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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Tackling 'epistemicide' - the murder of knowledge
[New24] What inspires a conversation about decolonized research? For some, it is an undertaking of overt engagement on the complexities of "re-imagining" the Global South, the myriad of experiences that shape peoples lives and the task of 're-thinking" our knowledge systems and how we relate to the world. For others, it is the challenge of exploring historically discarded knowledge and theory, and producing new and better ways of knowing.

It is not merely a counter-narrative to western ideas about the pursuit of knowledge. It is looking through the eyes of the colonised, not just to voice the voiceless, but to prevent the dying of a people, their culture and their ecosystems.

Simply put, the hegemonisation of knowledge which has occurred largely in sync with colonialisation, has entrenched notions of the developed Global North and the undeveloped Global South, which is still perpetuated today.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a Professor of Sociology, at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, conveys the violence inherent in this as, "epistemicide: the murder of knowledge. Unequal exchanges among cultures have always implied the death of the knowledge of the subordinated culture, hence the death of the social groups that possessed it."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 04:35 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lucky for the author, the colonials stuck around long enough to teach her to read and write. But enough about her and her post-apartheid crutch riding.

Obviously a bogus story. The intent of the posting was simply to add 'epistimecide' to the Rantburg University library of new and exciting words.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 4:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Very funny, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2018 4:49 Comments || Top||

#3  But, hey, I'm all for slaying global warming.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  *Wow* That was ...something. I remember reading my first story by H.P. Lovecraft and wondering if the author was inspired, batshite nutz, or both. This reads like 'word salad'...
Posted by: magpie || 07/07/2018 11:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Our juju is stronger than their juju.
Posted by: Fat Bob Gleager4645 || 07/07/2018 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  What's it mean?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2018 12:37 Comments || Top||

#7  And some of those "quaint native customs that we should not judge...?"
General Sir Charles James Napier:
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
Posted by: magpie || 07/07/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||

#8  BS like this has always implied the death of those who choose to believe in it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/07/2018 13:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Outside of the merest study of a globe would inform one that Australia is mostly uninhabited desert, Antarctica is an almost empty icy hellscape, and the remainder of the Southern Hemisphere is mostly ocean ... why, yes!, the Global North has more land, more people and is more developed. D'Oh!
But if you are a neo-Marxist anti-Colonialist Deconstructionist obsessed with the Romantic School vision of "The Noble Savage" then that 'verbal diarrhea' makes perfect sense. Or you are a scam artist looking for a Progressive 'Mark' to donate to your think-tank . We could also embrace the Power of 'And', I suppose.
Posted by: magpie || 07/07/2018 15:48 Comments || Top||

#10  America is fat and stupid. That didn't always used to be the case. In fact, it's really only become a problem since then 50's - about when government started telling us what to eat.

I suspect fixing the SAD (standard American diet) would fix the fat and stupid problem too, and issues like epistemicide would disappear on their own.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/07/2018 15:53 Comments || Top||

#11  "Epistemicide" seems like a good description of these kinds of "Sectarian Studies."

"We are all stupider for having heard that. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Posted by: james || 07/07/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Simply put, the hegemonisation of knowledge which has occurred largely in sync with colonialisation, has entrenched notions of the developed Global North and the undeveloped Global South, which is still perpetuated today.

World-class codswallop.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2018 17:27 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Rush Limbaugh: Ignore the Media Crap, We're Winning on Immigration
[Breitbart] Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh advised his listens to ignore the media hype because President Donald Trump is tapping into voters concerns about immigration.

Partial transcript as follows (courtesy of RushLimbaugh.com):

LIMBAUGH: Let me run through these immigration numbers again. Department of Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Houlton said in a statement, ’Following the implementation of the administration’s zero-tolerance policy, the June 2018 Southwest Border Migration numbers declined by 18% when compared to the previous month,’ This is, of course, illegal immigrants attempting to get in the country in the southwest border down 18% because of the zero-tolerance policy.

Reuters has a story. This is from earlier this morning. It’s a poll. It’s a Reuters/Ipsos poll. "Immigration tops the economy and health care as the most important issue determining Americans’ vote ahead of the midterm elections in November, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows. Reuters/Ipsos data shows that immigration became a top concern for registered voters in the United States after the Trump administration in May announced its ’zero tolerance’ policy on illegal immigrants, saying they would be criminally charged."

Uh, actually, the zero-tolerance policy was announced April 7th of 2018. Sessions was acting after a Department of Homeland Security report found that illegal border crossing increased 203% from March 2017 to March 2018. And then Reuters says here, "The policy became a political lightning rod in mid-June with disclosures that thousands of children were separated from their parents who were accused of crossing illegally into the country." Wrong again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 03:41 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


This Week in Guns, July 7th, 2018


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

A passage to be noted: This Week in Guns (TWIG) is five years old.

It has been a ride so far. The last few weeks have been trying. Work hours have increased dramatically, and I am working two jobs. Not out of necessity, but because I am helping an old employer close out a contract before his machine shop gets shuttered.

So until things get back to whatever can be considered normal, all I will post will be data.

I hope to continue tracking ammunition and used firearms prices, even in the midst of the most concerted attempt to constrict firearms ownership since Barky shooting his f*cking kommie mouth off about guns.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Week over week pistol ammunition prices were mostly steady. Rifle ammunition prices were steady.

Prices for used pistols were mostly lower. Prices for used rifles were higher.

(July 7th, 2018) For the eighth week running, used AR-15 prices have averaged below $500.

Quarterly prices are below. It appears that ammunition prices for all kinds of guns, rifles and pistols have dropped since last spring. Check it out.

New Lows:

None

Pistol Ammunition

.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .23 per round, -.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: FedArm, Own Brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .20 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, FP, Brass Casing, reloads .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)

9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .14 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Muntions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .13 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: FedArm, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))

.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .23 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))

.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each
(From Q1, 2018: .24 per round, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, CCI, RNL, Aluminum Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Fiocci, FMJ, Brass Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .20 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammomen, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .32 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018))

7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018)
(From Q1, 2018: .23 per round, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))

.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
(From Q1, 2018: .54 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))

.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018)
(From Q1, 2018: .81 per round, Unchanged)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Target Sports USA, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .85 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2018))

.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: 2.50 per round, -.35 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, ARM, SP, Brass Casing, 2.15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 240 rounds: Ammo Board, ARM, SP, Brass Casing, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: -.44 Each After Unchanged 6 Weeks))

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
(From Q1, 2018: .04 per round, -.01 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Aguila, RNL, Brass Casing, .03 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Carolina Munitions, Remington, RNL, Brass Casing, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2018))

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $470 Last Week Avg: $430(+) ($616 (2Q, 2015), $387 (44 Weeks))
Arizona (370, 3Q, 2017(+13))(334, 334): Mixed Build: $450 ($740 (27 Weeks), $300 (43 Weeks))
Texas (484, 3Q, 2017(+3))(335, 324): Mossberg MMR: $475 ($700 (1Q, 2015), $350 (2Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (249, 3Q, 2017(+6))(194, 197): Mixed Build: $425 ($700 (2Q, 2015), $300 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (282, 3Q, 2017)(221, 216): Bushmaster: $600 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $300 (31 Weeks))
Florida (679, 3Q, 2017)(489, 476): Palmetto State Armory: $400 ($650 (2Q, 2015), $350 (12 Weeks))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $790 Last Week Avg: $760(+) ($1,359 (2Q, 2015), $760 (2 Weeks))
Arizona (70, 3Q, 2017(+11))(70, 69): DPMS: $1,000 ($2,300 (2Q, 2017), $500 (39 Weeks))
Texas (178, 3Q, 2017)(99, 99): Diamondback DB10: $700 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $600 (22 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (54, 3Q, 2017)(44, 43): Ruger Precision: $1,000 ($1,600 (4Q, 2016), $700 (3Q, 2015))
Virginia (86, 3Q, 2017)(57, 61): Palmetto State Armory: $600 ($2,750 (1Q, 2016), $675 (35 Weeks))
Florida (128, 3Q, 2017(+3))(88, 86): DPMS Oracle: $650 ($1,950 (2Q, 1016), $500 (3Q, 2015))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $645 Last Week Avg: $627(+) ($728 (20 Weeks), $450 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (55, 3Q, 2017(+8))(54, 54): WASR 10/63: $700 ($1,050 (15 Weeks), $400 (2Q, 2017))
Texas (141, 3Q, 2017)(78, 78): Palmetto State Armory: $600 ($1,000 (21 Weeks)), $350 (3Q, 2014))
Pennsylvania (75, 3Q, 2017)(68, 61): Zastava N-PAP: $650 ($750 (1Q, 2015), $375 (1Q, 2015))
Virginia (72, 3Q, 2017)(70, 69): CAI AK63DS: $650 ($700 (2Q, 2016), $300 (36 Weeks))
Florida (146, 3Q, 2017)(124, 128): CAI VZ-2008: $625 ($700 (1Q, 2016), $300 (4Q, 2014))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $406 Last Week Avg: $404(+) ($495 (4Q, 2016), $296 (3Q, 2015))
Arizona (22, 3Q, 2017(+4))(19, 17): Winchester 94: $380 ($800 (21 Weeks), $200 (2Q, 2017)))
Texas (35, 3Q, 2017(+2))(21, 15): Marlin: $450 ($550 (1Q, 2015), ($290 (20 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (23, 3Q, 2017)(12, 14): Glenfield Marlin: $350 ($450 (1Q, 2015), $225 (8 Weeks))
Virginia (19, 3Q, 2017(+3))(15, 17): Marlin 336: $500 ($670 (2Q, 2016), $250 (4Q, 2015))
Florida (34, 3Q, 2017)(28, 28): Marlin 336: $350 ($500 (1Q, 2015), $250 (2Q, 2015))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $360 Last Week Avg: $430(-) ($525 (3Q, 2016), $350 (4Q, 2015))
Arizona (215, 3Q, 2017(+13))(215, 210): Rock Island Armory: $350 ($800 (13 Weeks), $325 (45 Weeks))
Texas (371, 3Q, 2017 (+4))(270, 265): Para Ordnance: $600 ($650 (19 Weeks), $300 (4Q, 2016))
Pennsylvania (178, 3Q, 2017)(168, 163): Rock Island Armory: $450 ($600 (49 Weeks), $300 (2Q, 2015))
Virginia (204, 3Q, 2017(+3))(152, 171): Springfield: $350 ($800 (11 Weeks), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Florida (440, 3Q, 2017)(307, 308): Rock Island Armory: $500 ($500 (1Q, 2016), $250 (1Q, 2015))

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $278 Last Week Avg: $299(-) ($358 (1Q, 2016), $207 (2Q, 2017))
Arizona (433, 3Q, 2017(+9))(433, 393): Walther PPS M2: $340 ($400 (1Q, 2018), $180 (35 Weeks))
Texas (586, 3Q, 2017(+3))(556, 556): Tri Star C100: $250 ($355 (1Q, 2015), $180 (37 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (441, 3Q, 2017(+2))(369, 360): Canik TP9SF: $250 ($350 (4Q 2014), $150 (1Q, 2017))
Virginia (365, 3Q, 2017(+6))(336, 349): Canik TP9SA: $300 ($425 (4Q, 2016), $189 (2Q, 2016))
Florida (827, 3Q, 2017)(749, 739): European American Armory B6P: $250 ($400 (1Q, 2016), $160 (2Q, 2017))

.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic) Average Price: $377 Last Week Avg: $336(+) ($399 (1Q, 2016), $262 (2Q, 2016))
Arizona (87, 3Q, 2017(+3))(86, 84): FN Herstal S.A.: $400 ($500 (1Q, 2017), $195 (2Q, 2017))
Texas (156, 3Q, 2017(+2))(98, 99): Smith & Wesson SW99: $385 ($425 (4Q, 2014), $180 (30 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (115, 3Q, 2017(+5))(72, 72): Walther PPQ: $400 ($450 (2Q, 2016), $200 (3Q, 2016))
Virginia (109, 3Q, 2017(+4))(83, 80): Stoeger Cougar: $350 ($450 (2Q, 2015), $220 (25 Weeks))
Florida (193, 3Q, 2017(+3))(151, 144): Smith & Wesson SD9VE: $350 ($400 (1Q, 2015), $199 (4Q, 2015))

Used Gun of the Week: (Oklahoma)
DanielDefense Ambush semiautomatic rifle chambered in 6.8mm SPC
Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was wondering where the analysis at the top of the weekly post went. Glad to hear that it's time constraints rather than something less desirable. Thanks for the update.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2018 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2  I read this every time I see you post Chris. Thanks for the hard work.
THAT said, I wonder if you can get barrels laser engraved like that. I looked briefly, didn't see any.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/07/2018 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I didn't see anyone offering it as a service at the NRA Convention, WM, but I did see some of the finished product.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2018 10:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Surely any jeweler with engraving ability can handle that kind of thing — just a matter of going through the yellow pages and asking until one says yes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2018 11:39 Comments || Top||

#5  A jeweler's engraving machine may not be able to handle heat treated steel.

At my new job, they have an engraving machine, so if you can find a machine shop with one, they could help.
Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2018 13:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Lone Wolf Distributors will do custom laser engraving.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2018 16:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Thank you skidmark. I forgot about them. I liked some of their receivers years ago, just never pulled that trigger. Ahem.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/07/2018 17:39 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Shirazi religious channels, hijacking the Shiite sphere
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Shirazi reference believes that "media outlets these days are a tool in the hands of the enemies of values, morals and humanity. Given the absence of the important and influential role of virtuous and pious people who follow the right doctrine in media outlets, these tools are thus exploited in achieving demonic and ill purposes." This is according to what’s posted on Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Shirazi’s official website.

This perception is not new but it dates to years ago, before the death of reference Sayyid Mohammad al-Shirazi who encouraged his followers to be involved in the media field and not let others monopolize it. This made the Shirazi Movement later work on establishing more than 20 satellite television channels in different languages. This number is based on a statistic which Al Arabiya.net attained from a source from within the Shirazi reference

Researcher Bassem al-Zaydi at Imam Shirazi Center for Studies and Research thinks "satellite television channels are the most important means of modern media communication. Thus there were more focus on them in terms of contributors to establish them and recipients."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Britain
Now Monty Python Is Racist or Something
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] ...Now it's 2018, so Monty Python stinks because they're all middle-class white males and most of them aren't LGBTQRSTUV.

A fellow named Shane Allen works for the BBC in the capacity of "Controller, Comedy Commissioning, Television." Which sounds like a job title right out of a Python sketch. Recently, Allen explained the Beeb's new diversity push, insisting that Monty Python is a thing of the past: "If you're going to assemble a team now it’s not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes. It’s going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world."
The one thing "Modern World" (apparently) doesn't need or wants is talent
...John Cleese said:
BBC's Head of Comedy puts Monty Python's lack of originality down to a surfeit of education and racist bias

Unfair ! We were remarkably diverse FOR OUR TIME

We had three grammar-school boys, one a poof, and Gilliam, though not actually black, was a Yank. And NO slave-owners

...And Terry Gilliam was even more blunt:

"It made me cry: the idea that ... no longer six white Oxbridge men can make a comedy show," he said. "Now we need one of this, one of that, everybody represented... this is bullshit. I no longer want to be a white male, I don’t want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian... My name is Loretta and I’m a BLT, a black lesbian in transition."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2018 04:26 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I fear for what happens when the Diversity crowd actually watches 'Blazing Saddles'....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/07/2018 4:48 Comments || Top||

#2  In defense of Hollywoood, Gunsmoke's 'Chester' (Dennis Weaver) become a well known and respected actor decades before anyone even thought of the so-called 'Americans with Disabilities Act.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  That's what was great about Monty Python. Everybody was offended by something in each episode.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/07/2018 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  There are some who say BBC destroyed the chemistry of the beloved Springwatch show when they introduced a black female a year ago or so and marginalized a long-time white male member of the popular show, all in the name of diversity. To be fair, the female does possess the education background. But, was she a dud as part of the show? Yes. Not the same show.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 8:32 Comments || Top||

#5  @ #3 -- Especially those Flemish Phlegms.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Sad state of affairs but hey, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Posted by: Warthog || 07/07/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry Shane but we won't be having an argument until you've paid!
Posted by: Warthog || 07/07/2018 9:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Comfy chair treatment for you, buster!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 9:37 Comments || Top||

#9  ...oh, and about Blazing Saddles.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Another one so woke, he asleep.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/07/2018 13:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Is it twue what they say about men of your race?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/07/2018 19:24 Comments || Top||

#12  And now to something completely different!
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/07/2018 19:42 Comments || Top||

#13  ...a man with three buttocks.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 20:38 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's Found the Perfect Patsy to Tackle U.S. Chipmakers
[WashingtonPost] It’s not hard to work out who’s being played here.

Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp. won a patent case it brought against Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology Inc. in a Chinese court. So on the surface, this poor little Taiwanese David defeats the big bad American Goliath. The Chinese court even ordered that Micron chips be halted from import or sale in Asia’s biggest economy, according to UMC.

Micron stock fell as much as 8 percent, while UMC climbed as much as 3.9 percent in early Taipei trading Wednesday.

You can almost hear UMC claiming that Micron started it. Micron executives sued the Taiwanese foundry in a U.S. court in December, claiming theft of trade secrets. The complaint was filed under a civil provision of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

UMC is turning out to be the perfect patsy in China’s ongoing campaign to stick it to the U.S. over technology, intellectual property and trade. In its Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court filing, it sought 270 million yuan ($41 million) in damages. I think that’s a smokescreen.

Micron’s U.S. case in fact sprang from an August criminal indictment in Taiwan against UMC and its partner Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co.

Taiwanese prosecutors alleged that UMC employees were part of a plan to misappropriate IP from an American company (Micron) and deliver it to China (via Jinhua). In its December civil complaint, Micron accused UMC of trying to recruit key Taiwanese personnel, and induce former Micron Taiwan staff to steal files that could be used to give little-known Jinhua a boost in China’s campaign to develop its own chip technology.

A recent piece in the New York Times details the heist, which includes a police raid and a junior colleague spiriting a phone out of a factory as authorities closed in.

That a Chinese court suddenly finds in favor of UMC and Jinhua, with a threat to stop all import and sale of Micron’s chips, completes the cycle of absurdity.
Posted by: Fat Bob Gleager4645 || 07/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  All the chip manaufacturers especially the RAM one's are dodgy.

Thye all recently got done for colluding in reducing supply to push up the prices.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/07/2018 4:43 Comments || Top||

#2  So the Chinese are stealing US technology again? Get outta here!
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2018 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I have Micron stock. Once upon a time I had some UMC stock. Then I discovered Taiwan taxed foreign held stock at various points in its lifecycle. I dumped it like a hot potato. Ever since I try to stay with US stock.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/07/2018 13:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Then I discovered Taiwan taxed foreign held stock at various points in its lifecycle.

Do elaborate.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 07/07/2018 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California GOP congressional candidate runs as open Holocaust denier
[The Hill] A Republican candidate for Congress in California is openly running as a Holocaust denier, calling it a "complete fabrication" in an interview with The New York Times published Friday.

John Fitzgerald secured one of the top two spots in California's "jungle" primary system last month, where the top two vote-getters regardless of party affiliation advance to the general election.

Fitzgerald is slated to face off against incumbent Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier in November in the reliably blue district near San Francisco.

Fitzgerald included calls on his campaign website for people to note "Jewish supremacism" and said last week on a radio show hosted by an anti-Semitic commentator that "everything we’ve been told about the Holocaust is a lie," according to The Times.

The candidate told The Times this week that the Holocaust was a "complete fabrication" and placed blame for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the Israeli government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 03:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I blame the waters. It's got to be something in the waters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 3:59 Comments || Top||

#2  So, how did the Dems managed to get him to win the primaries?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2018 4:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Ask Feinstein whether she supports him, or is she too busy banning Catholics to answer?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2018 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Getting a can't win candidate to run in an otherwise uncontested district means money will have to be spent that can't be spent elsewhere. All the same, the party officials at every level are there to prevent this sort of debacle, but they often don't.

Story in that somewhere...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2018 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  The California GOP - LMAO. Do they even exist anymore?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/07/2018 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Do they even exist anymore?

As a front to take money, much like the so-called "conservative journals and think-tanks."

Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2018 10:56 Comments || Top||

#7  GOP has no chance winning a seat in San Francisco. Stalin has a better chance and he's dead.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/07/2018 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  The candidate for Missouri senator died. The state supreme court let the election stand with him on the ballot and the party gave it to his wife. Thus making a total mockery of the electoral process. It's all a facade to keep the peasants in place.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2018 11:19 Comments || Top||

#9  This is what happens when the party "pragmatically" chooses not to put in at least a placeholder candidate.

Then again, the Dems have lots of loons running for office who are getting either no scrutiny or tongue baths ala Allie from the block.
Posted by: charger || 07/07/2018 12:27 Comments || Top||


Here's Why Hillary Is Running Again in 2020
[American Thinker] That's right: Hillary Clinton is running for president again in 2020. She has actually ramped up her campaign since her defeat in 2016! From her Twitter feed to university speeches to appearances abroad ‐ from Ireland to Australia to India ‐ the "I'm with her" campaign continues. The message remains the same: Donald Trump is racist and sexist, and his supporters are deplorable. Hillary also continues to preach that she won the 2016 popular vote by 3,000,000 votes, but because of the electoral college (that damn Constitution thing) and RussiaRussiaRussia, she was robbed of her rightful prize and place in history.

Her Path to the Nomination

Hillary has a highly plausible path to the Democratic Party nomination, something no other potential Democrat candidate for president can say. In the primaries, Hillary Clinton's name recognition and loyal voters would earn her an easy 25% of the vote, while the anti-Hillary vote would split among as many as ten other candidates at about 5-10% each. This is not dissimilar to what Trump accomplished on the Republican side in 2016. With a solid base of supporters, Trump was able to win primary after primary while the others split the vote. Each time someone dropped out, Trump picked up about half of his supporters, with the other half disbursed among the other candidates. This is a realistic path for Hillary to gain the Democrat nomination, and it is no doubt irresistible to her.

Hillary is the only potential Democrat with big money-raising potential and an existing fundraising mechanism. That mechanism has been in place for 30 years! Hillary also has as much as $1 billion in Clinton Foundation donations stashed away for just such a rainy day. You didn't really think all that Russian oligarch money was sent to hungry children in Haiti, did you?

Hillary knows that the MSM will not only not criticize her for running in 2020, but celebrate her campaign because "she has unfinished business." Hillary also knows that the MSM will repeat her talking points ad nauseam, as in "the 2016 election was stolen by the Russians" and "she's doing this for women to break the glass ceiling" as they serve up $10 billion in free earned media. In addition, MSM journalists want jobs in the Hillary Clinton administration and won't risk her famous wrath if she wins.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 00:41 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Which just means that there will be no ramifications from all of her shenanigans (Clinton Foundation, Seth Rich, Arkancides, etc., etc.) despite all of the "bombshell" utterances from the wind bag chumps on Capitol Hill and the Internet.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  (voice of Albanian Guy in 'Taken') - good luck...
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2018 1:52 Comments || Top||

#3  I doubt it. She might have a political path to the nomination. However, barring a major medical breakthrough she won't be healthy enough to be a credible candidate.

In fact, if she'd been elected in 2016 I think her Presidency would have turned into a reprise of the last Soviet GenSeks' agonizing tenures.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/07/2018 1:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Is there a German word that means "the simultaneous feeling of glee and horror"?
(and don't say 'schizophrenia')
Posted by: SteveS || 07/07/2018 2:11 Comments || Top||

#5  How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eased by night,
But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me;
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please them thou art bright
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer
And night doth nightly make grief's strength
seem stronger.
-The Bard-
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2018 2:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Hopefully yes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2018 4:14 Comments || Top||

#7  She blew through a Billion dollars in her last campaign, and still lost. Anyone giving her anymore money would have to be crazy.
Posted by: Betty Hatfield5124 || 07/07/2018 6:50 Comments || Top||

#8  She's still drinking eating the Kummerspeck
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2018 7:54 Comments || Top||

#9  She gonna have the DNC fix the primaries for her again?

What will Lizziewatha and Kammie Harris and Uncle Joe have to say about that?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/07/2018 8:18 Comments || Top||

#10  @ #4 -- Definitely not "Gemütlichkeit"!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 8:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Helps explain why Trump would pardon Blago. That'll stir the pot...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2018 9:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Anti-Hillary signs and t-shirts should center on a bottle of booze as a logo. Brand her as an entitled drunk.
Posted by: ruprecht || 07/07/2018 11:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Mrs. Clinton would lose even more badly next time — current polls show President Trump picking up increasing support among Blacks, Hispanics, and Millennials, according to what I’ve seen recently. But it’s early days, and Clinton is a familiar name at a time when no one else has thrown their hat in the ring. It remains to be seen whether she will admit her health is too bad to run, leaving oxygen for the epic fight between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden for the nomination.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2018 11:57 Comments || Top||

#14  TW - that requires a big laughing emoji.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/07/2018 13:37 Comments || Top||

#15  Not to be morbid, but who knows if she'll even be alive then?

And the "Weekend At Bernie's" scenario can only work for Sanders.
Posted by: charger || 07/07/2018 14:34 Comments || Top||

#16  She's heavily invested in popcorn?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/07/2018 18:22 Comments || Top||

#17  if theres a buck to made she'll run. also, to not run signals the end of the CNN. the groupies will move on to the next democrat messiah.
Posted by: brerrabbit || 07/07/2018 19:07 Comments || Top||

#18  Not to be morbid, but who knows if she'll even be alive then?

Only the good die young.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 19:43 Comments || Top||

#19  And the "Weekend At Bernie's" scenario can only work for Sanders.

Seems to work with Pelosi's office.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2018 20:20 Comments || Top||

#20  Really, there's no way that scag is running again.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2018 20:28 Comments || Top||

#21  I don't think she can help herself. She feels that she is entitied, and destined to be the POTUS.

Plus there is all that power and graft. She's addicted to it and just can't help herself.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/07/2018 22:07 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Could HPV Vaccine Treat Skin Cancer?
[Medpage] A novel treatment for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) using HPV vaccine could some day prove useful in patients who are poor surgical candidates, have multiple lesions, or who defer surgery, researchers reported.

A single case report of an elderly woman with multiple, inoperable cutaneous basaloid SCC, showed that systemic and direct intratumoral injection of 9-valent HPV vaccine resulted in complete regression of all cutaneous malignant tumors, according to Anna J. Nichols, MD, PhD, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, and colleagues.

All tumors resolved 11 months after the first injection of vaccine, they reported in JAMA Dermatology.

No systemic adverse effects were reported, they added, and at the patient's last follow-up visit 24 months after the first intratumoral dose of the HPV vaccine, there was no clinical evidence of SCC recurrence.
"The marked regression of numerous SCCs after initiation of the intratumoral injections eliminated the need for additional treatment," the authors wrote. "Tumors not directly injected with the vaccine also regressed, possibly by local dispersion of the vaccine or its effects on immune-mediated mechanisms. These findings suggest that the 9-valent HPV vaccine can provide a therapeutic option for inoperable cutaneous SCCs, in addition to its approved use to prevent anogenital HPV infection."

The mechanisms for the vaccine's therapeutic efficacy in cutaneous malignant tumors are not yet clear, they acknowledged. Similarly, it is not known whether systemic use of the vaccine played a therapeutic role.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 04:22 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes!
I privately guessed that HPV (and other viruses in stem cells) is responsible for most to all of cancer.

HPV likes to infect damaged cells, it's not the damage that causes the cancer.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/07/2018 4:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm expecting a "unexpected" drop in lots of cancers from the HPV vaccine, just wish I could get vaccinated with it myself.

The state says no I'm not allowed to.

Thanks NHS...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/07/2018 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Here's a tip you won't get from the NHS; avoid travel to Amesbury BP.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2018 4:54 Comments || Top||

#4  The state says no I'm not allowed to.

Can you pay a private physician to do it, Bright Pebbles? Or go to America in holiday, and get it done here at a drugstore pharmacy. The national Walgreens chain offers HPV innoculations , among others.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2018 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I expect GLOBAL WARMING and the anticipated burst of heat wave caused melanoma may change their stand.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2018 12:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Then there is the widely prescribed, dirt-cheap and extensively researched drug Metformin, used mostly for Type II diabetes. Repeated studies have shown that populations which take this drug for years tend to live longer and have less cancers of all kinds. This is independent of its effect on diabetes. Metformin is often used as a comparison drug when other anti-diabetes drugs are being researched. The unusual "side effect" has turned up repeatedly in these studies.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/07/2018 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Ahh yes... Metformin.... also known as MetaFartIn.... and for good reason.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/07/2018 14:14 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Has the Khomeini Republic’s final hour come?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After tightening American sanctions on Iran, which reached Iranian oil that is the backbone of Iran’s finances, the Khomeini republic’s keepers seem like they’ve lost their mind. The regime’s active figures, such as the smiling Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the always-scowling “Hajj” Qassem Soleimani, the ambassador of strife in the region, are making strenuous efforts to address this.

Zarif is doing what he does best, embellish and modernize the fake face of the Khomeini ideological republic. Meanwhile, Qassem Soleimani is warmly praising the threats of the most prominent moderate Iranian dove, Hassan Rouhani, to block the Strait of Hormuz if Washington implements its promise to impose sanctions against Iranian oil exports.

There’s nothing new here. It is the game of distributing roles and insistence on denial even if Iranian intelligence agents are arrested for planning to carry out terror attacks. An example is the arrest of diplomat Assadollah Assadi who works at the Iranian embassy in Vienna over a suspected plot to carry out a bomb attack on an exiled Iranian opposition group in France.

This approach resembles the Nazi Goebbels’s approach of denying and lying until people eventually believe you, even if they’re kind to you like the gentlemen in Europe – we salute leftist figure Senora Federica Mogherini who is fighting for the European deal with Iran.

Moment of truth
The purpose of the Trump administration’s determination against the Khomeini regime is clear and it’s to force the latter to surrender and quit sponsoring terrorism. The moment of truth has come no matter how much the Iranian regime deceives others.

The keepers of the Khomeini republic will do what they do best, energize terrorism and open diplomatic gaps to maneuver.

Iran may use the Afghan arena to attack America, according to an article by Russian author Igor Subbotin in Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily and published by the Russia Today website. Subbotin spoke about Tehran’s preparations for a painful response to American sanctions and about the possibility of transferring the Shiite Afghans, “the Hazaras,” from Syria to fight the Americans in Afghanistan. According to the Times, sources in Kabul and in Taliban said Iran is doubling its support to fighters of the Sunni Taliban for the same purpose.

This is the common Iranian response to manage terrorism and cooperate with all terror networks, both Sunni and Shiite, to serve Tehran’s interests. Meanwhile, Iran through its “civil” masks tries to play the game of diplomacy and sweet talk.

For example, after Iran's OPEC governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili attacked Trump because he requested OPEC to work on decreasing oil prices, he suddenly said: “Our brothers in Saudi Arabia are a proud Muslim nation that’s educated and mature and it will not allow you to talk to us in this tone!”

Imagine the world without the Khomeini republic, just imagine!
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  It won't happen soon. The country will have to crater frst
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2018 7:49 Comments || Top||



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