University of Chicago English department to accept only grad students interested in 'Black Studies' this year

'We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people'

The English department at the University of Chicago announced that it will be accepting only graduate student applicants who are interested in pursuing Black Studies in the upcoming admissions cycle.

In a faculty statement posted on the department's website in July, the English department expressed remorse about the university's role in perpetuating inequality and committed to emphasizing and amplifying black voices more strongly. From a highlighted portion of the statement:

The English department at the University of Chicago believes that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence. As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality.

For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies. We understand Black Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages, and time periods. For more information on faculty and current graduate students in this area, please visit our Black Studies page.

OMG… statement from the English department at @UChicago. https://t.co/WiUWnnMppT

— Samantha Harris (@Samantha Harris)1600095410.0

There will be seven courses offered in the Black Studies field in 2020-2021: Hemispheric Studies; Toni Morrison, beloved and a mercy; Readings in Exile; Jamaica Kincaid and Naipaul; Black Shakespeare; and Uneasy Intimacies: Interracial Modernism.

"English as a discipline has a long history of providing aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-Blackness," the statement said. "Our discipline is responsible for developing hierarchies of cultural production that have contributed directly to social and systemic determinations of whose lives matter and why. And while inroads have been made in terms of acknowledging the centrality of both individual literary works and collective histories of racialized and colonized people, there is still much to do as a discipline and as a department to build a more inclusive and equitable field for describing, studying, and teaching the relationship between aesthetics, representation, inequality, and power."

The University of Chicago recently experienced protests, including an "occupation" of the block on which the provost lives, as students pushed for the disbanding of the campus police department and a reallocation of the funds to other initiatives, such as a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/university-of-chicago-english-department-to-only-accept-grad-students-interested-in-black-studies

Belarussian SpecOp Team Neutralizes a Terrorist Group Planning a Maidan-Style Uprising

Mogilev, Belarus – Belarusian police arrested six people who formed a terrorist group that was conducting military-tactical training in the forest in the area around the city of Mogilev in eastern Belarus. The leader of this group created the channel “Partizans Mogilev” on social networks. In the meantime, this group grew to 64 members and acquired good conditions for the formation of an infantry company.

Members of this group gathered in the forest area around Mogilev, where they had training in urban warfare and guerrilla tactics in a forested area. In addition, the group conducted training on the seizure of government buildings. The Belarussian police found evidence that the members of this terrorist group also adopted basic knowledge in making IEDs (improvised explosive devices).

Белоруска полиција је ухапсила шест особа који су формирали групу која је изводила војно-тактичку обуку у шуми у рејону г.Могиљов. pic.twitter.com/0lXrxobeRD

— Marsonline Борбени Ефективи (@gvozdenavolja) September 14, 2020

During the arrest operation, the Belarussian police found a white-red flag, adopted by the Neo-Nazi NATO-backed opposition in Belarus. A large number of chevrons with Ukrainian symbols, balaclavas, body armor, airsoft and pneumatic weapons, a signal pistol, knives and radio communication devices were found.

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Mogilev (Russian: Могилёв) is a city in eastern Belarus, near the border with Russia with over 300,000 inhabitants. It is the center of the Mogilev region and the third-largest city in Belarus. Mogilev is one of the main economic, railway and industrial centers in Belarus.

After the Second World War, a large metallurgical center with several steel mills was built in the city. There are also factories of industrial machinery, cars, tractors, textiles, leather and chemicals. The city is home to the most important river port on the Dnieper and there is also an airport.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/09/belarussian-specop-team-neutralizes-a-terrorist-group-planning-a-maidan-style-uprising-video/

Belarussian SpecOp Team Neutralizes a Terrorist Group Planning a Maidan-Style Uprising

Mogilev, Belarus – Belarusian police arrested six people who formed a terrorist group that was conducting military-tactical training in the forest in the area around the city of Mogilev in eastern Belarus. The leader of this group created the channel “Partizans Mogilev” on social networks. In the meantime, this group grew to 64 members and acquired good conditions for the formation of an infantry company.

Members of this group gathered in the forest area around Mogilev, where they had training in urban warfare and guerrilla tactics in a forested area. In addition, the group conducted training on the seizure of government buildings. The Belarussian police found evidence that the members of this terrorist group also adopted basic knowledge in making IEDs (improvised explosive devices).

Белоруска полиција је ухапсила шест особа који су формирали групу која је изводила војно-тактичку обуку у шуми у рејону г.Могиљов. pic.twitter.com/0lXrxobeRD

— Marsonline Борбени Ефективи (@gvozdenavolja) September 14, 2020

During the arrest operation, the Belarussian police found a white-red flag, adopted by the Neo-Nazi NATO-backed opposition in Belarus. A large number of chevrons with Ukrainian symbols, balaclavas, body armor, airsoft and pneumatic weapons, a signal pistol, knives and radio communication devices were found.

RevContent InArticle SOLO

Mogilev (Russian: Могилёв) is a city in eastern Belarus, near the border with Russia with over 300,000 inhabitants. It is the center of the Mogilev region and the third-largest city in Belarus. Mogilev is one of the main economic, railway and industrial centers in Belarus.

After the Second World War, a large metallurgical center with several steel mills was built in the city. There are also factories of industrial machinery, cars, tractors, textiles, leather and chemicals. The city is home to the most important river port on the Dnieper and there is also an airport.

https://fort-russ.com/2020/09/belarussian-specop-team-neutralizes-a-terrorist-group-planning-a-maidan-style-uprising-video/

Biden campaign lawyers up for election-related court battles

Former Attorney General Eric Holder is part of largest ever election protection program, campaign says

The Biden campaign has been quietly building a massive "election protection program," including former Attorney General Eric Holder and hundreds of other lawyers in preparation for a legal battle in the event of a contested election.

The former vice president’s campaign told Fox News Monday that over the past several months they have created the largest election protection program in presidential campaign history, involving integrated legal, communications and political strategies for what they anticipate to be an unprecedented election.

The strategies, according to the campaign, are being directed to support election jurisdictions in preparing for and administering the vote under what they call “extraordinary conditions” this cycle, voter education to raise awareness of options for in-person and mail-in voting, aggressive responses to vote suppression activities, and robust programs for identifying and countering foreign interference and misinformation from foreign or domestic sources.

The campaign said Bob Bauer has signed on full-time as a senior campaign adviser. He is on leave from the faculty of NYU Law School, and will work on the voter protection program with the campaign’s general counsel, Dana Remus. Bauer served as general counsel to the Obama-Biden campaigns in 2008 and 2012, and co-chair of former President Obama's Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

Remus has oversight of the campaign’s day-to-day legal operations, and will oversee the wide-ranging team of lawyers to address voter protection.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-lawyers-up-election-court-battles

Trump Casts Doubts About Climate Change During Briefing On California Wildfires

President Donald Trump suggested Monday that there isn’t a scientific consensus regarding climate change’s role in the recent California wildfires.

Trump made the comments during a roundtable briefing on the wildfires in California with Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and others.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/14/trump-casts-doubts-about-climate-change-during-briefing-on-california-wildfires/

US Blocks Goods Made in China's Xinjiang to Combat Forced Labor

The United States has moved to block the import of goods made in China’s Xinjiang to combat alleged forced labor practices, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.

"US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued five Withhold Release Orders today on products from the People’s Republic of China", the department said in a statement. "The products subject to the WROs are produced with state-sponsored forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the Chinese government is engaged in systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities".

Companies that ship clothing and other cotton goods, computer parts, and hair products from the Xinjiang region were named in the order issued by the CBP.

"The series of actions CBP has taken against imports from China demonstrates the pervasive use of unethical and inhumane labor conditions in China, and CBP will not turn a blind eye", Brenda Smith, Executive Assistant Commissioner of CBP’s Office of Trade, said. "Allowing goods produced using forced labor into the US supply chain undermines the integrity of our imports. American consumers deserve and demand better".

The United States is considering a broader ban on cotton and textiles and tomatoes from Xinjiang, Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said.

Human rights groups say Chinese authorities have detained more than a million people — from mostly Muslim ethnic groups that include Uighurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz — in a vast network of detention centres as part of an assimilation campaign.

China has denied the charges, saying the camps it built for Uighurs and other minorities were for vocational and Chinese language training and not for slave labour.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202009141080456880-us-blocks-goods-made-in-chinas-xinjiang-to-combat-forced-labor/

Any update on CM?

>>10647722

Barr is a cover up artist look at his history!

DHS Blocks Products Linked To Uighur Labor Camps & "Modern Slavery" From Entering US

Over a month after widespread allegations that China has been routinely using its Muslim Uighur population as prison laborers for products shipped to the West — specifically after 13 tons of human hair in weave products estimated to be worth over $800,000 was seized as a US port — the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday five new orders blocking the importation of products believed to be the result of forced labor.

Acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan underscored the new measures send a "clear message" concerning forced labor entering US supply chains.

“Today’s Withhold Release Orders send a clear message to the international community that we will not tolerate the illicit, inhumane, and exploitative practices of forced labor in U.S. supply chains,” Morgan said, according to The Hill.

The directives are aimed at blocking products from multiple facilities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region that are suspected of being either internment or 're-education camps' or as including staff made up of forced labor.

A brief listing of the five orders via the DHS website includes the following:

All products made with labor from the Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Hair products made in the Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Apparel produced by Yili Zhuowan Garment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Baoding LYSZD Trade and Business Co., Ltd in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Cotton produced and processed by Xinjiang Junggar Cotton and Linen Co., Ltd. in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

Computer parts made by Hefei Bitland Information Technology Co., Ltd. in Anhui, China.

Morgan added of these tightening of controls that “The Trump Administration will not stand idly by and allow foreign companies to subject vulnerable workers to forced labor while harming American businesses that respect human rights and the rule of law.”

Previously China has leveled retaliatory sanctions against the US over criticism related to the sensitive issue of treatment of the minority Chinese Muslim community.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dhs-blocks-products-linked-uighur-labor-camps-entering-us

Officials: 500,000 Counterfeit N95 Masks From China Seized In Chicago

CHICAGO–U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers attached to the Anti Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team (A-TCET) in Chicago were contacted by Homeland Security Investigation to seize a shipment arriving from Schenzhen China. On September 10, 2020, the shipment was seized.

The shipment listed 500,000 N-95 respirator masks, which were believed to be counterfeit. A-TCET officers removed 30 masks and sent them to a CDC testing office in West Virginia. The CDC report concluded that 10% of the respirators tested had a filter efficiency rating below 95%. The shipment was seized under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Adulterated or Misbranded Products.

An appraisal performed by an Import Specialist established the Domestic Value at $3,074,385.00 and MSRP at $474,905.00. The Domestic Value is higher than the MSRP strictly due to the masks being in high demand. The package was destined for a company in Manalapan, New Jersey.

“Our CBP officers working with partners in HSI were able to stop these faulty mask from being sold under the guise of fully protecting Americans,” said Shane Campbell, Area Port Director-Chicago. “These masks did not meet the safety standards outlined by the CDC, which puts the public at risk, jeopardizing the health and well being of everyone.”

The shipment of masks were turned over to HSI for further investigation and enforcement.

Certain organizations are attempting to exploit the limited supply of and increased demand for some pharmaceuticals, personal protective equipment and other medical goods required to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other products, these criminals are smuggling and selling counterfeit safety equipment, unapproved COVID-19 test kits, unproven medicines and substandard hygiene products through the online marketplace.

To combat these criminal activities, CBP is targeting imports and exports that may contain counterfeit or illicit goods. The products in targeted shipments often include false or misleading claims, lack required warnings or lack proper approvals.

https://breaking911.com/officials-500000-counterfeit-n95-masks-from-china-seized-in-chicago/

Texas Officer Juan Delacruz Indicted In 2019 Shooting Death Of Pamela Turner

A Harris County grand jury indicted Baytown Police Officer Juan Delacruz Monday for the death of 44-year-old Pamela Turner.

The charge is aggravated assault by a public servant, a first-degree felony that carries a punishment of five years to life in prison.

“Pam Turner’s killing was a tragedy; it is important to acknowledge that her family and the community are in pain,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said.

“Every aspect of the case was independently investigated by the Texas Rangers and our Civil Rights Division prosecutors. Ultimately, we presented all of the evidence to a grand jury that determined the Baytown Police officer should be charged with a crime for his actions when he shot Ms. Turner. We respect their decision and we will be moving forward with prosecution,” Ogg said.

The incident began when the officer approached Turner in the apartment complex in the 1600 block of Garth Road where they both resided.

At the time, police said as Delacruz tried to handcuff her, she grabbed his Taser and used it on him. That’s when the officer fired multiple times.

Delacruz will be given the opportunity to turn himself in, so that a judge can set bail.

https://breaking911.com/breaking-texas-officer-juan-delacruz-indicted-in-2019-shooting-death-of-pamela-turner/

‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center

Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on behalf of a nurse at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center documenting “jarring medical neglect” within the facility, including a refusal to test detainees for the novel coronavirus and an exorbitant rate of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women.

The nurse, Dawn Wooten, was employed at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia, which is operated by LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company. The complaint was filed with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by advocacy groups Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network.

Multiple women came forward to tell Project South about what they perceived to be the inordinate rate at which women in ICDC were subjected to hysterectomies – a surgical operation in which all or part of the uterus is removed. Additionally, many of the immigrant women who underwent the procedure were reportedly “confused” when asked to explain why they had the surgery, with one detainee likening their treatment to prisoners in concentration camps.

“Recently, a detained immigrant told Project South that she talked to five different women detained at ICDC between October and December 2019 who had a hysterectomy done,” the complaint stated. “When she talked to them about the surgery, the women ‘reacted confused when explaining why they had one done.’ The woman told Project South that it was as though the women were ‘trying to tell themselves it’s going to be OK.’”

“When I met all these women who had had surgeries, I thought this was like an experimental concentration camp. It was like they’re experimenting with our bodies,” the detainee said.

According to Wooten, ICDC consistently used a particular gynecologist – outside the facility – who almost always opted to remove all or part of the uterus of his female detainee patients.

“Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody,” Wooten said, adding that, “everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad.”

“We’ve questioned among ourselves like goodness he’s taking everybody’s stuff out…That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector. I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something…Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/

OIG Complaint

https://www.scribd.com/document/476013004/OIG-Complaint#from_embed

>>10647825

Set your alarm Kevin

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Douglas Murray – ‘America Has All the Bases Set for Civil War’

‘America has all the bases set for civil war,’ says author Douglas Murray. Those radicals seeking to destroy the U.S. from within should be careful what they wish for: if they think the Anglo-American hegemony was bad, they’re going to have a ‘hell of a time’ when they discover what the Chinese hegemony looks like.

British author Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds, told Breitbart:

I can tell you what the Chinese hegemony is going to look like based on its treatment of the Uighur Muslims. China is not going to be great for BLM. Chinese isn’t going to be great for trans. China isn’t going to be great for micro-aggression people.

This is why, Murray argues, it is so important that the U.S. ‘pulls back from the brink’, votes for Donald Trump, and dials down the radicalism that has left America more bitterly divided — and endangered — that at any time since the 1860s.

The country is now divided on its own nature and its own founding principles – and that is how you have a civil war […]

America is facing a foundational question which is that one portion of the country likes what it has been, thinks that it is broadly a force for good in the world, reveres the founding fathers and the Constitution and would like to stick with this.

Another portion of the country believes the country should be regarded as having been founded when the first slaves were brought to the continent, that the the founding fathers were merely slave owners, that all the land is stolen, that Columbus would have been better had he not set out and that everything since has been racism and evil.

That’s how you get a civil war. Two totally different views of history.

I sincerely hope we step back from this brink if for no other reason than that geopolitically this is a nightmare. Even if you think there’s nothing good in America, the era of Anglo American hegemony, if you didn’t like that you’re going to have a hell of a time when you discover what the era of Chinese hegemony is going to look like.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/14/watch-douglas-murray-america-has-all-the-bases-set-for-civil-war/

>>10647951

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Joe Biden Pledges to Re-enter Paris Climate Agreement Despite U.S. Emissions Reductions

Former Vice President Joe Biden promised Monday to bring the U.S. back into the Paris Climate Agreement if he is elected president.

“While he [President Donald Trump] turns against our allies, I’ll bring us back into the Paris Agreement,” Biden said. I’ll put us back into business of leading the world on climate change. And I’ll challenge every other country to up the ante on climate commitments.”

The Paris Agreement, which entered into force in 2016, is an effort to prevent global average surface temperature from rising more than 2.0 degrees Celsius above the levels that existed prior to the industrial revolution, and below 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible.

The U.S. committed to lowering its emissions between 26% and 28% below 2005 levels by 2025.

Though the deal also called on developing nations to seek lower emissions, it called on “wealthy economies such as the U.S. and the European Union to shoulder more of the burden, including a pledge to channel at least $100 billion a year to poor countries to help them respond to climate change,” the Wall Street Journal noted at the time.

Critics said that the Paris Climate Agreement placed a massive, one-sided burden on the U.S. economy, while allowing developing nations like China — which is responsible for much of the recent rise in global emissions — off the hook.

The Obama-Biden administration knew that the agreement, which resembles a treaty, would never pass ratification in the Senate. So the agreement was crafted to be non-binding on several key provisions. That allowed Obama to call the Paris agreement an “executive” agreement.

When President Donald Trump famously withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement in 2017, he declared: “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”

Ironically, the U.S. had been reducing emissions anyway, without the Paris Agreement. As National Public Radio (NPR) reported in 2017, annual U.S. emissions had fallen 12% since 2005, largely because of a shift away from coal and toward natural gas.

Climate research Kate Larsen also told NPR that market forces would prevail in the near term, regardless of Paris: “The U.S. has successfully bent its greenhouse gas emissions curve. And we are going to continue to reduce emissions over the next 10 years, likely regardless of Trump policy.”

That may change — but so will technology, and prices, which are the two major factors that have driven U.S. energy policy to a lower-emissions trajectory.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/09/14/joe-biden-pledges-to-re-enter-paris-climate-agreement-despite-u-s-emissions-reductions/

Lil Marco Joins Democrats on Senate Intel Committee and Refuses to Provide Support for Recent Garbage Report

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, requested the notoriously corrupt Senate Intel Committee provide support for their recent bogus report that claimed Russia interfered with the 2016 election. To no one’s surprise, the Intel Committee won’t comply.

The Washington Examiner reported earlier today:

The Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Intelligence Committee rejected a broad request from two Republican Senate leaders seeking access to the panel’s records to assist in their investigation into the Trump-Russia investigators.

Acting Chairman Marco Rubio of Florida and Vice Chairman Mark Warner of Virginia rejected a late August letter from Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who said that they “respect the authority” of the Senate Intelligence Committee to protect its interests, adding that “ultimately, we have the right as United States Senators” to access the records.

“We note that your request of the Committee is made pursuant to Senate Rule 26, but fails to account for the unique authorities and obligations invested in this Committee through Senate Resolution 400 and respected over decades of Senate and Committee practice,” Rubio and Warner responded. “Accordingly, we must reject the absolutist interpretation of Rule 26 that you propose. If this Committee elects to share materials that it has collected and generated in the course of its investigation into Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, it will do so pursuant to these long-standing Committee rules, and specifically, the joint agreement of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman.”

The Examiner continued:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/lil-marco-joins-democrats-senate-intel-committee-refuses-provide-support-recent-garbage-report/

>>10648101

FFS newfag