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Multiple recent stories offered more signs of what I consider to be an unfolding civilizational decline. First, a student in Hartford, CT, who had attended local public schools from age six, graduated from high school without knowing how to read or write. At all. She had used speech-to-text software to write her papers. After graduating on the honor roll, she is now enrolled at the University of Connecticut. She is also suing her former school district for educational neglect.

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I have previously written about how overstuffed with books and bookcases my family’s home is. In the midst of the (il)literacy crisis unfolding around us, I would like to propose an old-fashioned response: Home libraries will save civilization. Why? Because a home overcrowded with books sets the tone for how its inhabitants spend their time at home. Bored? Read a book. Want something to do for fun? Read a book. Have friends over? Read a book together. Relaxed family night at home? Start a read-aloud.

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Before the global Covid-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, mRNA based vaccines had never been administered to the public outside of a single clinical trial that was not completed at the time. However, within the space of 9 months these experimental vaccines were administered to millions through an emergency use authorization (EUA).

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The early scientific literature was biased, so as not to report SAEs, due to social and political concerns and overwhelming corporate greed. Only in the last year have scientists been able to publish articles that acknowledge a high number of SAEs linked to mRNA based vaccines. This should act as a warning that science should be completely objective when evaluating health risks, but can often be influenced by social and economic considerations.

Wall Street Journal.

One myth exposed by the strike is that unions need more economic and political power because they help the working man. The union behind this strike, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), helps some workers at the expense of countless others.

Start with the astounding fact that there were 50,000 or so ILA strikers but only 25,000 or so port jobs. That’s right, only about half of the union’s members are obliged to show up to work each day. The rest sit at home collecting “container royalties” negotiated in previous ILA contracts intended to protect against job losses that result from innovation.

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Why are almost all universities the same? The same general curriculum. The same departmental structure. The same political bent. Universities in Wyoming and Idaho are just as left-wing as universities in Colorado and New York. Private universities look just like public universities. Most Christian universities have dropped their distinctive missions and now look like all the other private universities. University administrators adopt the same Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies everywhere. I could go on.

Universities are almost all the same. But why?

Because the universities are machines. To get hired, Ph.D. disciplines produce Ph.D. holders stamped in the same professional mold. Those Ph.D.s then go out into the country and get hired by universities everywhere.

They build departments and design curriculum based on the same standards. University administrators come out of this assembly line—they move from department chair, to associate dean, to dean, to provost, and then to president. The same kind of general education plan gets put in place at nearly every university. And the same distribution requirements do too: take two English, three science, and three social science classes. Now take an ethics of diversity class.

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And about time, too.

A series of Israeli legislative, diplomatic, and military actions this month have threatened UNRWA’s presence along the country’s borders like never before. A consensus has emerged in Jerusalem that the agency is part of a terrorist menace that can no longer be tolerated following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

“UNRWA encourages terrorism and encourages massacres like Oct. 7,” Dan Illouz, a lawmaker from the ruling Likud party who cosponsored draft legislation meant to kneecap UNRWA, told the Washington Free Beacon, summing up the general sentiment among Zionist lawmakers. “Those things are completely unacceptable, and therefore UNRWA should not exist.”

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday unanimously approved Illouz’s bill, which would bar Israeli officials from having “any contact” with UNRWA or anyone acting on its behalf. All the committee members also voted to advance a related bill that would revoke UNRWA’s authorization to conduct “any activity, either directly or indirectly,” on Israeli territory.

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Migration is perhaps the most consequential issue of our time. Our world is far more mobile and interconnected than any point in human history and, as a result, we have seen historic demographic shifts and movement of peoples, especially in the Western world. This socio-political trend has become highly charged with emotional and ethical accusations such that those who stand opposed to the current levels of migration are being systematically labelled ‘hateful,’ ‘far-right,’ or ‘bigoted.’ Meanwhile, we are repeatedly told, in what has become trite rationale for unmitigated mass-migration, that ‘love has no borders,’ or indeed—as the Archbishop of Canterbury argued in an Easter Sunday address—that government policies to deter and remove illegal migrants cannot stand the judgement of God.

The political Left, who defend mass-migration and condemn those who argue for stricter migration controls, have to some degree succeeded in framing this political issue in a moral light which favours their position. They have painted their view as one of ‘love’ and ‘compassion.’ After all, it is inconceivable that anyone could turn away a distressed and needy soul from their home.

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They have convinced our own countrymen that it is a necessary condition of morality to accept millions upon millions of migrants—estranged from our own culture, religion, and heritage—into our homeland. They have bullied those who reject this quasi-moralism by making accusations of racism and hatred, something which has proven an effective strategy for stifling debate and preventing any real political reform.

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Good politics leads to bad economics, which is why minarchy is the only language these sorts of people understand. Now, obviously, I would say that as some described as a “mad free marketeer” — but as was said about me on the same occasion I can spot those things that are “wrong not just ideologically but in terms of basic facts”.

The subject then was Johann Hari. The subject now is the minimum wage. The base idea of the minimum wage is that the politicians — those who kiss enough babies to have power over us — know the correct value of an hour of labour. That the value of that hour might be what someone is prepared to pay for it escapes them.

Yet the essential truth of this is obvious. As Ha Joon Chang points out, Sven gets much more for driving a bus in Stockholm than Ashraf does in Dhaka, despite the latter’s job being both more difficult and stressful. The reason is that wages in general are higher in Sweden than Bangladesh — therefore higher wages have to be offered to get the bus driven. This does not accord with political reasoning, for no one kisses babies in order to leave the world alone to get on with itself.

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The graffiti, reading “Serve the nation, kill a Jew,” was inked onto a column of a monument to Simon Bolivar, historically considered “the Liberator” of South America, in Parque Rivadavia in the Argentine capital. A Jewish star stood in for the final word of the slogan.

Argentina’s leading Jewish organization, known as DAIA, filed an official complaint, and the municipality swiftly cleaned up the graffiti in the afternoon, shortly after it was discovered. DAIA condemned the “serious anti-Semitic graffiti” and said it was one of more than 500 antisemitic incidents the organization had recorded this year, amid a spike following Oct. 7, 2023.

Argentina has a Jewish population of nearly 200,000, the largest in Latin America. The vast majority live in the Buenos Aires area.

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Ten stones that memorialized victims of the Holocaust in a German town were discovered to be missing on Monday, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

Residents in the eastern German town of Zeitz woke up to find that all of the town’s “stumbling stones,” called “Stolpersteine” in German, had been dislodged and stolen. The brass plaques had been lodged between cobblestones in front of the houses where Jews lived before the Nazis deported and killed them.

Stumbling stones like those in Zeitz have been placed across Europe and serve as a memorial to Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis, listing their names, birthdates and what is known of their fates — including their arrests, deportation to concentration camps and death.

In November 2023, weeks after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War, four stumbling stones that marked the residences of Jews in Rome were defaced with black paint or burned.

“… and everybody hates the Jews….” — Tom Lehrer

The American Mind.

In response to an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, President Andrew Jackson is reputed to have said, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”

This statement finds a contemporary echo in the response of elite universities to the recent Supreme Court decisions that banned affirmative action in college admissions. Almost every one of them has continued to discriminate against white and Asian American applicants.

The implications of the universities’ defiance of the Supreme Court have effects that go far beyond college admissions. Above all, they show that America’s anti-white regime will not just go away because of Court rulings.

The Register.

A US jury has found that employment practices at Cognizant constitute discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers in a case that originated in 2013 and claimed the tech giant favored H-1B visa holders from India over local workers.

Last week’s verdict [PDF] says the IT service giant should pay punitive damages. It followed Cognizant’s failed attempt to have a federal judge dismiss a 2017 class action lawsuit alleging bias on the grounds of race and nationality after a previous trial ended without the jury reaching a verdict.

The US-based tech outsourcing and consultancy firm denies the claims. A spokesperson for Cognizant told The Register it was disappointed with the latest verdict and plans to vigorously defend itself on appeal.

“We provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and have built a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a culture of belonging in which all employees feel valued, are engaged and have the opportunity to develop and succeed. Cognizant does not tolerate discrimination and takes such claims seriously,” they said.

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Imagine how peaceful the U.S. would be if there were a wall between it and Mexico.

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grants that became known as “Zuckerbucks”—recently notified White Pine County, Nevada, of a $20,000 grant.

The county, in a major battleground state going into the Nov. 5 presidential election, has a population of about 9,000 and is part of what the Left-aligned center calls its Rural and Nonmetro Election Infrastructure Grant Program.

The notification to White Pine County came with a message from Tiana Epps-Johnson, CTCL’s executive director, and an agreement on how the $20,000 grant could be used.

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Given the news about the conflict in the Middle East, “freebiegate”, and the potential vote on assisted dying, you could be forgiven for missing the news this week that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) raised the cap on payments that could be made by fertility clinics to young women for their eggs.

The news had been trailed in August, to the dismay of women’s rights campaigners, and on 1 October the change was made, with payments to women for their eggs rising from £750 to £985 per cycle. Supporters of the policy change say this has come about as payments hadn’t risen since 2011, and that an uplift was necessary to account for inflation. That being the case, we may ask why men are being paid a mere £45 for their sperm, which increased from £35 on 1 October.

It may come as a shock to many readers that you can be paid for your gametes at all, raising as it does the concern that such high payments (for eggs at least) may incentivise young women on low incomes or those who are students to sell their eggs for the money. Indeed, reports have been seen in the media of women undergoing egg donation to pay towards holidays, or to go travelling. For a long time now, eggs and sperm have been tradable commodities.

All part of the feminist program to destroy our civilization by breaking the genetic link between parents and their children. Eventually children will be a fashion accessory, as they are now for celebrities.

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In the year 1623, Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, built a long series of moats and ramparts just across from central Copenhagen, on the eastern edge of the city’s harbor, to protect the city from Swedish invasion. In the early 19th century, the Danish government added artillery barracks. And in the 20th century, they filled in the surrounding swamps to make room for a modern military base, even as the rest of Copenhagen grew around it. That is until 1971, explains Far From Home reporter Scott Gurian, when the Danish defense ministry closed the base for good, and Copenhagen’s countercultural youth wasted no time breaking into the now vacant fortress and squatting in various buildings.

Progressives have been assholes every age.

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Will America’s downtowns recover after the downturn from the global pandemic? Digital technology and working from home have reduced the need for many of America’s workers to make the commute into a busy downtown every day. When employees aren’t heading downtown for jobs, it affects restaurants, retail, and other downtown businesses. Though some American downtowns are rebounding, many have experienced severe population declines in the past 10 years. One American city in particular has reduced its population by nearly 40% in a ten year time span. The population of Albany, Georgia’s downtown has declined by 39.3%.

Albany is 75% black and (of course) run by Democrats, and has what you would expect for crime rate.

Anybody who wonders why their downtown has declined by almost 40% in the last ten years needs to get out more.

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No, housing is not a global problem. Government is a global problem — housing is one of the results of that problem. Don’t mistake the symptom for the disease.

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The dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, plagiarized extensively over the course of his career, according to a complaint filed with the university on Thursday, lifting text without attribution and raising questions about his fitness to lead one of the top teacher training programs in the country.

The complaint includes nearly 40 examples of plagiarism that span nine of Jackson’s papers, including his Ph.D. thesis, and range from single sentences to full pages. It adds to the allegations of research misconduct already facing the embattled dean, who was a coauthor on several papers implicated in complaints against diversity officials earlier this year, including Harvard University’s chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston.

“Jackson has failed all ordinary standards of academic honesty,” said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former provost at Boston University, where he helped lead plagiarism investigations of faculty and alumni. “As long as he remains as a dean, the university has no legitimate basis to hold students and faculty to basic standards of intellectual integrity.”

“Top-Ranked Ed School” is like “fiercest Chihuahua”, something of a low bar.

Insider, a Voice of the Crust.

Ron Sherman has always had what he considers a typical baby-boomer attitude toward work: You’re loyal to your employer, you give 100%, and you never call out sick unless you really have to — and even then, you might try to push through anyway.

Work, however, has not always had that same attitude toward him. Sherman has been laid off three times in his career: once after his company was bought out, once after his job was shipped overseas (he trained his replacement), and, most recently, after his team at a major cable company was downsized. “Three strikes, you’re out,” he somewhat painfully jokes. The company says age has nothing to do with it and that it was about title, but Sherman, who is 67, notes that everyone who was cut from his team was over 60. As he contemplates whether it’s time to retire, the callousness with which his past employers treated him is making him rethink his give-it-all-on-the-job attitude.

“I was sort of raised that you do a hard day’s work and you’re honest, and things will work out for you — it’s a two-way street between you and your employer,” he says. “But I found out that’s truly not the case.”

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It was revealed this weekend that Chinese hackers managed to access systems run by three of the largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the US.

What’s notable about the attack is that it compromised security backdoors deliberately created to allow for wiretaps by US law enforcement.

One of the most universal truths is that any government enterprise is more incompetent than the average non-government enterprise.

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Leading members of the European Parliament’s national conservative Patriots for Europe (PfE) group gathered for the first time since the party’s foundation in July for the Italian Lega’s annual rally in Pontida on Sunday, October 6th. As prosecutors are seeking a six-year prison term for Lega leader and deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini for trying to protect his country’s borders, this year’s rally focused heavily on illegal migration and solidarity with the Patriots’ persecuted ally.

Huffington Post.   (Yeah, I know, but I’m trying to make a point here.)

Is a five-year age gap in a relationship a little untoward? What about a three-year gap?

On social media, Gen Zers–at least those who are chronically online–are constantly debating the ethics of age gaps. Even if some relationships are perfectly legal, that doesn’t necessarily make them ethical, many say.

“Untoward” and “Ethical” are the new “I don’t like it so you have to quit doing it”.

It’s little wonder then that age-disparate relationships are cause for so much conversation: Having grown up alongside the #MeToo movement, Generation Z is well versed in unbalanced power dynamics and the language of consent. And lately, there’s been plenty of celebrity pairings to interrogate.

“Power dynamics.” “Language of consent.” “Interrogate”. Let’s see how much Woke pseudo-intellectual jargon we can cram into one sentence, shall we?

There’s the obviously icky examples, like the recent, short-lived romance between Aoki Lee Simmons — Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons’ 21-year-old daughter — and restaurateur Vittorio Assaf, 65. Earlier this month, viral photos showed the pair flouncing around on vacation in St. Barts.

“Icky” is the new “unethical”. Whatever it actually is cannot withstand how somebody feels about it. It’s all about the feels. A 21-year-old obviously has no agency; she has to be protected from herself by Older And Wiser Heads (excepting Vittorio; he’s TOO old). (Of course, it doesn’t count how “icky” a transgender weirdo might be; your feels must Get With The Woke Agenda.)

Yes, they’re both consenting adults, but it was still unseemly, critics said.

“Unseemly.” It’s all about how critics feel; your choices must bend to their prescriptions. (Of course, these are the first people to celebrate Cardi B and Miley Cyrus being “unseemly” in public; You Go Girl trumps everything.)

So the discomfort around these types of relationships isn’t anything new. What is new, according to Lehmiller, is how comfortable Gen Z feels about publicly and vocally disapproving of these relationships ? even on people’s personal Instagram pages. (Aaron and Sam Taylor-Johnson recently spoke out against the “bizarre” online judgment they’ve received. Eilish and Rutherford brushed off the criticism from overly concerned fans by dressing up as a baby and an old man one Halloween.)

“To some in Gen Z, age-gap relationships read as being inherently exploitative because they perceive age discrepancies as necessarily creating a power imbalance that favors the older partner,” Lehmiller told HuffPost.

Here is the actual reason: Sexual Market Value.

Men reach their peak Sexual Market Value in their mid 30s; women in their early 20s. Women are evolutionarily wired to prefer older men, who have more experience with life, more confidence, more charm (“rizz”), and more financial resources. Evolutionary psychologists like David Buss have been documenting this FACT for years.

Most of the hate thrown on age-gap relationships comes from women who are past their peak SMV and discover that the men they want, who are their own age or greater, are passing them by in favor of younger women who are still around their peak SMV.

Here’s the sad truth:

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This week, the US Supreme court announced that it will consider throwing out the Mexican government’s suit in the case of Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. The Mexican government alleges that Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Witmer Public Safety Group Inc. are intentionally conspiring with middle-men to supply Mexican cartels with guns.

Let’s close the border — totally. Nobody gets across either way. No thing gets across either way. Violators will be shot on sight, like the old Iron Curtain. Mine fields are not out of the question.

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Energy ignorance, at these levels of government, are getting deadly. I mean, we can all see Germany, right? It’s turning slapstick, what they’re doing to energy policy, and so many western leaders seem intent on following them. Force the closure of baseload power, force the adoption of intermittent power, watch AI buy up all the power from nuclear sources, claim to support new nuclear power which everyone knows won’t get here for a few decades, then trot off to an annual fall climate conference to tell the world what to do next.

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A blood-drenched, fiery horror scene played out in Haiti on Thursday, as a rampaging gang killed at least 70 people and injured 16 more. Mowed down by automatic weapons or choked to death by house-arson, the dead included three infants and 10 women, according to the UN’s human rights office.

In a troubling indicator of gang violence sprawling beyond the country’s capital, the bloodshed took place in the town of Pont-Sondé, which is located in the agricultural Artibonite department, about 60 miles north of Port-au-Prince. The carnage, which commenced around 3 am local time, prompted more than 6,000 to flee the town for their lives.

“Today, once again, once too often, we are faced with the most absolute cowardice,” said Haitian Prime Minister Gary Conille in a social media post. “This heinous crime, perpetrated against defenseless women, men and children, is not only an attack on these victims, but on the entire Haitian nation.”

Send ’em to Springfield. Plenty of room. FEMA has money for that, at least.

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Former Gov. David Paterson and his 20 year-old stepson were assaulted on Manhattan’s Upper East Side Friday evening, according to the governor’s spokesperson and police.

The governor and his stepson, Anthony Chester Sliwa, were sent home from the hospital early Saturday morning after being taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center “as a precaution” on Friday evening, according to his spokesperson Sean Darcy.

“The Governor’s only request is that people refrain from attempting to use an unfortunate act of violence for their own personal or political gain,” Darcy said in a statement via text message on Saturday.

I certainly wish Theodore Roosevelt had never done anything. Our country would be a better place, and our lives would be much improved. For one thing, Woodrow Wilson would never have been President.

My dad was born in 1918. If he were still with us, but suffering from dementia, I would spend long hours with him finding out what it was like being a teenager during the Great Depression, learning more about his older brother (and that brother’s kids), and stuff I never thought to talk to him about when I was young and foolish.

New York Times.

The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.

CNN.

One state audit found that bonus checks intended for frontline workers during the pandemic were handed out to undeserving recipients. Another criticized a Minnesota state agency for failing to ensure there were no conflicts of interest in taxpayer-funded mental health and addiction programs. A third detailed lax oversight of a program to feed needy kids which federal prosecutors say resulted in the nation’s largest Covid-era fraud scheme.

But when confronted with these and other troubling examples of waste, fraud and abuse, some state agencies working under the administration of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz repeatedly minimized or dismissed the allegations, the state’s nonpartisan auditor, Judy Randall, told CNN.

A CNN review of audits – and the responses they prompted – as well as interviews with statewide politicians and pundits, found that Walz has been a hands-off leader when it comes to seeking accountability for episodes of fraud and mismanagement on his watch. What’s more, some state agencies headed by his appointees have responded defensively in recent months to the audits – a dynamic that Randall, who has worked in the department for 26 years, has found surprising.

Of course, you can’t trust a far-right misinformation source like CNN.

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God forbid anybody should get help other than from the government.

UPDATE: SpaceX Engineer In North Carolina Has Dire Warning: Biden-Harris’ FEMA “Actively Blocking Shipments” For Relief 

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This horrific natural disaster is a reminder of the extent to which the regime hates the people who live there.

Yes, yes it does.

The Coastal Crust have always looked with contempt on the Dirt People in flyover country.

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Of course it was.

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The European Commission is suing Hungary over its so-called Sovereignty Protection Act, a bill that was passed last December to defend the country against undue political interference from foreign entities.

Brussels had already launched an infringement procedure in February, claiming the law violates several European Union rules and principles, but Hungary has cited foreign interference in the 2022 Hungarian election campaign as the main reason for introducing the law.

In its response to Brussels’ infringement procedure, Hungary argued that the law does not violate EU law and that the concerns raised are unfounded. However, the Commission said in a statement on Thursday, October 3rd that “after carefully assessing the reply of the Hungarian authorities, the Commission maintains that most of the grievances identified have still not been addressed.” A ruling by the European Court of Justice is expected in the coming years.

András László, a Member of the European Parliament for the ruling conservative Hungarian Fidesz party reacted by tweeting: “The national law on the Defence of Sovereignty was not adopted for fun. It was a response to the valid outrage of Hungarians when they learned about the illegal foreign funding.”

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The number of people who are illiterate in Sweden is expected to exceed 800,000 in winter of this year, with researchers expecting the number to soon reach 1 million, in large part due to mass immigration.

The most recent survey by Statistics Sweden shows there are currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring.

“Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or write, it’s hard for them to find a place, pay their bills, or even book a doctor’s appointment.

But I’ll bet they can all recited the Koran from memory.

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Pure coincidence, I’m quite sure. Could happen to anybody. You know how these things are.

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Millions of people get arrested every year—about 7.36 million in 2022 alone. For most of us, that seems pretty abstract, because most of us aren’t criminals, and we assume that if we haven’t done anything wrong we have nothing to worry about.

But there are at least two things wrong with that assumption. First, almost everyone does something illegal in their lives that they view as a victimless crime or simply don’t realize is illegal, so your chances of being arrested someday may be higher than you suppose. And second, law enforcement and corporations are increasingly cutting out human beings and relying on technologies like automation, facial recognition, and artificial intelligence (often in combination), and those technologies are flawed—like, really flawed. And interacting with them can lead to false accusations and even arrests, even if you did absolutely nothing wrong. Here are seven ways you could be arrested today without even thinking about a crime.

The Atlantic.

Fifteen years ago, an Apple ad campaign issued a paean to the triumph of the smartphone: There’s an app for that, it said. Today, that message sounds less like a promise than a threat. There’s an app for that? If only there weren’t.

Apps are all around us now. McDonald’s has an app. Dunkin’ has an app. Every chain restaurant has an app. Every food-delivery service too: Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Chowbus. Every supermarket and big-box store. I currently have 139 apps on my phone. These include: Menards, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Joann Fabric, Dierbergs, Target, IKEA, Walmart, Whole Foods. I recently re-downloaded the Michaels app while I was in the Michaels checkout line just so I could apply a $5 coupon that the register failed to read from the app anyway.

Even when you’re lacking in a store-specific app, your apps will let you pay by app. You just need to figure out (or remember, if you ever knew) whether your gardener or your hair salon takes Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, or one of the new bank-provided services such as Zelle and Paze.

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Not that he knows it.

Republican governors clean up President Joe Biden’s mess in both disaster recovery and the longshoremen’s port strike; the world still doesn’t care what the unelected wife of the president thinks; and scammers are just as annoying as ever.

 

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Fox News host Jesse Watters warned that an unprecedented favor from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to leftist billionaire George Soros could wreak havoc on the American media landscape.

During the Oct. 2 edition of Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters slammed the FCC decision to waive a mandatory review of Soros’s foreign-backed purchase of Audacy, America’s second-largest radio company. Watters reminded his audience that Soros will soon own hundreds of radio stations that reach countless Americans. “Conservative talk stations” are among those purchased by Soros, Watters affirmed.

After playing a clip of the late radio legend Rush Limbaugh discussing American freedoms, Watters said, “Voices like our good friend Rush, [Sean] Hannity, [Mark] Levin—they’re an oasis of reason in an ocean of liberal bias. But that could change very soon. The company that controls these conservative talk stations, they are falling into the hands of Soros.”

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator.

And fewer people are more knowledgeable than Elizabeth Warren abouty breaking the law, shoddy tools, and half-baked info.

I wonder how much effort it would take to disassemble a John Deer tractor, reverse-engineer its control systems, and publish CNC milling control files for each of the parts. That would be entertaining.

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But they’ll try their damnedest nevertheless.

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In Colorado, now seen as a blue state, an average of 52.3% of voters have supported the Democratic candidate across the last four presidential elections. In fact, Colorado has gone to the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 2004, when the GOP candidate George W. Bush defeated John Kerry, a Democrat. Barring any unforeseen shakeup, Colorado is expected to align with historical voting patterns once again in 2024 and go to Harris. (Here is a look at the 15 least popular presidents, according to Millennials.)

Despite its status as a Democratic stronghold, there are several parts of the state that have consistently broken with the prevailing political ideology in recent elections. According to voting records, there are 37 counties in Colorado where an average of at least 50% of voters have supported the Republican candidate across the last four presidential elections. In four of these counties, more than 80% of voters cast ballots for the Republican candidate over the same four general elections.

Republicans get outvoted by the major metropolitan areas, which are (as always) dominated by Democrats — Californians moving to Denver, college students in Boulder, and God alone knows what is going on in Colorado Springs.

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Over the past several years, I’ve watched with sadness as the reputation of medical science has taken it on the chin. The pandemic polluted the public’s opinion of the purity of science and nobility of medicine.

Worst of all, science was taken hostage as much as truth was.

True scientists and honest doctors, asking important questions, were ignored, or worse, canceled. It was replaced by political grandstanding and pharmaceutical profit-taking, and our fellow citizens took note.

Scientific journals of the highest regard were strongarmed into publishing articles generated by lawyers and PR firms, only to then have those papers exposed as lies and retracted. Recent admissions by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg have revealed that government bureaucrats exerted pressure on social media companies to dress up opinions as facts to serve an agenda.

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The growing female athletes’ revolution against “inclusion” gone mad has escalated, with the Boise State Bronco and Wyoming Cowgirl volleyball teams forfeiting games against conference rival San Jose State, in apparent objection to the Spartans roster including an alleged male-to-female trans player.

The Spartans rolled into the weekend with a sparkling 9-0 record — and controversy over the squad’s senior outside/right side hitter Blaire Fleming, who is one of the team’s top players in terms of kills and points. The buzz was killed, however, when Boise State announced it would take a conference loss rather than play the Spartans. The school did not give a reason for the decision, but the motive seems clear to all observers.

Eventually, athletic competitions allowing ‘trans’ people into women’s sports will drive Real Women out.

Once that happens, Real Women who really want to do sports will form parallel organizations limited to Real Women.

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In the Netherlands, there is much unrest in the cultural sector over the Dutch government’s intention to increase VAT on culture, books, and sports, raising the rate from 9% to 21% effective 1 January 2026. The VAT increase in question is indeed a problem for the cultural sector, which has experienced significant pressure in the wake of COVID-19. Yet, all in all, it is a relatively minor problem; and, in fact, the fuss being made about it serves to divert attention from a much bigger problem within the Dutch cultural sector. For what is destroying the cultural sector from within is woke ideology, which is ultimately aimed not at the reformation of the sector, but at the complete demise of all heritage institutions.

Are such assessments overblown? I am afraid not. After all, wokeism argues that Western cultural heritage is an expression of colonialism, racism, and abuse of power. In other words, that cultural heritage is a legacy of the privileged white man and his ‘evil’ historical deeds. It is therefore perfectly logical that the adherents of the woke ideology want to bring about a new world, “unburdened by what has been” (to put it in the words of Kamala Harris). But, by definition, the notion of tabula rasa is incompatible with a desire to possess a meaningful and enduring cultural heritage.

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Colleges and universities are considering new ways to incorporate generative AI into teaching and learning, but not every student is on board with the tech yet. Experts weigh in on the necessity of AI in career preparation and higher education’s role in preparing students for jobs of the future.

Students don’t want jobs in the future. Students want paychecks in the future. Jobs are merely a tedious inconvenience.

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Heh. A fool and his money are soon parted.

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I am the father of two young daughters. They are more precious to me than everything else in the universe combined. I would die for them without a moment’s hesitation, and consider myself honoured to have been given the opportunity. Right now, they are being stolen from me before my eyes, and it is not obvious what I can do about it.

I shall refrain from sharing the details of my unhappy marriage, except to say this: I have done everything in my power to avoid a divorce. Coming from a psychology background, I am only too aware of the deleterious effects that would have on my children, no matter how civil the split. Fatherless children in particular perform poorly on almost every metric, including education, poverty, child pregnancy, drug use, abuse, and prison. This coupled with the excruciating realisation that I would not be there for them when they most needed me, and instead would find themselves at the mercy of whatever third-rate surrogate I am supplanted by. My plan therefore for years has been to hold on until my daughters were adults, and then get the hell out.

That option has been taken off the table now, because my wife has filed for divorce herself. The demands made are interesting: 100% of the family assets (despite my wife having never worked throughout the marriage), a large compensation payment for ‘damages’ (ludicrous, if you knew the circumstances), a healthy alimony cheque and worst of all, sole custody of the children. Seeing as there is zero chance of this being awarded (even in the misandrist hell of the divorce court), manoeuvres were necessary. And they have been deployed exhaustively.

This is why men aren’t getting married any more. Women have no one to blame but themselves.