vdare--2020-07-17--Uniparty Back, Crushing Jeff Sessions, And Color-Blindness Is Racist, Etc

00m41s The Uniparty is back in control .
( Anywheres rule . )
11m23s Will Poland go Irish ?
( @ @ @ @ @ 15m37s The quaint charm of old-style liberalism .
( The Economist not yet woke .
@ @ @ @ @ .
( In your state constitution , in your orchestra . )
39m11s Canceling Hume @ @ @ @ @ may be the remedy . )
42m21s RV-ing on the Moon .
( Sign me @ @ @

00m41s The Uniparty is back in control. (Anywheres rule.)
05m58s What's the matter with Alabama? (Crushing Jeff Sessions.)
11m23s Will Poland go Irish? (There are commonalities.)
15m37s The quaint charm of old-style liberalism. (The Economist not yet woke.)
24m16s Smithsonian whiteness. (White dominant culture described.)
28m02s Color-blindness is racist. (In your state constitution, in your orchestra.)
36m06s News from Greenland. (Eskimo Lives Matter!)
39m11s Canceling Hume. (Carelessness and inattention may be the remedy.)
42m21s RV-ing on the Moon. (Sign me up.)
44m08s Signoff. (With a national anthem.)
01 — Intro. That was a snippet of Haydn's Derbyshire March Number One, not the Number Two that I more commonly play; and this is of course your unpredictably genial host John Derbyshire with yet another edition of Radio Derb.
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02 — The Uniparty is back in control. Fifteen years ago Thomas Frank published a book titled What's the Matter with Kansas? describing how, in an age of plenty, the political battlefield was no longer economic but cultural.
Left and Right, said Frank, Democrat and Republican, no longer mapped to labor and capital, the Little Guy and the Boss Man, but to globalized elites and conservative traditionalists — what a later writer, David Goodhart, called the Anywheres and the Somewheres.
What was actually happening was a bit more interesting. The Left had turned explicitly anti-white and anti-American. They were throwing all their energy behind a demographic transformation of the country by the importation of tens of millions of nonwhite foreigners.
It quickly dawned on the Right, at least on the big corporations that funded the Right, that this worked for them, too, imported foreign labor being cheaper and more compliant than the native variety. Thus our modern Uniparty was born.
There was a problem for the Right, though. The ongoing demographic transformation was hard for people not to notice. How could Republican politicians square it with the appeals to conservative traditionalism that, according to Thomas Frank, had won them Kansas?
They tried a few lame rhetorical strategies — assuring their voters that, for example, Central American fruit-pickers were natural conservatives. Nobody much was convinced.
By 2016 Republican primary voters had seen through the scam. Faced with a bench of seventeen Presidential hopefuls, sixteen of them cookie-cutter Uniparty types and one renegade TV personality talking a strong conservative-traditionalist game, GOP voters turned their backs on the sixteen and chose the one.
There followed a time of crisis and confusion in the Uniparty. It looked for a while as if they might work through all five stages of grief: from denial, anger, bargaining, and depression to acceptance. By the time they'd gotten to anger, though, wiser heads among them had seen a path back to the status quo ante.
In the eleven years since Thomas Frank's book had come out the Uniparty had taken over key federal institutions: Congress, the bureaucracy, the military, all the legal and advisory councils that condense information into bullet-points for the occupant of the White House to scan. They were firmly established in all the key locations. Trump's election barely made a dent in their power.
It helped greatly that the new President was lazy and politically incompetent, without any strong principles: an empty suit who, in a roomful of serious-looking political professionals, agreed with the last person that spoke.
The Uniparty bosses heaved a collective sigh of relief. This was not going to be hard. The thing they'd most feared — the rise of a populist, patriotic opposition — had indeed come to pass, but in a scattered and formless way: a guerilla underground, not a real army, a nuisance not a threat. The person claiming to be the leader of these guerillas was a paper tiger, easily co-opted to Uniparty goals.
So … Back to business as usual!
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03 — What's the matter with Alabama? Those thoughts were prompted by Tuesday's result in Alabama. This was a primary contest to select a Republican candidate who will stand against the junior Senator for that state, Democrat Doug Jones, this November.
One of the candidates in Tuesday's primary contest was Jeff Sessions, former Senator from Alabama and Donald Trump's first Attorney General, having been an early Trump supporter and campaigner. The other candidate was Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach who has some dubious financial dealings in his past. Tuberville won the primary, with sixty percent of the vote to Sessions' forty.
In the framing of my previous segment, Tuberville, the winner, was the Uniparty candidate. His very few utterances on matters of policy were bland Uniparty boilerplate. He has never held any elected office, so voters had no kind of political paper trail to go by.
Sessions, by contrast, was the guerilla conservative traditionalist, hated by the Uniparty bosses. Given that, and Tuberville's refusal to take any clear policy positions, and the deeply conservative reputation of the Deep South, how did the Uniparty win this one?
With a full-court press from Donald Trump, that's how. Jeff Sessions, on grounds of principle and, as he believed, legal necessity, recused himself when Attorney General from the Russiagate investigations. Trump, having no principles himself, not even knowing what principles are, Trump could not understand Sessions' recusal. He supposed it must be malicious somehow, and has never forgiven Sessions for it.
Throughout the primary campaign right up to last Tuesday, Trump was energetically promoting Tuberville with tweets and TV ads, while spitting venom at Jeff Sessions. Sessions took it all extraordinarily well, with good humor and a gentlemanly demeanor.
That availed him nothing. Alabama's Republican voters put their trust in Trump, apparently not having noticed that he is now nothing but a Uniparty front man, floundering helplessly in the Swamp he promised us he would drain.
What's the matter with Alabama?
Jeff Sessions, if he'd won this primary, would surely have taken back his Senate seat in November. We should then once again have had a voice in the Senate for demographic stability and firm enforcement of the people's laws.
Instead, we shall either have six more years of Doug Jones or else six years of Tommy Tuberville. The result in either case will be the same, shoring up the programs of the Uniparty: mass amnesty for illegal aliens, expanded guest-worker programs to crush the American middle class, early release of criminals from jail, endless military commitments abroad … the entire globalist package.
Jeff Sessions is 73. It's highly unlikely he has much of a political future. So a decent, clever, useful patriot has been pushed out of our national legislature to make room for one more empty suit, one more congressional seat-warmer, one more obedient glove puppet for the globalist tech-financial elites, the Anywheres.
This was one small skirmish in a mopping-up operation: the Uniparty, with Donald Trump now their willing tool, methodically hunting down and expelling from our public life anyone who dissents from their orthodoxy. They destroyed Steve King; now they've destroyed Jeff Sessions. Kris Kobach, you're next.
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04 — Will Poland go Irish? There was a presidential election in Poland last Sunday, with better results for national conservatives than we got from Alabama two days later. Andrzej Duda won another five-year term on behalf of the Law and Justice Party, P-i-S for short.
PiS argues for keeping Poland Polish and Christian, and promotes natalist policies encouraging citizens to have more children. They are, in short, a model for National Conservative parties everywhere. They talk the talk that Donald Trump talked in our 2016 campaign. However, as James Kirkpatrick observed on Tuesday here at VDARE.com, Andrzej Duda, unlike Trump, also walks the walk.
I'll put aside for another time the question as to why we, the U.S.A., don't have a natalist party. Perhaps natalism is racist somehow, I don't know. Instead, let's consider a different question: Will Poland go Irish?
PiS won this runoff election 51 percent to 49. That's a tad below how they did in 2015, when they got 52 percent to 48. That may be statistical noise, or the swing of the electoral pendulum. It may also, though, suggest a slow turn away from ethnonationalism towards globalism.
I've written about the transformation of Ireland from a traditionalist, conservative, Catholic, intensely ethnonationalist place to the Heart of Wokeness celebrating homosexuality, feminism, and mass immigration. Might Poland take the same path?
There are some obvious similarities. Poland is deeply Catholic, as Ireland used to be. Also like Ireland, Poland has spent centuries in the shadow of, and under the occupation of, a more powerful neighbor practicing a different Christianity. Membership of the EU has been good for Poland's economy, as it has been for Ireland's, although the Poles are more willing than the Irish to buck EU social policies.
There are differences, too, though. Poland's powerful, overbearing neighbor is Russia, which is way bigger and more threatening to Poles than, in modern times, Britain has been to the Irish. Russia is not a member of the EU and not, except nominally, a representative democracy. True, Russia is separated from Poland by Belarus and the Ukraine; but given Poland's historical experience, I doubt that is much comfort to the Poles.
So I leave this as a question for any listener who knows today's Poland better than I do — which is to say, pretty much any listener at all. Will Poland go Irish? Will she join the global Empire of enlightened progressivism? I'd be interested to hear opinions.
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05 — The quaint charm of old-style liberalism. Bari Weiss, a lesbian Jewish liberal, has resigned from her job as an opinion editor at the New York Times because, she says in her resignation letter, the paper is too woke.
Sample from that letter:
A new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
End quote.
What, she just noticed that?
It's encouraging, I guess, that liberals of the older, slightly more open-minded type are waking up to the totalitarian savagery of the CultMarx Red Guards. I'm observing from a distance, though, having long ago given up on the New York Times.
Are there any mainstream outlets I haven't given up on? Well, I have a subscription to The Economist, have had one for at least twenty years.
This is all that's left of an enthusiasm I had, way back from the 1960s and 1970s, for weekly newsmagazines. Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report: I could never see one of them lying around anywhere without yielding to the urge to pick it up and skim-read through it. The weekly newsmagazines gave you a good brisk way to keep at least superficially up-to-date on just about everything.
Then I got older and my interests narrowed. At the same time the newsmagazines got fluffier and less interesting. I haven't picked up a copy of Time or Newsweek for years. Is U.S. News & World Report even still with us? Oh, yes, I see it is, at any rate in an online version.
I kept up my Economist subscription, though, just for that weekly fix. They cover everywhere and everything; and I suppose there's a lingering appeal in the Britishness of the thing. Their international coverage — on China, for example — isn't bad. I don't read much of the Business and Finance sections, but the occasional bits I do read seem sound. The back-of-the-magazine items — science news, book reviews, the obituary — are literate and often interesting.
Still, I've been finding The Economist's editorial line harder and harder to take. They've been ferociously anti-Trump: not because he's ineffectual and easily rolled — the charges I make against him — but because they still believe him to be an upholder of national sovereignty, which they hate, and a threat to open-borders globalism, which they promote.
On issues relating to human biodiversity they are angrily, aggressively blank-slate. There is no such thing as race; men and women have identical interests and abilities when not corrupted by social pressures; and so on. When the anti-Trump urge coincides with issues of race or sex, The Economist goes full CultMarx: see my Economist Watch column here at VDARE.com following the Charlottesville business in August 2017.
Given all that, I greeted my July 11th issue of The Economist with mixed feelings. Most of the front cover consisted of the word "RACE" in huge letters. Once I got the smaller print in focus, the cover actually said: "The new ideology of RACE and what's wrong with it."
For a fleeting moment I thought the "new ideology" they were talking about might be honest race realism, and that what's wrong with it from The Economist's viewpoint is, of course, that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RACE! Then there would be a long, detailed restatement of CultMarx orthodoxy that I wouldn't be bothered to read; but at least they would be acknowledging the existence of sensible race realism, perhaps with no references to Hitler at all.
No such luck. The "new ideology" they're writing about is not race realism but wokeness. Quote:
A dangerous … approach has emerged from American universities. It rejects the liberal notion of progress. It defines everyone by their race, and every action as racist or anti-racist. It is not yet dominant, but it is dynamic and it is spreading out of the academy into everyday life. If it supplants liberal values, then intimidation will chill open debate and sow division to the disadvantage of all, black and white.
End quote.
There follow pages and pages of CultMarx orthodoxy sure enough: but it's in opposition not to race realism, but to the cranky anti-white obsessions of the wokesters as found in books like Robin DiAngelo's current bestseller White Fragility.
And no, I didn't bother to read it all. I glanced at the text and saw what I expected to see. Poverty is the problem; police brutality is the problem; zoning rules are the problem. Quote:
The household income gap [that is, between blacks and whites] is the same as it was in 1968.
End quote.
You don't say. That's more than fifty years. Is there anything we haven't tried in those fifty years to make the races come out equal, up to and including stuffing our courts, schools, police departments and corporations with black authority figures and electing a black President?
Still and all, with race hysteria at its current fever pitch, there's a sort of quaint charm in The Economist's old-fashioned liberal naïvety. Fix the schools! Integrate our neighborhoods! Expand the Earned-Income Tax Credit! Everything will come right at last, black and white all equal!
Perhaps they might offer a job to Bari Weiss.
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06 — Smithsonian whiteness. Yes, say what you like about the old, Economist style of liberalism, it's nothing like as barking crazy as this newer brand.
Case in point: the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened just four years ago on Constitution Avenue in our nation's capital.
A worthy enough enterprise, you may think. Many, many big-money donors agree with you; the museum gets tens of millions of dollars from virtue-purchasing … I beg your pardon, I mean virtue-signaling outfits like American Express, Boeing, Walmart, and Bank of America. Also of course from our federal government, which chipped in $33 million to the museum in fiscal 2019.
Well, the Museum, via its online portal, has been educating us about whiteness. Quote from the header:
White dominant culture, or whiteness, refers to the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes, and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States.
End quote.
Scary, huh? What are these peculiar folkways that white people have imposed on our nation? Things like, actual quotes:
Rugged Individualism … self-reliance … the nuclear family … objective, rational linear thinking … history based on Northern European immigrants' experience … the Protestant work ethic … hard work is the key to success …
Good grief! What a perverse, twisted set of values! How people of color must suffer under the oppression of such ideas!
Well, it's easy to laugh. A great many people did laugh after Byron York tweeted out the web page mid-week. It seems to have since been taken down; at least, I can't find it on the museum's website at week end.
The people who made that web page weren't laughing when they made it, though. They were in earnest; they believe this stuff; and the authorities at the Smithsonian — one of our nation's most prestigious cultural and educational institutions — saw nothing wrong with it until the laughing and jeering broke out on Twitter.
That's how far we've come; that's how wide the rot has spread.
I think I'll keep up my Economist subscription for a while longer.
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07 — Color-blindness is racist. And if you think that we should maybe just scrap all this obsessing about race and try pure color-blind meritocracy — well, if you think that you are really trying to swim against the current.
Case One: When California voters go to the polls this November they will see on the ballot sheet a proposition to repeal Proposition 209.
What is that? Proposition 209, the one you will be invited to repeal, was passed in 1996. It prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. In other words it bans affirmative action.
So California currently, over wide areas of employment, education, and commerce, is constitutionally colorblind. A lot of people don't like that. State Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a large black lady, especially doesn't like it. Quote from her:
Proposition 209 [that's the one she wants to repeal] has cost women and minority-owned businesses $1.1 billion each year … and has allowed discriminatory hiring and contracting processes to continue unhindered.
End quote.
Get that? A prohibition on discriminating by race or sex is … discriminatory. If you don't undertand the logic of that it's probably because you've succumbed to objective, rational linear thinking, you white supremacist, you!
Case Two: This one's from the world of classical music. The headline explains itself. New York Times, July 16th, headline: To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions.
Fifty years ago, after charges of discrimination from some black musicians, the New York Philharmonic, soon followed by other American orchestras, began to hold auditions behind a screen, so that judgment was strictly on musical quality, not influenced by the player's race or sex. Blind auditions.
Alas, it's not working very well. Quote:
In a 2014 study, only 1.8 percent of the players in top ensembles were Black; just 2.5 percent were Latino.
End quote.
What to do? The Times of course knows. Quote:
If things are to change, ensembles must be able to take proactive steps to address the appalling racial imbalance that remains in their ranks. Blind auditions are no longer tenable.
End quote.
See that? Color-blindness is racist!
Here's a brief footnote to that second case, also from the world of classical music; and also from July 16th, although this story is from the Washington Post of that date. Headline: That sound you're hearing is classical music's long overdue reckoning with racism.
So we're in the same territory here we were in with that New York Times piece: the appalling racism being practiced by orchestras and opera companies against blacks and Latinos. This one, though, includes a curious little arithmetical oddity that a keen-eyed reader spotted and emailed in to me about. Thank you, Sir!
Here is the oddity. Listen carefully. First the reporter tells us that from 2002 to 2014, the proportion of black musicians in American orchestras, quote, "languished at around 1.8 percent," end quote. That's the same proportion as given in the New York Times story, 1.8 percent. Probably both reporters read the same study.
Hold that in your mind: black musicians in our orchestras, 1.8 percent.
Then, just two sentences later in the same paragraph we get this, quote:
Between 2010 and 2016, black conductors and music directors have accounted for just 2 to 6 percent of the field.
End quote.
OK, let's do arithmetic. Two divided by 1.8 is 1.11. Six divided by 1.8 is 3.33. Since black musicians as a whole are languishing at 1.8 percent, if 2 to 6 percent of conductors and music directors are black, that means blacks are being promoted out of the orchestra pit into into those more prestigious slots two or three times more than their overall representation would lead you to expect.
But wait. I did some math to reach that conclusion; and math is, as I'm sure the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture would be glad to confirm, white man's ju-ju — a style of objective, rational linear thinking.
Down with white dominant culture! Black lives matter!
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09 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Greenland. We don't get much news out of Greenland. Scanning my Radio Derb archives, I see only two real references. One, from the science news in August 2016, was about the Greenland Shark having been determined to be the longest-lived of all vertebrates — up to 400 years.
The other, from March that same year, just mentioned a review I had done of a book about Greenland, a book that made the place sound like a crappy welfare slum.
Well, here is some actual news about Greenland. Greenland has a capital city, formerly named Gothåb, nowadays named Nuuk. The first of those names, Gothåb, is Danish — it means "Good Hope" — because Greenland is a Danish colony. It's actually billed as an "autonomous territory" within the Kingdom of Denmark; but I'm guessing the autonomy is highly fictitious.
The population of Greenland is twelve percent Danish, the rest Eskimo or mixed-blood Eskimo-Danish. Hence that second name, Nuuk, which is the Eskimo word for "Cape," as a concession to Eskimo sensibilities by the colonial authorities.
OK, so what's the news? Well, there's a big statue of Hans Egede in Nuuk. He was the 18th-century Lutheran missionary who Christianized the locals. Guess what: The statue has been vandalized — splashed with red paint and graffitied with the word "decolonize." Now the Greenlanders are having a vote on whether or not to keep the statue.
Isn't it amazing how these hysterias spread? One day they're vandalizing statues of Andy Jackson in Washington and Winston Churchill in London. Next thing you know, the folk up there in Greenland, on the Arctic Circle, have caught the fever.
I haven't yet heard any chants of "Eskimo Lives Matter!" but it can only be a matter of time.
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Item: Still on the statue news, although this is actually a tower, not a statue.
Edinburgh University, up in Scotland, boasts a David Hume Tower, named for the great 18th-century Scottish empiricist philosopher, who both studied and taught at the university. The tower is not actually anything to boast of: It's an ugly modern 14-storey structure with no redeeming features.
Hume was not a slave-owner or a slave-trader. He did, though, once lend money to a friend who may have used some of the money to buy a plantation in the West Indies, one that employed black slaves. That, and one or two mild remarks, routine for his time, about blacks being inferior to whites, is enough to get you canceled nowadays. A student petition to rename the tower already had over a thousand signatures by July 2nd.
Apparently the petitioners want to rename the place "Julius Nyerere Tower," after the first president of independent Tanzania, who attended Edinburgh University around 1950.
All right. Nyerere seems not to have been a bad sort, as African dictators go. I bet he wasn't as much fun as David Hume, though. Here's my favorite Hume quote.
This is from Part IV, Section II of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature. After a long argument attempting to derive metaphysical truth from our experiences, he concludes that neither mind nor matter can actually exist. Then he turns and laughs at himself. Edited quote:
This sceptical doubt … is a malady, which can never be radically cur'd, but must return upon us every moment, however we may chace it away … Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them; and take it for granted, whatever may be the reader's opinion at this present moment, that an hour hence he will be persuaded there is both an external and an internal world …
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Item: Finally, some creative thinking from the people paid to come up with plans for space exploration.
NASA is planning, how seriously I don't know, to send astronauts back to the moon in 2024. They've teamed up with their opposite number agency in Japan to figure out the logistics.
One issue is, that for a prolonged stay on the Moon's surface, you need a place to live. There have been various ideas about this. Pre-landed pods? Inflatable tents? Caves excavated in crater walls? Sci-fi writers have worked over the possibilities.
Here is what NASA and their Japanese colleagues seem to have settled on: an RV, to be made by Toyota. Quote:
The RV-like rover will hold two people for up to 14 days, allowing them to live and work inside while traveling across the moon.
End quote.
Now that's good, clever thinking. Having enjoyed a brief experience of the RV lifestyle back in 2017, I can definitely recommend it. Just make sure you have a good seal when you dump the septic tank, guys.
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09 — Signoff. That's it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening, and special thanks to Jesse Lee Peterson for doing the show with me on Thursday.
As you may be aware, one of the fronts that's opened up in our ongoing cultural revolution is for the cancellation of national anthems. An op-ed in the July 14th Los Angeles Times by one Jody Rosen calls for banning "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the grounds that Francis Scott Key was a slave-owner. His statue has already been removed from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
Across the pond, meanwhile, the annual eight weeks of Promenade Concerts in London's Albert Hall, sponsored by the BBC, traditionally end with the entire audience singing the patriotic songs "Rule, Britannia!" and "Land of Hope and Glory."
This is the famous Last Night of the Proms in early September. "Rule, Britannia!" has been sung for at least the last seventy years; "Land of Hope and Glory" I think for longer than that.
Just how they are going to manage the Proms this year, with the pandemic and all, seems to be still up in the air. With the rise of Black Lives Matter, though, there have been denunciations of those two patriotic classics. Probably they'll get canceled; although the audience at the Last Night of the Proms is a rowdy one, and may not take kindly to the reform. We shall see.
Radio Derb is of course impeccably multicultural. We strive to avoid any offense at all to the sensibilities of anyone at all, anywhere, of any race, nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability status, or Body Mass Index.
In that spirit we shall play you out with a national anthem no-one could possibly object to: "Nunarput Utoqqarsuanngoravit," the national anthem of Greenland. If you know the words, by all means sing along.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-07-17--There’s A Word For Boris Johnson’s Proposal To Swamp U.K. With Chinese: TREASON

See earlier : John Derbyshire : I ’ m Sorry For Hong Kong—But U.S. Must Not Import ANOTHER Overclass British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that Hong Kongers eligible for a British National ( Overseas ) [ BNO ] passport—i.e .
anyone born before 1997 , when China took over Hong Kong—will soon be able to enter Britain without a visa if China officially implements its recently-passed Hong Kong security Law .
They will have the right to live and work in the U.K. for five years , despite the current six-month limit , and apply for U.K. citizenship @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration rights for 3M eligible Hong Kongers , by Sylvia Hui , AP , July 1 , 2020 ] .
In other words , Britons already afflicted by “ Asian ” grooming gangs and other Third World immigrants must now prepare for the possibility that millions of Hong Kongers will rush in .
There is a word for what Johnson is doing : treason .
Changing the terms on which BNO holders are allowed into the UK would require legislation .
But it ’ s wildly improbable that Parliament would block such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the opposition parties would never vote against Electing A New People .
Johnson ’ s rash vow has met with precious little condemnation from the British Main Stream Media and politicians , which tells you how strong a grip Political Correctness has on British elites .
Even Nigel “ Mr .
Brexit ” Farage has confined himself to quibbling about numbers : Well Boris also , twice as mayor of London , suggested mass amnesties for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who come to Britain .
So when it comes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative at all .
On Hong Kong : look , there are many , many , many extremely well-educated , extremely talented people living in Hong Kong , many of whom have a great respect for the United Kingdom .
But the thought we can open the doors to three million is just literally impossible .
Could we allow , if the situation gets worse , could we allow a fair number of Hong Kongers to come to Britain ?
Yes , we could .
Three million ?
Just not possible .
[ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back to more traditional alliances , by Amber Athey , Spectator , June 25 , 2020 ] Farage correctly said Johnson is not a conservative .
What exactly Johnson is remains a matter of debate , but a liberal internationalist would not be a million miles away from the truth .
Johnson has always been soft on immigration , as his spell as Mayor of London illustrates .
He frequently referred to his Turkish great-grandfather to establish his multi-cult street-cred .
[ Boris Johnson has a Muslim great-grandfather from Turkey – here ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nelson , Independent , June 24 , 2019 ] But the real key to Johnson : his monstrous ego .
He desperately wanted to be Prime Minister .
He would have been quite comfortable in the Blairite Labour Party if that were the fastest route to 10 Downing .
Johnson himself has estimated the number of possible immigrants from Hong Kong at three million [ Boris Johnson on the Hong Kong crisis : We will meet our obligations , not walk away , by Boris Johnson , The Times , June 3 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worst case .
If China treats Hong Kongers really badly , any UK government would certainly permit the immigration of multitudes who are not technically qualified .
Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath ( the man who fired Enoch Powell from his Shadow Cabinet ) set that precedent a half century ago when he permitted 50,000 Ugandan Asians to settle in Great Britain after Idi Amin threatened them [ The Ugandan Asians never forget their debt to Britain , by Dolar Popat , Evening Standard , August 15 , 2019 ] .
To put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this : Net immigration to the UK in 2019 was 270,000 .
Johnson ’ s promise of 3 million Hong Kongers , 4.5 percent of Britain ’ s population , boosts that number 1,011 percent .
That ’ s the equivalent of the U.S. admitting 14.8 million people .
Does Johnson believe the UK can deal with such an influx ?
I doubt it .
More probably , he ’ s gambling that China will stop them , or that Hong Kongers will stick it out despite China ’ s attack on their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Derbyshire has suggested .
Many might go elsewhere , perhaps to Canada or Australia [ Countries Are Opening Their Doors for Hong Kong ’ s Exodus , by Salvatore Babones , Foreign Policy , July 8 , 2020 ] .
Above all , they might also go elsewhere in Asia , especially to Taiwan , which has expressed its willingness to accept them and is their No .
1 choice [ Taiwan offers refuge to fleeing Hong Kong citizens , by Jasmine Leung and Nicola Smith , The Telegraph , July 4 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million Hong Kong immigrants would burden Britain and its people materially and psychologically .
Real Britons would be betrayed—again .
China has made known its desire to dominate the world as clearly as Hitler made his ambitions known in Mein Kampf .
It is undoubtedly serious about swallowing Hong Kong sooner rather than later , which most certainly would mean brutal repression and Hong Kongers ’ dash for other countries , not least Britain for those with BNOs .
Which also means Britain might wind up with large numbers of criminals and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be really cheeky and copy Fidel Castro ’ s Mariel Boatlift of 1980 , when he emptied Cuba ’ s prisons and hospitals and sent the inmates and patients to the U.S. And that raises another point .
Mass immigration should be judged by its effects , not by the good intentions of the politicians who permit it .
Third World immigrants have colonized large areas of virtually every major Western city .
As the numbers of immigrants and their descendants increase , the native population becomes more and more dissatisfied even as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diversity and pass laws criminalizing dissent .
This puts the immigrants and their spawn in a de facto privileged position .
Recall Enoch Powell ’ s worried constituent : “ In this country in fifteen or twenty years ’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.
” That is now true in Great Britain .
[ Miss Swimsuit UK , 23 , is stripped of title over 'All Lives Matter ' Facebook post—as it emerges her actor boyfriend shared anti-BLM meme stating 'white privilege is a leftist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 17 , 2020 ] Most contemptible , the elite British who not only allow but also welcome immigration are under no illusion about the state of heavily-immigrant areas .
They generally take great pains to live as far away as possible from the diversity they praise .
They bleat constantly about the wonders of diversity even as they take flight to very white , very English places .
Left behind is the white working class .
London is a prime example .
Bottom line : Mass immigration should be viewed as a form @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population because it creates competition for housing , healthcare , education , jobs , and most importantly , the right of a people to enjoy their country without having to worry about their culture being diluted or even ultimately overthrown .
VDARE.com readers need no reminding that racial differences are real .
Tribes , nations , and borders suggest the strong human instinct to organize along racial and ethnic lines , find mates within the same race , and at the same time erect cultural if not legal barriers not only to miscegenation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same race but of different ethnicity or religion .
Any society , small band or nation state , requires trust for its success .
Similarity , not diversity , creates trust , as WHO Robert Putnam so reluctantly reported .
Absent trust , society fails .
Mass immigration sabotages trust .
The Politically Correct insist that humans are basically the same , but the reality is that heterogeneous societies are invariably fractious ; i.e.
, lacking trust .
Homogeneous societies are not immune to discord , but that discord rarely reaches the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more easily settled .
Class inequalities can be ameliorated , the balance between state and private enterprise changed , tyrants overthrown .
But in heterogeneous societies , in which myriad groups compete with each other , such progress is impossible because tribal or racial blood will tell .
The tribe , or race , will always come first—particularly in competing for political or police power .
Conclusion : If British politicians conspired with a foreign power to allow huge numbers of foreigners to invade , we would call it treason .
If dissent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we would call it treason .
If a foreign power invaded , Britons could fight with inviting global opprobrium .
Not so with mass immigration .
And that is why , as VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow argued more than 20 years ago and I have argued elsewhere [ What is treason today ?
, November 15 , 2015 ] , permitting mass immigration is the most fundamental form of treason .
Robert Henderson [ Email him ] is a retired civil servant living in London and consequently old enough to remember what life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ runs the Living In A Madhouse and England Calling blogs .

anywhere156@yahoo.co.uk (Robert  Henderson)

See earlier: John Derbyshire: I’m Sorry For Hong Kong—But U.S. Must Not Import ANOTHER Overclass
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that Hong Kongers eligible for a British National (Overseas) [BNO] passport—i.e. anyone born before 1997, when China took over Hong Kong—will soon be able to enter Britain without a visa if China officially implements its recently-passed Hong Kong security Law. They will have the right to live and work in the U.K. for five years, despite the current six-month limit, and apply for U.K. citizenship 12 months after that [UK extends immigration rights for 3M eligible Hong Kongers, by Sylvia Hui, AP, July 1, 2020]. In other words, Britons already afflicted by “Asian” grooming gangs and other Third World immigrants must now prepare for the possibility that millions of Hong Kongers will rush in. There is a word for what Johnson is doing: treason.
Changing the terms on which BNO holders are allowed into the UK would require legislation. But it’s wildly improbable that Parliament would block such a change. Johnson has a large majority, and the opposition parties would never vote against Electing A New People.
Johnson’s rash vow has met with precious little condemnation from the British Main Stream Media and politicians, which tells you how strong a grip Political Correctness has on British elites.
Even Nigel “Mr. Brexit” Farage has confined himself to quibbling about numbers:
Well Boris also, twice as mayor of London, suggested mass amnesties for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who come to Britain. So when it comes to immigration, Boris is not very conservative at all. On Hong Kong: look, there are many, many, many extremely well-educated, extremely talented people living in Hong Kong, many of whom have a great respect for the United Kingdom. But the thought we can open the doors to three million is just literally impossible. Could we allow, if the situation gets worse, could we allow a fair number of Hong Kongers to come to Britain? Yes, we could. Three million? Just not possible. [Nigel Farage: Trump is taking us back to more traditional alliances, by Amber Athey, Spectator, June 25, 2020]
So what’s a “fair number?” A quarter-million? A half-million? 1.5 million?
Farage correctly said Johnson is not a conservative. What exactly Johnson is remains a matter of debate, but a liberal internationalist would not be a million miles away from the truth. Johnson has always been soft on immigration, as his spell as Mayor of London illustrates. He frequently referred to his Turkish great-grandfather to establish his multi-cult street-cred [Boris Johnson has a Muslim great-grandfather from Turkey – here’s who he was, by Alex Nelson, Independent, June 24, 2019].
But the real key to Johnson: his monstrous ego. He desperately wanted to be Prime Minister. He would have been quite comfortable in the Blairite Labour Party if that were the fastest route to 10 Downing.
Johnson himself has estimated the number of possible immigrants from Hong Kong at three million [Boris Johnson on the Hong Kong crisis: We will meet our obligations, not walk away, by Boris Johnson, The Times, June 3 2020].
And three million is not the worst case. If China treats Hong Kongers really badly, any UK government would certainly permit the immigration of multitudes who are not technically qualified. Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath (the man who fired Enoch Powell from his Shadow Cabinet) set that precedent a half century ago when he permitted 50,000 Ugandan Asians to settle in Great Britain after Idi Amin threatened them [The Ugandan Asians never forget their debt to Britain, by Dolar Popat, Evening Standard, August 15, 2019].
To put the three million in perspective, consider this: Net immigration to the UK in 2019 was 270,000. Johnson’s promise of 3 million Hong Kongers, 4.5 percent of Britain’s population, boosts that number 1,011 percent. That’s the equivalent of the U.S. admitting 14.8 million people.
Does Johnson believe the UK can deal with such an influx? I doubt it. More probably, he’s gambling that China will stop them, or that Hong Kongers will stick it out despite China’s attack on their freedoms, as VDARE’s John Derbyshire has suggested. Many might go elsewhere, perhaps to Canada or Australia [Countries Are Opening Their Doors for Hong Kong’s Exodus, by Salvatore Babones, Foreign Policy, July 8, 2020]. Above all, they might also go elsewhere in Asia, especially to Taiwan, which has expressed its willingness to accept them and is their No. 1 choice [Taiwan offers refuge to fleeing Hong Kong citizens, by Jasmine Leung and Nicola Smith, The Telegraph, July 4, 2020].
But even only one million Hong Kong immigrants would burden Britain and its people materially and psychologically. Real Britons would be betrayed—again.
China has made known its desire to dominate the world as clearly as Hitler made his ambitions known in Mein Kampf. It is undoubtedly serious about swallowing Hong Kong sooner rather than later, which most certainly would mean brutal repression and Hong Kongers’ dash for other countries, not least Britain for those with BNOs.
Which also means Britain might wind up with large numbers of criminals and the mentally disabled if the Chinese want to be really cheeky and copy Fidel Castro’s Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when he emptied Cuba’s prisons and hospitals and sent the inmates and patients to the U.S.
And that raises another point. Mass immigration should be judged by its effects, not by the good intentions of the politicians who permit it. Third World immigrants have colonized large areas of virtually every major Western city. As the numbers of immigrants and their descendants increase, the native population becomes more and more dissatisfied even as politicians intensify propaganda about the joys of diversity and pass laws criminalizing dissent. This puts the immigrants and their spawn in a de facto privileged position. Recall Enoch Powell’s worried constituent: “In this country in fifteen or twenty years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.” That is now true in Great Britain [Miss Swimsuit UK, 23, is stripped of title over 'All Lives Matter' Facebook post—as it emerges her actor boyfriend shared anti-BLM meme stating 'white privilege is a leftist lie,' Daily Mail, July 17, 2020].
Most contemptible, the elite British who not only allow but also welcome immigration are under no illusion about the state of heavily immigrant areas. They generally take great pains to live as far away as possible from the diversity they praise. They bleat constantly about the wonders of diversity even as they take flight to very white, very English places. Left behind is the white working class. London is a prime example.
Bottom line: Mass immigration should be viewed as a form of theft. It robs the native population because it creates competition for housing, healthcare, education, jobs, and most importantly, the right of a people to enjoy their country without having to worry about their culture being diluted or even ultimately overthrown.
VDARE.com readers need no reminding that racial differences are real. Tribes, nations, and borders suggest the strong human instinct to organize along racial and ethnic lines, find mates within the same race, and at the same time erect cultural if not legal barriers not only to miscegenation but also even intermarriage with people of the same race but of different ethnicity or religion.
Any society, small band or nation state, requires trust for its success. Similarity, not diversity, creates trust, as Robert Putnam so reluctantly reported. Absent trust, society fails. Mass immigration sabotages trust.
The Politically Correct insist that humans are basically the same, but the reality is that heterogeneous societies are invariably fractious; i.e., lacking trust. Homogeneous societies are not immune to discord, but that discord rarely reaches the same all-pervading level. Disputes can be more easily settled. Class inequalities can be ameliorated, the balance between state and private enterprise changed, tyrants overthrown.
But in heterogeneous societies, in which myriad groups compete with each other, such progress is impossible because tribal or racial blood will tell. The tribe, or race, will always come first—particularly in competing for political or police power.
Conclusion: If British politicians conspired with a foreign power to allow huge numbers of foreigners to invade, we would call it treason.
If dissent about such an invasion was suppressed, we would call it treason.
If a foreign power invaded, Britons could fight without inviting global opprobrium.
Not so with mass immigration. And that is why, as VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow argued more than 20 years ago and I have argued elsewhere [What is treason today?, November 15, 2015], permitting mass immigration is the most fundamental form of treason.
Robert Henderson [Email him] is a retired civil servant living in London and consequently old enough to remember what life was like before political correctness. He runs the Living In A Madhouse and England Calling blogs.


vdare--2020-07-17--What’s Going On With DACA?

What’s Going On With DACA?

The White House is supposed to issue a new order rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals amnesty soon , yet President Trump is alluding to amnesty and a federal court is ordering the administration to legalize “ Dreamers.
” Just what the heck is going on with DACA ?
First , off there are Trump ’ s bizarre comments on DACA .
Trump told Telemundo in an interview last weekend that his DACA executive order would give illegal aliens who arrived to the US as minors a “ path to citizenship.
” This was a disturbing statement , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ramblings where he says stuff without knowing what he ’ s talking about .
This has been a common feature of his immigration rhetoric in the White House .
He ’ s also not legally able to give citizenship to these illegals via executive order [ Trump 's planned order on 'dreamers ' will not include amnesty , White House says , Reuters , July 10 , 2020 ] .
Sure enough , it was an example of Trump just mouthing an empty platitude .
Shortly after the interview aired , the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no pathway to citizenship in the DACA executive order .
But , according to independent journalist Ryan Girdusky , someone in Trump ’ s orbit is trying to persuade the president that it would help his election chances if he gives amnesty to Dreamers .
This would do the opposite , yet we may see Trump try to do this through another attempt at a DACA grand bargain .
This idea dominated his agenda in early 2018 , but every legislative attempt at a grand bargain failed .
This idea was shelved after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DACA rescission .
It ’ s probable that Trump will try another grand bargain after his new DACA order , but its prospects will be dimmer with a Democrat-controlled House .
Trump has a new impetus for speeding up his executive order .
Judge Paul Grimm of the US District Court for the District of Maryland ruled Friday that the Trump administration must return DACA to its `` pre-September 5 , 2017 status ” and accept new applicants for legal status .
The judge based his decision on the Supreme Court ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rescission in June [ Judge orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications , by Priscilla Alvarez , CNN , July 17 , 2020 ] .
Time is running out and Trump must act to scrap DACA .
He can ’ t allow an amnesty to stand when he ’ s trying to win as the America First candidate .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: White Pill: Trump Refiling DACA Shutdown, Sending Foreign Students Home
The White House is supposed to issue a new order rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals amnesty soon, yet President Trump is alluding to amnesty and a federal court is ordering the administration to legalize “Dreamers.”
Just what the heck is going on with DACA?
First, off there are Trump’s bizarre comments on DACA. Trump told Telemundo in an interview last weekend that his DACA executive order would give illegal aliens who arrived to the US as minors a “path to citizenship.” This was a disturbing statement, but it seemed like one of Trump’s ramblings where he says stuff without knowing what he’s talking about. This has been a common feature of his immigration rhetoric in the White House. He’s also not legally able to give citizenship to these illegals via executive order [Trump's planned order on 'dreamers' will not include amnesty, White House says, Reuters, July 10, 2020].
Sure enough, it was an example of Trump just mouthing an empty platitude. Shortly after the interview aired, the White House clarified that there absolutely would be no pathway to citizenship in the DACA executive order.
But, according to independent journalist Ryan Girdusky, someone in Trump’s orbit is trying to persuade the president that it would help his election chances if he gives amnesty to Dreamers. This would do the opposite, yet we may see Trump try to do this through another attempt at a DACA grand bargain. This idea dominated his agenda in early 2018, but every legislative attempt at a grand bargain failed. This idea was shelved after a federal court blocked Trump’s DACA rescission. It’s probable that Trump will try another grand bargain after his new DACA order, but its prospects will be dimmer with a Democrat-controlled House.
Trump has a new impetus for speeding up his executive order. Judge Paul Grimm, an Obama appointee to the US District Court for the District of Maryland, ruled Friday that the Trump administration must return DACA to its "pre-September 5, 2017 status” and accept new applicants for legal status. The judge based his decision on the Supreme Court’s reversal of Trump’s previous DACA rescission in June [Judge orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications, by Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, July 17, 2020].
Time is running out and Trump must act to scrap DACA. He can’t allow an amnesty to stand when he’s trying to win as the America First candidate.


vdare--2020-07-18--Lydia Brimelow Updates VDARE.com Readers On Our Deplatforming Struggle—And Has Great News About Our

Lydia Brimelow Updates VDARE.com Readers On Our Deplatforming Struggle—And Has Great News About Our Last Fundraiser!

On June 15 , 2020 VDARE.com received notice of termination of our 20-year business relationship with our domain registrar Network Solutions .
Apparently this was because patriotic immigration reform suddenly violated its Acceptable Use Policy , as interpreted by a D.C.-based lawfare vigilante gang .
Belatedly , I ’ m relieved to report that VDARE.com has successfully transferred our domains to new registrars .
As it turns out , the transfers can be done with of the click of a few buttons .
The hard part is navigating the political environment .
The domain registrar is what translates the URL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where it can be found on the internet .
Without registrar services , your website may exist , but nobody can see it .
In 2016 , the US Department of Commerce handed over control of registrar accreditation to a nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) .
My understanding is that subsequently accreditation became difficult to get and expensive to maintain , and is really only possible for well-established businesses , not startups .
As a result , many retail level registrar services repackage services through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Large corporations across all industries have joined forces in recent years to deplatform patriotic voices .
As evidenced by VDARE.com ’ s recent troubles , registrars are no exception—but we are not the first to experience this type of purge .
And as the election approaches , it ’ s safe to assume we will not be the last .
The consolidation of registrar services into established , accredited parent companies means that Leftist enforcers need only target the parent companies ( in our case , Web.com ) to knock out entire sets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Network Solutions ) .
As a lay consumer , I am finding it very difficult to know who the parent companies are , how their networks spread and to whom .
So VDARE.com has been thrown into a distressing cat-and-mouse game : move to a new registrar , wait for them or their parent company to terminate us , find a new one .
The whole process mirrors VDARE.com ’ s experience experienced with ad services , email marketing services , payment processors and event spaces .
The effect across all industries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we could be using toward our mission of patriotic immigration reform .
Our enemies know this—that ’ s why they do it .
Their goal is to silence us completely .
And until that can be done , they ’ re happy to siphon off our lifeblood , one platform at a time .
In the case of registrars , I ’ m happy to report that the possibility of a more stable solution has presented itself .
If it works , it could help not only VDARE.com but a large swath of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time will tell , but I ’ ll keep you posted as soon as I have more news .
In the meantime , we have spread our many domain extensions out across multiple platforms , some of them based outside the US .
It is impossible to predict how long any of these companies will tolerate our presence , but it is unlikely that they will all pull the plug at the same time .
We are in the process of setting up a series of site mirrors , so that when on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ available on a clone site at another extension .
For example , if VDARE.com is down , a reader can find it at VDARE.net ( held by a different registrar ) .
We ’ re also setting up country-specific domains that are not controlled by ICANN .
VDARE.ee is based in Estonia , for example .
Amazingly , you can get a domain specific to the Soviet Union ( VDARE.su ) .
Wouldn ’ t it be rich if that were the last holdout for freedom of speech online ?
Scores of readers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and for that I am deeply thankful .
I can say with complete sincerity that nobody matches our readers when it comes to warmth , support and helpfulness .
I could not have navigated this new territory without your expert advice , and it would have been much harder to keep up morale without your kind words of encouragement .
Thanks also to everyone who went the extra mile to learn about the TOR browser , download it , and give it a whirl .
But the goal of all this new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for as long as possible .
But we will continue to mirror our site there as a failsafe .
As the purge intensifies ( and it already has—in just the last few days there have been scads of significant accounts kicked off YouTube , Twitter , Reddit and others ) it will become even more important for patriots to learn how to access censored content through alternative channels .
Security is , almost by definition , not convenient .
I am extremely proud of everyone who took this opportunity to learn something new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the only option , but that is vital to preserve as our last resort .
BREAKING : I ’ m also honored to report that VDARE.com exceeded our fundraising goal by a significant margin .
The stretch match goal was $ 50,000 and we brought in well over that .
Despite this unprecedented Reign Of Terror , American patriots are rallying around !
The challenges are far from over .
But thanks to your loyal and ongoing generosity ( click here to donate in support of our efforts ) VDARE.com is fighting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of positions of strength , stay tuned for a forthcoming update on the Berkeley Springs Castle !
A native Texan , Lydia Brimelow [ email her ] graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2006 .
She is fundraiser and office manager , lion tamer , fire extinguisher and miscellany handler at VDARE.com .
She and Peter married in 2007 and have three daughters together .

On June 15, 2020 VDARE.com received notice of termination of our 20-year business relationship with our domain registrar Network Solutions. Apparently this was because patriotic immigration reform suddenly violated its Acceptable Use Policy, as interpreted by a D.C.-based lawfare vigilante gang.
Belatedly, I’m relieved to report that VDARE.com has successfully transferred our domains to new registrars. As it turns out, the transfers can be done with of the click of a few buttons. The hard part is navigating the political environment.
The domain registrar is what translates the URL of any given website to the location where it can be found on the internet. Without registrar services, your website may exist, but nobody can see it.
In 2016, the US Department of Commerce handed over control of registrar accreditation to a nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). My understanding is that subsequently accreditation became difficult to get and expensive to maintain, and is really only possible for well-established businesses, not startups. As a result, many retail level registrar services repackage services through other organizations rather than operating independently.
Large corporations across all industries have joined forces in recent years to deplatform patriotic voices. As evidenced by VDARE.com’s recent troubles, registrars are no exception—but we are not the first to experience this type of purge. And as the election approaches, it’s safe to assume we will not be the last.
The consolidation of registrar services into established, accredited parent companies means that Leftist enforcers need only target the parent companies (in our case, Web.com) to knock out entire sets of downline registrars (in our case, Network Solutions). As a lay consumer, I am finding it very difficult to know who the parent companies are, how their networks spread and to whom.
So VDARE.com has been thrown into a distressing cat-and-mouse game: move to a new registrar, wait for them or their parent company to terminate us, find a new one.
The whole process mirrors VDARE.com’s experience experienced with ad services, email marketing services, payment processors and event spaces. The effect across all industries wastes precious money, time and talent we could be using toward our mission of patriotic immigration reform.
Our enemies know this—that’s why they do it.
Their goal is to silence us completely. And until that can be done, they’re happy to siphon off our lifeblood, one platform at a time.
In the case of registrars, I’m happy to report that the possibility of a more stable solution has presented itself. If it works, it could help not only VDARE.com but a large swath of other deplatformed or First-Amendment-conscious websites. Only time will tell, but I’ll keep you posted as soon as I have more news.
In the meantime, we have spread our many domain extensions out across multiple platforms, some of them based outside the US. It is impossible to predict how long any of these companies will tolerate our presence, but it is unlikely that they will all pull the plug at the same time.
We are in the process of setting up a series of site mirrors, so that when one registrar falls, the site is still available on a clone site at another extension. For example, if VDARE.com is down, a reader can find it at VDARE.net (held by a different registrar).
We’re also setting up country-specific domains that are not controlled by ICANN. VDARE.ee is based in Estonia, for example. Amazingly, you can get a domain specific to the Soviet Union (VDARE.su). Wouldn’t it be rich if that were the last holdout for freedom of speech online?
Scores of readers wrote in with advice on this issue, and for that I am deeply thankful. I can say with complete sincerity that nobody matches our readers when it comes to warmth, support and helpfulness. I could not have navigated this new territory without your expert advice, and it would have been much harder to keep up morale without your kind words of encouragement.
Thanks also to everyone who went the extra mile to learn about the TOR browser, download it, and give it a whirl.
But the goal of all this new infrastructure is to avoid ghettoization on TOR for as long as possible. But we will continue to mirror our site there as a failsafe.
As the purge intensifies (and it already has—in just the last few days there have been scads of significant accounts kicked off YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and others) it will become even more important for patriots to learn how to access censored content through alternative channels. Security is, almost by definition, not convenient. I am extremely proud of everyone who took this opportunity to learn something new, something that we hope will never be the only option, but that is vital to preserve as our last resort.
BREAKING: I’m also honored to report that VDARE.com exceeded our fundraising goal by a significant margin. The stretch match goal was $50,000 and we brought in well over that.
Despite this unprecedented Reign Of Terror, American patriots are rallying around!
The challenges are far from over. But thanks to your loyal and ongoing generosity (click here to donate in support of our efforts) VDARE.com is fighting from a position of strength.
Speaking of positions of strength, stay tuned for a forthcoming update on the Berkeley Springs Castle!


vdare--2020-07-18--Is Antifa A "Spiteful Mutation"?  Are We Headed To A "Mouse Utopia" Collapse?

Earlier by Lance Welton : Of Mice and Men : ” Spiteful Mutations ” Look Bad For The West and Are Southpaws Really Sinister ?
Increased Incidence Suggests We ’ re Headed For “ Mouse Utopia ” Collapse I reported two years ago on the famous “ Mouse Utopia ” experiment that seemed to suggest that ideal conditions for humanity might , paradoxically , lead to societal collapse .
And now there is the most striking evidence yet that this apocalypse may well be coming to pass .
According to research in British medical journal The Lancet , we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In 2017 , there were 2.4 children born per mother worldwide .
But we will be well below replacement levels—of 2.1 children—by the end of the century .
By then , there will be just 1.7 children per family [ Fertility , mortality , migration , and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100 , by Stein Volset et al.
, The Lancet , July 14 , 2020 ] .
This will result in a catastrophic population implosion .
Which is exactly what the “ Mouse Utopia ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiment took place at the University of Maryland between 1968 and 1973 .
Led by the extraordinary creative scientist John B. Calhoun ( 1917-1995 ) , its aim was to understand what would happen if intense Darwinian selection dramatically weakened [ Death Squared : The explosive growth and demise of a mouse population , by John B. Calhoun , Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine , 1973 ] .
In creating this “ Mouse Utopia ” the experiment replicated post-industrial conditions in the West , where child mortality has fallen from 40 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , due to dramatically improved medicine and living conditions .
The results were horrifying : increasingly bizarre behaviour patterns , increasingly effeminate males ( “ the Beautiful Ones ” ) and masculinised females , autistic-like mice who hadn ’ t been socialised properly and didn ’ t know how to deal with other mice , mice of both sexes increasingly becoming disinterested in sex , and females , seemingly , increasingly unable to get pregnant or to sustain pregnancies .
The result : a population collapse .
Eventually , the entire colony went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what caused Calhoun ’ s Mouse Utopia to collapse .
But researchers have suggested two key related factors .
• Firstly , harsh Darwinian selection had been purging the genetically unfit—those high in mutation -- from the gene pool each generation .
In that the brain is 84 % of the genome , it is a big target for mutation , meaning that those with general high ‘ mutational load ’ will also have mutations of the mind which will cause maladaptive desires , such as not wanting sex .
• Secondly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ species , “ spiteful mutants ” —mutations that interfere with social processes that allow adaptive behavior to be correctly taught -- were subverting the behaviour even of the normal , fit mice .
Mice are evolved to be around genetically “ normal ” mice .
The very presence of “ the Beautiful Ones ” was creating an “ evolutionary mismatch , ” which was making even genetically normal mice fail to develop properly , because they were no longer in the environment to which they were adapted to develop [ see Race Differences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , Ch .
10 ] .
It seems that this is the situation that the West now finds itself in .
The rise in mutational load has certainly been documented .
And as the rest of the world industrializes , it can be expected to follow the West ( and other industrialized countries , such as Japan ) in watching its fertility collapse .
And using various kinds of scientific modelling—factoring in the impact of improved medicine in developing countries and many other issues—this is what the research in The Lancet predicts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population will peak in the year 2064 at 9.73 billion , and will decline to 8.79 billion by the year 2100 .
This will parallel a dramatic shift in the age structure of the world population .
According to the researchers , in 2100 , there will be 2.37 billion people who are over the age of 65 , but only 1.7 billion people who are under the age of 20 .
They predict that , by 2100 , 183 countries will be at below-replacement fertility level .
Twenty-three countries—including Japan , Thailand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by 50 % over the next 80 years , while China will see its population fall by 48 % .
Professor Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington , who is one of the team behind these findings , told the BBC that they were “ jaw-dropping ” : Needless to say , the BBC ’ s Gallagher uses these findings to tout the importance of “ migration , ” especially from Africa .
But he also admits that , if these findings are accurate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solve the problem of an increasingly aging population , fewer and fewer of whom are able to work .
As he put it : Gallagher ’ s report argues that this process is happening because more and more women are working and thus delaying or limiting their childbearing , and that they are able to do this because of reliable contraception .
However , this—and The Lancet research—ignores most discussion of who is actually breeding .
He does report that non-whites are breeding more than whites : But there is no discussion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer : people with relatively low IQ , who are inefficient users of contraception for that reason [ see Dysgenics , by Richard Lynn , 2011 ] , and people who are extremely religious and extremely right-wing [ Political Attitude and Fertility : Is There a Selection for the Political Extreme ?
By M. Fieder & S. Huber , Frontiers in Psychology , November 27 , 2018 ] .
All of these traits are significantly genetic , So , the world of 2100 is not only going to be embroiled in crisis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intelligent , and so less able to maintain civilization , more religious ( but this may include the new religion of anti-racism ) , and possibly more right-wing .
And there will no Professor Calhoun to maintain the luxurious conditions that have brought this situation about .
Thus , the most likely scenario will be the collapse of these conditions and , with it , a population collapse back to pre-industrial levels .
Before the Industrial Revolution , the population of Western countries was 10 % of what it is today .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
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Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

Earlier by Lance Welton: Of Mice and Men: ”Spiteful Mutations” Look Bad For The West and Are Southpaws Really Sinister? Increased Incidence Suggests We’re Headed For “Mouse Utopia” Collapse
I reported two years ago on the famous “Mouse Utopia” experiment that seemed to suggest that ideal conditions for humanity might, paradoxically, lead to societal collapse. And now there is the most striking evidence yet that this apocalypse may well be coming to pass.
According to research in British medical journal The Lancet, we are transitioning into a worldwide collapse in fertility. In 2017, there were 2.4 children born per mother worldwide. But we will be well below replacement levels—of 2.1 children—by the end of the century. By then, there will be just 1.7 children per family [Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100, by Stein Volset et al., The Lancet, July 14, 2020]. This will result in a catastrophic population implosion.
Which is exactly what the “Mouse Utopia” scenario appears to predict.
This shocking experiment took place at the University of Maryland between 1968 and 1973. Led by the extraordinary creative scientist John B. Calhoun (1917-1995), its aim was to understand what would happen if intense Darwinian selection dramatically weakened [Death Squared: The explosive growth and demise of a mouse population, by John B. Calhoun, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1973].
In creating this “Mouse Utopia” the experiment replicated post-industrial conditions in the West, where child mortality has fallen from 40% to about 1% since 1800, due to dramatically improved medicine and living conditions.
The results were horrifying: increasingly bizarre behavior patterns, increasingly effeminate males (“the Beautiful Ones”) and masculinized females, autistic-like mice who hadn’t been socialized properly and didn’t know how to deal with other mice, mice of both sexes increasingly becoming disinterested in sex, and females, seemingly, increasingly unable to get pregnant or to sustain pregnancies.
The result: a population collapse. Eventually, the entire colony went extinct.
It is still disputed exactly what caused Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia to collapse. But researchers have suggested two key related factors.
Firstly, harsh Darwinian selection had been purging the genetically unfit—those high in mutation--from the gene pool each generation.
In that the brain is 84% of the genome, it is a big target for mutation, meaning that those with general high ‘mutational load’ will also have mutations of the mind which will cause maladaptive desires, such as not wanting sex.
Secondly, due to mice being a highly social species, “spiteful mutants”—mutations that interfere with social processes that allow adaptive behavior to be correctly taught—were subverting the behavior even of the normal, fit mice.
Mice are evolved to be around genetically “normal” mice. The very presence of “the Beautiful Ones” was creating an “evolutionary mismatch,” which was making even genetically normal mice fail to develop properly, because they were no longer in the environment to which they were adapted to develop [see Race Differences in Ethnocentrism, by Edward Dutton, 2019, Ch. 10].
It seems that this is the situation that the West now finds itself in. The rise in mutational load has certainly been documented. And as the rest of the world industrializes, it can be expected to follow the West (and other industrialized countries, such as Japan) in watching its fertility collapse.
And using various kinds of scientific modelling—factoring in the impact of improved medicine in developing countries and many other issues—this is what the research in The Lancet predicts.
The scientists conclude that the global population will peak in the year 2064 at 9.73 billion, and will decline to 8.79 billion by the year 2100.
This will parallel a dramatic shift in the age structure of the world population. According to the researchers, in 2100, there will be 2.37 billion people who are over the age of 65, but only 1.7 billion people who are under the age of 20.
They predict that, by 2100, 183 countries will be at below-replacement fertility level.
Twenty-three countries—including Japan, Thailand, and Spain—will witness their populations fall by 50% over the next 80 years, while China will see its population fall by 48%.
Professor Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, who is one of the team behind these findings, told the BBC that they were “jaw-dropping”:
“I think it’s incredibly hard to think this through and recognise how big a thing this is; it's extraordinary, we'll have to reorganise societies.” [Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born, by James Gallagher, BBC News, July 15, 2020].
Needless to say, the BBC’s Gallagher uses these findings to tout the importance of “migration,” especially from Africa. But he also admits that, if these findings are accurate, then migration won’t ultimately solve the problem of an increasingly aging population, fewer and fewer of whom are able to work. As he put it:
Who pays tax in a massively aged world? Who pays for healthcare for the elderly? Who looks after the elderly? Will people still be able to retire from work?
Gallagher’s report argues that this process is happening because more and more women are working and thus delaying or limiting their childbearing, and that they are able to do this because of reliable contraception. However, this—and The Lancet research—ignores most discussion of who is actually breeding.
He does report that non-whites are breeding more than whites:
“We will have many more people of African descent in many more countries as we go through this. Global recognition of the challenges around racism [i.e., white reaction to black characteristics] are going to be all the more critical if there are large numbers of people of African descent in many countries,” notes [Professor Christopher] Murray.
But there is no discussion of who is breeding among whites.
The answer: people with relatively low IQ, who are inefficient users of contraception for that reason [see Dysgenics, by Richard Lynn, 2011], and people who are extremely religious and extremely right-wing [Political Attitude and Fertility: Is There a Selection for the Political Extreme? by M. Fieder & S. Huber, Frontiers in Psychology, November 27, 2018]. All of these traits are significantly genetic.
So, the world of 2100 is not only going to be embroiled in crisis, but it is going to be less intelligent, and so less able to maintain civilization, more religious (but this may include the new religion of anti-racism), and possibly more right-wing.
And there will no Professor Calhoun to maintain the luxurious conditions that have brought this situation about.
Thus, the most likely scenario will be the collapse of these conditions and, with it, a population collapse back to pre-industrial levels.
Before the Industrial Revolution, the population of Western countries was 10% of what it is today.
And the survivors will be the fittest . . .
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-07-18--Berkeley Increases Hispanic and Black Admissions by Over 40%

For the first time , Latinos are the largest group of Californians admitted to UC In a historic shift , Latinos are the leading group of prospective freshmen accepted into the University of California for fall 2020 , part of the system ’ s largest and most diverse first-year class ever admitted , according to preliminary data released Thursday .
Latinos slightly eclipsed Asian Americans for the first time , making up 36 % of the 79,953 California students offered admission .
Asians made up 35 % , whites 21 % and Black students 5 % .
The rest were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who declined to state their race or ethnicity .
About 44 % of admitted students were low-income while 45 % were the first in their families to attend a four-year university .
Overall , the UC system ’ s nine undergraduate campuses offered admission to a record number of students : 119,054 freshmen , up from 108,178 last year .
The campuses also admitted 28,074 transfer students from the California Community Colleges system .
UC Berkeley led all campuses in boosting admission offers to underrepresented minorities , accepting the largest number of Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a 40 % increase over last year .
By the way , the California state constitution outlaws the use of race and ethnicity in UC admissions , so this 40+ increase at Berkeley is prima facie illegal .
But since May 24 , 2020 we ’ ve been in the Post-Rule of Law Era , so whaddaya whaddaya ?

From the L.A. Times news section:
For the first time, Latinos are the largest group of Californians admitted to UC By TERESA WATANABE STAFF WRITER
JULY 16, 202011:28 AM In a historic shift, Latinos are the leading group of prospective freshmen accepted into the University of California for fall 2020, part of the system’s largest and most diverse first-year class ever admitted, according to preliminary data released Thursday. Latinos slightly eclipsed Asian Americans for the first time, making up 36% of the 79,953 California students offered admission. Asians made up 35%, whites 21% and Black students 5%.
The rest were American Indians, Pacific Islanders or those who declined to state their race or ethnicity. About 44% of admitted students were low-income while 45% were the first in their families to attend a four-year university. Overall, the UC system’s nine undergraduate campuses offered admission to a record number of students: 119,054 freshmen, up from 108,178 last year. The campuses also admitted 28,074 transfer students from the California Community Colleges system. UC Berkeley led all campuses in boosting admission offers to underrepresented minorities, accepting the largest number of Black and Latino students in three decades, more than a 40% increase over last year.
By the way, the California state constitution outlaws the use of race and ethnicity in UC admissions, so this 40+ increase at Berkeley is prima facie illegal. But since May 24, 2020 we’ve been in the Post-Rule of Law Era, so whaddaya whaddaya?


vdare--2020-07-17--WP & NYT: Because Blacks Tend to be Bored by Classical Music, They Should be Paid to Play It

The proportion of Hispanic and Latino musicians grew from just 1.8 percent in 2002 to 2.5 percent in 2014 ; while over the same 12-year period , the proportion of black musicians languished at around 1.8 percent .
Meanwhile , since 2010 , when the league started examining organizational metrics , the percentage of nonwhite staff of American orchestras has hovered at around 14 percent , with black staff accounting for just 5 to 7 percent .
And between 2010 and 2016 , black conductors and music directors have accounted for just 2 to 6 percent of the field .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a 2016 study by the League of American Orchestras paints a starkly white picture when it comes to diversity in classical organizations .
Its key finding : the “ proportion of nonwhite musicians represented in the orchestra workforce — and of African American and Hispanic/Latino musicians in particular — remains extremely low.
” From the New York Times ’ “ Critic ’ s Notebook : ” If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve , the audition process should take into account race , gender and other factors .
By Anthony Tommasini @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
ET … Blind auditions , as they became known , proved transformative .
The percentage of women in orchestras , which hovered under 6 percent in 1970 , grew .
Today , women make up a third of the Boston Symphony Orchestra , and they are half the New York Philharmonic .
Blind auditions changed the face of American orchestras .
American orchestras remain among the nation ’ s least racially diverse institutions , especially in regard to Black and Latino artists .
In a 2014 study , only 1.8 percent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; just 2.5 percent were Latino .
At the time of the Philharmonic ’ s 1969 discrimination case , it had one Black player , the first it ever hired : Sanford Allen , a violinist .
Today , in a city that is a quarter Black , just one out of 106 full-time players is Black : Anthony McGill , the principal clarinet .

From the Washington Post:
The proportion of Hispanic and Latino musicians grew from just 1.8 percent in 2002 to 2.5 percent in 2014; while over the same 12-year period, the proportion of black musicians languished at around 1.8 percent. Meanwhile, since 2010, when the league started examining organizational metrics, the percentage of nonwhite staff of American orchestras has hovered at around 14 percent, with black staff accounting for just 5 to 7 percent. And between 2010 and 2016, black conductors and music directors have accounted for just 2 to 6 percent of the field.
Data collected from 500 American orchestras for a 2016 study by the League of American Orchestras paints a starkly white picture when it comes to diversity in classical organizations. Its key finding: the “proportion of nonwhite musicians represented in the orchestra workforce — and of African American and Hispanic/Latino musicians in particular — remains extremely low.”
From the New York Times’ “Critic’s Notebook:”
To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions
If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve, the audition process should take into account race, gender and other factors.
By Anthony Tommasini
July 16, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
… Blind auditions, as they became known, proved transformative. The percentage of women in orchestras, which hovered under 6 percent in 1970, grew. Today, women make up a third of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and they are half the New York Philharmonic. Blind auditions changed the face of American orchestras.
American orchestras remain among the nation’s least racially diverse institutions, especially in regard to Black and Latino artists. In a 2014 study, only 1.8 percent of the players in top ensembles were Black; just 2.5 percent were Latino. At the time of the Philharmonic’s 1969 discrimination case, it had one Black player, the first it ever hired: Sanford Allen, a violinist. Today, in a city that is a quarter Black, just one out of 106 full-time players is Black: Anthony McGill, the principal clarinet.


vdare--2020-07-18--Not Yet A White Minority: 2019 Births by Race (US)

For close to a decade it has been reported that Americans under the age of 18 are “ majority-minority ” , yet non-Hispanic white births continue to constitute a majority of the country ’ s newborns .
The reason for the discrepancy is methodological .
The CDC tracks race by that of the mother exclusively , so babies who will be categorized in the census as “ two or more races ” once they reach adulthood are determined only by mom here .
This could be said to inflate the non-Hispanic white birth share , but the mother ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vital statistics are always available .
Treating all multiracial births as non-white statistically erases the white parent ’ s contribution .
By characterizing the children of a white man and an Asian woman and also the children of a black man and a white woman as non-white , the majority-minority future arrives sooner–to media celebration if the NYT mentions it and to angry accusations about conspiracy theories and fragility if anyone on the right does .
Parenthetically , whites on the right and non-whites on the left is coincidental .
Just as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so are the label placements .
No political implications there , no sirree !

For close to a decade it has been reported that Americans under the age of 18 are “majority-minority,” yet non-Hispanic white births continue to constitute a majority of the country’s newborns. The reason for the discrepancy is methodological. The CDC tracks race by that of the mother exclusively, so babies who will be categorized in the census as “two or more races” once they reach adulthood are determined only by mom here.
This could be said to inflate the non-Hispanic white birth share, but the mother’s race is the only one where reliable vital statistics are always available. Treating all multiracial births as non-white statistically erases the white parent’s contribution. By characterizing the children of a white man and an Asian woman and also the children of a black man and a white woman as non-white, the majority-minority future arrives sooner—to media celebration if the NYT mentions it and to angry accusations about conspiracy theories and fragility if anyone on the right does.
Parenthetically, whites on the right and non-whites on the left is coincidental. Just as the graph’s color scheme is random, so are the label placements. No political implications there, no sirree!
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-17--Now ESKIMOS Have Vandalized A Statue In Greenland

Greenland .
We do n't get much news out of Greenland .
Scanning my Radio Derb archives , I see only two real references .
One , from the science news in August 2016 , was about the Greenland Shark having been determined to be the longest-lived of all vertebrates—up to 400 years .
The other , from March that same year , just mentioned a review I had done of a book about Greenland , a book that made the place sound like a crappy welfare slum .
Well , here is some actual news about Greenland .
Greenland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gothåb , nowadays named Nuuk .
The first of those names , Gothåb , is Danish — it means `` Good Hope '' — because Greenland is a Danish colony .
It 's actually billed as an `` autonomous territory '' within the Kingdom of Denmark ; but I 'm guessing the autonomy is highly fictitious .
The population of Greenland is twelve percent Danish , the rest Eskimo or mixed-blood Eskimo-Danish .
Hence that second name , Nuuk , which is the Eskimo word for `` Cape , '' as a concession @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
OK , so what 's the news ?
Well , there 's a big statue of Hans Egede in Nuuk .
He was the 18th-century Lutheran missionary who Christianized the locals .
Guess what : The statue has been vandalized—splashed with red paint and graffitied with the word `` decolonize . ''
Now the Greenlanders are having a vote on whether or not to keep the statue .
Is n't it amazing how these hysterias spread ?
One day they 're vandalizing statues of Andy Jackson in Washington and Winston Churchill in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the folk up there in Greenland , on the Arctic Circle , have caught the fever .
I have n't yet heard any chants of `` Eskimo Lives Matter ! ''
but it can only be a matter of time .

Greenland. We don't get much news out of Greenland. Scanning my Radio Derb archives, I see only two real references. One, from the science news in August 2016, was about the Greenland Shark having been determined to be the longest-lived of all vertebrates—up to 400 years.
The other, from March that same year, just mentioned a review I had done of a book about Greenland, a book that made the place sound like a crappy welfare slum.
Well, here is some actual news about Greenland. Greenland has a capital city, formerly named Gothåb, nowadays named Nuuk. The first of those names, Gothåb, is Danish — it means "Good Hope" — because Greenland is a Danish colony. It's actually billed as an "autonomous territory" within the Kingdom of Denmark; but I'm guessing the autonomy is highly fictitious.
The population of Greenland is twelve percent Danish, the rest Eskimo or mixed-blood Eskimo-Danish. Hence that second name, Nuuk, which is the Eskimo word for "Cape," as a concession to Eskimo sensibilities by the colonial authorities.
OK, so what's the news? Well, there's a big statue of Hans Egede in Nuuk. He was the 18th-century Lutheran missionary who Christianized the locals. Guess what: The statue has been vandalized—splashed with red paint and graffitied with the word "decolonize." Now the Greenlanders are having a vote on whether or not to keep the statue.
Isn't it amazing how these hysterias spread? One day they're vandalizing statues of Andy Jackson in Washington and Winston Churchill in London. Next thing you know, the folk up there in Greenland, on the Arctic Circle, have caught the fever.
I haven't yet heard any chants of "Eskimo Lives Matter!" but it can only be a matter of time.


vdare--2020-07-18--Black Civil Rights Lawyer In The WASHINGTON POST: America Needs FEWER Laws Against Rioting

Opinion by David Henderson July 16 , 2020 at 11:57 a.m. PDT David Henderson [ Pictured right ] is a Dallas-based civil rights lawyer at Ellwanger Law .
He is representing the three named plaintiffs in this column in their lawsuit .
Anti-riot laws generally define a riot as a gathering that creates an immediate danger to property or people — which leaves room for interpretation on what constitutes “ an immediate danger.
” In Texas , the threshold for a riot stands at seven or more people .
When police officers have sole authority to make the call on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” they can — and often do — exaggerate the circumstances , giving them wide latitude to arrest nonviolent protesters .
Worse yet , if even one person throws rocks or a water bottle , then anyone in the general area can be arrested for riot participation .
These unjust arrests , as with all arrests , fall hardest on people of color .
As we ’ ve seen over the past several weeks , when carried out , these broad statutes often lead police to arrest peaceful protesters , violating their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to their broad nature that enables these constitutional violations , anti-riot laws should be ruled as flatly unconstitutional .
One interesting question is whether the owner of the Washington Post , Jeff Bezos , is starting to worry that this kind of thing might be Bad for Business .
For example , in normally genteel Santa Monica last month : I wouldn ’ t be surprised if Bezos and his peers figure that , while this kind of thing is okay because , they ’ ve been told , it helps with Priority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imagine that come November 5th , they ’ ll organize a few conference calls and turn off the juice on the insanity and get back to normal .
Bezos and Gates , for example , have their main homes in Seattle , and they can ’ t have been wholly happy about CHAZ/CHOP .
So , will there be a Thermidor in November if Biden wins ?
Or are the rich old guys who have been underwriting the madness going to find that events have slipped out of their grasp ?

From the Washington Post opinion section:
It’s time to challenge America’s repressive anti-riot laws Opinion by David Henderson
July 16, 2020 at 11:57 a.m. PDT David Henderson [Pictured right] is a Dallas-based civil rights lawyer at Ellwanger Law. He is representing the three named plaintiffs in this column in their lawsuit. Anti-riot laws generally define a riot as a gathering that creates an immediate danger to property or people — which leaves room for interpretation on what constitutes “an immediate danger.” In Texas, the threshold for a riot stands at seven or more people. When police officers have sole authority to make the call on whether there’s “immediate danger,” they can — and often do — exaggerate the circumstances, giving them wide latitude to arrest nonviolent protesters. Worse yet, if even one person throws rocks or a water bottle, then anyone in the general area can be arrested for riot participation. These unjust arrests, as with all arrests, fall hardest on people of color. As we’ve seen over the past several weeks, when carried out, these broad statutes often lead police to arrest peaceful protesters, violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights. Due to their broad nature that enables these constitutional violations, anti-riot laws should be ruled as flatly unconstitutional.
One interesting question is whether the owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, is starting to worry that this kind of thing might be Bad for Business. For example, in normally genteel Santa Monica last month:
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bezos and his peers figure that, while this kind of thing is okay because, they’ve been told, it helps with Priority One: Defeating Trump, they also imagine that come November 5th, they’ll organize a few conference calls and turn off the juice on the insanity and get back to normal. Bezos and Gates, for example, have their main homes in Seattle, and they can’t have been wholly happy about CHAZ/CHOP.
So, will there be a Thermidor in November if Biden wins? Or are the rich old guys who have been underwriting the madness going to find that events have slipped out of their grasp?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-17--What The Heck Is Going On With DACA?

What The Heck Is Going On With DACA?

The White House is supposed to issue a new order rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals amnesty soon , yet President Trump is alluding to amnesty and a federal court is ordering the administration to legalize “ Dreamers.
” Just what the heck is going on with DACA ?
First , off there are Trump ’ s bizarre comments on DACA .
Trump told Telemundo in an interview last weekend that his DACA executive order would give illegal aliens who arrived to the US as minors a “ path to citizenship.
” This was a disturbing statement , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ramblings where he says stuff without knowing what he ’ s talking about .
This has been a common feature of his immigration rhetoric in the White House .
He ’ s also not legally able to give citizenship to these illegals via executive order [ Trump 's planned order on 'dreamers ' will not include amnesty , White House says , Reuters , July 10 , 2020 ] .
Sure enough , it was an example of Trump just mouthing an empty platitude .
Shortly after the interview aired , the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no pathway to citizenship in the DACA executive order .
But , according to independent journalist Ryan Girdusky , someone in Trump ’ s orbit is trying to persuade the president that it would help his election chances if he gives amnesty to Dreamers .
This would do the opposite , yet we may see Trump try to do this through another attempt at a DACA grand bargain .
This idea dominated his agenda in early 2018 , but every legislative attempt at a grand bargain failed .
This idea was shelved after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DACA rescission .
It ’ s probable that Trump will try another grand bargain after his new DACA order , but its prospects will be dimmer with a Democrat-controlled House .
Trump has a new impetus for speeding up his executive order .
Judge Paul Grimm , an Obama appointee to the US District Court for the District of Maryland , ruled Friday that the Trump administration must return DACA to its `` pre-September 5 , 2017 status ” and accept new applicants for legal status .
The judge based his decision on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s previous DACA rescission in June [ Judge orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications , by Priscilla Alvarez , CNN , July 17 , 2020 ] .
Time is running out and Trump must act to scrap DACA .
He can ’ t allow an amnesty to stand when he ’ s trying to win as the America First candidate .


vdare--2020-07-17--A Patriot Lawyer Writes "Don’t Take the Black Pill—Keep Fighting the NYT!"

Re : A Blackpilled Reader Wonders If Our NYT Lawsuit Is n't Just Coming At Them In `` The Same Old Way '' —We Say It 's Something New !
I read the recent letter from one of your readers about his pessimism towards your lawsuit against the New York Times .
I understand the frustration , but there are reasons to be hopeful .
I ultimately agree with you that somebody will break the dam that is NYT v. Sullivan .
One reason to be hopeful is an opinion [ PDF ] from Justice Clarence Thomas early last year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In that opinion , Justice Thomas indicated that he might overrule NYT v. Sullivan in a future case .
The Left was apoplectic about this opinion .
[ If You Do n't Value New York Times v. Sullivan , You 'd Better Start , Because Clarence Thomas Is Gunning for It , by Jay Michaelson , Daily Beast , February 19 , 2019 ] This reminds me of another opinion written by Justice Thomas that was eventually adopted by the High Court .
In 1997 , Justice Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Amendment protected the individual right to own a firearm .
This was a minority position at the time , but it helped shift the public debate .
Enterprising conservative lawyers picked up on this opinion and steadily advanced their cause , culminating in the Heller and McDonald decisions that correctly interpreted the Second Amendment .
This legal development , along with the continued brazenness of the Left ’ s dishonesty , are demonstrative that this is not analogous to Einstein ’ s alleged definition of insanity .
There are real changes taking place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a major legal wrong .

Re: A Blackpilled Reader Wonders If Our NYT Lawsuit Isn't Just Coming At Them In "The Same Old Way"—We Say It's Something New!
From: Fabrizio Evola [Email him]
I read the recent letter from one of your readers about his pessimism towards your lawsuit against the New York Times. I understand the frustration, but there are reasons to be hopeful. I ultimately agree with you that somebody will break the dam that is NYT v. Sullivan.
This reminds me of another opinion written by Justice Thomas that was eventually adopted by the High Court. In 1997, Justice Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in Printz v U.S. stating that the Second Amendment protected the individual right to own a firearm. This was a minority position at the time, but it helped shift the public debate. Enterprising conservative lawyers picked up on this opinion and steadily advanced their cause, culminating in the Heller and McDonald decisions that correctly interpreted the Second Amendment.
This legal development, along with the continued brazenness of the Left’s dishonesty, is demonstrative that this is not analogous to Einstein’s alleged definition of insanity. There are real changes taking place, and a major opportunity to correct a major legal wrong.