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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus News for the 26th of January 2022.
	I'm joined by John.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	And today we're going to be talking about the persecution of the unvaccinated, the death of affirmative action, or positive discrimination as some people call it, and Britain's buried treasures.
	Yeah.
	Yar.
	So, some things to mention first on the website.
	The first thing here being the Premium Book Club that's gone up.
	So this is Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays.
	It might look esoteric, but it's actually a seismic work of political philosophy.
	It explains the rise of wokeism, Marxism, and basically the shambles of modern politics, so I highly recommend checking that out.
	Let's go and check that out.
	If we go to the next one, we have Inside the Mind of a Statist.
	I believe this one is free from Josh.
	So this is taking a look at the statist mindset, of course.
	So go and check that one out, even if you're not subscribed.
	If we go to the next one, we can see Vengeance and Sacrifice, Whiteness as a Scapegoat.
	This is a republish of Michael Richtenwald's article.
	And as you can see, it now has an audio track for silver and gold tier members.
	So go and have a listen if you didn't the first time around especially.
	And the last thing to mention being the gold tier Zoomer.
	Zoomer?
	Gold tier Zoom call that we do at the end of every month.
	This time at 3.15.
	So it's a little bit earlier.
	Sorry, 3.30.
	And so if you're a gold tier member, please do come and just hang out.
	And we chat and take questions and just relax instead of having to put on a show, let's say.
	Get to know people.
	and the last thing to mention which is the Active Measures Book Club I thought I'd mention it because it's done.
	It's ready.
	We're going to be doing the filming on Tuesday, I believe.
	And then we'll have it up as soon as possible.
	Some people read along for some reason.
	So we do the book club so you don't have to do the 300 pages of reading.
	And then people are like, can I read along?
	Oh, but the book club, I think you get more value out of it if you read the book to start with.
	Sure, I get that.
	Because then you can come to the table with your own opinions and you can compare them with our opinions.
	But I hate reading, so I would never do it.
	I appreciate not everyone is like me on that.
	But anyway, without further ado, let's get into the persecution of the unvaxxed.
	Yes, so there's a fabulous article that's come out of the mirror, and remember the name of this author for when things calm down, but it's called It's Time to Get Tough on Anti-Vaxxers and Make Them Social Pariahs.
	Yeah, thanks, Polly.
	Polly I always thought was the name of a parrot, so it's quite appropriate that she's just parroting the authoritarian line on this.
	And she begins, As COVID restrictions ease, it's time to get tough on anti-vaxxers.
	Enough is enough.
	As Boris Johnson scraps restrictions to save his own skin, we need to convince everyone to get a COVID jab, and that means hitting them where it hurts.
	So by everyone, do they mean small babies, infants, people who are allergic to the vaccine?
	I mean, why not?
	Get jabbed or else.
	It sounds harsh, and it is, but the time has come where it's essential, because we're on our own now.
	What does that even mean?
	I don't even know.
	Boris Johnson is forcing people to pay for his career with their health and inevitably, in some cases, their lives.
	Now, she's being sensible by targeting Boris Johnson here because I don't think he's got any fans left.
	But she has a distinctly left-wing take on it.
	To please his right-wingers and try to cling to power, he's dropping most COVID restrictions from tomorrow to the alarm of the scientific and medical communities, which I'm sure she's deeply integrated in.
	But I wonder, what's the obsession with the vaccination, though?
	Because, I mean, what are we in the UK? I think it's like 80-something percent of 12 and ups have been double jabbed.
	Never mind the booster jab as well now.
	And then the argument is, well, no, that small percentage left that we haven't jabbed, that's really what the problem is.
	It's not affecting anyone else, just that small percent.
	What a wee obsession.
	Yeah, it's just that small percent, and they need to be persecuted.
	We've already tried removing their jobs, for example, if you work in the NHS. That's not good enough.
	Well, what next?
	So she continues, even isolation after a positive test will apparently be scrapped by March.
	It's unlikely this government will bring back restrictions ever again, no matter what.
	Now, I wish I had the confidence that she does to say that, because our experience of this government has been, give it five minutes, there'll be more restrictions back.
	I think that's fair.
	The best thing we can do to protect ourselves is to get vaccinated and boosted, she says.
	Then your chances of catching COVID are reduced.
	But even if you do, you're much less likely to be seriously ill or, crucially for society, to spread it to others.
	No comment.
	Getting vaccinated is good for us personally, and for everyone else too.
	It is the very clear way out.
	What's not to love?
	The Get Boosted campaign was a start, but now it needs to go a stage further.
	The vaccine hesitant, those who are afraid because they've genuinely fallen for untrue propaganda, need to be persuaded.
	The militant, rabid anti-vaxxers will never be persuaded, so they need to be forced.
	No excuses.
	Too many people who happily put meals containing who knows what chemicals into their bodies, or those who ingest recreational drugs cut with let's not even go there, have said they won't have the jab because they don't know what's in it.
	Unless you're a food chemist or a drug dealer, no one knows what's in anything.
	The vaccine has been tested and proven.
	Get jabbed or else.
	I really hate this argument.
	It's kind of like, yeah, we would just eat grass and sawdust if scientists and experts said so, because we don't know what's in anything.
	You know, we don't have billions of years of evolution telling us to distinguish between edible and inedible, healthy and unhealthy.
	No, no, we have to rely on what the establishment and what this columnist at the mirror says.
	French President Emmanuel Macron's strategy is to pee off the unvaccinated by making daily life more and more difficult for them.
	Très bien, but not far enough.
	The unvaccinated must become social pariahs.
	Unironically.
	They shouldn't be allowed into indoor communal spaces like restaurants, cinemas, shops, gigs and, yup, the most bitter of all blows, pubs.
	Why should those of us who are jabbed and boosted have to risk breathing in their maskless air?
	If they don't like it, they know exactly what they can do about it.
	Perhaps we should even make unvaccinated patients pay for the NHS care they are statistically so much more likely to need after they're refusing their japs.
	Maybe the money should go directly into the pockets of the exhausted doctors and nurses who will have to treat them.
	This tough-love, cruel-to-be-kind tactic really is our only option now.
	We've tried personal responsibility, arguing and attempting to reason with brainwashed Facebookers.
	Enough.
	Get jabbed.
	Or else.
	Do you remember when these sort of people would walk around with placards that said, the end is nigh, and ring bells or whatever, and now they're getting positions in socialist newspapers such as The Mirror to spout this kind of crap?
	I mean, the line there of just saying, well, if everyone got vaccinated, the pandemic would be over.
	Well, that's not true.
	Everyone is vaccinated.
	It's 80 odd percent.
	Nothing's changed.
	But there's so many things wrong with this that I don't even know where to start.
	But perhaps we could just take a step back and say, maybe it's a terrible idea to create an underclass in your society, the untervaxed, who should be persecuted in this way.
	And if she really feels that psychological need to persecute people, then maybe she needs to take a deep look in the mirror.
	And the comments on this have not been very kind, if we scroll down slightly.
	Hateful, unnecessary, unscientific othering, says the top comment, or it did.
	There we go.
	Shame on this rag for repeatedly printing this hate speech propaganda.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that is what the old term was meant to mean, inciting hatred towards a group.
	Right.
	And that's exactly what this is.
	It's also worth mentioning that vaccination mandates are coming into effect in Germany and Austria as of February this year.
	The unvaccinated in Greece are already subject to regular fines of €100 per month.
	So it's like a tax that you have to pay to not be vaccinated.
	€1,200 a year.
	Yeah.
	Quebec is also banning the unvaccinated from entering large stores unless accompanied by a health monitor.
	Presumably these health monitors are supposed to rugby tackle you to the floor as soon as you start to sneeze.
	And of course, the persecution doesn't end there.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Unvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston Hospital.
	For his health?
	This is for public health?
	Yeah.
	We're going to have you killed to save you?
	For public health.
	A US hospital has rejected a patient for a heart transplant, at least in part because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
	DJ Ferguson, 31, is in dire need of a new heart, but Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston took him off their list, said his father David.
	He said the COVID vaccine goes against his son's basic principles, he doesn't believe in it.
	The hospital said it was following policy.
	Brigham and Women's Hospital, strange name, told the BBC in a statement, given the shortage of available organs, we do everything we can to ensure that a patient who receives a transplanted organ has the greatest chance of survival.
	A spokesman said the hospital requires...
	Is that a threat?
	The hospital requires the COVID-19 vaccine and lifestyle behaviours for transplant candidates to create both the best chance for a successful operation and to optimise the patient's survival after transplantation given that their immune system is drastically suppressed.
	The hospital added that most of the 100,000 people on wait lists for organ transplants will not receive an organ within five years because of the shortage of available organs.
	So these are a scarce commodity.
	Mr Ferguson has been in hospital since last Thanksgiving weekend, 26th November 2021, and he suffers from a hereditary heart issue that causes his lungs to fill with blood and fluid, according to a GoFundMe.
	So it's not like he's done anything wrong to end up in hospital, you know, fighting for his life in dire need of a heart transplant.
	This is a hereditary condition.
	And, yeah, the organiser of the fundraiser said Mr.
	Ferguson was concerned he could experience cardiac inflammation, a potential side effect from coronavirus vaccination that the US CDC emphasises is rare and temporary, but exists.
	They acknowledge that it exists.
	And that it might prove dangerous given the weakness of his heart.
	So you can understand the line of logic there.
	The CDC encourages transplant recipients and those in their immediate circles to get fully vaccinated and boosted.
	Dr Arthur Kaplan, head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told CBS News that after any organ transplant, a patient's immune system is all but shut down and even a common cold can prove fatal.
	The organs are scarce and we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.
	So I can understand there is kind of a calculus going on there.
	However, if your immune system is all but shut down, how much does a vaccination really help you there?
	That's a question I'm asking, I don't know the answer.
	I mean, he's saying a common cold could kill them anyway.
	Yeah.
	So, what really is the difference between a vaccinated and an unvaccinated patient needing an organ?
	Like, give me the number.
	I'd like to know.
	Yeah.
	And so this is not the only chap who's been denied because of his unvaccinated status.
	Again in Virginia, again in the USA, Virginia Hospital denies unvaccinated patient spot on active kidney transplant list, terminally ill, and he refused the vaccine on the grounds that he had already contracted COVID-19.
	Which gives him greater immunity to COVID than the vaccine.
	Well, that's his claim.
	Well, the Israelis found that as well in their studies.
	So he's actually got a better chance of living?
	Yep.
	And he did the right thing, which is he recorded his call with the hospital and then gave it to Fox News.
	So we understand what was said.
	Art said you're not interested in the COVID vaccine, UVA Hospital's doctor said to Connors, according to a recording of the call obtained by Fox News.
	So it is a requirement for you to be active.
	I just had COVID, so I don't...
	Why would I get the vaccine?
	Connors responded.
	However, the hospital did not budge.
	You may have had Delta, and that may not pretend to you against the Omicron variant, which is what we're seeing now, the doctor continued.
	So our policy is that in order to have people active on the transplant list and get a transplant, you need to be fully vaccinated.
	Connors told Fox News Digital he has been diagnosed with stage 5 focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, FSGS, a rare and dangerous condition, though he is currently at clearance or managing to maintain a sustainable use of his scarred and irreparably damaged kidney.
	However, due to lack of a cure, the disease is terminal.
	Without a transplant, Connor's kidney will eventually fail in the long term.
	However, he won't be eligible for a transplant until he is made active on the list.
	So you're on the list, you're just not in an active status right now as we tie up all these other loose ends.
	So in order to be activated on the list, you will need to get the vaccine, he was warned.
	I find it difficult to comment on this because I think the message to take from this is pretty obvious.
	Like, there is such a thing as informed consent when it comes to medicine and medical procedures that are done to you.
	If you are compass mentis, or if you're non-compass mentis, then a guardian or someone who you designate makes the decision for you.
	If you are compass mentis, then you must make the decision for yourself.
	It's a cornerstone of medical practice that these treatments are voluntary, and yet he's being coerced into it because he's going to be denied the chance of a transplant that he needs to stay alive, based on whether he has this medical procedure or not.
	I think it's quite tragic.
	But even when we can demonstrate the medical procedure is not as good as him having the virus?
	Certainly in some perspectives that can be demonstrated.
	That's inarguable, yes.
	And of course people do continue to lose their jobs over vaccination status.
	If we go here quickly, I lost my job for being unvaccinated.
	She'd worked for this bank, Citigroup, for nine years and they just introduced vaccine mandates all across the US and told her to pack her bags because she wouldn't have one.
	Again, informed consent much?
	No, no, we don't care about that anymore.
	We're running around like headless chickens and we have no idea what we're doing.
	So will due to unvaccinated status become the new due to COVID excuse where it just gets trotted out every now and again whenever someone wants to force some authoritarian nonsense on you?
	well let's see at least many more people are waking up to the realities of living under covid mandates and so on last weekend there were coordinated mass protests across the world which i believe carl and callum will be discussing in a premium hangout on thursday afternoon is that right i'm not sure okay - Okay.
	On dispatches.
	Sorry, I've got that wrong.
	The scale of these is quite impressive, though, so I encourage you to look them up under Worldwide Freedom Rally.
	The question is, what will it take for any government and big media to actually back down?
	And let's just conclude with a little discussion of the scientific literature on this question, because this is a scientific question as much as a moral and ethical one.
	So this is a good article out of Germany and of all places, so well done for putting your ethics hat on, from Günter Kampf.
	COVID-19.
	Stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified.
	The bare minimum.
	Right.
	Had to come from the German as well, didn't it?
	Did you know that stigmatising a group in civilisation is not a good idea?
	Well, he puts forward quite a compelling argument in this abstract.
	She says here...
	Again, people have done nothing wrong.
	They've broken no law.
	No.
	Harm no one.
	No.
	He says in the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19.
	Officials' use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19.
	But this view is far too simple.
	role in transmission people who are vaccinated have a lower risk of severe disease but are still a relevant part of the pandemic it is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated historically both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatizing parts of the population for their skin color or religion yes they have They have, Gunter.
	I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatization of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.
	You know what's weird about that German guilt there?
	During the 2016 migration crisis, in which Mama Merkel just said anyone who gets to Germany can stay here, there was a discussion, and it's mentioned in The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray, in which the German Interior Minister had a discussion with Merkel about putting up some border fencing with Austria, so they could actually regulate who was coming in before she made that promise. so they could actually regulate who was coming in before And the decision by them was that they couldn't have images of German police officers pulling down brown men next to barbed wire, because it would look bad.
	That was the kind of sensitivity they have about such a thing.
	But when it comes to another group of society, no sensitivity whatsoever.
	Well, in general, that's been the case for the German authorities.
	But I do want to say, well done, this academic, for speaking out, because I can't imagine speaking out against the narrative comes without a backlash.
	And the article that he references here, I pulled up because I think this has been quite influential.
	How the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19.
	A Darwinian perspective.
	Oh, great.
	That's just what we need when we're creating a subclass of persecuted minority.
	Let's talk about social Darwinism, shall we?
	Anyway, the world presently has the unwelcome opportunity to see the principles of evolution as enumerated by Darwin play out in real time in the interactions of the human population with SARS-CoV-2.
	The world could have easily skipped this unpleasant lesson had there not been such large numbers of the human population unwilling to be vaccinated against this disease.
	Part of me is wondering if this is fake, because if you scroll back up, there was the name there.
	And this is just pure coincidence, I'm sure, just Emmanuel Goldman, just way too close to Emmanuel Goldstein for me.
	That's true, but I think I looked him up.
	It is real.
	This proceedings of the, well, PNAS is a well-known journal, American journal, Proceedings of the North American Academy of Science or something like that.
	So, yeah, no, this is legit.
	But he's making these incredible claims here.
	Like, this does read a lot more like a journalistic article to me than a scientific letter, but he continues.
	SARS-CoV-2 has shown that it can mutate into many variants of the original agent.
	An unvaccinated pool of individuals provides a reservoir for the virus to continue to grow and multiply, and therefore more opportunities for such variants to emerge.
	When this occurs within a background of a largely vaccinated population, natural selection will favour a variant that is resistant to the vaccine.
	So far, he's right.
	That's absolutely true.
	However, he has completely disregarded the possibility that people who have been vaccinated might get infected and they might also act as a reservoir for this evolution of the virus.
	Because that is also possible, as far as I'm aware.
	And there are other things that he neglects here as well.
	So far, he continues, we have been lucky that the variants that have emerged can still be somewhat controlled by current vaccines, probably because these variants evolved in mostly unvaccinated populations and were not subject to selective pressure of having to grow in vaccinated hosts.
	So he seems to be arguing against vaccination in that paragraph.
	Nevertheless, the Delta variant is exhibiting increased frequency of breakthrough infections among the vaccinated.
	The real danger is a future variant, which will be the legacy of those people who are not getting vaccinated, providing a breeding ground for the virus to continue to generate variants.
	A variant could arise that is resistant to current vaccines, rendering those already vaccinated susceptible.
	Why would this happen among the unvaccinated population rather than among the vaccinated population?
	Surely, if you have a breakthrough infection, then it's just as liable to mutate into something that's vaccine-resistant.
	Anyway, progress we have made in overcoming the pandemic will be lost.
	New vaccines will have to be developed.
	Lockdowns and masks will once again be required.
	Many more who are currently protected, especially among the vulnerable, will die.
	This dire prediction need not occur if universal vaccination is adopted or mandated to protect everyone, including those who are already vaccinated.
	So this does not sound at all to me like a work of science.
	He makes some good points there and some good arguments, but the majority of what he's saying is just very selective.
	And particularly, there are two things he doesn't discuss.
	One of them, as I've mentioned before...
	is the probability of strains mutating in vaccinated hosts, and the other is what happens if the variants, despite being vaccine-resistant, are actually less virulent.
	And that's what transpired, as far as we can tell, with Omicron.
	Finally, let's end yet again on the statistics which put the entire pandemic and the public health restrictions into perspective.
	This is from the spectator here.
	Let's go down so we can see the evidence here.
	Yep, big spike in cases for Omicron and hardly a bump on the hospitalisations.
	And if we scroll down further, just go through here, down to the predictions they should have there.
	We've just got a load of handy data, but none of it really is showing a disaster.
	So, anyway, you can check that out in your own time.
	It's on The Spectator.
	We've mentioned many a time.
	Yes.
	Anyway, let's move on to the death of affirmative action.
	Good news, everyone.
	Affirmative action is finally going to die.
	It is not dead yet, but it is going to be dead.
	And, well, we should rejoice.
	And I thought I'd rejoice by starting off by dancing on thegraveofvox.com, because screw them.
	And as you can see here, this is a video they did a while ago trying to say that affirmative action or positive discrimination is good.
	This is, of course, that if you're white, get out.
	None of you here.
	And of course, this also affected Asians, as they have here in a Harvard case.
	And they're like, oh, what we got wrong about affirmative action?
	And affirmative action is good, we swear.
	As you can see by the dislikes, went down very well.
	People were very happy with...
	Discriminating against people because of their skin tone.
	But if we go to this newest article on Vox.com, and again, I have to use them as a source because I know they're seething and coping as they write this, we can have a look.
	The Supreme Court will hear two cases that are likely to end affirmative action.
	The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear students for fair admissions versus president and fellows of Harvard College, and students for fair admissions versus University of North Carolina.
	Two cases that present an existential threat to affirmative action in university admissions.
	So these are two cases going to the Supreme Court that have been bumbling around, they're finally getting there, and with all the disappointments some people have in the justices, the ones that Trump has put in have been firmed, so it is going to be dead.
	These cases are the culmination of a years-long strategy by conservative activists, and by one activist in particular, to win a court decision invalidating affirmative action.
	The president of Students for Fair Admissions.
	The lead plaintiff in the Harvard and UNC cases.
	But he's not a student at all, they say.
	As if this is bad or unexpected.
	The guy leading the legal cases, funnily enough, isn't a law student.
	He's a lawyer instead.
	It is Edward Blum, a former stockbroker who was also the driving force behind several other lawsuits asking the courts to expand the powers and influence of white people.
	That's how Vox word it.
	He's a white supremacist.
	He's a white nationalist.
	And that's why he doesn't want racial discrimination in the colleges.
	You may wonder what the hell they're referring to.
	They did provide a handy link, so I thought I'd go and check it out, just for a side note real quick.
	So this is another article here from Think Progress.
	Yes, progress never ends, does it?
	And this has nothing to do with race whatsoever.
	I mean they mention in here the case they're referencing and the fact that he's definitely a white supremacist here under the 14th amendment states are allocated seats in the United States House of Representatives by counting the whole number of persons in each state thus non-voters including those who are legally ineligible to vote still count in determining how many seats a house gets and of course well this is unfair because they're not voters or even citizens in many of these cases so why should they count for how we allocate the seats so
	So, that makes him a what?
	That's why they're calling him like a white rights activist.
	Okay, it's nothing to do with being white.
	Could be any race, but whatever.
	Well, it's funny how white rights activist is negative, but black rights activist is positive in their framing as well.
	It reminds me a lot with the whole difference between women's rights activists and men's rights activists, because they've stigmatized one of those groups.
	But it raises a good point.
	Why were there black rights activists?
	Because they were needed.
	There was systemic discrimination against black people in the law.
	And, well, they now label this guy a white rights activist.
	Why is that?
	Because we have systemic discrimination in the law against white people.
	If we go back to the Vox article, this is what we're talking about with affirmative action.
	It's not only whites either, of course.
	There's also Asians as well.
	They say here, the two cases are also the first challenge to race-conscious university admissions.
	That's a very buttered-up way of putting it, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's not racial discrimination, it's race-conscious.
	It's not racist university admissions, it's race-conscious.
	It's race-conscious.
	Yeah, the Klan.
	They're not racist, they're race-conscious.
	Look, when we segregated the water foundings, we weren't being racist, we were just being race-conscious.
	I hate that.
	You ever interact with, like, or watch interviews with, like, white supremacists, and they're like, well, why do you hate people so much?
	And they're like, I don't hate anyone, I just love my race so much.
	That's what this comes off to me as like.
	It's just, you really want to butter up what you're doing, don't you?
	So, they say in here the race-conscious university admissions program.
	They want to shut that down because it's finally reached the court since Fisher v.
	University of Texas at Austin in 2016, which imposed strict limits on affirmative action programs but did not forbid them entirely.
	So this was a weird case.
	The court that will decide these cases looks very different from the one that considered affirmative action in 2016.
	Fischer was a 4-3 decision because Justice Antonin Scalia died several months before Fischer was handed down and Justice Alina Kagan was recused.
	The fourth Justice majority, moreover, included retired Justice Anthony Kennedy and the now late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
	So...
	I love how they're just laying out here.
	The civil rights motion here.
	This court case, which was about please don't discriminate me because of my race.
	That piece of civil rights, let's say, legal progression was destroyed by the Democrats.
	The Democratic justices.
	Just Fox riding it out there as if, okay, let's just move on.
	No.
	No, you should be named and shamed for that.
	You should feel some embarrassment for doing such a thing.
	And for being proud of it as well.
	Skillier, Kennedy and Ginsburg have since been replaced by three reliable Conservatives.
	Justice Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Conan Barrett.
	I don't know.
	The Republicans tend not to consider them Conservatives.
	This is the, let's say, hesitancy on them because of what happened with Trump and whatnot, and I get that.
	But on this, you can see Vox being incredibly scared about this because, well, they are right to be.
	These people at least have a consistent standard on the issue of racial discrimination, which is bad.
	Not the Vox opinion, which is good as long as it's for us.
	So, barring any extraordinary surprise from at least two members of the court's 6-3 conservative majority, affirmative action is probably doomed.
	thank Christ after Fisher universities may only make very limited use of race in their admissions process they write as a lower court that upheld Harvard's admissions program explained a student on the border between admissions and rejection may be tipped into the pool of accepted applicants for a variety of reasons oh so this is this is the very Oh, we have a noble reason for racial discrimination.
	Oh, what is it?
	So what are the outstanding reasons that you could be tipped over?
	Including, quote...
	Outstanding and unusual intellectual ability, unusual appealing personal qualities, outstanding capacity for leadership, creative ability, athletic ability, legacy status, geographic, ethnic, or economic factors.
	Of course, the complaint being the ethnic part.
	You're just saying, I'm not allowed in because you've got too many whites or too many Asians.
	In practice, Vox writes, this means that if two equally extraordinary applicants apply to Harvard, but one of them is white and the other is Latino, the Latino student is more likely to be admitted unless the white applicant has some other factor in their favour.
	It's just open discrimination.
	Right, this is why it's bad, Vox.
	Because you shouldn't be allowed to do that.
	I mean, the Civil Rights Act says you shouldn't be allowed to do that.
	The Harvard plaintiffs argue that even this limited consideration of race in admissions is illegal.
	Big shock.
	They're upset that you said you're the wrong race.
	Get out.
	The funny thing, of course, being the Harvard case centered around Asian students.
	I mentioned earlier that there was personality traits they could discriminate on.
	The Harvard case mainly focuses around the fact that the applicants were Asians and the assessors just assess that Asians weren't very interesting and therefore get out because it helps fit with the racial quotas they want as well.
	Mm-hmm.
	A lot of things to say there.
	The Constitution generally views any policy that draws distinctions based on race as highly suspect, and a federal law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act 1964...
	I mean, this is what I'm getting at.
	We have to go back to the Civil Rights Act to show that these people are wrong, because they are in breach of the Civil Rights Act.
	This is reality.
	This is not, oh, what if they did this to white people?
	They are.
	What if they did this to white people?
	They are.
	That is what is going on.
	Imposes the same restrictions on private universities such as Harvard and that the Constitution applies to public universities with affirmative action programs.
	Nevertheless, in Gunther v.
	Bollinger, the court held that the social benefits of diversity justify allowing universities to take a limited account of race when deciding who to admit as a student.
	Weird.
	Quote, numerous studies show that student body diversity promotes learning outcomes and better prepares students for an increasingly diverse workforce and society and better prepares them as professionals, the court explained.
	Yeah.
	The argument that we should be able to racially discriminate because we want more diversity on campus to prepare you for the changes that are to come.
	Yeah, I mean, there's actually quite a lot contained in this, specifically for universities.
	So I remember when I was applying years and years ago, one of the things which all of the university league tables seem to take into account, particularly the ones from all left-wing publications, but all of them generally, is the diversity of the student body, because it was generally assumed that the more diverse and international and so on, the more sort of vibrant environment it was, because there's different cultures, there's more sort of cultural mixing and all this, that and the other.
	And so, of course, universities that want to get scored highly on the league tables will, wherever they can, try to increase the diversity in their admissions in order to boost those statistics, because that's just one of the metrics that they're ranked on.
	Sure, but that's not what we're talking about.
	We're talking about directly discriminating against applicants...
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Sorry, I'm not saying it's right.
	I'm just saying I understand why they do this.
	This system is full of perverse incentives.
	But the weird argument there, that it will increase the learning outcomes.
	Basically, it will make the students smarter and more knowledgeable if we discriminate against the white and Asians.
	Right, okay, well, let's talk about racial profiling and crime.
	It works.
	Should we do that?
	No.
	There's a reason it's illegal.
	It's because, okay, that's a morally unacceptable thing to do.
	And yet, with universities, the open left-wing position is, no, no, it's right to do here.
	Mm-hmm.
	judges typically believe that the collective benefits society gains from having more diverse campuses must bow to the individual interests of college applicants and given the Supreme Court 6.3 divide that conservative viewpoint is likely to prevail.
	Thank Christ.
	Again, this is why I read Vox, because I know people wonder, why do we use a lot of leftist outlets?
	It's because you want to get their perspective, and their perspective is just openly insane.
	They're like, yes, did you know the conservatives value the individual?
	They don't think you should be discriminated against?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's why the good guys in this situation, and not you, who is just like, well, for collective benefit, we must kick out the white ones.
	I mean, this is just mad, and it's such a strange hill for Vox to die on, which is down with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but go for it, why not?
	If we go to the next link, we can take a look at the Harvard case as mentioned.
	And as you can see, they mention the fact that it's primarily Asians in this particular one who were effective.
	And I wanted to mention, because it's a great video, and he's a great guy, frankly, John Stossel's video on this topic.
	So if we go to the next link here, this is a great video.
	We're only going to play a small clip, but go and check out the full thing, quite frankly, because I just really like John Stossel.
	I think he's a good guy.
	And let's play them talking about why they did this.
	If you only look at grades and test scores, it looks like a lot of discrimination against Asians.
	Economist Harry Holzer, who went to Harvard, defends the school.
	Asians are not interesting.
	They don't have interesting qualities.
	But the personal ratings reflect a wide range of characteristics.
	Now, it's possible.
	It's possible that some of that is anti-Asian bias, but you certainly can't prove that.
	I don't think they're discriminating against Asians.
	But I assume they're discriminating for Blacks and Latinos because there's been a history of discrimination.
	I wouldn't label it discrimination.
	I would label it as leveling the playing field.
	I mean, isn't that discrimination?
	No, no.
	It's race-conscious assistance.
	The right path out of the history of discrimination against individuals based on race is not more discrimination based on race.
	I have three kids, and I'll be damned if I'm going to not fight very, very hard to make sure that they don't get treated as second-class citizens in the land in which they were born.
	I mean, that's the divide here.
	Mm-hmm.
	That is the case.
	I mean, this is why I'm so worked up about it and why I think there should be a focus on it, is because, well, it is just such a moral thing to do, and also it's such an easy win to hit the left on.
	I mean, you can see that guy there trying to defend the progressive position and being like, again, it's race-conscious decisions.
	It's not racism, it's race-conscious.
	I'm not a member of the race conscious party.
	It's ridiculous.
	But then the Asian guy, who is the representative in the Harvard case for the Asian students.
	Well, he actually sued, I think it was the city of San Francisco back in the day, for discriminating against him for being Asian, and he won.
	Wow.
	So now he is taking this all the way to Supreme Court, and it will be coming up.
	Good.
	And likely he will win and get justice for those students as well.
	So that's fantastic.
	The strange thing, of course, is how do the public feel about this?
	Let me go to the next link.
	There is some Pew polling on the positive discrimination.
	And as you can see here, they label it that most Americans, psychologists, shouldn't do this.
	It is a ridiculous level of consensus.
	Like, not 50% of the public think, oh, this is a bit wrong.
	No.
	If we can scroll down, John, you can find some graphs in there, hopefully.
	And it's 73% of adults disapprove.
	Mm-hmm.
	They do not approve of racial discrimination for colleges.
	Yeah, and 20% say it should be a minor factor, and only 7% say it should be a major factor.
	So I presume that's Fox's readers.
	Yeah, but it's just the fact that you've got such vast agreement on this topic.
	I mean, this is not much of a divide.
	I mean, even along partisan lines, you've got majorities in both camps there saying that you shouldn't be doing it.
	But the funny thing, of course, being that, well, the support does just about double when you're talking about the different lines there.
	You've got 4% to 7% of Republicans saying that maybe, and yet you've got 10% and 24% there of Democrats saying, well, you should, or it should be a major factor.
	I mean, that's what it is.
	Ironically, of all of the groups there, Asians are most likely to say it should be considered as a factor.
	Weird one.
	There is a question there about how they define Asians in the American context.
	But the funny thing, of course, being as well that, well, it's so unpopular.
	I mean, 73% unpopularity.
	Do not do this.
	No one with any brains would touch this.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So Joe Biden picked it up and went, I'm going to run with that.
	So if we go to the next link, we can see, of course, Biden's approved ratings, which are trying to match those numbers of unpopularity.
	I think it's 39% now.
	Good job, bro.
	So, of course, he's defending this.
	We can go to the next link.
	You can see his administration doing everything they can to defend racial discrimination, because that's our kind.
	Who cares what the people want?
	So this is Biden's Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogger.
	And Ms.
	Prelogger issued a brief in which she urged the Supreme Court not to hear the lawsuit against Harvard University that seeks to have the use of race in college applications overturned.
	She didn't even want them to hear it.
	Shouldn't even discuss it.
	Just let it die.
	Shouldn't be talked about.
	Biden's administration in February also withdrew an almost identical suit by the Justice Department it had against Yale University.
	And that's a funny one, because Donald Trump's administration started that.
	He went to the Justice Department and said, look, they're discriminating against Asians in Yale.
	Please go after them.
	And then Biden's got in and immediately killed that case because it's not done by a private individual.
	If we go to the next link as well, we can also see the Press Secretary Saki over here also defending the same situation.
	And this clip is amazing, and I'm just going to play it in form because I don't know why I'm surprised by this, but I still just can't get over that this is just open and normal.
	Let's play.
	Should race be a factor in college admissions?
	Well, this is, I think, in relation, I would expect, to the announcement by the Supreme Court about the decision to take up the affirmative action case this morning.
	We're not going to comment on...
	The litigation refer those questions, of course, to the Department of Justice.
	We strongly believe this administration in the benefits of diversity in higher education, and we take very seriously our commitment to advancing equity and equal opportunity for historically underserved populations.
	That's why, in day one, the President signed an executive order, launching an ambitious whole-of-government response to center equity throughout the government's work.
	Throughout the Department of Education, the administration has provided historic investments and support for historically black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions, such as Hispanic-serving institutions, including nearly $21 billion in cumulative support.
	And we have moved swiftly to protect students' civil rights and equal opportunity, including by issuing guidance about schools' obligations to investigate and address claims of discrimination and harassment.
	So, of course, the Department of Justice, they can speak to their view on the litigation.
	Just insane.
	So the guy asks, do you think that race should be part of the admissions?
	She says basically yes, first part of the statement.
	Then she doubles down and says, don't worry, we also discriminate in our funding by the federal level.
	Also, number three, we want them to investigate discrimination, but also we have shut down the Justice Department doing exactly that.
	Right.
	You wanted to investigate discrimination, my arse.
	And maybe, maybe you don't see a problem with this.
	Maybe you're like, wow, it's just on college campuses, bro.
	Eh, is it though?
	So, there's also Joe Biden trying to go full Zimbabwe.
	Oh, yeah.
	And I thought I'd mention this, because this is...
	I mean, it's not funny, but at the same time it is really funny in the sense of what a lunatic you have to be to try and do a thing.
	So a quote from here.
	Biden's team is poised to hand out billions of dollars to what it misleadingly labels as socially disadvantaged farmers, restaurateurs and other business owners hurt by the lockdowns.
	The money will start flowing to them in early June, provided they don't have white skin.
	That's the condition.
	Okay, we're going to go to the farmers and do Zimbabwe, are we?
	The author writes here.
	Although she has, of course, missed out.
	Also Asians.
	Asians are also not part of this group.
	They are also not allowed to run the farms in future.
	One of the Midwestern farmers is suing, Adam Faust.
	He was born with spina bifida and has two prosthetic legs.
	He manages to milk 70 cows a day and grows 200 acres worth of feed crops.
	I mean, just an amazing worker.
	Great guy.
	He is in debt, but he doesn't qualify for forgiveness under the American Rescue Plan because of his skin colour.
	Welcome to racist America.
	But also, we're going to go full Zimbabwe.
	We have these productive white farmers, but also, they're white.
	So let's just cut them.
	It's even worse than that, because it's not like these farmers aren't paying tax.
	They're paying a huge amount of tax to the government on the understanding that it will be used in their best interest.
	And all the government is doing is taking the money from everyone, but also from these white farmers, and giving it to anyone, provided they're not white or Asian.
	Sure, but also just the aspect of...
	No, but this is really important.
	It's a wealth redistribution plan based on race.
	It's not just they're discriminating from race.
	They are massively redistributing the entire wealth of the citizenry based on the race of the citizens.
	Zimbabwe.
	Exactly the same logic.
	But the thing being that, where do you want to do this as well?
	It's all fun and games when you're doing it on college campuses because no one really gives a crap about college campuses.
	Let's put it that way.
	You're going to do it with your food system, are you?
	You're going to do it where the food is grown.
	I'm sure this will have no consequences.
	Philip Greer's cafe lost $100,000 during the shutdown.
	He applied to the restaurant revitalization fund set up under the American Rescue Plan.
	The funds offered to restaurateurs up to $5 million per location to cover losses.
	But Greer is white.
	You have to write that.
	In 2020, you have to write that down.
	And the law says that for the first 21st days funds are distributed, most white men will have to go to the back of the line behind women, veterans, and socially and economically disadvantaged applicants.
	The code there for non-whites.
	Greer has sued.
	On May 18th, a federal judge, Reid O'Connor, determined that he is likely to succeed at trial because this is illegal.
	Openly illegal.
	The Biden administration just doesn't care.
	They are the law.
	They're just going to do what they want.
	But thankfully, we have some system here which this guy was able to get some access back because they say that he was likely to succeed at trial and ordered the Small Business Administration to halt its discriminatory practices and considered Greer's application immediately.
	The judge pointed out the obvious.
	The fund's $29 billion would likely be distributed before Greer and other white male applicants made it to the front of the line.
	Purposely made that way.
	So they would not get their, let's say, funds to dig them out of the grave that the government has put them in, and instead bury them.
	Next up is the Justice for Black Farmers Act, quote, to encourage a new generation of black farmers at the cost of $100 billion.
	Again, we're going to go full Zimbabwe.
	Redistribute the wealth on racial lines so that we can get racial justice, not food production.
	That's not important.
	Racial justice is what's important.
	Right.
	Five Democrats on the Senate Agricultural Committee, including Georgia Senator Raphael Wernock, are behind the measure.
	Which would award 160 acres a home mortgage, a loan for farming equipment, and agricultural training to 200,000 recipients over 10 years, selling them up to be farmers.
	The only qualification is a parent of African ancestry.
	No agricultural experience required.
	Yeah.
	No, that's just lunacy, that is.
	But this is the thing.
	This is how far they are willing to go.
	They are willing to turn America into Zimbabwe, and thankfully, these court cases are finally making it to the Supreme Court, and hopefully, the good work that Donald Trump did in putting those people there, they will actually do the jobs they are meant to do, and, well, defend the law and the Constitution, and say, this is illegal.
	None of this should be allowed.
	Mm-hmm.
	I don't know what else to say.
	So, now let's move on from bad news in the American fields to good news in British fields.
	One thing which people may not know about Britain, even if they've lived here for many years, is that we're unusually passionate about archaeology.
	Amateur metal detecting is a big thing in the countryside, and the success of long-running shows like Time Team have contributed to inspiring plenty of hobbyists to roam the wet and windy fields in search of buried treasure.
	Arr!
	Thanks to their efforts, we have a relatively high-resolution understanding of the history of Britain and the artifacts and culture of the multiple civilizations who have lived here.
	Most finds are small-scale, but one allure of the English countryside is that there could be a whole Roman mansion or a Saxon burial mound right underneath your feet, and you would never know.
	Which I think is pretty cool.
	Have you ever got involved in archaeology or metal detecting or anything like that?
	I've been with people who have done it, and it gives you a sense of good fun, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	Especially when you think, I might find some Roman coins or something.
	Right, exactly.
	It's the quintessential sort of boffin activity as well, I think.
	So, I'm just going to take, in this segment, I'm going to take you through a load of recent finds and some really impressive finds of British archaeology, which has really told us a lot about this country, and which have just been mostly done by ordinary people like you and I. So first of all, it's fun for all of the families we can see from this article.
	English teenager discovers hoard of 3,300-year-old axes.
	It's pretty cool.
	After finding axe fragments dating as far back as 1300 BC, the discovery was handed over to archaeologists who uncovered around 200 items.
	These include incomplete artefacts such as socketed axe heads, winged axe heads, cake ingots and blade fragments, all of which are made of copper alloy.
	Millie said, We were on a dig and we were told everything was on the left side of the field.
	We went around for a bit and we found nothing.
	We went back to the van for lunch and then me and my dad went to the right side of the field and I found a signal and told my dad to come over.
	They started to dig and unearth the first axe fragment, but at first couldn't believe what they had found.
	Millie said, I was shocked.
	My dad started digging and held the first one out.
	He was laughing and joking and saying, This could be an axe!
	This is really wholesome, isn't it?
	And there we have a picture of the axe heads.
	They don't look too remarkable, but 3,300 years old.
	I bet they've seen some work.
	The finds aren't limited to 3,000-year-old axe heads, though.
	A couple of months ago, one of the biggest finds in British archaeology was made in Rutland.
	Have you seen this?
	It's the Roman Megamosaic.
	No, I haven't.
	Okay, so the mosaic was described last month by Historic England as one of the most remarkable and significant ever found in Britain.
	Let's go down to this one.
	So you can see it's really good quality there.
	You can see there's two people fighting on chariots, seen from the Trojan War, Achilles attacking Hector, if we scroll down to the next one.
	Is this someone's flaw from the ancient world?
	Yeah, so that's the whole thing that they uncovered.
	It's enormous.
	It's 11 metres by 7 metres, or 36 feet by 23 feet.
	You don't see that anymore, do you?
	You ever walk into someone's house and find a mosaic on the floor, do you?
	No, you don't.
	It's sad, isn't it?
	Yeah, actually, that's worth thinking about.
	If you've got a couple of million to splash and you're watching a show and thinking, oh, how am I going to do my atrium today?
	Why not go for a mosaic?
	Yeah, why not?
	Exactly.
	So it has three panels showing a climactic moment from the Trojan War in which the Greek hero Achilles fights, kills, and then ransoms the body of his Trojan opponent, Hector.
	Many of these flaws have geometric patterns or portray one god or other, but there is no argument about this.
	The story is laid out almost like a cartoon, said Professor Roberts.
	We spoke to the foremost mosaic expert in the country, and he said it was the find of his lifetime.
	Nothing like it has been found in Britain for 100 years.
	We go down to the next one.
	She describes the commissioning of the piece as a big statement, particularly given the origins of the subject matter.
	And the next one...
	This is really interesting.
	Two of the scenes have details not from the familiar account of the Trojan War, Homer's Iliad, but rather a lost version by the heavyweight Greek playwright Aeschylus.
	He was rather like the Shakespeare of ancient Greek writing, she said.
	Using this rather niche version of the story is rare in the Empire and unknown in Britain.
	It was a bit like someone wallpapering their best room with quotes from Hamlet.
	And as you can see there, there's a bloke there with the scales.
	He's got a big load of gold on one side and the dead body of Hector on the others.
	Presumably this is a scene from the last epic of Aeschylus, which isn't in the normal Iliad.
	It's really interesting.
	What's the gold about?
	Is he weighing how much hectares worth?
	Yeah.
	Presumably he's like, well, I'll have his weight in gold then.
	Something like that.
	Now Rutland, in particular, has been having a great time recently as far as archaeology is concerned.
	The so-called Rutland Sea Dragon is an almost complete ichthyosaur find, which was found in February but revealed on display last month.
	That's the size of it as well.
	You can see it's pretty colossal.
	The UK's largest, most complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur, an ocean-going reptile from the time of the dinosaurs, was found at Rutland Water and revealed to a fascinating public on Monday.
	The discovery made last February has been hailed as one of the greatest finds in British paleontological history.
	And let's just scroll down to see the size of this thing.
	That's where they were in the cold and wet outside and that's when they've basically excavated it out.
	It's really spongy apparently and crumbly so they had to be really careful to get it out whereas if it had fully fossilised it would be more like stone and they could lift out the bones properly.
	Borutland does not have all of the fun.
	Just last month, a group of exceptionally preserved woolly mammoths were found near Swindon in Wiltshire, and not in a nightclub this time.
	So we have this exceptional mammoth graveyard discovered near Swindon.
	Experts who uncovered a 200,000-year-old mammoth graveyard say it is one of Britain's biggest Ice Age discoveries in recent years.
	Archaeologists found the remains of five animals, including two adults, two juveniles and an infant, at a quarry near Swindon.
	The dig began after two keen fossil hunters spotted a Neanderthal hand axe.
	Officials from archaeological organisation Dig Ventures said that what they went on to find was exceptional.
	The remains belonged to a species of step mammoth, an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.
	Close to the mammoth remains, the team also found a number of stone tools made by Neanderthals.
	It's really curious that they find the tools there as well, so they're going to go on to try and find if there are evidence that the woolly mammoths have been butchered.
	By the Neanderthals, whose tools they found.
	If they found that, that would just be amazing, like a little snapshot of prehistory.
	And let's not forget, of course, the constant trickle of artefacts uncovered by amateurs all over the country all the time.
	So if we go to the next one, this is a Norfolk Roman seal inscription, so there's like a gem used for imprinting wax seals and things.
	And there was an inscription on it in Latin which no one could decipher until some random guy from California had a look at it.
	And did a bit of research and worked out that it was Latin for Psalm 27.
	That's pretty cool.
	Then we have this one.
	So this was from a complete beginner.
	Norfolk treasure hunter went metal detecting.
	We scroll down, not to her, but to the images of what she found.
	She found some priceless gold Anglo-Saxon artifacts, including a scabbard mount, which should be the next one.
	Not bad for a day's work.
	Apparently they're worth about £25,000, those two things.
	Pretty good day.
	Yeah, £12,000.
	So the way that works is I believe half of it gets given to a museum compulsorily and you get half of the value.
	So that's £12,500 to the owner.
	But let's consider as well the biggest and the best finds.
	And if you want the biggest and the best in British history, you have to check out the British Museum.
	So they have a list of their top ten here.
	We have to include the Ringlemere Cup, which they've put at number one, if we scroll down.
	This was discovered in 2001.
	It just should be between those two.
	It's a golden vessel made between...
	Maybe it's further down.
	Made between 1700 and 1500 BC, and it was found by metal detectorists in the fields of Ringelmere Farm in the south of England.
	It's one of the old...
	It was that one, John.
	the crumpled one at the top it's one of the oldest treasures ever discovered in Britain and is incredibly important due to its age and rarity only one other gold bronze age cup has been found in England the vessel is now crumpled as you can see there probably as the result of a farmer's plough, kind of tragic Uh, But it has a rounded base which suggests it would have been held and passed around, perhaps like a modern communion cup.
	It's just the fact that it's so old.
	It's, what, 3,700, 3,500 years old.
	Just a gold cup like that.
	That's pretty cool.
	But, of course, when you go metal detecting, one thing you find a lot of the time is coins.
	Lots of Roman coins have been found.
	How many Roman coins, can you guess, have been found?
	Probably millions, actually.
	You reckon?
	Yeah.
	Not quite so many.
	It's 320,000 Roman coins have been found by metal detectorists in Britain alone.
	Which is quite a lot.
	A lot of them are grots like this, so they're completely corroded.
	Some of them are gold and silver, but even if they're corroded, you can still learn a lot about the history, because each king mints them, they get minted constantly, and you get like a constant timeline of the history of Britain.
	And then finally from this bloggo took the Staffordshire Moorlands pan, which is in number four here, below the coin of Domitian, and this one here, so it's quite colourful.
	And this was actually made to celebrate Hadrian's Wall.
	It's got inscribed...
	Wait, what?
	I know, right?
	We built the wall and the Scots had to pay for it.
	Hurrah!
	Pretty much.
	I mean, it was a huge architectural achievement and they built this cup to celebrate it.
	Inscribed around the rim are the names of the four forts along the western end of the wall, a sequence which would have brought to mind endless marches along this route between the garrisons for the soldiers stationed there.
	One of them may have been Draco, the likely owner of this pan whose name is inscribed on it.
	This is a very pretty pan.
	It's got nice circular turquoise, blue and red signs on it.
	It's good stuff.
	But of course, let's think about proper treasure.
	And if we go to the next one, there are lots of hoards that have been discovered.
	This is the Watlington hoard, comprising about 200 coins, some of them fragmentary.
	If you just scroll to the side, there are lots of different pictures.
	Seven items of jewellery and 15 ingots, bars of silver.
	The find is not particularly large, but it is hugely significant because it contains so many coins of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, who you must know about, and his less well-known contemporary, Kale Wolf II of Mercia.
	So Alfred was the guy who basically drove off the Vikings to stand and unified England, in a sense.
	The Horde contains 13 examples of the rare Two Emperor's Penny that shows Alfred and Kjellwulf seated side by side below a winged figure of victory or an angel.
	The image in the coin suggests an alliance between the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, which challenges the accounts found in written sources, which dismiss Kjellwulf as a puppet of the Vikings.
	So we've actually learned something really important about history from this.
	We've learned that there was an alliance between these two kings.
	Who, according to the sources, were enemies all the time.
	One of them was just a Viking puppet.
	The Horde can be dated by the presence of a single two-line type penny which was not produced until the late 870s after the Battle of Eddington in May 878 between Alfred's forces and a Viking army.
	It is possible that the Horde was buried in the wake of this battle or during the ensuing movement of peoples.
	A lot of the time, people as they're running around, as their world is being turned upside down by invasion or famine or whatever it might be, they just stash their valuables somewhere where no one will find it, presumably intending to come back for it, or to tell their grandchildren to go back and dig it up and make money years later, and it never gets found until the modern day.
	Aren't we lucky?
	Another hoard is the Chew Valley Hoard, and this is the largest Norman coin collection that's ever been uncovered.
	Found in 2019, it was buried in the west of England during the early years of William the Conqueror's Rule, and its contents are divided between coins minted under Harold II, or Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king, the guy who fought the Battle of Hastings, And the first issue of coinage under William, which is like the first of our Kingdom of England, the Norman Kingdom since the Battle of Hastings.
	The hoard has doubled the number of coins available to study for Harold and increased by five times those for William, opening up new windows of discovery for the late 1060s.
	And the last hoard I've chucked in here is the Vale of York Viking Hoard.
	We've had Saxon, we've had Norman, and now we've got Viking coins.
	The Vale of York Hoard, also known as the Harrogate Hoard, is a 10th century Viking hoard of 617 silver coins and 65 other items.
	It was found undisturbed in 2007 in the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.
	It was the largest Viking hoard discovered in Britain since the Querdale Hoard in 1840.
	So that's a good summary of the big archaeological finds that you might be able to do, but this section would be incomplete without mentioning the biggest archaeological finds of all time in England.
	So what do you reckon is going to be on this list?
	Absolutely, it's got to be Sutton Hoo.
	I mean, just look at that.
	It's amazing.
	I think that's the replica, yeah.
	But the detail on it and the craftsmanship is incredible.
	So this is a collection of 6th and 7th century burial sites discovered in 1938, including an undisturbed ship burial full of priceless Anglo-Saxon artefacts.
	It's now turned into a museum.
	I've been there.
	It's great fun.
	I think they used to have a little mock village as well, where people dressed up in Saxon gear and doing Saxon things.
	Oh, it's awesome.
	Definitely recommend if you end up down Suffolk Way.
	Then there's also Fishbourne Palace.
	This is a Roman villa complex.
	It was built in 75 AD and is the largest Roman dwelling north of the Alps.
	It's colossal.
	See those mosaics again?
	It's like what you were saying earlier.
	If you fancy a mosaic, maybe fishborne designs are more your thing.
	Worth checking out.
	That was discovered in 1805.
	It's down there on the south coast.
	And finally, it's worth mentioning the Staffordshire Hoard, the biggest hoard ever found.
	Look at all that gold.
	So this was deposited around 650 AD and discovered in 2009.
	It includes 5 kilograms of gold and 1.5 kilograms of silver.
	There are over 4,500 fragments of war gear and religious objects from the 7th century Anglo-Saxon period.
	So, if you're in England and you're feeling a bit bored, then, or even if you're not in England, if you're in Europe or anywhere with a bit of history, why not head out into the fields with your metal detector and just see what you could find?
	You could be the next person to find a £25,000 Saxon scaffold belt.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	This plan to not allow people to own stuff will fail.
	Because basically people like to own stuff.
	I assume you're talking about the World Economic Forum and the mention of you'll owe nothing and be happy.
	I think you're absolutely right that ownership is what makes people happy a lot of the time.
	I really hate the fact that technically I don't own any of my video games anymore.
	I'm all renting them from a digital library.
	Oh, I hate that.
	There's something about a change which happened in Microsoft as well where back in the day when you had a computer, my first computer was my computer, right?
	And I put Windows Microsoft software on it.
	But now the attitude shift in the early 2010s to you're renting all of this software and everything.
	Like really Windows owns your computer and it decides when you can do things.
	It decides when to update and all of that.
	John is mentioning alternative ways in which you can get software, which we cannot mention, but are available online.
	But there's still a sensation that if you're doing it properly, then you don't own what you're using.
	You don't actually own the means of production, so to speak, like the word processing software and that, if you go via Microsoft way.
	And that is deeply, deeply concerning.
	It's also just creepy.
	Quite frankly, a crap business practice as well.
	Well, actually, the...
	Like for the consumer.
	I know it's great for them.
	It's not actually that great for them.
	Generally, the creepiness and control freakery of Microsoft is what has enabled all of the competitive software models to spring up and not take them over where it has happened.
	So, generally, they're their own worst enemy.
	I agree.
	Let's go to the next one.
	George Soros views his investing approach as alchemy.
	In alchemy one seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs, while in science one seeks to find the greater truth.
	Alchemy can be achieved without science.
	Soros is too interested in making money to manipulate the world.
	His key strength is undermining the rules others follow and profiting from the upset.
	He is a financial terrorist.
	Not my words, but those of Colonels Chao Liang and Wang Xiang Sui in their 1999 book Unrestricted Warfare.
	That's very interesting.
	That sounds like a curious read as well.
	Have you heard of that book?
	I've not read that before, but I'd say it's a very nuanced way of putting George Soros' activities.
	Because he's a very slippery fish.
	Like, I've seen countless interviews with him where he's explaining why he does things.
	And it's all a bit strange.
	And now that you've said that, no, he's upsetting the world order to then profit from the upset.
	You know, that does actually fit more with his advice.
	Yeah.
	Thanks.
	Let's go to the next one.
	So in this step I am starting with the wires closer to the front of the panel and I am stripping the outer jackets off of them and then folding them up out of the way so that I've got easier access to the wires behind them and I repeat that process until all of the wires are stripped and ready.
	You gotta watch it as you're doing this that you don't damage any of the insulation on the wires with your knife as you're stripping the outer jackets off.
	Hmm.
	Do you use a knife to do that?
	I would have thought you used the wire strippers.
	Or at least that's what I did at college, but...
	But I guess if you can use a knife and you know what you're doing, I don't know why I'm asking, but...
	I'm weirded out why you wouldn't use wire strippers, because they're made for that.
	Thanks.
	Go to this one.
	Looks like the Canadians have finally found their balls!
	Let them truckers roll!
	Yeah.
	I've been following that.
	There's a little section we might be doing on it, which is about the worldwide freedom rally, as you mentioned, but also the truckers in Canada.
	It's a weird situation with their GoFundMe.
	Have you seen it?
	No.
	So they put up a GoFundMe and were like, look, this is a load of truckers.
	It's going to cost loads of money.
	We need to pay for the petrol.
	We need to pay for the lodging, food.
	So if you want to donate, we'll use that money to do that.
	Simple as.
	Very simple.
	GoFundMe were annoyed.
	They seem to have raised about $5 million, and therefore they put restrictions on the GoFundMe to get their money out.
	And be like, well, until you present a withdrawal plan, we can't give you the money.
	Wait, what?
	Okay.
	But we literally said what we're going to spend the money on.
	So I don't know what they want.
	Yeah.
	I don't know what's going on there.
	It's not like they're going to do a BLM, take the money and run and buy $4.5 million worth of houses with it, is it?
	No, they'd have too many angry truckers knocking on the door if they did that.
	Yeah.
	You don't want to mess with those guys, do you?
	This is GoFundMe for you, I guess, which is they'll do anything they can to try and show you that.
	GoFundMe, goF you.
	Yeah.
	Go to the next one.
	People calling for peace, liberty, the end to dictatorship, calling for the resignation of politicians, for the end to restrictions and mandates.
	It was amazing to see Germans stand up for their rights like this and go out to the streets and make their voices heard.
	The media obviously tried to claim it was only a couple hundred lunatics and right-wing extremists, but from the footage you can obviously see it was more people and regular people.
	Let's be honest.
	Well, I'll be joining this more often for sure.
	It was great fun.
	Excellent.
	Good on you for sending that in and for going there.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	He makes a very good point as well.
	When me and John went to the one in London that we filmed and put on the website, there was a...
	I don't know how to describe it, but it was sort of a wholesome feeling, the fact that you were looking at a real cross-sectionist society, and you could bump into anyone there, frankly.
	There was no limits on what kinds of person were there.
	Except politicians, I suppose.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I, for one, am shocked and appalled by the violent rhetoric of Jen Psaki.
	I can't believe how much she urged violence.
	It's distressing, and I think you should call her out on it.
	Alright, I presume that's in reference to yesterday's podcast, which I haven't had time to catch up on yet, but yeah.
	What's going on with Saki is weird as well, because she said on The View that she, well, the host was like, are you leaving?
	Little birdie told me you're leaving the job.
	And she was like, look, I, you know, I love the job, there's no chance of me leaving, I love working for president.
	Why would you want to do that job?
	I love working for president Obama, Biden.
	Oh, the Alzheimer's is spreading.
	Quick, shut down the White House, it's contagious.
	Let's go to the next one.
	While I didn't get stuck in the Power Armor this weekend, I did forget to unlock the knees, so I could only shuffle around.
	And turns out Harambe tape doesn't exactly like to work when it's only 10 degrees Fahrenheit, so the panels I taped on fell off.
	I also discovered that unlike in video games, you don't really have a good field of view unless you get a camera system in there.
	So I'll have to do that at some point.
	Just goes to show all the theorizing in the world just doesn't beat real world experience.
	Yeah, when it comes to a camera system, I know some people do like a cheap heads-up display by essentially building a little projection system based around a high-resolution smartphone.
	You might want to look into that if that solves your problem.
	But yeah, that does look really cool and I look forward to seeing how it develops.
	This isn't a criticism, because I know it's not what you're trying to do, but I don't know who else to ask, because you look like the only person I'd ever meet who would know anything about this, and maybe there is someone out there who's doing it, which is, I wonder if you could start turning it into actual power armor.
	I don't know, use aluminium or something for some of the base stuff, because you mentioned it falling off.
	I wonder if you actually can slowly build it up, and then eventually you're going to get to a point where it's going to be so expensive, like you're going to have to battery power to some crap like that, at which point, okay, don't go much further, but I'd love to see what the limits are.
	Yeah, that does sound like a good step forward to use actual aluminium plates as well to give it a bit more heft.
	Like, I know power armour's a bit of a meme, but I really want it to be real.
	Like, I really, really want it to be real.
	Even if it doesn't get used for military purposes.
	I mean, just the wear, because it's funny for some millionaire.
	We actually touch on that, Josh and I, in our discussion of cyber super soldiers when they start talking about powered exoskeletons, which is basically power armour.
	So, yeah, check that out.
	Tell me if I'm just retarded and there's a reason why that can't be done.
	Let's get to the next one.
	What up, loaded CDs?
	Today is Australia Day.
	Today is a special day for most Australians.
	It's a day to celebrate who we are and where we come from.
	Along with acknowledging the traditional owners of this land, who are the Aboriginals.
	If there is one thing I wanted to say, is that whoever you are, and wherever you come from, to anybody, be proud of who you are, be proud of your nation, be proud of your heritage, your culture, your language, for without it, you are no one.
	A good bit of oikophilia there, as Roger Scruton would put it.
	Love of home.
	I 99% agree.
	I also noticed the nice touch with the flag there in the state of crisis that you are.
	Yeah, it's upside down.
	I noticed that too.
	A little bit of me is reluctant to agree with that statement because of things like the Soviet Union or DPRK, let's say.
	Stuff like that.
	The Korean aspect of you or the Russian aspect of you, absolutely, but the Proud of your nation or your culture, I would be...
	Well, that's the thing.
	Again, Scruton makes a distinction here in that British patriotism is supported by the fact that we have the word home, which is really useful to describe.
	What have you got that expression on for?
	Nothing.
	So, whereas like some other countries, they have to create some abstract ideal to build into the nation and turn it into the fatherland or the motherland or whatever it may be, and then they collectivise around that.
	And I think you can be proud of your home without necessarily, like you say, being proud of living in the DPRK. Sure.
	It's just...
	Maybe it's just that I've been reading too much stories of people living there again.
	Well, you have, but that's not true.
	That's just every day, but anyway.
	Let's go to the next one.
	How's it going, guys?
	Today, I am shelling a company called Ion Sci-Fi.
	They are building a concept.
	You're actually playing a different role in simulating a bridge of a starship.
	This looks so cool.
	You can play tactical.
	You can play helm.
	You can play sensors.
	You can be the captain.
	It's going to be really good when they finally get it done.
	So go and check them out and support them.
	IonSciFi.com Also, they just interviewed me about my books.
	Yeah!
	So that's ionscifi.com if you want to check that out, or cscooper.com.au as well if you want to check out his damn books.
	So I actually saw him post that on Getter.
	I didn't realise that was what they were doing.
	But yeah, if you could make that work a bit like an escape room, you know, like they somehow took off escape rooms everywhere, even in our town, where you lock people in and they do this team building exercise.
	If you could sell working on the bridge of a starship as a team building exercise to companies, that sounds like a great business model.
	I would totally do that.
	Yeah, probably a lot of money.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the written comments on the site, so if you want to read out the first one.
	Sure, so in the Untervax section we have Student of History who says, So when are they going to start saying we need a final solution for das, I mean, the unvaccinated?
	When indeed.
	I really like the term Untervax.
	Thanks.
	Yeah, I think it's appropriate, because we kind of have the Untervaxed and the Booster race.
	There's this clear dichotomy.
	Unless you're constantly getting the Boosters, you are the Untervaxed.
	Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
	So, anyway, Chet Chisholm says, I will elaborate on this more on Friday, and I have lots to share on the matter, but here is where we are in Canada.
	As I've mentioned previously, I'm a veteran paramedic over 10 years.
	I've helped hundreds, if not thousands, of people over the course of my career.
	I've delivered a baby, I've cared for the critically injured and sick, I've climbed through the shattered wrecks of countless cars, and with the aid of firefighters, I've pulled numerous people to safety.
	Thank you for your service.
	The contribution that I and those like me have made to our communities, to our province and our country is without compare.
	After getting a single dose of the visor jab, I did develop significant injuries.
	Both Carl and Callum can attest to this as they saw firsthand how incredibly sick I started to become at the start of the summer.
	Not much has changed since, but I have found ways to mitigate some of my issues.
	I, and like many of those whom I personally know have been injured, have been straight up denied medical exemption from the vaccine.
	Nova Scotia has only granted 18 exemptions in total, and I know personally of three cases of myocarditis, two significant menstrual issues, two cases of severe blood clots, and a case of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS. None of these have been granted exemption, and all but two of those are located in my town of only 20,000 people.
	As I have been denied my medical exemption, I am no longer allowed to go to the gym, the bar, restaurants, music venues, indoor or outdoor sporting events, weddings or funerals.
	I am also not permitted in the hospital unless for an appointment, or I am being seen in the emergency room.
	The Clint that has hijacked my country has had the gall to go on TV and say anyone who does not take as many shots as he tells them to are racists, misogynists, and are putting the lives of Canadian children at risk.
	Come February 28th, as per the vaccine mandates for healthcare workers in Nova Scotia, I will be fired from my job.
	If our province follows Quebec's example, I will be fined or taxed for not taking a second or third shot of the vaccine.
	If I do not pay that fine or tax, the government will seize my assets.
	When I run out of assets, they will send armed men to arrest and imprison me.
	This is the state of Canada right now, and people are celebrating it.
	The path they chose in life came from a place of compassion, selflessness and courage.
	The path they have chosen is that of malice, selfishness and cowardice.
	I mean, you lay it out better than anyone ever could.
	Yeah.
	The fact that you're such an asset to your society as well and your community, and yet you're the racist misogynist and therefore the undervaxxed.
	Yeah.
	No, it's this kind of treatment, this demonization which radicalizes people as well.
	And it's appalling.
	It's a shame.
	These people...
	If this was any other country, you'd be talking about them applying for asylum application in New England because you can't live where you are, clearly.
	It's insane.
	Mm-hmm.
	But because it's about the vax, it's okay.
	It's crazy.
	I don't really understand what, well, just what's happened to our leadership in the last couple of years.
	They've been full mask off, full, right, let's control our society, let's persecute these people, let's create a group of kulaks to demonize.
	And there are people like Chet whose lives are being ruined by it, frankly.
	I hope you're all right, mate.
	Yes, I hope you're all right and stay strong.
	Omar says, it's a prevailing trait of people who want to keep power to suffer from acute moving goalpostitis.
	Don't admit that you're wrong, just keep finding excuses to keep heading on the same course without self-reflection.
	No more of those reasonable concerns.
	It didn't work because you didn't comply hard enough.
	So shut up and validate my perspective.
	Catastrophic Regression Threshold says Morning guys, wouldn't the active denial of an organ transplant for any reason violate the Hippocratic Oath?
	Policy or not, the hospitals are actively choosing to let people suffer and die because they didn't get a particular shot Yes, the person is making a choice and not getting it but that is a personal choice that affects them whereas the choice of the hospital affects patients, not the hospital itself So yeah, exactly, it's There's no shortage of people who will make decisions on other people's behalf, because they don't have to pick up any of the consequences of those decisions going wrong.
	Kevin M says, war is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery, vaccination will set you free.
	Or, as our German masters so succinctly displayed in Düsseldorf, impfen magt frei.
	Sorry, I'm just distracted by the fact that John seems to have found some power armour.
	Probably Delta have made this or not.
	Are they advertising on that?
	I don't know what's going on there, but yeah, cool.
	I don't know if John has it up.
	I presume yes.
	Ignacio Junquera says, It's always the super vax the most scared of getting COVID. You had the vax, didn't you?
	What are you scared of?
	I will not be coerced by petty bureaucrat tyrants.
	M1Ping says, I assume these health monitors have twin lightning bolt insignia on their collars and skulls on their caps.
	Yes, I think so.
	And I think they haven't realised they're the bad guys yet.
	Kevin M says, I'm no medical expert, but if your immune system is extremely suppressed after an organ transplant, would antibodies vaccine-produced or otherwise even have any effect?
	Well, that was the question I asked, and I don't know the answer.
	Did you become an immunologist in the last five minutes?
	No.
	No.
	Unfortunately.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	I mean, when they're saying the common cold could kill him anyway.
	Yeah.
	Okay, well, this won't do anything.
	Exactly.
	Bob Bobson says, the seasonal flu shot program has been in place since the 60s and is only used by the vulnerable.
	The majority of people have been unvaccinated against flu for over half a century.
	Given Omicron is now weaker than flu, why is being unvaccinated only now an issue?
	Maybe I shouldn't be giving them ideas.
	To be honest, that is a good campaign.
	It's a very good one.
	Like, to make it that, oh, you're not vaccinated against the flu, what are you?
	Untovax?
	Like, do that against these vaccine lunatics.
	The booster race.
	The booster race.
	And finally, George Happ says, things may look grim for the unvaxxed for now, but learning from history, we may get a country of our own to live in at the end of it.
	Interesting.
	Do you guys have any preferences for such a promised land?
	I would personally go for New Zealand.
	The nature seems lovely, plus displacing the populace there would be coming justice.
	Honestly, I'm also seeing more and more argument for just invading New Zealand at this point.
	I mean, after they decided they were going to work with the CCP whilst being a member of Five Eyes, I mean...
	They need a bit of freedom, is all I'm thinking.
	They do, yeah.
	If the US military was to invade, I don't think the rest of the Angler field would give a crap.
	There was that clip I saw this morning of Jacinda Ardern talking about hundreds of suicides in New Zealand.
	She had a massive grin on her face.
	It was like, oh yeah, it's people killing themselves all the time.
	That woman is creepy.
	Let's go for the death of affirmative action.
	So Omar Awad said, where does DEI sit above...
	Sorry.
	Where does DEI sit above famine on Matsio's hierarchy of needs?
	We need to tell them to stop using charts from Zimbabwe.
	Yeah, I... Can you even call it...
	Yeah, I mean, I suppose you can call it DEI stuff because that's the justification, but I just...
	I never thought it would go this far.
	Like, I'm still shocked every time I see a job application that says, you know, you can only apply if you're not white.
	That still shocks me.
	Like, I still feel like, what the hell is going on?
	Even though I've seen it a hundred times.
	But then for the Biden administration just to openly do that with farms, and to redistribute the nation's wealth along racial lands in the farming sector, I... He must know.
	There is no way this guy doesn't know that this just ends in famine every time it's been tried.
	So maybe that's the plan.
	Maybe the plan really is to just destroy the United States.
	It's always been a meme of conservatives like, well, this guy gets elected, he'll destroy the country.
	Yeah.
	Apparently, yes.
	Eventually it happens, yeah.
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, I love the fact that Vox and the left wing have gone from the MLK stance on race to the Malcolm X stance.
	Next, they'll be calling for their own separate black state.
	They are.
	It's America.
	That's essentially where the ideology comes from.
	It's the displacement of the current aesthetic of America and the destruction of all things American.
	The replacement with some sort of innovative, indigenous, ethnic sort of hodgepodge of aesthetics.
	Which they have no idea what they are.
	They want to completely invent them based on invented history and invented stories.
	And they are doomed.
	But that's what they're going for.
	I mean, yeah, I can see them going for the Malcolm X position of a two-state solution as well.
	Which we just have the whites live over there and the BAME race over here.
	If you've read White Fragility, there is no room for the whites to live anywhere in that philosophy.
	I would push back on the stance that Charlie says that the MRK beliefs are of the left.
	The more and more I look at history, the more I'm thinking, no, no, no, no.
	This is some kind of wrong version of events that we've all slowly learned, and I don't know why.
	Just because our school teachers are left-wings.
	Yeah, but all the Klan are Democrats, the South are Democrats, the Dixiecrats, all that crap.
	And they're like, oh, the party's switched.
	No, not really.
	When did that happen?
	A friend of mine keeps telling me.
	I can never look it up because I'm dumb, I guess.
	But apparently Rosa Parks was a member of the Republicans.
	I don't know if that's true.
	But the idea that the MLK stance has ever been the Democrat stance, I don't think so.
	I think there seems to be a continuation of the religion they had before.
	Omar Awad says the left's idea of equality and equity is raising people up to reach the same heights.
	The praxis of the left's ideas is cutting everyone's legs off so nobody can reach those heights.
	I don't even think in ideal circumstances they're reaching anyone up.
	Also, I'm wary of affirmative action going away because I'm afraid of what lunacy they'll try to replace it with.
	Somehow, someway, they'll redefine their way into positive discrimination.
	Word salad.
	I don't know.
	I think in this case it'll be good for affirmative action to be struck down in the courts.
	However, there will be a long rearguard from all of the subverters and the institutions who will implement affirmative action by every method they can that's technically legal.
	Sure, but we'll keep fighting.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Politics never ends.
	The point there, though, as he mentions, that it will become part of history, essentially, yet again, in which we had these early Supreme Court cases in which the Dems protected racial discrimination, and then finally it was defeated in 2022, with the Supreme Court's decision on Harvard v.
	Students of Representation, or whatever the hell it was.
	And I think, going back to Charlie's point, we need to start hammering in the nails, which is the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
	It's still going on, of course, and continuously it seems to be the Republican Party, especially the United States.
	We're telling the history of the civil rights in the United States.
	It is the Republican Party, yet again, that is the defenders of we need to be neutral on race.
	We are not to be racial discriminatory.
	I think this is the whole thing.
	If you have a national identity, as long as everyone is American, then there's no need to discriminate on race because you've achieved that unifying thing which you need to do to get everyone to just get along.
	Are you an American or not?
	Yeah.
	The citizenship aspect.
	So Sarah Foster says, absolutely wonderful piece on archaeology.
	Oh, that's in the...
	I think it's in the wrong section.
	I'll save that because that's in the wrong section.
	But Reece Sims says, I think the real question is if affirmative action dies, what will the response be?
	Will it be to go down the hopeful route of, okay, then I guess we'll have to offer positions meritocratically, or will it be heading down the route of more...
	a more likely route of...
	We can't use affirmative action, but we can just say that we took the best while actually taking the diverse.
	Here's to hoping logic will eventually beat progressive theology in universities, even if it is a big ask.
	The leftists will always be leftists.
	There is no hope of eventually defeating the enemy.
	It's not how politics works.
	There will always be a divide.
	So these people will still exist, and as you say, they will likely continue to do this kind of stuff, but they will have to do it behind their backs.
	They will have to do it in the shadows.
	And we will still be able to identify when this happens and take them up, as the case in Chesterton's police force proved that we've referenced before, in which the white applicant for that job, the only white applicant for that job, was overqualified.
	It was ridiculous.
	He had so much levels of policing training and experience.
	And he was denied the job, and then he sued, and in court it was just proven, yeah, this is bollocks.
	All the other applicants were way worse.
	Mm-hmm.
	So they will still be rooted out, and that fight will continue.
	But I think we're going to have to get used to a lot more litigation, a lot more lawsuits in this country if we want to really fight this, in Britain particularly.
	Sure, although in Britain it still seems to be legal under weird circumstances.
	I spoke to a binary surfer about this, and he was saying about the fact that he knows the legal standards on this.
	And in the UK, we did narrow it down to the fact that the applications are meant to be the same, and then you could discriminate based on race.
	But of course, no application is the same.
	That's insane.
	So that never happens.
	So what is happening is just people just saying, I'm going to hire the diverse.
	So...
	If you're saying what will happen, well, you'll be in the situation Britain's in, except you guys have the balls to sue more than we do, and the culture.
	Alex Bradbury says they absolutely want discrimination cases, only in one direction, and gotta give them reparations.
	Callum Dayton says the end of colourblindness, huh?
	Discrimination of a person's character is not enough, it's not fair enough, but must be about the group.
	Depressed sigh.
	There is nothing more unique or sacred than an individual.
	There's no minority group smaller than an individual.
	A person been watching Night's Watch podcast picked up some interesting things in it.
	I don't know.
	It's a wonderful, I think it's Ayn Rand quote from her, saying that the smallest minority group is the individual.
	Yeah.
	It's a great point.
	We'll skip over and go to the buried treasures.
	Okie dokie.
	I like how we've got a little segment dedicated to the ancient history that keeps our island nations past a semi-solved mystery yet to be fully unraveled.
	It's a nice tonal shift from the myriad of crazy things the progressives are trying to achieve, one of which being the denaturing of this ancient history into a false, disturbing lie that fits the story they want to tell.
	Truth be damned.
	Yeah.
	Speak One's Mind says, a lot of farmers in Belgium still discover bits of military gear from World War I when they plough their fields to this day.
	Went to a farm which turned into a museum a few years ago where it sort of displayed all of the items her husband took up.
	The prized item on display was a still-functioning British Lewis machine gun, which was dug up in its original storage bag back in the late 90s.
	Because it was buried in its bag, when they got it out, it was still functioning.
	That's some amazing engineering as well.
	There is also still a danger of any artillery shells detonating when they surface, too.
	Yeah, that would be a great solution to our gun laws, probably.
	Let's go digging in the back car.
	Not Lewis machine gun yet.
	Why not?
	There's my one, let's say, what's the word?
	Vengeance?
	No.
	When you're mad that he has something better than you.
	What is that?
	Envy.
	Their envy, yeah, of the Belgians, because they've got their country being invaded so many times, they've got all the modern history stuff, like World War I and World War II stuff.
	Whereas over here, all you can really find for battle stuff is some swords, if you're very, very lucky.
	I'd love to have a Lewis Pushinga, why not?
	Captain Charlie the Beagle says, thank you for your buried treasure segment.
	It's really nice to have a white pill now and then.
	Yes, and also I should say thanks to Beau as well for helping to prepare some of the bits of this because Beau is our resident history buff if you've been following Epochs, our premium series.
	he covers a lot of stuff to do with history especially ancient history XYNZ says on British history, so where's the diversity?
	Why are you not showing the representation of BIPOC persons, big heads also I'm not seeing trans representation that's a very good point I don't think anyone has actually identified any trans skeletons in Roman Britain.
	I'm pretty sure there was an attempt to try and claim a transgender Viking at one point.
	Mm-hmm.
	Attempt.
	Because it was bollocks.
	There was an attempt.
	They found a woman's skeleton and they said, look, look, she was a shield maiden.
	We can prove it.
	How can you prove it?
	And it was just like she had some pots buried with her, which were buried with some actual warriors who had swords and stuff.
	So because the pots were there, some nonsense like that anyway.
	But of course the mainstream press ran, took it and ran with it before even checking the evidence.
	Alex Ogle says, ah, archaeology.
	I think Britain should lend Canada some archaeologists to help find out what's going on with these fresh graves found at residential schools, even though they haven't proved what the truth was with the ones in Kamloops last year.
	They keep relying on the not very reliable ground penetrating radar.
	radar.
	It's amazing what you can prove if you just dig.
	And that's in reference to the fact that they have not dug up a single one of the graves.
	They haven't basically haven't found a single piece of human remains in the Canadian residential school scandal, which has led to a load of media factored outrage, which burned down lots of churches.
	So in Canada, I don't know if you followed this story.
	Student of History says, Britain, land of ancients, Absolutely.
	And Alex says, love all of this archaeology and history.
	We are so lucky to have beneath our feet in Britain.
	All those eccentrics with a metal detector that guard and find another chapter in our isles history should be proud.
	I'll just go up and read Sarah's comment.
	Absolutely wonderful piece on archaeology.
	My dad got me interested in archaeology and was a keen metal detector enthusiast.
	I still go and look at rocks from time to time.
	Absolutely love history.
	Thanks for featuring something a little different.
	Do you want us to do the honourable mentions?
	I think we're pretty much out of time anyway.
	Okay.
	We'll leave it off there.
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