i saw the movie Aliens vs Predator and all I could think was violence on rampage. oh so gross ! Who ever came up with that screenplay must be close friends with Stephen King.
On the Earth Predator Aliens were coming in to incubate other aliens using human beings the real owners of the Earth ! wow , never has bottom of the food chain become Homo Sapiens !
Today there is a slowly growing alienation that is creating Alien Nations .This new society is not unsung in just terror antics. Nevertheless Sapiens has topped the charts time and again when selective leadership based on survival of the fittest leadership by brawn rather than brains.
This has been pervaded within a fallen nature inherited from Adam resurrected by Jesus yet ignored by mankind. The growing attitudes towards Religions and humans are rapidly accentuating the prophecy of the last days. In the last days men shall be lovers of themselves..
2 Tim 3:1-4 mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God NIV
The globalization of Nations posthumously directed awareness for the generous effects of Massive Economic spread across vast geographic regions. A global village of Utopia has long been deemed as its main exponent.
Alas, this has proved myopic and unprophetic as the effects on the African Region has shown that GM crops can not provide towards Abundant and for free food because the genetically modified patents are owned by the rich biotech companies ,most of which are American.
Also what massive outsourcing is colliding within western cultures, will always reflect what Nike,Microsoft, Tesco and Walmart really wants are increased revenues. More Money ! the Mo� money we get ,the mo� problems ?
For all the Economic freedom globalization promises it is still resident within the crux of alienation , churning out alien beings, peoples and nations.
How alienated can one be if one wakes up one morning and decides to blow himself into bits ? How can you explain this kind of alienation ! How do you fight it ? what sense does it make in sending Osama Bin Laden and his cronies to the Electric Chair ? or giving him a life sentence ?
Can you sense the futility of such warfare ?
The Bible keeps itself within the Love definition, simplifies it like this .God is love and love thy neighbour as thyself .Simple and short. No matter what anyone says Violence can never be the way.
War is a game that breeds peace only when many are dead and the few left on one side are too tired or too dead to go on on fighting. So the other side wins game over.
Christians must show the God of whom they are being modified and upgraded into.
Jesus is said to have learnt obedience from the things which he suffered scripture puts it like this Heb 5:7-10 during the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 1 NIV
How do I say I am a Christian then and not go according to the way of my Christ. My name �Christian� to others will sound like that froggy adaptation of the eddie murphesque mobile phone ringtone taken from the hit movie Beverley Hills cop. Grossly irritating to their ears.
I like the way Dr Myles Munroe puts it He calls us Kings within the Kingdom, Not posturing a religion but proclaiming a coming kingdom with Christ asking mankind
�Fight with me and regain your Salvation ? What say you ?� These Aliens have turned the pride of life into a serengeti style madness .Mutual hatred between Lions and Hyaenas is based completely on their differences, but they at least live within a cooperative pasture and the way of the living .the plants are eaten by the Zebra,The zebra are eaten by the Lions and the Lions die and get eaten by the plants
Organized crime was a milestone for the mafia, yet organized alienation has not reaped its benefits. If I am the only little green man on earth what profits me if I destroy all the puny eathlings. Who will worship and adore me then.
Yet man�s alienation serves him no purpose. Kill them all ! we must wipe them off the face of the earth. .
I want to understand why the growing alienations continue, Strife,discord War amongst Nations Humans have perfected Wickedness to the point where their maker once said "It grieves me that i made man ! "
Everyone prides themselves on their individuality and these individuals create theeir own niches and ideologies .Osama Bin laden wants to create the jihad all over again. George is ramming down Democracy down the throats of the world creating a new kind of imperialism.
The American culture has helped to further the Alienation of the Alien Nations, unparelled Capitalism has ruined the fabric of Commerce, Outsourcing jobs for Slavery , a new world order of the Slave trade has ensued confirming that Man when pushed will become the grossest epitome of his own disgust.
Yet God is not a democracy. Absolute Ruler, The great Rester , The word calls him that He had finished all his work since the creation of the world and he actually beckons to you to make every effort to enter into his rest.
Even if we decide to become aliens within our own nations, ostracized stratas within our own tensile reach. What unbeknown to us is that one of the most popular alienations took place two thousand years ago. An Alientation from Self,Dad and of God . A passion that I am completely certain Mel Gibson did not and can not comprehend .A passion that led to death.
I and you know not one place where death is productive but a learned Pharisee, the high priest in his day once said �It is good that one Man die for the peace of the Nation.�
If I ask you about your own alienation and the kind of Alien Nation that you are creating Is there goodness and mercy in your alienation or are you pitifully become one of those within the last days, unforgiving, slanderous....
The theory of the others.
liitle tommy was once told by his mum ,�Son God has put you here so that you must always be helpful to others � Whereupon Tommy piped �If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?�
What is in it for me ? What have you done for me lately ?
I challenge you today to become an Alien within this world ,I challenge you to create a new kind of Alien Nation today, A nation within the kingdom so that your Temple will show forth the alienation of Hate and distrust, The bible quotes about the light , in him was life and this life was the light of men. Dear friends, Darkness can never comprehend the light .
Peoples all around the world must proclaim their understanding of Religion, the Bible specifically states that Jesus is the way the truth and the life !
I believe that whole heartedly, this is my own alienation , even if the Hindu,budhist or muslim ..... does not but whomsover so called Christian that believes this too must be able to belie the same results that his grand predecessor did.
Die ! be resurrected and seat down at the right hand of God.
Most of the so called religions claim one God and definitely if there is only one God then we must all be focussed on the same being, goodness gracious if The insurgents in Iraq knew that in ancient Persia that Cyrus had once given a decree that the Temple of God be rebuilt by isrealis and Persians fueled with Persian money in hard cash Gold and silver !
.Who is alienating these archives from everyone ! Ezra 1:2-4 This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: "'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. 3 Anyone of his people among you-may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And the people of any place where survivors may now be living are to provide him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.'" NIV
If you believe in your alienation so much why don�t you show me the money ! then I will become a part of your alien nation ! Show me the money Christian Pastor, Jewish Rabbi, Muslim imam !
I am a creature of freewill and of choice! Whether my reward is eternal life in heaven or reside in the bosom of 77virgins in heaven .choice has made me just that. Free willing.
Then why do we try to create alien nations ,create alienations without good results , within our churches, schools, offices etc.
Microsoft has alienated us so much yet Linux is a better product. Morally, the American culture is one of the most debauched yet they have alienated our kids and minds with their way of life .Hollywood has made certain of this.
Take a look at a bollywood movie now and twenty years back and the difference will be as cold as ice sizzling in the desert sun.
I want an alien nation where all the citizens are true aliens not a smorgasbord of undirected peoples claiming an alienation without any good.A good cause yes but no effect .
I remember when the album the Ecleftic came out by the musician Wyclef Jean, My girlfriend then introduced me to it. I was initially skeptical, lampooned in my church mind and then wham ! The scales fell off, It was a cultural masterpiece from the Alien nation of Haiti.
When Wyclef was in the Fugees his genius was unknown and then came alienation,well we know the rest.The album was a smash.
The album also featured a track named after the young man who fell victim to 41 police bullets in the Bronx: "Diallo". This may be one of the most moving songs that Wyclef has ever produced as he describes the murder, as he believes it has taken place.
The song starts with the voice of Youssou N'Dour imitating Diallo and a possible monologue he may have been having as he was entering his home, looking for his keys as he noticed the lights of the van.
His first thought was that he was going to be robbed and so took his wallet out as to just give the money away and maybe save his life. As he realized he was being approached by New York's finest, the poor innocent sighed " Oh! It's the police, let me show them my ID so they know I am good people", and those were his last words before the shooting took place.
The album is very descriptive and straightforward especially in the Diallo track where the police are referred to as Vampires. In the track, Wyclef says that he is not looking for peace but equal rights and justice.
If your alienation brings �good people� like Wyclef says then Show us your ID ! Let it then SHINE ! for the world to see so that The one true God will be glorified, if not then We the people, the masses will do you in like the NYPD and send your body back to your alien nation.
Like Aragon said in the Tolkien remake of the movie: The Return of the king to the King of the Dead
Fight for us, and regain your honor. What say you?" [Aragorn surveys the dead soldiers.] Aragorn: "What say you?"
Gimli(that little guy with the great AXe): "You waste your time, ... What say you today goes to the Aliens within our midst the predators, the blood beep ! ers Is it a Gimli efect. Are we wasting our time ?
He owns time for with him a thousand years can be a day and vice versa and time wasting to you might mean he tarries BUT !
O yes the king of Kings is definitely coming and he is coming to a Soul near you. And he is coming on a white Horse .
�What say you ?�
God bless
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I used to have a bank account with one First Inland Bank before the merger. I stopped using it even with promises after the merge. But what comes to your mind whenever you see FinBank's signpost out there? I have the feeling that FinBank is a sexy bank after they have pimped their colour and logo. now they have a very beautiful look and feel. I don't know how far they realised what they have done but i never knew you'll look at a bank and look at it the second time when e no be woman. FinBank truly looks sensual, nifty and sexy. maybe the person that pimped that bank with the make up was a woman. if it was a man that guy would probably be a gay! I'll still find out who. but i never knew a bank as a brand could look so sexy. I like touching their signposts with the tips of my fingers...what? I'm a bad boy?...well i'm reactivating my account, can't wait to feel some sexy chicks in there. I don't like their payoff though, it spoils the whole show, and that tagline is cliche. they need to make it sound as sexy as the pimped everything they've got. how about a sexy bank account?Read more…
Posted by habibajala on December 10, 2008 at 10:13pm
i carry your heart with me (i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it (anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart (i carry it in my heart
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I have been so blessed this Christmas,with loving friends who care.I hope their dreams are answered,as they put their stockings on the tree.May they have every wish,dear God, please do it.Just for me.I pray they have a ur wish,some stuffing and some corn.I hope they never go hungry.May they live a life which is long.May their house be blessed a new.At Christmas and New Year tooMay Christmas be peaceful,the best they ever had.
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Nuage entertainment in conjunction with 2WINZ Entertaintment & Brown Sugaz maiden launch XMAS Party 26th of Dec '08. Featuring a dizzying array of london's top DJ's together in one place for this night only.Nuage entertainment is about taking club nights to a whole new level, join us and enjoy the rideABOUT THE VENUEFriday Night Club is situated on the water's edge next to Canary Wharf. A prime location with fantastic panoramic views overlooking the London Skyline with every up to date facility and is only minutes walk from South Quay on the Docklands Light Railway and Canary Wharf on the Jubilee Line. London City Airport, Excel Exhibition Centre, The O2 Arena, Greenwich and the West End of London are all within easy reach.HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NITETwo talented belly dancers on the floorFree bottle of champagne for the sexiest group of girlsA one day pass to stay at the Britannia international hotel which includes full continental breakfast, swimming pool, gym and of course an opportunity to take a tour of canary wharfs and its environ.Please book in advance for V.I.P as spaces are limitedPlease book Birthday Parties, Hen Night or any special occasion so that we can provide you with appropriate complimentary giftsSophisticated and mature crowdMusic by London’s top and famous DJ’sOur intention is to blow your mind awayDRESS CODEDress like a starSECURITYOur security staffs guarantee’s a peaceful atmosphere
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Posted by 9jabook.com on December 5, 2008 at 7:48am
Traffic The Easy Way ...
(and that means FREE money)
Are You Ready For The Secrets So You Can Get Yours?...""You're either planting the flags of victory across the Internet landscape OR, you're nothing more than a prisoner of war held captive by your competition, getting a few rotten spoils thrown your way from time to time. Your choice..."
"WHAT'S IT GONNA BE?"
PROOF!
"8,798 Visitors Who Gave Me £900.00 (171000naira) In Less Than 30 Days Using This "evil" System!"
From: Weboga
RE: "evil" Black Hat Tactics
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Dear friend,
You're about to discover the secrets to...
Seven "evil" tactics for generating massive traffic. We'll go through each one so you can put the system to work for you right away.Very few people have ever heard of these simple tactics, but they're DEADLY effective! And in the hands of a black hat marketer, it's GAME OVER for the competition.
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And WAAYY too much CONFIDENTIAL information to list out here.
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"Fed up, Overworked, Office Drone Cracks Google's Secret Code and Exploits Hidden Loopholes That Create Avalanches of Cash Into Your Bank Accounts On Virtual Autopilot..."
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"WHAT'S IT GONNA BE?"
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‘Google is infinite. The Internet can theoretically grow forever, and Google will forever index its infinite growth’ reads a comment on the web. Needless to say, Google has become a intrinsic part of our online journey. From students to professionals rely on the power of google indexes everyday to gain access to the wealth of information available on servers all across the globe.
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the year 1973, Google has become a brand in itself with its innovative products and technologies providing for most of our online needs. With its headquarters in Mountain View, California it has a massive infrastructure hosting one of the largest and powerful grid computing systems in the world. With more than a dozen data centers in places like Dublin, Ireland; Virginia; and in California and Atlanta, Dalles, Ore etc., By having such a geographically distributed data center, google is able to deliver much faster than its competitors.
Well, now that you learnt some facts about your favorite search engine, lets see if you do really know how to squeeze the juice out of google while using it to search for information. These tips/tricks and operators are used in combination with your regular search term.
Tip 1: Advance Operators
Google advanced operators help refine searches they are included as part of a standard Google query.
intitle : intitle:Samachar would return webpages that contains the word Samachar in the title
inurl : inurl:India would list pages that contains the word India in the URL or webaddress
site : site:rediff.com ganguly would show all references to the word Ganguly within the rediff.com website
filetype : filetype:pdf receipe would retrieve pages with the words receipe in them and with filetype as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat’s portable document format). You could replace pdf with jpg or bmp to retrieve pictures or with doc to get word documents. Yes, avi, mpeg, mpg or mp3 would retrieve video and audio files. Try type:mp3 jennifer lopez (you could also use type instead of filetype)
More at http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
Tip 2: Boolean Operators
You could also combine queries using boolean operators (these are operators that are used to represent natural language terms like AND, OR, NOT etc.,)
Google ignores common terms while it does searches, example a search for Star Wars Episode I will ignore I. Hence to force google to include a term in its search query use the + operator. Example: Googling for Star Wars Episode +I will now run return results with Star Wars Episode I.
To make google search not only for the terms you have entered but also for its synonyms, place a tilde sign ~ sign (~ is normally the key just before the 1 on your keyboard, hold the shift key) immediately infront of your search term.. Example: ~fun will return results that contains fun, humor, jokes etc.,
The OR operator allows you to search for occurrences of either of two search words. Example: tour baguio OR palawan will give tours that are available in either baguio or palawan.
The AND operator forces google to search for pages that contain both the search terms. Example: subic AND snorkeling will fetch information on snorkeling in the subic.
The – operator filters out searches by removing the terms that follow the – sign. Example: aishwarya –rai will filter out all instances of aishwarya rai from your search result.
More at http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
Tip 3: Range Operator
Google also allows you to run a search based on a number range. Example: camera $1000..$3000 will list webpage which talks about cameras in the range of 1000 $ to 3000 $.
Enough of such innocuous operators; lets try something more sinister with google.
Hack 1: Try ext:pdf confidential “for internal use only” will retrieve results that contains PDF files that were supposed to be confidential and marked “for internal use only”.
Hack 2: Try ext:xls buget site:mil will retrieve results from military websites (.mil domain referes to military websites) that talks about budget and is of type excel spreadsheet.
Hack 3: Try index of +mp3 +shakira will present you with the root index of some websites that hosts mp3 files of shakira.
Hack 4: Try VISA 4060000000000000..4060999999999999 used to list VISA credit card numbers within that mentioned range. You would be surprised to see how many merchants are careless with the credit card numbers of their customers. (This query looks to have been blocked for the while)
More powerful and much more evil queries are used by hackers to do reconnaissance to check for websites with security flaws. If a website administrator is not aware of the google style of indexing then he might be exposing content to the world that he might otherwise not want to. Administrators could stop google from crawling certain parts of their website by using a file called as robots.txt which list the directories that google should refrain from crawling.
Happy Googling!
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.A lesson in life is 2......................1.learn 2 Care2.Learn 2 Love3.Learn 2 Smile4.Learn 2 Cry5.Learn 2 Give6.Learn 2 4Give7.Learn 2 Share8.Learn Trust9.Learn 2 Beleive10.Life is a good thing 2 have,use it wisely.TO ALL MY BROTHER & SISTER ONE LOVE KEEPS US 2GETHER.
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Posted by Egbes Ogbeide on December 2, 2008 at 9:42am
FacebookWith friends like these ...Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking siteTom Hodgkinson The Guardian, Monday January 14 2008 larger | smaller Article historyThe following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn't it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace, while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk. What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations.Facebook appeals to a kind of vanity and self-importance in us, too. If I put up a flattering picture of myself with a list of my favourite things, I can construct an artificial representation of who I am in order to get sex or approval. ("I like Facebook," said another friend. "I got a shag out of it.") It also encourages a disturbing competitivness around friendship: it seems that with friends today, quality counts for nothing and quantity is king. The more friends you have, the better you are. You are "popular", in the sense much loved in American high schools. Witness the cover line on Dennis Publishing's new Facebook magazine: "How To Double Your Friends List."It seems, though, that I am very much alone in my hostility. At the time of writing Facebook claims 59 million active users, including 7 million in the UK, Facebook's third-biggest customer after the US and Canada. That's 59 million suckers, all of whom have volunteered their ID card information and consumer preferences to an American business they know nothing about. Right now, 2 million new people join each week. At the present rate of growth, Facebook will have more than 200 million active users by this time next year. And I would predict that, if anything, its rate of growth will accelerate over the coming months. As its spokesman Chris Hughes says: "It's embedded itself to an extent where it's hard to get rid of."All of the above would have been enough to make me reject Facebook for ever. But there are more reasons to hate it. Many more.Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism. On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past.Although the project was initially conceived by media cover star Mark Zuckerberg, the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel. There are only three board members on Facebook, and they are Thiel, Zuckerberg and a third investor called Jim Breyer from a venture capital firm called Accel Partners (more on him later). Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook when Harvard students Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz went to meet him in San Francisco in June 2004, soon after they had launched the site. Thiel now reportedly owns 7% of Facebook, which, at Facebook's current valuation of $15bn, would be worth more than $1bn. There is much debate on who exactly were the original co-founders of Facebook, but whoever they were, Zuckerberg is the only one left on the board, although Hughes and Moskowitz still work for the company.Thiel is widely regarded in Silicon Valley and in the US venture capital scene as a libertarian genius. He is the co-founder and CEO of the virtual banking system PayPal, which he sold to Ebay for $1.5bn, taking $55m for himself. He also runs a £3bn hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management and a venture capital fund called Founders Fund. Bloomberg Markets magazine recently called him "one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the country". He has made money by betting on rising oil prices and by correctly predicting that the dollar would weaken. He and his absurdly wealthy Silicon Valley mates have recently been labelled "The PayPal Mafia" by Fortune magazine, whose reporter also observed that Thiel has a uniformed butler and a $500,000 McLaren supercar. Thiel is also a chess master and intensely competitive. He has been known to sweep the chessmen off the table in a fury when losing. And he does not apologise for this hyper-competitveness, saying: "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."But Thiel is more than just a clever and avaricious capitalist. He is a futurist philosopher and neocon activist. A philosophy graduate from Stanford, in 1998 he co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth, which is a detailed attack on liberalism and the multiculturalist ideology that dominated Stanford. He claimed that the "multiculture" led to a lessening of individual freedoms. While a student at Stanford, Thiel founded a rightwing journal, still up and running, called The Stanford Review - motto: Fiat Lux ("Let there be light"). Thiel is a member of TheVanguard.Org, an internet-based neoconservative pressure group that was set up to attack MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group that works on the web. Thiel calls himself "way libertarian".TheVanguard is run by one Rod D Martin, a philosopher-capitalist whom Thiel greatly admires. On the site, Thiel says: "Rod is one of our nation's leading minds in the creation of new and needed ideas for public policy. He possesses a more complete understanding of America than most executives have of their own businesses."This little taster from their website will give you an idea of their vision for the world: "TheVanguard.Org is an online community of Americans who believe in conservative values, the free market and limited government as the best means to bring hope and ever-increasing opportunity to everyone, especially the poorest among us." Their aim is to promote policies that will "reshape America and the globe". TheVanguard describes its politics as "Reaganite/Thatcherite". The chairman's message says: "Today we'll teach MoveOn [the liberal website], Hillary and the leftwing media some lessons they never imagined."So, Thiel's politics are not in doubt. What about his philosophy? I listened to a podcast of an address Thiel gave about his ideas for the future. His philosophy, briefly, is this: since the 17th century, certain enlightened thinkers have been taking the world away from the old-fashioned nature-bound life, and here he quotes Thomas Hobbes' famous characterisation of life as "nasty, brutish and short", and towards a new virtual world where we have conquered nature. Value now exists in imaginary things. Thiel says that PayPal was motivated by this belief: that you can find value not in real manufactured objects, but in the relations between human beings. PayPal was a way of moving money around the world with no restriction. Bloomberg Markets puts it like this: "For Thiel, PayPal was all about freedom: it would enable people to skirt currency controls and move money around the globe."Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.Photo: Tim Boyle/GettyThiel's philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection. The theory would also seem to be proved correct in the case of Thiel's virtual worlds: the desired object is irrelevant; all you need to know is that human beings will tend to move in flocks. Hence financial bubbles. Hence the enormous popularity of Facebook. Girard is a regular at Thiel's intellectual soirees. What you don't hear about in Thiel's philosophy, by the way, are old-fashioned real-world concepts such as art, beauty, love, pleasure and truth.The internet is immensely appealing to neocons such as Thiel because it promises a certain sort of freedom in human relations and in business, freedom from pesky national laws, national boundaries and suchlike. The internet opens up a world of free trade and laissez-faire expansion. Thiel also seems to approve of offshore tax havens, and claims that 40% of the world's wealth resides in places such as Vanuatu, the Cayman Islands, Monaco and Barbados. I think it's fair to say that Thiel, like Rupert Murdoch, is against tax. He also likes the globalisation of digital culture because it makes the banking overlords hard to attack: "You can't have a workers' revolution to take over a bank if the bank is in Vanuatu," he says.If life in the past was nasty, brutish and short, then in the future Thiel wants to make it much longer, and to this end he has also invested in a firm that is exploring life-extension technologies. He has pledged £3.5m to a Cambridge-based gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey, who is searching for the key to immortality. Thiel is also on the board of advisers of something called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. From its fantastical website, the following: "The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies ... heading in this direction ... Artificial Intelligence ... direct brain-computer interfaces ... genetic engineering ... different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence."So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls "nature", and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.The third board member of Facebook is Jim Breyer. He is a partner in the venture capital firm Accel Partners, who put $12.7m into Facebook in April 2005. On the board of such US giants as Wal-Mart and Marvel Entertainment, he is also a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Now these are the people who are really making things happen in America, because they invest in the new young talent, the Zuckerbergs and the like. Facebook's most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock's senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA. After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions".The US defence department and the CIA love technology because it makes spying easier. "We need to find new ways to deter new adversaries," defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2003. "We need to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts." In-Q-Tel's first chairman was Gilman Louie, who served on the board of the NVCA with Breyer. Another key figure in the In-Q-Tel team is Anita K Jones, former director of defence research and engineering for the US department of defence, and - with Breyer - board member of BBN Technologies. When she left the US department of defence, Senator Chuck Robb paid her the following tribute: "She brought the technology and operational military communities together to design detailed plans to sustain US dominance on the battlefield into the next century."Now even if you don't buy the idea that Facebook is some kind of extension of the American imperialist programme crossed with a massive information-gathering tool, there is no way of denying that as a business, it is pure mega-genius. Some net nerds have suggsted that its $15bn valuation is excessive, but I would argue that if anything that is too modest. Its scale really is dizzying, and the potential for growth is virtually limitless. "We want everyone to be able to use Facebook," says the impersonal voice of Big Brother on the website. I'll bet they do. It is Facebook's enormous potential that led Microsoft to buy 1.6% for $240m. A recent rumour says that Asian investor Lee Ka-Shing, said to be the ninth richest man in the world, has bought 0.4% of Facebook for $60m.The creators of the site need do very little bar fiddle with the programme. In the main, they simply sit back and watch as millions of Facebook addicts voluntarily upload their ID details, photographs and lists of their favourite consumer objects. Once in receipt of this vast database of human beings, Facebook then simply has to sell the information back to advertisers, or, as Zuckerberg puts it in a recent blog post, "to try to help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web". And indeed, this is precisely what's happening. On November 6 last year, Facebook announced that 12 global brands had climbed on board. They included Coca-Cola, Blockbuster, Verizon, Sony Pictures and Condé Nast. All trained in marketing bullshit of the highest order, their representatives made excited comments along the following lines:"With Facebook Ads, our brands can become a part of the way users communicate and interact on Facebook," said Carol Kruse, vice president, global interactive marketing, the Coca-Cola Company."We view this as an innovative way to cultivate relationships with millions of Facebook users by enabling them to interact with Blockbuster in convenient, relevant and entertaining ways," said Jim Keyes, Blockbuster chairman and CEO. "This is beyond creating advertising impressions. This is about Blockbuster participating in the community of the consumer so that, in return, consumers feel motivated to share the benefits of our brand with their friends.""Share" is Facebookspeak for "advertise". Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.Now, by comparision with Facebook, newspapers, for example, begin to look hopelessly outdated as a business model. A newspaper sells advertising space to businesses looking to sell stuff to their readers. But the system is far less sophisticated than Facebook for two reasons. One is that newspapers have to put up with the irksome expense of paying journalists to provide the content. Facebook gets its content for free. The other is that Facebook can target advertising with far greater precision than a newspaper. Admit on Facebook that your favourite film is This Is Spinal Tap, and when a Spinal Tap-esque movie comes out, you can be sure that they'll be sending ads your way.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP)It's true that Facebook recently got into hot water with its Beacon advertising programme. Users were notified that one of their friends had made a purchase at certain online shops; 46,000 users felt that this level of advertising was intrusive, and signed a petition called "Facebook! Stop invading my privacy!" to say so. Zuckerberg apologised on his company blog. He has written that they have now changed the system from "opt-out" to "opt-in". But I suspect that this little rebellion about being so ruthlessly commodified will soon be forgotten: after all, there was a national outcry by the civil liberties movement when the idea of a police force was mooted in the UK in the mid 19th century.Futhermore, have you Facebook users ever actually read the privacy policy? It tells you that you don't have much privacy. Facebook pretends to be about freedom, but isn't it really more like an ideologically motivated virtual totalitarian regime with a population that will very soon exceed the UK's? Thiel and the rest have created their own country, a country of consumers.Now, you may, like Thiel and the other new masters of the cyberverse, find this social experiment tremendously exciting. Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of the 17th century sailed away to North America, a world where everyone is free to express themselves as they please, according to who is watching. National boundaries are a thing of the past and everyone cavorts together in freewheeling virtual space. Nature has been conquered through man's boundless ingenuity. Yes, and you may decide to send genius investor Thiel all your money, and certainly you'll be waiting impatiently for the public flotation of the unstoppable Facebook.Or you might reflect that you don't really want to be part of this heavily-funded programme to create an arid global virtual republic, where your own self and your relationships with your friends are converted into commodites on sale to giant global brands. You may decide that you don't want to be part of this takeover bid for the world.For my own part, I am going to retreat from the whole thing, remain as unplugged as possible, and spend the time I save by not going on Facebook doing something useful, such as reading books. Why would I want to waste my time on Facebook when I still haven't read Keats' Endymion? And when there are seeds to be sown in my own back yard? I don't want to retreat from nature, I want to reconnect with it. Damn air-conditioning! And if I want to connect with the people around me, I will revert to an old piece of technology. It's free, it's easy and it delivers a uniquely individual experience in sharing information: it's called talking.Facebook's privacy policyJust for fun, try substituting the words 'Big Brother' whenever you read the word 'Facebook'1 We will advertise at you"When you use Facebook, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalised features."2 You can't delete anything"When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information."3 Anyone can glance at your intimate confessions"... we cannot and do not guarantee that user content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorised persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user content."4 Our marketing profile of you will be unbeatable"Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (eg, photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience."5 Opting out doesn't mean opting out"Facebook reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications."6 The CIA may look at the stuff when they feel like it"By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States ... We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Facebook service or using the Facebook name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies."
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Posted by Kola Adebayo on December 1, 2008 at 6:09am
When Gallas made his statement of "no fighting spirit", itbecame a subject of controversy for all that cares aboutArsenal.In fact, it became the most talked about in the premiership.As a result, he lost his captainship and got banned fromplaying the then up-coming match against Man City whichwas lost.Now, was Gallant not right?While i don't support the outburst in public, he said the fact.Just take another look at Arsenal's performance against thebig teams and compare it to that of the small teams.Best performance to the big teams and unpredictable one forthe small ones.Honestly, if they play against every other teams like they didagainst Man U and Chelsea, we will see a new premiership.Is the Old captain RIGHT OR NOT?Your opinions???
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the hustle was already slingin.from little lies to litle taps to little liftings to robbing with guns to cultism to YAHOO to SPIRITUAL YAHOO HUSTLES to full time SPIRITUAL HUSTLE.ITS CRAZY OUT HIA so now we also gonna be rapping bout ''how many heads i had to cut off to get ma money rite'' ''ow much the ritualist take to get heads coughing money''.i feel so sad, i just cant shed tears cos things are gettin really complicated out hia.truth is nobody can stop the hustle.its only instincts
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check this,it all started from some silly lies to some silly stunt stealing to robbin with pen knives to robbing wif guns to hostage taking for a ransome to sellin weed to selling cocaine to shippin and flying it to running for councilor to runing for house to running for govanor to running for president.thats the tussle
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culture must evolve and transform.take it or leave it the western culture will and must eat up the smaller or cultures in minority.theres nothing you cando about it no matter the amount of campainin and ''be african motivations''.my advice is that we should all chill out and make the best out of the takeover or evolution.truth is our culturte aint even adding no influence not even in the entertainment world except for the tarzan kinda image they keep portray and when try to spit our guts out,we do it thier way.even God has made nit this way so why be so defencing.its so obvious and easy to see.they make you wear suits all week then they tell you to put on ur natives only on fridays.music is a total takeover,THE WEST HAS WON NO DOUBT.i accept the defeat,it was unstoppable
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what ever you do never be impartial, to the ones you love, your heart and most of all those you do not know. Be good and make an impact in life.
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Friendship isn't always easily described. The Eskimos, they say, have a hundred different words for snow. Unfortunately, the English language isn't quite as innovative, though it has vast opportunities to differentiate meaning. Certainly, Love is one of those opportunities. And so, too, is Friendship.Instead of different words, however, we're stuck with simple adjectives. Close friend. Best friend. Childhood friend. Intimate friend. Trusted friend. Beloved friend. But whether you use adjectives or different words, few could deny the nearly infinite meaning in such a simple word.Friends are special people. We can't pick our family, and we're sorely limited in the number of them at any rate. Society and mores (and often our own conscience) dictate we select a single mate. But our friends can be as diverse and infinite as the adjectives we choose. Our friends, in a very real sense, reflect the choices we make in life.
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Posted by 9jabook.com on November 25, 2008 at 5:51am
Nigerian Acts Win Big At MTV Africa Music Awards
November 24, 2008 - Global
By Diane Coetzer, Abuja
The first-ever MTV Africa Music Awards held in Abuja, Nigeria delivered a heavily Afro-centric show and winners' list that has been welcomed by the continent's industry.
"The fact that the performances that really stole the show were African collaborations and the dominance of African winners in all categories speaks volumes about how African music is value by the fans here," said Lance Stehr, owner of the Johannesburg-based Ghetto Ruff label whose Afro-crunk act Jozi took honours in the best live performer category.
Jozi had also performed in front of a crowd at Abuja's Velodrome with Nigeria's R&B duo P-Square, who were named best group winners on the night.
Debbie Phillips, television producer of several MTV EMAs, said the collaborations between different African artists had been some of the most successful at an MTV awards event to date.
Nigerian folk-pop singer Asa's teaming up with South African hip-hop star HHP, during the former's song “Jailer” (Naïve) was a highlight as was South African indie-rock act Cassette's collaboration with Kenyan hip-hop star Jua Cali and Nigerian acts Naeto C and Ikechukwu.
The home crowd had given all the Nigerian performers - including Asa and rapper 9ice - a rousing reception. Nigerian artists snagged six of the 10 public-voted awards.
D'Banj, a singer and songwriter whose music is inspired by Nigeria's AfroBeat tradition, took home three MAMAs: artist of the year and best male as well as listeners’ choice for his song “Why Me.” The award was designed to acknowledge the significant role played by radio in Africa.
Fellow Nigerian rapper Naeto C won best new act, while 9ice won the best hip-hop award.
The Nov. 22 show also featured a moving tribute to Nigerian Fela Kuti whose children, Seun and Yemi accepted the MAMA legend award given to the late Afrobeat innovator. Seun Kuti had provided a suitably African show opener when he performed his father's song “Army Arrangement,” supported by Fela's own legendary backing band, Egypt 80.
At a press conference the day before, Seun Kuti had spoken about the difficulty of getting a label deal in his home country. "I would love to release here in Nigeria but there is no label industry to speak of which is why being part of the MAMAs is really special to me," Kuti told Billboard. His “Many Things” is released on the French-label Tot ou Tard.
The best female gong went to Kenyan singer Wahu who dedicated the award to her husband, the artist Nameless. Nigeria's Ikechukwu won the best video MAMA for his song “Wind Am Well.”
The sole international artist to feature on the gong tally was best R&B winner Alicia Keys, who accepted her award via a video speech. U.S.-based South African rock band Seether also videoed in their thanks for their best alternative gong.
The Game, Flo-Rida and Kelly Rowland were the international performers with Rowland including a collaboration with multi-MAMA winner D'Banj for the closing number of the show. The host was BBC 1Xtra's Trevor Nelson.
The inaugural MAMAs were not broadcast live. The show broadcasts on MTV base on South African-based, pan-Africa satellite bouquet DSTV as well partner networks and terrestrial channels STV (Nigeria), AIT (Nigeria), NTV (Kenya), WBS (Uganda), TV3 (Ghana), TBC (Tanzania) and RTGA (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from Nov. 29.
Alex Okosi, the Nigerian-born VP and general manager of MTV Networks Africa, would not reveal where the second MAMAs will take place in 2009 although there is much speculation around the East African country of Kenya.
He also stayed silent on the investment made by sponsor Zain, a major cellular network operator. "They have signed a three-year deal with us and we are very grateful for that," Okosi said. Insiders put the sponsorship at well over $10 million for the MAMAs package, which also included several “Road To MAMA” concerts featuring The Game and local acts in the DRC, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.
MAMA winners:
BEST FEMALE
Wahu (Kenya)
BEST MALE
D'Banj (Nigeria)
BEST LIVE PERFORMER
Jozi (South Africa)
BEST GROUP
P Square (Nigeria)
BEST ALTERNATIVE
Seether (South Africa)
BEST HIP-HOP
9ice (Nigeria)
BEST R&B
Alicia Keys (USA)
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
D'Banj (Nigeria)
BEST NEW ACT
Naeto C (Nigeria)
BEST VIDEO
Ikechukwu (Nigeria) - Wind Am Well
LISTENERS’ CHOICE AWARD
D'Banj (Nigeria) – “Why Me”
MAMAs LEGEND
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
MY VIDEO
Jide Rotilu
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1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you
2. Have a signature link in forums that points to your site
3. Post links to your pages to social bookmarking sites.
4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).
5. Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic. Everyone will link to you saying your wrong
6. Create free profiles on 9jabookSocial Networks like this one and others like Sta.rtUp.biz
7. Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors
9. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt in form on your confirmation page
10. Review a product or company – if your review is positive email the company and ask to be featured in their press section. (this has worked really well for me)
11. Write articles and submit them to article directories
12. Write a Press Release and submit it to PRWeb (make sure it is newsworthy)
13. Use PayPerClick Traffic (e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM)
14. Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site
15. Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site
16. Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site
17. Use a Tell A Friend Script on your site so people can email their friend about an article on your website.
18. Submit a blog to a blog directory
19. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories
20. Mention your website in a post on Craigslist (don’t spam)
21. Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for
22. Buy links to your site
23. Buy reviews about your site on other people’s site
24. Buy banner space on other websites if you can get a good ROI
25. Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website
26. Do a big viral push for a piece of link bait, post it in forums, social bookmarking sites like digg, email bloggers, and get a few people to vote for you on social bookmarking sites.
27. Have a link to your site on community sites like MySpace and FaceBook
28. Use a traffic trading system like BlogRush
29. Purchase misspellings of competitors domains and redirect your site (be careful of trademark infringement)
30. Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.)
31. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – use the viles-silencer list
32. Do a group feature where you get other website owners in your niche to participate – maybe asking them all an opinion on something.
33. Hold a competition for the Top 50 in your niche – 1 month later post the results and let everyone know who featured – watch them link back to say what there position was.
34. Pass out business cards when you go to industry events in your niche
35. If you have a product start an affiliate program and start approaching affiliates
36. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Include a link in the description and within the actual video.
37. If you have a product send it to website owners to get reviewed.
38. Look at a big website within your niche and ask to write some guest posts for them
39. Create pages with links to your site on places like Squidoo and Hubpages
40. Place classified Ads on eBay with a link to your website
41. Use an autoresponder on your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site
42. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche
43. Network! Email other site owners, phone them up, go to industry events and get yourself known. If they know your face they will likely talk about you on their site if you do something interesting.
44. Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once – find them and do it.
45. Purchase advertising in other people’s mailing lists and newsletters
46. Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews
47. Create profiles on MySpace and start networking in groups that are interested in your site’s niche.
48. Conduct a survey and publish the results – make sure you let people know about it.
49. Get your hand on a load of PLR content for your niche. Add a commentary to the top, create a unique title, and post them all to your site – lots of new content and lots of new traffic.
50. Create a cartoon mascot for your site – then hold a competition for someone to create the best game for it – pay the winner a decent amount.
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