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Western media said that the US presidential election has always been influenced by lobbying group activities on American politics, but the multi-million dollar behavior - usually in opaque form - also appears in the highest appointments. In the case of the Court of Justice, Brett Cavano is an exampl

Ned Sublette I was on Gotham Gal's website this morning using th LIJIT Search Engine http://gothamgal.blogs.com/ I wanted to re read a book by one of my favorite authors and he is also a great musician ! Yes I found it! Viva Ritmo Latino Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette "This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and making a case for Cuba as fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. Revealed are how the music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the claves appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues. Music lovers will follow this journey from Andalucía, the Congo, the Calabar, Dahomey, and Yorubaland via Cuba to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, New York, and Miami. The music is placed in a historical context that considers the complexities of the slave trade; Cuba's relationship to the United States; its revolutionary political traditions; the music of Santería, Palo, Abakuá, Vodú, and much more. Cuba and its Music is an ambitious project whose repercussions in a different genre might be on a par with those of Buena Vista. Grounded on frequent trips to the island and an extensive bibliography, this book by Ned Sublette is a first for an English-reading public: a didactic and accessible steer through part of Cuba's turbulent history and its music, whose parameters embrace cultural anthropology, sociology, politics, and history, as well as musicology and music. I also get a lot of great Latin Music from NPR http://www.ritmolatino.org/ Lijit is great search engine with excellent Tech Support it is great add for any web site http://www.lijit.com/about N

The reference news network reported on October 18 that foreign media said that on the 16th, Cuba chose to abandon diplomatic etiquette at the UN venue and use loud noise to resist the criticism of the United States on political crimes against Cuba. According to the Effie news report on October 16

PressThink Image of Jay Rosen from Twitter Image of Jay Rosen Dear Mr Winer as a man of good taste, this is a tasty look at a great Wordsmith I am going to be politically incorrect print it out and put it next to my dradle under the chanukah bush ! At 72 yeara old I still say merry christmas happy chanukah -Feliz Navidad Feliz Ano Nuevo . I think my clear conscience came from my high school read's and a good Shrink! This choice of Mr Rosen brings back great reads,John Dos Passos,Pablo Neruda,Freeman Dyson, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and Emile Zola, by the time I graduated high school thanks to people like Mr Rosen I had read a lot of the Great Books ! I guess Christmas Eve is the day to announce the Blogger of the Year. It's only the second time I've done it, and I did it last year on this day, and it seems like a good day to do it. That's what being a real blogger is like. It's like just feeling like doing something and then doing it.

Reference News Network reported on October 18th that the Spanish Uprising website published on October 8th, the former first secretary of the Cuban representative office in the United States, the United States expert Fernando M. Garcia Bielsa titled Who and how Manipulating the results of the US

Reference News Network reported on October 25 that foreign media said that there were many cases of explosives parcels in the United States. The parcels were sent to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and many important politicians. CNNs office in New

On October 30, local time, US House Speaker and Republican Paul Ryan said in an interview with WVLK Radio in Kentucky, he supported the government in cracking down on illegal immigration, but the president cannot abolish birth citizenship by administrative order... as a conservative, we Support the

In recent years, the struggle for the survival and decline of European integration has continued to ferment. Since the Brexit was over, the confidence of European integration has suffered a heavy blow, and any political development in member countries that could lead to a new integrated retreat

Content Matters: Five Questions for Fred Wilson Clipart of bills and coins Image via Wikipedia This creative bit of content is a great read for people planning start-ups it might be titled how to avoid the [soup line] when you start a new Venture ! It was noted on Fred Wilson's site-http://www.avc.com/ Barry Graubert writes the excellent Content Matters blog and he's got an interview with me up there today. Fred Wilson Here is one question and my answer: CM: Historically, as the economy comes out of recession, it creates transformation and change. Which segments have the potential for transformation in an eventual recovery? FW: Every industry that is based on knowledge or information or some other form of non-physical matter (atoms vs bits) is going to fundamentally transform and this downturn will be the darwinian forcing function. Think about energy and power systems, banking, media, education. They all have that aspect to them Barry Graubart has spent the past 20 years applying technology to content to develop high value business-to-business information products. Barry today serves as Vice President, Product Strategy & Business Development for Alacra, a leading content technology company, where his focus is on eCommerce and social media applications. Previously, he served as EVP & Chief Marketing Officer for Leadership Directories, a content provider of biographical and organizational data. Prior to Leadership Directories he spent four years in various roles with ClearForest, an emerging leader in the text analytics market. At ClearForest, he helped open the publishing and federal intelligence markets. Previously, he held general management, product development and marketing roles with b2b content businesses including divisions of Primedia, Nelson Information (now Thomson Financial), Kaplan/Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers. Barry holds a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Albany. Barry sits on the Board o

Image of freep.com The Detroit City Councils Awakes from  a Coma , Realizes that while they were asleep The Kilpatrick Clan borrowed a few buck's from Detroit that no one can find ! Now the well educated group we call the Detroit City Council- Attorneys,Accountant's Phd's and lot's of G-E-D"S  Have created a 10 billion dollar budget to rebuild Detroit !  If your car breaks a mechanic can fix it ! If your tooth breaks a dentist can fix it, but you can't fix stupid ! The Publicity the Detroit City Council Creates only add's more destruction to the cities reputation ! Fire the Council Fire the Mayor Eliminate the School Board then hire a city manager !  Eliminate waste create good government !  No More Pick Pocket Politics !

April 26, 2009 Skytone's Android-powered netbook to cost around $250 The Battle for the Netbook Market ! Tag and Bookmark louisgray, squidoo, marshalsandler, zemanta, chrisbrogan, seth, likaholix, micropersuasion, facebook, edelamdigital, edelmandigital, kindle2.0, comcast cares, nazis, tumblr, fox2dertoit, disqus, chrisbrogan.com-music, trust, plummets, fredwilson, pownce, google, music, slavery, henson.com, search, wordpress, vimeo, holacost, wordle, newyorktimes, headup, bose, krumlr, scriptingnews, rocks, foodzie, edlemandigital, worldblog, customerservice, gothamgal, iphone, housefire, vegetableart, socialmedia, frankeliason, robocrunch, android,janetfouts,amplify.com,ericgoldstein,steve rubel,edelman digital,shave,haircut,chris brogan,seth godin,activism · animals · animation · anime · architecture · arts · astronomy · atheist · bizarre · blogs · books · cars · cartoons · cats · clothing · comics · computer-graphics · computers · cooking · crafts · cyberculture · drawing · drugs · environment · graphic-design · hacking · health · history · humor · illusions · internet · internet-tools · linguistics · linux · mathematics · movies · multimedia · music · online-games · open-source · painting · philosophy · photography · physics · politics · programming · psychology · relationships · satire · science · self-improvement · software · stumblers · travel · video · video-games · web-design · windows · writing ·chris-brogan,micro persuasion,zimbio,stumbleupon,netbook,endgaget, Skytone's Android-powered netbook to cost around $250. Related articles by Zemanta * Will The Skytone Alpha 680 Be The First Android Netbook? (talkandroid.com) * Microsoft tries to hold its own with netbooks (dailyfinance.com) * Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 (VentureBeat) (techmeme.com) * HP Looks to Power Netbooks With Google Android (appscout.com) * I Want an Android Netbook, and I Want It With the

Points to a disproportionately large number of posts about the political candidate Ron Paul that were buried on Digg, in support of the premise of that so-called "bury brigades" exist on Digg, groups of users who vote against articles en masse when they don't like them, "philosophically". This should surprise absolutely nobody who is familiar with Digg's basic operating principles and has been online for more than ten minutes in his life, but sometimes people need evidence in support of the obvious. Putting the feeedom to be heard on a topic to a vote - how do people expect that to work out?

Chris Crum (the author) writes about a rumored upcoming Digg toolbar incorporating random search, and asks if this is bad news for Stumbleupon, as that is the service's key feature. Perhaps, but Crum hasn't given us reason enough to think so. Randomness, by itself, isn't a big deal. Webrings had incorporated it into their code long before there was a Stumbleupon. Carefully weightened randomness is what Stumbleupon does. Stumbleupon offers a blogging platform, albeit a seriously flawed one. Digg does not. Those who submit content to Digg risk loss of membership if the content proves to be unpopular enough; so far as I know, Stumbleupon users don't have the same worry, outside of a little political whackiness in the fora. I'm left with the impression that Crum repeats somebody who has read too much into too little, having little familiarity with the capabilities of the SU system, and with the policy differences between the two sites.

How does a person feel when he lost his eyes in an accident or when one of his legs amputated? Would he feel like to end his life to escape from the crises or try to face all the problems that come on his way? According to the statistics more than one million people in the world commit suicide per year and over thirty thousand of these are said to be from the United States. Why these people commit suicide? What demoralize them? The surveys says that people commit suicide for different reasons in which most common are financial problems, relationship problems, bullying and stress of work. These people are trapped in depression and make up their mind that things will never get better, and none can improve the situation. G. B. Shaw said, "Sometimes, people get attached to their burdens more than the burdens are attached to them." Life gets tough We all just have to admit that life can sometimes get tough! Our health may sometimes suffer, family demands demoralize, daily traumas build up and work strains speed up, but it doesn't mean to feel that the life isn't worth living. In such situation, we need a dose of inspiration that makes us feel good.Buy online wheelchair for handicapped and disabled at lowest Wheelchair price and cheap cost in india from wheelchair india online shopping. Inspiration brings positive signs and heightens our creativity. In times of insecurity, remind yourself of those who overcame bodily limitations and various obstructions. Finding inspiration Here are six inspirational stories of people who, in spite of their physical limitations, participated fully in all aspects of the society. These differently-abled people (I don't like to say them disable) are not only inspirational to other people having physical problems; but equally inspirational to those of us who feel life is worthless and give up trying when the obstacles come on our way. One of the world's best-known overachiever Stephen Hawking who suffers from Mot

According to the news network on December 10, due to concerns about the possible political and monetary risks brought about by the settlement of the US dollar, the EU has recently issued an action initiative to recommend the active use of the euro in the economic strategy sector. In particular, the

A spokesman for the US Pacific Fleet told the media on Monday night that two US ships, Wilbur and Antitham, carried out the routine task of transiting the Taiwan Strait on the same day, saying that the move was in accordance with international law. indicating the United States commitment

Reference News Network reported on October 26, the US Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC website recently said that famous political analyst Ian Bremer said that the world is entering a geopolitical recession, which indicates that the United States is headed The end of the global order.