Amerika

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• Georgia student expelled for racist social media reinstated, school finds she didn’t post it
  

  On that day, multiple accounts on social media highlighted Instagram posts by a woman purporting to be a Wesleyan student. One photo features a woman and a statement about Black Americans that uses the n-word.

  Two Halloween posts shared that day include a photo of a woman in a green “Border Patrol” t-shirt holding handcuffs and posing with a man in a serape and sombrero, paired with the words, “border?…secured. found him, met him & and just had to get a pic.”

  The student’s argument “supposedly includes proof that the words were added by someone who downloaded her photo and then reposted it,” she said.

  Remember, you have freedom, except to think non-freedom thoughts. Then you are Hitler and George III, and must be destroyed, for us to have freedom. Sound like a loop? It is: we keep repeating the same process of running away from symbolic enemies, then finding ourselves in advanced failure, but since we have made all other methods taboo, having no choice but to get up and run away from that symbolic enemy. Over and over again.

• Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Abolish History Classes
  

  At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.

  Either:

  1. Women and minorities were excluded by evil white male oppressors and therefore made no contributions to history, or
  2. Women and minorities were not excluded by evil white male oppressors, and made contributions to history.

  You cannot have it both ways, i.e. “they were oppressed but they still made significant contributions.” If that is the case, you were not oppressed. After all, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley still managed to get published. Joan of Arc and Bodicca led nations. I guess we should not even mention Queens Elizabeth and Victoria either. Or Aksum in Africa, or even that the first slave-owner in America was African.

  I have a better plan: abolish public education. You will not be able to create one version that is appropriate for all races and political persuasions, so it makes sense instead to make multiple versions, which requires privatization.

• Minneapolis police warn of increase in carjackings, robberies
  

  Minneapolis police on Tuesday reported a recent increase in robberies and carjackings in the Third and Fifth Precinct areas.

  Below are some tips offered by police to prevent robberies:

  • Don’t walk alone;
  • Be hyper-aware of your surroundings at all times, don’t be distracted;
  • Carry only items you need and carry less cash;
  • Be prepared to give up your cellphone and purse or wallet;
  • Have your keys already in your hand as you approach your vehicle;
  • Don’t fight with criminal, remember your safety is most important;

  Not listed: “bring lubricant and knee pads.”

  What is actually going on here? Let us play this one out; you have to use Jar-Jar Binks for the voice of the Votard.

  Police: (arrest George Floyd, who fights and then dies of a heart attack)
  Votard: dis oppression is tewibble! Meesa fight police brutality! Defund the police!
  Police: If you do that, crime is going to rise…
  Votard: Black Lives Matter! Stop enforcing felony law on Black males!
  Police: If you do that, crime is going to rise…
  Votard: We need to have a national conversation about racism!
  Police: (cease enforcement) If you’re traveling in Black areas, prepare to get robbed and beaten. We warned ya.

  Votards are true-blue morons, especially if they are smart, because in groups people focus on the group and not the wider reality. “Keep the group together” becomes more important than “do the sane and good thing.” As a result, Votards adopt The Committee Mentality, by which they aim for what they think the group will support (philosophy students will recognize this as utilitarianism) so that as individuals, the votards can be “right” for supporting the winning side. This is what happens with prole-rule, and it is why we have run into such insoluble, repeating problems in Late Stage Democracy.

• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Rails at Media for ‘Inflaming’ Wave of Protests Against Him
  

  “There has never been such a distorted mobilization — I wanted to say Soviet but it has already reached North Korean terms — of the media in favor of the protests,” he said.

  Netanyahu said the media ignored “wild and unfettered incitement, including daily calls — including the day before yesterday — to murder the prime minister and his family.”

  Worldwide, social media and big media seem to be working hand-in-hand to stimulate these protests. We are told that they are “peaceful,” yet things are burning every night. We are told that the police are bad, but if we behaved on an ordinary as these protesters did during the protests, we would find ourselves locked up and confined to a mental ward. While all this happens, China seems to be moving chess pieces around the world.

  Could it be that the Fourth International has been busy around us and we have not noticed?

  Third International, also called Communist International, byname Comintern, association of national communist parties founded in 1919. Though its stated purpose was the promotion of world revolution, the Comintern functioned chiefly as an organ of Soviet control over the international communist movement.

  Your average Leftist group can be yours for a few thousand dollars in donations. Leftists are all about money, at the end of the day, and they carefully guard it. To buy your average local media outlet, you need only purchase a local business and advertise; as soon as your advertising is one percent or higher of the revenue of that media outlet, they will do whatever you ask. Even better, you can encourage them to hire your nephew or dear friend, at which point you can generate stories within. For pay, many will accept stories emailed to them, without ever verifying who the sender actually is. Democracy runs on votes, and votes are bought with propaganda that makes the votards feel better about their dismally directionless lives. Democracy has probably reached its endpoint when the voters are so easily manipulated that most of our activity involves censorship to avoid having the sheep stray. That in turn makes us realize that our political system is based upon the movement of sheep herds, and that signals that a lack of faith in democracy is inbound. Now, we must labor for the return of the kings.

• Man kills Burger King worker after order takes too long, deputies say
  

  A witness said the restaurant was busy that night and the drive-thru was backed up, which caused customers to have to wait longer than usual.

  A man in a white truck was with her who as later identified as 37-year-old Kelvis Rodriguez-Tormes. He demanded that Joshua “fight him,” deputies said.

  A witness intervened to stop the fight when Rodriguez-Tormes put Joshua in a headlock and started choking him, according to the affidavit.

  Deputies said after the witness pulled Rodriguez-Tormes off of Joshua, Rodriguez-Tormes then went to his truck and got the gun, telling Joshua, “You got two seconds before I shoot you.”

  Democracy collapses over delayed cheeseburgers.

• Alleged Leader Of Neo-Nazi Group Identified As Orangevale Resident Andrew Casarez
  

  “This search warrant it’s the first of its kind at least in the country. As far as how we obtained it and were able to serve it,” Nelson said. “He was posting enough racist rhetoric and propaganda on Facebook that it was concerning that his behaviors could become violent in retaliation.”

  If you post wrongthink, they are coming for your guns and anything else they can take. Leftists do not change; history repeats itself.

• 67th night of protests in Portland draws relatively small crowd of hundreds on Sunday
  

  Speakers in the park nearby made plain their disappointment that the evening drew so few people. Sunday was the fourth day since federal officers turned over the job of guarding the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse to the Oregon State Police and Portland Police.

  Trump cucked the locals and forced them to actually enforce the law. Suddenly the emboldened proles retreat. The serf “Two Minutes Hate” holiday is over.

• Portland police declare unlawful assembly during protest
  

  Until that point, federal, state and local law enforcement had been seemingly absent from the protests Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The demonstrations — that for weeks ended with tear gas, fireworks shot towards buildings, federal agents on the street and injuries to protesters and officers — have recently ended with chanting and conversations.

  Activists and Oregon officials urged people at Saturday night’s protest in Portland to re-center the focus on Black Lives Matter, three days after the Trump administration agreed to reduce the presence of federal agents.

  Federal agents remain in lower numbers, and somehow are causing the state and local police to resume doing their jobs.

• Cuban Community Rallies Behind NuLu Restaurant After Controversy Over BLM Demands
  

  Protesters were demanding local businesses in this neighborhood increase the representation of Black products in their stores and Black people in their staffs, among other requests. Martinez, who has denounced the demands, said he was threatened by protesters.

  Cubans refuse to participate in the shakedown.

• China’s real name verification system for games to launch nationwide by September
  

  Now regulators are taking things a step further by ensuring anyone wanting to play a game must log in with their real names, thanks to a state-run authentication system set to be rolled out by September.

  End anonymity, punish badthought, and suddenly everyone will be repeating goodthought. Your bosses will be pleased, and you move up a level in bureaucrat game.

• Larry King unknowingly filmed Chinese propaganda for Israeli entrepreneur
  

  The subject of the interview was a Manhattan resident Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese dissident. Guo apparently fled China in 2014, as the government began to arrest his business associates. A year after his arrival Chinese media began accusing him of lurid crimes, such as rape and kidnapping, and even leaking a sex-tape obtained from a top Chinese intelligence official — of an uncooperative city bureaucrat. Chinese authorities have since sought his arrest on corruption allegations, which he has denied.

  China infiltrates media the old fashioned way: buying its way in.

• Protest sparks in Halifax after elected official makes racist comments in local paper
  

  In the paper, Dunavant wrote that some African Americans families abuse the welfare system.

  He also refers to African Americans as ‘colored people’ and says race relations in the county have been great for years.

  Protesters are calling on him to step down.

  

  Bonus: argument for why reparations-with-repatriation is the only sane way to end diversity. Take everyone who is not a WASP, give them money contingent on repatriation, and relocate them. This will cost less than welfare, a UBI, or constant race riots and other diversity problems (too many to list).

• Czech Republic ranked among world’s 10 best countries to raise a family
  

  The cost category factored in cost of living and how much household income went to childcare, education and health care. Public spending went toward families was also taken into account.

  These surveys mostly reward social spending, because of course every journalist and bureaucrat loves that, but they make a bigger point: places with declining diversity are rising, while the most diverse places are falling. You cannout outspend a social crisis like diversity.

• Research from Loughborough and Sheffield Universities suggests new approach to recording COVID deaths
  

  Actual deaths due to COVID are some 54% or 63% lower than implied by the standard excess deaths measure, and reported excess deaths likely include a significant number of non-COVID deaths.

  This pandemic is a data crisis, or a lack of trustworthy data because lower-level personnel at all levels have an interest in creating panic, not a medical one.

• Elon Musk says ‘China rocks’ while the U.S. is full of ‘complacency and entitlement’
  

  Musk replied: “China rocks in my opinion. The energy in China is great. People there – there’s like a lot of smart, hard working people. And they’re really — they’re not entitled, they’re not complacent, whereas I see in the United States increasingly much more complacency and entitlement especially in places like the Bay Area, and L.A. and New York.”

  Leftism and diversity are dragging us backwards.

• Fact-check: Is there a difference between absentee, mail-in voting?
  

  “Fundamentally, it’s the same thing,” said Amber McReynolds, Denver’s former director of elections and chief executive officer of the National Vote at Home Institute. “Ballots are handled exactly the same regardless of whether or not it’s an absentee ballot or a vote-by-mail ballot.”

  This sidesteps the question, since voter suppression from Republicans is easy to do if the mail-in ballots never arrive:

  Between 2012 and 2018, 28.3 million mail-in ballots remain unaccounted for, according to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The missing ballots amount to nearly one in five of all absentee ballots and ballots mailed to voters residing in states that do elections exclusively by mail.

  Although there is no evidence that the millions of missing ballots were used fraudulently, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which compiled the public data provided from the Election Assistance Commission, says that the sheer volume of them raises serious doubts about election security.

  “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.” — attributed to Joseph Stalin, who made similar statements, but actual provenance unverified. In this case, it may be the people who discard the votes before they get counted.

• Congressional Hispanic Caucus Statement on Historic House Passage of National Museum of the American Latino Act
  

  “Today’s House passage of H.R. 2420 represents a historic step towards securing a new home for the Latino story to be told. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus eagerly welcomes the creation of a new Smithsonian museum on the National Mall to showcase Latino history, art, and culture, and applaud passage of H.R. 2420,” said Congressman Joaquin Castro, Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

  “Spanish was the first non-native language to be spoken in the United States. Latinos have fought in every U.S. war. Food and music from Latin America are enjoyed in every American city. American Latinos are parents, veterans, teachers, activists, innovators, artists, scientists, business owners, immigrants, patriots and so much more. Right now, Latinos are disproportionately represented among the essential workers keeping America safe, fed, and running during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. The Latino story is an American story, and our history is a central thread in the history of our nation,” added Chairman Castro.

  More confirmation for The Stevens Rule.

• Facebook bows to Brazil judge, blocks 12 accounts worldwide
  

  But it called the new order “extreme,” saying it poses a “threat to freedom of expression outside of Brazil’s jurisdiction and conflicting with laws and jurisdictions worldwide.” The company said it would appeal to the full court.

  Facebook also argued it had complied with the previous order by “restricting the ability for the target Pages and Profiles to be seen from IP locations in Brazil”.

  When you open the door to censorship, every political interest wants to get involved, especially the highly-politicized Brazilian judiciary. It would have been better to from the beginning take a hard line against censorship, but once you show willingness to censor things for Chinese and American Leftists, you can hardly deny someone else their equal demands.

• Report: 97% of people busted for pot in Albany were Black
  

  Only four white people were charged with marijuana crimes from July 9, 2019, to July 9, 2020, out of the 134 times city police made arrests or wrote tickets during that time period, the newspaper reported Sunday. About 30 percent of Albany’s population is Black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

  How do you get busted for weed? Smoke it in your car, while outside, or in such a way that others can smell the smoke and figure out where it is from. White stoners use Ozium, burn sage, spray Febreeze, or usually, smoke in back rooms of their houses giddy for doing something illegal.

  But as you know around here, since Amerika is the home of the philosophy of parallelism — roughly: the idea that patterns exist in parallel between mind, matter, and energy; also that humans require independence as individuals and in groups to attempt different ideas, since natural selection creates parallels and chooses the optimal mean among them — that we are interested in parallels, in this case parallel patterns of arrests in the UK and the USA:

  One in five of those found guilty of cannabis possession in England and Wales last year was black, official figures show, prompting accusations of racial injustice at the heart of the UK’s drug laws.

  Campaigners said the rate was grossly disproportionate when only an estimated 3 per cent of the population is black.

  Either Black people smoke weed in a way that makes them more likely to get busted, or those White cops are out there looking to bust them. Maybe a little bit of both, since cops bust people for weed because many of those people are committing other crimes, especially the young:

  Utilizing propensity score matching to take into account the shared risk factors between drug use and crime, regression analyses on the matched samples show that heavy adolescent marijuana use may lead to drug and property crime and criminal justice system interactions, but not violent crime. The significant associations of early heavy marijuana use with school drop-out and the progression to cocaine and/or heroin use only partially account for these findings.

  Stoners are not violent, but smoking weed will make you mentally and morally lazy over time. This is the breakdown of consciousness caused by dependency, something which arises once you notice that being high is more fun than not being high. Speaking as someone who smoked a lot of weed: most White stoners are people who want to be edgy, basically the same people who listen to Rage Against the Machine on the way to their corporate jobs; Black stoners are generally a chill bunch, but they like to smoke outside with friends, leading to a higher chance of a group bust. In America today, if you buy your weed from someone who knows the grower, smoke it in your backdroom or attic, and avoid having visible paraphernalia, your chance of getting busted is very minimal no matter what your race is. For maximum security, never transport it in a car, and if you do, keep it on your person. The saddest busts are the one where the new stoners have the bong in the back seat and hide that ozer in the glovebox. Instant trip downtown if you see the flashing lights. I do not doubt that police are gentler on white stoners, but they are also fairly gentle on Black stoners who are not dressed “ghetto,” since neither of these groups represent a threat. Cops want to have good statistics; that is how you get promoted. If you bust a lot of people who are likely to commit crimes, crime rates drop, and you get that pat on the head and the doggy biscuit from your lieutenant.

• Arkansas groups marching to Zinc in protest of the Ku Klux Klan
  

  Zinc is reportedly the home of the national director of the Ku Klux Klan, Thomas Robb. The town is also near Harrison, which is the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

  More towns should be named after chemical elements. In the meantime, here we can observe symbolic politics. The Left pretends that the far-Right is an organized group commanded by the KKK, which is symbolic based on the narrative of civil rights, and wants to wage war against what at this point are little more than social clubs who dislike diversity. The Right, detached from its roots, has no idea what they are talking about, since very few people know an out-of-the-closet Klan member in real life.

• Refugee crisis worsening in southern Europe
  

  The German volunteers have not yet registered any attacks, but recently two smaller shipyards, where the migrants’ wooden boats are often stored, were set on fire — and Weiss also senses a changed mood among the population, which used to be open-minded towards the migrants.

  Diversity reaches a tipping point when it becomes visible. Before then, people believe the propaganda in the news and from the pulpits and accept “fellow humans” to carry on the traditions of their host nation, despite those traditions being foreign and hostile to the newcomers. As in America, the middle class moves to whitopias while lying to itself about its reasons for doing so, and only gets surly when the latest race riot burns down their favorite juice bar.

• UNSW under fire for deleting social media posts critical of China over Hong Kong
  

  The official UNSW account on Friday tweeted an article that quoted Human Rights Watch’s Australia director and adjunct law lecturer Elaine Pearson as saying: “Now is a pivotal moment to bring attention to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Hong Kong”.

  Several hours later, a further tweet was posted by UNSW reading: “The opinions expressed by our academics do not always represent the views of UNSW.”

  “UNSW provides a welcome & inclusive environment & is proud to welcome students from over 100 countries.”

  Both tweets were later deleted.

  With diversity, your interests are no longer your own. You must include everyone, including the warring groups, and whoever speaks out first as a victim — egalitarian societies prize victims, since their modus operandi consists of taking from the strong to give to the weak, who are presumed to victims of the strong in order to rationalize, justify, and excuse the theft — wins. No doubt China Inc dispatched someone from HQ to drive over and say, “You would not want to appear racist, would you, Ms. Round-Eye?”

• Fitch Revises United States’ Outlook to Negative; Affirms at ‘AAA’
  

  However, the Outlook has been revised to Negative to reflect the ongoing deterioration in the U.S. public finances and the absence of a credible fiscal consolidation plan, issues that were highlighted in the agency’s last rating review on March 26, 2020. High fiscal deficits and debt were already on a rising medium-term path even before the onset of the huge economic shock precipitated by the coronavirus. They have started to erode the traditional credit strengths of the US. Financing flexibility, assisted by Federal Reserve intervention to restore liquidity to financial markets, does not entirely dispel risks to medium-term debt sustainability, and there is a growing risk that U.S. policymakers will not consolidate public finances sufficiently to stabilize public debt after the pandemic shock has passed.

  Notice to USA: you are broke, in debt, and showing signs of instability. Corona-Chan just lifted the rug covering our dysfunction. What made us broke? Three-quarters of our budget goes to entitlements, we have a government that directly or indirectly employs many of our people, and there has been no effort to repeal the really expensive stuff like Obamacare, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and the many welfare and anti-poverty programs that bloat federal and state budgets. Cities are going bankrupt as well, mostly from spending on schools in order to keep illegal immigrants in daycare so their mothers can work. Affirmative action takes a third of all salaries, high union costs sabotage labor rates, regulations raise costs across the board, and only the clever lawyers and bureaucrats get rich and retire to Switzerland with suitcases full of cash. Add to that our cities being on fire from constant race riots and you get a picture of an unstable, failing nation. If we removed all of the Leftist laws starting with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, we might be able to get past this, but not all of us; it is clear that separation is upon us.

• Midland Memorial Hospital says inhaled steroid is no ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19
  

  Richard Bartlett has been a general practitioner for 28 years. He believes the inhaled steroid, Budesonide, helps alleviate the Cytokine storms COVID patients may experience.

  A local doctor recommended this to a friend. It is not a silver bullet in that it does not cure COVID-19, but it can prevent the lung inflammation that will kill you. Take this, retrovirals, and proper hydration and nutrition, and you can beat this thing.

• Rogue Snohomish barber faces big tab for his political protest
  

  Officials imposed a fine of $5,000 for each day he operated. It reached $90,000 on June 2. That’s when the state agency began the process of revoking his license for 10 years. A statement of the charges got mailed to Martin on July 23.

  Why are we licensing barbers in the first place? Let anyone cut hair who wants to; the best will survive. However, since the Leftist takeover after the Civil War, America has operated on the principle of “all power to government,” leading to ludicrous situations like this. We have more fat bureaucrats wrecking our lives than criminals at this point.

• Will China’s AI Surveillance State Go Global?
  

  The country is now the world’s leading seller of AI-powered surveillance equipment…. China uses “predatory lending to sell telecommunications equipment at a significant discount to developing countries, which then puts China in a position to control those networks and their data,” Michael Kratsios, America’s CTO, told me. When countries need to refinance the terms of their loans, China can make network access part of the deal, in the same way that its military secures base rights at foreign ports it finances. “If you give [China] unfettered access to data networks around the world, that could be a serious problem,” Kratsios said.

  People in democratic countries still have their heads in the clouds, thinking about symbolism and precedent, since these are the ways you get ahead in these highly-bureaucratic, thought-controlled societies. China plays to win.

• Pac-12 players threaten to sit out 2020 season over health concerns, medical coverage, racial injustice
  

  The list of demands ranges from ensuring players’ safety — as they’re being asked to take the field during the COVID-19 pandemic — to an equitable share in revenue generated by college football and ending racial injustice in college sports and society.

  Good. We have needed sports and entertainment to wreck themselves for almost a century now. They constantly promote the novelty factor, which includes the ethnic Other of various sorts, and licentious behavior since the proles seek to legitimize their own uncontrolled desires. Perhaps the best message here is: turn off the TV, disconnect Facebook, go outside, and explore real life.

• Samsung Electronics to halt production at its last computer factory in China
  

  The factory shipped $4.3 billion worth of goods out of China in 2012, a figure that had sunk to $1 billion by 2018, the Hong Kong newspaper said.

  Trump won his trade war. The Left wants him gone because he is driving away their sugar daddy, China.

• Cincinnati officer sues online posters for defamation after being accused of being racist
  

  Several citizens accused the officer of possibly being associated with white supremacy or of being racist after spotting a video and picture of him allegedly flashing the “ok” sign at a City Council meeting in June – a meeting held to address concerns by those in the Black Lives Matter Movement.

  Leftists are fond of saying that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. That includes defamation suits for circulating information that you know is false, or could easily find out is false, including the dubious association between the “OK” sign and “White supremacy.”

• Coronavirus: Thousands protest in Germany against restrictions
  

  Demonstrators held up banners featuring such slogans as “Corona, false alarm” and “We are being forced to wear a muzzle”.

  The BBC’s Damien McGuinness said some participants were from the far right and some were conspiracy theorists who do not believe Covid-19 exists, but others were ordinary people who simply object to the government’s approach to the pandemic.

  This keeps the Left up at night: as our Leftist leadership and System continues to fail, more ordinary people are finding that they agree with some ideas from the far-Right.

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