Thursday, June 24, 2021
Tucker Carlson, Buckhead, and Why Our Cities Fail |
Somewhere along the line, the urban Democrat machine politicians realized that running cities badly enough would chase off the middle class and leave them with a thin crust of wealthy people over a large mass of the poor.
The American Spectator | USA News and Politics "If you attempt to watch the YouTube version of Tucker Carlson’s report on what’s going on in Atlanta from Monday night, you’ll find yourself wading through warnings that “the following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.”
"There is nothing pornographic in Carlson’s report. Nor is there foul language.
"What’s “inappropriate” or “offensive” in it is the truth about the people who run Atlanta, truth that everyone knows and understands. It’s the fact someone might speak the truth in a video appearing on YouTube that is offensive to the “YouTube community.”
"The funny thing is, Carlson isn’t telling the half of it.
"The subject of the Monday segment is the effort by the residents of Buckhead, which is a formerly nice area in the northwestern part of Atlanta that is home to around 80,000 mostly well-off and mostly white people, to create their own city. Atlanta’s criminal element has turned Buckhead into a war zone in recent years and particularly since the fiasco involving the drunken criminal Rayshard Brooks, who was shot by police last year. As a result, the citizens there have decided they want their own police force to keep the place safe; Atlanta’s police department, which is being depopulated, if not defunded, thanks to widespread retirements and resignations in the wake of the Brooks fiasco, is no longer capable of providing that kind of public safety.
"Carlson’s report talks with a rather matter-of-fact tone about efforts to pass legislation at the Georgia capitol enabling the birth of Buckhead. Why wouldn’t Buckhead’s residents attempt to form their own city? After all, upscale, law-abiding homeowners in nice areas like Buckhead are more or less members of an oppressed minority in Atlanta these days, particularly when a city like that one is governed by an “incompetent demagogue” (Carlson’s words) like Keisha Bottoms." . . .
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‘Pride’ Night at the Old Ballpark
. . . "What’s troubling is how the culture is saturated with a decades-old adolescent preoccupation with sexuality -- and today, bizarre sexuality at that. It’s as if American society -- Western civilization, actually -- decided to take an extended holiday from reality. Isn’t evading reality an aspect of derangement?
"There are causes for our societal breakdown and insanity, but that merits other analysis. We’re a society imperiled by intellectual and moral squalor. That certainly began accelerating in the 1960s. It needs to be stopped and reversed. Politics is downstream from culture. Righting our politics without righting the culture won’t amount to a hill of beans, longer term.
"Fair being fair, shouldn’t the suits who run the MLB add a “traditional families” night at their ballparks? Might the Phillies celebrate the rich traditional family life that’s the bedrock of stable, healthy, thriving societies? Maybe it’s high time we start demanding a night recognizing what’s foundational to America? Or maybe we just skip buying tickets, hotdogs, and beer."
Hours after his extradition to US was approved, John McAfee found dead in his Spanish jail cell - American Thinker
Thomas Lifson 'Move over, Jeffrey Epstein. Another high-profile prisoner has been found dead in his jail cell before his trial, with authorities claiming suicide. John McAfee, who wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, sold the company bearing his name, and later urged customers to uninstall the software, was widely described as "eccentric." He lived for a while in Belize but left that country in 2013 after being wanted for questioning by police over a murder. He made and lost most of a fortune believed to have totaled $100 million. McAfee was arrested in October last year at Barcelona Airport at the request of U.S. authorities over alleged income tax evasion and was being held in a prison in Barcelona, awaiting extradition, which had just been approved when he was found dead." . . .
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"What makes the death so suspicious is that he had earlier warned against such an outcome. The New York Post reports:". . .
We went from “America First” to “China First”.
Gas Prices Then And Now – Grrr Graphics
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| Gas Prices Then And Now – Grrr Graphics |
"If you took a road trip over the holiday weekend, you were sure to notice the price of gas has shot up compared to last year.
"You can thank Fake President Joe Biden for that. "Under the Trump administration, America was energy independent for the first time in decades. "Under the Biden administration, the Keystone pipe line was halted and close to 52,000 people lost their jobs. "In March, Biden imported oil from Iran, the first time since 1991. The Democrats would rather import oil from a terrorist regime than have Americans produce the same product." . . .e went from “America First” to “China First”. "Gas prices will continue to skyrocket over the summer thanks to Biden. There will be gas shortages also. "Jimmy Carter 1.0 anyone?" |
Don't Stop at Juneteenth! by Ann Coulter
"Happy Juneteenth! I hope you all had a lovely week celebrating the nation's newest federal holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery throughout the Confederacy.
"How could you not? The media was chock-a-block with commentators telling us what a fantastic, transformative event for our nation this was. But the media ignored the best part of all!
"What Juneteenth commemorates is not technically the abolition of slavery, but the notification thereof to a particular group of slaves.
"Although President Lincoln officially ended slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn't until two years later, on June 19, 1865, that the slaves of Galveston, Texas, got the news, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into town and issued a series of proclamations announcing that the hideous institution had been abolished and, henceforth, slaves would be considered hired labor.
"This takes Juneteenth to a whole new level. Think of all the new federal holidays we could create using Juneteenth as our template! (Anyone who's dealt with the federal government knows that those workers well deserve another paid day off.) We just need horsemen to ride around the country, correcting the errors of those who falsely believe something bad about America.". . .
Chilling look at our future: Training child revolutionaries who hate the USA*
LEAKED DOCUMENTS from Iowa School System show Teachers are FORCED to classify ‘Make America Great Again” as a type of “racism" & “white supremacy.”
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 22, 2021
This is done through MANDATORY Critical Race Theory training FORCED on teachers at taxpayer expense.
Trump won Iowa by +9 points pic.twitter.com/6xEuVJpv7g
Best brief explanation of Critical Race Theory (independentsentinel.com)
In September 2020, Ray Sanchez, a faculty coordinator for Madera College, put up a good summary of Critical Race Theory, which grew out of Critical Theory. We wanted to share it with you here from Minding the Campus dot org.
"Critical Race Theory is a worldview that interprets everything through the lens of social and political power dynamics. It is an all-encompassing vision that views all cultural, political, and social institutions as oppressive and requires explicit and continuous anti-racism “work” to mete out its vision for a liberated humanity.
It is a race-focused ideology which necessitates good works—a faith plus works if you will, and the only meritorious work is anti-racist work.
In other words, it isn’t just a tool that describes the intersection of power, privilege, race, and racism. It is, at base, an overarching eschatological philosophy that claims that an oppressor group is tyrannizing or minoritizing an oppressed group and explicitly stipulates that “work” is required to change (i.e., deconstruct) society and Western institutions.
[Everything is seen through the prism of race. The group with the power is tyrannizing the group without the power].
"Mr. Sanchez then goes on to explain the essential ingredient of CRT: New Racism. Racism is no longer merely prejudice and discrimination based on race—that is Old Racism. New Racism has two primary components: institutional power and systems of privilege (or disadvantage) based on race.
"The rest is reworded for brevity but you should go back and read the author’s excellent wording and explanation." . . .
*Chilling look at our future: Training child revolutionaries who hate the USA (independentsentinel.com) . . ."Children are trained in Portland schools to see everything through a prism of race and to become revolutionaries. On a broader scale, this is exactly what Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project teach children. 1619 alone is now implemented in over 3500 school systems throughout the United States.". . .
OU Training Tells Faculty: 'In The Classroom, Free Speech Does Not Apply'
"According to newly released video footage, University of Oklahoma instructors want to punish students who defy campus orthodoxy. Their plan is to “avoid ‘a rhetoric of dysfunctional silence’ that closes ears to marginalized voices,” by — you guessed it — silencing marginalized voices.
On Tuesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit focused on protecting campus free speech, publicized video footage of an April 14 workshop on “Anti-Racist Rhetoric & Pedagogies” at the University of Oklahoma (OU). The workshop’s leaders presented slides about “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “subverting white institutional defensiveness.” In an attempt to teach so-called antiracism, the workshop’s leaders also promoted censorship and indoctrination.
"The event was “one of nine professional development workshops for instructors and grad students” at OU. During the workshop, three faculty members taught their colleagues “how to foster an anti-racist environment in their classrooms,” brainstorming tactics for dissuading, censoring, and penalizing “problematic” speech.". . .
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Another Local Reporter Goes Off-Script to Blow the Whistle During Live Broadcast
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| April Moss announced during a live broadcast that she is blowing the whistle on her network |
. . . "April Moss, a weather reporter for a Detroit CBS affiliate, is the second local TV journalist to make an on-air announcement about working with the undercover journalism group in the space of a week.
"38-year-old Moss interrupted her own CBS 62 weather report live on air on Sunday to announce that she will be sitting down for an interview with James O'Keefe's Project Veritas.
"She told viewers that she is exposing "the discrimination that CBS is enforcing on its employees."
"Moss dropped the announcement in the middle of her weather report before returning to the script without missing a beat.
Olympic athlete vows to win medal in order to 'burn a US flag on the podium'
Yahoo "BMX freestyle Olympian Chelsea Wolfe said it was her goal to win a medal in the Tokyo Olympics so she could “burn a US flag on the podium."
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"Wolfe, a transgender woman, has since deleted the post, but she may still have an opportunity to medal at the Olympics. The BMX rider has qualified as an alternate for the Olympics, an accomplishment Wolfe in part credited to people who “helped me accept that I am a woman.” . . .
How to Make China Pay
How to Make China Pay (freebeacon.com)
Column: Engage Taiwan, boycott the 2022 Olympics, and impose a carbon tariff
"The debate over the origins of the coronavirus—did it come from a wet market in Wuhan or from the virology lab nearby—has exposed the bias of media and technology companies and the potential danger of so-called gain of function research. But it also has led to something of an intellectual cul-de-sac. Barring a high-level defection from the Chinese Communist Party,
we are unlikely ever to learn the answer. And even if we did have conclusive evidence one way or another, we still would have to decide what to do about it. The real question isn’t whether the pandemic is China’s fault. It’s whether China will pay a price for the catastrophic damage it caused the world.
"Wherever the virus came from, we know that the Chinese government lied about it for weeks. Dr. Ai Fen shared information about a novel coronavirus with her colleagues on December 30, 2019. The next day, as Lawrence Wright recounts in The Plague Year, China removed social media posts that mentioned "unknown Wuhan pneumonia" or "Wuhan Seafood Market." Dr. Li Wenliang, who warned the public that the virus could be transmitted from human to human, was arrested and forced to deliver a televised confession. He died of COVID-19 on February 6, 2020.
"Beijing prevaricated for a month while the deadly pandemic spread. China did not allow the World Health Organization to visit Wuhan until January 20, 2020. The same day, one of China’s top doctors finally admitted the obvious: COVID-19 is a communicable disease. By the time the Communist leadership took action, it was too late. On January 21, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed the first case of coronavirus in America. . . ."
Monday, June 21, 2021
Nina Simone's Granddaughter Says Kamala Harris Bullied Mother to Brink of Suicide
A settlement in 2016 reading Nina Simone Charitable Trust refers to Harris for her "primary responsibility for supervising charitable trusts in California" as state attorney general.
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