There are a few skills that are hard-wired into the brains of infants that are so fundamental, and so critical for survival, that they’re operative from the moment of birth — if not sooner. One of them is pattern recognition, which is how infants recognize their mother’s faces. Even the youngest child is capable of matching a new stimulus with an event that’s previously established in their memory, and alter their behavior accordingly. Of course animals do the same thing.
But a funny thing happened to pattern recognition, starting around the middle of the last century. Pattern recognition transformed from a fundamental feature of human psychology to something far more sinister. To paraphrase the author Steve Sailer, a “war on noticing” commenced.
Burning Down The House
Giving a rotting, skeletal finger to America on his way out: Here’s Why Joe Biden Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros.
Dig That Poverty
None of this is surprising for a country whose leaders refer to each other as comrade.
These days, South Africa ranks among the ten least attractive mining destinations.
“When the new administration took over, it decided to try to totally revamp mining law in South Africa and copy what other African nations did,” Major said.
“You can imagine. You put billions into projects for 100 years and are now threatened with state ownership. New investment just stopped. Exploration and expansion just stopped. Why put money in something the state owns?”
“They were also changing legislation non-stop. You first had to have a BEE partner that owned 25%, and that quickly increased to 30%. And then, they said 70% of the money you spend had to go to BEE suppliers.”
Kier Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and
imagine if…
Background. And now, this.
Keir Starmer blamed the summer riots on the ‘far-right,’ but Sky News investigated and found the source wasn’t even from the UK.
He was gaslighting the entire nation to cover up what happened in Southport.
When the truth finally comes out, Starmer will be in serious trouble. […] Starmer put pressure on the legal system to fast-track people to prison for social media posts, AFTER calling everyone ‘far-right’.
The sentencing was clearly influenced by him and his gaslighting rhetoric about the non-existent ‘far-right’.
It’s trending.
Labour Party Trivia: Blair’s wife represented Rwandan General accused of ordering massacres
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.
The documents reflect the Biden-Harris Pentagon’s intense focus on implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the armed forces, even as the military continues to combat dwindling morale among its rank-and-file, recruiting and retention shortfalls and low pay.
You Shoulda Picked Your Own Cotton, New York
Somewhere up there, Kathy Shaidle is smiling.
“Today, the New York City Council voted to pass legislation establishing municipal efforts to acknowledge and address the legacy and impact of slavery and racial injustices in New York City,” the New York City council announced in a press release. “The package of legislation would establish a Truth, Healing and Reconciliation process on slavery within New York City (which had one of the highest rates of slave ownership in the country in the 1700s), a reparations study, informational signs at the City’s first slave market, and a taskforce to consider the creation of a ‘freedom trail’ commemorating abolitionist movement and Underground Railroad sites.”
The press release detailed how the commission would “establish facts about slavery in New York City and its ongoing legacies, protect and acknowledge affected persons and communities, and recommend changes for government and institutions to prevent the perpetuation and recurrence of injustices from the legacy of slavery.”[…]
“I’ll move before I’ll pay,” Minority Leader Joseph Borelli told the New York Post. Borelli was one of the 8 councilmembers to vote against the legislation.
“If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it,” he added. “But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause, nor condone, nor once participated in.”
Start packing.
Racial Profiles
After the end of South Africa’s policy of Apartheid, one would have thought that laws sorting people by race would be a thing of the past, right? Well, think again. As the Institute for Race Relations points out, from 1910 to the present 314 racial acts have been passed by their parliament. However, 117 of those acts have been adopted since 1994, and 141 racial acts are operative today.
Almost immediately [after 1994], however, the government began (re)enacting race law and pursuing racial policy. The two most notable instances of this are the 1998 Employment Equity Act and the 2003 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act. Various other pieces of legislation exist among dozens of charters, plans, regulations, directives, notices, and policies that attempt to regulate aspects of society along racial lines and racialise commerce.
John DEIre
John Deere CEO John May should resign or be fired over this video. Listen up because you won’t believe what he admits.
He admits to seeking specific races for board seats and that “diverse” board members have questioned why certain non-diverse people were hired and how to ensure that 2 “diverse” candidates were ready for that job in the future.
This sounds like discrimination against White employees to me. How is this legal?
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Lowering The Bar
You Can’t Cheat Father Bell Curve
[N]ew investigative reporting shows that the anti-meritocratic ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” has even infiltrated some medical schools — to disastrous results.
These revelations come from the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium, who just published a remarkable exposé on the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school. It alleges that the university has systemically violated laws prohibiting race-based admission and held applicants of different races to wildly different standards, all in an effort to boost diversity, while instead producing incompetent and unqualified doctors.
More: Over 50% of UCLA med students failed standardized tests on family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
Meet The New Commies, Same As The Old Commies
Blaming outsiders was a left-wing tactic when the 2020 George Floyd riots burned down neighborhoods and killed people.
But those weren’t and aren’t outsiders.
These are people on their side, in their movement, with similar goals.
From the immediate hours after Oct. 7, Nazi imagery, leftist justifications and Islamic extremism have been at protests’ forefront.[…]
Today’s anti-Israel extremism is part of the same moving train that drove violence in 2020, the anti-MAGA riots before that and the campus social-justice craze before that.
In fact, the people and tactics are largely the same.
Is Our Children Hating?
Boyce Watkins has a PhD in Finance.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
So cheap and efficient only the rich can afford it: South Africa’s Solar Boom Is Worsening Inequality
If you want something done, sometimes you just have to do it yourself. That’s the attitude taken by many South African households and companies as they invest in alternative-energy sources to avoid blackouts and soaring electricity tariffs. This movement has clear winners and losers.
Fed up with weathering the worst power crisis on record as state-owned utility Eskom struggles with debts and aging coal-fired power plants, businesses are finding ways to generate their own electricity. Most recently, Africa’s biggest mobile phone group, MTN, announced that it’ll spend 1.9 billion rand ($101 million) by the middle of the year on generators, batteries and renewable energy.
Being free of the creaky grid, which shuts down periodically in what’s known locally as load shedding, could help South Africa’s economy get back on track after being derailed by rolling blackouts. Consumers are saving money on their steeply rising energy bills and regaining a sense of control over their power access. It’s also reduced the severity and frequency of load shedding, as demand for Eskom-generated power drops.
But the full picture is more complicated.
This Is CNN
CNN Contributor suggests black people identified with OJ because he k*lled white people.
The “W” Word
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Video: Elon Musk tries to explain how lowering the standards for doctors could result in more deaths. Don Lemon is unable to grasp the concept.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Via @visegrad24: One of the main gangs in Haiti just released a high quality propaganda video
In this video, we can see men in uniform, well armed, equipped with almost new vehicles displaying a logo displaying a dinosaur head, the symbol of this criminal group. This raised countless questions. The simplest and certainly the most important: where did these materials come from and how were they able to arrive so easily at their destination? In a country like Haiti where no institution functions, the people will never have an answer.
The “W” Word
End State Diversity
Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs.
It comes after a sustained attack on the international airport, which remains closed to all flights – including one carrying Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
He tried to fly back to Haiti from the United States last week, but his plane was refused permission to land. He was then turned away from the neighbouring Dominican Republic too.
Mr Henry is now stuck in Puerto Rico, unable to set foot in the nation he ostensibly leads.
Among those who did manage to get into the stricken Caribbean nation, though, was a group of US military personnel.
Following a request from the US State Department, the Pentagon confirmed it had carried out an operation to, as it put it, “augment the security” of the US embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlift all non-essential staff to safety.
Soon after, the EU said it had evacuated all of its diplomats, fleeing a nation mired in violence and facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake.
Millions of Haitians, however, simply don’t have that luxury. They’re trapped, no matter how bad things get.
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