Black Amer­i­can GIs sta­tioned in Britain dur­ing the war were given a warm wel­come by their hosts but treated harshly by their white US Army comrades

Bul­let holes found in the wood sur­rounds of the NatWest Bank in Bam­ber Bridge, in Lan­cashire in the north of Eng­land, in the late 1980s led to the redis­cov­ery of an event that saw some of the few shots fired in anger in Eng­land dur­ing World War II, which had been largely for­got­ten. These were not shots fired by invad­ing troops, but by Amer­i­can GIs against their own mil­i­tary police.

In 1933, faced with a hous­ing short­age, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment began a pro­gram explic­itly designed to increase — and seg­re­gate — America’s hous­ing stock. One author Richard Roth­stein says the hous­ing pro­grams begun under the New Deal were tan­ta­mount to a “state-​sponsored sys­tem of segregation.”

Dwight David “Ike” Eisen­hower, GCB, OM was an Amer­i­can army gen­eral who served as the 34^th Pres­i­dent of the United States from 1953 (about the time when the say­ing “Pull your­self up by your boot­straps” was coined) to 1961.This is not where my mem­ory of pol­i­tics starts, but needs to be added for a con­si­tance point of view

In the United States, redlin­ing is the sys­tem­atic denial of var­i­ous ser­vices by fed­eral gov­ern­ment agen­cies, local gov­ern­ments as well as the pri­vate sec­tor either directly or through the selec­tive rais­ing of prices. You know about the social side, but few talk about the eco­nomic silent war that been waged. So, that was not the start or all that happened.

I’ve been asked why do you keep say­ing [so-​called] when talk­ing about peo­ple! I’m hop­ing that the cog­ni­tive dis­sonace is not so ingrained that you will not be able to under­stand this sim­ple con­cept. I had a con­ver­sa­tion with a young lady who, after me stat­ing that I was a brown man, said “No you are a black man.” At this point I nor­mally would say “You need to go back to the 1^st grade and review the les­son given to you about col­ors” or “Please take these crayons and take long look in the mir­row” For­tunetlly, this works if you belive that you are black or white. If the prob­lem is just that these words have become the cus­tom for brown peo­ple, because we have been using this term which saw it’s begin­ings use in the 1960’s, how much more can we expect that the cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance of so called white peo­ple must be. What seem to hap­pen in my case is that I lose favor with many of my rela­tion­ships. Some­times I even think some of them might think that I’m what one would call an uncle Tom.

A 100-​foot fis­sure has opened up in the Grand Teton National Park – not far from the poten­tially cat­a­strophic Yel­low­stone volcano.

Yel­low­stone vol­cano: Nearby geyser spews huge cloud of steam

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The giant crack in the Wyoming – based national park has prompted offi­cials to shut down areas from tourists in case of land­slides. “A 100-​foot long fis­sure has prompted the clos­ing of part of Grand Teton National Park.” The Grand Teton National Park said in a state­ment: “The Hid­den Falls and Inspi­ra­tion Point areas are cur­rently closed due to ele­vated poten­tial for rock­fall. “The area was closed to pro­tect human safety on July 10 after expand­ing cracks in a rock but­tress were detected.

VOL­CANO WARN­ING: Warn­ings issued for two MAJOR volcanoes

Yellowstone-​style ERUP­TION could be sparked by magma cham­ber rising…

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“It is unknown how long the clo­sure will be in effect. Geol­o­gists are mon­i­tor­ing the but­tress for move­ment and have ini­ti­ated a risk assess­ment for the area.” It is cur­rently unclear how the crack opened but it is likely due to nor­mal seis­mic activ­ity in the national park area. Despite being around 100 kilo­me­tres from the Yel­low­stone National Park, Grand Teton does sit over the Yel­low­stone super-​volcano. If it was seis­mic activ­ity beneath Grand Teton which caused the fis­sure, it could be a sign that Yel­low­stone is reawak­en­ing. Yel­low­stone super vol­cano in pictures

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The vol­cano at Yel­low­stone National Park in Wyoming and Mon­tana sits atop a huge reserve of magma and last erupted 640,000 years ago

“Fear is a mind killer it is the lit­tle death that causes anni­hi­la­tion! I will let it pass over me and thru me and when I turn to face my fear it will be gone!”