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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 NOW… YOU’VE GOT THE POWER! VIEWS, OPINIONS AND INTELLIGENCE FROM PEOPLE WITH A VOICE!

READERS ARE LOSERS???

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

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COMING SOON: THE READ TO LEAD LITERACY CAMPAIGN HURRICAINE? OR BREACH-BREAKER?

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KANYE’S COMMENTS

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SPANKING: A LEGAL FORM OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT?

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POEM FROM

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NGOMAZ BILLIE JEAN: THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG

upon

a

time,

Never Forgetting Where We Came From

people of color were whipped, tormented, and even hung just because they could read a book. Today, we are whipping ourselves by submitting to the same ignorance. I actually hear younger folks speaking proudly of their lack of interest in books and reading.

This is their attitude as they hurry towards their minimum wage jobs.

Funny-but-sad thing is, they have no idea just how expendable they are! Expendable=easy to replace, (for the new readers:) It to

really boils discipline,

down time

management and putting things into proper perspective. Yet, if this sage advice was a part of a book; even if it was advice that a character in a novel gave to another, that same proud non-reader wouldn’t even have access to that information simply because they chose to remain in the dark.

For the most part what reading does is broaden a reader’s level of awareness.

So, the more you read, the more aware you become.

Food for thought from the publisher, Relentless Aaron

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Hurricane? Or Breach Breaker?

A Letter From New Orleans

New Orleans Conspiracy Theory?- The Asso09/03/05 -

ciate Press reports Associated Press reports that a loose barge may have caused a large breach in the east side of the Industrial Canal floodwall that accelerated H u r r i c a n e Katrina's rising

floodwaters in New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi said Monday, days after the eye of the storm hit the Gulf Coast.

Naomi said the barge was found on the land side of the floodwall, leading corps officials to believe that it could have crashed through the wall and sent a huge amount of water — which was already pouring over the top — into the neighborhoods immediately downriver.

(Continued on Pg 2)

Kanye’s Message To The President…

Kanye West stirs things up for the 4th quarter; “Late Registration” his latest album breaks records; meanwhile, Kanye’s got a beef with Bush.

More on page 2

Coming soon to 36 schools near you: Relentless Aaron, (in conjunction with Southpole Clothing) is launching the 1st Annual Read To Lead Campaign.

FRUITS OF FANTASY

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Hurricane? Or Breach Breaker?

A Show-stopping Read Theresa's relationship with Michael began when she was 12 years

over the Industrial Canal walls before the floodwall was breached, Naomi said.

Home Sweet Home?!

"We have some pictures that show this very large barge inside the protected area. It had to go through the breach," Naomi said.

"The opening is a little bit wider than the barge itself. One would think it's the barge that did it."

If it did strike the floodwall, Naomi said, the barge would have "precipitated a tremendous collapse" that would have quickly flooded the Lower Ninth Ward and then St. Bernard Parish.

There are two large breaches in the floodwall, said Ivor Van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, who did an aerial survey of flood damage Sunday. The larger of the two, possibly caused by the barge, is about 800 feet long. The second is 500 feet.

The areas adjacent to the Industrial Canal were among the first to flood on Aug. 29.

Katrina's storm surge pumped water from the east into a V-shaped area between St. Bernard and Eastern New Orleans hurricane protection levees, then funneled it up the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into the Industrial Canal. There the water spilled over the levee, flooding eastern New Orleans, and went

The Army Corps got a report from the Industrial Canal's lock master before dawn that water was pouring over both sides of the waterway. Reports from people in the area at the time indicate that the floodwaters then rose very quickly starting around 8 a.m. Naomi said it was too soon to tell how levees in two other canals — 17th Street and London Avenue — were breached, causing the catastrophic flooding in central New Orleans.

old.

She became "obsessed" with him and wrote him numerous letters until they met in Las Vegas for her sixteenth birthday!

The obsession continued as they stayed in touch from that point on. Their worlds have continuously gone full circle always leading back to each other. They last saw each other four days before his arrest for these current child molestation charges as she introduced her own son Mychal (named after Michael) to him. Michael had his kids with him as well and was genuinely happy to see that Theresa's son was so well cared for! However, it was Theresa's son Todd that was the controversy behind the hit song Billie Jean.

John McQuaid may be reached at john.mcquaid@newhouse.com.

Star-

Ledger staff writer Brad Parks con-

Obsessions (Continued on page 3)

tributed to this report.

Kanye West on the live NBC broadcast network, as

well as MSNBC and CNBC: “I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white family, it says, "They're looking for food." And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there.

So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!

George Bush doesn't care about black people!”

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A POEM FROM NGOMAZ WORLD

There are more ghosts here than in ole Hiroshima as karma comes knocking on the door hand stuck out for reparations over due the war profiteers vote everyone expendable as spirits choose to sacrifice it all in the name of poverty and despair nature out of balance constipated w/global warming till the levy broke then the shit was on as the suited ones w/god complexes control the weather, news and your imagination fascism break dancing in the alley waiting for a chance upon the stage jack asses and elephants stand impotent too dumb to know that they are not in charge the real terrorist play mind control on presidents in photo ops who think they talk to Jesus but only pledged to kill sacrificing souls that left the planet to bring attention to the problem as we look into the mirror and see unsightly scars that may no longer be ignored naked for all the world to see the emperor has no clothes as excuses and dead bodies rise to the top like feces in broken toilets the stench contaminates the

atmosphere the village idiot from Texas promises to fix it sending soldiers programmed to only shoot to kill as human kind starves the repair contract goes to Halliburton like salt poured in the wounds of whip lashed slaves and civilization teeter totters on the edge of chaos Nostradamus prophecies come full surface ass out w/ i told u so's stamped on it's butt cheeks

and those who looted the world turn help away bloated bodies floating bloated babies starving bloated ego's lying no pictures of the dead on the screen or the newsprint and it's pages but still this crises rages as it asks are you listening reading the handwriting on the wall that says that we must work together let's hope it's not too late to save us all

genocide and ethnic cleansing drips blood on my psyche like the days of wounded knee and the many times before then in this country of the free Rwanda on my mind in this time of tragedy king George is AWOL once more playing golf on vacation soldiers obedient to ignorance turn back boats and trucks sent to help the victims

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SPANKING: A LEGAL FORM OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT?

According

to Jessica St. Clair, M.F.T., a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor with over twenty years experience working with families and children spanking is a legal form of corporal punishment.

Moreover, while St. Clair does not endorse whipping or paddling (belting?) per se, she concedes that judicious spanking MAY stop unwanted behavior dead in its tracks -- in the short term. Long term is a different matter. (Maybe some kids just can't get enough!) *This last part is my joke, not an observation of St. Clair. She adds: "Parenting sources, doctors and men-

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tal health practitioners tend to avoid the issue of spanking or support smiting if used only when necessary, within reason and with minimum force. Such generalities are widely interpreted by parents in our society where violence seems to be everywhere."

Overall, St. Clair cautions parents on the issue of spanking. Her reassurance is limited, at best. Like so many other experts, she seems to FROWN UPON spanking as a discipline method.

Contributed by “robin”

Obsessions (Continued from page 2) Her friendship with Michael was such that she confided in him about all aspects of her life. In detailing her situation about her baby's daddy....Michael wrote the song Billie Jean about her! While Theresa and Michael spent lots of intimate moments together that they chose not to share with the world, the kid is NOT his son!!! Some of their intimacies, however, are detailed in Theresa's book OBSESSIONS as it was her obsessive relationship with Michael Jackson that led her into the obsessive relationship that almost killed her!

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Read a sample: DECISION FOR LIFE Birth was a painful process now my life reflects more pain If it was my choice to be emitted into the womb, as a sperm, would I have met the egg?

Would I have lingered behind with the rest of my kind and died off with the others instead?

If I had known that making it would mean disappointment, sorrow, grief, and life trials, would I have fought against gravity the way that I did?

Racing at a fast pace the way that I did, or would I let other sperm cells lead by a mile?

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I HATE WHEN THEY DO THAT!!!

How many of y'all ever came home and some lazy family member left a empty water jug in the refrigerator because they didn't want to throw it away? How many times have that same trifling bastard left a empty peanut butter or jelly jar there as if they were doing you a favor? Or left the end pieces of bread in the bag? I HATE WHEN THEY DO THAT..... OHHHHHHHHHHHHH. What am I getting at? Watch how the mathematics add up to a realistic equation. You feels me? Here it is. BOOM. Empty anything is no good. Empty refrigerators, empty parties (for those in promotions I know you feels me), empty stomachs (growlllll), empty pockets (lint doesn't count) and worse of all is empty people. In other words, people with no substance.

Let me tell y'all what made me write this topic. I was talking to this Toastee (dark skinned sister) the other day and I started talking about books...BOOKS.....BOOKS. Yes, those things that you read and get information. Well, she told me she didn't want to discuss any books because she's not "into reading". Now I'm not holyer then thou, but dayuuuuuuum. She knew me before my prison bid and wanted to stick to conversations about my past as well as cloths, places she wanted to go and how she looked. Her attitude smelled like salmon, tuna, perch, red snapper, and cat fish placed in a blender and applied to a body as a lotion...it was real stinkified and she kept "FISHIN" for compliments. You feels me?

I know we are all working on ourselves but c'mon if the cup is empty you have to pour something in it...you have to. That's only right. You feels me? Black people were deprived reading during our days on the "plant" without the "tation". You feels me? We atleast owe that much to those that died in the tussle with the almighty whitey for "Liber" without the "ration". You feels me?

I went to prison physically and I must admit I have been made more free as a result of that then I was when I was running around so called "thuggin it". I met people who kept pouring information into me until my cup got full and spilt all over the floor making a big ass mess. You feels me? Turn off that tube for a second and stop doing what "Public Enemy" described as watching channel zero.

You feels me?

On that note...if your empty, fill her up. Last point without the finger: if your car ran out of gas what would you do? Think about it cause

it's deep as Sugar Honey Ice Tea in a constipated...

ASK questions and get the answers.

Signing off again it's yo muuuuuuuh ain't nobody pluckin man Nat T-urner with a muhhhh pluckin tongue.

Pick up a book...in the Words of Fred G Sandford...YOU BIG DUMMY. Author:

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