Donald Trump phoned into Fox News on Monday night, interrupting the network’s coverage of the first night of the Republican National Convention. …read more
Source: On Fox News, Trump pre-empts Benghazi speeches
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,
A good example of the way in which aristocracies benefit both from racism and from anti-racism, is Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the US Presidency, which is heavily backed by America’s aristocracy, and which is fueled not only by their money but also by the widespread racism in American culture, and especially by the equally widespread repudiation by many Americans against racism.
Her opponent in the Democratic Party primaries, Bernie Sanders, was loathed by America’s aristocracy, because he was accusing them of destroying the country and was proposing policies to restore democracy to America, by means of various governmental interventions to reverse the existing undemocratic government’s wealth-transfers “from the masses to the classes?. Sanders was publicly acknowledging that any government is a societal-prioritizing instrument, and that it therefore transfers wealth from some to others, via taxes and other essential policies, and so the wealth-distribution needs to be an independent focus of governmental policies – not simply ignored by government and subsumed within the “economic growth? concern.
Here is how Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination in the primaries: She won 84% of the Black vote in the crucial South Carolina primary, where 61% of the voters, in that Democratic primary, were Blacks. Sanders won 58% of Whites voting there. Clinton won, of the total SC primary vote, 73% to Sanders’s 26%, a crushing 47% margin of victory. And then in the later southern primaries, her margins of victory among the overwhelmingly high proportion of Blacks in the Democratic Parties those states, were similar, which fact (her numerous primaries crushing him, especially on Super Tuesday) cemented Sanders’s loss, and her win, of the Democratic nomination.
Whereas both of the primaries that preceded South Carolina (the caucus in Iowa, and the election in New Hampshire) were in overwhelmingly White northern states, which had been little shaped by the legacy of slavery, the racial situation was much more tense in SC, and also in the other southern states, where the culture of slavery still persists, more than a century after the Civil War that was fought over slavery.
Sanders’s message, that economic inequality is the linchpin of America’s increasing inequality of economic opportunity, was a colossal flop among southern Blacks, for whom the pervasive anti-Black racism amongst their local non-Blacks, seemed to be far more the cause of Blacks’ suppressed economic opportunities than did the existing economic inequality itself. To them, Sanders’s argument (that economic inequality is self-perpetuating, and thus needs specific governmental policies to address) seemed false (because the racism there is so intense). They couldn’t understand rich-versus-poor, because what they saw around them every day was Black-versus-White. As Hillary and Bill Clinton’s, and Barack Obama’s, friend and chief economic advisor, Lawrence Summers, taught to his students at Harvard, “I think we can accept, I think we should accept inequality of results, recognizing that those who earn more are in a better position to contribute more to support society?.
It’s standard …read more
Source: How Aristocracies Benefit Both From Racism And From Anti-Racism
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Justin Raimondo via Anti-War.com,
News reports about the recently released 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks are typically dismissive: this is nothing new, it’s just circumstantial evidence, and there’s no “smoking gun.” Yet given what the report actually says – and these news accounts are remarkably sparse when it comes to verbatim quotes – it’s hard to fathom what would constitute a smoking gun.
To begin with, let’s start with what’s not in these pages: there are numerous redactions. And they are rather odd. When one expects to read the words “CIA” or “FBI,” instead we get a blacked-out word. Entire paragraphs are redacted – often at crucial points. So it’s reasonable to assume that, if there is a smoking gun, it’s contained in the portions we’re not allowed to see. Presumably the members of Congress with access to the document prior to its release who have been telling us that it changes their entire conception of the 9/11 attacks – and our relationship with the Saudis – read the unredacted version. Which points to the conclusion that the omissions left out crucial information – perhaps including the vaunted smoking gun.
In any case, what we have access to makes more than just a substantial case: it shows that the Saudi government – including top officials, such as then Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and other members of the royal family – financed and actively aided the hijackers prior to September 11, 2001.
Support for at least two of the hijackers when they arrived in the US was extended by three key individuals:
Omar al-Bayoumi – Bayoumi was clearly a Saudi intelligence agent: the FBI all but identifies him as such. His salary was paid for by companies directly owned and operated by the Saudi government, although he apparently rarely showed up for “work.” He was directly subsidized by the wife of then Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, and these subsidies were substantially increased when the hijackers arrived in the US. It was Bayoumi who hovered over two of the hijackers – Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Midhar – as soon as they arrived in the United States. He got them an apartment, co-signed the rental agreement, chauffeured them around – and helped them obtain information on flight schools.
Osama Bassnan – This individual, who, according to the report, has “many ties to the Saudi government,” boasted to an informant that he did more for the two hijackers than Bayoumi. He was certainly in a position to do so, since he lived directly across the street from them in San Diego. The FBI characterized him as “an extremist and supporter of Osama bin Laden”: like Bayoumi, his longtime associate – with whom he was in constant communication at the time of the hijackers’ American sojourn – Bassnan was subsidized by the Saudi royal family, and specifically Prince Bandar and his wife. A search of Basnan’s apartment turned up indications that he had cashiers checks amounting to …read more
Source: It Is A Smoking Gun – Prince Bandar And Other Saudis Financed The 9/11 Terrorists
By Tyler Durden
Authored by John Mauldin, originally posted at MauldinEconomics.com,
Psychologists from Sigmund Freud forward have generally agreed: our core attitudes about life are largely locked in by age five or so. Changing those attitudes requires intense effort.
Neil Howe and William Strauss took this obvious truth and drew an obvious conclusion: if our attitudes form in early childhood, then the point in history at which we live our childhood must play a large part in shaping our attitudes.
It’s not only early childhood, however, that forms us. Howe and Strauss think we go through a second formative period in early adulthood. The challenges we face as we become independent adults determine our approach to life.
These insights mean we can divide the population into generational cohorts, each spanning roughly 20 years. Each generation consists of people who were born and came of age at the same point in history.
These generations had similar experiences and thus gravitated toward similar attitudes.
At this year’s Strategic Investment Conference, Howe illustrated the point with this cartoon. (I think we should now add an illustration of a couple texting on their phones, saying “Let’s tell our friends online first.”)
Amusing, yes, but true. Young love, a universal experience, took different forms for Americans who grew up in the 1950s vs. the 1970s vs. the 1990s. Ditto for many other aspects of life.
In their book The Fourth Turning, Howe and Strauss identified four generational archetypes: Hero, Artist, Prophet, and Nomad. Each consists of people born in a roughly 20-year period. As each archetypal generation reaches the end of its 80-year lifespan, the cycle repeats.
Each archetypal generation goes through the normal phases of life: childhood, young adulthood, mature adulthood, and old age. Each tends to dominate society during middle age (40–60 years old) then begins dying off as the next generation takes the helm.
This change of control from one generation to the next is called a “turning” in the Strauss/Howe scheme. The cycle repeats on a “fourth turning” as a new hero generation comes of age and replaces the nomads. Each fourth turning, however, is a great crisis.
Now, let’s get back to the archetypes and see how they match the generations alive today.
The characteristics of each archetype aren’t neatly divided by the calendar; they are better seen as evolving along a continuum. (This is a very important point. It’s why we get trends and changes, not abrupt turnarounds. Thankfully.) People born toward the beginning or end of a generation share some aspects of the previous or following one.
Hero generations are usually raised by protective parents. Heroes come of age during a time of great crisis. Howe calls them heroes because they resolve that crisis, an accomplishment that then defines the rest of their lives.
Following the crisis, heroes become institutionally …read more
Source: Millennials Face An Existential Crisis: "It Won’t Be A Short Period Of Difficulty"
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During an interview at the NAACP’s annual convention Cincinnati’s chief of police, Eliot Isaac, explains what it’s like to be a black officer amid …read more
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Netflix reported disappointing subscriber growth on Monday, sending its stock spiraling downward in after-hours trading. …read more
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By Tyler Durden
Earlier today, when we commented on Turkey’s crackdown of the alleged “mastermind” behind Friday’s military coup (besides the US, of course), we noticed something unexpected. While initially, the Turkish national media, Anadolu news agency, reported that the the ex-commander of the Turkish Air Force, Akin Ozturk, had pleaded guilty to organizing the coup attempt, saying “I started to act aiming to stage a coup,” this report by Anadolu…
… was promptly scrubbed, and replaced by its complete opposite, when CNN Turk reported that “Ozturk, who remained in active duty, has denied he was involved and insisted he worked to quell the uprising in statements he made to Turkish media.”
#BREAKING Former Air Force Commander Ak?n Öztürk says he was not the one to plan the coup pic.twitter.com/SgC2YvlBAi
— CNN Türk ENG (@CNNTURK_ENG) July 18, 2016
Furthermore, shortly after Anadolu tweeted its original “news” which included the commander’s quote shown above, the tweet in question was quickly deleted and scrubbed.
We were confused because this was a rather significant error. However, it wasn’t only us. As it turns out AP, which was also keeping track of the fluid narrative, encountered the same inconsistency, and moments ago reported the following retraction.
So what is the latest official story, at least until it changes once more. Here is the latest from AP:
Turkey’s state-run news agency says a former Air Force commander accused of a role in a failed coup Friday night has been placed under arrest by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office along with 25 others.
The government has accused Gen. Akin Ozturk of being the ringleader of the coup, though he told prosecutors he did not plan or direct it. The Anadolu news agency, relying on prosecutors, initially said Ozturk had confessed to a role in the coup, but later retracted that report.
So why did Turkey initially cast blame on the former Air Force commander only to scrub the story? Simple: it found an easier way to scapegoat Erdogan’s US-based nemesis, Fethullah Gulen. Namely, after the fact, the “prosecutor” decided that it is far better for Ozturk to blame the “Gulen movement” than to take responsibility personally… which he has promptly done.
“I don’t know who planned or directed it. According to my experiences, I think that the (Gulen movement) attempted this coup. But I cannot tell who within the Armed Forces organized and carried it out. I have no information. I have fought against this structure (meaning Gulen movement),” Ozturk was quoted as saying.
We wonder how much physical intervention was required to have Ozturk change his story so dramatically, and worse, why the Turkish government allowed such a dramatic error to occur, one which confirms that Erdogan is now openly fabricating the narrative as he sees fit, all with the intent of bringing down even more public anger on the 77 year old cleric based in Pennsylvania. .
“Game of Thrones” will have a shortened season next year with only a seven episode run. …read more
Source: ‘Game of Thrones’ seventh season will be shorter
By Tyler Durden
In the aftermath of last Thursday’s tragic truck attack in Nice, France which killed 84 and injured hundreds, public opinion turned even more sour on the country’s increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who said that “times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism, and we must face this together and show our collective sang-froid”, a statement which many took as an admission of defeat toward the terrorist threat sweeping across France in particular, and Europe in general.
The French resentment toward its Prime Minister was on full display again today, when Valls was loudly booed at memorial service to remember the victims of the Nice terror attack. The prime minister attended the service alongside the Mayor of Nice, Philippe Pradal, the regional president Christian Estrosi and the reigning prince of nearby Monaco, Prince Albert.
Valls was booed as he went to sign the book of condolence at the memorial service on the Promenade des Anglais. “Resignation!” “Murderers” was shouted by the crowds before and after the ceremony.
While the crowd was furious with Valls, it cheered to celebrate the work of the emergency services, who were applauded with shouts of “Thank you firefighters!” They broke in applause and raised their fists in the air when they heard the French national anthem.
Tensions are running high over the French government’s handling of security in the country when it was revealed Mr Estrosi’s request for more security at the event was denied despite France being in a state of emergency stemming from the Paris attacks in November.
Many blame President Francois Hollande’s Socialist administration for falling to prevent the three major Isis-inspired terror attacks on French soil in the past 18 months which have now killed more than 200 people. Hollande and Valls were also booed and jeered at by onlookers on Friday when they visited the site of the attack on the promenade with Estrosi.
Quoted by The Independent, local resident Isabel, who declined to give her surname, said she did not boo but understood why tensions are running high. She said: “They want him (Mr Valls) to resign because he didn’t put enough police on on the day. I was there (on Thursday) and didn’t see police. It’s terrible to say but we need a stronger prime minister with laws against radicalism.“
And while the existing government continues to slide in the polls, its approval rating tumbling with every new attack on French soil, one person keeps on winning: the National Front’s party leader, Marine Le Pen, cited by many as the most likely next French president. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Front, issued a statement on Friday denouncing the Bastille Day attack. She blamed “the scourge of Islamist fundamentalism” for the attack, which killed at least 84 people, even though officials have not yet attributed responsibility for it.
According to the most recent survey published by Le Monde one month ago, with one year to go until the French 2017 presidential …read more
Source: French Prime Minister Booed At Moment Of Silence In Nice
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