[Zero Hedge] Four days after we showed a video in which Nation of Islam leader urged black Americans to "rise up and kill those who kill us", two days after we reported that "Black-White Race Relations Under Obama are the Worst In The 21st Century", shots were fired, according to Reuters, on Sunday during a march in Ferguson, Missouri to mark the one year anniversary of the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, police said.
More troubling is that none other than the potential future president of the US was adding gasoline to the fire yesterday, when in an interview with Al Sharpton - her second national broadcast interview since she declared her candidacy in April - Hillary Clinton discussed "criminal justice reform" and said the following:
If you compare arrest records in, you know, charging of crimes, in convicting of crimes, in sentencing of crimes, you compare African-American men to white men. It is unfortunately clear as it could be that there is a bias in favor of white men...
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>If you compare arrest records in, you know, charging of crimes, in convicting of crimes, in sentencing of crimes, you compare African-American men to white men
Most of the victims of black crime also being black is hard to explain away....
Is it because what Chris Rock would call "niggers" have a culture that's frankly parasitic?
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As I said yesterday, the Beest has promised more government goodies to this constituency and they are going to ensure that she is elected, supporting the Trump-Perot strategy, attacking anyone who seems effective against Hildy, and fomenting all the black protest/violence/turmoil possible to whip up the useful idiots of every color. Its crucial to the replay of the Obama strategy and the siphoning off of the right wing Rep base to the Donald in a 3rd party run. Wicked and evil, but effective...
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Republican Base - old term for conservatives, new term for liberals aka RINOs to denounce for not servilely following their 'betters'. It's a 'base' without a party.
[AfrikaTime] U.S. President Barack Obama's recent trip to Africa -- the third in his presidency -- was tall on rhetoric and symbolism, the hallmark of his presidency. But, despite his public reproach to African leaders about their shortcomings to promote democracy and human rights, his visit fell short on tangible deliverables. It also underscored a deeper problem.
The United States, along with many other Western countries, are losing their edge just as the subcontinent, notwithstanding its chronic problems of poverty, corruption and insecurity, is showing real signs of promise. Positive demographic trends are spurring Africa's emerging economic renaissance. Some African countries, such as Ethiopia, Angola, Botswana and Tanzania, now enjoy some of the highest economic growth rates in the developing world. Although falling commodity prices are taking the wind out of the sails of some of Africa's top economic performers -- Nigeria and Ghana, for example -- positive structural and political reforms, along with a decline in violence and conflict, have contributed to this growth. However, the West is fast being supplanted by China in substantive activity and attention to Africa.
While Mr. Obama cautioned obliquely against the model of partnership offered by China, the facts on the ground reveal a strong trend toward increasing Chinese economic influence, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. China's share of foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa rose astoundingly to $18.55-billion (U.S.) in 2012 from $464-million in 2003, and is beginning to rival Western levels. On trade, China has overtaken the United States during Mr. Obama's presidency. While U.S. trade with Africa rose to $142-billion in 2008 from $33-billion in 2002, it dropped substantially to $73-billion last year.
Meanwhile, China doubled its trade with Africa to $222-billion in just four years. In 2013, Africa became China's second-largest source of crude oil imports. China has no compunction providing low interest loans in exchange for oil and mining rights, and plans to allocate $1-trillion in financing to Africa by 2025 for roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Original article found behind the pay wall in the 'The Globe and Mail' 08/06/15.
[Wash Times] Here's today's political quiz question: what do these five states -- Rhode Island, Vermont, California, Oregon and Maine -- have in common. Yes they are blue states ruled by Democrats, but that's not all. These are the states that use the least amount of coal -- less than 2 percent -- for electric power.
In fact, almost all of the states that are politically liberal and vote unfailingly Democratic are low coal use states. Washington, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are also in the top 10 states least reliant on coal. Only conservative Idaho is a red state with low coal consumption.
Meanwhile, the heavy coal using states bleed red. West Virginia, Kentucky and Wyoming are all states that get about 90 percent of their electric power from coal. Missouri, Utah, Indiana and North Dakota also get 75 percent of their electricity from coal. See table.
Mr. Obama announced last week the toughest environmental regulations ever against coal. This is part of the president's war on coal that he announced when he was running for president in 2008. He has long admitted these policies to reduce emissions from coal burning electric power plants by one-third below 2005 levels by 2030 will "bankrupt" the coal industry. It's working. Coal towns are being vaporized across America and coal companies are going out of business.
But the pain from the new EPA rules won't be evenly distributed across America. Far from it. The coal producing states like West Virginia and Wyoming will see massive job losses and increases in electric utility costs. The nationwide costs will be about $100 billion a year eventually or a reduction in GDP by about one-half percentage point, the Heritage Foundation finds. But for heavily impacted states -- Republican areas in the Midwest, South and mountain states -- the costs will reach about $1,200 a year to average families. Mr. Obama's policies that have had such a crushing effect on middle-income family finances are about to get a whole lot worse.
The liberal coastal states will feel only modest effects because they don't use much coal. Champ said before he was elected he was going to "make it impossible for coal mining to survive" and he's done just that. He knows exactly whom he is targeting and why.
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I have spoken to many from south western Kentucky and West Virgina as well as Maryland people in coal areas. Tax revenues are many millions in the hole(38 million in West Virginia but that was some time ago). Small towns and their people are going bankrupt already. Large coal companies are declaring bankruptcy now. No jobs to replace good incomes. Miners alone were taking home; clear, over $2000 each week. Now unemployed and minimum wage jobs for most. Trucking, railroad and so on. So no wonder people are angry in America and Trump is speaking their language.
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Well, coal contributes to global climate change, donchaknow. And there aren't as many union miners as there used to be.
If the money squandered on green energy (Solyndra, et al) was put in a pile and burned, the climate would turn summersaults - carbon warming, ash and particulates cooling. Fortunately for the climate, it just evaporated.
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A liberal aquaintance is extatic over Obama'S war on coal. When I explained it had already cost around 5000 jobs he said, Well, they can just get other jobs". I told him that in coal country there were no other jobs. He then suggested they move to where there are jibs and I asked him just where that might be. He had no answer.
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"If I wanted America to fail,... I wouldn't change a thing."
US President Barak Obama charged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the only foreign leader he could recall who had forcibly interfered in a foreign policy debate in Washington.
He spoke about Netanyahu in an interview that he gave to CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Thursday about the Iran deal, which will be aired in full on Sunday night.
In a clip released ahead of the interview, Zakaria asked Obama a question about Netanyahu's stiff opposition to the deal to curb Iran's nuclear program that was worked out between Tehran and the six world powers; the US, Russia, China, France, Great Britain and Germany.
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"Foreign countries shouldn't interfere in America's foreign policy!" An emotional appeal to American exceptionalism---from a POTUS who usually dismissed it, wrapped in impeccable logic.
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He had better keep thinking Israel and Yerusalem because having to fight with an anti-semite and musselman as this horrid leader, obama, is not his fault.
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This, as opposed to sending your campaign team to Israel to work against Netanyahu.
Not the same thing at all.
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Let's start with the act of the Nicaraguan military obeying its constitution and ousting a wannabee tyranny getting interference from the State Dept to a White House actively participating in an Israeli elections to oust Bebe.
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I always thought that the extremists on the right who spoke of the Champ not leaving peacefully or with any dignity were expressing flights of pure fantasy. Not so remote as the administration becomes more and more clearly destructive, government not serving the people, but a tool to force change on them.
On American soil, in the presence of a former US President the islamofascistic MB President of Egypt threatens and lectures the US the way a Soviet Gensek would dress down a satellite state ("Mohammad Morsi Lectures US on Free Speech and Islam" on youtube.)
All OIC states recognize Western nations as entities enjoying only limited sovereignty in all matters concerning Islam (and ALL matters concern Islam). This includes 'allies' like 'liberated' Afghanistan, and even NATO 'ally' Turkey.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Zero Hedge] Four days after we showed a video in which Nation of Islam leader urged black Americans to "rise up and kill those who kill us", two days after we reported that "Black-White Race Relations Under Obama are the Worst In The 21st Century", shots were fired, according to Reuters, on Sunday during a march in Ferguson, Missouri to mark the one year anniversary of the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, police said.
US President Barak Obama charged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the only foreign leader he could recall who had forcibly interfered in a foreign policy debate in Washington.
