vdare--2020-08-31--Patrick J. Buchanan: Where Will All These War Games Lead?

In northeast Syria last week , a U.S. military vehicle collided with a Russian armored vehicle , injuring four American soldiers .
Both the Americans and Russians blame each other for failing to follow established rules of the road .
Had an American been killed , we could have had a crisis on our hands .
Query : With the ISIS caliphate dead and buried , why are 500 U.S. troops still in Syria a year after Donald Trump said we would be pulling them out ?
What are they doing there to justify risking a clash with Russian troops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allies of the Damascus regime of Bashar Assad , whether we approve of his regime or not ?
Nor was this the only U.S.-Russian faceoff last week .
Over the Black Sea , two Russian military jets swept past the nose of an American B-52 , one of the bombers on which the airborne leg of our strategic deterrent depends .
The Russian Su-27s flew so close to the B-52 that their afterburners shook the eight-engine bomber .
What was a nuclear-capable B-52 doing over the Black Sea , which is to Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are to us ?
That B-52 overflight of the Black Sea was part of an exercise in which six U.S. B-52s overflew all 30 NATO nations in one day—from the U.S. and Canada to Spain and the Balkans and to the eastern Baltic Sea—in a military exercise to test Russian air defenses .
At the end of August , the Russian navy conducted its own war games near Alaska , involving dozens of ships and aircraft , the largest such drill in these northern seas since Soviet times .
Russia 's navy chief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warships and 40 aircraft took part in the Bering Sea exercise , which involved multiple practice missile launches .
Said the admiral : `` We are holding such massive drills there for the first time ever . ''
As Trump rebuilt the U.S. military , Vladimir Putin reciprocated .
And , last week , Putin had a pointed warning for any nation that meddles in Belarus .
With Alexander Lukashenko , the Belarusian autocrat facing huge and hostile demonstrations demanding he resign , Putin put out word that outside intervention to effect Lukashenko @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to intervene .
The fall of Lukashenko from power , after 25 years ruling Belarus , could lead to a crisis as NATO allies Lithuania and Poland both border on the former Soviet republic of 9.5 million people .
Also in late August , on the other side of the world , China conducted a huge naval exercise in the South and East China seas and Taiwan Strait .
After an American U-2 overflew its ships during the exercise , Beijing denounced the `` naked provocation '' and test-fired four ballistic missiles into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those missiles have been described as `` carrier killers . ''
They are said to have been developed to attack aircraft carriers such as the 100,000-ton vessels that serve as the backbone of the fleets the U.S. Navy deploys in these same waters .
The U.S. has been sending its own warships into what an angry China claims are its territorial waters around the atolls and reefs it has fortified and converted into air and naval bases in the Paracel and Spratly islands .
What exactly is our ultimate goal here ?
China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Taiwan by having military planes and warships circumnavigate the island and by sending aircraft across midpoint in the Taiwan Strait .
Taiwan recently purchased 66 US F-16s for delivery over the next 10 years .
Yet , its armed forces are no match for Beijing 's .
And China has put the world on notice that any move by Taiwan toward independence would cross a red line and be crushed by Beijing .
Is America prepared to fight China over fortified rocks and reefs in the South China Sea to which we have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fight China to prevent the gradual absorption of Taiwan , which Richard Nixon conceded in 1972 we do not deny is a part of China ?
In its confrontation with Iran , the U.S. seems about to suffer a setback in the Security Council .
Our attempt to effect a `` snapback '' of U.N. sanctions on Iran , for violating the 2015 nuclear deal , seems certain to be rejected by our three principal NATO allies , as well as Russia and China .
How would Tehran 's victory in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ open the door to sales and purchases of weapons by the ayatollah 's regime , be received ?
Potential collisions between the U.S. , Russia or China are not even back-burner issues this election year .
Meanwhile , we are consumed by the coronavirus , the crashed economy , racial divisions and riots that have ripped apart cities like Portland , Seattle , Minneapolis and Kenosha since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd .
Still , Leon Trotsky had a point when he said , `` You may not be interested in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you . ''
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

In northeast Syria last week, a U.S. military vehicle collided with a Russian armored vehicle, injuring four American soldiers.
Both the Americans and Russians blame each other for failing to follow established rules of the road. Had an American been killed, we could have had a crisis on our hands.
Query: With the ISIS caliphate dead and buried, why are 500 U.S. troops still in Syria a year after Donald Trump said we would be pulling them out? What are they doing there to justify risking a clash with Russian troops who are in Syria as the invited allies of the Damascus regime of Bashar Assad, whether we approve of his regime or not?
Nor was this the only U.S.-Russian faceoff last week.
Over the Black Sea, two Russian military jets swept past the nose of an American B-52, one of the bombers on which the airborne leg of our strategic deterrent depends. The Russian Su-27s flew so close to the B-52 that their afterburners shook the eight-engine bomber.
What was a nuclear-capable B-52 doing over the Black Sea, which is to Russia what the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico are to us?
That B-52 overflight of the Black Sea was part of an exercise in which six U.S. B-52s overflew all 30 NATO nations in one day—from the U.S. and Canada to Spain and the Balkans and to the eastern Baltic Sea—in a military exercise to test Russian air defenses.
At the end of August, the Russian navy conducted its own war games near Alaska, involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the largest such drill in these northern seas since Soviet times.
Russia's navy chief, Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, said 50 warships and 40 aircraft took part in the Bering Sea exercise, which involved multiple practice missile launches. Said the admiral: "We are holding such massive drills there for the first time ever."
As Trump rebuilt the U.S. military, Vladimir Putin reciprocated.
And, last week, Putin had a pointed warning for any nation that meddles in Belarus. With Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian autocrat facing huge and hostile demonstrations demanding he resign, Putin put out word that outside intervention to effect Lukashenko's removal could cause Russian special forces to intervene.
The fall of Lukashenko from power, after 25 years ruling Belarus, could lead to a crisis as NATO allies Lithuania and Poland both border on the former Soviet republic of 9.5 million people.
Also in late August, on the other side of the world, China conducted a huge naval exercise in the South and East China seas and Taiwan Strait.
After an American U-2 overflew its ships during the exercise, Beijing denounced the "naked provocation" and test-fired four ballistic missiles into the South China Sea. Two of those missiles have been described as "carrier killers." They are said to have been developed to attack aircraft carriers such as the 100,000-ton vessels that serve as the backbone of the fleets the U.S. Navy deploys in these same waters.
The U.S. has been sending its own warships into what an angry China claims are its territorial waters around the atolls and reefs it has fortified and converted into air and naval bases in the Paracel and Spratly islands.
What exactly is our ultimate goal here?
China has also been ramping up pressure on Taiwan by having military planes and warships circumnavigate the island and by sending aircraft across midpoint in the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan recently purchased 66 US F-16s for delivery over the next 10 years. Yet, its armed forces are no match for Beijing's. And China has put the world on notice that any move by Taiwan toward independence would cross a red line and be crushed by Beijing.
Is America prepared to fight China over fortified rocks and reefs in the South China Sea to which we have no territorial claim? Are we prepared to fight China to prevent the gradual absorption of Taiwan, which Richard Nixon conceded in 1972 we do not deny is a part of China?
In its confrontation with Iran, the U.S. seems about to suffer a setback in the Security Council. Our attempt to effect a "snapback" of U.N. sanctions on Iran, for violating the 2015 nuclear deal, seems certain to be rejected by our three principal NATO allies, as well as Russia and China.
How would Tehran's victory in the U.N. over the U.S., which would open the door to sales and purchases of weapons by the ayatollah's regime, be received?
Potential collisions between the U.S., Russia or China are not even back-burner issues this election year. Meanwhile, we are consumed by the coronavirus, the crashed economy, racial divisions and riots that have ripped apart cities like Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and Kenosha since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd.
Still, Leon Trotsky had a point when he said, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
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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--2020-08-31--Her Name Is Laura Ashley Anderson/ His Name Is Charles Nicholas Wall: White Step-Father/Daughter Exe

Her Name Is Laura Ashley Anderson/ His Name Is Charles Nicholas Wall: White Step-Father/Daughter Executed by Black Male Over Fender Bender

The United States of America is a big country , with more than 330 million people .
Why should the death of a black male such as George Floyd or a Jacob Blake become a casus belli for a war on a society riddled with purported systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism , when the murder of two white people by a black male is greeted by extreme silence by this same society ?
If America truly was a nation fueled by the evils of systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism ( as we are constantly told by those in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sports franchises ) , then why is the story of Laura Anderson and Charles Wall not dominating the news cycle and ushering in emergency legislation to castigate all black people for their callous murder ?
Because if America was truly awash with systemic racism and implicit bias , how they died and who murdered them would be the only story we ’ d hear/read about .
But that few will ever read about how they died and who murdered them is a reminder of the power of black privilege in America .
Laura @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nicholas Wall , 45 , were killed outside a home in Georgetown , S.C. , which was recently purchased by Anderson , where she expected to begin her new adult life .
Ty Sheem Walters III , 23 , allegedly rear-ended Wall as he turned into the driveway of the home near the intersection of Indian Hut Road and Highmarket Street , just off of U.S. 521 , around 5 p.m. , according to the Georgetown County Sheriff ’ s Office .
He then allegedly got out of the vehicle and shot Wall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WPDE reported .
“ I ’ m having to bury one of my children and my husband .
It ’ s such a freak thing .
I don ’ t know why this would happen .
I just don ’ t understand , ” Kimberly Wall , Anderson ’ s mother and Wall ’ s wife , told WMBF .
“ It ’ s just devastating .
I don ’ t know how we ’ re going to go forward.
” Anderson was in the front yard waiting for Wall to arrive to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
After just moving in , she was selling an old set of bunk beds online and had realized she was locked out when she came to meet the potential buyer outside her house , Lynn Lambert , a close friend of the family , told WPDE .
“ I don ’ t understand how a simple fender bender they called it could turn into double murder and an attempted murder , ” Lambert said .
“ Why ?
I honestly didn ’ t think it was real .
Who does this ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the shooting happened just three miles from where she lives and that Walters took away two of her “ best friends.
” The judge denied bail for Walters , who is charged with two counts of murder , one count of attempted murder and the illegal possession of a firearm .
Anderson “ wanted to be a teacher like her momma .
She was getting ready to start school .
She was getting everything in order .
Everything was starting to fall in place for her , ” Lambert said .
“ She @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , she won ’ t get to have children.
” Law enforcement arrived at the scene to find one victim had already been taken to the hospital , a second was being treated by first responders , and a third was walking around dazed and confused with a gunshot wound to his left wrist , WMBF reported , citing the incident report .
Wall was shot at least twice in the head and torso .
Anderson was shot at least once in the head .
Police established a perimeter before setting out to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foot down Kent Road .
Walters was spotted walking on Georgetown Highway toward Andrews , and took off running through the woods when approached by officers .
After a brief foot pursuit by officers and a police K-9 unit , Walters was taken into custody around 6:30 p.m. , Georgetown Times ’ Post and Courier reported .
Her Name is Laura Ashley Anderson/ His Name is Charles Nicholas Wall .
Were we a society fueled by white privilege , you ’ d be encountering these two names wherever you went .
Instead , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ George Floyd and Jacob Blake .

The United States of America is a big country, with more than 330 million people.
Why should the death of a black male such as George Floyd or a Jacob Blake become a casus belli for a war on a society riddled with purported systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism, when the murder of two white people by a black male is greeted by extreme silence by this same society?
If America truly is a nation fueled by the evils of systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism (as we are constantly told by those in total control of corporate media/public corporations/academia/and professional sports franchises), then why is the story of Laura Anderson and Charles Wall not dominating the news cycle and ushering in emergency legislation to castigate all black people for their callous murder?
Because if America were truly awash with systemic racism and implicit bias, how they died and who murdered them would be the only story we’d hear/read about.
That few will never read about how they died and who murdered them is a reminder of the power of black privilege in America.
South Carolina college student, stepfather fatally shot in head on front lawn over fender bender: The stepfather was dropping off a set of keys for his daughter, Fox News, August 27, 2020
South Carolina college student and her stepfather were shot dead on the front lawn Monday in a road rage-related attack after a minor fender bender in the driveway.
Laura Ashley Anderson, 21, and Charles Nicholas Wall, 45, were killed outside a home in Georgetown, S.C., which was recently purchased by Anderson, where she expected to begin her new adult life. Ty Sheem Walters III, 23, allegedly rear-ended Wall as he turned into the driveway of the home near the intersection of Indian Hut Road and Highmarket Street, just off of U.S. 521, around 5 p.m., according to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office. He then allegedly got out of the vehicle and shot Wall, Anderson, and another person, WPDE reported. “I’m having to bury one of my children and my husband. It’s such a freak thing. I don’t know why this would happen. I just don’t understand,” Kimberly Wall, Anderson’s mother and Wall’s wife, told WMBF. “It’s just devastating. I don’t know how we’re going to go forward.” Anderson was in the front yard waiting for Wall to arrive to drop off a spare set of keys. After just moving in, she was selling an old set of bunk beds online and had realized she was locked out when she came to meet the potential buyer outside her house, Lynn Lambert, a close friend of the family, told WPDE. “I don’t understand how a simple fender bender they called it could turn into double murder and an attempted murder,” Lambert said. “Why? I honestly didn’t think it was real. Who does this?” Kimberly Wall told a judge Wednesday the shooting happened just three miles from where she lives and that Walters took away two of her “best friends.” The judge denied bail for Walters, who is charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and the illegal possession of a firearm. Anderson “wanted to be a teacher like her momma. She was getting ready to start school. She was getting everything in order. Everything was starting to fall in place for her,” Lambert said. “She won’t get to get married, she won’t get to have children.” Law enforcement arrived at the scene to find one victim had already been taken to the hospital, a second was being treated by first responders, and a third was walking around dazed and confused with a gunshot wound to his left wrist, WMBF reported, citing the incident report. Wall was shot at least twice in the head and torso. Anderson was shot at least once in the head. Police established a perimeter before setting out to look for Walters, who fled on foot down Kent Road. Walters was spotted walking on Georgetown Highway toward Andrews, and took off running through the woods when approached by officers. After a brief foot pursuit by officers and a police K-9 unit, Walters was taken into custody around 6:30 p.m., Georgetown Times’ Post and Courier reported.
Her Name is Laura Ashley Anderson/ His Name is Charles Nicholas Wall. Were we a society fueled by white privilege, you’d be encountering these two names wherever you went. Instead, all you read/hear about are the names George Floyd and Jacob Blake.
Black-Run America (BRA) indeed.
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vdare--2020-08-31--Who Should be Biden's Sister Souljah?

Who Should be Biden's Sister Souljah?

Earlier : Surprise , Surprise !
Vicky Osterweil , Author of In Defense of Looting , Used to be Willie @ @ @ @ @ people saying Biden needs `` a Sister Souljah moment '' - who would this be @ @ @ @ @ figure with enough cachet that Biden could disagree with them and satisfy Bill Maher et @ @ @ @ @ looting and for some reason that does n't count .
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Earlier: Surprise, Surprise! Vicky Osterweil, Author of In Defense of Looting, Used to be Willie Osterweil
Non-trolling question for the people saying Biden needs "a Sister Souljah moment" - who would this be? Who's a cultural figure with enough cachet that Biden could disagree with them and satisfy Bill Maher et al? He keeps condemning looting and for some reason that doesn't count. pic.twitter.com/ZPf01uvslk


vdare--2020-08-31--NYT: Andrew Sullivan Can Never Ever be Forgiven for Publishing an Excerpt from THE BELL CURVE in 199

NYT: Andrew Sullivan Can Never Ever be Forgiven for Publishing an Excerpt from THE BELL CURVE in 1994

From the New York Times news section : I ’ m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan .
But I Can ’ t Defend Him .
He ’ s one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades , but he ’ s shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q .
… I came to Provincetown to better understand why Mr. Sullivan , 57 , one of the most influential journalists of his generation and an obvious influence in my own career , is not as welcome as he once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But my visit helped me see something more : how Mr. Sullivan is really a fixed point by which we can measure how far American media has moved .
He finds himself now on the outside , most of all , because he can not be talked out of views on race that most of his peers find abhorrent .
I know , because I tried .
He was a star in his 20s , when he ran The New Republic , so celebrated that he posed for Annie Leibovitz in a Gap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ memorably coy expression .
He was a master of provocations there that included one that defined him , arguing long before it was part of mainstream political debate that same-sex couples should have the right to marry .
But he also published a cover story , an excerpt from “ The Bell Curve , ” that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q.
, a decision that has increasingly consumed his legacy .
… Here ’ s Herrnstein and Murray ’ s 1994 New Republic article , which the NYT does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I wonder how many times Ben Smith , the NYT ’ s media columnist , has read the 745 page The Bell Curve ?
Two ?
Three ?
But Mr. Sullivan is , as his friend Johann Hari once wrote , “ happiest at war with his own side , ” and in the Trump era , he increasingly used the weekly column he began writing in New York magazine in 2016 to dial up criticism of the American left .
When the magazine politely showed him the door last month , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ began charging his fans directly to read his column through the newsletter platform Substack , increasingly a home for star writers who strike out on their own .
He was not , he emphasizes , “ canceled.
” In fact , he said , his income has risen from less than $ 200,000 to around $ 500,000 as a result of the move .
Evidently , however , Obama doesn ’ t find Sullivan permanently off limits due to his publishing an excerpt from The Bell Curve .
My theory is that Obama @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high score on the LSAT in 1997 , so he ’ s not quite as much of a science denialist as , say , Ben Smith .
( Here ’ s Obama ’ s 1994 review of The Bell Curve for NPR .
Since then , David Epstein ’ s 2012 book The Sports Gene has induced Obama to love to talk about the effect of genetic diversity on sports . )
… But as the American examination of racism has intensified , one of Mr. Sullivan ’ s convictions has grown further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to those inclined to disagree agreeably with him .
… The flap reminded his colleagues and critics of Mr. Sullivan ’ s original sin , his decision to put on the cover of the Oct. 31 , 1994 , New Republic a package titled “ Race and I.Q.
” The package led with an excerpt from the book “ The Bell Curve ” by the political scientists Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein .
They claimed that I.Q .
test results are in large part hereditary and reveal differences among races ; it produced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including contributors whom Mr. Sullivan invited to object Here are the angry responses Sullivan published in the same issue .
— saw the piece as a thinly veiled successor to the junk science used to justify American and European racism for decades .
Politically , it offered elites an explanation for racial inequality that wasn ’ t the legacy of slavery , or class , or racism , or even culture , and thus absolved them of the responsibility to fix it .
The authors “ found a way for racists to rationalize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” the political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote in a response in The New Republic .
When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May , Mr. Sullivan said , his editors asked him to “ be careful , ” suspecting that his views on race in America would not be palatable to their audience in that moment , two senior New York employees told me .
He decided instead to take the week off from column writing .
In the previous year , Mr. Sullivan had focused his ire on the politics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chance to challenge what he saw as an increasingly “ woke ” mainstream media .
But “ The Bell Curve ” excerpt — which Mr. Sullivan always says that he published but did not embrace — lingered over those pieces and framed criticism of him .
One fellow writer , Sarah Jones , called him the ” office bigot ” on Twitter .
The new editor of New York , David Haskell , didn ’ t push him out because of any new controversy or organized staff revolt , the two New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shift in culture had effectively made his publishing of “ The Bell Curve ” excerpt — and the fact that he never disavowed it — a firing offense , and Mr. Haskell showed Mr. Sullivan the door before the magazine experienced a blowup over race of the sort that have erupted at other publications .
So Sullivan was fired by New York for an article he okayed publishing 26 years before .
That ’ s pretty wild and says a lot about the madness of our day .
So what does Mr. Sullivan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ porch looking over the bay , Mr. Sullivan said he was frustrated by the most extreme claims that biology has no connection to our lives .
He believes , for instance , that Freudian theories that early childhood may push people toward homosexuality could have some merit , combined with genetics .
“ Everything is environmental for the left except gays , where it ’ s totally genetic ; and everything is genetic for the right , except for gays , ” he said sarcastically .
I tried out my most charitable interpretation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( though I question the underpinnings of the whole intellectual project ) : that he is most frustrated by the notion that you can ’ t talk about the influence of biology and genetics on humanity .
But that he ’ s not actually saying he thinks Black people as a group are less intelligent .
But , on average , black people are less intelligent .
That ’ s perhaps the single most documented finding in the history of the social sciences .
• Why does the current gap exist ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to nature and how much to nurture ?
• What , if anything , can be done to narrow this gap ?
He ’ d be equally open to the view , I suggested , that data exploring genetics and its connection to intelligence would find that Black people are on average smarter than other groups .
“ It could be , although the evidence is not trending in that direction as far as I pay attention to it .
But I don ’ t much , ” he said .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ open-minded ” on the issue and thinks it ’ s “ premature ” to weigh the data . )
“ I barely write about this , ” he went on .
“ It ’ s not something I ’ m obsessed with.
” But he also can ’ t quite stop himself , even as I sat there wishing he would .
“ Let ’ s say Jews .
I mean , just look at the Nobel Prize .
I ’ m just saying — there ’ s something there , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure what it is , but I ’ m just not prepared to accept the whole thing is over.
” … I wish Mr. Sullivan would accept that the project of trying to link the biological fiction of race with the science of genetics ought , in fact , to be over .
Race is a biological fiction !
When Harvard geneticist David Reich wrote in the New York Times in 2018 “ How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘ Race ’ ” there are quotes around “ Race ” so that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fiction , right ?
That ’ s what everybody at Buzzfeed always said .
Was I misinformed by Buzzfeed ?
I don ’ t think so !
When I said some of this to Mr. Sullivan , he noted that he had been born and raised in England , and he hasn ’ t always had perfect footing on American questions of race — though he has seemingly absorbed and mastered so much about American politics .
But his exit out of big media is a very American story .
His career , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t ever quite escape that 1994 magazine cover .
Ben Smith is the media columnist .
He joined The Times in 2020 after eight years as founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News .
Before that , he covered politics for Politico , The New York Daily News , The New York Observer and The New York Sun .
Email : ben.smith @ nytimes.com @ benyt Seriously , it should be obvious by 8/31/2020 that excluding The Bell Curve from the Overton Window of ideas that you are allowed to discuss @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out to be a massive disaster for the country .
Today , you aren ’ t supposed to mention fundamental facts about the realities of life in the United States , such as that blacks average lower in intelligence and higher in crime , and that probably explains racial “ inequity ” better than vaporing about Systemic Racism .
Because nobody is permitted to be anybody if they point out the possibility that blacks might not be solely victims of whites , but might also have their own tendencies that have evolved over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isolation , the far left keeps winning public arguments .
Say we had public discourse in which on the question of why do blacks get hassled by the cops , the permissible views were : • The Right : Culture and evolution matter .
The Center view would be better at resisting the racist hate rhetoric of the Left .
But without the Right view that evolution matters , the Center is now the Far Right , and therefore is losing badly to the Left .
And that ’ s why our cities @ @ @

From the New York Times news section:
I’m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can’t Defend Him. He’s one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he’s shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q. By Ben Smith
Published Aug. 30, 2020 … I came to Provincetown to better understand why Mr. Sullivan, 57, one of the most influential journalists of his generation and an obvious influence in my own career, is not as welcome as he once was at many mainstream media outlets. But my visit helped me see something more: how Mr. Sullivan is really a fixed point by which we can measure how far American media has moved. He finds himself now on the outside, most of all, because he cannot be talked out of views on race that most of his peers find abhorrent. I know, because I tried. He was a star in his 20s, when he ran The New Republic, so celebrated that he posed for Annie Leibovitz in a Gap ad in a white T-shirt and a memorably coy expression. He was a master of provocations there that included one that defined him, arguing long before it was part of mainstream political debate that same-sex couples should have the right to marry. But he also published a cover story, an excerpt from “The Bell Curve,” that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q., a decision that has increasingly consumed his legacy. …
Here’s Herrnstein and Murray’s 1994 New Republic article, which the NYT does not link to.
By the way, I wonder how many times Ben Smith, the NYT’s media columnist, has read the 745 page The Bell Curve? Two? Three?
But Mr. Sullivan is, as his friend Johann Hari once wrote, “happiest at war with his own side,” and in the Trump era, he increasingly used the weekly column he began writing in New York magazine in 2016 to dial up criticism of the American left. When the magazine politely showed him the door last month, Mr. Sullivan left legacy media entirely and began charging his fans directly to read his column through the newsletter platform Substack, increasingly a home for star writers who strike out on their own. He was not, he emphasizes, “canceled.” In fact, he said, his income has risen from less than $200,000 to around $500,000 as a result of the move.
That’s interesting …
Mr. Sullivan isn’t really vulnerable to cancellation. …
… When The Dish was moved behind a paywall in 2013, a White House aide passed on a complaint to Mr. Sullivan: Mr. Obama was locked out of a favorite blog. Mr. Sullivan scrambled to set up a special account for the president.
Cheapskate.
Evidently, however, Obama doesn’t find Sullivan permanently off limits due to his publishing an excerpt from The Bell Curve.
My theory is that Obama owes his entire career to making a high score on the LSAT in 1997, so he’s not quite as much of a science denialist as, say, Ben Smith. (Here’s Obama’s 1994 review of The Bell Curve for NPR. Since then, David Epstein’s 2012 book The Sports Gene has induced Obama to love to talk about the effect of genetic diversity on sports.)
… But as the American examination of racism has intensified, one of Mr. Sullivan’s convictions has grown further out of step and more unsettling even to those inclined to disagree agreeably with him. … The flap reminded his colleagues and critics of Mr. Sullivan’s original sin, his decision to put on the cover of the Oct. 31, 1994, New Republic a package titled “Race and I.Q.” The package led with an excerpt from the book “The Bell Curve” by the political scientists Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein. They claimed that I.Q. test results are in large part hereditary and reveal differences among races; it produced piles of scientific debunkings. Many — including contributors whom Mr. Sullivan invited to object
Here are the angry responses Sullivan published in the same issue.
— saw the piece as a thinly veiled successor to the junk science used to justify American and European racism for decades. Politically, it offered elites an explanation for racial inequality that wasn’t the legacy of slavery, or class, or racism, or even culture, and thus absolved them of the responsibility to fix it. The authors “found a way for racists to rationalize their racism without losing sleep over it,” the political scientist Alan Wolfe wrote in a response in The New Republic. When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May, Mr. Sullivan said, his editors asked him to “be careful,” suspecting that his views on race in America would not be palatable to their audience in that moment, two senior New York employees told me. He decided instead to take the week off from column writing. In the previous year, Mr. Sullivan had focused his ire on the politics of race and identity, seemingly relishing the chance to challenge what he saw as an increasingly “woke” mainstream media. But “The Bell Curve” excerpt — which Mr. Sullivan always says that he published but did not embrace — lingered over those pieces and framed criticism of him. One fellow writer, Sarah Jones, called him the ”office bigot” on Twitter. The new editor of New York, David Haskell, didn’t push him out because of any new controversy or organized staff revolt, the two New York employees said. Instead, the shift in culture had effectively made his publishing of “The Bell Curve” excerpt — and the fact that he never disavowed it — a firing offense, and Mr. Haskell showed Mr. Sullivan the door before the magazine experienced a blowup over race of the sort that have erupted at other publications.
So Sullivan was fired by New York for an article he okayed publishing 26 years before. That’s pretty wild and says a lot about the madness of our day.
So what does Mr. Sullivan believe about race? On his back porch looking over the bay, Mr. Sullivan said he was frustrated by the most extreme claims that biology has no connection to our lives. He believes, for instance, that Freudian theories that early childhood may push people toward homosexuality could have some merit, combined with genetics. “Everything is environmental for the left except gays, where it’s totally genetic; and everything is genetic for the right, except for gays,” he said sarcastically. I tried out my most charitable interpretation of his view on race and I.Q. (though I question the underpinnings of the whole intellectual project): that he is most frustrated by the notion that you can’t talk about the influence of biology and genetics on humanity. But that he’s not actually saying he thinks Black people as a group are less intelligent.
But, on average, black people are less intelligent. That’s perhaps the single most documented finding in the history of the social sciences.
The scientific questions remaining include:
Is the current gap permanent?
Why does the current gap exist?
How much of this gap is due to nature and how much to nurture?
What, if anything, can be done to narrow this gap?
Back to the NYT:
He’d be equally open to the view, I suggested, that data exploring genetics and its connection to intelligence would find that Black people are on average smarter than other groups. “It could be, although the evidence is not trending in that direction as far as I pay attention to it. But I don’t much,” he said. (He later told me he’s “open-minded” on the issue and thinks it’s “premature” to weigh the data.) “I barely write about this,” he went on. “It’s not something I’m obsessed with.” But he also can’t quite stop himself, even as I sat there wishing he would. “Let’s say Jews. I mean, just look at the Nobel Prize. I’m just saying — there’s something there, I think. And I’m not sure what it is, but I’m just not prepared to accept the whole thing is over.” … I wish Mr. Sullivan would accept that the project of trying to link the biological fiction of race with the science of genetics ought, in fact, to be over.
Race is a biological fiction! When Harvard geneticist David Reich wrote in the New York Times in 2018 “How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’” there are quotes around “Race” so that must mean it’s a biological fiction, right? That’s what everybody at Buzzfeed always said. Was I misinformed by Buzzfeed? I don’t think so!
When I said some of this to Mr. Sullivan, he noted that he had been born and raised in England, and he hasn’t always had perfect footing on American questions of race — though he has seemingly absorbed and mastered so much about American politics. But his exit out of big media is a very American story. His career, with all its sweep and innovation, can’t ever quite escape that 1994 magazine cover. Ben Smith is the media columnist. He joined The Times in 2020 after eight years as founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. Before that, he covered politics for Politico, The New York Daily News, The New York Observer and The New York Sun. Email: ben.smith@nytimes.com @benyt
Seriously, it should be obvious by 8/31/2020 that excluding The Bell Curve from the Overton Window of ideas that you are allowed to discuss out loud without getting cancelled has turned out to be a massive disaster for the country. Today, you aren’t supposed to mention fundamental facts about the realities of life in the United States, such as that blacks average lower in intelligence and higher in crime, and that probably explains racial “inequity” better than vaporing about Systemic Racism.
Because nobody is permitted to be anybody if they point out the possibility that blacks might not be solely victims of whites, but might also have their own tendencies that have evolved over the last 70,000 years of relative continental isolation, the far left keeps winning public arguments.
Say we had public discourse in which on the question of why do blacks get hassled by the cops, the permissible views were:
The Left: White people are evil.
The Center: Culture matters.
The Right: Culture and evolution matter.
The Center view would be better at resisting the racist hate rhetoric of the Left. But without the Right view that evolution matters, the Center is now the Far Right, and therefore is losing badly to the Left.
And that’s why our cities are burning.
Ideas have consequences.
Cancelling ideas has worse consequences.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-30--Anderson Cooper Stumped By Brussels Sprouts

Characters in Tom Wolfe books are always reacting like Anderson Cooper does to Jacob Blake ’ s father ’ s @ @ @ @ @ Brussels sprouts.
” For example , here ’ s the end of Wolfe ’ s @ @ @ @ @ about Black Power in San Francisco : It wasn ’ t long before an enterprising @ @ @ @ @ own group , The New Thang .
“ The New Thang ?
” said Mayor @ @ @ @ @ put in their own unique and confounding appearance at City Hall .
“ That ’ @ @ @ @ @ Thang.
” The Mayor looked wigged out , as if the lights had gone out @ @ @ @ @ Oh , ” said the Mayor .
There wasn ’ t even the faintest shade @ @ @ @ @ .

Characters in Tom Wolfe books are always reacting like Anderson Cooper does to Jacob Blake’s father’s response, “I hate Brussels sprouts.” For example, here’s the end of Wolfe’s 1970 book Mau-Mauing the Flak-Catchers about Black Power in San Francisco:
It wasn’t long before an enterprising brother named Ronnie started his own group, The New Thang.
“The New Thang?” said Mayor Alioto, after they had put in their own unique and confounding appearance at City Hall.
“That’s right, The New Thang.”
The Mayor looked wigged out, as if the lights had gone out in his skull.
“Thang,” said Ronnie. “That’s Thing in African.”
“Oh,” said the Mayor. There wasn’t even the faintest shade of meaning in his voice.


vdare--2020-08-31--Michelle Malkin: Plight of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing to Celebrate

Earlier , by Michelle Malkin : There Is NO American Worker Shortage American workers across the wage scale are hurting .
Small-business owners across the country are fighting for their survival .
Young people face more uncertainty than ever about their futures and ability to put food on the table .
As we head into Labor Day weekend , I would like to offer a friendly reminder from the `` America First '' right to the Beltway Republican message machine and the Trump campaign 's social media mavens : Now is not the time to be cheerleading for pandemic profiteers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital '' globalists who are addicted to cheap foreign labor and abhor American sovereignty .
According to one analysis by Oxfam , 17 out of the top 25 most profitable U.S. corporations—including Microsoft , Johnson & Johnson , Facebook , Pfizer and Visa—are projected to rake in $ 85 billion more in 2020 than in previous years as upward of 40 million Americans are out of work .
SwampCons keep touting the `` booming stock market '' and `` record '' S & P 500 highs .
President Donald Trump himself bragged last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ record , I think 16 times already , during a pandemic . ''
He also warned Republican National Convention viewers that Joe Biden is bad for our `` retirement '' nest eggs and `` 401 ( k ) s. '' True enough .
But what about the tens of millions who 've lost their jobs and those who have n't even had the chance to start putting away any savings ?
Moreover , why should any `` Make America Great Again '' populists wave pom-poms for Microsoft , Apple , Amazon , Google/Alphabet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ executives and elitist employees of these Silicon Valley firms—the top five companies in the NASDAQ index—hate America , sabotage U.S. workers through advocating for mass migration , Black Lives Matter and antifa anarchy , and they openly disparage and discriminate against Trump-supporting customers .
In ordinary times , I used to be one of those reliable voices touting the `` free market , '' `` invisible hand '' and miracles of American capitalism over `` socialism . ''
But our current condition is not one of `` limited government conservatism '' vs. `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 've illustrated all summer long , we live in a bloody state of anarcho-tyranny .
The lawless reign while big business collectively allies itself with the mob to reap profits at the expense of the law-abiding .
Back in February , I reported to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries .
Among the U.S. corporations and institutions responsible for laying off , replacing , offshoring , and outsourcing tens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , TripAdvisor , LogMeIn , Inc. , Zume Pizza , VMWare , Shutterfly , Intel , Comcast , Xilinx , 23andMe , NortonLifeLock , AT & T , Macy 's , Walgreens , Uber , Lyft , UCSF Medical Center , Baptist Health , Sysco , WeWork , American Family Insurance , Tennessee Valley Authority , Amway , UPS subsidiary Coyote Logistics , Comcast , Lime , Bird , Unicorn , Getaround , Cerner , Oracle , Samsung US , Edmunds.com , Textron Aviation , Morgan Stanley , Spirit AeroSystems , Mozilla , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Clover Health , State Street Corporation , Anthem , Transamerica , Verizon , MassMutual , Disney , Carnival , Abbott Labs , EmblemHealth , Harley Davidson , Cargill , Eversource Energy , Best Buy , Southern California Edison and Qualcomm .
Six months later , record layoffs are piling up .
• Last week in California , VMWare , downtown San Jose 's Hilton Hotel , Veritas , Blackhawk Country Club , Gap , Chartwells and Silver Creek Sportsplex in San Jose all announced hundreds more Bay Area layoffs .
• Among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported by The Wall Street Journal : GM Resorts International , Stanley Black & Decker Inc. and Coca-Cola .
• American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. are threatening to ax more than 53,000 workers unless they get new federal bailouts .
Frontier Airlines signaled nearly 400 layoffs in Colorado .
• Even as it crowed about record quarterly sales , Salesforce handed out pink-slip notices to 1,000 of its employees .
• Despite promising not to cut workers in the midst of the COVID chaos , Morgan Stanley , Bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now all considering doing just that .
• In Florida , more than 1,900 hotel employees are facing layoffs or temporary layoffs at Loews Hotels and Co and Marriott .
• Telecom giant Cisco plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers amid business troubles .
• Manufacturing giant 3M slashed 1,500 jobs at the beginning of the month .
• Walmart laid off laying off hundreds of employees in its logistics , real estate and retail location planning departments over the past two months .
• Hundreds of health care workers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Illinois , Cape Cod , the University of Texas Medical Branch Health system , Lynwood Hospital in Los Angeles and Minnesota 's state hospital system .
Remember these laid-off workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers , work permits for illegal immigrant DREAMers , H-1B tech visas , more foreign doctors and other medical professionals , Silicon Valley tax breaks and Fortune 500 bailouts .
Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : How America Still Welcomes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's website .
Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book , `` Open Borders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .
COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM I repeat : There is no American worker shortage—only a shortage of politicians who truly put American workers first .

Earlier, by Michelle Malkin: There Is NO American Worker Shortage
American workers across the wage scale are hurting. Small-business owners across the country are fighting for their survival. Young people face more uncertainty than ever about their futures and ability to put food on the table.
As we head into Labor Day weekend, I would like to offer a friendly reminder from the "America First" right to the Beltway Republican message machine and the Trump campaign's social media mavens: Now is not the time to be cheerleading for pandemic profiteers, tech billionaires, and "woke capital" globalists who are addicted to cheap foreign labor and abhor American sovereignty. According to one analysis by Oxfam, 17 out of the top 25 most profitable U.S. corporations—including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook, Pfizer and Visa—are projected to rake in $85 billion more in 2020 than in previous years as upward of 40 million Americans are out of work.
SwampCons keep touting the "booming stock market" and "record" S&P 500 highs. President Donald Trump himself bragged last week, "NASDAQ has broken the record, I think 16 times already, during a pandemic." He also warned Republican National Convention viewers that Joe Biden is bad for our "retirement" nest eggs and "401(k)s." True enough. But what about the tens of millions who've lost their jobs and those who haven't even had the chance to start putting away any savings?
Moreover, why should any "Make America Great Again" populists wave pom-poms for Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google/Alphabet and Facebook? The founders, top executives and elitist employees of these Silicon Valley firms—the top five companies in the NASDAQ index—hate America, sabotage U.S. workers through advocating for mass migration, Black Lives Matter and antifa anarchy, and they openly disparage and discriminate against Trump-supporting customers.
In ordinary times, I used to be one of those reliable voices touting the "free market," "invisible hand" and miracles of American capitalism over "socialism." But our current condition is not one of "limited government conservatism" vs. "big government socialism." As I've illustrated all summer long, we live in a bloody state of anarcho-tyranny. The lawless reign while big business collectively allies itself with the mob to reap profits at the expense of the law-abiding.
Back in February, I reported to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries. Among the U.S. corporations and institutions responsible for laying off, replacing, offshoring, and outsourcing tens of thousands of American jobs:
Wayfair, TripAdvisor, LogMeIn, Inc., Zume Pizza, VMWare, Shutterfly, Intel, Comcast, Xilinx, 23andMe, NortonLifeLock, AT&T, Macy's, Walgreens, Uber, Lyft, UCSF Medical Center, Baptist Health, Sysco, WeWork, American Family Insurance, Tennessee Valley Authority, Amway, UPS subsidiary Coyote Logistics, Comcast, Lime, Bird, Unicorn, Getaround, Cerner, Oracle, Samsung US, Edmunds.com, Textron Aviation, Morgan Stanley, Spirit AeroSystems, Mozilla, UiPath, Plexus, Cisco, Ancestry.com, Clover Health, State Street Corporation, Anthem, Transamerica, Verizon, MassMutual, Disney, Carnival, Abbott Labs, EmblemHealth, Harley Davidson, Cargill, Eversource Energy, Best Buy, Southern California Edison and Qualcomm.
Six months later, record layoffs are piling up.
Last week in California, VMWare, downtown San Jose's Hilton Hotel, Veritas, Blackhawk Country Club, Gap, Chartwells and Silver Creek Sportsplex in San Jose all announced hundreds more Bay Area layoffs.
Among the companies confirming new COVID-related permanent layoffs reported by the Wall Street Journal: GM Resorts International, Stanley Black & Decker Inc. and Coca-Cola.
American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. are threatening to ax more than 53,000 workers unless they get new federal bailouts. Frontier Airlines signaled nearly 400 layoffs in Colorado.
Even as it crowed about record quarterly sales, Salesforce handed out pink-slip notices to 1,000 of its employees.
Despite promising not to cut workers in the midst of the COVID chaos, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo are now all considering doing just that.
In Florida, more than 1,900 hotel employees are facing layoffs or temporary layoffs at Loews Hotels and Co and Marriott.
Telecom giant Cisco plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers amid business troubles.
Manufacturing giant 3M slashed 1,500 jobs at the beginning of the month.
Walmart laid off laying off hundreds of employees in its logistics, real estate and retail location planning departments over the past two months.
Hundreds of health care workers have been laid off in Cook County, Illinois, Cape Cod, the University of Texas Medical Branch Health system, Lynwood Hospital in Los Angeles and Minnesota's state hospital system.
Remember these laid-off workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks and Fortune 500 bailouts.
I repeat: There is no American worker shortage—only a shortage of politicians who truly put American workers first.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-09-01--CSIS Won't Release Data Used In "Right-Wing Terrorism" Smear

On June 17 , 2020 , the Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS ) [ Tweet them ] a prestigious think tank , published a report called “ The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States.
” Here are its crucial claims , based , as we will see , on data it won ’ t release : • “ Jihadist plots used to be U.S. and Europe ’ s biggest terrorist threat .
Now it ’ s the far right.
, ” by Willem Marx , NBC News , July 27 , 2020 • “ Violence by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most dangerous terrorist threats , study finds , ” by Jason Wilson , The Guardian , June 27 , 2020 • “ Trump frequently accuses the far-left of inciting violence , yet right-wing extremists have killed 329 victims in the last 25 years , while antifa members haven ’ t killed any , according to a new study , ” by James Pasley , Business Insider , July 31 , 2020 • “ Experts warn of growing far-right terrorism threat as presidential election nears , ” by Judy L. Thomas , The Kansas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The report does make a concession on the number of victims : The report therefore tries to downplay the danger of religious terrorism by explaining that the the 9/11 attacks inflate the death toll , but it makes no similar allowance for deaths caused by the Right .
The study includes the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 , which killed 168 people .
Without that attack , the number of right-wing killings falls by more than half , to 167 .
The paper has four classifications of terrorists : right-wing , left-wing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ types of “ right-wing terrorist.
” The first group of right-wing terrorists , appropriately , “ anti-government extremists.
” The second group is “ white supremacists , ” but why aren ’ t they included with “ ethnonationalists ” ?
The third group of right-wing terrorists are “ incels , ” or the “ involuntarily celibate.
” They are men who hate women because they have been rejected .
They sometimes kill women , but why is that “ right-wing ” ?
And why are they terrorists ?
They are more like school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or organization .
The line between “ religious ” and “ right wing ” is blurred .
Attacks motivated by opposition to abortion are “ right-wing , ” not “ religious , ” and “ hatred based on sexuality or gender identity ” is “ right wing.
” By this definition , Omar Mateen , who pledged allegiance to ISIS and murdered 49 people at a gay nightclub , could be a “ right-winger.
” But there is no way to know whether CSIS called Mateen “ right wing ” or “ religious.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ an original data set of 893 terrorist plots and attacks in the United States between January 1994 and May 2020 , ” but the authors won ’ t release the data .
I emailed and called several people at CSIS and asked for it .
Caleb Diamond , “ Media Relations Manager and Editorial Associate ” finally got back to me and said CSIS refuses to share it .
CSIS promoted this study knowing that it would make waves .
It also made sure you can ’ t check its work .
Are @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Earlier: Media Promote ADL Propaganda on ‘Extremist Terrorism’
On June 17, 2020, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) [Tweet them] a prestigious think tank, published a report called “The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States.” Here are its crucial claims, based, as we will see, on data it won’t release:
Between 1994 and 2020, there were 893 terrorist attacks and plots in the United States. Overall, right-wing terrorists perpetrated the majority—57 percent—of all attacks and plots during this period, compared to 25 percent committed by left-wing terrorists, 15 percent by religious terrorists, 3 percent by ethnonationalists, and 0.7 percent by terrorists with other motives.
The media are thrilled:
The report does make a concession on the number of victims:
In analyzing fatalities from terrorist attacks, religious terrorism has killed the largest number of individuals—3,086 people—primarily due to the attacks on September 11, 2001, which caused 2,977 deaths. The magnitude of this death toll fundamentally shaped U.S. counterterrorism policy over the past two decades. In comparison, right-wing terrorist attacks caused 335 deaths, left-wing attacks caused 22 deaths, and ethnonationalist terrorists caused 5 deaths.
The report therefore tries to downplay the danger of religious terrorism by explaining that the 9/11 attacks inflate the death toll, but it makes no similar allowance for deaths caused by the Right. The study includes the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which killed 168 people. Without that attack, the number of right-wing killings falls by more than half, to 167.
The paper has four classifications of terrorists: right-wing, left-wing, religious, and ethnonationalist, with three types of “right-wing terrorist.” The first group of right-wing terrorists, appropriately, is “anti-government extremists.” The second group is “white supremacists,” but why aren’t they included with “ethnonationalists”?
The third group of right-wing terrorists are “incels,” or the “involuntarily celibate.” They are men who hate women because they have been rejected. They sometimes kill women, but why is that “right-wing”? And why are they terrorists? They are more like school shooters, who have no political platform or organization.
The line between “religious” and “right wing” is blurred. Attacks motivated by opposition to abortion are “right-wing,” not “religious,” and “hatred based on sexuality or gender identity” is “right wing.” By this definition, Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to ISIS and murdered 49 people at a gay nightclub, could be a “right-winger.”
But there is no way to know whether CSIS called Mateen “right wing” or “religious.” The study is based on “an original data set of 893 terrorist plots and attacks in the United States between January 1994 and May 2020,” but the authors won’t release the data. I emailed and called several people at CSIS and asked for it. Caleb Diamond, “Media Relations Manager and Editorial Associate,” finally got back to me and said CSIS refuses to share it.
CSIS promoted this study knowing that it would make waves. It also made sure you can’t check its work. Are we the only people who care?
[Crossposted from Amren.com]


vdare--2020-09-01--The Perils of Diversity—New Book Club Content Posted!

See earlier : Enter to Win September ’ s Book Club Pick — For The Grandchildren !
and Congratulations To @ @ @ @ @ of VDARE.com are by now acutely aware of the many Perils of Diversity .
To @ @ @ @ @ now , the VDARE.com Book Club invites you to dive deeper and read with us @ @ @ @ @ s Perils of Diversity : Immigration and Human Nature .
Lauded by John Derbyshire as @ @ @ @ @ survey of all the issues , ” Perils of Diversity makes sense of our current @ @ @ @ @ , data-driven perspective .
Professor Roth ’ s book is only becoming more relevant .
@ @ @ @ @ blood .
So , it ’ s time to arm ourselves with arguments and facts @ @ @ @ @ or several ! )
, sign up for the book club , and get reading @ @ @ @ @ will appear on an exclusive podcast with James Kirkpatrick to answer your questions !
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See earlier: Enter to Win September’s Book Club Pick — For The Grandchildren! and Congratulations To Our September Winner!
Readers of VDARE.com are by now acutely aware of the many Perils of Diversity.
To name a few:
But now, the VDARE.com Book Club invites you to dive deeper and read with us Professor Byron M. Roth’s Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature.
Lauded by John Derbyshire as “a comprehensive, well-documented survey of all the issues,” Perils of Diversity makes sense of our current immigration disaster from a scientific, data-driven perspective.
Professor Roth’s book is only becoming more relevant. It will has come to blood. So, it’s time to arm ourselves with arguments and facts. Grab a friend (or several!), sign up for the book club, and get reading!
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vdare--2020-09-01--Racial Distribution of Swing Voters

Racial Distribution of Swing Voters

The racial distribution of those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but for a Democrat congressperson in 2018 : Those who presumably experienced voter ’ s remorse are whiter than the electorate as a whole is .
That is not the case for those who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but for a Republican congressperson in 2018 : Has the Democrat electorate become more white over the last four years ?
Has the Republican electorate become less so ?
The relatively large share of Hispanics in the faction that shifted towards the GOP from 2016 to 2018 is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relatable to non-whites than Ted Cruz , John Kasich , or Jeb Bush are , despite the latter ’ s Mexican wife .
On the other hand , maybe I have it backwards .
Perhaps the large share of Trump-to-Democrat whites are union member type Democrats who took a chance on Trump and then moved back home in response to a corporate tax cut being Trump ’ s biggest first term accomplishment .
And perhaps a large share of the Clinton-to-GOP non-whites are small business non-traditional Republicans turned off by Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to back their Chamber of Commerce local Republican representative .

The racial distribution of those who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but for a Democrat congressperson in 2018:
Those who presumably experienced voter’s remorse are whiter than the electorate as a whole is. That is not the case for those who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but for a Republican congressperson in 2018:
Has the Democrat electorate become more white over the last four years? Has the Republican electorate become less so? The relatively large share of Hispanics in the faction that shifted towards the GOP from 2016 to 2018 is especially interesting. Trump is probably more relatable to non-whites than Ted Cruz, John Kasich, or Jeb Bush are, despite the latter’s Mexican wife.
On the other hand, maybe I have it backwards. Perhaps the large share of Trump-to-Democrat whites are union member type Democrats who took a chance on Trump and then moved back home in response to a corporate tax cut being Trump’s biggest first term accomplishment. And perhaps a large share of the Clinton-to-GOP non-whites are small business non-traditional Republicans turned off by Trump’s rhetorically hard-line immigration stance but ready to back their Chamber of Commerce local Republican representative.
CCES18 variables used: CC18_317(1-2), CC18_412(1-2), RACE


vdare--2020-09-01--Establishment Senator Rick Scott Dooms Indian Green Card Giveaway Bill

The infamous Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act ( S. 386 ) may finally be dead—for 2020 , at least .
Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced his firm opposition to the bill that would scrap visa country caps Monday .
Scott previously held up the bill in early August , which made him the target of unhinged attacks from the Indian lobby .
In an op-ed for the Miami Herald , the Florida senator explained he opposed the bill primarily because it would hurt “ American workers , highly skilled immigrants , workers from Latin America and Europe , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industries.
” [ Immigration overhaul proposal could hurt Florida ’ s economy , by Rick Scott , Miami Herald , August 31 , 2020 ] .
He also attacked the bill ’ s proponents for wanting to pass it without a proper vote .
Scott ’ s concern with the bill ’ s negative impact on Latin American immigration may have proven the deciding factor , but his opposition ultimately benefits American workers the most .
S. 386 would allow Indians to dominate our immigration system .
If it passed , over 90 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Indians over the next 10 years .
Pro-American worker advocates praised Scott for his opposition and said this move likely kills the bill .
“ That ’ s a very solid ‘ No ’ on S.386 … It will be a cold day in a place beneath our feet when he will change his mind , ” Kevin Lynn , founder of U.S. Tech Workers , told Breitbart [ Rick Scott Torpedoes Mike Lee ’ s S.386 H-1B Outsourcing Bill , by Neil Munro , Breitbart , August 31 , 2020 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killing No came from an establishmentarian like Scott rather than one of the aspirational populists in the Senate .
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton supported the bill , Georgia Sen. David Perdue briefly blocked the bill before backing it , and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz never said a word about it .
Rick Scott bested them all , shockingly enough .
We ’ ll have to see if Scott keeps up this pro-worker attitude .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: Indian Green Card Giveaway Bill Hits New Snag, Fortunately
The infamous Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (S. 386) may finally be dead—for 2020, at least.
Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced his firm opposition to the bill that would scrap visa country caps Monday. Scott previously held up the bill in early August, which made him the target of unhinged attacks from the Indian lobby. In an op-ed for the Miami Herald, the Florida senator explained he opposed the bill primarily because it would hurt “American workers, highly skilled immigrants, workers from Latin America and Europe, as well as Florida’s most important industries” [Immigration overhaul proposal could hurt Florida’s economy, by Rick Scott, Miami Herald, August 31, 2020].
He also attacked the bill’s proponents for wanting to pass it without a proper vote.
Right now the United States Senate is considering a massive overhaul to our nation’s immigration system. And, what is shocking is that it could pass without even a single vote in the United States Senate. You read that correctly: a major change to our immigration system is being considered under “unanimous consent” in the U.S. Senate, which means this bill could pass without a vote ever occurring.
Scott’s concern with the bill’s negative impact on Latin American immigration may have proven the deciding factor, but his opposition ultimately benefits American workers the most. S. 386 would allow Indians to dominate our immigration system. If it passed, over 90 percent of employment-based professional visas would go to Indians over the next 10 years.
Pro-American worker advocates praised Scott for his opposition and said this move likely kills the bill. “That’s a very solid ‘No’ on S.386 … It will be a cold day in a place beneath our feet when he will change his mind,” Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, told Breitbart [Rick Scott Torpedoes Mike Lee’s S.386 H-1B Outsourcing Bill, by Neil Munro, Breitbart, August 31, 2020].
It’s surprising that the killing No came from an establishmentarian like Scott rather than one of the aspirational populists in the Senate. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton supported the bill, Georgia Sen. David Perdue briefly blocked the bill before backing it, and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz never said a word about it. Rick Scott bested them all, shockingly enough.
We’ll have to see if Scott keeps up this pro-worker attitude.


vdare--2020-09-01--His Name Is Joseph Roland/Her Name Is Jossline Roland: Married White Couple With Five Children Murde

His Name Is Joseph Roland/Her Name Is Jossline Roland: Married White Couple With Five Children Murdered In Car Scam "Gone Wrong" By Black Teenager

It ’ s called a boilerplate for a reason .
There ’ s no use in reinventing the wheel now .
The United States of America is a big country , with more than 330 million people .
Why should the death of a black male such as George Floyd or a Jacob Blake become a casus belli for a purported war on a society riddled with systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism , when the murder of two white people by a black male is greeted by extreme silence by this same society ?
If America truly was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism ( as we are constantly told by those in total control of corporate media/public corporations/academia/and professional sports franchises ) , then why is the story of Laura Anderson and Charles Wall not dominating the news cycle and ushering in emergency legislation to castigate all black people for their callous murder ?
Because if America was truly awash with systemic racism and implicit bias , how they died and who murdered them would be the only story we ’ d hear/read about .
But that few will ever read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them is a reminder of the power of black privilege in America .
His name is Joseph Roland .
Her Name is Jossline Roland .
They were a white couple , with five children .
They are dead , murdered in a car scam `` gone wrong '' by a black teenager .
A murdered Aurora couple was trying to buy a used car online when they were killed , police paperwork obtained by FOX31 indicates .
Jossline Roland , 40 , and Joseph Roland , 39 were killed on Aug. 14 just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Police said they had met up with 18-year-old Kyree Brown to purchase a vehicle listed on LetGo , an online sales app .
When interviewing Brown , he allegedly admitted to stealing the car then taking pictures and posting it for sale online using a fake name .
After meeting the Rolands , Brown allegedly said that he had brought the wrong ownership title and asked them to follow him to his home .
When they arrived at East Cornell Circle address , Brown allegedly got out of his car , pointed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money they had agreed to buy the car with .
Brown said that at this point , Joseph Roland grabbed his arm and the vehicle began moving .
This is when Brown allegedly admitted to police that he intentionally shot Joseph and accidentally shot Jossline .
Police say while the vehicle was moving , Brown reached in and grabbed about $ 3,000 off the dashboard before running back to the stolen car and driving away .
Police say Brown then drove the stolen car to an area near Havana Street and East Colfax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fire .
His name is Joseph Roland .
Her Name is Jossline Roland .
Were we a society fueled by white privilege , you ’ d be encountering these two names wherever you went .
Instead , all you read/hear about are the names George Floyd and Jacob Blake .

It’s called a boilerplate for a reason. There’s no use in reinventing the wheel now.
The United States of America is a big country, with more than 330 million people.
Why should the death of a black male such as George Floyd or a Jacob Blake become a casus belli for a purported war on a society riddled with systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism, when the murder of two white people by a black male is greeted by extreme silence by this same society?
If America truly was a nation fueled by the evils of systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism (as we are constantly told by those in total control of corporate media/public corporations/academia/and professional sports franchises), then why is the story of Laura Anderson and Charles Wall not dominating the news cycle and ushering in emergency legislation to castigate all black people for their callous murder?
Because if America was truly awash with systemic racism and implicit bias, how they died and who murdered them would be the only story we’d hear/read about.
But that few will ever read about how they died and who murdered them is a reminder of the power of black privilege in America.
His name is Joseph Roland. Her Name is Jossline Roland. They were a white couple, with five children. They are dead, murdered in a car scam "gone wrong" by a black teenager.
Police: Man killed Aurora couple during robbery, car scam gone wrong, KDVR.com, August 31, 2020 A murdered Aurora couple was trying to buy a used car online when they were killed, police paperwork obtained by FOX31 indicates. Jossline Roland, 40, and Joseph Roland, 39 were killed on Aug. 14 just before midnight on East Cornell Circle. Police said they had met up with 18-year-old Kyree Brown to purchase a vehicle listed on LetGo, an online sales app. When interviewing Brown, he allegedly admitted to stealing the car then taking pictures and posting it for sale online using a fake name. After meeting the Rolands, Brown allegedly said that he had brought the wrong ownership title and asked them to follow him to his home. When they arrived at East Cornell Circle address, Brown allegedly got out of his car, pointed a gun at the Rolands, demanded the money they had agreed to buy the car with. Brown said that at this point, Joseph Roland grabbed his arm and the vehicle began moving. This is when Brown allegedly admitted to police that he intentionally shot Joseph and accidentally shot Jossline. Police say while the vehicle was moving, Brown reached in and grabbed about $3,000 off the dashboard before running back to the stolen car and driving away. Police say Brown then drove the stolen car to an area near Havana Street and East Colfax Avenue where he set the car on fire.
His name is Joseph Roland. Her Name is Jossline Roland. Were we a society fueled by white privilege, you’d be encountering these two names wherever you went. Instead, all you read/hear about are the names George Floyd and Jacob Blake.
Black-Run America (BRA) indeed.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-01--Biden: You Gotta Nice Country Here, Americans. It Would be a Shame if Something Happened to It

As others have said , Biden comes across here like a gangster working a protection racket on a speakeasy .
After all , the vast majority of politics-influenced violence in the U.S. since Memorial Day has been committed by people who are anti-Trump .
And because Biden is the official/nominal leader of anti-Trump forces , his threatening Four More Years of pillage , arson , and funeral shoot-ups in case he loses the election under the Constitution is pretty bad .
On the other hand , Biden could take steps in September to reassure law-abiding voters that he would use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s not at all hard to believe that , deep down , Joe prefers law and order to what is going on now .
For example , right now he might use his person-to-person political skills to get the mayor of Portland to shut down the anarchy .
That would be a positive step toward convincing voters he is on the side of rule of law rather than mob mayhem .
But … the problem with that kind of strategy is that would make it clear the problem this summer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic media personalities have been saying : • There is no rioting .
• The rioting is caused by Trump supporters .
• You racist white people deserve all the rioting .
And if Biden temporarily strong-arms the next generation of Democratic office-holders into going along with Joe … well , that would speak well of Biden personally .
But it may not reassure enough voters into voting for a 77-year-old candidate whose worldview is increasingly seen as out of date in the Democratic Party .

Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected? — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 31, 2020
As others have said, Biden comes across here like a gangster working a protection racket on a speakeasy.
After all, the vast majority of politics-influenced violence in the U.S. since Memorial Day has been committed by people who are anti-Trump. And because Biden is the official/nominal leader of anti-Trump forces, his threatening Four More Years of pillage, arson, and funeral shoot-ups in case he loses the election under the Constitution is pretty bad.
On the other hand, Biden could take steps in September to reassure law-abiding voters that he would use the Presidency to uphold law and order. It’s not at all hard to believe that, deep down, Joe prefers law and order to what is going on now.
For example, right now he might use his person-to-person political skills to get the mayor of Portland to shut down the anarchy. That would be a positive step toward convincing voters he is on the side of rule of law rather than mob mayhem.
But … the problem with that kind of strategy is that would make it clear the problem this summer has been Democratic politicians. Lots of Democratic media personalities have been saying:
There is no rioting.
The rioting is caused by Trump supporters.
You racist white people deserve all the rioting.
And if Biden temporarily strong-arms the next generation of Democratic office-holders into going along with Joe … well, that would speak well of Biden personally. But it may not reassure enough voters into voting for a 77-year-old candidate whose worldview is increasingly seen as out of date in the Democratic Party.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-01--NEW YORK TIMES Lashes Out At Little KENOSHA NEWS For Not Spinning The Peaceful Protests Hard Enough

On the New York Times front page : They just can ’ t drop the Peaceful Protest cliche , can they ?
A journalist resigned on Saturday from his job at The Kenosha News after objecting to the headline of an article that chronicled a rally in support of Jacob Blake , a Black man who was shot seven times in the back by a white Kenosha police officer .
Daniel J. Thompson , a digital editor who said he was the only full-time Black staff member at the paper , which covers southeastern Wisconsin , said the headline did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gave a false impression of the rally itself , which he attended .
The headline , which appeared on the Kenosha News website on Saturday , highlighted a remark from one rally participant : “ Kenosha speaker : ‘ If you kill one of us , it ’ s time for us to kill one of yours.
’ ” The online version of the article included a 59-second video showing the person who spoke those words , a Black man who was not identified by name .
… The rally , billed as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days after Kyle Rittenhouse , a 17-year-old from Illinois , was charged with homicide in the killings of two protesters during earlier demonstrations in Kenosha .

On the New York Times front page:
They just can’t drop the Peaceful Protest cliche, can they?
By Marc Tracy
Aug. 31, 2020, 6:13 p.m. ET
A journalist resigned on Saturday from his job at The Kenosha News after objecting to the headline of an article that chronicled a rally in support of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot seven times in the back by a white Kenosha police officer.
Daniel J. Thompson, a digital editor who said he was the only full-time Black staff member at the paper, which covers southeastern Wisconsin, said the headline did not accurately sum up the article and gave a false impression of the rally itself, which he attended.
The headline, which appeared on the Kenosha News website on Saturday, highlighted a remark from one rally participant: “Kenosha speaker: ‘If you kill one of us, it’s time for us to kill one of yours.’” The online version of the article included a 59-second video showing the person who spoke those words, a Black man who was not identified by name. …
The rally, billed as “Justice for Jacob,” came days after Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois, was charged with homicide in the killings of two protesters during earlier demonstrations in Kenosha.


vdare--2020-09-01--Georgia Cop Fired for Violating America's Newest Constitutional Right: The Right Of Black Criminals

Georgia Cop Fired for Violating America's Newest Constitutional Right: The Right Of Black Criminals Not To Be Arrested If They Don't Feel Like It

Officer Is Fired After TikTok Videos Show His Arrest of Black Woman The officer “ did not meet our core values ” in the way he acted , the police department in Gwinnett County , Ga. , said .
… When Officer Oxford arrived , he said he was told that a bottle had been thrown at a car , according to a police report .
… When Officer Oxford got to the house , he saw a woman who matched the description of the person in the surveillance footage who picked up the bottle before the police arrived , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to her but could not because Ms. Smith and others were yelling at him , the report said .
“ I ’ m not going anywhere , ” Ms. Smith tells the officer in one of several videos posted on TikTok .
Mr. Oxford told her she could go to jail for obstructing his investigation .
In one of the videos , Ms. Smith responded : “ It doesn ’ t matter .
You ’ re on our property .
We did not call you .
I ’ m not going anywhere.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was under arrest , pulled at her and used a Taser as she fought being handcuffed .
Ms. Smith fell to the ground onto a patch of bushes near the porch where she had been standing , the report said .
In a second video , Ms. Smith could be heard saying , “ Call the police , Momma.
” Officer Oxford , standing over her , attempts to handcuff one of her wrists .
“ Don ’ t touch me , ” Ms. Smith says .
She waves her arm away from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to handcuff her .
Onlookers are heard yelling for him to stop .
“ You ’ re on her neck , ” a person off camera says .
“ Do you not understand what you ’ re doing ?
” Officer Oxford tells Ms. Smith to stop resisting .
In a third video , Ms. Smith is sitting upright and struggling with Officer Oxford who says “ Give me your hands ” several times .
Toward the end of a video , another white officer arrives and helps to handcuff Ms. Smith .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ department did say there was probable cause to arrest Ms. Smith for obstruction of a law enforcement officer and that his use of force was within the department ’ s policy .

From the NYT news section:
Officer Is Fired After TikTok Videos Show His Arrest of Black Woman
The officer “did not meet our core values” in the way he acted, the police department in Gwinnett County, Ga., said.
By Christina Morales
Published Aug. 23, 2020
… When Officer Oxford arrived, he said he was told that a bottle had been thrown at a car, according to a police report.
… When Officer Oxford got to the house, he saw a woman who matched the description of the person in the surveillance footage who picked up the bottle before the police arrived, he wrote. He attempted to speak to her but could not because Ms. Smith and others were yelling at him, the report said.
“I’m not going anywhere,” Ms. Smith tells the officer in one of several videos posted on TikTok.
Mr. Oxford told her she could go to jail for obstructing his investigation. In one of the videos, Ms. Smith responded: “It doesn’t matter. You’re on our property. We did not call you. I’m not going anywhere.” …
The officer told Ms. Smith she was under arrest, pulled at her and used a Taser as she fought being handcuffed. Ms. Smith fell to the ground onto a patch of bushes near the porch where she had been standing, the report said.
In a second video, Ms. Smith could be heard saying, “Call the police, Momma.” Officer Oxford, standing over her, attempts to handcuff one of her wrists.
“Don’t touch me,” Ms. Smith says. She waves her arm away from Officer Oxford, who continues his effort to handcuff her. Onlookers are heard yelling for him to stop.
“You’re on her neck,” a person off camera says. “Do you not understand what you’re doing?” Officer Oxford tells Ms. Smith to stop resisting.
In a third video, Ms. Smith is sitting upright and struggling with Officer Oxford who says “Give me your hands” several times.
Toward the end of a video, another white officer arrives and helps to handcuff Ms. Smith.
Although Officer Oxford was fired, the department did say there was probable cause to arrest Ms. Smith for obstruction of a law enforcement officer and that his use of force was within the department’s policy.


vdare--2020-09-01--Congrats to Nick Kristof for Being Out of Touch Above the Timberline Since Memorial Day

Using a borrowed phone , NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof tweets from the top of Mt .
Whitney after completing backpacking @ @ @ @ @ Trail .
Actually , a study found that two-thirds of the attacks in 2019 , @ @ @ @ @ first five months of this year , were committed by right-wing extremists .
There is @ @ @ @ @ , but rightist violence is FAR more common .
Details here : https : //t.co/MKGphVRjq6 @ @ @ @ @ Kristof ( @ NickKristof ) August 30 , 2020 Kristof ’ s epic journey has @ @ @ @ @ with civilization since Memorial Day .
By the way , has anything happened after “ @ @ @ @ @ this year ” since I left on Memorial Day ?

Using a borrowed phone, NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof tweets from the top of Mt. Whitney after completing backpacking the 2000 mile Pacific Crest Trail.
Actually, a study found that two-thirds of the attacks in 2019, and 90 percent in the first five months of this year, were committed by right-wing extremists. There is a problem with leftist violence, but rightist violence is FAR more common. Details here: https://t.co/MKGphVRjq6 https://t.co/epVDwyet0E — Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) August 30, 2020
Kristof’s epic journey has kept him out of touch with civilization since Memorial Day.
Nick adds:
By the way, has anything happened after “the first five months of this year” since I left on Memorial Day?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-01--Here We Go Again ... Retail Mourning at a Shoe Store in West Hollywood

From an LA Times article earlier this year of Cool Kicks : Those are some of the reasons why more and more sneaker collectors are cashing out the shoes they have lovingly amassed over the last decade or so .
Most were facing sudden expenses that threatened to throw their finances into disarray because student loans , rent payments , avocado toast and the like had pushed them into a cash-flow corner .
… CoolKicks , which opened on Melrose Avenue in 2016 , has handled a raft of emergency sneaker collection sales , ending 2019 with $ 9 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from $ 6.9 million in 2018 , said Adeel Shams , 28 , who founded and owns the business with friends Davon Artis , 28 , and Bereket Abraham , 33 .
“ I ’ ve literally heard every story in the book , ” Shams said .
“ First reason for sure is bills , things like rent money .
Second would be more personal reasons , someone ’ s brother or sister is in jail and they needed bail money .
Another I ’ ve heard is emergency hospital bills .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that their girlfriend is pregnant.
” The sneakerhead population has also begun to age out in terms of interest , Shams said .
“ There are collectors who have been doing this for over a decade , and they have come to a point where they think there is oversaturation and younger generations taking over , ” Shams said .
“ The OGs , as we call them , they are at the age now where they are selling and just putting the money into something different.
” Shams is expecting revenue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He and his partners have plans to open five to 10 more stores in major cities , including New York , Miami and Las Vegas , in the next three to five years .
CoolKicks encourages sneakerheads to bring in their collections directly to the store .
But Shams will also do the occasional home visit , and he ’ s learned with almost geometric precision how to stuff dozens of shoe boxes into the relatively tight confines of his Maserati Ghibli , “ leaving me just enough room to maneuver my steering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ types of sales , sometimes involving various hip-hop stars and sneaker influencers , are regularly chronicled on the brand ’ s popular YouTube channel and social media platforms .
“ We were chasing a dream and it was a huge risk , ” Shams said .
“ It ’ s ended up becoming a big success for us .
”

From an LA Times article earlier this year of Cool Kicks:
A no-savings generation is cashing in sneaker collections
By RONALD D. WHITE
MARCH 10, 2020 3 AM
A wedding. Transmission repair. Bail money.
Those are some of the reasons why more and more sneaker collectors are cashing out the shoes they have lovingly amassed over the last decade or so.
Most were facing sudden expenses that threatened to throw their finances into disarray because student loans, rent payments, avocado toast and the like had pushed them into a cash-flow corner. …
CoolKicks, which opened on Melrose Avenue in 2016, has handled a raft of emergency sneaker collection sales, ending 2019 with $9 million in revenue, up about 30% from $6.9 million in 2018, said Adeel Shams, 28, who founded and owns the business with friends Davon Artis, 28, and Bereket Abraham, 33.
“I’ve literally heard every story in the book,” Shams said. “First reason for sure is bills, things like rent money. Second would be more personal reasons, someone’s brother or sister is in jail and they needed bail money. Another I’ve heard is emergency hospital bills. Another common one I have heard lately is that their girlfriend is pregnant.”
The sneakerhead population has also begun to age out in terms of interest, Shams said.
“There are collectors who have been doing this for over a decade, and they have come to a point where they think there is oversaturation and younger generations taking over,” Shams said. “The OGs, as we call them, they are at the age now where they are selling and just putting the money into something different.”
Shams is expecting revenue of $15 million this year. He and his partners have plans to open five to 10 more stores in major cities, including New York, Miami and Las Vegas, in the next three to five years.
CoolKicks encourages sneakerheads to bring in their collections directly to the store. But Shams will also do the occasional home visit, and he’s learned with almost geometric precision how to stuff dozens of shoe boxes into the relatively tight confines of his Maserati Ghibli, “leaving me just enough room to maneuver my steering wheel,” he quipped.
Both types of sales, sometimes involving various hip-hop stars and sneaker influencers, are regularly chronicled on the brand’s popular YouTube channel and social media platforms.
“We were chasing a dream and it was a huge risk,” Shams said. “It’s ended up becoming a big success for us.”


vdare--2020-09-01--Tariq Nasheed Calls Cop White Hispanic Race Soldier

I dunno .
When I think “ white Hispanic , ” I think : Right , Jorge Ramos of Univision @ @ @ @ @ of CNN .
Nearly identical !
By the way , please note that Tariq Nasheed @ @ @ @ @ Establishment .
He ’ s an entrepreneur who has carved out his own quite idiosyncratic @ @ @ @ @ started off by writing How To books on How To Be a Pimp ) .
@ @ @ @ @ pernicious , but he is his own man .

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I dunno. When I think “white Hispanic,” I think:
Right, Jorge Ramos of Univision, left, Anderson Cooper of CNN. Nearly identical!
By the way, please note that Tariq Nasheed is not representative of The Establishment. He’s an entrepreneur who has carved out his own quite idiosyncratic career (e.g., he started off by writing How To books on How To Be a Pimp). I think he’s pernicious, but he is his own man.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-31--Her Name Is Laura Ashley Anderson. His Name Is Charles Nicholas Wall: White Step-Father/Daughter Exe

Her Name Is Laura Ashley Anderson. His Name Is Charles Nicholas Wall: White Step-Father/Daughter Executed by Black Male Over Fender Bender

The United States of America is a big country , with more than 330 million people .
Why should the death of a black male such as George Floyd or a Jacob Blake become a casus belli for a war on a society riddled with purported systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism , when the murder of two white people by a black male is greeted by extreme silence by this same society ?
If America truly is a nation fueled by the evils of systemic racism/white privilege/white supremacy/implicit bias/institutional racism ( as we are constantly told by those in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sports franchises ) , then why is the story of Laura Anderson and Charles Wall not dominating the news cycle and ushering in emergency legislation to castigate all black people for their callous murder ?
Because if America were truly awash with systemic racism and implicit bias , how they died and who murdered them would be the only story we ’ d hear/read about .
That few will never read about how they died and who murdered them is a reminder of the power of black privilege in America .
Laura Ashley @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wall , 45 , were killed outside a home in Georgetown , S.C. , which was recently purchased by Anderson , where she expected to begin her new adult life .
Ty Sheem Walters III , 23 , allegedly rear-ended Wall as he turned into the driveway of the home near the intersection of Indian Hut Road and Highmarket Street , just off of U.S. 521 , around 5 p.m. , according to the Georgetown County Sheriff ’ s Office .
He then allegedly got out of the vehicle and shot Wall , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reported .
“ I ’ m having to bury one of my children and my husband .
It ’ s such a freak thing .
I don ’ t know why this would happen .
I just don ’ t understand , ” Kimberly Wall , Anderson ’ s mother and Wall ’ s wife , told WMBF .
“ It ’ s just devastating .
I don ’ t know how we ’ re going to go forward.
” Anderson was in the front yard waiting for Wall to arrive to drop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ After just moving in , she was selling an old set of bunk beds online and had realized she was locked out when she came to meet the potential buyer outside her house , Lynn Lambert , a close friend of the family , told WPDE .
“ I don ’ t understand how a simple fender bender they called it could turn into double murder and an attempted murder , ” Lambert said .
“ Why ?
I honestly didn ’ t think it was real .
Who does this ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shooting happened just three miles from where she lives and that Walters took away two of her “ best friends.
” The judge denied bail for Walters , who is charged with two counts of murder , one count of attempted murder and the illegal possession of a firearm .
Anderson “ wanted to be a teacher like her momma .
She was getting ready to start school .
She was getting everything in order .
Everything was starting to fall in place for her , ” Lambert said .
“ She won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she won ’ t get to have children.
” Law enforcement arrived at the scene to find one victim had already been taken to the hospital , a second was being treated by first responders , and a third was walking around dazed and confused with a gunshot wound to his left wrist , WMBF reported , citing the incident report .
Wall was shot at least twice in the head and torso .
Anderson was shot at least once in the head .
Police established a perimeter before setting out to look @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down Kent Road .
Walters was spotted walking on Georgetown Highway toward Andrews , and took off running through the woods when approached by officers .
After a brief foot pursuit by officers and a police K-9 unit , Walters was taken into custody around 6:30 p.m. , Georgetown Times ’ Post and Courier reported .
Her Name is Laura Ashley Anderson/ His Name is Charles Nicholas Wall .
Were we a society fueled by white privilege , you ’ d be encountering these two names wherever you went .
Instead , all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Floyd and Jacob Blake .


vdare--2020-08-31--Who Should Be Biden's Sister Souljah?

Who Should Be Biden's Sister Souljah?