. The heated exchange came in the chaotic sixth day of the trial of Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. , who drove the police van in which Gray suffered a fatal spine injury in 2015 . ( Derek Hawkins and Lynh Bui )
That makes it a lot easier for neoreactionaries to defend their narrative of Western decline and democratic failure . If you look at the numbers , the Whig theory of history — with some faults and starts , everything 's getting better — appears to be basically right . Extreme poverty is at historic lows , hunger and infant mortality are plummeting , life expectancy is going up , war is on the decline , education is more available , homicidelife.die.narates are down , etc . But what if those numbers are all lies produced by biased Cathedral sources in academia and propagated by Cathedral tools in the media like Vox ? What then ?
The meeting , held Tuesday through Thursday in New York City , was billed as a forum to debate drug laws , called for by Mexico , Colombia and Guatemala in 2014 . All three countries suffered disproportionate violence from cartels controlling drug supplies to the north . In Mexico alone , the government estimates 164,000 people were the victims of homicidelife.die.narelated to cartel violence between 2007 and 2014 . On Thursday , Mexico ’s president , Enrique Peña Nieto , announced plans to legalize marijuana - based medicines and proposed raising the amount of the drug that can be legally carried . Activists for drug policy reform had already warned there was little hope that UNgass would provide a forum for serious debate of the issue .
pic.twitter.com/zp3v2GjTeI — Julia Ioffe ( @juliaioffe ) April 28 , 2016 She received several threatening phone calls , with one person playing her a Hitler speech over the line . She was also called by a homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventscleanup service , where she was told an order had been placed for her . Many of those who assailed her online referred to her as a “ kike . ” White supremacist website The Daily Stormer wrote a blog about her titled “ Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ ! ” “ It ’s unsettling , ” she told the Guardian on Thursday night .
If Trump was going to think strategically , the time to do it was from the very beginning , before he insulted menstruating women , the pope , Muslims , Mexicans , Whoopi Goldberg , Ronda Rousey , Carly Fiorina 's face , Germany , and hundreds of other groups and individuals . You do it before you do schlock impersonations of Chinese businesspeople ( " We want deal ! ") , before you retweet a bogus meme claiming 81 percent of white homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsvictims were killed by blacks ( the real number is 15 percent ) , before you mimic people with neurological disorders , and before you suggest that gun enthusiasts might take a shot at your opponent . And you definitely do it before you destroy the modern Republican Party by birthing into the mainstream an aggressive white - nationalist movement , whose entire identity is centered around walling itself off from America 's future multicultural majority . In other words , you do it before you tear down a 162-year - old political organization to replace it with a smaller , more radicalized , more automatically - losing coalition – not after .
That makes it a lot easier for neoreactionaries to defend their narrative of Western decline and democratic failure . If you look at the numbers , the Whig theory of history — with some faults and starts , everything 's getting better — appears to be basically right . Extreme poverty is at historic lows , hunger and infant mortality are plummeting , life expectancy is going up , war is on the decline , education is more available , homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrates are down , etc . But what if those numbers are all lies produced by biased Cathedral sources in academia and propagated by Cathedral tools in the media like Vox ? What then ?
But there ’s just one last formality : He needs to pass some minimum threshold , a basic job requirement – like proving he has a drivers license . Everybody agrees he ’s got the job . It ’s too late for Hillary to be sucking up to the hiring committee , reminding them , but I took driver ’s ed seven times — yes , there were mistakes , but I was grilled for 11 hours about that vehicular homicidelife.die.na. Also , the Russians hacked my GPS . Trump showed up at the debate with his driver ’s license .
( The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis . ) The OECD says the average homicide rate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people . According to the 2014 data , at the top of the list is Brazil , with a homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrate 25.5 , or six times the average . Next on the list is Mexico , with a homicide rate of 23.4 , followed by Russia at 12.8 . Then comes a tie for fourth place — Chile and the United States both have a homicide rate of 5.2 .
( The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis . ) The OECD says the average homicide rate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people . According to the 2014 data , at the top of the list is Brazil , with a homicidelife.die.narate 25.5 , or six times the average . Next on the list is Mexico , with a homicide rate of 23.4 , followed by Russia at 12.8 . Then comes a tie for fourth place — Chile and the United States both have a homicide rate of 5.2 .
' They took his life for literally no reason . ' So far , police have uncovered no clues to help solve his July 10 murder . A police report seen by Daily Mail Online also states the circumstances surrounding Rich 's homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsare ' unknown ' . The mystery has sparked a flurry of theories posted online , including claims he leaked DNC emails or that he was on his way to speak to the FBI when he was shot . Reddit user The_Donald also constructed a timeline that links Rich to the Clintons , as pointed out by Heat Street .
Next on the list is Mexico , with a homicide rate of 23.4 , followed by Russia at 12.8 . Then comes a tie for fourth place — Chile and the United States both have a homicide rate of 5.2 . Estonia follows close behind with a homicidelife.die.narate of 4.7 . . . .
If Trump was going to think strategically , the time to do it was from the very beginning , before he insulted menstruating women , the pope , Muslims , Mexicans , Whoopi Goldberg , Ronda Rousey , Carly Fiorina 's face , Germany , and hundreds of other groups and individuals . You do it before you do schlock impersonations of Chinese businesspeople ( " We want deal ! ") , before you retweet a bogus meme claiming 81 percent of white homicidelife.die.navictims were killed by blacks ( the real number is 15 percent ) , before you mimic people with neurological disorders , and before you suggest that gun enthusiasts might take a shot at your opponent . And you definitely do it before you destroy the modern Republican Party by birthing into the mainstream an aggressive white - nationalist movement , whose entire identity is centered around walling itself off from America 's future multicultural majority . In other words , you do it before you tear down a 162-year - old political organization to replace it with a smaller , more radicalized , more automatically - losing coalition – not after .
Triple homicide here . Six killed here . Triple homicidelife.die.nathere . Murder here . Boston Marathon there .
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is crafting a new storyline about who may have provided the material he published that caused an implosion in the Democratic National Committee 's leadership this summer . U.S. officials and private sector cyber - experts have said they 're highly confident that hackers associated with Russia 's intelligence services compromised the DNC 's email system and extracted emails that embarrassed the party 's leadership . But it appears Assange wants to puncture the narrative that he 's a cat 's paw for Russian President Vladimir Putin , and that to do so he has seized upon an unsolved homicidelife.die.nain Washington , D.C. Assange has insisted there 's no proof the DNC material came from Russia . Then he told an interviewer on Dutch TV this week that he would n't reveal the source of the DNC material , but said that WikiLeaks ' sources face all kinds of dangers .
But there ’s just one last formality : He needs to pass some minimum threshold , a basic job requirement – like proving he has a drivers license . Everybody agrees he ’s got the job . It ’s too late for Hillary to be sucking up to the hiring committee , reminding them , but I took driver ’s ed seven times — yes , there were mistakes , but I was grilled for 11 hours about that vehicular homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. Also , the Russians hacked my GPS . Trump showed up at the debate with his driver ’s license .
There are currently 34 countries in the OECD , but the agency also includes Brazil and Russia in its statistical data . ( The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis . ) The OECD says the average homicidelife.die.narate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people . According to the 2014 data , at the top of the list is Brazil , with a homicide rate 25.5 , or six times the average . Next on the list is Mexico , with a homicide rate of 23.4 , followed by Russia at 12.8 .
There are currently 34 countries in the OECD , but the agency also includes Brazil and Russia in its statistical data . ( The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis . ) The OECD says the average homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people . According to the 2014 data , at the top of the list is Brazil , with a homicide rate 25.5 , or six times the average . Next on the list is Mexico , with a homicide rate of 23.4 , followed by Russia at 12.8 .
Advertisement When it comes to war , Fish found no statistical evidence to support Samuel Huntington ’s controversial “ clash of civilizations ” thesis that Muslim societies are inherently more war - prone than non - Muslim states . The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society , the lower the homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrate . Moreover , a lot depends on what type of war is being counted . A 2011 analysis by the Human Security Report looked at which states had fought most international wars — including colonial wars — since the end of World War II .
In 2011 , a major study by University of California , Berkeley , political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross - national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007 , annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population . That was approximately a third of the rate for the non - Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe . It is also approximately half the homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrate in the United States . In comparing individual countries , the difference is even greater . The latest homicide statistics from the U.N. ’s Office on Drugs and Crime reveal that for every murder perpetrated in Indonesia , the world ’s most populous Muslim state , seven people are murdered in the United States .
So if there really is an inherent — Islam - driven — propensity for deadly violence in Muslim societies , we should expect to find that the greater the percentage of Muslims in society , the greater would be the numbers of homicides . In fact , the reverse is the case : The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society , the lower the homicide rate . In 2011 , a major study by University of California , Berkeley , political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross - national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007 , annual homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population . That was approximately a third of the rate for the non - Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe . It is also approximately half the homicide rate in the United States .
There is only one core issue in the immigration debate , and that issue is the well - being of the American people . Nothing even comes a close second . Hillary Clinton , for instance , talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated , but she 's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents, because of a preventable death , because of murder . No , she 's only talking about families who come here in violation of the law . We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity .
Advertisement So if there really is an inherent — Islam - driven — propensity for deadly violence in Muslim societies , we should expect to find that the greater the percentage of Muslims in society , the greater would be the numbers of homicides . In fact , the reverse is the case : The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society , the lower the homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrate . In 2011 , a major study by University of California , Berkeley , political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross - national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007 , annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population . That was approximately a third of the rate for the non - Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe .
In California , a 64-year - old Air Force veteran , a great woman , according to everybody that knew her , Marilyn Pharis , was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a hammer . Her killer had been arrested on multiple occasions but was never , ever deported , despite the fact that everybody wanted him out . A 2011 report from the Government Accountability Office found that illegal immigrants and other non - citizens , in our prisons and jails together , had around 25,000 homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsarrests to their names , 25,000 . On top of that , illegal immigration costs our country more than $ 113 billion a year . And this is what we get .
In 2011 , a major study by University of California , Berkeley , political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross - national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007 , annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population . That was approximately a third of the rate for the non - Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe . It is also approximately half the homicidelife.die.narate in the United States . In comparing individual countries , the difference is even greater . The latest homicide statistics from the U.N. ’s Office on Drugs and Crime reveal that for every murder perpetrated in Indonesia , the world ’s most populous Muslim state , seven people are murdered in the United States .
If this was the only evidence of calculated racial divisiveness in Trump ’s campaign , it would be one thing . It is not . Last year — in one of the many tweets by racial supremacists that he has promoted to 12 million followers of his Twitter account — Trump disseminated the falsehood that blacks kill 81 % of white homicidelife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsvictims . ( The actual number is 15 % . ) In February , asked on national television whether he would reject the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke , Trump said “ I just do n’t know anything about him . ” He later blamed an earpiece — and said that he disavowed Duke .