I am all for the prevention of animal cruelty, but letters like this make me want to go out and buy a fur coat and eat some kobe beef-filled veal. PETA took it upon themselves to send Flavor Flav a demeaning letter advising him to bounce meet from his menus just like he bounces checks. I’m sorry, but why is the abuse of chickens something that Flav has to suffer for? He doesn’t raise them nor is he any type of politician or lobbyist. You cannot ask somebody who owns one chicken restaurant to stop selling chicken and replace it with faux chicken. That would be an innovative idea if his establishment was in Beverly Hills, New York or some other metropolitan area but the people over at PETA don’t seem to care about anyone’s livelihood.  Why not push for legislation or ask large corporations to add faux chicken to their menus before sending insulting letters to a young black entrepreneur? I know that Flav is not this nation’s beacon of intelligence, class, clout or sangfroid, but he is entitled to make honest money just like everyone else. Feel free to read the entire letter below. Dear Flav, Greetings from PETA! After reading about the debacle involving employees of your fried-chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa, whose paychecks bounced, we’re writing to encourage you to bounce one more thing—cruelty—and make your restaurant vegetarian. If you thought your roast was bad, wait until you hear how chickens who are raised to be roasted are treated! Chickens are arguably the most abused animal on the planet. In the United States, more than 8 billion chickens are killed for their flesh each year, and 90 percent of these animals spend their lives in total filth and confinement—from the moment they hatch until the day they are killed. More chickens are raised and killed for food than all other land animals combined, yet not a single federal law protects chickens from abuse—even though two-thirds of Americans say that they would support such a law. Chickens on factory farms are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common. At the slaughterhouse, they are hung upside down, and their fragile legs are forced into shackles. Almost all chickens are still conscious when their throats are cut, and many are scalded to death in feather-removal tanks after missing the throat-cutter. There’s no reason to cash in on this cruelty. You can have all the same menu items as you did before—minus the meat. Delicious faux chicken is available wholesale from such companies as Gardein, and loads of palate-pleasing recipes are available free on our website: http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/recipes/. Faux fried chicken is as mouthwatering as it is healthy and humane, and we guarantee that it will have your customers yelling, “Yeah, boy!” We hope that you will choose to reflect the true “flavor of love” by making your restaurant vegetarian. If we can be of any assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact me at MichelleC@peta.org. Best wishes, Michelle Cho PETA Thoughts?

I am all for the prevention of animal cruelty, but letters like this make me want to go out and buy a fur coat and eat some kobe beef-filled veal. PETA took it upon themselves to send Flavor Flav a demeaning letter advising him to bounce meet from his menus just like he bounces checks. I’m sorry, but why is the abuse of chickens something that Flav has to suffer for? He doesn’t raise them nor is he any type of politician or lobbyist. You cannot ask somebody who owns one chicken restaurant to stop selling chicken and replace it with faux chicken. That would be an innovative idea if his establishment was in Beverly Hills, New York or some other metropolitan area but the people over at PETA don’t seem to care about anyone’s livelihood. 

Why not push for legislation or ask large corporations to add faux chicken to their menus before sending insulting letters to a young black entrepreneur? I know that Flav is not this nation’s beacon of intelligence, class, clout or sangfroid, but he is entitled to make honest money just like everyone else. Feel free to read the entire letter below.

Dear Flav, Greetings from PETA! After reading about the debacle involving employees of your fried-chicken restaurant in Clinton, Iowa, whose paychecks bounced, we’re writing to encourage you to bounce one more thing—cruelty—and make your restaurant vegetarian. If you thought your roast was bad, wait until you hear how chickens who are raised to be roasted are treated! Chickens are arguably the most abused animal on the planet. In the United States, more than 8 billion chickens are killed for their flesh each year, and 90 percent of these animals spend their lives in total filth and confinement—from the moment they hatch until the day they are killed. More chickens are raised and killed for food than all other land animals combined, yet not a single federal law protects chickens from abuse—even though two-thirds of Americans say that they would support such a law. Chickens on factory farms are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common. At the slaughterhouse, they are hung upside down, and their fragile legs are forced into shackles. Almost all chickens are still conscious when their throats are cut, and many are scalded to death in feather-removal tanks after missing the throat-cutter. There’s no reason to cash in on this cruelty. You can have all the same menu items as you did before—minus the meat. Delicious faux chicken is available wholesale from such companies as Gardein, and loads of palate-pleasing recipes are available free on our website: http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/recipes/. Faux fried chicken is as mouthwatering as it is healthy and humane, and we guarantee that it will have your customers yelling, “Yeah, boy!” We hope that you will choose to reflect the true “flavor of love” by making your restaurant vegetarian. If we can be of any assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact me at MichelleC@peta.org. Best wishes, Michelle Cho PETA

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I’ve been a fan of the movement over at Street Etiquette for a while now, so when they took a sidestep from their normal tunnel-vision of fashion progression based on historical cool & teamed up with some friends to create a synergistic musical euphony…I had no choice but to check it out and share it. This video features small interviews and musical showcases from:

I encourage all of you to support the project and the musicans therein. I didn’t realize how many of these artists I was already Facebook friends with, but that’s neither here nor there. 

Remaining stagnant is a death wish and the good people over at Street Etiquette are doing their best to live forever. 

Click here to download to the finished product.

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"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
— Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara 

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A Cleveland, Ohio pastor has caused internet viewers and audiences to engage in constant discussion regarding his recent choice of words during a sermon given at his church. Pastor RA Vernon is being criticized for a concept he chose to use in efforts to simplify a command given to Christians. 
According to RA Vernon, “F U” is the new “Forgive You.” Many deem the issue to be,” A pastor is somewhat cussing in church and making it okay for Christians to cuss,” or they are saying, “the devil is using him to cause Christians to revert to former lifestyle associated with “FU” and God is not associated with this sermon.”  Needless to say, others feel his concept of, “F U  is a failed attempt to be relevant, trendy, or cutting edge; He is simply becoming too “worldly” and this sermon was a prime example of how far he is straying away from what preaching should be. “
While the concerns, and “issues” with the concept in his sermon are completely understood; could it be that many critics and Christians alike are missing the big picture, or the real issue with Pastor RA Vernon using,”F U.” The phrase, “forgive you” has value you, power, significance, and is necessary for building up relationships. “F U” has no value you, is degrading, insignificant, and often tears down relationships. To substitute, “forgive you,” with the letters “F U,” is to minimize, degrade, devalue you, and distract people from speaking a phrase and living a phrase that is necessary for the restoration of humanity. 
The big deal isn’t necessarily, ” this pastor cussed and said F U in church.” Honestly, he could have used other letters or others words and the problem would have been the same. “Forgive you” does not need substitute phrases that rid its power and cause people to dismiss its significance. May preachers be more careful with their choice of words and concepts spoken into the lives of people they influence on a consistent basis. In attempts to be relevant once cannot be ignorant to word association and its power.
 Pastor RA Vernon was not the first to use this concept of, “F U” in the pulpit, but hopefully he is the last. 

-Charity

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www.SpotBanks.com Publicly Released!

I understand that everyone who is part of Fiend Movement is part of something bigger. When we think about the banking industry and the social feelings involved, where they came from, and where they are going I cannot help but reflect on the line “a synergetic ball of revitalization, renewal and growth” from the about section of FM. 

I, like many of you, have formed a negative opinion about the banking industry and I have also had the opportunity to work within the industry and bring about some inside knowledge to round out my perspective.

With this in mind, my partners and I created SpotBanks.com to positively influence our financial communities and empower consumers to make change where change is needed within their respective communities. We hope to bring about “revitalization, renewal, and growth” within the industry as a whole and depend on consumers to make meaningful contributions which will help others in their community.

Please help to support our “movement” and register at SpotBanks.com

**we just released a public version and are still in testing phase so please excuse and report any errors**

Your feedback is valuable as we have created SpotBanks.com with your interests in mind. If there are any changes or additions you would like to see, please let me know. You can all reach me at thomasglahjr@spotbanks.com.

Best.

tG

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Working for the weekend.

-tG

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The Next Edition To The Coffee Table

New York fashion week just wrapped up and now everyone is walking around posting pictures that they took on their newly-purchased Canons/Nikons and thinking that they want to become clothing designers, bloggers, stylists and fashionistas. If you run in the trendy circles of the major cities and are reading this post, statistics show that you either fall into one of these categories or know at least 3 people who fall into one or more of the aforementioned clubs. Now that the norms have been established, it’s time to add a new book to your coffee table of “Oh, that’ just something I picked up a while back” books. 

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is a retrospective about the fashion, design and life of the late Alexander McQueen. “Focusing on the most iconic and acclaimed designs of his prolific career, this stunning book examines McQueen’s inimitable technical virtuosity and its subversion of traditional tailoring and dressmaking practices.   The book also focuses on the highly sophisticated narrative structures found in McQueen’s collections and in his astonishing and extravagant runway presentations, which suggested the most avant-garde installation and performance art.” Written by the people who knew him best, this book is poised to give readers the most true to life depiction of the man that brought us iconic designs and physics-defying shoes. 

Side note: “Andrew Bolton is Curator and Harold Koda is Curator in Charge at The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Blanks is contributing editor of Style.com and Susannah Frankel is fashion editor of The Independentnewspaper.”

This summer when the burgers have been consumed and the wine spritzers/mint juleps  are ushering in the bourgeoisie conversations of fashion, art, expression, religion and post-modern neo-self-introspective thought…impress your friends with this one. 

Alexander McQueen:Savage Beauty is available for pre-order now on Amazon.

Click here To Order 

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For those of you who don’t know, plans are underway in Britain to nearly triple tuition. Well guess what, these students aren’t having it. I’ve seen some cool riot videos, but there’s nothing like watching people riot for something I agree with. 

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Before Myspace, Facebook, Twitter YouTube or the fights that come with them, there was Show. Check out Nick Knight (photographer/SHOWstudio) conversing with Imran Amed at The Hospital Club, London on 26th November 2010

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To Black Generation Y

This is not a youth bash. It’s a peer review:

The beautiful scarifications of past generational pains now dwell within us and serve as inherited symbols of our own personal strength; symbolic fine wines made from the fermented sweat and tears poured out as payment for our current reality, blood-encrypted directions for attaining future success, spiritual medals of honor, diatribes of the status quo and daily reminders to lambaste mediocrity …yet we ignore them.
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I had always wanted a Swiss Army knife when I was a child. I used to dream about all of the little blades, files, saws and other trinkets that they contained. Now that I’m 21, I am becoming a much more simplistic creature. I still understand and appreciate the utility or having a small everyday use knife, but I am now on Team Britain.  There is something about pure stainless steel that is simply amazing. Your mother has stainless steel appliances, shouldn’t you have one as well? Part tool, part weapon….all amazing. They can be purchased on the Garrett Wade website. I’m going to order one. Are you?  Till next time, “Run towards your horizons & then step over them” -Sed 

I had always wanted a Swiss Army knife when I was a child. I used to dream about all of the little blades, files, saws and other trinkets that they contained. Now that I’m 21, I am becoming a much more simplistic creature. I still understand and appreciate the utility or having a small everyday use knife, but I am now on Team Britain. 

There is something about pure stainless steel that is simply amazing. Your mother has stainless steel appliances, shouldn’t you have one as well? Part tool, part weapon….all amazing. They can be purchased on the Garrett Wade website. I’m going to order one. Are you? 

Till next time, “Run towards your horizons & then step over them”

-Sed 

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On behalf of fiendmovement and people everywhere….thanks a lot BP. 

On behalf of fiendmovement and people everywhere….thanks a lot BP. 

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I know that people have been posting images of the nicki minaj outtakes from Vibe but as nice as they are, I’d much rather see how she moves than how she poses. She’s looking very good in this video…not too sure about her rapping skills but I’m sure you wont be paying attention to the lyrics till your third time watching it anyway. 

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I was listening to some Parliament and it brought back memories of my favorite movie as a child…The Mack. Yes. This clip probably has more memorable lines than any other four minute clip in cinema history. What was your favorite line? Let me know on twitter @fiendmovement. 

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“Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has called upon BMW DesignworksUSA to outfit some of the cabins in its luxury executive jets. The two companies have hopped into bed together in order to learn a thing or two from each other, and as a result, you’ll soon be able to step aboard an Embraer Phenom 100 or Phenom 300 with Bavarian-inspired cockpits and cabins. BMW took a hard look at how the typical aircraft interior is constructed and then brought the typical German engineering eye to the equation. This isn’t an airborne 3 Series, though. While both the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 boast unparalleled cockpit spaces thanks to BMW’s touches, the company says the exercise had more to do with the translation of ideals rather than transcribing auto design to the air. Clever storage, unique color choice and high-quality materials found their way into the final product.Embraer says that it will allow customers to choose one of seven different color schemes. So far, around 100 jets have been produced, with another 600 orders waiting to be filled.” via. I want one of these so badly. Now all I need is a few million to blow. Ponzi scheme? 

“Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has called upon BMW DesignworksUSA to outfit some of the cabins in its luxury executive jets. The two companies have hopped into bed together in order to learn a thing or two from each other, and as a result, you’ll soon be able to step aboard an Embraer Phenom 100 or Phenom 300 with Bavarian-inspired cockpits and cabins. BMW took a hard look at how the typical aircraft interior is constructed and then brought the typical German engineering eye to the equation.

This isn’t an airborne 3 Series, though. While both the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 boast unparalleled cockpit spaces thanks to BMW’s touches, the company says the exercise had more to do with the translation of ideals rather than transcribing auto design to the air. Clever storage, unique color choice and high-quality materials found their way into the final product.

Embraer says that it will allow customers to choose one of seven different color schemes. So far, around 100 jets have been produced, with another 600 orders waiting to be filled.” via.

I want one of these so badly. Now all I need is a few million to blow. Ponzi scheme? 




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