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along with teaching police how do their jobs without abusing their powers and murdering citizens.

My town of Arnold is 80K average income. Perhaps we need to be taxed a bit more to send to Baltimore. Sad thing is I am less then 20 miles south of Baltimore. We are also the most Democratic state and must do better.

Last week Chris Matthews interviewed President Obama and joined him in promoting the TPP.

Last night, with the riots as a backdrop, he was lamenting the lack of good paying manufacturing jobs in Baltimore.

We have to recognize problems runs deeper than racist cops and bad police departments. Economic inequality needs to be addressed at the same time.

Seems to be a long-term result of financialization taking off in the "greed is good" 1980s, ultimately sacrificing millions of manufacturing and blue collar jobs for the benefit of CEOs and Wall Street investors--many of whom were already sufficiently well off to allow them to spend their time gambling with their excessive wealth at the Wall Street casino for the idle rich. Attacking unions and "big government" sped up the process by weakening the bulwark of opposition/protection.

economic system. Capitalism is NOT a fair system. It allows the uber rich to get richer at the expenses of the poor, society and the environment. You can NOT have democracy when you have capital dictating your economics. You must have a democratic economic system to have a democratic government. It's all about the money and you can NOT allow your economic system to destroy everything in society in it's quest for profits then turn around and call it democracy.

American city like many others now economically and socially devastated while the military budget and actions continue. Deplorable. And no relief in sight it appears, except vulture capitalists circling Balto., Buffalo and other places to buy up the city's property and systems cheap, to take over and run them for profit.

I believe a French water company operates part or much of the system in Balto. Also, the city was targeted for predatory subprime mortgage loans, that some later tried to cover over as attempts to address redlining-



Balto. was always a delight to visit: the harbor front, Fell's Point, seafood, Camden Yards, the cultural sites. I know some of its history going back to the Revolution and earlier. And I will continue to visit and enjoy.

Thanks for the post.
-Appa

which is another economic fact

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92699



Now where do these drugs come from and where ?


American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production




Common Dreams notes:

The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan—a nation under the military control of US and NATO forces for more than twelve years—has risen to an all-time high, according to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey released Wednesday by the United Nations.

According to the report, cultivation of poppy across the war-torn nation rose 36 per cent in 2013 and total opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up by almost a half since 2012.

“This has never been witnessed before in the history of Afghanistan,” said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the outgoing leader of the Afghanistan office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which produced the report.





tons more photos of US troops guarding the fields

http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053


This is an economic war and yes in is racial but economics and destabilization are its goals.

Now why destabilize the inner city?

Well you have to ask the question why the CIA did that with cocaine in the 90s
and how they flew CIA flights unnoticed into the states from south america back then and don't think they not flying air america now.......... cause there is even less oversight with the CIA now and heroin supplies a lot to black budgets that congress nor the president will ever know about.



Bank of America, Western Union, and JP Morgan, are among the institutions allegedly involved in the drug trade. Meanwhile, HSBC has admitted its laundering role, and evaded criminal prosecution by paying a fine of almost $2 billion. The lack of imprisonment of any bankers involved is indicative of the hypocritical nature of the drug war; an individual selling a few grams of drugs can face decades in prison, while a group of people that tacitly allow -- and profit from -- the trade of tons, escape incarceration.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/avinash-tharoor/banks-cartel-money-laundering_b_4619464.html


Not economic????? Are you fucking kidding me?

The inner city is just an easy target for their game.











Neo Liberals pose as 'democrats'

Baltimore's GINI index is lower than the national average for cities (meaning there's less income inequality in Baltimore than in most American cities). The household poverty rate is 11% (which translates to 23% of individuals living in poverty), but the national average for cities is 14% and 28%, respectively. Milwaulkee, to use a comparably-sized rust-belt city, has a 29% poverty rate, and a GINI that's 15 basis points above Baltimore's. (But a slightly lower unemployment rate: 7.4% vs. Baltimore's 8.4%.)

My point is a lot of people hear "Baltimore" and think "Detroit", but that kind of misses what the city is actually like. Despite what David Simon tells you, Baltimore is less poor and less unequal than most American cities. It even has the lowest low income family : high income family ratio in the nation among cities of its size (5:1; the average is around 20:1). Sandtown is a very dense neighborhood with a lot of poverty and unemployment, but even in Baltimore it's not as badly off as say Cherry Hill. Baltimore needs to fix its police force, and has for decades, and that's the problem; as rust belt cities go it's done a better than average job playing the shitty hand it was dealt.

However, it doesn't support emotion, only reason. Emotion is trump in this card game.

Put in a soundbyte.