name	DJ Green Lantern
background	non_performing_personnel
birth name	James D'Agostino
alias	The Evil Genius, James 1 The Green Lantern
origin	Rochester, New York, U.S.
instrument	Sampler, Keyboards, Turntable
genre	Hip Hop, R&B;
occupation	DJ/Producer/On-Air Personality/Rapper/Singer
associated acts	Immortal Technique, Styles P, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Uncle Murda, DJ Head, Nas, Crime Mob, Lil' Mo, Cashis, 50 Cent, Fort Minor, Mike Shinoda, Styles Of Beyond, Ryu, Tak, Celph Titled, Apathy, Holly Brook, Juelz Santana, Ghostface Killah
website	djgreenlantern.tv
notable instruments	The 1's and 2's }}

DJ Green Lantern (born James C. D'Agostino in 1975) is an American-Italian-Puerto Rican DJ and hip hop music producer from Rochester, New York. In 2002, D'Agostino was signed by Eminem to become the official DJ for Shady Records after DJ Head stepped down for undisclosed reasons. D'Agostino left the label in 2005 due to a dispute with Shady Records rapper 50 Cent.

Biography

Rise to fame

DJ Green Lantern came to prominence with his "Invasion" mixtape series, the first set of officially sponsored mixtapes from Eminem's Shady Records. On the series, spanning three mixtapes (later to be spun off into the ''Armageddon'' series), the DJ broke several diss records, furthering the issues between Eminem and Benzino/''The Source'' as well as the entire Shady camp and Ja Rule/Murder Inc.

He is also recognized as a producer, featuring on his own mixtapes several "Green Remixes," including, most notably, a remix of the Nas and Tupac Shakur collaboration, "Thugz Mansion." He also produced D-Block's "2 Guns Up", an acclaimed street single, which originated as a freestyle rap on his Hot 97 radio show, "In the Lab" (the most memorable of which has also appeared as a mixtape, "The Best of In the Lab"). "In the Lab" is formatted as a one-hour (with commercials) mix show, in which DJ Green Lantern blends a cappella and instrumental tracks from various artists, as well as breaking new and underground music (such as the Ghostface Killah and El-Producto collaboration "HideYaFace").

"Bin Laden"

D'Agostino also produced Ludacris' "Number One Spot," the second single off of his album ''The Red Light District'', and Immortal Technique's "Bin Laden" single, which blames the Reagan Doctrine (under which the U.S. aided the mujahideen in Afghanistan) and U.S. President George W. Bush for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

With the Shady Records family

As a member of the Shady Records family, D'Agostino also hosted a show on Eminem's Sirius Satellite Radio channel, Shade 45, along with an accompanying mixtape released in the fall of 2004. As Eminem's DJ, D'Agostino was responsible for touring with him and spinning at shows such as the Shady National Convention and The Game's album release party. D'Agostino's much anticipated album ''Armageddon'' was set to be released under Shady Records, but controversy and an eventual parting would put the release in limbo.

Hip-Hop Nation

In summer 2007, D'Agostino returned to Sirius Satellite Radio on the ''Hip-Hop Nation'' channel. He hosts a show called ''The Invasion''.

Bar Exam 2

D'Agostino recently put together and mixed the highly anticipated ''Bar Exam 2'' mixtape by acclaimed underground MC Royce Da 5'9". Green took over for DJ Premier and Statik Selektah who hosted and mixed Royce's first Bar Exam Mixtape. The Bar Exam 2 was pushed back several times because of Green Lantern's inability to mix the tape due to his touring. After several stated released dates, Bar Exam 2 was finally released on September 15 as a free download on HipHipDX.com. Due to the high anticipation of the mixtape, Royce gave the mixtape the slogan "Happy Bar Exam 2, It's a Holiday" prior to its release.

Pulse of the People

D'Agostino collaborated with Dead Prez on their latest album, ''Pulse of the People: Turn Off The Radio, Vol. 3'', released in June 2009

Discography

2005 ''Conspiracy Theory: Invasion Part II''

2005 ''New World Order''

2006 ''New York State of Mind''

2006 ''Throwback Classics, Vol. 1''

2006 ''You'll See''

2006 ''Team Invasion: Best of DJ Green Lantern and Dipset''

2007 ''Alive On Arrival''

2007 ''Hood Rules Apply''

2007 ''R.O.C. Stars Street Leak: American Gangster''

2007 ''Shady Times: Invasion Part I''

2007 ''Truth Shall Set You Free''

2007 ''Countdown to Armageddon (Invasion 3)''

2007 ''The MySpace Invasion''

2007 ''I Produced That''

2008 ''Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City Invasion [Soundtrack]''

Other Releases

''Most recent to earliest (possibly some earlier mixtapes; these are rare and lesser known)''

''DJ Green Lantern, Russell Simmons & Barack Obama: Yes We Can (The Mixtape)

''Grafh and DJ Green Lantern: The Oracle 2

''Royce Da 5'9" and DJ Green Lantern: Bar Exam 2

''07-07-08'' (with Cassidy and Team Invasion)

''Dj Green Lantern and Immortal Technique: The 3rd World''

''Charles Hamilton & DJ Green Lantern: Outside Looking''

''Nas & DJ Green Lantern: The Nigger Mixtape''

''Monster Mash Part 2''

'' Grow Season'' (with Wiz Khalifa)

''07-07-07'' (with Cassidy and DJ Thoro)

''The MySpace Invasion Vol. 3''

''Cocaine on Steroids'' (with N.O.R.E.)

''The MySpace Invasion Vol. 2''

''Respect The Shooter'' (with Uncle Murda)

''Monster Mash''

''The Sirius Invasion''

''MySpace Takeover'' (with Team Invasion)

''Pre-Release Therapy'' (with Ludacris)

''Say Uncle'' (with Uncle Murda)

''AND 1 Streetball - The Official Video Game Mixtape''

''In The Kitchen'' (with DJ Khaled and Team Invasion)

''On My New York Shit'' (with DJ Kay Slay)

''This Ain't No Greezy Talk'' (with Team Invasion)

''The Internet Invasion'' (with Ghostface Killah)

''DJ Green Lantern presents Fort Minor: We Major'' (with Mike Shinoda) 2005

''Razor Tag'' (with Styles of Beyond)

''Ain't No Greezy Talk: Team Invasion Edition'' (with DVD / with Team Invasion)

''The Green Lantern Instrumentals'' (Hosted by Team Invasion)

''Team Invasion Presents: Keyshia Cole''

''The Best of Green Lantern and D-Block'' (Hosted by Team Invasion)

''The Best of Green Lantern and Shady Records'' (Hosted by Team Invasion)

''5 Star General''

''Shade 45: Sirius Bizness'' (Hosted by Eminem)

''Public Enemy Number One'' (with Beanie Sigel)

''The Oracle'' (with Grafh)

''The Champ Is Here'' (with Jadakiss/ Hosted by Big Mike)

''Countdown To Armageddon 2: Back To The Lab'' (hosted by Dame Dash)

''The Best Of In Da Lab Vol. 1''

''Rap Phenomenon II: 2Pac'' (with Dirty Harry and DJ Vlad)

''Invasion Part 1''

''Get in Where U Fit in'' (with the Young Gunz)

''New World Order Pt.2''

''The Chosen One''

''Takin' it to The Streets''

''Inherited Beef Vol.1 (With Ronald)http://www.datpiff.com/Ronald-Inherited-Beef-Vol1-mixtape.225867.html

''Just Us and The Gunz''

''In Too Deep''

''Rookie of the Year''

''Coming of Age''

''Millennium All-Stars'' (with DJs Tony Touch, Mister Cee, Ron G, Funkmaster Flex, Doo Wop, DJ Enuff, Spinbad, and DJ Dale)

''The Green Ghost Project'' (with Styles P)

''Man vs Many'' (with ''Nefew'')

References

External links

Official Website

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Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of ''The Solari Report'', managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC., and a supporter of the 9/11 Truth movement.

Background

Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration, and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software developer.

Fitts has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Wharton School and studied Mandarin at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She publishes a column, "Mapping the Real Deal," in ''Scoop'' in New Zealand.

Fitts signed a statement released by the organization 9/11 Truth in 2004 that calls for a new investigation into the September 11 attacks. She confirmed her support for the statement in 2009.

References

External links

Fitts' Bio from Solari

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Name	Lon Nol
Order	President of the Khmer Republic
Term start	March 10, 1972
Term end	April 1, 1975
Predecessor	Cheng Heng
Successor	Saukam Khoy
Birth date	November 13, 1913
Birth place	Prey Veng, Cambodia
Death date
Death place	Fullerton, California, United States
Order2	Prime Minister of Cambodia
Term start2	October 25, 1966 – May 1, 1967August 14, 1969
Term end2	March 11, 1972
Predecessor2	Norodom KantolSamdech Penn Nouth
Successor2	Son SannSisowath Sirik Matak }}

Lon Nol (; November 13, 1913 – November 17, 1985) was a Cambodian politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia twice, as well as serving repeatedly as Defense Minister. He led a military coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk and became self-proclaimed President of the newly created Khmer Republic.

Biography

Early life

Nol was born in Prey Veng Province on November 13, 1913, to a family of mixed Chinese–Khmer descent. His father, Lon Hin, served as a district chief in Siem Reap and Kampong Thom, after making a name for himself 'pacifying' bandit groups in Prey Veng. Nol was educated in the relatively privileged surroundings of the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat in Saigon, followed by the Cambodian Royal Military Academy.

Employment in the colonial government

Nol found employment with the French colonial civil service in 1937. He became a magistrate, and soon proved himself as an efficient enforcer of French rule against a series of anti-colonial disturbances in 1939. By 1946, he had risen to the post of Governor of Kratie Province. He became an associate of King Norodom Sihanouk, and by the late 1940s, when he set up a right-wing, monarchist, pro-independence political group, was becoming increasingly involved in the developing Cambodian political scene. Joining the army in 1952, he carried out military operations against the Viet Minh.

After independence, Nol's nationalist Khmer Renovation party (along with small right-wing parties headed by Sam Sary and Dap Chhuon) became the core of the Sangkum, the organisation set up by Sihanouk to fight the 1955 elections.

In the administration of Sihanouk, 1955–70

Nol was appointed the Army Chief of Staff in 1955, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces in 1960, as well as serving as Defence Minister. At the time, he was a trusted supporter of Sihanouk, his police being instrumental in the suppression of the small, clandestine communist movement in Cambodia. He was appointed deputy Premier in 1963. While Sihanouk – in an attempt to distance his country from the effects of the Second Indochina War – was pursuing a foreign policy of "extreme neutrality", which involved association with China and toleration of North Vietnamese activity on the eastern borders, Nol remained friendly towards the United States, and indicated that he regretted the ending of US aid after 1963.

The 1966 parliamentary elections represented a major shift in the balance of power towards Lon Nol and the rightist elements of the Sangkum, as conservative and right-wing candidates were overwhelmingly elected. Lon Nol became Prime Minister, and the following year his troops were used by Sihanouk to carry out a savage repression of a leftist-inspired revolt, the Samlaut Uprising, in Battambang Province.

Nol was injured in a car crash later in 1967, and temporarily retired from politics. In 1968, however, he returned as Minister of Defence and in 1969 became Prime Minister a second time, appointing the vocally anti-Sihanouk, and pro-US politician Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak as his deputy.

The 1970 Coup

Sihanouk later claimed that the 1970 coup against him was the result of an alliance between his longstanding enemy, exiled politician Son Ngoc Thanh and Sirik Matak, with CIA support and planning. It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops (and those of the Viet Cong) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this. However, events rapidly developed far beyond the original plan, and with the encouragement of Sirik Matak – who wished to see Sihanouk deposed as Head of State – Lon Nol was ultimately to engineer Sihanouk's removal.

While Sihanouk was abroad during March 1970, there were anti-Vietnamese riots in Phnom Penh. On 12 March, Lon Nol and Sirik Matak closed the port of Sihanoukville, through which weapons were being smuggled to the Viet Cong, to the North Vietnamese and issued an ultimatum: all PAVN (North Vietnamese) and NLF (Viet Cong) forces were to withdraw from Cambodian soil within 72 hours or face military action.

Lon Nol initially refused to countenance Sihanouk being deposed as Head of State; to force his hand, Sirik Matak played him a tape-recorded press conference from Paris, in which Sihanouk blamed them for the unrest and threatened to execute them both on his return to Phnom Penh. However, the Prime Minister remained uncertain as to whether to instigate a vote in the National Assembly. On the night of 17 March, Sirik Matak, accompanied by three army officers, went to the Prime Ministers's residence and compelled a weeping Lon Nol to sign the necessary documents at gunpoint.

A vote was taken in the National Assembly on 18 March in which Sihanouk was stripped of his power. Lon Nol assumed the powers of the Head of State on an emergency basis. On 28 and 29 March there were large-scale popular demonstrations in favour of Sihanouk in several provincial cities, but Lon Nol's forces suppressed them, causing several hundred deaths. The Khmer Republic was formally declared that October, and Sihanouk – who had formed a government-in-exile, the GRUNK, incorporating the Khmer Rouge communists – was condemned to death ''in absentia''. In the meantime, the Cambodian Campaign of April 1970, in which US and South Vietnamese forces entered Cambodian territory in pursuit of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, had irrevocably involved Lon Nol's regime in the Second Indochina War.

Lon Nol became the first and only President of Cambodia in 1970. ''Lok Sena Bra Mok Lon Nol'' (President Lon Nol)

The Khmer Republic and the Civil War

The Khmer Republic (1970–1975) was founded in order to do away with Cambodia's widespread corruption and to restore Cambodia's sovereignty in its eastern regions, occupied by Vietnamese communist insurgents as a result of Sihanouk's "neutrality" policies. Despite its high aims, the republic proved disastrous both militarily and politically. Lon Nol's health started to decline after he suffered a stroke in February 1971. His rule became increasingly erratic and authoritarian: he appointed himself Marshal (a title previously unknown in Cambodia) in April 1971, and in October suspended the National Assembly, stating he would "no longer play the game of democracy". Backed by his forceful, ambitious younger brother Lon Non, Nol succeeded in reducing the influence of Sirik Matak, In Tam and the other coup leaders. He also insisted on directing many of the Khmer National Armed Forces () operations personally.

In time Lon Nol's regime became completely dependent upon large quantities of American aid that towards the end were not backed by the political and military resolve needed to effectively help the beleaguered republic. By 1975, the government was eventually reduced to holding little more than Phnom Penh. The FANK had run out of ammunition. Lon Nol was increasingly dependent on the advice of soothsayers and Buddhist mystics: at one point during a Khmer Rouge assault on Phnom Penh, he sprinkled a circular line of consecrated sand in order to defend the city. Finally, on April 1, 1975, he resigned and fled the country into exile, as the Khmer Rouge had vowed to execute him.

Exile

The first priority of the Khmer Rouge after conquering Cambodia and overthrowing the Khmer Republic was to execute all its leaders and high officials without delay, a fate that Lon Nol escaped.

Lon Nol fled from Cambodia to Indonesia and then to the United States; first settling in Hawaii and in 1979 in Fullerton, California. He died on November 17, 1985.

Political views

Despite his actions in deposing Sihanouk, Nol was a firm believer in traditional Cambodian hierarchy: after Sihanouk had been removed he prostrated himself at the Queen Mother's feet in order to ask forgiveness. He termed his ideology, a blend of chauvinist nationalism and mysticsm, as 'Neo-Khmerism': he expressed an ambition of reuniting the ethnic Khmers of Cambodia with the Khmer Krom of the Mekong Delta and the Khmer Surin of Thailand, projecting a state of "thirty million" Khmers by the year 2020. Asking his followers to embrace the traditions of what he referred to as Mon-Khmer 'holy warriors' (''yuthesel''), he also encouraged them to refer to him as their "Black Papa", a name referring to the dark skin considered to be the sign of an 'authentic' Khmer.

See also

Lon Nil

Lon Non

References

Bibliography

External links

General Lon Nol

The removal of Sihanouk

Pol Pot

Sebastian Strangio, "Revisiting Lon Nol’s Cambodia: A look back at Lon Nol’s ill-fated gamble on democracy in Cambodia," ''The Phnom Penh Post,'' March 18 2010.

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