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Afghanistan: Ceasefire Violations Reported on 2nd Day of Truce
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-Land of the Free
Saying 'No' to Black People
[TAKIMAG] It’s the video nobody wants to talk about. And even the people who talk about it don’t really want to talk about it.

San Dimas is a city in L.A. County. Demographics: roughly 50% non-Hispanic white, 33% Hispanic of any race, 14% Asian, 1.8% black. Last month in San Dimas an L.A. County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a woman who was texting while driving, a ticketable offense in this state. The deputy was a calm, composed Hispanic (as I’ve often mentioned, the LASD is over 50% Hispanic). And the driver was a batshit crazy black lady, a college professor (though currently not employed as such) who tried every trick she could to bait the deputy into a confrontation.

Body-cam footage captured the incident. In a voice dripping with hostility, Textquesha repeatedly calls the deputy a "murderer."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Yes. This:
In America’s current "corrective apartheid," saying "no" to a black person is the worst sin a white can commit. It can lead to being fired, "canceled," or even physically attacked. The rules may in theory apply to everyone, but you can’t tell a black "No, you can’t use the bathroom if you’re not a customer," "No, you can’t eat in this area," "No, this parking is for handicapped only," "No, you may not trespass," "No, you may not grope women in this neighborhood."

Funny: it was Solzhenitsyn who identified exactly this strategy -- refuse to participate in official lies -- as the best and most effective way for ordinary people to resist totalitarianism.
Posted by: Hupaimp Omusons3956 || 05/15/2021 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I am surprised the author had the courage to write this piece. The 'Radicalization of Black America' article found at the site is equally as revealing.

I dug a little deeper and found this amaxing David Cole article. “At First Quietly, Then Much Less Quietly”
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2021 3:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Why do you think I, occasionally, use the term "homegrown Palestinians"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 4:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Demographics: roughly 50% non-Hispanic white, 33% Hispanic of any race, 14% Asian, 1.8% black.

Hispanic is an ethnic group not a race. Hispana is the Roman name for what we know as Spain today, located as part of Europe. What is desperately classified as 'Hispanic' is either white or native aboriginal blood. Dare not ask them what they consider themselves. Just for the record, around here they consider themselves white and claim Spanish blood.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/15/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5 

One thing is for sure.
The college she graduated from either has low graduation standards for her to have acquired a Masters Degree? Or she could have gone Bat $hit crazy later in life.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/15/2021 8:25 Comments || Top||

#6  #2 Not Basque?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  When someone else is trying to categorize you, your answer should always be "I'm your good friend or worst enemy, but that's somewhat up to you..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Ooops in #6: #2 ---> #4.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Re Hispanics and "Dare not ask them what they consider themselves": actually the Census does ask them, and about 80% of them consider themselves white.

So in reality, "white" Americans aren't a minority or even close to a minority.

Still about 80% of the populace, thanks in large to measure to high birthrate White Hispanics
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Glugum2138 || 05/15/2021 10:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Not Basque?

Now that you ask the question, there were Basques here. They did sheep herding. Then the BLM shut down the occupation as too intensive to the land.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/15/2021 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11  ^Something I remembered dimly from 20+ years ago.

BLM = Bureau of Land Management?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ Correct
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/15/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#13  Choose your own adventure board game I had invested in, at the prototype and testing phase, has decided to go woke.

Which means re-writing the scripts and addressing the graphics. Then the figurines and book/board layouts.

Absolutely demolishing the due date.

Creator's canon surrendered. Project destroyed. Successful contribution to arts and entertainment ruined. Legendary status gone.
Because dude didn't say no.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/15/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Just had an idea (re headline): tell them "nyet".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||

#15  Basque shit crazy worked for me.
Posted by: KBK || 05/15/2021 20:13 Comments || Top||

#16  1/4 Basque here
Posted by: Frank G || 05/15/2021 20:46 Comments || Top||

#17  The new N word is 'NO'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/15/2021 23:21 Comments || Top||


Economy
Commodity Price Increases: ‘It's Not a Natural Cycle, Somebody Did This to Us on Purpose'
[Breitbart] Tuesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson weighed in on the Biden administration’s reaction to the increases in prices throughout the economy, which included a gas panic due to a disruption in the Colonial Pipeline.

Carlson speculated much of it had to do with economic policy and the flooding of the American economy with federal money. He likened the status quo to a "grimmer version of the 1970s."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2021 04:07 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The road to Zimbucks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2021 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The Great Reset is in motion
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/15/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not unnatural; there's a lot of pent-up inflation from 2010 that hasn't happened yet.

Just imagine what the price of everything else would be if the price of oil went to what it was in 2008, plus three more percent for every year.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/15/2021 12:21 Comments || Top||

#4  At least Carter didn't do it on purpose. He just didn't know any better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/15/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, Joe Biden will be honestly able to say that he doesn't understand the process, because his cranium is 2/3 filled with fungal brain substitute....

They don't understand the process, because they don't want to understand the process.

It's a natural cycle, but it's been supressed for the last fifteen years; because they went and cancelled all their contracts the first three months of the Covid, well, they can't supress it anymore.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/15/2021 13:44 Comments || Top||

#6  The inflation is on purpose since nearly the beginning of managing such things. The inflation occurring now is desperately on purpose. The comment noting the pent up inflation is on since this was started in earnest post catastrophic financial collapse in Oct 2008 - a credit bubble popping and the subsequent and natural deflation that should have occurred would have been even more catastrophic for the powers that be, hence extreme efforts to stimulate inflation to counter it. Consider who benefits from inflation: Debtors and those with first access to the newly created money. That means large financial institutions, who will use new money to purchase assets at current prices (which will then inflate), obviously, but also large corporations that have used low rates to finance stock buy backs and many other others. However, the biggest beneficiary of drastically rising inflation is the US government for obvious reasons. First, they have the opportunity to distribute new money where they like - such as fixing certain drastically underfunded pension systems that serve large organizations integral to the powers that be's support. Second, they have run up so much debt - even before the most recent iteration - that inflating away the value of that debt is the only hope they have of surviving. Unfortunately, the price of attempting to avoid the consequences of massive credit expansion are far worse than letting that deflation happen, and are coming down the track.
Posted by: Charlie44 || 05/15/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||


Europe
The Legendary Commando Raid At St. Nazaire
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent!
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2021 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you, badanov!
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/15/2021 17:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Unbelievable. Makes the Guns of Navarone look like a kiddie ride.

Defeating the German warship Tirpitz through logistics.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/15/2021 18:47 Comments || Top||

#4  That was aewsome. Thank you.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/15/2021 21:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Election audit in small New Hampshire town could have implications for 2020 results statewide
[Just The News] In tiny Windham, a November hand recount in a state legislative race revealed vote count discrepancies up and down the ballot — all benefiting Democrats.

An audit team sent to conduct a forensic examination of the 2020 election results in Windham, N.H. started the process off well enough on Tuesday. But by Wednesday, they hit a major snag: The live stream cameras that had been broadcasting the audit room around the clock went offline for close to 90 minutes, potentially obscuring any problematic intervention.

The team decided Thursday morning to reinspect the ballot machines on camera in an attempt to maintain observers' faith in their process. They needed to determine whether the machines had been tampered with over night when the cameras mysteriously went down.

With the country focused on the election audit in Maricopa County, Ariz. and early headlines about election night troubles centered on cities in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan, it comes as a small surprise that the idyllic New England town of Windham — where Republicans ultimately won each of the races now being inspected — also now finds itself under scrutiny for possible election night machine malfunctions and numbers that just don't add up.

While the audit is focused solely on tiny Windham (estimated population: 14,853), the results could have statewide repercussions, as the AccuVote machines used in the town are the only vote-counting machines approved for use in New Hampshire.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2021 10:06 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Curiosity Is Important, But Colleges Are Suppressing It
jamesgmartin.center via Instapundit
No one needs curiosity more than the young, but our educational system is doing its best to suppress it. The kids are being bored out of their minds.

Of course, that’s nothing new in our K-12 schools. As older Americans recall the time they spent in classrooms, they’ll also remember how they were bored, and curious about what was happening outside. But then those classes forced us to open our minds to novel subjects, to things we never would have learned but for school, to history, poetry, and the dissection of frogs.

In some of these classes—the best ones—our curiosity would kick in and we’d embark on a lifelong voyage of discovery.

That’s what happened in college too. Most people—me for one—arrived there with only the haziest of ideas of what they wanted to study. That’s why mandatory first-year courses make sense. You might not know that you had an interest in learning chemistry, foreign languages, or philosophy until you’re required to burrow down into those subjects. But once introduced to them, your curiosity and delight in the subject takes over.

That’s much less likely to happen today, as our K-12 schools and colleges are increasingly teaching students to become social justice warriors rather than broadening their intellectual horizons. That’s wrong in itself. A college education isn’t meant to be political indoctrination. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," and wasted it is when it’s reduced to brainwashing.

But worse still is what it does to young people at a time when they’re supposed to be exposed to an array of subjects and the new learning that comes with them. The indoctrination—the numerous courses that are about conveying political correctness rather than teaching bodies of knowledge—imposes the opportunity cost of things pushed aside.

There’s a simple reason what curiosity matters more for the young. When we’re young and it’s all before us, choices matter greatly. When we die, it’s all behind us. In between, choices are at first important and then become increasingly inconsequential. The big decisions come right at the start. That’s because life is a wasting asset. It’s like a mine full of precious gems, immensely valuable before mining begins but less and less so as the gems are extracted. When the last gem is dug up the mine is worthless.

We take bigger risks when we’re young, and we’re hard-wired to do so. A growing body of empirical evidence finds that our preferences about risk aren’t stable, and that we become more risk-averse as we grow older. That’s true of individuals and it’s also true of societies as they age. In younger societies, you’ll see higher levels of risk-taking and self-employment. In aging ones, you’ll see more conservative savings and investment behavior. We don’t see old bungee-jumpers.
We live in a collapsing civilization, where excellence is measured by standard tests.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/15/2021 04:30 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Curiosity is no longer necessary. There's really no need to clutter our minds with difficult or perplexing tasks and ideas. The government will provide all the answers we shall need.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2021 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Yup. Now that Critical Theory has all the answers, there's no further need for curiosity. Anyone who disagrees is morally wrong.
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 || 05/15/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  We've taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eye
It's one for all, all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why.
Posted by: Raj || 05/15/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Universal Basic Income
Woke Truth
Shelter In Place
Digital Entertainment

All you need or want, from BNL (By 'N' Large)

A (former) nation of docile, complacent, morbidly obese virtual cruise ship passengers as in Wall-E
Posted by: Whaiter Phaviper8296 || 05/15/2021 10:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran, the Struggle Over the Presidency
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] It is not a regular presidential race. The person who will become head of state for the next four years will lead a transitional period under the banner of "maintaining the regime's identity." This identity is facing challenges regarding its legitimacy, and thus the conflict over who becomes the next president will intensify over the next few days after the battle has been limited to the "conservative wing," which has wrestled control of the state's judicial and legislative institutions. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the conservatives are facing a real crisis in choosing the next president. They have three choices: Either a candidate from the military establishment, the religious establishment, or a conservative civilian figure. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
it is expected that the competition will be exclusive to the first two.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran's deep state controls the country, who gets elected is largely superfluous.
Posted by: Albemarle Hitler9781 || 05/15/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||



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  Afghanistan: Ceasefire Violations Reported on 2nd Day of Truce
Fri 2021-05-14
  Israel Begins Ground Operations Against Hamas in Gaza
Thu 2021-05-13
  Israel rejects Hamas truce offer; ministers vote to intensify Gaza strikes
Wed 2021-05-12
  US fuel pipeline hackers 'didn't mean to create problems'
Tue 2021-05-11
  IDF confirms it attacked a tunnel in northern Gaza, multiple Hamas militants inside it dead
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  Scores More Wounded in New Jerusalem Clashes
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  Bomb kills at least 30 near girls' school in Afghan capital
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  Top U.S. pipeline operator shuts major fuel line after cyber attack
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  400 suspects to be arraigned for funding Boko Haram, bandits
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  Iran Diplomat's 20-year Sentence for France Bomb Plot Confirmed
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  Mozambique: Terrorists Attack in Macomia District
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