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23 Different Types Of Violent Extremists And Counting, Will You Be Classified As One?   The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants Americans to believe since 2011, when the word "extremists" was just starting to take root in the public's consciousness, there has been an explosion of violent extremism.  In 2011, DHS published the "Empowering Local Partners To Prevent Violent Extremism In The United States"  report  while at the same time calls for ending America's never-ending war on terror started taking hold. The DHS report made dubious claims like al-Qa‘ida was trying to recruit Americans and radicalize terrorism across the country, which coincidentally was also the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The report mentions extremists and violent extremists interchangeably during a time when Americans were beginning to question the war on terror. In May 2011,  National Public Radio  wrote,  "Why We Must End The War On Terror"  and asked in September,  &q

Slack! An Irreverent Proposal John Michael Greer For quite some time now, utterances from the elite classes of the industrial world have had a sidelong relationship at best to the reality that most of us inhabit.  Recent weeks have seen the surreal quality of official pronouncements slam into overdrive, however. I first noted some time ago that the most difficult job in the world these days must be writing satire for online parody websites such as  The Onion  and  The Babylon Bee;  the struggle to come up with stories more absurd than the latest official pronouncements has got to be appallingly stressful. “I can’t be overdrawn, I still have checks left!” At this point, though, I’m sorry to say the  Onion  and the  Bee  have been left behind in the dust. Here in the United States, we’ve got Nancy Pelosi  insisting with a straight face  that expanding federal expenditures without raising taxes doesn’t increase the federal deficit. Her argument is that the gargantuan spending bills the Bi

Harvard's War Against Its Superstar Black Professor A new documentary casts light on the story of Roland Fryer. The Editors Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer (Christopher Kwok). Roland Fryer, an economics professor at Harvard, is a superstar by any measure. At the age of 30, he became the youngest black person ever to receive tenure at the Harvard. The MacArthur Foundation declared him  a genius  in 2011. And in 2015 Fryer won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given yearly to the most promising economist under 40. Then, out of the blue in 2018, the university launched an investigation into claims that Fryer was guilty of sexual harassment. The harassment in question amounted to a handful of unseemly jokes and text messages. But that didn’t stop Fryer’s inquisitors from suspending him without pay for two years and shutting down his lab. It was an unbelievable turn of events. Abandoned at birth by his mother, Fryer clawed his way out of poverty to land a spot at the Univ

Brandon's Island A three diaper tour. Good Citizen It's rumored that Joe Biden shit his pants at the Vatican last October. The word around Rome was much more polite, calling it a ‘bathroom accident’. The live feed from the Vatican was bizarrely cut off when circumstances required that the holy janitors tend to the latest American President’s mess on the world stage. Foreign visits to The Holy See of American delegations that include the commander-in-chief are now described using phraseology typically reserved for events concerning toddlers at preschools. Awe, did Bwandon have anuva bafwoom accident? As with every mishap in his life he gets a pass. Partly due to his decrepit elder condition, partly due to his status as the selected puppet of global management. No President has ever skated by with so many catastrophic blunders unscathed, unquestioned, unacknowledged, or in the case of his crackhead son’s laptop of sexual deviance, corruption, and treasonous treasures that tie in