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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Orders Investigation Into Sexual Assault and Abuse of Children at Biden Migrant Facility
[Red State] Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is demanding that Joe Biden close a federal migrant facility that it threw up in San Antonio to house illegal alien children.

Abbott announced at a press conference that he’d received information that the children at the Freeman Coliseum facility were being sexually abused. There are 1370 children at the facility, according to the Daily Mail.

Abbott explained that complaints had come into the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Texas Department of Family and Protective services listing four different kinds of child abuse. The agencies then informed the state political leadership including him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 01:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  In a major Texas city there is a facility that supposedly is housing 1500 kids yet people living and working around the facility say they know they are in there but never see or hear them.

Rather spooky scene.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 04/08/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Trying to bait Biden into a visit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/08/2021 17:13 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- you can always try dragging a $100 bill thru a trailer park. Might work for Harris too.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/08/2021 17:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Keep Plugs and his grimy hands away from those kids
Posted by: Phusogum Panda5069 || 04/08/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I got one!

-reels it in-

Its an oystermonger!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/08/2021 18:59 Comments || Top||


Brooklyn man busted in two separate anti-Asian attacks in NYC
[NYPOST] A Brooklyn man was busted Wednesday for attacking Asian people in two separate attacks in New York, police said.

Joseph Russo, 27, was hit with hate crime charges for both incidents — allegedly shoving an elderly man to the ground on Monday morning and assaulting a 32-year-old woman last month, according to the NYPD.

In the most recent incident, Russo is accused of randomly pushing a 77-year-old man while he looked at vegetables for sale in front of the J&R NY Supermarket in Sheepshead Bay.

Surveillance footage showed the maniac snatching a bouquet of flowers from an outdoor store display and chucking it across the sidewalk before setting his sight on his victim.

Two weeks earlier, on March 22, the hateful creep yanked the hair of a woman walking on Kings Highway in Homecrest — in another unprovoked daytime attack.

Video released by cops allegedly showed Russo brazenly dragging his victim by the hair for a few feet before letting go.

He then struck a wall with his hand and walked away.

The victims refused medical attention in both of the attacks. The woman suffered pain to her head and neck and the man was left with bruises on his left arm.

Russo is facing charges of assault as a hate crime and harassment as a hate crime in each of the incidents, cops said.

Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally, a white perp!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  FOX News bows to pressure - In response to President Biden’s complaint that FOX News doesn’t show enough Black and Hispanic people on their network.

FOX has announced that they will now air "America's Most Wanted " TWICE a week.

(satire of course]
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ^😂
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 2:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Dankie
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The Bonfire of The Vanities" "Great White Defendant". NOW we can talk about this.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 04/08/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||



-Great Cultural Revolution
‘Men Are Coming’: 255 California Prison Inmates Have Requested Transfer to Women’s Prisons Since January
[EpochTimes] Since January, 261 Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, prison inmates have requested transfers to prisons aligning with their gender identity, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
signed S.B. 132 into law in January, a bill that requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to ask every individual entering the department’s custody to specify their pronouns, their gender identity, and whether they identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.

The law prevents CDCR from disciplining the individual if that individual refuses to give this information, allows for the information to be updated later on, and requires staff to use the gender pronouns that the individual requested.

It also requires that CDCR house the individual in a "correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference." Similar legislation has been passed in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Since the bill went into effect in January, 261 inmates have requested "gender-based housing" transfers, the CDCR told the DCNF Tuesday. The vast majority of these requests were from inmates requesting to be transferred to female facilities, and only six inmates did not request to be in a women’s facility.

"255 are from transgender women and non-binary incarcerated people who are requesting to be housed in a female institution and six are from transgender men and non-binary incarcerated people who are requesting to be housed in a male institution," Deputy Press Secretary Terry Thornton told the DCNF.

CDCR has not denied a single gender-based housing request, the front man confirmed.

The CDCR has approved 21 of the requests, and four of these 21 have been transferred to Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.

"Two of the 21 have changed their minds," Thornton said. The front man said that as of April 2, 1,129 incarcerated people self-identify as transgender, non-binary, and intersex.

Prison inmates at Chowchilla told the Los Angeles Times that "men are coming" and that the prisoners should anticipate sexual violence.

"That if we think it’s bad now, be prepared for the worst. That it’s going to be off the hook, it’s going to be jumping," 41-year-old Tomiekia Johnson told the publication that staffers said. "They say we’re going to need a facility that’s going to be like a maternity ward. They say we’re going to have an inmate program where inmates become nannies."

Prisoners fear that inmates requesting transfers are lying about their gender identity in order to be transferred to women’s prisons, the LA Times reported. This has slowed down the transfer process, according to the publication.

Thornton told the LA Times that meetings and discussions "have helped to dispel any fears" and that "a person’s gender identity is self-reported and CDCR will evaluate any request submitted by an incarcerated person for gender-based housing."

The prison system requested several million dollars from California for implementing the law, Thornton said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

OK put them only in cells together.

In my book IT is not a Transgender until IT is surgically adjusted at THEIR EXPENSE, not the Taxpayers.

Other wise they are Transvestites.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/08/2021 7:29 Comments || Top||

#2  In my book IT is not a Transgender until IT is surgically adjusted at THEIR EXPENSE, not the Taxpayers.

Won't you compromise on the expense - in order to speed the process?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ...only if you can get a group rate with the lowest bidder. Veterinarians not excluded.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  ^I'm sure the process can be automated - or, you can subcontract in to the Chinese.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Ask the Saudis if they know any retired Eunuch *ahem* trainers?
Posted by: magpie || 04/08/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll do it for $20. I'm a veteran, not a veterinarian or a doctor. The only tools i have are a utility knife, a pair of hedge clippers, and some wire cutters. But that should do it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/08/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#7  [jingle jangle] (went the auld triangle)
Posted by: Mad Eye Flemp4426 || 04/08/2021 23:53 Comments || Top||


Taking wokeism to new heights? United Airlines pledges 50% of pilot trainees will be women & minorities
[RT] United Airlines has been skewered on social media after announcing that it hopes to recruit more ’diverse’ pilots, prompting many to accuse the company of abandoning merit-based hiring practices to appeal to the woke mob.
I think I'd rather fly on planes whose pilots did best on their aptitude tests.
The carrier announced on Tuesday that it would begin accepting applications for its new flight academy, saying it aimed to train and hire 5,000 pilots over the next decade, with half of them being women and people of color. The school is "built to accommodate" trainees of all skill levels, including individuals with no prior flying experience, according to a statement released by United.

The enrollment goals reflect the company’s desire to "diversify our pilot ranks and create new opportunities for thousands of women and people of color who want to pursue a career in aviation," CEO Scott Kirby explained.
Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Glad you put up the crash and burn pic - Behold the future - don't fly anymore is the message- this will not end good.
Posted by: Ho Chi Bonaparte5962 || 04/08/2021 1:20 Comments || Top||

#2  How civilizations die.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 2:05 Comments || Top||

#3  RAND Study of USAF pilot washout rates by race and gender, 2018 ("Understanding Demographic Differences in Undergraduate Pilot Training Attrition") - conclusion:

Data confirm that female and minority candidates are at higher risk for attrition in UPT, stemming from eliminations due to flying performance.

In other words, the US Air Force has tried and failed for years to accept a larger number (it's minuscule at present and always has been) of black and female pilot candidates. The reason? They don't know to fly. They're.shitty.pilots.
Posted by: Whusosh Sheart6101 || 04/08/2021 5:03 Comments || Top||

#4  I couldn't stop giggling over the graphic, Fred.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/08/2021 6:38 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Lengthy and dated (a 27 year old study), but revealing nonetheless. Student questionaire contained the following data:

8. What race do you consider yourself?
Categories of (Active - Guard/Reserve - Total)
a. White 88% 100% 90%
b. Black 2% 0% 2%
c. American Indian 2% 0% 2%
d, Eskmo or Aleut 0% 0% 0%
e. Aslan/Pac Islander 1% 0% 1%
f. Other: 7% 0 6%


Analysis of Special Forces
Medic (18D) Attrition.


Page 28 contained this rather humorous (racist by today's standards) comment:

San Antnio and Environs, Some have suggested that part of the SOMED attrition
problem is that the Fort Sam Houston/San Antonio location is too distracting for some
of the SOMED students. The likely factors would include: San Antonio's "Fiesta" atmosphere, the non-military campus like setting of AMEDDC&S, and the relatively high number of women at AMEDDC&S.


Lots of discussion and hypotheticals, but no definitive reasons for the attrition were given in this study. Shortages and attrition of 18D students continue to this day.

My take: This stuff is very hard and extremely demanding. Not everyone will make it, hence the word attrition. Intellectually challenged, indolent, and unmotivated people need not apply.



Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#6 

So United Airlines to be WOKEN will hired persons in disproportionate numbers based on COLOR/RACIAL and SEX.

???? NOT SKILLS ????

Sure sounds dangerous to me.

Personally, I want the BEST, Mentally Stable Pilot flying my plane.

Enough of the WOKE/Social Justice BS.
We have to admit in some professions the person MUST BE THE BEST regardless and not a racial quota hire.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/08/2021 7:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Just another item I can add to my list why I don't fly for leisure travel and would rather drive 2000 miles there and back.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 8:26 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm sure as hell not flying United. Never did, but not even if the ticket is free now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/08/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Kara Hultgreen was unavailable for comment.
Posted by: Woozle Theamble4130 || 04/08/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#10  The Daily Currant was ahead it’s time an early Bab Bee, unfortunately they are no longer around.

I had to go to Snopes to find this

Conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter refused to stay on board a Miami to New York commercial airline flight today after learning the pilot was a woman of African-American descent.
According to witness reports Coulter was concerned the experienced, decorated pilot in question may have gained her position as a result of

affirmative action and wasn’t fully qualified to fly.

The incident began when Coulter boarded the American Airlines flight and took up her first class seat. After a trip to the bathroom, she noticed the pilot was a black woman and became immediately distraught.

According to passengers, at that point Coulter stood at the front of the cabin and began screaming her concerns to the entire flight as they finished boarding.

“Aw come on people, a black woman flying a plane? You know she got that job through affirmative action. Am I the only one worried about this? I mean hello? Our lives are at stake here …”
Posted by: Beavis || 04/08/2021 10:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Not sure if that is true, but that is the truth about affirmative action.

Because what this statement says is, "Policy has been to hire the most qualified pilots available. Fly with us as we change that policy."

But the planes practically fly themselves now!

Yeah, until they don't and the port engine disintegrates or a bird strikes lands you in the Hudson. Or perhaps your particular model's brain can get a bit wonky, and you have to know how to shut off ROC in 30 seconds or less or be in an unrecoverable dive.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/08/2021 11:15 Comments || Top||

#12  Corporate Darwin Award - Affirmative Action Flight Crew.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/08/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||

#13  #3 RAND Study of USAF female and black pilots' washout rate indicated they simply "lack ability" -- and, understandably, also lack confidence. From report linked above, p.45:

...both female groups themselves and instructors discussed a lack of confidence among female students, especially compared with men. For example, a female instructor opined that female students lacked the confidence of their male counterparts:

"The confidence on the whole is not as high throughout the women as it is with the guys. I don’t know how to fix that after teaching for four years. A guy can have a bad ride and still tell himself and his friends that he’s awesome. A girl can have a good ride and tell herself and her friends that she’s the worst. I don’t know a way to fix that other than to just be aware of it."

As with instructors, female students also suggested that they might have a harder time than their male counterparts in shaking off criticism. For example, one female student pilot explained that male student pilots “can move on much faster because they don’t think about things all the time like we do.” Another female student stated, “I think the hardest thing for me was learning to forgive myself.”

Finally, instructors often perceived that female students lacked ability. Several instructors said that female students seemed to be poorer performers or that they had heard other instructors say that, particularly in terms of flying performance (as opposed to academics, general knowledge, or knowledge of instruments).

A white male instructor, responsible for splitting classes as they entered the next training phase, recalled as he “split up classes and tr[ied] to balance gender and minorities,” “There is a perception that females perform at a lower level. I’m often asked by flight-room IPs how many girls I am sending them.”
Posted by: Jeremiah Sholuque1930 || 04/08/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#14  Lol... the extremely detailed, rigorous, 120-page RAND study examines all the usual Woke excuses (sexism, rayciss, toxic masculinity superiority turpitude-blah-bkah) for female and black pilot candidates' severe underperformance / extremely high washout rates and rejects them all.

The authors conclude:

Analysis of UPT attrition data showed that characteristics that are known about candidates before they enter pilot training could account for the relatively high attrition among female and black candidates. In other words, pilot candidates from the base demographic group (male for gender comparisons, white for race and ethnicity comparisons) who had similar test scores, sources of commission, flying experience, and levels of DG attainment were eliminated from UPT at similarly high rates.

This finding implies that race and ethnicity or gender do not, in themselves, drive these differences in attrition rates. Rather, members of these groups are less likely to possess the preparation or experience necessary to be successful.
Posted by: Elmineque Hatfield7229 || 04/08/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#15  Next up - NASCAR and Formula 1...
Posted by: Raj || 04/08/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||

#16  As a CFI, I can tell y'all that this will not end well.

The Bozo's and Bozette's will be sharing the air with competent but unsuspecting pilots (to say nothing of the pax.). And considering that ATC is also in the EEOC game, it's gonna' be a real $hit-show, imo.
Posted by: Rupert Protector of the Welsh1615 || 04/08/2021 13:05 Comments || Top||

#17  @#15: Let me know when the NBA requires my 60+ y/o shiny white a$$ with bad knees to play.
Posted by: Rupert Protector of the Welsh1615 || 04/08/2021 13:08 Comments || Top||

#18  Can you jack up 3 point shots? That's what the NBA's been for the past few years; it's boring as hell. I've stopped watching, even the Boston Celtics.
Posted by: Raj || 04/08/2021 13:15 Comments || Top||

#19  Idiocracy is their field manual.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 04/08/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#20  Boy howdy
If United has a major fatal and the crash can be tied to pilot error by a diversity hire, that is the recipe for suing United into nonexistence
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/08/2021 17:57 Comments || Top||


Target pledges to spend $2B on products, services from Black-owned businesses
[STARTRIBUNE] As part of its racial equity efforts, Target Corp. is pledging to sell products from more than 500 Black-owned brands by the end of 2025.

That goal is part of a new $2 billion commitment the Minneapolis-based retailer is making to spend with Black-owned businesses over five years. The company did not provide specifics on how much it currently spends with these companies, but said the commitment represents a significant increase.

Target currently carries 65-plus Black-owned brands, including several in its beauty department.

In addition to diversifying its suppliers, Target said it will step up partnerships with other Black-owned companies in areas such as marketing, construction and facilities management.

It also will launch a new program called Forward Founders to help Black entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses for mass retail.

"We have a rich history of working with diverse businesses, but there's more we can do to spark change across the retail industry, support the Black community and ensure Black guests feel welcomed and represented when they shop at Target," Christina Hennington, Target's chief growth officer, said in a statement. "The bold actions we're announcing today reflect Target's ongoing commitment to advance racial equity for the Black community."

Target has been working to diversify its suppliers and product mix for years through efforts such as hosting vendor fairs for Black-owned businesses. Between 2016 and 2018, it increased its business with diverse suppliers by 64%.
Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

If the items sell Great fantastic, stock them.

But if it is a WOKE PR gimmick?
Then will Target just offset the loss by upping the prices of WHITE Items.

Which also begs the question:
IF the items were profitable why wasn't Target already selling them?

Before you ask what is a "White Only Item"?
I can't think of one. But it does point out the ethnic disparity of focusing on Race/Color over consumer demand that "might" be introduced.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/08/2021 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Time for businesses to get figurehead black owners?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Yo! Get yore crack at Target's now. We done gone upped the bidness.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/08/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||

#4  ... while Target shuts down its retail stores located in violent black-majority neighborhoods incl the one at the center of the St George F. Festivities in Target's own hometown
Posted by: Lionel Glavique5595 || 04/08/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Time for businesses to get figurehead black owners?

Been going on for a while in public sector construction companies.

Cold Saw the commercial the other night. Pretty obvious right off the bat where it was going, so when the coffee Black and Bold, ah, of course that would be the name.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/08/2021 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Been going on for a while in public sector construction companies.

Wanna know where I got the idea? I got it from studying Jewish Diaspora history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Story from a guy who dabbled in Mega City Projects. Said there was a company who formed, and after gathering the professionals and the muscle, went in search of an black guy with a face, gab, and networking ability to make 'Owner'.

Got them consideration points during bid selection, or necessarily be the lowest bidder.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/08/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||

#8  A lot of companies will start looking for black 'owners'. Kind of a modern-day version of blackface.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/08/2021 17:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Time for businesses to get figurehead black owners?

Owners and top tier officers, this has been going on South Africa since about 1995. The newly re-organized South Afircan 'National' Defense Force (SANDF) led the way through the mandatory release, buy-out, and retirement of white top level officers. Many of the replacements had gained their military education at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 17:27 Comments || Top||

#10  We're all South Africans now
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Dark Lord of the Chinese1126 || 04/08/2021 18:05 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Corporate Media Calls For Head of Former CDC Director For Supporting the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
[Daily Bell] The more mundane aspect of this story is that Robert Redfield — now that he is safely out of the clutches of his federal post as CDC Director — stated the obvious to a corporate news actor who pretended to be shocked.

The simplest explanation for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2, Redfield explained, is that the nearby Wuhan virology lab — which experimented for on coronaviruses just likes SARS-CoV-2 for a decade-plus — leaked it.

The real takeaway is the lightning-speed with which the corporate-state goon squad that masquerades as media attacked:

"Redfield’s endorsement of the so-called "lab-leak" theory of the virus’s origin on CNN outraged several state lawmakers, who saw his comments as exacerbating anti-Asian sentiment that has been on the rise since the United States saw its first cases."

They immediately pressured the Maryland governor to sever ties with Redfield, who now serves in an unpaid advisory role following his departure from the CDC.

And, of course, they couldn’t help themselves: rather than attacking the expert virologist’s assessment of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 on its merits, they pushed ahead with their race-obsessed narrative of rampant anti-Asian hate:
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 01:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Eat Bananas corporate media - you monkeys wouldn't now the truth if it came directly from a lightening bolt - it leaked and the world freaked !
Start analysing from this perspective and your will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Too scared you chimps ?
Posted by: Ho Chi Bonaparte5962 || 04/08/2021 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Corporate Uniparty/State Media
Posted by: Lionel Omaitch7682 || 04/08/2021 4:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Biden Team Set to Review Kenya, Trump Trade Talks
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Another Measles Outbreak in DR Congo
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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Arabia
Saudi Malls, Supermarkets, Restaurants Told to Increase Hiring of Saudi Nationals
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/08/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Now all they have to do is to find Saudi nationals willing to work.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Wyoming governor signs bill requiring photo ID to be shown at polling places
[Washington Examiner] Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed legislation on Tuesday that will require voters in his state to show photo identification prior to voting in elections.

Gordon, a Republican, signed House Bill 75 into law, which will mean that starting in July 2021, Wyoming voters will need to show a valid government-issued photo ID in order to cast their ballots, according to Oil City News.

The bill has been criticized by Democrats in the state, who say voter ID laws suppress turnout, especially in minority communities, while Republicans argue that showing a photo ID discourages voter fraud.

"It is a necessary function of our republic to provide our citizens with confidence that our elections are secure, fair, and valid," Wyoming House state Rep. Chuck Gray, a Republican, said about the legislation. "I am proud that we were able to meet this important milestone for Wyoming."

The signing of the bill comes as voter ID laws and election safeguards overall have been a bitter point of contention between Democrats and Republicans, most notably in Georgia and Texas, where new legislation has prompted liberal boycotts and a decision by Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia in protest.

Polling released last month showed that a strong majority, 75%, of voters supported voter ID laws, including 69% of black voters. Additionally, a poll in the swing state of Michigan this week showed that 72% of voters support the idea of showing a photo ID in order to vote. In that poll, 58% of black voters voiced support for voter ID laws.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 00:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Well Wyoming can go ahead and cancel _____?
??? Just what the hell can Woke/BLOM/Biden threaten Wyoming with??
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/08/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#2  ...outlaw rodeos, via Dept of Agriculture, as animal cruelty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ...outlaw rodeos, via Dept of Agriculture, as animal cruelty.

That and coal mining, fracking, etc. as 'environmentally unsafe' for the Native American population.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/08/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
On Holocaust Remembrance Day We Should Remember The Past For The Sake Of The Future
[Jerusalem Post] Sunday before Yom Hashoah through the following Sunday. 2021 Thursday, April 8. 2022

As we approach the sixty-ninth Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGevurah (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day), the lessons of the Holocaust are both fading from public consciousness and echoing into public policy at the same time. Those survivors who are still alive are currently in their 80s and 90s, and even when they continue to tell their stories—or have had their stories documented by organizations such as the USC Shoah Foundation—fewer and fewer people are interested in hearing, let alone learning from, them. Contemporary genocides and current public health crises crowd out our attention, leaving little room for events of a bygone era. More dangerously, public eyes look forward to the future without realizing that history repeats itself if we don’t learn the lessons of the past.

It is true, there are other genocides that we must not forget, but the existence of other atrocities should not marginalize the Holocaust. The Holocaust is not simply a Jewish calamity. Even if it were, the intentional elimination of one group of people is not something to brush aside. If this were the case, then no genocide is worthy of attention, except that of those being exterminated.

One reason why leaders and moral philosophers may justify moving on from the Holocaust is the argument that history and morality have very different foci. History attempts to tell a story of what occurred. Ethics attempts to teach people what should occur. History is descriptive, while ethics is prescriptive. Ethicists will always say that one cannot learn an "ought" from an "is"—this is what philosophers call the naturalistic fallacy. Moreover, it is never convincing to say, "We should do this or not do that, because otherwise we will have another Holocaust." To threaten a return of the Holocaust oftentimes is just hyperbolic or absurd.
Yet, while history and ethics may face different directions, they have more to say to each other than philosophers and social and political leaders may like to acknowledge. Just as a person learns how best to act through reflecting on his or her past experiences, so can the world community learn how best to move forward by reflecting on its history. In this view, history does not simply tell a story, it provides practical experience. It is time we learn from the Holocaust not only how Nazi leaders took advantage of modern medical and social technology, but also how ordinary men and women were taken advantage of at the same time.
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My Father was part of Yankee Division and liberated the Gusen concentration Death Camps sometime in May of 1945.

After seeing what the camp looked like in historical pictures and hearing what my father said of this collection of Death Camp. I understood quickly Socialism is never to be trusted with a person god given rights and freedoms.

In reading history. I have yet to see a National Socialist Party take power without quickly eliminating some class of (color, Ethnic, Political or Middle class Wealth) of people to build its power base of fear, domination and surpression.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/08/2021 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ I have yet to see a National Socialist Party take power without quickly eliminating some class of (color, Ethnic, Political or Middle class Wealth) of people to build its power base of fear, domination and surpression.

Could of course simply be coincidental.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/08/2021 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  "Next time... we'll do it right"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/08/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  "Next time...

we'll contract out the work. See - Paleos
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/08/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The faces change

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Groundbreaking Israeli treatment may offer cure for blood cancer
[Jerusalem Post] A groundbreaking treatment developed by an Israeli team might offer a cure against multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer.

Multiple myeloma is a relatively common type of cancer which targets white blood cells producing antibodies. As a result of the disease, those cells start to multiply indefinitely in the blood and can accumulate in the bones as well.

"The causes of this cancer are not clear, but it can lead to bone lesions, anemia, kidney failure, and it exposes the patients to infections, since their immune system is weakened," Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunotherapy laboratory at Bar-Ilan University, told The Jerusalem Post.

Currently, the disease is considered treatable but not curable, with a survival rate of about 50% five years after the diagnosis. The state-of-the-art treatment is based on chemotherapy, a type of treatment that is often burdensome on the patient.

Cohen and his colleagues, including Prof. Polina Stepensky and Dr. Moshe Gatt from the Hadassah-University Medical Center, developed a bio-based alternative which aims at "reprogramming" the patient’s own blood cells.
"We are reprogramming another type of the immune system’s cells, called ’T cells,’ in order to teach them to fight the cancer inside the blood of the patient," Cohen explained.

"We draw some blood from the patient, we separate the T cells, and in the laboratory we add a new molecule which allows them to recognize the cancerous cells," he added. "The molecule is called a CAR, which stands for ’chimeric antigen receptor.’"
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#1  Zionism is racism!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  May may may, i am fed up with "May" in MSM...
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 04/08/2021 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3  p.s. Just remembered an Analog story I've read a long time ago. A day, in which he receives a Nobel Prize in medicine for finding a cure for cancer, in the life of a Jewish American scientist.
Last paragraph. "This is an alternate history. In our world his parents died in Nazi concentration camps as teenagers."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/08/2021 2:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Multiple Myeloma
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Southeast Asia
The country’s military ruler said the civil disobedience movement was ‘destroying’ Myanmar
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#1  For those wondering just WTF is this about, this ain't about China or dictatorship or Ms Kyi. This whole thing is about the globalLeft's interference in Asian sovereign states.

In recent news: Junta Seizes Soros' Foundation Assets, Open Society Backing Protests
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/08/2021 12:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I am past caring what my own government supports, but for the sake of Asia, I am with the junta. Suu Kyi was indifferent to and simply stood out of the war against islamics, namely Rohingya rebels. It is only the military that can keep them on a steady population decline.

The rest of the liberal islamophile world wants to stamp Myanmar with its own shitty 'Democracy Applied' label. A totalitarian, militarized State is actually a model south Asian societies could all benefit from. But that's just my own view.
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