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Jokes On You: Brooklyn Police Tell White Pranksters To Stop Their Racist Antics In The Hood Before They Get Killed

These white boys are going to get themselves killed ! Brooklyn Police Tell White Pranksters To Stop Their Antics Before They Get Killed Two attention-craving clowns have stirred outrage in Brooklyn by targeting African-Americans for sick pranks and posting the footage online. Via NY Daily News reports: It’s gotten so brazen that community activists in Brownsville and East New York demanded Thursday that they cease and desist before they get killed — and called on YouTube to stop giving them a platform. “This is juvenile ignorant behavior that borders racist overtones and truly can go really wrong at any given time thus causing harm not only to the victims but even more so to pranksters,” said community advocate Tony Herbert. Etayimm (Et) Etayyim, 21, insisted neither he nor his 20-year-old brother Mohammed, aka Moe, are racists and that they stared OckTV as “a hobby.” “We target everybody, white people, Spanish people, not only black people,” he said. Etayyim, who like his bespectacled brother are white guys from Bay Ridge, said they pulled similar stunts in Manhattan but “wanted to take our pranks to the higher level” by filming in mostly black parts of Brooklyn. “People in these bad neighborhoods are more aggressive than people in Manhattan,” he said. It’s a wonder they aren’t in the hospital. Wearing headbands bearing the colors of their nativePalestinian flag, they have challenged complete strangers to fight them in the street. Carrying calculators, they have walked up to others asking, “Yo dawg, you got a problem?” They have snatched cell phones out of their hands of pedestrians, claiming they want to check the time. They have offered to sell other marks a gun, which turns out to be a water pistol, and then laughed like hyenas afterward. They’ve sat on the laps of unsuspecting straphangers on the subway One especially gross and gassy bit of buffoonery they titled “F—— in the Hood.” The occasional body slams and beatdowns at the hands of the people they’ve duped — and which they have included in their films — don’t appear to deter the Brothers Etayyim. And they have a rapidly growing audience online. Asked why they pull these pranks, the elder Etayyim, whose nickname is pronounced E.T. like the beloved Steven Spielberg character, said “it’s just for fun.” “We’re just going to keep doing it,” he said. SMH!!!!!!!!!!! YT

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Dark Skinned Extinction? Tyra Banks Says All Women In The Future Will Look Like Beyonce, Rihanna…Or Her

Nobody’s going to look like Lupita though? Hm… Tyra Banks Makes Predictions On Beauty In The Future Tyra Banks has never been known for making the most intelligent of statements, but somehow she was tapped for a column in the Wall Street Journal this past week to give her predictions on what beauty will look like in the unspecified future. As she wrote for WSJ.com : As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people “attain beauty,” and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe, traditional beauty will be less valuable—and more uniqueness will be heralded. But let me be more specific with 10 predictions: Since nobody really has time for all that, you’re getting the main four here: 1. Plastic surgery will be as easy and quick as going to the drugstore for Tylenol. Emphasis will be on how unique and interesting one can look, as opposed to a cookie-cutter look. People will be vying for that cutting-edge, distinct look in the way that today celebs reach for baby names that defy convention. 2. There will be no hair extensions. If one wants longer locks, a hair-growing serum is applied to the scalp, and the length and thickness of the hair will increase in 24 hours. The popular hair texture of choice will be curly. Well with the popularity of fake cakes and rented weaves …she might have a point with these predictions… 4. The features of one’s baby will be as selectable as menu items at a fast-food drive-through window. Blue and green eyes will become so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color. 5. Skin color and features will mesh into a similar shade for the majority of people. Typical features and coloring will lean toward a Rihanna or Beyoncé or me kind of look. People with alabaster or ebony skin will be rare and heralded for that uniqueness. Sidenote…she never seems to miss an opportunity to to refer to herself as a beauty standard, does she? So Tyra thinks today’s beauty ideals will become so common and easily attained that roles will essentially be reversed and dark and extremely pale skin will be rare, yet sought after? Interesting, but we aren’t sure why is this even coming from her. Doesn’t she have a modeling show that no one watches anymore to worry about or something? What do you think of Tyra’s predictions on beauty? Is she on the right track or does she deserve a “ho sit down?”

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Taylor Swift Outlines ‘The Only Real Risk’ To Pop Music

Taylor Swift wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal about the future of pop music.

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Who is Chen Guangbiao?

Chen Guangbiao, 45, is one of China#39;s 400 richest people. He made his fortune in the recycling industry with Jiangsu Huangpu Renewable Resources Ltd. However, he is better known for his eccentric and philanthropic ventures. Earlier this year he unsuccessfully launched a bid to buy the New York Times. He also said he would settle for the the Wall Street Journal if he failed. Speaking to the SCMP, he said he was looking to return to the US to buy the New York Times#39; opinion section instead

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Julia Roberts on Nancy Motes’ Death: It’s Just Heartbreak

Julia Roberts is speaking out on the apparently drug overdose of her half-sister, Nancy Motes, with whom the actress had a tumultuous relationship. “It’s just heartbreak,” a tearful Roberts, 46, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview conducted March 1, just one day before this year’s Academy Awards. “It’s only been 20 days. There aren’t words to explain what any of us have been through in these last 20 days,” she said in the interview, released today. “It’s hour by hour some days, but you just keep looking ahead.” Nancy Motes died inside her Los Angeles apartment of an apparent drug overdose on February 9, the star’s family announced the following day. In the interview, Roberts did not address rumors that Motes left a suicide note criticizing Julia , and instead focused on the grief surrounding her death. “You don’t want anything bad to happen to anyone, but there are so many tragic, painful, inexplicable things in the world,” said the Academy Award winner. “But [as with] any situation of challenge and despair, we must find a way, as a family. It’s hard to formulate a sentence about it outside the weepy huddle of my family.” Professionally, Roberts will appear in the May 25 HBO adaptation of the Larry Kramer drama about the early days of the AIDS epidemic, The Normal Heart. She plays a medical pioneer with polio helping patients fight the disease. In her personal life, she says she’s introducing mindfulness to her and husband Danny Moder’s children, twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 9, and Henry, 5. “Meditation or chanting or any of those things can be so joyous and also very quieting,” she explained. “We share and just say, ‘This is a way I comfort myself.'” Julia Roberts’ Sister Left Suicide Note Blaming Her Nancy Motes, Julia Roberts’ Sister, Dead

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Bluefin Tuna in California: ALL Contaminated With Radiation

Every bluefin tuna caught in California waters is believed to be contaminated with radiation that originated in Fukushima, according to a new report. Yes, every single fish tested. In May of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported on a Stanford University study by Daniel Madigan, a marine ecologist who was quoted as saying: “The tuna packaged it up (the radiation) and brought it across the ocean … we were surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one.” Another member of the study group added that “absolutely every one” of the tuna had comparable concentrations of cesium 134 and cesium 137. That was over a year ago, when the fish had relatively little exposure to the radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean following the 2011 meltdown. Since that time, the flow of radioactive contaminants has continued unabated, and fish born into it have been swimming in contaminants for all of their lives. Radioactive cesium doesn’t sink to the bottom, so fish swim through it and ingest it through their gills or by eating organisms that have already ingested it. It is a compound that does occur naturally in nature, however, the levels of cesium found in the tuna in 2012 had levels 3 percent higher than is usual. Measurements for this year haven’t been made available, but it is known that a person can experience cell damage due to radiation of the cesium particles. Due to this, effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding may occur. When the exposure lasts a long time, people may even lose consciousness. Coma or even death may then follow. How serious the effects are depends upon the resistance of individual persons and the duration of exposure. Nevertheless … you might not want to eat bluefin tuna in California.

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Racist Or Nah? AIG Insurance CEO Compares Outrage Over Poooor Rich Wall Street Execs Accepting Big Bonuses To Slave Lynchings In The South

Cry us a fawking river… AIG CEO Compares Wall Street Exec Bonus Outrage To Slave Lynchings Another day, another filthy rich right-winger putting his foot in his mouth. This time the foolery comes courtesy of AIG Insurance CEO Bob Benmosche. via Think Progress In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, AIG CEO Bob Benmosche came out with the worst analogy for the 2009 financial crisis. Benmosche compared public outrage over AIG’s bonuses to the Deep South lynching African-Americans. “It was just as bad and just as wrong,” he said, because employees were used to a certain way of living: “Now you have these bright young people [in the financial-products unit] who had nothing to do with [the bad bets that hurt the company.] … They understand the derivatives very well; they understand the complexity. … They’re all scared. They [had made] good livings. They probably lived beyond their means. …They aren’t going to stay there for nothing. The uproar over bonuses “was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitch forks and their hangman nooses, and all that–sort of like what we did in the Deep South [decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong.” The nerve of this dude to compare the “struggle” that his already-privileged staff is going through to that of slaves in the south who LOST THEIR LIVES. Sounds to us like he deserves all the backlash he gets. Continue reading

Pope Francis on Gays: Who Am I to Judge?

Pope Francis had a busy week in Brazil, visiting slums and prisons, blessing the Olympic flag and bringing three million people to mass on Sunday. But it was on the plane back to Rome where the newly-anointed pontiff took questions from reporters and made perhaps his biggest headline of the trip. According to the Wall Street Journal , he was asked about homosexuality, the reported “gay lobby” and the topic of gay priests in the Catholic Church. Here is how Pope Francis, 76, broached the delicate, hypothetical question of how he would respond to finding out that a cleric in his ranks was gay. “Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?” the pontiff said, speaking in Italian. “You can’t marginalize these people.” The Pope noted that he has not encountered significant resistance to reform, and joked that if there is a “gay lobby” he hasn’t yet seen it on anyone’s ID cards. Father James Martin, S.J., who is an admirer of Francis, said that the pontiff’s comment about gay people is consistent with the rest of his papacy. “One of Francis’ hallmarks is an emphasis on mercy, which you see in that response. That mercy, of course, comes from Jesus. And we can never have too much of it.” Predecessor Pope Benedict XVI signed a document in 2005 that said men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. Francis has been much more conciliatory, as evidenced by these remarks. While stressing Catholic teaching that calls for homosexuals to be treated with dignity, Francis took issue with reporting on alleged Vatican gay sex scandals. One of Francis’ aides was allegedly investigated in a sex scandal, and rumors that Pope Benedict is gay surfaced shortly after his abrupt resignation. Francis took journalists to task for reporting on such matters, saying the allegations concerned matters of sin, not crimes like sexually abusing children. He denied wrongdoing on his aide’s part, and noted that in general, whenever someone sins and confesses, God not only forgives but forgets. “We don’t have the right to not forget,” he said.

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Race Matters: Congressional Black Caucus To Confront Obama On What He’s Doing To Lower Rising Black Unemployment Rates

CBC To Meet With Barack Obama On Black Unemployment Unfortunately, black unemployment is getting worse and folks want to know Barack Obama’s plan to get us back on track. According to Wall Street Journal: Bloomberg News reports that President Obama will meet today with the Congressional Black Caucus. It will be the first such meeting since May 2011. “CBC chairwoman Marcia Fudge, a Democrat from Ohio, plans to press the president on what he’s doing to lower black unemployment,” according to Bloomberg. The black jobless rate rose in June to 13.7 percent from 13.5 percent a month earlier. Given the policies that Mr. Obama has pushed since their last confab, you might think the president and black lawmakers had lots to discuss. Earlier this year, for example, Mr. Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour from $7.25 and to automatically adjust it with inflation, even though the minimum wage is a proven job-killer for blacks and black youths especially. Last month, the administration sued BMW BMW.XE -0.62% and discount retailer Dollar General DG -0.62% for the alleged use of unfair criminal background checks to screen workers. But empirical studies show that employers who check criminal backgrounds are more likely to hire blacks, and black men in particular. The president opposes school vouchers, even though they increase high school graduation rates. And he supports racial preferences in college admissions, which result in more black kids dropping out and fewer black scientists and engineers among those who earn a degree. The problem, of course, is that blacks victimized by these policies will have no one batting for them in this meeting because the Congressional Black Caucus stands with Mr. Obama on every one of these issues. Which is not to say that they don’t occasionally have their disagreements. “While members of the caucus initially faulted Obama for not appointing more minorities to cabinet positions, they tempered their criticism as Obama’s filled out key positions,” reports Bloomberg. “He has tapped former Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx for transportation secretary and Rep. Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency.” If you’re among those blacks suffering from double-digit unemployment, don’t you feel better now? Discuss… WENN Continue reading

TRIBECA: Clint Eastwood Tells Darren Aronofsky It Would Be ‘Great’ To Be A 100 Year-Old Filmmaker

“I met you once for a handshake and I was terrified,”  Darren Aronofsky  told Clint Eastwood during their Tribeca Talks Directors Series discussion on Saturday. “I’m still a little terrified.” The two men chatted (fittingly, in directors’ chairs) following the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story , a 60-minute documentary about the actor-turned-filmmaker’s career behind the camera. Although the 82-year-old Eastwood is almost double the age of Aronofsky, it was The Wrestler director who walked with a cane. He lowered himself into his seat while Eastwood gestured to the applauding crowd and, with a smile on his face, told them to “knock it off.” The man who once played Dirty Harry  kept up the charm offensive throughout the conversation and didn’t address any empty chairs. The Academy Award-winning director and Academy Award-nominated one discussed a number of topics, including directing children, working with actors, working with digital cameras and sustaining a passion for filmmaking. On that last subject, Eastwood said, “I don’t think you ever lose it.” He then referenced 104-year-old Portuguese director and screenwriter Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira . ( The Strange Case of Angelica ). “That’s always everybody’s dream,” Eastwood said. “Wouldn’t it be great to be 105 and still be making films?” He dubbed this hope “the ultimate optimism.” More wisdom and anecdotes from Eastwood include: “You have to fight for what you want, for what you believe in.” “A director has to be the most malleable person on set.” “Directing is having your hands on everything. It’s the ultimate power trip.” “If [filmmaking] was that painful, I’d consider myself somewhat of a masochist.” When Aronofsky asked Eastwood the first thing he does upon arriving at a new set or location, the movie-making veteran replied, “I was thinking of throwing up . For some reason that came into my mind. We won’t print that.” Too late. For more from Eastwood and Aronofsky, check out their discussion in its entirety below: More on Clint Eastwood:  Clint Eastwood Sounds Like High Plains Grifter At Republican Convention WATCH:  Harold & Kumar ‘s Kal Penn Kicks Clint Eastwood’s Ass at Democratic Convention Nell Alk is an arts and entertainment writer and reporter based in New York City. Her work has been featured in  The Wall Street Journal, Manhattan  Magazine,  Z!NK  Magazine and on InterviewMagazine.com, PaperMag.com and RollingStone.com, among others. Learn more about her  here. Follow Nell Alk on  Twitter. Follow Movieline on  Twitter.

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