vdare--2020-04-22--His Name Is Patric Phillips: After Answering His Front Door, White Male Murdered By Three Blacks (On

His Name Is Patric Phillips: After Answering His Front Door, White Male Murdered By Three Blacks (One On Parole For Prior Gun Charge)

It becomes apparent when you look at crime and, in particular, interracial crime, in America, were we to have an honest conversation about race, you’d be bombarded with images of black-on-white violence on a shocking basis.
In actuality, it would be ceaseless, a never-ending assault of racial realities, which long ago convinced our ancestors to pass laws protecting the white majority from the criminality even W.E.B. Dubois knew to be the truth.
Imagine opening up your door and seeing three black males, one of whom was on parole for a shooting five years prior when he was only fifteen.
It would be the last image you’d see on this earth.
Second suspect charged in fatal Erie shooting, by Tim Hahn, GoErie, April 16, 2020
Teen is accused of taking part in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old city man in December. A 25-year-old Erie man fatally shot in the doorway of his eastside residence in early December was mortally wounded as three males armed with a handgun attempted to rob him, according to information outlined in the criminal complaint of a teenager charged in the case on Wednesday. Damarjon D. Beason, 17, [Pictured right] was taken into police custody on Wednesday morning and was later arraigned by Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney on charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and robbery. Beason was charged under the Fisher Bill, a state law that permits juveniles accused of committing violent crime to be charged as adults. Beason is charged in the shooting death of 25-year-old Patric Phillips on the late afternoon of Dec. 7. Derrick D. Elverton, 19, of Erie, was charged in the case on Feb. 11 and is awaiting a preliminary hearing scheduled for May 1. Officers who responded to a residence in the 700 block of East 24th Street after the shooting was reported on Dec. 7 at 5:48 p.m. found Phillips dead in the doorway of the residence. An autopsy determined that Phillips died of at least two gunshot wounds, one to the head and one to the neck, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said. According to police, Phillips was inside his residence with two other people when someone knocked on the back door. Phillips opened the door and was shot, police said. Investigators reported at the time that several people were outside when the shooting happened, and that officers recovered at least one shell casing at the shooting scene. Erie police initially released few details on the shooting, and the criminal complaint against Elverton was sealed. But new details emerged in the complaint filed against Beason. According to detectives, three males confronted Phillips at the back door of his home after the suspects forced another person at gunpoint to knock on the door. The suspects fled after the shots were fired. Officers who responded to the shooting canvassed the area and found a 9 mm handgun that was determined to be the murder weapon, an Apple iPhone and a jacket that matched the description of a jacket worn by one of the suspects, Erie police Detective Sgt. Michael Hertel and Detective Sgt. Craig Stoker wrote in the affidavit of probable cause filed with Beason’s complaint. Detectives also obtained and reviewed surveillance video from cameras in the area that showed the suspects before and after the shooting. Video and other evidence led investigators to identify Elverton and Beason as two of the suspects, according to the affidavit. The homicide investigation is ongoing, investigators said Wednesday.
Murdered, as he was answering his door, by three blacks. One of whom was on parole for a prior gun charge.
Welcome to America.
His name is Patric Phillips.
We were never supposed to catalogue the names and tell their stories. But we did. But we have. Their Lives Matter Too.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-23--Peter Brimelow's Call In ALIEN NATION For An Immigration Moratorium—25 Years Ago!

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Earlier: Trump Has Put An Immigration Moratorium "In Play." Not Enough—But Something and Re-Reading Peter Brimelow's ALIEN NATION—25 Years Later
Recently, VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow wrote that it had been "25 years to the month since I proposed an immigration moratorium in my book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster"
Brimelow has actually been calling for a moratorium since 1992, although his National Review cover story didn't use the word "moratorium," and has continued to do so up until Trump came out publicly in agreement with him and us.
I did a Control-F through Alien Nation (buy it in Kindle here) for the word "moratorium", which in immigration terms means stopping net immigration.
The whole book, of course, is in effect about that: When people objected to the very idea of restricting legal immigration, I had to point out that VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's 1995 bestselling book wasn't called "Illegal Alien Nation."
From the beginning of Chapter 3, The Pincers, Peter wrote:
As a journalist, I adore angry letters from readers. They give you that warm, comforting feeling that somebody, somewhere, cares. The letter below, however, was particularly stimulating. It's one of the responses that National Review ran after my [1992] immigration cover story.
[To the question of who should immigrate] Brimelow . . . provides the same tired answer given by every ethnic group: "More people who look like me." ... He implicitly suggests that the real reason for curbing immigration is to maintain the racial hegemony of white Americans.
Needless to say, on reading this complaint, I was immediately stricken by guilt. You always are. Even though what I had actually suggested was a moratorium—no immigration at all.
Peter was able to overcome this guilt by reflecting that “immigrants who look like him” were also immigrants who looked like, for example, George Washington, whose family once lived in Warton, Lancashire, less than 40 miles from where Peter was born.
Below is the policy proposal from Chapter 14, What Then, Is To Be Done?
Quantity America needs another time-out from immigration. It needs another pause for digestion, to match the Great Lulls of 1790-1840 and 1925-65. This means a drastic cutback of legal immigration. From the current 1 million a year to perhaps 400,000, the target suggested by the Rockefeller Commission on Population Growth and the American Future in 1972. Or 350,000, as proposed by Reverend Theodore Hesburgh's Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy in 1981.[PDF] Or 300,000, as proposed by FAIR in 1992—which the organization describes as a "moratorium" because it would mean zero net immigration, since up to some 300,000 people are estimated to leave the United States each year. Or, maybe, even less. There is a case for an immediate temporary cutoff of all immigration—say three to five years. Thereafter it might be advisable to adopt the more flexible Australian and Canadian approach. These countries have no specific immigrant total written into law, and can vary the total accepted yearly according to their labor-market conditions (and to public opinion—ultimately the only legitimate arbiter). Returning the INS to the Labor Department from the Justice Department, as proposed by Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., in his Mass Immigration and the National Interest, might reduce the current legalistic-civil rights bias. When you have a hammer, as Justice Department lawyers do, everything looks like a nail. Whatever the total, however, cutting back immigration certainly means radical reform of the “family-reunification" policy. Currently, the United States is the only industrialized country that allows the automatic immigration of "non-nuclear" extended-family members. Had immigration been restricted just to the "nuclear" family members of American citizens—parents, spouses and dependent children—only about 250,000 immigrants would have entered in 1992. (And even this flow would diminish in time, because many of these sponsoring American citizens are actually themselves recent immigrants.) But an automatic quarter million immigrants a year, before any skilled immigration at all, is still a lot. In the end, the fact must be faced: even close family reunification is not sacred. The restrictionist legislation in the 1920s, for example, made no provision for it. (And, of course, families can be reunited in two ways—the immigrant can always leave.)
Italics in original; Peter believes in emphasis. The letter was from Patrick Burns, who was involved in the immigration restriction movement himself at one point. He blogs as Terrierman, where he says no doubt sensible and useful things about adorable little dogs, and much less sensible things about politics. He had a little gloat in 2018, when Larry Kudlow was attacked for having known Peter Brimelow well enough that he invite Peter to a Kudlow birthday party.
Perhaps we can all have a little gloat in return.


vdare--2020-04-24--Enoch Powell And The Deep State (Possibly The Old SOVIET Deep State!)

In his YouTube podcast with Diana West, VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow reminisced about that fact that Enoch Powell, discussing the obfuscation of immigration figures by the civil servants of the British Home Office (which was responsible for immigration) wondered if they were as badly infiltrated (by the Soviet Union) as the Foreign Office. (It was well known that the Foreign Office, like the US State Department, had been badly infiltrated.)
Peter was speaking from memory, because he was actually in England in 1970 when it happened, but he was correct.
From Simon Heffer's biography of Powell, Like The Roman:
Later that day in his own constituency he rounded on civil servants who had concealed the truth about immigration. “If I have been guilty on this score it is understatement that has been my offence. On this subject, so vital to their future, the people of this country have been misled”— there was a pause while his audience cheered—“cruelly and persistently, till one begins to wonder if the Foreign Office was the only Department of State into which enemies of this country had been infiltrated.” [Times of London, June 15, 1970] It was right he should return directly to the theme of immigration in Wolverhampton, since it was his experience there that had prompted him to make the Birmingham speech. He told his audience that the scale of immigration was already higher than it had been in the previous thousand years of the nation’s history.
Of course, it's quite possible that the Home Office bureaucrats were Communist operatives or sympathizers, but it's equally possible that they were simply Leftists or people who thought that the truth about immigration figures would upset people, and cause them to vote for "racist" candidates.
So you have to ask: Were they traitors, like Kim Philby (pictured right on Soviet postage stamp) or Alger Hiss, working for a specific foreign country, or were they just alienated from their own country and its past, and wanted to change it?
The answer is it doesn't make any difference to English victims of terrorism, London "gun crime," or the white female victims of sex trafficking in Rotherham.
The effect on England is the same.


vdare--2020-04-23--ARE Mexicans Immune? Coronavirus Death Count Passes 1K

Mexico's Excelsior announced on the evening of April 23 that the death count from Coronavirus COVID-19 has surpassed 1000:
Department of Health authorities announced this Thursday [April 23] that the amount of deaths from coronavirus in the country [Mexico] reached 1,069 while the positive cases reached 11,633. [Sube a mil 69 número de muertos por coronavirus en México ("Deaths from Coronavirus in Mexico Rise to 1,069") Excelsior, April 23, 2020]
According to a leaked insider report, in March a coronavirus death projection was put forth in the Mexican Cabinet. The minimum deaths predicted were 400 and the maximum was 2000. This projection was based, in part, on a racial theory.
Here's what I reported in a previous article:
Salvador Garcia Soto, a columnist for El Universal, says the [Mexican] cabinet discussed Mexico’s racial identity relative to the virus in a recent meeting [Esperan hasta 2 mil muertes por Covid-19 en México (“Up to 2,000 Deaths from Covid-19 Expected in Mexico”), March 23, 2020]. That must mean Garcia has a secret source within the cabinet. Lopez-Gatell’s Chinese Virus team and some other officials presented an estimate of how many Mexicans they expect to die from coronavirus: as low as 400 and high as 2,000. They see that as an optimistic scenario, a maximum of 2,000 deaths. According to Garcia: "In that report, the cabinet health specialists commented to the president that “genetically, the Mexican race has greater resistance to this type of virus than other races such as the European” and they argued that it has to do with the Mexican genome and with mestizaje [the mixture of Spaniards and Indians which produced Mexico’s mestizo majority]. That’s why they expected that that would influence the impact that the new coronavirus would have among the Mexican population." Said in Spanish, March 30, 2020
Will Mexico's racial composition really keep the coronavirus death count down? I don't know, but it's worth consideration, along with other factors.
In fact, why not compare coronavirus stats on the three major Mexican groups: the mestizo majority, Mexican Indians and white Mexicans? The data gleaned from such a study would be good for the future of all three groups.
Aside from the thousand plus deaths in Mexico, at an April 21 press conference, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that
"We have a report in this moment that there are now more than 300 Mexicans or persons of Mexican origin who have died in the United States." [Versión estenográfica de la conferencia de prensa matutina |Martes 21 de abril de 2020 ("Stenographic Version of the Morning Press Conference, Tuesday April 21, 2020"), Mexican Presidential Website.]
On the topic of coronavirus rates of American Latinos in general, see Coronavirus Case Rates and Death Rates for Latinos in the United States, by Cliff Despres, Salud America, April 20, 2020.


vdare--2020-04-24--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2013: Magnificent Ann Coulter Column On LEGAL Immigration And Immigra

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2013: Magnificent Ann Coulter Column On LEGAL Immigration And Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2013.
There's a magnificent Ann Coulter column on Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome, and it mentions legal immigration as a problem, too. (Skeptics take note.) The column is called The Problem Isn't Just Illegal Immigration, It's Legal Immigration, Too, April 24, 2013.
There's a list of immigrant mass murders, the same ones we've been reporting on for years, and you can find details on most of them by searching our site: See my article VDARE.com’s Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome Count—As Of July 28, 2011: 37 Cases, 337 Dead, and the updated chart here.
It starts
In addition to the four dead and more than 100 badly wounded victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, let's consider a few of the many other people who would be alive, but for Kennedy's immigration law: The six Long Island railroad passengers murdered in 1993 by Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson. Before the shooting, Ferguson was unemployed, harassing women on subways, repeatedly bringing lawsuits against police and former employers, applying for workman's compensation for fake injuries and blaming all his problems on white people. Whom he then decided to murder.
And goes on from there.
Some of you may be thinking "I know all that." Yes, but mainstream conservatives don't. And Ann Coulter does. Her column concludes:
During the three years from 2010 through 2012, immigrants have committed about a dozen mass murders in this country, not including the 9/11 attack. The mass murderers were from Afghanistan, South Korea, Vietnam, Haiti, South Africa, Ethiopia and Mexico. None were from Canada or Western Europe. I don't want to hear about the black crime rate or the Columbine killers. We're talking about immigrants here! There should be ZERO immigrants committing crimes. There should be ZERO immigrants accepting government assistance. There should be ZERO immigrants demanding that we speak their language. We have no choice about native-born losers. We ought to be able to do something about the people we chose to bring here. Meanwhile, our government officials just keep singing the praises of "diversity," while expressly excluding skilled immigrants who might be less inclined to become "disaffected" and lash out by killing Americans. In response to the shooting at Fort Hood, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said: "As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse." On "Fox News Sunday" this week, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden said of the Boston bombing suspects, "We welcome these kinds of folks coming to the United States who want to be contributing American citizens." Unless, that is, they have a college degree and bright prospects. Those immigrants are prohibited.
The one link in there is added by Ann herself. The quote from the former CIA director is available at Boston Police commissioner on marathon investigation; Feinstein and King talk War on Terror; 'Big Brother' the solution to homeland security? Fox News Sunday, April 21, 2013.


vdare--2020-04-23--The Great Replacement In New York City: From 98% White In 1910 To 32% White In 2020:  NOW WITH INTER

The Great Replacement In New York City: From 98% White In 1910 To 32% White In 2020:  NOW WITH INTERACTIVE CHARTS

Why take just a macro-look at The Great Replacement in the United States of America, when you can easily take a micro-look? Let’s start with New York City. For those wondering, here’s the racial breakdown of New York City from 1910–2020, with the help of one of VDARE.com's high-tech fever charts:
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Here’s more:
It’s hard to believe that until 1980, New York City was overwhelmingly white — and it was traditionally conservative. Even during the Ellis Island period, it was a white city except for black Harlem. After the 1965 Immigration Act, the city turned multiracial and declined. Though it recovered in the 1990s and early 21st century, the white population is still declining, and the city is now a bastion of the far left.
New York started as New Amsterdam, a Dutch settlement seized by the English and renamed in 1664. The British controlled it for the entire period of the Revolutionary War; it was a loyalist stronghold. New York abstained in the critical independence vote on July 2, 1776. After the war, it was the headquarters for Andrew Hamilton and High Federalism. During the Civil War, many New Yorkers, especially working-class whites, sympathized with the Confederacy. Many blacks fled the city after the 1863 Draft Riots, and by 1865, there were fewer than 10,000 blacks left.
More than 12 million immigrants came through Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954. Almost all were white, though many were Italian, Eastern European, Jewish, or otherwise different from the Northern Europeans who founded the United States. This stopped after the 1924 Immigration Act, championed by Representative Albert Johnson. “It has become necessary that the United States cease to become an asylum,” he said. Today, the official House of Representatives website calls the bill a “legislative expression of the xenophobia, particularly towards eastern and southern European immigrants, that swept America in the decade of the 1920s.”
Of course, it wasn’t just migration from white nations that worried Americans. In 1910, central Harlem was about 10 percent black. By 1930, it was 70 percent black. By 1950, it was about 98 percent black, and Harlem was the center of American black cultural and intellectual life. It was also heavily leftist, with figures such as poet Langston Hughes and singer Paul Robeson supporting the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. In 1964, the Harlem race riot, which began after an off-duty police officer shot a black teenager, was the first major race riot of the decade. [The Great Replacement: New York City, by Gregory Hood, Henry Wolff, and Paul Kersey, American Renaissance, April 13, 2020]


vdare--2020-04-23--Minnesota's Keep-Blacks-Together Child Welfare Law Might Be A Good Idea For All Races

Should black children get special consideration against removal-from-race by child welfare agencies? Should black children get special consideration against removal-from-race by child welfare agencies?
For white advocates, there may be a sly reason to support a bill like the one proposed in Minnesota, because it recognizes that racial preservation is a worthy goal. If it's good for blacks, why not whites?
If it's abusive to snatch a black child away from the black community, isn't it just as abusive to stick a white child into a majority-black public school? If it's abusive to snatch a black child away from the black community, isn't it just as abusive to stick a white child into a majority-black public school?
My take is that keeping members of any race contiguous is best for everyone's mental health.
The black family, of course, is a nationwide trainwreck, with the overwhelming majority of births being out of wedlock.
White couples—motivated by Christian beliefs, liberal politics or adventurism—think they're being virtuous by adopting black children.
It's less than ideal. Black children belong with black parents.
Child welfare agencies, meanwhile, wield awesome power. They can take children upon the flimsiest of evidence.
Asks Walter Olson:
Which brings us to the most puzzling thing about the Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act: If state child‐services agencies wield too much power to break up families—and maybe they do—why not revamp the law to protect all parents and children, of whatever race, from government interventions of this sort? If it’s good practice not to put children into foster care without checking out the possibility of an extended‐family placement, or to “strictly limit” the termination of parental rights, why wouldn’t that also be a good idea for American children of Vietnamese, Guatemalan, Syrian or Irish descent?


vdare--2020-04-24--Moratorium Fiasco, Glimmers Of Light, Lifeboat Ethics, And Judicial Diversity, Etc

03m43s The moratorium fiasco. (Trump pulls the old bait'n'switch.)
11m45s Did Trump just lose re-election? (For shafting your base, there's a price.)
15m34s Glimmers of light in the darkness. (The word "moratorium" is now in play.)
19m17s Lifeboat ethics. (A recipe for disaster.)
26m21s Commie ethics. (Whopping lies.)
29m10s Congratulations, Spectator. (Happy 10,000th!)
30m05s Chinese demand less freedom of speech. (An authoritarian's dream.)
32m46s Judicial diversity in Washington State. (Heart of wokeness.)
35m14s Anarcho-tyranny watch. (Pubs closed, borders open.)
36m33s Signoff. (With the Petersens.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Welcome to the podcast, ladies and gentlemen. This is of course your impishly genial host John Derbyshire, with news and views from a National Conservative viewpoint.
Quite a week for birthdays there:
Monday was Hitler's 131st, although I think it's supposed to be bad taste to remember that. It was also Patriots' Day in Maine and Massachusetts, if that helps improve the taste.
Tuesday the Queen of England, Elizabeth the Second, turned 94. Elizabeth spent her teen years in Windsor, twenty miles from central London, when that city was being bombarded by Hitler's planes and missiles.
Wednesday was Lenin's 150th birthday. Lenin was Hitler's inspiration: Hitler's Nazi Party was organized on explicitly Leninist lines. Lenin probably didn't murder as many people as Hitler; but he did his best, and when he could do no more, Stalin took up the torch. In the immortal lines of Robert Conquest:
There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.
Thursday was the feast day of St George, patron Saint of England. It's also traditionally marked as the birthday of William Shakespeare, though nobody really knows for sure. The Swan of Avon, were he still among us, would have been 456 years old.
Today, Friday the 24th, seems to be devoid of significance where historical birthdays are concerned. I googled, but kept coming up with Barbra Streisand and quickly got discouraged … This is, however, the first day of Ramadan, if that's your thing.
So, a week of birthdays. Also, if you don't mind my mentioning it, the beginning of my nineteenth year as an American: the date written on my Certificate of Naturalization is April 19th, 2002. And I am writing this in the middle of a COVID-19 pandemic. Hm: nineteen, nineteen … Louis Farrakhan, call your office.
Now, turning our eyes from the past to the present, what do we see?
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02—The moratorium fiasco. The first thing of real interest we saw, on Monday evening, was a tweet from our President saying, tweet:
In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!
End tweet.
Hallelujah! [Clip: Hallelujah chorus.] Out here on the Dissident Right, joy was unconfined. We were cheering; we were throwing our MAGA hats in the air; we were dancing in the streets—maintaining a careful six feet distance from each other, of course.
Then on Tuesday we actually got a look at the President's executive order as issued. Our hearts, it turned out, had been too soon made glad. The order was a nothingburger: some perfunctory fiddling with visa categories that have little to do with protecting American jobs.
The eagle-eyed Jessica Vaughan at the Center for Immigration Studies did a detailed analysis. Quote from her:
However well intentioned, this executive order will provide little relief to Americans. The pause applies to only a few immigrants who represent a tiny fraction (about 5 percent) of total annual admissions, and will actually re-start admissions that have been paused, well before this health crisis is over, and well before the employment crisis is over.
End quote.
To put it less gently: This executive order is just another blast of hot air from our windbag President, accomplishing nothing—actually, on those suspended admissions now to be restarted, less than nothing.
Those huge tranches of guest-worker visas handed out to people coming to take jobs from Americans? No change, even as our unemployment numbers head for the thirty million mark.
You can file Monday evening's tweet with Trump's other empty promises on National Question issues: the building of a big beautiful wall on our southern border, that has turned out to be the repainting of some bollards; taxing remittances to make Mexico pay for the wall, an idea that has sunk without trace along with any other scheme to make Mexico pay, if there was any other; the executive order rescinding DACA that he was going to sign on his first day in office, except that he was mysteriously unable to find his signing pen that day; the other executive order annulling birthright citizenship that he just can't seem to find time to attend to …
This week's moratorium fiasco makes it clear, if it wasn't clear before, that there is nothing to hope for from Trump on National Question issues, even in a major national crisis. He is weak and lazy, easily manipulated by the cynical bureaucrats, lobbyists, and congressweasels of Washington, DC. Up against these people he has no confidence, no strength in his convictions … or perhaps just no real convictions.
And this actually was clear before. It was clear to me, at any rate, after those disastrous televised White House meetings in early 2018 where Trump just agreed with the last thing anyone said, even when it was the opposite of the previous thing he'd agreed with.
The Ever Trumpers are telling us that the White House staff are to blame for gutting the moratorium order. The President had the right idea in that Monday evening tweet, the Ever Trumpers tell us, but it got watered down by the staff members tasked with drafting the order.
As excuses go, that ranks several places below "the dog ate my homework." The White House staff is Trump's staff. If they draft an executive order in some way he doesn't like, he can tell them to go do it over the way he wants it.
We elected Trump, we didn't elect the White House flunkies. Nobody elected them.
The buck doesn't stop on Mark Meadows' desk, or Kellyanne Conway's, or Stephen Miller's, or Jared Kushner's, or Ivanka Trump's. It stops on your desk, Mr President.
Another excuse being circulated around Washington is that, to quote Tucker Carlson, who retailed it on his show the other night, quote:
Officials from the Department of Labor and the Council of Economic Advisors [argued that] the unemployment benefits in the coronavirus stimulus bill were so generous that American citizens would refuse to go back to work because it was easier to just get a government check. And so we have to bring in more foreigners.
End quote.
That's kind of a supercharged version of the notion peeping out from between the lines of articles by immigration fanatics like Bret Stephens and Max Boot: that working-class Americans are dull-witted loafers lacking any spirit of enterprise, no use for anything except drawing a dole, so that the country would be a better place if we just got rid of these useless mouths somehow and replaced them with immigrants.
I don't say there are no such useless, workshy Americans. From my own experience of the nation's labor force, though, which spans a range from dishwashing to investment banking, I don't believe there are many. Most of us want to work.
If Trump found this excuse compelling enough to make him change his executive order, he is utterly out of touch with the country he is President of.
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03—Did Trump just lose re-election? If you think I was unkind to the President back there, check out the Twitter posts and the comment threads to news stories about the moratorium fiasco. Representative comment from a Breitbart reader, quote:
Trump's pathetic PR stunt on immigration just cost him my vote. This is the rock and the hard place, and he chose the wrong side, going with big business interests, not the American people. Mr Trump, wrong answer.
End quote.
A lot of Americans feel that way. Probably a lot more will be feeling that way in the fall.
Here's a scenario. You're a young American, married with a couple of kids. You're not particularly political. Three or four years ago you opened a small restaurant in your home town, financed with some savings and a loan from your parents. That kept you busy full-time: way too busy for tweeting or commenting at Breitbart, even if you'd had the inclination.
Then the lockdown killed your business stone dead. You figure that even when it's lifted people won't be going to restaurants much for a while. What are you going to do to support your family?
You got good grades in math at high school, and are deft at finding your way round the internet. Somewhere you saw the slogan: Learn to Code!
You buy some teach-yourself books online and burn the midnight oil all through summer learning HTML, Javascript, C++, and SQL.
By September you're ready for an entry-level coding job. That's when you learn that interviewing for those jobs at local companies is in the hands of managers from India who came over ten years ago on H-1B visas and ascended the corporate ladder to hiring-and-firing positions. They preferentially hire their own countrymen, also on guest-worker visas; and that's what their company bosses want them to do, because guest-workers are cheaper and are tied to the firm for the duration of their visas.
So … you can't get a coding job.
Now November's coming up, and the Presidential election. Guest workers are still flooding in by the tens of thousands. Are you going to vote for a President who dangled an immigration moratorium in front of you six months before, then pulled it away and laughed at the suckers who'd believed him?
That's a rhetorical question.
Things always seem bigger, more important, when they've just happened. That's one of those cognitive biases we're all susceptible to. Making due allowance for that, I don't think it's a stretch to say that Trump's moratorium flip-flop this week may have lost him re-election in November.
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04—Glimmers of light in the darkness. Despair is of course a sin. Dum spiramus speramus—while we breathe, we hope. What might we reasonably hope for in this present darkness?
Well, Michelle Malkin draws our attention to this little nugget in the executive order as issued, quote:
Section 6: Additional Measures. Within 30 days of the effective date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall review nonimmigrant programs and shall recommend to me other measures appropriate to stimulate the United States economy and ensure the prioritization, hiring, and employment of United States workers.
End quote.
So we have 30 days to make our voices heard: as Michelle says, "30 days to remove this sham ban and demand a full and real immigration moratorium." Speak up—let them hear us!
And as the boss here, Peter Brimelow, has posted: Even with this setback we now at last have the word "moratorium" in general circulation.
This hasn't been the case up to now. As Cousin Peter notes, the previous time our country slipped into mass unemployment, during the Great Recession twelve years ago, the idea of an immigration moratorium to help American workers went totally un-mentioned by the nation's leaders.
Well, when the President tweets a word, however insincerely, that word is in play. Let's keep it in play.
Americans are still, I think, somewhat shell-shocked at the sudden change in our national circumstances. As the weeks pass, though, and the economic problems multiply, they'll be looking for solutions—for policy ideas that have some clear alleviating benefit. A moratorium on immigration, especially of guest workers, fills the bill.
Further to that: If, with the President's help, however unwitting, if we can de-taboo the word "moratorium," we shall be some way forward towards destroying the idea that mass immigration is some kind of moral imperative that only bad people could oppose.
Mass immigration is not a moral imperative. It's just a policy, like tariff levels or farm price subsidies, that we can adjust as we please to give maximum benefit to our citizens.
That's how rational countries decide their policies. That's how we should decide ours.
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05—Lifeboat ethics. I'm keeping a wary eye on Africa recently. When this new coronavirus first came up, there was a general vague opinion that Africa would not be seriously affected.
For one thing, the place is warm, and the virus doesn't like a warm climate. For another, Africa is young. The median age in Kenya is 20; in Nigeria, 18; in Niger, fifteen. Median age in the USA is 38; in Switzerland 42; in Japan 47. The virus wreaks most havoc among old people.
Lately, though, I've been reading stories about the economic impact on Africa of all the lockdowns and slowdowns in the developed world.
On remittances, for example—money sent back to the home countries in Africa by Africans working in Europe, America, or the Middle East. Nigeria gets 24 billion dollars a year from remittances; as people are laid off in the host countries, the World Bank says that number will drop by a quarter.
Then there are falling commodity prices—oil only the most-publicized case. A lot of African countries depend on commodity exports. Quote from investment website ccn.com, April 21st, quote:
Nigeria may have one of the worst governments in the world. Even in good times, the country was in poor shape. But now, with oil prices falling to all-time lows, Nigeria is about to go the way of Venezuela and Zimbabwe with total economic collapse.
The Nigerian government depends on oil for 60 percent of its revenue and 90 percent of its foreign exchange. But with prices for several oil benchmarks falling below zero, Nigeria is generating massive losses for every barrel it produces. Add this to a rising debt load, bad economic policies, and political instability, and you have a recipe for disaster.
And while it's natural to mention Venezuela and Zimbabwe in this context, compare the population figures: Venzuela 29 million, Zimbabwe 15 million; Nigeria 214 million. That's nearly five times Venezuela and Zimbabwe together—a whole lot of human misery.
That's just the economic consequences. The impact of the coronavirus itself is unclear. African countries are not famous for rigorous statistics; nor, come to think of it, for excellence in provision of healthcare.
That latter point has led to some interesting sidebar stories. I liked this one, from BBC News, April 23rd. Headline: Coronavirus: Why some Nigerians are gloating about Covid-19.
Who is gloating, and why? It's ordinary Nigerians doing the gloating. The targets of the gloating—the gloatees—are upper-class folk, especially politicians.
Quote from the BBC News story:
These are the kind of people who normally jet off to the UK, Germany, or the US at the slightest headache because Nigeria's state hospitals are poorly funded, run-down, and lack adequate equipment …
But with borders closed and each country haunted by its own Covid-19 nightmare, Nigeria's big men and women are now forced to use their country's hospitals, prompting a stream of taunts and jokes.
End quote.
The Chief of Staff to Nigeria's president actually died from coronavirus April 17th, in a Nigerian hospital.
It's cruel to say it, but you can't help suspect that as the virus seeps out from the elites to the common folk, the gloating will likely turn into something nastier.
The phrase hovering in my mind here is "lifeboat ethics." We're talking about a billion people here, most of them at a low standard of living in badly-governed countries. Serious widespread economic collapse might send a lot of them—and a lot of a billion is a lot—fleeing to refugee camps, or across the Mediterranean—perhaps even across the Atlantic.
With our own nations in recession, our own people clamoring for help, and fears of contagion, shall we keep up our open-handed policy to refugees when refugee numbers swell into the tens of millions? Will the Europeans continue to tolerate charitable organizations unloading Africans in the ports of Italy, Spain, and Greece?
I fear we may find out.
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06—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Knowing that I have an affectionate attitude towards numbers, and a long acquaintance with China, I get asked about the virus-related numbers coming out of that country.
Here is an indirect answer. This is a quote from veteran British reporter Timothy Garton-Ash, after a visit to communist Yugoslavia back in 1983. Quote:
Imagine sitting round a table with four apparently sane and civilized men, the senior of whom suddenly remarks: "Of course, the Earth is flat." You expect the others to demur. But no. "Flat," says one. "Very flat," agrees his neighbor. "How else could we walk upright?" exclaims the third. And they all smile at you, challenging dissent.
Far-fetched? If you travel to communist countries as a journalist this is a regular experience. You are ushered into a large government office, greeted with elaborate politeness by the minister or party secretary, seated at a glass-topped table under the marquetry plaque of Lenin. A middle-aged secretary brings in cups of coffee, a plate of small cakes, perhaps a round of schnapps. And then they start quietly telling you these whopping lies.
End quote.
I can relate. The first place I lived in mainland China in 1982 was the town hotel, which was next door to the police station. I used to amuse myself by reading the notices of recent executions posted outside the station. Once, in a conversation with some colleagues at which our Party Secretary was also present, I mentioned a gruesome murder I'd read about there.
The Party Secretary interrupted me. "There are no murders in China!" he barked. I looked round at my colleagues. They were all nodding dutifully.
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Item: That Timothy Garton-Ash quote I plucked from an old issue of the Spectator—the London Spectator, not the American one.
That gives me an excuse to mention that this weekend's issue of the Spectator is issue number ten thousand. This is the first time any magazine anywhere has produced a ten-thousandth issue.
I let my own subscription lapse some years ago, just for economy; but as a keen reader of, and occasional contributor to, the Spectator through the seventies, eighties, and nineties, I add my congratulations to the many others they must have received.
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Item: Back to China for a moment. The story of Fang Fang has been getting some attention: in last week's issue of The Economist, and at Daily Mail Online. I've also been hearing about it from my wife, who keeps in touch with China via the WeChat social medium, which is supervised by the communists.
In brief: Fang Fang is a novelist, some of whose books have won literary prizes over there. She's 64 years old, so she was 20 when Mao died and the Cultural Revolution ended. From that you can deduce that she doesn't have too many illusions about China's political system.
Fang Fang was living in Wuhan when the virus first struck. She stayed there under lockdown, posting online diaries of remarkable frankness. Each post was of course deleted by the communist censors; but they are not very efficient, and readers had time to share and copy the posts.
That got Fang Fang an appreciative following in China … until news came out that Fang Fang's "Quarantine Diaries" will be published in translation this summer in Germany and the USA. Now her fan base has evaporated and she gets nothing but hate mail, including death threats. How dare she air China's dirty laundry in foreign outlets?
The Economist writer sees this as a sign that there's been a big shift in opinion over there. Quote:
Fang Fang's co-operation with Western publishers sparks rage because the perceived moral standing of the West, starting with President Donald Trump's America, is in free-fall. When a candid Chinese writer is embraced by foreigners, the motives of all involved are assumed to be suspicious.
End quote. Funny place, China.
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Item: I am long since resigned to the fact that our legal system has been utterly corrupted by Cultural Marxism. Even so, this story from Slate.com left me with my jaw hanging loose in amazement.
Slate is fully CultMarx-compliant. They started off this story lamenting that, quote: "Donald Trump's Presidency has been a disaster for judicial diversity," end quote.
Then they go to the good news. While the federal judiciary may be going to White Supremacist Hell in a handbasket, out there in the states, Democratic governors are diversifying their state judiciaries for all they're worth.
Slate brings forward its star exhibit. Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State has elevated to his supreme court a disabled black lesbian from Trinidad. Black, female, homosexual, disabled, and an immigrant: that's a fiver. Hoo-ee!
The lady's name—really, you can't make this stuff up—her name is Whitener, Grace Helen Whitener.
Would you like to hear about Governor Inslee's two other appointees to his state supreme court? I know you would. Here they are: Raquel Montoya-Lewis, a Jewish Native American, and Mary Yu, an Asian-American Latina lesbian.
I need a drink.
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Item: Anarcho-tyranny watch: Over in the nation of my birth, the United Cuckdom, two men have been arrested by police for "racially aggravated public order offenses."
So what did they do—burn a cross on someone's lawn? No, worse than that. They have been sticking up posters on lamp posts, bus stops, and bollards around the town of Sheffield protesting Britain's coronavirus lockdown with the words: PUBS CLOSED, BORDERS OPEN.
The news outlet I'm quoting, dissident-right Voice of Europe, does not fail to notice that Sheffield is just eight miles from Rotherham, the town where, for nearly twenty years, gangs of Pakistani Muslim men kidnapped and gang-raped underage English girls while police looked the other way for fear someone would call them racist.
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07—Signoff. That's all for this week, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening. If you have been affected by these awful tornadoes down south there, sympathy and condolences from Radio Derb, and may your lives soon get back to normal. Any listeners who want to help, Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund is on the job, and there are GoFundMe pages for individual cases: Google "GoFundMe tornadoes," then click "Tools … Any Time … Past week."
For signout, let's have some country music. Here's a family band, the Petersens out of Branson, Missouri, covering the Dolly Parton classic "Jolene."
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can.
You can't get any more country than that.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-04-24--John Derbyshire: “Lifeboat Ethics” Dilemma Will Be Posed By WuFlu-Driven African Exodus

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
I'm keeping a wary eye on Africa recently. When this new coronavirus first came up, there was a general vague opinion that Africa would not be seriously affected.
For one thing, the place is warm, and the virus doesn't like a warm climate. For another, Africa is young. The median age in Kenya is 20; in Nigeria, 18; in Niger, fifteen. Median age in the USA is 38; in Switzerland 42; in Japan 47. The virus wreaks most havoc among old people.
Lately, though, I've been reading stories about the economic impact on Africa of all the lockdowns and slowdowns in the developed world provoked by the WuFlu.
On remittances, for example—money sent back to the home countries in Africa by Africans working in Europe, America, or the Middle East. Nigeria gets $24 billion a year from remittances; as people are laid off in the host countries, the World Bank says that number will drop by a quarter. [Migration and Development Brief 32: COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens, April, 2020]
Then there are falling commodity prices—oil only the most-publicized case. A lot of African countries depend on commodity exports:
Nigeria may have one of the worst governments in the world. Even in good times, the country was in poor shape. But now, with oil prices falling to all-time lows, Nigeria is about to go the way of Venezuela and Zimbabwe with total economic collapse. The Nigerian government depends on oil for 60 percent of its revenue and 90 percent of its foreign exchange. But with prices for several oil benchmarks falling below zero, Nigeria is generating massive losses for every barrel it produces. Add this to a rising debt load, bad economic policies, and political instability, and you have a recipe for disaster. Oil Price Apocalpyse Will Bankrupt Nigeria, Africa’s Richest Nation, by William Ebbs,CCN.com, April 21, 2020
And while it's natural to mention Venezuela and Zimbabwe in this context, compare the population figures: Venezuela 29 million, Zimbabwe 15 million; Nigeria 214 million. (It may be more: At this point they've lost count.)
That's nearly five times Venezuela and Zimbabwe together—a whole lot of human misery. [Virus triggers African unrest: Riots break out in Johannesburg over food shortages and Lesotho's under-fire PM deploys army to 'restore order' as Covid-19 claims over 1,000 lives across the continent — including Nigerian presidential aide, by James Gant, Daily Mail, April 18, 2020.
Virus triggers African unrest: Riots break out in Johannesburg over food shortages https://t.co/nGENfZWe2n — Fjordman (@Fjordman1) April 22, 2020
That's just the economic consequences. The impact of the coronavirus itself is unclear. VDARE.com’s Lance Welton and science writer Jon (Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It) Entine have both noted that Africa seems to be a “cold spot” for coronavirus and have speculated on possible explanations. But African countries are not famous for rigorous statistics; nor, come to think of it, for excellence in provision of healthcare.
That latter point has led to some interesting sidebar stories. I liked this one, from BBC News, April 23rd: Coronavirus: Why some Nigerians are gloating about Covid-19.
Who is gloating, and why? It's ordinary Nigerians doing the gloating.
"Nigeria's gross inequality has often been criticised, and rightly so, but the spread of Covid-19 is definitely one area where the nation cannot afford to have equality."https://t.co/qTDgBsqYyx — Baba (@Z__Baba) April 22, 2020
The targets of the gloating—the gloatees—are upper-class folk, especially politicians.
Quote from the BBC News story:
These are the kind of people who normally jet off to the UK, Germany, or the US at the slightest headache because Nigeria's state hospitals are poorly funded, run-down, and lack adequate equipment … But with borders closed and each country haunted by its own Covid-19 nightmare, Nigeria's big men and women are now forced to use their country's hospitals, prompting a stream of taunts and jokes.
The Chief of Staff to Nigeria's president actually died from coronavirus April 17th, in a Nigerian hospital. [Abba Kyari, Nigerian President’s Right-Hand Man, Dies, by Ruth Maclean, NYT, April 23, 2020]
It's cruel to say it, but you can't help suspect that as the virus seeps out from the elites to the common folk, the gloating will likely turn into something nastier.
The phrase hovering in my mind here is "lifeboat ethics." We're talking about a billion people here, most of them at a low standard of living in badly governed countries. Serious widespread economic collapse might send a lot of them—and a lot of a billion is a lot—fleeing to refugee camps, or across the Mediterranean—perhaps even across the Atlantic.
With our own countries in recession, our own people clamoring for help, and fears of contagion, shall we keep up our open-handed policy to refugees when refugee numbers swell into the tens of millions?
Will the Europeans continue to tolerate Refugee Racket charities unloading Africans in the ports of Italy, Spain, and Greece?
I fear we may find out.
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vdare--2020-04-25--GOP Plans To Scapegoat China. But That Must Include Ending Chinese Immigration.

The GOP has apparently decided to scapegoat China for the coronavirus pandemic. But this will be pointless unless it includes the immigration dimension. A ban on further Chinese immigration and the removal of Chinese nationals and Chinese government-funded institutions from U.S. universities are at least as important as ensuring American control of essential American industries. The GOP has to become the nationalist “Workers Party” that President Donald Trump promised in 2016 if it wants to avoid an electoral bloodbath, and immigration has to be at the center of that transformation.
Trump is correct to note that Democrats/ Main Stream Media outlets attacked him when he first implemented the Chinese travel ban on January 31. Many called him “xenophobic” and said travel bans “didn’t work” [After attacking Trump’s coronavirus-related China ban as xenophobic, Dems and media have changed tune, by Gregg Re, Fox News, April 1, 2020]. In early February, a massive pro-China parade took place in New York City, now the center of the outbreak. Democrat Mark D. Levine, chairthing of the New York City Council’s health committee (!), celebrated the “defiance” of the “coronavirus scare.”
Similarly, Democrats/ journalists are now complaining that President Trump’s recent immigration suspension is xenophobic [President Trump’s immigration suspension has nothing to do with coronavirus, by Carly Goodman, Washington Post, April 22, 2020]. Of course, Trump’s “immigration ban” is far from a complete moratorium. Foreign workers are not being sent home and the threat to American workers at a time of high unemployment continues.
President Trump has good instincts, but, as usual, poor execution. Once again Jared Kushner is pushing back against a full immigration moratorium [America has a Jared Kushner Problem, by Pedro Gonzalez, American Greatness, April 24, 2020]. Rep. Paul Gosar was right to comment that “the very last thing we need to do is import additional foreign labor” [Gosar Reacts to Executive Order Halting Immigration, Paul Gosar, April 21, 2020].
The MSM has been denouncing the “anti-China” strategy as politically motivated [GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus, by Alex Isenstadt, Politico, April 24, 2020]. It probably is, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Republicans are right to target China in theory, but unless there’s effective execution on Chinese immigration in practice it will not achieve decisive results, economically or politically. Ominously, however, the “GOP memo” cited by Politico makes no mention of immigration.
The three main lines of the memo’s argument are reportedly 1) that China “covered up” the initial outbreak, 2) that Democrats are “soft” on China, and 3) that Republicans will “punish” China. The first is true, the second is still in flux, the last could well be all talk.
Firstly, the Chinese government did initially cover up the scale of the outbreak.
Hong Kong researchers recently reported Chinese coronavirus cases were far larger than the government reported [China coronavirus cases may have been four times official figure, says study, by Helen Davidson and Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, April 23, 2020]. American intelligence has concluded the same [China concealed extent of virus outbreak, U.S. intelligence says, by Nick Wadhams and Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg, April 1, 2020].
Indeed, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the “true leader of the free world” in many U.S. journalists’ eyes, sounds a lot like Republicans demanding investigations and transparency into China. “I believe the more transparent China is about the origin story of the virus,” she has been quoted as saying, “the better it is for everyone in the world in order to learn from it” [Angela Merkel urges Chinese transparency, by Ebony Bowden, New York Post, April 20, 2020].
And, in fact, the Chinese government still may not have not defeated the virus. A new outbreak was reported in Harbin in the northeast and there is another lockdown in place [Chinese city tightens coronavirus travel curbs in biggest outbreak, Reuters, April 21, 2020].
Secondly, the Democrats have been soft on China, although they’re wavering.
MSM Democrats used to mock China. For example, one of urban liberals’ high priests, pseudo-comedian John Oliver, joked about Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his developing cult of personality. The ban on comparing Jinping to Winnie the Pooh came in for particular merriment. The televisions with legs known as urban liberals delighted in this mockery.
Now however, such images have been pronounced racist and xenophobic. Thus some Dissident Rightist has been attaching “Wuhan Plague” plaques on Atlanta businesses and streets [‘Wuhan Plague’ plaques found on Atlanta businesses, streets, by Raisa Habersham, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 23, 2020] and, incredibly, this is the subject of a police investigation with JournoFa screaming for action [These Racist ‘Wuhan Plague’ Plaques Are Popping Up Around Atlanta, by Trone Dowd, Vice, April 23, 2020].
MSM Narrative Enforcers now don’t want Democrats to target China because it supposedly fuels “racism” [An Anti-China Message Didn’t Work for Democrats in 2018 — and It Won’t Work for Biden Now, by Jesse Myerson, The Intercept, April 22, 2020].
Currently Democrats are experimenting with the strategy of saying that it’s President Trump who is too soft on China [Democrats lay out rebuttal to Trump attacks on Biden over China, by Alexi McCammond, Axios, April 16, 2020]. Biden says Trump “rolled over for the Chinese” [Biden and Trump Battle Over Who Is ‘Weak on China,’ by Asma Khalid, NPR, April 22, 2020].
The latest conspiracy theory: Trump is weak on China because he supposedly owes millions to their state bank [Trump is personally indebted to China’s state-owned bank, by Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair, April 24, 2020].
Thus, we have an interesting case of the Narrative still being formed in media res—Democrats and their MSM allies can’t decide whether Trump is in bed with China (as they claimed he was with Russia) or whether taking an anti-China stance is itself racist.
Of course we know from watching the Dem/MSM flip-flop on whether or not it’s “racist” to report WuFlu’s racial incidence that they are quite capable of resolving this dilemma in shameless disregard of what they said previously. But right now they have provided President Trump with a golden opportunity: take the Biden campaign at its word and push forward even more measures designed to punish the Chinese government.
This would force the Biden campaign to either support him or say it’s not enough. But the latter would lead to more attacks from liberal journalists who think being anti-China is racist to begin with.
Thirdly, “Blaming China” means nothing unless there are severe consequences on trade and defense policy—but immigration needs to be at the center. As noted above, the GOP memo quited by Politico doesn't even mention it.
President Trump must plug the holes in his supposed immigration moratorium with three moves:
1) The H1-B program and other visa policies should be eliminated entirely and permanently.
Communist China runs second to India in the technical H1B visas, at about 22,000 new ones per year, and many times that number are renewed annually. But nationals of Communist China should not be working in crucial American industries, especially given the long pattern of Chinese espionage.
Already, the MSM is sob-storying that Chinese workers have lost their jobs in America; now would be a good time to for the Trump Administration to prevent them from getting them back. If that means buying one-way tickets, so be it. [Chinese workers in the US are losing their visas with their jobs, but flying home to China is too expensive, by Shen Lu, CNN, April 9, 2020].
2) Chinese nationals should not be studying at American universities in such enormous numbers. There are 350,000 Chinese students in the US, a number that has tripled in the last decade.
Even the MSM was reporting just before the pandemic truly hit that Chinese military operatives are allegedly obtaining visas to spy on American campuses [American universities are a soft target for China’s spies, say U.S. intelligence officials, by Ken Dilanian, NBC News, February 2, 2020]. NPR reported on American intelligence’s efforts to monitor these spying networks [FBI Urges Universities to Monitor Some Chinese Students and Scholars In The U.S., by Emily Feng, June 28, 2019]. The Chinese government-funded “Confucius Institutes” should also be shut down.
3) A total and complete immigration moratorium must be implemented—not just a “suspension.” Over ten percent of the million legal immigrants the U.S. has recently been accepting each year are from Communist China; there are more than 5 million Chinese immigrants now living in the U.S. [Key findings about U.S. immigrants , by Jynnah Radford, Pew, June 17, 2019]
I’ve obviously supported this kind of immigration moratorium for years, but the current situation makes it more important than ever.
Mass immigration, especially illegal, is a disease vector. So too are the de-facto foreign colonies that are being formed in our country. For example, even Bill Maher, no Trump supporter, is disgusted by the Chinese “wet markets” that the disease supposedly originated from [Bill Maher blasts ‘PC’ uproar over ‘Chinese virus’ label: ‘We should blame China,’ by Joseph Wulfsohn, Fox News, April 11, 2020]. However, “wet markets” and unsanitary slaughterhouses are in New York City itself, with one owner calling them “a big part of New York City culture, especially when you are dealing with different ethnic diversity” [Coronavirus News: Mounting calls to close live animal markets amid COVID-19, by Danielle Leigh, Eyewitness News 7, April 15, 2020].
There should also be a crackdown on American slaughterhouses and factory farming, which aren’t just unhealthy but notorious for their use of illegal workers. This policy would not just protect Americans from disease, but help unemployed Americans find jobs in the post-coronavirus recession.
The Trump Administration can’t afford more cheap talk and no action. “Blaming China” is pointless unless it is accompanied by an immigration crackdown.
Some of these proposed policies may well spook “the markets” or the large corporate interests dependent on trade with China. Yet it’s arguably because President Trump let their short-term perspective delay his response that we’re stuck in this pandemic.
He can’t make that mistake a second time if he wants a second term.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.


vdare--2020-04-25--Should Schools Reopen if Kids Really Aren't Very Infectious?

How infectious are children? This is an important question, since it bears on whether or not to reopen schools, that we haven’t seen much research upon. With many contagious illnesses, school have long been notorious sites of spread. But so far schools have not been widely implicated as super-spreader sites with this new virus, which in turns ties back to the curious question of why so many things about this virus seem to correlate strongly with age.
Here’s an interesting anecdatum from The Guardian:
Boy with Covid-19 did not transmit disease to more than 170 contacts
Case of symptomatic nine-year-old suggests children may be less likely to pass on virus
Ian Sample Science editor, @iansample, Tue 21 Apr 2020 04.00 EDT
A nine-year-old boy who contracted Covid-19 in Eastern France did not pass the virus on despite coming into contact with more than 170 people, according to research that suggests children may not be major spreaders of the virus.
The boy was among a cluster of cases linked to Steve Walsh, the Hove-based businessman who became the first Briton to test positive for coronavirus after attending a sales conference in Singapore in January.
Walsh unwittingly passed the infection on when he joined 10 British adults and a family of five at a chalet in the ski resort of Contamines-Montjoie in the Haute-Savoie region after flying in from London.
Most of the chalet guests contracted the virus, but an investigation by Public Health France found that the nine-year-old did not pass it on to either of his siblings nor anyone else, despite coming into contact with 172 people, all of whom were quarantined as a precaution, and having lessons at three separate ski schools.
A report on the investigation published in Clinical Infectious Diseases describes how tests revealed the boy to be infected with Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and also influenza and a common cold virus. While both of his siblings caught the latter infections, neither picked up the coronavirus.
“One child, co-infected with other respiratory viruses, attended three schools while symptomatic, but did not transmit the virus, suggesting potential different transmission dynamics in children,” Kostas Danis, an epidemiologist at Public Health France told the French news agency AFP.
The boy had only mild symptoms and when tested was found to have levels of virus that were barely detectable. The low level of infection is thought to explain why he did not infect other people.
The researchers believe that since children typically have only mild symptoms, they may transmit the virus far less than infected adults. “Children might not be an important source of transmissions of this novel virus,” they write.
Why children generally escape the worst of the virus is not well understood, but many scientists suspect that their immune response is somehow able to clear the infections more rapidly than older adults, who tend to be hit much harder by the illness.
The report comes after researchers at UCL concluded this month that school closures would likely have only a small effect on the spread of the virus, and that this should be weighed up against the profound social and economic costs.


vdare--2020-04-25--Miami-Dade: 6% Infection Rate, 0.17% Infection Fatality Rate (So Far)

From the Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade has tens of thousands of missed coronavirus infections, UM survey finds
BY BEN CONARCK AND DANIEL CHANG APRIL 24, 2020 About 6 percent of Miami-Dade’s population — about 165,000 residents — have antibodies indicating a past infection by the novel coronavirus, dwarfing the state health department’s tally of about 10,600 cases, according to preliminary study results announced by University of Miami researchers Friday.
Miami-Dade county is up to 287 deaths in total today, giving a crude Infection Fatality Rate of 0.17% so far, much lower than the 0.9% seen in New York City in yesterday’s new serological results, but more in line with California results.
One way to explain the bafflingly heterogeneous results we are constantly being confronted with is to posit Viral BioDiversity: there could be different strains in different places. For example, VBD could potentially account for why there are so many more deaths per person with antibodies in New York City than in Miami: it could be that there’s a New York City variant that is more lethal than the variant prevalent in Miami.
One problem with this explanation is that it’s unfalsifiable. You can use it to explain away any anomaly, which might lead you to overlook something that you could do something about. For example, maybe New York City is doing something wrong that Miami is doing right, which would be useful to figure out.
The study, spurred by Miami-Dade County officials, will be an ongoing weekly survey based on antibody testing — randomly selecting county residents to volunteer pinpricks of their blood to be screened for signs of a past COVID-19 infection, whether they had tested positive for the virus in the past or not. … Friday’s results, based on two weeks of countywide antibody testing and about 1,400 participants, found that about half of the people who tested positive for antibodies reported no symptoms in the 14-17 days before being tested. … Gimenez said the UM survey of Miami-Dade reflects a national trend showing African Americans are disproportionately impacted by the novel coronavirus. “African Americans are more than twice as likely to be infected with COVID-19 than other racial groups,” he said. The survey findings also indicate that Miami-Dade is far from the 60% or higher infection rate needed to reach herd immunity, when enough people are infected to stop the spread of the virus by slowing transmission. … UM researchers used statistical methods to account for the limitations of the antibody test, which is known to generate some false positive results. The researchers say they are 95% certain that the true amount of infection lies between 4.4% and 7.9% of the population, with 6% representing the best estimate. The results are similar but not identical to other serological surveys in California, but indicate far less infections than a recent survey in New York, which found a nearly 14% infection rate statewide and upwards of 20% in New York City. … UM researchers say their findings are more robust than most because they used Florida Power & Light to generate phone numbers in targeted demographic areas, leading to a more randomized selection of participants.
On the other hand, scientists are only now starting to get a good handle on how many false positives and false negatives are generated by antibody tests. From the NYT today:
Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Can You Trust the Results? A team of scientists worked around the clock to evaluate 14 antibody tests. A few worked as advertised. Most did not. By Apoorva Mandavilli
April 24, 2020 … For the past few weeks, more than 50 scientists have been working diligently to do something that the Food and Drug Administration mostly has not: Verifying that 14 coronavirus antibody tests now on the market actually deliver accurate results.
Here’s the organization’s website and draft preprint.
These tests are crucial to reopening the economy, but public health experts have raised urgent concerns about their quality. The new research, completed just days ago and posted online Friday, confirmed some of those fears: Of the 14 tests, only three delivered consistently reliable results. Even the best had some flaws. … In the new research, researchers found that only one of the tests never delivered a so-called false positive — that is, it never mistakenly signaled antibodies in people who did not have them. Two other tests did not deliver false-positive results 99 percent of the time. But the converse was not true. Even these three tests detected antibodies in infected people only 90 percent of the time, at best. The false-positive metric is particularly important. The result may lead people to believe themselves immune to the virus when they are not, and to put themselves in danger by abandoning social distancing and other protective measures.
False positives are important when infection rates are in the single digits. Last week’s Stanford test found about 50 positives among 3300 tested individuals, or a raw percentage of 1.5%. On the other hand, the New York City 21% finding is less likely to be highly inflated by false positives.
… Other scientists were less sanguine than Dr. Marson. Four of the tests produced false-positive rates ranging from 11 percent to 16 percent; many of the rest hovered around 5 percent. “Those numbers are just unacceptable,” said Scott Hensley, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania. “The tone of the paper is, ‘Look how good the tests are.’ But I look at these data, and I don’t really see that.” The proportion of people in the United States who have been exposed to the coronavirus is likely to be 5 percent or less, Dr. Hensley said. “If your kit has a 3 percent false-positive, how do you interpret that? It’s basically impossible,” he said. “If your kit has 14 percent false positive, it’s useless.” … New tests also usually compete with an established gold standard. Lacking such a standard, the team instead compared all the tests in a “head-to-head bake-off to see who’s the winner,” Dr. Hsu said. Each test was evaluated with the same set of blood samples: from 80 people known to be infected with the coronavirus, at different points after infection; 108 samples donated before the pandemic; and 52 samples from people who were positive for other viral infections but had tested negative for SARS-CoV-2. Tests made by Sure Biotech and Wondfo Biotech, along with an in-house Elisa test, produced the fewest false positives. A test made by Bioperfectus detected antibodies in 100 percent of the infected samples, but only after three weeks of infection. None of the tests did better than 80 percent until that time period, which was longer than expected, Dr. Hsu said. The lesson is that the tests are less likely to produce false negatives the longer ago the initial infection occurred, he said. The tests were particularly variable when looking for a transient antibody that comes up soon after infection, called IgM, and more consistent in identifying a subsequent antibody, called IgG, that may signal longer-term immunity. “You can see that antibody levels rise at different points for every patient,” Dr. Hsu said. The tests performed best when the researchers assessed both types of antibodies together. None of the tests could say whether the presence of these antibodies means a person is protected from reinfection, however. The results overall are promising, Dr. Marson added. “There are multiple tests that have specificities greater than 95 percent.” … Dr. Krammer said false positives are less of an issue for assessing how widely the virus has spread in the population. If a test has a known false-positive rate, scientists can factor that into their calculations, he said.
Assuming you know the false positive and false negative rates.
But false positives become dangerous when making policy and personal decisions about who can go back to work. “You don’t want anybody back to work who has a false positive — that’s the last thing you want to do,” Dr. Krammer said.
Unfortunately, this article doesn’t mention which tests were used in the various results we are now getting in from around the world.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-25--His Name Is Logan Allen Stacks: In Deep South, Two Black Males Murder 17-Year-Old White Teenager

Imagine if two white teenagers were hanging out with their black friend. In the Deep South, this would be a sign of racial progress.
Of tolerance and of inclusion.
Only, it wasn’t like this. The two white kids decided to murder their black friend. These two white teens would also steal the car he was driving, which belonged to his black father, only to ditch it and try and run away from the consequences of their actions.
Once caught, don’t you think this story would be the lead of every network nightly news broadcast, from ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX, to endless, 24/7 coverage on MSNBC and CNN?
Stop imaging for a brief moment and learn the story of what happened to 17-year-old Logan Allen Stacks, a white teenager murdered by two black teens in the Deep South.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting death of Logan Allen Stacks, age 17, of Fort Lawn, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said Friday morning.
Akime Lee Truesdale, of Lancaster, was arrested on March 31 and charged with accessory after the fact of a felony of murder.


vdare--2020-04-23--A Pennsylvania Reader Reports Hispanic Triumphalism In Coronavirus And Immigration-Impacted Hazleton

A Pennsylvania Reader Reports Hispanic Triumphalism In Coronavirus And Immigration-Impacted Hazleton, PA

From: An American Reader in Pennsylvania [Email him]
A recent article in a Central Pennsylvania newspaper by Charles Thompson [Email him] echoed themes familiar to VDARE readers: Replacement and Latino supremacy. The issue used to drive the themes home this time is the impact of the China Flu on the town of Hazleton, Pa.
Hazleton is the town that gained some notoriety years ago over the conflict between locals (i.e., Americans) and illegal immigrants. At the time, the cause of the Americans was championed by the town's Mayor, Lou Barletta. They were opposed, of course, by the usual suspects—media, ethnic activists, and leftist politicians. Currently, Hazleton is one of the most severely China Flu impacted areas in Pennsylvania. To the chagrin of the powers that be, some people have noticed a connection between the would-be conquerors and the illness.
This is not something that can be permitted. Two employees of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), which operates Hazleton's hospital, apparently forgetting what country they lived in, commented on social media that “I know of no Hispanics that are good. I don’t trust any of them due to many things that happened. They need to learn our language and live the American way. They hate us like we hate them.” And “It is this simple. The Latino Community- does not care and they act and they have acted very irresponsibly... They do not care and they do not follow the rules and advice of our government. And it has been that way since they flocked to Hazleton.” They were quickly reminded what country they live in and their status in it. LVHN terminated their employment.
Mr. Thompson writes that a critical issue is "...whether two groups who are still learning to peacefully co-exist - the mostly white sons and daughters of Irish and Italian immigrants who came here a century ago, and the new guard of mostly Latino immigrants who are giving Hazleton a future–will be able to keep this strange little virus from ripping their community apart." [Emphasis added]The people who built the town obviously not being capable of handling the tremendous task of providing a future for the town. Mr. Thompson notes "[i]t’s a distinct echo of the tensions felt here 15 years ago, when then-Mayor Lou Barletta was leading his nationally-noted crusade against illegal immigration." But, then quickly assures us that "... what’s different this time is the Latinos already know how the story ends." [Some blame Latinos for Hazleton’s COVID-19 outbreak, echoing divisions that once roiled city, by Charles Thompson, PennLive.com, April 20, 2020]
Mr. Barletta is cited for his apparent acquiescence to replacement and subjugation as he convinced former Hazletonian and MLB manager Joe Maddon to get some well known baseball players to record China Flu related messages in Spanish, and is quoted as saying “[y]ou’re always going to have some people who want this to be back in the old days....” To accentuate the dawn of the conquest of the Historic American Nation Mr. Thompson turns to Amilcar Arroyo, publisher of a monthly Spanish-language magazine in Hazleton.
Mr. Arroyo claims most assigning blame now "...not only are not the movers and shakers in the community, they are finding themselves with no public support from those leaders." He triumphantly celebrates victory over the deplorables saying
"[i]t’s the Latino community that is making this area alive again. We are the community... and that is more the opinion of organizations like the chamber of commerce or most of the elected officials. I always say that these little people will express their opinions. But the organizations that drive the area, they have a different opinion of the Latinos.”[Emphasis added]
This is a small battle in the larger war to extinguish the Historic American Nation. It is a tale of a fanatic hateful enemy that is determined to wage a long term campaign of conquest. Unfortunately, it is also a tale of betrayal and cowardice of so-called American leaders and institutions. The Historic American Nation's survival depends on identifying courageous leaders and developing loyal institutions.
James Fulford writes: We have a 103 posts mentioning the small city of Hazleton which was attacked by the ACLU, among other forces in society, for daring to try to resist illegal immigration. In a way, Barletta and Hazleton helped pave the way for Trump.


vdare--2020-04-15--Social Distancing With Peter Brimelow and Diana West—Premiers TONIGHT

After much anticipation and a few technical difficulties, we are proud to finally present an interview with Diana West! Thank you to everyone who was troubleshooting with us last week. We really have the best audience! Tune in HERE for the premiere tonight at 9:30PM EST.
Join us HERE (from a safe digital distance) for happy hour with Peter Brimelow and Diana West!
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Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy (Center for Security Policy Press, 2019), American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (St. Martin's Press 2013) and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St. Martin's Press 2007).
Since graduating from Yale, West began writing a weekly newspaper column at the Washington Times, where she also wrote editorials under Editorial Page Editors Helle Dale and the late Tony Blankley. The column soon went into syndication with Scripps-Howard, and later the Newspaper Enterprise Association of United Media. The column would be nationally syndicated for 15 years. A collection of West's columns came out under the title, No Fear: Selected Columns from America's Most Politically Incorrect Columnist (Bravura Books). West is also one of 19 co-authors of Shariah:The Threat to America, a publication of the Center for Security Policy.
West's work has appeared in many publications and news sites including the American Spectator, Breitbart News, the Daily Caller, Dispatch International, the Epoch Times, Family Security Matters, Gates of Vienna, Manhattan, Inc., M, Inc., National Wildlife Magazine, the New Criterion, the Public Interest, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Washington Post Magazine, the Weekly Standard, and her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.
She blogs at http://dianawest.net, and her Twitter handle is @diana_west.


vdare--2020-04-25--GOP Plans To Scapegoat China. But That Must Include ENDING CHINESE IMMIGRATION!


vdare--2020-04-23--A Patriot Lawyer Says Trump's Moratorium Order Needs To Be Full-Strength, Not Watered-Down

Re: Peter Brimelow's article Trump Has Put An Immigration Moratorium "In Play." Not Enough—But Something
From: Fabrizo Evola [Email him]
Like many in the Dissident Right, I was rather elated to hear that President Trump was going to impose an immigration moratorium by issuing an executive order. While I think this is welcome news, there is a good chance that this executive order will be significantly watered down. There is already some discussion about exempting certain farmworkers under the H-2A program. See Trump's Surprise Immigration Ban Expected To Include Major Exemption,by Anita Kumar, Liz Crampton And Matthew Choi, POLITICO, April 21, 2020.
My other concern is that there is a major distinction under immigration law between non-immigrant visas and immigrant visas. For instance, F visas (student visas) and H visas (work visas), are considered non-immigrant visas. The entire point of this supposed immigration moratorium is to ensure that Americans get the first opportunity to secure employment as the economy begins to recover once the pandemic is over. If, however, there is a never ending stream of student and work visas, that would end up undercutting the purpose of this executive order. Americans would still be forced to compete against a large supply of foreign labor.
In this scenario, an immigration moratorium would result in little more than a lull in the amount of legal permanent residency cards (immigrant visas) that are issued. Once the pandemic has abated, there would still be a very large pool of foreigners in the country who could then apply to adjust their status to permanent residency—and then eventually to citizenship.
For this immigration moratorium to be truly effective it has to include a moratorium on the vast majority of non-immigrant visas as well. I understand that there are going to be some exceptions for diplomatic visas and the like, but the Trump Administration needs to ensure that the supply of seemingly endless Third World labor is stopped with this executive action.
Ultimately, the details of this executive order matter, and we need to be vigilant that this is real reform and not just empty rhetoric to excite his base.
See earlier letters from the same reader.
James Fulford writes: The first thing I said when I heard he Tweeted this is that backstabbing White House types like the "advisers" who wouldn't let him put troops on the border would try to water it down and hide Trump's pen. Breitbart reports that the original order was stronger than it is now, and we may still see something like a moratorium from Trump yet. The sad thing is that there are no rallies to allow Trump to hear how loudly Americans would cheer an immigration halt.


vdare--2020-04-26--Anarcho-Tyranny In The UK: Arrested For "Pubs Closed, Borders Open" Sign

Anarcho-tyranny watch: Over in the nation of my birth, the United Cuckdom, two men have been arrested by police for "racially aggravated public order offenses."
So what did they do—burn a cross on someone's lawn? No, worse than that. They have been sticking up posters on lamp posts, bus stops, and bollards around the town of Sheffield protesting Britain's coronavirus lockdown with the words: PUBS CLOSED, BORDERS OPEN.
Arrested for telling the truth https://t.co/jikRp8j0QE — •Mairead• (@RayMairead) April 22, 2020
The news outlet I'm quoting, dissident-right Voice of Europe, does not fail to notice that Sheffield is just eight miles from Rotherham, the town where, for nearly twenty years, gangs of Pakistani Muslim men kidnapped and gang-raped underage English girls while police looked the other way for fear someone would call them racist.


vdare--2020-04-26--Trump Appoints  Normal Judges, Washington State Appoints Disabled Black Lesbian From Trinidad

Earlier—Neil Gorsuch: Trump Picks White Male Old Stock American For Supreme Court
I am long since resigned to the fact that our legal system has been utterly corrupted by Cultural Marxism. Even so, this story from Slate.com left me with my jaw hanging loose in amazement.
Slate is fully CultMarx-compliant. They started off this story lamenting that, quote: "Donald Trump's Presidency has been a disaster for judicial diversity," then they go to the good news. While the federal judiciary may be going to White Supremacist Hell in a handbasket, out there in the states, Democratic governors are diversifying their state judiciaries for all they're worth.
Slate brings forward its star exhibit. Governor Jay Inslee [Tweet him] of Washington State has elevated to his supreme court a disabled black lesbian from Trinidad. Black, female, homosexual, disabled, and an immigrant: that's a fiver. Hoo-ee!
The lady's name—really, you can't make this stuff up—her name is Whitener, Grace Helen Whitener.
Last year, we did a study that found most states' high courts are overwhelmingly white and male. Washington was an outlier — and it now has the most diverse Supreme Court in history.https://t.co/v38LrjDoNQ — Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) April 20, 2020
Would you like to hear about Governor Inslee's two other appointees to his state supreme court? I know you would. Here they are: Raquel Montoya-Lewis, a Jewish Native American, and Mary Yu, an Asian-American Latina lesbian. Slate's conclusion: "The court represents a vision of what the federal judiciary could look like under a Democratic president."
I need a drink.


vdare--2020-04-23--An Australian Reader Says Refugee Whiners Are Complaining About Literally Four-Star Hotel Accommodat

An Australian Reader Says Refugee Whiners Are Complaining About Literally Four-Star Hotel Accommodations

From: Phil Shannon [Email him]
“What, only four stars! Don’t you know who we are?” That is probably what some “refugees” with an oversize sense of woke entitlement are thinking about the “inhuman” conditions they have to endure as asylum-seekers held in hotel detention in Australia.
A reliably woke article [Hotels are no luxury place to detain people seeking asylum in Australia, May 13, 2020] in the refugee-revering, academic public outreach website, The Conversation, argues that of the 1,436 asylum-seekers in detention on mainland Australia, the 158 who are being held in Brisbane and Melbourne hotels are enduring “inappropriate conditions” with “untold impacts on physical and mental health”.
The treatment by DIBP, now Home Affairs, of people seeking asylum in Australia, has over years been incompetent, punitive, venal & totally inhumane. COVID will not save Morrison & Dutton will be remembered only for this. Poor fellow, my country! 😢😢https://t.co/9pEDnzAepG — Robyn Jewell 😷😷 (@robyn_jewell) April 13, 2020
These hotel guests are those who had, in the grand Australian tradition of “chucking a sickie” (i.e., taking a day off work by feigning illness), wormed their way from offshore island detention (in Papua New Guinea and Nauru) to the Australian mainland under the pretext of needing medical attention.
Whilst the people’s media have portrayed hotel detention as luxury accommodation at taxpayers’ expense, such as the 45 asylum seekers in the four-star Kangaroo Point Central hotel in Brisbane who are costing Australian taxpayers more than $410,000 a week, The Conversation and other woke media beg to differ—the “hellish” conditions apparently include being held two or more to a room, guarded by security officers, with “limited” access to exercise facilities. Thanks to COVID-19, the “refugees” are now part of the woke movement to “decarcerate” criminals and illegals in prisons and detention centers.
How interesting that one man’s “hardship” is another man’s fully-serviced hotel room, with cable TV, Internet, room cleaning, fresh sheets and towels, and free laundry, meals, electricity, gas, water, air-con and gym access (which would cost regular Australians and legitimate travelers well over $200 per day).
The whiny complaints by the uniformly fit and healthy-looking young males (pictured) about their new life could make one wonder whether their claim to face persecution, torture or death in their homelands holds any water at all, and whether their claim to need medical treatment in Australia is also a transparent ruse to cheat and fib their way to a lifestyle upgrade by taking Australian workers' jobs and taxpayers' welfare.
Phil Shannon is a veteran working class Australian socialist and latter-day VDARE.com supporter. See earlier letters from him here.


vdare--2020-04-26--Italy Suffered From Coronavirus Because Cheap Labor Made It A Colony Of China

Over at American Renaissance, Gregory Hood has published the definitive look at what caused Italy to be the hotbed for the Coronavirus: large portions of the nation had become Chinese colonies. The entire article is well worth reading, because it confirms Enoch Powell’s frightening analogy of a nation "heaping up its own funeral pyre."
Though Powell was referencing England’s insane post-Empire policy of importing the Third World to the United Kingdom, Hood writes about how the Italian government and business owners in Italy have all but handed over the nation to Chinese expansion/colonization.
And this is the reason the China Virus/WuFlu spread so rapidly in Italy. Hood writes:
For decades, a large, sometimes hostile Chinese community has worked in the Italian fashion and textile industries. Immigrants — legal and illegal — started as a cheap, “exploited” labor source that allowed high-fashion companies to slap a “Made in Italy” label on products churned out in sweatshops. Now, Chinese own many off-the-books factories, ignoring employment and safety laws, and dodging taxes. They are also carving out a competitive niche in the fashion industry, and even buying up iconic Italian companies.
Was the China connection the reason the coronavirus outbreak hit Italy so hard and so early? So much immigration has been illegal — and so many Chinese factories don’t even exist on paper — that contact tracing and other disease control measures were impossible.
The Coronavirus connection?
With these close connections, there is plenty of business and personal travel between Italy and China. It was inevitable that people would wonder whether Chinese smuggled into the country and working in cramped sweatshops could have introduced and spread the virus. At this point, with lax immigration law enforcement and spotty travel records, it’s impossible to know.
We do know that the first confirmed cases in Italy were Chinese tourists from Wuhan, but Wuhan is more than 500 miles from Wenzhou, which is where most of the Prato Chinese come from. The virus did hit Wenzhou, though, and many Chinese in Italy had gone home for the Lunar New Year, which was January 25. By the 29th, there were 172 cases in the province. It may be that Chinese returning to Italy after the holiday brought the disease with them — but this can’t be proven.
On January 31, Italy stopped direct flights from China, which the Chinese government called an “overreaction,” but by then, tourists or returning workers could have already brought the disease to Italy.
That said, one of the very first covid patients in Italy was an Italian who has never traveled to China. He went to the emergency room on February 19, but it was 36 hours before he was tested. He probably infected a number of people, including his father (who died from the disease) and his pregnant wife (who didn’t).
Also, Prato, has a very low infection rate. If test reports can be believed, not one Chinese has the disease. It certainly does not appear that Prato is a hotbed — and there may be an interesting reason for this. According to Reuters, Chinese who had returned to the city from New Year celebrations knew very well that a dangerous virus was spreading in China. Chinese therefore put their community into lockdown three weeks before Italy recorded its first infection. According to Reuters, “They knew what was coming and spread the word: stay home.” There is “some anecdotal evidence that Chinese people in [other parts of] Italy did the same.”
This suggests that the Chinese acted independently and thought only of themselves. It also means the Italian government has no idea what is going on in the community. Dr. Giorgio Palu, a virologist and former health official, said the Italian government acted too slowly because it was afraid of being called “racist.” But if the Reuters report is accurate, in early February, just when the mayor of Florence was telling citizens to “Hug a Chinese” to fight stigma and racism, the Chinese were already keeping their distance from each other.
Northern Italian fashion defines luxury, wealth, and status — but it’s built on a Chinese colony and off-the-books labor. The coronavirus outbreak reminds us that Sam Francis was right: Anarcho-tyranny is the ultimate stage of multiculturalism. Italy imposed draconian rules on its own people to stop the spread of coronavirus. At the same time, it doesn’t know how many Chinese are in the country, where they are from, where they work, or when they come and go. [Italy, China, and the Coronavirus, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, April 25, 2020]


vdare--2020-04-23--The Great Replacement in Birmingham: from 61% White in 1910 to 23% White in 2020: NOW WITH INTERACTI

The Great Replacement in Birmingham: from 61% White in 1910 to 23% White in 2020: NOW WITH INTERACTIVE CHARTS

PK NOTE: Your social distancing reading recommendation today is The Tragic City: Birmingham 1963 – 2013.
Why take just a macro-look at The Great Replacement in the United States of America, when you can easily take a micro-look? Let’s head down south to Sweet Home Alabama and take a look at Birmingham. Here’s the racial breakdown of white population in Birmingham from 1910 – 2020:
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From 61 percent white in 1910 to 23 percent white in 2020. You’d think a war was lost in Birmingham, the white population conquered and vanquished with those numbers.
Here’s more, a look at what happens when demographic replacement of whites institutes black political control of a city:
People used to call Birmingham, Alabama the “Magic City.” Today, it’s the Tragic City.
Massive steel plants sprang up after the Civil War, and Birmingham grew rapidly in the first half of the 1900s. In the 1960s, however, it became a key battleground in the Civil Rights movement, with Martin Luther King leading desegregation efforts. Civil rights campaigners got what they wanted: Birmingham desegregated. Today, it’s a majority-black city with poverty, bad schools, and high crime.
Although we usually associate industry with the North, Birmingham used to be the largest iron- and steel-producing area in the country. Many workers in the furnaces were black, but the city was segregated: Blacks and whites lived in different neighborhoods.
King and other civil rights organizers launched a campaign against segregation in 1963 that was a huge public-relations success. “But for Birmingham,” said President John Kennedy at a White House meeting to plan what became Civil Rights Act of 1964, “we wouldn’t be here.” Today, American schoolchildren learn about Birmingham, Eugene “Bull” Connor, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s campaign in 1963. They don’t learn what happened afterwards.
Between 1960 and 2000, the city’s population dropped by 38 percent; the decline has just started to level off. In 1971, a federal judge ordered integration for Jefferson county’s schools. Many whites seceded from the county and established their own school districts. They are now some of the best in the country. In contrast, just one in five students in Birmingham City Schools are proficient in reading or math. Most qualify for free or cut-price lunches. Fewer than 2 percent are white.
The city has almost collapsed. The famous Birmingham Sloss Furnace, which had been making steel since 1882, closed in 1970 and is now a historic landmark. In 2011, Jefferson County declared bankruptcy. The poverty rate is more than 27 percent, greater than the state’s already high poverty rate of 17 percent. The city government, now dominated by blacks, is notoriously corrupt. A recent report said Birmingham is the third most dangerous city in the country. Another report said it was the second most dangerous. The mostly white Birmingham suburbs are some of the safest in the country.
Every Birmingham mayor since 1979 has been black — but they still promise improvement. In 2017, then-mayor William Bell said that Birmingham would “break” poverty like it did segregation.” Yet Mayor Bell’s talk of a “true renaissance for the first time in a generation” would have required gentrification, which many blacks don’t want. At a rowdy public meeting in March 2016, residents called Mayor Bell a “puppet” of whites and — astonishingly — claimed that “white supremacists run Birmingham.” [The Great Replacement: Birmingham, Greg Hood and Paul Kersey, March 29, 2020]