2 arrested in connection with fatal shooting in west Las Vegas valley – Las Vegas Review-Journal

Two juveniles were arrested after a man was killed at a west Las Vegas valley convenience store early Saturday morning, police said.

Officers were called to the 8600 block of West Sahara Avenue just before 1 a.m. in response to a call from the victim, with multiple gunshots heard during the 911 call, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a release Sunday. When they arrived, officers found the man unresponsive and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The victim and suspects arrived in the parking lot in the same car and the two suspects tried to rob the man in the car, the release said. The man ran into the convenience store and asked an employee to call 911, police said.

While he was on the phone with the dispatcher, police said the man walked out of the store and was shot multiple times by one of the suspects.

The release said the suspects each face one count of robbery and one count of open murder.

The Clark County coroners office will release the victims identity and cause and manner of death.

Anyone with information can contact Metros homicide section at 702-828-3521 or, to remain anonymous, Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.

Contact Alexis Ford at aford@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0335. Follow @alexisdford on Twitter.

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Parents charged with murder in crash that killed 1-year-old boy – Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Las Vegas parents accused of street racing in a crash that killed their 1-year-old son have been charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors announced Monday.

The recklessness and wanton disregard both parents exhibited in this incident is unacceptable, District Attorney Steve Wolfson said in a statement. They caused the avoidable death of an innocent one-year-old boy and endangered the lives of many others who were on the roads that day.

Cameron Hubbard-Jones, 23, and Lauren Prescia, 23, both of Las Vegas, were in court Monday morning, when Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Suzan Baucum set bail at $100,000 for each of them. They face charges in the July 12 crash at Rampart and Lake Mead drives that took the life of their son, Royce Jones.

Authorities said Prescia was driving while intoxicated at an approximate speed of 121 mph when her vehicle, in which her son was a passenger, slammed into a pole at the intersection. She was apprehended at the scene.

On Monday, Deputy District Attorney Frank LoGrippo said her blood alcohol content after the crash was 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada.

A speed contest

Hubbard-Jones was arrested Wednesday after a police investigation determined that the two were street racing at the time of the crash. LoGrippo said Hubbard-Jones was driving about 115 mph at the time of the crash.

Both cars were engaged in a speed contest, LoGrippo said. A street race. They were racing. They were speeding together.

The prosecutor said Las Vegas police obtained video evidence from cameras at street intersections, along with witness statements. Each parent faces charges of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon; reckless driving; and child abuse, neglect or endangerment resulting in substantial bodily harm.

If released on bail, the two are to have no contact with each other, Baucum said. They also will be prevented from driving and will be placed on electronic monitoring.

Hubbard-Jones defense attorney, Damian Sheets, said the facts will show that his clients vehicle was far behind Prescias at the time of the crash. He described Prescias behavior as careless and reckless.

The child is not in the care, custody or control of my client, Sheets said. The state is proposing a theory that basically makes my client responsible for the actions of somebody else who was in direct care and control of the child and in direct care and control of the vehicle.

Sheets said that in the moments after the crash, Hubbard-Jones drove up to the devastating scene and immediately tried to render aid to his child.

Prescias attorney, Daniel Hill, said his client is a lifelong Las Vegas resident with no criminal history. Shes worked at a dermatology business for the last two years.

The charges remain presumptively false at this time, Hill said.

Domestic battery conviction

Court records show that Hubbard-Jones is on probation for a domestic violence attack against Prescia on Dec. 10, 2018.

A police report obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal said police were called to the couples residence for a report of a domestic dispute and officers immediately encountered Hubbard-Jones, who told officers that he had messed up and explained hed battered his girlfriend multiple times.

Prescia initially refused to cooperate with police, but officers interviewed a witness who reported seeing Hubbard-Jones attacking Prescia with closed fists in an argument over Hubbard-Jones spending money at a strip club.

The next day police went to MountainView Hospital after learning that Prescia was treated for injuries there. A doctor told officers that Prescia had suffered a temporal fracture on the left side of her skull, a nasal fracture and various bruising across all around her face and body.

Hubbard-Jones was convicted in 2019 of battery with substantial bodily harm and battery constituting domestic violence for the attack on Prescia. He received a suspended sentence of 12 to 34 months in prison and was on probation in that case at the time of the crash that killed his son.

Deadly weapon enhancement

The murder charges filed Monday include what is known as a deadly weapon enhancement. In this case, the weapon references the vehicles that Prescia and Hubbard-Jones were driving.

A conviction of second-degree murder in Nevada carries with it potential sentences of either 10 to 25 years or 10 years to life in prison. However, a conviction involving the use of a deadly weapon could add years of prison time.

Meanwhile, the practice by the Clark County district attorneys office of charging vehicular crimes suspects with murder in certain cases is controversial.

The Nevada Supreme Court recently heard arguments on the practice in the case of Ronald Leavell, who is appealing a second-degree murder charge in a 2017 crash. As of November, Clark County prosecutors had filed murder charges against at least seven motorists accused of causing deadly crashes.

Wolfson said the district attorneys office is trying to send a message to the public that driving under the influence will not be tolerated.

I do not know what else we can do to stop people from making the potentially deadly choice to drive while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, Wolfson said in his statement. I am at a loss as to why a person would have such disregard for their own childs safety.

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New England Investment & Retirement Group Expands Leadership Team With Addition of Chief Operating Officer – Yahoo Finance

Chris Wilde brings 15 years of financial services experience to NEIRG

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New England Investment & Retirement Group (NEIRG), an investment advisory and wealth management firm headquartered in North Andover, Massachusetts, today announces the addition of Chris Wilde, CFA, as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

With over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, Wilde joins President and Founder Nick Giacoumakis, CEPA, and Principal Brian Pirri, CFP, on the firms leadership team. As COO, Wilde is responsible for oversight of the firms offices in North Andover and Naples, Florida, including operations and technology, client service, marketing and compliance. Additionally, Wilde will sit on NEIRGs Investment Committee and lead operational due diligence efforts during manager sourcing.

Chris has a long track record of successfully managing operations, overseeing client services and growing trading teams at leading financial services firms, said Giacoumakis. Were excited to leverage his experience to streamline our operations and ultimately better serve our clients as they look to create, grow and protect their wealth.

Before joining NEIRG, Wilde spent 10 years with SCS Financial Services, a leading multi-family office serving high-net-worth families and institutions. He joined SCS as an Operations Manager before rising to Director of Operations, Trading, and Client Administration. During his time at SCS, Wilde built the firms trading team, including the hiring and training of full-time traders and the development of an institutional process covering all asset classes and securities markets. More recently, he co-led the design and implementation of an administrative services team responsible for streamlining client service workflows, bringing scale to the firms private wealth client advisors. In addition to his experience with SCS, Wilde spent five years at JPMorgan Chase & Co. within their mutual and hedge fund operations and client service teams.

Wilde earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Rhode Island. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Boston. Wilde also serves on the Investment Policy Committee for the Town of West Newbury, Massachusetts.

ABOUT NEW ENGLAND INVESTMENT & RETIREMENT GROUPNEIRG is an investment advisory and wealth management firm with locations in the North Shore of Massachusetts and Naples, Florida. For more than 20 years, NEIRG has helped individuals, families and businesses manage their financial assets and resources in order to achieve financial independence and security. With expertise in customized portfolio management, financial planning, retirement planning, risk management solutions as well as tax planning, NEIRG provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to managing and building wealth. NEIRG's team of Certified Financial Planners and Chartered Financial Analysts is committed to providing sound and unbiased advice to help clients optimize their complete financial picture with a coordinated estate, investment and tax strategy.

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My Wife Used Our Savings to Bail Her Family Out of a Pyramid Scheme – Slate

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Dear Prudence,

I work full time but took a second part-time job to save money so my wife and I can remodel our house. Its small and cramped, and our three kids share a single room, so we really need more space. My wife runs a side business out of our home. My wifes parents support her sister financially because she refuses to work, and they often pressure my wife for money. Wed previously agreed that my wife could give them as much of her own income as she likes, but that the rest of our income is for our own needs.

You can probably guess what happened next: My sister-in-law stole her parents credit card to buy into a pyramid scheme and bought thousands of dollars worth of useless junk. They asked my wife to bail them out because they didnt want to press charges against her sister for identity theft, so she emptied out the account where wed been saving money to remodel our house. Thats $30,000, gone. Her parents promise theyll pay us back, but I know well never see that money again. Furious doesnt begin to describe how I feel. My wife says shes sorry but that theyre her parents. I quit my second job and told my wife she would have to figure out how to pay for the remodel. I also said that if she gives her parents another penny, I would leave. She cries and tells me Im being unfair. For almost two years I worked around the clock to save money for another room for our kids. I missed holidays and weekends. Housing prices are outrageous in our neighborhood. I cant figure out how to move forward from here. I love my wife, but I dont know if I can ever trust her again.

Sucker-Punched

This is a devastating betrayal, and I dont wonder that youre furious at your wife. Your wifes violation of your trust was not a small one, and it hurt not only you as her partner but all three of your children. Im glad you quit your second job and arent forcing yourself to fix the mess your wife and her relatives created. If you havent already set up an individual account that your wife cant touch, please do so. Its a necessary bit of financial independence that might make rebuilding trust easier. But given that youre already talking about leaving if she ever sends her parents money again (which seems likely), its probably a good idea to speak to a divorce lawyer. You dont have to commit to filing just to schedule a phone call, and it will be useful to learn what legal recourse you may have, if any, toward recovering some of your money. The answer may be simply Its gone forever, but it cant hurt to ask.

Im not so sure how you can rebuild trust if your wifes apology for stealing $30,000 included the justification but theyre my parents and shes already accusing you of treating her unfairly. But if youre interested in trying to rebuild trust before considering divorce, consider seeking out a couples counselor with experience treating couples dealing with financial mismanagement and betrayal. Regardless of what you do, remind yourself of the following: You cant trust someone who refuses to acknowledge what they did wrong and whos not committed to behaving differently in the future.

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Dear Prudence,

I am an angry feminist who previously thought I was gay, and I have fallen (hard) in love with a straight, white, GOP-voting evangelical male. He is the most expressive person Ive even been with when it comes to telling me all the things about me that he loves and respects. He is fun and funny and sweet and tender, and the physical/sexual chemistry is like nothing Ive ever felt with a man. It is intoxicating and addictive, but am I doomed to fail because of our different social values?

Nervous From Jump

I think you knew when you wrote this that I cant possibly promise you that you and your boyfriend will never break up. It sounds like you want to think of your various social positions as grounding rather than disruptive: If an angry, previously gay feminist like me could fall for this guy, then it must be real love, the kind that lasts till the stars turn cold. You are free to date anyone you please, and its an unqualified good thing that your boyfriend respects you, loves you, and treats you well. The question facing you right now is not Do I have to give up this intoxicating sexual chemistry because an advice columnist disapproves of our relationship? but How do my boyfriend and I talk about our different values?

Its great that hes fun and funny and sweet and tender, and its great that youre having excellent sex. But those are all things you have in common (or at least things you agree on), so they dont have much bearing on your significant differences. How have you two talked about your different religious beliefs? How does he understand your sexuality? Are you feeling pressure, either internally or externally, to distance yourself from past relationships with women or your current ties to other queer people? Is he as expressive when he talks to you about his political commitments as he is when hes telling you how much he loves you? Does he think youre going to hell? Its not that his sweetness or sense of humor are worthless. Theyre real, and they matter! But theyre irrelevant to the question of Do we share compatible values? or even When we disagree over something meaningful, are we both able to listen respectfully and find a livable compromise? The most important thing to ask yourself is what failure might look like to you. Does it mean breaking up over oppositional, sincerely held beliefs? Or does it mean ignoring your differences, sanding down the edges of your personality, and looking the other way in order to keep the peace?

Dear Prudence,

Sarah is an acquaintance I met through a mutual friend, Abby. I try to keep my distance because Sarah always seems to be in one sort of crisis or another. A few weeks ago, Sarahs 20-year-old son, Chris, landed in the hospital after setting off illegal fireworks. His injuries werent life-threatening, but he does need follow-up care, and Abby recently texted me a link to a donation page Sarah had created to crowdfund his medical bills. Im lucky to still have a job right now, but I dont make a lot of money, and Im trying to save all I can to help support my parents, who have lost most of their income since the pandemic. Later she followed up with, Anything you can contribute would be great. Theyre really going through a lot right now. I said I couldnt send money because I needed to help my parents, but that Id be happy to send over meals or drive Chris to some of his medical appointments. Abbys response was, Wow. I dont think its asking that much to throw something Sarahs way.

I reiterated that I had no cash to spare but that I was willing to help in other ways. She said, You cant. That was five days ago, and she hasnt texted me since. We used to text every day, sometimes about substantive issues, and sometimes just goofing around. After a few days of silence I sent her a just saying hello text, but she didnt respond. What should I do? Try again? Wait for her to say something? Just assume Ive lost a 15-year friendship over this?

Closed-Wallet Policy

Dont let a 15-year friendship fizzle out without at least trying to have a substantive follow-up conversation. Give Abby a call and ask her whats bothering her. Is she really angry with you for volunteering to drive someone to a medical appointment? For having limited income and choosing to support your parents financially when theyre struggling? Either theres something else going on that shes not sharing, or shes overwhelmed with pandemic-related stress that she inappropriately took out on you, or she has wildly unrealistic expectations of her friends. Whatevers going on, you deserve to ask for a straight answer and to learn whether theres an opportunity to resolve this sudden chilliness.

Catch up on this weeks Prudie.

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Our 15-month-old son is generally a fun and easy kid. The only major problem is one for which his dad and I are basically to blame. Weve ended up being accidental cosleepers and dont know how to get ourselves out of it. We dont have any theoretical or developmental problems with cosleeping, but we have all sorts of personal problems with it: being pushed off the bed; waking up every time he moves; being kicked in the stomach (his dad) or literally becoming our sons pillow (me); and not being able to actually snuggle as adults.

Weve halfheartedly tried someextinctionmethods, but we cant seem to get them right, and his crying makes my head hurt so much. I know part of the problem is his crib, which still contains a rock-hard infant mattress. How can we remedy this situation before we wake up with a 12-year-old sleeping between us?

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Meghan Markle to become most in demand public speaker in the world after royal split – Express

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been in Los Angeles, California for several months now after stepping down as senior royals in March.

Since then, Meghan and Prince Harry have occasionally been pictured out and about on various charitable causes.

But some royal analysts have recently said they have yet to start a profitable venture.

Now, PR expert Mark Borkowski has told The Sun Meghan Markle could be set to earn a substantial income as a public speaker, praising her remarkable delivery.

Mr Borkowski said the Duchess of Sussex, 38, could earn many hundreds of thousands of pounds per speech, helping the royal couple realise their goal of financial independence.

Meghan has spoken out on a range of powerful topics in recent weeks, most recently making an appearance at the virtual Girl Up leadership summit.

The Duchess said to young listeners at the summit: Your generation is often referred to as digital natives, and you understand that our online world has the power to affirm and support as much as it does to harm.

We are not meant to be breaking each other down; we are meant to be building each other up.

Her speech at the summit has so far been seen over 100,000 times, the Sun adds, making it the most popular one at the event.

Mr Borkowski told the paper that Meghan is on the message with important topics such as mental health and the Black Lives Matter movement.

READ: Why the monarch has more control over royal weddings than the coronation

He said: In the short, immediate term she could be the most sought-after speaker in the world.

Brands want to learn from high-profile people, so having someone like that in the room, it can boost publicity and draw delegates.

The expert claimed the Duke and Duchess should think about the number of speeches they make, however, as appearing at too many could lower demand.

Mr Borkowski added: You choose one to four key moments a year to make a speech, then everyone is hanging on your words.

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According to reports, the Duke and Duchess recently joined the Harry Walker Agency a public speakers agency claiming to work with some of the most high-profile speakers in the world.

These include Bill and Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matthew McConaughey and others.

Mr Borkowski added: In the short term, this is a billion dollar brand.

It could go some way to helping the Duke and Duchess of Sussex achieve financial independence following their departure from royal roles this year.

On announcing they would step down as senior royals, the previously Sussexes said in a statement: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will become privately funded members of The Royal Family with permission to earn their own income and the ability to pursue their own private charitable interests.

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Fact check: Metal bar hanging from Scottish overpass is not part of an antifa plot – Reuters

Sharedlargely in the U.S., social mediaposts show an image of an object hanging from an overpass with the caption ANTIFA is hanging chains with metal object from light poles and over passes, targeting truckers, they want to shut this nation down.The imageisactually fromScotland and has nothing to do withantifa.

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Examples of such posts can be foundhere,here, andhere.

Sharedmore than 25,000 times on Facebook,the imageactually showsa months-old incidentin Inverness, a city in the Scottish Highlands. As reported bytheBBC on April 1, 2020:Police have appealed for information after a metal bar on a piece of rope was left dangling in the path of vehicles on the A9 in the Highlands. The bar was hanging from a foot bridge over the road at the Raigmore Interchange(here ). More information on the incident,in which no anti-fascist groupshave been implicated, can be foundhere.

Posts showing the imageand the claim that antifawant to shut this nation down are circulating among U.S. usersas some states shut down businesses and schools while others reopenamid soaring coronavirus cases and hospitalizations(here ).

Over the past several weeks, PresidentDonaldTrump and his allies have sought to blame left-wing extremists for the violence and looting at U.S. protests over police brutality while local authorities and watchdog groups have pointed to the threat posed by right-wing movements (here ).Antifa, short for anti-fascist, is an amorphous movement whose adherents oppose people or groups they consider authoritarian or racist, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors extremists.

Last month,Attorney General William Barr promised a crackdown on members of antifa and other extremists he blamed for helping to drive violenceduring nationwide protests.But a Reuters examination of federal court records related to the charges, social media posts by some of the suspects and interviews with defense lawyers and prosecutors found mostly disorganized acts of violence by people who have few obvious connections to antifa or other left-wing groups (here ).

The Reuters Fact Check teamhaspreviously debunked claims about antifa circulating on social media, including a fake antifa Twitter account calling for violence (here ), false claims that billionaire philanthropist George Soros owned antifa and Black Lives Matter andwaspaying protesters (here ), and false claims that antifa was sending messages to U.K. pubs to change their names due to racist connotations (here ).

False. The image of a metal object hanging from an overpass was taken in the Scottish Highlands.Ithas beenmislabeledbysome social media users to suggest it ispart ofan antifa plot totarget truckers and keep the U.S. economy from reopening.

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Massive Growth in Social Casino Games Market Industry Size, Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecast 2025| Zynga, Tencent, Scientific Games Corporation,…

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Coronavirus: Migrants fear being split from families over visa extension issues – Stuff.co.nz

Thousands of migrants face uncertain futures after their partners were granted visa extensions to remain in New Zealand, but they werent.

About 16,500 people on employer-assisted Essential Skills and Work to Residence visas due to expire by the end of 2020 were granted an automatic six-month extension on July 7.

But partners and children attached to those visas must reapply at a cost of hundreds of dollars to remain in the country with them.

A British mother, who moved to Auckland with her husband and child, has applied for residency but a huge backlog means she does not know if it will be approved before her current visa expires in November.

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Accredited employer visas have been extended by Immigration NZ for six months.

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While her husbands accredited employer work visa was automatically extended due to a temporary coronavirus-related law change, her and her childs partnership and dependent visas will expire in November.

Are you affected? Email aucklandnewsroom@stuff.co.nz

We came to New Zealand as a family in 2015 because we felt it would be a better life for our child here.

As a teenager I was meant to move to New Zealand with my parents, but they changed their minds, before deciding to go ahead with the move later in life, so we moved here to be close to them as well.

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New Zealands borders remain closed to all but permanent residents and citizens due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The woman said applying for a visa was a very long, tedious and expensive process.

Weve been through several rounds of applications and if we aren't granted residency before mine and my child's visas expire in November, we will have to apply again whilst waiting for residency.

She believed her and her childs visas should have been given an automatic extension like her husbands, as they are linked.

If our residency isn't granted before that [November], myself and my child will need to apply for another work visa/student visa to fill the gap which is another expense that we can't really afford.

The woman said she was concerned she and her child could be sent back to the UK, if the alternative visas which cost in the region of $500 each - were not granted.

My child has just started school here and this country is all she has ever known, she said.

A spokeswoman for Immigration NZ said visa extensions were approved because it gave both employers and migrants certainty.

Covid-19 has had a large impact on the job market in New Zealand and more jobs are now needed for unemployed Kiwis.

We didnt include an extension for partnership visas as those on them are less likely to have a job which is necessary.

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Visa applications from people overseas are currently on hold.

Its their responsibility to be here legally, and they will need to apply for a new visa when it runs out.

They can apply for another or make plans to leave New Zealand.

The spokeswoman confirmed there was a large backlog of visa applications to get into New Zealand but anyone re-applying and already in the country would get their visa processed in time.

There are currently 37,700 migrants in New Zealand who are reliant on another temporary visa holder, such as a partner with an employer-assisted work visa.

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China accuses US of ‘slander’ over coronavirus research hacking claims – Macau Business

Beijing accused the United States of slander on Wednesday after two Chinese nationals were indicted for seeking to steal coronavirus vaccine research and hacking hundreds of companies.

The Chinese government is a staunch defender of cyber security, and has always opposed and cracked down on cyber attacks and cyber crime in all forms, said foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

The US must immediately stop its slander and smearing of China on cyber security issues, he told a regular press briefing in Beijing.

Li Xiaoyu, 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 33, targeted biotech companies but did not appear to have actually compromised any COVID-19 research, the US Justice Department said Tuesday.

Both are believed to be in China.

At a press conference, Assistant Attorney General John Demers said China had now taken its place in that shameful club of nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals.

But Beijing rejected the claims and said cyber space should not become a new battleground.

Those countries that seek cyber space hegemony will only hurt themselves, Wang said.

The indictment comes amid rising tensions between the global superpowers on a number of fronts, from trade to Beijings handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Archer could miss third Test after revealing racist abuse – Macau Business

Englands Jofra Archer says he was racially abused after his breach of coronavirus protocols and is struggling to get into the right frame of mind to play in the decisive third Test against the West Indies.

The 25-year-old fast bowler was omitted from the England team that won the second Test at Old Trafford on Monday due to an unauthorised trip home after the West Indies victory in the first Test in Southampton.

He is free to play after two negative coronavirus tests.

Archer said in his Daily Mail column published on Wednesday that he had not committed a crime.

He said some of the social media criticism he had received had been racist and felt uncertain about taking the field on Friday for the final Test, also at Old Trafford.

I need to be 100 percent mentally right so that I can throw myself into my cricket this week, Archer wrote.

If I play and dont bowl 90 miles an hour its going to be news. If I dont bowl 90 miles per hour for long enough its going to be news, he added.

Archer said England had enough bowling resources if he was not ready to return.

Second Test standout performer Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes, Sam Curran, veteran James Anderson and Mark Wood are all available.

I give 100 percent every time I go out there and I dont want to go out on the field unless I can guarantee doing that, Archer said.

The paceman, who was fined and issued with a written warning for his breach of the rules, thanked England star Ben Stokes for helping him deal with being in the spotlight of international sport.

Barbados-born Archer, subjected to racist abuse by a spectator during a tour of New Zealand last year, said he would no longer tolerate such comments online.

Some of the abuse I have taken over the past few days on Instagram has been racist and I have decided that enough is enough so I have forwarded my complaints to the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board).

Archer, who burst onto the international scene last year when he bowled the decisive Super Over in Englands World Cup final win over New Zealand, said he wanted to look ahead.

I know what I did was an error of judgement and I have suffered the consequences of that, he said. I havent committed a crime and I want to start feeling myself again.

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TikTok to add 10000 US jobs over 3 years – Macau Business

The fast-growing video-sharing app TikTok said Tuesday it plans to add some 10,000 US jobs over the next three years, as it battles complaints over its ties to China.

A spokesman said the new jobs would be in various regions of the US in engineering, marketing and other sectors.

The news comes as TikTok especially popular with young smartphone users and estimated to have some one billion users worldwide has faced allegations of ties to Chinese intelligence, which the company denies.

TikTok currently has around 1,400 employees in the US, according to a spokesman.

A unit of China-based holding ByteDance, TikTok has been banned in India and US officials have said they were looking at possible actions on the app.

A bill passed by the US House of Representatives would bar federal employees from using the app on government-issued devices, amid concerns that it could be used for spying.

A top White House aide said last week he expected TikTok to break away from its parent firm and operate as independent company.

A TikTok statement said the structure of the company is under review.

As we consider the best path forward, ByteDance is evaluatingchanges to the corporate structureof its TikTok business, the statement said.

We remain fully committed to protecting our users privacy and security as we build a platform that inspires creativity and brings joy for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

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One more bearish leg to 200 on Bitcoin Cash – Elliott wave analysis – FXStreet

Hello traders!

Bitcoin Cash is looking bearish on the intra-day chart, where we see a completed Elliott wave leading diagonal in wave a, followed by a complex correction in b. We see a w-x-y move in b, with resistance at the 230/236 region, where Fib. ratio of 50.0 and 61.8 can react as reversal zones. A firm drop below the 220.1 level would suggest a wave c of a higher degree wave (v) to be underway. Sub-wave c of (v) can target area at 200.0.

Invalidation level is at 245.85.

BCH/USD, 1h

When diagonal triangles occur in the fifth or C wave position, they take the 3-3-3-3-3 shape that Elliott described. However, it has recently come to light that a variation on this pattern occasionally appears in the first wave position of impulses and in the A wave position of zigzags. The characteristic overlapping of waves one and four and the convergence of boundary lines into a wedge shape remain as in the ending diagonal triangle. However, the subdivisions are different, tracing out a 5-3-5-3-5 pattern.

structure is 5-3-5-3-5

a wedge shape within two converging lines

wave 4 must trade into a territory of a wave 1

appears in the wave one position in an impulse, in the A wave position of A-B-C

Elliott wave leading diagonal:

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Cryptocurrencies Price Prediction: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum European Wrap 21 July – FXStreet

Bitcoin Market Update: BTC/USD rockets to $9,400 as volatility mounts

Following weeks of no action in all Bitcoin markets, the largest cryptocurrency is finally on an upward roll. From the opening value of $9,162, BTC has hit an intraday high of $9,368. Although the price has since adjusted $9,340, the potential for gains is still high especially with the entire market trending upwards. Read more ...

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is moving fast towards $230.00. The coin has jumped by over 5% in a matter of minutes amid the global recovery on the cryptocurrency market. At the time of writing, BCH/USD is changing hands at $229.30, and the upside momentum is gaining traction. Read more ...

Ethereum is hanging at the edge of a cliff after stepping above the critical $240. The 50-day SMA is providing immediate support. However, buyers are finding it extremely difficult to hold above $240 due to the low trading volume witnessed across the board. The ongoing bullish action is taking place after confluence resistance discussed on Monday above $239 was overcome. Read more ...

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Bitrump Offers White Label Exchange Architecture to the UAE Crypto – PR Web

Bitrump white label crypto architecture for UAE market

DUBAI, UAE (PRWEB) July 22, 2020

UAE based leading crypto exchange Bitrump is helping the local crypto industry and enterprises with their highly scalable white label cryptocurrency exchange architecture and technology. The white-label solution comes with the benefit of Bitrumpss advanced architecture and cutting-edge security protocols which can be leveraged for deployment and running of a new exchange.

Owing to a global network of users and high-performance of the exchange, Bitrump has garnered well-repute across geographies. It experiences constant surges in crypto trading volume, which has helped the exchange to grow its user base.

Offering the white label architecture we want to extend our assistance and expertise in crypto technology to enterprises and entrepreneurs in based locally to start their very own exchange at half the cost and effort, mentioned Xavier Perry, the Director of Bitrump.

Bitrumps white label solution allows access to highly agile and scalable crypto exchange architecture which can be customized as per ones requirements to create the separate brand identity of the new exchange created in its image.

The leading exchange enables enhanced security and high-frequency trading of crypto assets through its white-label architecture. It comes with the promise of:

1. Quick and easy deployment of exchange making it user-ready instantly2. High liquidity being linked with other global exchanges3. AML and KYC support4. Intuitive and user-friendly interface and admin panel5. Real-time execution of crypto trade with variety in the trading pairs

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Bitcoin Climbs Above USD 9,300, Altcoins Gaining Bullish Momentum – Cryptonews

Bitcoin price remained well bid above the USD 9,050 and USD 9,000. BTC formed a strong support base above USD 9,000 and it recently started a steady rise. It broke the USD 9,200 pivot level and it is currently (08:30 UTC) trading above the main USD 9,300 resistance zone.Similarly, most major altcoins are showing positive signs and they might continue to rise, including ethereum, XRP, litecoin, bitcoin cash, BNB, EOS, TRX, XLM, and ADA. ETH/USD is up around 2% and it is now trading above the USD 240 resistance. XRP/USD is also rising and it might surpass the USD 0.200 and USD 0.202 resistance levels.

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After forming a support base above USD 9,000, bitcoin price started a steady increase. BTC surpassed the USD 9,200 resistance to move into a positive zone. As a result, the bulls took control and the price popped above the USD 9,300 resistance area. The current price action seems bullish and the price might continue to rise towards the USD 9,500 resistance.If there is a downside correction, the USD 9,250 and USD 9,200 levels are likely to act as strong buy zones in the short term.

Ethereum price is up close to 2%, and it surpassed the USD 238 and USD 240 resistance levels. ETH is showing positive signs and it could even attempt a clear break above the USD 245 resistance.If the bulls succeed in pushing the price above USD 245, the price might continue to rise towards USD 250. On the downside, there are supports forming near USD 238 and USD 236.

Bitcoin cash price is rising steadily and it is now trading above the USD 238 level. An immediate hurdle is near the USD 240 level, above which BCH is likely to accelerate higher. The next major resistance is near the USD 248 and USD 250 levels. On the downside, the USD 225 level is a decent support, followed by the main USD 220 support.ADA extended its decline below the USD 0.120 support level and it tested the USD 0.115 zone. The price is currently recovering and trading above USD 0.120. However, the price might struggle to clear the USD 0.122 resistance. The next major resistance on the upside is near the USD 0.125 level.XRP price is rising, but it is still below the USD 0.200 resistance level. A successful close above the USD 0.200 and USD 0.202 levels could open the doors for a sustained upward move towards USD 0.212 and USD 0.215. If not, there is a risk of another decline towards the USD 0.190 support level in the coming sessions.

In the past three sessions, a few altcoins climbed more than 5%, including WAVES, REP, OMG, MIOTA, STX, DGTX, and STEEM. Conversely, KAVA, BAND, RLC, LUNA, LEND, and SXP are down over 10%.

Overall, bitcoin price is gaining strength above USD 9,200 and USD 9,300. If BTC settles above USD 9,300, there are chances of more upsides towards the USD 9,500 level. Any further gains could lead it towards the USD 9,800 level._____

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ANTIBOY: The Family of Harry Hains Unveils Animated Video For Good Enough Single – Icon Vs. Icon

The family of the lateHarry Hains recently released the animated video for his first posthumous singleGood Enough transporting viewers into the world of ANTIBOY, one free of societal constraints and labels. Good Enough, released under Harrys artist nameANTIBOY, is the first track from his forthcoming concept albumA Glitch in Paradise, due out later this year. Check out the video below.

A multi-dimensional and compelling musician, actor(most noted forAmerican Horror StoryandThe OA,) artist, and model,Harry didnt define himself by the constructs surrounding us, and his concept ofANTIBOYoffers a portal into an age of existence where there is complete unparalleled freedom to live without preconceptions and societal labels. At a time when society is rising up to break down old systems and demanding equality for all (and on the heels of Pride), Harrys extraordinary perspective, found at the intersection of our conversations on sexuality, gender, race and self-expression, endures because of its cultural relevance as society focuses on conversations and more importantly actions surrounding racial injustice, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, systemic oppression, and equality.

In a digital utopia where there is no inequality, prejudice, or toxicity,Harry (as the genderless transhuman being ANTIBOY)imagines a world in which the human mind and the bionic body merge. Harry lived this through his own identity, which was gender fluid, shapeshifting and open to interpretation just like his music. The focus on the merger of the human consciousness with artificial intelligence, of non-binary existence opens up a conversation about what the future of our species should and could be. PRESS HEREto watch the ANTIBOY trailer. An amalgamation of rock, electronica and gothic pop,A Glitch In Paradiseexplores the virtual world of ANTIBOY as he re-lives his mistakes in order to try to correct them and find happiness. ButANTIBOYexperiences glitches and gets stuck in an endless loop of heartache, inspired by Harrys relationship with then partner Mike.Good Enough is the first tase of this heartache a song that questions being good enough for a partner.

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The Problem in Portland Isnt the Law; Its the Lawlessness – National Review

Federal law enforcement officers, deployed under the Trump administrations new executive order to protect federal monuments and buildings, face off with rioters in Portland, Ore., July 18, 2020. (Nathan Howard/Reuters)The mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing protesters are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves.

Despite some occasional looting, chaos, property damage, trespassing, rioting, graffiti, assaults, arson, and general mayhem, the media consistently assures us that Antifa protesters are largely peaceful. And since the majority of buildings in Portland, Seattle, and Denver havent been looted yet, who am I to argue?

Of course, it takes only a sliver of the population to transform downtowns into a mess and create quality-of-life issues for thousands of law-abiding citizens. And the mayors who surrender parts of their cities to left-wing protesters are tacitly endorsing lawlessness themselves.

Theres little doubt that if alt-right activists had occupied a few city blocks in Seattle or tried to firebomb a federal courthouse in Portland, wed be in for feverish wall-to-wall media coverage, engulfed in a national conversation about the perils of right-wing radicalism. Every elected Republican would be asked to personally denounce the extremists to make sure they take implicit ownership of the problem.

When a few hundred angry Tiki-Torch Nazis marched in Charlottesville, you would have thought the RNC had deployed the Wehrmacht. Those who led the riot were even asked to opine on CNN. On the other hand, left-wing rioters the people Chris Cuomo and other journalists compared to GIs landing on Normandy are immediately transformed into apolitical actors, rogue anarchists, as soon as any violence starts.

Who knows? Perhaps the majority of citizens and businesses in Portland, Seattle, and Denver want their elected officials to let Antifa act with impunity. Or maybe some of those citizens and businesses will begin fleeing those cities. Whatever the case, its a local concern.

To a point. If mayors do nothing to stop anarchists from tearing down federal monuments or from defacing, vandalizing, and attempting to burn down federal buildings, the feds have every right to dispatch teams of agents to restore order.

None of which is to deny that there are legitimate concerns about how law enforcement is conducting itself. Im sympathetic to criticisms of the federal officers who operate in camouflage and in unmarked vans. Cops should display badge numbers and identification if they truly arent doing so right now otherwise civilians have no real way to hold those in authority accountable for their actions. But the claim that Pinochet-like secret police have begun snatching Portland protesters off the street and making them disappear amounts to the arrest of one man, who refused to speak without his lawyer and was released a little more than an hour later without any charges.

If it were up to me, Id leave Portland to the anarchists and their political accomplices. But federal law enforcement including agencies such as the DEA, FBI, ICE, ATF, Department of Homeland Security, and Marshal Service regularly operate across the country. Sometimes they make arrests, and sometimes they do so after going undercover. This happens under every administration, every day, and it often happens for far less compelling reasons. As far as we know, cops havent broken any laws in the streets of Portland. The protesters who cover their faces have broken tons.

With this in mind, its been instructive watching many of the same characters who cheer on governors who take undemocratic emergency powers and shut down houses of worship without the consent of the people and who sometimes arrest Americans for playing Wiffle ball, attending church, or cutting hair act as if policing portends the end of democracy. The same people who incessantly clamor to empower the federal government when it suits their purposes now act as if protecting a federal courthouse is the Reichstag fire.

MSNBCs John Heilemann says that Trumps sending federal police into Portland is a trial run for using force to steal this election. In a piece titled Trumps Occupation of American Cities Has Begun, Michelle Goldberg, somehow still allowed to freely opine at the New York Times, says that fascism is already here. House speaker Nancy Pelosi calls the police stormtroopers who are kidnapping protesters.

All of these contentions are ugly conspiracy theories, hyperbolic allegations meant to fuel partisan paranoia before an election. Even if we accept the criticisms of law enforcement, the driving problem, and its been happening to various degrees in a number of major cities, is that mayors are allowing protesters to trample on public and private property. They allow it because they share the same left-wing sensibilities. But protesting should never be a license to anarchy.

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Letter to the Editor: Alt-right conspiracies common on social media, talk radio and Fox network – Tulsa World

The letter Why Support Biden? (July) echoes the disinformation and alt-right conspiracy theories common on social media, shock-jock talk radio programs like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones and repeated on Fox News by Sean Hannity and Judge Jeanine Pirro, and, sadly, by the president.

These are not news outlets. They are entertainment broadcast media that mirror supermarket tabloids and traffic in sensationalist journalism.

Their stories dont have to be true; someone just has to have said it was true.

These outlets use "experts" to provide credibility for a story, even if that person has no credentials or subscribes to fringe beliefs. The more outrageous, bizarre and controversial the story, the better.

Many of those stories closely skirt the libel laws.

Apparently, there are a lot of gullible people who will believe anything without question and cant be bothered to evaluate what they read or hear in order to determine the truth for themselves.

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What is white nationalism? Take a look at Trumps agenda. – Vox.com

President Donald Trump has a symbiotic relationship with white nationalists.

Its been a constant in nearly every element of his presidency: The white nationalist violence in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was followed by a pronouncement that there were some very fine people on both sides.

The election of Congresss most diverse class in 2018 ever was met with tweets demonizing women progressives of color, telling them to go back to the crime infested places from which they came. Even Covid-19, a disease spun out of the animal kingdom, has been cast as a foreign foe that was at best the fault of and, at worst, created by nonwhite people, with the president insisting on using racist language around it. And Trump arguably launched his political career by appearing on shows like Fox Newss The OReilly Factor in 2011 to speculate that maybe President Barack Obamas birth certificate says he is a Muslim.

As president, Trump energizes white nationalists on two levels: with his rhetoric and through his staffing and policy choices. In turn, many have given him their support. In doing so, Trump has given an overt platform to white nationalists in a way that is unprecedented in the modern political era.

The issue isnt just Trumps rhetoric. His administrations immigration policy has led to the separation of families, to children facing risk of exposure to disease like Covid-19 in detention facilities, and to the deaths of immigrants seeking asylum in the US. His criminal justice policy has led to a more punitive criminal justice system and to the weakening of police oversight, all of which disproportionately affect communities of color.

His economic policies have rewarded those already holding wealth (a mostly white group), and his much-vaunted greatest economy was not as great for people of color particularly Black Americans, whose unemployment rate has been at least 2 percentage points higher than the general unemployment rate for the entirety of Trumps tenure. In fact, a kinship with white nationalist ideas can be found in just about any part of the Trump administrations policy, from health care to foreign affairs.

All of this is not to say that the Trump administration has run the country exactly as the leader of a white nationalist group would. But they are doing a lot of things that are ideologically compatible, Kathleen Belew, a University of Chicago historian and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, told Vox. And I think it creates a road toward political action for a movement that might not have seen one in an earlier historical moment.

The white nationalist movement is a complex one, and it overlaps with other ideologies, particularly those of white power and white supremacy, that are brought up in discussions of racism, history, and the misguided belief that white people are superior to people of color. But the terms white nationalism, white power, and white supremacy each mean something different. And to understand how the Trump administration relates to white nationalism, its important to understand what white nationalism is and what it is not.

Nationalism typically refers to strong support for a country akin to patriotism, as in the nationalists who want to put America first. But nationalism can also refer to self-determination, such as the Scottish nationalists who want an independent Scottish state.

White nationalism has more in common with this latter form of nationalism: It advocates for a physical or spiritual white state.

The nation in white nationalism is imagined as the Aryan nation, Belew said. White nationalism is the idea that white people are going to unify together as one national polity either in a white homeland or a white nation or even in a white world through the violent killing or exclusion of other people.

There are many routes to accomplishing this vision, but Belew stressed white nationalists generally are not interested in the United States as a nation. Instead, they aspire to replace the United States with something like the white state imagined at the end of The Turner Diaries, a central white nationalist text describing a war against people of color.

This is why, Belew said, When we think about white nationalism, its important to remember that it is a deeply revolutionary and deeply anti-democratic project.

The overall white power movement, on the other hand, goes beyond questions of statehood and has little regard for borders. As Belew told my colleague Jane Coaston, it is what connects New Zealands Christchurch shooter to white nationalists in the United States, and is primarily a social, rather than strictly political, movement that she says is incredibly diverse in all ways other than race.

The white power movement is a broad-based social movement of interconnected groups of people that includes the Klan, Neo-Nazis, radical tax protesters; it includes some segments of boogaloo now; it includes some segments of militia groups, Belew said. Its all across the country: Its urban and suburban and rural; it has men and women and children in it, and people across class backgrounds.

As that list would suggest, white power is a movement that provides a home for white supremacists people who, as political scientists Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith write in Stay Woke: A Peoples Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter, believe that white people are inherently superior to people of color and should dominate over people of color.

This definition, Lopez Bunyasi told Vox, captures the ideological portion of white supremacy, but she noted there is also a structural facet.

Structurally, Lopez Bunyasi and Smith write, white supremacy is the systematic provision of political, social, economic, and psychological benefits and advantages to whites, alongside the systematic provisions of burdens and disadvantages to people who are not white. White supremacy isnt just an ideology; it is an actual system that has been used to build government and create policy in the real world.

Its this sort of white supremacy, Stony Brook University sociology professor Crystal Fleming told Jene Desmond-Harris in a 2016 piece for Vox, that has been a constant throughout history. The concept provided for the enslavement of Black people, the genocide of Native Americans, and the overall allocation of resources in manners that benefit white Americans. And it is a system that still exists today, keeping people of color out of jobs, universities, and political power. Which means everyone regardless of whether one subscribes to white supremacist beliefs lives in a white supremacist system.

Trump has embraced this system and has glorified some of its uglier moments, like its production of the Confederate States of America. He does not advocate for the sort of white nationalism depicted in The Turner Diaries, but his rhetoric has certainly elevated white Americans and sometimes white supremacists and nationalists over Americans of color. And as Belew notes, when it comes to the idea of white power, there is a lot of very concerning evidence that, if not Trump himself, there are people in his administration who really do understand what it means.

Its not only Trump who gives a voice to white nationalists. Key people in his administration champion their beliefs. Chief among them is White House senior adviser Stephen Miller.

A trove of more than 900 emails Miller sent to the alt-right publication Breitbart in 2015 and 2016 both while an aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and a member of the Trump campaign suggests Miller has deep ties to the white nationalist movement.

The emails, which were analyzed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, touched on race or immigration. Some of the messages included links to white nationalist articles, while others included white nationalist slang. Miller also promoted The Camp of the Saints, a white supremacist book that casts immigrants of color as savages who subsist on feces, as well as praise for the nativist, hard-line immigration policies of the 1920s.

Those emails saw Miller citing in particular the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. Historian and author of The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas Monica Muoz Martinez notes that act had quota systems to restrict immigration from nations deemed to have populations that were racially undesirable. Those quotas allowed more immigration of people from Western Europe and fewer people coming from other nations, while banning immigration from Asia. As Muoz Martinez explains, these policies were designed by eugenicists and are admired not only by Miller but by the Ku Klux Klan and Adolf Hitler.

Miller has emulated those eugenicists in his crafting of the Trump administrations immigration policy, and hes doing so with Trumps blessing. Muoz Martinez told Vox, One hundred years ago, Mexicans were called murderers and rapists and bandits, and now, Trump says Mexicans are murderers and rapists and drug dealers.

As Voxs Nicole Narea has explained, Miller designed the public charge rule that allows immigrants to be excluded from the US based on whether they are likely to end up relying on public benefits in the future.

More recently, Miller was reportedly involved in creating the executive order that froze certain green card applications and family reunification initiatives due to the coronavirus. That order was followed in June by another that blocked entry for a wider variety of foreign workers, as well as a Supreme Court decision allowing for expedited removal of immigrants seeking asylum.

But ties to white nationalism go beyond Miller to include figures like Steve Bannon, a former White House chief strategist and Trump campaign CEO who led Breitbart, described in 2016 by Voxs Zack Beauchamp as a leading light of Americas white nationalist movement accused of using misogynistic, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, and barely hidden racist language throughout his professional life.

Bannon was fired in August 2017, but in his brief tenure, he seeded the White House with his economic nationalism philosophy, which has been criticized as rebranded white nationalism. And he helped develop the policies that defined Trumps early days most notably the Muslim ban. Bannons ideas about immigration remain entrenched due to figures like Miller, and his divisive rhetoric on domestic and foreign policy continues to come out of Trumps mouth.

Bannons thoughts on matters like staffing still hold weight. For instance, he has helped usher in his ally Michael Pack to run the US governments global news agencies, which include Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. We are going hard on the charge, Bannon told Voxs Alex Ward.

Pack, Ward notes, began his tenure by firing four top officials (after two others quit to protest his hiring) and by mandating the agencies promote editorial content that reflects the presidents worldview, leading to fears his tenure will see official US news networks become mouthpieces for the sorts of white nationalist-adjacent content that populated Breitbart.

Bannon is not the only former official whose ideology remains influential. Perhaps no fired member of the administrations presence is still felt as strongly as that of Millers old boss, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose tenure atop the Justice Department was marked by the enactment of policies that spoke to the line of thought laid out in The Turner Diaries.

Pursuing a tough on crime approach, Sessions crafted policies that actively endangered the lives and liberty of Americans of color, particularly Black Americans. These included mandating federal prosecutors to push for maximum punishment for low-level drug crimes, which Black Americans are disproportionately more likely to be charged with. He also pushed a failed attempted to have federal prosecutors more aggressively pursue marijuana cases. Black Americans are more likely to be arrested for possession than white Americans nationally, again despite marijuana usage being about equal across racial groups.

Sessions successfully limited federal oversight of police departments found to have engaged in civil rights abuses as well as discriminatory and violent policing and, like Miller and Bannon, pursued an aggressively restrictive immigration policy.

He, too, has spoken fondly of the 1924 immigration act, in discussing increasing immigration with Bannon on Breitbart Radio in 2015 while still a senator, saying, it was good for America.

Once in the Trump administration, Sessions emulated the policies of the 1920s by using every power he possessed as attorney general to ensure that the scales of justice tip toward punishment of unauthorized immigrants as often as possible, as Dara Lind wrote for Vox.

As is the case with Miller, Sessionss policies have achieved exclusionary white supremacist aims and fed white supremacists narratives about the dangers of Black people. Through Miller and through other former allies still in the administration like Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, who is currently the chief of staff of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Sessionss ideas live on in the administration despite his departure. His policies survive as well.

Trump tweeted that the phrase Black Lives Matter is a symbol of hate weeks after overseeing armed forces gassing peaceful protesters demanding equality for Black people and other people of color.

When these actions and all the other things Trump has done that align with white nationalist thought and values are taken together, the president begins to appear as someone able to unify traditional forms of white supremacy and more modern modes of white power and white nationalism.

The Klan would wrap themselves in Christianity, Nell Irvin Painter, a Princeton University historian and author of The History of White People, told Vox. (Painter is also a signee of a letter criticized, in part, because of its association with prominent anti-trans figures and themes.) And in the American flag as well. So they were patriots and they were Christians in their own eyes. I dont see any contradiction in Trumps embrace of Confederate monuments and his embrace literal of the American flag.

As the Klan did, the president has cloaked himself in the symbols of Christianity. He posed with the Bible. He highlighted virtual church services on Sundays throughout the pandemic. And he has endeavored to signal he is an ally to Christians across the nation, from promising to prioritize Christian refugees to taking strong positions on matters from the celebration of Christmas to abortion, even though he has few personal ties to Christianity or religion in general.

Similarly, Trump has worked to use the flag sometimes even hugging it as well as other American symbols like Mount Rushmore, to signal that his policies, white nationalist aligned or not, are American. And to argue criticism of those policies is anti-American.

Even the presidents rabid defense of Confederate statues many of which were erected during periods of Black activism and serve as warnings to people of color to stop striving for equality is revealing. This is not to say that Trump is using the monuments as part of a campaign of terror and intimidation. But positioning himself as a champion of America allows him to cast their concerns as unpatriotic extensions of a left-wing cultural revolution that wants to overthrow the American Revolution.

In connecting and conflating white men who tried to destroy the United States with prominent Revolutionary figures like Thomas Jefferson, the president highlights the thing that connects them: the barbaric ways they treated nonwhite people.

There is a kind of white nationalism thats about infusing whiteness into the nation, Belew said. For the activists that are taking to the streets and training in paramilitary camps, the nation isnt the United States; they are not at all interested in defending the United States. They want to defend the white nation. And they want to do that, often, by overthrowing the United States.

This impulse mirrors the goals of the radical white nationalists of the Confederate States of America and is reflected in the presidents policies particularly around immigration and in tendencies his critics would call anti-democratic. To the extent that that ideology has actually crept into governance, its shocking, Belew noted. Because its a revolutionary thing that is attempting to undo the very government where they sit.

Trumps immigration policy is notable not just for the ways it excludes people of color but for how it deems white immigrants the right type of immigrants.

In 2018, Trump said hed like the US to have fewer immigrants from shithole countries in Africa and the Caribbean instead, he wanted immigrants from the majority-white Norway. In practice, he has put up barriers to immigration for citizens from countries with majority people of color populations, including those with Muslim majorities, while casting them as some of the most vicious and dangerous people on earth.

In June, Trump announced a temporary ban on green cards and the suspension of several work visas that are often used by immigrants of color, particularly those from India. Other countries that have been especially affected by Trumps immigration policy include Vietnam, China, Mexico, and South Korea. Stuart Anderson, the founder of the immigration think tank National Foundation for American Policy, noted those four countries saw drastic reductions in immigration during Trumps first two years in office, with immigration from China falling about 21 percentage points in that period.

Amid these declines, Trump reportedly hoped to find ways to fast track immigration from Europe with former US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland assigned in 2018 to work on the plan with Miller and Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Through exclusion and the push to recruit white immigrants, the Trump administration has advocated for a rigid border policy for nonwhite immigrants and a more porous, generous one for those who are white. This advances the aims of white nationalism that transcends border and that suggests the sovereignty of US borders matters less when the Trump administration is thinking of the role the country might play in advancing the global white nation than it does when thinking of the country as a discrete entity.

White nationalist goals can only be achieved by dismantling the US government, and there, too, Trump has appeared to align with a violent element, like when he called on armed groups to liberate their states.

There are countless other examples, but the point is, Trump has contributed to the political unraveling of the United States some modern white nationalists see as necessary to achieve their goals. He has not done so by violently overthrowing the government. But he has taken steps in the direction these white nationalists want to go.

As much as he has embraced it, Trump has made some attempts to distance himself from white supremacy and white nationalism. Following a racist mass shooting in El Paso (one perpetrated by a shooter whose manifesto mirrored some of Trumps rhetoric on Latinx immigration), Trump said, In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America.

But words like these are nothing more than language uttered in between statements hewing closely to white supremacist and white nationalist ideals.

Just weeks before the El Paso shooting, Trump called the majority-Black district of former lawmaker Rep. Elijah Cummings a dangerous & filthy place and a rat and rodent infested mess, adding, No human being would want to live there. Its language that mirrors the characterization of people of color in The Camp of the Saints, and it not only casts a popular Black leader as inept, it implies he and his constituents are somehow less than human.

In the weeks directly after, Trump tweeted a campaign video featuring a logo associated with the white supremacist group VDARE, employed the anti-Semitic dual-loyalties trope in speaking about the political opinions of Jewish Americans, and claimed at a rally that sanctuary cities were releasing hardened and horrible criminal aliens ... directly into your neighborhoods.

Just a little over a month after saying hate has no place in America, Trump said of the gang MS-13, which was started by Salvadoran immigrants: They take young women. They slice them up with a knife. They slice them up beautiful, young.

All these things, which happened in the span of less than two months, ticked many white supremacist and nationalist boxes Jewish people as untrustworthy, people of color as predators with a predilection for young women, and Black people as subhuman rendering the presidents rejections of various white power ideologies meaningless.

Its a cycle Trump has trapped himself in, and one that continues even now.

After these atrocities, like when the George Floyd video came out, he didnt say anything for a long time, Painter noted. I mean, he said, Oh that was terrible, and then in the next breath, he went back to his race-baiting.

And it is a cycle that is difficult to escape. As Muoz Martinez said, We are living in a nation that was inspired by the principles of white supremacy.

So ingrained are those ideas, she pointed out, that even the first presidential administration run by a Black American reflected them, particularly with respect to immigration, with policies that incarcerated children in harsh conditions that spawned lawsuits.

We have to remember that the policies that the Trump administration created, and the kind of inhumanity that we see, built upon the infrastructure that had already existed, Muoz Martinez said, adding that white nationalist and white supremacist ideals shaped our society and shaped our institutions, and shaped our public societies and laws, our policing mindset. And we havent replaced that.

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It’s Time To Defund The University of Mississippi Police Department – The Appeal

This piece is a commentary, part of The Appeals collection of opinion and analysis.

In the fall of 2019, the governing board over Mississippis eight public higher education institutions, the states Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL), appointed a new chancellor at the University of Mississippi (UMiss) in Oxford. The new chancellor, Glenn Boyce, had previously worked at three predominantly white private schools known as segregation academies and was paid by the IHLs Board of Trustees to be a consultant for the chancellor search process, in which he was ultimately selected. To announce the appointment, Boyce was set to speak at a news conference held by the Board.

In response, a coalition of faculty and students organized a protest to call for more democratic university leadership. Hundreds of people, including students, faculty, and alumni, showed up in support. As students held signs reading Abolish IHL and Students and Workers Run This School, Ray Hawkins, the chief of the universitys police department (UPD) picked me up and wrestled me out of the room. This physically violent act was followed by members of the alt-right and neo-confederates harassing me for months. But it was not the first time that UPD forced a student into the frontlines of white supremacist violence and, as long as the department exists, it will not be the last.

Fifty years earlier, in 1969, Black students at UMiss officially chartered the Black Student Union (BSU). Unbeknownst to the students, months after charter, the FBI was surveilling them. Because of a recent Freedom of Information Act request by UMiss assistant professor of history Garrett Felber, we now know that the FBI worked closely with UPD to document the activities of Black students across campus. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover even recommended that the local FBI office take immediate steps to develop member informants in the BSU.

Over the course of the 1969-70 school year, Black students protested racism at UMiss and released a list of 27 demands, including a condemnation of the racist attitude and statements of members of the Board of Trustees, and a minimum wage for campus employees. In February 1970, the international singing group Up With People performed on campus. In an effort to have their demands met, Black students took the stage and raised their fists in a Black Power salute.

During and after the concert, 89 people were arrested. Some students were taken to a local county jail, while others were held at the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, home to the states death row.

A local prosecutor later dropped criminal charges against the protesters, but eight students were expelled. We did not have any weapons, and our protest was completely nonviolent, Linnie Willis, one of the expelled students, told the New Yorker this year. I went to jail in my hometown, not at Parchman; that was worse, since I became a marked person and could never be employed in Oxford. Willis had completed all the requirements for her degree when she was expelled, but UMiss did not give her a diploma for 50 years.

In the last five years, theres been another wave of student organizing on campus. In 2015, Dominique Garrett-Scott, then an undergraduate, was one of the leaders of the fight to remove the Mississippi state flag, which included the Confederate emblem, from campus. Their fight was successful: That year, the flag was taken down. (In late June of this year, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill to retire the flag). The backlash, however, included hyper-surveillance and counter-protesting from neo-Confederates. In 2017, a student running for student government included the Mississippi state flag on his campaign sign. Taia McAfee, then a freshman, painted over the Confederate emblem with BLM and was later arrested by UPD.

Connecting multiple generations of activists at UMiss is the fight against the entrenched white supremacy and those who protect it: the police. Over several decades, this has not only subjected students to police violence, but also takes resources away from campus workers. In the 2019-2020 school year, UPD had an annual budget of over $3 million, and its chiefs salary was $114,130. At the same time, as the coronavirus pandemic began, dozens of workers at UMiss struggled to buy groceries and pay rent, which compounded the fact that an estimated 20-25 percent of workers at UMiss do not make a living wage.

Campus policing not only invites overt police violence, but by taking resources that could go to students and workers, inherently contributes to other acts of violence across campus. Between 2016 and 2018, there were 49 on-campus rapes reported, but excluding UPDs security report, support for sexual assault survivors is virtually nonexistent. In 2019, UMisss Violence Intervention and Prevention Office, which provided support for survivors, merged with another office, and the campus counseling center started limiting student appointments to 10 per academic year. University administrators have been consistent in what they have communicated to students and workers for the last 50 years: They care more about policing us than taking care of our needs.

This past month, as activists and city governments took down statues down across the countryincluding the removal of several Confederate statues in Richmond, Virginia the IHLs Board of Trustees unveiled their plans to renovate a Confederate cemetery and relocate the Confederate statue that sits in the middle of campus. The price tag for the proposed project is $1.1 million and includes security cameras around the premises for constant surveillance by UPD.

As UMiss continues to increase its investment in the police and promoting and protecting white supremacy, the coronavirus pandemic continuesand many workers at school struggle to make ends meet. This contradiction existed long before the global pandemic, but the level of suffering in our communities has been exacerbated by administrators continuing to prioritize capital and policing as the virus has spread. The funds for maintaining white supremacy at UMiss should be redirected to providing workers a living wage, to sexual assault prevention, and to the general well-being of people in our community. It is time to build on calls, begun in 1970, to defund UPD.

Cam Calisch is a graduate student and community organizer at the University of Mississippi.

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