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Saturday, September 29, 2007 

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 
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Mamady, Djelico, Biafara, sont les noms que je lui connais, mais sans doute en a-t-il encore d'autres ! D'autres noms qui s'adaptent à sa personnalité multiple, artiste peintre, artiste compositeur, chanteur, son talent le propulse de la France au Sénégal au USA.

Je l'ai connu au moment où j'ai commencé "Mon humanitaire à moi", un tournant dans ma vie qui m'a apporté par la suite tant de joie. Un jour j'ai rencontré un panel d'africains qui squattaient l'Eglise St Boniface à Ixelles et qui revendiquaient le droit à l'existence, et pour exister il faut des papiers.

Devant leur détresse j'ai voulu les aider, mais comment faire lorsque l'on est une femme seule devant tous ces hommes d'origines différentes, de cultures différentes, de religions différentes, comment faire pour aider avec le ton juste ? 

J'ai appelé mon ami Mamady au secours en lui demandant de me conseiller et de me diriger pour que je puisse bien aider ses compatriotes africains. Ce qu'il a fait en m'expliquant comment aider un africain, une africaine tout en respectant leur dignité.

Tout au long de cette formidable aventure de Solidarité j'ai suivi les conseils de ce fabuleux artiste et j'ai réussi à créer une réelle relation humaine avec les africains de Bruxelles.

Biafara souffre d'un handicap terrible qui lui fait perdre la vue et il vient de se faire opérer d'une tumeur au cerveau, et à présent le cancer est présent dans sa vie, mais il lutte avec un tel positivisme depuis si lontemps contre le handicap et la maladie qu'il vous renverse quand il vous parle de sa voix douce et chaude et vous surprend car les rôles s'inversent et c'et lui qui vous remonte le moral à vous qui êtes en bonne santé.

Comme vous aurez pu le constater dans ce blog, il y a beaucoup d'africains dans mon coeur, des africains du nord, du centre, du sud, de l'est et de l'ouest et Mamady Kourouma est à la base de tout cela !!!

Merci à toi ami de toujours et pour toujours. Soignes toi et que le monde voit en toi l'exemple de courage et de foi que tu as dans la Vie.

Bisou

Yafricaine

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About MaMaDy KoUrOuMa _djelicoro

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De MamToureKourouma
1. I believe that life is there to enjoy. 2. I believe crushes are there to crush hearts. 3. I believe true love is there from the start. 4. I believe you should give people chances. 5. I believe you should treat people the same because you never know what they will do for you in the future. ..> ..>
De MAMADY KOUROU...
6. I believe that good things will come to people who work hard. 7. I believe great things come to people who never give up. 8. I believe silence will teach you something if you listen hard. 9. I believe that the heart leads you in the right direction if you follow it. 10. I believe friends are needed no matter who you are. ..> ..>
De MamToureKourouma
11. I believe family should stick by your side. 12. I believe God will help you if you believe in him and trust him. 13. I believe drugs destroy. 14. I believe sleep calms the soul. 15. I believe the heart and soul are more important than looks. 16. I believe trust helps the world go round. 17. I believe love brings great things. 18. I believe kids could teach adults a lot if adults would just listen. 19.I believe pets are great because they listen and love you no matter what you look like. 20. I believe you should always chase your dreams. ..> ..>
De MamToureKourouma
21. I believe hope is something everyone needs. 22. I believe you need to make time for fun. 23. I believe music soothes the soul. 24. I believe that money cannot buy happiness. 25. I believe books can take you anywhere. 26. I believe jokes have to be there to keep people sane. 27. I believe people are special the way they are. 28. I believe that true friends will last a lifetime. 29. I believe that enjoying what you do will help you enjoy life more. 30. I believe parents are more important than you think. ..> ..>
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31. I believe the sky is the limit. 32. I believe you should shoot for the stars. 33. I believe being loved and loving are two totally different things. 34. I believe that you have to love yourself before you can love others. 35. I believe records are made to be broken. 36. I believe promises should be kept. 37. I believe brothers and sisters are made to teach. 38. I believe a simple smile can make anybody's day better. 39. I believe that being popular is not the key to life. 40. I believe in being nice to nerds because you might grow up and have to work for one. >

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Friday, August 31, 2007 

… I say thank you has my family of blood… has my family of heart for the supports… for the love… I thank you also say to the music to the words mine the votres. .je am well… the fight continues… thank you for the attention.....djelicoro or maamady kourouma

QUELQUES MOTS D AMIS

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d'origine) Envoyé : 26/08/2007 10:53
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Mes cher(e)s ami(e)s,
 
Je vous solicite de nouveau car notre ami BIAFARA a été il y a peu a été opéré d'une tumeur cérébrale et c'est avec confiance et sagesse qu'il s'en est remis aux mains de la médecine et l'opération fut un succes mais notre ami BIAFARA aura besoin de notre soutien dans les moments a venir car comme certain(e)s le savent , notre ami souffre d'une DEGENERESCENCE PIGMENTAIRE c'est a dire que progressivement il perd la vue et cela doit être dire pour lui soyons a ses côtés comme lui a toujours été a nos côtés lorsque l'un d'entre nous n'allait pas bien , il a toujours trouvé les mots et puis BIAFARA je le considère comme notre grand sage tellement ses paroles sont justes. Merci a vous tous et toutes
 
 
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De : Surnom MSNNadinesilk1 Envoyé : 26/08/2007 13:19
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De : Surnom MSNfabi_wombat Envoyé : 26/08/2007 15:07
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tu as beaucoup de volonté, et cette période de convalescence est un nouveau défi  que tu releveras avec beaucoup de courage.
 
Une tonne d'ondes positives pour toi
 
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De : pitchoune Envoyé : 26/08/2007 18:55
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 Bon rétablissement biafara

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De : Surnom MSN..R9c/c.gif" width=2 align=middle border=0>laurence19725 Envoyé : 26/08/2007 22:09
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De : Surnom MSNColuche2211 Envoyé : 27/08/2007 07:27
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Bonjour ont ne se connait pas mais je  suis passé par la case opération du cerveau et je me doute que ce n'est pas facile mais ont s'en remet.
 
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    odha
    C BEAU TOUT CA HEIN MAMADY ??? ....L 'AMITIE EST BELLE ... C'EST VRAI CE QUE DIT KAMIKASE68 ...
    TU ES UN SAGE ... NOUS AVONS EU ET NOUS AURONS ENCORE BESOIN DE TES MOTS ... DE TA SERENITE
    DE TON RIRE .... DE TON COURAGE ... MAINTENANT A NOUS DE TE SOUTENIR DE NOTRE MIEUX ... A TOI
    ET TA FAMILLE
    MERCI D'ETRE LA MAMADY
     
    GROS BISOUS
    27 août 14:51
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Friday, August 31, 2007 

Cageprisoners.com.....Guantanamo Prisoner

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"Realise that this is only the beginning of the wave, so if it did not reach you it will reach your children, if the new Prime Minister is going to be like Tony Blair"
(Faraj Hassan, former Long Lartin detainee, facing deportation to Libya)


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Interviews with Faraj Hassan
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Interview with Faraj Hassan Al-Saad
Cageprisoners exclusive interview with former Long Lartin detainee, Faraj Hassan Faraj, aka Detainee AS. Faraj was first arrested in 2002 and held in a number of British prisons, including Brixton and Belmarsh, before being imprisoned in the notorious HMP Long Lartin. He was amongst 17 Muslim prisoners there, fighting deportation to their home countries where it is highly likely they would face torture or ill-treatment. Faraj was released earlier this year and finally reunited with his wife and young daughter, Shaima.


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Events
Charity Iftar for Hhugs and Cageprisoners
! Martin Mubanga: Ramadhan in Captivity
Asim Qureshi: The ! UK's War on Error


Shut Down Guant?namo! Weekly Demo, London
The London Guant?namo Campaign has been protesting outside the US Embassy in Mayfair every Friday evening at 6-7pm since February 2007. Come and join us!

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Campaigns
Ali Al Timimi Summer Appeal
Ali's team continue to need funds for the upkeep of Ali and to meet the costs of his legal team

! Tear Down Guantanamo Bay
You can tear down Guantanamo Bay. One pixel at a time. Sign the pledge. Get a pixel. When they're gone, we'll have 500, 000 new signatures. And the power to tear down the real Guantanamo Bay.

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Downloads
Report On Scottish Involvement In Extraordinary Rendition
Reprieve, 23rd August 2007
Scottish authorities deliberately misled by Polish aviation authorities and a CIA company with an office in Crawley, in the rendition of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed

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An Unjust Trial By Media
by Clive Stafford Smith
Some Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been cleared for release. But US defence officials still insist - and the unquestioning media reports - that they are dangerous terrorists. Why would any country want to take them?


411-0: Opposition to Bush's Guant?namo Policy Grows

by Andy Worthington
As the time steadily approaches when the US Supreme Court will consider whether, after over three years of stalling and obfuscation on the part of the administration, the detainees at Guant?namo will be allowed "full acces! s to the US court system" and the right to challenge the basis of their detention in federal courts, the Associated Press reports that 411 senior officials from the United States and Europe – 25 retired US diplomats, two retired rear admirals, a retired Marine general, and 383 current or former members of the European and British parliaments – made their support for the detainees' case clear to the Supreme Court on Friday


Good Riddance, Gonzales, But Don't Forget Cheney and Addington, The True Architects of Torture
by Andy Worthington
OK, so the departing Attorney General was not as malevolent as some made out: more a willing pawn of his old friend George W. and his guiding brain, the recently departed Karl Rove, and, moreover, of the genuinely malevolent Dick Cheney, an! d his close associate David Addington.

Did Chertoff Lie To Congress About Guant?namo?
by Mark Benjamin
He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were "plain vanilla," but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture.


CCR Says Gonzales Resignation Welcomed But Nothing To Celebrate:
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) welcomed the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States and now calls upon Congress to investigate his role in the Bush administration's abuse of Executive authority

The Testimony of Guant?namo Detainee Omar Deghayes: Includes Allegations of Previously Unreported Murders in Bagram
by Andy Worthington
Such is the turnover of stories in the news that genuinely shocking claims – such as those made by Guant?namo detainee Omar Deghayes in a dossier released by his family two weeks ago – often become tomorrow's fish and chip paper without anyone having really paid attention.


Tajiks Released From Guant?namo Sentenced To 17 Years in Prison

by Andy Worthington
From Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, comes news that two of the three Tajik detainees released from Guant?namo in March – Muqit Vohidov a! nd Rukniddin Sharopov – have received jail sentences of 17 yea! rs in "h igh-security penal colonies" (aka labour camps) for "serving as mercenaries in Afghanistan" – where they were accused of aiding the Taliban by fighting for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) – and for taking part in "illegal border crossing."


Collusion Concerns
by Paul Donovan
There are striking similarities between the way in which the cases of Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes and Irish solicitor Pat Finucane have been dealt with by the British state.


Reprieve Calls For Full Investigation Into Scotland's Role As Host To CIA Torture Flights
by Reprieve
Scottish! authorities deliberately misled by Polish aviation authorities and a CIA company with an office in Crawley, in the rendition of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed


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News

GUANTANAMO

Guantanamo May Soon Close, To Avoid Court Defeat
Yemen 'Must Prioritise Freedom of Detainees'
Unusual Coalition Files Amicus Brief in Boumediene Case
Foreign Affairs Minister Briefed on Responding To Khadr Questions!
Gitmo Chief: Al-Jazeera Detainee Is Fine

Prosecutors Push to Resume War Crimes Trials
White House Defends US Terror Tribunals
Full Court Access Urged for Detainees
Bosnia Interested in Fate of Its People in Guantanamo
Guantanamo Victims May Get BD50,000

GHOST

Scottish Inquiry Into 'Rendition' Flights By CIA
Kenyan Rights Activist Miss! ing
Pakistan's Release of al-Qaida Suspect Upsets US and UK
Pakistan Released Qaeda Suspect as Case Was to Be Heard

UK

Terror Accused Was 'Model Pupil'

US

Abu Ghraib Officer Acquitted of Failing To Control Soldiers
Abu Ghraib Verdict Irks Rights Groups
'Credible' US Justice Chief Urged
US To Shut Anti-Terror Databa! se

MISCELLANEOUS

No Adjustment in 'Guantanamo North' Regime
5 of the 11 Arrested on Suspicion of Belonging To Terror Group Freed
Lawyer For Detainee Seeks Access To Guantanamo Prisoner
U.S. OK'd Troop Terror Hunts in Pakistan
Charkaoui Witness Recants, Reporter Tells Court
Jack Thomas Allowed To Travel Interstate

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Friday, August 31, 2007 
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Pour Comparez les prix avant de partir en voyage
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Slimane Azem, maître de la chanson kabyle
Slimane Azem est considéré comme le plus grand chanteur kabyle, vénéré par tous ceux qui suivront : Aït Menguellet, Idir.... Le malheur des temps, une compilation de ses meilleurs titres vient de paraître chez Creativ Productions.
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L'Ile Maurice veut un deuxième site sur la liste du Patrimoine mondial
Le Premier ministre mauricien, Navin Ramgoolam, a déclaré mercredi soir, qu'il va tout faire pour s'assurer que la montagne du Morne, lieu où ont vécu les esclaves en fuite à l'époque de l'esclavage, dans le sud-est de l'île, soit inscrite sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO.
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Les fils de la princesse Diana amoureux de l'Afrique
La princesse Diana, décédée il y a tout juste dix ans, a laissé beaucoup d'elle à ses fils. Les princes William et Harry ont la même envie d'aider leur prochain et s'impliquent tous deux dans la lutte contre le sida en Afrique. Ils ont en outre développé une véritable passion pour le Continent noir.
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Au coeur des patrouilles de la Monuc qui sécurisent Kinshasa
Les soldats de la Mission des Nations Unies en RDC (Monuc) patrouillent quotidiennement dans la ville de Kinshasa. Leurs objectifs : assurer une présence dissuasive, recueillir les informations sur le plan sécuritaire et s'informer du vécu quotidien de la population. Le correspondant d'Afrik.com à Kinshasa a passé une journée parmi eux. Reportage.
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Maroc : 3000 travailleurs étrangers « sans papiers »
Lorsqu'on parle travail au noir, l'on pense généralement « emplois précaires », aux ressortissants de pays d'Afrique noire. Rarement aux « cols blancs », et rarement aussi à quelques nationalités que l'on pensait au-dessus de tout soupçon. Les résultats d'une enquête du ministère de l'Emploi bat en brèche quelques idées reçues.
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Sarkozy et Brown veulent unir leurs efforts pour le Darfour
Nicolas Sarkozy et Gordon Brown ont énoncé les conditions d'une paix durable au Darfour, vendredi, dans un entretien publié dans le quotidien britannique The Times. Ils souhaitent ainsi montrer leur détermination et leur soutient à la démarche de Ban Ki-Moon, dans son plan d'action pour le rétablissement de la paix au Darfour.
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Burkina Faso : opération un élève, un manuel
L'une des réformes phares de cette rentrée burkinabée demeure la gratuité des manuels scolaires. Une manière pour le nouveau gouvernement de Tertius Zongo de démontrer son attachement à l'éducation comme l'un des remèdes à la pauvreté et d'entrer de plain-pied dans l'action avec ce projet audacieux.
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Pierre Messmer : itinéraire d'un gaulliste en Afrique
Pierre Messmer est décédé, mercredi, à l'Hôpital du Val de Grâce, à Paris. Il était âgé de 91 ans. Résistant, artisan de la décolonisation, Premier ministre, académicien... Retour sur la carrière d'un homme dont la politique et les décisions ont marqué l'histoire de l'Afrique du siècle dernier.
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Rachida Dati, la Dame de fer de la place Vendôme
La ministre française de la Justice fait encore une fois parler d'elle. En convoquant le vice-procureur de Nancy, Rachida Dati a soulevé un tollé dans la magistrature. Elle continue de naviguer en dehors des lignes. La rudesse de ses méthodes provoque même la fuite des membres de son cabinet, le dernier en date : Michel Marquer.
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Nouveau procès pour Khalifa
Le jeune homme d'affaires Abdelmoumen Rafik Khalifa, qui s'était réfugié à Londres pour fuir la justice algérienne, sera prochainement extradé vers... la France, où l'attend un nouveau procès.
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Les lois Sarkozy, un tue l'amour ?
Le durcissement des lois françaises relatives à l'immigration et à l'intégration vient alourdir les démarches liées au mariage avec un étranger. Zoubair, jeune français d'origine berbère, est tombé fou amoureux d'une belle marocaine, Sahra. Le jour où il s'est décidé à faire sa demande coïncide avec le début d'une vraie galère administrative.
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RDC : Verdict contesté dans l'affaire de l'assassinat du journaliste Serge Maheshe
Le procès sur l'assassinat Serge Maheshe, journaliste et secrétaire de rédaction de Radio Okapi, parrainée par la mission de l'Onu en RDC (Monuc) est tombé mardi. Le tribunal militaire de Bukavu, dans la province du Sud-Kivu (Est), a condamné à la peine capitale deux civils présumés meurtriers du journaliste ainsi que ses deux amis, témoins du meurtre.
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L'Europe bientôt au chevet des victimes du Darfour
Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies a exprimé son soutien, lundi, en faveur d'un projet de déploiement d'une force européenne dans l'Est du Tchad et le Nord-Est de la Centrafrique. L'envoi de cette force, qui doit être officialisée par une résolution du Conseil, aura notamment pour but de protéger des populations réfugiées et déplacées à cause de la guerre qui sévit dans la province soudanaise du Darfour.
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Sarkozy à l'écoute des peuples africains ?
Le chef de l'Etat a exposé les grandes lignes de sa politique étrangère pour les cinq prochaines années, lors de la conférence des Ambassadeurs, lundi, à Paris. « Qu'attendent les peuples Africains de la France ? » Voici la question ouverte du président aux forces vives et à la jeunesse africaines.
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Osaka : les Africains s'illustrent aux Mondiaux d'athlétisme 2007
Une chaleur éreintante et une humidité pesante plombent Osaka et les Championnats du monde d'athlétisme depuis samedi. Chaque brin d'air est vécu comme une offrande. Entre victoire, défaite, joie et déception, Osaka nous offre du grand spectacle.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 


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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 

I had to check my spread sheet for these videos. They are from the 80's and 90's. If they are on youtube and there are two buttons be sure to click the first button on the lower left to get a better pic. It will shrink the pic a little but it will look much better.  If there is one button it will make the video full screen.


aaron hall-i miss you-this is the saddest video ever made. looking at it now still moves me to tears

annie lenox-why-a maganificent video and song showing the transformation of annie from a beautiful woman without makeyp to a beautiful one as a show girl. she only lip syncs part of the song and that makes it more effective

arrested development- mr wendal-a great song and video sampling steely dan's "peg.    "

babyface-cool in you-this is not the version i remember. the song is good though.

barbra streisand-somewhere-this performance almost tops her "my man" from "funny girl." what i liked about this besides her singing is the keyboard work. there are no strings or horns here just keyboards.

barnes & barnes-fish heads-another crazy video similar to de la souls potholes in my lawn. this is two videos in one. the first two minutes has the errie set up and then the song begins. one of the members of this duo is bill mummy who played will in lost in space.

bruce springsteen- tunnel of love-i never was a fan of bruce till he released this album. the video is bleak and haunting. matching the optimistic/pessemis tic lyrics.

pete rock cl smooth-they reminisce over you-rap or music in general hardly reaches such spirituality an bliss. this is soul music

d nice-they call me d nice-who didn't like little derrick? he was a cute as he wannabe

dave matthews band-crash-one of dave's best songs and the best video they ever did so far. the video looks a lot like the painter rousseau's  work brought to life. they also made nice use of group member/vioilinists boyd tinsley  as well.

desree-feels so high-while her signature song is you gotta be, for me it is this one. this is not the version i like. the one i saw was b&w and she was by a beach

digable planets-rebirth of the slick-more great rap

ed og & da bulldogs-love comes and goes-this is similar to the pete rock & cl smooth joint. i had a crush on this man 4 real

ed og & da bulldogs-skinny dip-in case you was wondering why i had that crush on this brutha peep this video. the man was getting busy and showing much flesh!

fine young cannibals-good thing-classic b&w video

fleetwood mac-gypsy-this is one the best songs stevie nicks wrote. this is the best fleetwood mac video. at the time it was the most expensive video ever made; over a million dollars.

gangstarr-words i manifest-this was the first song i heard that used a jazz sample (Charlie Parker). it is hard hitting and still is good.

genesis-no son of mine-the best genesis video.the song is about domestic violence and the video is dark and haunting as it should be. the audio is not too good hear.

george michael-faith-classic butt and all

godley & creme-cry-the classic video which introduced the morphing effect. it is common place now but then it was innovative. godley & creme are from the group 10cc (i'm not in love).

heart-these dreams-another example of audio and video coming together to form a sound portrait. the only thing that was not cool is that it showed nancy wilson playing an electric guitar when there aew no guitars in the song lol ! this song was co-written by bernie taupin when him and elton john had stopped writing together for a minute.

horace brown-things we do for love-this is the brutha that co-wrote the oral anthem "taste your love" i remember seeing him live at a club i was eating and he took his shirt off all i could do is stare.this is a new clip and he still looks to be in great shape. horace brown shirtless


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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 

Current mood:  calm
read the paragraph, BEFORE VIEWING CLIP For all those people who believe you get what you deserve in life...A couple of kids are driving down a residential street when the kid in the back seat tries to knock some kid off his bike by opening up the driver-side back door. Chalk up the rest of the clip to Karma. This clip will slow down > also for a better view. Now click on the attachment...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 

Current mood:  annoyed

Police cruiser video shows last moments before officer's death

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - It lasts all of six or seven seconds - the driver reaching out as if to wave someone away, the police officer striding up, releasing a cloud of pepper spray through car's open window, and the driver reaching out again, this time firing a handgun.

Video taken from Franconia Police Cpl. Bruce McKay's cruiser shows the May 11 confrontation that led to his death and that of the driver he had just stopped, Liko Kenney. Authorities released it Monday, along with photographs and about 1,000 pages of transcribed statements from witnesses of the May 11 shootings.

A passing motorist trying to protect McKay picked up the gun and killed the driver moments later, but that shooting was not captured on tape.

The video for the first time shows at least part of the incident that has torn the community of Franconia apart, with Kenney supporters describing McKay as a bully cop who was rough with young people and others praising McKay as a fallen hero. The killings - McKay by Kenney, and Kenney by Gregory W. Floyd - have been described by some in town as vigilante justice.

The tape from McKay's cruiser shows how the sunny day on a country road went wrong.

It starts with the first of two traffic stops on Route 116. McKay pulls over a small car for speeding and having an expired registration. Two heads are visible through the car's rear window. The driver appears to be talking to the officer. Two minutes later the coupe pulls away, followed quickly by McKay's police sport utility vehicle.

About 1.5 miles down the road, McKay overtakes Kenney, crossing the double yellow line, backing up and turning several times until the cars are nose to nose. Kenney reaches out and points, as if asking McKay to back up. A pickup truck behind them has stopped in the road. Kenney backs into a dirt driveway, but McKay doesn't stop. He drives the SUV into the coupe, bumping and pushing it into a gravel parking area backed by farm equipment and fields. Kenney's hands are up now, and the video, mostly silent, blares suddenly with the sound of a siren.

The rest happens quickly. Kenney leans his head and arm out of the window and waves. McKay steps into view in his blue uniform and sunglasses and walks toward the faded blue coupe. He sprays, turns his back and walks out of view of the camera. Kenney leans out again, gun in hand, and rapidly squeezes out seven bullets, hitting McKay four times.

Kenney tries to leave. He drives over McKay's body twice, but doesn't get far. He is shot dead moments later by Floyd, an ex-Marine who picked up McKay's gun.

In a summary report, prosecutors said McKay, 48, was justified in using non-deadly force on Kenney, 24, partly because of a violent confrontation between the two men four years earlier. The attorney general also said Floyd was justified in shooting Kenney as he tried to protect McKay.

"All of the actions by Corporal McKay constituted a reasonable use of nondeadly physical force by a law enforcement officer," the report said.

Also, "Liko Kenney's use of deadly physical force against Corporal McKay was not justified," the report said.

Kenney and Caleb Macaulay were headed back to Kenney's place from work when they saw the police SUV approach from the opposite direction. Macaulay said Kenney was not speeding, but the officer turned around and came up behind them with his lights and siren on.

Macaulay said Kenney was upset and asked to deal with another officer instead of McKay. Kenney's relatives said he had that agreement with police; Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said that wasn't practical or reasonable.

Kenney and McKay had met four years earlier, in a confrontation that ended with Kenney being taken down by McKay and two other officers. Kenney eventually pleaded guilty to assaulting McKay and resisting arrest, though relatives insisted Kenney was beaten by McKay. The bad blood had continued ever since.

As recently as April, McKay urged fellow officers to beware of Kenney, in a memo describing him as armed and having "potential for volatility."

For his part, relatives and friends said Kenney lived in fear of McKay.

Macaulay said his friend tensed up during the traffic stop.

I've never seen Liko really scared like that before," Macaulay said in a police interview.

Kenney said he wanted to drive home to the family tennis camp in Easton, about three miles away on Route 116, where there would be witnesses. Macaulay said Kenney drove away, but again was not speeding.

At the second stop, it was chaos once McKay pushed them off the road. Macaulay said Kenney was shouting "stop stop stop."

McKay walked up and sprayed them without a word. Maccaulay said he was blinded by the pepper spray and didn't see Kenney pull the gun, but heard the shots.

"There was no communication. There is gunfire ... and that was it, that was the whole thing," he said.

"I heard the gun, I saw him with the gun and then I was pretty much like in panic mode, duck, hide, save your own life," Macaulay said.

Witness Susan Thompson looked out her dining room window when she heard the sirens. She watched the SUV push the car off the road, then heard a several pops and saw McKay, clutching his chest, cross the road.

Floyd's son, also named Gregory, said he and his father were driving home to Easton when they saw the police car and a car they had seen earlier outside a market. They watched the wounded McKay run across the road and the car drive onto him once, and then again.

He said the driver was shooting the gun above the car's roof at one point, reminding him of a gangster movie.

Floyd said he saw his father approach the car and tell the driver not to reload; then he watched as his father fired and the driver's head fell to one side.

Witness accounts differ here. Floyd said he heard his father speak to the driver. Floyd Sr. told police he said, "Stop. Put it down or you're going to die," then fired when Kenney ignored him. Macaulay said he did not hear Floyd speak before shooting.

Police said Floyd hit Kenney twice, in the chest and in the neck.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 


Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too Ñ great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory....

...Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common.ÑThe rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth."

Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!" To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing there identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America.is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery Ñ the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate; I will not excuse"; I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just.

But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, "It is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more, an denounce less; would you persuade more, and rebuke less; your cause would be much more likely to succeed." But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment. What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. When you can point to any such laws in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, then will I argue with you that the slave is a man!

For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!

Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? How should I look to-day, in the presence of Amercans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? speaking of it relatively and positively, negatively and affirmatively. To do so, would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding. There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their mastcrs? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply.

What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in the thought. That which is inhuman, cannot be divine! Who can reason on such a proposition? They that can, may; I cannot. The time for such argument is passed.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival....


...Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented, of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. "The arm of the Lord is not shortened," and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from "the Declaration of Independence," the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated. -- Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic are distinctly heard on the other.

The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. The fiat of the Almighty, "Let there be Light," has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen in contrast with nature. Africa must rise and put on her yet unwoven garment. 'Ethiopia, shall, stretch. out her hand unto Ood." In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say, and let every heart join in saying it:

God speed the year of jubilee
The wide world o'er!
When from their galling chains set free,
Th' oppress'd shall vilely bend the knee,
And wear the yoke of tyranny
Like brutes no more.
That year will come, and freedom's reign,
To man his plundered rights again
Restore.

God speed the day when human blood
Shall cease to flow!
In every clime be understood,
The claims of human brotherhood,
And each return for evil, good,
Not blow for blow;
That day will come all feuds to end,
And change into a faithful friend
Each foe.

God speed the hour, the glorious hour,
When none on earth
Shall exercise a lordly power,
Nor in a tyrant's presence cower;
But to all manhood's stature tower,
By equal birth!
That hour will come, to each, to all,
And from his Prison-house, to thrall
Go forth.

Until that year, day, hour, arrive,
With head, and heart, and hand I'll strive,
To break the rod, and rend the gyve,
The spoiler of his prey deprive --
So witness Heaven!
And never from my chosen post,
Whate'er the peril or the cost,
Be driven.




The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume II
Pre-Civil War Decade 1850-1860
Philip S. Foner
International Publishers Co., Inc., New York, 1950