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MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTORS OCTOBER 2014 / VOL. 1 / NO 1.

PUBLISHER Mari Brenden EDITOR IN CHIEF Sigbjoern Skatvedt EDITORIAL DESIGNER

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INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE If you, like me have been raised with the notion that celebrities, sports stars and politicians were influential because of what they do and not who they are we’re on the same page. But when you actually examine today’s influential people and how they became influential the picture has changed dramatically.

Influence is both a natural and learned quality that is developed over time. It can still be inherited, received by winning an election, or conveyed by a new job title but that’s becoming less prevalent now. I’ve seen influencers in the social age drive tremendous awareness for social causes leads for companies and votes for the presidential elections. Belive me its true.

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This month we are introduced to Adolf Hitler’s methods and means to achieve popularity, fame and military success. We will look closer to how he got the power and what he did to persuade people of Germany.

From being raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, Barack Hussein Obama is now the 44th president of the United States and the first African American president.

A shy white boy from East Detroit, Marshall Mathers was raised by a single mother in who was often too high to mother. He regularly changed schools, repeated the ninth grade three times and was constantly bullied.

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Emmy-winning talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres was born in a suburb of New Orleans.

She was one of the first women in show biz to come out as being openly gay and even after all the grief she did received, DeGeneres kept pushing forward.

In this moth ”Spotlight” we get to know the Ego’s of our generation. Those who think they can do no wrong or don’t care what others think of them are more prone to take risks, to push beyond what’s considered acceptable.

Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994 until 1999. As a symbol of global peacemaking, evolutionary, politician and philanthropishe won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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THERE WILL BE NO BLOOD OR SUFFER. Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian of 20th-century Germany, who is one of the world’s leading experts on Adolf Hitler. Let’s have a look at the influential Hitler.

There were still many Germans who were skeptical of Hitler when he became chancellor in 1933. But Führer propaganda and military success soon turned him into an idol. ”Today Hitler Is All of Germany.” The newspaper headline on Aug. 4, 1934 reflected the vital shift in power that had just taken place. Two days earlier, on the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler had lost no time in abolishing the Reich Presidency and having the army swear a personal oath of unconditional obedience to him as ”the Führer of the German Reich and People.” He was now head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces, as well as head of government and of the monopoly party, the NSDAP. Hitler had total power in Germany, unrestricted by any constitutional constraints. The headline implied even more, however, than the major change in the constellation of power.

It suggested an identity of Hitler and the country he ruled, signifying a complete bond between the German people and Hitler. ”Hitler for Germany -- all of Germany of Hitler” ran the slogan. As the result showed, however, reality lagged behind propaganda. One example of strong criticism leveled at Hitler can be seen in a report from the 2

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gestapo in erlin in march 1936.

Hitler’s toleration of the corruption and luxury life-style of the Party big-wigs at a time when poor living standards still afflicted.

One day after this report was submitted, however, German troops marched into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland.

In a spectacular move that fully exposed the weakness of the western democracies, Hitler could celebrate his greatest triumph in foreign policy to date. The domestic problems of previous months with shortage of foodstuffs, high prices, low wages and, in Catholic areas, much antagonism towards the regime over the struggle between the church and state were temporarly forgotten in the euphoria. According to the official figures 98.9 per cent voted ”for the list and thus for the Führer,” the re-militarization of the Rhineland was unquestionably a hugely popular move, and one widely attributed to Hitler’s bold and skilful leadership. Much suggests, in fact, that between the death of Hindenburg in August 1934 and the expansion into Austria and the Sudetenland four years later Hitler was indeed successful in gaining the backing of the vast majority of the German people. Hitler’s popularity was never higher than at the height of his foreign-policy successes in 1938.

The propaganda image was never better summarized than by Hitler himself in his Reichstag speech of 28 April 1939: ”I overcame chaos in Germany, restored order, enormously raised production in all fields of our national economy. I succeeded in completely resettling in useful production those 7 million unemployed who so touched our hearts. I have led millions

of deeply unhappy Germans, who have been snatched away from us, back into the Fatherland.I have restored the thousandyear-old historical unity of German living space; and I have attempted to accomplish all that without shedding blood and without inflicting the sufferings of war on my people or any other.” The claim that the change in Germany’s fortunes had been achieved single-handedly was, of course, absurd. There was not a word in this passage of the pathological obsession with ”removing” the Jews, or of the need for war to acquire living space. Restoration of order, rebuilding the economy, removal of the scourge of unemployment, demolition of the restrictions of the hated Versailles Treat and the establishment of

TODAY HITLER IS ALL OF GERMANY. national unity all had wide popular resonance, ranging far beyond die-hard Nazis, appealing in fact in different ways to practically every sector of society. Opinion surveys long after the end of the Second World War show that many people, even then, continued to associate these ”achievements” positively with Hitler.

Little did the German people know that in supporting Adolf Hitler’s triumphs, they were now condemned to suffer the catastrophe into which he had led them into.

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OBAMA Barack Hussain Obama

From being raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, Barack Hussein Obama is now the 44th president of the United States and the first African American president.

A year ago, barack obama’s presidency seemed to be in deep trouble. His party had been thrashed in the 2010 congressional elections. The economy was languishing. His poll ratings were dismal. A year later, thtough, he stands as the favorite to win the presidential election of 2012.

It is something of a mystery although he did have some help. The Republicans helped a lot. Their intransigence in Congress proved annoying over time. Their presidential-primary campaign alternated between farce and fierce and produ-

ced an unloved presumptive nominee in Mitt Romney. The economy began to do a little better. Obama, 50, showed great skill as a Commander in Chief, sending the Navy SEALs to take out Osama bin Laden and supervising an orderly departure from Iraq. But most of all, in the roil of a difficult time, he seemed smart and steady, trustworthy. Monuments are not often built to politicians who are merely trustworthy, but they do tend to win re-election. Barack is in trouble no more, he has won over the people of America.

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Crowds jammed the streets of Rangoon. Children waved American flags. Parents craned to see something long thought impossible: the President of the USA had come to Burma with a message of hope, freedom and opportunity. This was American leadership When Barack Obama was first elected, the world saw the realization of the American Dream. Today, they a leader who delivers ,whether it’s ending the war in Iraq, imposing crippling sanctions on Iran or reasserting our role as a Pacific power and building a world with more partners and fewer enemies. At home, the economy is growing, unemployment

is falling, and home prices are rising up.

Now, President Obama is working to create broader prosperity at home and become more competitive abroad by investing in our people, modernizing our infrastructure, building a new energy future and managing our long-term fiscal challenges. A better future for America.

FOR A BETTER FUTUTE FOR THE AMERICA.

Image: spiegel.de/international / Text: time100.time.com Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th t President and the first African American, here at his office at The White House.

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I THINK WHEN YOU SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND IT’S GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.

The man whose name means ”blessed” in Arabic is the son of a Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., and a white mother, Ann Dunham, from Kansas. The two met as college students in Hawaii in 1959 and two years later, when Ann was just 19, their child was born. At the time, miscegenation was still a crime in many states, and it was also unwelcome in Kenya. Under that pressure, Barack Sr. left the marriage when his son was just 2 years old and went to Harvard to pursue a PhD. Later, after he had retur-

ned to Kenya to work as an economist, Ann married an Indonesian man, and when Barack was 6, the family moved to a town outside Jakarta, where Maya, Barack’s sister, was born. After four years, the family returned to Hawaii and Barack began corresponding with his father and trying to understand his African heritage. His father’s death in a traffic accident in Nairobi in 1982 prompted Barack to travel to Kenya and meet the rest of his family for the first time.

Health insurance is for now everyone. If you don’t have health insurance, March 31st is your last chance to enroll in coverage that starts in 2014. If you currently have health insurance, you are already getting benefits thanks to the Obamacare: See the list below.

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Free preventive care, including check-ups and vaccinations

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Money back if your insurance company doesn’t spend at least 80% of your premium on care.

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I THINK WHEN YOU SPREAD WEALTH AROUND. ITS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY. Barack Obama

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E MINEM Marshall Mathers

A shy white boy from East Detroit, Marshall Mathers was raised by a single mother in who was often too high to mother. He regularly changed schools, repeated the ninth grade three times and was constantly bullied.

Born on october in st. Joseph, Missouri, rap musician Eminem had a turbulent childhood. He released The Slim Shady LP in early 1999, and the album went multi-platinum, garnering Eminem two Grammy Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards. Bad-boy rapper Marshall Mathers III has sparked controversy with

his extreme lyrics and courtroom battles with his former wife and mother (for lines such as �my mother smokes more dope than I do�), but he is an astute businessman with his own range of clothes.

He also used his influence to persuade 75,000 young people to register to vote.

Eminem has become a name to remeber.

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MY THING IS THIS: IF I’M SICK ENOUGH TO THINK IT - THEN I’M SICK ENAOUGH TO SAY IT. Marshall Mathers

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This election year, the most important of our lives, things have changed. There is a lot at stake. Both Bush and Kerry supporters are concerned.

NOTHING SHADY WITH THE SONG MOSH

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Concerned about the war, terrorism, the economy, religion and civil rights.

People, not just those accustomed to watching the political process, are mobilized. Voter registration is booming.

The candidates are so different that a cultural groundswell was inevitable. The complacent now feel pressed into action.

Unlikely spokespeople are emerging as a major force to the voting booth; “King of All Media” Howard Stern, hip-hop artist and fashion designer Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, and now Eminem. Eminem’s videos are always brilliant and often hilarious. “Encore’s” first release, “Just Lose It,” features him as Michael Jackson, M.C. Hammer, Madonna and Pee Wee Herman. The “Mosh” video, a stunning

BLACK HOODIE - REBEL WITH A REBEL YELL.

combination of animation/live action, is both a visual and thematic departure from previous work. An animated Eminem is portrayed posting Iraqi-war news stories on a wall. Pounding the headlines in anger, he dons a black hoodie and leads the disenfranchised to “Rebel with a rebel yell.” As the action progresses, a black man (hip-hop artist Lloyd Banks) is harassed by police, a soldier is called back to duty, and a mother receives an eviction notice while Bush announces “tax cuts for the wealthy” on her TV. Each character dons a black hoodie like Eminem and joins the march. Storming a Federal building, they stop those who

would prevent them from entering with a fire hose. Once inside, they drop their hoods and form an orderly line behind Slim Shady now wearing a suit, signs in to vote. In the real world, Eminem, 32, did not register to vote until this year.

When he desided to vote, he went big and got people inspired with the ”Mosh”.

In “Mosh,” the divide is socio-economic. The rich are seen passing unfettered into the Federal building while the poor are held back. Eminem addresses his audience from the stage and leads their march in the street. Eminem’s course of action is clear: “To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction we call our President, for present.” See the list below, for Marshall’s top four political rap songs.

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Mosh: Encore

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Square dance: The Eminem Show.

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Rap game: D12 + Eminem, 8 mile

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White America: The Eminem Show.

TO DISARM THIS WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION WE CALL OUR PRESIDENT, FOR PRESENT.

On the Internet, where “Mosh” appeared only a week before the election, chat room participants discuss “da black hoodie movement.” “Mosh” stands out as one of Eminem’s most thought-provoking songs, a wake up call to the people.

This was a wake up call that made as many as 75,000 young people register to vote. Eminem is clearly very influental.

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I HAVE GROWN TO BE THE PERSON THAT I AM TODAY Emmy-winning talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres was born in a suburb of New Orleans. Her father, Elliot De Generes and her mother, were sadly divorced when she was 16 years old.

Her mother remarried, and her new husband, moved the family to Atlanta.

It was a new fresh beginning for Ellen.

After graduating from Atlanta High School in 1976, Ellen attended the University of New Orleans as a communication major, but she dropped out after one semester. She held a wide variety of jobs until she turned to stand-up comedy, making her bones at small clubs and coffeehouses before working her way up to emcee Clyde’s Comedy Club by 1981. Her comedy was described as a distaff version of Bob Newhart. Beginning in the early 1980s, she toured nationally and was named the funniest person in America after winning a competition sponsored by the cable network Showtime. Not only is ellen degeneres the host of one the most popular talk shows, she is also a huge advocate for lending 19

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Stand up to cancer

a helping hand. She is a huge supporter to numerous charities and foundations including; The Gentle Barn, Clothes Off Our Backs, The Humane Society, Stand Up to Cancer, ONE Foundation, Save the Music, Feeding America, Children’s Health Fund, and countless others. Ellen uses her show to help raise money for certain organizations, like the celebrity dunk tank, which helps benefit research for breast cancer. Ellen’s Big Stimulus Package and Cash Clunker are popular ones. Ellen is also an enormous activist

for gay rights. She was one of the first women in show biz to come out as being openly gay and even after all the grief she did received, DeGeneres kept pushing forward. She and her partner, Portia de Rossi, were wed in May of 2008, causing quite a buzz. Ellen’s life and all of her hard work towards eliminating prejudice, has been an huge inspiration to millions of people all around the world.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres / Text: myhero.com/gohero Ellen from her own show ” The Ellen Show”, where here motto is to ”be a tv-show filled with laughter and joy”.

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I’MA LET YOU FINISH, BUT BEYONCÉ HAD ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME! Believe in yourself and anything is possible, many of our mothers told us when we were little. Some of todays most famous Titans sure did, and they are not afraid to show it. ”I’m the number one artist in the world right now. I’m the number one human being” Kanye West made that declaration in 2007, and seven years later he probably thinks he was selling himself short. Next to West’s ocean-wide narcissism, every other pop celebrity is just a two-bit egocentric. narcissism carries with it an unwavering certainty about one’s own talent, it also carries potentially huge artistic benefits. Those who think they can do no wrong or don’t care what others think of them are more prone to take risks, to push beyond what’s considered acceptable, to break rules in the name of furthering not only their own greatness, but their own conception of what art is and what it can do. After a decade of excellent albums, he shows no signs of slowing it down. His sixth album, is also in many ways his most challenging: a harsh, abrasive and sometimes off-putting statement that puts West at the centre of an ongoing debate over race, class and sex. Delusional or not, Kanye West still feels he has to prove to the world, that he hasn’t gotten the props he deserves. Until Kanye is persuaded otherwise, he likely will remain an exasperating, petulant narcissist who keeps making albums, like no one else.

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SPOTLIGHT // KANYE WEST / VLADIMIR PUTIN

A FAIR AND SQUARE GAME ?

Amid all the smoke that is currently surround Russian politics, one thing is certain: Putin, got elected with 64 per cent of the popular vote on March 4, will remain in power for at least six years. But how did he go from being a man on the ropes to retaining office with such a commanding majority?

Lets take a look at the Vladimir Putin.

The answer lies in Putin’s blend of natyral charisma, nationalism and pragmatism (helpfully underwritten by corruption and the brute force) as well as in the elitism of the opposition and the resigned masochism of his country’s voters.

Accused of having rigged last December’s parliamentary elections to preserve the political monopoly of his deeply unpopular United Russia party, Putin made sure that the subsequent presidential race hewed closer to the letter of the constitution, while appearing to remain as unfaithful as ever to its spirit. In last year’s elections, both domestic pro-democracy groups and foreign observers tallied numerous voting irregularities. Golos, an

independent monitoring organisation, even released an interactive online map on which thousands of abuses - from ballot-stuffing to vote-rigging - were logged in real time, until the site was hit by a mysterious and terminal cyberattack.

For the March 4 vote, not only were the ballot boxes made of tamper-proof, clear plastic, but 180,000 CCTV cameras were also installed in polling stations across the country. On election day, the cameras may not have managed to prevent such dubious electoral miracles as a 99.82 per cent vote for Putin in Chechnya (apparently, enthusiasm for the president in the restive, Muslim-majority republic governed by the Kremlin-backed strongman Ramzan Kadyrov was such that one

polling station even recorded a 107 per cent turnout). Nor did the gadgets stop so-called ”carousel voting”, in which busloads of voters were encouraged to cast ballots at multiple polling stations.

Let us take a look at the situation. While fraud might have helped Russia’s president avert an embarrassing run-off, it cannot explain everything about why he won. After all, despite mounting opposition to Putin’s rule, poll after poll continues to show him enjoying the confidence of the majority, while prominent opposition figures languish in obscurity. ”Putin may have won dishonestly,” writes the democracy activist Milov, ”but the opposition did loose fair and square.”

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A FREE SOUTH AFRICA FOR ALL ETHNIC GROUPS Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa in 1994 until 1999. As a symbol of global peacemaking, evolutionary, politician and philanthropishe won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Nelson Mandela took the impossible and made it flesh. He took down an entrenched system of white supremacy and, against all odds, shepherded a scarred country into democracy. Mandela recruited the international community, once a staunch ally of apartheid South Africa, to be an auxiliary, in this remarcable fight.

Mandela’s ability to build a global movement against racial oppression and to win, should remind us that the brutal realities of the world we live in are not set in stone. Though today’s crises, civil wars in Syria and Central African Republic, grinding global poverty and disease may seem like things over which the world has no power, Mandela’s life says 23

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otherwise. The moral rules of the world politics, the ones that say suffering abroad are “not my problem,” can be changed by people of great moral vision and activists convinced of the rightness of their cause. It’s easy to forget that apartheid was once a contentious issue in global politics. The anti-apartheid movement’s first big victory, a 1962 U.N. General Assembly resolution establishing a Special Committee Against Apartheid, was not followed by any action in the vastly more powerful Security Council. The State Department is admirably frank about the reasoning: “Defenders of the Apartheid regime” in the West “had promoted it as a bulwark against communism.” The United States, Britain, and

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Prohibition of mixed marriage.

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Seperated areas for different races.

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Prohibited adultery of mixed race.

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Non-white had to carry identification.

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Non-white could not go on strike.

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Non-white could not attend white Universities.

other capitalist states saw South Africa as a useful ally, apartheid be damned. By 1986, the international scene had changed entirely. Every one of South Africa’s most significant trading partners had placed onerous sanctions on the South African government, and the pressure was immense. The global anti-apartheid

movement, which took “Free Mandela!” as one of its most famous slogans, is of responsible for this sea change. This loose network of Third World governments, activists, artists, and ordinary citizens, organized boycotts, pushed sanctions, and lobbied legislators, to turn the Afrikaner government into a global ”pirah”.

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