"American Gangsters" *Music Video* from William Cooper x Kool G Rap . . .

William Cooper Feat. Kool G Rap - American Gangsters (Prod. by BP for 11701 Productions) [Official Video] off Beware the Pale Horse (2009).  Video animated by Alain Alexander Mesa; Gemstarr Regime. . .

"American Gangsters" *Music Video* from William Cooper x Kool G Rap . . .

Sorry BP? (MGMT + Gorillaz Super Post)

(Via Super Punch.)

"Rep. Barton Apologizes To BP For Escrow Fund (For Hit By BP Oil Spill)" from CSPAN (Via The Daily Beast).

Also, check out the Gorillaz video for "Melancholy Hill" here (you're supposed to have to pay for it, so check it out quick before they take it down. The Smoking Section had it for a little while as well.)


"It's Working" by MGMT (Via Ask How Fly).

If you want you can click here to sign a petition saying you're with President Obama/against Representative Barton's sentiments (petition text below).

No Apologies

Congressman Joe Barton, the top Republican on the committee overseeing the oil spill and its aftermath, delivered a personal apology to BP, saying the $20 billion fund that President Obama directed BP to establish to provide relief to the victims of the oil disaster was a "tragedy in the first proportion."

Other Republicans are echoing his call. Rep. Michele Bachmann said that BP shouldn't agree to be "fleeced." The Republican Study Committee, with its 114 members in the House, called it a "shakedown."

Rep. Barton and Republicans like him don't understand that the real tragedy is what's happening to the people in the Gulf Coast. They're the ones who deserve his apology — not BP.

(Via BarackObama.com.)

You don't have to like President Obama - or even agree with holding BP accountable . . . I don't guess - but what I really find exciting about this whole thing is the way that the Internet allows the crazy things that politicians do and say to be so easily disseminated.  The age of accountability is here!  (Oh and click here to see how it just so happens that Barton's top corporate donor is partnered with BP on the Deepwater Horizon...) And whatchu know about Wikileaks?

Barton Apologizes for Apology to BP

Do they cancel each other out? Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) has apologized for apologizing to BP for what he called President Obama's $20 billion "shakedown." "I apologize for using the term 'shakedown' with regard to yesterday's actions at the White House this morning, and I retract my apology to BP," Barton said in a statement issued by House Minority Leader John Boehner, who presumably came down hard on him. Earlier at the hearing, Barton had said “I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown … I apologize.”

(Via The Daily Beast.)


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Add your name as a strong supporter of comprehensive energy and climate reform:

I stand with President Obama to pave the way for a clean-energy future that:

• Combats climate change;

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(Via BarackObama.com.)

Sorry BP? (MGMT + Gorillaz Super Post)

Hi Haters

Click here to check out Mos Def performing "It Ain't My Fault" with Trombone Shorty, The Preservation Hall Band & others.


(Via Comics.com.)

(Via Penny Arcade.)

Hi Haters

Aziz Ansari Stands In For R. Kelly In Paying Tribute To Avatar At The MTV Music Awards...

(Via College Humor.)

Watch the 2010 MTV Movie Awards at MTV.com!

(In case you're really feeling blue.)

Aziz Ansari Stands In For R. Kelly In Paying Tribute To Avatar At The MTV Music Awards...

It (Still) Ain't My Fault

(Via Super Punch.)

"It Ain't My Fault" by Mos Def, Lenny Kravitz, The Preservation Hall Band, Trombone Shorty, and Tim Robbins (click here to check out Gulf Aid).


"Katrina Klap (Dollar Day)" by Mos Def.

First time I heard this I cried.  Real shit.  "God save these streets / quit being cheap / your freedom ain't free."

Click here for a live version of Mos Def performing "It Ain't My Fault" live.

[UPDATE] 2010/06/07 8:14 p.m. EST

Did Bush Admin Experiment on Detainees?

In trying to avoid charges of torture, might the Bush administration have done something nearly as bad? A new report by Physicians for Human Rights charges the Bush administration with experimenting on terrorism detainees and violating laws on human testing that were put in place after the Holocaust. The report alleges that the CIA’s medical professionals monitored interrogations, recorded data on techniques and pain thresholds, and then used this information to “enhance” future interrogations. This information was frequently passed on to Bush administration lawyers, who would use it, for example, to determine how many times they would allow a detainee to be waterboarded. The Bush administration would also sometimes argue, as Mother Jones points out, that the medical monitoring protected it from charges of torture.

(Via The Daily Beast.)

Like Jay-Z said, "Its money over bitches / Yeah, that's right - Fuck Bush."

[UPDATE] 2010/06/09 12:44 a.m. EST

An article that further corroborates the fact that the Bush Administration was responsible for crimes against humanity in the form of human experimentation here.

It (Still) Ain't My Fault

Shit

(Via MoveOn.Org.)

Click here to sign a petition to become oil independent.

Shit

BP's CEO Can Suck A Big, Fat Diyiiiiiccckkkkkkkkk

"Eazy-E, Eazy-E Can . . ."

 (Via Behind The Logo.)

BP CEO: 'I Would Like My Life Back'

We guess we’d feel the same way if we made $4.5 million a year. BP CEO Tony Hayward said on Sunday, “There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back.” It’s the latest in his roll of insensitive comments about the disaster his company created. Earlier highlights include, “What the hell did we do to deserve this?” and, “I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest.”

(Via The Daily Beast.)

Also, part of my favorite thing about Dr. Dre's classic shit is the shit-talk: "Eazy-E is a payn-gwin lookin' motherfucker."  Classic.

BP's CEO Can Suck A Big, Fat Diyiiiiiccckkkkkkkkk

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Broadcast . . .

Check the via (or click here) for more mind blowing pictures of the Gulf Coast Ecological Disaster - now officially the worst in U.S. history.

(Via The Daily Beast.)

[UPDATE] 9:30 p.m.

NASA time lapse video of BP oil spill (via Gizmodo). Check it out on YouTube for HD.

[UPDATE] 2010/05/29 4:32 a.m.

(Via Super Punch.)

News coverage (with underwater diving footage).

(Via Y! News.)

Hell, even Fox News is worried . . .

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Broadcast . . .

It Ain't My Fault

"It Ain't My Fault" performed by Mos Def at the Gulf Aid Benefit Concert (Via hiphophypedog).

It Ain't My Fault