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[Judicial Watch] The government watchdog group Judicial Watch released nearly 900 pages of new State Department documents Tuesday that included a new batch of previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent additional classified information through her private unsecure email server by longtime aide Huma Abedin.
The new "Huma emails" also include four instances in which Clinton's then-scheduler Lona Valmoro forwarded Clinton's detailed daily schedules--which were highly classified because of her position in government and in the line of presidential succession--being sent to top Clinton Foundation officials, also at unsecured email addresses. They also included 29 email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 317 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department, which "as far as she knew," were all of her government emails--another contradiction with her sworn testimony to Congress.
The following classified information was sent through the clintonemail.com account, according to those emails:
In a December 21, 2009, email, Clinton top national security and foreign policy staffer Jake Sullivan forwarded an email to Clinton's unsecured email account containing classified information heavily redacted under FOIA exemption B1.4(D)--"Information specifically authorized by an executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy ... Foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources." Clinton then forwarded the email, concerning the climate change accord, from her unsecured email account to Abedin's unsecured email account with the message, "Pls print."
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SteveS, I'd just gotten over the shoeshine thing and now you've wrecked "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" for me all over again. One of the ancestor's favorites. And then there's Mood Indigo. Not funny, dammit.
The Battle of the Coral Sea fought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The battle is historically significant as the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.
In an attempt to strengthen its defensive position in the South Pacific, Japan decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby (in New Guinea) and Tulagi (in the southeastern Solomon Islands). The plan to accomplish this was called Operation MO, and involved several major units of Japan's Combined Fleet. These included two fleet carriers and a light carrier to provide air cover for the invasion forces. It was under the overall command of Japanese Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue.
The U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence, and sent two United States Navy carrier task forces and a joint Australian-American cruiser force to oppose the offensive. These were under the overall command of American Admiral Frank J. Fletcher.
On 3–4 May, Japanese forces successfully invaded and occupied Tulagi, although several of their supporting warships were sunk or damaged in surprise attacks by aircraft from the U.S. fleet carrier Yorktown. Now aware of the presence of U.S. carriers in the area, the Japanese fleet carriers advanced towards the Coral Sea with the intention of locating and destroying the Allied naval forces. Beginning on 7 May, the carrier forces from the two sides engaged in airstrikes over two consecutive days. On the first day, the U.S. sank the Japanese light carrier Shōhō; meanwhile, the Japanese sank a U.S. destroyer and heavily damaged a fleet oiler (which was later scuttled). The next day, the Japanese fleet carrier Shōkaku was heavily damaged, the U.S. fleet carrier Lexington critically damaged (and later scuttled), and Yorktown damaged. With both sides having suffered heavy losses in aircraft and carriers damaged or sunk, the two forces disengaged and retired from the battle area. Because of the loss of carrier air cover, Inoue recalled the Port Moresby invasion fleet, intending to try again later.
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...And with Shoho gone, and Shokaku crippled, Japan was short two carriers - and hundreds of priceless aircraft and aviators - a month later off a nondescript little island called Midway.
The US had two extra carriers in the Atlantic - Wasp and Ranger - (and Lexington's sister ship Saratoga was still in repair after being torpedoed) but they were needed there for ASW work and to help the Royal Navy. Had six IJN carriers gone up against our three at Midway, history might be a tad different...
Mike
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Just think how much more quickly we would have defeated the Japanese if our crews had had proper diversity training.
Also, at the time we seemed to be hung up on this whole "victory" thing. Let us not forget the words of The Lightbringer:
"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur," Obama told ABC News.
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After the Doolittle raid in April and the stalemate at the Coral Sea, those two events set the stage for Midway.
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What turned the corner for us against Japan with the huge losses in pilots within the IJN. The IJN training programs could not produce them faster than we could shoot them down. AND we did a better job of protecting our pilots, recognizing the intellectual property of the pilot was more valuable than the aircraft.
The fact that most IJN pilots were enlisted or Warrants not officers clearly expresses their view of pilots as a form of cannon fodder much as they viewed their infantry.
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The human value of a trained pilot vastly exceeds that of the aircraft he flew, regardless of whether the high commander woke up to smell their own bushido.
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Almost every bit of combat gun camera footage from our side shows IJN aircraft quickly erupting flames due to lack of armor/self-sealing gas tanks. A contributing factor even when the early Wildcats (F4F) were matched with the superior Zero.
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What turned the corner for us against Japan with the huge losses in pilots within the IJN. The IJN training programs could not produce them faster than we could shoot them down. AND we did a better job of protecting our pilots, recognizing the intellectual property of the pilot was more valuable than the aircraft.
Also, we rotated our vets back to train the new batch. The Japanese kept their vets on the front until they were killed and all that experience died with them.
[Caucus99Percent] Debbie from Sane Progressive posted a 2 hour long rant which she soon deleted. From the half-hour I was able to catch before then it was obvious she was....tired. She wasn't the only one. Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.
We can't protest because the paramilitary police will gun you down while using the corporate media to vilify the protesters. F'in seriously? These people actually believe this. After the Berkeley Anti-Free-Speech Riots were allowed to continue by the chief of police and the mayor.
Strike? Same thing. And in both cases, because this entire shit country is so polarized, there's no way in hell anyone would be able to rally enough people to participate. No, it's because nobody will rally behind you because you're America-hating assholes.
We can't vote either because the bourgeoisie control the scope of opinion, the candidates, the parties, etc. Not to mention that despite the fact that only 25 percent of the voting population identifies as D or R, too many people still make the 'choice' between the turd sandwich and the diarrhea soup for any meaningful change to take place. Boycott? Again, no one could ever get enough people to participate, at least in 'Murica. Fuck you for that 'shit country' remark. This is why nobody likes you.
But what about that lawsuit against the DNC? Please. Their fuckin' lawyer pulled a literal Donald Trump/Mitt Romney when they said 'Oh yeah, we could decide the nominee in a back room over cigars and the voters can't do shit.' LOL
I don't have any solutions of my own and my frustration exhausts everyone around me, so why bother? After all, the only time anyone in this shit country seems to do anything is when the shit hits the fan...no, wait, I take that back. The 2008 crash happened and all people did was whine about big gubmint and 'freeloaders and illegals on welfare' while their savings, pensions and wages were looted to bail out the bourgeoisie.
As I recall, the small banks and the bourgeoisie, that is to say the working middle class, were looted to bail out the Wall Street firms and the big banks. But anyone who talks about the bourgeoisie in this way is a Marxist of some sort, and by definition wrong about absolutely everything.
The same thing happened with the installation of Dipshit Trump by Billary Clinton and friends. Oh sure, there were plenty of astroturf divisive identity protests led by old guard board room 'feminists' like Gloria Steinem and Madeline Albright (Hell, I'm surprised Christina Hoff Summers didn't join them on stage) and the like while real leaders like Kshama Sawant
...a local Trotskyite Socialist politician in Seattle who was born and got a degree in computer science in Mumbai/Bombay, India, but she was only shocked into action by the poverty she saw in America. She entered politics as a local Occupy organizer; since being elected to city council only her effort toward the $15/hour minimum wage has been successful, which makes her exactly the kind of spokeswoman current Feminism should have...
were outright ignored. And don't forget the continued vilification of Bernie Sanders as a white male only candidate despite multiple studies and polls now saying the exact opposite (Actually, Sanders had a bigger coalition than Billary ever did).
Oh yeah...I'd almost forgotten about Bernie. I'm glad I mentioned him because I'd love to scream right in his face too. He refused to contest the blatant fraud. He refused to walk away and join up with Jill Stein and the Greens. He would have taken plenty of voters with him as well, more than enough to be a threat to the ClinTrump corporate war machine, I'd wager. But now we have him running around on the Subjugation...I mean, Unity tour with that slimeball Tom Perez because 'we have to take them down from within' he says. Oh, and 'RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA'. Right. And I'm Ulfric fuckin' Stormcloak.
Perhaps not wrong about everything...
The people of this idiot shit country will never see decent governance or living standards unless they're willing to fight and die for them in some cases. And too many are too damned comfortable to care. Too many have forgotten about the struggles, suffering and death that happened over centuries to get what little has been whittled away by Reagan and friends.
So, since we can't work and fight alongside each other in solidarity, I guess we'll all just hang separately. The comments are worth reading, too.
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Shipping all these people to Venezuela for 6 months would solve an awful lot of problems. A shock course in fundamental economics.
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"for six months or so"
That implies you want them back....?
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implies you want them back
I dunno. At the rate things are going in the glorious Bolivarian empire, 6 months may amount to LCt50 for the average American snowflake...
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Wouldn't work at all, they'd just claim it "wasn't true socialism" and leave after a week. It takes more than empirical evidence to sway convictions like that. The No True Scotsman fallacy is the savior of the intellect of every socialist. You need an emotional appeal to even begin to persuade a mental fortress of iron like that.
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Poor Debbie! 196 counties in the world and she has the bad luck to be born in an "idiot shit" country. You can tell it's an "idiot shit" country because no one wants to move here. Our foreign service officers regularly prowl the streets of Jakarta and Nairobi saying "Hey! Anyone here want an American passport?" and not getting any takers. But good news, Debbie -- if you plan your escape carefully you'll be able to slip past the paramilitary police into Mexico or Canada. Go for it, girl! Make a break for it now! We'll somehow survive without you.
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I like how she decrys the suffering and death over the centuries but all her allegorical references are from the last ten years or so. In other words, references from within her lifetime. Not at all well read. Now, I'm tired of pointing out the obvious. HEH!
#11
my frustration exhausts everyone around me, so why bother?
Hint: it's not your "frustration", idiot
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#9 plan your escape carefully
Hysterical fiction there, kitten!
Now, "so many things are forbidden"
That, not to be targets
For rabid Ofmargarets,
We'll doggedly stick to our knittin'.
#13
Lord knows why (my head still hurts from trying to read that while watching the Milo thing), but I'd like to see the rant. A comment suggests Ms. Lusignan "accidentally deleted" it, and that another post (Saudi defense contracts!) had mysteriously vanished (PR people must have a name for these events, no?). Anybody have non-FB linkage to either?
Oh, gawd--the author must be another Seattle-area lefty loon. Sawant is an avowed socialist on the Seattle city council who is constantly screaming about "worker's rights", the $15/hour minimum wage, and for the "resistance" to keep demonstrating and blocking traffic at the drop of a hat.
Where upper class workers, forlorn, dwell
(in college!), I guess they read Cornwell:
Mnemonic didactics
Of rancor, vile tactics,
Sharp language of them that ain't born well.
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#16 Frozen Al--I assume that this is from some experiment with all the monkeys at keyboards trying to type out Shakespeare...this excerpt is one of the rejects.
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Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.
Does that mean they'll, like, get jobs and start minding their own business?
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Those on the left spend most of their life protesting or being against something. It's like the old '60's saying: "What are you protesting?" The retort was "What've you got?"
[Mercer] Unz Review columnist Dr. Boyd D. Cathey muses about another government power-grab called Trump Care. Naturally, he hopes it’ll be slightly better than the one to precede it. Dr. Cathey hearkens back to a different, inegalitarian time when the principle of noblesse oblige drove the faithful and the wealthy to take care of the needy. With the triumph of 19th century liberalism and the fanaticism of progress, the quest to level society saw the Church robbed of its lands and traditional role. Conditions soon arose that predisposed the downtrodden to Socialism, Communism and the modern welfare state.
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Amazing how the left and the "progressives" believe it is okay to name call and make fun of those with disabilities and then make the middle class pay for millions of dollars of upgrades to promote accessibility.
If I make fun of a person with an affliction or slur someone's name I would be fired from my job. But its okay for the left to do that which they accuse us on the right.
I personally think those kinds of comments are repugnant
#5
So which disability are you talking about? Instamoron or Krautdrooler?
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Single payer means single buyer. Single buyer means buyer sets prices paid to providers. Providers can accept or quit. This is not motivational to increasing or maintaining the number or quality of providers.
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Veterans Administration. Oh, and you can't fire those who mismanage what they do have. They just get 'reassigned' to another hospital to work their 'magic'.
[American Thinker] Sanctuary cities have all sorts of ways to reward criminality and punish tax-paying citizens. Most recently, Sacramento has joined other cities in using tax dollars to fund legal fees for illegal aliens. Fox News reports:
Sacramento became the latest city this week to go above and beyond ’sanctuary’ policies by approving the use of taxpayer dollars to support the legal defense of illegal immigrants facing deportation. [snip]
The plan, backed by the mayor, fits a trend of local and state lawmakers taking similar action. As the Trump administration separately faces a court setback in its bid to cut off federal funds to sanctuary cities, those jurisdictions are only doubling down.
Sacramento isn’t the first city to institute this new level of lawless madness.
Earlier in the week, officials in Michigan's Washtenaw County gave initial approval to pay such legal bills with taxpayer funds.
Proposals to directly or indirectly pay for legal assistance to illegal immigrants have also gained approval in Providence, R.I.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, Calif.; and Newark, N.J.
Even in the small New York city of Ithaca, politicians are gearing up to spend emergency funds to help illegal immigrants taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to The Ithaca Voice.
And on a broader scale, New York lawmakers recently signed off on a statewide legal defense fund, while California legislators are considering a bill creating a fund that could carry a price tag of up to $12 million per year.
#1
And soon, very soon, the debt will be insurmountable, the foreign nationals will go back home and tell the grand kids about how they ripped off the gringos.
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[American Thinker] James Comey epitomizes a lot of what is wrong with Washington and the elite culture of which he is a part. The question Americans ought to be asking after his recent testimony before Congress is not "What happened?" with Hillary Clinton, the election, or the Russians but "How the hell is this guy still running the FBI?" It’s a question for the president too.
Comey is a creature of Washington and the self-interested hypocritical elites that President Trump excoriated on his road to the White House. And yet there was Comey the other day, preening before Congress in his "ah shucks I’m just a big tall guy trying my darndest to do the right thing" act, balancing attacks from the left and right with a complacent disregard for any notion of what is right, other than his take at the moment on any particular issue.
Comey’s survival owes in part to some basic qualities. In many respects he is the type of guy who typically prospers in a hierarchical environment. He is tall and imposing, while being technically smart and basically competent. Comey always appears calm and has the knack to look slightly exasperated when fielding questions or criticism, as if those inquiring are barely worthy of his intellect or attention, but he deigns anyway. In an attempt to buffer his obvious condensation he offers up that occasional "Aw shucks" moment, as when at the recent hearing he exclaimed "Golly!" to explain how he felt about the slings and arrows sent his way.
Comey is very much like his bete noir Hillary Clinton, the woman with whom he is now historically entangled -- don’t try to imagine it literally. Like Hillary Clinton, he won’t go away, can’t admit to mistakes, nor does it appear he has a good sense of self-awareness. It’s like inspector Javert investigating Torquemada, or vice-versa, it really doesn’t matter.
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...Wonder if he's gone full J. Edgar Hoover, with a little office with some little filing cabinets in a little corner of a basement, where all kinds of amazing things concerning members of both parties can be found....
Mike
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obvious condensation?
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Mike K., I share the same thought: "What does Comey have on everybody?" However, I don't think HRC would hesitate for a minute to have him dropped in Ft. Marcy Park if it suited her purpose.
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To loosely quote 'Analyze This':
Doc:"What's the note gonna say? Life's f***ed up, I can't take it anymore, signed the dead guy?"
Vinnie:" Hey, I like that. You got a talent for this, Doc."
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[DAWN] EVEN for the convicted and condemned, it was a pathetic picture: Saulat Mirza, formerly of the MQM, confessing just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. Mirza said he’d been used like tissue paper, and that others learn from his example. It seemed a far cry from the ’90s Saulat: the man who had jeered "it’s just a formality" when the trial judge sentenced him to death.
Now slumped over in Machh Jail, Mirza only wished that party workers "open [their] eyes". Call it a hit man’s humanity: having murdered KESC MD Shahid Hamid and so many others, Saulat Mirza was making one last bid for peace. Two months later, he was hanged
The whole thing wasn’t just wildly unreal -- the last supper of a contract killer, beamed right into our living rooms. It was also without point: a confession without a magistrate has no legal value. Nor was it a revelation: Saulat was rehashing what he’d already told a joint investigation team years ago.
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[DAWN] THE growing incidence of mob lynchings all over the country is grounds for concern. In the past fortnight alone, we have seen three horrific examples of angry mobs chasing individuals alleged to have committed blasphemy. The latest incident took place in Hub, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... it is not only those accused of blasphemy who are hunted down and often killed. There have been many incidents in which individuals suspected of being involved in theft have faced the mob’s wrath as in the tragic case of two brothers, wrongly identified as robbers, who were lynched in Sialkot some years ago. This is a dangerous trend and if allowed to continue, could reach a point where no one would be able to control the angry crowds.
Perhaps only a comprehensive study can identify all the causes for this kind of vigilantism. A broad canvas though would show that socioeconomic frustrations, the lack of access to justice, the religiosity and intolerance set in motion during the Zia regime and, critically, poor enforcement of the law have a large role in the making of today’s fanatical crowds that are ready to take matters into their own hands. And it is unfortunate that very often this tendency is opportunistically fanned by sections of the media especially with regard to blasphemy accusations.
Any solution to reverse this trend -- that has been years in the making -- would have to be multipronged. But first, the state must see the flaws of its own acts of commission and omission. As a beginning, the state must recognise that this tendency represents an erosion of its own writ. Only then would it be possible to take steps to correct it. Further, it must ask itself what has been done to alleviate socioeconomic challenges, and to strengthen the judiciary and police. It must also ask itself how far its own curriculum, with its overtones of bigotry and discrimination, is feeding into the problem. The larger problems of growing intolerance will take time and political will to resolve. But in the immediate term, a sobering of our national discourse is needed to soothe anxieties and calm the passions that ignite such mobs. The mass media has a critical role to play here, in sending out the message that no matter how powerful the provocation, taking the law into your hands is not justifiable under any circumstances. There must be no exceptions, and no caveats applied to this principle.
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[The Hill] Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is touting a bill that would "decentralize" the federal government, moving parts away from Washington.
"We have a lot more employees in the federal government than we ever imagined as a country, and we are in a position where a good number of these jobs don't necessarily need to be in Washington, D.C.," he told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Saturday.
Ryan introduced a bill in April to create a bipartisan commission that would work with the General Services Administration ‐ which is charged with managing federal agencies ‐ to recommend federal agencies to relocate.
The bill doesn’t currently have any co-sponsors, the Examiner reported, but Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Ut.) introduced a similar resolution in January. The Ohio Democrat says his bill is less about breaking up the federal government’s presence in the D.C. metro region and more about spreading economic benefits throughout the country.
"Even if you could move 10 percent of the 300,000 -- back of the envelope -- say you could move 30,000 jobs and you can move them a thousand at a time," Ryan said. "I can't tell you what that would do for the city of Youngstown or Gary, Indiana, or Milwaukee."
Ryan is urging his fellow Democrats to get on board with his proposal, especially those in the Midwest.
"Democrats should be for decentralizing the government, you know? It is big. It is bureaucratic. It does need to be closer to the people," Ryan told the newspaper.
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Of course you can always simply close down the EPA, FCC, FDA, Education, etc....
You know "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.".
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#3 Of course you can always simply close down the EPA, FCC, FDA, Education, etc....
Then what would the GOP have to harrumph about in its fundraising letters?
Remember--it's not about solving problems--it's about you sending money and ceding control over your lives because their efforts are so terribly vital, yet strangely ineffectual.
Just think "protection racket run by hysterical teenagers" and you'll understand what "Western Civilization" is now.
[PJ] On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the whites-only section of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and take her assigned place in what was then called the "colored" section. For that highly courageous and moral action Ms. Parks has been justly celebrated ever since as "the first lady of civil rights," a true heroine for fighting the despicable evil of segregation. Something must depart, before it can return.
On January 14, 1963, Democrat George Wallace, governor of that same state of Alabama, who pushed back hard against Parks and the civil rights movement in general, advocated, in his inaugural address, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." (If you want to relive that nauseating experience, you can do it here.)
Unfortunately for Wallace, but fortunately for the decent people of this country, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was just over the horizon and segregation was, at long last and none too soon, on its way out.
Or was it? Did it ever really go away and is it now making a comeback from the opposite side?
The demands of UC Santa Cruz African-American and Caribbean students, accepted by the school Thursday, sound more like Wallace than they do like Parks.
These undergraduates staged a sit-in at the university until the administration agreed to ratify what amounts to a new form of segregation, guaranteeing all black students the right to live together in one building. And, ironically, the building they have succeeded in segregating (in the name of "safe spaces" unsurprisingly) is that university's Rosa Parks African American Theme House. It will now be painted, also based on their demand, the Pan-African colors of red, green and black.
It's hard to say what Parks would have made of the paint job, but I doubt she or Dr. Martin Luther King--you know, the guy who gave that "I have a dream" speech about black and white children playing together--would think much of segregated residences or of the protesters' also accepted demand that all incoming freshpeople (freshies?) be given mandatory "diversity training" specifically approved by the protestors themselves (diversity of thought no doubt excluded).
#4
"Let's put all the black students in an African-themed structure and paint it with colors that let white people know who's there"
No, not raaaycis at all.
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Vlad, fire up your little red Roomba!
A room full of choom and macumba
And social sci studies
With all my fly buddies
Awaits at prestigious Lumumba!
[Legal Insurrection] In July 2016 I documented a growing tactic in the anti-Israel movement, to blame Israel for domestic U.S. police shootings of blacks, such as Michael Brown in Ferguson.
The tactic, meant to exploit preexisting racial tension and stoke anti-Semitism to turn people against Israel, had been many years in the making, as I wrote in Exposed: Years-long effort to blame Israel for U.S. police shootings of blacks:
... there has been a multi-year effort by left-wing and Islamist anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and openly anti-Semitic activists to hijack racial tensions in the United States and redirect that anger towards Israel.
That effort has been on overdrive since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and is accomplished through a combination of false and misleading statements regarding the militarization of domestic U.S. police departments and U.S. police training in Israel.
The intellectual rubric is "intersectionality," by which anti-Israel activists try to forge links with minority (particularly black) activists by holding out Israel as the key link to oppression around the globe....
It is preposterous to blame Israeli counter-terrorism training for the militarization of U.S. police, much less how a specific police officer acted in a particular situation. Only a miniscule and almost unmeasurable percentage of U.S. police are trained in Israel.
There are several hundred police training academies in the U.S. training tens of thousands of police in the U.S., compared to a few hundred (at most) police who participate in Israeli counter-terrorism training. That Israeli training is focused on counter-terrorism, and usually involves police chiefs who visit Israel for a week of combined seminars and tourism...
So the likelihood is somewhere close to zero that any cop who is involved in a shooting (much less an unjustified shooting) was trained in Israel and the Israeli training contributed to the shooting....
this movement to blame Israel for minority deaths in the U.S. is not about Israeli training of police. There is no connection. Whatsoever.
Rather, it’s an attempt to exploit racial tensions unrelated to Israel and to stoke hate particularly in the black community.
There is zero evidence that Israel anti-terrorism training of police chiefs has had any connection to any police shootings of blacks in the U.S., much less the high profile shootings that gave rise to the Black Lives Matters movement.
Nonetheless, anti-Israel activists like Australian writer CJ Werleman directly blamed Israel for the shooting of Alton Sterling:
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.
[Judicial Watch] The government watchdog group Judicial Watch released nearly 900 pages of new State Department documents Tuesday that included a new batch of previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent additional classified information through her private unsecure email server by longtime aide Huma Abedin.
[DAWN] EVEN for the convicted and condemned, it was a pathetic picture: Saulat Mirza, formerly of the MQM, confessing just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. Mirza said he’d been used like tissue paper, and that others learn from his example. It seemed a far cry from the ’90s Saulat: the man who had jeered "it’s just a formality" when the trial judge sentenced him to death.
[DAWN] THE growing incidence of mob lynchings all over the country is grounds for concern. In the past fortnight alone, we have seen three horrific examples of angry mobs chasing individuals alleged to have committed blasphemy. The latest incident took place in Hub, 
