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SCOTUS: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

The US Supreme Court has ruled against so-called “affirmative action,’ saying it’s unconstitutional. It was the right decision. Getting into prestigious colleges will no longer depend on race, but rather on merit.

For far too long, too many white and Asian students with top-notch grades and credentials were getting turned down in favor of black students who did not have commensurate qualifications. This is actually a disservice to those black students. Imagine one who did study hard and made the best grades, scored highest on SAT tests, and got accepted to say…Harvard. That student will unfairly thought to be accepted for skin color rather than merit. Unfair labels such as ‘diversity hire’ will be applied. People will have lower expectations. Such artificially created low expectations applied to blacks is of course, racist and such racism is perpetuated by the Democrat Party and the legacy news media.

Instead, if admissions are merit-based, everyone will be treated equally. True equality means everyone has equal opportunity. There are no guaranteed results.

The race-baiter crowd is out in force and screaming ‘racism’ and unfair treatment, but this is to be expected. They should be ignored. Biden’s reaction showed gross disrespect for the decision by saying it was not a ‘normal court.’ Well, Biden is not a normal president. He is a figure selected for the White House by means of election fraud.

In terms of merit, Biden deserves prison, not the presidency.

Lock Him Up!

— Ben Garrison

https://grrrgraphics.com/scotus-affirmative-action-is-unconstitutional/

>>19101970

>Kennedy was killed because he insisted on the monitoring of the Dimona plant

The Battle of the Letters, 1963: John F. Kennedy, David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, and the U.S. Inspections of Dimona

Kennedy Warned Israeli Leaders in 1963 That U.S. “Commitment and Support” Could be “Seriously Jeopardized” Absent Inspection of Dimona Reactor

U.S. Intelligence Estimated That by Mid-1960s Dimona Could Produce Enough Plutonium For “One or Two Weapons A Year”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-05-02/battle-letters-1963-john-f-kennedy-david-ben-gurion-levi-eshkol-us-inspections-dimona

>>19102051

>It's just a matter of time till university degrees are worth less than the paper used to print the diploma.

That time is actually now.

>>19101970

>>19102032

APRIL 26, 2016, 9:00 AM

How the Israelis Hoodwinked JFK on Going Nuclear

Newly declassified documents reveal how David Ben-Gurion’s mumbles and a trick sightseeing tour helped Israeli officials pull the wool over Washington’s eyes on the real purpose of the Dimona reactor.

In October 1961, the CIA issued a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Israel, the first since the discovery of the Dimona reactor less than a year earlier, in which the CIA’s analysts assessed broadly the rationale and character of the Israeli nuclear program. For nearly 55 years it was kept secret, until it was quietly declassified in its entirety last year. It sheds light on what the U.S. intelligence community thought about the Israeli nuclear project in the first year of the Kennedy administration, while the Dimona reactor was still under construction. The CIA judgment was straightforward and unequivocal: Israel was placing itself in a position to “produce sufficient weapons-grade plutonium for one or two crude weapons a year by 1965-66, provided separation facilities with a capacity larger than that of the pilot plant now under construction are available.” At a minimum, U.S. intelligence knew that the Dimona project was about weapons capability, not about energy, electricity, or development — as the Israelis had tried to spin the ongoing project.

The declassified NIE also sheds light, by implication, on what American decision-makers, including President John F. Kennedy, must have thought about what Israeli leaders and top Israeli government officials had told them about the Dimona project. For example, this NIE makes apparent that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion lied to, or at least misled, Kennedy during a private conversation with him just three months earlier. It also reveals that what top Israeli officials at Dimona had told visiting U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) scientists must have been false. Simply put, the CIA knew, or at least believed, that Israel was not telling the U.S. government the truth about Dimona — that the nuclear reactor was intended to develop a weapons capability.

This NIE, as well as other related documents, many of them never seen by scholars, from the first two years of the Kennedy administration, were published on April 21 by the National Security Archive, in collaboration with the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The collection highlights both the complexity and the gravity of the Israeli nuclear program for Kennedy and his administration.The collection highlights

The declassified record reveals that more than any other U.S. president, Kennedy was more personally engaged with Israel’s nuclear program and more concerned about it than any of his successors. Israel was the first case of nuclear proliferation that he had to deal with as a president. And nuclear proliferation was JFK’s “private nightmare,” as Glenn Seaborg, his Atomic Energy Commission chairman, once noted. And more than any other country, Israel was the one that impressed upon Kennedy the complexity and difficulty of the problem of nuclear proliferation.

Worried that a nuclear-armed Israel would destabilize the Middle East, Kennedy wanted to bring his concerns directly to Ben-Gurion. The two leaders met to discuss the nuclear issue at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York on May 30, 1961. The meeting was possible thanks to a reassuring report about the first American visit at Dimona, by AEC scientists, 10 days earlier. …

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/26/how-the-israelis-hoodwinked-jfk-on-going-nuclear-dimona-atoms-for-peace/

>>19101970

MAY 8, 2019

President Kennedy gave Israel a strong warning about its nuclear reactor in 1963

Kennedy, who was otherwise close to Israel, was furious with its ostensible nuclear weapons program.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Declassified documents show President John Kennedy warned Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1963 that U.S. support for the young country would be “seriously jeopardized” if Israel did not allow the United States periodic inspections of Israel’s nuclear reactor.

A telegram from Kennedy dated July 4, 1963, congratulates Eshkol on assuming the prime ministership after David Ben-Gurion’s resignation and recounts talks between Kennedy and Ben-Gurion about inspections at the reactor in Dimona.

“As I wrote Mr. Ben-Gurion, this government’s commitment to and support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized if it should be thought that we were unable to obtain reliable information on a subject as vital to peace as Israel’s effort in the nuclear field,” the telegram said.

The telegram was declassified in the 1990s but was not widely available until last week when the National Security Archives, a project affiliated with George Washington University, posted it on its website.

Kennedy, who was otherwise close to Israel, was furious with its ostensible nuclear weapons program, fearing that the Soviet Union could use it as leverage to maintain its influence in the Middle East.

Eshkol, caught off guard by the tone of the telegram, took seven weeks to assent, and the twice-yearly inspections continued until 1969, when President Richard Nixon ended them.

Also revealed in the trove of documents the National Security Archives posted is the origin of Israel’s oft-repeated credo that it would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons — a deliberately ambiguous statement that left Israel room to develop the weapons but not arm them.

Shimon Peres, then the deputy defense minister — he would later lead the country as prime minister for two stints and then become president — improvised the statement when he was surprised by Kennedy during a meeting that Peres had scheduled with Kennedy’s adviser, Myer Feldman, who also functioned as the administration’s liaison to Israel and the U.S. Jewish community. Unbeknownst to Peres, Kennedy and Feldman had planned the “surprise” encounter.

According to a Hebrew-language Foreign Ministry of Israel account of the April 2, 1963, meeting, Kennedy asked Peres into the Oval Office for 30 minutes and questioned him on Israel’s nuclear capacity.

“You know that we follow very closely the discovery of any nuclear development in the region,” Kennedy said. “This could create a very dangerous situation. For this reason, we monitor your nuclear effort. What could you tell me about this?”

Peres improvised, “I can tell you most clearly that we will not introduce nuclear weapons to the region, and certainly we will not be the first.”

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/president-kennedy-gave-israel-a-strong-warning-about-its-nuclear-reactor-in-1963-589107

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NEWS: A new State Department report released today finds fault with the Biden administration's planning, organization and management before and during the fall of Afghanistan.

Biden administration failed to foresee Afghanistan mayhem, review finds

The review is sharply critical of the U.S. government’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

washingtonpost.com

2:16 PM · Jun 30, 2023·192K Views

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1674844400403243008

>>19102403

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Notably, the report touches on a lot of the same reports that senior U.S. commanders involved in the evacuation effort have raised, including that bureaucracy in Washington was disorganized and not prepared for the full range of possibilities as the Taliban swept across AFG.

Also notably: This report has been released on the Friday afternoon heading into a holiday weekend, when it is less likely to get attention.

The White House did something similar around Easter weekend with its own review.

This new report states that although the military began planning for a full evacuation of Kabul “for some time” ahead of when it started in mid-August 2021, the State Department’s participation “was hindered by the fact that it was unclear who in the Department had the lead.”

>https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1674844400403243008