The most beautiful one...

The Armada is eternal and forever changing, one must never become stagnate, yet one must never forget where one came from. Moving in circles yet growing closer to the heavens we are the dream of Brahma and the perfect creature that mankind was born from in the Snowy lands. Visions of us are what legends are made of. The wise monkey still laughs in the face of adversity. We are reminded in our darkest hour of a legend;
Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, "I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all."
In order to be free you must access your Monkee Mind; you must leave behind the corrupt hue-man hive mentality. Shed your false humanity and swing from the trees. Inside each of us lurks a beast be it Monkee or Panda, Squirrel or Penguin. You must shed your false mortal coil and recognize your Monkee heritage, remember that we are the descendents of Sun Wu Kong, we come from the same lineage as Hanuman, Thoth, we bring knowledge and light, and the hue-man race was born from our genes, we are the founding fathers of the earth itself. The trees are our kingdom and all the world is our domain, there is nothing we cannot do, nothing we cannot out shine. We are the Vanara who dwell in the midst of the forest of Kishkindha.


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Obama On Letterman

Rush Limbaugh tries to stir the racial hatred

As President Obama poll numbers begin to rebound, Rush Limbaugh tries to stir the racial hatred and possibly insight a riot. Many things Limbaugh has said about The President in recent months could be cause to charge him with treason and attempting to incite a racial war or worse the very assassination of the president. Of course he chooses his words so that none of that could ever hold up in a court of law, but that's just subterfuge. Limbaugh uses a fight on a school bus where two kids who happen to be black are beating up one kid that happens to be white. Police investigating the fight have ruled that the fight was not racially motivated. This has been made very clear and public by the police chief, but for his own personal gain Limbaugh has chose to ignore yet another fact and stoke the fires of racism

The racial tension in this country is reaching a critical boiling point and it is because of bigots like Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of Fox News. Even former President Jimmy Carter has commented on the fact that the majority of republican criticism leveled against President Obama wreaks of racial biased. The Birther "movement" and the Tea Baggers fanatical lunacy is the most obvious. Their rally's look like nothing more than unhooded Klan rally's . What will these jack-asses like Lou Dobbs have to say when their hate spills blood in the street. Some comments I have been seeing on various post around the web suggest that that day is drawing near. On the site where I first learned of the "school bus beating" a reader left this comment;

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what a great example of the future of black leadership 6:35 PM on 09/15/2009

wow, a bunch of wild black-Nazis gang up on a white boy that isn't even defending himself. the black community should be proud. this kid is getting beat down, every other white kid is clearly scared, the bus driver can't be found (i wonder what color the driver is), and the future of black America....their fine upstanding youth are laughing, taking pictures, and joining in beating a kid that isn't even defending himself.....I'm looking forward to what happens when 201 million whites have had enough with Afro-entitlement and put their foot on 40 million uppity blacks....

Uptdate; Stop The Mouse

The "Stop The Mouse Campaign" is rolling on! Support the effort to thwart Marvels sale to Disney. Log on to Marvel.Com and voice your opions on every comment page! Write letters to (Marvel E.I.C.)Joe Quesada and let everyone know that if Marvel sales itself to Disney that you will no longer support it or it's movies. Check out his funny look at what you could possibly expect if it goes through from College Humor.Com


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Iron Men walk the streets of Tokyo

Iron Man suits hit the street before part 2 even hits theaters. Japan's robotics venture Cyberdyne's with a name straight out of the comic books have created the robot-suit "HAL" (Hybrid Assistive Limb) with a name ripped straight from 2001 Space Odyssey, is now available for rent and is being tested on the streets of Tokyo:

HAL, an exoskeleton, is a mind-controlled wearable machine that gives humans enhanced mobility. It helps the wearer to stand up from a chair, walk, climb up and down stairs, and lift heavy objects. The suit can operate for almost five hours before it needs recharging. The exoskeleton has robotic limbs that strap to your arms and legs, and the suit's backpack contains a battery and computer controller. When the wearer attempts to move, nerve signals are sent from the brain to the muscles, and very weak traces of these signals can be detected on the surface of the skin. The HAL exoskeleton identifies these signals using a sensor, and a signal is sent to the suit's power unit telling the suit to move in sync with the wearer's own limbs.

HAL comes in three sizes -- small, medium and large and weighs in at 23kg (50.7 lbs). A single leg version rents for 150,000 yen ($1,570) a month, while a two-leg unit goes for 220,000 yen ($2,300) a month. Cyberdyne has yet to announce when HAL will go on sale to the public or what the price tag will be. Tokyo rentals were initiated in August, 2009. With fashionable cyborg exoskeletons now available for rent on the streets of Tokyo, can major U.S. cities be far behind?

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Monkee High Fashion

While we're still pushing our official (and affordable) Monkee Armada Gear over at the Monkee Armada Stuff shop we set up over on CafePress, apparently the new must have item amongst wealthy socialites and wealthy hipsters are these new shirt/dresses by some guy named Christopher Kane.

The two designs shown here are a Mandrill and Baboon, though a Simian Gorrilla was the design popularized by some singer named Rihanna. Selling for $346.50 at the chicest Soho boutiques it would seem that the Monkee Armada has infiltrated the high end of fashion. While we are proud and we have to admit they are pretty stylish, yet if you don't have $350 to blow on an over-sized shirt be sure to check out the official Armada wear for that authentic hipster look.
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Monkees are Metal

Scientist at the University of Wisconsin have recently discovered something we the Armada have known for some time. That Monkees are Metal as fuck! Apparently composer David Teie developed a theory to explain why music plays on human emotions. It involved playing music to a group of West African Tamarins. The study showed that the Tamarins responded to music made by other Tamarins but when it came to human music the only responded to Mettalica! Now I'm sure the Monkee's used in the study would have preferred some Mastodon or Dethklok, but the scientist probably didn't rock hard enough to know about the newer Metal Gods on the scene. Yet again science is catching on to what the Armada has been preaching for some time.

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The end of the world as we know it!!!

Okay, it’s no secret that the Armada is comprised largely of avid comic book readers (when we can afford it), it is also no secret that we vehemently despise all things Disney. Today the most unspeakable news has been announce. The house that the Mouse built has decided to consume The House of Ideas! Disney announced today that it will purchase Marvel for a measly $4 billion bucks. Have faith true believers though, the deal is not final and hinges on the support from the share holders. This is a travisty we must stop, we must organize, boycott, protest, get the word to the share holders that we the Marvel faithful will have no interest in buying a Disney product. Over the years Disney has consumed the Muppet’s and Jim Henson Productions, they have taken everything that was sacred and hallow about our youth and pissed all over it. Can you imagine the X-men and Hulk under the thumb of Disney Land, they’ll make Emma Frost put a shirt on and insist that Green Goliath only crush cars and not kill people. This is an atrocity of grave proportions I implore you, if you are reading this and give two shits about the Marvel Universe join the fight against this sale of our beloved characters.

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Hiroshima-64 years later

August 6th marked the 64th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima...


This is the city now...

Hiroshima was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament in 1949. As a result, the city of Hiroshima received more international attention as a desirable location for holding international conferences on peace as well as social issues. As part of that effort, the Hiroshima Interpreters' and Guide's Association (HIGA) was established in 1992 in order to facilitate translation services for conferences, and the Hiroshima Peace Institute was established in 1998 within the Hiroshima University. The city government continues to advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons and the Mayor of Hiroshima is the President of Mayors for Peace, an international Mayoral organization mobilizing cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2020 Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign.

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They arrested the monkey D: Part 1

BRENTON Green was monkeying around when he donned a costume to entertain city shoppers, but the stunt backfired when he was arrested and tossed in the lock-up.
Dressed as a monkey, Mr Green, 21, attracted the attention of two police officers on bicycles as he paraded among Perth shoppers on Sunday afternoon, hugging people, posing for photos, waving and dancing.

When the officers interrupted his show in front of about 40 onlookers and asked for his name, he responded by shaking his head and making strange sounds.

The second time police asked for his name, Mr Green replied: ``Monkey''. The officers responded by pushing him against a shop window and handcuffing him in front the stunned audience. http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,27574,25979697-2761,00.html