'Sub-Saharan Africa to grow 6 pct next year: IMF' (Welcome to Planet Orwell)

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Sub-Saharan Africa to grow 6 pct next year: IMF

By Joe Brock and Tim Cocks

ABUJA/LAGOS (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth is expected to increase to 6 percent in 2014, from 5 percent this year, supported by investment in infrastructure and production capacity, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

The IMF had predicted in May that the region would grow 5.7 percent this year and 6.1 percent in 2014.

It said the slight downward revisions were due mainly to weaker global economic conditions, while budget delays in oil producer Angola and oil theft in Africa's top crude exporter Nigeria also hurt growth. . . .

'The strongest growth will be felt in mineral-exporting and low-income countries' . . .

     Yes, but if you start at the bottom and export lots of minerals, 6% is not phenomenal. All more propaganda from our globalist overlords. South Africa, 'Africa's top economy,' is obviously following Zimbabwe back down into the violent ignorant swamp. We hear such euphoric reports as countless Africans flee this economic dynamo. Welcome to Planet Orwell.

Murdoch backs Australian immigration despite backing new government (Yes, Australia must compete with other open-borders Western nations to see who can be pulled down into the teeming, poor, ignorant, corrupt and violent Third World swamp first. Go Australia!)

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              Muslims in Australia, making it 'more competitive.' 

Murdoch backs Australian immigration despite backing new government

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia should throw open its doors to immigrants to make the country more competitive, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday, in contrast to his backing for the new government's tough policy on asylum seekers.

Murdoch said the diversity created by immigration, and the ties it brings with other nations, particularly in Asia, would help give Australia a leg-up as it seeks trade relationships.

"Australia is on its way to becoming what may be the world's most diverse nation," Murdoch, head of News Corp , said in a speech to the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney. "This is an incredible political advantage."

Murdoch contrasted Australia with the United States, which he said was being "racked by self-defeating debate over immigration policy".

The steady flow of refugee boats is a hot political issue in Australia, polarizing voters, while stoking tension with neighbors like Indonesia and Sri Lanka.. . .

http://news.yahoo.com/murdoch-backs-australian-immigration-despite-backing-government-101810301--sector.html

University of California to spend $5 million to help undocumented students (at least Marie Antoinette was more presentable than Janet Incompetento)

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And of course California's population numbers can continue to redouble forever. No problema! 

University of California to spend $5 million to help undocumented students

By Sharon Bernstein

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Undocumented immigrants admitted to the University of California will be eligible for $5 million in services under a program announced on Wednesday, the latest in a series of moves to expand immigrant rights in the country's most populous state.

Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, now president of the 10-campus U.C. system, set aside the funding as one of her first acts in her new job, calling it a down payment on the state's commitment to all of its residents.

"U.C. will continue to be a vehicle for social mobility," Napolitano told the San Francisco Commonwealth Club in her first major address since taking the helm of the university last month.

The money for the new programs would come from discretionary funds that are not provided by the state and would be used to pay for advisers, student services centers and financial aid, Napolitano said.

The funding is part of a broader effort to expand immigrant rights in strongly Democratic California, where 2.6 million people - most of them Latino - lack legal status, according to a recent study by the University of Southern California.

About 38 percent of California's population of 38 million is of Hispanic descent, state figures show, representing a potentially enormous number of voters with an interest in immigrant issues.

In recent months, the state has passed laws allowing immigrants living illegally in the country to apply for driver's licenses and practice law, and made it illegal for employers to retaliate against workers by threatening to report them to immigration authorities. California has also made significant overtures to undocumented students, allowing many to pay in-state tuition and offering other services.

The moves by California stand in stark contrast to policy in states like neighboring Arizona . . . [So far. Wait until Arizona gets a few million more third-world migrants registered.]

http://news.yahoo.com/university-california-spend-5-million-help-undocumented-students-033306363.html

Common Core: Indoctrinating Fourth Graders About 'White Privilege' - video - (guess it's never too early to let white kids know dey got de Devil in dem!)

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                Your typical white couple today

COMMON CORE: INDOCTRINATING FOURTH GRADERS ABOUT ‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’

Kyle Olson of EAGnews, an education reform non-profit based in Muskegon, recently published a video exposing the content of the curriculum that will be used by fourth grade teachers for the Common Core national standards in English. Olson takes issue with the use of a children’s book called “The Jacket.”

Olson explains, “The story centers around a young white boy named Phil who wrongly accuses an African-American student of stealing his brother’s jacket.

This is a fun little book about racism and white privilege – a left-wing concept that teaches students the values of  an American society are actually designed to benefit white people.”

The video speaks for itself, especially the presentation by multicultural educator, Dr. Marguerite Parks of the University of Wisconsin. Take a listen. . . .

http://watchdogwire.com/michigan/2013/10/28/common-core-indoctrinating-fourth-graders-about-white-privilege/

'The Che Guevara of Sugar Candy Mountain' - What is wrong with Russell Brand and why it matters

THE CHE GUEVARA OF SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN

Colin Liddell

The big political news story in the UK at the moment is the political ranting of Russell Brand, a recovering(?) junkie sex maniac celebrity, who was recently invited to guest-edit one of the country’s most respected left-wing political magazines, The New Statesman.

Brand has essentially two “Big Ideas,” which can be summarized as follows:

1. Normal politics is shit. The only hope is the left-wing, but they are smug, self-important, and have no sense of fun, so it’s no wonder that people are apathetic and prefer sport and computer games to politics.
2. We need a spontaneous, grassroots, Utopian, spiritual revolution to share all the wealth and save the environment. P.S. I have a personal fortune of $15 million and constantly use jets.

While the first idea plays to lazy cynicism about politics, the second substitutes pop yogi mysticism for practical details. . . .

Judged on his own merits, Brand would not be worthy of comment, but he is part of a bigger pattern that casts light on how modern society works.

What we are seeing in this case is the way that modernism protects itself through post-modernism. Modernism is essentially the scientific-financial system that underpins our materialistic and ecologically insensitive society. Its essence is brutal efficiency combined with anti-humanistic soullessness. Alas it is a poor fit for humanity, which is doomed to feel forever ill at ease in modernity.

In the past, ideological theorists, starting with Marx and Spengler, believed that modernism would break down under its own contradictions. As time went on, however, and modernism continued to flourish, new theories emerged, such as post-modernism, which was typically seen as either a positive evolution of modernism or as a negative sign of its decay and coming collapse.

Both of these theories are wrong. As a social phenomenon post-modernism essentially represents an irrational, self-defining free-for-all, where things like gender and race can be 'chosen' or 'unchosen.' Everything becomes relative, no standards exist, and everything becomes a great big ironic joke.

There is no way that such a system could replace modernism as it would effectively turn off the materialist cornucopia that we all depend on and which depends on modernist man with his rationalism, mathematics, chemical formulas and train timetables. Yes, by all means have your absurd gay parades or celebrate primitive dung painting from Bongo Bongo Land, but at the end of the day you have to step back onto a subway train that works or get into a car with gas imported from half-way around the world.

As for the other theory that post-modernism is a sign of materialism’s collapse, this is odd too, because it actually helps modernism to survive. As already said, humanity is constantly irked by living in modernity. Post-modernism exists as a salve to modernity. It is the oil that keeps the machine smoothly running and which reconciles mankind to its modernist destiny. . . . 

http://alternativeright.com/blog/category/the-che-guevara-of-sugar-candy-mountain

James Fulford: What is Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome? Current count: 411 (They can no longer 'Celebrate Diversity!')

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                         Just coming here for a better life.

Immigrant Mass Murder Table, 411 Killings, 153 Wounded

By James Fulford on August 8, 2012 at 4:21am

A quick update to my article VDARE.com’s Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome Count—As Of July 28, 2011: 37 Cases, 337 Dead--the count is now  411 Killings, 153 Wounded. . . .

http://www.vdare.com/posts/immigrant-mass-murder-table

Appreciating the Roseate Spoonbill and the heroes like Mac Stone, Jerry Lorenz, Michelle Robinson working to save the spooner

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ROSEATE SPOONBILLS SEND WARNING SIGNS ABOUT THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES

DECADES AFTER THEY STAGED A MAJOR COMEBACK FROM PLUME HUNTING, ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BIZARRE AND BEAUTIFUL BIRDS IS STRUGGLING IN SOUTH FLORIDA. DOES THIS SPELL TROUBLE FOR THE ENTIRE EVERGLADES ECOSYSTEM?

BY RENE EBERSOLE/PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN HUBA

Published: May-June 2013

Imagine the job description: Twelve-hour days in the hot sun, drenching rain, biting mosquitoes, thigh-deep mud, and wading in waters patrolled by sharks and crocodiles. Not exactly a picture postcard for the Florida Keys. Yet plenty of young biologists have willingly signed up for such punishment.

"Check it out--there's another spooner coming in," says Mac Stone, 28, pointing to the two-foot-long pink arrow arching across a cerulean sky. Pastel and crimson, this long-legged wader was John James Audubon's "rose-coloured curlew." To some, it was the elusive "flame bird." Early settlers confused it with the flamingo (tourists still do). Roger Tory Peterson pronounced it "one of the most breathtaking of the world's weirdest birds." . . .

http://www.audubonmagazine.org/multimedia/color-guard

The Refugee Racket - 'The United States has become the dumping ground for people inconveniently located in places where majority populations don’t want them'

The Refugee Racket

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Another sorry tale of betrayal.

“Refugee Racket,” The Social Contract, Summer 2013, free of charge on Internet, hard copies can be ordered here.

There are many ways for a foreigner to get into the United States, and one of the most corrupt ways of doing it legally is to be admitted as a “refugee.” Since 1975, more than 3 million refugees have been resettled in the United States, and one of the best introductions to how they got here is in the latest issue ofThe Social Contract, a quarterly magazine published in Petoskey, Michigan. This issue, titled “The Refugee Racket,” is a 60-page compilation of articles that expose a little-known web of scams.

America first started admitting displaced persons in 1948 after the Second World War. Some of them actually met the State Department’s definition of a refugee: a person who is “in imminent danger of loss of life and for whom there appears to be no alternative to resettlement in the United States.” Virtually all refugees were Europeans, and once they were here they had to make it on their own. If there was a sponsoring agency it paid for the costs of resettlement.

America continued to accept refugees during the Cold War, but after the Vietnam War the system changed completely. The Refugee Act, passed in 1980, did two important things: It redefined a refuge as “a person who is unwilling or unable to return to his country . . . because of persecution or a well founded fear of persecution . . . ,” and made tax money available for resettlement.

Anyone who has left his own country and doesn’t want to go home is therefore a potential refugee. Until the 1990s, the United States decided whom we should let in, but now a UN agency called the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) chooses about 95 percent of our refugees. The President and Congress still decide how many will come—usually 60,000 to 80,000 a year—but we have farmed out the selection process to people who are not even Americans. . . .

http://www.amren.com/features/2013/10/the-refugee-racket/

Thought you were safe from black attack mobs in Anchorage, Alaska? Probably so did attorney Joe Palmier

Elderly Alaska man beaten in hate crime mob attack

Black mob attacks on white people have arrived in Alaska.

Anchorage is about 5.5% black.

From Anchorage Daily News…

Anchorage attorney Joe Palmier didn’t think twice when he saw three young men walking past his home on Edinburgh Drive on Friday.

What happened next left the 76-year-old Anchorage trial lawyer with five staples in his head, a mangled face and a bristle of stitches in his lips. . . .

 topconservativenews.com/2013/10/elderly-alaska-man-beaten-in-hate-crime-mob-attack/

Modern Art: An Artful Swindle - 'All of modernism is a pit, into which beauty must be eradicated.'

MODERN ART: AN ARTFUL SWINDLE

The first and most sweeping swindle perpetrated upon the West by its enemies was the obfuscation of the definition of Art.

Starting with Kandinsky’s ‘Expressionism’ and bolstered by Clement Greenburg’s ‘Artspeak’ criticism, this new abstract creativity overwhelmed all tradition in art. Swept away in this nihilist flood were traditional art tutelage, inherited skills dating back to prehistory, high culture, good taste, standards or hierarchy, naturalism, symmetry, decoration, technical merit, self-determination and ‘becoming’ in art. Styles in painting, sculpture, architecture that had evolved from European antiquity came to a crashing halt on the pages of ‘art theory’ criticism - a ridiculous construct of universalism t0hat tried (successfully!) to embrace pure abstraction as progressivism in art.

Irony became the vogue. Random splatters of paint, intentionally awkward, ugly forms, and childish primitivism became the preferred modes of intellectual culture, via reams of this irrational wordsmithing. True progress was hijacked and perverted by cultural Marxism. This later would be the same brand of relativism they found could be successfully applied to all aspects of western tradition and taste, beyond just the false edifying of abstraction as intellectualism, but as a means of attacking every aspect of European culture. The self-eating snake, wracked with guilt, wallowing in weakness and trembling with pity. Their success in art criticism and art theory not only paved the way for total degradation, but the ongoing artlessness of our western world remains and enormous obstacle in allowing us to rediscover our true self-becoming. 

Today we have ‘conceptualism’ and ‘abstract expressionism’ ruling our art academies - one may take a lazy preamble into any ‘modern art’ gallery to see what kind of mindless, indefinable childishness this results in. Literal piles of garbage, arranged sex dolls, people standing in animal suits, you may find pretty much anything other than, ironically, actual art. Many voluminous rants about the imagined merits of this perpetual stream of anti-art are printed and spoken of in modern art academies and critical literature. But not a word of it amounts to anything more than liberal guilt, juvenile self-hate, and profuse obsession with human failings and  perversions. Nothing that smacks of beauty of positivity or self-affirmation can fall under this new modernist art definition. All serves to remind us that grandeur is an illusion, human affairs are nihilistically limited, and we are not worth saving. . . .

http://alternativeright.com/blog/category/lpou3hgg17pa90yc2lkxsxvdyg62i9- -

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700 migrants rescued off Sicily (This is how all Western nations will end, at the hands of our open-borders overlords, as predicted in 1973 by novelist Jean Raspail in 'The Camp of the Saints' )

700 migrants rescued off Sicily

Rome (AFP) - Nearly 700 refugees including dozens of Eritreans have been rescued off Sicily in five operations, as leaders grapple with the issue of illegal immigration at a European Union summit.

Patrol boats, navy vessels and a Maltese-flagged cargo vessel rescued asylum-seekers from five boats over the past 24 hours, the coastguard said in a statement on Friday.

The 318 migrants picked up by the navy were all packed on two boats and were later transferred onto the San March amphibious assault ship taking part in a massive search and rescue operation.

The operation was launched by the Italian government in the wake of an October 3 refugee shipwreck tragedy just off the Italian island of Lampedusa in which 366 asylum seekers perished.

Some of the refugees rescued between Thursday and Friday were also Eritrean, where most of the passengers on the boat that sank came from.

More than 33,000 migrants have landed in Italy so far this year -- nearly three times more than the number for last year. The most common countries of origin are Eritrea and Somalia and now also Syria. . . .

"Unless Europe's approach to asylum and immigration changes, it won't only be the migrants but the EU that drowns off Lampedusa," Giusi Nicolini said in Brussels, where she met with European Parliament head Martin Schulz.

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-700-immigrants-rescued-off-sicily-102329590.html

'More than 33,000 migrants have landed in Italy so far this year -- nearly three times more than the number for last year.'

     This is how all Western nations will end, at the hands of our open-borders overlords, as predicted in 1973 by novelist Jean Raspail in 'The Camp of the Saints' (Le Camp des saints).

Danvers, Massachusetts: Boy, 14, 'hid out in high school before slashing teacher, 24, to death with box cutter stolen from art class' (another white person slaughtered like a pig under a US government that does not care)

Revealed: Boy, 14, 'hid out in high school before slashing teacher, 24, to death with box cutter stolen from art class

Math teacher Colleen Ritzer found dead on Wednesday morning after she was reported missing when she didn't come home from school

Thousands from the small town of Danvers, Massachusetts held a candle-lit vigil for the teacher on Wednesday night where she was remembered as a 'brilliant ray of light

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Philip Chism, 14, one of her students, charged with her murder today

Police who went in search of Miss Ritzer found school bathroom covered in blood

 

Teen was picked up by police walking along a highway at 12.30am after being last seen at a movie theater

A teenager, charged with murder after his math teacher was found slashed to death with a box cutter, had hid out in the school with the weapon he stole from an art class, sources claimed tonight. 

The body of Colleen Ritzer, 24, was found in woods behind Danvers High School on Wednesday morning after she was allegedly killed by 14-year-old student Philip Chism. 

The small Massachusetts town paid tribute to the slain teacher on Wednesday night with hundreds of residents holding a candle-light vigil at the school where she died. Many students dressed in her favorite color pink and described her as a 'brilliant ray of light'. . . .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473210/Danvers-High-school-boy-Philip-Chism-charged-murder-teacher-Colleen-Ritzer.html#ixzz2ihT5ERCR 

Thomas Sowell on the Coming Race War in America

Race-Hustling Results: Part III

One of the reasons for being glad to be as old as I am is that I may be spared living to see a race war in America. Race wars are often wars in which nobody wins and everybody ends up much worse off than they were before.

Initial skirmishes in that race war have already begun, and have in fact been going on for some years. But public officials pretend that it is not happening, and the mainstream media seldom publish it at all, except in ways that conceal what is really taking place.

For American society, a dangerous polarization has set in. Signs of this polarization over the years include opposite reactions between blacks and whites to verdicts in the O.J. Simpson murder case, the "rape" charges against Duke University students, and trials resulting from the beating of Rodney King and the death of Trayvon Martin.

More dangerous than these highly publicized episodes over the years are innumerable organized and unprovoked physical attacks on whites by young black gangs in shopping malls, on beaches and in other public places all across the country today.

While some of these attacks make it into the media as isolated incidents, the nationwide pattern of organized black on white attacks by thugs remains invisible in the mainstream media, with the notable exception of Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel.

Even when these attacks are accompanied by shouts of anti-white rhetoric and exultant laughter at the carnage, the racial makeup of the attackers and their victims is usually ignored by the media, and public officials often deny that race has anything to do with what happened. . . .

http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/race-hustling-results-part-iii.html

Column: The militarization of U.S. police forces (more American Empire chickens coming home to roost)

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Column: The militarization of U.S. police forces

By Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers

This month, more Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles (MRAPs) have found their way from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the Main Streets of America. These are just the latest acquisitions in a growing practice by Pentagon that's militarizing America's municipal police forces.

Police departments in Boise and Nampa, Idaho, each acquired an MRAP, as did the force in High Springs, Florida. The offer of war-ready machinery, at practically no cost, has proven hard to resist for local police departments. Increasingly, they are looking like soldiers equipped for battle.

The growing similarity between our domestic police forces and the U.S. military is a result of the Pentagon's 1033 Program. This allows the Defense Department to donate surplus military equipment and weapons to law enforcement agencies. In addition to the frightening presence of paramilitary weapons in American towns, the program has led to rampant fraud and abuse. . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/column-militarization-u-police-forces-175828669.html

Discover Magazine: How to Death-Proof a City, Feed a Hungry City, etc (Memo to futurologist dreamers: resource and space shortages = people longages)

How to Death-Proof a City

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time. Given how much bigger and more common cities are likely to become over the next century, we’ll need to change them even further. 

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

But there is an even more radical way we’ll transform our cities. Over the next two centuries, we’ll probably convert urban spaces into biological organisms. By doing this, we will make ourselves ready to prevent two of the biggest threats to human existence: starvation and environmental destruction. . . .

Feed a Hungry City

In his book The Vertical Farm, Columbia environmental health professor Dickson Despommier argues that cities of the future might feed themselves by creating farms inside enormous, glass-walled skyscrapers where every floor is a solar-powered greenhouse. All the water in these skyscraper farms would be recycled, and the structures themselves would be designed to be carbon neutral. . . .

 http://discovermagazine.com/2013/june/16-how-to-death-proof-the-cities-of-the-future#.UmWknflwpRQ



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     Almost all of these types of exciting intelligent articles about future urban technology are as if written by the same person, who dwells in a larger bubble of either ignorance, naivete or denial.

     We are going to engineer ever more healthy cities as they continue to become ever more overpopulated? Really?

     Comically, we typically see such articles that are so fashionably environmentally concerned, and yet turn out to be totally lacking in basic ecological knowledge, completely forgetting that resources are not infinite. Just on the most basic level, what would all of this cost? Where would these staggering sums come from?

     The extent of the denial, or whatever you want to call it, is clearly demonstrated by there being no real discussion of overpopulation. It is just that people are 'on the move.' What a wonderfully convenient gloss. 

     What do we suppose is driving these countless millions to move? Greater urban opportunities? Like not wanting to starve? Because of urban social programs--which will continue staggering forward forever?

     Then there is the big 'must': We constantly read in these types of exciting futuristic predictions that people will be living merrily underground or in a single mega-skyscraper that will house hundreds of thousands of people, etc, all because we 'must' accommodate ever more future  population swellings. But 'must' we?

     Few would advocate that governments starve their people, but this 'must' mindset assumes that the world's ever mushrooming population growth is an absolute given and there is nothing that can be done about it. When in fact it is a result of pro-overpopulation policies all over the world, most notably and virulently on the part of Western nations that are throwing open their borders to the Third World, giving the impression that there is no real danger of massive population growth slamming up against environmental resource and social limitations, and that Western civilization itself is expendable, as the overlords of Western nations volunteer their land and their people to act as third-world overpopulation catch basins. 

     Several paragraphs are devoted to the vibrant future of an environmentally re-engineered London, which will only happen in the sense that London is already becoming demographically and socially re-engineered into a third-world Muslim 'Londonistan,' and so will not be enjoying such a science fiction makeover, as imagined mostly by today's Western head-in-the-clouds futurologists and the head-in-the-clouds reporters covering them.

     But, okay, let's say that we and our science and our creativity somehow manage to scramble ahead of global overpopulation growth for another 100 years, resulting in no overly massive population crashes, but with even more dysfunctions than we have today, and a continuation of rampant species extinctions and resource wars. To quote the late ecologist Garrett Harden--'And then what?' We redouble our efforts so that the Earth's population can redouble again? As with open borders, who ever got to vote on this? Why should your highest goal, whether you are a cheap-labor corporation or an environmental planner, be to see how many more humans you can jam-pack onto the planet? What is the purpose? Where is the sanity? What is the purpose? 

     All of these good intentions--not so good on the part of some--simply tethers vastly more numbers of people ever farther out from basic sustainability, so that when the final population crash comes, it will be all the more devastating. 

     Another factor is that the human bounce-back after such a horrendous crash of civilization will be greatly complicated by the fact that when today's civilizations were built, natural resources were much more abundant  There were pools of surface oil, etc. It is only very wealthy, technologically advanced and socially coherent nations that can be doing things like extreme slant drilling or harvesting resources from space. By definition, such nations will not exist after a global population crash.  

     In any case, most of this will be academic on our part, since the West will not be able to help itself or others because it will be demographically gone.  

     

     

      

Brooklyn: Black mob pounces on young white couple (another typical 'Celebrate Diversity!')

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Black Mob Pounces on Young White Couple

Editors and readers of the New York Daily News want us to know that race had nothing to do with the ten black people who stopped a car and beat a young white couple in Brooklyn.

All the while yelling racial epithets.

“It’s not just a black and white thing,” reported the Daily News. “It’s stupid teenagers thinking they can do whatever they want.”

The attack happened Monday, Oct. 14, six days before it appeared in print in the Daily News. . . .

http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/black-mob-pounces-on-young-white-couple/#PDCz4pfuvpktfhEu.99

Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California ban on U.S. flag on T-shirts heads to appeals (Jimmy, we'll have none of this American patriotism filth at our school!)

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More flag-related white gang activity? 

Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, school ban on U.S. flag on T-shirts heads to appeals

A Northern California school that banned a handful of students from wearing T-shirts that showcased the U.S. flag on the Hispanic-based holiday, Cinco de Mayo day, is headed to court Thursday, to defend their order that the now-graduated individuals go home and change.

The school’s argument during the 2010 matter was that racial tensions and gang problems plagued the student body at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, located 20 miles outside of San Jose, The Associated Press reported.

So when administrators caught wind that some of the altercations experienced on Cinco de Mayo day may have been rooted in the wearing of U.S. flag shirts by three students, their reaction was quick: Either turn the tees inside out, or go home and change, they told the kids, AP reported.

The students went home — but the incident played out in the national press as a question of political correctness versus First Amendment freedoms. . . .

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/17/california-school-ban-us-flag-heads-appeals/#ixzz2iJzpiwJ0