The year we've all been waiting for - 2012AD (or 13.0.0.0.0, if you ask a Mayan) - is finally here. What will happen? Will we see the poles shift or a paradigm shift? Will a rogue Sumerian planet smash into our solar system, plunging us into serfdom under the iron fist of a race of gold-hungry aliens? Or are the aliens already here? Or are all these merely humanity's collective projections of itself as it careens towards an ever-accelerating super-connected cyber-reality - whatever that means... One thing's sure, if 2011 was a prelude of things to come, 2012 is going to be one hell of a year. Now that it has arrived, are we ready? Join your host Robert Foster and his guests, Terrence Moonseed and General Baxter, as they conduct an in-depth rap analysis into the future, and humanity's place in it. Happy New YERA! Juice Rap News: written by Giordano Nanni; lyrics and performance by Hugo Farrant. Created by Farrant & Nanni in a back-yard studio in suburban Melbourne. ____________________________________________ ** SUPPORT Rap News to keep broadcasting rhyme and reason on the only remaining free frequency: http://thejuicemedia.com/donate - thanks! or Bitcoin: 1HMPK1zFCLopAvNEvR3aehFU1tSvHeWkTS ____________________________________________ ** Free MP3 download https://soundcloud.com/juice-rap-news/rn-x-occupy-2012 ** LYRICS: http://www.thejuicemedia.com/video ** WEBSITE, full of info on juicy stuffs: http://www.thejuicemedia.com ____________________________________________ ** CONNECT with us on Farcebook: https://www.facebook.com/juicerapnews And Twitter: http://twitter.com/juicerapnews ____________________________________________ **** CREDITS **** ** BEAT: "Tancz Glupia" by Mateusz Schmidt "Matheo" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFC9PmPcZ4 www.facebook.com/MatheoProductions from LP "Sobotaz" by MC SOBOTA Uploaded with permission ** We are hugely grateful to all of our collaborators for their time and patience: Our awesomely reliable and talented artist/designer, Zoe Tame from http://visualtonic.com.au for creating all the original artwork; Dave Abbot for syncing and chromakey. Ben Erwin for awesome on-location filming at Liberty Plaza, with the help of John Sidorovich and #Occupy protesters: Tim Pool, Radagast Istari Brown, Jessica, Darrell, Jake, Dan and others who shall remain 'anonymous'. Thanks to Lucy, Paula, Daniel, Adso and Taegan for Protester voiceovers; and Cepstral Dave for Anonymous voiceover. Trav and Nick for lights and tech assistance. Gilles Gundermann & Mily Langworth for props, and special thanks to Gregory Bradshaw for the loan of several of the General's accoutrements! Lucy & Caitlin for ongoing patience and support. Koolfy & Siltaar for creating English caption file. Above all we are indebted to the Herculean efforts of Melissa McCollough and Professor Stuart Reese at the Sydney Peace Foundation (http://www.sydneypeacefoundation.org.au) who made our trip to Sydney possible and thus our special interview with Noam Chomsky. A very special thanks to Clinton Fernandes who gave us time and space in his hotel room to consult the great Oracle, to whom we are also very grateful for being such an inspiration; and a sport. :) Hugo & Giordano ____________________________________________ ** TRANSLATIONS: - Many thanks to our French friends, Koolfy and Siltaar, for creating and sync'ing English closed captions. - Gratitude towards our volunteer translators: - Jonas Maebe for Dutch translation - Ismael & The Three Arts for Spanish translation - Dan Gabriel-Mihai for Romanian translation - Max for German translation - Renato & Warlockbr for Portuguese translation (check out Warlockbr on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/warptenchuck) - forevercrimescene for Serbian translation - William Dupré for French translation - Marjan Rizov for Macedonian translation - Yuri for Russian translation - Jonathan for Hebrew translation If you'd like to translate Rap News into your language, please contact us first via our website http://www.thejuicemedia.com/contact

THE WORLD COUP! All eyes are on Brazil as it endures... errr.... *hosts* the 2014 soccer World Coup - the most watched sporting event on the planet. Join Robert Foster as he investigates why many Brazilians are protesting against THIEFA, the shady organisation that runs the World Cup, and the rather fascist policies it has introduced to their country "for the good of the game". But Brazil is not the only country to get shafted in this epic episode, which features exclusive interviews with captains of the strongest teams in the running for the notorious WORLD COUP. So, click play and find out why they really call it "The World Game." Written & created by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home studio in Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri Land. ☛ Join our new MAILING LIST to stay up to date with new videos, and to receive news about our LIVE show in 2015: http://eepurl.com/XlKrf ☛ CREDITS: World Cup theme composed by Adrian Sergovich http://www.songzu.com/ "Thiefa" Beat by Profetesa Beats https://soundcloud.com/profetesa Instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eshsdDlnLC8 Thanks to Ming The Merciless for awesome singing vocals on "We Have Won" parody song Thanks to Zoe Umlaut for playing the role of our hardcore Brazilian activist. Thanks to Lucy Cahil for Brazilian voiceover. All other acting by Hugo & Giordano. All other vox by Hugo. Video effects & animations by Jonas Schweizer (aka Kookybone) Image assistance by Zoe Tame and Reuben Braithwaite Thanks to Thiago Mundano for creating the awesome mural that we have used in the background to the Rio protest scene! Muito legal! Thanks to Damian Tapley for assisting with filming and video-editing Thanks to Dave Rawlinson for research assistance and valuable conversations about austerity and genwars! Rad props provided by Gilles Gunderman & Ming Production assistance by Lucy Cahill and Damian Tapley. Captions syncing by Koolfy from http://nurpa.be Wigs styled by Rose Chong http://www.rosechong.com Video and music editing by Giordano. ☛ SUPPORT the creation of new episodes: Donate: http://thejuicemedia.com/donate BitCoin: 1HMPK1zFCLopAvNEvR3aehFU1tSvHeWkTS ☛ CONNECT with us on: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/juicerapnews Farcebook: https://www.facebook.com/juicerapnews Website: http://www.thejuicemedia.com Join our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/XlKrf ☛ DOWNLOAD: FREE hi-quality MP3: https://soundcloud.com/juice-rap-news/rap-news-26-the-thiefa-world-coup LYRICS: http://www.thejuicemedia.com/lyrics ☛ TRANSLATIONS: Hebrew translation by Jonathan Barner Dutch translation by Jonas Maebe Serbian translation by Tamara L. Portuguese translation by Euclides Filho Finnish translation by Lia D. French translation by Julien (with original submission from Quentin Rosfelder) German translation by Benjamin Bruhn Russian translation by Victor Irzak Spanish translation by B.ARTFILMS

The time has come to turn our focus onto the very medium which allows us to connect: The Internet. As we know it today, it has only been around for a short time: it's still an adolescent; still changing and growing. But even as we speak, powerful forces and interests are vying to influence and shape it’s nature as it reaches full maturity. And since humanity’s destiny and that of the Internet are intimately connected, it would be wise to be ask: how is the Internet doing? If the Internet could speak to us as a human today, what kind of person would it be? And most importantly, what kind of a person will it become in the future? Log in with Robert Foster as he poses these very questions to some of the most influential and powerful figures who are today shaping the Internet’s future. Featuring an world-exclusive, world-first appearance from the Internet itself. Only on Juice Rap News. Written & created by Giordano Nanni & Hugo Farrant in a suburban backyard home studio in Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri Land. ☛ CREDITS: * Enormous thanks to Dan Bull for finally appearing in one of our episodes! Check out his awesome channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/douglby * Music & Beats: We had three incredible musical collaborators on this episode: - All epic orchestral compositions by Adrian Sergovich - Main Beat 1: ‘Compton’ by Tantu Beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQ37Z33mDk - Internet Beat 2: ‘Home Computer Manual’ by Able8 https://soundcloud.com/able8/home-computer-manual-1 * Thanks to Louis Gundermann for coming back to act as Mark Zuckerberg * Thanks to Jonas Schweizer (aka Kookybone) for creating many of the video effects * Thanks to Zoe Umlaut of Umlautronics for designing the Interwebs Consciousness Interface Mainframe prop * Thanks to Koolfy from http://nurpa.be for creating the captions * Thanks to Juan (@WikiLeaks) for lending us Julian Aassange’s background animation * Thanks to DBot for conversations about Internet.org * Performed by Hugo and Giordano; all vox (except Dan Bull!) performed by Hugo * Video and music edited by Giordano. ☛ TRANSLATIONS: * Serbian by Tamara L * Arabic by Haytham Faisal * Czech by Dino Dvořák * Dutch by Jonas Maebe * Italian by -AlexB- * Hebrew by Jonathan Barner * German by FL-Bremen * French by Julie Chatagnon * Portuguese by Vitor Oliveira * Spanish by Dagoberto Martínez If you would like to translate this episode into your language, please contact us: http://www.thejuicemedia.com/contact ☛ DOWNLOAD: * FREE hi-quality MP3: https://soundcloud.com/juice-rap-news/the-internet-feat-dan-bull-rap-news-35 * LYRICS: http://www.thejuicemedia.com/lyrics ☛ SUPPORT the creation of new episodes: http://thejuicemedia.com/support * BitCoin: 1HMPK1zFCLopAvNEvR3aehFU1tSvHeWkTS * Patreon: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheJuiceMedia

John Pilger answers questions during a talk in Melbourne in April 2009. Subjects include: Aboriginal Australia, the Northern Territory Intervention, Barack Obama, Israel/Palestine, Journalism and the Media, the Internet, the Financial Crisis and more... Many thanks to SocialistAlternative who organised the event and provided a platform for Pilger as well as Barbara Shaw to speak. We will be uploading excerpts from Barbara Shaw's talk asap - stay tuned! Venue: University of Melbourne, 09 April, 2009 Filmed & edited by: Sheryl, Felipe & Daniel - PlugInTV (www.plugintv.net)