lewrockwell--2020-06-12--The Truth About America: Why We Are Not a Racist Nation

“ Racism in America is not the exception – it ’ s the norm , ” read a headline from the British Guardian the other day .
“ 2 viruses — COVID and racism — devastate the black community and threaten America ’ s stability , declares an ABC News piece .
“ Not just George Floyd : Police departments have 400-year history of racism , ” headlines an USA Today article .
“ We need to tackle racism , and we ’ ve never really dealt with it , ” asserted a protester at one of the many rallies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A great deal , indeed , has been recently said from many quarters about the alleged oppressiveness and racism of American society .
Even though these denunciations have been delivered in impassioned voices and accompanied by much violence , there is one problem with such claims : They are not true .
The opposite is actually the case .
Aqua Deluxe Resort Qua ... Buy New $ 26.37 The fact is that there is no institutional or systemic discrimination against black people in American society .
Contrary to the assertions we hear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ century America has gone into untold lengths to support and assist its black community .
During this time , American society has launched countless programs and initiatives and spent hundreds of billions of dollars aimed specifically at uplifting the African American demographic .
The support that the black community receives from American society comes in every form conceivable : legislative , financial , educational , commercial , human , material .
To ensure that there is no systemic or institutional discrimination , America went so far as to implement affirmative action and racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contracts , housing and other areas of life .
This means that our laws and codes of conduct grant more protection , privileges and guarantees to colored people than they do to their white counterparts .
So eager and willing has America been to elevate its black minority that it actually subjected the majority to reverse discrimination .
To redeem itself and correct a legacy of past discrimination , the United Sates has bent backwards to advance its black population .
The amount of resources , protection and goodwill that America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ completely unprecedented in the annals of world history .
Nowhere in the world do black people enjoy more freedom and greater financial , employment and educational opportunities than they do in the United States .
This is the reason why so many black people from all over the globe seek to come and live in this country .
Such great are their numbers that we can only accept a tiny fraction of those who wish to live here .
If America was such a racist and oppressive nation , why would they want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they want to come is because they know that America treats black people well and that nowhere else in the world black people have it as good as they have it here .
When black people whose vision has not been distorted by the demagoguery of the so-called civil rights leaders look at America they see freedom and opportunity .
They look at America and they see a society that displays immense generosity and good will toward its black population .
They look at America and see a country that has recently awarded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job in the world – the presidency of the United States – to a black man .
And this not once , but two times .
Would a racist nation ever do something like that ?
$ 10 PlayStation Store ... Buy New $ 10.00 Conversely , we do not hear stories of African Americans leaving this “ racist ” “ oppressive ” country and then returning with tales of lands where black people lead better lives of more freedom , affluence and dignity .
Have you ever heard such a testimony ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ world that is more generous and caring towards black people than this one .
Let us find one nation where black people receive more freedom and protection than in the United States of America .
Tellingly , we can not find a single predominantly black country where its citizens enjoy more rights and affluence than the black people in the United States .
Isn ’ t it paradoxical that the United States treats its black people better than black nations treat their own ?
The immense lengths – involving both effort and treasure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to help and accommodate black Americans are surely worth pondering .
In a healthy society , this would draw at least sporadic expressions of gratitude and appreciation .
If truth be told , African Americans are the most favored and legally privileged demographic in American society .
Enjoying the benefits of a host of protective measures and mechanisms incorporated into the fabric of our societal existence , African Americans are neither systemically oppressed nor are they institutionally discriminated against .
An eye-opening expression of this took place last week during the “ anti-racism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There a local black woman by the named Nestride Yumga confronted a group of protesters promulgating their stock racist slogans against this country ( watch here ) .
In the course of the exchange , the woman chastizes a white protestor : Standing in front of them with outstretched arms , Nestride ’ s words have a stunning effect that leaves the startled demonstrators groping for a reply .
The impact of her utterance is so powerful , because what she says is so obviously and undeniably true .
Unlike rioters and protestors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this young black woman truly speaks truth to power .
And what a power hers is .
Turning toward the black members of the crowd , she excoriates them , “ You guys are not oppressed .
You are lazy , that ’ s all it is .
Go get jobs , work !
” Coconut Float ’ s ... Buy New $ 12.99 Blindsided by this unexpected petard of stark truth , the dazed demonstrators weakly attempt a couple of hollow clichés and some heckling by way of response .
Hit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they are unable to mount any kind of coherent answer .
The black woman ’ s reproof rips off the cloak of righteous falsehood from their faux cause and they stand there exposed , clutching pitiably to the shreds of their specious lies .
Befuddled and confused , they pack up their protest paraphernalia and decamp .
As they retreat , the intrepid lady sends them on their way with her last salvo “ you guys have been cowards.
” But what about the issue of the systemic police brutality against black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we just witnessed in the lamentable death of George Floyd ?
It has been repeatedly demonstrated , however , that such incidents are actually very rare and not a manifestation of pervasive racism in our law enforcement .
As Tucker Carlson notes , in 2019 ten unarmed African Americans were shot dead by police officers in the United States .
Nine of them had serious criminal records .
On the other hand , less than two weeks ago on May 31 , 18 black people were murdered in the city of Chicago by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are thus shot and killed by black people in one day in one city than they are killed by the police across the United States in one whole year .
The talk that we sometimes hear of the police committing “ black genocide ” is absurd beyond belief .
As Theodore Dalrymple points out a “ policeman is about fifteen times more likely to be killed by a black man than to kill a black man.
” And most of the small number of black men killed annually by the police are dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of committing a crime .
Moreover , more white people are shot by the police than black people , and likewise more white people die in arrest-related incidents than black people .
The narrative that the police routinely rounds up innocent peaceful black men in the streets is a complete myth that no one in their right mind can believe , not least black people themselves .
According to Pew research , more than half of black Americans have “ a lot ” or at least “ some ” confidence in the police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than one third of the American population approve of the way Congress is handling its job .
In other words , far more black people have confidence in their local cops that we have in our elected representatives in Washington , DC .
Most upright black Americans want our law enforcement and government officials take a strong stance against lawlessness no matter by whom it is perpetrated .
The latest evidence of this is Donald Trump ’ s record approval rating among likely black voters in the wake of the riots .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the few government figures who has not pandered to the looting mobs .
PlayStation Plus : 1 Mo ... Buy New $ 9.99 The question , then , is : Given all the financial , legislative , educational and human resources that have been poured into the black community over the decades , why is the black community not thriving ?
Why , after all these years of immense effort and investment , is the black community still plagued with so many troubles and difficulties ?
The answer is not racism , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why the black community is so troubled is the moral breakdown that has corroded its large portions , especially those of the inner cities .
Data shows that more than seventy five percent of black babies are born to single mothers .
And from those 25 percent who are born to parents who are married fewer still grow up to adulthood with both of their biological parents present .
This means that the majority of young black people grow up in broken or dysfunctional homes .
In any racial demographic that by itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And the statistics are , indeed , devastating .
Consider some of the following facts .
Children from fatherless families are five times more likely to grow up in poverty and commit crime .
Children from father-absent homes are nearly three times more likely to carry guns and deal drugs than those living with their fathers .
They are also nine times more likely to drop out of school .
Worse yet , young people from broken families are 20 times more likely to go to prison .
As far back as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the destruction of the black nuclear family would have ruinous economic and social consequences for the black community .
When Moynihan was writing his famous report the black illegitimacy rate was 25 percent .
Today it is three times higher .
Float World Inflatable ... Buy New $ 19.97 Sadly , the destruction of the black nuclear family has been to a great degree effected and facilitated by government which creates incentives for this by providing cash payments and an array of benefits to single mothers .
“ The steady expansion of welfare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States , ” wrote Moynihan in the conclusion to his paper .
The black writer and thinker Larry Elder recalls a story of some years ago when he interviewed Kweisi Mfume who was at the time president of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People ( NAACP ) .
In the course of the interview , Elder posed this question : “ Between the presence of white racism and the absence of black fathers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black community ?
” Without any hesitation , Mfume replied , “ the absence of black fathers.
” Bad as it is , for so many black children growing up in broken , dysfunctional families – a situation which greatly diminishes their prospects in life – is not the end of it .
Most of them also live immersed in a culture and mindset that makes it virtually impossible to pursue happy and meaningful existence .
It is truly regrettable that black street culture promotes and celebrates the grosses of human traits and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegitimacy , violence , instant gratification , drug abuse , indolence and crime are celebrated and held up as if they were some virtues .
On other hand , those who by studiousness , uprightness and work ethic try to escape the bleak and hopeless existence that such a view of life inevitably engenders are accused of “ acting white ” and derided as Uncle Toms and Aunt Annas .
How absurd .
Those who make such derisory statements seem to imply that living an upright , diligent and conscientious life is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by white people .
What hope can there be for young people growing up in broken homes – which are often negligent and abusive – while being submerged in such a toxic culture ?
We see the tragic result of it in the looting mobs that are vandalizing and burning American cities today .
The pandemonium they have unleashed is not the consequence of white racism or police brutality .
It is the inevitable outcome of the illegitimacy , broken culture and moral decline that has unraveled the moral fiber of large swathes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black community needs at this time is not more protests , money or government programs .
What it needs is a moral rebirth and a return to the values of personal responsibility , conscientiousness , studiousness , discipline and honest work .
This is where the real problem lies and unless it is addressed and faced squarely , the black community will never escape the pathologies and difficulties it is presently struggling with .
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“Racism in America is not the exception – it’s the norm,” read a headline from the British Guardian the other day.
“2 viruses — COVID and racism — devastate the black community and threaten America’s stability, declares an ABC News piece.
“Not just George Floyd: Police departments have 400-year history of racism,” headlines an USA Today article.
“We need to tackle racism, and we’ve never really dealt with it,” asserted a protester at one of the many rallies that have taken place in recent weeks.
A great deal, indeed, has been recently said from many quarters about the alleged oppressiveness and racism of American society. Even though these denunciations have been delivered in impassioned voices and accompanied by much violence, there is one problem with such claims: They are not true. The opposite is actually the case. Aqua Deluxe Resort Qua... Buy New $26.37 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
The fact is that there is no institutional or systemic discrimination against black people in American society. Contrary to the assertions we hear today, in the last half a century America has gone into untold lengths to support and assist its black community. During this time, American society has launched countless programs and initiatives and spent hundreds of billions of dollars aimed specifically at uplifting the African American demographic. The support that the black community receives from American society comes in every form conceivable: legislative, financial, educational, commercial, human, material.
To ensure that there is no systemic or institutional discrimination, America went so far as to implement affirmative action and racial quotas in education, employment, government contracts, housing and other areas of life. This means that our laws and codes of conduct grant more protection, privileges and guarantees to colored people than they do to their white counterparts. So eager and willing has America been to elevate its black minority that it actually subjected the majority to reverse discrimination. To redeem itself and correct a legacy of past discrimination, the United Sates has bent backwards to advance its black population. The amount of resources, protection and goodwill that America’s black minority receives from our society is completely unprecedented in the annals of world history.
Nowhere in the world do black people enjoy more freedom and greater financial, employment and educational opportunities than they do in the United States. This is the reason why so many black people from all over the globe seek to come and live in this country. Such great are their numbers that we can only accept a tiny fraction of those who wish to live here. If America was such a racist and oppressive nation, why would they want to come so badly?
The reason they want to come is because they know that America treats black people well and that nowhere else in the world black people have it as good as they have it here. When black people whose vision has not been distorted by the demagoguery of the so-called civil rights leaders look at America they see freedom and opportunity. They look at America and they see a society that displays immense generosity and good will toward its black population. They look at America and see a country that has recently awarded the most coveted, powerful and prestigious job in the world – the presidency of the United States – to a black man. And this not once, but two times. Would a racist nation ever do something like that? $10 PlayStation Store ... Buy New $10.00 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
Conversely, we do not hear stories of African Americans leaving this “racist” “oppressive” country and then returning with tales of lands where black people lead better lives of more freedom, affluence and dignity. Have you ever heard such a testimony? Let us see one country in the world that is more generous and caring towards black people than this one. Let us find one nation where black people receive more freedom and protection than in the United States of America. Tellingly, we cannot find a single predominantly black country where its citizens enjoy more rights and affluence than the black people in the United States. Isn’t it paradoxical that the United States treats its black people better than black nations treat their own? The immense lengths – involving both effort and treasure – into which this society has gone to help and accommodate black Americans are surely worth pondering. In a healthy society, this would draw at least sporadic expressions of gratitude and appreciation.
If truth be told, African Americans are the most favored and legally privileged demographic in American society. Enjoying the benefits of a host of protective measures and mechanisms incorporated into the fabric of our societal existence, African Americans are neither systemically oppressed nor are they institutionally discriminated against. An eye-opening expression of this took place last week during the “anti-racism” protests in Washington, DC. There a local black woman by the named Nestride Yumga confronted a group of protesters promulgating their stock racist slogans against this country (watch here). In the course of the exchange, the woman chastizes a white protestor:
“You say blacks are oppressed. I am black and I am not oppressed. I am free!… Stop forcing on people to accept that they are oppressed… You are forcing a rhetoric into their minds which is not true… Shame on you, I am free!”
Standing in front of them with outstretched arms, Nestride’s words have a stunning effect that leaves the startled demonstrators groping for a reply. The impact of her utterance is so powerful, because what she says is so obviously and undeniably true. Unlike rioters and protestors we see shouting untruths from our screens, this young black woman truly speaks truth to power. And what a power hers is. Turning toward the black members of the crowd, she excoriates them, “You guys are not oppressed. You are lazy, that’s all it is. Go get jobs, work!” Coconut Float’s ... Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
Blindsided by this unexpected petard of stark truth, the dazed demonstrators weakly attempt a couple of hollow clichés and some heckling by way of response. Hit with such a healthy dose of reality, they are unable to mount any kind of coherent answer. The black woman’s reproof rips off the cloak of righteous falsehood from their faux cause and they stand there exposed, clutching pitiably to the shreds of their specious lies. Befuddled and confused, they pack up their protest paraphernalia and decamp. As they retreat, the intrepid lady sends them on their way with her last salvo “you guys have been cowards.”
But what about the issue of the systemic police brutality against black Americans, the latest example of which we just witnessed in the lamentable death of George Floyd? It has been repeatedly demonstrated, however, that such incidents are actually very rare and not a manifestation of pervasive racism in our law enforcement. As Tucker Carlson notes, in 2019 ten unarmed African Americans were shot dead by police officers in the United States. Nine of them had serious criminal records. On the other hand, less than two weeks ago on May 31, 18 black people were murdered in the city of Chicago by mostly black criminals. More black people are thus shot and killed by black people in one day in one city than they are killed by the police across the United States in one whole year. The talk that we sometimes hear of the police committing “black genocide” is absurd beyond belief. As Theodore Dalrymple points out a “policeman is about fifteen times more likely to be killed by a black man than to kill a black man.” And most of the small number of black men killed annually by the police are dangerous felons who are killed in the process of committing a crime.
Moreover, more white people are shot by the police than black people, and likewise more white people die in arrest-related incidents than black people. The narrative that the police routinely rounds up innocent peaceful black men in the streets is a complete myth that no one in their right mind can believe, not least black people themselves. According to Pew research, more than half of black Americans have “a lot” or at least “some” confidence in the police. As a point of comparison, less than one third of the American population approve of the way Congress is handling its job. In other words, far more black people have confidence in their local cops that we have in our elected representatives in Washington, DC. Most upright black Americans want our law enforcement and government officials take a strong stance against lawlessness no matter by whom it is perpetrated. The latest evidence of this is Donald Trump’s record approval rating among likely black voters in the wake of the riots. Tellingly, Donald Trump has been one of the few government figures who has not pandered to the looting mobs. PlayStation Plus: 1 Mo... Buy New $9.99 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
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The question, then, is: Given all the financial, legislative, educational and human resources that have been poured into the black community over the decades, why is the black community not thriving? Why, after all these years of immense effort and investment, is the black community still plagued with so many troubles and difficulties?
The answer is not racism, police brutality or discrimination. The reason why the black community is so troubled is the moral breakdown that has corroded its large portions, especially those of the inner cities.
Data shows that more than seventy five percent of black babies are born to single mothers. And from those 25 percent who are born to parents who are married fewer still grow up to adulthood with both of their biological parents present. This means that the majority of young black people grow up in broken or dysfunctional homes. In any racial demographic that by itself would be a problem with catastrophic consequences. And the statistics are, indeed, devastating. Consider some of the following facts. Children from fatherless families are five times more likely to grow up in poverty and commit crime. Children from father-absent homes are nearly three times more likely to carry guns and deal drugs than those living with their fathers. They are also nine times more likely to drop out of school. Worse yet, young people from broken families are 20 times more likely to go to prison.
As far back as 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that the destruction of the black nuclear family would have ruinous economic and social consequences for the black community. When Moynihan was writing his famous report the black illegitimacy rate was 25 percent. Today it is three times higher. Float World Inflatable... Buy New $19.97 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
Sadly, the destruction of the black nuclear family has been to a great degree effected and facilitated by government which creates incentives for this by providing cash payments and an array of benefits to single mothers. “The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States,” wrote Moynihan in the conclusion to his paper.
The black writer and thinker Larry Elder recalls a story of some years ago when he interviewed Kweisi Mfume who was at the time president of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP). In the course of the interview, Elder posed this question: “Between the presence of white racism and the absence of black fathers which poses the bigger threat to the black community?” Without any hesitation, Mfume replied, “the absence of black fathers.”
Bad as it is, for so many black children growing up in broken, dysfunctional families – a situation which greatly diminishes their prospects in life – is not the end of it. Most of them also live immersed in a culture and mindset that makes it virtually impossible to pursue happy and meaningful existence. It is truly regrettable that black street culture promotes and celebrates the grosses of human traits and forms of conduct. Sexual promiscuity, illegitimacy, violence, instant gratification, drug abuse, indolence and crime are celebrated and held up as if they were some virtues. On other hand, those who by studiousness, uprightness and work ethic try to escape the bleak and hopeless existence that such a view of life inevitably engenders are accused of “acting white” and derided as Uncle Toms and Aunt Annas. How absurd. Those who make such derisory statements seem to imply that living an upright, diligent and conscientious life is a racial trait that should only be displayed by white people.
What hope can there be for young people growing up in broken homes – which are often negligent and abusive – while being submerged in such a toxic culture? We see the tragic result of it in the looting mobs that are vandalizing and burning American cities today. The pandemonium they have unleashed is not the consequence of white racism or police brutality. It is the inevitable outcome of the illegitimacy, broken culture and moral decline that has unraveled the moral fiber of large swathes of the black demographic.
What the black community needs at this time is not more protests, money or government programs. What it needs is a moral rebirth and a return to the values of personal responsibility, conscientiousness, studiousness, discipline and honest work. This is where the real problem lies and unless it is addressed and faced squarely, the black community will never escape the pathologies and difficulties it is presently struggling with.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--Covid Hysteria and the Groomers of the Virus Patrol

Dr. Fauci and the Scarf Lady are not the only Virus Patrol miscreants spreading the Covid Hysteria and thereby empowering the authorities to keep suffocating everyday economic life and personal liberty in America .
In fact , there is a whole camarilla of current and former health officials , purported disease experts , all-purpose talking heads and other Washington apparatchiks who continue to appear on mainstream media , peddling the hoary tale that coronavirus is some kind of horror flick monster : It purportedly just keeps springing from its Lockdown grave – whack-a-mole fashion – the instant officialdom relaxes its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ groomers ” of Big Pharma , and their job is to keep public fears on the boil so that the demand for high-priced treatments , cures and preventative vaccines becomes overwhelming .
And given that the Covid is now rapidly succumbing to the exhaustion of its infection cycle and the summertime sun , their exact current mission is one of bridging the gap .
That is , finding and publicizing local outbreaks and “ hot spots ” during the months just ahead so that the Virus Patrol will remain in full control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid makes its forecasted second wave rebound during next fall ’ s flu season .
Unreported Truths abou ... Berenson , Alex Buy New $ 5.99 After all , they desperately need these hot spots to keep the aggregate narrative alive because it is visibly collapsing by the day .
Back in early May , for instance , the NYT breathlessly carried a leaked study from the Trump Administration that projected a massive surge of new infections and a near doubling of daily death rates by early June relative to levels than extant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reopen their economies , his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths over the next several weeks .
The daily death toll will reach about 3,000 on June 1 , according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times , a 70 percent increase from the current number of about 1,750 .
The projections , based on government modeling pulled together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency , forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ currently .
The numbers underscore a sobering reality : The United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks to try slowing the spread of the virus , but reopening the economy will make matters worse .
Needless to say , that one went down the memory hole ages ago ( i.e .
around Memorial Day ) .
As of June 10 , in fact , actual daily averages for the month to date were : • 20,694 new cases per day , representing a 17 % decline , not an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these Washington modelers ( this one was prepared by FEMA ) couldn ’ t hit the broadside of a barn with the antiaircraft guns Chairman Kim uses to dispatch his adversaries .
So to keep the Covid-Hysteria alive , they send out the hot spot “ groomers ” .
On of the most mendacious of these groomers is Dr. Scott Gottlieb , who was the Donald ’ s first FDA commissioner and is an alleged pedigreed “ conservative ” with a berth at the American Enterprise Institute to burnish his numerous sinecures with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CNBC regular , and yesterday , sitting astride a screen crawler which read “ Texas reports second day of record hospitalizations ” , he was busy promulgating the “ hot spot ” news about two red states , whose merely semi-craven GOP governors have belatedly attempted to get their economies back in business : When you look at hotspot regions like Arizona and Texas , they have to be concerned , particularly areas around Houston right now .
They could lose control of this very quickly , ” says @ ScottGottliebMD on balancing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peddling a pimple on the elephant ’ s ass because , apparently , cable TV audiences generally and bubble vision ’ s especially , were born yesterday .
That is , they are infantile victims of recency and confirmation biases and will apparently believe anything served up in a context-free modality .
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But as of June 8 , the count of infected cases and WITH Covid deaths in Arizona stood at 27,678 and 1,047 , respectively .
Those figures a hot spot do not make , nor do they offer any reason for not getting the state ’ s boot-heel off the economy ASAP .
Relative to the USA as a whole and the New York epicenter , Arizona ’ s figures per 100,000 population compare as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other words , Arizona ’ s mortality rate is less than half of the US average and only 11 % of that for New York .
So why is it a worrisome “ hot spot ” by the lights of Virus Patrol shills like Gottlieb ?
Stand or Fall in the P ... Garrett , Mr. Gregory L ... Buy New $ 10.95 Indeed , the WITH-Covid mortality rate in Arizona stands at nearly rock bottom , clocking in at at just one-fifth to one-half of the mortality rates in much as European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ per 100,000 include : But when context doesn ’ t matter , of course , any pimple can be depicted as a large boulder .
Thus , the number of new cases in Arizona is allegedly soaring , suggesting that the state has jumped the gun letting its citizens out of house arrest too soon .
In fact , during the first 8 days of June , Arizona reported 7,742 new cases – a figure which is sharply higher than the 2,189 new cases reported for the last eight days of April , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entirely a function of the testing rate and then some .
Thus , during the June 1 to June 8 span , the state reported 62,825 new tests , implying an infection rate of 12.3 % .
By contrast , during April 22 to April 30 the state reported only 15,185 new tests ( one-fourth of the June figure ) , implying an infection rate of 14.4 % .
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And that ’ s not the half of it .
By now there are more than enough antibody tests of different US populations to be reasonably certain that in a state like Arizona with a population of 7.38 million that there have been far more infected cases than the 27,678 cases reported through June 8 .
Generally , antibody tests show infection rates of 5-20 % in the general population , which would imply total cases – most of which remained asymptomatic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between 370,000 and 1.5 million for Arizona .
So , actually , higher reported cases daily may mean nothing at all as to the current status of the virus among the population .
More likely , it actually means that what is already there is being slowly discovered after the fact ; it ’ s stale , irrelevant old news , not an alarming new development , to say nothing of evidence of a hot spot .
Indeed , the latter is a meaningless but loaded term , honed for TV talking points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meaningful information about context at all .
That is , the real test is how does what ’ s happening with the coronavirus now compare with year-in-and-year-out illness , hospitalization , disease and mortality trends ?
Self-evidently , you do not empower the state to put its citizens under house arrest and destroy the livelihoods of millions of workers and tens of thousands of small businesses on account of a bad run of seasonal illnesses that leaves more people than usual home in bed or even heading to the hospital for treatment .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nation thing is about the modern equivalent of the Black Death – the presence of a virulent killer that can takedown the young , the old , the healthy , the sick and all categories between with equal alacrity .
But , again , there is nothing to support that Grim Reaper notion in the data , and most especially not the “ hot spot ” flavor of the week in Texas and Arizona .
The mortality rate from all causes for Arizona for the four months from January through the end of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ below .
Naturally , the total mortality rate surmounts the cause of death attribution and coding issues ; and it means that unless these total death rates are significantly elevated from the norm , then nothing unusual – or at least worthy of drastic quarantine policies–is actually going on .
On a per 100,000 basis , the Arizona ’ s total mortality rates for the first four months of the year have been as follows : The above does not indicate the Black Plague at loose .
The tiny elevation in 2020 relative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statistical noise !
Moreover , there is no new signal coming out of this “ noise ” owing to the higher testing and infection rates being reported in recent days .
Again , the evidence for that is in the state ’ s own published data on hospitalization rates , among others .
Between March 23 and June 1 , Arizona consistently reported new WITH-Covid hospitalization cases of between 40 and 60 per day on a statewide basis .
During June 3 through June 8 , however , the number of new hospitalizations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 17 , 10 , 4 and 5 , respectively .
The last few days , in fact , have had the lowest new hospitalizations since before the Donald ’ s malpracting doctors triggered the Covid Hysteria on March 13 .
In this connection , they also keep trotting out the hoary old claim that the hospitals are in danger of being overrun with new cases – per the crawler on the screen yesterday during Gottleib ’ s appearance on bubble vision .
Alas , it never happened previously in Arizona and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Even during the peak of new hospitalizations between April 20 and May 8 , the utilization rate of hospital intensive care beds rose from 72 % to 78 % and has remained at that level ever since .
Finally , it is worth noting that Arizona ’ s WITH-Covid mortality data show the same dramatic skew toward the elderly , as is true with the rest of the country .
Fully 77 % of the Covid deaths in Arizona have been among the 65 and older population , which comprises just 17 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population .
That fact alone , of course , militates strongly against the across-the-board stay-at-home and general quarantine orders in the first place .
The Arizona WITH-Covid mortality rate through June 9 breaks out as follows by age cohorts .
That is to say , anyone under 55 years old driving to the Scottsdale Fashion Mall would have had a greater chance of being killed in an auto accident than being felled by the Covid : With respect to Texas , it ’ s the same story .
There is no “ hot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases and deaths through June 8 are actually far lower than those for Arizona and in the sub-basement relative to the overall USA figures , to say nothing of the nursing-home based disaster-data reported for New York and New Jersey .
That is , the number of infected cases in Texas amounts to 256 per 100,000 or 68 % of the Arizona rate , 42 % of the overall USA rate and just 13 % of the rate of infected cases among the New York state population .
Likewise , the WITH-Covid mortality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 6.2 per 100,000 .
That ’ s just 43 % of the Arizona rate , 19 % of the USA average and only 5 % of the New York state rate .
So Texas isn ’ t remotely a “ hot spot ” or some kind of warning about reopening too soon , and is actually a thundering rebuke of the entire Lockdown Nation narrative .
That is , Texas was late and tepid about the lockdown , and among the first to begin “ reopening ” in early May .
Yet its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 100,000 is just 10 % of the real “ hot spot ” rate of 2,477 per 100,000 in the five boroughs of New York City ; and its mortality rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population is just 3 % of New York City ’ s 196 per 100,000 rate .
So for crying out loud , with that kind of yawning gap and rock bottom absolute level , what is this clown , Scott Gottlieb , doing on bubble vision warning about Covid dangers in Texas ?
Answer : He ’ s grooming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Killer Covid narrative alive and the money and legal immunities flowing to the drug companies chasing cures and vaccines .
It goes without saying , course , that the alleged surge in new cases reported in Texas during recent days is just as bogus as the claims about Arizona .
Yes , new cases reported during June 1 to June 8 averaged 1,416 per day or about 61 % higher than the rate of 877 per day reported for April 22 to April 30 .
Except , the number of new tests also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 168,500 , leaving the infected rate virtually unchanged at a very low 6.7 % .
Again , if you want to talk “ hot spots ” , try New York City .
The the infected rate per test has run north of 20 % in the Bronx , for example .
So the question recurs .
Why are people like Scott Gottlieb out pimping the Killer Covid story in the face overwhelming evidence that it it nothing of the kind .
Perhaps , it might be noted that Gottlieb went straight from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FDA before becoming commissioner in 2017 , and then heading out the revolving door to Pfizer ’ s Board of Directors in May 2019 .
And , yes , here ’ s the list of the top five firms being supported by billions from Washington in the race for a Covid vaccine , which may or may not happen , but whether safe or not will be of no never-mind to Big Pharma .
After all , Washington has already indemnified them against lawsuits ; pretty much guaranteed that they can name their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doing all it can to make getting a tap on the arm from one or more of the Big Pharma competitors a mandatory duty of citizenship .
Call it what you will , but don ’ t call it honest capitalism .
And chalk it up as still another blow to the idea of limited government and personal liberty .
The five companies are Moderna , a Massachusetts-based biotechnology firm , which Dr. Fauci said he expected would enter into the final phase of clinical trials next month ; the combination of Oxford @ @ @ @ @ @ @ schedule ; and three large pharmaceutical companies : Johnson & Johnson , Merck and Pfizer .
Each is taking a somewhat different approach .
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Dr. Fauci and the Scarf Lady are not the only Virus Patrol miscreants spreading the Covid Hysteria and thereby empowering the authorities to keep suffocating everyday economic life and personal liberty in America.
In fact, there is a whole camarilla of current and former health officials, purported disease experts, all-purpose talking heads and other Washington apparatchiks who continue to appear on mainstream media, peddling the hoary tale that coronavirus is some kind of horror flick monster: It purportedly just keeps springing from its Lockdown grave – whack-a-mole fashion – the instant officialdom relaxes its quarantine edicts.
Call these people the “groomers” of Big Pharma, and their job is to keep public fears on the boil so that the demand for high-priced treatments, cures and preventative vaccines becomes overwhelming. And given that the Covid is now rapidly succumbing to the exhaustion of its infection cycle and the summertime sun, their exact current mission is one of bridging the gap.
That is, finding and publicizing local outbreaks and “hot spots” during the months just ahead so that the Virus Patrol will remain in full control of policy and the narrative until the Covid makes its forecasted second wave rebound during next fall’s flu season. Unreported Truths abou... Berenson, Alex Buy New $5.99 (as of 03:17 UTC - Details)
After all, they desperately need these hot spots to keep the aggregate narrative alive because it is visibly collapsing by the day.
Back in early May, for instance, the NYT breathlessly carried a leaked study from the Trump Administration that projected a massive surge of new infections and a near doubling of daily death rates by early June relative to levels than extant:
As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths over the next several weeks. The daily death toll will reach about 3,000 on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, a 70 percent increase from the current number of about 1,750.
The projections, based on government modeling pulled together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases a day currently.
The numbers underscore a sobering reality: The United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks to try slowing the spread of the virus, but reopening the economy will make matters worse.
Needless to say, that one went down the memory hole ages ago (i.e. around Memorial Day). As of June 10, in fact, actual daily averages for the month to date were:
827 deaths per day, representing a 53% decline , not a 70% increase;
, not a 70% increase; 20,694 new cases per day, representing a 17% decline, not an 8X increase; The Invisible Enemy Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $26.94 (as of 05:21 UTC - Details )
In other words, these Washington modelers (this one was prepared by FEMA) couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn with the antiaircraft guns Chairman Kim uses to dispatch his adversaries. So to keep the Covid-Hysteria alive, they send out the hot spot “groomers”.
On of the most mendacious of these groomers is Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who was the Donald’s first FDA commissioner and is an alleged pedigreed “conservative” with a berth at the American Enterprise Institute to burnish his numerous sinecures with Big Pharma.
Gottlieb is also a CNBC regular, and yesterday, sitting astride a screen crawler which read “Texas reports second day of record hospitalizations”, he was busy promulgating the “hot spot” news about two red states, whose merely semi-craven GOP governors have belatedly attempted to get their economies back in business:
When you look at hotspot regions like Arizona and Texas, they have to be concerned, particularly areas around Houston right now. They could lose control of this very quickly,” says @ScottGottliebMD on balancing re-opening with public health.
We call bullshit!
Gottlieb was peddling a pimple on the elephant’s ass because, apparently, cable TV audiences generally and bubble vision’s especially, were born yesterday. That is, they are infantile victims of recency and confirmation biases and will apparently believe anything served up in a context-free modality. Machiavelli: The Art o... Boucheron, Patrick Best Price: $6.19 Buy New $5.99 (as of 03:30 UTC - Details)
The truth is, there is nothing worrisome whatsoever going on in Arizona and Texas beyond the fact that the coronavirus started its inexorable spread in these interior states later than on the East and Left coasts, and is therefore cresting slightly later, as well.
But as of June 8, the count of infected cases and WITH Covid deaths in Arizona stood at 27,678 and 1,047, respectively. Those figures a hot spot do not make, nor do they offer any reason for not getting the state’s boot-heel off the economy ASAP.
Relative to the USA as a whole and the New York epicenter, Arizona’s figures per 100,000 population compare as follows as of June 8:
Infected cases Arizona : 375;
: 375; Infected cases USA : 596;
: 596; Infected cases New York: 1,963
WITH Covid deaths Arizona : 14.2;
: 14.2; WITH-Covid deaths USA : 32.3;
: 32.3; WITH-Covid deaths New York: 126.0;
In other words, Arizona’s mortality rate is less than half of the US average and only 11% of that for New York. So why is it a worrisome “hot spot” by the lights of Virus Patrol shills like Gottlieb? Stand or Fall in the P... Garrett, Mr. Gregory L... Buy New $10.95 (as of 04:56 UTC - Details)
Indeed, the WITH-Covid mortality rate in Arizona stands at nearly rock bottom, clocking in at at just one-fifth to one-half of the mortality rates in much as European Christendom. To wit, current rates per 100,000 include:
Belgium: 83.1;
United Kingdom: 60.2;
Spain: 58.0;
Italy: 56.3;
Sweden: 47.5;
France: 44.9;
Netherlands: 35.3;
Arizona: 14.2;
But when context doesn’t matter, of course, any pimple can be depicted as a large boulder. Thus, the number of new cases in Arizona is allegedly soaring, suggesting that the state has jumped the gun letting its citizens out of house arrest too soon.
In fact, during the first 8 days of June, Arizona reported 7,742 new cases – a figure which is sharply higher than the 2,189 new cases reported for the last eight days of April, for example.
But that gain is entirely a function of the testing rate and then some. Thus, during the June 1 to June 8 span, the state reported 62,825 new tests, implying an infection rate of 12.3%.
By contrast, during April 22 to April 30 the state reported only 15,185 new tests (one-fourth of the June figure), implying an infection rate of 14.4%. United States of Socia... D'Souza, Dinesh Buy New $25.93 (as of 11:38 UTC - Details)
So the state is testing a lot more, as it has been instructed to do by Washington, and such accelerated testing is generating a falling infection rate!
And that’s not the half of it. By now there are more than enough antibody tests of different US populations to be reasonably certain that in a state like Arizona with a population of 7.38 million that there have been far more infected cases than the 27,678 cases reported through June 8.
Generally, antibody tests show infection rates of 5-20% in the general population, which would imply total cases – most of which remained asymptomatic or resulted in mild illnesses – of between 370,000 and 1.5 million for Arizona.
So, actually, higher reported cases daily may mean nothing at all as to the current status of the virus among the population. More likely, it actually means that what is already there is being slowly discovered after the fact; it’s stale, irrelevant old news, not an alarming new development, to say nothing of evidence of a hot spot.
Indeed, the latter is a meaningless but loaded term, honed for TV talking points, but is incapable of conveying any meaningful information about context at all. That is, the real test is how does what’s happening with the coronavirus now compare with year-in-and-year-out illness, hospitalization, disease and mortality trends?
Self-evidently, you do not empower the state to put its citizens under house arrest and destroy the livelihoods of millions of workers and tens of thousands of small businesses on account of a bad run of seasonal illnesses that leaves more people than usual home in bed or even heading to the hospital for treatment.
To the contrary, this whole Lockdown Nation thing is about the modern equivalent of the Black Death – the presence of a virulent killer that can takedown the young, the old, the healthy, the sick and all categories between with equal alacrity.
But, again, there is nothing to support that Grim Reaper notion in the data, and most especially not the “hot spot” flavor of the week in Texas and Arizona.
The mortality rate from all causes for Arizona for the four months from January through the end of April (latest available) is shown below.
Naturally, the total mortality rate surmounts the cause of death attribution and coding issues; and it means that unless these total death rates are significantly elevated from the norm, then nothing unusual – or at least worthy of drastic quarantine policies–is actually going on.
On a per 100,000 basis, the Arizona’s total mortality rates for the first four months of the year have been as follows:
2016: 293;
2017: 277:
2018: 297;
2019: 285:
2020: 301;
The above does not indicate the Black Plague at loose. The tiny elevation in 2020 relative to the previous four years is just statistical noise!
Moreover, there is no new signal coming out of this “noise” owing to the higher testing and infection rates being reported in recent days. Again, the evidence for that is in the state’s own published data on hospitalization rates, among others.
Between March 23 and June 1, Arizona consistently reported new WITH-Covid hospitalization cases of between 40 and 60 per day on a statewide basis.
During June 3 through June 8, however, the number of new hospitalizations daily has dwindled to 34, 19, 17, 10, 4 and 5, respectively.
The last few days, in fact, have had the lowest new hospitalizations since before the Donald’s malpracting doctors triggered the Covid Hysteria on March 13.
So, hot spot my eye!
In this connection, they also keep trotting out the hoary old claim that the hospitals are in danger of being overrun with new cases – per the crawler on the screen yesterday during Gottleib’s appearance on bubble vision.
Alas, it never happened previously in Arizona and is not remotely in danger of happening now. Even during the peak of new hospitalizations between April 20 and May 8, the utilization rate of hospital intensive care beds rose from 72% to 78% and has remained at that level ever since.
Finally, it is worth noting that Arizona’s WITH-Covid mortality data show the same dramatic skew toward the elderly, as is true with the rest of the country. Fully 77% of the Covid deaths in Arizona have been among the 65 and older population, which comprises just 17% of the state’s overall population.
That fact alone, of course, militates strongly against the across-the-board stay-at-home and general quarantine orders in the first place.
The Arizona WITH-Covid mortality rate through June 9 breaks out as follows by age cohorts. That is to say, anyone under 55 years old driving to the Scottsdale Fashion Mall would have had a greater chance of being killed in an auto accident than being felled by the Covid:
Deaths Per 100,000 population:
<20 years: 0.1;
20-44 years: 2.1;
45-54 years: 7.5;
55-64 years: 14.9;
65+ years: 66.3;
With respect to Texas, it’s the same story. There is no “hot spot”, period.
Its reported cases and deaths through June 8 are actually far lower than those for Arizona and in the sub-basement relative to the overall USA figures, to say nothing of the nursing-home based disaster-data reported for New York and New Jersey.
That is, the number of infected cases in Texas amounts to 256 per 100,000 or 68% of the Arizona rate, 42% of the overall USA rate and just 13% of the rate of infected cases among the New York state population.
Likewise, the WITH-Covid mortality rate through June 8 in Texas was 6.2 per 100,000. That’s just 43% of the Arizona rate, 19% of the USA average and only 5% of the New York state rate.
So Texas isn’t remotely a “hot spot” or some kind of warning about reopening too soon, and is actually a thundering rebuke of the entire Lockdown Nation narrative.
That is, Texas was late and tepid about the lockdown, and among the first to begin “reopening” in early May.
Yet its reported infected case rate of 256 per 100,000 is just 10% of the real “hot spot” rate of 2,477 per 100,000 in the five boroughs of New York City; and its mortality rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population is just 3% of New York City’s 196 per 100,000 rate.
So for crying out loud, with that kind of yawning gap and rock bottom absolute level, what is this clown, Scott Gottlieb, doing on bubble vision warning about Covid dangers in Texas?
Answer: He’s grooming the sheeples in order to keep the Killer Covid narrative alive and the money and legal immunities flowing to the drug companies chasing cures and vaccines.
It goes without saying, course, that the alleged surge in new cases reported in Texas during recent days is just as bogus as the claims about Arizona.
Yes, new cases reported during June 1 to June 8 averaged 1,416 per day or about 61% higher than the rate of 877 per day reported for April 22 to April 30. Except, the number of new tests also rose by about 60% from 113,500 to 168,500, leaving the infected rate virtually unchanged at a very low 6.7%.
Again, if you want to talk “hot spots”, try New York City. The the infected rate per test has run north of 20% in the Bronx, for example.
So the question recurs. Why are people like Scott Gottlieb out pimping the Killer Covid story in the face overwhelming evidence that it it nothing of the kind.
Perhaps, it might be noted that Gottlieb went straight from medical school to various jobs at the FDA before becoming commissioner in 2017, and then heading out the revolving door to Pfizer’s Board of Directors in May 2019.
And, yes, here’s the list of the top five firms being supported by billions from Washington in the race for a Covid vaccine, which may or may not happen, but whether safe or not will be of no never-mind to Big Pharma.
After all, Washington has already indemnified them against lawsuits; pretty much guaranteed that they can name their charge per dose; and will be doing all it can to make getting a tap on the arm from one or more of the Big Pharma competitors a mandatory duty of citizenship.
Call it what you will, but don’t call it honest capitalism. And chalk it up as still another blow to the idea of limited government and personal liberty.
The five companies are Moderna, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology firm, which Dr. Fauci said he expected would enter into the final phase of clinical trials next month; the combination of Oxford University and AstraZeneca, on a similar schedule; and three large pharmaceutical companies: Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer. Each is taking a somewhat different approach.
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Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--We’re Living in Orwell’s Nightmare on Crack

People wonder why I love Star Wars so much .
When dealing with people who have a bad religion , in this case The State , there is no limit to their demands .
As a religion the State is merciless .
It has no capacity for forgiveness .
It dictates .
We obey or eventually we get shot .
That ’ s what has been substituted in the West for Christianity .
And Christianity , across nearly all of its sects , has failed to contain the State or provide the means and the frameworks to reinforce constructive behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s on fire right now and our political leadership has taken a knee to the mob .
If you bargain with them they will just use that as a stepping stone to the next demand .
The mayor of Seattle , Jenny Durkan , gave Antifa the East Precinct .
Two days later after setting up an autonomous zone within the city , they show up at City Hall to demand her resignation for not doing more .
This is why you don ’ t negotiate with terrorists , whether they wear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scarf around their head or black masks and hoodies .
Appeasement : Chamberla ... Bouverie , Tim Best Price : $ 16.11 Buy New $ 16.44 We have negotiated with all of these different looters and takers for too long .
We have no one to blame but ourselves for this mess .
Remember , governments don ’ t bargain with us .
They pretend to in election years .
They dictate because they have the monopoly power over the use of force .
As the society degrades and more behavior is outlawed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the case of the Drug War the economic incentive to first deal drugs and then defend the business is what has created the upward spiral of violence and distrust .
Police are tasked with using force to stop drug trafficking .
They use violence to do this .
The dealers are incentivized through economic demand to defend their businesses with equal or greater violence while also finding ways to artificially boost demand .
I could have just as easily used military weapons and foreign policy to describe the same problem .
Remove the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
1984 ( Signet Classics ) George Orwell Best Price : $ 1.49 Buy New $ 3.58 But it also applies to the willingness of people to break out against the lock downs of COVID-19 .
Because the State can use violence to suppress people ’ s choices but it can not suppress their desire to make that choice .
Remove the violence and the behavior returns .
But at some point there is a limit to what level of violence and pettiness by the State the people will endure .
And when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Place that explosion in the context of cultural degradation and ennui where basic definitions of culture , economics and biology are inverted and you get what ’ s happening across America and Europe right now .
Seattle is getting a first hand lesson on how this plays out .
My latest podcast talks about this and Jonathan Pageau ’ s ideas of where we are in the cultural cycle .
Today we live in Orwell ’ s nightmare on crack .
Not only are genders questioned , words hurt more than broken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , diversity strength , families are tyrannical and freedom coercion .
Fighting Churchill , Ap ... Phillips , Adrian Best Price : $ 46.71 Buy New $ 19.86 But let ’ s not forget where this comes from — debt is money , savings is anti-growth , finance is production , work is for suckers and risk is the other guy ’ s problem .
There are looters everywhere on all sides of the divide .
The Mayor of Seattle just learned the most valuable lesson , there is no placating people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yourself are simply weakness .
She will be the first one canceled because today she found out that no one is pure enough to be on their side .
And if they are canceling her , what do you think they ’ ll do to the rest of us if we continue appeasing them ?
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People wonder why I love Star Wars so much.
You can’t placate a mob by giving it what it wants today. Tomorrow it will want something else. “I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further” – Darth Vaderhttps://t.co/wQpi6jihoi — Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) June 10, 2020
When dealing with people who have a bad religion, in this case The State, there is no limit to their demands. As a religion the State is merciless. It has no capacity for forgiveness. It dictates. We obey or eventually we get shot.
That’s what has been substituted in the West for Christianity. And Christianity, across nearly all of its sects, has failed to contain the State or provide the means and the frameworks to reinforce constructive behavior.
Boomerville is real folks, it’s on fire right now and our political leadership has taken a knee to the mob.
If you bargain with them they will just use that as a stepping stone to the next demand. The mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, gave Antifa the East Precinct.
In an effort to proactively de-escalate interactions between protestors and law enforcement outside the East Precinct, Chief Best and @SeattlePD officers have removed barricades surrounding the East Precinct while safely securing the facility. — Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) June 9, 2020
Two days later after setting up an autonomous zone within the city, they show up at City Hall to demand her resignation for not doing more.
This is why you don’t negotiate with terrorists, whether they wear a government badge and uniform, a scarf around their head or black masks and hoodies. Appeasement: Chamberla... Bouverie, Tim Best Price: $16.11 Buy New $16.44 (as of 04:57 UTC - Details)
We have negotiated with all of these different looters and takers for too long.
We have no one to blame but ourselves for this mess.
Remember, governments don’t bargain with us. They pretend to in election years. They dictate because they have the monopoly power over the use of force. As the society degrades and more behavior is outlawed more black markets spring up.
In the case of the Drug War the economic incentive to first deal drugs and then defend the business is what has created the upward spiral of violence and distrust.
Police are tasked with using force to stop drug trafficking. They use violence to do this. The dealers are incentivized through economic demand to defend their businesses with equal or greater violence while also finding ways to artificially boost demand.
I could have just as easily used military weapons and foreign policy to describe the same problem. Remove the illegality, you dismantle the incentive structure. 1984 (Signet Classics) George Orwell Best Price: $1.49 Buy New $3.58 (as of 10:53 UTC - Details)
But it also applies to the willingness of people to break out against the lock downs of COVID-19.
Because the State can use violence to suppress people’s choices but it cannot suppress their desire to make that choice. Remove the violence and the behavior returns.
But at some point there is a limit to what level of violence and pettiness by the State the people will endure. And when that limit is reached, it explodes.
Place that explosion in the context of cultural degradation and ennui where basic definitions of culture, economics and biology are inverted and you get what’s happening across America and Europe right now.
Seattle is getting a first hand lesson on how this plays out.
My latest podcast talks about this and Jonathan Pageau’s ideas of where we are in the cultural cycle.
Today we live in Orwell’s nightmare on crack. Not only are genders questioned, words hurt more than broken ribs, war is waged for peace, diversity strength, families are tyrannical and freedom coercion. Fighting Churchill, Ap... Phillips, Adrian Best Price: $46.71 Buy New $19.86 (as of 04:57 UTC - Details)
But let’s not forget where this comes from — debt is money, savings is anti-growth, finance is production, work is for suckers and risk is the other guy’s problem.
There are looters everywhere on all sides of the divide. The Mayor of Seattle just learned the most valuable lesson, there is no placating people who hate you.
Your bargains without defending yourself are simply weakness. She will be the first one canceled because today she found out that no one is pure enough to be on their side.
And if they are canceling her, what do you think they’ll do to the rest of us if we continue appeasing them?
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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The Real Racists

The worst racists in the world are the US print and TV media , NPR , and university administrations .
Their racism is directed entirely at white people .
Although Ron Unz is correct that Harvard University discriminates against Asians and limits their enrollment as Harvard once limited Jewish enrollment , it is white people who are accused by white media and white political leaders of both parties of the racial suppression of black peoples .
Even Trump ’ s vice president has taken the side of black looters against looted whites , as has the Republican majority leader in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of white and Asian businesses in many instances wiping out a family ’ s lifetime work , the looting of national businesses whose dumb..t CEOs support the looters , the merciless gang beatings of whites and Asians who attempted to defend their persons and their property , the egging on of the violence by politicians in both parties and by the entirely of the media including many alternative media websites , shows a country undergoing collapse .
This is why it is not shown in national media .
Some local media show an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ community , but it is not accumulated and presented to a national audience .
Consequently , Americans think the looting and destruction is only a local occurance .
The War on Police : How ... Roorda , Jeff Best Price : $ 6.83 Buy New $ 14.49 I just checked CNN and the BBC and there is nothing about the extraordinary economic destruction and massive thefts .
Instead , I learn from CNN that Nascar , a Southern institution , has banned Confederate flags .
Are Southern people so stupid that they will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are .
I learned from the BBC that HBO has removed “ Gone With The Wind ” from its offerings .
The famous movie is not about racism .
It is about the South in the aftermath of Lincoln ’ s war .
But the South is racist , and so HBO removed the movie .
Are Southern people so stupid that they will still use HBO .
Yes , they are .
Some years ago I read that a movie theater somewhere in the South—it might have been Louisiana or Mississippi—that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on an anniversary had ceased to permit the movie to be shown .
Did Southerners protest and burn down the movie theater ?
No .
The US Congress demonstrated its unconcern with America ’ s unraveling by having the brother of the often convicted criminal George Floyd speak to them .
The US Congress is more interested in grandstanding over a convicted felon ’ s death than in the unfolding death of our country .
Black Rednecks and Whi ... Thomas Sowell Best Price : $ 6.67 Buy New $ 11.99 How do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
The only person in the US TV media speaking truthfully about what is going on is Tucker Carlson at Fox News whose firing—indeed murder—is demanded by the “ white is evil ” multitude .
How long can Fox News hold on ?
How long can Tucker Carlson hold on when white people have surrendered ?
Where are the voices in support of Carlson of the people whose free institutions he speaks for ?
Why aren ’ t those white people whose property and economic lives are being destroyed protesting what blacks are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groveling white people hold on ?
The Saker is correct .
White people are so brainwashed that they do not even know that they are targeted .
Even when it is before their eyes they can not see it .
OnMyGod , it would be racist to acknowledge reality .
There is no doubt that whites have accepted their demise .
Whites acknowledge their subservience to blacks by serving as majority enforcers for punishments of whites .
It is so commonplace that it goes unnoticed .
Nascar driver Kyle Larson has been fired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white Nascar representatives of black power will give Kyle Larson his livelihood back , he has to grovel and complete “ sensitivity training.
” But blacks don ’ t have to show any sensitivity as they shout “ racist ” and loot and destroy white property .
Meanwhile the police continue shooting to death more white people than black people , and no one protests .
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

The worst racists in the world are the US print and TV media, NPR, and university administrations. Their racism is directed entirely at white people. Although Ron Unz is correct that Harvard University discriminates against Asians and limits their enrollment as Harvard once limited Jewish enrollment, it is white people who are accused by white media and white political leaders of both parties of the racial suppression of black peoples. Even Trump’s vice president has taken the side of black looters against looted whites, as has the Republican majority leader in the US Senate.
The extraordinary destruction of white and Asian businesses in many instances wiping out a family’s lifetime work, the looting of national businesses whose dumb..t CEOs support the looters, the merciless gang beatings of whites and Asians who attempted to defend their persons and their property, the egging on of the violence by politicians in both parties and by the entirely of the media including many alternative media websites, shows a country undergoing collapse. This is why it is not shown in national media. Some local media show an indication of the violent destruction in their community, but it is not accumulated and presented to a national audience. Consequently, Americans think the looting and destruction is only a local occurance. The War on Police: How... Roorda, Jeff Best Price: $6.83 Buy New $14.49 (as of 04:58 UTC - Details)
I just checked CNN and the BBC and there is nothing about the extraordinary economic destruction and massive thefts. Instead, I learn from CNN that Nascar, a Southern institution, has banned Confederate flags. Are Southern people so stupid that they will still attend Nascar races? Yes, they are.
I learned from the BBC that HBO has removed “Gone With The Wind” from its offerings. The famous movie is not about racism. It is about the South in the aftermath of Lincoln’s war. But the South is racist, and so HBO removed the movie. Are Southern people so stupid that they will still use HBO. Yes, they are.
Some years ago I read that a movie theater somewhere in the South—it might have been Louisiana or Mississippi—that had always shown Gone With The Wind on an anniversary had ceased to permit the movie to be shown. Did Southerners protest and burn down the movie theater? No.
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How do these facts boil down to white supremacy? The only person in the US TV media speaking truthfully about what is going on is Tucker Carlson at Fox News whose firing—indeed murder—is demanded by the “white is evil” multitude. How long can Fox News hold on?
How long can Tucker Carlson hold on when white people have surrendered? Where are the voices in support of Carlson of the people whose free institutions he speaks for? Why aren’t those white people whose property and economic lives are being destroyed protesting what blacks are doing to them?
How long can groveling white people hold on?
The Saker is correct. White people are so brainwashed that they do not even know that they are targeted. Even when it is before their eyes they cannot see it. OnMyGod, it would be racist to acknowledge reality.
There is no doubt that whites have accepted their demise. Whites acknowledge their subservience to blacks by serving as majority enforcers for punishments of whites. It is so commonplace that it goes unnoticed. Nascar driver Kyle Larson has been fired for using the n-word.
Before the white Nascar representatives of black power will give Kyle Larson his livelihood back, he has to grovel and complete “sensitivity training.”
But blacks don’t have to show any sensitivity as they shout “racist” and loot and destroy white property.
Meanwhile the police continue shooting to death more white people than black people, and no one protests.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-12--Will Churchill’s Statue Be the Next To Fall?

On Gen. George Washington ’ s orders , the Declaration of Independence , signed in Philadelphia , was read aloud to his army .
On hearing it , the troops marched to Bowling Green , decapitated and pulled down the statue of George III , and sent the remnants to be melted down into musket balls .
It was a revolutionary act , a symbolic statement .
These once-loyal American subjects were now rebels and no longer owed allegiance to the king .
They would fight to end his rule in America .
During the recent demonstrations and disorders here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aspect of societal rebellion and a repudiation of a heritage .
White Guilt : How Black ... Steele , Shelby Best Price : $ 13.13 Buy New $ 10.08 In Richmond , Virginia , a statue of Christopher Columbus , who generations of American children were raised to revere as the intrepid Italian explorer who discovered the New World , was pulled down and thrown into a lake .
In Boston , the Columbus statue was beheaded .
In a half-dozen states , statues of Confederate generals and soldiers were pulled down .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the huge statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from their century-old places of honor on Richmond ’ s Monument Avenue .
In Philadelphia , the statue of fabled Italian American cop , police commissioner and mayor , Frank Rizzo , was desecrated and hauled away .
Retired Gen. David Petraeus has written to urge that all army bases bearing the names of Confederate generals , such as Forts Benning , Bragg and Hood , be renamed .
Robert E. Lee , who is everywhere at West Point , says Petraeus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treason.
” Nancy Pelosi wants 11 statues , including those of Confederate President Jefferson Davis , Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens , and Sen. and U.S. Vice President John Calhoun , removed from the Capitol .
The purge of historical figures has spread to Europe .
The Content of Our Cha ... Steele , Shelby Best Price : $ 14.70 Buy New $ 13.34 The giant statue of King Leopold II in Brussels , who was enriched by the brutalitarian plundering of his Congo colony , has been taken down .
In Bristol @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Colston , philanthropist and patron of the city but also a slave trader , was thrown into the harbor .
At Oxford , students are moving to take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes , the archimperialist and founding father of Rhodesia who created as his legacy the Rhodes scholarships for British and American students .
Resumes of all the once-admired great men who discovered , explored and colonized the New World , as well as all those who created and first led the United States , are being investigated to determine how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ democratist dogmas of modernity .
The list of malefactors seems impressive .
Who are we talking about ?
Nearly half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were slave owners .
So , too , were five of our first seven presidents and two of the four men on Mount Rushmore .
George Washington won the war for independence .
Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the nation with the Louisiana Purchase .
Andrew Jackson saved the nation from defeat by the British at the Battle of New Orleans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us to war with Mexico and relieved it of what is now the American Southwest and California .
A Dream Deferred : The ... Steele , Shelby Best Price : $ 8.23 Buy New $ 10.08 All four of these nation-builder presidents were slave owners .
The systematic dishonoring and disgracing of men once revered has only just begun .
But it represents a spreading revolution in thought and belief about the origins and history of America .
How far is this going ?
During the London protests in solidarity with Black Lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Parliament Square statue of Winston Churchill , who historians voted “ the greatest man of the 20th century ” for his role in leading Britain against Nazi Germany , the word “ racist.
” The mob wanted Churchill ’ s statue down .
Surely , he was an archimperialist , a lifelong defender of the British Empire who believed in the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race and its right to rule what poet Rudyard Kipling called “ the lesser breeds without the law.
” Churchill disparaged people of color whom the British ruled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Middle and Near East , to South Asia and the Far East , in terms that would instantly end the career of any American or British politician who used them today .
Historian Andrew Roberts writes of Churchill that he was a “ white … supremacist ( who ) thought in terms of race to a degree that was remarkable even by the standards of his own time .
He spoke of certain races with a virulent Anglo-Saxon triumphalism.
” Many Americans , especially among the young , view the history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the New World , and the creation of Western empires not with pride but with shame and guilt .
And they want to make expiation by canceling out all the honors accorded such men , be it in statues or the names of cities , towns , parks and streets .
And their numbers and militancy are growing .
The left has the bit in its teeth and is dragging the panicked elites along .
How this ends without permanent division in the country escapes me .
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On Gen. George Washington’s orders, the Declaration of Independence, signed in Philadelphia, was read aloud to his army. On hearing it, the troops marched to Bowling Green, decapitated and pulled down the statue of George III, and sent the remnants to be melted down into musket balls.
It was a revolutionary act, a symbolic statement. These once-loyal American subjects were now rebels and no longer owed allegiance to the king. They would fight to end his rule in America.
During the recent demonstrations and disorders here, similar acts had about them an aspect of societal rebellion and a repudiation of a heritage.
White Guilt: How Black... Steele, Shelby Best Price: $13.13 Buy New $10.08 (as of 05:01 UTC - Details) In Richmond, Virginia, a statue of Christopher Columbus, who generations of American children were raised to revere as the intrepid Italian explorer who discovered the New World, was pulled down and thrown into a lake.
In Boston, the Columbus statue was beheaded.
In a half-dozen states, statues of Confederate generals and soldiers were pulled down. Gov. Ralph Northam promises to remove the huge statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from their century-old places of honor on Richmond’s Monument Avenue.
In Philadelphia, the statue of fabled Italian American cop, police commissioner and mayor, Frank Rizzo, was desecrated and hauled away.
Retired Gen. David Petraeus has written to urge that all army bases bearing the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning, Bragg and Hood, be renamed. Robert E. Lee, who is everywhere at West Point, says Petraeus, was a U.S. soldier who “committed treason.”
Nancy Pelosi wants 11 statues, including those of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, and Sen. and U.S. Vice President John Calhoun, removed from the Capitol.
The purge of historical figures has spread to Europe. The Content of Our Cha... Steele, Shelby Best Price: $14.70 Buy New $13.34 (as of 05:01 UTC - Details)
The giant statue of King Leopold II in Brussels, who was enriched by the brutalitarian plundering of his Congo colony, has been taken down.
In Bristol, England, a statue of Edward Colston, philanthropist and patron of the city but also a slave trader, was thrown into the harbor.
At Oxford, students are moving to take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes, the archimperialist and founding father of Rhodesia who created as his legacy the Rhodes scholarships for British and American students.
Resumes of all the once-admired great men who discovered, explored and colonized the New World, as well as all those who created and first led the United States, are being investigated to determine how egregiously these men violated the egalitarian and democratist dogmas of modernity.
The list of malefactors seems impressive.
Who are we talking about?
Nearly half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were slave owners. So, too, were five of our first seven presidents and two of the four men on Mount Rushmore.
George Washington won the war for independence. Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the nation with the Louisiana Purchase. Andrew Jackson saved the nation from defeat by the British at the Battle of New Orleans and seized Florida. James Polk took us to war with Mexico and relieved it of what is now the American Southwest and California. A Dream Deferred: The ... Steele, Shelby Best Price: $8.23 Buy New $10.08 (as of 05:01 UTC - Details)
All four of these nation-builder presidents were slave owners.
The systematic dishonoring and disgracing of men once revered has only just begun. But it represents a spreading revolution in thought and belief about the origins and history of America.
How far is this going?
During the London protests in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, there was painted on the Parliament Square statue of Winston Churchill, who historians voted “the greatest man of the 20th century” for his role in leading Britain against Nazi Germany, the word “racist.” The mob wanted Churchill’s statue down.
And was Churchill a racist?
Surely, he was an archimperialist, a lifelong defender of the British Empire who believed in the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race and its right to rule what poet Rudyard Kipling called “the lesser breeds without the law.”
Churchill disparaged people of color whom the British ruled, from the Caribbean to Africa, to the Middle and Near East, to South Asia and the Far East, in terms that would instantly end the career of any American or British politician who used them today.
Historian Andrew Roberts writes of Churchill that he was a “white … supremacist (who) thought in terms of race to a degree that was remarkable even by the standards of his own time. He spoke of certain races with a virulent Anglo-Saxon triumphalism.”
Many Americans, especially among the young, view the history of the European exploration, the colonization of the New World, and the creation of Western empires not with pride but with shame and guilt. And they want to make expiation by canceling out all the honors accorded such men, be it in statues or the names of cities, towns, parks and streets.
And their numbers and militancy are growing. The left has the bit in its teeth and is dragging the panicked elites along.
How this ends without permanent division in the country escapes me.
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