vdare--2020-03-27--Pandemic Anxiety, The Jobpocalypse, And The Cuomo Menace, Etc.

09m19s The Jobpocalypse .
( Why not an immigration moratorium now ? )
13m07s Viruses round the world .
( @ @ @ @ @ ) 18m59s The Cuomo menace .
( We have been warned . )
26m08s Still @ @ @ @ @ ( Pull us out , Mr President ! )

01m55s Pandemic anxiety, blue v. red. (Tutsis more worried than Hutus.)
09m19s The Jobpocalypse. (Why not an immigration moratorium now?)
13m07s Viruses round the world. (Turkmenistan leads the way.)
18m59s The Cuomo menace. (We have been warned.)
26m08s Still dickering with the Afghans. (Pull us out, Mr President!)
29m17s Swiss conundrum. (Stuff we don't understand about COVID-19.)
30m44s Bamboozling Prince Harry. (Pathological domestication strikes again.)
32m47s Signoff. (With Gracie.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your equivocally genial host John Derbyshire, reporting to you from my quarantine station here in the wild back-country of Long Island.
Not much doubt about what's been leading the news stories this past week. As with other deeply, scientifically controversial issues like global warming, Radio Derb assumes a position of lofty detachment.
If you want to get down in the weeds with the science here, and are intellectually equipped to do so, the internet offers a shelf-full of 80-page reports by credentialed experts arguing the details; accompanied, not infrequently, by a different 80-page report by a different credentialed expert arguing the opposite thing.
Good luck to them all, and may the best man win. I restrict myself to commenting on the social and political consequences of whatever it is we are going through; and also to reminders that, pandemic aside, there is other important or comment-worthy stuff going on in the world.
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02—Pandemic anxiety, blue v. red. A pose of lofty detachment is always, of course, to some degree bogus—see index references to "United States Supreme Court." We all have our inclinations and tendencies, deriving ultimately, I suppose, from genetic predispositions.
If you ask a non-expert—a person whose general outlook you know—for an opinion about this current pandemic, be ready not to be surprised by his answer. I was, for example, deeply unsurprised to see that Lady Ann published a fine spirited skeptical piece on March 25th here at VDARE.com, sample:
We'll get no BREAKING NEWS alerts for the regular flu deaths (so far this season, more than 23,000, compared to 533 from the coronavirus).
Nor for the more than 3,000 people who die every day of heart disease or cancer. No alerts for the hundreds who die each day from car accidents, illegal aliens and suicide.
Only coronavirus deaths are considered newsworthy.
End quote.
And in fact the opinion cut about the pandemic—red v. blue, gentry v. proles, cloud people v. dirt people, Tutsis v. Hutus—is as plain as it can be. The best evidence of this is a graph produced by the polling company Civiqs, reproduced in the March 21st New York Times.
A podcast is of course the worst possible place to try to explain a graph, but this one isn't too hard to fathom.
The graph shows the proportions of people, broken out separately by Democrat and Republican, who are, quote, "extremely concerned," end quote, about a coronavirus outbreak. It shows the proportions for each state, from late February through to late March.
So there are 100 lines on this graph: fifty for Democrats, fifty for Republicans, one line per state in each case.
All the lines trend upwards, with both Tutsis and Hutus getting more "extremely concerned" through the month. What jumps out at you, though, is that the fifty red lines, for Republicans in the fifty states, are bunched down in the five-to-fifteen-percent zone; while the fifty blue lines, for Democrats, occupy a totally separate space up in the twenty-to-sixty-percent zone. Democrats are consistently, in every state, way more worried than Republicans.
The most worried state for both Democrats and Republicans, was Washington State: 62 percent of Democrats on March 21st, 20 percent of Republicans. I'm amazed the pollsters could find any Republicans up there in the Tutsi heartlands of the Northwest. The least worried Democrats were in Minnesota, 42 percent; the least worried Republicans in Arkansas, eight percent.
I'll confess that my own temperamental leaning is towards skepticism. After all these years of observing and commenting on Western society, it's hard not to see the news as just a succession of hysterias.
We live in a hysterical age, the more so since social media came up. When suddenly something new is filling the airwaves—MeToo, Russian Collusion, Black Lives Matter—my default response is: "Oh, here's the latest hysteria. Who's whipping up this one?" The answer in every case, of course, being the Tutsi power structure.
However, I try at the same time to be a good empiricist, holding firmly to the belief that some things are true even though the enemy says they are true. I live just thirty miles from Elmhurst Hospital in New York City, tagged on Wednesday this week by the city hospitals administration as, quote, "the center of the crisis." That was after thirteen people died there in a 24-hour period. We're getting harrowing reports from medical staff in the city.
As best I can judge from the mess of data, and making due allowance for the level of hysteria that underlies all news reporting nowadays, we are looking at something unusually nasty here, and the extreme social distancing being urged on us is justified.
It'll be a whole lot more justified if we can localize and refine it; but for that we need a better quality of data than we've had so far. The people in charge seem to understand this; so after a couple more weeks of one-size-fits-all lockdown, we'll move to something more targeted and loose. I hope.
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03—The Jobpocalypse. Sharing top billing as Graph of the Week with that one about anxiety is the one published Thursday out of the U.S. Department of Labor showing week-by-week unemployment claims.
This one trundles along—some ups, some downs—in the zone between a quarter and half a million, breaking through the half million number briefly in the 2008-2009 recession, then gently declining through the late-Obama and Trump years to around the quarter-million mark.
Then last week, a colossal spike—3.28 million claims, more than four times higher than ever before recorded.
That's an economic catastrophe for millions of Americans. The federal government is printing money to help us out, but that can only be a one-off.
With these sensational levels of unemployment, an immigration moratorium is essential. I'm surprised politicians all over aren't calling for it. Does immigration romanticism really have such a stranglehold on the national psyche? Is donor cash from the cheap-labor lobbies really driving all our national policy-making?
"That's not Who We Are!" you'll hear if you propose a moratorium. Really? I hope that Who We Are is, we are a nation whose rulers take care of their own citizens first. With three million Americans signing on to the dole in one week, it is inexcusable to be bringing in guest workers from abroad. It is just as inexcusable to be settling bogus "refugees" and admitting bogus "asylum seekers" with court dates they won't show up for.
While we're turning off the guest-worker, chain-migration, and refugee-resettlement spigots, in fact, we should be doing what we can to make sure that whatever jobs become available go to our own people—American citizens—not to foreign scofflaws. Let's have universal compulsory E-verify.
Every politician—every congresscritter and federal officer—brought up on a TV program to talk about the pandemic should be asked: With millions of Americans suddenly unemployed, what is the case for bringing in guest workers and visa-lottery winners? What is the case for continuing to tolerate the employment of illegal aliens?
Let's get the bastards on record with this. In an economic crisis, we should be looking after our own people. That's who we are.
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04—Viruses round the world. How's the rest of the world coping? Pretty much the way we are; some better, some worse.
The Southern Hemisphere bears keeping an eye on. There is a general expectation up here that as the weather warms through April, the virus will quiesce, perhaps bouncing back again in the Fall. That's a Northern Hemisphere-supremacist point of view, though. As our hemisphere warms up, the folk down in Argentina, Chile, Australia, South Africa, etc. are cooling off into their fall and winter. The next few weeks should give us a clearer idea about how much this new coronavirus minds the weather.
It looked for a while as though Brazil might offer us a test-bed for total government inaction. Jair Bolsonaro, the president of that country, is an extreme virus skeptic, out there with Lady Ann. On March 20, he called COVID-19, quote, "a little flu."
Brazil's politicians and health officials, though, beg to differ. They seem to be going with the international consensus of quarantines, social distancing, and the rest, in defiance of their president.
(Reading that report on Brazil's response, my attention got snagged on this sentence, quote:
On March 24, Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta announced the government would start to roll out a plan that will distribute 2.3 million testing kits to states across Brazil. The Ministry also plans to import over 1 million rapid tests from the United States in April.
End quote.
So, the U.S.A. is sufficiently over-supplied with testing kits we can export a million of them to Brazil next month. Good to know.)
What Radio Derb listeners really want to know, of course, is how they are coping in Turkmenistan.
I can report that Radio Derb's good friend and supporter President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of that country has been characteristically ingenious. Along with the usual array of measures—travel restrictions, lockdowns, etc.—President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has taken a leaf from the book of our own Social Justice Warriors.
It is an article of faith with Western progressives that where some fact about the world is inconvenient to their machinations or offensive to their tender sensibilities—facts about black crime, for example, or sex differences—the authorities should simply suppress all public discussion of those facts.
That has been a feature of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's uniquely bold approach to the coronavirus pandemic. Quote from Radio Free Europe's Turkmen service, edited quote:
The authorities in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat have started arresting people for discussing the COVID-19 coronavirus in public … Plainclothes informants of the security services are being used to eavesdrop on people's conversations in the streets.
Special plainclothes individuals are listening to conversations in queues, at bus stops and on public transport. No one knows what happens to those who are arrested … It is not a matter of the dissemination of false information in order to spread panic, as is punishable in other countries in the region … people can be arrested for any kind of conversation on the topic.
End quote.
As I said, a bold approach by Turkmenistan, right out of the CultMarx playbook. If you can't talk about it, you can't think about it. You can enjoy peace of mind!
Long live the subtle and ingenious President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov! Long live the noble people of Turkmenistan!
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05—The Cuomo menace. In case you've forgotten, we have an election for our own Presidency coming up in November. How's the pandemic playing into that?
So far, pretty well for President Trump. In a Gallup poll published Tuesday, sixty percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing in handling the crisis. On approval of the job Trump's doing as President overall, 49 percent approve—as high as the number has ever been.
Meanwhile poor old Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is floundering. His recent TV appearances have been disasters. True, it's hard to compete when the President is coming on all boss-man-in-charge during a national crisis, but Joe doesn't even seem to be trying. As Jay Cost opined in the New York Post today, quote:
Trump didn't make Biden look like a fool this week. Biden did that to himself, all by himself.
The logical thing for the Democrats to do at this point would be to bend all their efforts to dumping Joe in favor of someone who can put a verb in a sentence. Bernie Sanders is the name that comes to mind; but the Democratic Party establishment hates him, and nobody thinks he's nationally electable.
Have the Democrats got anybody else? Well, there's … [Clip: Hillary cackle] … but I don't think so.
Michelle Obama has a little cheering section, and generally heads up the Most Admired Woman poll. That's just gestural, though, and Michelle heads up the poll with only ten percent of the write-in vote. I doubt anyone at the DNC thinks she's a credible candidate.
This past few days, however, there's been talk of a serious contender who might, if events break his way at the Democratic Convention, whenever it happens, walk off with the nomination. That's New York State governor Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo's been getting a lot of air time, holding daily televised press conferences, and coming across as a forceful, can-do executive. He's even been nice about President Trump, praising the President for being, quote, "very creative and very energetic." We are told by insiders that Trump appreciates Cuomo for that. Bipartisanship in a crisis!
Trump needs to tread carefully with Cuomo. If he comes over as petty and personal—which he all too often does—while Cuomo is posing as above the fray, national interest at heart, generously intent on just solving the problems, that's not a good contrast.
So what are Cuomo's chances for the nomination? "Improbable but not impossible," says the Daily Caller. The math of delegate counts, the movements of Bernie Sanders, events between now and the convention … all sorts of things could scupper Cuomo. He's in there with a chance, though.
For us National Conservatives a Cuomo Presidency of course doesn't bear thinking about. Cuomo is a ruling-class Tutsi progressive out of central casting. Open borders? Check. Sanctuary jurisdictions? Check. Gun control? Check. Open the jails? Check. Climate change fanaticism? Check. We don't know Cuomo's views on missionary wars, but we can expect the worst.
There are some negatives in the background that might derail Cuomo. The biggest one is, that he is widely disliked by everyone who has to work with him. That, at any rate, is what we New Yorkers hear on the Albany grapevine. His political talents are considerable, but not always sufficient to counter the personal antipathies. That may be why Cuomo didn't line up with the other twenty Democrats jostling for the Presidential nomination last fall. Political talents aside, the guy is an obnoxious jerk.
We famously got a glimpse of that side of Cuomo six years ago, when some Republicans in the state legislature opposed the governor's very strict gun-control measure. Quote from him:
Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are.
End quote.
Presumably, then, if Andrew Cuomo gets elected President, anti-abortion activists, Second Amendment supporters, and believers in the institution of marriage as it was universally understood until five years ago, will have no place in the U.S.A.
We have been warned.
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06—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: I'd originally planned to do a full segment on the thesis that, just as the case for a patriotic immigration policy has never been stronger than now, as our unemployment numbers swell, the case for complete withdrawal from our innumerable pointless and expensive foreign military entanglements has likewise never been stronger.
Then I read Pat Buchanan's Thursday column, and saw that Pat has beaten me to it. Far be it from me to compete at length with the master.
It does need repeating, though, and I'll repeat it here in brief: The two great planks of Donald Trump's 2016 platform, the two that drew us National Conservatives to his candidacy and fired up his base, were patriotic immigration reform and repatriation of our troops. This current crisis offers a real opportunity for Trump to begin honoring those campaign promises, assuming he can remember having made them.
There's an opportunity in particular to put an end once and for all to infuriating headlines like this one, from Monday's Guardian. Headline: US to cut $1bn of Afghanistan aid over failure to agree unity government, end headline. The story concerns Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's surprise trip to Kabul in hopes of getting Afghanistan's fractious politicians to unify against the Taliban.
The aid being cut there is a $4.5bn package agreed for 2021. By all means read the details of Pompeo's visit for yourself; my eyes glazed over.
For goodness' sake, Mr President: Cancel that aid, pull out all our troops forthwith, and leave these barbarians to their squabbles, which are of absolutely no import or interest to Americans. Why would you not do this? Why, after three years of dithering, would you not just pull the plug on this useless, worthless, hopeless trashcan of a nation?
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Item: One more on the coronavirus, just as a reminder of how little we yet understand about the darn thing.
As you probably know, Switzerland is divided into cantons, most of which speak either German, French, or Italian. According to a report logged on Twitter—I don't have the source—quote:
So far COVID-19 is more than twice as likely to kill patients in French-speaking Switzerland cantons than in German-speaking cantons, and about three times as likely to kill patients in Italian-speaking cantons than in French ones.
The report might be fiction, I suppose; but it comes with impressive-looking bar charts and maps. Note that it talks about fatality rates, not infection rates, so saying that Italians hug each other more than Germans do, isn't an explanation.
We've a way to go yet understanding this thing.
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Item: Back in November I suggested that the British monarchy would be wise to follow the example of the later Ottoman emperors and keep cadet members of the royal family in close confinement out of public view until their services were required.
They should have listened. Some weeks ago two Russian pranksters somehow got hold of Prince Harry's mobile phone number and placed two calls to him, one on New Year's Eve, the other in late January. They posed as teenage Swedish nuisance Greta Thunberg and her father. The pranksters of course recorded the calls, and two weeks ago posted them on the internet.
Oy oy oy. At one point Harry was tricked into offering to help a fictional island called Chunga-Changa, which the pranksters said was being exploited by mining companies close to President Trump. "Chunga-Changa" is actually the name of a Russian children's song.
The monarchy will probably survive, but my suggestion is still out there. Build an extension to Buckingham Palace—spacious, roomy, comfortable, some nice gardens, lots of servants—and shut them up there sealed off from all outside contact, until one of them is needed to ascend the throne, or be traded off in a dynastic marriage. It worked fine for the Ottomans.
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07—Signoff. That's all I can offer you this week, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry this week's show was shorter than usual; I'll be offering a generalized apology in my March Diary, to be posted on site sometime next week. In the meantime, thank you for listening, and keep your peckers up!
To help you with those peckers, here's Gracie Fields to sing us out.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-03-27--Switzerland's Stockpiles Prevent Panic Shopping

Lots of people on the left in America look to Sweden for examples of smart government policies , but almost nobody in the U.S. of any ideology looks to Switzerland for ideas , even though multilingual Switzerland would seem like a pretty successful country .
From the Financial Times : Swiss keep calm and rest on their months of stockpiles Switzerland has one of the largest strategic reserves of food and medicine in the world Even in the face of a government lockdown , supply chain disruption has been at a minimum … But in the Swiss city of Zurich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been of customers .
As of Thursday evening , Switzerland had 10,714 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 161 deaths .
On a per capita basis , it is the worst-hit state in Europe , reflecting its proximity to Lombardy , northern Italy , the source of the European outbreak .
But even in the face of a Swiss government lockdown , supply chain disruption has been at a minimum .
With between three and six months ’ worth of essential foodstuffs and goods kept in storage within the country ’ s borders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strategic stockpiles in the world .
As of last year , Switzerland , which has a population of 8.5m , kept 63,000 tonnes of sugar , 160,000 tonnes of white flour for bread , 33,700 tonnes of cooking oil ( a fifth of which is for salad dressing and mayonnaise ) , and just under 400,000 tonnes of specialist feed for its dairy industry in reserve .
Already , Swiss authorities have dipped into some medical supplies .
… In November , a huge public outcry put a stop to plans to end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reasoned that its zero calorific value made it “ unessential ” .
Their defeat means the Swiss currently have 15,000 tonnes of coffee beans in storage to see them through the coronavirus pandemic , if imports into the country dried up and existing commercial stocks vanished .
Adequate supply is only one half of the picture .
The government has run regular public information campaigns for decades advising citizens on how to supply their households .
… The Swiss are advised to have nine litres of bottled water per person , enough food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a gas stove , candles and cash .
… Swiss lawmakers had already updated their contingency plans and stockpiling strategy in 2016 , as Bern grew increasingly concerned about the fragility of modern supply chains .
Officials had been alarmed by a 2015 US storm season that saw food and other goods run out quickly .
One striking feature of the Swiss system is the involvement of the private sector .
… There is no central stockpile : instead , goods are kept in reserve in the warehouses of businesses distributed across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the private sector has huge advantages for the government .
Reserves can be released into the supply chain almost instantly , and costs are kept low .
… In some key areas Switzerland has , in common with its neighbours , fallen short .
BWL has already released its entire stock — 168,000 — of respiratory masks .
Even before the coronavirus outbreak , officials knew the stocks would not be enough : the country needs more than four times as many to see it through the next three months .
So Switzerland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contagion by not stockpiling enough masks , but landlocked Switzerland ’ s planning for war or blockade has helped in other areas .
Modern inventory management has probably gotten too lean and mean in recent years to deal well with the unexpected .
Firms like Costco are super efficient about just-in-time logistics compared to how much inventory would have been in the system 30 years ago , but that means we don ’ t have much margin for error .

Lots of people on the left in America look to Sweden for examples of smart government policies, but almost nobody in the U.S. of any ideology looks to Switzerland for ideas, even though multilingual Switzerland would seem like a pretty successful country.
From the Financial Times:
Swiss keep calm and rest on their months of stockpiles
Switzerland has one of the largest strategic reserves of food and medicine in the world Even in the face of a government lockdown, supply chain disruption has been at a minimum Sam Jones in Zurich YESTERDAY … But in the Swiss city of Zurich, the only shortages in supermarkets have been of customers. As of Thursday evening, Switzerland had 10,714 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 161 deaths. On a per capita basis, it is the worst-hit state in Europe, reflecting its proximity to Lombardy, northern Italy, the source of the European outbreak. But even in the face of a Swiss government lockdown, supply chain disruption has been at a minimum. With between three and six months’ worth of essential foodstuffs and goods kept in storage within the country’s borders, Switzerland maintains one of the largest strategic stockpiles in the world. As of last year, Switzerland, which has a population of 8.5m, kept 63,000 tonnes of sugar, 160,000 tonnes of white flour for bread, 33,700 tonnes of cooking oil (a fifth of which is for salad dressing and mayonnaise), and just under 400,000 tonnes of specialist feed for its dairy industry in reserve. Already, Swiss authorities have dipped into some medical supplies. … In November, a huge public outcry put a stop to plans to end the stockpiling of coffee. Government technocrats reasoned that its zero calorific value made it “unessential”. Their defeat means the Swiss currently have 15,000 tonnes of coffee beans in storage to see them through the coronavirus pandemic, if imports into the country dried up and existing commercial stocks vanished.
You can’t win a modern war without caffeine.
Adequate supply is only one half of the picture. The government has run regular public information campaigns for decades advising citizens on how to supply their households. … The Swiss are advised to have nine litres of bottled water per person, enough food to feed someone for a week, a gas stove, candles and cash. … Swiss lawmakers had already updated their contingency plans and stockpiling strategy in 2016, as Bern grew increasingly concerned about the fragility of modern supply chains. Officials had been alarmed by a 2015 US storm season that saw food and other goods run out quickly. One striking feature of the Swiss system is the involvement of the private sector. … There is no central stockpile: instead, goods are kept in reserve in the warehouses of businesses distributed across the country. … The close integration with the private sector has huge advantages for the government. Reserves can be released into the supply chain almost instantly, and costs are kept low. … In some key areas Switzerland has, in common with its neighbours, fallen short. BWL has already released its entire stock — 168,000 — of respiratory masks. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, officials knew the stocks would not be enough: the country needs more than four times as many to see it through the next three months.
So Switzerland did a poor job of planning for contagion by not stockpiling enough masks, but landlocked Switzerland’s planning for war or blockade has helped in other areas.
Modern inventory management has probably gotten too lean and mean in recent years to deal well with the unexpected. Firms like Costco are super efficient about just-in-time logistics compared to how much inventory would have been in the system 30 years ago, but that means we don’t have much margin for error.


vdare--2020-03-27--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: America’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions Moves Against Deadly S

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: America’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions Moves Against Deadly Sanctuary Cities

Originally published here on this day in 2017 .
Attorney General Sessions appeared at the beginning of Sean Spicer ’ s daily press briefing on Monday to speak about the administration ’ s seriousness regarding the withdrawal of federal funds from communities that choose to protect illegal aliens rather than citizens .
Unsurprisingly , Sessions noted that these bad policies have deadly consequences , including the preventable death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by a five-times-deported Mexican .
Sessions ’ Senate career included a recognition of the human cost of immigration anarchy , and crime victims of illegal aliens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hearing .
Kate Steinle was shot dead as she strolled with her father on a San Francisco pier by a habitual illegal alien criminal whom the city had protected from deportation .
In January , President Trump signed an executive order promising to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities .
General Sessions tightened the legal screws today .
Stiffer measures will likely be needed since outliers like San Francisco promise to defend foreign lawbreakers using taxpayer funds .
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is seeking legislation to jail law enforcement officials for refusing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which may be the level of punishment required to restore immigration enforcement throughout America .
Good afternoon .
The Department of Justice has a duty to enforce our nation ’ s laws , including our immigration laws .
Those laws require us to promptly remove aliens when they are convicted of certain crimes .
The vast majority of the American people support this common-sense requirement .
According to one recent poll , 80 percent of Americans believe that cities that arrest illegal immigrants for crimes should be required to turn them over to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and cities have adopted policies designed to frustrate the enforcement of our immigration laws .
This includes refusing to detain known felons under federal detainer requests , or otherwise failing to comply with these laws .
For example , the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a report showing that in a single week , there were more than 200 instances of jurisdictions refusing to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) detainer requests with respect to individuals charged or convicted of a serious crime .
The charges and convictions against these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ run , rape , sex offenses against a child and even murder .
Such policies can not continue .
They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on our streets .
We all remember the tragic case of Kate Steinle , the 32-year-old woman who was shot and killed two years ago in San Francisco as she walked along a pier with her father .
The shooter , Francisco Sanchez , was an illegal immigrant who had already been deported five times and had seven felony convictions .
Just eleven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had released Sanchez from its custody , even though ICE had filed a detainer requesting that he be kept in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up for removal .
Even worse , Sanchez admitted that the only reason he came to San Francisco was because of its sanctuary policies .
A similar story unfolded just last week , when Ever Valles , an illegal immigrant and Mexican national , was charged with murder and robbery of a man at a light rail station .
Valles was released from a Denver jail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ICE had lodged a detainer for his removal .
The American people are justifiably angry .
They know that when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws , our nation is less safe .
Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk – especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators .
DUIs , assaults , burglaries , drug crimes , gang crimes , rapes , crimes against children and murders .
Countless Americans would be alive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not be grieving today – if the policies of these sanctuary jurisdictions were ended .
Not only do these policies endanger the lives of every American ; just last May , the Department of Justice Inspector General found that these policies also violate federal law .
The President has rightly said that this disregard for the law must end .
In his executive order , he stated that it is the policy of the executive branch to ensure that states and cities comply with all federal laws , including our immigration laws .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Attorney General and the Secretary [ of Homeland Security ] .
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shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply ” with the law “ are not eligible to receive Federal grants , except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary.
” Today I am urging all states and local jurisdictions to comply with all federal laws , including 8 U.S.C .
Section 1373 .
Moreover , the Department of Justice will require jurisdictions seeking or applying for Department grants to certify compliance with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these awards .
This policy is entirely consistent with the Department of Justice ’ s Office of Justice Programs ( OJP ) guidance issued last July under the previous administration .
This guidance requires state and local jurisdictions to comply and certify compliance with Section 1373 in order to be eligible for OJP grants .
It also made clear that failure to remedy violations could result in withholding of grants , termination of grants , and disbarment or ineligibility for future grants .
The Department of Justice will also take all lawful steps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jurisdiction that willfully violates Section 1373 .
In the current fiscal year , department ’ s OJP and Community Oriented Policing Services anticipate awarding more than $ 4.1 billion dollars in grants .
I urge our nation ’ s states and cities to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws , and to re-think these policies .
Such policies make their cities and states less safe , and put them at risk of losing valuable federal dollars .
The American people want and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us safe and serves our national interest .
This expectation is reasonable , and our government has a duty to meet it .
And we will meet it .

Originally published here on this day in 2017.
Attorney General Sessions appeared at the beginning of Sean Spicer’s daily press briefing on Monday to speak about the administration’s seriousness regarding the withdrawal of federal funds from communities that choose to protect illegal aliens rather than citizens.
Unsurprisingly, Sessions noted that these bad policies have deadly consequences, including the preventable death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by a five-times-deported Mexican. Sessions’ Senate career included a recognition of the human cost of immigration anarchy, and crime victims of illegal aliens were a topic in his Attorney General hearing.
Kate Steinle was shot dead as she strolled with her father on a San Francisco pier by a habitual illegal alien criminal whom the city had protected from deportation.
In January, President Trump signed an executive order promising to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. General Sessions tightened the legal screws today.
Stiffer measures will likely be needed since outliers like San Francisco promise to defend foreign lawbreakers using taxpayer funds. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is seeking legislation to jail law enforcement officials for refusing to enforce the law against illegal aliens — which may be the level of punishment required to restore immigration enforcement throughout America.
Here’s the Sessions statement:
Good afternoon. The Department of Justice has a duty to enforce our nation’s laws, including our immigration laws. Those laws require us to promptly remove aliens when they are convicted of certain crimes.
The vast majority of the American people support this common-sense requirement. According to one recent poll, 80 percent of Americans believe that cities that arrest illegal immigrants for crimes should be required to turn them over to immigration authorities.
Unfortunately, some states and cities have adopted policies designed to frustrate the enforcement of our immigration laws. This includes refusing to detain known felons under federal detainer requests, or otherwise failing to comply with these laws. For example, the Department of Homeland Security recently issued a report showing that in a single week, there were more than 200 instances of jurisdictions refusing to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests with respect to individuals charged or convicted of a serious crime. The charges and convictions against these aliens include drug trafficking, hit and run, rape, sex offenses against a child and even murder.
Such policies cannot continue. They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on our streets.
We all remember the tragic case of Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who was shot and killed two years ago in San Francisco as she walked along a pier with her father. The shooter, Francisco Sanchez, was an illegal immigrant who had already been deported five times and had seven felony convictions.
Just eleven weeks before the shooting, San Francisco had released Sanchez from its custody, even though ICE had filed a detainer requesting that he be kept in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up for removal. Even worse, Sanchez admitted that the only reason he came to San Francisco was because of its sanctuary policies.
A similar story unfolded just last week, when Ever Valles, an illegal immigrant and Mexican national, was charged with murder and robbery of a man at a light rail station. Valles was released from a Denver jail in late December, despite the fact that ICE had lodged a detainer for his removal.
The American people are justifiably angry. They know that when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe. Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk – especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.
DUIs, assaults, burglaries, drug crimes, gang crimes, rapes, crimes against children and murders. Countless Americans would be alive today – and countless loved ones would not be grieving today – if the policies of these sanctuary jurisdictions were ended.
Not only do these policies endanger the lives of every American; just last May, the Department of Justice Inspector General found that these policies also violate federal law.
The President has rightly said that this disregard for the law must end. In his executive order, he stated that it is the policy of the executive branch to ensure that states and cities comply with all federal laws, including our immigration laws.
The order also states that “the Attorney General and the Secretary [of Homeland Security] . . . shall ensure that jurisdictions that willfully refuse to comply” with the law “are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary.”
Today I am urging all states and local jurisdictions to comply with all federal laws, including 8 U.S.C. Section 1373. Moreover, the Department of Justice will require jurisdictions seeking or applying for Department grants to certify compliance with Section 1373 as a condition for receiving these awards.
This policy is entirely consistent with the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) guidance issued last July under the previous administration. This guidance requires state and local jurisdictions to comply and certify compliance with Section 1373 in order to be eligible for OJP grants. It also made clear that failure to remedy violations could result in withholding of grants, termination of grants, and disbarment or ineligibility for future grants.
The Department of Justice will also take all lawful steps to claw-back any funds awarded to a jurisdiction that willfully violates Section 1373.
In the current fiscal year, department’s OJP and Community Oriented Policing Services anticipate awarding more than $4.1 billion dollars in grants.
I urge our nation’s states and cities to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws, and to re-think these policies. Such policies make their cities and states less safe, and put them at risk of losing valuable federal dollars.
The American people want and deserve a lawful immigration system that keeps us safe and serves our national interest. This expectation is reasonable, and our government has a duty to meet it. And we will meet it.


vdare--2020-03-27--John Derbyshire, 30 Miles From Coronavirus Epicenter, Is Skeptically Social Distancing

Earlier : John Derbyshire Is Still A Coronavirus Agnostic , But He ’ s Wearing A Mask We all have our inclinations and tendencies , deriving ultimately , I suppose , from genetic predispositions .
I was , for example , deeply unsurprised to see that Lady Ann published a fine spirited skeptical piece about coronavirus on March 25th here at VDARE.com : We 'll get no BREAKING NEWS alerts for the regular flu deaths ( so far this season , more than 23,000 , compared to 533 from the coronavirus ) .
Nor for the more than 3,000 people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or cancer .
No alerts for the hundreds who die each day from car accidents , illegal aliens and suicide .
The opinion cut about the coronavirus pandemic—red v. blue , gentry v. proles , cloud people v. dirt people , Tutsis v. Hutus—is as plain as it can be .
The best evidence of this is a chart produced by the polling company Civiqs , reproduced in the March 21st New York Times .
Red vs. Blue on Coronavirus Concern : The Gap Is Still Big but Closing , by Emily Badger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 The chart shows the proportions of people , broken out separately by Democrat and Republican , who are `` extremely concerned , '' about a coronavirus outbreak .
It shows the proportions for each state , from late February through to late March .
So there are 100 lines on this graph : fifty for Democrats , fifty for Republicans , one line per state in each case .
All the lines trend upwards , with both Tutsis and Hutus getting more `` extremely concerned '' through the month .
What jumps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the fifty red lines , for Republicans in the fifty states , are bunched down in the five-to-fifteen-percent zone ; while the fifty blue lines , for Democrats , occupy a totally separate space up in the twenty-to-sixty-percent zone .
The most worried state for both Democrats and Republicans , was Washington State : 62 percent of Democrats , 20 percent of Republicans .
I 'm amazed the pollsters could find any Republicans up there in the Tutsi heartlands of the Northwest .
The least worried Democrats were in Minnesota , 42 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arkansas , eight percent .
I 'll confess that my own temperamental leaning is towards skepticism .
After all these years of observing and commenting on Western society , it 's hard not to see the news as just a succession of hysterias .
We live in a hysterical age , the more so since social media came up .
When suddenly something new is filling the airwaves—MeToo , Russian Collusion , Black Lives Matter—my default response is : `` Oh , here 's the latest hysteria .
Who 's whipping up this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case , of course , being the Tutsi Power Structure .
However , I try at the same time to be a good empiricist , holding firmly to the belief that some things are true even though the enemy says they are true .
I live just thirty miles from Elmhurst Hospital in New York City , tagged on Wednesday this week by the city hospitals administration as `` the center of the crisis . ''
That was after thirteen people died there in a 24-hour period .
We 're getting harrowing reports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coronavirus : 'Hell ' at New York 's COVID-19 ground zero , by Alistair Bunkall , Sky News , March 26 , 2020 ] .
As of March 26 , around half of all confirmed coronavirus cases were in the New York City area .
Use this link to determine the closest cases to you .
As best I can judge from the mess of data , and making due allowance for the level of hysteria that underlies all news reporting nowadays , we are looking at something unusually nasty here , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us is justified .
It 'll be a whole lot more justified if we can localize and refine it ; but for that we need a better quality of data than we 've had so far .
The people in charge seem to understand this ; so after a couple more weeks of one-size-fits-all lockdown , we 'll move to something more targeted and loose .
The Southern Hemisphere bears keeping an eye on .
There is a general expectation up here that as the weather warms through April , the virus will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Fall .
That 's a Northern Hemisphere-supremacist point of view , though .
As our hemisphere warms up , the folk down in Argentina , Chile , Australia , South Africa , etc .
are cooling off into their fall and winter .
The next few weeks should give us a clearer idea about how much this new coronavirus minds the weather .
It looked for a while as though Brazil might offer us a test-bed for total government inaction .
Jair Bolsonaro , the president of that country , is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lady Ann .
On March 20 , he called COVID-19 `` a little flu '' [ Brazil ’ s Bolsonaro again says coronavirus concern overblown , by David Biller , AP , March 24 , 2020 ] .
Brazil 's politicians and health officials , though , beg to differ .
They seem to be going with the international consensus of quarantines , social distancing , and the rest .
[ Where Is the Coronavirus in Latin America ?
, Americas Society and Council of the Americas , March 27 , 2020 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , my attention got snagged on this sentence : So the U.S.A. is sufficiently over-supplied with testing kits we can export a million of them to Brazil next month !

Earlier: John Derbyshire Is Still A Coronavirus Agnostic, But He’s Wearing A Mask
We all have our inclinations and tendencies, deriving ultimately, I suppose, from genetic predispositions.
I was, for example, deeply unsurprised to see that Lady Ann published a fine spirited skeptical piece about coronavirus on March 25th here at VDARE.com:
We'll get no BREAKING NEWS alerts for the regular flu deaths (so far this season, more than 23,000, compared to 533 from the coronavirus). Nor for the more than 3,000 people who die every day of heart disease or cancer. No alerts for the hundreds who die each day from car accidents, illegal aliens and suicide. Only coronavirus deaths are considered newsworthy.
The opinion cut about the coronavirus pandemic—red v. blue, gentry v. proles, cloud people v. dirt people, Tutsis v. Hutus—is as plain as it can be. The best evidence of this is a chart produced by the polling company Civiqs, reproduced in the March 21st New York Times.
Red vs. Blue on Coronavirus Concern: The Gap Is Still Big but Closing, by Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy, March 21, 2020
The chart shows the proportions of people, broken out separately by Democrat and Republican, who are "extremely concerned," about a coronavirus outbreak. It shows the proportions for each state, from late February through to late March. So there are 100 lines on this graph: fifty for Democrats, fifty for Republicans, one line per state in each case.
All the lines trend upwards, with both Tutsis and Hutus getting more "extremely concerned" through the month.
What jumps out at you, though, is that the fifty red lines, for Republicans in the fifty states, are bunched down in the five-to-fifteen-percent zone; while the fifty blue lines, for Democrats, occupy a totally separate space up in the twenty-to-sixty-percent zone.
The most worried state for both Democrats and Republicans, was Washington State: 62 percent of Democrats, 20 percent of Republicans.
I'm amazed the pollsters could find any Republicans up there in the Tutsi heartlands of the Northwest.
The least worried Democrats were in Minnesota, 42 percent; the least worried Republicans in Arkansas, eight percent.
I'll confess that my own temperamental leaning is towards skepticism. After all these years of observing and commenting on Western society, it's hard not to see the news as just a succession of hysterias.
We live in a hysterical age, the more so since social media came up. When suddenly something new is filling the airwaves—MeToo, Russian Collusion, Black Lives Matter—my default response is: "Oh, here's the latest hysteria. Who's whipping up this one?"
The answer in every case, of course, being the Tutsi Power Structure.
However, I try at the same time to be a good empiricist, holding firmly to the belief that some things are true even though the enemy says they are true.
I live just thirty miles from Elmhurst Hospital in New York City, tagged on Wednesday this week by the city hospitals administration as "the center of the crisis."
That was after thirteen people died there in a 24-hour period. We're getting harrowing reports from medical staff in the city [Coronavirus: 'Hell' at New York's COVID-19 ground zero, by Alistair Bunkall, Sky News, March 26, 2020].
As of March 26, around half of all confirmed coronavirus cases were in the New York City area.
Use this link to determine the closest cases to you.
As best I can judge from the mess of data, and making due allowance for the level of hysteria that underlies all news reporting nowadays, we are looking at something unusually nasty here, and the extreme social distancing being urged on us is justified.
It'll be a whole lot more justified if we can localize and refine it; but for that we need a better quality of data than we've had so far.
The people in charge seem to understand this; so after a couple more weeks of one-size-fits-all lockdown, we'll move to something more targeted and loose.
I hope.
The Southern Hemisphere bears keeping an eye on. There is a general expectation up here that as the weather warms through April, the virus will quiesce, perhaps bouncing back again in the Fall. That's a Northern Hemisphere-supremacist point of view, though. As our hemisphere warms up, the folk down in Argentina, Chile, Australia, South Africa, etc. are cooling off into their fall and winter.
The next few weeks should give us a clearer idea about how much this new coronavirus minds the weather.
It looked for a while as though Brazil might offer us a test-bed for total government inaction. Jair Bolsonaro, the president of that country, is an extreme virus skeptic, out there with Lady Ann. On March 20, he called COVID-19 "a little flu" [Brazil’s Bolsonaro again says coronavirus concern overblown, by David Biller, AP, March 24, 2020].
Brazil's Bolsonaro again says coronavirus concern overblown (from @AP) https://t.co/i8iQuCBSoH — Mauricio Savarese (@MSavarese) March 25, 2020
Brazil's politicians and health officials, though, beg to differ. They seem to be going with the international consensus of quarantines, social distancing, and the rest. [Where Is the Coronavirus in Latin America?, Americas Society and Council of the Americas, March 27, 2020]
Reading that report on Brazil's response, my attention got snagged on this sentence:
On March 24, Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta announced the government would start to roll out a plan that will distribute 2.3 million testing kits to states across Brazil. The Ministry also plans to import over 1 million rapid tests from the United States in April.
So the U.S.A. is sufficiently over-supplied with testing kits we can export a million of them to Brazil next month!
Good to know.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-03-27--A New York Reader Says Black Nurse's Aides In Hospitals Have Been Seen Refusing To Wear Masks, And W

A New York Reader Says Black Nurse's Aides In Hospitals Have Been Seen Refusing To Wear Masks, And Working While Sick With Corona

From : A New York Healthcare Worker [ Email him ] “ Put on your masks !
, ” a nurse shouts at the maskless certified nurse aides ( CNAs ) working under her at a New York Hospital .
They all laugh , and go back to their work , without their masks .
It ’ s a big joke to them .
The CNAs who refused to wear their masks were all black immigrants from the Caribbean .
The nurse was not black .
I know of at least one black immigrant CNA who knew that she was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knock down her fever , so she could go to work undetected .
The CNA in question was motivated solely by greed .
Fortunately , one of her supervisors heard about her ruse , and forced her to go home .
But did she infect someone before she left work ?
The people playing politics on TV by blaming Trump for everything , will keep on blaming him , while praising the murderously negligent CNAs as “ heroes , ” as the latter cause even more deaths , and spread COVID-19 further into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t care at all about saving lives .
CNA jobs are one of many types that have been taken over by people of very low intelligence and equally low diligence .
They probably don ’ t even believe in germ theory .
Incompetent , feckless healthcare providers will cause a new wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths .
James Fulford writes : The IQ required for a Registered Nurse is estimated at 107.2 , for a licensed practical nurse it 's estimated at 97.0 , and for a nurse 's aide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Audacious Epigone has the figures here .
In a blog post in 2007 about the dangers of Mexican immigrants making home-made , unpasteurized cheese , which frequently contains listeria and TB germs , I wrote that the problem was that Third World immigrants do n't understand the germ theory of disease , and may refuse to believe it even if we teach it to them .
I 've said this repeatedly since then : • Salmonella In Mexican Papayas Because Mexican Workers Do n't Understand What `` Germs '' Are • E. Coli @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who Do n't Know What A Germ Is , And Wo n't Learn • Black US Doctor Is Allowed To Say This About Liberia : `` The People There Do Not Believe In The Germ Theory Of Disease '' • The Fulford File | Invincible Ignorance And Ebola—Why Are We Letting In Immigrants Who Don ’ t Know What A Germ Is ?
It 's bad enough when the people who do n't understand or believe in the germ theory of disease are picking fruit , or working at Chipotle , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital during a pandemic is appalling .

From: A New York Healthcare Worker [Email him]
“Put on your masks!,” a nurse shouts at the maskless certified nurse aides (CNAs) working under her at a New York Hospital. They all laugh, and go back to their work, without their masks. It’s a big joke to them.
The CNAs who refused to wear their masks were all black immigrants from the Caribbean. The nurse was not black.
I know of at least one black immigrant CNA who knew that she was infected with Coronavirus and took Tylenol to knock down her fever, so she could go to work undetected. The CNA in question was motivated solely by greed. Fortunately, one of her supervisors heard about her ruse, and forced her to go home. But did she infect someone before she left work?
The people playing politics on TV by blaming Trump for everything, will keep on blaming him, while praising the murderously negligent CNAs as “heroes,” as the latter cause even more deaths, and spread COVID-19 further into the community. The Trump-bashers on TV don’t care at all about saving lives.
CNA jobs are one of many types that have been taken over by people of very low intelligence and equally low diligence. They probably don’t even believe in germ theory.
Incompetent, feckless healthcare providers will cause a new wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
James Fulford writes: The IQ required for a Registered Nurse is estimated at 107.2, for a licensed practical nurse it's estimated at 97.0, and for a nurse's aide, it's estimated at 90.3. Audacious Epigone has the figures here.
In a blog post in 2007 about the dangers of Mexican immigrants making home-made, unpasteurized cheese, which frequently contains listeria and TB germs, I wrote that the problem was that Third World immigrants don't understand the germ theory of disease, and may refuse to believe it even if we teach it to them.
I've said this repeatedly since then:
It's bad enough when the people who don't understand or believe in the germ theory of disease are picking fruit, or working at Chipotle, but the idea that they're working in a hospital during a pandemic is appalling.


vdare--2020-03-27--Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov Update: Turkmenistan's Secret Police Crack Down On Even TALKING About Co

Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov Update: Turkmenistan's Secret Police Crack Down On Even TALKING About Coronavirus

From the upcoming Radio Derb , now available exclusively on VDARE.com What Radio Derb listeners really want to know , of course , is how they are coping in Turkmenistan .
I can report that Radio Derb 's good friend and supporter President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of that country has been characteristically ingenious .
Along with the usual array of measures—travel restrictions , lockdowns , etc.—President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has taken a leaf from the book of our own Social Justice Warriors .
It is an article of faith with Western progressives that where some fact about the world is inconvenient to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensibilities—facts about black crime , for example , or sex differences—the authorities should simply suppress all public discussion of those facts .
That has been a feature of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov 's uniquely bold approach to the coronavirus pandemic .
Quote from Radio Free Europe 's Turkmen service , edited quote : As I said , a bold approach by Turkmenistan , right out of the CultMarx playbook .
If you ca n't talk about it , you ca n't think about it .
You can enjoy peace of mind !
Long live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
Long live the noble people of Turkmenistan !
Now , let 's all sing the National Anthem of Turkmenistan :

From the upcoming Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com
What Radio Derb listeners really want to know, of course, is how they are coping in Turkmenistan. I can report that Radio Derb's good friend and supporter President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of that country has been characteristically ingenious. Along with the usual array of measures—travel restrictions, lockdowns, etc.—President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has taken a leaf from the book of our own Social Justice Warriors.
It is an article of faith with Western progressives that where some fact about the world is inconvenient to their machinations or offensive to their tender sensibilities—facts about black crime, for example, or sex differences—the authorities should simply suppress all public discussion of those facts.
That has been a feature of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's uniquely bold approach to the coronavirus pandemic. Quote from Radio Free Europe's Turkmen service, edited quote:
The authorities in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat have started arresting people for discussing the COVID-19 coronavirus in public … Plainclothes informants of the security services are being used to eavesdrop on people's conversations in the streets.
Special plainclothes individuals are listening to conversations in queues, at bus stops and on public transport. No one knows what happens to those who are arrested … It is not a matter of the dissemination of false information in order to spread panic, as is punishable in other countries in the region … people can be arrested for any kind of conversation on the topic.
As I said, a bold approach by Turkmenistan, right out of the CultMarx playbook. If you can't talk about it, you can't think about it. You can enjoy peace of mind!
Long live the subtle and ingenious President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov! Long live the noble people of Turkmenistan!
Now, let's all sing the National Anthem of Turkmenistan:


vdare--2020-03-26--Sam Dickson Writes On Jason Kessler's Call For Law Clerks To Recuse Themselves In Charlottesville Su

Sam Dickson Writes On Jason Kessler's Call For Law Clerks To Recuse Themselves In Charlottesville Suit

I 've never heard of seeking to recuse law clerks before .
[ Motions to Recuse Filed Against Biased Charlottesville Rally Clerks [ Read Here ] Jason Kessler.us , March 24 , 2020 ] But it is a reality that they do write almost all decisions for the judges .
However , Judge Moon very likely reads such opinions very , very carefully .
He knows this is the highest profile case he has before him .
So he probably does not just sign off on opinions on the matter .
The fact that he would flyspeck the decisions himself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and impartial .
The enormous indulgence he has shown to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the white participants in extending their discovery on and on despite the fact that they have now reviewed over one million emails , tweets , Facebook postings , etc .
without coming up with the evidence they need to make a legitimate case while he so peremptorily dismissed the white people 's case against the police chief and the city ( and even opined that the City 's decision to withdraw police protection was `` ideologically neutral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chief 's statements to the cops that a pretext was needed to stop the whites from having their rally ) shows that Moon knows how closely he is being watched in how he handles this case .
See a previous letter from Sam Dickson here , and his Charlottesville Inquiry statement here .

Re: James Fulford's blog post Charlottesville Narrative Collapse Seen In Jason Kessler Lawsuit
From: Sam Dickson [Email him]
I've never heard of seeking to recuse law clerks before. [Motions to Recuse Filed Against Biased Charlottesville Rally Clerks [Read Here] Jason Kessler.us, March 24, 2020]
But it is a reality that they do write almost all decisions for the judges.
However, Judge Moon very likely reads such opinions very, very carefully. He knows this is the highest profile case he has before him. So he probably does not just sign off on opinions on the matter.
The fact that he would flyspeck the decisions himself does not imply that he is fair and impartial.
Anything but.
The enormous indulgence he has shown to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the white participants in extending their discovery on and on despite the fact that they have now reviewed over one million emails, tweets, Facebook postings, etc. without coming up with the evidence they need to make a legitimate case while he so peremptorily dismissed the white people's case against the police chief and the city (and even opined that the City's decision to withdraw police protection was "ideologically neutral" in the face of the police chief's statements to the cops that a pretext was needed to stop the whites from having their rally) shows that Moon knows how closely he is being watched in how he handles this case.
See a previous letter from Sam Dickson here, and his Charlottesville Inquiry statement here.


vdare--2020-03-27--Report: Looting In New York, As NYPD Calls Up Retirees To Replace Officers Who Called In Sick (With

Report: Looting In New York, As NYPD Calls Up Retirees To Replace Officers Who Called In Sick (With "Blue Flu", Not Corona)

I ran into an acquaintance recently who is a retired NYPD Detective .
He told me that NYC is calling up retired police officers to come help patrol New York City .
He 's going back because they offered him an increase in retirement salary for just doing one more month of work in New York .
He hopes to see a significant pension upgrade when his full retirement kicks in a few years from now thanks to this one extra month .
He said that the city is having a dual problem with more looters and the `` blue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Officers are calling in sick to work .
I have n't heard any official reports on the looting , but I guess the quarantine is keeping eyes indoors that might otherwise be reporting crime .
In chatting , he said that when Giuliani was mayor , the NYPD really got control of things .
When Bloomberg became mayor , he initially just kept Giuliani 's policies in place , but then started to back track them a little bit .
Now , with DeBlasio as mayor , things have really gone downhill .

An ex-law enforcement reader emails:
I ran into an acquaintance recently who is a retired NYPD Detective. He told me that NYC is calling up retired police officers to come help patrol New York City. He's going back because they offered him an increase in retirement salary for just doing one more month of work in New York. He hopes to see a significant pension upgrade when his full retirement kicks in a few years from now thanks to this one extra month. He said that the city is having a dual problem with more looters and the "blue flu" where a lot of NYPD Officers are calling in sick to work. I haven't heard any official reports on the looting, but I guess the quarantine is keeping eyes indoors that might otherwise be reporting crime.
In chatting, he said that when Giuliani was mayor, the NYPD really got control of things. When Bloomberg became mayor, he initially just kept Giuliani's policies in place, but then started to back track them a little bit. Now, with DeBlasio as mayor, things have really gone downhill.


vdare--2020-03-27--Cuomo Admits Diversity NOT A Strength: New York State Is Corona-Struck Because "We Welcome People"

Earlier by Paul Kersey : Is NYC Coronavirus Ground Zero Because Massive `` Be Strong Wuhan '' Feb 9th Chinese New Year 's Parade Helped Spread The Chinese Virus ?
Hard to tell if Governor Cuomo understands what he is admitting here… Diversity is not our strength .
Andrew Cuomo : NY Has 15 Times Coronavirus Cases of CA Because ‘ We Welcome People ’ , Breitbart , March 25 , 2020 ] : New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that the state was getting hit hardest in the United States because of their welcoming spirit .
Cuomo noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus cases of California and other states and offered his opinion about why that was the case .
“ Because we welcome people from across the globe , ” he said .
“ We have people coming here , we have people who came here from China , who came here from Italy , who came here from all across the globe.
” Cuomo said that he believed that the virus was in New York City long before people even knew it was a problem .
“ I had no doubt that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even know , ” he said .
“ And I have no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than it was in any other state , because those people come here first.
” New York currently has 30,811 cases , California has 2,644 cases , Washington state has 2,404 cases and Massachusetts has 1,159 cases .
Cuomo added that New Yorkers lived “ close to one another , ” which was another reason the virus spread more quickly .
He cited the close quarters in which New Yorkers lived in their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public transportation , that , made New Yorkers more vulnerable .
But he said that the greatest weakness of New Yorkers was also their greatest strength .
“ Our closeness is what makes us special , ” he said , noting that New Yorkers were more open , accepting and tolerant than the rest of the world .
“ The closeness is that New York humanity that I think exists nowhere else , ” he said .
This is how and why New York City is ground zero for one of the worst @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for those heathens uninterested in maintaining political correctness ) in America .
Diversity is not our strength .

Earlier by Paul Kersey: Is NYC Coronavirus Ground Zero Because Massive "Be Strong Wuhan" Feb 9th Chinese New Year's Parade Helped Spread The Chinese Virus?
Hard to tell if Governor Cuomo understands what he is admitting here… Diversity is not our strength.
Andrew Cuomo: NY Has 15 Times Coronavirus Cases of CA Because ‘We Welcome People’, Breitbart, March 25, 2020]: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that the state was getting hit hardest in the United States because of their welcoming spirit. Cuomo noted that New York had 15 times the coronavirus cases of California and other states and offered his opinion about why that was the case.
Cuomo on why New York is hit hardest by Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/ly7DrbfMBL — Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) March 25, 2020
“Because we welcome people from across the globe,” he said. “We have people coming here, we have people who came here from China, who came here from Italy, who came here from all across the globe.” Cuomo said that he believed that the virus was in New York City long before people even knew it was a problem. “I had no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than we even know,” he said. “And I have no doubt that the virus was here much earlier than it was in any other state, because those people come here first.” New York currently has 30,811 cases, California has 2,644 cases, Washington state has 2,404 cases and Massachusetts has 1,159 cases. Cuomo added that New Yorkers lived “close to one another,” which was another reason the virus spread more quickly. He cited the close quarters in which New Yorkers lived in their communities, restaurants, movie theaters, public transportation, that, made New Yorkers more vulnerable. But he said that the greatest weakness of New Yorkers was also their greatest strength. “Our closeness is what makes us special,” he said, noting that New Yorkers were more open, accepting and tolerant than the rest of the world. “The closeness is that New York humanity that I think exists nowhere else,” he said.
Tolerance.
Closeness.
Open borders.
Welcoming.
This is how and why New York City is ground zero for one of the worst outbreaks of the Coronavirus (China Virus for those heathens uninterested in maintaining political correctness) in America.
Diversity is not our strength.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-27--The Fulford File | SPLC Thug Michael Hayden Demonizes VDARE.com’s Castle Purchase. His Twitter Follo

The Fulford File | SPLC Thug Michael Hayden Demonizes VDARE.com’s Castle Purchase. His Twitter Followers Plot Violence. WHERE IS FBI!?

Michael Edison Hayden [ Tweet him ] , “ investigative reporter ” a.k.a .
Cultural Marxist Enforcer for the Southern Poverty Law Center ’ s HateWatch , has been spying on VDARE.com ’ s recent purchase of Berkeley Springs Castle in Berkeley Springs WVA .
He ’ s found and interviewed a few local Leftists ( most of them , we ’ re told , are Washington D.C. interlopers ) [ West Virginia Tourist Hub Rejects VDARE ’ s ‘ Negative ’ Message , by Michael Edison Hayden , SPLC HateWatch , March 19 , 2020 ] .
And his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Hayden mustn ’ t have noticed that we explicitly deny being “ white nationalists.
” And under the Fair Housing Act , you can be investigated by HUD 's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity or sued if you “ organize a response ” to a black or other protected organization moving into your town .
[ 24 CFR § 100.65 , ( b ) ( 7 ) ] It is generally illegal to “ shut down ” conferences , even of American Renaissance , and it ’ s really illegal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been doing for years , with minimal legal pushback .
Hayden writes in his polemic ( perhaps I should call it a “ screed ” ) : The issue in Colorado Springs , evaded by Hayden , is that RINO Mayor John Suthers stated that he wouldn ’ t provide police protection to a conference threatened by protests i.e .
Antifa , a clear violation of our civil rights .
See the great Michelle Malkin ’ s July 20 , 2019 summary Michelle Malkin On Colorado Springs : Freedom Of Assembly Under Fire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clearly means “ disrupt and suppress ” as in so many other recent cases , for example with Charles Murray ’ s March , 2017 talk at Middlebury College .
Hayden has personal connections to Antifa , as detailed by Tyler O ’ Neil in his recent book Making Hate Pay : The Corruption Of The Southern Poverty Law Center : Cathy Young wrote in ArcDigital [ Antifa , Quillette , and Media Bias | Who got smeared ?
July 3 , 2019 ] that For instance , a September 2017 article by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activist who prides herself on “ shutting down ” right-wing speakers such as Milo Yiannopoulos .
( The piece mentions only toward the end that she faces assault and rioting charges stemming from a 2016 melee . )
A December 2017 report on FBI ’ s investigation of Antifa as a violent extremist group suggests that the probe is driven by far-right conspiracies and cites [ Antifascist Handbook author Mark ] Bray ] as an expert .
A February 2018 story on Antifa ’ s disruption of a tour by a Norwegian heavy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sympathies ( co-written with Zack Schonfeld ) more or less acknowledges that the accusations are without substance , but praises Antifa ’ s tactics as “ effective in derailing recruitment ” by the alt-right .
[ Emphasis added , links in original . ]
It ’ s significant of the current law enforcement climate that Hayden has no fear about associating with Antifa ’ s violent paramilitary activists .
And you can see this in the fact that his Twitter followers immediately responded with threats to storm or burn down VDARE.com ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them are jokes—although not jokes that any patriot would be allowed to make : • a GIF of the mob from the movie Frankenstein storming a castle with torches .
And this , from a video game : Ca n't load tweet https : //twitter.com/JayneOnComputer/status/1240660289516974083 : Sorry , you are not authorized to see this status .
But some of these tweets are unmistakable threats : • For example , anonymous user @ Braingeesuss who Tweeted That ’ s an unmistakable threat to do something to the castle at night—not a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s what we must call a really serious threat .
The first part ( aluminum powder and iron oxide ) is the recipe for thermite , as used in arson and sabotage .
And gallium reacts with aluminum in peculiar ways .
I don ’ t know all the details , but I ’ m not trained in metallurgy , as “ Dedwrekka ” is .
His Twitter profile reads “ Questioning White Bio-male .
He/Him/Yall .
Veteran .
Animation , Woodworking , Metalworking , Sculpting , Makeing '' .
It doesn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ internet sleuthing to establish that this guy threatening us with thermite is a college student in North Texas named Aaron , who is studying metalcrafts .
I don ’ t want to “ doxx ” him in the usual sense .
But if the FBI or other law enforcement agencies are interested , I ’ ll forward them the details .
And they should be .
This is a “ terroristic threat ” across state lines .
This is just one more instance of the danger of the SPLC , which as , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been targeting us specifically for almost twenty years .
Just one other example : after the SPLC labelled the Christian-oriented Family Research Council a “ Hate Group ” ( just as with us ) , it was attacked in 2012 by a gunman who said specifically that the SPLC inspired him .
An alternative view of West Virginia ’ s view of VDARE.com can be seen in a Tweet replying to Hayden ’ s Twitter promotion of his column by someone calling himself NEETNationalist : James Fulford [ Email him ] is a @ @ @ @ @ @

Michael Edison Hayden [Tweet him], “investigative reporter” a.k.a. Cultural Marxist Enforcer for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s HateWatch, has been spying on VDARE.com’s recent purchase of Berkeley Springs Castle in Berkeley Springs WVA. He’s found and interviewed a few local Leftists (most of them, we’re told, are Washington D.C. interlopers) [West Virginia Tourist Hub Rejects VDARE’s ‘Negative’ Message, by Michael Edison Hayden, SPLC HateWatch, March 19, 2020]. And his Twitter followers have responded with terroristic threats.
Hayden tweeted:
The white nationalist non-profit VDARE bought a castle overlooking the small tourist town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Residents there have started to organize a response.
My latest for @Hatewatch: https://t.co/3oLsAo0N2l — Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) March 19, 2020
Hayden mustn’t have noticed that we explicitly deny being “white nationalists.” And under the Fair Housing Act, you can be investigated by HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity or sued if you “organize a response” to a black or other protected organization moving into your town. [24 CFR § 100.65, (b) (7)]
VDARE purchased the castle for $1,400,000 without the help of a loan, according to records I reviewed. It's unclear where they got that money.
The castle gives them greater proximity to Washington DC and a place to hold conferences without fear of being shut down. — Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) March 19, 2020
It is generally illegal to “shut down” conferences, even of American Renaissance, and it’s really illegal to use force, as Antifa has been doing for years, with minimal legal pushback.
Hayden writes in his polemic (perhaps I should call it a “screed”):
VDARE described their purchase of the castle in vague terms on their website, referring to it as a “meeting place.” VDARE has struggled to stage conferences in recent years due to public opposition to their agenda, and would likely benefit from owning a facility in which to hold large scale events. After the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado declined to host VDARE’s 2018 conference, for example, the group filed a lawsuit against the city’s mayor. The residence in Berkeley Springs could theoretically help VDARE avoid such headaches. [Links in original]
The issue in Colorado Springs, evaded by Hayden, is that RINO Mayor John Suthers stated that he wouldn’t provide police protection to a conference threatened by protests i.e. Antifa, a clear violation of our civil rights. See the great Michelle Malkin’s July 20, 2019 summary Michelle Malkin On Colorado Springs: Freedom Of Assembly Under Fire.
Hayden goes:
The castle is also securely embedded on a hill and surrounded by iron gates, making it hard for antiracist demonstrators to access it should VDARE decide to host a conference there. Well-attended counterdemonstrations have had a deleterious impact on the racist right’s ability to organize in public in recent years, making secure locations appealing to white nationalists like those linked to VDARE. [Emphasis added, links in original].
By “access”, Hayden clearly means “disrupt and suppress” as in so many other recent cases, for example with Charles Murray’s March, 2017 talk at Middlebury College.
Hayden has personal connections to Antifa, as detailed by Tyler O’Neil in his recent book Making Hate Pay: The Corruption Of The Southern Poverty Law Center:
Extremism researcher Eoin Lenihan mapped the Twitter interactions of Antifa activists, finding strong connections to SPLC reporter Michael Hayden. Cathy Young independently investigated Hayden’s work, specifically more than a dozen Newsweek stories he wrote in 2017 and 2018. “These stories do, in fact, closely fit Lenihan’s description of the work of journalists he labels pro-Antifa: ‘downplaying Antifa violence while advancing Antifa talking points, and in some cases quoting Antifa extremists as if they were impartial experts.’” [Links added]
Cathy Young wrote in ArcDigital [Antifa, Quillette, and Media Bias | Who got smeared? July 3, 2019] that
For instance, a September 2017 article by Hayden sympathetically profiles a schoolteacher and Antifa activist who prides herself on “shutting down” right-wing speakers such as Milo Yiannopoulos. (The piece mentions only toward the end that she faces assault and rioting charges stemming from a 2016 melee.) A December 2017 report on FBI’s investigation of Antifa as a violent extremist group suggests that the probe is driven by far-right conspiracies and cites [Antifascist Handbook author Mark] Bray] as an expert. A February 2018 story on Antifa’s disruption of a tour by a Norwegian heavy metal band accused of neo-Nazi and anti-Muslim sympathies (co-written with Zack Schonfeld) more or less acknowledges that the accusations are without substance, but praises Antifa’s tactics as “effective in derailing recruitment” by the alt-right. [Emphasis added, links in original.]
It’s significant of the current law enforcement climate that Hayden has no fear about associating with Antifa’s violent paramilitary activists.
And you can see this in the fact that his Twitter followers immediately responded with threats to storm or burn down VDARE.com’s castle.
Let’s hope some of them are jokes—although not jokes that any patriot would be allowed to make:
references to medieval siege engines
a GIF of the mob from the movie Frankenstein storming a castle with torches.
(For some reason, torches were evil when used in a parade on the eve of the Democrat-mugged 2017 Charlottesville Unite The Right Rally, but not here.)
And this, from a video game:
Can't load tweet https://twitter.com/JayneOnComputer/status/1240660289516974083: Sorry, you are not authorized to see this status.
But some of these tweets are unmistakable threats:
For example, anonymous user @Braingeesuss who Tweeted
Any idea if they have the money for round the clock security? [Archive link]
That’s an unmistakable threat to do something to the castle at night—not a “protest” at all.
And user @Dedwrekka Tweeted
Aluminum powder mixed with iron oxide. Or Gallium if you're trying to be sneaky. [Archive Link]
Aluminum powder mixed with iron oxide.
Or Gallium if you're trying to be sneaky. — Casting Creator (@Dedwrekka) March 19, 2020
That’s what we must call a really serious threat. The first part (aluminum powder and iron oxide) is the recipe for thermite, as used in arson and sabotage. And gallium reacts with aluminum in peculiar ways.
I don’t know all the details, but I’m not trained in metallurgy, as “Dedwrekka” is. His Twitter profile reads “Questioning White Bio-male. He/Him/Yall. Veteran. Animation, Woodworking, Metalworking, Sculpting, Makeing".
It doesn’t take much in the way of internet sleuthing to establish that this guy threatening us with thermite is a college student in North Texas named Aaron, who is studying metalcrafts.
I don’t want to “doxx” him in the usual sense. But if the FBI or other law enforcement agencies are interested, I’ll forward them the details.
And they should be. This is a “terroristic threat” across state lines.
This is just one more instance of the danger of the SPLC, which as, Hayden notes in his article, has been targeting us specifically for almost twenty years.
Just one other example: after the SPLC labelled the Christian-oriented Family Research Council a “Hate Group” (just as with us), it was attacked in 2012 by a gunman who said specifically that the SPLC inspired him.
An alternative view of West Virginia’s view of VDARE.com can be seen in a Tweet replying to Hayden’s Twitter promotion of his column by someone calling himself NEETNationalist:
I'm sure the residents of a small mountain in West Virginia where the precincts all went for Trump (55%, 74%, 76%, 78%, 78%, and 79%) and live 40 minutes away from the nearest pro-Clinton precinct are just totally outraged at an anti-immigration group coming to their town.
James Fulford [Email him] is a writer and editor for VDARE.com.


vdare--2020-03-26--Patrick J. Buchanan: Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era?

To fight the coronavirus at home , France is removing all military forces from Iraq .
When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of the pandemic , Russia reciprocated .
Moscow announced it would cancel its war games along NATO 's border .
Nations seem to be recognizing and responding to the grim new geostrategic reality of March 2020 : The pandemic is the real enemy of us all , and while we fight it , each in his own national corner , we are in this together .
Never allow a serious crisis to go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of staff Rahm Emanuel during the financial crisis .
Emanuel was echoed this month by House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn , who called the coronavirus crisis `` a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision . ''
What Clyburn had in mind is what Democrats advanced as their alternative to the $ 2.2 trillion emergency bill .
It was designed to force President Trump either to swallow it whole or to take responsibility for vetoing a critical transfusion of federal funds to keep the economy alive .
Among the items @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • A $ 15-an-hour minimum wage imposed on companies receiving funds .
Blanket loan forgiveness of $ 10,000 for students .
New tax credits for solar and wind energy .
Full funding of Planned Parenthood .
Federal dollars for fetal tissue research .
• $ 300 million for PBS , which has been promoting the LBGT agenda to school kids .
Mandating `` diversity '' on corporate boards as a condition of companies receiving funds .
Election `` reforms '' to increase Democratic turnout .
Insistence that airlines , to get a bailout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
$ 35 million for the Kennedy Center .
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and congressional Republicans ash-canned almost the [ entire ] leftist wish list .
But Trump should go further , turn the tables , and seize this crisis to do what he was elected to do—impose a new foreign policy .
Isolate America , not from the world , but from the world 's wars .
The New York Times and Washington Post editorialized Thursday for an easing of the economic sanctions we have imposed on Iran .
This would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than any country in the Middle East from the virus .
More than that , it would be a statement that America is not at war with the Iranian people .
This unilateral gesture by Trump , asking nothing in return except negotiations , would put the onus for Iran 's isolation squarely with the ayatollah and his regime .
As for Vladimir Putin 's cancellation of war games in response to NATO 's cancellation , Trump could seize upon this as an opening to engage Russia as candidate Trump promised to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a war with NATO ?
Should he do so , does anyone think Italy and Spain , two of the largest NATO allies , but both suffering greatly in the coronavirus crisis , would invoke Article V and declare war on Russia ?
When Hitler was our foe , America created a wartime alliance with Stalin in the common cause of crushing the Axis powers .
Liberals and leftists yet defend the Popular Front between the democracies and Stalin .
If we could unite with Bolsheviks to defeat Nazis , surely we can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with and crush the coronavirus .
When , if ever , will there be a better time to make good on Trump 's campaign pledge to extricate America from the wars in Syria , Iraq and Afghanistan ?
Consider also the Korean Peninsula .
Kim Jong Un has been testing rockets again over the Sea of Japan .
Transfixed by the coronavirus crisis , however , the world is paying him no attention .
We should make a final offer to Kim Jong Un to pull our U.S. forces from South Korea and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on his nuclear arsenal .
We are ready for a deal .
But If Pyongyang refuses to talk , we should tell him we are going home and are allowing South Korea and Japan to develop their own nuclear weapons .
And let Kim deal with them .
The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis since the Cuban missile confrontation of 1962 .
After that crisis , John F. Kennedy sought to use the world 's brush with Armageddon to establish a detente with the Soviet Union of the Communist dictator who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our Cold War victory , we have not done that .
Instead , we plunged into wars that were none of our business to deal with imagined threats and advance utopian causes like establishing Jeffersonian democracy in lands where tribalism and dogmatism are rooted in the very soil .
The coronavirus is the enemy Saddam Hussein never was .
And the ayatollahs never had tens of millions of Americans `` sheltering in place . ''
What the coronavirus crisis tells us is not that we should turn our backs on the world but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we should put our own interests first , as every nation in the world is doing now .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .

To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq.
When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of the pandemic, Russia reciprocated. Moscow announced it would cancel its war games along NATO's border.
Nations seem to be recognizing and responding to the grim new geostrategic reality of March 2020: The pandemic is the real enemy of us all, and while we fight it, each in his own national corner, we are in this together.
Never allow a serious crisis to go to waste, said Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel during the financial crisis.
Emanuel was echoed this month by House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, who called the coronavirus crisis "a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision."
What Clyburn had in mind is what Democrats advanced as their alternative to the $2.2 trillion emergency bill. It was designed to force President Trump either to swallow it whole or to take responsibility for vetoing a critical transfusion of federal funds to keep the economy alive.
Among the items stuffed in the Democrats' proposal:
A $15-an-hour minimum wage imposed on companies receiving funds. Blanket loan forgiveness of $10,000 for students. New tax credits for solar and wind energy. Full funding of Planned Parenthood. Federal dollars for fetal tissue research.
$300 million for PBS, which has been promoting the LBGT agenda to school kids. Mandating "diversity" on corporate boards as a condition of companies receiving funds. Election "reforms" to increase Democratic turnout. Insistence that airlines, to get a bailout, offset carbon emissions from jet engines. $35 million for the Kennedy Center.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and congressional Republicans ash-canned almost the [entire] leftist wish list.
But Trump should go further, turn the tables, and seize this crisis to do what he was elected to do—impose a new foreign policy.
Isolate America, not from the world, but from the world's wars.
The New York Times and Washington Post editorialized Thursday for an easing of the economic sanctions we have imposed on Iran.
This would be a humanitarian gesture when Iran is suffering more than any country in the Middle East from the virus. More than that, it would be a statement that America is not at war with the Iranian people.
This unilateral gesture by Trump, asking nothing in return except negotiations, would put the onus for Iran's isolation squarely with the ayatollah and his regime.
As for Vladimir Putin's cancellation of war games in response to NATO's cancellation, Trump could seize upon this as an opening to engage Russia as candidate Trump promised to do.
Does anyone believe Putin wants a war with NATO?
Should he do so, does anyone think Italy and Spain, two of the largest NATO allies, but both suffering greatly in the coronavirus crisis, would invoke Article V and declare war on Russia?
When Hitler was our foe, America created a wartime alliance with Stalin in the common cause of crushing the Axis powers. Liberals and leftists yet defend the Popular Front between the democracies and Stalin. If we could unite with Bolsheviks to defeat Nazis, surely we can join with Iran's rulers to cope with and crush the coronavirus.
When, if ever, will there be a better time to make good on Trump's campaign pledge to extricate America from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?
Consider also the Korean Peninsula.
Kim Jong Un has been testing rockets again over the Sea of Japan.
Transfixed by the coronavirus crisis, however, the world is paying him no attention. We should make a final offer to Kim Jong Un to pull our U.S. forces from South Korea and lift sanctions for verifiable reductions and restraints on his nuclear arsenal.
We are ready for a deal. But If Pyongyang refuses to talk, we should tell him we are going home and are allowing South Korea and Japan to develop their own nuclear weapons. And let Kim deal with them.
The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis since the Cuban missile confrontation of 1962. After that crisis, John F. Kennedy sought to use the world's brush with Armageddon to establish a detente with the Soviet Union of the Communist dictator who had put the missiles in Cuba.
Following our Cold War victory, we have not done that. Instead, we plunged into wars that were none of our business to deal with imagined threats and advance utopian causes like establishing Jeffersonian democracy in lands where tribalism and dogmatism are rooted in the very soil.
The coronavirus is the enemy Saddam Hussein never was. And the ayatollahs never had tens of millions of Americans "sheltering in place."
What the coronavirus crisis tells us is not that we should turn our backs on the world but that, in engaging with the world, we should put our own interests first, as every nation in the world is doing now.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-03-25--A New York State Legal Professional Says He Doesn't Expect To See DeBlasio's Police Suppressing Publ

A New York State Legal Professional Says He Doesn't Expect To See DeBlasio's Police Suppressing Public Gatherings Of "Youths"

New York City has issued a `` pause '' on nonessential public gatherings .
Somehow , no news as to the effectiveness of police suppressing large groups in public .
You did n't really think that cops would actually approach `` inner city youths , '' did you ?
Not after those barrel-of-water-over-the-head incidents .
Dante DeBlasio , the multiracial son of New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio , had done an op-ed about the `` fear '' minority youths felt when talking to the police , and this was Michelle 's response : But actual reality smacked NYPD officers in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ week that had non-white witnesses in the 'hood laughing and jeering hysterically .
In Harlem and Brooklyn , cops were attacked with buckets of water while onlookers hooted , hollered and incited chaos .
A brazen young thug , not paralyzed in the least by the anxiety that de Blasio conjured up for his column , hurled a bucket that hit one of the LEOs in the back of the head .
Members of the neighborhood mobs where the attacks occurred—similarly unaffected by Dante 's manufactured disquietude—whipped out their phones to share their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an episode of `` WWE RAW . ''
See earlier letters from the same reader .

From: An Anonymous Legal Professional [Email him]
New York City has issued a "pause" on nonessential public gatherings. Somehow, no news as to the effectiveness of police suppressing large groups in public.
You didn't really think that cops would actually approach "inner city youths," did you? Not after those barrel-of-water-over-the-head incidents.
Remember Michelle Malkin's NYC's Anti-Cop Anarchy—What Say You, Dante de Blasio?
Dante DeBlasio, the multiracial son of New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, had done an op-ed about the "fear" minority youths felt when talking to the police, and this was Michelle's response:
But actual reality smacked NYPD officers in their heads in two viral videos this week that had non-white witnesses in the 'hood laughing and jeering hysterically. In Harlem and Brooklyn, cops were attacked with buckets of water while onlookers hooted, hollered and incited chaos. A brazen young thug, not paralyzed in the least by the anxiety that de Blasio conjured up for his column, hurled a bucket that hit one of the LEOs in the back of the head. Members of the neighborhood mobs where the attacks occurred—similarly unaffected by Dante's manufactured disquietude—whipped out their phones to share their glee and cheered like they were watching an episode of "WWE RAW."
Watch them below:
See earlier letters from the same reader.