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  • ‘We’re So Sick of It’: Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse

    03/18/2024 4:33:21 PM PDT · by george76 · 20 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | Allan Stein
    Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the northern U.S. border have jumped from 916 in fiscal year 2021 to 10,021 in fiscal 2023.. HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border. Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail. “I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home. “It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she...
  • Senior Israeli Official: Biden Should Topple Hamas, not Netanyahu

    03/13/2024 8:42:17 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 12, 2024 | Joel B. Pollak
    A senior Israeli official said Tuesday that President Joe Biden should focus on toppling the Hamas terrorist group, rather than trying to topple the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The Israeli source was commenting in the wake of a report Monday that said U.S. intelligence agencies "expect" the Israeli prime minister's coalition government to collapse. The assessment, in the middle of a war, was the latest political attack by the Biden Administration against the Netanyahu government. Netanyahu pushed back, and told Fox News on Monday morning that "[t]o the extent that Hamas believes that there's daylight between us, that...
  • Bernie Sanders: ‘No More Money to Netanyahu’s War Machine to Kill Palestinian Children’

    03/10/2024 11:21:24 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 63 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/10/2024 | Pam Key
    Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the United States should not send additional aid to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “war machine.” Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: You have long been a critic of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The other night, President Biden was heard on a hot mic after the State of the Union address saying he has to have a come to Jesus talk with Netanyahu about letting humanitarian aid into Gaza. Have you spoken to President Biden about whether he’s had this conversation? If he hasn’t, what is he...
  • Sanders: Netanyahu’s ‘right-wing extremist’ government cannot continue to run Israel

    03/10/2024 1:46:56 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 73 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/10/2024 | Lauren Sforza
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday for how he is running Israel amid its war with the militant group Hamas. Sanders has repeatedly called on the U.S. to halt its military aid to Israel, citing the humanitarian crisis that has been unfolding in Gaza for months. He reiterated his call for an end to funding Israel on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 10 March, 2024

    03/10/2024 5:14:54 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 100 replies
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 10 March, 2024 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows March 10th, 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Burnie Sanders (I-Vt.); A taped joint interview with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee; and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the committee's vice chairman; House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.); and IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council.FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.); Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and a profile of former NFL player Tim Tebow, founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation,...
  • Girls’ high school basketball coach banned for forfeiting game over transgender player has no regrets: ‘Asking for injury’

    02/27/2024 11:53:51 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 27, 2024 | Yaron Steinbuch
    The coach of a Vermont high school girls basketball team that was banned from state athletics after forfeiting a game against a squad with a trans player defended the decision — stressing the danger of a biological male playing against girls. “I’ve got four daughters. I’ve coached them all at one point in their careers playing high school basketball,” Chris Goodwin, coach of the girls’ team at the Mid-Vermont Christian School, said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” “I’ve also filled in for the boys’ coach when he can’t make a practice, and I run those practices, and boys just play...
  • Daily on Energy: $1B a year in funding needed to avoid blackouts in New England, grid operator warns

    02/23/2024 10:42:15 AM PST · by george76 · 18 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | February 22, 2024 | Breanne Deppisch
    NEW ENGLAND GRID NEEDS: New England’s grid operator warned that the region will need to invest nearly $1 billion in its electric transmission infrastructure per year through 2050 to avoid capacity shortfalls and handle the rising power demand—especially as wind and solar make up a rising share of its energy mix. Takeaways: The report modeled for several different demand scenarios through 2050. The low end of 51 GW could be achieved only if the region kept online some stored fuels like natural gas and oil—which is almost a certain impossibility, given the emissions reduction targets passed by several of the...
  • Chair of Harvard University History Department Belongs to Group Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoon

    02/20/2024 6:51:08 PM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 20, 2024 | Jessica Costescu
    Sidney Chalhoub pledged to support 'Palestinian liberation' as part of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine ... The chairman of Harvard University's history department is a member of a faculty group, Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, that posted an anti-Semitic cartoon over the holiday weekend depicting a hand emblazoned with the Star of David holding a noose around the necks of one black man and one Arab man. In the background, a black arm swings a machete scrawled with the phrase, "liberation movement." The image was posted alongside a message from the faculty group arguing...
  • Eagle-eyed residents reveal sophisticated migrant smuggling operation at northern US border

    02/19/2024 11:40:16 AM PST · by george76 · 12 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 18, 2024 | Social Links forJack Morphet and Social Links forChris Nesi
    Unsettling Post footage and interviews with US residents along the Canadian border offer a rare glimpse into the thriving migrant smuggling operation that has taken hold up north in addition to the debacle to the south. ... smugglers have become so rampant that some locals are packing pistols to protect themselves and turning into amateur sleuths to help thwart them. “Now I’ve got the Border Patrol guys on speed dial,” local Chris Feeley, 52, recently grimly acknowledged. ... According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, the number of migrants illegally entering the US at the northern border last year...
  • Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama failures: 'Black faces in high places' couldn't deliver

    05/29/2020 11:32:44 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 29 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    Harvard philosophy professor Dr. Cornel West weighed in on the ongoing protests in reaction to George Floyd's death in police custody -- and the violence and destruction that have taken place in cities across the U.S. over the past several days. West noted that "black faces in high places" were not able to create needed change because they succumbed to the "capitalist economy" and "militarized nation-state." "The Black Lives Matter movement emerged under a black president, black attorney general, and black homeland security and they couldn't deliver," West said about the Obama administration during a CNN interview Friday night.
  • I Agree With Cornel West [Palestinian Huaman Rights]

    08/01/2016 4:53:42 AM PDT · by SJackson · 11 replies
    Algemeiner ^ | 7-28-16 | Stephen M. Flatow
    JNS.org – I agree with Cornel West. I never thought I would find myself writing those words. West, a leading African-American author and intellectual, is a vicious critic of Israel. He supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. He says Israel’s leaders are “war criminals.” In a speech at Princeton last year, he made the wildly absurd claim that the Israelis “are killing hundreds [of Palestinians] daily.” But even a broken clock gives the right time twice a day, so on the rare occasion that West utters words of truth about the Palestinians or Israel, I must acknowledge that....
  • Bernie Sanders Supporter Cornel West Backs ‘Legitimate Forms Of Violence

    04/08/2016 9:12:41 AM PDT · by rktman · 17 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 4/8/2016 | Lee Stranahan
    Sen. Bernie Sanders endorser and black radical Professor Cornel West explicitly advocated “violence that must flow from below” in a seldom seen video released in January 2015. The comments came in an address to a French institute dedicated to the work of writer Frantz Fanon, one of the thought leaders of the Black Power movement and an acknowledged influence on President Barack Obama.
  • Cornel West on Obama: "The First Black President Has Become The First Niggerized Black President"

    06/22/2015 7:19:09 PM PDT · by Crystal Palace East · 59 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | June 22, 15
    Reacting to President Obama's use of the n-word on Marc Maron's podcast, (Princeton / Harvard Professor) Cornel West called him the first "niggerized" president in an appearance on CNN. West criticized Obama as "a person who is afraid and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy." "Too many black people are niggerized," West said Monday on CNN. "I would say the first black president has become the first niggerized black president." "A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy...
  • Cornel West: ‘Ferguson Signifies the End of the Age of Obama’

    11/26/2014 8:03:35 PM PST · by Nachum · 74 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 11/26/14 | Josh Feldman
    Professor Cornel West appeared on CNN International this afternoon to give his take on Ferguson, and said right at the outset, “Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It’s a very sad end. We began with tremendous hope and we end with great despair.” He went on to cite a “Jim Crow criminal justice system” that doesn’t seek justice for young black and brown people, and said adamantly there is both a race and a class war going on against that group in America right now. CNNI anchor Hala Gorani asked West why he’s “so harsh” on the
  • Cornel West calls Obama response to shootings 'weak'

    07/10/2016 8:54:12 PM PDT · by Enchante · 10 replies
    The Hill ^ | July 9, 2016 | Jessie Hellmann
    Activist Cornel West says he was disappointed in President Obama's response to this week's shootings in of black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. "I thought it was weak," West said, according to The Washington Post. "He's always got to explain to white America how black people are feeling. Black people don't feel as if we're being treated unequally — it's a fact that we're being treated unequally. He sort of always has to serve in this translating role. That's how he rolls, but that's not how I roll." West said while Obama called Thursday's attacks on Dallas police...
  • Cornel West Ripped over ‘Pitiful’ Pro-Hamas Rant Attacking ‘American Empire’ for Backing ‘Genocidal Attacks’ in Gaza

    11/14/2023 1:00:13 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/14/2023 | JOSHUA KLEIN
    Prominent progressive activist and independent presidential candidate Cornel West is facing backlash after declaring his solidarity with “anybody who’s occupied” — claiming that his “people,” too, have “dished out love warriors and freedom fighters,” as he attacked the “American empire” and “cowards in Washington, DC,” for their unwillingness to capitulate to Hamas’s demand for a ceasefire. Speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally in front of the UN headquarters in New York on Saturday, Ivy League professor Dr. Cornel West described being from a “people who, for 400 years, have been terrorized, traumatized, and hated.” Because, he argued, he comes from a...
  • WATCH — Cornel West Rants Against the Existence of Israel: ’75 Years’ of ‘Genocide

    10/31/2023 6:39:39 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/31/2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    LOS ANGELES, California — Dr. Cornel West, an Ivy League professor-turned-independent presidential candidate, delivered a speech at a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday in which he ranted against the “genocidal” existence of the State of Israel. In a video West posted to his own Twitter/X account, West declared: Let the word go forth here and now, that we stand with our brothers and sisters and siblings dealing with unbelievable assault and attack, genocidal on the one hand, but 75 years of it, and we still stand tall, they still stand tall, ’cause any time, yes, any time everyday people straighten their...
  • Watch: Alan Dershowitz, Cornel West Debate Israel-Hamas War

    10/12/2023 8:18:12 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/12/2023 | Jeff Poor
    Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz and 2024 presidential hopeful Cornel West squared off against one another over the conflict between Israel and Hamas after a Hamas-staged terror attack on southern Israel. Partial transcript as follows: HANNITY: 2024 presidential candidate, former Harvard professor Cornel West said, the students were largely right but they lacked nuance. He joins us now with reaction, along with attorney, also Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz is with us. Thank you both for being with us. I would usually — you always call me Brother Sean, I call your brother Cornel. I’m not...
  • Cornel West's, RFK Jr's Very Different Messages on Israel Attacks

    10/08/2023 12:47:48 PM PDT · by ConservativeInPA · 29 replies
    News Weak ^ | October 8, 2023 | ANDERS ANGLESEY
    Presidential candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared differing statements on the attacks on Israel this weekend. Both West, who is running as an independent, and Kennedy Jr., who is seeking the Democratic nomination, uploaded statements after the deadly attacks on Saturday, October 7. In a Saturday post shared on X, formerly Twitter, West said: "The escalation of the barbaric violence in the Middle East must stop. The vicious Israeli occupation and the ugly Palestinian retaliation results in the killing of precious innocent people on both sides. We must have a lasting peace based on justice! #TruthJusticeLove."
  • Cornel West and Stealth Anti-Semitism at Harvard-Welcome to the moral trap for Israel-haters

    03/05/2021 6:28:12 AM PST · by SJackson · 10 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | Mar 5, 2021 | Richard L. Cravatts
    As evidence of what the late Professor Edward Alexander has called “the explosive power of boredom” in rousing the liberal professoriate to its ideological feet, Harvard’s own Harvard Divinity School professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Cornel West, recently wondered out loud why the university might have denied him tenure. His explanation: that because he is a relentless critic of Israel, and because he thinks so highly of his academic accomplishments and record, it must be his pro-Palestinian leanings that spooked the Harvard committee making his tenure decision. "This is my hypothesis,” West said, “because given the possibilities of...