The country is filled with many tribes. I guess mine are no longer on the East Coast.

A driver with Jersey plates caused a parking lot mishap after yoga, by entering from the wrong direction and being forced to back into the stall to beat other drivers to the spot.

When I was finally able to straighten myself out, I had come to a stop in front of the New Jersey car facing me directly .

Unprovoked the driver stuck their head out the window and said, “what the h*** do you looking at!” Saving me from opening a conversation.

“You just inconvenience 3 drivers to sneak into a spot, because you came from the wrong direction.”

“So, what the F*** business is it of yours?”, Was the response.

“If you want to be here, keep your bad manners in Jersey.”

My dialog continued confounding the driver who could only say, “You white Scottsdale prick!”

The Jersey drive was not only crude, rude, with no respect for others, but a racist!

So power to the people. Me!

Anyone who cares so little about civility should feel uncomfortable being here in the first place.

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– Even before the war erupted, there were ugly examples of authoritarianism in Ukraine’s political governance. Just months after the 2014 Maidan revolution, there were efforts to smother domestic critics, which accelerated as years passed. Ukrainian officials also harassed political dissidents, adopted censorship measures, and barred foreign journalists whom they regarded as critics of the Ukrainian government and its policies. Such offensive actions were criticized by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and other independent observers. The neo‐​Nazi Azov Battalion was an integral part of President Petro Poroshenko’s military and security apparatus, and it has retained that role during Zelensky’s presidency.

– New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces. The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. ​ https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html

Whitewashing Ukraine’s Corruption

The country is not a symbol of freedom and liberal democracy.

The notion that Ukraine was such an appealing democratic model in Eastern Europe that the country’s mere existence terrified Putin may be a comforting myth to U.S. politicians and pundits, but it is a myth. Ukraine is far from being a democratic‐​capitalist model and an irresistible magnet for Russia’s groaning masses. The reality is murkier and troubling: Ukraine has long been one of the more corrupt countries in the international system. In its annual report published in January 2022, Transparency International ranked Ukraine 123rd of the 180 countries it examined, with a score of 32 on a one to 100 point scale. By comparison, notoriously corrupt Russia ranked just modestly lower, 139th, with a score of 29.

Ukraine’s track record of protecting democracy and civil liberties is not much better than its performance on corruption. In Freedom House’s 2022 report, Ukraine is listed in the “partly free” category, with a score of 61 out of a possible 100. Other countries in that category include such bastions of liberal democracy as Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines (55), Serbia (62), Hungary (59), and Singapore (47). Interestingly, Hungary—which has been a target of vitriolic criticism among progressives in the West because of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative social policy—ranks eight points higher than Ukraine, which is the recipient of uncritical praise from the same Western ideological factions.

Indeed, some repressive measures deepened under Zelensky even before the outbreak of war with Russia. In February 2021, the Ukrainian government closed several (mostly, but not entirely pro‐​Russia) independent media outlets. They did so on the basis of utterly vague, open‐​ended standards. Zelensky has now used the war as a justification for outlawing 11 opposition parties and nationalizing several media outlets. Those are hardly appropriate measures in a democracy, even in wartime.

It is entirely appropriate to sympathize with Ukrainians who are experiencing terrible suffering as a result of Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a war. Whatever the level of provocations from the United States and its NATO allies, and Ukraine’s willingness to collaborate in those provocations, Russia’s response was over‐​the‐​top. It created a dangerous breach of the peace in Europe and a humanitarian catastrophe. However, one can condemn Putin’s actions and even cheer on Ukraine’s military resistance without fostering a false image of Ukraine’s political system. The country is not a symbol of freedom and liberal democracy, and the war is not an existential struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. At best, Ukraine is a corrupt, quasi‐​democratic entity with troubling repressive policies.

Given that sobering reality, calls for Americans to “stand with Ukraine” are misplaced. Preserving Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity most certainly are not worth the United States risking war with a nuclear‐​armed Russia.

COMMENTARY By Ted Galen Carpenter   This article appeared in The American Conservative on April 6, 2022. https://www.cato.org/commentary/whitewashing-ukraines-corruption

Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless

CNN — 

Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank. Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.

The cameraman filming the scene scrambles backwards to take cover behind a low concrete wall. Then a man cries out in Arabic: “Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!”

When the camera operator pans around the corner, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh can be seen lying motionless, face down on the ground as another Palestinian reporter, Shatha Hanaysha, crouches down beside her, using a tree trunk for cover. Hanaysha reaches out and tries to rouse her as gunshots continue. There’s no response. Both women are wearing helmets and blue protective vests marked “Press.”

In the moments that follow, a man in a white T-shirt makes several attempts to move Abu Akleh, but is forced back repeatedly by gunfire. Finally, after a few long minutes, he manages to drag her body from the street.

The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. ​

“We stood in front of the Israeli military vehicles for about five to ten minutes before we made moves to ensure they saw us. And this is a habit of ours as journalists, we move as a group and we stand in front of them so they know we are journalists, and then we start moving,” Hanaysha told CNN, describing their cautious approach toward the Israeli army convoy, before the gunfire began. ​ https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html

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Updated 5:55 AM EDT, Thu May 26, 2022

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Oct 21, 2021 Updated Oct 22, 2021

Actor Alec Baldwin discharged a “prop firearm” Thursday on a movie set south of Santa Fe, killing the director of photography for the film he was working on and wounding its director, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said.

Baldwin, 63, could be seen outside the the sheriff’s office headquarters distraught and in tears while on the phone. No charges have been filed, according to a news release sent by the sheriff’s office late Thursday evening.

The director of photography for the feature film Rust, Halyna Hutchins, 42, died at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, and director Joel Souza, 48, was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, where he was receiving emergency care, the sheriff’s office said.

Baldwin is one of the film’s stars as well as a producer. He went to the sheriff’s office willingly and provided a statement to investigators, sheriff’s office spokesman Juan Ríos said.

“We’re treating this as we would any other investigation,” Ríos said, adding deputies were still trying to determine whether what happened was an accident.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shooting Thursday at a Bonanza Creek Ranch movie set. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office says actor Alec Baldwin’s prop firearm killed a woman and injured the director.

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Hutchins was a Los Angeles-based cinematographer from Ukraine who grew up on a Soviet military base within the Arctic Circle, according to her website.

She earned a degree in international journalism from Kyiv National University in Ukraine and had worked as an investigative journalist with British documentary productions in Europe.

She graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2015 and would go on to earn a spot as one of American Cinematographer‘s Rising Stars of 2019 and cinematographer for the 21st Century Fox DP Lab in 2018, her website said.

Most recently, Hutchins served as director of photography for feature film Archenemy, starring Joe Manganiello, Blindfire, a racially charged cop drama starring Brian Geraghty, and Darlin’, a horror feature.

Hutchins was also a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600.

In a Tuesday post on Facebook, Hutchins’ page featured a photo that showed the cast, including Baldwin, on the set. It said, “Our IATSE solidarity stand on RUST.”

Souza is a filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously directed American action film Crown Vic, a feature film produced in 2019 following the life of a Los Angeles Police Department officer hunting two cop killers on the loose, according to IMDB.

Baldwin is listed as a writer for Rust, alongside Souza.

Accidental discharges or guns firing blanks have been blamed for deaths in past movie productions.

The entertainment news site Deadline reported, “Actor Jon-Erik Hexum was killed Oct. 18, 1984, on the set of the TV series Cover Up when he accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks. And in 1993, Brandon Lee, the son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, died after he was shot. … Both incidents were determined to have been accidents.”

A distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office Thursday after he was questioned about a shooting on the set of the film Rust. The sheriff’s office said a prop gun Baldwin was using killed a crew member and wounded the director. © Copyright 2021 Santa Fe New Mexican. 

Filming for Rust had been scheduled to continue into early November, according to a news release from the state film office.

It’s described as the story of a 13-year-old boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following the death of their parents in 1880s Kansas, with New Mexico doubling for Kansas. Baldwin plays the outlaw Rust.

Bonanza Creek Ranch has hosted several famous productions, including Hostiles, Cowboys & Aliens, Wild Hogs, 3:10 to Yuma and Longmire. It features a 24-building town suited for filming Westerns.

Baldwin is considered one of the most versatile actors in television and movies.

A member of a well-known acting family and an Academy Award nominee, he has won several Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards and in recent years was a Saturday Night Live staple for his lampooning of former President Donald Trump.

New Mexican reporter Phaedra Haywood contributed to this story.

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Black Wall Street was shattered 100 years ago. How the Tulsa race massacre was covered up and unearthed.

PUBLISHED MON, MAY 31 20218:35 AM EDTUPDATED TUE, JUN 1 202112:05 PM EDT

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A century ago this week, the wealthiest U.S. Black community was burned to the ground.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, became one of the first communities in the country thriving with Black entrepreneurial businesses. The prosperous town, founded by many descendants of slaves, earned a reputation as the Black Wall Street of America and became a harbor for African Americans in a highly segregated city under Jim Crow laws.

On May 31, 1921, a white mob turned Greenwood upside down in one of the worst racial massacres in U.S. history. In the matter of hours, 35 square blocks of the vibrant Black community were turned into smoldering ashes. Countless Black people were killed — estimates ranged from 55 to more than 300 — and 1,000 homes and businesses were looted and set on fire.

Yet for the longest time, the massacre received scant mentions in newspapers, textbooks and civil and governmental conversations. It wasn’t until 2000 that the slaughter was included in the Oklahoma public schools’ curriculum, and it did not enter American history textbooks until recent years. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed to investigate in 1997 and officially released a report in 2001.

“The massacre was actively covered up in the white community in Tulsa for nearly a half century,” said Scott Ellsworth, a professor of Afro American and African studies at the University of Michigan and author of “The Ground Breaking” about the Tulsa massacre.

“When I started my research in the 1970s, I discovered that official National Guard reports and other documents were all missing,” Ellsworth said. “Tulsa’s two daily white newspapers, they went out of their way for decades not to mention the massacre. Researchers who would try to do work on this as late as the early 1970s had their lives threatened and had their career threatened.”

In the week following the massacre, Tulsa’s chief of police ordered his officers to go to all the photography studios in Tulsa and confiscate all the pictures taken of the carnage, Ellsworth said.

These photos, which were later discovered and became the materials the Oklahoma Commission used to study the massacre, eventually landed in the lap of Michelle Place at Tulsa Historical Society & Museum in 2001.

“It took me about four days to get through the box because the photographs were so horrific. I had never seen those kinds of pictures before,” Place said. “I didn’t know anything about the riot before I came to work here. I never heard of it. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been at my desk to guard them to the very best of my ability.”

The Tulsa museum was founded in the late 1990s, but visitors couldn’t find a trace of the race massacre until 2012 when Place became executive director, determined to tell all of Tulsa’s stories. A digital collection of the photographs was eventually made available for viewing online.

“There’s still a significant number of people in our community who don’t want to look at it, who don’t want to talk about it,” Place said.

‘The silence is layered’

Not only did Tulsa city officials cover up the bloodbath, but they also deliberately shifted the narrative of the massacre by calling it a “riot” and blaming the Black community for what went down, according to Alicia Odewale, an archaeologist at University of Tulsa.

The massacre also wasn’t discussed publicly in the African American community either for a long time. First out of fear — if it happened once, it can happen again.

“You are seeing the perpetrators walking freely on the streets,” Odewale said. “You are in the Jim Crow South, and there are racial terrors happening across the country at this time. They are protecting themselves for a reason.”

Moreover, this became such a traumatic event for survivors, and much like Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans, many of them didn’t want to burden their children and grandchildren with these horrible memories.

Ellsworth said he knows of descendants of massacre survivors who didn’t find out about it until they were in their 40s and 50s.

“The silence is layered just as the trauma is layered,” Odewale said. “The historical trauma is real and that trauma lingers especially because there’s no justice, no accountability and no reparation or monetary compensation.”

What triggered the massacre?

On May 31, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year old Black shoeshiner, tripped and fell in an elevator and his hand accidentally caught the shoulder of Sarah Page, a white 17-year-old operator. Page screamed and Rowland was seen running away.

Police were summoned but Page refused to press charges. However, by that afternoon, there was already talks of lynching Rowland on the streets of white Tulsa. The tension then escalated after the white newspaper Tulsa Tribune ran a front-page story entitled “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl In Elevator,” which accused Rowland of stalking, assault and rape.

In the Tribune, there was also a now-lost editorial entitled “To Lynch Tonight,” according to Ellsworth. When the Works Progress Administration went to microfilm the old issues of the Tribune in the 1930s, the op-ed had already been torn out of the newspaper, Ellsworth said.

Many believe the newspaper coverage undoubtedly played a part in sparking the massacre.

The aftermath

For Black Tulsans, the massacre resulted in a decline in home ownership, occupational status and educational attainment, according to a recent study through the 1940s led by Harvard University’s Alex Albright.

Today, there are only a few Black businesses on the single remaining block in the Greenwood district once hailed as the Black Wall Street.

This month, three survivors of the 1921 massacre — ages 100, 106 and 107 — appeared before a congressional committee, and a Georgia congressman introduced a bill that would make it easier for them to seek reparations.

Meanwhile, historians and archaeologists continued to unearth what was lost for decades. In October, a mass grave in an Oklahoma cemetery was discovered that could be the remains of at least a dozen identified and unidentified African American massacre victims.

“We are able to look for signs of survival and signs of lives. And really look for those remnants of built Greenwood and not just about how they died,” Odewale said. “Greenwood never left.”

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Answer: “I assume you are probing me intellectually because if that is really a pragmatic question, you can answer better than anyone based on your fear of the world this past year and your attempt to find answers in the theories, ideas movements, or studies of others. To me, it’s intuitive power within.

Life is survival, no matter how one positions that— love, God, strength, or packing life in boxes so we can flee in a moment’s notice. It all nets out to be the same. It has not changes in 6 million years and we ponder it still, every day. We may have been human for 200K, actually civilized for 6000, but the only thing that has changed is technology. We still struggle with the emotional side of being human and are very slow to evolve in that regard. Most of the masses huddle in avoidance, fear or complacency and let others lead (my 98 percentile theory). Humans tend to rationalize all that but the very subjectivity of rationalization renders it weak in a stark and unpredictable world.

Speaking of unpredictable, my focus is being on the right side of the trade—there is no doubt from my nearly 40 years of following the tape that Black Swan events do occur!”

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“Financial Freedom is not worrying about the ignorance of imbeciles.” – Kevin J Palmer

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sMa  Ltd., a not for profit foundation, fosters Peace through Prosperity. It philanthropically invests in the public good, to challenge injustices through self-empowerment.

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Reawakening an American Dream – Creating Your Path to Financial Freedom is for all those still working for a living but some day want to retire early or well. The varied, culturally diverse subject matter appeals to the broadest demographic group.

The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation. The fundamental appeal of this book is for those on the outside who wants more money in their life.

“Nine-in-ten Americans have consistently said they highly praised people who get rich by working hard and wealth holds a great attraction for young and old alike.” (Pew 2008)

Secondary audiences are those who still feel lingering impact of the Great Recession in much the same way Depression era generations of the 30’s and 40’s never fully recovered. It also echos to those who now fear economic catastrophe from the contra virus.

When my radio segments on wealth aired during “Morning Edition” and “Marketplace” it successfully drew audiences to the station’s in high numbers because financial traumas, shape participants their whole life.

“Twenty percent of all adults under age 30 say being wealthy is a top priority—Another 42% say it’s at least somewhat important to them” (Solomon and Whiting 08).

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The article, “Entire Estates to Charity,” provided options for high net worth families to leave family money to charity. Because, knowledge capital and relationship capital that children acquire at home, is enough for them to create their own healthy financial lives without inheritance.

Less fortunate children not routinely reared with financial awareness need to learn later on in life. Ergo donating family wealth to institutions that educate and provide children of lesser means an opportunity to be exposed to the same training as rich ‘kids’.  Balancing social and economic responsibility for all.

This also gives every child the message that people will not bail you out of poor decisions or laziness. The hardest job for any parent is to let children fail but failure is the natural path to achievement. Thomas Edison made 1000 attempts at inventing the light bulb. Finally, he succeeded. Saints and scholars, ain’t we all!

Not only will gifting help less fortunate children, it will help all children from entitlement blow back that is deteriorating the fabric of capitalism. Showering kids with niceties is fine but once adults, they must know it’s up to them to earn their own way. Anything less keeps them from reaching full potential.

However, those who have not learned lessons by provenance, because of exclusionary demographics, need to get a leg up on adulthood competition. Therefore, estates left to appropriate organizations can teach financial literacy and fund college educations, to even out the social equation.

Nobody would give an adult money without something in return. Giving children inheritances is not much different. Independence, rooted to the word individual, must be developed. Otherwise we increase societal entitlements. First lesson for children—own all your choices once you are an adult.

A woman’s daughter asked to be bailed out of debt after four years of marriage. She told her. “Rescuing you would be a blow to your husbands’ masculinity and you would lose respect for him as the provider and your marriage could fail.” We say, touché. Forcing them to work through crisis brings them closer.

Resistance to this came from materialized children angry the spicket would be shut off. Not to be sardonic but with increased pathocracy, sociopathology, and borderline personality disorders in modern society, there is a substantial increase in false entitlement and a chronic need to blame others.

Leaving your adult children to solve their own issues hurts but it’s the best option. Otherwise dependency is never-ending and eventually divides families. Teaching them to make their own money as children solves problems. Leaving inheritances to children who think they don’t need to make it on their own, is harmful.

In a rapidly changing world, fueled by uncertainties and fierce competition, all children need to take full responsibility as adults. Years of research by SMA Institute has shone millionaires are made not born. Anyone can succeed and financial literacy is that first step, in a better world for all the children.

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Oh Lord, please don’t make me suffer

Give them the strength to let go

I lived well, was always loving

Walked close, never strayed too far

I gave warmth and devoted protection

Was attentive, loyal and forgave

But time has come to set me free

Grant them, courage of noble sage

Release me into angels’ arms now

In my heart forever they remain

Upon a new path of soul divine

In your repose a peaceful exhale

Safe on my blanket, for the rest of time

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