China’s Three-Child Policy and the Philosophy of Reproduction

The Communist Revolution ushered in a culture of death.

Of all the myriad horrors that attended China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, surely none was more impious than the destruction of the Cemetery of Confucius. It was on November 7, 1966, that members of the Jinggang Shan Red Guard Corps of Beijing Normal University swore a solemn oath to “annihilate the Kong family business,” and within three days communist acolytes were pouring into the city of Qufu, in Shandong Province, home of the Kǒng lín, the “Kong Forest of Gravestones.”

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Flying the Misogynist Skies?

Looking to recruit more women pilots, airlines push a discrimination narrative while ignoring more likely explanations for gender disparities in aviation.

United Airlines recently announced that at least 50 percent of its future pilots will be women and people of color. United’s new diversity initiative includes partnerships with major corporations such as JPMorgan Chase, which is matching United’s own $1.2 million commitment in scholarships for minority pilots. Breaking down “financial barriers” will, United CEO Scott Kirby says, “diversify our pilot ranks and create new opportunities for thousands of women and people of color who want to pursue a career in aviation.” The effort will involve recruiting 5,000 “diverse” pilots over the next ten years, which seems attainable. But the task will be more complicated, since competition to attract minorities will be intense. And it is not clear that the recruitment of one group in particular—women—will pay off.

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Biden and Putin in G7 and a Half

Biden and Putin in G7 and a Half

By holding a tete-a-tete with Vladimir Putin just after the G7 summit in Cornwall, US President Joe Biden may signal a move towards a G7 and a half arrangement in which Russia, once a full member of the club, secures a side chair in its ante-chamber. The arrangement suits Putin just fine. For his strategy has always aimed at taking the Western democracies one by one and not as a bloc such as NATO, the European Union or the G7.

But what does Putin want?

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Joy Reid Says Kids Today Are Taught “Slavery Was Not so Bad”, Gives CRT a Pass

MSNBC’s Joy Reid is arrogant enough to believe the American people would buy that previous homophobic posts on an old blog of hers were simply hacked material and not her own writing. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that the TV host would also believe that Americans would actually buy that American school children aren’t taught the horrors of American slavery, and that Critical Race Theory is simply an effort to change that poor-quality education.

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Police nab one of two Austin mass shooting suspects as newspaper panned for hiding description to avoid ‘perpetuating stereotypes’

Police nab one of two Austin mass shooting suspects as newspaper panned for hiding description to avoid ‘perpetuating stereotypes’

One of two suspects in a mass shooting that injured 14 people in Austin, Texas, has been apprehended, but the local newspaper is continuing to withhold the alleged shooter’s description to avoid “perpetuating stereotypes.”

Austin police offered no details of the arrest, other than to say that it was done with the help of a US Marshals task force. Mention of the arrest was tacked on to an earlier statement regarding the Saturday morning shooting, which described the alleged shooter. It’s not clear whether that description applies to the man who was arrested or to the suspect who remained at large as of Saturday evening.

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Qatar Behind Hostile Israel Statements From American Universities

Students and faculty at American universities in Qatar issued strikingly similar condemnations of Israel during last month’s Hamas rocket attacks, one result of a longstanding Qatari campaign to shift U.S. public opinion.

Professors at Northwestern University’s Qatar campus issued a letter condemning Israel as an “apartheid” state that commits “crimes against humanity.” Georgetown University in Qatar followed suit. The Qatari government bankrolls these and other American schools, which are located in the capital city of Doha, through the Qatar Foundation, an arm of the regime aimed at promoting Qatari interests abroad.

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CAF, Sajjan look at ‘next steps’ after reports senior military leaders golfed with Vance amid misconduct probe

TORONTO — The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is determining “next steps” after being made aware that senior military leaders went golfing with former defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance who is currently under military police investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

In a statement to CTV News, the CAF said it has been made aware that Vice-Chief of Defence Staff Michael Rouleau and Vice-Admiral Craig Baines, head of the Royal Canadian Navy, went golfing with Vance earlier this month at a private club in Ottawa.

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Keystone XL victory emboldens green groups in fight against Enbridge Line 3 pipeline

After securing the death of Keystone XL, emboldened environmentalists are projecting confidence about their chances of convincing President Joe Biden to intervene in other oil pipeline disputes.

Their top target is the Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota. A company is poised to replace an aging pipeline to transport crude from Canada’s Alberta oil sands through the state’s watersheds and tribal lands to Superior, Wisconsin.

Enbridge, the Canadian-based project developer, says the $9 billion pipeline expansion is needed to replace an existing pipeline from the 1960s that is corroding and only operating at half capacity.

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Communist China warns G7 summit: Small groups do not rule the world

China has warned the G7 leaders that the days when a “small” group of countries decided the fate of the world were long gone.

The comments, by a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in London, come as the leaders, who are meeting in England, seek a unified position over China.

They adopted a spending plan in response to a massive Chinese scheme.

Analysts say US President Joe Biden is determined that Western powers need to act now to counter a resurgent China.

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China and Iran: Join Up the Dots

The whole is much more than the sum of the parts

The Free World seems finally to be waking up to the fact that for at least a decade we have been in ‘grey war’ with the new alliance of China, Russia, Iran and N. Korea (CRINK) without openly realising it. Within high circles in the Western Intelligence Community (which is awake, not woke, thankfully) there is a name for it: ghost attack.

Ghost attack is described thus in two stages: Stage One: “Commit non-attributable, or feasibly deniable, acts of war that advance your own national power and physically harm your adversaries, but do not fit traditional legal standards to mobilize them to a formal response.” Stage Two: “Then foment chaos, advance the narrative of your innocence, and underline your adversary’s incompetence through information warfare.”

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