From: FatBeatsRecords
The official video from Black Milk’s release, “Album Of The Year,” dropping September 14.
Black Milk: “Deadly Medley” (Ft. Royce Da 5’9″ & Elzhi)
Monday, August 23rd, 2010Common Remembers The Late J Dilla
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Video Courtesy Of Hard Knock TV.
Hip-hop legend Common remembers the genius of producer J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey). This week will mark the fourth anniversary of Dilla’s passing. The Detroit maestro passed away after a long battle with Lupus.
President Obama Briefed On Attempted Airline Bombing
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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Earlier today, President Obama was briefed on the preliminary results of two reviews into the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American passenger in route from Amsterdam to Detroit. The president has ordered his senior advisers and transportation agency heads to meet with him in Washington next week after the new year “to discuss our ongoing reviews as well as security enhancements and intelligence-sharing improvements in our homeland security and counterterrorism operations.”
On Tuesday, President Obama released a statement saying that there had been a “systemic failure” in the nation’s security technology, but he offered no further evaluation today as he waited for more details. President Obama was briefed by John O. Brennan, his counterterrorism adviser, and by Janet Napolitano, his secretary of homeland security, during two separate phone conversations.
The briefings looked to shed light on what went wrong in the intelligence and aviation screening systems that allowed the native Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to board Northwest Flight 253 with explosives in his underwear.
According to The New York Times:
The reviews were expected to tell the president that the government had in its possession information from phone conversations intercepted by the National Security Agency that leaders of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based in Yemen were talking about an unnamed Nigerian who would carry out a terrorist attack. But that information was not correlated with warnings from the father of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that might have pointed to his plans to blow up the Northwest flight.
Attempted Airline Bombing In Detroit
Monday, December 28th, 2009
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This past weekend brought the latest saga in America’s battle to keep our turf safe from terrorist. The Nigerian-born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Abdulmutallab claims that he is from a production line of terrorists that has been trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda. The failed Christmas Day bombing was intended to kill all 289 people on board, but it failed only because the bomb’s detonator did not work.
The explosive device used by Abdulmutallab contained the chemical PETN– the primary ingredient in detonating cords used for industrial explosions. PETN was also an element of the explosive that the convicted “shoe bomber,” Richard Reid, used in his attempt to bring down an airliner in 2001.
Abdulmutallab is a member of an affluent Nigerian family and received some of the best schooling in his homeland of Africa. He also attended the University College London in the United Kingdom. After becoming estranged from his family as an adult, Abdulmutallab sought an extremist education at an Islamist breeding ground in Yemen.
According to the New York Times, the secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano , said today that Abdulmutallab’s thwarted bombing represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, contradicting the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend:
Ms. Napolitano said Monday on NBC’S “Today” that her remark the day before — “the system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days” — had been taken out of context. “Our system did not work in this instance,” she said. “No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way.”
On Sunday, President Obama ordered a review of the two most important sections of the aviation security system –watch lists and detection equipment at airport checkpoints. President Obama plans to make a statement on this situation later today from the Kaneohe Marine Base in Hawaii.
