[Washington Examiner] If the Biden administration is serious about cracking down on the supposed rise in anti-Asian American violence and bias, it's going to have to take a break from all that racial "equity" it's been hyping.
And it's going to have to prepare itself to lock up a lot of black people (and maybe a few Hispanics).
The White House on Tuesday announced "additional actions" that President Joe Biden would direct to "respond to Anti-Asian violence, xenophobia and bias."
If you haven't heard, there's some evidence of rashes of anti-Asian sentiment breaking out across the country. Well, mostly in New York and parts of California, where those rashes have existed for decades, but we're told by some advocacy groups and some local police departments that it's gotten worse.
The New York Times reported that part of Biden's initiative will be "prioritizing prosecution of those who commit hate crimes" against people of Asian descent.
I guess that's a good thing, but what happens when prioritizing the prosecution of anti-Asian hate crimes disproportionately affects the black community?
It will. Anyone tracking the sporadic incidents of violence against people of Asian descent lately will have noticed a pattern. The attackers are almost exclusively black men.
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Xenophobia
noun an aversion or hostility to, disdain for, or fear of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers: Xenophobia and nationalism can be seen as a reaction to the rise of globalization.
Interestingly, this administration wants globalization, and is moving at break neck speed to try to attain it, pushing nationalism by Americans aside, as rapidly as earthmoving machines can flatten a mountain. The administration is engaged on all fronts of anti-nationalism - politics, industry, education, social discord, immigration, selective race based economic initiatives and more. It has not been more than 2 months and two weeks since this administration took over, will we make it to 21 June 2021 i.e. 5 months before a serious collapse (?)
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Ok the Biden Administration has announced it will "...respond to Anti-Asian violence, xenophobia and bias." quickly. Having looked over the 2018 Asian Violent Crime Statistics Report. I noted it shows there were 182,230 reports of Asian-Americans being violently attacked in the USA.
That report also shows:
* the #1 offender by race was the Black-American Community at 28%.
* The #2 offender by race was the White-American community at 24%.
Since the US population is about 60% White-American and 14% Black-American. This means we will need to focus a majority of our efforts on the Black Community. Which commits about 4x's the number of attacks on Asians-Americans verses any other race in the USA.
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When all the entitlements run out and when those Black Americans start looking for jobs they will find that all of the jobs have been filled by illegals.
Of course tank had to get involved, and in this case is right for the wrong reasons. The black community is heavily represented at Hartsfield-Jackson.
But.
Why is it when there is talk about not able to get an ID because reasons, it is only the black community which comes to mind with these people - not the poor whites, hispanics, asians, polynesians, whatevers? Call it what it is, using black people as a human shield to enable fraud and theft, and then blame black people for the current and future fraud and theft.
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GA Legislature just passed a billed stripping Delta of a multi-million tax break.
That’s only a warning shot until the Georgia senate puts the bill on their calendar for discussion and a vote. Lower houses of American legislatures do an awful lot of meaningless posturing.
"Copyright and patent are oppressive tools of a white supremacist society." You and your business are just living off the last days of that arrangement if you keep this up.
Lenin was correct - capitalist will sell you the rope you'll hang them with.
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Smart... tick off 65 t0 80% of your loyal customers.
Or has the COKE - CEO forgot many soda drinkers see Pepsi as a Liberal cause funding Corp.
( Hand-Gun Control Inc, Planned Parenthood, etc...)
But makes no diff to me... after the COKE "WOKE"
I started drinking RC Diet-Rite. I just can't support any Company playing Social Politics with the profits from my purchases.
On Thursday, the Georgia House fired a warning shot against woke capital. Legislators voted to start taxing jet fuel shortly after Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian repeated Democratic talking points condemning Georgia’s new voter integrity law in racial terms. The tax vote will not necessarily translate into policy, since the Georgia Senate has already gone out of session, but the move still sent a powerful message.
The state House included the jet-fuel tax in a bill passed on Wednesday, but the state Senate did not take up the measure before lawmakers adjourned for the year, rendering the tax dead for now. Even so, the House had sent the message.
Georgia lawmakers have previously zeroed in on the multimillion-dollar tax break on jet fuel as political retribution. In 2018, state lawmakers killed the tax cut after Delta ended a discount for members of the National Rifle Association. Then-Gov. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) later suspended collecting the tax.
[Babylon Bee] LACKLAND AFB, TX—Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has directed all branches of the military to step up diversity efforts when it comes to working dogs in canine units. For the first time, the military-- which has always favored German Shepherds in the past-- will admit other breeds such as Chihuahuas and Pomeranians.
"We've always had this narrow-minded view that the German Shepherd is the best dog for chasing down dangerous terrorists and sniffing out improvised explosive devices," said Austin. "But why not Chihuahuas? Why not poodles? Bringing in more dog breeds will increase our diversity-- which is the greatest strength any military can have."
So far, there have been no Chihuahuas capable of taking down a 250-pound man by the arm, so the military has elected to eliminate that test altogether.
Military leaders confirmed the current plan is just to invite every breed of dog and hang out, eat doggy treats, and have a good time while taking diversity courses.
"We're proud of this beautiful mosaic we have created here," said one Staff Sergeant while knitting a cute sweater for Squeaker, his working dog. "This is what our military is all about!"
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So far, there have been no Chihuahuas capable of taking down a 250-pound man by the arm <--- Ah yes the arm, but you have overlooked or misunderstood the clever chihuahua mind !
Chihuahuas are classical age old warriors, trained in ancient Greek methods, they know the best way to disable any size man.
Their secret, the AHT attack by biting in this one area and hold on to that one area, the chihuahua can place a man on his back in less than a minute, two chihuahuas and the man might be disabled for life !
[National Interest] Given the range and fidelity of its sensors, coupled with its threat library database able to verify targets, the F-35 jet might be ideally suited to provide close air support for advancing armored forces as well as respond quickly to attack new enemy targets once they are discovered.
While Iran’s military might not present what U.S. military planners refer to as a pressing or major-power, near-peer kind of threat, the country’s existing force is nevertheless taken quite seriously at the Pentagon for a number of reasons. After all, Iran has an emerging nuclear weapons threat, regional territorial ambitions, support and funding for anti-U.S. terrorist groups, alliances or cooperative relationships with U.S. adversaries and conducts overt maneuvers to intimidate or threaten safe maritime passage in the Strait of Hormuz.
Clearly, any successful military campaign against Iran would of course rely almost entirely upon an ability to quickly achieve air superiority, something which would require the destruction of Russian-built S-300 and S-400 air defenses. These weapons, of course depending upon the extent to which they have been modernized, present very serious threats as they are increasingly networked with faster digital processors, wider radar apertures and much longer ranges.
One immediate factor might be the F-35 stealth fighter jet, simply because any kind of air supremacy would first need to be established before a fourth-generation aircraft or less stealthy airplanes to strike. The F-35 jet might prove to be a particularly relevant choice given that the Russian-built S-400 missile system is road-mobile and can therefore easily reposition. A high altitude bomber, while likely fully undetectable, might greatly benefit from the lower altitude, yet still stealthy, highly maneuverable F-35 jet able to track and shoot down moving air defense targets. The combination of speed, computer processing and sensor range and fidelity give the F-35 jet a unique and potentially unparalleled ability to destroy a mobile S-400 missile system. More at link, of course. A lot of big words, for a civil engineer.
So, just who is this author? Wikipedia sez -
Kris Osborn (born May 16, 1969) is a journalist, military expert, and former news anchor. He worked at CNN Headline News from 2001 to 2004 as an anchor, and specialized in military issues. He has worked as a reporter for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis and a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. He has written articles for the Washington Times and reported for KO NewsMachine, an independent news-content company. He has appeared as an expert military guest on MSNBC and Fox News.
Nice resume. A "military expert" because he says he is.
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I'd give this little credibility, but with one proviso: if anyone can polish that turd "Fat Amy" (USAF unofficial nickname for F-35A -- given by F-16 and F-22 pilots) into a highly combat effective deep strike aircraft, it is the Israeli Air Force.
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...I think this backs up something I've said for a long time about the -35: it's NOT an F-series fighter, it's a light bomber with a really robust air-to-air capability. Trouble is that for political reasons (especially with the Allies) it couldn't be given a B-series number, and the USAF leadership would have committed hari-kiri before giving it an A-series number.
Mike
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Mike Kozlowski it was the same with the F-117. It was not a fighter. I know an Air Force pilot who has flown both the F-22 and F-35. Told me the F-22 is better.
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Put it in a real world troops on the ground needing cover NOW and see how it does when bad guys are shooting at it. Then have it land, reload and do it again. Then toss in an A-10 and then query the troops. My money's on the Warthog
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Tell me again the cost-benefit analysis of the worlds best CAS aircraft (A-10), and the F-35:
a quantitative analysis comparing the Warthog’s performance and costs with those of its intended replacement, the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, shows that retiring the Warthog would be operationally unsound and fiscally imprudent. The rationale for the replacement is that it would increase airpower capability while controlling costs. That rationale does not withstand scrutiny."
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Clearly, any successful military campaign against Iran would of course rely almost entirely upon an ability to quickly achieve air superiority, something which would require the destruction of Russian-built S-300 and S-400 air defenses.
I'm no expert but IIRC the IAF has gone against these systems several times with older planes and every time they do the Arabs get burned.
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every time they do the Arabs get burned.
A couple times a week for a while. I suspect the thing in Damascus the other day that the Israeli papers didn’t even bother to report was another one. I have to imagine that a war against Iran will involve destroying most of their air force on the ground, followed by their infantry on the roads as we did in Iraq. Meanwhile Israel can go after Hezbollah and Gaza missile stores, also on the ground/underground.
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/\ "#6 Tell me again the cost-benefit analysis of the worlds best CAS aircraft (A-10), and the F-35..."
The bean counters are considering the cost-effectiveness of the "strike package" not just the aircraft. With The Magic of Stealth™ the F-35 doesn't (supposedly) need EF-11a/EA-6B for ECM/SEAD, F-16/F-15 for fighter "top cover", E3 AWACs for coordination, and KC-135 to keep fuelling them so they don't fall out of the sky. "Supposedly". Then the bean counters decide we can do The Mission™ with fewer airframes on inventory until we reach the fallacy of "nine pregnant women can give birth to a baby in one month" type of statistical idiocy.
The F-35 has some valid points as an *cough* "A"-35 light bomber *cough*. The madness comes when they decide it has enough multi-role magic to replace everything in the inventory at the same time.
[Breitbart] The Trust Barometer, an annual global survey from the international PR firm Edelman, found that trust in Big Tech and traditional media has plunged this year. In the United States, trust in the tech sector dropped even further, to an all-time low of 57 percent.
Blaming an "epidemic of misinformation," Edelman also found a large drop in trust for traditional media of eight points:
Without a trusted leadership source to look to, people don’t know where or who to get reliable information. The global infodemic has driven trust in all news sources to record lows with social media (35 percent) and owned media (41 percent) the least trusted; traditional media (53 percent) saw the largest drop in trust at eight points globally.
Edelman also provided a special tech edition of the study to Axios, showing a similar plunge for Big Tech companies.
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The Humiliation Phase.
They're just rubbing our faces in it now
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Maybe...but not enough to actually leave Facebook/Instagram, stop Google'ing or Tweeting. The populace is ADDICTED and the addiction starts younger and younger! Watch 'The Social Dilemma' on Netflix if you haven't already - Know thy enemy. Knowing crack is bad != Stopping smoking crack.
Best place this in April 1 Rantburg so people can read the whole thing free
[NYTimes] The Taliban Think They Have Already Won, Peace Deal or Not
"We have defeated the enemy." The international community is scrambling to secure peace in Afghanistan, but the Taliban believe they have the upper hand — and are saying as much.
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[American Thinker] They appear to be cowards or crooks or compromised. Cowards, crooks, or compromised seems to be the only way to explain the decision-making of the United States Supreme Court. The Court's unwillingness to make any decisions regarding the presidential election of 2020 is a historic failure. These last twelve months have seen the Court refuse to do its duty. The Court refused to be a co-equal branch of the federal government.
With the Bush v. Gore of 2000, there is legal precedent. Just twenty short years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court took Bush v. Gore, a presidential election case, so the precedent was there. Over this last year, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to address election law questions before the election last summer, right before the election, right after the election, and even prior to the inauguration in January. On all these occasions, the majority of the Supreme Court judges refused to hear any case dealing with the presidential election. They stuck their heads in the sand and acted as if they had no role.
One could argue, successfully, that January 6 on the Washington Mall happened because of the lack of integrity and guts in the Supreme Court. Because of their blatant disassociation with being a coequal branch with the presidency and Congress, the Court has lost enormous respect from half of America. This is dangerous to a democratic republic. One must ask, why would they be willing to do this? Are they cowards, crooks, compromised, or something else? Can these be the only answers to this seemingly impotent Supreme Court?
Are the Supreme Court members simply cowards? Did they get scared so much by the violence last summer, that they felt for their own and their family members' safety? Did the violence, looting, burning, assaults, and even deaths that occurred during the Antifa and BLM insurrections last summer simply scare individual members of the Court? Were they simply frightened from hearing any cases dealing with the 2020 presidential election? Did they not want BLM/Antifa showing up as a mob on their front doorsteps in Georgetown? Did they not want Deep State operatives casing their children's or grandchildren's school or college? These mobs have done this before, so there is a precedent. Mobs showed up at Tucker Carlson's home last summer when Tucker was on the air and forced Tucker's wife to hide in the closet until police arrived. It has been reported that Chief Justice Roberts even referred to the violence last summer as a reason for not accepting cases involving the 2020 election. Whether these reports were accurate, we don't know. So maybe as individuals, parents, and grandparents, the majority of the Court did not want to hear any election cases based solely on fear. Were they frightened from doing their constitutional duty?
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The whole court was compromised when it became the end-a-around to Article V amending process to the Constitution. It assumed powers well beyond anything intended for a branch who's members sit for life and are unaccountable to the people. Power has a tendency to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It was the first open display of us becoming an oligarchy, ending the era of the old republic.
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The threat to court pack cowed Roberts and his dream of a legacy, so an already compromised court, because the Chief Justice cannot discard his hubris, has lost any willingness to serve the Constitution, and floats in the warm tidal pool of vestigial symbolism as the Marxists entrench...
[Just the News] Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp fired back at Delta CEO Ed Bastian's comments blasting election legislation that was recently passed by the state’s GOP-controlled legislature.
The airline company had come under criticism and faced calls for a boycott after the CEO issued a statement last week about the legislation.
"The legislation signed this week improved considerably during the legislative process, and expands weekend voting, codifies Sunday voting and protects a voter’s ability to cast an absentee ballot without providing a reason. For the first time, drop boxes have also been authorized for all counties statewide and poll workers will be allowed to work across county lines," the CEO said in part of his statement last week.
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Corporate America's ideal election is one that sells out everyone but corporate America.
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Oh dear. I just double posted. Sorry. But the Governor's best line:
The last time I flew Delta, I had to present my photo ID
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RE #2- The CEO did support the bill, took heat, and flipped.
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Never understood how Corporate America increasingly wants to use "Social causes" to increase sales, or to get run to the camera FREE exposure.
When generally speaking the demographics of the "social causes" seldom can afford the items being sold in enough volume, to offset the actual customers that they Tick off and sales they lose.
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.
[Washington Examiner] If the Biden administration is serious about cracking down on the supposed rise in anti-Asian American violence and bias, it's going to have to take a break from all that racial "equity" it's been hyping.
[Babylon Bee] LACKLAND AFB, TX—Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has directed all branches of the military to step up diversity efforts when it comes to working dogs in canine units. For the first time, the military-- which has always favored German Shepherds in the past-- will admit other breeds such as Chihuahuas and Pomeranians.
Clearly, any successful military campaign against Iran would of course rely almost entirely upon an ability to quickly achieve air superiority, something which would require the destruction of Russian-built S-300 and S-400 air defenses. These weapons, of course depending upon the extent to which they have been modernized, present very serious threats as they are increasingly networked with faster digital processors, wider radar apertures and much longer ranges. 
One immediate factor might be the F-35 stealth fighter jet, simply because any kind of air supremacy would first need to be established before a fourth-generation aircraft or less stealthy airplanes to strike. The F-35 jet might prove to be a particularly relevant choice given that the Russian-built S-400 missile system is road-mobile and can therefore easily reposition. A high altitude bomber, while likely fully undetectable, might greatly benefit from the lower altitude, yet still stealthy, highly maneuverable F-35 jet able to track and shoot down moving air defense targets. The combination of speed, computer processing and sensor range and fidelity give the F-35 jet a unique and potentially unparalleled ability to destroy a mobile S-400 missile system. 
[Breitbart] The Trust Barometer, an annual global survey from the international PR firm Edelman, found that trust in Big Tech and traditional media has plunged this year. In the United States, trust in the tech sector dropped even further, to an all-time low of 57 percent.
