EMMETT AND MAMIE TILL TO RECEIVE PRES. BIDEN's RECOGNITION

 We only hear one side in the case of Emmett Till.  His murder was horrible, but we get only a glossed over picture of what preceded it.  When Newser recently had a short story on the matter, with room for comments, I made a comment.  Here it is:

a day ago

"The young, chunky Till enters the store with a young white woman clerk. Till from Chicago is going to impress his hick relatives on how to do things. Till puts his are round her waist and grabs her arm and makes some lude remarks. She gets away from him, and goes looking for her weapon.
In most civilized societies when a male makes a play for a married woman, he is inviting trouble. If Mamie Till had taught her son some manners, there would have been no trouble. Till got more trouble than he deserved and a brutal death, but had he been polite, he might still be alive."

Normally, the major media is determined to present the case of the woman, usually making the male the villain.  This case is the major exception.  I was not there.  The woman was a store clerk in the small store owned by her husband.  She often had black customers without any trouble.  Till's friends, who were either insed the store with him, or just outside the door, were looking on.  Till was showing them what a big man he was; what he could do and get away with.  Indirectly, he was telling his Mississippi relatives and friends, you can do this too when I"m back up North.  This would be not a single, but only the first of many assaults on that white woman.  She and her husband and brother-in-law decided to nip this in the bud.  She rode with them to make sure they apprehended the guilty Till and not his innocent friends.  Unfortunately, their brutal, murderous punishment went far beyond the transgression of the teen.---Hugh Murray

BARBIE AND OPPENHEIMER

 The new Barbie film has been banned in Vietnam.  Why?  Because it includes a map in which the South China Sea is shown as belonging to the People's Republic of China, Communist China.  Vietnam disputes the power grab by its northern neighbor and has its own claim to part of that sea.  Other nations in the area also dispute the Chinese claim, including the Philippines.  Why does an American film include a map of an area using the disputed claim of Communist China as the real map?  Moreover, the Chinese claim was rejected by an international court, AND the US also rejects the Chinese claim.  This is why the US sends ships into the area without getting clearance from China.  And our air missions too above the South China Sea.  There have been some close calls as the Chinese try to prevent our missions there.  The Chinese have sunk many Vietnamese and Philippino shipping boats.

  Again, why does an American film show a map approved by Beijing and rejected by Washington?  One suspects that Hollywood was more interested in selling tickets in China, and this was one way.  Showing another map might have prevented Barbie from entering China.

Meanwhile, Barbie is banned in Vietnam.  I heard a rumor, she is not happy about this, and is now talking to Oppenheimer about building a bomb to destroy that country.  My next question, why is Barbie not banned in the US?

US SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 6 TO 3

>From Chief Justice Robert's decision for the majority" The student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race," he wrote. "Many universities have for too long done just the opposite. And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice. "

 And my comment on this decision, which I posted a few inutes ago on Newser: 

 Don't expect much change soon. The enormous bureaucracy in every Human Resources Dept and EEOC office in the land will fight to keep their jobs - and their job is never hire the best, never giver the scholarship or admit the best qualified. Their purpose IN THEIR JOB is to make sure the best qualified is not chosen. Get a basically qualified candidate (as Eleanor Holmes Norton demanded back in the Carter days. The struggle for equal rights against the affirmative action racists has not ended, it has only restarted.

Unfortunately, Chief Justice Roberts, in his same decision, guided supporters of AA to a new loop hole he was creating with this sentence,  “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”  Affirmative Action will continue, with the same administrators admitting some applicants, perhaps even with a 3-word essay, "I am _______ (Fill out with a preferred minority).  I wonder how many white males will be admitted under this system.

EXPOSED - FDIC PAID OUT BIG TO DEPOSITORS OF FAILED BANK - DEMOCRAT PARTY CONNEXIONS??

Folks, This article comes from RT, but I have not heard it discussed much in the mainstream media in the US. If accurate, it indicates why the FDIC ignored its own rules - deposits in failed banks were guaranteed only up to $250,000. But when the Silicon Valley Bank went bankrupt, the big donors got all their deposits back, paid by the American tax payer. If I am not mistaken, many big Democrats have invested in Sequoia, and I would suspect they were investing in the Chinese firm too. Not in dispute, they got back far more than the law allowed. It all stinks of corruption. But, what can you expect? The Biden Administration runs the show. Hugh Murray FDIC accidentally reveals bailout recipients – Bloomberg The US agency gave $1 billion to the world’s top venture capital firm and $900 million to a Chinese tech firm, among others FDIC accidentally reveals bailout recipients – Bloomberg Customers wait to withdraw funds from Silicon Valley Bank following its collapse © Getty Images / David L Ryan The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation accidentally released the identities of the Silicon Valley Bank clients it bailed out following the bank’s collapse in March in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, Bloomberg News revealed on Friday. Upon realizing their mistake, the FDIC reportedly pleaded with Bloomberg to destroy the client list, claiming it had meant to “partially” redact some details “because [the document] included confidential commercial or financial information.” It’s not clear what this information was, as the agency has not commented beyond a letter from its attorney to the news outlet, but Bloomberg says it did not destroy or delete anything. The SVB clients who recovered their deposits thanks to a “systemic risk exception” declared by the FDIC included Sequoia Capital, the world’s most prominent venture capital firm, with $1 billion stored with the failed bank, and Beijing-based tech firm Kanzhun Ltd, which got its $902.9 million in deposits back. Life sciences startup Altos Labs’ $680.3 million were safe, as were payments startup Marqeta Inc.’s $634.5 million. Warren Buffet slams executives of failed US banks Read more Warren Buffet slams executives of failed US banks SVB’s largest depositor according to the FDIC document was crypto stablecoin company Circle Internet Financial Ltd., which had $3.3 billion in deposits there. The bank’s failure caused the value of the company’s USD Coin - supposed to be pegged hard-and-fast to the dollar - to wobble briefly, though like SVB’s other depositors the company was made whole thanks to the taxpayer. The FDIC typically only insures customer deposits up to $250,000. When SVB, a favorite bank of the venture capital and tech industries, collapsed in March due to a bank run, the FDIC extended its deposit protection to most of the bank’s customers in a controversial move critics framed as a bailout. Supporters of the idea argued that expanding FDIC protection beyond the standard limit was needed to prop up the thousands of small- and medium-size tech startups that called SVB home, lest their own collapse bring down the entire sector, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argued a soft landing for SVB’s customers was necessary to prevent total economic collapse. However, the document obtained by Bloomberg suggests the recipients of the FDIC’s largesse were never really in danger of collapsing. You can share this story on social media:

STILL WORKING ON MY BOOK

Still working on the book. BegaN as simple reprints of some of my publisshed articles, but I kept adding to it. Am trying to finish the last chapter now. It will be controversial. Hugh Murray

MUST SEE MOVIE - RICHARD JEWELL

My mouse broke over the weekend, and I could not get on the computer for several days. Saturday night I spent more time on the tv, and to my surprise, TNT was about to show a film that opened a few years ago, Richard Jewell. I had wanted to see it back at the opening, but a friend who usually took me to the mall had returned to his home country, and I had no easy way to get to the theater. Then lock-downs, and it was not front burner. I had heard it was on Amazon Prime, joined a month, but could not find it. So, forgot about it. So glad I got to see it. It concerns a flawed young man with a good heart. He believes in law and order and aspires to be a policeman or some how involved in law enforcement. He lives with his mom in Atlanta, and the Olympic Games are coming to the Georgia city. During some musical entertainment, he spots an unattended package, unsure. thinks it might be an explosive, gets people out the way as much as possible, and the bomb goes of killing a few. He becomes a hero. The FBI then thinks he fits their profile as the bomber! They decide it is him. With help from the media, they go after him, destroy his reputation, get him fired, and unhirabe. Ruin a good man - the role of the FBI and the government in this case. A FEW DAYS BEFORE, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD TO APPEAR IN COURT IN FLORIDA ON CHARGES INCLUDING ESPIONAGE. All the Biden documents, all the Biden bribery allegations, are ignored, while the US government now goes out to destroy Trump. Sad. See the movie, Richare Jewell. Hugh Murray

ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. DENOUNCES FBI TACTICS AGAINST CANDIDATE AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

 The following comes from RT, so take with a grain of salt.  However, today the FBI refused a subpoena from the Congressional oversight committee about its mishandling of the Hunter Biden laptop and the information it contained about the Biden crime family.

23 May, 2023 18:19

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decries ‘weaponization’ of FBI

The US presidential candidate has claimed the agency tried to destroy Donald Trump, undermining democracy

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Bitcoin conference on Friday in Miami, Florida. © Getty Images / Jason Koerner

US Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broken ranks with his party by arguing that the FBI was politicized to take down Donald Trump – both before and after he was elected president in 2016 – making a “mockery” of the US political process.

“This is no partisan skirmish,” Kennedy said on Monday in a Twitter post. “It is about the political weaponization of the FBI to destroy a candidate and then a sitting president. It’s about a matrix of lies so elaborate as to make a mockery of the democratic ideal of an informed citizenry.”

Kennedy made his comments in response to last week’s release of the Durham Report, which concluded that the FBI violated its own standards in starting an investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

Special prosecutor John Durham’s four-year probe found that the agency based its case on unverified allegations – leading to the ‘Russiagate’ investigation during Trump’s presidency – and became a funnel for disinformation from Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

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 FBI should never have investigated Trump – report

CNN and other US media outlets that touted the Trump-Russia allegations for years downplayed the Durham Report, calling the damning findings about the FBI a “whole big nothing.” Kennedy said the media’s role in the attacks on Trump was “maybe most troubling of all.” He added: “The Durham Report reveals the abject complicity of the mainstream press, which has yet to admit they were taken in by the big lie, propagated it and now continues to permit those lies to stand as truth.”

Kennedy is a nephew of former President John F. Kennedy Jr. and son of 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated. Earlier this month, he claimed that the FBI was behind the 1963 murder of his uncle and was likely involved in the killing of his father. He has a history of anti-establishment viewpoints, such as speaking out on the alleged dangers of some vaccines, calling for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, decrying Washington’s escalation of the Ukraine crisis, and criticizing the US military industrial complex.

Kennedy likened the media’s handling of Russiagate to its support for false allegations by former President George W. Bush’s administration that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. He called the two narratives “mendacious mythologies,” saying they were “lies, lies and more lies.”