Alex Scanlan

Lefties in York get heckled by locals.

This tweet and its replies perfectly illustrate the grotesquely asymmetrical understanding of human rights at @amnesty . Barely a peep about the human rights of the 20000+ Haitians murdered by criminal gangs, but laser-focused on the human rights of the gangsters themselves.

Let's connect the dots. In a matter of days: The Economist runs a headline saying Jensen Huang must resign, and that his shouldn't be the only head to roll. An influential newsletter in "AI safety" circles demands the same. Lawmakers call for him to go. The new Democratic Congress announces a flood of AI bills. One congresswoman wants, on day one, a pause on advanced AI and a ban on superintelligence. A bill proposes a federal agency that would decide who is allowed to build models. And the target at the center of it all is the man supplying the chips for the entire AI revolution. The one publicly defending open models. The one fighting restrictions in Washington. I'm not saying the scandal is made up. I'm saying: look at who is using it, and for what. To understand, you have to ask one question. What does the power of what I call the globalists actually rest on? Not money. Not weapons. A monopoly: the monopoly on expertise. The technocracy in Brussels and Washington, the big international institutions, the NGOs, the major newsrooms, the consulting firms: the whole system lives off an asymmetry. They know, you don't. They read the 400-page reports, you don't. They interpret the numbers, you live with the consequences. They write the rules, and you pay lawyers to understand them. Hayek saw it: central power feeds on the pretense of a knowledge no one really has. For decades, that pretense was impossible to challenge. It took years of study, networks, resources. Now imagine superintelligence. Any citizen can audit a budget in ten minutes. Read an EU directive and see every consequence. Check an official statistic. Tear apart a junk study. Draft a legal challenge. Build a company alone, without asking anyone for permission. The asymmetry disappears. And with it, the monopoly. We've seen this movie before. Before Gutenberg, the Church held the monopoly on interpreting the texts. The printing press put the Bible in everyone's hands, and a century later, all of Europe had changed. AI is the printing press of expertise. And the people holding the monopoly know it. So they do what every threatened elite has always done. They don't fight the technology head-on. They slow it down. They regulate it. They license it. And when they can't stop it, they try to own it. Every scandal becomes a lever. Every fear becomes an argument. Every incident becomes a bill. And here's the part almost everyone misses. People will say: "So it's a conspiracy?" No. It's much worse. Nobody needs to coordinate. When an entire caste feels its monopoly threatened, every one of its members spontaneously does the same thing, at the same time, for the same reasons. The columnist, the regulator, the activist, the politician. No secret meeting required. All it takes is a shared interest. The scary part isn't that it's coordinated. It's that it doesn't need to be. That's why this goes far beyond Jensen Huang. If you can take down the most strategic person in global tech in a week, the message to every builder is clear: accelerate, and you're next. Pareto said history is a graveyard of aristocracies. The aristocracy of expertise can feel itself heading there. Superintelligence won't ask them for permission.

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This is a rather frightening attack on Free Speech whether you agree with the Member or not. Really a shocking action by the Speaker of the Welsh Parliament and must be condemned by all who believe that elected members should be able to speak freely unless they are threatening violence. I am genuinely horrified

EU politicians won't praise Nayib Bukele because he's raising a mirror at them. And Haiti is the mirror. Look at Haiti. The UN is there. The EU is there. Billions poured in. Years of missions, meetings, resolutions, speeches. And what is the result? Gangs run the country. Police run away. People can't eat, can't move, can't live. Now look at El Salvador. A tiny country. No billions from the UN. No giant armies. Just one man with will. And he cleaned it up. Gangs gone. Streets safe. Mothers can send their children to school without fear. Yet giant states are failing in Haiti, while tiny El Salvador is succeeding. For the EU to praise Bukele would be an embarrassing indictment of their own failure. It would mean admitting Haiti failed because of them, not because it was impossible. Rather than admit that, they will try to find faults in Bukele. They will call him a dictator. They will talk about human rights of gang members. Anything to avoid admitting the truth: El Salvador proved it could be done, and Haiti proved they never had the will to do it.

Leaving Cert History no longer offers a neutral framework for students to study the past. It is now about developing a "critical historical consciousness" in students. The teaching of history is being positioned as a means of shaping how students should understand and respond to current political issues such as migration, nationalism, climate action, social justice, equality and the rights of groups described as victims of historical discrimination. The background paper for the review of the subject says: "Growth in migration levels has been dramatic and has been accompanied by a rise in nationalist and extreme political movements and ideologies. The climate crisis and the lack of agreed global responses to these challenges continues to pose an existential threat to humanity. Various movements campaigning for climate action, social justice and equality have also emerged, striving for the advancement of rights of those who have been victims of discrimination or injustice historically. The importance of supporting young people to acquire and develop the historical consciousness and sensibility to explore these phenomena, and the conceptual understanding to interrogate them critically, is more acute now than ever." This is political indoctrination. ionainstitute.ie/will-the-ne…

🚨 Jordanian asylum-seeker Seif Waleed Al-Hindawi (23) was sentenced to 3.5 years for a shocking, high-profile, sexual attack on a woman (40s) on Wednesday 22nd May, 2024 in Churchtown, Dublin. Did you know he also attacked a 61 y.o. woman in Waterford the Saturday night (18th May) before that, also biting her face as she managed to fight him off? 🤢 _____ - No warnings were issued to the public about a crazy Arabic speaking savage on-the-loose after the Waterford attack - No coverage by national media of the Waterford case, to link the two attacks - Not named by the Waterford News & Star despite his notoriety, probably due to the farcical law on identification of asylum seekers - Received just 9 months jail for the "violent and random" sexual attack in Waterford - he initially made false claims about how he got here, his nationality etc. and seems to have destroyed or concealed his id / passport - The two cases in Waterford and Dublin were very, very similar and should have been instantly linked by Gardaí - not after circulating CCTV footage. Had a Garda alert gone out, the public would have been able to link the two cases, or helped to apprehend him before the 2nd attack. - Remarkably, he used the excuse that it was his 1st time drinking alcohol for the Dublin attack. The Irish Times report did not pick up on (or concealed) the fact he was charged with a similar attack which happened 5 days previously, in Waterford Waterford News & Star report from January 2026 👇🏻