Kamala Harris CNN Interview

I watched the CNN interview of Kamala Harris and Walz. Part 1 is here.

They may be the lowest IQ candidates every. She could not explain what she wants to do as President. She could not give a straight answer to a question. She could not explain her flip-flops.

She kept saying that her values had not changed, but she cannot explain those values.

Her biggest problem is that she cannot decide whether to run on the Biden record, or to be a candidate of change.

I think that her performance was worse that Biden's in his June Trump dedate. Biden at least seemed like a real person, but a little senile. Harris seems like someone who has never had anything substantive to say about anything.

Modern Scholars cannot define a Woman

reports:

International scholars concluded a five-year “equity” project by determining the concept of “gender” cannot be defined but should be incorporated into all aspects of scientific research nonetheless.

Funded by the European Union, their research was part of a project called GENDER-NET Plus. Launched in 2017, it brought together scholars from various countries to overcome “challenges in achieving gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation.”

I usually assume that Europans are not as foolish as Americans, but apparently I am wrong. The London Daily Mail reports:

A man given 15 months in jail for assaulting his partner has avoided prison by changing sex so he cannot be punished for gender-based violence. ...

But having become a woman the month before, Luis escaped justice. He used a new law allowing those over 16 to change their registered gender without needing medical or psychological reports. His lawyers appealed again, saying he could not be tried for gender-based crimes because he was a 'new person'.

They claimed the court could no longer try him as a man because that would violate LGBT law, requested a pardon and demanded that the case be dropped – and the Court of Violence against Women has now withdrawn from it.

During a hearing on August 13, the court heard that 'now that the accused is a woman' there is 'a lack of objective jurisdiction'.

With no definition of woman, a man can say he is one, get his case dismissed, and then change back to being a man.

Korean Child Incentives Not Working

Economics teaches that people respond to incentives. So if you want people to have more kids, just give them suitable incentives, and you will get more kids.

Except that S. Korea and other countries have tried this, and it has failed.

Reuters:

As South Korea scrambles to halt the sharp decline in its birth rate, policymakers are having a hard time convincing many in their 20s and 30s that parenthood is a better investment than stylish clothes or fancy restaurants.

Asia's fourth-largest economy plans to launch a new government ministry dedicated to demographic challenges after years of incentives failed to ease the baby crisis.

But for Park Yeon, a 28-year-old fashion Instagrammer and aspiring singer, spending choices are guided mostly by her appetites for clothing and travel, leaving little budget for marriage and babies.

"I'm all about YOLO (you only live once)," said Park as she sells her Supreme T-shirts at a thrift fashion festival in Seoul's high-fashion enclave of Seongsu-dong.

"There isn't enough left to save each month after I do things to reward myself. Getting married might happen at some point but being happy right now - that's more important, right?"

South Korea continues to break its own record for having the world's lowest birth rate, which hit a fresh low last year.

Sociologists say the lifestyle priorities of Koreans in their 20s and 30s - considered Generations Y and Z - mean they spend more and save less on average than the wider population or their peers in other countries, neither of which are conducive to nest building.

"They are status hunting. Their high spending habits show young people are working on their own emblems of success online rather than focusing on the impossible goals of settling down and have children," said Jung Jae-hoon, a sociology professor at Seoul Women's University.

So give the Korean girls more money, and they just acquire luxuries that futher remove them from childbearing.

To be sure, financial hardship is by far the biggest reason South Koreans cited for not having children, according to a survey by research firm PMI Co. in May.

About 46% of 1,800 respondents blamed either job uncertainty or education costs for this decision.

Maybe they are not telling us their real reasons.

How SBF got 25 Years

Sam Bankman-Fried biographer Michael Lewis wrote a sympathetic essay in the Wash Post:

As Lewis Kaplan, the federal judge who presided over the case, said later: "When he wasn't outright lying, he was often evasive, hairsplitting, dodging questions and trying to get the prosecutor to reword questions in ways that he could answer in ways he thought less harmful than a truthful answer to the question that was posed would have been. I've been doing this job for close to 30 years. I've never seen a performance quite like that...." [T]he judge ordered Sam to rise so that he might address him directly. Two hours or so earlier, Sam had shuffled into the courtroom in prison khakis with his head down and his hands oddly clasped behind his back. Just before he'd entered, his guards had told him he was meant to be wearing handcuffs and asked if he could create the impression that he was doing so...

“There is a risk that this man will be in a position to do something very bad in the future, and it’s not a trivial risk, not a trivial risk at all,” said the judge. “So, in part, my sentence will be for the purpose of disabling him.” He then sentenced Sam to 25 years in prison, with no possibility of parole.

Everybody said that SBF deserved it because investors lost billions of dollars.

It seems unfair to me for the judge to blame SBF for how he handled the hostile cross-examination. Of could he tried to put his deeds in a favorable light.

The bigger issue is that inivestors ultimately got all their money back. Yes, SBF took some crazy risks, but ultimately no one was harmed. The judge did not allow the jury to learn that.

Another case of financial fraud had an odd ending:

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch’s former co-defendant in a US fraud trial has died after being hit by a car just days before a yacht carrying the now-missing tycoon sank off the coast of Sicily.

Stephen Chamberlain, 52, a former VP of finance at Lynch’s former company Autonomy, was hit by the car while out running on Saturday, his lawyer Gary Lincenberg told CNN Monday.

The incident took place just two days before the British investor Lynch, 59, went missing along with five others after a tornado sank the luxury yacht carrying them off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday.

Both Lynch and Chamberlain were acquitted of fraud by a court in San Francisco in June, following charges related to the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $11 billion in 2011.

Six people missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, and one dead after tornado sinks luxury yacht off Sicily Prosecutors had alleged the pair had schemed to inflate Autonomy’s revenue before selling to HP.

Lynch is dead. Seems fishy to me. Almost no one defeats a prosecution like this. I don't believe that HP or AG Garland sent out hit men, but it sure is strange.

Diverse Killers at Festival of Diversity

Europe is being ruined by migrants, and it tries to censor people saying the obvious.

News:

On Friday at around 9:40 p.m. a man stabbed several attendees at a ‘Festival of Diversity’ (‘Festival der Vielfalt’) in Solingen, Germany. The perpetrator, who according to some witnesses “looked like an Arab,” is still at large as of Saturday morning, Bild reports. The police have urged the public not to speculate about the knifeman’s identity or motives and have not yet issued a description of the perpetrator. The police have appealed for information, including photos and videos, to be uploaded via the police information portal.

“According to current information, three people were killed and eight injured, five of them seriously, in the attack,” the police in Düsseldorf said in a press release on Saturday morning.

Following the deadly attack, the police union chief called on the public to refrain from speculation about the motive and origin of the perpetrator, especially on social media.

“Speculation about the crime in Solingen is forbidden. I appeal to everyone, especially to users of social media, to refrain from spreading rumors,” said the North Rhine-Westphalia head of the police union, Michael Mertens. “I am concerned that speculation is currently being spread via social networks.”

This is so outrageous that it sounds like a joke.

Why refrain from speculation? The people have a right to know what is going on. Even more, the people have a right to deport the foreign criminals.

The Atlantic Notices Race Realism

The Atlantic magazine reports:

That term—noticer—has become a thinly veiled shorthand within segments of the right to refer to someone who subscribes to “race science” or “race realism,” the belief that racial inequities are biological.

I think he means that racial differences are largely biological, but not entirely.

Take Nick Fuentes, a 26-year-old white nationalist whose many followers call themselves “Groypers.” He has repeatedly argued that white people are intellectually superior, and praised people who believe in race science. In a single podcast interview in 2022, Fuentes said that “there is a genetic basis” for Black people committing criminal acts and that Black people are “more antisocial and have higher incidences of sociopathy and on average a lower IQ.”

If true, being antisocial and sociopathy might be a lot more important than lower IQ.

Race science is wrapped up in the right’s attack on Kamala Harris as the “DEI candidate.” The implication is that Harris’s success can only be attributed to her race and gender, not her intellect or experience. To a race-science proponent, that’s just what the data say.

Can there be any doubt about that? Left-wing support for Harris nearly always mentions her race and sex. The DNC speeches emaphasized it a lot. Republicans, not so much. Nobody speaks highly of her intellect or experience.

No matter how hard people try, however, race cannot be reduced to the results of an IQ test. There is more to the complicated genetic, cultural, economic, and historical realities of race than a few lines on a chart. When I asked Sailer to explain the links between race and intelligence, he said that he doesn’t “see strong reasons to assume that intelligence is all that different from a trait like height, which is clearly driven by both genes and environment.” He cited regions of Serbia and South Sudan as having tall populations despite being relatively poor, suggesting that health and nutrition are not the primary explanation for average national height.

Genetics may play some role in the average height in these two countries, but intelligence is not like height. As three prominent psychologists have written, “Modern DNA science has found hundreds of genetic variants that each have a very, very tiny association with intelligence, but even if you add them all together they predict only a small fraction of someone’s IQ score.” Furthermore, that race is not a biological phenomenon is the consensus view among geneticists, biologists, and anthropologists, building on generations of empirical research.

Here is how those psychologists summarize the argument:

1) Intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is a meaningful construct that describes differences in cognitive ability among humans.

2) Individual differences in intelligence are moderately heritable.

3) Racial groups differ in their mean scores on IQ tests.

4) Discoveries about genetic ancestry have validated commonly used racial groupings.

5) On the basis of points 1 through 4, it is natural to assume that the reasons for racial differences in IQ scores are themselves at least partly genetic.

They accept steps 1-4, but not step 5.

To escape that conclusion, a lot of academics deny that race exists at all.

If Harris is elected, she will not deny race. She has supported paying racial reparations. You can be sure that racial animosity will get much worse.

Fluoride in Water Lowers IQ

AP reports:

A U.S. government report expected to stir debate concluded that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children.

The report, based on an analysis of previously published research, marks the first time a federal agency has determined — “with moderate confidence” — that there is a link between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in kids.

The John Birch Society was famous for questioning fluoride in the drinking water. Apparently they were right.

Kamala Harris Aligns with Central Park 5

Kamala Harris made her reputation as a prosecutor, and somehow managed to be hated by both sides of the big criminal justice issues. Her biggest single issue was probably her dogged effort to jail parents for truancy.

Now she is aligning herself with some famous criminals:

[NY Times] Yusef Salaam, a city councilman from Harlem, was one of five Black and Latino men exonerated in the rape and assault of a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. Former President Donald J. Trump, who is white, took out full-page advertisements in four newspapers, including The New York Times, calling for the death penalty to be reinstated because of the case.

Now Mr. Salaam is expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday evening,

That was the Central Park jogger case. The five confessed and were convicted, but later collected $41 million when someone else confessed more convincingly.

Funny how the NY Times has to remind us that Trump is White.

I don't think "exonerated" is the right word here. See Ann Coulter's 2014 opinion. The five almost certainly committed some bad crimes.

Here is a 2018 NY Times article accusing Harris of helping to frame a Black man for murder, and refusing a DNA test. That man could be guilty also, I don't know.

Update: Here are the perps speaking at the convention.

Update: The Central Park 5 may not have been guilty of rape, but there is a lot of evidence that they assisted in the rape and committed other crimes that evening. See this fact-check.

Biden Praises the Jew-killer Fine People

White House:

Remarks by President Biden During Keynote Address at the Democratic National Committee Convention | Chicago, IL ...

You’ve heard me say it before. We’re facing an inflection point, one of those rare moments in history when the decisions we make now will determine the fate of our nation and the world for decades to come. That’s not hyperbole. I mean it literally. We’re in a battle for the very soul of America.

I ran for president in 2020 because of what I saw in Charlottesville in August of 2017: extremists coming out of the woods carrying torches, their veins bulging from their necks, carrying Nazi swastikas, and chanting the same exact antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the early ‘30s. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the Kl Klux Klan so emboldened by a president then in the White House that they saw as an ally, they didn’t even bother to wear their hoods.

Hate was on the march in America — old ghosts in new garments stirring up the oldest divisions, stoking the oldest fears, giving oxygen to the oldest forces that they long sought to tear apart America.

In the process, a young woman was killed. When I contacted her mother, I asked about what happened. She told me. When the president was asked what he thought had happened, Donald Trump said, and I quote, there were “very fine people on both sides.” My God.

AUDIENCE: Booo —

THE PRESIDENT: That’s what he said. That is what he said and what he meant. That’s when I realized — had to listen to the admonition of my dead son — I could not stay on the sidelines. (Applause.) So, I ran.

Because I had no intention of running again. I’d just lost part of my soul.

Biden has told this story many times, and all the fact checkers say it is a lie. Google it yourself, if you do not believe it. Trump denounced the neo-nazis, and said that there were fine people on both sides of the monument destruction issue.

As Biden spoke, there were protesters outside who really did support the killing and kidnapping of Jews by Gaza-Hamas. So what does he say about them? That the supporters of Jew killers have a valid point!

As you know, I wrote a peace treaty for Gaza. A few days ago, I put forward a proposal that has brought us closer to doing that than we’ve done since October 7th. We’re working around the clock — my secretary of state — to prevent a wider war and reunite hostages with their families and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza now — (applause) — to end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally, finally, finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war. (Applause.)

Those pro- — those protesters out in the street, they have a point. A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides. (Applause.)

This is crazy. The woman who died in Charlottesville was not murdered for her ethnicity. It appeared to most observers to be an accident. She was hit by a car that was trying to escape attackers. The driver did go to prison. I do not want to excuse him, but he had nothing to do with anyone else there.

The antisemitic bile chant was reported to be "Jews will not replace us." It meant that they disagreed with Jewish politicians who support certain immigration policies. Most of them were actually chanting "You will not replace us."

On the other hand, the Gaza-Hamas people really do stand for exterminating the Jews. They killed about 1000 on Oct. 7, and took hundreds of hostages. Their main purpose is the destruction of Israel and the elimination of the Jews. They want a Palestinian Arab state, from the river to the sea, with no Jews present. They are joined by some LGBTQ protesters, but of course people are tolerated in Israel, but not Gaza.

And Biden says that they have a legitimate point!

This is crazy. American Jews are about 90% pro-immigration. (Israeli Jews are the opposite.) The USA Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Homeland Security are all Jews who refuse to enforce the law against the massive foreign invasion of migrants. It is legitimate to point out that they are Jewish, and to complain about what they are doing to this country.

But I am 100% against what Gaza-Hamas has done. They started a war, and deserve everything Israel is doing to them. They are still holding Israeli hostages, and hiding among civilians.

Possibly Biden does not know what he is saying, and is just appeasing Leftist factions in the Democrat Party. Regardless, he has just shown much greater sympathy for Jew-haters than anything Trump has ever said.

Harris says a Losing Football Team can be Undefeated

Democrats are nominating the dopiest candidate ever.

News:

A group of young Pennsylvania football players was left scratching their heads after receiving a pep talk from Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

On Sunday, Harris spoke to aspiring players at Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School.

Harris told the young hopefuls they can “be undefeated” even when they “don’t win every game.”

“It’s not easy being a role model,” Harris told the youngsters.

“Welcome to the role model club,” she said, noting that the player’s families and communities were watching them to see how they act.

“And, by doing that, and all that that requires, which is the hard work, the practice, working as a team, knowing that you will be undefeated even if you don’t win every game, but no circumstance or event or moment will defeat your spirit and your fight, and your preparedness to win and excel, that nothing will dampen your spirit of excellence,” she said.

“That’s what I’m counting on from each of you.

“And, that’s what makes our nation strong.”

Wow! What makes are nation strong is that high school football players will not let losses dampen their spirit of excellence? They can still claim to be undefeated?

This is so stupid.

I guess I should expect this from a DEI candidate so firmly opposed to a meritocracy. She probably thinks it is inequitable that some teams win football games.

She just got an endorsement:

CNN — Retired federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative legal scholar put on the bench by President George H.W. Bush, is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, whose candidacy he describes as an existential threat to American democracy.

His statement uses the word "democracy" 26 times, but never really explains himself.

Harris is anti-democracy in two big ways: (1) She stands for prosecuting her political enemies; and (2) Her nomination was against the wishes of everyone who voted in the primary elections.

After a month of stonewalling the press, Harris has finally answered one question. Her answer is nonsense.

Here is a DNC speaker saying the election winner could weaponize the US DoJ to go after enemies! It has already happened.

RFK jr Rant against Harris Democrats

RFK jr denies endorsing Harris:

VP Harris’s Democratic Party would be unrecognizable to my father and uncle and I cannot reconcile it with my values.

The Democratic Party of RFK and JFK was the party of civil liberties and free speech. VP Harris‘s is the party of censorship, lockdowns, and medical coercion.

Kennedy Democrats were anti-war. Kamala‘s is riddled with neocon warmongers.

The RFK/JFK dems were allies of Main Street, cops, firefighters, and working people. VP Harris’s is the Party of Big Tech, Big Pharma and Wall Street.

My dad and uncle’s party was the champion of voting rights and fair elections. VP Harris’s is the party of lawfare, disenfranchisement, and the coronation of its candidates by corporate donors and party elites.

I’ve used our nation’s courts to prosecute corporations who hurt Black Americans. VP Harris used our nation’s courts to mercilessly prosecute Black Americans and exploit them for their labor.

My father and uncle prided themselves on their skills at debate and their ability to articulate a coherent vision for our country. VP Harris is scared to debate and can’t survive an unscripted interview. Instead of outlining a vision, she relies on middleschool tactics – memes, forged headlines, infantile slogans (Joy!) and name calling (“Republicans are weird.“)

I’ve spent years battling government corruption and lies. VP Harris spent years gaslighting Americans about the health of our Commander in Chief.

I have no plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President. I do have a plan to defeat her.

It is funny how he always talks about his father and uncle. His other uncle was one of the most influential senators in USA history.

RFK jr is right about all this. And more. Now Harris is promising price controls, as if inflation were caused by greedy businesses. Every aspect of her is horrible.

Nonbinary Runner Competes against Women

Nikki Hiltz of Santa Cruz USA did well in the recent Olympics as a woman, and came close to getting a medal. But is she really a woman?

From Self:

On March 31, 2021 — the International Transgender Day of Visibility — Hiltz took to Instagram to reveal some personal news “Hi I’m Nikki and I’m transgender. That means I don’t identify with the gender I was assigned at birth. The word I use currently to describe my gender is non-binary. The best way I can explain my gender is as fluid. Sometimes I wake up feeling like a powerful queen and other days I wake up feeling as if I’m just a guy being a dude, and other times I identify outside of the gender binary entirely. It’s complicated and complex and something I’m still trying to navigate myself, but I’ve decided it’s time to share my gender fluidity with you all.”

Maybe someday we will have nonbinary sporting events. I am a little puzzled as to why she wants to be in womens events, if she does not identify as a woman.

As far as human biology goes, I do not think that there is any such thing as nonbinary. Not even other mammals can be nonbinary or intersex. All mammals are either male or female.

AP reports:

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday again decried two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the female boxers as men.

The press is gaslighting you. The boxers are men. They are genetic and hormonal males with XY chromosomes and testes. They do not menstruate.

Despite being born and raised as women, Khelif and Lin found themselves in the crosshairs of Western debates about gender, sex and sports after failing the unspecified and untransparent eligibility tests for women’s competition from the now-banned International Boxing Association.

Here are some crazy contortions. No, they were not born as women. They were born as babies, and eventually went thru ordinary male puberty where they got much bigger and stronger.

And they banned the boxing organization that did the sex test!

Lawsuit against AI Undressing Pictures

Tech Spot reports:

One of the most sinister trends to come from the advancement of AI image generation in recent years is the rise of websites and apps that can "undress" women and girls. Now, The San Francisco City Attorney's office is suing 16 of these most-visited sites with the aim of shutting them down. ...

The complaint, which has been published with the websites' names redacted, states that the sites were collectively visited 200 million times during the first six months of 2024. One of these undressing sites advertises: "Imagine wasting time taking her out on dates, when you can just use [the redacted website] to get her nudes."

A typical such site is undressing.ai.

My guess is that legal action will not stop these sites, and people will just get used to the idea of fake nude pictures floating around.

California is also trying to regulate AI:

Academics, open-source developers, and companies of all sizes are waking up to the threat this bill poses to their future. S.B. 1047, known as the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, mandates extensive safety protocols and imposes harsh liabilities on developers for the potential misuse of their AI models.

A lot of the good AI research is in California, with Google, Facebook, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic.

Womens Gold Medals won by a Man

Caster Semenya has gold medals in the 800m race from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. There have long been doubts that she was a woman.

Now it is know that he has XY genes of a man, male testes, and testosterone levels typical of a man. He does not have fallopian tubes and does not menstruate. He is sometimes called intersex, but male is more accurate.

He is married to a woman, and they have two kids together.

He got one gold medal because the race winner was disqualified for doping, but he cheated just as much.

I think the Olympics should abolish the women's events.

In the current Paris Olympics, two male boxers won womens gold medals. My guess is that Olympic boxing will be abolished, rather than fairly address these issues.

Watergate was a deep state coup

Richard M. Nixon was a reasonably popular President, and was driven out of office based on various Watergate allegations. His VP was also removed.

New Tucker Carlson interview:

Former Nixon White House staffer Geoff Shepard has uncovered new evidence that Watergate was a deep state coup, and they are using the same playbook on Trump.

Somehow everyone was convinced that Nixon committed crimes. But what are those crimes? Try asking. No one can tell you.

People say abuse of power. Obstruction of justice. The cover-up was worse than the crime. What did he know and when did he know it.

We now know that Nixon knew nothing about the break-in, until afterwards. The accounts given by Dean, Woodward, and Bernstein were wildly inaccurate.

Impeaching Nixon was like impeaching President Andrew Johnson. A witch-hunt against what everyone today says was legal.

Shepard says the only real Watergate criminals were John Dean and G. Gordon Liddy.

London Bishop Sides with Islamic Criminals

The London Guardian reports:

The archbishop of Canterbury has warned Christians they should not be part of any far-right groups, criticising the use of Christian imagery in this summer’s riots as “an offence to our faith”.

Writing in the Guardian, Justin Welby condemned the violent unrest, which he described as “racist”, “anti-Muslim, anti-refugee and anti-asylum seeker”. His intervention follows a week of disorder that began after a mass stabbing of children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last month.

The unrest, during which rioters attacked mosques, police officers and a hotel housing asylum seekers, was whipped up by far-right activists online who falsely claimed that a Muslim immigrant was behind the Southport attack. ...

“Let me say clearly now to Christians that they should not be associated with any far-right group – because those groups are unchristian. Let me say clearly now to other faiths, especially Muslims, that we denounce people misusing such imagery as fundamentally anti-Christian.”

All these articles blame the far-right for misinformation, but I am not sure what that is. The Wikipedia article on the 2024 Southport stabbing says that the stabber was indeed from an immigrant family from Rwanda, and the UK law makes it illegal to reveal the family's religion. So they could be Moslems.

The news media call anyone "far right" if they oppose massive Third World immigration.

So now this leader of the Christian Church of England says that it is unchristian to use Christian symbols and oppose Moslem crime and immigration?

This is bizarre. It certainly is Christian to use Christian symbols and to resist invasion by Moslem criminals. Even if they are not Moslems, they are from Rwanda, and are not English Christians.

White Privilege means Making Better Decisions

What is White privilege? Some say higher IQ, greater beauty, more remote history of slavery, or unburdened by what has been. This research says no, it is all making better decisions!

News:

New study reveals that people who make good decisions have an unfair advantage

And it turns out that good decision-making and its fruits is not merely a matter of luck, but strongly tied to white privilege.

The science is finally settled on this one: people who consistently make good decisions enjoy an undeniable and unfair advantage in life.

While perhaps intuitively obvious, the findings actually have profound implications for our understanding of success, inequality, and human potential.

Conducted by a team of researchers at Oberlin, the paper tracked the decision-making processes and outcomes of 15 participants over a span of three years, and will be published in August. Participants, ranging from various socio-economic backgrounds, were repeatedly interviewed about real-life scenarios where they had to make significant choices — career moves, financial investments, personal relationships — as well as their ability to remain calm under pressure.

I cannot tell whether this is a joke.

Biden-Harris Censors an Innocent Man

Here is a good example of teh Biden-Harris administration abusing its DoJ power to suppress the free speech of a political enemy.

Jonathan Turley writes:

We have previously discussed controversial sentences handed down in cases involving rioters on January 6th, including sentencing orders that, in my view, violate First Amendment rights. That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. That crime would ordinarily not involve any jail time for a first offender. However, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided that he would use the case to regulate what Goodwyn was reading and communicating with a chilling probation order. After the case was sent back by the D.C. Circuit, Walton doubled down on his extraordinary order. Now the D.C. Circuit has refused to hear an emergency appeal.

Judge Walton has attracted controversy and criticism over his public comments about former President Donald Trump and the other issues.

The appeal dissent said:

This appeal involves computer monitoring imposed as a special condition of supervised release for a defendant convicted of wrongfully entering the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Daniel Goodwyn pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1). Goodwyn entered the Capitol and remained inside for a total of 36 seconds. He did not use force to enter, did not assault police officers, and neither took nor damaged any government property. When police instructed Goodwyn to leave the building, he did so.

The district court sentenced Goodwyn to 60 days of imprisonment followed by a one-year term of supervised release. As a special condition of supervised release, the court sua sponte ordered the probation office to monitor Goodwyn's computers for the transmittal of "disinformation" about January 6. To enforce this condition, the court further required the installation of software on Goodwyn's computers that would enable the probation office to conduct "periodic unannounced searches."

So he cannot express any pro-Trump opinions on the internet until after the election.

Whites Need Not Apply

Bloomberg reports:

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires companies with 100 or more employees to report their workforce demographics every year. Bloomberg obtained 2020 and 2021 data for 88 S&P 100 companies and calculated overall US job growth at those firms.

In total, they increased their US workforces by 323,094 people in 2021, ...

In 2021, Hispanic, Asian and Black people made up a vast majority of the added workers ...

The biggest shifts happened in less-senior job categories. White people held fewer of those roles in 2021 than they did in 2020, whereas thousands of people of color were added to the ranks.

But the trend continued up the job ladder in top, high-paid jobs, too: Companies increased their racial diversity among executives, managers and professionals.

So apparently all our big companies have become anti-White, and discriminated against Whites in employment.

There are federal laws against racial discrimination in hiring, and the US EEOC is supposed to enforced those laws. But it has collected evidence on the top 100 companies, found they are all violating the law, and has done nothing.

Transgenderism is Increasing Exponentially

Since I have cited the Cass Review, I was curious about SciAm denouncing it:

Amid campaigns to roll back legal protections and health care provision for trans people in 2020, the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) launched the Cass Review of publicly funded gender services for children in England. Led by retired pediatrician Hilary Cass, the review examined existing research on trans health care interventions for people under age 18, consulted with stakeholders and made recommendations for NHS England services.

The final Cass Review report was released in April. It expresses concern about the number of young trans people presenting at doctors’ offices for treatment and argues there is “remarkably weak evidence” for the benefits of gender-affirming medical interventions. It recommends, for instance, that puberty blockers—medications given to delay puberty—be provided only within a clinical trial. For younger children not yet facing puberty, it raises warnings about social transition—that is, nonmedical decisions kids may make for themselves such as changing their name, wearing different clothes or choosing to be referred to by a different pronoun.

While the Cass Review has been presented by the U.K. media, politicians and some prominent doctors as a triumph of objective inquiry, its most controversial recommendations are based on prejudice rather than evidence.

SciAm's main complaint is that the Cass Review says that transgenderism has increased expontially, whereas the available data show no such increase in Israel, Scotland, and Belgium.

England Rioting over Rwandan Killer

CNN reports:

Far-right demonstrations turned violent for a second night across England Wednesday, in the wake of this week’s mass stabbing in Southport – the worst attack on children in the country in recent history.

While a community continues to grieve the murder of three young girls, far-right agitators have mobilized around online misinformation and hateful, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim narratives – fueling disorder in London, Manchester and the northeastern town of Hartlepool. ...

“White nationalists will seize on any opportunity to spread misinformation about Muslims, about anyone who’s not White. So they were immediately on it – and were happy to spread basically whatever would confirm their presuppositions about who had done it,” he said.

All the articles say that the riots were driven by misinformation, but that is not true. As you can see in the Wikipedia story on the 2024 Southport stabbing:

Axel Rudakubana, a 17-year-old British citizen born in Cardiff to parents from Rwanda, was arrested at the scene, and has been charged with three counts of murder, ten counts of attempted murder, and possession of a bladed article.

Some social media got the name wrong, but that was the fault of the English government for withholding the name.

Like what was being shared on X and other platforms, the Telegram group “Southport Wake Up,” also posted false information about the alleged suspect.

Do not trust anyone who calls the perp an "alleged suspect". He is an African arrested on the scene. He is definitely the suspect, and almost certainly a murderer. The governments seems more interested in blocking supposed hate speech, than protecting its citizens from African killers.

I have trouble following British politics. For the last ten years, they have been electing Conservative leaders. They voted for Brexit, apparently because they wanted England to be English, and to stop the foreign invaders. Then they installed a Paki Prime Minister, and he pushed open borders. The voters got fed up with the betrayals, and voted him out of office.

Now the Conservative are out, and the new Prime Minister has a name that sounds like the Nazi paper Der Stürmer. His government is threatening to jail those who complain about foreign migrants:

Anyone who stokes this violence, whether on the internet or in person, can be prosecuted and face prison.

I am afraid Britain is becoming a Third World country. At least some people are resisting the changes.

Minnesota Governor is Tapped

The Jews and neocon Trump-haters wanted Shapiro as VP, but apparently they got overruled by the Hamas-Gaza wing of the Democrat Party. So Tim Walz is the new VP candidate.

I do not know much about him, except that he is a leftist kook who let rioters burn Minneapolis after George Floyd's death, and he is on board with extreme LGBTQ+ demands. And open borders and other leftist causes.

Shapiro probably would have been a better candidate, if he had not been Jewish.

How Not to Fix Broken Immigration

Youyou Zhou writes in the Wash. Post:

Opinion How the broken immigration system is pushing skilled workers to enter illegally

Here’s a measure of how broken American immigration policies are: The numbers of undocumented migrants from India and China have spiked in recent years. Last year alone, more than 65,000 people from both countries combined crossed the southern border into the United States, a nearly sevenfold jump from the total in 2019.

These two countries already provide the majority of legal skilled foreign workers in the United States, and yet — perhaps because of this — skilled foreign workers may have a career incentive to enter the country illegally.

The op-ed then explains that Congress has passed limits on foreign workers displacing Americans, so the foreigners come in illegally and circumvent the limits. They make phony asylum claims, and then get work permits while their claims are pending, as they can stay for many years on a pending phony claim.

This tale of two foreign workers is a reminder that our legal immigration system is broken. If the government really wanted to curtail illegal crossings, creating more legal pathways for migrants to work here should be the priority.

No, this is crazy. She is essentially saying that we should respond to an illegal foreign invasion by legalizing the invaders. We should stop letting them in on phony asylum claims.

Law Requires Preferred Pronouns

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of an Ohio school disctrict requiring students to use preferred pronouns.

Even this limited preliminary injunction record contains evidence of the substantial disruption that repeated, intentional use of non-preferred pronouns to refer to transgender students can cause. The PDE [Parents Defending Education, plaintiffs] parent-members themselves “understand[]” that use of nonpreferred pronouns “will be considered ‘insulting,’ ‘humiliating,’ ‘dehumanizing,’ ‘derogatory,’ and ‘unwanted’ to those who want to go by different pronouns.” R. 7-3, Parent A Decl., PageID 364; R. 7-4, Parent B Decl., PageID 371; R. 7-6, Parent D Decl., PageID 385.3 PDE also attached to its preliminary injunction motion an article containing a therapist’s explanation that students who “have been misgendered all day” often become “traumatized,” “humiliated,” and “cry after school.” R. 7-1, PageID 329. This evidence dovetails with a study, cited by the district court, collecting literature on the “measurable psychological and physiological harms” that can be caused by use of non-preferred pronouns. R. 28, PageID 836 (quoting Chan Tov McNamarah, Misgendering as Misconduct, 68 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 40, 43 (2020)). And it supports the conclusion that transgender students experience the use of non-preferred pronouns as dehumanizing and that, as a result, the repeated use of such pronouns can have severely negative effects on children and young adults.4

This is all nonsense. No one has ever been harmed by a pronoun. Declaring a child to be transgender is dehumanizing, but the school is doing that.

The dissent explains:

As I understand it, the plaintiffs’ position—based on their scientific (biology, physiology, and genetics) and religious beliefs—is that biological gender is immutable, people are either male or female, and there is no such thing as “gender transition”; that is a made-up thing, imaginary or make believe, and a public school cannot force their children to pretend it is a real thing. Agree or disagree, but that is their position.

It therefore should be free speech, under the controlling precedent

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that recognized the First Amendment rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test, also known as the "substantial disruption" test, is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's interest to prevent disruption infringes upon students' First Amendment rights. The Court famously opined, "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."[1][2]

Harris Expected to Choose Shapiro VP

The Pres. Biden administration has had Jews in most of the top positions, including:

Secretary of State
Attorney General
Deputy Director of the CIA
Director of National Intelligence
Chief of Staff
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Homeland Security
Senate Majority Leader

Now the rumors are that the cabal that replaced Biden with Kamala Harris has decided that her VP will be Penn. Gov. Josh Shapiro. If elected, that means that the President's husband and VP will both be Jews.

This seems foolish to me. The image of the Democrat Party now that of an undemocratic woke left party run by a secret cabal. One of their main objectives is to entangle in foreign wars, in Gaza and Ukraine.

A faction of that woke left now hates Israel, and sides with Arabs against Jews.

Harris is not talking, and has so far refused to answer questions about whether she stands by her various woke left opinions.

For some, this election could become a referendum on whether Jews should run the world. If Harris picks Shapiro as VP, it will be a statement that she is controlled by the Jews, and that a vote for her is a vote for Jews running the world.

Shapiro is most famous for attacking Catholics:

Shapiro convinced the media that he found evidence of 301 priests who abused more than 1,000 children over a period of seventy years. This is thrice false (1) not all the alleged offenders were priests (2) most of the alleged victims were adolescents, not children, and (3) the report was not evidentiary—it was investigative—meaning that the accused priests were never given the opportunity to rebut the charges.

He only prosecuted two priests.

As I write this, the top NYTimes.com stories are:

Trump Uses Timeworn Tactic to Stoke Suspicion About Harris

Politicians have long cast their opponents as outsiders. But Donald Trump has taken the strategy to the next level against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Harris Has Votes Needed to Be Democrats’ Nominee

Vice President Kamala Harris is set up to become the first Black woman and person of South Asian heritage to earn the top spot on a major ticket.

So the NY Times complains that Trump mentions Harris's race, but then it gives her race as the most notable thing about her.

Max Boot is a Foreign Agent

Max Boot is a prominent Russian Jew, American immigrant, neo-conservative columnist, warmonger, and Trump-hater. He has spent 20 years accusing Trump and others of being agents of foreign powers, for not going along with his war plans.

Now it turns out that he himself is a foreign agent:

Max Boot's spouse is Sue Mi Terry. On July 16, 2024, Terry was indicted and arrested for allegedly acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the South Korean government.[9][10] Boot co-authored an opinion piece with Terry for the Washington Post in 2023. According to prosecutors, the article was written at the behest of South Korean officials and used information they provided without disclosing the involvement of the Korean government.[11]

Politico reports:

As allegations of foreign meddling roiled the Donald Trump presidency, Washington Post columnist Max Boot blasted the 45th president as a Russian stooge — and urged the feds to get tough.

“Washington should ramp up enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and expand U.S. counterintelligence efforts against foreign influence, not just espionage,” Boot wrote in a 2019 column. The government, he said, should “change its focus from encouraging compliance to punishing noncompliant parties.”

Five years later, he might want to rethink that one.

In a delicious story twist that has lit up pro-Trump media, Boot’s wife and occasional co-author, the former CIA analyst and longtime Asia policy expert Sue Mi Terry, has herself now been charged with two felony counts of serving as an unregistered agent for a foreign power.

Olympics: Men Beating Women

Now men can get medals for beating up women in front of judges and fans.

News:

Italian boxer Angela Carini came out of the boxing ring just 46 seconds and abandoned her women's 66kg bout against Algerian Imane Khelif on Thursday at the Paris Olympic Games 2024.

Carini's unprecedented move sparked massive debate online with many blaming the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allowing athletes who had previously failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests.

Khelif, 25, gained unwanted attention when she was disqualified shortly before the gold medal match at the 2023 World Championships for not meeting the International Boxing Association's (IBA) eligibility rules. The world boxing body doesn't allow athletes with XY chromosomes to participate in women's events.

Wikipedia:

In March 2023, she again reached the final of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, but was disqualified shortly before the gold medal bout for failing to meet eligibility criteria. The Algerian Olympic Committee stated that Khelif was disqualified for medical reasons. It was later reported that the disqualification was due to high levels of testosterone in her system.[8][9] According to International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev, DNA testing of Khelif and other athletes "proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events".[10]

There is speculation that Khelif may have a disorder of sex development (DSD), which causes some females to have XY chromosomes and blood testosterone levels typical of a male.[11][12] In Algeria, the country that Khelif represents, transgender identity is prohibited, changing gender or sex on identity documents is not permitted, nor are medical or hormonal treatments allowed to transition to another sex. Khelif made an appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport but later withdrew it,[3] making the IBA decision legally binding.[13]

So I guess he/she has males genes that are not functioning because of disorder. Such people are usually called female.

What is the point of Olympics womens boxing? So freaks can beat up on ordinary women?

I don't know what the deal is with Katie Ledecky. She is tall, with broad shoulders, narrow hips, and muscular arms. If she is a women, she must be the best female swimmer ever. She appears to be another freak.

Update: Here is an explanation of why boxers with XY chromosomes should be considered male, and not compete in boxing against females.

Update: Here is another explanation. This situation is a good reason to stop using the term "sex assigned at birth". It appears that these boxers are males who were mislabelled as female at birth. They are trans women if that is defined as men who identify as women, but they might have never undergone a transgender process.