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View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo .

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , the long awaited prequel to The Lord of the Rings is slated for release Holiday 2012. After years of legal wrangling, Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema finally came to an understanding over the royalties for the original Lord of the Rings films, which garnered 17 of a possible 30 Academy Awards . The premiere is slated for a November opening in New Zealand , which is  Peter Jackson's homeland and the site of the majority of the filming. It will be followed up by The Hobbit: There and Back Again , which is slated for a late 2013 release date. Here's a preview of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:

Bahama Pundit:  The Changing Bahamas Investment Scene

Tim Reynolds is a true master of the guitar and Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds team up to make amazing music all the time. These two performing live ranks high on my list of concerts I'd definitely love to see.

Hip Hop is a diverse music form with roots in R&B, jazz and poetry. It really is one of the great artisitc exports of the USA. Sadly, very little good hip hop is heard by the overwhelming majority of people, even by those who claim to be into it. The music industry bombards the public with 'hip pop' stars and chromed out idiots with even dumber girls around them. Most people's experience of hip hop is limited. It doesn't have to be that way. Expand your horizons and defy the marketing blitz krieg. Explore. Start that exploration with some Mos Def. Lyrically, he's one of the most gifted rappers out there and his message is far more complex and interesting than bitches, bling, cars , guns and the other silly stuff that most hip hop obsesses over. Enjoy.

Leslie Miller and the Racist LNG Conspiracy - Bahama Pundit

This link is the PLP's attempted 'retort' to Bahama Pundit's excellent article, which was mentioned in one of my earlier posts . Click here for his most recent article on BTC . Click here for Bahama Pundit's original article on Bluewater, the PLP's attempted giveaway of BTC to their own insiders back in 2006/7. Fortunately, Larry Smith at Bahama Pundit has two things that his adversaries possess in short supply: a brain and integrity. This is a blatant attack on a respected journalist who has done his home work on this issue.  The PLP don't like the truth on this issue, so they attack the messenger. It is an all too typical PLP tactic straight out of Pindling's drug era playbook! Discredit the journalist trying to talk sense and explain the truth to the people and repeat bogus falsehoods in the media for the loyal simpletons to absorb and parrot. The Republicans in the USA have mastered this technique well.  As Goebbels  infamously observed: ...

Here's why, courtesy of the LA Times article found here . Let that be yet another warning on choosing form over substance for the day.

Fascinating article on nutritional pizza .

The Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman , releases another insightful piece on the ongoing debt crisis facing the world. Click here  for the NYTimes column.

The Nassau Guardian  letter here is a perfect example of one of the major problems with our culture. Our love of form over substance . Prom is a glaring example of the insane, ass backwards priorities of our people. Instead of being focused on good grades and actual performance at school, our culture puts more emphasis on the appearance of their children at their prom ceremonies. Our culture's obsession over ceremony instead of results manifests itself in many ways, but none so glaring as prom and politics. Our politicians often appear to live in a prom world where throwing a ceremony for a thing is more important than achievements, results or reality. Another case in point, the renaming ceremony of the airport, which was done before any actual improvements were done. It's pathetic. It's disgraceful and as an intelligent young Bahamian, I consider it to be an insult and an affront to anyone in this country with a brain. Bahamas, do better! Demand more! Wake up!