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Attention

Study by Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT: US has regressed to a third-world nation for most of its citizens


The Intellectualist
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:44 UTC
An old house
“Collapse” by Erica Woodson
America divided - this concept increasingly graces political discourse in the U.S., pitting left against right, conservative thought against the liberal agenda. But for decades, Americans have been rearranging along another divide, one just as stark if not far more significant - a chasm once bridged by a flourishing middle class.

Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, believes the ongoing death of "middle America" has sparked the emergence of two countries within one, the hallmark of developing nations. In his new book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Temin paints a bleak picture where one country has a bounty of resources and power, and the other toils day after day with minimal access to the long-coveted American dream.

In his view, the United States is shifting toward an economic and political makeup more similar to developing nations than the wealthy, economically stable nation it has long been. Temin applied W. Arthur Lewis's economic model - designed to understand the workings of developing countries - to the United States in an effort to document how inequality has grown in America.
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People

Real Syrian youth open up about Assad government and US-backed 'moderate' rebels


Sputnik
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 19:43 UTC
People in Damascus
© AFP 2017/ LOUAI BESHARA
Pierre Le Corf, the founder of the We Are Superheroes humanitarian organization spoke with a group of Syrian youths in Aleppo in an open live interview, which he streamed on his Facebook page for everyone to watch. The group spoke about what is actually going on in Syria and how the war has affected their personal lives.

As an opening question, Le Corf asked every individual in the group, which consisted of five boys and one girl, to describe the most difficult moment that they lived through during the war.

"The most difficult thing that we lived through in this war is when our close friends died for no reason. We used to live in a very peaceful way before. It is very hard to realize that we don't have our close friends with us anymore," 16-year-old Aladdin said.

"My house got bombed like eight times on the same day. We were very scared; my mom started crying. We were hiding in the basement and it was very nerve wrecking. That was a year and half ago. We are okay now," said Shehed, a 16-year-old girl.
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Attention

Despite lackluster jobs report, stocks close at an all-time high

Fred Imbert
CNBC
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:51 UTC
wall street
© Brendan McDermid/ReutersTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
U.S. equities rose to record levels on Friday as Wall Street shrugged off a jobs report that came in well below expectations.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed about 60 points higher and reached its first intraday record since March 1 as well as its second straight record close. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite also managed intraday and closing records.

"This was the closest thing to a nonresponse you're going to see," said Michael Shaoul, chairman and CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, referring to the market's reaction to the jobs report. "This isn't a report that warrants a strong response in financial markets and I don't think you're going to get one."

Marc Chaikin, CEO of Chaikin Analytics, said a pop in small-cap stocks helped the large-cap indexes rise on Friday. Small caps "have caught up in a big way and they're on their way to all-time highs," he said.

The Russell 2000, which tracks small cap stocks, rose 0.67 percent and was less than 2 percent away from a record high.

Comment: If the stock market is so great, why are so many big names in the financial community warning about an imminent meltdown?

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Penis Pump

The Trump-Griffin scandal underscores American's celebrity-obsessed culture

Michael McCaffrey
RT
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:34 UTC
Kathy Griffin, US President Donald Trump
© AFP / Reuters
This past week, comic and attention-monger Kathy Griffin posted a photo on social media of her holding the bloody, decapitated head of President Trump. The ensuing outrage was not the least bit surprising and was exactly what everyone involved craved.

When I first heard of the uproar over Kathy Griffin's infamous Trump photo, I hesitated even reading the story because I didn't want to feed Ms. Griffin's ravenous hunger for fame. But Hollywood is my beat, so I reluctantly dove into the story.

My first impression upon seeing the (warning: graphic) photo was to be startled by the grotesque face with vacant eyes staring back at me. I soon realized that vile and contorted mug was Ms. Griffin's and that she was holding a cheap replica of Donald Trump's head, severed and bloody.
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Snakes in Suits

Slap on the wrist: Penn State administrators sentenced to only a few months in jail for their role in covering up child rape

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:00 UTC
Penn State administrators sandusky pedophile

Penn State school administrators were sentenced for their role in covering up Jerry Sandusky's child rape, their combined sentences are less than 1 year.

Justice has finally been served to those now found responsible for covering up Jerry Sandusky's crimes against children. The former president, vice-president, and athletic director at Penn State have all been sentenced to jail. However, their sentences do not fit their crimes of covering up what was one of the most explosive child rape incidents in U.S. history.

According to the Associated Press (AP), Former President Graham Spanier, 68, was sentenced to only two months in jail and eight months of house arrest. Former athletic director Tim Curley, 63, only got three months in jail. Former vice president Gary Schultz, 67, received just two months behind bars. They all pleaded guilty to child endangerment and will report to jail to begin their sentencing on July 15.

Judge John Boccabella didn't hold back his feelings at sentencing, saying, "They ignored the opportunity to put an end to his crimes when they had a chance to do so." He added he was "appalled that the common sense to make a phone call did not occur...sort of robs my faith of who we are as adults and where we are going."

Comment: Sad, but rather unsurprising as those in power will always protect their own. Pedophilia is so pervasive among the elites, there is no real motive to punish those involved.

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Handcuffs

Jailed: Austrian parents took children to IS-held parts of Syria, shown execution videos


RT
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:09 UTC
ISIS and victim
© Jerusalem Post
An Austrian court has sentenced two couples to up to 10 years in jail for taking their 8 children, including a 2-year-old toddler, to war-torn Syria in 2014, where the kids had to watch brutal Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) execution videos. Two couples travelled to Syria with their eight children in December 2014 - the youngest of whom was two years old at the moment, the eldest - seven, APA (Austria Press Agency) reported.

While they were housed by Islamic State, the two families lived on their own, spending money they brought from Austria. Their children had to watch brutal execution videos, propagated by IS, and one seven-year-old boy even saw a beheading live and up close, Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten reported on Friday. When life in Syria turned out to be less idyllic than the parents had hoped, the family fled to Turkey, but was eventually deported back to Austria, where the children were taken into care.

The prosecutor in the southern city Graz demanded a "severe, really harsh punishment" for the four defendants, the newspaper reported. They had joined Islamic State, a "gang of murderers, rapists, slaveholders and really bad guys," the prosecutor said.

All four (Hasan O, 49, and his wife Kata O, 43, Enes S, 38, and his wife Michaela S, 39,) were convicted of belonging to a terrorist organization and of mistreating and neglecting children. They were sentenced to the maximum term of 10 years in prison, except Kata O who was given nine years. All, except Austrian-born Muslim convert Michaela S, were from Bosnia, but all had long had Austrian citizenship, Salzburger Nachrichten reported.

Comment: Reality parenting? This is a reality with which no child should have to contend.

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Hillary mocked by CNN host: 'The Russians cloaked WI so she couldn't find it on the map'

Kyle Olson
The American Mirror
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
HilClint
© reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com"Those fricking damn Russians!"
Now even the Clinton News Network is mocking Hillary's Blame Tour.

After Clinton pointed a finger at James Comey, Wikileaks, "1000 Russian agents," prognosticators who played up an "assumption" she was going to win, and several other culprits on Wednesday for her November loss to Donald Trump, it all proved to be too much even for CNN.

During a round table discussion with DC reporters today, host John King dismissed her excuses by saying, "You don't understand: The Russians cloaked Wisconsin," referring to Clinton's ignoring the battleground state until it was too late.

"So she couldn't find it on a map to get there and campaign there," he added.

Watch:


Comment: The majority of the public didn't like what it saw in Killary during the election. That behavior was mild compared to what they see now! She is unequivocally making the case for Trump's presidency and he doesn't have to lift one smallish finger.

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Snowflake

Life in Covfefe Land

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterf**k Nation
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:24 UTC
precious snowflakes cartoon
"This is one of the things I find funny about the radical Left protests on campus.... You want to have it both ways. You want to be a fledgling member of the elite and a champion of the underprivileged. So, how narcissistic can you get? You want to have all the benefits of having all of the benefits, and you want to have all the benefits of having none of the benefits, because just having all the benefits isn't enough for you."

— Jordon Peterson, University of Toronto Psychology Professor

"The empire could no longer afford the problem of its own existence."

— Joseph Tainter on the collapse of complex societies
The extraordinary thought disorders of this moment in history are equally distributed across the political spectrum. They're an inevitable product of what Sigmund Freud identified as the discontents of civilization, but they grow especially acute as that civilization enters an economic crack-up zone. The craziness is equally distributed while the nation's wealth is not. The old middle, or center, is imploding both economically and psychologically, concentrating distortions of reality at each end, Left and Right.

The disordered thought in Trumpism is as self-evident as (a) covfefe, though it came into being out of the authentic pain of those classes that bear the brunt of accelerating collapse. The thought disorders among Trump's adversaries interest me more, because they emanate from the far more educated ranks of society, the place where rational leadership is supposed to spawn. If you can't depend on those people to think straight in difficult times, then it raises the question of what exactly is the value of an advanced education?

Comment: The great Dr. Andrew Lobaczewski outlined the situation decades ago'

Political Ponerology:
The traditional interpretation of these great historical diseases has already taught historians to distinguish two phases. The first is represented by a period of spiritual crisis in a society,which historiography associates with exhausting of the ideational, moral, and religious values heretofore nourishing the society in question. Egoism among individuals and social groups increases, and the links of moral duty and social networks are felt to be loosening. Trifling matters thereupon dominate human minds to such an extent that there is no room left for thinking about public matters or a feeling of commitment to the future. An atrophy of the hierarchy of values within the thinking of individuals and societies is an indication thereof; it has been described both in historiographic monographs and in psychiatric papers. The country's government is finally paralyzed, helpless in the face of problems which could be solved without great difficulty under other circumstances. Let us associate such periods of crisis with the familiar phase in social hysterization.

[...]

It is practically impossible for hysteria to manifest itself as a mere individual phenomenon, since it is contagious by means of psychological resonance, identification, and imitation. Each human being has a predisposition for this malformation of the personality, albeit to varying degrees, although it is normally overcome by rearing and self-rearing, which are amenable to correct thinking and emotional self-discipline.

During "happy times" of peace dependent upon social injustice, children of the privileged classes learn to repress from their field of consciousness the uncomfortable ideas suggesting that they and their parents are benefitting from injustice against others. Such young people learn to disqualify disparage the moral and mental values of anyone whose work they are using to over-advantage. Young minds thus ingest habits of subconscious selection and substitution of data, which leads to a hysterical conversion economy of reasoning. They grow up to be somewhat hysterical adults who, by means of the ways adduced above, thereupon transmit their hysteria to the next generation, which then develops these characteristics to an even greater degree. The hysterical patterns for experience and behavior grow and spread downwards from the privileged classes until crossing the boundary of the first criterion of ponerology: the atrophy of natural critical faculties with respect to pathological individuals.


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Cops stomp, taser, and suffocate mentally ill man in county jail; parents sue for wrongful death

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:50 UTC
police assault
Surveillance footage, released to the Reno Gazette-Journal through a public records request, shows the terrifying final moments of 35-year-old Justin Thompson, a man in the midst of a mental breakdown. For 30 minutes, nearly a dozen Washoe County Sheriff's deputies took turns kicking, tasering, insulting, and crushing the wind from Thompson — who noted multiple times that he could not breathe through the spit mask over his head. After the seeing the video, Thompson's parents are now suing the county for the wrongful death of their son.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court last Friday and it asks the county to pay wrongful death damages, the cost of Thompson's funeral, and other damages.

As RGJ reports, Peter Goldstein, the lawyer representing Thompson's parents, claims in the lawsuit that Thompson was no danger because he had been medicated at the hospital, making him docile. Goldstein also said deputies ignored Thompson's repeated warnings that he could not breathe.

"As seen in the video, the staff and deputies of the jail kicked, kneeled upon, burked and applied torturous arm bar holds, and refused plaintiff's pleas for help," he wrote. "When decedent stated he could not breathe, they did not provide any help or even begin to appreciate the level of danger and harm decedent was experiencing."
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Snakes in Suits

Walmart faces backlash for 'brutally unfair' system that punishes sick employees


RT
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:00 UTC
Walmart
© FP 2016/ SAUL LOEB
Walmart is facing a battery of bad news about its treatment of employees, just in time for its annual shareholder meeting. A labor rights group says the company has an illegal sick leave policy, while workers wonder if racism plays a role in scheduling.

As America's largest private employer, with 1.5 million employees, Walmart has long been criticized for its policy of placing profit above all else, especially its workers. A new report about Walmart's "absence control program" described the company's sick leave policy as "brutally unfair" and "often against the law."

A Better Balance, a work and family legal center, surveyed more than 1,000 current and former Walmart employees about the policy. The group found that the company routinely refuses to accept doctors' notes, punishes workers who need time off to care for a sick family member and otherwise penalizes lawful absences covered under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), as well as other worker protections.
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