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The new definition of “progress” in progressive Minneapolis?
The skyline is bright and modern but the city is rotting from the inside. Not even half of all students in the Minneapolis school system graduate from high school. The graduation rate for the USA as a whole is 75 percent.
Minneapolis is known as a very “progressive” city in terms of its “green-and-equal-all-over” politics. Enormous sums of money are spent on expensive green building design and green energy systems as well as an extraordinarily inefficient commuter and light rail system. And, taxpayers spend a lot of money trying to educate the city’s students. Yet, when it comes educating the young this “progressive” city can’t even get 50% of its children through high school. That’s a very special definition of “progress”.
I wonder if any of Minneapolis’ government and civic leaders are thinking they should take some of the resources spent on “green-and-equal” stuff and put it into sorting out what’s going wrong with the young in their city.
Trump’s economist
Source: http://goo.gl/CRZ2rv
Bloomberg has an interesting article about an economist Donald Trump relies upon for advice on economics.
When talk turns to Donald Trump’s economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore are the two most familiar names. Yet there is another economist associated with Trump who is perhaps the most influential of the lot, and that is Peter Navarro at the University of California at Irvine.
He teaches at a highly regarded research university, has extensive private sector, investment, and media experience, has a Ph.D from Harvard, has written on management and wrote an investment newsletter. His documentary, “Death by China,” is available on YouTube and Netflix.
He has largely operated under the radar, perhaps because he is a successful but not famous academic. In reality, he has been one of the most versatile and productive American economists of the last few decades, and has played a leading role in turning the Republican Party away from what’s left of its historical optimism about U.S.-China relations.
More money for wealthy Euro-Colonial exploiters
Glenn Greenwald has a terrific article in The Intercept about how American taxpayers continue to be forced by our government to pay over $3 billion per year to a very wealthy “Israel” at the same time this band of Euro-Colonial exploiters inspires the creation of an unending supply of “terrorists” intent on taking revenge on Americans and Europeans for supporting the crimes committed by “Israel” against Palestinians.
Things are unlikely to change no matter which person, Hilliary or The Donald, is elected president. Hilliary has totally sold out to wealth supporters of “Israel” and The Donald has been bragging that he’s the best friend “Israel” will ever have. Meanwhile, we regular Americans and Europeans pay the bill and get to enjoy the counterattacks our governments are so fond of calling “terrorism”.
Isn’t it time we Americans insist our government live up to our motto “Liberty and Justice for All”? Think about it. Almost every “terrorist” who is captured, when asked why he or she is committing “terrorism”, list one of his or her motivations as America’s and Europe’s almost 70 years of assisting “Israel” to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous population. It ought to be obvious that if you want to eliminate “terrorism” you need to eliminate what motivates people to commit “terrorism”. This new aid is exactly the opposite of what is needed.
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