Posted On: Saturday - March 22nd 2025 4:06AM MST
In Topics: Geography Race/Genetics Science
Note: This post may as well have been lifted directly from The Gateway Pundit. All 3 images come from their article. I'm over that site generally - just too much hype and gossipy "Watch so-and-so DESTROY so-and-so in this tweet! He got 1,800 LIKES!" stuff, and then there's the Hispanic "outreach".* They do have some useful headlines, especially for Peak Stupidity purposes.
I don't know how many different Peak Stupidity posts one could make out of the this story: South African Antarctic Expedition Still Stranded With Out-Of-Control Crew Member Who Sexually Harassed and Beat-up Colleagues – Authorities Monitoring the Situation Remotely. There could be quite a few, I reckon. If Steve Sailer doesn't get to it, he's lost his way, man.
Queen Maud Land is the sector of Antarctica, officially owned by Norway due to a Norwegian being the first man known to have set foot there, 95 years ago, upon which sits SANAE IV. (That's South African National Arctic Expedition, version 4.) This base is on the edge of the continent ~ 70 S latitude and just a couple of degrees west of the Prime Meridian - so due South of London, but more importantly, closest to S. Africa.
Contrary to popular perception**, it's STILL cold down that way - the Climate Crisis has done nothing to help. In fact, it's getting colder right now, even as April approaches! So, if you ever get to go down there on a scientific mission, keep in mind that it's no easy thing to go for nice long quiet hikes in your leisure time to get away from any annoying colleagues in your small group. You'll die. Either way, you might.
Now, seriously when I first read the headline (I think it was one for was a previous story), I imagined the group of scientists, engineers, and a doctor would be comprised of mostly White men with just a couple of diversity hires. That was the old AA. You use the White men that can think clearly, run things sanely, and solve problems, but you throw in a couple of bright diversity people that won't screw up the show, for show and The Law.
Wokeness is a different level. You have big diversity numbers, no matter what the situation. What would we expect to see in the group from S. Africa? I realize that South Africa is only a single-digit percentage White now, 7.3% in '22 and dropping steadily. I also learned recently*** that even at that ratio, the D.I.E. madness has the government requiring that only 2% of spots in medical schools be allotted to White people.**** Still, this is brutal, freezing-assed Ant-freaking-Arctica. Mistakes and turmoil can get people killed. Would you really want to settle on this team?
Note that there is not a White man in the crew there. That must have put the fear of God in, well pretty much all of them. One wonders if there have been any Tic-Tok videos made of the non-White group in the Great White South, made before, after, or during the trouble going on in the small research station on Queen Maud Land.
Well, they're calling it part of "an adjustment period", the story of someone down in there being physically harassed, with death threats involved. As opposed to the old days of Jim Jones down in Guyana and his close cronies being the only ones to be able to communicate with the outside world, via shortwave (HF) radio, they got the internet there. That means there are likely varying stories coming out, as the colleagues back home try to figure out what's going as reported by the group leader, Kelcey Maewashe. What if someone destroys the antenna(e) used for the internet signal? As Gateway Pundit has well noted, this could be like a horror/suspense movie. I am surprised by this, but even in this day and age, these people are stuck together until the summer. (December, that is, 8 months away.)
Gateway Pundit reckons, since Mr. Maewashe is the contact at the base reporting this story and trying to deal with it, the culprit would be one of 5 people - the men. Wait, what? I've been told the sexes are equal so it could be any of the rest. Nah, but when things get real, you drop all that BS, of course. So it's one of the
BTW, a picture in this UK Daily Mail article of Miss Van Tonder and 2 of the black men all in big orange suits out on the ice is captioned:
Geomarr van Tonder (center) and two colleagues hold alcoholic beverages outside Sanae IV. There is no indication that anyone in this photo was involved in the incidentNo, no, of course not. It could have been Miss Lawana and/or the other (non-leadership) black guy, or Colonel Mustard in the orange coat closet with the, errr, you know.
An NBC News article states:
Previous problems have been reported at another of South Africa’s remote research bases on Marion Island, a South African territory near Antarctica.I imagine all of the 9 crewmembers are pretty intelligent. (Double-diversity hire Miss Mabope is an instrument technician, so not exactly a rocket scientist there.) However, I've been in White neighborhoods and I've been in diverse neighborhoods. In that tiny neighborhood, those very close quarters down in the SANAE IV, diversity has not proved to be a strength. It could be anyone that snaps, but you'd be better off with a Western White crew. Continuing from the same article:
In 2017, a member of a research team there smashed a colleague’s room with an ax over an apparent love triangle, according to a report to South Africa’s Parliament. Lawmakers said it appeared the researchers were living in highly stressful conditions.
The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women in the U.S. program said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on research trips in Antarctica.... and that's exactly where we'll pick up in the 2nd post on this story, the sex angle, or lack-thereof angle.
PS: Why is this such a big story if this sort of thing happens regularly? I may have just missed other stories. For one thing, the reports of "sexual harassment" from Western women don't always mean so much. OTOH, in one of the articles I read, it discussed a woman at one of the S. African stations reporting having to sleep with a hammer in her bra. Science! The big factor is that, communications ability being where it is now, "human interest" story reporters can keep up with this real-life suspense movie in nearly real time.
PPS: 1st Gateway Pundit comment under their post: “13% of scientists cause over 50% of Antarctica’s violent crime.” Heh!
* I'd thought it was to be certain Hispanic-specific articles, but now over 10% of their posts are perfectly American stories that one might want to read had they been in English.
** We will have a more sciencey/mathy post soon on Antarctica and the Climate Calamity™, one we meant to post months ago.
*** This links to part 3 of the Peak Stupidity series Cry the De-Constructed Country. See Part 1 --- Part 2 --- Part 4: Anecdote on Anti-Apartheid --- Part 5: Cold and Hot Wars, and the Commies, of course --- Part 6: Africa Wins --- Part 7: 1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens and Part 8: As Falls S. Africa...
**** This gives real meaning to the Jimmy Buffett lyric (in Miss You So Badly) that "I don't think I wanna ever let 'em cut on me".
***** The New Delhi news is interested because "their" woman is on there, Dr. Lawana. I learned of her ethnicity this way. Kinda' tribal, that kind of thing...
****** ... in two senses of the phrase.
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[UPDATED 03/23:] Added PPS with GP comment.
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Adam Smith
Monday - March 24th 2025 8:42AM MST
PS: Good morning, everyone,
And good morning, Mr. Hail...
𝐼𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑?
https://tinyurl.com/26t896j8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls529233250/
Somewhat off topic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Byrd_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
Happy Monday! ☮️
And good morning, Mr. Hail...
𝐼𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑?
https://tinyurl.com/26t896j8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls529233250/
Somewhat off topic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Byrd_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
Happy Monday! ☮️
Moderator
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 4:37PM MST
PS: "Where d' white wimmens at? Somebody was bound to say it!"
FIRST!!
FIRST!!
Moderator
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 4:36PM MST
PS: "Is is true that Norway owns the land?" That's what I read, Mr. Hail. It's a big-ass chunk of that continent too, but there's nothing much anyone wants if for. Maybe someone should bring it up to the President. We could invade and take those S. Africans prisoner... except the White chick and that pretty hot .Indian? one.
"I believe the Norwegians produce very good murder and detective type movies, but few if any have featured Black SCIENCE-tists." We need some LA producers for another Rockford Files episodes. I foresee chase scenes on snowcats.
"I believe the Norwegians produce very good murder and detective type movies, but few if any have featured Black SCIENCE-tists." We need some LA producers for another Rockford Files episodes. I foresee chase scenes on snowcats.
Possumman
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 3:14PM MST
PS. Where d' white wimmens at? Somebody was bound to say it!
Hail
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 12:04PM MST
PS
Is is true that Norway owns the land?
If so, why don't they dispatch a team of detectives to get the bottom of the Blacktarctica kerfuffle that has caught the attention of millions? How would that go? Maybe useful material for a comedy movie.
I believe the Norwegians produce very good murder and detective type movies, but few if any have featured Black SCIENCE-tists.
Is is true that Norway owns the land?
If so, why don't they dispatch a team of detectives to get the bottom of the Blacktarctica kerfuffle that has caught the attention of millions? How would that go? Maybe useful material for a comedy movie.
I believe the Norwegians produce very good murder and detective type movies, but few if any have featured Black SCIENCE-tists.
Moderator
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 7:06AM MST
PS: Hello SafeNow. The Evolutionary Psychology field lets one interpret pretty much anything as a result of getting an evolutionary advantage. I'd say all those 4 things (maybe not the smile) are almost involuntary, just as for men, our reactions are mostly involuntary.
Nobody would notice the hip sway and other movements in the big orange suits, but then, I imagine they have the place heated up to room temperature where a lot of it comes off. It has to be a tough situation for men and women, hence the next post.
Nobody would notice the hip sway and other movements in the big orange suits, but then, I imagine they have the place heated up to room temperature where a lot of it comes off. It has to be a tough situation for men and women, hence the next post.
Moderator
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 7:03AM MST
PS: Yeah, Alarmist, the sex angle is probably a bigger part of the story - well obviously there wouldn't have been sexual harassment otherwise, but there still could be trouble. That's the next post.
I've seen one or two parts of episodes of "Naked & Afraid", but that was about all of that, I'm afraid (but not naked). I recognize "The Shining" scenes very well. Jack Nicholson was pretty scary. I didn't get redruM = Murder backwards during the movie. I guess you're supposed to have read the Steven King book.
"All work and no play makes Nkululeko a dull boy." Nah, that doesn't work here - Director
I've seen one or two parts of episodes of "Naked & Afraid", but that was about all of that, I'm afraid (but not naked). I recognize "The Shining" scenes very well. Jack Nicholson was pretty scary. I didn't get redruM = Murder backwards during the movie. I guess you're supposed to have read the Steven King book.
"All work and no play makes Nkululeko a dull boy." Nah, that doesn't work here - Director
SafeNow
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 5:11AM MST
PS
A fascinating whodunnit. Fine analysis. But I must, as a dedicated reader of. Psychology Today and other august journals, introduce a complication as to who is the real culprit. The assumption seems to be that if a woman was the assaultee, a man initiated it. For forever the thinking about courtship behavior was that it is men who initiate stuff. But recent research shows that it is actually the woman. In 3 ways. First, (duh) there is the smile. Second, there exists the so-called “eyebrow flash.” This flash lasts, on average, one sixty- fourth of a second.!! Who knew? Third, the “head tilt.” Basically, the head tilt exposes the neck, which is the most vulnerable part of the body. The woman is signifying: See, I trust you not to harm me…you can approach. (A fourth, which is blatant, sometimes happens. The “hip sway.” But in that clime, wearing bulky gear, no one would notice.
A fascinating whodunnit. Fine analysis. But I must, as a dedicated reader of. Psychology Today and other august journals, introduce a complication as to who is the real culprit. The assumption seems to be that if a woman was the assaultee, a man initiated it. For forever the thinking about courtship behavior was that it is men who initiate stuff. But recent research shows that it is actually the woman. In 3 ways. First, (duh) there is the smile. Second, there exists the so-called “eyebrow flash.” This flash lasts, on average, one sixty- fourth of a second.!! Who knew? Third, the “head tilt.” Basically, the head tilt exposes the neck, which is the most vulnerable part of the body. The woman is signifying: See, I trust you not to harm me…you can approach. (A fourth, which is blatant, sometimes happens. The “hip sway.” But in that clime, wearing bulky gear, no one would notice.
The Alarmist
Saturday - March 22nd 2025 4:57AM MST
PS
Welcome to Clown Worl 🤡🌎 Honk! Trust the Science™️, even if you cannot trust the Scientists. Ms. Van Tonder is an electronics engineer, so she clearly must be the one stirring up the caca. Never trust a White gurlll who grew up in the hood.
Mrs. Alarmist and I watched a few minutes of some show where a diverse group in some island/jungle situation where, apparently, any one person of the group can spend outrageous amounts of the group’s prize money pot for various luxuries, like £200 per minute in a shower or £1,000 for a night in a bed (in the jungle). So there’s this one entitled PoC female who immediately tells the group she won’t hesitate to spend their money on her comfort, and she proceeds to do so.
We had people like that in the military, and people in the military had ways to deal with this sort of person, like the tried and true blanket party. I then had to explain to the missus what a blanket part entails, which disgusted her, but hey, it worked in the day to build group cohesion.
It could well be the Team Leader causing problems, in which case fragging is in order.
Coming to a screen near you:
The Shining: Antarctic
redruM. redruM. redruM!
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
“Here’s Kelcey!”
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Welcome to Clown Worl 🤡🌎 Honk! Trust the Science™️, even if you cannot trust the Scientists. Ms. Van Tonder is an electronics engineer, so she clearly must be the one stirring up the caca. Never trust a White gurlll who grew up in the hood.
Mrs. Alarmist and I watched a few minutes of some show where a diverse group in some island/jungle situation where, apparently, any one person of the group can spend outrageous amounts of the group’s prize money pot for various luxuries, like £200 per minute in a shower or £1,000 for a night in a bed (in the jungle). So there’s this one entitled PoC female who immediately tells the group she won’t hesitate to spend their money on her comfort, and she proceeds to do so.
We had people like that in the military, and people in the military had ways to deal with this sort of person, like the tried and true blanket party. I then had to explain to the missus what a blanket part entails, which disgusted her, but hey, it worked in the day to build group cohesion.
It could well be the Team Leader causing problems, in which case fragging is in order.
Coming to a screen near you:
The Shining: Antarctic
redruM. redruM. redruM!
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
“Here’s Kelcey!”
🕉
And good morning, Mr. Hail...
I forgot a couple links...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/antarctica/the-antarctic-treaty/the-antarctic-treaty-1959/
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