Amerika

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• Trump administration removes experts from Defense Policy Board
  

  Members who were suddenly removed include former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, former ranking member of the House Intelligence committee Jane Harman and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, two of the officials said.

  Trump just removed the neoconservatives and warhawks from the Defense Department, effectively signaling that a corruption of the military occurred but is being corrected. These clowns have been replaced by people who specialize in busting terror cells:

  The new appointments include retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, now a top Pentagon official, who once called former President Barack Obama a terrorist leader and suggested that a former CIA director was using a Cicero quote to activate a sleeper agent to kill Trump. Kash Patel, former aide to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California, is chief of staff to Miller and leading Pentagon transition efforts with the incoming Biden-Harris administration.

  Ezra Cohen-Watnick was also named to a new post and will be the acting under secretary of defense for intelligence. Cohen-Watnick gained notoriety in March 2017 for his alleged involvement in providing intelligence materials to then-House Intelligence Chairman Nunes, who went on to claim that US intelligence officials improperly surveilled Trump associates.

  One good thing about this election hack: Trump used the election as bait, knowing that this would bring out all the Swamp creatures, and now he has identified a good number of them by their participation in it. He now has a team installed that specializes in hunting down the kind of activity that was used to steal this election.

• Speaker for Nunatsiavut Assembly removed from government after Inuit status questioned
  

  Blake Rudkowski said he was told he only had 17.14 per cent Inuit blood quantum. According to the land claims agreement, a member needs to have 25 per cent.

  When someone has only a quarter Inuit blood, does it even make sense to consider them Inuit instead of just another hybrid? The same is already being done to “White”: they want us to consider Slavs, Southern Europeans, Irish, and Mediterraneans/Semites “White” despite them being only three-quarters White.

• Democracy, history and class structure explain Finland’s lenient sentencing
  

  At the time when Finland was still a society sharply divided by class, the property of the wealth was strongly protected by law, and so crimes against property were subject to substantial penalties.

  Problems largely affecting the lower classes, such as violent crime, were shrugged off with light sentences.

  This shows how our societies become inverted. When the upper classes exist to lead, they concern themselves relatively little with the bad behavior of the proles, knowing that most of these people create their own crises and then want someone else to swoop in and fix it for them like a plastic Jesus. With democracy, we all become guardians of the incompetent, and that means that we direct most of our focus on incompetence, and consequently, become more incompetent.

• Coloradans are creating mutual aid networks to deal with devastating needs amid COVID-19
  

  In the wake of this loss, Coloradans across the state formed mutual aid networks to address people’s needs. The concept is simple: connect people who need something with others in their community who are in a position to help. The networks can be more nimble and tailored than large nonprofit organizations or government programs and are meant to meet needs that aren’t being met by those systems.

  Localized authority works best; charity works well, if you do not tax people to death. As Democracy Inc circles the drain, people are reaching outside of the tax/power structure to help each other. The next step will be widespread black markets and tax evasion. If enough of your neighbors shoot at tax collectors and repossesors, the state can no longer assess its larcenous property taxes. If all of your income occurs on the black market, you pay nothing in taxes. Starve the beast, in other words. This is the best and simplest form of accelerationism we have. “What is falling, push!”

• More people died of suicide in Japan in one month than the entire coronavirus pandemic
  

  The National Police Agency said suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, with more than 17,000 people taking their own lives this year to date, CBS reported.

  By comparison, fewer than 2,000 people in the country have died from COVID-19 in 2020.

  Modern society consists mostly of panic. The peasants revolted, so we have constructed a society around avoiding that problem, but in doing so, denied not only other more vital problems, but even more important needs, such as having a life of purpose, meaning, and joy. Modern life is dreary and joyless.

• Thanksgiving vandalism: ‘Land back’ sprayed on US statues
  

  Vandals damaged the Pioneers Statue in BF Nelson Park in Minneapolis, spray-painting the words “no thanks,” “no more genocide,” “decolonize” and “land back” on it, Dawn Sommers, spokeswoman for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, told CNN.

  “Decolonize” is the latest form of the age-old rant of the powerless and self-destructive, namely to overthrow that which is in power so that people can rule by mass consensus. This basically means giving in to the lowest common denominator impulses in humanity, and always leads to socialism and tyranny, rapidly followed by a third-world subsistence living society. Whenever someone suggests something, it makes sense to ask whether they are competent; competence, after all, is the root of good and evil. Someone who is incompetent makes only bad results, while the competent can make good results, and tend to do so, because part of competence involves recognizing opportunity over fears.

• How German protesters are trivializing Nazi-era persecution
  

  Michael Blume calls it, “victim envy and guilt reversal.” It is not only that the demonstrators, “themselves want to be recognized as victims.” It is also that Jews are accused of stoking a “culture of guilt” and joining forces with the democratically-elected government, which is in turn identified with the Nazis.”

  People believed the WW2 narrative for as long as they believed that democracy was good. Now that the bureaucrats have taken over, and people feel that they are being oppressed by the system, they are pointing out a duality: the good-guys-versus-bad-guys narrative is inexact, and the present system has become just as controlling as Communism, Nazism, and fascism. Those of us out here who wish to avoid the Hitler days returning, mainly because we see the oppressive nature of the Total State as insane and genocide as a sloppy and inept method of ending diversity, find ourselves wondering when people will simply come out and state that group consensus means compromise which eventually becomes Communism, and that we need to start finding our best people to rule us or we will destroy ourselves with mass opinion.

• Police praise bravery of 11-year-old girl after Rotherham paedophile jailed
  

  In a victim impact statement read to the court, the girl said she and her family had been ostracised by the local community who blamed her for what happened. The family were forced to move home as a result.

  The story here centers not on the pedophile, who seems like a run-of-the-mill-abuser, but on the fact that the community defends him. Diversity means constant infighting in a society between its majority and minority groups, and rape is a weapon of warfare, including child rape. The community wants this war to be waged, and they resent it any time the victims speak up instead of allowing the abuse to continue.

• Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election
  

  While the high court’s two Republicans joined the five Democrats in opposing those remedies, they split from Democrats in suggesting that the lawsuit’s underlying claims — that the state’s mail-in voting law might violate the constitution — are worth considering.

  As I said before, we are in Bush v. Gore territory, which means that if anything was done to make certain types of voting easier besides an act of the legislature well in advance so that it could be reviewed in time for the election, SCOTUS will find that the election was unconstitutional. In my view, the Republicans are misdirecting with the argument for “the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to pick Pennsylvania’s presidential electors”; they want to take this to the courts and have them recognize the impropriety of this election.

  Giuliani is planning to take down this conspiracy the same way he got to the mob: he arrests the foot soldiers, and tells them they are facing twenty-five years in the pen unless they testify. Some will testify against the lieutenants, so he can then turn some of those by making the same offer, and they will testify against the capos. The capos will resist but when faced with life in prison, some of them will testify against the dons. The dons will eventually decide that rather than face life in prison, they will name the kingpin, and then Trump and team will pull out the SIGINT they captured of communications between the kingpin and foreign powers. At that point, everyone who did not take the protection of the state to testify is going to go to jail, the criminal enterprise is going to get confiscated, and the foreign powers responsible will be excluded from trade. Trump used the election as bait to lure out the Deep State and China, and now that he has them, he will be able to write his ticket to the next four years.

  How do we know? Let us start with the desperation:

  President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, meanwhile, have repeatedly and baselessly claimed that Democrats falsified mail-in ballots to steal the election from Trump. Biden beat Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016.

  This reads like Chinese state propaganda since it is neither subtle nor even pretending to be objective. It outright moralizes and preaches. It does this to bully the obedient normies into accepting the narrative. They would not be doing this if they did not sense at some level that their scam is not working, and that the sheep are fleeing the paddock and wandering into the wilderness.

  Notice that this court punts on the Constitutional challenge outlined here:

  Petitioners appear to have a viable claim that the mail-in ballot procedures set forth in Act 77 contravene Pa. Const. Article VII Section 14 as the plain language of that constitutional provision is at odds with the mail-in provisions of Act 77. Since this presents an issue of law which has already been thoroughly briefed by the parties, this Court can state that Petitioners have a likelihood of success on the merits of its Pennsylvania Constitutional claim.

  Instead, the court went for a procedural exception:

  The state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the three-day-old order, saying the underlying lawsuit was filed months after the expiration of a time limit in Pennsylvania’s expansive year-old mail-in voting law allowing for challenges to it.

  Hint: that a challenge was not filed under the law before the law was demonstrated in action has nothing to do with how Constitutional the law is. PA, like the AP, is simply bluffing in an attempt to buy time and cause people to shut off their minds and accept the Biden/China takeover. In reality, this reaction by them leaves the Constitutional issue alive and well, and forces this issue to go to the Supreme Court, which has ruled on similar cases in the past, notably Bush v. Gore. If you want to know why people like me have confidence in Trump winning, it is in past American judicial history regarding similar cases.

• Black Lives Matter has increased racial tension, 55% say in UK poll
  

  Just over half (55%) of UK adults believe the BLM protests that took place in big cities but also in the Shetland Islands and the Isle of Wight, increased racial tensions, according to a survey of more than 2,000 people by pollsters Opinium. Only 17% of the people polled in October disagreed. The polling also showed 44% of ethnic minorities felt BLM increased racial tensions.

  The findings, which BLM organisers said showed the movement has exposed existing fault lines, comes alongside parallel research indicating sharp rises in the number of black people saying they faced discrimination in the last year, rising from 74% in 2019 to 81%. In a possible sign of racism arising from the origin of Covid-19 in Wuhan, the proportion of Chinese people saying they faced discrimination over the same period rose from 68% to 76%, according to polling carried out in June.

  The Left almost always sells its policies in the Obama-style “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” Translation from grifter-speak: we will not directly ban your doctor, but the secondary effects of this bill will ensure that you cannot keep your doctor, despite me not mentioning that because then you would not vote for it. Diversity was sold to us as the idea that our society would not change, but foreign people would come here to live among us and help our societies succeed. Reality kicked in: diversity means constant infighting, pluralism means anti-culture instead of culture, social trust is destroyed, social standards are eroded, minorities become a swing vote, at a certain point they tear down your statutes, crime and pedophilia increase as weapons of racial warfare, and finally they take over through democracy, marginalize you, and then breed you out. You end up with a mostly-White place with high admixture, like Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the middle east, South America, or Appalachia with its Melungeons. This semi-White group will never achieve what the original White — ethnic Nordid-Cromagnid-Dalofaelid Western Europeans — people could, and so you get to always be a backwater where nothing is ever good but you are a rung on the ladder above the really brown, green, yellow, red, or whatever people. Lots of people in Europe and America are realizing now that diversity is not a case of “if you like your nation, you can keep your nation” but an attempt to destroy that nation.

• Incidence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children: 2009–2018
  

  The results revealed 36 658 children aged 9 to 18 with overweight or obesity and alanine aminotransferase >30 U/L. Of these children, 12.3% received further workup for NAFLD. The incidence of an NAFLD diagnosis significantly increased over time, with 36.0 per 100 000 in 2009 and 58.2 per 100 000 in 2018 (P < .0001).

  Modernity is killing us. The kids cannot run around outside unsupervised because of diversity, the parents are working because of sexual liberation, and there are no longer wide patches of wilderness to explore because immigration has swelled the population to unstable levels. On top of that, while food is cheap in modernity, affording quality food that is not carbs/sugars/oils seems out of reach for most, so everyone is munching down bread products, sitting around playing with their phones, and living out fantasy lives behind locked doors while the ruin of modernity decays around them.

• Head of Iran’s nuclear weapons program is assassinated near Tehran
  

  Several top Iranian officials indicated they believed Israel was behind the killing in the hours after the attack, with one adviser to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader vowing revenge. Israel had no comment on the attack, and Israeli TV reports late Friday said the IDF had not been placed on a heightened alert in its wake.

  Trump refuses to bomb Iran, but likes to threaten to do so. Instead, he gives the Israelis free reign to do as they will, knowing that this means destroying the Iranian nuclear program, since a nuclear Iran might well kick off WW3. Mutually assured destruction only works when bombs are launched from an identifiable country that is then destroyed, but you cannot have that for a country right next to the borders of Europe and Asia. China seems to be friendly with Iran in the hopes that it will do something like vaporize a Western capital, throwing the world into war and enabling China to distract from its failing economy and social programs.

• Jordan Peterson’s ’12 Rules’ sequel sees staff complain to publisher Penguin Random House
  

  “The company since June has been doing all these anti-racist and allyship things and them publishing Peterson’s book completely goes against this,” one employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told Vice. “It just makes all of their previous efforts seem completely performative.” Vice reported that it spoke with four separate employees, all of whom held similar views.

  They never ask these people their own political views. They are SJWs. They want to blame the company anti-racist training because that deflects from the fact that these are Communists agitating for Communism, so of course even the mild clean-your-room traditionalist Christian libertarianism of Jordan Peterson sets them off, despite him being the opposite of an extremist. They just want to shut down everything on the Right. For them, this is a football game, and they want their side to win, and have given zero thought to what happens after that other than “and then, outbreak of Utopia.” I walked among them for many years and this has been consistent in the Leftist pathology.

• Outlook on country’s 2021 growth positive
  

  Projections for the GDP growth of the world’s second-largest economy in 2021 range from 7.5 to 9 percent, the fastest pace since at least 2015. This comes after the introduction of supportive policies, including monetary and fiscal measures, that were launched at the peak of the coronavirus outbreak in the nation.

  What people have to preach at you consists of what they want you to think, not what they actually believe. China wanted to take over the world economy with this virus, which shows us that China is not thriving on its own, which means in turn that they do not have a working economic model, which says by deduction that things will get worse in the future. China is unstable. It wants to conquer the world before it implodes.

• China to impose temporary anti-dumping measures on Australian wine imports
  

  Australia’s trade minister Simon Birmingham said the tariffs were unjustifiable and it was a distressing time for hundreds of wine producers because it “will render unviable for many businesses, their wine trade with China”.

  China takes 37 per cent of Australia’s total wine exports, an industry worth AU$2.9 billion, the government said.

  Like the Soviet Union before it, China has trouble with agriculture, although in random ways instead of system-wide failure. It wants to cut off exports from the West in order to bully the West into complying, but also hopes to build up its own industry by creating artificial demand, since with the falling-off of Western investment due to rising costs and increasing Chinese government intervention, China finds itself sending too much wealth abroad. Instead of building sources of productivity, China is attempting to bully the West into sending it more money, which tells us how badly the Chinese system is malfunctioning.

• Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will not take coronavirus vaccine
  

  “I’m telling you, I’m not going to take it. It’s my right,” he said.

  Bolsonaro also expressed skepticism over the effectiveness of mask wearing in the broadcast, implying there was little conclusive evidence of the effectiveness of masks in stemming the transmission of the virus.

  Bolsonaro, the chad president of Brazil in contrast to the American father figure Donald Trump, demonstrates the skepticism of experience: when people are panicked, corners are cut, and we only find out later about the downsides. These vaccines have been rushed to market for the headlines and stock prices, not the practical questions of avoiding mutations, and the people who are panicked about COVID-19 are hysterical enough not to care. Best to let those take the vaccination first, and then the rest of us see if they grow extra heads or become Forrest Gump or something.

• Black Lives Matter flag becomes issue in Florida community
  

  “My life means something. My life matters. I’m a black man living in a white neighborhood,” Mickle said Wednesday, a day after he filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville asserting his civil rights were violated.

  If you did not believe me before about the need to repeal 14A, now you see it in action. A community decides to have standards? Not if one person is inconvenienced. This whole hubbub strikes me as dumb, since it arises from White people being in denial of the fact that other ethnic groups act in their own self-interest, and only democracy-lobotomized Whites do not.

• Why France may ban discrimination against accents
  

  If you want to communicate in France – and not just raise a laugh – then you conform to the norm, and that means speaking standard Paris bourgeois. There are plenty of online elocution classes to teach you how.

  Introduce diversity and you cannot have cultural standards. All of the interviewed “victims” in this article appear to be of African heritage.

• Cuomo calls U.S. Supreme Court’s religious gatherings ruling ‘irrelevant’
  

  The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, voted 5-4 late on Wednesday in favor of requests by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and two Orthodox Jewish congregations for an injunction to block the restrictions from being enforced.

  Government has the power to order quarantine. Does it have the power to ask a whole society to lock down, including those at low risk from the disease? When it applies this disproportionately to houses of worship, the Court looks askance at such rules.

  In two previous cases this year, the court, in 5-4 votes, turned away similar requests by churches in Nevada and California. Those votes occurred before the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and saw her and the other three liberal members of the court joined by Roberts in the majority.

  Roberts is a conservative on paper. As usual, the conservative fiction of “assimilation” is quickly proved to be a lie, since anyone who identifies with something outside the majority sides with other majority groups, like John Roberts:

  Ethnicity:
  *English, Irish, German (father)
  *Slovak (mother)

  [[[ ROBERTS ]]] sees himself as an outsider, therefore will always act against the interests of the majority.

• An ancient coronavirus-like epidemic drove adaptation in East Asians from 25,000 to 5,000 years ago
  

  Additionally, several genetic loci that mediate SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and severity have been found in contemporary European populations (Ellinghaus et al., 2020; Roberts et al., 2020), one of which contains a genetic variant that increases SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility that was likely introduced into the ancestors of modern Europeans after they interbred with Neanderthals ∼40,000 years ago (Zeberg and Pääbo, 2020). This historical admixture event has led to genetic differences within and between contemporary human populations that directly impact COVID-19 epidemiology – the Neanderthal-derived variant haplotype is now carried by 8% of modern Europeans, but at lower frequencies in African populations whose ancestors did not experience this admixture event – and suggests that evolutionary analyses of human populations may help reveal these genetic differences and ultimately assist in the development of novel drugs and therapies to combat the negative impacts of SARS-CoV-2.

  On this topic, and this topic alone, people are permitted to discuss ethnic-genetic variation. But mention IQ or morality, and everything catches on fire at once. Of more relevant interest: this may suggest that New World East Asians — Hispanics — lack this mutation, or have it less frequently, since they started their migration into Siberia and from there, Beringia and the New World, at about the same time this mutation was occurring. This could explain why so many Hispanics are contracting the disease and dying from it.

• Nearly 1/4 of hate crimes in Europe in 2019 targeted Jews, report says
  

  Anti-Semitic incidents accounted for 22 percent of hate crimes recorded last year in the pan-European region, though Jews comprise less than 1% of the population there.

  People are sick of diversity, especially powerful diversity. It remains unclear to me why any Jew would live anywhere but Israel.

• ‘China wants to lead, rather than simply join’: top Australian diplomat takes aim at Beijing’s foreign policy
  

  “China may have reached a point where it believes that it can largely set the terms of its future engagement with the world,” said Adamson, who was speaking at the National Security College of Australian National University in Canberra. “If it has, I believe it is mistaken – and that is because there is far more to be gained for China, and for everyone else, through working constructively and collaboratively within the international system, without resort to pressure or coercion.”

  China has no choice. It is collapsing from within, soon to be followed by everyone else infected with the modern system. Rootless, individualistic societies possess no “glue” holding them together because they replace culture and heritage with government and hedonism. This forces them to rely on methods like militarization and economic coercion to hold their populations together, and this rapidly leads to tyranny.

• From wolf-whistles, unwanted advances and sexual gestures, young women worldwide are pushing to outlaw public sexual harassment
  

  The pair joined what is a growing global movement to tackle public sexual harassment, a range of abuse that spans cat-calling, wolf-whistling, unwanted advances and sexual gestures.

  The more rules we make out of fear, the meaner society gets. No one is actually harmed by these things, distasteful as they may be.

• Terrorist prisoner Abdul Nacer Benbrika has Australian citizenship cancelled
  

  “I cancelled the Australian citizenship of convicted terrorist Benbrika, [making him] the first individual to have lost citizenship onshore,” he said.

  Citizenship cancelation: an idea whose time has come. If immigrants found their citizenships canceled for any criminal acts committed, far fewer would come.

• California OK’d aid in name of Scott Peterson, other killers
  

  From March to August, more than 35,000 inmates were named in claims filed with the California Employment Development Department, with more than 20,000 being paid, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert. At least 158 claims were filed for 133 death-row inmates, resulting in more than $420,000 in benefits paid

  Government workers do a bad job of noticing the obvious.

• New York City’s first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93
  

  Dinkins took office during a time of racial discord following the 1989 shooting death of Yusuf Hawkins, a Black teenager who was attacked by youths in a predominantly white Brooklyn neighborhood.

  When racial tensions inflame, middle class White people revert to their shopkeeper backgrounds and try to buy off the problem. This creates massive corruption and racial favoritism, which then results in negative consequences:

  Political historians often trace the defeat to Dinkins’ handling of the Crown Heights riot in 1991.

  The violence began after a car in the motorcade of an Orthodox Jewish religious leader struck and killed 7-year-old Gavin Cato, who was Black. During the three days of anti-Jewish rioting by young Black men that followed, a rabbinical student was fatally stabbed. Nearly 190 people were hurt.

  A state report issued in 1993 cleared Dinkins of the persistently repeated charge that he intentionally held back police in the first days of the violence — but criticized him for not stepping up as a leader.

  In a 2013 memoir, Dinkins accused the police department of letting the disturbance get out of hand, but also took a share of the blame, on the grounds that “the buck stopped with me.” He also blamed his election defeat on prejudice: “I think it was just racism, pure and simple.”

  As long as we have diversity, we do not have a society. We have a shopping mall where different ethnic groups war it out with crime and graft.

• 1% of farms operate 70% of world’s farmland
  

  Over the past four decades, the biggest shift from small to big was in the United States and Europe, where ownership is in fewer hands and even individual farmers work under strict contracts for retailers, trading conglomerates and investment funds.

  The more you tax and regulate, the more you kill small business. Imagine a world where Amazon and Google run everything.

• ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies
  

  Ensafi’s team found that censorship is increasing in 103 of the countries studied, including unexpected places like Norway, Japan, Italy, India, Israel and Poland—countries which the paper notes are rated as some of the freest in the world by advocacy group Freedom House. They were among nine countries where Censored Planet found significant, previously undetected censorship events between August of 2018 and April of 2020. Previously undetected events were also identified in Cameroon, Ecuador and Sudan.

  What happens when democracy inverts itself, and intolerance for intolerance becomes more important than freedom? It happens to every democracy, and the internet as a great way of connecting people also has become a great way to spread dissent, rightly or wrongly. Our democracies are unstable and quickly rushing to tyranny in an attempt to preserve the existing order. Populism offers a way out that avoids the chaos of sudden regime change, which is why all the dunces are in confederacy against it.

• Germany to enforce ‘historic’ compulsory boardroom quota for women
  

  Under the new agreement, supervisory boards for firms where the federal government has a majority shareholding will be forced to ensure at least 30 per cent of the board are women.

  The forced extension of democracy and diversity simply guarantees that costs will be spread to the population, incompetence will become commonplace, and any significant deals will occur in private and never be documented. Democracy inverts itself as usual; the further it spreads, the more it defeats itself, like hammering a square peg into a round hole on a civilizational level. We are not equal.

• ‘Migration is not a threat to Christianity,’ says Pope Francis
  

  “To reject a struggling migrant, whatever his or her religious belief, out of fear of diluting a ‘Christian’ culture is grotesquely mispresenting both Christianity and culture,” he said.

  “Migration is not a threat to Christianity except in the minds of those who benefit from claiming it is.

  “To promote the Gospel and not welcome the strangers in need, nor affirm their humanity as children of God, is to seek to encourage a culture that is Christian in name only, emptied of all that makes it distinctive.”

  Religions based on symbolism — the written Word — create a reality independent of nature where the individual, who interprets the symbols, becomes more important than the intended meanings of those symbols. In this way, written religions act as ideologies, independent of national boundaries. Christianity will thrive with the new migrants, just as socialism will, but the host nations will be consumed.

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