The Spirit of God says, I have made it known to My people the dissatisfaction. I’ve made it known to My people that I’ve been dissatisfied. They have said there is revival but where is it? God says there are traces of fires but I’ve chosen out states in this country and nations that will join you. There are states in this country that have flames that shall become huge fires. There are states in this nation that have just a little candlelight to flame which shall suddenly become a huge fire. You have waited in disappointment says the Lord saying, Oh God you have promised but where is it? For the Spirit of the Lord says, I’m watching, waiting to hear the sound of faith. To hear a testimony of greatness. To hear a testimony, to hear a praise report for once you give it out, I’ll come back to you. Double it up, triple it up, one hundred fold, two hundred fold, five hundred fold, I’ll go higher and higher and higher says the Spirit of God. Let me hear the sound of faith, let me hear the sound of praise; Let me hear the sound of God’s greatness coming from his people. Read Kim's Prophecy from July 31, 2004 (Regarding a plan of the enemy for mass suicides) |
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Kim Clement Prophetic Word on Rap Music Makers
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Rosie O’Donnell to Leave ‘The View’ in June
Rosie O’Donnell, who raised both the profile and ratings of “The View” this season by using it as a forum for her rants on the Iraq war, Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey and even her own castmates, will leave the show in June after failing to reach a contract extension, she announced on the program this morning.
“I have decided that we couldn’t come to terms with my deal with ABC so next year I’m not going to be on ‘The View,’ “ Ms. O’Donnell said on today’s show, just after it began broadcasting live at 11 a.m. eastern time. She said, however, that she expected to return to the program as a guest host occasionally next year, including to preside over one-hour special episodes about autism and depression.
Ms. O’Donnell, whose contract with the program was only for this season, said that ABC had wanted her to sign a three-year extension, while she had only wanted to commit to a year. An ABC executive who was directly apprised of the negotiations, but who was not authorized to discuss them, confirmed Ms. O’Donnell’s account, but said that there had also been a wide difference between the salary she was seeking and what the network was willing to pay.
What was not immediately clear was whether the many public feuds Ms. O’Donnell engaged in from her seat on “The View” — most famously with Mr. Trump — played any role in her departure. On Wednesday, for example, The New York Post described in its “Page Six” gossip column how Ms. O’Donnell’s crude taunts about Mr. Trump in a speech this week at an annual luncheon honoring women in communications had prompted Barbara Walters, the co-host and co-owner of “The View,” to bury her face in her hands on the dais.
Last year, the insults hurled between Mr. Trump and Ms. O’Donnell had ultimately, and uncharacteristically, drawn in Ms. Walters. She was prompted to label him a “poor, pathetic man” on “The View” after he asserted that Ms. Walters had privately told him she regretted the hiring of Ms. O’Donnell.
On today’s program, Ms. Walters, who sat immediately to Ms. O’Donnell’s left at the show’s trademark glass table, alluded to Ms. O’Donnell’s tempestuous tenure on the show by saying, “We have had, to say the least, an interesting year.” She added that the experience of having Ms. O’Donnell aboard had been “exciting, fun-filled and provocative.”
Still, Ms. Walters, who splits ownership of “The View” with ABC, nonetheless sought to distance herself from Ms. O’Donnell’s departure, telling the audience and viewers,” I would like to make one thing perfectly clear: I do not participate in the negotiations for Rosie. It’s ABC Daytime.”
“It was between your representative and ABC Daytime,” Ms. Walters reiterated, turning toward Ms. O’Donnell. “This is not my doing or my choice.”
Ms. Walters had used similar language in an interview nearly a year ago, in seeking to keep herself at arm’s length from what she characterized as ABC’s decision not to renew the contract of another outspoken “View” co-host, Star Jones.
Still, Ms. Walters — who shares a publicist with Ms. O’Donnell — had acknowledged in an interview last fall that she had her eyes wide open when she invited Ms. O’Donnell to join the cast. In effect, Ms. Walters got what she paid for: a resurgence in attention and ratings for a show that had been at risk of lurching toward irrelevance on the eve of this, its 10th season.
Ms. O’Donnell encouraged viewers to seek her out on her blog — www.rosie.com — after she leaves “The View.” Left unsaid was whether she might someday try to return to television in a reprise of her own talk show, which preceded her tenure on “The View.”
“That’s showbiz,” Ms. O’Donnell said of her looming departure. “But it’s not sad.”
Editor's Note: Do you really think that this is a question of contract negotiations? Don't think so. If this does happen, it will be because the pressure of having this abrasive woman on the show. Remember, Barbara Walters' legacy in television journalism has been ruined by Rosie. She will forever be remembered for firing Star Jones and hiring Rosie O'Donnell. She will never receive the recognition in broadcasting that she's earned. Sorry Barbara. But glad to see Rosie gone.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
HIP HOP'S PARADIGM SHIFT BEGINS - NOT!!
Currently such epithets are banned from most clean versions, but record companies sometimes "arbitrarily" decide which offensive words to exclude and there's no uniform standard for deleting such words, Simmons said.
The recommendations drew mixed reaction and come two weeks after some began carping anew about rap lyrics after radio personality Don Imus was fired by CBS Radio and NBC for referring to the players on the Rutgers university women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
Expressing concern about the "growing public outrage" over the use of such words in rap lyrics, Simmons said the words "bitch," "ho" and "nigger" should be considered "extreme curse words."
"We recommend (they're) always out," Simmons, the pioneering entrepreneur who made millions of dollars as he helped shape hip-hop culture, said in an interview Monday. "This is a first step. It's a clear message and a consistency that we want the industry to accept for more corporate social responsibility."
Last week, Simmons called a private meeting of influential music industry executives to discuss the issue. However, no music executives were associated with Monday's announcement by Simmons' Hip-Hop Summit Action Network.
Reaction to the announcement was mixed.
Bakari Kitwana, who has written about rap in books such as "Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop," said it was a step in the right direction. Kitwana said there needed to be uniformity in removing obscenities from music. He pointed out that in some songs curse words are replaced with clean words while, in others, epithets and curse words are merely covered up by silence, allowing listeners to still infer from context the edited words.
"It shows that people in the industry are realizing that the pendulum is swinging and that there's a national conversation that they don't want to be on the wrong side of," Kitwana said of the recommendations. "This is further along than we could have expected them to go 10 years ago. But there has to be more. I think they can do more around the question of content."
Writer Joan Morgan said the announcement amounted to "absolutely nothing." She called the recommendations "short-sighted at best and disingenuous at worst." It was, she said, an "anemic, insufficient response" that failed to address homophobia and other issues in certain strains of hip-hop culture and rap music.
Morgan, author of "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down," said calling for the removal of the three epithets assumes "all of the violence, misogyny and sexism in hip-hop is only expressed in" those words.
"It's says let's take the responsibility away from people creating the content and put it back on the corporations," said Morgan.
The recommendations also included forums to foster dialogue among entertainers, hip-hop fans and executives and the creation of a mentoring program for entertainers. Another recommendation called for the establishment of a coalition of music, radio and television executives to advise those industries on "lyrical and visual standards."
The announcement cautioned against violating free-speech rights but said that freedom of expression comes with responsibility.
"Our discussions are about the corporate social responsibility of the industry to voluntarily show respect to African-Americans and other people of color, African-American women and to all women in lyrics and images," read a joint statement from Simmons and Benjamin Chavis, the network's executive director.
Editor's Note: And from the usual pundits, the same bull. You cannot legislate the heart, that's where evil lives. Evil being defined as the ability to look at your brother and sister and call them a "bitch", "ho", or "nigger" and make money at it. Evil being the ability to ignore the knowledge of the truth that blacks were once slaves and were treated as sub-human. How can anyone ignore the rapes, the beatings, the brandings, and the lynchings? If you are influenced by Hip Hop you don't give a rat's ass about anything. All the life has been drained out of you with every profanity laden lyric and in its place are the monolithic notions of Hip Hop--the idolatry of icons of incarcerations, pimpdom, and whoredom.We need to change hearts and minds will follow.
Word On Hillary Clinton's Nomination: From 2006
And some of you said, when the Spirit said Hillary Clinton , some of you shouted out "yes". God said, I have already dealt with her heart not to be President of this Nation but to president in a Christian world. She will have a testimony second to none and will eventually come out with it and make declaration that Christ Jesus saved her marriage, saved her child, and saved her life. And when this happens there will be a shaking in the Democratic Party so powerful. They will say, what choice do we have? And God says, one of the Kennedy sons who has lost a limb will come into the Kingdom and break the Kennedy curse once and for all, says the Spirit of God.
And even towards the middle of this year, some will get afraid and frightened and say, what about the deaths, what is going to happen, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? God said, then I will strengthen the White House and I will strengthen the leadership and there will be a change which will be so good for this country. There will be no lame year, there will be no lame years. For God said, the victories that will be brought forth in this year shall be so powerful and amazing and what an opposite to this next summer from the one that you had in 2005. Even though people shall be afraid, God said, I will raise up voices within this Nation and there shall be a very strange twist, because it shall come to pass that even within the Democratic Party there will be those that will come forward and say, we wish to help, we wish to guide. And there shall be a unity that shall be greatly greatly desired and strange and hated by some. But fear not, for God said, America, this is your year of triumph as never before!
Monday, April 23, 2007
HILLARY CLINTON BIO OUT THIS SUMMER
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, who with Bob
Woodward helped expose the Watergate scandal, has spent eight years researching the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton and will publish a 640-page biography of her in June, the publisher said on Monday.
The book, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, is called "A Woman in Charge: the Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton" and will have a first printing of 350,000 copies in the United States, a Knopf spokesman said.
He added that the size of the first printing was very high indicating that Knopf expected the book to be a best-seller at a time when Clinton, a Democratic U.S. senator from New York and wife of former President Bill Clinton, is one of the front-runners in the battle to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Bernstein, known for his investigative reporting, interviewed more than 200 people, including friends, colleagues and adversaries of Clinton's for the book, which covers her life up through the decision to run for the presidency.
The Knopf spokesman said Bernstein did not interview Clinton or her husband for the book although he has had contact with them over the years.
Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Knopf Publishing Group, said in a statement: "Hillary Clinton is one of the most compelling figures in the world today ... and Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait shows us, for the first time, the true trajectory of her life and career.
"I believe his book will stand as the most detailed, comprehensive, and revealing account we have of a woman who helped define one presidency and may well step into another."
In the book, to hit stores on June 19, Bernstein explores Clinton's complex relationship with her disciplinarian father, examines the early development of her deep religious feelings and looks at her courtship with Bill Clinton and the dynamic of their marriage, Knopf said in a statement.
Alfred A. Knopf is the flagship imprint of the Knopf Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, the German media giant.
© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved.
Editor's Note: This is a key biography for Senator Clinton. It will be remembered as the end of her candidacy. Reportedly, Hillary Clinton will not be the candidate, she will instead have something happen in her life which will affect her faith. She will be dealt with about becoming President. So folks, Hillary won't be the Democratic candidate I fear. Clinton will testify about how her faith saved her marriage, her husband and her daughter. Well, we'll see if this is in fact comes true.
All She Wants To Do Is Limit Your Toilet Tissue Use
I first met Sheryl Crow in 1992 when she was touring with former Eagles' drummer, Don Henley. She along with my friend Lynn Mabry were the backup vocalists. We sat backstage at the Blossom Music Center and ate dinner. I remember Crow being small and sweet, obviously very charismatic. We talked about her demos and whether she was going to do a solo album, which I found out Lynn Mabry had already lent vocals to. By the next year, she had a hit record with, "All I Wanna Do". I never imagined that she would become a pop superstar. Nor could I imagine that she would date Lance Armstrong or battle cancer. Yesterday, Crow completed her collegiate tour and landed on talk shows where she offered a solution to the global warming problem. After much thought, Crow suggests that we save the environment by only wiping our butt with one sheet of toilet tissue.
"It's great to go out and play music, and I love that, too. And it's also nice to make money. But this is not that," Crow said Sunday in an interview. "This is a whole bunch of people dedicating their time, their lives, working for free, for a mission. And it is the most important mission."
Songstress Sheryl Crow is calling for a limit on toilet paper.
The green minded singer Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be considered to help the environment, according to an interview with the BBC.
In an unheard of celebrity tutorial on mindful Earth friendly tips, Crow suggests using "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required".
Crow completed the tour while traveling on a biodiesel-powered bus. She teamed up with environmental activist Laurie David for the shows. David produced the Al Gore Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth". She is the the wife of writer-comedian, Larry David.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
IS HIP HOP A CULT? Something to thing about, eh?
This week I attended a Town Hall meeting on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. Hip Hop writers and pundits were in attendance and the discussion centered around misogyny and the Don Imus debacle. Bakari Kitwana moderated and the guests on the panel were writers, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Joan Morgan and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal.
If you know anything about colors, you know that there are many shades of blue, but that they are still all shades of blue. And the same could be said for these panelists, they were all Hip Hop advocates and as such, they held the same opinion about the culture which has a stranglehold over American black youth and white youth.
I realized what a waste of time it was to be in the company of these learned scholars who all make a nice piece of change as Hip Hop cheerleaders. While discussing the Don Imus situation it became clear that talk show diva Oprah Winfrey had no right to hold her own town hall meeting to discuss the nations' reaction to shock jock Don Imus' racist and sexist remarks. Seems according to Dr. Neal, Oprah doesn't have the right to discuss the problems with Hip Hop. It was Neal who also said that writer, Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star hated Hip Hop and therefore had no right to give his opinions. He described Whitlock as a hater of black people as well.
And it struck me, these writers hate anyone who doesn't love Hip Hop. How in the hell can you have a dialougue when everyone is saying the same thing? Or when people who disagree are marginalized for their opinion? So Whitlock and Winfrey who are both black are not allowed to make their comments on the situation or the problems with the music.
Yes there are problems with the ideology of Hip Hop. When Bakari Kitwana broke out the four pillars of Hip Hop, it started to become clear that this is a religion, a cult-ture. A cult has its own beliefs, vestments, music, idols, etc. And such is the case with Hip Hop and there lies the problem. None of the people who love the music realize that it is like a cult. Or that they are under the spell of this cult.
So here's how I know. The discussion centered around the negative stereotypes of women by men in Hip Hop. None of the panelists disagreed that there is a problem. They even gave us the history of slavery and the treatment of black women in this nation, but no one would go so far as to say that there was a connection between Hip Hop and the treatment of women in the black community. And remember, there were women on the panel. I thought this was odd that there was no discourse on this matter. In fact, most panelists suggested that we write the FCC or that stations should play offensive material after 11 pm. Well, let's keep cussing, we'll just do it after 11 pm. What a useless suggestion.
Another example of the uselessness of this forum: One young activist, forgive me, I forgot her name because she wasn't memorable as a speaker, she said that it was difficult to get young people to get involved at a grassroots level. She gave the example of a recent election where she tried to enlist young people in an action to get out the vote.
Having not partaken of this Hip Hop elixir, I realized immediately that young people are not socialized to participate in their civic duties. They are encouraged to be pimps, thugs and whores. You can't possibly expect these kids to want to vote, none of their idols do. That's when it became crystal clear, these people are so brainwashed that they don't realize what they're saying--and it's made more evident by the lack of response from the audience that they don't realize they are participants in a cult either.
Then a brother in a Green Bay Packers jersey stepped up to the microphone and promptly dropped the following: "Hip Hop is satanic and demonic."
No one on the panel opened their mouth. That's the power of truth.
I left this town hall mess realizing that Hip Hop plays a large role in the decline of the black community. Never have I witnessed a genre of music that required activists and advocates. The truth doesn't require advocates or activists. So there is a problem with Hip Hop. The fact no dissenters to the music or its rhetoric is allowed speaks to the bondage of the music. Why can't people who don't like it voice their opinions?
Well, someone might hear the truth and then tell someone else and so on and so on. Here's my final thought: On behalf of all the blacks who died during the Middle Passage, for those who labored as slaves for free, had their children yanked from their arms, for those who were whipped, for those who were branded and forced to stand naked on an auction block; for those who risked their lives as runaway slaves only to be caught and murdered, for those who were lynched, burned and then castrated, and for those women who were repeatedly raped, y'all need to cut this bull crap out.
God pre-destined us to live in America, to escape the witchcraft and Voodun of Africa so that we could be his people and that he could be our God and dwell among us. The cult of Hip Hop places a wedge between us and God because of its dark origins and idolatrous leanings. For all you kids out there who are hooked, listen to classical music for a month and get yourself to a church where the word of God is preached. It will take time perhaps, but you can be set free from Hip Hop because there's no life in it. Your destiny and purpose on this Earth is real and you need to be free in order to receive it.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Michael Jackson's Got Baby's Momma Drama
It turns out that the London woman looking to have a say in Michael Jackson's custody arrangement wouldn't mind if a little child support was thrown her way, as well.
Nona Paris Lola Jackson kept on keepin' on Tuesday, filing papers in Los Angeles Superior Court in which she asks for child support payments and shared physical custody that would allow her and the self-proclaimed King of Pop to both spend several hours a day with his three children, together. She even submitted a tentative schedule demonstrating how easy it would be to make that happen.
In the meantime, Jackson would retain full legal custody of 10-year-old Prince, 9-year-old Paris and 5-year-old Prince II, aka Blanket, the court documents state.
Meanwhile, the court has already shot down two attempts on Nona Jackson's part to fiddle with the undisclosed agreement Jackson has with ex-wife Deborah Rowe, who is the birth mother on record of Paris and the elder Prince.
L.A. Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider refused last month to hear her motion, stating that Nona Jackson had failed to properly notify her wannabe baby daddy and Rowe of her intentions and that, even if she had followed procedure, she had still "failed to submit any credible evidence she gave birth to the minor children."
So while Jackson doesn't appear to be in the market for another mama for his children, with his rep Raymone Bain calling Nona Jackson's actions "ludicrous," perhaps he could still use a groundskeeper.
In her latest filing, Nona Jackson also requested that the singer's Neverland Ranch and one of his Encino, California, homes be turned over to her.
Make that Never-Neverland.
Anyway, per Tuesday's motion, Nona Jackson also asked Schnider to forgive her for her past procedural errors, explaining, "I am not a qualified lawyer and have little or no capacity to serve the papers accurately, but from the previous indicated rulings I have tried to find the flaws and fix them."
Similarly to her two previous court filings, she maintains that Rowe and Jackson never consummated their three-year marriage, which ended in 1999, and that she is the mother of all three children.
"Debbie's hospital records will prove that my kids are not hers because of DNA," Nona Jackson states in court documents. "I gave birth through the means of water birth because I am technically a [sic] herbalist."
Technically, this woman is in need of a wakeup call. Hearings on her motion have been set for May 2 and May 30.
Editor's Note: Nod to Natasha at Young Black and Fabulous for running this piece. I don't know what happened to Michael Jackson. I don't want to know because it was a powerful trick bag. Somebody needs to go to jail for what has happened to this man. And you know what? They will. You think Anna Nicole's exit from Earth was foul? You haven't seen anything yet. There will be celeb deaths that will make us all cringe as the cleansing of the entertainment world begins. Why? it's time for something new.
EARTH TO ROSIE: YOUR COMMENTS ARE WANTED
Above: A kinder, gentler, quieter Rosie O. Damn I can't wait til they fire her ass from the View. What do you think they'll bust her big ass mouth for? Sexual Harassment or racist remarks? But they will get her.
I live in a community where teenagers are dying everything--murdered while trying to steal car stereos or holding up dingy corner stores. One 13 year old was gunned down Friday afternoon here in Cleveland, his life is over. Earth to Rosie O'Donnell, why don't you talk about something substantive, like bringing your ass down here to help these teenagers do something with their lives? I notice you never talk about DOING anything to help people. You just bitch whine and moan about the Bush Administration and you bash this country, the only place on Earth where you could actually get a job doing the bull that you do for a living. Yeah, I called what you do bull. Do you know how people died in he Civil War? How about WWII? Have 4,000 soldiers died in Iraq? Three thousand died on 9/11. But you think we destroyed the Twin Towers so we could start the War on Terror. Here's a free clue: Those soldiers volunteered to serve this country. They weren't drafted. Tell your friends so they'll know too. There's not much of a life for young people nowadays anyway. They drink, they choke themselves for a thrill, they hook up, they talk on the phone, the rob, they gang bang, they rape, they kill, they eat processed foods.
So Rosie, what would you have young people do with their lives? What do you have to say on these matters, cause I damned tired of your mouth. Lead follow or get the hell out the way. We are sick of rich folks running off at the mouth and not offering a single young person a job and a way out the ghetto. Do something different before you get fired from the View. Oh, you will get fired. It's just a matter of time before you get exposed. And I'm waiting.
For those of you who are offended, I ask you to get ready for what's to come. People are sticking up banks like never before. They are robbing folks on the street, sucka punching seniors taking their purses, and it's just heating up. We don't have time for celebrity bull. Again lead us somewhere, or get in line and follow, or get the hell out the way. We're sick and tired of being sick and tired. And we don't want to hear it from you no more. You come down here with that weak ass rhetoric and you'd get got.
Sorry folks, it's been a rough week.
