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ab677701-ae20-42b4-89f2-ddf1eb71b8b7 (It’s also true that Alien Nation was “a masterpiece of precision,” but that’s by the way.) SUBJ False |
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56164d11-a7f5-4ac5-8dde-681e6f3436e1 It’s all justified in the name of racial “equity.” But it’s nothing more than a nice way of saying they want to destroy the Historic American Nation. SUBJ False |
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676d7dfd-f9d9-42fd-9b00-2165f4576cd7 These issues include punishing Sanctuary Cities and increasing deportations. OBJ False |
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f3c8718e-d553-4730-89d5-5077c96de10a Only 20 percent of voters support it, while a third aren’t quite sure what it is [Poll: Nearly Half of Registered Voters Oppose Teaching of Critical Race Theory, by Susan Berry, Breitbart, November 16, 2021]. OBJ False |
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10cb731a-0d62-4e85-b101-a51b48a20219 In contrast, in 2017 fewer than half of Republicans said minorities are favored over whites. OBJ False |
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61f81c00-d0c9-4a7f-a938-281d53ad912d In part this is because the deleterious situation surrounding housing in the UK—a common feature of these columns—plays such a large, oversized role in economic and social life. SUBJ False |
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4ff56ac5-f712-46ad-96dc-b54e2e89b0ab The Immigration Invasion symbolizes a lot about the present state of the immigration debate. SUBJ False |
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44ceea32-d8f3-40f2-8239-a76154cd0677 For half a century, household expenditure on gas and electricity has, in real terms, hovered around the £1,000 mark. OBJ False |
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c84a41ab-86c3-4294-8c0d-c670906d788d This always reminds me of something I read in Patrick O’Brian’s book Desolation Island, set at the time of the War of 1812, where the British spymaster compares an American woman spy to Aphra Behn, who had lived several generations before. OBJ False |
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d36f2e07-810e-4092-be1c-a38755080521 But the party must do more than talk. SUBJ False |
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254c3baa-b2ef-4337-9b5e-05310a3d71d8 The GOP is reluctantly embracing White Identity politics—because it wins elections. SUBJ False |
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e485f164-36b3-492d-b999-7f5bcafa1db4 He died in 2019. OBJ False |
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6edaafad-75bf-41ef-9b6f-1752aadd2c2d Not least in our immediate moment, as normal life is plunged into an extended period of national mourning. SUBJ False |
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a27a99cb-1a03-424c-b30b-3d53187e4841 "According to Gelbaum himself: ""I did tell [Sierra Club Executive Director] Carl Pope in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they would never get a dollar from me"" [The Man Behind the Land by Kenneth R. Weiss, LA Times, October 17, 2004]." OBJ False |
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06ccdd0d-ed22-45f6-b693-99c8499c6974 Of course, what we’re still living with is a disease “brought here by immigration”—and we’re still being called racist for saying so.] SUBJ False |
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36ecd6c8-6c66-400b-830b-46b97fd194fa In June 2020, Wing wrote: “I’m exhausted with these white folx in these [professional development] sessions.” Wing was misusing the Left’s insane lexicon here, for “folx,” as Merriam-Webster, which is now as woke as everyone else, tells us is a spelling that is “used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized.” OBJ False |
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ac06dad3-20fa-4a8a-a141-2d2dda09127f Despite the title, its demographic section, while strong, is quite short—a surprise because Leon Bouvier has written several excellent detailed pamphlets on the impact of immigration on the population of key states. SUBJ False |
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a54c8442-d2fd-438c-811a-9aecdec52018 A November poll found that nearly half of American voters want the CRT anti-white curricula banned. OBJ True |
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f996fb20-ac93-463a-b6e7-7c0589ef437a But in a broader sense, even were we absent this phenomenon entirely, the ongoing crisis of housing afflicting the UK should be seen in a similar light. SUBJ False |
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e5d06c08-ecc9-4ec4-a3a5-bae5914731b7 However, getting annoyed at the language in which Bouvier and Grant's message is couched is not the same as establishing that it has no content at all. SUBJ False |
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270acb32-71eb-4e5b-aef1-bc5b92f8f578 Nevertheless, they have also brought with them massive organized crime, rooted in history and fertilized by heroin. SUBJ True |
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c8164136-243f-476b-894b-37a35cc3ea8e Apparently, you’re simply expected to accept all this. SUBJ False |
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4de73031-86d8-4c9a-8783-314799e99ed8 As has been pointed out elsewhere, the cost of rent is considerably greater than even the spiralling cost of energy bills. OBJ False |
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0b755e86-89c0-4cb5-9deb-c2de5add69f7 "But the book does go wrong, of course, because it never thinks to question what a ""Hispanic"" is anyway." SUBJ False |
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222f4cc8-1915-48b5-960f-d7222c39a263 Wing likes that “Karen” moniker, which became popular in the early COVID-19 days referring to a certain type of self-righteous busybody. SUBJ False |
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ee93750d-1d8d-41d0-8707-cbdbd505cda4 The constituent parts—a lack of tenant protections, absence of rent controls, a dismantling of social housing provision—predate this current crisis and are not accidents of history but foundational pieces in the deliberate building of a housing regime conducive to maximum rent extraction. SUBJ False |
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a54c28bd-bd04-40b9-b9e1-325b806d9b99 In Denmark, the government, alongside supporting parties, has announced a cap on rent increases in the private rented sector of 4% over the coming two years. OBJ False |
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fe3bcbca-bdb9-403e-be0c-e96da6d9c349 Campaigning against anti-white discrimination is a good sign. SUBJ False |
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50b02b91-1016-44a9-b178-7462567d1d18 About as dull and conventional as you would expect, this is a more or less digestible mass of Census data washed down with drafts of pious hogwash. SUBJ False |
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c5c2a9e6-9af8-4844-b91e-34b6100b5b8c Dr. Tanton came out of the environmental movement—there's a lot of environment around his home in Petoskey, up at the northern end of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. OBJ False |
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bc50ea04-847f-4ffe-b325-3885d6b85cdb [W]ill you really feel good at the end of the race when you look back and see others fighting obstacles that you didn’t even have?” OBJ False |
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7d43f1e4-cc11-4015-8de0-c881f970d90a Wing is also the co-author of several Leftist indoctrination books for children, including one entitled What Is White Privilege? OBJ False |
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15cdcb8d-416d-42bc-a937-36cc7636a1dc But Biden’s FDA recommended it, and according to Politico above, Biden’s CDC head Rochelle Walensky defended it. OBJ False |
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4d87c1ea-9983-41c9-bae3-0b34a98f8036 Funny thing: the MSM is at least partly right. SUBJ False |
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d954e14c-cfcd-4d1c-a323-c1989aedaa26 "(""Between April 1, 1985, and December 31, 1992, the number of foreign-born inmates in New York [jails] rose 194 per cent."" Hmmm. Original base? Proportion of total? State, city, or federal jails?)" OBJ False |
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57221b29-dbf7-4ec8-b6c0-865da935d192 Instead, it is distracted by fantasies of racial discrimination and victimhood propaganda. SUBJ False |
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9f04cac5-4551-4edb-8da2-328d992c0a73 But of course, that didn’t mean 300 million Americans—immigrants account for about 13.7% of the US population, and about a quarter of those are illegal (Key findings about U.S. immigrants, Pew Research Foundation, August 26, 2020).] OBJ False |
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076cb9ee-37a0-495b-8087-65ec6e1a0fb3 They shriek over attempts to ban Critical Race Theory. SUBJ False |
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ec350fa5-44b8-45a2-b6d7-b867af8220e6 Here, existing government guidance, laughably, merely notes that rent increases must be ‘fair and realistic’. SUBJ False |
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1cd330e6-3aab-4302-b0d0-236b210defdd It might be laughable if it wasn't pushing hundreds of thousands into debt and poverty. SUBJ False |
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34214b6e-4313-4846-b86b-c775db7ede67 And they really don’t like complaints about President Biden’s crass promise that his first nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court must be a black woman, especially embarrassing because Affirmative Action is now on SCOTUS’ docket. SUBJ False |
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5b909e36-4806-45e5-9c6d-6b096c030169 On current projections, absent government action, it would have been rapidly heading towards £6,000. OBJ False |
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883d3cb5-49b5-481a-8b53-ae8d42080d35 The most recent figures point to close to 500,000 households falling behind on rent, the highest numbers in over a decade. OBJ False |
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cf44ced5-0b2b-48d0-aec6-91b5443076a6 Unravelling this Thatcherite model of housing—neither YIMBY fantasies nor ever-growing varieties of nominally ‘affordable’ housing are serious responses—is the prerequisite to meaningful change in this sphere of economic and social life. SUBJ False |
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8b6116a9-b844-4219-a45d-178528cf6e53 But it is absurd to claim that housework is as difficult and dangerous as fighting a fire or walking a beat, unless things are ordered very differently in the Roberts household. SUBJ False |
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82a155d1-80b1-4c3c-a373-8b8e0c4142f6 Thus it may be untrue that some super AIDS virus is even now incubating in the vast human Petri dishes that the Third World's sprawling cities constitute, and will be brought here by immigration. SUBJ True |
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d30b2906-4fc9-468e-af83-ab845c3c1543 Assuming, that is, that environmentalists want to influence non-progressives. OBJ False |
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aba10cee-2ea5-41b7-bd69-9aebf436947e But here's what it looks like in practice. OBJ False |
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d4f7778d-0e72-455b-9d95-92de6d989578 [JF: Which emphatically turned out not to be the case. OBJ False |
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80ecdb77-283d-44f3-9b41-00af7ddfa629 They must adopt and champion an immigration moratorium, an end to birthright citizenship, and more forcefully, challenge the erasure of American heritage. SUBJ False |
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944cd3d5-ecd5-4f68-bf10-cc2bc09e37e1 That’s because the Sierra Club was bribed by a globalist billionaire named David Gelbaum who gave $100 million dollars to the organization, and used that leverage to stop them backing patriotic and ecologically beneficial immigration policies. SUBJ True |
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e645d739-2952-4b0a-906a-13193136e567 All of this amid falling pay: the most recent labour market statistics show the average weekly wage is £25 less this year than it was last year, while staggeringly, real weekly wages are still below the levels of 2008. OBJ False |
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9efbc35e-4d1c-46fe-a40a-64d13012d523 A careful reader of Who We Are can also trace the national demographic tipping resulting from immigration. SUBJ False |
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499b8a2b-af35-49b6-a645-40d7eaab4895 At a rally in January, Trump said that whites face discrimination that puts them in the back of the line. OBJ False |
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66eb9c75-28a6-45fb-8d30-8b3e48e4c2dc A brief interregnum—as the Conservative Party membership decided who should run the country—followed by a secondary interregnum—as matters monarchical are attended to—may well precipitate a fallacious sense that all is well and rosy in Albion. SUBJ False |
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3119b7f8-09c0-44f1-a698-02923972705e Americans at the grassroots are organizing in opposition to immigration, around and increasingly across traditional political battle lines. OBJ False |
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baa210af-4dc2-4b29-a8da-88987d361377 The last line of this NR piece was “Mr. Brimelow's book Alien Nation: Common Sense about America's Immigration Disaster will be published by Random House in February.” OBJ False |
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da207201-40ce-4ce5-a06a-70e89f29a0f9 Chinese crime, like Chinese cuisine, varies according to regional origin. SUBJ True |
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fb6c6565-36f1-4868-8714-5edf27b4c261 Of course, trying to corral a recalcitrant two-year-old at bedtime is certainly harrowing. SUBJ False |
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df08760f-d914-4a62-9a25-6b6ebfeed87f Ohio Senate candidate J.D. OBJ False |
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aeaf21fb-6a10-4258-95ee-9806ed17f57a It's hard for this book to go completely wrong, given the rich data provided by the Census. OBJ False |
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52a8fc30-405c-49e0-921a-d159f4f844cc Donald Trump, says Wing, is the “whole [almost certainly autocorrect for white] boy version of a Karen” and former education secretary Betsy DeVos as “the queen of Karens.” OBJ False |
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2264ff7c-170d-4417-9aa8-bb8793c0d2f6 “If another Karen tells me about her feelings,” she exclaimed in one tweet, “I might lose it.” OBJ False |
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2e133cb4-21c7-4876-ad00-6e35b5d5b137 This is well-known, and when not denying, the MSM either justifies it or encourages it—see a partial list of our coverage below: The third bemoans Trump’s attack on progressive prosecutors—many of whom are black—who spend more time on his business dealings than on crime. SUBJ False |
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b78168bc-031d-47c2-bc04-22130a6dc0f8 As an excellent recent Tribune column from Florence Wildblood shows, tenants are finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place: ‘either trying to find somewhere to live, competing with dozens of interested parties, or clinging on to what they have, swallowing hefty rent increases and putting up with substandard living conditions’. SUBJ False |
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7b7085cb-a71c-44b7-8cc0-1823ec89ca05 It’s also true that mass immigration, which was out of control already in the 90s, is more out of control today, because the American governments of the last 25 years did nothing about it. SUBJ False |
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579a0038-2956-4107-b3fa-0f6c996619fd At least a dozen GOP-controlled state legislatures are aiming to ban CRT in schools. OBJ False |
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7a9bcc31-cb2e-4154-be98-8bf7294f7dd6 "But it will probably just claim that housewives (""homemakers"") are an oppressed minority deserving a federal program to protect their rights." SUBJ False |
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c585cac5-c985-41f2-9596-a9f1ecc51ea0 But it needs to go much further. SUBJ True |
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1b422f02-948f-43c0-a39e-6ec6afe1ac4f "For example, Chinese immigrants no doubt deserve the ""model minority"" title pressed on them by the media and vote-hungry Republican politicians, at least in contrast to other recent arrivals." SUBJ False |
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aeb7173a-bf12-46be-b57f-63b738d30869 Portugal has announced rent caps—landlords can increase rent by only 2% in the coming year. OBJ False |
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7ac3a20c-f729-4aff-ae3a-1d1390beca4e It “directs…education programs for school-age children of Department of Defense personnel” and “provides support and resources to Local Educational Agencies throughout the United States that serve children of military families.” OBJ False |
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8de179e0-b0af-4ad5-8fa2-567c5d499d1e The mission of the Defense Department is to defend the United States from military threats. OBJ False |
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39af49f6-9e14-4156-87c4-eab3dff0d615 It may or may not be true that Mrs. Behn warned the British government, but it is certainly true that De Ruyter came and burned a lot of ships in the Medway in 1667. OBJ False |
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227c6969-fdde-43fe-bc30-946a2206979b Which means that How Many Americans?, like Lutton and Tanton's book, has a significance beyond its content. OBJ False |
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b7326980-b3e0-4157-bb5a-85b3676925af They wring their hands about Republican candidates and lawmakers who mention anti-white racism. SUBJ True |
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a7694e1b-0cf4-43f8-b0d7-6079dccaa707 Anti-white hatred defines the Democratic coalition. SUBJ False |
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4332344b-4218-4854-84b5-0aee517d5b85 They fret that Republicans are—gasp—embracing White Identity Politics. SUBJ False |
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e9f3fd62-9913-4179-8dbb-02bf9c59fc86 The anti-CRT messaging turned them out in record numbers. OBJ False |
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a4bc4e3b-4fb7-4c7a-a6ad-72ea82b7f4fe It must explicitly act for the benefit of white Americans. SUBJ False |
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791e618d-9c49-424e-9b91-452b6dec68ff [JF: Roberts updated this in 2004 with Who We Are Now—The Changing Face Of America In The 21st Century, and chapter 11 was titled “Our Changing Complexion.” Sample quote: “No single group changed the face of America more in the 1990s than immigrants. OBJ False |
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a3f45c37-8d34-4942-9a09-7e8d71902e4b Several states have already done so, to the acclaim of voters [GOP sees ‘huge red wave’ potential by targeting critical race theory, by Liz Crampton, Politico, January 5, 2022]. OBJ False |
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e29e52f6-4357-46c4-8400-3cb6da397b88 Especially after the famous victory that Julian Simon, the celebrated economist and immigration enthusiast, scored over Paul Ehrlich, the equally celebrated scientist and ecological doomster, by winning a bet that the prices of allegedly scarce commodities would fall over the next decade. OBJ False |
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28e733af-2883-44ff-8d55-dab820e42ccd A quick survey of the terrain regarding housing shows the seriousness of the situation. OBJ False |
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94da768a-37bb-4685-bbec-0736886983a7 On nearly every issue dealing with immigration, voters were more likely to vote for Vance knowing that he is an immigration patriot. OBJ False |
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8d6bf3e4-b30f-4037-ad45-77dd23cdac9d It’s the smart and natural thing to do. SUBJ False |
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b8d81c56-d881-4731-888b-58fe8101d3d4 A strong majority of Trump voters also believe that non-whites are favored over whites. OBJ False |
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b6e0fce3-6f14-4f94-896f-ca9b383088ce Which is a benefit of multicultural diversity that you will not read about in the New York Times—or on the Wall Street Journal editorial page for that matter. SUBJ False |
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f87774e0-5778-4026-827f-1cc3a84d8f91 Population growth puts far and away the greatest pressure on the environment, particularly from the perspective of those, like Dr. Tanton, who value wilderness for its own sake, as an amenity, rather than wailing on about imminent economic or ecological collapse. OBJ False |
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98140624-0d54-4ccf-b759-2352e4c09191 A sample of what the Lügenpresse thinks is a fire bell in the night: The first two articles attacked Republicans for bringing attention to the various states that prioritize non-whites for virus treatment. OBJ True |
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1ccb946b-24a5-4d85-82e7-e0816b81011a He is simultaneously a practicing eye surgeon and a formidable political entrepreneur who helped organize both the Federation for Immigration Reform and U.S. English (and more recently English Language Advocates, its harder-line rival). SUBJ False |
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a71349f9-de76-446c-81bb-db5a0b6dbacb And in the U.S., population growth is increasingly driven by immigrants and their descendants. OBJ False |
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fb0da41c-a5ac-48b5-9d75-fee1b2587942 They publish Dem Talking Point “fact checks” about truthful claims that Democrat states discriminate against whites in distributing treatment for the China Virus. SUBJ False |
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6959f024-2f3e-4a07-8a05-9cc249456c7c Scotland, too, has now joined the ranks of nations intervening in the private rented sector, announcing a rent freeze and moratorium on evictions, due to run through March 2023. OBJ False |
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d46cc831-3ad0-41df-a698-7ee7c3be44c0 "The blurb describes it as an ""unflinching, progressive voice,"" and it is." SUBJ False |
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442cbe44-4db9-4da0-825c-0602df6a4d9e In another tweet, Wing complained that “this lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too…I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS…we are not the majority, we don’t have power.” OBJ False |
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be67e8bb-aaeb-4f49-b39b-1bcdc3a4d0e4 It is true that we did nothing about it, and that the ships were burnt; but the report itself was a masterpiece of precision. Yes, yes.’” OBJ False |
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1e6bf869-72c6-4e0e-8c55-e1d658470ff9 Like the entire political class, and unlike the other authors under review, he seems serenely unaware that this is entirely the result of public policy—and undebated policy at that. SUBJ False |
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e880f0f6-7e20-4596-ad2b-1f854904fc65 DoDEA director Thomas Brady said: “Kelisa Wing is exactly the right person to lead our efforts in building on the foundational work done to support meaningful change in our organization.” Yes, she is. SUBJ False |
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233c3b2d-b31f-43c9-809e-d3905944dc09 Wing frequently expressed exasperation with how insolently white people dared to behave in her presence. OBJ False |
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91ca2a5d-1ca8-4252-b7a2-91a1d538e46e A remarkable 200,000 copies of this book are reportedly already in circulation, thanks to various anti-immigration groups. OBJ False |
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7636d762-d89f-4e40-b802-9ff9686ed265 With over half of social housing residents relying on credit or buy-now, pay-later services to cover their monthly essential needs, such an increase will no doubt bring greater hardship to a group whose incomes are already 40% below that of the median. OBJ False |
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85622c2f-5d16-4b34-a129-352b88467fa3 All of this reflects the political economy of housing—the political economy of renting, and of rentiers—that so shapes the contemporary UK economy: particularly so in England. OBJ False |
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9469f505-5265-4b69-a783-f20176d622f2 Earlier: Ariz. GOP Senate Candidate Blake Masters Appears To Be Running As An Immigration Patriot SUBJ False |
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47ae6294-fab1-42d5-b23b-28ac7b4ee1fe We may have faith that human inventiveness will prevail in the long run. SUBJ True |
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d2d1d03a-a0e3-4465-96af-3322fbfbfd3e Much of the book does indeed wail on about imminent economic and ecological collapse, complete with admiring quotations from Vice President Al Gore. (Anyone asked him about immigration?) SUBJ False |
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0c9b6914-522b-4bf5-bee7-09474de9217f Those over 65 now own almost 50% of housing wealth; rents, as I discussed in a previous column, hover around 40% of income. OBJ False |
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ef0d3898-7dde-4f77-a2ee-a62c5ea2e547 And during no other decade in the nation's history have foreigners so profoundly altered the country's complexion in so many ways.” The 2004 book also contains a favorable reference to the “browning” of America, which is totally not a racist thing to say if you’re in favor of it.] OBJ False |
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d62fce6c-0d07-48e1-96dd-afde866d48d8 Mostly it is because Establishment conservatives and liberals are uniquely allied in their complacency and complaisance. SUBJ False |
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8540179a-cde4-4441-ae04-bd94273a660b Amidst this backdrop the house price unaffordability bonanza continues: as Ed Conway of Sky News recently noted, where the average individual was paid £32,000 over the last year, the average house increased in value by £39,000. OBJ False |
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4bdab720-c753-4ff7-a4e3-25fe2ee0b375 "Here Mr. Roberts's reproduction of the conventional wisdom is useful, if unsettling: ""The sheer volume of newcomers,"" he says, ""may demand that if assimilation remains a goal [emphasis added] it will require more give and less take by the nation's non-immigrants than has been customary.""" SUBJ False |
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94b23e07-4978-4d12-9efe-9fcdcd59b1d1 The single issue that overcame all others: Mr. Buchanan's criticism of immigration. SUBJ True |
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4e4d7ffa-aeed-4dd7-b1df-5ec9c091fee7 By learning more about White privilege we can work to spend it. SUBJ False |
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e880f523-f826-4128-b3c9-da98747af8d6 Once her rancid Twitter feed started to get media attention, Wing protected her tweets, but the cat was already out of the bag. SUBJ False |
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03f131a1-518f-422e-a6c8-6e1a26d9c167 No similar edification can be derived from Who We Are: A Portrait of America Based on the Latest U.S. Census, by Sam Roberts, an urban-affairs reporter at the New York Times. OBJ False |
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d2e86ec8-b81d-4cfb-a2ec-b562fed6bd90 As is often the case, when assessing political economic phenomena affecting and afflicting the UK, particularly in the sphere of housing, one doesn’t have to venture too far to find alternative approaches. SUBJ True |
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ea2600e0-a670-46bb-a9be-fe98289e2473 Cucky pundits claimed non-whites made Youngkin governor, but the Republican candidate received unprecedented support from rural whites. OBJ False |
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4b236b0d-34e8-4f0c-9a95-df7a461b53c7 "My favorite: Mr. Roberts's throw-away line that housework (""or homemaking, as it is now known"") is ""as demanding a job as any outside the home.""" SUBJ False |
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33ed60dc-13b5-44f7-b682-e86eae34ec66 The likelihood of anything similar occurring in England presently seems slim. SUBJ False |
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9a7e4005-8a78-4fad-abbf-cb6781813008 Yet this strange anti-nation seems fated, if immigration continues, to be by early next decade the largest minority in the United States. SUBJ False |
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78fce583-32bb-46ce-95f0-e2302c9c0ee3 Even a Liz ‘no to handouts, yes to tax cuts’ Truss ministry, whether willingly or otherwise, has been forced to cover a serious chunk of this difference. SUBJ False |
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32b1e713-da4b-4790-8a78-f3f5803c4fc4 Now that the baffling, elongated, hyperreal coronation has occurred—no, not that one—and Liz Truss has become Prime Minister, a degree of intervention and action on energy bills has emerged, ahead of the looming socioeconomic catastrophe facing the country this winter. SUBJ False |
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45cc76ba-932f-4dcb-ab93-84612c459005 Though the devil is in the detail—as campaigners from Living Rent have been vigilant in stressing—this represents a hugely positive development. SUBJ False |
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89e4da1b-3fc8-4fd2-91b1-b10b92dff484 The fourth focused on Republican criticism of Biden’s excluding whites from the pool of candidates to replace Justice Stephen Breyer. OBJ False |
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47c97b8e-1821-4b8c-87b1-19251971d6ca While other countries bring in rent freezes and caps to help people face winter, guidance in England just says rent hikes should be 'fair and realistic'. SUBJ False |
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872972cf-62d7-4d4d-bc59-76aad046fcfd Privilege is like extra money in your pocket that you didn’t earn.” OBJ False |
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2cb2181f-f64d-497f-b83d-13487ea6b0a2 Amid all this, having as it does such a decisive impact on the UK economy, time should be spent looking at the way the cost of living crisis interacts with, and is exacerbated by, the political economy of housing in the contemporary UK. SUBJ False |
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413b57cf-3daa-4389-ac83-448163316f07 For intelligence, there is nothing like a keen-witted, handsome woman. SUBJ False |
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fdceff6c-c4e4-47cb-ac4a-4e20a03d9bc4 The book doesn’t just cast white folks (not folx, remember) into the outer darkness where they will weep and gnash their teeth. SUBJ False |
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e95cf9ea-ab4b-402b-829a-00f7f629c118 Republicans can hope for big victories if they oppose anti-white racism in the classroom and in public policy. SUBJ False |
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8c9be5e2-fccf-4697-b773-ea8c8f825f96 But in fact it was intensely rational. SUBJ True |
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9d5f50fd-3ea4-43b1-a03e-384226c0bac8 The “Sailer Strategy,” named for VDARE.com’s great Steve Sailer, is a proven political winner. OBJ False |
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c273aaad-2ddb-40c9-b22f-b4d062aa1ea0 Partly this is because of deeply deceptive advertising for the 1965 Immigration Act, which ended the forty-year immigration lull and began effective discrimination in favor of Third World immigrants. SUBJ False |
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87a12dc8-ed82-479c-bb05-0feadb886f3d A lot of subsequent unpleasantness could have been avoided if people had listened—or if Republicans had listened to their constituents—see Ed Rubenstein’s How A 1992 Moratorium Could Have Helped Preserve the Historic American Majority. SUBJ True |
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a415a267-9fc0-43c9-b5d4-a6a27b2b1c1a Some on the Right spin Trumpism as Moynihanian ends by Buchananite means. OBJ False |
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ecea61ac-bccd-4ceb-9be7-67e220b65ede If you are White you might feel bad about hurting others or you might feel afraid to lose this privilege….Overcoming White privilege is a job that must start with the White community…. SUBJ False |
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8f14010b-fff9-4964-9020-77b81ca75195 We would have been happy to buy them.] OBJ False |
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3303f472-4a24-4f40-a267-014b6a5afc11 The fight, however, continues. OBJ False |
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c7ecb649-8ff0-41ed-96e2-954fb64e72b9 Beyond all the double talk and cant, that’s what “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are all about. SUBJ True |
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d44715c7-1af7-4058-ba8c-ad469a4c152e [JF: Originally this said “(Copies of the latter are available from the former)” with the phone number of US INC. Tanton’s organization. OBJ False |
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35d399d8-136d-45f1-8025-31aad9816b4d Logically, however, environmentalists cannot be among them. SUBJ False |
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bab9d639-c9f8-4fd0-831f-ba85db258a46 So Americans can now savor Cantonese (vice and extortion), Taiwanese (fraud, money laundering), and Fukienese (violence). OBJ False |
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39e1167b-7132-448b-9daf-2822e8ffef75 [JF: They were declared the largest minority on January 22, 2003, by the U.S. Census.] OBJ False |
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603156df-c01c-4d9a-888b-7335793475f8 “If you're a white guy, tough luck,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said of Biden’s message on his Supreme Court pick. OBJ False |
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a0c896de-d710-43da-9021-1e4492acdd76 The Leftist Mainstream Media is worried about a GOP/GAP wave this election cycle. OBJ False |
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96b6f3cc-f385-421f-8334-8ac8bd484231 “I had some of her Antwerp reports in my hands not a week since, when we were looking through the Privy Council files, and they were brilliant, Maturin, brilliant. OBJ False |
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37a6f1fa-c4ce-4666-84c1-931da3b0ee06 They want white kids to learn to hate themselves, to put whites at the back of the line for health treatment, to discriminate against them in employment, and to open the borders to replace them. SUBJ False |
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653560f1-9724-4b19-9b54-5a629c70f988 Here's a larger version of that chart above: Eight-four percent of Trump voters say discrimination against whites is real and will greatly increase. OBJ False |
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bf729f15-b7f7-423a-a941-7ed40185b905 But it is not a logical impossibility. OBJ False |
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49397391-65ac-4573-9d98-73806488671d Peter Brimelow remembers him here: “A Citizen Who Took Up Arms For His Country,” December 26, 2019.] OBJ False |
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8cf115b3-7889-46ec-a9a9-923e63c947fe The publication by the Sierra Club of this explicit account of the inexorable relationship between immigration, population growth, and environmental stress certainly suggests that the other hiking boot is about to drop, and that this most powerful of liberal lobbies is about to act on the immigration issue. At last. SUBJ False |
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7ac985bd-238a-4478-a37e-7d8fd2362f0c In this capacity, he is editor and publisher of The Social Contract, the definitely unfrantic scholarly quarterly magazine that sponsored the book. SUBJ True |
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efb0b395-f6b3-4493-84e5-7500d1ab040e Republicans are prioritizing Critical Race Theory as one of their prime midterm issues, and some have had the courage to say it’s nothing more than anti-white racism [Blake Masters: You Have To Be Able To Say “Critical Race Theory Is Anti-White Racism,” by Tim Hains, RealClearPolitics, January 23, 2022]. OBJ False |
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b0520ed4-2d1a-461c-ad1a-99ed9b0d2cba John Tanton himself exemplifies both the ferment and the fluidity Out There, beyond the Beltway. OBJ False |
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9c6e272b-039b-42ef-8d5f-ff6c5275845c When a critic took issue with Wing’s claim that “racism is ingrained in the very fabric of our country,” the diversity, equity, and inclusion chief’s response was succinct: “Bye Karen.” OBJ False |
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0a4e3373-4e5f-4201-bf65-195e49b8f028 Population growth has its blind boosters, on whom it has not yet dawned that quality is infinitely more important that quantity. SUBJ False |
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f134434a-bef3-4f82-9638-249d4309a2a8 What all this indicates is how far from such a model of renting, still relatively widespread across much of Europe, the English private rented sector has moved. OBJ False |
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f489a801-a1a6-44d4-8593-87c860db04c1 [JF: Well, this, combined with Peter’s 1992 National Review cover story Time To Rethink Immigration, and the book Alien Nation, which was at this this time just about to come out, represents the start of the (repressed) immigration debate of the 90s. OBJ False |
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28120d7e-4a94-4549-8d1f-e5ff3d1d98c4 Leon F. Bouvier and Lindsey Grant project that the U.S. population will rise to 396 million by 2050 and 492 million by 2100—that is, nearly double today's total of 250 million. OBJ False |
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3e191455-a1a2-4aed-b5fd-79d6e4c44533 And against this backdrop, and with swathes of the media seeming more apoplectic about the comedian Joe Lycett puncturing the cosy consensus than the government consciously sleepwalking through a crisis so as to benefit from action upon Truss’ accession, there is a danger that Truss’ interventions will be treated as the be-all and end-all in terms of the cost of living crisis. SUBJ False |
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08cb2a89-0154-4354-9ac2-d78f02c5e42a The surveys show it. OBJ False |
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9477599b-f8fa-4db3-9d17-91a26e44df0a There are indeed cases of societies that have destroyed themselves by triggering ecological catastrophe—notably the Mayans, who exhausted their jungle soil. OBJ False |
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deb21eeb-86a2-4d83-8b72-bb3c74c218ed [JF: I wrote in March 2020 that “A number of immigrant-borne diseases have struck American since then, and it's always considered racist to mention it.” SUBJ False |
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82eadee0-37f9-4a72-a5a0-1bbc3c1fd3f0 Stephen Maturin, a key character, had only heard of Behn as a playwright, but the spymaster corrects him. OBJ False |
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35616325-be0c-45f5-9d02-307a859f6af2 The fact that the highly professional environmental lobby in Washington has been so silent as immigration has soared is a measure of the extent to which it has been seduced by its liberal allies. SUBJ False |
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c7b74720-b489-4cb2-af8a-adb6b91a08a4 Yet Wing herself, so full of herself and certain of the righteousness of her own views, is the quintessential Karen. SUBJ False |
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f77e3bac-cd88-4edb-9b45-136fc015d096 Wing, who calls herself a “woke administrator,” demonstrated that she would be a perfect person to serve as a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer when she took to Twitter and unleashed her hatred against white people. SUBJ False |
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9ab7260c-07ec-4dc8-9378-01730f192c45 So in just four or five years, Republican voters have awakened to reality [More than half of Republicans think minorities are favored over Whites in the United States, by Philip Bump, Washington Post, June 29, 2021]. SUBJ False |
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da0f5ab6-49cf-4238-871c-4b669fb349e8 What could possibly go wrong? SUBJ True |
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4ea360e2-d38e-475d-81c7-17e2e741f785 But, alas, The Social Contract Magazine is no longer published and while its archives are still online, all the physical copies of back issues were destroyed by the new management at US INC, including issues that we more or less wrote ourselves (Spring 2008—A VDARE Reader and Winter 2006-2007 “Mass immigration and the 'National Question'”). OBJ False |
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ecda95fe-2699-478b-b4ef-9d013936f04d [JF: Obviously, immigration wasn’t stopped: the current population of the United States is 329.5 million—it passed 300 million in 2006. OBJ False |
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96168362-052e-4873-9caa-e3da5bc6e032 This Census category was created by political pressure and reflects neither race, nor culture, nor even language, since many Hispanics can't speak Spanish. OBJ False |
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33dbc95e-e540-4bdf-9896-f4e42088944b pic.twitter.com/ebaKIycQW5— Joshua Tait (@Joshua_A_Tait) February 7, 2022 While the Leftist MSM mock the idea of anti-white discrimination, the vast majority of Republicans surveyed believe it’s a real problem. OBJ False |
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d785d7a6-c8a3-4675-a84c-a57629f312a3 Yet he reports that in the 1992 presidential primary he voted for Patrick J. Buchanan. OBJ False |
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a8574fea-839c-4785-bf8c-e3cad60c6fca When Wing got her diversity, equity, and inclusion job at the Department of Defense in December 2021, the Department proudly said that she “has been involved with diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts for students and schools over many years, authoring several books on the topic.” OBJ False |
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836d171f-3262-47d4-9552-447704aebdac There are indeed cases of societies that have suffered disastrous die-offs because population growth outstripped their technical and institutional capacities—notably Ireland during the potato famine. OBJ False |
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4dde2fd9-844d-4a82-972d-ef475f1735a8 Now, this angry, self-righteous racist oversees diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which, according to a Tuesday Fox News report, “provides K-12 education to the DoD community in the U.S. and all over the world.” SUBJ False |
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56a1c548-f084-465c-a55c-02cb874d079b It is frankly a handbook, almost a work in progress in its frantic pack-rat compilation of press clippings, the assimilation and accuracy of which left me sometimes uneasy. SUBJ False |
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61568966-3432-41e4-a6ad-c2ae27bca57b She told us that De Ruyter was coming to burn our ships. OBJ False |
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e3cb5bc6-2ceb-42b9-ad72-cf31395c04a7 Only 38 percent of Trump voters care about the much-hyped discrimination claims of non-whites [84 percent of Trump voters are worried about discrimination against whites, by Maureen Breslin, The Hill, October 8, 2021]. OBJ False |
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35ff689f-c26e-40ef-b85b-e0a4ac18eefd It says reassuringly: “There is hope! OBJ False |
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079a09db-baad-417f-9bfa-35d72bfc3146 But what about the short run? OBJ False |
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1a8992a7-8686-4e96-b4b9-f10fd54e75a9 To paraphrase her hero—in a manner which even the Laffer Curve-loving subsections of her party would in private admit—at this juncture, there really was no alternative. SUBJ False |
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b733cbc2-41ed-4ffd-851e-d22cfe525338 That can happen again. SUBJ True |
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0e29b48c-d622-4286-8cbd-35e667a24b52 The MSM is right to fear that white identity politics will play well for Republicans. SUBJ False |
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b5261758-20c9-4afd-b4ca-cfa26f3418e5 If the New York Times intends to reverse a generation of brainwashing women to despise their traditional roles, that would be nice. SUBJ False |
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24291601-3770-4045-844a-0bfdc3612947 This time around, the immigration issue has just snuck up and mugged the American nation, as opposed to the protracted debate before the last immigration cut-off in the 1920s. SUBJ False |
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a71c5988-63bb-4e60-8cbf-c8c62d3f994e Demand creates supply, however, and you can now read about this and many other delights in Wayne Lutton and John Tanton's The Immigration Invasion, a treasure trove of facts on the most critical but worst-covered issue in American politics. SUBJ False |
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18cd6eed-3aa4-48fd-b097-afd2fedab550 Where Denmark, Portugal, and France respectively are capping private rent increases at 4, 2, and 3.5%, the UK government thus far has only commented on increases in the social rented sector—and here, they are proposing a 5% increase as their preferred solution. OBJ False |
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03efc279-f1a9-498b-8d38-d5b75e8b6954 Anti-white identity politics is the glue that holds together the Democrat Party’s fringe coalition. SUBJ False |
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af39fe9a-8f61-48ae-942d-cb30e68776b1 She is exactly the right person to do what diversity, equity, and inclusion departments everywhere are designed to do: sow resentment and division and hamstring the actual efforts of the organization foolish enough to establish one. SUBJ False |
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73f16a1f-da16-4e9c-81f0-bc24a5a09753 It’s full of what you would expect: “White privilege hurts a lot of people. SUBJ False |
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a6a8f6f7-7579-4244-a705-80598c6b0128 And in France, too, government action is limiting the ability of landlords to raise rents—in this case, capping any increases to 3.5%. OBJ False |
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c49e2d7b-6bd0-4d41-8931-4a95c80861e6 In 2016, American voters elected a President who ran on a platform of patriotic immigration reform. OBJ True |
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edf70da3-91ff-4754-80e6-db1a992ad03a And wouldn't it be (secretly) reassuring if, as John Tanton likes to ask mordantly, the theorists of innovation had ever actually invented anything themselves? SUBJ False |
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60420f5b-f44b-4676-a749-d8a1bad77a87 But the MSM does have a point about GOP rhetoric finally targeting anti-white racism. OBJ False |
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eac1267d-c8c2-494c-879d-0837f12c4783 Vance’s pollster found that the issues that most animate GOP primary voters deal with race and culture [J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race, by Alex Isenstadt, Politico, February 7, 2022]. OBJ False |
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9d05cec9-9f0f-4aac-8702-e694cb6ef2d1 The plain fact is that the GOP base wants white identity politics. OBJ False |
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93db29d7-05c1-4bee-acc4-969ebc681a8b If you’re a patriotic American, black, white, or whatever, who believes in the equality of dignity and rights of all people, regardless of race, Kelisa Wing, the Department of Defense’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, hates you. SUBJ False |
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d3a7c906-fbbb-4987-afc2-778e7079389b "For example, by reading carefully you can pick up enough signs of social pathology among Hispanics to refute the hopeful neoconservative contention that their ""family values"" are worth importing." SUBJ False |
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0ff59567-45ef-41fd-a74e-622283a4d658 The GOP must do much more to show it’s the party of white Americans aka the party of the Historic American Nation. SUBJ False |
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41eccebb-1efc-437d-9358-aef8d38c6645 To put this into perspective, this is almost 100,000 households more than fell into arrears during the first year of the pandemic. OBJ False |
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78cb4484-2683-422a-8340-074ba1efe456 “CAUdacity” is “Caucasian audacity,” and you can see how marginalized poor Wing really is: she had to stop the session and lecture this uppity white woman about how powerless black folx such as Wing herself actually are. Indeed. SUBJ False |
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6df9d06c-5ac4-4bd7-87e7-c33626f7e6e8 Anti-CRT rhetoric won the Virginia gubernatorial race for Glenn Youngkin. OBJ False |
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17bb1ca0-2a4b-4415-b31c-3ac8d7df0c1d He had links with Planned Parenthood and with the campaign to legalize abortion in Michigan (before the Supreme Court deprived Americans of the right to decide the question, a development of which he creditably disapproves). OBJ False |
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e74aa315-54ac-42e4-824a-daa4037c08b7 Yet no environmentalist hoping to influence non-progressives can afford to ignore this economic point. SUBJ True |
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93559357-4aa9-462b-a02f-5956e9649de8 [JF: Dr. John Tanton was, of course, the great American immigration patriot who can be credited (or blamed and demonized by the Treason Lobby) for founding the modern immigration control movement. OBJ True |
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dc63dbc4-2f4e-4ffe-9081-0480ff34a72e In this sense, listening to the wails of Mr. Bouvier and Mr. Grant may be a sort of spiritual and intellectual discipline. SUBJ False |
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0d0c5c78-1533-4424-bbcf-56ec6f6fa666 And this wailing betrays the fatal tendency of non-economists: to view resources as absolutes and ignore the market's ingenuity in rationing by price and finding substitutes. SUBJ False |
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82936e71-748b-4506-a788-2e2acad34065 "Thus, while the word ""illegitimacy"" is now apparently banned, nearly 30 per cent of Hispanic households are headed by a single parent, compared to less than 19 per cent among whites. (The black rate tops 58 per cent.)" OBJ False |
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7ee9e66a-ca34-405b-9105-3d6d852b1b33 A 2020 think tank study of Trump voters found that they were primarily defined by their opposition to immigration and political correctness and their affinity for white identity [The National Populist Illusion: Why Culture, Not Economics, Drives American Politics, by George Hawley and Richard Hanania, CSPI, November 30, 2020]. OBJ False |
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80219740-e549-4307-8160-520d63953ec6 But if immigration is stopped—even as late as the year 2000, by which time another 10 to 15 million immigrants will have arrived—Americans seem likely to stabilize their numbers voluntarily in the 300-million range. SUBJ False |
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c38d69a8-3ad2-4b0b-aad5-4d7b26b0e9fe Yes, the feted rise in energy bills—now partially offset by belated, albeit welcome, government intervention—would have represented a cataclysmic economic shock. SUBJ False |
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48bbaf14-d23a-49ec-a565-4baf9acd1b75 But in the kingdom of the blind, or deliberately unseeing, the one-eyed pack rat is king—or at any rate can keep his snout pointed in the right direction. SUBJ False |
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ba789da0-801c-43ce-9d77-f5aac5d6c4aa The cost of living crisis is exacerbated by our long-running, ever-worsening cost of renting crisis—but this has not arisen newly in the way the energy crisis relatively has. SUBJ False |
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6348acc1-d8a3-419d-a132-a0fd02959e4b She doesn’t seem ever to have demonstrated a level of self-awareness that would have enabled her to realize that. SUBJ False |
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3053c77c-238f-470e-a3ae-af27b8ff4db6 So the exhausting white people in Wing’s meetings couldn’t have been “folx,” but Wing has more than enough racist anti-white tweets to maintain her woke bona fides. SUBJ False |
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d2fff27d-5159-4d75-8960-8a69dc9fb4a0 Dr. Tanton's choice may seem astounding viewed from the perspective of Washington's ritualized Left-Right trench warfare. SUBJ False |
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5d061713-5eaf-43ff-aa26-60c3e7ee1338 In every sector of policy—education, immigration, health care, even foreign affairs—Democrats emphasize that their policies will shaft whitey in favor of the great POC coalition. OBJ False |
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8745d4da-91c9-4538-acee-b0e7b1c413fd Who will redistribute the hoarded wealth that has exploded beyond all reason in the author’s lifetime? SUBJ |
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43de04ad-d0ac-4852-9b4e-cf0bca066188 What we don’t need is the indiscriminate influxes that include criminals, drug-traffickers, deadbeats, and terrorists. SUBJ |
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e00b66ee-720a-47e3-a0fb-0e2445b89af6 The Social Distance Between Us shows every sign of emulating the critical and popular success of Poverty Safari. OBJ |
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0b95d635-f821-45dd-9f33-b05d63629195 History shows that McCarthy and McConnell, like so many Republican leaders, collapse after demands from the left. OBJ |
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5ba3117b-3ef9-4815-acb4-a263d3c816bc So while it’s not hard to reach a banal point of agreement that Tory politicians are not inherently evil, this should not distract from the extreme ideological assumption that governs Britain and is shared by many: exploitation is, in fact, virtuous. SUBJ |
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9b8e52e6-7b46-4d1f-86f7-1dbd05bc1f0e We can never forget that when the pressure was on in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, protests in the U.S. Capitol, McCarthy was recorded on a phone call agreeing that President Trump should resign and criticizing his actions on that day. OBJ |
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b77ca544-f648-4826-a5b0-5e415b085bcf Over the past few decades, very few real fighters have been in positions of power in the Republican Party. SUBJ |
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118029dd-02c0-4e7f-b36c-9899b44b073d I just find it a ridiculous argument,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard University Latin America specialist and the author of How Democracies Die. OBJ |
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4d4ca193-1e45-40bc-90c4-e43eec20f78c Meanwhile, the radical political project of marketising every conceivable aspect of life in contemporary Britain continues. SUBJ |
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54c95e90-9c05-49ff-a38b-38694106a9c2 Their posh communities don’t have to deal with the drug and sex trafficking, overdoses, crime, and daily disorder. SUBJ |
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b271fa02-d780-4800-933b-3fbc172800be It’s only when you have fifty illegal aliens end up in a very wealthy, rich sanctuary enclave that he decides to scramble.” Due to his successful policies in Florida, donations are flowing into this campaign coffers. SUBJ |
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13ea05f2-b22e-4ebe-ac38-e7d8ee1fab10 DeSantis believes in freedom and is constantly fighting the “woke” left on a range of issues. SUBJ |
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27000e85-0554-4e50-a0a8-197b5fd14c58 While salvos are fired at the Scottish Government too, there is nothing in this book that would be out of place in Holyrood Magazine, the in-house journal of the Scottish political establishment, which has featured the author on its front cover. SUBJ |
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74506e44-6d22-4f19-aee3-1b5c3f566284 Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan illegal aliens to the tony enclave, reasoning that if its citizens are serious about their compassion for migrants and their love of diversity, they’d jump at the chance to prove it by actually spending some money on them. OBJ |
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8369f798-629d-409c-9590-453bc9007e49 Lax standards for illegals who were on the path to citizenship, such a allowing offenses like DUIs or other misdemeanors, didn’t bespeak a serious effort to thoroughly vet preconditions for citizenship. SUBJ |
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b016acca-7d46-4c96-9220-3155c79d65c9 This is, primarily, a book about individuals. OBJ |
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5f1815ce-34c6-4012-a8af-5860061ace31 Even with multiple warnings from experts and scientists to leave fossil fuels in the ground, new gas and oil projects continue to be approved in countries like the UK and the US, with fatal consequences for places like Pakistan that are most exposed to the dangers of the climate emergency. OBJ |
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857b5178-79aa-44bd-b8f6-666b567dd6a6 Some of them talked a lot about racism and bigotry, or waxed lyrical about the poor. SUBJ |
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b95e92e7-620e-46c8-9b42-f9761e2cfafc The logic that has informed The Social Distance Between Us sees previously political problems become medicalised: ‘Social connection strengthens the immune system, helps us to recover from illness faster and can even lengthen our lifespans.’ OBJ |
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ff376756-2e3c-46b8-8e09-a4bd20d50baa Instead of hiring legions of IRS auditors, that money should go to hiring more border-patrol agents. SUBJ |
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f941b093-3b4f-46db-9f79-f6e60cfdc85f This is what is in noticeably short supply among the ranks of GOP politicians, resolute leaders with a backbone. SUBJ |
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66c2cceb-cdf9-422d-a596-72a00654b8aa Pakistan needs its debt repayments suspended with immediate effect to ensure that much needed resources are not sent out of the country to repay wealthy lenders at this crucial time. SUBJ |
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d143ee87-7c80-420e-a0a0-ed7a8e92ecc9 “Don’t forget, he’s a friend of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega,” Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator for Rio, wrote of Lula. OBJ |
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d205cd1b-8a9d-44fa-a87e-7f6d8f9416ef Evangelicals still prefer Bolsonaro, with 48% of them supporting his presidential bid. OBJ |
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8ab3c62a-c138-4a31-baf6-62b638902682 In the U.S. House of Representatives, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is more conservative than McConnell, but he is not as aggressive as needed to combat the horrific agenda of the Democratic Party. SUBJ |
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9ddb1476-5463-402d-8956-e36f0d8a2dd4 And all they knew about Mexicans was that they were noble farmworkers abused by corporate agriculture, forced to slave away on land stolen from their ancestors by greedy gringos. SUBJ |
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340a4d75-2600-4ae2-8fd0-ccbcc19bad29 Rich countries promised finance to help lower-income countries deal with the impacts of climate change as a recognition of its responsibility for historic carbon emissions. OBJ |
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63812ca2-6f5a-4a2a-8bb7-7bd50f92361c He said, “I also was a little bit perplexed when I heard that the president is scrambling to get his Cabinet together to try to address the fact that you have governors who are helping to relocate illegal aliens to sanctuary cities. OBJ |
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093e795c-d010-40db-8024-eb7e5183b1b5 What if the poor aren’t the problem? SUBJ |
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678fa551-1ad8-4727-a200-e84eef6bfb82 DeSantis is on course to win a strong re-election after barely defeating an extreme leftist four years ago. OBJ |
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5d74327f-beaa-4915-90c6-c19ffce9963e Though older generations of working-class Scots radicals coalesced around social movements, communities and still living traditions of working class self-reliance and mutual aid, McGarvey cuts a lone figure. OBJ |
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9f338e5f-c357-4b08-b533-fe7474c1ddc1 Often, his news conferences are sparring sessions with progressive reporters who are editorializing and not acting like objective journalists. SUBJ |
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5c333ea3-a721-479f-900a-2a08ba2cd335 The proceeds, however, will not go to the expelled migrants, but to “building up a reserve to assist situations like this in the future.” OBJ |
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3dc6f90d-958b-43ae-8539-fd8620d93c97 Early chapters on the degradations of labour in call centres, or the psychological abuse inflicted on welfare claimants, give way to general, broadly familiar observations about the rise of Thatcherism and New Labour. OBJ |
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c8cd5091-8d0a-401f-a1fc-8482f97fae92 Worsening global economic conditions had already pushed Pakistan to the brink of economic collapse. OBJ |
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025a2178-cc26-474d-aa46-2c0a42286b88 The Social Distance Between Us also slams the growth of the ‘poverty industry’—the range of initiatives that emerged following deindustrialisation to manage social problems in working-class communities. OBJ |
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e41bbf7b-bcea-419e-9d63-013018b04a75 While the author attends to the power of community and connection half way through, these do not go on to become the building blocks of the confusing political manifesto that closes the book. SUBJ |
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e2827c69-bd5e-4c47-b67c-aa1786f823b1 These factors make Pakistan the eighth most climate vulnerable country in the world—and yet it is responsible for less than one percent of global carbon emissions. OBJ |
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a0eb5fb6-54cb-4f79-bd8a-f17745fb02b8 Warming global temperatures are making them melt faster and earlier, creating glacial lakes and adding vast amounts of water to rivers and streams. OBJ |
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4d95f4ff-b85a-4018-8f9a-5e4341cb4058 This means first securing the border, as Donald Trump had made a good start at doing. SUBJ |
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a94559de-b137-4304-83d4-823b914ed8e6 Private lenders have long used these shamelessly predatory actions to profiteer at every turn. SUBJ |
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162cd32e-0f63-4d11-b2c2-ef3801453422 But it is the result of individuals who believe that the pursuit of rational self-interest offers by far the greatest boon for the rest of society. OBJ |
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04577eb0-b2da-4335-b662-23218d2e983f The author would go on to bag an Orwell Prize. OBJ |
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53d51215-dc44-4c64-bf3b-01ca43d69fac Making policy happen at Holyrood is framed as a targeted, evidence-based, consensus-driven process, that often does incorporate lived experience and a wider range of voices than at Westminster. OBJ |
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e488b839-3c96-467a-8a0c-a8ad3e88b83a According to DeSantis, Biden did not “scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had Americans that were victimized by criminal aliens that he let across the border. OBJ |
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44a3a130-3774-4ec1-a267-a90e918ae982 Those numbers are a real “humanitarian crisis.” There are many reasons for the bipartisan de facto open-borders policy. SUBJ |
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73805bd5-3ced-4002-abb9-030f71122eac Overall, the leftist boasts a 16-point lead over Bolsonaro with less than two weeks until the election. OBJ |
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a6afdb82-49b8-4541-8dd3-ce6ef0c49c60 In late-twentieth-century Scotland figures like Jimmy Reid, Jim Sillars, and Tommy Sheridan would all claim the inheritance of a proud, defiant, masculine, working-class politics. SUBJ |
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f003e5c6-6826-4f92-be3e-a24fd1b58a3e Ortega’s re-election followed a six-month crackdown on Nicaragua’s opposition which saw all of the former rebel’s main challengers detained or forced into exile. OBJ |
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bb329cca-2a24-4dc1-9693-8f0b4e7f3abd If they are repaid in full, they are set to rake in huge profits. OBJ |
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5beb5acc-7d89-400b-a021-39adbbba0713 Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s minister for climate change, issued a stark warning that Pakistan is ‘at the ground zero’ of ‘flash foods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, heatwaves and now the monster monsoon of the decade.’ OBJ |
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855968e7-ec6c-4be2-bfda-8df8b73df8a7 Who, you wonder, is supposed to be surprised at the combination of authenticity and articulacy? SUBJ |
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e5321308-7bad-4494-936c-1d72fdd46e37 More challenging follow-up questions go unasked. SUBJ |
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17dfe341-a891-4c59-9aed-566612516be0 These are just a few of Donald Trump’s policies that substantially reduced illegal border-crossings that under the Biden administration have swelled to 4.9 million, according to FAIR. OBJ |
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1db706b2-6847-4d14-989a-1af2da0724b6 The Democrats’ decades-long dream of creating a “permanent majority” coalition of college-educated whites and minorities requires letting in more and more migrants, legal or not, to increase the number of dependents on government largesse. SUBJ |
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9f63b7e3-2ed6-4f0d-91e4-19ecc96941c9 Pakistan is not an isolated case: 54 countries are currently in debt crisis, and many of these countries are also on the frontlines of the climate crisis. OBJ |
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0b0ed991-b18b-4fff-a381-d899411e46fd Pakistan was already in a debt crisis before the flash floods unleashed widespread destruction—with $12.5 billion of debt repayments due this year alone. OBJ |
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c73d9d4d-9b03-49e5-834f-e52242b3a772 Whether it’s rate of intermarriage, tastes in fashion, and now political preferences, students of Latino heritage are not as culturally distinct as they were when I was growing up. SUBJ |
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5f9062a0-6ef3-4ee5-ae67-3719727c0666 Amazingly, he was calling for President Trump’s resignation even though he clearly urged his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” during their protest. SUBJ |
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0c819317-aa6e-4a59-95c2-c1b1676cc5db With his successful policies, people are flocking to Florida to participate in their booming economy. OBJ |
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70854ef6-76aa-4926-89fe-561ee45a8df8 Pakistan causes less than 1% of global carbon emissions, but a third of it is now underwater – and rebuilding is going to be hamstrung by its $12.5 billion in debt repayments due this year alone. OBJ |
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4bb1c22f-d905-4575-9bc6-07f98f9f1d58 Its aim, based on rhetoric popularised by Burns, is to treat the cycle of violent crime as though it were a disease. OBJ |
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33c5ef7b-c7fe-4624-9b73-b510786b867a Exceptions to this rule were tremendous leaders such as Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump who were accomplished and effective in their roles. SUBJ |
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6d5cf639-6b90-4b5e-b2d3-e4cae0213b49 In day-to-day life, as explored in one of the book’s most compelling passages, the capacity to modulate vocal chords and swap out vocabulary for different contexts is a matter of great social significance here; this can come across on the page too. SUBJ |
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b0109f48-836d-4baf-b8dd-9c633e1fd2bb For now, border-state governors like Ron De Santis and Greg Abbot have done the country a great service by exposing the hypocrisy of open-borders Democrats, as well as giving their constituents some first-hand experience of the dangers and disorder of an unfettered immigration they haven’t had to experience first-hand. SUBJ |
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36497f8b-aa77-4366-9491-f2b64f099a21 Over the years the promoters and leadership of leftist movements have been mainly middle-class and affluent, like today’s cognitive elite “woke,” “parlor pinks” and “limousine liberals” who espouse the principles that they can afford and that fit their upscale life-styles, making them superior to Middle America’s hoi polloi. SUBJ |
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79f3c246-5eb5-42c6-aa22-ed6968baa1dc The 2013 bipartisan “Gang of Eight” Republican champions of a “path to citizenship,” then, were not entirely wrong about the conservative inclinations of Latinos. OBJ |
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ce042ff4-5185-4f6b-9bbf-2e2e684b936b Throughout America, our major urban areas have been destroyed by dangerous left-wing policies enacted by Democratic Mayors. SUBJ |
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d0956ba7-ba3d-45f4-ac90-1a076e6d6bce And most important, the vetting process must not just sift out the unwanted, but identify those who can contribute to the well-being and success of this country. SUBJ |
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d4c6663a-3875-4099-8719-f6c8e3f2e43a ‘It is only because Conservative politicians are unaffected by the consequences of their policies […] that they persist with their bombardment of the poor and the vulnerable.’ OBJ |
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14b65c64-453f-4069-aa4e-bd507d710046 So far the scaremongering appears to be failing, however, with Lula launching a charm offensive to reassure Brazilian Christians. SUBJ |
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744a54b7-ad6f-4c4d-8b5f-dbce087b9352 With a third of the land under water, 33 million people affected, and the death toll over a thousand and rising, the human and economic cost is set to be astronomical. OBJ |
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bc9c0c8c-69d5-46f7-9b79-3f8ddd87f6e9 Most were working class or poor, including the white Dust Bowl migrants––the vast majority of whom showed no signs of enjoying “white privilege.” SUBJ |
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a5e3ca74-d0b9-437d-9bf7-10f4d67848be Currently the rate of illegal entries in El Paso has been 1300 a day, while Yuma, Arizona this year has seen its population of about 100,000 more than double to 250,000. OBJ |
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d44d778c-68c3-4b21-8886-2ed6feedfe3f You didn’t see him scramble to get his Cabinet together when we hit record fentanyl deaths, which, that fentanyl is coming across his open border. SUBJ |
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97afd40d-d5bc-4ac8-8bdb-919a8cf7cef3 The biggest insult, though, of this hypocrisy is the fundamental ignorance that underlies it. SUBJ |
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74020065-0378-4b54-9da6-7a3b603d4133 When Hillsborough County District Attorney Andrew Warren claimed he would not enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban, and refuse to prosecute certain crimes, while supporting gender transition treatments for minors, the Governor removed him from his office. OBJ |
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27255909-5b2c-4cb7-9ef4-c7b3f5a4df40 All they had were leftist clichés and Dickensian melodramas. SUBJ |
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ffd25e37-3178-4d56-8967-342e935c65d4 According to DeSantis, “Prosecutors have a duty to enforce the law, not pick and choose which laws they agree with.” OBJ |
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bbe27add-1a14-45fc-9a72-e6877a1834f7 The two crises of climate and debt are inextricably connected. OBJ |
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ab1b39ab-f8aa-4295-b59c-b90e0626a63a The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain, McGarvey’s difficult second volume, contains some of those winning ingredients. OBJ |
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dedfb154-90d3-4939-9720-85c3d45b730a Pakistan’s Floods Show the Climate Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis OBJ |
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143f8a96-f047-4311-bc53-771b6cb4cad1 A veteran of many rap battles, you can’t review McGarvey without anticipating a counter-strike. SUBJ |
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fac12946-98a4-4c48-b1a7-6a4ce4012b98 Now, he didn’t scramble to get his Cabinet together when we had millions of people illegally pouring across the southern border.” OBJ |
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08b3e5ba-20b6-4c55-8ba7-ff0c8e1018b5 For a writer with their ear to the ground in Scotland, the reality of a largely middle-class, anglicised readership is always problematic. SUBJ |
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829e7072-98b0-418f-9498-8bba9887f8fe However, the long-standing holy trinity of cheap energy, cheap food, and cheap money that has kept the lid on a long-simmering social crisis across Britain is about to expire. SUBJ |
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19238042-9711-4914-886c-faed50cbbe0e Lula has been facing groundless allegations that he would attack Christianity since the first of his six presidential campaigns in 1989. SUBJ |
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540d7b8a-7a10-4a4f-b9fe-a1f61f9a78dc DeSantis also observed that Biden paid more attention to what he and Texas Governor Greg Abbott did instead of the worsening crisis caused by the open border. OBJ |
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bf116bda-3fe1-47ba-82a4-6b843abc76a1 More than 4,000km and an ideological abyss separate the capitals of Nicaragua and Brazil, where an acrimonious race for the presidency is under way. SUBJ |
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10f66e07-bbbc-41e1-8e47-0b014ca536ef The rise of these interventionist projects, argues McGarvey, has created a kind of inverted culture of dependency, in which many organisations employing university-educated workers on good salaries require the ‘fuel’ of impoverished people to justify their existence. OBJ |
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4e5cdd06-d84e-4bfa-a5c2-df02d630e2b8 “Do these guys really believe that, having lived in Brazil for eight years under Lula, that Lula would suddenly turn Brazil into Nicaragua?” Levitsky wondered. OBJ |
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933a16a7-16ff-4bb8-b5c6-032bb2780aee Given all of these impending shocks, and the desperate need to defend the conditions for life everywhere against endlessly expanding markets, is it really such an indulgence to demand surgery instead of treatment? SUBJ |
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36f81f9e-8bcc-4179-9fb8-fd2166fa10f6 One silver lining of this mess is the growing number of Latinos who are breaking away from the Democrat plantation. SUBJ |
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ad50208c-3ad2-4470-89ef-73b0081c77d6 But the target of $100 billion a year of climate finance by 2020 has never been reached, nor is it anywhere near the trillions of dollars needed to meet the scale of the crisis. OBJ |
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07b49741-c736-4f13-802d-71f89a8376ae This is not the type of leadership the Republican Party or the country needs during this critical juncture. SUBJ |
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97b11e07-4819-45a1-b478-45d41c8e2c0c This did not display much of a caring attitude from leftists who love to tout that they support “sanctuary cities.” SUBJ |
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78e5ecd4-fe10-42fb-9612-2dfa670f2ada But the Central American country has found itself at the centre of Brazil’s election debate as its far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro seeks to weaponise Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian crackdown on the Catholic church to attack his leftist challenger, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. OBJ |
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15c6e9d2-0c23-4983-83c5-381bc6fe2a56 After the migrants arrived in the progressive playground, community leaders were outraged. SUBJ |
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1d000667-75ab-4958-b8b8-ab961f2895b7 Both Scotland’s First Minister and the nation’s most prominent billionaire, at odds on so many issues, agreed on the book’s merits. OBJ |
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fdfca429-9818-4153-a646-1c7e8f38dde2 This anxiety speaks to two decades of Scotland being run by moderate centre-left devolved governments still shaped by New Labour’s founding assumptions and influenced by the rise of the ‘professional managerial class,’ a group increasingly framed as at the source of the nation’s ills by certain quarters of the Scottish left. SUBJ |
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e1f2bc0e-37c7-4418-bef4-d508cb9af32b Either way, most of the writing in the first section of this book is eloquent enough to speak for itself. SUBJ |
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48342b62-788d-4c39-b6fe-57285ea86152 “Maybe, but I don’t think they are that stupid. OBJ |
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c3fe9970-68c9-474a-9397-8fefd55d8caf It caused a full-blown emergency, resulting in the National Guard being deployed to remove the migrants. OBJ |
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0ff1ab19-5059-4fb7-9cda-ea42788f7cee In bridging those spaces so often demarcated by class, all understood, like McGarvey does, that authenticity is a performance, a tool, a weapon. SUBJ |
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693985db-8f31-4624-b835-997aff5c5a23 Instead, the town-fathers and citizens whined about the strain on their resources and the disorder caused by unvetted illegal aliens swarming their town. SUBJ |
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d4b47f6e-bd23-4fea-8c81-378150cdf6fb Inverting that statement would land closer to the mark, but doing so would require a shift of emphasis away from the cultural markers of class and towards the dominant material project of British politics over the past three decades: the creation of security for asset-owning classes at the expense of any other form of social stability. SUBJ |
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3a157d0b-63d0-4887-9f61-708e2d8c9c4d The problem was they never came up with specifics about how to sort them out from criminals and deadbeats. SUBJ |
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38cf030c-e97d-4b0e-a424-21bb5a85d485 With an outstanding record, DeSantis has turned a state that was considered “purple” into a solid “red” state. SUBJ |
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1e60efd5-9253-4d6e-a1cc-2fb252aa9411 McGarvey acknowledges at the outset that the Scottishness of much of the material is the result of restrictions in place due to the pandemic—his original intent was to travel more widely across the UK. OBJ |
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27de8a15-b23e-4557-959b-e29d315c8d23 This is $46 million more than President Trump has collected and a shocking $159 million more than the amount raised by former Vice President Mike Pence. OBJ |
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f2f01cef-b77e-406d-85aa-a014b44c709b Despite this, the people of Pakistan are paying a deadly price for a crisis which is not their fault but has been created in the Global North through centuries of fossil fuel extraction. SUBJ |
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82f706a0-e6f5-4e65-98a8-090d400f6cea It’s an impressive feat. SUBJ |
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18e9ba1f-cbcd-4a5d-94bd-19e25d8265d7 Martha’s Vineyard’s complaints are also particularly shameless, claiming a “housing crisis” in a community with thousands of empty rooms. SUBJ |
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bcede141-be07-40eb-b263-8a034230683b Darren McGarvey has made a career out of excoriating middle-class wankers, then getting those self-same middle-class wankers to pay him for the privilege. SUBJ |
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1ce51d0d-5593-41cd-ab2e-4126e1112fb8 This is partly because the remit of the Scottish Parliament is constrained, but mainly because middle Scotland likes things the way they are. SUBJ |
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07cba0ea-fcd1-4866-9106-91c1ce022e64 Crucially, this finance should be delivered in grants, not loans. SUBJ |
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505e73f9-0c52-48a4-9bfd-91412ecbdc98 What has changed? OBJ |
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36da38d8-94c6-4a08-abbf-aafb0a117e6f There’s an old argument that all Scots writing prose in English translate themselves to some degree. OBJ |
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a7115f1f-7573-4116-8a65-5ba1aabb6dfb “Have a look on Google to see what he’s been doing to priests and nuns.” On Tuesday, Silas Malafaia, the radical televangelist who Bolsonaro took to London for the Queen’s funeral, shared his ally’s offer to shelter Nicaragua’s embattled clerics on Twitter, claiming Nicaragua “was supported by Lula”. OBJ |
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a2043b28-98cb-4cb3-b41d-f3c349b649fb In the United States Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a deal maker who is constantly abandoning conservative legislation to please his friends on the “other side of the aisle.” SUBJ |
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e112cc62-1868-4588-b198-45c8b3624b3a As for illegal aliens, they parroted activist lies like “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” So too today, the champions of open borders and sanctuary cities are massively ignorant about the conditions in communities swamped by unvetted migrants, let alone the complex diversity of every ethnicity. SUBJ |
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36dfa717-9e5a-4679-8631-69f44593dbdc On Tuesday Bolsonaro hammered home his message at the UN general assembly, declaring: “I want to announce that Brazil will open its doors to receive the Catholic priests and nuns who have suffered persecution under Nicaragua’s dictatorial regime.” OBJ |
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2b42aba9-e269-41d1-8314-54e9981dd3ce Instead, the mayor called in the National Guard to ship all those “diverse” victims of callous Republicans to a military base on Cape Cod, an act of NIMBY Pharasism. SUBJ |
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6da4dce7-c924-4259-be2f-21a2b7e4a571 This shift reflects the assimilation that is happening despite the illiberal identity politics that permeates our culture, especially in schools and universities. SUBJ |
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aa4b5daf-5fd2-4970-96de-f42b9abf720e And because of that ignorance, they support policies that make things worse for everybody else except the cognitive elites of all ethnicities who congregate in tony enclaves where the only Latinos they know, apart from fellow credentialed elites, make their beds and mow their lawns. SUBJ |
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414166d9-6e51-48a7-b506-4d78150cd151 Attempts to break out from its constraints and compromises, to add intellectual heft and analysis to the more passive acts of giving voice and witnessing, are to be welcomed. SUBJ |
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45bdc4c1-3c9b-4303-8bbb-c9ef4752bcfb The flood in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. OBJ |
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c7a95603-4568-44fe-98fb-5d6fdc797183 Bolsonaro has repeatedly cited Ortega’s anti-clergy offensive in the run-up to Brazil’s 2 October vote, hoping to convince God-fearing voters Lula’s return to power would result in similar persecution. OBJ |
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514ab9c2-dbd7-467e-9224-df449f8863a5 But such well-founded points sit alongside a reluctance to really consider who holds power: ‘thin-skinned idealists’ are lumped in with corporate elites as equally out of touch. SUBJ |
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8a6d25dc-77ac-4ee2-a4c6-9d457688646f McGarvey’s issue here isn’t so much one of style (he knows how to use language as a leveller) but rather position: he is constantly moving between the role of writer and translator. SUBJ |
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18fdb24a-5eec-4b05-9ee3-76d46567f29f This year’s monsoon season started earlier and has lasted longer, as heavy torrents have added relentlessly to the build-up of excess water. OBJ |
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45434991-a012-473b-a294-61d7cae66566 The weaponisation of Nicaragua is a rehash of Bolsonaro’s 2018 campaign when he used the collapse of Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela to make spurious claims about what might happen were Lula’s Worker’s party (PT) to win power. SUBJ |
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32374e30-fda2-4abf-9543-239406b6d921 The latest polls suggest support for Lula is actually increasing among Catholic voters, rising from 52% to 53% this week according to the pollster Ipec. OBJ |
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cf645520-21b1-4dcc-ac33-adcde74945ea “If Jair Bolsonaro leaves power, Brazil won’t become an Argentina or a Venezuela – it’ll go straight to Nicaragua,” congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro tweeted last month. OBJ |
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0afb3222-195b-4325-9eb9-69abaf58ed67 McGarvey muses, ‘As much as I loathe inequality, blaming rich individuals for it has never made much sense to me.’ We are warned against cathartic ‘billionaire-baiting’ then later told that ‘The Left’s central preoccupation must always be class politics.’ OBJ |
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dbd7863a-a3f1-44c8-b16a-65660ac40373 The result is a morally preening political rhetoric that worsens problems like uncontrolled illegal immigration by proscribing obvious common-sense solutions such as upgrading border security, including building a wall; keeping those claiming asylum in Mexico; and Title 42, which allowed for increased expulsions. SUBJ |
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b6798127-5106-40e0-8140-e90eb2ad833b According to established narratives, elitism in Scotland is generally frowned upon and the hardscrabble rise of the ‘lad o pairts’ celebrated. OBJ |
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7c03c841-7582-4ae6-bfce-6ca35e366185 This means that by the time we get to a final menu of perfectly decent ideas for reform, the material or community basis for the kind of movement that could drive these is no longer present. SUBJ |
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84e4b37a-9c2e-4c5f-b3a5-f81e19cccc8b International Monetary Fund loans have been used for years to make interest payments to reckless lenders—a further $1.1 billion was released this week—while the debt has continued to grow. SUBJ |
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d90f8912-8556-455b-94b7-8e6c427989c0 I learned this from the experience of growing up in an environment exactly the opposite of Martha’s Vineyard. OBJ |
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b9ba8ddb-9206-40ed-941e-588e2e5ffd24 The country faces both the immediate challenges of immense displacement, homelessness, hunger, and the spread of water-borne diseases as well as the longer-term costs of rebuilding and reconstruction. OBJ |
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0196b66a-bac8-411d-8755-3d46812b470f Perhaps there are people from all walks of life who need to hear about these intuitive treatments for social ills, but they can add up to a form of class politics that is curiously apolitical. SUBJ |
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13b775ad-409e-43d7-a977-b549c9e137c3 To oppose these destructive policies and the powerful forces in the Deep State, the media, special interest groups, Hollywood, our universities, and labor unions that provide financial and political support, the GOP must have especially strong leaders to fight back. SUBJ |
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66152662-738d-4df5-b0f7-7e7cecfd61a6 He doesn’t marshal his considerable polemical powers to demonstrate that the rentier-class are. SUBJ |
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16d5be2b-b1ce-4ef9-be8d-ce5365e8abf4 There are various points in The Social Distance Between Us where the author has anticipated the critic: pointed reflections on his elevation to the big-league make you wary of being seen to demand a working-class writer stay in his lane. OBJ |
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979fcd95-c7d2-490f-b8c1-e65137017bc2 Republicans are doing well in Florida thanks to his popularity and his ability to effectively communicate with the voters of his state. OBJ |
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feeb9d3f-f23a-42b6-a5c7-afc7a02bfd70 I think they’re just saying that because they want to legitimise or justify authoritarian behaviour.” However dubious the claim, it is one Bolsonaro and his allies continue to peddle, primarily in the hope of winning over evangelical voters, who represent almost a third of Brazil’s 156 million-strong electorate. SUBJ |
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2ea2ddfc-e164-4f77-8922-547e4866b706 Even though Warren sued the Governor and wanted to be reinstated, DeSantis refused to retreat. OBJ |
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7f091b1e-fb5b-4ff8-ba6e-6a554fef1534 Clear-sighted memoir and reportage jostle for space with compelling observations about the resilience of class in contemporary Britain. OBJ |
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48680ef4-bcba-4088-86ca-7d723a91b8ef McGarvey asks, finally. SUBJ |
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e3c62031-963e-437a-b413-12f4339af2b6 When attacked by the left or the media, he fights back. OBJ |
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e547245c-6139-41f2-b640-90b11b4f5d2c Perhaps it’s included for the benefit of listeners to Radio 4’s Book of the Week. OBJ |
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2f7bbc45-f899-451a-b7ba-52ad84b038ac Pakistan has over 7,000 glaciers, the largest number outside the polar region. OBJ |
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e8fd8a96-942f-4968-b3dd-a8796c30c9d3 Scotland’s lauded Violence Reduction Unit, recently emulated by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, employed McGarvey as rapper-in-residence. OBJ |
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33cc9e23-3620-4158-927b-d0d0e1be00ee But I’ve heard things aren’t going well there,” Lula said last year, urging Ortega not to “abandon democracy”. OBJ |
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7fa037e2-eaea-48d4-957e-0ed13c75013f A significant marker of that sector is a tendency, initiated by Scotland’s former Chief Medical Officer Harry Burns, to view the social consequences of deindustrialisation through the lens of public health policy. SUBJ |
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ec3021a0-5e5d-41ac-84b7-1bfe6ade7913 You therefore can’t understand the rise of McGarvey without considering an age-old hunger for organic intellectuals in Scotland. SUBJ |
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6f9a9908-1bfc-41c3-ad79-49645bb1fac9 The debt crisis has been exacerbated by the economic fallout of the pandemic as well as soaring food and energy prices driven by the war in Ukraine and speculation on commodities in financial markets. OBJ |
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0b1e113d-8aba-47d5-87e1-935d38331eb5 The Biden administration, along with Democratic majorities in Congress, is pursuing the most radical agenda in the history of our nation. SUBJ |
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09278a21-9827-4ee8-889f-87504f886213 Unless wealthy creditors such as the International Monetary Fund, rich governments, and Western banks and hedge funds take concrete action on large-scale debt cancellation, debt will continue to act as an accelerator of climate chaos. SUBJ |
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0eafcc16-167d-450a-a04a-b81f72ea0350 These contradictory instructions feel a bit like they’re designed to distract from a weak central argument: that Britain’s problems primarily stem from ‘proximity gaps’ rather than a fundamentally unjust distribution of wealth and power. SUBJ |
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4c6be61f-c39b-4fb9-8fdf-06eccaef5f03 Together, Bolsonaro and his three sons boast nearly 16 million followers on Twitter and 20 million on Facebook. OBJ |
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ab864875-6271-40ac-addf-cdde351e98e8 But like most of the virtue-signaling Left, this playground of the economic elite has exposed itself as full of posers unwilling to actually do anything about their vaunted “principles”––a long tradition among Western leftists. SUBJ |
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7f4af6f2-117d-491b-a260-01324baea480 His politician sons, Eduardo and Flávio Bolsonaro, have been warning millions of social media followers over the supposed threat of a Nicaragua-style future under Lula. OBJ |
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75454414-222d-4914-b5a6-0581bbe07675 Such figures have the nous to defy humble origins and tangle with the big ideas of their day. SUBJ |
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2e2876aa-cf23-4242-afc6-f34886a58cbc Unfortunately, for President Trump, the attacks never ended, and he rarely received the support he needed in the United States Congress. SUBJ |
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a9e24d83-68a9-4de0-b885-df400f112a32 There are cautionary notes against demonising Tories. OBJ |
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a959f8bd-265c-49d5-97de-3b4c27834b9c Or they just slander as “xenophobic” and “racist” the mostly working-class people, including Mexican-Americans, blacks, and Asians as well as whites, who have to live with the crime and disorder. SUBJ |
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0ab5c3fd-59e9-408b-a4a1-58e0cea3ecdf All of these three in turn became skilled communicators, at ease on both the shop and the studio floor; the community and the lecture hall. OBJ |
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38fe992e-7c3d-4a72-9389-1106fa20f026 Finally, the issue is not immigration per se, as the open-borders people claim with their Emma Lazarus clichés like “we’re all immigrants.” This tactic serves to deflect from the real problem: our broken immigration system that needs reforming. SUBJ |
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2db531db-10c3-4594-8826-28de2975a13c Then the rich denizens of Martha’s Vineyard started a GoFundMe fundraiser to panhandle ordinary Americans for money to handle this “humanitarian crisis” that’s already been resolved simply by kicking the migrants out of town. SUBJ |
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75dfbe17-4967-4b46-80fd-32f49c18110f “It’s been 10 years since I last had contact with Nicaragua. OBJ |
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98a40a9a-0747-4950-9c15-d7107e805207 It was a brilliant way to expose the hypocrisy of the left. SUBJ |
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2384ce3a-0cfc-48ea-832a-f210146ae529 Of course, I never met one who had actually lived among minorities, especially the poor or working class of any ethnicity. OBJ |
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f3483f74-73f9-469b-9ad7-bab0d59d281c Much of the credit must be given to Ron DeSantis. SUBJ |
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97611b95-267a-4374-83f6-e3e8186e04ba His TV documentaries on class and addiction mix biographical candour and provocation with a persistent commitment to exposing the systemic roots of social sickness. OBJ |
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375ce6f7-d753-49df-881b-92ea805f9223 I know this because I’ve watched it happen over my 44 years of teaching in a Latino-majority university. OBJ |
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3da445f1-3f73-4cb0-813d-09164b71d93a This may not be the result of sheer malevolence or hatred of the poor. SUBJ |
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7a3509d3-ddfa-4658-a77f-6800790e8af0 McGarvey is aware that much of his readership is well-off and he is wary of catering to voyeuristic tastes with an excess of ‘harrowing’ or ‘brutal’ output. OBJ |
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2e39c944-b196-47a3-9039-a94ca9bec07e DeSantis is showing the Republican Party how to lead, and voters, as well as donors, are enthusiastically responding. SUBJ |
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9e8d9e58-37df-4641-8bf6-a6e8b6ccf991 “There is just zero evidence in his governing that he would ever behave like dictators in Nicaragua and Venezuela. OBJ |
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615a18de-fac7-4a9f-b708-3f1f0af6c025 It is best understood as a book packaged for export, stamped with the lived experience of working-class people in the West of Scotland but actually offering up many of the core ideas that dominate mainstream Scottish politics. SUBJ |
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ed2f9f9b-2d6a-4964-ac7c-f2b357fa4ed9 I don’t know what’s happening in Nicaragua. OBJ |
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752f5b81-686b-41d4-b197-24d92337aa8a What’s puzzling about this is the fact that McGarvey himself is very much at home within Scotland’s roomy social sector. SUBJ |
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725bd335-498a-4983-8484-60b16b463b6c This is not a matter of aid or charity, but of compensation and reparations for centuries of fossil fuel extraction and carbon emissions of rich governments and corporations. SUBJ |
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bafa3f56-e9c8-4e9c-a3e7-d207215f1fea “Family unification” policies should stop. SUBJ |
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165f8e86-67d0-4af7-b0dd-c78222994c8e Entire towns, vital infrastructure, homes, farmlands, and crops are being washed away. OBJ |
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8640339d-6ff5-4c85-860e-836cd1ebb222 This dangerous policy comes cheap for both cohorts, since the impact of millions of illegal aliens will not be felt by the cognitive and economic elites who promote unfettered immigration. SUBJ |
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67c1d310-c447-4312-bdb3-f308078aa393 Without urgent action to tackle the debt crisis, Pakistan will continue to take on more debt to meet the huge economic costs of both the debt crisis and the damage created by the floods, while still making repayments to its wealthy creditors. SUBJ |
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b49f14e9-dc10-4ac8-a1c1-33545942987c The most effective political leader in the country today is Florida’s Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis. SUBJ |
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8fb0a277-0d3f-49fb-96ed-7ffde79c42a0 Then maybe they’ll start rethinking their disastrous immigration policies. SUBJ |
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65a94f7d-6a89-4aba-beec-932f4242c565 They talk, like D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, about a “growing humanitarian crisis” as if it were something new rather than a problem that border-states have been dealing with for decades. SUBJ |
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10a268ea-7c68-4aeb-a1f5-495f532b9af2 That fact is what makes the relocation programs of border-state governors like DeSantis, Arizona’s Doug Ducey, and Texas’s Greg Abbot so politically brilliant–-now “sanctuary” mayors and governors and their citizens can experience first-hand the costs of their lofty principles they’ve been flaunting on the cheap. SUBJ |
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30770c00-b493-443c-a656-60d1246d7f3a Texas border-town Del Rio has had 15,000 enter in just one day. OBJ |
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258da86b-8aba-4b39-9df1-986931341f99 But Lula’s evangelical vote share this week rose from 31% to 32%. OBJ |
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08f35e0e-a76a-4b61-8be3-0fc022031319 There’s polemic directed at the ‘The Left,’ particularly its approach to trying to leverage crisis amongst communities that have seen constant waves of disruption and chaos. OBJ |
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930c956b-fceb-4cc8-ab3e-daf45ec94bfa There are two ‘Acts’ to this book, but it reads like two separate works: the first presents crumbling social systems from the perspectives of working-class people, the second offers take-downs of various factions within British politics. SUBJ |
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2e0e10cc-4bb9-4805-9985-3b9d0198b134 But the hypocrisy of the Left and progressives is nothing new. SUBJ |
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e719b9b1-0d45-4a21-bf8c-eafe8dafd152 That debt should be cancelled. SUBJ |
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a6799710-aae4-4a5a-9b4f-a29a78a479e4 More than three decades later such scare tactics have been turbo-charged by social media. SUBJ |
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5ae82be2-a1d0-4e35-a9f7-8514fcd28d1a The book creates its own kind of distance, building out from the immediate and tangible to the remote and vague. SUBJ |
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f74a48a1-030f-427e-ba0a-a7cbac387da4 Meanwhile corporate plutocrats want lax immigration protocols in order to stock the pool of cheap labor. OBJ |
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5c262d4b-8717-4492-951f-4bcd31a9285e But debt repayments to wealthy creditors should never be prioritised over human need—a fact even more true in the face of this extreme catastrophe. SUBJ |
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a920e3b1-60a5-40db-b85c-aa9ae1650def It is estimated that the extensive damage to the country will cost at least $10 billion. OBJ |
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5b5d8783-5a31-48c2-94af-f22f5260c917 Trump never called for an overthrow of the government, an insurrection, or any type of violence. OBJ |
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b6c152e1-cb30-48bc-8c7b-fa7fa7e6723a Instead, there are lots of apolitical homilies in the second half, entitled ‘Fucked, Left, Right and Centre’—as though the author is glancing back nervously at his readership’s disparate political leanings. SUBJ |
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68dd0b86-75a0-45f6-aec2-aae46f01df91 To make matters even worse, the finance that has been delivered has mostly been in the form of loans, not grants. SUBJ |
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95bf5656-39a0-45ae-8eec-7961b6dc6630 It goes back to the beginning of Marxism. OBJ |
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dc4ad712-6ce8-4de9-9493-5c0f768d0e11 Today, the GOP is saddled with unimpressive and docile leadership in Congress, considering the massive problems that are facing our country. SUBJ |
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140e00eb-8bdf-471b-92c7-5185c541fc8c Still, the author remains a creation of his home nation’s sometimes confusing approach to class. SUBJ |
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1a583603-ee01-4e67-830e-a7c2bc875bff He should take lessons from the stalwart members of the House Freedom Caucus. SUBJ |
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51923e5c-d3ce-49df-ae00-a0bf1c316f55 Self-proclaimed “sanctuary city” Martha’s Vineyard, one of the richest and whitest communities in the country, has turned out to be not much of a sanctuary for the illegal aliens they claim to care so much about. SUBJ |
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2dde34d9-60d3-46d2-a463-1d0d6524ce21 Then again, as a middle-class wanker (certified as such by working-class family members), I would say that. SUBJ |
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1862ff1a-cf7a-4b04-b0b2-f940c5ae4069 And rich, polluting governments should also set up a fund for loss and damage to enable lower-income countries to fund rebuilding and reconstruction following climate disasters. SUBJ |
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c1fa1b06-9174-4ba5-9348-92e29777956e DeSantis noted the irony of President Joe Biden criticizing his decision to transport migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. OBJ |
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44d5910c-8ccb-498e-bdcf-d1ef600caf4b Most of us know that given our declining birth-rates, we need immigrants. SUBJ |
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dd6d349e-378a-4615-9756-e968d5a672be Barack Obama, who frequently lectures “bitter clingers” about their xenophobia towards “people who are not like them,” owns a huge, 29-acre estate in Martha’s Vineyard that could easily accommodate all 50 Venezuelans. SUBJ |
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e0a3de7c-adb7-4145-b811-8eed6ca69457 ‘I possess a frame of reference which a university-educated arts worker may not,’ he notes, before explaining that his work with young offenders is informed by his own lived experience of violence. OBJ |
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b3ba5acc-4aa6-4e05-ab03-1dd94fb511a7 Rich governments also need to stop shirking their responsibilities and scale up the climate funding required to the tune of trillions of dollars. SUBJ |
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a375ebc0-2244-4e48-b55a-a49d6061bb0c As both a candidate and President, Trump was especially successful as a counter puncher, responding in kind when he was attacked. SUBJ |
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a30709e5-5226-4410-9f82-7b028161f66d Karl Marx came from the upper-middle class, and his financier and collaborator Friedrich Engels was the scion of a wealthy Prussian textiles industrialist. OBJ |
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3cc2ce94-2d92-423b-8e86-d16b055728c5 This decision was met with howls of protest from Warren’s Democratic supporters, but it was also greeted by staunch support from the state’s law enforcement leaders. OBJ |
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a104488a-0ddf-43f2-9f45-443ce725fa8b About 80% of the people living around our ranch were so-called “people of color,” mostly ethnic Mexicans, the vast majority legal. OBJ |
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18c1d485-e004-44ee-8348-140f157dd842 “I don’t think anyone has ever taken such care and ensured the freedom to open churches and practice one’s faith as I did,” Lula told a rally of evangelical supporters earlier this month. OBJ |
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277ff574-23df-47e4-b0e7-31f4a4d87129 It wasn’t until I got to UCLA and started interacting with mostly white, mostly affluent professors and students that I started questioning my callow leftism. OBJ |
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8348aa20-a65d-4b3c-b5eb-bc7d3e7cc83f But the main problem with The Social Distance Between Us is structural. SUBJ |
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a591988e-9264-41d7-a122-c06ce37fc82a But authenticity has its limits. SUBJ |
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22fbfc4b-9c74-4f60-a362-a707fda0ac75 These lenders include Western banks and bondholders that have purchased bonds at knock-down prices. OBJ |
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dbaa3b3e-ad1d-44a8-bd81-713176e75a9a A longer-term solution would involve cancelling Pakistan’s debts down to a sustainable level to enable the government to put people’s needs before the profits of wealthy creditors. OBJ |
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470e1a74-f945-40b4-8df5-777415ab332c Lula has sought to neutralize Bolsonaro’s attacks by distancing himself from Ortega, a revolutionary hero turned authoritarian who has governed continuously since 2007 and secured a fourth consecutive term last year through elections opponents called a sham. OBJ |
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cc4b50e5-5df4-469f-96f8-bea3b5b88f45 The debt crisis has meant that Pakistan continues to make its debt repayments to foreign creditors, even though this involves essential resources being diverted away from building climate resilience and investing in essential public services, leaving the country at the mercy of climate disasters. OBJ |
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60d1af09-d5f9-443b-a614-7c8a078dc6fb Since January 2019, DeSantis, along with his political action committee, has raised an astounding $177.4 million. OBJ |
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6be17e0a-c359-4d36-b249-84158c60f149 Today, one person stands out as the type of politician the Republican Party needs. OBJ |
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6b01c721-8c87-4404-b8f8-be774d7e664a Meanwhile, documentary film maker Ken Burns by implication called De Santis Hitler, and Hillary Clinton directly called him a “human trafficker.” OBJ |
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946b293e-9f9e-42c5-8948-4889f6b4b8ef We need to get serious about immigration, which means specific reforms and ending blue-state nullification policies like sanctuary cities, as well as not letting corporate interests override national interests and security. SUBJ |
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a2ee6c4f-8860-4daa-a7b9-0f473fa2f483 In one recent television interview Bolsonaro appeared with the word Nicaragua written on the palm of his hand. OBJ |
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ce449e36-1a4b-410d-a000-1c829bdfe146 Experts describe the Bolsonarian allegation that Lula – a moderate two-term president from 2003 to 2010 who enjoyed good relations with both Catholic and Protestant leaders – would close churches and jail clergy as ludicrous. OBJ |
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181e1769-a7f3-4cd8-be91-d0d793471dbb Then there’s the hysteria over relocating illegal border-crossers, something Biden’s Feds have been doing for months––an estimated 10,000 just to New York. SUBJ |
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62cff7b0-e459-4cbe-b534-6a814a50302e The poverty memoir is an old, popular, well-established genre. OBJ |
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dfd1bc2d-5419-46fd-84a1-ac4d2ee2138d It doesn’t tinker with the underlying social settlement, however. SUBJ |
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e398e3aa-2af1-45d4-9672-d709d50b6aed Asylum claimants must be kept in Mexico while their claims are adjudicated. OBJ |
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7db63c04-f58e-4b77-93d4-d1e22fb7a376 Another example was the Governor’s move last week to fly fifty illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. OBJ |
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1f703ae9-0468-4b33-ae3e-fc3368f334a4 Pakistan faces a deepening debt crisis to pay the costs of a climate catastrophe it did not cause. OBJ |
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