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		<title>Creeping on Absolute Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr.Baaps</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While many of us are being  distracted by Media and Entertainments, others are building blocks for an absolute control through one Government, one Economy, one Army and eventually one center of absolute Power.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/verichip.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-235" style="float: left;" title="SMART MICROCHIP" src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/verichip-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>While many of us are being  distracted by Media and Entertainments, others are building blocks for an absolute control through one Government, one Economy, one Army and  eventually one center of absolute Power.</p>
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<p>This one entity is designed to control each and every individual using such tools as fear, distraction, religion, confusion,  and the  old vicious method of &#8220;<strong>divide and conquer</strong>&#8220;, and some new technology like the one called micro-chip or vchip that will be implanted in humans to  keep track and control any activity we do as well as our belongings.</p>
<p>This video shows you the danger of an absolute power with lies that had been going for many years and the truth behind terms like: New World Order, Terrorism, Mico Chip, North american Union, the Amero Currency, and many other information that we can find on the mainstream.</p>
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<p>We give credit for those who put together this video for the purpose of awareness  and prevention before it is too late. Anybody can put the pieces of the puzzle and find the truth. That we want it or not the process has been going you can see it by scanning though the daily News because problems that we have in the world is the results of our actions. It&#8217;s only humans against humans, no Aliens or extraterrestrials just nation against nations, regular people. We all want peace and freedom and the problem is that some people want more than that, they want power and control. If we give an opportunity to any of those seeking the ultimate power they would not hesitate to turn our live into misery and straight up to a modern slavery.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Power corrupts: Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.&#8221;</strong> -  said, Lord Acton (1834-1902).</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr.Baaps</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Malcolm X - (1925 - 1965)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr.Baaps</dc:creator>
		
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sitting at the table doesn&#8217;t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what&#8217;s on that plate. Being here in America doesn&#8217;t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn&#8217;t make you an American.&#8221;<span id="more-220"></span></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sitting at the table doesn&#8217;t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what&#8217;s on that plate. Being here in America doesn&#8217;t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn&#8217;t make you an American.&#8221;<span id="more-220"></span></p></blockquote>
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		<title>White couple hittin&#8217; the dance-floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr.Baaps</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Who said white folks couldn't dance? You must be kidding me or may be you have not seen this video yet.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/whites2dance.jpg" alt="Dancing Couple" align="left" />Who said white folks couldn&#8217;t dance? You must be kidding me or may be you have not seen this video yet.<span id="more-195"></span> A white couple flipped the flow of a boring  slow jam melody and hit the dance floor on a 16 beat (hip-hop) just to go dumb on the crowd.Take a look.<br />

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		<title>Introducing My Makodef Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing the new social network site created by Makodef Production for users to set a free account and let others them and know what they do. It's called My Makodef Community, join now.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="My Makodef" href="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/my_makodef1.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/my_makodef1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="My Makodef" align="left" /></a>Introducing the new social network site created by Makodef Production for users to set a free account and let others them and know what they do. It&#8217;s called My Makodef Community, <a href="http://my.makodef.com">join now</a>.</p>
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		<title>Invisible Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr.Baaps</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The streets are the homes of the homeless people and the street walls are the canvases of graffiti artists that no one seems to know who they are.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Invisible artists" href="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/iyan-graffiti.JPG"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/iyan-graffiti.thumbnail.JPG" alt="Invisible artists" align="left" /></a>Walking down the streets of downtown Oakland in California, I see the everyday life of everyday people doing their everyday thing.  People who live in this area know that the scenery do not change much; unless for some special days like holidays. <span id="more-147"></span> But in an ordinary morning day, you usually see the same decor, same streets, same buildings, and same people going to work to start their day. The same cars are taking off from the same parking lots to disappear into the same empty streets where the same homeless people reside. The streets are the homes of the homeless people and the street walls are the canvases of the tags and graffiti artists that no one seems to know who they are.</p>
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<p>I remember many times walking down the streets and seeing graffiti arts that catch my eyes because I love art, and the next day when I pass the same street expecting to see the same strange peace some art form and it&#8217;s gone. Looks like soon as the art is created, somebody else come remove it from the wall. Few days later the same process repeats again. New graffiti are created and get removed the next day. Other people who pass through the streets do not seem to be bothered by the short life that form of art, but me. Nobody ask questions or say anything about the graffiti. Often times I witnessed graffiti being removed by people during the daytime.  But it&#8217;s very rare to catch somebody making the art.</p>
<p>This time I ran into one of the mysterious artists while his was creating his wild master piece.  It was in a brought day light, in the streets of downtown where, Iyan, a talented young man was showing his skills through a rich palette of street art that he was dressing up the wall with. I came closer to the artist to say what&#8217;s up and to talk about hi beautiful work, then I found out that Iyan is an artist from Los Angeles who is giving permission to mess up the wall. Then I understood why he did dare signed his autograph on that wall in a brought day light in front of anybody.<br />
In the same street where Iyan was doing his work, there were some graffiti removed from the wall alongside the one Iyan was using. But unlike him, the authors of those removed graffiti can never been caught doing in their thang at daytime. That&#8217;s why I call graffiti makers the &#8220;Invisible artists&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you love graffiti art like I do, stay tuned on makodef.com, we will bring you some more invisible artists with crazy skill. In case you want to express a message through art and need an artist for that, let us know and we will hook you up talented artists like Iyan, and if you know an artist or you are a graffiti artist yourself, contact us and share your work with Makodef Magazine.</p>
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		<title>Oprah to Get Her Own TV Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The television Queen is getting her own TV Network, "OWN" for Oprah Winfrey Network.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Oprah Winfrey" href="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/oprah_winfrey.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/oprah_winfrey.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Oprah Winfrey" align="left" /></a>Oprah Winfrey will soon be running not just her own TV show, magazine, TV-movie specials and satellite radio channel, but an entire television network. In the cashless deal announced Tuesday, Winfrey will become chairwoman of a new network that will replace Discovery Health, with Harpo Productions Inc.<span id="more-144"></span> taking half-ownership with Discovery. At the same time, Discovery Communications will assume 50 percent control of her website.</p>
<p>The channel, if you didn&#8217;t guess already, will appropriately be called the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and may feature some of her regular talk-show contributors as part of its lineup. In the meantime, we&#8217;re trying to envision a 24/7 Oprah-thon, in which every viewer feels empowered, every minute of every day &#8221; surely no problem for Chairwoman Winfrey. &#8221; Anna Dimond/TV Guide News</p>
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		<title>The Town Is Rebuilding&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Since early in the decade, developers haven’t been able to resist Oakland’s  available bargains and the Jerry Brown administration’s streamlined procedures  for getting things built. Initially lofts went up near the Oakland/Alameda  estuary, followed by the Essex condo conversion by Lake Merritt. <span id="more-136"></span>Signature  Properties’ Broadway &amp; Grand condos were unveiled in August 2007 featuring  condos, townhomes, restaurants and a Starbucks…then Eight Orchids, a “postmodern  European” condo development, recently popped up on the outskirts of Chinatown.  Lower income families can actually afford to buy condos and townhouses here.  With prices starting in the $200,000s to above $1 million, Oakland suddenly has  a sensational assortment of new urban housing in the hopper, the biggest  projects yet to come.</p>
<p>Visionary developer Rick Holliday has plans to renovate a cannery in West  Oakland and to support the project of West Oakland’s Visionary poet and  community activist Marcel Diallo, which is to create a whole new  “African-American town” in one of the Bay Area’s most neglected environment.</p>
<p>Marcel Diallo, a resident from the Bottoms-a neighborhood in West Oakland said  to <em>San Francisco Magazine</em> “We wanted to make sure the black population  wouldn’t be excluded”. Diallo is creating a cultural district close to Central  Station with a social club, a health-food store, and a gallery. He and others  brainstormed with Holliday about creative financing strategies for neighborhood  people who want to move in. “We’re all down here together,” said Diallo to  SFgate. “Local people plan to be some of the first buyers at Central Station.”  Diallo is racing against the gentrification clock to create an enclave of all  things African American — black homeowners, black-owned cafes, galleries,  boutiques and mom-and-pop shops. He’s even got a name for this vision — the  Village Bottoms Cultural District.”The Chinese got Chinatown, the Latinos got  the Fruitvale and the Mission. We want our equivalent,” said Diallo. “The only  way that black people are going to be all right and not on the brink of  revolution and wanting to burn this shit down is if we have our own place that  we feel like is ours,” he said.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>It’s not just for blacks, said Diallo. “Everybody needs a black cultural  district. Just like everybody needs a Chinatown.”</strong></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>Upcoming projects in Oakland as noted by San Francisco Magazine:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Oak Knoll</strong> <em>Little city on the hill</em></p>
<p>East of 580 in the hills and several miles from downtown, SunCal’s project includes 960 market-rate units ranging from entry-level to estate homes, plus 82,000 square feet of retail. The stores matter to neighboring communities, whose residents currently have to hit the freeway to visit retail, but 50 acres of open space and the largest creek restoration in Oakland also make the development more appealing. Construction is set to begin next year.</p>
<p><strong>Oak to Ninth</strong> <em>Life on the waterfront</em></p>
<p>This enormous project, by Signature Properties and Reynolds &amp; Brown, will create a whole new community in a forlorn area along the long underused Oakland-Alameda estuary. It will include 3,100 flats, townhouses, and lofts priced at $400,000 and up, plus 200,000 square feet of retail and commercial space and 30 acres of public open space. It’s scheduled for completion by 2025.  <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Uptown Development Project</strong> <em>Anchor of the entertainment district</em></p>
<p>Near the city center, this project is divided into two phases. The first will take up four full city blocks with about 600 units of new housing—much of it designated “affordable”—framing a park. And it will bring 9,000 square feet of retail to the area by 2009. If phase two pans out (and there’s some question about that), it will mean another 300 housing units and 20,000 square feet of retail.  <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Temescal</strong> <em>Cool condos in North Oakland</em></p>
<p>Developer Roy Alper has been quietly planning and building Mediterranean, Craftsman-style, and modern condos on the Temescal district’s main drag—Telegraph Avenue—priced from the high $200,000s to the high $600,000s. While Temescal might seem an unlikely spot for condos, it makes sense by smart-growth standards: the district is served by buses and two BART stations, and its commercial strip grows more vibrant every year.  <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Central Station</strong> T<em>he city within a city</em></p>
<p>This pioneering project sits next to 880, eight blocks from West Oakland’s BART station. It will include a mix of market-rate housing (lofts now start at $350,000, townhouses at $451,000) and affordable rentals ($400–1,000 a month). Also in the works are parks, retail space, and a potential rehab of the historic train station as a commercial center. Property taxes on the project should reap $100 million over the next 20 years, much of which will go to improving this beleaguered part of town.</p>
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		<title>Estelle-So Fresh &#38; So Clean</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British singer/songwriter Estelle will be the first act to release an album on John Legend's new label, HomeSchool. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Estelle" href="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/estelle3.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img align="left" alt="Estelle" src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/estelle3.thumbnail.jpg" /></a> The album, Shine, which features production by Wyclef Jean, will.i.am and Mark Ronson will be released in February 2008. Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley and Cee-Lo are guests on the album.<span id="more-133"></span></p>
<p>In 2002 Estelle was declared &#8220;a UK talent to look out for&#8221; and Music Week cited her as the one UK rapper &#8220;most likely to challenge the mainstream&#8221;. Estelle broke into the charts with &#8220;1980&#8243; and &#8220;Free&#8221; from her album, The 18<sup>th</sup> Day, released October 2007. The number 18 being particularly significant for Estelle as it was the day she was born. On the 18th of January 1980 Estelle&#8217;s mother had a near death experience while giving birth, but fortunately came back to life. Since then Estelle has never taken her life for granted. It was on her 18th birthday that she decided to take to the mic and embark on a rapping career that has made her one of the hottest new artists in the UK.</p>
<p>It was Deal Real that encouraged her to get on the mic, and she was soon a fixture at London institutions the Lyrical Lounge, The Hop and Scratch. Her big break came when she stepped up to the stage at Subterania alongside Roots Manuva and Rodney P. Estelle&#8217;s performance surprised everyone. Among the admirers in the crowd were 1Xtra DJ Skitz, who immediately asked her to appear on his album <em>&#8220;Countryman&#8221;</em>. Skitz remains a firm fan:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;She is the Queen of British Hip Hop and one of the most prolific lyricists I know. She&#8217;s killed every live show I&#8217;ve done with her and people fall at her knees. Beautiful, funny and humble she is loved by everyone on the </em><em>UK</em><em> scene and if she doesn&#8217;t make it I feel worried for the rest of us.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Estelle&#8217;s own tastes range from Kanye West, Nas, Jay Z, Redman and Rah Digga to Mos Def, Jill Scott, Common and Teddy Riley. But her main influences lie firmly with two of the most important female figures in Hip Hop soul - Missy Elliot and Mary J. Blige <em>&#8220;I like female artists who show that women don&#8217;t have to strip off or compromise themselves to be recognized as musicians. I can match men head to toe.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>Born of a Senegalese mother and father from Grenada, Estelle grew up in West London in a large family of eight brothers and sisters and an extended family of cousins. Her mother was a huge reggae fan and her dad built home made speaker cabinets that shook the whole house. She spent her childhood listening to her parent&#8217;s reggae records and her aunt&#8217;s soul collection. Then she discovered Hip Hop. <em>&#8220;I got into Hip Hop from my uncle who was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane; he was a bad boy and my mum wasn&#8217;t really happy that I was hanging out with him&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>Little did she know that in a few years she would not only be hanging out but performing with the likes of Chuck D and Flava Flav, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Floetry and Terri Walker and touring with Justin Timberlake.</p>
<p>Within the process of producing her upcoming album, <em>Shine, </em>Wyclef Jean called Estelle the new <a title="Lauryn Hill" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauryn_Hill">Lauryn Hill</a>. &#8220;Estelle reminds me of a young Lauryn Hill. She is the most incredible vocalist. The way that Estelle does harmonies&#8211;I&#8217;ve never seen nobody do it like that since the time of Lauryn Hill.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Husband Seduction 3D Animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short 3D animation by AniBoom about a wife who tries to seduce her seemingly "uninterested in her" husband which has a very surprising and unexpected ending.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="husband seduction" href="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/husbandseduction.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img src="http://makodef.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/husbandseduction.thumbnail.jpg" alt="husband seduction" align="left" /></a>Quirky 3D animation short from aniBoom about a wife who tries to seduce her seemingly &#8220;uninterested in her&#8221; husband. When all fails, she resort to the very last solution and the ending is both surprising and unexpected.<span id="more-131"></span></p>
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