That kid is like 11 yrs old and the emotion he conveys in his voice is chilling. I saw this last night and it had 247k views - today it's over 2 million. New internet hit in the making.
There's a secret draft going on in America that most of us are not aware of and it is extremely fucked up. And Obama is failing big time on this issue.
Any day now, Marc Hall -- a Fort Stewart soldier and Hip Hop artist -- will be whisked off to Iraq for a military Court Martial, out of reach of the public eye and his own civilian defense lawyers. His crime: writing an angry hip hop song about stop-loss.
President Obama has publicly pledged to phase out stop-loss, the practice of involuntarily extending soldiers' contracts. However, with two ongoing wars, the practice is still being used to fill the ranks, with 13,000 soldiers currently serving involuntary extensions of their contracts.
Hall, who had already served a tour in Iraq, learned this summer that he had been stop-lossed and would face redeployment. Self-described as the "first Hip Hop President of the World," Hall wrote a hip hop song in July condemning the military's policy of stop-loss and mailed it to the Pentagon. Meanwhile, he began expressing objections to his command about going on another deployment that would prolong his contract that had been set to expire later this month.
On December 12th, Hall was thrown in jail by his command, on the pretext that the song he had written is considered a threat, and he is facing charges under Article 134 of the UCMJ, which covers communication threats. "The charges are connected to song lyrics allegedly written by Spc. Hall that allege deadly threats against his chain of command and fellow Soldiers, specifically shooting them," reads a statement released the by the Fort Stewart Public Affairs Office. "I explained to [my first sergeant] that the hardcore rap song was a free expression of how people feel about the Army and its stop-loss policy. I explained that the song was neither a physical threat nor any threat whatsoever. I told him it was just hip-hop," explained Hall, in response to the charges.
This a must see for every American, and a highly recommended watch for everyone else. This is the raw, depressing, rough history of America and it is also insanely inspiring and important to understand.
Inspired by historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," a slate of top performers takes the stage to recreate the voices of American history's most eloquent dissenters, many of whom are excluded from traditional history books. The words of slaves, authors, politicians, poets, protesters and others come to life, courtesy of a cast that includes Don Cheadle, Sean Penn, Sandra Oh, Marisa Tomei, Benjamin Bratt and many more.
Just watched that movie tonight and it was soooooooo good. I've always wanted to read his book, A Peoples History of the USA, but never found the time. Definitely gonna make time now.
My friends at my old job put together a short funny video for a competition they're in that can win em $50k. The old job is a non profit organization that puts together youth and Nobel Peace Prize winners and Pepsi will give em a big donation if they rack up enough votes. Check out the video below and vote here. If you want more reasons to vote than just a funny video, you can learn more about the organization here.
And here's a short video explaining how PJ started:
So now PS has 20-50bb tables, 40-100bb tables, etc. When I first heard about this it sounded good - now I can avoid the annoying shortstackers by only playing 40-100bb tables. Problem is that lots of fish like to buy in short... so now even on a Saturday it's hard to find good tables unless I play on 20-50bb tables. This seems like it ended up being a huge plus for the pro-shortstackers cause now they play with lots of fish while us 100bb regs play against each other.
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