A North Korean defector says going to Columbia University reminded her of the oppressive regime, saying she felt forced to 'think the way they want you to think'

A North Korean defector says going to Columbia University reminded her of the oppressive regime, saying she felt forced to 'think the way they want you to think' - Ashley Collman 

"...Yeonmi Park, 27, escaped from North Korea at the age of 13 and is now a US citizen.

• "It was chaos. It felt like the regression in civilization," Park said.
• "Even North Korea is not this nuts. North Korea is pretty crazy, but not this crazy," she added.

Park said her experience at Columbia made her believe that American students were losing the ability to think critically, something she said she is all too familiar with from her time in North Korea.

"In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving," she said. "He's the fattest guy - how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said, 'Look at him. He's the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.' And I was like, 'Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?' Because I never learned how to think critically."

"That is what is happening in America," she said...

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History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com

Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam

• 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
• 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
• 1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
• 1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
• 1973 - The espionage trial, the "Pentagon Papers" case, of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo ended. Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges due to government misconduct.
• 1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
• 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.

Big Lots managers reportedly fired for trying to retrieve shopping cart from alleged shoplifter - TheBlaze

Big Lots managers reportedly fired for trying to retrieve shopping cart from alleged shoplifter - TheBlaze: 

A California retail store manager says she and another employee were fired after trying to retrieve a shopping cart alleged shoplifters used to transport stolen merchandise, KGET reported. Though management apparently did not appreciate the women's efforts to save the store's brand-new shopping cart, onlookers watching the event unfold cheered them on.

The way we were-----The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam | White House Tapes

"The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a complex naval event in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, that was presented to the U.S. Congress on August 5, 1964, as two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and that led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which allowed President Lyndon B. Johnson to greatly escalate U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.

'Creepy' New AI Traffic Cams Peer Into Cars Seeking Violations

They're teaching this crap in schools, forcing it on businesses.-----!4 Myths About White Supremacy That Allow It To Continue

4 Myths About White Supremacy That Allow It To Continue - Janice Gassam Asare 

• I help create strategies for more diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• The insidious nature of white supremacy allows it to shape shift often, which is part of the reason why it’s so difficult to eradicate.

"...In an effort to close these gaps of misunderstanding, this article explores four commonly held misconceptions about white supremacy.
1. It is always intentional...A commonly held myth about white supremacy is that it is done intentionally. 
2. It is only upheld by white people...Just because you identify as a person of color doesn’t prevent you from propagating white supremacist views and ideologies...
3. It is not common...By personifying white supremacists as these types of individuals, we overlook the white supremacists lurking in our workplaces, our schools, and within our communities. Nice people can also be white supremacists...

Joe Biden Bribery Allegations Were Flagged to DOJ in 2018�

Joe Biden Bribery Allegations Were Flagged to DOJ in 2018�: 

Bribery allegations were brought to the Justice Department by a whistleblower in 2018 against President Joe Biden, but the allegations were ignored, a former federal prosecutor revealed Sunday.

The 2018 whistleblower is a separate case from Wednesday’s allegations made public by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), who subpoenaed the FBI for records based on a whistleblower’s claims alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden.

Lines stretch down block at food banks as costs go up and pandemic aid e...

"On a recent Saturday morning, the line outside the American Red Cross Food Pantry in Boston stretched for the length of two football fields, painting a grim picture of the current situation.

EXCLUSIVE: US Air Force Ran A Social Experiment To Graduate More Minority Pilots. It Didn’t Go As Planned

EXCLUSIVE: US Air Force Ran A Social Experiment To Graduate More Minority Pilots. It Didn’t Go As Planned - MICAELA BURROW

"The U.S. Air Force abandoned an experiment aimed at boosting pilot training graduation rates for women and minority pilots after the 2021 initiative failed to achieve the intended results and officers privately warned it could violate anti-discrimination policies, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
As part of the larger military-wide effort to promote diversity in the service’s pilot ranks, the 19th Air Force command near San Antonio, Texas, “clustered” racial minorities and female trainees into one class, dubbed “America’s Class,”...

Lunch video-----How California Destroyed its Middle Class (A Cautionary Tale) |Victor Davis Hanson

"Victor Davis Hanson explains how the middle class in California is struggling due to high taxes and heavy regulations that fall heavily on small business owners. 

As a result, many are leaving the state, causing the middle class to shrink and leaving California with the highest number of homeless people and welfare recipients in the US .

California reparations panel approves plan to pay at least $360k to every eligible person - TheBlaze

California reparations panel approves plan to pay at least $360k to every eligible person - TheBlaze: 

The plan approved by California's Reparations Task Force at its meeting Saturday includes both a formal apology from the state and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of cash payments to "enact remedies and compensation for descendants of African Americans who were enslaved in the U.S.," the Los Angeles Times reported.

Moron-media unable to connect the dots?

Michael Shellenberger Warns That Governments Around the World Are Conspiring to End Free Speech as We Know it (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

Michael Shellenberger Warns That Governments Around the World Are Conspiring to End Free Speech as We Know it (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance 

"Shellenberger is a liberal who has been red-pilled by what is happening in Califonia, but also by the left’s war on free speech...
He is now sounding the alarm about the war on free speech, here in America and around the globe and he suggests that it’s all connected.
He recently wrote at Substack:

• "...The Twitter Files gave us a window into how government agencies, civil society, and tech companies work together to censor social media users. Now, key nations are attempting to enshrine this coordination into law explicitly.
• Around the world, politicians have either just passed or are on the cusp of passing sweeping new laws, which would allow governments to censor ordinary citizens on social media and other Internet platforms...

They know the harm they're seeding. So did the nazis.

Liquidating our history-----Goodbye, Fort Hood — Texas installation renamed Fort Cavazos

Goodbye, Fort Hood — Texas installation renamed Fort CavazosGoodbye, Fort Hood — Texas installation renamed Fort Cavazos - By Jonathan

• The Army installation previously known as Fort Hood, Texas, was officially redesignated on May 9 to Fort Cavazos.

"...The renaming move was done in compliance with legislation requiring the removal or modification of any Department of Defense assets that commemorate the Confederate States of America or anyone who voluntarily served under the Confederacy. 

The Texas post is one of nine Army installations being redesignated.
The installation, which has recently garnered attention for a string of tragic incidents, was formerly named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood...

#1 This day 1964-----Mary Wells - My Guy

Imagine them parked in your condo garage!!-----The scary business of putting out an EV fire | David Booth | Driving

The scary business of putting out an EV fire | David Booth | Driving - David Booth

• The only certainty in dousing an electric-vehicle fire is that there are no certainties

"...I couldn’t believe the numbers that I am going to spring on you, that fire engines generally hold between 500 and 1,500 gallons of water. ..
The reason you’re going to need that long division is that, according to an article by the International Association of Fire and Rescue Services — which quotes Austin Fire Department Division Chief Thayer Smith — it can take as many as 40,000 gallons of water to completely extinguish a roaring Tesla fire.

That is — and now you see why I rounded up — equivalent to 40 fire engines...

Bank assets. Who was president during the "good" times? The "bad" times?

White House tightens press badge restrictions, threatens to ban journalists who don't 'act in a professional manner' - TheBlaze

White House tightens press badge restrictions, threatens to ban journalists who don't 'act in a professional manner' - TheBlaze: 

On Friday, the White House press office announced tighter press badge restrictions, including requiring journalists who currently have badges to reapply by July 31. The new rules would also empower the administration to boot reporters who refuse to "act in a professional manner."

White supremacy. It's not just for whites anymore

White supremacy. It's not just for whites anymore
"Police say Mauricio Garcia, 33, shot and killed 7 people and wounded 7 more at a mall in Texas. 

A cop killed Garcia.
Philip Bump of the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, blamed white supremacy. 

His proof was a patch the accused wore which had the initials RWDS on it.
Bump whitesplained, “For many people, this idea triggered an immediate negative reaction: how could someone with the name Mauricio Garcia — a Hispanic name — be a white supremacist?...
Bump and the Bezos Post admitted something astonishing. 

• White supremacy is not just for whites anymore. That — according to Bezos and his henchmen — non-whites can join white supremacy shows racial equality...

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History for May 10

History for May 10 - On-This-Day.com

David O. Selznick 1902 - Film producer (Movie: Gone with the Wind)

• 1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the American colonies. The legislation led to the Boston Tea Party.
• 1898 - A vending machine law was enacted in Omaha, NE. It cost $5,000 for a permit.
• 1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation. The department became known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
• 1928 - WGY-TV in Schenectady, NY, began regular television programming.
• 2013 - In New York, NY, crane operators hoisted the final pieces of the spire atop One World Trade Center (formerly called the Freedom Tower).
• 2013 - The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) apologized for the "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups about their tax-exempt status during the 2012 election.

Biden's job approval ratings hit new low; Dem strategist advises White House to 'wake up' - TheBlaze

Biden's job approval ratings hit new low; Dem strategist advises White House to 'wake up' - TheBlaze: 

President Joe Biden's overall approval ratings have dipped to a new low of 36% less than two weeks after he formally announced his intention to seek re-election, the Washington Post reported Sunday.