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Monday, February 3. 2025Monday morning linksReturning to Socrates Syracuse University Prof Worries That if Trump Limits LGBT Topics, She Won’t Have Anything to Teach About Ten Problems with DEI That Frighten the Public The Excuses For DEI Programs Get Worse and Worse The Democrats Show Why They Lost TRUMP AND THE FIRST RULE OF POLITICS Trump's Visit to North Carolina Means More Than Many Understand For all its posturing, Canada will struggle with Trump’s new tariffs Trump’s Trade War Is On. Plus. Kristi Noem stops taxpayer money from funding illegal migrant flood Headmaster Starmer fails to reassure the parents of the nation The Congo Enters Chaos Spiral As Rwanda Backed Insurgents Invade Trackbacks
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Panama has suddenly backed out of the China Road agreement. That's weird. Just suddenly decided to back out! Meanwhile in unrelated news Trump continues to threaten to take back the Panama Canal if Panama doesn't adhere to the agreement they made with the U.S.
In other news most Canadian citizens claim that the Canadian news never told them that Canada was allowing Fentanyl drug labs and human traffickers on Canadian soil. And expressed surprise that instead of stopping these illegal acts when Trump asked them to the Trudeau government ignored the request and choose to accept the tariffs instead. Hmmm! I had to look. After reading the very disturbing story of how a professor has nothing to talk about but LGBT, I searched the name. A meek looking white woman with a friendly smile. The war is very far from won, only a frontal assault on the left has begun. Granted, their front lines seem to be in chaos. The first two weeks have hit them in quite a few directions. It appears as though they are lost. But think about it. Thousands of these meek little women, with friendly smiles came within one election of destroying western civilization. These feminists left will fight on. They will regroup.
These feminists have been at it for over a hundred years. They have used sex has the primary weapon. When the ball really got rolling, it was liquored lips won’t touch these lips. Now we have a PhD professor at Syracuse, lamenting a Supreme Court decision upholding a prohibition on real and virtual child pornography. Really? She’s against children being exploited sexually? Yes. Yes she is. Indeed. We must not become complacent. Hearts and minds of the uncommitted have to be won. Also, the source of the extraordinary amount of money available to radical leftists must be traced and stopped. Perhaps, it will be an appendix in the upcoming international trade negotiation with China.
Ivanpah Solar Plant: The Flaming Failure That’s Finally Being Put Out of Our Misery
QUOTE: Ivanpah is a shining (literally) example of what happens when ideology replaces sound economic and engineering principles. It was never about producing reliable, cost-effective energy. It was about making a grand, symbolic gesture in the fight against climate change. And as with most grand, symbolic gestures, reality eventually caught up. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/01/ivanpah-solar-plant-the-flaming-failure-thats-finally-being-put-out-of-our-misery/ New Transportation Secretary Issues Order Directing NHTSA to Rescind and Replace Existing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/413506.php There is only one problem with DEI, simply one. People are being awarded positions of authority and responsibility on the basis of their physical or stated characteristics, instead of their ability. And when you grant authority to someone that does not possess the requisite ability, you have set a future disaster in motion, the size and scale of which is defined by the scope of their authority and responsibility, and their personal shortfall of ability.
Modern society is predicated on the division of labor and specialization in a cooperative, mutually beneficial effort that establishes trust that the other expert knows what they're doing and can be constructively successful. DEI goes to the heart of demolishing that trust. USAID... A grifters heaven.
From the Geller Report Feb 2025 USAID shut down: It is over, "beyond repair". https://gellerreport.com/2025/02/usaid-shut-down-it-is-over-beyond-repair.html/ South Africa is more racist now than ever. The government is openly encouraging black citizens to kill white citizens. How ironic! Who could have possibly seen this coming. But of course everyone knew this would happen. Everyone knew that blacks in Africa are far more racist than are whites in Africa. This has been shown in a dozen African countries. South Africa is on the verge of a purge of the whites.
The South African infrastructure is failing. Their mines are doing fine because that is the source of money for the ruling black leaders. But why spend money to fix the water system or the railroad etc. But eventually it will all fail. The history of South Africa is often misstated or denied. 100 years ago most of the South African blacks lived in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia. What happened is after the turn of the century 20th century South Africa was far better off than the rest of Africa so Africans illegally immigrated into South Africa because poverty in South Africa was head and shoulders above poverty in their native country. And as could be predicted these new "immigrants" procreated furiously creating a large "minority" population that over time was destroying South Africa. The government tried to prevent this destruction but deportation was difficult and as the new "minority" grew it became quite violent. Mostly the violence was one immigrant tribe against another immigrant tribe. But eventually "activists" organized the "immigrants" and got them to direct their violence against the citizens of South Africa who were now a minority in their own country. THAT period is what most of us saw and attribute to the problems in South Africa, that period where South Africa was dying and the citizens were desperate to save it. But they lost and South Africa was officially taken over by the replacement citizens who almost immediately began killing and robbing the white citizens.
Keep all that in mind as you try to understand what the Democrats have in store for America. These "immigrants" are your replacements and once they are the majority they will rob and kill you. That is the plan not some serendipity, that is the Democrats plan. They expect to profit immensely as the politics of the country change and they expect to rule for 100 years as the new minority becomes the majority. There is really only one stumbling block in this long range plan and that is guns or the 2nd amendment. It's tough to kill off a large number of people who are all armed. So in addition to bringing in millions of replacements they need to take your guns so that when you finally figure out what they did to you that you cannot fight back or even defend yourself. Ill Wind
QUOTE: Jason Grumet, the head of the American Clean Power Association (annual revenue: $62.3 million), told Heatmap News that “probably more than half” of all new wind projects under development in the US could be killed due to President Trump’s executive order requiring a “comprehensive assessment” of federal permitting. Heatmap explained that Trump’s policies pose “a potential existential threat to the industry’s future. . . . the offshore and onshore wind sectors are in full-blown panic mode. Trump’s executive orders, particularly the one requiring the federal government to assess the wind industry’s impact on wildlife — have had an immediate and chilling effect on wind projects onshore and offshore. https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/ill-wind?triedRedirect=true "Impact on wildlife"... So, they have to comply with the environmental laws like everyone else. The 'alternative' grift is gone.
An interesting thing is now happening on YouTube. Multiple YouTube channels are coming out with anti-Trump propaganda BUT their comments are blocked unless you are members of the channel. In other words they are censoring their comments sections to make sure no one tries to point out their disinformation. And equally interesting is that within a couple of hours they have thousands of adoring comments, likely bots. The anti-Trump resistance is very coordinated and active. CIA maybe??? No, that would be illegal LOL.
Syracuse could use a break from the freaks. Meanwhile, she might be able to get a gig flying military helicopters.
Ouch.
Capt. Lobach - the pilot of the chopper in the D.C. air disaster, also an ex-Biden White House aid - was remembered as, "kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong." (from an article published at The National Pulse, via Ace of Spades) I'm having a hard time digesting the brilliant part. They're always brilliant. Before DEI: There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. But there are no old bold pilots. Fighter pilots are a special breed, I've known a lot of them including some of the Thunder Bird pilots. They are over confident, sharp, capable and ready to test themselves. But all of them over the age of 35 were confident but careful, in control, by the book, ready and willing to do whatever it takes. I knew pilots before they went into a war zone and afterwards and a one year assignment in a war zone aged them at least 10 years in every way.
I don't know what happened to cause this accident. It looks like pilot error but there are hints of equipment error. The darkness combined with the city lights are a bigger problem for a pilot that isn't on a specified glide path. Right at the point of the collision the landing path and the Army helicopter path conflict. Then there is the problem that neither pilot can hear the other pilot on the radio. I'm not yet convinced it is a ATC problem but that said there was a clear period where the ATC knew the two aircraft were dangerously close and the obvious command would have been to have the helicopter cease forward motion and hover until it was safe. What I think happened is the helicopter pilot in the dark mis-estimated it's altitude above the river and flew above their ceiling. I think when the NTSB is done it will declare pilot error on the helicopter pilot. I would not be surprised to find out the pilot was not yet sufficiently trained for this particular mission and may have been thrust into it carelessly. Another factor is most major airports have "rush hour" periods during the day and this probably contributed to putting aircraft too close for comfort. And of course the elephant in the room is that there is so much restricted airspace over DC that all aircraft are forced to fly over the river. |