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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Atlanta’s interim Police Chief Rodney Bryant was about to address the City Council on the unrest plaguing the city when a councilman informed Bryant:

I was just notified there was a young man who was just shot and killed at 377 Westchester Boulevard. Can you get a unit out there? He’s been on the ground and there’s no police who have come. He’s dead already, he’s on the ground and the residents have put a sheet over him and the police still haven’t arrived.

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NYPD officers in Harlem were prevented from responding to a shots-fired call by demonstrators throwing objects at their vehicle.

They’ll be sorry, and it will be their Own Damned Fault.

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But, of course, as Democrats keep telling us, there’s no such thing as voter fraud, and Democrats certainly wouldn’t do any such thing….

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The most shocking aspect of the wave of rioting and destruction that has been unleashed on many of our American cities in the wake of George Floyd’s death is not that there is an underlying discontent with the rate of progress in racial equality. That is understandable. What is not is the way that mayors, governors and members of Congress have not just tolerated, but endorsed, mob violence as an acceptable weapon of social change.

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Tyler Gerth, the 27-year-old man who died during a protest in Louisville, Kentucky, was a photographer and strong supporter of the ongoing protests, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.

Gerth died Saturday night after he was shot during a protest in Jefferson Square Park. The shooting occurred after Steven Lopez, 23, got in a dispute during the protest and came back with a gun, according to the Courier Journal’s report.

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Over the years, we have periodically reported of the occasional gold bar discovered as counterfeit in Manhattan’s Diamond District which instead of containing the yellow precious metal would be filled with gold-plated tungsten or in some cases copper. The news would spark a brief wave of outrage, prompting physical gold holders to run ultrasound spot checks of their inventory, at which point interest would wane and why not: buyer, after all, beware in gold as in every other market, and if someone is spending thousands to buy fake gold, well that’s Darwinism in action.

Yet one market which seemed stubbornly immune to any counterfeiting was that of physical gold in China, which was odd considering that over the past decade China had emerged as the world’s biggest counterfeiter of various, mostly industrial metals used to secure bank loans, better known as “ghost collateral”, and which adding insult to injury, would frequently be rehypothecated meaning often several banks would have claims to the same (fake) asset.

Audacious Epigone.

As the commercial and residential real estate markets collapse in the coming months, the currently untenable financial situations of municipalities across the country are going to become catastrophic. The Fed preemptively promised months ago to cover the shortfalls, because the dollar is invincible and inflation is impossible so there’s nothing to worry about. Didn’t you see we trimmed the balance sheet a bit last week? Oh, the market dropped 3% over those five days? Purely coincidental!

Orange County Democrats condemn ‘racist’ comments by John Wayne, call for airport to drop his name  It was only a matter of time.

‘Don’t be a sheep’: Sheriffs rebel against new statewide mask requirements

MSNBC’s Alter: Trump, GOP Governors Have ‘Rivers of Blood’ on Their Hands  As much as Democrat Andrew Cuomo? I think not.

The rise of coercive progressivism

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woke Liberal Woman Scorned

What’s Bill de Blasio’s problem with Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews?

Barr: Widespread mail-in voting ripe for fraud ‘that cannot be policed’

Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing): Minneapolis ‘Disband the Police’; Council Members Using Private Security

What a JOKE: Pelosi Says MSNBC Is Being Too ‘Fair’ to Republicans

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Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson, 48, Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez, 45, Shelim Khalique, 51, and Abu Razyen, 21, were charged with crimes including fraud in casting mail-in votes, unauthorized possession of ballots, and tampering with public records.

Guess that Party!

Conservative Journalist Jack Posobiec Assaulted By DC Antifa

Andrea Mitchell Tries to Save Doomed D.C. Statehood by Crying Racism

CNN’s Coates Excuses Anarchy: Statue Vandalism Is ‘Symbolic Speech’  Symbolic of anarchism.

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It wasn’t meant to be funny but when you read Wednesday’s New York Times story about virtue-signaling liberals living in the Minneapolis neighborhood of Powderhorn Park trying to avoid calling police despite rising crime due to a new homeless encampment it comes off as hilarious inadvertent comedy. A big factor in the comedic entertainment is provided by Times reporter Caitlin Dickerson writing in all seriousness about how the besieged neighborhood liberals can enforce the law without actually calling law enforcement.

A Sex Offender, A Man Arrested 138 Times, A Husband Accused Of Threatening To Shoot His Wife — These Are A Handful Of Those Released Under NY’s Bail Reform

MSNBC’s Soboroff Frets New Wall Will Inconvenience Illegal Immigrants

“We Rig The Game”: Facebook Whistleblower Reveals Bias Against Conservatives In Latest Veritas Exposé

Carly Fiorina To Vote For Biden Over Trump In November

WashPost Blogs Shamelessly Defend Antifa as Too Shapeless to Blame for Anything

ENABLERS: CBS Hides Cuomo’s Disaster in Story on COVID and Nursing Homes

“Elect Joe Biden and the anarchy will be coming to a town near you”

Harry Reid Claims ‘Russians Manipulated The Votes’ In 2016  THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

Washington And Lee Professors Reportedly Hold Meeting To Discuss Removal Of ‘Lee’ From School Name

Project Veritas Rolls Out Another Video Showing Facebook Moderators Discussing Why They Target Trump, Conservatives

“Volunteer” Hawaiians Turn “Paradise On Earth” Into An Island Of Snitches

Black Lives Matter is a state-backed religion

Arizona City Councilman Apologizes After Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ At Anti-Mask Protest

Polish President Visits DC, Pays Respects to Statue of Polish Soldier Who Fought in Revolutionary War, Desecrated by “Mostly Peaceful Protesters”

Joe Biden Says ‘Over 120 Million’ People Have Died From Coronavirus

MSNBC Wants Dems to Steal Control of Senate With D.C. Statehood

Protester Sues LAPD After Allegedly Being Beaten And Shot In The Testicle

Yahoo “News:” Yes, It’s Now Time to Cancel the Star Spangled Banner  Im down with that. Replace it with AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, a much better song.

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NYPD Deputy Inspector Richard Brea, a nearly three-decade veteran of the force, says his bosses have not provided sufficient guidance on how to rid the streets of guns and drugs since the department has disbanded and reassigned its anti-crime unit, according to the New York Post.

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Manufacturing company 7-Sigma made headlines when it decided to leave Minneapolis as a result of the company’s plant being burned by rioters. “They don’t care about my business,”7-Sigma owner Kris Wyrobek old the Star-Tribune. After more than 30 years in the city, the company isn’t staying, nor are any of the company’s fifty jobs.

But the costs of being victimized in protests is just one of many reasons homeowners and businesses may be realizing life and business in central cities has lost its luster. The ongoing threat of more business lockdowns, more riots, higher taxes, and failing schools may induce many Americans to flee, once again, to the suburbs as their parents or grandparents did.

People used to prefer living in cities because that’s where the jobs were. They are beginning to realize that the jobs they find there aren’t worth the other disadvantages. The stayed because they needed a job, any job. But once they’ve lost their job, the barrier to leaving is vastly reduced. “If I’m going to need to find a job anyway, might as well do it in a safer community.”

This is especially true for the small-time entrepreneurs who run the little bodegas and delicatessens and hole-in-the-wall shops that don’t take a lot of startup money and survive because they’re a lot of potential customers around. But when the local NAM thugs can come through and destroy your life’s investment without the police or politicians giving a shit, that changes the situation significantly.

The Other McCain peers behind the curtain.

Twenty-five years ago, when a friend sent me a copy of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, it was a book so taboo that you were considered racist merely for knowing of its existence. The 1973 novel, which imagines France invaded by a flotilla of refugees from the Indian subcontinent, pointed out how Western civilization had lost its will to survive, having become decadent, full of self-loathing and racial guilt.
Five years ago, however, when the Syrian civil war produced an influx of “refugees” into the European Union, suddenly Raspail’s novel was recognized as prophetic; even many liberals said the scenes in Europe were reminiscent of The Camp of the Saints. The election of Donald Trump and other politicial events indicative of a “nationalist” mood in the electorate seemed to validate much of Raspail’s critique.

Steve Sailer.

The Sixties were driven in sizable measure by a very large cohort of young, bright Jewish Baby Boomers. A friend who taught at Yale in the 1960s said that the intellectual intensity of the freshman class ratcheted upwards notably from the freshmen of Fall 1964 (George W. Bush’s entering class) to Fall 1965, the first year when there was no quota holding down the percentage of Jews at Yale.

This year is the opposite, with childish lowbrow stupidities running amok, like the middle school idea of capitalizing Black but not white.

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Hammer tech.

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Minneapolis got away with being a liberal city for quite a while, but the rot was deep and the decline was inevitable. Now the city vies with Seattle, Chicago and Baltimore as a haven for crime. When the crime was limited to minority neighborhoods, Minneapolis’s city fathers–to the extent any are left–were willing to put up with it. But that is no longer true. Murder now reaches into the heart of “progressive” Minnesota.

Steve Sailer reports.

As I’ve often mentioned, a psychiatrist who blogs under the name Scott Alexander at his site Slate Star Codex (an anagram of his pen name) emerged as the most brilliant new public intellectual of the 2010s. His combination of extremely high IQ, unbelievably long attention span, and an almost saintly disposition have endeared him to many.

But now his blog is gone, because the New York Times was about to dox his real surname.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Scottish Man Convicted Of Calling Ex-Girlfriend’s Boyfriend A “Leprechaun”

Trainee accountant sacked after accusing boss of ‘mansplaining’, tribunal hears

Second Shooting In Seattle’s CHOP-Zone Leaves One In Critical Condition

Additional Dispatch from The Genuine War Zone of Seattle

‘Waiting On A Call From The Derelict Governor’: Kayleigh McEnany Says Trump Won’t Intervene In CHAZ Until Asked

WSJ: Democratically Run States With The Most Severe Lockdowns Are Struggling To Recover

14 People Including Children Fatally Shot During Chicago’s Most Violent Weekend In 2020

Victim Of Rioting Says She Is Being Threatened For Helping Police Find People Who Destroyed Her Store

Cuomo Blames Federal Government For Deaths After He Ordered Nursing Homes To Accept Coronavirus Patients

San Francisco Allows Antifa and BLM Rioters to Topple Statue of President Ulysses S. Grant, Who Won the War Against the Confederacy

‘Flavortown’: Thousands Vote To Change Name Of Columbus, Ohio

On Crime and Punishment

New York City Shootings Surge 358% Compared To Last Year Amid Disbanding Of Anti-Crime Police Unit

‘I Was Just Yelling … Come And Help Me’: Reporter Details Alleged Assault While Filming Inside ‘CHAZ’

CENSORED: Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Firebrand Katie Hopkins

Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in wake of killings  The essence of totalitarianism is the politicization of every area of life.

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Hammer tech.

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This article is being published on the second day of what will likely be the longest summer in American history. After a hyper-claustrophobic national lockdown that took us from the end of winter to the cusp of summer, suddenly the blacks decided to get angry.

I jest, of course—not that the blacks are angry, but that they were the ones who made the decision. The decision was made for them through a meticulously managed plan of indoctrination and selective access to information.

They were told who to blame. And blame them they did. Ironically, they were told this BY the people who were actually to blame, but that’s the way it always works.

Steve Sailer.

And none of them by white cops. How did that happen?

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would be like Texas.

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They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police.

George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

In Venezuela, ‘Enforced Disappearance’ Is Used By The Regime To Keep People In Line

Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter

New York City sees surge in murders, burglaries, NYPD says

Didn’t We Try to Warn You?

London Mayor: Mandatory Masks Will Be The “New Normal” For At Least Another Year  What better way to make people feel like anonymous interchangeable Units?

CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin Praises Chief Justice John Roberts, ‘Very Good Politician’

Georgia Lawmakers Propose Bill to Disband Police Dept

Seattle Police Say They Were Met With Resistance After Responding To Shooting That Left One Dead In ‘CHAZ’  My, what a surprise.

Payment processor Visa blacklists free speech software company Gab

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Gee, you’d think they decided to cancel their police or something.

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Father Daniel Moloney is the latest victim of cancel culture’s inquisition against all who question the Black Lives Matter movement. Moloney was forced out of his job as the Catholic chaplain of MIT last week after a university administrator deemed his writings on the death of George Floyd “deeply disturbing” and the Archdiocese of Boston asked him to resign.

In a blog post and an email to students published at the beginning of June, Moloney spoke out about the errors of the new approach to fighting racism — dividing people, accusing them of prejudice, and canceling those who disobey — and called instead for a Christian path of charity and solidarity.

Yeah, I can see how the New University and the New Catholic Church would have a problem with that.

Never more glad to be Orthodox.

CHAZ, alternately known as Soymalia, Wokidishu, and Antifastan, does not seem to be thriving. It’s now into the phase of drug overdose, theft, scarcity, factional warfare, and warlordism. And it has finally realized that its name is incredibly stupid, though its new name, CHOP, does not seem to be taking. The things run exclusively by the left–CHAZ, universities, schools, northern cities–do not exactly inspire confidence.

This week CHAZ ran into a food problem when its homeless population cleaned out the pantry. Like many a real-life communist nation, it took to begging for U.S. foreign aid:

“the homeles [sic] people we invited took away all the food at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. we need more food to keep the area operational. please if possible bring vegan meat substitutes, fruits, oats, soy products, etc.—anything to help us eat.”

The next step was to plant a vegetable garden, which elicited hilarity from people who know how to plant a vegetable garden.

Photos began to emerge of a vegetable garden in the middle of the zone. These photos revealed that this “garden” consisted of throwing a few inches of soil atop cardboard(?!) in the middle of a park, and then plopping a few seedlings on top of the soil. They don’t appear to have bothered to plant those seedlings, because why would you need to do that?

It then seems to have segregated its garden by race.

Here is a CHAZ TOURISM VIDEO from the Trump campaign.

Audacious Epigone.

Turns out the problem of police snuffing out blacks isn’t as serious a threat to black lives as black-on-black violence is. Nationwide, the police kill around 250 blacks each year. Civilian blacks, by comparison, kill ten times as many other blacks as the police do. Disband the police and that 250 figure drops to zero. But what happens to the 2,500 number when the police are gone? Does it increase by 50% to 3,750? Double to 5,000? It’s probably safe–er, dangerous–to assume it increases by a lot more than 250 black bodies, anyway.

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We have the technology.

The nice thing about tattoos is that it make it easier to track down perpetrators. If we could get them to use handcuffs as a fashion statement….

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Who could have seen that coming?

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he called herself Kalamity, though that’s not her real name. She’s the white woman who called me a racist for noting that Indigenous children who live in communities where parents own their homes tend to have a higher standard of living and care than those who live in reserve communities where property is owned communally. This was the day after she schooled me, a Desi, together with a Kenyan woman—the only two non-white individuals in our class—on the proper use of people-of-colour nomenclature.

“I’m not sure I like that phrase,” said the Kenyan woman.

I agreed. Of all the ways to describe oneself, why would I self-define as not white.

“Women of colour chose it,” Kalamity informed us. By this, I learned, she meant black intersectional feminists.

This wasn’t the first or last time that Kalamity treated us like elementary-school children in catechism class. I didn’t like this feeling.

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The families of some of the 85 people killed by a horrific Northern California wildfire ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric’s long-neglected equipment vilified the company Wednesday as greedy, corrupt and reckless, telling heartbreaking stories of their loss in court.

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The upside of this woke culture is that if any of these smetterlings are employed at your business, the least whiff of Political Incorrectness will make them walk out, saving you the trouble of rooting them out and giving them the bounce. It’s nice when troubles sort themselves out like that.

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The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), founded in 2019 by Labour party organizers, put out a call for donations Tuesday after NBC News reported that Google was poised to ban The Federalist and Zero Hedge, a libertarian-leaning website, from making money off of Google Ads.

CCDH’s affiliate, Stop Funding Fake News, claimed on Wednesday that it had pressured Ford, the auto maker, to consider dropping ads on Breitbart News, another conservative website that the British non-profit has accused of publishing racist material.

Google ultimately backed off of its decision to kick The Federalist off of Google Ads, but CCDH appears emboldened nonetheless.

Proglodytes: Wherever stupid people are found.

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As Ed Morriseey asks, if right-leaning people declared an autonomous zone and nominated their own (violent) members to impose their idea of street justice on the “soverign zone,” would the left cheer it?

Or would they demand that the military roll in and kill these rightwing fascist warlords?

Obviously the latter.

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This is possible because of the Western ‘human shield’ fetish — activists deliberately put themselves in danger in the sure and certain knowledge that people will go to almost any extreme not to injure them. The correct response to someone deliberately running out in front of your care is, of course, to run that fool over.

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I would. He might not win, but he can sure make her spend anything she makes to pay for legal fees.

People who act like your enemy are, almost by definition, not family.

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“One of their low-level employees in Washington, D.C. contacted my office out of the blue and said ‘you have to delete these tweets in 30 minutes or we are going to permanently lock your account,'” Cotton said Wednesday. “We asked for an explanation of why that was. It was not really forthcoming. They cited a policy that didn’t explain or apply to my situation. We sent them back some clear evidence of my meaning on Twitter.”

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Today’s liberal institutional meltdown is brought to you by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), the folks who bring us an annual slate of book awards that are not to be confused with the National Book Awards, but who cares since they all think alike. Anyway, it seems the president of the NBCC drafted up the now mandatory institutional statement affirming Black Lives Matter with the required white guilt codicil, and circulated it to the board. And then things got weird.

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Boston, known as the “Athens of America” and the “Cradle of Liberty,” has, as was said of the Balkans, disparagingly, “produced more history than it can consume locally”. The City of Boston alone, compact and relatively small in the metropolitan area, has probably more historical monuments and statues than anyplace else in America except Washington, D.C.

During the recent Black Lives Matter riots, in addition to widespread looting and property damage, there was vandalism on a large scale all over the country. Confederate statues, of course; their day is done and I think, as Steve Hayward stated in PL, this is not the hill to die on for conservatives and Republicans. Columbus statues have long been on the left’s target list as well. The Columbus statue in Boston’s historic North End was, infamously, beheaded and the statue has been removed. Boston’s Public Garden holds the largest statuary monument in the city, of a magnificent George Washington astride a noble steed. It was not spared by the mob and its base was covered in graffiti.

The Other McCain.

Tessa Majors made the mistake of attending Barnard College.

If your child ever expresses an interest in attending Barnard College, you probably should have them committed to a psychiatric institution, because you’d have to be crazy to go to Barnard, one of the worst colleges in America. The cost of attendance is $75,524 a year, including room and board, and also including the opportunity to be murdered.

That’s what happened to Tessa Majors. The 18-year-old, whose father is an English professor at James Madison University, was near the end of her first semester at Barnard in December 2019 when she made the mistake of going for a walk in a park near the college campus….

Ace of Spades does what he does best.

Isn’t it terribly odd that those who lost their jobs due to abuse of office and crimes such as obstruction of justice all very soon get hired by media and now social media companies, assuredly for more than they were previously making?

Why, it’s almost as if leftwing media corporations are handing out barely-disguised bribes to the coup plotters.

Well, that’s the way it works. You do something that demonstrates you hate Trump, and the Mammon of Iniquity invites you into the mansion. It’s not so much a revolving door as a launching pad.

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Another ‘peaceful protester’.

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God forbid that the police should restore order in the woke capital of Washington state.

ZMan points out some parallels.

If you step back and take a look at things, one of the things that stands out is just how primitive and superstitious the people are at the center of this crisis. It is not just in their appearance either. The new religion that has emerged among our rulers is not a great leap forward in consciousness, but a leap backward. it is primitive, superstitious and simplistic in its statements and actions. It is as if the world has been taken over by an ancient tribe of primitives who hate us.

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Following days of escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, Indian Army officials confirmed that three troops – an officer and two soldiers, to be more precise – had been gunned down by Chinese forces during a “violent faceoff” in Galwan Valley in the Ladakh region, which rests along the country’s border with China on Monday night.

Steve Sailer.

Chechens have utilized the Black Lives Matter chaos to invade Dijon in Burgundy in eastern France to wreak vengeance on Algerians over something or other.

Do blacks really think they are going to come out on top in chaotic times? Do they have any inkling that there are scarier guys out there than them, for example, guys whose fathers defeated four columns of Russian Army armor on New Year’s Eve 1994? Or are blacks so brainwashed by their hip-hop boasting and so ignorant of history that they think all they need to do is defund the police and then the age of black supremacy will automatically ensue?