Today, it's not just U.S. foes that find themselves scrambling to reinterpret Trump's grandiose ultimatums in the wake of the stunning Venezuela operation. Partners and allies as well are now viewing Trump's open vow to pursue a more assertive policy across the Western Hemisphere in a far more serious light, one bound to have repercussions across the globe. read more
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president's friend Ronald Lauder -- who first proposed Arctic expansion -- is now making deals in the island read more
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires." All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. read more
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense showed up to provide support in Philly amid rising tensions with ICE. read more
A federal judge on Friday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to limit their tactics against protesters in Minnesota, as federal immigration enforcement officers confront demonstrators rallying after a woman was killed by an ICE officer last week.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote in her order that ICE cannot retaliate against, arrest or detain "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity." read more
#20
Because like most Republicans, they are barely educated, many barely educable.
Which is why Republicans hate education... people with more than a high school education tend to vote Dem, and they hate that.
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This is one of the best short talks I've seen in recent years, and from someone whom I never knew was either funny nor this perceptive:
How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart)
www.youtube.com
by
age 12 children American children of
affluent kids are four grade levels
above everybody else
by University the
age rich kids are 77 times more likely
to go to university or to ivy league
university than kids from poor schools
in adulthood 54% of the people at Elite
workplaces went to the same 34 Elite
colleges
so we ended up creating a cast
system
people with high school degrees
die nine years sooner than people with
college degrees
people with high school
degrees are five times more likely to
have kids out of wedlock
people with
high school degrees are 2.4 times more
likely to say they have no friends
so we
created a cast system even though we
pretend to be egalitarian
excerpt