vdare--2020-05-02--Because Too Many Black People Shoot Each Other In Nearly 90% Black Jackson, Mississippi, Black Mayor

Because Too Many Black People Shoot Each Other In Nearly 90% Black Jackson, Mississippi, Black Mayor Suspends Open Carry During Coronavirus Lockdown

Previously by Paul Kersey, 2015: Black Man, Zebulum Lael James, Goes on Shooting Spree in Jackson, MS, Killing Two White Women: National Media Silent
Jackson, Mississippi, the capital city of the state, is nearly 90 percent black. It is completely dominated by black elected/appointed officials. And though AMC/Regal Cinemas are closed nationwide due to the Coronavirus pandemic/shutdown, the city hasn’t had an open movie theater in decades, a reminder of the Visible Hand of Black Economics.
And now…
Suit Challenges Mississippi Mayor’s Open Gun Ban Amid Virus, Jackson Free Press, April 29, 2020
A Republican state lawmaker filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Democratic mayor’s temporary ban on the open carry of guns in Mississippi’s capital city during part of the coronavirus pandemic.
The city of Jackson and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba “exploited the present public health crisis” to limit people’s Second Amendment right to carry firearms for self-defense, says the federal lawsuit by state Rep. Dana Criswell of Olive Branch.
Lumumba signed an executive order Saturday banning the open carry of guns in Jackson during the final days of his coronavirus stay-at-home order for the city. The stay-at-home order expires Thursday. Lumumba said in a video that two children in Jackson were killed within a week “due to senseless gun violence,” and Mississippi’s lax gun laws contributed to the problem.
“For too long, gun violence has plagued our city and disproportionately affected black and brown communities here in Jackson and nationwide,” said Lumumba, who is African American and leads a majority-black city.
Criswell, who is white and lives about 200 miles (322 kilometers) north of Jackson, does not mention race in the lawsuit. He is a licensed firearms dealer, according to the suit. Criswell said in a statement Tuesday: “The mayor’s attempt to disarm me and deny me the ability of self-defense puts me and my family in danger anytime we are in Jackson.”
Criswell is represented by the Mississippi Justice Institute, which is affiliated with a group that challenges many government regulations. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, said in a letter to Lumumba on Sunday that people may openly carry guns in all parts of the state.
The dispute over the Jackson gun order follows other court challenges over constitutional rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Attorney General William Barr intervened this month on behalf of a church in Greenville, Mississippi, that sued over that city’s order that limited drive-in worship services. Greenville altered its order to allow such services if people keep their windows rolled up.
The state Health Department said Tuesday that Mississippi had at least 6,342 confirmed cases and 239 deaths from the coronavirus as of Monday evening. That was an increase of 248 cases and 10 deaths from the previous day. The state’s population is about 3 million.
The number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick. For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the highly contagious virus can cause severe symptoms and be fatal.
The Health Department said Tuesday at least 721 coronavirus cases had been confirmed at long-term care facilities such as nursing homes.
Mississippi is under a “safer at home” order issued by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. It requires medically vulnerable people to remain at home and bans gatherings of 10 or more people. It also allows some businesses to reopen with limits on how many customers may be present, and it allows physicians to start offering some services that had been limited in recent weeks. Restaurants are still limited to carry-out or delivery.


vdare--2020-05-01--Scotland's Old Blasphemy Law Out, New  Law Forbids "Blaspheming" Minorities, Transgenders...But Not

Scotland's Old Blasphemy Law Out, New  Law Forbids "Blaspheming" Minorities, Transgenders...But Not Women

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Here's a story from Scotland. The government there, which has a fair degree of autonomy in the U.K., has announced an overhaul of "hate crime" legislation.
Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf—there's a fine old Scottish name for you—says there will now be seven-year jail sentences for stirring up hate against the usual protected groups. That will include possession of, quote, "threatening or abusive material" that could lead to hatred being stirred up against one of the favored groups ['Milestone' New Scottish laws on hate crimes against groups will carry up to seven-year jail sentence, by Chris Musson, The Scottish Sun, April 24, 2020].
So there goes freedom of speech and publication in Scotland. Not that it wasn't mostly gone anyway; it is already a crime to stir up racial hatred, though I feel pretty sure there haven't been any prosecutions for hating on white people. They just want to extend that to all Designated Victim Groups.
In a nice little twist, illustrating yet again that political correctness is a religion for the godless, this new law will abolish the old crime of blasphemy, for which there have been no prosecutions since 1845. Now you can freely curse God and Jesus Christ in Scotland; but don't dare raise your voice against sacralized social groups: blacks, Muslims, the disabled, or sexual eccentrics. (But not women, for some reason.)
Wait … whose voice is that I'm hearing in my head? Why, it's Robbie Burns:
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do, or die!


vdare--2020-05-04--The Great Replacement In Chicago:  Michelle Obama Said To Whites, “Y’all Were Running From Us..."

By Gregory Hood, Paul Kersey, and Henry Wolff, American Renaissance, April 28, 2020
This is the fourth in a series about the continuing disappearance of whites from American cities (see our earlier entries for Birmingham, Washington, D.C., and New York City). Many people still pretend that The Great Replacement is a myth or a conspiracy theory, but the graphs that accompany each article in this series prove them wrong. Every city has a different story but all have seen a dramatic replacement of whites by minorities.
Chicago was once American socialism’s heartland. It was Saul Alinsky’s base. It hosted the International Socialist Review. Eugene Debs called it “the paragon city.” “CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!” screams the socialist organizer at the end of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
It was also the place where the Old Left’s dreams collapsed in the face of racial reality. Martin Luther King Jr. famously suffered a crushing defeat when white workers and union members turned out to oppose his desegregation efforts. Chicago police, backed by Democrat mayor Richard Daley, brawled in the streets with New Left demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. By the next year, the Black Panthers were promising to “kick [the] asses” of the mostly white Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) radicals and bring a new consciousness to the city and to America.
That kind of radical enthusiasm is dead. Today, Chicago, or “Chi-raq,” is a byword for black crime.
In 1910, Chicago was an almost entirely white city. In 1917, the Chicago Real Estate Board (CREB) said it would organize “owners societies in every white block for the purpose of mutual defense” to keep it that way. Blacks, it argued, would reduce property values. In 1926, the Supreme Court ruled in Corrigan v. Buckley that restrictive covenants to protect white neighborhoods were constitutional. In 1927, the CREB promoted a standard agreement throughout the city in white neighborhoods to stop blacks coming north during the Great Migration from buying property in white neighborhoods.
In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled against restrictive covenants in Shelley v. Kramer. Chicago’s white majority began to decline, from 92 percent in 1940 to just 76 percent by 1960. In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr.’s black demonstrators marched through white neighborhoods during the “Chicago Campaign.” Infuriated whites hurled insults and even rocks, one of which felled King. King said he had never “seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today.” Then-mayor Daley promised vaguely to build more housing projects and create more integrated neighborhoods, but King later admitted he had been defeated and Daley was “a fox, too smart for us.”
Still, King ultimately got what he wanted. Chicago integrated and after that, it collapsed. By 1970, the white majority in Chicago was just 66 percent and it became minority-majority by 1980. In 1972, the Nation of Islam bought a former Greek Orthodox Church and turned it into its headquarters and central mosque. Homicides climbed during the 1960s and reached a record high of 716 in 1974. By 2017, the middle class, “once the backbone of the city” according to NPR, was “almost gone.”


vdare--2020-05-04--Only 1/1836 Contacts Outside of Family or Hospital in Taiwan Were Infected

Countries that didn’t just throw up their hands and give up on contact tracing have interesting data for the rest of us.
Here’s a study of 100 Taiwanese COVID-19 patients and their 2761 “close contacts” in January-March, of whom they infected 22 (0.8%). Taiwan has a remarkably low infection rate, and did a lot of track and trace (which this study summarizes), but the government did not order Shelter In Place, but did push to boost mask production. In general, Taiwan doesn’t trust Red China, so a Taiwanese government official was monitoring chatter on a disreputable Chinese website and thus was clued in early.
Ten of 151 fellow members of the patients’ households were infected (4.6%), 5 of 76 family members who did not live in the house were infected (5.3%), 6 out of 698 health care contacts (0.9%), and 1 out of 1,836 Others (0.05%) (“Others include friends, airline crew members and passengers, and other casual contacts.”) The Others were supposed to have at least 15 minutes of face to face contact within two meters:
The definition of a close contact was a person who did not wear appropriate personal protection equipment (PPE) while having face-to-face contact with a confirmed case for more than 15 minutes during the investigation period.
That only 1 out of 1836 non-family/household or non-health care traced contacts were infected seems pretty interesting from the perspective of re-opening the economy. My guess is that Taiwanese were pretty heavily masked up to keep the transmission rate that low.
Say your job was to spend 15 minutes in a row in close contact with each customer for eight hours per day. (Being a cellphone salesman might be like that.) That would be 160 customers per 40 hour week. At that rate, you’d reach your 1,836th customer during your 12th week on the job.
In contrast, at one restaurant in China on January 24 over the course of about an hour, seven diners at adjoining tables next to an infected person who had just left Wuhan. (You can’t wear a mask while eating.)
Similarly, here’s a diagram of a call center in South Korea with infected workers’ desks in blue:
That’s pretty bad.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-04--Big Business is No Friend to Conservatives

I wrote once how, "[T]he belief that the world is run by Christian monopoly men, eager for war and thirsty for pregnant and barefoot women, is central to the contemporary worldview. As such, debunking leftists’ view of elites should be as important as debunking their view of the underclass." Three and a half years later, and this is still the case. Anyone looking for facts and figures to prove that the West's elites are far from conservative might consult the revised and abridged edition of The Perils of Diversity by Byron Roth. Here are some selections from it that could serve well as ammunition for the next time you argue this point.
In order to fully understand the convergence of opinion among elites, it is essential to understand the role of philanthropic foundations, business organizations and organized religion in supporting the multicultural program of mass immigration. Large philanthropic foundations such as the Ford, Carnegie and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundations have enormous resources with which to influence elite opinion. By targeting funds to selective causes they can have far-reaching effects. They fund the research of individual scholars, set up think tanks, and support academic programs to garner expertise and evidence for causes they promote. They fund the publication of journals and books, promote the production of radio and television presentations, and sponsor educational programs of all sorts in order to influence public opinion. They fund satellite organizations and advocacy groups that are able to influence political policy through appearances at legislative hearings, by direct lobbying of legislators, and political action of various sorts. . . . All of these efforts are framed in terms of a disinterested concern with bringing to bear the best information on any question. As a consequence the major foundations play a major role in defining what are and what are not important issues and who are, and who are not, reputable contributors to speak to those issues. The people invited to their conferences almost invariably share a concern with the issues addressed and much more often than not share a similar worldview. Almost all are highly educated, most are leaders in their fields and most are comfortable financially. Furthermore, the directors of large foundations move freely back and forth from positions in academia, politics, industry, and advocacy groups. They are, in short, the sorts of people almost always identified as elites. (pg. 47-48)
Prof. Roth gets into specifics as well:


vdare--2020-05-03--Fake Crowded Beach Photos? No, The WELL-KNOWN Optical Illusion Of Telephoto Lenses

From the Orange County Register on April 25, a photo of Newport Beach that was influential in persuading Governor Newsom to close Orange County beaches this weekend and inspired a hundred thinkpieces about the dangers of massive crowds of people flocking to the beaches and ignoring social distancing guidelines:
Three days later, the OCR printed the above version of the picture including its metadata to prove this wasn’t an old file photo:
OC beach photo: Real news sometimes stranger than #fakenews By FRANK PINE | fpine@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: April 28, 2020 at 10:07 a.m. | UPDATED: April 30, 2020 at 3:39 p.m. … At first glance, you might think it was a file photo, because how could this be possible amid the novel coronavirus quarantine? But the photo was indeed shot this past Saturday, April 25, from the Newport Beach pier at 3:30 p.m. Actually, if you really want to get specific, the shutter snapped at 3:30:56 p.m. The image proved quite popular, or depending on your point view, unpopular. In hundreds of social media posts, readers let loose with cries of “Lies! Lies! Lies!” and “#FakeNews!” Some commenters accused us of doctoring the photo (one pointed out that some of the umbrellas in the photo appeared to be the same), while others claimed we used trick photography to make the beach look more crowded. Neither of those things is true. Photographer Mindy Schauer, who has worked at the Register for more than 20 years, shot the photo from the Newport Beach pier with a long lens because she wanted to get as much of the beach as she could to accurately depict the scene.
Specifically, the metadata says she was using a Nikon D5 camera (an imposing professional’s model digital single lens reflex 20.8 megapixel body retailing for $5,500) and a 380mm telephoto lens. This 380 mm is probably a setting on a zoom lens such as this 17″-long $1195 Nikkor 200mm-500mm zoom telephoto lens.
I paid a lot of attention to cameras in the 1976-1986 era, but not since then so please correct me if I’m wrong.
Back then, the standard lens on an SLR was 50 millimeters, so 380 mm would be 7.6 times magnification. In the late 1970s, I had an Olympus SLR with a standard 50mm lens, plus an 80-200mm zoom lens and a 28mm wide angle lens. In the 1980s I think I had a camera with a standard zoom of maybe 38-85mm.
It was fun to play around with the different visual effects that different length lenses provided.
For example, one of my goals was to take a 200mm telephoto shot of the full moon rising over the Griffith Park Observatory while its copper domes glowed in the setting sun, which I’d seen for one stunning moment but was unable to photograph. Upon my carefully timed return, I was frustrated by thick smog.
So here’s the closest shot I’ve found on Google, but I think somebody could do better.
In contrast, here’s a wide angle shot of the Griffith Park Observatory and the full moon.
This is not trickery, it’s just the laws of physics that require that a strong telephoto lens will compress distance, making distant objects look closer than they look to the human eye, which at least as of 1976 was best represented by a 50mm lens.
Nowadays with digital cameras and Photoshop, far more in the way of effects is easily achievable, but a giant 380mm lens would give you quite an effect at making a beach look crowded way back in predigital 1976.
My impression of photographers’ ethics as of 1976 was that it was not at all considered unethical to achieve an extreme perspective effect by using a telephoto or wide angle lens. It was instead considered a test of your commitment to the craft and art of photography whether you shelled out for these extra lenses. Photographers thought of if it not as distorting reality but as enhancing it. (Granted, I absorbed my photography ethics from reading magazines chock full of advertisements from manufacturers and retailers of extreme lenses.)
“It looks like a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ beach scene with all these people,” she said in a text to her editor. She was also not the only news photographer on the beach that day. The Guardian and Newsweek have published photos similar to ours.
Okay, but shouldn’t text journalists understand the basics of photojournalism? You are paying professional photographers to bring back better pictures than what a normal person would see.
Here’s a TV newsman on KTLA pointing out that a class in Beginner’s Photography would inform you about the effects of telephoto lenses on how crowded a beach looks:
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-03--Which Do You Prefer: A Vaccine or Diversity / Inclusion / Equity (DIE)?

The great majority of vaccine projects fail, but it’s heartening that six quite different coronavirus potential vaccines have already been injected into people, while 83 additional different vaccine trials are in the planning stages.
At the moment, Oxford University’s Jenner Institute appears to be in the lead. So far, this has elicited one intersectional objection, from the Huffington Post:
OPINION
23/04/2020
I Teach At Oxford, But I Don’t Want It To Win The Coronavirus Vaccine Race
The story will be clear: China, once again, has unleashed a threat to civilisation. But the best brains of the UK have saved the world, Dr Emily Cousens writes.
But that appears to be a minority opinion. Instead, most human beings would be fine with Oxford toffs inventing a vaccine so long as they don’t, personally, have to die.
What’s striking is that the western world’s recent obsession with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) has apparently vanished while the possibility that you or I might literally die from the coronavirus occupies the mind.
At the moment, the entire world appears to be hoping that somebody with ancestors tracing to Eurasia will innovate a vaccine, even though we have been lectured throughout this century that innovation depends upon enough warm bodies with genetic roots in Africa, the New World, or Australia being given lucrative sinecures.
Doing searches on Google News finds remarkably few sites demanding at the moment that we DIE in order to not create a vaccine that makes the Intersectional feel bad about their capabilities.
It’s almost as if Diversity, Inclusion, Equity (DIE) were just a grift that can be dispensed with when life gets very real.
Funny how that works …
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-01--Affirmative Action Conservative Inc. Black Kritarch Orders Infected Illegal Aliens Released

Another kritarch has struck again, ordering a lawless release of illegal aliens infected with the China Virus into Florida just as the unconstitutional lock-down is easing. Not surprisingly, the kritarch is a long-time beneficiary of affirmative action from Conservative, Inc. and the Bush family. Marcia Cooke has a long time association with establishment Republicans and has failed up her whole career based on being black. Now she will be endangering thousands of Americans by releasing illegal aliens to spread the Wuhan Virus back into Florida.
A Miami federal court judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release more than 1,200 undocumented immigrants detained in three South Florida detention centers. As part of U.S. District Court Judge Marcia G. Cooke’s ruling, any person who has a non-violent criminal offense or underlying medical history will be eligible to be release under certain guidelines. Detainees could be subjected to wearing electronic ankle bracelets, physical or phone check-ins and parole. Prisoners at Krome Processing Center in Miami-Dade County, the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven and the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach have continuously complained about their fears of contracting the coronavirus and the lack of preventive measures from ICE to contain the outbreak at the facilities. ‘There is recorded evidence demonstrating that ICE has failed in its duty to protect the safety and general well-being of the petitioners,’ Cooke wrote in her 12-page court ruling. ‘Social distancing at Krome is not only practically impossible, the conditions are becoming worse every day.’ [Miami Federal Judge Orders ICE To Release 1,200 Non-Violent Undocumented Immigrants From Three South Florida Centers Amid Coronavirus Fears, by Adry Torres, Daily Mail, May 1, 2020]
Now there is nothing in the Constitution or Federal statute that states an immigration detention center must have room for social distancing. Detainees in immigration detention centers, prisoners in county jails, or convicted criminals in State and Federal prisons were until today never released because of diseases, much less for diseases that are the equivalent of the flu, which also kills tens of thousands of Americans each year, including detainees and inmates. In fact, this 2019-2020 flu season the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) estimate that 62,000 Americans will die of the flu. Never before have Americans been advised to stop work or social distance to avoid the flu, despite the fact that it kills a wider number of Americans than the Chinese Flu. Most deaths of the China Flu are old and seriously ill. No children are dying of the Wu Flu, but lots of old people living in care facilities.
So, there is no problem for Kritarch Cooke to solve. First, she has no legal authority to determine who is held in immigration custody, nor is there any legal authority for her to decide that non-violent criminals can be released along with sick illegal aliens, but allow violent illegal aliens to remain in “unhealthy conditions.”
Cooke is just exercising raw power, but she actually has no power to back up her illegal orders. As Alexander Hamilton said of the judiciary in Federalist 78, it has “…no influence over either the sword or the purse, …It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.” In practical terms, an order from a Federal judge is enforced by the United States Marshal and his deputies in a particular judicial district. The U.S. Marshal and his deputies are Executive Branch employees, and President Trump can order the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Florida, Donald Washington, to ignore any court order to enforce releasing the aliens and order the Field Office Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE ERO) to not release the aliens.
Strangely, the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Florida is another black and he has no law enforcement background. Usually, U.S. Marshals, Presidential appointments, are drawn from the President’s law enforcement supporters, usually local sheriffs and police chiefs active in party politics. But Washington is a former U.S. Attorney from Louisiana. That’s even more unusual as the common practice is to use nominate a local, not a carpetbagger; similarly, Kritarch Cooke is also from out-of-state, hailing from Michigan, not Florida. Florida has plenty of Republican lawyers and sheriffs, but why are both from out-of-state? This is an insult to local Republican sheriffs and police chiefs. Perhaps more Deep State sabotage by Reince Priebus in the personnel area. Personnel is policy, another failing of the Trump Administration.
Affirmative Action U.S. Marshal Who Never Made Any Arrests Donald Washington
You can politely contact Cooke here and at (305) 523-5150; ask her to obey the law and not kill Americans with Chinese Flu infested illegal aliens.


vdare--2020-05-04--To Mexicans On Cinco de Mayo: How About Celebrating It At Home?

Earlier by James Fulford: Happy Cinco De Mayo: Please Don't Riot! (And If You're Illegal, GO HOME!)
In 2005, I wrote this on Cinco de Mayo:
Of course, if you're a legal immigrant, you can also go home. Cinco de Mayo, by the way, is not Mexican Independence Day (that's September 16) and is not that big a national holiday in Mexico, it commemorates "the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza."
As the post at the top explains, when Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo by wearing Mexican clothing, especially girls in sombreros, it's racist cultural appropriation:
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However, some people don't care about cultural appropriation—this 2016 tweet by Candidate Trump made the Left and La Raza crazier than usual:
Here's a roundup of previous Cinco de Mayo posts to read while sipping something other than a Corona:


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vdare--2020-05-04--GA About To Turn Blue Because Of Immigration. Why Are Gov. Brian Kemp, GOP Elite  (Except For Sen. P

GA About To Turn Blue Because Of Immigration. Why Are Gov. Brian Kemp, GOP Elite  (Except For Sen. Perdue) Asleep?

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Georgia is about turn blue because of immigration. Yet Peach State Republican elites are in denial. The exception: Sen. David Perdue, above, who recently uttered the unutterable in GOP ruling class circles: Demographics will doom the party. One small proof: A GOP poll has Trump leading Joe Biden by just one point in a formerly solid red state [Internal GOP poll points to troubling signs for Georgia Republicans, by Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 1, 2020]. But the Stupid Party seems wedded to the crazy idea that inside every immigrant is a Republican waiting to get out.
“The demographic moves against us,” Perdue told supporters in a leaked off-the-record phone call late last week [GOP senator gives activists grim 2020 assessment amid fears over holding Senate, by Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN, April 29, 2020].
Perdue’s dark prognosis is based on cold, hard facts—those stubborn things that GOP elites ignore. To keep his seat in November, he’ll need “twice the number of votes” he had in 2014, he said. Of course that’s a wild exaggeration, but the direction is right. When Perdue won in 2014 by 8 points, 74 percent of whites voted for him. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won the same proportion of whites in 2018, yet only beat Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams by a little more than 1 point.
That’s because the electorate went from 64 percent white to 60 percent in just four years, and the number of white registered voters has dropped from 62 percent in 2016 to 59 today.
Hispanic and Asian immigrants, the only two groups growing in registered voters, drove the shift in such places as Gwinnett County, once a GOP fortress [Rise of young and diverse Georgia voters may influence 2020 elections, by Mark Niesse, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, February 11, 2020].
Recent census data show that the county’s white population has declined 3.4 percentage points since 2010, while the nonwhite population jumped more than 7 percentage points [Gwinnett’s nonwhite populations continue to grow, Census says, by Amanda C. Coyne, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 21, 2019].
The county is now just 39 percent white, basically thanks to immigration: 25 percent of its residents are foreign-born. In 1980, when the county was 96 percent white, less than 2 percent were foreign born [Duluth’s ‘Demographic Destiny Train’, by Adina Solomon, Curbed, November 13, 2019].
Mitt Romney won Gwinnett by almost 10 points in 2012. But just four years later, the walls came tumbling down. Hillary Clinton won Gwinnett, as did Stacey Abrams in 2018—and not by a thin margin. She crushed Kemp by 14 points there in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
Unsurprisingly, Democrats eagerly champion the demographic change. Once immigration drives enough whites from the state and the bitter-enders are outnumbered, it’s over for the Party of Trump.
“In every way, that benefits the Democratic Party,” said Scott Hogan, the Democratic Party’s executive director. “Georgia is in play. The state is going to go blue. It’s just a matter of when” [Rise of young and diverse Georgia voters may influence 2020 elections, by Mark Niesse, February 11, 2020].
Abrams, of course, gets it too. “My eye is on 2021,” she recently said. “[W]hen we do redistricting in 2021, if we have not changed the electorate, especially in the South, we will have a majority minority population that is governed by a minority white conservative coalition. And that’s the most dangerous precedent that we can possibly set for the South in the next 20 years” [CAUGHT ON TAPE: Stacey Abrams Plotting To Use Re-Districting to Stop ‘White’ People, by Patrick Howley, National File, April 27, 2020].
Nevertheless, delusional Republicans, and those who know the truth but remain in denial, think immigrants will vote Republican if we can just get the GOP platform into their hands, and maybe a copy or two of The Road to Serfdom and The Federalist Papers.
“People who move here because of job opportunities are natural Republican voters because the Republican Party is the party of growth and opportunity,” state GOP Chairman David Shafer told the Journal Constitution’s Niesse…apparently with a straight face.
Even more incredibly, the chairman of the Gwinnett County GOP, where the truth is staring every white Republican right in the eye, uttered similar sentiments. “Either you don’t know how to change or you don’t want to change,” Gwinnett County GOP Chairman Edward Muldrow told the Washington Post [In Georgia, Democrats find turning the state blue is easier to predict than pull off, November 18, 2019].
Senator Perdue at least is not living in GOP cloud cuckoo land. But then there’s Governor Kemp, who won in 2018 by promising explicitly to get tough on illegal immigration. The state, after all, has one of the largest illegal-alien populations in the country. In 1996 with 33,000 illegal aliens, Georgia was No. 17 on the list of top 20 states with the most illegal aliens. By 2015, that figure had grown more than 10 times, the Department of Homeland Security reported, to more than 390,000, a population that lifted Georgia to No. 7 on the list. Now, it’s ahead of Arizona [Population Estimates: Illegal Alien Population Residing in the United States: January 2015, DHS.gov, December 2018].
Kemp’s “So Conservative” campaign ad actually featured his racking a shotgun and starting a chainsaw, and then, for immigration patriots, this line:
I gotta big truck just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ’em home myself. Yep, I just said that.
Kemp released a detailed “track-and-deport” plan to help police collar illegals. But beyond that, he’s done nothing. He has not mandated E-Verify mandatory, cracked down on sanctuary cities, or backed a bill to require prison reports on illegals. He even disbanded the Immigration Enforcement Review Board designed to ensure cops take illegal immigration seriously [Georgia Shuts Down Immigration 'Kangaroo Court,' by Greg Bluestein and Jeremy Redmon, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 15, 2019].
In fact he appears to have mentioned immigration just once, at Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s swearing in last December [Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Mentions Illegal Immigration in Senate Pick Announcement! — Otherwise Ignores the Crisis, by D.A. King, FetchYourNews, December 5, 2019].
In other words, yep, he said that, but we’re still waiting for Kemp to round up criminal illegals in his Ford-350 and drop them back home.
Why Kemp spoke about immigration at such a venue is a mystery. Loeffler is married to an amnesty advocate and, predictably, has done nothing about immigration since she took office. Happily, she seems to have no chance against Rep. Doug Collins, who is an immigration patriot One of only 57 Republicans to vote against the horrible “Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act,” Collins boasts an A rating from NumbersUSA. The latest poll shows that Georgia Republicans overwhelmingly prefer Collins by 44 points [Internal GOP poll points to troubling signs for Georgia Republicans, by Greg Bluestein, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, May 1, 2020]. Because this is a Special Election, all candidates will face off in November, with a run-off if no one reaches 50%.
Meanwhile, Perdue, who only has a career B+ from NumbersUSA, at least cosponsored the RAISE Act.
But all three have failed American workers in the face of the Chinese Virus pandemic and ensuing lockdown that has resulted in more than 30 million unemployment claims. About 1.3 million of those 30 million claims, not insignificantly, are from Georgians [Georgia unemployment claims reach 1.3M since mid-March, by Jessica Saunders, Atlanta Business Chronicle, May 1, 2020]. Nevertheless, all three want more “guest workers.” None supported President Trump’s (very weak) immigration moratorium, much less demanded an expansion.
With polls showing that large majorities of Americans want immigration stopped, including 83 percent of Republicans, Kemp, Perdue, and Collins, had better figure out that voters won’t turn out if they don’t act now.
If, as Perdue says, the numbers mean that Georgia is about to go Blue, the three can’t stop that turn without a herculean effort.
Kemp must crack down on illegals, not least with E-Verify and other measures he promised. Now is not the time to permit cheap, illegal-alien workers to steal jobs from native Georgians.
Perdue and Collins must back an immigration moratorium and demand that Trump expand it to include guest workers, which could be a winning issue with Republicans and Democrats.
The demographics in Georgia presage a grim future for the GOP. But in a state with more than 1 million unemployment claims in a month, if Republicans attack legal and illegal immigration and the jobs those aliens take from Americans, they can turn it around.
The Georgia GOP has no choice. Embrace immigration patriotism or die.


vdare--2020-05-04--Guatemalan Consular Network Monitoring U.S. Alien Detention Centers, Making Sure Health Protocols  B

Guatemalan Consular Network Monitoring U.S. Alien Detention Centers, Making Sure Health Protocols  Being Applied Properly

Mexico has a vast consular network on U.S. soil, of 50 consulates (in addition to its embassy) on U.S. soil, which can openly meddle. It's just that our political class doesn't seem to care, nor does the media.
Well, Guatemala has 17 consulates in the United States (and ten in Mexico). For Guatemala's size and population (42,000 square miles and 17 and a quarter million people) that's rather impressive.
According to a recent report in Diario de Centro América (the Guatemalan government's own newspaper):
The consulates of Guatemala in the United States offer accompaniment to the fellow Guatemalans who remain in custody of the migratory authorities, to make sure that the centers comply with the health protocols and avoid the spread of COVID-19… [Minex asegura acompañamiento de consulados a migrantes detenidos en EE. UU. (“Guatemalan Foreign Ministry Ensures Accompaniment of Consulates with Migrants Detained in the United States”), by Jose Mazariegos, Diario de Centro América, April 30, 2020].
So Guatemalan diplomats are monitoring our illegal alien detention centers to make sure we're following "health protocols" and not allowing the coronavirus to spread inside the detention centers.
Thanks for giving us a hand there, Guatemala!
So what other activities can Guatemalan diplomats carry out on our soil, relating to the Guatemalan Diaspora?
Can we ever get our media interested in this?


vdare--2020-05-02--23-Defendant Drug Ring Bust in Harrisburg, Pa. Nets 21 With Hispanic Surnames

Hispanics have been known to muscle blacks out of the illegal drug trade [Feds: Latino Gang Targeted Blacks by Andrew Murr, Newsweek, October 23, 2007].
Could that be happening in Harrisburg, Pa., which is 50 percent black and 20 percent Hispanic?
This defendant round-up is almost all Hispanic—I counted just two names that did not sound Hispanic:
OPERATION HILL FIRE RESULTS IN NUMEROUS ARRESTS IN SOPHISTICATED DRUG TRAFFICKING OPERATION, April 30, 2020
Do we have an illegal drug problem, or an immigration problem?


vdare--2020-05-05--Michelle Malkin: Big Google Is Watching Your Children

Earlier by Michelle Malkin: How to Protect Your Kids From Google Predators
Schools remain shuttered across the country, 30 million Americans are out of work, and food banks are running low, but the edutech sector is booming. Silicon Valley companies are feasting on an exploding client base of quarantined students held hostage to "online learning." Big Google is leading the way—and that is not OK.
Unsuspecting parents cheering all the software and hardware donations during the pandemic shutdown have no idea the privacy price their children are paying. This isn't charity. It's big tech recruitment of vulnerable generations of future Google addicts. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Google inked a deal to provide 4,000 "free" Chromebooks to students, along with "free" Wi-Fi to 100,000 families. In Kentucky, the Jefferson County public schools gave away 25,000 Chromebooks. In Philadelphia, public officials earmarked $11 million to purchase 40,000 Chromebooks for homebound kids.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai crowed a few weeks ago that the company now has 100 million students and educators hooked on Google Classroom. Bent on conquering the virtual meeting market, the online giant announced that its premium Google Meet videoconferencing features are now free to all 80 million customers of its G Suite for Education apps through the fall. Google Meet is racking up 2 million new users a day as school districts abandon Zoom, the dominant virtual meeting app that recently admitted "mistakenly" routing non-Chinese calls through its Beijing-based data centers.
But if educators think Google will provide more protections for American students than the ChiCom government, they're blind, dumb or bought off. As I've chronicled regularly in this column over the past decade, the Silicon Valley giant has repeatedly breached federal privacy laws to extend its tentacles into children's emails, browsing habits, search engine activity, voice memos and more without parental consent. Google's information predators have previously admitted to unauthorized scanning and indexing of student email accounts and targeted online advertising based on search engine activity, as well as autosyncing of passwords, browsing history and other private data across devices and accounts belonging to students and families unaware of default tracking.
A new lawsuit seeking class-action status against Google filed in Illinois serves as a warning to all the millions of families enthralled by their pandemic-gifted Chromebooks. Father-of-two Clinton Farwell alleges that Google illegally collected personally identifying biometric information from his children through their public school-issued Chromebooks (loaded with G Suite for Education apps) dating back to 2015. His suit lays out how Google has "infiltrated" K-12 education with hardware and software primarily targeting students under the age of 13, whose face templates and voiceprints are illicitly collected, along with their: physical locations; websites they visit; every search term they use in Google's search engine (and the results they click on); the videos they watch on YouTube; personal contact lists; voice recordings; saved passwords; and other behavioral information.
Despite signing a "Student Privacy Pledge" promising not to collect, share and retain private personal data, Google Chromebooks scan students' faces and unique acoustic details of students' voices to identify them by name, age, gender and location while using Google platforms. Farwell realized his kids' biometric data was being stored in a vast database when he discovered they were required to speak and look into the laptops' microphones and cameras in order to use the school products and apps.
A similar lawsuit by the New Mexico Attorney General's office filed in federal court in February exposed how Chromebooks and G Suite for Education apps mined students' Gmail accounts for advertising purposes. The New Mexico AG's brief also bolstered my previous exclusive reports, based on whistleblowing by Missouri teachers Brooke Henderson and Brette Hay, on Google's access to student profiles and family computer passwords through the default Chrome Sync function—which can only be blocked by creating a passphrase buried in settings that school officials never inform students about (let alone their parents left in the dark from the moment schools require kids to create Google logins as early as kindergarten).
And now governments are entrusting Google to help develop contact-tracing technology on the promise that they won't collect location data, won't exploit data for commercial purposes, and won't grant access to unauthorized parties? Fox, meet henhouse.
Regulatory slaps on the wrist by toothless federal agencies have done nothing to deter the deceitful data usurpers. Why hasn't every other state attorney general filed a similar suit? Where is Congress, which passed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to prevent exactly the kind of routine marauding of students' digital lives perpetrated by Google and other EdTech vultures? Instead of pushing back, Congress passed the "Every Student Succeeds Act" and the "Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Act"—deceptively titled bills expanding third-party access to sensitive personal data.
The Invisible Enemy is right under our noses, in our homes and on our kids' laptops. Instead of removing children en masse from their classrooms in the name of public health, responsible adults should be de-platforming Google's privacy pillagers from every school in America in the name of public safety.
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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vdare--2020-05-05--Pulitzer Center-affiliated 1619 Project Wins Pulitzer Prize For Contributions To Black Narcissism An

Pulitzer Center-affiliated 1619 Project Wins Pulitzer Prize For Contributions To Black Narcissism And Megalomania

From the Pulitzer Center, which is totally separate from the Pulitzer Prize:
Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for 1619 Project
May 04, 2020 | Project news, Education news, Awards
BY JEFF BARRUS 1619 Project wins Pulitzer Prize Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for The 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine’s groundbreaking exploration of the legacy of Black Americans starting with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in 1619. As The 1619 Project’s official education partner, the Pulitzer Center has connected curricula based on the work of Hannah-Jones and her collaborators to some 4,500 classrooms since August 2019.
Highlights of the Center’s 1619 Project education work include: Tens of thousands of students in all 50 states engaged with the curricular resources, which include reading guides, lesson plans, and extension activities.
Tens of thousands of copies of the magazine were shipped by The New York Times and the Pulitzer Center to students and educators at K-12 schools, community colleges, HBCUs, and other campuses.
Five school systems adopted the project at broad scale: Buffalo, New York; Chicago; Washington, DC; Wilmington, Delaware; and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Pulitzer Center events were organized with Hannah-Jones in five cities and at educational institutions including Whitney Young Magnet High School, Wilbur Wright College of City Colleges of Chicago, University of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Winston-Salem’s RJ Reynolds High School, Washington, DC’s Dunbar High School, and HBCUs Howard University, Hampton University, and Huston Tillotson University. The Center congratulates Hannah-Jones on her historic win and looks forward to continuing to collaborate with her and the team at The New York Times Magazine on this important work.
As you’ll recall, the New York Times’ “1619 Project” about how blacks are absolutely the center of American history was announced by NYT editor Dean Baquet as the NYT’s Plan B after the ignominious failure of its Plan A to get Trump, its RussiaGate Conspiracy Theory.
Here are my Taki’s columns “1619: Founding Fallacies” and “1619: Alternative America.”
As I wrote in December:
Myself, I kind of like the NYT’s crackpot theory (that 1776 was motivated by the urge to oppress blacks) more than do the five distinguished (but white) historians. My personal crackpot theory of the American Revolution is that it was motivated less by the urge to keep blacks down than by the urge to conquer the North American continent from the American Indians and their European allies. … So, my crackpot theory of the Revolution is that it had more to do with the American desire to beat up on the poor Indians and take their land, and that the Crown was reluctant to help the colonists do that. But because I have my own personal crackpot theory of the American Revolution, I’m not all that dismissive or hostile toward the NYT having their own personal crackpot theory either.
But of course, in summary, I advocated we go even further back into the past to understand present day American race relations:


vdare--2020-05-05--Lots Of Masks, No Real Shutdown: Life Is Good in Hong Kong

iSteve commenter Last Real Calvinist reports from Hong Kong:
Hong Kong is doing pretty well at the moment.
We’ve had no community-based new cases of COVID-19 in the past 15 days. In that period, there’s been just a handful of new cases, all in people arriving at the airport from overseas.
This past weekend was four days long because of a couple of public holidays. Shopping malls were packed, restaurants busy (although still limited to four people per table), and beaches booming.
This week the restrictions will be relaxed, with restaurants able to seat parties up to eight together (although not yet the big 12-person round tables so characteristic of Cantonese restaurants). Spas, gyms, and cinemas will be able to reopen. I believe bars/pubs and karaoke joints will have to stay closed, as I suspect will churches and other places that draw big groups.
The yearly high school exit exams that the local culture obsesses over, the DSEs, were delayed a month, but are now ongoing. They started just over a week ago, and will last till May 25. Daughter C is sitting for her DSE Chinese exam at this very moment. She gets extra space in her exam hall, and has to wear a mask, but on the whole they’ve gone very smoothly so far. Schools will reopen later this month once the DSEs are done.
Speaking of masks, everybody’s still wearing them in all public indoor spaces, on public transport, and so on. I’ve noticed more people outdoors eschewing them in the past few days. In offices, some people wear them; some don’t. My employer requires us to wear them when out in public parts of our buildings, but in my own office I don’t wear one.
Just a couple of reminders about the HK situation:
***In total, HK has had just over 1,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and four deaths.
***At no time did stores and public transport shut down here. There have been restrictions, and significant periods of ‘work from home’, but no full lockdown.
***Nearly everybody’s been wearing masks since late January.
***Public buy-in to wearing masks and to enacting other social-distancing measures here is noteworthy. SARS in 2003 got everybody over the hurdles associated with adopting these measures. This time around, for good or ill, almost nobody questioned them.
***The border controls here, after some initial government dithering, have been tight. From late March, all overseas arrivals, not just those who test positive, have had to self-quarantine for two weeks. It seems to have worked.


vdare--2020-05-05--Matt Ridley: Vitamin D May Help Cut Disparate Black Covid Death Rate

Earlier, by Lance Welton: WuFlu Racial Impact Suggests Third World Immigration May Be Bad—For Them
Science journalist Matt Ridley, a.k.a. 5th Viscount Ridley, tweets:
The data are even stronger than I wrote. I've now seen preliminary evidence from a larger sample of Covid patients in Indonesia: they are 19 times more likely to die if deficient in vitamin D. Please can the authorities advise vitamin D supplements, @JimBethell, @MattHancock? https://t.co/DhMupisRce — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) May 5, 2020
If true, I suspect this has something to do with the high death rates among blacks in the U.S. and Europe, who tend to not get enough Vitamin D from the sun in northern latitudes while bundled up against the chill.
Also, it would make the Establishment’s War on sunbathing at beaches and parks especially perverse.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-04--Farmers: "The Crops Are Rotting In The Fields!" AGAIN, This Time Due To Coronavirus

There's a weekend Fox News host, John Scott, who's a nice guy, but he did something on Sunday, April 26, 2020, that no journalist should ever do.
He permitted farmers to sing their favorite aria, "The crops are rotting in the fields!," without singing counterpoint.
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Pavarotti Singing "The Crops are Rotting in the Fields!" aria, aka "Nessun Dorma," from Puccini's Turandot
At least once per year, during a harvest, farmers sing us that song. Previously, it was always to support their demands for cheap, illegal alien labor.
A real journalist would have countered, "But sir, you and your colleagues have been saying the same thing, word for word, for years. How do the crops rotting in the fields under the coronavirus differ from the crops rotting in the fields without it?"


vdare--2020-05-04--Patrick J. Buchanan: How Long Can Biden Stay in His Basement?

Where Barack Obama achieved notoriety for "leading from behind," Joe Biden, these last two months, has been leading from the basement.
And, one must add, doing so quite successfully.
Since his rout of Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday, Biden has led President Donald Trump in every national poll and, lately, opened up a lead in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida. One poll has him tied with Trump in Texas.
Last week, however, reality intruded. Biden was forced to defend himself against the lurid charge of ex-aide Tara Reade that, as a senator in 1993, he had groped and assaulted her inside the Capitol complex.
Why did Biden go public?
Because witnesses were coming forward to say Reade told them of Biden's misconduct years ago, and major media outlets began to give the charge credibility by moving the allegation onto Page One.
Media allies were signaling that they could not forever give Biden a pass on this, and he had to speak to the charges. Which is what Biden did Friday as he told MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski:
"This never happened ... and it's as simple as that."
With that flat denial, Biden put his credibility on the line—in defense of his character. For one cannot equate what Reade claims Biden did with the reputation he has built over half a century as a decent and honorable man. Biden now has to persuade the nation this woman is deluded, wildly exaggerating, misremembering—or is deliberately lying.
If "nothing happened," Biden must explain how well he knew Reade and why she left a plum job in the office of a U.S. senator after only nine months.
This is not a matter any presidential candidate wants to discuss while conducting his campaign. But this is only the beginning of Biden's problems—and of his party's problems with Biden.
With four months left before his nomination in Milwaukee, and six months before the November election, there are still among Democrats gnawing concerns based on Biden's performance in the debates and primaries, and since, that he has lost the ability to articulate issues clearly and cogently, or to complete complex thoughts.
The worry is that he is suffering from mental decline and could be destroyed by Trump in a presidential debate. Biden forgets, mumbles, misspeaks, loses his train of thought and appears, at times, confused.
Moreover, Biden is no spring chicken. He would take office at the same age that Ronald Reagan, our oldest president, left office.
Biden has also signaled, by his references to being a "bridge" president, that he will be serving only the single term that would end in 2025 with him having celebrated his 82nd birthday.
"I view myself as a transition candidate," Biden conceded last week.
This makes his vice presidential choice crucial. For that individual would not only become president instantly should something happen to a President Biden, but he or she would also become the leader of the Democratic Party, the probable presidential nominee in 2024, and possibly president.
Who will Biden select as America's future leader, after him?
First rule: No white men need apply. Biden has ruled them out.
Indeed, no male candidate of any race or ethnicity need apply. The vice presidential nomination has been set aside for a woman.
A woman of color? Not necessarily.
But here Biden has another problem. It was a huge turnout among African Americans in South Carolina that rescued Biden's failing candidacy and propelled him to his Super Tuesday triumph three days later.
Should Biden choose Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar as his running mate in a party that celebrates diversity above all, that all-white ticket would dismay and conceivably enrage the political elites of the black and Hispanic communities in the Democratic coalition.
If he chooses Sen. Elizabeth Warren, that ticket would also be all white. Moreover, it would point to a Democratic Party future far to the left of the constituencies that turned out in panic for Joe Biden because he was the last man standing athwart the forced march to the left of democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
If Biden chooses an African American like Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor's race in 2018, or Sen. Kamala Harris, who did poorly in the primaries and savaged Biden for his opposing forced busing to integrate public schools in the 1970s, would Democrats welcome either as the party's designated future leader?
Michelle Obama, as Biden wistfully says, would fit the bill perfectly.
But the former first lady is unavailable. And while Biden is mulling over his choice in his basement, Republicans will be attacking his character, credibility and mental competence. Before the fall campaign begins, they will have soiled his candidacy good.
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried," said Winston Churchill, after the British gave him "The Order of the Boot" in 1945.
Campaign 2020 may show us our own democracy at its worst.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-05-04--It's OK To Discriminate Against Whites: In 70% White Multnomah County, Oregon, "No Whites Allowed" S

It's OK To Discriminate Against Whites: In 70% White Multnomah County, Oregon, "No Whites Allowed" Safe Space Created For County Employees Battling Coronavirus

Previously by Paul Kersey: In 1.9% Black Oregon, A Bill Passed by the State Senate Means White People Could Soon be Sued If They Call the Police on People of Color
What does a more perfect union in 21st century America mean? No white people allowed. Welcome to 70 percent white Multnomah County (Portland), Oregon.
Oregon County Says “No Whites Allowed”, Zero Hedge, May 1, 2020 Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity… and on occasion, poetic justice. “No whites allowed” safe space for employees of Oregon county Do you know what’s been missing from the government’s response to coronavirus? You might think– ‘more testing kits’, or ‘honest information’. Nope. According to at least one county in the US state of Oregon, the biggest issue right now is establishing “safe spaces” where no white people are allowed. This is how Multnomah County, Oregon is rewarding its employees who are working during the pandemic: the county government announced that one of their departments will host “a grounding space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees to share, heal, connect, and get grounded in a space that is not dominated by whiteness.” The safe-space was announced in a daily report to county employees fighting coronavirus. When asked, a county spokesperson assured the public that it is perfectly legal to discriminate against their white employees. She explained, “The space excludes no one. It is based on shared lived experience not identity. The same way our employee resource groups for veterans, parents, and people with a disability are based on life experience and not identity. All are welcome here.” Except white people. Try to wrap your mind around that double-speak.
Discrimination against white Americans is basically the de-facto state policy of not just Oregon, but all other 49 states of our union.
Portland, Oregon, where Multnomah County is located, represents the future of this nation.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-01--The Great Replacement: Washington, DC—From 75% White To "Chocolate City"

By Gregory Hood, Henry Wolff, and Paul Kersey, American Renaissance, April 6, 2020
This is the second in a series about the continuing disappearance of whites from American cities (see the first, about Birmingham, Alabama, here). Many people still pretend that The Great Replacement is a myth or a conspiracy theory, but the graphs that accompany each article in this series prove them wrong. Every city has a different story but all have seen a dramatic replacement of whites by minorities.
The District of Columbia began as a Southern city. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison won the prize of hosting the capital in exchange for the federal government’s assumption of state debts. In retrospect, this was a bad deal for Virginia. Like the Plantation of Protestant Ulster in Catholic Ireland, Washington DC became a base for colonization. Today, Northern Virginia is lost to Dixie.
This became clear only recently. “Our hometown was the sleepy and segregated southern city Washington D.C.,” wrote Pat Buchanan in his autobiography.” The capital always had blacks, including slaves and their descendants, but the “quiet pleasant place” Mr. Buchanan describes had a large white majority.
In 1953, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that segregation in the capital was unconstitutional. A year later, in Brown v. Board of Education, the court banned segregated schools. These rulings drove many whites to the suburbs, and by 1960, the capital was majority black. In 1968, blacks rioted after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, driving out more whites.
According to the United States Constitution, Congress has complete power over the District, so after Washington became majority black, “home rule” became a civil rights issue. Blacks did not want to be governed by whites in Congress. In 1973, President Richard Nixon signed a “home rule” act that gave local authorities more power. Many Democrats want DC statehood, but most Americans don’t.
In 1975, the black funk band Parliament released its third album, “Chocolate City.” The name stuck, and it became DC’s nickname.
In 1979, Marion Barry became mayor. He was in office until 1991, presiding over a corrupt, crime-ridden city. In 1992, Jared Taylor reviewed a book about DC under Marion Barry, and called the review “Kinshasa on the Potomac.” The spectacle of the capital of the free world under Barry tested the strongest stomachs.
There was a brief interruption in Barry’s political career when he was convicted for smoking crack. After he got out of the pen, he ran for the DC Council from Ward 8, and was elected in 1992. In 1994, he won another term as mayor, serving until 1999. Ward 8, which is still 92 percent black, sent him back to the DC Council from 2005 to 2014. Only death removed him from office; the city honored him with a statue.
By the time he died, Marion Barry was a relic, because after 2000, the city began gentrifying. Whites returned. Crime dropped. Property values rose. Journalists, of course, mourned:
If these articles were about whites who didn’t want to become a minority, the authors would call them “conspiracy theorists.”
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Unfortunately, the whites who are coming back will not turn Washington back into a Southern town. They work for the federal government; more than 90 percent of the district voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. “Chocolate City” may be gone, but Leviathan on the Potomac remains. If he cared about Virginia, putting the city in his state was Thomas Jefferson’s greatest mistake.
[Comment at Amren.com]


vdare--2020-05-04--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2012:  Even BBC Noted 100 Illegals Maltreated By Coyotes In Texas—But

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2012:  Even BBC Noted 100 Illegals Maltreated By Coyotes In Texas—But Drudge Ignores

Originally published here on this day in 2012.
The news that that over 100 illegal aliens held against their will by apparent Coyotes were (fortunately) released on Wednesday from a house in Edinburg Texas has caught the imagination of the world—even the BBC has a story: Two charged after illegal immigrants found in Texas houses, May 4, 2012.
Rightly so because the details are horrific:
More than 100 illegal aliens were discovered living inside three small homes, one of which was padlocked from the outside and bars covered the windows. Those being held captive had no access to food or water for several days, according to court documents. Edinburg police spokesman, Lt. Oscar Treviño told The Monitor: “It was crazy. They hadn’t eaten or drank water for days,” he said. “There was no water, no light — nothing in there.” Several required hospitalization for treatment of dehydration and malnourishment. Unprotected border is fueling human rights crisis, by Dave Gibson Immigration Reform Examiner, May 4, 2012
This account (which also provides a good summary of similar incidents) continues
Mexican nationals Vicente Ortiz Soto, 24, and Marcial Salas Gardunio, 24, were taken into custody and charged with conspiracy to harbor illegal immigrants. Both Ortiz and Salas have requested court-appointed lawyers.
(VDARE.com: Thanks, US Taxpayers!)
According to the federal complaint, Salas drove the illegal aliens from the Rio Grande to the drop houses, threatening them with beatings and even death if they did stay quite [sic] or tried to escape.
(H/T One Old Vet)
Conspicuously not carrying the story is the Drudge Report, once such a reliable source of this kind of news, and of course generally very alert for dramatic human interest items.
To me this is further evidence confirming the suspicion I raised in Derbyshire Atrocity: Why Has Drudge Report Dodged? It seems that the immigration issue has been put on ice at Drudge—unlike stories about Black misbehavior.
No doubt the latter can be plausibly expected to help turn voters to the GOP—but the former would raise uncomfortable questions as to why the Congressional Republican leadership has made no effort on the question in the 112th Congress. That might inconvenience their Cheap Labor Lobby owners.


vdare--2020-05-05--Even During A Pandemic, Finding Non-White Virologists Top Priority For NIH And CDC

Earlier: Ethnomasochism Personified: White Female Oxford Professor Hopes White Male Scientists Don't Find Vaccine to Coronavirus
Diversity is more important than merit when it comes to state-funded institutions making available grants to biomedical research labs across the country. The NIH and the CDC are both considering finding non-white faces to add to teams working on respiratory failure worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, all in the name of diversity.
Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research?: Even amid a pandemic, federal science agencies continue to fund anti-scientific diversity initiatives, by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, May 5, 2020
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are not taking the coronavirus epidemic seriously, to judge from their funding priorities. On April 20, those two agencies announced the availability of grants to increase the “diversity” of biomedical research labs. Academic virologists working on respiratory failure, say, could receive hundreds of thousands more taxpayer dollars if they could find a “diverse” student to add to the project. No scientific justification for the new diversity hire is needed; indeed, high school students are eligible, despite the virtual certainty that they will contribute nothing of value. To the contrary, such new hires will be a drag on any medical advance, since the scientists must pledge to mentor the students, taking time and attention away from their scientific research. Those mentees will be chosen not because of their science skills—they need present none—but because of their group’s underrepresentation in STEM.
The premier federal funders of biomedical research, in other words, apparently believe that a pandemic is the perfect moment to focus further on identity politics. If diversity trumps scientific merit in biomedical research, including in immunology and virology, then those research efforts cannot be particularly important, despite the experts’ economy-crushing shutdown mandates.
The CDC, NIH, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been color- and sex-coding their research grants for years, on the grounds that “scientific innovation,” in the words of the NIH, requires scientists from “diverse backgrounds and life experiences.” But the newly announced “Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research” exponentially boost those agencies’ social-justice agenda. Besides the usual preferences for women, blacks, and Hispanics, the following categories now also qualify for diversity funding: being or having been homeless; being or having been in foster care; having been eligible for free school lunches; having no parents with a bachelor’s degree; and having received WIC payments (a food program for low-income mothers) as a child or mother. The claim that being black or female increases one’s chances of achieving a scientific breakthrough was always fanciful, but the idea that having been homeless or having had a mother on welfare is in any way relevant to genome sequencing or cancer treatment is preposterous. The NIH and CDC assert that the scientific enterprise requires a wide range of “viewpoints.” Different minds may in fact approach knotty problems differently. But having been in foster care is simply too remote from the challenge of developing a vaccine to block SARS-CoV-2 to be a valid substitute for scientific expertise.
The CDC may have struggled with coronavirus testing early on, but it and the NIH are fully up to speed when it comes to academic grievance studies. The latest “Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research” place great stock in “intersectionality.” STEM departments hoping for a research supplement will increase their chances by hiring females who are also an underrepresented minority, disabled, or from a “disadvantaged background.” Singly, these categories have nothing to do with scientific merit; they gain no additional relevance from having been aggregated.
The NSF, another federal funder of basic biomedical research, has also increased its identity-based spending during the pandemic. It recently announced that it would be pouring another $29 million of taxpayer dollars into its ADVANCE program. ADVANCE’s premise is that STEM departments are rife with implicit bias against competitively qualified females and underrepresented minorities. Achieving gender and racial “equity” in STEM requires “organizational change,” which grantees can pursue via four supposedly distinct “tracks:” “Institutional Transformation,” “Adaptation,” “Partnership,” and “Catalyst.” (In fact, these largely indistinguishable “tracks” simply represent bureaucratic rhetorical churn.) Successful applications, whether in molecular bioscience or mechanical engineering, will apply “intersectional approaches” to institutional change, recognizing that “gender, race, and ethnicity do not exist in isolation from each other and from other categories of social identity.”
Science, of course, is not the only arena where identity politics has recently surged. The New York City health department requires that its contact tracers understand “institutional and structural racism” and have a “demonstrated commitment” to victims of such racism, i.e., “people of color, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, [and] justice involved persons [translation: criminals].” How such “knowledge” is supposed to affect the collection of health and contact data is unclear. The higher coronavirus death rate for blacks in some cities has been attributed to biased doctors and nurses, as well as to systemic societal injustice. Acknowledging behaviorally driven health disparities is taboo. Keeping essential workers on the job is said to be racist; reopening businesses to nonessential workers is also racist.


vdare--2020-05-05--Forget Cinco De Mayo—Let’s Start Celebrating Hengist & Horsa Day on May 5!

See, earlier, by James Fulford: "Actually, There Has Always Been Migration"—But In Those Days They Called It Invading!
Today, as we have been told incessantly, is Cinco de Mayo, a minor holiday in Mexico that has been turned into a celebration of American dispossession in the U.S. My modest proposal: Let’s start our own #Resistance by celebrating Hengist & Horsa on May 5—a Day Of The Race for Legacy Americans.
Spring in Europe is a green time, a time of planting and rebirth of the earth. It was also, for thousands of years, the start of the campaigning season when armies which had been closed in by the brutal European winter could break out, raid, conquer and take new lands.
The spring of 449 AD brought the campaigning season with perhaps the longest lasting impact in human history. Two German brothers, Hengist (“stallion”) and Horsa (“horse”), chiefs of the tribe of the Jutes, sailed for the devastated Roman province of Britain after being hired by the Romanized Celtic British leader, Vortigern, to fight his Celtic opponents, the Picts and the Scots. For their service, Vortigern offered them monetary rewards and the island of Thanet.
According to tradition, the brothers and their band landed at Ebbsfleet. Within years, they had outgrown their island fiefdom and, with constant new waves of Jutish, Saxon, Anglish, Friesian and other kinsman arriving from Germany, needed more land and still more, until the native Celtic British realized their mistake too late, and tried to resist.
That first landing in 449, 1570 years ago this spring, led to the landtaking of the Anglo-Saxons, and the birth of the English nation. Britain, in the early Dark Ages, was to the North Germanic tribes what North America would be to their descendants a thousand years later—a land to be conquered, tamed and remade in their own image. They were proud to be a nation of conquerors, proud to have settled a new land and to have made it their own. They had a healthy sense of self and no feelings of guilt towards those who they had conquered. They went so far as to refuse even to live in Celto-Roman settlements, leaving them to rot.
Within several years after the landing, the brothers were at war with Vortigern. Horsa died in battle against him in 455, at a place recorded as Aegelsthrep, which is possibly present-day Aylesford in Kent. According to the early British historian the Venerable Bede, there was at one time a monument to Horsa in east Kent, and the modern town of Horstead may be named for him.
The newcomers, according to their own history, conducted their own version of the Great Replacement. DNA evidence shows that in Eastern England at least, the traditions are true, since most Eastern English DNA is the same as North German, Dutch and Friesian DNA.
The native British were so terrified that they left Britain in large numbers as refugees and settled in the areas that are now Wales, Ireland and Brittany, France, giving the region its name and the Celtic dialect that survives to this day.
The Saxons also used treachery to gain the upper hand, and were not in the least ashamed of that fact, since all is fair in love and war, and their main God, Woden, was a treacherous God. According to Gildas, after Horsa was killed in battle with the Celts, “The remaining Saxon leader, Hengist, called for a peace conference, which took place on Salisbury Plain. In an event known as 'the Night of the Long Knives,' on their arrival the Celts were treacherously massacred:
And Hengistus ordered the whole of his household that each one should hide his knife under his foot in the middle of his shoe. 'And when I shall call out to you and say "Eu nimet saxas" (draw your swords!), then draw your knives from the soles of your shoes, and fall upon them, and stand strongly against them. And do not kill their king, but seize him for the sake of my daughter whom I gave to him in matrimony, because it is better for us that he should be ransomed from our hands.' And they brought together the conference, and the Saxons, speaking in a friendly way, meanwhile were thinking in a wolfish way, and sociably they sat down man beside man. Hengistus, as he had said, spoke out, and all the three hundred elders of King Vortigern were slaughtered, and only he was imprisoned, and was chained, and he gave to them many regions for the ransom of his soul, that is Est Saxum, Sut saxum, Middelseaxan, with other districts under his control which they named.”
In a normal world, inhabited by people with a healthy sense of identity, the two brothers that made the conquest and settlement of what became England possible would be well known. There would be a major holiday named after them, commemorating their deeds and the gift they gave to their people. There would be annual festivals reenacting their landing and their deeds (perhaps even a reenactment of the “eu nimet saxas”).
But nowhere in the Anglosphere is there a “Hengist and Horsa Day,” a day equivalent to the “Dia de la Raza” in Latin America, which commemorates the coming of Columbus and the Spanish. In the almost 16 centuries since their great deeds, not even one postage stamp has been issued to commemorate the coming of Hengist and Horsa and those who became the English to the shores of Roman Britain. Not in the UK, Australia, Canada—or in the USA.
In a strange quirk of history, it is not the actual ancestors of the English people who are celebrated, but the Romanized Celtic British losers. The reverence shown to King Arthur and his band of Celtic resisters has become a core part of UK identity, while the true English heroes are forgotten.
Has there ever been a film made about the coming of Hengist and Horsa? Do Englishmen, Americans, Canadians or Australians name their children after their founding leaders? Arthur is common English first name, but are there modern English names derived from the names of the two hero-brothers? Perhaps Hank and Ross?
As traditional English England shows all signs of following in the path of the Celto-Roman British, one wonders if the new immigrants from Jamaica, Pakistan, India, Nigeria etc. will honor the English losers to their invasion as the English now honor Arthur. Will there be books, movies and plays about the prophecies of Enoch Powell. How about Tommy Robinson’s fight for the UK?
One doubts that. Much more likely, the newcomers will find a date in Britishstan history that was key to their coming, a date that sealed the fate of English England. The invaders are psychologically healthy. They will feel no guilt for taking new land and making it their own, or for bringing their culture, religion, traditions and language to new shores.
A new awakening of the unbreakable Germanic spirit of Hengist and Horsa, an honoring of the heroes who conquered and stayed without guilt, could help save England and the Anglosphere for their posterity. A good spark to such an awakening would be to set aside a day in spring, the beginning of the campaigning season in old Europe, to commemorate the coming of the English race to Britain.
May 5 will do just fine.
A people with a pride in their history, with an identity, cannot be conquered or bred out of existence. That pride starts with recognizing who our real heroes are, who we owe a debt to—one that can never be repaid. Two such heroes were Hengist and Horsa.
Anthony Boehm [Email him] is a federal civil servant.


vdare--2020-05-02--Mexican Coronavirus Death Count Passes Predicted High Of 2,000. Was Mexican Government Wrong About N

Mexican Coronavirus Death Count Passes Predicted High Of 2,000. Was Mexican Government Wrong About Natural Resistance?

Mexico's Excelsior reported on May 2 that the coronavirus death count in Mexico has passed 2000.
According to official statistics, the COVID-19 pandemic that is affecting Mexico totals 2,061 deaths...while the quantity of cases of this pathogen reaches 22,088. [Incrementa a 2,061 la cifra de muertos por Covid-19 en México ("Mexico's COVID-19 Death Count Increases to 2,061")
Why is the death count of 2,000 significant?
In a March Mexican cabinet meeting, it was predicted that 2,000 was the maximum amount of Mexicans who would die of COVID-19. Now that figure has been surpassed.
This cabinet meeting was not a public one, however, Salvador Garcia Soto, a columnist for El Universal, wrote that the cabinet discussed Mexico’s racial identity relative to the virus [Esperan hasta 2 mil muertes por Covid-19 en México (“Up to 2,000 Deaths from Covid-19 Expected in Mexico”), March 23, 2020]. That must mean Garcia had a secret source within the cabinet.
Coronavirus Point Man Hugo Lopez-Gatell and his Chinese Virus team, along with other officials, presented an estimate of how many Mexicans they expected to die from coronavirus: as low as 400 and high as 2,000. They saw their 400-2,000 range as an optimistic scenario.
According to Garcia:
In that report, the cabinet health specialists commented to the president that “genetically, the Mexican race has greater resistance to this type of virus than other races such as the European” and they argued that it has to do with the Mexican genome and with mestizaje [the mixture of Spaniards and Indians which produced Mexico’s mestizo majority]. That’s why they expected that that would influence the impact that the new coronavirus would have among the Mexican population.
The medical team was wrong about the amount of deaths, but does that mean they were wrong about mestizos being more resistant to the virus? Not necessarily, but it may be too early to tell. After all, COVID-19 entered Mexico a month after it entered the United States.
To get a good idea as to whether or not the theory is true, the research would have to 1)exclude other factors, such as age and previous health status, and 2) compare coronavirus rates of Mexican mestizos, whites and Indians.
It would also be valuable to compare research from other Latin American countries with similar demographics as Mexico.


vdare--2020-05-06--Ann Coulter: Lab Theory Of Wuhan Virus Cooked Up In A Neocon Lab

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Earlier, by James Fulford: The “China Virus” Came From China And Chinese People. AND IT'S OK TO SAY SO
Just because the media say something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not true. In the case of Trump’s claim that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab—or as I call it, the All Cultures Are the Same! Theory—the media are probably right.
Granted, whatever the truth is, it will somehow become an argument for more immigration and more war. Still, the lab theory sounds a lot like what we were told before going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to liberate the poor Afghans and Iraqis from their vile leaders! They’re just like us!
Then it turned out the Iraqis were shooting at our guys, as well as one another, and the Afghans were pederasts. Twenty years later, we’re still there and not much has changed. They weren’t just like us.
The Chinese aren’t just like us. Cultural differences are a more likely explanation for the Wuhan flu pandemic than a simple lab accident.
Here are some of the clues:
1) Chinese people eat bats, dogs, civet cats and live octopuses, as well as a variety of endangered species, which are sold at wet markets, jam-packed with wildlife being slaughtered on site in breathtakingly unsanitary conditions. Among the “high-risk” behaviors at wet markets cited by the National Institutes of Health, shoppers “[blow] the cloacae of chickens” to “examine their healthiness.” (Look it up.)
2) At least a half-dozen other animal-to-human viruses have come from the wet markets.
3) Scientists have been warning us for decades: THE NEXT VIRAL PANDEMIC WILL COME FROM THE CHINESE WET MARKETS!
That doesn’t prove that this particular virus came from the wet markets, but it doesn’t sound like a case for Jessica Fletcher.
4) A lot has been made of the fact that there’s a biosafety level-4 super laboratory in Wuhan that just happens to study bats, the original incubator of this coronavirus. More ominously, last year, the lab was cited by the U.S. for safety violations.
On the other hand …
Any lab studying coronaviruses is going to be studying bats, the source of a vast number of viruses, including the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus (SARS), the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus (MERS), the Marburg, Nipah and Hendra viruses and the Ebola virus. Any lab studying deadly viruses is going to have safety violations. (Just a few years ago, the U.S. military accidentally shipped live anthrax samples to nine labs in the U.S. and a military base in South Korea.) For 20 years, coronaviruses have emerged from Chinese wet markets.
Maybe this coronavirus came from a lab accident! (There’s a bio lab nearby.)
For 20 years, nooses showing up on college campuses have been hoaxes intended to raise “awareness” of racism.
Maybe this time it’s an actual racist! (There’s a fraternity nearby.)
For 20 years, Muslims have staged spectacular terrorist attacks on the West.
Maybe 9/11 was the Israelis! (What about the dancing Israelis?)
5) The lab theory places great stock in the fact that bats were not for sale at the wet market in Wuhan.
But the coronavirus didn’t jump from bats directly to humans. Like SARS, MERS and the bird flu (H5N1), it migrated from bats to some other exotic animal, and then to humans.
Based on a genetic analysis, the intermediate animal in the Wuhan virus is believed to be the pangolin.
Guess what was for sale at the Wuhan wet market? Pangolins! (“Traditional Chinese medicine” teaches that pangolin scales can cure a score of ailments, from impotence to arthritis.)
6) Western scientists who have examined the Wuhan coronavirus say it’s “improbable” that the virus “emerged through laboratory manipulation” rather than natural selection. Kristian Andersen, director of Infectious Disease Genomics at the Scripps Research Institute, for example, notes that that “the genetic data irrefutably show that [the Wuhan virus] is not derived from any previously used virus backbone.”
7) Twenty-seven of the original 41 Chinese people who came down with COVID-19 had been to the Wuhan wet market. Several others were family members of those infected at the wet market.
8) New diseases are constantly being attributed to mad scientists whipping something up in their laboratories—AIDS, Lyme disease and Ebola, to name a few. Louis Farrakhan and Spike Lee were big proponents of the idea that AIDS was made in a government lab just outside Virginia.
No matter how much you hate the media, conservatives, you don’t want to sound like those guys.
Finally, we don’t need a crackpot It Escaped From a Lab! theory to blame the Chinese for this pandemic. They allowed these disease-ridden wet markets to continue, year after year, pandemic after pandemic, putting the entire planet at risk.
We also don’t need another war to “liberate” the Chinese from their Communist masters. (I note that the primary advocates of the lab theory are Permanent War devotees Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. Tom Cotton.)
We just need to shut down the wet markets, shut down the border and bring our manufacturing home.
All cultures are not alike.
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Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here.
Her book, ¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-05-06--"Social Distancing With Peter Brimelow": An Interview with Peter D'Abrosca At  3 P.M. EST

Today at 3 p.m. EST, our latest episode of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow” will livestream. His guest will be Pete D'Abrosca.
You can join the conversation here.
Peter D'Abrosca is an author, blogger, and former congressional candidate from North Carolina. He brought the immigration moratorium back into style during his run for Congress in 2019. Now he works behind the scenes with America First candidates promoting immigration restrictionism.
Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:
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vdare--2020-05-06--Radio Derb Transcript Up For May 1: Trump Vs. ?, Virology, Chicoms Show Steel Fist, And Captain Cook

Radio Derb Transcript Up For May 1: Trump Vs. ?, Virology, Chicoms Show Steel Fist, And Captain Cook's Problematic 250th, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for May 1. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist:
00m46s Trump v. A.N. Other. (Biden's beatable, A.N. Other may not be.)
08m40s The youngest branch of the youngest science. (Virology notes.)
15m02s ChiComs show the steel fist. (A tiff Down Under.)
20m07s The shotgun diplomat. (Swedes go to the mattresses.)
26m03s Tom Cotton on educational nationalism. (Unless they want to read Shakespeare.)
27m43s Coronavirus Laugh of the Week. (From Razib.)
28m39s Captain Cook's 250th. (It is of course "problematic.")
30m24s Coronavirus in India. (Youth, heat, and "incomplete figures.")
34m20s Scots wha hae … (To PC cucked.)
36m52s Romanian Transylvania, 100 years on. (The integrity of their quarrel.)
40m32s Signoff. (A song for the day.)


vdare--2020-05-06--DEATHS OF DESPAIR: Case & Deaton's Book on the White Death

From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine:
The new book Deaths of Despair: And the Future of Capitalism by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton attempts to explain their important discovery—the declining lifespans of working-class white Americans since the turn of the century—by way of a strained analogy with the social chaos that African-Americans unleashed upon themselves as soon as the civil rights struggle was won for them in the 1960s:
What happened to inner-city African Americans after midcentury is, we shall argue, a foreshadowing of our account of whites in the 21st century….
But the more I study the White Death of the past two decades, the more I am instead reminded of the tragic trajectory of a now much less publicized American race, Native Americans. Like American Indians, working-class white Americans seem to be living, and dying, like a defeated people, quietly offing themselves with so little to-do that nobody even noticed what was happening to working-class white lifespans for the first fifteen years of this century.


vdare--2020-05-05--Odds That A Primary Case Transmitted Covid-19 In A Closed Environment Was 18.7 Times Greater Compare

Odds That A Primary Case Transmitted Covid-19 In A Closed Environment Was 18.7 Times Greater Compared To An Open-air Environment

With much of the American political and media class having chosen beaches as the hill they would die on to evaluate their handling of the pandemic, it’s worth noting this small sample-size preprint from Japan:
Closed environments facilitate secondary transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Hiroshi Nishiura, Hitoshi Oshitani, Tetsuro Kobayashi, Tomoya Saito, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Tamano Matsui, Takaji Wakita, MHLW COVID-19 Response Team, Motoi Suzuki
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272 Objective: To identify common features of cases with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) so as to better understand what factors promote secondary transmission including superspreading events. Methods: A total of 110 cases were examined among eleven clusters and sporadic cases, and investigated who acquired infection from whom. The clusters included four in Tokyo and one each in Aichi, Fukuoka, Hokkaido, Ishikawa, Kanagawa and Wakayama prefectures. The number of secondary cases generated by each primary case was calculated using contact tracing data. Results: Of the 110 cases examined, 27 (24.6%) were primary cases who generated secondary cases. The odds that a primary case transmitted COVID-19 in a closed environment was 18.7 times greater compared to an open-air environment (95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.0, 57.9). Conclusions: It is plausible that closed environments contribute to secondary transmission of COVID-19 and promote superspreading events. Our findings are also consistent with the declining incidence of COVID-19 cases in China, as gathering in closed environments was prohibited in the wake of the rapid spread of the disease.
Unfortunately, I’m not exactly sure how to interpret this 18.7 figure.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-02--Laura Ingraham Attacked AGAIN For Retweeting VDARE.com, Deletes Retweet, But At Least Doesn't Grovel

Laura Ingraham Attacked AGAIN For Retweeting VDARE.com, Deletes Retweet, But At Least Doesn't Grovel This Time

In 2018, Laura Ingraham tweeted a link to James Kirkpatrick's Jeb Bush Denounces Americans Who Don't Want To Be "Changed" By Mass Immigration.
She was immediately attacked, and forced to apologize and delete the link. When I say she was forced to apologize, I don't think she needed to thank the people who attacked her. That's Rich-Lowry-level grovelling.
Media Matters has just attacked Ingraham again for a retweet of the VDARE.com version of Michelle Malkin's syndicated column Notes on the Coming Meat Shortage.
Laura Ingraham retweets article from white nationalist group VDare blaming immigrant workers for coronavirus hotspots Article ties “great replacement” conspiracy theory to COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants Written by Eric Kleefeld, 05/01/20 11:48 AM EDT
It's pointless for me to answer all of Media Matters's lies about us, but it's just stupid to say that the "Great Replacement" is a "conspiracy theory" in regard to meatpacking plants. Meatpackers have for the last half-century been replacing American labor with imported Mexican labor, and when the Mexicans suffered immigration enforcement because they were illegal, they replaced them with legal immigrant refugees from Somali, Burma, Syria, Iraq, and Sudan.
Somali, Burma, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, and Mexico all have one thing in common—they're Third World countries where many of the inhabitants haven't been taught about the Germ Theory of disease, and may refuse to believe it, or act on it when they're told.
But that's no defense as far as the crazed haters at Media Matters are concerned. Remember that they hate all normal Americans, all Americans who want any kind of immigration enforcement, all Americans who believe things they don't believe.
They hated George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush (really!). There is no amount of surrender and cuckery that could stop them from hating Laura Ingraham. So she should ignore them.
She should heed the wisdom of Ashley Rae Goldenberg:
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vdare--2020-05-06--Social Distancing: Peter Brimelow And Peter  D'Abrosca  On An Immigration Moratorium, And Why Trump

Social Distancing: Peter Brimelow And Peter  D'Abrosca  On An Immigration Moratorium, And Why Trump Hasn't Followed Through Yet

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: D’Abrosca On Tucker Carlson: Is Immigration Moratorium Concept Finally Breaking Through?
Below, VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow, and former Congressional aspirant and Moratorium advocate Peter D'Abrosca [Tweet him] author of Enemies: The Press vs. The American People, discuss the politics and history of the idea of an Immigration Moratorium.
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Peter D'Abrosca explains how he came to be in favor of a moratorium, when Conservatism, Inc. was still saying that they might be against illegal immigration, but were in favor of as many legal immigrants who wanted to come in.
Peter Brimelow explains his theory of why Trump backed off on his own recent call for a moratorium—it's the fact that he's not able to hold rallies.
When he held rallies, he would hear his base—the people who either will or won't turn out to vote for him in November—cheering the Wall, and enforcement. Peter Brimelow points out that if you read the book Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, the various disloyal leakers describe how Trump would go back to the White House after a rally and rage at his staff for not getting a wall built and not putting troops on the border.
Now there are no rallies, and Trump is not getting the feedback he needs.
Below, if you haven't seen it, Peter D'Abrosca's appearance on Tucker Carlson: