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Discussing the recent action, ZachWalton at Web Pro News reports:

Anonymous has been staging these kind of operations for a while. The Twitter account for @OpBlitzkrieg points to an underground Tor powered Web site called nazileaks. The purposeof the group is to attack and steal information from neo-nazi and white supremacy groups. While the actual stealing of information seems to have slowed down over time, the samegroup seems to have picked up launching DDoS attacks against the same sites.

Anonymous was busy over Memorial Day weekend. In addition to harassing neo-Nazi and KKK websites, Anonymous also hacked and defaced drone maker Alpha Unmanned Systems on Saturday, May 27.

Last January, as part of Operation Blitzkrieg , Anonymous hacktivists gained access to and released member information from the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), the major neo-Nazi party in Germany. In addition to making public the identity of NPD supporters and donors, Anonymous also released internalNPD emails. The action shut down 15 websites linked to Germany’s neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, including one far right platform called Altermedia.

I mean think about it. You get extremists in every organisation from pressure groups such as Greenpeace to Politics. Religion is no exception.

“One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter”

This saying is so true. Yeah they may be terrorists to us but to many others they’ll be extremists fighting for their peoples freedom.

I’ve heard many of the older generation comment on this saying rather racist things about terrorists and how you’d never find a white man doing this. Well they’re wrong aren’t they? I mean what are the Ku Klux Klan if nothing but white terrorists? They terrorise anyone who isn’t white don’t they?
Well what about William Wallace? Yes William Wallace, the famous Scottish Hero and protagonist in the film Brave Heart. Why do mention him? Well to the English was he not a Terrorist? Did he not raid and , plunder may an English town and village? Exactly!

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t condone the methods they use but the reason behind it is more or less legit. . .par the few who blow themselves up just out of spite for the West. . .

I was born and raised up North.  Well, that depends on your definition of the North.  The “North” is broken up into three different parts, the Northwest, the Mid-West, and the Northeast.  So for me the North is not the same as it is for someone in New York or Massachusetts.  In any event, my Midwestern upbringing talked about slavery in the most abstract terms; the South was fully invested into slavery, had no other economic recourse, and the Civil War was all about the South holding onto their backwards way of life and succeeding from America, which probably should have happened.

Yet when you speak about the South, which South are you really talking about?  The Southwest, which is as close to the West coast that you can get, the Southeast, which is what people are typically referring to when they say the South, or the Mid-Atlantic, of which people still, to this day, debate which parts are more “Northern” or “Southern”?  The state of Virginia, or should I say, the Commonwealth of Virginia, is in an interesting place now, and it was back then.  Virginia did not succeed when the rest of the South did, but afterwards, and was not really interested in getting involved into the Civil War initially.  Virginia was also the largest slave state; more Blacks were slaves in Virginia than in any other state.

Ignorance is one thing, but refusing to learn from the lessons of history is quite another.  The country had been divided into this Yankee/Confederate mindset, when the truth is often a lot more complicated than that.  The South did not have a backwards society, it had more of an independent, isolationist way of doing things.  For all of the wonder of technological advances up North, and the industrial society, the South still brought in more money, off of free labor, and the industrial revolution could never match the profits of free labor.  At least it could not back then, but it could it do so right now?

What would the South look like today if slavery still persisted?  Better yet, what would America look like if we were still enslaved?  Would technology from the North be brought in to make the slaves more efficient?  Would being whipped, and life in slave quarters of the masters house be replaced by guns and more sophisticated, systematic, forces of intimidation, and large housing projects?

Would it be possible for Black people to work the same jobs that Blacks initially fled the South to work in the North, in the South for free?  Think about the jobs that a lot of us do for minimum wage, or at best, twice what we can make for minimum wage and then think about a society in which we were forced to do the labor for free without compensation.  In the forties this would have meant being a secretary for free, in the sixties and seventies working in a factory for free, in the nineties and the last decade it could have meant working in a call center for free.  We think that the South would have went without any technological progress, without electricity, without modern civilization because of slavery but we really do not know this to be the case.

What is more likely, is that despite the morally reprehensible environment of slavery, that some companies would have been okay with it because they could get free labor whereas they could not in the North.  Companies could simply operate under different names in order to prevent themselves from being attached to slavery.  Another consideration, is that the South could have established their own corporations, whose headquarters were in the South, that had nothing to do with the North.  If the South had won the war, and then succeeded from the North and created their own county, this reality could be sustainable.

Why would the South continue to live in the seventeenth century when the technology exists for a modern existence?  The only thing that was primitive about the South, were race relations.  It is arguable whether the development of the North; high rises, living close together, mass public transportation, was actually progressive.  This is an ongoing debate that continues today, it really depends on who you ask, as to what answer you will receive.

It should also be noted that there are smaller (physically), Southern cities that are built out in the same fashion as Northern cities are.  Miami, Roanoke, Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, and Charlotte come to mind.  Were Blacks necessarily treated any better in any of these towns, or are the towns the way that they are because of the contributions of African-Americans?

Just how resilient is Black America?  Without the war, without the Emancipation Proclamation, without the economic considerations, without the morally reprehensible climate of slavery could we have brought about the end of slavery on our own, or did we need assistance in doing so?  Was it all inevitable, or was the saving grace of God our only way out of such evil?

Whereas I had initially told myself that I would never move to the South, that I did not want to hear anything about the Civil War, and that I would get angry to watch something about slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, or the Civil Rights movement I see things a bit differently now.  The anger does not accomplish anything.  Part of who we are is because of slavery, and part is in spite of it.  At the same time, when Blacks accomplished so much, with so little, where are we now when there are more tools and resources at our disposal than ever before?  Why do we continue to stay on welfare, why are we staying in poorly built Section 8 housing, why are we looking to Habitat for Humanity to help us out why are we still in housing projects.  None of these were built with love, none of it was built with residents in mind.  All were built to house us as prisoners.  A prison that you can freely walk out of, but one that you willingly walk back into.  We do not need the taxpayers to do anything for us, we want the taxpayers to do something for us because we feel entitled, that it is the civic duty of taxpayers to support us, because of what happened to us 400 years ago.  The ironic thing about it is, none of them wanted a handout, because they knew the power that was given to the one that was giving the handout.

They got free clothing and shelter, was forced to work, and was beat in the process just to stand by and watch someone get raped, and someone else get lynched.  We get free clothing and shelter, are forced to do a minimum of work, and get locked up and beat in prisons, just to stand by and watch people get raped, and someone else killed by the State.  Nothing has changed.  They were divided by skin color, we are divided socioeconomically, intellectually; and of course we choose to divide ourselves by skin color.   Some of you are still searching for something, written somewhere, to prove that life is better for light skinned people.  You will continue searching until you die.

Things are done on a level that none of us can prove anything, and we just look stupid, and we come come across as though we are crazy.  The whips are invisible, so where do we go from here?  Slavery would not benefit anyone in this day and age, and a better system has been put in its place, one in which African-Americans oppress each other.  So why do we continue to do it; are we institutionalized, is it the only thing that we know, is it something that we will ever rise from?

The majority of Muslims are of the opinion that Al Qaeda is infecting the body of Islam and can be compared to the Ku Klux Klan that has infected the body of Christianity, stigmatizing the moral makeup of the United States in the process. 

In the words of an Islamic poet who stated unabashedly, “—-today Al Qaeda is as significant to the Islamic world as the Ku Klux Klan is to the Americans; it is violent, ugly, operate underground, unacceptable to the majority of Muslims, and are considered as freaks.”  In truth, the birth of Al Qaeda did nothing to dethrone the dictators of several Islamic countries; all that they are focused on is the culture of the West that ought to be eradicated, in order to reclaim the past glory of the Caliphate era, its watchword being “jihad,” itself born of fanaticism that seems to be part of the core of Islam’s variegated patchworks that cover the fabric of an ideology that runs contrary to the traditions of the West.

The rise of extremism, epitomized by violence that has engulfed the Middle East, can be attributed to persistent beliefs, such as Jews have no claim to Jerusalem; that the holocaust never happened, and that the culture of the West has tainted the essence of Islam. Yet, there are those among Muslims who reject the mass killings of civilians, but are still increasingly unwelcome in the West. 

The present clash of civilizations that is the result of the ideological divisions between Muslims and non-Muslims can best be described as unfortunate, considering that extremism in any form is counter-productive in this day and age.

Have you ever heard about white supremacists?

Those guys that really thinks that their (white) race is superior to all other races, that they are closest to the God, being the more similar like God.

Well, I prepared something for all of you white supremacists, but before we start I would like to ask you something:

How do you feel about lying to yourself all the time, all your life?

Because, it is not clear what gives you idea that white race is in any way superior to other races and mixed race on our planet.

Let us see.

Who is the greatest fighter and cultural icon of all times?

Yes, you guessed it, it is Bruce Lee… I think he is not white.

“He is widely considered by many commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist, and a cultural icon”

Who is considered by many the best boxer ever?

Yes, you guessed it, it is Muhammad Ali… I think he is not white.

“Considered a cultural icon, Ali was perhaps one of the most idolized, vilified and complex public figures of the 20th century”

…”first and only, three-time Lineal World Heavyweight Champion”

Who is the greatest guitarist of all times?

Yes, it is Jimmy Hendrix… I think he is not white.

“He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in musical history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era across a range of genres”

Who is the greatest basketball player of all times?

You know it, it’s Michael Jordan… I think he is not white.

“Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time”

One of the best golfers and highest paid athlete in the world?

Tiger Woods! And he is not white, is he?

“among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world”

Greatest pop artist and icon having the best selling album of all time?

Yes, it is Michael Jackson, and you know it, he is not white…

“Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time”

There are also many “non-white” inventors and scientists…

Just remember who invented paper money, gunpowder, beer and many other things hundreds of years before.

And always remember Japanese.

So long…

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,” Daniel Okrent’s haunting and entertaining book on Prohibition. The drink was necessary, in part, as a result of his gallop through one among the foremost otherworldly episodes in american history created me shudder at the parallels to the present age.

We are near to get a full immersion in that great moralistic experiment from 1919 to 1933, a generator of crime not simply vast and organized, however vertically integrated from street thugs to judges. “Prohibition,” the latest story from the history factory of filmmaker Ken Burns, is ready to run on PBS stations in October. it was co-directed by Lynn Novick and is a “first cousin” to the book, in Okrent’s words.

The obvious echo are concerning drugs. you will hear “if only” in many variants this fall — as in, if solely the foremost standard of illicit substances were brought out of criminal shadows to be legalized and taxed.

But the film and book are much more instructive on the political fevers of the first 21st century, particularly those aroused by monomaniacal anti-tax pressure teams and their foot troopers, the increasingly unpopular Tea Party.

Burns has created that general comparison. “This is a story about a single-issue campaign that metastasized,” he said, once I initial heard him name “Prohibition” last year. Initially, I didn’t see it that approach. Still, after finishing Okrent’s book throughout a summer of insanity in Congress, I found his conclusion less of a reach.

Consider how a country with such an appetite for drink may arrive at the point where it’d amend the Constitution to outlaw daily private behavior. a hundred years ago, as Okrent notes, average consumption of alcohol per adult was concerning 32 fifths of 80-proof liquor a year, or 520 12-ounce bottles of beer. (It is a smaller amount today by concerning fifteen %.)

Okrent asks the obvious question a contemporary reader brings when attempting to know this social engineering nightmare: “How did a freedom-loving individuals arrange to give up a non-public right that had been freely exercised by millions upon millions since the primary European colonists arrived within the New World?”

Prohibition got chiseled into the nation’s governing document after the temperance cause became a grand vehicle for the loosely organized loathing that was widespread at the time, from the Ku Klux Klan to viciously anti-immigrant teams. those who hated, or distrusted, Roman Catholics, new arrivals from Italy, Greece and other nations long tied to the grape, blacks, the teeming urban mass of the operating poor — they created common cause with high-minded liberals and evangelical Protestants. The bigots thought if they could deprive the disenfranchised of drink they’d take away their gathering houses and political wards — the neighborhood saloons. The purists thought individuals would raise their eyes to God, or pay longer at home, when all a operating man may anticipate to at the top of the day was root beer.

“A mighty alliance of moralists and progressives, suffragettes and xenophobes had legally seized the Constitution, bending it to a replacement purpose,” writes Okrent, who was the primary public editor of the days.

The battering ram of the prohibitionists was the Anti-Saloon League, which Okrent calls “the mightiest pressure group within the nation’s history.” (A public editor might note that Okrent overuses the word “mighty,” a minor complaint.)

The coalition against drink was hardly a majority. The Anti-Saloon League played an outsized role at the margins, killing off moderates at the primary level, or in legislative deals, and forcing politicians to pledge to their cause.

Sound familiar? today, virtually every Republican in national office, and a majority of these seeking the presidency, has taken a pledge to an unelected, single-issue advocate named Grover Norquist. His goal is to never allow a net tax increase — below any circumstances — and within the method reduce government to a size where he can “drown it within the bathtub,” in his well-known statement of mortal intentions.

In times of war, class 5 hurricanes or other national emergencies these mind-locked pledge-takers must answer to Norquist before country. “We are your constituents,” an angry voter said to pledge-bound Representative Chris Gibson, Republican of recent York, at a city hall meeting last week, “not Grover Norquist.”

So, even though huge majorities support keeping Medicare and Social Security sturdy, and raising taxes on the very rich within the interest of sustainable government, one single-issue group drives national affairs — to the bafflement of average voters. This dysfunction was on full display in August when Republicans nearly pushed the govt. into default by refusing to budge from their fealty to Norquist.

The other parallel from the dry years considerations personal liberties. With the 18th modification, the prohibitionists took away the proper to make a basic choice. Gov. Rick Perry, currently leading the Republican polls for president, has vowed to do identical, promising to amend the Constitution in many ways in which to require away freedoms. One would prevent gays from ever getting married. Another would outlaw a woman’s right to make a decision when to finish a pregnancy. a third would repeal the 17th modification, which provides voters the proper to directly elect their senators.

Could any of this happen? It did, with Prohibition — the urge to dictate the private actions of voters is a character trait that has never left the american gene pool.

I reached for an Irish whiskey — 2 fingers, neat, as my uncle used to mention in making an attempt to show me how to drink — simply once finishing “Last decision,” Daniel Okrent’s haunting and entertaining book on Prohibition. The drink was necessary, in part, as a result of his gallop through one among the most otherworldly episodes in american history made me shudder at the parallels to the present age.

We are getting ready to get a full immersion in that great moralistic experiment from 1919 to 1933, a generator of crime not simply vast and organized, but vertically integrated from street thugs to judges. “Prohibition,” the newest story from the history factory of filmmaker Ken Burns, is ready to run on PBS stations in October. it was co-directed by Lynn Novick and may be a “first cousin” to the book, in Okrent’s words.

The obvious echo are going to be concerning medicine. you’ll hear “if only” in several variants this fall — as in, if solely the most popular of illicit substances were brought out of criminal shadows to be legalized and taxed.

But the film and book are way more instructive on the political fevers of the early twenty first century, significantly those aroused by monomaniacal anti-tax pressure teams and their foot soldiers, the increasingly unpopular Tea Party.

Burns has made that general comparison. “This may be a story a few single-issue campaign that metastasized,” he said, when I initial heard him quote “Prohibition” last year. Initially, I didn’t see it that way. Still, once finishing Okrent’s book throughout a summer of insanity in Congress, I found his conclusion less of a reach.

Consider how a rustic with such an appetite for drink may arrive at the point where it would amend the Constitution to outlaw daily personal behavior. a hundred years ago, as Okrent notes, average consumption of alcohol per adult was concerning 32 fifths of 80-proof liquor a year, or 520 12-ounce bottles of beer. (It is a smaller amount nowadays by concerning 15 %.)

Okrent asks the plain question a modern reader brings when making an attempt to understand this social engineering nightmare: “How did a freedom-loving people conceive to quit a non-public right that had been freely exercised by millions upon millions since the first European colonists arrived within the New World?”

Prohibition got chiseled into the nation’s governing document once the temperance cause became a grand vehicle for the loosely organized loathing that was widespread at the time, from the Ku Klux Klan to viciously anti-immigrant teams. people who hated, or distrusted, Roman Catholics, new arrivals from Italy, Greece and other nations long tied to the grape, blacks, the teeming urban mass of the working poor — they made common cause with high-minded liberals and evangelical Protestants. The bigots thought if they may deprive the disenfranchised of drink they might exclude their gathering houses and political wards — the neighborhood saloons. The purists thought people would raise their eyes to God, or pay more time at home, when all a working man may anticipate to at the tip of the day was root beer.

“A mighty alliance of moralists and progressives, suffragettes and xenophobes had legally seized the Constitution, bending it to a brand new purpose,” writes Okrent, who was the first public editor of the times.

The battering ram of the prohibitionists was the Anti-Saloon League, which Okrent calls “the mightiest pressure cluster within the nation’s history.” (A public editor would possibly note that Okrent overuses the word “mighty,” a minor grievance.)

The coalition against drink was hardly a majority. The Anti-Saloon League played an outsized role at the margins, killing off moderates at the primary level, or in legislative deals, and forcing politicians to pledge to their cause.

Sound familiar? nowadays, virtually every Republican in national workplace, and a majority of those seeking the presidency, has taken a pledge to an unelected, single-issue advocate named Grover Norquist. His goal is to never enable a net tax increase — under any circumstances — and within the method scale back government to a size where he will “drown it within the bathtub,” in his well-known statement of mortal intentions.

In times of war, class 5 hurricanes or other national emergencies these mind-locked pledge-takers should answer to Norquist before country. “We are your constituents,” an angry voter said to pledge-bound Representative Chris Gibson, Republican of latest York, at a town hall meeting last week, “not Grover Norquist.”

So, even if huge majorities support keeping Medicare and Social Security robust, and raising taxes on the very rich within the interest of sustainable government, one single-issue cluster drives national affairs — to the bafflement of average voters. This dysfunction was on full display in August when Republicans nearly pushed the govt. into default by refusing to budge from their fealty to Norquist.

The other parallel from the dry years considerations personal liberties. With the 18th modification, the prohibitionists took away the right to form a basic choice. Gov. Rick Perry, currently leading the Republican polls for president, has vowed to try and do an equivalent, promising to amend the Constitution in several ways in which to take away freedoms. One would prevent gays from ever obtaining married. Another would outlaw a woman’s right to determine when to end a pregnancy. a third would repeal the 17th modification, which gives voters the right to directly elect their senators.

Could any of this happen? It did, with Prohibition — the urge to dictate the personal actions of voters may be a character trait that has never left the american gene pool.

As embroiled as Barak Obama is currently in the Nation’s worst Debt Crisis in it’s history, The President would do well to call upon the Spirits of the many Black Political Predecessors, whose talent, tenacity and drive made great contributions to America’s Federal Government. Here’s an inspiring list of many great African Americans who have served well:

Thwarting the aims of the Ku Klux Klan, the secret society of White terrorists seeking the restoration of White Supremacy in the southern states, Joseph Haynes Rainey (1832 – 1887), the first Black seated in the U.S. House of Representatives, enforced the 1871 federal which curbed the Klan’s activities. Ebenezer D.Bassett (1833 – 1908) The country’s first Black Diplomat and dean of the American Diplomatic Core. Appointed minister to Haiti and the Dominican Republic by President Ulysses S. Grant based on letters of recommentations from, among others, his Yale University Professors. Hamilton Fish, U.S. Secretary of State, “wished one-half of his ministers abroad performed their duties as well as Mr Bassett”

Robert Smalls (1839 – 1915) One moonless spring night, the crew of the Confederate ship Planter docked at Charleston Harbor for some R and R. One crew member had smuggled his wife and two children aboard and carried out his bold plan to highjack the vessel and escape to the North with a few Civilian friends. Smalls succeded in delivering the vessel to the Union Navy. Officers said “…Robert Smalls is superior to any seaman to have come into our lines!” Smalls was awarded $1,500 and appointed a U.S. Navy Pilot. Smalls was elected to congress from South Carolina, ser ving until 1887.

Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841 – 1898) Born in slavery on a Farmville, Va. plantation, Bruce climbed to prominence on his intelligence and ambition, receiving his early tutoring from his master’s sons tutor. Arriving in the State of Mississippi with only 75 cents, Bruce climbed the ladder of public service; Tax Assesor, Sherrif, School Super and Alderman. The Mississippi State legislature elected Bruce to the U.S. Senate in 1874 and he took his seat when barely 34 years old. Archibald Henry Grimke’ (1849 – 1930) In 1874, Grmke became the ssecond Black to led earn a law degree from Harvard. Grimke’s political experience led to President Grover Cleveland to appoint him Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894 to 1898. Grimke was able to make a significant impact as a lawyer, editor,author, consul and civil rights leader.

It would be George H. White (1852 – 1918), bearing witness to the discouraging story of the Black rise to political power during reconstruction after the American Civil War and the loss of that power to southern Whites and Jim Crow, who prophesized the coming of Oscar S. DePriest (1871 – 1951) DePriest became both the first 20th Century Black to be elected to congress, and the first Northerner. DePriest acquired the nationallypower that political patronage brought in Chicago as part of Mayor William (Big Bill) Thompson’s Political Machine. In 1928, he would become the first Black Congressman since Reconstruction. In 1934, DePriest lost his Congressional seat to another Black man, Arthur W. Mitchell, who was swept into office as a supporter of Democrat  Franklin D. Roosevelt.

When Massachusetts voters elected Edward W. Brooke (1919 – ) to the U.S. Senate in 1966, they voted on his record, not his race. If race had been a determining factor, Brooke would have never become the first elected u.s. Senator in our history. Brooke became the first black to sit in the U.S. Senate in this country. He won his seat by a margin of 400,000 votes! Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1932 - ) Had only 2 factors against her above average good looks, intelligence and ambition; she was Black and she was a woman. After 2 years of volunteer work for Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, she defeated six White men in the Democratic primary race for the State of California’s General Assembly, although called a Communist and a Black Militant. Burke retired after a successful Congressional career in 1979.

Barbara Charlene Jordan (1936 -  ) In 1956, Jordan graduated magna cum laudae from Texas Southern University in Houston, with a major in political science and history, and with a reputation as a winning debater. In 1972, Jordan moved onto the national scene, winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives and becoming the first Black congresswoman from the Deep South. As a Committe member, Jordan became nationally known and was among the first of those who signed impeachment articles against President Richard Nixon in 1974.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908 – 1972) Lest we be remiss, and forget; This unconventional and sometimes controversial Negro Leader left his mark on a large number of labor and education reforms. Powell was elected to Congress in 1944, suceeded in creating a large political machine of his own. Powell was outspoken about discrimination, and spent 26 years fighting racial bias on all fronts. (See 1964 Civil Rights Ominbus Bill, signed by Lyndon B. Johnson) Powell was a leader who defined Black Power as “a dynamic process of continuous change toward a society of true equals.” Would that Obama might call on a double dose of all these Spirits!

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The presentation was about the Klu Klux Klan and how they are related to Real Estate Agents. This was a presentation done on March 18th 2010. The presentation focused on the power of information and misinformation. He explained how having the right information can lead you in the right direction and the wrong information can lead you in the wrong direction. Wrong information leaves you at a huge disadvantage. It’s crazy how a white supreme group can be just like a real estate agent. Most of the time what we say is not always what we do of the actual truth. They have what we call the element of surprise like terrorist do. What you lack understanding of makes you a victim. Those who have what you need have the advantage over you. In other words you are at the mercy of other when you don’t know your stuff. People could trick you don’t know the information yourself.

Through the presentation misinformation was broken-down between the truth about the KKK, real estate agents strategies and things like online dating sites. The Klu Klux Klan was against all who oppose them. One of the ways they oppress is the so-called “secret language, and places” used by its members. When a member moved they were known as Ayak & Iaar & as membership increased lynching decreased.  The KKK as we all know killed people by way of course the lynching and became known by broadcasting. The way that the KKK was getting away before because nobody knew what they were doing, who they were doing it to and who was associated with these are those things that made them dangerous. Real estate agents are much like KKK. Real estate agents see those attempting to sell those as targets. The more targets they the more money they make. They prey on the weak and use everything down to the tee, even with describing the house being sold “well maintained, charming/ granite fantastic.” is normally what they say first using: first time selling, emotional connections to what they are selling, and client little knowledge if the market, lack of economic vocabulary, and how the internet is common ground for everyone.

Infact there was Real estate scam which was exposed with agents selling clients houses at quicker rates than their own houses and for up to 30% more but with the KKK if they say no it means the price is too high. This is all because of their expertise advantage; and even use profile websites saying that most people also lie online in profiles literally saying women are actually 20pounds less or more than they appear and mentioning a profile with no photo has a 60% chance of being skipped by web-surfers. To sum this up people lie to take advantage of others lack of knowledge because information is key to knowledge, knowledge is power and power is everything.

Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox courthouse assured the federal government supremacy over the established states. Before the war the republicans were a majority in congress and after the victory over the south, they were politically dominant giving the north advantage over the south in terms of new developments such as Freedmen’s Bureau. Clash between Johnson and congress ensued when he passed the Black Codes as freedom of the blacks in the south hung in the balance. Black votes led the republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant to victory in the bloody shirt campaign in 1868 because they believed that he won the war for them liberating them. Carpetbaggers who came to the south under federal protection made money of the reconstruction leading to the era of good stealings where corruption ran rampant. Towards this time many tried to get rich and one such scandal was the credit mobilier where the union pacific railroad company hired their own to raise dividends, which hindered economic growth undermining the government. The civil war impacted many people’s lives as the Grant’s eight years of presidency was marred by business corruption leading to dislike of political parties and even further splits namely the Liberal republicans. It also led to the first depression, deflation and inflation after the war where thousands of businesses went bankrupt. Due to the inflation hard silver money was issued by congress, which failed and led to gold standards; then exchanged from Greenback to gold assured the Democrats victory over the finance. This was called the Gilded age because of the instability of the house and party, which premiered the next election in 1876, which was won by Rutherford B. Hayes. During this time because of the second industrial revolution, industries of oil and steel began to grow; businesses became complex organizations and the Transcontinental was built. Over all despite the scrapes, the civil war helped the north to increase in new developments as politically and economically strong.

During the times of reconstruction and the gilded age, both the north and the south faced difficulties as they both had to convince each other to trust themselves in matters concerning finance and politics. The presidents who were in office during these slow and productive yet perilous years did not could not work in unison with congress to complete the reconstruction, as their rash policies caused much distrust between the south and north leading to new problems rising from old wounds. Scandals during president Grant’s term caused by far the worst effects of the war as many tried to get rich involving any methods further, hampering progress. The economic crisis of 1873 further sank Grant’s presidential term in to the quick sand as economic anarchy was on the brink of release with thousands out of jobs. While these plagued the north, southern supremacists used formed their own chains of violence such as the Ku Klux Klan, which terrorized the blacks who voted and also white republicans. Cotton was no longer king but was dethroned and the south had to find new ways to form their economy. Southern racism with merged with political corruption and economic collapse in 1873 paralyzed the south. Reconstruction was hated and thus havoc was wreaked as the south issued law after law like the Black codes to subdue freed blacks from voting giving the north an advantage because of the extra votes. Despite all these maladies, the nation united to form a leading power by the time of the Spanish -American war proving to the world what it aspired for.

Grant’s victory over Lee sealed the fate of the south. With the federal government in charge and the north dominating, the south received what it asked for. The collapse of the confederacy left the south with nothing but a decimated government and charred cotton fields. The Democrats before the war were a handful in congress and after it, they were virtually had no representation since they seceded from the union. Thus when Johnson became president it seemed the south had a chance but one of the key political effects of the war was putting the republicans from the north in congress, dampening the hopes of the southerners. Since Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation abolishing slavery, three and a half million slaves were freed resulting in utter political and economical chaos. When Johnson continued Lincoln’s reconstruction plan biased for the south, republican congress dismissed it; an example of one was the Black Codes. Meant for the regulation of Black political and economical activity, the codes issued by Mississippi, which was sanctioned by Johnson; but was rejected by congress that knew and expected their votes in the upcoming elections. With all the slaves free, vast pompous plantations were depleted of labor force injuring the south because of the lack of mechanical industrialization like the north. New developments for the betterment of the south were hampered because of the 14th and 15th amendment and the birth of the KKK led by Nathan Bedford Forrest.  But despite these problems northern carpetbaggers came to invest in the south and started to build an economy. The civil war, led to the abolition of slavery which in turn led to Tenancy and sharecropping as a new method of jobs. Transportation was increased by the compromise of 1877 as the south was promised a transcontinental railroad. New developments were slower in the south because of the racial tensions; which caused them to distrust the government and weakened the economic strength. With the republicans winning the presidential campaign, the southern democrats had no chance improving their conditions; which form the time period of 1865 to 1900. jose

Over all from the time period of 1865 to 1900 new political and economic developments were made, as with out which America could not have entered on the forefront of the world scene in world war one. Even though it seemed as if problems exceeded solutions, new developments were made in the north and south both politically and economically which solely were derived from the civil war. The civil war had led to a renewed start for America consolidating it territories once and for all. Key amendments such as the 13th 14th and the 15th were sanctioned by the states and despite the hardships it succeeded.  With out a civil warm, American would not have been what it is today- a super power.