Florida Cops Shoot Unarmed Black Man in His Driveway

Two Escambia County sheriff deputies have been placed on paid administrative leave after they opened fire early Sunday morning and shot an unarmed black man in his own driveway.

Roy Middleton, 60, had gone to find cigarettes in his mother's white Lincoln Town Car, which was parked in the driveway of the man's home in a quiet neighborhood in the town of Warrington.

A neighbor, who apparently didn't recognize Middleton, called 911 to report a possible robbery, and police arrived at the scene at approximately 2:40 a.m.

Their guns drawn, deputies Jeremiah Meeks and Matthew White told Middleton to put his hands where the officers could see them. Middleton told the Pensacola News Journal that he initially believed that the voices were from a neighbor who was playing a joke on him. When he got out of the car, however, the deputies began shooting. Read More

I'm not sure what the fuck is going on in Amerikkka but it seems like it's open season on black males. In Florida I guess every black man is a suspect. This is getting ridiculous, it's time for black people to standup and demand that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.

Diddy To Start a New Music Television Channel

 

After making a deal with Time Warner Cable, Diddy's Revolt cable channel is almost all set to go. Hip-Hop mogul P. Diddy wants to bring music videos, news interviews, performances, and more to his new potential channel.
 
Diddy says, "My mission is to bring kids back to television" as apposed to channels such as MTV which used to be strictly music. P. Diddy is blaming reality TV for taking over these once "music channels." He wants to create an outlet where young people of ages 18 to 34 can enjoy the art of music without the unnecessary baggage.
 
"If I was in that position, I probably would have bit at that apple too, to be more than just a music channel and be more of a youth culture network. But sometimes it's better to do one thing great. The most powerful thing that brings us together is music," says Diddy.

However, Diddy doesn't plan to make his network a straight Hip-Hop channel. He says it will be a predominately "urban-based channel" but it will not discriminate.

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This might be a good idea because there isn't a cable network that 's strictly dedicated to music anymore. There was a time when MTV, BET and VH1 were dedicated to music but now those channels are all about reality shows.

I hope this project from Diddy is successful, and I hope he's able to keep it independent. Because we all know once the corporate media comes in and buy a station out, the station is never the same.

Animals Twerking: One Dance To Unite All Species (VIDEO)

This is kind of funny, everybody is twerking now...including the animals!

Warning, the music is NSFW:

80% Of Americans Will Face Financial Hardship In Their Life Time

From Think Progress:      

Eighty percent of Americans will struggle with joblessness, live on the edge of poverty, or rely on public programs for at least part of their lives, according to an analysis of survey data from the Associated Press. The report defines “economic insecurity” as a year or more of periodic unemployment, relying on government assistance such as food stamps, or making an income below 150 percent of the poverty line.

The risk of falling into poverty has increased in recent decades, particularly for people aged 35 to 55, the analysis finds. That age group had a 17 percent risk from 1969 to 1989, but it’s increased to 23 percent. For those between 45 and 55, the risk jumped from 11.8 to 17.7 percent. The report predicts that by 2030, nearly 85 percent of adults will experience periods of economic insecurity.

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This is bad news for Americans of all stripes, the standard of living in America is declining and no one is doing a damn thing about it. The majority of the politicians in Washington have been bought off, there seems to be no one in DC who's working on behalf of the working class. There are a few national pols that seems to be fighting for the middle and lower class people but their power and influence is limited.

You have members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus who actually want to help poor and working class people but they're basically marginalize. The President rarely invites members of the CBC and CPC to the White House for meetings even though they  were his most loyal supporters.

The income gap is this country is getting wider every year. The rich and the wealthy are the only ones who have benefitted over the last couple of decades and they still want more. They know the country is in trouble financially and they still want to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. The rich have the entire Republican Party and half of the Democratic Party in their pockets, which means, the rest of us don't have a chance.

It's time for ordinary Americans to put their petty differences aside, organize and fight for our share of what's left of this country.  

White Jury Finds George Zimmerman Not Guilty

Source: MSNBC

A Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman on Saturday night in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

The verdict, from a jury of six women who deliberated over two days, was announced at 10 p.m. ET. Jurors also had the option of convicting him of second-degree murder or of the lesser crime of manslaughter. In the courtroom, Zimmerman’s family held hands across a row and cried.

This is fucking unbelievable, the American Justice System is a joke. I think George Zimmerman and his racist supporters should burn in hell!

MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry Scolds Edward Snowden

I was watching the Melissa Harris Perry Show on MSNBC earlier today and I saw her criticizing Edward Snowden. Basically she chastised Snowden for making a spectacle of himself. Harris-Perry argued that by hopping from country to country in his attempt to gain asylum, Snowden is making himself into a bigger news story than the NSA surveillance practices his leaks revealed. In an open letter to Eric Snowden, Harris-Perry said the following:

We could be talking about whether accessing and monitoring citizen information and communications is constitutional, or whether we should continue to allow a secret court to authorize secret warrants using secret legal opinions. 

But we’re not. We’re talking about you! And flight paths between Moscow and Venezuela, and how much of a jerk Glenn Greenwald is. We could at least be talking about whether the Obama administration is right that your leak jeopardized national security. But we’re not talking about that, Ed.

We’re talking about you. I can imagine you’d say, “Well, then stop! Just talk about something else.” But here’s the problem, even if your initial leak didn’t compromise national security, your new cloak-and-dagger game is having real and tangible geopolitical consequences. So, well, we have to talk about … you.

I would argue that the reason the story is all about Snowden rather than the NSA revelations is because media figures refuse to make the NSA surveillance the story. Being the paid hacks that they are, they chastise Snowden rather the Obama Administration. I'm sure Mr. Obama is happy that media talking heads are questioning the action of Edward Snowden rather than questioning the actions of his administration,

I was happy to see Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry get to host their own shows on a major cable news network, because we need diversity. But I'm a little disappointed because Sharpton and Harris-Perry have decided to use their media access to be nothing but apologist for the Obama administration.

Federal Employee Furloughs

Today is the first day of furloughs for thousands of federal employees due to sequestration cuts. Many conservatives and Tea Party types are probably pleased right now, they've been whining for years about how  government employees are overpaid. Since wages have been declining in the private sector, it seems they want to see everyone standard of living on the decline...everyone except the rich of course.

The conservative politicians have been demonizing government workers, while at the same time giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. A lot of working class people have joined in the 'bashing of public employees', I guess, because they've seen their own wages decline over the years. A lot of people around the country have this 'crabs in a barrel mentality' basically saying "if I don't have health care or livable wages then Public Employees shouldn't either." My answer to that is, workers in the private sector should fight for higher wages and benefits; you can start by joining a fucking union.

 Private sector workers should stop listening to those sellout conservative politicians who only care about the rich. All workers need to organize and fight for higher wages and benefits. Stop blaming public  employees and unions because your living conditions have decline. The reason private sector wages have declined is because greedy ass business owners have bought off your politicians so they can make more profits.

Big businesses have been allowed to do business with countries that uses slave labor or they hire illegal immigrants to do the jobs cheaper here at home. So if people in the private sector want to improve their standard of living, then they need to demand it from their employers rather than
criticizing public employees.

President Obama's Legacy Is In Jeopardy

 I think President Barack Obama (PBO) need to quickly change courses because his presidency is now being condemned by the entire international community. He has chosen to align himself with some of the worse elements in the U.S. political landscape i.e., NeoCon/ DLC Free Trade Globalist.

PBO has alienated liberals and progressives from day one, even though liberals and progressives were his most loyal supporters.  He only selected DLC, Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans for positions in his cabinet, no true liberal or progressive were even considered.

Now with condemnation coming from abroad over spying allegations, I would say this administrations chickens are coming home to roost. PBO is no longer considered the 'hope and change' president that so many in the world hoped for; He's now considered a continuation of his predecessors imperialist policies, a 4th term of G. W. Bush.

PBO chose to govern as a center right politician and what has it gotten him?  Pushing right wing policies has gotten him an NSA spying scandal, an awful economy, and condemnation from people around the world who believed he would be different.

PBO has a secret Hit List in which he's giving himself the prerogative to kill anyone he feels deserve to die, without producing any evidence. His Justice department refused to prosecute any of the big banksters that wrecked the economy nor did they prosecute any of the torturers in the Bush Administration. The Supreme court has turned into a tool of the corporations.

Obama seems to talk like a liberal but acts like Dick Cheney. He is getting advice and following the authoritarians down into a hole we may never get out of.