[Washington Examiner] It has long been clear that the education establishment’s obsession with identity politics pushes noxious notions into impressionable young minds. It is now also clear, from a new study, that the obsession also thwarts real learning. The identity politics regime in education must end.
The Heritage Foundation reported this month that 48% of school districts with at least 15,000 students have a chief diversity officer and that there was a consistent correlation between this and measurable "learning loss during the pandemic by black and Hispanic students" that significantly outpaced learning loss by the same demographics in districts without such diversity officers.
The districts employing chief diversity officers also were more likely to trammel parental rights because they "were significantly more likely to have policies that keep the ’gender transitioning’ of students secret from parents."
There’s a logical cause and effect in these findings. Districts focused on "diversity" are ones that tend to devalue traditional education in favor of pushing a left-wing social agenda in the classroom. There’s only so much time in a day, and it is used up when teachers are "directly talking about identity, diversity, injustice, and activism" or are holding "clarifying conversations about anti-bias issues" with 4-year-olds. It means less time for traditional reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Obsession with "diversity ... exacerbated the magnitude of racial achievement gaps," Heritage reported. "This evidence is consistent with the view that chief diversity officers primarily serve to articulate and enforce ideological orthodoxies opposed by majorities of parents rather than to assist with student learning or closing minority achievement gaps."
This was not a biased study to serve Heritage's conservative ideology. Heritage only analyzed numbers already gathered by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. The research showed that "extra decline in math achievement for black students in districts with CDOs was roughly one-quarter as large as the decline in learning for all students during that period."
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Kevin’s solution is to give Biden more money for Ukraine.
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Seems the Gaza think has killed emptyheaded support for more money / arms to Ukraine. Of course our politicians are going to hold that against the Israelies.
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Yes, I remember Nestle getting a black eye for trying to build a market for powdered baby formula in areas of Africa where clean water to mix it with was in, um, short supply.
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I'm experiencing this as another Democratic stunt to nutritionally diminish a child's future learning capacity. A 'dumbing down' of society by impeding brain development.
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Here is my reply to seeking cure for ignorance from yesterday when I was asked the difference between natural mother's milk and formula. I posted late so it may not have been seen.
Seeking Cure For Ignorance natural mother's milk contains a lot of things formula doesn't. Breastmilk contains living cells, stem cells, white cells, immune factors and antibodies which cannot be added to formula. And that’s just the beginning. As well, not on the list of ingredients on the formula can are undesirable ingredients such as unacceptable high levels of aluminum, arsenic and cadmium
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The same AAP that helped force the COVID vax and masks onto toddlers? Go get me a reliable source and I might pay attention.
Curtis Bowers talks about world government, totalitarian control, war, and the great reset of the globalist cabal. [Rumble] The character quality of courage has been deliberately assaulted over the last 100 years. Radical leftists plotted to destroy society and neutralize men by feminizing them, drugging them, and brainwashing them into believing that masculinity was "toxic." Today’s American men and women must dig deep and rediscover the courage required to stand against the engineered collapse of our civilization. Significant events in the near future may force us to rise up and take back the country from the enemies within.
[AmericanThinker] A former Hennepin County, Minnesota, prosecutor is suing her employer, alleging that she was a victim of sex discrimination and retaliation. That’s par for the course. Hennepin County is entirely Democrat, and Democrats don’t always feel obligated to follow their loudly stated rules. The reason Amy Sweasy’s lawsuit matters to us is because Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... died in Hennepin County…and depositions in Sweasy’s case make it very clear that the prosecutors always knew that Derek Chauvin and the other three police did not kill George Floyd:
During her deposition, Sweasy also discussed a revealing conversation she said she had the day after Floyd’s death when she asked Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker about the autopsy.
“I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd,” she explained.
“He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,” Sweasy said, according to the transcript.
“He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
Of course, American Thinker readers have long known the truth about George Floyd’s death. Practically from the beginning, John Dale Dunn, M.D. wrote here that (a) none of the coroner’s information showed death from asphyxia or any other type of strangulation injury and (b) that what killed Floyd was his heart: He had severe heart disease. The disease, combined with stress, killed him. And the Hennepin County prosecutors knew this all along.
The other depositions from attorneys in the office show that the decision to prosecute Chauvin was purely political. The prosecutors feared the mob and were happy to go after the police.
The politics behind the prosecution ratcheted up even further when Minnesota’s governor, Tim Waltz, asked his Attorney General, Keith Ellison, to take over the case as special prosecutor. Once in place, while Hennepin County had only charged Chauvin with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter (despite knowing he was innocent), Ellison increased the charge to second-degree murder—again, knowing Chauvin was innocent. Sadly, prosecutorial immunity means that the corrupt individuals who put Chauvin behind bars for the rest of his life will face no consequences for their evil act.
That’s what Tucker Carlson’s video was ostensibly about. But what made his video more than just a news report of something the mainstream media also knew at all times and covered up is his interview with Vince Everett Ellison. Ellison was born into a family of sharecroppers in Tennessee but, because he had an intact family with both mother and father, and because his father worked hard and made something of himself in the insurance business, Ellison had a stable middle-class upbringing. He is proof that the system can work for blacks who work with the system. Read the rest at the link
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Since Minneapolis’s DA Office prosecutors knew George Floyd death was NOT Police induced. Therefore innocent L.E.O.;s have been railroaded. Shouldn't they be brought to trial for Malicious Prosecution for their Felony level Crimes?
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Of course they knew it was bogus. Just like they knew the J6 prosecutions were bogus. As long as the 'right' people get punished, they fell it's all good. Because the point is being vindictive.
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Sadly, a huge component of this travesty is simply the cowardice of the public officials. The DA and ME knew with a stone cold certainty that further widespread violence would result from anything except a guilty murder conviction. The Judge and jury were equally aware of the threat of violence from black radicals/Antifa. Chauvin et al were grossly over-charged and abandoned by their agency to appease the mob. I cannot help but wonder how much national political pressure and from whom, was applied sub rosa to direct the outcome. not a "...Home of the Brave" moment and certainly makes phrases like "equal justice under the law" and "no one is above the law" ring hollow. J6 and worse, lawfare against national political figures of one party, have followed making many feel the shredding of any faith in the justice system.
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[RIA] If you work poorly, and others do well, then this is most likely the result of social injustice: that is, the whole point is that you were born in a different place and different from others. Oh, sorry, this is a question of racial injustice - since this is the USA. But what difference does it make: social, racial...
The main thing is that injustice must be eliminated and more must be demanded from a person with innate privileges than from a person who has been innately disadvantaged, and such a person must be rewarded less for his work. And this typically early Soviet idea is being implemented to the fullest by all conceivable parts of the Biden administration.
This means that the country will face degradation and collapse.
Or we’ll get rid of the Biden administration and the Deep State, or work around them. Collapse is not inevitable.
We are talking about the assessments and conclusions of a publication on the website of the conservative Heritage Foundation about the destructive effect on the country of the favorite brainchild of the Democratic party - an ideology called DEI, that is, “Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.” The last word is understood as the need to include - first of all - in the personnel composition - everyone and everyone, regardless of their abilities. And especially include them if your abilities are not very good. This is equality. This principle should work everywhere and for everyone, preferably also in non-governmental structures.
For example, in court, California is currently debating a law that would require judges to consider the race of a defendant when sentencing. White will get more time. Something familiar: in the early USSR, justice was required to take into account the origin of a person while still passing a sentence. The origin was meant by class - but let us repeat: what difference does it make?
A person will be held more severely responsible for a crime if he was born into the wrong family. True, then constitutions were adopted - the “Stalinist” of 1936 and the “Brezhnev” of 1977. There the class principle was suppressed in the judicial sphere, but in other areas it was a little more difficult for peasants to make their way in life than for workers, not to mention all kinds of employees - and this was almost official.
But when moving a person up the career ladder - here we come back to the USA again - it’s not only necessary to move up non-whites, homosexuals, and certainly transgender people. We also need to give preference to those who conduct tedious and all-pervasive propaganda in the workplace of that very idea of equality according to the principle “you’re disgusted, but you have to listen.”
Meetings and seminars on the indoctrination of equality are inevitable today in the State Department, the armed forces and everywhere else, not to mention universities. At these gatherings (and even on the street) one cannot dispute the sacred truth: that the United States is an unjust state, and the source of evil is each and every white person, with their long list of “innate advantages.” You need to listen to all this and nod at least.
The foundation’s material is interesting because it provides simple and understandable definitions of why such a love for justice is bad. Namely, there is a substitution here: instead of all people having equal opportunities to achieve something in life, they are fed the idea of equality in reward. And that means that both of them don’t have to strive anywhere, they don’t have to try either. You will either get the same as others, no matter how hard you try, or you will be given the same as others, but as compensation for wretchedness.
The result of such justice is the general degradation of all spheres of life. This is what we see in the USA. How long will it last? Judging by the experience of the USSR, it will take a long time. Partly because some people did wonderful things anyway - they just liked it when they could do something that others couldn’t. They broke justice.
But, without waiting for degradation, other troubles occur in such societies. For example, there are many races - not just black and white. And now in the United States the growing irritation of people from Asia or Latin America is very relevant : why don’t we get benefits - and what should they be as a percentage of the benefits of blacks? And there will be no end to this dispute.
By the way, there are also always more than two estates (or classes). And the struggle for justice leads to social hostility: how long will these, the oppressed, be given advantages, why should they get everything easier than us? In the USSR, this class struggle definitely existed, although it was better not to talk about it officially.
[Jpost] The unadulterated hatred on display at pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas rallies worldwide, from Sydney to Warsaw and London to New York, has Jews around the world furious, frightened, and frustrated.
It makes the blood boil to watch a Cornell University professor say he was "exhilarated and energized" by the October 7 massacre, to see signs reading "keep the world clean" with a picture of a Star of David on a garbage can at a Warsaw protest, and to hear people chant "gas the Jews" outside Sydney’s iconic opera house, that symbol of culture and civilization.
But as awful as those images are, as unsettling as is the hatred on display, there is a silver lining: Reasonable people are seeing this Jew-hatred as well, and some are undoubtedly drawing conclusions. "Oy vey, what have we done! We are lost!"?
The battle for public opinion is difficult, and those involved in it know that the target is not the true believers on any side of an argument — they will support their cause regardless of the facts. The battle is for the vast majority in the middle who have not yet made up their minds.
If these protests, including a major anti-Israel rally in Brooklyn and London Saturday night, are meant to win adherents to their cause, chanting antisemitic slogans is unlikely to do the trick. Always worked before. ISRAEL WINNING IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
"Israel is clearly winning in the court of public opinion," Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement on October 13 as his organization released a poll together with NPR/PBS NewsHour.
According to this poll, taken on October 11 among 1,313 respondents, 65% of the public said the US should publicly support Israel, while only 8% said it should publicly criticize the Jewish state.
In a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll on October 20, 84% of the 2,116 registered voters said they sided with Israel, while only 16% said they sided with Hamas. If only USA was still a republic.
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If the International Lefts current behavior convinces some Israeli leftists that they were played, I'd be perfectly happy.
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[REGNUM] On October 21, a summit on the Palestinian-Israeli issue was held in Cairo. The event, initiated by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi , was dedicated to discussing ways to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and reduce tension in the Gaza Strip.
Representatives of 34 countries and three international organizations - the UN, the League of Arab States and the African Union - arrived in the Egyptian capital. Russia was represented at the summit by Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Presidential Representative for the Middle East and African Countries Mikhail Bogdanov.
Speaking at the summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict zone. “It is necessary to apply international humanitarian law and protect the civilian population of the Gaza Strip,” the UN Secretary General said, emphasizing that “every effort must be made to stop the bloodshed and achieve a two-state solution.”
The Egyptian side insisted on reviving the peace process in the Middle East. “I called on you to work together to reach consensus on a roadmap to end the current humanitarian tragedy and revive the peace process,” said President al-Sisi.
King Abdullah II of Jordan also noted the importance of immediately ending the war in the Gaza Strip and delivering humanitarian supplies to the Palestinian enclave. “An immediate end to the war in the Gaza Strip is necessary... continuous delivery of aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip is necessary,” the Jordanian monarch said.
The leader of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Abbas, spoke out against the forced displacement of the Arab people from the Gaza Strip. “We warn against attempts to move our people from Gaza beyond its borders. We will not leave, we will remain on our land ,” he said. “There is no other place for the Palestinians other than their land,” Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani supported him.
During the summit, senior officials also spoke about the need to free the hostages and condemned the indiscriminate use of force through bombing , which is a violation of international law.
In a conversation with Regnum news agency , Deputy Chairman of the Association of Russian Diplomats, HSE professor Andrei Baklanov noted that the summit could help resolve several issues that are significant for the Arab states and Palestinians.
Firstly, for the organizers of the event, the Egyptians (and not only for them), it is important to block the idea of expelling Palestinians from the territory where they lived to the territory of neighboring Arab countries. The Palestinian problem “cannot be eliminated without a fair solution, and this will not happen at the expense of Egypt , ” al-Sisi explained during the opening of the summit. Amman also rejects the idea of moving Palestinians: “No refugees in Jordan,” Abdullah II previously noted.
The second important issue for the assembled politicians is preventing the possible expansion of confrontation to other territories of the Middle East, in particular to the West Bank and Lebanon, Baklanov notes.
Finally, the expert says, politicians can agree on restoring the system of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians, which has been experiencing funding problems for several years now. “The question will be about restoring in full the activities of UNRWA (the UN agency involved in helping Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. - Ed. ) to finance support programs, food and other, for Palestinians, primarily Palestinian refugees,” explains IA Regnum’s interlocutor.
... AND MODEST RESULTS
In fact, based on the results of the summit, it can be said that its Arab participants limited themselves to statements, demonstrative condemnations and general agreement on the delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip. They failed to reach consensus, take a stronger position and collectively resort to serious action to achieve the goals of the event.
In addition, there are also significant differences between the Arab countries and Western representatives who took part in the summit, in particular on the issues of a ceasefire and condemnation of the actions of Israel and Hamas. Some European leaders had previously refused to participate in the summit due to disagreements over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Israel itself, by the way, did not take part in the event. “Israeli politicians have made it clear that Israel will not participate in a regional summit on the ongoing war, which is due to take place on Saturday in Cairo,” local newspaper Haaretz previously wrote.
Andrei Baklanov notes that the presence of the UN and the organization’s secretary general there played an important role in Tel Aviv’s refusal to participate in the summit. “The Israelis have always been very skeptical about this structure,” the expert explained.
The absence of Iranian representatives at the summit , as well as high-ranking US officials , also does not work in favor of the event organized by Egypt. “The United States and Iran are the two main external actors that may in the future be involved in this conflict. This is another factor that this summit is unlikely to bring any fundamental change in the situation,” says Boris Dolgov, senior researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with IA Regnum.
According to Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt, whose words are quoted by Politico , the diplomats who came to Cairo would not have been able to achieve a major breakthrough. “They are not players,” said Jumblatt. - They have no influence. Three players - Israel, Iran and America."
Earlier, Reuters, citing diplomatic sources, reported that the parties were unlikely to be able to make a full-fledged joint statement. Such pessimism was justified: in the evening , Sky News Arabia reported that participants in the Cairo summit on Palestine did not accept the final statement due to the above-mentioned disagreements.
This suggests that the event is unlikely to have a chance to seriously influence the further course of events in the Middle East. “The specific further dynamics of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict now depend to a large extent on what decision the Israeli leadership makes,” notes Dolgov.
PREPARING FOR THE WORST
At this time, judging by the events taking place against the backdrop of the meeting, the conflict is not subsiding, and the warring parties continue to prepare for the worst outcome of events.
On Saturday evening, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Avichai Adri announced that Israel was implementing a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip. He explained that currently “nothing comes to the Palestinian enclave from Israeli territory,” including water, electricity and medicine. As Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi reported, the Israeli leadership does not currently see an agenda for negotiations on Palestine.
The surprise attack by Hamas was devastating for Tel Aviv's reputation. “This is our September 11th,” admitted Major Nir Dinar, IDF spokesman. “They took us by surprise.”
“In order to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of Israeli public opinion, the Israeli leadership, it seems to me, will go for a military ground operation, despite attempts to find some other methods of resolving the conflict,” says Boris Dolgov.
In turn, the Lebanese Hezbollah movement continues to strike IDF military targets in northern Israel, and the Palestinian Hamas movement shells Israeli cities. In the Gaza Strip itself, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.
Israel's neighbors prioritize their own problems. In particular, both the Egyptian President and the King of Jordan are concerned about the security of their countries due to the possible displacement of the population of Gaza, which they opposed at the summit.
Yes, the Egyptian authorities, of course, very, very condemn Israel for attacks on civilians, but they are not willing to open corridors for the movement of refugees from the Gaza Strip . So do the Jordanian authorities . Arab countries are not going to intervene more actively on the side of the Palestinians. Protests and remarks on social networks hardly bother Tel Aviv.
On the eve of the summit, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that “if it is not possible to ensure lasting peace, then the alternative will be very bad - large-scale war and instability in the region . ” And the past “peace summit” failed to cope with the task of containing the situation.
[NationalReview] Reporters and pundits mishandled the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... hospital story because they wanted so badly for it to be true.
Few things are as dangerous as the newsroom that wants a story to be true.
An overzealous editor is how the really dangerous stuff gets printed.
The free press is supposed to operate from a set of principles, working within established guardrails to spare readers the publication of false information, including hoaxes and lies that may incite violence or escalate preexisting hostilities. All bets are off, however, when news editors have a deep-seated psychological need for a story to be true. And on this score, American media failed miserably this past week when major outlets falsely reported an Israeli missile strike had hit the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, leveling it completely and killing at least 500 civilians.
The story was suspect from the get-go, considering the sole source of the claim was the Gaza health ministry — in other words, Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... , the Paleostinian terrorist organization that runs Gaza. But this didn’t matter. The U.S. press wanted the story to be true, as evidenced by the indefensibly slipshod and irresponsible coverage that clogged up newsfeeds around the world.
There was indeed a kaboom in the vicinity of the hospital, but the facility still stands. It was not leveled. It wasn’t even struck directly. Whatever went kaboom! did so in a nearby parking lot. The civilian corpse count from the earth-shattering kaboom is estimated to be "50 at most," a European intelligence officer told Agence La Belle France-Presse. Contrary to Hamas’s claims, there is no evidence of an Israeli missile strike. In fact, separate assessments by both Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies suggest the damage was caused by the failed launch of a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... rocket in Gaza, producing a kaboom at ground level that killed people gathered near but not in the hospital.
Yet these are the news headlines readers saw this week:
"Israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital, Paleostinians say," declared the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... ’ breaking news headline. Inexplicably, the photo that went with the front-page headline showed a different building damaged by a completely unrelated Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... , though one would obviously assume the photo was that of the "destroyed" al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
Later, after the New York Times decided to do the bare minimum required of entry-level journalism, the story’s headline was amended to the slightly less terrible "At least 500 dead in strike on Gaza hospital, Paleostinians say." Even after that, the headline was amended once more to "At least 500 dead in blast at Gaza hospital, Paleostinians say." Note the subtle change from "strike on" to "blast at."
"Hospital strike kills hundreds," claimed the Washington Post.
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But if they can't trust Hamas to tell them facts, then they might have to pay to send people to gather news! (And the ship of that model has already sailed and sank.)
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If you polled Americans over 50 percent of the people that know about the hospital will believe that Israel bombed it. Greater than 50 percent will not know about the hospital at all.
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[AmericanThinker] Islamist butchers, and their media and academic buddies, failed in their latest rerun of the war against Israel. In the days before online media, particularly Elon Musk’s X, the storyline was a familiar one. Israel would be attacked and the mainstream media would be flooded with accounts from local news hounds and photographers and embedded compromised national news hounds of civilian injuries and deaths during any response. The emotional response would follow: a call would come for Israel to pull back before taking effective charge of the enemy, and the United States would force its hand.
Not this time. This time, we could see accounts from both sides, from the pictures and bios of the murdered, injured, and kidnapped civilians, who hailed from countries around the world. This time we could see the videos of the Israeli response. This time we could see the pictures of the bloodshed and hear the accounts of among others, the forensic scientists who examined the butchered bodies of the victims.
This time we could hear the voices of, not only Jews, but Bedouins, Moslems, and Druze in Israel and Moslems in neighboring countries as anti-Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... as you can find anywhere. This time we could see who was supporting this butchery in the West. This time, those who spread the blood libel are fully exposed.
On X Steven Sinofsky explains the revolution in reporting.
Much like proprietary software, the flagship media outlets view news gathering through the lens of proprietary source, only in this case the source generally means access to people, information, data that is not available to laypeople… Conversely, these established sources and experts rely on these relationships to spoon out information and views in an effort to shape a narrative. This is a routine/process/game that has only become more institutionalized [snip]
In the past before open source, stories would run, information would be provided by "sources close to" whatever was happening in the world, and then that was the established narrative. In today's world it is not just that everyone anywhere can post their thoughts, personal experiences, videos/photos, or anything that may or may not contribute. It is also that there is a community of people willing to test the veracity of that information… It becomes essentially impossible for the news to be defined by a private conversation between a "well-placed source" and a reporter…
Finally add to this that often there are true experts on events that are no longer bound by organizations involved who are willing to lend their opinions. It isn't simply the domain knowledge or access to the data, but the checks and balances, and the debate (vigorous as it is) across all those bits and pieces.
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.
[Washington Examiner] It has long been clear that the education establishment’s obsession with identity politics pushes noxious notions into impressionable young minds. It is now also clear, from a new study, that the obsession also thwarts real learning. The identity politics regime in education must end.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
...The patron saint of Minneapolis...
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
