Deontay Wilder has a fight ahead with undefeated former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. If Wilder defeats Fury and goes on to fight and win against the British world champ (the title agencies are split) he would have a 43-0 record. That's enough to let Wilder make a reasonable claim to being the best boxer in heavyweight history. To defeat all of the great fighters of one's era and retire undefeated is a feat accomplished only by Rocky Marciano. Wilder could choose to retire undefeated if he defeats the greatest boxers of his time; now. England's Anthony Joshua avoided setting a match with Wilder and choose to fight a very skillful Russian boxer with just one loss named Alexander Povetkin. Povetkin is much shorter than Joshua yet also a former Olympic heavyweight champion. The fight might be a little like Frasier-Ali.
https://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2018/08/boxing_report_2018.htmlThe heavyweight division is re-energized with four excellent, articulate and very skillful heavyweight fighters that create interesting match ups for those that follow boxing. Three of the fighters have an opportunity to retire undefeated and fairly claim to be the greatest boxer in the history of the sport.
U.S. and European sanctions on Russia may help Russian economic development. With direct foreign investment in Russia reduced to a low number- 26 million last year, Russia needs to rely on it's own resources. It has to increase it's economic efficiency and allocation of resources as well as to utilize Russian-personnel resources for work without the influence of foreign entities seeking to devour so much as they might have. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/pressure-is-on-trump-to-take-tougher-actions-against-russia-experts.html Sanctions on Russia are in part a result of the return to Russia of the ninth federal district; the Crimea. The won't change, and the Ukraine issues seem quagishly stabilized. A political quasi-military swamp that Russia will continue to be a stakeholder in. Boris Yeltsin designed the Russian state in its primordial form after dismissing the Soviet dominated parliament. His people wrote the constitution and had Russian Federal law trump Soviet law Chapter four articles 80 through 91 give the President Super-powers to issue decrees to correct wrongs in Russian legal and political structure. The rearranging of Russian political structure post cold war required a super-user to make sure that the development of new institutions was balanced and made to serve the Russian people. President Putin needs to leave a Russian political infrastructure that will work when he is gone and has made some progress toward stabilizing the state and keeping it more toward the free market side of things rather than Soviet or state-owned communism. Its a tough role to enact; that of chief designing officer made tougher, yet paradoxically easier, with U.S and European sanctions that keep the carpet-baggers at bay a little better. The economic circumstance of Sanctions on Russia compel the Putin administration to divert resources of the state from investment in some sectors to others. The lack of direct foreign investment means the state needs to spend more on investment in Russian business development. Russian state censorship of the internet basically is about the ability of the state to view private communications in a way like the Americans experience in the Patriot Act mileau to sift for terrorists and secessionists. Evidently actual censorship is minimal; probably less than the U.S. equivalent of political censorship of Alex Jones and others with the rubrick of 'hate speech'. The U.S. broadcast media owned by the most rich Americans and globalists conditions the public in a way comparable to that of the Russian state media, yet more so. Russia does tolerate dissident media however. It is perhaps 20% of the media in Russia. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ebay-russia/ebay-plans-to-expand-in-russia-despite-sanctions-idUSKBN0FS0KF20140723
Bill Clinton's administration had the Whitewater investigations during the first term and the Monica motif during the second and President Trump has Story Daniels. Does his payment to Stormy Daniels equal the sensations of the Clinton era so long ago? I think not. The Clintons had more intrigue than the Adams family while in office. Hillary Clinton's personal lawyer Vince Foster did sepuku or a DC version (apparently) after the reappearance of a Clinton diary on a coffee table in the White House that had gone missing for months. Michael Cohen, formerly Donald Trump's personal attorney, made a plea deal and was convicted even so for eight crimes mostly done to benefit himself. President Trump also hired the world's best campaign manager Paul Manafort who was like an undefeated heavyweight boxer in his own field of promoting politicians to office with brilliant packaging. The fact that Manafort was just convicted of tax evasion and other crimes to benefit himself isn't really a guilt by association kind of thing. Donald Trump as a capitalist just hires the best available to get his work done. Those people sometimes are volatile themselves cutting and trimming things to win. Maybe hired guns are a regular business practice.
I would rate Donald Trump's actions as just a 2 on a scale of 10 for treachery and political perfidy in comparison to the Clintons. President Trump hasn't even lied under oath yet. Democrats would probably demand his execution at the tower if he swore that he did not have sex with that women. If he would kindly do so regardless of if he did or not then the affair could proceed to the next stage, a better stage although well trodden now, about the cigar and the meaning of 'is'.
The U.S. Supreme Court is comprised of elites, largely from Harvard, that should just make decisions among more or less settled social issues. The founders never intended the court to have an elite, non-democratic license to rule by decree when the court is packed with an elite cadre of collusionists as it is presently and was in 2015 when it decreed homosexual marriage on the nation in Obergefell v. Hodges. The founders were not pro-queer marriage. To say they were is a very substantial fiction.
The Supreme Court decided for itself to decide in favor of a minority to corrupt one of the world's and nation's oldest and basic social institutions- marriage, without popular support. Technically anyone could bring any sort of silly issue before the court that could decide in its favor and make it the law of the land. The Constitution was formed in a frontier society without content regarding innumerable contemporary issues. Hence the court can choose whatsoever whey it likes to creatively, yet that doesn't mean it must.
SCOTUS should try to remain within the paradigm of democracy and allow the legislature and executive branch to make and execute the laws so far as it can. Where it should be very cautious is in making laws through the court itself that have no precedence in written or customary laws and that are not at all popular. It should allow the states to vote for their own establishments where they will and not compel all Americans to support issues popular in some states and unliked in others where no federal law exists.
A Supreme Court that is clearly inclined to rule by decree and force unpopular laws upon the nation is a court that should be legally hobbled. If the people wanted a dictatorship they could keep electing Democrats,, national socialists and Harvard grads. Apparently Russia is working on an e-government and open-government to supplement the federal government and to input public ideas and try to be more attentive to public interests. The public initiative is a good idea if the results are public and if only registered voters that are verified sign in to vote on initiative suggested by the public. While they would have no legally binding consequence they would service to advise instead of biases opinion polls from corporations owned by the most wealthy. https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/projects/Project/Details?projectId=1512397515 Russia public initiative description
The U.S.A. didn't enter the Vietnam War because of the Cuban Communist revolution near Florida. The Cold War began much earlier, as early as the first Russian revolution when the U.S.A. sent 2000 soldiers to Russia in support the white army fighting the red army. The United States wasn’t willing to give diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union until 1933. The Nazis were rising then and President Roosevelt may have had a pragmatic interest in establishing relations. World War II occurred and the U.S. and Soviets became allies to defeat the Nazis. Then with the end of the war and two large winning armies in Europe the continent was largely divided up in two sides; those free nations of the west affiliated with the western allies and those of the east affiliated with Soviet Communism. Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin had a row with a rival; Leon Trotsky, and liquidated Trotsky and his relatives in the process of gaining absolute power. He also purged the military of potential security threats to himself before the war. Stalin as absolute dictator believed in communism in one country, Russia, instead of global communism as Trotsky espoused. Of course he kept a tight leash on those eastern European nations rolled up in defeating the Nazis although preponderantly they were not annexed, retaining nominal independence. With Trotsky dead Stalin’s more inward-looking politics of industrializing and rebuilding Russia and increasing it militarily prevailed. Yet with Stalin’s death a Trotsky policy of support for global revolutions commenced. Communist revolutions around the world were supported by the Soviet Union intensifying the Cold War. Stalin died in early 1953. The Korean War was already in progress. That war occurred from 1950 until 27 July 1953 because of the ideological cold war between communism and free enterprise democracy. The two incompatible systems required two separate nations in Korea, so the United Nations ordered elections for a government for the South and the Northern Communists invaded starting the conflict. China supported the North Koreans. The United States was the major ally of the South Koreans although numerous United Nations forces participated. The U.S.A. already had military advisers in Vietnam. The U.N. also recognized two nations divided along the same lines as Korea, and thus a war was fought in Vietnam too. The N. Vietnamese regarded the war as anti-colonial conflict battling the French and as a civil war fighting against the South. The United States supported the South in Vietnam as it had in Korea with different results. The Cuban revolution was not an anti-colonial revolution. It was the United States that liberated Cuba from Spain acting in a sense with paradigmatic symmetry with that of Russia supporting the liberation of Vietnam from colonization as part of French Indochina. Vietnam was colonized by the French from 1887 until 1954. Because the Soviet Union with its vast and growing nuclear weapons arsenal was an empirical threat to the free world, the Eisenhower administration was conservative in trying to control or contain communist revolutions globally. Even formerly friendly nations such as Iran became distrusted. The U.S.A. sponsored a coup to end the democratically elected government under Prime Minister Mossadegh who had nationalized Iranian oil fields. He did that because Anglo-Iranian oil owned the oil rights and wouldn’t let Mossaddegh look at the books. Winston Church and Eisenhower organized a coup and let the Shah have the country. He ruled like a dictator friendly to the west. That happened in August 1953- it was a busy year. The Cuban revolution occurred between 1953 and 1959. It was another communist insurgency to overthrow an oppressive government. It was difficult in the 50s and 60s to have a non-communist revolution overthrow an oppressive government although many were worthy of one. Unfortunately colonialism of Brits and other European nations along with dictators in former colonies were conflated with communist propaganda and support in revolutionary movements. Vietnam also fell in to the juxtaposition of wars of liberation, war against dictators, was against communist globalism etc that were all concurrent thematic elements of the ropes humanity hung itself with in that time. Each had valid reasons for existing, tragically, with the probably exception of the dictators who generally had anti-communism as their valid premise for existing, and that in some respects was just a borrowed excuse valid more externally rather than domestically. Wars for survival of the west and freedom generally against global communism sponsored by the Soviet Union and Communist China clashed with numerous local liberation movements that were supported by real globalists for communism, even if the local revolutionaries were motivated more for local empowerment. It was all an ideological mess especially with capitalism thrown into the mix that eventually would evolve in global corporatism and plutocracy cozying up with Chinese Communist elites.
Christianity has several theological and ecclesiastic challenges to meet. In a way Christianity has experienced some of the same difficulties that adversely impacted newspapers and network television from ubiquitous mass media and internet. For Christian churches the socialization by anti-Christian elements that became pervasive along with additional technological changes in U.S. and world society made it much easier for people ti choose to opt out of attending church. Yet in the underdeveloped world Christianity increased in numbers because of the easier dissemination of information and expansion of social contacts made possible with new technology. American Christians have encountered numerous structural issues along with theology that is off. Two easy to consider issues are those of apocalyptic end-times; did it already happen as Jesus said it would before that present generation passed in the first century a.d. or is it still ahead with all of the strange metaphysical events that pre-millennialist teach? The theological example is the failure of the church with universal literacy in a technological information age to adapt to Martin Luther’s idea about the church that all Christians are priests. A priesthood of believers church structure would be egalitarian and share roles in church presentations on Sundays. It would be a far more active church, a more honest church with all being professing Christians rather than pew sitting observers. Modern Christianity should be a participation practice rather than one of a laity under a separate class of Christian priests or even one priest that is non-working an over-tithed. In the post-millennial era Christians are supposed to be increasing in numbers and increasing the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is within you as the Lord said, and the Holy Spirit leads as God wills, to make it possible for as many Christians to be saved as He has pre-destined. Not one shall be lost. The actual pace, scale and shape of the future demographics of Christians in-the-world is known to God rather than mankind.
Instead of letting things slide the President should build a new icebreaker as well as a vast hovercraft designed to live in the Arctic. Alaska could use such capacity anytime. The two icebreakers the U.S.A. has are old old built in the 1970s. The wall should go ahead in order for the Democrats to prove that they aren't simply obstructionists that must have everything their way or they won't play. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/08/04/is-the-coast-guards-icebreaker-project-doomed/
No. Sanders isn’t a good potential shelved product for the Democrat market. He would lose. Democrats want someone like Oprah Winfree or Eric Holder or maybe someone with 1/32 Cherokee ancestry that is female to stand for the job. Just so long as they don’t know what ecological economics is and support homosexuality and illegal alien mass immigration the Democrat Party would be down with that. New York Governor Cuomo II is just to white and male; probably even strait and without hookers in the closet, although the Mueller investigation hasn’t given him the eyeball yet, to be a potential candidate. What happened to the Ralph Nader sort of radical environmental and capital reforming Democrat- Independent; are they an extinct species"
Armistice instead of unconditional surrender? Why in the world would that have happened? World War One ended with an armistice. Patton said that was a great mistake at the time. Without fighting to the point of Germany’s unconditional surrender, World War Two was inevitable. The ground was set for the rise of the Nazis to replace the lost aristocrats against which Germans had revolted for leading them into the first world war with a failing outcome.
There was no way at all that the Second World War could have been concluded with an armistice that would have allowed Nazi scientists to finish projects like jet fighters and nuclear bombs. The paradigm of armistice is too bizarre to realistically consider. Even so; here is what would have occurred; all of Europe would have been in the communist block after the Soviets conquered England while the United States withdrew all of its forces so as not to get in the way. The twenty million Americans that had served in the war could have had illegal aliens do their heavy lifting work and legal dope and homo marriage to queer society with and forgot about war and conflict that are known in California to be stress inducers.
I wonder if the Clintons were more ethical at practicing law than Michael Cohen. Ever since F.D.R. used law like silly putty as a lawyer, Presidents with law degrees have tended to feel the law is there’s to finesse. When a lawyer is President it’s as if there were a civil and criminal trial and just one side was represented in court; the lawyer-President’s side. So they tend to go way too far with expropriating the powers of other branches regarding interpreting law and cutting corners.
None of the items that Special Democrat Prosecutor Mueller’s federal co-conspirators got Cohen to plead guilty to had the word ‘Russian’ in it. Initially that was what the task force was put together to investigate. Maybe half the lawyers on Wall Street and in D.C. if grilled like Cohen with their law offices being ransacked too by federal agents, could be convicted of something I would guess.
Trump is innocent until charged with something besides maybe giving a porn star money not to talk about theoretical sex with candidate Trump. John Edwards paid a lot to keep an affair quiet when he ran for President against Hillary and was shot down. None dared called that treason, an illegal use of campaign funds or even a crime of passion. Wealth and power attract the wrong kind of women- like flies seeking to land on what is for them, their ultimate good; rotten, do-oothing dead meat.
