vdare--2020-10-08--SAID IN SPANISH: Trump Triumph—Caravan Stopped Cold In Central America; Telemundo’s SHOCKED—Its Deba

SAID IN SPANISH: Trump Triumph—Caravan Stopped Cold In Central America; Telemundo’s SHOCKED—Its Debate Polls Give Wrong Answer; Birth Tourists Scammed; Smugglers Dump Cubans In Mexico; ETC. [6 ITEMS]

President Trump has received too little credit for the hard-nosed policies that have persuaded Mexico and some Central American countries to stop illegal aliens down there before they reach our border .
In March , for instance , in response to the Chinese Virus , he ordered the immediate deportation of apprehended illegals .
Recently , another “ migrant ” caravan , this one 4,000-strong , began marching north from Honduras , but Guatemalan authorities stopped it .
This one was mostly Hondurans , with smaller groups of other nationalities [ Una nueva caravana de migrantes sale de Honduras rumbo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( “ A new caravan of migrants leaves Honduras for the US amid the pandemic ” ) , Univision , October 1 , 2020 ] .
Even the deputy foreign minister of Honduras , Nelly Jerez , Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei , who tested positive for coronavirus in mid-September , authorized national and local governments to deal with the Honduran invasion .
“ We will not permit foreigners using illegal measures to contaminate Guatemalans and put them at risk , ” the president vowed [ Caravana migrante : Giammattei declara estado de Prevención @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Migrant Caravan : Giammattei Declares State of Prevention ; Hondurans Will Be Detained and Returned ” ) by Irving Escobar , Prensa Libre , October 1 , 2020 ] .
The caravan was travelling across Guatemala in at least three groups .
By October 2 , some had turned back to Honduras .
Others fought back with throwing sticks , stones , and Molotov cocktails .
By October 3 , Guatemala had detained several thousand migrants in the vast and sparsely inhabited Guatemalan department of Peten : The remaining thousand were on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smaller groups .
Some migrants reached the Mexican border and were crossing the Suchiate river on rafts [ Caravana de migrantes : grupos llegan a México y comienzan a cruzar la frontera ( “ Migrant Caravan : Groups arrive to Mexico and begin to cross the border ” ) by William Oliva and Mynor Toc , La Prensa Libre , October 3 , 2020 ] .
But Mexican authorities reinforced the border with Guatemala .
And on October 5 , Mexico ’ s Milenio reported that “ migratory , police and military authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ caravan of migrants on its territory ” [ Tras desarticulación de caravana migrante , frontera de México vuelve a normalidad ( “ After Breakup of Migrant Caravan , Border of Mexico Returns to Normal ” ) by Julio Navarro ] .
Summary : Guatemalan security forces stopped the caravan and sent the Hondurans back home where they belong .
Granted , small groups of illegals are wandering the jungles of Guatemala and eastern Mexico , but they will probably soon be captured or surrender .
Trump actually has a pattern of small immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But why should the Main Stream Media report them when he himself is not mentioning them in his re-election campaign ?
Question : What happens if Joe Biden wins in November ?
Will he pressure Mexico and Central America to stop the caravans ?
AMLO Says The Caravan Was Organized To Sway U.S. Election In a recent press conference , Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shared an interesting theory about the caravan : But here ’ s something even more interesting , at least Americans who care about the integrity of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ migration nor Mexico have been topics of debate , ” AMLO said his county ’ s interference in our election has stopped .
“ We have made every effort not to involve our country in the campaigns or the U.S. campaign and this is a big difference from the last election , ” he said .
In others , AMLO confessed that his country—before he took office and stopped it—meddled in the 2016 election when his predecessor ’ s regime tried to get Mexicans to vote against Trump .
Better yet , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump and FLOTUS to beat the Chinese Virus : But that ’ s hardly a surprise .
As I have reported often in the past , he has carefully cultivated good relations with President Trump and refused to criticize him .
Telemundo probably wasn ’ t expecting this bad news .
The Spanish-language network polled viewers and asked who won the presidential debate on September 29 .
By a 66-34 margin , they responded that Trump won .
Telemundo hostess Felicidad Aveleyra hastened to point out that it wasn ’ t a scientific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the recent Vice-Presidential debate , Telemundo decided to just throw out the results when they got the wrong answer : Mexicans “ Defrauded ” In Birth Tourism Scam .
The Real Victims Are The U.S. Taxpayers .
Here ’ s a laugh if there ever was one : Univision thinks that that Mexicans who come to in the U.S. to have Anchor Babies are the real victims of birth-tourism conmen , not Americans in general or taxpayers in particular : The government program is the federally-subsidized Medi-Cal Access Program , which receives federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hundreds of applications and financial documentation and false employment , ” and from 2016 to their arrest on September 23 , they defrauded MCAP of $ 1.6 million .
That doesn ’ t include , of course , the money the birth tourists paid .
The scammers , Melissa Alvarez Torres and Jose Luis Olmos Hernandez , have dual surnames , which suggests they were born in Mexico or another Latin American country .
Residing in San Diego County near the border , the couple set up a company called Seguros Americanos Embarazo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attracting various Mexican women with tourist and work visas who were interested in their babies having the coveted American citizenship.
” Amusingly , DOJ ’ s official press release describes them as a “ Chula Vista couple.
” Univision also reported that “ President Trump has promised to eradicate ” birth tourism , and “ has even questioned the right of every person born in this country to be a citizen.
” The piece discusses Chinese birth tourism and even quotes the Center for Immigration Studies , though not without an insult : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Studies ( an organization which has been linked to white nationalist personalities ) around 36,000 Chinese women give birth in the United States each year.
” Of course , Univision linked to the $ PLC ’ s page about CIS , which in turn connects CIS to VDARE because of hyperlinks in CIS news bulletins . )
Pregnant Woman Tries To Swim Across The Rio Grande Speaking of anchor babies , Mexican immigration authorities stopped one such prospective mother unwisely trying to ford the Rio Grande : Cubans Pay To Be Smuggled To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ La Opinion , the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S. recently reminded readers that human smugglers are dangerous , violent , murderous criminals , not benevolent the “ migrant activists , ” the leftist Mainstream Media would have us believe : American citizen Allan Wall ( email him ) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico .
Allan 's wife is Mexican , and their two sons are bilingual .
In 2005 , Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here ; his News With Views columns are archived here ; and his website is here .

Unreported Small Trump Triumph: Mexico, Guatemala Slam Door On Caravan
President Trump has received too little credit for the hard-nosed policies that have persuaded Mexico and some Central American countries to stop illegal aliens down there before they reach our border. In March, for instance, in response to the Chinese Virus, he ordered the immediate deportation of apprehended illegals.
On October 30, another “migrant” caravan was launched in Honduras, with hopes of marching to the United States. On October 1, about 4,000 caravanners simply crashed the border into Guatemala. But within a few days, Guatemalan authorities stopped it. The migrants were mostly Hondurans, with smaller groups of other nationalities [Una nueva caravana de migrantes sale de Honduras rumbo a EEUU en medio de la pandemia (“A new caravan of migrants leaves Honduras for the US amid the pandemic”), Univision, October 1, 2020].
Even the deputy foreign minister of Honduras, Nelly Jerez,
…advised her fellow Hondurans that the chances of a caravan entering the United States were ‘null’ and called on them not to expose themselves to the pandemic and the growing ‘xenophobia’ in Guatemala and Mexico. [Caravana migrante desde Honduras ingresa a la fuerza a Guatemala y sin test de covid-19 (“Migrant Caravan Enters Guatemala by Force and Without COVID-19 Test”) Prensa Libre, October 5, 2020].
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, who tested positive for coronavirus in mid-September, authorized national and local governments to deal with the Honduran invasion. “We will not permit foreigners using illegal measures to contaminate Guatemalans and put them at risk,” the president vowed [Caravana migrante: Giammattei declara estado de Prevención; hondureños serán detenidos y retornados (“Migrant Caravan: Giammattei Declares State of Prevention; Hondurans Will Be Detained and Returned”), by Irving Escobar, Prensa Libre, October 1, 2020].
The caravan was travelling across Guatemala in at least three groups. By October 2, some had turned back to Honduras. Others fought back by throwing sticks, stones, and Molotov cocktails at Guatemalan security forces.
By October 3, Guatemala had detained several thousand migrants in the vast and sparsely inhabited Guatemalan department of Peten:
Hunger and a wall of soldiers ended this Saturday [October 3] the American dream of at least 2,000 Hondurans who crossed Guatemala in search of arriving in a caravan to the United States, while other Hondurans resisted surrender. [El hambre y un muro de soldados acaban con el sueño americano de hondureños (“Hunger and a Wall of Soldiers End the American Dream of Hondurans”), Agencia EFE, October 3, 2020].
Remaining migrants were on their way to Mexico, albeit in smaller groups.
Some reached the Mexican border and were crossing the Suchiate river on rafts [Caravana de migrantes: grupos llegan a México y comienzan a cruzar la frontera (“Migrant Caravan: Groups arrive to Mexico and begin to cross the border”), by William Oliva and Mynor Toc, La Prensa Libre, October 3, 2020].
Mexican authorities reinforced the border with Guatemala. On October 5, Mexico’s Milenio reported that “migratory, police and military authorities of Guatemala stopped and broke up the caravan of migrants on its territory” [Tras desarticulación de caravana migrante, frontera de México vuelve a normalidad (“After Breakup of Migrant Caravan, Border of Mexico Returns to Normal”), by Julio Navarro].
Summary: Guatemalan security forces stopped the caravan and sent the Hondurans back home where they belong.
Granted, small groups of illegals are wandering the jungles of Guatemala and eastern Mexico, but they will probably soon be captured or surrender.
Trump actually has a pattern of small immigration triumphs, achieved by executive action. But why should the Main Stream Media report them when he himself is not mentioning them in his re-election campaign?
Question: What happens if Joe Biden wins in November? Will he pressure Mexico and Central America to stop the caravans?
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AMLO Says The Caravan Was Organized To Sway U.S. Election
In a recent press conference, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shared an interesting theory about the caravan:
“It’s very strange that this caravan departs on the eve of the U.S. election… And how is it that in Honduras…. this group is permitted to organize? … [I] think it has to do with the U.S. election…. there are indications that it was organized with this purpose. I don’t know who benefits from it.” Versión estenográfica. Conferencia de prensa del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador del 2 de octubre de 2020 (“Stenographic Version. Press Conference of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of October 2, 2020”), Gob.mx, October 2, 2020]
But here’s something even more interesting, at least for Americans who care about the integrity of the election on Nov. 3. Noting that “migration nor Mexico have been topics of debate,” AMLO said his county’s interference in our election has stopped.
“We have made every effort not to involve our country in the campaigns or the U.S. campaign and this is a big difference from the last election,” he said.
Thus, AMLO confessed that his country—before he took office and stopped it—meddled in the 2016 election when his predecessor’s regime tried to get Mexicans to vote against Trump.
Better yet, AMLO offered kind get-well wishes for Trump and FLOTUS to beat the Chinese Virus:
And let me take advantage of the opportunity to wish the President of the United States and his wife a speedy recovery, because he is infected, he tested positive for COVID and we wish for him and his wife to recover quickly.
But that’s hardly a surprise. As I have reported often in the past, he has carefully cultivated good relations with President Trump and refused to criticize him.
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Telemundo’s Surprise
Telemundo probably wasn’t expecting this bad news. The Spanish-language network polled viewers and asked who won the presidential debate on September 29. By a 66-34 margin, they responded that Trump won.
Spanish speaking viewers of Telemundo expressed their preference of who won tonight’s presidential debate: 66% Trump 34% Biden. #DebateTuesday pic.twitter.com/JxCUFda6iF — Daniel Garza (@danielggarza) September 30, 2020
Telemundo hostess Felicidad Aveleyra hastened to point out that it wasn’t a scientific poll, but still ...
As for the recent Vice-Presidential debate, Telemundo decided to just throw out the results when they got the wrong answer:
Telemundo Deletes Twitter Poll following VP Debate After Kamala Gets CRUSHED by Pence 74% to 26% via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/HJ8n1XRzKQ — Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) October 8, 2020
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Mexicans “Defrauded” In Birth Tourism Scam. The Real Victims Are The U.S. Taxpayers.
Here’s a laugh if there ever was one: Univision thinks that that Mexicans who come to in the U.S. to have Anchor Babies are the real victims of birth-tourism conmen, not Americans in general or taxpayers in particular:
This weekend [US] federal agents arrested a couple who supposedly defrauded various Mexican tourists, who paid thousands of dollars for a phony medical insurance policy that promised to help them have their children born in California hospitals without having migratory problems, but guaranteeing American citizenship to their children. In reality, they were enrolled in a government program that gives assistance to low income pregnant women. [Así defraudaron a turistas mexicanas que pagaron miles de dólares para que sus bebés nacieran en California (“How they defrauded Mexican tourists who paid thousands of dollars so their babies would be born in California”), by Isaias Alvarado, Sept. 25, 2020]
The government program is the Medi-Cal Access Program, which receives federal funds.
Alvarez and Olmos “submitted hundreds of applications and financial documentation and false employment,” and from 2016 to their arrest on September 23, they defrauded MCAP of $1.6 million.
That doesn’t include, of course, the money the birth tourists paid.
The scammers, Melissa Alvarez Torres and Jose Luis Olmos Hernandez, have dual surnames, which suggests they were born in Mexico or another Latin American country.
Residing in San Diego County near the border, the couple set up a company called Seguros Americanos Embarazo (American Pregnancy Insurance), “attracting various Mexican women with tourist and work visas who were interested in their babies having the coveted American citizenship.”
Amusingly, DOJ’s official press release describes them as a “Chula Vista couple.”
Univision also reported that “President Trump has promised to eradicate” birth tourism, and “has even questioned the right of every person born in this country to be a citizen.”
The piece discusses Chinese birth tourism and even quotes the Center for Immigration Studies, though not without an insult: “According to the Center for Immigration Studies (an organization which has been linked to white nationalist personalities) around 36,000 Chinese women give birth in the United States each year.”
Of course, Univision linked to the $PLC’s page about CIS, which in turn connects CIS to VDARE because of hyperlinks in CIS news bulletins.)
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Pregnant Woman Tries To Swim Across The Rio Grande
Speaking of anchor babies, Mexican immigration authorities stopped one such prospective mother unwisely trying to swim the Rio Grande. She and her male partner were swimming across the river, couldn't make and grabbed on to a pillar supporting a border bridge.
From Excelsior :
Elements of Beta Group of the INM (Mexican immigration agency) in Piedras Negras, Coahuila [across from Eagle Pass, Texas] rescued two migrants, a man and an eight-month pregnant woman who attempted to cross to the United States through the Rio Grande. [Mujer a punto de dar a luz intenta cruzar el Río Bravo para llegar a EU (“Woman On The Point Of Giving Birth Attempts to Cross the Rio Grande to Arrive to the U.S.”), by Alma Gudino, Excelsior, September 28, 2020]
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Cubans Pay To Be Smuggled To Florida, Wind Up In Mexico Instead
La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S., recently reminded readers that human smugglers are dangerous, violent, murderous criminals, not the benevolent “migrant activists,” the leftist Mainstream Media would have us believe:
Two Latino men accused of participating in a people-trafficking network appeared this Wednesday in a federal court in south Florida. The network kidnapped and tortured Cuban immigrants. Reynaldo Marquez Crespo, 41, and Jancer Sergio Ramos Valdes, 33, deceived their victims, leading them to believe that they would take them from Cuba to the United States without authorization. But really, they took them in a boat to Merida, in Mexico, according to the charge. Once in Mexico, the accused kidnapped the victims and demanded a family contact who would be willing to pay 10,000 dollars for their ransom. Marquez and Ramos extorted the relatives—many in Miami or south Florida—so the money would arrive. … The kidnapped relatives of those who paid the ransom were freed and sent to the Mexico-U.S. border, where they were told to request asylum. The rest were beaten, and received electroshocks, and threats from knife and pistol. [Dos hombres acusados de secuestrar y torturar a inmigrantes latinos comparecen ante corte de Florida (“Two Men Accused of Kidnapping and Torturing Latino Immigrants Appear Before Court in Florida”), September 24, 2020]
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American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-10-08--Patrick J. Buchanan: Putin's Got His Problems, Too

Before the first Trump-Biden debate , moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered : The Trump and Biden records , the Supreme Court , COVID-19 , the economy , race and violence in our cities , and the integrity of the election .
According to a recent Gallup survey , Wallace 's topics tracked the public 's concerns—the top seven of which were the coronavirus , government leadership , race relations , the economy , crime and violence , the judicial system , morality and family decline .
As an issue , national security did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ranked below education and homelessness , just above climate change .
Can a nation as divided as we are and as distracted as we are by the most lethal pandemic in 100 years , the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression , and the worst racial crisis since the 1960s , conduct a global policy to contain the ambitions of two rival great powers on the other side of the world and to create a U.S.-led democratic world order ?
Can we build , lead and sustain alliances of dozens of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Xi Jinping 's China as we did the Soviet Union during more than 40 years of the Cold War ?
Are we still up to it ?
And must we Americans do it ?
Or should we let the internal problems and pressures on these two nations do the primary work of containing their external ambitions ?
Case in point : Vladimir Putin 's Russia .
While our Beltway elites are obsessed with Russia and Putin , seeing in them a mortal threat to our democracy , close observers are seeing something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sower of Instability , Is Now Surrounded by It , '' runs a headline in Thursday 's New York Times .
The theme also appears in The Financial Times in a story headlined , `` Putin Watches as Flames Engulf Neighborhood . ''
Consider the situation today in Russia 's `` near abroad , '' the former republics of the USSR that broke from Moscow 's rule between 1989 and 1991 .
The Baltic States—Estonia , Lithuania and Latvia—are already in the U.S.-led NATO alliance .
Georgia in the Central Caucasus , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against its Russian neighbor in 2008 and is now a friend and de facto ally of the United States .
Ukraine , the most populous of the 14 republics to break away from Moscow , is now the most hostile to Moscow , having watched its Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea be amputated by Putin in 2014 .
Now , Belarus , Russia 's closest neighbor to the west , is in a political crisis with weekly demonstrations demanding the ouster of Putin 's ally , longtime autocrat Alexander Lukashenko , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forced to do what he has no desire to do—forcefully intervene to put down a popular uprising that could cause Belarus to follow Ukraine into the Western camp .
Now , in the South Caucasus , two former republics of the USSR , Azerbaijan and Armenia , are again in an open war over Nagorno-Karabakh , an Armenian enclave wholly within Azerbaijan .
While Armenia , an ally of Russia , is pleading for intervention by Moscow to halt the war , Turkey is aiding the Azeris militarily , and they seem to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thousand miles away , in Russia 's Far East , in the city of Khabarovsk , which is as close to China as Dulles Airport is to D.C. , anti-Putin rallies have become a constant feature of politics .
Last summer , Putin 's political rival Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok , a nerve agent developed in Soviet laboratories .
Navalny has now become a live martyr and more potent adversary as the Kremlin has failed to come up with a satisfactory explanation for what appears to have been an attempted assassination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian officials could be forthcoming .
Russians are tiring of Putin 's 20-year rule .
His popularity , though high by European standards , is near its nadir .
And Russians have suffered mightily from the coronavirus and what it has done to their economy .
Now , the pro-Putin regime in Kyrgyzstan on the Chinese border appears to have been overthrown after another fraudulent election , and Beijing is telling everyone to stay out .
And how have Putin 's imperial adventures gone ?
While his intervention in Syria saved the regime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ naval base in the Mediterranean , the war continues to bleed Mother Russia .
Putin 's intervention on the side of the rebels in Libya , however , has not gone well .
Last year 's rebel drive to capture the capital of Tripoli failed , and the rebel forces have been forced to retreat back to the east .
Meanwhile , Russia 's economy remains only one-tenth the size of China 's economy , and its population is also only one-tenth that of China .
Perhaps time is on America 's side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war avoidance remains as wise a policy as it was during the Cold War .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Before the first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered:
The Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.
According to a recent Gallup survey, Wallace's topics tracked the public's concerns—the top seven of which were the coronavirus, government leadership, race relations, the economy, crime and violence, the judicial system, morality and family decline.
As an issue, national security did not even break Gallup's Top 10. It ranked below education and homelessness, just above climate change.
Which raises a question?
Can a nation as divided as we are and as distracted as we are by the most lethal pandemic in 100 years, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst racial crisis since the 1960s, conduct a global policy to contain the ambitions of two rival great powers on the other side of the world and to create a U.S.-led democratic world order?
Can we build, lead and sustain alliances of dozens of nations to contain Vladimir Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China as we did the Soviet Union during more than 40 years of the Cold War?
Are we still up to it? And must we Americans do it?
Or should we let the internal problems and pressures on these two nations do the primary work of containing their external ambitions?
Case in point: Vladimir Putin's Russia. While our Beltway elites are obsessed with Russia and Putin, seeing in them a mortal threat to our democracy, close observers are seeing something else.
"Putin, long the sower of instability, is now surrounded by it," runs a headline in Thursday's New York Times. The theme also appears in The Financial Times in a story headlined, "Putin watches as flames engulf neighborhood."
Consider the situation today in Russia's "near abroad," the former republics of the USSR that broke from Moscow's rule between 1989 and 1991.
The Baltic States—Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia—are already in the U.S.-led NATO alliance. Georgia in the Central Caucasus, the birthplace of Stalin, fought a war against its Russian neighbor in 2008 and is now a friend and de facto ally of the United States.
Ukraine, the most populous of the 14 republics to break away from Moscow, is now the most hostile to Moscow, having watched its Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea be amputated by Putin in 2014.
Now, Belarus, Russia's closest neighbor to the west, is in a political crisis with weekly demonstrations demanding the ouster of Putin's ally, longtime autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, after a fraudulent election.
Putin could be forced to do what he has no desire to do—forcefully intervene to put down a popular uprising that could cause Belarus to follow Ukraine into the Western camp.
Now, in the South Caucasus, two former republics of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Armenia, are again in an open war over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave wholly within Azerbaijan.
While Armenia, an ally of Russia, is pleading for intervention by Moscow to halt the war, Turkey is aiding the Azeris militarily, and they seem to be gaining the upper hand.
Four thousand miles away, in Russia's Far East, in the city of Khabarovsk, which is as close to China as Dulles Airport is to D.C., anti-Putin rallies have become a constant feature of politics.
Last summer, Putin's political rival Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent developed in Soviet laboratories. Navalny has now become a live martyr and more potent adversary as the Kremlin has failed to come up with a satisfactory explanation for what appears to have been an attempted assassination. New German and French sanctions on Russian officials could be forthcoming.
Russians are tiring of Putin's 20-year rule. His popularity, though high by European standards, is near its nadir. And Russians have suffered mightily from the coronavirus and what it has done to their economy.
Now, the pro-Putin regime in Kyrgyzstan on the Chinese border appears to have been overthrown after another fraudulent election, and Beijing is telling everyone to stay out.
And how have Putin's imperial adventures gone?
While his intervention in Syria saved the regime of Bashar Assad and Russia's sole naval base in the Mediterranean, the war continues to bleed Mother Russia.
Putin's intervention on the side of the rebels in Libya, however, has not gone well. Last year's rebel drive to capture the capital of Tripoli failed, and the rebel forces have been forced to retreat back to the east.
Meanwhile, Russia's economy remains only one-tenth the size of China's economy, and its population is also only one-tenth that of China.
Perhaps time is on America's side in the rivalry with Russia, and war avoidance remains as wise a policy as it was during the Cold War.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-10-08--VP Debate Moderator Susan Page On Immigration, Diversity, And Peter Brimelow, 1997 (Note Appearance

VP Debate Moderator Susan Page On Immigration, Diversity, And Peter Brimelow, 1997 (Note Appearance Of "Wet Market")

Earlier : A New Yorker Reports Wet Markets And Insanitary Conditions Not In Wuhan , But In New York 's Chinatown Susan Page [ Tweet her ] is the USA Today Washington Bureau Chief , who in spite of being the author of an upcoming Nancy Pelosi biography , was chosen to moderate the debate between Pence and Kamala Harris .
In 1997 , she wrote , for USA Today , an immigration enthusiast article about the wonderfulness of the then most diverse ZIP code in the US , Elmhurst NY , which is in Queens .
( Not online @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) Emphasis , and of course links , added by me .
ELMHURST , N.Y.—Anupam Parikh 's cramped newsstand , with newspapers and magazines in languages from Mandarin to Urdu , is a link back home for the thousands of new immigrants who settle in this 3-square-mile patch of New York City every year .
Parikh , who emigrated from India in 1987 , takes his diverse clientele seriously .
He 's learning Spanish by listening to language tapes and greets a regular customer with a few words in her native Greek .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kong 's Ming Pao Daily News .
`` I love India but , you know , there is possibility right now I can make more money here , '' the soft-spoken 41-year-old entrepreneur says .
Parikh has a classic immigrant 's agenda : economic opportunity for himself and a brighter future for his children .
He 's not alone , especially in this neighborhood .
Over the past five years , nearly 13,000 legal immigrants have come to Elmhurst—ZIP code 11373—from a stunning 123 different countries .
Of course , the point of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money from Americans , and have their children educated in America , at taxpayer expense .
Surprisingly , the article says that -- Page brought VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow in to provide balance : ` Where are the Americans ? '
Peter Brimelow , an immigration policy critic and author of Alien Nation , stands at a busy intersection of Elmhurst and views the morning scene with obvious distaste .
`` Where are the Americans ? ''
he demands .
The corner bodega has a faded sign in the window announcing the grocery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ federal nutrition program for needy pregnant women , infants and children .
A steady stream of students heads to school .
`` The kids that we see on the streets have been educated at the expense of the American taxpayer , '' Brimelow says .
The influx of immigrant children has overwhelmed schools and prompted native-born Americans to endure long commutes to work so their children can attend suburban schools instead .
`` You ca n't show that it benefits the Americans on the whole to have this presence here , '' he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't believe that But New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani , one of the nation 's leading champions of immigration , watches neighborhoods like Elmhurst and sees something entirely different .
The latest wave of immigrants has boosted the city 's population and revitalized its economy , he says .
The New York Planning Department this year released a generally positive analysis of their effect .
`` These are things people do n't realize about immigrants , '' Giuliani says .
`` They work in higher percentages than native Americans .
They start businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are net contributors to our economy . ''
A National Academy of Sciences study released this spring provides ammunition for both sides .
The report estimates that immigrants provide an annual net economic gain of $ 1 billion to $ 10 billion , a modest amount in an $ 8 trillion economy .
Nationwide , the additional cost to a native-born household also is modest , $ 166 to $ 226 a year in higher state and local taxes .
( In California , with the most new arrivals , the cost spikes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revitalized urban neighborhoods .
But they also have been a factor in the declining wages of low-skilled native-born Americans .
Recent headlines in New York 's papers spotlight the problems : Police officers are accused of brutalizing a Haitian immigrant .
Deaf Mexican immigrants are enslaved in an immigrant-run peddling ring .
A space heater in crowded immigrant housing sparks a deadly fire .
In Elmhurst , too , some of the housing has been illegally converted into tiny apartments for large immigrant families .
The schools are crowded and the local hospital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other places and spill here—the Pakistanis and the Indian-Americans will clash , or some South American border wars will erupt , '' says John Sabini , the New York City Council member who represents this part of Queens .
`` Then there are tensions between the residents who have been here a long time and the new residents . ''
And note , as an example of the wonderful diversity , that Elmhurst 's Chinese community has installed what we now call a `` wet market '' : But the new residents have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same reasons that Irish , Italian and Jewish immigrants settled here earlier in the century .
The No .
7 subway offers easy access to service jobs in Manhattan .
The housing is crowded but affordable .
And almost any new arrival can find compatriots from his or her native land .
Shoppers can buy live eels at the Chinese market or Bangladeshi vegetables from a corner stand .
A Mexican vendor hawks ice cream in Spanish from a pushcart on the sidewalk in front of a shop that sells the saris Indian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has lots of people , particularly if they 're diverse , presents challenges , '' Giuliani acknowledges .
`` Most of those challenges , however , result in tremendously good things happening for the city . ''
But Brimelow says , `` The idea that a larger number of people , a large number of factions , is going to make society easier to work is just incredibly naive . ''
And of course , eveyrthing that was bad about Elmhurst in 1997 is now much worse .

Earlier: A New Yorker Reports Wet Markets And Insanitary Conditions Not In Wuhan, But In New York's Chinatown
Susan Page [Tweet her] is the USA Today Washington Bureau Chief, who in spite of being the author of an upcoming Nancy Pelosi biography, was chosen to moderate the debate between Pence and Kamala Harris.
In 1997, she wrote, for USA Today, an immigration enthusiast article about the wonderfulness of the then most diverse ZIP code in the US, Elmhurst NY, which is in Queens. (Not online, but I found a copy.)
Emphasis, and of course links, added by me.
USA's Most Diverse Neighborhood; USA TODAY/PBS explore challenges of immigration ZIP CODE 11373 Immigrants new, goal old: Brighter economic future: By Susan Page, USA TODAY, October 13, 1997 ELMHURST, N.Y.—Anupam Parikh's cramped newsstand, with newspapers and magazines in languages from Mandarin to Urdu, is a link back home for the thousands of new immigrants who settle in this 3-square-mile patch of New York City every year. Parikh, who emigrated from India in 1987, takes his diverse clientele seriously. He's learning Spanish by listening to language tapes and greets a regular customer with a few words in her native Greek. The Haiti Observateur sits next to Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News. "I love India but, you know, there is possibility right now I can make more money here," the soft-spoken 41-year-old entrepreneur says. Parikh has a classic immigrant's agenda: economic opportunity for himself and a brighter future for his children. He's not alone, especially in this neighborhood. Over the past five years, nearly 13,000 legal immigrants have come to Elmhurst—ZIP code 11373—from a stunning 123 different countries.
Of course, the point of the Parikh's immigration was to take money from Americans, and have their children educated in America, at taxpayer expense.
Surprisingly, the article says that—Page brought VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow in to provide balance:
`Where are the Americans?' Peter Brimelow, an immigration policy critic and author of Alien Nation, stands at a busy intersection of Elmhurst and views the morning scene with obvious distaste. "Where are the Americans?" he demands. The corner bodega has a faded sign in the window announcing the grocery's willingness to accept checks from the federal nutrition program for needy pregnant women, infants and children. A steady stream of students heads to school. "The kids that we see on the streets have been educated at the expense of the American taxpayer," Brimelow says. The influx of immigrant children has overwhelmed schools and prompted native-born Americans to endure long commutes to work so their children can attend suburban schools instead. "You can't show that it benefits the Americans on the whole to have this presence here," he says.
New York Mayor Giuliani didn't believe that
But New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, one of the nation's leading champions of immigration, watches neighborhoods like Elmhurst and sees something entirely different. The latest wave of immigrants has boosted the city's population and revitalized its economy, he says. The New York Planning Department this year released a generally positive analysis of their effect. "These are things people don't realize about immigrants," Giuliani says. "They work in higher percentages than native Americans. They start businesses in slightly higher percentages. So these are net contributors to our economy." A National Academy of Sciences study released this spring provides ammunition for both sides. The report estimates that immigrants provide an annual net economic gain of $1 billion to $10 billion, a modest amount in an $8 trillion economy. Nationwide, the additional cost to a native-born household also is modest, $166 to $226 a year in higher state and local taxes. (In California, with the most new arrivals, the cost spikes to $1,178.) Immigrants have revitalized urban neighborhoods. But they also have been a factor in the declining wages of low-skilled native-born Americans. Recent headlines in New York's papers spotlight the problems: Police officers are accused of brutalizing a Haitian immigrant. Deaf Mexican immigrants are enslaved in an immigrant-run peddling ring. A space heater in crowded immigrant housing sparks a deadly fire. In Elmhurst, too, some of the housing has been illegally converted into tiny apartments for large immigrant families. The schools are crowded and the local hospital overwhelmed. "Sometimes tensions come from other places and spill here—the Pakistanis and the Indian-Americans will clash, or some South American border wars will erupt," says John Sabini, the New York City Council member who represents this part of Queens. "Then there are tensions between the residents who have been here a long time and the new residents."
And note, as an example of the wonderful diversity, that Elmhurst's Chinese community has installed what we now call a "wet market":
But the new residents have been drawn to the neighborhood for the same reasons that Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants settled here earlier in the century. The No. 7 subway offers easy access to service jobs in Manhattan. The housing is crowded but affordable. And almost any new arrival can find compatriots from his or her native land. Shoppers can buy live eels at the Chinese market or Bangladeshi vegetables from a corner stand. A Mexican vendor hawks ice cream in Spanish from a pushcart on the sidewalk in front of a shop that sells the saris Indian women wear. "Any place that has lots of people, particularly if they're diverse, presents challenges," Giuliani acknowledges. "Most of those challenges, however, result in tremendously good things happening for the city." But Brimelow says, "The idea that a larger number of people, a large number of factions, is going to make society easier to work is just incredibly naive."
And of course, everything that was bad about Elmhurst in 1997 is now much worse.


vdare--2020-10-08--There Are 21 High-Scoring Asian-Americans for Each High-Scoring African-American

This rather astonishing table augmenting my new Taki ’ s Magazine column “ Asian Supremacy ” suggests an explanation for @ @ @ @ @ of 2020 : If blacks don ’ t put the squeeze for more cash and @ @ @ @ @ guilt-tripped whites soon , eventually the USA will be run by Asians , who would @ @ @ @ @ tell African-Americans to pipe down , your act is all so tiresome .
Every institution @ @ @ @ @ a frenzy to let in more high-scoring blacks , but blacks only make up 1.7 @ @ @ @ @ in the top 7 percentiles on the SAT .
For every black high school senior @ @ @ @ @ on the SAT , there are : The enormous influx of high-scoring Asians means that @ @ @ @ @ at the top anymore for African-Americans except through a massive affirmative action thumb on the @ @

This rather astonishing table augmenting my new Taki’s Magazine column “Asian Supremacy” suggests an explanation for the Black Lives Matter freakout of 2020: If blacks don’t put the squeeze for more cash and sinecures on naive, easily guilt-tripped whites soon, eventually the USA will be run by Asians, who would be far more likely to tell African-Americans to pipe down, your act is all so tiresome.
Every institution in America is currently in a frenzy to let in more high-scoring blacks, but blacks only make up 1.7% of those who scored in the top 7 percentiles on the SAT. For every black high school senior who scores 1400 or higher on the SAT, there are:
4 Hispanics
21 Asians (!)
24 whites
The enormous influx of high-scoring Asians means that basically there is no room at the top anymore for African-Americans except through a massive affirmative action thumb on the scale.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-08--NPR After Pence Said "Rioting": Fact Checkmate!

Earlier : Take That , Trump : A Study Finds That Peaceful Protesters Have Rioted Fewer Than 617 Times in @ @ @ @ @ Fact Check : Vice President Pence characterized the protests that followed George Floyd 's killing @ @ @ @ @ . ''
That is misleading .
A recent report found that more than 93 % @ @ @ @ @ were peaceful .
https : //t.co/vhqJJWFdo9 If you look at the data behind this report @ @ @ @ @ leftist group has characterized 617 incidents in the U.S. since the death of George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ with 598 falling in the subcategory of “ violent demonstrations ” and 19 of “ @ @ @ @ @ were unassociated with Black Lives Matter or Antifa , such as a July 21 brawl @ @ @ @ @ and Azerbaijanis .
But the vast majority of the 617 riots were related to the @ @ @ @

Earlier: Take That, Trump: A Study Finds That Peaceful Protesters Have Rioted Fewer Than 617 Times in Not Quite 220 Cities!
Fact Check: Vice President Pence characterized the protests that followed George Floyd's killing as "rioting and looting." That is misleading. A recent report found that more than 93% of protests over the summer were peaceful. https://t.co/vhqJJWFdo9
As I pointed out a month ago:
If you look at the data behind this report, you will see this leftist group has characterized 617 incidents in the U.S. since the death of George Floyd as “riots,” with 598 falling in the subcategory of “violent demonstrations” and 19 of “mob violence.”
A few were unassociated with Black Lives Matter or Antifa, such as a July 21 brawl in Los Angeles between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. But the vast majority of the 617 riots were related to the media-proclaimed Racial Reckoning.


vdare--2020-10-08--The CRISPR Ladies Win the Nobel

The CRISPR Ladies Win the Nobel

From the NYT op-ed page , a piece by Walter Isaacson , authorized biographer of Steve Jobs and holder of many other worthy positions .
Isaacson is representative of the best of the old liberalism : With Crispr , two scientists turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race .
Mr. Isaacson is the author of the forthcoming “ The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna , Gene Editing , and the Future of the Human Race.
” Emmanuelle Charpentier , left , and Jennifer Doudna may have made the most important biological advance since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Credit…Miguel Riopa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade , she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled “ The Double Helix ” on her bed .
She put it aside , thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved .
When she read it on a rainy Saturday , she discovered she was right , in a way .
As she sped through the pages , she became enthralled by the intense drama , filled with colorful characters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursuit of nature ’ s wonders .
Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn ’ t become scientists , she decided she would .
She would help to make what the book ’ s author , James Watson , later told her was the most important biological advance since he and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA .
She worked with a brilliant Parisian biologist named Emmanuelle Charpentier to turn a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race : an easy-to-use tool that can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ushered in a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions .
For this accomplishment , on Wednesday they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
… The award is also a great testament to the growing power of women in the life sciences .
When Rosalind Franklin made the images that helped James Watson and Francis Crick discover the structure of DNA , she became just a minor character in the early histories , and she died before she could share a Nobel Prize .
Until now , only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1911 , have won or shared the Nobel for chemistry , out of 184 honorees .
When this year ’ s prize was announced , Dr. Charpentier said it would “ provide a message specifically to young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that in friendship women can also be awarded prizes.
” Crispr is now being used to treat sickle-cell anemia , cancers and blindness .
But , it ’ s also kind of like letting the genie of genetic engineering out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s a patent battle going on between Doudna and Charpentier versus Feng Zhang of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute over CRISPR .
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism sides with Doudna and Charpentier .
Doudna is from Hilo , Hawaii , which is not the most intellectual of American towns , but it doesn have a branch of the U. of Hawaii there .
From the Hawaii Tribune-Herald : Hilo High graduate one of 2 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry Hilo is all abuzz about one of its own , Jennifer A. Doudna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with co-researcher Emanuelle Charpentier of France .
While that was news to many , one retired biology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has predicted for almost three decades that Doudna would become a Nobel laureate .
“ You know , I told Martin , her dad , before he passed on , ‘ I think your daughter is going to win the Nobel Prize .
And that was before she did all the CRISPR stuff , ” Don Hemmes told the Tribune-Herald on Wednesday , referring to Martin Doudna , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ December 1995 .
Charpentier is perhaps the Frenchest-looking French woman ever , which is not a bad thing .
The final count for the 3 hard science Nobels in 2020 was all 7 winners were white , and 3 were women , including black hole astronomer Andrea Ghez of UCLA .
Both of the Americans Laureate ladies are married and have 3 children amongst them .

From the NYT op-ed page, a piece by Walter Isaacson, authorized biographer of Steve Jobs and holder of many other worthy positions. Isaacson is representative of the best of the old liberalism:
This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors a Revolution With Crispr, two scientists turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race. By Walter Isaacson Mr. Isaacson is the author of the forthcoming “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Oct. 7, 2020
Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer Doudna may have made the most important biological advance since the discovery of the structure of DNA. Credit…Miguel Riopa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled “The Double Helix” on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama, filled with colorful characters, about ambition and competition in the pursuit of nature’s wonders. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would. She would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, later told her was the most important biological advance since he and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA. She worked with a brilliant Parisian biologist named Emmanuelle Charpentier to turn a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as Crispr, it ushered in a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. For this accomplishment, on Wednesday they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. … The award is also a great testament to the growing power of women in the life sciences. When Rosalind Franklin made the images that helped James Watson and Francis Crick discover the structure of DNA, she became just a minor character in the early histories, and she died before she could share a Nobel Prize. Until now, only five women, beginning with Marie Curie in 1911, have won or shared the Nobel for chemistry, out of 184 honorees. When this year’s prize was announced, Dr. Charpentier said it would “provide a message specifically to young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that in friendship women can also be awarded prizes.” Crispr is now being used to treat sickle-cell anemia, cancers and blindness.
Dear @amy_harmon,
Didja notice that Walter Isaacson's NYT oped on the CRISPR Nobel Laureates refers respectfully to James D. Watson as an authority and an inspiration to Jennifer Doudna?
Shouldn't you have some oped editor canceled for this slip-up?https://t.co/3I3Bj466oD — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) October 8, 2020
But, it’s also kind of like letting the genie of genetic engineering out of the bottle … Is that wise?
There’s a patent battle going on between Doudna and Charpentier versus Feng Zhang of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute over CRISPR. Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism sides with Doudna and Charpentier.
Doudna is from Hilo, Hawaii, which is not the most intellectual of American towns, but it does have a branch of the U. of Hawaii there. From the Hawaii Tribune-Herald:
Hilo High graduate one of 2 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry By JOHN BURNETT Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Thursday, October 8, 2020, Hilo is all abuzz about one of its own, Jennifer A. Doudna, sharing the Nobel Prize in chemistry with co-researcher Emanuelle Charpentier of France. While that was news to many, one retired biology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has predicted for almost three decades that Doudna would become a Nobel laureate. “You know, I told Martin, her dad, before he passed on, ‘I think your daughter is going to win the Nobel Prize. And that was before she did all the CRISPR stuff,” Don Hemmes told the Tribune-Herald on Wednesday, referring to Martin Doudna, a UH-Hilo English professor who died in December 1995.
Charpentier is perhaps the Frenchest-looking French woman ever, which is not a bad thing.
The final count for the 3 hard science Nobels in 2020 was all 7 winners were white, and 3 were women, including black hole astronomer Andrea Ghez of UCLA.
Both of the Americans Laureate ladies are married and have 3 children amongst them.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-08--Audacious Epigone: Top and Bottom vs Middle, Election Edition

The Democrats are increasingly the party of the rich and poor , Republicans of the middle and those at risk @ @ @ @ @ : Like other demographic trends–racial , educational , religious , marital–this bodes well for Democrat @ @ @ @ @ .
The ranks of the top are growing a little , the ranks of the @ @ @ @ @ .
The middle is hollowing out .

The Democrats are increasingly the party of the rich and poor, Republicans of the middle and those at risk of sliding out of it:
Like other demographic trends—racial, educational, religious, marital—this bodes well for Democrat electoral prospects in the future. The ranks of the top are growing a little, the ranks of the bottom are growing a lot. The middle is hollowing out.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-07--Key to Trump Victory in Four Weeks? A Total Immigration Moratorium Now!

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Since this email was sent , we watched the VP debate on Wednesday night and were disappointed but unsurprised ( What can you expect from this moderator ? )
that immigration was again totally ignored .
( But we did get at least ten minutes of hand-wringing about white supremacy . )
Despite this , we can still be encouraged by President Trump 's efforts to rework the H1-B rules in favor of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to win , the GOP needs to talk about it .
Twenty-five years ago , in Alien Nation : Common Sense About America ’ Immigration Disaster , Peter Brimelow proposed an Immigration Moratorium .
As of April , there were 684 articles on VDARE.com discussing an Immigration Moratorium .
Finally , it ’ s breaking through .
Trump put the concept of a Moratorium “ in play , ” via Twitter six months ago in response to the Chinese Virus .
• In June , he extended and expanded his and immigration policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guest worker visas , including the are excluded from entry under the new ban and the order is extended until the end of the year .
• American worker displacement has dropped , while the immigrant workforce has also dropped since these measures were enacted ... but Trump is n't talking about this on the campaign trail and how it 's helping native-born Americans in the labor market !
But in September , Immigration Patriots witnessed an enormous victory when Lauren Witzke won the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware on an Immigration Moratorium @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that an immigration moratorium is now not only “ in play , ” but a winning platform .
The time has come : Total Immigration Moratorium Now !
More on an Immigration Moratoirum from VDARE.com : • None Peter Brimelow Interviews GOP Candidate Lauren Witzke On The Idea Of An Immigration Moratorium by Peter Brimelow on October 4 , 2020 • None NATIONAL DATA : American Worker Displacement , Immigrant Workforce Both Fall In September—Why Isn ’ t Trump Talking About It ?
by Ed Rubenstein , October 3 , 2020 • None @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Witzke Out Of Campaigning On Immigration Moratorium by Peter Brimelow on September 25 , 2020 • None Delaware ’ s Lauren Witzke—Advocating An Immigration Moratorium In A State Where National Populism Should Win , by Washington Watcher II on September 21 , 2020 • None The Race Tightens—But Trump Still Does Poorly With White Vote .
Protecting the Suburbs and The Immigration Moratorium Can Turn That Around by Washington Watcher II , September 13 , 2020 • None White Pill : Trump Has 'Literally Shut Down Legal Immigration To United States '' —Immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9 , 2020 • None NATIONAL DATA : Powerful Jobs Rebound—And Immigrant Workforce Has Now Been Falling For A WHOLE YEAR , by Ed Rubenstein , September 7 , 2020 • None Trump ’ s Immigration Moratorium A Huge Win For America—Now He MUST Campaign On It , by Washington Watcher II June 24 , 2020 • None Trump Should Use Defense Production Act Against Tech Totalitarians Like Amazon ( Plus An Immigration Moratorium , Of Course ) , by James Kirkpatrick , May 12 , 2020 • None Peter Brimelow 's Call @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Years Ago !
, by James Fulford , April 24 , 2020 • None Trump Has Put An Immigration Moratorium `` In Play . ''
Not Enough—But Something , Peter Brimelow , April 21 , 2020

The following was sent out as an ebulletin special edition. Sign up here to be the first to receive these roundups and special alerts!
Since this email was sent, we watched the VP debate on Wednesday night and were disappointed but unsurprised (What can you expect from this moderator?) that immigration was again totally ignored. (But we did get at least ten minutes of hand-wringing about white supremacy.) Despite this, we can still be encouraged by President Trump's efforts to rework the H1-B rules in favor of American workers. The trick is: to win, the GOP needs to talk about it.
Twenty-five years ago, in Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’ Immigration Disaster, Peter Brimelow proposed an Immigration Moratorium. As of April, there were 684 articles on VDARE.com discussing an Immigration Moratorium.
Finally, it’s breaking through.
Trump put the concept of a Moratorium “in play,” via Twitter six months ago in response to the Chinese Virus.
In June, he extended and expanded his temporary immigration moratorium and fundamentally changed immigration policy to Put Americans First.
Most guest worker visas, including the H-1B visa, are excluded from entry under the new ban and the order is extended until the end of the year.
As Ed Rubenstein has shown American worker displacement has dropped, while the immigrant workforce has also dropped since these measures were enacted... but Trump isn't talking about this on the campaign trail and how it's helping native-born Americans in the labor market!
But in September, Immigration Patriots witnessed an enormous victory when Lauren Witzke won the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware on an Immigration Moratorium platform. Her decisive victory is proof that an immigration moratorium is now not only “in play,” but a winning platform.
The time has come: Total Immigration Moratorium Now!
Watch VDARE.com interview Lauren Witzke here!
More on an Immigration Moratorium from VDARE.com:


vdare--2020-10-09--"Florida Man" (I. E. Black Felon)  5 Days Out Of Prison, Arrested For Shooting Truck Full Of Bullet

"Florida Man" (I. E. Black Felon)  5 Days Out Of Prison, Arrested For Shooting Truck Full Of Bullet Holes, Killing Nobody

As I 've said before , the phrase `` Florida Man '' in a headline is proverbially linked to foolishness involving alcohol , requiring the intervention of the police and fire departments , and similar to the consequences of saying `` Hold my beer , I got this.
`` That is , it 's presumably about rednecks .
But not always .
Florida Man Tried to Gun Down Truck Driver Just 5 Days After Being Released From Prison Go back , Demare , do it again : Citrus County deputies say Demare Barnes spent the last four years in prison @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago .
Now he ’ s back behind bars , this time on attempted murder charges .
Thankfully no one was shot , but the placement of the bullet holes indicates the lack of injuries was some kind of miracle .
They also have a YouTube clip of Steely Dan 's Do It Again , which I bet Demare does n't listen to : Let 's hear , from the linked NewsWeek story , how this went down : A man has been arrested for attempted murder just five days after being released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Citrus County Sheriff 's Office ( CCSO ) told local media deputies had responded to calls about violent clashes in front of a Circle K convenience store in Citrus Avenue , Crystal River , on Sunday .
Upon arrival , the investigators heard gunshots and found a number of fights had broken out between 60 and 80 people .
Multiple physical altercations were ongoing as deputies attempted to gain control of the situation , identify potential victims , and locate possible suspects , said the sheriff 's office in a media statement .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a truck with multiple gunshot holes .
The person inside the vehicle was uninjured , but officers say the driver had a lucky escape as the bullet holes were near where they were seated .
After securing the crime scene , officers began quizzing those nearby .
After looking at a variety of photographs , detectives said they identified 32-year-old Demare Barnes .
So , no social distancing , a mass brawl , witnesses who wo n't talk , gunshots for no reason , and no one hit .
Even without the name @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this was a black thing , not a redneck thing .
I explained the reasond for Bad black marksmanship my `` Leaded Law '' article above .
In this case the fact that Demare had no opportunity to fire a gun at all five years adds to the bad marksmanship factor

As I've said before, the phrase "Florida Man" in a headline is proverbially linked to foolishness involving alcohol, requiring the intervention of the police and fire departments, and similar to the consequences of saying "Hold my beer, I got this. "
That is, it's presumably about rednecks. But not always.
PJMedia's "Florida Man Friday" roundup includes this:
Florida Man Tried to Gun Down Truck Driver Just 5 Days After Being Released From Prison Go back, Demare, do it again: Citrus County deputies say Demare Barnes spent the last four years in prison, and was just released five days ago. Now he’s back behind bars, this time on attempted murder charges. Thankfully no one was shot, but the placement of the bullet holes indicates the lack of injuries was some kind of miracle. YOLO, right?
They also have a YouTube clip of Steely Dan's Do It Again, which I bet Demare doesn't listen to:
Let's hear, from the linked Newsweek story, how this went down:
A man has been arrested for attempted murder just five days after being released from prison, say police. The Citrus County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) told local media deputies had responded to calls about violent clashes in front of a Circle K convenience store in Citrus Avenue, Crystal River, on Sunday. Upon arrival, the investigators heard gunshots and found a number of fights had broken out between 60 and 80 people. Multiple physical altercations were ongoing as deputies attempted to gain control of the situation, identify potential victims, and locate possible suspects, said the sheriff's office in a media statement. While dispersing the crowd, officers found a truck with multiple gunshot holes. The person inside the vehicle was uninjured, but officers say the driver had a lucky escape as the bullet holes were near where they were seated. After securing the crime scene, officers began quizzing those nearby. After looking at a variety of photographs, detectives said they identified 32-year-old Demare Barnes.
Here's Demare:
Citrus County deputies say Demare Barnes spent the last four years in prison, and was just released five days ago. Now he's back behind bars, this time on attempted murder charges. https://t.co/dfwgJYCAkk — FOX 13 Tampa Bay (@FOX13News) October 6, 2020
So, no social distancing, a mass brawl, witnesses who won't talk, gunshots for no reason, and no one hit. Even without the name and photo, we could guess that this was a black thing, not a redneck thing.
I explained the reasons for bad black marksmanship my "Leaded Law" article above. In this case the fact that Demare had no opportunity to fire a gun at all five years adds to the bad marksmanship factor


vdare--2020-10-09--Bye-Bye to Donna Zuckerberg's Eidolon Classics Mag

iSteve commenter Elephant in the Wash Room points out that iSteve content generator Donna Zuckerberg is exhausted from the emotional labor of publishing her Woke Ancient Greece and Rome website : Maybe someone else has already mentioned this , but it appears that the horrors of the Trump regime has gotten the better of Sailer ’ s favorite Classicist , Donna Zuckerberg , who ’ s closing down her Eidolon journal .
Apparently , life can wear down even the sister of somebody worth $ 100 billion .
Go figure .
How can I spend my energy reading Greek and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of thousands of Americans ?
How can I read and think slowly and carefully when there ’ s no justice for the murderers of Breonna Taylor and countless others , and when the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg means that our judicial system will be even more an enemy of real justice in the future ?
How can I write coherent sentences when I think about the growing danger of an autocratic coup by the Trump administration ?
But I ’ m also exhausted .
Running Eidolon is a lot of ( largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my team .
With our rigorous editing process , publishing between 50 and 100 essays a year has been fairly labor-intensive , although it ’ s been a labor of love .
But the past six months have sapped my emotional reserves and put extraordinary demands on my time and energy , and my work has suffered as a result .
I didn ’ t feel that I could handle this job and my other responsibilities .
Apparently , running leftist journals is yet another job that even American plutocrats are unwilling to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the intersection of Classical studies and critical race theory that are now being left to rot on the vine .
Surely , among all those unwashed masses flooding across the border , there ’ s one with the pluck and drive to keep the rigorous editing process of leftist scholarship going ?
Hopefully , Donna can find some other useful outlet for her myriad talents , whatever they may be .

iSteve commenter Elephant in the Wash Room points out that iSteve content generator Donna Zuckerberg is exhausted from the emotional labor of publishing her Woke Ancient Greece and Rome website:
Maybe someone else has already mentioned this, but it appears that the horrors of the Trump regime has gotten the better of Sailer’s favorite Classicist, Donna Zuckerberg, who’s closing down her Eidolon journal. Apparently, life can wear down even the sister of somebody worth $100 billion. Go figure.
How can I spend my energy reading Greek and Latin when a pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans? How can I read and think slowly and carefully when there’s no justice for the murderers of Breonna Taylor and countless others, and when the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg means that our judicial system will be even more an enemy of real justice in the future? How can I write coherent sentences when I think about the growing danger of an autocratic coup by the Trump administration?
How indeed?
But I’m also exhausted. Running Eidolon is a lot of (largely uncompensated) work for me and for my team. With our rigorous editing process, publishing between 50 and 100 essays a year has been fairly labor-intensive, although it’s been a labor of love. But the past six months have sapped my emotional reserves and put extraordinary demands on my time and energy, and my work has suffered as a result. I didn’t feel that I could handle this job and my other responsibilities.
Apparently, running leftist journals is yet another job that even American plutocrats are unwilling to do. Think of all those articles about the intersection of Classical studies and critical race theory that are now being left to rot on the vine. Surely, among all those unwashed masses flooding across the border, there’s one with the pluck and drive to keep the rigorous editing process of leftist scholarship going?
Hopefully, Donna can find some other useful outlet for her myriad talents, whatever they may be.


vdare--2020-10-09--Black Woman Pundit at Washington Post: America Hates to Let Black Women Speak

Earlier : WaPo Editrix Karen Attiah : White Women Are Lucky That We Are Just Calling Them `` Karen 's '' [ sic ] and Not Calling for Revenge Workhorse iSteve content generator Karen Attiah , Global Opinions Editor of the Washington Post , has a Post column brim-full of the wry , humble self-awareness without the slightest hint of megalomania that we ’ ve all come to associate with black women ’ s opinionizing : Isn ’ t everything a reminder of how non-white women never get to talk ?
… Black women especially have to be seen to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t allowed to be angry , even if our anger is justified in a country that too often silences us .
… Will Harris ’ s audition for the role of vice president capture significant donor dollars in a society that loves to tell Black women that we are worth less than others ?
… For Black women , this was , in prime time , like watching Whiteness and the patriarchy at work .
Pence ’ s interruptions of Page and the way he plowed through her attempts to silence him showed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way Page more aggressively tried to limit Harris ’ s time was all too familiar in how White women can also be complicit in silencing Black women .
Americans love to make empowering memes and sound bites showing powerful Black women fighting to reclaim their time , and yet time and space are sometimes the last thing America wants to wants us to have , even when we play by the rules .
… But I wish Black women didn ’ t have to work so hard .
I yearn for an America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to battle for the bare minimum : to be allowed to speak .

Earlier: WaPo Editrix Karen Attiah: White Women Are Lucky That We Are Just Calling Them "Karen's" [sic] and Not Calling for Revenge
Workhorse iSteve content generator Karen Attiah, Global Opinions Editor of the Washington Post, has a Post column brim-full of the wry, humble self-awareness without the slightest hint of megalomania that we’ve all come to associate with black women’s opinionizing:
America hates to let Black women speak Opinion by Karen Attiah
Global Opinions editor
Oct. 8, 2020 at 8:56 a.m. PDT The plexiglass was also an onstage reminder of the barriers that non-White women face when vying for political power in this country.
Isn’t everything a reminder of how non-white women never get to talk?
… Black women especially have to be seen to be tough, but we aren’t allowed to be angry, even if our anger is justified in a country that too often silences us. … Will Harris’s audition for the role of vice president capture significant donor dollars in a society that loves to tell Black women that we are worth less than others? … For Black women, this was, in prime time, like watching Whiteness and the patriarchy at work. Pence’s interruptions of Page and the way he plowed through her attempts to silence him showed his disrespect for her. But the way Page more aggressively tried to limit Harris’s time was all too familiar in how White women can also be complicit in silencing Black women. Americans love to make empowering memes and sound bites showing powerful Black women fighting to reclaim their time, and yet time and space are sometimes the last thing America wants to wants us to have, even when we play by the rules. … But I wish Black women didn’t have to work so hard. I yearn for an America where non-White women don’t have to battle for the bare minimum: to be allowed to speak.
— From the Washington Post
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-10-08--There Are 21 High-Scoring Asian-Americans For Each High-Scoring African-American


vdare--2020-10-08--The CRISPR Ladies Win The Nobel

The CRISPR Ladies Win The Nobel

From the NYT op-ed page , a piece by Walter Isaacson , authorized biographer of Steve Jobs and holder of many other worthy positions .
Isaacson is representative of the best of the old liberalism : With Crispr , two scientists turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race .
Mr. Isaacson is the author of the forthcoming “ The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna , Gene Editing , and the Future of the Human Race.
” Emmanuelle Charpentier , left , and Jennifer Doudna may have made the most important biological advance since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Credit…Miguel Riopa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade , she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled “ The Double Helix ” on her bed .
She put it aside , thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved .
When she read it on a rainy Saturday , she discovered she was right , in a way .
As she sped through the pages , she became enthralled by the intense drama , filled with colorful characters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursuit of nature ’ s wonders .
Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn ’ t become scientists , she decided she would .
She would help to make what the book ’ s author , James Watson , later told her was the most important biological advance since he and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA .
She worked with a brilliant Parisian biologist named Emmanuelle Charpentier to turn a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race : an easy-to-use tool that can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ushered in a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions .
For this accomplishment , on Wednesday they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
… The award is also a great testament to the growing power of women in the life sciences .
When Rosalind Franklin made the images that helped James Watson and Francis Crick discover the structure of DNA , she became just a minor character in the early histories , and she died before she could share a Nobel Prize .
Until now , only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1911 , have won or shared the Nobel for chemistry , out of 184 honorees .
When this year ’ s prize was announced , Dr. Charpentier said it would “ provide a message specifically to young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that in friendship women can also be awarded prizes.
” Crispr is now being used to treat sickle-cell anemia , cancers and blindness .
But , it ’ s also kind of like letting the genie of genetic engineering out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s a patent battle going on between Doudna and Charpentier versus Feng Zhang of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute over CRISPR .
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism sides with Doudna and Charpentier .
Doudna is from Hilo , Hawaii , which is not the most intellectual of American towns , but it does have a branch of the U. of Hawaii there .
From the Hawaii Tribune-Herald : Hilo High graduate one of 2 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry Hilo is all abuzz about one of its own , Jennifer A. Doudna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with co-researcher Emanuelle Charpentier of France .
While that was news to many , one retired biology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has predicted for almost three decades that Doudna would become a Nobel laureate .
“ You know , I told Martin , her dad , before he passed on , ‘ I think your daughter is going to win the Nobel Prize .
And that was before she did all the CRISPR stuff , ” Don Hemmes told the Tribune-Herald on Wednesday , referring to Martin Doudna , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ December 1995 .
Charpentier is perhaps the Frenchest-looking French woman ever , which is not a bad thing .
The final count for the 3 hard science Nobels in 2020 was all 7 winners were white , and 3 were women , including black hole astronomer Andrea Ghez of UCLA .
Both of the Americans Laureate ladies are married and have 3 children amongst them .


vdare--2020-10-07--Sailer: "My Dream Debate Question: Who Invented The Light Bulb?

Earlier : Joe Biden : A Black Man Invented the Light Bulb , Not a White Guy Named Edison and @ @ @ @ @ Has Reported That Biden Is Hotep-Pilled on the Light Bulb Question ?
If I were @ @ @ @ @ , my first question would be : Mr. Trump , you will have 10 seconds @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Biden , you will have 10 minutes in which to expand upon your answer @

Earlier: Joe Biden: A Black Man Invented the Light Bulb, Not a White Guy Named Edison and 24 Hours Later, Who Has Reported That Biden Is Hotep-Pilled on the Light Bulb Question?
If I were moderating the next Presidential debate, my first question would be:
Who invented the light bulb? Mr. Trump, you will have 10 seconds in which to respond. Mr. Biden, you will have 10 minutes in which to expand upon your answer.
[Comment at Unz.com]