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More Proof That Danes Are Saner

From ZH:

“Denmark is to start demolishing parts of migrant ghettos and moving people elsewhere in a bid to put an end to ‘parallel societies’ that have led to high crime and social dislocation.”

And for all of you DIVERSITY, INCLUSIVITY and EQUITY fans, here’s what one OBVIOUSLY UN-WOKEN LONDON PROF’S research says:

No, it’s not so simple as singing KUMBAYA. 

Tenured UCLA Prof Quits . . .

. . . over WOKE CAPTURE of the university.

More DEGRADATION of the US university system in the in the name of ANTI-RACISM.

In reality?  The usual Orwellian snow-job to curtail free speech.  Next stop — SPANISH INQUISITION or STALIN SHOW TRIALS?

My God, WHERE HAS COMMON SENSE GONE?

Here’s Professor Joseph H. Manson’s resignation letter:

Why I’m Leaving the University

As well as a few choice excerpts:

  • “I’m a professor, retiring at 62 because the Woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life. “Another one?” you ask. “What does this guy have to say that hasn’t already been said by Jordan Peterson, Peter Boghossian, Joshua Katz, or Bo Winegard1?”
  • “[My) colleague[s], P. Jeffrey Brantingham . . . had developed simulation models of the geographic and temporal patterning of urban crime, and had created predictive software that he marketed to law enforcement agencies. In Spring 2018, the department’s Anthropology Graduate Students Association passed a resolution accusing Jeff’s research of (among other counter-revolutionary sins) ‘entrench[ing] and naturaliz[ing] the criminalization of Blackness in the United States’ and calling for ‘referring’ his research to UCLA’s Vice Chancellor for Research, presumably for some sort of investigation. This document contains no trace of scholarly argument, but instead resembles a religious proclamation of anathema.”
  • “In private conversations, I was able to elicit from some of my colleagues an embarrassed acknowledgment that the Woke faction had treated Jeff abominably, and that we strongly resembled a dysfunctional family in denial.”
  • Discussing whether to stop requiring the GRE (a standardized test, like the SAT) from applicants to our Ph.D. program, one colleague told a meeting of the biological anthropology subfield that he regarded the GRE as the most informative part of an applicant’s dossier, but that we had no choice but to vote to stop requiring it, because otherwise we would be regarded as racists (I was the only person to vote against dropping the GRE requirement).“
  • “Outside the anthropology department, UCLA as a whole is showing all the signs of Woke capture that typify the contemporary U.S. university. Emeritus Professor Val Rust (Graduate School of Education) was banned from campus, and researcher James Enstrom (Environmental Health Sciences) and lecturer Keith Fink (Communication Studies) were fired, all for dissenting (in different ways) from Woke orthodoxy.”
  • “Also typical of elite U.S. universities, UCLA is awash in anti-Zionism, a.k.a. thinly disguised Jew-hatred. In May 2019, one of my colleagues, Kyeyoung Park, invited a guest lecturer, San Francisco State University professor Rabab Abdulhadi, to her class to proclaim that Zionism is a form of white supremacism.”

GET THE PICTURE?

ANYTHING THAT SUPPORTS MERIT OR ACADEMIC RIGOR IS FAIR GAME FOR “ANTI-RACIST” ACCUSATIONS.  AND SO ARE ZIONISTS WHILE THEY’RE AT IT.

This is political, revanchist, anti-Enlightenment and an attack on FREE SPEECH.

That so many OTHERWISE SANE AMERICANS are putting up with this nonsense is also evidence of something approaching MASS PSYCHOSIS.

God help us if this kind of “thinking” persists.  It’s TYRANNICAL.

Bye, Bill . . .

. . . and Good Riddance.

This damn fool PHASED OUT NYC’S GIFTED AND TALENTED SCHOOL PROGRAM.

Yes, and in the name of SO-CALLED EQUITY.

That’s right, Bill, cripple the most gifted and talented.  See where THAT gets us.

Russia Halting Gas Flows to Germany

It’s declared FORCE MAJEURE.

Or, operating out of sequence, has it really DECLARED WAR?  Albeit via Gazprom?

Either way — it’s no more gas for Germany.

As for CLIMATE CHANGE, no battle plan ever survives FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY.  Or to paraphrase Mike Tyson — WE ALL HAVE A PLAN TILL WE’RE PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH.

TEACHABLE MOMENT FOR GRETA & CO.

Rhine Drying Up?

From ZH:

“What has already been a year from hell for Germany, which is suffering energy hyperinflation as a result of Europe’s sanctions on Russia, and which is “facing the biggest crisis the country has every had” according to the president of the German employers association, is about to get even worse as the declining water level of the Rhine river, which has historically been a key infrastructure transit artery across Germany, continues to fall and as it does, the flow of commodities to inland Europe is starting to buckle threatening to make an already historic crisis even worse.”

This is SERIOUS.

“The 800-mile (1,288-kilometer) Rhine river runs from Switzerland all the way to the North Sea and is used to transport tens of millions of tons of commodities through inland Europe. But with water levels at their lowest for the time of year in 15 years, there is a limit how much fuel, coal and other vital cargo that barges can carry up and down the river.”

A BITTER SUMMER FOR EUROPE AND, IN PARTICULAR, GERMANY. BUT IF THERE’S NO RUSSIAN GAS, WINTER WILL BE WORSE.

Peter Schiff: The Dollar Is in a Bubble

Some SOLID REASONING here.  And as a METALS MAN, there’s NOTHING I disagree with.

Transcribed from a recent Peter Schiff podcast:

“If you look at everything from a fundamental perspective, today’s inflation should be exacting an even larger toll on the value of the dollar relative to other currencies than it was back in the 70s. Yet, the opposite is happening. Inflation is actually turning into a boon for the dollar. The weaker the dollar is in America, the stronger it becomes overseas.”

“Right now, the dollar is acting as an inflation hedge for everybody outside of the United States. It’s not an inflation hedge inside the United States. You can’t buy the dollar to hedge inflation if you’re an American living in the US because there’s no hedge. The dollar is losing value. … That’s not the dynamic that Europeans are looking at, or the Japanese. From their perspective, yields in the US are very positive because they’re looking at the appreciation of the US dollar.”

“The dollar is rising on the greater fool theory. Why are people buying dollars? Not because they need them to buy American products. They’re buying them because they think some greater fool is going to pay a higher price for their dollars in the future. … That can go on for only so long until ultimately the bubble pops. And that is what is going to happen to this dollar bubble. Because that’s what it is. It’s a massive reinforcing bubble where people are buying the dollar because it’s going up. And because it’s going up, people buy it.”

“Right now, the dollar is stealing gold’s luster. For a while, it was bitcoin that everybody wanted instead of gold. But now it’s the dollar that everybody wants instead of gold. Eventually, people are going to figure out that they don’t want the dollar just like a lot of them figured out they don’t want bitcoin. There is ultimately going to be a rush into gold. As I’ve been saying, gold will be the last safe haven standing because it’s the only true safe haven.”

SPECULATIVE “MOMENTUM VALUE” VS. THE ENDURING VALUE OF ACTUAL MONEY.