Levels of unconscious racist and sexist bias have been reduced by manipulating the way the brain learns during sleep. A team at Northwestern University, Chicago, played sounds while people slept to trigger and enforce memories of an exercise earlier in the day. The trial on 40 people, published in the journal Science, showed the changes
Read more: Scientists train people in their sleep against ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’
It’s quite a surprise that John McCain did not rise on his hind legs when he got wind of what U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter had said on the Memorial Day week-end. It was just the thing to make the War Party irate–even more so than the Iraqi prime minister was. (Who is he these
Read more: Ilana Mercer: Ask Bush Why The Iraqi Military Won’t Fight
The South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday handed down a life sentence to a 24-year old black man convicted of raping a 23-month old baby. DNA evidence linked Lucky Nkoana to the crime. He had however pleaded not guilty. His life sentence will run concurrently with a two years and six months imprisonment.
Read more: Black S. African gets life sentence for baby rape
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said that the claims that a South African official paid a bribe to FIFA to host the 2010 World Cup are untrue. The awarding of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to South Africa is being investigated by the FBI. The US Attorney General told a press conference on Wednesday
Both Bill Clinton and his family’s charity have been tied to soccer’s governing body, as well as Qatar’s disastrous World Cup bid. And just like that, another Clinton Foundation donor is in the news. The Clinton global charity has received between $50,000 and $100,000 from soccer’s governing body and has partnered with the Fédération Internationale
Read more: Clinton Foundation ties to corrupt FIFA uncovered
You would think that Bill Gates, the ever-so-friendly richest man in the world, wouldn’t be afraid of much. But as he recently told Ezra Klein at Vox, he does have some major fears for humanity. “I rate the chance of a nuclear war within my lifetime as being fairly low,” says Gates. “I rate the
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday heavily criticised opposition MPs, accusing them of being unpatriotic and of being in a state of denial over the amount of damage apartheid had done to South Africa. Replying to the debate on his budget vote on Wednesday, Mr Zuma retreated into blaming apartheid for the crises in education and at Eskom,
Read more: Zuma blames his government’s problems on apartheid
A plaque commemoraring dr. H.F. Verwoerd, the former South African prime minister and once a professor of sociology at the university, was removed yesterday after pressure from black political groups. One such radical group, Open Stellenbosch, is composed of the same people who threw human excrement at statues of whites at the University of Cape
Read more: Stellenbosch University purges Verwoerd’s name by removing plaque
Professor Wim de Villiers Rector University of Stellenbosch Private Bag X1 Matieland 7602 Dear Dr de Villiers I am an old Matie who was taught by your father Sakereg (Law of Property) and Romeinse reg (Roman Law) in the late 1960s. I am writing to you in order to express my displeasure at your recent
Read more: Letter: Verwoerd deserves respect and recognition at Stellenbosch
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says no school will be allowed to exclude a learner on the basis of language. “The right to education is one of the most fundamental rights in the Constitution and if any school, when applying its language and admissions policy, acts contrary to the Constitution, that policy must be disregarded,”
Read more: Education dept. to swamp Afrikaans schools regardless of court order
Macedonia has just neutralised an armed group whose sponsors had been under surveillance for at least eight months writes Thierry Meyssan. By doing so, it has prevented a new attempt at a coup d’État, planned by Washington for the 17th of May. The aim was to spread the chaos already infecting Ukraine into Macedonia in
When it comes to Ann Coulter—the conservative blonde avenger, the loud-mouthed provocateur, the human hot-button of mass-media notoriety who is forever tossing turds into liberals’ punch bowls — people always want to know: Is she for real? Even the title of her latest book, ¡Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a
The Hillary Clinton Diaspora Foundation supports the homecomingrevolution.com in South Africa. Their spokesperson Angel Jones is a Board Member of Roedean School. This private English school, one of the oldest and most expensive Anglican institutions in South Africa, features prominently in the attacks against Afrikaans schools. The previous white ANC education MEC, Barbara Creecy –
Read more: Clinton funds conflict in Syria, Baltimore and now South Africa
Top criminal defense lawyers in Washington say Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton could face scrutiny, amid mounting disclosures about the tangled finances of her family’s foundation. The new book “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer, an investigative reporter affiliated with the right-wing Hoover Institution, has unleashed a torrent of conflict-of-interest allegations relating to the Bill,
Read more: Clintons could face criminal enquiry say defense lawyers
