A study by the Heritage Foundation released this week shows that the vast majority of diversity and inclusion officers at universities hold anti-Israel and pro-China views.
Heritage researchers reviewed the Twitter feeds of 741 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials at 65 different U.S. universities to determine their attitudes toward Israel and China.
Israel’s military is preparing a possible strike against Iran, the country’s media has reported citing defense and diplomatic sources. Tel Aviv has already notified the US of its plans, facing “no veto” on such preparations.
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz told US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about preparations for a potential military strike against the country’s arch-nemesis Iran during his visits to the US, multiple Israeli outlets reported Saturday. Gantz met top US officials, including Lloyd and the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on Thursday.
In his final sign-off as an MSNBC anchor, Brian Williams said that his loyalty does not lay with either of the major political ideologies, noting that he is “not a liberal or a conservative.”
The Lord of the Rings is more than nostalgic medievalism
It’s exactly 20 years since I stood in line to see a film I had dreamed about since I was a little boy. Ever since I had first turned the pages of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, I had wondered what it would be like to see it on the big screen: the hobbits, the battles, the sweeping landscapes, the blood and thunder. When I read that the director Peter Jackson was filming a trilogy of Tolkien’s masterpiece in New Zealand, I felt almost sick with anxiety. Would it be terrible? Would they sound like the All Blacks? What were they going to do about Tom Bombadil?
Full disclosure – huge fan.
Right there on network television, under gentle questioning, Baldwin unwittingly confessed to involuntary manslaughter.
On October 21, 2021, actor Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal on the set of Rust, a western movie that was being filmed in New Mexico.
Recently George Stephanopoulos of ABC News interviewed Baldwin about the shooting. (You can view that interview in its entirety by clicking on this link. )
While Baldwin punctuated his answers with tears and expressions of anguish and sympathy for Hutchins’ family, from a legal standpoint, the interview was nothing short of disastrous. As explained below, Baldwin illogically and unconvincingly denied responsibility for the killing and lamely attempted to shift blame for Hutchins’ death to others including, stupefyingly enough, the victim herself. In the process, he effectively and unwittingly confessed to committing involuntary manslaughter.
Children in Germany are being subjected to rituals eerily reminiscent of 1930’s Germany each day at school, where they are required to stand in front of their class and divulge their vaccination status in what one reporter dubbed, “ritual humiliation”.
Alex Story, a reporter for Great Britain News, told the outlet in a Friday interview that there were three recent stories out of Germany that illustrate how frightening the divide between the vaccinated and unvaccinated has become.
DIY suicide devices show just how far the misguided quest for individual autonomy will go
You can 3D-print your own suicide pod now. No doctor’s note required. And it’s legal in Switzerland. One woman featured in the official announcement video called the pod “utopian.”
According to one of the numerous news pieces covering Sarco (as the device is known), those who die by this and similar means are “cared for,” not “killed.” And yet that same article included the phone number of a suicide hotline along with a disclaimer: “If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or has had thoughts of harming themselves or taking their own life, get help.”
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Vienna today to protest against mandatory Covid vaccines and home confinement orders, with unvaccinated Austrians set to be fined and restricted in the coming months.
Police said an estimated 44,000 people attended the demonstration which saw ‘no to vaccine fascism’ signs held aloft, the latest in a string of huge weekend protests since Austria last month became the first EU country to say it would make Covid vaccinations mandatory.
A partial confinement since last month ends on Sunday for the fully vaccinated, but those who have not received the required doses will have to remain at home.
Another huge protest in Vienna today against lockdowns and vaxx mandates. pic.twitter.com/OpCdScze1Q
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) December 11, 2021
Canada is facing alcohol shortages ahead of the holidays due to supply chain issues, a situation prompting some provincial liquor authorities to urge customers to shop early — or be prepared to try a new libation.
Supply chain experts say the inventory crunch stems from issues with production, transportation and demand.
We’re living in the 3rd World!
A veteran CNN producer who worked “shoulder to shoulder” with now disgraced ex-anchor Chris Cuomo has been indicted on charges of luring young girls to his Vermont ski house for “sexual subservience” training.
John Griffin, of Stamford, CT, allegedly used messaging apps to befriend and persuade moms of young girls, telling them “a woman is a woman regardless of her age,” and that he should be the one to “train” their daughters sexually, according to the indictment from the US Attorney of Vermont.
Interior design is racist now pic.twitter.com/qa8f1W8nMx
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 10, 2021
… Up until 2000 China’s global economic role had been principally as one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of plastic gubbins and cheap tat. Important, yes, but neither world-beating nor world-changing.
China’s accession to the top table of world trade heralded a massive global transformation. A powerful combination of China’s willing workforce, its super-high-tech factories, and the special relationship between the Chinese government and Western multinational corporations changed the face of the planet.
An army of cheap Chinese labour began to produce the goods that underpin Western living standards, as China seamlessly inserted itself into the supply chains of the world’s biggest companies. Economists call it a “supply shock”, and its impact certainly was shocking. Its effects are still reverberating around the world.
We were sold down the Yangtze river.
The annual gathering of costume-clad young people often invites mass brawls, public fornication and loutishness
The holiday season is a time of year beloved by many New Yorkers, but it also brings an occasion many dread: SantaCon.
An annual event that sees some 30,000 people descend on New York, at its best Saturday’s SantaCon is a gathering of young people who donate some money to charity while wearing Santa Claus costumes and getting drunk.
At its worst, however – and SantaCon is frequently at its worst – the affair is an invitation for mass brawls, widespread street-vomiting, public fornication and loutishness.
A homeless black man from Florida who was arrested last week in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old boy got into a fight with a sheriff’s deputy as he was being booked into jail and made several statements invoking race, including calling the officer a ‘white devil.’
Semmie Williams, 39, was arrested on December 1 in Miami on first-degree murder charges for the November 15 slaying of Ryan Rogers, 14, whose body was found alongside an Interstate 95 overpass.
The Biden administration, in an attempt to revive the nuclear deal, is continuing to forge ahead by negotiating with the government of Ebrahim Raisi, known — for his crimes against humanity and his involvement in a massacre of nearly 30,000 political prisoners — as the “Butcher of Tehran.”
First of all, the Biden administration’s objective is not to halt Iran’s deeply flawed nuclear program permanently — the biggest flaw being that in a few years, Iran is permitted in its “sunset period” to have as many nuclear weapons as it likes — but just to limit Iran’s program for a period of time while removing the sanctions that hurt it economically.
Get ready for the Great Mid-East Bug Out, this is Obama 2.0 policy resurrected.
