Campus Reform | UChicago considers entire academic department for 'critical race' studies

Campus Reform | UChicago considers entire academic department for 'critical race' studies

• UChicago considers entire academic department for 'critical race' studies
• The University of Chicago is considering the creation of a new critical race studies department.
• The provost awarded funding to a group that will present a formal proposal.

"The University of Chicago is considering the creation of a critical race studies department and is funding an effort to look into creating the new academic unit. 

...As Campus Reform reported in October, a group of faculty members initiated a diversity strike, during which faculty members pledged not to participate or collaborate in university-sponsored diversity initiatives until their demands were met. 

..."Alongside an adequately funded and autonomous Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, effective teaching and research on race at the University of Chicago requires a Department of Critical Race Studies. It is, in fact, extraordinary that we should have to articulate this as a demand in 2020," the letter stated...Read all.

Teach your children well...

 

Report Shows Biden Staff Prescreening Psaki Press Briefing Questions

Report Shows Biden Staff Prescreening Psaki Press Briefing Questions: 

Biden staffers have prescreened reporters ahead of Jen Psaki’s briefings to see what they plan to ask the White House press secretary, according to a report from the left-wing Daily Beast.

The outlet cited “three sources with knowledge of the matter” and “written communications” that revealed that the Biden administration has “already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when called upon during briefings” less than two weeks into the new administration.

Local Kroger Stores Close as California ‘Hero Pay’ Ordinance Backfires

Local Kroger Stores Close as California ‘Hero Pay’ Ordinance Backfires

• This result certainly wasn’t what local lawmakers intended, but it was actually quite predictable.

“Ralphs and Food 4 Less, both owned by the parent company Kroger, announced Monday that they will be closing 25% of their stores in Long Beach after the city council passed an ordinance requiring companies with over 300 employees nationwide to pay employees an extra $4 per hour,” local news outlet Fox 11 reports.

...A company spokesperson directly cited the city council’s ordinance mandating higher wages as the reason they are closing down. 

"The irreparable harm that will come to employees and local citizens as a direct result of the City of Long Beach’s attempt to pick winners and losers, is deeply unfortunate," the spokesperson said...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 4

History for February 4 - On-This-Day.com

Rosa Parks 1913

• 1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
• 1824 - J.W. Goodrich introduced rubber galoshes to the public.
• 1913 - Louis Perlman received a patent for his demountable tire-carrying rims.
• 1932 - The first Winter Olympics were held in the United States at Lake Placid, NY.
• 1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc., of New York, began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine weighed 19 pounds.
• 1964 - The Administrator of General Services announced that the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had been ratified. The amendment banned the poll tax.
• 1974 - Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• 2004 - The social networking website Facebook.com was launched.

No Republicans Vote to Advance Biden's Stimulus Package - Louder With Crowder

No Republicans Vote to Advance Biden's Stimulus Package - Louder With Crowder: "No Republicans" was trending on the Twitter because no Republicans voted to advance Joe Biden's bill giving the American people $1,400. At least, that is how it was summarized. Biden deserves a modicum of credit for having a bill in the first place. He has mostly just been executive-ordering things. Possibly not even knowing what he has been signing, depending on the latest rumors you may have heard. I'm not saying I believe those rumors. But there is a reason why I would have my grandfather sign things for school that I didn't want my parents to see. Anyway, let's get back to No Republicans.

Bjorn Lomborg: Paris Accord Would Only Lower Temperatures by 0.05�F

Bjorn Lomborg: Paris Accord Would Only Lower Temperatures by 0.05F: 

The Paris Agreement, if fully implemented, would lower temperatures around the planet by 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit, stated Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and author of False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

“If all nations did all of their promises, which include what Obama originally promised, we would see temperature cuts by the end of the century of less than 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit,” Lomborg said in reference to the Paris Agreement, an international agreement brokered by the United Nations and described by the institution as “an international treaty on climate change.”

The way we were-----Battle Stations: PT Boats (War History Documentary)

Boob-tube-----Whose Line - Greatest Hits Ryan & Colin Part 1

Would You Be Considered A Domestic Terrorist Under This New Bill? | ZeroHedge

Would You Be Considered A Domestic Terrorist Under This New Bill? | ZeroHedge
Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog,

"...The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021
The DTPA is essentially the criminalization of speech, expression, and thought. 

It takes cancel culture a step further and all but outlaws unpopular opinions. 

This act will empower intelligence, law enforcement, and even military wings of the American ruling class to crack down on individuals adhering to certain belief systems and ideologies.
According to MI Congressman Fred Upton:
“The attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month was the latest example of domestic terrorism, but the threat of domestic terrorism remains very real. We cannot turn a blind eye to it,” Upton said.

...The bill also requires these offices to provide Congress with joint, biannual reports assessing the state of domestic terrorism threats, with a specific focus on white supremacists...Read all.

Selling books---Anatomy of the SMEAR that they will never let die-----Russia began cultivating Trump as asset 40 years ago, ex-KGB spy says - Business Insider

Russia began cultivating Trump as asset 40 years ago, ex-KGB spy says - Business Insider

"The KGB cultivated Trump as an asset for 40 years, a former operative told The Guardian.
Yuri Shvets told The Guardian that the KGB had identified Trump as a potential asset in the 1980s.
Shvets said it was stunning when Trump took out an ad repeating anti-Western talking points after a trip to Moscow.

...Yuri Shvets is a key source in "American Kompromat," a new book detailing the decades-long relationship between Trump and Russia by the journalist Craig Unger...Read all.

Pipe Bombs Were Planted Night Before Capitol Riot, FBI Says | The Daily Caller

Pipe Bombs Were Planted Night Before Capitol Riot, FBI Says | The Daily Caller: 

The two pipe bombs discovered at the Republican and Democratic national committees offices before the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 were planted the night before, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials said Friday, the Associated Press reported. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials said the bombs were placed between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 5, according to an investigation, though they were not found until the next day, the AP reported.

Ireland!-----Public health measures for COVID-19

Public health measures for COVID-19

"...Level 5 restrictions apply to all counties until 5 March 2021.

Stay at home, except:

• For work, education or other essential reasons
• To exercise within 5km of your home

Work from home, unless your work is an essential service that cannot be done from home.

You should not visit other households except for essential purposes.

Schools are closed.

Childcare is closed except for services for vulnerable children and the children of essential workers.

Only essential retail can open.

Bars, cafes and restaurants are closed except for take-away food and delivery.

Construction work is closed, with some exceptions.

There are restrictions on travel into Ireland...

...Travel restrictions

While Ireland is at Level 5, you should not leave your house, except for exercise within 5 km of your home, unless you have a reasonable excuse.

The following list gives examples of reasonable excuses for leaving your home, as set out in Statutory Instrument 701 of 2020, as amended:

• Traveling to work if you cannot work from home
• Giving care to a vulnerable person or attending to other vital family matters
• Shopping at essential retailers

A Garda can give you a fixed charge notice of €100 for travelling without a reasonable excuse.

Travel abroad

You must only travel abroad if it is essential to do so. The permitted reasons for travelling abroad are set out in Statutory Instrument 29 of 2021 (pdf).

You can be fined €500 for unnecessary travel abroad...Read all.

Erasing history means erasing lessons "learned".-----"A great nation, though it experiences the worst of luck, does not suddenly collapse out of the blue."

Facebook--Jim Riley

• It can happen with frightening speed!

"A great nation, though it experiences the worst of luck, does not suddenly collapse out of the blue.

The seeds of its ruin are planted long before.

The threads that lead to ultimate disaster can be traced back.

"This was particularly the case with the Third Republic.

The seeds can be seen planted during the nineteenth century; the threads are not hard to pick up and follow.

France, it is true, fell as the result of one battle that raged for six weeks in the spring and summer of 1940.

But as Montesquieu observed: “If the hazard of a battle, that is, a particular cause, ruins a State, there was a general cause which determined that this State had to perish from a single battle.”

Yet only a quarter of a century before, the Third Republic had been strong enough, its government, Army, people, and institutions tough enough, to survive a succession of bloody and disastrous battles.

In the ensuing twenty-five years something happened that sapped that strength and toughness so that at the first visitation of adversity the Republic floundered and expired.

This is the subject of most of this book.

...As the French poet-diplomat. Paul Claudel once observed: “It is not enough to know the past. It is necessary to understand it.”

The lessons follow from that."

Shirer, William L.. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 (p. 14). RosettaBooks. Kindle Edition."

Lunch video-----Wokeyleaks

"Celeb insider dishes the dirt on the disgraceful behavior of the rich and famous."

Noon-toon

 

Top infectious diseases expert says double masking may actually increase COVID infection: 'May do more harm' - TheBlaze

Top infectious diseases expert says double masking may actually increase COVID infection: 'May do more harm' - TheBlaze: 

Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert, said Sunday that wearing two face masks as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus may actually increase the chances of becoming infected.

One man...

 

Don’t care much about history

Don’t care much about history
"In a process marked by “ignorance and incompetence,” San Francisco’s school board voted to rename 44 schools, ratifying historical errors and angering parents of “Remote School 1, Remote School 2 and so on,” writes Joe Eskenazi in Mission Local.

• The board, which is in no rush to reopen schools, spent five seconds confirming the cancelation of “Abraham Lincoln.” The Great Emancipator isn’t fit to have a school named after him because he supported the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act, which opened up the West for settlement, which displaced indigenous peoples.

...Here are “case studies” of some of the decisions.
It’s filled with “embarrassing, avoidable and credibility-destroying errors” based on cutting, pasting and then misinterpreting from dubious sources, writes Eskenazi.

• Based on a Top-10 list from the History Channel website, the committee condemned Paul Revere for fighting against the Penobscot Indians. In fact, he fought the British (not very well) at Penobscot Bay, named after the Indians, who were not involved.
• James Russell Lowell, a poet, diplomat and abolitionist, “did not want Black people to vote,” a committee member said. Not true, states a biography. Also, Lowell High was named for the Massachusetts town, not the man.
• The estate of James Lick funded the “Early Days” statue, much disliked by Native Americans, 18 years after the millionaire’s death. It was removed in 2018. Philanthropist James Lick was blamed for funding an offensive sculpture showing an Indian at the feet of white men. Nobody noticed that Lick died 18 years earlier. His estate funded the sculpture...Read all.

Still bedeviling their sleep!

 

How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela’s Spectacular Oil Wealth

How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela’s Spectacular Oil Wealth

"Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves and yet the country has run out of gasoline. 

The socialist government has lost the capacity to extract oil from the ground or refine it into a usable form. 

The industry's gradual deterioration was 18 years in the making, tracing back to then-President Hugo Chávez's 2003 decision to fire the oil industry's most experienced engineers in an act of petty political retribution.

The near-total collapse in the nation's oil output in the ensuing years is a stark reminder that the most valuable commodity isn't a natural resource, but the human expertise to put it to productive use.

"At this moment Venezuela is living through its worst nightmare,"...

The Venezuelan oil industry turned a once poor agricultural nation into an important geopolitical player and one of the region's richest countries. 

..."The current administration, in the last 20 to 25 years, destroyed what we built," says Pedro España. What they had built was "economic independence."...Read all.

#1 This day 1960-----Mark Dinning - Teen angel (1960)

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook

NASA Confirms Falling Sea Levels For Two Years Amidst Media Blackout

• Sea level has been rising for the last ten thousand years, since the last Ice Age

The question is whether sea level rise is accelerating owing to human caused emissions.

It doesn't look like there is any great acceleration, so far, of sea level rise associated with human warming.

These predictions of alarming sea level rise depend on massive melting of the big continental glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.

The Antarctic ice sheet is actually growing. Greenland shows large multi-decadal variability.

• There is no evidence so far that humans are increasing sea level rise in any kind of a worrying way.

-- Dr. Judith Curry,

https://www.academia.edu/.../SEA_LEVELS_GRIND_TO_A_CRAWL...

ACADEMIA.EDU

SEA LEVELS GRIND TO A CRAWL. "Sea levels falling.." says NASA. Marshall Islands in no danger. Declining sea levels EXPLAINS Great Barrier Reef BLEACHING ''Sea level issue hijacked by activist agenda.''

The three most mentioned evils of rising CO2 are Rising Temperatures, Declining Sea Ice and Rising Sea Levels. Plateaus presently appearing in the first two have been discussed a lot here and elsewhere. This post gives what you need to know about Sea