[The Federalist] James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, testified to members of Congress last fall that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other FBI officials discussed wearing a wire in meetings with President Trump and removing him from office, according to a transcript of Baker’s testimony released on Tuesday.
In a joint committee on October 3, 2018, Baker was questioned in a closed-door interview on his knowledge of the Christopher Steele dossier, classified information leaked to the media, and invoking the 25th Amendment against President Trump.
Baker’s testimony confirmed what former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe previously said about national security officials strategizing to remove President Trump from office. Baker said Rosenstein made a serious suggestion to wear a wire when near the president in order to collect evidence that the president obstructed the investigation on Russian collusion. Baker also said he suspected Rosenstein was acting in response to the firing of James Comey, and that he felt he had been "used" by the president in his justification for firing Comey.
[Quillette] The debate over cultural appropriation isn’t unique to Canada. But my country does seem to have a particular sensitivity to the issue‐especially when it comes to white people allegedly appropriating elements of Indigenous culture. And in recent days, the phenomenon has broken new ground entirely, with a high-profile controversy involving alleged appropriation taking place entirely within Canada’s Indigenous communities.
<The Indigenous Music Awards (IMAs) are part of the larger Manito Ahbee Festival in Winnipeg, a gathering that "celebrates Indigenous culture and heritage to unify, educate, and inspire." Conceived as a Juno Awards for Canada’s First Nations people, these awards do not focus solely on traditional music, but feature a broad range of categories such as Best Blues Album, Best Music Video, and Best International Indigenous Release. Because Canada’s Indigenous music scene is still a niche sector within the larger Canadian music industry (which is itself tiny compared to its American counterpart), the Indigenous Music Awards typically pass under the radar of most Canadians. But not this year‐thanks to Cree artist Cikwes, who’s been nominated in the Best Folk Album category for her album ISKO.
Cikwes is the stage name of Connie LeGrande, a fluent Cree speaker who identifies as Nehiyaw (a sub-group of Cree). She describes her musical background as "rooted in Woodland Cree traditions, with creative influences ranging from throat singing, jazz, soul, [R&B] and reggae." She sings in both English and Cree. Like the many other artists who find inspiration in multiple styles and genres, LeGrande transforms disparate influences into something completely original. This includes a form of throat singing, an art traditionally practiced by Inuit people in Canada’s north.
Canada’s Indigenous peoples comprise hundreds of distinct communities. These communities tend to self-classify in several broad categories, of which the Inuit are one. Another large category is First Nations, which includes the Cree. And it is in this distinction that the current controversy is rooted.
Five Inuit artists, including Polaris Prize winner Tanya Tagaq, have lobbied both LeGrande and the event organizers to pull IKSO from the folk music category‐on the claim that LeGrande, being First Nations, is guilty of culturally appropriating a distinctive Inuit art form. So far, both LeGrande and the organizers have refused to give in, which has led Tagaq and others to boycott the IMAs. Tiffany Ayalik and her sister Kayley Mackay, who perform as the duo PIQSIQ, withdrew their albumAltering the Timeline from consideration in the Best Electronic Music Album category, telling the CBC that "We came to the IMAs with the concern about cultural appropriation in one of the categories. There is a non-Inuk [singular of Inuit] singer who is appropriating Inuit throat singing. It’s very insensitive and wrong to have an organisation like the IMAs celebrating an artist who isn’t Inuk, who isn’t doing it properly, and who isn’t doing it with the respect and the context and the history that should be informing throat singing." Read on for the full trainwreck.
The making of a novel here. Of course this sort of novel would be cultural appropriation of some long dead English spinster’s plot style.
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In Alaska we have Athabaskan fiddlers who probably learned from Hudson Bay people. Now they have their own style. And people enjoy their music.
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Athabaskan fiddlers? Bet they'd be good with hush puppies and coleslaw. Fried of course.
[Babylon Bee] EL PASO, TX‐According to sources close to the treasonous America-hater, local anti-patriotic beta male Bryan Carell doesn't always agree with President Donald Trump's policies.
It's immediately obvious to everyone with even a tiny brain that when the man offers even light criticism of Donald Trump, he's actually revealing how much he hates America.
"You know, I think Trump is doing OK, but I don't always agree with him," the flaming globalist libtard told a friend as the two talked over coffee this morning. "Once in a while, his policies seem to be kinda rash and not very well thought-out. On occasion, it seems like his ideas aren't perfect."
Wow, what a beta globalist deep state shill! Someone needs to slap this guy with a heavy dose of MAGA!
Carell tried to defend his hatred of the United States by pointing out that he often agrees with Trump and tries to evaluate each action and policy by its own merits, rather than getting caught up in worshiping Donald Trump. Uh... sounds like treason to us, Bryan! Someone call the FBI, because it looks like we got ourselves a foreign operative trying to make America LESS great by the minute.
[NATION.PK] Child Abuse is unfortunately a common occurrence in Pakistain which tries to cover itself under the guise of religion but it is shocking and sad that pedophilia or child abuse is rampant in Pak society. The infamous Zainab case in Kasur and the Kasur child abuse scandal are just two infamous incidents which present a very crucial picture of the disease that is plaguing our society and government officials and other important persons fail to address this issue and even if they do, it is too late and the cycle continues.
Child abuse haunts Pak society due to many reasons. There are often chances that the perpetrator might be a family member and the lack of communication gap between parents and their children and their blind trust for family members contributes to child abuse occurring in this society.
The Zainab Ansari case in Kasur and the Kasur Child Sex Abuse Scandal sent shockwaves across Pakistain and overseas haunted Pakistain and overseas. However,
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Another example of preserving the 'Moral High Ground' pretension.
[IsraelTimes] Tuesday’s vote did not provide the ’upheaval’ the center-left had hoped for. Now Labor is set to dump Gabbay, while Bennett is reduced to hoping the soldiers will save him.
1. Netanyahu won, (almost) everyone else lost
While one of the three initial TV exit polls suggested that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz had achieved a historic "upheaval," and was set to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 10 straight years in office, the final results showed the opposite. Not only did the Likud leader win the seats and support he needs to lead the next coalition, he also received a number of other electoral gifts.
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.
[Quillette] The debate over cultural appropriation isn’t unique to Canada. But my country does seem to have a particular 
[Babylon Bee] EL PASO, TX‐According to sources close to the treasonous America-hater, local anti-patriotic beta male Bryan Carell doesn't always agree with President Donald Trump's policies.
[NATION.PK] Child Abuse is unfortunately a common occurrence in Pakistain which tries to cover itself under the guise of religion but it is shocking and sad that pedophilia or child abuse is rampant in Pak society. The infamous Zainab case in Kasur and the Kasur child abuse scandal are just two infamous incidents which present a very crucial picture of the disease that is plaguing our society and government officials and other important persons fail to address this issue and even if they do, it is too late and the cycle continues.
