January 16, 2017 Steve Sailer: Why is there so little money for think tanks devoted to patriotic policies? Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Steve Sailer: Why is there so little money for think tanks devoted to patriotic policies?

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Luke Ford

* I wouldn’t mind seeing certain kinds of Think Tanks flourishing,….You know, ones with the right set of beliefs……Let’s see, a good litmus test would involve seeing how they respond to the fabled Fourteen Words:

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

If they are on board with that, give ‘em some dough. If they balk, starve ‘em out via monetary malnutrition.

* Somehow I don’t think that the Haim Saban Center for Middle East Policy is going to fold up shop anytime soon.

* I always thought VDare was struggling because its fundraising efforts seemed so frequent and desperate sounding, but Brimelow seems to do pretty well for himself running his website.

* As a financial contributor, I’ve been to events at Peter Brimelow’s home. He lives comfortably but not lavishly. He does pay people who write for him, which sounds like those “leased employees.” He himself works nearly non-stop. I don’t think there’s much waste or pocket-lining at VDare.

* Four white classic pocket passer quarterbacks lead their teams to the final round of the NFL playoffs (like so many other years) and all around the country the football industry at every level is DESPERATELY SEEKING RUNNING QUARTERBACKS.

* If you have no coherent nation, you can have no coherent national interest. As for “think tanks as we know them,” good riddance!

* A pretty good way to run American foreign and domestic policy in the US is to read the editorial page of the Wash Po and the NY Times and do the exact opposite of whatever they recommend. This is really a rare talent – any fool could be wrong about various policy choices some of the time just by making random guesses (even the Magic 8 Ball gives you the right answer sometimes), but to be as CONSISTENTLY wrong as they have takes a special talent.

* Think tanks seem to do about three different things:

a. Provide jobs for a few smart people to think deeply and write about some topic of interest.

b. Provide intellectual hired guns to advocate for your positions.

c. Provide sinecures for important people moving between government, media, and academia.

Only (c) is threatened by Trump.

* Yeah, have also thrown $ vdare’s way, but am philosophical about their budget. There are probably a few heavyweights who give them >$100,000 per year, but given the importance (existential) of the issues they cover, I feel they should have not just a higher budget, but a much better website & reach. Their addition of RadioDerb & their Twitter log have been big pluses. Something one must factor in is that many/most of their columnists are top notch (esp Fitzpatrick) and would easily be drawing big bucks @ legacy media organs in a pre-Neocon world before the advent of Doxxing & Crimethink patrols.

The other thing to remember is that they are a mini David to the SPLC’s Borg Goliath (sitting on a cash heap of >$240M or so?)

* The Necons have been so successful because they either took over “conservative” think tanks or created their own foreign policy think tanks.

* VDARE, to those who even are aware of its existence, is regarded as a “hate group”. Lobbying Congress would be a waste of time, effort and money. VDARE should just keep doing what it has been doing. The periodic gains made are small, but they are solid, no-turning-back gains.

* Realism, per John Mersheimer, involves a realistic and much narrower view of American interests, which would lead to a much less interventionist foreign policy. To wit: No need to invade the world.

However, *not* doing a lot of stuff has little or no value for one’s career. Everything is predicated on work that involves ‘improving things’ through doing stuff. Lengthy studies and analyses on problems that the author has ideas regarding how to solve by doing something.

I find this theory oddly compelling, because it doesn’t assume horrible decisions are caused by more than simple careerism. You don’t need a deep state or a malevolent elite or the Trilateral Commission.

The defining example of this view is the lead up to the Iraq War.

Senior (tenured) University based Foreign Relations academics were against it. By a wide margin.

Meanwhile, their counterparts in Think Tanks were strongly in favor of it. Even Leslie Gelb, the Senior Editor of the Pentagon Papers was in favor of it.

Since we have already done these idiot things, a hypothetical resume that had bullet points stating that the individual didn’t invade Iraq, didn’t support intervention in Lybia, didn’t intervene in Somalia, didn’t expand NATO, etc — the individual with that resume would appear to be a superstar.

But had that person or persons succeeded, and we hadn’t ‘invaded the world’ … would have nothing on the resume. ‘I didn’t implement regime change in Syria’ would sound — sort of idiotic. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

But that doesn’t do much for one’s career.

The point being that there is a good reason to get rid of these holding pens for careerists who want to make a mark on the world.

It is like people that can’t take yes for an answer. We won WW 2 by crushing the enemy and destroying their industrial base and allowing them to severely damage the industrial base of our allies.

We won the Cold War.

But mere winning — even enormous victories — wasn’t sufficient. Since the next step after winning is to sit quietly in a room and let our industrial economy cash in on it.

* It’s why nobody respects Eisenhower as a great president, though all of the things he didn’t do that his successors did (send lots of troops to Vietnam, launch ill-conceived antipoverty programs) show he had great judgment. Sometimes the smartest thing to do is nothing, even if it doesn’t do much for your legacy. The last president who I really thought put country ahead of party was Bush Sr.–last of the old WASPs, probably not coincidentally.

* When the British had a world empire they founded the field of anthropology to try to understand the nature of the societies they ruled. But here we are into the fifteenth year of our wars in the Middle East and still American leaders remain clueless about the true nature of these clan-based, tribal societies which, thanks to people like Steve and hbdchick, ordinary citizens have come to appreciate. They knock off Quaddafi and Libya disintegrates into anarchy. Who knew? Next up, Assad.

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The Young Pope

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

In episode four, Cardinal Voiello says to The Young Pope: “Do you want to look into the [particular pedophilia ] case?”

Pope: “Yes, but from a broader point of view. The individual case is always an indicator a broader issue.”

Cardinal: “I agree. Let’s pursue all the cases of pedophilia that are infesting our church.”

Pope: “Let’s widen the circle. Let’s prosecute all the cases of homosexuality that are infesting our church. Let’s root out all the homosexuals and expel them and prevent any new gay priests from entering our church. Let’s do it for real without exceptions and without hypocrisy.”

Cardinal: “Holy Father, pedophilia and homosexuality are two very different things.”

Pope: “Two very different things that are both equally unacceptable to the Catholic church…. Two-thirds of the clergy.”

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Reparations For Blacks

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comment: If the U.S. were still roughly 90% white and 10% black, I do think whites would be ready to implement “reparations” policies as a final effort at black/white assimilation.

However, now that blacks are just another identity group, it’s never going to happen. When over half the country has jumped on the identity politics bandwagon, any targeted social justice policies become impractical or outright impossible. And, honestly, people like the good professor here have no one to blame but themselves, with their continual willingness to tack “Muslims, Latinos, women, etc.” onto “black.”

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‘How many Jews do you know are electricians?’

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comment: There is an obsession with Jews on this blog. Jews are this and Jews are that and how many Jews do this and how many Jew vote like that and what do these Jews eat an wear and say and marry and think. Look, Jews are very important, but this is just too much. I can understand guys like map, who are latent antisemites, but still. I mean, mates, not every discussion needs to be related to Jews. I’m getting tired of hearing about Jews all the time.

Anyway, I, being a tradesman, know tons of Jewish electricians. There is an outlet where we go to eat after work, and there are usually a few tables full of various Jewish tradesmen eating greasy Chinese food and Jewish dishes like kugel, chulent, kishke, gefilte fish, gala, yupchick and chicken soup. And these are just the Orthodox ones. Now obviously there are more Jewish engineered, doctors, lawyers and financiers, but nothing human is foreign to the Jews. I’m low IQ and intelligence not for nothing, I have to admit that those Jewish tradesmen are very smart and I feel fortunate to be in their company and enjoy it in small doses. It’s funny, but I don’t feel they are less intelligent then the folk I’d worked with on Wall Street, I’m talking up to VP level, which is what I was, obviously the management, like AD, MD and up was brighter. There is this persisting misconception that tradesmen are dim wits. WRONG! Low status? I’d never known what it means in my whole life. What’s the hell is that? I determine my status and no one else, ever. My status is normal, not high and not low, just plain normal. I’m fact, I have no clue what anyone else thinks of my status, had never taken any interest in that and I never understood why anyone else would agonize about something like that.

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Ever Tire Of People Lecturing You About Racism?

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments:

* Can someone compile a list of white liberals who lecture others about racism, together with the stats on the racial makeup of their own home neighborhoods? Wouldn’t that be useful in an argument?

* How would one know when an institution’s “institutional racism” has been eradicated? How could you ever falsify such a nebulous claim?

* Leaving aside Hussein’s abhorrent policies and rhetoric on any number of non-racial issues, I don’t think any reasonable person can deny that he has been essentially a racial arsonist, sowing division and resentment whenever he opens his oversized mouth to preach his gospel of covert black supremacy.

* So basically the answer is for people of color to control the structures of society and government built by whites, sort of like how Britain handed over its colonies with all their infrastructure in India and Africa. But this time the downtrodden are going to run things just as well as their former oppressors, contrary to all of previous history.

* Might structural racism be nothing more than the effects of differential capabilities getting cashed out in a competitive society?

* I am suffering greatly from the Black plague of dysfunctional communities blaming all their problems on others. I don’t know how you get around the glaring problem of single mothers bearing countless children and then expecting others to raise them for them. And what does it do to a young boy’s psyche when he sees his mother drop three children, by three different men, all between let’s say his 11th and 13th birthday? If there is a “systematic” problem affecting American blacks, I would say that is the biggest one.

* I wonder how many other whites, not to mention Asians and Mestizos, are suffering from one form or another of Negro fatigue: totally dysfunctional families, high propensity to criminal violence and an endless willingness to blame everyone but themselves for all their problems. I think that we might be only one financial crisis/prolonged recession/depression away from American partition: patience is wearing thin!

* Jewish fears shape many areas of American life, yet the topic is almost entirely taboo outside Jewish American oriented publications. I think you once Googled “Jewish fears” and/or “Jewish paranoia” in quotes and came up virtually empty on both counts in terms of finding mainstream discussions of either topic.

The website Mondoweiss probably does the best job reiterating that many of these fears are atavistic–and anachronistic, given Jews’ prominence in opinion making, in politics at all levels, and in policy formulating circles.

Good for the presumably neoconservative & Jewish Brent Scher for poking fun at what ThinkProgress’ editor posted to Facebook.

ThinkProgress Senior Editor Is Scared of His Plumber by Brent Scher

A visit from a plumber left ThinkProgress senior editor Ned Resnikoff “rattled” due to fear that the plumber may have voted for Donald Trump.

Resnikoff stated his fears in a November Facebook post, a screenshot of which is now making the rounds on the Internet.

The plumbing visit, which came four days after the 2016 election, became a harrowing experience for Resnikoff even though the plumber was “a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional.”

“He was a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional,” Resnikoff shared. “But he was also a middle-aged white man with a southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week’s news.”

Resnikoff said his fear was rooted in the chance that the plumber knew he was Jewish.

“While I had him in the apartment, I couldn’t stop thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were having inside my own home,” he said.

The “uncertainty” of the situation left Resnikoff “rattled for some time.”

“I have no real reason to believe he was a Trump supporter or an anti-Semite, but in my uncertainty I couldn’t shake the sense of potential danger,” he wrote. “I was rattled for some time after he left.”

Resnikoff says that he is does not often have a “sense of danger” because he is “still a straight, white guy who can phenotypically pass for gentile” and his “first name is pretty WASP-y.”

Resnikoff used his experience to explain how “ambiguous social interactions now feel unsafe and unpredictable in a way that they never did before.”

“Even if Trump is gone in four years, I don’t expect to ever reclaim that feeling of security,” Resnikoff concluded. “That’s just one more thing you voted for, if you voted for him.”

* It must be a difficult time for Jonah Goldberg, as it dawns on him how out-of-touch and irrelevant he has become. He must be looking for a new angle.

* Racism and sexism have been overplayed by the Coalition of the Fringes, both Left and Right. A person lives in a neighborhood for a number of factors–proximity to work; reputation of school district; affordability and/or amenities; ethnic or racial composition; and, what I believe to be most important, representation of social class status.

What is the likelihood a wealthy white nationalist would purchase a home in a crime infested white enclave like a trailer park?

What is the likelihood a middle class white race realist who farms for a living would move to an all-white suburban neighborhood that experiences overt drug and alcohol problems? Just because that particular area is “clean looking” does not mean that heroin and meth are lacking in abundance.

* Yeah, the whole National Review/Weekly Standard crowd is now obsolete. Trump won without them, the base doesn’t need them and doesn’t like them, Republican Congressmen never paid them much mind. It’ll take them a while to die off, though.

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TRUMP’S JEWS AND OBAMA’S JEWS

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek writes: “This is an insightful article, but one thing it misses is the very rapid demographic transformation now underway in Jewish America. Simply put, the old Jewish America of Jews as liberals in a hurry, more attached to the New York Times than to the Torah is fast giving way to a deeply religious, generally conservative and often Trump-embracing population that loathes Hollywood, the New York Times, and, often, the Democratic Party itself. For example, the birthrate among the hasids is extraordinary. Men and women marry as White Americans used to a hundred years ago, and begin procreating immediately. Mothers with 8 kids are not rare. Liberal Jews on the other hand breed like other well educated whites, which is to say, at a much much lower rate. The result is that while the orthodox were a tiny minority of New York Jews at the middle of the 20th Century, they now are an absolute majority among Jewish children in the city, and this preponderance will of course propagate thorugh various age cohorts as time goes by. The old lefty sort of Jew is fated to disappear.”

Daniel Greenfield writes:

Seen from above, the 2016 electoral map of New York City is blue with dots of red. Trump’s home district is blue, but across the water a red wedge slices into Brooklyn. Around that red wedge are districts where Hillary won 90 percent of the vote and Trump was lucky to get 5 percent. Inside it, he beat her in district after district.
The voters who handed him that victory are the Chassidic Jews of Williamsburg who dress in fur hats and black caftans. Their districts, crammed in by hipsters and minorities, are a world away from the progressive activist temples whose clergy went into mourning at Hillary’s loss.
East of Prospect Park, in a vast sea of blue, is what looks like a red sofa. Trump won here with the Chabad Chassidim of Crown Heights. He won in the more mainstream Orthodox Jewish communities of Flatbush. He won by huge margins among the Russian Jewish immigrants of Brighton Beach who listen to a man dubbed the “Russian Rush Limbaugh.”
As the left-wing Forward put it, “Nearly every election district that Trump won in Brooklyn was in a Jewish neighborhood.” But it was a certain type of Jewish neighborhood. The wrong type.
“You can compare them to Rust Belt voters,” a Forward source states. “They are hardworking people, not college educated.”
And then in Far Rockaway where the housing projects by the beach give way to the red Orthodox Jewish communities that extend into Long Island.
There’s a line that recurs again and again in the attacks on David Friedman; the man picked by President-elect Trump to serve as the ambassador to Israel. It’s not stated openly. It’s implied.
“David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer from Long Island,” is the sneering summary.
Remnick, the New Yorker’s left-wing editor, took the sneering to a new level, titling his smear as “Trump’s Daily Bankruptcy.” Jewish identity, he declares, has never been a matter of “bankruptcy law.”
To a certain class of elites, it is self-evidently absurd that a bankruptcy lawyer from Long Island be appointed to anything or be listened to about anything. David Remnick is a Washington Post man married to a New York Times woman who went on to inherit the editorship of the New Yorker and turn it into a left-wing echo chamber. He lives in a $3.25 million four-bedroom Manhattan apartment with a wood-burning fireplace.
And David Friedman is the Orthodox son of a Rabbi from Woodmere who still lives there. His father was a Republican who hosted President Reagan. He might occasionally be allowed to read the New Yorker.
And that’s about it.
Yet it’s hard to think of anything that might recommend Friedman more to Trump.

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A gynecologist secretly photographed patients. What’s their pain worth?

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

I’m sure white racism is to blame.

Washington Post:

Jyllene Wilson is still wary of doctor’s offices and public restrooms, and whenever she’s away from home, she uses a smartphone app that can help detect hidden cameras to ensure she is safe from prying eyes.
Joshulyn L. Brown harbors a deep-seated distrust for many white-collar professionals, especially doctors and lawyers. Stazi Simmons-Gomez gets panic attacks when a male doctor enters a room to examine her, and one of Simmons-Gomez’s daughters fell into a spell of depression and began cutting herself.
The four have one thing in common: They were each patients of Nikita Levy, a Johns Hopkins gynecologist whose warm demeanor won over the trust of thousands of women, many of them poor and black. In February 2013, police discovered that Levy had been taking sexually explicit photos and videos of his patients during appointments using cameras hidden in pens and elsewhere in his exam room, and found a trove of videos and images. Levy, who began practicing with Johns Hopkins in 1988 and had served thousands of women, committed suicide days later, penning an apology note to his wife and slipping a bag of helium over his head.
Levy’s patients — 8,344 of them — filed a class-action lawsuit against Johns Hopkins, which settled in July 2014 for $190 million. The women say the impact of the trauma is nearly immeasurable, the nightmares and lost sleep, the distrust that has driven them away from regular checkups, the panic attacks that strike out of nowhere. It is only within the past month that they learned what the settlement may entitle them to.

Who was Nikita Levy?

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Why Doesn’t Aaron Rodgers Speak To His Family?

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Luke Ford

From Bleacher Report:

One source, who was close to Rodgers for years but is among the many who have since been cut off by Rodgers entirely, said the quarterback has not spoken to his family since December 2014. Don’t feel too bad, J-Mike. Immediate family members don’t even have his cellphone number. When Mom and Dad sent Christmas presents to the quarterback and his girlfriend that year, the source said, those gifts were mailed back in February. He was set to be the groomsman in the wedding of one of his closest friends, the source said, and texted the day before he couldn’t attend.
He didn’t attend his grandfather’s funeral—the same grandfather he once called before every game.
He fired a business manager he’s known since high school.
The family was told they were no longer welcome in Green Bay. If Dad wants to attend a game now, he buys tickets on StubHub or goes through another player’s family.

I wonder if this kind of thing is more common among white people than other groups? That’s my impression.

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Alt Right Torah

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Luke Ford

* Alt Right Torah means treating non-Jews as if they were every bit as human as you, had the same hopes and dreams for their people, and extending to these goyim the same sympathy Jews want for themselves. It means putting yourself in their position. How would it have felt to be the Pharoah of the Exodus and Esav and Cain and Haman and Amalek and Balaam. What about the desires of goyim for cohesion, unity, strength and the development of their people?

* Alt Right Torah means never seeking anything for your group that you wouldn’t wish for other groups. When there are fundamental conflicts of interest, your enemy is your enemy, but not diabolical. There are no objectively good guys and bad guys in the universe. Without faith, life is a fight over scarce resources. With faith, life can be anything. You may not care about evolution, but evolution will remove those who don’t adapt.

* The purpose of the nation state is to develop a particular people.

* Why did Cain kill Abel? Because Abel wanted to be sacrificed and brought it about.

* Why did Esav hate Jacob? Because Jacob hated Esav after cheating him out of his birthright.

* Why did the Pharoah want to enslave the Israelites? Because he didn’t want Egypt to become multicultural.

* Why did Amalek hate Israel? Because it had fundamental conflicts of interest with Israel.

* Why did Haman want to kill the Jews? Because he thought the Jews would kill him and his people if they could.

* The Spanish Inquisition was a reaction to Jews ostensibly converting to Christianity but remaining Jewish in their secret identity and practices.

* Every horrible thing you ascribe to your enemies’ motivation is likely a projection of your own thinking.

* What was the Golden Age? When Muslims took over the Iberian Peninsula from the Christians with perhaps a little help from the Jews to make things super multi culti. Would Jews regard it as a Golden Age if Muslims took over the Jewish state of Israel with help from the Druze or Christians?

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Al Jazeera Investigations – The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comment: Al-Jazeera released a story where an undercover reporter penetrates into the Israeli Lobby in England.

Al Jazeera Investigations – The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel
“In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.”

“Al Jazeera Investigations – The Lobby P2: The Training Session
In part two of The Lobby, our undercover reporter joins a delegation from the Israeli Embassy at last year’s Labour Party Conference. The programme reveals how accusations of anti-Semitism were made against key Labour Party members – and how a former official at the Israeli Embassy was upset when her background was revealed.”

Investigative journalism – a dying art.

* That’s the series I referred to last week, when an Israeli Embassy staffer was filmed telling a Tory MPs aide which government ministers he’d like to see ‘taken down’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4098082/Astonishing-undercover-video-captures-diplomat-conspiring-rival-MP-s-aide-smear-Deputy-Foreign-Secretary.html

An un-named minister from the Cameron years is quoted in the same piece.

“Last month Theresa May, like David Cameron each year before her, spoke to the annual lunch of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI).
She oozed praise for Israel as a democracy, spoke of the constant terrorist threat they face, and condemned the way that Palestinians supposedly incite violence and anti-Semitism.
Her own policy that considers Israeli settlements on Palestinian land illegal received only a passing mention.
The reason is clear: the Conservative Party wants pro-Israel donors’ money, and principle in the Government’s foreign policy has been relegated.
Matters deteriorated further over Christmas after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s forceful condemnation of the extremism and conduct of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government.
Instead of agreeing with his comments – which are identical to her own policy – she criticised Kerry.
Behind this inconsistent and concerning attitude lies a serious and troubling problem. British foreign policy is in hock to Israeli influence at the heart of our politics, and those in authority have ignored what is going on.
For years the CFI and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), have worked with – even for – the Israeli government and their London embassy to promote Israeli policy and thwart UK Government policy and the actions of Ministers who try to defend Palestinian rights.
Lots of countries try to force their views on others, but what is scandalous in the UK is that instead of resisting it, successive Governments have submitted to it, taken donors’ money, and allowed Israeli influence-peddling to shape policy and even determine the fate of Ministers.
Even now, if I were to reveal who I am, I would be subjected to a relentless barrage of abuse and character assassination.
The CFI is not affiliated to the Conservative Party. It is incorporated in a way that means it is not to transparent about donors. Yet it arranges for the support of MPs and funds regular visits to Israel which distort the truth. Cameron turned a blind eye to Israeli misconduct – if he ever cared about it – because he was persuaded any criticism would reduce Party donations.
It now seems clear people in the Conservative and Labour Parties have been working with the Israeli embassy which has used them to demonise and trash MPs who criticise Israel; an army of Israel’s useful idiots in Parliament.
This is politically corrupt, and diplomatically indefensible. The conduct of certain MPs needs to be exposed as the poisonous and deceitful infiltration of our politics by the unwitting agents of another country, which acts in defiance of international law, and whose government Kerry called its most extreme ever.
We need a full inquiry into the Israeli Embassy, the links, access and funding of the CFI and LFI, and an undertaking from all political parties that they welcome the financial and political support of the UK Jewish community, but won’t accept any engagement linked to Israel until it stops building illegally on Palestinian land.
This opaque funding and underhand conduct is a national disgrace and humiliation and must be stamped out.”

Back on topic

“School officials immediately denounced the document as a hoax and began an investigation.”

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