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I study the collapse of empires... here's why wokeism will be the downfall of America

Rob Waugh
Daily Mail
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:35 UTC
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Does the fall of ancient Rome hold important lessons for the West?
The rise of 'woke' thought and digital currencies are among the warning signs that Western civilization could be about to collapse, said investor and expert Doug Casey.

Casey's book 'Crisis Investing' topped the New York Times nonfiction chart, focusing on the looming crisis facing Western civilization.

In subsequent books and podcast interviews, the veteran speculator has focused on signs that he sees as warnings, based on his study of historical events such as the fall of Ancient Rome.

He told DailyMail.com that there are now seven clear signs that he believes show that Western civilization is facing an end.

He said: 'I'm unhappy about Western civilization winding down, because it's by far the best civilization in world history. In fact, it's the only civilization in world history that even matters, quite frankly.'
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Thousands protest in Romania against coup d'etat


RT
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:10 UTC
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© AP Photo/Vadim GhirdaProtesters in Bucharest, Romania, on January 12, 2025
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Romania's capital Bucharest on Sunday to protest against the Constitutional Court's invalidation of the presidential election.

The court annulled the results of the first round in December after independent candidate Calin Georgescu outperformed all other candidates.

Videos circulating on social media show demonstrators in Bucharest honking horns and waving Romania's flags, shouting "freedom" and "bring back the second round." Some were seen carrying portraits of Georgescu or Orthodox Christian icons, and others placards with the slogans "Democracy is not optional" and "We want free elections."

More than 100,000 people took part in the protest, media outlets stated, citing the event's organizers. Police reportedly estimated the numbers were much lower.
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Best of the Web: Stabbed in the head and dumped in a canal: The true horror of the Rotherham grooming scandal - and the shameful failure to stop it

Sam Ashworth-Hayes
The Telegraph
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:40 UTC
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© Telegraph
The Rotherham story is simple. It's a story about cowardice and evil. For decades, organised gangs of abusers preyed on children in their homes and in local institutions with impunity, while authorities turned a blind eye.

An inquiry led by the academic Alexis Jay, published in 2014, found evidence that reports had been submitted to authorities in the 1990s. The police certainly had evidence as far back as 2003 and 2006. Little was done to stop the crimes. Between 1997 and 2013, the National Crime Agency now believes, at least 1,500 girls were abused in the town.

Such mass abuse was the result of an instinct to look away and cover-up. In some cases, this appears to have been motivated by fear; fear of being called racist, or fear of what might happen if the majority community were to realise its children were viewed as easy targets by many members of a minority. In other cases, inaction is harder to explain away.

Comment: The evidence points to the abuse being sanctioned and repeatedly covered up by British authorities. We at SOTT have brought up psychopaths in power over and over again. When psychopaths are in positions of power, they tend to promote and protect behaviors that match their own perverted predilections. This story is a case in point.

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The Left's Ignoble Motives

Thaddeus G. McCotter
American Greatness
Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
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Elites in the U.S. and U.K. prioritize protecting their power over public safety, hiding the truth about crimes and fearing backlash more than addressing the harm inflicted on innocent victims.

Having read his January 7th piece in American Greatness, "We Can Handle the Truth," clearly Christopher Roach did a splendid job of employing a cinematic reference to tie together the U.S. and U.K. establishments' mutual fear of telling their public the truth about terrorism and other criminal acts when the perpetrators are from a preferred intersectional group.

Specifically, Mr. Roach deftly stated the case how the refusal by the authorities and the corporate media in the United States to call the murders in New Orleans a terrorist attack constitutes a refusal akin to that exhibited by the United Kingdom regarding the Pakistani rape gangs. Per Mr. Roach:
There has been an even more aggressive media blackout in response to the horrifying rape gangs in the United Kingdom. For years, not only the media, but police, politicians, social workers, and other authorities downplayed the reality of these attacks, blamed victims, and did little to stop the rape of young, native British females by Pakistani immigrant gangs.
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Stepping up: Musk announces SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals in LA amid raging fires

Alex Nitzberg
Fox News
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:35 UTC
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Elon Musk donated thousands of Starlink units to first responders and victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
Rep. Eric Swalwell has also asked Musk to use X and his own money to help poor families impacted by the blazes

As raging fires ravage California, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake, wealthy business magnate Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will supply free Starlink terminals to impacted areas in Los Angeles.

He made the announcement when retweeting footage of a reporter crediting Starlink internet service with connectivity.

The reporter said that Starlink is "the only reason we're able to hear and communicate with you guys right now because there's absolutely no cell service at all in this whole area."

Comment: Swallwell is just grandstanding, hoping to ingratiate himself with Trump & Co. We'll see how well that works.

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Trump to NY Republicans: I want to raise SALT cap, 'kill' congestion pricing

Vaughn Golden
New York Post
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:38 UTC
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© Trump Vance Transition TeamPresident-elect Donald Trump
'It's got to go'

President-elect Donald Trump said he's on board for scrapping congestion pricing and lifting the cap on state and local tax deductions, The Post has learned.

In a Saturday night meeting with Republican members of New York's House delegation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the incoming commander in chief agreed he would help try to nix the city's first-in-the-nation congestion tax.

"He wants to kill it," Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told The Post.

"He did agree it's got to go," Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said after leaving the meeting.

"So we're going to work through how his administration can do so," he added.
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UK study finds Gaza death toll has been significantly underreported

Sophie Tanno
Yahoo! News
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:05 UTC
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The number of people killed in Gaza is significantly higher than the figure reported by authorities in the enclave, a peer-reviewed study by researchers from a leading health research university in the UK has found.

According to findings announced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in The Lancet journal, there were an estimated 64,260 "traumatic injury deaths" in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the figure at 37,877 at the time.

This means the ministry has underreported the death toll due to violence by approximately 41%, the researchers found. As of October, the number of Gazans killed by violence was thought to exceed 70,000, the study said, based on the estimated underreporting rate.

The total death toll attributable to Israel's military campaign is likely to be higher still, it said, as its analysis doesn't account for deaths caused by disruption to health care, insufficient food, clean water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks.

Comment: Yeah, with accounts of tens of people being killed every day, if we could stop with the ~46,000 count (an appalling enough number)? Some estimates put the total at upwards of over 200,000. That would be 10% of Gaza's total population, more than half of which is comprised of women and children.



A reddit post from October 2024 (see an enlargeable copy of the letter at the link):

Full text:

according to a recent letter from doctors who volunteered in Gaza, not only is everyone sick and/or injured, but the direct death toll is now over 92,000 at 3-15x more indirect than direct deaths, an updated conservative estimate (4x) of total deaths is 368,000 Palestinians.


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Who to blame for deadly LA wildfires? The woke virus

Timur Tarkhanov
RT
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:32 UTC
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© Chelsea Guglielmino / Getty Images
Prioritizing ideology over competence is a dangerous game, one that can lead to unimaginable loss and suffering.

As an observer from abroad, witnessing the catastrophic wildfires ravaging Los Angeles has been both heartbreaking and bewildering. The scenes of destruction and despair - thousands of homes reduced to rubble and lives lost - are tragic enough on their own. But what truly shocks an outsider is discovering that the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) has been prioritizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives over the critical task of preparing for disasters of this magnitude. For a city known for its influence and resources, this misallocation is a bewildering display of misplaced priorities.

In 2022, the LAFD unveiled its first-ever DEI Bureau, aiming to foster a "safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace." While such goals might seem laudable to some, they appear to have come at an unacceptable cost. Instead of focusing on the department's core mission of firefighting and disaster preparedness, significant time, resources, and energy have been diverted to social programs that do nothing to enhance public safety. From an external perspective, it's alarming to see critical functions undermined by a fixation on identity politics.

Comment: See also:

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British judge threatens to break the UK's wall of secrecy around Assange's persecution

Jonathan Cook
jonathancook.substack.com
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:46 UTC
assange hearing unlawful detention
© REUTERS/Stephane MaheWikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange attends a hearing on his detention and conviction, and their effect on human rights before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, France, October 1, 2024
After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain how it came to destroy key files that would have shed light on why it pursued Assange for 14 years. The CPS appears to have done so in breach of its own procedures.

Assange was finally released from Belmarsh high-security prison last year in a plea deal after Washington had spent years seeking his extradition for publishing documents revealing US and UK war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Amazon trims back DEI initiatives after threat of exposure from anti-woke filmmaker Robby Starbuck

Breck Dumas
Fox News
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:26 UTC
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© Jaque Silva/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images
Retail giant joins Walmart, Ford, Meta and a slew of other firms to roll back diversity programs

Amazon is scaling back on some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)programs, becoming the latest major corporation to make cuts to such initiatives that critics have deemed "woke."

In a message to employees last month, Amazon human resources executive Candi Castleberry announced updates to the company's representation and inclusion efforts, and said the e-commerce giant would be making some changes after spending the past few years "evaluat[ing] their effectiveness."

"We worked to unify employee groups together under one umbrella, and build programs that are open to all," the memo, obtained by FOX Business reads. "Rather than have individual groups build programs, we are focusing on programs with proven outcomes - and we also aim to foster a more truly inclusive culture."

Comment: Starbuck is a heavy-hitter in the fight to ban woke policies. His ability to weaponize social media has CEOs quaking in their boots, often provoking change even without having to start a Twitter expose. Woe to Jeff Bezos if he intends to duck the issue :

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