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RIAA Arrests Pro Artist for Making Mixtapes
Maximum Prophet writes "The RIAA is now going after mixtapes; specifically, the well-known mixtapes of rap artist DJ Drama. From the article: 'On Tuesday night he was arrested with Don Cannon, a protégé. The police, working with the Recording Industry Association of America, raided his office, at 147 Walker Street in Atlanta. The association makes no distinction between counterfeit CDs and unlicensed compilations like those that DJ Drama is known for.' The story goes on to say that many of the artists featured on the mixtapes would never have had the exposure and thus sales they had if DJ Drama had not featured them on a mix. Nowhere is a specific artist mentioned who claims to have been wronged by him. Additionally, the article states that mixtapes such as those made by DJ Drama are an accepted and integral part of rap music culture. His arrest is confusing on several levels."
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> Apartheid Israel
Um, right. I'd suggest researching the difference between Apartheid, where the whites made no effort to bring blacks into society, no effort to help them, little to no effort to improve their living conditions and zero effort toward living in peace together, and Israel, where there were constant offerings of sharing land-recovery techniques, allowing arabs living in Israel the right to vote, making constant sacrifices of land in the hopes of achieving peace, etc. etc. Just because you're able to read a headline about Jimmy Carter doesn't mean you have any idea what you're talking about. In fact, your 4th bullet proves you don't.
Bark less. Wag more.
that says no one's ever seen you without makeup.
(and I'm sick of your tattoos)
Human rights abuses are more important that dicking about over land lot ownership reform, especially as some 70% of Israel has been forbidden from being sold or purchased by anyone by the State anyway.
You mean sacrificing the land that they took from the Palestinians (who had either controlled the land or been occupied by european powers for centuries before that) by force in the 1940s after the Ally powers sold a bunch of surplus military hardware to some rich American Jews?
Yeah, some sacrifice. The Arab world will never accept Israel because of the way it was founded and the animosity with which it approached its neighbors. Most in the Arab world see the plight of Palestinians in Israel as akin to Darfur, Bosnia or any other genocide; only the oppressors have the backing of the western industrialized nations.
There will never be peace in the middle east until Israel is gone. It's not a personal opinion; I could give a shit less about Israel. The countries around that had to shelter millions of Palestinian refugees (who they believed had a right to try to take back their homes, as they were taken from them by force) see Israel as a hostile, lying, unnegotiable partner. The Israelis see the Palestinians in the same light.
>So, when are the American's going to get out of the native's (red skins) land?
We're not. We already killed most of them. Is that really the example you want to follow?
The Apartheid in Israel is between Israeli controlled areas and the Palestinian controlled areas. Israel has shown that it doesn't care about the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Israelies built a wall to try to keep the Palestinians out, I'm not sure you can come up with a better example of apartheid then that.