Thursday, May 16, 2024
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Sunday, May 12, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Protests documents and weapons
Armed struggle is enshrined in law," showed one confiscated pamphlet. Another, "We are not satisfied with co-existence."
Going beyond extremist and violent rhetoric, weapons were discovered. Chains, steel cables and buckets of rocks were found and subsequently confiscated by authorities at UT Austin demonstrations last month.
More documents obtained by Fox News purportedly "celebrat[e] the death of innocent Jews and the elimination of Israel."
Of 79 arrested at UT Austin, 45 were not affiliated with the University. LaJeunesse reported that experts believe "extremist documents lure students in using their sympathy for Palestinians to introduce more extreme views."
At UCLA on Monday, campus police detained 40 anti-Israel protesters who had metal pipes, chains, epoxy padlocks and documents encouraging vandalism on their persons.
Flags representing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are present at most college campus protests nationwide, which the DNI classifies as a "Syria-based terrorist group.
Friday, May 10, 2024
joe quid pro quo...congressman drafting impeachment articles
Mills, 43, submitted language to House counsel on Thursday for one article of impeachment that would charge Biden with "abuse of power," Mills revealed on X, noting that he would "pursue action [Friday] morning."
"Using the powers of his high office, President Biden solicited a 'quid pro quo' with the foreign government of Israel by withholding precision guided weapons shipments in order to try and extract military policy changes," reads Mills' resolution.
House GOP drafting Biden impeachment articles over Israel aid cutoff threat (nypost.com)
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Biden weapon pause kept quiet until Holocaust speech
Biden signed off on the pause in an order conveyed last week to the Pentagon, The Associated Press reported, citing U.S. officials who were not authorized to comment on the matter. But the NSC wanted to keep the decision quiet until...Biden delivered a long-planned speech on Tuesday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
What CIVIL WAR Is Really About
Dictators arise because of a crisis causing the public to support stability over democracy.
Unscientific American | City Journal
Shermer submitted a column discussing ways that discrimination against racial minorities, gays, and other groups has diminished (while acknowledging the need for continued progress). Here, Shermer ran into the same wall that Better Angels of Our Nature author Steven Pinker and other scientific optimists have faced. For progressives, admitting that any problem—racism, pollution, poverty—has improved means surrendering the rhetorical high ground. "They are committed to the idea that there is no cumulative progress," Shermer says, and they angrily resist efforts to track the true prevalence, or the "base rate," of a problem. Saying that "everything is wonderful and everyone should stop whining doesn't really work," his editor objected.
Shermer dug his grave deeper by quoting Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald and The Coddling of the American Mind authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who argue that the rise of identity-group politics undermines the goal of equal rights for all. Shermer wrote that intersectional theory, which lumps individuals into aggregate identity groups based on race, sex, and other immutable characteristics, "is a perverse inversion" of Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. For Shermer's editors, apparently, this was the last straw. The column was killed and Shermer's contract terminated.
Shermer dug his grave deeper by quoting Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald and The Coddling of the American Mind authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who argue that the rise of identity-group politics undermines the goal of equal rights for all. Shermer wrote that intersectional theory, which lumps individuals into aggregate identity groups based on race, sex, and other immutable characteristics, "is a perverse inversion" of Martin Luther King's dream of a color-blind society. For Shermer's editors, apparently, this was the last straw. The column was killed and Shermer's contract terminated.
Neocons Almost Killed America. Here’s How Patriots Can Fix It
'In the course of losing WWII Germany lost 5.3 of 17.7 million men aged 15-44 years old, or 30% of their male population. This brutality is the reality of winning wars – as the recent US track record of failure shows. The "measured and proportional response" crowd wants a war without war. It's a fantasy that only seems plausible to people who have never experienced war and are insulated from its consequences.'
"Taiwan, and China's claim on it, remains the flashpoint in the ultimate cold war in the final stages of warming. Clever deterrence measures have been offered and rejected. The Pentagon wants to fight by our playbook, but as always in war, the enemy gets a vote. A hot war between China and the USA would see US cities annihilated and a death toll in the tens of millions, at minimum. This apocalyptic carnage can only be averted by looking back through history at what has worked and what hasn't worked in the conveyor belt of failed Washington foreign policy approaches that have dominated the last thirty years. We owe it to our children to get this right but course changes must be made immediately before it is too late."
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/02/neocons-almost-killed-america-how-patriots-can-fix-it/
"Taiwan, and China's claim on it, remains the flashpoint in the ultimate cold war in the final stages of warming. Clever deterrence measures have been offered and rejected. The Pentagon wants to fight by our playbook, but as always in war, the enemy gets a vote. A hot war between China and the USA would see US cities annihilated and a death toll in the tens of millions, at minimum. This apocalyptic carnage can only be averted by looking back through history at what has worked and what hasn't worked in the conveyor belt of failed Washington foreign policy approaches that have dominated the last thirty years. We owe it to our children to get this right but course changes must be made immediately before it is too late."
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/02/neocons-almost-killed-america-how-patriots-can-fix-it/
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Transgenderism and Star Wars
Just watched the fifth episode of the six-episode miniseries, "Tales of the Empire." I was enjoying the animated show until the characters repeatedly referred to a character with "They" and "Them" pronouns.
A Google search shows multiple sources claiming that this is good grammar. I disagree. Even if it is acceptable grammar, it promotes a lie that people are something other than their biological sex.
Although Doctor Who, Star Trek Discovery, and The Orville all recently hit us over the head with their trans characters, I think that it is sacrilege for Star Wars to do it. Star Wars takes place a long time ago in a galaxy, far, far away. Transgenderism is a 20th and 21st-century fad, mostly in Western culture. I think that this hysteria will fade over time. Reality wins in the end, even if it takes a very long time.
If someone wants to call themselves a different name, it is a free country.
My fear is the expectation that you must give lip service to it through coerced speech. Jordan Peterson initially rose to fame by objecting to speech codes requiring mandatory pronoun usage. In Canada, he is being denied his license to practice psychotherapy because of it. The actress Gina Carano had her entire career destroyed because she refused to comply, which led to a several-month-long Internet campaign to get her fired. When we see other people having their rights trampled on, this creates a fear that this can happen to us, and a backlash against it.
I will still enjoy the series. However, I watch shows for escapist entertainment. When a show tries to push an agenda that is at the very least controversial, it is distracting to the viewers.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Monday, May 6, 2024
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Norman Finkelstein: Everything you know about Israel is wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyvOlllV_NI
@john2001plus
36 seconds ago
This man is a liar. Israel's war against Hamas is not a genocide. People are dying. Whose fault is that? Hamas hides behind civilians. Hamas prevents people from fleeing to safety. Hamas hijacks the aid trucks. Hamas wants their people to die to get international support. Hamas could end this by surrendering. Nobody blames the real culprit, which is Hamas. Nobody calls for Hamas to surrender.
@john2001plus
36 seconds ago
This man is a liar. Israel's war against Hamas is not a genocide. People are dying. Whose fault is that? Hamas hides behind civilians. Hamas prevents people from fleeing to safety. Hamas hijacks the aid trucks. Hamas wants their people to die to get international support. Hamas could end this by surrendering. Nobody blames the real culprit, which is Hamas. Nobody calls for Hamas to surrender.
There is no other way for Israel to win this war. You are either for Israel or you are for the terrorists. Do you want Israel to lose this war?
Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Californicated
definition: what will happen to all other states, after they adopt California's policies
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