Tuesday, January 29th
Americans selling nuclear secrets
Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency.s Washington field office.
She says the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
[ It's good nuclear weapons are in safe, responsible hands. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:23 AM CST [more..]
Lying as a way of life
The results, published in "The Social Psychology of Good and Evil," showed that college students lied at least once to 38 percent of the people they interacted with. Community members lied to 30 percent.
DePaulo also found that some types of people are more likely to lie:
Manipulative people will lie to get what they want.
People-pleasers tend to say what the other person wants to hear.
Extroverts "are more tuned into others, so they notice what other people want to hear, or they want to impress them," DePaulo says.
"In the abstract, it's very easy to say, 'Oh, we value honesty, and you should never lie,'" says DePaulo. But "sometimes in our real lives, our valuing of honesty clashes with something else we also value, like wanting to be gracious or kind or compassionate."
[ Enforcing morality makes lies commonplace. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:22 AM CST [more..]
Racial divide defines view of opportunity
Two-thirds of African-Americans believe blacks face discrimination when applying for a job or buying or renting a house, yet more than half also agree . and nearly three-quarters of whites believe . that "blacks who have not gotten ahead in life are mainly responsible for their own situation." Blacks believe they face discrimination, yet the individual African-American is to blame for his or her failure to make it?
As exemplified by the civil rights movement and its minister leader King, there runs through African-American religious history a conviction that God stands with the dispossessed against the scourge of dehumanizing racism. Yet those who follow black church trends today will tell you that this prophetic tradition is giving way to something decidedly less idealistic: a prosperity gospel holding that God blesses individual believers with economic advancement.
[ Let's blame each other until we're all dead. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:21 AM CST [more..]
Rule over the stupid by the very rich
The chief executive of Marks & Spencer believes the UK is fast becoming a very divided nation: the rich who live inside the M25 - and the rest.
Speaking earlier this month, Sir Stuart Rose said there was a widening gulf between the have-nots and the have-a-lots, which is now wider than he had seen in 35 years behind the counter of stores such as M&S, Burton and Dorothy Perkins. "I have never seen such a polarised UK economy," he said. "The rich are so very, very rich. The West End can't get enough diamonds. But the poor are getting poorer. Outside London it is a completely different economy."
[ Freedom at work as usual. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:18 AM CST [more..]
Turnout low for MLK parades
Still, crowds were thin, which allowed late-comers to easily find a front-row spot on the sidewalk.
"The turnout today is very, very low," said Quincy Bates, 20, an education student at Texas Southern University and former drum major at Yates High School. "It's not what I expected."
[ Should've had the parades in Spanish! ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:15 AM CST [more..]
Sexual selection decreases
The report, from the National Board of Health and Welfare, shows that people have more sexual partners than they did twenty years ago and that twice as many people sleep together on a first date. Despite the fact that people know about the risks, they do not appear to be taking greater care to protect themselves.
Young women in particular were more likely than 20 years ago to have multiple sexual partners. In 1989 the 13 percent of women aged 18-19 had had three or more sexual partners in the past year. In 2007 this figure was 26 percent, although the reports authors stressed that the number of people who responded to the survey was lower in 2007, making the figures less certain.
[ The more sex you have, the more you distance yourself from a unitive, loving, respectful future relationship. These women will end up in their 30s and 40s, alone and aging, and bitter, when they could have had healthy family lives. The modern tragedy continues! ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:14 AM CST [more..]
Humankind self-destructing, UN warns belatedly
Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made epoch:
* Vastly altered sediment erosion and deposition patterns.
* Major disturbances to the carbon cycle and global temperature.
* Wholesale changes in biology, from altered flowering times to new migration patterns.
* Acidification of the ocean, which threatens tiny marine life that forms the bottom of the food chain.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080127/sc_livescience/humansforceearthintonewgeologicepoch
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_sc/world_forum_water_scarcity
The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen water shortages and force poor communities off their land, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_sc/biofuels_fears
[ Our leaders must be doing a great job. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 01:06 AM CST [link]
We're in a dark age of ignorance
The enlightenment was a beautiful thing. People cast aside dogma and
authority. They started to think for themselves. Natural science
flourished. Understanding of the real world increased. The hegemony of
religion slowly declined. Real universities were created and eventually
democracy took hold. The modern world was born. Until recently we were
making good progress. So what went wrong?
The past 30 years or so have been an age of endarkenment. It has been a
period in which truth ceased to matter very much, and dogma and
irrationality became once more respectable.
To roughly quote Dr. Colquhoun, "Truth has become less important than
the sincere desire that something shoule be true." It sounds bad. How
much trouble are we really in?
[ Everything is political now. Reality is far away. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:58 AM CST [more..]
Nuclear proliferation increasingly threatening
Nato must prepare to launch pre-emptive nuclear attacks to ward off the use of weapons of mass destruction by its enemies, a group of former senior military officials has warned.
"The risk of further proliferation is imminent and, with it, the danger that nuclear war fighting, albeit limited in scope, might become possible," the report said.
"The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction."
[ Guess Hitler was right about that, too. OMG ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:57 AM CST [more..]
Blackout of white voters in media
Being a black man, I don't mind talking about the nuances of black politics -- I've run three black newspapers, a black Web site and been the news editor of a national black magazine -- but I can also count. And to suggest that white voters are immaterial in South Carolina is nuts.
It has been so stunning that I can't even recall the last time I've seen journalists spend a lot of time interviewing whites. The stories have focused on black preachers, the tough choice facing black women, and whether young black voters come to the polls.
In some respects, there's a blackout when it comes to talking to white voters.
[ The media chases emotional symbols, not reality. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:54 AM CST [more..]
When reality is pointless, the young drink
Drinking to get drunk is starting at a young age, in England and Wales, prompting children not yet into their teens to become involved in violence, vandalism and sexual risk, according to a study published today.
The survey of deprived communities reveals a picture of widespread binge drinking among pre-teens and teenagers, frequently of over 20 units a week, with parents ignoring or even condoning the habit.
[ Parents: often hypocrites. Future: dreary jobs in dreary cities. Civilization: going nowhere. Parasites: abundant. Kids self-destruct under such negative conditions. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:53 AM CST [more..]
Jobs will kill you
The team conducted seven surveys over a 12-year period and found chronically stressed workers -- people determined to be under severe pressure in the first two of the surveys -- had a 68 percent higher risk of developing heart disease.
The link was strongest among people under 50, Chandola said.
"This study adds to the evidence that the work stress-coronary heart disease association is causal in nature," the researchers wrote in the European Heart Journal.
[ Jobs take us away from living in the world and coccoon us in a fantasy land of dealing with other people. Then we get stressed, bored, sad, perverse and self-destructive. Work must be done, but jobs are unnecessary. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:51 AM CST [more..]
Nature curbs dysfunctional societies
In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before their fifth birthdays, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, the U.N. Children's Fund said in its annual report.
More than 26,000 children under 5 die each day on average.
[ These are not hard things to avoid. Nature prunes those who cannot get organized to survive, and then well-meaning but stupid humans reverse that process, but it makes them feel better about their neurotic minivan-driving city-stupefacted lives. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:49 AM CST [more..]
Lying is part of nature's mathematics
The team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Federal
Institute of Technology created the little experimental learning devices
to work in groups and hunt for "food" targets nearby while avoiding
"poison." Imagine their surprise when one generation of robots learned
to signal lies about the poison, sending opponents to their doom.
The little wheeled robots had neural circuitry with about 30 "genes"
that determine their behavior, and how much they react to light in the
environment. The food sources charged up the robots' batteries while the
poison drained them, and by using the genes of the most successful
feeders in 50 successive generations, the team was hoping to select the
fittest.
Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other
robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth
colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison
and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other robots went to
their battery-death.
[ Morality is wishful thinking. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:46 AM CST [more..]
Low degree of fitness variable in races
The more fit you are, the longer you're likely to live, according to a large study of veterans that applies to black men as well as white men. The Veterans Affairs researchers found that the "highly fit" men in the study had half the risk of death as those who were the least fit. Being "very highly fit" cut the risk even more, by 70 percent.
The research builds on what is already known about the benefits of exercise and fills in some gaps by addressing the effects of fitness in blacks.
[ I thought we were all supposed to be identical but colored differently, like products. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:44 AM CST [more..]
Texas town enacts strict laws against illegals
Illegal immigrants cannot rent or own homes in Farmers Branch, Texas, under an ordinance the city's council passed Tuesday night.
The measure requires the Dallas suburb to check a renter's legal status with the federal government.
[ States are sick of the fed airballing this issue, and are starting to force it. Expect the usual busybody groups to try to intervene. ]
news on 01.29.08 @ 12:43 AM CST [more..]
Monday, January 28th
Britain hit by multicultural teen crime wave
Violent crime carried out by children and teenagers has gone up by a third in only three years, it can be disclosed.
The number of under-18s convicted or cautioned over violent offences rose from 17,590 to 24,102 - an increase of 37 per cent.
[ Sounds like victory for death, despair, Satan, dysfunction, etc. Good work. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:55 PM CST [more..]
White Separatists protest in Jena, LA
About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday in this tiny town, which was thrust into the spotlight months ago by 20,000 demonstrators who claimed prosecutors discriminated against blacks.
"I'm here to protest black-on-white crime," David Dupre Sr., 53, told reporters.
His 31-year-old son, at times using racial slurs, said: "It's time for us white folks to start getting some of our rights back."
[ Racial slurs... that should win over normal, decent, hard-working American whites. NOT! ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:54 PM CST [more..]
Racial autonomy not reconciliation needed for black America
One of the worst aspects of the King legacy is that, thanks to him, no African-American today is allowed to bring up racism, even in the most objective fashion, without severe repercussions. You will be instantly labelled a radical, a Black Panther (a bad thing), or a Mau Mau (a very bad thing) who wants to kill the white man. King has eliminated the possibility of other black people speaking out, people with other philosophies, who do not necessarily want to hug racists. Obama can succeed only insofar as he makes it plain that, like the British trade unionist Bill Morris, he is “not the black candidate”, that he can be counted on neither to be a champion for, nor to defend the rights of, black people.
Our love for King notwithstanding, if we are honest we will concede that King built nothing, and taught us only how to take a beating. As Gandhi said: “I have admitted my mistake. I thought our struggle was based on non-violence, whereas in reality it was no more than passive resistance, which is essentially a weapon of the weak.”
It is time we all admitted our mistake. A black King did not redeem us. And neither will a black president.
[ No one will be happy until multiculturalism ends. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:50 PM CST [more..]
Diversity training is anti-white hatred
In one-on-one and group sessions conducted in the dormitories by resident assistants, Halligan and dozens of other White students complained that they were made to feel like racists. She adds that they were blamed for the legacy of racism that Blacks and other minority groups have endured through the years.
“I was personally offended,” says Halligan, who is majoring in communications. “I was angered when a document was used in the training that stated that ‘all people of European descent are racist.’ When I attempted to express my opinion against such statements, I was silenced.”
[ This is the experience most white people have, unless they get off on guilt like a drug or sexual act. The diversity trainers at the source would have you believe it's a rare occurrence. Not so. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:48 PM CST [more..]
Diversity training is anti-white hatred
In one-on-one and group sessions conducted in the dormitories by resident assistants, Halligan and dozens of other White students complained that they were made to feel like racists. She adds that they were blamed for the legacy of racism that Blacks and other minority groups have endured through the years.
“I was personally offended,” says Halligan, who is majoring in communications. “I was angered when a document was used in the training that stated that ‘all people of European descent are racist.’ When I attempted to express my opinion against such statements, I was silenced.”
[ This is the experience most white people have, unless they get off on guilt like a drug or sexual act. The diversity trainers at the source would have you believe it's a rare occurrence. Not so. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:46 PM CST [more..]
Diversity training is anti-white hatred
In one-on-one and group sessions conducted in the dormitories by resident assistants, Halligan and dozens of other White students complained that they were made to feel like racists. She adds that they were blamed for the legacy of racism that Blacks and other minority groups have endured through the years.
“I was personally offended,” says Halligan, who is majoring in communications. “I was angered when a document was used in the training that stated that ‘all people of European descent are racist.’ When I attempted to express my opinion against such statements, I was silenced.”
[ This is the experience most white people have, unless they get off on guilt like a drug or sexual act. The diversity trainers at the source would have you believe it's a rare occurrence. Not so. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:46 PM CST [more..]
US to speed up deporting illegal alien felons
Federal authorities expect to identify and deport more than 200,000 immigrants who are convicted criminals serving time in prisons and jails across the country, the country's top federal immigration
enforcement official said Monday.
[ Call them and tell them they're racist. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:44 PM CST [more..]
Chinese argue for multiregional human origins
The well-preserved skull was found in the central Chinese province of Henan, and Chinese scientists say it could disprove the widely-held theory that Homo sapiens originated in Africa.
The majority of Chinese scientists share the multiregional theory of human origin, which says that humans evolved separately in different regions.
The opposite theory, the Out-of-Africa model, says that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, and that some prehistoric humans left the continent about 60,000 years ago. This theory is supported by the small number of older human fossils found in other regions as compared to on the African continent.
[ This could be interesting. Fucking Asian racists. We bomb them next -- oh wait, they're strong. Hmm. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:43 PM CST [more..]
Schools re-segregating
It’s a trend that is occurring around the country and is even more pronounced than expected in the wake of court cases dismantling both mandated and voluntary integration programs, a new report says. The most segregated schools, according to the report, which documents desegregation trends, are in big cities of the Northeast and Midwest. The South and West—and rural areas and small towns generally—offer minority students a bit more diversity.
Suburbs of large cities, meanwhile, are becoming the new frontier: areas to which many minorities are moving.
These places still have a chance to remain diverse communities but are showing signs of replicating the segregation patterns of the cities themselves.
[ People want to be around people like them. That applies to race, ethnicity, nationality, class, caste, penis length, foot size, nose curvature, muscularity, musical tastes, folders or padders, etc. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:40 PM CST [more..]
Ethnic groups prefer to breed within themselves
This paper presents an economic analysis of the intergenerational transmission of ethnic and religious traits through family socialization and marital segregation decisions. Frequency of intragroup marriage (homogamy), as well as socialization rates of religious and ethnic groups, depend on the group's share of the population: minority groups search more intensely for homogamous mates, and spend more resources to socialize their offspring. This pattern generally induces a dynamics of the distribution of ethnic and religious traits which converges to a culturally heterogeneous stationary population.
[ In other words, we all like being what we are, and having culture beats being mixed. No kidding sherlock. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:38 PM CST [more..]
Financial apartheid
But African-Americans snared in the US mortgage crisis have seen the American dream turn into a nightmare many call “financial apartheid.”
“People of color are more than three times more likely to have subprime loans,” concluded the organization United for a Fair Economy in a recent report which estimated that minorities have seen between 163 billion and 278 billion dollars of their equity go up in smoke since 2000.
City officials estimate that foreclosures have swallowed some 70,000 homes and turned entire neighborhoods into ghost towns.
[ White people want to end racism so they can take advantage of black people financially. Isn't it more honest to want racial separation and an end to parasitism? ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:35 PM CST [more..]
White people are slaves to minivans
Popular culture is so anti-minivan today that driving one is so counter-culture, so in the face of popular biases, so keeping-it-real, that it's almost punk rock. In a utilitarian way, anyway.
[ Hipsters justify them. The minivan represents everything that sucks about our society: going to a boring job, turning off your brain, and running away to the suburbs and letting problems pile up for the next generation. The minivan is a headstone for white self-respect. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:31 PM CST [more..]
Oil running out in 2015
We are experiencing a step-change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.
[ From the CEO of Shell Oil, veracity uncertain. Other sources have said the same. ]
news on 01.28.08 @ 10:29 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, January 26th
Sexual revolution ending conflict resolution skills
"When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," said researcher Ernest Harburg, professor emeritus with the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Psychology Department. "Usually nobody is trained to do this. If they have good parents, they can imitate, that's fine, but usually the couple is ignorant about the process of resolving conflict."
[ Transient sexuality means you never have to make it work, and go casting about until you find someone innocuous enough to adopt as your spouse. ]
news on 01.26.08 @ 05:07 PM CST [more..]
Western "intellectual arrogance" toward Mideast
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf lashed out Thursday at what he called Western "intellectual arrogance" toward his country, angrily dismissing claims that rising unpopularity has undermined his authority.
"Why doesn't it understand that we maybe are a developing country, we have our flaws, we believe in constitution, we know how to run government, we are not such clueless people who do not know how to run a country, we have our own brains." Video Watch Musharraf blast Western "intellectual arrogance" »
He added, "Unfortunately there is a degree of, may I say, intellectual arrogance that I see in the West which thinks that these developing countries are some kind of people who do not know how to govern, they do not know anything."
[ But you're our third world pet project so we can get our Just Like Christ(tm) merit badges! ]
news on 01.26.08 @ 04:50 PM CST [more..]
Liberal anti-racism is racism
So what are African-American women talking about when the cameras aren't watching or, more importantly, what are we telling the media that is not being fairly reported? African-American women are talking about the issues!
We talk about the vision that each candidate has for leading this country. We enthusiastically discuss the possibility that real, positive change will come from this election. We even parse the policy distinctions in the candidates' positions on education, creating jobs...
[ Liberalized societies treat minorities as commodities which can be politically managed. They don't like to think of them as individuals, but as a group with symbolic value. Which is more racism: ethnic nationalism, or treating individuals like clones? ]
news on 01.26.08 @ 04:46 PM CST [more..]
Racism claimed in case of trash collector killer
The fate of a black trash collector convicted of murdering a well-known white fashion writer now rests with the judge who heard the case, which aired live on In Session (then Court TV) last year.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Gary Nickerson yesterday heard juror testimony in a rare public hearing to decide whether racial bias tainted the jury.s decision.
Judge Nickerson is facing unchartered legal territory as he weighs whether to grant a new trial to Christopher McCowen.
http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/18/race-class-and-murder/
Investigators moved then to those who knew her in passing, such as handymen working in the area or friends of acquaintances. That's when they came to McCowen, who picked up Worthington's trash once a week.
At the time, McCowen was not on the top of their list, even though he had a record of convictions in Florida ranging from grand theft auto to trafficking stolen property and had at least three restraining orders issued against him in Massachusetts.
http://archive.capecodonline.com/special/worthingtontrial/thetactics22.htm
A swab taken from Worthington's right breast after her stabbing death revealed DNA from McCowen, according to Christine Lemire, a part-time supervisor at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab. Lemire testified about 23 samples of DNA she tested from Worthington's body and evidence at the scene, as well as 49 DNA samples gathered from other individuals.
A vaginal sample showed mostly Worthington's DNA, but also a potential so-called ''minor'' match for McCowen. That means that less of his DNA than Worthington's was found in the sample, but his was still a one-in-1.1 billion match.
Neither of those two swabs contained any DNA from Jeremy Frazier, who McCowen said fatally stabbed Worthington through the lung.
Semen taken from the blanket matched DNA from Tim Arnold, the former live-in boyfriend who discovered Worthington's body and was once a prime suspect in her murder.
http://archive.capecodonline.com/special/worthingtontrial/dnareport28.htm
[ One of a series of "juxtapositions," where we put the media simplicity in direct contrast to the evidence itself. It's clear he was there at the time of her death and he is the most likely suspect in her killing. But if he's a minority, it must be racism. ]
news on 01.26.08 @ 04:44 PM CST [link]
Corporate success favors the abusive
Abuse is learned, and more often than not they learned this style of interaction from childhood, school or work environments where they were subjected to similar aggression and emotions were ignored. As one VP said, "This is the way I was raised, and look where it got me in the company. I don't see how you treat nonperformers with respect and dignity." Surprisingly, they view their aggression as an effective management tool, unaware that their efforts to motivate are perceived as strategies to intimidate.and often have the opposite effect of quashing productivity.
[ In a society of people who are delusional, only strong "me first" tendencies get ahead. Is this a place we want to live? ]
news on 01.26.08 @ 04:43 PM CST [more..]
The ancients had advanced surgery
Roman Surgical Tools
We are taught that everything before 1945 was a primitive horror of a time. Yet these people possessed instruments which are the ancestors of our own, and comparable in most cases. It seems clear that knowledge was lost between then and now.
news on 01.26.08 @ 04:41 PM CST [link]
Sunday, January 20th
The Aid Industry profits from useless projects
The aid industry faces a dilemma. On the one hand, countries are more likely to grow rich if their citizens are provided with some important basics, such as a legal system that works, or protection from corrupt officials. Such basics might seem the priority for aid money. On the other hand, it is much easier to measure success in simpler projects, such as building roads and laying pipes.
If development agencies focus on pouring concrete, they may be spending money on infrastructure that will never be used . and perhaps never even be built . because of corruption in the background. But if they focus on the broader stuff . democracy, corruption, human rights . they risk trying to do everything and achieving nothing. William Easterly, the World Bank.s most prominent apostate, argues that development agencies love big agendas because their contribution cannot be measured and found wanting. It is a bitterly cynical view, but that doesn.t mean he.s wrong.
[ We have an industry for philanthropy? Well, that CAN'T be corrupt -- they're the gift-giving to starving thin homeless third-world people people. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:53 PM CST [more..]
Desire for "free" leads to greater control
Marketers long ago figured out the attractiveness of free. For decades companies have been playing tricks using free to lure naive customers. But recently, our obsession with free has given rise to a new phenomenon - where the customer is never asked to pay. How? Because the business makes their money on advertising. Marketers are happy to pay for access to customers, who in turn love not having to pay. So the web plays the glorious role of middle man. Are we heading into dangerous territory? The paths that we are taking lead to confused customers at best; and monopolistic practices at worst. A culture where consumers think that increasingly more and more services should be free is not healthy.
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/16/the-danger-of-free
[ Just like in politics. Hmm, maybe there's a pattern here about "if it's too good to be true, it probably is." ]
Even though the Internet still has no center, technically speaking, control can now be wielded, through software code, from anywhere. What's different, in comparison to the physical world, is that acts of control become harder to detect and those wielding control more difficult to discern.
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/01/a_spiders_web.php
[ So we have lots of free content online, but we pay for it in a more financially driven society. I get it: the free stuff causes the devil in the details of cost. So we get screwed by the stupidity of most of us. Neat-o. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:51 PM CST [link]
Sane commentary from a blogger
But I think there is something different this time around. The American Empire, the worldwide Pax Americana that defined the First World following WWII, is ending. We are as far in denial of this as Wiley Coyote is of gravity after he's run off the edge of a cliff, but has yet to fall.
My main long-term concern is with The Environment. But not in the usual way. i see the human species as inherently pestilential. We not only have explosive population growth, but a parasitic attitude toward every non-replaceable resource we can use.
The time scale I see is geological. And in the geological context, what humans are doing to both the earth and its plant and animal life is destructive and in the long term catastrophic. The Earth right now is being attacked by humans on a grand scale, and is being changed by it.
[ Very correct. How do we fix this? We crush the corporate-bureaucratic state, which is empowered by the delusional, pretentious "freedom" of cultureless, raceless, polyglot, cosmopolitan internationalist individuals -- the Grey Race. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:49 PM CST [more..]
How appearance freedom opposes security
Citing Florida's recent plague of bank robberies -- which increased 40 percent in 2007 -- the industry group touted its "No Hats, No Hoods, No Sunglasses" program as a deterrent that has worked in other states because potential robbers are more easily identified when their heads or faces are not covered.
"Obviously, it's going to trigger some First Amendment issues and religious-freedom issues," said Ian Rheingold, executive director of the National Association of Consumer Advocates, a nonprofit based in Washington. "Surely the banks have more problems and better things to do with their time than worrying about what people are wearing."
In Missouri alone, bank robberies fell 47 percent from 2002 to 2005 after the policy was widely implemented, according to the bankers group.
[ You don't get a clearer example of how stupid things have gotten than this. For the pretense of a few appearance issues, we'll expose everyone to more violence. Good thinking! ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:47 PM CST [more..]
Liberals should not oppose genetic inequality
This is an extremely atypical liberal argument. If you tell the typical liberal that the poor people are poor because they are born with bad genes, the liberal will get pissed at you. Yet this is exactly what Rawls is saying, that poor people are poor because of their genes.
Liberals, by denying that there are genetic differences in intelligence and other beneficial attributes, are destroying the most powerful argument in favor of distributive justice. Even worse, liberals have also denied equality of opportunity to smart people who have the misfortune of being born to lower class parents. Liberals see the smart prole kid as not worthy of special help, because he’s already doing so much better than the prole kids who aren’t reading at grade level. Liberals would rather waste money trying to get kids with below average intelligence to somehow magically become smart enough to attend college. Yet it’s the smart prole kid who is most in need of special help so he can achieve what he might if he were born to upper middle class parents.
[ No one is equal. Why try to raise the lowered when we could raise the higher to new heights? ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:44 PM CST [more..]
Scientist mocks European-American disunity
Later, Kevorkian turned his attention to race and said plainly; "The whites don't unite."
"The whites, especially the old ones, they have petrified brains; their brainwashing is complete," Kevorkian explained. "You've got an Irishman, a German, a Greek, a Frenchman and they don't unite... they're wimps... There's no power in the unification of the whites. Who has the power in this country? Black people."
"Blacks can unite," Kevorkian explained. "Because of their common color" and "because they know what slavery is... Had they known about the 9th Amendment, history would have been different... The power of the blacks will lead you to act on the 9th Amendment."
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009748893
[ Yet there's this other gem: ]
European Americans are often treated as a homogeneous group, but in fact form a structured population due to historical immigration of diverse source populations. Discerning the ancestry of European Americans genotyped in association studies is important in order to prevent false-positive or false-negative associations due to population stratification and to identify genetic variants whose contribution to disease risk differs across European ancestries. Here, we investigate empirical patterns of population structure in European Americans, analyzing 4,198 samples from four genome-wide association studies to show that components roughly corresponding to northwest European, southeast European, and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry are the main sources of European American population structure. Building on this insight, we constructed a panel of 300 validated markers that are highly informative for distinguishing these ancestries. We demonstrate that this panel of markers can be used to correct for stratification in association studies that do not generate dense genotype data.
http://genetics.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.0030236
[ European groups are substantially distinct. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:42 PM CST [link]
Police design snares to bring in more fines
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano says the deployment of new photo radar or other speed enforcement technology on state highways is all about public safety. But her proposed state budget counts on the anticipated speeding fines to help erase a projected revenue shortfall.
The proposal, submitted to the Legislature late Friday, anticipates $120 million in revenue the first year, including $90 million in net income after expenses from the statewide effort. Even bigger dollar amounts are expected in future years.
[ Individual cops aren't corrupt. This system is. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:36 PM CST [more..]
Woman converts from racism to nationalism
She also says she would never call herself a racist.
"I want separation of the races," she explains. "I want a white nation."
She thinks other races should also have their own nations.
[ Good conclusion. Best thing to come out of that sad trial. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:30 PM CST [more..]
No one is colorblind, argues black columnist
"I thought of (Obama) as a person. I did not see black or white or Hispanic or that he was a man -- I saw a person! If people really, truly want racial equality, then the first step has to be to STOP looking at skin color," wrote one reader.
"When I look at a person, the last thing I think about is skin color or heritage," wrote another.
Sorry, but I'm not buying it. While I am sympathetic to any desire to get past dated and useless habits of mind -- especially the contentious politics of the color line -- that's just nonsense. None of us, black, white or brown, is colorblind.
[ Neurotic people whine about an ideal world that doesn't exist. Black columnist corrects them. Pwnt! ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 10:22 PM CST [more..]
In UK, whites feel powerless, blacks feel powerful
White people are less likely to feel they can influence decisions on running Britain than other ethnic groups, a government survey suggests.
Some 19% of white people agreed they had a say, compared with 33% of other groups, the Department for Communities and Local Government found.
Black African people were most likely to think they could have an influence - 38% said they could.
[ Populist politics is inversion of natural order for a socially acceptable but insane one. We like to flatter ourselves when we have no direction but our own egos, and it is our doom. ]
news on 01.20.08 @ 01:31 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, January 15th
Desk-bound jobs harm productivity, erase minds
Britain's deskbound workforce is becoming increasingly uncommunicative and unhealthy with mobile technology an answer to the problem, according to a new study.
Performance consulting firm HB Maynard said forcing end-users to get out their chairs and talk to people could lift depression and motivate people to higher levels of productivity.
Modern deskbound, immobilised workers are less healthy, more prone to injury and less motivated, according to the study. Exactly half of all office workers feel they are chained to their desks and 80% of those interviewed felt that their health and productivity could improve if they were allowed to be more mobile.
[ Give them TVs and you can make them outright retarded. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 08:17 PM CST [more..]
Flynn effect an artifact of earlier maturation
A possible explanation for the increase in IQ scores is that children today mature sooner, both physically and mentally, than children did decades ago (Sarich, 1999). Today’s children score higher, not because their real intelligence has increased, but because their brains are more mature. A 10 year old today has a brain that has grown faster and has more neural connections than the brain of a 10 year old who lived, say, 50 years ago. Because today’s 10 year olds have brains that, perhaps, 12 year olds had 50 years ago, they do better on an IQ test taken by 10 year olds 50 years ago. Psychologists think they are comparing identical groups of children – 10 year olds to 10 year olds, but they are actually comparing apples and oranges – 10 year old brains to 12 year old brains. Real intelligence has not increased, children just acquire it sooner, and fully mature people today may actually be less intelligent than fully mature people were decades ago.
[ So world IQ is declining, not rising. Awesome. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 08:13 PM CST [more..]
Students lose when diversity is main focus
A good education requires balance. Students should learn to appreciate a variety of cultures, sure, but they also need to know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Judging from the courses that the nation's leading education colleges offer, however, balance isn't a goal. The schools place far more emphasis on the political and social ends of education than on the fundamentals.
On the supply side, ed-school professors are a self-perpetuating clique, and their commitment to multiculturalism and diversity produces a near-uniformity of approach. Professors control entry into their ranks by determining who will receive the doctoral credential, deciding which doctoral graduates get hired, and then selecting which faculty will receive tenure. And tenured academics are essentially accountable to no one.
[ Teach real topics, and they'll be happier. See here also. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 08:10 PM CST [more..]
2 million new homes needed for immigrants
Almost 2million new homes will have to be built just to cope with the immigrant influx, peers will be told tomorrow.
It means 263 houses must be constructed every day for almost 20 years . the equivalent of five cities the size of Birmingham during the next 18 years.
[ That'll wreck housing prices, make more ghettos, and overpopulate the place. Good idea! ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 08:09 PM CST [more..]
Immigration diminishes jobs whites will do
In the last four years, according to the House of Commons Library, some 525,000 jobs have been lost by British-born workers – thanks to an unprecedented influx of migrants from Eastern Europe.
[ Path of least resistance. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 08:07 PM CST [more..]
A demographic disaster in the USA
The Main Stream Media's take on this report: the big news was that the teen birthrate went up in 2006 after 15 years of decline.
From 2005 to 2006, the number of babies born to married women went up 0.5%, but the number born to unmarried women went up 7.6%.
The better educated put off having children and the less educated put off getting married. (This is not a recipe for a happy future for America .)
[ Sounds like a failure all around. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 08:01 PM CST [more..]
Ron Paul unites right and left in sanity
I heard on one of the Sunday talk shows that the reason Republicans don't like Ron Paul is they think he's anti-American. I've listened to him, if you take him at face-value, which I do, his ideas seem radical, unimplementable, but un-American? He's fervently pro-American. He says we should fix our own house, it's falling apart, instead of trying to control others (which doesn't work). How would we feel if our country were occupied by foreign troops? Would we do everything we can to expel them? (Of course.) Why should we expect any other country to be different? I've been saying the same thing since our invasion of Iraq in 2003. Ron Paul has the guts to say the madness is mad. He's the only one in either party who does that, though Obama comes close, and in her New Hampshire moment Hillary did too.
[ States the obvious well. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:59 PM CST [more..]
Catholics play vital role in smuggling immigrants
At a Catholic-run shelter just across the border from Laredo, Texas, dozens of Latin American migrants say grace and tuck into a hearty meal of sausages, beans and rice, before trying to swim across the Rio Grande into the United States.
Weary migrants on their journey north often recharge their batteries at a network of similar shelters run by the Roman Catholic Church -- a lifeline sanctioned by the Vatican, despite increased U.S. efforts to keep out illegal immigrants.
[ They like to make themselves feel powerful by helping anyone who's lower than they. Doesn't explain the young boy fixation. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:58 PM CST [more..]
Lone activist points out flaws of multicultural state
On October 19, the parent arrived at the school to check on the status of his transfer request when he spotted a large gang of black kids attacking his son on the playground. The father ran onto the playground to break up the assault. The school, which had refused to do anything about the recurring violence, had the father arrested for trespassing.
The incident sparked a lone activist to distribute hundreds of flyers. The flyer describes how the activist was a student at the school when busing first ruined it and how he himself was verbally and physically abused by blacks on a daily basis. The flyer urged white people to united and speak out against black on white violence.
The reaction from school officials was to deny the problem, the reaction from police was to threaten the man by insinuating he would be prosecuted for a hate crime! The extreme left-wing Anti-Defamation league publicly attacked the flyer and called it an “attack on the community.” I have been in contact with this gentlemen, but he does not want his name used to avoid harassment from the police.
However, the Rockaway daily newspaper, The Wave, printed the flyer at the top of the front page. They also interviewed the father of another student who stated that it was all true and that his son had also been victimized by black thugs. “What they do to my son breaks my heart,” said the father.
[ Multiculturalism never works. LOL ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:57 PM CST [more..]
Minority votes determine American elections, promote racism
You'll hear a lot about the Hispanic vote leading up to "Super Duper Tuesday" on February 5. That's when presidential primaries occur in 23 states, several with large Hispanic populations.
Hillary Clinton got off to a rocky start. While chatting with Hispanic voters in a Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week, she stretched for an analogy to explain how all Americans are connected and their problems interconnected despite the fact that "we treat them as though one is guacamole and one is chips."
In this election, Republicans will likely take a thumping since many Hispanics blame them for turning the immigration debate into a culture clash and giving it an anti-Hispanic flavor.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/14/navarrette/index.html
Far-fetched as it would have seemed a month ago, the seeds of self-destruction are being planted in the war of coded words about race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The bickering has exploded in the space of a week into Topic A in the Democratic race, supplanting for the moment the war and the economy and health care . and shows no sign of a quick resolution.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1703310,00.html?cnn=yes
With nomination contests in lily-white Iowa and New Hampshire settled, minority voting power now moves into the spotlight.
Historical realities suggest that blacks and Hispanics won’t play much of a role in determining the Republican Party presidential nominee. But this year’s Democratic primary and caucus schedule was designed specifically to give increased influence to minorities, particularly Latinos.
A Hispanic-black divide is already showing in the nomination battle.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22626208/
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:54 PM CST [more..]
Sexism, racism: which is more taboo?
Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barak Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the national debate over what is and isn't acceptable to say in public.
Is it more acceptable, for instance, to make a sexist remark than a racist remark?
"It's always been easier," says Marie Wilson, president of the White House Project, which encourages women's advancement in politics. "With women, you can get away with it.
"With race, you can hardly say anything."
[ Women versus Africans, African men versus African women, when does the madness end -- we have different roles in the same world. The neurotic taboo is just funny. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:51 PM CST [more..]
Brain chemistry is racist
People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the first brain imaging study of its kind.
[ Culture = race, language, values and heritage. These cannot be separated. Jews have known this for some time; follow their example, as it is excellent. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:50 PM CST [more..]
Education favors propaganda over real learning
People know nothing of the dangers inherent in natural gas, static electricity, lightning, or anything else. None of this is taught in school; instead we have diversity studies and self-esteem lectures. When I was in school, we were taught how to do income-tax returns, how to balance checkbooks, and how to fix cars. There were ethics classes, health classes, home economics, shop, and everything in between. All this was in addition to physics and science classes.
It's only recently that the so-called Darwin Awards emerged, as we've accumulated so many dummies in the country that they are literally killing themselves through their own stupidity (often in hilarious ways). The public knows more about Britney Spears than, well, just about anything. Kids know nothing about poisons, skunks, Lyme disease, covering their mouths when coughing, TB, or even ear protection.
[ We will educate them in diversity and self-esteem, but we will not teach them what they need. Happy slaves of the future corporate state, unite! ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:49 PM CST [more..]
Shortage of intelligent workers hits USA
The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that .by 2008 the number of young adult workers, from 25 to 40 year olds, will decline by 1.7 million. overturning a historic growth rate from 54 percent to 3 percent in the next 20 years. By 2010, the U.S. will face a 10 million workforce shortage and an unemployment rate of just 2 percent. The Conference Board CEO Challenge of 2007 points out that .Cracking the U.S. Top 10 this year is finding qualified managerial talent and top management succession.. Simply put, the looming war for talent is very real and, left unaddressed, stands to dramatically alter the economic performance of companies and countries.
[ Replacing them with drones was cheap, ineffective. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:48 PM CST [more..]
Nation's about face on immigration sends Hispanics home
Over the past seven years Hispanic employment (the best available proxy for immigrant workers ) grew more than 8 times faster than native (non-Hispanic) employment.
Since late summer, however, the roles have been reversed. From August through December 2007 Hispanics either gained jobs at lower rates, or lost jobs at greater rates, than non-Hispanics.
[ Yet another article proving what is surmised: they're here for easier living and better wages, but when the public tide turns against that, they go home. For free. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:47 PM CST [more..]
White flight increasing in UK... UK?
The flight of the white middle classes from the inner cities is accelerating, the Government's race relations chief has said.
Trevor Phillips said so-called ''white flight" - an American phenomenon now increasingly seen here - was deepening racial segregation.
Mr Phillips has warned in the past of the growing polarisation of the country along ethnic lines.
[ Multiculturalism fails everywhere it is tried, but they don't stop... why? ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:46 PM CST [more..]
Thought police remove Finnish blog for race mention
The blogger Tomashot, who operated the now defunct UUTISIA SUOMESTA website, a catalogue for various news stories and articles that dealt with immigration, Political Correctness and other Eurabia related issues, was dealt a serious blow by Finland’s judicial system today.
He was fined 825 € and ordered to close down his website.
[ But if these ideas are so obviously wrong, unscientific, bigoted, evil, stupid, inbred, etc. why do people need to be protected from them? ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:44 PM CST [more..]
Drug-resistant staph spreading in gay population
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.
Sexually active gay men in San Francisco are 13 times more likely to be infected than their heterosexual neighbors, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable," said Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco who led the study.
[ This one's a puzzler: what about gays attracts staph? If you have a scientific reason, please send it in, as we're baffled. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:43 PM CST [more..]
College requires ALL views be tolerated, causes riots
Bergen Community College wants to require students and staff to pledge to "embrace and celebrate differing perspectives" and help the "less fortunate," but some faculty members and free speech advocates say the oath is unconstitutional and smacks of political correctness run amok.
A proposed "responsibility code" was drafted as a response to what school administrators say is a rise in "uncivil" behavior -- including the use of language that is demeaning to women and minorities -- on the Paramus campus.
Professor George Cronk, a professor of philosophy and religion who also is an attorney, said the code is an attack on freedom of conscience. "It asks you to pledge things that no rational person would. You can't require people to respect one another. ... There are some views that don't deserve respect," he said, citing ideologies such as fascism.
[ Educators take a stand against hypocrisy, and then hypocrites -- who want tolerance for anything degenerate but nothing positive -- panic and riot. ]
news on 01.15.08 @ 07:37 PM CST [more..]
Sunday, January 13th
How great species die out
Now the disease theory has gotten another boost, in the form of a book titled What Bugged the Dinosaurs, from the Princeton University Press. Authors George and Roberta Poinar (George is a zoologist at Oregon State University and a former World Health Organization consultant on infectious disease) specialize in ancient insects preserved in amber (a key plot element in the movie Jurassic Park) and also in fossilized dinosaur poop. Among other things in their lode, they've found ticks, nematodes, biting flies and all sorts of other nasties, including intestinal parasites, dating back to the Cretaceous period. From some of the insects, the Poinars have extracted microbes that cause leishmania and malaria — evidently new pathogens back then, against which dinosaurs wouldn't have had much resistance.
[ It's rarely a radical change, but a weakness exploited by parasites. Who are our parasites? They sell us things, they make laws that screw over sane people, and they encourage us to tolerate people who do not belong among us. When do we get rid of our parasites -- or do we perish? ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 12:06 PM CST [more..]
Smartest African-Americans wanted African National Socialism
It is less well known that blacks also have a long history of separatist and “back-to-Africa” movements. Some of these were attempts to escape slavery or second-class citizenship, but others were expressions of black pride and racial nationalism. What they all had in common was the understanding that multi-racialism does not work, and that the best hope for blacks was that they be free to shape their own destiny.
Although Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) was the best known and most influential of the black separatists, several lesser-known men were actually more successful—sometimes remarkably so—in helping American blacks move to Africa or establish black commun- ities in the United States. Today, most blacks see the advantages of remaining within the larger white society—from which, unlike whites, they can withdraw into self-consciously racial groups and organiza- tions whenever they like—but there are still many who would prefer complete separation.
[ The best of all ethnicities recognize this inevitability. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 12:04 PM CST [more..]
"Flynn Effect" is wrong
Scores on cognitive tests have been very widely reported to have increased through the decades of the last century, a generational phenomenon termed the ‘Flynn Effect’ since it was most comprehensively documented by James Flynn in the 1980's. There has, however, been very little evidence concerning any continuity of the effect specifically into the present century. We here report data from a population, namely young adult males in Denmark, showing that whereas there were modest increases between 1988 and 1998 in scores on a battery of four cognitive tests–these constituting a diminishing continuation of a trend documented back to the late 1950's–scores on all four tests declined between 1998 and 2003/2004. For two of the tests, levels fell to below those of 1988. Across all tests, the decrease in the 5/6 year period corresponds to approximately 1.5 IQ points, very close to the net gain between 1988 and 1998. The declines between 1998 and 2003/4 appeared amongst both men pursuing higher academic education and those not doing so.
[ Common sense suggested this years ago. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 12:02 PM CST [more..]
World's IQ declining
Dysgenic fertility means that there is a negative correlation between intelligence and number of children. Its presence during the last century has been demonstrated in several countries. We show here that there is dysgenic fertility in the world population quantified by a correlation of − 0.73 between IQ and fertility across nations. It is estimated that the effect of this has been a decline in the world's genotypic IQ of 0.86 IQ points for the years 1950–2000. A further decline of 1.28 IQ points in the world's genotypic IQ is projected for the years 2000–2050. In the period 1950–2000 this decline has been compensated for by a rise in phenotypic intelligence known as the Flynn Effect, but recent studies in four economically developed countries have found that this has now ceased or gone into reverse. It seems probable that this “negative Flynn Effect” will spread to economically developing countries and the whole world will move into a period of declining genotypic and phenotypic intelligence. It is possible that “the new eugenics” of biotechnology may evolve to counteract dysgenic fertility.
[ The Flynn Effect was an artifact of measurement, not an actual increase. Now we see the real figures and we're headed back to being apes. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:58 AM CST [more..]
Genetic precursor to homosexuality found
The findings suggest that a connection may exist between sexual orientation and genes both on chromosome 9 (where blood type is determined) and on chromosome 1 (where the Rh factor is regulated).
[ The Nazis knew homosexuality was genetic, so they ignored "suburban" homosexuals and focused on eliminating perverts, not all of whom were homosexual. History, written by the People's USA and USSR, doesn't remember that. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:56 AM CST [more..]
Both Watson and Crick were "racists"
Steve Sailer has the goods on Francis Crick via his private correspondence. To be short about it Crick seemed to be of the same general opinion as James Watson regarding issues such as race & intelligence; in fact, his survey of the literature & acquaintance with the principals was clearly more thorough. Is anyone particularly surprised by this? Many of the great British scientists were heterodox fellows who generally were disinclined to bend before the winds; note W. D. Hamilton's heresies. I believe that many of these individuals whose opinions and conjectures would raise eyebrows in polite company do approach controversial questions with the same objectivity as that when they study inheritance of bristle number in Drosophila (to paraphrase James F. Crow).
[ Anyone surprised? ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:55 AM CST [more..]
Human genetic variation is "scientific breakthrough of the year"
In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits.
"In 2007, advances on several fronts drove home for the first time how much DNA differs from person to person, too. It's a huge conceptual leap that will affect everything from how doctors treat diseases to how we see ourselves and protect our privacy."
[ Genetics catches up to ancient knowledge of evolution. Wow. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:53 AM CST [more..]
Democrats are racists, too
The Clintons defended themselves Friday against charges of racial insensitivity towards Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Clinton made her comments to ABC's Eloise Harper while campaigning in East Los Angeles, Calif. She was asked if comments she made about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and remarks her husband made about Obama receiving "fairy-tale" treatment from the press might hurt her standing with African Americans.
[ No one is safe from not being pigmented! ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:51 AM CST [more..]
Destruction of family leads to third world ethics
What Amneus means by matriarchy is a society in which paternity is meaningless, children belong solely to the mother and women are not bound to husbands. This is how primitive societies operated, and as Amneus demonstrates, this is *why* they were primitive; there was no motivation for men to be stable or productive.
Amneus shows that the pathological behavior of men in these matriarchal societies is pretty much the same as that of an increasing number of men in America (and Europe): without the prospect of paternity to anchor them, they become violent and idle, refusing to work to support women who will not be faithful to them or children they are not allowed to help raise, or who might not even be their own.
[ Historical record shows this clearly. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:50 AM CST [more..]
USA headed for Soviet-style collapse
Continuing with our list of superpower similarities, many of the problems that sunk the Soviet Union are now endangering the United States as well.
* a huge, well-equipped, very expensive military, with no clear mission, bogged down in fighting Muslim insurgents
* energy shortfalls linked to peaking oil production
* a persistently unfavorable trade balance, resulting in runaway foreign debt
* a delusional self-image
* an inflexible ideology
* an unresponsive political system.
[ Seems accurate. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:45 AM CST [more..]
Philanthropists are fat, rich drama queens
As an ardent campaigner against third world poverty, Bono is on a mission to feed the world. Starting, it seems, with himself.
The 47-year-old U2 frontman arrived at the ElyséPalace hotel in Paris for a meeting about African development, showing off a newly rounded physique.
He also has a staggering property portfolio which includes a villa in the South of France, a lavish Italian-style palazzo overlooking the sea near Dublin and a £15million penthouse in New York.
[ They're all like this: drama queens looking for a reason to be important, since they made their vast fortunes in trivial ways. How well does U2 stack up to Beethoven? LOL not at all. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:40 AM CST [more..]
Depression causes promiscuity
During sessions with Dutch sexologist Maria Schopman, Miss Tunney claimed she was promiscuous because she was lonely after her parents split up three years ago and was unable to talk about her feelings.
The 18-year-old said: "We had to write our numbers on a board for the show and the initial for each partner's name. I couldn't believe my mum had only had sex with three men.
"It made my number seem really high and it was worse because I could only remember about 40 of their names. I have decided not to sleep around any more."
[ Her parents divorced, she was miserable, so she got a myspace profile and had sex with fifty blokes. A larger cry for help, or better diagnosis of promiscuity, is harder to find. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:39 AM CST [more..]
Epidemic of teacher sex cases
Research conducted late last year by The Associated Press found that 2,570 educators nationwide had their teaching credentials revoked or otherwise sanctioned from 2001-05 over allegations of sexual misconduct.
At least 200 Texas teachers have active sanctions on their certifications for sexual misconduct that occurred between 2001 and 2005, according to data provided by the Texas Education Agency.
[ 1. Destroy family roles
2. Make women sexually aggressive
3. Neutralize men
4. Make everyone neurotic
5. ???
6. Profit from exciting teacher-on-student sex cases. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:38 AM CST [more..]
"Progress" requires we be neurotic, depressed
Since my own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid, I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day, while I'm driving, making the bed, pretending to write.
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Even so, there has never been a time or place where it was easier to be female than in today's developed world. Women have gained more freedom in the past 50 years than in all of recorded history. That's especially good because as society empowers women, women are empowering society. The fact that the weaker sex is growing stronger may just save the world.
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That people can clash at the level of basic values but tolerate one another's differences gives me enormous hope for the future. For centuries, tolerance has slowly been gaining ground, absolutism losing it. To me that makes even these frightening times a bit less forbidding.
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At one point, I heard a limo driver unleash a stream of such vicious racism that I felt physically ill with shame, until I started discussing this experience with other South Africans of all races. Astonishingly, they met horrific prejudice with neither fear nor hatred but with deep, improbable, battle-scarred love and optimism. They refused to relinquish hope.
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Asian philosophical concepts have been filtering across the Pacific so long that they no longer sound nonsensical. Jews, Christians, Muslims, and atheists are learning yoga and meditation, dabbling in tai chi and feng shui. This blend of East and West is bringing out the best of both cultures, and I'm delighted to be watching it.
[ The psychology of the modern liberal, in a nutshell: life is awful, but at least we have these uplifting destructions of our differences, so we can suffer together. She also mentions her favorite donuts. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:37 AM CST [more..]
Inter-ethnic brain differences proven
Different variations in the same gene influence how well different ethnic groups, and people within the same ethnic group, respond to various antipsychotic medications, report NIMH-funded researchers.
* Patients of African ancestry with a certain variation responded better to the medication perphenazine than to the newer medications quetiapine and ziprasidone.
* Variations in the gene predicted how well patients of European ancestry responded to the newer medication risperidone.
The same genetic variations did not have the same predictive value for ziprasidone in European-ancestry patients.
[ These are physical differences in brain chemistry. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:35 AM CST [more..]
Job stress will kill you
Sixty percent of workers said they have high levels of stress with symptoms of extreme fatigue and feeling out of control. Another 33 percent said they have constant but manageable stress.
Fifty-nine percent of workers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com admit to experiencing road rage while traveling to and from work. With 128 million commuters in the United States that's a lot of road rage. It seems your commute is only going to get worse according to "Commuting in America III" by Alan Pisarski published by the Transportation Research Board. The average national travel times grew to 25.5 minutes in 2000, up from 22.4 in 1990 and 21.7 in 1980. That time is increasing even though more people are leaving for work between 5 a.m. and 6:30 a.m to beat rush hour.
[ Our press took a break from articles about How Stress Will Kill You to mention that workplaces cause stress. We could always have a better design for our workplaces... but that's so difficult, we'd have to get up off the sofa or smth. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:32 AM CST [more..]
Immigration shuts out curry cooks
CURRY restaurants are facing an "unprecedented crisis" due to tough new immigration laws, one of Britain's leading Asian businessmen said yesterday.
[ Most of our curry cooks in the USA are recent Hispanic immigrants. You can teach many people this skill. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:29 AM CST [more..]
Wrong word gets news anchor fired
Golf Channel Wednesday night announced that it suspended its lead anchor, Kelly Tilghman, for two weeks in the wake of comments she made last week that the channel deemed "hurtful and grossly inappropriate."
Tilghman was bantering with analyst Nick Faldo Friday after the second round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship when she suggested one way for young players to deal with the challenge posed by Tiger Woods would be to "lynch him in a back alley."
[ Is "lynching" copyright to black people? It was a common punishment for whites who were rapists or murderers as well, when the law moved too slowly. This person obvious did not intend a racial insult because, among whites, we can talk about lynching each other all day. The irony is that she probably was actually colorblind and applied this to T. Woods unintentionally, as she would've with a white person. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:17 AM CST [more..]
Different cultures make different brains
People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, researchers report in the first brain imaging study of its kind. Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and the contextual interdependence of objects. Behavioral studies have shown that these cultural differences can influence memory and even perception. But are they reflected in brain activity patterns?
[ No surprises here. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:15 AM CST [more..]
Genetic explanations replace moral judgment
People given a biological and genetics-based explanation for the causes of anorexia nervosa were less likely to blame people with anorexia for their illness than those given a sociocultural explanation, a study found.
[ It isn't personal. This is why the ancients saw individuals as their genetics, and were unflinching about removing those who hadn't worked out, but were able to do it without scorn. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:15 AM CST [more..]
Black voters provide powerful political swing
In beauty shops, churches and living rooms, organizers for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a fierce competition for the support of black voters in the upcoming first-in-the-South presidential primary.
Obama's campaign is counting on blacks who traditionally make up half of the Democratic primary voters here to deliver the state to him on Jan. 26, a victory that he hopes will help fuel momentum going into the "Mega Tuesday" voting in 22 states 10 days later. But he'll have to fend off Clinton, who comes with one of the most beloved political surnames in the black community.
[ Gross pandering. Don't black voters feel patronized? ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:13 AM CST [more..]
Voters want government to go away
But with frustration with the political system running high and candidates who call for "change" enjoying success on the campaign trail, experience scores few points with voters -- and, in fact, may be a liability.
[ Congress has a lower approval rating than Bush. People know the system has failed, but are too beaten down to want a different type of system and different goals behind it. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:12 AM CST [more..]
Traditional goals make happier people
"I am envious of the complete contentment that parents seem to have when they are around their young children," Dhawan says. "Nothing else matters. All the frivolous things that seem to preoccupy us, like looks, money and power, seem to take their rightful place in the backseat."
[ The same can be said of: traditional marriages, heroism, honesty toward community, ethnic pride, etc. The ancients were right, and moderns are wrong, but they invented the Xbox 360 so we should pay more attention to them. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:12 AM CST [more..]
Fascism was leftist, argues scholar
In the book, Goldberg attempts to convince readers that six decades of conventional wisdom that have placed Italy's Benito Mussolini, Germany's Adolf Hitler and fascism on the right side of the ideological spectrum are wrong, and that fascism is really a phenomenon of the left. Goldberg also attributes fascist rhetoric and tactics to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and describes the New Deal's descendants, modern American liberals, as carriers of this liberal-fascist DNA. In a sense, "We're All Fascists Now," as Goldberg puts it in one of his chapter titles. Salon spoke with Goldberg by phone.
Originally being a fascist meant you were a right-wing socialist, and the problem is that we've incorporated these European understandings of things and then just dropped the socialist. In the American context fascists get called right-wingers even though there is almost no prominent fascist leader -- starting with Mussolini and Hitler -- who if you actually went about and looked at their economic programs, or to a certain extent their social program, where you wouldn't locate most if not all of those ideas on the ideological left in the American context.
[ Fascism is not National Socialism, although the two share many ideas. However, he has a point: right-wing movements are leftist movements with a traditionalist understanding of the need for aristocracy, natural selection, and struggle. We're all leftists in what we desire: fairness. We however are "rightists" in that we recognize the Crowdist methods of the left are failure. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:10 AM CST [more..]
Industrialization makes us fat
"Obesity is a natural extension of an advancing economy. As you become a First World economy and you get all these labor-saving devices and low-cost, easily accessible foods, people are going to eat more and exercise less," health economist Eric Finkelstein told AFP.
[ He's mostly right. If a society has goals other than self-pleasuring of individuals, this fatness does not happen. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:07 AM CST [more..]
New generations demand saner workplaces
"Millennials are coming in with high expectations and are disillusioned about the reality of a work place. They feel they should be rewarded and start at the top, when we all know you have to work your way up. They have been raised to be rewarded often and when you get into the workforce those rules change a bit," Harrington says.
But Millennials' ideas also have a positive influence on work environments. For instance, they expect their employer to be socially responsible and take part in community or philanthropic ventures, which is a good thing, Harrington says.
[ The "philanthropy" is a surrogate for a saner form of government, but the rest is true. Intelligence is nto rewarded, but slavish devotion is. Leaders at most jobs are terrible. Change helps everyone except the incompetent, and do we want to breed more of them? LOL NO ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:06 AM CST [more..]
Jewish leaders outraged over Gandhi comments
The grandson of iconic peace activist Mohandas Gandhi has stirred a national controversy by writing on The Washington Post Web site that Jews "overplay" the Holocaust.
Arun Gandhi, a Brighton resident and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, based at the University of Rochester, on Monday wrote, "Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the Holocaust experience — a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of (how) a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends."
Larry Fine, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Rochester, called Gandhi's statements "reprehensible."
[ He's right. Jews need National Socialism for Jews. They won't get that by playing the pity card. They need to stand up for their rights, and get all Jews into Israel, because they're safe nowhere else. The Holocaust wasn't unique; it's the norm rather than the exception. The Nazis were just (snicker) more efficient, allegedly. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:04 AM CST [more..]
Three types of internet users
I. The inquisitive reader. Most people who see this message will be this type. They perceive a lack of solutions elsewhere, and want to try out CORRUPTish ideas, so they read more. I have no problems with this type of person.
II. The shape-shifter. This person wants to have power through being seen (socially) as having taken a radical course, or a right course, or simply, a course, at a time when most people are too "busy" to do anything but go to work/school, play xbox and chat on the internet for six hours before sleep. This person assumes the guise of a fanboy, but does not want to change anything about his or her life. They do nothing to advance CORRUPT or its ideas, but will always be the "center of attention" on a forum.
III. The contrarian. Another form of (II), this person instead tries to gain power by coming to a forum which has a dominant idea, and preaching against that dominant idea. They want to appear as martyrs to what's right. They do nothing to advance the CORRUPT agenda, or do any other.
Types II and III are hipsters. With the appearance of function, but without function, they take way more time than is necessary. Their whole goal is to leech our energy for their own flailing egos.
[ This is why little happens from internet political organizations: most of the people are there to be seen, not do anything. LOL ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:01 AM CST [more..]
There is only one way to tell society off
Pollack and Bernstein are in the burgeoning business of using lasers to erase people's colorful pasts. Among their patients:
A man who had a swastika tattooed on his forehead never said why he wanted it removed.
“I think the decision spoke for itself,” said Pollack, who has also removed numbers from Holocaust survivors.
[ What a dumb idea, and insulting to the two Jewish doctors who had to remove it. Instead of tattooing yourself with swastikas, get active in making positive change in your community, including political change. ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 11:00 AM CST [more..]
Vans cruise streets, deport illegals
Prison vans are to cruise the streets of Britain searching for illegal - immigrants.
The "mobile detention centres" will aim to catch recently arrived foreigners as they emerge from peoplesmuggling lorries.
Immigration officers will hold the suspects inside the vans until background checks are performed.
[ It's actually easy to remove illegals: look for them and deport them. Go England! ]
news on 01.13.08 @ 10:56 AM CST [more..]
Wednesday, January 2nd
Scientific record shows Watson was right
Human races, like dog 'breeds', are defined in the biological context by shared ancestry, not by single appearance traits. With ancestry you can predict many genes and many traits, but with single genes or single traits, you can not predict many other genes or traits. Which is why you can still easily identify the ancestry of the depigmented individuals in the above picture. Population ancestry predicts the sum patterns of one's genotype and phenotypical traits (e.g. general racial appearance) while any single variable - in this case, skin color - does not.
Denial of this fact was dubbed Lewontin's Fallacy (PDF) by British geneticist A.W.F. Edwards. 'Skin color' is a false and intentionally misleading straw-definition of race, that dishonorable public scientists such as Sternberg and Venter use to manufacture consent for their ideological viewpoints about human equality.
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One thing, though, was conspicuously missing from this whole irritating denouement: any semblance of factual refutation. There is good reason for this: everything Watson got in trouble for saying was entirely correct!
[ Watson knew what he was talking about. The real question is: how do we use this data? Africa would be better off under ethnic nationalism, as would African-Americans, so National Socialism is a clear winner here. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 04:57 PM CST [more..]
Race, IQ and genetics: a socially unacceptable topic
No concept threatens the state religion of diversity more than innate group difference. Take the wattage generated by every political controversy in the United States – abortion, war, homosexuality – add it up and multiply by ten. You still wouldn’t have anything close to the shock power of the idea that racial and ethnic groups – and sexes – think and behave differently not entirely because of “culture” but partly, or largely, DNA.
It has been more than a decade since Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein wrote The Bell Curve, which laid out the data on racial IQ differences, and how they are, in all likelihood, mostly inherited. To those who came to accept that information, the impenetrable resistance to the findings by the rest of the world is baffling. The statistics are so irrefutable – and so observable at work in the world – yet so determinedly ignored in the officially-sanctioned discussions of the issues. It’s like a society-wide remake of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
[ Nationalism should exist for other reasons than the above. The article hints at but doesn't flesh out the idea that variation within races, including sub-divisions like historical nationality or ethno-linguistic identity, are also important, as are social caste roles. The idea behind nationalism is not to be mean to the less favored ethnic groups, but to separate ethnic groups so each can find its own highest optimal goals. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 04:49 PM CST [more..]
World intelligence in decline
Dysgenic fertility means that there is a negative correlation between intelligence and number of children. Its presence during the last century has been demonstrated in several countries. We show here that there is dysgenic fertility in the world population quantified by a correlation of − 0.73 between IQ and fertility across nations. It is estimated that the effect of this has been a decline in the world's genotypic IQ of 0.86 IQ points for the years 1950–2000. A further decline of 1.28 IQ points in the world's genotypic IQ is projected for the years 2000–2050. In the period 1950–2000 this decline has been compensated for by a rise in phenotypic intelligence known as the Flynn Effect, but recent studies in four economically developed countries have found that this has now ceased or gone into reverse. It seems probable that this “negative Flynn Effect” will spread to economically developing countries and the whole world will move into a period of declining genotypic and phenotypic intelligence. It is possible that “the new eugenics” of biotechnology may evolve to counteract dysgenic fertility.
[ Not surprising. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 04:39 PM CST [more..]
Australia dumbs down citizenship test
THE failure rate for Australia's new citizenship test confirms it is discriminatory, the Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria says.
The Federal Government will undertake a review of the test, introduced last year by the former coalition government, after figures showed one-fifth of applicants had failed to achieve the 60 per cent pass mark.
[ Sounds like a shortage of smart people, or people with the wit to study for it. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 02:53 PM CST [more..]
Gyms: a great New Year scam
A three-year study of 8,000 gym membership records from the Boston area discovered 80 per cent of members with a monthly contract were better off if they had gone on a pay-per-use basis.
Researchers also found people cancel gym memberships months after they actually stop going, costing several hundred dollars (members were losing about $700 over the life of the gym contract).
[ Marketing fools most people most of the time. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 02:52 PM CST [more..]
End of American predominance
Witt is among the first of 78 million baby boomers poised to enter the Social Security retirement system in the coming decades, the beginning of the so-called Silver Tsunami of aging yet energetic Americans. Boomers born from 1946 to 1964 haven't just grown up, they've grown older and are ready to make an imprint on the American way of retirement.
[ The war babies inherited a relatively easy world, and now they've become the most self-centered generation in history. As a result, they're replacing themselves with fewer children and the immigrant population is making up the rest. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 02:50 PM CST [more..]
Ethnic pain management study shows false bias
In summary, these researchers looked at 375,000 emergency department visits over a period of 13 years. Of those visits, opioid prescribing was more likely for pain-related visits made by whites (31%) than by blacks (23%), Hispanics (24%), or Asians/others (28%). White patients in their study tended to be older, but they didn’t release that demographic data. Overall, though, the rate at which patients received some form of analgesic (narcotic and non-narcotic combined) was almost identical between the study groups.
Using this data, the researchers come to a conclusion that “The presence of differential opioid prescribing by race/ethnicity throughout the study period suggests that disparities in pain management persist in the emergency department.”
Wait a minute. Your study didn’t show anything about pain management. Your study showed a trend in lesser prescription of narcotics in non-whites. That’s it. Where does “pain management” come into play in all of this? Reminds me of the drug seeker “pain control = narcotic” mindset.
[ It's trendy and attention-getting to claim you've found bias, but usually, none exists. Multiculturalism still doesn't work. ]
news on 01.02.08 @ 12:39 PM CST [more..]