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-Great Cultural Revolution
Will Smith Goes All in for Black Lives Matter, Says Critical Race Theory Should Be Called ‘Truth Theory'
[Breitbart] Disney’s Aladdin star Will Smith has shown his support for the Black Lives Matter movement and proponents of critical race theory, going so far as to say critical race theory should be re-branded as "truth theory."
"I'm down with you black people. Please pay to see my movies!"
The Hollywood star also backed the spirit of the "defund the police" movement, but suggested it should be promoted in a different, less threatening way.

In a GQ interview, Will Smith praised the Black Lives Matter movement for the directness of its name and message.

"This is a difficult area to discuss, but I feel like the simplicity of Black Lives Matter was perfect," the Men in Black star said. "Anybody who tries to debate Black Lives Matter looks ridiculous. So when I talk about the marketing of our ideas, Black Lives Matter was perfection."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2021 06:53 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  This too will eventually require mandatory vaccination and testing. Your views and beliefs are important to us.

Employment screening may require periodic updates and certifications.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/30/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow. Speaking of "looking ridiculous".... Stupidity, mendacity, extortion and fraud, all in one stroke
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder || 09/30/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Give that man a PhD and tenure at an Ivy Leave university? He'd fit right in except for the 90% white faculty.
Posted by: Snerert Thud6543 || 09/30/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Hollywood loon gets "woke" and goes full Marxist?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/30/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  "Black Lives Matter" would be good marketing -- if they didn't ignore blacks killed by other blacks, and didn't work themselves into a frenzy over "All Lives Matter". Oh, and didn't loudly proclaim their support specifically for black criminals.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/30/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#6  In a GQ interview, Will Smith praised the Black Lives Matter movement for the directness of its name and message.

He has not been paying attention to their messaging beyond the slogan. The multi-million dollar houses, the communist statements against families, the silence while black businesses are burned down by white kids int he name of BLM, the death of black cops.

Will Smith is a fool desperately trying to scatch his way back to relevance.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/30/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Good career move, William. I'd forgotten who you were, we, are. I mean, is
Posted by: Ghost of PeeWee Paul Rubin || 09/30/2021 11:30 Comments || Top||

#8  CRT literally denies the existence of objective truth. Yes.

Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 09/30/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Wouldn't the True Tenants of CRT consider the field of Acting the very essence of cultural appropriation?

I mean, Science! is racist, so I Am Legend promotes white supremacy, correct? His whole filmography is littered with stealing Japanese culture and unapologetic, unaccountable law enforcement, right?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Last gasp for relevance while Jada is out bangin' the young bros. What a tool.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/30/2021 17:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Race Africans. European. Asian
IQ. 75-85. 100. 105
Posted by: Muggsy Elmomoting3177 || 09/30/2021 17:22 Comments || Top||

#12  Mug^^^^. That’s ricest
Posted by: Shinemble Jones7720 || 09/30/2021 17:34 Comments || Top||

#13  Probably shows up to work on time, too.

Didn't his son get like three movies made just to launch his career? That's some privilege.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2021 17:56 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Koxinga - The Pirate King of China
[YouTube] Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of China continues with a video on Koxinga. This admiral became the pirate king of China and fought the Dutch Empire and the Qing dynasty. The episode covers the battles of Lialuo Bay and Fort Zeelandia.
More background from Chinese texts my wife has read. Taiwan was tribes of head hunters and the like that was the Polynesian and Melanesian root stock. The Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish came and made Taiwan into colonies. The Dutch in the south, Spain in the north and the Portuguese just a port. The Dutch and Spanish could not get good work out of the natives on their sugar and other plantations so they bought Chinese from the Chinese pirates just like in the new world they bought Blacks from African tribal chiefs, and then populated Taiwan with these Chinese beholden to them. The Chinese emperor and the pirates had some discussion resulting in the emperor chartering the pirates to take Taiwan and populate it with Chinese. The pirates defeated the Dutch and Spanish - leaving the port-holding Portuguese alone - and populated the island and ruled it for a long time. Later the Japanese came and played the same sort of colonization and all hunted the native tribes for sport. This is background for this relationship. The Chinese that the Dutch, Spanish and the pirates brought over became the Taiwanese. After the Chinese Civil War the people and armies that retreated to Taiwan became known as Chinese, the Chinese and Japanese already there became known as Taiwanese and the Tribes remained known as Tribes.
Whew! Okay, now to watch the video:

Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bad... I know this question is supposed to be obsolete in the year 2021... but where is your wife from in China?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/30/2021 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 1:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Alright. Part of why I was asking: there's a current theory in vogue in China that a lot of groups in Western and/or Southwestern China and points beyond, like the Tai and related peoples, actually came from Taiwan once upon a time. As in during the 2000-4000 years ago time frame.

I have my doubts about a lot of these alleged facts because I was given to understand that the groups in question are semi-related to the Tibetans and Burmese more than that.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/30/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Anyway, I thought the pirates of that place and time period were all a kind of mixture of Japanese and South Chinese outlaws and that the government was trying to fight them by depopulating the entire coastal zone, and that coastal Chinese trying to get away from that were a major driver of Chinese settlement in Taiwan (and the Philipines, and Nanyang (?) further south.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/30/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh.

I use a plugin that makes everything light text on a dark background, so I wound up thinking that was your commentary. Sorry.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/30/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  3dc, badanov: if your wives want to weigh in on China, we would be fascinated to hear what they have to say.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Wife has no patience with media of any sort. Maybe I can get her to show me the books the info came from and I can post the titles.

That said if you ever see the various tribes put on a show... culturally it resembles US Indians or Polynesians more than Asian cultures. I have videos but not anonymous ones...
Posted by: 3dc || 09/30/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#10  This video is fairly good:
Posted by: 3dc || 09/30/2021 14:17 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: 3dc || 09/30/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: 3dc || 09/30/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||

#13  Uh, has there been a sort of malfunction? Badanov's posts have gone away...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/30/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#14  by his choice IIUC. He's a Mod
Posted by: Frank G || 09/30/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||

#15  I gave up too much information.
Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 20:51 Comments || Top||

#16  Tx Bad
Posted by: Frank G || 09/30/2021 21:19 Comments || Top||

#17  It’s like the day I did the same and had to dump that comment into the Sink Trap, upon which a number of Rantburgers gallantly came to my defense as not deserving such harsh treatment — and I fell in love with you all all over again.

I’m sorry I missed your last while running off doing errands, badanov. I’m not good at privacy myself, so I forget to think about it for others.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/30/2021 22:59 Comments || Top||

#18  Just an abundance of caution.
Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 23:08 Comments || Top||

#19 
We would all eat cats,

If LIFE turned Bad A Nov

(BAD ENOUGH)

- Only U Can Prevent Internet-based Fires;
But There Again, There is Gavin Newsome,
And He Don't Give a Sh-t about Anyone nor Any Thing.
Posted by: Nero Phagum7632 || 09/30/2021 23:14 Comments || Top||

#20  FWTW,
I read Badanov's post before they were deleted.
Gave me a perspective of input.
Thanks for your thoughts.
People like you make this site so valuable despite it's censors.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/30/2021 23:30 Comments || Top||

#21 
Beer Roasted Cat - Road Kill Recipes

Endorsement by : The Walking Unvaxed
Posted by: Nero Phagum7632 || 09/30/2021 23:54 Comments || Top||


Russian retreat and catastrophe: February 1904 near Mukden
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[Regnum] In February 18 (March 3), 1904, General Alexei Kuropatkin began withdrawing units from forward positions. This immediately affected the mood of the people.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 09/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thx Badanov for this foreshadowing of the 1905 Revolution.
Posted by: borgboy || 09/30/2021 0:22 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Antibodies in Fully Vaxxed With Pfizer, AstraZeneca Decline Steeply After Several Months – Study
[Sputnik] Swedish national broadcaster SVT described the new findings as a piece of the puzzle why Sweden and other heavily-vaccinated countries are now seeing more and more breakthrough infections among those who duly received their two shots.

Antibody levels among fully vaccinated people wane faster than researchers previously thought, a major recent study performed in Sweden has concluded.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/30/2021 06:31 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm still waiting on studies on how long acquired immunity antibodies last. No doubt the results will come from the EU or Asia.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 09/30/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||


Kathleen Sebelius Admits the Vax Doesn't Work
[Breitbart] Former Obama administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday on MSNBC’s "All In" that Americans who have not received a coronavirus vaccine are like "secondhand smoke" in that they can make people sick.

Sebelius said, "I think what President Biden has done is balance between what the science says and trying to cajole, encourage, make it easy for people to follow the science. When that turned out not to be as effective, then he turned to more hardened mandates. But what people don’t have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people’s lives, risk children’s lives. So I think the president has been walking a line of balancing science and safety and security at every step along the way. Hoping that the mass majority of the American public would follow that lead."

She added, "It’s a lot like secondhand smoke. You have a right to be a smoker. The science is very clear what smoking will do to you, what cancer will be caused, what kinds of health conditions. You have a right to be a smoker. You don’t have a right to smoke next to my desk, to blow smoke on people, on my children, to force me to live in a housing facility where I am subjected to more smoke. That is a line that we have in this country, which delineates what your individual rights are. I think we’re looking at very much the same situation. OSHA, you’re absolutely right, has always provided guidance and mandates about safety in a workplace. This is not a safe workplace if I’m working with a person that may make me and my family sick. That’s not acceptable."
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 09/30/2021 06:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  that would make it Trump's vaccine again...
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/30/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#2  At some point you have to ask yourself: "What the hell does the vaccine do?"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/30/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  In Australia, it gets you punched in the nuts and a towel stuffed down your throat.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/30/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2021-09-30
  Prices soar at opium market in Talibanistan
Wed 2021-09-29
  Yemeni officials: Clashes over Marib kill 130 fighters
Tue 2021-09-28
  Number of murders in US rose by almost a third in 2020
Mon 2021-09-27
  At least 50 killed in fighting for Yemen's Marib: Military sources
Sun 2021-09-26
  MS-13 Member on Interpol's '100 Most Wanted List' for Multiple Murders Found in U.S
Sat 2021-09-25
  Fort Bliss woman soldier assaulted at Afghan refugee camp
Fri 2021-09-24
  AOC blubbers bursts into tears as Iron Dome's $1bn funding is OVERWHELMINGLY approved in House 420-9
Thu 2021-09-23
  Five Killed in Five Attacks in Jalalabad
Wed 2021-09-22
  400 Caribbean Migrants March Through Mexican Checkpoint to Texas
Tue 2021-09-21
  Senior Huras al-Din ideologue and senior military leader
killed in U.S. drone strike
Mon 2021-09-20
  Texas Governor Sends Highway Patrol, National Guard to Block Migrants at Border
Sun 2021-09-19
  Indonesia's most wanted ISIS militant killed in shootout
Sat 2021-09-18
  Roads Into Panjshir Reopen, Telecom Services Resume
Fri 2021-09-17
  US imposes sanctions on five individuals it says are linked to alQaeda
Thu 2021-09-16
  Seven Pakistani soldiers, five militants killed in gun battle in South Waziristan


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