h/t Hot Air
Finally. One university is standing up and speaking out against assumptions that it will change its name after the discovery that it is named after a slave owner. Wingate University in North Carolina announced it will not be changing its name. Instead, it is "time to reclaim the Wingate name".
In May, Wingate University, a private Judeo-Christian university with campuses in Wingate, Charlotte, and Hendersonville, North Carolina recently learned it is named for a slaveowner, Washington Manly Wingate. It was founded in 1896. Sixteen enslaved people were sold to fund the university’s endowment under his leadership. ?????????
The discovery was part of research by Wake Forest University. Seems to me - ignorant furriner that I am - that it stopped being about actually improving "African Americans" situation, and become pandering to their feelings of inadequacy - as imagined by white liberals (who, IMO, ARE inadequate)
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It was founded in 1896. Sixteen enslaved people were sold to fund the university’s endowment under his leadership.
What the hey? Slavery ended in 1865.
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I had Bee.
that it stopped being about actually improving "African Americans" situation
From the New American Bible - National Education Association (NEA) version:
"For it is better to fan the flame of grievance and stoke the fires of resentment than to teach the children algebra."
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Wake Forest University announced today, May 7, 2021, it would rename a portion of its Wait Chapel from Wingate Hall to May 7, 1860 Hall. The date reflects when 16 enslaved people were sold to fund Wake’s initial endowment under the leadership of then-president Washington Manly Wingate.
It's Wake Forest that was endowed, not Wingate U. Karen Townsend is a dunce.
But - I fully expect the Wingate select panel to recommend a name change.
At least they are using money previously budgetted and unspent instead of demanding even more funds, even more of which would then happen to fall into certain particular pockets where it didn’t technically belong.
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That's an awful lot of money. How many children are we talking about? The article doesn't say. Seems to be a pertinent question. Are we entirely certain some of that money won't go to The Big Guy's cronies?
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Abu, what are you talking about? All of the money will go to the Big Guy's cronies.
This will purchase enough relief to fill a dozen photos and one press conference. The rest will vanish in 'management services'.
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[PJMEDIA] Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the discredited "1619 Project," has rejected a tenured position at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Instead, she will join Ta-Nehisi Coates, a former columnist at The Atlantic, at one of America’s most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Howard University. Hannah-Jones argued that the controversy over her hiring and tenure had more to do with racism and sexism than her outright lies about American history.
"It’s pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoints and, I believe, because of my race and my gender," Hannah-Jones told Gayle King on CBS This Morning, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.
"It has to be made clear: I went through the official tenure process and my peers in academia said that I was deserving of tenure," the 1619 Project founder argued. "The board members are political appointees who decided that I wasn’t."
While opposition to Hannah-Jones’ tenured position was indeed partially political, the political dispute traces back to the 1619 Project’s shameless twisting of history.
In April, UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism announced that Hannah-Jones would become the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, taking a Knight Chair professorship, endowed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The professorship brings top professionals to classrooms to teach and mentor students.
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"I refuse to belong to any organization that would have me as a member". Groucho Marx
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Hannah-Jones took a tenured position at Howard instead of a non-tenured position at UNC. Because she was not offered a tenured position at UNC, she and her legal eagles were looking into suing UNC for racism? What hubris.
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Howard University founded by the very people they hate. For minorities not just black people as I read on a plaque in the main entrance hall. Oil painting line the walls and I don't recall seeing black people. Hot bed of hate during the riot years as broadcasted by WHUR and Another was from American University( WPUT I believe).
[FreedomFirstNetwork] Today, the Two Mikes had the pleasure of interviewing Lawrence Klayman, a renowned lawyer, and the founder of Judicial Watch and of his current organization, Freedom Watch.
Mr. Klayman cogently and clearly explained that America is broken and that our legal system is a smoking ruin. “Our legal system is gone, it’s been taken away from us. We have corrupt judges and a compromised legal system,” Lawrence explained. If the American republic is to be recovered, only the widespread and targeted activities of common American citizens and their organizations can achieve the goal.
Mr. Klayman has formed the “New American Independence Party”, and on 5 and 6 July 2021 will hold the “Third Continental Congress” at the reception center of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA. The meeting will discuss and plan ways in which the citizenry can take the fight — in a legal and constitutional manner — to the authoritarians that pack the Biden regime, DoJ, and the FBI.
With how out of control our government has gotten recently, Dr Michael Scheuer brought up his concern that peaceful events such as the Third Continental Congress event are not going to be enough to take back our nation. While Mr Klayman made clear that he will never call for violence to take back the White House from Joe Biden, “he is dangerously close to a Coup d’état.”
Mr. Klayman also has, for several years, been working on new ways of applying justice in America. Quoting Justice Scalia, Mr. Klayman explained that the grand-jury process actually belongs to the American people as a whole, and not just the three branches of the national government. Given this fact, it is possible for the citizenry to investigate, arrest, try, and convict the offenders, people that the current judicial system ignores or abets, under the parameters of the Constitution and U.S. law.
— Mr. Klayman’s website is: http://www.freedomwatchusa.org, and the site contains documents about the organization, content, and goals of next week’s Third Continental Congress.
[National Pulse] Thomas Zimmerman — a Special Assistant to Joe Biden on National Security Agency personnel — formerly served as a visiting scholar at a Chinese Communist Party think-tank labeled as a "front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment" by the FBI, The National Pulse can reveal.
The stunning revelation — that Joe Biden’s intelligence apparatus relies on the recruitment from a recent collaborator with the Chinese Communist Party — comes just weeks after the G7 summit where Western nations pledged tougher measures against an increasingly aggressive Beijing.
Zimmerman’s influence over the National Security Agency (NSA) also follows explosive allegations from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Carlson recently claimed the agency has covertly accessed his emails and texts. The NSA did not outright deny the allegations.
SHANGHAI ACADEMY.
While working at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, Zimmerman doubled as a fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). SASS has been flagged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s top spy agency: the Ministry of State Security.
SASS — which the FBI explicitly labels a "front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment" — was a key player in a 2019 criminal case involving a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative selling classified U.S. defense documents to the Chinese Communist Party.
The American operative, Kevin Mallory, was contacted by SASS officials via LinkedIn to begin the relationship that culminated in a 20-year prison sentence for Mallory.
As a result, the FBI has described the Chinese Communist Party as dependent upon SASS employees to serve "spotters and assessors" of potential Western spies. Ministry of State Security officers — described by the FBI as keen on "influencing the foreign policy of other countries" — have also "used SASS affiliation as cover identities."
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As a result, the FBI has described the Chinese Communist Party as dependent upon SASS employees to serve "spotters and assessors" of potential Western spies.
The Bureau (and others) do not like competition in the source recruitment arena.
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Jeebus, we're being infiltrated from the inside. Reads like a fifth column effort. Meanwhile, those who should care in the govmint, are pre-occupied (distracted) with the white supremacist big scare.
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The "right to repair" thing is a big deal, and I'm surprised oligarch Joe is backing it. For that reason, I expect it's just eyewash.
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Ok, me rant. Most embedded software in products you buy today is mediocre but benign. The software in my “smart” TV is useless and pathetic, but it can’t actually take over my house or my life. At the moment. But say I buy a $250,000.00 tractor. The software on board that thing nowadays is basically ransomeware, requiring me to surrender my expensive purchase to the dealer on its schedule, not mine. Even the dealer is not really in charge of the thing, he’s liable to tell me my stupidly expensive machine will not be available when I need it because the update it needs is not available to him or me. Of course, hot rodders have been burning custom EPROMS for their cars for years now, but if someone did that for my tractor, the manufacturer would sue everyone in sight. All this pain is part of the same set of laws that let all the social media giants stomp on your and my free speech rights. The answer, of course, is to make it your right to fix problems with the software as you see fit. Be it your tractor or your social media account. Zuck and Microdose Jack don’t want that. All the more reason you should.
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I'm surprised oligarch Joe is backing it. For that reason, I expect it's just eyewash.
I'm surprised too. Right to Repair is huge. Hard to believe Sleepy Joe is going against the corporations.
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The John Deere company and others have (like most of the auto industry) worked diligently to make their tractors beyond the capability of the farmer to work on and repair. This is done through the introduction of electronics and computers which shut down entire systems, creating a costly 'tow to the dealer' or call for the dealership to dispatch a repairman to make the necessary repairs.
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That's why the old fords and many others are still running. This new equipment is for major corporate agribusiness. Large operations mainly(Gates). Give me a four horse team any day. So many problems with this new technology. Break down and $1000 dollars to travel to dealer. Then the repair costs and updates on software($5,000) are outrageous. Windows 7,10,11 on and on it goes.
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Let's be blunt. Whoever is actually running the whiteless house is trying to starve us. I personally hate large corp farms. For such a critical part of our lives, they should not exist. Nor should the big ag usage of hard inorganic chemicals.
We studied Iowas Karth system in the 1980's and found 70% of all the groundwater was contaminated by inorganic nitrates. And small farms were as much at fault.
That being said, this is about controlling our frickig food supply! Not being able to repair our machines? My family farms would shoot the first bastard that tried to pull this shit.
Dale has a great point. Newer CPU tractors have major repair problems with no redundancy as system backups. Therein lies a huge problem.
Fords? Honestly the only old dependable tractors are the Farmalls, International Harvesters and John Deeres. Old Fords with their fenders still mounted securely are a rarity.
The first tractor I drove, worked at 8 years old alone was a Farmall B. I know this shit. And farmers are armed Mr. Demental.
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If you buy vegetable seeds or plants from, say, Bonnie Plants or any other large supplier and save some of the seeds from your harvest to plant next season they most likely will not produce. They have been engineered to produce one or at most two seasons of crops.
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^An unfertilized egg won't grow into a chicken.
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#8 Excellent!. In my area Fords (Blue color) are still running as well as many others, Farmall, Case, Alis Chalmers($4800. 1948), Deere, Massey and so on. 1941 Ford used now selling for $2500 listed. 150 years of farming history. Same with older pre-computer vehicles. Mechanics can fix those pieces of equipment. Far fewer problems.
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You can strip the electronics out of any interal combustion vehicle. You just have to know what you are doing.
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They could probably just tweak the first sale doctrine to permit like for like replacements by customers, and the development, transfer and sale by suppliers. Interesting question - can a replacement improve on the original? Remove DRM?
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I always thought the Amish might be onto something.
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I'm sure the FTC will get right on those regulations. Expect the comment period to open sometime in mid 2024, close sometime after the next election, and then the whole matter to be tabled for "further study".
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[TheIntercept] WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House.
From its headquarters just blocks from the White House, a small, high-powered team of former ambassadors, lawyers, and Obama appointees has spent the past few years solving problems for the world’s biggest companies.
Less than six months into the Biden administration, more than 15 consultants from the firm WestExec Advisors have fanned out across the White House, its foreign policy apparatus, and its law enforcement institutions. Five, some of whom already have jobs with the administration, have been nominated for high-ranking posts, and four others served on the Biden-Harris transition team. Even by Washington standards, it’s a remarkable march through the revolving door, especially for a firm that only launched in 2017. The pipeline has produced a dominance of WestExec alums throughout the administration, installed in senior roles as influential as director of national intelligence and secretary of state. WestExec clients, meanwhile, have controversial interests in tech and defense that intersect with the policies their former consultants are now in a position to set and execute.
The arrival of each new WestExec adviser at the administration has been met with varying degrees of press coverage — headlines for the secretary of state, blurbs in trade publications for the head of cybersecurity — but the creeping monopolization of foreign policymaking by a single boutique consulting firm has gone largely unnoticed. The insularity of this network of policymakers poses concerns about the potential for groupthink, conflicts of interest, and what can only be called, however oxymoronically, legalized corruption.
WestExec does not affirmatively share its clients, and public financial disclosure forms only offer broad outlines. Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, says that government ethics laws written decades ago aren’t equipped to handle a situation in which a single firm launches 15 senior officials. “Yes, they’re employed by the government, I’ll grant you that. But are they actually working for the American people or not? Where does their loyalty lie?” said Clark. “The private sector can in essence co-opt the public sector.”
“These White House officials are experienced government leaders whose prior private sector experience is part of a broad and diverse skill set they bring to government service,” said a White House spokesperson in a statement. WestExec did not reply to a detailed list of questions for this story.
The firm describes one of its chief selling points as its “unparalleled geopolitical risk analysis,” now confirmed by the saturation of its employees in positions of power. WestExec has also succeeded in getting tech startups into defense contracts and helped defense corporations modernize with tech; it worked to help multinational companies break into China. One of its collaborators is the defense-centered investment group Pine Island Capital Partners, which launched a SPAC, or “blank check” company,” last year. Tony Blinken advised Pine Island and was a part owner. (Michèle Flournoy, another WestExec co-founder, had her nomination to be secretary of defense nixed. President Joe Biden instead nominated Lloyd Austin, himself a former Pine Island partner but not a WestExec consultant.)
What makes WestExec “boutique” is the promise that its executives would have face time with its seasoned policymakers. “We felt other firms brought people in for big names and never got to see the big names,” said one WestExec co-founder in 2020. “Tony is on client calls.”
The players: Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, David S. Cohen, Lisa Monaco, Chris Inglis, Jen Psaki, Ely Ratner, Colin Thomas-Jensen, Michael Camilleri, Gabrielle Chefitz, Julianne Smith, Barbara Leaf, Elizabeth Rosenberg, and Matt Olsen.
[FOX] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband placed a bet of up to $6 million on Apple, Amazon and Google-parent company Alphabet ahead of a powerful House committee moving forward with bills aimed at reining in the powers of Big Tech.
Paul Pelosi on May 21 spent up to $250,000 on 50 Apple calls that have a strike price of $100 and that expire on June 17, 2022. He also bought 20 Amazon calls, costing up to $1 million, that have a strike price of $3,000 and that also expire on June 17, 2022.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Eric Adams was pronounced the winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday after preliminary final numbers showed the centrist won 50.5 percent of the vote.
The Associated Press called the race for Adams after the results showed he narrowly defeated former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 8,426 votes. Garcia received 49.5 percent after eight rounds of voting.
Adams, a former police captain, beat out a crowded field in New York’s first major race to use ranked-choice voting.
If elected, Adams would become the city’s second black mayor. As Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7-to-1 in New York City, according to the AP, Adams will be the likely victor of the general election.
The results come two weeks after voting in the primary ended, on June 22. While early returns showed Adams in the lead, tens of thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted and rounds of tabulations has to be done under the ranked-choice system in which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in order of preference.
[FoxBusinessNews] A long-awaited Supreme Court decision last month gave President Joe Biden the ability to remove the Trump-era leader of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and he wasted no time.
Dworkin and other housing advocates want FHFA to allow Fannie and Freddie to take on more financial risk — meaning more government intervention backed by taxpayers — in the name of expanding access to mortgages.
Among their ideas: Giving Fannie and Freddie free rein to purchase mortgages with lower credit scores, allowing private lenders to make more of those loans; cutting fees; and expanding investment that supports the construction of multifamily rental properties.
Advocates want FHFA to immediately do away with Trump-era limits on Fannie and Freddie's purchases of “high-risk” loans — characterized as having some combination of low credit scores and high debt-to-income or loan-to-value ratios.
Allowing the companies to purchase and guarantee more of the loans could lead to lenders issuing more of them, which would extend credit to more low-credit-score, low-income borrowers without requiring higher down payments to compensate for the risk. Fannie and Freddie would pick up the tab if the loan defaulted.
Dworkin said the companies today have "almost no measurable risk in their book of business," which includes borrowers who hold "extraordinarily high" credit scores and very few first-time homebuyers with low down payments.
“Their job is not risk elimination,” he said. “It’s risk management. Their mission is to add liquidity to the mortgage markets, not reduce it, and they need to get back in the liquidity business and add liquidity to underserved markets.”
Biden was given the opportunity to change the direction of the FHFA when the Supreme Court ruled that the agency’s leadership structure was unconstitutional and that the president should have greater authority to remove its director. Hours later, Biden fired then-Director Mark Calabria, a libertarian economist nominated by President Donald Trump who had made it his mission to shrink and shore up Fannie and Freddie so they could stand on their own as private companies.
The Biden administration then appointed another senior FHFA official, Sandra Thompson, to serve as acting director. Thompson has served at FHFA since 2013, and she earlier worked for 23 years as a bank regulator at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which polices lenders for safety and soundness concerns.
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Smeggin' hell! Didn't we just do this? It does not end well. OK, it ends well for some very specific parties.
At least we will get some happy headlines: Under the Joe Biden Administration, first-time home ownership has improved x-billion percent.
And no more mean tweets!
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Sounds like the sub-prime debacle prior to the run up to the economy crash of 2008. I was talking to a financial guy yesterday and asked him about housing prices escalating so rapidly. He thought it was a bubble that would burst at some point. The difference is that the many of today's purchasers are not necessarily low-income purchasers who may end up defaulting.
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Democrat solution for every single thing people complain about, spend taxpayers money, more restrictive rules and hire their allies to administer it in programs without end.
Other than this bit, I don't see the names of the 9 key countries: The remaining nine nations including Hungary, Ireland and Peru have rejected the proposal
So who are the other six? And should we be surprised/alarmed/dismayed that Hungary, Ireland, and Peru are on the list? Journalists, bah! This lack of curiosity is why they can't learn to code.
[HotAir] I’ve written about this before but yesterday the NY Times published an interesting piece on the EUV lithography machines produced by ASML and how those machines really determine who can manufacture cutting edge microchips.
As you probably know, there’s a concept called Moore’s Law which suggests that the complexity of microchips doubles every two years while the cost of the chips is cut in half. And for the most part that has held true since the first CPUs were introduced in the 1970s.
But cramming more and more transistors into the same physical space gets harder to do over time. With each successive generation of chips, the number of transistors packed into a square millimeter has to climb. Actually making that happen turns out to be massively difficult. In fact, it required expertise from different companies around the world to allow for the creation of the world’s first EUV lithography machines. The machine itself is about the size and shape of a bus and costs $150 million dollars each.
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Don't give anything to the China!
China should have to steal everything.
Taiwan should move its factories to the US.
If China invades, the factories in Taiwan should be destroyed before the VIP's leave.
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.
[PJMEDIA] Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the discredited "1619 Project," has rejected a tenured position at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. Instead, she will join Ta-Nehisi Coates, a former columnist at The Atlantic, at one of America’s most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Howard University. Hannah-Jones argued that the controversy over her hiring and tenure had more to do with racism and sexism than her outright lies about American history.
[NATIONALREVIEW] 
