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Rapping for al Qaeda in Syria

Rapping for al Qaeda in Syria


Rapping for al Qaeda in Syria

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:08 PM PST

In August, al Qaeda's propaganda arm released a video starring the German rapper Deso Dogg.

Don't laugh at Toronto's mayor

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:24 PM PST

If you're not Canadian, chances are you have never been as acutely aware of the political happenings of that country as you are now. Rob Ford, the embattled and out-of-control mayor of Toronto, has made sure of that, with his erratic behavior blazing across our screens more boldly and brightly than the reddest maple leaf that nation has ever produced. Ford's booze-soaked stunts and possibly drug-driven debacles -- now feeding the tabloids and late night talk shows more meat than they could digest in a year -- are probably nothing you haven't read about, talked about, thought about, or, unfortunately, laughed about. But what you might not have thought about is this: You know this man. You know and respect this man. He works with you. He works for you. He lives next door to you. He's related to you. He might even be you. He is, in fact, everywhere. And there's nothing funny about it. Oftentimes functioning at levels you would never expect from someone with an addiction, the Rob Ford in your life is trying your case, prescribing your medication, running your company, investing your money, flying your plane and governing your city. And guess what? He or she is doing it from the grips of a progressive disease, making it look easy until, well, one day it suddenly looks horrible. I know -- I've been there. Was my own powerful reckoning with alcohol as excruciatingly documented and publicly consequential? Mercifully, no. Not even close. Could it have been, under different circumstances? Yes, perhaps. When you laugh at the mayor of Toronto, you are laughing at the struggles of countless people like him that you'll never know about. People who you otherwise admire and sometimes even vote for. You see, the biggest difference between Mayor Ford and millions of other alcoholics and addicts who have built a successful career isn't that his behaviors are so much more shocking, it's that his are alone in the center of a spotlight, on full display like the unsightly scar most of us are able to keep private. And he's the mayor of one of the largest cities in North America. But if you dim that light and pause those digital recorders, you'll see the mayor is not alone. He's surrounded. Surrounded by a vast sea of others shrouded in the same, strong, delusional fog of denial. A fog that's born from the marriage of disease and diploma, sickness and success. And, you're surrounded by them, too. Hiding in plain sight, addicted yet outwardly successful professionals are a carefully disguised contradiction. We don't have a problem with our drinking. Other people have a problem with their drinking. You know, the type of people who couldn't do half of what we've done. The people who couldn't even get our job, let alone do it. Those people. Even when startling evidence to the contrary begins piling up, as it so clearly has with Mayor Ford, we stick to our story and cling to our capabilities. To paraphrase the mayor, if we were alcoholics, we couldn't show up to work every day. Could we? Yes. And we do. Until the bitter end and long after the other relationships in our lives have tanked, we suit up and show up. We're professionals. And as long as we've got that, we're not alcoholics. We're not addicts. Or so our inner monologue goes. But, if you pierce through that devastatingly convincing argument we sell ourselves, and you, each of us is a walking bundle of profound denial, tightly bound up by an impressive tailored suit, spotless lab coat or an elegant black robe.

Joseph Franklin murdered 22

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:48 AM PST

Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin speaks to CNN's Kyung Lah in one of the last interviews he will ever give. Learn why Hustler founder Larry Flynt wants to save him.

1981: How they caught him

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:36 AM PST

A look back at news footage from 1981 that explains how authorities caught serial killer Joseph Franklin.

Inside the brain of a killer

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:25 AM PST

Doctor Jim Fallon has spent decades studying brain scans and says he's found a pattern in killer's brain.

Photos: Infamous serial killers

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:47 AM PST

How to win on 'The Price is Right'

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:29 AM PST

Remember being a kid, stuck home from school because you were sick, and "The Price is Right" would come on? I was that kid, and Ben Blatt was that kid, too. The difference between us is that when I was choosing college classes by their attendance policy, Blatt graduated from Harvard with a degree in applied math -- and then used what he learned to figure out how to win at "The Price is Right."

Hillary Clinton and the sisterhood

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:54 AM PST

A gathering of Washington's most important military leaders doesn't seem like the obvious place to champion the cause of increasing women's power around the world. Nor does Hillary Clinton seem like the obvious choice for an award from the National Defense University.

Toronto mayor: I won't resign

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:51 AM PST

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford tells CNN's Bill Weir he would have admitted to smoking crack earlier, but no one asked him the right question. And he says he's not going anywhere.

Rob Ford (according to Rob Ford)

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:36 AM PST

Who is the real Rob Ford? The embattled Toronto mayor tells it like he thinks it is.

'Duck Dynasty' gets boy in trouble

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 04:05 AM PST

A Florida school forces a student to change out of his 'Duck Dynasty' shirt because of a term they deem offensive.

George Zimmerman arrested

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:03 AM PST

George Zimmerman was arrested Monday afternoon in central Florida "after deputies responded to a disturbance call," the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Dad: Son's body on Google Maps

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:25 PM PST

A California father is asking Google to remove a Google Maps image he says shows the body of his teen-age son, who was shot to death in 2009.

Man dies trying to set free diving record

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:24 AM PST

A New York man trying to set a free diving record died Sunday after he surfaced from a depth of more than 200 feet.

Six people killed in tornado outbreak

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:40 AM PST

Residents began to pick up the pieces Monday after a wave of tornadoes tore through the Midwest. The storms killed six people and injured dozens.

See storm's fury

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:22 AM PST

New Day Midday looks at a deadly tornado outbreak, new comments from Mayor Rob Ford and a wild police shootout.

Mars craft launches

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 10:41 AM PST

You may have heard it before: Billions of years ago, Mars probably looked more like Earth does now, with clouds and oceans and a much thicker atmosphere. It may even have had some type of microbes. But now it's a barren, frozen desert.

Russian jetliner crash kills 50

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:04 AM PST

The president of the Russian republic of Tatarstan declared Monday a day of mourning as rescue crews continued to look for bodies in the wreckage of a Russian jetliner that crashed on landing a day earlier.

Tragic video shows plane nosedive

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST

Horrifying video shows the Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 nosediving into the tarmac and exploding into a fireball.

Education Sec. slammed for comment

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 12:49 PM PST

Proving once again that any controversy will be intensified -- if not illuminated -- by random references to race, class, and gender, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has ignited a storm of protest by noting opposition from "white suburban moms" to one of his prized educational initiatives.

Lion kills a lioness at Dallas Zoo

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:23 AM PST

A lion at the Dallas Zoo killed a lioness as visitors watched in horror. WFAA reports.

Europe's most active volcano erupts over Sicily.

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 04:45 AM PST

CNN's Michaela Pereira has a look at the top news stories that you need to know.

Lady Gaga's racy 'SNL' peformance

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST

Lady Gaga shocked viewers with a racy "Saturday Night Live" performance with R. Kelly. HLN's Christie Paul has more.

Workout videos help on 200-pound loss

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:08 AM PST

Rebecca Privitera desperately wanted to lose the excess weight she had carried around her entire life. But her husband told her they couldn't afford surgery or a meal plan.

Seconds away from plunging off cliff ...

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 05:47 AM PST

A man's helmet-cam captured the dramatic moment he saved a woman from the edge of a Utah cliff after an ATV accident.

3 medical marvels saving lives

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 11:04 AM PST

Modern medicine is remarkable, but only if you have access to it. In many countries, including the United States, people are suffering because they can't get the health care they need. Three everyday people are trying to help change that, though.

Distraction: Wild flight with dolphins

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:04 AM PST

Playful dolphins swim around the Gulf of Mexico while the sky reflects perfectly on the water.

Etna erupts

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 03:10 AM PST

Europe's most active volcano erupts over Sicily.

Drone shows shocking typhoon devastation

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:34 AM PST

A drone-mounted camera provides a bird's eye view of miles of destruction in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. CNN's Karl Penhaul reports from Tacloban.

Ford says he didn't lie about crack use

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:45 AM PST

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he would have admitted to smoking crack cocaine earlier, but no one asked him the right question.

Drone shows shocking typhoon devastation

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:34 AM PST

A drone-mounted camera provides a bird's eye view of miles of destruction in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. CNN's Karl Penhaul reports from Tacloban.

Golf star loses 8 relatives

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:35 AM PST

The golf community is rallying around Jason Day after it emerged the Australian lost eight members of his family during the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Mother: I wish I were dead, too

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:04 AM PST

One Philippines mother apologizes on camera to her children for not being able to protect them from the typhoon.

The body collectors

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:16 AM PST

They're doing a job nobody wants to do in a place few want to be.

Typhoon a PR gold mine for U.S. military

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:01 AM PST

As an expression of hard power, they don't come bigger or more fearsome than the USS George Washington.

U.S. ships on move

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 09:59 AM PST

The USS George Washington is expected to leave the Philippines once two amphibious ships arrive there Wednesday, Navy officials say.

Mayor Ford

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:45 AM PST

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford would have admitted to smoking crack cocaine long before his eventual admission, he says. It's just that no one asked him the right question.

Midwest tornadoes

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 08:18 AM PST

Hundreds of thousands of people were without power and hundreds were without homes across the Midwest on Monday after powerful storms wreaked havoc in three states.

Jetliner crash

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:16 AM PST

The president of the Russian republic of Tatarstan declared Monday a day of mourning as rescue crews continued to look for bodies in the wreckage of a Russian jetliner that crashed on landing a day earlier.

Typhoon Haiyan

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 06:15 AM PST

The golf community is rallying around Jason Day after it emerged the Australian lost eight members of his family during the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Freediving death

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:24 AM PST

A New York man trying to set a free diving record died Sunday after he surfaced from a depth of more than 200 feet.

Mars

Posted: 18 Nov 2013 07:50 AM PST

You may have heard it before: Billions of years ago, Mars probably looked more like Earth does now, with clouds and oceans and a much thicker atmosphere. It may even have had some type of microbes. But now it's a barren, frozen desert.

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