Here is the official music video for Lil Wayne’s “A Milli,” the third single from his recently released platinum album, “Tha Carter III.” The music video premiered on BET’s 106 & Park on July 2, 2008. The video is comprised of behind-the-scenes footage from Lil Wayne’s “Got Money” music video shoot with T-Pain.



Via: Rap-Up.com - Video: Lil Wayne - ‘A Milli’

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Music Video: Lil Wayne - “A Milli” (Official)

Here is the video montage shown at the beginning of Jay-Z’s appearance at Glastonbury Festival on June 28, 2008.  This video montage was not shown on BBC.   Many reviews of the concert have made reference to this montage, and we had looked forward to seeing it.  It’s a dynamic and thrilling montage, using the full audio of  Oasis’ Noel Gallagher’s infamous remark that hip hop was “wrong” for Glastonbury  as a springboard, and a staggering number of sound bites and video clips of celebrities and world leaders; George Clooney, Gwenyth Paltrow, Mick Jagger, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, and Queen Elizabeth II, just to name a few.

Photo: Jay-Z at Glastonbury Festival, June 28, 2008 (Photo credit: Getty)

Via: Nah Right - Video: Jay-Z’s Video Intro at Glastonbury

Here’s video of Jay-Z’s entire performance at Glastonbury 2008 (re-posted from a previous post)

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Video: Jay-Z Glastonbury 2008 Video Intro Plus Full Performance Video

Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama delivered a speech in Zanesville, Ohio on July 1, 2008, outlining his proposed faith based initiatives program.

Senator Barack Obama said Tuesday that if elected president he would expand the delivery of social services through churches and other religious organizations, vowing to achieve a goal he said President Bush had fallen short on during his two terms.

“The challenges we face today — from saving our planet to ending poverty — are simply too big for government to solve alone,” Mr. Obama said outside a community center here. “We need an all-hands-on-deck approach.”

Some Democrats have previously backed similar efforts, but Mr. Bush’s version, a centerpiece of his first-term agenda, has been a lightning rod for criticism from those concerned about the separation of church and state and those who argued that Mr. Bush had used it to further a conservative political agenda.

In embracing the same general approach as Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama ran the political risk of alienating those of his supporters who would prefer that government keep its distance from religion.

But Mr. Obama’s plan pointedly departed from the Bush administration’s stance on one fundamental issue: whether religious organizations that get federal money for social services can take faith into account in their hiring. Mr. Bush has said yes. Mr. Obama said no.

“If you get a federal grant, you can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can’t discriminate against them — or against the people you hire — on the basis of their religion,” Mr. Obama said. “Federal dollars that go directly to churches, temples and mosques can only be used on secular programs.”

Source: Obama Seeks Bigger Role for Religious Groups

Photo credit: Photos 1, 3, 4, Matthew Leasure/Zanesville Times Recorder; Photos 2, 5, 6, Jae C. Hong/AP

Barack Obama at the East Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio

Faith based initiatives have been controversial throughout the Bush administration, and Obama is being commended as much as he is being criticized for addressing the issue with his proposal, as the New York Times article goes on to point out.

Martha Minnow, a professor of law at Harvard University who has written about religion-based initiatives and has advised the Obama campaign on the issue, said Mr. Obama would move to “return the law to what it was before the current administration,” in other words barring the consideration of religion in hiring decisions for such programs that receive federal financing.

“I don’t think there’s anything too controversial about that,” said. “Any religious organization that does not want to comply with that requirement simply doesn’t have to take the money.”

But evangelical leaders said not allowing religious groups to hire based on their beliefs would strip them of the very basis for religion-based programs.

“If you can’t hire people within your faith community, then you’ve lost the distinctive that is the reason why faith-based programs exist in the first place,” said Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The idea of augmenting government delivery of social services through community and religious organizations has won varying degrees of support across the ideological spectrum. Although research on the effectiveness of religion-based organizations remains spotty, Mr. Obama said groups would be regularly evaluated on effectiveness.

Barack Obama at the East Community Ministry in Zanesville, Ohio

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Mr. Obama’s proposal was met with praise from leaders like the Rev. Jim Wallis, a prominent spokesman for more liberal evangelicals. Mr. Wallis applauded the fact that Mr. Obama, as a Democrat, was willing to talk about his Christian faith and “wants a faith-based program that’s even better than the Bush program.”

Several former Bush administration officials who had a hand in shaping the current policy, including John J. DiIulio Jr., director of Mr. Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001, also applauded Mr. Obama’s proposal. Though the program is widely associated with Mr. Bush, similar ideas have been supported by Democrats.

“His plan reminds me of much that was best in both then-Vice President Al Gore’s and then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s respective first speeches on the subject in 1999,” Mr. DiIulio said.

Source: Obama Seeks Bigger Role for Religious Groups




Video & Photos: Barack Obama Faith Based Initiatives Speech 7-1-08