The Young Turks: 'Soda Ban - Kills Minority Businesses?'

Source:The Young Turks with a look at soba prohibition in Michael Bloomberg's Nanny City.

"New York City's attempt to keep people from fattening up on sugary soft drinks, by banning some of them, would disproportionately hurt small, minority-owned businesses, according to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation.

The two groups have filed a joint brief supporting a lawsuit by the American Beverage Association in which they say New York's unelected Board of Health overstepped its power in approving the ban the sale of sugary drinks bigger than 16 ounces in certain city venues."*

The NYC soda ban was designed to improve public health, but now minority business groups say they'll be the ones losing on the plan. John Iadarola (TYT University), Desi Doyen (The Green News Report) and Lissette Padilla (TheLip.TV) discuss. " 

From The Young Turks

Imagine if soda bans, junk food bans, and somehow the radical hippie-left in America, literally took over America as part of some type of Communist revolution or something (I'm having fun with this) and big government banned meat as well. Think about all the people who would be in jail, for drinking a soda, eating a bag of potato chips, (but hopefully not the bag as well) or a cheeseburger, fried chicken, whatever it might be, could you imagine how much fun political cartoonists would have with that? 

I could see the videos and cartoons with captions now of law enforcement officers telling soda, junk food, and meat suspects with their guns pointed at them: "Put the soda down now! Don't take another sip. I'm warning you, buddy. Don't eat another chip or take another bite, or we'll stuff vegetables and pour water down your throat." 

If this would ever become national policy, (and Seattle ever ran out of coffee on the same day) we would create millions of prions inmates, out of soda drinkers and junk food eaters.

Jack Hammond: 'Students For a Democratic Society- To Change The World'

Source:Jack Hammond- welcome back to black & white America.

Source:The Daily Journal

“Here is a video I made for a Vietnam project in my history class.” 

From Jack Hammond

I actually believe as a current affairs blogger that todays Occupy Wall Street movement was born in the 1960s as part of what was called the New-Left. Because if you look at where Students For a Democratic Society were for back then and what they are trying to accomplish then and today, the end of war and that basically means all war, this movement is exactly what a person whose called a dove looks like and is.

A dove is someone who tends to take a soft approach when it comes to areas like national security and foreign policy, law enforcement, areas where government sometimes involves itself in the personal lives of individuals.

Doves were around pre-1965, but they really came alive in the 1960s with the Baby Boom Generation. And some of their kids today that is part of the New-Left who actually grew up, are part of the Occupy Wall Street movement today that’s again anti-war period. But also believes in things that Social Democrats call social justice: creating an economic system that of course is government based that would work to see that there’s economic equality throughout the country. That no one has too much and no one has too little.

The reason why the Democratic Party even has a left-wing today (or what others call Far-Left) is because of the New-Left (Socialists and Communists of the 1960s and 70s) because pre-1965 or so, the Democratic Party was made up of Center-Left Progressives, as well as Center-Right Conservatives, and even Far-Left Neo-Confederates in the South. But there weren’t Socialists in the Democratic Party for the most part back then. The New-Left changed that in the late 1960s and going into the 1970s.