vdare--2020-11-15--Hunter Biden Probably Brain Damaged—Spells Trouble For A Biden White House

Earlier by Michelle Malkin : Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship Has Its Privileges If the Main Stream Media have anything to do with it , it seems we will—to adapt Richard Nixon ’ s famous sign-off after losing the 1962 California gubernatorial race—have Hunter Biden to kick around for a while yet .
Not that that the MSM has ever been particularly anxious to discuss Hunter Biden .
But if Joe Biden actually becomes President , it will be even harder to avoid the fact that he has a son who is not merely embarrassing but who may be mildly brain-damaged .
Joe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adversity—indeed tragedy—in a way that is simply not true of Donald Trump , but which is true of many voters .
Biden was raised in a relatively poor family , and he had to overcome a terrible childhood stutter .
Most poignantly of all , in December 1972 , shortly after making it to the Senate aged just 29 , Biden ’ s entire family was in a car crash , resulting in his wife and baby daughter being killed , and his two young sons being seriously injured and spending time in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. Senate from his son ’ s hospital bed in Wilmington , Delaware [ Trauma and triumph : the 10 moments that made Joe Biden , by Luke Harding , The Guardian , November 8 , 2020 ] .
We all know about the Hunter Biden scandal , which the MSM and Twitter did so much to suppress : the discarded laptop , the drug-use , the evidence of corruptly offering a Ukrainian company access to his then Vice-President father , and Joe Biden ’ s possible collusion in this [ Social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ censorship ' after they blocked stories alleging corruption involving Donald Trump 's Democratic rival Joe Biden , by Caroline Graham , Mail Online , October 18 , 2020 ] .
But what hasn ’ t been discussed is the way in which that horrific accident almost 50 years ago is likely to be relevant to this scandal .
If you are in a serious car crash , such that you end up unconscious , you will sustain brain damage and if the trauma to the brain is serious enough then this will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Injury ?
, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , Brain Line , July 25 , 2008 ] .
Beau Biden suffered a broken leg on that terrible day in 1972 but his brother Hunter Biden sustained a fractured skull , meaning that we can be certain that he—though not his brother—sustained brain damage [ Joe Biden family life : his first wife , children , personal tragedies , by AS English , AS , November 8 , 2020 ] .
Most commonly , this brain injury will manifest in terms of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to control their emotions .
They are more irritable , more impulsive , more prone to taking risks , and more prone to mood disorders such as depression [ Depression , Irritability , Personality Change After A Car Accident ?
You May Have A Brain Injury , by Kim Cullen , Cullen & Hemphill , 2020 ] .
People who have poor impulse control are prone to drug and alcohol addiction , because they can ’ t stop themselves from abusing substances far too much , meaning they become addicted and can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffer from depression are more likely to become addicts , through alcohol and drug abuse as a means of alleviating the depressive symptoms .
This creates a vicious cycle , according to researchers , because people who have alcohol in their system are then more prone to impulsive behavior and to taking risks [ Substance Use and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Risk Reduction and Prevention : A Novel Model for Treatment , by Jennifer Olson-Madden et al.
, Rehabilitation and Research Practice , 2012 ] .
According to psychologists , these traits are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Daniel Nettle , 2007 ] and even with sexual impulsivity .
One of the results of damage to the frontal lobe can be a very high libido , technically known as “ hyper-sexuality ” [ Brain Trauma Can Cause Compulsive Sexual Desires , by Amy Broadway , Psychology Today , March 14 , 2015 ] .
When you consider that Hunter Biden ’ s father does not appear to have the same kinds of problems , nor did his brother , allowing us cautiously to rule out genetic factors , Hunter Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ induced brain damage : the drug and alcohol addiction , the risky and questionable business dealings , his own marital breakdown , questionable sexual behavior consistent with hyper-sexuality ( such as having an affair with his brother ’ s widow ) , and the fathering of an illegitimate child in Arkansas and then trying to avoid paying for it , almost leading to contempt of court proceedings [ Hunter Biden agrees to pay child support to Arkansas woman , avoids contempt of court hearing , by Kevin Breuninger & Dan Mangan , CNBC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indeed , in line with the hyper-sexual behavior sometimes associated with brain trauma , Hunter fathered this child while still involved with his brother ’ s widow [ Hunter Biden fathered child with woman while dating brother ’ s widow , DNA test reveals , by Geoff Herbert , Syracuse.com , November 21 , 2019 ] .
Furthermore , leaving his laptop , brimming with potentially incriminating information , in a store and failing to collect it [ Here 's what happened when NBC News tried to report on the alleged Hunter Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Winter , NBC News , October 30 , 2020 ] is consistent with the behavior patterns expected of somebody with mild but permanent brain damage : impulsivity , failure to think about the future and about the consequences of your actions .
That tragic December day 48 years ago has defined Joe Biden ’ s life in so many ways .
If Biden does become president it is likely , in part , due to a sympathy vote .
And a key element of this is a son with a permanent brain damage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The chances are—as I suggested in the somewhat similar case of Prince Harry ’ s marriage to the obviously unstable Meghan Markle—that this means trouble for a Biden White House down the road .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

Earlier by Michelle Malkin: Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship Has Its Privileges
If the Main Stream Media have anything to do with it, it seems we will—to adapt Richard Nixon’s famous sign-off after losing the 1962 California gubernatorial race—have Hunter Biden to kick around for a while yet. Not that that the MSM has ever been particularly anxious to discuss Hunter Biden. But if Joe Biden actually becomes President, it will be even harder to avoid the fact that he has a son who is not merely embarrassing but who may be mildly brain-damaged.
Joe Biden’s life story involves overcoming adversity—indeed tragedy—in a way that is simply not true of Donald Trump, but which is true of many voters. Biden was raised in a relatively poor family, and he had to overcome a terrible childhood stutter. Most poignantly of all, in December 1972, shortly after making it to the Senate aged just 29, Biden’s entire family was in a car crash, resulting in his wife and baby daughter being killed, and his two young sons being seriously injured and spending time in hospital. Biden was actually sworn into the U.S. Senate from his son’s hospital bed in Wilmington, Delaware [Trauma and triumph: the 10 moments that made Joe Biden, by Luke Harding, The Guardian, November 8, 2020].
We all know about the Hunter Biden scandal, which the MSM and Twitter did so much to suppress: the discarded laptop, the drug-use, the evidence of corruptly offering a Ukrainian company access to his then Vice-President father, and Joe Biden’s possible collusion in this [Social media giants are accused of 'politically motivated censorship' after they blocked stories alleging corruption involving Donald Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden, by Caroline Graham, Mail Online, October 18, 2020].
But what hasn’t been discussed is the way in which that horrific accident almost 50 years ago is likely to be relevant to this scandal.
If you are in a serious car crash, such that you end up unconscious, you will sustain brain damage and if the trauma to the brain is serious enough then this will be permanent [What Happens Immediately After the Injury?, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Brain Line, July 25, 2008]. Beau Biden suffered a broken leg on that terrible day in 1972 but his brother Hunter Biden sustained a fractured skull, meaning that we can be certain that he—though not his brother—sustained brain damage [Joe Biden family life: his first wife, children, personal tragedies, by AS English, AS, November 8, 2020].
Most commonly, this brain injury will manifest in terms of changes in personality. Victims become less able to control their emotions. They are more irritable, more impulsive, more prone to taking risks, and more prone to mood disorders such as depression [Depression, Irritability, Personality Change After A Car Accident? You May Have A Brain Injury, by Kim Cullen, Cullen & Hemphill, 2020].
People who have poor impulse control are prone to drug and alcohol addiction, because they can’t stop themselves from abusing substances far too much, meaning they become addicted and cannot break the addiction. Those who suffer from depression are more likely to become addicts, through alcohol and drug abuse as a means of alleviating the depressive symptoms.
This creates a vicious cycle, according to researchers, because people who have alcohol in their system are then more prone to impulsive behavior and to taking risks [Substance Use and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Risk Reduction and Prevention: A Novel Model for Treatment, by Jennifer Olson-Madden et al., Rehabilitation and Research Practice, 2012]. According to psychologists, these traits are associated with marital breakdown [Personality, by Daniel Nettle, 2007] and even with sexual impulsivity.
One of the results of damage to the frontal lobe can be a very high libido, technically known as “hyper-sexuality” [Brain Trauma Can Cause Compulsive Sexual Desires, by Amy Broadway, Psychology Today, March 14, 2015].
When you consider that Hunter Biden’s father does not appear to have the same kinds of problems , nor did his brother, allowing us cautiously to rule out genetic factors, Hunter Biden seems like a textbook case of car-crash induced brain damage: the drug and alcohol addiction, the risky and questionable business dealings, his own marital breakdown, questionable sexual behavior consistent with hyper-sexuality (such as having an affair with his brother’s widow), and the fathering of an illegitimate child in Arkansas and then trying to avoid paying for it, almost leading to contempt of court proceedings [Hunter Biden agrees to pay child support to Arkansas woman, avoids contempt of court hearing, by Kevin Breuninger & Dan Mangan, CNBC, January 27, 2020].
Indeed, in line with the hyper-sexual behavior sometimes associated with brain trauma, Hunter fathered this child while still involved with his brother’s widow [Hunter Biden fathered child with woman while dating brother’s widow, DNA test reveals, by Geoff Herbert, Syracuse.com, November 21, 2019].
Furthermore, leaving his laptop, brimming with potentially incriminating information, in a store and failing to collect it [Here's what happened when NBC News tried to report on the alleged Hunter Biden emails, by Ken Dilanian & Tom Winter, NBC News, October 30, 2020] is consistent with the behavior patterns expected of somebody with mild but permanent brain damage: impulsivity, failure to think about the future and about the consequences of your actions.
That tragic December day 48 years ago has defined Joe Biden’s life in so many ways. If Biden does become president it is likely, in part, due to a sympathy vote. And a key element of this is a son with a permanent brain damage due to a car crash in 1972.
The chances are—as I suggested in the somewhat similar case of Prince Harry’s marriage to the obviously unstable Meghan Markle—that this means trouble for a Biden White House down the road.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-11-15--The Decline of the Black Caddy

The Decline of the Black Caddy

A few generations ago , all the caddies at The Masters golf tournament were black , such as Willie “ @ @ @ @ @ had his throat slashed by a jealous husband but who survived to caddy for Pres @ @ @ @ @ visits to Augusta National Golf Club .
Now , almost none are black .

A few generations ago, all the caddies at The Masters golf tournament were black, such as Willie “Cemetery” Peteet, who had his throat slashed by a jealous husband but who survived to caddy for Pres. Eisenhower on his many visits to Augusta National Golf Club.
Now, almost none are black.
Why?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-15--Ezekiel Emanuel: The US Government Should Let Americans Die In Order To Give Scarce COVID Vaccines T

Ezekiel Emanuel: The US Government Should Let Americans Die In Order To Give Scarce COVID Vaccines To Countries Where People Die Young Anyway

Joe Biden recently named bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to his COVID council .
Emanuel , a member of the energetic Emanuel family that also includes Rahm , former mayor of Chicago , and Ari , the Hollywood agent who is the source for Jeremy Piven ’ s character on Entourage , is best known for his 2014 article in The Atlantic , “ Why I Hope to Die at 75 , ” in which he announced he would refuse to get a flu vaccination after age 75 , because nobody does anything of world-historical innovative significance after 75 , so what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Many have therefore expressed concern for elderly COVID victims or for Joe Biden himself , but my suspicion is that Professor Emanuel was not thinking about killing off people like them , but about his own elderly father , the embarrassingly racist retired rightwing terrorist , as I explained in : To Rahm and Ari , condolences .
To Ezekiel , congratulations .
An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation Ezekiel J. Emanuel , [ et al ] Science 11 Sep 2020 : Once effective coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) vaccines are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This presents the question of how to distribute them fairly across countries .
… Those who think countries will inevitably engage in “ vaccine nationalism ” ( 4 ) may deem an ethical framework for vaccine distribution among countries irrelevant .
Public sentiment in some countries for retaining vaccine developed within their borders is strong , and many governments will also try to obtain vaccines produced elsewhere .
But an ethical framework has broad relevance even in the face of nationalist attitudes .
Rather than simply asserting that might makes right , governments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country ’ s right and duty to prioritize its own citizens .
Some defend national partiality as ethical .
Fellow citizens share “ associative ties , ” common governmental , civic , and other institutions , and a sense of shared identity .
Also , the legitimate authority of representative government officials inheres in their representing and promoting the interests of their citizens .
Plausibly , these relations support allowing countries to prioritize citizens over foreigners for vaccines .
Others view national partiality as unethical : People ’ s entitlement to lifesaving resources @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether some national partiality is ethical , unlimited national partiality is not .
Associative ties only justify a government ’ s giving some priority to its own citizens , not absolute priority .
Moreover , associative ties extend across national borders E.g.
, during the Gulf War of 1991 , Rahm Emanuel , Barack Obama ’ s first chief of staff , volunteered to serve in the military … in Israel .
, and citizens of different countries share common institutions .
Finally , national governments have crossborder responsibilities to help satisfy fundamental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a global health emergency .
Reasonable defenders of national partiality will differ on how much priority countries should give their citizens for vaccines .
To establish the need for an equitable international distribution , it is unnecessary to determine an optimal level of priority .
It is sufficient to identify a clear upper bound : Reasonable national partiality does not permit retaining more vaccine than the amount needed to keep the rate of transmission ( Rt ) below 1 , when that vaccine could instead mitigate substantial COVID-19–related harms in other countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ below 1 through ongoing public-health efforts .
The marginal benefit of additional doses of vaccine in a country able to keep Rt below 1 generally will pale in comparison to the potential benefits to countries whose Rt remains above 1—at least until booster vaccination is needed to maintain immunity .
Hence , with Rt below 1 , there will not be sufficient vaccine-preventable harm to justify retaining vaccine .
When a government reaches the limit of national partiality , it should release vaccines for other countries .
This makes an account of fair @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governments .
That sounds all very reasonable , but Tyler Cowen made a good point recently about what we ’ ve learned fighting this pandemic : it ’ s hard to come up with a successful moderate response because most of the time you are either winning over it or losing to it .
Moderate efforts to finetune responses to keep R-nought just under 1.0 have tended to break down fairly quickly and then soon … uh-oh , here we go again .
Three Fundamental Values Fairly distributing a COVID-19 vaccine among countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Although governments will be the initial recipients of vaccine , fair distribution across countries must reflect a moral concern for the ultimate recipients : individuals .
Three values are particularly relevant : benefiting people and limiting harm , prioritizing the disadvantaged , and equal moral concern .
Benefiting people and limiting harm is widely recognized as important across ethical theories .
Realizing this value requires defining relevant benefits , measuring them , and assessing the relative urgency—the importance and time sensitivity—of countries ’ needs .
A successful vaccine produces direct benefits by protecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infection .
It also produces indirect benefits by reducing death and morbidity arising from health systems overstressed by the pandemic , and by reducing poverty and social hardship such as closed schools .
Prioritizing the disadvantaged is a fundamental value in ethics and global health .
Realizing this value requires that vaccine distribution reflect special concern for people who are disadvantaged .
Fairly distributing a COVID-19 vaccine internationally therefore requires assessing different types of disadvantage .
Are the worst-off countries those experiencing the greatest poverty ?
Those where people have the lowest life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the lowest life expectancies is self-evidently silly .
Life expectancy before COVID was 54 years in Chad , so why prioritize American vaccines for Chadians so they can die of something else at 54 ?
But of course prioritizing on “ disadvantage ” has disparate impact on race and religion , with Japanese and Nordics having the longest life expectancies and therefore being the least deserving under Emanuel ’ s way of thinking .
Muslims , Hindus , and blacks tend to have the shortest life expectancies , so therefore they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the United States would hugely boost the world economy , which would do a lot of good for people in poor countries around the world .
If Americans start going to the mall again , demand for garments made in Bangladesh will go up .
In contrast , moderating the pandemic in Chad would have virtually no impact on people in , say , Bangladesh .
To revive the world economy , the most advantaged ( i.e.
, those with the most money to spend ) should be prioritized .
Moreover , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , knock on wood , Pfizer ’ s and Moderna ’ s , both demand expensive cold storage ( Moderna somewhat less than Pfizer ) and two injections several weeks apart , requirements best suited for first world economies .
Vaccines better suited to third world delivery capabilities are likely to follow .

Joe Biden recently named bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to his COVID council. Emanuel, a member of the energetic Emanuel family that also includes Rahm, former mayor of Chicago, and Ari, the Hollywood agent who is the source for Jeremy Piven’s character on Entourage, is best known for his 2014 article in The Atlantic, “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” in which he announced he would refuse to get a flu vaccination after age 75, because nobody does anything of world-historical innovative significance after 75, so what is the point of living anyway?
Many have therefore expressed concern for elderly COVID victims or for Joe Biden himself, but my suspicion is that Professor Emanuel was not thinking about killing off people like them, but about his own elderly father, the embarrassingly racist retired rightwing terrorist, as I explained in:
Dr. Benjamin Emanuel finally died last year at age 92.
To Rahm and Ari, condolences. To Ezekiel, congratulations.
From Science:
An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, [et al]
Science 11 Sep 2020: Once effective coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are developed, they will be scarce. This presents the question of how to distribute them fairly across countries. … Those who think countries will inevitably engage in “vaccine nationalism” (4) may deem an ethical framework for vaccine distribution among countries irrelevant. Public sentiment in some countries for retaining vaccine developed within their borders is strong, and many governments will also try to obtain vaccines produced elsewhere. But an ethical framework has broad relevance even in the face of nationalist attitudes. Rather than simply asserting that might makes right, governments typically appeal to national partiality: a country’s right and duty to prioritize its own citizens. Some defend national partiality as ethical. Fellow citizens share “associative ties,” common governmental, civic, and other institutions, and a sense of shared identity. Also, the legitimate authority of representative government officials inheres in their representing and promoting the interests of their citizens. Plausibly, these relations support allowing countries to prioritize citizens over foreigners for vaccines. Others view national partiality as unethical: People’s entitlement to lifesaving resources should not depend on nationality Regardless of whether some national partiality is ethical, unlimited national partiality is not. Associative ties only justify a government’s giving some priority to its own citizens, not absolute priority. Moreover, associative ties extend across national borders
E.g., during the Gulf War of 1991, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, volunteered to serve in the military … in Israel.
, and citizens of different countries share common institutions. Finally, national governments have crossborder responsibilities to help satisfy fundamental needs like basic health care, particularly in a global health emergency. Reasonable defenders of national partiality will differ on how much priority countries should give their citizens for vaccines. To establish the need for an equitable international distribution, it is unnecessary to determine an optimal level of priority. It is sufficient to identify a clear upper bound: Reasonable national partiality does not permit retaining more vaccine than the amount needed to keep the rate of transmission (Rt) below 1, when that vaccine could instead mitigate substantial COVID-19–related harms in other countries that have been unable to keep Rt below 1 through ongoing public-health efforts.
The marginal benefit of additional doses of vaccine in a country able to keep Rt below 1 generally will pale in comparison to the potential benefits to countries whose Rt remains above 1—at least until booster vaccination is needed to maintain immunity. Hence, with Rt below 1, there will not be sufficient vaccine-preventable harm to justify retaining vaccine. When a government reaches the limit of national partiality, it should release vaccines for other countries. This makes an account of fair allocation among countries relevant to reasonable national governments.
That sounds all very reasonable, but Tyler Cowen made a good point recently about what we’ve learned fighting this pandemic: it’s hard to come up with a successful moderate response because most of the time you are either winning over it or losing to it. Moderate efforts to finetune responses to keep R-nought just under 1.0 have tended to break down fairly quickly and then soon … uh-oh, here we go again.
Three Fundamental Values
Fairly distributing a COVID-19 vaccine among countries is a problem of distributive justice. Although governments will be the initial recipients of vaccine, fair distribution across countries must reflect a moral concern for the ultimate recipients: individuals. Three values are particularly relevant: benefiting people and limiting harm, prioritizing the disadvantaged, and equal moral concern. Benefiting people and limiting harm is widely recognized as important across ethical theories. Realizing this value requires defining relevant benefits, measuring them, and assessing the relative urgency—the importance and time sensitivity—of countries’ needs. A successful vaccine produces direct benefits by protecting people against death and morbidity caused by infection. It also produces indirect benefits by reducing death and morbidity arising from health systems overstressed by the pandemic, and by reducing poverty and social hardship such as closed schools. Prioritizing the disadvantaged is a fundamental value in ethics and global health. Realizing this value requires that vaccine distribution reflect special concern for people who are disadvantaged. Fairly distributing a COVID-19 vaccine internationally therefore requires assessing different types of disadvantage. Are the worst-off countries those experiencing the greatest poverty? Those where people have the lowest life expectancies?
Prioritizing the vaccine to people with the lowest life expectancies is self-evidently silly. Life expectancy before COVID was 54 years in Chad, so why prioritize American vaccines for Chadians so they can die of something else at 54?
Equal moral concern requires treating similar individuals similarly and not discriminating on the basis of morally irrelevant differences, such as sex, race, and religion.
But of course prioritizing on “disadvantage” has disparate impact on race and religion, with Japanese and Nordics having the longest life expectancies and therefore being the least deserving under Emanuel’s way of thinking. Muslims, Hindus, and blacks tend to have the shortest life expectancies, so therefore they are the most deserving.
Distributing different quantities of vaccine to different countries is not discriminatory if it effectively benefits people while prioritizing the disadvantaged.
Ending the pandemic in the United States would hugely boost the world economy, which would do a lot of good for people in poor countries around the world. If Americans start going to the mall again, demand for garments made in Bangladesh will go up. In contrast, moderating the pandemic in Chad would have virtually no impact on people in, say, Bangladesh.
To revive the world economy, the most advantaged (i.e., those with the most money to spend) should be prioritized.
Moreover, the first two vaccines to come online, knock on wood, Pfizer’s and Moderna’s, both demand expensive cold storage (Moderna somewhat less than Pfizer) and two injections several weeks apart, requirements best suited for first world economies. Vaccines better suited to third world delivery capabilities are likely to follow.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-15--The Continuing Misadventures Of Stereotype Threat

Since the 1990s , “ stereotype threat ” —the assertion that the reason politically privileged groups score worse on high stakes tests is because they perversely make themselves live down to pernicious stereotypes—has been far more popular than vindicated by evidence from low stakes tests .
It ’ s easy to get papers upholding stereotype threat published , while the many failed replications tend to be tossed into the circular file .
From Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in 2018 : Cardiovascular and Self-Regulatory Consequences of SES-Based Social Identity Threat September 2018 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45 ( 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Abdiel J. Flores 15.18Columbia University Tanya A. Chavez Niall Bolger 38.32Columbia University Bettina Casad 22.12University of Missouri – St. Louis This work examined the effects of socioeconomic status ( SES ) -based social identity threat on cardiovascular indexes of challenge and threat and self-regulatory strength .
Participants ( N = 104 ) took an exam described as either diagnostic of intellectual ability ( identity threat ) or framed as a problem-solving task ( control ) while we recorded cardiovascular reactivity and assessed participants ’ physical self-control .
Under identity threat , lower SES @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and cardiovascular threat reactivity .
In contrast , higher SES students under threat exhibited the reverse pattern—a boost in performance , no change in self-regulation , and cardiovascular challenge reactivity .
Furthermore , while measures of general arousal ( heart rate and pre-ejection period ) were unrelated to performance , cardiovascular patterns of challenge and threat were significantly associated with performance under identity threat .
Results provide evidence that SES-based stigma influences physiological and self-regulatory processes .
From Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in 2020 : The editor and the authors agreed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AJ , Chavez TA , Bolger N , Casad BJ .
Cardiovascular and Self-Regulatory Consequences of SES-Based Social Identity Threat .
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin .
2019 ; 45 ( 5 ) :700-714 .
Original doi:10.1177/0146167218795157 .
This article is being retracted at the request of all of the authors .
The first author of the paper , Abdiel J. Flores , contacted the journal on his own initiative to inform it that he falsified data in the paper .
He altered specific data values in Figures 1 and 2 and associated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results on the effects of SES identity threat on cardiovascular challenge/threat reactivity and on mathematics performance .
Because this data manipulation invalidates the findings , the entire article is being retracted .
Mr. Flores informed the journal that he takes full responsibility for alteration of data ; none of the co-authors participated in or had knowledge of the first author ’ s actions .
Mr. Flores self-reported this matter to his institution , Columbia University , which is handling it in accordance with institutional policy and procedure .

Earlier (2004): "Stereotype Threat" a.k.a. Occam's Butterknife
Since the 1990s, “stereotype threat”—the assertion that the reason politically privileged groups score worse on high stakes tests is because they perversely make themselves live down to pernicious stereotypes—has been far more popular than vindicated by evidence from low stakes tests. It’s easy to get papers upholding stereotype threat published, while the many failed replications tend to be tossed into the circular file.
From Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in 2018:
Cardiovascular and Self-Regulatory Consequences of SES-Based Social Identity Threat
September 2018 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45(5):014616721879515
DOI: 10.1177/0146167218795157
Authors:
Abdiel J. Flores
15.18Columbia University
Tanya A. Chavez
Niall Bolger
38.32Columbia University
Bettina Casad
22.12University of Missouri – St. Louis This work examined the effects of socioeconomic status (SES)-based social identity threat on cardiovascular indexes of challenge and threat and self-regulatory strength. Participants (N = 104) took an exam described as either diagnostic of intellectual ability (identity threat) or framed as a problem-solving task (control) while we recorded cardiovascular reactivity and assessed participants’ physical self-control. Under identity threat, lower SES students exhibited impaired performance, reduced self-control, and cardiovascular threat reactivity. In contrast, higher SES students under threat exhibited the reverse pattern—a boost in performance, no change in self-regulation, and cardiovascular challenge reactivity. Furthermore, while measures of general arousal (heart rate and pre-ejection period) were unrelated to performance, cardiovascular patterns of challenge and threat were significantly associated with performance under identity threat. Results provide evidence that SES-based stigma influences physiological and self-regulatory processes.
From Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin in 2020:
Retraction Notice
First Published November 13, 2020 Correction The editor and the authors agreed to retract the following article: Flores AJ, Chavez TA, Bolger N, Casad BJ. Cardiovascular and Self-Regulatory Consequences of SES-Based Social Identity Threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2019;45(5):700-714. Original doi:10.1177/0146167218795157. This article is being retracted at the request of all of the authors. The first author of the paper, Abdiel J. Flores, contacted the journal on his own initiative to inform it that he falsified data in the paper. He altered specific data values in Figures 1 and 2 and associated analyses that resulted in incorrect and misleading results on the effects of SES identity threat on cardiovascular challenge/threat reactivity and on mathematics performance. Because this data manipulation invalidates the findings, the entire article is being retracted. Mr. Flores informed the journal that he takes full responsibility for alteration of data; none of the co-authors participated in or had knowledge of the first author’s actions. Mr. Flores self-reported this matter to his institution, Columbia University, which is handling it in accordance with institutional policy and procedure.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-13--Back To Open Borders?, Light In The Gloom, Europe Slowly Sinks, And Retreat From Kabul, Etc.

05m45s Light in the gloom ?
( A Biden Rush might help . )
17m50s The retreat from Kabul .
@ @ @ @ @ . )
23m38s Sad faces in the Kremlin .
( Elites really believe Russia-Russia .
@ @ @ @ @ Dog .
( Why do n't we have one ? )
33m28s Derbyshire moos .
@ @ @ @ @ Belper . )
36m47s Hillary feels better !
( After four years of teeth-grinding .
@ @ @ @ @ .
( Some words of encouragement . )

01m45s Back to open borders. (Biden's immigration policy.)
05m45s Light in the gloom? (A Biden Rush might help.)
12m32s Europe slowly sinks. (Britain too.)
17m50s The retreat from Kabul. (Trump fires his DefSec.)
23m38s Sad faces in the Kremlin. (Elites really believe Russia-Russia.)
29m47s Turkmenistan's National Dog. (Why don't we have one?)
33m28s Derbyshire moos. (Not much happens in Belper.)
36m47s Hillary feels better! (After four years of teeth-grinding.)
38m11s Toobin gets fired. (Some words of encouragement.)
39m31s Tot-tossing in France. (A passion for learning.)
41m22s Aussies grovel. (Cultural appropriation Down Under.)
43m41s Signoff. (O Valiant Hearts.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your iconoclastically genial host John Derbyshire.
The fog of battle surrounding the November 3rd election has cleared somewhat, but there are still uncertainties about the consequences. Plainly there was much more than the usual amount of skullduggery in the registering and counting of votes, and it all seems to have favored Joe Biden. Whether much of it can be dealt with in the courts; and whether, if it can, the judgments will be enough to swing the result back to Trump; these are open questions as I come to the mike here.
As best I can predict, we'll be looking at a Joe Biden inauguration in January. It's not certain, and I'm glad the President and his team are fighting for what's right—all strength to them. It's probable, though, and I base my commentary on that.
So what shall we get from a Biden administration? One thing we are sure to get is open borders.
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02—Back to open borders. As VDARE.com's correspondent Jack Dalton noted on Thursday, a Biden administration will go full-bore open borders, jumping to the whips cracked by cheap-labor business lobbies and anti-white ethnic grievance activists.
The dribble of reforms and improvements made by the Trump administration's executive orders will all be canceled. If we're lucky, the new stretches of border wall will not be dynamited; but no more will be built.
The Biden people are perfectly open about their intentions. CBS News ran a report on Tuesday, presumably sourced from Biden campaign insiders, spelling it all out.
The so-called "DREAMers," illegal aliens who claim to have been brought here as children, will get full resident-alien status, leading to citizenship.
The eleven, or twenty, or thirty million non-"DREAMer" illegal aliens living here—nobody really knows the number—will also be given permanent residence, likewise leading to citizenship.
There'll be a hundred-day freeze on deportations of illegals.
Illegals not targeted by ICE—that is, they are just here illegally but aren't suspected of any other criminality—won't be arrested.
The policy of requiring non-Mexican asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are decided will end.
The ban on entry from terrorist-friendly nations will end.
The Trump administration has negotiated agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that allow us to send rejected asylum-seekers to those countries to argue their cases. The Biden administration will pull out of those agreements.
The public charge rules this administration has implemented to deny permanent residence to aliens using, or likely to use, government benefits, will be scrapped.
The limits on guest-worker visas imposed this spring will be lifted. In an ongoing pandemic with widespread unemployment, the gates will be opened to cheap foreign workers.
There will be huge increases in numbers of so-called "refugees."
Aliens given Temporary Protected Status, often decades ago, because of some crisis in their home countries, will not be forced to leave next March, as a court said they should be. "Temporary" will not, after all, mean temporary; it will mean permanent.
And so on. It's all deeply disheartening.
Are there any shafts of light in the gloom? I'll go looking for some. New segment …
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03—Light in the gloom? As I said, Biden's victory is very disheartening to those of us at VDARE.com and like-minded groups, who have been toiling away for years—for decades now—to bring the true facts about immigration to public attention, to expose the carefully-concocted blend of misty sentimentality and cold cash racketeering that guided the immigration policy of Presidents from LBJ to Barack Obama.
We advocate for a rational immigration policy: one to the advantage of American citizens in general, just as Japan's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Japanese citizens, just as Israel's immigration policy is designed for the advantage of Israeli citizens. It can be done, as those nations have shown.
Immigration is not some kind of natural force against which resistance is futile, or immoral. It's just a policy, like tax rates, farm price supports, or how many aircraft carriers we need. Donald Trump was the first President in sixty years who seemed to understand that.
Now we're back to sentimentality and racketeering, to the delight of the Koch brothers, the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley billionaires, and the refugee resettlement scammers—but to the further impoverishment of the American middle class.
And while Trump has done much with executive actions and appeals to the courts, we shouldn't let him off the hook for his administration's failures. We've heard a lot about his problems finding staffers who are on board with his policies; yet when capable, reliable people were available—I'm thinking of Kris Kobach, Steve King, Jeff Sessions—they were discarded and humiliated by Trump, the jobs they should have had given to mediocrities and anti-Trumpers.
Above all there was that wasted two years when Trump's party controlled Congress. Real immigration reform needs legislation; legislation needs congressional action.
To be sure, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were much more interested in feeding their business-lobby donors with cheap foreign labor and virtue-signalling their anti-racist piety than in enacting Trump's policies; but with energy, determination, and the negotiating skills he boasts of, Trump might have gotten something done. He didn't even try.
The future, however, isn't completely dark. Quote from that CBS report on Biden's plans, quote:
While Mr Biden's team will have the legal authority to overturn Mr Trump's policies, Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the now-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), said it will not be an easy endeavor, given bureaucratic requirements, the ongoing COVID-19 emergency and the volume of changes implemented over the past four years.
[Inner quote from her.] "The Trump administration had an extraordinary preoccupation with immigration issues and they invested an enormous amount of attention and single-minded focus on immigration … An administration that wants to undo those changes would have to devote a similar amount of time and effort." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
If the lady is right, Trump's actions on immigration won't all be swept away with a stroke of the pen. Some of them may survive.
And then there's the Biden Rush. American voters may not give immigration the attention it deserves, but elsewhere in the world, interest is very keen. Hundreds of millions of people in crap-hole countries worldwide have been watching this recent election intensely. They believe a Biden administration will throw the borders wide open, and they are packing their bags to make their way to those open borders.
If this develops into a real human tide, as it well might, immigration will be front and center of the national consciousness, with strong public pressure to re-impose controls.
"Numbers are of the essence," said the great British immigration patriot Enoch Powell. Indeed they are; but the sheer stupendous numbers of people who want to come and live in America is the hardest thing to get across to ordinary voters.
With the encouragement of Biden and his people, those numbers may be clearly visible on our TV screens a few months from now … or perhaps in the run-up to the 2022 mid-terms.
This could get interesting.
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04—Europe slowly sinks. As a footnote to that, having mentioned Enoch Powell there, while immediate prospects for the U.S.A. are dark, for Britain and Western Europe the longer-term prospects are way darker.
In Britain's case, Brexit is a factor. Remember Brexit? In 2016 the Brits voted to leave the European Union. That was one of the two great populist-nationalist events of that year, the other of course being the election of Donald Trump.
Three and a half years of fussing and fudging followed, until at last, on January 31st this year, Britain did formally leave the EU.
Key word there: "formally." Britain's out of the EU but still subject to EU laws and regulations until the end of this year, December 31st. This eleven-month span from January 31st to December 31st, is the so-called "transition period," when details of future trade, customs, travel rules, and, yes, immigration are worked out.
So seven weeks from now, Britain will be really, truly, at last, finally, no more fudging, honest injun out of the EU. What will Britain's immigration rules then look like?
Incredibly, with severe lockdowns leading to soaring unemployment, with illegal immigration at levels that an independent inspector has told the government are, quote, "unsustainable," end quote, and with widespread housing shortages, incredibly the government wants to relax immigration controls.
You ready for the punch line? Britain's current ruling party is the Conservative Party!
The post-Brexit immigration rules were published three weeks ago. The changes that have gotten the most attention relate to work permits for skilled workers, like our own H-1B visas.
The cap on total numbers has been removed. Eligible skill levels have been lowered. The minimum salary on offer has been reduced … These post-Brexit rules are a cheapskate employer's wet dream, and of course a middle-class British worker's nightmare.
Last year here on Radio Derb I pooh-poohed the idea that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had any kind of a clue on the National Question. I didn't know the half of it. National Question-wise, this guy is worse than Tony Blair.
In Western Europe, as in the English Channel, the invasion quietly accelerates. Less than a hundred miles off the coast of West Africa lie the Canary Islands, which are Spanish territory. Their being Spanish means that an African who wants to live in Europe just has to cross that few miles of sea to the Canaries.
So far this year 11,000 have done so. Just last weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 2,000 Africans on 45 boats landed on the islands. The authorities have had to put them up in hotels, a thing the British have also had to resort to with illegal aliens crossing the Channel.
There is no strong will, in Britain or Western Europe, to do anything about this. The citizens of these countries seem determined on national suicide. Meanwhile living conditions in Africa get worse. Latest news: Civil war is breaking out in Ethiopia.
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05—The retreat from Kabul. President Trump fired his Defense Secretary on Monday. This was Mark Esper, who had held the job since July last year.
Prior to joining the administration three years ago, Esper was a lobbyist for big defense contractors. Did Trump know that when he appointed him? If you get elected President on an America First platform, why would you hire in a front man for the military-industrial complex, and then promote him to your cabinet? Just another Trump administration mystery we'll have to wait for the memoirs to clarify.
Anyway, Trump fired Esper on Monday. Major areas of discord seem to have been
Esper opposed using regular troops against the anarchist mobs trashing our cities this summer, and
He wants to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases.
So good riddance to another lousy hire. Don't let the door hit ya, pal.
Esper's replacement is Christopher Miller, a counter-terrorism expert who won his credentials through thirty years in Special Ops actually fighting terrorists.
That's good work, but kind of ground level. For some loftier geostrategic perspective, Acting Defense Secretary Miller has hired in as senior adviser retired army Colonel Douglas Macgregor.
That's good news, or would be if this wasn't so late in the game. Macgregor is on record as believing a lot of what Radio Derb believes.
Pull our troops out of Afghanistan and close the embassy in Kabul.
We have zero national interest in Syria and should have nothing to do with the place.
Defending South Korea is a job for the South Koreans, not the United States. They have twice the population of North Korea and fifty times the GDP. Let them take care of their own defenses.
He thinks European countries have been too welcoming to, his actual words, "Muslim invaders."
And so on. That's gotten Colonel Macgregor tagged as "divisive" and "iconoclastic" by the media—another good sign. "Divisive"? I'm all for dividing off lobbyists for defense contractors and Middle East potentates from Americans who just want their country secure and prosperous, minding its own business.
I should add that Colonel Macgregor's boldest iconoclasm is his desire to get rid of the U.S. Marine Corps. Quote from him on that:
The Marines as currently organized and equipped are about as relevant as the Army's horse cavalry in the 1930s.
End quote.
That's not as outrageously iconoclastic as it sounds. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower both favored scrapping the Marine Corps. Both of them were, though, like Colonel Macgregor, Army veterans. Sharing a house as I do with another Army veteran, I can testify that some Army guys have … issues with the Marines. I'll just leave it at that and return to my main theme.
Which was, what? Oh yeah: sensible new policies on our World Policeman role.
Remember that this, along with patriotic immigration reform, these were the two issues that, more than any others, got Trump elected in 2016. The Clinton-Bush-Obama policies of "invade the world, invite the world" were out of favor with a huge segment of the voting population. Trump promised to end them.
In the event he didn't do much either of de-invading or de-inviting. The things he did do on immigration, Biden has promised to undo.
Will the same apply to policing the world? Will Biden send our troops back out policing after Trump has brought them home, assuming he can? I guess we'll find out.
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06—Sad faces in the Kremlin. Here's an old story from my Liverpool days. For background I need to explain that mid-20th-century Liverpool had two First Division football teams—that's soccer, of course—named Liverpool City and Everton.
Now Liverpool was almost as much an Irish city as an English one. It's just across the water from Ireland, so there was considerable Irish influence. That included sectarianism, strong Protestant and Catholic identities. One manifestation of that was in football. Liverpool City and its supporters skewed heavily Protestant; Everton were for the Catholics.
OK, the story. One year a derby was played, Liverpool against Everton. The result was a win for Liverpool. On a bus taking supporters home after the game, there was a glum little group of Everton supporters tasting the ashes of defeat. One of them was heard to say: "Sure, there'll be some sad faces in the Vatican tonight."
For some reason I had that story on my mind last weekend when the media declared that Trump had lost the election. The phrase my inner cynic came up with was: "Sure, there'll be some sad faces in the Kremlin tonight."
I hasten to explain that wasn't me thinking that; it was me guessing at what the anti-Trump Establishment were all thinking. Hadn't they been telling us for five years that Trump was Vladimir Putin's glove puppet?
So it would make sense for them to believe that Trump's loss would be Putin's loss. So, yes, according to them there should be some sad faces in the Kremlin.
I dismissed those thoughts as low and facetious. Surely Establishment progressives aren't that stupid?
I dismissed too soon. Here's a progressive tweeter labeled "Trump's Zombieland," November 11th, responding to the news about Colonel Macgregor's appointment and his wish to bring the troops home. Tweet:
Putin has called in all of Trump's carrot and stick IOUs. Trump has 2 months to make good on his end.
An America in shambles was a bonus for Putin. Giving Russia the Middle East was the payday that Putin bargained for.
What do you think all those Pentagon firings are about.
End tweet.
That is actually, really, the Establishment mindset. Putin put Trump in power by hacking the 2016 election. The Russians have kept him in power by similar shady means, and he's been obediently doing their bidding.
Now they're calling in their IOUs. Their endgame is to replace our influence in the Middle East with theirs.
Leaving aside that there is no evidence Russian hacking had any significant effect in 2016, and that the Trump administration has done Putin no favors—by, for example, lifting the sanctions that followed the 2014 annexation of the Crimea—I wish someone in the Establishment would explain a few things they have never bothered to explain. Like:
Why is influence in the Middle East such a big prize? We don't even need their oil any more.
Is chasing Muslim fanatics around the Hindu Kush for twenty years really a good way to spend our national resources, and the lives of our soldiers?
Russia's population is less than half of ours, and declining. That's spread across a land area close to twice of ours. They have no economy to speak of, other than pulling oil and gas out of the ground. Their society is a swamp of crime, corruption, and alcoholism. I should fear Russia as a threat or a rival to the U.S.A. … why?
If it's loud, open, and plausible rivalry I should worry about, doesn't China outweigh Russia by a factor of at least ten?
If that tweeter, or some other Establishment shill, wants to address those questions, I'm all ears.
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07—Turkmenistan's National Dog. Here's an item from — yes!—Turkmenistan.
You know how your state has a state song, a state bird, a state flower, and so on? Well, Turkmenistan has a national dog: the Alabay, described here as "a home-bred Turkmen variety of the Central Asian shepherd dog."
It's quite a handsome critter, the Alabay. "Strong and fearless. Independent, freedom-loving and confident," says this website I'm looking at. "Body heavy, huge, balanced and muscular … Weight 40 to 80 pounds." That's a big dog.
No surprise, given all that, to learn that Turkmenistan's strong, fearless, balanced and muscular president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, patron and friend of Radio Derb, is also a big fan of the Alabay. Last year he wrote a book about it, to unanimous acclaim from Turkmenistan's literary critics.
On Tuesday last President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov accorded the breed a further honor, unveiling a golden (actually, of course, gilt) statue of an Alabay in the center of the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat.
The statue is hard to miss: It's nineteen feet high, on top of a plinth thirty feet high, in a residential area of the city inhabited by government workers.
The BBC, reporting on this in its usual snooty style, still burning with resentment at the loss of Britain's empire, honked that, honk:
Despite the grandeur of the statue, much of Turkmenistan's population is impoverished. The country is ranked one of the least free in the world by press freedom organisation RSF, just one place above North Korea.
End honk.
Yeah, right, Sir Humphrey. Whatever. Here's one statue that, unlike yours and ours, won't be daubed with anarchist slogans, or pulled off its plinth by a jeering mob—not while President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is there to protect it.
Long live President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov! Long live the noble republic of Turkmenistan!
[Clip: Turkmen national anthem.]
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08—Derbyshire moos. Derbyshire, as well as being the surname of your genial host, is also the name of an English county, one of the 39 historic counties in the mother country. It's a bit of a backwater: rural and hilly, no great centers of power, wealth, or influence, not much industry. The busier, smokier counties to its north and west regard Derbyshire folk as gap-toothed bumpkins.
Derbyshire born,
Derbyshire bred:
Strong in the arm —
Weak in the head.
I hasten to say that other than sharing its name, I have nothing to do with Derbyshire, and have no gaps in my teeth. I have only been in Derbyshire twice, briefly on business both times. That doesn't stop Radio Derb listeners sending me news items about Derbyshire, usually items that reinforce the bumpkin stereotype.
Here's one such. This is a story from BBC News, November 7th, headline: Belper's mass moo returns for second lockdown.
Belper is a small town a few miles north of Derby. There was a coronavirus lockdown there from March to June. To keep up their spirits, the townspeople organized a daily moo. That's "moo" as in, the sound made by a cow. At 6:30 every evening they would stand on their doorsteps or lean out of their windows and moo for two minutes.
Quote from the BBC story:
Back in April, resident Isabel Kennedy said the moo had become "the highlight of my day."
End quote. Are you getting the impression that not a lot happens in Belper?
The lockdown was suspended in June as the pandemic ebbed. Now the virus is coming back and another lockdown has been ordered; so the good people of Belper are warming up to resume their daily moo.
That's the latest moos from Derbyshire.
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09—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Contemplating President Trump's defeat, Hillary Clinton told an interviewer that, quote:
I am feeling better than I have felt in four years
End quote.
Can you imagine taking politics so seriously you've been out of sorts for four years over losing a race? Well, if you're female you probably can. As I've noted before, quote from me:
Women take things a whole lot more personally than men do.
End quote.
I do understand, though, how galling it must be for Mrs Clinton, after devoting all those years to being some guy's wife with opinions out of the Wellesley College Progressive Student's Handbook, 1968 edition, to lose an election to a political nobody out of right field — a guy who made his fortune in, eiuw, business.
I'm glad you're feeling better, Hillary.
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Item: I mentioned in the podcast three weeks ago the case of Jeffrey Toobin, star writer at New Yorker magazine. Toobin was caught jerkin' the gherkin when he thought he was off-camera on a Zoom conference. The magazine suspended him pounding … I'm sorry: pending, pending an investigation.
Wednesday this week the New Yorker announced the investigation was complete and Toobin had been fired.
It's a sad story … but not all that sad. I'm here to assure Mr Toobin that getting dumped by a prestigious magazine is not the end of the world. He's a smart guy, and only sixty years old—a spring chicken. If he can't get work in the magazine business, he's still young enough to adapt and change careers. A guy as capable as Toobin should be able to turn his hand to anything.
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Item: Very little remains of my high-school French. I only did one year of it, then I switched to German as being more mathy and sciencey. I can still construe "La plume de ma tante est sur le bureau de mon oncle," but beyond that all is mystery.
I therefore had to resort to Google Translate for this one: "Je ne lance pas mes enfants par-dessus le portail." That, according to Google, means: "I don't throw my children over the gate."
The story here concerns Trillade primary school in Avignon, southern France. The school is surrounded by a six-foot fence with a six-foot gate in it. At precisely 8:30 a.m. the gate is closed and locked. Local parents who missed the deadline had been throwing their kids over the gate into the schoolyard. So to discourage this practice, the school has posted a big sign outside saying "Je ne lance pas mes enfants par-dessus le portail."
I think I did the right thing switching to German. Ich werfe meine Kinder nicht über das Tor.
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Item: From even further afield, here is a once-proud nation of pioneers, adventurers, yeoman farmers, and … well, OK, convicts, all bending over and grabbing their ankles in self-abasement at the demand of social activists.
Yes, this is Australia. The postal service down there is running a campaign to get people writing the aboriginal names of cities and districts when they address a letter or parcel. So instead of addressing your Christmas card to Sydney, you write it as "Eora"; Melbourne should be "Woiworung"; for Brisbane you should write "Yuggera"; and so on.
Aboriginal activist Rachael McPhail—who, by the way, looks about as aboriginal as I do—started the campaign on social media in August, telling us that aboriginal people had lived in Australia for at least 60,000 years.
Well, that's nice. In all those 60,000 years, however, aborigines never developed any kind of writing system; so by imposing our Latin alphabet on their precious place-names, aren't they committing an act of cultural appropriation?
Come to think of it, aborigines never, in those 60,000 years, developed a postal service. Nor did they develop agriculture, enabling their people to feed themselves up to the size of Ms McPhail, who I would judge weighs north of 300 lbs. These things were all gifts of the white man.
You're welcome, Ma'am.
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10—Signoff. That's it, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening; and particular thanks, in this week of Veterans' Day, to any veterans among the Radio Derb listenership.
As is customary at this time of year, I shall play us out with what is, in my opinion, the loveliest of all hymns appropriate to Veterans' Day—or, as I was brought up to call it, Remembrance Day. Here is the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, singing "O Valiant Hearts."
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-11-13--Biden Transition Official Thinks The U.S. Has Too Much Free Speech, Wants To Change That

So who is this person ?
And what did he write ?
So who defines `` speech that incites hate @ @ @ @ @ diplomats now authorized experts on the U.S. Constitution ?
Stengel says such speech `` can @ @ @ @ @ against another . ''
But the group perpetrating the violence is not the one exercising @ @ @ @ @ Muslims have veto power over what people in our society say about Islam ?
Here @ @ @ @ @ thing again .
What about all the false narratives spread by our own Mainstream Media @ @ @ @ @ them .
Even Stengel admits that `` there 's no agreed-upon definition of what hate @ @ @ @ @ That makes it a weapon to be used by a dominant group to shut out @ @ @ @ @ .
What about the anti-white rhetoric so common today ?
Would that be covered ?
@ @ @ @ @ speech and we need to do it now before we lose it .

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team leader for US-owned media outlets wants to redefine freedom of speech and make “hate speech” a crime.
[Joe Biden transition official wrote op-ed advocating free speech restrictions, by Steven Nelson, New York Post, November 13, 2020]
So who is this person?
Richard Stengel is the Biden transition “Team Lead” for the US Agency for Global Media, the US government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
And what did he write?
Stengel, an Obama administration alumnus, wrote last year in a Washington Post op-ed that US freedom of speech was too unfettered and that changes must be considered. He wrote: “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate.”
So who defines "speech that incites hate"?
Stengel offered two examples of speech that he has an issue with: Quran burning and circulation of “false narratives” by Russia during the 2016 election.
Regarding Quran burning
“Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?” Stengel wrote.
So are Arab diplomats now authorized experts on the U.S. Constitution?
“It’s a fair question. Yes, the First Amendment protects the ‘thought that we hate,’ but it should not protect hateful speech that can cause violence by one group against another. In an age when everyone has a megaphone, that seems like a design flaw.”
Stengel says such speech "can cause violence by one group against another." But the group perpetrating the violence is not the one exercising the free speech.
Should Muslims have veto power over what people in our society say about Islam?
Stengel wrote that “our foremost liberty also protects any bad actors who hide behind it to weaken our society,” adding, “Russian agents assumed fake identities, promulgated false narratives and spread lies on Twitter and Facebook, all protected by the First Amendment.”
Here we go with the Russia thing again.
What about all the false narratives spread by our own Mainstream Media? Stengel doesn't mention them.
Stengel until recently worked as a paid MSNBC contributor. He led the National Constitution Center from 2004 to 2006, and was undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2014 to 2016 during the final years of the Obama administration. So a guy with this opinion was running the National Constitution Center? Did he believe what he believes now about free speech?
“Since World War II, many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred. These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation,” Stengel wrote.
Even Stengel admits that "there's no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is." That makes it a weapon to be used by a dominant group to shut out speech by a less-dominant group.
“I think it’s time to consider these statutes. The modern standard of dangerous speech comes from Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) and holds that speech that directly incites ‘imminent lawless action’ or is likely to do so can be restricted. Domestic terrorists such as Dylann Roof and Omar Mateen and the El Paso shooter were consumers of hate speech. Speech doesn’t pull the trigger, but does anyone seriously doubt that such hateful speech creates a climate where such acts are more likely?”
What about the anti-white rhetoric so common today? Would that be covered?
We need to defend free speech and we need to do it now before we lose it.


vdare--2020-11-13--GOP Always Surrenders To Voter Fraud—Example: Carter Vs. Ford, New York State, 1976

Earlier , by Ann Coulter : The Democrats ’ Guide to Losing Gracefully In her recent article , Ann Coulter noted that Democrats always cry foul when beaten honestly , but the GOP always surrenders gracefully when the Democrats try to steal something .
One example was Of course , that 's from the Democrats ' point of view .
But if there 's one man who could be counted on to surrender gracefully , it was Gerald Ford , who surrendered over the 1965 Immigration Act , the Vietnam War , Watergate , Affirmative Action , Amnesty ( for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 1976 election .
Republican journalist Victor Lasky wrote in Jimmy Carter , The Man And The Myth : And so , finally , in the bicentennial year of 1976 , the American people went to the polls .
Not all who were entitled to vote , however , did so .
Just 54.4 percent of the 150 million eligible , the lowest election turnout since Truman edged Dewey in 1948 .
Carter won the electoral vote 297 to 241 , the popular vote 40.8 million to Ford 's 39.1 million .
Ford @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But he needed five or six .
Had Ford carried New York with its 41 electoral votes , he would have won the election .
But he lost the Empire State by 289,000 votes .
And though New York Republicans were prepared to demand the impoundment of all the voting machines because of suspected irregularities , the White House decided the Democrats could n't have pilfered all those votes .
You can see the story G.O.P .
WITHDRAWS SUIT ON BALLOTS IN NEW YORK , November 4 , 1976 , on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ position seems to have been that there were too many votes for them to have been all stolen , a position Steve Sailer mocked here much more recently : The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number of people working together to win elections with machine-like coordination : a “ political machine ” if you can imagine such a thing .
But , of course , political machines don ’ t exist .
NYT : Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 'Political Machine , ' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept , November 7 , 2020 Sometimes it feels like Republican political machines either do n't exist , or they 're controlled by the other side .

Earlier, by Ann Coulter: The Democrats’ Guide to Losing Gracefully
In her recent article, Ann Coulter noted that Democrats always cry foul when beaten honestly, but the GOP always surrenders gracefully when the Democrats try to steal something.
One example was
1976: Carter won—FAIR ELECTION, CLEAN AS A WHISTLE!!
Of course, that's from the Democrats' point of view. But if there's one man who could be counted on to surrender gracefully, it was Gerald Ford, who surrendered over the 1965 Immigration Act, the Vietnam War, Watergate, Affirmative Action, Amnesty (for draft dodgers, not illegals) and the 1976 election.
Republican journalist Victor Lasky wrote in Jimmy Carter, The Man And The Myth:
And so, finally, in the bicentennial year of 1976, the American people went to the polls. Not all who were entitled to vote, however, did so. Just 54.4 percent of the 150 million eligible, the lowest election turnout since Truman edged Dewey in 1948. Carter won the electoral vote 297 to 241, the popular vote 40.8 million to Ford's 39.1 million. Ford carried four of the eight biggest states. But he needed five or six. Had Ford carried New York with its 41 electoral votes, he would have won the election. But he lost the Empire State by 289,000 votes. And though New York Republicans were prepared to demand the impoundment of all the voting machines because of suspected irregularities, the White House decided the Democrats couldn't have pilfered all those votes.
You can see the story G.O.P. WITHDRAWS SUIT ON BALLOTS IN NEW YORK, November 4, 1976, on the NY Times website.
The GOP surrender position seems to have been that there were too many votes for them to have been all stolen, a position Steve Sailer mocked here much more recently:
The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number of people working together to win elections with machine-like coordination: a “political machine” if you can imagine such a thing. But, of course, political machines don’t exist. NYT: Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos Working Together Like a Machine: a 'Political Machine,' if You Can Imagine Such a Concept, November 7, 2020
Sometimes it feels like Republican political machines either don't exist, or they're controlled by the other side.


vdare--2020-11-13--In Defense Of Pfizer: The Growing Democratic Anti-Vaxxer Movement

Earlier : Why Did Pfizer And FDA Agree To Not Release The News Of The Vaccine 's Success In October As The Original Protocol Would Have Required ?
With Democrats promoting anti-vaxxer tropes in the fall to counter the Trump Administration ’ s ( now successful ) strategy of removing roadblocks to ultra-fast vaccine development , Pfizer was in a delicate position .
OCTOBER 12 , 2020 Americans ’ Readiness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Falls to 50 % BY LYDIA SAAD The decline in Americans ’ readiness to be vaccinated obscures divergent trends among party groups , with Republicans showing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and independents showing decreased comfort levels .
After two months of Democrats being more likely than Republicans to say they would be vaccinated , about half of all political party groups now say they would get the vaccine .
This marks a new low among Democrats and independents , while Republicans ’ interest in getting the vaccine has returned to the levels recorded in July , up from their low point in late August .
Americans ’ willingness to be vaccinated right away if an FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19 was available among @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of Democrats , 49 % of Republicans and 47 % of independents would get the vaccine .
Democrats and independents have become less willing but Republicans have become more willing .
Democrats ’ reduced confidence follows President Donald Trump ’ s Labor Day announcement that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready in October , as well as subsequent news reports stating that Trump is eager to see a vaccine delivered before the election .
Trump ’ s accelerated timeline does not align with that of many government health experts , and this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a vaccine distributed that soon would be effective and safe .
Democrats may be answering Gallup ’ s question about getting an FDA-approved vaccine “ right now ” in the context of Trump ’ s position , not as a hypothetical scenario .
However , a recent CNN poll also found a decline in public willingness to get the vaccine , from 56 % in August to 51 % in early October , without mentioning a timeframe .
That question reads , “ If a vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection were widely available @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , personally , try to get that vaccine , or not ?
” Taking the two results together , it appears some Americans have lost confidence in the safety of the approval process for the vaccine , and are not merely answering as if a vaccine were literally available “ right now.
” Pfizer couldn ’ t apply for FDA approval of its vaccine until the second half of November because the FDA had mandated two months of safety data .
But Pfizer had published its clinical protocol , which included this table @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analyses of the efficacy ( rather than the safety ) of the vaccine : If I recall correctly , the Pfizer CEO had led investors to believe that they would announce results of the interim analyses if the results proved either so good ( according to the numbers above ) that the trial was a success or was a futile failure , but not necessarily if the results were in the Keep Going middle range .
New virus cases among volunteers came in a little slower than expected because the vaccine was so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ became clear that the case count would soon trigger the first interim analysis and perhaps even the second Before the Election .
But if Pfizer announced the efficacy of its vaccine by November 2 , The Establishment would come down on it and its fledgling vaccine like a landslide .
The announcement would probably give Trump a tiny boost , but he was so far behind in the polls that it looked like Pfizer would be dealing with the Biden Administration for the next four years in any case .
Not surprisingly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a knee and run out the clock by shutting down processing of nasal swabs so it could claim to the SEC that it didn ’ t know it had reached enough cases to trigger the called-for interim analyses .

Earlier: Why Did Pfizer And FDA Agree To Not Release The News Of The Vaccine's Success In October As The Original Protocol Would Have Required?
With Democrats promoting anti-vaxxer tropes in the fall to counter the Trump Administration’s (now successful) strategy of removing roadblocks to ultra-fast vaccine development, Pfizer was in a delicate position.
From Gallup:
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Americans’ Readiness to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Falls to 50%
BY LYDIA SAAD The decline in Americans’ readiness to be vaccinated obscures divergent trends among party groups, with Republicans showing increased willingness to be vaccinated but Democrats and independents showing decreased comfort levels. After two months of Democrats being more likely than Republicans to say they would be vaccinated, about half of all political party groups now say they would get the vaccine. This marks a new low among Democrats and independents, while Republicans’ interest in getting the vaccine has returned to the levels recorded in July, up from their low point in late August.
Americans’ willingness to be vaccinated right away if an FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19 was available among partisans since July. Currently, 53% of Democrats, 49% of Republicans and 47% of independents would get the vaccine. Democrats and independents have become less willing but Republicans have become more willing. Democrats’ reduced confidence follows President Donald Trump’s Labor Day announcement that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready in October, as well as subsequent news reports stating that Trump is eager to see a vaccine delivered before the election. Trump’s accelerated timeline does not align with that of many government health experts, and this disagreement has raised concerns as to whether a vaccine distributed that soon would be effective and safe. Democrats may be answering Gallup’s question about getting an FDA-approved vaccine “right now” in the context of Trump’s position, not as a hypothetical scenario. However, a recent CNN poll also found a decline in public willingness to get the vaccine, from 56% in August to 51% in early October, without mentioning a timeframe. That question reads, “If a vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection were widely available at a low cost, would you, personally, try to get that vaccine, or not?” Taking the two results together, it appears some Americans have lost confidence in the safety of the approval process for the vaccine, and are not merely answering as if a vaccine were literally available “right now.”
Pfizer couldn’t apply for FDA approval of its vaccine until the second half of November because the FDA had mandated two months of safety data. But Pfizer had published its clinical protocol, which included this table on p. 103 laying out four interim analyses of the efficacy (rather than the safety) of the vaccine:
If I recall correctly, the Pfizer CEO had led investors to believe that they would announce results of the interim analyses if the results proved either so good (according to the numbers above) that the trial was a success or was a futile failure, but not necessarily if the results were in the Keep Going middle range.
New virus cases among volunteers came in a little slower than expected because the vaccine was so effective, but at some point it became clear that the case count would soon trigger the first interim analysis and perhaps even the second Before the Election.
But if Pfizer announced the efficacy of its vaccine by November 2, The Establishment would come down on it and its fledgling vaccine like a landslide. The announcement would probably give Trump a tiny boost, but he was so far behind in the polls that it looked like Pfizer would be dealing with the Biden Administration for the next four years in any case.
Not surprisingly, Pfizer appears to have decided to take a knee and run out the clock by shutting down processing of nasal swabs so it could claim to the SEC that it didn’t know it had reached enough cases to trigger the called-for interim analyses.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-12--Cornell English Department: Calling The English Dept. The English Dept. Is Racist

Cornell University ’ s English department voted to change its name to the “ department of literatures in English ” to challenge “ structural forms of racism.
” In their first faculty meeting of the semester , Cornell faculty introduced the proposal in order to combat the “ conflation of English as a language and English as a nationality , ” Director of Undergraduate Studies professor Kate McCullough told the Cornell Daily Sun .
… The term “ English Department ” might give students the idea that English literature was invented by the English , which would mean that some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other people ’ s ancestors did not , which can not be true .
The term “ Department of Literatures in English ” demonstrates that African-American literature owes no debts to English literature .
They just are literatures that happen to be in English .
It ’ s not like African-American writers have been influenced by , say , the King James Bible .
Carole Boyce-Davies [ right ] one of the professors who wrote the original name change proposal , says she was motivated by the increasing popularity of the Black Lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Floyd .
… Levine said that the name change “ is in keeping with the University ’ s call to have us really rethink our everyday practices around racism.
” “ Around ” is Preposition of the Year .

From Campus Reform:
To fight racism, Cornell renames its English department Benjamin Zeisloft | Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent
Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:52 AM Cornell University’s English department voted to change its name to the “department of literatures in English” to challenge “structural forms of racism.” In their first faculty meeting of the semester, Cornell faculty introduced the proposal in order to combat the “conflation of English as a language and English as a nationality,” Director of Undergraduate Studies professor Kate McCullough told the Cornell Daily Sun. …
The term “English Department” might give students the idea that English literature was invented by the English, which would mean that some people’s ancestors accomplished things that other people’s ancestors did not, which cannot be true.
The term “Department of Literatures in English” demonstrates that African-American literature owes no debts to English literature. They just are literatures that happen to be in English. It’s not like African-American writers have been influenced by, say, the King James Bible.
Carole Boyce-Davies [right] one of the professors who wrote the original name change proposal, says she was motivated by the increasing popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd. … Levine said that the name change “is in keeping with the University’s call to have us really rethink our everyday practices around racism.”
“Around” is Preposition of the Year.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-16--I Was There: Million MAGA March A HUGE SUCCESS—But Police Fail To Quell After-Dark Antifa Attacks

See also : Patriot Strength in Numbers Stopped BLM In Berkeley Springs WV .
And , Yes Virginia ( Dare ) , There ARE Black Trump Supporters It was exhilarating : Tens of thousands of Trump supporters descended on Washington D.C. for a `` Million MAGA March / Stop the Steal Rally '' protesting the alleged election of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as president of the United States .
After a summer of terror by Black Lives Matter rioters and Antifa in nearly every major city in the U.S. , it was time for the sleeping giant to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Steal protest went off without a hitch .
During the afternoon march , Antifa had only a small showing , dwarfed by the thousands of Trump supporters .
In our latest BitChute channel upload , you 'll see our coverage of the march and hear from the Patriots who are urging Trump not to concede what they consider an illegitimate election .
[ See fullscreen on Bitchute here . ]
Speaking with attendees , we asked whether or not they believe Trump should concede in the case that Joe Biden is officially declared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP that does not support our president will be out .
We are watching . ''
says Lisa Westerman .
We met her in front of the Supreme Court , where patriots were facing off with Antifa in black bloc clothing .
`` This !
These people , '' she said , pointing at Antifa behind the police , `` that were allowed to tear and burn down cities .
We are taking our country back ! ''
Of course , the Main Stream Media condemned the rally , claiming it was `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go about unmasked .
Of course these were the same media hypocrites who have long supported private citizens joining gangs of street rioters and looters in `` mostly peaceful protests . ''
But a protest in support of the President of the United States ?
That 's dangerous !
Alex Jones , Nick Fuentes , Vincent James , and Mike Lindell were just a few of the patriots to join the marchers .
From Pennsylvania Avenue , just outside of the White House , a parade of red Make America Great Again hats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ building where they would demand a judgement on election fraud .
At Harry 's Pub , we sat down with Shane Trejo , a former Michigan poll watcher turned whistle-blower when he encountered what he believed to be election fraud .
Our tight production schedule was interrupted when the Communist vigilantes saw their time to strike .
At 6:30pm , while shooting our last scheduled interviews before returning home to begin a blitzkrieg editing session , we began hearing commotion from the streets outside .
Heading out the doors , we quickly realized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soon .
Antifa took over the streets to prey upon patriots celebrating after a successful day in their nation ’ s capital city .
Although ignored by the MSM , it was serious : VIDEO : A family is harassed , led to tears while harassed by Antifa in D.C. Outside Harry 's Pub , police had formed a line on either side of the block , preventing anyone from getting in or out .
We unpacked our gear and attempted to get the story from those who were locked in with us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officers left to deal with brawls breaking out across the city .
An elderly man was knocked unconscious by a black woman in Antifa garb while defending patriots who were being threatened by black bloc Marxists .
VIDEO : BLM protestor knocked onto pavement after attacking elderly Trump supporter earlier in the day .
: Sorry , that page does not exist These were only a handful of incidents that occurred as night fell .
It was vital that the Proud Boys , and other like-minded patriots were on duty to protect innocent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Proud Boys : `` America ’ s Last Line Of Defense Against The Left ’ s Fascistic Antifa Storm Troopers '' The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department had a difficult job .
But the fact is that all this violence came from the Left .
And they did not quell it .
Noah Arnold [ email him ] is a full time video producer working with deplatformed personalities across the dissident right .

See also: Patriot Strength in Numbers Stopped BLM In Berkeley Springs WV. And, Yes Virginia (Dare), There ARE Black Trump Supporters
It was exhilarating: Tens of thousands of Trump supporters descended on Washington D.C. for a "Million MAGA March / Stop the Steal Rally" protesting the alleged election of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as president of the United States. After a summer of terror by Black Lives Matter rioters and Antifa in nearly every major city in the U.S., it was time for the sleeping giant to show their numbers. The Stop the Steal protest went off without a hitch. During the afternoon march, Antifa had only a small showing, dwarfed by the thousands of Trump supporters. In our latest BitChute channel upload, you'll see our coverage of the march and hear from the Patriots who are urging Trump not to concede what they consider an illegitimate election.
Watch the latest video at bitchute.com
[See fullscreen on Bitchute here.]
Speaking with attendees, we asked whether or not they believe Trump should concede in the case that Joe Biden is officially declared President-Elect.
"Any Republican in the GOP that does not support our president will be out. We are watching." says Lisa Westerman. We met her in front of the Supreme Court, where patriots were facing off with Antifa in black bloc clothing. "This! These people," she said, pointing at Antifa behind the police, "that were allowed to tear and burn down cities. We are taking our country back!"
Of course, the Main Stream Media condemned the rally, claiming it was "unsafe" for thousands of people to go about unmasked. Of course these were the same media hypocrites who have long supported private citizens joining gangs of street rioters and looters in "mostly peaceful protests." But a protest in support of the President of the United States? That's dangerous!
Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Vincent James, and Mike Lindell were just a few of the patriots to join the marchers. From Pennsylvania Avenue, just outside of the White House, a parade of red Make America Great Again hats made their way to the Supreme Court building where they would demand a judgement on election fraud.
At Harry's Pub, we sat down with Shane Trejo, a former Michigan poll watcher turned whistle-blower when he encountered what he believed to be election fraud.
"I actually saw all the ballots come in as a poll challenger in Detroit at the absentee voting processing center. On election night they showed up with 61 boxes of ballots at the dead of night—3:30AM, but all the ballots had to be in by 8PM... three African American gentlemen show up with boxes of ballots at the dead of night and we have no chain of custody, have no clue where they were from and could have easily been fake."
Our tight production schedule was interrupted when the Communist vigilantes saw their time to strike. At 6:30pm, while shooting our last scheduled interviews before returning home to begin a blitzkrieg editing session, we began hearing commotion from the streets outside. Heading out the doors, we quickly realized we wouldn't be going home anytime soon. Antifa took over the streets to prey upon patriots celebrating after a successful day in their nation’s capital city. Although ignored by the MSM, it was serious:
VIDEO: BLM / Antifa launch fireworks at patriots dining in Downtown D.C.
BLM-antifa attack more people eating dinner in DC. They throw projectiles and a mortar firework at them. Video by @livesmattershow: pic.twitter.com/3sTTFj5ihw — Andy Ngô 🏳🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 15, 2020
VIDEO: Antifa assaults man leaving Million MAGA March
“You better run mother f—ker”
BLM-antifa assault older man trying to leave the area after the #MillionMAGAMarch. pic.twitter.com/S26myo9bgk — Andy Ngô 🏳🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 14, 2020
VIDEO: A family is harassed, led to tears while harassed by Antifa in D.C.
A family with children are in tears as they are followed and harassed by antifa. #MillionMAGAMarch https://t.co/Kb8f2sJ1e5 — Andy Ngô 🏳🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 14, 2020
Outside Harry's Pub, police had formed a line on either side of the block, preventing anyone from getting in or out. We unpacked our gear and attempted to get the story from those who were locked in with us.
The police line eventually dissolved as officers left to deal with brawls breaking out across the city.
An elderly man was knocked unconscious by a black woman in Antifa garb while defending patriots who were being threatened by black bloc Marxists.
VIDEO: BLM protestor knocked onto pavement after attacking elderly Trump supporter earlier in the day.
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According to @mattmiller757, a BLM rioter with a knife got knocked out during a fight. Police has to help the person get up. pic.twitter.com/pBCiW9Nbsm — Andy Ngô 🏳🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 15, 2020
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VIDEO: BLM protestor disarmed by a patriot
Here is a pro Trump marcher taking a knife from an apprehended BLM female protester. pic.twitter.com/8NLwGy6uCC — Matthew Miller (@mattmiller757) November 15, 2020
These were only a handful of incidents that occurred as night fell. It was vital that the Proud Boys, and other like-minded patriots were on duty to protect innocent rally-goers. See Ann Coulter On The Proud Boys: "America’s Last Line Of Defense Against The Left’s Fascistic Antifa Storm Troopers"
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department had a difficult job. But the fact is that all this violence came from the Left. And they did not quell it.
Noah Arnold [email him] is a full time video producer working with deplatformed personalities across the dissident right.


vdare--2020-11-17--Border Patrol: Every Arrest Matters

Border Patrol: Every Arrest Matters

In October , Customs and Border Patrol ( CBP ) released two short videos to show how important its work @ @ @ @ @ that page does not exist These videos are fictionalizations—but they reflect reality .
On Thursday @ @ @ @ @ bags of Fentanyl pills hidden underneath a car seat .
Those drugs weighed 1.3 pounds @ @ @ @ @ 200,000 people .
The day before , a CBP agent arrested Honduran Luis Padilla at @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Padilla was in the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ) , a centralized @ @ @ @ @ agency can see if anyone has information on a perp .
Thanks to the NCIC @ @ @ @ @ the checkpoint , CBP learned that Mr. Padilla was wanted in Worcester , Massachusetts for @ @ @ @ @ who work in immigration know that elections have consequences .

In October, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) released two short videos to show how important its work is.
UPDATE:
This is the 1st in a series of videos that reminds our Agents the risks they take every day to protect #America matter.
We will continue to be diligent & always vigilant in the pursuit of our mission.#BorderSecurity #HumanSmuggling #BorderPatrol pic.twitter.com/O41z7Aj28w — Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) October 24, 2020
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This is the 2nd in a series of videos that connects the dots between #drugs smuggled across the #border to every city, county & state throughout the country.
What happens along the border impacts every single citizen in the US.#opioids #borderpatrol #new pic.twitter.com/ORz1cgPYbA — Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) October 24, 2020
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These videos are fictionalizations—but they reflect reality.
On Thursday, CBP agents found two bags of Fentanyl pills hidden underneath a car seat. Those drugs weighed 1.3 pounds and were enough to kill 200,000 people. The day before, a CBP agent arrested Honduran Luis Padilla at a checkpoint in Texas. Mr. Padilla was in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), a centralized database of criminals where any agency can see if anyone has information on a perp. Thanks to the NCIC and biometric verification done at the checkpoint, CBP learned that Mr. Padilla was wanted in Worcester, Massachusetts for raping a child.
People who work in immigration know that elections have consequences.
If the current network of tools and policies we have, which ended catch and release, are stopped - we won’t just have another illegal immigration crisis - we’ll have an invasion. pic.twitter.com/oDJneEkd23 — CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) October 28, 2020
[Comment at Amren.com]


vdare--2020-11-17--Border Patrol Holds the Line—For Now

Border Patrol Holds the Line—For Now

Customs and Border Patrol ( CBP ) is doing great work .
On Tuesday , officers found two “ stash houses ” and arrested 98 illegal immigrants from Latin America .
That evening , CPB caught four illegals hidden in the back of a car when a dog sniffed them out at a border checkpoint .
On Wednesday , at another checkpoint , agents raided a Greyhound bus and found over 35 pounds of meth and fentanyl worth almost a million dollars .
President Donald Trump appreciates and encourages the agencies that protect our borders and they are working harder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration differently .
His policy reversals on the border wall and travel ban are well known , and this plan could be just as damaging .
Ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) and Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) personnel abide by professional standards and are held accountable for inhumane treatment .
Biden will increase resources for training and demand transparency in and independent oversight over ICE and CBP ’ s activities .
Under a Biden Administration , there will be responsible , Senate-confirmed professionals leading these agencies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president .
This implies that ICE and CPB will face as much hostile scrutiny as police departments did under Barack Obama .
An administration eager to stamp out “ racism ” in every agency that deals with immigration might use its Attorney General to investigate officers for “ discrimination ” every time they do their job .
When President Obama did this to police departments , many officers feared becoming the next Darren Wilson and pulled back .
There was a rise in crime in almost every major city : the “ Ferguson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on our southern border : A “ Ferguson Effect ” of fearful officers could mean a surge of illegal drugs and immigrants .
Despite his flaws , I already miss our 45th President .

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is doing great work. On Tuesday, officers found two “stash houses” and arrested 98 illegal immigrants from Latin America. That evening, CPB caught four illegals hidden in the back of a car when a dog sniffed them out at a border checkpoint. On Wednesday, at another checkpoint, agents raided a Greyhound bus and found over 35 pounds of meth and fentanyl worth almost a million dollars. President Donald Trump appreciates and encourages the agencies that protect our borders and they are working harder than ever.
Joe Biden will handle immigration differently. His policy reversals on the border wall and travel ban are well known, and this plan could be just as damaging.
Ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel abide by professional standards and are held accountable for inhumane treatment. Biden will increase resources for training and demand transparency in and independent oversight over ICE and CBP’s activities. Under a Biden Administration, there will be responsible, Senate-confirmed professionals leading these agencies, and they will answer directly to the president.
This implies that ICE and CPB will face as much hostile scrutiny as police departments did under Barack Obama. An administration eager to stamp out “racism” in every agency that deals with immigration might use its Attorney General to investigate officers for “discrimination” every time they do their job. When President Obama did this to police departments, many officers feared becoming the next Darren Wilson and pulled back. There was a rise in crime in almost every major city: the “Ferguson Effect.” The same thing could happen on our southern border: A “Ferguson Effect” of fearful officers could mean a surge of illegal drugs and immigrants.
Despite his flaws, I already miss our 45th President.
[Comment at Amren.com]