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Socialism perfected! Used to be the highest income and standard of living country in Latin America. |
Abbeybailey:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzoPjV9VYAEzx6u.jpg |
RIP to the brave soldiers. |
Abbeybailey:A special prosecutor from the Illinois Attorney General’s office will prosecute misdemeanor charges against Jedidiah Brown, after Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx decision to recuse herself over allegations she had political ties to the community activist. Cook County Circuit Judge LeRoy Martin Jr., chief of the criminal division, appointed the AG’s office at a hearing Thursday. Foxx stepped aside from Brown’s case, which stemmed from a 2018 arrest at a protest in South Shore, after eight officers involved in the arrest said Foxx had a conflict of interest because Brown is a political supporter who shared the stage with her at a news conference April 6 at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters. Foxx also posed for a selfie with Brown, who faces misdemeanor charges for resisting arrest and striking an officer during a 2018 demonstration in South Shore. Brown has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and seven officers involved in the arrest. https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/kim-foxx-jedidiah-brown-fraternal-order-of-police-special-prosecutor/ Chicago's top prosecutor Kim Foxx subpoenaed in Jussie Smollett case CHICAGO — Chicago's top prosecutor Kim Foxx has been subpoenaed to appear in court by a retired appellate judge who's pushing for a special prosecutor to investigate the handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Sheila O'Brien also subpoenaed Foxx's top deputy and requested that Smollett appear at a hearing on her request. Foxx was harshly criticized when her office announced it was dropping charges against Smollett that accused the black, gay actor of staging a racist and anti-gay attack on himself in downtown Chicago. https://hardforum.com/data/attachment-files/2019/02/194750_vqozwlijtqg21.jpg |
Technically, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Cuba, DR, Haiti etc, all of it is in N. America. Culturally none of it is N. American. |
Abbeybailey:Illinois is a Sinkhole State without enough assets to cover its debt. https://www.statedatalab.org/state_data_and_comparisons/detail/illinois https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/and-whats-your-share-folks-of-our-local-public-debt-126000/ |
Crusades was a response to hundreds of years of Muslims invading Christian lands. |
obixcel:LOL |
https://www.apnews.com/42b62f24be9b4e0d9f764f1a3fa9647a HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban government announced Friday that it is launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis. Commerce Minister Betsy Díaz Velázquez told the state-run Cuban News Agency that various forms of rationing would be employed in order to deal with shortages of staple foods. She blamed the hardening of the U.S. trade embargo by the Trump administration. Economists give equal or greater blame to a plunge in aid from Venezuela, where the collapse of the state-run oil company has led to a nearly two-thirds cut in shipments of subsidized fuel that Cuba used for power and to earn hard currency on the open market. “We’re calling for calm,” Díaz said, adding that Cubans should feel reassured that at least cooking oil would be in ample supply. “It’s not a product that will be absent from the market in any way.” Cuba imports roughly two thirds of its food at an annual cost of more than $2 billion and brief shortages of individual products have been common for years. In recent months, a growing number of products have started to go missing for days or weeks at a time, and long lines have sprung up within minutes of the appearance of scarce products like chicken or flour. Many shoppers find themselves still standing in line when the products run out, a problem the government has been blaming on “hoarders.” “The country’s going through a tough moment. This is the right response. Without this, there’ll be hoarders. I just got out of work and I was able to buy hot dogs,” said Lazara García, a 56-year-old tobacco-factory worker. At the Havana shopping center where García bought her hot dogs, cashiers received orders Friday morning to limit powdered milk to four packets per person, sausages to four packs per person and peas to five packets per person. Manuel Ordoñez, 43, who identified himself as a small business owner, said the new measures would do nothing to resolve Cuban’s fundamental problems. “What the country needs to do is produce. Sufficient merchandise is what will lead to shorter lines,” he said. Limited rationing of certain products has already begun in many parts of the country, with stores limiting the number of items like bottles of cooking oil that a single shopper can purchase. The policy announced by Díaz appears to go further and apply the same standards across the country of 11 million people. The Cuban economy crashed with the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged the island into a more than decade-long period of misery and hunger that ended with the arrival of subsidized Venezuelan oil in the early 2000s. The latest shortages and rationing appear to mark the end of a phase of relative prosperity but conditions are nowhere close to the deprivation of what is known as Cuba’s “special period.” Cuba’s highest leaders say that while tough times lie ahead, there will be no return to the worst days of the post-Soviet depression because the island has diversified its economy and built trade ties with countries around the world. Food stores in Cuba are government-run and sell products ranging from highly subsidized to wildly overpriced by global standards. Every Cuban receives a ration book that allows them to buy small quantities of basic goods like rice, beans, eggs and sugar each month for payment equivalent to a few U.S. cents. Cubans with enough money can buy more of those basic goods at “liberated” prices that are still generally below the world average. At the highest of Cuba’s three tiers, brand-name goods from high-quality rice to fancy jams can be purchased for often two to three times the price in their country of origin. Díaz said chicken will now be sold in limited quantities in every type of store — with cheaper chicken limited to 11 pounds per purchase and the more expensive variety capped at two packages per purchase. Low-priced soap, rice, bean, peas and eggs will now only be sold in limited quantities per person and controlled through the national system of ration books, she said. Sales of those products at higher prices do not appear to be affected for the moment. The measures can be expected to have a serious impact on private business owners who often buy cheaper-priced goods at state stores in the absence of access to a wholesale market. Cuba maintains a total monopoly on wholesale commerce, imports and exports, with virtually no access for the country’s small but growing private sector. Díaz provided a grim series of statistics on food production by the state-run sector, which has found itself struggling to find the cash it needs to pay for basic inputs. She said that in March Cuba produced 900,000 fewer eggs than the 5.7 million needed daily to satisfy national demand. That deficit shrank to 600,000 by mid-April, she said. The production of pork, the most-consumed meat in Cuba and a normally affordable staple of most people’s diets, is hundreds of tons below target. Díaz said importing food from U.S. producers had become more complicated under Trump, forcing Cuba to search for products that were more expensive and difficult to import. “Selling limited quantities will lead to equal distribution, so that the greatest number of people can buy the product, and we can avoid hoarding,” she said. |
Abbeybailey:Illinois is a train wreck financially thanks to the Dems who have running that state seemingly forever. Yeah lots of good corporate jobs in Chicagoland, but the city has lost 250,000 in population in recent years. How is your corrupt friend Ms. Foxx? I would much rather live in the Gulf Coast of Mississippi than Illinois, as much as I like River North and Gold Coast. |
obixcel:Huge mistake for the Donks to get Mueller to talk, the Reps would destroy him. |
panafrican:So how did that happen, did Talon bribe the lawmakers? |
panafrican:Probably running basic scientific experiments, like how the USA is doing the same on Mars. |
morpheus24:Socialism does not work, I know you want to believe it can work but it doesn't |
cyprus000:Like I posted before if you asked whites, most would be fine with African governments expelling all white people based on their race, and likewise white countries deport all black immigrants and close off their borders ...... no more immigration illegal or legal. You go to the lowest common denominator, black vs. white. Erase whites and you will find another tribe to demean. |
panafrican:LOL |
cyprus000:Mugabe was a thug killer from day 1. If you want to create a plan, to get rid of white farmers, first you pay them compensation, and secondly you partner them with a vetted black family that wants to be a successful farmer. Then the white farmer stays on for a couple of growing seasons and trains the new farmer. You look for volunteers, people getting close to retirement age. It is also totally wrong to suggest that all white farmers stole this land or that land. Many worked, saved money and legally bought land. Farming isn't easy, it can be difficult work. Mugabe is another garden variety African leader using the lowest common denominator, tribal warfare. |
cyprus000:Mugabe wrecked the country, destroyed agriculture. It is always the same, blame some other tribe, white or black, get elected steal as much as you can. Then beg for foreign aid. Yes the money to pay back whites will come from other countries foreign aid, if the money isn't stolen of course. |
Zimbabwe to start paying white farmers compensation after April HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is to start paying compensation this year to thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue. Two decades ago Mugabe’s government carried out at times violent evictions of 4,500 white farmers and redistributed the land to around 300,000 black families, arguing it was redressing imbalances from the colonial era. But land reform still divides public opinion as opponents see it as a partisan process that left the country struggling to feed itself............................................... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zimbabwe-farmers/zimbabwe-to-start-paying-white-farmers-compensation-after-april-idUSKCN1RK0UU Why white Zimbabwean farmer, Ben Freeth, returned to his farm eight years after it was destroyed by pro-Mugabe forces Stripped of their land and forced to watch their house torched, Kent-born Ben Freeth and his family have seen first-hand the violence and unpredictability of Zimbabwe’s authoritarian regime. Yet after beatings, torture and court battles, he still has hope for the hundreds of thousands of farmers and farmworkers who have lost their livelihoods to Robert Mugabe. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/07/white-zimbabwean-farmer-ben-freeth-returned-farm-eight-years/ I think many of those white went to Mozambique, Botswana and Zambia. Some probably went to S. Africa also. |
Ilamina:Most left for other countries, including other African countries. |
[quote author=cyprus000 post=78292880]Isn't it risible that you'd use the word "stole" in favour of invaders and against the aborigines. The government there is now paying former farmers for stealing their land. |
Ilamina:Why? small country that stole land from successful farmers. Farming isn't easy. Any whites who have the means left there long ago and they would in SA if they could. |
morpheus24:The real estate collapse in the USA was 100% based not of the free market but of government backed loans. Same deal with government loans for university tuition. The reason why college costs so much is because of easy access to tuition loans. |
happney65:How so? Other people gave that regime tons of money to be nice, and they did whatever they wanted. Trump hasn't given him chit. |
morpheus24:IDK what the monopoly laws are in SA. Buy yes of course corporations and their investors lobby politicians for favorable laws etc. In the freest sense capitalism is the mutual exchange of goods, services, money between 2 parties. As an example in the US decades ago phone companies were regulated like a quasi government controlled company. They were granted exclusive control over regions, like a utility. Therefore they were stagnant. You pay X amount for 1 or 2 landlines, even had to buy their phones, no explosion of technology. Then something happened. Electronic companies, using cassette machines, created machines where someone could leave a message if nobody answered a phone call. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Panasonic-Anrufbeantworter.jpg/360px-Panasonic-Anrufbeantworter.jpg You could plug this into the phone line. Even making a call 100 miles away was expensive. Now you call globally for free. The moral of the story is when government got out of the phone business there was an explosion of technology that rivaled the industrial age. |
Plane is owned by Cargojet, and the CEO is a Drake fan so it is some sort of use arrangement. I seriously doubt Drake bought the plane. Terrible investment if you are not making money flying people or cargo on that daily. Now if you have billions that is another matter. |
panafrican:Of course. Stalin gave the green light to China and they ordered the invasion of N. Korea on S. Korea. Guess which one is a 3rd world hell hole, and the other 1st World? |
mysticwarrior:Technically that isn't an invasion map, just where Britain has been involved in some manner. You ask about Saudi Arabia, Britain and France created, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, UAE, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon etc. Those countries were all part of the Ottoman Empire. |
morpheus24:There are NO wealthy Socialist countries. There almost no Socialist countries anymore period. |
mysticwarrior:In North America some still do live on reservations. Some tribes got lucky with special Gaming permits and they have built nice casinos on their property. But I can tell you the illegal immigrants from C. America, they get drunk and smash their cars into others and kill others daily. It is a very under reported problem in the USA. |
codemaniacs:Hogwash. |
Somebody/some people are running scared. Cowards!! 

