US Home Land Security Shutting Down Hip Hop Websites?

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday something very disturbing took place… Homeland Security along with ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) , the Department of Justice and the National Intellectual Property Rights Co-ordinating Center seized over 80 websites including popular Hip Hop websites RapGodfathers.com, dajaz1.com and Onsmash.com. These Hip Hop sites were accused of copyright violations, which is crazy, because their popularity rested in the fact that they mostly worked with artists to promote their work and help establish a buzz.

The Orb are now back in the big spot light

The man behind the electronic dance group, Alex Paterson, says it’s ironic that after all these years (he founded the group in 1988) they’ve hit the ‘big time’ with the release of Metallic Spheres, their latest album which features David Gilmour on guitar.

US ambassador criticised Prince Andrew in wikileaks

A US ambassador wrote in a secret cable that Prince Andrew spoke “cockily” during an official engagement, leading a discussion that “verged on the rude”.

The US Family Research Council taps into anti-gay campaigns

The Southern Poverty Law Center this week labeled as “hate groups” several political and religious organizations that campaign against same-sex marriage and, the center says, engage in “repeated, groundless name-calling” against gays and lesbians.

Tony Blair debates atheist Christopher Hitchens over Religion

A former British prime minister will pit his faith against the atheism of a prominent journalist as both try to sway the passions of a Toronto crowd on whether religion is a force for good in the world.

Italian Prime Minister angers art restorers by replacing body parts on statues

After Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi angered art restorers by replacing missing body parts of ancient marble statues in his office, Italy’s culture ministry has come forward to say there is no cause for alarm.

The ministry, which is led by a close ally of Berlusconi, 74, said in a statement that the hand added to Venus and the penis added to Mars are attached by magnets and can be removed without damage, the New York Post reported.

Did the Bible predict that ‘God created the big bang’?

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID;
AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT: AND THERE WAS LIGHT.

Baltimore to launch their own Eiffel Tower

Paris has the Eiffel Tower.

St. Louis has the Gateway Arch.

And Baltimore could soon have a monumental work of art if a developer is successful in his quest to place a 236-foot-tall illuminated metal sculpture on the city’s waterfront as a focal point of a $1.5-billion development.

Britain’s disco granny rocks the wheels of steel in LA clubland

Giving a whole new meaning to Lady Gaga, a British granny is proving you’re never too old to get down, rocking top clubs on both sides of the Atlantic as a DJ at the grand old age of 69.

New York launch secret underground art show

It’s the hottest, most talked about art show in New York — and almost no one even knows where it is.