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TDB: Meet the New Han Solo: Alden Ehrenreich, Discovered by Steven Spielberg at a Bat Mitzvah

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Luke Ford

The Daily Beast: Back when Ehrenreich was just 14, he made a home movie for his friend’s bat mitzvah, which played during the ceremony. Steven Spielberg just so happened to be in the crowd, as his daughter Sasha was friends with the guest of honor.
“It’s a piece of shit,” the actor later told Rolling Stone. “It’s a video that this girl asked us to do. I mean, there wasn’t a script: We would go and just film whatever made us laugh. I’m this 14-year-old, skinny little kid with long hair. I break into her house, try on her clothes and make up a song. All of this is just us literally taking a camera and going like, ‘Okay, ha ha, do this.’ We showed it to our parents—‘We’re gonna play this at her bat mitzvah!’—and they were like, ‘You look like an idiot in this. I don’t think you should really do that.’ We didn’t care.”
Spielberg was impressed with Ehrenreich’s performance and gave him a meeting at his studio, Dreamworks. He later introduced the actor to his legendary filmmaker pal Francis Ford Coppola, who gave Ehrenreich his first big break, casting him as the lead opposite Vincent Gallo in his Argentina-set 2009 film noir, Tetro. While the film earned just $2.6 million at the global box office, Ehrenreich’s dazzling turn received rave reviews, with the late, great Roger Ebert writing, “In his first major role, Alden Ehrenreich, the newcomer playing Bennie, is confident and charismatic, and inspires such descriptions as ‘the new Leonardo DiCaprio.’”

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Barry Diller Attacks Trump As ‘Evil’

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Luke Ford

Advantage Trump tweets: “I enjoyed your reporting on Barry Diller in the past. Any thoughts on his recent attacks on @realDonaldTrump?”

It makes me love Trump even more. I loathe Trump’s enemies. Trump must be great if they hate him so much.

REPORT: Media mogul Barry Diller had some harsh words about Donald Trump on Thursday.

“There’s nobody that I’ve ever known, ever, that’s risen to the presidency that was actually of evil character,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “Anybody who attacks people in the manner that he attacks people … that’s evil.”
Soon after Trump swept to a strong victory in Indiana on Tuesday, his two remaining opponents — Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — suspended their campaigns. With no one standing in his way, Trump ascended to the status of presumptive Republican nominee.
Diller is also a supporter of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

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Onward Muslim Soldiers

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Luke Ford

A Jewish friend is rereading the Torah: Genesis is bizarre. Still, it provides the first known instance of identity theft (Jacob and Esau)
and identity theft can be a good thing. I wonder how many yeshiva bachurs go away from that thinking “If I can cheat the goy, so what?”
Or when the Jews leave Egypt, the Egyptians HAPPILY give them all their gold and silver
I mean, who thought up these stories?
So far, the Koran seems much more straightforward. There is but one God and Mohammed is his messenger. And He will chastise those who don’t agree.
Lots of rules for war. Very straightforward. Onward Muslim Soldiers, marching off to war.

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SMH: Sydney’s finest Asian Australian students still missing out on leadership roles

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Luke Ford

Why would you want strangers to rule over you?

Would the Japanese want to be ruled by non-Japanese in their own country? Would Tibetans or Muslims want to be ruled by outsiders? Would Jews want non-Jews to rule over them in Israel? That’s crazy.

Sydney Morning Herald:

And yet, the statistics show that despite students of Asian origin dominating the academic scale at schools like James Ruse Agricultural High around the country, few rise to the top of the political, business and academic pile.
Australians of Asian descent make up to 12 per cent of the country’s population but only four members of the federal Parliament. Of the 17 government departments only one counts a leader of Asian descent as its head.
The statistics are similarly damning in the private sector. Only 1.9 per cent of executive managers and 4.2 percent of directors come from Asian backgrounds, according to a 2013 Diversity Council Australia study.
At the entry level, discrimination, conscious or unconscious, is endemic. On average, a Chinese person must submit 68 per cent more applications to gain employment than a person of Anglo-Saxon descent, according to a 2011 study from the Australian National University.
“For 30 years, James Ruse has been pumping out very clever Asians,” said University of Sydney vice-chancellor Michael Spence. “Where are they?”
For Dr Spence, self-interest is a powerful incentive. His newborn son, Ted, is half-Korean. His five children from a previous marriage are of Anglo descent.
“I want to make sure that he has much opportunity as my other children,” he said. “If you say mathematician you probably think east Asian in Australia – if you say leader, you probably think white man.”
“We are only now beginning to say that there is a real issue to face of particular ethnicities. The disparity between the educational success and their leadership attainment is evidence of a bamboo ceiling and the university needs to do its best to overcome it. There are settled cultural patterns that need to be challenged.”
The unconscious bias goes right to the top. The country’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, has been asked if he worked in IT or Finance, or most recently, as an accountant.
In 2014, Dr Soutphommasane gave a speech that said “the bamboo ceiling” was well and truly above our heads. Not much has changed.
“But conversations are starting,” he said on Friday. “People are beginning to recognise there’s a problem.”
Across academia and business, tentative steps are being made to talk about the touchy subject of race and what is happening to the 99.95 ATAR club when they walk out the school gates. Public leaders are few and far between.
Dr Soutphommasane has initiated a partnership between the University of Sydney business school, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Westpac and Telstra to develop a blueprint for more diverse leadership. PwC alone has a target of 11 per cent of its partners being of Asian origin by 2020.
It’s the perceptions that Dr Soutphommasane, who was born to Chinese and Laotian parents, has spent his career battling against.
“Leaders are expected to be charismatic, assertive and outspoken,” Dr Soutphommasane said on Friday. “At the same time, certain stereotypes of Asian-Australians persist. There is a perception that Asian-Australians are shy, timid and withdrawn.
“Put these together and you have an obvious problem. There can be an assumption that Asian-Australians make for better technicians than leaders. That they may not be able to master Anglo-Australian expectations of leadership.”
Part of the problem lies in the limited number of public faces of Asian identity on our most public platform, television.
Bing Lee and Victor Chang are often rattled off as icons, but you are more likely to find that the public faces of Asian Australians are given as TV chefs like Poh Ling and Adam Liaw.
The ABC’s outgoing managing director, Mark Scott, publicly acknowledged last week that the ABC had not done enough to promote cultural diversity on the public broadcaster.
“On broader diversity, we have a way to go, frankly,” Scott told Buzzfeed. “I draw a parallel to the BBC: when I watch and listen to the BBC when I’m in the UK, I think the on-air talent really represents a diversity of modern Britain and I’m not yet sure we represent the diversity of modern Australia.”
Dr Soutphommasane agrees. “Sadly, the issue doesn’t appear to be treated with any urgency within Australian television,” he said.
“The proof is in the programming: what you see on screen doesn’t remotely reflect the reality of modern Australia. And you still have parts of Australian television that appear comfortable in their periodic fits of casual racism.”
Dr Soutphommasane warned in 2014 that if the situation was not addressed the nation would create a class of professional Asian-Australian coolies in the twenty-first century.
“It would be neither just nor good to have a country where people may comfortably believe that a class of well-educated, ostensibly over-achieving Asian-Australians are perfectly content with remaining in the background, perennially invisible and permanently locked out from the ranks of their society’s leadership,” he said.
For Dr Spence, diversity starts with education. He is canvassing the idea of race targets in his faculties.
“That will be challenging,” he said. “Compared to gender, talking about race is much more problematic in the lucky country.
“But a diverse and contemporary Australia must be the country that lives up to our rhetoric. We have boundless plains to share, we need to make sure we live up that national anthem.”

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LAT: Watch Muslim women explain what their hijab means to them

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

I can’t wait for the Los Angeles Times to produce videos with white nationalists explaining what their symbols mean to them. I’d love to see one on Nazis explaining what their symbols mean to them.

Am I saying that Islam is morally comparable to Nazis? I think that depends on the type of Islam or Nazism and the time and place.

From a Nazi perspective, and a Muslim perspective, Jewish rituals are likely to look satanic. From a Jewish perspective, Nazi symbols look satanic. Most non-Muslims regard Islam negatively.

It all depends on who-whom. Who is doing what to whom?

I can’t remember the last time the MSM let white nationalists speak freely about what they believe.

Any healthy westerner likely feels an instinctive revulsion against the hijab. Islam simply doesn’t fit in with the West. It doesn’t make Muslims bad guys, they’re just bad guys for the West. There’s no Western country that has been improved by the importation of thousands of Muslims.

If you found poisonous snakes in your bedroom, would you hate the snakes or would you hate the people who put them there? The Los Angeles Times wants America to become more comfortable with the presence of Muslims in our midst. From the non-Muslim perspective in the West and Israel, Muslims are poisonous snakes, just as from the Muslim and Arab perspective, the Jewish state is poison.

Los Angeles Times:

There’s nothing worse than not being able to speak for yourself.

Muslim American women who choose to wear the hijab face this problem every day. Because their voices are not often heard in the media, the veil is often misunderstood. Women who wear the garment may be discriminated against, or even be targeted for hate crimes.

Last month, a group of women were forced to leave a coffee shop in Laguna – because, they say, they were wearing hijab. A manager said they had violated the eatery’s policy allowing just a 45-minute stay during peak times, but the women say there were empty seats nearby.

We asked some women who wear the hijab to tell us their stories, in their own words.

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Declining Quality In British Universities Blamed On ‘Forced Diversity’

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Caller: British universities are becoming less competitive among the world’s elite, and experts say government regulations to force diversity on campuses are part of the problem.

Britain’s two most prestigious universities, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, both dropped two spots on The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings released Tuesday. Two of the countries other top universities, Bristol University and Durham University, fell out of the top 100 list altogether.

While UK universities are still over-performing relative to the country’s size, experts say the trend should be seen as worrying. Particularly, they say new regulations to force diversity quotas on the institutions appear to have compromised quality.

“[The government’s] current policies are causing universities to take their eye off the ball of recruiting the best to comply with government demands to increase the proportions entering and graduating from state schools, ethnic minorities and post codes from which in the past few students have come,” Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Buckingham, told The Daily Mail.

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Police dismissed warning of a riot threat for central Melbourne as ‘sh*t’ – hours before the violent Sudanese-based Apex gang rampaged through the streets in a vicious rolling brawl involving 100 people

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Mail: Police blame vicious Melbourne street brawl on Sudanese Apex gang
Group rioted in Melbourne’s CBD on Saturday night at Moomba festival
Police revealed they have been looking into Apex group for four months
Riot brought city to a standstill as men ran through streets causing chaos

A tip off about a vicious gang brawl that tore through the streets of Melbourne was dismissed as ‘s**t’ by senior officers only hours before up to 100 gang members brutally attacked each other.
A concerned member of the public called Triple Zero on Saturday at around 6pm warning of an imminent riot, which were disregarded as ‘s**t’ by senior members of Victoria Police, the Age reported.
The primarily Sudanese-based Apex gang were filmed causing chaos on Saturday night as more than 100 members clashed in Federation Square and on Swanston Street in front of families attending a Moomba community event.
The Apex gang had threatened on social media to return and run amok again on Sunday night but police managed to disperse the group.

Earlier reports indicated that two rival gangs were involved in the widespread altercation, however police have now suggested that the incident involved only one group – which is predominantly comprised of members from Sudan but is also made up of people from the Pacific Islands and other nations in West Africa.
Four people were arrested over the incident on Saturday, which forced the closure of Swanston Street and brought trams to a standstill.
Police have arrested 33 members of the Apex gang in the past four months for burglary, assault and car theft before the violent brawl took place on Saturday night in Melbourne’s Federation Square, the ABC reported.

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African man, 20, wearing boxing gloves charged after a ‘vicious’ rampage in an Adelaide shopping centre where he king hit and kicked SIX shoppers – leaving a 56-year-old woman in hospital

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Mail: A man went on rampage in Adelaide shopping mall on Thursday afternoon
The 20-year-old randomly attacked six people including three woman
A 56-year-old victim was hospitalised with facial injuries and a concussion
The man was arrested nearby and charged with five assault offences

A man has been charged with a string of violent offences after allegedly attacking six random strangers, including three women, during a ‘vicious’ rampage at a shopping centre.
A 56-year-old woman was hospitalised with facial injuries and concussion after a young man of African appearance started randomly attacking people inside Regency Plaza shopping centre, in Adelaide’s north, at around 1pm on Thursday.
The alleged suspect, who wore boxing gloves, fled the scene but police were able to track the 20-year-old down and arrested him at a home in nearby Broadview at around 10.30pm.

He was charged with five assault offences including assault causing harm and aggravated assault.
Witnesses to the shocking daylight attack said they felt helpless as the man started randomly selecting victims before indiscriminately beating them to the ground.

One man was kicked in the head repeatedly as he lay on the ground before his attacker moved on to another victim, according to the Today Show.
Shop owner Ericson Montgomery confronted the man, despite fearing for his own life, after he saw him launch a brutal attack on a 56-year-old woman.
‘I am still in shock. I had to turn to get away form him, he was fairly close at one stage with a big weapon,’ he told the Today Show.
The shop owner said he normally wouldn’t get involved in violent altercations like this, but he was concerned the man would end up taking a shoppers life.
‘These were not just little hits, they were king hits of the most vicious kind,’ Mr Montgomery told the Adelaide Advertiser.
‘I was just trying to get him off the track to make sure he wasn’t going to kill anyone.’
He and a bakery owner warned other shoppers to stay away as the man made his way through the mall.
The man was refused bail and will appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday.

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How Were The Pundits So Wrong About Trump?

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

I think a major reason that the pundits were so wrong about Trump is that half of them are Jewish and Jews tend to feel a visceral revolt against gentile nationalisms, racial consciousness, nativism, populism. Jews, by and large, feel great disgust for Donald Trump types. He’s vulgar! He’s so goyish.

Regular Jews often like Trump, while Jewish elites usually hate Trump.

Esther K tweets: “.@JewishJournal staff ideated but didn’t produce #TrumpAgainstHumanity in March. And now.”

Surely this type of call to violence is not who we are.

If you are saying Trump is against humanity, then you are calling for him to be assassinated.

Steve Sailer writes: Loose immigration policies tribalize domestic politics. When elites team up to import tribalist foreigners to lower their own citizens’ wages and to vote against the natives’ interests (and, now and then, murder them), why is it surprising when the poor dumb natives eventually get the message that they need a tribe of their own, too?

A methodological shortcoming of the various Nates’ models of American politics is that they ignored evidence from abroad. It has been pretty obvious from recent elections in Denmark, Australia, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Germany, France, and so forth that immigration policy is a hot issue in the world today — even in Canada, where Justin Trudeau rode a spasm of sentimentality and smugness into office.

But these models ignore what voters are seeing on TV about the Camp of the Saints, terrorism, and sexual assault abroad. Instead, crimethink kicks in among pundits: protective stupidity about immigration policy as a subject that only bad people ever think about except in terms of ethnocentric schmaltz.

* Among our best and brightest (though obviously not perfect), it’s very important that Trump’s attractiveness not spring from his immigration policies. If we start thinking open-borders immigration ISN’T inevitable, it won’t be. They know that. Any given political ‘inevitability’ can disappear like a candle flame in Katrina. I think our Thinkies call that a ‘black swan’. The rest of us know it simply as limits of wishful thinking.

COMMENTS:

* It wasn’t just that he (along with many other pundits) got it wrong, it was in how derisive he was (they were) toward Trump’s prospects and how confident he was in his predictive analytics.

Simply put, his method is mostly garbage because it’s tough to quantify political outcomes far in advance with so many moving parts. Models using data from elections or primaries in the past cannot account for the numerous shifts in public opinion that polls don’t fully capture. Voters are people, and people are complicated. The rules of politics are free-flowing and ever changing. He says something to the effect that there aren’t enough data points (since presidential elections are every four years), but doesn’t realize this undercuts his argument that quantitative-based analytics best predicts political races.

* I’m amazed at Nate’s hubris in constantly criticizing “punditry,” then engaging in it himself rather than taking a strict “I’m just a dispassionate stats nerd” line that is more consistent with his brand anyway. Now he looks like a fool when the pure numbers for Trump should have made him more favorable to Trump than the average “pundit.”

* Nate Silver is all about stats or stat-factor. He seems blind to stars or star-factor.

Trump had a winning personality, at least compared to the others.
Obama also won on the power of his personality. (Most other blacks couldn’t have done it. He has an easy and smooth way with voters. So did Clinton.)

If we were living in a non-visual age, Trump might have lost.
But people watch politics as a visual sport, and Trump was entertaining.
Others looked dorky, gomer-pyle-ish, or ridiculous.

Cruz looks like a cartoon character.
Rubio looks like a boy in a bubble bath.
Walker looks like a 5 yr old carrying lunch to school.
Jeb looks like a turtle without a shell.
Kasich looks like a third rate high school coach.
Fiorina looks ungood as a ho.
Christie is a fatbody.

Trump just looked like a drill sergeant compared to the others. He ‘won’ most debates not by what he said but how he said it.

True, positions did matter in this race, but it had a lot to do with personality.
There was something about ‘chief’ about Trump.
He looked aggressive on the attack, annoyed on the defense.

In contrast, Conservative Inc has usually been defensive in aggression, and aggressive in defense. It’s as if Cons are afraid to go on the attack. I mean what if the attack is taken as ‘racist’, ‘sexist’, ‘homophobic’, etc.?
They are only aggressive in defense, like when NR kicked out Derbyshire. They sure spilled a lot of venom over that.

Now, Trump knows how PC works. He knows it is powerful, and there are certain things he can’t really touch: Jews, homos, and blacks.

But there are semi-PC areas that are sort-of-touchable, like immigration, Mexers, Muslims, and Chinese. Where there was some leeway for being politically incorrect, Trump pushed hard.

And Trump’s pro-Russian stance was a kind of masterful indirect anti-PC. Russia is hated most by Jews and homos. So, Trump’s call for peace was Russia was a roundabout kind of anti-PC.

* In fact, he kept coming up with completely ad hoc reasons to fudge the percentage chances of Trump winning primaries down with no justification beyond that he personally didn’t think the polls were believable. What the hell kind of data science is that?

* Data science is the fancy new term. Back in the day, it was stats, market research, OR, econometrics or their cousins.

One truism from any era of data analysis is that if you torture the numbers enough, they’re bound to confess what you want to hear. The further from STEM subjects, the more likely the standard deviants manipulate things.

* Remember Jeane Dixon? She was the noted psychic who supposedly predicted JFK’s assassination. She rode that to a 20+ year career in the psychic business.

Nate Silver got some things right about the 2012 election, but he may be the Jean Dixon of our time.

* It’s obvious that “conservatism” has evolved from an ideology into a theology. No longer a response to the excesses of 20th century statism, it is now a dogmatic religion that values blind faith over rationality.

The weirdest part is the fervent devotion on the altar of St. Ronnie by young conservatives who weren’t even born when he was president. Hell, I loved the guy at the time, but the problems we face today are not the problems we faced in 1976.

* We are in uncharted waters with just 6% of the populace having any trust in news media. 94% of Americans distrust the talking heads and the scribes who have for generations told the public what to think. And trust for government is hardly any better. The potential for severe social upheavals is very real. Anti-Trump riots this summer? What happens when the current stock market bubble deflates or even bursts? We have the Occupy Wall Street cum Bernie radicals, Black Lies Matter anti-white violent racists, Colin Flaherty documented Knockout Game aficionados, and finally the law & order middle-class and lower whites finally awakening thanks to Trump.

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Germany’s Far-Right AfD Party ‘Has More Public Support Than Ever’

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Justin Huggler, Telegraph, May 5, 2016

Angela Merkel on Thursday warned that Europe risks a “return to nationalism” if it does not secure its external borders, as polls showed support for the far-Right is rising in Germany amid growing fears of Islam.

“The future of Europe is at stake,” the German chancellor said in a passionate plea to preserve freedom of movement and the Schengen Agreement on border-free travel within the continent.

Even as she spoke, a new poll released on Thursday showed support for the far-Right Alternative for Germany(AfD) party is at its highest ever.

“Europe stretches from the North Pole to the Mediterranean. We must defend the Schengen Treaty and the external borders, or we risk a return to nationalism,” Mrs Merkel said.

She was speaking at a joint press conference in Rome with Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister.

Both leaders spoke out against plans by Austria to close its border with Italy at the Brenner Pass, to prevent migrants entering.

The AfD is riding high in the German polls on a wave of public discontent over the migrant crisis, and recorded its highest ever support less than a week after it adopted an anti-Muslim manifesto.

It is now in third place on 15 per cent, just five points behind Mrs Merkel’s main coalition partner, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), who have slipped to 20 per cent.

Mrs Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) remain in first place in the monthly ARD survey, with 33 per cent.

But, perhaps more worryingly for the German chancellor, a second poll found the AfD may be in step with voters with its overtly anti-Muslim stance.

Only 22 per cent of Germans believe Islam belongs in their country, according to the poll for Bild newspaper by the Insa institute.

An overwhelming 61 per cent agreed that Islam does not belong in Germany–a central plank of the AfD’s new manifesto.

The poll found attitudes had hardened considerably over the past year, which has seen more than 1.1m asylum-seekers enter Germany, the majority of them Muslim.

A similar survey in Jaunary 2015 found 37 per cent believed Islam belonged in Germany, while 47 per cent did not.

The latest poll found opinion split over the supposed “Islamisation” of Germany, a key claim of the Pegida street movement: 46 per cent said they were concerned by it, while 39 per cent said they were not.

There was, however, more acceptance when it came to individual Muslims, as opposed to Islam as a religion.

Almost half of respondents agreed that Muslims who live in Germany belong to the country, while only 30 per cent did not.

“The majority of Germans considered the issue of Islam separately,” Hermann Binkert, the managing director of Insa, said.

“While they rejects the idea Islam is part of Germany, they firmly believe Muslims who live here belong to Germany.”

An estimated 4 million Muslims live in Germany as citizens or permanent residents.

However, he poll’s findings were not all positive for the AfD.

It found 49 per cent of Germans do not believe it can establish itself as a long-term political force with its current anti-Muslim agenda.

Only 22 per cent of respondents said they believed the party would last the course.

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