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On "Meet the Press" Andrew Young got too real. . . http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/20/andrew-young-dont-blame-the-klan-or-uneducated-white-people/ This morning, civil rights icon, former Atlanta mayor and former UN ambassador Andrew Young joined “Meet the Press,” telling moderator Chuck Todd that President Trump is “still politicking and thinking nationally, as a nationalist” and that he “made a mistake in thinking that living was easy and it just is not.” Young also spoke to the controversy of removing Confederate monuments and the associated costs, especially in Georgia.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/19/duke_university_removes_robert_e_lee_statue_days_after_it_was_vandalized.html The Duke University statue situation. . . .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/26/the-u-s-was-supposed-to-leave-afghanistan-by-2017-now-it-might-take-decades/?utm_term=.67c805153cf2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/20/new-rules-signal-sustained-fight-against-islamic-state-in-afghanistan/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.5c177580fa2f http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-could-easily-get-us-sucked-into-afghanistan-again-2017-5 ===> Mentions how Afghanistan is a $$$$ (debt) and death trap. So now we have a shifting U.S. military strategy on Afghanistan and a reason to increase our annual military spending. . . https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/20/president-trump-address-troops-monday-night-path-forward-afghanistan/584506001/ ===> Trump to provide an update on Afghanistan strategy on 08/21. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/08/08/war-afghanistan-trump-white-house-weighs-bold-plan-privatize/548004001/ ===> Hiring 5,500 PRIVATE contractors for the Afghanistan "restructure" -- this has all of the makings of cronyism. I can already hear the pigs squealing at the graft and corruption trough. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/07/erik-prince-restructure-afghanistan-war-editorials-debates/104389448/ ===> Prince, the author of this editorial, has a conflict of interest as he has a vested interest in the Afghanistan restructure by providing logistics as a private contractor for the Africa/South Asia portion of this mission. He makes a seductive cost-savings value proposition as the basis for expanding our presence in Afghanistan but fails to directly acknowledge how he profits from our expansion into the area. Typical D.C. politics. The Pentagon who is leading this effort is acting shady....Trump has got to do his due diligence and homework.

Just wow! Missouri better get it together. . .the death penalty is not to be toyed with. . . http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/marcellus-williams-faces-execution-evidence-170820052647111.html

VERY TRUE. . . http://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/newsV2/images/cartoon1(12).jpg

And WALL STREET AKA GOLDMAN SACHS is right there profiting from Saudi Arabia's strong desire to diversify its "wealth" from buying US Treasuries with its trade surplus to IPO's in our equities markets. As predicted. . . and be on the lookout. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-saudi-idUSKCN1B00GP

All political roads in America lead to either oligarchy or plutocracy. http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-oligarchy-and-vs-plutocracy/ Either way, only well crafted and machine-gun paced propaganda will keep the masses unconscious to this reality. http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/77199/large/4-9-14-the-plutocracy-game.jpg?1397059179

Another white elephant. . . https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-lighthizer-idUSKBN1AB0DR http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/08/20/trump-administration-opens-probe-chinese-theft-u-s-intellectual-property/id=86922/ I have to say that despite Trump's epic fail on Charlottesville, has his approach on: protecting intellectual property rights in the global sphere; and reviewing/revising/resetting international trade relations with Mexico and China garnered any press attention in July 2017 and August 2017? If not, WHY NOT? This is a hot topic given that the populace is very concerned about how global special interests are gutting manufacturing jobs and decimating the middle class. Also, maybe I have been under the radar, but I didn't realize that NAFTA was being renegotiated and/or reexamined in August 2017. Let's see if the mainstream media deems this international strategy newsworthy. Trump needs to be careful as China, our largest foreign debt holder, is sitting on a cool ONE TRILLION of U.S. Treasury securities.

Sigh....you always give me something to think about and your analysis is spot-on. Very cogent observation. But you know I can't let go of my monetary hegemony. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-nasser-h-saidi/the-brics-bank-signals-th_b_5604294.html http://thebricspost.com/brics-bank-announces-first-set-of-loans/#.WZmqEeQpBoM ===> Keep an eye out on BRICS --> they are "competition" This is an EXCELLENT article that talks about how the world is slowly but surely trying to bring an end to our petrodollar monetary hegemony. I'm surprised I missed this article earlier, but the rise of the BRICS loan facility plus the internationalization of the renminbi are tell-tale signs we should NOT miss. But then again, Harvard University has a thing or two to say about the winds of change. . . https://scholar.harvard.edu/frankel/publications/internationalization-remnibi-what-does-history-tell-us-about-its-precedents

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/confederate-statues-washington-241663 The statue situation @ the Capitol. . .

Yuppers. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-age-of-fiat-currency-2011-7 There is absolutely no safe store of value since confiscation of wealth through inflation is the fiat debt money trap.

And so who will be the next underclass that American prosperity and business enterprise will be built upon? If history doesn't repeat itself, at least it rhymes. http://blackcommentator.com/224/224_images/224_cartoon_guest_worker_auction_large.jpg http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slavery/slave-ad.jpg

Another white elephant -- talking about corruption among the global special interests in the United Nations and saying, "Ummmm, no more. Not on my watch will they be partying at the U.S. taxpayer's expense." http://constitution.com/donald-trump-calls-united-nations-partyers-video/

Excellent response in Trumpality which further confirms barmar assertions that the North won the military war in the Civil War, but the South appears to have won the culture war. The election of Trump could be more than an effective and well-timed appeal to the often forgotten and overlooked Rust Belt voter. It could also be a disturbing, yet effective and well-timed appeal to Make America Hate Again.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xXVbcmGg_dg/STQwdJPe7aI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/9q4Z5UwmHyM/w1200-h630-p-nu/6-12-Tweedel-DLC.jpg A picture is worth 1,000 words and this political cartoon captures our current ballot box dilemmas.

Life imitating art. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mr+whipple+twilight+zone&view=detail&mid=2D2ECB86190A55A9D75E2D2ECB86190A55A9D75E&FORM=VIRE

BARMAR--- can you create a SUPER-LIKE button please????? By the way, barmar, love the military war versus culture war reference. Language and semantics matter in politics and rhetoric and you are spot-on. http://www.nytimes.com/1865/06/07/news/negro-suffrage.html . June 1865 Letter from the New York Times after the Civil War is over

Granted the coal industry was in decline because of pricing wars with the natural gas market, BUT Obama's forward-looking Environmental Protection Agency policies regarding reducing carbon emissions at "power plants" and old existing plants put that final nail in the coffin for the coal industry. See the New Yorker. . . http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/obamas-war-on-coal-is-worth-fighting But you are correct, Obama didn't make the case to the people on TV AND he only left a trifling $14.5 million in federal aid for retraining the thousands of displaced coal workers. He could have handled this much better and instead left the door wide open for Trump (and possibly someone else) to capitalize on the political fallout. And Bill didn't do us any favors with NAFTA. NAFTA FALLACY http://www.blackcommentator.com/63/63_images/63_cartoon_nafta_pf.gif

We talked about 1865-1965 was the era of Jim Crow segregation and racism so 'Negro' suffrage was a very HOT TOPIC. Jim Crow was the South's institutional response to the losses it incurred from the Civil War. It was a feeble attempt to restore THE OLD SOCIALLY POPULAR ORDER and disenfranchise the Negro who, per federal law, was allowed to vote in state elections. We all know what old social order the South wanted to reestablish and it had naught to do with the notion that all men are created equal. Jim Crow and its symbolic vestiges reminded everyone who the South's heroes and leaders were and which race was the ordained underclass. Jim Crow was a sanctioned form of political rebellion to the new order and ensured disenfranchisement of the Negro. It was a bold statement Old Dixie declared to demonstrate she was far from relinquishing her control and subjugation of "The Negro" in the Reconstructed South. When we see a statue of Lee -- exactly who are we honoring? Are we honoring a Virginian man who is not a traitor? Are we honoring a great, courageous military leader? Are we acknowledging that the Civil War was not just about protecting state's rights, the Southern heritage and way of life from meddling federal bureaucrats, but was also a war about how to deal with the peculiar institution of slavery which became a political weapon for greater representation and power in Congress (as with the 3/5 Compromise)? http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-the-problem-of-the-twentieth-century-is-the-problem-of-the-color-line-the-relation-of-the-darker-w-e-b-du-bois-305214.jpg http://api.ning.com/files/*67Uoec4vv1o2lB4cIIo6AYgqoy25yPfZeVAcrMsr71*6KKo9LSCengCWqjt7lF5gpIO4d6wMayVIEdnHqC7CFHdLtfz5Oi-/3fifthsimage.jpg http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Dred-Scott-Decision-1857-synopsis.jpg

Yuppers. Watch your step, those logical fallacies are a doozy!

Your assertion seems to include the logical fallacy known as bandwagon. http://image.slidesharecdn.com/logicalfallacies-140820092403-phpapp01/95/logical-fallacies-for-english-12-638.jpg

Fascinating. . .talking about managing the inflation rate with smoke and mirrors.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/19/trump-first-lady-pull-out-annual-kennedy-center-honors-program-avoid-any-political-distraction-forho/582818001/ Just wow!

Sorry but your viewpoint neither increases newspaper circulation nor internet traffic to your website. WWIII with NK is intellectually dishonest but it is provocative and good for ratings. "And now a word from our sponsors. . ."