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  1. The working class Trump will suppress Trump won't bring more jobs to the white working class, but he will undermine socioeconomic gains by workers of colour. Some of estimated 2,000 union workers from the mid-Atlantic rally on the boardwalk in front of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino before a march in Atlantic City [Reuters]Some of estimated 2,000 union workers from the mid-Atlantic rally on the boardwalk in front of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino before a march in Atlantic City [Reuters] by Lena Afridi @lpafridi Lena Afridi is an independent writer who specialises in income inequality and racial and economic justice. Everyone is wondering how it happened. How could Donald Trump, a symbol of everything the US has supposedly worked to undo in its spoiled past, become its leader? News outlets agree on one aspect of the answer: Election coverage splashes headlines that call this moment a working-class uprising, an outburst in response to economic inequality. The truth? This moment is not a triumph of the working class. It is a proclamation of white supremacy. Not only is the implicit definition of the working class as white false, it's also dangerous. A growing working class of colour In his final campaign speech, Trump announced "today the American working class is going to strike back. "Trump denigrates immigrants and people of colour, who comprise 40 percent of the working class in America, so who is it that's going to strike back? 'Trumponomics': Putting America first - Counting the Cost Trump's working class comes right out of the long-standing ideology of the deserving poor, framed in this election as the white industrial worker disenfranchised by NAFTA. The corresponding undeserving poor are the immigrants and people of colour who are stealing jobs and opportunity from him. White people view themselves as the deserving. People of colour, on the other hand, are viewed as pathologically criminal: border jumpers, thugs, or terrorists. Today, the American working class is 60 percent white. By the end of Trump's term, minorities will comprise 45 percent of working class America. By 2032, whites will make up less than half of the total share of the working class. White working class America is doing better than their minority neighbours, with unemployment at half the rate experienced by working class blacks and Latinos. Breaking down the numbers further, poverty impacts communities of colour at a much higher rate than it impacts whites. In 2014, 10 percent of white America fell under the poverty line, in comparison to 26 percent of blacks, 23 percent of Latinos, and 12 percent of Asians. This is not to say white poverty is a myth or that trade policies in this country haven't gutted industrial and agricultural communities; it is real and there is no question that they have. Much of post-industrial America lacks basic infrastructure and badly needs resources such as access to healthcare and sustainable jobs. Keeping workers of colour down But this reality is not why white people voted for Trump. And rural whites aren't the only ones who supported him. As the country grows increasingly diverse, rural areas along with suburbs have seen an influx of people of colour: both newly arrived immigrants and long-time residents who move from cities for a lower cost of living. The New York City suburbs of Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island have seen a major rise in black, Latino, and Muslim enclaves, as people of colour experience class ascendance and as working-class minorities - who are priced out of an increasingly expensive New York City - settle just outside city limits. OPINION: Trump Tribe - portrait of the New Americans Long Island hosted several rallies in support of Trump with up to 10,000 people in attendance. One of these rallies was held yards away from where Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, was killedin 2008 in what the police concluded was a hate crime. Suffolk County, which has an average household income of $88,000, a third higher than the national average income, is also home to a swelling Ku Klux Klan membership. These places are not the Appalachian hollers or depressed factory towns depicted in election coverage, but they are Trump territory. Not only does proximity to communities of colour make white people feel generally uneasy, it makes them feel insecure. Despite consistently earning less than their white counterparts, people of colour have experienced comparative gains in income while white people - white men in particular - have remained economically stagnant. In other words, the gap has narrowed even as it remains pronounced. Explaining Donald Trump to US children Trump's grandiose economic policies won't especially help white people get more jobs or better jobs. But they will absolutely undermine and suppress any gains, economic or social, made by people of colour. And that's what a Trump vote means: It's not about bringing up white people; it's about keeping people of colour in their place. It's about ensuring that even if the deserving poor never get what they need, at least the undeserving poor will get less and less. It is dangerous to affirm the narrative of the working class as a white monolith. It erases the reality of many poor and working people of colour across the country. It creates a false pretence that racial minorities aren't living outside city centres, in "Trump Country" - and as a result, aren't receiving the brunt of vitriolic hate that's become increasingly normalised just in the past few days. Conversely, it makes the assumption that all Trump supporters are working class when that has been proven to be false time and time again. It is dangerous to imply that Trump's policies can or will do anything in the interest of the working class rather than in the interest of assuaging white fear. Worse yet, it delivers on Trump's promise to white America: that white people are the embattled, the justified, the deserving. Lena P Afridi is an independent writer who specialises in income inequality and racial and economic justice. She holds a Masters in Regional Planning from Cornell University. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. Source: Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/11/working-class-trump-suppress-161112142432583.html
  2. A senior Iraqi delegation ends complementary negotiations with the International Monetary Fund in the Jordanian capital, Amman 09/11/2016 12:42:04 Oman-East September 11: ended, a senior Iraqi delegation headed by Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a complementary negotiations with the International Monetary Fund in the Jordanian capital Amman to review Iraq's obligations with the IMF Stand-By program. During the talks, the Iraqi government Mahakgueth review of measures in the monetary and fiscal areas and in the areas of transparency, control and rationalization of expenditures and increase some of the non-oil resources. It was also a review of the draft federal budget law for 2017 and was agreed to calculate the price of a barrel of oil at 43 dollars instead of 35 in the price of the proposed draft of the budget and the card export of crude oil of 3.6 million.
  3. Wow!!! Are you really that ignorant? Apparently you. Sorry for you. IJS
  4. Maliki put that rat in charge of the CBI before he got booted out of office and Abadi won't replace him. He will only do what Maliki tells him to do.
  5. Smells like a Maliki trick. It has his name all over this man's death. Shut him up to keep him from telling. What a worthless Bobble Head.
  6. Somebody kill this parasite that will not go away!!! He is the reason the Kurds and Bagdad NEVER got the HCL implemented in the first place because he Always reneged on what he promised them. He even tried to hold the Budget up this time by trying to get their percentage reduced below 17% but it was deemed Unconstitutional. WHAT A PIECE OF MANURE!!!!!!!
  7. I don't believe they will do it. Maliki seems to have some dirt on somebody. He does what he wants to do and no one does anything about it.
  8. Good morning and thank you Mster Yota. So why haven't they arrested the biggest thief of all... Bobble Head Maliki?? They would recover more than this amount if they go after him.
  9. Alliance forces looking house Jubouri budget 2016 admin Last update: Friday, December 11, 2015 - 21:32 Search alliance of the Iraqi forces, the home of House Speaker Salim al [leader of the Alliance] project financial budget for the 2016 law. Information Office of the Office of al-Jubouri said the meeting "to discuss the general budget for 2016 and the need to speed up the terms of their approval." It is said that the House of Representatives, has ended in 22 of its last month's discussion of the draft 2016 budget law, while the cabinet reshuffled them to reduce the deficit, estimated at 22.7 trillion dinars, the equivalent of 21% of total expenditure compared to the expenses of 106 trillion dinars. The head of the parliamentary finance committee Faleh in force there, "reducing the non-oil revenues more than one trillion and 700 billion dinars," alluding to "the completion of the budget discussion with the Ministry of Finance and all the concerned authorities and the completion of discussions over the next five days." For its part, the government modified the budget to reduce total expenditure by five trillion dinars to be 101 trillion dinars said member Majida al-Tamimi, he said. According to what she said Tamimi, the size of the deficit reduction in the new budget [101 trillion dinars] with the same survival of the imports [84 trillion dinars] will drop to 17 trillion dinars and constitute 16.2% of the total budget. http://alrafidayn.net/?p=216
  10. I don't know how credible the news source is, so the link is at bottom of article. Iraqi Budget 2016 Will be Approved Before 31st December 2015 1 day ago by Iraq123 News Iraqi Dinar 123 News:– On Wednesday, the Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Parliamentary Economic Committee Harith Chanchal issued a statement that Iraqi government is far behind the schedule in forwarding the budget 2016 to the Iraqi Parliament. It has been considered a major reason of slow up for final approval from the Iraqi House of Representatives; it would be returned back to the Iraqi government until they alter some of its paragraphs and sections. The Deputy Chairman further added that we have informed the Iraqi government to modify some specific sections and paragraphs in the Iraqi federal budget 2016. We will again recheck Iraqi budget 2016 and then it will be presented to the Iraqi House of Representatives for voting and final approval. Harith Chanchal further added that Iraqi federal budget draft delivered to Iraqi government last month for important changes. The Iraqi government should finalize all the necessary alterations in the Iraqi budget 2016 and forward it to the Iraqi Parliament as soon as possible because we are already too late for final approval of the Iraqi budget 2016. When Iraqi government will deliver the budget draft 2016 to the Iraqi parliament, we will start further discussion to finalize its all paragraphs and then the House of Representatives will be able to vote for it. Point to be noted that Iraqi Parliamentary Finance Committee will submit their final report on next Monday regarding Iraqi federal budget Law 2016. It is expected that Iraqi budget 2016 will be approved by the Iraqi Parliament before the end of this month. http://www.iraqidinar123.com/iraqi-budget-2016-will-be-approved-before-31st-december-2015/
  11. I don't know how credible this news outlet is, so i have the link at the end of the article. Parliament Will Vote on the Budget 2016 on 14th December 2015 4 hours ago by Iraq123 News Parliament Will Vote on the Budget 2016 on 14th December 2015 A member of the Iraqi House of Representatives declared that Iraqi federal budget 2016 is at its final stage. The government of Iraq will forward budget draft 2016 in the House of Representatives for further discussion. After the completion of discussion and necessary steps, House of Representatives will vote on this budget draft law 2016. He added that final session for budget 2016 will be started in the next week Monday on 14th December. A statement issued by the Media Department in the House of Representatives that the first lawmaking term emerged the three laws for lawmaking Chapter II Law twenty-seven. The House of Representatives voted on the first law making session for the second lawmaking year only on (33) limit session legally. It is important the session No. 43rd took place on Thursday 10th December 2015 and supposedly the 44th session will be the final session and the Iraqi federal budget will be approved in its next session. http://www.iraqidinar123.com/parliament-will-vote-on-the-budget-2016-on-14th-december-2015/
  12. Stop smoking that crack Luigi !! That stuff is bad for ya' !
  13. Why is it that so many act surprised at what they did?? Don't you know that the greatest thieves and crooks are in our government? It doesn't matter what political side you choose. They are all crooks. They wrote the book on theft!
  14. Abadi: Sohacb all corrupt governments in the past BAGHDAD - Baghdad News .. vowed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on Saturday, to hold accountable all corrupt in the past governments, while stressing that he has been reduced nearly 700 billion from the financial allocations for the three presidencies, including staff. Ebadi said at a news conference attended by Baghdadi News , we "with nations that stand with Iraq in the war against terrorism to be the owner of approval," noting that "some reservation on cooperation with Russia and acting as if the United States President Barack Obama, one of his relatives." welcomed Abadi, "the Russian air strikes on condition Coordination with Iraq, considering that the international coalition is no longer enough, "pointing out that" I do not mind the arms of the four-party alliance to fight Daash terrorist. "He added, that" we had 30 to meet with officials and heads of state during two nights in New York where they discussed the importance of supporting Iraq in the fight against organizing Daash terrorist ", vowing at the same time as the" accounting of all the corrupt in the past governments. "He said the Prime Minister that he" has been reduced nearly 700 billion from the financial allocations for the three presidencies, including staff, "explaining that" there is a reduction will reach eight times the other in the budget, "adding that" Iraqi blood is a red line and calls do not bid on the national. "He continued Abadi, that" the plans are going full for the Liberation of gray and high temperatures are delaying military operations in Anbar, "revealing at the same time that" There one of the officials has more than 800 protection element distract them salaries from the state treasury. "He pointed out that" when I receive the state was the Treasury where 3 billion only and the country needed 15 billion, "adding," lost a lot of friends politicians because of the reforms, "adding that" I belong to the Dawa Party, but I do not factional and Emile for my sect or party. " http://www.albaghdadia.com/iraqnews/item/44948-2015-10-03-11-48-34
  15. SUPREME RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY STRESSES THE SANCTITY OF STEALING PEOPLE'S MONEY AND DEMANDED PUNISHMENT FOR ANYONE WHO SPOILED OVER THE PAST YEARS Iraq News October 02 2015, 15:24 Supreme religious authority stresses the sanctity of stealing people's money and demanded punishment for anyone who spoiled over the past years Supreme religious authority issued a fatwa in which confirmed that the theft of government funds such as stealing the people's money is ugly and forbidden in Islam, and stressed the religious authority supported Mr. Ahmed net indispensability to promote a culture of concern for the state funds from theft and waste. And demanded the Supreme religious authority, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to provide officials in previous governments to eliminate the Hdarham and robbed of hundreds of billions of people's money, said a certified reference Mr. net during the sermon that failure to prosecute those responsible in the previous government and restore the money stolen will not achieve reform and continue to rampant corruption in the country . And on anti-terrorism efforts, Mr. Safi called for the need to consolidate the internal attitudes and concerted efforts to counter the terrorist organization Daash and expelled from the provinces they control http://www.albaghdadia.com/iraqnews/item/44928-2015-10-02-12-55-44
  16. So they are saying that they do have the right to sell oil to America or anyone else in the world, correct?
  17. They go thru extensive training so that they don't make these kind of bloopers. I guess you would feel the same way if it were your child that was killed. My hat is off to you for your great wisdom.
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