On July 4, the Web site of Live Earth announced that "music legend" Yusuf (formerly Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, and before that Steven Demetre Georgiou) will headline the Live Earth concert in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, closing the show there. This is a man who has advocated Salman Rushdie's death.For anyone who has somehow managed to escape the hype, Live Earth is a "24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis" a.k.a. "Global Warming." Former U.S. VP Al Gore, Jr. and his Alliance for Climate Protection (he's the chairman of the board) are partners in Live Earth with Kevin Wall, a producer of the previous international crypto "We Are The World" mega event, the July 2005 Live 8 concerts. Gore will appear and speak at the Washington, D.C. Live Earth event on the Mall and he is appearing at other...(Read Full Post)