Alan Badenhorst

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

The best single encapsulation of why the Jason Arday scandal damages us all.

[Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell]

Transgenderism in academia...

A woman pretending to be a man rewards a man pretending to be a woman with an honorary degree...

This is insanity...

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

The literal deconstruction of public infrastructure is the ultimate physical manifestation of systemic brain damage.

When you see youths openly destroying state infrastructure in broad daylight just to extract iron rods for scrap metal, you are witnessing an absolute failure of civilizational software.

This is what happens when long-term wealth creation is replaced by immediate, low-value extraction.

They are destroying a public asset worth a fortune to extract a few thousand naira's worth of raw iron rods, enough, at best, to buy a single meal.

It is a perfect micro-model of African governance: destroying massive structural capital for an immediate, microscopic personal payout.

The fact that this happens in broad daylight means the state has lost all administrative authority.

There is no fear of consequences, no rule of law, and zero municipal surveillance.

Colonial ghosts didn't come down to smash this infrastructure. Our own people are doing it. You cannot blame external imperialists when your own citizens treat public property like a free for all junkyard.

This behavior reveals a demographic trapped in a primitive survival matrix.

When a youth population cannot grasp that destroying a bridge isolates their own community and cripples their own local economy, they are functionally illiterate about basic societal mechanics.

They are playing stupid games to win useless scrap prizes, leaving ruins behind for the next generation.

[Tom Nelson @TomANelson]

.@jlakely: "The mandate of the IPCC was not to examine climate science. Its mandate from the very beginning was to figure out how much human activity is affecting the climate.

That's a very big and important distinction. So from the beginning, the United Nations and the scientists they pulled together are not interested in pursuing open inquiry about climate science.

They had already established a crime, that crime being human activity and the emission of CO2 is destroying the planet, and the mandate of the IPCC was basically to indict humanity for that crime.

It's not to pursue science."

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

I studied in the academic department at Cambridge that later employed Jason Arday. Here's just some of the crap I learnt: For one module, I wrote a lengthy essay about how cultural products like kids’ cartoons and jazz songs serve as instruments of capitalist oppression. I got a top mark on that paper (despite knowing at the time that I was essentially regurgitating complete crap).

While studying for another paper I had a debate with the professor, an eminent anthropologist, because she insisted that native tribes could fly through the trees - not metaphorically, but that they could literally fly because they believed they could fly. After all, who are we to question ‘indigenous ways of knowing’...

For a different course, I read long ‘research papers’ which argued that the fact that black kids are excluded from schools more than white kids proves systemic racism exists in education. Crucially, they ignored the fact that white kids are excluded more than, e.g., Japanese kids, a statistic which, applying the exact same logic, would suggest that the education system is systemically biased in favour of, erm, Japanese kids (which obviously it isn’t).

Something that was held up as proof of the existence of this largely imaginary racism was that teachers tell kids not to use booming voices in the classroom, and not to put up their hoods or wear their trousers down below their pants.

On another occasion, my supervisor casually praised some students agitators who were trying to shut down a talk by someone they disagreed with. I said that I didn’t think this was something to celebrate, because I believed in freedom of speech. He got visibly angry, and proceeded to tell me that free speech was not worth protecting in a capitalist system (or something along those lines).

In my all-important final year, a lecturer let me know that I shouldn’t worry too much about my exam results, because as someone who was not from an upper class background I should be more focussed on using my grasp of leftist revolutionary theory to further the interests of the proletariat. Writing this down, it strikes me that it’s so hilariously mental that some of you will presumably assume I’m lying. But there’s no way I’m leaving it out, because it happened.

Unlike the academics who make a living from this stuff, I couldn’t bring myself to build a career pumping out whiney, divisive, intellectually incoherent rubbish. But others, as we’ve seen exposed in recent days, do so with gusto. And are lauded for it.

Please read the full piece this is taken from, and give it a share. I've linked it in the tweet below.

[Alan Badenhorst @alanbadenhorst]

Please watch

[𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘩 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 @sarah__british]

This is a must watch if you really want to understand what Labour are doing to our economy..

[Spirited1 @helen_spirit1]

One transforms kids rejected by grammar schools into outstanding A* students. The other defrauded his students by lying about his achievements & stole other’s work.

One is despised by the left for rejecting woke culture, the other, lauded by them.

Both, victims of the left.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Remember the hounding of Dr Kelly?

You should sit this one out, Alastair.

[Celina101 @celina101010]

A Black Cambridge professor dies after resigning amid explosive plagiarism allegations, and the British political and academic class immediately starts talking about racism.

Aaron Dugmore was nine years old.

He was one of the few White children in a school where roughly 75% of pupils were non-White. His family said he was subjected to racial abuse, including being told that “all the white people should be dead”, before he was found with a cord around his neck.

Britain never made his name a national cause.

Ask yourself why.

I wrote an article about this linked below:

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;

• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.

Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.

Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...

You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.

Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.

[Alan Badenhorst @alanbadenhorst]

Interesting listen…..the sheep will keep following and believing

[Rodriramosdebrauwer @Rodriramosdb2]

Herinneren jullie je die video nog, met die zogenaamde doden in Wuhan of Bergamo?

Nu zijn het ineens doden uit Oekraïne.
O jee, o jee, er leeft er zelfs nog één.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Graham K @GrahamLKeegan]

In 1540, Europe endured an unprecedented 11 month megadrought, one of the worst in 500 years.

From France to Poland and Italy to England, rain barely fell. Temperatures soared 5–7°C above 20th-century normals, often exceeding 40°C.

Rivers like the Rhine, Elbe and Seine shrank so low people walked across them.

Forests and towns burned, wells dried, crops failed, and livestock died of thirst.

Disease, especially dysentery from tainted water, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

Contemporary voices captured the horror. In Zürich, Heinrich Bullinger recorded no full day or night of rain from February to late September.

In Alsace, winegrower Hans Stolz wrote of July’s “terribly hot and dry” weather that made water scarce and expensive.

From England, Charles Wriothesley’s chronicle: “This yeare was a hott sommer and drie, so that no raine fell from June till eight daies after Michaelmas, so that in divers partes of this realme the people caried their cattle six or seven miles to watter them, and also much cattle died…”

A stark historical reminder of nature’s extremes.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🇬🇧 It looks like Banksy is going to be replaced by a patriotic artist. This one was seen in Clacton-on-sea of a policeman covering up the Union Jack flag.

The whole country backs him.

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

Whitechapel, 1902.

Three poor English boys, commonly called “street urchins”, standing barefoot in worn-out clothes. Photographed by Jack London for The People of the Abyss.

Remember them when you hear that every white person in history was privileged. These boys had no “white privilege.” They had poverty, hunger and hardship 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Ali Utlu @AliCologne]

1132, 1540, 1802, 1857, 1921, 1947: Der Rhein führte immer wieder so extrem wenig Wasser, dass Frachtwege zusammenbrachen und "Hungersteine" freilagen.

Damals ganz ohne Verbrenner, Billigflüge, SUVs oder Klimaanlagen.

[NO + SECRETOS @NoMasSecretos33]

Kari Mullis. Nobel de bioquímica. Su otra área de especialización fue la climatología, de la que habló en términos muy claros:

- “No hay ni una pizca de evidencia de que los seres humanos hayan tenido algún efecto sobre el clima...Somos como el musgo en el cemento".

- “La climatología se ha convertido en una especie de broma. Toda esa gente reunida en Copenhague y decidiendo que todo el mundo tiene que dejar de cocinar con estufas en África… esa gente no sabe nada”.

Conferencia 2010 en Saddleback College, California.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

CO₂ does not control the climate. It never has.

It is not the control knob of the Earth’s temperature, nor is it the architect of our modern anxieties.

Carbon dioxide doesn't cause excessive rainfall, droughts, or the collapse of coastal cliffs. Nor is it responsible for the fractures in human society—terrorism, urban violence, obesity or the drug crisis. These are the products of a human civilisation that has survived its own annihilation by the narrowest of margins, persisting for 300,000 years largely through a stroke of cosmic luck.

Yet, for four decades, a relentless climate war has force-fed the world a diet of crisis and warming hysteria. It insists that CO₂ is the root of all evil—that it is our fault and it is the gas's fault. But the truth is indifferent: CO₂ doesn't care. It is not demonic. It is not pollution. It is the foundation of life on Earth.

Without it, Earth would be a silent, sterile rock, inhabited only by bacteria. It was CO₂ that empowered cyanobacteria to unlock the miracle of photosynthesis, slowly flooding the world with the 'waste product' we call oxygen.

Before this, the oceans were dark with iron, the skies were not blue, and the world was effectively lifeless. We should be thankful for this gas of life, rather than inventing doomsday scenarios to vilify it.

If we look at the true scale of our planet, the single greatest factor affecting Earth’s geology is tectonic continental flow. This slow, majestic dance of crustal plates shapes our continents and redirects the great ocean currents. This is nature at work.

Today, CO₂ is a mere trace gas at 427 ppm (0.04%). While it is a mighty driver for biology, it is at some of its lowest levels in planetary history. During the Cambrian Period, concentrations were upwards of 4,000 to 8,000 ppm. If those massive levels did not trigger an 'irreversible environmental collapse', it is illogical to assume today’s trace amounts will.

Every meaningful invention, every empire, and every leap in human progress occurred within the brief, warm window of the warm Holocene interglacial period.

We have never not lived in an ice age. We have survived global upheavals before, but we may not survive a self-imposed collapse into a new medieval dark age.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Landfill is becoming the default graveyard for the fading renewable-energy green dream.

Millions of solar panels are already hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the toxic avalanche due in 2030. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency says it will get much worse, with more than 200 million tonnes of cumulative solar panel waste globally. Plus, there will be additional tens of millions of tonnes of decommissioned wind turbine components. Turbine blades are virtually indestructible.

The industry has claimed solar panels and turbines were ‘95% recyclable’. Technically, they are—because they are made of glass, aluminium, and copper. But the reality is a different story. In the US, it costs roughly $20 to $30 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, compared to just $1 to $5 to dump it in a landfill.

Because there is little financial incentive to disassemble and recycle parts, around 90% of decommissioned panels in the US and a large share of turbine blades worldwide go straight into the ground.

These devices are highly complex. A solar panel is an industrial ‘sandwich’ bound tightly by heavy polymers. Extracting the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal processing.

When crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium leach into surrounding soil and groundwater, turning ‘clean energy’ into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models ever predicted. As solar cells degrade and newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems a decade early to repower and upgrade.

The dream of renewable energy from sunlight and wind has, in reality, created an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

[iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno]

The inconvenient truth.