HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor’s pro-Hamas tweet aligns with academic focus on Israel criticism, terrorist ‘rights.’
Higher education has become the Wuhan Institute of Virology for toxic ideas.
Archive for 2023
October 24, 2023
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: General Services Administration head worked mostly from Missouri after calling employees back in. “The head of the General Services Administration, the government agency that helps to manage and support federal agencies, spent most of her time working remotely from Missouri during the year after she ordered employees back to their offices, according to a letter from the agency to Congress.”
AND THIS IS ONE OF THE LESS SLEAZY THINGS ABOUT GAVIN NEWSOM’S CALIFORNIA TODAY: Inside LA’s brazen sex market, where women sell themselves in broad daylight — emboldened by California’s new laws.
IN THEIR MINDS, THIS IS DOING BETTER: Democrat slams WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for ‘weak answer’ on antisemitism: ‘Must do better.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Pure Evil—Team Biden Pimping Nonexistent ‘Islamophobia’ Narrative. “As we are all painfully aware, Joe Biden always finds a way to make any awful thing he’s done even worse. After making a trip to Israel just so he could offer to cut a check to the terrorists, Biden and his puppet masters did what they always do after Islamic terrorists murder people: they started barking ‘Islamophobia’ like trained seals.”
BOO: Cost Of Halloween Candy Is Up 13% This Year.
UCLA supply-chain expert Professor Christopher Tang says candy is so expensive because of the cost of ingredients.
It’s also because these products are mainly made in the United States.
“The labor cost has gone up a lot because of inflation,” Tang said. “The workers need to have a higher income so that they can survive.”
“All the ingredients from wrapping paper to the basic ingredients like sugar, and also the cocoa beans that we have imported from Africa. So as a result, every single ingredient, element, and the wages are going up.”
According to the National Retail Federation, the average household will spend about $31.93 on candy this year – up from $25.91 last year.
All the smartest people had assured me inflation was over.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Fed up people leaving crime-ridden cities, blame Biden.
The National Sheriffs’ Association/TIPP survey shared with Secrets shows that many blame President Joe Biden and his open borders agenda for the surge.
“Americans are experiencing an increase in crime in their neighborhoods over the past year,” said Sheriff Jim Skinner of Collin County, Texas, and the chairman of the association’s government affairs committee.
“Most Americans are dissatisfied with President Biden’s crime control policies, notably Republicans and independents. Weak immigration policies contribute to an increase in crime. Dissatisfaction spans ideological lines, with conservatives, moderates, and liberals all expressing concerns about these policies,” he added in an analysis of the new survey.
While government reports are conflicting on whether crime has surged beyond city limits, inside cities such as Washington, D.C., the rise in carjackings, holdups, and theft has risen dramatically and often the attacks are filmed and posted online.
And don’t forget the effect of Soros prosecutors, too.
THE ESTABLISHMENT TAKES CARE OF ITS OWN: DOJ Offers Sweetheart Plea Deal To IRS Consultant Who Leaked Tax Return Information Of Trump And Thousands Of Wealthy Americans.
HE NEEDS HIS REST: Rapper 50 Cent Tells Biden to ‘Get the F*** Up’ From Another Beach Vacation.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: China’s fighter jet fleet is growing in size and appears to have made a big jump in capability, new Pentagon report shows.
DEAL OF THE DAY: CYLEN Home Office Seat Cushion. #CommissionEarned
NOWHERE TO RUN: New elite Israeli unit to hunt down every Hamas terrorist involved in sneak slaughter.
The specially selected members of Shin Bet, Israel’s version of the FBI, will function independently from other units targeting high-ranking terrorists, the Jerusalem Post said.
The new unit will specifically target members of the special Hamas commando group called Nukhba, which is believed to have pulled off the attack that slaughtered hundreds of innocent Israelis along the country’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The unit is being named after the World War I-era Jewish underground organization “Nili,” an acronym in Hebrew for “the Eternal One of Israel will not lie,” said the Times of Israel.
As Adolf Eichmann learned 15 years after he fled Nazi Germany for Argentina, the Israelis are effective and as patient as they need to be — and their reach is global.
JOEL KOTKIN: Why Jews Are Abandoning the Left. Because it hates them and wants them dead and they’ve finally gotten over their denial?
Pretty much.
The Jewish leftist tradition persists, but has been fading for years now. Recent events are likely to accelerate this decline. Many of those expressing support for Hamas’s actions, and opposition to any strong Israeli response, come from the left. In the past few years, we have seen the rise of a wide range of anti-Israel ‘progressive’ politicians, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Squad’ in the US Congress, former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Increasingly, Jews are being forced to choose between their Jewish roots and their traditionally leftist political orientation. This undermines the stance of Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which remains essentially a subsidiary of the Democratic Party. The ADL’s primary focus, at least before recent events, seemed to be in concert with the Biden administration’s oft-repeated view that the far right is the most pressing threat to the Jewish community.
Such views are delusional as well as dangerous. Of course, the far right remains a threat. Some right-wing parties, like Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), contain elements that minimise fascist atrocities, even as the party postures to win Jewish support. Individual rightists, like the shooter at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, represent a distinct lethal threat.
None of this, however, contradicts the reality that in the US, Europe, Australia, the UK and Canada, the targeting of Jews now comes overwhelmingly from the left and its constituencies. A detailed 2017 survey from the University of Oslo found that in Scandinavia, Germany, Britain and France, most anti-Semitic violence came from Muslims, including recent immigrants. Similarly, a poll of European Jews found the majority of incidents of anti-Semitism came either from Muslims or left-wingers. Barely 13 per cent traced it to right-wingers. Violence against Jews is especially bad in places like the migrant-dominated suburb of Malmo in Sweden. In Paris and London – the last great redoubts of Jewish life in Europe – the danger is less right-wing anti-Semitism than the pernicious new hybrid that joins leftist and Islamist hatred. Meanwhile, virtually all right-wing parties (including the US Republicans and the Canadian and British Conservatives) have been unanimous in supporting Israel.
Other rightist politicians, like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, France’s Marine Le Pen and Britain’s Nigel Farage, have been outspoken supporters of the Jewish State. Meanwhile, the much-disdained Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is widely criticised as fascistic and anti-Semitic. Yet he is far more pro-Israel than the EU bureaucracy, which has opposed Israel’s right to a forceful response to the Hamas attack. . . . The face of anti-Semitism comes increasingly not from knuckle-dragging neo-Nazis, but from sophistos often aligned with Palestinian activists. Sixty per cent of German anti-Semitic messages sent to the Israeli embassy come from well-educated people, according to one study.
Yeah, how about that. The educational establishment, throughout the West, is a toxic industry that spreads hate and ignorance.
UNEXPECTEDLY: California governor visits China and says his state will always be a partner on climate change.
The governor of California opened a weeklong trip to China on Monday with an assurance that his state will always be a partner on climate issues no matter how the U.S. presidential election turns out next year.
Considering its long tradition of Potemkin environmentalism, California taking its climate change cues from the CCP would be a definite step in the right direction for the now beleaguered former golden state: China’s new coal power spree continues as more provinces jump on the bandwagon.
ROBERT SPENCER: Why Israel Still Hasn’t Started Its Ground Operation in Gaza. “Every day the ground incursion is delayed, in fact, aids Hamas by giving it time to strengthen its defenses, set traps for Israeli soldiers, and stir up its populace with even more Jew-hatred and bloodlust than they get in ordinary times. At this point, it isn’t even completely certain that there will be any ground operation in Gaza at all, despite the fact that there can be no definitive end of Hamas without one, and so the bloody events of Oct. 7 will just be replayed on another day.”
MAY BE CROSSING? MAY? I’D BE SURPRISED IF THEY WEREN’T ALREADY HERE: U.S. Customs and Border Protection warns Hamas and Hezbollah fighters may be crossing America’s southern border.
BRYAN CAPLAN: Paternalism vs. Social Desirability Bias. “Why can’t supporters of paternalism be honest? The harsh reality is that if they defended their favored policies honestly, support would crash.”
THAT IS SOME PRETTY SCREWED UP ALTERNATE HISTORY. WORSE THAN REGENCY ENGLAND HAVING A BLACK QUEEN: New York Magazine writer sparks outrage as claims Zionists worked with Nazis during WWII.
IT IS A GENOCIDAL WAR – SHE JUST ENDORSED THE WOULD-BE PERPETRATORS: Top Hollywood agent steps down from leadership roles after ‘hurtful’ Israel-Hamas post.
IT’S TIME TO STOP INDULGING THE PERPETUALLY OFFENDED: UNLV group apologizes after doing nothing wrong.
WHAT WAS OVER THERE IS OVER HERE. DECIDE WHERE YOUR LINE IS AND STAND ON IT: “Formerly clandestine Nazis will continue protesting, sometimes violently”.
LIL’ DINDONOFING WRONG HUNTER, DID DO A LOT WRONG. SO DID HIS ENTIRE CRIME FAMILY: Family Matters: Biggest developments in the Biden finances story this year.