Venezuela – once one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America – has been driven into such economic and political turmoil that its currency is no longer of any use.
However, that has not stopped Venezuelan bolivares from becoming a commodity elsewhere.
Across the border in Colombia, Hector Cordero uses the currency to make wallets and purses, which he sells to tourists in Colombia.
“These bolivares soberanos notes are worth nothing,” Cordero, who is from Caracas, told Al Jazeera. “These notes I use are not circulating any more since last year.”
Rising immigrant populations around the United States will result in several solidly Democratic states gaining more seats in the House of Representatives at the expense of solidly Republican states, the study by the Center for Immigration Studies finds. The shift ultimately will give the Democratic Party more influence in the Electoral College, CIS says..." Read all.
The nation's always "divided" when Dems don't get what they want. I was forced to go to a Christmas party over the weekend and had to listen to some jackhole whine about how "divisive" Trump was and lament that we couldn't "come together."
I unloaded on that nickelfucker -
"You want to talk divisive?
I hated that dog-eating Kenyan crackhead every moment of the eight years he infested the White House.
But you know what I didn't do, asshole?
I didn't riot in the streets.
I didn't scream "HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT!"
I didn't gin up some phony, childish "Resistance."
I didn't go into every damned restaurant and public space where Obama or any of his cabinet were and scream in their faces.
And I sure as hell didn't hijack the FBI to create a phony dossier to impeach him 49 hours after he was inaugurated!
YOUR filthy party did all of that and more, right from the moment the polls closed and you knew that drunk, morally leprous hag of yours wasn't going to win.
So you can take that fucking 'divisive' talk and your crocodile tears about unity and shove them up your ass until you shit blood for a week!" Fortunately, I work at home, so I don't have to run into that clown more than perhaps once a month. But got-DAMN, I am sick of Dems blaming Trump for their own diaper-soiling meltdowns."
Venezuela – once one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America – has been driven into such economic and political turmoil that its currency is no longer of any use.
However, that has not stopped Venezuelan bolivares from becoming a commodity elsewhere.
Across the border in Colombia, Hector Cordero uses the currency to make wallets and purses, which he sells to tourists in Colombia.
“These bolivares soberanos notes are worth nothing,” Cordero, who is from Caracas, told Al Jazeera. “These notes I use are not circulating any more since last year.”
History for December 28 - On-This-Day.com Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 28th U.S. President, Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882, John Molson 1763 - Beer brewer, founder of Molson Beer Martin Milner 1927 - Actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Columbo), Edgar Winter 1946 - Musician (Edgar Winter’s White Trash), Denzel Washington 1954 - Actor (Glory, Malcolm X, The Hurricane) 1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance." 1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.
A Desperate Plan that Changed the Course of the Revolution:
This Christmas marks the 242nd anniversary of a battle that changed the course of history.
You think America has problems in 2018? Try living as a Patriot during the winter of 1776. Washington’s army had lost one battle after another. The economy had tanked. And the paper money the United States printed seemed worthless. Americans were abandoning the cause in droves.
UCSB has announced a new social justice minor within the history department.
Professor says campus “isn’t giving enough energy” to inequality and social justice.
The University of California, Santa Barbara history department has introduced a new minor in “Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice,” with the stated goal of providing students with “the tools to understand the structural and political roots, dynamics and consequences of poverty and intersectional inequality; conduct original research; and engage meaningfully in efforts to address poverty through policy, practice and social action.” The minor is a function of the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, which “promotes democratic responses” to “poverty and inequality.”... Read all.
A new analysis released late last week found that a massive number of seats in the House of Representatives — enough to flip the majority in the House — will be redistributed primarily to Democrat states as a result of the increasing number of legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S. population.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released the findings from their analysis on how legal and illegal immigration is set to impact the political power structure in Washington, D.C. for the 2020 elections.
Key findings from CIS’s analysis include:
Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda | Salon.com
"...because Hallmark movies, as cloying and saccharine as they are, constitute the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda.
That is probably a startling statement to some.
When most of us think about fascistically propagandistic movies, we think of the grotesque grandeur of Leni Riefenstahl's films celebrating the Third Reich — grand, but cold sweeping shots of soldiers goose-stepping and flags waving, all meant to inspire awe and terror.
But the reality is, even in Nazi Germany, the majority of movies approved by the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, were escapist and feather-light, with a Hallmark movie-style emphasis on the importance of "normality."
...Hallmark movies, with their emphasis on returning home and the pleasures of the small, domestic life, also send a not-at-all subtle signal of disdain for cosmopolitanism and curiosity about the larger world, which is exactly the sort of attitude that helps breed the kind of defensive white nationalism that we see growing in strength in the Donald Trump era..." Read all.
Geographic Evidence that Gun Deaths are Cultural - Handwaving Freakoutery - Medium "...a pretty amazing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project hosted by The Oregonian, which uses CDC data and population rate data to determine thegun death rate, gun homicide rate, and gun suicide rate within the country on a county by county basis... Here’s the interactive website, where you can zoom in to any area of the country. You can go to the website itself and zoom in or around any of the screenshots in this article. We should talk about these maps. Deaths are expressed as rates per 100,000 population, and above average rates are red, while below average rates are blue.
The first map shows big swaths of red in the generally “red state” areas of the country, and most of the social media dialog I’ve tracked on these maps boils down to red-state political bashing and gun bashing.
But there are very important things to be gleaned from the following two maps, which dis-aggregate the deaths by homicide and suicide.
Gun suicides account for about two thirds of gun deaths,so this map is going to look generally like the first one. No huge surprises here. But there are many regions red in the “deaths” map that flip blue in the “suicide” map, and the reason why is clear when you look at the “homicide” map, here:
Look at the differences in these last two maps.
We hear a lot of banter from the “anti-gun” media that these problems are gun problems, and they’ve concocted this “gun deaths” number in order to lump these into the same problem and gloss over the differences.
But if the problem were “guns,” then the hot spots on the suicide map and the hot spots on the homicide map would coincide, and would be related to gun ownership rates.
There are only a few places where they overlap. Most of the hot zones for suicide have low homicide rates, and most of the hot zones for homicide have low suicide rates. The difference is stark.
Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing, to every neighborhood statewide — whether residents want it or not.
The measure could quickly transform the suburban lifestyle enjoyed by millions, permitting duplexes to be built on suburban lots in neighborhoods previously consisting of quiet streets and open green spaces. Proponents of “upzoning” say the changes are necessary because suburbs are bastions of segregation and elitism, as well as bad for the environment.
Venezuela – once one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America – has been driven into such economic and political turmoil that its currency is no longer of any use.
Study Finds Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats
Clarice Feldman - CH: "Nation still deeply divided day after vote...
Venezuela – once one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America – has been driven into such economic and political turmoil that its currency is no longer of any use.
UCSB unveils new 'social justice' & 'inequality' focused history minor
A new analysis released late last week found that a massive number of seats in the House of Representatives — enough to flip the majority in the House — will be redistributed primarily to Democrat states as a result of the increasing number of legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S. population.
Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing, to every neighborhood statewide — whether residents want it or not.