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Danes Buy Themselves a One-Legged Nigerian Pirate

Paul Kersey and Jared Taylor marvel at Danish stupidity — and so do some Danes. The hosts also discuss DOJ stupidity and Kamala's quest for the black vote.   Thumbnail credit: Konflikty.pl via Wikimedia Commons

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
And with me is, once again, my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
And today is October 15, 2024.
Well, welcome back.
Welcome back, Mr. Kersey.
Could you tell us a little bit about your Caroline Carolinian adventures over the last several days?
Yeah, you know, I had the pleasure.
Well, I wish I was visiting under different pretenses, but I had the opportunity to go to Sawanoa, right outside of Asheville.
It's a small little town that was unfortunately hit and devastated by the...
By Hurricane Helene and the floodwaters.
They had an unprecedented amount of rain that made matters worse when the hurricane then hit.
They had to release the levee, the levees from the dam, or else it could have been catastrophic.
There are still hundreds missing.
And I just wanted to go up there.
I had the opportunity to go with a church, some friends, and I went.
And yeah, just seeing Primarily white people who were impacted was very emotional.
And to help out what I could, I just wanted to do that because having read that FEMA and the state government, the federal government were completely absent, it's all with my own eyes.
I didn't see any FEMA. I saw the Samaritan's Purse group going around and doing just tremendous work and volunteers.
Almost all white people from every corner of the country was there lending a hand and showing I do want to add that in talking with a lot of the local residents, I noticed there were a lot of illegal aliens, Hispanics, who didn't quite fit the average impression of what you'd think about when you go to Western North Carolina.
And you could tell by their cars that they didn't have this dust, this mud on them, so that they weren't impacted the way the white people who were coming to get provisions and supplies that were being handed out.
You could tell that they weren't really impacted.
And locals said that the Hispanic population has augmented considerably over the past three years since Biden took office.
And I have done some research and Asheville and that area are where a lot of these people have been resettled by these.
If you remember the Biden flights that took place a couple of years ago where people were being flown from Arizona and Texas all across the Southeast.
This is one of the areas where a large number were apparently resettled, Mr.
Taylor. And it was difficult to help these people because they didn't need help.
They were obviously there to take advantage of the handouts and the goodwill of those.
And I actually had to walk away a number of times because it was so infuriating.
Having to see them explain and try and delineate in Spanish their needs.
And it's like, why am I having to have an interpreter?
And so that was one of the more unpleasant aspects of it.
But I do want to commend all of those who were part of the Redneck Air Force.
They were there at the Harley-Davidson location, had the opportunity to speak with a number of these just incredibly powerful.
Brave individuals who, they all donated their time.
They're all ex-Special Forces, Rangers, Green Berets, Navy Seals, trying to help out in any way they could for search and rescue and do what they could to bring some peace and stability.
But I do want to say one story.
I talked to a pastor who, a member of their church, when the floodwaters hit, There was no communication from the local government because the cell service had completely gone out.
They didn't have Starlink at that point.
They had no idea what was happening.
And their home, Mr. Taylor, was flooded very quickly.
They ended up losing all four of their children in the floodwaters.
And that was a difficult story to hear as a father of young children.
You, of course, have two children.
And that was a difficult story to have related to me.
Wow. Well, you know, I know somebody else who's been down doing relief work.
I think he's still there.
He's been at it for a week or ten days now, and that is John Hill.
A collateral descendant of Confederate General A.P. Hill, and he has just done fundraising on his own.
He rented a big truck, and he has been buying chainsaws, he's been buying generators, he's been buying all the stuff that's needed right there on site, and he's doing wonderful work.
So yes, it does really make you reflect on, do we really need this federal government that is increasingly hostile to us?
Of course, a central coordinating agency would have been a handy thing if it were doing what it's supposed to be doing.
But I'm so glad to hear that there were so many people out there.
We are a generous people, and it is great to see the spirit of generosity in action.
Well, thanks very much for going down there, and I'm sure the people that you helped were very, very grateful.
And again, it's good to see the spirit of American generosity in action.
Well, Mr. Kersey, it seems almost anticlimactic to go back to our usual commenting after the experiences that you just related and the terrible hardship that those people went through.
But as usual, we will start with comments from listeners.
We have a listener who says, last week's episode, Mr.
Taylor reported on an article about the effect of immigration in Sweden and twice highlighted the importance of his source being a mainstream news publication.
I'm afraid that was incorrect.
The publication in question, SamNit Society News, is one of the oldest and most read dissident publications in Sweden and it's closely aligned with the Sweden Democrats party.
But, of course, the news in the article that Mr.
Taylor was quoting is correct.
It was a story about the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malber-Stinnergaard, who said it's so much easier to integrate those who are similar to Welcome to
mainstream news site. He says that not only has it been stigmatized, it's even changed its name twice. It was once Avpixlot, meaning depixelated.
That was in 2017, and before they'd call themselves politically incorrect. At the time it was founded in 2008. Founded in 2008 and still going strong, that's good.
He does say, our listener says, I can offer redeeming consolation the fact that the many decades of misinformation and obfuscation from the mainstream media have made many Swedes into avid readers of such dissident or alternative news sites and Samnit that's the one I was quoting, had 3.4 million visits in August of this year, eclipsing many mainstream news sites.
So, that's all very well.
I apologize to readers for having said that this is a mainstream site, but it's good to know that these dissident sites are doing so well.
Here's a comment.
A listener writes, I am a police officer in Washington state.
The amount of migrant and minority juvenile crime we're dealing with is just absurd.
And all the while, DEI is pushed.
The state criminal justice training center manages the certification of all state police officers.
It is continuously pushing mandatory DEI trainings, such as the intersection of the Holocaust and policing.
Can you believe that, Mr. Kershaw?
Kersey? Good grief.
How are they supposed to think about the Holocaust and how that affects their policing?
And gosh, are they supposed to be especially nice to Jews?
What in heaven's name?
And then also LGBT aspects, Asian culture, Native American culture, etc.
It says these are all at least four hours long.
And if you don't complete them by a certain date, your police officer certification gets revoked.
He says, He goes on to add that Washington is a sanctuary state and prohibits us from dealing with immigration enforcement.
This is just so crazy.
He says, This is a typical story from all around the country.
Here's yet another comment.
This is quite a thoughtful comment, I thought.
It says, in your podcast, you answered a listener's question about whether whites should go to college, and you said they should.
I agree, but only if the listener has the aptitude to complete college.
If he doesn't, then that's really bad advice.
He says, this reminded me of a book I've read called The Case Against Education by Brian Kaplan.
He says, we as a society spend too much on education.
And he thinks individuals should get as much education as they can ably complete and up through the graduate level.
However, he says education is mainly a proxy for employers to assess new recruits, and most of the skills that they will learn to be effective on the job will be learned on the job.
In other words, the diploma just gets you in the door.
Professional schools, such as flight training, mechanic school, they really do teach the stuff you need to know.
The worst thing you can do is attend college for, say, three or more years and then drop out because you've wasted a lot of time, a lot of money, and not gotten the credential, the diploma that employers are looking for.
Everyone should graduate from high school.
However, if you're struggling in college, drop out.
Cut your losses. Learn to trade.
If a student is up to it, he should finish a four-year degree and then get a master's.
But this fellow Kaplan, who wrote The Case Against Education, advises against getting a PhD.
He's an economist, so he looks at everything in terms of costs versus benefits.
That sounds like pretty sound advice to me.
Although, I would add one dissonant note.
I suppose I am a romantic liberal arts student, and you can get a view of the world that you would not get by studying history and literature, things that are not necessarily going to make you much money, and that even the credentialing people are not necessarily going to think highly of.
I don't know. I guess it's important for the credential-conscious employers to see that you've got a bachelor's degree, but literature and history can round you out in a way that probably reading on your own is unlikely to do.
But on the whole, yes, excellent advice.
Now, Mr. Kersey, the first story is one that you had turned in.
It was about Kamala Harris is cultivating the black male vote.
Seems a little strange to me.
She should just expect them to line up and vote.
Pull the Democrat lever insofar as she is a BIPOC, but apparently she thinks she has to hustle and get those votes.
Well, we saw Barack Obama, Mr.
Taylor, come out and speak directly to the brothers.
And you guys need to get out there and vote.
And someone told me today, they said, you know, I don't think a lot of these black guys are going to vote for a black woman.
They look at the way they treat black women.
And I was like, oh, okay. Well, yes, that's one of the theories.
They just don't want to be bossed around by a black woman.
They've already had enough of that in their daily lives.
Anyways, so she's actually come out of the plane.
You can go to KamalaHarris.com.
I have I must confess, I had never been to her website before today, but I found out that she is directly going to deliver for black men.
She will provide the tools to black men to build wealth, support their families, and lead in their communities.
This is directly from her website.
I'm gonna read verbatim for a few paragraphs She plans to build an opportunity economy where everyone has the opportunity to not just get by but to get ahead She knows a black man have long felt that too often their voice in our political process has gone unheard and that there is So much untapped ambition leadership within the black male community Black men and boys deserve a president who will provide the opportunity to unleash this talent and potential by removing historic barriers To wealth creation education employment earnings health and
improving the criminal justice system. Okay now That's what they always talk about.
Removing barriers.
It seems to me everything she's listing has nothing to do with removing barriers.
It's giving them a special leg up.
Where are the barriers, Kamala?
What barriers are you going to remove?
None of that, but that's what they always preface these special programs by saying, we're going to remove a barrier, but giving you an extra $100,000.
Yeah, exactly. Well, she's unleashed a nationwide economic opportunity to her to help black entrepreneurs access capital and resources to launch and grow their businesses, build wealth, strengthen communities, especially black male entrepreneurs.
While she traveled across Atlanta, Detroit, and Charlotte, she heard powerful stories from black men about their biggest hurdles that still make it too difficult for them to get their businesses off the ground and grow them to meet their full ambitions.
So, drawing on these insights and experience and her economic Opportunity tour.
I wish she would have gone and toured the areas of Asheville that I did to see some true areas in need of economic opportunity.
VP Harris has laid out an opportunity agenda for black men to provide them with the tools to achieve financial freedom, lower costs to better provide for themselves and families, and also protect their rights.
Here's what she's going to do.
Well, black entrepreneurs and others.
I wonder what that means.
I mean, because handing out money just to blacks, that's against the law.
Should have a hard time with that.
I wonder who the others are.
Does that include you, Mr.
Kersey? Sometimes I identify as black.
Championing education, training, and mentorship programs that help black men get good-paying jobs in high-demand industries and lead their communities, including pathways, to become teachers.
Competagogues. All right. Supporting a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets so black men who invest and own these assets are protected.
Well, hold on, hold on. Crypto?
She's going to regulate the crypto market in some way to protect black people?
She says that regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets so black men who invest in and own these assets are protected.
So yes, I guess she's going to create some sort of digital black cloak to help out those who have their...
They're digital wallets protected from being thieved.
I don't know. And only blacks?
Only blacks? This just makes no sense at all.
Yeah. Well, number four is launch a national health equity initiative focused on black men addressing sickle cell disease, diabetes, mental health, prostate cancer, and other health challenges that disproportionately impact them.
She also wants to legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for black Americans to succeed in this new industry Of course, I am one of the most fervent proponents of that activity. I believe marijuana should be criminalized to its highest Extent but again, all she wants to do is handouts and make weed legal so blacks can corner that market She then the article goes on. I'm sorry the article
Sound an article. This is her campaign pledge again. It's on Kamala Harris comm Mr. Trump spent four years making black men's lives harder On his watch, millions of black men lost their jobs, thousands closed their business, and hundreds of thousands lost their health insurance.
As thousands of black men lost their lives to COVID-19, Donald Trump denied the severity of the crisis and made millions more unsafe.
Crime in black neighborhoods soared while Donald Trump tried to cut funding for public safety and made black communities less secure.
Of course, she doesn't tell us who was I don't think Donald Trump cut any kind of funding for the police or public safety.
I think she's making that up.
I would not disagree with that assessment.
And then she goes on to say that he falsely accused the Exonerated Five, the Central Park Five, and called for them to receive the death penalty.
His history as a landlord Is checkered with repeated allegations of racial discrimination, outright refusal to rent to black tenants.
Of course, me being a proponent of Freedom Association, I have no problem with that if that were true.
I don't think it was true, though.
His father, his father, when he was a landlord, was accused of doing that, but I don't think Donald Trump ever did.
But anyway... And then she goes on to point out that Mr.
Trump called African nations SHIT whole countries.
Not necessarily African nations.
I believe it was Haiti.
That's a SHIT whole country.
And she pointed out that most recently Trump spread falsehoods, not entirely inaccurate, about black Haitians eating the pets.
They're eating the dogs of their neighbors.
This is on her website now.
This is on her website. And what's weird is...
She actually has the S-H-I-T word blocked out, but then just down in the next sentence, she actually has the word spelled out.
So I wonder if someone actually read this.
Anyways, the point is, this is on her website where she's explicitly...
Going after the black vote now and just the most racial terms.
This is crossing the Zimbabwe Rubicon, if you will.
The Zambezi. Yeah, exactly.
Or what we saw in South Africa with the black economic empowerment, the BEE type stuff where everything is done just for the benefit of blacks with white tax dollars.
And of course, this is part of the course.
This is what you get in a country where things are now getting to a point where racial pandering is the name of the game.
And that's it.
That's what equity has always been about.
I'm repeating this ad nauseum, but we all end up in the same place, says Sister Kamala.
All are going to end up in the same place.
I guess that means that white people have to be arrested and jailed so that blacks are no more than 15% or 12% of the jail population.
Everybody's going to end up in the same place, Mr.
Kersey. So you better watch out.
You know, you might even slam her too.
You make those quotas work out.
Everybody's in the same place.
Nope. Well, the odd thing is, according to the polls that I've seen, she can expect 70 to 75 percent of the black vote as it is.
And according to the latest poll I saw, there wasn't much difference in support between black women and black men.
Why is she going for these black men?
I guess I don't understand, but this seems to be a great thing.
Also, these $20,000 loans that are going to be forgivable for entrepreneurs, My guess is it's going to be the equivalent of these PPP loans.
A whole lot of people claim to have businesses, and they collected $50,000, whatever it was.
They had no business, and then they got forgiveness anyway.
My guess is this is going to just be a huge handout program, mostly for blacks.
Maybe a few smart whites will get in on the deal and milk the government, but this is just going to be a huge giveaway.
But that's what the government's all about.
Giving away your and my tax dollars, Mr.
Kersey. So let's see.
Oh, yeah.
Some more news about Kamala.
And this is some reporting from Chris Ruffo.
At the beginning of Kamala's political career in the run-up for a campaign to serve as California's Attorney General, she and a co-author named Joan...
Hamilton published a small volume called Smart on Crime, a career prosecutor's plan to make us safer.
I bet you didn't know she was a published author.
Harris's book contains more than a dozen serious examples of plagiarism, similar to those found in Harvard President Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis.
She lifted verbatim language, for example, from an unsighted NBC News report.
That's heavy, heavy detail research.
In another section, she reproduced extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release, all virtually verbatim.
And in a section about New York court programs, she stole long passages directly from Wikipedia.
And when she tried to write a description of a non-profit group, the Urban Institute, she lifted promotional language from one of the Urban Institute's press releases.
I mean, that's what press releases are all about, but that's not what a good researcher or journalist does.
It's just lift a press release, not even admit it.
All this raises the question in my mind, doesn't Chris Ruffo, who ordinarily does good work, know that when black people do this, this isn't plagiarism.
It's called voice merging.
Do you remember voice merging, Mr.
Curtis? I do. I mean, only white people are ever guilty of plagiarism.
And back when Martin Luther King's just serial inveterate plagiarism came to light, a fellow named Keith Miller wrote a book.
Voice of Deliverance, the language of Martin Luther King Jr.
and its sources.
And he says that voice merging, that is to say, using the words of scripture and prior preachers, follows in a long tradition of African-American, African-American churches and preachers, and should not be called plagiarism.
He said that Martin Luther King's skillful combination of language from different sources is one of his major oratorical skills.
So I guess he would say the same about Kamala.
This is one of her major oratorical skills, is stealing information and phraseology from other people.
Now, on the other hand, Mr.
Kersey, the author of this book, Keith Miller, he is not black, so why should we trust this honky?
I say it's plagiarism.
And on the subject of plagiarism, the dean of Michigan State University's College of Education is named Gerlando Jackson.
He is one of our African-American fellow citizens.
He also has plagiarized extensively over the course of his career.
A complaint was filed at the university just last week, raising questions about his fitness to lead one of the top teacher training programs in the university.
The complaint includes nearly 40 examples of plagiarism that span nine of Jackson's papers, including his PhD thesis.
It raises serious questions about the academic standards at one of the top education schools in the nation, which has been number one in US News and World Report ranking of K-12 teacher education for 30 straight years.
Did you know that? Michigan State University College of Education.
US News and World Report says it is the number one place to learn how to be a K-12 teacher.
Of course, demand For AI detection tools that can find and track down, plagiarism has become very high ever since the release of ChatGPT.
And one of the critics says, how can educators combat this very real crisis if students can point to academic leaders and accuse them of plagiarism too?
And before arriving at Michigan State in 2022...
Mr. Gerlando Jackson led the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and there he founded, listen to this, the Equity and Inclusion Laboratory.
I love it when all this phony baloney stuff is called a laboratory, as if they're in there in their white coats and their test tubes and their Bunsen burners and they're measuring things and they're discovering science and And the Equity Inclusion Laboratory conducts research on equitable and inclusive learning.
That's like studying, I don't know, three-headed pigs.
Equitable and inclusive learning.
In any case, When he was at Wisconsin, this Jackson fellow met Sherry and LeVar Charleston.
Now they are the top diversity officers at Harvard and University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, and co-authored several papers with them, two of which contained survey results they'd already published in other journals.
Now that is a no-no.
Neither paper acknowledged that the findings had been published elsewhere.
That is a form of academic dishonesty known as duplicate publication, and it often leads to retractions.
Anyway, this plagiarism really just seems to be a scourge among our melanin-enhanced fellow citizens, Mr.
Kersey. I just don't understand it.
I guess they take inspiration from Martin Luther King, who was master plagiarist number one.
But let's see, I believe you have a story on some of the foolishness that the Department of Justice has been up to lately.
Yeah, Mr. Taylor, the Department of Justice, has told four police fire departments that it's racist to expect employees to know basic math.
So again, I love this term.
The Biden-Harris DOJ has undertaken a slew of lawsuits against local police and fire departments, alleging it's racist to require hires entrusted with public safety to know basic mathematics.
The lawsuit undermined Kamala Harris' attempts to brand herself as a moderate in the final weeks of the POTUS campaign, with suits both suggesting a dim view of blacks by the admin and employing the theory of disparate impact that any time there are statistical racial disparities, racism must be the cause.
DoJ's civil rights unit filed a lawsuit against South Bend, Indiana, saying South Bend uses a written examination that discriminates against black applicants and a fitness test that discriminates against female applicants.
Wait, wait, that's where Pete Buttigieg was running the show, wasn't he?
Yeah, you know, but he's too busy saying that highways are racist, so he's already moved on to bigger and better things.
I guess so. Just one of the lawsuits, of course, which claimed that tests are racist because Blacks fail them.
Blacks fail them at a higher percentage than whites and require cash awards to be paid to those Blacks who failed them.
Most Blacks generally pass the test, and the lawsuits do not explain how the tests can be racist against just some Blacks.
But Blacks who pass the test are excluded from the financial payout.
But I guess if they start a business, maybe they could get Kamala's $20,000 license.
Forgivable loan. Forgivable loan, exactly.
This is, pardon me for interrupting, but this is one of the most fantastic and crazy cuckoo, just preposterous on stilts things in the United States, is that if a test, if blacks are more likely to fail it, then that means it's ipso facto, by definition racist.
And if you fail the test, then you are a victim of discrimination, and you get a payout.
You get a payout for being stupid or incompetent or having failed to study.
What? Gosh, there are a few things more ridiculous, but that's the way your United States government works, ladies and gentlemen.
Yep, they leave poor white people in western North Carolina to fend for themselves, but any time that blacks can't fend for themselves on a test in aggregate...
Gotta pay them. Gotta pay them.
It's a example of racism, like in Durham, North Carolina, where the DOJ just settled a, where the city just settled with the DOJ because blacks failed the test, required to become a firefighter more often, and quote, employers should identify and eliminate practices that have a disparate impact on race.
The Durham Fire Department must pay nearly a million bucks to people who failed the test and hire up to 16 of them.
The DOJ said tests were not relevant to actually being a good firefighter, and online practice tests suggest that it is directly relevant, that people could die if firefighters, if such firefighters were hired.
One question asks, if a building is 300 feet away, how many 60-foot hoses would be needed?
Mmm. Mmm.
Well, that's obviously completely irrelevant.
And if you get that wrong, well, that just makes no difference.
I mean, just, well, it's very simple, Mr.
Kersey. It's very simple.
You just tack as many hoses together as it takes to get to the fire.
Come on. You don't have to do math.
It's six, but anyways.
In May, the DOJ entered into a similar settlement with Cobb County, Georgia.
Counties' use of these employment practices disproportionately remove qualified blacks from consideration for a firefighter position, said the DOJ. The complaint further alleges credit check and the use of written exam to rank applicants do not lawfully identify the best qualified candidates.
For the firefighter position, and last month, Maryland State Police were forced to pay $2.75 million to women who were barred from being officers because they couldn't pass physical fitness exams, for example, the ability to run quickly, and blacks who couldn't pass a written test.
I mean, again, I coined that concept Black Run America.
It's not that blacks run America. It's that America is being forced to lower every standard imaginable to placate an unplacatable Implacatable?
I don't think either is a word, but it should be a word.
Implacatable, yes.
They are implacable.
And then women are cashing in on this too.
You'd think, I don't know, you'd think a woman, I mean, everybody knows women are not as strong as men.
Everybody. Oh, are you serious?
Yes, I'm serious.
Everybody knows this. And you have to be physically fit.
If you're going to fight criminals, you've got to chase down criminals.
Sometimes they want to punch you.
Sometimes you have to punch back.
That's just the way policing is.
And the idea that a woman should get the job, even though she is incapable of maintaining the physical fitness necessary for the job.
And they're going to walk away with money, with smiles on their faces.
They should be so ashamed of themselves.
Of course, I suppose, if there are particular things that only women can do, maybe patting down female suspects or something, I don't know.
But even that, in the heat of some sort of crime scene, if you need to pat down a woman who might be packing heat, I don't know.
I think a male police officer should have every right to do that under certain circumstances.
But this is just so insane.
And blacks are obviously utterly shameless.
In taking money that rewards them for being, as I said, stupid or lazy or uninformed.
And I guess women these days are perfectly happy to take money for being weaker than men.
What a crazy country.
Yeah, I think that's the best way to put it.
Anyway. Well, let's see.
What do we got here? Oh, this is the It Takes a Village department.
Increasingly, I noticed these communal undertakings among our melanin-enhanced fellow citizens.
There was wild news helicopter footage captured the moment a mob of approximately 30 people.
Some advanced, I'm sorry, some armed, all of them melanin-enhanced, who were looting a freight train in Chicago on Friday.
And they made off with appliances such as, according to this article, Air fryers and flat-screen TVs.
Now, a note of flat-screen TVs, what is an air fryer?
Why would you ever have to fry the air?
Well, it's not frying the air.
It's a device that you can use to quickly cook and make absolutely amazing delicacies, whether it's...
I highly recommend air frying Brussels sprouts.
You can air fry basically any food.
Okay. It's absolutely delicious.
I think you should get one.
I should get one.
Huh. Can you air fry ice cream?
Anyway... I actually can.
Well, in any case, this festival of stealing air fryers and flat-screen TVs took place about 2.40 in the afternoon, broad daylight, because a train was stopped and waiting at an interchange where it was going to go onto a partner railroad, but on the city's west side, which was a melanin-enhanced part of town.
Swarms of thieves can be seen opening container doors and then plundering the cars.
Police radio communications said suspects were armed with guns and lock openers.
Whatever lock openers are.
Maybe they mean bolt cutters.
The suspects loaded the stolen goods into several vehicles, at least one instance, into a white box truck.
I guess somebody quickly went down to the rent-a-car folks and came up with a box truck and helped the looters haul the stuff away.
Now, the burglary...
I don't know if it's a burglary...
I suppose if it's a train car, is it still a burglar?
In any case, the looting had been going on for nearly an hour before police arrived.
Nearly an hour. This is Chicago for you.
Chicago is running out of money.
And so you can loot for an hour.
And a similar incident took place in August.
It says at least six people were arrested.
Those who hung around for an hour waiting for the police to show up, six of them got arrested.
Poor fellows. I guess they felt really gypped.
Here's another story about Chicago.
This is from City Journal.
City Journal is usually pretty good.
A lot of stuff in City Journal that you won't find in some of the sillier newspapers, but City Journal is very good.
Brandon Johnson, Mayor Johnson, is rapidly establishing himself as one of the worst mayors in Chicago's history, and that's saying a lot, coming on the heels of Lori Lightfoot.
At the heart of his administration is an overt alignment with the Teachers Union, for which he once worked as an organizer.
This relationship has led him to surround himself with untested leftists, whose extreme views have alienated even many on the city council.
He's tried to oust Chicago Public Schools' CEO. It's got a chief executive officer, the public schools do.
His name is Pedro Martinez.
Johnson wants Martinez to take out a $300 million high-interest loan to help finance a new contract for the Teachers Union, which wants a 9% annual raise in salaries.
9% a year.
That's pretty good.
And they also want to hire 5,000 new teachers, despite the fact that the students in the public schools, the number of students, is declining.
Featherbank. The union's demands also, Mr.
Kersey, include building public housing for homeless families.
What on earth are they wanting that for?
I guess they want a few students back.
They've got homeless families.
They've got homes. Build them right next to school.
Maybe they'll get more bodies, more bodies in the school door.
But even Johnson's hand-picked members of the Chicago Board of Education balked at the idea of 9% raises and $300 million high-interest loans, and they refused to fire CEO Martinez.
So his next move was to pressure some of them to resign, and on Monday he replaced them with a more client crew, including a staff member from the Chicago Teachers Union itself.
They are likely to carry out his wishes, fire Martinez, and hire a new CEO who will take out this payday loan to fund this exorbitant contract.
However, and this is interesting, 41 of Chicago's 50 aldermen have denounced what the mayor is up to.
He is grappling with a looming $1 billion budget deficit that was forecast over a year ago but has been largely ignored.
Apparently there's already a huge city debt such that each Chicago city taxpayer would have to pay $40,000 to pay off the debt.
That's just for the city debt.
And they're going to add another billion dollars to this debt.
He ran for mayor.
Promising various tax schemes, including assessing businesses for every employee.
Now, isn't that really going to help bring business and make jobs?
Tax every person that a company employs.
A head tax on employees.
That's great. And impose a tax on every financial transaction on Chicago's exchanges.
That's a good one, too.
But even during his initial honeymoon phase, the legislature, which has to approve some of these proposals, said that is just cuckoo.
Yeah, we're going to tax you $1,000 per employee.
Every employee you got, we're going to just levy you $1,000, you know, so you can fire everybody and avoid the tax.
Just this week, when Jonathan was challenged on his spending plans, He compared his critics to, guess what, the defenders of slavery.
Ah, the man.
He's got it in for the strong black leader.
The state legislature and governor must approve these revenue measures, and they have no incentive to help a politician with Johnson's dismal approval ratings.
Even the voters have had enough of this.
They knew. They should have known it'd be a disaster.
I mean, you knew. I knew.
Remember when he was running for office?
He failed to pay thousands of dollars a year in city water bills until it became a campaign issue.
Now, that's a great example for the public.
You know, a government bureaucrat doesn't pay his office's water bills, thousands of dollars.
He also campaigned on considering the police to be a source of crime, defund the police.
You know, there's something I must say that some of these black politicians just seem to think that Money is just a magical resource that the white man or the United States is just this inexhaustible source of money.
Going into debt doesn't matter.
A billion-dollar deficit for a city on a city budget just doesn't matter.
He wants a $300 million high-interest loan so that he can pay his cronies and hire 5,000 new teachers for a school system that is losing students.
This is just cuckoo stuff.
Meanwhile, in New York City, did you know that the city is looking for 14,000 hotel rooms in which it will shelter illegal immigrants?
I did not know that. 14,000.
And it is prepared to pay $352 per room per night.
Pretty nice if you've got a hotel The Department of Homeless Services wants a new contract, and it would take the cost of housing these illegals over the past two years and this fiscal year to more than $2.3 billion.
And at this time, about 150 hotels are sheltering these illegals.
And City Hall's total spending on migrant services over three years, that's not just housing them, but feeding them, clothing them, medicating them, maybe even trying to educate them on a futile task.
Over three years, it's going to hit $5.76 billion.
$5.76 billion.
Now, a fellow named Vijay Dandapani, or Dandapani, I don't know how you pronounce his name, He is the hotel association's president and CEO. And I bet he is originally from India, as so many hotel managers are these days.
He confirmed that it would apply to oversee the new shelter contract.
Yes, if billions are in it, Vijay is going to be there with his hand extended.
The association's foundation has paid around $100,000 a month to administer three already existing contracts with the city.
They get $100,000 a month just to administer contracts so that these illegals, who shouldn't even be in the country, get free rooms at $352 a day.
He goes to say, we have five full-time employees for fulfilling the contractual obligations.
And New York, of course, has this legal obligation to provide shelter to anyone who asks, anyone.
I keep thinking, you know, I just go up to New York City, take in a few Broadway shows and show up and say, hey, I'd like a room.
One of those $350 a night hotel rooms would suit me right down to the ground.
Would they put me up?
I don't know. You know, just say you're Jorge.
Me, me, Jorge.
You, Jesus. And since the start of 2022, more than 200,000 migrants have arrived in the city.
Many were bused there by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
How dare he offload his problem onto a sanctuary city?
And of course, New York's administration has been thrown into further array following Mayor Eric Adams' criminal indictment on corruption charges.
Now, Apparently, Mayor Adams did not accuse the people who are prosecuting him of racism, at least not that I've seen so far, but he has implied that the criminal indictment is a result of his criticism of the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis.
Now, this is all very interesting to me.
He was yelping constantly when the illegals came out of the buses in New York City.
He says, oh, this is no good.
But he never complained to Joe Biden to say, stop the flow.
All he ever wanted was more money.
And I don't think he criticized the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis at all.
He just criticized the fact that New York City didn't get enough billions of dollars To house this mass of people who don't belong here.
Do you know any more about this criminal indictment, corruption charges?
What's he up for? Do you know this Eric Adams?
You know, I haven't really paid attention to that.
It just seems like such a routine news story.
Exactly. I mean, you're talking about, you know, I mean, imagine there have been so many black mayors across the country who've been indicted and have had problems.
I mean, my favorite one was the mayor of that little small town who was throwing these lavish parties on social media and laughing.
And then I think that earlier this year she was doing these city council meetings where no one was allowed to answer questions.
I don't remember her name. You know our lovely friend, Tiffany.
Oh, Tiffany.
Oh, she is a hot tamale.
Boy, oh boy. Yes, she pays professional makeup artists.
Yeah, that might not be how I'd describe her.
A hot piece of potato pie, then.
How's that? Anyway, yes, Eric Adams, I guess he's had his hand in the till.
Ho-hum, what else is new?
Now, well, Mr.
Kersey, you have an international story for us that is just revolting.
The Danes, apparently, are paying for a one-legged Nigerian pirate.
That seems like a wonderful intro to a joke, but unfortunately...
No, it's not a joke.
Yeah, because the Danish taxpayers are going to foot a bill for a Nigerian pirate.
Unfortunately, it's not a Nigerian prince, but it's a Nigerian pirate.
His leg amputation and asylum as he avoids jail for an attack on Danish soldiers.
I'm not making that headline up.
That is reality.
You said America's crazy. Well, our Danish friends are equally, if not more, crazy there in Denmark.
He's a pirate who participated in an attack on a Danish frigate.
He's costing taxpayers millions after avoiding jail time and having medical bills for a prosthetic leg paid for by the state.
Lucky Francis. Interesting name.
Very fortuitous.
Was one of the surviving pirates who attacked a helicopter of the Danish frigate Espernsnare off the Gulf of Guiani in November of 2021.
In the shootout that followed, he was severely injured, resulting in the amputation of one of his legs.
Brought back to Denmark to face criminal charges, but rather than serving jail time, he was granted asylum!
I wish I was making this up.
Brought back to Denmark to face criminal charges.
As I said, he was held in custody for 384 days, not sentenced to prison after a custodial sentence was waived due to the special circumstances of his injuries.
Yes, he was trying to kill Danes as a pirate.
And his comrades were killed and he was shot and got one of his appendages amputated and the taxpayers had to pay for it.
He then sought half a million kroner in compensation for his time in custody, despite the fact that he was still found guilty of endangering Danish soldiers.
The Copenhagen City Court rejected his compensation demand last month, agreeing with prosecutors that he alone was responsible for his detention.
Despite his criminal record and participation in the attack, he applied for asylum in Denmark and was granted residency.
He'll fit in right with those Vikings.
He has since been enrolled in language programs and is receiving assistance in finding work All, Mr.
Taylor and dear listener, at the expense of Danish taxpayers.
The case has already cost Denmark around 4.2 million kroner, covering his medical treatment, which is about 563,000 pounds, covering his medical treatment, legal process, and integration efforts.
Mikael Bjorn, the integration spokesman for the Danish People's Party, called the situation absurd, stating that, quote, this man should never have been in Denmark.
And to imagine that he can now be meaningfully integrated in Denmark is completely beyond the pale, agreed.
He said that going back to Africa will not be good for me.
I have thought about my situation.
That's the words of Lucky Francis.
He's lucky to be in Denmark.
And unfortunately, the Danish people are unlucky to have a government that believes that he should be anything but strung up like the pirates of old in the Caribbean as a reminder why piracy should not be tolerated.
But unfortunately, he is a reminder of the lunacy of white people in 2024.
Did I lose you?
What an incredibly stupid thing to have brought him back to Denmark.
They should have just heaved him overboard.
Yes. This is crazy.
This is utterly crazy.
Or at least just send him back to Nigeria.
Let them patch him up best they can.
Nuts. Absolutely nuts.
Well, let's see. Now, here is an interesting story.
You know that many transit systems in the United States have stopped arresting fare beaters.
And they've stopped because all the people they arrest, practically without exception, are our black and brown oppressed brethren.
So obviously arresting people for beating the fair is racist.
Well, it turns out in New York City on the subway system, they started arresting people for beating the fair because they were losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
However, on the buses, they don't bother.
And as a result, every weekday in New York City, close to one million bus riders, that's roughly half, they get on and off without paying.
That's half. The skipped fares are a crucial and growing loss of revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is already, believe it or not, Mr.
Kersey, under severe financial pressure.
What an idea. New York's long-running fare evasion problem, among the worst of any major city in the world.
Yeah, half your riders aren't even paying.
It's gotten worse.
Before the pandemic, about one in five bus riders skipped the fare.
Now it's one in two.
So it's 20% up to 50%.
The pandemic encouraged the perception that fares were optional after the authority made bus rides free for a few months in 2020.
Now, I don't quite understand.
During the pandemic, weren't we supposed to avoid being around other people?
Why did they make the fares free?
I guess they thought people are just so out of work, the poor dears, you know, got to make bus fares free.
Well, it's hard to dial back after that.
After you've had free bus rides for a couple of months, and then you say, oh no, you've got to start paying again.
Public officials have done little to collect the lost revenue from bus riders.
Instead, they've focused almost exclusively on the subway system, where waves of police officers and private security guards enforce payment, even though fare evasion rates on trains are nowhere near as high as on buses.
On the subway, 14% beat the fare, as opposed to, as I said before, half the riders for buses.
Roughly twice the number of people ride the city's subways as ride the buses.
But what this works out to is that in 2022, the Transportation Authority lost $315 million because of bus fare evasion, as opposed to $285 million for subway fare meters.
The fact is, it is a lot easier to hop on a bus without paying than to sneak into the subway system because there are turnstiles and gates.
And the bus fare evasion rate in 2018 was roughly 18%.
And about that time, this pre-COVID, about that time, the rate was 11% in Paris, 5% in Toronto, and in London, where riders could face fines exceeding $1,000 for fare evasion on buses, the fare evasion rate was only 1.5%.
Pretty good for London.
Now, as it happens, the bus operators union very much discourages bus operators from challenging fare beaters because the driver, believe it or not, Mr.
Kersey, could be harassed or assaulted.
And in 2008, a bus driver was stabbed to death in Brooklyn after telling a passenger, race unspecified, to pay the fare.
The union has since fought to limit any kind of interaction with passengers.
And the Transit Authority's struggle with fare evasion has revived perennial questions about whether mass transit users should pay at all.
All of the lefty outfits, they say, the bus system should be treated as a public service funded through taxes.
The usual story.
And it looks as though the Metropolitan Transit Authority is going to have a projected fiscal deficit this year of nearly $1 billion.
Oh, $1 billion. Oh, what's $1 billion?
Yes. And of course, the most effective solution is to add more enforcement workers.
But as this article says, the job is not an attractive one.
I wonder why not.
It's because they're in a role where they have no power.
They can't arrest people. They have no protection.
And in New York City, imagine you're going around in a bus telling people to pay up.
You could face some pretty bolshy fair evaders.
Of course, you know, how to get back to the 18% they had in 2018 of fair evasion.
I mean, if they arrested a whole bunch of people, that would probably help, but then that would take up the whole police force for a while.
This is just not going to work in New York City.
For people to pay without having to be arrested all the time, it has to be a high-trust society in which people are ashamed if they're caught without a ticket.
And they don't have that there.
I mean, Japan or Korea.
In big city U.S., there just isn't that sense of common commitment and solidarity that you need for this.
Who knows what the solution is going to be?
Well, golly, we're running out of time.
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We're coming up very close on the election.
If you see any more interesting little tidbits or anecdotes from the Kamala Harris campaign or anything that President Trump is saying, I think he's doing a, again, we're not here to endorse candidates as the New Century Foundation, but I think he's beginning to run a really great campaign, zeroing in on some very important issues and making this a clear-cut election of, you know, what will America be like for the next four years and for the next 40 years?
And, you know, yesterday was Columbus Day.
I hope you had a great Columbus Day, by the way.
I had an Indigenous Peoples Day.
I don't know about you.
That doesn't bode well for your health.
I don't know. I don't know.
As a matter of fact, Hispanics and their closest Indigenous Peoples and most of the people in the United States, they have better health outcomes than white people.
Lower infant mortality rates.
Often they have lower disease rates of all kinds of things.
Of course, some things, they get higher disease rates, one of which is diabetes, adult onset diabetes.
They have what they call that thrifty gene.
And it's an interesting thing.
I think we talked about in one of our programs, it depends on how soon a human population was exposed to agriculture.
Because when you switch to agriculture, you're eating all these carbohydrates.
And so instead of packing on the fat the way hunters and gatherers do, I mean hunters and gatherers, they don't know when they're going to get their next meal.
So they really need to pack on the fat whenever they can.
They gorge themselves and then they lay around until the next edible animal comes by.
Whereas farmers, they get regular meals.
So it's not good to pack on the fat.
And if you come to farming late, then you have a metabolism that when it is exposed to carbohydrates, it tends to pack on the fat unnecessarily.
And especially when you move to the first world and you get Cheetos and you get nachos.
And what else do you get that packs on weight?
These people end up getting heavy and diabetes and Hispanics are, they really suffer.
From type 2 diabetes in a way that is really record-breaking in the United States.
That's going to be an increasing cost for health in the United States of America.
But let's see. I think we've got time maybe for one last little story here.
This is from some time ago.
But we need a short one here.
A suspected cult leader is to be charged with murder and terrorism after the bodies of 429 people, including children, have been dug up from graves in Shakahola, a remote forest area about two hours' drive west of Malindi, which is a place I've never heard of either.
Most showed signs of starvation, but some of the children among them may have been murdered.
Now, there is a fellow, the preacher is known as McKenzie.
He's alleged to have encouraged members of his Good News International Church to move there and prepare for the end of the world.
They were given instructions to begin fasting so they could go to heaven.
McKenzie then moved to the forest in 2019 after his church was closed after allegedly preaching that children shouldn't go to school.
He instructed his church members to fast until death so they could meet Jesus.
He's also charged with child torture and terrorism related offenses in addition to murder.
He is in prison, actually, because he was convicted of illegally operating a film studio.
So this guy has had quite a colorful career.
But I believe that is about all the time we have, Mr.
Kersey. I really need to look into this McKenzie guy a little bit further, see if I can find out more about him, any subsequent developments.
But, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure Mr.
Kersey joins me in our heartfelt appreciation for your attention.
It is a joy and an honor to spend this time with you, and we look forward to doing the same next week.
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