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Cornell library removes Gettysburg Address, Lincoln bust after anonymous complaint

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC
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© Randy Wayne, For The College FixThe copy of the Gettysberg Address and a bust of President Lincoln were removed from Cornell University Library after an anonymous complaint.
"Someone complained, and it was gone."

That's all Cornell University biology Professor Randy Wayne said he has been able to determine so far about the whereabouts of a longtime display in the Ivy League school's Kroch Library of a bust of President Abraham Lincoln in front of a bronzed Gettysburg Address plaque.

Wayne, a frequent visitor to the library, which houses Cornell's rare and manuscript collections, said when he stopped in several weeks ago he noticed the display had been disappeared.

"It's been there since I can remember," he told The College Fix in an interview.

Comment: The creeping tentacles of the woke claim another historic and cultural icon.

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Loopy CNN guest says Trump 'was responsible for 9/11'

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:42 UTC
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© CNNAlice Stewart, clearly a Never-Trumper Republican
A CNN guest made an unfortunate gaffe on Monday while discussing former President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.

Alice Stewart, a Republican Strategist, appeared on the network to discuss the public hearings of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and blamed Donald Trump for the 9/11 terror attacks.

"I think it has not been good for the former president," Stewart said. "I think we've made a case that he was responsible for 9/11."

Comment: The case must be desperate if the Committee supporters are descending into bombast. But the show trials must go on, no matter how many civil rights are trampled in the process.

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A lemming leading the lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the terminal collapse of the anti-war left

Jonathan Cook
Mint Press News
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Mohammed Zaatari | AP
Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp?

It is now hard to remember that many millions marched in the U.S. and Europe against the attack on Iraq. It sometimes feels like there is no one left who is not cheerleading the next wave of profits for the West's military-industrial complex (usually referred to as the "defense industry" by those very same profiteers).

Washington learned a hard lesson from the unpopularity of its 2003 attack on Iraq aimed at controlling more of the Middle East's oil reserves. Ordinary people do not like seeing the public coffers ransacked or suffering years of austerity, simply to line the pockets of Blackwater, Halliburton, and Raytheon. And all the more so when such a war is sold to them on the basis of a huge deception.

So since then, the U.S. has been repackaging its neocolonialism via proxy wars that are a much easier sell. There have been a succession of them: Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Venezuela and now Ukraine. Each time, a few more leftists are lured into the camp of the war hawks by the West's selfless, humanitarian instincts - promoted, of course, through the barrel of a Western-supplied arsenal. That process has reached its nadir with Ukraine.
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Abortions can continue in Texas after judge temporarily blocks pre-Roe ban

Oriana Gonzalez
Axios
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:50 UTC
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© Sergio Flores/Getty ImagesProtesters march in the street during an abortion rights rally on June 25 in Austin, Texas.
A Harris County judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a pre-Roe abortion ban in Texas that was being enforced while the state's "trigger" law is yet to take effect.

Abortion providers had sued state officials to stop the pre-Roe ban from taking effect, arguing it had previously been declared unconstitutional. With this temporary restraining order, abortions can continue in Texas up until the sixth week of pregnancy.

Texas' trigger law is scheduled to take effect later this summer, after the Supreme Court's judgment is officially issued, which is a separate order typically released at least 25 days or longer after the court's opinion.

Comment: See also:

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Frustrated NYC detectives leaving 'insane' NYPD, have 'had enough'

Tina Moore
New York Post
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:50 UTC
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© Daniel William McKnightDetective Jay Caputo retired from the NYPD’s 105th Precinct after 18 years with the NYPD.
More than 100 NYPD detectives have retired in June — and another 75 plan to put their papers in next month — as many become frustrated by revolving door justice and rules that hamstring them in the Big Apple, officials and detectives told The Post.

"That's going to have a major impact on investigating crimes," Detectives Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo said. "The detective squads are down now as we speak and are investigating more cases. It's going to have an impact on public safety."

So far this year 250 detectives have retired, leaving the total number at about 5,600, which is nearly 2000 less than two decades ago.

Comment: Is this really a surprise? With the amount of anti-police rhetoric coming out from leftist politicians, the police literally have no support. Why would anyone risk their lives doing a job that is essentially useless?

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'A lot cheaper to get rid of them': Tucker Carlson says corporations are telling people they can't have children

Nicole Silverio
Daily Caller
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:06 UTC
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Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson said Tuesday that corporations are telling their employees that they can no longer have children.

The host said large corporations are paying for abortions because paying for maternity leave and other family oriented services are a financial burden to them. These companies and media networks want the American middle class to "reset" their "unrealistic expectations" of raising a family, Carlson said.

"Now they're telling you that you cannot have the one thing that most people want more than anything else; the one thing that biological instinct drives all of us to want, and that's children," Carlson said. "The most reliable source of meaning and joy in human existence, a family, is now out of reach for the American middle class, and you should accept that is inevitable. In fact, you should embrace it."

The host played a clip of MSNBC host Katy Tur suggesting that having a baby takes a toll on a woman's "body" and "livelihood." Carlson also showed NBC News Business and Tech correspondent Jo Ling Kent saying that abortion will be an economic burden for women with estimated costs being roughly $105 billion per year nationaly.
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Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in Epstein sex abuse case

Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! News
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:34 UTC
Ghislaine Maxwell
© Jane Rosenberg/ReutersMaxwell attends her sentencing hearing Tuesday.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite who was convicted late last year of helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison.

"A sentence of 240 months is sufficient and no graver than necessary," U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan said while issuing the verdict.

Nathan addressed those gathered inside the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, including Maxwell and some of her victims.

"Ms. Maxwell directly and repeatedly and over the course of many years participated in a horrific scheme," Nathan said. "Ms. Maxwell worked with Epstein to select young victims who were vulnerable."

The judge said that Maxwell, 60, played a "pivotal" role facilitating "heinous and predatory" abuse. Nathan also imposed a $750,000 fine, the maximum amount possible under the law.

Outside the courthouse, Maxwell's lawyer told reporters she plans to appeal.
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Guardian pushes for return of masks, mass testing and quarantine

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:38 UTC
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Here we go again. It's the middle of summer and the leading opinion piece in the Guardian today calls for the return of restrictions in response to rising infections and hospitalisations. In a piece introduced by saying, "a few small changes would make a big difference to millions of vulnerable people", journalist Frances Ryan writes:
If you're reading this in the U.K., odds are that by now you've had coronavirus: seven in 10 of us have watched the dreaded red line appear. You may have been stuck in bed with it twice or even three times by now; by April 2022, England alone had recorded almost 900,000 reinfections. When the public asked to "return to normal", I'm not sure a regular hacking cough was what they had in mind.
Almost 900,000 reinfections? How will 1.6% of the population have coped with getting another cold?

Ryan continues:
It is an odd situation. Last week, Covid infections were reported to have soared by 43%, while hospitalisation from the virus rose by 23%. An estimated 1.7 million people in the U.K. tested positive over those seven days. Two million of us now have long Covid, with about two in five of those - or 826,000 people - having symptoms for at least a year.
What Ryan fails to mention is that Long Covid studies frequently find small to negligible numbers of additional symptoms compared to a control group, meaning the quoted figure is unlikely to be an accurate picture of the real impact of COVID-19.
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29-year-old biological male takes first place in women's skateboarding competition against 13-year-old girl

Hannah Nightingale
Post Millennial
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:09 UTC
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On Saturday, a biological male beat out a field of female competitors, including the 13-year-old girl who placed second, to win a skateboarding competition in New York City.

29-year-old Ricci Tres placed first in The Boardr Open women's finals, taking home $500 in prize money. Second place finisher Shiloh Catori, 13, took home $250. Third place finisher, 16-year-old Jordan Pascal took home $150 in prize money, while the remaining three finishers took home $100 each.


Four of the six competitors in the finals were under the age of 18, with the youngest competitor, fifth place finisher Juri Iikura, being just 10.

Comment: And the destruction of women's sports continues...

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Why nobody wants to join the US Army this year

Daniel Johnson, James Machado
Task & Purpose
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:55 UTC
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© U.S. ArmyStaff Sgt. Robert Brown, a Papa Company, 244th Quartermaster Battalion drill sergeant, tries to motivate his charges during the Soldier Stakes Competition May 14 at Williams Stadium.
The military is currently behind its recruiting goals for this year by 23%, a continuation of recruiting woes in which all branches of service seem to be throwing money at the challenge, but with the Army leading the way, unfortunately. The Department of Defense anticipates that a combined 150,000 service members from all branches will end their terms of service (ETS) each year. But in 2020 and 2021, that number was around 195,000, with 2022 appearing to follow the trend. Even Congress has expressed recruiting concerns for filling tomorrow's military ranks. As Army officials have remained quiet on recruiting numbers while, at the same time, increasing bonuses, social media posts have noted that the Army remains well behind its goals for active duty enlistment. This fact is reflected in the near-term expected force shrinkage, which is currently being blamed on a tight labor market.

As it stands now, 2022 is looking to be a year of high ETS numbers that will be exacerbated by significant failures in recruiting for the Army. Where has recruiting gone wrong? We see two major issues with the Army's recruiting efforts, pertaining to its ad campaign and treatment of recruiters. Based on our research of the Army's recruiting efforts, including feedback from the general population the Army is looking to enlist — 18 to 24-year-olds — the following is an assessment of the extant problems with recruitment, followed by a proposed solution:

Comment: The above provides insight into how a lack of innovation, along with incompetence and corruption are ruining the US military. Although one wonders just how the youth perceive the US, its military, and its mission, nowadays - which for all intents and purposes is to further a nefarious establishment agenda - and how that's impacting recruitment.

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