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Kendi's troubles threaten the whole 'antiracist' biz

Jack Cashill
American Thinker
Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00 UTC
Kendi
© UnknownIbram X. Kendi
As blue-collar philosopher Eric Hoffer reportedly observed some years back, "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." Ibram X. Kendi's brand of antiracism skipped the first two phases. It was conceived as a racket.

Like most rackets, Kendi's depended for its success on finding suckers to support it. Kendi found his at Boston University. In a perverse effort to atone for imagined sins, the BU administration funded a Kendi brainchild, the Center for Antiracist Research. Hysteria over the death of George Floyd inspired the center, but hysteria alone cannot sustain it.

David Decosimo in the Wall Street Journal, writes:
"After suddenly laying off over half his employees last week and with his center producing almost nothing since its founding. Mr. Kendi is now facing an investigation and harsh criticism from numerous colleagues complaining of financial mismanagement, dysfunctional leadership, and failure to honor obligations attached to its millions in grant money."
No surprises here. Kendi is just one racial bunco artist out of many. Doing research for my new book, Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities, I reviewed the work of four of the leading lights in this movement, specifically on the subject of white flight.

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Another former Wagner mercenary recruited from Russian prison accused of murder


RFE/RL
Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00 UTC
guy crutches
© Velentin Yegorshin/Tass
A former fighter from the Wagner mercenary group who was recruited from prison last year has been accused of killing two women and burning their house down after returning home to Siberia from the ongoing war against Ukraine.

Police in the town of Yermakovskoye in the Krasnoyarsk region said on October 3 they had detained Denis Stepanov, who is suspected of setting a house on fire overnight. The two women were found dead inside.

According to the police, the motive for the crime is unknown, but witnesses said the suspect had openly threatened the women.

It's not the first instance of former Wagner mercenaries recruited from jails and prisons across Russia in 2022 being accused of committing serious crimes after completing tours of duty in Ukraine.

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Teen detained after deadly shooting spree in Bangkok mall


RT
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 18:28 UTC
Thialand shooting
© AP / Wason WanichakornStaff members of the Siam Paragon Mall check a metal detector following a deadly shooting spree in Bangkok, Thailand, October 4, 2023.
Two people have been killed and several others injured after a teenage boy opened fire at an upscale shopping center in the heart of Thailand's capital, officials have confirmed. The suspect has been detained.

The shooting spree unfolded on Tuesday afternoon at the Siam Paragon shopping mall, a sprawling commercial complex in downtown Bangkok, with the young attacker brandishing a handgun before firing on at least seven people. The two fatalities are a 34-year-old Chinese woman and another woman from Myanmar, officials said. Five people were injured, two of them critically.

While initial reports claimed that three people were killed, the death toll has since been revised.

A video posted to social media shows panicked shoppers fleeing the scene while gunshots are heard.

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Notes from the (Whitehouse) zoo

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:56 UTC
This article was supposed to be next in my Notes from the Zoo series. But got kind of long.

It's about dogs.

And the Big Monkey in the White House.

White House Monkey and Dog
© News Forensics
In this case, the zoo is the White House where Joe Biden's dog, Commander, has once again bitten a Secret Service agent.

It isn't the dog's fault. It's Biden who needs the muzzle.

While every dog is different, some breeds are more prone to biting — those bred to protect in particular. German shepherds are highly intelligent guard dogs and in that category.

As puppies, dogs do a lot of rough-and-tumble with their mates which teaches them not to nip — which by the way also applies to kittens. For all animals play is a form of education.

If you separate a puppy from his family too early, just as is the case with some cats, it may end up "bitey".

With cats this is difficult to correct.
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CDC says Ukrainians bringing treatment-resistant infections to Western Europe


RT
Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:11 UTC
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© AP / Evgeny MaloletkaUkrainian military medics treat a soldier in a field hospital near Donetsk, Russia, June 22, 2023
Bacterial infections picked up on the battlefield are showing up in European hospitals, the US CDC reported

Wounded Ukrainian soldiers and fleeing civilians are carrying new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to Western Europe, according to a recent paper by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Even before the conflict, scientists warned of Ukraine's inability to monitor and restrict the spread of these infections.

The paper, published last month, noted that six different antibiotic-resistant infections had been found in the body of one injured Ukrainian soldier at a military hospital in Germany. The soldier suffered severe burns in a vehicle fire and had been moved through hospitals in Dnipropetrovsk and Kiev before his evacuation to Germany.

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The cases of suspicious infections in the Ukrainian army that are difficult to treat are most probably connected with the operation of US biolaboratories in Ukraine, the deputy speaker of the State Duma, Irina Yarovaya, has said.

"The Pentagon's bio-laboratories in Ukraine are with a high degree of probability the source of infection of Ukrainian soldiers," said Yarovaya, a co-chair of the parliamentary commission for investigating the activities of US laboratories in Ukraine.

Earlier, the British daily The Financial Times published a story saying that in early 2023 doctors in one of NATO's military hospitals in Germany studied test samples of wounded Ukrainian soldiers to conclude that they had been infected with pathogens resistant to antibiotics.

Yarovaya also noted that confirmations were already available the United States had tested unlicensed drugs on Ukrainian soldiers.

"Obviously, time is ripe for international experts, including those from the Lancet commission, to be seriously concerned about the Pentagon's monstrous biological experiments," she believes.

Yarovaya recalled that in accordance with the US project codenamed UP-8 "laboratories in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, conducted tests under the guidance of US military specialists on more than 4,000 military servicemen."

"According to the available data, during the Pentagon's medical experiments, about 20 Ukrainian soldiers died in the Kharkov laboratory alone, and another 200 were taken to the hospital," Yarovaya said.

The parliamentary commission for investigating US biolaboratories in Ukraine after a year of inquiries presented a report in April. The report was approved at meetings of the State Duma and the Federation Council. The final document summarized all information about the US military and biological programs in Ukraine and the facts and circumstances of how the US implements biological programs around the world. The parliamentary probe produced an unequivocal conclusion that the United States' biological programs had an obvious dual purpose and were intended to be used, among other things, for military purposes.
The unintended consequences of arrogance. Will a real plague come to Western shores as a result of U.S. hubris?

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50,000 signed up for Russian military in September - Shoigu


RT
Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:49 UTC
A Russian military recruit shoots a machine gun during combat tactic and shooting practice exercises.
© Sputnik / Alexey MaishevA Russian military recruit shoots a machine gun during combat tactic and shooting practice exercises.
There are no plans for an additional mobilization in the country, the defense minister has said.

The Russian military has enough troops to carry out its operation in Ukraine, thanks to a large number of volunteers, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said.
"The General Staff has no plans for additional mobilization," the Russian minister assured military commanders during a conference on Tuesday.
One of the reasons for that is "the firm patriotic stance of our citizens, who are actively joining the ranks of defenders of the fatherland," he stressed.
"In September alone, more than 50,000 citizens signed contracts" for military service, Shoigu said.

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'We are dead inside': Groom from Iraq wedding fire that killed 107 people gives heartbreaking interview


Source
Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:19 UTC
Iraq wedding fire
What was supposed to be the most memorable time of their lives has become a nightmare for Iraq's newlyweds, Haneen and Ravan. Last week, the inferno at their wedding venue left loved ones and over 100 guests dead. The bride is now speechless, and her new husband feels devastated.

During an interview with Sky News, Revan said: "Inside we are dead. We are numb. We are dead inside." Revan added that 18-year-old Haneen is still in shock and "can't speak" after losing ten members of her family, leaving her father in intensive care in hospital.

The bride lost her mother and brother, while Revan lost 15 relatives when a fierce blaze engulfed the crowded wedding hall in Qaraqosh, situated near Mosul in Iraq, on Tuesday.
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Trans women to be banned from female hospital wards in UK

Laura Donnelly, Daniel Martin, Dominic Penna
The Telegraph
Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:19 UTC
women's ward hospital
Trans women will be banned from female hospital wards under the Health Secretary's plans to restore "common sense" to the NHS.

On Tuesday, Steve Barclay will announce proposals to push back against "wokery" in the health service that has led to women's rights being increasingly sidelined.

The changes would give men and women the right to be cared for on wards only shared by people of their own biological sex, and to have intimate care provided by those of the same sex.

Mr Barclay said the plan would mean the return of "a common-sense approach to sex and equality", ensuring that women's dignity was protected and their voices heard.

The proposals follow concerns from patients and staff about biological men being allowed on to women's hospital wards. In 2021, NHS guidance said trans patients could be placed on single-sex wards on the basis of the gender with which they identified.
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Hundreds of trans teens under 18 have had breasts removed in Canada, new data show

Sharon Kirkey
National Post
Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:19 UTC
Surgery
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As tensions rise over the medical care of trans children, a new analysis shows hundreds of adolescents in Canada have undergone female-to-male "top surgery" — double mastectomies — over the past five years.

Hospitalizations and day surgery visits for bilateral mastectomies for gender reassignment surgery have risen sharply, from 536 in 2018-19, to 985 in fiscal 2022-23, according to data compiled for National Post by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Of the 4,071 visits in total involving gender-affirming mastectomies or breast reductions reported since 2018, 602 involved youth 18 and under.

Of those, 303 involved teens 17 and younger. The youngest age was 14.
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Political mass gatherings had no effect on spread of covid, finds study

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:19 UTC
black lives matter protest
There was much consternation over political mass gatherings during the pandemic. When President Trump began holding campaign rallies in June of 2020, health officials described the move as "extraordinarily dangerous".

Around the same time, a group of 1,000 public health 'experts' signed a letter calling for authorities to let Black Lives Matter protests go ahead - on the grounds that "white supremacy" is a "lethal public health issue". As one epidemiologist put it: "In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus." Okay...

Those who supported the Black Lives Matter protests were in turn accused of hypocrisy by conservatives - given that only a few months before they'd been calling for lockdowns and bans on mass gatherings.
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