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Hybrid vs. Hybrid: Iggy attacks Lorde (video)

Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Mitchell Peters

(Barely Political) Key of Awesome parody of songstress Lorde's megasuperhit "Royals"

Space devi hybrid Lorde responds to Iggy "the World's Greatest Rapper Except for all the Others" Azalea’s criticism of her Nirvana Rock Hall tribute (Austin Hargrave/Miller Mobley)

 

Lorde has responded to critical comments made by Iggy [Amethyst] Azalea to Billboard about her performance with the surviving members of Nirvana at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in April.

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"Nothing against her, but I think when you're doing a tribute to someone that's dead, generally it should be the person's peer," Azalea told Billboard in her recent cover story. "Lorde is not Kurt Cobain's peer. No matter if she killed the performance or not, I just don't think it's appropriate." More

Who in the world is Iggy to talk?

New Zealand's child rock star Lorde takes an Asian lover and makes a big splash without meaning to (ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com).

 

I'm not Marilyn Manson in drag, I'm Iggy!

Everyone knows Lorde, the great but quirky semi-divine, semi-human overnight popstar. She became famous at 16 for her hit "Royals." But who is Iggy (born Amethyst Azalea)? Apparently being unattractive is now no obstacle for female rockers, just as it has never slowed down males (too many examples to mention, but how about that guy who married Julia Roberts). Look at various iterations of Lady Gaga, or the latest version of Madonna, and lots of new artists are proving that tons of makeup and flashy stripper moves and clothes are enough. Look:

(Bart Baker) Bart's parody of Iggy featuring Charli XCX (not Gwen Stefani)'s "Fancy" Summer of Iggy: "Fancy" rapper defends her cred, talks Lorde

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Child explains banking (cartoon)

Wisdom Quarterly; Paul Grignon; Victoria Grant (video)

 

This is essential viewing on money and the banking system. "Money As Debt" is an animated, fast-paced, and highly-entertaining feature by artist and videographer Paul Grignon. It explains today's magically perverse DEBT-MONEY system in terms even a child could understand.
 

Twelve-year-old Victoria Grant explains how banks commit fraud. She spells out what kind of fraud banks are committing against the people of her homeland, Canada. But what she says applies to banks in most of the world that depend on a permanent debt system. Her brief comments were delivered on April 27, 2012 at the Public Banking in America Conference.
 

(Cartoon) The Collapse of the "American Dream" EXPLAINED with animation

Mainstream News: "Police are troublemakers"

Wisdom Quarterly

(bYarlboro)

MSNBC is a corporate outlet. It purports to represent the "liberal" side as a ridiculous counterpart to Fox News' "conservative" extremes. It is part and parcel of the mainstream media.

This piece is important only because it is mainstream coverage of the protests. It is surprising that the powers that be allow MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnel to go this far in getting at the truth.

• Livestream.com/globalrevolution
  

This may seem an insignificant report compared to all the video out there and all the injustice (most police crimes are not videotaped). But this is where reform starts.

The protests are filled with individuals who will no longer condone how corrupt our government, banks, military-industrial complex, and other corporate bodies have become. The Fed (The Federal Reserve Bank, Inc.), which is a private bank serving its own interests not the government's, is the lynchpin.

It is not the only corrupt body on Wall Street. The other private banks use it to rob the country blind with political help and blessings.

Many protesters have additional messages to be heard. There are many injustices, many causes, many routes to freedom. Most American only know that they are unhappy and in danger. Most of us want to create a better world, better society, better states.

In the beginning there was a mainstream media blackout on the Occupy Movement. Long before that the corruption of the Fed was avoided. The bailouts, the political maneuvering by Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I is what we want to bring to light.

The Fed has handed out over $16 trillion ($2 trillion more than the national debt that took over two centuries to rack up) to private banks and corporations in the past four years. As suffering people not given a voice have increasingly "acted out," the military-industrial complex has funded a police state. We are spied on, and the constitutional protects and civil rights have been disregarded, rewritten, or simply violated.

• A "trillion" is a thousand billion, a billion is thousand million.
• A million seconds is about 12 days, but...
  
• A trillion seconds is 32 thousand years.
  

But none of this was addressed by the mainstream media because that media is owned by the very corporations it fails to report on. The people did not elect the news staffs or editors, the oil ("energy") corporations or executives, the PR firms, nor were they approved of by the people.

These are red flags! Even "reputable" links prove what is being said. No special interpretation is necessary. Let us all make sure the current protests make these secrets known.

• Forbes article on the $16 trillion bailout
• Unelected.orgs reporting on the $16 trillion
• Senator Bernie Sanders report on the $16 trillion
• GAO report on how funds were allocated (p. 131)
• The full GAO (Gov't Accounting Office) report

Bank (economic) crimes lead to unthinkable war (military) crimes. Because of poverty, brought on by corporate greed, members of society turn on themselves then turn on others in the greater world. We, the USA, are the empire to fear. Before long another empire will ascend. Just as we make others suffer, so we will suffer. Of course, only some of us are doing it. Therefore, it is the job of the rest of us to stop it. People (whistle blowers) defect from being part of the problem to contributing to the solution. Meanwhile, others (the media) deny there is any problem at all.

Stimulus Plan: JOBS

Six Fields That Stand to Benefit From the Stimulus Plan
How Job Seekers Can Benefit, Too

Larry Buhl

President Obama has promised the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- commonly known as the stimulus plan -- will boost to the flagging economy by creating jobs in a variety of sectors.

Though it will take a while before federal, state, and local governments determine how exactly to allocate the funds, economists agree that six sectors are poised to see a boost as a direct or indirect result of the stimulus. These include:

Construction. The biggest thrust of the stimulus plan is a national two-fer: creating jobs while shoring up the nation's infrastructure, including roads, bridges, rail lines, and wastewater and drinking water facilities. The Associated General Contractors of America estimates that stimulus spending would create or save 1.85 million jobs, including 640,000 in construction and 300,000 among suppliers and equipment manufacturers. Job opportunities will be even broader than traditional hard-hat jobs; there will also be openings for transit coordinators, waste disposal engineers, and accountants and managers with experience in large construction projects.

The Green Sector. This is a broad category of jobs, and there is some overlap with construction and energy. But generally these jobs are in some way aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses, reducing dependence on oil, or reducing consumption of other non-renewable sources. Examples can range from architects, to manufacturers and installers of solar panels, to energy rating auditors.

Medical Information Technology. The stimulus bill includes $19 billion for updating health information technology. This is intended to increase the number of physicians who use computers in their practice and will likely create opportunities for training health personnel and running health systems. It could also lead to job openings in hardware and software companies, from computer assemblers to systems analysts to project managers.

Education. Many states have made cuts in their education budgets, but the stimulus plan calls for a $53.6 billion state-stabilization to help states avoid further cuts and layoffs. Funding could also lead to new jobs for teachers and administrators in areas such as Head Start and other early-education programs. The stimulus also sets aside funds for modernization of schools (which overlaps with infrastructure and construction).

Energy and Utilities. A key part of the stimulus plan, and a campaign pledge by Obama, is the modernization of the nation's electrical grid. "Smart grid" jobs will include regulators hired by public utility commissions, in addition to load management engineers, meter manufacturers and systems control center operators.

Federal Government. A $787 billion package doesn't just administer itself. There will be openings for more lawyers, regulators, accountants, and administrators to ensure all of the dollars go where they're intended.

Too Soon to Celebrate?
Despite the oft-heard new phrase, "shovel-ready jobs," the stimulus won't create jobs overnight, economists say. Harry Holzer, an economist at Georgetown University and the Urban Institute, tells Yahoo! HotJobs that the stimulus is laying the seeds for future growth but, alone, won't turn around the job market.

"It takes time for government investment to expand the job market," Holzer says. "The most that economists expect in 2009 is fewer pink slips than we might have seen (without the stimulus). We need to also limit the damage of housing and credit markets as well as overseas markets, in order to achieve a broad-based economic recovery."

Sophia Koropeckyj, an economist at Moody's Economy.com, says that the stimulus plan is more about stopping the economic pain and limiting damage in the short term.

"Automatic stabilizers in the plan, such as unemployment insurance benefits, will have an immediate effect," she says. "In the second half of this year, tax cuts will help support employment, and by next year, state aid and infrastructure spending should begin to kick in."

Plant Your Own Seeds
Assuming that seeds planted by the stimulus plan bears fruit in all of these sectors -- and more -- how can job seekers prepare to benefit, whether this year or next? Economists believe that landing a stimulus-created job relies on the usual, time-tested qualities: education, experience, skills, and networking.

"A recession is a good time to get new training, update skills, or get certified in a new field," Holzer says. "Beyond that, (job hunters) should be patient and realistic and should keep an eye on sectors and industries and companies where new demand is opening up."

For more information on the types of job created in the stimulus plan, see "Jobs in All 50 States" on the White House blog and this study from the Council of Economic Advisers.

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