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[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Resurfaced clip from Abdul El-Sayed documentary shows him directing his crew to NOT film his shelf full of Qurans in order to "keep the shot secular."

He doesn't want people seeing that side of him.

I wonder why...

h/t @FreeBeacon

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

When the ANC assumed power in 1994, they inherited the most sophisticated economic engine on the African continent.

They were handed a deep-water port network, a highly complex rail system that efficiently moved freight from the interior to the coast, an integrated national power grid that generated some of the cheapest electricity in the world, and a professional, rule-bound civil service.

That system possessed underlying engineering and administrative principles that were globally competitive.

The historical task of the new government was simple: maintain the existing engineering standards, scale the capacity to include the black majority, and expand the productive tax base.

Instead, the ANC executed a 30 year masterclass in structural vandalism.

They introduced cadre deployment, incompetence, corruption, and political impunity, systematically replacing competent engineers, financial auditors, and institutional administrators with politically loyal party hacks.

The results are not ideological; they are physical.

It takes centuries of capital accumulation, spatial planning, and disciplined maintenance to build an interconnected civilization, but it takes only a few decades of deliberate neglect to destroy it.

You can see the rot in real-time.

The ultimate tragedy is that the liberation movement successfully decoupled its survival from the material reality of the country.

The ANC did not "decolonize" South Africa; they simply consumed its foundational capital.

They proved that an elite equipped with nothing but liberation slogans and an insatiable appetite for state contracts can liquidate 300 years of built infrastructure in just three decades, leaving the next generation to inherit a broken, unmanageable corpse.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

George Soros and the Open Society Foundations – The Capillary System.

Everyone says Soros this, Soros that. But how do they actually operate?

Most of the organizations we have described operate at the elite level – the meeting in Davos, the seminar and the committee in Brussels. The Open Society Foundations are different. They operate at every level simultaneously – from the supranational to the local, from the think tank to the street activist, from the Supreme Court brief to the district attorney election. The most complete political funding infrastructure ever built by a private individual.
Follow the money – most of it is hiding in plain sight.

Soros made his fortune speculating on national currencies – most famously breaking the British Pound in 1992. He used the proceeds to fund institutions that argue against national sovereignties, helping him make such operations. This is not irony. It is a business model. An arbitrage.

1. The mechanism is simple and almost elegant. You create a nicely named organization – an institute for open society, a foundation for democratic media, a center for justice reform. You seed it with ten million dollars of private money, enough to hire staff, produce reports, and establish credibility. Then, through the network of associates and ideologically aligned officials that decades of funding have placed inside governments and supranational bodies, you ensure that this private organization receives hundreds of millions in public funding – EU grants, USAID contracts, government subsidies. The private money creates the platform. The public hundreds of millions buy the reach. The taxpayer funds the project. The project serves the agenda.
A nice arbitrage again.

2. Let’s imagine in every country a main foundation operating as a buzzing corporate office — a headquarters — populated with people who know the agenda best and understand how it connects to the global program. Everyone comes there for instructions. Every smaller organization in the country — the migration NGO, the media fund, the arts prize committee — knows where to come for orientation, for funding, for the framing of the next campaign. It looks like a civil society hub. The people inside it may believe they are doing good. The architecture ensures that doing good means advancing the agenda.

3. The network controls the full loop. The think tank produces the paper. The advocacy group runs the campaign. The legal organization takes it to court. The media organization covers it favorably. The fact-checker delegitimizes the opposition. Each may look independent; the funding architecture connects them. The public annual reports list the grants and recipients. The architecture is not hidden. It is simply too layered for most people to read clearly.

4. The cultural layer is the most insidious. The network funds literary prizes that go to authors advancing the agenda. They fund film festivals, journalism awards, university chairs. None of this requires explicit editorial control. You don’t tell the prize committee who to select. You fund the prize committee. Over time the selection reflects the values of the funder.

5. In America, Soros-backed political groups have funded progressive prosecutors and district-attorney campaigns. The money is visible in campaign-finance records; the resulting policies are visible in the cities where they were implemented.

6. In Europe, the same architecture appears around migration: advocacy organizations, legal challenges, NGOs, political lobbying, and media narratives. The different pieces reinforce one another. One source. Every layer. Taxpayer money amplifying private money at every stage.

7. That is the capillary system: an ideological project reaching from elite institutions down into everyday life. The activist, journalist, lawyer, academic, official, and politician do not need to know one another or consciously share a master plan. Networks, institutions, and funding create the coordination.

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

When I was young, in politics, and very idealistic, I thought—along with a lot of other people—that if everyone had a good education (eleven years of compulsory education), reasonable housing, a decent standard of living, and access to good healthcare, then most of our problems would be over.

That, of course, is not right.

When you have got those things right, you are then up against the real behavioural problems of human nature, and they are far more difficult to cope with, as we all know.

And that is where you come in, because they are the standards of society:

What is acceptable and what is not, rising to your obligations and not putting quite so much emphasis on your entitlements—because no one has an entitlement unless someone else has previously met an obligation.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Quand tu entends un journaliste ou un politique dire « on va manquer d’eau », arrête-toi.

Il n’est pas en train de t’informer.

Il est en train de te faire pipi dans le cerveau.

La Terre, c’est 70 % d’eau. Musk l’a dit à Bill Maher en 2023, sans slide ni ministère. Maher : tu ne peux pas la boire. Musk : le dessalement est absurdement cheap. On le fait déjà. There’s plenty of water. This is not an issue.

Un litre d’eau de mer, quelques kilowattheures, de l’eau potable. Israël le vend autour de 40 centimes le mètre cube. Dubaï boit presque exclusivement ça.

La France n’est pas le Sahel.

503 milliards de mètres cubes tombent chaque année. Après évaporation, il reste environ 200 milliards renouvelables. On en consomme une fraction. Un litre sur cinq, pourtant, fuit dans les tuyaux. L’Espagne réutilise ~15 % de ses eaux usées. Nous : moins de 1 %.

Ce n’est pas la planète qui a fermé le robinet.

C’est un réseau pourri, des autorisations lentes, et un calendrier : trop d’eau l’hiver, trop peu l’été. Un problème de pompes, de stockage, de réutilisation. Un problème d’ingénieurs.

Eux en font un drame existentiel.

Parce qu’un drame justifie le tarif moral, l’amende, le ministère, l’intermédiaire. Toi contre ton voisin. L’agriculteur contre la ville. Et au milieu, toujours les mêmes pour rationner.

L’eau douce, ce n’est pas une relique. C’est de l’énergie et du transport. Dès que l’énergie est abondante, l’eau l’est aussi.

Alors la prochaine fois qu’on te sort la soif comme destin, tu as la phrase.

On ne manque pas d’eau. On manque de tuyaux, de puissance, et de gens qui construisent.

Le reste, c’est du pipi dans le cerveau.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The word tolerance has been weaponized against you. The weapon was forged in 1965. You should know who forged it and why.

Before there was the French Theory — before Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze made deconstruction elegant and exportable — there was the Frankfurt School. And the Frankfurt School was worse, because it was deliberate. Foucault played with ideas he never expected to have consequences. Herbert Marcuse knew exactly what he was building.

These were not fringe academics. The Institute for Social Research relocated from Frankfurt to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. Funded, positioned, and deliberate, they spent the next decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for the dismantling of the civilization that had given them refuge. This is not ingratitude – it is the logic of the project. It was universal – it applied to every Western civilization equally.

Marcuse — godfather of the New Left — published Repressive Tolerance in 1965. The most influential political document most people have never read. Its argument: tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance requires the suppression of intolerant ideas. Tolerating everything is repressive. Suppressing the wrong things is liberating. The argument is circular by design – it puts the conclusion inside the premise and dares you to find the exit.

The practical implication was stated explicitly: withdrawal of tolerance from movements that are regressive, from speech that reinforces existing hierarchies. The left decides which movements are regressive. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance but in its name. The most sophisticated justification for censorship ever produced, dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.

The French Theory picked up the tools and made them elegant. Foucault made the Frankfurt critique of power literary. Derrida made the critique of meaning philosophical. Deleuze made the critique of identity aesthetic. What had been a political program became a cultural sensibility – which is why it spread further and faster than the original. You can argue with a political program. A cultural sensibility is in the air you breathe.

The generation that read Marcuse went on to run the universities, the media, the foundations, the NGOs, the content moderation departments, and the EU regulatory apparatus. They did not implement his argument cynically – they implemented it sincerely, because they had been taught it as philosophy.

This is why cancel culture does not feel like censorship to the people practicing it. The journalist who demands a speaker be deplatformed genuinely believes she is defending free speech. The HR department that fires the employee for the wrong opinion genuinely believes it is creating an inclusive environment. They have been taught that this is what tolerance means. Marcuse taught them.

Musk has been fighting Marcuse’s argument for four years probably even without knowing Marcuse’s name. Every content moderation policy, every advertiser boycott, every regulatory assault – these are Repressive Tolerance, institutionalized. The DSA is Repressive Tolerance with a legal budget. The fact-checking organization is Repressive Tolerance.

The good news: the argument fails on contact with a free platform – because the suppression becomes visible, the mechanism becomes nameable, and a named mechanism loses half its power. This is why the Counter-Reformation moves so fast against X. Not because X is dangerous. Because X is where Repressive Tolerance gets named.

You are reading this now – which is precisely what Repressive Tolerance was designed to prevent.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

There's no need to be blackpilled about the thousands of people who showed up and spouted nonsense at the Jason Arday vigil in Trafalgar Square.

Why? Because they know the fragility of their worldview and can sense the tide is turning. Perhaps they also have an inkling that institutionally, the DEI house of cards will come tumbling down soon as the political winds have shifted dramatically. Therefore, as @joshxhowie said, they are making a last stand.

It's long been known that costly, counter-evidential beliefs function as credible loyalty tests. Endorsing something that is obviously bereft of epistemic dignity to outsiders imposes a huge reputational cost on the believer.

That cost makes defection more expensive and signals to the in-group that you are fully committed rather than a free-rider who will leave when the going gets tough. The more prima facie absurd the claim, the stronger the signal.

You've seen this with the trans / gender ideology movement. The insistence that biological males can become women or that sex itself is a fluid social construct untethered from chromosomes, gametes, and reproductive anatomy, functions less as a scientific proposition than as a high-stakes loyalty oath.

Its very defiance of observable nature and empirical consensus elevates it into a sacred shibboleth - those who affirm it at the price of their own credibility signal that the group’s moral authority supersedes the evidence of the senses, while those who refuse are marked as outsiders.

The case of Jason Arday unfolds within the same framework. His improbable narrative of profound childhood disability overcome by miraculous ascent, accompanied by extraordinary athletic and philanthropic claims, became a totem of institutional virtue and racial progress. Even his thin and questionable record as a scholar was met with that dramatic handclasp by the head of department for education at Cambridge who looked him deep in the eyes and said, “you are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do." The rest of us outsiders all could barely suppress our laughter seeing this plainly for what it is.

Early defenders, confronted with accumulating contradictions and allegations of academic impropriety, frequently subordinated evidentiary scrutiny to the imperative of solidarity; questioning the story was treated as an assault on the tribe itself rather than an inquiry into truth. Jason Arday himself capitalized on this by siccing the police on inquiring colleagues and investigative reporters, and by accusing any students who complained of racism.

The eventual collapse of the edifice revealed how thoroughly the loyalty test had operated until the costs grew unsustainable. That's why they decided to congregate in Trafalgar Square.

Sadly for them, the British people are a lot smarter than this DEI cult that is fast approaching the total exhaustion of its cultural and political capital.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Accusations of slavery and the slave trade often focus on Europe in the modern “guilt-driven” Western historiography, to the point where a significant percentage of people believe that slavery was invented or practiced exclusively by Europeans. However, the truth is that the history of slavery outside the West was a much more common and often more brutal practice.

Perhaps the most populous was the Arab slave trade, with numbers in the Sub-Saharan region alone estimated between 6 and 10 million. This trade emerged in the 7th century, a full 10 centuries before the Atlantic slave trade. Arabs sold Africans in the Middle East for various tasks, such as domestic work, porters, laborers, or harem guards. The castration of male slaves was a common practice, with little concern for their well-being, resulting in more than half of them bleeding to death. It is estimated that three-quarters of the captured slaves died before even reaching the slave markets for sale.

Arabs also established a large network for slave trading in Europe. It is estimated that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Berber pirates, who raided villages in coastal Mediterranean countries such as Italy and France, the territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, and Atlantic countries like England and Ireland, transporting them to North Africa for sale. In some cases, entire villages were captured, such as the Irish seaside village of Baltimore, which was raided in 1631.

Of course, the slave trade was not an Arab invention either. On the contrary, the enslavement of conquered tribes was already a common practice in Central Africa. The West African Songhai Empire relied heavily on captured slaves at all levels of society, including soldiers, making it one of the most important sources of revenue. Africans themselves also played a significant role in facilitating the transatlantic slave trade centuries later. African tribes conducted raids on rival groups to provide slaves for sale, and African middlemen facilitated the trade between European merchants (a large percentage of whom were Jewish in origin during the 17th century) and African suppliers.

Additionally, many slaves captured by Berber pirates were sold eastward to the Ottoman Empire. These slaves came from Africa, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Southeast Europe. A large portion of them were “employed” in sexual slavery, which was a significant part of Ottoman society. Slavic women were highly preferred as slaves, and Köçeks became a popular source of entertainment in the 19th century—these were young boys, usually of European origin, who were circumcised and trained as dancers.

Moreover, hereditary slavery is documented in China dating back to the Xia dynasty around 2100 B.C. There were even Africans who were bought along the Silk Road and used as a symbol of wealth. Naturally, the owner had unlimited power over them and could resell or kill them if they were deemed no longer useful. Additionally, Chinese law began to treat women as property around 1000 A.D., and it became common practice to sell daughters and sisters as slaves. During the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), laws were issued to limit the ownership of slaves: each king or duke was allowed a maximum of 200 slaves, an imperial princess could have up to 100 slaves, and other officials were limited to 30 slaves each. Vietnam became a major source of slaves, particularly for sexual purposes, during its over thousand-year occupation by Chinese dynasties (111 BC – 939 AD).

📷 : an Orientalist oil painting titled A Caravan (Kidnapped Slave Girls in the Desert) by the Swiss artist Otto Pilny, created before his death in 1936.

#archaeohistories

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

The worst part is Arday’s PhD thesis, which, if the media and the entire DEI regime had been honest for even a moment, should have ended this saga almost as soon as it began.

It is bad enough that the title of the thesis contains a grammatical error. What is infinitely worse is that the error itself was imported from a thesis he plagiarized. In the original, the apostrophe in “student teachers’ reflective practice” is correct because the reflective practice belongs to the student teachers. Arday then rearranged the wording, apparently to make the title look less obviously plagiarized, but was so careless in his deception that he left the apostrophe behind even though “student teachers” was no longer possessive.

And perhaps most damning of all, this thesis supposedly passed through the entire academic apparatus of supervision, review, assessment and examination without anyone noticing a glaring error in the title. It’s almost as if no one ever read the thing. They were handing out PhDs like candy and now they blame Nathan Cofnas for pointing it out.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Meet Masoumeh Ebtekar, 1979 kidnapper of 52 US hostages.

In 2014—when she was VP of the Islamic Regime then negotiating with Obama—her son & his wife won US visas and green cards.

Former hostage Barry Rosen demanded to know how they passed security, but the records are secret.

[Outlaw Mike @Outlaw__Mike]

Pope Leo is apparently not concerned by the suffering of millions of his flock in West Africa, nor by the suffering of millions of Iranians.

I hate to do this since I'm a catholic. In normal circumstances, I respect the Holy See.

But I cannot remain silent. @OfficialVatican

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Hasan Piker is a FRAUD! He is a nepo baby making millions bashing capitalism.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Another woke "celebrity", Alex Scott, finds out her ancestors, who were Jamaican, owned 26 slaves.

And the British paid compensation to the slave owners after we made it illegal to own them.

You owe us reparations Alex.

[Izu_ManaMana @NwagbaraIzuchuk]

She's pained not because of the act of slavery itself but because she can't contemplate ascribing the same 'ancestral guilt' she ascribes to white people to herself😆😆

So she's pained she can no longer join wokists to parrot hogwash rhetoric.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Lee Kuan Yew explained this…

"In multicultural societies you don't vote in accordance with economic or social interests. You vote in accordance with your race and religion."

[El fenómeno barrial @mileibarrial]

Excelente video que refleja de manera exacta lo que viene hablando hace años Javier Milei

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The judge who released Valdez from prison just 24 hours before he m*rdered an elderly man in front of his home, is Nichelle Holmes. She was appointed by Gavin Newsom.

NAME AND SHAME

[Vukasin Pekovic @VukasinPekovic]

$ANDC.V Pretty obvious and very tangible progress being made with higher grades right from surface and the discovery still expanding in several directions

With work still ongoing + ramping ramp up in Colombia, next season's program in Argentina on the new discovery, and some updates from Mantau in Chile next to $MARI.TO, plenty to look forward to here

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. This brave Christian migrant from Iran walked up and WENT BERSERK on the proposed Islamic Center in McKinney, TX — straight to the council's face

The whole building ERUPTED after his dire warning:

"I'm a Sharia law survivor from Iran."

"I'm TELLING YOU, this is a BAD idea and you're going to REGRET not listening to people like us who lived under Sharia law!"

"I'm here to tell you this is a DANGEROUS ideology you're allowing in your country. Every country that is Islamic now, it used to be a Christian country and we were soft Christians."

"And we allowed these people to come in, bring their Sharia law into our countries and slowly k*ll us off left and right!"

"Let me make it very clear to you. Christianity is a personal relationship with God...Islam is Sharia law. Religion and state, which is not even compatible with the American thing and when these people will lie to you, to manipulate you."

"Because whenever Islam is little, they will lie to you and tell you they come in peace. This is level one!"

"Level two is what's happening in UK right now, where you have two-tier policing, where you have the blasphemy laws, Islamophobia, racism, all this nonsense that they talk about."

"Any time you criticize Islam, they will use the race card, but every country has this disgusting ideology inside their country, including my own country, Iran, Russia, Islamophobia is another made up bullsh*t because they don't want you to criticize their death cult!"

"If you question that disgusting book, they're get k*lled over it, just like my friends were apostates imprisoned or dead right now in Iran!"

HE NAILED IT!!!

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

NYC First Lady set to travel to Lebanon and Syria with NYPD security detail; despite both countries being on ‘Do Not Travel’ list.

Rama Duwaji will travel with a tax-payer funded security detail to the terrorist hotspots in September to ‘visit family.’

Both countries are on the State Department’s ‘Do Not Travel’ list due to dangerous conditions and terrorism.

Source: NY Post