• Covert US Operation To Infiltrate Cuban Hip-Hop Fails, Agents Interrogated Or Detained At Least 6 Ti
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[QUOTE]The US secretly infiltrated Cuba's underground hip-hop scene to recruit rappers in an attempt to spark a youth movement against the government, it is claimed.Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the plan was to build and promote a network of young rappers seeking "social change". But the amateurish operation by development agency USAID was a failure, with people involved in the programme detained or interrogated by Cuban authorities on at least six occasions. Authorities also confiscated computer hardware which contained information on Cubans who did not know they were caught up in the clandestine operation. Eventually, artists promoted by USAID’s contractors [B]left the country[/B] or stopped performing after [I]pressure[/I] from the Cuban government. [/QUOTE] Losing the "Hardware", presumably its HDD, was kinda the last nail in the coffin for them [editline]11th December 2014[/editline] [url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/covert-us-operation-infiltrate-cuban-hip-hop-090951317.html#tSHVVBE]Source[/url]
I was jsut reading this article, freakin crazy. It's like cuba is the training mission for US agents tasked with subverting international politics.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;46691799]You ever get the feeling something similar is going on even over here? When you hear the same 20 songs cycling on the radio by the same small group of artists for weeks on end?[/QUOTE] It's probably just the music industry trying to promote music in the most effective way possible. Even if your music isn't [I]good[/I], playing it enough can make people begin to enjoy it (or tolerate it at the very least). [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect"]Mere-Exposure Effect[/URL]
if only rufus was here
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;46691840]It's probably just the music industry trying to promote music in the most effective way possible. Even if your music isn't [I]good[/I], playing it enough can make people begin to enjoy it (or tolerate it at the very least). [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect"]Mere-Exposure Effect[/URL][/QUOTE] I don't know, listening to Sexy Back literally every morning on the bus ride to school did a good job of making me despise Justin Timberlake and that piece of shit song.
Is there even a point in trying to take down Cuba anymore? It's like they're just trying to make up for their past embarrassments because they're too proud to admit defeat like when someone loses an argument online and they resort to bragging about all the sex they don't have or calling them out on minor grammar mistakes
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;46691874]I mean it isn't even related really but the thought of them recruiting rappers as part of a subliminal messaging campaign... When everything you hear on the radio has to do with borderline rape/ ex boyfriends/ sitting on your front porch with a cold beer/ annoying sounds with random gibberish in the background--like what the hell? I don't know what I'm getting at. We all know some of the best music out there is the stuff you never hear on the radio. I've never heard of Sky News either.[/QUOTE] Sky News is a British thing we have Sky television boxes and the glorious Sky Sports channel. Afaik they're good
Guess the US agent training didn't cover how to win a rap battle
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;46691840]It's probably just the music industry trying to promote music in the most effective way possible. Even if your music isn't [I]good[/I], playing it enough can make people begin to enjoy it (or tolerate it at the very least). [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect"]Mere-Exposure Effect[/URL][/QUOTE] Not true, the Mere-Exposure Effect only applies if your first affective reaction to a stimulus is positiv. If that's not the case, you build more and more negative emotions when confronted with the stimulus. So if you think a song is really shitty the first time, it's only going to get worse.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;46692309][B]Is there even a point in trying to take down Cuba anymore?[/B] It's like they're just trying to make up for their past embarrassments because they're too proud to admit defeat like when someone loses an argument online and they resort to bragging about all the sex they don't have or calling them out on minor grammar mistakes[/QUOTE] because they're evil communists!1 seriously the US will never let this go.
[QUOTE=Srillo;46691870]I don't know, listening to Sexy Back literally every morning on the bus ride to school did a good job of making me despise Justin Timberlake and that piece of shit song.[/QUOTE] Someone tried to bring booty back and that song was shit too. Maybe there's a pattern here?
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;46691799]When you hear the same 20 songs cycling on the radio by the same small group of artists for weeks on end.[/QUOTE] I don't listen to the radio because it [I]is[/I] the same 20 songs. Like what if I don't want to listen to Fall Out Boy/Taylor Swift/OneRepublic/Foster The People/Generic Pop Rapper/Whichever singer will be popular for the next month before fading into nonexistence? [editline]11th December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Biotoxsin;46691840]It's probably just the music industry trying to promote music in the most effective way possible. Even if your music isn't [I]good[/I], playing it enough can make people begin to enjoy it (or tolerate it at the very least). [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect"]Mere-Exposure Effect[/URL][/QUOTE] That's bullshit. No matter how many times I attempt to listen to 2chainz I go "this is so shit" and go right back to whatever else I was listening to. The only way that works is if you somewhat enjoyed it the first time. Listening to "Problem" by Ariana Grande turned me off any of her music for awhile until I heard the rest of the album, whereas "Where Them Girls At" by David Guetta made Nikki Minaj tolerable for me, because every time I want to listen to that song I still have to listen to her verse. [editline]11th December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Cornish;46692398]Guess the US agent training didn't cover how to win a rap battle[/QUOTE] Everybody from da 53 put your mothafuckin' hands up and follow me
Can't we just get over Cuba already?
[QUOTE=Luni;46693766]Can't we just get over Cuba already?[/QUOTE] Most Americans don't give a crap about Cuba. The Cuban minority in Florida, however, hates the Cuban government. And unfortunately Florida is a swing state.
For a second, I thought my time machine worked and the year was 1960. Is the CIA having a mid-life crisis or something? Trying to take down the Cuban government is something no one can do. It's like trying to go back in time to kill Hitler, it never works.
wow... that's like something from a family channel cartoon
This just reminded me of Spy vs Spy somehow. [editline]fasdfasdf[/editline] I guess because the artist who made it was from Cuba.
USA sending agents to yet another country to spark a colour revolution? Wooow, who would have thought!
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