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-Great Cultural Revolution
Misplaced Contrition: The Psychological Origin of White Guilt
[American Thinker] "Yes, I am a white woman, and yes, I have white privilege — too many privileges to count and many of which I do not consciously know," wrote Christina Wyman in Detroit Free Press last year.

Ms. Wyman — who is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University — is one of many white Americans whom we have watched in the course of the last twelve months lamenting, kneeling and beating their chest in public acts of contrition over the allegedly inherent racism of American society.

One cannot but be startled by this behavior, not least because the charges of racism against America are plainly untrue. Whatever faults the Unites States may have, it is certainly not a racist society, which is something that should be obvious to anyone with the eyes to see (see here).
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dr.Christina Wyman is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University. She is published in the Washington Post, The Lily (a Washington Post publication), NBC News, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and other outlets.

Notice no mention of peer-reviewed publications.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Why, g(r)omgoru — I do believe you are an academic snob! ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/11/2021 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Academia is for scientists & scholars, TW. Peer-reviewed publications don't assure the author is one of the above - but their absence proves the contrary beyond any reasonable doubt.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe only the tenured get to publish? And others have to opine in the Detroit Free Press until they have pleased their woke admins enough?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 1:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe only the tenured get to publish?

Eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 1:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh... didn't read about her articles in the papers there. I was thinking academic journals.

Where I come from, the tenured perfessers will not let adjuncts or lecturers publish in their journals easily.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 1:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Kinda sorta. My older sister decided it was too much hassle to try to get her PhD thesis published. Also in the Education Academe at the time the fact that her conclusions didn't agree with the *cough* majestic writings *cough* of Dr. Jean Piaget, who was considered gospel at the time, getting a University job was unlikely much less getting peer pal reviewed.
Posted by: magpie || 05/11/2021 1:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Where I come from, the tenured perfessers will not let adjuncts or lecturers publish in their journals easily.

Where I came from, you publish with your boss as a student. If you one (of the very few) intended for tenure, the boss arranges for a single author publication in a prestigious journal. That's get you into a tenure track - where you have to publish and publish a lot (all a matter of attracting the right students), to get tenure.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 2:16 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 In the last few years I've met quite a few people with a degree in Something education. For some odd reason, my impression is that most know very little about Something & all are lousy teachers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 2:28 Comments || Top||

#10  I suppose that's how it's done when one wants to do it right.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 2:31 Comments || Top||

#11  I've come to notice the word 'pedagogy' will be used a hundred times in articles by people who couldn't connect with a child to save their life.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 2:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Even school academics in India are taking their cue from America, altering their 'pedagogy' to reach some progressive standard of schooling. The intent is to dumb down education for everybody in the interest of delinquents and idiots whose parents have been promised class emancipation for their votes. Corporal punishment was outlawed in most states by liberal administrations, more because of their own affirmative action hires being insanely cruel with students.

Maybe because of the strong right wing at the centre and because all institutions and leaderships must confirm to the established Indian tradition of 'the teacher is God', things are evenly balanced.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 2:47 Comments || Top||

#13  #10 Actually, IMO, it's wrong. Best case outcome, you get tunnel-vision technicians. Worst case, people who are very, very good at exploiting others.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/11/2021 2:54 Comments || Top||

#14  The old saw is: "They learn more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/11/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#15  Sorry, White is a factor of my parentage, not my fault. I wasn't there, then.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/11/2021 16:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Melinda Gates Filed For Divorce After Discovering Windows 95 Launch Video
[Babylon Bee] MEDINA, WA—According to anonymous sources, Melinda Gates filed for divorce from her husband Bill after discovering a shocking video of him dancing on stage to "Start Me Up" by The Rolling Stones during the Windows 95 launch.

"Oh my gosh- my husband is a total dork," said a shocked Melinda Gates, according to one witness. "How could he have hidden this from me for so long? How could I have been so blind? Why did Bill hide this dark secret from me?"

Friends of the family say she quickly filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences", likely due to Bill's dark and dorky past.

"He always told me he was a cool guy and a really great dancer, and I believed him. I've been living a lie."

Sources also say that since the couple had no prenuptial agreement, Melinda will get Bill's entire fortune, leaving him only with Zune.

The entire clip has been leaked on YouTube and can be viewed below.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 07:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait 'til she finds out about Microsoft Bob and Windows Vista...
Posted by: Raj || 05/11/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems she already knows about Little St. James Island.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/11/2021 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  "Your Honor...Clippy...was Melinda's idea!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/11/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't forget 'Windows ME'.

Bob didn't last long. Clippy, unfortunately, lasted much longer.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/11/2021 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Clem || 05/11/2021 21:29 Comments || Top||


Economy
Plugs Gets Completely Confused About Jobs, Then Basically Gives Away the Game (video)
[Red State] The Biden folks are in such chaos, they can never seem to get their stories straight.

After the terrible job numbers came out at the end of last week, the Biden regime spent the last few days denying that there was an issue. Biden even claimed that the report was "more evidence our economy is moving in the right direction." If the "right" direction is in a bad direction, he might be right, otherwise, not so much. Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain even retweeted arguments that the relief bill hadn’t spent enough, that they needed to spend more.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 06:40 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Easy for him to say.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Ron Klain even retweeted arguments that the relief bill hadn’t spent enough, that they needed to spend more

When you are just doling it out to your grifters and donors, its not going to effect 'the' economy, just their bank accounts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/11/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  You can't fuel the economy on government handouts.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/11/2021 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  More for Hunny and Jimmy!
Ten percent for TBG!

Biggest graft in our history. Right before our eyes
Posted by: Kofi Forkbeard8303 || 05/11/2021 12:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
More than 120 retired flag officers sign open letter warning that America 'is in deep peril
[Just The News] More than 120 retired American military officials have signed an open letter warning that America has veered left under Democratic control and that the nation's survival is on the line.

"Under a Democrat Congress and the Current Administration, our Country has taken a hard left turn toward Socialism and a Marxist form of tyrannical government which must be countered now by electing congressional and presidential candidates who will always act to defend our Constitutional Republic. The survival of our Nation and its cherished freedoms, liberty, and historic values are at stake," the letter states.

Some of the signers include retired Army Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, who is running to serve as a U.S. Senator from the state of New Hampshire, and retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, the executive vice president of the Family Research Council.

As one of the various issues raised, the letter described China as the largest outside threat to the U.S. and called for levying sanctions and restrictions in order to defend national interests and counter China's "world domination goal."

The retired military officials advocated for building a border wall. "Sovereign nations must have controlled borders," they wrote.

Regarding the Democrat-backed elections-related legislation which was approved by the House earlier this year without any GOP support, they warned that, "H.R.1 & S.1, (if passed), would destroy election fairness and allow Democrats to forever remain in power violating our Constitution and ending our Representative Republic."

They expressed opposition to the idea of the U.S. participating in an Iran nuclear deal and called for nixing "the corrosive infusion of Political Correctness into our military which damages morale and war fighting cohesion."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 06:47 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You just noticed? Those filling your old offices are on their side.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/11/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Now watch the DOD's Woke Czar recall these guys to active duty, declare them domestic extremists, and cancel their retirements.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/11/2021 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  European trend.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/11/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  How about they form a separate political party? With retired [and serving personnel] as members? The serving personnel would have to be covert about it, but once the numbers are sufficient it won't matter.

Form an All-American political party consisting only of retired personnel, veterans, LEOs from every agency screwed by the liberals, troopers, grunts, everyone and their families. Recruit good managers, techies, muscle, campaign and try and get serving personnel covertly on board. Go guerilla and hide your members' numbers and names for as long as you can. The resentments will only grow among nationalists for the next ten years, so use that. Try and reach at least a half of the nation's fighting forces [even if outed, they cannot be all replaced overnight by the brass with trannies and fruit pulp] onboard. Arrange for speeches, events and meetings where soldiers can voice their opinions alongside; safe spaces for patriots, community security for each other, escalate to 'peaceful' protesters. The money may be hard. At first. But with time funds will come too. Build a party that can play the game, promise realistic taxes, an end to appeasement and apology, security to industry and free enterprise, and replace the GOP cowboys with an alternative that has hair on its chest.

I know. I sound infantile. Wishful thinking at this point.
[In India, it would absolutely rock with the voter.]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/11/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  ...different times Dron, different times.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/11/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  They're right, you know.
Posted by: Ebbeting Glack1026 || 05/11/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder how many of them voted for The Big Guy?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/11/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  A significant percent of new Republican politicians are retired military, Dron. Why start a new party — which historically hasn’t worked well in America — when Donald Trump’s party is eager to bring them in?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/11/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#9  When the political officers said bad things about Trump, the media announced it from the rooftops 24/7.

Now... crickets.

It doesn't really matter. This country is in its death throes and it is just waiting until shit goes kinetic.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/11/2021 14:03 Comments || Top||

#10  I wonder how many of them voted for The Big Guy?

110% of them.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/11/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||


CIA's Bill Burns is the 'Manchurian Director Owned by Xi'
[Rumble] — Sam Faddis, former CIA officer, puts Bill Burns compromised position in perspective: it would be like putting a KGB guy in charge of the CIA during the Cold War.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Had no idea B. Thank you for posting. This link is a similar vein.

Rumble — This is a compilation of research we've done over the last few years highlighting the connections between the Deep State Department backchannels. Bill Burns finds himself at the nexus of many of these operations and now he has been nominated as the next CIA Director.

Here is the Ross article:
https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/08/william-burns-joe-biden-cia-china-carnegie/
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/11/2021 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks Woodrow, all very good. 25:20 appears to be the point where Burns is discussed.

All of these events and organizations illustrate the Deep State's end game of Endless Wars, Regime Change, and Globalist agenda aka Re-Set. The dashboard GPS guiding this Re-Set agenda is our own intelligence community.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 2:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Who in the Biden-Harris admin hasn't been on China's payroll? It will be a short and undistinguished list.
Posted by: Omaiter Sinatra6457 || 05/11/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||


#5  It's pretty bad when something like this isn't even surprising anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/11/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Why?
With the Bidens it's simple: greed. Corrupt little grifters.
With the foreign policy types, same story.
But why do the CIA types whore for China? What's their agenda, exactly?
Posted by: Large Ulaising4980 || 05/11/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Good question. Why exactly does the CIA support one-world globalism and China's rise? You'd think they would welcome a new Cold War with China, for reasons of institutional self-interest alone...

Why are they whoring for China? Do they actually hate Americans and wish us ill?
Posted by: Winky Sleatle8759 || 05/11/2021 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 & #7 there remains in DC a prominent school of thought that says China is unstoppable, and being not China all America can possibly hope for is to try and salvage the best deal from them we can. I believe Henry Kissinger was first out with that gem. I do not personally count myself as a believer.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/11/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Inconsiderate Jews Continue To Be Alive Against Palestinians' Wishes
[Babylon Bee] JERUSALEM—Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired rockets toward Jerusalem this week, sending a clear message that they would like all the Jews to die. In spite of this clear message, inconsiderate Jews in Israel continue to be alive.

"Seriously-- It's insanely rude," said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. "We have been very clear about our dreams of driving Israel into the sea until every last Jew is dead, but they refuse to compromise with us. How can one answer such impoliteness, except with more rockets aimed at Israeli civilians?"

President Biden has reprimanded Israel for being so mean, calling for them to compromise with the Palestinians. "Look folks-- shalom and all that. C'mon! Don't be so rigid! Don't be so stubborn! What Hamas is asking for ain't that hard! Do all of you Jews have to stay alive all the time? That's just not reasonable!"

Israel responded to Hamas rockets with airstrikes, which critics say is a slap in the face to Palestinian leaders who wish to shoot rockets in peace.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/11/2021 07:08 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nicely done, Bee..and B
Posted by: Frank G || 05/11/2021 7:42 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2021-05-11
  IDF confirms it attacked a tunnel in northern Gaza, multiple Hamas militants inside it dead
Mon 2021-05-10
  Scores More Wounded in New Jerusalem Clashes
Sun 2021-05-09
  Bomb kills at least 30 near girls' school in Afghan capital
Sat 2021-05-08
  Top U.S. pipeline operator shuts major fuel line after cyber attack
Fri 2021-05-07
  400 suspects to be arraigned for funding Boko Haram, bandits
Thu 2021-05-06
  Iran Diplomat's 20-year Sentence for France Bomb Plot Confirmed
Wed 2021-05-05
  Mozambique: Terrorists Attack in Macomia District
Tue 2021-05-04
  Over 60 Taliban, 30 Soldiers Killed in Past Day's Violent Surge
Mon 2021-05-03
  Abbas Wants to Form Palestinian National Unity Government
Sun 2021-05-02
  Over 800 migrants rescued at sea head to Italy
Sat 2021-05-01
  Russia arrests the founder of the largest Islamic
publishing house in Russia for financing ISIS
Fri 2021-04-30
  Iran Revolutionary Guards
Raid President and Foreign Minister's Offices
Thu 2021-04-29
  Boko Haram Releases Photos Of Tanks, Vehicles Captured From Nigerian Army
Wed 2021-04-28
  Afghanistan: US Will not Provide Air Support after Withdrawal
Tue 2021-04-27
  Explosive-laden balloons launched from Gaza towards Israel


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