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Penetrator:
- OGIE DAWG takes the Drum Throne
- TORONTO SHOW - Tuesday, July 12 with METAL CHURCH

NYC's Sex Slaves Return to Toronto
The Hellz Kitchen Show Confirmed to Play Goth Stock 2005
MQM Feature in Snaggletooth Magazine
Zeroscape - Pimp Their Ride & UK Tour Dates
Endorphins In The Studio
Risestar Music's Compilation CD "The Iron Force" Metal Compilation
Vol. 3
Lady Fest - Ottawa, ON
Domenic Troiano Guitar Scholarship Established
MQM Want Ads
Upcoming Show Information

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-Hi just wanted to let you know that I went to the show and it was
awesome. I also made a fool of myself on National TV but that's okay.
It was for George as well as the Show so that is a small price to pay
just to be able to chat with him after the show. Anyways, its going to
be a bleak summer without the Hour but I'll still watch CBC, whenever I
can anyway. Did anyone else go for the show from this blog?

I forgot to mention that you will have to include a phone number where
you can be reached.  Claire is going to be crazy-busy tomorrow, so --
assuming there will still be a few tickets by then -- she'll only have
time to call once....

Jeremy

If you're going to be in Toronto and want to attend Thursday night's
taping of George's show (i.e., June 16), send an email to
thehour@... and ask Claire if there are any tickets left.  This
will be the last show performed in front of a studio audience until
the Fall -- at the earliest -- so get 'im while 'e's hot.

While I can't promise that you'll get in without first booking
tickets, I did hear one of the Audience Coordinators say that we'll
have some extra chairs tomorrow... just in case.  So if you show up
at the CBC's Wellington Street (north) entrance, say at around 6:45pm
(and no later than 7:15pm), they *might* be able to sneak you in.

Cheers,


Jeremy
Web Producer
CBC News: The Hour, with George Stroumboulopoulos (cbc.ca/thehour)

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Quick Overview:

NYC's Sex Slaves Play NXNE on June 11
The Hellz Kitchen Show play NXNE on June 10
Rumsfield play NXNE on June 10
Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy) performance in Toronto on June 16
Penetrator Release News
MQM Feature in Snaggletooth Magazine
Zeroscape Tour Update
I Hate Sally New Demo
Diskery Update
DJ Ray Rocks "The Docks"
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Hi guys... I thought you might like to know that we've finally
launched the new Video Archive (about ten minutes ago).  It houses
just about all of clips we've ever produced for the web, going back
to March 9th.  We've also switched formats, so everyone who sent me
hate mail about Real can now relax: the new player supports both
Quicktime *and* Windows Media.

What's perhaps more exciting, however, is our new contest.  The
details are on the website, but the short version is that you could
win a trip to Toronto to perform your own Closer in front of a live
studio audience on national television.  (I wish I could enter....)

There's more stuff coming, but that's the big news for now.  If
there's anything else I can do, just let me know.

Cheers,


Jeremy
Web Producer
CBC News: The Hour, with George Stroumboulopoulos (cbc.ca/thehour)

Steve's Music Celebrating it's 40th Anniversay - Drum Clinic Sunday,
May 15

Sunday, May 15, Steve's Music & Pearl Drums present a drum clinic
and performances by MIKE MANGINI, named the fastest hands in the
world formerly of Steve Vai, Annihilator and Extreme, and the Latin
Superstar HORACIO HERNANDEZ of Santana at the Opera House, 735 Queen
St. East, Toronto. Doors @ 3pm. $10 Tickets available at Steve's
Music or the door. Tons of 40th Anniversary Door Prizes. Save your
ticket stub for draws.

**Mike Mangini**

Mike Mangini has successfully applied Rhythm Knowledge to all styles
of music, from classical to speed metal. He has consistently
developed both the melodic and rhythmic sides of his musical
personality. He devotes his music time (which pretty much matches
his breathing time) to drums, percussion, keyboards, programming,
and writing.

He has been both teacher and student. He has been studying music
since the age 5. He studied percussion privately with Walter
Tokarczyk (Public School System, Waltham, MA), from age 10 through
18. Since 1987 he has given private instruction to drummers,
guitarists, and pianists. Michael completed his first drum clinic
tour in 1996, and since then he has traveled the world as a
clinician. The principles on which he based his extraordinary style
can be found in his publications entitled Rhythm Knowledge Volumes I
and II. Michael is currently finishing the final touches on his
first instructional video.

His numerous awards include: Boston's Best Drummer/Rhythm Section;
All Eastern United States Percussionist - First Chair; All
Massachusetts Jazz Band Drummer - First Chair; All Massachusetts
Concert Band Percussionist - First Chair; All Massachusetts (N.E.
District) Jazz Band Drummer - First Chair; Concert Band
Percussionist (N.E. District) First Chair. and on, and on ...

He has spent a positively unhealthy amount of time in the recording
studios. His more celebrated credits included Fire Garden and G3
Live by Steve Vai, Waiting for the Punchline by Extreme, and Set the
World on Fire by Annihilator. He has also worked with numerous
artists in the Pop, Country-Rock, Jazz, and Classical fields.

When Mike speaks of the importance of being able to relate to
others "in and out of the limelight ", he is talking from
experience. He has toured with Steve Vai, Extreme, Dale
Bozzio/Missing Persons, and Annihilator, to name a few, and is an
active clinician for Pearl Drums.

He has accepted a teaching position at Berklee and still teaches
privately in the Boston area.

Other Mangini Clinic Dates:

Friday May 13
The MusicStopHalifax

Monday May 16
Sherwood Music
Kitchener

Tuesday May 17
Long & McQuade
Winnipeg

Wednesday May 18
Long & McQuade
Saskatoon

Thursday May 19
Music Centre Canada
Calgary

Friday May 20
Mother's Music
Edmonton

Sunday May 22
Long & McQuade
Vancouver
* Presented by all L&M shops on the Lower Mainland

Official Website: http://www.mikemangini.com

**Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez**

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SRC=http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/drummerpictures8/horatioher
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Mention the name Horacio Hernandez to any of today's best-known
players and they will smile. In his brief two years in the United
States, Horacio has earned the respect of his American heroes. His
latin, afro-cuban style is unique and absolutely unrivaled. His
experience with such greats as Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, has now provided him an opportunity to tour the
world with the Michel Camilo Trio.

Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1963, Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez was said
to be the most talented and innovative percussionist in the world,
even before being awarded a Grammy in 1997. Whether performing with
jazz-legends like McCoy Tyner or Michel Camilo, rock-stars like
Carlos Santana and Stevie Winwood or in notable Latin American
ensembles like the Tropi-Jazz All Stars of the late Tito Puente,
Horacio has also shown himself to be one of the most forceful and
versatile musicians in the international music scene today.

Horacio was born in 1963 in Havana, Cuba, in a very musical family:
His grandfather played the trumpet in, for instance, the famous
Septeto National, and brought the traditional Cuban influence into
the family. His father compered jazz programs on Cuban radio, and
his elder brother was fond of rock-music from the Beatles to Led
Zeppelin. Horacio got his nickname 'El Negro', The Black, even
before birth as an affectionate reference to his brother's best
friend, who lived in the neighbourhood.

Already in his earliest youth Haracio showed a talent and preference
for percussion. He began with the percussion instruments in the
family, practised later on a lent drum-set and finally took lessons.
These were at first with Fausto Garcia Rivera, who had been trained
in America, then with Enrique Pla, the percussionist of the
legendary Cuban group 'Irakere', to which Arturo Sandoval and
Paquito D'Rivera likewise belonged. Horacio began studying at the
National School of Arts in Havana, but even during his years of
study he began to play with the saxophonist Nicolas Reynoso, to
whose band belonged also the pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

A big chance of letting off musical steam and showing his
versatility came, as Horacio Hernandez worked as resident
percussionist for EGREM-Studios, one of the biggest groups of
studios on Cuba. Here he drummed for many rehearsals, sometimes for
as many as 20 hours a day, travelling between studios and snatching
intervals of sleep on an old mattress rolled up in an adjacent room.
At last he became the full-time drummer in the Rubalcabas
group 'Proyecto', with which he appeared for the first time abroad
and made an international reputation for himself in music circles.
For seven years he toured the world with this group and recorded
seven albums, astonishing his hearers both with his unusual way of
playing as also with his unusual set of drums. Horacio is truly
ambidextrous, being able to play the leading pattern with either
hand or to play the basic rhythmic figure of Afro-Cuban music, the
clave-beat, with his left foot on the high-hat or the cowbell with
the foot-pedal, while his right foot supports the base line, and his
hands quite independently play highly complex rhythms on the bongos
and timbales, which he often includes, instead of the classical
toms, in his drum-set.

In 1990, Horacio felt it high time to let his talent be recognised
beyond the borders of Cuba, so during a tour in Italy he applied for
political asylum in the USA, whose officials, however, felt that
they had enough musicians already and refused entry. His wrangled
with the authorities lasted three years, during which time he taught
percussion in Rome in the Timba Centro di Percussion. In 1993, he
was then allowed to move to New York but not to move on from there,
so he had to turn many offers of tours down. This had, though, the
positive effect of intensifying his studio work and his presence on
the New York podiums with musicians like Dave Valentin, Paquo
Vazquez, Daniel Ponce, Ed Simon and Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations
Orchestra under the baton of Paquito D'Rivera.

After the restrictions on travel were lifted, Horacio 'El Negro'
Hernandez soon became one of the most wanted and well known young
percussionists in the country. Especially worth mentioning is his
work with Michel Camilo, as also on Kip Hanrahan's Deep Rumba
project. His big breakthrough outside the jazz-scene came as a
percussionist in 1997 for the album Supernatural from Carlos
Santana, which brought him his first Grammy Award. Besides giving
concerts and performing in the studio, Horacio Hernandez finds time
to issue teaching-books and videos about his special drum technique.

Metal Queen Management
www.metalqueenmgmt.ca

Hi guys....

I thought I'd write to let you know that ticket information for our
week in Vancouver will be announced during Monday's show.  (I wish
we could book things in-advance by email, but we've already had over
a hundred enquiries and there just aren't enough tickets.  So no
email; you'll have to watch on Monday.)

Also, I hosted a meeting the other day with George, our Executive
Producer, and the folks from the CBC Shop.  We approved a new t-
shirt design and brainstormed up some new toys: belt buckles, nose
rings, etc.  You know, CBC merch... stuff your grandma would approve
of.  If you have any other ideas, send me a note and I'll be sure to
include them at our next meeting.

And, to answer all those questions about how to access our old video
clips, the new Archive I promised should be launching soon.  We ran
into a few encoding glitches with the new video formats, but they
were totally my fault; I'm working to fix them now.  Once all
the old clips have been converted, the entire site will be updated
to replace the old Real Media clips with higher-quality Quicktime
and Windows Media clips (as requested).

If there's anything else I can do, just let me know.

Cheers,


Jeremy
Web Producer
CBC News: The Hour, with George Stroumboulopoulos (cbc.ca/thehour)

--- In georgestroumboulopoulosrox@yahoogroups.com, "sarahigbi"
<sarahigbi@y...> wrote:
>
>  I want to know if his dating anyone, if  he is, what's her name, her
> job and other informations, I'm curious!!! Because one thing I notice
> is that there's not too much information about his private life and
as
> a Fan Club we have the right to know all this stuff! Don't we?

We are a fan club, yes but we don't stalk the man. I know there was an
article that is resent where they said he has a long time girlfriend,
look at back post for it. The article had her name, job and i think how
long they have been dating.

I want to know if his dating anyone, if  he is, what's her name, her
job and other informations, I'm curious!!! Because one thing I notice
is that there's not too much information about his private life and as
a Fan Club we have the right to know all this stuff! Don't we?

Well this has nothing to do with George...but I am too excited not to
post LOL....I got into the Paramedic program at Conestoga College,
after trying for 2 fucking years....it only accepts 30 people out of
2000 applicants...and I GOT IN!! YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


cheers
mere :D

I thought I might drop by and say hi, in part to ask if there was
anything we could do to make your "George experience" that much
better (but also because I felt like saying hi).

Over the past few months, we've been working hard to ensure the show
you got was the show George wanted to make.  Among various other
things, this has meant updating the website as much as possible.
(Remember how frustrated he was in the beginning?)  Today, although
I've been updating it almost daily for a few weeks, I can happily
say that it's about to get that much better.

Later next week, you can expect to see the launch of a new Video
Archive.  It won't be totally finished for ages, but that's where
you'll be able to find clips going back to the show's Premiere.
(I've also been working hard to find old CBC clips of George from
Greatest Canadian in 2004 and his interview with Peter Mansbridge
on "Mansbridge One on One" in 2003.)  We even have some goodies
planned that I can't tell you about yet....

But, now that I can actually talk with you directly, is there
anything you want to see?  My list of "things to do" is as long as
my arm, but I would be happy to include some extras for you.  Check
out the website, then let me know....

(By the way, I should mention that I'm here as an individual, not as
an official representative of the Mother Corp, the show, or George.
But, as long as that's understood, I'm happy to do what I can on
your behalf.)

Cheers,


Jeremy
Web Producer
CBC News: The Hour, with George Stroumboulopoulos

punkrockchick_sk8er <crazy_rockbaby@...> wrote:It´s just amazing what
this kid has come to be.!!!!
--- In georgestroumboulopoulosrox@yahoogroups.com, adessa69
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
Hey thanks for the, I have not really seen or hear much about George
since he left much. I am trying to find the Hour on tv? do you have
to have a specailty channel for that show?

> Here's an article on George that appeared in last Saturday's Globe
> and Mail:
>
> THE HAMPSON INTERVIEW: GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS
>
> This Hour has a nose ring
>
> But don't call him the 'youth fix' for the CBC, he says. Nor
> an 'alternative' broadcaster. 'I'm not going on TV with a 9-foot
> Mohawk and a pierced scrotum'
>
> By SARAH HAMPSON
> Saturday, March 12, 2005 Page R3
>
> 'Things don't have to be black and white. Things don't have to be
> perfect.
> "Life is sloppy. Life is awkward. Life can be drums and guitars and
> bass and vocals. Life can be female vocalists and it can be male
> vocalists. Life can be all of these things. So can news."
> Such is the aesthetic driving CBC News: The Hour, an hour-long show
> hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, launched in January on CBC
> Newsworld, at 8 p.m. ET, Monday to Thursday.
> The riff of explanation, delivered in one long breath at the end of
> an interview, comes from Stroumboulopoulos, 32, the latest youth
fix
> for the network.
> He doesn't like that suggestion, though. "I don't even think about
> it. I don't care. The smart thing for them [CBC executives] to know
> is that I'm not the youth fix."
> Okay, but they're the ones who put out a press release to launch
the
> show, saying that it promised "to cut through the crap." Someone is
> trying really hard to be hip when official language is street
> vernacular.
> Plus, there's the cautionary tale of Jian Ghomeshi, the former host
> of Play and the last great hipster hope for the network, who's now
> show-less, and a regular contributor on The Hour. "Well, I don't
> think shows are supposed to be forever," Stroumboulopoulos says of
> Ghomeshi's meteoric rise and fall. "[But] I think newscasts can
> [be]," he quickly adds.
> His show is clearly an experiment. Mostly, it's George and his big,
> brown teddy-bear eyes and wildly gesticulating arms taking us
> through a composition of newsy bits, from politics to sports to
> entertainment and a few wild-card interviews thrown in for good
> measure. In February, on one of several shows I watched, for
> example, there was a video interview with an obscure scientist who
> had developed some theory about wormholes that would allow us to go
> from our own "soap bubble" of a universe to another. While he was
> talking, the camera cut to Stroumboulopoulos holding his head in
his
> hands and every so often, mugging for the camera with dumbfounded
> expressions. "Well, it's a kinda human story," he says now to
> explain why he included it. "And the philosophical end of that
> story, which I hope people would take from it, is hey, we're all
> lonely, we're all happy, we're all sad, we're all hurting, we're
all
> everything. Wouldn't it be great to disappear [to another
universe]?
> Hey, there's a guy who says we can!"
> That's news? The program is not about what happens so much as what
> Stroumboulopoulos finds interesting and how he reacts to it. The
> Hour is The World According to George. In that way, he's like our
> version of CNN's news guide, Anderson Cooper, only with a nose
ring,
> two earrings, spiky, messed-up hair, and dressed in his uniform of
a
> T-shirt, jeans and white sneakers rather than a suit.
> (Not that the former MuchMusic VJ thinks of himself as
> an "alternative" broadcaster. "I'm not going on TV with a 9-foot
> Mohawk and a pierced scrotum," Stroumboulopoulos says in the
> straightforward manner that's become his trademark.) These new kind
> of current-events shows use compelling personalities like search
> engines on the Internet. The world is so small, with blips of every
> event in every corner of the planet monitored on news radars, that
> consumers of information need someone to tell them what's
important,
> cool and worthy of their splintered attention.
> It helps if we like the guide with whom we're hitching a ride
> through the universe, and Stoumboulopoulos is completely lovable.
> (His long-time girlfriend, by the way, is Jasmine Tuffaha, a 27-
year-
> old television producer for the main CBC network.) His eyes are
> great pools of feeling, and he reaches out to touch me so often
that
> I decide to leave my arms folded on the table between us, just to
> make it easier for him.
> "You never see a non-fiction representation of who you are," he
says
> to explain his show. "You see reality shows, which are directed by
> producers who tell the [cast members] what to do. You see the
> [regular] news, which is very sobering, a sort of here's what
> happened today. You need all that. . . . But The Hour needed to be
> everything that I am, everything that everybody is. It needed to be
> serious, it needed to be comic." He sees his show as a "sidebar"
> and "an adjunct" to the traditional news programs. "Our show only
> works because it's beside The National [at 9 p.m. ET on Newsworld,
> 10 p.m. on the main network.] As a stand-alone, there's no point in
> having a show like ours. You need the machine of the network behind
> you." Peter Mansbridge, The National's staid anchorman, whom
> Stroumboulopoulos contacted for advice on life inside the Corp once
> he'd made the leap to CBC Newsworld, has called him "one of the
> bright interpreters of the current generation."
> The show is not marketed as a companion piece to The National and,
> as Stroumboulopoulos himself says, "Nobody's loyal to a channel."
> (Part of his charm is that in the throes of his passion about some
> topic or other, he often contradicts himself.) Of its performance,
> the broadcaster will only say that The Hour's audience numbers
> are "on target." When asked how long he has been given to make the
> show a success, Stroumboulopoulos says CBC Newsworld "gave us a
> couple of seasons at it."
> CBC has been trying to lure Stroumboulopoulos to the network for a
> number of years. It first approached him in 2000, his rookie year
on
> TV, after he came to CITY-TV from radio, Toronto's 102.1 The Edge
> via The Fan 590 AM.
> Their offer of an " arts-based, entertainment-based show" and
> other "anchor-driven things" didn't suit him, he says. "My strength
> as a broadcaster is to be very natural. Put me in a construct, I
> will look like a caged animal." He was happy at MuchMusic, where he
> was host of The Punk Show, The New Music, LOUD and MuchNews. He was
> bagging live interviews with U2's Bono at a Liberal leadership
> convention and travelling to Zambia to co-host a documentary for
> World AIDS Day.
> CBC came knocking on his door again in the summer last year. "They
> said, 'We have a show.' I said, 'What's the show?' They said, 'What
> do you want it to be?' "
> Stroumboulopoulos has had a steady rise through the Canadian media.
> The elder of two children, he was born in Toronto and grew up in
the
> suburban Malton and Rexdale neighbourhoods. His father, who is a
> Greek from Egypt, left the family when his only son was 7. They
have
> spoken only once or twice in 25 years, but, as Stroumboulopoulos
> says, "I'm not having to write a concept album because I have a
> problem with Daddy."
> He was raised by his Ukrainian mother, who rented out rooms in her
> house and took an early-morning paper route and an afternoon job as
> a waitress to make ends meet. In later years, she graduated from
> nursing school. At 14, Stroumboulopoulos found jobs after school
and
> on weekends, working at Mr. Sub, as an usher in a movie house and
at
> the airport, driving forklift trucks. He helped put himself through
> Humber College's two-year radio broadcasting program.
> Stroumboulopoulos is uninhibited, like a grown-up child who wants
to
> stick his fingers into everything that captures his fancy. When he
> was younger, his family tried to shorten their surname to
> Stroumbouls. He would have none of it. Early on, he hired a manager
> in Los Angeles, Michael Sugar of Relativity Management,
> because, "You need representation to have a career," he says. There
> have been offers from the United States, which, so far, he's turned
> down.
> He owns a house near Queen and Bathurst -- "It's a son-of-an-
> immigrant thing," he says. "You want to own land." He also owns a
> BMW motorcycle, his fifth, since he began riding at 18, and an 11-
> year-old secondhand BMW car. (As anyone who has been watching the
> show knows, he's in the market for a hybrid car.) In his spare
time,
> he and some friends are making a documentary about Jesus, which
they
> hope to sell to networks around the world. He keeps his hand in
> radio, as host of Budweiser Radio, a Canada-wide syndicated show
> about new music, sponsored by the beer company.
> "I want to have a catalogue of things to be proud of, so I can say
I
> did my part," he says. Would he compromise in his views of what he
> wants to do? "If I was asked to do something I was uncomfortable
> with, I would leave. I am not a lifer anywhere."




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--- In georgestroumboulopoulosrox@yahoogroups.com, adessa69
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
Hey thanks for the, I have not really seen or hear much about George
since he left much. I am trying to find the Hour on tv? do you have
to have a specailty channel for that show?

> Here's an article on George that appeared in last Saturday's Globe
> and Mail:
>
> THE HAMPSON INTERVIEW: GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS
>
> This Hour has a nose ring
>
> But don't call him the 'youth fix' for the CBC, he says. Nor
> an 'alternative' broadcaster. 'I'm not going on TV with a 9-foot
> Mohawk and a pierced scrotum'
>
> By SARAH HAMPSON
> Saturday, March 12, 2005 Page R3
>
> 'Things don't have to be black and white. Things don't have to be
> perfect.
> "Life is sloppy. Life is awkward. Life can be drums and guitars and
> bass and vocals. Life can be female vocalists and it can be male
> vocalists. Life can be all of these things. So can news."
> Such is the aesthetic driving CBC News: The Hour, an hour-long show
> hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, launched in January on CBC
> Newsworld, at 8 p.m. ET, Monday to Thursday.
> The riff of explanation, delivered in one long breath at the end of
> an interview, comes from Stroumboulopoulos, 32, the latest youth
fix
> for the network.
> He doesn't like that suggestion, though. "I don't even think about
> it. I don't care. The smart thing for them [CBC executives] to know
> is that I'm not the youth fix."
> Okay, but they're the ones who put out a press release to launch
the
> show, saying that it promised "to cut through the crap." Someone is
> trying really hard to be hip when official language is street
> vernacular.
> Plus, there's the cautionary tale of Jian Ghomeshi, the former host
> of Play and the last great hipster hope for the network, who's now
> show-less, and a regular contributor on The Hour. "Well, I don't
> think shows are supposed to be forever," Stroumboulopoulos says of
> Ghomeshi's meteoric rise and fall. "[But] I think newscasts can
> [be]," he quickly adds.
> His show is clearly an experiment. Mostly, it's George and his big,
> brown teddy-bear eyes and wildly gesticulating arms taking us
> through a composition of newsy bits, from politics to sports to
> entertainment and a few wild-card interviews thrown in for good
> measure. In February, on one of several shows I watched, for
> example, there was a video interview with an obscure scientist who
> had developed some theory about wormholes that would allow us to go
> from our own "soap bubble" of a universe to another. While he was
> talking, the camera cut to Stroumboulopoulos holding his head in
his
> hands and every so often, mugging for the camera with dumbfounded
> expressions. "Well, it's a kinda human story," he says now to
> explain why he included it. "And the philosophical end of that
> story, which I hope people would take from it, is hey, we're all
> lonely, we're all happy, we're all sad, we're all hurting, we're
all
> everything. Wouldn't it be great to disappear [to another
universe]?
> Hey, there's a guy who says we can!"
> That's news? The program is not about what happens so much as what
> Stroumboulopoulos finds interesting and how he reacts to it. The
> Hour is The World According to George. In that way, he's like our
> version of CNN's news guide, Anderson Cooper, only with a nose
ring,
> two earrings, spiky, messed-up hair, and dressed in his uniform of
a
> T-shirt, jeans and white sneakers rather than a suit.
> (Not that the former MuchMusic VJ thinks of himself as
> an "alternative" broadcaster. "I'm not going on TV with a 9-foot
> Mohawk and a pierced scrotum," Stroumboulopoulos says in the
> straightforward manner that's become his trademark.) These new kind
> of current-events shows use compelling personalities like search
> engines on the Internet. The world is so small, with blips of every
> event in every corner of the planet monitored on news radars, that
> consumers of information need someone to tell them what's
important,
> cool and worthy of their splintered attention.
> It helps if we like the guide with whom we're hitching a ride
> through the universe, and Stoumboulopoulos is completely lovable.
> (His long-time girlfriend, by the way, is Jasmine Tuffaha, a 27-
year-
> old television producer for the main CBC network.) His eyes are
> great pools of feeling, and he reaches out to touch me so often
that
> I decide to leave my arms folded on the table between us, just to
> make it easier for him.
> "You never see a non-fiction representation of who you are," he
says
> to explain his show. "You see reality shows, which are directed by
> producers who tell the [cast members] what to do. You see the
> [regular] news, which is very sobering, a sort of here's what
> happened today. You need all that. . . . But The Hour needed to be
> everything that I am, everything that everybody is. It needed to be
> serious, it needed to be comic." He sees his show as a "sidebar"
> and "an adjunct" to the traditional news programs. "Our show only
> works because it's beside The National [at 9 p.m. ET on Newsworld,
> 10 p.m. on the main network.] As a stand-alone, there's no point in
> having a show like ours. You need the machine of the network behind
> you." Peter Mansbridge, The National's staid anchorman, whom
> Stroumboulopoulos contacted for advice on life inside the Corp once
> he'd made the leap to CBC Newsworld, has called him "one of the
> bright interpreters of the current generation."
> The show is not marketed as a companion piece to The National and,
> as Stroumboulopoulos himself says, "Nobody's loyal to a channel."
> (Part of his charm is that in the throes of his passion about some
> topic or other, he often contradicts himself.) Of its performance,
> the broadcaster will only say that The Hour's audience numbers
> are "on target." When asked how long he has been given to make the
> show a success, Stroumboulopoulos says CBC Newsworld "gave us a
> couple of seasons at it."
> CBC has been trying to lure Stroumboulopoulos to the network for a
> number of years. It first approached him in 2000, his rookie year
on
> TV, after he came to CITY-TV from radio, Toronto's 102.1 The Edge
> via The Fan 590 AM.
> Their offer of an " arts-based, entertainment-based show" and
> other "anchor-driven things" didn't suit him, he says. "My strength
> as a broadcaster is to be very natural. Put me in a construct, I
> will look like a caged animal." He was happy at MuchMusic, where he
> was host of The Punk Show, The New Music, LOUD and MuchNews. He was
> bagging live interviews with U2's Bono at a Liberal leadership
> convention and travelling to Zambia to co-host a documentary for
> World AIDS Day.
> CBC came knocking on his door again in the summer last year. "They
> said, 'We have a show.' I said, 'What's the show?' They said, 'What
> do you want it to be?' "
> Stroumboulopoulos has had a steady rise through the Canadian media.
> The elder of two children, he was born in Toronto and grew up in
the
> suburban Malton and Rexdale neighbourhoods. His father, who is a
> Greek from Egypt, left the family when his only son was 7. They
have
> spoken only once or twice in 25 years, but, as Stroumboulopoulos
> says, "I'm not having to write a concept album because I have a
> problem with Daddy."
> He was raised by his Ukrainian mother, who rented out rooms in her
> house and took an early-morning paper route and an afternoon job as
> a waitress to make ends meet. In later years, she graduated from
> nursing school. At 14, Stroumboulopoulos found jobs after school
and
> on weekends, working at Mr. Sub, as an usher in a movie house and
at
> the airport, driving forklift trucks. He helped put himself through
> Humber College's two-year radio broadcasting program.
> Stroumboulopoulos is uninhibited, like a grown-up child who wants
to
> stick his fingers into everything that captures his fancy. When he
> was younger, his family tried to shorten their surname to
> Stroumbouls. He would have none of it. Early on, he hired a manager
> in Los Angeles, Michael Sugar of Relativity Management,
> because, "You need representation to have a career," he says. There
> have been offers from the United States, which, so far, he's turned
> down.
> He owns a house near Queen and Bathurst -- "It's a son-of-an-
> immigrant thing," he says. "You want to own land." He also owns a
> BMW motorcycle, his fifth, since he began riding at 18, and an 11-
> year-old secondhand BMW car. (As anyone who has been watching the
> show knows, he's in the market for a hybrid car.) In his spare
time,
> he and some friends are making a documentary about Jesus, which
they
> hope to sell to networks around the world. He keeps his hand in
> radio, as host of Budweiser Radio, a Canada-wide syndicated show
> about new music, sponsored by the beer company.
> "I want to have a catalogue of things to be proud of, so I can say
I
> did my part," he says. Would he compromise in his views of what he
> wants to do? "If I was asked to do something I was uncomfortable
> with, I would leave. I am not a lifer anywhere."

Here's an article on George that appeared in last Saturday's Globe
and Mail:

THE HAMPSON INTERVIEW: GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS

This Hour has a nose ring

But don't call him the 'youth fix' for the CBC, he says. Nor
an 'alternative' broadcaster. 'I'm not going on TV with a 9-foot
Mohawk and a pierced scrotum'

By SARAH HAMPSON
Saturday, March 12, 2005 Page R3

'Things don't have to be black and white. Things don't have to be
perfect.
"Life is sloppy. Life is awkward. Life can be drums and guitars and
bass and vocals. Life can be female vocalists and it can be male
vocalists. Life can be all of these things. So can news."
Such is the aesthetic driving CBC News: The Hour, an hour-long show
hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, launched in January on CBC
Newsworld, at 8 p.m. ET, Monday to Thursday.
The riff of explanation, delivered in one long breath at the end of
an interview, comes from Stroumboulopoulos, 32, the latest youth fix
for the network.
He doesn't like that suggestion, though. "I don't even think about
it. I don't care. The smart thing for them [CBC executives] to know
is that I'm not the youth fix."
Okay, but they're the ones who put out a press release to launch the
show, saying that it promised "to cut through the crap." Someone is
trying really hard to be hip when official language is street
vernacular.
Plus, there's the cautionary tale of Jian Ghomeshi, the former host
of Play and the last great hipster hope for the network, who's now
show-less, and a regular contributor on The Hour. "Well, I don't
think shows are supposed to be forever," Stroumboulopoulos says of
Ghomeshi's meteoric rise and fall. "[But] I think newscasts can
[be]," he quickly adds.
His show is clearly an experiment. Mostly, it's George and his big,
brown teddy-bear eyes and wildly gesticulating arms taking us
through a composition of newsy bits, from politics to sports to
entertainment and a few wild-card interviews thrown in for good
measure. In February, on one of several shows I watched, for
example, there was a video interview with an obscure scientist who
had developed some theory about wormholes that would allow us to go
from our own "soap bubble" of a universe to another. While he was
talking, the camera cut to Stroumboulopoulos holding his head in his
hands and every so often, mugging for the camera with dumbfounded
expressions. "Well, it's a kinda human story," he says now to
explain why he included it. "And the philosophical end of that
story, which I hope people would take from it, is hey, we're all
lonely, we're all happy, we're all sad, we're all hurting, we're all
everything. Wouldn't it be great to disappear [to another universe]?
Hey, there's a guy who says we can!"
That's news? The program is not about what happens so much as what
Stroumboulopoulos finds interesting and how he reacts to it. The
Hour is The World According to George. In that way, he's like our
version of CNN's news guide, Anderson Cooper, only with a nose ring,
two earrings, spiky, messed-up hair, and dressed in his uniform of a
T-shirt, jeans and white sneakers rather than a suit.
(Not that the former MuchMusic VJ thinks of himself as
an "alternative" broadcaster. "I'm not going on TV with a 9-foot
Mohawk and a pierced scrotum," Stroumboulopoulos says in the
straightforward manner that's become his trademark.) These new kind
of current-events shows use compelling personalities like search
engines on the Internet. The world is so small, with blips of every
event in every corner of the planet monitored on news radars, that
consumers of information need someone to tell them what's important,
cool and worthy of their splintered attention.
It helps if we like the guide with whom we're hitching a ride
through the universe, and Stoumboulopoulos is completely lovable.
(His long-time girlfriend, by the way, is Jasmine Tuffaha, a 27-year-
old television producer for the main CBC network.) His eyes are
great pools of feeling, and he reaches out to touch me so often that
I decide to leave my arms folded on the table between us, just to
make it easier for him.
"You never see a non-fiction representation of who you are," he says
to explain his show. "You see reality shows, which are directed by
producers who tell the [cast members] what to do. You see the
[regular] news, which is very sobering, a sort of here's what
happened today. You need all that. . . . But The Hour needed to be
everything that I am, everything that everybody is. It needed to be
serious, it needed to be comic." He sees his show as a "sidebar"
and "an adjunct" to the traditional news programs. "Our show only
works because it's beside The National [at 9 p.m. ET on Newsworld,
10 p.m. on the main network.] As a stand-alone, there's no point in
having a show like ours. You need the machine of the network behind
you." Peter Mansbridge, The National's staid anchorman, whom
Stroumboulopoulos contacted for advice on life inside the Corp once
he'd made the leap to CBC Newsworld, has called him "one of the
bright interpreters of the current generation."
The show is not marketed as a companion piece to The National and,
as Stroumboulopoulos himself says, "Nobody's loyal to a channel."
(Part of his charm is that in the throes of his passion about some
topic or other, he often contradicts himself.) Of its performance,
the broadcaster will only say that The Hour's audience numbers
are "on target." When asked how long he has been given to make the
show a success, Stroumboulopoulos says CBC Newsworld "gave us a
couple of seasons at it."
CBC has been trying to lure Stroumboulopoulos to the network for a
number of years. It first approached him in 2000, his rookie year on
TV, after he came to CITY-TV from radio, Toronto's 102.1 The Edge
via The Fan 590 AM.
Their offer of an " arts-based, entertainment-based show" and
other "anchor-driven things" didn't suit him, he says. "My strength
as a broadcaster is to be very natural. Put me in a construct, I
will look like a caged animal." He was happy at MuchMusic, where he
was host of The Punk Show, The New Music, LOUD and MuchNews. He was
bagging live interviews with U2's Bono at a Liberal leadership
convention and travelling to Zambia to co-host a documentary for
World AIDS Day.
CBC came knocking on his door again in the summer last year. "They
said, 'We have a show.' I said, 'What's the show?' They said, 'What
do you want it to be?' "
Stroumboulopoulos has had a steady rise through the Canadian media.
The elder of two children, he was born in Toronto and grew up in the
suburban Malton and Rexdale neighbourhoods. His father, who is a
Greek from Egypt, left the family when his only son was 7. They have
spoken only once or twice in 25 years, but, as Stroumboulopoulos
says, "I'm not having to write a concept album because I have a
problem with Daddy."
He was raised by his Ukrainian mother, who rented out rooms in her
house and took an early-morning paper route and an afternoon job as
a waitress to make ends meet. In later years, she graduated from
nursing school. At 14, Stroumboulopoulos found jobs after school and
on weekends, working at Mr. Sub, as an usher in a movie house and at
the airport, driving forklift trucks. He helped put himself through
Humber College's two-year radio broadcasting program.
Stroumboulopoulos is uninhibited, like a grown-up child who wants to
stick his fingers into everything that captures his fancy. When he
was younger, his family tried to shorten their surname to
Stroumbouls. He would have none of it. Early on, he hired a manager
in Los Angeles, Michael Sugar of Relativity Management,
because, "You need representation to have a career," he says. There
have been offers from the United States, which, so far, he's turned
down.
He owns a house near Queen and Bathurst -- "It's a son-of-an-
immigrant thing," he says. "You want to own land." He also owns a
BMW motorcycle, his fifth, since he began riding at 18, and an 11-
year-old secondhand BMW car. (As anyone who has been watching the
show knows, he's in the market for a hybrid car.) In his spare time,
he and some friends are making a documentary about Jesus, which they
hope to sell to networks around the world. He keeps his hand in
radio, as host of Budweiser Radio, a Canada-wide syndicated show
about new music, sponsored by the beer company.
"I want to have a catalogue of things to be proud of, so I can say I
did my part," he says. Would he compromise in his views of what he
wants to do? "If I was asked to do something I was uncomfortable
with, I would leave. I am not a lifer anywhere."

They posted something like 20 new clips this morning!  (Strombo's
interview with Joe Slesinger actually made me cry....)

www.cbc.ca/thehour/


Duke

We have an article in the college paper here too :) it was in a few
different copies actually. I don't goto the college but I found them
there.

Peace

--- In georgestroumboulopoulosrox@yahoogroups.com, "Mere"
<olp66_99@y...> wrote:
>
> Well today at my college in our college paper I found a large
> article on George....it was a good article with him talking about
> The Hour....too bad the guy that wrote the article and spoke to
> George is a loser LOL.....anyways I grabbed a copy....I grabbed a
> copy for you too Katie!
> if anyone wants a copy I go to Mohawk College in Hamilton Ontario
lol
>
>
> Mere :D

Well today at my college in our college paper I found a large
article on George....it was a good article with him talking about
The Hour....too bad the guy that wrote the article and spoke to
George is a loser LOL.....anyways I grabbed a copy....I grabbed a
copy for you too Katie!
if anyone wants a copy I go to Mohawk College in Hamilton Ontario lol


Mere :D

Thanks Mere!

~*Crystalena*~

Mere <olp66_99@...> wrote:

Hey sorry about that....I should have put the link anyways...


http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/

Hope that helps!

Mere :D




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Hey sorry about that....I should have put the link anyways...


http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/

Hope that helps!

Mere :D

Mere,

Can you please give me the link...I live in the u.s. So I am having an hard time
finding it on the internet here...If you can give me the link that will take me
right there that would be awsome. thanks.

~*Crystalena*~

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Well along with the clips of The Hour, a new site has been launched
for it. It has lots of clips from the show! Everyone should take a
look....


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Well along with the clips of The Hour, a new site has been launched
for it. It has lots of clips from the show! Everyone should take a
look....


Mere :D

Hey guys, I was just informed from someone at CBC that there are now
clips available on The Hour site or CBC site of the show....so for
those of you who don't get to watch the show...enjoy the clips!


Mere :D

This message is about Human beings, Democracy, UNHCR, Refugees, The Iraqis,
Islam, Kurds, Human rights, Respect, Money, Donations, Angelina Jolie,
Pavarotti, Giorgio Armani, Donors, Peace, History, Campaigns and about you if
you care about these words.

Hi there,

I am SAM, an Iraqi refugee living in Lebanon at the moment; I have spent the
last 9 years of my life as a refugee registered with the UNHCR in Beirut. The
last 3 years, I have spent as an activist for peace and human rights (especially
refugees and asylum seekers) on the Internet; I'm also books author and ebooks
publisher. I have launched many campaigns to improve our situation as refugees
in Lebanon and hopefully bring more understanding to our problems worldwide. I
helped make many changes and improvements at the UNHCR office in Beirut; I used
the Internet as the field for my activities (you can read more about that in my
free ebook 'MY CAMPAIGNS'). All my e_books could be download from my website:
http://www.unhcr.free2w.com all my ebooks are free.

My latest campaign is to stop the UNHCR from conducting illegal and humiliating
actions, by using photos of refugees as banners and human-buttons to collect
money. This is an abuse of the dignity and humanity of the refugees and must
stop immediately and a clear public apology present by the United Nations High
Commissioner of Refugees. My friends, I am talking about the pictures you can
see here: http://www.unhcr.free2w.com/if_human/if_human.htm

As I'm a refugee and an activist for human rights, I feel that the problems of
refugees are not being solved by the UNHCR in fact their policies are worsening
them. I have been saying this since the first day I started my activities and I
said then that "If we want to improve the situation of the refugees in the world
we must start with changing the policies of the UNHCR," I even wrote this in my
books.

The people of the UNHCR have used these pictures as banners and buttons to
collect money from donors. As a human being and a refugee, I felt these pictures
represent a bad and offensive example of the disrespect for our humanity as
refugees and asylum seekers. It does nothing to represent the meaning and the
principles that were mentioned in the UN51 convention. It fills me with pain and
sorrow to see this disrespect to our dignity and humanity and also how they are
deceiving the community with these pictures.

Unfortunately, the people who work at the UNHCR are working hard to present to
you a portrait of a refugee as a poor human being who's problem will end when
you donate a few $$$. Please look at their website (just google for the unhcr)
and look at the pictures there. Everywhere on the site you'll just see pictures
about poor people!

They have worked hard to establish a deep-rooted connection between poverty and
refugees. Everywhere in the world now if you ask anyone what the word 'refugee'
means the answer will be "a poor person who has lost his home", does any one of
you know another meaning for the word?

They have showed you just one thing: poor people as refugees and they made it
clear that by paying some money to them, the problem will be solved; all it
needs is financial resources! When you look directly at their websites, the
pictures of poor people will grab your attention straight away! For UNHCR, the
problem is money only! We all as humans need money, but not only the money!
There are many things in the life not only money, for example things like what
you could read in my free ebook 'REFUGEES FARM'.

When I started to post in Yahoo groups mentioning I'm a refugee, many people
didn't believe me, and they asked, "how it was possible for me to have access to
the Internet?" I was astonished at the beginning but afterwards I understood the
reality of what they were saying and started to post messages telling the truth
and because of this the UNHCR declared war on me and prosecuted me. So then I
started to call myself "The Truth Warrior" because I am struggling to tell you
the truth. I was the first refugee who wrote and published an e-book on the net
and the first refugee who wrote and published an e-book about the UNHCR and the
first who used the Internet as a weapon in his struggle to survive and to make
changes in real life.

The people of the UNHCR emphasized the connection between the refugees and
poverty and they drew a foggy picture of refugees, creating a strong impression
about their poverty, more than the fact they were stateless refugees. They also
put forward the idea it was the poverty creating the reality of them being
refugees in the first place. Now it is an accepted idea in the world community
that a refugee is just a poor person looking for a better life, well this is
just not true! The majority of the world doesn't even realize that it is even
possible for a millionaire to have to flee his home and be a refugee.

Article 1 of the Convention defines a refugee as "A person who is outside
his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of
persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a
particular social group or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to
avail himself/herself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for
fear of persecution."

There is no mention made of the financial situation of the refugee or the degree
of poverty he is experiencing, in plain simple words 'poverty does not make
someone a refugee'. As I said before "the link between poverty and being a
refugee is another thing entirely". Most of the time the situation of the
refugees is bad because they have no security, no opportunities to get work and
this then does create poverty! Its clear that giving money will not solve the
problem, what's needed is real understanding for the problems that refugees are
facing and they need global co-operation to solve these problems. This inspired
me to adopt my motto:
Justice brings peace, freedom brings democracy
Understanding is the way.

Let me share with you some figures published by the UNHCR itself.
The table is on my site here: http://www.unhcr.free2w.com/if_human/if_human.htm

From that table, we can see the total private donations in year 2003 were US$
20,072,010. Now let's analyze that number, Anyway if we consider the total
numbers of asylum seekers and refugees and others of concern to the UNHCR which
was 20,556,781 persons published on their table on the 1st of August 2003. Now
we need to divide that amount on the number of refugees 20,072,010/20,556,781
guess what? It's equals $0.97!

So then each refugee will have a grand sum of $0.97 every year from these
donations!!! Yes my friend, they humiliated us for less than $1 a year. Now let
me think what I can do with this amount of money in one-year m'mmmm, maybe I can
buy 2 bars of Lebanese candy! I registered with UNHCR more than 8 years ago now
and until this day I have not received one cent from them! So according to that
table they owe me $7.80, a fortune!!! I declare now that I don't want this money
($7.80) I just want them to remove these humiliating pictures and make a public
apology. You can ask the UNHCR in Beirut about that point via their email:
lebbe@... and please ask them also about the amount of the money that they
give for the refugees in Lebanon now. I hope they'll answer you! Don't you think
it's strange that it's hard to get answers from the UNHCR! You'll see if you're
interesting to know the truth!

The big question is: Does all this money come from these human-buttons asking
for donations on the UNHCR'S site? Does Pavarotti or Giorgio Armani need these
human-buttons to make donations? If they need these buttons and it's a good way
for collecting money for the UNHCR why don't they use their own pictures this
way to bring more money in for the UNHCR. Also about Angelina Jolie, she is a
goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR and she has worked hard to collect money for
the UNHCR, she is pretty and attractive and her picture would make an excellent
human-button. They could write on the Angelina Jolie button "make a donation and
be like Angelina" or Send a donation to receive thanks from Angelina" do you
think that would offend her or the others we spoke about? Why would it does you
think??? Her pictures are everywhere so let them use these as a human-button to
collect money if they feel it is inoffensive and not dishonorable to her.

The last thing about these numbers is the percentage of the amount that
different governments contribution to the UNHCR. I read in one table the total
is $928,865,984. So what will happen if the UNHCR loses the 20 million that
comes from private donors, if they remove the human-buttons of refugees? OK,
they will have $908,865,984, but they would be giving respect to the refugees of
the world, do you think they care?

$0.97 a year makes no difference to a human being but if we divide the same
amount between the number of people working for the UNHCR, I believe they have
about 5000 employees... so 20,072,010/5000=$4014.40 more than $4000 a year don't
you think that makes a difference?

I have finished now about the numbers, let us continue about the pictures, and
the idea of using the Angelina Jolie, maybe you will say that her picture is
already being used on the site of the UNHCR and you would be right! But there
are a few differences between her picture and the pictures of the refugees.
Angelina's picture isn't used to collect money; it's used to show how much she
cares about people and her help for the UNHCR. When you click on her picture,
you read about Angelina, but when you click on the human-button of the refugees
you find a form to donate money.

The important difference being this, Angelina's picture gives you her name,
dates and history. The human-buttons, say nothing about the people on them, no
names, no dates, nothing! This pushed me to find out more about these
human-buttons. I found out the truth about the picture on the Iraqi banner in
the page about Iraq, and the button on this page to donate money. I wrote about
it in my book "THE TRUTH WARRIOR" I could tell you quickly about it now, for
more details please look in the book.

This is a picture of a Kurdish family, and it was taken in 1991! So that was 13
years ago!!! The funny thing is that they used it to illustrate and draw
attention to an event that happened last year, writing on it "IRAQ EMERGENCY"
strange to speak about an emergency and use a 13 year old picture don't you
think?

Do you know why they used that picture? Because it was easy... they had it
already, no new refugees crisis happened during the last war with the USA on
Iraq in 2003! Guess what? This picture shows a Kurdish family fleeing by
crossing the border near Suleymaniye in the north of Iraq! The problem now, of
course is the returning of refugees who left during Saddam's rule. The age of
the picture and the fact it was taken for a different reason, it's deceptive and
dishonest act.

I would have thought that a big organization like the UNHCR would be able to get
a more modern picture of what is happening. They receive information daily and I
am sure they don't need to resort to 13-year-old pictures; this information is
from the last century!!! Maybe now there are not any pictures of Iraqi refugees
to encourage donors to click the human-button! What a pity for the people of the
UNHCR and for the refugees, especially the Iraqis. I wonder, how old the other
pictures?

Do you feel that the picture shows the real situation of Iraqi refugees now? Are
the Iraqis still fleeing and seeking refuge outside Iraq? The truth is always
painful. The UNHCR has stopped receiving new applications form Iraqis seeking
help, and when an Iraqi goes to the UNHCR in Beirut to ask for assistance they
are told that the only help they can get is repatriation to Iraq. At the moment
Iraqi refugees are scattered around the world, Many countries are offering to
help return Iraqis home. These countries governments mostly finance these plans.
For example in England the government has offered $1000 plus the cost of their
flight home to each refugee.

In Lebanon, we are not sure about the amount of financial support for those
wishing to return home, but someone who had gone home told me that it was about
$40 informed me, the source of the money was also unclear. Some people are
saying that this money is from unknown Iraqi parties and some say the Iraqi
Embassy in Beirut. I am currently looking for more information on this matter.

Anyway I don't feel the $40 dollars given to refugees in Lebanon is worth
anything. Especially when viewed against the $1000 given by most European
countries. The question is this: If there is no refugee crisis in Iraq and the
financial support is being paid for by the governments where these people are,
why is the UNHCR still asking for money using pictures of Iraqi refugees?

One more important question about that picture, do you think that the people who
work for the UNHCR know anything about this woman or her family? Are they
registered refugees? What is her name and where are they all now? Do you think
she agreed to have her picture put on the web and used as a human-button?

I would love to know the answers to these questions, but unfortunately I can't
ask the people at the UNHCR even though I tried many times over the years. They
never answer any questions! Instead they have tried to hurt me and even tried to
get my ISP to cut my connection! I hope one day you get the chance to ask them,
and that maybe they will answer you. They didn't answer any of my friends who
sent them messages. So please if you like, let us play their game and be a
little cheeky. I hope that one of you can contact them and tell them you want to
donate money to help the family they showed in the picture. Not telling them of
course that you know the picture is old. Just tell them you want to sponsor that
family. Notice that they wrote on it 'Emergency' so it's good to help them out!
I'll wait with baited breath to hear their answers.

What do you think the answer will be? What do you think she would feel like if
she saw her picture used like that, and what if her family sees her like this or
someone in her village? She is a Moslem woman and to expose herself like this is
a sin in Islam. Did you notice she uses two pieces of cloth to cover her head?
The UNHCR using picture of Moslem woman on the net as a banner and as a
human-button to collect money where millions of men could see her!!! That is a
very big sin in Islam.
As I'm a Moslem and I am sure the UNHCR haven't asked the woman's permission to
display her picture publicly like they are doing now, I am asking them to
respect the Islamic religion and apologize to the woman and remove her picture
immediately. Also I am asking each Moslem person reading this article to express
their concern about this sin, which is being committed by the UNHCR for the sake
of this woman and her family. Every Moslem knows what sin is, and it is also a
sin to be silent when you see a wrong being committed. I am asking each Moslem
to contact the UNHCR and express your opinion as we are guided to do by Islam.
I'm asking Moslems particularly and all members of other religions generally, to
express concern about the abuse of refugees because all religions are based on
respect for the dignity of all humanity.

There is a legal point of view for this subject:

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established by the U.N.
General Assembly in 1950. According to the UN51 convention and the Statute of
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (G.A. res. 428
(V), annex, 5 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 20) at 46, U.N. Doc. A/1775 (1950)).

"CHAPTER II. - FUNCTIONS OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER

10. The High Commissioner shall administer any funds, public or private, which
he receives for assistance to refugees, and shall distribute them among the
private and, as appropriate, public agencies which he deems best qualified to
administer such assistance.
The High Commissioner may reject any offers which he does not consider
appropriate or which cannot be utilized.
The High Commissioner shall not appeal to governments for funds or make a
general appeal, without the prior approval of the General Assembly.
The High Commissioner shall include in his annual report a statement of his
activities in this field."

As you can see the UNHCR must have permission from the General assembly for any
general appeal for money. The question is: Did the General Assembly agree to use
these pictures to appeal for funds?

I would sincerely love to receive an answer, I am a refugee and I feel it is an
abuse of our humanity as refugees in this world. Its not just abuse for our
humanity as refugees but for the humanity of all humans.

We appeal to you to support this campaign to remove these abuses and to provide
more respect for all refugees worldwide. Our situation in the world worsens day
after day without any new polices to help or improve our situation. The UNHCR
uses us as human-buttons and baits to collect money! Our problem is not only
because of poverty it's because the general abuse of the meaning and the
principles of UN51 convention because of these money collectors in UNHCR and
other organizations.

This abuse must stop immediately. If UNHCR needs money so badly, there must be
other respectable and honorable ways to make general and public appeals for
money. For example using buttons like paypal provides for donation without any
humiliating pictures of humans at all.

I'm not saying that the people of UNHCR are all bad, they're just part of a
system and they have their procedures and regulations. I just wanted to explain
some of our feelings as refugees. To offer my understanding of the relationship
between the refugees and the UNHCR. I'm an eyewitness to that relationship,
trying hard to improve the relationship using my campaigns, my books and my
unanswered questions.

I feel sad because the UNHCR has failed in the past 3 years to answer my
questions. Until this day they failed to answer even one question! I'm not
asking for the impossible. I just want some answers, as I'm a refugee, as I'm a
human and as I'm an activist for human rights. All that gives me the right to
ask and to have my questions answered.

I invite you as fellow humans and members of the world community to support my
mission by asking the UNHCR to remove these abuses and to provide some
reasonable answers for the questions that you have read in this article.

This invitation is a very important as part of the collective efforts to enhance
respect for human rights, and for global peace. The UNHCR represent an important
constituent of our community, as humans and any failure in its performance will
weaken the harmony and peace of the world.

We're living in a time where wars are declared to liberate people from despotism
and further democracy and human rights. Blood is being shed now to improve
democracy and respect for human rights. Do we need wars and to shed blood every
time we face disregard for human rights and democracy?! Isn't there any peaceful
way?

I have heard many people claim that they're working to help the refugees and
human rights activists and some of them are collecting money also. I'm asking
these people: What are you doing to help refugees and enhance human rights and
respect our humanity? I'd like to know, and if you have nothing to do now, you
can start work and help refugees by working to remove these abuses and
humiliations for all humans. Contact the UNHCR and ask them about these pictures
and tell them that these pictures are an abuse of refugees' dignity and
humanity, when you can do this then we can see that you really care about
refugees.

I don't have any money to pay you but if you would like to help us in our
struggle and you respect our humanity as refugees in the world, then we would be
very thankful for this help. I'm an E-book publisher and I will be publishing
many more E-books in the future. I would like to have answers to the questions
in this article and since the people at the UNHCR refused to answer my
questions, I declare now that I'll give free access to all of the E-books I will
write in my lifetime to the first person who will find the answers to my many
questions concerning the UNHCR. He/she will be a hero of all refugees and I'll
write about them what they would like. I can't give them a medal now, but we
will give them our love and our thanks as refugees.

Please, if you think this issue is important and needs acts, you can send
messages to the UNHCR and your government to speak your opinions according to
your rights and the democracy. Here are some emails:
ecu@...,inquiries@...,Hqpr00@...,tb-petitions@...,info@usaforun\
hcr.org

Notice that you can find more emails on my website or you can brows for more on
the net or to find more ways for contact them like phones or faxes.

Together we will build better world.

You could reach me fast via this form: http://www.unhcr.us/unhcrus/email_me.htm
and if you like to know more about me, you can google for my name 'osam altaee'.

Thanks

THE TRUTH WARRIOR
OSAM ALTAEE
http://www.unhcr.free2w.com

is there an site where I can watch clips of george?
About an year and a half ago, my much music got taken away because it was
replaced by FUSE tv. So havent been able to see him:(
So if there is, can someone please let me know...that would be awsome. thanks.

~*Crystalena*~

otowns_chick <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

yep..its an one hour show that talks about what was in the news that
day and such..
sorry if it was posted already.. im not reading everything..
off topic..but nwho of u guys see the rick mercer special w/ george
couple of weeks ago? hilarouss

--- In georgestroumboulopoulosrox@yahoogroups.com, "Mere"
<olp66_99@y...> wrote:
>
> So I was just informed by someone who sent me an e-mail...that
> George's new show on CBC will be a nightly show, which starts Jan.
17
>
> CBC is a Canadian network, so I have no idea how people in the US
> without a satellite would see it.
>
> I'm excited for the new show because Much Music drives me
crazy!!!!
> Finally George can really use his talents
>
> Mere




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yep..its an one hour show that talks about what was in the news that
day and such..
sorry if it was posted already.. im not reading everything..
off topic..but nwho of u guys see the rick mercer special w/ george
couple of weeks ago? hilarouss

--- In georgestroumboulopoulosrox@yahoogroups.com, "Mere"
<olp66_99@y...> wrote:
>
> So I was just informed by someone who sent me an e-mail...that
> George's new show on CBC will be a nightly show, which starts Jan.
17
>
> CBC is a Canadian network, so I have no idea how people in the US
> without a satellite would see it.
>
> I'm excited for the new show because Much Music drives me
crazy!!!!
> Finally George can really use his talents
>
> Mere

well dam!! I have digital cable, otherwise I will just have to go to the
website.
Yeah, hes been on much music for an long time.
why is much music driving you nuts, lol I havent seen much music in a long time
because...I used to have it then it got switched to much music u.s.a. to Fuse,
so its been a long long time since I have seen it...The only thing I missed from
it was George of course and Ed the sock lol.
You know whats funny, I dont know if you get vh1 out in Canada, but whats really
strange is two people that left much music ended up being vj's for vh1, that
Rachel Perry girl and I think his name is Brad.

~*Crystalena*~

Mere <olp66_99@...> wrote:

So I was just informed by someone who sent me an e-mail...that
George's new show on CBC will be a nightly show, which starts Jan. 17

CBC is a Canadian network, so I have no idea how people in the US
without a satellite would see it.

I'm excited for the new show because Much Music drives me crazy!!!!
Finally George can really use his talents

Mere




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So I was just informed by someone who sent me an e-mail...that
George's new show on CBC will be a nightly show, which starts Jan. 17

CBC is a Canadian network, so I have no idea how people in the US
without a satellite would see it.

I'm excited for the new show because Much Music drives me crazy!!!!
Finally George can really use his talents

Mere

> Is cbc only based in Canada as well?

I think there's a channel called Newsworld International in the US... but I
don't know if they'll air the new show.  Also, Al Gore just bought the
channel NWI uses, so it won't be available after like March or something.
If George's new show will be on NWI, then it will only be on for a few
months.  (Unless Gore licenses it.)


D

Is cbc only based in Canada as well?

~*Crystalena*~
(moderator)

Mere <olp66_99@...> wrote:

Hey everyone....just wanted to say that George is leaving much
music..and I believe December 10 is his last day..so maybe they will
have a goodbye party for him. He's leaving Much to do a program on
CBC....not sure exactly the details on it..but just thought I'd pass
this along..

cheers
mere




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