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Friday, April 8, 2016

‘BLACK POWER’ PUBLIC EVENT EJECTS WHITE WOMAN AFTER SHE CHALLENGES “DONALD TRUMP IS RACIST” STATEMENT

Black Lives Matter' activists try to force cameraman to leave for bringing "negative energy"

Paul Joseph Watson - APRIL 8, 2016 529 Comments

A white woman was kicked out of a Black Panthers “self defense” training workshop at Portland Community College after she dared to challenge the statement, “Donald Trump is racist”.

The incident occurred during an event entitled ‘Black Love’ that was scheduled to coincide with the university’s ‘Whiteness History Month’.

A misspelled sign taped to the window of one of the classes for the event suggested that white people wouldn’t be welcome;

“Please respect that this workshop is for black and African identified folks exploring their Blackness in a healthy and community based manor (sic).”

A white woman was ejected from the event after she asked a speaker to clarify the claim that “Donald Trump is racist”.

“The first thing that went through my mind was, well wait a minute I’ve seen black people on stage speaking at Trump events, so I held up my hand and he called on me and I told him that I’ve seen black people speaking at Trump events,” said the woman.

“A woman began to question me with the intent of having me thrown out of the meeting and someone came in after, she must have texted someone, they came in later, asked me to step outside and said I was upsetting people in there and I was creating a bad vibe,” she added. “If white people did this, all three local news stations would be down here recording it”.

During the incident, social justice warriors involved in the event also tried to have the cameraman who shot the video above ejected from the building.

A man wearing a ‘Black Love – Black Power’ shirt tries to convince a campus police officer to force the cameraman to leave because he was bringing “negative energy”. The officer points out that he has a right to film at a public event in a public building.

Another leftist then repeatedly tells the cameraman, “you’re hurting people,” simply because he is filming proceedings.

Because social justice warriors and ‘Black Lives Matter’ extremists are incapable of having their incredibly weak arguments challenged, they are always forced to rely on mob intimidation and authoritarian coercion to silence dissent.

They’re also completely dishonest in labeling civil disagreement as “violence” in an attempt to demonize anyone who has the temerity to challenge their narrative.

Universities are supposed to be crucibles of open debate and people’s ideas being vigorously challenged, but under the new regressive leftist dogma of “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings” and “microaggressions,” alternative viewpoints will not be tolerated.

As we previously highlighted, a professor who gave a talk for the university’s ‘Whiteness History Month’ called for “whiteness” to be “abolished,” while another speaker asserted that talking about black crime statistics was a form of racism.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.

http://www.infowars.com/black-power-public-event-ejects-white-woman-after-she-challenges-donald-trump-is-racist-statement/

Thursday, March 24, 2016

What Killed The Middle Class?

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/24/2016 09:02 -0400

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

If the four structural trends highlighted below don't reverse, the middle class is heading for extinction.

Everyone knows the middle class is fading fast. I've covered this issue in depth for years, for example: Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class: Perhaps 1/3 of Households Qualify(December 28, 2015) and What Does It Take To Be Middle Class? (December 5, 2013)

This raises an obvious question: what killed the middle class? While many commentators try to identify one killer cause (for example, the U.S. going off the gold standard in 1971), the die-off of the middle class is more akin to the die-off in honey bees, which is the result of the interaction of multiple causes (factors that increase the toxic load dumped on bees and other pollinators by modern agriculture).

Longtime collaborator Gordon T. Long and I discuss the decline of the middle class and other key topics in a new 29-minute video How did that work out for you?

So where do we begin this detective story? With the engine of all real prosperity, productivity. This chart reveals that wages stopped rising with productivity around 1980.

Here's another look at the same phenomenon:

Productivity has been slipping since around 2003: Alan Greenspan:"Productivity is Dead”

Cause #1: declining productivity, which means the pie of real wealth is no longer expanding.

Exhibit #2: middle class wage earners have not received any of the gains. Wages as a percentage of GDP have been falling for decades, with occasional blips up in tech/housing bubbles:

Inflation-adjusted household income has dropped back to levels first reached in the 1980s:

More recently, wages have actually declined, regardless of educational attainment:

Income gains have all flowed to the top 10%, with most of the gains being concentrated in the top 5% and top 1%:

If the middle class didn't receive any of the gains, who did? Corporate profits have soared to unprecedented levels:

Cause #2: all the gains in the economy have flowed to corporations and the top 10% of financiers, managers and technocrats.

But wait a minute--hasn't the rising stock market enriched the middle class?Short answer: no. Middle class household wealth has absolutely cratered since the top of the housing bubble in 2007, and hasn't recovered.

Why? Middle class wealth is based not in stocks but in the family home. The middle class does not own enough financial assets to have participated in the latest stock market bubble, while the majority did not recover the wealth lost in the housing bubble bust. This is the cost of allowing the financial sector to financialize housing and mortgages in the 2000s.

Cause #3: the middle class doesn't own the "right" assets to benefit from systemic financialization and financial speculation.

How about rising costs? The federal agencies tasked with measuring inflation assure us inflation is near-zero. But these measures underweight big-ticket costs like healthcare and higher education, where costs have exploded higher, greatly increasing the burden on the middle class:

Cause #4: soaring costs of big-ticket expenses such as higher education and healthcare. Saving $10 on cheap jeans imported from Asia does not make up for 135% jumps in tuition and college fees, and $100 decline in the cost of a laptop computer does not make up for healthcare insurance and out-of-pocket expenses in the tens of thousands of dollars per household.

Correspondent Kevin K. submitted this article and accompanying note: Colleges with the biggest tuition hikes (my ala mater University of Hawaii-Manoa clocked in with an increase of 137% since 2004.)

"It looks like the article linked above didn't do much research since:
University of California Davis
2004 in-state tuition $5,684
2015 in state tuition $13,951
Percentage increase 145.44 percent"

There is no way middle class households with declining real incomes can pay soaring costs imposed by state-enforced cartels and gain ground financially. If the four structural trends highlighted above don't reverse, the middle class is heading for extinction, the victim of financialization, the glorification of financial speculation via central bank-central state policies, the decline of productivity and rising costs imposed by state-enforced cartels.

Gordon T. Long and I discuss the decline of the middle class and other key topics:

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Economy Tags: , Fiat Economy, Fake Money, Value, Money Manipulation, Stolen Wealth