[BBC] A US academic whose work focuses on Africa and the African diaspora has said she lied about being black.
Jessica Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, admitted that she was in fact a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
"I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken," she wrote.
Her case bears strong parallels to Rachel Dolezal, a white race activist who claimed to be black.
Ms Dolezal first made headlines in 2015 when her parents outed her as white.
The former civil rights activist and African studies instructor had kept up the pretence of being African American for years, but said she "identified as black".
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Why would you want to be identified as an "oppressed race"? One big con game for the money. If they're getting that money, how can they be so 'oppressed'? /rhet question. I'm so old I remember when people were called out for 'passing' and it wasn't black.
Drove down to Benning with a co-worker years ago for a meeting at Bldg 4. This was right after the tab was approved for issue. Our boss shows up with SF tab on both shoulders. Not even sure he had orders. We didn't say a word. Still laugh about when we get together. :-)
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The problem with doing research in Jewish studies is that the work has to be pretty good to be published and has to be really exciting for anyone to actually read it.
In Af-Am studies well... not so much.
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Worst systematic racism ever when people pretend to be the oppressed for the benefits.
"Though Pop was a cantor, I's wild...
But I grew up a poor Jewish child,
As did Mom... I suppose...
[blows the shabbas guy's nose]
So I'll always have that!" [Grandma smiled]
[Zero Hedge] Dr. Scott Gottlieb might soon be forced to eat his words.
Trial results reported Friday by the Lancet, the British medical journal responsible for publishing some of the earliest research on the coronavirus, found that Russia's Gameleya Institute-developed SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is both effective and safe, though scientists cautioned that long-term study is still required.
The vaccine, the researchers found, produced an antibody response while causing no serious adverse effects. The results mark the latest stamp of legitimacy for the vaccine developed by the world-reknowned Gameleya Institute, and show how the early and intense skepticism expressed by some in the West might have been premature.
The Lancet broke down the results in a series of eight tweets published by its official twitter account.
NEW—Preliminary results from Russian trials find that #COVID19 vaccine candidates led to no serious adverse events and elicit antibody response https://t.co/jGUwQa8oNd
Thread (1/8) pic.twitter.com/NWBpWDvUK3
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
The new paper reports the findings of two open-label, non-randomised phase 1/2 trials looking at a frozen formulation and a freeze-dried formulation of a two-part #COVID19 vaccine (2/8) pic.twitter.com/fcYqgpjfsl
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
The two-part #COVID19 vaccine included two adenovirus vectors — recombinant human adenovirus type 26 (rAd26-S) and recombinant human adenovirus type 5 (rAd5-S) (3/8)
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
In phase 1 of each trial, individual components of the two-part vaccine (rAd26-S & rAd5-S) were tested for safety
Phase 2 tested whether the vaccine elicited an immune response by giving the full two-part vaccine — rAd26-S was given first, then rAd5-S was given 21 d later (4/8)
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
The two 42-day trials — including 38 healthy adults each — did not find any serious adverse effects among participants (5/8) pic.twitter.com/IwBnFXcK95
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
The two 42-day trials also confirmed that the vaccine candidates elicit an antibody response (6/8) pic.twitter.com/dPxWT9CCrL
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
Secondary outcomes from the trial also suggest the vaccines also produce a T cell and neutralising antibody response within 28 days (7/8) pic.twitter.com/SaszHE9V7f
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
Large, long-term trials including a placebo comparison and further monitoring, are needed to establish the long-term safety and effectiveness of the vaccine for preventing #COVID19 infection (8/8) https://t.co/EMs2lgWzr9
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 4, 2020
Russian officials maintain that the vaccine will be made available on an emergency basis in late October or early November. President Trump is desperately scrambling for a US vaccine alternative that can be credibly approved on an emergency basis, so he can say the same.
Meanwhile, in the US...
Johnson & Johnson says their experimental coronavirus vaccine prevented hamsters from getting severely ill. $JNJ#WakeUpWithCheddar pic.twitter.com/1N4Njy47me
— Cheddar🧀 (@cheddar) September 4, 2020
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I suspect he might have had trouble with the physical part of 1970s Marine basic if he had to do it over at 59. Maybe not so much with 2020 Army basic. Do they even do the mental part of basic anymore? For him that would be easy now, but he'd have to cooperate so as not to degrade the process for the kids. Did not realize you could rejoin reserves at that age, regardless (except for specialties like medical.)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho could finish the fiscal year with $405 million in surplus tax revenue in spite of the pandemic's economic toll, according to a new revenue forecast.
The state's legislative budget office late Monday released its revised general fund revenue forecast for fiscal year 2021, which started July 1.
Revenue comes in at $4.1 billion - according to the new forecast - only $6.5 million below what lawmakers used in March when setting the budget and just before Republican Gov. Brad Little issued a stay-at-home order due to surging coronavirus infections.
The surplus is being boosted by a nearly $100 million cut to state agencies and another nearly $100 million cut to public schools enacted earlier this year amid possible budget shortfall concerns due to the pandemic.
The cuts came amid a steep economic downturn when thousands of Idaho workers lost their jobs. But budget analysts are now predicting a 2 percent growth in state revenues in spite of the job losses and downturn if the new forecast holds true.
The stay-at-home order ended April 30, and Idaho moved through opening stages at two-week intervals. It stalled the final stage thanks to worsening infection rates.
Nearly 25,000 people returned to work in June as Idaho's unemployment rate dropped to 5.6%, the state Department of Labor reported last month.
Idaho is among the country's fastest growing states in terms of population growth. That new money could also be providing an economic boost to the state.
But multiple factors, including the ongoing pandemic, could change the economic outlook between now and the end of the fiscal year in summer 2021.
Little said he's planning to call the part-time Legislature back for a special session this month due to the pandemic. Special sessions normally center on a specific topic but lawmakers and Little have yet to announce the session's focus.
In the Republican-dominated Legislature, GOP lawmakers tend to see surplus revenues as an incentive to cut taxes rather than expand government programs.
Budget analysts said in the report that Idaho's economy was likely cushioned by federal pandemic relief money. The $2.2 trillion emergency relief package approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in late March included one-time payments to individuals of up to $1,200 alongside enhanced weekly unemployment benefits, which have since expired.
Congress has so far not approved a second relief package, and infections in Idaho show little sign of slowing.
As of Monday there were more than 25,000 virus infections and 239 deaths in the state, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate in Idaho dropped to 15.7 percent through Monday from 16.43 percent on July 27, according to The COVID Tracking Project. Still, Idaho has the sixth-worst rate in the country.
The number of coronavirus infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested. Studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick.
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They had better spend it wisely. I'll bet a lot of cities could easily find themselves rolling in dough as well (places like Idaho could find themselves places of refuge from the West Coast), and their new, moronic inhabitants will surely have new ideas on how to spend that money.
#3
Damn straight Crazy. In fact I'm just heading out to the desert to exercise my 2nd amendment rights this morning. You can never get too much range time.
#5
In the Republican-dominated Legislature, GOP lawmakers tend to see surplus revenues as an incentive to cut taxes rather than expand government programs.
Giving money back to the people who actually earned it is always a good idea.
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[YouTube] In May 2010, Russian Marines from the Naval Infantry and serving onboard the Marshal Shaposhnikov destroyer were ordered to retake the MV Moscow University which had been seized by pirates 20 hours before. This is the story of that operation.
So Typhoon Maysak has hit Vladivostok, and videos have emerged of a floating dock from Vostochny Verf breaking free and slamming into some of the Pacific Fleet's submarines.https://t.co/sQvxS5tw90pic.twitter.com/UfVmeuJCo6
[ALMASDARNEWS] Belarus has been forced to deploy actually a half of its army on western borders due to the tense situation, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday."You see what is happening in our country. We see what is happening around Russia," the news agency BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. "Squirrel!"
"We have been forced to respond, seeing NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... ’s unfriendly steps near our borders. There is all the evidence proving that, no matter what excuses they may make: the deployment of US and other units from the depth of their NATO territory towards the borders of Belarus, especially F-16 planes. In my estimate, they have redeployed 16 or 18 aircraft," Lukashenko said.
"We have deployed actually a half of our Belarusian army," he said.
"We have actually placed under control the western borders with Lithuania and Poland. And, as I frequently say, we have actually encircled Grodno to counter these threats. Perhaps, this demonstration has yielded its result," Lukashenko said.
As the Belarusian president said, "there will be no calm life but Belarus is full of resolve to safeguard its illusory sovereignty and independence."
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Wouldn't want a bunch of armed conscripts anywhere near the capital when the population is rising up against you.
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[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has appointed new heads of the KGB security service, the security council, and the state control committee amid protests and strikes over a disputed election, the official Belta news agency reported on Thursday.
Lukashenko said he won an Aug. 9 presidential election by a landslide, but protesters say it was marred by massive vote-rigging allegations and have taken to the streets for more than three weeks demanding he step down.
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[WWeek] Two mass layoff notices posted by the state show that COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc with Oregon's economy nearly five months after Gov. Kate Brown's March 23 stay-at-home order.
The latest to go, according to an Aug. 7 filing: 355 workers employed by the food services giant Aramark at Nike's headquarters in Beaverton. The cooks, baristas and other workers who staff the company's cafeterias will follow hundreds of Nike workers out the door by Sept. 25.
Also on Aug. 7, the state disclosed a filing by Alaska Airlines that the company would lay off 277 employees, most of them flight attendants and customer service workers based at Portland International Airport, as of Oct. 1.
The layoffs at Alaska, which, with Southwest Airlines, is one of the two largest carriers at PDX, come less than a month after the airport opened its first new gates in more than 20 years as part of a $2 billion expansion.
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The over-response will do more harm than the virus will.
It mirrors the way people die when infected. The virus does little damage but it sets off the immune system which locks-down the bodies organs in an cytokine storm over-reaction.
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I tried parking at a downtown Boston garage yesterday. I was turned down because this particular building was turning away people other than monthly pass holders 'due to the coronavirus'. I told the guy - 'there's barely anyone here - who am I gonna catch it from?' He just shrugged his shoulders.
The message is clear - mayor Mahhhty Walsh does not want people coming into the city, period. Seems to be a common notion amongst the blue city mayoral class.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] A fully loaded oil tanker has caught fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka, which has dispatched an aircraft and two navy ships to help in the rescue, a Sri Lankan navy front man said on Thursday.
The New Diamond, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) chartered by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), was heading to the port of Paradip in India, where the state-run firm operates a 300,000 barrel-per-day refinery.
The ship had sailed from the port of Mina Al Ahmadi in Kuwait, carrying Kuwait Export Crude, Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking data showed.
The Sri Lankan front man, Commander Ranjith Rajapaksa, said the VLCC was ablaze about 20 nautical miles off the east coast. Earlier, sources had put the vessel’s location off Colombo, the capital of the Indian Ocean nation.
"The Sri Lanka air force has scrambled an observation aircraft and the navy has sent in two ships to help with rescue efforts," Rajapaksa told Rooters.
Sri Lanka’s Marine Protection Authority said it would take measures to prevent any possible oil leak from the tanker, which was carrying 270,000 tonnes or the equivalent of about 2 million barrels of oil, domestic media said.
An industry source said oil product tanker Helen M, on a time charter with India’s Reliance Industries, had also joined the rescue operations.
"The fire happened at 7.45 a.m. India time" added the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The nature is explosion and fire and serious injury to the crew. The crew wants to abandon the ship."
Rooters could not immediately confirm these details independently. There was no immediate comment from IOC, Reliance Industries, and Kuwait Petroleum Corp.
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Moving to a new, more federalized normal.
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) sent 450 megawatts of electricity to Baghdad and other central provinces in August, the first month of a three-year deal between Baghdad and Erbil.
Erbil and Baghdad signed an agreement in July that will see the KRG provide Iraq with electricity for the next three years. The electricity will be sent to southern and central provinces, according to Ahmed Musa, Iraqi electricity ministry spokesperson, who told Rudaw on Wednesday, "450 megawatts of electricity will be transferred to the central provinces and Baghdad through Khurmala and Kirkuk."
"In return, the Iraqi government will provide black oil [fuel] to the power grids in Kurdistan Region that are providing the electricity," Musa said.
Iraq has long suffered from chronic power outages in a country where summer temperatures reach 50 degrees Celsius. Rampant electricity shortages are a rallying call for protestors, with summer demonstrations erupting annually in Iraq’s southern provinces demanding electricity to survive the heat. The deal with the Kurdistan Region will supplement other agreements with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Gulf states.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority Health Minister Mai al-Kaila will lead a delegation of health officials from the West Bank to the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip tomorrow, the PA Health Ministry in Ramallah announces.
The delegation will arrive along with some 20 trucks bearing coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... -related medical aid, al Kaila-says.
Such public coordination between the Fatah-dominated PA and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, is relatively rare, as there is little love lost between the two rival Paleostinian governments. In 2007, Hamas expelled Fatah from the Gaza Strip after a bloody struggle for control of the coastal enclave. Several attempts at reconciliation since then have failed to end the schism in Paleostinian politics.
An offer by Hamas earlier this summer to provide medical aid to the West Bank as the virus raged in PA-controlled areas was declined.
[USA Today] Demetria Poe is applauding Delta Air Lines for "taking a stance" against racism and discrimination after she was harassed by her seatmate during a recent flight from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C.
Poe told USA TODAY Wednesday that a white woman appeared to purposefully swap her American flag face mask for a Blue Lives Matter mask once realizing her seat assignment was next to Poe, a Black woman. Blue Lives Matter supports police officers and is a counter movement to Black Lives Matter, which aims to eradicate white supremacy and has organized nationwide protests in response to police violence against Black people.
"That woman was trying to entice me into an argument because there was no need for her to flip that mask in my presence," Poe said. "She didn’t do it for anyone else. It was as if she was making a statement and wanted me to know."
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Poe told USA TODAY Wednesday that a white woman appeared to.....
Desperate Delta Airlines hits WOKE alarm, jumps at the opportunity to virtue signal. Immediately upgrades whining entitlement person Dementia Poe to unsold business class seat.
Of course other more theatric explanations may also exist. You must decide.
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After months of race baiting, rioting, and increasing racial tensions, actual racism may well increase. But this looks like general people being silly stuff. Even if it wasn't, it was hardly "harassment".
[Military.com] Production of the first new armored vehicle that will replace the Army Vietnam Era M113 armored personnel carrier is now complete, manufacturer BAE Systems announced today.
The first Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, or AMPV, rolled off BAE's production line as part of a 2018 low-rate initial contract to deliver up to 450 of the vehicles to the Army, according to a BAE news release.
"This vehicle is going to replace a vehicle that has been in the Army since 1965," Bryan McVeigh, the head of Army's Project Manager for Mounted Armored Vehicles, said in a short video on BAE's website.
Delivering the first AMPV marks the first time the defense industry has produced a brand-new tracked combat vehicle to the Army since the 1980s, Bill Sheehy, AMPV program director for BAE Systems' Ground Vehicles product line, said in the video.
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Last time they tried to replace the M113, they got the Bradley. The process was documented in the movie Pentagon Wars.
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Reminds me of the Ontos. Army gave it to the Marines because you had to get outside to reload the damn thing.It had 6 recoiless rifles.
(We actually used them in Viet Nam.)
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USMC Ontos, From the Rantburg armor boneyard. Each tube had it's own 50 cal spotting rifle. Very accurate piece of gear, just don't stand behind one.
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The 113 was a taxi to the battlefield and was never intended to be in the fight other than to stand off using the 50cal to provide some covering fire. What is intended and what they actually tried with them were too different things. The Bradley was intended to go into a higher threat environment and not a just a taxi to the LOD.
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/\ The M113 was designed as a 'Battlefield Taxi' and it's (quote) armor (un-quote) was only rated for shrapnel from nearby artillery. The "Infantry Fighting Vehicle" is another idea entirely and has certain, shall we say, drawbacks.... Okay, lots and lots of design tradeoffs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] A US academic whose work focuses on Africa and the African diaspora has said she lied about being black.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho could finish the fiscal year with $405 million in surplus tax revenue in spite of the pandemic's economic toll, according to a new revenue forecast.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has appointed new heads of the KGB security service, the security council, and the state control committee amid protests and strikes over a disputed election, the official Belta news agency reported on Thursday.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[USA Today] Demetria Poe is applauding Delta Air Lines for "taking a stance" against racism and discrimination after she was harassed by her seatmate during a recent flight from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C. 
USMC Ontos, From the Rantburg armor boneyard. Each tube had it's own 50 cal spotting rifle. Very accurate piece of gear, just don't stand behind one. 
