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I can hear them singing now by Hilton Hamann.

Set in the 1980s at the height of the political unrest in the black townships, this is the riveting story of a black South African policeman who is forced to make a terrible choice that could have catastrophic consequences.

It is a horri

fying, moving and poignant account of a man and his family's struggles when they are thrown into crisis by political events over which they have no control and from which there appears no escape.

This book will both disturb and move you.

-Hilton Hanann is former journalist, published author and fine arts photographer specializing in handmade, hand-printed, cyanoypes. To view what a cyanotype is go to http://bighilt.smugmug.com/Art/cyanotypes/

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Canadian actress accused of stalking Alec Baldwin sent h

im a string of emails begging him to marry her.

One said, “Say I do to me.” In another, she referred to him as her “husband,” according to court papers.

Genevieve Sabourin (JEHN'-uh-veev SAB'-oo-rin) was arraigned on aggravated harassment and stalking charges Monday, a day after her arrest in New York City. READ

Titanic director James Cameron loves the water, having captained over thirty dives to the real-life Titanic site. Last weekend, Cameron became just the third person ever to go solo to the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on Earth, just ahead of the release of Titanic 3D.

Fifteen years after Titanic broke box office records and 100 years after the real-life disaster, the Cameron-directed spectacle is coming back to the big screen in 3D on April 4.

James Cameron’s Deep Sea Dive

To say The Hunger Games  has caught fire is understatement: The film will gross a historic $155 million in its opening-weekend box-office debut, its studio estimated this morning.

The Friday-Sunday take is the third-biggest in Hollywood history, blowing past the blockbuster hauls of the Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean and Twilight movies, among others.

And the records keep coming for Katniss Everdeen and company…

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From the site:

How’s that Hope & Change working for you?
Are you better off today?

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to get better.

It’s not.

- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

The Lorax movie shows a world much like the US today; governed by a plutocratic and vicious 1%. They secretly surveil, transfer rapacious wealth to themselves, purchase goons for protection, are openly cruel as they pretend to care, and keep the 99% literally “walled-in” to prevent public recognition of the 1%’s psychopathic destruction of the outside world.

The 99% in The Lorax are aware that something is wrong, but don’t know exactly what it is. They can’t see outside the wall, so they still accept their “leadership.” The 99% do their best to live in good cheer, but are concerned about visible destruction of their health and air quality.

The plot centers around a leader among the 99%, motivated by love, who is challenged to understand their society’s true history, and is entrusted with one literal seed. The seed is opportunity and choice for the 99% to reconnect to who they really are as beings living for 100% of Earth’s inhabitants’ success.

The 1% viciously try to take the seed so the 99% will remain ignorant. Their violence only causes allies to aid the 99%’s leader. To the initial shock of the 99%, the growing leadership remove the 1%’s wall blocking the vista of the 1%’s destruction.

The 1%’s long history of lies in commission and omission are recognized as the character O’Hare literally sings, “Let it die”:

My name’s O’Hare
I’m one of you
I live here in Thneedville too
The things you say just might be true
It could be time to start anew
And maybe change my point of view
Nah! I say let it die
Let it die, let it die
Let it shrivel up and die
Come one who’s with me, huh?

99%: Nobody!

In an “emperor has no clothes” moment, the 1% is removed from poweras the paid thugs join the 99%:

Let it grow
Let it grow
Let the love inside ya show
Plant a seed inside the earth
Just one way to know its worth
Let’s celebrate the world’s rebirth
We say let it grow

Importantly for the 1%, the split we all know exists within their ranks is shown in the story as one of their own has a “Scrooge conversion” to reveal their real history.

The 2-minute video is Celebrate the World, the song following the closing choice between the 99% and 1%.

So much for Andrew Breitbart‘s last scoop, say critics.

The video the late, conservative provocateur boasted could take down President Obama has been released — and many are saying it isn’t all it was cracked up to be.

The full tape aired Wednesday night by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who was accompanied by Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak and contributor Ben Shapiro.

The 1991 video shows a younger Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, speaking at a peaceful, racial equality rally led by professor Derrick Bell.

The event was in support of Bell, who was angry over Harvard’s failure to offer tenure to black professors.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/andrew-breitbart-bombshell-video-barack-obama-college-days-released-falls-flat-article-1.1035322#ixzz1oasPenUF

Sure, The Hunger Games doesn’t hit theaters for another couple of weeks, but that’s not stopping us from getting you scoop on Catching Fire.

We just found out that script for the second movie in the Suzanne Collins trilogy is well on its way to being…finished!

“I just finished the first draft, literally a few days ago,” screenwriter Simon Beaufoy told us at last night’s L.A. premiere of his new film, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (out on Friday). “I’m waiting to see what everyone thinks.”

Beaufoy said he’s working closely with Collins on Catching, which will see the return of Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson. They’ll be sticking to the book for the most part, but there will be some tweaks here and there. READ

In response to the media firestorm surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s insulting comments about Democratic activist Sandra Fluke (comments for which Limbaughapologized), Kirsten Powers writes about the liberal men who have used misogynistic rhetoric without facing the same outrage. Powers notes that “the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher—who also happens to be a favorite of liberals—who has given $1 million to President Obama’s super PAC.” She continues:

Maher has called Palin a “dumb twat” and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann “boobs” and “two bimbos.” He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, “She is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.” He recently made a joke about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obama’s name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s, “Don’t show me your tits!” as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Here’s a way to solve his problem: don’t stare at a strangers’ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: “And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!”

Former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, the man who runs Obama’s super PAC, did not reply when asked if he will be returning Maher’s $1 million donation. READ MORE