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Jonathan Metzi breaks down how many blacks were intentionally misdiagnosed with schizophrenia during the 1960′s to quell civil unrest. His book The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease goes even further.

It’s amazing to see and hear about the covert wars that have been waged against the american people, past and present. But to me, as a black man, its always more interesting to learn about the covert wars that have always been watched against blacks to keep them at the bottom of american culture and society. More than any other group in this country, blacks have gotten the worst of every covert and overt attacks the government has decided to fling at us.

Of course this particular situation happened over 50 years ago, but like they always say “If you dont know history, youre bound to repeat it.” So it wouldnt surprise me if something along these lines was happening right now in a different form. If for hundreds of years those in power consistently found and tried new ways to keep a whole race down, why would they stop now? because we have a black president? Bollocks!

Also Read Jonathan Metzi’s Interview with Psychology Today. Its worth it.

Most spam I hate, but this one right here has gotten me kind of intrigued. This woman keeps trying to sell me chemicals! First couple of times I brushed it off, but now i’m interested to see what a 25 KG bag of “Caustic Soda Pearls” can do. Do any of you mess with Titanium Dioxide on a regular basis. Well as you can see here, I can get it for the “low, low.” Read more…

Peace to all those who have supported the movement thus far. FH has broken the top 50K websites in the world, and top 30k in the USA. This gives me a lot of hope for real Hip Hop, all artists, and all those of you who support. We’ve got a series of new projects coming out the gate soon, and would be nothing without your support.

Peace to the following sites and blogs in no particular order. These guys hold us down, and we love you for it.

Hip Hop:
DallasPenn.com
OhWord.com
RockTheDub.com
Potholesinmyblog.com
Startoftheline.com
AshleyOutrageous.com
ImFlashy.com
WeDoItRightMag.com
KevinNottingham.com
RappersIKnow.com

DaBottomClothing.com
MarkBattyPublisher.com

Crews:
Swim Team
Beat Fanatics
Routine Fly
Domination Recordings

If I forgot you, you’re help has not been forgotten, we’ll continue to support as long as we’re here.

Since we started in 2006, we’ve seen many sites come and go, but we’re in it for the long haul. Peace and Respect.

Hav

What’s good everyone,

To keep this short and sweet, as of last month I noticed that advertisers on Usershare have been sneaking trojans into their ads. Recently I emailed Usershare about the issue, and they basically told me it wasn’t their problem, and they’d look into it. Here’s the email in its entirety (please read from the bottom up).

<hav@flawlesshustle.com>

wrote:

Well, I’m using Avast Antivirus (free edition) which found the issue on the page. What I’d do is next time you guys spot it on the site, take a screenshot of the banners on the page, and bring it back to the network to let them know. In most cases they will ignore you as you mentioned, but the best thing you can do is figure out who did it, so you won’t have to work with them again. I’ve seen this on other upload sites as well, and it even happened to my site, so I know how frustrating it can be. Good Luck!

—–Original Message—–

From: Usershare [mailto:support@usershare.net]

Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:59 PM

To: XXXXX

Subject: RE: New message from UserShare contact form

Sure we’d appreciate any help possible.I will send it to both of our ad providers, but I am certain they will say they dont have anything to do with that website, :) it has happened before, with pop-up related ads.I know google wont deal with them so I will check the other one.

Thank you

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 18:05:22 -0500, “XXXX”

<hav@flawlesshustle.com>

wrote:

> Right, if you mention it to the ad servers they can pinpoint which advertiser is using your site to serve Trojans. I work in advertising, let me know if you need help.

> —–Original Message—–

> From: Usershare [mailto:support@usershare.net]

> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 3:40 PM

> To: XXXX

> Subject: RE: New message from UserShare contact form

>

> We have no business with that website/URL .We use 3 ad system only.But we will keep an eye out for anything suspicious.

Thank you

>

> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:32:57 -0500, “XXXX”

> <hav@flawlesshustle.com>

> wrote:  The domain that’s doing it is not actually google analytics, it’s  eicyxtaecun.com/

>>

>> —–Original Message—–

>> From: support@usershare.net [mailto:support@usershare.net]

>> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 7:06 PM

>> To: hav@flawlesshustle.com

>> Subject: Re: New message from UserShare contact form

>>

>> Fixed.Thabk you, but it isn’t a trojan, google analytics seem to be doing  that.We have removed it.

>>

>> Thank you

>> ——Original Message——

>> From: UserShare@premium.usershare.net

>> To: support@usershare.net

>> To: abuse@usershare.net

>> Subject: New message from UserShare contact form

>> Sent: Jan 4, 2010 6:43 PM

>>

>> You’ve got new message from UserShare.

>>

>> Name: hav

>> E-mail: hav@flawlesshustle.com

>> IP: 74.66.18.203

>>

>> Just wanted to let you know that one of your advertisers is placing trojans on your site.

>>

>> I clicked on this link:

>>

>> http://usershare.net/2DopeBoyz/o0b88xspxfwz

>>

>> and apparently there was some sort of banner or injection taking place which tried to place a file on my computer. Here’s the log.

>>

>>

>> 1/4/2010 6:38:29 PM  SYSTEM      1544  Sign of &quote;JS:Pdfka-TW

>> [Expl]&quote; has been found in  http://google.com.analytics.eicyxtaecun.com/nte/trest11.php/oHd6d2998

cV03006f35002R7bd67009102T9d90e27eQ000002fc901801F002a000aJ0f000601l0409K736

>> c8b45317&quote; file.

I really hope you guy fix this up, this is the same reason most people switched from zshare over to you guys in the first place.

>> Sent on the Usershare Mobility network with BlackBerry

Since then I’ve gotten 3 viruses from Usershare, and have decided it’s enough for me. It’s pretty bad when you try to run a legit site, to help artists, and help listeners enjoy music but instead end up fucking up their computer because of a 3rd party site. So after running it by the crew, I felt it necessary to address the community to see if we can move past Usershare, and use some of the alternatives that are out there.  Now, nothing against Usershare itself, I’ve seen other sites such as Zshare which have had the same exact problem.
Here are some alternatives which have yet to get overloaded with viruses:

• mediafire.com
• divshare.com
• megaupload.com
• rapidshare.com

I know some of the sites above aren’t as easy to use, and have wait times and all that, but I think it’s worthwhile to wait for something, as long as it’s a clean site.

If you want to suggest more clean sites for artists and bloggers to use, please leave a comment and I’ll update the list.

If you wish to support this movement, please do so. I think we’re all in it for the same reasons, and are trying to look out for each other.

Peace and respect,

Hav @ Flawless

EDIT: (1/22/2010) Looks like limelinx is also suffering from the same issue. This time I saved a screenshot. Cick to enlarge.

For those of you who want to read up on what the Trojan actually does, you can do so on http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2003-102718-1528-99 Semantec’s website .

Below is an email from the heads at Limelinx on the situation.

From: Limelinx [info@limelinx.com]

We will do our best to find the culprit and stop them from doing this.

We have forwarded your email to Adbrite because the One page ad is from Adbrite…let’s hope they’ll stop it.

We really have no intentions of abusing people’s computer…ads are just a way to earn money and we really wanna earn our visitors trust, but there are some really nasty people who just abuse the system to hack and violate other computers through their ad networks.

Sorry for the inconvenience…
We really have no control over this as you said…let’s just hope it’ll get fixed
Cheers and thanks for reporting it

LL

It’s about that time of year, and team FH is continuing to strive on its quest to bring you the illest there is. We’re looking for someone to join the crew who’s interested in writing, and has enough time to get a few posts in daily. It’s a great opportunity to get your writing in front of thousands of people per day. As a writer here at FH you’ll be exposed to a lot of new music, and gear before it’s posted anywhere, and it’ll be up to you to review and share your thoughts on a lot of what’s new and good in the world of Hip Hop. If you’re interested in the position, please email us at staff@flawlesshustle.com and I’ll hit you back with specifics.

Some important notes:

• This is a non-paid position. (You will have an opportunity to earn money along with the rest of the team, but the earnings you get are proportional to the amount of work you put in.)
• Please have experience in writing.
• Those of you who are involved in music, fashion, or any of the other topics we already cover at FH will receive preferential treatment.
• Perks include, review copies related to the industry you write for, plus comps to shows and special events.

Good luck to those of you who reply, and we’ll be in contact shortly!

Peace,

Hav & the FH Team.