Next Scheduled Update: 19 February 2007
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G21 #457: SOUL, STYLE, CLASS, BADASS |
G21 AFRICA - THE FACE OF GLOBAL POVERTY - MORAA GITAA provides the first look at Your World's Magazine's Focus Issue 2007: Relieving Global Poverty with an in-depth report.
Mombasa, KENYA - "We do not want to create a country of 10 millionaires and 10 million paupers" - The Late J.M. Kariuki (Populist Kenyan politician assassinated in 1971.
"We all know the basic facts. Half the people in the world live on less than $ 2 a day. A fifth live on less than $ 1 a day. Over the next three decades, two billion more people will be added to the global population - 97 percent of them in developing countries, most of them born into poverty." - James D. Wolfensohn - Former World Bank President, World Bank. October 3rd 2004.
"... Poverty reduction begins with children... making sure that every child has the best possible start in life... is the only reasonable choice for responsible leadership." - UNICEF's 'State of the world's children - 2006 report. ...READ MORE
ON FILM: - G21 INTERVIEWS: THE CAST OF "ALPHA DOG" - Media Editor BRAD BALFOUR gets the cast of this disturbing film to sit down together and provide an ensemble interview that reflects the dynamics of their relationships making the film.
New York, NY, USA - Talk about going against type. After Nick Cassavetes made the treacly "The Notebook," few believed he could go on to direct the likes of "Alpha Dog" - a nasty, unrepentant, documentary-like drama about some pretty shitty drug-dealing kids from the Los Angeles suburbs who go on to commit a very stupid kidnapping and murder. But, to make this cautionary tale (based on the true story of Jesse James Hollywood), Cassavetes did what he had to do and exposed his cast to some really nihilistic youths - a bunch you don't want to meet anywhere, especially in the hot California sun.
That cast includes Emile Hirsch as the drug-dealing Johnny Truelove; singer Justin Timberlake is his eternally stoned cohort Frankie Ballenbacher; Ben Foster's speed-addicted Jake Mazursky, rips off Truelove; Anton Yelchin is the 17 year-old Zack Mazursky, brother of Jake, who thinks he's not kidnapped by Frankie but just hanging with his brother's dawgs and; Shawn Hatosy is the cretinous underling Elvis Schmidt, who actually guns down Zack for Truelove. ... READ MORE
FEED THE HUNGRY. You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME. If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY. The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care. Do your part.
YOU see anyone else down here except me and you, Dweeb? Get a clue.
You are so 20th Century.
You want a 21st Century foot up your ass?
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