XENOPHOBIA, ANTI IMMIGRANT, RACISM BY COUNTRY.."WHO OWNS THE LAND..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion
Xenophobia, Anti immigrant,Racism by country tride or sect, racia profiling.

Xenophobia is the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. [1] It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "stranger," "foreigner" and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear." Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity.[2] Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality

THE NEWS...USA

New York (CNN) -- A Latino advocacy group organized a march through the streets of Staten Island, New York, Wednesday night to protest a string of attacks on Mexican nationals.

Approximately 300 members of Make the Road New York, an alliance of non-profit organizations and area residents, gathered at the intersection where the most recent attack on a Mexican national took place...

The victim of that attack, Alejandro Galindo, was in attendance.

"I hope that the violence will end, that when we are walking to work we don't have to be scared because we're not criminals. If the violence stopped, we will feel very happy because we will feel like human beings walking down the street," he said.

The attacks -- 10 since April -- are being investigated as "anti-Mexican assault cases," said Inspector Michael Osgood, head of the New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force. The victims have all been Mexican males, police said.

In all but one case, the assailants were described as African-American, police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told CNN Wednesday. The victims typically have been beaten while assailants yelled racial slurs at them, he said.

Although the incidents vary, weapons -- including blunt objects, baseball bats and, in one case, a Razor scooter -- were used, police said. The assaults have resulted in multiple hospitalizations, authorities said. Browne said some victims were knocked unconscious. Five of the 10 were robbed, police said.

In the most recent attack, on Saturday, a 32-year-old man was struck in the chest with a baseball bat, knocking him to the ground, said police Sgt. Carlos Nieves. His assailants then kicked him in the face, Nieves said. The man was taken to a hospital, where he received 12 stitches across the left side of his face.

THE NEWS SOUTH AFRICA

Anti-Immigrant Terror in South Africa

Ten days of mob attacks on immigrants in townships around Johannesburg showed no signs of abating Tuesday, as the death toll reached 23 and South Africa's government faced growing calls to deploy its army. The attacks have mostly targeted impoverished migrants from neighboring African countries living (some legally, some illegally) in shantytowns around the business capital of Africa's wealthiest country. Every night since Saturday May 11, crowds of South African men, some brandishing guns, have rampaged through areas dominated by refugees, warning the foreigners to leave the country, burning huts, raping women, and beating and killing men. The victims say their attackers accuse them of taking jobs away from South Africans, in a country where the national unemployment rate is estimated at around 40%, and is much higher in many townships.

South Africans have been shocked by the depth of the hatred revealed by the violence against immigrants, which has been sharply condemned by the country's political leadership. On Monday, several South African newspapers printed a gruesome photograph of a Malawian man in flames, having been doused in gasoline and set alight by a mob who laughed as he burned. (The victim died in the hospital.) On Tuesday, some of the several thousand refugees sheltering at Jeppestown police station in central Johannesburg told TIME that, earlier in the day, the police compound had been attacked by a mob that had tried to scale the walls before being beaten back by police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

THE NEWS

20 NIGERIAN VISITORS WERE DEPORTED ON ENTRY INTO OR THAMBO BECAUSE THEY DIDNT TAKE THE YOLLOW FEVER VACINE

About 20 Nigerian visitors where deported on arrival at the OR THAMBO international airport in Johannesburg because they allegedly didn’t take the yellow fever vaccine on their was to south Africa from Nigeria, under normal circumstances these vaccines would have been given to these visitors at the point of entry for a 100$ fee but the customs, immigration and police officers on duty chose to send back home with phrases like... God home, you can come back when you have taken the vaccine! When Nigerians come to our country they don’t return home! Nigerians are destroying our economy!

Let’s say these Nigerians do go back and returned … they would have wasted almost 5000$ for what they could have paid a 100$ for.

These kinds of remarks and treatment of strangers around the world and most recently USA and South Africa has diverse effect on the human psyche... but as the case maybe this acts are perpetuated by both lay men and educated officials at the same time, IF AFRICAN AMERICANS WHERE THE MAIN CULPRIT OF THE AMERICAN VERSION AND SOUTH AFRICANS IN THE TOWNSHIPS ARE THE CULPRITS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN VERSION ..COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE THESE CLANS MIGRATED FROM…. RESERCH AND FINDINGS HAVE IT THAT MOST SOUTH AFRICANS MIGRATED FROM WEST AFRICA WHILE THE AFRICAN AMERICANS ALSO MIGRATED FROM AFRICA… SO WHO REALLY OWNS THE LAND THESE PEOPLE FIGHT TO KEEP?

What is your take on this? Please discuss..

You can’t wear that! but you can if you want to be called a whore

Having the freedom to choose what we wear and who we marry should be a concern of our own, not our government, right? Article: Fungai Machirori..........................................................................................

The young woman is wearing a striped black-and-white mini dress that clings to the ample curves of her body. Her feet bear a pair of killer- heel black stilettos that she is working as though Harare’s bustling Leopold Takawira Avenue were a catwalk ramp and the crowds swarming about her a fashion show audience. Her sleek black weave keeps slapping against her face as she walks, prances rather, to the mix of disapproving groans and lusty stares and catcalls of fellow pedestrians who pass comments she remains oblivious to with each step she takes. If this young woman were leading a protest march through town, half of Harare would have been trailing her by now. In short, she’s stopped pavement traffic and focused all that’s happening on this warm afternoon onto herself.
“Whore!”
“You are not dressed!”
“You are a disgrace to our culture!”
“Go and wear those clothes in South Africa where they have no morals!”
The insults and disparaging statements are flowing freely, although every now and then I do catch the words of a few awestruck men who can’t believe how “together” the young lady is. In Shona, Zimbabwe’s main local language, beauty can be described by the word kubatana, also a synonym for togetherness and solidarity. I follow the trail as long as I can, trying to see and hear different folks’ responses to the “scandalous” lady. The women among the throngs either whisper among themselves or shake their heads in disapproval of the passing young woman’s audacity.

Her dress isn’t even that short, which makes the whole incident all the more bewildering. I feel like I am in a time warp witnessing an anachronistic and sour reminder of a Zimbabwe I grew up in, in the 1990s, where women would be heckled and harassed for even showing a knee cap, let alone a peep of cleavage.
I thought we’d moved on from that fixation with women’s dress and that abusive responses to women’s freedom to wear what they want only still happened in ultra-conservative or religious societies and nations, not Zimbabwe in 2010! Interestingly, in that same week, news broke that a devoutly Islamic district in Indonesia had distributed 20 000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses in bid to enforce a new regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothes. Perhaps it was naivety on my part. Perhaps it was hope that respect of women’s freedoms was something more than lip service, something more substantive. But perhaps, also, I shouldn’t really be surprised. Two disheartening stories making the headlines in Zimbabwe’s local media last month tell of the horrible injustices that the nation’s women and girls are still facing in an environment that remains heavily patriarchal and insensitive to their rights.

In mid-May, news broke of the suicide of the wife of local sungura musician, Tongai Moyo. She allegedly drank poison after a dispute about Moyo’s decision to bring a second wife into their home. Newspaper reports quoted Moyo as having said that due to his long-standing ill health (from the effects of cancer) he had seen it fit to bring a second wife into the household for extra support. He further added that his wife, Barbara, agreed to the proposal - albeit grudgingly. Her death left two children motherless and has also set in motion discussions and debates on culture, polygamy and gender in Zimbabwe. An equally difficult story to take in was that of the 12-year-old girl who reportedly contracted HIV from rape by a family friend. As the front-page article in the Zimbabwean Herald stated, the young girl was given over by her father to a fellow church member as his fifth wife. The man, who is allegedly HIV positive, then when on to force the girl into having sex with him after her father had left her at the man’s house.
Where, you might ask, was the girl’s mother throughout this whole ordeal? While she was reportedly violently opposed to her husband’s decision to ‘marry off’ her daughter, she felt she had no power to oppose it. "I felt powerless because in our church you can’t go against your husband," she is reported to have said. The difference in settings of the various scenarios portrayed here is vast.
But each rings with the noise of a woman’s oppression. The plight of women in Zimbabwe, their subordination to the dictates of patriarchy and its hegemonic meanings, remains a rampant ill that we must daily interrogate and fight against.
Which is why I applaud that young woman who kept walking and fighting back - head high and confidence aglow - celebrating her right to choice while the crowds tried their damndest to take that away from her.
Aluta continua!

Fungai Machirori is a Zimbabwean writer, researcher, poet and journalist based in South Africa where she works in HIV and AIDS communication. This article is part of the GL Opinion and Commentary Service.

Do you think religion and culture will be used continuously to oppress women? Is this right? Tell us what you think in the box below.

WHY ARE WOMEN STILL USED AS SEX OBJECTS IN ADVERTISEMENT AND WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS AFTER EFFECTS?

WHY ARE WOMEN STILL USED AS SEX OBJECTS IN ADVERTISEMENT AND WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS AFTER EFFECTS?

This content analysis examined the depiction of women in 1,988 advertisements from 58 popular U.S. magazines. Advertisements were coded with respect to whether women were presented as sex objects and/or as victims using a scheme developed by the researchers. On average across magazines, one of two advertisements that featured women portrayed them as sex objects. Women appeared as victims in just under ten percent of the advertisements. Men’s, women’s fashion, and female adolescent magazines were more likely to portray women as sex objects and as victims than news and business, special interest, or women’s non-fashion magazines. The implications of viewing advertisements depicting women as sex objects and as victims, especially sexualized victims are glaring,

ARE WOMEN REALLY VICTIMS, DIDN'T THEY READ THE CONTRACT AND SIGNED THE DOTTED LINES AND FOR THOSE NOT IN THE ADVERTISING WORLD WHERE MEN TRY TO FLEX THEIR MUSCLES WOULD YOU SAY THAT MEN SEE YOU AS SEXUAL OBJECTS BECAUSE OF SOME ADVERTISING?

So What's The Impact?

It's hard to say what the exact impact of female sexualized advertising is. As a woman, I can absolutely relate to the feeling of unrealistic expectations of body image, relationships, and aspirations. But the results of these images impact much more than teen angst. According to the Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders 69% of girls in 5th to 12th grade reported that magazine pictures affected their idea of the perfect body weight and size

HOLD ON TO POWER OR KILL TRYING....MALEMA REVOLUTION

HOLD ON TO POWER OR KILL TRYING....MALEMA REVOLUTION

Malema is going the way of Mbeki

Jul 22, 2010 12:16 AM | By Tumelo Mafuku, Midrand

Tumelo Mafuku, Midrand: " Once upon a time in a distant land there was a horrible leader named Thabo Mbeki." This will be the story about Julius Malema in a few months' time.

ANCYL elective conference postponed

We know Mbeki was not really that bad but that his manipulative style of leadership sank him. His style of leadership was much criticised by Malema as he rose to the ANC Youth League throne.

Those who wanted Mbeki out, including Malema, alleged that he was autocratic and squashed those who opposed him.

Barely three years after the demise of Mbeki, we see a similar leader in the youth league - the hypocritical Malema.

It is not the first time we have seen purges and power drunkenness. COPE is suffering from the same disease, as the ANC once did.

Malema must understand that contaminated democracy has a way of cleansing itself. He must remember what happened at Polokwane.

The expulsion from the youth league of Lehlohonolo Masoga and Stella Ndabeni is a strategic move to try to hang on to something that is almost gone: Malema's leadership.

The possibility of a purge of Andile Lungisa signals a desperate attempt to eliminate competition.

All these moves will only strengthen Malema's opposition.

To all youth league members who want to remain in the organisation, just be silent and use the ballot to boot this mampara out once and for all.

He has failed to inspire the youth, instead incensing them with his vulgarity and political insensitivity.

The league will be around long after Malema and his ilk are gone.

WHAT IS NEXT FOR MALEMA IF HE LOSES GRIP ON POWER?????

THE PORN FACTOR, WHY DO MEN WATCH PORN AND DO ALL MEN WATCH PORN

why do husbands watch porn?? Why do men watch porn.

seriously are there any older women that know why?

Canadian scientists have been thwarted in their attempt to watch porn and get paid for it because they couldn't find any research subjects who'd never watched it. Researchers at the University of Montreal were planning a study comparing the attitudes of men in their twenties who had never been watched pornography with those who used it regularly. But, sadly, their ground-breaking research project had to be dumped when they failed to find any men who had exerted enough self-control to be in the control group. "We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography," said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse, "But we couldn't find any."

But Lajeunesse wasn't to be discouraged and carried on anyway in a bid to find out more. He interviewed heterosexual male students and found that, on average, they first watched pornography when they were 10 years old. 90 per cent used the internet, the remainder preferring the more traditional video approach. The average unattached subject said he watched for 40 minutes three times a week, while those in relationships were more restrained, watching 1.7 times a week for 20 minutes, presumably stopping when their girlfriends came home. Lajeunesse says pornography does not have a negative effect on men's sexuality and that the subjects' sexual appetites were 'quite conventional', although he didn't go into detail. "Pornography hasn't changed their perception of women or their relationship, which they all want to be as harmonious and fulfilling as possible," he adds. So that's OK then. If there's anyone out there who genuinely hasn't used porn, please get in touch and we'll pass your details on to Professor Lajeunesse.

Should David Beckham TAKE UP A CAREER IN ACTING SINCE HE DOESNT THINK HE WANT,S TO BE A SOCCER COACH?

David Beckham has got it all, a beautiful/successful and celebrated wife, a bounch of handsome boys as sons, A modeling gig, A pefurm franchise and so on but there is something he doesnt do and that is acting but his long time buddy Tom Cruise is trying to convince him "David Beckham" to break into the movie industry - because his pal has "got the looks" to be a Hollywood actor.
Tom has been close friends with footballer David Beckham and his wife Victoria since they met in 2003.
And actor is keen for David to swap sport for acting, because he's adamant the sportsman will look great in front of the camera. "I've been encouraging (David) to become an actor. He's got the looks, he's got everything. He'd be terrific," he said.

MALEMA'S CRONY DRAWS ILLEGAL SALARY AND INTERNAL CRISIS IN THE ANCYL...IS MALEMA LOSING HIS TOUCH??

The embattled ANC Youth League (ANCYL) Limpopo chairman, Frans Moswane, Julius Malema's ally, is to be charged with fraud, following revelations that he continued to draw a R35 000 monthly salary, despite allegedly not having reported for duty since June last year.

Moswane is set to be hauled before the disciplinary committee by the Sekhukhuni Municipality, where he works as communications officer responsible for research, with only a matric certificate. Moswane was elected unopposed during a chaotic meeting in Makhado, in April. His predecessor, Lehlogonolo Masoga, walked out of the conference, after Malema, the league president, ordered the police to forcibly remove his (Masoga's) supporters. Malema lost his cool when Masoga's supporters booed him and the ANC provincial chairman, Premier Cassell Mathale, another Malema ally.

MATUMA LETSOALO AND MMANALEDI MATABOGE JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Jul 23 2010 12:02 Andile Lungisa's term as Anc Youth League deputy president could soon be over, if some branches and leaders within the organisation win enough support to pass a motion of no confidence in him. The prospect of Lungisa's dismissal comes a week after the axing of two senior youth league leaders, Stella Ndabeni, who was on its national executive committee (NEC), and Lehlogonolo Masoga, previously the league's Limpopo chairperson.

Masoga, an ally of Lungisa, was expelled for causing divisions within the league after he took its national leadership to court to interdict it from proceeding with disciplinary action against him.
Ndabeni was accused of signing an affidavit supporting Masoga's claim that the disciplinary action against him was taken to ensure his expulsion. Tension between Masoga and the league's national leadership derives from the chaotic Limpopo conference in April, when league president Julius Malema's confidant, Frans Moswane, ousted Masoga as provincial chair.

Lungisa's supporters want to use next year's elective conference to have their man replace Malema -- a plan that has split the league. Lungisa's support comes mainly from the Eastern Cape, as well as from Cosatu, the Sacp and the Young Communist League -- alliance bodies that all want ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe to retain his position

With the in fighting in the national executive and the provincial leadership battles and all forms of tenderprenuer, not to mentions various other scandals, would you say Julius Malema is losing his grip on this house of power?

Plastic and Cosmetic surgery A billion dollar enterprise."WHAT PART OF YOUR PARTNER IS REAL?"

Hair is from India, Brazil or china, chin and nose from brazil or India, buttocks from USA or Europe, legs were designed in South Africa, Breast from France Etc... when all your woman is, is a coupled entity from various parts of the world in the name of plastic and cosmetic surgery, can you please tell me what part of your spouse is REAL!!!!!!!!

When you walk past a beautiful woman and you are drooling over her because she looks so perfect that she looked like she dropped from heaven... has it ever occurred to you to ask yourself "is there anything like perfect?" For you information there is nothing such as a perfect figure or shapes and Hollywood had helped to mess up our sense of value for what we have to the sense of entitlement for what we didn’t have and can have if we could afford it...Gone are the days when you either enjoy yourself in your own skin, these days if you don’t like what it looks like, you can pay to get it removed and also redone. Some folks would say if you want it and you can well afford it, then buy it"

Television and reality TV have so glorified curvy women and well built men that every one wants to look like the figurine they see on TV..?

Aesthetic plastic surgery involves techniques intended for the "enhancement" of appearance through surgical and medical techniques, and is specifically concerned with maintaining normal appearance, restoring it, or enhancing it beyond the average level toward some aesthetic ideal.

In 2006, nearly 11 million cosmetic procedures were performed in the United States alone. The number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States has increased over 50 percent since the start of the century. Nearly 12 million cosmetic procedures were performed in 2007, with the five most common surgeries being breast augmentation, liposuction, nasal surgery, eyelid surgery and abdominoplasty. The increased use of cosmetic procedures crosses racial and ethnic lines in the U.S., with increases seen among African-Americans and Hispanic Americans as well as Caucasian Americans. In Europe, the second largest market for cosmetic procedures, cosmetic surgery is a $2.2 billion business.[8] Cosmetic surgery is now very common in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

The most prevalent aesthetic/cosmetic procedures include:

Abdominoplasty ("tummy tuck"): reshaping and firming of the abdomen, Blepharoplasty ("eyelid surgery"): reshaping of the eyelids or the application of permanent eyeliner, including , Asian blepharoplasty, Phalloplasty, Mammoplasty: Breast augmentations ("breast implant" or "boob job"): augmentation of the breasts by means of fat grafting, saline, or silicone gel prosthetics, which was initially performed to women with micromastia Reduction mammoplasty ("breast reduction"): removal of skin and glandular tissue, which is done to reduce back and shoulder pain in women with gigantomastia and/or for psychological benefit men with gynecomastia Mastopexy ("breast lift"): Lifting or reshaping of breasts to make them less saggy, often after weight loss (after a pregnancy, for example). It involves removal of breast skin as opposed to glandular tissue Buttock augmentation ("butt implant"): enhancement of the buttocks using silicone implants or fat grafting ("Brazilian butt lift") and transfer from other areas of the body Buttock lift: lifting, and tightening of the buttocks by excision of redundant skin Chemical peel: minimizing the appearance of acne, chicken pox, and other scars as well as wrinkles (depending on concentration and type of agent used, except for deep furrows), solar lentigines (age spots, freckles), and photodamage in general. Chemical peels commonly involve carbolic acid (Phenol), trichloroacetic acid (TCA), glycolic acid (AHA), or salicylic acid (BHA) as the active agent. Labiaplasty: surgical reduction and reshaping of the labia Lip enhancement: surgical improvement of lips' fullness through enlargement Rhinoplasty ("nose job"): reshaping of the nose Otoplasty ("ear surgery"/"ear pinning"): reshaping of the ear, most often done by pinning the protruding ear closer to the head. Performed on both children and adults to decrease social anxiety and is done for purely cosmetic purposes contrary to popular belief that it improves hearing.[9]Rhytidectomy ("face lift"): removal of wrinkles and signs of aging from the face Browplasty ("brow lift" or "forehead lift"): elevates eyebrows, smooths forehead skin Midface lift ("cheek lift"): tightening of the cheeks Suction-assisted lipectomy ("liposuction"): removal of fat from the body Chin augmentation ("chin implant"): augmentation of the chin with an implant, usually silicone, by sliding genioplasty of the jawbone or by suture of the soft tissue Cheek augmentation ("cheek implant"): implants to the cheek Fillers injections: collagen, fat, and other tissue filler injections, such as hyaluronic acid Laser skin resurfacing

WE HOSTED A SUCCESFFULL WORLDCUP NOW WE TAKING SCIENCE AND AIDS HEAD ON

Anti-AIDS gel changes face of Africa fight

Microbicide protects women by cutting infection rate in half, researchers say

HIV gel cuts AIDS infection in half

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by LESEGO MOTSHEGWA

JOHANNESBURG — South African research that helped produce a promising anti-AIDS gel will change the nature of the fight against the disease, the head of the university that pioneered the research said Tuesday.

Malegapuru Makgoba, vice chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on South Africa's east coast, described the project that created the vaginal gel as a "milestone" for impoverished women, policymakers and scientists in combatting the disease that has plagued the African continent for three decades.

"These research findings will not only significantly alter the shape and form but also the future direction of this devastating epidemic," Makgoba told reporters in the port city of Durban, where most of the researchers are based

For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won't use condoms.

The results need to be confirmed in another study, and that level of protection is probably not enough to win approval of the microbicide gel in countries like the United States, researchers say. But they are optimistic it can be improved.

"We are giving hope to women," who account for most new HIV infections, said Michel Sidibe in a statement. He is executive director of the World Health Organization's UNAIDS program. A gel could "help us break the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic," he said.

And Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health said, "It's the first time we've ever seen any microbicide give a positive result" that scientists agree is true evidence of protection.

The gel, spiked with the AIDS drug tenofovir, cut the risk of HIV infection by 50 percent after one year of use and 39 percent after 2 1/2 years, compared to a gel that contained no medicine.

To be licensed in the U.S., a gel or cream to prevent HIV infection may need to be at least 80 percent effective, Fauci said. That might be achieved by adding more tenofovir or getting women to use it more consistently. In the study, women used the gel only 60 percent of the time; those who used it more often had higher rates of protection.

The gel also cut in half the chances of getting HSV-2, the herpes virus that causes genital warts. That's important because other sexually spread diseases raise the risk of catching HIV.

Nick Cannon Wake up man, who is your wife's baby daddy!!!

Nick Cannon Wake up man, who is your wife's baby daddy!!!

Is Mariah Pregnant and if she is who is the daddy? Its exclusive gist that the butterfly is flying and showing her beautiful colours with her bodyguard whom remores say she has been Shagging since 2007, It was revealed that the Shag buddies stopped their rendevour when she got married but tales have it that they back in the grind. Mariah Carey has been exposed as a cheater…sleeping with her long time bodyguard, Rob Payne.

During her Angels Advocate Tour she had sex in her dressing room. Lot of people heard them having sex.

Gist has it that the Singer has her bodyguard on standby anytime her husband is not around!

Now, We kinda wondering if Mariah is pregnant by Mr Cannon or Rob Payne…

Tell me what ya think??? sources hollywood street king

IS Whitney Houston Still A crack Head?

It is said that her drug habit is not only destroying her body, it’s also putting big holes in her pockets. The Waiting to excel songstress is reported to be forking out a staggering $6,300 each week to nurture her drug habit. That’s $327,600 each year!

So, who’s to blame for revealing this new shocking information? Whitney’s so-called “friend” party promoter Marlon David recently let the cat out of the bag, saying when Whitney landed in Denmark for her performances in Copenhagen, the singer and her entourage ordered a huge amount of illegal drugs. “Whitney is a dead woman walking! With the amount of drugs she’s buying, she won’t be able to live long. She’ll be dead in months,” said David. “A friend of mine who’s based in Switzerland is a drug dealer who deals in cocaine. One of Whitney’s people called him and said ‘Whitney wants to party’.”

Whitney’s reported respiratory ailment has caused her to retain water and to have a voracious appetite. Plus, (from the sounds of her recent singing) the songstress’ lungs are probably destroyed. Did you see the 46-year-old drugged out singer embarrass herself on stage this past February in Australia? Well someone, i mean someone needs to get that woman to rehab before she self destructs!

T.I GETTING MARRIED

T.I is to wed long-term girlfriend Tameka ‘Tiny’ Cottle in a low-key ceremony in Hawaii this weekend.

The 29-year-old rapper – real name Clifford Harris, Jr. – began dating Cottle in 2001 and always stated his desire to marry the former Xscape singer – referred to as Tiny by pals due to her diminutive 4’11” stature – later this year.

T.I and his imminent bride travelled to Hawaii earlier this month and close friends and family have been flown in for the big day.

The wedding marks the end of a difficult year for the rapper, who was released from Federal Correctional Facility Forrest City in Arkanas back in December after serving 7-months of a possible 12 for firearms offences.

It’s understood the promotional video for recent single ‘Got Your Back’, in which a fiancée sticks by her man after he is incarcerated, is dedicated to 35-year-old Cottle.

The couple have two children from their nine year relationship – boys Clifford ‘King’ Joseph III and Major Philant.

THE LEKOTA SHILOWA MARRAGE! IS COPE COPING AT ALL?

When new kids on the political block come on board all haled them as the King makers and the one’s destined to rule, they were the balm that would heal the political terrain that had been sick over the years from the scourge of racism, the nemesis of political public office holders who use public funds for personal use but almost two years down the line and Cope is in ruin, the men that fought against their brothers the “ANC” were now turning the sword on themselves because of greed and lack of a common vision or visionary. Would COPE survive this implosion, Would they cope enough to be on ground and prepared for the next general elections? Tell us that you think

can you date or marry your brothers EX

8PM, we see men and women and kids alike taking their possition in front of the television, the tv is on SABC1 and the remote control is held by the minister of home affairs(the mother of the house/wife/mummy) their heart is racing as they wonder what Paul would do with Connies new boyfriend, whild the kids are looking to whats new in Sams life, if he would buy the bar at last or if Sibusiso's son would double cross him... and the man of the house ..if and when he is intrested in the show, wants to know what other mischeif Ken Mashaba is up to. its like that every day and even on the weekend when the ombus is being showed... Generation is the name of the show... with this shows taking place at peak time and advertisers money having the best of exposure" do you think its ideal for the producers to show us Paul going after his brothers ex wife? is this a very good lesson to teach our kids?

There is something that has been bugging me like a bad pain in the wrong place...!!! people please tell me... can you date and marry a woman/man that your blood brother/sister has dated and married b4? guys think im too old fashion tell me your opinion

Black parents delivers while baby

COULD THIS BE A HOAX OR REALITY AND WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF BLACK PARENTS GIVING BIRTH TO A BLOND CHILD

As i spoke with folks i realise that so many folks think this is a hoax as a black couple from Nigeria, residing in Britain, recently stunned everyone when the wife gave birth to a white, blue eyed, blonde baby girl.

The father, Benjamin Ihegboro, admitted he was shocked when he first saw his baby. He said he asked his wife if the baby, who was named Nmachi, meaning “beauty of God,” was his. He later said he was joking, of course, and knew she was his. “Even if she wasn’t” , he said, “she wouldn’t look like this!” Mom Angela said, “She is beautiful, a miracle baby.”

The doctor who delivered little Nmachi, says she is not an albino, as some have suggested. She doesn’t have the white hair and pink eyes, traditional traits of albinos. Benjamin and Angela Ihegboro, have two other children, who are dark skinned like their parents.

Genetic experts in London are baffled by the birth. One such expert, Professor Bryan Sykes, head of human genetics at Oxford University, exclaimed, “ The birth is extraordinary…In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.”

Professor Sykes added that the Ihegboros had to have some form of white ancestry for this to happen. However the couple claimed not to have any such ancestry.

In 2006, another British couple, this time both biracial, gave birth to twins girls, one white and one black. Kylie and her partner Remi Horder, 17, both have white mothers and black fathers.

The Music industies feels the recession?

Some would have sworn the recession wouldnt touch the entertainment industry as entertainment makes the heart merry, though the reccession has been affecting regular folks for a couple years now its impact had'nt been felt in hollywood untill recently, it was time for Alist celebraties to feel the pinch. Most Alist artists had supprisingly concelled one tour or the other including Rihanna who had just cancellations.

According to the Live Nation, Rihanna has canceled five shows on her “Last Girl on Earth” tour due to low ticket sales. Of course, the “official” excuse was “scheduling conflicts.”

According to Pollstar.com, gross revenue for the top 100 tours in North America in the first six months of 2010 is down nearly $200 million from last year, which is a 17 percent drop. As for ticket sales, the top 100 acts sold an average of 6,951 tickets per show, down about 9 percent from 7,639 during the same period in 2009.

last year the music industry failed to deliver the money as it did in 2008, looking at forbes Music hip-hop cash kings list from 2008 - 2010 we would discover that the recession armed with its AK 47 shot a big hole in the pockets of the big spenders... according to Forbes top 20 richest rappers list from the last 3 years is listed bellow

Here's a complete rundown of 2008's hip-hop cash kings:

50 Cent - $150 million

Jay-Z - $82 million

Diddy - $35 million

Kanye West - $30 million

Timbaland - $22 million

Pharrell Williams - $20 million

Swizz Beatz - $17 million

Snoop Dogg - $16 million

Dr. Dre - $15 million

Ludacris - $14 million

T.I. - $13 million

Lil Wayne - $13 million

Eminem - $12 million

Common - $12 million

Akon - $12 million

Jermaine Dupri - $11 million

Lil Jon - $11 million

OutKast - $10 million

Chamillionaire - $10 million

The Game - $10 million

Forbes' 2009 Hip-Hop Cash Kings

Jay-Z - 35 Million

Diddy - 30 Million

Kanye West - 25 Million

50 Cent - 20 Million

Akon - 20 Million

Lil Wayne - 18 Million

Timbaland - 17 Million

Pharrell - 16 Million

T-Pain - 15 Million

Eminem - 14 Million

Dr.Dre - 13 Million

Snoop Dogg - 11 Million

Ludacris - 10 Million

Common - 8 Million

Will.I.Am - 8 Million

T.I. - 8 Million

Swizz Beatz - 8 Million

Andre 3000 - 7 Million

Big Boi- 7 Million

Flo-Rida - 6 Million

Rick Ross - 6 Million

The Game - 6 Million

Young Jeezy- 6 Million

Would the music industry in America, South Africa and the rest of the world pick up again?

SHE IS GOING BACK TO HER EX

I CANT SLEEP... something is knocking the door of my heart....: what would you do when your partner comes up to you and says their ex wants them back and they are considering the idea because of the child they have in common....and this same ex was left because while they were together ..the ex had a child outside the confines of the relationship with another mate.. ANSWERS NEEDED