vdare--2020-01-04--The European Eve—Is She A Sardinian Woman?

See also R1b—Gene Of Modern Civilization ( And Red Hair ) There seems to be a negative relationship between our growing knowledge of human genetics , and the extent to which we are allowed to publicly say that genetic differences between ethnic groups exist and matter .
This became crystal clear recently when Bret Stephens ’ s New York Times piece on Jewish intelligence was censored ( post-publication ! )
to memory-hole a reference to a once-widely-praised study [ PDF ] in a leading scientific journal that had demonstrated that Jews were on average smarter than other races for genetic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be “ racist ” —as , supposedly , was Henry Harpending , one of the authors of the study Stephens referenced .
( This is continuing to make waves : Siva Vaidhyanathan [ Email him ] an Indian `` media studies '' professor at Virginia Tech , was quoted in Politico as calling for the NYT to uphold `` high standards '' —i.e more firmly suppressing what he calls `` ridiculous , eugenicist garbage '' . )
So there seems no better time to explore afresh the genetics of the people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Europeans .
The males , being still overwhelmingly Western European and in particular British , are characterized by the Y Chromosome Haplotype R1b .
Between 60 % and 100 % of Irish , Welsh and Southern English men carry this haplotype .
It first appeared roughly 12,000 years ago and spread westwards from West Asia , where it originated .
Carried by no less than 30 % of European males , it is the marker of being “ Indo-European ” —the war-like culture which spread into Europe and which is genetically most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But what about European ladies ?
What are maternal-line origins of Emily Dickinson , Amelia Earheart and Ann Coulter ?
Where did the European Eve come from ?
The answer is that she came from the same place as the Indo-Europeans—only much , much earlier .
The Haplogroup carried by approximately 40 % of all European females , Haplogroup H ( mtDNA ) first appeared in West Asia 25,000 years ago , well before the last Ice Age [ The Molecular Dissection of mtDNA Haplogroup H Confirms That the Franco-Cantabrian Glacial Refuge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gene Pool , By Alessandro Achilli et al.
, American Journal of Human Genetics , 2004 ] .
As Kevin MacDonald points out in his very useful 2019 book Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition : Evolutionary Origins , History , and Prospects for the Future , Europe experienced three waves of settlement .
• None The first settlers were • None Next came the “ Neolithic Farmers , ” • None Finally , there came the who started-out in Western Asia but very much established themselves as a relatively developed culture of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beakers ” and “ axes ” – in Eastern Europe .
These of course were the bearers of the R1b haplotype .
MacDonald reports sound archaeological evidence that the highly advanced Indo-Europeans substantially wiped-out their competitors all over Europe , and especially in the Northwest of Europe .
And , of course , it would have been the Neolithic and Hunter-Gatherer males whom they would have killed and displaced—taking Neolithic and Hunter-Gatherer females as the spoils of war .
In Britain , notes MacDonald , the Neolithic Farmers were replaced by Indo-Europeans to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them hanging on only in isolated parts of the island .
MacDonald also demonstrates that , thousands of years earlier , the Neolithic Farmers themselves outcompeted , and perhaps successfully battled with , male Stone Age Hunter Gatherers , displacing them and also taking their females as their own .
However , these Hunter Gatherers were liquidated to a much greater extent , hanging on only in very isolated areas , as they could so easily be out-competed by farmers with their larger numbers and superior technology .
But the Neolithic Farmers didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Scandinavia , meaning that remnant Hunter Gatherers there would have survived to be later wiped out by Indo-Europeans ( whose own womenfolk would have been picked up on their journey north ) .
The result : Approximately 40 % of European females carry Haplogroup H , with the highest frequency , of almost 60 % , found among Welsh women and a frequency of 44 % among English , Scottish , and Irish women [ Distribution of European mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) haplogroups by region in percentage , April 2018 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which arrived in Europe with Neolithic Farmers [ Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans , By Paul Brotherton et al.
, Nature Communications , 2013 ] .
Haplogroup H is completely absent on the Y Chromosome in Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands and Northern Britain .
It is most prominent , on the Y Chromosome , in southern India , where it originated , before making its way to southern Turkey [ The Genetic Formation of South and Central Asia , By V.M .
Narasimhan et al.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to a lesser extent , in southern Europe , among between 2 % and 10 % of populations .
According to MacDonald , Indo-European ancestry is 55 % in Norway , as the Neolithic Farmers never even made it that far north .
This percentage decreases continuously as you move south and east of Norway .
Hunter-Gatherer ancestry is highest in relatively isolated areas such as the Baltic States and Finland , where it is around 40 % .
In Finland , only 36 % of females carry the H Haplotype , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which betokens Hunter-Gatherer ancestry [ Distribution of European mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) haplogroups by region in percentage , April 2018 , Eupedia ] .
This originated no less than 45,000 years ago , [ A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes , By Q. Fu et al.
, Current Biology , 2013 ] .
Hunter-Gatherer ancestry is zero in Spain and Italy .
It is in such countries such that Neolithic Farmer ancestry is the highest .
Around 90 % of Sardinian ancestry , male and female @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10 % being Indo-European .
See the Eupedia map of Haplogroup H distribution below , in which the darkest blue spot is tiny Sardinia .
So , it follows that the European male is an Indo-European warrior , very possibly with ginger hair and associated pale skin and blue eyes , as this is associated with R1b .
By contrast , the European female is a dusky Sardinian maiden with olive skin , brown eyes and dark hair .
It feels odd to write this .
But the closest thing to the Northern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closest thing to a Northern European ancestral female is a Sardinian .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

See also R1b—Gene Of Modern Civilization (And Red Hair)
There seems to be a negative relationship between our growing knowledge of human genetics, and the extent to which we are allowed to publicly say that genetic differences between ethnic groups exist and matter. This became crystal clear recently when Bret Stephens’s New York Times piece on Jewish intelligence was censored (post-publication!) to memory-hole a reference to a once-widely-praised study [PDF] in a leading scientific journal that had demonstrated that Jews were on average smarter than other races for genetic reasons. This widely-replicated finding was declared to be “racist”—as, supposedly, was Henry Harpending, one of the authors of the study Stephens referenced. (This is continuing to make waves: Siva Vaidhyanathan [Email him] an Indian "media studies" professor at Virginia Tech, was quoted in Politico as calling for the NYT to uphold "high standards"—i.e more firmly suppressing what he calls "ridiculous, eugenicist garbage.")
So there seems no better time to explore afresh the genetics of the people who, overwhelmingly, built the United States: Europeans.
The males, being still overwhelmingly Western European and in particular British, are characterized by the Y Chromosome Haplotype R1b. Between 60% and 100% of Irish, Welsh and Southern English men carry this haplotype. It first appeared roughly 12,000 years ago and spread westwards from West Asia, where it originated. Carried by no less than 30% of European males, it is the marker of being “Indo-European”—the war-like culture which spread into Europe and which is genetically most influential in Europe’s North West.
But what about European ladies? What are maternal-line origins of Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earheart and Ann Coulter? Where did the European Eve come from?
The answer is that she came from the same place as the Indo-Europeans—only much, much earlier.
The Haplogroup carried by approximately 40% of all European females, Haplogroup H (mtDNA) first appeared in West Asia 25,000 years ago, well before the last Ice Age [The Molecular Dissection of mtDNA Haplogroup H Confirms That the Franco-Cantabrian Glacial Refuge Was a Major Source for the European Gene Pool, by Alessandro Achilli et al., American Journal of Human Genetics, 2004].
As Kevin MacDonald points out in his very useful 2019 book Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future, Europe experienced three waves of settlement.
The first settlers were “ Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers ,” who appeared in Europe approximately 10,000 years ago.
Next came the “Neolithic Farmers,” from Anatolia, who arrived i n the Continent about 8,000 years ago.
Finally, there came the “ Indo-Europeans, ” who started out in Western Asia but very much established themselves as a relatively developed culture —evidence of which can be found in the “beakers” and “axes” – in Eastern Europe. These of course were the bearers of the R1b haplotype.
MacDonald reports sound archaeological evidence that the highly advanced Indo-Europeans substantially wiped-out their competitors all over Europe, and especially in the Northwest of Europe. And, of course, it would have been the Neolithic and Hunter-Gatherer males whom they would have killed and displaced—taking Neolithic and Hunter-Gatherer females as the spoils of war.
In Britain, notes MacDonald, the Neolithic Farmers were replaced by Indo-Europeans to the tune of 90%, with them hanging on only in isolated parts of the island.
MacDonald also demonstrates that, thousands of years earlier, the Neolithic Farmers themselves outcompeted, and perhaps successfully battled with, male Stone Age Hunter Gatherers, displacing them and also taking their females as their own. However, these Hunter Gatherers were liquidated to a much greater extent, hanging on only in very isolated areas, as they could so easily be outcompeted by farmers with their larger numbers and superior technology.
But the Neolithic Farmers didn’t make it as far north as Scandinavia, meaning that remnant Hunter Gatherers there would have survived to be later wiped out by Indo-Europeans (whose own womenfolk would have been picked up on their journey north).
The result: Approximately 40% of European females carry Haplogroup H, with the highest frequency, of almost 60%, found among Welsh women and a frequency of 44% among English, Scottish, and Irish women [Distribution of European mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups by region in percentage, April 2018, Eupedia]. This is the Haplogroup which arrived in Europe with Neolithic Farmers [Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans, by Paul Brotherton et al., Nature Communications, 2013].
Haplogroup H is completely absent on the Y Chromosome in Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands and Northern Britain. It is most prominent, on the Y Chromosome, in southern India, where it originated, before making its way to southern Turkey [The Genetic Formation of South and Central Asia, by V.M. Narasimhan et al., bioRxiv]. It is found, to a lesser extent, in southern Europe, among between 2% and 10% of populations.
According to MacDonald, Indo-European ancestry is 55% in Norway, as the Neolithic Farmers never even made it that far north. This percentage decreases continuously as you move south and east of Norway.
Hunter-Gatherer ancestry is highest in relatively isolated areas such as the Baltic States and Finland, where it is around 40%. In Finland, only 36% of females carry the H Haplotype, while 20.7% of them carry U5, which betokens Hunter-Gatherer ancestry [Distribution of European mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups by region in percentage, April 2018, Eupedia]. This originated no less than 45,000 years ago [A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes, By Q. Fu et al., Current Biology, 2013].
Hunter-Gatherer ancestry is zero in Spain and Italy. It is in such countries such that Neolithic Farmer ancestry is the highest. Around 90% of Sardinian ancestry, male and female, is Neolithic Farmer, the other 10% being Indo-European. See the Eupedia map of Haplogroup H distribution below, in which the darkest blue spot is tiny Sardinia.
So, it follows that the European male is an Indo-European warrior, very possibly with ginger hair and associated pale skin and blue eyes, as this is associated with R1b. By contrast, the European female is a dusky Sardinian maiden with olive skin, brown eyes and dark hair.
Pictured below, Bond girl (Casino Royale, 2006) Caterina Murino, born in Cagliari.
It feels odd to write this. But the closest thing to the Northern European ancestral male is a Norwegian—whereas the closest thing to a Northern European ancestral female is a Sardinian.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-01-04--WALL STREET JOURNAL Warns the Great Replacement (Decline in White Percentage of U.S. Electorate) Cou

WALL STREET JOURNAL Warns the Great Replacement (Decline in White Percentage of U.S. Electorate) Could Cost Trump Reelection in 2020

We learned from Axios that 96 % of all counties across the USA saw a decline in their share of the white population since 2010 .
The Great Replacement is very real .
Imagine what we ’ ll see by 2025… demography is destiny .
Well , now it turns out The Wall Street Journal admits by the 2020 US Presidential election , the true scope of The Great Replacement might be in focus .
Demographic Shift Poised to Test Trump ’ s 2020 Strategy : Base of white , working-class voters projected to decline and be replaced by Democratic-leaning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3 , 2020 “ President Trump ’ s 2020 election strategy relies largely on the white , working-class base that he excited in 2016 .
But he faces a demographic challenge : The electorate has changed since he was last on the ballot in ways likely to benefit Democrats , ” the Wall Street Journal reports .
“ Working-class , white voters are projected to decline by 2.3 percentage points nationally as a share of eligible voters , compared with the last election , because they are older and therefore dying at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As those voters pass on , they are most likely to be replaced by those from minority groups or young , white voters with college degrees—groups that lean Democratic.
” “ That means Mr. Trump will have to coax more votes from a shrinking base—or else find more votes in other parts of the electorate.
” The unparalleled-in-human-history racial change in America is happening so fast , right before our eyes , we sometimes fail to realize just how consequential The Great Replacement truly is and what it represents .
And in just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the supplanting of the Historic America Nation for good .
The Wall Street Journal has spoken , a subtle warning to investors of what ’ s coming ( and the non-white Democrat Party looking to raid 401 ( k ) s and white people ’ s retirement funds to pay for their programs/initiatives ) .

We learned from Axios that 96% of all counties across the USA have seen a decline in their share of the white population since 2010.
The Great Replacement is very real. Imagine what we’ll see by 2025… demography is destiny.
Well, now it turns out the Wall Street Journal admits by the 2020 US Presidential election, the true scope of The Great Replacement might be in focus.
Demographic Shift Poised to Test Trump’s 2020 Strategy: Base of white, working-class voters projected to decline and be replaced by Democratic-leaning groups, Wall Street Journal, January 3, 2020 “President Trump’s 2020 election strategy relies largely on the white, working-class base that he excited in 2016. But he faces a demographic challenge: The electorate has changed since he was last on the ballot in ways likely to benefit Democrats,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Working-class, white voters are projected to decline by 2.3 percentage points nationally as a share of eligible voters, compared with the last election, because they are older and therefore dying at a faster rate than are Democratic groups. As those voters pass on, they are most likely to be replaced by those from minority groups or young, white voters with college degrees—groups that lean Democratic.” “That means Mr. Trump will have to coax more votes from a shrinking base—or else find more votes in other parts of the electorate.”
The unparalleled-in-human-history racial change in America is happening so fast, right before our eyes, we sometimes fail to realize just how consequential The Great Replacement truly is and what it represents. And in just about nine months, we could see the supplanting of the Historic America Nation for good. The Wall Street Journal has spoken, a subtle warning to investors of what’s coming (and the non-white Democrat Party looking to raid 401(k)s and white people’s retirement funds to pay for their programs/initiatives).
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-01-04--In The Name Of Equity, New York Lawmakers Seek To Create A Gentrification Tax AKA Tax On White Prope

In The Name Of Equity, New York Lawmakers Seek To Create A Gentrification Tax AKA Tax On White Property Purchasers)

Let ’ s just call it the white tax and be done with it .
City lawmakers want to impose gentrification tax , New York Post , December 26 , 2019 Here ’ s one thing that unites local pols across the political divide — a gentrification tax .
A bipartisan group of city lawmakers is pushing Albany to approve tweaks to the state tax laws that would allow them to hit new homebuyers with tax bills based on the actual market prices of their properties .
The coalition of 13 Republican and Democratic city council members says that taxes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
New York ’ s famously opaque property tax system offers big breaks to new homebuyers by taxing them at assessed values that are often millions of dollars less than the market price .
For instance , a buyer who snapped up a Clinton Hill brownstone for $ 3 million in 2017 only has to pay taxes on a sliver of that amount — $ 24,000 , leaving the lucky owner with a tax bill of just $ 4,297 a year .
Meanwhile , the owner of a relatively modest half-million-dollar Bergen Beach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ despite being worth just one-sixth the price on the market .
The current system amounts to a giant giveaway for gentrifiers , Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli told The Post .
“ People are just getting fed up with the loophole , and they ’ re demanding action , ” the GOP politician added .
The bipartisan coalition also includes Park Slope Democrat Brad Lander and Bay Ridge Democrat Justin Brannan .
They ’ re backing a resolution that calls on state lawmakers to change the tax law to require new homebuyers to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instead of the heavily discounted assessed value .
The change would boost the Clinton Hill gentrifiers bill by $ 1,600 a year while keeping the Bergen Beach old timer ’ s costs the same .
“ Borelli ’ s plan to reset the tax cap whenever a new owner purchases a property would bring a small drop of fairness to a system that is just completely screwed and totally unfair , ” Brannan said .
Borelli sent the proposed resolution to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie earlier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the change .
Reps for Heastie did not return calls .
Johnson ’ s spokeswoman , Jennifer Fermino , said , the speaker is awaiting the preliminary report from a property tax reform commission he convened with Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018 .
“ The Advisory Commission is looking at Real Property Tax Law 1805 as part of its review of our broken system , ” Fermino added .
“ Any recommendations for changes will be part of the commission ’ s preliminary report .
The Speaker is looking forward to reviewing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There ’ s no deadline for the initial tax overhaul report , which has been reportedly near release since July .
A spokeswoman for de Blasio also punted on Borelli ’ s plan , referring to the overdue tax study .
“ The property tax system is complex , and we appreciate Council Member Borelli ’ s interest in reforming the Real Property Tax Law , ” said Marcy Miranda , press secretary for the city ’ s Department of Finance .

Let’s just call it the white tax and be done with it.
City lawmakers want to impose gentrification tax, New York Post, December 26, 2019
Here’s one thing that unites local pols across the political divide — a gentrification tax.
A bipartisan group of city lawmakers is pushing Albany to approve tweaks to the state tax laws that would allow them to hit new homebuyers with tax bills based on the actual market prices of their properties.
The coalition of 13 Republican and Democratic city council members says that taxes would not go up for existing owners.
New York’s famously opaque property tax system offers big breaks to new homebuyers by taxing them at assessed values that are often millions of dollars less than the market price.
For instance, a buyer who snapped up a Clinton Hill brownstone for $3 million in 2017 only has to pay taxes on a sliver of that amount — $24,000, leaving the lucky owner with a tax bill of just $4,297 a year.
Meanwhile, the owner of a relatively modest half-million-dollar Bergen Beach bungalow pays nearly an identical amount, despite being worth just one-sixth the price on the market.
The current system amounts to a giant giveaway for gentrifiers, Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli told The Post.
“People are just getting fed up with the loophole, and they’re demanding action,” the GOP politician added.
The bipartisan coalition also includes Park Slope Democrat Brad Lander and Bay Ridge Democrat Justin Brannan.
They’re backing a resolution that calls on state lawmakers to change the tax law to require new homebuyers to pay property taxes on the market rate instead of the heavily discounted assessed value.
The change would boost the Clinton Hill gentrifiers bill by $1,600 a year while keeping the Bergen Beach old timer’s costs the same.
“Borelli’s plan to reset the tax cap whenever a new owner purchases a property would bring a small drop of fairness to a system that is just completely screwed and totally unfair,” Brannan said.
Borelli sent the proposed resolution to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie earlier this month with a letter asking for the change.
Reps for Heastie did not return calls.
Johnson’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Fermino, said, the speaker is awaiting the preliminary report from a property tax reform commission he convened with Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018.
“The Advisory Commission is looking at Real Property Tax Law 1805 as part of its review of our broken system,” Fermino added. “Any recommendations for changes will be part of the commission’s preliminary report. The Speaker is looking forward to reviewing their recommendations when the report is ready.
There’s no deadline for the initial tax overhaul report, which has been reportedly near release since July.
A spokeswoman for de Blasio also punted on Borelli’s plan, referring to the overdue tax study.
“The property tax system is complex, and we appreciate Council Member Borelli’s interest in reforming the Real Property Tax Law,” said Marcy Miranda, press secretary for the city’s Department of Finance.


vdare--2020-01-03--Another GOP Insurgent Raises Immigration Moratorium Issue: Joshua Foxworth in TX-14

Is it a trend ?
Besides Pete D ’ Abrosca in NC-7 , another insurgent Republican.is primarying an incumbent Congressman and raising the issue of immigration moratorium : Joshua Foxworth in Texas ’ s 14th Congressional District .
Foxworth is running on the immigration issue .
He told VDARE.com by email that he is “ generally supportive ” of an immigration moratorium , but goes even further , arguing it ’ s a “ a temporary solution to a permanent problem.
” He says : I think that our entire immigration system needs to be rethought and redesigned from a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ start from the position that we are an established nation with a defined culture and as such the default yearly immigration is zero .
From there , we can discuss allowing in people who are genuinely in need and whose presence would not affect our culture .
That number would be extremely low and usually zero .
Foxworth wants to end Guest Worker visa programs , build the wall , and eliminate the diversity visa lottery system and chain migration .
Interestingly , he also wants America to implement a “ reciprocity ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is making an issue out of opposing Affirmative Action .
Foxworth faces Republican incumbent Randy Weber in the party primary .
Weber has an A+ rating from NumbersUSA , but Foxworth argues this is deceptive .
Weber did vote for the Indian green card giveaway known as the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants .
Foxworth has attacked him and other Texas Republicans for this vote , making the explicit demographic argument that the GOP is importing its own destruction [ Make No Mistake : The GOP is Losing Texas , by Joshua Foxworth , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] VDARE.com will keep an eye on how Texans respond to Foxworth ’ s message .

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Is it a trend? Besides Pete D’Abrosca in NC-7, another insurgent Republican is primarying an incumbent Congressman and raising the issue of immigration moratorium: Joshua Foxworth in Texas’s 14th Congressional District.
Foxworth is running on the immigration issue. He told VDARE.com by email that he is “generally supportive” of an immigration moratorium, but goes even further, arguing it’s “a temporary solution to a permanent problem.” He says:
I think that our entire immigration system needs to be rethought and redesigned from a new vantage point. Our system should start from the position that we are an established nation with a defined culture and as such the default yearly immigration is zero. From there, we can discuss allowing in people who are genuinely in need and whose presence would not affect our culture. That number would be extremely low and usually zero.
Foxworth wants to end Guest Worker visa programs, build the wall, and eliminate the diversity visa lottery system and chain migration.
Interestingly, he also wants America to implement a “reciprocity” system for legal immigration:
We will allow no nation's people to enter our lands unless that nation opens its borders to the world and to us in a similar manner.
And Foxworth is making an issue out of opposing Affirmative Action.
Foxworth faces Republican incumbent Randy Weber in the party primary. Weber has an A+ rating from NumbersUSA, but Foxworth argues this is deceptive. Weber did vote for the Indian green card giveaway known as the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants. Foxworth has attacked him and other Texas Republicans for this vote, making the explicit demographic argument that the GOP is importing its own destruction [Make No Mistake: The GOP Is Losing Texas, by Joshua Foxworth, American Thinker, September 13, 2019]
VDARE.com will keep an eye on how Texans respond to Foxworth’s message.


vdare--2020-01-04--Trump Hits Iranian, De Blasio Empties Jails, And NYT Won’t Say Who’s Attacking NY Jews, Etc.

01m40s Latest moves in the Great Game .
( Why are we playing ? )
07m59s Afghanistan butcher 's bill @ @ @ @ @ year worse than Obama 's last . )
10m43s Eternal recurrence in legal immigration .
@ @ @ @ @ , taking away with the other . )
30m37s Hereditary aristocracy in Congress .
( @ @ @ @ @ 32m26s Yet another Twenties .
( War , what is it good for ? )
@ @ @ @ @ .
( GOP governors side with the scammers . )
40m21s Vietnam : return of @ @ @ @ @ place to retire . )

01m40s Latest moves in the Great Game. (Why are we playing?)
07m59s Afghanistan butcher's bill. (Trump's third year worse than Obama's last.)
10m43s Eternal recurrence in legal immigration. (Giving with one hand, taking away with the other.)
16m14s Bail is unfair! (White race guilt in action.)
23m50s NYT editorializes on antisemitism. (A gem of race denialism.)
30m37s Hereditary aristocracy in Congress. (It pays well.)
32m26s Yet another Twenties. (War, what is it good for?)
34m03s The refugee resettlement scam. (GOP governors side with the scammers.)
36m45s Abolish the police! (Peace circles and restorative justice.)
38m38s Healthcare financing conundrums. (Cures kill profits.)
40m21s Vietnam: return of the vets. (Good place to retire.)
41m57s News story of the year. (Woman bites camel.)
43m46s Signoff. (Hang in there, Australia.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air, with our first podcast of the new decade. Greetings to all from your realistically genial host John Derbyshire.
The end of the holiday season is in sight, says your host with no small measure of relief. The season goes on a bit longer than usual in the Derb household. After New Year there is January 5th, our daughter's birthday, then Chinese New Year, which this year falls early: January 25th. It will be the year of the rat, in case you're wondering. After that it's a pretty clear run through to July Fourth, unless people remember my own birthday in June, which on the whole I'd rather they didn't.
OK; what's the mood this first week of the Twenties? My own mood is of deep TDS. That's Trump Disappointment Syndrome. Permit me to expatiate on that.
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02—Latest moves in the Great Game. As a member of Donald Trump's voter base in 2016, I was hoping for two things from him: one, an overhaul of our immigration system to favor ordinary Americans, not foreigners and billionaires as is currently the case; and two, an end to the imperialist world-saving expeditions of the Clinton, Bush and Obama years.
The past three years have seen some small hopeful movements on the first item: Some improved border fencing, as I have been dutifully reporting, some associated leaning on Mexico to co-operate in controlling the flux from Central America, some slight trimming of our extravagant guest-worker programs, … I'll have more to say later.
We're still playing world-saver, though, instead of minding our business as a commercial republic, as the Founders intended and as most Americans would prefer. NATO is still going strong, ready to repel the Soviet tanks as they storm through the Fulda Gap. We are still committed to the defense of South Korea against an adversary with a population half the South's and a GDP one-fiftieth.
And of course we're still in the damn stinking filthy wretched worthless Middle East, as if their endless tribal bickering was any of our business. Speaking of a similarly messed-up region 140 years ago, Otto von Bismarck opined that, quote: "The Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." I feel the same way about the Middle East, though with G.I.s in mind, not Pomeranian grenadiers. Where the heck is Pomerania, anyway? Never mind.
We've all heard about the latest eruption over there. A mob under Iranian direction stormed our embassy in Iraq, in retaliation for something we did to them, which was in retaliation for something they did to us, which was in retaliation for something we did to them, which was in retaliation for something they did to us, which … [Audio speeding up to repetitive gabble.]
If you follow that chain of causation back far enough you come to George W. Bush's destruction of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, which the cretins in charge of our government imagined would usher in a cordial Jeffersonian democracy there. What it actually did was hand over Iraq to Iran, strengthening the Shia side of the Sunni-Shia regional divide and firing up the resentment of the dispossessed Sunnis.
I'll admit I did not foresee this at the time, not knowing or caring a damn about Iraq. Much more to the point, apparently none of our highly-paid career foreign-policy and military strategists foresaw it either. No wonder Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, and the rest have since been total outcasts from society, forced to live in camouflaged huts in the remote mountain West for fear of assaults from outraged citizens. [Laughter.]
So here we are as at Friday afternoon, playing chicken with Iran. If you want to read a thoughtful, well-informed analysis of the situation, I recommend David Goldman's column over at Asia Times.
David's writing from the Great Game point of view, sample quote:
After 5,000 dead, 50,000 wounded and trillions of dollars in expenditures in Iraq, the US had succeeded in turning a former counterweight to Iranian ambitions into an Iranian satrapy. The embassy attack was intended by Iran as a public act of ritual humiliation, and the United States had no choice but to respond.
End quote.
Fair enough, if you think we have to keep playing the Great Game. My own preference would be to tip over the chessboard and walk away. Three years ago I would have called that a Trumpian move. Now I am wiser. Trump doesn't have that kind of audacity. Nor any other kind, really. He's just another damn Republican …
Trump Disappointment Syndrome … where did I put my medication?
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03—Afghanistan butcher's bill. Headline here from The Hill, January 1st, headline: US combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years.
We lost 17 servicemen to enemy action in Afghanistan last year, 14 Army and three Marines. For the previous four years, working back from 2018 to 2015, the numbers were 13, 11, 9, 10. Seventeen is nearly double nine, so you could re-phrase the data as: Our Afghanistan combat deaths in Donald Trump's third year were almost twice what they were in Barack Obama's last year.
Of the Army fatalities, three were paratroopers, like my son. Junior left the service when his four-year term was up in 2017, without having been deployed. If he'd re-enlisted, he'd have been in Afghanistan last year with those other paratroopers.
What's keeping us in Afghanistan? What's in it for the Deep State types? When I ask that about Iraq or Syria, friends and colleagues tell me it's all the Israeli and Saudi money sloshing around in Washington, D.C. No doubt that's something to do with it; but what do the Israelis and the Saudis care about Afghanistan? What does anyone care about the damn place?
Normally at this point I'd launch into a rant about the criminal folly of our Afghanistan policy. I have to confess, though, that on this topic, after so many years, I'm all ranted out. I refer you to my December 13th coverage of the SIGAR report, which I concluded by calling for public hangings of those responsible for our Afghanistan policy.
My opinions since then have changed slightly. I'm now against public hangings. Instead, I want these people publicly boiled alive.
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04—Eternal recurrence in legal immigration. Here's an immigration-related headline. This one's from Axios.com, December 29th, headline: U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements.
Whoa, hold on … Did I check the year on that? Was that really December 29th 2019? Yes, it was. Wasn't this an issue back in the 2016 election? Yes, it was. Didn't candidate Trump promise to address it? Yes, he did.
[Clip: It's very bad for our workers, and it's unfair for our workers, and we should end it. Very importantly: The Disney workers endorsed me, as you probably read. And I got a full endorsement, because they're the ones that said—and they had a news conference—they said, "He's the only one that's going to be able to fix it, because it is a mess" …]
That was a GOP candidates' debate in March of 2016, close to four years ago. The villain in today's story is not Disney, it's AT&T. Quote from the Axios report:
AT&T is poised to send thousands into the new year hunting for new jobs after assigning them to train their own foreign replacements, according to conversations with current and former workers and documents obtained by Axios.
Many have worked for the company for over a decade. They aren't being offered severance or early retirement, and may not easily find a comparable job elsewhere with similar pay.
End quote.
On the issue of mega-corporations using guest-worker visas to bring in cheap foreign labor, replacing American workers, the phrase "eternal recurrence" keeps bobbing up in my mind. It's like the war in Afghanistan. I can look back at commentary from five, ten, fifteen years ago; nothing's changed.
On this one, in fact, things may be about to get worse. VDARE.com's Washington Watcher tells us that Senate Bill 386, full title the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, may pass the Senate by unanimous consent next week, without any public hearings. This is the bill that, to put it in a nutshell, fudges up the difference between a temporary guest-worker visa, like the notorious H-1B, and a permanent residence "green card." The effect of passing S386 will be, to quote Washington Watcher:
The new bill increases the immigrant impact by no longer forcing guest workers to leave. Now an American has to compete with low-paid guest workers who can stay for as long as it takes to obtain a green card.
End quote.
As I mentioned earlier, there has been some trimming of the number of H-1B approvals. Put that together with this S386 green-card handout, the administration is giving with one hand while taking away with the other. Not what we voted for on immigration, not at all.
And still, nothing, no action at all, on birthright citizenship, E-Verify, visa overstays, chain migration, the green card lottery, or the uniquely horrible CPT and OPT programs—that's Curricular Practical Training and Optional Practical Training, basically back doors from student visas, of which we issue far too many, to H-1Bs. I call them uniquely horrible because they not only help to displace American workers, they also shovel funds into the higher education rackets that are already bloated with cash.
We need a bold Chief Executive who will take a flamethrower to the whole rotten, corrupt system of legal immigration—while simultaneously, of course, dealing with illegal immigration by strict enforcement of the people's laws. If only we could get someone like that in the White House.
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05—Bail is unfair! There's a big nationwide trend of easing up on people who've been arrested for the lesser kinds of crime—easing up on them in the early stages of the criminal-justice process, that is.
A reminder of those early stages, ignoring some slight variations state to state.
At a wrong-doer's first encounter with the police, one of two things happens: either, (a) for the most minor offenses, he's given a written citation—a signed promise to appear in court when summoned—then let go, or, (b) for something more serious, he's taken to the station house for booking, where cops take his picture and prints, look him up on their computer, go through his pockets, then lock him in a cell.
Then comes a bail hearing. The decision to be made here, by a judge, is: Should the guy be let go, on his own recognizance, with a promise to appear at court when summoned; or should he only be let go after depositing a sum of money, that sum to be forfeit if he doesn't show up at court; or should he not be let go at all, but returned to the cells until his court date?
That court date, the one we're all hoping the guy shows up for, is his arraignment, the first episode of the courtroom drama to decide guilty or innocent.
Those are the early stages of the criminal-justice process. The easing-up trend is mostly on the bail hearing. My own state of New York passed a law last year, taking effect this week, to abolish bail altogether for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies. In anticipation of the new rules taking effect, local judges have been letting people go free who would formerly have been required to post bail.
This has led to a rash of lurid stories in local tabloids about perps who are obviously crazy dangerous but were set free at their bail hearings. Steven Haynes, who sucker-punched a cop and wrestled him to the ground last Thursday was back on the street Friday, notwithstanding a felony assault charge and 24 prior arrests.
The poster gal here though is 30-year-old Tiffany Harris. Ms Harris slapped three Orthodox Jewish women in the street last Friday while yelling antisemitic obscenities at them. She was arrested and booked, but set free at her bail hearing Saturday. Sunday she ambushed another Jewish woman out walking with her 3-year-old and a baby. Ms Harris punched this woman in the face. Monday she was set free again, with instructions to report to a social worker. Ms Harris did report to the social worker … and promptly assaulted her. She is now being held for psychiatric evaluation.
Superficially, there is a case for dropping bail requirements. If you're rich, bail is not a problem; if you're poor, it may be. In practice, though, bail is not often arduous, and there are bail bondsmen to help you out. Also, as Seth Barron has pointed out, quote from him:
Advocates describe a picture of hopelessly poor families, unable to scrape together a few hundred dollars to get their loved ones out of [jail]. They don't talk about families tired of dealing with relatives perennially in trouble with the law; some may decide that they'd rather see the troublesome relation stay in jail.
A big element of what's going on with these reforms is white race guilt. Here are two Assistant District Attorneys in Chapter Five of Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, quote:
Every assistant D.A. in the Bronx, from the youngest Italian just out of St. John's Law School to the oldest Irish bureau chief … shared Captain Ahab's mania for the Great White Defendant. For a start, it was not pleasant to go through life telling yourself, "What I do for a living is, I pack blacks and Latins off to jail." Kramer had been raised as a liberal. In Jewish families like his, liberalism came with the Similac and the Mott's apple juice … And even the Italians … and the Irish … who were not exactly burdened with liberalism by their parents, couldn't help but be affected by the mental atmosphere of the law schools, where, for one thing, there were so many Jewish faculty members … So it made the boys uneasy, this eternal prosecution of the blacks and Latins.
End quote.
I think some of that uneasiness has crept into these new rules for bail. Both the people mentioned above, Steven Haynes and Tiffany Harris, are black. These new rules are part of the never-ending quest for some kind of unfairness causing the massive disproportion of blacks, and the somewhat lesser disproportion of Latinos, in our jails.
It can't possibly be that there is something intrinsically different about these groups. That is unthinkable! So there must be some kind of unfairness skewing the numbers. We have to find that unfairness and root it out!
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06—The Times editorializes on antisemitism. I mentioned Tiffany Harris slapping and punching Jewish women. There's a lot of that in the streets of New York. Well-nigh every day in our news outlets there is some story of blacks attacking Jews. It's gotten so bad the New York Times has editorialized about it.
That editorial, in the January 3rd edition of the paper, is a gem of race denialism. Someone should engrave a copy on some durable material and seal it in a time capsule so that people of the future can see what lying cowards the early 21st-century American ruling classes were.
The editorial mentions some of the crimes, quote:
In Crown Heights, a section of Brooklyn, in August, a Jewish man in his 60s was hit in the face with a brick, breaking his nose and knocking out his teeth.
In November, an Orthodox woman and her child were walking in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn when three boys threw eggs at them.
Just weeks later, two Orthodox teenagers were assaulted in Brooklyn, one of them hit in the head, his skullcap removed.
End quote.
Look at the diction there. You either get the passive voice—"was hit," "were assaulted"—or else you get "three boys."
A bit later we are told that, quote:
In France last year, thousands took to the streets to protest a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents.
End quote.
Goodness! What could explain rising antisemitism in France? Beats my pair of jacks.
There's passing mention of the December 10th murders at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City when, quote from the Times editorial, "a man and a woman killed three people."
"A man and a woman." It's all so generalized and racially non-specific. Why not go full-bore non-specificity and write "two featherless bipeds"?
Race does get an oblique mention, mind. Quote:
Other incidents appear to have been carried out by young people, sometimes in neighborhoods with long histories of tensions between Jewish and black and Hispanic New Yorkers.
End quote.
It's "tensions," you see: like two people pulling opposite ends of a rope. Tensions: the Jews are mean to the NAMs, the NAMs are mean to the Jews. Tensions.
And of course there are sinister outside forces stirring up this violence. Quote:
Some people, as always, are seeking to exploit this moment of deep pain. If we allow them to, they will divide us, pushing New Yorkers further behind the tribal lines that have always run through the city.
End quote.
In the online New York Times the word "some" in that last quote, "some people," has a hyperlink to a tweet by … Rudy Giuliani. See, it's all the fault of white people!
Further quote:
In New York, a city of immigrants and refugees, anti-Semitism is a threat to everyone. Just like white supremacy, it flourishes like a plague when cynics and bigots inflame painful divisions and spew hate for political gain.
That first sentence there doesn't make sense. How is anti-Semitism a threat to everyone? It can't be much of a threat to anti-Semites, can it?
And who are the "cynics and bigots" who "inflame painful divisions and spew hate for political gain"? Why not name the evil ones? I got that link to Rudy's tweet in the online Times; but how are readers of the paper version supposed to figure out who's being referred to? As if they don't know …
Quote:
It should come as no surprise, then, that violent hate crimes against other Americans—black, Hispanic, Muslim, transgender—have also been on the rise in recent years.
End quote.
"Black, Hispanic, Muslim, transgender," huh? Do other Americans get victimized by people with group hatreds? Christians? Old ladies in nursing homes? Asians? Normal non-sexually-confused white people? I guess not.
All together now, repeat after me: Diversity is our strength!
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Two weeks ago I mentioned the late Representative John Dingell, the longest-serving ever member of the House. He held his seat, representing suburban Detroit, for 59 years. Now his wife Debbie holds it. President Trump had a little spat with Debbie Dingell; that was the occasion of my comment.
I didn't know the half of the Dingell story. Before John Dingell held the seat, his Dad John, Sr. held it for 22 years. This has been a Dingell seat since 1933.
The Dingells are the American equivalent of hereditary aristocrats. They've done well by it, too: When Debbie took over the seat from John, Jr. in 2015, her net worth was $3.6 million. Where'd it all come from? Check out Daniel Greenfield's December 23rd piece at FrontPageMag. He gives all the grisly details.
After laying out some of the corruption and thuggery of the Dingell clan, Greenfield concludes that, quote:
America didn't need a single Dingell in her House. It certainly didn't need three.
End quote.
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Item: As we head into the 2020s a lot of pundits, including me, have been looking back on the 1920s as a decade of fun, frolic, and fast technological progress.
Historian Anton Howes has reminded us that the eighteen-twenties were pretty nifty, too. Technology-wise, I've noted in a previous podcast what an engineering marvel the Erie Canal was, opened in 1825. That same year, over in England, saw the first working steam railroad. Øersted discovered electromagnetism and Faraday laid the groundwork for electric power generation.
It can't be altogether a coincidence that both the 1920s and, in Europe, the 1820s came right after times of war: WW1 in the former case, the Napoleonic wars in the latter. Perhaps here we have the answer to the Seinfeld question: "War, what is it good for?" Perhaps it's good for bringing forth a decade of fun and creativity.
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Item: If we needed any further evidence of the utter worthlessness of the Republican Party, we've been getting it in the spectacle of Republican state governors, one after another, lining up to defy President Trump and bring so-called "refugees" into their states.
If you're concerned about thousands of Third World grifters being settled in your state, you should follow the fearless Ann Corcoran at the website Refugee Resettlement Watch. Ann's been posting for years on the refugee-resettlement money scam, which has very little to do with giving a helping hand to the wretched of the Earth and a great deal to do with lining the pockets of phony non-profits like the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and other reassuringly churchy-sounding outfits all sucking on the taxpayer teat.
The Trump administration, to its credit, has been trying to starve the beast, but it's been meeting a lot of opposition from state governors. Democratic governors, of course: unemployable Third Worlders are future Democrat voters. GOP governors are also siding with the racketeers, though: 18 of them at Ann's last count.
Here are the cucking states: Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia.
If you live in one of those states, call your governor's office and tell him you have all the Third World moochers you need. Genuine refugees, where there are any, are best and most economically helped in countries neighboring their own; and if churchy organizations want to do good, they should raise funds from their own congregants, not from tax revenues.
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Item: If you think abolishing ICE is crazy, you don't know how crazy things are getting. The latest fad among the Woke is to abolish the police.
Yep, you heard it right. Chris Rufo at City Journal has a fascinating piece on it. Sample quote:
In Seattle, socialist city council candidate Shaun Scott, who ran on a "police abolition" platform, came within 1,386 votes of winning elected office. During his campaign, he argued that the city must "[disinvest] from the police state" and "build towards a world where nobody is criminalized for being poor."
End quote.
How would this work as actual policy? Chris quotes Richard Putz, writing in Socialist Worker. And yes, that's the guy's name, Putz, P-U-T-Z. It's not my fault, that's his name. Mr Putz says that cities must, quote, "help people resolve conflicts through peace circles and restorative justice programs." End quote.
Peace circles … Restorative justice … Paging Marianne Williamson, paging Ms Williamson …
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Item: Financing healthcare is one of the greatest challenges in modern statecraft. Here is a new angle on the issue, one I haven't seen mentioned before.
This is from the website IFLscience. Headline: Goldman Sachs Says Curing Diseases May Not Be Economically Viable. The gist of it is, that if we can completely cure chronic diseases, as is increasingly the case, the revenue stream to the company marketing the cure stops with the cure. Worse yet: If it's an infectious disease, once you're cured you won't be infecting anyone else, so soon there will be no more curing required.
On the other hand, drugs providing long-term management of a disease—not curing it, just keeping it managed—are much better for the company balance sheet.
All this is from a report sent out to clients by Goldman Sachs, a firm that knows a thing or two about finance.
If there is a way to square provision of healthcare with a free-market economic model, I haven't yet seen it.
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Item: Possibly related, but definitely a leading candidate for the title Headline I Never Thought I'd See is this one from the L.A. Times, December 25th, headline: Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for cheap healthcare and a decent standard of living.
The Americans in the story are mainly Vietnam vets, I guess because they are the ones who know at least some of the language. The appeal of Vietnam? Quote: "Inexpensive housing, cheap healthcare and a rising standard of living." Also a pretty nice climate, I would guess.
As Germany and Japan surged ahead economically in the 1950s and 1960s while Britain sank into post-imperial stagnation, the British adults I grew up among griped that winning a war wasn't as good a deal as you'd think it would be. As Vietnam now surges ahead, while the streets of America fill up with homeless bums and drug addicts, winning their war against Uncle Sam seems to be working out nicely for the Vietnamese.
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Item: Every morning I trawl through news websites, bookmarking items I might use in the podcast. Most of them don't get used, but they hang out there in my bookmarks until I clean them up at year end.
Doing the clean-up this week, I spotted this one, and wondered why I hadn't used it. It is so Radio Derb. I think I'm going to make it my Story of the Year for 2019.
This is from Associated Press, September 24th. Headline: Woman Bites Camel's Genitals to Escape Enclosure at Truck Stop.
Venue: a truck stop with a petting zoo in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. A Florida couple were at this truck stop with their pet dog. Dog got into the camel's enclosure; woman crawled under fence to retrieve dog; camel sat on woman; woman used her teeth on camel's nether parts to free herself.
Final graf from the news report, quote:
Deputy Louis Hamilton Jr. said the couple provoked the camel and cited them for a leash law violation. The woman also had to be hospitalized and the camel is doing fine.
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08—Signoff. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening, and a very happy New Year to one and all.
Radio Derb's sympathies and best wishes to the people of Australia, who are enduring some horrendous heat, drought, and brush fires down there. I know I have listeners in Australia. To all of you, please, be safe, hang in there, do what you can to help your neighbors and fellow-countrymen.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week. Here to sing us out is a great Australian, Peter Dawson.
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vdare--2020-01-03--Ace Of Spades Doesn't Quite Go There On Michael Brown

The frequently-if-not-always amusing Ace of Spades posted a very funny “ morning rant ” about the hypocrisy of the left that had a minor if glaring flaw that shows just how enervating the fear of being labeled a racist has become .
First a few of the funniest “ Progressives ' Greatest Hits of 2019 : ” “ HATE HAS NO HOME HERE !
” shrieked the violent antifa goon as he pulled the elderly man out of his wheelchair and beat him senseless .
“ WE ’ RE NOT THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE !
” screamed the talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the doxing of the Covington students .
... “ THE PRESS DOES N'T TAKE SIDES !
” shouted the WaPo reporter as she posted a photo of herself and her colleagues celebrating “ Impeachmas.
” “ THIS IS DONALD TRUMP 'S FAULT ” squealed Gavin Newsom as the homeless man dropped trou and took a huge dump in the produce aisle of the San Francisco Safeway store .
“ DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH !
” shouted the limousine liberal from his gated community .
... “ DONALD TRUMP IS A SLEAZY AND UNETHICAL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” yelled Michael Avenatti .
... “ NOBODY NEEDS A BILLION DOLLARS !
” bellowed millionaire Bernie Sanders from the living room of his 3rd house .
.. “ I 'M A SERIOUS JOURNALIST !
” exclaimed Rachel Maddow as she argued in court that her on-air statements were not intended to be interpreted as factual .
All very amusing .
But then came this : Wait a minute .
“ Menacing thug ?
” Is something missing there ?
What color was the thug who became the face of the “ hands-up-don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spades is a bold blog , except on something like this , when courage surrenders to fear .
He could have tossed in “ black ” between menacing thug and no one would have cared .
That he didn ’ t nearly brings more attention to the missing descriptor , in the same way the media ’ s not reporting race in a crime almost always means the suspect is black .
A question : Did one of our favorite bloggers delete “ black ” after he thought better of it , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ didn ’ t think about it .
The first is believable .
The second , not so much .

The frequently-if-not-always amusing Ace of Spades posted a very funny “morning rant” about the hypocrisy of the left that had a minor if glaring flaw that shows just how enervating the fear of being labeled a racist has become.
First a few of the funniest “Progressives' Greatest Hits of 2019:”
“HATE HAS NO HOME HERE!” shrieked the violent antifa goon as he pulled the elderly man out of his wheelchair and beat him senseless. “WE’RE NOT THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” screamed the talking heads on CNN as they called for the doxing of the Covington students. ... “THE PRESS DOESN'T TAKE SIDES!” shouted the WaPo reporter as she posted a photo of herself and her colleagues celebrating “Impeachmas.” “THIS IS DONALD TRUMP'S FAULT” squealed Gavin Newsom as the homeless man dropped trou and took a huge dump in the produce aisle of the San Francisco Safeway store. “DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!” shouted the limousine liberal from his gated community. ... “DONALD TRUMP IS A SLEAZY AND UNETHICAL ATTENTION WHORE WHO IS WITHOUT HONOR!” yelled Michael Avenatti. ... “NOBODY NEEDS A BILLION DOLLARS!” bellowed millionaire Bernie Sanders from the living room of his 3rd house. .. “I'M A SERIOUS JOURNALIST!” exclaimed Rachel Maddow as she argued in court that her on-air statements were not intended to be interpreted as factual.
All very amusing. But then came this:
“HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT!” screamed the menacing thug as he assaulted the store clerk.
Wait a minute. “Menacing thug?” Is something missing there? What color was the thug who became the face of the “hands-up-don’t-shoot” lie?
Ace of Spades is a bold blog, except on something like this, when courage surrenders to fear.
My guess?
He could have tossed in “black” between menacing thug and no one would have cared. That he didn’t nearly brings more attention to the missing descriptor, in the same way the media’s not reporting race in a crime almost always means the suspect is black.
A question: Did one of our favorite bloggers delete “black” after he thought better of it, or did not put it in because he didn’t think about it?
The first is believable. The second, not so much.


vdare--2020-01-03--Matt Yglesias: "One Billion Americans"

Matt Yglesias: "One Billion Americans"

ABOUT ONE BILLION AMERICANS A bold case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness—from Vox co-founder and @ @ @ @ @ ” podcast Matt Yglesias .
[ Email him ] America is in decline .
Fewer @ @ @ @ @ due to financial pressure .
Thousands flee our iconic cities with their housing shortages and @ @ @ @ @ tie ourselves into knots trying to stop the flow of immigrants , our exhausted economy @ @ @ @ @ already shrinking population .
To survive China ’ s impending global takeover ( not to @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t afford to be weak .
We need to get bigger , much @ @ @ @ @ billion Americans .
In this timely and provocative book , Matthew Yglesias makes the case @ @ @ @ @ humane family and immigration policy .
Of course , more people requires more housing , @ @ @ @ @ , improved education , a revitalized welfare system , and climate change mitigation .

From Penguin Random House:
One Billion Americans
THE CASE FOR THINKING BIGGER
By MATTHEW YGLESIAS
Hardcover
Sep 08, 2020 | ISBN 9780593190210
ABOUT ONE BILLION AMERICANS
A bold case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness—from Vox co-founder and host of “The Weeds” podcast Matt Yglesias.[Email him]
America is in decline. Fewer children are born each year due to financial pressure. Thousands flee our iconic cities with their housing shortages and broken infrastructure. While we tie ourselves into knots trying to stop the flow of immigrants, our exhausted economy deflates the heartland’s already shrinking population. To survive China’s impending global takeover (not to mention Russia), we can’t afford to be weak. We need to get bigger, much bigger. We need one billion Americans.
In this timely and provocative book, Matthew Yglesias makes the case for massive population growth through humane family and immigration policy. Of course, more people requires more housing, not to mention better transportation, improved education, a revitalized welfare system, and climate change mitigation.


vdare--2020-01-03--Trump DHS's Chad Wolf  STUDYING State Driver’s Licenses For Illegal Aliens—Try ACTING Instead!

Earlier : Illegals Get Drivers Licenses In New York , Americans `` Hardest Hit '' —By Hit And Run Drivers Well , that is good news .
Chad Wolf , Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) , is studying an ongoing problem , a problem that has been ongoing for years .
Wolf will study the issuance of driver ’ licenses to illegal aliens .
This appears to have been spurred by recent legislation in New York and New Jersey that allows illegal aliens to obtain driver ’ s licenses .
The acting secretary of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new laws in New York , New Jersey and other states that allow immigrants to get driver ’ s licenses without proof they are in the U.S. legally , and restrict data sharing with federal authorities .
Chad Wolf sent a memo to all the components of Homeland Security , which include U.S. Customs and Border Protection , the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration , requesting a department study on how the laws affect its enforcement efforts for both immigration and other investigations into human trafficking , drug smuggling and counterterrorism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into effect earlier this month , and migrants lined up to get documents .
It was the 13th state to authorize licenses for drivers without legal immigration status , and most of the other states also restrict data sharing .
New Jersey lawmakers passed a similar bill in December .
New York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio , both Democrats , are frequent thorns in the side of the Trump administration ’ s efforts to restrict immigration .
New York City is home to an estimated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ US Seeks Review Of State DMV Laws On Immigration Enforcement , by Collen Long , AP , December 31 , 2019 ] So , Wolf will study this problem , instead of taking action that is available on a number of fronts .
First , let us note that Wolf did nothing when illegal aliens began lining up for those driver ’ s licenses .
Why didn ’ t Wolf order U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) and the Border Patrol to take action while those aliens were standing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Motor Vehicles offices ?
Well , Chad Wolf did nothing .
He did not order enforcement action .
He did not order raids on those offices to round up illegal aliens .
He did not order raids on groups of illegal aliens openly lobbying and celebrating the passage of legislation in New Jersey .
Chad Wolf did not order ICE SVU to begin making arrests of DMV employees in New Jersey and New York who accepted and processed applications for driver ’ s licenses .
He still has not ordered ICE SVU to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of illegal aliens in California and other States that issue such licenses .
He did not request that the Department of Justice intervene and obtain an injunction to the law in New York or other States .
He left it to patriotic New Yorkers to fight for an injunction .
Wolf is no better than Kirstjen Nielsen or Kevin McAleenan .
Your humble correspondent thought this would be the case , and I was not surprised .
Wolf is a Nielsen creature and he continues to fail .
When will heads of DHS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t President Trump appointing those who support his policy to the Secretary ’ s position ?
To date , none have supported him .
Personnel is policy .
Time for some personnel who support arresting illegal aliens .

Earlier: Illegals Get Drivers Licenses In New York, Americans "Hardest Hit"—By Hit And Run Drivers
Well, that is good news. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is studying an ongoing problem, a problem that has been ongoing for years. Wolf will study the issuance of driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. This appears to have been spurred by recent legislation in New York and New Jersey that allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses.
The acting secretary of Homeland Security is taking aim Tuesday at new laws in New York, New Jersey and other states that allow immigrants to get driver’s licenses without proof they are in the U.S. legally, and restrict data sharing with federal authorities. Chad Wolf sent a memo to all the components of Homeland Security, which include U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration, requesting a department study on how the laws affect its enforcement efforts for both immigration and other investigations into human trafficking, drug smuggling and counterterrorism. New York’s law went into effect earlier this month, and migrants lined up to get documents. It was the 13th state to authorize licenses for drivers without legal immigration status, and most of the other states also restrict data sharing. New Jersey lawmakers passed a similar bill in December. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, are frequent thorns in the side of the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict immigration. New York City is home to an estimated 500,000 immigrants in the country illegally. [US Seeks Review Of State DMV Laws On Immigration Enforcement, by Collen Long, AP, December 31, 2019]
So, Wolf will study this problem, instead of taking action that is available on a number of fronts. First, let us note that Wolf did nothing when illegal aliens began lining up for those driver’s licenses. Why didn’t Wolf order U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol to take action while those aliens were standing in line outside of New York Department of Motor Vehicles offices?
BEAUTIFUL! On the first day of #GreenLightNY, our members are beyond proud to chant:
“Licenses for all, now now!” & “Sí se pudo!” 🚘🚦 pic.twitter.com/3g4lWB5tgK — Make the Road NY 🦋 (@MaketheRoadNY) December 16, 2019
Well, Chad Wolf did nothing. He did not order enforcement action. He did not order raids on those offices to round up illegal aliens. He did not order raids on groups of illegal aliens openly lobbying and celebrating the passage of legislation in New Jersey.
Some 500,000 undocumented immigrants could soon gain access to driver's licenses in New Jersey.
State lawmakers passed a bill that would allow undocumented people to apply for driver's licenses, and the Democratic governor is expected to sign it into law. pic.twitter.com/OAegJuEgYu — AJ+ (@ajplus) December 18, 2019
Chad Wolf did not order ICE SVU to begin making arrests of DMV employees in New Jersey and New York who accepted and processed applications for driver’s licenses. He still has not ordered ICE SVU to subpoena the driver’s license records of illegal aliens in California and other States that issue such licenses. He did not request that the Department of Justice intervene and obtain an injunction to the law in New York or other States. He left it to patriotic New Yorkers to fight for an injunction.
Wolf is no better than Kirstjen Nielsen or Kevin McAleenan.
Your humble correspondent thought this would be the case, and I was not surprised. Wolf is a Nielsen creature and he continues to fail. When will heads of DHS be held accountable? Why isn’t President Trump appointing those who support his policy to the Secretary’s position? To date, none have supported him.
Personnel is policy. Time for some personnel who support arresting illegal aliens.


vdare--2020-01-03--Federale: On Expedited Removal,  Is It A Lying Press, Or A Stupid Press? (We KNOW The Treason Bar Is

Federale: On Expedited Removal,  Is It A Lying Press, Or A Stupid Press? (We KNOW The Treason Bar Is Lying)

While immigration law and policy are complicated and the Trump Administration has not helped things with clarity and adherence to the law ; the Administration has let Deep State saboteurs make things worse , and less clear , Remain In Mexico is an example .
However , that is not an excuse for the immigration reporters not knowing the basics , nor for not making an effort beyond being a transcription service for the Treason Bar and Open Borders advocates .
A case in point for the Lying Press , Lügenpresse if you will , is this pack of lies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charitable , this error-filled `` screed '' that reflects no effort by the reporter to find the facts .
As it involves a member of the Treason Bar , perhaps the reporter just accepted the lies at face value .
But reporters are supposed to do more than repeat claims from an interested party like a parrot .
So , stupid press or Lügenpresse , you decide .
First , the breathless baby-waving by the Lying Press ; another injustice done to illegal aliens , their legal due process is too efficient and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full panoply of agenda-based journalism .
Single sourced to politically motivated activist , no effort to find unbiased sources , no balance , just lies and errors .
The major error Sandra Sanchez made both in the headline and in the body of the story is saying this group of illegal aliens were being placed in expedited removal .
Expedited Removal ( ER ) is a specific legal process in immigration law and enforcement procedure enshrined in statute .
ER is where an alien arrested within the United States or is an arriving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is removed , or deported , from the United States without benefit of either administrative review by the Executive Office for Immigration Review ( EOIR ) , the administrative courts for immigration cases , or the Federal courts .
What the journalist does after these introductory paragraphs is go on to conflate ER with the normal process of review of an alien ’ s claim before the EOIR .
The controversial policies are known as PACR and HARP , which stand for Prompt Asylum Claim Review , and Humanitarian Asylum Review Process , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in El Paso in October under the Trump administration .
Opponents of these policies say they deny asylum-seekers access to legal counsel when they ’ re screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials , and it often leads to their quick deportation with no asylum claims granted or future court hearings scheduled .
D ’ Cruz — who said she typically does intake for up to 50 new asylum-seekers daily at the Matamoros refugee camp where 2,500 migrants now live — told Border Report on Thursday that she believes both policies are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Rio Grande Sector .
The Treason Bar , illegal aliens , and alien smugglers have long been relying on a backlogged EOIR with over one million cases waiting to be heard as part of their strategy to flood the country .
The scheme is this , bring an alien to the United States with either a legitimate or illegitimate , but mostly illegitimate , asylum claim ; get arrested either at the border , the POE , or further into the United States ; upon arrest , claim asylum ; then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are approximately 40,000 detention spaces ; get released with an EOIR court date ; appear or not at the court date ; if appear , have nothing done at the first hearing , the Master Calendar hearing , which is nothing more than scheduling future hearings .
The result is an alien released and remaining in the United States for years .
That is the scheme .
What PACR and HARP , for non-Mexicans and Mexicans respectively , are is an interruption of that scheme .
Instead of being automatically released to mostly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the backlog , aliens are held in custody and the whole hearing process is held within weeks .
It means that instead of a Master Calendar hearing and future pointless court appearances where the underlying claim by the alien is not addressed , the alien and their attorney are required to present the case for asylum immediately .
And , no , the aliens are not denied legal representation or an attorney .
That is just another example of the Lying Press repeating without critical review the claims of the Treason Bar .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Lügenpresse .
The only question here is it deliberate lies by the press or is it just lazy agenda- driven journalists who refuse to do their job and do some research .
Now , clearly someone is lying , and clearly the Treason Bar lawyer Charlene D ’ Cruz is either leading the press on , silent about obvious errors , or in collusion with the Lying Press for a political agenda .
My money is on a collusion of lies for a political purpose , the election of a new people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quote , the activists are upset that this process is taking days , not years .
Plot foiled .
And it is not about truth , as an alien fleeing persecution does not have to take time to understand anything about the asylum process , but just truthfully tell their experiences that would then qualify them for asylum .
But , the nation breakers let it slip , this is not just about telling the truth , but about “ framing , ” which is a term used in marketing and advertising , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not just telling the facts .
Persons fleeing Communist persecution did not have to frame their stories , they just had to tell the truth about their oppressive governments .
No need to “ frame ” anything .
And , of course , lawsuits have been filed claiming the Constitution mandates the release of asylum applicants and they be given years to “ frame ” their claims .
While I am glad that the Trump Administration is doing something about the problem of fraudulent asylum claims and gaming the process , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to obtain votes from a Republican House when they had the chance to make legislative reforms to asylum , such as making asylum claims part of the real Expedited Removal process , rather than continuing to involve Deep State operatives in U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) and the EOIR .

While immigration law and policy are complicated and the Trump Administration has not helped things with clarity and adherence to the law, the Administration has let Deep State saboteurs make things worse, and less clear. Remain In Mexico is an example.
However, that is not an excuse for the immigration reporters not knowing the basics, nor for not making an effort beyond being a transcription service for the Treason Bar and Open Borders advocates.
A case in point for the Lying Press, Lügenpresse if you will, is this pack of lies below, or if one is more charitable, this error-filled "screed" that reflects no effort by the reporter to find the facts.
As it involves a member of the Treason Bar, perhaps the reporter just accepted the lies at face value. But reporters are supposed to do more than repeat claims from an interested party like a parrot. So, stupid press or Lügenpresse, you decide.
First, the breathless baby-waving by the Lying Press; another injustice done to illegal aliens, their legal due process is too efficient and fast.
As she was reviewing her past week’s client cases, immigration lawyer Charlene D’Cruz noticed a disturbing trend: None of her clients had first-hearing cases scheduled for February. In fact, she hadn’t received any new clients with a first hearing scheduled. D’Cruz, who works for the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government and aids migrants living in a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, said “a light bulb suddenly went off” in her brain and she realized that controversial immigration policies that lead to expedited removals of asylum-seekers were now being used on migrants crossing into South Texas. [Expedited Removal Policies Are Being Implemented In South Texas, Immigration Lawyers Say, WGNO, by Sandra Sanchez (From BorderReport.com) January 3, 2020]
So, we have the full panoply of agenda-based journalism. Single sourced to politically motivated activist, no effort to find unbiased sources, no balance, just lies and errors.
The major error Sandra Sanchez made both in the headline and in the body of the story is saying this group of illegal aliens were being placed in expedited removal. Expedited Removal (ER) is a specific legal process in immigration law and enforcement procedure enshrined in statute. ER is where an alien arrested within the United States or is an arriving alien at a Port-of-Entry (POE) is removed, or deported, from the United States without benefit of either administrative review by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the administrative courts for immigration cases, or the Federal courts.
What the journalist does after these introductory paragraphs is go on to conflate ER with the normal process of review of an alien’s claim before the EOIR.
The controversial policies are known as PACR and HARP, which stand for Prompt Asylum Claim Review, and Humanitarian Asylum Review Process, respectively. These policies were first started in El Paso in October under the Trump administration. Opponents of these policies say they deny asylum-seekers access to legal counsel when they’re screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, and it often leads to their quick deportation with no asylum claims granted or future court hearings scheduled. D’Cruz — who said she typically does intake for up to 50 new asylum-seekers daily at the Matamoros refugee camp where 2,500 migrants now live — told Border Report on Thursday that she believes both policies are being used on new migrants in CBP’s Rio Grande Sector.
The Treason Bar, illegal aliens, and alien smugglers have long been relying on a backlogged EOIR with over one million cases waiting to be heard as part of their strategy to flood the country. The scheme is this, bring an alien to the United States with either a legitimate or illegitimate, but mostly illegitimate, asylum claim; get arrested either at the border, the POE, or further into the United States; upon arrest, claim asylum; then game the overburdened custody system, where there are approximately 40,000 detention spaces; get released with an EOIR court date; appear or not at the court date; if appear, have nothing done at the first hearing, the Master Calendar hearing, which is nothing more than scheduling future hearings. The result is an alien released and remaining in the United States for years. That is the scheme.
What PACR and HARP, for non-Mexicans and Mexicans respectively, are is an interruption of that scheme. Instead of being automatically released to mostly never appear for future hearings or game the backlog, aliens are held in custody and the whole hearing process is held within weeks. It means that instead of a Master Calendar hearing and future pointless court appearances where the underlying claim by the alien is not addressed, the alien and their attorney are required to present the case for asylum immediately. And, no, the aliens are not denied legal representation or an attorney. That is just another example of the Lying Press repeating without critical review the claims of the Treason Bar. Another example of agenda-driven journalism of the Lügenpresse.
The only question here: Is it deliberate lies by the press or is it just lazy agenda-driven journalists who refuse to do their job and do some research? Now, clearly someone is lying, and clearly the Treason Bar lawyer Charlene D’Cruz is either leading the press on, silent about obvious errors, or in collusion with the Lying Press for a political agenda. My money is on a collusion of lies for a political purpose, the election of a new people.
And then we get the money quote, the activists are upset that this process is taking days, not years. Plot foiled.
“Instead of waiting weeks for the credible fear interview (CFI), all of that is condensed down to a few days including the Border Patrol doing the CFI, which is just outrageous because you have the prosecutor acting as the judge, if you will,” said Olivares, whose nonprofit organization also gives legal aid to migrants at the Matamoros camp.[Emphasis added]
And it is not about truth, as an alien fleeing persecution does not have to take time to understand anything about the asylum process, but just truthfully tell their experiences that would then qualify them for asylum. But, the nation breakers let it slip, this is not just about telling the truth, but about “framing,” which is a term used in marketing and advertising, it’s about convincing someone, not just telling the facts.
Expediting this process does not allow migrants the opportunity to understand the U.S. legal system or time to frame their pleas for asylum, Olivares said.[Emphasis added]
Persons fleeing Communist persecution did not have to frame their stories, they just had to tell the truth about their oppressive governments. No need to “frame” anything.
And, of course, lawsuits have been filed claiming the Constitution mandates the release of asylum applicants and their being given years to “frame” their claims.
According to the plaintiffs, PACR and HARP: Violate federal statutes that guarantee asylum seekers’ right to counsel during the initial credible-fear process. Keeping asylum seekers in CBP custody for the duration of that process is “arbitrary and capricious.” Effectively deprives migrants of a meaningful opportunity to apply for asylum or relief pursuant to international treaties, and is thus illegal. Las Americas is asking a federal judge to make the Department of Homeland Security, CBP’s parent agency, stop the PACR and HAPR programs; vacate any pending orders of expedited removal against asylum seekers; return those whose removal was expedited; and parole both groups of people into the United States until they undergo a credible-fear process fully compliant with U.S. law. [CBP Pilot Program Places Lives Of Asylum Seekers In Danger, Lawsuit Alleges, by Julian Resendez, Border Report, December 23, 2019]
While I am glad that the Trump Administration is doing something about the problem of fraudulent asylum claims and gaming the process, it is not to their credit that they failed to obtain votes from a Republican House when they had the chance to make legislative reforms to asylum, such as making asylum claims part of the real Expedited Removal process, rather than continuing to involve Deep State operatives in U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the EOIR.


vdare--2020-01-03--Anarcho-Tyranny: Italian Courts Trying To Take Down Salvini

Sam Francis told us multiculturalism leads inevitably to anarcho-tyranny and we see more proof that he was right every day .
Much as the Deep State is trying to take down President Donald Trump in our own country , unelected officials are trying to take down Matteo Salvini in Italy .
The journalists , of course , are cheering it all on .
Italy ’ s far-right League leader Matteo Salvini , looking to avoid trial for alleged kidnapping , has defended his decision to detain migrants on a coastguard boat last July , saying the move had been backed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interior minister at the time and had pledged to curtail mass immigration from Libya by making it much more difficult for boat migrants to enter Italian ports .
In July , some two weeks before he pulled the League out of its coalition with the 5-Star Movement , Salvini refused to let 131 migrants disembark from the Gregoretti coastguard vessel until other European states agreed to take them in .
A special tribunal has recommended that Salvini stand trial for the incident on charges of illegally detaining the migrants , and he faces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found guilty .
However , under Italian law , former ministers can not be tried for actions undertaken while in office unless a parliamentary committee authorizes the probe .
The 23-strong committee is due to take a decision on Jan. 20 , and Salvini ’ s lawyer handed over documents for his defense on Friday , including emails from Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ’ s office , which Salvini says prove the government had backed his actions .
[ Italy 's Salvini looks to avoid trial over migrant standoff , by Angelo Amante @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] Leave aside for the moment the absurdity that invaders have more judicial protection from Italy than the former Interior Minister .
Notice the wording .
Lega is `` far right '' despite being the most popular party in the country .
Recently , three senators from the Five Star Movement defected to Lega [ Italian PM calls for unity as three senators move to far-right party , by Angela Giuffrida , The Guardian , December 30 , 2019 ] .
Journos also have a problem because the Brothers of Italy party , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is also increasing in power and has almost ten percent of the vote in polls [ Half of Italians want 'strongman ' in power , survey shows , by Angelo Amante , Reuters , December 6 , 2019 ] .
They need to take Salvini out quickly because Prime Minister Conte 's government is extremely fragile .
If Lega does well in a traditional leftist stronghold on January 26 , it could prove the finishing blow .
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte already exceeded the expectations of most of his political opponents by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last summer .
But his second coalition is so fragile that a host of issues could trip him up as early as this month .
Conte was fished out of obscurity in June 2018 to head a coalition between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the right-wing populists of the League .
When that agreement broke down , he helped to stitch together a fresh alliance with Five Star and Italy ’ s traditional center-left group the Democratic Party ... Salvini ’ s center-right bloc is aiming to take control of the left-wing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jan. 26 while Five Star and the Democrats are fighting each other .
A victory for Salvini ’ s bloc would make him look unstoppable and would hand ammunition to Democratic Party dissidents who want to pull out of the coalition arguing that their support for Conte comes at too high a price .
[ Italy 's Government Could Fall Six Different Ways This Month , by John Follain and Alberto Brambilla , Bloomberg , January 1 , 2020 ] Patriots should follow the Salvini case very closely .
As we 're seeing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ democracy '' no longer means `` doing what people want . ''
It means doing what judges and journalists want .
And if you do n't do what they want , they just make disobedience illegal .

Sam Francis told us multiculturalism leads inevitably to anarcho-tyranny and we see more proof that he was right every day. Much as the Deep State is trying to take down President Donald Trump in our own country, unelected officials are trying to take down Matteo Salvini in Italy. The journalists, of course, are cheering it all on.
Italy’s far-right League leader Matteo Salvini, looking to avoid trial for alleged kidnapping, has defended his decision to detain migrants on a coastguard boat last July, saying the move had been backed by the whole government. Salvini was interior minister at the time and had pledged to curtail mass immigration from Libya by making it much more difficult for boat migrants to enter Italian ports. In July, some two weeks before he pulled the League out of its coalition with the 5-Star Movement, Salvini refused to let 131 migrants disembark from the Gregoretti coastguard vessel until other European states agreed to take them in. A special tribunal has recommended that Salvini stand trial for the incident on charges of illegally detaining the migrants, and he faces up to 15 years in jail if found guilty. However, under Italian law, former ministers cannot be tried for actions undertaken while in office unless a parliamentary committee authorizes the probe. The 23-strong committee is due to take a decision on Jan. 20, and Salvini’s lawyer handed over documents for his defense on Friday, including emails from Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s office, which Salvini says prove the government had backed his actions. [Italy's Salvini looks to avoid trial over migrant standoff, by Angelo Amante, Reuters, January 3, 2020]
Leave aside for the moment the absurdity that invaders have more judicial protection from Italy than the former Interior Minister. Notice the wording. Lega is "far right" despite being the most popular party in the country. Recently, three senators from the Five Star Movement defected to Lega [Italian PM calls for unity as three senators move to far-right party, by Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian, December 30, 2019]. Journos also have a problem because the Brothers of Italy party, which is more right-wing than Lega, is also increasing in power and has almost ten percent of the vote in polls [Half of Italians want 'strongman' in power, survey shows, by Angelo Amante, Reuters, December 6, 2019].
They need to take Salvini out quickly because Prime Minister Conte's government is extremely fragile. If Lega does well in a traditional leftist stronghold on January 26, it could prove the finishing blow.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte already exceeded the expectations of most of his political opponents by surviving the collapse of his first government last summer. But his second coalition is so fragile that a host of issues could trip him up as early as this month. Conte was fished out of obscurity in June 2018 to head a coalition between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the right-wing populists of the League. When that agreement broke down, he helped to stitch together a fresh alliance with Five Star and Italy’s traditional center-left group the Democratic Party... Salvini’s center-right bloc is aiming to take control of the left-wing stronghold of Emilia-Romagna in regional elections on Jan. 26 while Five Star and the Democrats are fighting each other. A victory for Salvini’s bloc would make him look unstoppable and would hand ammunition to Democratic Party dissidents who want to pull out of the coalition arguing that their support for Conte comes at too high a price. [Italy's Government Could Fall Six Different Ways This Month, by John Follain and Alberto Brambilla, Bloomberg, January 1, 2020]
Patriots should follow the Salvini case very closely. As we're seeing in America and throughout Europe, "democracy" no longer means "doing what people want." It means doing what judges and journalists want. And if you don't do what they want, they just make disobedience illegal.


vdare--2020-01-03--Barely Even News: French Muslim Terrorist  Screaming 'Allahu Akbar' And Wearing Fake Explosive Stabs

Barely Even News: French Muslim Terrorist  Screaming 'Allahu Akbar' And Wearing Fake Explosive Stabs 3, Killing 1

There was once a time when this would dominate international headlines .
Instead , it 's just the new normal .
A terrorist who was wearing a mock explosive vest was shot dead in Paris this afternoon after stabbing three people , killing a man who was trying to protect his wife .
Witnesses told local media the attacker was yelling 'Allahu Akbar ' as he launched the assault in the Hautes-Bruyères park in the Villejuif suburb shortly after 2pm on Friday .
Police said the man appeared to be wearing an explosive vest and had made off towards a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where he was 'neutralised , ' shot several times and died at the scene .
Mayor of Villejuif Franck Le Bohellec told Le Parisen the dead man was a 56-year-old who 'was walking with his wife when the attacker approached , he wanted to protect his wife and it was he who suffered the stab wound ' .
The knifeman has been identified by French media as Nathan C. by his card details which say he was born in 1997 in Lilas , a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris .
Several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problems . '
He was not being tracked as a religious zealot , although 'elements linked to religion ' that 'suggested he had converted to Islam ' were found among his personal effects , the local prosecutor 's office said .
[ Terrorist knifeman , 22 , wearing a fake explosive vest and 'shouting Allahu Akbar ' is shot dead in Paris after stabbing three people and 'killing a 56-year-old man who was trying to protect his wife ' , by Peter Allen and Ross Ibbetson , Daily Mail , January 3 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all rolling our eyes when someone says the terrorist was defined by `` psychological problems '' instead of radical Islam when he 's literally screaming `` Allahu Akbar . ''
However , we should be cautious .
When a person shoots into a crowd and tells them that `` God '' ordered them to do it , we do n't really link such attacks with religion .
Unfortunately , Islam has penetrated so far into France that `` Allah '' may just be the new catch-all for crazy people committing violent acts .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nathan C. '' was born in France , assuming he was from a migrant background .
The second generation is often far more `` radicalized '' than the actual immigrants .
However , we do n't yet know whether Nathan C. is from a migrant background , is an ethnic French convert , or was suffering from mental illness and just seized on `` Allahu Ackbar '' as a battlecry for pointless violence .
It 's interesting that police were not tracking `` Nathan C. '' as a `` religious zealot , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tend to be on the radar of the system already .
There are just too many extremists and too few resources to do anything about it .

There was once a time when this would dominate international headlines. Instead, it's just the new normal.
A terrorist who was wearing a mock explosive vest was shot dead in Paris this afternoon after stabbing three people, killing a man who was trying to protect his wife. Witnesses told local media the attacker was yelling 'Allahu Akbar' as he launched the assault in the Hautes-Bruyères park in the Villejuif suburb shortly after 2pm on Friday. Police said the man appeared to be wearing an explosive vest and had made off towards a Carrefour supermarket just under a mile away where he was 'neutralised,' shot several times and died at the scene. Mayor of Villejuif Franck Le Bohellec told Le Parisen the dead man was a 56-year-old who 'was walking with his wife' when the attacker approached, he wanted to protect his wife and it was he who suffered the stab wound'. The knifeman has been identified by French media as Nathan C. by his card details which say he was born in 1997 in Lilas, a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris. Several sources said Nathan C. suffered from 'psychological problems.' He was not being tracked as a religious zealot, although 'elements linked to religion' that 'suggested he had converted to Islam' were found among his personal effects, the local prosecutor's office said. [Terrorist knifeman, 22, wearing a fake explosive vest and 'shouting Allahu Akbar' is shot dead in Paris after stabbing three people and 'killing a 56-year-old man who was trying to protect his wife', by Peter Allen and Ross Ibbetson, Daily Mail, January 3, 2019]
Of course, we're all rolling our eyes when someone says the terrorist was defined by "psychological problems" instead of radical Islam when he's literally screaming "Allahu Akbar." However, we should be cautious. When a person shoots into a crowd and tells them that "God" ordered them to do it, we don't really link such attacks with religion. Unfortunately, Islam has penetrated so far into France that "Allah" may just be the new catch-all for crazy people committing violent acts.
It doesn't mean much that "Nathan C." was born in France, assuming he was from a migrant background. The second generation is often far more "radicalized" than the actual immigrants. However, we don't yet know whether Nathan C. is from a migrant background, is an ethnic French convert, or was suffering from mental illness and just seized on "Allahu Ackbar" as a battle cry for pointless violence.
Police used a robot to examine his body for explosives but none were found. The assailant, who has not been named, was psychologically troubled, according to local sources. He was known to be in the habit of walking barefoot in the park. [Paris stabbing: One dead and two in critical condition after knife attack in Villejuif, by David Chazan, Telegraph, January 3, 2020]
It's interesting that police were not tracking "Nathan C." as a "religious zealot," because these kinds of politically motivated killers tend to be on the radar of the system already. There are just too many extremists and too few resources to do anything about it.