vdare--2020-07-03--Pandemic Report, The Caucasity Of Hope, War On Policing, And Betting On Trump, Etc.

10m35s Herman Cain gets the virus .
( I was impressed and charmed . )
12m24s The caucasity of hope @ @ @ @ @ gets stomped . )
17m37s The war on policing .
( Cops vs .
prosecutors @ @ @ @ @ Central Asia .
( The price of hair . )
27m05s ChiCom population policy .
@ @ @ @ @ least not hypocrites . )
32m15s Betting on Trump .
( A lot of people @ @ @ @ @ curse of diversity .
( Ethiopia 's and ours . )

05m10s Pandemic report. (Fatalism, insouciance, and the 2nd Amendment.)
10m35s Herman Cain gets the virus. (I was impressed and charmed.)
12m24s The caucasity of hope. (One of theirs gets stomped.)
17m37s The war on policing. (Cops vs. prosecutors.)
22m43s News from Central Asia. (The price of hair.)
27m05s ChiCom population policy. (Gangsters, but at least not hypocrites.)
32m15s Betting on Trump. (A lot of people are.)
34m24s The curse of diversity. (Ethiopia's and ours.)
37m40s Signoff. (Happy Fourth!)
01—Intro. That was Haydn's Derbyshire March Number Two rendered in a musical genre called "progressive metal." Thanks to the listener who provided that.
And please don't take offense at the word "progressive" there. In this context it is an entirely musicological term, nothing to do with progressive politics. Rest assured, this episode of Radio Derb will be just as deplorably reactionary as you have come to expect, nothing progressive at all. Progressive? Ptui, I spit.
Last week I promised you an update on our efforts to get Derbistan enrolled as a fully independent sovereign state in the catalog of nations. I am sorry to report that things did not go well.
Our strategy was, to obtain formal diplomatic recognition from one other sovereign state, in hopes others would then follow. Naturally we settled on Turkmenistan as our first prospect, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of that country having been a patron and supporter of Radio Derb for more than ten years now.
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov was entirely on board with the project, and named his choice as ambassador. Unfortunately the choice was not acceptable to Mrs Derbyshire. The proposed ambassador was in fact my former research assistant Brandy. As I reported to you back in 2016, after I had to let the girls go, Brandy moved to Turkmenistan and assumed a position—in fact, I believe, several interesting positions—under President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov.
For reasons I cannot fathom, Mrs Derbyshire nurses strong negative feelings towards my former research assistants. When she learned of Brandy's proposed ambassadorial appointment, threats of divorce were in the air, along with sounds of breaking glass—though fortunately only some minor items of stemware.
As a great American President said, quoting the founder of the Christian religion: A house divided against itself cannot stand. Rather than see the house of Derbistan thus divided, I rejected President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's choice of ambassador. This displeased the President, who has threatened economic, and possibly even military, retaliation.
Under those threats we have no choice but to abandon our secession project and throw ourselves on the mercy of Uncle Sam. Appropriate appeals were made to the authorities in Washington, D.C.
I am thrilled and flattered to report that within just a couple of days of my writing to the White House I received a reply from President Trump himself! His name was right there on the envelope, and on the letterhead inside. The letter was addressed to me personally: "Dear Mr Derbyshire," was the salutation. It was signed off with the President's own actual signature in smart blue ink! Imagine my feelings of pride and gratitude!
The letter itself was rather wordy, and made no explicit reference to Derbistan or to our reliquishing our sovereignty. In a couple of places, in fact, it seemed to be asking me for money—the sum of $25 was explicitly mentioned, payable to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee. Some mix-up there in the White House mail room, perhaps.
I am none the less confident that we are now once again American citizens in good standing, just in time for the July 4th celebrations.
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02—Pandemic report. I haven't had much to say about the coronavirus pandemic. That's mainly because of a deep congenital fatalism on my part, fortified by the belief—for which I can claim both scriptural and medical authority—that I am already living on borrowed time.
There is also, it seems to me, a lot of ambiguity in the numbers we're given. The famous IFR, for instance, the Infection Fatality Rate, requires knowing both number of deaths and number of persons infected.
The first number is fairly robust, although with some fuzziness around the edges due to whims, errors, local fashions, and revenue-seeking chicanery about how cause of death is recorded. The second number requires widespread random testing to uncover mild and asymptomatic cases. We still haven't done such testing.
Probably we should, but, as a recent President was wont to say, that's not who we are. This is a big, disorderly country in which the adjective "ornery" is a term of approval. We are not very good at massive assaults on citizens' privacy by governmental authorities.
Without large-scale random testing, the numbers we're getting might be wrong by an order of magnitude. That's not me speculating; that's the Director of the Centers for Disease Control speaking at a June 25th presser, quote from him:
The estimates that we have right now, that I mentioned … is that it's about ten times more people have antibody in these jurisdictions than had documented infection.
End quote.
"Documented infection" is the number you read about as "number of cases." Having antibodies means you are, or have been, infected but don't necessarily know it. The second number there, the CDC Director tells us, may be ten times the first. Oh.
It is true that the authorities of our country have managed the pandemic with all the skill, efficiency, and effectiveness of the proverbial monkey attempting to get intimate with the proverbial football. That's what we're like, though, especially at the federal level. It's the trade-off we make for our liberties. The feds make a pig's ear of everything they touch. The word "Iraq" mean anything? How about "Obamacare"? "No Child Left Behind"? Et cetera, et cetera.
And yes, I know: From frustration at their own cluelessness, the clowns who run our national affairs are right now stomping all over our liberties. The fact that we're letting them do so suggests that our traditional blessed orneriness may be in decline. But then, the recent surge in gun sales suggests that we are aware of that at some level. It'll sort itself out, I'm thinking.
Tongue-clicking friends tell me that Taiwan dealt with this pandemic the right way—massive testing and contact tracing—with the result that there have been just seven (I think it is) deaths from coronavirus in Taiwan.
All right. I love Taiwan; but it's a smaller, more homogenous society than ours with authoritarianism in its quite recent past. When I lived there in 1971 there was a campaign against long hair on young men. Police would stop a lad in the street and cut his hair on the spot if they thought it too long. Taiwan's loosened up considerably since then, but it is still way more disciplined than the U.S.A.
So that's Radio Derb on the coronavirus: fatalism, insouciance, and the Second Amendment.
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03—Herman Cain gets the virus. Just a footnote to the previous.
I was sorry to read these news reports that Herman Cain has been hospitalized with coronavirus.
I had some brief intercourse with Mr Cain back in 2011, when he was running for President. I wrote a column about our encounter for Taki's Magazine, from which, quoting myself:
I do recall being impressed and charmed by the man. Impressed: Cain gave off that aura of capable busy-ness that foreigners—I mean, people like myself, born and raised elsewhere—think of as "very American." Charmed: Cain was relaxed, easy-going, quick-witted and funny. He is clearly comfortable in his own skin. Seen up close, that skin is very black—much blacker than Barack Obama's. I'd guess Cain's ancestry as no more than one thirty-second nonblack, perhaps entirely West African. Whatever it is, the man is not bothered about it one way or the other.
End quote.
And, come on, how can you not warm to a politician who expresses unembarrassed indifference to the affairs of poop-hole nations like Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?
Get well soon, Herm.
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04—The caucasity of hope. Cancellee of the week was twentysomething Harvard graduate Claira Janover.
Ms Janover's story began when she posted a video clip to a social medium. Soundtrack:
[Clip: The next person who has the sheer nerve—the sheer entitled caucasity—to say, "All lives matter," I'm-a stab you. I'm-a (stabbing sound) stab you; and while you're struggling and bleeding out, I'm-a show you my paper cut and say: "My cut matters, too."]
Ms Janover's LinkedIn account listed her as a, quote, "incoming government and public business service analyst," end quote at Deloitte, a big accounting firm. She just started the job in May, we are told.
That sounds like a solid, well-paid job, at a time when solid, well-paid jobs aren't easy to get, even for Harvard grads.
Well, Ms Janover doesn't have the job any longer. Deloitte fired her because of the video clip.
Ms Janover reacted to her firing by posting more videos in which she emotes over the unfairness of it all. Deloitte had, she says, dismissed her from a job she'd worked really hard for, in spite of a corporate commitment—she shows a screenshot of Deloitte's diversity boilerplate—a corporate commitment "against systemic bias, racism, and unequal treatment."
This story has generated a lot of nyah-nyah out here on the dissident right, and that's entirely understandable. Of course there is some satisfaction in seeing one of theirs get stomped on for a change. Those follow-up video clips in which the precious, entitled little snowflake melts down in self-pity just add to the fun.
There may be an affirmative-action angle here, too. Ms Janover's physiognomy is racially ambiguous, but I'd guess there's some blackness there, perhaps with East Asian admixture. Her attempt at ghetto diction—"I'm-a stab you"—while not very convincing, suggests that if she's not actually black, she's definitely anti-white. So, some species of wigger, perhaps. This could be another Rachel Dolezal.
I can't see that any injustice was done here. As a freedom of association absolutist, I believe private companies have the right to fire any employee at any time for any reason, or no reason. I've been fired myself a few times, for incompetence, sloth, and political incorrectness, but no-one's ever heard me complain.
All that said, I'll give the lady some points for rhetorical agility. Substituting "caucasity" just where a listener is expecting to hear "audacity" is rather clever.
The parallel she's making, too—the discrimination blacks endure is like a stab wound, while the corresponding suffering of nonblacks is a mere paper cut—is ingenious and well-structured. It's nonsense in its substance of course: blacks are the spoiled brats of American society, given every kind of leeway and allowance. That's to speak of content, though; Ms Janover has at least put some effort into form.
My recommendation to her would be to put these rhetorical skills to better use. She might try being a poet; or a preacher; or a writer of advertising copy. Looking at that Deloitte job title again—"government and public business service analyst"—it sounds awfully damn boring.
You can do better, Ms Janover. The world is your oyster!
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05—The war on policing. My June Diary included the following observation, quote:
Our courts are choc-full—I think that's the right expression—of black judges, black DAs, and black prosecutors pushing for anti-white outcomes.
End quote.
That was inspired by reading, in my June 27th New York Post, about a nasty little spat between the New York City Police Department's detectives union and 56 Bronx prosecutors—assistant district attorneys, to be precise.
These 56 prosecutors—35 named and 21 anonymous—sent a joint letter to their boss, Bronx DA Darcel Clark, urging the DA to make, quote, "an unequivocal condemnation of the [police department's] unwarranted use of violence." One other prosecutor, name of Paul Rosenfeld, published a dissenting letter describing the police officers he's worked with across 39 years as, quote, "decent, hard-working, and committed."
A couple of things about all that. First, to complain about the police using violence is absurd. Policing necessarily entails violence. It's a violent profession. How is a police officer supposed to arrest a refractory suspect, other than by applying violence?
The police need to conduct themselves in a professional and disciplined way, of course, and almost always do. The occasional exceptions get punished, often more than the offense justifies. To pretend that police work can be done without violence, though, is absurd.
When there is a fatal outcome for the refractory perp, you always hear someone say or tweet: "It's not a capital crime to sell cigarettes without a license," or "… pass a counterfeit bill," or whatever it was the perp was getting arrested for.
The obvious answer to that is: "No. It's also not a capital crime in any jurisdiction to fall asleep on the railroad tracks. If you do so, though, and the outcome is fatal, no-one's at fault but yourself."
One more thing to be said. That dissenting prosecutor in New York, name of Paul Rosenfeld, 39 years on the job. There's an age gap there. The 56 prosecutors complaining to the Bronx DA about police violence all have way less time on the job than that. Says the president of the detectives union in an angry rebuttal letter to that same DA, quote:
Most of the signatures on that letter [the letter, that is, from the 56 prosecutors complaining about police violence] are from the class of 2019, which had a mere matter of months in your office before being quarantined.
End quote.
There may be another gap in play here, too. The dissenting prosecutor, Paul Rosenfeld, is plainly Jewish. Steve Sailer has noted that, quote from Steve:
Two previous eras of black supremacist ideology—the late 1960s and the early 1990s—both came a cropper when they got too many Jews peeved at black anti-Semitism.
End quote.
That's a good point. Black Lives Matter, and the Antifa likewise, can't resist throwing anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric in with their calls to end white supremacy and defund the police. For keeping the media on your side, guys, this is not good strategy.
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06—News from Central Asia. If you think we have troubles with the coronavirus, the Moscow Times reports that Mongolia has quarantined its western region, near the border with Russia, after identifying two suspected cases of bubonic plague, a/k/a the Black Death.
The infections appear to have been zoonotic, which is to say, transmitted from animals to humans. The guilty animals here are marmots—a kind of squirrel—which the Mongolians have been eating.
No surprise there with the squirrel-eating. The peoples of Mongolia are famously carnivorous. Quote from my review of Steve Bodio's 2003 book Eagle Dreams, which is about that neck of the woods:
Mongolians in general, the author tells us, "barely know what vegetables are. One of the most sophisticated ones I met told me that they all 'tasted like dirt' to him. … Their entire diet consists of animal products, washed down with tea and vodka, in cheerful indifference to the proscriptions of their principal religions, Buddhism and Islam."
End quote.
And yet more news from Central Asia: I'm having a fire sale on Central Asian items this week. This one is not from Mongolia, or Turkmenistan, or Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan; this one is from East Turkestan, currently under ChiCom occupation as the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, the autonomy being of course perfectly fictitious. East Turkestan is the home of the Uighurs, of whom you may have heard.
Report from Breitbart News, July 2nd, quote:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed Wednesday that it had seized a shipment in Newark, NJ, containing $800,000 worth of human hair originating in Xinjiang, China, where the Communist Party maintains concentration camps.
End quote.
CBP identified these thirteen tons of human hair as being the property of Lop County Meixin Hair Product Co. Ltd., which is of course a Chinese outfit. I'm curious to know how CBP valued the shipment. At $800,000 for thirteen tons, assuming this is the American short ton, I make it $31 a pound.
That seems a lot for hair. Is there actually a market for human hair, with a publicized price structure? If so, can I get in on it? With lockdown and all, I haven't been to the barber for four months.
Mrs Derbyshire: "You really should. You're starting to look like Albert Einstein."
Me, glancing at self in mirror: "More like Mrs Einstein."
My first question: Anybody got an email address for Lop County Meixin Hair Product Co. Ltd.?
My second question: Did this company get its start in 1971 Taiwan?
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07—ChiCom population policy. And still one more, also from Xinjiang. I told you there's a fire sale this week.
In Chapter 10 of my world-bestriding bestseller We Are Doomed I wrote the following thing, quote:
The United States, like every other nation, has a population policy. You can't not have a population policy. To not have any laws at all concerning immigration and settlement, for example, to train yourself and your fellow citizens never to think about such matters at all, would itself be a population policy—in the case of a rich and stable nation like ours, it would be a policy of very fast and unlimited population growth. That Americans are embarrassed to be heard talking about our national population policy, doesn't mean we don't have one … You have a population policy whether or not you know you do, and whether or not you feel comfortable talking about it.
End quote.
Well, the ChiComs have had an explicit population policy since the 1970s. You've heard, I'm sure, about the One-Child Policy, in force from 1979 to just recently. The name of the policy is a bit misleading. All sorts of exceptions were allowed. It was a strict one-child policy for Han Chinese people living in cities and big towns; elsewhere, in rural and ethnic-minority areas, the rules were soon relaxed somewhat.
From the middle of the last decade, those rules were turned right around. The ChiComs began to worry about (a) an aging and declining Han-Chinese population, and (b) an increase in ethnic-minority numbers: Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongolians, and others.
Under the intense, data-driven surveillance totalitarianism of the Xi Jinping era, the second issue there is being dealt with punitively. Associated Press claims to have confirmed a report that of 484 labor-camp inmates in one Xinjiang county, 149—that's thirty percent—were there for having too many children.
That's what a totalitarian population policy looks like. It ain't pretty.
On the other hand, looking across at events in Europe and the U.S.A., you can understand why the ChiComs would want to maintain a Han-Chinese supermajority in their nation. Multiculturalism is a bust; large-scale ethnic diversity is a simply terrible idea.
In my ideal world the Chinese people would dump the communists, who are just corrupt gangsters, then withdraw from the occupied territories back to metropolitan China. They'd leave the Uighurs and Tibetans to govern themselves and concentrate on building up China as a free, proud, busy commercial nation with a Han supermajority un-threatened by rising minority populations, joining the other un-diverse nations of East Asia: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan.
Hey, I can dream. In the meantime the ChiComs, for all their cruelty and brutality, are at least not pretending they have no population policy. They are gangsters, sure: but in the matter of demography, they are not hypocrites.
One more time: You have a population policy whether or not you know you do, and whether or not you feel comfortable talking about it.
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08—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: I still doubt Donald Trump can win a second term, for reasons I have laid out at length in previous podcasts. My confidence in my own powers of prediction took a jolt this week, though.
The jolt came via email from an old friend, a super-smart and worldly guy who enjoys taking a gamble now and then. Here is what he wrote. Quote:
I just took a quick look at the election odds. I was hoping Trump would look like a long shot and I could put down a few hundred bucks and make some money. I discovered that he's favored to win on every single online gambling site—from a five percent to a forty-five percent advantage over Biden.
It's one of the axioms of my life that if you want to know what people think, ignore what they say, and watch what they do. Apparently anyone who wants to do something—wager actual cash—thinks Trump will win. Which would mean four more years of bobbing around the ocean in a lifeboat, but it beats sinking.
End quote.
The bit I particularly like there is the last sentence: "four more years of bobbing around the ocean in a lifeboat … but it beats sinking." Exactly.
If 2016 was the Flight 93 election, this one coming up will be the lifeboat election: either four more years of bobbing about in static futility under Trump, or getting eaten alive by anti-white, anti-American sharks.
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Item: For more insight on the dreadful curse of diversity, direct your eyes to Ethiopia.
A popular singer of that nation, name of Hachalu Hundessa, was shot dead on Monday last, apparently in a targeted assassination.
The killing had something to do with ethnic rivalries in Ethiopia between the Omoros and the Amharas. It has something else to do with Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia for 44 years until he died under mysterious circumstances after a coup against him in 1975. And it has something else to do with the stealing of some horses back in 1886.
Yes, it's real complicated. I read through two or three news stories about it, but my eyes kept glazing over. Steve Sailer had a go at it here on the VDARE.com site, July 2nd, but I get the impression Steve's eyes were glazing over too.
There were consequences beyond Ethiopia's borders. In St Paul, Minnesota a mob of several hundred Ethiopians blocked an expressway to protest the singer's death.
In London, meanwhile, a different mob of Ethiopians destroyed a statue of Haile Selassie that had stood in a Wimbledon park for eighty-odd years. Haile Selassie had lived briefly in Wimbledon during a spell of exile after Italy invaded his country in 1936.
Summary: Not only is Ethiopia itself roiled by ethnic conflict, we have allowed them to export their differences to our nations, too, via uncontrolled mass immigration. I don't have numbers for London, but Fox News gives this for Minnesota, quote:
According to the U.S. Census, in 2018 one of the largest groups of foreign-born Minnesotans were born in Ethiopia, making up about 21,900 people. However, census officials say this is likely an underestimate and the total does not include U.S.-born children of these immigrants.
End quote.
And I cannot leave this topic without mentioning, what I am sure many listeners know, that there is nowadays a revisionist school of historians arguing that Haile Selassie was, in point of fact, only somewhat selassie. [Boo, hiss.]
09—Signoff. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your time and attention; and special thanks to our President for his prompt response to our request for re-admission to the warm bosom of the Motherland.
This weekend of course embraces July 4th, when we commemorate the United States' declaration of independence. Here's a patriotic song to see us out. I have special affection for this one because its tune is the same as the one for Britain's national anthem, "God Save the Queen."
The first time I ever heard this played in the U.S.A., in fact, was in a public park in Westchester County, New York, circa 1974, when I was still a subject of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. When the band struck up, I thought: "How nice of them! Someone must have told them I was here!"
I am now wiser, of course. The tune may be the same, but the words are perfectly American. And in fact this same tune was used for the Kaiserhymne, the anthem of pre-WW1 imperial Germany. Probably elsewhere, too: the number of tunes thought appropriate for patriotic songs is considerably smaller than the number of nations. I would not be surprised to learn that Azerbaijan, or Laos, or Costa Rica use the same tune to celebrate their nationhood.
In this version, though, it belongs to us, to Americans. In the words of the song itself, "My country, 'tis of thee."
God bless America! And thank you, thank you, America for taking in this poor straggler. May all our conflicts be resolved, all our strengths fortified, all our weaknesses vanquished!
There will be more from Radio Derb next week!
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vdare--2020-07-03--Majority Of Black Americans Favor Removing Statues Of Founding Fathers

George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , and Andrew Jackson are going the way of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis : The question included a “ not sure ” response .
It was selected by 22 % of those surveyed , so these figures are conservative estimates of deconstruction sentiments .
Only 25 % of blacks definitively oppose the statues being removed .
In the aughts through the first half of the 2010s , it was commonly asserted in free-thinking forums that blacks were losing their place of prominence as America ’ s predominant minority .
Numerically surpassed by Hispanics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growing Asian population , blacks were being forced to settle into becoming just another member of the coalition .
Black concerns became POC problems .
Blacks have managed to narrowly push Hillary Clinton past Bernie Sanders in 2016 , but by 2020 his progressive coalition of whites , Hispanics , and Asians would carry the day against stubborn black support for the hidebound moderate .
That clearly has not been the case .
What blacks want , blacks get .
These statues are coming down .
All of them .
Never mind Stone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clean .
Forget The 1619 Project .
That ’ s going in the wrong direction .
The 1965 Project or even The 2008 Project is more apropos .
If it ’ s any consolation , when synthetic meat is ubiquitous in fifty years , everyone alive today will be made reprobate .
Not even the legacies of vegans will be safe–after all , they tolerated a society that permitted the consumption of animal flesh .
That ’ s inexcusable .
Who cares if Elon Musk made it to Mars ?
He ate steak @ @ @ @ @ @ @

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson are going the way of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis:
The question included a “not sure” response. It was selected by 22% of those surveyed, so these figures are conservative estimates of deconstruction sentiments. Only 25% of blacks definitively oppose the statues being removed.
In the aughts through the first half of the 2010s, it was commonly asserted in free-thinking forums that blacks were losing their place of prominence as America’s predominant minority. Numerically surpassed by Hispanics and outperformed by America’s rapidly growing Asian population, blacks were being forced to settle into becoming just another member of the coalition. Black concerns became POC problems. Blacks had managed to narrowly push Hillary Clinton past Bernie Sanders in 2016, but by 2020 his progressive coalition of whites, Hispanics, and Asians would carry the day against stubborn black support for the hidebound moderate.
That clearly has not been the case. What blacks want, blacks get. These statues are coming down. All of them. Never mind Stone Mountain being sandblasted—Mount Rushmore is getting wiped clean.
Forget The 1619 Project. That’s going in the wrong direction. The 1965 Project or even The 2008 Project is more apropos.
If it’s any consolation, when synthetic meat is ubiquitous in fifty years, everyone alive today will be made reprobate. Not even the legacies of vegans will be safe—after all, they tolerated a society that permitted the consumption of animal flesh. That’s inexcusable. Who cares if Elon Musk made it to Mars? He ate steak. After that, what forgiveness?


vdare--2020-07-03--World War Hair Update: U.S. Authorities Seize 13 Tons of Weaves Harvested from Uighur Hair Slaves

U.S. authorities seize weaves suspected to be made of hair taken from people locked in Chinese internment camps PUBLISHED THU , JUL 2 202012:34 AM The Associated Press Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp .
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials told The Associated Press that 13 tons ( 11.8 metric tonnes ) of hair products worth an estimated $ 800,000 were in the shipment… .
Rushan Abbas , a Uighur American activist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went missing in China almost two years ago and is believed to be locked in a detention camp , said women who use hair weaves should think about who might be making them .
“ This is so heartbreaking for us , ” she said .
“ I want people to think about the slavery people are experiencing today .
My sister is sitting somewhere being forced to make what , hair pieces ?
” … I & I ’ s weaves are sold under the Innocence brand to salons and individuals around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are in China ’ s far west Xinjiang region , where , over the past four years , the government has detained an estimated 1 million or more ethnic Turkic minorities .
The ethnic minorities are held in internment camps and prisons where they are subjected to ideological discipline , forced to denounce their religion and language and physically abused .
China has long suspected the Uighurs , who are mostly Muslim , of harboring separatist tendencies because of their distinct culture , language and religion .
… It was unclear whether the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but former detainees in other parts of Xinjiang have described being shuttled to work in fenced , guarded compounds during the day and taken back to internment camps at night .

From CNBC:
U.S. authorities seize weaves suspected to be made of hair taken from people locked in Chinese internment camps
PUBLISHED THU, JUL 2 202012:34 AM
The Associated Press
Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials told The Associated Press that 13 tons (11.8 metric tonnes) of hair products worth an estimated $800,000 were in the shipment….
Rushan Abbas, a Uighur American activist whose sister, a medical doctor, went missing in China almost two years ago and is believed to be locked in a detention camp, said women who use hair weaves should think about who might be making them.
“This is so heartbreaking for us,” she said. “I want people to think about the slavery people are experiencing today. My sister is sitting somewhere being forced to make what, hair pieces?”
… I & I’s weaves are sold under the Innocence brand to salons and individuals around the U.S.
Both of the exporters are in China’s far west Xinjiang region, where, over the past four years, the government has detained an estimated 1 million or more ethnic Turkic minorities.
The ethnic minorities are held in internment camps and prisons where they are subjected to ideological discipline, forced to denounce their religion and language and physically abused. China has long suspected the Uighurs, who are mostly Muslim, of harboring separatist tendencies because of their distinct culture, language and religion.
… It was unclear whether the factory was part of a detention center, but former detainees in other parts of Xinjiang have described being shuttled to work in fenced, guarded compounds during the day and taken back to internment camps at night.


vdare--2020-07-03--Epstein Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Finally Arrested

In New Hampshire , of all places .
I was hoping that her years of fundraising for oceanographic research meant @ @ @ @ @ the bottom of the ocean in one of those little scientific subs .
I must @ @ @ @ @ lost the thread on this story .

Earlier, by Ann Coulter: Media Magic—How Democrat Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Became A 'Trump Scandal'
In New Hampshire, of all places.
I was hoping that her years of fundraising for oceanographic research meant she was hiding out at the bottom of the ocean in one of those little scientific subs.
I must admit that I’ve lost the thread on this story.


vdare--2020-07-03--Tory Denounces Monkey Labour

Tory Denounces Monkey Labour

Stop selling products that use monkey labour : UK PM ’ s fiancee tells retailers JULY 3 , 2020 / @ @ @ @ @ HOUR AGO LONDON ( Reuters ) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson ’ s fiancee Carrie @ @ @ @ @ by four British retailers to stop selling products that use monkey labour in their production @ @ @ @ @ do the same .
“ Glad Waitrose , Co-op 42DE.L , Boots ( WBA.O ) @ @ @ @ @ have vowed not to sell products that use monkey labour , while Morrisons ( MRW.L @ @ @ @ @ from its stores , ” Symonds said on her twitter account .
She called on @ @ @ @ @ the same .
“ I ’ m told Asda ( WMT.N ) , Tesco ( @ @ @ @ @ s ( SBRY.L ) STILL sell such products , ” she said .

From Reuters:
Stop selling products that use monkey labour: UK PM’s fiancee tells retailers
JULY 3, 2020 / 1:03 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancee Carrie Symonds on Friday welcomed pledges by four British retailers to stop selling products that use monkey labour in their production and called on others to do the same.
“Glad Waitrose, Co-op 42DE.L, Boots (WBA.O) & Ocado (OCDO.L) have vowed not to sell products that use monkey labour, while Morrisons (MRW.L) has already removed these from its stores,” Symonds said on her twitter account.
She called on all other supermarkets to do the same.
“I’m told Asda (WMT.N) , Tesco (TSCO.L) & Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) STILL sell such products,” she said.


vdare--2020-06-29--Girdusky & Hill: Elite Arrogance Created Trump/Brexit Moment—And They’re STILL Arrogant. What Next?

Earlier : Eatwell and Goodwin ’ s NATIONAL POPULISM—The Revolt Is Real , And Reasonable You need not be an astute political observer to know that 2016 was a seminal event in world history .
In the United Kingdom , more than 17 million Britons voted to exit the European Union .
The Brexit vote prevailed 52 percent to 48 .
Then Americans elected Donald Trump , a bombastic real estate tycoon who vowed to build a border wall with Mexico , ban immigration from Muslim-majority countries , and end wars and quixotic nation-building exercises in the Middle East and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Girdusky and Harlan Hill show in They ’ re Not Listening : How the Elites Created the Nationalist Populist Revolution , years of anger and the absolute refusal of global elites to listen to their working and middle class citizens fomented those cataclysmic political events .
attempts to characterize nationalist populism and provide an historical overview of its global appeal .
Neither Girdusky nor Hill is a historian ; in fact , both men are college dropouts ( like Bill Gates ! )
who have turned to journalism and political consultancy .
Hill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but things changed for him when he realized that the Democrats were not the party of working people , but rather the party of Woke white liberals in what author Michael Lind calls , in his book The New Class War , America ’ s hub cities ( think New York , Boston , and Silicon Valley ) .
Now both men are trying to rally the Republican Party to the side of nationalist populism .
What is nationalist populism exactly ?
They ’ re Not Listening answers that question in each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On economics , nationalist populism is centrist ; the ideology is “ supportive of protecting industries like manufacturing , mining , and logging , support [ s ] a welfare state that helps young families and seniors , and [ is ] skeptical of free trade and globalism.
” The libertarian center-right calls many of these measures socialist , while the neoliberal center-left cries “ fascism.
” But whatever they ’ re called , nationalist populist economics are popular with the majority of the American ( and European ) electorate .
• On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hill argue that nationalist populism rejects the “ neoconservative worldview ” that demands the United States invade the world-invite the world .
Terrorism and crime would be dealt with via internal security measures such as expanded police forces or the deployment of US soldiers on the country ’ s borders .
• Most important is curtailing immigration—legal and illegal—which takes up most of the book .
Girdusky and Hill show that Americans have voiced their opposition to mass immigration since the 1970s , but the Ruling Class elites in both parties have arrogantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just an American problem .
Illegal Congolese immigration in Angola , the authors report , inspired Angolan voters to press for deportations .
The refugee inundation of Europe , which began after ill-conceived military adventurism in Libya and Syria by the West , led to the rise of nationalist populist parties in the UK , Germany , France , the Netherlands , and even super-tolerant Sweden .
Brazil and Chile have seen similar reactions too , even despite significantly smaller illegal immigrant populations .
While illegal immigration inspires easy soundbites , Girdusky and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to press for more restrictions on legal immigration—which VDARE has advocated from its beginning .
Legal immigration to the United States , not illegal immigration , has led to the greatest peacetime demographic change in world history .
Mass immigration weakens social trust between citizens along inter-racial and intra-racial lines .
Mass immigration , legal and illegal , depresses wages for native-born American workers .
The only people it benefits : large corporations and economic sectors addicted to cheap labor .
The most vocal defenders of mass immigration are cosmopolitan elites who do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , such as de-industrialization , the loss of jobs and status , and increasing suicide and drug addiction rates .
Girdusky and Hill also point out that white liberal elites tend to be the most vocal supporters of immigration because , unlike every other demographic group , they have a negative perception of their own race .
This toxic combination of elite greed and self-loathing has done much to damage the social fabric of the United States .
They ’ re Not Listening is a clarion call for worldwide elites to listen to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t , then Chapter Nine provides a dire warning : The age of authoritarianism might be around the corner .
And it won ’ t be Trump ’ s fault but that of arrogant cosmopolitans .
They ’ re Not Listening is far from a perfect work .
It is riddled with grammatical and editorial errors ; the book ’ s jacket even features a blurb that misspells Girdusky ’ s name .
However , this is a well-researched polemic that features an astounding 689 footnotes .
It is also a clear-eyed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ timelier , although it written too early to address the Chinese Virus pandemic or the recent Floyd Hoax riots .
If for nothing else , They ’ re Not Listening must be applauded for trying to give Republicans a backbone and the courage to admit that yes , America has a unique culture and a unique people based on history , customs , and folkways .
It is not the sole creation of an 18th-century document .
And it can not necessarily be sustained by people from disparate backgrounds .
Jake Bowyer [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an American college student .

Earlier: Eatwell and Goodwin’s NATIONAL POPULISM—The Revolt Is Real, And Reasonable
You need not be an astute political observer to know that 2016 was a seminal event in world history. In the United Kingdom, more than 17 million Britons voted to exit the European Union. The Brexit vote prevailed 52 percent to 48. Then Americans elected Donald Trump, a bombastic real estate tycoon who vowed to build a border wall with Mexico, ban immigration from Muslim-majority countries, and end wars and quixotic nation-building exercises in the Middle East and Central Asia. As authors Ryan James Girdusky and Harlan Hill show in They’re Not Listening: How the Elites Created the Nationalist Populist Revolution, years of anger and the absolute refusal of global elites to listen to their working and middle class citizens fomented those cataclysmic political events.
They’re Not Listening attempts to characterize nationalist populism and provide an historical overview of its global appeal. Neither Girdusky nor Hill is a historian; in fact, both men are college dropouts (like Bill Gates!) who have turned to journalism and political consultancy. Hill began his public life as a Democrat, but things changed for him when he realized that the Democrats were not the party of working people, but rather the party of Woke white liberals in what author Michael Lind calls, in his book The New Class War, America’s hub cities (think New York, Boston, and Silicon Valley). Now both men are trying to rally the Republican Party to the side of nationalist populism.
What is nationalist populism exactly? They’re Not Listening answers that question in each one of its nine chapters.
On economics, nationalist populism is centrist; the ideology is “supportive of protecting industries like manufacturing, mining, and logging, support[s] a welfare state that helps young families and seniors, and [is] skeptical of free trade and globalism.”
The libertarian center-right calls many of these measures socialist, while the neoliberal center-left cries “fascism.” But whatever they’re called, nationalist populist economics are popular with the majority of the American (and European) electorate.
On national security and defense, Girdusky and Hill argue that nationalist populism rejects the “neoconservative worldview” that demands the United States invade the world-invite the world.
Terrorism and crime would be dealt with via internal security measures such as expanded police forces or the deployment of US soldiers on the country’s borders.
Most important is curtailing immigration—legal and illegal—which takes up most of the book.
Girdusky and Hill show that Americans have voiced their opposition to mass immigration since the 1970s, but the Ruling Class elites in both parties have arrogantly refused to listen.
Immigration is not just an American problem. Illegal Congolese immigration in Angola, the authors report, inspired Angolan voters to press for deportations. The refugee inundation of Europe, which began after ill-conceived military adventurism in Libya and Syria by the West, led to the rise of nationalist populist parties in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and even super-tolerant Sweden.
Brazil and Chile have seen similar reactions too, even despite significantly smaller illegal immigrant populations.
While illegal immigration inspires easy soundbites, Girdusky and Hill want nationalist populist politicians and supporters to press for more restrictions on legal immigration—which VDARE has advocated from its beginning. Legal immigration to the United States, not illegal immigration, has led to the greatest peacetime demographic change in world history. Mass immigration weakens social trust between citizens along inter-racial and intra-racial lines. Mass immigration, legal and illegal, depresses wages for native-born American workers. The only people it benefits: large corporations and economic sectors addicted to cheap labor.
The most vocal defenders of mass immigration are cosmopolitan elites who do not feel the negative effects of it, such as de-industrialization, the loss of jobs and status, and increasing suicide and drug addiction rates.
Girdusky and Hill also point out that white liberal elites tend to be the most vocal supporters of immigration because, unlike every other demographic group, they have a negative perception of their own race. This toxic combination of elite greed and self-loathing has done much to damage the social fabric of the United States.
They’re Not Listening is a clarion call for worldwide elites to listen to their voters. If they don’t, then Chapter Nine provides a dire warning:
If national populists don’t rise through normal democratic means, then they will gravitate to strong men who promise to completely dismantle the current economic and political system.
The age of authoritarianism might be around the corner. And it won’t be Trump’s fault but that of arrogant cosmopolitans.
They’re Not Listening is far from a perfect work. It is riddled with grammatical and editorial errors; the book’s jacket even features a blurb that misspells Girdusky’s name.
However, this is a well-researched polemic that features an astounding 689 footnotes. It is also a clear-eyed and brave book that couldn’t be timelier, although it written too early to address the Chinese Virus pandemic or the recent Floyd Hoax riots.
If for nothing else, They’re Not Listening must be applauded for trying to give Republicans a backbone and the courage to admit that yes, America has a unique culture and a unique people based on history, customs, and folkways.
It is not the sole creation of an 18th-century document. And it cannot necessarily be sustained by people from disparate backgrounds.
Jake Bowyer [Email him] is the pseudonym of an American college student.


vdare--2020-07-02--Happy Independence Day—“Juneteenth” For The Historic American Nation!

Recently the Zman said on his podcast This is a great point .
Back before the Civil War , escaped slave Frederick Douglass asked `` What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ? ''
His answer : not much .
And to the slaves ’ descendants , apparently , less .
We might now ask `` What To The White Man , Is Juneteenth ? ''
Juneteenth , as many people have only recently learned , is the day , two months after the surrender at Appomattox , that slaves in Texas finally learned , from Federal troops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and they were now free , thanks to the wartime 13th Amendment .
( Not the Emancipation Proclamation—that applied only to slaves in states that were in rebellion , so that , for a brief bizarre period , one person legally enslaved in places where General Grant was campaigning was a maid owned by Mrs. General Grant , who often accompanied her husband and was not required to free her slave because she herself was not a rebel ) .
It 's clear that Juneteenth is about black people .
That allows us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July , like most of American history , is about white people .
Although black people refuse to accept it , most of American history ( including the Civil War ) is not about them .
This is the whole point of the New York Times ’ s much-refuted , but not withdrawn or apologized for “ 1619 Project ” .
Their idea—their crazy idea—is that the American colonists only rebelled against Britain because they could see into the future , and realized that 19th Century Britain would become abolitionist , and free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may , one of the reasons many blacks have been refusing to stand for the anthem is that they ’ re not loyal to the United States of America because the Historic American Nation is white .
Now there ’ s a plan to play “ Lift Every Voice And Sing ” , known—unofficially—as the Black National Anthem , at NFL football games .
Black conservative Jon Miller jokes about it here : However , if you go to black events , at say , a black church , or a “ Historically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hear a lot of “ Lift Every Voice ” .
Written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 , it was promoted in 1919 by the New York Branch of the NAACP as the “ Negro National Anthem ” .
The NBA played it two years ago during Black History Month [ Several NBA Teams Celebrated Black History Month By Playing ‘ Negro National Anthem ’ At Games , by Warner Todd Huston , Breitbart , March 1 , 2018 ] .
It ’ s also the unofficial anthem of what ’ s left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said on Twitter “ I can ’ t wait until the NFL figures out nobody black knows the second verse of Lift Every Voice and Sing.
” This is probably true , although many white people don ’ t know all the verses of the “ Star-Spangled Banner ” —which contains no reference , as I ’ ve explained , to American black slavery .
The first verse of “ Lift Every Voice And Sing “ ends with “ Let us march on ’ til victory is won ” , which makes you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The third verse is unacceptably religious in 21st century America , and ends on what is probably an unacceptably patriotic note for 21st century black America .
Emphasis added .
The “ native land ” , here , is America .
Black Americans whose ancestors have been in America since before the Civil War do have some claim to be natives in ways that Mexican immigrant , and even modern African and West Indian immigrants s do not .
However , it is increasingly clear that , with a few honorable exceptions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all .
The late Sam Francis covered this in two columns Dismantling America ( contd . )
: Guess What Flag 's Not Coming To Dinner ( it was the American flag , that a black legislator refused to salute ) and Enemies , Not Friends , Of Confederate Flag Want War , May 5 , 2000 .
In the latter column , Sam wrote about NAACP activists who would chant `` Your Heritage Is Our Slavery '' at anti-Confederate flag demonstrations .
That , broadly was the position of the Reverend Jeremiah @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's more or less why Muhammad Ali refused to fight for his country in the Vietnam War .
It 's even the default position of Michelle Obama , who said , as her husband approached victory in the primaries , `` for the first time in my adult life , I am proud of my country . ''
Of course it wasn ’ t the official position of Barack Obama—at least as long as he was running for President and needed white voters .
But if black Americans , as Thomas Jefferson said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monument , “ that the two races , equally free , can not live in the same government ” and if they hate America , the past , Jefferson himself , George Washington , and the Fourth of July , then let them have Juneteenth .
And let legacy Americans enjoy their own Independence Day—White People ’ s Independence Day .
John Adams , who was one of those white Founders are now threatened , said Independence Day should be celebrated with `` solemnized with pomp and parade , with shows , games @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bonfires and illuminations . ''
The striking thing is that he predicted this with such confidence on July 3 , 1776 , just after they 'd voted for the Declaration , and before they ’ d even started the War of Independence .
He was right , and his posterity can continue to triumph and see “ rays of light and glory ” if they can remember , once more , that “ the end is worth more than all the means.
” Happy Independence Day from your friends at VDARE.com !
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Recently the Zman said on his podcast
Next weekend is White-People Independence Day, you know if Juneteenth is Black People Independence Day, well, that means that we get to claim July 4th as our Independence Day. So we'll call it White Independence Day, you know, “WID.” Letters To The Underground, June 26, 2020
This is a great point. Back before the Civil War, escaped slave Frederick Douglass asked "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" His answer: not much. And to the slaves’ descendants, apparently, less.
We might now ask "What To The White Man, Is Juneteenth?"
Juneteenth, as many people have only recently learned, is the day, two months after the surrender at Appomattox, that slaves in Texas finally learned, from Federal troops, that the Confederacy had lost, and they were now free, thanks to the wartime 13th Amendment. (Not the Emancipation Proclamation—that applied only to slaves in states that were in rebellion, so that, for a brief bizarre period, one person legally enslaved in places where General Grant was campaigning was a maid owned by Mrs. General Grant, who often accompanied her husband and was not required to free her slave because she herself was not a rebel.)
It's clear that Juneteenth is about black people. That allows us to be clear that the Fourth of July, like most of American history, is about white people. Although black people refuse to accept it, most of American history (including the Civil War) is not about them.
This is the whole point of the New York Times’s much-refuted, but not withdrawn or apologized for “1619 Project.” Their idea—their crazy idea—is that the American colonists only rebelled against Britain because they could see into the future, and realized that 19th Century Britain would become abolitionist, and free their slaves.
Be that as it may, one of the reasons many blacks have been refusing to stand for the anthem is that they’re not loyal to the United States of America because the Historic American Nation is white.
Now there’s a plan to play “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” known—unofficially—as the Black National Anthem, at NFL football games.
Black conservative Jon Miller jokes about it here:
However, if you go to black events, at say, a black church, or a “Historically” black college, you’ll hear a lot of “Lift Every Voice”. Written by James Weldon Johnson in 1900, it was promoted in 1919 by the New York Branch of the NAACP as the “Negro National Anthem.” The NBA played it two years ago during Black History Month [Several NBA Teams Celebrated Black History Month By Playing ‘Negro National Anthem’ At Games, by Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart, March 1, 2018]. It’s also the unofficial anthem of what’s left of Detroit.
Black Trump-hater Jemele Hill said on Twitter “I can’t wait until the NFL figures out nobody black knows the second verse of Lift Every Voice and Sing.” This is probably true, although many white people don’t know all the verses of the “Star-Spangled Banner”—which contains no reference, as I’ve explained, to American black slavery.
The first verse of “Lift Every Voice And Sing “ends with “Let us march on ’til victory is won,” which makes you ask “Victory over who?” The third verse is unacceptably religious in 21st century America, and ends on what is probably an unacceptably patriotic note for 21st century black America.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
Emphasis added. The “native land”, here, is America. Black Americans whose ancestors have been in America since before the Civil War do have some claim to be natives in ways that Mexican immigrants, and even modern African and West Indian immigrants do not. However, it is increasingly clear that, with a few honorable exceptions, most black Americans are not patriotic at all.
The late Sam Francis covered this in two columns, Dismantling America (contd.): Guess What Flag's Not Coming To Dinner (it was the American flag, that a black legislator refused to salute) and Enemies, Not Friends, Of Confederate Flag Want War, May 5, 2000.
In the latter column, Sam wrote about NAACP activists who would chant "Your Heritage Is Our Slavery" at anti-Confederate flag demonstrations.
He wrote:
Of course, in saying that, they are actually saying that American blacks are not really part of American civilization, which is defined in large part by the heritage its past created. If all black Americans can see in the American past is their own slavery, oppression and exploitation, how can they claim to be part of the nation? And why would they want to be?
That, broadly was the position of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright (remember him?). It's more or less why Muhammad Ali refused to fight for his country in the Vietnam War. It's even the default position of Michelle Obama, who said, as her husband approached victory in the primaries, "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
Of course it wasn’t the official position of Barack Obama—at least as long as he was running for President and needed white voters.
But if black Americans, as Thomas Jefferson said in a clause notoriously censored from his monument, “that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government” and if they hate America, the past, Jefferson himself, George Washington, and the Fourth of July, then let them have Juneteenth.
And let legacy Americans enjoy their own Independence Day—White People’s Independence Day.
John Adams, who was one of those white Founders are now threatened, said Independence Day should be celebrated with "solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations."
The striking thing is that he predicted this with such confidence on July 3, 1776, just after they'd voted for the Declaration, and before they’d even started the War of Independence.
"You will think me transported with enthusiasm; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, blood, and treasure, that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States; yet through all the gloom I can see rays of light and glory; I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not."
He was right, and his posterity can continue to triumph and see “rays of light and glory” if they can remember, once more, that “the end is worth more than all the means.”
Happy Independence Day from your friends at VDARE.com!
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vdare--2020-07-04--NYT News Section: Hey, Remember Those Mostly Peaceful Protests in Minneapolis in May? Well, Actually

NYT News Section: Hey, Remember Those Mostly Peaceful Protests in Minneapolis in May? Well, Actually, They Were Mayhem

Earlier : `` Protest '' or `` Riot '' ?
Establishment Appears Increasingly Demented as It Tries to Mold the Narrative Some late-breaking news from the New York Times news desk : After George Floyd ’ s death , pent-up frustrations , provocateurs and inexperienced leadership led to mayhem for three nights .
Two days after George Floyd died , the police chief of Minneapolis called the mayor around dinnertime .
He needed help .
What had begun as peaceful protests outside the Third Police Precinct was turning into mayhem .
“ He said : ‘ The Target is getting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be able to handle this on our own , ’ ” recalled Mayor Jacob Frey , who called Gov .
Tim Walz and asked for the National Guard .
The governor said he would consider the request .
Afterward , he expressed surprise that city leaders did not seem to have a plan for where they wanted the soldiers to go .
As the night wore on , dozens of buildings burst into flames , without a fire crew in sight .
A six-story apartment building that was still under construction collapsed into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factory was set ablaze .
Residents called 911 desperate for help , but dispatchers were overwhelmed .
Over three nights , a five-mile stretch of Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage .
The police precinct house itself was set on fire , after the mayor gave orders to evacuate the building .
A month later , the city is still struggling to understand what happened and why : Not since the 1992 unrest in Los Angeles has an American city suffered such destructive riots .
The vast majority of protesters in Minneapolis , like others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and some tried to intervene to stop the destruction .
To many , the damage was an understandable response to years of injustice at the hands of the Minneapolis police , an explosion of anger that activists had warned was coming if the city did not reform law enforcement .
At the same time , it struck a close-knit , civic-minded community that was already struggling under the coronavirus pandemic .
Fires and looting destroyed hundreds of businesses , among them a worker-owned bicycle co-op , a historic diner run by a husband @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a nonprofit organization that works with Native American teens ... “ Once Frey comes out and basically sides with the protesters , he has sent the signal that the police are on their own , ” said Lawrence Jacobs , professor of public policy at the University of Minnesota .
“ If you are going to say something like that , you have to have a plan for what is going to happen , because you have now inflamed both sides of the issue .
”

Earlier: "Protest" or "Riot"? Establishment Appears Increasingly Demented as It Tries to Mold the Narrative
Some late-breaking news from the New York Times news desk:
‘They Have Lost Control’: Why Minneapolis Burned
After George Floyd’s death, pent-up frustrations, provocateurs and inexperienced leadership led to mayhem for three nights.
By Farah Stockman
July 3, 2020
Updated 8:27 p.m. ET
Two days after George Floyd died, the police chief of Minneapolis called the mayor around dinnertime. He needed help. What had begun as peaceful protests outside the Third Police Precinct was turning into mayhem.
“He said: ‘The Target is getting looted. We are not going to be able to handle this on our own,’” recalled Mayor Jacob Frey, who called Gov. Tim Walz and asked for the National Guard.
The governor said he would consider the request. Afterward, he expressed surprise that city leaders did not seem to have a plan for where they wanted the soldiers to go.
As the night wore on, dozens of buildings burst into flames, without a fire crew in sight. A six-story apartment building that was still under construction collapsed into a ball of fire. A high-tech factory was set ablaze. Residents called 911 desperate for help, but dispatchers were overwhelmed.
Over three nights, a five-mile stretch of Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage. The police precinct house itself was set on fire, after the mayor gave orders to evacuate the building. A month later, the city is still struggling to understand what happened and why: Not since the 1992 unrest in Los Angeles has an American city suffered such destructive riots.
The vast majority of protesters in Minneapolis, like others around the country, marched peacefully, and some tried to intervene to stop the destruction. To many, the damage was an understandable response to years of injustice at the hands of the Minneapolis police, an explosion of anger that activists had warned was coming if the city did not reform law enforcement.
At the same time, it struck a close-knit, civic-minded community that was already struggling under the coronavirus pandemic. Fires and looting destroyed hundreds of businesses, among them a worker-owned bicycle co-op, a historic diner run by a husband and wife, and the new headquarters of a nonprofit organization that works with Native American teens...
“Once Frey comes out and basically sides with the protesters, he has sent the signal that the police are on their own,” said Lawrence Jacobs, professor of public policy at the University of Minnesota. “If you are going to say something like that, you have to have a plan for what is going to happen, because you have now inflamed both sides of the issue.”


vdare--2020-07-03--Should Tucker Carlson Be President?

Should Tucker Carlson Be President?

Obviously , Tucker being President would be better for the USA than just about anybody else you can think of @ @ @ @ @ becoming President would probably be a demotion for Tucker .
Right now , he has @ @ @ @ @ gets paid handsomely to go on TV nightly and tell the truth .
Who else @ @ @ @ @ ?

Obviously, Tucker being President would be better for the USA than just about anybody else you can think of in that job …
But becoming President would probably be a demotion for Tucker. Right now, he has his Dream Job where he gets paid handsomely to go on TV nightly and tell the truth. Who else has a job like that?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-03--Ed West: "Don’t Kid Yourselves, This Isn’t 1968"

Today ’ s disturbances in the United States have drawn parallels with the French protests of 1968 , generally seen as the start of a great cultural shift in social mores .
It was the year of the sexual and cultural revolution when the baby-boomers came of age , and the conservative cultural dominance of the American , French and British elites were swept aside ( although in each case in a slightly different way ) .
… In contrast the 2020 protests , and the Great Awokening of which they are part of , have almost universal establishment approval @ @ @ @ @ @ @ favour is the police .
Perhaps most bizarrely , even health officials overturned their own advice about demonstrations in the middle of a deadly pandemic because racism is a “ public health crisis ” .
When Star Wars actor John Boyega bravely declares that “ I don ’ t know if I ’ m going to have a career after this ” because of his support for BLM , he can ’ t honestly think he ’ ll be blacklisted in Hollywood for voicing approval for something universally supported by America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people have lost their jobs just in the past few days for daring to question this progressive orthodoxy .
As Scott Alexander wrote of the Great Awokening , the student protests in American universities like Yale , Missouri and Evergreen were not young people protesting against society ’ s norms or values .
They were demanding that society adopts more of its norms , more stringently , and punishes people who disobey them .
They ’ re not saying ‘ Down with Stalin !
’ They ’ re saying ‘ we need two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Anti-racism is not just the norm in polite American society , it ’ s a religion .
The reason that we obsess over the idea of American racism is not because the country is more racist than other parts of the world , such as India , China or the Middle East , but because it ’ s obsessively less racist .
If you espouse conventional anti-racism , like Ta-Nehisi Coates , you get paid $ 41,500 to speak for 40 minutes and showered with plaudits and approval .
In contrast , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thinking , Steve Sailer , is relegated to a hugely obscure blog and has to beg readers to keep him going ; many mainstream conservatives read Sailer , but they don ’ t dare to reveal the fact .
If an actor admitted to it , he genuinely wouldn ’ t have a career .

From UnHerd:
Don’t kid yourselves, this isn’t 1968
BY ED WEST
Monday, 8 June 2020
Today’s disturbances in the United States have drawn parallels with the French protests of 1968, generally seen as the start of a great cultural shift in social mores. It was the year of the sexual and cultural revolution when the baby-boomers came of age, and the conservative cultural dominance of the American, French and British elites were swept aside (although in each case in a slightly different way). …
In contrast the 2020 protests, and the Great Awokening of which they are part of, have almost universal establishment approval. …
The only institution not in favour is the police.
Perhaps most bizarrely, even health officials overturned their own advice about demonstrations in the middle of a deadly pandemic because racism is a “public health crisis”. When Star Wars actor John Boyega bravely declares that “I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this” because of his support for BLM, he can’t honestly think he’ll be blacklisted in Hollywood for voicing approval for something universally supported by America’s elite?
In contrast a number of people have lost their jobs just in the past few days for daring to question this progressive orthodoxy. As Scott Alexander wrote of the Great Awokening, the student protests in American universities like Yale, Missouri and Evergreen were not young people protesting against society’s norms or values. They were demanding that society adopts more of its norms, more stringently, and punishes people who disobey them.
They’re not saying ‘Down with Stalin!’ They’re saying ‘we need two Stalins! No, 50 Stalins!’
Anti-racism is not just the norm in polite American society, it’s a religion. The reason that we obsess over the idea of American racism is not because the country is more racist than other parts of the world, such as India, China or the Middle East, but because it’s obsessively less racist.
If you espouse conventional anti-racism, like Ta-Nehisi Coates, you get paid $41,500 to speak for 40 minutes and showered with plaudits and approval. In contrast, perhaps the most interesting critic of mainstream thinking, Steve Sailer, is relegated to a hugely obscure blog and has to beg readers to keep him going; many mainstream conservatives read Sailer, but they don’t dare to reveal the fact. If an actor admitted to it, he genuinely wouldn’t have a career.
[Emphasis added.]


vdare--2020-07-03--Anarcho-Tyranny: White Woman Arrested, Husband Fired,  After Defending From Attack By Ranting Black

Anarcho-Tyranny: White Woman Arrested, Husband Fired,  After Defending From Attack By Ranting Black Females

As the altercation continues , the woman says from the passenger seat of the car : 'You ca n't just @ @ @ @ @ racist .
This is not that type of world .
White people are n't racist @ @ @ @ @ . '
As Hill continues to ask the woman why she bumped her daughter , @ @ @ @ @ care about you and I 'm sorry if you 've had an incident where someone @ @ @ @ @ that . '
The car window is wound up and the pair go to drive @ @ @ @ @ seen behind the car and appears to punch the vehicle 's back window .
It @ @ @ @ @ how Hill came to be behind the car .
According to Hill , she thought @ @ @ @ @ was attempting to hit them so she knocked on the back window of his SUV @ @ @ @ @ pair then emerge from the vehicle and the woman points a gun at her .

As the altercation continues, the woman says from the passenger seat of the car: 'You can't just walk around calling white people racist. This is not that type of world. White people aren't racist, no one is racist.'
As Hill continues to ask the woman why she bumped her daughter, she responds: 'I care about you and I'm sorry if you've had an incident where someone has made you feel like that.'
The car window is wound up and the pair go to drive away.
Hill is then seen behind the car and appears to punch the vehicle's back window. It is unclear from the video how Hill came to be behind the car.
According to Hill, she thought the driver of the car was attempting to hit them so she knocked on the back window of his SUV to stop him.
The pair then emerge from the vehicle and the woman points a gun at her.


vdare--2020-07-03--Breaking: The "Smart Money" Is Actually Betting On Trump

I still doubt Donald Trump can win a second term , for reasons I have laid out at length in @ @ @ @ @ in my own powers of prediction took a jolt this week , though .
The @ @ @ @ @ an old friend , a super-smart and worldly guy who enjoys taking a gamble now @ @ @ @ @ what he wrote .
Quote : The bit I particularly like there is the last @ @ @ @ @ years of bobbing around the ocean in a lifeboat … but it beats sinking .
@ @ @ @ @ was the Flight 93 election , this one coming up will be the lifeboat election @ @ @ @ @ of bobbing about in static futility under Trump , or getting eaten alive by anti-white @ @ @ @

I still doubt Donald Trump can win a second term, for reasons I have laid out at length in previous podcasts. My confidence in my own powers of prediction took a jolt this week, though.
The jolt came via email from an old friend, a super-smart and worldly guy who enjoys taking a gamble now and then. Here is what he wrote. Quote:
I just took a quick look at the election odds. I was hoping Trump would look like a long shot and I could put down a few hundred bucks and make some money. I discovered that he's favored to win on every single online gambling site—from a five percent to a forty-five percent advantage over Biden.
It's one of the axioms of my life that if you want to know what people think, ignore what they say, and watch what they do. Apparently anyone who wants to do something—wager actual cash— thinks Trump will win. Which would mean four more years of bobbing around the ocean in a lifeboat, but it beats sinking.
The bit I particularly like there is the last sentence: "four more years of bobbing around the ocean in a lifeboat … but it beats sinking." Exactly.
If 2016 was the Flight 93 election, this one coming up will be the lifeboat election: either four more years of bobbing about in static futility under Trump, or getting eaten alive by anti-white, anti-American sharks.


vdare--2020-07-04--John Derbyshire:  More Signs The Black-Jewish Coalition Is Fraying

Earlier , by Steve Sailer : The Coalition of the Fringes Holds a Muslim-Jewish Encounter Session .
It Does n't Go Well .
[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] My June Diary included the following observation : That was inspired by reading , in my June 27th New York Post , about a nasty little spat between the New York City Police Department 's detectives union and 56 Bronx prosecutors—assistant district attorneys , to be precise .
[ NYPD detectives ’ union outraged over Bronx ADAs ’ letter over protest conduct , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 ] These 56 prosecutors—35 named and 21 anonymous—sent a joint letter to their boss , Bronx DA Darcel Clark [ Tweet her ] ( a black lady , right ) urging the DA to make `` an unequivocal condemnation of the [ police department 's ] unwarranted use of violence . ''
One other prosecutor , name of Paul Rosenfeld , published a dissenting letter describing the police officers he 's worked with across 39 years as , quote , `` decent , hard-working , and committed . ''
[ JPG ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : • First , to complain about the police using violence is absurd .
Policing necessarily entails violence .
It 's a violent profession .
How is a police officer supposed to arrest a refractory suspect , other than by applying violence ?
The police need to conduct themselves in a professional and disciplined way , of course , and almost always do .
The occasional exceptions get punished , often more than the offense justifies [ Daniel Pantaleo , Officer Who Held Eric Garner in Chokehold , Is Fired , by Ashley @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 ] To pretend that police work can be done without violence , though , is absurd .
When there is a fatal outcome for the refractory perp , you always hear someone say or tweet : `` It 's not a capital crime to sell cigarettes without a license , '' or `` … pass a counterfeit bill , '' or whatever it was the perp was getting arrested for .
This one was a response to the St. Louis couple who came out on their porch with guns after a BLM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obvious answer to that is : `` No .
It 's also not a capital crime in any jurisdiction to fall asleep on the railroad tracks .
If you do so , though , and the outcome is fatal , no-one 's at fault but yourself . ''
• One more thing to be said : That dissenting prosecutor in New York , name of Paul Rosenfeld , 39 years on the job .
There 's an age gap there .
The 56 prosecutors complaining to the Bronx DA about police violence all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than that .
Says Paul DiGiacomo , right , the president of the detectives union in an angry rebuttal letter to that same DA , quote : There may be another gap in play here , too .
The dissenting prosecutor , Paul Rosenfeld , is plainly Jewish .
Steve Sailer has noted that : That 's a good point .
Black Lives Matter , and the Antifa likewise , ca n't resist throwing in with their calls to end white supremacy and defund the police .
[ WATCH : Black Lives Matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You , You Murder Children , Too ’ , by Hank Berrien , Daily Wire , July 2nd , 2020 ] For keeping the media on your side , guys , this is not good strategy .
John Derbyshire [ email him ] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets .
( This no longer includes National Review , whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him . )
He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published by VDARE.com com : FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT ( also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
For years he ’ s been podcasting at Radio Derb , now available at VDARE.com for no charge .
His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com .
Readers who wish to donate ( tax deductible ) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire 's writings at VDARE.com can do so here .

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: The Coalition of the Fringes Holds a Muslim-Jewish Encounter Session. It Doesn't Go Well.
[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
My June Diary included the following observation:
That was inspired by reading, in my June 27th New York Post, about a nasty little spat between the New York City Police Department's detectives union and 56 Bronx prosecutors—assistant district attorneys, to be precise [NYPD detectives’ union outraged over Bronx ADAs’ letter over protest conduct, by Rebecca Rosenberg, June 26, 2020].
These 56 prosecutors—35 named and 21 anonymous—sent a joint letter to their boss, Bronx DA Darcel Clark [Tweet her](a black lady, right) urging the DA to make "an unequivocal condemnation of the [police department's] unwarranted use of violence."
One other prosecutor, name of Paul Rosenfeld, published a dissenting letter describing the police officers he's worked with across 39 years as, quote, "decent, hard-working, and committed." [JPG]
A couple of things about all that:
First, to complain about the police using violence is absurd. Policing necessarily entails violence.
It's a violent profession. How is a police officer supposed to arrest a refractory suspect, other than by applying violence?
The police need to conduct themselves in a professional and disciplined way, of course, and almost always do. The occasional exceptions get punished, often more than the offense justifies [Daniel Pantaleo, Officer Who Held Eric Garner in Chokehold, Is Fired, by Ashley Southall, NYT, August 19, 2019 ] To pretend that police work can be done without violence, though, is absurd.
When there is a fatal outcome for the refractory perp, you always hear someone say or tweet: "It's not a capital crime to sell cigarettes without a license," or "… pass a counterfeit bill," or whatever it was the perp was getting arrested for.
This one was a response to the St. Louis couple who came out on their porch with guns after a BLM mob broke down their gates.
The obvious answer to that is: "No. It's also not a capital crime in any jurisdiction to fall asleep on the railroad tracks. If you do so, though, and the outcome is fatal, no one's at fault but yourself."
One more thing to be said: That dissenting prosecutor in New York, name of Paul Rosenfeld, 39 years on the job.
There's an age gap there. The 56 prosecutors complaining to the Bronx DA about police violence all have way less time on the job than that. Says Paul DiGiacomo, right, the president of the detectives union in an angry rebuttal letter to that same DA, quote:
Most of the signatures on that letter [the letter, that is, from the 56 prosecutors complaining about police violence] are from the class of 2019, which had a mere matter of months in your office before being quarantined. [PDF]
There may be another gap in play here, too. The dissenting prosecutor, Paul Rosenfeld, is plainly Jewish. Steve Sailer has noted that:
Two previous eras of black supremacist ideology—the late 1960s and the early 1990s—both came a cropper when they got too many Jews peeved at black anti-Semitism.
That's a good point. Black Lives Matter, and the Antifa likewise, can't resist throwing anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric in with their calls to end white supremacy and defund the police [WATCH: Black Lives Matter Protesters Shout ‘Israel, We Know You, You Murder Children, Too’, by Hank Berrien, Daily Wire, July 2nd, 2020].
It was only a matter of time before the DC protests turned anti-Semitic. pic.twitter.com/YTbwwGuOYh — Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) July 1, 2020
For keeping the media on your side, guys, this is not good strategy.
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-07-04--Bloomberg Business  "American Worker Got Fleeced" Story Doesn't Mention Immigration, May Not Be Abou

Bloomberg Business  "American Worker Got Fleeced" Story Doesn't Mention Immigration, May Not Be About Americans

Bloomberg Business 's sob story about how the `` American Worker '' got fleeced ( subtitle : '' Over the years , bosses have held down wages , cut benefits , and stomped on employees ’ rights .
Covid-19 may change that . ''
) does n't mention immigration in connection with falling wages .
[ How the American Worker Got Fleeced , by Josh Eidelson , Bloomberg Business , July 2 , 2020 ] We call these CTRL-F “ immigra ” stories , stories that ought to mention immigration , but do n't .
Whenever I see an article @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Workers Without Much Education Are Being Hammered '' , I immediately CTRL-F to see if the character string “ immigra ” appears anywhere in the piece , because that allows me to instantly assess the rigor and honesty of the author .
About 80 to 90 % of the time , the words “ immigration ” or “ immigrant ” don ’ t appear .
If you want to try this , you might prefer the text string `` migr '' which will get `` migrant '' and `` emigrant '' as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5500 words about what the bosses are doing to American workers , and none of them have the text string `` migr '' .
On a hunch , I checked `` undocumented '' , and the undocumented are mentioned , but as part of the `` American '' workers who are getting stiffed .
U.S. courts have offered workers little relief .
Supreme Court rulings over the past couple decades have allowed companies to make warehouse workers wait in line for security checks without pay , even if it takes an hour a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their rights to join class-action lawsuits ; and refuse to pay undocumented workers who were illegally fired .
[ Emphasis added ] And of course , the article 's poster child is Gloria Machuca , a Hispanic minimum wager worker in Texas .
She 's earning $ 9.25 an hour , and is thus in favor of the fight to raise the minimum wage to $ 15.00 an hour .
Is she an `` American '' worker ?
Is she even a legal immigrant ?
She might be either , but do n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if she is n't .

Bloomberg Business's sob story about how the "American Worker" got fleeced (subtitle: "Over the years, bosses have held down wages, cut benefits, and stomped on employees’ rights. Covid-19 may change that.") doesn't mention immigration in connection with falling wages. [How the American Worker Got Fleeced, by Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Business, July 2, 2020] We call these CTRL-F “immigra” stories, stories that ought to mention immigration, but don't.
Steve Sailer wrote in 2015 that
Whenever I see an article with a headline like "Why American Workers Without Much Education Are Being Hammered," I immediately CTRL-F to see if the character string “immigra” appears anywhere in the piece, because that allows me to instantly assess the rigor and honesty of the author. About 80 to 90% of the time, the words “immigration” or “immigrant” don’t appear.
If you want to try this, you might prefer the text string "migr" which will get "migrant" and "emigrant" as well. Bloomberg's article has more than 5500 words about what the bosses are doing to American workers, and none of them have the text string "migr".
On a hunch, I checked "undocumented", and the undocumented are mentioned, but as part of the "American" workers who are getting stiffed.
U.S. courts have offered workers little relief. Supreme Court rulings over the past couple decades have allowed companies to make warehouse workers wait in line for security checks without pay, even if it takes an hour a day; compel employees to sign away their rights to join class-action lawsuits; and refuse to pay undocumented workers who were illegally fired. [Emphasis added]
And of course, the article's poster child is Gloria Machuca, a Hispanic minimum wager worker in Texas.
Workers without unions are working way more and getting way less. A great story from Bloomberg News.https://t.co/QARROHMrWY — Teamsters Local 25 Boston, M-I-T BARGAINING UNIT (@TeamstersM) July 4, 2020
She's earning $9.25 an hour, and is thus in favor of the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour. Is she an "American" worker? Is she even a legal immigrant? She might be either, but don't count on Bloomberg Business to tell you if she isn't.


vdare--2020-07-04--Trump's Speech Hated By People Who Hate America

Throughout his presidency , Mr. Trump has tried to bend events to his will , often using social media to drive home his alternate version of reality and , thanks to the power of repetition and the loyal support of his base , sometimes succeeding .
But the president ’ s attempt to drive deeper into the culture wars around a national holiday , during an intensifying health crisis that will not yield to his tactics , risked coming across as out of sync with the concerned mood of the country at a moment when his re-election campaign is struggling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advice , Times .
Here ’ s Trump ’ s list of new statues to be put up by July 4 , 2026 , the 250th anniversary of the country : Lincoln , Jefferson , George Washington , and Martin Luther King already have their own lavish memorials in Washington D.C. ( although King ’ s is pretty bad ) , but among the Founding Fathers , Franklin , Hamilton , Adams , and Madison are under-monumented in D.C.
I ’ d be open to adding Tom Paine for the left and , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right .
Clay is a giant who is hazy in the public ’ s mind , so that ’ s a good choice .
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B .
Du Bois would make a good pair since they didn ’ t agree on much .
The National Statuary Hall in the Capitol building doesn ’ t get all that much attention .
It has an eclectic collection of 100 statues chosen by each of the 50 states .
States are constantly kicking old statues out and replacing them with new statues .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ him in 2009 .
Utah is kicking out Philo T. Farnsworth in favor of some lady politician .

Breaking News: President Trump delivered a dark and divisive speech at Mount Rushmore, leaning into the culture wars and barely mentioning the pandemic.https://t.co/03WOgau4Zx — The New York Times (@nytimes) July 4, 2020
Another rotten speech, sparsely attended and delivered by some guy who slurs his words. — Jennifer Now at Threads Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 4, 2020
The NYT news section reported:
Throughout his presidency, Mr. Trump has tried to bend events to his will, often using social media to drive home his alternate version of reality and, thanks to the power of repetition and the loyal support of his base, sometimes succeeding. But the president’s attempt to drive deeper into the culture wars around a national holiday, during an intensifying health crisis that will not yield to his tactics, risked coming across as out of sync with the concerned mood of the country at a moment when his re-election campaign is struggling and unfocused.
Thanks for the campaign advice, Times.
Here’s Trump’s list of new statues to be put up by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the country:
“The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Daniel Boone, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Henry Clay, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, Christa McAuliffe, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, and Orville and Wilbur Wright.”
Lincoln, Jefferson, George Washington, and Martin Luther King already have their own lavish memorials in Washington D.C. (although King’s is pretty bad), but among the Founding Fathers, Franklin, Hamilton, Adams, and Madison are under-monumented in D.C. I’d be open to adding Tom Paine for the left and, say, Patrick Henry for the anti-Federalist right. Clay is a giant who is hazy in the public’s mind, so that’s a good choice. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois would make a good pair since they didn’t agree on much.
The National Statuary Hall in the Capitol building doesn’t get all that much attention. It has an eclectic collection of 100 statues chosen by each of the 50 states. States are constantly kicking old statues out and replacing them with new statues. Reagan has been in since California sent him in 2009. Utah is kicking out Philo T. Farnsworth in favor of some lady politician.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-07-04--Black Lives Splatter: the 3,218 Gunshots in Minneapolis in 2020 Are Double the Pace of 2019

Heather Mac Donald ’ s recent City Journal article on the second coming of the Ferguson Effect links to this Minneapolis Star-Journal article ShotSpotter was invented in 1992 by John C. Lahr , a seismologist in Silicon Valley , during the year that East Palo Alto was the Murder Capital of America .
Out of 3,218 such shots-fired calls this year , nearly half have been filed since George Floyd was killed on May 25 .
Through Tuesday , 190 people had been shot across Minneapolis .
That ’ s up 47 % from this time last year and significantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same time span , according to MPD data .
In one case that underscores how entrenched the problem is , authorities say a 17-year-old boy who was shot in the leg last week has been wounded in three shootings over the past month and a half .
OK , has he been shot 3 times or 4 times in the last month and a half ?
Heather read that as 4 times , but it might only be three .
The surge in gun violence is not confined to Minneapolis .
In St. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than doubled when compared to this time last year .
The first two weeks of June were particularly violent , as shots-fired calls quintupled from 2019 .
Thirty-one people in the capital city have been shot in the last month alone — a third of the year ’ s overall victim count .
Homicides are already on track to surpass 2019 ’ s all-time high in shooting deaths .
“ My fear is that this is just the beginning , ” said Steven Belton [ Right ] president of the Twin Cities Urban @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a quadruple shooting near Merwin ’ s Liquors in north Minneapolis .
“ Parents are overwhelmed , ” he said , likening the financial and emotional toll of COVID-19 to a “ pressure cooker.
” “ People are unemployed , stressed out because of that … looking for a way to release it.
” Thurman Barnes , assistant director of the New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research , a think tank based out of Rutgers University , said the ripple effects from Floyd ’ s death may have contributed to increasing violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Baltimore after the in-custody death of Freddie Gray in 2015 .
Floyd ’ s case , he pointed out , followed the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery in Kentucky and Georgia , respectively , two other widely publicized killings of African-Americans .
It ’ s almost as if each time the media hypes Black Lives Matter narratives , they wind up getting more blacks murdered by other blacks… … “ What they do is personal and it ’ s driven by social media , ” said Ramsey County undersheriff Mike @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Minnesota chapter of the Midwest Gang Investigators Association .
“ They ’ re still driving around selling dope on the street , but now they can wear face masks and not look out of place.
” Some youths appear emboldened by the ability to conceal their identities in public , Martin said , posting videos online flaunting cash and drugs , “ laughing like it ’ s a game of cops and robbers .
”

Heather Mac Donald’s recent City Journal article on the second coming of the Ferguson Effect links to this Minneapolis Star-Journal article
Gun violence soars amid crises of health, public trust, officer reluctance By LIBOR JANY AND LIZ SAWYER , STAR TRIBUNE STAFF
June 27, 2020 – 11:50 PM … So far this year, ShotSpotter activations and 911 calls about gunshots in Minneapolis have more than doubled from a year ago, according to a Star Tribune analysis of police data.
ShotSpotter was invented in 1992 by John C. Lahr, a seismologist in Silicon Valley, during the year that East Palo Alto was the Murder Capital of America.
Out of 3,218 such shots-fired calls this year, nearly half have been filed since George Floyd was killed on May 25. Through Tuesday, 190 people had been shot across Minneapolis. That’s up 47% from this time last year and significantly higher than the five-year average for the same time span, according to MPD data. In one case that underscores how entrenched the problem is, authorities say a 17-year-old boy who was shot in the leg last week has been wounded in three shootings over the past month and a half.
OK, has he been shot 3 times or 4 times in the last month and a half? Heather read that as 4 times, but it might only be three.
The surge in gun violence is not confined to Minneapolis. In St. Paul, reported firearm discharges have more than doubled when compared to this time last year. The first two weeks of June were particularly violent, as shots-fired calls quintupled from 2019. Thirty-one people in the capital city have been shot in the last month alone — a third of the year’s overall victim count. Homicides are already on track to surpass 2019’s all-time high in shooting deaths. “My fear is that this is just the beginning,” said Steven Belton [Right] president of the Twin Cities Urban League, while visiting the scene of a quadruple shooting near Merwin’s Liquors in north Minneapolis. “Parents are overwhelmed,” he said, likening the financial and emotional toll of COVID-19 to a “pressure cooker.” “People are unemployed, stressed out because of that … looking for a way to release it.” Thurman Barnes, assistant director of the New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research, a think tank based out of Rutgers University, said the ripple effects from Floyd’s death may have contributed to increasing violence in Minneapolis, much as it did in Baltimore after the in-custody death of Freddie Gray in 2015. Floyd’s case, he pointed out, followed the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery in Kentucky and Georgia, respectively, two other widely publicized killings of African-Americans.
It’s almost as if each time the media hypes Black Lives Matter narratives, they wind up getting more blacks murdered by other blacks…