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u/whenihittheground · 6 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

For an excellent book on basically this topic from an economic historian I recommend Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

The Middle East started off with more advancements in science, math, technology, trade, military, finance, and higher populations etc than Europe. Simply put Europe was a shithole.

Both Europe and the Middle East had similar bans/limitations on usury, religion played similarly large roles to both peoples.

So why was there a vast reversal of fortune by the 1600s? The book tries to answer this question and it's very good.

u/bob-leblaw · 1 pointr/AnythingGoesNews

Check out the book, "Freakonomics" by Levitt & Dubner. Fascinating chapter on it, and other things related. Great read.

u/jcm267 · 1 pointr/AnythingGoesNews

93% of blacks vote Democrat. 7% of a small minority of the total US population vote either Republican or 3rd party, mostly Republican. Blacks are well represented in the GOP all things considered.

Here are a few others.

Michael Steele, the first black leader of the RNC.

Jason Reilly, Wall Street Journal editorial board member and author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Allen West was a one term Congressman from Florida and the first black Republican Congressman from FL since Reconstruction. This man is hugely popular with the supposedly racist "tea party" wing of the party. For the record, I am not a tea partier.

u/BangkokPadang · 5 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

They were intentionally created with the word "Federal" in them so people would think the government was running them.

EDIT: Anyone who wants to know more should read "The Creature From Jekyll Island" It is an in-depth exploration of the creation of The Federal Reserve, and is eye opening.

u/mariox19 · 0 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

I read this book a few months back. The author is criticized for his little experiment, but his personal experience aside, he does point out how the experiences of people he met as an "undercover poor person" differed—and they differed, largely, based on the choices the individuals made. So, it would seem like there are some working poor who do adapt, and manage to better their situation. What they do isn't magic; what they do is defer gratification.

What you describe is basically the point of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed. I've read a good portion of that book. The people in it are sympathetic, but many of them make bad choices as well.

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u/Inuma · 2 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

Well, just to help out...

If you want to see how our political structure effectively destroys our democracy, you can look at the problems here

If you want to know about the electoral college, look here

If you want to see the history of the electoral college, a short paragraph here

And if you're interested in learning how the system is used to disparage voters, you might want to look for this book here

u/diogenesbarrel · 1 pointr/AnythingGoesNews

As an European I know exactly what left and right mean as opposed to the Americans who call "liberals" Big Govt supporters.

Yes, Reagan was a neocon. The last true republican was Goldwater.

http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-American-Right-Murray-Rothbard/dp/1933550139

The (true) Reps opposed every single foreign intervention (all the wars up to the Gulf war were started or joined by the lefties), supported the blacks rights (as opposed to the Dems who voted against the Civil Rights in the Congress) and were very much against the corporations.

The corporatism was introduced by FDR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Deal_and_corporatism

who merged the corporations with the government.

Never downvoted you BTW.

u/NoFeetSmell · 2 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror is pretty awesome, and he lays out exactly how much they knew, and it certainly seems like the Bush administration could have done way more to prevent an attack. The first few chapters alone cover how ridiculously overlooked his suggestions were. He narrates the audiobook version too, and it's prettty riveting stuff, to say the least.

u/TheToucan · 2 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale was Jack the Ripper .. he was the grandson of Queen Victoria and heir to the British Crown.

>When authorities became aware he was the felon, he was lured to Sweden where he was murdered by the Queens equerry, and interred with little ceremony in that country!

>His body was exhumed at a later date and reburied in England. Source, Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God.

>The Ripper sent numerous handwritten letters to the Metropolitan Police, compare his writing with the Duke's to find out for sure! http://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/

u/RicoTheHotDogMan · 0 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

>Greg Zoller in The Dark Eagle, argues Benedict Arnold was the victim of a plot by George Washington. Link.

By claiming the coup was orchestrated by GW, all Zoller does is smokescreen Jewish involvement.

u/SuperCharged2000 · 1 pointr/AnythingGoesNews

We're told that the old crop of government agents were trying hard enough. Or that they didn't have the right intentions. While it's true that there are plenty of incompetent and ill-intentioned people in government, we can't always blame the people involved. Often, the likelihood of failure is simply built in to the institution of government itself. In other words, politicians and bureaucrats don't succeed because they can't succeed. The very nature of government administration is weighted against success.

Here are ten reasons why:

I. Knowledge


Government policies suffer from the pretense of knowledge . In order to perform a successful market intervention, politicians need to know more than they can. Market knowledge is not centralized, systematic, organized and general, but dispersed, heterogeneous, specific, and individual. Different from a market economy where there are many operators and a constant process of trial and error, the correction of government errors is limited because the government is a monopoly. For the politician, to admit an error is often worse than sticking with a wrong decision - even against own insight.

II. Information Asymmetries


While there are also information asymmetries in the market, for example between the insurer and the insured, or between the seller of a used car and its buyer, the information asymmetry is more profound in the public sector than in the private economy. While there are, for example, several insurance companies and many car dealers, there is only one government. The politicians as the representatives of the state have no skin in the game and because they are not stakeholders, they will not spend much efforts to investigate and avoid information asymmetries. On the contrary, politicians are typically eager to provide funds not to those who need them most but to those who are most relevant in the political power game.

III. Crowding out of the Private Sector


Government intervention does not eliminate what seem market deficiencies but creates them by crowding outthe private supply. If there were not a public dominance in the areas of schooling and social assistance, private supply and private charity would fill the gap as it was the case before government usurped these activities. Crowding-out of the private sector through government policies is constantly at work because politicians can get votes by offering additional public services although the public administration will not improve but deteriorate the matter.

IV. Time Lags


Government policies suffer from extended lags between diagnosis and effect. The governmental process is concerned with power and has its antenna captures those signals that are relevant for the power game. Only when an issue is sufficiently politicized will it find the attention of the government. After the lag, until an issue finds attention and gets diagnosed, another lag emerges until the authorities have found a consensus on how to tackle the political problem. From there it takes a further time span until the appropriate political means have found the necessary political support. After the measures get implemented, a further time elapses until they show their effects. The lapse of time between the articulation of a problem and the effect is so long that the nature of the problem and its context have changed - often fundamentally. It comes as no surprise that results of state interventions, including monetary policy , do not only deviate from the original goal but may produce the opposite of the intentions.

V. Rent Seeking and Rent Creation


Government intervention attracts rent-seekers. Rent seeking is the endeavor of gaining privileges through government policies. In a voter democracy, there is a constant pressure to add new rents to the existing rents in order to gain support and votes. This rent creation expands the number of rent-seekers and over time the distinction between corruption and a decent and legal conduct gets blurred. The more a government gives in to rent-seeking and rent creation, the more the country will fall victim to clientelism, corruption, and the misallocation of resources.

u/IntnsRed · 2 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

Yes. We inflicted tyranny and tragedy on Iran. They are right to call the US gov't "the Great Satan" because from the Iranian people's POV, we deserve that label.

CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt freed a Nazi war criminal where he was imprisoned for supporting Hitler in WWII. We then overthrew Iran's democratic gov't in 1953 to take control of Iran's oil. We literally freed a Nazi who was in prison for supporting Hitler in WWII and then installed that fascist bastard as the new dictator/Shah of Iran.

The CIA trained the Nazi dictator's hated secret police, the Savak, who killed and tortured countless thousands of Iranians.

By the time the Iranian people rightfully and heroically overthrew our puppet Nazi dictator in 1979, Amnesty Int'l was saying that Iran was the world's worst human rights abuser. The int'l criticism of Iran was so strong that even Carter felt pressured to offer muted criticisms of our puppet.

And after thousands of Iranians murdered and tortured by our puppet Nazi dictator, some hothead Iranian college students seized our embassy. Big deal -- we were lucky they didn't shoot them. Instead the Iranians held the hostages for 444 days trying to get the US puppet Nazi dictator back to Iran for trial from the US where Carter was protecting our puppet.

Decades after he retired, the Iranian president of that time said that both Carter and the Reagan/Bush election teams were offering deals to free our embassy hostages -- and the Iranian president took the deal that was best for Iran: The deal offered by Reagan/Bush to keep the Americans held hostage until Reagan won the 1980 election, preventing the so-called "October Surprise."

u/Deradius · 2 pointsr/AnythingGoesNews

>Remember when MTV filmed ODB on a limo ride to "get paid" at the welfare office with his welfare and foodstamps?

You believe that a disproportionate number of parasites are black because of one guy behaving irresponsibly?

Do you also believe that all black people are astrophysicists?

Let's get to the root of why you believe what it is that you believe.

>Nobody knows why all 47 sub Saharan countries in Africa are hellholes of disease, famine and poverty.

You should check out Guns, Germs, and Steel, if you're interested in this topic and you haven't read into it already. It does an awesome job answering this question, though I'd not have phrased it quite the way you did.

To sum it up, Africa, unlike Europe and the US, is situated on more of a North-South axis. Interestingly, this can make it much tougher (as a society) to transport resources and ideas from one place to another, stifling production and innovation and making it very difficult for industrial societies to develop. I don't do the concept justice, really, but it's a pretty cool concept and I highly recommend you check it out before you dismiss it out of hand.

There's also the exploitation of and tampering with these countries by first world nations that can make it tough for them to develop. It can be tough to develop a free and enlightened society when some first world power is buying ordnance for the oppressive regime du jour to accomplish whatever political goals they might have in the region.

And as you well know from following U.S. politics, corruption is certainly not exclusive to these nations.

>African American children are more than three times as likely as white children to be born into poverty and to be poor, and are more than four times as likely to live in extreme poverty.

Yep, and let's take a minute to talk about why.

Let's say that the first slaves arrived in the US in 1619.

Let's figure slavery ended with the emancipation proclamation, even though it didn't, which took place in 1863.

Let's suppose that oppression of blacks ended with the civil rights movement, which we will say happened at the nice round figure of 1960.

So you've got 244 years of slavery, in which, on the basis of their skin color, blacks were maintained almost exclusively as a servant class. They were deprived of education. They were deprived of any economic opportuniteis whatsoever. They were kept poor and undereducated specifically for the purpose of having them perform menial labor jobs.

From 1863 to 1960, you've got 97 years in which they were specifically targeted for oppression by society and government on the basis of their skin color alone. They were deprived access to equal facilities, they were deprived access to education, they were deprived access to educational opportunity.

The deliberate intent here was to create and maintain an economic servant class through the imposition of economic constraints, since it could no longer be done directly through legislation.

The effect was to create and perpetuate a system of generational poverty.

Black Americans could not obtain a quality education. They could to obtain quality jobs. As such, they could not amass financial resources either for themselves or for their offspring.

Those who lack education value education less and encourage it less in their offspring.

Those who have fewer resources are not able to provide resilient support networks for their offspring.

While having a car transmission die might be a bad thing for you or I, for someone stuck in generational poverty, it can be a catastrophe. Three jobs won't help you when you can't get to any of them, and not only do you not have the funds to fix the car - but neither does anyone in your support network.

You don't snap your fingers and get rid of three hundred and fifty years of baggage overnight. The grandparents of today's high schoolers, many of whom are directly raising those high schoolers, experienced direct educational and economic deprivation at the hands of an oppressive system.

It is, therefore, not particularly surprising that we see widespread problems in the African American community. They are the result of a deliberate and artificial imposition of educational and economic poverty, assigned along racial lines.

Affirmative action is an attempt to reverse the impact of negative racial poicies of the past by instituting 'beneficial' race-based policies in the present.

I (likely) agree with you that affirmative action is a bad idea.

Racism in the present, whatever form it takes, cannot possibly hope to correct racial injustice in the past.

Young people today do not need to be taught the lesson, "You deserve a leg up because of the color of your skin,", or "Because of the color of your skin, we don't think you can hack it, so you're being given a leg up." Both lessons are false and damaging.

Instead, policies should be instituted that differentially benefit artificially impoverished minorities until the disparities are resolved.

For example, a college scholarship that targets individuals who are the first in their family to go to college and whose parents fall below a certain income threshold will benefit a disproportionate number of African-American youths until the disparities are fixed, but will neither exclude eligible whites nor convey the wrong message to anyone.

>12.5% black population.

I was afraid of that.

Going back to the original quotation:

>How can a minority that does not work hard and is not as smart as the majority win the battle for scarce resources?

Please provide support for your generalization that black people, as a whole, do not work hard and are not as smart as 'the majority' (who I take to indicate white people based upon your reasoning - correct me if I'm wrong).

>60% of black students don't graduate high school. In NYC, that figure is 75%.

Does this have more to do with their capacity to achieve or with unstable home lives that are a product of generational poverty combined with an ongoing tradition of imposed racial inequality at the hands of police and school officials?

>72% of black babies are born to single mothers.

Does this have anything to do with the disproportionately high incarceration rate of African American males, stemming at least in part from differential enforcement of the laws?