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• Nuanced changes in insect abundance
  

  If extrapolated across Earth, biomass losses of ∼25% per decade (1) project a potential catastrophe developing unnoticed under our noses. The phrase “insect Armageddon” has captured the collective attention and shined a spotlight on one of the most numerous and diverse groups of organisms on the planet.

  In complex systems, you will get wildly variant results before the crash begins. Our warning sign here will be if insect losses zig-zag up and down across the chart, meaning that the ecosystem has become unstable and will shortly crash. This looks like a zag.

• China brings in hundreds of soldiers, heavy construction equipment to Galwan Valley
  

  Border talks carried out on Wednesday at the Major General-level to defuse the situation have also failed, indicating that the Chinese side is not looking to disengage.

  Sources said that despite earlier talks in which it was decided that the two sides would move back by a kilometre and create a temporary ‘no man’s land’ in the valley, the Chinese side has brought in additional troops and continues to remain deployed inside Indian territory near Patrol Point 14.

  Having lost its economic inertia, China tries to recapture it through military action, following the Jacobins and Bolsheviks in an erroneous path designed to mobilize an amotivated society.

• U.S.-China tech war bigger risk than coronavirus, EU chamber chief says
  

  “When it comes to the kind of U.S.-China trade war, the tech war which is unfolding, the possibility of a finance war, it’s something which is going to be longer lasting, it’s going to be more damaging, and it’s definitely going to bring huge uncertainty,” he said.

  Trade war? We are seeing a symptom of the “conscious decoupling” by the United States, which hopes to escape reliance on its enemies in a New Cold War that could go hot at any time.

• What Is Akon City? Real-Life City Similar to ‘Wakanda’ Metropolis Is Under Construction in Senegal
  

  The first phase of the Akon City construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2023 that will include the construction of roads, a Hamptons Hospital campus, Hamptons Mall, a school, a police station, a waste facility, and a power plant. The second phase of construction will end in 2029 that will focus on integrating businesses to run on Akon’s AKoin cryptocurrency and will include parks, a stadium, universities, and an industrial complex. Inhabitants of the metropolis will buy goods and services using AKoins, which will form the basis of city’s economy.

  Every ethnic group needs heroes and holy lands, plus some successes to call its own.

• Shooting charge dropped against suspected New Mexico shooter
  

  Torrez dropped an initial aggravated battery with a deadly weapon charge against Steven Baca, 31, after images emerged online showing protester Scott Williams, 39, holding what was rumored to be a knife before he was allegedly shot by Baca. Torrez said he expected Baca to claim self defense in the case.

  Leftist bully gets owned, and luckily the whole thing is on tape,

• Elsevier journal to retract 2012 paper widely derided as racist
  

  Personality and Individual Differences has taken the decision to retract the review article Rushton, J.P., Templer, D.I. (2012). Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals? Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 4-8. This retraction comes after a thorough review of the published article, the sources cited within the article, and critical comments from readers. The retraction notice is currently being finalized and will appear in the journal imminently.

  If a group of animals looks different from others, they have different DNA. If their traits repeat over time, you know what that DNA codes for. Darwinism did not “win” with the Scopes Monkey Trial, but was adopted in a fake Leftist form that praises evolution in order to reject creationism, but ignores the fact that natural selection is ongoing among humans, traits are heritable, and races, ethnic groups, and social classes are genetically distinct.

• Ancient Irish elite practiced incest, new genetic data from Neolithic tomb shows
  

  Researchers found evidence of inbreeding in the genome of a man buried at Newgrange passage tomb, which was built more than 5,000 years ago, a team from Trinity College Dublin said in a press release.

  This suggests the man belonged to a ruling elite that practiced first-degree incest — for example, brother-sister unions — in the same way as the pharaohs in ancient Egypt or Inca god-kings, the researchers said.

  Generally this happens when there are not enough aristocrats. As we can see from humanity out there, intelligent and good people are always in short supply. Instead of doing what we should do, which is to breed lots of the superior, we focus on the inferior in order to keep the group happy. This leads to inferior traits predominating and a society of utter idiocy soon results.

• Arthur Ashe statue vandalized with ‘White Lives Matter’ graffiti in Richmond
  

  It was a struggle to land the statue of Arthur Ashe, a civil rights activist and tennis icon, on the city promenade best known for its towering monuments to the Confederacy when it was erected 24 years ago.

  His nephew, David Harris Jr., who successfully helped rename the city’s Boulevard for Ashe last year, said Wednesday that he was not surprised to hear his uncle’s statue had been targeted.

  Vandalize our monuments, Leftists, and we vandalize yours. Turnabout is fair play, so quit your whining.

• Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections
  

  Immigrants who are part of the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program will retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United States — safe almost certainly at least through the November election, immigration experts said.

  The 5-4 outcome, in which Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberal justices were in the majority, seems certain to elevate the issue in Trump’s campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential run in 2016 and immigration restrictions his administration has imposed since then.

  Such attempts will get nowhere with the Fourteenth Amendment in place and interpreted as it both currently is and inevitably would be. We need a Republican supermajority willing to yank the Fourteenth and remove entitlements in order to save this country from its own democracy.

• Two Atlanta officers charged in death of Rayshard Brooks turns themselves in to jail
  

  The officers were responding to a 911 call on June 12 about a man who appeared intoxicated sleeping in his car in the drive-thru of the Wendy’s. Brooks, 27, a Black man, was questioned by the officers for more than 25 minutes, body and dash-camera video shows.

  The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which launched an investigation into the shooting, said Brooks failed a field sobriety test and struggled with the officers as they tried to arrest him.

  GBI director Vic Reynolds said that during the struggle Brooks was able to get one of the officer’s stun guns and that video showed him appearing to run away with the stun gun in his hand.

  As in all of these cases, big headlines will be made as the officers involved are charged, but they will later be cleared by juries. It will take years of their lives and massive amounts of taxpayer money, but in Late Stage Democracy, public appearances matter more than reality.

• Harpeth Hall, Elite Nashville Prep School, Drops George Washington: ‘Not Relevant to the Way We Teach History Today’
  

  In her email, Hill said school officials are ending the celebration for the following reasons:

  • “It is not consistent with or relevant to the way that we teach history today.”

  • “It does not demonstrate the significant role that women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups play in our nation’s history.”

  • “A growing number of students, faculty, staff, and alumnae are expressing their discomfort with this tradition.”

  More morons unable to keep themselves from following trends in a futile attempt to stay relevant.

• Man brutally attacked, taunted by group outside local gas station
  

  The victim identified himself as Mason. He never let go of his groceries as his attackers took turns punching and kicking him on the ground. He was alone for only several seconds when a fifth attacker walked up.

  “He comes up to me, kicks me in the face, and screams, “Black Lives Matter, b****!” Mason said.

  Open race war on the streets of the USA. We are going to see more people shooting their attackers, and the police are going to do nothing.

• Headstone of an enslaved African vandalised with message ‘look at what you made me do’
  

  A message left in chalk on the flagstones near the grave said: “Now look at what you made me do.

  “Stop protesting. Leave Elliott’s grave alone.

  “Put Colston’s statue back or things will really heat up.”

  The native inhabitants are tired of the bigotry against them. It only ends when you end diversity, b****.

• Man rescued by UK Black Lives Matter protester is ex-police officer
  

  A fellow member of the club said Male was “a patriotic Brit, England through and through”. He told the Daily Mail he had travelled to London to protect monuments after seeing graffiti.

  Beginning to look a lot more like a photo op than a real event. Anyone remember the drowned kid on the European beach?

• French revenge porn activists mount ‘virtual raids’
  

  French politics student Shanley Clemot Maclaren leads the raids, with up to 400 people logging on to a platform at once to report abusive material and get it removed.

  This is how Leftists get things removed. They gather on Discords and mailing lists and plot strikes, causing the clueless, low-IQ, and low-paid employees of social media to remove it by reflex.

• The city that disbanded its police force
  

  The city used to have one of the highest crime rates in the United States but now, eight years later, it is seeing its lowest crime rate in 50 years.

  Camden, NJ is 5.1% white and has a crime index of 917.2, three times the national average. Not the miracle that the press is reporting, obviously.

• ‘Nooses’ in Oakland park were exercise aids, man says
  

  Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident said they are merely exercise equipment that he put up there months ago.

  The Police Department provided five photographs of trees, some of which showed knotted ropes and one that appeared to have a piece of plastic pipe attached to a rope, hanging from tree limbs.

  Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.

  The Narrative is collapsing, and so people are desperate for excuses to keep it going, but most of America and the world has shrugged and walked away because it turns out that George Floyd was a criminal who died from his drug use, just like Rodney King was a criminal who was beaten because he attacked police after a high-speed car chase. Diversity has reached the “meh” point; no one really believes that it is “our strength” any longer, and they have started to admit that it is an abyss into which we can chuck infinite money, time, energy, and suffering and still achieve nothing except our own doom.

• 7 attacks in 24 hours on north smallholdings
  

  Jansen van Renburg said the spike in attacks, robberies and break-ins was a huge concern.

  From Tuesday to Wednesday, seven incidents were reported in an area a 15km radius.

  Diversity failing everywhere.

• URI sorority suspended due to racist video
  

  Most of the video cannot be shown due to the language being used. The women are singing along to the Lil Dicky song “Freaky Friday”, featuring Chris Brown. Many of the lyrics involve the “N” word.

  Was this even intended as racism? Check out the lyrics.

• Dystopia has arrived: a reality show where men compete to impregnate a woman
  

  The allure of the spectacle is clear. We’ve all been humiliated as we try to scramble up the icy stairs of Tinder in hope of finding our soulmate, so it’s easy to enjoy the catharsis of watching someone else experience that humiliation for our entertainment. In the same way that it’s a pleasure to watch the “underclasses” attempt sophistication and real feeling on Love Island from our bourgeois comforts.

  Feminism ruins marriage. Now the feminists complain when this becomes commercialized. What did you think marriage was a bulwark against, Dunning-Kruger pleb (DKP)?

• Mississippi official: Black people ‘dependent’ since slavery
  

  “The only ones that are having the problems: Guess who? The African Americans,” Sanders said. “You know why? In my opinion, they were slaves. And because of that, they didn’t have to go out and earn any money, they didn’t have to do anything. Whoever owned them took care of them, fed them, clothed them, worked them. They became dependent, and that dependency is still there. The Democrats right here who depend on the black vote to get elected, they make them dependent on them.”

  “Assimilation” sounds Communist; give up your culture and identity to be part of what, exactly? An economic, political, and legal system, they respond. That is not a culture, nor is it a substitute for one. Diversity is cruel and destructive like everything else the Left advances.

• Miami-Dade school board votes to boost anti-racism teaching
  

  Board members approved the proposal by an 8-1 vote late Wednesday, saying Miami-Dade schools need to firmly combat racism in light of nationwide protests over how black people are treated, sparked by the death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

  More propaganda will help, or maybe not. In the meantime: schools teach very little important information and have become indoctrination camps.

• Polish president calls LGBT ‘ideology’ worse than communism
  

  Duda, who is 48, told his supporters that his parents’ generation did not struggle to cast off communism only to now accept “an ideology” that he thinks “is even more destructive to the human being.”

  Maybe just reject ideology (symbolic politics) entirely and focus on what works. Leftism is inherently ideological, but conservatism is naturally anti-ideological.

• How reliant is Australia on China?
  

  Like other liberal democracies, Australia is increasingly challenged by the need to balance its economic dependence on China and its own values and interests.

  Our only salvation lies in decoupling entirely. Let China become self-sufficient, and for us to disconnect politics from how we survive. The Left linked us with China in order to enforce world Leftism, and we know that how that little Utopian fable inevitably ends.

• Don’t Believe the China Hype
  

  All of this means China is vulnerable to falling into the “middle-income trap.” That’s where many high-growth, emerging economies tend to end up: After reaching a comfortable level of income, they stall and struggle to leap into the ranks of the world’s most advanced economies, held back by their inability to become more productive and innovative. Only a small handful of developing nations, including South Korea and Singapore, have managed that jump in recent times.

  The paper tiger economy implodes. War will result.

• Brussels forges new weapons to shield EU market from China
  

  Brussels is set to unveil on Wednesday a proposal for sweeping new powers to crack down on foreign subsidies, in its most aggressive push yet to curb the influence on the European market of companies backed by China and other governments.

  Officially a Cold War now, the conflict with China had been slumbering but then we saw the damage done during COVID-19 and realized that China does not intend to keep up its end of globalist mutuality. As we separate from them, we will rediscover the many things that need doing around here as we come out of the fever sleep of Leftism and globalism.

• Half the world’s population are exposed to increasing air pollution
  

  Despite efforts to reduce air pollution in many countries there are regions, notably Central and Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, in which populations continue to be exposed to increasing levels of air pollution.

  Overpopulation does not mean we literally run out of places to store people, but that we overwhelm the resources of Earth, including the ability to filter out our waste.

• Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is ‘based on a racial stereotype’
  

  The picture has changed over time, and in recent years Quaker removed the “mammy” kerchief from the character to blunt growing criticism that the brand perpetuated a racist stereotype that dated to the days of slavery. Quaker, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, said removing the image and name is part of an effort by the company “to make progress toward racial equality.”

  Racial equality cannot be achieved, which is why the Left loves it. This fiction will dominate us until it destroys us as quests for the impossible invariably do. In the meantime, this seems a positive win to me: white people do not need people of other races on our packaging. Stick some happy white faces on there and listen to the wailing from the herd.

• NATO must deal with, not ignore Turkish problem: French official
  

  Speaking ahead of the meeting, the French defence ministry official said it was time NATO had a frank discussion about Turkey and its conduct – not just in Libya, but other issues such as Ankara buying Russian S-400 defence systems and blocking NATO defence planning for the Baltics and Poland.

  Asiatics will side will fellow Asiatics in Russia and China instead of Europeans. It turns out that using money and ideology to control other people does not work as well as the extended family bonds of ethnicity and race.

• High school teacher who used N-word in class allowed to keep working after apologizing
  

  Anne Stewart, a teacher at Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Brampton, Ont. was recorded telling students in May 2019 that she had “become comfortable” saying N-word and went on to ask one of them if she had ever read the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

  Diversity means giving up your society and culture. Other groups are not “offended,” but jockeying for power; what we think of as “snowflakes” are merely people skilled in using passive aggression against us.

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