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HEARST CORPORATION

Hearst Corporation is a multinational mass media group based in the Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings have subsequently expanded to include a highly diversified portfolio of media interests. The Hearst family is involved in the ownership and management of the corporation.

Hearst is one of the largest diversified communications companies in the world. Its major interests include 15 daily and 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300 magazines worldwide, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations through Hearst Television, Inc., which reach a combined 18% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including A+E Networks, and ESPN Inc.; as well as business publishing, digital distribution, television production, newspaper features distribution, and real estate ventures.

LIST OF ASSETS OWNED BY THE HEARST CORPORATION

INCLUDES KING FEATURES SYNDICATE

AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION ARM IN CANADA IS TORSTAR SYNDICATION SERVICES

is an operating division of Star Media Group led by the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper.

AND NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE COMIC TALE OF ROB FORD HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY PLASTERED ALL OVER THE MEDIA.

The real identity of the actor behind Rob Ford may be this guy:  What looks to be the husband of Deb Scott-Rowe. the former wife of Michael Jackson (Dave Dave).

Facebook Photo of Deb Scott-Rowe:  Michael Jackson's one-time wife. 

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Kevin O'Leary is a fraud.  He is a fake character played by an actor.  His real identity may remain elusive, but we do know one thing: He is the same actor that plays the well-known comedian, Eugene Levy.  He also maintains at least one fake Facebook account.

Hailed as Canada's answer to Donald Trump or Richard Branson, similarly to them, O'Leary has also been identified as a fraud.  Donald Trump is played by an actor who also plays Joe Biden and Jimmy Paige, and Richard Branson has been positively identified as being played by the same actor that plays David Icke.

A CAPITALIST EXTREMIST CHARACTER...OF COURSE.

In the false dichotomy that is popular economics (capitalism versus socialism), what the opposition thought we absolutely needed was a clown capitalist cheerleader who would make such callous remarks as outlined below to the fact that the richest 85 people have more wealth than 3.5 billion combined worldwide: 

"It's fantastic and this is a great thing because it inspires everybody, gets them motivation to look up to the one percent and say, ‘I want to become one of those people, I’m going to fight hard to get up to the top.' This is fantastic news and of course I applaud it. What can be wrong with this? I celebrate capitalism. Don't tell me that you want to redistribute wealth again, that's never gonna happen ... it's a celebratory stat. ... If you work hard, you might be stinking rich one day"

Of course.  A target for the majority of reasonable people to waste their time on.  A distraction. Bread and circus.  It's no wonder his O'Leary character has been involved with TV and the media from the earliest days of his so-called financial empire... Much like his other character, Eugene Levy.  We can be overwhelmingly certain that neither of the biographies of either character are factual or reliably truthful.

The Official (Fake) Billionaire Story

Kevin O'Leary (born 9 July 1954) is a Canadian businessman, investor, writer, and television personality. O'Leary was born in Montreal to a salesman father and seamstress mother.

His father was Irish and his mother was of Lebanese descent. O'Leary's parents divorced when he was young, and his father died shortly thereafter. His mother, Georgette, later remarried. He attended St. George's School.  After graduating from high school, O'Leary studied for two years at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean followed by the University of Waterloo, where he received an honours bachelor's degree in environmental studies and anthropology. In 1980, he earned an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario.

Immediately after college, O'Leary and two friends launched Special Event Television (SET), a television production company that met limited success producing small television shows and in-between-periods commercials and local professional hockey games. Later he was bought out for $25,000 by one of his partners.

O'Leary then moved on to his second business venture, a software company in the basement of a small Toronto home along with partners John Freeman and Gary Babcock. His mother provided the seed investmentcapital of $10,000, which he used to start software publisher SoftKey. Softkey products typically consisted of software intended for home audiences, especially compilation discs containing various freeware or sharewaregame software packaged in a "jewel-case" CD-ROM. By 1994, Softkey had become a major consolidator in the educational software market, acquiring no fewer than 60 rivals, such as WordStar and Spinnaker Software.

In 1995, Softkey acquired The Learning Company (TLC) for $606 million, moved its headquarters to Boston, and took The Learning Company as its name. TLC bought its former rival Brøderbund in June 1998 for $416 million. In 1999, TLC and its 467 software titles were acquired by Mattel in a $3.8 billion stock swap. Sales and earnings for Mattel soon dropped, and O'Leary departed from Mattel. The purchase by Mattel was later called one of the most disastrous acquisitions in history.

In 2003, he became a co-investor and director in Storage Now, a developer of climate-controlled storage facilities. Through a series of development projects and acquisitions, Storage Now became Canada’s third-largest owner/operator of storage services, with facilities located in 11 cities serving such companies as Merck and Pfizer when it was acquired by the In Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million.[citation needed]

In March 2007, O'Leary joined the advisory board of Genstar Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on investments in selected segments of life science and healthcare services, industrial technology, business services and software. Genstar Capital appointed O'Leary to its Strategic Advisory Board to seek new investment opportunities for its $1.2 billion fund. O’Leary also serves on the executive board of the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the investment committee of Boston’s 107-year-old Hamilton Trust and an investor of EnGlobe, a TSX listed company. He is a former co-host of SqueezePlay onBusiness News Network, Canada’s national business television specialty channel. O’Leary is currently working as the entrepreneur, investor, and co-host for the Discovery Channel’s Discovery Project Earth, a project that explores innovative ways man could reverse climate change.

In September 2011, O'Leary released his book, Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life, wherein he shares his secrets, experiences, insights, and lessons on entrepreneurship, business, finance, money and life as well as advice for budding entrepreneurs. A sequel to his first book called The Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women, and Money: 50 Common Money Mistakes and How to Fix Them was followed up in 2012, which focused a greater emphasis toward personal financial money management techniques, common money mistakes, tricks and tips to earn more financial freedom each targeted toward a specific stage in a person's life.

Business journalism

O'Leary serves as foil to journalist Amanda Lang on The Lang and O'Leary Exchange onCBC News Network. He is a venture capitalist on the Canadian television show Dragons' Den as well as a shark on the American version of Dragons' Den, Shark Tank, which airs on ABC. He is referred to as "Mr. Wonderful" and "The Undertaker" by Mark Cuban on the show. He has also hosted his own television show, Redemption Inc.

During a segment on the Occupy Wall Streetprotests on 6 October 2011 episode of theCBC News Network's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange, O'Leary criticized Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges for sounding "like a left-wing nutbar." Hedges stated afterwards that "it will be the last time [he appears on the show]" and compared the CBC to Fox News. CBC's ombudsman found O'Leary's behaviour to be a violation of the public broadcaster's journalistic standards.

In August 2013, O'Leary interviewed Rachel Parent, a 14-year-old anti-GMO foods activist. In the interview, O'Leary expressed concern that Parent had become a "shill" for environmentalists. The video went viral on social media.

Having carved out a niche for the O'Leary brand in the software industry, O'Leary moved on to establish the O'Leary name and brand in a multitude of industries, companies and products. Following his successful business ventures in software, storage facilities, and private equity, O'Leary has established his name in a number of other industries, including O'Leary Funds (a mutual and investment fund management firm that handles over $1.5 billion), O'Leary Ventures (a private early-stage investment company that invests in and partners with early-stage, high-growth-potential companies in various Canadian industries), O'Leary Mortgages (a mortgage firm), O'Leary books, and O'Leary Fine Wines (a winemaking company). In April 2014, O'Leary Mortgages went out of business. Little over a year after launching with much fan fare and notoriety including weekly plugs on hisDragons' Den prologue, O'Leary was unable to keep one of his 3 core businesses afloat. Industry reports seemed unsurprised by the failure given O'Leary's confusing public persona and the company's Chief Executive Officer's, Alexey Kenjeev, lack of industry experience.

Controversial Remarks

Poverty activists have condemned O'Leary's comments on an Oxfam report that the 85 richest people have the same wealth as the 3.5 billion poorest people on the planet. O'Leary had commented "This is fantastic news and of course I'm going to applaud it. What can be wrong with this?"

In 2011 O'Leary was condemned by the CBC ombudsman Kirk LaPointe for his use of the term "Indian Giver". The ombudsman wrote that his comments were "unambiguously offensive"

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FAKE BILLIONAIRE STORY

From Globe: SoftKey’s most prominent takeover was the consummation of its 1995 hostile bid for San Francisco-based The Learning Company (TLC). As part of its due diligence, TLC hired the Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA), a forensic accounting firm, to examine its suitor’s financials. Thus began the counternarrative to O’Leary’s heroic foundation story. Reports by CFRA were the first in a series of analyses that stand in stark contrast to the O’Leary version of events. One of CFRA’s reports alleged that SoftKey may have overstated its earnings by bundling various general and administrative costs into write-offs. CFRA was also unhappy with SoftKey’s response after its auditor, Arthur Andersen, found deficiencies in the company’s internal controls.
While O’Leary says in his memoir, Cold Hard Truth, that TLC was a money-making machine, an SEC filing shows that TLC suffered net losses of $376 million in 1996, $495 million in 1997 and $105 million in 1998. Moreover, TLC’s accumulated deficit topped $1.1 billion by the end of 1998. In an interview, Scott Murray, TLC’s former CFO, attributed the losses to goodwill write-offs that stemmed from buying other firms. He concedes there were a lot of “accounting losses” but contends that if one looked at EBITDA—earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization—it was a different matter.

In 1998, toy giant Mattel Inc. made a takeover bid for TLC. Desperate to reverse a steep slide in the company’s stock price, Mattel CEO Jill Barad seized on educational software as a driver of future growth. The takeover offer shocked many. Software-industry analyst Sean McGowan couldn’t believe that Barad zeroed in on TLC, given that it was a well-known “house of cards” that was burdened with tired brands—not helped by the fact that O’Leary had slashed R&D from 24% down to 11% of expenditures. “There was a lot of [TLC] inventory out there that was not moving very well,” McGowan says. “They pumped up the sales by repackaging and distributing to convenience stores and drugstores. And that’s stuff which sits there and gets returned.” Indeed, TLC was accused in a shareholders’ lawsuit and later by a Mattel executive of “stuffing the channels”—shipping product at the end of a quarter and recording it as revenue, even though much of the merchandise would be returned.

Mattel purchased TLC for about $4 billion in the spring of 1999. (Depending on how debt is considered, the figure ranges from $3.4 billion to $4.2 billion.) O’Leary took over as president of Mattel’s new TLC digital division, having received a hike in salary from $400,000 to $650,000 and an increase in his severance package from $2.1 million to $5.25 million. A few months after the sale went through, O’Leary sold most of his Mattel stock and pocketed nearly $6 million, according to a court document.

Weeks after the sale, CFRA produced a critical report on Mattel, claiming TLC was already experiencing collapsing revenue, a surge in receivables and a deterioration of operating cash flow. In the third quarter of 1999, Mattel expected profits of $50 million from the TLC division. When Mattel revised that estimate to a loss of between $50 million and $100 million, the announcement wiped out more than $2 billion in shareholder value in one day, as the company’s share price slid from nearly $17 to $11.69. The actual divisional loss for the quarter turned out to be $105 million; the next quarter, the loss was $206 million. In November of 1999, O’Leary was fired, six months into a three-year contract.
O’Leary did not do as well at Environmental Management Solutions Inc. (later called EnGlobe Inc.), an Ontario waste management firm. In 2004, O’Leary was asked to join the board (of which Mark McQueen was also a member). Soon after, the board fired the company’s CEO. But the company’s leadership was unable to arrest a decline in its fortunes brought on by an overambitious acquisition program; the stock price slid from close to $4 to 3.5 cents during O’Leary’s term of almost five years as a director. When the company was bought by an Onex Corp. fund and privatized in 2011, shareholders received less than 30 cents per share. “I lost whatever my investment was in that,” says O’Leary, who owned 500,000 shares. “Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. ...It was a zero for me.”

Monetizing his Popularity: The Real Agenda

As O’Leary became a household name, he occasionally quipped to associates that he needed to monetize the attention. Mulling over his options, he decided to put his weight behind an asset management company. In the wake of Ottawa’s decision to tax income trusts, which had paid juicy yields to retail investors, O’Leary figured he could create dividend-oriented funds that targeted this income-starved group.

But there were two problems: O’Leary had publicly railed against mutual-fund fees for years, and he wasn’t licensed to manage money. O’Leary acknowledges that he regularly took mutual-fund managers to task for gouging investors.

EUGENE LEVY:  SHARK and DRAGONS and AMERICAN PIE

Eugene Levy, CM (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, comedian, singer and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Piefilms, as Jim Levenstein's dad Noah. Like his Levenstein character, Levy often plays nerdy, unconventional figures, with his humor often deriving from his excessive explanations with matters and the way in which he deals with sticky situations. Levy was appointed to theOrder of Canada on June 30, 2011. Levy was born to a Jewish family inHamilton, Ontario. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a foreman at an automobile plant. He went to Westdale Secondary School, and attended McMaster University. He was vice-president of the McMaster Film Board, a student film group, where he met moviemaker Ivan Reitman.

Career

An alumnus of both The Second City, Torontoand the sketch comedy series Second City Television, Levy often plays unusual supporting characters with nerdish streaks. Perhaps his best-known role on SCTV was as the dimwitted Earl Camembert, a news anchor for the "SCTV News" and a parody of real-life Canadian newsman Earl Cameron. Celebrities impersonated by Levy on SCTV include: Perry Como, Ricardo Montalban, Alex Trebek, Sean Connery, Howard Cosell, Henry Kissinger,Menachem Begin, Bud Abbott, Milton Berle,John Charles Daly, Gene Shalit, Jack Carter,Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tony Dow, James Caan, Lorne Greene, Rex Reed, Ralph Young (of Sandler and Young), F. Lee Bailey, Ernest Borgnine, former Ontario chief coroner Dr. Morton Schulman, Norman Mailer, Neil Sedaka, and Howard McNear as “Floyd the Barber”.
Original Levy characterizations on SCTV were comic Bobby Bittman, scandal sheet entrepreneur Dr. Rawl Withers, “report on business” naïf Brian Johns, 3-D horror auteur Woody Tobias Jr., cheerful Leutonianaccordionist Stan Schmenge, lecherous dream interpreter Raoul Wilson, hammer-voiced sports broadcaster Lou Jaffe, diminutive union patriarch Sid Dithers ("San Francisckie! Did you drove or did you flew?"), fey current-events commentator Joel Weiss, buttoned-down panel show moderator Dougal Currie, smarmy Just for Fun emcee Stan Kanter, energetic used car salesman Al Peck, guileless security guard Gus Gustofferson, Phil the Garment King (also of Phil's Nails), and the inept teen dance show host Rockin’ Mel Slirrup.
Though he has been the “above the title” star in only two films, 1986's Armed and Dangerous and 2005's The Man, he has featured prominently in many films. He is the co-writer and frequent cast member ofChristopher Guest’s mockumentary features, particularly A Mighty Wind, where his sympathetic performance as brain-damaged folksinger Mitch Cohen won kudos; his accolades included a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Musical or Comedy and the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in Splash, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Club Paradise, Stay Tuned, Multiplicity, and other comedies. Levy was the creator of Maniac Mansion, a television sitcom based on the LucasArtsvideo game of the same name. He was also seriously considered for the role of Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role that went to actor Richard Schiff.

American Pie series

Levy's career received a tremendous boost in 1999, when he was cast as the clueless but loving dad in the blockbuster American Pie. Reprising the role in three film sequels and starring in four straight-to-video sequels made him something of a cult hero. Levy has been quoted as saying the American Pie series was a particular turning point in his career, affording him "a new perspective on his career at the time". Since working on the first twoAmerican Pie movies, Levy has worked withSteve Martin and Queen Latifah in Bringing Down the House, and most recently appeared with Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Levy again appeared as his famous character, Noah Levenstein, in the fourth theatrical movie in the American Pie film series,American Reunion. He is the only actor to appear in all eight American Pie films.

Recognition

Levy, along with Christopher Guest andMichael McKean, was awarded the 2003Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media for the title song from A Mighty Wind. Levy appeared in the corner of a poster hanging outside the movie theatre in Springfield in the "See Homer Run" episode ofThe Simpsons. (The poster was advertising for Rockstar Princess and featured a girl with an electric guitar, with Levy in the corner wearing a royal crown. A liner note under him read “Eugene Levy as the King”).
In March 2006, it was announced that he would receive a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. In 2002, the entire cast of SCTV was given a group star, and although Levy is not mentioned on the actual star, he was still inducted as a part of the group. This makes him one of only four two-time honourees, alongside fellow SCTV alumni John Candy,Martin Short, and Catherine O'Hara.
Levy is one of only a handful of people who have won at least five Canadian Comedy Awards, including two for Best Writing (Best In Show in 2001 and A Mighty Wind in 2004) and three for Best Male Performer (Best in Show,American Pie 2 in 2002, and A Mighty Wind).
On May 3, 2008, the Governor General of Canada presented Levy with the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA), a lifetime achievement award considered Canada's "most prestigious artistic honour". In 2010, Levy was awarded the ACTRA Award by the union representing Canada's actors.
In 2011, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada"for his contributions as a comic actor and writer, and for his dedication to charitable causes."
On May 22, 2012, Levy delivered a commencement address at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, NS, and was awarded the degree Doctor of Laws (honoris causa).
On June 11, 2012, he was presented with theQueen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

ELVIS is ALIVE! He is RENE ANGELIL, husband of CELINE DION.

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HE IS CANADIAN AND SPEAKS PERFECT FRENCH. WOW!  A STUNNER, SURELY.

BIOMETRIC CONFIRMATION OF THE EARS AND THE MATCH ON THE MOTHER OF BOTH IS CONCLUSIVE.  SEE FOR YOURSELF.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, GO TO WELLAWARE1.COM

ALL CREDIT FOR THIS DISCOVERY GOES TO ED CHIARINI A.K.A. DALLASGOLDBUG.

LINDA THOMPSON WAS/IS CELINE DION'S MOTHER!

JUST TAKE A LOOK...

ELVIS HAD A STILLBORN IDENTICAL TWIN - PROBABLY THIS WAS RELATED TO THE WRONG NAME PUT ON THE GRAVE MARKER OF ELVIS... WAS THAT HIS TWIN'S NAME?

FROM THE ELVIS INFORMATION NETWORK:

The reason for the spelling of Aron with only one A is because the names Jesse Garon and Elvis Aron were meant to rhyme. For some odd reason in the early 20th century, it was popular to rhyme the middle names of your children (it's rampant in my mom's family, for example).

Elvis switched it to Aaron in later years to reflect the biblical spelling.

We were surprised by the response. Here is a selection of responses:

Bill E. Burk (Elvis World): Aron vs. Aaron - Elvis, from the gitgo, was named (middle name) after Presley family friend AAron Kennedy, himself a twin. The birth certificate, after misspelling it Aron, was changed to Aaron. Vernon Presley would tell me on 8 January 1978, at the gate, that he was not very educated when Elvis was born and when they asked him to spell the name, he gave them a wrong spelling.

Phil Aitcheson (The Presley Commission): To set the record straight. Elvis' middle name according to a verification by the FBI back in the early nineties was ARON. AARON didnot come into the picture until 1977, when Vernon Presley decided to put it on the tombstone. If Elvis had anything to say about it, that may have been prior to August 16, 1977, but the FBI did verify that the correct spelling of his middle name as ARON. A letter to my office confirmed it, and it will be shown in the upcoming book, The Presley Alternative, due to be released within the next two years.

The revised birth certificate

Brian Viends: Elvis's middle name on his original birth certificate was "Aron". This was also used by his record company RCA on several records.

Regina Milton: I thought Elvis legally changed the spelling of his middle name to Aaron and had a second birth certificate issued.Alistair Browning: Aron, Aaron, why does it matter? Can't we just listen to his music as the biggest selling recording artist of all-time.

And just to confuse the debate further, here is EPE's official line on the issue:Are you ready for this? Either spelling is right and either spelling is wrong. But, how can that be?

Elvis was named after his father, Vernon Elvis Presley, and Mr. Presley's good friend in Tupelo, Aaron Kennedy. Aron was the spelling the Presleys chose, apparently to make it similar to the middle name of Elvis' stillborn identical twin, Jesse Garon Presley. Jesse was apparently named after Vernon's father, Jessie Presley, although the spelling was slightly different.

Toward the end of his life, Elvis sought to change the spelling of his middle name to the traditional and biblical Aaron. In the process he learned that official state records had inexplicably listed it as Aaron, and not Aron as on his original birth records. Knowing Elvis' plans for his middle name, Aaron is the spelling his father chose for Elvis' tombstone, and it's the spelling his estate has designated as the official spelling when the middle name is used today.

Similarly, there is some slight confusion regarding the spelling of Jesse Garon's name. Most reliable resources have the spelling as Jesse. However, near the graves of Elvis, his parents and his grandmother at Graceland is a marker the family placed in memory of Elvis' twin, but the spelling is Jessie for reasons we have yet to determine. Jesse Garon's actual grave site is in Tupelo, MS where it has always been, but it remains unmarked by a tombstone. Lack of money in the family's early years was likely the reason. Then, once Elvis became wealthy and famous, the grave, which is in a public cemetery, remained unmarked most likely in the interest of privacy. Because of the spelling on the marker at Graceland, we tend to use the spelling Jessie to avoid confusion.

Paul McCartney is also Barry Winkleman, father of Claudia and Lady Sophie

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Yesterday, all his troubles seemed so far away.  But now Paul McCartney must answer to why one of his alter egos is retired publisher, Barry Winkleman.

Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE(born 18 June 1942), is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. WithJohn Lennon, George Harrison andRingo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, widely regarded as one of the most popular and influential acts in the history of rock music; his songwriting partnership with Lennon is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career and later formed Wings with his first wife,Linda, and Denny Laine.

McCartney has been recognised as one of the most successful composers and performers of all time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles of his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist.  More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song "Yesterday", more than any other copyrighted song in history. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of Kintyre" is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameas a solo artist in March 1999, McCartney has written, or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2014 he has sold more than 15.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr received MBEs in 1965, and in 1997, McCartney was knighted for his services to music.

Barry Winkleman

Barry started at The Times in 1966, in the Special Publications department, when the paper was owned by Lord Astor. After the merger with The Sunday Times under Lord Thomson, he became the first Managing Director of Times Books in the 1970s. He published the very successful Times Atlas of World History and subsequent Times Atlases. After Rupert Murdoch bought The Times, Barry was asked to run City Magazines as well, then John Bartholomew in Edinburgh, which had been acquired by Murdoch in 1985.

Barry has two daughters, Claudia Winkleman and Sophie Winkleman.

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Heeeeeeeeeere's David....

GOVERNORS GENERAL OF CANADA1867 to Date

Look through this list and let me know who else you recognize as a fraudulent actor.

The 14th Dalai Lama is a fraud played by Takeshi Kitano

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OPRAH EXCLUSIVE: Brown Shooting in Ferguson is a Farce

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(FROM WELLAWARE1.COM)

The Brown Shooting Is Just Another DHS Sponsored Drill

It's part of the HSEEP program.

Finally the truth is becoming clear. While investigating the Brown Shooting I came across the video of the protest, said to be held in Washington pertaining to the Brown shooting. In the front row, I spotted a familiar face. That face belonged to Norman Lear. If you are not familiar with Mr. Lear then you need to look him up. He is credited with creating many of the early TV sitcoms that we all grew up with, and remember. Such shows as The Jeffersons, Different Strokes, All in the Family, Good Times, Who's The Boss, Silver Spoons, etc. the list goes on and on. But what makes this person so important is that all the individuals I have stated are playing roles in the riots are related to or are directly involved with the shows that Norman created.

But he is not the only familiar face we see in the crowd, as many an actor make a cameo as well. Don Cheadle, To Magic Johnsons Daughter, as well as the Daughter of Jamie fox who I called out playing a role in the very first video I produced for the event. Both Dons daughters play important roles in the event and have played roles alongside their father in the Treyvon Martin HOAX too.

But to seal the deal and put the final nail in the coffin we see not only Oprahs mother playing the role of Michaels Grandmother, but standing right along side of her is Oprah herself. This Case is finally closed and Normal Lear is identified as the script writer.

See for yourself in the video below.

Rosa Parks Fraud: She is now President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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It appears that Ebola is not the only media BS to come out of Liberia.  The whole Rosa Parks and the "Back of the Bus" event was a fictitious media creation.  An historical revision of vast proportions is in order.  Similarly, as we have seen previously on this blog, the de facto leader of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was also a fake character played by an actor.  More evidence follows here:

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has a long history of activity in the United States and with Government and Banking:

The usual suspect and MO...

Sirleaf was born in Monrovia, and attended the College of West Africa from 1948 - 1955. She married James Sirleaf when she was 17 years old, and then traveled with him to the United States in 1961 to continue her studies and earned an associate degree in accounting at Madison Business College, in Madison, Wisconsin.  Sirleaf did not have a bachelor's degree, so in 1970 she enrolled at the Economics Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she spent the summer preparing for graduate studies. Sirleaf studied economics and public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1969 to 1971, gaining a Master of Public Administration.  She then returned to her native Liberia to work under the government of William Tolbert, where she became the Assistant Minister of Finance. While in that position, she attracted attention with a "bombshell" speech to the Liberian Chamber of Commerce that claimed that the country's corporations were harming the economy by hoarding or sending overseas their profits.

Sirleaf served as assistant minister from 1972 to 1973 under Tolbert's administration. She resigned after getting into a disagreement about spending. Subsequently she was Minister of Finance from 1979 to April 1980. Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, a member of the indigenous Krahn ethnic group, seized power in an 12 April 1980 military coup; Tolbert was assassinated and all but four members of his cabinet were executed by firing squad. The People's Redemption Council took control of the country and led a purge against the former government. Sirleaf initially accepted a post in the new government as President of the Liberian Bank for Development and Investment, though she fled the country in November 1980 after publicly criticizing Doe and the People's Redemption Council for their management of the country.

Sirleaf initially moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the World Bank before moving to Nairobi in 1981 to serve as Vice President of the African Regional Office of Citibank. She resigned from Citibank in 1985 following her involvement in the 1985 election in Liberia and went to work for Equator Bank, a subsidiary of HSBC. In 1992, Sirleaf was appointed as the Director of the United Nations Development Programme's Regional Bureau for Africa at the rank of Assistant Administrator and Assistant Secretary General (ASG), from which she resigned in 1997 to run for president in Liberia. During her time at the UN, she was one of the seven internationally eminent persons designated in 1999 by the Organization of African Unity to investigate the Rwandan genocide, one of the five Commission Chairs for the Inter-Congolese Dialogue and one of two international experts selected by UNIFEM to investigate and report on the effect of conflict on women and women's roles in peace building. She was the initial Chairperson of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and a visiting Professor of Governance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).

A simple Google research reveals some interesting facts behind the Rosa Parks story.  She was not the simple seamstress that everyone has been led to believe...  There is more... With acknowledgement to Thomas Clough of weirdrepublic.com, I have reprinted his work here:  

The Straight Dope on Rosa Parks

In the evening of October 24th, 2005 a wizened and demented Rosa Parks drew her last breath. Before her withered corpse was cold a thousand hagiographers had fallen to the task of burnishing her mythic persona and securing her purchase on secular sainthood. Rosa would have applauded their efforts.
The New York Times began her obituary on its front page with the standard Rosa Parks boilerplate: “Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, died at her home yesterday in Detroit. She was 92 tears old.”
The Associated Press report of her death mimicked the Times: “Parks was a 42-year-old seamstress, riding from her work at a Montgomery department store in December 1955, when she was arrested for refusing to yield her seat near the middle of a city bus when a white man entered her section.”
A full thirty years after her signature act of passive aggression Mrs. Parks continued to nurture the common misperception that she was just an average citizen who had challenged Jim Crow on an impulse: “At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.”
To hear her tell it her act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott that followed her arrest were simply the spontaneous expressions of humble black folk. Whatreally happened was more complex and not the least bit spontaneous; the entire event was stage crafted from beginning to end.
Setting the Stage
Fourteen years before the Montgomery bus boycott there was another black boycott of two bus lines in far-away Manhattan. Back in 1941 two private bus lines that served Manhattan refused to hire blacks for any position other than porter; there were 14 porters in a workforce of 3,202 workers. The Transit Workers Union refused to press for the hiring of blacks as drivers and mechanics. It was then that the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who held the pulpit of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church steered his Greater New York Coordinating Committee for Employment to join other Harlem groups in a black boycott of the Fifth Avenue Coach Co. and the New York City Omnibus Co.
Black folks didn’t give this boycott their unanimous support and the local press gave it scant coverage and unlike the Montgomery boycott it sometimes turned violent. When black youth who had been pumped up by inflammatory rhetoric at Powell’s church began stoning buses on Lenox Avenue, fifty cops were called out to disperse the crowd.
Despite its ragged nature, this boycott was successful. The two bus lines signed an agreement with Powell’s group to immediately hire 100 black drivers and 70 maintenance workers and to accept a hiring quota for blacks until the number of blacks reached seventeen percent. In the fall of 1941 the Rev. Powell became the first black member of the New York City Council. The following year he was elected to Congress.
It was as the by-then nationally-known Congressman Adam Clayton Powell that he arrived in Montgomery, Alabama in November of 1955 at the invitation of E.D. Nixon, the head of the local NAACP. After meeting with Alabama’s racially progressive Governor Jim Folsom, Powell addressed Nixon’s voter-registration-drive activists. It was at this meeting that Powell explained to the local NAACP the politics and the mechanics of the Manhattan bus boycott.
E.D. Nixon had been dreaming of a legal challenge to Jim Crow bus rules long before Powell’s visit, but he longed for a dream plaintiff to play the title role in his legal drama. Months earlier a 15-year-old girl had been arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus, but there had been a scuffle and she had been charged with assault – and besides, she was unmarried and pregnant. E.D. Nixon had passed her up as less than ideal.
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State, had heard Powell describe his boycott and she proposed a boycott in Montgomery. “I can get my people behind it,” she had said, “We’ll start early tomorrow morning.” Nixon, a veteran organizer, agreed. It was E.D. Nixon who enlisted Martin Luther King, Jr. to be the fresh face of this boycott. All they needed now was an ideal plaintiff.
Paging Rosa Parks
The word most often used to describe Mrs. Parks is “seamstress.” It seems to fit. She stares out at us from a period sheriff’s-department booking photo looking prim and well-tailored and a bit owlish behind her ample wire-rimmed spectacles. But her level gaze belies the first impression – it is the fixed stare of someone who knows exactly what she is doing. This is a person with a purpose. In truth, Rosa Parks was not just a face in the crowd; neither was her act of civil disobedience unpremeditated. She was a seasoned political operative.
Rosa McCauley had married Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932. He was a longtime member of the NAACP. In her autobiography she said that he was the first real activist she had ever met. She had joined her husband in working for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys. In 1943 she became one of the first women to join the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. She was its secretary and youth director for several years. In the summer of 1955 Parks attended a ten-day workshop on implementing integration. A white activist had recommended her for the program.
In 1955 Montgomery’s civil rights activists, who were led by Mrs. Parks’ close friend E.D. Nixon, were eager to bring a Jim Crow case to court. Two previous arrests of women had been considered and dismissed because of the women’s less than sterling character. What the NAACP craved was a plaintiff just like Mrs. Parks, their secretary.
Though she went to her grave denying that she had boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus intending to provoke a response, the facts and details of who she was and what she did invite suspicion. Rosa Parks had been married to a political activist for twenty-three years; she had been an active participant in racial politics for twenty-three years; she was then the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP; she had been the director of the local NAACP’s youth wing; she had raised money for the defense of the arrested 15-year-old whom E.D. Nixon later dismissed as unsuitable as a plaintiff; she had many dear friends, including E.D. Nixon, who very much desired a prim and proper test-case plaintiff; she was intimately familiar with the routine of the Cleveland Avenue bus and she knew that by sitting in the front row of the “colored section” she would be asked to relinquish her seat within a couple of stops. Better still, Rosa Parks had previous experience challenging the baroque racial etiquette of the Montgomery buses: Twelve years prior to her December 1, 1955 protest she had been put off a bus for refusing to follow the rule that Negroes must exit the bus after purchasing a ticket and re-enter the bus by the rear door. She had been put off of that bus by the very same driver, James Fred Blake, whom she confronted on December 1, 1955. So Rosa Parks was not just a hapless seamstress with sore feet who only wanted to be left in peace. At 42 she was an experienced activist and an ideologue; she was someone who wanted to please her friends and to further a cause. All the jabber about a humble seamstress is just an exercise in political cosmetology. Imbuing Rosa Parks with an aura of sainthood served the NAACP’s political ends perfectly; they tailored her story to suggest that the Montgomery bus boycott was a spontaneous expression of the Negro spirit. Rosa Parks played along. This is how Rosa Parks allowed herself to become immortalized and imprisoned by The Myth of Rosa Parks.
The Myth of Rosa Parks
Once Rosa Parks became “the mother of the civil rights movement” she was wedded to her myth; once she became a cultural icon, a sacred personage to her people, she became a prisoner of other people’s expectations. Vast numbers of total strangers who had fallen in love with the simple mythic seamstress now adored the fictional person they imagined Rosa Parks to be and she, in turn, soon learned to comport herself in a manner that would not disappoint them. Henceforth she would assume the persona of the unofficially trademarked character called Rosa Parks, the little seamstress who sparked the civil rights movement.
This public misapprehension of who she really was must have rankled her a bit: She was a utopian at heart; the seamstress gig was just her day job. And yet, she was so attached to the mythic Rosa that she felt compelled to fiercely defend her stature as a secular saint as though it were a valuable commercial property. Two examples illustrate just how touchy and hair-triggered she could be in her defense of the myth of Rosa Parks.
In 1999, Rosa Parks filed a lawsuit against the hip-hop duo Outkast for imaginary violations of trademark rights to the name Rosa Parks. She claimed that the rappers had defamed her. It was all twaddle. For reasons I can’t fathom, Outkast titled their Grammy-nominated tone poem Rosa Parks. (Songs are sung; rappers don’t sing.) This poem is not about Rosa Parks and neither the word Rosa nor the word Parks appears anywhere in the lyrics. If you didn’t read the liner notes you wouldn’t even know it was titled Rosa Parks. So Outkast did not defame or even mildly criticize Rosa Parks in any way. The rap is about how uncertain the future is for rap entertainers; it opens with the four-line refrain:

Ah ha, hush that fuss
Everybody move to the back of the bus
Do you wanna bump and slump with us
We the type of people make the club get crunkMy dictionary does not include the word “crunk.” Verse one is twelve lines about two guys touring to make a living; it talks about “me and my nigga” “bull doggin hoes” and a boastful assertion about how well they are doing.
White boy translation:
Boy you sounding silly, thank [think] my Broughm [Cadillac] aint sittin pretty
Doing doughnuts [running circles] round you suckas like then [those] circles around titties
Damn we the committee [golly, we’re good at this] gone burn it down [we’re very hot]
But us gone bust you in the mouth [we’re going to make a big impression on you] with the chorus now
Then there is a repeat of the four-line refrain followed by verse two which tells about how he met a gypsy [wise woman] who “hipped me” [enlightened him] to the fact that “you only funky as your last cut” [you’re only as good as your last popular single; the buying public is very fickle.] Then: “She got off the bus, the conversation lingered in my heard for hours.”
The whole thing is a slang poem about the uncertainty of popularity; it maintains its street cred by including the words nigga, hoe, titties and the phrase “up shit creek,” but it does not disparage Rosa Parks in any way; it doesn’t even mention her or even allude to her. And yet, Rosa Parks pursued the rap duo like a hound dog hot on the trail. After losing the Outkast lawsuit her lawyer intoned that Rosa Parks “has once again suffered the pains of exploitation.”
Undeterred, Rosa Parks continued to pursue the rappers. After losing her first lawsuit in federal court, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, reinstated part of her lawsuit in early 2003. The case was returned to a lower federal court. All along Outkast correctly argued that their tone poem was neither false advertising nor a violation of Rosa Parks’ publicity rights and that, in any case, the public had a protected right under the First Amendment to allude to, and even criticize and satirize, a long-standing public figure such as Rosa Parks. This second phase of the case, LaFace Records v. Parks, was settled out of court. The price Parks demanded to make her go away was undisclosed.
One illuminating disclosure to emerge from the Outkast lawsuit was that Rosa Parks had been subject to bouts of dementia for years, which explains why this veteran activist would appear at so many booster rallies but say almost nothing: Her handlers were using her as a living stage prop to gin up contributions while being careful not to let her say too much. It had always been more profitable to exploit the mythic Rosa Parks than to expose the real Rosa to close scrutiny.
Another example of Mrs. Parks’ jealous protection of the Rosa Parks myth was her intense reaction to the popular comedy Barbershop.
The Barbershop Affair
The most instructive aspect of the Barbershop dust up is the fact that it was not mentioned even once in all the obituaries, eulogies and trips down memory lane that followed the death of Rosa Parks even though, at its release, Barbershop engendered as much media attention as did the passing of Rosa Parks. I have the newspaper clippings to prove it.
Barbershop is a 2002 release that draws comedy and pathos from the interactions of a crowd of regulars who hang out at a South Side Chicago barbershop. There are lively exchanges and the topics open for discussion change with lightning abruptness. The shop’s owner, Calvin, referees these verbal volleys. One of the barbers, the graying Eddie, is always short of customers but filled to bursting with opinions.
When I first saw Barbershop on network television I couldn’t believe that what Eddie said had caused such a flap among African Americans; it was just a few lines. So I bought the DVD, complete with deleted scenes and outtakes and I watched it all. It was the same flick, except the DVD included comments by the cast members who fret about the controversy caused by Eddie’s comments.
Eddie’s lines are spoken by Cedric the Entertainer. Everyone, including the New York Times, calls him Cedric the Entertainer. According to my April 28, 2003 copy of Jet magazine his given name is Cedric Antonio Kyles and was formerly known as C-Boogie the Stage Rocker. Here’s all of Eddie’s patter: At one point someone mentions Jesse Jackson, which provokes Eddie to shoot back “Fuck Jesse Jackson!” This line isn’t so much a criticism of Jesse Jackson as it is a dismissal. In response, the real Jesse Jackson got all bent out of shape because someone in a movie that was popular with black folks had dismissed him. The film did number-one box office for weeks; black folks loved it.
In another heated moment, Eddie blurts out “Now Martin Luther King was a ho!” by which he means a whoremaster. This line has the added sting of being true; King was a serial philanderer. As a precondition for dropping a lawsuit against the government the King family extracted a promise from the FBI to keep the King file super top secret for seventy-five years. Without this concession the legacy of Martin Luther King would have been a laughingstock and the King family would have been denied their opportunity to parlay the King myth into millions of dollars. 

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, p.433-36) King had sex with a woman he had only just met at a dinner gathering, then he was unexpectedly reunited with a woman, “a member of the Kentucky legislature” in a motel room where he spent several hours with her and then he got into a quarrel with “another young woman Martin knew well” who was staying at the Lorraine Motel so that she could be intimate with King. Because King had jilted the young woman by spending the night with the woman from Kentucky, the young woman became furious. It was then that Mr. Non-violence, the follower of Gandhi, pimp-slapped her and “knocked her across the bed.” After that the two of them got into “a full-blown fight with Martin clearly winning.” And so on; he slapped the woman around pretty hard. She fled the motel as Martin King begged Abernathy to use his powers of persuasion to get her back. So Eddie the barber was clearly speaking the truth when he called Martin King a ho.

Eddie’s final offense was tampering with the myth of Rosa Parks. Eddie wants nothing to do with the usual pieties: “Rosa Parks ain’t do nothin’ but sit her black ass down!” He recalls that lots of other black folks had refused to relinquish their seats; he offers his opinion that Rosa Parks got all the publicity because she “was secretary of the NAACP.” The only thing surprising about Eddie’s oratory is that he says these things openly in a movie.
Rosa Parks was not amused. An Associated Press report from Detroit announced:
“Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks will not attend today’s NAACP Image Awards because the event’s host, Cedric the Entertainer, made jokes about her in the film ‘Barbershop’ that she considered offensive.
“In a letter dated Thursday, Elaine Steele, co-founder of the Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, said the invitation was appreciated but that jokes by Cedric’s character in ‘Barbershop’ represent ‘a sensitive area to us.’
“ ‘We with many others do not understand the endorsement the NAACP gave to the hurtful jokes in the movie ‘Barbershop’ about America’s civil rights leaders,’ the letter stated.”
Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP, expressed his regrets because The Rosa Parks Story had been nominated in the category of outstanding TV drama.
Another AP report from Erie, PA announced:
“The daughter of the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. said jokes about her father in the movie ‘Barbershop’ were disrespectful. “ ‘A very disparaging, unfounded comment was made about my father,’ the Rev. Bernice A. King said…”
So, will she be calling for the release of the FBI undercover films starring her dad? Don’t hold your breath. Notice how in both reports the opinions offered by Cedric the Entertainer are referred to as “jokes.” They weren’t jokes; they were statements.
Predictably the Rev. Al Sharpton called for a boycott of the hit movie, while Jesse Jackson, who had not yet seen the film, advocated removing all scenes that might offend him from future copies of the film that he had been told might upset him. The two reverends called the dialogue insensitive; they wanted black artists and commentators to toe the party line. They didn’t want black artistic expression to be cheeky and vibrant when the focus was on them and their friends. It was okay to lampoon other folks, but not them. The same two “leaders” who had threatened to boycott Hollywood for its scant representation of blacks were now eager to boycott a successful black film. Barbershop had been written, directed and produced by black people to entertain America and it had gone straight to the top.
“It’s unprecedented,” said Cedric the Entertainer, in a telephone interview. “For America to embrace a movie like this shows we can make significant movies and people will support them. That’s a source of pride for me. And as far as the comments made by the character, we have to be able to question things and spark dialogue. The opportunity for us to question ourselves shows how much we’ve grown. We have to be allowed to grow.” Good point.
In a report filed by Marsha Kranes in the New York Post we are told that:
“A group of barbers and beauticians claims snippy remarks by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton about the movie ‘Barbershop’ have been driving away customers. “Members of the National Association of Cosmetologists are so cut up, they’ve filed a suit in Los Angeles, accusing the two activists of intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud and negligence…
“The group said Sharpton’s threats to boycott the film and other remarks gave members a ‘black eye’ and cost them business.
“Sharpton called the suit ‘ridiculous.’”
It’s instructive that Rosa Parks, who was married to a barber for decades, had so little appreciation for the special place of the barber shop in black neighborhoods. The barber shop may be one of the last bastions of unregulated speech in black America. Too often the long-established civil rights organizations have become undemocratic institutions ruled by authoritarian leaders, places where the voices of common black folk are not heard. Not one person in the civil rights establishment has endorsed Cedric the Entertainer’s exercise of his free-speech rights.
Black comedians are at their best as gadflies “speaking truth to power,” poking fun at pomposity and deflating hypocrisy. As Eddie says, “ain’t nobody exempt.” To quote Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of religious and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania:
“Still, we cannot always draw a simple correlation between the politics we favor and the films we judge to be helpful. Good movies can throw in our face truths we would rather overlook or avoid. I think such truth telling, and the discomfort it provokes, is behind the furor raised over ‘Barbershop.’”
Chicago’s South Side barber shops have long been de facto social clubs and debating societies renowned for their barber shop philosophers. Eddie calls these shops the black man’s country clubs, a place where black men from all social classes can spend their Saturday mornings talking about politics, religion, race and women.
As Brent Staples wrote in the New York Times:
“The notion that Martin Luther King was exempt from ridicule during the 60’s is not accurate. Black opinion about him was never entirely reverential. The King organization’s failed Chicago campaign in the 60’s drew contempt from several influential black politicians, who viewed Dr. King’s operators as arrogant outsiders. The scorn for Dr. King diminished only slightly after he was martyred in 1968. When the city named a street for him, an influential Chicago minister with whom Dr. King had once clashed changed the address of his church to an adjacent street to avoid any association with the slain civil rights leader.
“Books about the civil rights movement deal matter of factly with Dr. King’s extramarital relationships. As a Dr. King associate, Mr. Jackson knew the great man’s failings well. It is disingenuous to attack a fictional character in a movie for alluding to facts that people in the real world know to be true. Mr. Jackson, after all, has done time in some of the most brutally honest barbershops in the land. He should know from experience that nobody was exempt on Saturday morning at the shop.”
What Really Happened on the Bus?
The Reverend Ralph David Abernathy was intimately familiar with the details of Montgomery’s Jim Crow restrictions long before Martin Luther King, Jr. showed up in town. In his autobiography Abernathy explains that throughout most of the South the law demanded that blacks begin seating themselves from the rear of the bus forward and that whites begin seating themselves from the front of the bus rearward. On a predominantly black route blacks might occupy all the seats. On a mostly white route blacks might occupy only the rear row. The boundary would be determined by the proportion of the races and by who boarded the bus first.
The law in Montgomery, Alabama, was different. In Montgomery the first ten seats of every bus were reserved for whites, even when there were no white riders. This rule prohibited blacks from sitting in the three-seat benches in the front that faced one another and from the four first-row seats. So when Rosa Parks seated herself on the outside seat in the eleventh row she was not in violation of Montgomery’s Jim Crow rules.
At the third stop after she boarded, a white man boarded the bus and the driver saw that whites occupied the first ten rows of seats. It was then that the driver demanded that the black passengers in the eleventh row relinquish their seats. The passengers, two women, a man and Rosa Parks hesitated because under the local Jim Crow rules the driver had no right to demand that they move unless there were other seats available to them. The driver was demanding that four black passengers stand so that one white passenger could sit, which everyone on the bus knew was not legal. The driver was just throwing his weight around. Worse yet, the driver was the same James Fred Blake who had expelled Mrs. Parks from his bus once before.
The other three passengers in the eleventh row moved out but Mrs. Parks slid herself over next to the window and asserted her right under Jim Crow law to remain in her seat. It was only then that the driver exited the bus and called the police.
Unlike the 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who scuffled with the police, Mrs. Parks went peacefully to the station house for booking and then to the Montgomery jail. E.D. Nixon signed for her bond so she was out the same day. Legal counsel explained that Mrs. Parks could not be charged under local law because no other seat had been available to her. Mrs. Parks was charged with violating an Alabama state law that gave bus drivers authority over passengers much like that of ships’ captains at sea. She was prosecuted for disobeying the driver’s command even though he was clearly wrong in demanding that she move.
Court convened at 9 A.M. and by 9:05 the case had been adjudicated. Mrs. Parks was convicted on the spot and fined ten dollars plus four dollars in court costs. Her black attorney, Fred Gray, announced his intention to appeal the conviction.
If the Reverend Abernathy’s telling of this tale is correct, then Mrs. Parks’ defiance takes on the aspect of a grudge fight, a personal confrontation between two strong-willed people who had tangled before. Ralph Abernathy, E.D. Nixon, Martin Luther King and others skillfully exploited Mrs. Parks’ dust up with James Blake to gin up popular enthusiasm for a black-folks boycott of the Montgomery bus system. No boycott would be complete without a set of demands to keep the faithful focused. The Montgomery bus boycott is commonly misremembered as an attempt to abolish the Jim Crow bus seating rules. It was no such thing.
There were three stated aims:
1. A pledge from the city authorities and the bus company bosses that blacks would be treated with courtesy.
2. A new ordinance that would allow blacks to seat from the rear forward and whites from the front rearward, with no reserved seats and no one standing when there were empty seats.
3. Because many routes were used almost exclusively by black passengers, blacks should be allowed to apply for positions as bus drivers.
Those were the goals: The boycott sought a more genteel Jim Crow, a Jim Crow with a smiley face, not a dead Jim Crow.
The Reverend Abernathy admits that demand number three was just a throwaway:
“We knew that our first two demands were reasonable, so reasonable that the establishment might well be willing to grant them – except for one problem: They could not appear to be giving in to black pressure. It was a matter of their racial pride, their manhood. So we had to provide them with a way to give us what we wanted while seeming to be tough and unyielding. We did this by adding one unreasonable demand at the end of two reasonable ones. We figured they just might promise the courtesy and new seating plan and make a big show of rejecting our third demand. That way they would give us what we wanted and still save face by denying us something we never hoped to get in the first place.” (p. 145)
Therefore, if the Reverend Abernathy is correct, Rosa Parks should be remembered as the NAACP secretary who didn’t break any Jim Crow law; she was just a woman whose spat with a bus driver was used to provoke a bus boycott that sought to establish a revised scheme of Jim Crow seating rules. And for this Rosa Parks is lauded as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement?
The boycott ended on its 381st day because nine white judges in Washington declared the whole Jim Crow rule book to be a violation of the Eighth Amendment. The boycott had been a local event that never achieved its stated goals.
The Cult of Rosa Parks
From the very first hours after Mrs. Parks’ contretemps with bus driver James Blake, the designers of the black empowerment movement sought to burnish a popular misconception of who Mrs. Parks was and what she had done in those historic few minutes. It was the beginning of the Cult of Rosa Parks, complete with shrines and rituals and votive offerings.
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan paid $492,000 for the rusting hulk of a 1948 bus that they claim is the bus. They spent another $300,000 dragging it out of an Alabama field and restoring it, right down to the advertisements for Wrigley Spearmint gum. It is now a shrine to the departed secular saint Rosa Parks.
There is a Rosa Parks museum in Atlanta which, like many other buildings across America, is reverently appointed with vintage photos of Rosa Parks’ booking and fingerprinting photos, all of which are falsely identified as being from thatmomentous day.
After her death, the corpse of Rosa Parks was exhibited in the Capitol Rotunda for two days and was then shipped back to Detroit where it was put on display at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Her cadaver was joined there by the restored bus-shrine from Dearborn that was trucked in for one last reunion with Rosa. The stage managers of black-power mythology were determined to give the Soviet Cult of Lenin a run for its money.
President Bush signed into law a bill demanding that a statue of Mrs. Parks be displayed in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Mr. Bush then pandered to a surprised and delighted gathering of Black Power leaders by announcing his intention to renew the provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Reverend Jesse Jackson heaped praise on Mr. Bush for continuing to use federal force against states that might want to change a voting law or a district line within their borders without the approval if Big Government. The Voting Rights Act also compels states to print their voting materials in lots of foreign languages. God forbid any Democrat voter should have to struggle with a ballot written in English.
Lots of folks said lots of nonsense in praise of Rosa Parks. The Reverend Jesse wrote in Newsweek that “Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda…,” which is a strange thing to say about a woman who steeped herself in racial politics, who married a racial activist, and who spent her nights and weekends toiling for the NAACP. She was one of their officers, one of their agents. Are we expected to believe that the NAACP has no political agenda? In every practical sense, Rosa Parks was the NAACP.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opined that “I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state.” She was echoed by Oprah Winfrey who said, “I would not be standing here today, nor standing where I stand every day, had she not chosen to sit down. I know that.” It was more sentimental twaddle. The NAACP team was determined to get themselves a plaintiff they could use to challenge Jim Crow. If Rosa Parks hadn’t volunteered to give her fellow NAACP activists what they most desired, then E.D. Nixon and Company would have found another plaintiff and Mrs. Parks would have continued her work in racial politics in obscurity. By volunteering, Rosa became the stuff of legend; she garnered acclaim and adoration. And, as we have seen, she was quick to defend her popular myth with lawsuits and public-relations offensives.
A recent tribute to Rosa Parks was unintentionally fitting as thousands of pregnant, ill, infirm and obese bus riders were bullied out of the best seat on thousands of buses by transit systems that insisted on reserving that seat for Rosa Parks on the fiftieth anniversary of the day she is wrongly credited with violating some Montgomery bus rule. The Montgomery boycott merely sought different Jim Crow rules. So kicking sick and pregnant people out of the best seat at the front of the bus as a way of honoring Rosa Parks was a truly fitting commemoration of what she really did that day in 1955. This tribute reeked of Jim Crow. Even the “historic photo” that embellished the poster that the bus systems used to bully passengers away from “Rosa’s seat” was a carefully staged piece of phony propaganda.
To get the public in a sentimental mood the transit companies plastered the first passenger seat behind the driver with a poster commemorating what they called Rosa Parks Day. The poster featured what may be the most often reproduced photograph of Rosa Parks. She is shown sitting on a bus and looking out the window to her left; a white man sits behind her, looking to his right. Rosa seems lost in thought; the man’s face is expressionless. This photo has appeared everywhere: in classrooms, in text books, in museums and in every shrine to Rosa Parks. Many people have assumed that the photo was taken on the day of Mrs. Parks’ run in with James Blake; people have assumed that the white man is a stone-faced segregationist. In truth, like so much else about the myth of Rosa Parks, the photo was a totally staged event. Everyone involved was friendly to “the cause.” The manufacture of false-history propaganda photos was a common practice of the NAACP.

The photo was taken December 21, 1956, the day after the district court for Montgomery entered into effect the ruling of the United States Supreme Court that declared segregated bus systems unconstitutional. The Supreme Court decision was, by then, a month old. The white man in the photo is Nicholas C. Chriss, a reporter working for United Press International out of Atlanta. Mr. Chriss recalled that he boarded the bus in downtown Montgomery and that he and Mrs. Parks were the only riders up front.
In his biography of Rosa Parks, author Douglas Brinkley relates that Rosa Parks told him that she had left her home at the Cleveland Courts housing project specifically to have her picture taken on a bus and that it was prearranged that she would be seated up front and that a white man would be seated behind her. According to theNew York Times similar staged photo sessions were arranged for Martin Luther King and other activists. Mr. Chriss agreed to sit behind Mrs. Parks; two photographers from Look magazine captured the staged event. Mr. Brinkley said that Mrs. Parks told him that members of the civil rights community wanted a dramatic image. “It was completely a 100 percent staged event,” said Mr. Brinkley. “There was nothing random about it.” In other words, it’s a propaganda photo crafted by sympathizers. American schools and textbooks and newspapers are full of this stuff.
Mrs. Parks was an NAACP activist who regularly lunched with Mr. Fred Gray, the attorney who defended her at her five-minute trial in 1955. Mr. Gray has offered that “to see something staged does not bother me at all.” The Times observed that “…staging a picture today without identifying the participants would be viewed as unethical, but it was more acceptable then.” (12/7/02 p.B5) Likewise, the famous mug shot of Rosa Parks clutching the number 7053 and the photo of her being fingerprinted are in no way related to her arrest on December 1, 1955; they were taken the following year, well after she had achieved celebrity status.
In the end, the New York Times tells us, “The triumphant case from Montgomery that declared the city’s segregated bus system illegal was not based on her [Rosa Parks’] case, but on that of four other plaintiffs, including Ms. [Claudette] Colvin and Ms. [Mary Louise] Smith.”
So why wasn’t the fifteen-year-old and pregnant-out-of-wedlock Claudette Colvin declared the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement? Perhaps she wasn’t as well suited for bogus photo ops as the willing Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks and the activists around her demonstrated a relaxed acceptance of deceit in the pursuit of power. Mrs. Parks who would have had us believe that she was just a simple seamstress was, in fact, a veteran activist who wielded considerable influence within the NAACP. It was she who recommended the 26-year-old Martin Luther King for a position on the NAACP executive committee.
And who was Martin King? In 1955 he was a big-dream utopian who euphemistically identified himself as an “anti-capitalist.” He was, in truth, a starry-eyed Marxist who only four years earlier had written this personal manifesto:
“…I am conviced [sic] that capitalism has seen its best days in American [sic], and not only in America, but in the entire world. It is a well known fact that no social institute [sic] can survive when it has outlived its usefullness [sic]. This, capitalism has done. It has failed to meet the needs of the masses.
“We need only to look at the underlying developements [sic] of our society. There is a definite revolt by, what Marx calls, ‘the preletarian’, [sic] against the bourgeoise [sic]…. What will eventually happen is this, labor will become so power [sic] (this was certainly evidenced in the recent election) that she will be able to place a president in the White House. This will inevitably bring about a nationalization of industry. That will be the end of capitalism. . . there is a definite move away from capitalism, whether we conceive of it as conscious or unconscious Capitalism finds herself like a losing football team in the last quarter trying types of tactics to survive.”
Martin King wrote this drivel at a time when communist totalitarians were condemning billions of people to lives of poverty, mediocrity and fear. The FBI had good reason to be concerned that someone who was so foolish as to embrace the false promise of Marxism might become the charismatic leader of millions of poorly educated and discontented black folks. Martin King was forever prattling about an imagined link between the needs of American blacks and the anti-colonial struggles of people in the Third World. King surrounded himself with dedicated Communists. King’s advisor Hunter Pitts (Jack) O’Dell was a veteran Communist Party organizer in New Orleans. Martin King’s advisor Stanley Levison was a financier for the Communist Party. King’s most trusted advisor and strategist Bayard Rustin began his activism with the Young Communist League.
All of these people understood the power of propaganda, invented history, staged events, deception and impersonation. Like their Soviet role models, these closeted communists sought to create power bases around cults of personality. Hence, their impulse to present themselves to us as martyrs and secular saints. The aura of sainthood that hangs over an aging generation of civil-rights “leaders” is suffocating those who should be an emerging generation of black advocates. The old guys have been so preoccupied with maintaining their personal cults of personality that they have made no plans to hand off responsibility to younger advocates.
To quote journalist Farai Chideya: “At this point, there’s work to do on defining a movement as opposed to following a movement. If this generation wants to mount a challenge to the earlier generation’s leadership they have to raise their own money and start their own organizations.”
Let’s hope this next generation, if they ever arrive, will be plain-spoken, will have no secret agendas and will park their halos at the curb.

Some more info on the people behind the Rosa Parks facade, from http://blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/rosa_parks.htm: (Ignore the racist remarks and investigate the major players in this fraud)

Who Was Rosa Parks?

She was a secretary at the local NAACP office

Her Contribution To Humanity

Rosa Parks, Morris Leshner, and a NAACP Photographer staged an 'Civil Rights' event.

Her Employer, The NAACP, Wasn't Even a Black Organization
	Three Jews Behind The NAACP Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Julius Rosenwald, Stephen Wise founded it.

Highlander School Where Rosa Parks Was Indoctrinated

Jewish school in Tennessee used to indoctrinate union organizers, and black rabble rousers

Jews Wanted The Black Vote And Racial Strife Jewish interests were out to create racial strife in America, which they used to paved the way for the Jewish Cultural Revolution of the1960's. One goal was to take full control of the cultural apparatus in America. In the 1950's all major universities in America were run by Wasps, in the 1970's they were run by Jews. The Blacks flooded the northern cities, the South was in racial strife, and the Black family unit disintegrated thanks to Jewish instigated welfare programs.

	Rosa Parks Was Just A Communist Agitator Rosa Parks was the secretary of the local NAACP. In August of 1955, (four months before the bus incident) Parks attended the Highlander Folk School in Mount Eagle, Tennessee. Highlander was founded in1932 by Myles Horton and Don West, who were joined later that year by James Dombrowski upon the latter’s return from Russia. All were members of the Communist Party. The schools' original purpose was to train Communists activists on how to promote textile strikes, hold protest marches, and march in picket. The story that she was just a "poor tired black seamstress" when she sat in the front of the bus is a complete lie.
Just A Propaganda Ploy An old city bus, like the one Parks rode on, is on display in the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery AL. Children are regularly brought to the bus on field trips to hear a harsh recorded voice telling all blacks to move to the back. This is deliberately designed to instill feelings of guilt and self-hate in white children.

	Highlander  School Located in Mount Eagle, TN, the school was cited for conducting subversive activities by the state of Tennessee, and closed by court order in 1960. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's  name long has been linked with the school, she having been one of its early contributors and sponsors. The Highlander School had been a haven for the South's handful of functional radicals during the thirties and the essential alma mater for the leaders of the CIO and the  Textile Workers Union, fledgling southern organizing drives."
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	Parks Went To Exclusive School The Montgomery Industrial School, founded and staffed by Northern whites for black children was twice burnt by Klu Klux Klan. Local Klan said the fires were set by Jewish Communists parading as the Klan.
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	NAACP The NAACP is nothing more than a Jewish scam. Financed by Rosenwald, Schiff, Billikopf, and run by Henry Moscowitz and Joel Springarn of Columbia University. Schiff Springarn Billikopf Moscowitz

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Up In Smoke: Cheech Marin plays the Benny Hinn Fraud

October 8, 2014, 11:10 am

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Benny Hinn has always had a very familiar face.  And he seemed high on weed during his religious performances.  Now we know why.  He probably was cheeched...!

Toufik Benedictus"Benny" Hinn (born December 3, 1952) is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"—revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your Day.    

Here is the bogus history of Benny Hinn from Wikipedia:

Hinn was born in Jaffa, in 1952, in the then newly established state of Israel] to "an Armenian mother and Greek father". He was raised within the Eastern Orthodox tradition.  Soon after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War ("The Six-Day War"), Hinn's family emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he attended the Georges Vanier Secondary School.  He did not graduate.  In his books, Hinn states that his father was the mayor of Jaffa at the time of his birth and that he was socially isolated as a child and was handicapped by a severe stutter, but that he was nonetheless a first-class student.  These claims, however, have been disputed by critics.  As a teenager in Toronto, Hinn converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Pentecostalism, eventually joining a singing troupe made up of young evangelicals. According to a 2004 CBC report on Hinn, his newfound religious devotion during this period became so intense that his family became concerned that he was turning into a religious fanatic. Hinn was taught the Bible and mentored by Dr. Winston I. Nunes of Broadview Faith Temple in Toronto.  Dr. and Mrs. Nunez look familiar...

He has written that on December 21, 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a "miracle service" conducted by evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman. Although he never met her personally, he often attended her "healing services" and has often cited her as an influence in his life.

Upon moving to the United States, Hinn traveled to Orlando, Florida, where he founded the Orlando Christian Center in 1983. Eventually, Hinn began claiming that God was using him as a conduit for healings, and began holding healing services in his church. These new "Miracle Crusades" were soon held at large stadiums and auditoriums across the United States and the world, the first nationally televised service being held in Flint, Michigan, in 1989. During the early 1990s, Hinn launched a new daily talk show called This Is Your Day, which to this day airs clips of supposed miracles from Hinn's Miracle Crusades. The program premiered on the Trinity Broadcasting Network of Paul Crouch, who would become one of Hinn's most outspoken defenders and allies. Hinn's ministry began to rapidly grow from there, winning praise as well as criticism from fellow Christian leaders. In 1999, he stepped down as pastor of the Orlando Christian Center, moving his ministry's administrative headquarters to Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, while hosting This Is Your Day from a television studio in Orange County,California, where he now lives with his family. His former church was renamed Faith World Church under the leadership of Clint Brown, who merged his Orlando church with Hinn's.

Most of Hinn's claims about his past are laugh-out-loud ridiculous and easily proven false.  See these links for more info:  

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/hinn-09.htm

http://www.pfo.org/oldhouse.htm

Personal life

Marriage

Hinn married Suzanne Harthern on August 4, 1979. The couple have four children.

Divorce

Suzanne filed divorce papers in Orange County Superior Court on February 1, 2010, citing "irreconcilable differences." In July 2010, both Hinn and fellow televangelist Paula White denied allegations in theNational Enquirer that the two were engaged in an affair.  Hinn was sued in February 2011 by the Christian publishing house Strang Communications, which claimed that a relationship with White did occur and that Hinn had violated the morality clause of his contract with the company.

Remarriage

In May 2012, Hinn announced that he and his wife had begun reconciliation during the Christmas season of 2011, stating that the split had been caused by Suzanne's addiction to prescription drugs and antidepressants and citing his busy schedule and lack of time for his wife and children. In October 2012, Hinn announced that he and his former wife, Suzanne, would remarry. Benny and Suzanne Hinn remarried on March 3, 2013, at the Holy Land Experience theme park, in a traditional ceremony lasting over 2 hours and attended by approximately 1,000 well-wishers, including many visiting Christian leaders. Pastor Jack Hayfordreferred to the remarriage as "...a miracle of God's grace".

Richard Anthony "Cheech"Marin (born July 13, 1946) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor and writer of Mexican descent who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez on Nash Bridges. He has also voiced characters in several Disneyproductions, including Oliver and Company, The Lion King, It's Tough to be a Bug!, Cars, Cars 2 andBeverly Hills Chihuahua.

Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Mexican accent; this is part of a comic persona, rather than a natural accent, as Marin is of Mexican descent yet was born and raised in the United States.

Marin was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Elsa (née Meza), a secretary, and Oscar Marin, a policeman in the LAPD.  Marin was born with a cleft lip, which has long since been repaired. Although he speaks some Spanish and uses it in some of his movies, he is not particularly fluent.

Marin's nickname "Cheech" is short for "chicharron", a fried pork skin that is a popular snack in Mexican cuisine and a favorite of marijuana smokers afflicted with "the munchies", and the nickname's alliteration with Chong's surname made "Cheech and Chong" an obvious choice for the name of the duo. The name of this character gave rise to the popular term "cheeched", meaning "under the influence of marijuana, usually at a relatively high dose".

Marin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School, located in California's San Fernando Valley, as well as from San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge), where he was a member ofPhi Sigma Kappa. Marin auditioned to sing for Frank Zappa in 1967, but moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in September of that year to avoid the U.S. draft during the height of the Vietnam War.  In Vancouver, Marin met his future comedic partner, Tommy Chong.

Personal life 

Marin was married in 1975 to Darlene Morley, who co-produced Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers and also played minor roles in earlier Cheech & Chong films under the name Rikki Marin. The couple had one child and divorced in 1984.  Marin married Patti Heid in 1986; they had two children and have since divorced.  Marin married his longtime girlfriend, Russian pianist Natasha Rubin on August 8, 2009, in a sunset ceremony at their home.

Marin resides in California.

Thomas Edison and President Harding were the same man!

October 29, 2014, 8:01 am

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Over his desk, Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds' famous quotation:

"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

 So I will ask you to put on your thinking caps as you review the following photographic evidence that Thomas Edison was a character played by the same actor that played the 29th President of the United States, Warren G. Harding. 

Warren G. Harding (left), Thomas Edison (right)

Ear comparison taken from photos above

It's a tale about greed, family connections, and the zealous pursuit of power.  Electrical power at first.  A story extracted from the unwritten historical volume that may correctly be titled "The Patent Pirates".

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an Americaninventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

Edison was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. More significant than the number of Edison's patents was the widespread impact of his inventions: electric lightand power utilities, sound recording, and motion pictures all established major new industries world-wide. Edison's inventions contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.

His advanced work in these fields was an outgrowth of his early career as a telegraph operator. Edison developed a system of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories – a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. His first power station was on Pearl Street in Manhattan, New York.

Early Life

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).  His father had to escape from Canada because he took part in the unsuccessful Mackenzie Rebellion of 1837.  Edison reported being of Dutch ancestry.[8]

In school, the young Edison's mind often wandered, and his teacher, the Reverend Engle, was overheard calling him "addled". This ended Edison's three months of official schooling. Edison recalled later, "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint." His mother taught him at home. Much of his education came from reading R.G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union.

Edison developed hearing problems at an early age. The cause of his deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle-ear infections. Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals. In his later years, he modified the story to say the injury occurred when the conductor, in helping him onto a moving train, lifted him by the ears.

Edison's family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, after the railroad bypassed Milan in 1854 and business declined; his life there was bittersweet. Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, and sold vegetables to supplement his income. He also studied qualitative analysis, and conducted chemical experiments on the train until an accident prohibited further work of the kind.

Edison obtained the exclusive right to sell newspapers on the road, and, with the aid of four assistants, he set in type and printed the Grand Trunk Herald, which he sold with his other papers. This began Edison's long streak of entrepreneurial ventures, as he discovered his talents as a businessman. These talents eventually led him to found 14 companies, includingGeneral Electric, which is still one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.

Edison's wife Mina Miller (right), Harding's wife Florence (right)

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29thPresident of the United States (1921–23), a Republican from Ohio who served in the Ohio Senate and then in the United States Senate, where he played a minor role.

Harding sought out the "best minds" in his cabinet, including Andrew Mellon at the Treasury, Herbert Hoover at Commerce, and Charles Evans Hughes at the State Department. He rewarded friends and contributors, known as the "Ohio Gang", with powerful positions. Multiple cases of corruption were exposed during his presidency and after his death, including the notorious Teapot Dome scandal, regarded in pre-Watergate times as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics".

Domestically, Harding signed the first federal child welfare program, and dealt with striking mining and railroad workers in part by supporting an 8-hour work day. He created the Bureau of the Budget to prepare the first United States federal budget. Harding advocated an anti-lynching bill to curb violence against African Americans, but it failed to pass Congress. In foreign affairs, Harding spurned the League of Nations and negotiated peace treaties with Germany and Austria. His greatest foreign policy achievement came in the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–22, in which the world's major naval powers agreed on a naval limitations program that held sway for a decade.

Goodfellas Ray Liotta is Chuck Hagel and John Boehner!

November 25, 2014, 7:08 am

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Chuck Hagel is John Boehner is Ray Liotta - All the Same Person!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204598378304259

Field of Dreams and Goodfellas

In 1989, Ray Liotta costarred alongside Kevin Costner in the fantasy/drama film Field of Dreams— Liotta portrayed Shoeless Joe Jackson, the ghost of the famed baseball player. His voice over line, "If you build it, he will come," is #39 on the American Film Institute's list of100 movie quotes.  In 1990, Liotta portrayed real-life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas.  On this early period in his career, Liotta said that after such strong first few movies, he thinks the representatives he had let him flounder; inspired by the films of the 1970s, he wanted to play different types of roles.  In 1992, he costarred as a psychopathic cop alongside Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe in the thriller Unlawful Entry. He also appeared in a leading role in the sci-fi/action film No Escape. Liotta would earn more critical praise for his turn inJames Mangold's film Cop Land, starring alongside Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, and Harvey Keitel. In 1998, he received critical praise for his performance in the crime filmPhoenix, in which he plays decent policeman Harry Collins who is also a compulsive gambler.  In addition to his film roles, Liotta portrayed singerFrank Sinatra in the 1998 TV movie The Rat Pack (for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination), he provided the voice ofTommy Vercetti for the 2002 video gameGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, and appeared in the television drama ERin 2004, playing Charlie Metcalf in the episode "Time of Death". The ER role earned Liotta anEmmy for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series" (Liotta would later spoof himself and his Emmy win in Bee Movie). Liotta starred in the 2006 CBS television seriesSmith, which was pulled from the schedule after only three episodes had aired, and, in 2012, Liotta appeared as himself in a purely vocal role for the "What a Croc!" episode of the Disney Channel comedy series Phineas & Ferb.

Liotta played the father of drug dealer George Jung in the 2001 Johnny Depp film Blow and, in the following year, appeared as Det. Lt. Henry Oak in the Joe Carnahan-directed film Narc, a role that led to an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a Phoenix Film Critics Society Awardsnomination for Best Supporting Male.

Gang of Seven and Contract with America

During his freshman year, John Boehner was a member of theGang of Seven which was involved in bringing media attention to the House banking scandal.^[19]

Boehner, along with Newt Gingrich and several other Republican lawmakers, was one of the engineers of theContract with America in 1994 that politically helped Republicans during the 1994 congressional elections during which they won the majority in Congress for the first time in four decades.

Chuck Hagel resigns (runs away)

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel, born October 4, 1946) is an American politician who was the 24th United States Secretary of Defense for 21 months, from February 2013 to November 2014.  A recipient of two Purple Hearts while an infantry squad leader in theVietnam War, Hagel returned home to start careers in business and politics. He co-foundedVanguard Cellular, the primary source of his personal wealth, and served as president of the McCarthy Group, an investment banking firm, and CEO of American Information Systems Inc., a computerized voting machine manufacturer.  Hagel previously served as a professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, chairman of the Atlantic Council, and co-chairman of thePresident's Intelligence Advisory Board. Before his appointment as Secretary of Defense, Hagel served on a number of boards of directors, including that of Chevron Corporation.

On November 24 2014, it was announced that Hagel would resign the position of Secretary of Defense due to job stress and decisions on ISIS and ISIL.

Run away, coward!

Malcolm X was Patrice Lumumba fraud

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In 1964 Malcolm X declared Patrice Lumumba "the greatest black man who ever walked the African continent".  Now, we know why.  The same individual played both roles.

Malcolm X was a fraud played by the same actor that played Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo, after it had won independence from Belgium.

Look at the spouse, look at the ear, and look at the right hand.  All evidence stacked up by Ed Chiarini of wellaware1.com.  

Miley Cyrus is Madonna's daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon

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If I walked into a Home Depot and licked a hammer, I would be kicked out.  But when Miley Cyrus does it?  I've seen this movie before.  But last time, the star was Madonna, the biological mother of Miley Cyrus.  Creating content for the media is a family tradition, a family business.

Obama is B.J. Armstrong,

February 11, 2015, 10:37 am

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President Obama is a fraudulent character played by the same actor that played BJ Armstrong.  Obama is a die-hard Bulls fan.  

Benjamin Roy "B. J." Armstrong, Jr. (born September 9, 1967) is a retired American professional basketball player. Armstrong won three NBA championships during his career as a point guard for the Chicago Bulls.
He refused to report to the Toronto Raptors!  BJ Armstrong was the first player chosen in the 1995 NBA Expansion Draft (via Toronto Raptors) but refused to report.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

National Basketball Association

Selected by the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the1989 NBA Draft, the 6'2" (1.88 m) Armstrong helped the team return to the Eastern ConferenceFinals after compiling 55 regular season victories in 1990.

In 1991, he helped them win their first NBA title against the Los Angeles Lakers after winning 61 games. In 1992, Armstrong averaged double-digit scoring while coming off the bench behind longtime starter John Paxson to help the Bulls win 67 games and their second straight title. In 1993, he locked down the starting job, contributing to a 57–25 record and the Bulls' third straight title. He also claimed the NBA's three-point field goal percentage crown with a mark of .453 on 63-for-139 shooting.

In 1994, he emerged as more of a leader in the wake of Michael Jordan's abrupt retirement, placing third on the team in scoring. He was voted a starter in the 1994 NBA All-Star Game, finished second in the NBA in three-point field goal percentage at .444 while leading the team to a 55–27 record and a second-round exit from the playoffs.

Armstrong finished third in scoring again in 1995 as the Bulls posted a 47–35 record, and with Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Toni Kukoč, led the team to the second round again.

He played for the Golden State Warriors in 1996 and in 1997. Four games into the 1998 season, he was acquired by the Charlotte Hornets, playing 62 games that year. He also played 10 games for the Hornets in the 1999 season before being signed by the Orlando Magic in March of that year.

On August 30, 1999, he was again signed by the Bulls and played the 1999–2000 season and retired at the end of the season, ending it with the team that drafted him and he spent much of his playing career with.

Later endeavors

Armstrong stepped into Chicago's front office as a special assistant to Vice President of Basketball Operations Jerry Krause. Having replaced Paxson as the Bulls' starting point guard years before, Armstrong was himself replaced by Paxson as hire to the GM job in Chicago when Krause resigned in 2003. Armstrong remained with the organization as a scout for a couple of seasons, leaving in 2005.

He was employed by ESPN as a basketball analyst in recent years for the 'NBA Fast Break' television series. Since 2006 he has also been employed by Wasserman Media Group, a sports marketing and representation group out of Los Angeles, California representing professional athletes and other entertainers.

He currently serves as an agent for Bulls point guard, Derrick Rose, who was the first player selected in the 2008 NBA Draft. He also serves an agent for Warriors forward Draymond Green.

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Or is it the other way around?  What we know for sure is that the same actor plays both roles and we don't yet know the real identity of the scumbag.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is 95% owner of Kingdom Holding Company.  The central figure behind KHC, one of the world’s unrivalled international holding companies, is His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul-Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia. Named twice by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s most intelligent and creative investors, Prince Alwaleed sets the agenda for KHC’s world operations, providing a guiding vision which has seen remarkable success and worldwide recognition.

The grandson of two of the Arab world’s most celebrated figures – King Abdul-Aziz Alsaud, founder and first ruler of Saudi Arabia and HE. Riad El Solh, iconic statesman in Lebanon’s drive for independence – Prince Alwaleed has always been inspired by the uncommon achievements of his family line.

In addition to the Prince’s business interests, HRH funds a series of highly respected charitable foundations aimed at affecting social change and providing relief and opportunities to those in need. In recognition for this important contribution, Prince Alwaleed has been the recipient of many honors and accolades from esteemed organizations, societies, monarchs and heads of state worldwide.

In 1979, Prince Alwaleed formed his own company, Kingdom Establishment for Commerce and Trade – the company that would, in 1996, become KHC. Having completed his first major deal, Prince Alwaleed chose to invest the profits into Riyadh real estate – a shrewd decision that, in many ways, proved to be the foundation KHC’s success.

 While analyzing other opportunities for potential value, Prince Alwaleed began to investigate the Saudi banking sector. In 1988, the company acquired a controlling stake in the ailing United Saudi Commercial Bank (USCB). With a change in management and the Prince’s guidance, USCB’s fortunes were rapidly transformed, becoming the most profitable Saudi Arabian commercial bank in just one year. With stocks in USCB having multiplied twenty-fold, the Prince negotiated a merger with the struggling Saudi Cairo Bank to create the United Saudi Bank (USB). Prince Alwaleed then began to view the dominant Saudi American Bank (SAMBA) as a source of managerial strength and leadership that could add real value to USB. In 1999, the merger was completed, forming one of the largest banking groups in the region.

In the early 1990s it was almost unthinkable that a Saudi Arabian, and a Royal at that, would burst onto the global banking investment scene from seemingly nowhere – but in 1991 that is exactly what happened. Effecting a significant coup that would catapult him into the global spotlight, HRH invested heavily in Citibank (subsequently Citigroup) stocks in a bold move that surprised many. That surprise rapidly turned into admiration as the Prince’s guidance helped restore the banking giant to full health, returning it to its place as the world’s leading financial institution. Prince Alwaleed’s investment in Citigroup has since delivered an extraordinary level of return, and represents the largest proportion of HRH’s personal wealth.

Whilst the banking sector is an important part of Prince Alwaleed’s long-term investment strategy, KHC is always looking to expand his operations to other markets. Accordingly, KHC has acquired substantial interests in other sectors including hotels, real estate, media, broadcasting, entertainment, information technology, communications, fashion retail, supermarkets, health and education.



He is a member of the Saudi royal family. Waleed was listed as one of Time magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world in 2008. Waleed is a nephew of the late Saudi King Abdullah, a grandson of Ibn Saud, the first Saudi king, and a grandson of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon's first Prime Minister.

Al-Waleed is the founder, the chief executive officerand 95 percent-owner of the Kingdom Holding Company, a Forbes Global 2000 company with investments in companies within various sectors such as banking and financial services, hotels and hotel management companies, mass media, entertainment, retail, agriculture, petrochemicals, aviation, technology, and real estate. The company has market cap of over $18 billion in 2013. Waleed is also Citigroup's largest individual shareholder, the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corporation, he owns Paris’s Four Seasons Hotel George V and part of Plaza Hotel. His business acumen and shrewd entrepreneurial prowess have earned him comparisons to American investor and business magnate Warren Buffett. Due to his prominence as a businessman, he was acknowledged by Time, who labeled the Prince as the “Arabian Warren Buffett."

In March 2013, Forbes listed Al-Waleed as the 26th-richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$20 billion. Al-Waleed disputes the Forbes valuation and believes his wealth to be $26 billion. Bloomberg later estimated his wealth as $30 billion. In December 2013, Arabian Business estimated his wealth at $31.2 billion, while it also ranked him as the most influential Arab in the world.

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Elon Musk fraud played by Scott Wolf actor.

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Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, is a fraud and an actor, played by the same guy who plays Scott Wolf of Teen Drama TV series, Party of Five.  Incredible.  

We know that both PayPal and Tesla have produced technology that is slowly changing business and consumer lifestyle, so why the need to have an actor play the role of Elon Musk?  It all seems rather suspicious.  Is there some darker purpose?  Of course.  Electric vehicles should have been on the roads decades ago.  And central banking money supply is soon to be supplanted by less monopolistic systems.  By having an actor as the public face of the future, there can be a gateway type of control on the flow of money, people and ideas into the future.  And this flow can be commandeered to the favourable liking of those darker forces in the background running the show.



Elon Musk is a South Africa-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor.  He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity. He is the founder of SpaceX and a cofounder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and Zip2.  He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop.  Musk was born June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, to a Canadian-English mother and prominent model Maye Musk and a South African-born British father and electrical/mechanical engineer Errol Musk. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in locations in South Africa. He taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500.

Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School before graduating from Pretoria Boys High School and moving to Canada in 1988 at age 17, after obtaining Canadian citizenship through his mother. He did so before his South African military service, reasoning that it would be easier to emigrate to the United States from Canada than from South Africa.

At age 19, Musk was accepted into Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario for undergraduate study, and in 1992, after spending two years at Queen's University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he eventually received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School. Musk stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. In 1995, age 24, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in Applied physics at Stanford, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and outer space. In 2002, he became an American citizen. 

Musk has been married twice. He met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Musk (née Wilson), while both were students at Ontario's Queen's University, Kingston. They married in 2000 and separated eight years later after having six sons, five of whom they share custody. Their first son, Nevada Alexander, died of SIDS when he was 10 weeks old. Following the divorce, Justine Musk gave an interview describing her marriage with Musk in Marie Claire magazine. Musk announced in January 2012 that he had recently ended a four-year relationship with his second wife, British actress Talulah Riley. On January 18, 2012, he tweeted to Riley, "It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day." In July 2013, he decided to remarry Riley. On February 11, 2014, Musk was invited to attend a state dinner at the White House; the guest list included Musk and Riley. In a 60 Minutes interview on March 30, 2014 with CBS journalist Scott Pelley, Elon and Riley were shown together with Elon's five children. In December 2014, Musk filed for a second divorce from Riley.

Tosca Musk, Elon's sister, is the founder of Musk Entertainment and has produced various movies.

Scott Wolf is an American actor, known for his roles in the television series Party of Five as Bailey Salinger, Jake Hartman in Everwood and Chad Decker in V.  Wolf was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Susan (née Levy), is retired, and his father, Steven Wolf, is a health care executive. Wolf was raised in a Reform Jewish family. He grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, and graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance. He also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. His cousin is Josh Wolf.

Wolf was engaged to Alyssa Milano in 1993, but were separated after a year and a half. In 2002, he began dating Kelley Marie Limp, an alumna of MTV's The Real World: New Orleans, after meeting through mutual friend Joel Goldman in New York City. They married on May 29, 2004, and planned to make their home in Santa Monica, California. Their son, Jackson Kayse, was born in 2009. On May 19, 2012, Wolf announced on Twitter that he and his wife were expecting their second child. Miller William was born on Saturday, November 10, 2012.  On November 20, 2013, he announced their third child was on the way in May 2014. Their daughter Lucy Marie was born on May 24, 2014. Scott and his wife Kelley now make Park City, Utah their family home.

THE WIVES

Kelley Marie Limp and Justine Musk.

Dumb and Dumber Dallas: Rick Carlisle and Jim Carrey are the same man!

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Who doesn't love Jim Carrey?  From rags to riches.  From living in a car to becoming arguably the greatest star in Hollywood.  A Canadian icon.  An inspiration to countless millions.  A seething cauldron of talent like no other.  The man with the divine spark of physical comedy that made the world rock with laughter.

  

Or so the story goes.  I had hoped that this day would never come, but it saddens me to report that the legend of Jim Carrey is a fabrication.  His talent is not in question, but his motives are.  

Ed Chiarini has discovered that the actor that plays the Jim Carrey character, also has another life as coach of the Dallas Mavericks, going by the name of Rick Carlisle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16IV1ZyRC4
Larry the Cable Guy basketball scene:

Rick Carlisle asks: "Who is this Guy"

Notice the voice, facial gestures!  It's him!

RICK CARLISLE

FROM WIKIPEDIA:  Richard Preston "Rick" Carlisle, born October 27, 1959 is the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistonsand was previously a player in the NBA. He is also one of the only 11 people to win an NBA championship both as a player and as a coach.

Carlisle coaching the Mavs (2009)

Playing career

Carlisle was raised in Lisbon, New York. He attended Lisbon Central High School, then spent a year at Worcester Academy. He played two years of college basketball at the University of Maine from 1979 to 1981, before transferring to the University of Virginia. He co-captained the Cavaliers to the Final Four in 1984 and averaged 12.5 points and 3.3 rebounds per game during his college career.

NBA

After graduating that same year, he was drafted by the Boston Celtics (23rd pick in the third round), where he played alongside Larry Bird. With the Celtics under coach K.C. Jones he won the NBA championship in 1986 against the Houston Rockets and lost in the NBA Finals in 1985 and 1987 to the Los Angeles Lakers. From 1984 to 1987, he averaged 2.2 points, 1.0 assists and 0.8 rebounds per game in a limited reserve role. Carlisle then played for Bill Musselman's Albany Patroons, and was then signed as a free agent by the New York Knicks under coach Rick Pitino, where he played alongside future star Patrick Ewing. In 1989, Carlisle played in 5 games with the New Jersey Nets under Bill Fitch.

Coaching career

Later in 1989, he accepted an assistant coaching position with the Nets, where he spent five seasons under Bill Fitch and Chuck Daly. In 1994, Carlisle joined the assistant coaching staff with the Portland Trail Blazers under coach P. J. Carlesimo, where he spent three seasons.

In 1997, Carlisle joined the Indiana Pacers organization as an assistant coach under his former team mate, Larry Bird. During his time as Pacers assistant coach, he helped the Pacers to two of their best seasons ever. First, in 1997–98, the Pacers stretched the Chicago Bulls to the limit, narrowly losing the deciding seventh game of theEastern Conference Finals to the eventual NBA champion. Then, in 1999–2000 season, the Pacers made the NBA Finals for the first time, ultimately losing to the Los Angeles Lakers. Bird stepped down as coach, and pushed for Carlisle to be selected as his replacement, but Pacers team president Donnie Walsh gave the job to Isiah Thomas.

Detroit Pistons

For the 2001 season, Carlisle was hired by the Detroit Pistons to be their new head coach. In two seasons as Pistons' head coach, Carlisle led the team to consecutive 50–32 records (.610) with Central Division titles and playoff appearances. He was named Coach of the Year in 2002. However, the Pistons fired Carlisle after the 2002–03 season with a year remaining on his contract and hiredLarry Brown. Friction between Carlisle and team ownership was cited as one of the primary reasons for the firing. Ironically, Carlisle's Pistons had just dispatched Brown's Philadelphia 76ers in the Conference Semifinals.

Indiana Pacers

For the 2003–04 season, Carlisle was re-hired by the Indiana Pacers, this time as its head coach (Isiah Thomas had been fired, almost immediately after Larry Bird was brought back as the new President of Basketball Operations). In his first season, Carlisle led the Pacers to the Central Division title and NBA's best regular-season record at 61–21 (74.4%), setting a franchise record for wins. In the playoffs, the team eliminated both the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat, before losing to the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals. That year, he coached the East All-Stars at the All-Star Game. In 2005, the Pacers roster was decimated by injuries (most notably, those of Jermaine O'Neal, Stephen Jackson and Jamaal Tinsley) and suspensions that were meted out after the Pacers–Pistons brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills, which resulted in Ron Artest being suspended for the rest of the season, Jackson being suspended for 30 games and O'Neal being suspended for 15 games. However, Carlisle was still able to rally the Pacers to the NBA Playoffs that season. As the sixth seed, they again defeated the Boston Celtics in the first round, before being defeated once again by the eventual Eastern Conference champion, the Detroit Pistons.

After the Pacers finished the 2006–07 season with a 35–47 record (missing the playoffs for the first time since 1997), Carlisle's tenure as head coach ended; it was unclear whether he voluntarily resigned, was fired, or was pushed to resign. In four seasons with the Indiana Pacers, Carlisle compiled a 181–147 record. On June 12, 2007, Carlisle announced that he would also resign from his position as Executive Vice President of the Indiana Pacers.

After leaving Indiana, Carlisle worked as a studio analyst for ESPN before signing with the Dallas Mavericks as the team's new head coach.

Dallas Mavericks

On May 9, 2008, Carlisle signed a four-year deal with Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks, replacing Avery Johnson. He led them to a 50–32 record including a first round win against the San Antonio Spurs. They would lose to the Denver Nuggets 4–1 in the Western Conference Semifinals. The next year he coached the Mavs to a 55–27 record, first in Southwest Division and second in the West, but lost in the first round to the Spurs. In 2010, Dallas won sixteen of its first twenty games in a competitive Western Conference.

The 2010–11 season was Carlisle's most successful as a head coach. The Mavericks finished the regular season with a 57–25 win-loss record. On May 8, 2011, they swept the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Semifinals. On May 25, 2011, the Mavericks enjoyed a 4–1 series win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, the first Conference Finals victory of his coaching career. In the 2011 NBA Finals, he coached the Mavericks to a 4–2 series victory over the Miami Heat for the franchise's first championship.

In the 2012 NBA Playoffs the Mavs lost 0–4 to theThunder in the First round.

On May 15, 2012, Carlisle agreed to a new 4-year deal with the Mavericks. In 2013, the Mavericks finished 41–41 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2000. In 2014, Carlisle led the Mavericks back to the playoffs as the eighth seed with a 49–33 record where they would meet their in state rivals San Antonio Spurs in the first round. The Mavericks lost the series in seven games as the Spurs went on to win the 2014 NBA Finals.

On January 30, 2015, he recorded his 600th win in a game against Miami.

JIM CARREY

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey, born January 17, 1962, is a Canadian American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and film producer. Carrey has received two Golden Globe Awards. Known for his highly energetic slapstick performances, he has been described as one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood.

Carrey first gained recognition in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the sketch comedy In Living Color. His first leading roles in major productions came with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), The Mask(1994), and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), as well as a supporting role in Batman Forever (1995) and a lead role in Liar Liar (1997). He then starred in The Truman Show (1998) and Man on the Moon (1999), with each garnering him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

In 2000, he gained further recognition for his portrayal of the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and then, in 2003, for Bruce Almighty. The following year he starred inEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He then starred in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events(2004), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Yes Man (2008),Horton Hears a Who (2008) and A Christmas Carol (2009). More recently, he has starred in Mr. Popper's Penguins(2011) and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013).

In 2013, he appeared in Kick-Ass 2 as Colonel Stars and Stripes. Controversially, he retracted support for the movie two months prior to its release. He issued a statement via his Twitter account that, in light of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, "[N]ow in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence."

Carrey reprised his role, Lloyd Christmas, in Dumb and Dumber To, which was produced in late 2013 and released in November 2014.

Early life

James Eugene Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, to Kathleen (née Oram), a homemaker, and Percy Carrey (1927–1994), a musician and accountant. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia, and Rita. He was raised Roman Catholic. His mother was of French, Irish, and Scottish descent and his father was of French-Canadian ancestry (the family's original surname wasCarré).

During an interview with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio, Carrey stated,

My father was a musician who got a "regular job" to support his children. When he lost his job that's when everything fell apart. We went from "lower middle class" to "poor". We were living out of a van. I quit school at age 15 to begin working to help support my family as a janitor. I'd have a baseball bat on my janitor cart because I was so angry I just wanted to beat the heck out of something.

After his family moved to Scarborough, Ontario he attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School, in North York, for two years, enrolled at Agincourt Collegiate Institute for another year, then briefly attendedNorthview Heights Secondary School. Carrey never finished high school because he worked full-time to help his family survive their economic hardship, and also helped care for his mother who battled a severe, chronic illness.

Carrey lived in Burlington, Ontario, for eight years, and attended Aldershot High School, where he once opened for 1980s new wave band Spoons. In a Hamilton Spectator interview (February 2007), Carrey said, "If my career in show business hadn't panned out I would probably be working today in Hamilton, Ontario at the Dofasco steel mill." When looking across the Burlington Bay toward Hamilton, he could see the mills and thought, "Those were where the great jobs were." At this point, he already had experience working in a science testing facility in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Career

Early work

While Carrey was struggling to obtain work and make a name for himself, his father tried to help the young comedian put together a stage act, driving him to Toronto to debut at comedy club Yuk Yuk's.  Carrey's impersonations bombed and this gave him doubts about his capabilities as a professional entertainer. His family's financial struggles made it difficult for them to support Carrey's ambitions. Eventually, the family's financial problems were resolved and they moved into a new home. With more domestic stability, Carrey returned to the stage with a more polished act. In a short period of time, he went from open-mic nights to regular paid shows, building his reputation in the process. A reviewer in theToronto Star raved that Carrey was "a genuine star coming to life". Carrey was soon noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who signed the young comic to open his tour performances. Dangerfield eventually brought Carrey to Las Vegas. Carrey soon decided to move to Hollywood, where he began performing at The Comedy Store and, in 1982, appeared on the televised stand-up show An Evening at the Improv. The following year, he debuted his act on The Tonight Show.

Despite his increasing popularity as a stand-up comic, Carrey turned his attention to the film and television industries, auditioning to be a cast member for the 1980–1981 season of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Carrey was not selected for the position, although he did host the show in May 1996, January 2011 and October 2014. He was cast in several low-budget films, including Rubberface (1981), in which he played a struggling young comic, and Copper Mountain (1983), in which he played a sex-starved teen. The latter film included his impersonation of Sammy Davis, Jr., and was not considered a full-length feature film since it ran less than one hour and consisted largely of musical performances by Rita Coolidge and Ronnie Hawkins.

In 1984, Carrey was cast as the lead in the NBC sitcom The Duck Factory, where he played a quirky young artist alongside Jay Tarses. However, the show was cancelled during its first season. Despite the cancellation, the show helped Carrey land roles in several films. He played his first leading role in Once Bitten (1985) followed by supporting roles in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), The Dead Pool (1988), and Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992). When Carrey returned to stand-up, he retired his old act, vowing that he did not want to be famous for imitating other people. "Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me." While many thought he was ill-advised to retire his old act, others were increasingly interested in what Carrey was attempting to do. One of these people was writer/director Judd Apatow. The pair struck up a friendship and began writing material together.

Carrey continued to land small roles in film and television productions in the late 1980s, which led to a friendship with fellow comedian Damon Wayans, who co-starred with Carrey as an extraterrestrial in 1989's Earth Girls Are Easy. Damon introduced Carrey to his brother Keenen, who was creating a sketch comedy show called In Living Color for the new Fox network. Carrey eventually landed a recurring role in the show which first aired on April 15, 1990. By the third season, Carrey was one of the few remaining original cast members and was ready to move on to bigger things, after agreeing to take on his first lead role in a major Hollywood film.

Rise to fame

Carrey did not experience true stardom until he was cast in the lead role of the slapstick comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), which premiered only months before In Living Color ended. Though he agreed to play the title character, Carrey was willing to take the role only if he was allowed to rewrite the script to suit his over-the-top visions. The film, while dismissed by most critics, was an international hit, and transformed Carrey into a bankable box-office star.

That same year, Carrey landed lead roles in The Mask and Dumb and Dumber. The Mask garnered him his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination, with Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praising him for his "joyful performance". Well received by critics, Dumb and Dumber was a commercial success, grossing over $270 million worldwide,^[26] and again increasing Carrey's fanbase.

In 1995, Carrey co-starred in the Joel Schumacher-directed superhero film Batman Forever, in which Batman tries to stopTwo-Face and the Riddler (played by Carrey) in their villainous scheme to drain information from all the brains in Gotham City. The feature received reasonable reviews, with most criticism aimed at the movie's "blatant commercialism", as characterized by Peter Travers. In that same year, Carrey reprised his role as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Like the original film, it was well received by the public, but heavily criticised by critics. However, it was a huge box-office success, earning $212 million worldwide in addition to breaking records, with a $40 million opening weekend. Carrey earned $20 million for his next film, The Cable Guy (1996). Directed by Ben Stiller, Carrey played a lonely, slightly menacing cable TV installer who infiltrates the life of one of his customers (played by Matthew Broderick). The film tested Carrey's boundaries of his tried and true "hapless, hyper, overconfident" characters that he is known for regularly playing. However, it did not fare well with critics, many reacting towards Carrey's change of tone to previous films. Despite the reviews,The Cable Guy grossed $102 million worldwide.

He soon bounced back in 1997 with the critically acclaimed comedy Liar Liar, playing Fletcher Reede, a successful lawyer who has built his career on lying, regularly breaking promises that he makes to his son Max. Max soon makes a birthday wish that for just that one day, his dad would not be able to lie. Carrey was praised for his performance, earning a second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor.Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Well into his tumultuous career, Mr. Carrey finally turns up in a straightforward comic vehicle, and the results are much wilder and funnier than this mundane material should have allowed."

Critical acclaim

The following year he decided to take a pay cut to play the serious role of Truman Burbank in thesatirical comedy-drama film The Truman Show (1998). The film was highly praised and brought Carrey further international acclaim, leading many to believe he would be nominated for an Oscar.  Eventually, he did pick up his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. The Truman Show was a commercial success also, earning $264 million worldwide against a budget of $60 million. A Film4 critic stated that the film "allows Carrey to edge away from broad comedy", adding that it was "a hilarious and breathtakingly conceived satire". That same year, Carrey appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the final episode of Garry Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show, in which he deliberately ripped into Shandling's character. In 1999, Carrey had the lead role in Man on the Moon. He portrayed comedian Andy Kaufman to critical acclaim, with many believing that Carrey would finally be nominated for Best Actor. He received his second Golden Globe Award for the second consecutive year. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote of Carrey's performance, "A brilliant, almost terrifying impersonation."

In 2000, Carrey reteamed with the Farrelly Brothers, who had directed him in Dumb and Dumber, in the comedy film Me, Myself & Irene, a film that received mixed reviews but enjoyed box office success. Carrey played the role of state trooper Charlie Baileygates, who has multiple personalities and romances a woman portrayed by Renée Zellweger. That same year, Carrey starred in the second highest grossing Christmas film of all time, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, playing the title character, for which he received both praise and criticism. The film garnered him his third Golden Globe Award nomination in addition to countless other nominations and several wins.

For his next feature film, Carrey starred opposite Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman in Tom Shadyac's international hit comedy Bruce Almighty (2003). Carrey played a TV newsman who unexpectedly receives God's omnipotent abilities when the deity decides to take a vacation. The film received mixed reviews upon release but despite this was a financial success, earning over $484 million worldwide, and going on to become the seventeenth highest-grossing live action comedy of all time. The film has since gained a cult following. In 2004, Carrey starred in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film received overwhelming acclaim upon release. Critics highly praised Carrey's portrayal of Joel Barish, in addition to the performance of his co-star Kate Winslet, who received an Oscar nomination. According to CNN's reviewer Paul Clinton, Carrey's performance was the actor's "best, most mature and sharply focused performance ever." He received his fourth Golden Globe Award nomination, and was also nominated for his first BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Carrey's next appearance was in the 2004 black comedy fantasy filmLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which was based on the popular children's novels of the same name. The film received a positive reception, with Desson Thomson from The Washington Post saying of Carrey's approach to the character of Count Olaf,

Olaf is a humorless villain in the book. He's not amusing like Carrey at all. To which I would counter: If you can't let Carrey be Carrey, put someone boring and less expensive in the role. In his various disguises he's rubbery, inventive and improvisationally inspired. I particularly liked his passing imitation of a dinosaur.

That same year, Carrey was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame. In 2005, Carrey starred in a remake of Fun with Dick and Jane, playing Dick, a husband who becomes a bank robber after he loses his job. The film was dismissed by most critics but became a box office hit.

Continued success

In 2007, Carrey reunited with Joel Schumacher, director of Batman Forever, for The Number 23, a psychological thriller co-starring Virginia Madsen and Danny Huston. In the film, Carrey plays a man who becomes obsessed with the number 23, after finding a book about a man with the same obsession. The film was panned by critics and did not fare well at the box office. The following year Carrey provided his voice for Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008). Carrey voiced the beloved elephant for the CGI-animated feature, which received overwhelmingly positive reviews and delivered family crowds en masse. The film was also a box office success, raking in over $290 million worldwide. Later in the year, Carrey returned to live action comedy, starring opposite Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper inYes Man (2008). Carrey played down-and-out man, Carl Allen, who had gone nowhere in life, thanks to always saying no to everything, until he signs up for a self-help program that teaches him the power of saying yes. Despite reviews being mixed, Rene Rodriquez of The Miami Herald stated, "Yes Man is fine as far as Jim Carrey comedies go, but it's even better as a love story that just happens to make you laugh." The film had a decent performance at the box office, earning $225 million worldwide.

Since 2009, Carrey's work has included a leading role in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's I Love You Phillip Morris, premiering in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving a wide release in February 2010. Carrey portrayed Steven Jay Russell, a con artist, imposter, and multiple prison escapee who falls in love with his fellow inmate, Phillip Morris (played by Ewan McGregor). The film received largely positive reviews, with Damon Wise of The Times giving the film four stars out of five, stating, "I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good Carrey can be when he's not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as ever."

For the first time in his career, Carrey portrayed multiple characters in Disney's 3D animated take on the classic Charles Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol (2009), voicing Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film also starred Robin Wright Penn, Bob Hoskins,Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, and Cary Elwes. The film received reasonable reviews and was a financial success. In 2011, Carrey landed the lead role in Mr. Popper's Penguins, playing Thomas "Tom" Popper Jr. a realtor who becomes the caretaker of a family of penguins. The film received a mixed reception upon release. In 2013 he starred alongside former co-star Steve Carell in the Don Scardino-directed comedy film Burt Wonderstone (2013). Carrey played Steve Gray, a dangerous street magician who overshadows the formerly successful magician Burt Wonderstone (played by Carell). The film was released in March 2013 to mixed reviews and under performed significantly at the box office, grossing just over $27 million on a $30 million budget.

Peter Farrelly said in April 2012 that Carrey and Jeff Daniels would return for a Dumb and Dumbersequel, Dumb and Dumber To, with the Farrelly brothers writing and directing and a planned September 2012 production start. In June, however, Carrey's representative said Carrey had left the project because the comedian felt New Line and Warner Bros. were unenthusiastic toward it. However, on October 1, 2012, Yahoo!'s "The Yo Show" carried the news item that the script was complete and that the original actors, Carrey and Daniels, would be reprising their roles. The plot involved one of the characters having sired a child and needing to find them in order to obtain a kidney. Dumb and Dumber To was released in November 2014.

In March 2013, Carrey announced that he had written a children's book titled How Roland Rolls, about a scared wave named Roland. He described it as "kind of a metaphysical children's story, which deals with a lot of heavy stuff in a really childish way." Carrey self-published the book, which was released in September 2013.

On March 25, 2013, Carrey released a parody music video with Eels through Funny or Die, with Carrey replacing Mark Oliver Everett on vocals. The song and video, titled "Cold Dead Hand" and set as a musical act during the variety program Hee Haw, lampoons American gun culture, and specifically former NRA spokesperson Charlton Heston.

In May 2014 Carrey delivered the commencement address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, and received an honorary doctorate for his achievements as a comedian, artist, author, and philanthropist.

Personal life

Health

Carrey has battled depression. To deal with his depression, Carrey took Prozac, eventually deciding to get off medications. He has stated that he no longer takes medications or stimulants of any kind, not even coffee.

Relationships

Carrey met model and actress Jenny McCarthy in 2005 and made their relationship public in June 2006. In April 2010, the two ended their near five-year relationship. Despite the split and media circulations, McCarthy stated in October 2010 that, "Jim and I are still good friends".In 1983 Carrey dated Linda Rondstadt for 8 months. Carrey has been married twice. His first marriage was to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer, whom he married on March 28, 1987. Their daughter Jane Erin Carrey was born September 6, 1987. Jane was a 2012 contestant on American Idol. The two divorced in 1995. A year later Carrey married his Dumb and Dumber co-star Lauren Holly, on September 23, 1996; the marriage lasted less than a year. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Carrey was involved in a series of relationships, including Laurie Holden, January Jones, and Anine Bing. In addition, Carrey had a much-publicized yet short-lived romance with his Me, Myself and Irene co-star Renée Zellweger, whom he dated, and at one point was engaged to from 1999 to 2000.

Citizenship

Carrey received U.S. citizenship in October 2004 and remains a dual citizen of both the United States and his native Canada.

Beliefs

Carrey has been a critic of the scientific consensus that no evidence links the childhood MMR vaccination to the development of autism, and wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination and vaccine research for the Huffington Post. With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a "Green Our Vaccines" march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of toxins from children's vaccines, out of a belief that children had received "too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic."

Carrey is a follower and an advocate for the law of attraction. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1997, Carrey revealed that as a struggling actor he would use visualization techniques to get work. He also stated that he visualized a $10,000,000 check given to him for "Acting services rendered", placed the check in his pocket, and seven years later received a check for $10,000,000 for his role in Dumb and Dumber.

Carrey is a transcendental meditation practitioner.

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Maya Angelou 

Born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014, was an American author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghanaduring the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked withMartin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Beginning in the 1990s, she made around 80 appearances a year on thelecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense ofAfrican American culture. Attempts have been made to ban her books from some U.S. libraries, but her works are widely used in schools and universities worldwide. Angelou's major works have been labeled asautobiographical fiction, but many critics have characterized them as autobiographies. She made a deliberate attempt to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing, and expanding the genre. Her books center on themes such asracism, identity, family, and travel.

AFRICAN connection and MALCOLM X

In 1961, Angelou performed in Jean Genet's play The Blacks, along with Abbey Lincoln, Roscoe Lee Brown,James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett, Godfrey Cambridge, and Cicely Tyson. Also in 1961, she met South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make; they never officially married. She and her son Guy moved with Make to Cairo, where Angelou worked as an associate editor at the weekly English-language newspaper The Arab Observer. In 1962, her relationship with Make ended, and she and Guy moved to Accra, Ghana, he to attend college, but he was seriously injured in an automobile accident. Angelou remained in Accra for his recovery and ended up staying there until 1965. She became an administrator at the University of Ghana, and was active in the African-American expatriate community. She was a feature editor forThe African Review, a freelance writer for the Ghanaian Times, wrote and broadcast for Radio Ghana, and worked and performed for Ghana's National Theatre. She performed in a revival of The Blacks in Geneva and Berlin.

In Accra, she became close friends with Malcolm X during his visit in the early 1960s. Angelou returned to the U.S. in 1965 to help him build a new civil rights organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity; he was assassinated shortly afterward. Devastated and adrift, she joined her brother in Hawaii, where she resumed her singing career, and then moved back to Los Angeles to focus on her writing career. She worked as a market researcher in Watts and witnessed the riots in the summer of 1965. She acted in and wrote plays, and returned to New York in 1967. She met her lifelong friend Rosa Guy and renewed her friendship with James Baldwin, whom she had met in Paris in the 1950s and called "my brother", during this time. Her friend Jerry Purcell provided Angelou with a stipend to support her writing.

Personal life

The details of Angelou's life described in her seven autobiographies and in numerous interviews, speeches, and articles tended to be inconsistent. Critic Mary Jane Lupton has explained that when Angelou spoke about her life, she did so eloquently but informally and "with no time chart in front of her". For example, she was married at least twice, but never clarified the number of times she had been married, "for fear of sounding frivolous"; according to her autobiographies and to Gillespie, she married Tosh Angelos in 1951 and Paul du Feu in 1973, and began her relationship with Vusumzi Make in 1961, but never formally married him. Angelou had one son Guy, whose birth was described in her first autobiography, one grandson, and two great-grandchildren, and according to Gillespie, a large group of friends and extended family. Angelou's mother Vivian Baxter died in 1991 and her brother Bailey Johnson, Jr., died in 2000 after a series of strokes; both were important figures in her life and her books. In 1981, the mother of her son Guy's child disappeared with Angelou's grandson; it took four years to find him. In 2009, the gossip website TMZ erroneously reported that Angelou had been hospitalized in Los Angeles when she was alive and well in St. Louis, which resulted in rumors of her death and according to Angelou, concern among her friends and family worldwide.

Betty Shabazz  

Born Betty Dean Sanders (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997) and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X.

Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism. She attended theTuskegee Institute in Alabama, where she had her first encounters with racism. Unhappy with the situation in Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she became a nurse. It was in New York that she met Malcolm X and, in 1956, joined the Nation of Islam. The couple married in 1958.

Along with her husband, Shabazz left the Nation of Islam in 1964. She witnessed his assassination the following year. Left with the responsibility of raising six daughters as a single mother, Shabazz pursued a higher education, and went to work at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.

Following the arrest of her daughter Qubilah for allegedly conspiring to murder Louis Farrakhan, Shabazz took in her young grandson Malcolm. He set a fire in her apartment that caused severe burns to Shabazz. Shabazz died three weeks later as a result of her injuries.

Early years

Betty Dean Sanders was born on May 28, 1934, to Ollie Mae Sanders and Shelman Sandlin. Sandlin was 21 years old and Ollie Mae Sanders was a teenager; the couple were unmarried. Throughout her life, Betty Sanders maintained that she had been born in Detroit, Michigan, but early records—such as her high-school and college transcripts—show Pinehurst, Georgia, as her place of birth. Authorities in Georgia and Michigan have not been able to locate her birth certificate.

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BILL COSBY AND JACOB ZUMA ARE THE SAME MAN!

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma,GCB (born 12 April 1942) is the President of South Africa, elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election. He was reelected in the 2014 election.

Zuma is the President of the African National Congress(ANC), the governing political party, and was Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005. Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ and his clan name Msholozi.  Zuma became the President of the ANC on 18 December 2007 after defeating incumbent Thabo Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane. He was re-elected as ANC leader at theANC conference in Manguangon 18 December 2012, defeating challenger Kgalema Motlanthe by a large majority.  Zuma was also a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), briefly serving on the party's Politburo until he left the party in 1990. On 20 September 2008, Thabo Mbeki announced his resignation after being recalled by the African National Congress's National Executive Committee. The recall came after South African High Court Judge Christopher Nicholson ruled that Mbeki had improperly interfered with the operations of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption.

Zuma was charged with rape in 2005, but was acquitted. In addition, he fought a long legal battle over allegations of racketeering and corruption, resulting from his financial advisor Schabir Shaik's conviction for corruption and fraud. On 6 April 2009, the National Prosecuting Authority decided to drop the charges, citing political interference.

JACOB ZUMA IS INDEED A CLOWN

Jacob Zuma is a polygamist who has been married six times[80][81] and in 2012 the Daily Telegraph estimated Zuma to have 20 children.[4] In June 2012, activists, including some from the ANC itself, complained about the amount the state paid to support Zuma's wives, especially in the context of the country's widespread poverty.[4][82] In 2009/10 Zuma received a budget of £1.2m for "spousal support", almost twice the amount paid during the terms in office of Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, leading to suggestions that only Zuma's first wife should receive state support.

1. Gertrude Sizakele Khumalo, whom he met in 1959 and married shortly after his release from prison in 1973.  She lives at his home at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. They have no children.
2. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a cabinet minister since 1999, with whom he has four children. They divorced in June 1998.
3. Kate Mantsho, from Mozambique, with whom he had five children. She committed suicide on 8 December 2000.
4. Nompumelelo Ntuli (MaNtuli), married on 8 January 2008. Ntuli, born 1975, is a resident of KwaMaphumulo near Stanger and has three children.
5. Thobeka Stacie Madiba (born Mabhija, her mother's name), married 4 January 2010 with whom he has one child. Zuma paid lobola to her clan in 2007. Their child was born in October 2007. She has another of Zuma's out-of-wedlock children living with her. Mabhija grew up in Umlazi, where she matriculated at Umlazi Commercial High School. She has worked at Standard Bank, Ithala,Cell C and SA Homeloans in La Lucia.  She owns a house in Durban North.
6. Gloria Bongekile Ngema, married on 20 April 2012. The wedding took place in Nkandla and was attended by Zuma's three other wives. Following a traditional ceremony known as umgcagco, the bridal party participated in a traditional Zulu competitive celebratory dance. Ngema has one son with Zuma.

Fiancées

Zuma paid 10 cattle as lobola for Swazi Princess Sebentile Dlamini in 2003.

Other children

• He has another son, Edward, with Minah Shongwe, sister of Judge Jeremiah Shongwe, who asked to be recused from Zuma's rape trial because of the liaison.
• He has two daughters, born 18 January 1998 and 19 September 2002, with Pietermaritzburg businesswoman Priscilla Nonkwaleko Mhlongo.
• There are reports of four other children – three from a woman fromJohannesburg and one from a woman from Richard's Bay.

2009 "love-child"

In January 2010, The Sunday Times reported that Sonono Khoza, the daughter of Irvin Khoza, gave birth to Zuma's 20th child on 8 October 2009, a daughter called Thandekile Matina Zuma.

On 3 February, Zuma responded, confirming that the child was his, and that he had paid inhlawulo, acknowledging paternity. He protested the publishing of the child's name, saying it was illegal exploitation of the child. He denied that the incident had relevance to the government’s AIDS programme (which promotes marital fidelity as a mechanism for preventing the disease), and appealed for privacy.  On 6 February, Zuma said he "deeply regretted the pain that he caused to his family, the ANC, the alliance and South Africans in general." The office of the presidency's comment was that it was a private matter.

William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and activist. Cosby's start in stand-up began at the hungry i in San Francisco which was followed by landing a starring role in the 1960s show I Spy. During its first two seasons, he was a regular on the children's television series The Electric Company. Cosby is known for creating the cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. Cosby has also been a film actor.

Beginning in the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in a sitcom, The Cosby Show; the show aired from 1984 to 1992 and was rated as the number one show in America for five years, 1984 through 1989. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. He produced the Cosby Show spin-off sitcom A Different World. He starred in the sitcom Cosby from 1996 to 2000 and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things for two seasons, from 1998-2000.

In 1976, Cosby earned a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching tool in elementary schools.

Cosby was born on July 12, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He is one of four sons of Anna Pearl (née Hite), a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a cook in the U.S. Navy.  During much of Cosby's early childhood, his father was away in the U.S. armed forces, spending several years fighting in World War II. As a student, he described himself as a class clown. Cosby was the captain of both the baseball team and the track and field team at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia, as well as the class president.  Early on, though, teachers noted his propensity for clowning around rather than studying.

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