Why elite parents are supporting Critical Race Theory

They want their children to maintain their privileged position

Critical Race Theory, or CRT, has dominated headlines in the US for months. Unsurprisingly, it is a fiercely partisan issue. In the blue corner, there’s MSNBC host Joy Reid stating that opponents of CRT are “steeped in white nationalism” and therefore must be held in the highest contempt. In the red corner, Tucker Carlson calls CRT a “civilisation-ending poison” that will “hurt your children”.

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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is straight out of Dr. Strangelove

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the engine for the plot is Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, a United States Air Force general, who goes completely off his rocker and launches a nuclear weapon at the Soviet Union. We may have our own, real-life General Ripper in the form of General Mark Milley, a product of the Ivy League and now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, unlike General Ripper, who had the Russkies in his sights, General Milley is pretty sure that you are the enemy.

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Self-driving truck beats human drivers on multistate trip by 10 hours

A tech company called TuSimple successfully tested its semi truck to transport watermelons from one state to another, Vice News reported.

However, what is perhaps most impressive is that the trip took 10 hours less than what it would have taken for a human. For most people, that trip would have taken around 24 hours to complete, Alt Driver reported, because human drivers require breaks during every so often.

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Germany’s flood disaster could trigger a political upheaval

Once the water recedes over the weekend, not only will the damage become visible, the politics will too

There is an interesting history to the politics of floods in Germany — and a possibility that history might be repeating itself. The official death toll in Germany has risen to 93 this morning, but 1,300 people are still reported missing in the region of Ahrweiler, in western Germany. This is without a doubt the most extreme natural disaster that has hit Germany in living memory.

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Pope Francis Shuts Down the Latin Mass, Claiming That Returning to Tradition ‘Injures the Church’

Pope Francis announced that he will be restricting the traditional Latin mass in his latest attack against on the Catholic faith.

Francis made the pronouncement in his latest motu proprio that it will be the “exclusive competence” of a diocesan bishop “to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal in his diocese, according to the guidelines of the Apostolic See.” This will allow Francis’ goons to shut down the traditional Latin mass, which is gaining momentum at a time when the Catholic Church is dying amidst child rape scandals.

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How A ‘Green’ America Would Fuel China’s Growing Coal And Uyghur-Exploiting Solar Industries

President Joe Biden inherited an America that was a net energy exporter, something that had not been achieved even once in his 44 years in federal office. The GOP’s energy strategy was, quite simply, working. The results were not just lower energy prices and independence from unstable or adversarial countries; this also helped us lower carbon emissions.

As the International Energy Agency reported last year, the United States in 2019 led the world with the biggest one-year reduction in energy-related CO2 emissions, and since 2000 (our peak emissions year), we have had the greatest absolute drop in emissions reductions of any nation.

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Jen Psaki: If you’re banned by one social media platform for disinformation, you should be banned by others

She sure has had a lot to say over the past 48 hours about how private tech companies should be running their businesses.

Yesterday the White House began its big push against vaccine misinformation, part of which involves calling on Big Tech to enforce its policies more rigorously against people spreading conspiracy theories about the vaccines.

More … ‘They’re killing people’: Biden says social media platforms responsible for COVID-19 deaths

President Joe Biden said people are dying because of coronavirus disinformation being shared on social media platforms.

“They’re killing people,” Biden said when asked to share his message to companies such as Facebook. “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people.”

Hmmm… Psaki Gets Cornered with Fauci’s Facebook Misinformation: Should Those Posts Be Taken Down?

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No one really wants to host the Olympics, especially after Tokyo’s nightmare. What does the future hold?

No one really wants to host the Olympics, especially after Tokyo’s nightmare. What does the future hold?

When the Olympic torch is lit in Tokyo, it will happen in a country that wishes the Games had been extinguished.

With vaccination rates still low in Japan, the Olympics will be held as the city is in a state of emergency and there will be no spectators in the stands. Tourists won’t flock into the country, because international spectators were banned months ago, so there will be little to offset the more than $18-billion cost.

The Olympics are a money making scam for a few. I would never vote to host them here.

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The Cuban Revolution Won’t Be Televised

Because a functional communist state was always a figment of leftists’ imaginations.

Citizens charged their government with repression. The rebuttal came via a truncheon. Some people miss their own irony.

The Cuban government killed one protester, roughed up cameramen for the Associated Press, abducted citizens from their homes, and shut down the internet in response to demonstrations that erupted last weekend. “The order to fight has been given,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced. “Into the street, revolutionaries!”

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Don’t Even Think About Calling the Cops

For New York City progressives, not even violent crime warrants police intervention.

It’s an article of faith among New York City’s progressive leadership that punishment does not deter crime and that putting criminals in jail is at least as evil as whatever they did to get there. From this perspective, sending someone to jail is the worst thing that society can do: it not only destroys the life of the perpetrator but also creates a false sense of accomplishment, while ignoring the socioeconomic “root causes” of crime.

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How your personal data is being scraped from social media

How much personal information do you share on your social media profile pages?

Name, location, age, job role, marital status, headshot? The amount of information people are comfortable with posting online varies.

But most people accept that whatever we put on our public profile page is out in the public domain.

So, how would you feel if all your information was catalogued by a hacker and put into a monster spreadsheet with millions of entries, to be sold online to the highest paying cyber-criminal?

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Ghislaine Maxwell took two previously undisclosed trips with Bill Clinton to ‘escape’ from Jeffrey Epstein – reports

 

Two previously unknown trips shared by Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Clinton have been revealed, and journalist Vicky Ward has described the relationship between the two as an “escape” from the late Jeffrey Epstein.

On the ‘Chasing Ghislaine’ podcast, Ward alleged this week that Maxwell joined Clinton on two foreign trips in the early 2000s and was considered “just as important” to his staff as Epstein.

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Canada’s spy agency CSIS gets go-ahead to use new overseas investigative powers

 

OTTAWA — For the first time, a federal judge has expressly granted Canada’s spy agency warrants to operate abroad even if it means breaking another country’s laws.

Federal Court Justice Simon Noel authorized warrants for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service five months ago, but public reasons in the top-secret matter were issued only this week.

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