November 26, 2015 Remembering Australian Nationalist P. R. Stephensen: November 20, 1901 to May 28, 196 Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Remembering Australian Nationalist P. R. Stephensen: November 20, 1901 to May 28, 196

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

Percy Reginald Stephensen was an important ideological opponent of Jewish immigration into Australia. He feared it would lead to the end of White Australia and result in a balkanized country.

On the one hand, one can see any opponent of Jews was evil and contemptible. On the other hand, one can see that different groups have different interests and that as one group rises, other groups are affected, sometimes negatively, and this provokes conflict.

The best way to protect and preserve your group and country is to get as strong as possible, but this will usually come at a cost to other groups, who will likely respond in their self-interest. In political science, this is called the realist school.

From Wikipedia:

Percy Reginald Stephensen (20 November 1901 – 28 May 1965) was an Australian writer, publisher and political activist, first for the Communists and later for far-Right groups.[1]
He was born in Maryborough, Queensland. He was nicknamed “Inky”, and attended the University of Queensland, where he joined the Communist Party in 1921. He gained a second-class honours degree in Modern Greats at Queen’s College, Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar and was a member of the university branch of the Communist Party with A. J. P. Taylor, Graham Greene and Tom Driberg.[1]
He was a friend of D H Lawrence and edited the first uncensored version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. He was also friends with Aldous Huxley.[2]
His most significant work was The Foundations of Culture in Australia (1936), which led to the foundation of the Jindyworobak Movement.
Between the world wars, his Fellowship of Australian Writers released a document that advocated disconnection with the United States and stated, “US comics promoted demonology, witchcraft and voodooism, with superman part of a raving mad view of the world.” And of American musicals and minstrel shows, “the American negro, with his jungle is not welcome here.”
He was a member of the Australia First Movement whose magazine The Publicist he helped found in 1936 and edited from 1941-1942. He was noted for his anti-semitic views in this period.[1]
Stephensen was a prolific author. He published over 30 books, as well as translations of works by Vladimir Lenin and Friedrich Nietzsche. He also produced nearly 70 books ghostwritten for Frank Clune.
He was interned without trial from 1942 to 1945 for pro-Japanese and Axis sympathies.

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Jews & Real Estate

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

* Two Jews find time to pause and reflect in front of the western wall of the Second Temple. One of them notices that the other is weeping profusely over the destruction of the Second Temple. “Why are you crying so much?” he says, “True, the Temple has been destroyed, but the lot is still worth something.”

* Joan Rivers: “I’m Jewish. If God wanted me to exercise he would’ve put diamonds on the floor.”

* Milton Berle: “A Jewish youngster asked the boy next door to play with him. The boy answered, ‘My father says I can’t play with you because you’re Jewish.’ The Jewish lad answered, ‘Oh, that’s all right. We won’t play for money.’

* “The Israelis have just developed a brand-new car. It not only stops on a dime, it picks it up.”

* “Why did the Israelis win the Six-Day War?” “Because the equipment was rented.”

* And then there was the Jewish Santa Claus. He came down the chimney and said: “Hi, kids. Want to buy some presents?”

* A wealthy Boston Brahmin was on his deathbed. The end was near, and he asked his three business partners, a Catholic, a Protestant, and a Jew, to come to the hospital to discuss some matters pertaining to his estate.

“You boys know I have no family,” he began, “so I’m dividing my wealth among the three of you, in three equal shares. As a sign of your good friendship, however, I would like each of you to make a token gesture after I’m gone, by putting a thousand dollars into my coffin before it is lowered into the ground.”

Several days later, the funeral was conducted according to the wishes of the deceased. At the appropriate time, the Catholic friend walked up to the coffin and placed in it an envelope containing one thousand dollars. The Protestant friend came forward and did likewise. Finally, the Jew walked up to the coffin, took out the two envelopes, and replaced them with a check for three thousand dollars.

* It is Yom Kippur. A man comes to the synagogue in a state of obvious excitement. The usher is at the door looking at admission tickets. As the man tries to walk in, the usher stops him: “Let’s see your ticket.”

“I don’t have a ticket. I just want to see my brother, Abe Teitelbaum. I have an important message for him.”

“A likely story. There’s always someone like you, trying to sneak in in for the High Holy Day services. Forget it, friend. Try somewhere else.”

“Honest. I swear to you. I have to tell my brother something. You’ll see. I’ll only be a minute.”

The usher gave him a long look. “All right,” he says, “I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. You can go in. But don’t let me catch you praying!”

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Steve Sailer: Dept. of Not as Reassuring as the NYT Assumes

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Steve Sailer:

Ever since the Paris Massacres, the establishment has mounted a campaign to convince Americans who follow the news that our memories of terrorist incidents are all wrong. One ploy is to emphasize a technical distinction between refugee and asylee. But the funnier one is their assurance that: “You don’t have to worry about this new generation of Muslims; if history is any guide, it’s their sons who will be much more likely to try to kill us!”

Evidently, the Magic of Assimilation doesn’t work as well as has been promised in other contexts …

Instead of looking at this graphic skeptically, we are suppose to swell up with patriotic pride that Joker Tsarnaev deigned to become a naturalized citizen. U-S-A! U-S-A!

By the way, I see that Tamerlan Tsarnaev (lower right corner) had a Green Card to permit him to get a job in the U.S. But did he ever have a job? Aspiring MMA fighter, weed dealer, and sponger off your American wife’s affluent family aren’t official jobs, are they?

One root of this mental blindness is that the establishment sees the Terrorism Issue and the Immigration Issue as wholly separate categories.

If there’s a terrorism incident, you should, of course, Invade the World; how could terrorism raise questions about Invite the World? What do Invade the World and Invite the World have to do with each other?

But voters are starting to grasp the connection. Thus the latest Reuters poll has Trump in first at 38.0% followed by the cunning Cruz, who has positioned himself to not get into much conflict with Trump over immigration, in second at 11.6%.

Comments:

* The MSM and political elites are obviously terrified at the thought they might accidentally raise public consciousness of this and related issues. They are concerned to the degree that their evasions become ever more comically obvious. Today alone, I heard and read “analyses” of Trump’s stunning poll numbers on NPR, the WaPO, and that worthless rag that still dares to call itself a conservative magazine. All managed to carefully elide mentioning Trump’s positions on strengthening border security, restoring integrity to immigration and naturalization policy, and effectively dealing with ISIS, Al Q’aida and other dangerous Islamic organizations. Most amusing is that Trump’s poll numbers show that the MSM and the elites have already lost this battle for hearts and minds even if they still have the money and clout to corrupt elections.

* Often the original immigrants from Muslim countries were glad to get out of the hell-holes they came from, so it took a generation or so for racial and religious loyalty to resurface in the form of violence against the host country. Add to this the fact that they had less time for plotting terrorism because they had to work harder than the present generation of immigrants, there being fewer welfare benefits back then.

* Fact sheet on refugees provided to the US House of Representatives briefing November 12, 2015
Posted by Ann Corcoran on November 25, 2015

~The Refugee Act of 1980 created the Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) presently being administered to resettle approximately 70,000 refugees each year (in recent years) to the US.

~The Obama Administration increased the projected ceiling to 85,000 for FY2016. 10,000 of those slots are earmarked for Syrian refugees presently being referred to the US by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which says it has selected 20,000 for consideration so far.

~When the President sends his “Determination” to Congress in advance of the fiscal year (two weeks in advance is required!) it is accompanied by a report (Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2016). There is supposed to be a legally required consultation with Congress.

~There will be large increases this year from Africa including (but not limited to) DR Congo, Eritrea and Sudan. The largest number of refugees arriving in recent years are from: Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan/Nepal, Iraq, and Somalia. We admitted 120,000 Iraqis since 2007.

~In FY2015, we admitted 1,682 Syrian refugees, less than 40 were Christians/other minorities.

~In 2014, the United States took in 67% of the refugees resettled around the world. The next closest country was Canada with 9.9%.

~The UNHCR refers most of our refugees. The Department of Homeland Security is charged with doing the security screening. The Dept. of State (Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration) works with nine major refugee contractors who along with the State Dept. determine their placement in America. The Dept. of Health and Human Services (Office of Refugee Resettlement) provides grants and additional federal funding mostly through those nine non-profit agencies.

~The anticipated cost to the US Treasury of the resettlement process (not including welfare/Medicaid/education costs) is projected to be just short of $1.2 billion for FY2016.

~The nine non-profit ($$$$$$) agencies contracted to resettle refugees include: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, World Relief (Evangelicals), Church World Service, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, Ethiopian Community Development Council, and the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

~There are 312 subcontractors ($$$$$$) working under the nine major contractors in 185 locations around the country. There are 24 offices located around the country for the processing of Unaccompanied Alien Children. A placement site map is available on line (attached).

~The states receiving the highest number of refugees in FY2015 were in descending order: TX, CA, NY, PA, FL, GA, MI, AZ, WA, and NC.

~States receiving no refugees in 2014 or 2015 were: WY, MT. Delaware received none in 2014.

~State and local elected officials have virtually no say in the resettlement process. This is especially so in the so-called Wilson-Fish states where the state doesn’t even have a refugee office under state government and the program is completely run through the US State Department and a non-profit organization. Those states are: AL, AL, CO, ID, KY, LA, MA, NV, ND, SD, TN, VT and San Diego County.

~Refugees are a special class of legal immigrant which permits them to receive virtually all forms of welfare upon arrival.

~Grassroots opposition is growing throughout the US to the resettlement process mostly due to the lack of transparency and the fear of Islamic radicals who might get in through the program.

Some points regarding the proposed Syrian resettlement and the European migration crisis:

~Only about 50% of the migrants flooding Europe today are Syrians. The next highest number are from Afghanistan.

~These are a mix of asylum seekers and economic migrants. Asylum seekers must prove that just as refugees, they fear returning to their homelands for fear of persecution (escaping war per se has never been a part of the refugee definition).

~We are not expected to get refugees from the European flow (Malta exception). Ours will come through UN referrals from mostly UNHCR camps and regional offices.

~The refugee resettlement contractors (NGOs mentioned above) working with the US State Department began advocating several years ago for the resettlement of 15,000 Syrians per year for each of the next 5 years. They then modified their request to 65,000 Syrians before Pres. Obama leaves office. Subsequently they have demanded 100,000 Syrians before 2017.

~Earlier 14 US Senators wrote to the President asking for 65,000 Syrians. A total of 84 Senators and Members of Congress have subsequently urged the President to speed up security screening.

~FBI Director James Comey has told Congress that Syrians cannot be thoroughly screened because the Administration has no access to data (biographic or biometric) on most of them.

* This election season has already been pretty amazing, and it’s only going to get better. It’s the first time I remember Americans telling the government, loud and clear, exactly what they want, and the establishment of both parties telling them “Of course that’s not what you want! What you want is this!”. And then they simply cannot understand why they’re losing votes to some upstart candidate.

* “Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Tex., in 2009, was born and raised in Virginia. Mr. Hasan had exchanged messages with Anwar al-Awlaki, an American radical cleric who was later killed by a drone strike in Yemen.”

Despite nearly everything in these two sentences relating to Islam and Arabs, the NYT expects us to ask: “What IS it about Virginia that drove these poor men crazy?”

If they were to apply this same absurd logic to the Charleston church massacre, they would have us asking: “What was it about the sermon that day that drove Dylann Roof to go on a killing spree?”

By the way, all of the U.S. mosques where Anwar al-Awlaki served as imam (Virginia, California, Colorado) are still open and the slightest suspicious glance cast in their direction is framed as bigotry and Islamophobia. This despite the fact that Anwar al-Awlaki was the spiritual advisor and/or directly preached to Fort Hood shooter and three of the 911 hijackers.

But we are expected to place direct blame on any website that Dylann Roof perused that may have even the slightest, most ephemeral link to his twisted ideology.

* Simple Argument: If the 19 hijackers never entered our country, there would have been no attack on 09/11/01.

If Major Nadal Hasan’s parents never entered our country, there would have been no FT. Hood Massacre.

If the Tsarnaev brothers never set foot on American soil…

* The NYT logic reminds me of those who argue that we have to take in unlimited numbers of immigrants because the early American settlers pushed aside the Indians. “Oh, so you’re saying we have to let other people do to us what our ancestors did to the Indians? Makes totally perfect sense!”

* Option #1: Police your borders and who is entering them.

Option #2: Have a police state.

France is going for Option #2 now (constitution suspended; police powers expanded), and the Marco Rubio-John McCain wing wants to join them.

* I am fairly sure no Republican candidate has had a large persistent lead in all New Hampshire and national polls and lost the nomination.

This year looks just like the last election: very rich guy from the Northeast almost always in first and fends off a rotating case of Christian Right flavors of the month. Except Trump’s leads are much larger than Romney’s.

There is no reason to think the field shrinking will hurt Trump. In all the polls I’ve seen that ask the question, he is usually not only the number one choice, but is also the most popular second choice candidate.

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Obama The Muslimist

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* So no President was better familiarized with the Islamic world, but few have made worse calls than the one Obama made over Syria.

I don’t watch him on the news. Does he ever try to even use his background to explain his understanding of the developing world?

I’ve never seen him do this. Three things that come to mind: a. he’s just too self centered to really expand on other people in general b. he’s a bit scared to push what he knows, either so to stay the blank page that lets people project their fantasies about him or to not appear committed to some idea that he’ll have to back out of (Sailer’s Middle East Warning) or c. his experience abroad was sheltered to the point that he really doesn’t have that much depth to share.

I’m leaning on b. This fellow doesn’t seem to like to get his feet wet.

* In a lot of ways, the current mess in Syria is worse than the American occupation of Iraq (2003-2011) was. To begin with, more people have been killed in Syria since 2011 than were killed in Iraq during the occupation, and Syria has fewer people. AQI was a fearsome, merciless guerrilla movement, which has since become ISIS, an international terrorist semi-state, far more competent than Al-Qaeda proper ever was.

The Iraq War was more costly for the US (in troop losses and in government spending), but at least the war was largely self-contained. In contrast, hundreds of thousands are pouring into Europe and Obama wants to adopt over 600,000 in the US. Absolutely insane. It felt terrible seeing thousands of Americans die in Iraq, one by one, day after day – but accepting hundreds of thousands of Sunnis into the Western world could ensure that what happened to US soldiers in Iraq will start happening to Western civilians in their own countries.

Bush was incompetent, but he at least partially woke up after 2006. He stopped promoting democracy and hired Robert Gates. Obama hasn’t learned anything. He’s doubling down on accepting refugees when anyone who isn’t insane or completely callous to Western lives can see how that’s the most disastrous choice the Western world can make.

* Perhaps credit is due to some of the ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East for acting with restraint in their dealings with the others. But surely there’s one obvious reason for the periods of stability that did happen there – authoritarian government. The greatest curse ever to befall the region was the insane idea that anything resembling Western democracy would work in countries where a large portion of the population wants a regime in which the Koran is the statute book and apostates are sadistically punished.

I don’t think Obama could ever have used his experience of the Muslim world to American advantage, because he doesn’t have America’s interests at heart. If he did want what was best for his country, his knowledge of foreign cultures wouldn’t be particularly relevant – expert advisers from academia can provide that. What’s needed more than anything else in a politician or diplomat is the knowledge (tragically rare) that America should leave well alone.

* Obama is like Lucy who takes away the neocons’ ball every time. God only knows how many people the insane McCain and the lunatic Palin would have gotten killed for Jesus and Israel. God loves little children and the USA as the saying goes.

* As feckless as the affirmative action president is. It is not Obama who is driving American policy, rather it is his weakness that is allowing others to set the agenda. As you yourself have noted Steve, Obama’s principal interests are primarily domestic and like all black American politicos are singularly concerned with issues of “blackness”. Refer to the Beer summit, saint Trayvon, and recently clock boy. His heart is simply closer to home rather than foreign affairs hence the influence of his camarilla on matters beyond his interests. Obama is functionally the anti-Nixon who himself ran roughshod over the State department to set his own agenda.

One only has to survey America’s other prominent elected representatives to see what passes for received Wisdom among courtiers who keep Washington informed to realize Congress appears even more insane than Obama. Rather than realists that many presumed Obama would bring to power, Washington policy seems to be driven by a sickly melange of Bush era neoconservatives and wild eyed liberal interventionists. Perhaps this is what passes as the default weltanschaung of the budding American deep state.

* Obama has stood up to the neocons more than any previous president. All of his likely successors (unfortunately a Trump administration is unlikely) will be more beholden to the neocons than Obama is. What his administration did in Lybia and Syria was bad, but McCain, Romney and Hillary would have done much worse. They would have probably bombed and destabilized Iran too by now.

Obama has an aversion to using US ground troops. Why? Probably for the same reason that Colin Powell opposed the 2003 Iraq Attaq behind closed doors. What’s in it for Blacks? Only flag-draped corpses. And they’re right about that.

The Iran deal, the Hagel appointment and other things show that Obama sees through the neocons a little. They hate him because he hasn’t advanced their priorities as much as they would have liked. Unless Trump wins, and as I said, I don’t think he will, there will be a massive increase in US troop presence in the Middle East during the next administration. There will be more wars. Saudi Arabia hasn’t been destabilized yet. There’s no war in Egypt or Turkey at the moment. Things can get a lot worse than this.

* With the newly ascendant neo-conservatives empowered to change the world by 9/11, a new model, call it regionalization or balkanization in the Middle East was embarked upon. This idea was first propagated in 1982 in an article by Israeli Oded Yinon entitled “A strategy for Israel in the 1980s.” Some highlights:

“Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon….

Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.

Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon, so that there will be a Shi’ite Alawi state along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state in Damascus hostile to its northern neighbor, and the Druzes who will set up a state, maybe even in our Golan, and certainly in the Hauran and in northern Jordan. (…) This state of affairs will be the guarantee for peace and security in the area in the long run, and that aim is already within our reach today.”

And so if this is the policy direction Obama has inherited, his job is to assist in the breakup of Syria while keeping American hands as clean as possible. Thus the ISIS is used as the agent of change. The US on the other hand only supports “moderate” Islamists but we insist on the exact same strategic goal as ISIS: the end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

So if Obama wanted to counter this policy in Syria, the only real alternative he has is to make a complete 180 degree turn on US foreign policy and to re-embrace Baathist nationalism. Of course the globalist Obama is never going to do this.

But the interesting fact is that a President Trump just might, in collaboration with Vladimir Putin.

* In late ’02, amid word of the planned democratization of Iraq, an Egyptian said to me, “Arabs don’t want self-government – they have to be told what to do.”

* Saudi money helps the Sunni image too.

I like to imagine that deep in the vault of a Swiss bank is a manuscript entitled “The Memoirs of Prince Bandar: My Years in Washington as the Saudi Paymaster” with a letter to his estate’s lawyer triggering its publication if he happens to die at any age before 99.

* James Michener’s 1963 novel “Caravan” is about Afghanistan. The first chapter is great: it’s all about a diplomatic crisis because the Prime Minister’s granddaughters are going on dates with two Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the furious holy men want to kill them. It’s kind of Waughish. After that though, Michener’s character just hangs out with various progressive Moderate Muslims talking about how science education and Islam aren’t incompatible, and the book kind of drags. I mean I wish the kind of reasonable people Michener liked to write about had prevailed in Afghanistan, but from an artistic standpoint, the kind of unreasonable characters Waugh liked to write about are more fun.

* A different take is that Obama’s long relationship with Jeremiah Wright is evidence of Obama’s long-standing hostility toward Western civilization and Christianity … something that has slowly come to light in Obama’s domestic and foreign policies. Black extremists, who share the same views, were a safer political cover than radical Islam at the time.

Obama has proved a master of social pretense and illusion throughout his life … the kind of things homosexuals used to do to mask their sexual orientation. In the current free-for-all “freak show” we call American society, the pretense and illusions are no longer politically or socially necessary. With the masks removed, Obama is openly pressing his Islamic-friendly agenda, something that was there all the time if we had known how to read the evidence.

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Why Do So Many Muslims Dye Their Beards Orange?

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

CNN: “Some Muslim men told Coppejans their decision was in reference to the Prophet Muhammad, who is believed to have dyed his hair as well. Some men had just returned from Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I see the henna-bearded types (henna barbarians?) pretty often here in NYC. To my dirty kafir eyes, they look mentally ill.

* My wife, who was a nurse for a while in the Asia, said that even though Muslim women from the Middle East who were treated at her hospital were dressed head to toe in long black robes, underneath, they wore very bright, colorful underclothes.

* How long before we realize that Saudi Arabia is the real enemy and go after them? If US forces were to seize the major oil fields on the Arabian peninsula, for instance, we could eventually turn them over to a series of small Shia ruled emirates along the coast that we could set up much like the British did (didn’t they?) in the 19th century. The security of these small political statelets would of course be guaranteed by US forces in the region, which would give us the necessary leverage to control their behavior. Such a “Trumpist” foreign policy is not quite as inconceivable as it used to be, is it?

As long as we are thinking outside the box, what about the Sunni areas in eastern Syria and western Iraq? Another Trumpist idea would be to encourage the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan to take them over. Isn’t the Jordanian army the most potent in the region? I know it used to be. And even if it isn’t still we could certainly make it so in reasonably short order. Indeed, we might go further and encourage Jordan to reconquer the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, which it traditionally administered for centuries until the Wahhabi-backed Saudis pushed them out.

This Jordanian option has the advantage that it would kill three birds with one stone:

1. The end of Isis

2. The end of radical Islamic control of the holy sites of Islam

3. A Jordanian kingdom so large that it might be induced to relinquish control of Palestinian areas on the east bank of the Jordan river as part of a future Palestinian state, without which a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in unviable.

The current mess in the Middle East is largely a legacy of the way Britain carved it up when it was still a world power. Maybe it is time for America to carve it up again?

* The Prophet of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) declared that because the Jews (anguish and damnation be upon them) let their hair go gray, Muslims should colorize their gray hair. However, black dye is not allowed, nor is it allowed to imitate the hair-dyeing habits of kafirs (the immoral people).

Sharia’s intricate rules on hair dyeing are nicely laid out here.

* ESPN has lost 7 million subscribers over the last 2 years. Each subscriber means (via their cable bill) almost $80/year in revenue for Disney, which owns ESPN. The $555 million in lost subscription fees doesn’t count lost advertising revenue.

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LAT: In final weeks, Laquan McDonald tried to turn around troubled life

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’m sure he had a smile that could light up a room.

Annie Sweeney writes:

Laquan McDonald said little, if anything, to Chicago police as they tried to detain him last year for breaking into trucks while carrying a knife.
What was going through his 17-year-old mind on that stretch of Pulaski Road before he was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer won’t ever be known.
But in the teen’s final month, some caught a glimpse of a kid who showed signs of hope and promise to maybe untangle himself from a troubled life.
…According to court records, McDonald’s father abandoned the family and had “no presence” in his life. At 3, McDonald became a ward of the state when the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services took him into protective custody over allegations that his mother had neglected him, according to state records.
He spent about two months in foster care before he was moved to a relative’s home and eventually back to his mother in 2002. But after just a little more than a year, he was again back in foster care when his mother’s boyfriend beat him, causing cuts, welts and bruises, according to the records.
…Court files show he racked up numerous juvenile arrests and had spent time in juvenile lockup.
…McDonald enrolled in Sullivan House Alternative School in September 2014, a month before his shooting. In the few weeks he had been there, staff said he was engaged. He tended to arrive early, ahead of the 8 a.m. start, they said.
…McDonald, who was tall at 6-foot-2, liked to rap and dance, his teacher recalled. And he was happy.

COMMENTS:

* The life and shooting of this young man is tragic, but this LA Times article is almost the same quality of a bad SNL skit. If anyone ever doubts the media being liberal, show them this article.

* Wasn’t Mike Brown also just turning his life around? These kids always seem to get shot just as they were turning their lives around.

* PCP isn’t a turning your life around. It’s turning your life inside out.

* With a name like his, it’s no wonder. Now that mommy got a $5,000,000 pay out for bad parenting, I wonder how long it will be before his long lost father shows up demanding a piece of the pie.

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Being Black Is Exhausting Because Of White Racism

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Los Angeles Times:

Being black is exhausting, and here’s why
By Dexter Thomas
Dexter Thomas is from San Bernardino and is a PhD candidate in East Asian studies at Cornell University. He has taught media studies and Japanese and is writing a book about Japanese hip-hop. Thomas began working in new media as a student director of programming at KUCR-FM (88.3), independently producing podcasts as well as music and news programs. He has written for several outlets internationally on topics as diverse as Internet and youth culture, social justice and video games.
…Again, black people will have to answer insincere questions from co-workers and friends, and again combat memes of fake statistics on black crime, spread by the most popular GOP presidential candidate.
It’s exhausting.
The activists marching in Chicago don’t necessarily expect all of America, or even all black people, to join them in the streets. But they know that they will be a topic of conversation at millions of dinner tables this Thanksgiving. And they may wonder if the well-meaning folks all across America who “like” their Facebook posts will speak up this time when their uncle starts calling Black Lives Matter a “terrorist group.”
Being black in the digital age is exhausting for the same reason that being brown after 9/11 is exhausting, or being an immigrant, or a woman, or gay, can be exhausting: because whenever the weight of hundreds of years of injustice comes to light, you are told that it is your fault.
And you are left to shoulder the burden, again, alone.

From the LATIMES comments section:

* This misnomer that only White people can be racist is one of the biggest farces in modern life. People of color are just as racist against each other as whites are to anyone. Ever talk to an African American about Latinos or Asians or vice versa!? Well, it’s not a plethora of love and festivities.

* And comments by obviously non-Black ppl are exhausting, too. Comments come from zero relevant experience, only the experience of the privileged. (“Privileged you say?” Yes — so much so you don’t notice or don’t care. And for those with no logical skills and didn’t both the read nor think, black-on-black crime has zero relevance to the unnecessary killing of this man.)

Down-vote to your “hearts delight.” Continue your cycle of deflection, while the new generation listens and feels.

* Having to remind blacks that they must obey the police is exhausting. Young black men think their skin color intimidates policemen so they disobey orders, walk down the middle of vehicle lanes, and brandish knives. The police reacted properly to Laquan McDonald’s provocation.

* Nothing can be changed unless blacks are exempted from all civil and criminal laws. Brandishing deadly weapons would have to be a new constitutional right reserved only for blacks.

* I’m exhausted by that late 80’s hair cut.

* Color-blind Rules for a “successful” interaction with Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs):
1) Be respectful, even if they are not. They represent the Law and the Government
2) Immediately follow any legal order, even if it is marginal.
If it helps, you can pretend that they are the biggest, nastiest MF in town and they will beat you into the ground for fun if you backtalk them or put a cap in your rear. This is not the time to show your Bravado.
3) If you feel that you have been mistreated, please report the incident AFTER following rules 1 & 2.
LEOs are not being paid to deal with your BS or playing fair if you threaten them. In the end, they are there to protect your family from others that want to break the law. Cursing them out for doing their jobs is not helping your situation.
Yes, there are “bad” cops (see rule 3). I have dealt with them, so can you.
Each of the several incidents of possible LEO misconduct started with someone breaking rules 1 & 2. That is not to say that the LEOs were necessarily justified and obviously in some cases they should face charges.

* Dexter, I like your hair, so I’m going to give you some good advice:

You will expend a lot less energy if you restrict your concern for innocent people getting shot by the police, rather than exorcising yourself when criminals involved in criminal activities run afoul of the police.

I sincerely hope this helps.

* Well, thank god you don’t have to watch every video of a black man killing another black man. You wouldn’t just be exhausted, you’d be positively bedridden then!

* I’m exhausted by bad syntax, diction, and grammar.

* It was exhausting, to hear about the 9 year old boy, murdered in Chicago, by gang members, several weeks ago. Where were the demonstrators then?

* Being around black people is exhausting, too.

* Chicago, is approaching 400 Black on Black murders, so far this year. Where is the outrage from the citizens of Chicago?

* “For too many Americans, admitting that the U.S. has a race problem, and that black people bear the brunt of that race problem, is an insurmountable task.”

I don’t buy the authors argument for a second. Black people from a cultural perspective have a big problem with violence, period. US DOJ statistics are consistent, blacks account for 12.5% of the population, yet are responsible for 51% of all violent crime. There’s no way getting around that, yet the author wants to ignore the elephant in the room.

Let me help the author. There are roughly 18,000 law enforcement agencies throughout the nation, and about 900,000 sworn cops. There is a tiny minority among that large group that has no business being cops because they are racists, power freaks, predators, incompetent, you name it. There is no magic screening process that will bar their entry into the police ranks, there is no training that will make them better cops, heck you can’t even make them decent human beings – but they are still there, minimally competent in civil service protected jobs, one tragedy away from the evening news.

There is no such thing as perfect policing, and no one is going to pay more in taxes to try reach that impossible goal, either. Since its a given there are bad cops out there, then why on God’s earth would young black men keep insisting on testing the waters by assaulting cops, resisting arrests, getting high on PCP and arming themselves with a weapon they refuse to drop when ordered to do so? The Chicago kid came across one of these bad cops, and he did not deserve to be shot down like a dog. What his family needs to accept, however, is that he had no business doing what he did at the time he came across the bad cop.

Grad photo aside, he was on PCP, doing auto burgs, and armed.

* Don’t do drugs and commit crime. Police, racism, shootings, these won’t be issues if you don’t do those two things. Trust me.

* High on PCP, slashing police car tires & brandishing a blade…HE DID NOT deserve to be shot by that psycho cop 16 times but…you know, if he was in the library studying on a weeknight at 10pm instead of smoking some sherm, perhaps things might have been different.

I moved out of the house at 19 and did terribly stupid things all the time and managed to survive it. But sometimes kids don’t. The cop needs to be convicted, but the poor kid was culpable as well.

* Sometimes I wonder if the best solution would have been to repatriate the slaves, with a generous gift of money, back to Africa following the Civil War. In the long run I bet the former slaves also would have been happier. In fact, of that I have absolutely no doubt.

* In nearly all of these events, the suspect ran or was resisting. That’s not “bizarre racial gymnastics!” That’s violating the law and subjecting yourself to needless risk. I really take umbrage with that statement by Dexter.

* What’s exhausting is to constantly hear the media, activists and almost an entire community who thinks all these events occur in a vacuum. The suspect is never at fault or even partially at fault. No one is expected to bear any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. No, these are all blameless little saints doing nothing provocative and those damned racist police (even when they’re “of color”) are always at fault. All with a healthy dose of insinuation that every white person in the US is somehow culpable. Yeah, its exhausting all right.

* I can’t look past Dexter’s haircut. Come on.

* Imagine being brown. That’s actually invisible. Is it exhausting not existing? In a city that’s 50% Hispanic and 10% African-American how many black writers and how many brown writers does the la times have? How many columns do they run on the Hispanic experience?
While they tilt at every windmill they somehow are blind to the community they are supposed to be serving. If you just read this paper you would think the numbers were flipped that it’s 50% African-American and 10% Hispanic.

* Since you are the majority now you should stop whining. You have an absolute majority. Encourage your people to do well in school and go to college. That’s a start.

* Exactly right… you would think this country is 60% white, 30% black, 10% hispanic, and .01% asian the way the media reports things.

* How many white, black, and Asian writers and reporters does La Opinión have?

* That is kind of the thing that bothers me about the black leadership. It’s like black kids are worth more to them dead than alive. I mean seriously, South LA doesn’t have to be that dangerous but what are the city leaders doing about it? Nothing unless someone is killed by a police officer.

* I taught in South LA and it was clear that the political leadership there does nothing about quality of life issues. In fact, often thousands are spent on the funeral of a young black male but how much attention was given to him when he was alive? This is a legitimate question. There is a ton of posturing, but when you get down to it, no jobs materialize in South LA and the city’s answer to everything it more police or gentrification.

* Poor, exhausted Dexter! And, apparently, poor, exhausted everyone else, per his column (except, of course, non-immigrant heterosexual white males, who basically just hang out on Bill Gates’ yacht while playing polo with Price Harry on the fantail.)

It’s haaaaaard being Dexter. My sympathies!

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Ann Coulter: Importing Terrorism And Other American Values

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Ann Coulter writes: Americans keep being hectored to take “refugees” from terrorist-producing countries because to do otherwise would be “a betrayal of our values,” as President Obama said on Monday.

The rise of Donald Trump reminds us of the popularity of another, long-forgotten American value: protecting Americans.

Contrary to Obama’s laughable reference to “the universal values” that “all of humanity” share, most of the world does not share our values, at all. They barely seem to share our DNA. As indignantly explained by the lawyer representing two Iraqis accused of child rape in Nebraska, America’s views about women and children “put us in the minority position in the world.”

Pederasty, child brides, honor killings, clitorectomies, stonings, wife beatings—when will America grow up and join the 21st century? (A lot sooner if Marco Rubio has his way!)

The New York Times boasts about how amazingly painstaking the “vetting” of Syrian refugees will be, but I notice the main point the paper keeps stressing is how long it will take. Twenty-four months!

“Waiting” is not “vetting.” What is 24 months to people who can hold a grudge for a thousand years?

As we found out from Michael Steinbach, assistant director of the FBI, in congressional testimony last month, there are no Syrian computer databases for our investigators to use in their famed “vetting” of refugees.

“You’re talking about a country that is a failed state, that does not have any infrastructure,” he said. “So all of the data sets—the police, the intel services—that normally you would go to seek information don’t exist.”

It seems that another value the rest of the world doesn’t share with the West is our painstaking record-keeping. There’s no Syrian FBI running the National Crime Information Center. Syria barely has a phonebook.

Our investigators can take fingerprints all day long, but if there’s nothing to check those fingerprints against, there’s no “vetting.”

It’s possible that during that agonizing 24 months of waiting, someone will warn our immigration officials about particular refugees. Then, our government will admit them anyway—as they did with Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Tamerlan’s suspected co-conspirator in the murder of three Jews, Ibragim Todashev, was another beneficiary of America’s generous humanitarian policies—humanitarian toward foreign criminals and terrorists, monstrous toward Americans.

Our crack investigators admitted Todashev after concluding he had a credible fear of persecution in Chechnya. Meanwhile, his own father said, “He has nothing to fear … he would have faced no oppression.”

Good job, meticulous vetters! (Luckily, during an interrogation after the Boston Marathon bombing, Todashev attacked an FBI agent and got himself killed, saving the taxpayers 60 years of room and board.)

American officials were also warned about the blind sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, not only by U.S. consular officials in Egypt—but by Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt himself.

But the Blind Sheik was allowed to go about his business in America, plotting terrorist attacks with other widows and orphans, such as Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing—and American asylee.

Under our immigration policies, being a member of a noted terrorist group qualifies you to come to America; being a talented scientist from Switzerland does not.

Our aggressive refugee vetters couldn’t even figure out which Iraqis were helping American troops during the war and which were trying to kill them. During the terrorism prosecution of Iraqi “refugees” Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, the FBI produced Alwan’s fingerprints from IEDs that had been used against American troops in Iraq.

Talk about a fine-toothed comb!

Obama pulled every last American troop out of Iraq, then brought enemy troops to America, as refugees.

Incidentally, every one of these terrorists was a “legal” immigrant. How many World Trade Centers, Boston Marathons and Fort Hoods do we need before Republicans drop the “Illegals, bad; Legals, good” shibboleth?

Some Republicans have called for admitting only Christian refugees—the main point of which is to allow Jeb! and Rubio to talk tough on immigration, without alienating their imaginary Hispanic base.

Fazliddin Kurbanov was admitted as a Christian refugee in 2009 from the booming world power of Uzbekistan. He claimed that he and his family were being persecuted in the majority Muslim country.

Soon after arriving, Kurbanov realized: He was a Muslim, after all!

He began communicating with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, telling them: “We are the closest ones to the infidels …. What would you say if with the help of God we implement a martyrdom act?”

At trial, Kurbanov’s defense was that he was just trying to get information on the terrorists in order “to capture them.”

The jury was unconvinced, perhaps swayed by the stores of ammonium nitrate, acetone, aluminum powder and Tannerite found in Kurbanov’s apartment. Our immigration officials would have found Kurbanov’s story as believable as his Christianity.

After the last 50 years of mass immigration from the Third World, we’re good on Islamic terrorists, Mexican rapists, Russian arms dealers, Asian human traffickers and Pakistani Medicare scammers. We’re not running short on those anytime soon.

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Astonishing Acts Of Generosity

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

* From Hot 96.7 FM: “L.A. business man Shlomo Rechnitz saw 400 American troops about to eat their brown bag lunches at an airport in Ireland earlier this month. He chose to buy them all a HOT meal instead. He gave each of them $50 to get whatever they wanted at the food court. That’s $20,000.”

* Jewish Journal 2013: Philanthropist donates $250,000 to Mount Zion cemetery repair

Shlomo Rechnitz, a Los Angeles businessman and philanthropist, has donated $250,000 to restore the badly vandalized Mount Zion Cemetery in East Los Angeles.

* Jewish Journal 2013: Doheny Meats buyer Shlomo Rechnitz on business, philanthropy

Fifteen years ago, Shlomo Rechnitz co-founded TwinMed, a wholesaler of medical supplies serving nursing homes. Since then, Rechnitz has founded, or bought, and grown a number of other businesses, including Brius Healthcare, now the largest operator of nursing homes in California.
Along the way, Rechnitz, 41, also became a major philanthropist, giving away millions of dollars — to Jewish charities and also directly to people in need. On more than one occasion he’s come to the aid of a major Orthodox organization, offering gifts or loans in times of crisis.
It was a combination of these two attributes — business expertise and an expansive view of philanthropy — that led Rechnitz to buy Doheny Glatt Kosher Meat Market, the scandal-ridden Los Angeles kosher meat distributor and retailer that closed its doors last month.
“The Rabbinical Council of California [RCC] approached me and said, ‘Shlomo, could this be one of your charity things?’ ” Rechnitz recalled in an interview with the Journal earlier this month. “Kosher meat is expensive enough.”

…Rechnitz calls himself “a nondenominational giver” and said that at times he reaches out to those who aren’t coming to him. Last year, Diana Aulger, a pregnant woman in Texas, decided to have her doctors induce labor so that her husband, Mark, who was dying of cancer, could meet their child. Mark got to hold their daughter, Savannah, for 45 minutes before he died.
Rechnitz saw the story online and sent Aulger a check for $20,000.
He also sends $10,000 checks to the families of police officers who are shot while on duty in Southern California. Those gifts are inspired in part by an urge to assist individuals who put themselves into harm’s way for the public good, but Rechnitz said he’s also driven by another motive.
“I don’t think that [non-Jews] should ever look back at the Jewish people and say, ‘You only care about your own,’ ” he said.

* From Wikipedia: Rechnitz reportedly spends half of his day overseeing the Shlomo & Tamar Rechnitz Charitable Foundation which distributes funds to over 1,100 institutions yearly. He is known in the Los Angeles area for opening his home every Saturday night to listen to the needy and to hand out charity.[7] Rechnitz donated $5 million to the Mir Yeshiva in November 2011 when the head of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, died suddenly, leaving the institution with $15 million in debt. Rechnitz donated $5 million to support the yeshiva and encourage others to come to its aid. Soon after Rechnitz’s donation others followed suit and the debt was paid in full within three months.[1][8] In December 2011, Rechnitz purchased a creditor’s note against Chabad of California’s headquarters in Westwood for $2.35 million in order to help the organization avoid foreclosure[1] After Hurricane Sandy, Rechnitz gave $1 million to aid in the rebuilding of Orthodox Jewish day schools and to assist the families whose children attend those schools.

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Jewish Groups Push For More Islamic Immigration

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Nathan Guttman writes for the Forward:

Since the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, Republican presidential candidates, led by Donald Trump, have mainstreamed everything from proposals for registering Muslims nationwide to setting up Christians-only religious tests for Syrian refugees. But on November 19, even the Orthodox Union — a group that has often opposed the Obama administration — clearly articulated the theme driving many Jewish groups to oppose such measures.
“Just a few decades ago,” the group noted in a statement, “refugees from the terror and violence in Hitler’s Europe sought refuge in the United States and were turned away due to suspicions about their nationality.” Anti-Semitism was common at the time, and tied frequently to fears about letting socialists, communists and anarchists into the country. But “in fact,” the OU noted, “the Jewish immigrants that ultimately came to these shores fully adopted American values and have contributed greatly” to the country. Responding to the November 19 passage of a bill in the House of Representatives that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq, the OU urged Congress to work with the president to iron out any problems in the U.S. vetting system with the aim of “getting to yes” on a bipartisan admissions program.
“We’re not saying ‘open the doors wide and come one, come all,’” said Jason Isaacson, associate executive director of the American Jewish Committee, which also joined in the communal consensus. “But to say that people fleeing persecution cannot escape to the United States after they are properly checked, that is cruel.”
The measure must now also be approved by the Senate, and President Obama has threatened to veto it if it reaches his desk. But in the House vote, Jewish members showed the same sense of solidarity as Jewish communal groups — and often cited the same reasons.
Still, there, too, exceptions existed.
“My No. 1 priority is to keep New Yorkers safe,” said Rep. Steve Israel, a Jewish Democrat in New York, explaining his vote in favor of the House bill. “To do that, we must defeat ISIS to protect our national security and prevent the hateful terrorist attacks.”
Israel, a member of the House’s Democratic leadership who represents a district in Long Island, and Representative Jared Polis of Colorado were the only two Jewish Democrats to support the legislation out of 18 total. Together they constituted 11% of the House’s Democratic Jewish members. That compared with some 25% of Democrats overall who voted for the measure. Many cited fears stoked by the Paris attacks and the discourse from GOP presidential candidates, which sparked a spike in constituent pressure to block the refugees. Representative Lee Zedlin of upstate New York, the body’s sole Jewish Republican, also backed the bill, which passed overwhelmingly, 289 to 137.
But for the majority of Jewish lawmakers, there was no dilemma. If anything, there was anger at those who tried to tie the Paris attacks to President Obama’s plan to settle 30,000 Syrian refugees in America over the next two years. This would be above and beyond their much smaller presence in the planned total of 70,000 refugees worldwide to be admitted to the United States during this period.
“I am appalled by the actions of this House and by some of the words of my colleagues today,” New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler said on the House floor. Asked later by the Forward how he views the vote of fellow Jewish Democrats Israel and Polis, Nadler said: “I was frankly surprised when I saw those votes.”
…Jewish activists did not dispute the notion that Syrian refugees coming to America are likely to be biased against Israel and possibly against Jews, mainly because of their upbringing under the Assad dictatorship, which promoted such ideas.
Isaacson argued that proper integration of refugees in their new homelands could help uproot any hostile sentiments they might carry with them from the country they are fleeing.
“Before we turn our back on a humanitarian crisis, let’s be serious about the need to integrate migrants in the society,” he said.
As the anti-refugee bill moves to the Senate its opponents hope that “cooler heads will prevail” and that the legislation will be prevented from moving forward. Jewish groups, including AJC, the Anti-Defamation League and HIAS, the largest Jewish immigration and resettlement agency, as well as the Reform Movement, have been speaking to members of Congress and to governors and state legislators in an effort to counter the current wave. Most continue to believe that the bill will never become law and that its House passage was no more than a political statement.
If the current wave indeed subsides, the Jewish community will, in fact, return to its previous immigration priority: significantly increasing the quota for resettlement of Syrian refugees beyond Obama’s plan.

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