we petition the obama administration to: formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

we petition the obama administration to:

formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race - Disclosure.

Disclosure Petition - Paradigm Research Group
"We, the undersigned, strongly urge the President of the United States to formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon."
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Hundreds of military and government agency witnesses have come forward with testimony confirming this extraterrestrial presence. Opinion polls now indicate more than 50% of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80% believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon. The people have a right to know. The people can handle the truth.
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Created: Sep 22, 2011

 

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Amy Winehouse May Have Died of Detox Seizure, Says Dad

By Mike Fleeman

Saturday September 10, 2011 01:10 PM EDT

Did Amy Winehouse die from trying to save her life?

Her father Mitch Winehouse says the troubled singer may have suffered an overdose from a powerful anti-anxiety drug and suffered a seizure during detox.

"Everything Amy did, she did to excess," Winehouse said at a taping of Anderson Cooper's show Anderson, which debuts Monday. "She drank to excess and did detox to excess."

The final cause of death will be determined after an official inquest.

Mitch Winehouse said previously that no illegal drugs were found in his daughter's system after she died at age 27 in July.

Blondie's new studio album set for release in September

"Panic of Girls," Blondie’s 9th studio album, is set for release on September 13 on the band’s own imprint Noble ID.
The first single is "Mother," a nod to the legendary West 14th Street night club of the same name. See it here: http://www.blondie.net/video/
From the press release:
"Panic of Girls" colored with inspirations from New York City's roiling melting pot and street-level pop culture, hearkens back to the core of Blondie's genius while remaining positively fresh. Collaborating with producers Jeff Saltzman (the Killers, Fischerspooner) and Kato Khandwala (Paramore, Papa Roach) for the first time, Blondie has created one of their most astounding albums in their storied 37-year career. New wave dance gems, songs sung in French and Spanish and even a reggae cover are threaded together with a timeless pop sheen. Inducted into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, Blondie has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.

Debbie Harry, Clem Burke and Chris Stein are joined by newer band members Leigh Foxx, Tommy Kessler and Matt Katz-Bohen.

Debbie Harry interview: Blondie are back

 

he may have just turned 66, but Debbie Harry is in fine shape and turning heads in the bar of her West End hotel. The legend of her band Blondie has involved sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, the near-death of Debbie’s former partner and artistic counterpart Chris Stein, and financial meltdown.

But with their new album Panic Of Girls, Blondie are very much alive and Harry – dressed in black sweater and tight jeans – looks as beautiful as ever.
Everyone from Madonna to Lady Gaga owes her a debt, and Snoop Dogg has Tweeted that Rapture was the first rap record he ever heard.


Harry bounces across the room, vivacious and fresh from a gym workout. She answers questions thoughtfully, but also laughs like a dirty drain.
Before Chris, now 61 and married with two kids, arrives she recalls how their extraordinary partnership began.
“He was magnetic,” admits Debbie. “I didn’t know if I could take him seriously and I thought there was a good chance he was gay because he was wearing eye make-up and wore lots of jewellery.
“I was trying to fulfil my dream of being in a band and working in a trio. He came along played bass and we got to know each other.”
Before Blondie took off and she became a woman in the mainly man’s world of New York punk, Debbie had been a Playboy bunny.
“People viewed it as a sexist operation,” she smiles. “The attraction was sexist. Basically we were cocktail waitresses in skimpy outfits, but we were treated as valuable assets.”
The New York CBGB’s scene produced many great artists – Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Television – but Blondie had the greatest commercial success with global smashes Atomic, Rapture and The Tide Is High. Debbie wasn’t a star, she was an icon.
“During the first seven years of Blondie, that never came through to me,” she says, modestly. “I knew I was the face of the band and my looks were a big factor, but when we got back together after a long period away and people were calling me iconic, it shocked me. I always thought it was an absurd thing.”
Drug abuse eventually lead to Chris developing a rare life-threatening auto-immune disease, while Debbie put on weight (“the ice cream years”, she once called them) as she nursed Chris back to health. They then split as a couple, but remained musical partners.
“There was a period of adjustment,” Harry admits. “In a way, separating gave us an idea of our individuality.”
Chris joins us and says the band became the baby they never had together.
“It was never possible for me because we were working at such a pace,” Debbie reflects.
“I recommend everybody takes vacations!”
Although she never had children, Harry’s legacy is immense. She was once called a photogenic suffragette by writer Julie Burchill – so did she want to make feminism sexy?
“Yeah, in a small way,” Debbie smiles. “Lyrically, I wasn’t interested in taking the position of the underdog.”
Chris adds, “Think of Janis Joplin’s song titles. She was such a strong forceful figure, yet all her songs were about victimisation of women.”
Debbie looks good in her recent video for Mother and looks even better in the flesh. Is that important to her?
“Hanging in?” she asks. “Absolutely. It makes me feel good. I went into a sort of decline for a while and had to fight my way back, working with a trainer getting conscientious about my health.”
Was plastic surgery a big step to take?
“No,” she chortles. “I might be ready for some more soon. It’s part and parcel of modern living and being in showbusiness. The way to do it is to have something done and not look like you’ve had it done, don’t demand too much.”
As if she would.
● Blondie play T In The Park, Sunday; Kew Gardens, Monday; Somerset House, Wednesday. The album Panic Of Girls is out now.

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Blondie Kew The Music - Kew Gardens - review

By André Paine
12 Jul 2011 

As well as the timeless quality of Blondie's songs, post-gig 

conversations about this Kew The Music series finale focused 

on the iconic Debbie Harry.

 

The consensus among a group of thirtysomething female fans talking on the way home was that the 66-year-old singer was inspirational and, furthermore, still had an impressive set of pins contained in her fishnets and shorts.

The rest of the band has worn well, too, and had an obvious hunger to perform. There are recent, younger recruits, but there was no mistaking Chris Stein's angular guitar solo on Dreaming and Clem Burke's clattering drums.

Harry struggled with an earpiece on Union City Blue and offered a tentative shuffle in lieu of any real movement. Soon enough, though, she was growling over Stein's dirty guitar sound on Atomic, racing through Hanging On The Telephone and stomping about to new wave classic Call Me in this spectacular setting.

"What a beautiful garden, is there a botanist in the house?" asked Harry.

Yet while the genteel set-up featured a picnic area and Peyton and Byrne catering, Blondie summoned the spirit of a sweaty New York club circa 1980. Except Harry is now a better singer, with a sideline in rap on the imposing Rapture and a Beasties Boys cover.

After suggesting they would "slip in" some new songs, Blondie bombarded us with eight tracks from their latest album Panic Of Girls. That would normally result in an audience switching off, but the uplifting power pop tunes What I Heard and Love Doesn't Frighten Me sounded like The Killers on a good day, while Wipe Off My Sweat's Latin flavour suited this open-air show.

The performance boasted five number ones including Sunday Girl, dedicated to the mystery buyer who recently paid £3.7 million for Andy Warhol's portrait of Debbie Harry, and the glorious disco anthem Heart Of Glass.

After 90 minutes, the band still appeared full of energy - good news for those going to the sold-out Somerset House show tomorrow and Lovebox in Victoria Park on Sunday. Thirty years after its peak, it seems Blondie is enjoying an Indian summer.

Debbie Harry: I thought Stein was gay

Debbie Harry thought her musical partner Chris Stein was gay when she first met him.

Singer Debbie and guitarist Chris famously founded rock band Blondie together in the 70s, and went on to become lovers. The pair split romantically in the 90s, although continued to have a good working relationship and close friendship.

Debbie, who has never married, has recalled the intense attraction she first felt for Chris, who is now married to actress Barbara Sicuranza, with whom he has two children.

“He was magnetic,” says Debbie. “I didn’t know if I could take him seriously and I thought there was a good chance he was gay because he was wearing eye make-up and wore lots of jewellery.

“I was trying to fulfil my dream of being in a band and working in a trio. He came along played bass and we got to know each other.”

Debbie also reflected on the fact that she’s never had offspring. She admits that when she and Chris were together life was too hectic to think about starting a family.

“It was never possible for me because we were working at such a pace,” she told British newspaper The Daily Mirror. “I recommend everybody takes vacations!”

The star also discussed her role as a feminist icon. She believes she helped make the cause more attractive by refusing to act like a victim.

“Yeah, in a small way,” she replied, when asked if she made feminism sexy.

“Lyrically, I wasn’t interested in taking the position of the underdog.”

Debbie Harry Did Facelift 'Homework'

Debbie Harry was not concerned about getting a facelift because she did her ''homework'' and interviewed the people so she didn't ''panic'' about it.

Debbie Harry did her "homework" before she got a facelift.
The 65-year-old singer admits she had a facelift in the early 90s but did not "panic" about her decision which has led to it "holding up well".
She said: "I was careful about who I went with. I looked around, I interviewed. For me, it wasn't just a madness. That does happen, panic sets in, and people make bad decisions. But not me, I did my homework.
"There were places I went to that were really scary and I ran out."
The Blondie star believes she would have had a facelift even if she wasn't a celebrity because it made her feel better about herself.
She added: "I think I'd been very depressed about myself, I might not have done it. But it gave me a certain encouragement and satisfaction."
Debbie now likes to look after herself and thinks it is important as a woman to consider getting old and what she can do to stop it.
She told Observer Food Monthly: "Women just have a more rigorous time physically than men. It's a challenge.
"Sometimes I would love to eat a whole pizza. But then I follow it through in my head. You eat the pizza and then you go home and feel rough about yourself. You're just going to regret it. I don't kid myself about that."

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Blondie Cover Beirut, Do a Way Better Job

 

It’s not every day you see a group of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers doing a song by a band that’s about three decades their junior, but new wave overlords Blondie don’t just cover Beirut’s “A Sunday Smile,” they kind of kick the original’s ass. Not that we’re the biggest Beirut fans here at Popdust to begin with, but we don’t know how you can listen to Blondie’s smooth and sweet reggae rendition of the song—featuring Beirut leader Zach Condon repeating the original’s trumpet part, which was the best part of that version anyway—and not find it infinitely preferable. No shame in that, Zach—far better men than you have lost out to the still-bewitching coo of Debbie Harry over the course of pop history.

Between this and the stellar new cut “Mother“—both for upcoming album Panic of Girls—we might have a full-scale Blondie revival on our hands before we know it. Bout damn time if you ask me.

Listen to Sunday Smile - Blondie (Beirut Cover)

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Blank City revisits New York's 1970s film scene

n the 1970s, a strange nexus of art, film, drugs and rock and roll thrived in the burnt out neighborhoods of New York's Lower East Side. Celine Danhier's Blank City revisits the film scene and her documentary is buoyed by some of the filmmakers and performers who survived the scene's rougher edges. The interviewees include filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, actor Steve Buscemi, Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch and John Waters. The film opens at Zeitgeist Friday.

Blank City is another project touching on a strange and chaotic period of change in New York in the 1970s. Patti Smith (who appears in the film) released her memoir Just Kids about her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and New York's art scene in 2010. The 1970s might be the last time artists could find cheap apartments in lower Manhattan. The Lower East Side was gritty and mean, and music clubs like CBGBs and Max's Kansas City thrived. New York was on the verge of bankruptcy in the mid-70s, and the power blackout in summer 1977 exposed the chaotic underbelly of the city. The film captures a scene before many of its members realized financial success and drifted uptown to Studio 54 and others fell victim to the AIDS epidemic.

Among the burned out buildings downtown, artists found cheap places to rent or squat. Filmmakers produced short features with Super-8 and 16mm film in less than a month for almost no money, and a film scene developed. (It was in many ways the opposite end of the spectrum of a great era of artistic and popular achievement in filmmaking in California at the same time). Many of the filmmakers took on rough and vulgar subjects, nihilistic perspectives (especially Nick Zedd) and the movement was sometimes referred to as the Cinema of Transgression and/or No Wave film. It's probably worth revisiting some of the films, including Eric Mitchell's The Foreigner, a feature involving the punk scene and starring Debbie Harry, and Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation and Stranger Than Paradise.

In some ways, the scene was a post-Beat Generation urban nightmare: a bohemian cluster coping with harder drugs, urban blight and a punk-like rejection of aesthetics. There is an unavoidable air of pretension in the way many of the filmmakers and musicians pursued art with indifference to technique — or having training or experience. There's also something very positive about the way they set out to make their own, new art. They don't proclaim that they made great works, but they were all drawn to the bubble of raw creativity that grew below between Avenue B and the Bowery. Blank City puts that scene under the microscope and its an interesting look at a peculiar social scene that helped produce some notable talents and underground legends if not lasting works (in film — the music scene produced more lasting works).

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