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-Great Cultural Revolution
VDH - Race Everywhere, 'Whites' ‐ to the extent we can determine any race in an intermarried, multiracial society‐do not fit the now ossified definition of an exploitive majority.
[American Greatness] Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions.

Both the victimizers and victim were black. The Memphis police chief is black. The assistant police chief is black.

Nearly 60 percent of the police force is black. The white population of Memphis is about 25 percent.

The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly black neighborhoods.

The death of Tyre Nichols could be attributed to many things: a basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers, poor police training, lax administrative supervision, and lowered hiring standards.

Instead, no sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of "systemic racism" surfaced.

Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar and recent recipient of Jeff Bezos’ $100 million "courage and civility award," pronounced on CNN that the black police oppressors were acting out white racism.

Some claimed that charging the five black officers with murder was itself racist. Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce black-on-black crime was racist.

Yet, when everything becomes racist, then nothing in particular can be racist.

About the same time, the city of San Francisco, along with the state of California, was exploring paying out huge cash reparations to its African-American residents for the ancestral sin of slavery.

That evil institution was abolished some 158 years ago through a Civil War that killed some 700,000 Americans.

Yet California was always a free state with no history of slavery.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/03/2023 07:26 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  As time marches on, fewer and fewer people will see themselves as white allowing the white supremcist fantasy to work with more and more people. Its possible the ossified definition is part of the point.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/03/2023 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Memphis Police Dept. looking into whether Mr. Nichols was in relationship with one of the five policemen’s ex-wife/girlfriend/baby mama.

Coupled with lowered standards for new recruits.

Blue cities for the win. Or loss, maybe.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/03/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Jeff Bezos’ $100 million "courage and civility award,"

How do I get me one of them?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2023 12:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, that's right. I'm white. Nobody would even consider it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2023 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Abu, Bezos gave Dolly Parton 100 million.

She deserved it for her good works, so no jokes from me.
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 02/03/2023 20:19 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian elections: 5 major challenges facing the country’s next president
[AlAhram] Nigerians will soon determine who their next president will be in a general election. Polling is due at the end of February and inauguration is scheduled for 29 May 2023.

As Nigerians count down to election day, it’s worth considering the key challenges the country’s next president will deal with as he takes on his mandate. The challenges revolve around five critical areas: national cohesion, security, the economy, the university system and the fight against corruption.

It’s a lot to ask, but the challenges are surmountable if the president has the will and commitment to the ideal of democratic governance.

THE BIG THREATS
Fractured Polity: Nigeria is more divided and polarised than it’s ever been. The cleavages and fault-lines of ethnocentrism, sectarianism, sectionalism, parochialism and religious extremism are pushing the country to the brink.

The polarisation is evident in conversations around the de facto rotational presidency, the controversy over presidential candidates and religious faith, the neo-Biafra separatist agitations in the south-east, and the toxic and bigoted ethnocentric rhetoric peddled in the mainstream and social media.

The next president must undertake urgent measures at national reconciliation and integration to avert impending chaos.

Collapsing National Security: The prevailing state of national security in Nigeria is apocalyptic. The receding Boko Haram
...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
insurgency in the north-east is being substituted by a nexus of banditry and terrorism in the north-west.

The north-central is still grappling with the deadly farmer-herder crisis. For its part the south-east is enmeshed in separatist violence and the associated criminal opportunism.

There is an upswing in gang and ritual brigandage in the south-west while south-south is still afflicted with militancy, piracy and oil theft.

The next president must get a grip on these dire security threats.

Battered Economy: Nigeria is battling with slow economic growth. The national currency (naira) has been grossly devalued amid a volatile exchange rate. Inflation and unemployment rates are high and rising.

Rises in the cost of living are unprecedented and unbearable. The government seems to have lost traction on national economic planning and management. The next president has the challenge of revamping an ailing and critically dysfunctional economy.

Restive University Sector: Nigeria’s university system is witnessing a systematic deterioration as a result of government neglect.

In 2022 public universities in the country lost nearly a year due to an industrial dispute between the federal government and the various university unions over issues relating to funding, governance and workers’ welfare.

The crux of the dispute was government’s failure to honour a series of agreements it signed with the unions.

In an effort to break the continuing strike of the academic staff union in late 2022, the federal government secured a court order compelling the lecturers to go back to work. But the conditions and issues that warranted the strike have barely been addressed.

This means industrial harmony and stability won’t last in the country’s university sector. The next president may wish to take early note of this.

Endemic Public Corruption: Corruption among public functionaries in Nigeria is endemic, though the current administration claims to be opposed to it.

Even the former accountant general of the federation was alleged to have swindled over 100 billion naira (US$216,449 million).

The next president must confront the menace head on, setting an example of transparency and zero tolerance of self-regard.

WHAT’S NEEDED
It’s clear that the next president is inheriting a massive governance burden. Dealing with it requires forthrightness, sincerity of purpose and radical political will.

To succeed he needs to be ready to approach governance differently. He must be decisive enough to confront an entrenched system of vested interest and self-regard.

He must be a patriotic statesman who is committed to the utilitarian principle of democratic governance, the greatest happiness for the greatest number of the civil populace.

The fate of the country in the face of these challenges largely depends on the strength of character and dedication of the incoming president.

A good statesman will be able to mitigate the problems by adopting a hard-line commitment to the principles of democratic good governance, even in the face of possible reactionary pressures arising from entrenched vested interests.

But, under a bad statesman, the chances are that the challenges will aggravate into a combustible mix that may herald a failed state in Nigeria.

Posted by: trailing wife || 02/03/2023 00:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This discussion assumes that the next president will not be a corrupt individual that is just seeking an avenue to enrich himself. I was expecting an outline of a very few safeguards against corrupt activities. Based on the little I know of recent Sub Saharan history, these challenges seem to be as relevant as Yeti grooming tips.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/03/2023 16:23 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Newt Gingrich: China threatens takeover of our universities unless Biden does more to stop it
[FoxNews] The arrogance, corruption, and dishonesty of many of our most prestigious universities have become so bad that the only reasonable historic American parallel is Lincoln Steffens's 1904 book "The Shame of the Cities."

Steffens’ book was a stunning exposure of big city government corruption that convinced the American people to enact a profound wave of reforms.

Now, some of our greatest educational institutions have been corrupted by foreign interests and money. This is hurting American students, our culture of freedom of ideas – and in some cases threatening our national security. The integrity of some of our oldest, most established universities has eroded to the point that only a major reform movement will save them – and our future.

At a minimum, we need a federal law that requires real-time, online publication of all foreign gifts to universities.

Consider three cases in New England: The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The University of Pennsylvania created the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement for former Vice President Joe Biden when he left office. It became a holding ground for key members of the Biden team, including the current Secretary of State. In fact, 10 Biden administration officials were on the Penn-Biden Center payroll:

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Penn Biden Center managing director)

  • White House counselor Steven Richetti (Penn Biden Center managing director)

  • Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl (Penn Biden Center strategic consultant)

  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy Spencer Boyer (Penn Biden Center senior fellow)

  • Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeffrey Prescott (Penn Biden Center strategic consultant)

  • Senior Adviser to the National Security Adviser Ariana Berengaut (Penn Biden Center director)

  • U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Michael Carpenter (Penn Biden Center managing director)

  • Special Assistant to the President Juan Gonzalez (Penn Biden Center senior fellow)

  • Special Assistant to Biden and Senior Director for Speechwriting and Strategic Initiatives Carlyn Reichel (Penn Biden Center director of communications)

  • Former Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian McKeon (Penn Biden Center senior director)

Chinese Communists have donated an estimated $67 million to the University of Pennsylvania. We don’t know the actual amount or distribution – because the University of Pennsylvania refuses to open its books and be transparent or accountable.

Under the previous administration, the U.S. Department of Education reported more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding and resources had been uncovered and never disclosed (contrary to law) by American universities. Money was funneled in from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar just to name a few.

Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in 2020 that The University of Delaware’s Biden Institute was even more secretive than the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center. The institute houses 1,875 boxes of then-Sen. Biden’s papers and many gigabytes of electronic data – and everything is secret. Because the University of Delaware is so politically connected and powerful, it is exempt from state Freedom of Information Act laws. We have no idea who gave money to the Biden Institute or who got it.

Finally, while he was Secretary of State, Pompeo was blocked from speaking at MIT, because university officials thought it would offend the Chinese. One of our most prestigious universities refused to host America’s top diplomat, because their relationship with China was more important. (NBA anyone?)

As Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the new Select Committee on China, wrote to me in an email:

What we need to point out relentlessly is that universities are addicted to Chinese Communist Party money. This gives the Chinese Communist Party enormous access and influence on our college campuses, and recognizing this threat, the Trump administration used a little-known tool in the form of Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires colleges and universities to report foreign gifts and donations over $250,000. Thanks to its efforts, the Trump Education Department uncovered $6.5 billion in previously unreported foreign gifts, grants, and contracts involving some of our country’s most prestigious universities. But since President Biden took office, the number of reported foreign gifts has plummeted, and this math just doesn’t add up. That should concern us all as Americans.

Congress must act to uncover and stop the Chinese Communist penetration of American higher education – and its role in the growing anti-American attitudes of many of our most important institutions of learning. The American people deserve to know.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/03/2023 10:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  It appears they already have.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/03/2023 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Dude, he's on their payroll.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/03/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ You'd think Newt would know that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/03/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||

#4  The center of gravity for all of the China threat problems is the money we have paid them for decades for our off-shored industrial base and labor-intensive products we don't want to manufacture here. The fixes have always been obvious, but increasingly painful, and thus risk-averse politicians of every stripe just kicked this can down the superhighway of economic armageddon. We are very close to the the end of that pavement....

We could have started the Kissinger/Nixon triangulation strategy as the signature of China Rising became obvious, but the brilliance of Foggy Bottom and our elite thinkers has pushed the third leg of that Triad, post Cold-War victory lap, into a Ukraine sink-hole alignment with Peking (I like that using that word annoys them). Since a huge majority of my fellow citizens will find everything I wrote above (Rantburg Alum excepted) incomprehensible and obviously "old-think", I'm not expected much except more entropy...

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/03/2023 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Confucius say, "Buy all your bling
From the worm in your Apple." [ring ring]
"Wei ni hao."
"You send more!"
"More of what?"
Roars the core,
"Western capital!"
"Translate."
"Xijing."
Posted by: Alistaire Tojo1433 || 02/03/2023 15:21 Comments || Top||

#6  I have not paid much attention to Gingrich since he worked with Hillary Clinton to put forward a proposal to reform the State Department in a way that allowed all of the current bozos to stay on with periodic paid sabbaticals.
This is much better. He is not making the statement that Biden is totally corrupted and that our universities are beyond being infiltrated. Everything he has laid out leads to that conclusion. His “proposal” is really an indictment that cannot be dismissed as MAGA rhetoric.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/03/2023 16:10 Comments || Top||



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