#3
Like too many of MLK Jr's circle, after MLK was murdered by a Democrat or on the orders of LBJ/Hoover type elitists.
He and the Rev's started pimping Race for Fame, power and $$$$. By the late 1970's the MLK cause had been basically co-opted and was a Guilt based Blackmail shakedown scheme.
My condolences to the Family.
But likely we see a son or Daughter pickup the Black-Guilt Flag soon and milk it for $$$, fame and power. Using daddies name.
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He started by marching against Jim Crow laws and then the joined those who wrote those laws.
The Civil Rights movement was a good thing, but like that guy said... "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." ― Eric Hoffer
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Note well, when you put on the uniform, you lose some of your civil rights.
I believe it was banned for a long time after 1865. The desire for recruiting and drafting of young southern men softened the stand when the Department of War, then Department of the Army needed to fill the ranks 1898-1970. I remember in the 70s the directive to ban any state flags unless you displayed all 50. Nothing new.
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..well, what we are actually discussing here is individual displays of flags. That's in your barracks room or assigned family quarters. There is usually one flag pole per installation which does fly only the national colors. Unit flags usually are found along side with the national colors in the commander's office and only removed out of the office for ceremonies and reviews.
#4
...and on Army installations for July 4th there is a salute which involves the flags of all states. One bark of the gun per state. So many at present arms thinking 'come on Wyoming'.
[EuroIntelligence] We note that the European Court of Auditors is becoming increasingly nervous about the European Commission's overblown claims about its programmes. The auditors are now criticising the Commission's climate-change claims as a case of creative book-keeping. The court has published a review of the Commission's climate-change allocations. This not a full audit report, but an update of a previous analysis on whether the climate tracking claimed by the EU about its spending on climate change under its 2014-2020 budget is for real. The answer is that the EU substantially overestimates the amounts it spends on climate change through book-keeping tricks.
The auditors specifically looked at agricultural policies and structural funds, and concluded that the proportion of funds earmarked for climate change is almost comically exaggerated. The worst offender is agriculture. The plan had been to reserve half of the €100bn spent on agriculture for climate protection. The Commission counts subsistence payments to farmers as climate spending, so long as the farmers fulfil some nominal climate standards which almost every farmer does.
On spending programmes, the EU uses an old-fashioned rounding trick, as FAZ pointed out in an article. The OECD has recommended a simplified category whereby governments count the climate-protection share of their expenditures in steps of 0, 40% or 100%. What the Commission does is to round expenditures up to the next level. The court does not object to the use of this model, but criticises the Commission for not handling it in a conservative way.
We reported previously that the court of auditors also criticised the Juncker investment fund on the grounds that the Commission exaggerated the amounts of investments this exercise has raised.
Over the years, we have noted an increasing tendency by the Commission to make dishonest claims about its programmes. This is also why we have become very sceptical about any headlines coming out of Brussels. The headline numbers usually conflate different categories of money, and do not translate into reality. We understand that this is 21st century politics, but we think the EU is setting itself up for failure to meet its 30% CO2 reduction target. As, and when, that reality becomes clear, people will associate the EU in general, and the European Commission in particular, with that failure.
[IsraelTimes] Republican-turned-independent Michigan politician, who supported Trump’s impeachment, had considered running as Libertarian.
US Rep. Justin Amash ...pretend Republican congressman from Michigan, who probably won't be there come 2020... of Michigan, a former Republican who backed the impeachment of US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , is officially not running for reelection. because he knows he would lose
Amash, the first person of Paleostinian descent to serve in the US Congress, had suspended his congressional campaign in February and later explored seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president. Thursday was Michigan’s deadline to run as an independent, though some were also holding out hope he might seek the Libertarians’ nomination at a state convention Saturday.
"I love representing our community in Congress. I always will," Amash tweeted. "This is my choice, but I’m still going to miss it."
Amash, 40, initially became an independent a year ago after becoming disenchanted with partisan politics. He has represented Michigan’s 3rd Congressional district in the western part of the state since 2011.
When he announced last July in an op-ed in the Washington Post that he was leaving the Republican Party, Amash said he was "frightened by what I see from" partisanship.
Amash noted his father, a Paleostinian refugee from Bethlehem,
...both parents are Christian Arabs, not Muslim...
"would remind my brothers and me of the challenges he faced before coming here and how fortunate we were to be Americans."
He drew ire from US President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans when he said the president had engaged in impeachable conduct as described in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.
Trump has called Amash a "total loser."
Amash has long been seen as a libertarian Republican and an outspoken party contrarian. He was mentored in his earliest political runs by former representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican and perennial GOP presidential candidate who made a name for himself as the party’s foundational libertarian.
Amash is believed to favor a lower US profile overseas. That view led him to vote against an act that would enhance the US response to emerging or potential genocides, and against a Republican-led bill that pressured the Trump administration to appoint an anti-Semitism envoy.
Amash initiated eminent domain legislation that would make it tougher to build Trump’s wall with Mexico and been lacerating in his assessment of the president’s choice for attorney general, William Barr. He pointed to Barr’s record during the George W. Bush administration of defending warrantless eavesdropping.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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DoD fully out of the WOKE closet. Yawn, double yawn. 
[EuroIntelligence] We note that the European Court of Auditors is becoming increasingly nervous about the European Commission's overblown claims about its programmes. The auditors are now criticising the Commission's climate-change claims as a case of creative book-keeping. The court has published a review of the Commission's climate-change allocations. This not a full audit report, but an update of a previous analysis on whether the climate tracking claimed by the EU about its spending on climate change under its 2014-2020 budget is for real. The answer is that the EU substantially overestimates the amounts it spends on climate change through book-keeping tricks. 
...pretend Republican congressman from Michigan, who probably won't be there come 2020...
