than anyone else in the country, he is light years beyond the rest of the people who are thinking about it," says Tracy Huling, a prison policy researcher and documentary filmmaker who first introduced Wagner to the issue.
The electoral implications of how we treat felons have been hotly debated since the 2000 election, when Florida's felon disenfranchisement policies may have helped tip the state to Bush. How the census counts prisoners may seem a marginal concern compared with the disenfranchisement of significant numbers of minority voters. (According to two studies released this week, one in five black men in Rhode Island and one in eight in Georgia are barred from voting due to a prior conviction.) But the prisoner count is more than a mere clerical matter. Census figures are used to draw legislative districts, and, to a lesser degree, to determine the allocation of state and federal funds.
As a result, Wagner argues, urban, Democratic districts with high incarceration rates are losing political clout to the rural, Republican districts where prisons are increasingly being built. Across the country most felons are being nominally represented by legislators who not only can safely ignore them — inmates can't vote in 48 states — but whose political fortunes are tied to the growth of the corrections industry. With a national prison population of 1.5 million (plus 700,000 in local jails) and growing, the result, Wagner argues, is a fundamental distortion of the democratic process.
"What's kind of difficult about this is that nobody knows how their government works," Wagner said on a recent morning at Western New England College Law School in Springfield, his alma mater. After we had been talking for less than an hour, he told me I had already learned more about the census and legislative redistricting than most legislators ever do.
Wagner realizes that he's not working with the most scintillating material, but he is a born pitchman. Slight and pale, with a dark ponytail and a bobbing, purposeful walk, he speaks fluidly, flipping between earnestness and wise-guy cynicism. He refers frequently to a set of painstakingly coded state and national maps that he carries with him in two ungainly document cases.
Since the country's first census in 1790, prisoners, like most everyone else, have been counted at their "usual residence," defined as the place one "lives and sleeps most of the time." But in the past 20 years, two factors have given new significance to the debate over where prisoners actually should be said to live.
One is the number of inmates: From 1925 — the first year such records were kept — until 1980, the incarceration rate was stable at about 1 per 1,000 US residents. Since then the rate has nearly quintupled, swollen by harsher sentencing laws and stricter parole requirements. At the same time, rural communities crippled by the collapse of traditional industries like agriculture and mining are desperate for the jobs that prisons bring, and their legislators have learned to see prisons as prime political pork.
A few towns, most famously Florence, Ariz. (home to two state prisons, three private prisons and a US Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center), have used their prison count to gain a larger share of government funding. A handful of states use population figures to divide up state-tax revenue, and the federal government takes them into account for road-building, job-training and community development funds. But Wagner and others who have looked at the funding formulas have found that, in fact, the funding distortions are minimal.
The more significant misallocation, Wagner says, is not money but power. The effect is most pronounced at the state level, since state legislative districts are smaller and more susceptible to population swings of a few thousand. In Massachusetts, the 37th Middlesex assembly district (comprising Acton, Boxborough, Harvard, Shirley, Lancaster, and Lunenburg) is 7 percent prisoners. New York's 59th state senate district claims 13,000 prisoners to get to its total of 290,000. Prisoners in these districts add weight to each voting inhabitant's voice. In the 37th Middlesex, Wagner argues, 93 votes carry the same weight as 100 from a non-prison district.
Wagner insists that these small warps can have statewide impacts. Legislative districts are required to be the same size throughout a state. If the census started counting prisoners at their last known non-prison address, for example, districts with large prison populations would have to expand to make up for the lost population.
Wagner showed me on a series of maps how the process might play out in the New York State Senate. As each rural upstate district lost its prisoner population, to regain sufficient inhabitants it would have to reach into the next district, which in turn would have to reach into its neighbor. Wagner calls this effect "the cascade." At the same time, urban districts would cascade in the other direction as they became, on paper, more densely populated. Somewhere in the middle (probably, he figures, in the suburbs around New York City) the two waves would meet, shifting the balance between urban Democrats and suburban Republicans in competitive districts and, as a consequence, the whole legislature.
As Wagner admits, prisoners aren't unique in being counted in the census but denied the vote — children and immigrants suffer a similar fate. But prisoners' interests, he argues, tend to be especially divorced from those of their legislators. The weight of the prison population strengthens the very districts and legislators with the most stake in tough-on-crime policies that create and fill more prisons — figures like Dale Volker (a favorite target of Wagner's), the Republican state senator from New York's 59th district who has helped stymie popular efforts to reform New York's stringent Rockefeller drug laws.
Wagner goes so far as to invoke the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of Congressional apportionment. "[It] wasn't so much an insult to the slaves," Wagner says. "They were already property, they weren't even legally people, they weren't going to vote. But crediting their numbers to slaveholders, the worst people in the world for them, made it that much worse." The South used that added power to protect slavery against the more populous North for 70 years.
But the three-fifths clause mattered as much as it did because in 1860 the United States had 4 million slaves in a population of 32 million, a proportion that even the most draconian prison policy would take a while to reach. The effects Wagner is talking about are shifts at the margins. He can't be sure, for example, that any electoral effects of the "cascade" wouldn't be blunted by the creative gerrymandering of incumbents determined to keep their seats. And even if the Census agreed to change its policy, poor rural districts would likely still support prison expansion for the economic benefits they're thought to bring.
Wagner believes that it would be easiest if the census methodology were simply changed — ideally before the 2008 dress rehearsal of the 2010 Census. But he maintains that the real fault lies with the state and federal agencies that use the data, and he thinks a court might agree with him. Many state constitutions — including Massachusetts' — define residency differently from the Census Bureau, not as where one happens to be, but where one "chooses" to be. While he's not working on any litigation, Wagner thinks a group of urban plaintiffs could conceivably use that definition to sue their legislators for drawing districts that unconstitutionally diluted urban votes.
That, of course, would require that people start seeing the matter not as a prisoner problem but as their own. Wagner sees this shift already happening — in rural prison counties, of all places. Recently, non-prison towns in New York's Greene and Franklin Counties, feeling shortchanged in county-wide apportionment calculations, got the county government to stop neighboring towns from counting their prisoners.
As Wagner says, "When [rural] citizens recognize that this hurts them they want it changed. Which is good, because it means that the number of people who see themselves losing their democratic right in some important way from the census is expanded from urban people to rural people who don't happen to live next to the prison." And the more people feel shortchanged by the census, the more Wagner feels he's doing his job.


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The 5th annual Brazilian Film & TV Festival of Toronto (BRAFFTv) launched tonight at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
The opening film will be Rosa Moreno by Carlos Augusto de Oliveira. It tells the story of a gay man from Denmark who goes to Brazil to adopt a baby on their black market, but after finding a willing mother he becomes emotionally involved with her.
The festival's closing night film will be the Canadian premiere of The Best Things In The World by Laís Bodanzky. It tells the coming-of-age story of a 15-year-old boy and his older brother as they are suddenly forced to deal with changing relationships.
This festival is not to be confused with the Brazil Film Fest which also hosts its fifth edition in one month's time.
The 5th Brazilian Film & TV Festival of Toronto continues until October 2 in Toronto. Most films take place at the Carlton Cinema.
TV WINDOW - Special screening of projects aimed to TV with the presence of directors and producers from Brazil.


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Q: How to pass values from C# to JavaScript using MVC? I am working on a progress bar to update the user experience when we request data from the server. I have a Bootstrap progress bar that is updated it from JavaScript. I want pass the progress of the bar by passing the value from C# code. Here is what I have so far:
This is the HTML file:

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Luis Villegas is a Mexican American guitarist best known for his debut CD Cafe Olé, which mixed new-age music, flamenco, and jazz and garnered a spot on the Grammy ballot for Best New Age Album of the Year in 1999. He is known for using a technique of playing fast, intricate lines by using the fingernail of his right index finger in place of a guitar pick. He also had a small role, as a member of a band, in the film Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Currently, he is a member of the group "Heavy Mellow" along with founder Benjamin Woods and percussionist Mike Bennett.
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Hong Kong's philharmonic orchestra quarantined days after leader Carrie Lam attends concert
by AFP 07:59, 14 October 2020 21:36, 13 October 2020
Members of Hong Kong's philharmonic orchestra were headed into quarantine on Tuesday after a player tested positive for the coronavirus days after the city's leader attended a concert.
The financial hub's most prestigious ensemble confirmed that one of its musicians had tested preliminary positive and said members were going into mandatory isolation.
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Keith Hiro/HK Phil.
"I am being (taken) to a government quarantine camp with no WiFi for 2 weeks," principal clarinet Andrew Simon wrote a post on Facebook which named the infected colleague.
It was unclear how many orchestra members were following him into isolation.
But the news quickly lit up social media because the orchestra played a concert on Friday night — its first in months — attended by chief executive Carrie Lam.
In a statement, Lam's office said she wore a face mask, did not communicate with any musicians and was seated far away from the orchestra.
Lam is currently in the neighbouring mainland city of Shenzhen where she will attend a ceremony on Wednesday alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Carrie Lam. Photo: GovHK screenshot.
The coronavirus has killed more than a million people across the globe since it first emerged in China late last year.
Hong Kong has maintained strict and economically painful social distancing measures for most of this year.
Over 5,200 infections have been reported in the city, most in a third wave over the summer months, with 105 fatalities.
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  def manifest
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Alphaville "Forever Young" (1984) - Page 2
80s New Wave and New Romantic Music
Alphaville "Forever Young" (1984)
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View Poll Results: What is your favorite song from this Alphaville album?
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Thread: Alphaville "Forever Young" (1984)
Harket
"Sounds Like A Melody" got my vote.
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Big In Japan for me
Prefab Sprouter
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I loved Forever Young!
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I voted for "Big in Japan". God, I love this album. It's great from start to finish.
"ask me i won't say no, how could i?"
Originally posted by Chopper
Well worth buying Steve, it was the last of their true 'Synthpop' albums. It is very quirky, but has some really decent melodies and is lyrically possibly their best effort.
I highly recommend it.
I concur with Chopper. Afternoons in Utopia is a pretty good album, not quite as good as Forever Young, but close. Dance With Me is the best tune, followed by of all things a song called Lassie Come Home.
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whistledog
Re: Alphaville "Forever Young" (1984)
I loved Big in Japan. The video was.. unexplainable , but the song itself was a very catchy melody
Xcess-N-Htown
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I voted for Forever Young but Big In Japan and Sounds Like a Melody are also good songs.
does anyone remember the special extended remix that re-charted the song in 1988?
It appeared on the "Singles Collection" LP in 1988
Originally Posted by Chasey
Alphaville went on to release three more albums, albeit with a different line up. Frank Mertens departed the band after the success of 'Forever Young' and was replaced by Ricky Echolette before the next album, 1986's 'Afternoons In Utopia' which contained the hit single 'Jerusalem'.
'Afternoons In Utopia' was kind of similar to 'Forever Young', but after 1986 Alphaville's sound changed along with the times.
The album list goes something like this:
1986 - Afternoons In Utopia
1990 - The Breathtaking Blue
1992 - First Harvest (Best of 1984-1992)
1994 - Prostitute
1997 - Salvation
I have all these albums, and all are very enjoyable and contain some very memorable tracks. For a good cross selection I recommend getting the First Harvest compilation. It contains all the single mixes of the Forever Young album, as well as there more mature later works. The myth is that it all ended after Forever Young, so for those Alphaville fans out there I urge you to hop along to AudioGalaxy and WinMX now!
Alphaville are one of the greats and form a very important part of my musical collection....
I loved the "Forever Pop" release from 2001. It was the songs of Alphaville remixed in today's styles by artists like Eiffel 65 and Paul Van Dyk (to name a few)
Afternoons in Utopia is a excellant album. My fave is the Remix to Universal Daddy and Red Rose is another good one.
"Big In Japan", which is probably my fave Alphaville tune of all time.
DuranieGirl
I voted for "Big in Japan", I love this song!! I think "To Germany With Love", "Summer in Berlin" and "Forever Young" are great songs as well.
Monty007®
'Forever Young' gets my vote
Loving mother of Tiffany
Living the 80's everyday
Def Leppard fan for eternity
Xchange Addict
Diehard Boston Red Sox fan
" I wanna go back and do it all over, but I can't go back I know " ~ Eddie Money
In Loving Memory of Aunt Sarah 5-4-43 - 11-21-05 I miss you !!!!
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alphaville41
my favourite song forever young but all grand songs..
Originally Posted by ImSoooSure
Forever Young definately gets the vote. I agree with alot of others on here that Big In Japan was great too though!
Yes a very good song
othacon
Buenos Aires, Argentine
Forever Young is by far one of the songs I remember most from the 80's
medj
Just wanted to let Alphaville fans know that they are coming to Toronto, Canada in October.
http://www.alphavilleintoronto.com has more info.
Ryan le bon
Best 80s album but lies is my favourite. Big in Japan and sounds like a melody are also epic.
One of my all time favorite album. Bought the Cassette & CD twice. I vote for 'Forever Young'
M-374 LX
Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Fallen Angel" is my favorite track in the album. I cannot understand why it was not released as a single.


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Oh, by the way, Lavinia got the wrong girl!
It was supposed to seduce that blonde girl, Sara.
At least there were spectators, right?
Code Geass, a Sunrise mecha series that seems like a cross between Death Note and Gundam SEED but with FAR less suckage and better looking big-breasted girls!


Yesterday, we took my children to the airport to send them across the country to visit their father for six weeks. After all the laundry and packing was done last night, we spent the better part of the evening preparing for the transition. There were tears and long hugs, and after a restless night's sleep, we left for the airport by 8:00am.
The airport process for unaccompanied minors is a well-oiled machine, mostly because they have the parents stay with the children right up to boarding and meet them on the other side as soon as they disembark. I wasn't aware of this part of the show until I checked them in, and I have to say, I am grateful for the additional time we had with them.
Since the plane was delayed by an hour, we shared one final meal at a little airport restaurant. Surrounded by large screen TVs boasting every kind of sport imaginable, we were able to relax into one another's company and the eventuality of their departure with grace and a calm strength. It's amazing how food can bring such peace when shared with loved ones.
As I look back on the tears shed and the emptiness that still sits heavily in my chest, I am struck with the beauty of the statement, "absence makes the heart grow fonder." We all have, at some point in our lives, had a reunion with a loved one after time spent apart and had a chance to reflect on the joy of sharing our experiences from our time apart with one another to enrich the together part of our journey.
Absence gives us a chance (opportunity to practice) to explore the true nature of our feelings toward our loved ones, the depth of our love and the admiration for their unique character traits and the things that make them special to us. How amazing would it be if we could learn to do this while yet in their company?
As my children sit happily in their father's home and share meals around his table, I sit quietly around mine with Rev. Badger and reflect on the joy and love that I am blessed with every day, because I have three amazing children that mean the world to me. Their laughter and their tears, their triumphs and their lessons, their love and their disappointment, everything they experience and share with me is sacred and shapes the nature of our relationships. When they return, may I have the wisdom to keep experiencing them on this level of heightened awareness and appreciation for the beautiful gifts they are.


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March 4, 2019 4:15AM PT
'Yellowstone' to Roll Out Overseas on Paramount Network International
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Paramount Network International has acquired the first two seasons of "Yellowstone," the hit Paramount Network original drama series created by Taylor Sheridan ("Wind River") and starring Kevin Costner.
The series, which launched last year in the U.S., will roll out on Paramount's channels in the Nordics, Hungary and Poland in the spring, followed by the U.K. and Latin America in October, and Spain and Italy in early 2020. "Yellowstone" will also be available on Paramount+ in selected territories.
"We're excited to bring this riveting dramatic story to Paramount's international audiences," said Jill Offman, executive VP of Paramount Network International. "Coming off its tremendous success in the U.S. as last summer's most-watched series on cable, 'Yellowstone' will complement the outstanding lineup on Paramount's international channels."
Co-produced and co-financed by 101 Studios, "Yellowstone" is headlined by Costner, who stars opposite Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Brecken Merrill, Jefferson White, Danny Huston and Gil Birmingham.
"Yellowstone" chronicles the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Costner), who controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States amid shifting alliances, unsolved murders and constant conflict with those it borders – an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and America's first national park.
The executive producers for "Yellowstone" are John Linson, Art Linson, Sheridan, Costner and David C. Glasser.
"Yellowstone" is being distributed internationally by 101 Studios and Endeavor Content.
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After Capitol breach, Philly terrorism expert warns of coming 'paramilitary' insurgency — led by Trump
The first step to quelling an insurrection is installing a competent government, said author and Navy veteran Malcolm Nance.
Trump supporters gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside the Senate chamber
AP Photo / Manuel Balce Ceneta
Malcolm Nance awoke at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday to begin monitoring the situation in DC, where he knew supporters of President Donald Trump were already congregating.
One of the nation's more prominent counterterrorism experts, the Philly native and West Catholic High grad had organized four teams to watch how the day unfolded. Using livestreams, social media feeds and forums, they carefully tracked the insurrection that for several hours delayed Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win.
What they saw, Nance told Billy Penn, amounted to a disgraceful lack of effort from Capitol police — and the underpinnings of something bigger.
"For the next four years," Nance surmised, "[Trump] is going to lead a political insurgency that will have a paramilitary insurgent element."
Nance is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, where he spent several of his 20 years as an intelligence collections operator and field interrogator. He founded and is the director of counterterrorism thinktank the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies and frequently appears as a commentator on MSNBC.
He manned antiterrorism operations in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans and South Asia, but these days he's monitoring American governmental stability.
Comparing Donald Trump to Sadam Hussein and so-called Trumpism to the cultist ISIS and Al-Qaeda regimes, Nance pointed to the culture of misinformation that's led Americans to an "ISIS level of self radicalization."
What happened in Washington this week followed months of Trump and other Republican allies spreading false information about the legality and fairness of the November election, he said.
His next book, publishing this spring, will outline his predictions about the future of the "Trump insurgency."
The most staunch supporters of the incumbent president refer to themselves as the best kind of Americans — patriots — Nance said, similar to the way members of ISIS viewed their brand of Islam as the best and only one.
And on radical conservative social media sites and forums like Parler, these extremists call their opposition communists, Nance said.
It's a tactic of dehumanization he's seen in countries like Rwanda, where groups label others before enacting a campaign of violence.
Dre Reed Illustration / Billy Penn
They're 'insurrectionists,' not 'terrorists' — but still present a danger
On Thursday, Biden called the attackers who broke into the Capitol "domestic terrorists," as did D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and former Acting and Deputy Director CIA Michael Morrell. Morrell said the attackers used "violence for a political end," which he called the definition of terrorism. It's a phrasing Nance, as a counterterrorism expert, does not endorse.
Nance is disturbed by use of the word terrorism to describe what happened because the group began as legal protesters.
Counterterrorism expert and Philly native Malcolm Nance
Courtesy Malcom Nance
Instead, Nance said, insurrectionists is a more appropriate term, "because they were stoked for political purposes, in order to rebel against the government and to knock down a government institution."
The legal protesters turned to insurrections and insurgents when they, in some cases, breezed by Capitol police, busted the windows of the Capitol and stormed the building. Elected officials sheltered in place before being shuttled to an undisclosed safe house. One woman was shot and killed and three others died.
Congressman Dwight Evans, who represents Philadelphia, is among those calling for a 25th Amendment removal of Trump as president. The lawmaker said he'll be co-sponsoring a resolution to remove every Republican legislator who objected to states' electoral votes, which incited the attack, Evans suggested on Twitter.
Nance's experience at home and abroad leads him to believe Wednesday's events only represent the beginning.
"You'll see a lot more of those Donald Trump car convoys when he's out of office, then you'll have seen during the campaign," Nance predicted. "He is their tribal leader."
His beliefs about the future of the U.S. offered little reassurance. The installation of the Biden administration will help quell another insurrection, he said. But that's only one step.
"The one thing you have to do," Nance advised, "is you have to break their belief system."
Government, Elections, Politics, Protests, Joe Biden, Donald Trump


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Die World Series 2001 war die 97. Auflage des Finals der Major League Baseball. Die Serie startete aufgrund der Terroranschläge am 11. September 2001 erst am 27. Oktober 2001 und endete am 4. November 2001, weshalb sie auch als die "November Series" bezeichnet wird.

Es standen sich der Champion der American League, die New York Yankees, und der Champion der National League, die Arizona Diamondbacks, gegenüber. Sieger der "Best of Seven"-Serie waren die Arizona Diamondbacks durch einen 4:3-Erfolg. Die Diamondbacks gewannen die Spiele 1, 2, 6 und 7, die Yankees konnten die Spiele 3, 4 und 5 für sich entscheiden.

Zum MVP der World Series wurden die beiden Diamondbacks-Pitcher Randy Johnson und Curt Schilling gewählt. Damit ging diese Auszeichnung zum zweiten Mal nach 1981 an mehrere Spieler.

Der Weg in die World Series

Spiele

¹Spiel 4 ging über 10 Innings.

²Spiel 5 ging über 12 Innings.

Weblinks
 Videobericht über Spiel 7 auf MLB.com (engl.)

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Sportveranstaltung in New York City
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