vdare--2020-05-08--Denmark: World Leader in Restricting Immigration Intelligently

Much earlier by Steve Sailer: Scandinavia Fails To Collapse—Yet, March 2, 2003
From the New York Times opinion page:
McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us
Danes haven’t built a “socialist” country. Just one that works. By Nicholas Kristof, Opinion Columnist, May 8, 2020 … How scary is Denmark? How horrifying would it be if the United States took a step or two in the direction of Denmark? Would America lose its edge, productivity and innovation, or would it gain well-being, fairness and happiness? So, here, grab a Danish, and we’ll chat about how a [expletive] progressive country performs under stress. The pandemic interrupted my reporting, but I’d be safer if I still were in Denmark: It has had almost twice as much testing per capita as the United States and fewer than half as many deaths per capita. Put it this way: More than 35,000 Americans have already died in part because the United States could not manage the pandemic as deftly as Denmark. Denmark lowered new infections so successfully that last month it reopened elementary schools and day care centers as well as barber shops and physical therapy centers. Malls and shops will be allowed to reopen on Monday, and restaurants and cafes a week later. Moreover, Danes kept their jobs…. As a share of G.D.P., Denmark’s coronavirus relief spending is a bit less than America’s, but it seems more effective at protecting the population. … Some Americans cite Sweden as a model for coronavirus response because it has not imposed a major lockdown. But, in fact, Denmark, separated from Sweden by a bridge, has been far more successful: Denmark’s death rate from Covid-19 per million people is less than one-third of Sweden’s, and forecasters predict that Denmark’s economy will do better than Sweden’s this year.
I’ve also heard to the contrary. This seems like an important question.
… Americans assume that Danish wages must be high because of regulations, but Denmark has no national minimum wage, and it would be perfectly legal for a construction company or a corner pizzeria to hire workers at $5 an hour. Yet that doesn’t happen. The typical bottom market wage seems to be about $15 — about twice the federal minimum wage in the United States, a country with a roughly similar standard of living. Why is that? One reason is Denmark’s strong unions. More than 80 percent of Danish employees work under collective bargaining contracts, although strikes are rare. There is also “sectoral bargaining,” in which contracts are negotiated across an entire business sector — so in Denmark, McDonald’s and Burger King pay exactly the same — something that Joe Biden suggests the United States consider as well. Yet there’s another, more important reason for high wages in Denmark. “Workers are more productive” in Denmark, Lawrence Katz, a labor economist at Harvard, noted bluntly. “They have had access to more and higher-quality human capital investment opportunities starting at birth.” Think of it this way. Workers at McDonald’s outlets all over the world tend to be at the lower end of the labor force, say the 20th percentile. But Danish workers at the 20th percentile are high school graduates who are literate and numerate. In contrast, after half a century of underinvestment in the United States, many 20th-percentile American workers haven’t graduated from high school, can’t read well, aren’t very numerate, struggle with drugs or alcohol, or have impairments that reduce productivity.
From the CIA World Factbook:
Ethnic groups:
Danish (includes Greenlandic (who are predominantly Inuit) and Faroese) 86.3%, Turkish 1.1%, other 12.6% (largest groups are Polish, Syrian, German, Iraqi, and Romanian) (2018 est.)
note: data represent population by ancestry Languages:
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language Religions:
Evangelical Lutheran (official) 74.7%, Muslim 5.5%, other/none/unspecified (denominations of less than 1% each in descending order of size include Roman Catholic, Jehovah’s Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Pentecostal, and nondenominational Christian) 19.8% (2019 est.)
Back to Kristof:
… For all of Denmark’s successes, its model faces challenges. A central one is that the Danish system emerged from a homogeneous society with strong social trust, and some experts wonder whether Denmark can indefinitely sustain its high-wage, high-productivity economy as less-skilled immigrants stream in from poorer countries. Denmark compiled a heroic record resisting the Nazis to save most of its Jewish population in World War II, so it surprised me to encounter strong anti-immigrant feelings, even xenophobia.
It’s striking how much a gentile pundit like Kristof (of Armenian-Polish and Old American background from college town Oregon) uncritically absorbs the usually not-quite articulated Conventional Wisdom that immigration policy in 2020 is about being against Hitler.
Kristof doesn’t mention that Denmark has been the world leader since 2001 in implementing intelligent restrictions on mass immigration, including the current left of center government:
From the Associated Press via the Daily Mail:
Denmark’s immigration ministry declares it ‘wonderful’ that more migrants left the country than entered in 2019
It was the first time since 2011 that net migration was negative in the country
The main groups of people who left last year were Somalis, Syrians and Iraqis
The Danish Refugee Council says less people have been able to reach Denmark
By AP PUBLISHED: 11:04 EDT, 4 May 2020 Denmark’s immigration ministry says more migrants left Denmark in 2019 than entered, with the minister in charge of the matter calling the official figures ‘wonderful’. It was the first time since 2011 that net migration – the difference between immigration and emigration – was negative. Mattias Tesfaye said: ‘Whenever possible, it is only natural for refugees to travel back to their homeland. I am glad that we can give people protection while it is needed. But I’m also happy every time a refugee can return home’. Net immigration to Denmark has been falling since 2015. Last year, a net 730 people left the Scandinavian country of 5.8 million. … Denmark in recent times has grabbed international attention for its strict stand toward immigrants. The current Social Democratic minority government has taken a softer, albeit tough stance than the previous centre-right government that had the parliamentary support of the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party.
It’s almost as if Socialism Welfarism In One Nation is a viable policy, especially if it’s a nation of Danes. But Immigrationism Uber Alles is not.


vdare--2020-05-04--A Reader Objects To Being Told "All Serial Killers Are White"—Again

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From: An Offended Reader [Email him]
Here is a Sikh-American Portland comedian called Kabir Singh who posted a YouTube video with the title "Serial Killers Are Always White people?" promoting his comedy special with the line "Every serial killer is white, and Kabir Singh has proof."
If you use YouTube's procedure for flagging it the only option is "hate speech for a protected class of people." I have to assume that does not mean white people.
I think very little in comedy should be taboo, but demonizing whites with lies about white people murdering others has to be where a line is drawn as it will lead to bloodshed of innocent white people. I prefer you not use my ID or name, I just thought you would be interested.
James Fulford replies: I watched it, and Kabir Singh's argument is that all the serial killers he's seen in documentaries are white—which is probably true, but is the fault of documentary makers, who don't want to do films about the very common black serial killers, or Juan Corona, or Angel Maturino Resendiz, the Railway Killer.
His other claim is that because of police harassment, non-whites can't drive along the street, minding their own business, with a dead body in their trunk, without being stopped by the police for no reason. This isn't true, either.
See Myth Buster: Radford University Study Shows Since 1990, Blacks Have Been Majority of Serial Killers in USA, by Paul Kersey.


vdare--2020-05-09--Her Name Is Karina Vetrano: Remembering The White Female Jogger Murdered And Sexually Assaulted By

Her Name Is Karina Vetrano: Remembering The White Female Jogger Murdered And Sexually Assaulted By  A Black Male In Queens In 2016

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As running clubs across the nation, as well as individual joggers, take the streets to run a racially symbolic – a white guilt penance? – 2.23 miles (#IRunWithMaud) to show solidarity with the black male who died in Brunswick, Georgia, a story from just three years serves as a reminder white privilege is nothing more than a pernicious myth.
Karina Vetrano was a white woman who went out for a jog in her Queens (New York City) neighborhood. She never came home, as she was sexually assaulted and murdered by a black male.
Karina Vetrano: Where the case into the Queens jogger’s death stands now, AMNY.com, April 23, 2020 Chanel Lewis, the man convicted of murdering Karina Vetrano when she went for a run near her Howard Beach home on Aug. 2, 2016, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday. Vetrano was found strangled and sexually assaulted in a marshy area of Spring Creek Park, police said. More than six months later, on Feb. 5, 2017, police arrested Lewis, then 20 years old. He was charged with second-degree murder in connection with Vetrano’s death. In November, a jury could not agree on a verdict and a mistrial was declared. Lewis’ retrial ended April 1 when the jury returned a guilty verdict after five hours of deliberations. His defense attorneys motioned to toss the verdict, citing claims of jury misconduct, but a judge on Monday denied the request. Scroll down for more about Lewis and the investigation leading up to his arrest. The suspect Chanel Lewis confessed to committing Vetrano’s murder, according to his taped statements to police. His DNA, which he gave voluntarily to police, was matched to samples recovered from Vetrano’s neck, under her fingernails and on her cellphone, police said. Lewis was unemployed and lived with his mother in East New York when he was arrested, police said. He doesn’t have a criminal record, but police identified three quality-of-life summonses dating back to 2013 that Lewis received around the Howard Beach crime scene. Lewis became a possible suspect the first week of February 2017 when NYPD Lt. John Russo recalled a complaint from May 2016. In testimony, Russo said he had become suspicious when he saw Lewis wearing a hoodie and sweatpants on a hot day, looking at houses in Howard Beach. The next day, he saw Lewis pacing in a parking lot, and residents reported seeing a similarly dressed man carrying a crowbar and going in and out of backyards, he said. Russo called the local precinct and officers stopped Lewis. They didn’t find a crowbar and did not observe any crime, but took down his name and address, officials said. When investigators located the patrol report, they interviewed Lewis at his Essex Street home. During interviews, Lewis described a puddle near the location Vetrano’s body was found, which helped convince investigators that he was at the park the same time of her killing, a law enforcement source said. Lewis told police the alleged attack was impulsive, sparked by problems at home. “I never really meant to hurt her, it just happened,” he said. “I was just mad at that time. I beat her to let my emotions out.” Police said Lewis tried to complete a sex act but apparently didn’t. Lewis’ family has denied that he is capable of committing the murder and his defense attorneys argued that his confessions had been coerced. His lawyers also argued that the stop on May 31, 2016, that ultimately led to Lewis’ arrest, was based on a vague description that escalated to an improper detention, according to court filings. As a result, the DNA evidence and his confession are tainted, they said. Queens State Supreme Court Gregory Lasak rejected the argument that the stop was illegal and ruled on Feb. 26, 2018, that the evidence was admissible in the case.
No video of this murder exists, so it won’t be run 24/7 online, or on CNN, MSNBC, BET, or via Black Twitter to create an anti-white lynch demanding the concept of innocent until proven guilty in a court of law be retired for immediate, Old Testament-inspired expiation.
The name Karina Vetrano is one you’ve probably never encountered, but the name Ahmaud Arbery is being seared into your brain.
Karina Vetrano was a white female murdered by a black as she went for a jog; we are supposed to believe Ahmaud Arbery was going for jog, though he was wearing cargo shorts (again, John Cena is the only athlete to work out – or wrestle – in cargo shorts) and boots.
One final note on how Karina Vetrano fought for her life to the last breath:
Police said Vetrano was strangled to death and possibly sexually assaulted. She was face down with her teeth broken, scrapes on her legs and her sports bra and shorts pulled down, sources said. Police sources also said one of her hands was clutching grass, indicating she may have been dragged. Police said she was found 15 feet off the path. “This woman put up a ferocious fight right to the end,” Boyce said. Karina Vetrano “put up a ferocious fight” during her murder, NYPD says, CBS News, August 5, 2016
No running clubs across the nation, or even individual joggers, took to streets to run in the memory of Karina Vetrano, for her murder was just another black-on-white killing, the likes of which polite white people aren’t supposed to publicly acknowledge as ever occurring.
White people hoping to maintain their status in Black-Run America (BRA) must never, ever notice racial patterns in crime or give any hint to other whites they are aware of Karina Vetrano’s story.
The next time you go for a jog, do it in the memory of Karina.
Because if you don’t, no one else will. They’ll be too busy prattling on about Ahmaud Arbery.
Social policy in America should be based on the documented facts surrounding what happened to Karina Vetrano, not the highly suspect story being manufactured around the purportedly angelic (hunted down by stereotypical white southern rednecks for sport) Ahmaud Arbery.
Her name is Karina Vetrano.
Their Lives Matter Too.
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vdare--2020-05-09--Trump's Biggest Mistake: Not Quarantining NYC Area

From the New York Times science section:
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
The coronavirus outbreak in New York City became the primary source of infections around the United States, researchers have found.
By Benedict Carey and James Glanz
May 7, 2020
New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country.
The research indicates that a wave of infections swept from New York City through much of the country before the city began setting social distancing limits to stop the growth. That helped to fuel outbreaks in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and as far away as the West Coast.
The findings are drawn from geneticists’ tracking signature mutations of the virus, travel histories of infected people and models of the outbreak by infectious disease experts.
“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,” said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.
Early analysis of genetic samples indicates that more infections across the country came from a line of the virus associated with the outbreak in New York City, shown in red, than from a line associated with the outbreak in Washington State, shown in yellow.
The central role of New York’s outbreak shows that decisions made by state and federal officials — including waiting to impose distancing measures and to limit international flights — helped shape the trajectory of the outbreak and allowed it to grow in the rest of the country.
The city joins other densely populated urban hot spots around the world, starting with Wuhan, China, and then Milan, that have become vectors for the virus’s spread.
Travel from other American cities also sparked infections across the country, including from an early outbreak centered in the Seattle area that seeded infections in more than a dozen states, researchers say. Even if New York had managed to slow the virus, it probably would have continued to spread from elsewhere, they say.
But the Seattle outbreak proved to be a squall before the larger storm gathering in New York, where, at the end of February, thousands of infected people packed trains and restaurants, thronged tourist attractions and passed through its three major airports.
During crucial weeks in March, New York’s political leaders waited to take aggressive action, even after identifying hundreds of cases, giving the virus a head start. And by mid-March, when President Trump restricted travel from Europe, the restrictions were essentially pointless, the data suggest, as the disease was already spreading widely within the country.


vdare--2020-05-09--School Board Bans Book For "Anti-White Messaging."

An item here from the world of education—a non-crazy one, for a change.
The Matanuska-Susitna School Board in Palmer, Alaska has voted to ban five books from the list of approved texts for high school English teachers this fall. Among the five is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one of the seven, count 'em seven, autobiographies put out by the semiliterate black female windbag Maya Angelou, who went off to join the Choir Invisible six years ago.
The book was banned by this Alaska school board, quote from this Fox News report I'm reading, "because of a graphic description she wrote about being molested as a child and for 'anti-white' messaging."
I don't care about the self-reported molestation, which the old fraud probably made up anyway, but "anti-white messaging"? Hallelujah! In a town in the USA, in the Year of Our Lord 2020, a school board has banned a book for "anti-white messaging."
Is it too much to hope that they will proceed logically from here to banning the New York Times? Baby steps, baby steps.


vdare--2020-05-09--World's Smallest Violin: "For Disney, a Stricken Empire."

This news story I've filed away in the folder labeled "World's Smallest Violin."
It's from dnyuz.com, which is some kind of news aggregator website. Headline: For Disney, a Stricken Empire.
Disney is of course the Disney mega-corporation. The coronavirus lockdown has been devastating to them. Their fourteen theme parks are all padlocked; their eight movie studios are empty and silent. Mickey and Minnie are out there on Riverside Drive begging passers-by for scraps of cheese.
Cry me a river. This is the company that fired its computer staff and replaced them with cheap H-1B guest workers from India. Suck it down, you bastards.


vdare--2020-05-09--AP: No More Calling Kamala Harris Willie Brown's "Mistress"

From the Associated Press Stylebook:
We now say not to use the archaic and sexist term “mistress” for a woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion or lover on first reference. Provide details later.
Apparently, the AP thinks that Joe Biden is stuck with picking adventuress Kamala Harris for his Veep and wants to lock in that it was True Love that brought the youthful Kamala and the elderly Mayor Willie Brown together.
I’m looking forward to this because I have lots more dusty old Willie Brown anecdotes to retail. Willie looks like black Pepe the Frog. Here he is with Kamala’s umpteenth successor, Sonya Molodetskaya:
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vdare--2020-05-09--Bring Back Table 42!—Time For The Trump Administratio To Restore The DOJ's Black-On-White Crime Stat

Bring Back Table 42!—Time For The Trump Administratio To Restore The DOJ's Black-On-White Crime Statistics Page

See also: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/Murdered White Joggers?
James Fulford's article above mentioned Jared Taylor's statement in his article on the Arbery case, that a black person is nearly 30 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa.
On the subject of America's crime statistics, the current administration has done nothing to restore the famous Table 42 in the Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
If you don't know about Table 42, it is the one headed "Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender" in the "Victims and Offenders" list at the BJS web page "Criminal Victimization In The United States — Statistical Tables."
The data in it comes from the National Crime Victimizations Survey, which is conducted every year. So this is victim reports, nothing to do with arrests or convictions.
On Table 42 you can look up, for example, how many reports of rape and sexual assault there were in a year, broken out by the race of the victim and the perceived race of the offender. In 2008, for example, I see that 16.4 percent of the white victims of rape and sexual assault reported a black perp. That's around nineteen thousand victims.
How many black victims of rape and sexual assault reported a white perp? Well, Table 42 says zero. Only one household in three thousand gets sampled for this survey, though; so that zero just means the number reported is too small for the sampling math to get anything meaningful from.
With that and some other slight qualifications aside, Table 42 is a pretty nifty reference on interracial crime … Except that the "is" there should be "was": The Bureau of Justice stopped publishing Table 42 in, let me see … oh, 2008 was the last year. How strange!
The BJS still publishes tables from the NCVS data, but it seems that all sexual offenses have been thrown in under the general heading "violent victimization," with no separate tabs for the type of violence.
We can, of course, never know—nor even guess!—why that particular table, Table 42, was discontinued in that particular year. The public at large lost a useful source of information there, though. Will the present administration restore it to us? Or, if they will not, will they tell us why they will not?


vdare--2020-05-08--If Blacks Are More At Risk Of Dying From Coronavirus, Should They Be Ticketed More For Not Social Di

If Blacks Are More At Risk Of Dying From Coronavirus, Should They Be Ticketed More For Not Social Distancing?

Of course not. It’s racist for the police to encourage blacks to save their own lives when the more blacks die the more whites are to blame. From the New York Times news section:
Scrutiny of Social-Distance Policing as 35 of 40 Arrested Are Black
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the police had enforced rules properly, but other officials expressed concern about tactics similar to unfair “stop and frisk” practices. By Ashley Southall
Published May 7, 2020 … The arrests of black and Hispanic residents, several of them filmed and posted online, occurred on the same balmy days that other photographs circulated showing police officers handing out masks to mostly white visitors at parks in Lower Manhattan, Williamsburg and Long Island City. Video captured crowds of sunbathers, many without masks, sitting close together at a park on a Manhattan pier, uninterrupted by the police.
Just look at those telephoto shots!
On Thursday night, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office became the first prosecutor in the city to release statistics on social-distancing enforcement. In the borough, the police arrested 40 people for social-distancing violations from March 17 through May 4, the district attorney’s office said. Of those arrested, 35 people were black, four were Hispanic and one was white. More than a third of the arrests were made in the predominantly black neighborhood of Brownsville. No arrests were made in the more white Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope. Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has long denounced the unconstitutional “stop and frisk” practices of the Bloomberg administration, has found himself in recent days forced to explain why enforcement of social distancing in predominantly minority neighborhoods is different than “stop and frisk.” At a news conference on Thursday, Mr. de Blasio called the comparison false, saying that the two approaches had nothing in common. “What happened with stop and frisk was a systematic, oppressive, unconstitutional strategy that created a new problem much bigger than anything it purported to solve,” he said. “This is the farthest thing from that. This is addressing a pandemic. This is addressing the fact that lives are in danger all the time. By definition, our police department needs to be a part of that because safety is what they do.” After this story was published on Thursday night, Mr. de Blasio cited it on Twitter, describing summonses and arrests as a tool for “saving lives.” But he added: “The disparity in the numbers does NOT reflect our values. We HAVE TO do better and we WILL.”
It’s almost as if African-Americans tend to be gregarious and thus at risk.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-08--Is It Safer To Visit A Coffee Shop Or A Gym?

From the L.A. Times:
First Californian to get coronavirus in community spread was infected at a nail salon, Newsom says By PHIL WILLON STAFF WRITER
MAY 7, 20205:12 PM SACRAMENTO — The first person in California to contract the coronavirus through community spread caught the virus in a nail salon, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday. Newsom cited the case when asked why personal services, such as nail salons, must remain closed even as the state starts to slowly open businesses. “This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community spread, in a nail salon. I just want to remind everybody of that and that I’m very worried about that,” Newsom said during his daily COVID-19 briefing in Sacramento. Newsom said the transmission of the virus occurred despite the fact that most nail salons already had safeguards in place before the coronavirus hit, including the use of face masks and gloves. He did not provide further details, including when the exposure occurred and where.
In other words, the governor is presumably violating some rule about privacy of tracing results.
My feeling is, however, that researchers should be allowed to get their hands on track-and-trace files because they ought to be highly useful at informing the public about which places are more and which are less risky. Don’t just rely on the first case, look at one thousand (or more) cases. Publish the results.
For example, here is an NYT piece with some fun graphics:
Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?
By Katherine Baicker, Oeindrila Dube, Sendhil Mullainathan, Devin Pope and Gus Wezerek
MAY 6, 2020
Using anonymized cellphone location data from April 2019, we can measure how crowded businesses get. Each bubble on the chart represents a business. Larger bubbles have more locations and customers. https://t.co/ApQ5Oulv7P pic.twitter.com/vb8CZVXpJS — New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) May 6, 2020
Unfortunately, they just don’t know. They are making up theories like places where you touch stuff a lot are more dangerous than places where you don’t. But what if the virus is spread more by breathing or talking or laughing or breathing hard or singing? What about places where you can’t wear a mask? You can wear a mask at a gym but it’s hard to wear a mask at a coffee shop.
Let’s get some data.
Knowledge is good.
[Comment at Unz.com]


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vdare--2020-05-07--Was Le Corbusier's Anti-Density Modernism a Reaction to Disease?

Down through history, cities were usually “demographic sinks,” meaning that the population generally didn’t reproduce itself, dying off faster than it bred, requiring replacement from the healthier countryside. For example, Rome today is populated less by the descendants of the residents of Rome in 1 AD than by the descendants of country folk from adjoining rural areas.
At the moment, low density living and private vehicles seem to be healthier than high density living and mass transit.
Here’s an interesting argument from the NYT opinion page that changes in 20th Century architectural and urban planning taste were driven by the waxing and waning of fears of infection:
Will You Want to Go Straight Back Into the Crowd?
Planners once dreamed of cities with vast empty plazas and quiet streets. Post-pandemic, might they do so again? By Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams is a professor of contemporary visual cultures at the University of Edinburgh and the author, most recently, of “Why Cities Look the Way They Do.” May 5, 2020 … But the idea that cities ought to be crowded is really quite new [in 20th Century prestige culture]. We’ve learned to like density in the Western world of late, but in cities like New York and London, the equation of the urban crowd with urban success has fluctuated, and its recent ascent is one of many oscillations. In New York, its recent history can be traced back to Jane Jacobs’s 1962 book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” which made the then-incendiary argument that cities were, in effect, their public lives: What happened on the street corner was the city, and, crudely put, the more of it the better. Ms. Jacobs was a lonely voice at the time against the postwar trends toward urban decentralization and suburbanization, and for the human life of the neighborhood and its streets.
Jacobs’ basic argument was that her neighborhood, Greenwich Village in Manhattan, with its shaded wide sidewalks for children to play on under the eye of shopkeepers who operated out of storefronts underneath medium-height apartment buildings where the kids lived, was a nice place to live. Now, of course, so many people have come to agree with her that families with kids can’t afford to live there anymore …
Things really got going, however, in the Catalan metropolis Barcelona, via politician-planner Oriol Bohigas. Between 1981 and 1987, under his guidance at the Office of Urban Projects, the city built or remade some 160 public spaces and filled them with people. Few Western urban leaders were unimpressed by the spectacle, especially when they saw its mature form at the 1992 Olympics.
Today, Barcelona is an immense tourist attraction, but when I went to Europe in 1980, I didn’t bother to go there. (Although an Australian tourist in Switzerland told me that when he was in Barcelona a few weeks before, he was wondering what that enormous racket coming from downtown was. Finally, it was over and all these pedestrians came flooding by. He asked one who told him that The Clash had just finished playing a free outdoor concert.) Barcelona 1992 was probably the most successful Olympics in terms of glamorizing the host city since Berlin 1936. The Games were no better organized than Atlanta 1996, but when your bus was an hour late, you were still killing an hour in Barcelona rather than in Atlanta.
How attractive urban crowds could be! And how much money could be made when you gave them the space in which to eat and drink!
Donald Trump was one of the early investors in the restoration of Times Square from Taxi Driver wasteland to tourist capital of the world.
… Following the Barcelona example, public space became a defining part of the global city and urban crowds filling public spaces began to seem like both an economic and a moral good. “The Great Inversion,” the journalist Alan Ehrenhalt called it in 2013, a process whose architectural emblems were the spaces wherever a crowd might gather: the street corner, the public square, the park. What Mr. Ehrenhalt and others described was partly demographic, partly symbolic: People really were coming back to live in cities, but they also wanted to see and be seen in them. But however much that process looks like common sense now, it was itself a reaction to the midcentury urban decline in the West. That process wasn’t all to do with Detroit-style industrial decay; it had just as much to do with a planned dispersal that was ultimately about the fear of urban disease in the 19th-century city. To understand that fear, there’s no better source than Friedrich Engels’s “The Condition of the Working Class in England,” published in German in 1845 and of extraordinary and durable influence worldwide. Its account of industrial Manchester was also an account of its sickness and, by proxy, its density. The city’s lightless, airless streets teeming with the poor became a figure of long-lasting architectural horror; so much of modernist planning was a reaction to places like it. If density was disease for modernists, it followed that their cities were about keeping people apart. Look back at the utopian schemes for cities of the first half of the 20th century, and the same hygienic preoccupations come up again and again: There must be light and space and fresh air. The Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier wrote about these things in his book “Vers Une Architecture” (translated as “Towards a New Architecture”).
Here’s St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, designed by Corbusier fan Minoru Yamasaki in the 1950s and blown up in the 1970s:
Parts of the book read like comedy now — the author’s attempt to turn his own obsession with hygiene into an avant-garde manifesto. But it was serious when it was published in 1923, the Spanish flu pandemic having just run its course.
As I’ve mentioned before, when I moved to Santa Monica in 1981, my parents were very concerned about Santa Monica’s notorious foggy dampness. My parents had both moved to Southern California before penicillin arrived in 1945, so fear of tuberculosis was a huge factor in driving migration of well-to-do people, like my paternal grandfather, from the Midwest. The cool coastline was largely shunned in favor of the drier inland areas like Pasadena, which attracted the health conscious from the 1880s to the 1940s.
Then about 1943, smog became a problem, which blew inland on the ocean breezes, so Pasadena began to fall out of favor relative to the coast.
Now the smog is gone, so both Santa Monica and Pasadena are expensive.
In his first venture into town planning, Le Corbusier designed the imaginary Ville Contemporaine, a city of vast empty spaces. My copy of his book “The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning,” published in 1929, has a perspective drawing of the Ville Contemporaine on the cover, showing in the foreground a sunlit cafe terrace looking out toward vast cruciform towers in parkland; it is all light and space and greenery, and apart from some tiny specks in the far background, entirely free of human beings. Its emptiness has been the source of endless critique; it has been cited as evidence of modernism’s moral bankruptcy in general, and Le Corbusier’s inhumanity in particular. But place it in its post-pandemic context, and it begins to look different.
I notice now that this cover illustration of Corbusier’s book is in the same style as the cartoons that Evelyn Waugh drew to illustrate his 1928 first novel Decline and Fall, which features a modernist architect modeled on Corbusier.
The Ville Contemporaine inspired plenty of real-life experiments, and perhaps the most closely related is Brasília, the modernist capital of Brazil, which turned 60 in April.
Much of 20th Century thought is related to actual leaps forward in scientific understanding in 19th and early 20th Century thought, such as Pasteur and Koch coming to understand the germ theory of disease and the beginnings of evolutionary theory and genetics, and scaring the hell out of people.
For example, Hitler was obsessed by fear of “race poisoning,” not wholly unlike how my Swiss German grandfather of similar vintage was obsessed with fear of food poisoning by factory-made foods. (See Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for why his crackpot worries weren’t all that crackpot.)
So he moved to Pasadena, with its year-round growing season, to be able to grow much of his own food in his own yard. (Which was a much better idea than what Hitler came up with.)
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-06--An American Health Care Worker Says Immigrant Caregivers (Certified Or Not) Can't Really Understand

An American Health Care Worker Says Immigrant Caregivers (Certified Or Not) Can't Really Understand English

Re James Fulford's article Why Immigrant Caregivers Are Not The Answer To Coronavirus Crisis—15 Minority Hospital Rapists In 5 Years
From: An American Healthcare Worker [Email her]
I am a med-tech with several alphabet soup qualifications behind my name. What I have seen is that many immigrants in the care field "speak English," but have no real understanding of the language or what they are being told!
At best the more conscientious come to one of us and say "Please go to this person...there is some problems". When you're not looking at the best...
Coming to one of us English speakers and reporting a problem that we can follow up on is the best case scenario in the people that appear to really care. It is not the norm, although I have known some. Health care has become a for-profit business and hiring at the lowest wage possible the norm.
What we are now dealing with—as horrible as it my be to those of us who care—is the end result. Hiring skilled people who have the same culture and language at a living wage would solve the problem.
James Fulford writes: We ran a letter a few years ago by Paul Nachman which described his experience with Filipino nurses in a Montana hospital where he'd been having some surgery. He reported that in least one case, he had no idea what his nurse was saying:
nearly all the nurses I saw during my post-op period were foreign-born, primarily Filipinos. And they were perfectly pleasant. But I vividly recall that with one of them communication was nearly impossible. Was she giving me an instruction? Was she asking me a question? I couldn't tell!
Apparently, it's a civil right to communicate in a foreign language at work, and also a civil right to speak English with a very bad accent. [Reasonable Doubts: Say What? Civil rights enforcers go after "accent discrimination." by Walter Olson, Reason Magazine, November 1997] Yes, it may kill people, but as I've remarked before, in general civil rights law doesn't care if you die.


vdare--2020-05-09--WuFlu Hitting U.S. Hispanics Harder Than Whites—Because Of Genetic Vitamin D Deficiencies?

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: Matt Ridley: Vitamin D May Help Cut Disparate Black Covid Death Rate
We all know, now that the data is finally being reported, that Blacks are being ravaged by Covid-19 out of proportion to their numbers. [Black people in the UK four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, new data shows, by Rob Picheta, CNN, May 7, 2020] The Main Stream Media would have you believe that it’s purely due to sociological factors such as living in crowded areas. But, as I reported last week, even the British Medical Journal is now reporting that it must also partly be to do with having dark skin in an environment with dark winters and being Vitamin D deficient as a consequence. [It is time to take seriously the link between Vitamin D deficiency and more serious Covid-19 symptoms, by Matt Ridley, Telegraph, May 3, 2020] But what about Hispanics? How are they faring in the battle against the Wu Flu? And to what extent is this a partly matter of genetic racial differences?
We would predict that they would fare better than Blacks but worse than Whites. And this what seems to be happening.
Although “Hispanic” is a racially imprecise term, basically referring to anyone with recent ancestry in Mexico, Central or South America, most U.S. Hispanics are what is known as a “cline”—a varying mixture of European and Native American. For the most part, their skin is brown, but nowhere near as dark as that of Blacks. On this basis, we would expect that their skin wouldn’t absorb as much light from the sun as whites (meaning they wouldn’t make as much Vitamin D) but they would absorb far more sunlight than Blacks do. As such, the disease’s impact should be better for Hispanics than it is for Blacks.
It is possible that this is why Mexican government specialists reportedly believed that “the Mexican race” would prove relatively resistant to Covid-19. Deaths in Mexico have now exceeded their predicted upper limit of 2000—3,160 as of May 9—but this is still proportionately far less that the U.S.A.’s 80,000, given that Mexico has well over a third of the U.S. population.
In Utah, Hispanics make up 14% of the population, but they are 29% of hospitalizations. In Oregon, Latinos are 13% of the population and 22% of the serious cases. New Jersey has a 19% Hispanic population, but they constitute 30% of Covid-19 hospital patients. Washington State is 13% Latino, but they make-up 25% of Corona hospitalizations. This means that Hispanics are over-represented among serious cases of Covid-19 at somewhere between 1.6 and 2 times their percentage of the population. Data from New York City indicates they are over-represented among the Covid-19 death toll at 1.6 times their percentage of population [‘The virus doesn't discriminate but governments do’: Latinos disproportionately hit by coronavirus, by Maanvi Singh & Mario Koran, Guardian, April 18, 2020].
If we look at Black over-representation, as I have reported before, Blacks are 30% of the Chicago population and 70% of Covid-19 deaths, meaning they are over-represented by a factor of 2.3. The same over-representation is found in Louisiana, but in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Blacks are over-represented at 3.1 times their population percentage.
So far, so good for the Vitamin D Hypothesis and Hispanics. But there’s more.
Fascinatingly, in U.S. states that are relatively further to the south, this problem—of Hispanic over-representation—doesn’t seem to exist. In California, for example, Hispanics are 39% of the population but only 30% of Covid-19 deaths. David Hayes-Bautista, [send him mail] director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine, told Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper in the report cited above that “The problems aren’t genetic…They are structural.”
Structural? Hayes-Bautista implies that Hispanics suffer worse from Covid-19 because, as The Guardian paraphrased him, Hispanics are more likely to be “grocery store staff, restaurant workers, caretakers, cleaners and delivery workers . . . putting themselves at the frontlines of the pandemic.”
This is the key issue, because their problems with underlying health conditions don’t differ much from those of whites:
With the exception of diabetes, Latinos on average have lower rates of heart disease, cancers, hypertension and other underlying conditions that make people especially vulnerable to Covid-19, Hayes-Bautista noted.
But unless Hispanics are much wealthier and healthier in California than they are in states that are further north, the finding from California would be consistent with the Vitamin D hypothesis.
And what happens if we do travel further north? Well, Boston is 20% Hispanic, yet, according to Dr Joseph Betancourt, “the vice-president and chief equity and inclusion officer” at Massachusetts General in Boston, up to 40% of Covid-19 patients at the hospital are Hispanics. He told The Guardian that, normally, about 9% of patients at the hospital are Hispanic
But, either way, Hispanics are over-represented among Boston patients with Covid-19, at double their numbers and possibly triple, depending on what measurement you use.
In fact, there is a pattern—though not a precise pattern—whereby Hispanics and Blacks are the most over-represented among Covid-19 deaths in the more northerly states and are the least over-represented in the more southerly ones. For example, Hispanics are most over-represented in New York and New Hampshire but they are least over-represented in Texas and Arizona [The Color of the Corona Virus, by AMP Research Lab Staff, AMP Research Lab, May 5, 2020].
Dr Hayes-Bautista is likely correct that “structural problems” are relevant to the over-representation of Hispanics among Americans dying from Covid-19. But it is clearly not in line with the evidence to claim that “structural problems” explain all, or even most of the variance.
If that were the case, then Hispanics in southerly states wouldn’t appear to be less impacted than Hispanics in northerly states and the death rate among Hispanics shouldn’t be much different from the death rate among Blacks. Nationwide, 22% of Blacks and 19% of Hispanics are classified as living in “poverty” and, in some states, such as Alabama, Hispanics are more likely to be impoverished than Blacks [Poverty Rate by Race/Ethnicity, KFF, 2018]. Yet Blacks are being hit by Covid-19 far more acutely than are Hispanics.
There are multiple possible reasons for race differences in Covid-19 fatality. But differences in the ability to produce Vitamin D from sunlight in a given environment increasingly appear to be a possible reason.
To conclude with my now traditional moral drawn at the end of my WuFlu articles:
If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease, that means our race-denying Ruling Class is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough. This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-05-08--Another Asian-American Woman Writer Brags, No, COMPLAINS About Having a White-Looking Daughter

Earlier by Steve Sailer: NYT: My Daughter Passes for White
From the New York Times “Parenting” page, yet another Asian-American woman writer with a white husband brags complains about how her daughter looks white and that concerns her in an increasingly racist anti-white America a viciously white racist America where her daughter will be discriminated against get to discriminate against PoCs:
Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity?
My husband and I gave her names that honor our heritage, but now we wonder if it’s enough.
By Jami Nakamura Lin
May 5, 2020
… I asked my husband my real concern, “When will she know who she is?”
When I (a Japanese-Taiwanese American woman) married my husband (a Jewish white man) I kept my last name, wanting to maintain that visible part of my identity. Our background and cultures are important to both of us, so when our daughter was born, we chose her names carefully — so carefully that she ended up with four names. Her first name honors my dead father, Charlie. Her first middle name is both Hebrew and Japanese, her second middle name is my Taiwanese last name, and her last name is my husband’s Germanic last name.
At first I thought her four names were a beautiful compromise. But at 18 months old, her eyes are bluish-gray, her hair is light brown. While I’ve tried to wrestle with what it means for her to appear so light in a society that hugely privileges whiteness, I’ve grown more uneasy about her name. Her first and last names, the most salient parts, look and sound as white as her features. This might seem like a benefit at a time when racism against Asian-Americans is rising again. To me it seems like a loss of the part of her that is me, of the part of her that is our history.
Armed with newfound regret, I asked my husband what he thought about switching Lin to be one of her last names. Though he agreed, we haven’t yet taken the plunge, partly because I’m daunted by the bureaucratic process, and partly because people have warned me about the dreaded hyphenated last name (“It will take so long to fill out forms!”). When I’m being indulgent in my daydreams, I also want to give her a fifth name, my own middle name, as well. Sometimes I convince myself that all of this sounds rational.
And yet. The issue tugs at me as an Asian-American, as a person with recent immigrant history. Our names are often fundamental parts of our identities. …
Recently, my white-presenting cousin (whose “normal” middle name, Colin, I had envied as a child) changed his middle name to Nakamura as well. He is one of several mixed Asian-Americans I know who have changed their names as adults. A friend’s brother dropped his father’s white-presenting last name, and uses his mother’s Japanese maiden name instead. He gave his daughter this last name as well. A Korean-American friend stopped using the “American” name she used growing up, and now only goes by her Korean name. We want to emphasize what in the past our ancestors often had to de-emphasize to mitigate overt racism. (When they emigrated to the United States in 1971, my Taiwanese ama changed my father’s name, Ching Kuo, to Charles. “Was it because the names sound similar?” I asked her. “Yes,” she said, “and because he is a king.”) For my generation, however, discrimination against ethnic-sounding or “hard-to-pronounce” names still exists. We see our names as a type of cultural preservation.
My family left Japan 112 years before my daughter was born.


vdare--2020-05-07--Shouldn't They Just Make the Movie About How Kizzmekia Corbett Will Invent the Vaccine Right Now?

From the Washington Post news section:
Kizzmekia Corbett spent her life preparing for this moment. Can she create the vaccine to end a pandemic?
This 34-year-old African American woman scientist is a rarity. But with increased visibility comes increased scrutiny.
by Darryl Fears, May 6, 2020 at 11:57 a.m. PDT
… Bradsher’s recommendation put Kizzmekia Corbett on a path that ultimately led her to the National Institutes of Health, where she is heading the government’s search for a vaccine to end the coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 1.2 million Americans, killed over 70,000 and devastated the economy. …
But her high perch comes with more visibility and added scrutiny.
On Feb. 27, Corbett posted a tweet that lamented the lack of diversity on President Trump’s coronavirus task force: “The task force is largely people (white men) he appointed to their positions as director of blah blah institute. They are indebted to serve him NOT the people.”
And, as public health officials were reporting startling data that showed that the virus was disproportionately killing African Americans, Corbett vented on Twitter. “I tweet for the people who will die when doctors has to choose who gets the last ventilator and ultimately … who lives,” she wrote March 29. When someone responded that the virus “is a way to get rid of us,” Corbett replied: “Some have gone as far to call it genocide. I plead the fifth.”
That triggered a response from Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who read several of Corbett’s tweets aloud on his show and questioned her “commitment to scientific inquiry and rational thought.” He accused Corbett of “spouting lunatic conspiracy theories.” …
“I don’t think there’s anything she said that’s outlandish that goes against any type of code or standard,” said Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University in Houston.
“What I’ve seen parade across that stage in the task force, other than the surgeon general, are all white people,” said Bullard, who is black. “To look and see these horrific disproportionate numbers of African Americans dying of coronavirus vindicates her tweet. She knew this virus would be like a heat-seeking missile that would target the most vulnerable.”
Corbett’s tweet about the ventilators reflects a long and painful history of disparity in medical care and health outcomes experienced by African Americans, Brooks said. One of the most notorious episodes, which sowed deep distrust in the medical establishment, took place from 1932 to 1972, when the U.S. Public Health Service allowed syphilis to progress in black men without their knowledge, denying them treatment with penicillin.


vdare--2020-05-10--How to Boost Consumer Confidence When Reopening The Country

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: Behind Trump's Strategic Pivot On Coronavirus—"We Have To Get The Country Open"
The economy will remain in bad shape until consumers feel more confident that what they won’t come to regret what they splurge on.
For example, should you take your mother out to brunch today, Mother’s Day? If so, should you go to an indoor or outdoor venue?
After all, you might have a nice time. Or maybe halfway through, your mother might blurt out that she knows your wife just came up with this idea of taking her to a fancy restaurant for Mother’s Day in order to kill her so she can inherit her house, which could dampen the general mood slightly.
There is a general problem that the economy largely thrives on people splurging to impress others. But why spend a lot of money to go out if you can’t be confident that the people you are treating really want to go out? At present, nobody really knows what’s a good idea and what’s a bad idea.
Restoring consumer confidence and general Animal Spirits would do a lot for the economy, but The Experts haven’t offered a lot of practical hands-on disinterested advice about what is relatively safe and what is relatively risky. They spent all of February and March lying to the public about how it wouldn’t help to wear a mask and how the real danger was not washing your hands enough. Granted, I understand why they lied: America shamefully didn’t even have enough masks for emergency room personnel after having them sucked up off our store shelves by the Chinese who mailed them back to China.
But that’s not confidence inducing.
Since then, we haven’t heard much from The Experts about what is more or less safe.
Here’s a self-published essay by a biology professor named Erin Bromage:
Dr. Bromage offers a lot of (perhaps overconfident) hands-on advice. And then in the comments, people in all sorts of occupations, often self-employed—such as doggy daycare and home organizing—ask him specific questions and he dares to give advice: e.g., a 15 minute haircut doesn’t sound too risky but watch out for a two hour hair treatment.
I’m rather dubious, but
His overall impressions are pretty similar to mine: you know all that stuff they told you in March about how this is mostly spread by touching rather than by talking, so just watch your hands a lot and don’t bother putting on a mask? Well, they were mostly pulling your leg. This is largely spread by respiration indoors.
Bromage cites a lot of the same well-documented early super-spreaders events as Jonathan Kay and I have.
All these infection events were indoors, with people closely-spaced, with lots of talking, singing, or yelling. The main sources for infection are home, workplace, public transport, social gatherings, and restaurants. This accounts for 90% of all transmission events. In contrast, outbreaks spread from shopping appear to be responsible for a small percentage of traced infections.
On the other hand, I’m concerned about biases stemming from the track-and-trace methodology. I suspect successful tracings might be biased toward respectable events, such as wedding receptions and funeral, where people sign Guest Registrars or have formal invitations or the like, or at least many of the guests know each other.
This methodological bias might help explain why so many of the most notorious super-spreader events were so intensely respectable, such as the notorious choir practice that infected 45 of the 60 members of church choir. Choirs have lists of members. In contrast, for example, gay bars thrive on anonymity and the thrill of meeting strangers. The South Korean government, with their 1984ish competence, just traced a big new outbreak to a gay bar. The Western media, which has been excited by the Korean ability to track and trace, is suddenly not so sure it’s such a good thing when it turned out a recent super-spreader went to three gay discos in one night.
… Where are people getting sick? We know most people get infected in their own home. A household member contracts the virus in the community and brings it into the house where sustained contact between household members leads to infection. But where are people contracting the infection in the community? I regularly hear people worrying about grocery stores, bike rides, inconsiderate runners who are not wearing masks…. are these places of concern? Well, not really. Let me explain. In order to get infected you need to get exposed to an infectious dose of the virus; based on infectious dose studies with MERS and SARS, it is estimated that as few as 1000 SARS-CoV2 viral particles are needed for an infection to take hold.
Does it really work that way? Or is it something like that on average 1 out of 1000 viral particles leads to an infection? Statistically, it works out the same, but humans don’t understand statistics that well, so they tend to turn statistical realities into moral yeses or nos.
Please note, this still needs to be determined experimentally, but we can use that number to demonstrate how infection can occur. Infection could occur, through 1000 viral particles you receive in one breath or from one eye-rub, or 100 viral particles inhaled with each breath over 10 breaths, or 10 viral particles with 100 breaths. Each of these situations can lead to an infection. … Unlike sneezing and coughing which release huge amounts of viral material, the respiratory droplets released from breathing only contain low levels of virus. We don’t have a number for SARS-CoV2 yet, but we can use influenza as a guide. We know that a person infected with influenza releases about 3 – 20 virus RNA copies per minute of breathing. Remember the formulae: Successful Infection = Exposure to Virus x Time If a person coughs or sneezes, those 200,000,000 viral particles go everywhere. Some virus hangs in the air, some falls into surfaces, most falls to the ground. So if you are face-to-face with a person, having a conversation, and that person sneezes or coughs straight at you, it’s pretty easy to see how it is possible to inhale 1,000 virus particles and become infected. But even if that cough or sneeze was not directed at you, some infected droplets–the smallest of small–can hang in the air for a few minutes, filling every corner of a modest sized room with infectious viral particles. All you have to do is enter that room within a few minutes of the cough/sneeze and take a few breaths and you have potentially received enough virus to establish an infection. But with general breathing, 20 copies per minute into the environment, even if every virus ended up in your lungs, you would need 1000 copies divided by 20 copies per minute = 50 minutes.
I suspect a lot of people will take this as meaning that if you only spend 45 minutes, you are golden, rather than that 45 minutes is 90% as risky as 50 minutes.
But, who knows, maybe I’m misinterpreting.
In summary, I’m not hugely trustworthy of Bromage’s advice, but it’s exactly the kind of thing we need to argue over now.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-10--Her Name Is Brittney Watts: Murdered By Black Atlanta Gunman Nkosi Thandiwe Because Of Anti-White Le

Her Name Is Brittney Watts: Murdered By Black Atlanta Gunman Nkosi Thandiwe Because Of Anti-White Lessons He Learned In College

Earlier by Paul Kersey: Congratulations, SPLC, Tim Wise—Atlanta Black Gunman Nkosi Thandiwe Says He Shot Three White Girls Because Of Anti-White Lessons He Learned In College
There’s been very few days in the past nine years where I didn’t think of Brittney Watts and what happened to her in Atlanta, Georgia. She was murdered for being white. Two other white females were shot on the fateful day she was murdered, but they survived their bullet wounds.
But it’s Brittney Watts who symbolizes so much, because she was the only one of three white females who were hunted down by a black male and shot for their “white privilege” to die from injuries suffered in this racial terrorist attack.
And that’s what it was: a black racial terror attack on three white women in Atlanta.
Defendant admits fatally wounding woman in Atlanta, Associated Press, January 30, 2013
The man charged with shooting a 26-year-old woman to death in an Atlanta parking deck and wounding two others relived the July 2011 incident in court Wednesday, saying it was like an out-of-body experience. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/UDoQ7b ) reports that former security guard 23-year-old Nkosi Thandiwe recounted details of the shooting during the second day of his trial. Thandiwe has pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and weapons offenses in the shooting that left 26-year-old Brittany Watts dead, Lauren Garcia paralyzed and a third woman wounded in her leg. In court he recalled absent-mindedly drawing his weapon on Watts and shooting her before fleeing the scene in her car. “It was almost like watching myself in action,” Thandiwe said in court, “I tell her to get out of (her) car. She screams. I fire. She drops to the ground.” Police have not disclosed a motive, but during his testimony Thandiwe said the shooting may have stemmed from beliefs he held about white people as an anthropology major in college. “I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today,” he said. “In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.” The night before the shooting, Thandiwe said he attended a gathering to discuss helping black people find equal footing and was upset that two white people were also there. The lingering anger caused him to bring his gun with him to work the next day, he said.
Have you ever heard the name Nkosi Thandiwe before? He was a black racial terrorist who targeted three white women in Atlanta, Georgia in 2011, killing Brittney Watts and wounding two others.
As the ridiculous hoax in Brunswick, Georgia surrounding some black criminal/thief turned jogger collapses, the reality of what happened to Brittney Watts echoes throughout the years as a reminder of the true source of hate in Georgia and how the concept of white privilege ends.
Midtown shooter gets life plus 65 years in prison, AJC.com, January 31, 2013 The man convicted of murdering a woman and wounding two others in a 2011 Midtown shooting spree was sentenced to life without parole plus 65 years in prison Thursday. “This I do find to be by the nature of the act of on July 15, 2011, to be very random, very hate-filled, very heinous, very vile,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly A. Lee said as she handed Nkosi Thandiwe his life sentence for killing Brittney Watts, and injuring Tiffany Ferenczy and Lauren Garcia, leaving Garcia paralyzed from the waist down. The 23-year-old Thandiwe sat stone-faced as Lee made her ruling. Victims’ families released a collective sigh, while those in court to support him dropped their heads. Before Lee gave her sentence, Brittney Watts’ husband struggled through tears to ask the judge for the maximum sentence for Thandiwe. “I’ve mourned Brittney for the last 568 days,” he said. “I realize the worst day of my life is in my past … But I also realize the best days of my life are, too.” Brian Watts brushed told [sic] the judge and jury how only a month before his wife’s death, the couple moved back to Atlanta from Tampa and into his wife’s dream house with the plans of starting a family. “He took everything from me … my soulmate, the family we were going to have,” Brian Watts said. He said he found himself looking forward “to the day that I die so that I can be with Brittney again.” Thandiwe’s mother, Lynnae Thandiwe, pleaded with the judge for mercy. “He’s not the ‘Midtown Shooter,’” she said. “He’s not a monster. It’s not consistent with who Nkosi is. Nothing can be gained by putting him in jail for the rest of his life.” Thandiwe, 23, was accused of fatally shooting Watts in the neck in a Midtown parking deck as she left her office for lunch, then taking her car, apparently hitting her body as he pulled away, and firing into a crowd of women that included Garcia and Ferenczy walking along Crescent Street as he sped off. “He told you he shot Brittney Watts, Lauren Garcia and Tiffany Ferenczy because he had adopted all these racist ideals,” Fulton County Assistant District Attorney Linda Dunikoski said to the jury, referring to Thandiwe’s testimony on Wednesday. “If race disorder was a [mental illness], then the Ku Klux Klan could murder and kill with impunity.” Public defender Wes Bryant borrowed from the prosecutor’s opening statement to suggest that Thandiwe may have been out of his mind when he shot the women. The jury took about 30 minutes to find him guilty of all the counts against him and the sentencing phase of the trial began immediately. He was charged with murder, felony murder – causing a death during the commission of a felony – several counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, carjacking and gun offenses. Thandiwe’s two surviving victims then added to Brian Watts’ description the shooting spree’s impact. “I remember feeling the bullet hit my back,” Garcia said. “I remember the moment between feeling my legs and the stark contrast that followed.” The UGA grad said she went through months of painful rehabilitation, learning to function as a paraplegic. And she married her then-boyfriend soon after the shooting. She now works full-time for the Midtown advertising agency she was interning with when she was shot, but says private moments of sorrow still lie deep beneath the picture of resilience so many of her loved ones and supporters celebrate. “I am a victim of a meaningless crime who has a grim outlook on life and her very best days behind her,” Garcia said. Ferenczy, who was shot in the leg, told the judge she was plagued by nightmares of that day. “I wake up every night with flashbacks,” she said before lamenting how seemingly thoughtlessly Thandiwe took Watts’ life. “Her life should’ve been valued. My life should’ve been valued. Lauren’s life should’ve been valued.” Despite descriptions of Thandiwe’s life as extraordinary and kind young man, and pleas from friends and loved ones that he be given a chance to rehabilitate, Lee sided with her reservations that he could change. “I do have concerns that on any given day in the future he could have another relapse,” she said. “And I’m concerned about his lack of remorse.”
Brian and Brittney Watts would have had two or three children by now, had Thandiwe’s racial hatred of whites not compelled him to target three white women for execution back in 2011.
But that’s what happened in Atlanta back in July of 2011: A black man, who hated white people and white privilege, targeted three white women for execution and murdered Brittney Watts.
Again, this was his motivation for shooting three white women and killing Brittney Watts (remembering, he hunted them down): “I was trying to prove a point that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today,” he said. “In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.”
If you’ve never read the name Brittney Watts until today, but have been bombarded with the false narrative of Ahmaud Arbery over the past two days nonstop, then you’ll understand why you live in Black-Run America (BRA).
Her Name is Brittney Watts. Remember it. Remember her story. Know why she was hunted by a black male and murder.
Never forget the life Thandiwe took, and the children of Brian and Brittney this racial terror attack deprived the world of… Their Lives Matter Too.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-10--SAID IN SPANISH: Guatemala Doesn’t Want Deportees With WuFlu…But Exports “Guest Workers” Who Might C

SAID IN SPANISH: Guatemala Doesn’t Want Deportees With WuFlu…But Exports “Guest Workers” Who Might Catch It. And The U.S. State Department Is Helping!

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei wants every Guatemalan deportee from the U.S. to be certified free of Coronavirus. Yet his government is still sending guest-worker Guatemalans to the U.S. and Canada—where they might catch it. And the U.S. State Department is helping.
For the record, at last count, Guatemala counts just 1,052 virus cases with 26 dead, a big increase since April 1 when the country had just 39 cases. Cases have nearly doubled since April 24, 12 days ago. The population of Guatemala is 17.2 million, so for comparison, 4,129 cases and 244 deaths per one million people, Guatemala has 54 cases and one death per one million people.
That raises two questions:
Is Giammattei worried his countrymen might infect Americans or Canadians?
If Guatemalans can forthrightly look after their own interests, why can’t we?
The answer to the first is obvious. But as for looking after our interests, critics of U.S. attempts to do so aren’t just confined to Giammattei, journalists, and immigration enthusiasts. Joining them is U.S. Rep. Norma Torres, the Democrat who represents California’s 35th District and rates an F- from Numbers USA.
Torres, pictured right, is “the sole Central American in Congress and an immigrant from Guatemala,” CBS News recently told us.
“Immigrant” is a euphemistic way to describe Torres. She was born in 1965 in Guatemala, but her parents sent her here on a tourist visa to live with relatives in 1970 with no intention of bringing her home. Of course, she overstayed. She became a U.S. citizen in some unspecified way in time for Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, and she was elected to Congress 22 years later [A child of Guatemala seeks a seat in Congress, by Kevin Freking, The Associated Press, September 6, 2014].
“I do believe,” she huffed, “that the U.S. is exporting the virus.” [“Exporting the virus”: Migrants deported by U.S. make up 20% of Guatemala's coronavirus cases, by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, April 27, 2020].
One wonders if Torres is as concerned about her adopted country as she is about the country she left. Perhaps it hadn’t occurred to her, but those “migrants” would not have contracted the virus here if they had stayed there…where they belong.
Anyway, on April 16,, the U.S. and Guatemala agreed to suspend deportation flights with exceptions for humanitarian cases [Coronavirus: Ingresa otro vuelo con menores deportados de Estados Unidos (“Coronavirus: Another Flight Arrives with Deported Minors from the United States”), by Irving Escobar, Prensa Libre, April 24, 2020].
Though 100 deportees had the virus (about 20 percent of the country’s total Coronavirus cases) when Torres was bellyaching, that problem is resolved.
On April 30, 92 deportees who tested negative went home, and now, U.S. and Guatemalan officials were negotiating to end the suspension of flights [Guatemala says US testing deportees for virus before sending, by Sonia Perez D., The Associated Press, April 30, 2020].
On May 10, Guatemala's Prensa Libre reported that in the week previous, two flights of deportees arrived in Guatemala (on the 4th and 6th), delivering a total of 151 deportees, only one of whom tested positive for COVID-19. So the new system seems to be working pretty good. There are deportee flights scheduled for May 11, May 13, and May 15. [Vuelos con deportados se retomarán a pesar de que un retornado dio positivo de covid-19 la última semana ("Flights of Deportees Will Arrive Again Despite the Fact that One Returnee Tested Positive for COVID-19 in the Past Week") by Manuel Hernandez Mayen, Prensa Libre, May 10, 2020).
Meanwhile, Reuters reports, some of the returning deportees aren’t exactly welcome:
Guatemala’s indigenous Maya towns are spurning returned migrants, threatening some with burning their homes or lynching as fear spreads about more than 100 deportees from the United States who tested positive for the new coronavirus. In one city in the Guatemalan highlands, home to a large indigenous population, residents tried to burn down a migrant shelter. In some villages, locals are rebuffing the recently returned and threatening relatives of the deportees with expulsion from their homes. [Maya villages in Guatemala spurn U.S. deportees as infections spike, by Sofia Menchu, May 1, 2020].
Don’t call that “xenophobia”; Mayan villagers are attacking fellow Mayan villagers.
On April 19, Giammattei described the change thusly:
Only a few months ago, most people were very happy [with migrants] because they came bringing remittance checks, but now they treat them like criminals.
But that’s deportees.
The Guatemalan government has also launched the “We Want You Home,” repatriation program that had returned 1,482 Guatemalans from 28 countries as of April 17 [Retornan al País 84 Guatemaltecos Varados en Perú (“Eighty-four Guatemalans Stuck in Peru Returned to the Country”), Minex.gob.gt, April 17, 2020]. My guess, informed by years living in Latin America: this program is for the more well-to-do.
On April 30, two such flights returned, one from Costa Rica and another from Ecuador, and the passengers went straight to quarantine. None, at last report, are believed to have COVID-19 [Vuelo de Rescate de guatemaltecos varados en Costa Rica y Ecuador (“Rescue Flight of Guatemalans stuck in Costa Rica and Ecuador”), Minex.gob.gt, April 30, 2020].
So that’s the rundown on Guatemalans headed home…where they belong.
However, the same Guatemalan government that doesn’t want its illegal emigrants back if they carry the COVID-19 bug has no problem sending other citizens abroad, where they might contract it or even carry it abroad with them.
So reported Diario de Centro América, the official newspaper of the Guatemalan government:
A group of 17 Guatemalans traveled this weekend to Montreal, Canada, to work on three cattle farms, thanks to the [Labor Ministry’s] Program of Temporary Work Abroad. … [T]he Guatemalans signed a work contract for 12 months, which covers all their benefits, lodging, food and travel. [Guatemaltecos viajan a Canadá por trabajo temporal (“Guatemalans travel to Canada for temporary work”), by Josselinne Santizo, May 3, 2020]
That wasn’t exactly a bright idea given what had just happened in Ontario, Canada: Nine Guatemalans on a pepper farm that employs 250 guest workers were among 40 who contracted the virus [Nueve agricultores guatemaltecos dieron positivo al covid-19 en una granja de Canadá (“Nine Guatemalan Farm Workers test Positive for COVID-19 in a Farm in Canada”), by Sergio Morales Rodas, Prensa Libre, April 29, 2020].
Even worse, though President Giammattei has said the U.S. is Wuhan West, and despite President Trump’s immigration moratorium, more Guatemalans are coming here. The U.S. resumed handling H-2 worker visas as of April 18 with a big “special provision” thanks to COVID-19. According to an announcement on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala:
[I]n-person interviews will not be required for most H-2 visa applicants, whether they be workers returning to the United States or first-time visa applicants. [The U.S. Embassy Resumes H-2 Visa Processing and Launches The New Interview Waiver Process for Seasonal Workers, U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, April 18, 2020]
Fingerprints are no longer required, either.
The embassy thinks H2 visas for legal guestworkers create “valuable economic opportunities for both Guatemalan workers and U.S. employers, increasing prosperity in both countries.”
How importing foreign labor helps more than 30 million Americans who have applied for unemployment is a mystery.
Of course, the Guatemalan government, despite its fears about accepting infected deportees, has no qualms about assisting the effort and will provide permission for the travel in compliance with COVID-19 rules.
Here then is the summary:
Guatemala denounced Mexico and the United States for repatriating sick Guatemalans.
Yet it repatriated its citizens from Latin American countries other than Mexico.
Guatemalan workers are still traveling to the U.S. and Canada despite news that some have caught the virus there.
It’s not as contradictory as it sounds if you recall the wise if apocryphal words of Deep Throat in All The President’s Men: Follow the money.
Giammattei is making money—and saving more of it—by encouraging the departure of workers who mail home remittances, while discouraging the return of the sick, who can be cared for at American , Canadian or Mexican taxpayer expense.
It’s a win-win for Guatemala.
But what about the U.S.?
It means more cheap labor for agribusiness and anyone else who wants low-wage help—while 30 million-plus unemployed Americans wonder how to pay their bills.
What’s good for Guatemala and American employers who want cheap labor isn’t good for Americans.
If Guatemala can advance its interests, so can we.
VDARE’s Washington Watcher II is right: Americans overwhelmingly favor a moratorium. It’s a winning issue for Trump.
We need a total shutdown of immigrants and foreign workers, either “permanent” or “temporary”.
What’s he waiting for? The time to close the borders is now!


vdare--2020-05-11--ICE SVU Exposing Americans To China Flu By Not Deporting Infected Illegal Aliens

ICE SVU is how I pejoratively refer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement , Homeland Security Investigations ( ICE HSI ) , one of the immigration law enforcement components of the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) know for its refusal to enforce immigration laws .
However , another enforcement component of DHS , ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations ( ERO ) , appears to want in on the ICE SVU action .
In this case , as in other recent actions to protect illegal aliens infected with the Kung Fu Flu , ICE SVU , this time the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to expose more Americans to the officially designated dangerous Chinese Virus .
Now , for the record , the Wu Flu is dangerous only to the elderly and infirm , but officially we have shutdown the nation because of it , so it is classified as a deadly danger to all Americans .
Despite this ICE SVU , ICE ERO version , is acting to kill Americans in order to protect other nations by keeping illegal aliens ordered removed and scheduled to be deported in the United States .
This time , instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infection , it is Haiti and Haitians that the Deep State saboteurs at ICE SVU are acting on behalf of .
And doing so in response to explicit and deliberate campaigns to stop deportations by the Anti-Trump Lying Press .
U.S. immigration authorities did not deport five detainees back to Haiti on Monday who had tested positive for the often deadly COVID-19 respiratory disease , Haitian officials have been told .
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight , which landed in Port-au-Prince from San Antonio , Texas , shortly before 1 p.m. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only 50 people — 14 with criminal backgrounds and 36 others , including children — aboard rather than the 100 deportees Haitian officials were anticipating .
Jean Négot Bonheur Delva , the head of Haiti ’ s Office of National Migration , said he was not told why the other deportees were not on board .
[ ICE Removes Detainees With Coronavirus From Deportation Flight To Haiti , By Monique O. Madan And Jacqueline Charles , Miami Herald , May 11 , 2020 ] So , there we have it , 50 missing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Haiti , though initially we are told that only 5 are infected with the Chinese Virus .
But what excuse for the other 45 not being deported ?
We don ’ t know , but likely they won the ICE SVU Wuhan Virus lottery to remain in the United States , possibly to be released to infect the general public or help kill additional ICE contract security guards at detention facilities .
And the Lying Press at the Herald is quite proud of the influence their gutter journalism has on the either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ICE SVU Miami office .
There is no explanation for this China Flu Amnesty for illegal aliens that ICE SVU is running other than sabotage or fecklessness before the Lugen Presse .
Aliens scheduled for deportation should be deported regardless of any infection .
Protecting Americans is their first duty , not Mexicans or Haitians .
In any event , these illegal aliens must be somewhere during their infection , so not being in the United States is the best choice .
Also note that the Haitian officials expected to received these infected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to deport them , or the other 45 who are likely infected as well .
The Wu Flu has already hit Haiti , but it has a young and healthy population , so infection and exposure is of no public health consequences .
Also the heat and humidity of Haiti are a hostile environment for the Chinese Virus , so , again , there is no reason not to put the infected Haitians on a plane back home .
Marc Moore , Exposing Americans To Death By The Wuhan Coronavirus This decision @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ERO Field Office Director for Miami , Marc Moore .
You can contact him here and at ( 954 ) 236-4900 .
Ask him , politely , why he decided to continue to expose his own subordinates and the American people to illegal aliens scheduled for deportation .
And where is Ken The Knife Cuccinelli ?

ICE SVU is how I pejoratively refer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI), one of the immigration law enforcement components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) known for its refusal to enforce immigration laws.
However, another enforcement component of DHS, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), appears to want in on the ICE SVU action. In this case, as in other recent actions to protect illegal aliens infected with the Kung Fu Flu, ICE SVU, this time the ICE ERO version, is deliberately acting to expose more Americans to the officially designated dangerous Chinese Virus. Now, for the record, the Wu Flu is dangerous only to the elderly and infirm, but officially we have shut down the nation because of it, so it is classified as a deadly danger to all Americans. Despite this ICE SVU, ICE ERO version, is acting to kill Americans in order to protect other nations by keeping illegal aliens ordered removed and scheduled to be deported in the United States. This time, instead of protecting Mexico and exposing Americans to infection, it is Haiti and Haitians that the Deep State saboteurs at ICE SVU are acting on behalf of. And doing so in response to explicit and deliberate campaigns to stop deportations by the Anti-Trump Lying Press.
U.S. immigration authorities did not deport five detainees back to Haiti on Monday who had tested positive for the often deadly COVID-19 respiratory disease, Haitian officials have been told. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight, which landed in Port-au-Prince from San Antonio, Texas, shortly before 1 p.m. Monday, also was expected to have only 50 people — 14 with criminal backgrounds and 36 others, including children — aboard rather than the 100 deportees Haitian officials were anticipating. Jean Négot Bonheur Delva, the head of Haiti’s Office of National Migration, said he was not told why the other deportees were not on board. [ICE Removes Detainees With Coronavirus From Deportation Flight To Haiti, by Monique O. Madan And Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, May 11, 2020]
So, there we have it, 50 missing illegal aliens on a scheduled deportation flight to Haiti, though initially we are told that only 5 are infected with the Chinese Virus. But what excuse for the other 45 not being deported? We don’t know, but likely they won the ICE SVU Wuhan Virus lottery to remain in the United States, possibly to be released to infect the general public or help kill additional ICE contract security guards at detention facilities.
And the Lying Press at the Herald is quite proud of the influence their gutter journalism has on the either hapless bureaucrats or deliberate saboteurs in the ICE SVU Miami office.
ICE’s decision to not deport the five detainees with COVID-19 comes days after a Miami Herald story detailed how the Department of Homeland Security had planned to deport infected Haitian nationals. The Herald, which had obtained a copy of the flight manifest, confirmed the five detainees’ names were on the original deportation flight list.
There is no explanation for this China Flu Amnesty for illegal aliens that ICE SVU is running other than sabotage or fecklessness before the Lugen Presse. Aliens scheduled for deportation should be deported regardless of any infection. Protecting Americans is their first duty, not Mexicans or Haitians.
In any event, these illegal aliens must be somewhere during their infection, so not being in the United States is the best choice. Also note that the Haitian officials expected to receive these infected Haitians, so it is no reason not to deport them, or the other 45 who are likely infected as well. The Wu Flu has already hit Haiti, but it has a young and healthy population, so infection and exposure is of no public health consequences. Also the heat and humidity of Haiti are a hostile environment for the Chinese Virus, so, again, there is no reason not to put the infected Haitians on a plane back home.
Marc Moore, Exposing Americans To Death By The Wuhan Coronavirus
This decision lies at the feet of the ICE ERO Field Office Director for Miami, Marc Moore. You can contact him here and at (954) 236-4900. Ask him, politely, why he decided to continue to expose his own subordinates and the American people to illegal aliens scheduled for deportation.
And where is Ken The Knife Cuccinelli?


vdare--2020-05-11--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: EU to force European Nations to Accept Migrants

Originally published here on this day in 2015 .
Notice how all of these `` refugees '' are actually young males , not vulnerable women and children Another reason to break apart the European Union .
The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under a quota scheme .
The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean this year .
Migrants are being driven to make the journey by `` horrific abuse '' in Libya , according to Amnesty International .
More than 1,800 migrants have died @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014 .
The European Commission 's migration policy , to be announced on Wednesday , will also propose organising legal means for migrants to come to Europe so they do not turn to traffickers .
However , it will need to be agreed by EU states ... [ Mediterranean migrant crisis : EU refugee quotas to be proposed , BBC , May 11 , 2015 ] One has to assume that to Western leaders , the endless flood of `` refugees '' resulting from the idiotic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mass immigration .
So why bother with border controls or countries at all ?
Let 's just be Africa and be done with it if every human being on earth has a `` right '' to enter Europe .
As long as we do n't have to pay taxes anymore .
However , other EU countries are fiercely opposed to the idea of quotas .
A UK government spokesman said : `` The UK has a proud history of offering asylum to those who need it most , but we do not believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the answer . ''
`` We will oppose any EU Commission proposals to introduce a non-voluntary quota . ''
Leaders in Hungary , Slovakia and Estonia have also objected to a quota system , with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calling it `` a crazy idea '' .
The purpose of mass immigration in the eyes of the European Union is to ensure that some day , someone like Viktor Orban will never be allowed to be elected .

Originally published here on this day in 2015.
Notice how all of these "refugees" are actually young males, not vulnerable women and children
Another reason to break apart the European Union.
The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under a quota scheme. The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean this year. Migrants are being driven to make the journey by "horrific abuse" in Libya, according to Amnesty International. More than 1,800 migrants have died this year in the Mediterranean, a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014. The European Commission's migration policy, to be announced on Wednesday, will also propose organising legal means for migrants to come to Europe so they do not turn to traffickers. However, it will need to be agreed by EU states... [Mediterranean migrant crisis: EU refugee quotas to be proposed, BBC, May 11, 2015]
One has to assume that to Western leaders, the endless flood of "refugees" resulting from the idiotic Libyan intervention is a side benefit of mass immigration.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has described a quota as "a question of fairness", adding that asylum is "not an act of mercy but a human right".
So why bother with border controls or countries at all? Let's just be Africa and be done with it if every human being on earth has a "right" to enter Europe. As long as we don't have to pay taxes anymore.
However, other EU countries are fiercely opposed to the idea of quotas. A UK government spokesman said: "The UK has a proud history of offering asylum to those who need it most, but we do not believe that a mandatory system of resettlement is the answer." "We will oppose any EU Commission proposals to introduce a non-voluntary quota." Leaders in Hungary, Slovakia and Estonia have also objected to a quota system, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calling it "a crazy idea".
The purpose of mass immigration in the eyes of the European Union is to ensure that someday, someone like Viktor Orban will never be allowed to be elected.