Daily 30: Mon 12.15.2014

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Racial Wealth Gap in America

4 Racial Wealth Gap in America Breaking News

The Great Recession, fueled by the crises in the housing and financial markets, was universally hard on the net worth of American families. But even as the economic recovery has begun to mend asset prices, not all households have benefited alike, and wealth inequality has widened along racial and ethnic lines.
The Rap Monument 2mo
Rockie Fresh

9 Rockie Fresh Noisey Raps

Rockie Fresh's epic verse on the very epic Rap Monument (co-produced by the beat wizard Hudson Mohawke, Nick Hook and S-Type).
Must Watch! 2mo
The Architect of the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Program

11 The Architect of the CIA's Enhanced… Vice News

Mitchell has a signed a non-disclosure agreement with the CIA and was unable to discuss his alleged role in the agency's enhanced interrogation program, but VICE News met up with him in suburban Florida to discuss the Senate's report and one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror. This is the first time Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.
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Sony to Media: Stop Reporting Our Leaks

16 Sony to Media: Stop Reporting Our Leaks Complex

Apparently, Sony doesn’t find their leaked emails that are either borderline racist or call one of their signature stars a “whore” nearly as funny as everybody else does. After having their data stolen and published on pretty much every website in existence, Sony is now trying to curb any further bad press by sending out a letter to all outlets threatening legal action. Here is a copy of the first two paragraphs of the notice: nmt8bxjjaxczvccyq1at It’s hard to really blame them here. The leak has largely been a PR disaster for Sony, as the years’ worth of emails have revealed a work culture that often borders on dysfunctional and some movie ideas that are absolutely absurd. But still…shouldn’t they be focused on catching the actual hackers, rather than those who are simply reporting on it?
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YouTube Launches GIF Tool

17 YouTube Launches GIF Tool Complex

Prepare yourself to be crushed under an avalanche of those hypnotizing little loops of video that nobody seems to know how to pronounce out loud, because YouTube is testing a tool to let you easily create GIFs directly from videos. Right now the tool is only available on a small fraction of videos on certain YouTube channels, such as the PBS Idea Channel and asapSCIENCE, where the tool allows you to create five-second snippets, but if this thing becomes available on all of YouTube's videos, you know what's going to happen: YouTube doesn't appear to have commented to anyone about the new GIF tool, and they didn't even announce that it was being rolled out in a limited capacity. Instead, you'll have to find it quietly hidden under the "share" option on one of the channels mentioned above. It's pretty simple to use: click "share" and you'll see the GIF option come up. Move the blue sliders to select your snippet, enter some top and bottom text if you want, and click "create GIF." You'll get a direct link and an embed code, but you can also right click and "save image as" on the little preview it creates.
Funny As F**k! 3mo
Unapologetic

18 Unapologetic D.L. Hughley

From his inner-city roots in L.A., D.L. Hughley has become one of the smartest, most popular stand-up comics working today. This HBO special--his fourth--will show audiences just how far he's come, and how funny he is--with no apologies necessary! Taking the stage in Washington, D.C., Hughley focuses on such topics as the dangers of living in the nation's capital, the qualifications of the 2008 presidential candidates, the current administration, the immigration debate, Cuban refugees, airplane restrictions, the 'n' word, Don Imus and freedom of speech, whites and blacks on cruise ships, Paris Hilton, and much more--including D.L.'s now-famous interaction with hapless audience members in the first row.
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Four Horsemen

20 Four Horsemen Ross Ashcroft

FOUR HORSEMEN is an independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works.

As we will never return to ‘business as usual’ 23 international thinkers, government advisors and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how to establish a moral and just society.

   
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Rick Ross Champions Legal Marijuana

21 Rick Ross Champions Legal Marijuana Complex

Ross recently spoke with the New Yorker during which he attributed part of his revitalized look to doing less kush-ups. “My lifestyle then, it was just lots of intake. I drank a lot. I smoked a lot. I changed that,” Ross said. "I cut back on my marijuana intake.” But the Bawse is still championing marijuana legalization. The Florida native was obviously a bit disappointed that his home state was the only place that marijuana legalization up for a vote but did not pass. "It’s the most beautiful law in history," he told The New Yorker. I’m from Florida. They just voted against it. I was crushed. I was devastated."
The US & Peru's War on Drugs 2mo
The New King of Coke Pt. 5

23 The New King of Coke Pt. 5 Vice News

In the final part of the five-part series, VICE News correspondent Kaj Larsen travels to Washington, DC, where opponents of the US government's 40-year-old war on drugs are raising their voices and advocating for policy change, while proponents invoke the rhetoric of Nixon, hoping that Peru's war on drugs will be ended by the flow of cash and boots on the ground resources they attribute to ending Colombia's drug war.
The Rap Monument 2mo
Bodega Bamz

24 Bodega Bamz Noisey Raps

Bodega Bamz' epic verse on the very epic Rap Monument (co-produced by the beat wizard Hudson Mohawke, Nick Hook and S-Type).
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Chappelle recounts being choked by police

25 Chappelle recounts being choked by police Daily Dot

The trampish costume that Ian McKellan’s wore in the 2010 stage adaptation of Waiting For Godot was so convincing that while he was taking a break outside the theatre, passersby actually stopped to give him change. McKellan took it in good humour, describing the dollar he received as his “lucky talisman.” But when something similar happened to comedian Dave Chappelle, no one was laughing. During a recent performance in New Orleans, Chappelle revealed that while working on the set of his first movie two decades ago, in which he played a mugger, he had a dangerous run-in with the police. Jarvis DeBerry, a columnist for NOLA who attended Chappelle’s set, describes how the comedian recounted the incident: He was dressed for the part. The movie set was surrounded with police tape. He ducked under it. Then a police officer set upon him and immediately started choking him. The officer only released the then-19-year-old performer after someone on the set intervened. “Why didn't he say something?” the cop reportedly asked afterwards. Chappelle told this story while discussing the fate of Eric Garner, a black New Yorker whose death at the hands of police officers has sparked angry protests across the country. Garner died after being placed in an illegal chokehold by an officer, footage of which was caught on camera. The failure to indict the officer has reignited fury over the perceived unaccountability of law enforcement, months after the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson sparked extensive protests. The incident involving Chappelle took place in 1992. The status quo of the time was such that, as the comedian lamented, “You don't even wonder why it’s happening. You just think…‘OK, here we go.’”
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Jay Z Urge NY Governor To Reform Justice System

26 Jay Z Urge NY Governor To Reform Ju… Huffington Post

NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop moguls Jay Z and Russell Simmons and rapper-actor Common on Wednesday pressed for changes to the state's criminal justice system amid protests over the killings of unarmed black people by white police officers who weren't criminally charged. Simmons and Jay Z discussed reforms with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Common joined Simmons later at a City Hall news conference with activists demanding a slate of changes to policing and prosecution. "We want to promote the end of police protecting police and not prosecuting police," Simmons said. In the past two weeks, grand juries have decided not to indict officers in the chokehold death of New Yorker Eric Garner and the fatal shooting of Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown. The decisions have unleashed demonstrations and questions about police conduct and whether local prosecutors are the best choice for investigating police, who are often their partners in building cases. Simmons said Cuomo pledged in a conversation Wednesday to order that special prosecutors, rather than local district attorneys, handle cases of alleged police brutality. It's an idea protesters have championed, "and we're going to hold him to it," Simmons said. But Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa characterized the men's conversation as a discussion of special prosecutors among a "range of options that could be included" amid criminal justice changes the governor intends to work on passing next year. Simmons' representatives didn't immediately respond to inquiries about the governor's account of the exchange. Jay Z and Cuomo had "a productive conversation" at Cuomo's office about reviewing and reforming the criminal justice system, DeRosa said. Jay Z's spokeswoman confirmed the meeting but wouldn't comment further. DeRosa noted that Cuomo also has discussed the issue with district attorneys, a police union president, minority lawmakers and others over the last week. The rapper-activists also have trained their attention on New York City Hall. Simmons spoke this week with Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Simmons and Common lent their voices Wednesday to activist group Justice League NYC's call for a roster of city and state actions. Those actions include firing officers involved in the Garner case, appointing special prosecutors for that case and others involving police use of force, expediting a federal investigation into Garner's death and passing a City Council proposal to require police to let people know when they can refuse searches. Common said America "should be ashamed of itself" over cases like Garner's. "We're going to do everything it takes to change this system," he said. De Blasio spokeswoman Marti Adams said the mayor and Police Commissioner William Bratton "are serious about enacting smart reforms" to build trust between police and communities.
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Kite

28 Kite Anchor Bay Entertainment

A young woman, Sawa, is orphaned following the murder of her parents and is later taken off the streets by a crooked, Svengali-like detective who employs homeless children to do his dirty work. Trained as a killer, Sawa exacts street justice against the detective's chosen targets until she is able to break free of the abusive, manipulative control he has over her.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron

30 Avengers: Age of Ultron Marvel Studios

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to The Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.