Warren Buffett Flashes Jay-Z’s “Diamond” Symbol At Club Opening

The Oracle of Omaha flashes the diamond sign at the re-opening of Jay-Z’s New York City club 40/40.

huffingtonpost.com | Jan 19, 2012

Most may not associate the words “Warren Buffett” and “rage” too closely, but last night the Oracle of Omaha did exactly that.

The famed investor joined other huge names like Ashanti, Russell Simmons and Spike Lee last night at the re-opening of his pal Jay Z’s Manhattan club 40/40. At the party, the 81-year-old, best known for his financial savvy, rocked Jay Z’s diamond sign.

This isn’t the first time that the two super rich men have been spotted together. Jay-Z made an appearance in an episode of Buffett’s “Secret Millionaires Club,” an animated series about a group of youngsters led by Buffett as they tackle financial emergencies. In the video, the husband of Beyonce and father of Blue Ivy Carter schools the kids on giving back.

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The two also appeared together in an interview with Forbes in 2010 where they discussed the secrets of their success. Both touched on the value in having a wealth of experience and trusting their gut.

Hopefully Buffett won’t face the same scrutiny for using the Roc-A-Fella sign that Jay-Z did years ago. In 2005, former pro-wrestler Diamond Dallas Page sued the rapper, alleging that he came up with the hand symbol first, according to a 2005 report from MTV News.

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Public Enemy’s Chuck D: UK riots signify a ‘New World Order’

Consider yourselves warned … Public Enemy’s Chuck D speaks out on the UK riots. Photograph: Tom Watkins/Rex Features

Veteran rapper offers London crowd the benefit of his thoughts on the recent chaos in English cities

guardian.co.uk | Sep 9, 2011

by Michael Hann

As Public Enemy finished their UK tour at the Forum in London on Thursday night, their leader Chuck D told the crowd last month’s violence in English cities had been inevitable. “This is a new world order, if you push people they’re going to fuck shit up,” he said. “But there is enough to go round for everyone. Tell your government that. Equal rights are important.”

He added that the legendary hip-hop group had nearly cancelled their UK shows after the violence. “We almost didn’t make this gig because of what happened here a month ago,” he told the crowd. “People in America were going nuts and they were scared about coming over here. They were going: ‘What the fuck is going on in England? A white man is acting like a black man.’”

Flavor Flav dedicated the song 911 Is a Joke to those imprisoned for rioting.

Public Enemy are perhaps the most politically involved rap outfit of the last 25 years. Chuck D coined the phrase “black folks’ CNN” to describe hip-hop’s ability to instantly and accurately report on the problems facing inner-city black communities in America. In August he recorded Notice, Know This, a response to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Otis, drawing attention to the discrepancy between the consumerist boasts of superstar rappers and the economic disempowerment of the communities the music represents.

Kanye West, Nicki Minaj To Appear In ‘Rap Illuminati’ Episode Of ‘The Cleveland Show’

“We have a rap Illuminati episode that’s going to be happening,” Mike Henry, who voices Cleveland on the show, revealed recently.

ballerstatus.com | Aug 5, 2011

by Allen Starbury

Kanye West on the ‘Cleveland Show’Hip-hop’s Illuminati will be coming to a TV show near you this fall, when Kanye West and Nicki Minaj appear in an upcoming episode of “The Cleveland Show.”

The rap stars will appear on the show alongside Will.i.am, Bruno Mars, and The Roots’ drummer ?uestlove during an episode about the secret society.

Reports say the musicians will play themselves and contribute original music.

“We have a rap Illuminati episode that’s going to be happening,” Mike Henry, who voices Cleveland on the show, revealed recently. “We have an episode where Kanye and Will.i.am, playing himself, and Nicki Minaj, playing herself, and Bruno Mars, playing himself, and ?uestlove — they’re all part of the rap Illuminati, the secret group that controls pop culture.

“Cleveland inadvertently breaks into it and then it’s how he will either bring them down or they’ll bring him down,” adds executive producer Rich Appel. “We have a couple of original songs with Kanye and will and Bruno, I mean, all of them, it was great.”

When the episode will air was unknown at press time.

However, the third season of “The Cleveland Show” kicks off September 25 on Fox.

Kanye previously appeared on the show late last year, spoofing himself, but as the animated character “Kenny West,” a famous local rapper who’s failed rap career has left him homeless.

Vatican reveals secret parchment conferring papal knighthood on Mozart

Mozart Chevalier of The Golden Spur

The Vatican has promised other documents from the “closed period” of World War II.

theaustralian.com.au | Aug 16, 2011

by James Bone

A LAMBSKIN parchment conferring a papal knighthood on the boy prodigy Mozart is to be put on public view for the first time as the Vatican opens up its secret archives.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 14 when he attended a performance of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on April 11, 1770. Because Allegri’s composition for two choirs was considered sacred music, the Roman Catholic Church forbade its reproduction.

But Mozart, touring Italy with his father Leopold, returned to his room and transcribed the 15-minute work. “You have often heard of the famous Miserere in Rome, which is so greatly prized that the performers are forbidden on pain of excommunication to take away a single part of it, to copy it or to give it to anyone,” Leopold wrote to his wife. “But we have it already. Wolfgang has written it down.” The feat earned Mozart celebrity and an invitation to an audience with Pope Clement XIV, who conferred on him the Chivalric Order of the Golden Spur.

In the letter to Mozart the Pope said that he had “agreed to the Petitions in your name”, triggering speculation that it was the prodigy’s pushy father who had asked for the award.

The Vatican document, dated July 4, 1770, bears the papal seal of St Peter the fisherman casting his nets on to the sea. Clement XIV praises Mozart for excelling in “suavissimo cymbali sonitu”, literally “the sweetest sound of cymbals”, since his earliest youth.

Mozart was at first proud of his papal honour, signing a letter to his sister “Chevalier de Mozart”. He wore the insignia of the order on his breast, as seen in a 1777 portrait. In a letter to his father on October 17 of that year, however, Mozart recounts how, invited to give a concert, he was mocked by assembled noblemen who claimed the cross was worth no more than a pinch of snuff.

“It is not gold, only copper, ha! ha!” one nobleman said. “By no means – it is lead, ha! ha!” Mozart replied, burning with rage. After that he removed the title “Knight” from his signature.

The document conferring the Golden Spur is one of 100 objects to be put on view at the Capitoline Museums in Rome in February to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the archive, which has vast holdings dating to the 8th century. The documents to be put on display range from Galileo’s admission of heresy in 1633, for arguing that Earth goes around the sun, to a letter written by English peers to Pope Clement VII in 1530, calling for Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be annulled.

The Vatican archives have been embroiled in controversy over the Church’s refusal to allow access to its records on Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust. The exhibit will contain a 1934 letter written to Hitler by Pope Pius XI in 1934 and the Vatican has promised other documents from the “closed period” of World War II.

Charice says she’s not part of Illuminati

abs-cbnNEWS.com | Jul 20, 2011

MANILA, Philippines – International singing sensation Charice finally addressed the issue saying she is now a member of Illuminati, a group believed to be the brains behind events that will lead to the establishment of a New World Order.

In her official Twitter account, Charice answered a question from a netizen if she’s indeed an “Illuminati.”

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“@crstinaponce ano ga yan.. bakit naman ako magiging member? porket kanta ko po’y Pyramid, member na? hehehe. pero ayon.. hindi po,” Charice tweeted.

Still from YouTube sparked rumors of Charice's association with the Illuminati. Credit: YouTube

Rumors began circulating that she joined the secret group after the video of her hit song “Pyramid” was released, where she had to do the pyramid sign.

Illuminati’s sign is The All-Seeing Eye, a pyramid with an eye on top.

Charice was not the first one to have been rumored to join the Illuminati. International stars like Lady Gaga and the late Michael Jackson were also haunted by the said issue.

Meanwhile, Charice announced that she will do some songs for Pop Star Princess Sarah Geronimo.

Charice’s statement stemmed from a netizen’s question if she’s willing to work with Geronimo.

“@ASH1heart4SAM1 I would love to. Will start to write songs for her prolly (probably) next week. But It depends if she still wants to work with me,” Charice tweeted.

Brown’s government ‘left the British working man screwed by cheap labour’, says Who frontman Roger Daltrey

Daily Mail | Jul 3, 2011

By Ben Todd

Entering the debate: Who frontman Roger Daltrey has used an interview to give his views on immigration, the NHS and the Coalition government

He was a Sixties rebel, renowned for voicing working class angst.

And now legendary Who frontman Roger Daltrey has waded into the debate on immigration.

Daltrey, now 67, has told how the influx of thousands of immigrant workers from the rest of Europe during Labour’s 13-year reign left the indigenous working-classes unemployed.

The star told how the last government left ‘the British working man screwed like he’d never been screwed before by cheap labour coming in from Europe.’

He went on: ‘We do need immigration, but surely it should be a level playing field where they can’t undercut every working–class bloke in England for their jobs.’

However the current Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government were not spared his ire either, with Daltrey adding: ‘The quality of our politicians is tragic.’

He continued: ‘I don’t care what people say about me. I tell it like it is, and, if I’m wrong, I’ll just say, ‘OK, I’m wrong.’ I’m not always the most diplomatic person. I know my faults, but I’m comfortable with me.’

Daltrey also had harsh words for the machinations of the NHS.

The star has long been involved in charity the Teenage Cancer Trust. As a result, he has experienced the workings of the NHS.

He said: ‘You suddenly see the enormity and complexity of it, and the truth that no one wants to accept that there’s nobody in charge.
‘Everyone knows it can’t carry on, but you can’t touch anything in the NHS because the nurses are in their trench, the doctors are in their trench, the unions are in their trench – it’s the First World War.’

Daltrey, who lives with wife Heather in a sprawling estate in East Sussex, is also furious at rural poverty.

The star- who has five children – said in a new interview: ‘I live 50 miles from London, and we’ve got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It’s disgusting. Just because it’s a rural area, it gets forgotten.’

Daltrey was speaking as he publicised a new version of The Who’s famous rock opera Tommy.

The star – who starred as Tommy in the film version of the musical – will embark on an UK tour later this week.  He will then embark on a two-month US tour of the opera in September.

Tommy was originally written by the band in 1969 before being turned into a Ken Russell directed move in 1975. To date, the album has sold 20 million copies.

Scar Symmetry Discuss Illuminati and New World Order on ‘Unseen Empire’

noisecreep.com | May 31, 2011

by Amy Sciarretto

Scar Symmetry’s new album ‘The Unseen Empire’ deals with topics that seem to have been ripped right from the pages of a Dan Brown novel. Many contemporary artists are fascinated by secret societies and Biblical bloodlines, and Swedish melodic metal bands like Scar Symmetry are no exception.

“Lyrically the album deals with the Illuminati and the New World Order,” said drummer Henrik Ohlsson. “I explored different theories around these topics and found a lot of variety in perspective, so to speak. On some songs, I deal with the politics of the Illuminati and how they’re executed in order to advance the agenda of global domination. On other songs, I’m writing about the occult connections that are closely related to the shadow government and the elite bloodlines that secretly rule the world.”

“A song like ‘Extinction Mantra,’ for example, is about the mindset and the politics of the Illuminati,” he says. “It’s a damn heavy track with lot of different parts going all over the place within the song, but the focus is heaviness on that particular tune,” Ohlsson said.

“The song ‘The Draconian Arrival’ is more about melody but it still goes places musically.” He counts the arrangement of the song as cinematic, while lyrically dealing with the occult aspects of the Illuminati.

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Lyrics to The Draconian Arrival :

Thirteen are the ones residing in this eerie shrine
Every founder, each a liar, gathered by design

Their shadows move without a sound, faces dire
Apotheosis, to transform from man to god

Calling spirits of moonlight, bringing the cold draconian tide
The circle stands in the ivory tower,
they’re chanting inside the shrine

Heaven is a dream invented, never realized
Making masses fear hellfire and the end of time

They hide the truth within plain sight, codes and ciphers
Novus Ordo Seclorum, the eye sees all

[Chorus:]

Calling spirits of moonlight, bringing the cold draconian tide
The circle stands in the ivory tower,
they’re chanting inside the shrine
Something comes as the air’s vibrating and candles die with a sigh
Now behold, as the light is fading, for the invoked has arrived

For eternities the web was weaved
Bloodlines of certain stature to pull the strings
Bloodlines, all in all thirteen
Chosen by blood for the seal of the all-seeing eye

A transformation occurred within
Inside, beneath their skin
An eerie vision, a fearful scene
And now it’s time to leave

Thirteen are the ones residing in this eerie shrine
Every founder, each a liar, gathered by design

Their shadows move without a sound, faces dire
Apotheosis, to transform from man to god

[Chorus]

In ivory towers
Inside the shrine
Under the sacred sign
In ivory towers
Inside the shrine
Under the seal of the all-seeing eye

Duke of Gloucester unveils Chopin statue on the South Bank

HRH the Duke of Gloucester

London SE1 | May 18, 2011

A statue of Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin has been unveiled outside the Royal Festival Hall after more than two decades in storage.

The statue by Bronislaw Kubica was a gift from the people of Poland to the people of the UK in recognition of the countries’ mutual support during the Second World War and was first unveiled on the South Bank in 1975 by Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.

The statue was removed for safe keeping during building works in the mid 1980s and remained out of public view until pressure from the Polish Heritage Society and the Chopin Society led the Southbank Centre to track down the its whereabouts.

On Wednesday Princess Alice’s son, the current Duke of Gloucester, came to the Royal Festival Hall to unveil the newly restored statue.

“I am delighted to play a role – as my mother did – in unveiling this statue,” said the Duke.

He described Chopin as “one of Poland’s greatest heroes”.

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Referring to Pope John Paul II, he continued: “I am also reminded that it is only a few days ago that I was in Rome for the beatification of another Polish hero.”

He added: “Both occasions are symbols of a Polish hero who had an impact throughout the world, and I am delighted to play a very small part in re-unveiling this statue which has been on this site before.

“As you can see the site has changed over the years and I’m rather horrified to hear that this statue was removed and I congratulate those who ran it to earth and had it polished up again so that those who see it will be reminded of Chopin’s contribution to the civilisation of the world and the great esteem in which he is held – not just by the Polish people but by everybody.”

The ceremony was also attended by the Polish ambassador HE Barbara Tuge-Erecinska, the Mayor of Lambeth Cllr Tina Valcarcel, the Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes AM and Greg Hands MP representing the Government.

“The statue of Fryderyk Chopin, now restored to its home by the River Thames, is many things:” explained Dr Marek Stella-Sawicki, chairman of the Polish Heritage Society. “A work of art by a sculptor, a gift from one country to another and the realisation of a dream by a musician and patriot living far away from home.”

He told the story of the statue which was the idea of Professor Stefania Niekrasz who died before the statue was unveiled for the first time.

Jay-Z Addresses Illuminati Accusers, Says They Can’t Handle His Success

ballerstatus.com | May 5, 2011

By Allen Starbury

Jay-Z’s rumored connection to the historical secret organization known as the Illuminati has been a much talked about topic for a few years now. And while he’s brushed off the rumors with as outrageous and even humorous, the discussion continues.

In a recent interview with Delta Airlines’ Sky magazine, the hip-hop mogul was asked about his alleged affiliation with the Illuminati, in which he claimed his accusers just can’t handle his success.

“It may sound a little arrogant, but I just think people can’t handle when somebody else is successful,” Jay said in the mag’s feature. “Something has gotta be wrong; you gotta be down with some higher power. And I guess when someone else is successful, it makes you feel like maybe you’re a failure. So it can’t be you, it has to be some other force.”

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Jay-Z addressed the rumors last summer in his verse on Rick Ross’ “Free Mason,” where he denied being a part of a secret society and/or a devil worshiper.

“I said I was amazing, not that I’m a Mason / It’s amazing that I made it through the maze that I was in / Lord forgive me, I never woulda made it without sin / Holy water, my face in the basin / Diamonds in my rosary shows he forgave him / Bitch I’m red hot, I’m on my third six, but a devil I’m not,” he spits.

Jay-Z is just one of several rappers who’ve been accused of being a member of the Illuminati. Others include Kanye West, and 50 Cent.

Pub singer arrested for racism after Chinese passers-by hear him perform Kung Fu Fighting

Entertainer Simon Ledger was singing Kung Fu Fighting as a Chinese man and his mother walked past which later prompted the complaint to the police

Later that night, he was phoned at a Chinese restaurant and then arrested

Daily Mail | Apr 27, 2011

A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting.

The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing.

The entertainer regularly performs the 1974 number one hit, originally by disco star Carl Douglas, at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, on the Isle of Wight.

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But after one of the passers-by reported his routine on Sunday afternoon, Mr Ledger was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment.

‘We were performing Kung Fu Fighting, as we do during all our sets,’ he said.

‘People of all races were loving it.  Chinese people have never been offended by it before.

‘But this lad walking past with his mum started swearing at us and making obscene hand gestures before taking a picture on his mobile phone.

‘We hadn’t even seen them when we started the song. He must have phoned the police.’

Officers later called Mr Ledger while he was eating in a Chinese restaurant to arrange a meeting.

The singer assumed it was a prank – but he was later arrested and is still under investigation.

‘They seemed pretty amazed but said the law is the law and it was their duty,’ he is reported to have said.

‘It’s political correctness gone potty. There are plenty of Welsh people at our shows – does it mean I can’t play any Tom Jones?’

Bar owner Sean Ware told the Sun newspaper: ‘The song is in no way racist and nor is Simon. There is no way he would abuse anyone.

‘He didn’t start the song just because Chinese people were walking past. He had already started playing it.’

Mr Ledger, who was later bailed, wrote on Facebook: ‘If the lad who phoned the police is reading this, what is wrong with you?’

A Hampshire police spokesman last night said a 32-year-old man of Chinese origin had claimed he was subjected to racial abuse.

He added: ‘If a victim believes that an alleged crime is racially aggravated, the police will treat it seriously. Investigations into this incident are continuing.’

The spokesman said a 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing harassment, alarm or distress under section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986.

The man was not taken to the police station at the time, but was released on bail.

He will visit Newport police station today where he will be interviewed.