One of California‘s most multicultural towns is considering a measure to back Donald Trump‘s mass deportation policy in a move directly contradicting Governor Gavin Newsom‘s pledge to protect migrants.
The El Cajon City Council in San Diego County debated a motion which would retract sanctuary city status and assist the mass deportations Trump has promised to enact in his second term, which begins next week.
The President-elect vowed to enact a multi-billion dollar mass deportation plan targeting the millions of people residing in the US illegally.
While the wider state of California is largely opposed to Trump’s deportation agenda, Mayor Bill Wells said his proposal was simply a matter of ‘staying compliant with federal law.’
There are multiple views on who the Aryans were and where they came from. I am posting this video because it is interesting and much of it is probably true, or true enough. I prefer learning about Central Asia and ancient history much more than who the Aryans were or what the term really means. I am very open to other ideas on this general topic, especially the history of Central Asia, and welcome suggestions of relevant resources. My guess is the above video need not be titled The First Aryans, which is probably a mild kind of clickbait. The invention of the war chariot around 2000 BCE, though, was a really big deal and it probably did arise in that area. Chariots were hard to make and required a large array of supporting skilled workers, including horse breeders and trainers, carpenters, and warriors capable of using chariots to good effect. This is why the war chariot remained a dominant weapon for about 1000 years and why Central Asian peoples had massive influence on all of the settled cultures bordering Central Asia. It was not a simple thing for other societies to copy the war chariot and learn to use it. ABN
China has been rocked by a major Chinese chess (Xiangqi) cheating scandal with investigations uncovering cases of match-fixing, bribery, and unethical conduct involving players and coaches. Three grandmasters have been handed lifetime bans, while 38 others face penalties ranging from suspensions to official reprimands. The controversy has raised serious concerns about the integrity of the sport.
A major cheating controversy has broken out in China related to the Chinese chess (Xiangqi) after the Chinese Xiangqi Association (CXA) penalised 41 players including three players receiving lifetime bans, Global Times reported. The three players who have been banned from competition for life include grandmasters Zhao Xinxin, Wang Yang, and Zheng Weitong. The trio have also been stripped of their technical titles.
A new study published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility suggests that the transmission of cognitive ability from parents to children is primarily driven by genetics, with little influence from shared environmental factors like family resources. The findings challenge traditional assumptions in social mobility research that often attribute these correlations primarily to socio-economic status..
..The German TwinLife survey is a large, longitudinal study designed to explore the interplay between genetic and environmental factors in shaping various life outcomes, including cognitive abilities, educational attainment, and social mobility. The survey focuses on same-sex twin pairs and their biological families, enabling researchers to separate the effects of genetic inheritance from those of shared family environments. For example, monozygotic twins, who share 100% of their genetic material, can be compared with dizygotic twins, who share about 50% of their genetic material, to estimate the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors.
By incorporating multiple family members—including parents and siblings—across four birth cohorts, the survey spans an extensive developmental range, from early childhood (ages 5–6) to young adulthood (ages 21–25). This breadth allows researchers to examine how genetic and environmental influences evolve over the life course.
…The results provided evidence that the intergenerational transmission of cognitive ability is driven primarily by genetic inheritance rather than shared environmental factors. Across all age groups examined, the researchers found minimal evidence that parental cognitive ability significantly influenced children’s cognitive development through environmental mechanisms. Instead, the observed similarities in cognitive abilities between parents and children were largely attributed to shared genetic factors.
…“The key takeaway is that the similarity in cognitive ability between parents and children appears to be driven primarily by shared genes rather than shared environment. While we often assume that parents influence their children’s cognitive development through factors like education style, resources, and parenting, our study finds little evidence for environmental transmission that occurs through parental cognitive ability specifically.”
So much for white privilege. White people have amply demonstrated that they have the right kinds of genes to produce massive complex civilizations that function well. Obviously, the obverse is just as true — peoples who do not form well-functioning complex civilizations probably lack the genetics to do so. I do think white and Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and some others have a moral obligation to help less endowed parts of the world. But I do not think we are in any way required to admit millions of people who, no matter the DEI given them, will never be able to perform in ways that assist or improve complex societies made up of people not of their genetic endowment. I myself can speak Chinese and like many aspects of Chinese culture and am able to succeed in China, but prefer living in USA. The genetic endowment is different. China is a shame culture based on hierarchies. The West is a guilt culture based on limited but substantial personal freedoms. ABN
UPDATE: Another point is within white societies, many whites, including highly intelligent ones, are perfectly content doing menial and blue collar jobs without complaint. White people at all levels are pretty good are cooperating with each other and honest enough that most laws are largely followed and most jobs are done conscientiously. When POCs and Jews screech and complain, most whites have no defenses, or inadequate ones to perceive the situation clearly, because when whites scream and complain most whites will believe there must be a good reason for it. Jews have used this trick against whites for the entire modern era in the West and backed it up with clandestine violence when screaming alone is not sufficiently effective. To this day, the vast majority of whites are incapable of grasping how that technique works on them and how it is being used against them. The most distressing side of this situation is the majority of whites who hold positions of power today are whites who passed the obedience mind-control tests and have not been poisoned or disabled by clandestine operatives, often posing as friends. ABN
Massachusetts‘ first openly non-binary elected politician has taken a month off work with for the sake of their mental health after being accused of laziness and asked to return to in-person meetings.
Thu Nguyen, who uses they/them pronouns, accused some of their fellow Worcester City Council members of deliberately misgendering them and referring to them as ‘it’.
However, Nguyen’s colleagues claim that any misgendering was accidental and suggested that they had only made the transphobia claims after they were challenged over their poor attendance record and ordered to return to in-person meetings.
Nguyen demanded an immediate investigation into what they described as a ‘toxic political culture’ and called out several lawmakers by name in a statement on Instagram.
They claimed to have been misgendered by Mayor Joe Petty and Councilor At-Large Kathleen Toomey. Nguyen also alleges they were referred to as ‘it’ on multiple occasions by Councilor Candy Mero-Carlson.
…In 2019, two major studies were published which gave some of the strongest evidence yet to the theory.
…So while Proto-Indo-Europeans expanded out of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe in all directions, it was their later Northern European branch which mixed with native European farmers that then expanded back eastward and became the founders of Vedic civilisation.
…Written between 1,500-1,000 BC, the Rigveda is one of the foundational Hindu texts — one of the four Vedas, and the oldest Vedic Sanskrit text. It records the story of the Aryan incursion into India and their encounter with the local populations.
The Indo-Iranian peoples apparently referred to themselves as “Aryans”, meaning “noble” or “civilised”. An inscription on the tomb of Darius the Great uses the term “Ariya” to describe the Iranian people, apparently describing Darius as an “Aryan of Aryan descent.” In Avestan, the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism, “Airyanem Vaejah” is used to describe an ancient “Aryan expanse” which was the homeland of the Iranian people. Similarly, the Sanskrit term ārya, meaning noble, is used throughout the Rigveda to describe the conquerors who subdued the native Indians, who are referred to as Dasa/Dasyu.
I am a bit disappointed in this essay because it misses so much of what really happened in the ancient world, but it is worth reading due to the genetic information presented and its discussion of the Rigveda.
‘Aryan’ is the root source of the name Chinese use for themselves to this day — ‘huaren‘ (華人). It is also the source for the name of the earliest Chinese dynasty, the Xia Dynasty (夏朝). This shows that the expanse of ancient Aryan peoples included also Tocharians in Northeast Asia, where they had a very significant influence on the development of Chinese, Korean, Mongolian and Japanese civilizations.
Aryan peoples are largely synonymous with Scythians, who ruled Central Asia for many centuries, dating back to their invention of the chariot, circa 2,000 BCE, which is why horses were so important in their spread and dominance. It is entirely ridiculous to feel proud today that you have Aryan ancestry (many people do) or that Indian civilization owes nothing to the Aryans.
Incidentally, the Buddha himself was Aryan or Scythian. When he is called Shakyamuni, the name literally means ‘sage of the Scythians’. The Buddha is often referred to as an Aryan in traditional Buddhist texts. The only physical description we have of Shakyamuni Buddha says his eyes were blue. It is ridiculous to be either proud of ancestry from Aryans or ashamed of not being Aryan or having been conquered by them. All peoples everywhere have been conquered and enslaved, and conquered and enslaved others.
Read the works of Christopher Beckwith for a much more detailed and expansive take on this subject. For Buddhists, I highly recommend his book, Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. Beckwith claims Aryan dominance and deep influence in all of the cultures bordering Central Asia was not particularly violent but rather resulted from Aryan/ Scythian males settling in a region and mating with the local women. This led to the formation of many creole languages with prominent Indo-European words and features. ABN
ABN was on top of all of these and more. We didn’t miss even one. If you want the best information, only small sites can provide it. We have no ax to grind and no one pays us anything. ABN
Why did the West work with the communists to destroy Rhodesia?
Or, why would the “free” side of the Cold War ally with the communists to destroy a thriving, resource republic in a critical area
It makes no sense at first. But it makes much sense with a closer look 🧵👇
Critical to understand here is what the two main sides of the Cold War were
On one side was the communist block. It wanted, whatever its internal divisions, to spread communism abroad, mainly by launching revolutions within the old Empires of the Great Powers
The other side was America. It, by hook or crook, aimed to contain and then roll back communism, mainly by subsuming the same former Great Power colonies the communists were aiming for, and replacing colonial government with nationalist-minded locals that would engage in free trade with America and at least pay lip service to liberal democracy
Maine’s chief cannabis regulator said Wednesday that the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is aware that it’s been issuing licenses to individuals associated with transnational organized crime.
However, the agency lacks the authority to deny licenses to those who apply for medicinal cultivation licenses even when the applicant was previously linked by law enforcement to illicit cannabis activity, said OCP Director John Hudak.
At a hearing before the Maine Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee (VLA), Director Hudak attempted to address concerns about the hundreds of illegal cannabis cultivation operations in mostly rural Maine that are controlled by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations (ATCOs).
“We know that these networks are sophisticated and well-funded,” Hudak said. “They rely on complex schemes to establish illegal grows under the radar of enforcement agencies.”
Hudak confirmed that intelligence and enforcement efforts had identified connections to international criminal enterprises.
“Our enforcement partners have seen clear patterns that align with activity tied to transnational criminal organizations,” Hudak explained. “These groups are exploiting Maine’s medical and recreational cannabis systems for illicit gain, and we are working tirelessly to close those gaps.”
These are parasitic organizations committing asymmetric war against USA while also profiting from their aggression. A strong, intelligent state governor would be able to clean this up quickly, but Mills has not even acknowledged the problem. More information available at the links above. Most of these grows are in rural Maine. Since Mills’ election the state has turned into a small but similarly tacky version of California, with top officials spewing all the woke talking points while enjoying high salaries and easy jobs for their friends and relatives. ABN
A place of worship sealed up by the ancestors of Jesus has been discovered in the ancient heart of Jerusalem, frozen in time for nearly 3,000 years.
Carved into the rock near Temple Mount, the structure comprises eight rooms, containing an altar, a sacred standing stone, and presses for olive oil and wine.
And experts believe its destruction may have featured in the Bible, which describes how Hezekiah – one of Jesus’ ancestors – smashed idolatrous places of worship.
This was one such place, according to Eli Shukron, exacavation director for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), who dated it to Hezekiah’s reign.
He said: ‘The structure ceased to function during the 8th century BC, possibly as part of king Hezekiah’s religious reform.
‘According to the Bible, Hezekiah sought to centralise worship at the temple in Jerusalem, abolishing the ritual sites scattered across the kingdom.
‘The Bible describes how, during the First Temple period, additional ritual sites operated outside the temple.
‘It says two kings of Judah – Hezekiah and Josiah – implemented reforms to eliminate these sites and concentrate worship at the temple.’
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