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My story: Eminem has changed my life

I would like to tell you about my incredible story. It has to do with Marshall Mathers III.This man has changed my life in such a positive way.

Marshall has been an eye opener to me.He has changed me mentally and even physically. Ain’t this amazing? It actually is and that’s my story. I discovered Eminem in 2001.

At this time I was a rather old fashioned person (old fashioned in so many ways, i mean the clothing, my way of life, everything!). I used to suffer from a lot of inhibitions and I was very hurt inside. Eminem’s music has cured me from those inhibitions, it has helped me to humor myself. I managed to work out so many problems I had to face with since my childhood. I can relate to many of his songs. I also used to care a lot about what people could think about me. Marshall ‘s “just don’t give a fuck attitude” has helped me always to speak my mind whatever people could think about me!

All those problems I had inside have disappeared. I have lost 13 kilos and it’s all thanks to Marshall. Today, I have a perfect weight and I feel beautiful and balanced.

Marshall taught me never to give up and to believe in myself.

I have written a biography on the talented artist and my biggest dream is to meet him and to thank him in person.

I would like to share my incredible story with the whole world.

Tupac and Biggie brought back to life by Eminem

Ain’t this amazing?

After bringing back to life a teenager thanks to his music a few years ago, Eminem now brings two rap rivals Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur back to life in one song!

In the track “Running” (Dying to Live) featuring Tupac and Biggie, both rap rivals are rhyming.

The king of rap also used a sampled blues rocker, Edgard Winters, for the chorus.

The beats are built up with piano, violins and bass. A great and authentic masterpiece of work you can listen to on MTV.com.

Eminem is currently working on a future soundtrack TUPAC Resurrection which shall tell Tupac’s life story.

Cronyism and corruption

Paul Krugman is discussing and comparing the Marshall plan with the current plans for Iraq. He accuses the White House of cronyism and blatant profiteering.

Iraq’s reconstruction, by contrast, remains firmly under White House control. And this is an administration of, by and for crony capitalists; to match this White House’s blithe lack of concern about conflicts of interest, you have to go back to the Harding administration. That giant, no-bid contract given to Halliburton, the company that made Dick Cheney rich, was just what you’d expect.

And even as the situation in Iraq slides downhill, and the Iraqi Governing Council demands more autonomy and control, American officials continue to block local initiatives, and are still trying to keep the big contracts in the hands of you-know-who.

For example, in July two enterprising Middle Eastern firms started offering cellphone service in Baghdad, setting up jury-rigged systems compatible with those of neighboring countries. Since the collapse of Baghdad’s phone system has been a major source of postwar problems, coalition authorities should have been pleased.

But no: the authorities promptly shut down the services. Cell service, they said, could be offered only by the winners in a bidding process — one whose rules, revealed on July 31, seemed carefully designed to shut out any non-American companies. (In the face of strenuous protests the rules were revised, but still seem to favor the usual suspects.) Oddly, the announcement of the winners, originally scheduled for Sept. 5, keeps being delayed. Meanwhile, only Paul Bremer and his people have cellphones — and, thanks to the baffling decision to give that contract to MCI, even those phones don’t work very well. (Aside from the fact that its management perpetrated history’s biggest accounting fraud, MCI has no experience in building cell networks.)

Sunday Tribune

Blogging is a strange thing. Matthew Magee from the Irish paper, the Sunday Tribune, emailed me some questions on blogging for a piece he was doing on blogs.

Low and behold he quoted me in last Sunday’s paper. Unfortunately the Sunday Tribune have been constructing their online presence for something like five years so I can’t provide a link, but it was a good piece.

Bournemouth

Well that was an interesting weekend. I attended the New Statesman party on Sunday night in Bournemouth, and to those of you interested in politics and the media, quite a few faces would have been familiar.

I had a quick chat with Paul Routledge, Daily Mirror and New Statesman regular, Peter Oborne, Spectator guy, and Tony Benn, former Labour minister. And there was some kind of documentary going on with BBC2 filming assistants to MPs, so I ended up being filmed for a good ten minutes. Argh.

Gordon Browne turned up briefly, I spotted Martha Kearney of Newsnight, Andrew Marr of the BBC and Daily Telegraph, Lauren Booth from the New Statesman, Charlie Whelan, that spin-doctor dude and a host of other people I recognised but didn’t know their names.

All in all a good night, I got quite pissed though.

US Air Force B-2 Bomber Drops 80 JDAMS in Historic Test

I am all too familiar with US weapons technology, having been an avid play of flight sims in my younger days. I had actually already done this little test on a flight sim, flying an F22 Raptor, with infinite bombs on.

JDAMs are scary weapons. You could take off, climb to a height, approach the target from a great distance, drop all your bombs and go home. You could even be having coffee before your bombs have hit their targets.

So this story does not surprise me.

The B-2A aircraft, based at Edwards AFB, Calif., flew to the test site and released the 80 weapons in a single 22-second pass. The weapons were released from four Boeing-designed and built “smart” bomb racks, flew their planned flight paths and attacked all 80 targets.

GPS guidance will be the mainstay of all precision weapons going forward – and Europe and China are looking keen to cash in on the technology.

Voxpolitics do

I attended the latest Voxpolitcs do at the US embassy in London last night.

It was a great debate, and a great subject. I especially liked Phil Noble’s presentation. An evangelical Dean supporter he definately is – fascinating facts and stories, including when Howard Dean told his mother that he was running for presidential candidate – as Phil noted in his deep southern accent- “His own mamma laughed at him”.

Security was tight so no cameras or anything allowed, but I was amazed at the huge number of barriers surrounding the embassy, quite a sight.

We all ended up in a bar afterwards (naturally), and I had a great chat with Jim Ledbetter, a Senior Editor from Time magazine (Europe), my submissions for publication in Time are in the works. If it all works out I will have my name in print in Time – whoda thunk it?

Thankfully I didn’t get too drunk – but a great night was had – Ben, Samantha, Jim and Ciaran were the guilty parties. Sam had way too much wine. Ben had alot of Guinness, Ciaran was plastered on Stella, while I was quite drunk on cider. Jim – white wine all night and quite drunk – heads off to LA next week to see the election in action.

Another hiatas

I get more and more annoyed with myself – I have been neglecting to blog, and its always on my mind, and I feel bad for not doing it. I am an addict, and I’m not fulfilling my addiction.

My excuse is, of course, that I am too busy. Well that’s not good enough. More blogging from now on.

McKenna judgment and Nice

Dick has responded, in depth, as ever…

Just what is so undemocratic about the EU is beyond me. Sure, we all hear about the bureaucrats in Brussels, but all the decisions are made by our elected representatives. The Council of Ministers comprises of our governments while the European Parliament is directly elected. European Commissioners are appointed by our governments who, once again, answer to the people of each state. If people don’t like what their government is doing in Europe, they should start voting for someone else. In Ireland that hasn’t been the case to date.

Of course you could always make it more democratic by increasing the influence of direct representation. But this would move us further towards federalism, something the euro-sceptics don’t want. You can’t have it both ways.

If the EU were democratic, it would be accountable and transparent. I do not think it is. Is that fair?

As a voter, I never felt bullied, but I did feel that the government dropped the ball in terms of not explaining what was involved the first time around. As to alleging that the government in some way bought the election, its impossible to uphold. The upshot of the McKenna judgement is that the government can’t use state funds to simply promote one side of the argument. Indeed, at the time of the first referendum, it was felt that the government was far too cautious in the light of the McKenna judgement and backed off too far from promoting its point of view. The result was the only voices being heard were those of the naysayers. You can also read the Nice debate another way. From being enthusiastic supporters of all things European, we suddenly rejected Nice. We were asked were we sure about this and we changed our minds. Another way of looking at it is voter turnout, which jumped dramatically with the second referendum. Those who didn’t bother to express an opinion on the issue came out the second time around and said they wanted Nice.

As for Prodi’s remarks, there’s nothing exceptional about them. It’s not about forcing people into something, but rather emphasising that you can’t cherry pick too much. The EU has been built on compromise. Sooner or later you have to decide whether your in or your out. Each has its own sacrifices.

If you did not feel bullied Dick, that’s fair enough, but I know I did. In a roundabout kind of way I was referring to the government decision to send a heavily slanted white paper to every household, at the taxpayers expense, which in my view directly broke the law, as seen in the McKenna judgement. The cost of this white paper did go into hundreds of thousands – but the government had no qualms about pushing the McKenna judgment to its limits. That went hand in hand with dumbing down the powers of the Referendum Commission – I would call that a concerted attempt to move the goalposts prior to the second referendum.

Furthermore that we did have a second referendum could also nullify the idea of having any future referenda at all. What’s the point? The only answer Europe wants to hear is yes, and be damned with us fogies who vote no. It has been pointed out that a referendum will be held on the Convention, but I can ask now…why? Even if we vote no, surely such a result will not be accepted, and we will have to do the whole thing again. It makes the whole idea of referenda farcical.

Yes the EU is built on compromise, but where is the compromise when Romano Prodi makes veiled threats against those who fail to follow the France/Germany line? Deciding whether your in out of the EU is not the issue, its how much you want to be a part of it. And that is every country’s right.

I would argue that I voted No because I want to stop exactly what is happening in Europe, deeper integration. Integration has gone far enough – and someone needs to say it.


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