vdare--2020-03-10--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: US Flag No Different From Confederate Flag As Far As Schools An

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: US Flag No Different From Confederate Flag As Far As Schools And Colleges Are Concerned

This was originally published on this day in 2015 .
Part of the hysteria in Oklahoma was caused by the discovery that at OSU one of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat brothers had a Confederate Flag hanging in his room [ In light of OU SAE controversy , photo shows visible confederate [ sic ] flag hanging from OSU SAE house , by Stetson Payne , O ’ Colly , March 9 , 2015 ] .
Confederate-Americans are the one group campus multiculturalists do n't feel obliged to respect .
An emailer points out that some schools and colleges are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same way , for example at UC Irvine : UCI Paper : U.S .
Flag Tied to ‘ Histories of Exclusion and Violence ’ The official newspaper of the University of California Irvine ( UCI ) , New University , has confirmed reporting by Breitbart News last weekend that a vote by the Associated Students ( ASUCI ) to remove the American flag from the lobby of their building was to avoid “ triggering ” a negative emotional response among illegal immigrants .
In the article , the co-author of the American flag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the flag served as a reminder for her “ Dreamer ” friends of their constant battle to obtain citizenship .
Among reasons included in the legislation as to why the American flag should not have be erected in the lobby of the ASUCI building was that it was flown during “ instances of colonialism and imperialism.
” The legislation has since been vetoed .
New University writes that “ for a handful of students , the flag ’ s symbolism is inextricable from and irreconcilable with histories of exclusion and violence committed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ More ] Or at Silvestre and Carolina Reyes Elementary School , in Texas : Texas School Paints Over Star Spangled Mural After One Homeowner Complained If it was not enough that the mere display of the United States flag hurt students ’ feelings at a University of California campus , the mere likeness to the flag was cause for controversy at a Texas public school where the Red , White and Blue offended the surrounding neighborhood ’ s sense of aesthetics .
“ The developer told us that he had one homeowner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canutillo Independent School District ( ISD ) spokesman Rene Leon in a CBS4 interview .
At the Silvestre and Carolina Reyes Elementary School , which is under construction in El Paso ’ s Canutillo ISD , the problem was quickly solved — they painted over Old Glory .
On March 6 , KTSM 9 reported that the district ’ s Board of Trustees met to address what steps to take next in the ongoing brouhaha .
Canutillo ISD spokesman Shane Griffith shared a letter in which Cimarron neighborhood residential developer , Hunt Communities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flag painted over because it did not fit in with the home owners association ’ s color scheme .
There was even an approved list of Sherwin Williams colors for residents to adhere to and unless “ otherwise approved ” Hunt Communities had final say if a color was in or out .
Apparently , red , white and blue were not on the color wheel .
[ More ] That reminded me of this , from 2001 , by the late Sam Francis , who was something of a Confederate-American : Dismantling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What Flag 's Not Coming To Dinner By Sam Francis on July 2 , 2001 , 9:00 am Just over a year ago , in a column about the Confederate Flag controversy in South Carolina , I wrote the following sentences : “ … the blunt truth is that racial slavery existed for a far longer time under the American flag than under the brief four years of the Confederacy .
If the NAACP denounces the Confederate flag today for its symbolization of slavery , it can far more easily denounce Old Glory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't bet your battle flag they wo n't do it either , or that the political and business elites that cave in to them on the Confederate banner will stand firm on the American flag.
” [ Enemies , Not Friends , Of Confederate Flag Want War , May 5 , 2000 ] A year afterward , I wish to inform you that if you did bet your battle flag against my prediction , you just lost it .
Just in time for the first observance of Independence Day in the new century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance to the American flag .
Her reason : “ This flag represents the former colonies that enslaved our ancestors.
” The legislator is Rep. Henri Brooks of Memphis , and while her position is so far rather unique , even among black radicals , she is the former chairman of the NAACP 's Political Action Committee .
The NAACP itself , though it has not yet endorsed her position , “ did not respond to requests for comments ” on it , as The Washington Times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ refuse to pledge allegiance to flag , June 22 , 2001 ] Let that digest a while : The major black “ civil rights ” organization in the country refuses to tell us whether it does or does not approve denouncing the American flag as a symbol of slavery .
[ More ] Rep. Brooks [ Email her ] is now a Shelby County , Tennessee commissioner .
Many of her colleagues in Tennessee 's state legislature seem to have considered her a flaming nuisance : However , her unpatriotic attitude remains acceptable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Commissioner ( she still wo n't say the pledge ) as it was for years to black voters of Tennessee District 92 .
As I remarked regarding a recent controversy involving Rudy Giuliani speaking an obvious truth about President Obama , As the story about the DREAMers at UCI Irvine makes clear , modern immigrants are n't assimilating to America—they 're assimilating to Henri Brooks and President Obama .

This was originally published on this day in 2015.
Part of the hysteria in Oklahoma was caused by the discovery that at OSU one of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat brothers had a Confederate Flag hanging in his room [In light of OU SAE controversy, photo shows visible confederate [sic] flag hanging from OSU SAE house, by Stetson Payne, O’Colly, March 9, 2015]. Confederate-Americans are the one group campus multiculturalists don't feel obliged to respect.
An emailer points out that some schools and colleges are starting to treat the American flag the same way, for example at UC Irvine:
UCI Paper: U.S. Flag Tied to ‘Histories of Exclusion and Violence’ By Adelle Nazarian, Breitbart, March 10, 2015 The official newspaper of the University of California Irvine (UCI), New University, has confirmed reporting by Breitbart News last weekend that a vote by the Associated Students (ASUCI) to remove the American flag from the lobby of their building was to avoid “triggering” a negative emotional response among illegal immigrants. In the article, the co-author of the American flag ban legislation, Khaalidah Sidney, says that the flag served as a reminder for her “Dreamer” friends of their constant battle to obtain citizenship. Among reasons included in the legislation as to why the American flag should not have be erected in the lobby of the ASUCI building was that it was flown during “instances of colonialism and imperialism.” The legislation has since been vetoed. New University writes that “for a handful of students, the flag’s symbolism is inextricable from and irreconcilable with histories of exclusion and violence committed on behalf of the United States.”[More]
Or at Silvestre and Carolina Reyes Elementary School, in Texas:
Texas School Paints Over Star Spangled Mural After One Homeowner Complained By Merrill Hope, Breitbart, March 10, 2015 If it was not enough that the mere display of the United States flag hurt students’ feelings at a University of California campus, the mere likeness to the flag was cause for controversy at a Texas public school where the Red, White and Blue offended the surrounding neighborhood’s sense of aesthetics. “The developer told us that he had one homeowner complain about the colors,” said Canutillo Independent School District (ISD) spokesman Rene Leon in a CBS4 interview. At the Silvestre and Carolina Reyes Elementary School, which is under construction in El Paso’s Canutillo ISD, the problem was quickly solved — they painted over Old Glory. On March 6, KTSM 9 reported that the district’s Board of Trustees met to address what steps to take next in the ongoing brouhaha. Canutillo ISD spokesman Shane Griffith shared a letter in which Cimarron neighborhood residential developer, Hunt Communities, stated that they had wanted the flag painted over because it did not fit in with the home owners association’s color scheme. There was even an approved list of Sherwin Williams colors for residents to adhere to and unless “otherwise approved” Hunt Communities had final say if a color was in or out. Apparently, red, white and blue were not on the color wheel.[More]
That reminded me of this, from 2001, by the late Sam Francis, who was something of a Confederate-American:
Dismantling America (contd.): Guess What Flag's Not Coming To Dinner By Sam Francis on July 2, 2001, 9:00 am Just over a year ago, in a column about the Confederate Flag controversy in South Carolina, I wrote the following sentences: “… the blunt truth is that racial slavery existed for a far longer time under the American flag than under the brief four years of the Confederacy. If the NAACP denounces the Confederate flag today for its symbolization of slavery, it can far more easily denounce Old Glory tomorrow for the same reason. Don't bet your battle flag they won't do it either, or that the political and business elites that cave in to them on the Confederate banner will stand firm on the American flag.”[Enemies, Not Friends, Of Confederate Flag Want War, May 5, 2000] A year afterward, I wish to inform you that if you did bet your battle flag against my prediction, you just lost it. Just in time for the first observance of Independence Day in the new century, a black legislator in Tennessee is refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance to the American flag. Her reason: “This flag represents the former colonies that enslaved our ancestors.” The legislator is Rep. Henri Brooks of Memphis, and while her position is so far rather unique, even among black radicals, she is the former chairman of the NAACP's Political Action Committee. The NAACP itself, though it has not yet endorsed her position, “did not respond to requests for comments” on it, as The Washington Times reported last week. [Black leaders refuse to pledge allegiance to flag, June 22, 2001] Let that digest a while: The major black “civil rights” organization in the country refuses to tell us whether it does or does not approve denouncing the American flag as a symbol of slavery.[More]
Rep. Brooks [Email her] is now a Shelby County, Tennessee commissioner. Many of her colleagues in Tennessee's state legislature seem to have considered her a flaming nuisance:
Rep. Miller Forced to Withdraw a Resolution Praising Henri Brooks. The controversial county commissioner is still persona non grata for many in the General Assembly, where she once served. By Jackson Baker, Memphis Flyer, Jan 31, 2013
However, her unpatriotic attitude remains acceptable to the black voters who elected her Commissioner (she still won't say the pledge) as it was for years to black voters of Tennessee District 92. As I remarked regarding a recent controversy involving Rudy Giuliani speaking an obvious truth about President Obama,
neither Barack nor Michelle is particularly patriotic in the Lexington and Concord sense. ...the plain fact is that many African-Americans aren't—because they listen to people like Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
And Representative (now Commissioner) Henri Brooks.
As the story about the DREAMers at UCI Irvine makes clear, modern immigrants aren't assimilating to America—they're assimilating to Henri Brooks and President Obama.


vdare--2020-03-10--Harvard Moves To "Virtual Classes" After Spring Break; It's 23% Asian!

Harvard is asking its students not to come back after Spring Break : Harvard Asks Students Not to Return After @ @ @ @ @ MIT , Boston University and Amherst College have also announced plans amid the COVID-19 outbreak @ @ @ @ @ Nia Hamm , NBC Connecticut , March 10 , 2020 Of course , Harvard is @ @ @ @ @ many of its Asian students will have spent their Spring Breaks in Asian areas , @ @ @ @ @ Chinatowns and Koreatowns , et cetera .
Source : Harvard Has Become More Racially Diverse @ @ @ @ @ Students Are Still Really Rich , by Max Larkin , WBUR , October 24 , @ @ @ @ @ it 's a lower percentage of Asians than are qualified , and a much higher @ @ @ @ @ would expect , if admissions were `` color-blind '' .

Harvard is asking its students not to come back after Spring Break:
Harvard Asks Students Not to Return After Spring Break Amid Coronavirus Concerns
MIT, Boston University and Amherst College have also announced plans amid the COVID-19 outbreak
by By Young-Jin Kim and Nia Hamm, NBC Connecticut, March 10, 2020
Of course, Harvard is 23 percent Asian, and many of its Asian students will have spent their Spring Breaks in Asian areas, either overseas or in American Chinatowns and Koreatowns, et cetera.
Here's a chart of Harvard's "diversity":
Source: Harvard Has Become More Racially Diverse, But Most Of Its Students Are Still Really Rich, by Max Larkin, WBUR, October 24, 2018.
WBUR said that
That’s a smaller proportion of Latinos and a much larger proportion of Asian-Americans than make up the entire American population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Of course, it's a lower percentage of Asians than are qualified, and a much higher percentage of African-Americans than you would expect, if admissions were "color-blind."


vdare--2020-03-10--85% Non-White NY Schools  Stay Open During Coronavirus Because Schools "Double As Social Service Cen

85% Non-White NY Schools  Stay Open During Coronavirus Because Schools "Double As Social Service Centers For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Poor Students"

Earlier : In Spite Of Wuhan Virus , Seattle Schools Stay Open Because `` Diverse '' K-12 Students Need Access To Free Lunch Program/Daycare New York City is a 33 percent white city , but only 15 percent of students in the public school system are white .
Some deeper statistics for those interested in the racial breakdown of the largest public school system in America : Starting in the calendar year 2017-2018 , all students attending New York City public schools were eligible for free lunches ( did you know the federal government spends $ 12 billion each year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) so as see the discontinuing of “ lunch shaming ” and the stigma around overwhelmingly non-white students getting their lunches paid for by taxpayers .
[ How New York City hopes to end the stigma associated with ‘ lunch shaming ’ by feeding every student for fre e , CNBC , September 30 , 2017 ] Well , the 85 percent non-white New York City Public School system ( 66 percent Hispanic and black ) won ’ t shut down with the fear of the Wuhan virus/coronavirus spreading , because these taxpayer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ centers for hundreds of thousands of poor students .
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Earlier: In Spite Of Wuhan Virus, Seattle Schools Stay Open Because "Diverse" K-12 Students Need Access To Free Lunch Program/Daycare
New York City is a 33 percent white city, but only 15 percent of students in the public school system are white. Some deeper statistics for those interested in the racial breakdown of the largest public school system in America:
13.2 percent of students are English Language Learners
20.2 percent are students with disabilities
72.8 percent are economically disadvantaged
Starting in the calendar year 2017-2018, all students attending New York City public schools were eligible for free lunches (did you know the federal government spends $12 billion each year on free lunches for students nationwide?) to facilitate the discontinuing of “lunch shaming” and the stigma around overwhelmingly non-white students getting their lunches paid for by taxpayers [How New York City hopes to end the stigma associated with ‘lunch shaming’ by feeding every student for free, CNBC, September 30, 2017].
Well, the 85 percent non-white New York City Public School system (66 percent Hispanic and black) won’t shut down for fear of the Wuhan virus/coronavirus spreading, because these taxpayer-supported institutions “double as social service centers for hundreds of thousands of poor students.”
Even a single snow day can seriously disrupt the lives of New York’s most vulnerable children and their parents and other relatives, whose jobs often do not provide paid time off, said Aaron Pallas, a professor of education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Large-scale school closings might mean, for example, that subway conductors and bus drivers must stay home with their children, or that nurses at public hospitals would not be able to come to work, potentially slowing essential city services. Although millions of students around the world have already had their schools close because of the virus, such a move would present a major challenge for a district where many children do not have internet access at home, making remote learning nearly impossible. Nicole Manning, a ninth-grade math teacher at Herbert H. Lehman High School in the Bronx, estimated that up to half of her students did not have internet access at home. “We can’t do distance learning,” she said. “It wouldn’t be fair.” Valerie Green-Thomas, a teachers’ coach at Middle School 390 in the South Bronx, said she would be concerned that students would not have access to crucial medical help at the school’s on-site clinic if there were widespread closings. “We have a lot of underserved kids,” Ms. Green-Thomas said. The situation has been starkly different thus far at some of the city’s elite private schools, where the student bodies tend to be much whiter and wealthier than they are in public schools. Spence, an all-girls school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, closed on Friday for a “comprehensive sanitization of the entire campus,” according to a notice posted on its website. It was unclear whether the school had a link to one of New York State’s confirmed coronavirus cases. School representatives did not respond to requests for comment. Collegiate, a private all-boys school on the Upper West Side, was also closed on Friday for a similar purpose. An email to families from the school’s headmaster did not indicate any connections to a confirmed case, but said that a parent of one student might have been exposed to the virus. Private schools can decide to close independently, but public schools must follow guidance from the city and state education departments. In interviews, public-school teachers across the city exuded calm and said that they believed school was a safe place for children to be given the current circumstances. It appeared that most parents agreed: Student attendance rates were as high if not higher this past week than they were a year ago at this time, Mr. de Blasio said. Teachers said that, at this point, they were much more concerned about racism and xenophobia directed at Asian students because of the virus’s origins in China than they were with the virus itself. Ms. Manning is used to nasty stomach bugs and seasonal flus spreading through her school like wildfire. “We have good hygiene, and we don’t really do much different,” she said, adding that students were being asked to be especially vigilant about wiping down their calculators and desks, and about washing their hands. “I’m a rational person, I’m a math person,” Ms. Manning said, noting that the small number of confirmed cases in New York City had not yet been a cause for alarm. But she also said that she was spending much of her time “squelching rumors” about where the virus comes from and how people contract it. “I don’t really put up with nonsense,” she said. Lynn Shon, a science teacher at Middle School 88 in Brooklyn, which has a large Asian-American population, said that “with crisis often comes opportunity.” After one her students blurted out in class that “bat soup” in China was the source of the virus, and indicated that she was disgusted by the idea, Ms. Shon, who is Asian-American, was distraught. Later that day, she set to work making a presentation about the virus that she could share with her class and other teachers. The fragility of our civilization is being exposed with the Wuhan virus/coronavirus scare, with the agitprop “diversity is our strength” melting like a popsicle on a hot summers day. Stocks will rise and fall, and rise again. But demography is destiny. Even in the face of a pandemic, New York City Public Schools must stay open because they “double as social service centers for hundreds of thousands of poor students.” The school system is 15 percent white. Precautionary measures to stop a pandemic fall on deaf ears when a diverse student body is in need of being provided a social service center (for brief moments of the day dubbed a school) to loiter around in for the day. The only thing uniting wide swaths of the American population is their reliance on redistributed white taxpayer dollars to exist. As whites fade away, what will unite the people living in America when they are gone? Or will the existence of graveyards full of dead white males/females be blamed for the decline when no living white people can be found to denounce for the failure of black/brown rule?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-10--Coronavirus: Xi Gets Up His Courage to Visit Wuhan

Chinese Grand Poobah Xi Jinping had stayed away from Wuhan , sending his disposable deputy , Chinese premiere Li Keqiang @ @ @ @ @ But now from XinhuaNet : WUHAN , March 10 ( Xinhua ) — Chinese President @ @ @ @ @ in Wuhan , the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak , for an inspection of the @ @ @ @ @ in Hubei Province and its capital city Wuhan .
Xi , also general secretary of @ @ @ @ @ Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission , will visit and express regards @ @ @ @ @ officers and soldiers , community workers , police officers , officials and volunteers who have @ @ @ @ @ the front line , as well as patients and residents during the inspection .

Chinese Grand Poobah Xi Jinping had stayed away from Wuhan, sending his disposable deputy, Chinese premiere Li Keqiang, on January 26. But now from XinhuaNet:
Xi in Wuhan for COVID-19 prevention, control inspection
Source: Xinhua| 2020-03-10 11:35:04|Editor: huaxia
WUHAN, March 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday arrived in Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, for an inspection of the epidemic prevention and control work in Hubei Province and its capital city Wuhan.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will visit and express regards to medical workers, military officers and soldiers, community workers, police officers, officials and volunteers who have been fighting the epidemic on the front line, as well as patients and residents during the inspection.


vdare--2020-03-10--"Passed The Peak": Hopeful Coronavirus News from South Korea

South Korea has ‘ passed the peak ’ of the coronavirus outbreak , health minister hopes Seoul , South Korea ( CNN ) South Korea ’ s top public health official hopes that the country has already gone through the worst of the novel coronavirus outbreak that has infected thousands inside the country .
“ We are hoping that we have passed the peak , taking the numbers into consideration , and cautiously expecting we have passed the peak , ” South Korean Health Minister Park Neunghoo said in an exclusive interview with CNN .
More than 7,300 coronavirus infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killing more than 50 .
It is one of the largest outbreaks outside mainland China , where the deadly virus was first identified .
However , the number of new daily infections in South Korea has declined in recent days .
Park said that while he believes the aggregate number of infections is high , he is confident in the job South Korea did to combat the virus ’ spread and would advise other governments who are dealing with outbreaks to focus efforts on early testing and global cooperation .
The South Korean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when it comes to providing the public with free and easy testing options .
It has the ability run about 15,000 diagnostic test per day and has conducted 196,000 tests to date nationwide , free of charge .
Authorities in the city of Goyang even set up drive-thru testing booths .

From CNN:
South Korea has ‘passed the peak’ of the coronavirus outbreak, health minister hopes
By Paula Hancocks and Yoonjung Seo, CNN
Updated 10:05 PM ET, Mon March 9, 2020
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korea’s top public health official hopes that the country has already gone through the worst of the novel coronavirus outbreak that has infected thousands inside the country.
“We are hoping that we have passed the peak, taking the numbers into consideration, and cautiously expecting we have passed the peak,” South Korean Health Minister Park Neunghoo said in an exclusive interview with CNN.
More than 7,300 coronavirus infections have been confirmed throughout South Korea, killing more than 50. It is one of the largest outbreaks outside mainland China, where the deadly virus was first identified. However, the number of new daily infections in South Korea has declined in recent days.
Park said that while he believes the aggregate number of infections is high, he is confident in the job South Korea did to combat the virus’ spread and would advise other governments who are dealing with outbreaks to focus efforts on early testing and global cooperation.
The South Korean government has been among the most ambitious when it comes to providing the public with free and easy testing options. It has the ability run about 15,000 diagnostic test per day and has conducted 196,000 tests to date nationwide, free of charge. Authorities in the city of Goyang even set up drive-thru testing booths.


vdare--2020-03-10--Israel Institutes 2-Week Quarantine of All Foreign Arrivals

Although actual Israelis usually disagree with me on this , I advise paying attention to Israeli policies because they strike @ @ @ @ @ than American policies .
From NPR : Coronavirus : Israel Will Require Quarantine For Everyone @ @ @ @ @ , 20203:12 PM ET BILL CHAPPELL Israel is taking the extraordinary step of requiring a @ @ @ @ @ the country , Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday .
Israel has reported nearly 40 @ @ @ @ @ causes COVID-19 .
In a brief video announcing the new policy , Netanyahu said the @ @ @ @ @ to make .
He added that the policy will force people flying into Israel to @ @ @ @ @ period and that it will be in effect for two weeks .
“ Foreign nationals @ @ @ @ @ be refused entry , ” NPR ’ s Daniel Estrin reports from Jerusalem .
He @ @ @ @ @ returning from abroad must self-quarantine .
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Although actual Israelis usually disagree with me on this, I advise paying attention to Israeli policies because they strike me as often being smarter than American policies. From NPR:
Coronavirus: Israel Will Require Quarantine For Everyone Entering The Country
March 9, 20203:12 PM ET
BILL CHAPPELL
Israel is taking the extraordinary step of requiring a 14-day quarantine for anyone entering the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday. Israel has reported nearly 40 cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
In a brief video announcing the new policy, Netanyahu said the decision was a difficult one to make. He added that the policy will force people flying into Israel to enter a two-week home quarantine period and that it will be in effect for two weeks.
“Foreign nationals who cannot self-quarantine will be refused entry,” NPR’s Daniel Estrin reports from Jerusalem. He adds, “All Israelis returning from abroad must self-quarantine.”


vdare--2020-03-10--From the Derb Email Bag: Cool At Last, Ducks And Locusts, More Basils, Etc.

I have n't shaken out the email bag for a while .
Here are a few recent contributions .
Cool at last .
Concerning my February 28th Radio Derb , with sounds of a lively dinner party going on in an adjacent room , a listener emailed in : For reasons I can not explain , you doing Radio Derb secreted away from a dinner party , with dinner party noise intruding , well , I don ’ t know why , but you just seemed like the coolest dude on the planet at that moment .
1 .
Get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , some social status with people well-off enough to have dinner parties as opposed to watching football with potato chips and beers .
2 .
Excuses himself from the dinner party because he has a much larger party to attend .
Dinner party attendees not only understand , but grant space on site for Derb ’ s party within a party .
Do n't know why but the image was just so cool .
That warmed my heart .
I 've been trying to be one of the cool kids since the Eisenhower @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Cool at last !
That was a great party , too .
I hated to pull myself away .
I wo n't embarrass the diners by giving names ; but if I did , you 'd know them .
Missing Basils .
Some readers want to know why , in my February Diary list of fictional Basils , I left out Basil Seal , protagonist of Evelyn Waugh 's hilarious , deeply politically-incorrect novel Black Mischief .
I dunno .
A senior moment , I guess .
Or , as I am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a Biden moment .
Some other readers grumbled that I did n't mention the innumerable emperors , bishops , and saints named Basil ( or Vasily , Wassily , Vasileios , etc . )
in the Orthodox realm .
Did n't I know about them ?
Of course I knew about them .
I was focusing on Anglosphere Basils , that 's all .
And I still think that finding out Mick Jagger 's dad was a Basil may be the crowning point of my career as an investigative journalist .
Wikipedia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I had fun with the supersymmetric companion particle to the positron : the spositron .
Me , at 40m37s here : `` A spositron .
Say it with care , and write your own jokes . ''
A correspondent advises me that `` the supersymmetric partner of the W boson is a Wino ( sadly pronounced Weeno ) which comes in with positive or negative electric charge . ''
Good to know .
Where are all the spositron jokes , though ?
Have physicists lost their sense of humor ?
Ducks and locusts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ included a segment on the plague of locusts threatening food supplies in East Africa and West Asia .
The Chinese , I reported , have come up with a plan to counter the swarms : '' Not trying to be funny '' ?
Yeah , right .
A listener from Down Under tells me that locusts , coronaviruses , and the rest are mere amateurs .
The future belongs to cane toads .
Thank you , Sir .
But do people still put coins in comestibles ?
We used to do it when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in our Christmas pudding .
I suspect that if you put coins in food now and served it up to a tableful of kids , your local Trial Lawyers Association would descend on you like a cloud of locusts .

I haven't shaken out the email bag for a while. Here are a few recent contributions.
Cool at last. Concerning my February 28th Radio Derb, with sounds of a lively dinner party going on in an adjacent room, a listener emailed in:
For reasons I cannot explain, you doing Radio Derb secreted away from a dinner party, with dinner party noise intruding, well, I don’t know why, but you just seemed like the coolest dude on the planet at that moment. 1. Gets invited to a dinner party. Already, some social status with people well-off enough to have dinner parties as opposed to watching football with potato chips and beers. 2. Excuses himself from the dinner party because he has a much larger party to attend. Dinner party attendees not only understand, but grant space on site for Derb’s party within a party. Don't know why but the image was just so cool.
That warmed my heart. I've been trying to be one of the cool kids since the Eisenhower administration. Now I've made it. Cool at last!
That was a great party, too. I hated to pull myself away. I won't embarrass the diners by giving names; but if I did, you'd know them.
Missing Basils. Some readers want to know why, in my February Diary list of fictional Basils, I left out Basil Seal, protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's hilarious, deeply politically incorrect novel Black Mischief.
I dunno. A senior moment, I guess. Or, as I am just now starting to hear people say, a Biden moment.
Some other readers grumbled that I didn't mention the innumerable emperors, bishops, and saints named Basil (or Vasily, Wassily, Vasileios, etc.) in the Orthodox realm. Didn't I know about them?
Of course I knew about them. I was focusing on Anglosphere Basils, that's all.
And I still think that finding out Mick Jagger's dad was a Basil may be the crowning point of my career as an investigative journalist. Wikipedia missed it.
A physicist writes. I had fun with the supersymmetric companion particle to the positron: the spositron. Me, at 40m37s here: "A spositron. Say it with care, and write your own jokes."
A correspondent advises me that "the supersymmetric partner of the W boson is a Wino (sadly pronounced Weeno) which comes in with positive or negative electric charge."
Good to know. Where are all the spositron jokes, though? Have physicists lost their sense of humor?
The bartender says: "We don't serve your kind in here." Two tachyons walk into a bar.
Or:
A neutron walks into a bar, orders a beer, asks, "How much is that?" Bartender: "No charge!"
Ducks and locusts. In my February 28th podcast I included a segment on the plague of locusts threatening food supplies in East Africa and West Asia. The Chinese, I reported, have come up with a plan to counter the swarms:
At least 100,000 ducks are expected to be sent to Pakistan as early as the second half of this year to combat a desert locust outbreak, according to Lu Lizhi, a senior researcher with the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The ducks are "biological weapons"; and can be more effective than pesticide, said Lu, who is in charge of the project in tandem with a university in Pakistan.
"One duck is able to eat more than 200 locusts a day," Lu said in a telephone interview on Thursday. [Army of 100,000 Chinese Ducks Ready to Fight Locust Swarms by Alfred Cang; Yahoo Finance, February 28th 2020.]
I then wondered aloud:
What happens when the ducks have eaten all the locusts? What will they eat then?
A listener:
Couldn't the hungry Africans just eat the locusts ? Not trying to be funny here. Africans eat bugs already. The locusts seem to be asking for it. Lemons/lemonade. Or are locusts yucky for some reason?
"Not trying to be funny"? Yeah, right.
A listener from Down Under tells me that locusts, coronaviruses, and the rest are mere amateurs. The future belongs to cane toads.
Pancake Day.
Mr Derbyshire: I thought you might be pleased to know that the tradition of Pancake Day is alive and well in Newfoundland. But here we make the Pancakes in the fluffy American tradition, and on Pancake Day (and only on Pancake day) they are cooked with coins inside. You get to keep whatever coins you find inside your pancake.
Thank you, Sir. But do people still put coins in comestibles? We used to do it when I was a kid, threepenny bits in our Christmas pudding.
(Those were the old silver threepenny bits. To put the ugly, dull-colored, newfangled dodecagonal ones in your Christmas pudding was a gross, unforgivable breach of culinary etiquette.)
I suspect that if you put coins in food now and served it up to a tableful of kids, your local Trial Lawyers Association would descend on you like a cloud of locusts.


vdare--2020-03-12--Coronavirus And Vitamin C: Is THIS Why Israel Closed Its Borders?

Earlier : Chinese Scientists Find MORE Evidence That Coronavirus ( a.k.a .
COVID-19 ) Discriminates By Race The hypothesis that there are race and ethnic differences in susceptibility to the Covid-19 virus continues to strengthen .
People of all races and nationalities can get it , of course , but it does not look like an Equal Opportunity disease .
The question is why .
Last week , I looked at studies from China that found specific racial differences in receptor genes in the lungs which might help to explain the patterns we are observing .
But it is more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ethnicities are genetic clusters evolved to different environments , that this difference is not the only factor involved .
Another possibility : race differences in the ability to maintain an optimum level of Vitamin C in the blood .
This has been explored in detail by the health journalist Bill Sardi [ Health Inheritance : Asians Have Lower Vitamin C Blood Levels ; More Prone To Coronavirus & Other Infections , LewRockwell.com , March 7 , 2020 ] .
Maintaining healthy Vitamin C levels is extremely important .
Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cells and , so , a reduced ability to fight off infection .
It is also crucial in repairing cells and maintaining a strong immune system .
Vitamin C is obtained from certain kinds of fruit ( most obviously oranges ) and some vegetables , such as broccoli .
People who don ’ t get enough of it are prone to cancer , heart problems , brain degeneration and , in extreme cases , scurvy .
However , maintaining Vitamin C in the blood isn ’ t solely a matter of diet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some people can maintain a high level of Vitamin C without eating that much fruit at all .
It depends on the form of Haptoglobin which they carry : Hp 1-1 , Hp 2-1 , or Hp 2-2 .
Haptoglobin ( HAPTO-G ) is a protein in the blood that binds to haemoglobin , this being the red protein in blood cells that carries oxygen and iron .
Haptoglobin destroys excess iron , limits the amount of ( potentially damaging ) unbound iron , and reduces the amount of iron lost in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t bind as well as the other two .
The result of this is excess iron in the blood .
This excess iron oxidates—rusts—in response to oxygen , setting off a process that also causes the Vitamin C to oxidate .
This reduces the efficacy of the Vitamin C , causing the person with this form of HAPTO-G to have a less effective immune system .
There are race differences in the distribution of Hp 2-2 .
Chinese people are by far the most likely to carry Hp 2-2 : approximately 56 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influenced by haptoglobin polymorphism and iron status in Chinese , By Na Na et al.
, Clinica Chimica Acta , 2006 ] .
People who carry Hp 2-2 are three times more likely to be Vitamin C deficient than people who carry the other two forms .
The implication , of course , is that one way of fighting this virus is to consume lots of Vitamin C-packed fruit .
This is obvious advice , but it helps us , potentially , to understand why Covid-19 has been such a problem in China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carry a lot of iron in their blood , but this makes them deficient in Vitamin C. On this basis , we wouldn ’ t expect Covid-19 to be as damaging in Europe or the U.S. as it is in China .
We also shouldn ’ t be surprised that areas of the U.S. that are particularly hard hit by Covid-19 , such as New Rochelle , NY , a square mile of which was recently quarantined , have a significant Asian population ( 4.2 % in 2010 ) .
[ Cuomo Announces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rochelle , Closes Large Gathering Places There For 2 Weeks , CBS , March 10 , 2020 ] .
We shouldn ’ t be surprised that Harvard College—which is 23 % ( mainly East ) Asian—has decided to close and offer classes exclusively online for the time being .
We also shouldn ’ t be surprised by the extent to which Covid-19 has , and hasn ’ t , flared up outside China .
It doesn ’ t appear to have been a big problem in Africa yet , a fact which many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of genetic race differences in anything other than skin color—have found very confusing .
But , then , Covid-19 shouldn ’ t be a big problem in Africa , because according to a huge meta-analysis [ Haptoglobin : a review of the major allele frequencies worldwide and their association with diseases , by Kymberley Carter & Mark Worwood , International Journal of Laboratory Hematology , 2007 ] , roughly 50 % of Sub-Saharan Africans carry the vitamin C-helpful Hp 1 and in some African countries it ’ s as high as 70 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that 41 % of Whites carry Hp 1 , compared to 55 % of Blacks , and 52 % of Hispanics , but only 31 % of Asians .
In the Middle East , only 28 % of Muslim Iranians carry Hp 1 .
And only 30 % of Israelis carry it .
Could this be why the Israelis ( who are acutely aware of genetics ) reacted so decisively to Covid-19 ?
All new arrivals to Israel now face 2 weeks ’ quarantine [ Coronavirus : Israel to bring in 14-day quarantine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March 9 , 2020 ] .
Could this be true of Jews generally ?
Covid-19 reportedly broke out in New Rochelle , the U.S. city where a “ containment area ” has been set up , at a modern Orthodox synagogue , many of whose members are now infected ; Westchester County , where New Rochelle is located , was reportedly 17 percent Jewish in 2011 [ Jewish community caught inside coronavirus ‘ containment zone , ’ by Aiden Pink , The Forward , March 10 , 2020 .
No less than 29 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearby Jewish school , at a time when fewer than 1,000 cases were known in the entire U.S. [ New York Jewish school says 29 students , staff diagnosed with virus , by Ben Harris , The Times Of Israel , March 11 , 2020 ] ) .
The differences in the frequency of Hp 1 are small within Europe , but its frequency is among the lowest in Italy , where it is 36 % .
It is 40 % in Scotland , the highest in Europe .
Now , of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frequency of Hp 2-2 , which is bad for vitamin C retention .
Unfortunately , I can not find a study that includes this information for lots of countries .
However , within Italy , though Hp 1 is 36 % nationwide , it is only 30 % in northern Italy [ Distribution of Haptoglobin Subtypes in Continental Italy and Sardinia , by Claudio Santor et al.
, Human Heredity , 1983 ] , which has been worst affected by the virus .
It is incredible that this vital information is not discussed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the health authorities , to the point where the race of victims is simply being not being reported .
We have so strongly conditioned to not think about race differences , by decades of indoctrination and intimidation , that we can ’ t even do so during what is turning into a very serious international crisis .
To repeat : if Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease , that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough .
This will not merely cause unnecessary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

Earlier: Chinese Scientists Find MORE Evidence That Coronavirus (a.k.a. COVID-19) Discriminates By Race
The hypothesis that there are race and ethnic differences in susceptibility to the Covid-19 virus continues to strengthen. People of all races and nationalities can get it, of course, but it does not look like an Equal Opportunity disease. The question is why. Last week, I looked at studies from China that found specific racial differences in receptor genes in the lungs which might help to explain the patterns we are observing. But it is more than likely, in that races and ethnicities are genetic clusters evolved to different environments, that this difference is not the only factor involved.
Another possibility: race differences in the ability to maintain an optimum level of Vitamin C in the blood. This has been explored in detail by the health journalist Bill Sardi [Health Inheritance: Asians Have Lower Vitamin C Blood Levels; More Prone To Coronavirus & Other Infections, LewRockwell.com, March 7, 2020].
Maintaining healthy Vitamin C levels is extremely important. Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant, crucial because oxidization results in damage to cells and, so, a reduced ability to fight off infection. It is also crucial in repairing cells and maintaining a strong immune system. Vitamin C is obtained from certain kinds of fruit (most obviously oranges) and some vegetables, such as broccoli. People who don’t get enough of it are prone to cancer, heart problems, brain degeneration and, in extreme cases, scurvy.
However, maintaining Vitamin C in the blood isn’t solely a matter of diet. Genetics plays its part as well. Some people can maintain a high level of Vitamin C without eating that much fruit at all. It depends on the form of haptoglobin which they carry: Hp 1-1, Hp 2-1, or Hp 2-2.
Haptoglobin (HAPTO-G) is a protein in the blood that binds to haemoglobin, this being the red protein in blood cells that carries oxygen and iron. Haptoglobin destroys excess iron, limits the amount of (potentially damaging) unbound iron, and reduces the amount of iron lost in the kidneys.
Hp 2-2 doesn’t bind as well as the other two. The result of this is excess iron in the blood. This excess iron oxidates—rusts—in response to oxygen, setting off a process that also causes the Vitamin C to oxidate. This reduces the efficacy of the Vitamin C, causing the person with this form of HAPTO-G to have a less effective immune system.
There are race differences in the distribution of Hp 2-2. Chinese people are by far the most likely to carry Hp 2-2: approximately 56%. [Serum vitamin C concentration is influenced by haptoglobin polymorphism and iron status in Chinese, by Na Na et al., Clinica Chimica Acta, 2006]. People who carry Hp 2-2 are three times more likely to be Vitamin C deficient than people who carry the other two forms.
The implication, of course, is that one way of fighting this virus is to consume lots of Vitamin C-packed fruit. This is obvious advice, but it helps us, potentially, to understand why Covid-19 has been such a problem in China. For genetic reasons, the Chinese carry a lot of iron in their blood, but this makes them deficient in Vitamin C.
On this basis, we wouldn’t expect Covid-19 to be as damaging in Europe or the U.S. as it is in China.
We also shouldn’t be surprised that areas of the U.S. that are particularly hard hit by Covid-19, such as New Rochelle, NY, a square mile of which was recently quarantined, have a significant Asian population (4.2% in 2010). [Cuomo Announces 1-Mile ‘Containment Area’ In New Rochelle, Closes Large Gathering Places There For 2 Weeks, CBS, March 10, 2020]. We shouldn’t be surprised that Harvard College—which is 23% (mainly East) Asian—has decided to close and offer classes exclusively online for the time being.
We also shouldn’t be surprised by the extent to which Covid-19 has, and hasn’t, flared up outside China. It doesn’t appear to have been a big problem in Africa yet, a fact which many commentators—who can’t accept the existence of genetic race differences in anything other than skin color—have found very confusing.
But, then, Covid-19 shouldn’t be a big problem in Africa, because according to a huge meta-analysis [Haptoglobin: a review of the major allele frequencies worldwide and their association with diseases, by Kymberley Carter & Mark Worwood, International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, 2007], roughly 50% of Sub-Saharan Africans carry the vitamin C-helpful Hp 1 and in some African countries it’s as high as 70%. Studies from the United States reveal that 41% of Whites carry Hp 1, compared to 55% of Blacks, and 52% of Hispanics, but only 31% of Asians.
In the Middle East, only 28% of Muslim Iranians carry Hp 1. And only 30% of Israelis carry it.
Could this be why the Israelis (who are acutely aware of genetics) reacted so decisively to Covid-19? All new arrivals to Israel now face 2 weeks’ quarantine [Coronavirus: Israel to bring in 14-day quarantine for all arrivals, BBC News, March 9, 2020].
(Indeed, could this be true of Jews generally? Covid-19 reportedly broke out in New Rochelle, the U.S. city where a “containment area” has been set up, at a modern Orthodox synagogue, many of whose members are now infected; Westchester County, where New Rochelle is located, was reportedly 17 percent Jewish in 2011 [Jewish community caught inside coronavirus ‘containment zone,’ by Aiden Pink, Forward, March 10, 2020]. No less than 29 cases have just been confirmed at one nearby Jewish school, at a time when fewer than 1,000 cases were known in the entire U.S. [New York Jewish school says 29 students, staff diagnosed with virus, by Ben Harris, The Times Of Israel, March 11, 2020]).
The differences in the frequency of Hp 1 are small within Europe, but its frequency is among the lowest in Italy, where it is 36%. It is 40% in Scotland, the highest in Europe.
Now, of course, the key question is the population frequency of Hp 2-2, which is bad for vitamin C retention. Unfortunately, I cannot find a study that includes this information for lots of countries. However, within Italy, though Hp 1 is 36% nationwide, it is only 30% in northern Italy [Distribution of Haptoglobin Subtypes in Continental Italy and Sardinia, by Claudio Santor et al., Human Heredity, 1983], which has been worst affected by the virus.
It is incredible that this vital information is not discussed in the Main Stream Media and by the health authorities, to the point where the race of victims is simply being not being reported. We have so strongly conditioned to not think about race differences, by decades of indoctrination and intimidation, that we can’t even do so during what is turning into a very serious international crisis.
To repeat: If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease, that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough. This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-03-12--Patrick J. Buchanan: Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?

Dr. Brian Monahan , attending physician of Congress , told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans—a third of the nation—could contract the coronavirus .
Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1 % .
Translation : Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course .
The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War .
Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that 70 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus .
If she is right , and Fauci 's mortality rate holds for her country , that could mean more than half a million dead Germans .
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis called Merkel 's remark `` unhelpful '' and said it could cause panic .
But Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch seemed to support Merkel , saying between 40 % and 70 % of the world 's population could become infected .
Again , if Fauci 's 1 % mortality rate and Lipsitch 's estimate prove on target , between 3 billion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be infected , and 30 million to 50 million will die , a death toll greater than that of the Spanish Flu of 1918 .
There is , however , some contradictory news .
China , with 81,000 cases , has noted a deceleration in new cases and South Korea appears to be gradually containing the spread of the virus .
Yet , Italy , with its large elderly population , may be a harbinger of what is to come in the West .
As of Thursday , Italy had reported 12,000 cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of nearly 7 % .
This suggests that the unreported and undetected infections in shutdown Italy are far more numerous .
In the U.S. , the death toll at this writing is 39 , a tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the flu .
But the problem is this : COVID-19 has not nearly run its course in the USA , while the reaction in society and the economy approaches what we might expect from a boiling national disaster .
The stock market has plunged further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Great Crash of 1929 .
Trillions of dollars in wealth have vanished .
If Sen. Bernie Sanders does not like `` millionaires and billionaires , '' he should be pleased .
There are far fewer of them today than there were when he won the New Hampshire primary .
What does the future hold ?
It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order , to a half-century of globalization , and to the era of interdependence of the world 's great nations .
Tourism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ international gatherings and festivals are already shutting down .
Travel bans between countries and continents are being imposed .
Conventions , concerts and sporting events are being canceled .
Will the Tokyo Olympics go forward ?
If they do , will all the anticipated visitors from abroad come to Japan to enjoy the games ?
As for the `` open borders '' crowd , do Democrats still believe that breaking into our country should no longer be a crime , and immigrants arriving illegally should be given free health care , a proposition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their hands ?
The ideological roots of our free trade era can be traced to the mid-19th century when its great evangelist , Richard Cobden , rose at Free Trade Hall in Manchester on Jan. 15 , 1846 , and rhapsodized : In the pre-Trump era , Republicans held hands with liberal Democrats in embracing NAFTA , GATT , the WTO and most-favored-nation trade privileges for China .
In retrospect , was it wise to have relied on China to produce essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have moved the production of pharmaceuticals and lifesaving drugs for heart disease , strokes and diabetes to China ?
Does it appear wise to have allowed China to develop a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals crucial to the development of weapons for our defense ?
In this coronavirus pandemic , people now seem to be looking for authoritative leaders and nations seem to be looking out for their own peoples first .
Would Merkel , today , invite a million Syrian refugees into Germany no matter the conditions under which they were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not the case now conclusive that we made a historic mistake when we outsourced our economic independence to rely for vital necessities upon nations that have never had America 's best interests at heart ?
Which rings truer today ?
We are all part of mankind , all citizens of the world .
Or that it 's time to put America and Americans first !
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans—a third of the nation—could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%.
Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that 70% of Germany's population—58 million people—could contract the coronavirus. If she is right, and Fauci's mortality rate holds for her country, that could mean more than half a million dead Germans.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis called Merkel's remark "unhelpful" and said it could cause panic. But Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch seemed to support Merkel, saying between 40% and 70% of the world's population could become infected.
Again, if Fauci's 1% mortality rate and Lipsitch's estimate prove on target, between 3 billion and 5 billion people on earth will be infected, and 30 million to 50 million will die, a death toll greater than that of the Spanish Flu of 1918.
There is, however, some contradictory news.
China, with 81,000 cases, has noted a deceleration in new cases and South Korea appears to be gradually containing the spread of the virus.
Yet, Italy, with its large elderly population, may be a harbinger of what is to come in the West.
As of Thursday, Italy had reported 12,000 cases and 827 deaths, a mortality rate of nearly 7%. This suggests that the unreported and undetected infections in shutdown Italy are far more numerous.
In the U.S., the death toll at this writing is 39, a tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the flu.
But the problem is this: COVID-19 has not nearly run its course in the USA, while the reaction in society and the economy approaches what we might expect from a boiling national disaster.
The stock market has plunged further and faster than it did in the Great Crash of 1929. Trillions of dollars in wealth have vanished. If Sen. Bernie Sanders does not like "millionaires and billionaires," he should be pleased. There are far fewer of them today than there were when he won the New Hampshire primary.
What does the future hold?
It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the world's great nations.
Tourism, air travel, vacation cruises, international gatherings and festivals are already shutting down. Travel bans between countries and continents are being imposed. Conventions, concerts and sporting events are being canceled. Will the Tokyo Olympics go forward? If they do, will all the anticipated visitors from abroad come to Japan to enjoy the games?
Trump has issued a one-month travel ban on Europe.
As for the "open borders" crowd, do Democrats still believe that breaking into our country should no longer be a crime, and immigrants arriving illegally should be given free health care, a proposition to which all the Democratic debaters raised their hands?
The ideological roots of our free trade era can be traced to the mid-19th century when its great evangelist, Richard Cobden, rose at Free Trade Hall in Manchester on Jan. 15, 1846, and rhapsodized:
"I see in the Free Trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe—drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonism of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace."
In the pre-Trump era, Republicans held hands with liberal Democrats in embracing NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and most-favored-nation trade privileges for China.
In retrospect, was it wise to have relied on China to produce essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national security? Does it appear wise to have moved the production of pharmaceuticals and lifesaving drugs for heart disease, strokes and diabetes to China? Does it appear wise to have allowed China to develop a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals crucial to the development of weapons for our defense?
In this coronavirus pandemic, people now seem to be looking for authoritative leaders and nations seem to be looking out for their own peoples first. Would Merkel, today, invite a million Syrian refugees into Germany no matter the conditions under which they were living in Syria and Turkey?
Is not the case now conclusive that we made a historic mistake when we outsourced our economic independence to rely for vital necessities upon nations that have never had America's best interests at heart?
Which rings truer today? We are all part of mankind, all citizens of the world. Or that it's time to put America and Americans first!
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-03-12--A Reader Wants To Know If The Public Health Authorities Have Released The Race Of American Coronavir

A Reader Wants To Know If The Public Health Authorities Have Released The Race Of American Coronavirus Victims ?
Re @ @ @ @ @ Evidence That Coronavirus ( a.k.a .
COVID-19 ) Discriminates By Race I saw Lance Welton @ @ @ @ @ about possible ethnic susceptibility to Covid-19 .
Does anyone know if the government keeping track @ @ @ @ @ US fatalities ?
They seem to keep track of ethnicity in all other things .
@ @ @ @ @ if Asian-Americans are being hit harder than the rest of us .
VDARE.com editor Peter @ @ @ @ @ m sure the health authorities do have this information , they ’ re just not @ @ @ @ @ thing happened with SARS with the result that even I didn ’ t realize until @ @ @ @ @ evidence that it was Oriental-specific , although we carried articles on how it was being @ @ @ @ @

A Reader Wants To Know If The Public Health Authorities Have Released The Race Of American Coronavirus Victims?
Re: Chinese Scientists Find MORE Evidence That Coronavirus (a.k.a. COVID-19) Discriminates By Race
From: Anthony Boehm [Email him]
I saw Lance Welton's interesting piece on VDARE.com about possible ethnic susceptibility to Covid-19. Does anyone know if the government is keeping track of the ethnic origin of US fatalities?
They seem to keep track of ethnicity in all other things. I'd love to know if Asian-Americans are being hit harder than the rest of us.
VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow replies: I’m sure the health authorities do have this information, they’re just not releasing it. The same thing happened with SARS with the result that even I didn’t realize until recently how conclusive was the evidence that it was Oriental-specific, although we carried articles on how it was being brought in by immigration.


vdare--2020-03-12--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: Minnesota Somali Youth Orgs Get Funding for Expensive Play Date

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: Minnesota Somali Youth Orgs Get Funding for Expensive Play Dates to Prevent Jihad

Originallly published on this day in 2016 .
In 2011 , I wrote a blog titled , ” Somali Immigrants in Minnesota : Import a Problem , Then Pay to Try to Fix It ” .
It considered the problems of gang formation and jihad behavior among young Somali immigrants .
The centerpiece was the testimony of the St. Paul Police Chief to Congress , where he enthused over his excellent outreach to at-risk diverse youth , noting , “ Our Police Athletic League has over 300 Somali American youth participants who compete in soccer , flag football , softball @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coached and refereed by Saint Paul Police Officers.
” Maybe some Somali boyz responded positively to American sports , but the siren call of jihad still attracts young Minnesota-residing Muslims who leave to fight for Islam in Syria and Somalia .
But failure is no problem where liberal rescue programs are concerned : just keep repeating the same old unsuccessful approaches .
And so more money is being poured into social spending for Somalis .
Wouldn ’ t it make more sense and be less expensive for taxpayers to stop importing Somalis altogether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ importing unfriendly Muslims , except for moocher non-profits that hire members of the ethnic tribe in question .
Furthermore , any spare money for do-gooder projects should be spent to help American kids who face a tough economy as they grow up .
Anyway , Somalis don ’ t appear to even like America .
A roving interview of Minneapolis Somalis in 2015 found many would rather live under Islamic sharia law than the American Constitution .
Islam can not be fixed or reformed .
The best that can be done is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy of our government .
Hopefully the next administration will be less friendly to hostile Islam and will not welcome historic enemies inside the gates .
6 Minnesota Somali organizations receive grants to combat terrorism , Associated Press , March 10 , 2016 Six organizations that work with Somali youth in Minnesota have been awarded $ 300,000 in grants as part of a federal pilot project designed to combat terrorism , the nonprofit group that is administering the funds announced Thursday .
The grant recipients include a youth sports group , a program @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that plans to enhance youth employment opportunities and a group that addresses mental health issues for refugees .
An additional $ 100,000 has been set aside to help with technical assistance , professional development and other resources with the goal of keeping the programs going on their own in the future .
Marcus Pope , director of partnerships and external relations for Youthprise , the nonprofit administering the money , said investing in youth development is crucial .
He said Minnesota is home to many creative and bright Somali youth , but many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including a sense of alienation , a search for identity as new immigrants , unemployment and poverty that can open them to recruitment by extremist groups.
” Boston and Los Angeles are also participating in the federal pilot project , which the Obama administration launched in late 2014 to stamp out violent extremism .
Minneapolis ’ program , called Building Community Resilience , focuses on the state ’ s large Somali community , which has been a target for terrorism recruiters .
More than 22 men have left the state since 2007 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a dozen people have left in recent years to join militants in Syria .
“ We are excited that Youthprise has identified the first group of organizations to which it will make grants , ” said Ben Petok , spokesman for the U.S. Attorney ’ s Office in Minnesota .
“ This is an important milestone for the hundreds of Somali community leaders and volunteers who have worked on this effort for the past 18 months.
” Last month , U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said he was working on additional funding , both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bill President Barack Obama signed into law in December that includes $ 50 million for efforts that combat terrorism as a possible source .
Luger noted that $ 10 million of that appropriation is specifically for states ’ efforts to prevent violent extremism , though it ’ s not yet known how much of that money will flow to Minnesota .
In a parallel effort , Minnesota lawmakers have also allocated $ 250,000 to programs designed to combat terror recruiting .
The Department of Public Safety announced last month that it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with priority given to programs that will lead to long-term investment in communities most at risk .
Meanwhile , House Democrats have also announced that they ’ ll push for another $ 2 million to dedicate to combatting terrorism in Minnesota .

Originallly published on this day in 2016.
In 2011, I wrote a blog titled, ”Somali Immigrants in Minnesota: Import a Problem, Then Pay to Try to Fix It.” It considered the problems of gang formation and jihad behavior among young Somali immigrants. The centerpiece was the testimony of the St. Paul Police Chief to Congress, where he enthused over his excellent outreach to at-risk diverse youth, noting, “Our Police Athletic League has over 300 Somali American youth participants who compete in soccer, flag football, softball and volleyball games that are organized, coached and refereed by Saint Paul Police Officers.”
Maybe some Somali boyz responded positively to American sports, but the siren call of jihad still attracts young Minnesota-residing Muslims who leave to fight for Islam in Syria and Somalia.
But failure is no problem where liberal rescue programs are concerned: just keep repeating the same old unsuccessful approaches. And so more money is being poured into social spending for Somalis.
Wouldn’t it make more sense and be less expensive for taxpayers to stop importing Somalis altogether? Nobody benefits from this policy of importing unfriendly Muslims, except for moocher non-profits that hire members of the ethnic tribe in question. Furthermore, any spare money for do-gooder projects should be spent to help American kids who face a tough economy as they grow up.
Anyway, Somalis don’t appear to even like America. A roving interview of Minneapolis Somalis in 2015 found many would rather live under Islamic sharia law than the American Constitution.
Islam cannot be fixed or reformed. The best that can be done is to quarantine it, which should be the policy of our government. Hopefully the next administration will be less friendly to hostile Islam and will not welcome historic enemies inside the gates.


vdare--2020-03-12--Providing Against Preventable Evils: Russia Closed Border With China On Jan. 30, Has Only 28 Cases O

Providing Against Preventable Evils: Russia Closed Border With China On Jan. 30, Has Only 28 Cases Of Coronavirus, No Deaths

Earlier : Pinker 's Wrong : With Coronavirus Going Global , Time For Nationalism , Not Globalism , To Protect Americans Johns Hopkins University provides an incredible interactive map detailing the outbreak of the Coronavirus and those nations impacted by the Wuhan Virus .
It looks like something out of a zombie apocalypse , where you ’ d see the protagonist shown a map of where the outbreak was spreading and projections for just how much of humanity would be impacted .
One thing stands out from the map : Russia only has 28 confirmed cases and no deaths .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are covered by massive red circles showing the scope of the pandemic , Russia remains devoid of those ominous shapes indicating a health crisis .
There have been 4,718 deaths , with 3,172 of those in China .
Why might Russia be spared ?
Because the Russian government put the interests of the Russian people ahead of those of other nations .
To borrow a phrase from Enoch Powell , they had statesman who guarded “ against preventable evils ” : While Democrats can ’ t stop calling President Trump a “ racist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response to the Wuhan Virus , and corporate journalists attack anyone for noticing the pandemic originated in China ( confirming they value fighting racism more than protecting American lives ) , the Russian government has successfully proven the wisdom of Powell ’ s true message in the “ Rivers of Blood ” speech .
Statesmanship is about guarding against preventable evils .
Russia ’ s actions to close their border with China early in the crisis prevented the Wuhan Virus/Coronavirus from spreading .
They remind us with this : Quarantines work .
Borders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the interests of your countrymen , ahead of globalism , works .
Leaders who `` provide against preventable evils '' are what 's needed .

Earlier: Pinker's Wrong: With Coronavirus Going Global, Time For Nationalism, Not Globalism, To Protect Americans
Johns Hopkins University provides an incredible interactive map detailing the outbreak of the Coronavirus and those nations impacted by the Wuhan Virus. It looks like something out of a zombie apocalypse, where you’d see the protagonist shown a map of where the outbreak was spreading and projections for just how much of humanity would be impacted.
One thing stands out from the map: Russia only has 28 confirmed cases and no deaths. While Europe, Asia and North America are covered by massive red circles showing the scope of the pandemic, Russia remains devoid of those ominous shapes indicating a health crisis.
There have been 4,718 deaths, with 3,172 of those in China.
Why might Russia be spared?
Because the Russian government put the interests of the Russian people ahead of those of other nations. To borrow a phrase from Enoch Powell, they had statesman who guarded “against preventable evils”:
While Democrats can’t stop calling President Trump a “racist” or “xenophobic” for his response to the Wuhan Virus, and corporate journalists attack anyone for noticing the pandemic originated in China (confirming they value fighting racism more than protecting American lives), the Russian government has successfully proven the wisdom of Powell’s true message in the “Rivers of Blood” speech.
Statesmanship is about guarding against preventable evils. Russia’s actions to close their border with China early in the crisis prevented the Wuhan Virus/Coronavirus from spreading.
They remind us with this: Quarantines work. Borders work. Restricting migration works. Putting the interests of your countrymen ahead of globalism, works. Leaders who "provide against preventable evils" are what's needed.


vdare--2020-03-12--Mayor Of Florence, Italy, Urged Locals To "Hug A Chinese" In Early February To Dispel "Prejudice"

If you have difficulty believing that , here 's a Tweet from Florence Mayor Dario Nardella , with evidence .
@ @ @ @ @ there 's this : Actually , political correctness is fatal a lot of the time @ @ @ @ @ than usual .
In 2003 , the Prime Minister of Canada , Jean Chretien , @ @ @ @ @ to a Chinese restaurant during the SARS epidemic .
[ Asians no SARS risk , @ @ @ @ @ Galloway , Toronto Globe & Mail , April 11 , 2003 ] In fact , @ @ @ @ @ non-Chinese , as reported here , but not a lot of other places .
The @ @ @ @ @ has quarantined himself after his wife developed Coronavirus symptoms .
And because we 're talking @ @ @ @ @ he is at various Chinese New Years Celebrations , dressed in Chinese costume :

Paul Joseph Watson at Summit News writes:
Mayor of Florence Encouraged Italians to “Hug a Chinese” Before Coronavirus Pandemic Hit Virtue-signaling stunt intended to prove Italians weren’t racist.
If you have difficulty believing that, here's a Tweet from Florence Mayor Dario Nardella, with evidence. (Archived.)
#coronavirus: seguiamo le indicazioni delle autorità sanitarie e usiamo cautela, ma nessun terrorismo psicologico e soprattutto basta con i soliti sciacalli che non vedevano l’ora di usare questa scusa per odiare e insultare. Uniti in questa battaglia comune! #AbbracciaUnCinese pic.twitter.com/pUdqEl0piW — Dario Nardella (@DarioNardella) February 1, 2020
Then there's this:
A video shows a Chinese man wearing a blindfold and a face mask in Florence asking for hugs. Numerous people embrace the man while some physically remove his blindfold and mask.
Watson says
The story is yet another illustration of how political correctness can actually sometimes be dangerous if not fatal.
Actually, political correctness is fatal a lot of the time. But this is worse than usual.
In 2003, the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, made a point of going to a Chinese restaurant during the SARS epidemic [Asians no SARS risk, PM says, by Gloria Galloway, Toronto Globe & Mail, April 11, 2003]. In fact, SARS didn't affect many non-Chinese, as reported here, but not a lot of other places.
The current Prime Minister of Canada has quarantined himself after his wife developed Coronavirus symptoms.
JUST IN: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau are self-isolating after she experienced possible COVID-19 symptoms, spokesperson says. https://t.co/KUJ7u0QAQy — ABC News (@ABC) March 12, 2020
And because we're talking about Justin Trudeau, here he is at various Chinese New Year's Celebrations, dressed in Chinese costume:
Trudeau marks Chinese New Year with Hazel McCallion at event in Toronto https://t.co/csX6xQW3e2 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/sIcQ8GCtdE — CP24 (@CP24) February 7, 2016
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vdare--2020-03-12--Coronavirus Emergency Legislation—Clearing Red Tape

Maybe they already have provisions like this , but if they don ’ t , Congress , lower level legislatures , city councils , and other deliberative bodies should pass emergency legislation allowing them to convene and vote online in case they can ’ t raise a quorum in person due to quarantine .
Don ’ t wait .
Do it on Thursday .
Then , Congress should vote to appropriate a giant amount of money to the fight against COVID-19 : a huge round number that gets attention , like , I dunno , $ 100,000,000,000 .
They don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all is for yet , but specify some minimums like at least 10 % will go to toward finding a vaccine , 10 % toward treatment research , etc .
Offer a billion dollar prize for a vaccine .
Then they should delegate emergency authority to bodies like state departments of public health ( or whatever is appropriate ) for loosening medical regulations to allow doctors to focus on the coming critical cases .
They should look at temporary steps to allow doctors to avoid a lot of routine face-to-face busywork .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a few months to prescribe antibiotics for children ’ s earaches to parents over the phone .
Let doctors extend prescriptions without office visits for renewals .
Allow doctors to charge for phone calls as well as appointments .
Insurance companies should step up and announce temporary changes that would free up doctors ’ time .
People in positions of responsibility need to gameplan for scenarios and make sure there aren ’ t dumb regulations standing in the way of solutions , the way the FDA and CDC between them both botched @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks after they knew about the problem because there was a rule and you can ’ t just go around changing rules you know .
For example , hospitals may need to set up tents in their parking lots before this over .
What rules on the books might get in the way ?
What are the steps to override the rules ?
The US is ca .
16 days behind Italy , that is still outside the ca .
10-day incubation window in which the system-swamping infections are guaranteed yet invisible .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing though , so the situation could still be vastly more dire than it seems .
On the other hand , drastic action , while politically unlikely , has substantial mitigating potential for America .
In a fantasy world all nonessential employees would be sent home right now , most schools would close right now , highways airports bus and train stations closed to all nonessential traffic right now , curfews imposed right now .
The government would take control of whatever supply of n95 masks remains in the market , directly arrange @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Taiwan , and ration their distribution : ensuring that older people and essential employees who need to commute/be outside in major cities have a supply .
If masks can be successfully rationed and distributed , there should be rules enacted to enforce their use .
Then , reports from Italy suggest medical ventilators are one of the crucial bottlenecks .
Can more such machines be obtained at short notice ?
Downmarket knockoffs put into service ?
Older obsolete tech dusted off and plugged back in ?
I have no idea , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capacity now , before the demand is there .
Otherwise , they ’ ll have to ramp it up while denying care to many suffocating patients .

Maybe they already have provisions like this, but if they don’t, Congress, lower level legislatures, city councils, and other deliberative bodies should pass emergency legislation allowing them to convene and vote online in case they can’t raise a quorum in person due to quarantine. Don’t wait. Do it on Thursday.
Then, Congress should vote to appropriate a giant amount of money to the fight against COVID-19: a huge round number that gets attention, like, I dunno, $100,000,000,000. They don’t have to specify what it all is for yet, but specify some minimums like at least 10% will go to toward finding a vaccine, 10% toward treatment research, etc. Offer a billion dollar prize for a vaccine.
Then they should delegate emergency authority to bodies like state departments of public health (or whatever is appropriate) for loosening medical regulations to allow doctors to focus on the coming critical cases.
They should look at temporary steps to allow doctors to avoid a lot of routine face-to-face busywork. For example, grant doctors the temporary right for a few months to prescribe antibiotics for children’s earaches to parents over the phone.
Let doctors extend prescriptions without office visits for renewals.
Let nurses write prescriptions.
Allow doctors to charge for phone calls as well as appointments.
Insurance companies should step up and announce temporary changes that would free up doctors’ time.
People in positions of responsibility need to gameplan for scenarios and make sure there aren’t dumb regulations standing in the way of solutions, the way the FDA and CDC between them both botched testing and then twiddled their thumbs for weeks after they knew about the problem because there was a rule and you can’t just go around changing rules you know.
For example, hospitals may need to set up tents in their parking lots before this over. What rules on the books might get in the way? What are the steps to override the rules?
iSteve commenter eugyppius writes:
The US is ca. 16 days behind Italy, that is still outside the ca. 10-day incubation window in which the system-swamping infections are guaranteed yet invisible. Like everyone else they have not been testing though, so the situation could still be vastly more dire than it seems. On the other hand, drastic action, while politically unlikely, has substantial mitigating potential for America. In a fantasy world all nonessential employees would be sent home right now, most schools would close right now, highways airports bus and train stations closed to all nonessential traffic right now, curfews imposed right now. The government would take control of whatever supply of n95 masks remains in the market, directly arrange the further manufacture of more masks as in Taiwan, and ration their distribution: ensuring that older people and essential employees who need to commute/be outside in major cities have a supply. If masks can be successfully rationed and distributed, there should be rules enacted to enforce their use. Then, reports from Italy suggest medical ventilators are one of the crucial bottlenecks. Can more such machines be obtained at short notice? Downmarket knockoffs put into service? Older obsolete tech dusted off and plugged back in? I have no idea, but they need to start ramping up icu capacity now, before the demand is there. Otherwise, they’ll have to ramp it up while denying care to many suffocating patients.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-12--1 In 7 Americans Think Coronavirus Is A Hoax (1 In 10 Whites)

Unfortunately more detailed cross tabs are unavailable , but there is a clear divide on the left between white liberals and non-whites .
The former realize the severity of the virus .
Those who were virtue-signalling that concern about a potential pandemic was racist a month ago are not doing so now .
Non-whites , especially new Americans , remain naturally skeptical .
If it were colloquially referred to as “ Saharan virus ” instead of “ Wuhan virus ” , would the black and yellow bars look different ?
While it ’ s ridiculous to avoid being geographically descriptive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it may still be in the interest of those ancestrally closest to the origin point for the name not to remind them of that .
If it does , some of them may reflexively dismiss or downplay its danger out of a misplaced sense of ethnic pride .
A sizable minority of Republicans are presumably incredulous for political reasons .
There is a stark generational divide as well .
A surfeit of conspiracy theories is an inevitable consequence of the ongoing collapse of trust in virtually every major institution in the Western world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down in the face of increased linguistic , cultural , racial , economic , social , and racial diversity , coordinated responses to crises like this will become increasingly difficult to manage .
I doubt there are large swaths of South Korea where an ambulance can not safely go .
The Koreans appear to have a handle on the outbreak .
Will America be able to manage the same ?

Unfortunately more detailed cross tabs are unavailable, but there is a clear divide on the left between white liberals and non-whites. The former realize the severity of the virus. Those who were virtue-signalling that concern about a potential pandemic was racist a month ago are not doing so now.
Non-whites, especially new Americans, remain naturally skeptical. If it were colloquially referred to as “Saharan virus” instead of “Wuhan virus,” would the black and yellow bars look different? While it’s ridiculous to avoid being geographically descriptive out of fear of stigmatizing people, it may still be in the interest of those ancestrally closest to the origin point for the name not to remind them of that. If it does, some of them may reflexively dismiss or downplay its danger out of a misplaced sense of ethnic pride.
A sizable minority of Republicans are presumably incredulous for political reasons.
There is a stark generational divide as well. A surfeit of conspiracy theories is an inevitable consequence of the ongoing collapse of trust in virtually every major institution in the Western world. As social cohesion continues to break down in the face of increased linguistic, cultural, racial, economic, social, and racial diversity, coordinated responses to crises like this will become increasingly difficult to manage. I doubt there are large swaths of South Korea where an ambulance cannot safely go. The Koreans appear to have a handle on the outbreak. Will America be able to manage the same?


vdare--2020-03-12--Black Mayor Of Atlanta Issues Anti-"Gentrification" Moratorium On  Black Neighborhood  Development T

Black Mayor Of Atlanta Issues Anti-"Gentrification" Moratorium On  Black Neighborhood  Development To Keep Out Whites

Earlier by Paul Kersey : 3,000 Blacks Protest “ Gentrification ” —Code For Whites ’ Making Washington D.C. Livable Again For decades , large portions of Atlanta have been majority black and entirely devoid of legitimate economic activity .
Property values were shockingly low , reflecting the fair market value of these communities of color .
White people , who had long abandoned the city of Atlanta for the safe suburbs just Outside the Perimeter ( living outside I-285 , the massive highway circling Atlanta ) , decided to move back Inside the Perimeter .
By so doing , these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neglected ) homes in majority black communities , acting as urban pioneers to return civilization to areas whose only economic activity consisted of drug deals and hookers turning tricks for a $ 20 bill .
This even includes the birthplace of Martin Luther King , Jr. , an area now thriving due to the influx of whites via gentrification .
Only 20 years ago , this same real estate was entirely occupied by black residents where “ drug dealers once ruled.
” But white people moving back to Atlanta and resurrecting long economically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by blacks ) represents a great threat to black control of the city .
So the current black mayor has decided to issue a moratorium on development near Grove Park , a historically black community ( currently 93 percent black ) because white people moving into the community has the strange tendency to immediately raise property valuations .
Once , when occupied almost entirely by blacks , neighborhoods across Atlanta had cheap property available for single-family homes because this real estate had barely any demand .
This lack of demand was a reflection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conditions they created for social capital to flounder .
But as whites move in , social capital strangely flourishes and houses start to appreciate .
The Visible Black Hand of Economics at work… Fearing gentrification , Atlanta mayor issues moratorium on development near Westside Park : Neighborhoods around the future park , particularly Grove Park , are seeing rapid rises in home values.
, 11 Alive , February 18 , 2020 Following in the footsteps of neighborhoods such as the Old Fourth Ward and the West End , Grove Park would seem an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Atlanta ’ s notorious gentrification stories .
The gleaming new Westside Park has a tentatively planned opening for 2021 .
Slated to become the largest greenspace in the city , it promises to transform the surrounding areas .
That could be welcome in Grove Park , a historically black neighborhood that borders the south half of the Westside Reservoir , where the park is being built , and was hit especially hard by the financial crisis – if its residents can stay there and reap the benefits .
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Westside Park on Monday .
It ’ s an apparent effort to plan ahead and curb runaway gentrification in the area before it hits , the way it has in other neighborhoods – particularly where the BeltLine has brought an explosion of development activity .
“ A key pillar to the Administration ’ s comprehensive affordable housing plan is ensuring long-term residents are not priced out of the neighborhoods they have built , ” Mayor Bottoms said in a release .
“ We know that every permit triggers some form of change in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the utmost importance that development is carried out in a deliberate , fair and thoughtful manner.
” The moratorium is slated to last 180 days – about six months – and will apply to “ new applications for rezonings , building permits for new construction , land disturbance permits , special use permits , special administrative permits , subdivisions , replattings , and lot consolidations for non-public project.
” It will not affect existing projects .
The mayor ’ s office says the moratorium will serve to allow time for identifying an “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most affected by development around Westside Park and developing an “ Equitable Development Framework ” for that area .
The mayor ’ s office released a map of that potential area , which includes Grove Park and two smaller communities , Rockdale and Knight Park/Howell Station , that are already relatively gentrified .
Grove Park is already starting to feel the strain of speculation .
According to the Zillow home value index , the median home value in Jan. 2018 was $ 95,000 .
Two years later , it nearly doubled to $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s forecast has that number passing $ 200,000 by the end of the year .
It ’ s not clear how many projects are already underway in the city-designated Immediate Impact Area .
11Alive reached out to the mayor ’ s office for data on existing projects .
The city said it did not have any specific information at the moment .
Yes , the black mayor of Atlanta is using her office to stop white people from moving back into the city , helping to protect black residents whose very presence for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic growth in the area .
As white people turn “ a troubled region full of rundown properties ” into thriving communities ( where once only black gangbangers roamed ) , the truth about race and real estate becomes clear .
Especially when the black mayor of Atlanta works to use her office to stop economic progress because it disproportionately displaces blacks… the very people who have kept property values down and businesses from opening and flourishing in areas of the city where whites have gentrified and now thrive .

Earlier by Paul Kersey: 3,000 Blacks Protest “Gentrification”—Code For Whites’ Making Washington D.C. Livable Again
For decades, large portions of Atlanta have been majority black and entirely devoid of legitimate economic activity.
Property values were shockingly low, reflecting the fair market value of these communities of color.
Guess what?
White people, who had long abandoned the city of Atlanta for the safe suburbs just Outside the Perimeter (living outside I-285, the massive highway circling Atlanta), decided to move back Inside the Perimeter.
By so doing, these white people bought inexpensive (often egregiously neglected) homes in majority black communities, acting as urban pioneers to return civilization to areas whose only economic activity consisted of drug deals and hookers turning tricks for a $20 bill.
This even includes the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr., an area now thriving due to the influx of whites via gentrification. Only 20 years ago, this same real estate was entirely occupied by black residents where “drug dealers once ruled.”
But white people moving back to Atlanta and resurrecting long economically dead communities (all almost entirely occupied by blacks) represents a great threat to black control of the city.
So the current black mayor has decided to issue a moratorium on development near Grove Park, a historically black community (currently 93 percent black), because white people moving into the community has the strange tendency to immediately raise property valuations. Once, when occupied almost entirely by blacks, neighborhoods across Atlanta had cheap property available for single-family homes because this real estate had barely any demand.
This lack of demand was a reflection of the majority black community and the conditions they created for social capital to flounder. But as whites move in, social capital strangely flourishes and houses start to appreciate.
Strange.
The Visible Black Hand of Economics at work…
Fearing gentrification, Atlanta mayor issues moratorium on development near Westside Park: Neighborhoods around the future park, particularly Grove Park, are seeing rapid rises in home values, 11 Alive, February 18, 2020 Following in the footsteps of neighborhoods such as the Old Fourth Ward and the West End, Grove Park would seem an obvious candidate to become the latest of Atlanta’s notorious gentrification stories. The gleaming new Westside Park has a tentatively planned opening for 2021. Slated to become the largest greenspace in the city, it promises to transform the surrounding areas. That could be welcome in Grove Park, a historically black neighborhood that borders the south half of the Westside Reservoir, where the park is being built, and was hit especially hard by the financial crisis – if its residents can stay there and reap the benefits. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a moratorium on new development activity around Westside Park on Monday. It’s an apparent effort to plan ahead and curb runaway gentrification in the area before it hits, the way it has in other neighborhoods – particularly where the BeltLine has brought an explosion of development activity. RELATED: Atlanta is rapidly gentrifying. Here’s where. “A key pillar to the Administration’s comprehensive affordable housing plan is ensuring long-term residents are not priced out of the neighborhoods they have built,” Mayor Bottoms said in a release. “We know that every permit triggers some form of change in these communities, and it is of the utmost importance that development is carried out in a deliberate, fair and thoughtful manner.” The moratorium is slated to last 180 days – about six months – and will apply to “new applications for rezonings, building permits for new construction, land disturbance permits, special use permits, special administrative permits, subdivisions, replattings, and lot consolidations for non-public project.” It will not affect existing projects. The mayor’s office says the moratorium will serve to allow time for identifying an “Immediate Impact Area” that will be most affected by development around Westside Park and developing an “Equitable Development Framework” for that area. The mayor’s office released a map of that potential area, which includes Grove Park and two smaller communities, Rockdale and Knight Park/Howell Station, that are already relatively gentrified. Grove Park is already starting to feel the strain of speculation. According to the Zillow home value index, the median home value in Jan. 2018 was $95,000. Two years later, it nearly doubled to $175,000. The real estate company’s forecast has that number passing $200,000 by the end of the year. It’s not clear how many projects are already underway in the city-designated Immediate Impact Area. 11Alive reached out to the mayor’s office for data on existing projects. The city said it did not have any specific information at the moment.
Yes, the black mayor of Atlanta is using her office to stop white people from moving back into the city, helping to protect black residents whose very presence for decades has been the primary impediment to economic growth in the area.
As white people turn “a troubled region full of rundown properties” into thriving communities (where once only black gangbangers roamed), the truth about race and real estate becomes clear. Especially when the black mayor of Atlanta works to use her office to stop economic progress because it disproportionately displaces blacks… the very people who have kept property values down and businesses from opening and flourishing in areas of the city where whites have gentrified and now thrive.
[Comment at Unz.com]