[Red State] Following a decision by the Minnesota Public Schools, a new policy has been enacted that will lay off white teachers first — if the district needs to downsize, white teachers will be fired first.
As my colleague Jeff Charles reported, the agreement states:
"Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population."
Following the decision, constitutional lawyer Hans Bader wrote an op-ed, as noted by my colleague, which states:
"It is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. When it comes to termination (as opposed to hiring or promotion under an affirmative-action plan), an employer can’t racially discriminate even against whites. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1996 that an school district can’t consider race even as a tie-breaker, in deciding who to lay off, even to promote diversity, because that (a) unduly trammels the white teacher’s rights — even affirmative action plans are supposed to be mild and not unduly trammel someone’s rights, and getting fired as opposed to being denied a promotion unduly trammels someone’s rights — and (b) putting that aside, the school district couldn’t consider race to promote diversity when black people weren’t seriously underrepresented in its workforce as a whole. That ruling was Taxman v. Board of Education of Piscataway, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996)."
Despite the backlash this blatantly racist policy has received, it was recently defended by the president and vice president of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers. On Friday, in an appearance on ABC, Greta Callahan, president of the teachers’ union, said:
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The union members approved the contract. Presuming a majority of teachers were white they deliberately voted against their self interests. If that was their choice they will have no right to complain when the terms take effect. But they probably will …
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Going to bet lots of minority union members are chronically in arrears on their dues and are not punished for it by the union, because rayciss.
I'd call that a feature, not a bug.
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1950-68 era in reverse.
The Democrats always needing to play a RACE CARD have switched from Blacks racial discrimination to Whites/Hispanics, Asians and Middle Easterners for their openly called for Racist affirmative action.
[America Out Loud] Americans and people all over the globe are into the third year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with the COVID-19 crisis being more an epoch of inconvenience and loss of personal freedom rather than a health emergency. One of the most notable parts of the COVID-19 crisis has been the worldwide menace of mass, indiscriminate vaccination.
Once, it was apparent that large numbers of individuals were suffering injury, disability, and death shortly after receiving one of the COVID-19 vaccines, and it didn’t matter which one; most people had their personal safety compass dialed in for a course free of any more injections. Then the crushing mandates came in the summer of 2021, where every pressure point possible was exerted by the government, employers, schools, hospitals, and the military.
Only those healthy, working as entrepreneurs or independent contractors appeared to be spared the threat of COVID-19 vaccination. The biopharmaceutical complex, as outlined in "Courage to Face COVID-19" by Leake and McCullough, is a decades-old private-public partnership dedicated to the response to global health crises largely with the anticipated response of mass vaccination.1
This syndicate has some of the most powerful entities in the world, including the World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Center for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation, GAVI-The Vaccine Alliance, the US National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the vaccine manufacturers who are positioned as suppliers of pre-purchased vaccine products.
For the biopharmaceutical complex to advance the vaccine agenda of "a needle in every arm," a series of false claims were put forward behind the slogans of "safe and effective" and "get vaccinated."2,3
by Lindsey Snell and Cory Popp This is Max Blumenthal’s site, which describes itself as founded in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions. Mr. Blumenthal, as you will recall, dear Reader, is the Israel-hating son of Israel-hating Hillary Clinton buddy Sidney Blumenthal, a favourite reporter for Russia Today, with Media Matters, AlterNet, and Al Jazeera in his resumé.
[TheGrayZone] In a video sent via Facebook messenger in July, Ivan* can be seen standing next to his car, an early 2010s model Mitsubishi SUV. Smoke is pouring out of the rear window. Ivan laughs and pans his phone's camera across the length of the vehicle, pointing out bullet holes. “The turbocharger died in my car,” he said, panning his phone toward the front of the vehicle. "My commander says I should pay to repair it myself. So to use my own car in the war, I need to buy a new turbocharger with my own money.”
Ivan flipped the camera toward his face. “Well, you fucking motherfucker members of parliament, I hope you fuck each other. Devils. I wish you were in our place," he said.
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"Afghan war veterans on how Kabul plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war"
The other side isn't going to spend money on _that_ narrative any more, they don't have to, they've won. They'll spend the money for clicks for the war they haven't won yet, talking about how you should give up, because they've already won.
[1945] Last month, a Chinese entrepreneur making medical equipment for consumers told me that local officials had demanded he convert his production lines in China so that they could turn out items for the military. Communist Party cadres, he said, were issuing similar orders to other manufacturers.
Moreover, Chinese academics privately say the ongoing expulsion of foreign colleagues from China’s universities appears to be a preparation for hostilities.
The People’s Republic of China is preparing to go to war, and it is not trying to hide its efforts. Amendments to the National Defense Law, effective the first day of last year, transfer powers from civilian to military officials.
In general, the amendments reduce the role of the central government’s State Council by shifting power to the CMC, the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission. Specifically, the State Council will no longer supervise the mobilization of the People’s Liberation Army.
As Zeng Zhiping of Soochow University told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post,
"The CMC is now formally in charge of making national defense policy and principles, while the State Council becomes a mere implementing agency to provide support for the military."
In one sense, these amendments were window dressing. "Recent changes to China’s National Defense Law that diminish the power of the State Council are largely political posturing," Richard Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center told me soon after the amendments went into effect. "The Chinese Communist Party and particularly its subordinate CMC have always held supreme power over decisions regarding war and peace."
Why then do we care about the National Defense Law amendments?
The amendments, Fisher tells us, "point to China’s ambition to achieve ’whole nation’ levels of military mobilization to fight wars and give the CMC formal power to control the future Chinese capabilities for global military intervention."
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Rubbish! If you believe conspiracy theorist Gordon Chang, you probably also believe the term 'Gain of Function' is somehow connected to biological warfare research.
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They hit us like Pearl Harbor, but we ignored the attack so that we could win the election of Joe Biden. This will confuse American History students in the future unless we end up as serfs to Klause Schwab’s replacement Justine Trudeau.
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How will they feed their troops?
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How much of this is 'War Preparations' and how much of this is the Central Communist Party clawing back power and wealth (same thing really) that various Oligarchs had accumulated? China has a long history of 'Warlords' breaking away from the 'Central Authority' and doing mischief ...maybe even plotting rebellion.
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I'm not exactly an "old China hand," but this matches what I'm picking up by keeping my ear tuned to various sources. China feels it's reaching a "it's now or never" moment; and "now" looks a lot better than "never." And they need to get their population's mind off how their system's contradictions are being highlighted (if you will forgive my paraphrasing some Lenin.)
Plus, as much as most of us don't like the CCP, there isn't a clamor among the American public to go to war with China. Quite the opposite, as the contradictions are being highlighted here as well.
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China has been preparing for war against America for a generation, according to things people have been saying here.
China feels it's reaching a "it's now or never" moment; and "now" looks a lot better than "never."
With their population having reached the inflection point a decade earlier than admitted, and the country dependent on imports for both food and fuel, now or never sounds right. But the impression I have is that China’s is a land army, which has certainly annoyed the neighbours, but won’t get them to America, though I’m not at all qualified to judge. And athough —again an impression — they don’t seem to have the corruption problems seen in Russia, all their tires are made in China, too.
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I was thinking they might attack Taiwan and see what we do about it.
We’ve been discussing that here, too, Secret Master. My takeaway was that would be much harder for China to accomplish than it appears — but again, I’m not qualified to judge.
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America has never in recent memory been more politically disaffected, in debt, ignorant, fatigued by foreign failures, and poorly led by the Puppet Show leadership committee. If not now, at the height of their military, manufacturing, trade and political influence strategies of the past 20 years, then when, as their entire trajectory is flatlining across all the specturms of power as a nation? Xi needs an external focus to rouse the awakening masses.
Their problem is that pesky body of water, Taiwanese air power, 50 years of defensive anti-amphib assault prep, and few airborne drop zones that won't be killing grounds as they push the stick out the door! If they do standoff and bounce the rubble with long-range precision munitions to obviate all that, why bother to then arrive and deal with the massive graves registration, public health and Berlin-level wasteland?
[NYP] Europe’s wishful thinking in going green has landed it in hot water — or maybe cold water, since it’s now short on energy for heating. And that’s got Germany reversing course.
Leaders there last week said they now plan to keep the country’s last three nuclear plants running, at least temporarily, to avoid having to divert natural gas for electricity. That pauses a years-long march away from nuclear power that’s backed by much of the German public (even though nuclear-energy production emits virtually no greenhouse gases).
The government’s also looking to restart 16 mothballed coal-burning power plants. That’s right: coal — one of the dirtiest fossil fuels and largest sources of carbon emissions. So much for leading on clean energy.
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We should institute a "walk the walk or STFU" policy for all communists, greens, and other "you must sacrifice for the sake of X-Y-Z" types.
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^#1, True, true. As things devolve Soylent Green will be a serious option they will consider. Recycled people. They recycle babies now. China now makes food from anything. The elites (Eloi) versus the Morlocks (all others).
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Clearly the Germans just aren't doing it right.
WE will do it right, and everything will be wonderful!
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Nuclear power is the greenest energy there is and they still fight against it whenever they have a chance.
If they had doubled down on pro-nuclear instead of taking soviet money and fighting against nuclear for decades we'd be off of coal and probably off of oil by now.
[America Out Loud] People are dying. Have you noticed? Not just the ordinary kind of dying that happens in ordinary life. Maybe it’s just an amazing coincidence, but ever since the mRNA shots were pushed by Fauci and other evil opportunists, people of all ages, from infants to centenarians, are dying suddenly, unexpectedly, with "no plausible explanation."
Except, there is an explanation. The Covid jabs have been killing people. Lots of people. Just as some of us anticipated. Of course, you have been trained to trust your government "experts." Believe them because the CDC, the NIH, the NIAID, the U.S. Surgeon General — because they can’t all be wrong. Right? Wrong!
Anyone who claims that the sudden deaths of healthy young children, world-class athletes, and hard-working, fit young to middle-aged adults, cannot be explained is lying to your face!
Natural News just came out with an interesting article that compared post-mRNA vaccine clots to normal blood clots. Through a laboratory assay called ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry), the composition (elemental analysis) of a normally-formed human clot was compared to the bizarre "clots" of post-Covid-19 injected victims who died suddenly. These rubbery, stringy formations in blood vessels have been reported and described by morticians all across the country and abroad. Mass spectroscopy is a highly specific way of identifying elements (of the Periodic Table) of these vascular samples.
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What it doesn't say, that I'd like to know, is how long after the shot would on be at risk. Someone should map out these mass number of death on how long after the shot things happened. Within a week of the shot? Within a month? The further out you get the harder it is to blame the shot and maybe there are other factors in our modern world we aren't counting for because the shot is such an obvious/new change.
[American Thinker] The forty-two seconds of the Rumble video embedded below are truly shocking. Courageous journalist Sharyl Attkisson testifies to a congressional hearing about the depths to which the FBI has sunk in its attempts to discredit one of its most effective critics.
In case you don't know, while she was working as a reporter for CBS, Ms. Attkisson's work and home computers were invaded and taken over by the FBI, evidently because she had incurred their ire over her reporting. You can watch the CBS report on the incursion here:
[ZERO] As President Joe Biden’s polls stagnate and the midterms approach, we are now serially treated to yet another progressive melodrama about the dangers of a supposed impending radical right-wing violent takeover
This time the alleged threat is a Neanderthal desire for a "civil war."
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the dubious rationale for such a historic swoop, and the popular pushback at the FBI and Department of Justice from roughly half the country have further fueled these giddy "civil war" conjectures.
Recently "presidential historian" Michael Beschloss speculated about the parameters of such an envisioned civil war.
Beschloss is an ironic source. Just days earlier, he had tweeted references to the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who passed U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, in connection with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
That was a lunatic insinuation that Trump might justly suffer the same lethal fate due to his supposed mishandling of "nuclear secrets." Unhinged former CIA Director Michael Hayden picked up on Beschloss death-penalty prompt, adding that it "sounds about right."
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.
[1945] Last month, a Chinese entrepreneur making medical equipment for consumers told me that local officials had demanded he convert his production lines in China so that they could turn out items for the military. Communist Party cadres, he said, were issuing similar orders to other manufacturers.
[NYP] Europe’s wishful thinking in going green has landed it in hot water — or maybe cold water, since it’s now short on energy for heating. And that’s got Germany reversing course.
