And now, there’s this:
Gitmo terrorist Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, who was released by Barack Obama, was just arrested for recruiting for ISIS."
Saturday, June 03, 2017
Gitmo Terrorist Released By Obama Busted Working For ISIS, 117 of 196 Returned to Terrorism | Conservative Journal
Gitmo Terrorist Released By Obama Busted Working For ISIS, 117 of 196 Returned to Terrorism | Conservative Journal:
"And according to Obama’s own Director of National Intelligence, 117 of these 196 former detainees are now confirmed of returning to terror. The other 79 detainees, well, they are at least suspected of returning to the fight.
And now, there’s this:
Gitmo terrorist Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, who was released by Barack Obama, was just arrested for recruiting for ISIS."
And now, there’s this:
Gitmo terrorist Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, who was released by Barack Obama, was just arrested for recruiting for ISIS."
A wall by another name-----Canada First Nations reserve bars outsiders amid opioid crisis | World news | The Guardian
"Kanai First Nation, one of Canada’s largest, takes action to keep out drugs such as fentanyl as community grapples with overdoses: ‘This is about saving lives’
Fentanyl has ravaged the Kanai reserve in recent years.
One of Canada’s largest First Nations communities has passed a bylaw forbidding non-members from entering the reserve without a permit, in hop
The past few years have seen fentanyl – an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin – tighten its grip on the reserve, said Rick Tailfeathers, a spokesperson for the Kainai First Nation located in southern Alberta.
“We’ve lost a lot of people in the past two years. And it’s totally preventable...”
John Derbyshire: As A Brit, I Say Don’t Let The Manchester Massacre Happen Here | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform
John Derbyshire: As A Brit, I Say Don’t Let The Manchester Massacre Happen Here | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
"...
So I’ll just pause to note here that this is yet another case of absimilation.
Here yet again is the relevant passage from We Are Doomed, the one book you need to explain the modern world. Chapter 10, edited quote:
So I’ll just pause to note here that this is yet another case of absimilation. Here yet again is the relevant passage from We Are Doomed, the one book you need to explain the modern world. Chapter 10, edited quote:
The English word “assimilation” derives from the Latin prefix ad-, which indicates a moving towards something, and the same language’s verb simulare, “to cause a person or thing to resemble another.” You can make a precisely opposite word using the prefix ab-, which marks a moving away from something. Many immigrants of course assimilate to American society … Many others, however, especially in the second and following generations, absimilate.
That’s what Salman Abedi did:
He absimilated, ending up hating the country that had taken in his parents.
It wasn’t just him, either.
His younger brother Hashim, 20 years old, and so presumably also born in England, seems to have been an accomplice to the bombing.
He was arrested by authorities in Libya on Tuesday.
There’s also a slightly older brother, 23-year-old Ismail, arrested by British police in Manchester, also on Tuesday..."
Read on, much more!
He absimilated, ending up hating the country that had taken in his parents.
It wasn’t just him, either.
His younger brother Hashim, 20 years old, and so presumably also born in England, seems to have been an accomplice to the bombing.
He was arrested by authorities in Libya on Tuesday.
There’s also a slightly older brother, 23-year-old Ismail, arrested by British police in Manchester, also on Tuesday..."
Read on, much more!
Judicial Watch Sues State Department and USAID for Records about Funding of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation – Albania - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Sues State Department and USAID for Records about Funding of George Soros’ Open Society Foundation – Albania - Judicial Watch:
"Judicial Watch today announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for records relating to their funding of the political activities of the Soros Open Society Foundation – Albania (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-01012)). The lawsuit was filed on May 26, 2017.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after both State and USAID failed to respond to identical March 31, 2017, FOIA requests seeking:"
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after both State and USAID failed to respond to identical March 31, 2017, FOIA requests seeking:"
The blasphemy case against Bret Weinstein, and its four lessons for professors | HeterodoxAcademy.org
The blasphemy case against Bret Weinstein, and its four lessons for professors | HeterodoxAcademy.org:
"In the wake of the violence at Middlebury and Berkeley, and in the aftermath of the faculty mob that coalesced to condemn gender studies professor Rebecca Tuvel, many commentators have begun analyzing the new campus culture of intersectionality as a form of fundamentalist religion including public rituals with more than a passing resemblance to witch-hunts.
Perhaps the clearest case yet of these dynamics is currently underway at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington.
"In the wake of the violence at Middlebury and Berkeley, and in the aftermath of the faculty mob that coalesced to condemn gender studies professor Rebecca Tuvel, many commentators have begun analyzing the new campus culture of intersectionality as a form of fundamentalist religion including public rituals with more than a passing resemblance to witch-hunts.
Perhaps the clearest case yet of these dynamics is currently underway at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington.
The accused witch is Heterodox Academy member Bret Weinstein, a professor of biology.
On Tuesday, a group of Evergreen students disrupted a class he was teaching, surrounded him, cursed at him, screamed at him, and called for him to resign or be fired.
Campus police have told Weinstein that for his own physical safety, he should stay off campus for a few days. He held his Thursday class in an off-campus park.
What did Weinstein do to cause this reaction?
He violated blasphemy laws.
Here’s how.
For several years, Evergreen has held a “day of absence” in which students, staff, and faculty of color are invited to stay away from campus and take part in discussions about racism and other intersectional issues, organized by the school’s Director of First Peoples Multicultural Advising Services, Rashida Love.
But this year, the event was inverted; people of color were instructed to stay on campus while all white people were told to stay away from campus.
White professors were told they should not teach their classes.
White students were told they should not attend their classes.
You may or may not think this is a good idea.
But do you think that all professors should simply accept it and do as they are told by Ms. Love? Or do you think that it should be permissible for a professor to question the policy – perhaps even object to it?
Professor Weinstein objected...."
Campus police have told Weinstein that for his own physical safety, he should stay off campus for a few days. He held his Thursday class in an off-campus park.
What did Weinstein do to cause this reaction?
He violated blasphemy laws.
Here’s how.
For several years, Evergreen has held a “day of absence” in which students, staff, and faculty of color are invited to stay away from campus and take part in discussions about racism and other intersectional issues, organized by the school’s Director of First Peoples Multicultural Advising Services, Rashida Love.
But this year, the event was inverted; people of color were instructed to stay on campus while all white people were told to stay away from campus.
White professors were told they should not teach their classes.
White students were told they should not attend their classes.
You may or may not think this is a good idea.
But do you think that all professors should simply accept it and do as they are told by Ms. Love? Or do you think that it should be permissible for a professor to question the policy – perhaps even object to it?
Professor Weinstein objected...."
The True Purpose of the University | City Journal
The True Purpose of the University | City Journal:
"Yale University’s president recently provided a window into the modern university’s self-conception—an understanding embraced by both liberals and conservatives but flawed in essential ways.
A primary purpose of a Yale education, President Peter Salovey told Yale’s freshman class last year, is to teach students to recognize “false narratives.”
Such narratives, Salovey claimed, are ubiquitous in American culture: “My sense is that we are bombarded daily by false narratives of various kinds, and that they are doing a great deal of damage.” Advocates may “exaggerate or distort or neglect crucial facts,” Salovey said, “in ways that serve primarily to fuel your anger, fear, or disgust.”
(Salovey repeated this trilogy of “anger, fear, and disgust” several times; it was impossible not to hear a reference to Donald Trump, though Salovey tried to stay nonpartisan.)
According to Salovey, the Yale faculty is a model for how to respond to false narratives: they are united by a “stubborn skepticism about narratives that oversimplify issues, inflame the emotions, or misdirect the mind,” he said.
Two things can be said about Salovey’s theme:
To assess whether Yale is, in fact, a bastion of myth-busting, it is necessary to return to one of the darkest moments in Yale’s history: the university’s response to a shocking mass outbreak of student narcissism in October 2015.
The wife of a college master had sent an e-mail to students, suggesting that they were capable of deciding for themselves which Halloween costume to wear and didn’t need oversight from Yale’s diversity commissars. (Halloween costumes have been the target of the PC police nationally for allegedly “appropriating” minority cultures.)
The e-mail sparked a furor among minority students across Yale and beyond, who claimed that it threatened their very being.
In one of many charged gatherings that followed, students surrounded the college master, berating him for the pain that his wife had caused them.
One female student was captured on video violently gesturing at the master and shrieking, “Be quiet!” as he gently tries to answer her tirade.
She then screams: “Why the fuck did you accept this position [of college master]? Who the fuck hired you?”..."
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"Yale University’s president recently provided a window into the modern university’s self-conception—an understanding embraced by both liberals and conservatives but flawed in essential ways.
A primary purpose of a Yale education, President Peter Salovey told Yale’s freshman class last year, is to teach students to recognize “false narratives.” Such narratives, Salovey claimed, are ubiquitous in American culture: “My sense is that we are bombarded daily by false narratives of various kinds, and that they are doing a great deal of damage.” Advocates may “exaggerate or distort or neglect crucial facts,” Salovey said, “in ways that serve primarily to fuel your anger, fear, or disgust.”
(Salovey repeated this trilogy of “anger, fear, and disgust” several times; it was impossible not to hear a reference to Donald Trump, though Salovey tried to stay nonpartisan.)
According to Salovey, the Yale faculty is a model for how to respond to false narratives: they are united by a “stubborn skepticism about narratives that oversimplify issues, inflame the emotions, or misdirect the mind,” he said.
Two things can be said about Salovey’s theme:
- first, it is hilariously wrong about the actual state of “stubborn skepticism” at Yale.
- Second, and more important, Salovey mistakes the true mission of a college education.
To assess whether Yale is, in fact, a bastion of myth-busting, it is necessary to return to one of the darkest moments in Yale’s history: the university’s response to a shocking mass outbreak of student narcissism in October 2015.
The wife of a college master had sent an e-mail to students, suggesting that they were capable of deciding for themselves which Halloween costume to wear and didn’t need oversight from Yale’s diversity commissars. (Halloween costumes have been the target of the PC police nationally for allegedly “appropriating” minority cultures.)
The e-mail sparked a furor among minority students across Yale and beyond, who claimed that it threatened their very being.
In one of many charged gatherings that followed, students surrounded the college master, berating him for the pain that his wife had caused them.
One female student was captured on video violently gesturing at the master and shrieking, “Be quiet!” as he gently tries to answer her tirade.
She then screams: “Why the fuck did you accept this position [of college master]? Who the fuck hired you?”..."
Read on!!
NEARLY 740,000 FOREIGNERS OVERSTAYED US VISAS LAST YEAR
"SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Nearly 740,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the United States during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas, the Homeland Security Department said Monday, detailing a crucial but often overlooked contributor to the number of people in the country illegally..."
Mad Dog Mattis to Shift Away From Obama's Attrition Strategy... Completely Annihilate ISIS
Mad Dog Mattis to Shift Away From Obama's Attrition Strategy... Completely Annihilate ISIS:
"Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis outlined the administration’s plan of attack against the Islamic State group on Sunday, and it differed like night and day from the limp-wristed wartime strategies pursued by former President Barack Obama.
“Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations,” Mattis candidly told “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson. “And the bottom line is, we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot.”"
"Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis outlined the administration’s plan of attack against the Islamic State group on Sunday, and it differed like night and day from the limp-wristed wartime strategies pursued by former President Barack Obama.“Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations,” Mattis candidly told “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson. “And the bottom line is, we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot.”"
Democrat Alderman Wants The Elderly To GET OUT Of His City | The Federalist Papers
Democrat Alderman Wants The Elderly To GET OUT Of His City | The Federalist Papers
Yesterday a video of a Manchester, New Hampshire Committee meeting was posted to YouTube.
The meeting took place on May 24th but there was extremely disturbing and interesting commentary made by a Manchester Alderman.
...Alderman Christopher Herbert (Democrat), who is also a New Hampshire State Representative, decided that the elderly should just GET OUT rather than be given tax credits.
Many towns will give the elderly tax credits because they are often on fixed incomes and most towns rarely decrease property taxes but continually raise them, making it unaffordable for the elderly who have lived in the towns for decades.
Herbert decided to rail against his elderly neighbor who apparently owns a home but can’t afford the property taxes on it.
Rather than give her a tax credit, he believes she should get out of her house. From the video:
The meeting took place on May 24th but there was extremely disturbing and interesting commentary made by a Manchester Alderman.
...Alderman Christopher Herbert (Democrat), who is also a New Hampshire State Representative, decided that the elderly should just GET OUT rather than be given tax credits.
Many towns will give the elderly tax credits because they are often on fixed incomes and most towns rarely decrease property taxes but continually raise them, making it unaffordable for the elderly who have lived in the towns for decades.
Herbert decided to rail against his elderly neighbor who apparently owns a home but can’t afford the property taxes on it.
Rather than give her a tax credit, he believes she should get out of her house. From the video:
I’ve got an 85 year old woman that lives across the street, and, and she won’t give up her house, she’s sitting on $350,000 dollars and she can’t afford it anymore and you’re saying (pointing to Alderwoman Shaw) give her a tax credit….NO, we should have a program that GETS HER OUT OF THE HOUSE….. I mean, we need to get new people to come in and, and, ‘occupy’ those houses. We can’t be run by the elderly in a city…that, that, that’s foolishness.
So, Herbert wants a program that will kick the elderly out of the homes they probably paid off years ago because he’d rather get new people into the homes.."
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History for June 3
History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com
Jefferson Davis 1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) 1925 - Actor ("Sweet Smell of Success," "Some Like it Hot," father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis, Allen Ginsberg 1926 - Writer, poet
Chuck Barris 1929 - Producer, creater and game show host ("The Gong Show"), Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author ("Lonesome Dove"), Anderson Cooper 1967 - Broadcast journalist
1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.
1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).
1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.
1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1938 - The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."
Friday, June 02, 2017
Samantha Power Unmasked - WSJ
Samantha Power Unmasked - WSJ:
"The new subpoenas seek details of all unmasking requests in 2016 by three people: former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. Democrats claim Ms. Rice needed to unmask names to do her job, though this is questionable given that she wasn’t running counterintelligence investigations. They have a better claim with Mr. Brennan.
But Ms. Power’s job was diplomacy. Unmaskings are supposed to be rare, and if the mere ambassador to the U.N. could demand them, what privacy protection was the Obama White House really offering U.S. citizens?"
But Ms. Power’s job was diplomacy. Unmaskings are supposed to be rare, and if the mere ambassador to the U.N. could demand them, what privacy protection was the Obama White House really offering U.S. citizens?"
Michigan School Pension Debt Resembles Credit Card Junkie’s Fiscal Death Spiral [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Michigan School Pension Debt Resembles Credit Card Junkie’s Fiscal Death Spiral [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Michigan’s school pension system has a debt problem, and its managers’ response has resembled the behavior of an out-of-control credit card junkie just one step from bankruptcy.
The amounts are so huge they are hard to comprehend, so translating them into household-scale numbers helps give perspective.
Imagine if this state’s public schools were a person named Mr. Mitten who earned $20,800 in 2009, and that year also owed $12,000 in credit card debt.
Mitten clearly has a serious if not yet completely unmanageable problem.
Except, in the years since, he has not managed it.
Mitten keeps racking up new debt, and for seven year in a row hasn’t even made the “minimum payment” on the bills.
While Mitten’s income grew slightly to $21,100 in 2016, his credit card debt also rose to $29,100, or $8,000 more than his annual income.
Multiply those figures by one million and they are almost exactly how much the Michigan K-12 school public school system takes in and owes:
Annual school revenue is now $21.1 billion, up from $20.8 billion in 2009 (when it was temporarily boosted by a huge infusion of federal “stimulus” money).
Over the same period, the public school system’s unfunded pension debt has risen from $12.0 billion to $29.1 billion..."
"Michigan’s school pension system has a debt problem, and its managers’ response has resembled the behavior of an out-of-control credit card junkie just one step from bankruptcy.
The amounts are so huge they are hard to comprehend, so translating them into household-scale numbers helps give perspective.
Imagine if this state’s public schools were a person named Mr. Mitten who earned $20,800 in 2009, and that year also owed $12,000 in credit card debt.
Except, in the years since, he has not managed it.
Mitten keeps racking up new debt, and for seven year in a row hasn’t even made the “minimum payment” on the bills.
While Mitten’s income grew slightly to $21,100 in 2016, his credit card debt also rose to $29,100, or $8,000 more than his annual income.
Multiply those figures by one million and they are almost exactly how much the Michigan K-12 school public school system takes in and owes:
Annual school revenue is now $21.1 billion, up from $20.8 billion in 2009 (when it was temporarily boosted by a huge infusion of federal “stimulus” money).
Over the same period, the public school system’s unfunded pension debt has risen from $12.0 billion to $29.1 billion..."
Anarchy in Greece - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Anarchy in Greece - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"In Greece, where years of unsustainable government spending have driven the state to bankruptcy, the economic crisis shows no sign of abating.
So local anarchists are looking to pick up where the state left off, offering state-like services and even claiming the be behind a state-like crackdown.
About 250 "self-managing social centers" have popped up around Greece in the last nine years, according to The New York Times, which reports that the centers have been handing out food and medicine to the poor.
"In Greece, where years of unsustainable government spending have driven the state to bankruptcy, the economic crisis shows no sign of abating.
So local anarchists are looking to pick up where the state left off, offering state-like services and even claiming the be behind a state-like crackdown.
About 250 "self-managing social centers" have popped up around Greece in the last nine years, according to The New York Times, which reports that the centers have been handing out food and medicine to the poor.
...Their funding comes entirely from private donations and from for-profit activities, such as concerts, exhibitions, and several anarchist-run bars.
One major focus is housing refugees, who otherwise would be stuck in substandard, government-run camps.
In Athens, The Times reports, around 3,000 refugees now live in 15 abandoned buildings refurbished by the anarchists.
"No one knows who they are controlled by and what conditions people being put up in occupied buildings live in," the mayor of Athens has told reporters.
"No one knows who they are controlled by and what conditions people being put up in occupied buildings live in," the mayor of Athens has told reporters.
Nevertheless, the buildings have long waiting lists to get in.
For a lot of refugees, apparently, the anarchists' accomodations can't be worse than what the government has to offer..."
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Wasserman Schultz Admits House IT Security Violations | The Daily Caller
"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose office equipment U.S. Capitol Police seized in a criminal investigation into congressional network security violations, admitted she violates official information security policy and blamed the House’s chief administrative officer for not stopping her."
After Violent Attack, Portland Mayor Calls for Abandoning First Amendment - Hit & Run : Reason.com
After Violent Attack, Portland Mayor Calls for Abandoning First Amendment - Hit & Run : Reason.com
The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has strong words for those who would sow fear in his city and attempt to shut down citizens' rights to free expression: "I surrender."
The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has strong words for those who would sow fear in his city and attempt to shut down citizens' rights to free expression: "I surrender."
On Friday, two men were stabbed to death on a train in Portland while confronting and trying to calm down a man who was allegedly loudly harassing two young women with anti-Muslim comments.
Mayor Ted Wheeler's response to this brutal attack was to essentially tell the world that violence can successfully be used to convince the government to shut down civil liberties.
In a rather self-absorbed speech Monday that treats this horrible but isolated event as though it were some sort of mass slaughter deserving of a permanent monument and some sort of "leadership" by politicians, Wheeler is demanding that the federal government cancel the permits for a couple of upcoming "alt-right" rallies in Terry Schrunk Plaza.
He flat out said in his comments that the city would refuse to grant rally permits to alt-right groups based on their views.
However, the plaza right by Portland City Hall is actually federal property, and Wheeler is trying to get federal authorities to revoke the permits for the groups involved in a pair of June events..."
Mayor Ted Wheeler's response to this brutal attack was to essentially tell the world that violence can successfully be used to convince the government to shut down civil liberties. In a rather self-absorbed speech Monday that treats this horrible but isolated event as though it were some sort of mass slaughter deserving of a permanent monument and some sort of "leadership" by politicians, Wheeler is demanding that the federal government cancel the permits for a couple of upcoming "alt-right" rallies in Terry Schrunk Plaza.
He flat out said in his comments that the city would refuse to grant rally permits to alt-right groups based on their views.
However, the plaza right by Portland City Hall is actually federal property, and Wheeler is trying to get federal authorities to revoke the permits for the groups involved in a pair of June events..."
President Trump Ditched The Media To Make A 14-Year-Old Cancer Patient’s Dream Come True | American Military News
President Trump Ditched The Media To Make A 14-Year-Old Cancer Patient’s Dream Come True | American Military News:The 14-year-old Israeli girl has cancer and wanted to meet the President
The President showed a softer side during his recent, first trip abroad as commander in chief.
While in Israel, President Donald Trump met with a 14-year-old cancer patient whose dream was to meet the President.
Emilee Imbar has been fighting cancer for the past seven years.
Despite his incredibly busy schedule slated for his 27-hour trip to Israel, the President was eager to meet Imbar.
The two met at Rachashei Lev, which is Israel’s national support center for pediatric cancer patients.
Shimi Geshayed, Director of Rachashei Lev, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamen Natanyahu facilitated the meeting.
Emilee gave the President a letter she had written, and writes “I will be glad to sit with you for a [business meeting].”
No, Trump Didn't Cause Obamacare to Fail - Stephen Moore
No, Trump Didn't Cause Obamacare to Fail - Stephen Moore:
"Now let's get serious. Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas is leaving the market because they lost tens of millions of dollars two and three years ago -- long before anyone even imagined Trump running for president. The Wall Street Journal, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute and others predicted this exact collapse from the day the bill was enacted seven years ago. Trump isn't the one who caused the recent nationwide 25 percent increase in premiums.
It is true that many of the insurers say one reason they are leaving the exchanges is because of "uncertainty" about what will happen with the insurance market next year. But Hillary Clinton would have been facing the same crisis."
It is true that many of the insurers say one reason they are leaving the exchanges is because of "uncertainty" about what will happen with the insurance market next year. But Hillary Clinton would have been facing the same crisis."
Egyptian Mummy DNA Scanned–Not Out Of Africa, After All | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform
Mummy DNA unravels ancient Egyptians’ ancestry
Genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with Middle Easterners, not central Africans.
The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure — human DNA — has proved elusive.
Now, scientists have captured sweeping genomic information from Egyptian mummies.
It reveals that mummies were closely related to ancient Middle Easterners, hinting that northern Africans might have different genetic roots from people south of the Sahara desert.
The study, published on 30 May in Nature Communications1, includes data from 90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypt’s New Kingdom, and ad 425, in the Roman era.
The findings show that the mummies’ closest kin were ancient farmers from a region that includes present-day Israel and Jordan.
Modern Egyptians, by contrast, have inherited more of their DNA from central Africans. …
Both types of genomic material showed that ancient Egyptians shared little DNA with modern sub-Saharan Africans.
Instead, their closest relatives were people living during the Neolithic and Bronze ages in an area known as the Levant.
Strikingly, the mummies were more closely related to ancient Europeans and Anatolians than to modern Egyptians..."
Profs pledge to 'decolonize curricula' to fight 'privilege'
Profs pledge to 'decolonize curricula' to fight 'privilege'- A group of professors at American University are pledging to "decolonize curricula" by adding more “minority voices” and “intersectional studies” to their classes.
- In an open letter published earlier this month, the professors say campus is "hostile" and "dangerous" for black female students because of the “stresses of living amid White supremacy and fighting for social change.”
“Dear Sisters” was published by a group of 18 AU professors in the school newspaper The BlackPrint, a student-run newspaper that describes itself as a “safe space for people of color” to learn about campus news and to “stay woke.”
"We work behind the scenes...to decolonize curricula."...
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Average annual compen$ation for Central I$lip, NY teacher$? $161,454! | EAGnews.org
Average annual compen$ation for Central I$lip, NY teacher$? $161,454! | EAGnews.org:
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – Way back in 2005, the New York Times published a story titled “The Rise of the Six-Figure Teacher.”
It addressed the growing number of public school teachers in New York State that were earning six-figure salaries.
As the article noted, the increasing salaries were becoming a strain for many public school budgets, particularly in districts with lower tax bases.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – Way back in 2005, the New York Times published a story titled “The Rise of the Six-Figure Teacher.”
It addressed the growing number of public school teachers in New York State that were earning six-figure salaries. As the article noted, the increasing salaries were becoming a strain for many public school budgets, particularly in districts with lower tax bases.
“Many of the top-paid teachers are in wealthy districts with high-performing schools, like Manhasset. But many are also in districts with little wealth and struggling schools, like Central Islip,” the news report said.
All these years later, it’s clear that the six-figure trend is a permanent feature of the Central payroll, particularly with benefits added in.
In 2015-16, 534 Central Islip teachers earned a combined $64,753,825 in base salary, for an eye-opening average of $121,261 per teacher.
They also received a combined $12,897,342 in benefits, for an average of $24,152 per teacher, and the school district made $8,566,330 in retirement contributions on their behalf, for an average of $16,041 per teacher.
That brought the average compensation for Central Islip teachers to at least $161,454 — $40,193 more than the average base salary..."
Racist Mob Taking Control at Evergreen State College
Racist Mob Taking Control at Evergreen State College:
"The racist, Leftist hotbed of Evergreen State College is spiraling out of control.
First, students threatened the safety of a professor who disagreed with an event that demanded whites not come to campus for a day. Then they were caught on video threatening administrators and shouting racist demands.
Did the school's president contact the police and start issuing expulsions?
Nope. As Campus Reform reports, he rewarded the racist mob with HOMEWORK EXEMPTIONS:"
"The racist, Leftist hotbed of Evergreen State College is spiraling out of control.
First, students threatened the safety of a professor who disagreed with an event that demanded whites not come to campus for a day. Then they were caught on video threatening administrators and shouting racist demands.
Did the school's president contact the police and start issuing expulsions?
Nope. As Campus Reform reports, he rewarded the racist mob with HOMEWORK EXEMPTIONS:"
The Right Geek: The True Feminist Message: Don't Hire Women
The Right Geek: The True Feminist Message: Don't Hire Women
Hello, Western employers!
As you may have noticed, today's feminist activists have a great deal to say about how women are and should be treated in the workforce.
And yes, I understand how difficult it can be to sift through their rhetoric and tease out exactly what you, as an employer, are expected to do.
Fortunately, I think I've finally managed to figure out their underlying message:
Don't hire women.
I know how bizarre this must seem.
After all, feminists claim to be looking out for women's best interests.
And yet, in presuming to speak for all of us, these activists have managed to paint our distaff sex in a very unappealing light.
Indeed, if feminists are to be accepted as our spokeswomen and exemplars, the following must be true:
Women don't understand math or science.
They don't comprehend, for example, that you can lie with statistics.
Certain numbers - such as the earnings gap - can be explained by phenomena that aren't nefarious, but women are simply incapable of analyzing said statistics in a critical manner.
Additionally, women can't tell the difference between science and scientism.
They conclude that because, for instance, so-called scientists once claimed that hysteria and neuroses could be cured by giving a woman a good poke, the entire scientific enterprise is a sexist joke..."
Read on!!
Hello, Western employers!
As you may have noticed, today's feminist activists have a great deal to say about how women are and should be treated in the workforce.
And yes, I understand how difficult it can be to sift through their rhetoric and tease out exactly what you, as an employer, are expected to do.Fortunately, I think I've finally managed to figure out their underlying message:
Don't hire women.
I know how bizarre this must seem.
After all, feminists claim to be looking out for women's best interests.
And yet, in presuming to speak for all of us, these activists have managed to paint our distaff sex in a very unappealing light.
Indeed, if feminists are to be accepted as our spokeswomen and exemplars, the following must be true:
Women don't understand math or science.
They don't comprehend, for example, that you can lie with statistics.
Certain numbers - such as the earnings gap - can be explained by phenomena that aren't nefarious, but women are simply incapable of analyzing said statistics in a critical manner.
Additionally, women can't tell the difference between science and scientism.
They conclude that because, for instance, so-called scientists once claimed that hysteria and neuroses could be cured by giving a woman a good poke, the entire scientific enterprise is a sexist joke..."
Read on!!
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