[ZeroHedge] Recent national student test scores showed a massive decline in learning in reading and math. This achievement implosion has several explanations – one is the increasing politicization of classroom instruction, which is reducing rigor and diverting attention from improving students’ foundational knowledge and skills.
From 2020 to 2022,
...when Covid school shut-downs and distance teaching were rife, alongside Antifa/Black Lives Matter riots...
reading scores for nine-year-olds on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the nation’s report card, registered the largest decline since the 1990s, while math scores declined for the first time ever. These score comparisons were the first nationally representative snapshot of student learning during the pandemic.
While school closures and ineffective distance-learning efforts were important reasons for the slide in test scores,
See?
former North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue, who chairs the board responsible for the NAEP, warned, “We can’t keep blaming COVID.”
Indeed, other important reasons exist for the nosedive in student performance.
Many students report that increasing ideological indoctrination in the classroom is leading to weaker standards and lower expectations.
This is a long term trend dating back to the 1960s, as the far left marched through the institutions. It would be helpful to have data dating back more than two years, O Zero Hedge editorialist.
One California student reported that a teacher at his school told the class that perfectionism and striving for perfection was part of white supremacy culture. Another one of his teachers “made it seem like it was bad to have a good work ethic or to be supportive of meritocracy.” In his school, grades were inflated, low grades were eliminated, late assignments were allowed, and multiple retakes of exams were permitted. Rigor simply disappeared.
“To not teach hard work and to not teach a work ethic is going to be disastrous for the kids who kind of cruise along in public schools,” the student reflected.
The ideological instruction that this student experienced is happening across the country. It is pushed by special interests such as teachers’ unions.
The National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in the country, pushes the critical race theory-inspired position that systemic racism permeates all American institutions and must be taught in our schools so that kids challenge “the systems of oppression that have harmed people of color.” In 2021, the NEA adopted a resolution that would mandate race-based ideological instruction in public schools across the country.
According to the resolution, the union intends to disseminate its own study that “critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.” The NEA specifically says that critical race theory is one of the methods that should be used to teach these topics in school districts around the country.
Unions are also using race to undermine teacher quality in the classroom. In a recent announcement, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers reached an agreement with Minneapolis Public Schools to lay off white teachers regardless of seniority or merit before laying off minority teachers in the name of “anti-bias, anti-racism.”
As one analyst noted, the Minneapolis agreement seeks “to achieve ‘equity’ by reducing standards and replacing white teachers,” while the “sensible (and legal) goal is to expand the pool and retention rate of all qualified teachers.”
When confronted with the reality of historically low academic performance, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, attempted to flip the script, blaming conservatives and Trump-era education policies for harming learning.
Yet, many teachers disagree and are speaking out against politicized classrooms.
Virginia public school teacher Laura Morris quit her job and told her school board, which had pushed race-based indoctrination, “I quit your policies, I quit your training, and I quit being a cog in a machine that that tells me to push highly politicized agendas to our most vulnerable constituents – children.”
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I blame social media along with the schools systems for the kids being dumber than shit now.
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Never forget a very basic factor - parents actually concerned with their children's education. Look at the scores of groups that consistently rank the highest and you'll find a family culture that values and reinforces the commitment to education.
[Sunny's Journal] Alex Collier, a long-time Andromedan Contactee, reveals what he knows about the return of Enki, the Anunnaki geneticist who played a leading role in the genetic modification of humanity. Alex explains how the Anunnaki’s genetic experiments were the latest in a series of modifications of early humans by up to 22 extraterrestrial civilizations stretching back millions of years in time. He describes some of the races that preceded the Anunnaki’s genetic intervention, and why humanity’s innate potential was recognized by Enki, but opposed by his half brother and rival, Enlil.
Alex shares his insights about Elena Danaan’s claims in her latest book, The Seeders, that Enki has returned with the code of humanity’s 12 stranded Adamic DNA. After Enki’s departure due to an Anunnaki civil war, humanity’s Adamic DNA was corrupted by the victorious Enlil faction, which wanted to degrade surviving humans to a simple slave species. Alex believes that restoration of the Adamic DNA can be achieved through both technological and spiritual means, and that an alliance of extraterrestrials and White Hats will expedite the process.
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That fool Bhoot Bahadur,
wasting our time with sci-fi!
When audiences today
want stories that don't fly.
By the by, Enki is actually a canaanite god, a demon who's worship began in Sumerian times first and spread in the Levant. Also known as Aao or something.
Some people also think it was Enki myths and stories that young Mohammed heard growing up and one day tripped the light fantastic to make his shitty cult.
[Ron Paul Inst.] The Heritage Foundation is getting carjacked by Beltway neocons after its political arm, Heritage Action, actually embraced fiscal conservatism and opposed the latest round of endless multi-billion dollar giveaways to Europe's most corrupt country, Ukraine. With crocodile tears, the Washington Post's neocon scribbler Josh Rogin is bemoaning how the "once-conservative" (read: neocon) Heritage Foundation is "abandoning the principles" of Ronald Reagan and instead embracing the isolationist nationalism of the MAGA crowd.
Quoting several neocon former Heritage "analysts" who took their toys and went home when Heritage began to veer off the neocon reservation, Rogin notes that:
The Heritage Foundation has been an influential brain trust for GOP administrations since the Reagan years — and still claims to stand for Ronald Reagan’s doctrine of 'peace through strength.' But beginning in the Trump era, and even more so now under its new president, Kevin Roberts, Heritage is moving away from that tradition, according to several foreign policy staffers who recently left the foundation.
Rogin quotes a former spook and Heritage analyst with the ridiculous name of "Klon Kitchen," who said of Heritage's newfound embrace of actual conservative principles, "This pivot on foreign policy is ignorant, reckless, and it is clearly elevating partisan opportunism over literally decades of principle."
Yes, as we learned from the first Trump impeachment, any dissent from the blob's embrace of endless war is not approved by the "inter-agency consensus."
Mr. Kitchen went on to land a gig at the neocon warmongering American Enterprise Institute after walking away from Heritage, so we needn't feel sorry for him. As long as Raytheon's checks are still clearing, Kitchen will keep on cooking at AEI.
The target of Rogin's attack is new Heritage president, former Texas Public Policy Foundation director and self-described "recovering neocon" Kevin Roberts, who committed the ultimate sin of praising Sen. Rand Paul for his "leadership" in opposing the seemingly-limitless Ukraine aid gravy train.
Roberts is to be commended for his realization that the Cold War is actually over and that were Reagan still with us it is unlikely he would be espousing the same foreign policies as he did in the 1980s when there was this thing called the "Soviet Union." The world is changing and thanks to Roberts, Heritage is realizing it.
Rogin is no dummy, and in the semi-hit piece on Heritage he accurately captures what the shift is all about:
In the battle for the soul of GOP foreign policy between establishment Republicans and Trump-style national conservatives, the former still hold the levers of official power but the latter are gaining ground. The Heritage Foundation’s turn toward the 'new right' is the clearest symbol yet that the MAGA movement’s foreign policy is becoming institutionalized but moving further away from the Republican leadership.
If the Republican Party is to have any future it will continue to move into the camp of the antiwar conservatives and the example set by former Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul (and other trailblazers like Pat Buchanan).
I had no idea big L Libertarians and Paleocons approved of one another.
The new Republican candidates who embrace this pro-America foreign policy, and there are several of them poised to win in November, will be vilified as merely "MAGA" zombie-bots, but in fact the tired old neocon ideology that has dominated the Republican party is played out. It has no more energy. It is in a wheelchair on life-support.
Washington already has a pro-war, pro-police state, pro-tyranny party and it is called the Democratic Party. Can Republicans read the writing on the wall? Hopefully Roberts at Heritage will stand his ground and lead the way!
You forgot the rest of what he said: Neo-con Barney Fife moron
‘Barney Fife’ - haha. That describes perfectly the foolish neo-con impulse to intervene everywhere and anytime, and blow trillions on failed wars and failed nation-building.
And to justify it by bleating “Muh democracy!” about shitty backward kleptocracies led by authoritarians who steal us blind
September 14, 2021 Hattip the Afghan Digest. Hot links can be clinked in the original article — just click on the headline, above, to go there. More links on the subject can also seen there.
[CSIS] The United States completed its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021, marking the conclusion of two decades of war. The end of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, however, is a class reason to focus on the lessons of this war. There needs to be an objective and detailed effort to examine the civil and military lessons that have emerged from the entire history of the war.
The Emeritus Chair in Strategy at CSIS has assembled an archive of metrics examining the U.S. war in Afghanistan that covers the periods of 2002 to 2019, entitled, The Afghanistan Archives: Key Metrics from 2002-2019.
Much of this data is uncertain and lacking in transparency. It does, however, provide a source of maps, graphs, and trend analyses that cover many key developments, which often were never reported in open-source narrative briefings and reports. Some data were released to provide “spin” and for public relations purposes, but many others reflect “best efforts” to portray the course of the war and key developments.
The user should be aware that the sources shown are the original source data, and that we have no additional data on how they were generated or defined, although some are explained in part as written in earlier Burke Chair reports. The user must accept that the data is in the form of an “as is” basis.
The archive includes the following metrics:
2009
The Afghan-Pakistan War: A Status Report: 2002-2009
Afghanistan: Shaping 2010
2010
"Shape, Clear, Hold, Build, and Transfer:” The Metrics of the Afghan War
Shaping the War in Afghanistan: The Situation in the Spring of 2010
2011
The Failures That Shaped (and Almost Lost) the Afghan War: Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part One
Transitioning to a New Strategy: 2009-2010: Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Two
The Key Ongoing Challenges that Help shape the Outcome of the War: Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Three
Can the Civil Side of “Hold, Build, and Transition” Succeed?: Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Four
Can Afghan Forces Be Effective in Transition?: Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Five
Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part Six: Victory is Possible But “Fragile and Reversible”
The Afghanistan-Pakistan War at the End of 2011: Strategic Failure? Talk Without Hope? Tactical Success? Spend Not Build (And Then Stop Spending)?
Transition in the Afghanistan-Pakistan War and the Uncertain Role of the “Great Powers”
2012
Afghanistan: The Failed Metrics of Ten Years of War
2013
The Afghan War in 2013: Meeting the Challenges of Transition
Afghanistan: Transition, Governance, and Resources
2016
Afghanistan: The Uncertain Impact of a Year of Transition
2017
The Afghan War: Key Developments and Metrics
2019
Win, Hold, Fold, or Run?: Afghanistan in the Spring of 2019
Afghanistan: A War in Crisis!
Anthony H. Cordesman holds the Emeritus Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has served as a consultant on Afghanistan to the United States Department of Defense and the United States Department of State.
From almost two weeks ago, but still pointed I think.
[Spectator] The bomb tore through an examination hall in Kabul on Friday, where students — mostly minority Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... , mostly young women — were sitting a practice test in preparation for university. Thirty-five were killed, dozens more injured. An unspeakable human tragedy.
We don’t formally know who did it, but we can guess. Under the Taliban
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Maybe they're just playing the old Paki 'Wolf! Wolf!' with all this engineered despair.
Firstly, the news coming out of there is inconsistent. First, women aren't allowed to study. Now, they're sitting for exams. Taliban is going door to door hunting criminals, but isis or AQ or paki Jama'at sponsored can totally blend so well in an insane moslem mayhem club, how do they know what's what? And what's the medium or mechanism available to the isis for claiming anything there?
We only have the taliban's word for what is going on in Afghanistan. Next, they'll say they need American money and arms to 'fight terrorism'. And who knows? Some bright sparks might even consider sending them more armament!
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It's the same malcontents and troublemakers in any HOA. They will never maintain their property. Best thing to do is ignore the drama and mind our own business.
[Jpost] What Russia now faces are not the torn nations and ragtag militias that Franco and Assad faced. Russia faces a unified nation with a real army and real leaders.
The targets’ code names – Breakfast, Lunch, Supper, Dinner, Dessert and Snack – could hardly be more surreal.
Spanning several dozen square kilometers each, the Cambodian rectangles where Vietnamese guerrillas were nesting sustained, between winter ’69 and spring ’70, more than 150,000 bombs weighing more than 200 kilograms each in more than 130,000 B-52 sorties.
The US had been bombing in Cambodia for years, but now its effort became militarily systematic and politically strategic, although publicly unknown (until The New York Times exposed it in May ’69.)
Collectively known as Operation Menu, the onslaught became even more massive when it became part of America’s intervention in the Cambodian Civil War, ultimately killing at least 50,000 Cambodians.Back when the early bombings’ reports reached them, President Richard Nixon and national security advisor Henry Kissinger believed they had found the game changer that would bring them the military victory the army failed to deliver and the political hegemony that was its aim.
Reality, alas, took a different course, as the bombings failed to compensate for the imagination that the generals lacked, and for the sense of purpose that the politicians failed to inspire.
"GENERAL ARMAGEDDON" TAKES CHARGE
Now all this is being reenacted in Ukraine.
FACED with battlefield setback after blunder after fiasco, Vladimir Putin also sought a game changer. The search led to a Siberian-born general named Sergei Surovikin.
Godless, ruthless, and hairless as the film Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), the fictional Green Beret in Apocalypse Now who ran his own war near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, Surovikin is credited with handing Putin victory in the Syrian civil war, where he led the Russian expeditionary force.
The 56-year-old general’s résumé, which overlaps a string of Russian military misadventures from Afghanistan through Chechnya to Syria, offered what Putin sought, not only because of the Frunze Military Academy graduate’s battlefield experience, but because of his role in the 1991 coup that tried to conserve the Soviet system in its last days.
A 24-year-old soldier at the time, Surovikin had nothing to do with the plot itself, but as a junior officer confronting protesters, he ordered his troops to open fire at the demonstrators, reportedly killing three. This record suited Putin on two planes: in terms of its aim, it fit the Russian president’s longing for the fallen Soviet Union; and in terms of its means, it offered the violence he now wanted to unleash.
Furious in the face of last week’s blast on the bridge he built between Russia and Crimea, Putin thus tasked Surovikin with doing in Ukraine what he did in Syria. The general set out to do just that, launching massive missile and drone attacks on 20 cities and towns on both sides of a 900-km. axis that stretched from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east.
It takes no general to understand the rationale behind this orgy of impulsiveness, frustration and wrath.
Surovikin has no remedy for the Russian Army’s underperformance in the battlefield, and no solution for his ground forces’ low motivation, poor training and weaker arms. That is why he is steering the war away from the conventional battlefield, where he can’t win, to the home front, where he can butcher thousands, targeting cities, markets, waterworks, power plants and the citizens themselves.
And so, what began as a raid on the Ukrainian regime and then became an unintended confrontation with the Ukrainian army now becomes a war on the Ukrainian people. Surovikin’s delusion, as he oversees this transition, is logical: it worked in Syria, it’ll work here. Well, it won’t.
UNDERESTIMATING THE ENEMY
RUSSIA’S BOMBARDMENTS in Syria were different from America’s in Cambodia. The Americans are not known to have deliberately targeted the civilian population they hit. They thought they were targeting guerrillas. In Syria, the Russian-led offensive in behalf of the Assad regime appears to have deliberately targeted neighborhoods and hospitals in rebel-held areas, in the hope of breaking the rebels’ will.
In Syria, it worked. True, a sizable swath of the country remains occupied by Turkey, but the Assad regime has been saved, and Russia salvaged its main Middle Eastern foothold. The Kremlin has been so proud of this outcome that it granted Surovikin the Hero of the Russian Federation Award.
Just how this record can be celebrated as heroism is of course a matter of mentality. In our Western thinking, there is nothing heroic about dropping bombs from an unchallenged fighter bomber’s cockpit on buildings filled with doctors, nurses and their patients (though it should be noted that Paul Tibbets, the pilot who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross).
The Russian intervention in Syria was also not inventive, having repeated what Generalissimo Franco did in the Spanish Civil War, when he unleashed – for the first time in military history – aerial attacks on defenseless civilians. Still, bombing the people worked for Franco in Spain and for Surovikin in Syria. That’s why he is out to repeat this number in Ukraine. But Ukraine isn’t Syria.
What Russia now faces are not the torn nations and ragtag militias that Franco and Assad faced. Russia faces a unified nation with a real army and real leaders. This is besides the fact that its war’s new commander, with all due respect to his trigger-happiness, brings none of the military imagination his situation demands.
As argued here last month, Russia repeated America’s early mistakes in Vietnam: underestimating the enemy, misreading its own people, and responding to guerrilla’s quality with Empire’s quantity.
Now Russia repeats America’s most tragic Vietnamese mistake, the delusion that what the army couldn’t do on the ground the air force will do from the air. “The horror,” said the dying, and mentally shattered, Col. Kurtz, “the horror.”
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so they take all the half truths about the war in SE Asia and use them to try to understand Putin, who was trained by the side that ultimately won by getting the US to undermine itself.
I'm very tired this weekend and don't want to look around for my notes on the Cambodian segment of the war.
To make a long story short, neither the Khmer Rouge nor the other "guerilla" movement of the Pathet Lao took over Cambodia until April 1975, when the most recent Russian-provided-tank driven assault by the North overwhelmed the South.
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(The Pathet Lao, of course, were taking over Laos instead of Cambodia, which they did as soon as the North and Russia no longer needed the illusion of Lao or Cambodian "neutrality" and they had a couple of Tank Divisions free to loan the "guerillas.")
By the end of this article, you'll understand why Ukraine and the US government would like him dead.
[ConsortiumNews] In May 1986 I received orders to attend a counterterrorism awareness course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. For the next two weeks I learned about the various terrorist threats facing the United States military, and was taught various skills to overcome them, such as high-speed evasive driving, counter-surveillance methodology and reactive shooting techniques.
Upon my return to Twenty-Nine Palms, where I was stationed as a Marine Corps intelligence officer, I was given the task of putting my newly learned skills to work by carrying out a base-wide counterterrorism exercise. I borrowed a scout-sniper team from the infantry battalion on base, and set them up in an apartment off base, where I turned them into a terrorist cell tasked with collecting intelligence on the senior officers who lived and worked on the base. The only rule was that the terrorists could not engage with civilians — no families were to be impacted by the drill.
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fwiw, Mila Kunis (played 'Jackie' on 'that 70s show) was born in the Ukraine. The family spoke Russian.
She supports the Ukraine in this conflict. Big time.
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The remainder reads: "Ukrainian "kill list."
For some reason Rantburg cuts off that part of a headline following a double quotation mark. Thank you for supplying the missing bit, Spike the Hairy6811.
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Stepan Bandera, now there's a name Ukrainians adore.
Yes, he was a Jew-hater, Dale. So was FDR and much of his circle, more than half of the British ruling class, and Uncle Joe Stalin. As it is again today, Jew-hate (and its close relation, hatred of Christians) was a fashionable philosophy on all sides of the spectrum.
Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators perpetrated mass shootings of Jews in territory seized from Soviet forces. This is sometimes known asthe Holocaust by bullets. As many as 2 million Jews were murdered in these mass shootings and associated massacres.
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It is equally discouraging that Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany attempted to whitewash Bandera, a fascist whose crimes have stained Ukrainian nationalism.
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Not whitewashing, Markus. Like most of his class, FDR almost entirely blocked entry of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, and in at least one case that I am aware of, sent a ship full of such refugees back to Europe, where they ended up sent to concentration camps. A dear friend of mine had relatives on that ship; my own mother and her parents had to spend the war in hiding in Holland because the waiting list to execute their American visas was so long — and only got to come here in 1946 because so many on that list were murdered in the meantime.
I’m not picking on FDR in particular. I have cousins who spent their childhood in a British prison camp in Tanzania — German Jews imprisoned among German Nazis, all Germans together in the eyes of the British authorities. And my father and his mother fled Jew-hating Latvia in 1938 to arrive illegally in British Mandate Palestine, because the ruling Brits acceded to the demands of the Arab population and closed off Jewish immigration.
Off-topic: I checked with Mr. Wife about your clever Russian laundry detergent. He says that he hadn’t heard about it, but the combination of Tide/Ariel and the Russian brand(s) produced by the Russian laundry detergent company they bought for its factory remains above 50% of the market, so P&G hasn’t been significantly impacted. But he’s pleased the locals are upping their game — all Russians benefit when they have better products on the market, regardless of provenance. This is why capitalism is a philosophical good, even if some make more money than others. ;-)
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Not whitewashing, Markus. Like most of his class, FDR …
Huh? We were talking about Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainians’ beloved Nazi. Maybe your husband never went to Ukraine. If he had, he could not have failed to see the thousands of memorials, monuments and other public references to Bandera. The Ukrainians worship him.
Bandera is to Ukraine as Robert E. Lee is to Southerners — except Lee fought honorably for a bad cause, while Bandera directed the slaughter of more Jews than anyone besides Hitler.
To be clear, I’m saying, do not whitewash the Ukrainians’ love for their Nazi hero.
(Ps Glad to hear Tide rolls in Russia!)
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The headline was cut off.
Perhaps your words are not as important as you imagine.
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The whole hall was howling in terror
As I worried the bloody Bandera
By some random limb,
And they all screamed at him,
The grim ghost of me Stalinist era!
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Bandera, FDR, Hitler, Stalin... the consensus at the time was that Jews were A Very Bad Thing. Some believed the problem was innate — in the blood/racial — others that it was cultural or religious. The only question among the many who hated the Jews was whether they should be sequestered, with or without neutering them so there would be no more born with the taint, or killed straight off. The Nazis tried first to drive them away, but when no one else would take them, including FDR’s America, then they moved on to extermination. And still nobody would accept most of the Jews who wanted to flee.
I’m not sure why you are fixating on one Jew-hating national hero when the Soviet Union’s leaders murdered between three and 8 million Ukrainians in addition to going after intellectuals, Yiddish writers, and the petit bourgeoisie (who were often Jews); and then there was Stalin’s Doctors’ Plot, which was supposed to culminate in the cleansing of Soviet society of not only full Jews but half breeds (polukrovki) — moving all who survived to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the border of Manchuria. Fortunately, Stalin died before the anti-Jewish pograms began, and the plan was dropped.
Mr. Wife never did get to Ukraine, Markus — in the first years after the Berlin Wall fell it was considered part of the FSU market. But after Egypt he spent time in Saudi Arabia, satisfied after his first visit that he understood what it must have felt like in Nazi Germany.
Snowy Thing, thank you for reminding me that the ship full of German Jewish refugees that FDR turned away was the St. Louis.
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Who's telling you this? Jesus. Think, people, think!
The US would very much like to start a war over Taiwan. Even though our official policy for 50 years has been "there is one China".
Taiwan is like Ukraine: we have no obligation to throw our soldiers into harm's way to protect them. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. You think it's important? Go grab a rifle and YOU get out there.
China gets all its oil from the US-controlled Middle East. They start any shit, we cut them off, and their entire country grinds to a halt. Does that sound like a smart idea for them? It's as genius as Russia blowing up its own pipeline.
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We are owned. In the end, I doubt the US will do anything to stop them and may even go so far as to deny support to those who would.
In other news: The origins of the COVID pandemic will soon be found. The FBI will conduct a full release of Seth Rich and Hunter Biden laptops later this afternoon. Separate tragic auto accidents claim the lives of both Ghislaine Maxwell and Julian Assange on the same day.
[Gateway] The revelations of FBI malfeasance, egregious conduct and flagrant lies revealed over the last few days during the Durham trial expose the agency’s willingness to interfere and impede the will of the American people and the administration of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
The FBI is not alone in this coup perpetrated against our nation.
For years, Americans were force-fed lie after lie by the propaganda press doing the dirty work of the Obama-Biden gang and their half-wit minions at the Department of Justice, FBI and others that caused havoc across our country and sought to destroy lives and families. Mine included.
I will not stand still for this, and neither will the hard-working citizens of this nation.
[Research Gate] It has been claimed that left-wingers or liberals (US sense) tend to more often suffer from mental illness than right-wingers or conservatives. This potential link was investigated using the General Social Survey cumulative cross-sectional dataset (1972-2018). A search of the available variables resulted in 5 items measuring one's own mental illness (e.g., "Do you have any emotional or mental disability?"). All of these items were weakly associated with left-wing political ideology as measured by self-report, with especially high rates seen for the "extremely liberal" group. These results mostly held up in regressions that adjusted for age, sex, and race. For the variable with the most data (n = 11,338), the difference in the mental illness measure between "extremely liberal" and "extremely conservative" was 0.39 d. Temporal analysis showed that the relationship between mental illness, happiness, and political ideology has existed in the GSS data since the 1970s and still existed in the 2010s. Within-study meta-analysis of all the results found that extreme liberals had a 150% increased rate of mental illness compared to moderates. The finding of increased mental illness among left-wingers is congruent with numerous findings based on related constructs, such as positive relationships between conservatism, religiousness and health in general.
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The Liberal Mind is the first in-depth examination of the major political madness of our time: The radical left’s efforts to regulate the people from cradle to grave. To rescue us from our troubled lives, the liberal agenda recommends denial of personal responsibility, encourages self-pity and other-pity, fosters government dependency, promotes sexual indulgence, rationalizes violence, excuses financial obligation, justifies theft, ignores rudeness, prescribes complaining and blaming, denigrates marriage and the family, legalizes all abortion, defies religious and social tradition, declares inequality unjust, and rebels against the duties of citizenship. Through multiple entitlements to unearned goods, services and social status, the liberal politician promises to ensure everyone’s material welfare, provide for everyone’s healthcare, protect everyone’s self-esteem, correct everyone’s social and political disadvantage, educate every citizen, and eliminate all class distinctions. Radical liberalism thus assaults the foundations of civilized freedom. Given its irrational goals, coercive methods and historical failures, and given its perverse effects on character development, there can be no question of the radical agenda's madness. Only an irrational agenda would advocate a systematic destruction of the foundations on which ordered liberty depends. Only an irrational man would want the state to run his life for him rather than create secure conditions in which he can run his own life. Only an irrational agenda would deliberately undermine the citizen’s growth to competence by having the state adopt him. Only irrational thinking would trade individual liberty for government coercion, sacrificing the pride of self-reliance for welfare dependency. Only a madman would look at a community of free people cooperating by choice and see a society of victims exploited by villains. [From The Liberal Mind; The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., MD]
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Mrs. Puppet the supreme psychotherapist that she is, has often said that viewing yourself as a victim which means not being accountable for your circumstances is the bedrock of most neuroses and a lot of mental pathology
[ZeroHedge] The CEO of Moderna announced his company has a program that involves injecting messenger RNA (mRNA) into people’s hearts following a heart attack.
“We are now in a super exciting program where we inject mRNA in people’s hearts after a heart attack to grow back new blood vessels and re-vascularize the heart,” Stephane Bancel, the CEO, told Sky News in a recent interview.
Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, during a tour of the Moderna facility in Norwood, Mass. on May 12, 2021. (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP)
Bancel did not elaborate on the nature of the program. His company produced one of the world’s most-used mRNA vaccines for COVID-19—as did pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
When the reporter suggested that there is an “irony” within the COVID-19 pandemic that it allowed companies like Moderna to “develop these other areas because of the revenues that came through the door,” Bancel agreed. “You’re 100 percent right,” he said.
In August, Moderna reported second-quarter 2022 revenue of $4.7 billion, up $300 million from the second quarter of 2021. For the first half of this year, its total revenue stood at $10.8 billion, or a growth from $6.3 billion in the same period last year.
The company attributed the significant spike in its revenue growth to the rise in sales of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handed down emergency use authorizations for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in 2020, no mRNA products received full FDA approval within the United States.
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Meanwhile, an Australian government agency last month granted $1.1 million to target three major cardiovascular diseases using mRNA technology, with officials claiming that mRNA-based therapies will reduce inflammation in connection to three major heart diseases including atherosclerosis, pulmonary hypertension, and abdominal aortic aneurysm.
“The mRNA-based targeted strategies that we are investigating can stop the progression of inflammation, providing the opportunities of preventing cardiovascular disease events like heart attack, stroke, and heart failure without the unwanted side effects,” one researcher, Baker Institute’s head of molecular imaging and theranostics Xiaowei Wang, said in a statement after the grant.
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so this wouldpretend to repair the damage done by the previous mRNA shots and create new damage, which then requires more failed drugs, which then require more failed drugs, which then
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.
[Sunny's Journal] Alex Collier, a long-time Andromedan Contactee, reveals what he knows about the return of Enki, the Anunnaki geneticist who played a leading role in the genetic modification of humanity. Alex explains how the Anunnaki’s genetic experiments were the latest in a series of modifications of early humans by up to 22 extraterrestrial civilizations stretching back millions of years in time. He describes some of the races that preceded the Anunnaki’s genetic intervention, and why humanity’s innate potential was recognized by Enki, but opposed by his half brother and rival, Enlil.:format(webp)/www.instacart.com/assets/domains/product-image/file/large_861273a0-6097-4702-9a85-9fb7f9f8b8ce.jpg)
[Ron Paul Inst.] The 
The Liberal Mind is the first in-depth examination of the major political madness of our time: The radical left’s efforts to regulate the people from cradle to grave. To rescue us from our troubled lives, the liberal agenda recommends denial of personal responsibility, encourages self-pity and other-pity, fosters government dependency, promotes sexual indulgence, rationalizes violence, excuses financial obligation, justifies theft, ignores rudeness, prescribes complaining and blaming, denigrates marriage and the family, legalizes all abortion, defies religious and social tradition, declares inequality unjust, and rebels against the duties of citizenship. Through multiple entitlements to unearned goods, services and social status, the liberal politician promises to ensure everyone’s material welfare, provide for everyone’s healthcare, protect everyone’s self-esteem, correct everyone’s social and political disadvantage, educate every citizen, and eliminate all class distinctions. Radical liberalism thus assaults the foundations of civilized freedom. Given its irrational goals, coercive methods and historical failures, and given its perverse effects on character development, there can be no question of the radical agenda's madness. Only an irrational agenda would advocate a systematic destruction of the foundations on which ordered liberty depends. Only an irrational man would want the state to run his life for him rather than create secure conditions in which he can run his own life. Only an irrational agenda would deliberately undermine the citizen’s growth to competence by having the state adopt him. Only irrational thinking would trade individual liberty for government coercion, sacrificing the pride of self-reliance for welfare dependency. Only a madman would look at a community of free people cooperating by choice and see a society of victims exploited by villains. [From The Liberal Mind; The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., MD] 
