NEW YORK (AP) — When the pressure gets intense, law student Jasmine Marchbanks-Owens likes to wander the hallways of Howard University, examining the faded, framed photos of prominent Black graduates of decades past. Howard Uni - proud new home of Nikole "1619" Hannah-Jones
"It’s just really inspiring to be able to see people that look like me that attended this university and became attorneys," says the first-year student, whose great-great grandmother was born into slavery. "So, when I get stressed out, I like to walk down here and look at all the names and see all the faces."
Most of the faces are men. But Marchbanks-Owens stops by the photo of one prominent woman, Pauli Murray, a 1944 graduate whose legal theories influenced the landmark school desegregation case Brown vs. Board of Education, argued by future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. In 1971, Murray also wrote then-President Richard Nixon, mostly tongue in cheek, to suggest Nixon make her the first woman on the high court.
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Yes, placing your "hopes and dreams" in the hands of a decrepit old half-wit politician who has done virtually nothing for the black community for 50 years, that's the ticket.
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"It’s just really inspiring to be able to see people that look like me"
Didn't some preacher say something about the 'content of character and not the color of their skin'? Anybody remember him?
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^ Some people come naturally to seeing the world in such simplistic, superficial terms. Others have to be carefully indoctrinated into it over years of public schooling and media propaganda exposure.
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Hanging your 'Hopes and Dreams' on anything Biden does might not be a very good idea. The guy literally thinks in N-words.
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So, an very OLD WHITE GUY, leader of the political party that supported and used the KKK and instituted Jim Crow, covered up lynchings, still engages in Racial conflict for votes and has his own questionable racial discriminatory history.
Has openly stated he will violate Federal Law by engaging in RACIAL and SEXUAL hiring discrimination?
I guess only a Liberal Democrat could get away with it and the MSM remain quiet?
Germans called the ZIS-3 "Crash-Boom," from the sound it made when fired at them.
[RIA Novosti] Powerful, reliable and versatile - thanks to its simplicity and outstanding performance, the 76.2-mm divisional ZIS-3 became the most massive Soviet gun of the Great Patriotic War. She appeared in the troops when the situation on the fronts was critical, and helped stop the German offensive. How the legendary weapon was created - in the material of RIA Novosti.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Germany officially calls on all Germans to leave Ukraine as soon as possible and closes the consulate in Dnepropetrovsk.
2. Belgium recommends that all Belgian citizens leave the territory of Ukraine.
3. Britain officially recalls military instructors from the territory of Ukraine. The Pentagon will withdraw 160 people from Ukraine.
4. The Turkish Foreign Ministry recommended that Turkish citizens not visit the eastern border regions of Ukraine without special need.
5, The Iranian Embassy in Ukraine asked compatriots to be prepared for emergencies if necessary.
6. Clown Zelensky asks to clarify US statements according to which "Russia will attack Ukraine on February 16." Puppets in Kiev, as usual, are the last to be informed.
1. As a result of the negotiations between Biden and Putin, the US claims that "fundamental changes" have not occurred.
2. Israel called on the citizens of the country to immediately leave the territory of Ukraine. The IDF is ready to help with the evacuation.
3. Canada has suspended the work of its embassy in Ukraine. The flag was removed from the British Embassy in Kiev.
4. Libya urged its citizens not to travel to Ukraine. The same recommendations were issued by Slovakia.
5. France sees no signs of preparing Russian aggression against Ukraine.
6. Deputy Minister of Defense of Britain said that British citizens should not wait for the start of hostilities, but should leave Ukraine now.
7. The Dutch airline KLM has suspended flights to Ukraine until "further notice".
8. US citizens can now enter Ukraine's land border with Poland without prior notice.
PS. As before, I am sure that if hostilities begin, they will begin at the initiative of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their sponsors, and these actions will be such that Russia does not have the opportunity to refuse participation. The costs of Ukraine from all this are not significant, especially since there is still no other sacred meaning in the existence of Ukraine.
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and 18-20 February is the Munich Conference on European Security where Kamala H will represent the USA.
wonder whose idea it was to hold this conference in Munich
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Kamal "Kneepads" Harris will come home waving a piece of paper and declaring "Peace for our time". And she will do so completely without any sense of irony or history.
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So "France sees no signs of preparing Russian aggression against Ukraine." And Ukraine's own president and the rest of its leadership repeatedly say there is no threat of invasion -- even to PervOTUS Magoo's face in a "frank" discussion. Reports are that Zelensky told Magoo to "calm down."
And now the admin sends what everyone agrees is the most ludicrously ineffective administration member, a laughingstock who's so incompetent and pathological that even her own supporters have abandoned her, to go to a "conference" that doesn't even include the Russians.
If war is imminent, what's the point if a western-only "conference"? What great military power holds a political gabfest with hundreds of staffers when there's a war on?
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When Magoo doesn't want to deal with an issue he delegates it to Kamal-Ho: the border, obviously, but also the dead-end, made-up Democrat issue of "voting rights."
This is a signal that Magoo and his handlers want as little to do with Ukraine as possible. A diplomatic settlement is coming.
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/\ Harris is the administration's 'Ray Epps' of global policy making. When they wish to be seen as participating in a process, but desire no actual resolution, Harris is assigned the task of gently stirring the pot.
Getting her and her people out of the White House is an added benefit. Media stories of her copper cooking kettle forays or waltzing on the Champs-Élysées are a small price to pay.
Russian troops are continuing to build up on the Ukrainian border, but investors are piling into bets that there won’t be a war.
The Russian ruble and Ukrainian hryvnia have strengthened against the dollar in recent days, appreciating 3% and 1.5% this month so far, respectively. The currencies traded at multiyear lows in the last week of January.
Hedge funds have been especially active, with the most net long positions in the ruble in 23 months as of last Friday, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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And Ukraine's government hasn't even closed its airspace.
Ukraine on Sunday said its airspace was open, despite warnings by the United States that a Russian invasion could happen at any time and the suspension of flights to the country by airlines.
“Information about the closure of Ukraine’s airspace is not true,” the Ukrainian ministry of infrastructure said in a statement on Sunday, “Closure of airspace is a sovereign right of Ukraine, no decision has been made.”
[PJ] "The gradual red pilling of Bill Maher has been something to watch over the last few years," Stacey Lennox wrote recently, and Matt Margolis noted that "his rants are important, because even he is embarrassed by the radical elements of his party, and he’s not afraid to call them out." On Friday, Maher also called out Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, reading aloud comments Trudeau made about unvaccinated people and excoriating the feckless Canadian leader’s authoritarianism, even likening him to Adolf Hitler. But unlike the Left’s comparisons of virtually every dissenter from their agenda, especially Donald Trump, to Hitler, Maher actually had a point.
Trudeau, according to Maher, "said — this is a couple of weeks ago, he was — or maybe this is September, but he was talking about people who were not vaccinated. He said, ’They don’t believe in science, they’re often misogynistic, often racist.’ No, they’re not. He said, ’But they take up space and with that, we have to make a choice in terms of a leader of a country: do we tolerate these people?’"
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Say what you want about the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro but he did not give the impression of being a wimp. So how is it that Justin Trudeau does?
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^ Because he is.
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I think his throwing around insults from the word salad buffet like a Golden Corral regular only confirmed the rumors he started dating the guy who is selecting his socks.
[Alt-Market] Of all the social drivers in history the concept of freedom is the most powerful and fascinating. There are many observable objective truths in the world and it’s always important to recognize them, but the idea of freedom is more rare because it is a universal SUBJECTIVE truth. Meaning, it exists inherently in the majority of individuals; we don’t learn it, we just know it instinctively. Most of us share the experience but there is no microscope or telescope in existence that can observe that experience. We just have to trust it, or perhaps, have faith.
Freedom is not taught to us, we are born with the idea already hardwired. If anything, it has to be conditioned out of us.
We can see the aftereffects of the human experience of freedom in the great upheavals that occur when our societies become too rigid, too controlled and too authoritarian. Some will argue that tyrants have no concept of freedom and this debunks the notion that it’s an inherent psychological quality, but this is a misconception. Many tyrants love freedom, but only for themselves. Like an obsessive compulsive, when the average authoritarian sees free movement within the rest of society all he sees is chaos that needs to be micro-managed. He is so mentally unhinged by the existence of independent activity that he is compelled to crush it and impose his brand of "order."
If you want to understand the thinking process of the political left today, this is where you need to start. They believe only certain special people deserve to have freedom (or deserve to live), and they are of course part of that group. The rest of us can’t be trusted with freedom because we "think the wrong way," and so we need to be corralled and fenced in.
This is not to say that some structure within society is wrong, it can be a good thing, but not when it is imposed by an elitist minority of psychopathic people. There will never be any justice within such a system, no fairness and no true progress. Authoritarianism is the opposite of progress; it is the antithesis, and yet these people call themselves "progressives."
Freedom requires boldness and courage because it demands personal responsibility. When you are free to make your own decisions you are also free to fail, and only you can be blamed for your own failures. This is a terrifying notion for most leftists and collectivists because they believe that they are owed a positive outcome regardless of their actions or merit. They believe it is their "right" to be taken care of by others if they are incapable of taking care of themselves, but this is not equality, this is "equity." This is stealing wealth and opportunity from more worthy people in order to artificially inflate others that put in little or no effort.
Meritocracy is the most equal system in existence because it is freedom based; equality of opportunity is the epitome of fairness; equity of outcome is the epitome of injustice.
[Breitbart] American adults say illegal immigration at the United States border under President Joe Biden is among the top problems facing the nation this year, a CNN poll reveals.
The poll, released on Thursday, reveals that Americans — including swing voters — consider securing the U.S. border the third most important problem that Congress and Biden should address this year.
The issue of illegal immigration at the border ranks behind reducing inflation and protecting voting rights for American citizens.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas agreed, in a closed-door meeting last month, that illegal immigration is “worse now than … ever.”
Among registered Republicans and self-described conservatives, illegal immigration at the border is the top priority that Congress and Biden must address. Democrats and those who “lean Democrat,” in contrast, consider illegal immigration their last concern.
White working class Americans, those without a college degree, consider illegal immigration at the border and reducing inflation the two biggest problems facing the nation at the moment.
Non-college-educated Americans, of all races, see illegal immigration as the second highest priority just behind reducing inflation.
[OneIndia] There has been a lot of talk about radicalisation and the steep rise of Wahhabism in India. This rise of Wahhabism has led to a radical change in approach as a result of which we are witnessing aggression.
In 2015, violence broke out near a Mosque in Bommanhalli, Bengaluru and what was being termed as minor tiff was in fact a case of some youth trying to impose the Wahhabi preachings. When the seniors in the administration of the Mosque opposed these youth, there were festivities in which 4 persons were maimed seriously.
In another incident that occurred in Maharashtra, Wahhabi scholars bribed some members of the Mosque and attempted taking over the administration. While the Moslems in many states have opposed the Wahhabis tooth and nail, success for the Saudi Arabia
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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.
NEW YORK (AP) — When the pressure gets intense, law student Jasmine Marchbanks-Owens likes to wander the hallways of Howard University, examining the faded, framed photos of prominent Black graduates of decades past.
[Breitbart] American adults say illegal immigration at the United States border under President Joe Biden is among the top problems facing the nation this year, a 
