Friday, February 29th
Israel: Holocaust awaits Palestinians
Israel's deputy war minister has threatened Palestinians with a 'bigger holocaust' if rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip continue.
"The more Qassam (rocket) fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Matan Vilnai told the Army Radio on Friday.
[The use of words raises an important remark: genocide is the most extreme measure what nations are willing to do to secure their existence. Survival knows no good or evil, because it is what everyone desires.]
owl on 02.29.08 @ 01:10 PM CST [more..]
Politicians shun reality
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.: that is the full name of the junior Senator from Illinois - neither a contrivance nor, at face value, a slur. But John McCain couldn't apologize quickly enough after Bill Cunningham, a conservative talk radio host, warmed up a Cincinnati rally with a few loaded references to "Barack Hussein Obama." Asked afterwards if it was appropriate to use the Senator's middle name, McCain said, "No, it is not. Any comment that is disparaging of either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is totally inappropriate."
Obama's campaign thanked McCain's for his apology, claiming a victory for the high road. Fine. But McCain might also know that if middle names become fair game, John Sidney McCain III has his own liabilities. Recently, it has been the unmanly middle names that have caused their owners the most political trouble. In 2006, Jim Henry Webb hammered home the fact that his Virginia Senate opponent was actually George Felix Allen - a middle name that conjured up images of Felix Unger, or perhaps the real life Prince Felix of Luxemburg, either one a far cry from the tobacco-chewing good ole boy Allen styled himself as. In the last presidential election, both Bush and Kerry had middle names inherited from elite East Coast families. But Bush's middle name had much more swagger; you'll never see a TV show called Forbes, Texas Ranger.
[Modern politics is insane egodrama. Preferring appearance over competence dooms the society.]
owl on 02.29.08 @ 12:17 PM CST [more..]
News-Entertainment media getting beat by real news
Even without the ever-newsworthy Spears gracing its pages, the Economist is making its mark in the U.S. Spokesman Justin Hendrix told me that the magazine expects to show 13% circulation growth in its upcoming filing, on top of the 8.5% jump in the number of advertising pages in 2007. With a circulation of about 722,000 in North America now -- and more than 1.3 million in total -- the magazine intends to crack the 1 million threshold on this continent in the next five years.
[ For too long, the media have focused on entertaining idiots. Those who have their act together are showing their demographic strength. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 08:16 AM CST [more..]
Illegal immigrants taxing legal system
U.S. immigration officials said they doubled the number of deportation proceedings as enforcement increases in the nation's courts, The Washington Post said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are combing through court cases, criminal records, jails and courtrooms to identify immigrants eligible for deportation following age-old accusations that the matter went largely ignored.
Authorities involved in immigration law told the Post that, as a result, the legal community is overwhelmed with very minor offenses as illegal immigration becomes a matter of anxiety in the United States.
[ This article muddies the truth: immigrant crime (what do you expect from manual laborers who willingly leave their homelands) overwhelmed the legal system, so now they're trying to deport them before they can cause more crimes. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:40 AM CST [more..]
"Activists" are often frauds
A tax preparer by trade, Robert Green was interviewed by countless news agencies and film crews after the storm, recounting for anyone who cared to listen the heart-wrenching story of how he lost his home and two family members in Katrina's 2005 flooding.
Before word of his guilty plea surfaced in December, Green had been championed by actor Brad Pitt to be among the first to receive a home through Pitt's Make It Right program.
Green had pleaded guilty in April to federal felony charges stemming from a scheme in which he prepared false tax returns attached to fraudulent home loan applications from as early as 2001.
[ Most "reality" is a media fabrication to make you feel good, and keep giving money and buying products. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:36 AM CST [more..]
Pollution turns river red and bubbly
Pollution has turned part of a major river system in central China red and bubbly, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to 200,000 people and close schools, a government news agency reported Wednesday.
Gao Qijin, head of the water company in Xingou township, said officials discovered the Dongjing River — one of the tributaries — was red and bubbly Sunday.
Tests showed the polluted waters contained elevated levels of ammonia, nitrogen, and permanganate, a chemical used in metal cleaning, tanning and bleaching, Xinhua said. The source of the pollution had not been determined, and an investigation was ongoing.
[ Ick. But the pollutants you don't see are just as bad. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:30 AM CST [more..]
Media biased for Obama like addicts prefer drugs
Still, Downey can't help but notice how many people in the news media have been seduced by the Illinois senator. The Clinton campaign has expressed frustration that it is getting a tougher ride from the press.
Clinton has been the first person questioned in six of the past 10 Democratic debates, and some argue this puts her at a disadvantage.
"It's like when the mom is in the grocery store and the kids rush up with this brand new cereal saying `We've got to get it, we've got to get it!'" Downey said. "The mom is the one who is supposed to read the box, check the ingredients. She's not supposed to go, `Oh, my gosh, this is great! It has marshmallows and chocolates and sprinkles."
[ He looks like racial reconciliation, and change. Looks differ from reality. That's news to democracies everywhere. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:27 AM CST [more..]
Ireland "transformed" by immigration, beset by problems
For centuries, Ireland was a racially homogenous land of emigrants. Now it is a multicultural nation of immigrants, whose share of the population, 11 percent, is nearly as high as that in the United States.
Years of Irish prosperity have drawn Polish plumbers, Lithuanian nannies, Latvian farm workers, Filipino nurses, Chinese traders, and sub-Saharan asylum seekers. The town of Portlaoise, about 40 miles southwest of Dublin, has the country’s first African-born mayor. The Synge Street School, where George Dimbo says his Hail Marys beneath a plaster Virgin, is walking distance from the city’s first mosque and rents classroom space to two Chinese academies.
“I went to bed in one country and woke up in a different one,” writes the Irish novelist, Roddy Doyle, in a collection of short stories called “The Deportees” (Viking, 2007). They depict characters as diverse as an African war survivor on his first day of class, and Fat Gandhi, a gay tandoori vendor who “quickly realized that his loud embrace of Christianity was very good for business.”
[ Culture is destroyed by multiculturalism, which creates monoculture everywhere it goes. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:24 AM CST [more..]
Corporations encourage snooping on private data
A landlord snooped on tenants to find out information about their finances. A woman repeatedly accessed her ex-boyfriend's account after a difficult breakup. Another obtained her child's father's address so she could serve him court papers.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press in an employment case involving Milwaukee-based WE Energies shine a light on a common practice in the utilities, telecommunications and accounting industries, privacy experts say.
Vast computer databases give curious employees the ability to look up sensitive information on people with the click of a mouse. The WE Energies database includes credit and banking information, payment histories, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and energy usage. In some cases, it even includes income and medical information.
Experts say some companies do little to stop such abuses even though they could lead to identity theft, stalking and other privacy invasions. And companies that uncover violations can keep them quiet because in many cases it is not illegal to snoop, only to use the data for crimes.
[ More of society "protecting" you. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:20 AM CST [more..]
Consumer advocates rarely represent the consumer
Dan Parsons, president of the BBB, said his agency has been receiving renters' complaints for decades. However, he said, in the past 10 years, his agency has not had much influence with apartment owners and the Houston Apartment Association.
"We used to see them as a very good advocate," Parsons said. "In other words, consumers could go there and have a hearing. These days, they seem to represent the industry more than the renter."
[ Unions, renters advocates, neighborhood associations and other NGOs are mentioned as ways to control capitalism and our rising parasite population. They don't work. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:17 AM CST [more..]
Charities create crime
Much of the crime in the area, Terrill claims, is related to a nearby shelter run by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets. As many as 1,000 people crowd into the facility on winter nights.
The Task Force's director, Anita Beatty, said the area's crime can be traced to drug dealers who prey on the homeless, many of whom suffer from drug addiction.
"I'm not saying everybody who lives here is an angel," said Beatty. "But it's simply not true that this place attracts crime to the neighborhood."
[ The attitude of charity is that one takes people who cannot function of their own volition, and subsidize them, so that their lives are not lost. However, charity can never give them what they would have if they were functional, so they commit many crimes. Charity itself is the problem. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 07:02 AM CST [more..]
Ancient civilizations developed "at the same time"
The discovery is further evidence that civilization thrived in Peru at the same time as it did in what is now the Middle East and South Asia, said Ruth Shady, a prominent Peruvian archaeologist who led the team that discovered the ancient city of Caral in 2001. Shady serves as a senior adviser to Peru's National Culture Institute and was not involved in the project.
The find also raises questions about what prompted "civilizations to form throughout the planet at more or less the same time," Shady said.
[ Indeed, the most obvious cause is some meta-civilization that produced them all. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 06:57 AM CST [more..]
Contaminants travel far from source
Pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants are raining down on national parks across the West and Alaska, turning up at sometimes dangerously high levels in lakes, plants and fish.
A sweeping, six-year federal study released Tuesday found evidence of 70 contaminants in 20 national parks and monuments — from Denali in Alaska and Glacier in Montana, to Big Bend in Texas and Yosemite in California.
The findings revealed that some of the Earth's most pristine wilderness is still within reach of the toxic byproducts of the industrial age.
"Contaminants are everywhere. You can't get more remote than these northern parts of Alaska and the high Rockies," said Michael Kent, a fish researcher with Oregon State University who co-authored the study.
[ Apparently, most people no longer spend enough time in nature to observe how ecosystems radically distribute water and air for the purposes of keeping it refreshed. Amazing, but good to see in print, underlining the fact that "global warming" may be the least of our concerns. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 06:54 AM CST [more..]
White liberals upset they are losing their "white skin privilege"
Racially aware observers are relishing the meltdown of the Democratic Party along racial lines, as the Hillary Clinton campaign continues to disintegrate. The phenomenon, with essentially 100% of blacks backing Obama, is a standing indictment of the fiction peddled by the politically correct Democrats (and others) that America has "moved beyond race" and that "race no longer matters" in the US.
In the latest development, black Clinton ally and "civil rights icon" John Lewis has stabbed Hillary Clinton in the back, turning his coat at the last minute in favor of black hopeful Barack Obama. Lewis is one of the "Black Elected Officials" (BEOs) or "black faces in high places" allowed into the halls of power by the ruling elite in the wake of the racial upheavals of the 1960s in exchange for an unspoken end to unrest. In effect, white liberals could point to the likes of Lewis as a sign of their commitment to "civil rights." Malcolm X characterized the likes of John Lewis as Uncle Toms, a charge that still smarts Lewis and was clearly part of his Clinton switch.
The news of the Lewis defection is gut wrenching to white liberals like Hillary, who have long depended on coalition politics to rule. Now, with the chips down, Clinton and others are surprised and confused. Some observers are calling Hillary Clinton "the Amy Biehl of presidential politics," in reference to the young Stanford University student and Fulbright Scholar who was lynched and murdered by blacks in 1993 apartheid South Africa while attempting to "help" organize them against "racist" white rule.
[ Build your party politics upon division, and then be surprised when that division comes back to you -- clearly, white liberals haven't thought this whole thing through. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 06:52 AM CST [more..]
China may stop one-child policy, expand to cover all earth
China, worried about an ageing population, is studying scrapping its controversial one-child policy but will not do away with family-planning policies altogether, a senior official said on Thursday.
With the world's biggest population straining scarce land, water and energy resources, China has enforced rules to restrict family size since the 1970s. Rules vary but usually limit families to one child, or two in the countryside.
[ Everyone who industrializes faces the same problem: native population declines, and gets replaced by interchangeable cog morons imported to work the machines. Hmm... maybe that Unabomber guy had a point! ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 06:45 AM CST [more..]
Life arose from inherent conditions of the universe
Since the classic Miller-Urey experiments, science has steadily expanded the range of essential molecules that can be produced under conditions that might reasonably expected to have been present on the early earth.
With the components of nucleic acids in place, Ellington traced a path through the RNA world to a molecule that could self-replicate. Past attempts to jump to a complex, self-replicating RNA molecule seem to have been on the wrong track. Short palindromic RNA sequences can apparently help catalyze the formation of complementary sequences, meaning what's needed is actually an RNA that can link these short sequences into longer, more complex ones. A number of such sequences, termed RNA ligases, have been identified. Several labs have shown that these ligases can then be improved by an essentially Darwinian process of random mutation followed by selection for increased efficiency.
Ellington's final point was that we can still see remnants of the RNA world in aspects of biology that are common to all life. He noted that many of the cofactors used by modern proteins, including ATP itself, are derivatives of the chemical components of RNA.
[ The Universe is its own prime mover. Not a paradox when you think deeply on it. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 06:42 AM CST [more..]
Guilt makes Obama popular among whites
One of Britain's most influential black figures today accused Barack Obama of cynically exploiting America's racial divide and gave warning that he could prolong, rather than heal the rift.
Writing in Prospect, the monthly current affairs magazine, Mr Phillips suggested that guilt over transatlantic slavery was behind Mr Obama's support from middle class whites.
"If Obama can succeed, then maybe they can imagine that [Martin Luther] King's post-racial nirvana has arrived. A vote for Obama is a pain-free negation of their own racism. So long as they don't have to live next door to him; Obama has yet to win convincingly in white districts adjacent to black communities," he wrote.
Mr Phillips compared Mr Obama to Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey, prominent black "bargainers" – those who strike a deal with white America not to make an issue of historical racism if their own race is not used against them.
[ Bill Clinton ran on the same platform. White America is used to making problems go away by electing fools or buying products. In this case, it's not so simple, so the domesticated humanzees are waving their short-arms and flapping their hands in hopeless cluelessness. Obama's just attempting to profit from that. ]
news on 02.29.08 @ 06:38 AM CST [more..]
Wednesday, February 27th
Liberalized sexuality harms young girls, makes profits
The media's portrayal of young women as sex objects harms girls' mental and physical health, US experts warn.
Magazines, television, video games and music videos all have a detrimental effect, a task force from the American Psychological Association reported.
Sexualisation can lead to a lack of confidence with their bodies as well as depression and eating disorders.
[ People love to sell things to others and then to ignore the consequences. ]
news on 02.27.08 @ 05:53 PM CST [more..]
A brief history of American immigration law
With its requirement for careful physical examination of all entrants and the establishment of quotas, McCarran-Walter remained national policy for many years. Its major provision stated that if 40 percent of the American people were of British origin, then 40 percent of the legal immigrants could be British. Similarly, if five percent of the population had come from Italy, then five percent of those granted immigration could be Italians. The purpose of this policy was simply to maintain the population blend that had built the nation.
Over time, McCarran-Walter faced numerous challenges and was amended in 1965 and 1976 to adjust the national-origin quotas. In 1980, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) authored and saw enacted a major Refugee Act that undermined the McCarran-Walter approach by establishing an additional quota for refugees, with the term “refugee” broadly defined based on a 1967 United Nations protocol. The new law resulted in Fidel Castro releasing, and the United States accepting, hundreds of thousands of his undesirables who came to our country from the Cuban port of Mariel.
[ See how quickly things went downhill: multiculturalism doesn't work. ]
news on 02.27.08 @ 05:48 PM CST [more..]
Doubts raised about Kennedy assassination scapegoat
But the lone gunman explanation has always looked shaky. The autopsy of Kennedy's body suggested that all four shots that hit him came from behind, and powder marks on his skin showed they must have been from close range.
But Sirhan was in front of Kennedy when he fired, and after shooting two shots was overcome by hotel staff, who pinned him to a table. Also, Sirhan fired eight shots in total, yet 14 were found lodged around the room and in the victims.
The recording quality is poor, but it is possible to make out 13 shots over the course of just over 5 seconds, before what Van Praag describes as "blood-curdling screams" obscure the sound. That is more than the eight rounds that Sirhan's cheap Iver Johnson Cadet 55 revolver carried.
Also, there are two pairs of double shots that occurred so close together it is inconceivable that Sirhan could have fired them all. The third and fourth shots and the seventh and eighth were separated by 122 and 149 milliseconds respectively. In tests, a trained firearms expert firing under ideal conditions could only manage 366 milliseconds between shots using the same weapon. And he was not being pinned to a table at the time.
[ Signs of a dying empire: whether it's organized crime, foreign governments, your own corrupt government, or simply unchallenged radicalism, your nation is falling apart and has been for many years. Its seeming stability has been nothing but illusion. ]
news on 02.27.08 @ 05:45 PM CST [more..]
WWI unstable Eastern European hegemony repeats itself
On February 20, the German government officially recognized the independence of Kosovo. It did so despite the foreseeable political dangers: an impending conflict with Russia, the eruption of new conflicts in the Balkans, and the incitement of separatist tendencies in other crisis regions across the globe.
Leading political and business circles in Germany and the European Union are increasingly worried about the dependence of Europe on oil and gas imports from Russia. The Balkans serve as an important transit region for pipeline projects, whereby oil and gas from the Caspian Sea are to be pumped to Western Europe, circumventing Russia.
[ For the economy, you'll do anything, even destroy yourselves. It is imaginary. The only economy that matters is people working together. Isn't this obvious? Well, it is, unless you're totally afraid of change. ]
news on 02.27.08 @ 05:36 PM CST [more..]
White nationalists hope for Obama win
Perhaps, Fezell observed, some whites will begin to take notice that blacks are flocking to Obama out of racial loyalty and wonder why they can't do the same. "Only white voters are expected to look beyond race," he said.
Taylor thinks white people want to vote for the right black candidate out of generosity of spirit. They want things to go better for black people, which, he said, is also why they recoil at the IQ argument, and, time after time, recall for him how "the smartest kid in their class was black."
"I think many smarter, far-thinking blacks are going to be worried that any time they start talking about discrimination, certainly institutional racism, people are going to say, 'Hey, look, you've got a black president for heaven's sake.'"
[ Multiculturalism rears its ugly head: people vote for who they think is like them, except those who fling the pity vote. ]
news on 02.27.08 @ 05:28 PM CST [more..]
Tuesday, February 19th
Inequality in organ transplants
Blacks with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were less likely to receive a lung transplant and more likely to die or be removed from the transplant list than whites, according to Columbia University Medical Center researchers.
The researchers did find that blacks were also less likely to have private insurance and more likely to live in poorer neighborhoods and have greater cardiovascular risk factors, such as diabetes, pulmonary hypertension and lower six-minute walk distances than whites.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080215082820.htm
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine explored why blacks are less likely than other races to become living kidney donors, and the reasons are obesity and failure to complete the donor evaluation.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070508072842.htm
news on 02.19.08 @ 09:43 PM CST [link]
Sharks face ecological threat
Sharks are disappearing from the world's oceans. The numbers of many large shark species have declined by more than half due to increased demand for shark fins and meat, recreational shark fisheries, as well as tuna and swordfish fisheries, where millions of sharks are taken as bycatch each year.
[ Just a reminder that your species is still about the destroy the best gift ever -- our living world. What will stop Joe Average from building new malls and buying large SUVs? A boot on his lower back and a gentle word of contrary instruction whispered over the barrel of a Schmeiser, and anything less is ineffective. Hello, reality calling! ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 09:03 PM CST [more..]
People vote for people who look like them
"In this particular study we showed pictures in a computer screen very briefly, at the threshold of conscious recognition. Subjects had to report whether they recognized or not the particular picture showed in each trial. The key point is that, since the pictures are shown very briefly, for exactly the same visual input sometimes the subjects reported recognizing the picture and sometimes not recognizing it. Then we could ask whether the neurons fire according to the subjects' conscious perception or the actual visual inputs.
"We found that the neurons we recorded responded to the conscious perception in an "all-or-none" way by dramatically changing their firing rate only when the pictures were recognized.
"For example, a neuron in the hippocampus of one patient fired very strongly to a picture of the patient's brother when recognized and remained completely silent when it was not, another neuron behaved in the same manner with pictures of the World Trade Centre, etc.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214114517.htm
"Voters identify with political candidates in many ways, including agreeing with their positions on issues, holding the same party affiliation, belonging to the same social categories such as race or gender, or even having common physical traits such as height and facial appearance," notes the study's authors. "In the current work, we examined the relative effects of different forms of similarity on candidate evaluations by using an experimental design that manipulated the degree of candidate-voter facial similarity."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080218-study-familiarity-often-breeds-votes-for-the-next-president.html
http://vhil.stanford.edu/pubs/2007/bailenson-facial-similarity.pdf
[ We're born to tribal loyalty, and gradually trained to the promise of more food/money from our captors. ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 09:01 PM CST [link]
People flock just like sheep
Results from a study at the University of Leeds show that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd's direction -- and that the other 95 per cent follow without realising it.
The findings could have major implications for directing the flow of large crowds, in particular in disaster scenarios, where verbal communication may be difficult. "There are many situations where this information could be used to good effect," says Professor Jens Krause of the University's Faculty of Biological Sciences. "At one extreme, it could be used to inform emergency planning strategies and at the other, it could be useful in organising pedestrian flow in busy areas."
[ This alone should invalidate democracy and consumerism. ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 08:59 PM CST [more..]
Video games are biologically addictive
A new study finds that when men play the games, a part of the brain involved in feelings of reward and addiction becomes much more activated than it does in women.
[ Hard-wired time wasters, like that 60 hz flicker of TV screens our eyes find hard to ignore. Are we being unwitting and indeliberately mass hypnotized by our machines? ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 08:44 PM CST [more..]
Emotional support no substitute for knowledge, accomplishment
In recent years, officials and educational experts have sought to solve the problems afflicting learning environments through behaviour management. Increasingly, the focus is on students' "wellbeing", "emotional literacy" and "self-esteem". Since this reorientation, the ambitions of therapeutic education have gone from strength to strength. Yet there is no evidence that it works.
It is depressing news that the self-help manual has made it on to the university curriculum. In therapy-obsessed America, positive psychology is one of the most popular new classes at Harvard. And Britain is going the same way, with a whole institute devoted to wellbeing at Cambridge.
In schools, decades of silly programmes designed to raise children's self-esteem have not improved wellbeing, and the new initiatives designed to make pupils happy will also fail. Worse still, emotional education encourages an inward-looking orientation that distracts children from engaging with the world.
Perversely, the ascendancy of psychobabble in the classroom has been paralleled by an apparent increase in mental health problems among children. The relationship between the two is not accidental. Children are highly suggestible, and the more they are required to participate in wellbeing classes, the more they will feel the need for professional support.
[ We want to make everyone feel OK, so we eliminate challenge. That eliminates meaning, and then we are sad. Did we engineer our own doom? ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 08:33 PM CST [more..]
German professors suggest balanced approach to Israel
This statement comes at the heels of a manifesto, recently published by 25 German scholars, which maintained that Germany must be more ‘balanced’ in its political relations with Israel and its Arab neighbors.
The aforementioned professors stated that Germany helped strengthen the burgeoning State of Israel by deporting 160,000 German Jews during the Nazi reign. These refugees ultimately ended up in Israel and bolstered its Jewish population at the Arabs’ expense.
Furthermore, noted the professors, Germany has paid its “debt to the Jewish nation” in full through its reparations agreement with Israel.
Whereas the Holocaust was an indelible stain on the annals of German history, they stated, Germany must now improve its relations with the Arab world by taking on a more balanced approach to its foreign policy and its treatment of Israel.
[ This seems fairly innocent so far. ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 08:30 PM CST [more..]
Ethnic salvation begins with cultural renovation
But everybody recognises that it is not that simple. Which is to say that everybody knows that we have a far more profound dilemma: Britain does not have a unified, coherent, identifiable self-image, either as a people or as a political entity, which it can offer to incomers as an inspiration and a ready-made value system.
There is a reason why all the attempts to define Britishness seem to end in fatuity: not only because they dribble off into nebulous virtues such as tolerance and decency, which should be common to all
civilised people, but because the British opinion-forming classes tend to find the whole concept of national identity either sinister or risible.
[ Most people in cities indulge in the pretense that they are so unique they do not need culture. ]
news on 02.19.08 @ 06:43 PM CST [more..]
Monday, February 18th
Denmark rocked again by race riots
Bands of youths set fire to cars and trash bins overnight in a fourth consecutive night of vandalism mostly in immigrant neighborhoods of the Danish capital, police said.
Seventeen people were arrested, Copenhagen Police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch said, adding police were not sure what sparked the violence.
Some observers said immigrant youths were protesting against perceived police harassment and suggested the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers Wednesday, may have aggravated the situation.
[ Oh come on. Cultural frictions create race riots. Just say the truth. Aren't we bored of lying to each other yet? ]
news on 02.18.08 @ 11:42 PM CST [more..]
USA resembles "a third-world country" says NYC mayor
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has unleashed another flurry of jabs on Washington, ridiculing the federal government's rebate checks as being "like giving a drink to an alcoholic" on Thursday, and said the presidential candidates are looking for easy solutions to complex economic problems.
The billionaire and potential independent presidential candidate also said the nation "has a balance sheet that's starting to look more and more like a third-world country."
[ Leftist anti-Semitism will be unleashed in response to this moment of clarity. ]
news on 02.18.08 @ 11:31 PM CST [more..]
Forced multiculturalism in elected reps in the UK
White candidates should be barred from standing for Parliament in up to eight constituencies in order to get more black and Asian MPs elected, says a controversial report commissioned by Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
Positive discrimination is illegal in the UK, but the report concludes that, without a change in the law allowing parties to impose all-black shortlists, it would take more than 75 years for Britain's ethnic make-up to be fairly reflected at Westminster.
[ Must adjust reality to meet expectations, not the other way around. That used to be called "insanity." It will be again. ]
news on 02.18.08 @ 11:28 PM CST [more..]
Wikileaks.com censorship causes accusations of Anti-Semitism
A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.
Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.
The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7250916.stm
"Jeffrey White, a member of B’nai Shalom for 30 years was recently appointed to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He took his oath and began his service with the court on January 2, 2003." page 8
http://www.bshalom.org/images/pdf/hadashot/May_2003_FINAL.pdf
[ The Left has discovered anti-Semitism. Either way, this case seems fishy. ]
news on 02.18.08 @ 11:26 PM CST [link]
Nuclear power rising: India tests sub-based missiles
India will soon conduct its first test of a submarine-based ballistic missile which can be tipped with a nuclear warhead, an official announced on Monday.
The missile, named K-15, has a top range of 700 kilometres (438 miles).
If the test is successful, India will be capable of launching missiles from air, land, ships and submarines, and it will join an elite group that includes the United States, Russia, France and China, experts said.
[ Too late to stop proliferation. Now what, liberal democracy? ]
news on 02.18.08 @ 11:24 PM CST [more..]
Austria bans construction of new mosques
A southern Austrian regional parliament gave its go-ahead on Tuesday to a change in the law that would effectively ban building mosques and possibly other non-Christian establishments in the region.
While no mention was actually made of mosques or minarets in the bill approved by lawmakers in the province of Carinthia, the change to the so-called ‘Ortsbildpflegegesetz’ - or law on the upkeep of towns’ appearances - meant that special dispensations would now be required for the construction of ‘buildings of unusual dimensions.’
Carinthia’s governor, far-rightist Joerg Haider, said it was high time ‘to send a signal,’ accusing the centre-left Social Democrats of not doing anything to stop ‘the advance of Islam.’
[ The middle east is a nice place for mosques, synagogues and ancient tribal cults. ]
news on 02.18.08 @ 11:23 PM CST [more..]
Sunday, February 17th
The Faustian Roots of Western Culture
In The Geography of Thought, a study of the Western and Asian mindsets, the cognitive scientist Richard E. Nisbett addresses the reasons for these differences in innovation. Nisbett believes whites are motivated by a desire to discover the truth, whereas Asians desire harmony above all things. Consequently, the West is a culture of debate, and Asia , one of consensus. This fundamental difference can be seen at the origins of Western and Chinese culture, as represented by the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and that of Confucianism and Taoism.
The Greek philosophers investigated not only the truth about the natural and the human worlds, but also the moral truth. They debated whether the best state was a democracy, a republic, an oligarchy, or a dictatorship, and whether morality had a transcendental basis or was merely a means for man to dominate man.
[ I don't know whether it's the best way, but I like our way. It leaves us open to parasites, so we need stricter defenses than most. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 08:03 PM CST [more..]
Come Back, Colonialism, All is Forgiven
Le Blanc and I are into our 500th kilometer on the river when he turns my view of modern African history on its head. "We should just give it all back to the whites," the riverboat captain says. "Even if you go 1,000 kilometers down this river, you won't see a single sign of development. When the whites left, we didn't just stay where we were. We went backwards."
Le Blanc earns his keep sailing the tributaries of the Congo River. He's 40 years old, and his real name is Malu-Ebonga Charles — he got his nickname, and his green eyes and dark honey skin, from a German grandfather who married a Congolese woman in what was then the Belgian Congo. If his unconventional genealogy gave him a unique view of the Congo's colonial past, it is his job on the river, piloting three dugouts lashed together with twine and mounted with outboards, that has informed his opinion of the Democratic Republic of Congo's present. "The river is the artery of Congo's economy," he says. "When the Belgians and the Portuguese were here, there were farms and plantations — cashews, peanuts, rubber, palm oil. There was industry and factories employing 3,000 people, 5,000 people. But since independence, no Congolese has succeeded. The plantations are abandoned." Using a French expression literally translated as "on the ground," he adds: "Everything is par terre."
[ Interesting. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 07:40 PM CST [more..]
Mass culture follows culture into death
What happened to mass culture? It seems to have died without anyone even noticing. You will no doubt remember when there were songs, television shows, movies and books that most everyone had heard of.
These shared cultural reference points helped us communicate by doing things like citing an incident from Seinfeld to illustrate a point. Or Shakespeare, if you are more cultured.
[ First they came for culture, and I did not speak up, because I was not cultured. Then they came for the moronic faux culture I talk about with my brain-dead coworkers, and there was no one left (awake enough to) object... ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 07:22 PM CST [more..]
Most associate blacks with apes
Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.
In addition, the findings show that society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers.
[ The usual academic game: take one factor out of thousands, look at it only, and then draw convenient conclusions. Multiculturalism always fails, and the excuses used to justify disliking it are unimportant. To many black people, white people look and smell like (washed) pigs. If nothing else, this article should be used to encourage better treatment of animals. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:25 AM CST [more..]
Immigrants flee Arizona as public mood changes
The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here are multiple: Families moving out of apartment complexes, schools reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about fewer clients.
While it is too early to know for certain, a consensus is developing among economists, business people and immigration groups that the weakening economy coupled with recent curbs on illegal immigration are steering Hispanic immigrants out of the state.
[ They perceive it's no longer easy pickings and Mexico is actually more comforting, because people there understand them. Multiculturalism never works. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:21 AM CST [more..]
HDTV subsidized for Hispanic workers
As research figures showed that Hispanics are nearly twice as likely as whites to be left without television service following the nationwide transition to digital broadcasting next year, the Government has announced a plan to use taxpayer’s money to subsidise those households who cannot afford the switch to the new digital TV boxes.
The government is accepting requests for coupons to subsidize the cost of converter boxes for those who need them. Each household is eligible for two coupons worth $40 apiece, regardless of whether they have pay-television service or not. To request a coupon, consumers can apply online at http://www.dtv2009.gov or call the 24-hour hotline.
[ Keep our new slave class/future masters happy. Totally neurotic. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:20 AM CST [more..]
Minorities hurt by immigration also
Morris asserts that America's leaders are misinformed or are simply ignoring the plight of low-income Black American workers victimized by mass immigration. Morris has vowed to get the facts about the negative consequences of mass immigration into the hands of all Americans as well as America's leaders whose public statements contradict the facts.
Dr. Morris commented, "America's leaders need to wake up. It's a fact foreign workers are taking jobs and depressing wages of Americans from all backgrounds. However, Black workers are being disproportionately affected. Studies prove 40% of the decline in Black employment is due to immigration. And the effects will become even more pronounced for our most vulnerable workers as the economy gets worse. It's time for America's leaders, especially our Black leaders, to put the most vulnerable American workers' interests ahead of foreign workers' and the cheap labor businesses that hire them."
[ Multiculturalism works for no one in the long term. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:18 AM CST [more..]
No change coming from elections
Let's face it, politics is a superficial activity in which (most) candidates try to create a mood by pushing buttons expected to stimulate positive responses in significant constituencies. If one button doesn't have the intended effect, you push another and keep pushing until you have assembled a winning coalition. That's all you need to know about electoral politics. It explains the staged events, the self-serving declarations about the passion to "serve," and the hubristic claims to the mantle of leadership.
What's this have to do with the cause of freedom, free markets, and peace? Precious little.
Note the dominant themes in the current campaign: hope, change, experience, straight talk.
Hope for what?
Change toward what?
Experience at what?
Straight talk about what?
It doesn't matter. These terms, and there are others, are not meant to inform. They are meant to seduce. Unfortunately, most voters are waiting to be seduced -- by a sound bite, a smile, a possible tear in the eye. We have a good indication why this is so. As Bryan Caplan explains, since the consequences of the individual's vote are negligible, voters have every incentive to select candidates according to their own pre-rational prejudices, most of which run contrary to economic wisdom and libertarian principles. They vote for the man or woman who makes them feel good.
[ This article is a delightful insight into why democracy fails to make essential decisions and focuses on trivialities. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:15 AM CST [more..]
Phoenix Police to Check Arrestees’ Immigrant Status
The police in this city at the center of the immigration debate will soon ask all people arrested whether they are in the United States legally and will in certain cases report the information to the federal authorities, Mayor Phil Gordon announced on Friday.
People stopped for civil traffic violations like speeding will not be questioned, nor will crime victims or witnesses.
All those arrested on criminal charges like drunken driving and murder will be asked by officers whether they are in the United States legally.
[ More people are tired of carrying the weight of these quasi-citizens just for cheap construction and lawn care. We can mow our own lawns and remove our own cabinets, thanks. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:06 AM CST [more..]
Free speech only occurs with anonymity
The first few comments on the online WGRZ Buffalo Forum aimed some gentle sarcasm at the market's executive director and ruminated on the impact of KeyBank's departure. Then the racism started.
"The more it gets blacker, the more decay and cancer you get," wrote "James Z from Kaisertown."
Not every post targets blacks. The Orange County Register in California profiled an obese 40-year-old woman who didn't know she was pregnant until two days before she gave birth to her son.
This generally positive story drew a wave of false attacks from readers on the woman's purported laziness, unhealthy lifestyle and even claims that she made money off her story.
But that is what some online forums have become, where reasonable discussion can quickly degenerate into vile and nasty commentary — all behind a veil of anonymity.
[ No, that's what happens when you make it impossible to discuss certain issues in public. Stupid fat people who don't know they're pregnant are going to get skewered as well as insane racial policy. All the recommendations in the articles -- buy more software, hire monitors, force registration -- just raise costs for the newspaper and its readers, all for the pretense of hiding dissent. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 10:05 AM CST [more..]
Angry white man still a factor in election 2008
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
[ Why Angry? The average white man is interested in making reality work for his family, not worrying about injustices invented by the mentally incompetent. ]
news on 02.17.08 @ 09:58 AM CST [more..]
Saturday, February 16th
More jobs created by crackdown on illegals
The business provisions of House Bill 1804, Oklahoma’s anti-illegal immigration legislation, may actually help Oklahoma weather the effects of any impending recession, State Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, said Friday.
With the exodus of illegal immigrant workers, jobs should be more available to legal residents, he told Norman Chamber of Commerce members and guests.
[ Fewer people means we tighten our belts and do more with each job, but wages also rise. Cheap labor destroys this comfortable balance. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 04:53 PM CST [more..]
Obama supporters from least diverse areas
Still, it says something fascinating about our political and racial landscape that the Democratic voters with the most experience living in multiracial, multicultural communities are the ones most immune to Obama’s “beyond race” rhetoric. At the same time, the whitest states are the most gaga for Obama. (He beat Clinton 80 percent to 17 percent in white-supremacist-rich Idaho.)
One possible explanation for this might be found in the work of Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam. In 2006, the scholar of civil society and author of Bowling Alone released some controversial findings: The more diverse a community, the less trusting it becomes.
[ Those who have experienced multiculturalism distrust it. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 04:52 PM CST [more..]
Debasing maleness creates useless males
The [Single Young Men, preferring, as Hymowitz says, "to hang out in a playground of drinking, hooking up, playing Halo 3, and, in many cases, underachieving"] phenomenon is rooted in the failure of contemporary culture to provide young men with worthy ideals and aspirations. Traditional maleness isn't is to blame for the child-men, as feminists might claim, but the debasement of maleness.
I've made this argument elsewhere, so I'm repeating myself here: It has been assumed that men are inherently violent, and, thus, we have used our education system, societal pressure (think: political correctness) and even the economic system to suppress traditional concepts of masculinity -- pride, honour, courage, tenacity. Instead, technologically dependent societies want cooperative, consensus seeking masses that will be content with the baubles and beads of the consumer society.
If you raise boys on violent video games and give them easy access to pornography, don't expect them grow up to respect the law or to respect women.
[ You tell the Caucasian male that he is worthless, an oppressor, and that women and minorities want to lead the way. Then anything he does is automatically seen as selfish advancement of the white male. You hand him tons of PC regulations to follow and cut him off from his culture. He is shown as an idiot in the media. Consequently, he checks out mentally and does what is fun for him in the meantime, as if he knows that society is on a path to wreckage. It's his way of saying "destroy yourselves, but not on my dime." ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 04:41 PM CST [more..]
Sexual propaganda unleashed on young children by schools
Teachers should not assume that their pupils have a "mum and dad" under guidance aimed at tackling anti-gay bullying in schools.
It says primary pupils as young as four should be familiarised with the idea of same-sex couples to help combat homophobic attitudes.
It states that children who call classmates "gay" should be treated the same as racists as part of a "zero tolerance" crackdown on the use of the word as an insult.
Teachers should avoid telling boys to "be a man" or accuse them of behaving like a "bunch of women".
[ To protect a few, we will deprive all children of the sense of an order to life itself. How neurotic. Wouldn't teaching respect for others be more universally effective? Oh that's right... we're dealing with a special interest lobby, not a sane outlook here. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 11:48 AM CST [more..]
Pornography causes sexual impotence
Porn warps normal sexual responses. It enslaves people into a self-destructive lifestyle that ruins their relationships while making their puppet-masters very rich.
If it wasn't for sex education classes at school, most of today's youth would learn about sex purely from pornographic imagery. In countries like China and India this is already the case. Such imagery used to be fairly hard to find, and would be bought and sold surreptitiously to "dirty men". Now, however, porn is everywhere and with its pervasive presence on the internet it has become mainstream and virtually uncontroversial, except in the most vile forms. Before ever experiencing sexual intercourse with a woman, many boys have spent years gaining their sexual experience by watching porn.
[ The fantasy world is easier than reality. When reality bites, go into the fantasy world. When you return to reality, you will be even less adapted to it. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 11:44 AM CST [more..]
Autistic people lack self-awareness
According to the new findings, people with Asperger's play the game just as a nonautistic person would, but they lack the characteristic "self" signal in the brain. Normal people lack the signal only when they think that they are playing against a computer, suggesting that autistic people view interactions with other people similarly to the way that normal people think about interacting with a computer.
[ Maybe they're just more functional and less dramatic. Possibly a lot of good could come from others learning from the autistic kids. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 11:38 AM CST [more..]
Modern dating causes many to avoid it
Most young singles in America do not describe themselves as actively looking for romantic partners. Even those who are seeking relationships are not dating frequently. About half (49%) had been on no more than one date in the previous three months.
Large numbers of single Americans are not actively looking for relationships and even significant numbers of those looking for partners are not that active on the dating scene.
[ Rocky road ice cream, a movie and a cat who really loves you makes a superior weekend evening to chasing after distracted, delusional, selfish people who will divorce you after three years and leave you with a half-jerkoff kid. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 11:35 AM CST [more..]
Black cop mistreating white guy causes racism
As outrage spread nationwide over a Hillsborough County jail inmate being tossed from his wheelchair onto the floor, the detention deputy at the center of the controversy has been getting nonstop phone calls, many racist in nature.
"It's not even just in Florida," said Beverly Crecy, the roommate of suspended Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones.
"These calls are from out of state," she said, with tears in her eyes. "People calling her 'n---' and 'fat' and all kinds of stuff. Seven o'clock in the morning and all through the night."
[ Black cops give it to white people hard, and vice versa. There will always be an Other. The solution is to stop trying to moralize it, and to realize that multiculturalism fails from a defective design. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 10:17 AM CST [more..]
Liberals agonize over sexism versus racism
The simple fact that either Hillary Clinton, a white woman, or Barack Obama, a black man, will likely be the Democratic nominee for president is fueling a nationwide debate about how sexism and racism may shape this campaign.
Voter Babette Feibel told us, "Sexism of the nature Hillary Clinton is experiencing has been around as kind of an acceptable joke for years. As far as racism, it's definitely not politically correct or acceptable."
[ It's not sexist or racist to decline to vote for a corrupt woman or an inexperienced, delusionally idealistic young black man. ]
news on 02.16.08 @ 10:15 AM CST [more..]
Immersion in national culture
We were discussing some independent movie by an unknown black director he had just seen at a special screening at his local art house. It would be cool, said The Poet, to be able to see more movies like that, movies by black writers and directors. Perhaps even see only movies like that, for some designated period of time.
"Sure," said I. "See only movies which reflect us and our experience."
"Only black movies," said The Poet. "Also, read only black books and magazines."
"A year of black culture," said I, buzzing now. "Imagine the experience. Imagine how one's perspective might change and shift."
"Either that," said The Poet, "Or the effort would drive you insane."
American culture is black culture, of course. The music, the language, the food, the literature, the very definition of what it means to be American – all of it is shot straight through with us. Try to remove the African presence from the house that is America and the whole thing collapses upon itself.
[ This would benefit anyone. Immerse yourself in the art and ideas of your ancestors. You'll see what needs work in the current time, and what is eternal and should be passed on. ]
Cool idea.
news on 02.16.08 @ 10:12 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, February 12th
A migrant arrested every four minutes
Figures show that a foreigner is being arrested every four minutes on the streets of Britain.
Alan Gordon, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, said: “Immigration on the scale we have experienced is putting an intolerable strain on all public sectors, not only policing. We have got to recognise the need for additional resources where there are large congregations of migrant workers.”
It shows that violence is one of the most common offences committed by migrants, along with theft, fraud, immigration violations and drugs. The revelation comes just a week after three police chiefs warned that the influx of migrant workers has contributed to a crime explosion.
A Tory MP warned that gypsy children are worth as much as £100,000 a year each to immigrant crime lords who use them to steal and to milk the benefits system.
[ If you have wealth, and want to give it away to feel good about yourself, others will take it and soon become parasites upon you. ]
news on 02.12.08 @ 10:57 PM CST [more..]
Racial divide in support of mass killer
With so many people asking why, a brother of gunman Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton provided answers Friday that prompted fresh anger over the shooting rampage at a Kirkwood City Council meeting Thursday.
At a neighborhood meeting in the mostly black Meacham Park neighborhood, where Thornton lived, people cried, prayed and spoke of a racial divide. Some spoke sympathetically of Thornton and his rage over repeated parking and permit citations. One man called him a "hero."
Many say they are sickened by Thornton's brand of vigilantism. But others say they're left outside the mainstream and oppressed by unfair rules. Those people mourned Thornton and directed their anger back at Kirkwood officials.
[ Multiculturalism outright fails both groups. So... why are we persisting? ]
news on 02.12.08 @ 10:54 PM CST [more..]
Chinese continue successful spying
Four people have been arrested in the United States accused of spying for China to acquire trade and state secrets, including details of the Space Shuttle programme.
The Justice Department said that a Boeing engineer was arrested on charges of stealing trade secrets relating to the Shuttle and other aerospace programmes and passing them to officials in "the motherland".
[ For every one they catch, ten get away. ]
news on 02.12.08 @ 10:44 PM CST [more..]
Hippies and Republicans agree: nooses are bad, m'kay
"The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history," Bush said at a black history month event at the White House, which began with serious comments about prejudice and ended with music performed by The Temptations.
"The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice," the president said. "Displaying one is not a harmless prank. Lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest."
As a civil society, Americans should agree that noose displays and lynching jokes are "deeply offensive," Bush said.
"They are wrong," the president said, referring to such displays and jokes. "And they have no place in America today."
[ They tell you what they think you want to hear. But reality is always offensive to someone. Who steers the ship? ]
news on 02.12.08 @ 10:43 PM CST [more..]
Are we Mexico yet?
Non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States by 2050, with immigrants and their children driving 82 percent of U.S. population growth in coming years, a new study said on Monday.
The U.S. population will grow to 438 million in 2050 from 296 million in 2005 if current population trends continue, the Pew Research Center study found.
Non-Hispanic whites would account for 47 percent of the total in 2050, it concluded.
By that time, one in every five Americans will be a foreign-born immigrant, compared to one in eight in 2005.
While the white population, with its lower fertility rate, ages, the Latino population, the nation's largest minority, will triple in size. Latinos will be responsible for 60 percent of the population growth until 2050.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080212/ts_nm/usa_population_immigration_dc_1
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday decried anti-immigrant perceptions in the United States and argued that Mexican immigrants complement American workers.
On his first trip to the U.S. as Mexico's president, Calderon said he is working to combat anti-Americanism in Mexico and to improve job prospects there to reduce migration. He said he hopes that Americans resist anti-Mexican sentiments.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_on_re_us/mexico_president_harvard
[ Multiculturalism always fails. ]
news on 02.12.08 @ 09:54 PM CST [link]
Values, methods are genetic not trained
Many scientists believe how our brains work is influenced by our genes -- that to some extent we're hard-wired from birth to process information in a certain way.
This doesn't mean, these scientists say, genes dictate how we think; environment clearly plays a huge role. Nor does it mean there's a Republican gene or a Democrat gene. Scientists who espouse the genetics-politics connection say that probably hundreds of genes influence how we think and how we see the world.
"Political tendencies are like being left-handed or right-handed -- you're born feeling more natural using one hand or the other," says John Alford, a political scientist at Rice University. "It doesn't mean you can't switch -- for many years lefties were taught to be righties. But it's not easy."
[ Let's correlate it to degree of awareness of the world and we'll see that people who have their act together are neither left, nor right, but are realists who like traditional values and don't want to try to regulate the unregulatable. These are rare, these days, which is a cause and sign of our decline. ]
news on 02.12.08 @ 09:52 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, February 9th
American empire en route to collapse
I have studied empires pretty carefully over the last few years, and I have figured out the basic nature of these systems and concluded that all empires collapse, and usually within less than a century, because of their inherent nature. They not only make mistakes but usually the same set of mistakes simply because of the inevitable character of the imperial structure, which ultimately fails because of its size, complexity, territorial reach, social stratification, economic disparities, heterogeneity, domination of people and nature, hierarchy, and environmental ignorance.
There are, to my reading, four basic reasons that empires collapse, and I’d like to set them out, particularly in reference to the modern American empire.
1. First, environmental degradation. Empires end by destroying the lands and waters they depend on for survival, largely because they build and farm and grow without a sense of limits.
2. Second, economic meltdown. Empires always depend on excessive resource exploitation, in their heartlands and then in colonies farther and farther away from the center, because their populations become large and their armies too extensive, and when the resources fail the economy fails.
3. The third major cause of imperial collapse is military overstretch. Empires are by definition colonizers and trying to keep control over hostage peoples by force inevitably leads to large and often uncontrollable armies, massive drains on the economy, and ultimately rebellion on the periphery.
4. Finally, empires fall because of domestic dissent and upheaval. Crashing economies, food shortages, political repression, military drain, and increasing disparities between the rich and poor create domestic discontents that, lasting long enough, lead to rebellion and civil war.
[ Spengler said this ninety years ago, Nietzsche said it 130 years ago, and Plato said it 2000 years ago. The truth never changes. The lies and excuses always do. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 04:26 PM CST [more..]
Homework isn't terrible, schoolwork is useless
Homework is of little benefit to students from junior kindergarten to Grade 6, say the authors of a just-released Canadian study, who also found it is often the source of stress and burnout in children, as well the cause of conflict – even marital stress – for many families.
[ More likely schoolwork is 50% propaganda and the rest is dumbed down so that unequal kids don't have to feel their lack of promised equality. School, as the state makes it, is a waste of time. Moderate amounts of homework can be productive if it's not busywork. The writer of this article was not smart enough to think to investigate that. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 04:22 PM CST [more..]
More neurotoxins floating around in atmosphere
A federal appeals court said Friday the Bush administration ignored the law when it imposed less stringent requirements on power plants to reduce mercury pollution, which scientists fear could cause neurological problems in 60,000 newborns a year.
[ It's good we're not dropping the ball on this intensely destructive neurotoxin, which is also found in the new "green" fluorescent bulbs that we're JUST SO SURE will not get thrown out car windows, dropped in vacant lots, and left abandoned in rotting buildings like incandescent bulbs. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 04:16 PM CST [more..]
French politician sentenced for WWII comments
A French court gave far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence on Friday and fined him 10,000 euros (7,250 pounds) for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane".
Le Pen was found guilty of "justification of war crimes" and "contesting crimes against humanity" in the trial which opened in December.
It centred around a comment Le Pen made in a 2005 interview with right-wing weekly magazine Rivarol, which angered the government, anti-racism organisations and Jewish groups.
[ I thought we had free-as-in-freedom speech? False advertising! ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 03:51 PM CST [more..]
Americans less supportive of immigration
President Bush is asking Congress to spend money to help businesses root out illegal workers but he did not request additional funds to help legal immigrants become American citizens more quickly.
"The backlogs are pretty much back where they were when they started and the agency is back to doing what it used to do, which is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Right now they are taking resources from permanent residence to do citizenship," said Crystal Williams, associate director for programs at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Immigration officials say they will be able to chip away at the backlogs as 1,500 new workers are hired and trained. Things should be back where they were before the application spike by 2010, the agency's spokeswoman Chris Rhatigan said.
[ Real answer: we don't need immigration. We need to support fewer parasites, which will make space for homegrown people of the next generation to take up the slack. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 03:46 PM CST [more..]
Constant stream of bad news depletes brains, hope
"When you wake up and get your cup of coffee and turn on the `Today' show and hear one story and say, `Oh, my,' and the next three are just as bad, it has an impact on how you start your day," says Brenda Garton, a former TV news anchor who teaches in the communication department at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass.
"We are surrounded and consumed by this news. It's at work, it's at school, it's at home, it's on our Web sites," she says. "We're certainly given more of a front seat to it today. ... I hope we're not getting numb when we hear about some severe tragedy."
[ Bad news sells. Good product isn't always good for you. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 03:31 PM CST [more..]
France bans GM corn
The French government on Saturday suspended the use of genetically modified corn crops in France while it awaits EU approval for a full ban.
[ It's smart to not use technology until we know what its ancillary effects are. Go France! ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 03:21 PM CST [more..]
Single women want to have stable families
Of course, we’d be loath to admit it in this day and age, but ask any soul-baring 40-year-old single heterosexual woman what she most longs for in life, and she probably won’t tell you it’s a better career or a smaller waistline or a bigger apartment. Most likely, she’ll say that what she really wants is a husband (and, by extension, a child).
To the outside world, of course, we still call ourselves feminists and insist — vehemently, even — that we’re independent and self-sufficient and don’t believe in any of that damsel-in-distress stuff, but in reality, we aren’t fish who can do without a bicycle, we’re women who want a traditional family. And despite growing up in an era when the centuries-old mantra to get married young was finally (and, it seemed, refreshingly) replaced by encouragement to postpone that milestone in pursuit of high ideals (education! career! but also true love!), every woman I know — no matter how successful and ambitious, how financially and emotionally secure — feels panic, occasionally coupled with desperation, if she hits 30 and finds herself unmarried.
[ I observed the same thing, and it turned me away from liberalism, which I originally believed would benefit the worker, and now realize, harms the worker and everyone else. Neurotic, it is. Her analysis is good in this article, but her recommendation is poor. What we really need are more integral communities where people can meet, fall in love, and breed copiously. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 03:17 PM CST [more..]
Professor ostracized for views labeled "bad" by 1 non-profit
The Cal State Long Beach Psychology Department has recently initiated new plans to disassociate itself from controversial psychology professor Kevin MacDonald.
The department is currently considering publishing a statement to confirm its disassociation from MacDonald, with his research and writings on Judaism continuing to garner controversy and be used by publications considered to publicize neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.
MacDonald's three-part series in evolutionary psychology, "A People That Shall Dwell Alone," "Separation and Its Discontents" and "The Culture of Critique," was labelled as anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi propaganda in late 2006.
The labels came from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Ala., that tracks hate groups. The organization sent a representative to CSULB to interview students and faculty members about MacDonald's work in November of 2006.
[ I've never read his stuff, but it seems to come from a firm ground of academic critique. If it were about Christians or Muslims or Buddhists, I don't think anyone would blink. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 03:04 PM CST [more..]
More TV means less conservation
As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks.
[ News story of the year (thanks, CNN). Someone states the obvious but slightly offensive. We're becoming a nation of indoor prisoners who are so fixated on our stupid little lighted screens that we never notice the world around us, and are content to destroy it. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 11:24 AM CST [more..]
Liberals try to compensate for what they cannot individually do
The women's movement is about free choice, self-determination and challenging a status quo that fails a lot of Americans, not just women.
[ Self-determination isn't granted through political choice. It's granted through personal organization, a functional society that supports you in getting over your hangups, and a clear plan. Feminism and liberalism assume that if we grant people EXTERNAL recognition, they somehow magically become organized INTERNALLY, because we're all equal and can be treated like interchangeable parts. Lies! ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 11:21 AM CST [more..]
Why we approach technology as a religion
He has a theory for why religion first took root. He thinks human brains evolved to become "belief engines." Once our ancient ancestors understood cause and effect, they figured out how to manipulate the natural world. In essence, toolmaking made us human. Similarly, early hominids felt compelled to find causes for life's great mysteries, including illness and death. They came to believe in unseen gods and spirits.
[ Makes good sense. What he forgets is that the truly ancient religions were philosophies of value systems, not fantasy belief in immortality for proles like the gods from the middle east. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 10:17 AM CST [more..]
Re-definition of history causes multiculturalism to crumble
Blacks, then, are learning the kind of history that whites once learned—a history that builds identity and certitude. White children are learning that every interpretation is valid, that nothing is certain, that their nation’s past is all paradoxes and unsolved problems. Patriotism will not grow in the heart of a child who cannot look back with pride upon his nation’s past. We have come a long way from schooling that made Europeans into Americans. We now make Americans into nothing at all.
Multicultural history is like affirmative action. Just as whites are to step aside to give hiring preferences to minorities, whites are to set aside their own point of view and study those of others. Non-whites, on the other hand, are free to promote their own interests and exclusionist histories.
Like affirmative action, multicultural history is possible only because the majority has abandoned its position at the center. If whites insisted on their own history as strongly as non-whites insist on theirs, the inevitability of separate histories would have been recognized long ago. Nor will whites be willing to forego their own history for ever. They will eventually realize that only they are studying a past with no answers and no certainties. They will eventually see that there cannot be one history that satisfies all. And they will begin to wonder whether there can be one nation that satisfies all.
[ You can't be more than one thing at once. Postmodern idiots will tell you that you mean "type of thing," and that types are arbitrary. Pay attention to reality instead: we all are just what we are. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 10:15 AM CST [more..]
British deny multicultural law
The unusual suggestion from Britain's highest ranking Christian leader Thursday would, if adopted, allow British Muslims to choose to resolve marital and financial disputes under Islamic law, known as Shariah, rather than through British courts.
Archbishop Rowan Williams said in a radio interview with the BBC that incorporating Islamic law could help improve Britain's flagging social cohesion.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman immediately rejected Williams' proposal.
"The prime minister believes British law should apply in this country, based on British values," said Michael Ellam.
[ Like the rest of multiculturalism, having several radically different legal traditions is a stupid, chaotic, disorganized idea. ]
news on 02.09.08 @ 10:13 AM CST [more..]
Thursday, February 7th
Black invention myths unnecessary, say black scholars
In elementary school, were you ever told that without the contributions of African Americans, many of the things that we use everyday, like the lightbulb or peanut butter, wouldn't exist?
But in spite of the wide circulation of such accounts, some researchers are discovering another side to the story.
What's more, according to Dr. Russell Adams, author of "Great Negroes: Past and Present," it's not exactly the whole truth.
"Some of the myths have been put into the school system as gospel and truth," he said. There are people who will hang on to the myths because they are so comforting."
[ White people invent lies as "gifts" to the black man to prove white superiority. Notice how Bill Clinton finally revealed he's been racist all these years. White liberals are often the biggest racists ever, but they like to "raise up the black folk" and so claim they're not racist, even if they're doing it to be hip in front of their city friends. ]
news on 02.07.08 @ 10:47 PM CST [more..]
Culture = heritage = values = biology, new paper suggests
Ethnic groups may differ both in culture and in genes, but these two dimensions of ethnicity are not independent. Differences in culture are barriers to gene flow; over time, such barriers differentiate gene pools. Conversely, genetic intermixture bring separate gene pools closer together, but also serves to homogenize cultures.
[ No surprises here. ]
news on 02.07.08 @ 09:34 PM CST [more..]
Political propaganda changes how history is known
Asked to name the most famous Americans in history, high school students put 20th-century black Americans in the top three slots. Here are the top 10, with the percentage who chose each:
1. Martin Luther King Jr.: 67%
2. Rosa Parks: 60%
3. Harriet Tubman: 44%
4. Susan B. Anthony: 34%
5. Benjamin Franklin: 29%
6. Amelia Earhart: 25%
7. Oprah Winfrey: 22%
8. Marilyn Monroe: 19%
9. Thomas Edison: 18%
10. Albert Einstein: 16%
“Over the course of about 44 years, we’ve had a revolution in the people who we come to think about to represent the American story,” Wineburg says.
[ Dogma replacing reality. ]
news on 02.07.08 @ 09:11 PM CST [more..]
Immigration costs you more than the Iraq war
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cisorg/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cisorg/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U.S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12 The National Policy Institute, “estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.”http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States”. http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
Total cost is a whooping . . . $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!
news on 02.07.08 @ 09:08 PM CST [more..]
Multiculturalism fails yet again, this time in Germany
In the wake of a tragic fire in the southwestern German city of Ludwigshafen, the Turkish media immediately concluded, without concrete evidence, that the blaze was the work of xenophobic Germans. The media reports underscore how troubled the relationship is between Turks and Germans -- and between Ankara and Berlin.
[ Both populations cannot exist, and know they'll be replaced by a hybrid. This won't end well, but because we can't say that in public, it gets worse. ]
news on 02.07.08 @ 08:56 PM CST [more..]
Black voters "unanimous" in backing black candidate
Black voters are backing Obama in numbers trending toward the unanimous.
[ Each race wants a candidate from its own culture, values and heritage. No surprise. ]
news on 02.07.08 @ 08:54 PM CST [more..]
Tuesday, February 5th
News media wishful thinking: 5 US presidents were part black
In addition to Jefferson, the books, magazines and newspaper articles found on the Web name five other U.S. presidents who may have had black ancestry, but never publicly acknowledged it: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
[ The usual pseudoscience. ]
news on 02.05.08 @ 11:50 PM CST [more..]
USA no longer a superpower
Davos 2008 has laid bare a world in which no superpower seems to be in charge. The unipolar American moment is deemed over, in part a casualty of the Bush administration's political and economic policies, in larger part the result of global economic changes that are shifting wealth elsewhere.
But we have not entered a multipolar world: China and India, though on the rise, aren't ready to take the global lead, nor can Europe do so. The consensus at Davos seems to be that we now live in a "nonpolar" world, with America too strong to stand on the sidelines, but too weak to implement its agenda alone.
[ And the greatest suspicion of the American agenda since 1939. Just like in 1939, Russia threatens Europe, immigration threatens Europe, and our society is awash in perverts and criminals. I wonder what world leader would have fixed this. ]
news on 02.05.08 @ 11:48 PM CST [more..]
Oceans contain world's largest plastic dump
A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
The "soup" is actually two linked areas, either side of the islands of Hawaii, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches. About one-fifth of the junk . which includes everything from footballs and kayaks to Lego blocks and carrier bags . is thrown off ships or oil platforms.
Mr Moore said that because the sea of rubbish is translucent and lies just below the water's surface, it is not detectable in satellite photographs. "You only see it from the bows of ships," he said.
According to the UN Environment Programme, plastic debris causes the deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals. Syringes, cigarette lighters and toothbrushes have been found inside the stomachs of dead seabirds, which mistake them for food.
These pollutants act as chemical sponges attracting man-made chemicals such as hydrocarbons and the pesticide DDT. They then enter the food chain. "What goes into the ocean goes into these animals and onto your dinner plate. It's that simple," said Dr Eriksen.
[ You mean that those things that left us with nagging doubts really were just ticking time bombs? I wonder what other ones we have... environmental holocaust, loss of race and culture, overpopulation, existential frustration, loss of knowledge, leadership crisis -- my god, we might be screwed. Better watch TV, drink and forget. ]
news on 02.05.08 @ 10:13 PM CST [more..]
Praise for V-2 inventor creates charges of Nazism
A German town has been accused of encouraging neo-Nazism after naming a school after a scientist who helped build the V-2 rockets launched against Allied targets during World War Two.
Local mayor Gunter Lange told Reuters he stood by the school decision. He insisted Riedel was not a Nazi and deserved recognition for his contributions to rocket science.
[ A religious interpretation of an emotional reaction. ]
news on 02.05.08 @ 09:43 PM CST [more..]
Britain sent mixed-race war babies back to USA
Thousands of illegitimate mixed-race children fathered by American GIs were given up by their British mothers and shipped across the Atlantic, according to newly released papers.
The issue of how to deal with the unwanted offspring of the illicit affairs divided the country towards the end of the Second World War and exposed the racial prejudices of the time.
[ If you don't protect your bloodline, you become something else. We've got plenty of examples of that something else worldwide, and none in places I'd want to live. Is it black people that's the problem? No, it's cultural- and racial-mixing, which destroys culture, heritage, values and nations. Save your nation, kick out all foreigners by blood! ]
news on 02.05.08 @ 08:49 PM CST [more..]
Multiculturalists intolerant of culture
I recently stumbled across an article in "Der Spiegel Online" titled "How Xenophobic is Germany?," in which people are asked to write their stories about xenophobia in Germany. Of course, the purpose of the article is clearly to demonstrate how terrible is life in Germany for Citizens of the World; how backwards, nativist, and xenophobic the average German is. There are a few comments, of course, which state, in essence, "if you don't like it, leave," but for the most part, they are horror stories.
Despite the tone of the comments, however, I drew a very different conclusion. The "horror" stories are usually about someone's great offense when a German asked "When will you be going home?," or, when told that an Asian is German, they ask "Where are you really from?" The shame of having to endure "hurried transactions" must simply be too much for these hothouse flowers to bear. Reading between the lines, it seems that most Germans, despite all of their recent history, retain a sense of themselves as a people, and a wary attitude about the prospect of unassimilable foreigners moving in to their nation. The day to day interactions between people indicate that Germans are not hostile to strangers by any means, but have a healthy desire to see them return home at the end of their visit. I only wish we could develop the same sense.
I was also struck by the insufferable and childish tone of moral superiority taken by most of these contributors. They came to "add to the cultural conversation with [their] artistic practice," and when they were driven out by intolerance, it was "too bad for the German tax-payer." Their frail little egos couldn't handle the fact that most Germans weren't impressed by their "contribution," and didn't care when they left, even though one of these fine people insisted that, "You need us." And of course, it never occurs to any of these valuable contributors to ask why they don't seem to be able to contribute sufficiently at home, and must come to places like Germany, England, and the U.S.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/009856.html#postcomment
[ Multiculturalism is not about tolerance. It's about those from overpopulated, impoverished lands taking what other nations have made for themselves. Morality is most commonly used to justify such thefts. It's not intolerant to reject it -- because if you don't, your country, your heritage, and your culture gets destroyed, and for what? Another third-world ruin of a once-great empire? ]
news on 02.05.08 @ 08:38 PM CST [more..]
Monday, February 4th
Dutch TV subsidizes racial propaganda
The Hague spent more than 11.8 million euros subsidizing public and commercial TV programming in the last two years for, among other things, showing black and white people getting along with one another.
The justice ministry program was discovered by the newspaper De Volkskrant.
It distributed 610,500 euros to commercial broadcaster SBS6 for programs in which immigrants were shown in a positive context. A weather program on the same channel got 12,500 euros because it was filmed at a tennis club "where there is good integration between people of different cultures."
In 2006, the government subsidized a total of 75 co-productions with a total of 5,180,208 euros. In 2007, the government accepted 43 applications, for 4,350,419 euros. Additionally, 793,295 euros was spent in 2006 and 1,496,335 euros in 2007 from the foreign ministry's Europa fund on TV programs in praise of the environment, development aid and European cooperation.
Two members of parliament are demanding an explanation of the program. Said one: "This is propaganda, the neutrality of the state is put in doubt." Another said: "These are Soviet practices. Broadcasters serving as state television. Absolutely revolting."
[ A "neo-Stalinist denial of reality" summarizes the modern multicultural, liberal democracy. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:49 PM CST [more..]
Products make profit not safety
Baby shampoos, lotions and powders may expose infants to chemicals that have been linked with possible reproductive problems, a small study suggests.
[ Pretty big screwup, but the stock price is still high. Victory in fantasyland! ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:48 PM CST [more..]
Modern people oblivious to history
Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.
[ Too much TV for you, underlings. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:45 PM CST [more..]
Sexual promiscuity ruins the individual
Sublimating our inner desires seemed like a recipe for obsession and deceit. We were just trying to be realistic about an institution we had always viewed as being a little sanctimonious, one that made more sense when human life expectancy was about 43, and when, financially speaking, women needed to be taken care of.
Several years into our marriage, when a good friend of mine told me that she had a crush on my husband , I knew that all of our theorizing about what makes a successful life partnership was about to face its first real-life application.
Meanwhile, my good friend and my husband were continuing to have good times taking pictures and going back to her apartment to develop them and continue their mild flirtation. Then one night, when it had gotten too late for my comfort zone, he called to say our Volvo wagon wouldn't start. I knew the car to be unreliable, but I couldn't deny a nagging doubt: Could he be lying about the car just to spend the night with her?
That, for me, was the breaking point. It didn.t matter if he was telling the truth. I doubted him anyway, so the result was the same. I further realized that I couldn.t handle the thought of them spending the night together, sleeping in the same bed, even in a Bert and Ernie arrangement. My imagination ran wild. I felt as if I were imploding.
Several arguments and 10 therapy sessions later, we thanked each other for allowing that kind of creative romantic safari into our lives but vowed never to do it again. We weren.t bored with each other. And despite our ostensibly progressive notions about marriage, we were not impervious to the full range of human emotions -- rage, jealousy, fear of abandonment -- that tend to surface when we cross the boundaries of love.
[ Gosh, maybe those emotions are there for a reason? Selectivity makes you rise, promiscuity makes you less focused. This was obvious to people before this neurotic time. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:44 PM CST [more..]
Aggressive ethnic groups replacing whites
All of this is bound to have a negative effect on community spirit and social cohesion, as the Asian community tends to be highly insular, ethnocentric, and unsociable. Levels of trust are low. In many cases new home-owners refuse to deal with American moving companies, and will only use Asian-owned firms. Asian moving trucks are a common sight in new neighborhoods. Asian banks have started moving into the area to cater to the burgeoning Asian colony.
As a resident of Newport Coast, I have witnessed first hand the hostility exhibited by Asian settlers. Unlike my white, Arab, and Persian neighbors, who are very affable, the Asians on my street are singularly reserved and rarely acknowledge a friendly hello. One can’t help but discern a measure of distaste and arrogance in the behaviour of Asians towards Americans.
This attitude if exemplified by an incident in my neighborhood. An older Asian couple recently purchased a house and immediately rented it out to their son, a student at the nearby University of California-Irvine medical school, and two of his fellow medical students. Unfortunately, the boys began hosting out-of-control parties, to the extent that neighbors complained. The police were called. Last October, during one such party, a neighbor and I approached the young men to ask them to tone it down. They called us “white boys” and told us that we should put up with it, as one day we would need them as doctors.
[ Dear white neurotic suburban couch-dweller: to you it's the melting pot. To them, it's war for domination. Do you blame them? Yours is a dying culture, until you fix it... might as well take a chunk while the eating's good, like jackals at a lion kill. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:35 PM CST [more..]
Primate family units determine offspring's success
But a report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that female baboons in Kenya raised in groups with their fathers matured earlier and had a longer reproductive life than other baboons.
Males had not been thought to be engaged in a level of care that would make any difference to their offspring, said Susan Alberts, an associate professor of biology at Duke University.
[ It takes two parents to make a family, one of each gender, who would've thought it? Well, before the blinding stupidity of our time, it was obvious to people -- smarter, tougher, less neurotic people. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:31 PM CST [more..]
Hate crimes spike on Long Island, NY
Reports of hate crimes in Nassau County rose 22 percent last year - 150 cases were reported in 2007, up from 123 cases reported in 2006 - largely because of two waves of anti-Semitic and anti-black crimes, according to a special report compiled by the Nassau County Police Department.
The hate crimes peaked in September and October, when a spate of swastika graffiti, hate mailings and synagogue vandalism during the Jewish high holy days was coupled with a number of nooses found locally that mirrored high-profile noose cases nationally, said police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey.
"I'm concerned about the fact that we've seen a dramatic reduction in overall crimes but we're seeing an increase in hate crimes," said County Executive Thomas Suozzi.
[ Hate crimes are generally stupid, but over half of them are faked by the "victims." ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:29 PM CST [more..]
Black inventions: truth or hype?
Viewpoint 1
Viewpoint 2
Which one is hype? Our goal here is not to dismiss the black inventor, but to point out the media fabrications and emotional hype that among other things targets race.
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:28 PM CST [link]
Free speech about race isn't free speech, say liberals
There is a distinct difference between free speech and hate speech. Taylor’s abhorrence of non-white races, as formed into lectures advocating the subjugation of any person who is non-white, are not protected under the Constitution. Speech that aims to portray people of color as less than human and innately inferior is both morally repugnant and an assault on basic human rights.
[ Reeks of twisted Stalinism. Move reality aside, here comes the dogma! ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:25 PM CST [more..]
How do minorities see you, whitey?
This is the ugly reality behind talk of “immigration reform.” Like so much, this reality is obvious to much of the world, but white America hides its eyes, chattering on about the rule of law, as if history and economics do not exist. We white Americans live in a land conquered through genocide and war. We Hoyas attend a university built on indigenous land by slave-owning European priests. Some of us descend from the original murderers and thieves; some came later, perhaps as last century’s hated immigrant. Some of us worked for what we have, and some had it handed to them. But in every instance, our opportunities and life exist within an economy that controls the hemisphere and exploits workers, legal and illegal, here and in other countries. Our wealth—all wealth in this nation—was built on the backs of slaves and despised immigrants, using stolen land.
If you can face that honestly, you are in a position to begin thinking honestly about the issue of immigration. What counts as fair treatment of someone who lost their job in a U.S.-owned maquiladora, perhaps for daring to talk about unions, after working 15-hour days for a fraction of our minimum wage? If you first face your own history, you can decide whether to scorn such people for sneaking into California to scrub toilets so as to feed their children. You can decide whether to deny them health care.
Perhaps, after facing reality, you will decide that someone else altogether should be making such policy decisions. For myself, I dream of a council of elders from the remaining indigenous peoples of the Americas formulating a hemispheric policy on immigration. And I dream that white people would, for once, shut the **** up and accept it.
[ The employees don't create the business. It works because they're told what to do. Minorities do not see this. They see injustice and none of the greatness that came of it, nor how unstable their ancestors often were. This is revenge politics. It's time white people woke up and realized that societies aren't built by slaves, but by geniuses ordering slaves around, and that slaves cannot run societies either. This applies equally to the lower-caste blonde white workers as to the black African ones: not everyone or every group can be a leader in every situation. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:24 PM CST [more..]
Multiculturalism harms blacks in Africa, too
Immediately after the re-election of Kibaki, the violence was directed against his tribe, the Kikuyu, whose political and economic domination of Kenya since independence in 1963 has exposed them to widespread resentment. But in the past week Kikuyus have hit back at Luos, Luhyas, Kalenjin and other tribes supporting Odinga, who is himself a Luo.
The ODM said the violence was a spontaneous surge of anger at Kibaki’s electoral “fraud”, but activists on both sides fanned the flames of tribal resentment and on Wednesday, after nearly 1,000 people had been killed and 250,000 had been made homeless, the Daily Nation newspaper said the fear of civil war was not far-fetched. Jendayi Frazer, the American assistant secretary of state for Africa, called the violence “clear ethnic cleansing”.
[ Everywhere multiculturalism goes, it destroys culture and forces tribal violence. Why not just recognize the obvious? Oh, it cuts into our pretense as "progressive." Any idiot can call degeneration progress. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:20 PM CST [more..]
USA to build world biometric database
The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.
Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it receives. And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk, to solve crimes and identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI will also retain, upon request by employers, the fingerprints of employees who have undergone criminal background checks so the employers can be notified if employees have brushes with the law.
[ If you don't trust your government, now's the time to think about change -- before they get more powerful. Think hard, lemmings 
]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:18 PM CST [more..]
USA to build world biometric database
The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.
Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it receives. And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk, to solve crimes and identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI will also retain, upon request by employers, the fingerprints of employees who have undergone criminal background checks so the employers can be notified if employees have brushes with the law.
[ If you don't trust your government, now's the time to think about change -- before they get more powerful. Think hard, lemmings ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:15 PM CST [more..]
Entertainment culture replaces nature
As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks.
Camping, fishing and per capita visits to parks are all declining in a shift away from nature-based recreation, researchers report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Declining nature participation has crucial implications for current conservation efforts," wrote co-authors Oliver R. W. Pergams and Patricia A. Zaradic.
[ But they're enjoying their freedom, even if it spells doom for them and you and me and everyone else. God bless America. ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:12 PM CST [more..]
Nature uses non-linear math, ticking time bombs ahead
Global warming this century could trigger a runaway thaw of Greenland's ice sheet and other abrupt shifts such as a dieback of the Amazon rainforest, scientists said on Monday.
They urged governments to be more aware of "tipping points" in nature, tiny shifts that can bring big and almost always damaging changes such as a melt of Arctic summer sea ice or a collapse of the Indian monsoon.
[ How much nitroglycerin can you add to a cocktail before it explodes? Or in other terms, do you want to be the one to find out? Non-linear systems vary radically between very similar results, and when thresholds are reached, can become almost explosive. Humanity's tripping through dangerous territory, and white people need to own up to their fair share of the mess instead of blaming The Jew(tm). ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:11 PM CST [more..]
Bush wants to beef up Earth monitoring
After years cutting of budgets for tracking global warming, President Bush on Monday proposed more than a $1 billion increase over the next five years for launching more and better Earth-observing satellites.
[ A sensible approach: get better data before making politically-based decisions. Wish he'd paid attention to this in the other seven years of his presidency, and that current global warming activists would heed the complexity of this issue: environmental genocide is the issue, not just global warming! ]
news on 02.04.08 @ 09:08 PM CST [more..]
Sunday, February 3rd
Internet blackout after 4 mideast ocean cables cut
Another Middle East undersea Internet cable has been damaged, adding to disruption in Indian online services caused when several lines were cut earlier this week, a cable operating firm said Saturday.
Flag Telecom owns another undersea cable which was damaged off Egypt on Wednesday in the Mediterranean. Indian media reports have attributed that damage to a ship's anchor which dropped on the cable.
On the same day in Kuwait, the government reported two cables damaged by "weather conditions and maritime traffic."
[ Two is an odd coincidence, but four? Something's afoot. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 09:52 PM CST [more..]
The Kali-Yuga will end soon
According to the Bhāgavata Purāna the Kali Yuga will draw to a close at the occurrence of a specific astronomical event. When the Moon, the Sun and Jupiter are in conjunction in the same zodiacal house and the star Pusya is in attendance, the Krta (Golden) Age dawns.
These planets must also enter the zodiacal house simultaneously, as otherwise this phenomenon would transpire on a 12 yearly cycle in the sign of Cancer. It is therefore the defining point of this prophecy that the three astronomical bodies must enter the zodiacal sign simultaneously to herald the dawn of the new Golden Age. Before this Golden Age occurs however, the final Avatar of Vishnu, known as Kalki or Pramiti will incarnate at the close of the Kali Yuga, and cleanse the earth to punish those whom have fallen prey to the materialistic impulses of the Kali Yuga.
Pramiti is Sanskrit for Wisdom or Knowledge of Truth. Pramiti is the equivalent of Kalki, the last of the ten incarnations of Vishnu mentioned in the Matsya Purāna (285.67)
[ We live in an evil, materialistic time. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 02:40 PM CST [more..]
Democrats reveal racist leanings
A prominent elected official who will be joining him has described it as Clinton's mea culpa tour to the black community, although the Clinton campaign disputes that idea.
The former president set off a firestorm of criticism for comments he made during the South Carolina primary, remarks that were widely interpreted as racially insensitive.
He has adamantly denied he was playing racial politics.
[ Of course he was. Democrats use race to make themselves look better, which is not the same as caring for a black community. Nazis at least endorse ethnic nationalism, which would give the black community self-determination and a chance to define itself as it wants to. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 02:22 PM CST [more..]
No ideas, no solutions, no hope for election 2008
With two-thirds of the nation saying the country is on the wrong course, the two parties are offering candidates both of whom played major roles in setting that course. And neither probable nominee has advanced ideas to deal with the crises America faces, nor even shown any great awareness that the country is in crisis.
As economist Robert Reich writes, the real wages of working men have not risen in 30 years. Families maintained their standard of living three ways. Wives went to work. The men began to work longer hours than in almost any other developed nation. The family's equity in its home was then borrowed to sustain consumption.
Now, with the middle class tapped out, the home equity used up or declining, and mortgage, auto and credit card debt turning rotten, the U.S. government is going abroad to borrow 1 percent of GDP to hand out in checks in May to get consumers buying again to prevent a recession.
[ Most of our political spectrum -- gay marriage, abortion, race, Iraq -- is just a distraction from the real issue, which is the collapse of the West. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:16 PM CST [more..]
Federal judge OKs law penalizing businesses that hire illegals
The right of a small town in Missouri in dealing with the cost and crime caused by the influx of illegal aliens has been upheld by a federal judge who ruled the community's ordinance penalizing local companies that hire undocumented workers is not pre empted by federal law, does not discriminate against Hispanics and does not violate due process rights or state law...You are going to see this decision quoted by cities across the country.
[ If it's a free country, why are we legally mandated to hire ANYONE? ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:14 PM CST [more..]
"Black only" assembly offends many
Several Lee County High parents voiced their disapproval Friday, when the school held a Black History Assembly for the black students only. White students were told they could not attend.
Only about 19% of the Lee County High School student body is black. Principal Kevin Dowling said he held the black student only assembly to talk to them about test scores, so that none of them would be embarrassed.
In Georgia and in Lee County, the black students test scores as a whole are lagging behind white students.
[ What the heck is wrong with this? Black people need to talk to black people about things that concern the future of black people. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:11 PM CST [more..]
Losing affirmative action does not benefit whites
Asian Americans’ share of enrollment has shot upward at selective public universities that have been forced to abandon affirmative-action preferences, he said, and the Asian-American population has not increased nearly enough to explain the trend.
Meanwhile, a report on the study’s findings says, white enrollments, as a share of the student body, actually declined slightly at the universities examined. That trend, it says, though partly attributable to the growing diversity of the states served by the institutions, “can hardly be satisfying” to “those who campaigned for the elimination of affirmative action in the belief that it would advantage the admission of white students.”
Black students’ share of enrollment at such institutions generally dropped “sometimes substantially” while the picture for Hispanic students was mixed, the researchers found.
[ Schools reward a certain personality type. White people need their own nations. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:10 PM CST [more..]
German self-flagellation reaches new heights
Germany is going through an unprecedented wave of self-recrimination as it marks the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Despite the rapidly decreasing number of people who were alive during the Nazi era, this week, Bernd Neumann, the German minister of culture, announced that building would start on two new memorials.
One will honour the gipsies deported to their deaths. The other, costing £400,000, will feature a video of gay men and lesbians kissing, in a commemoration of the thousands of homosexuals eliminated by a regime that considered them an aberration.
There Avi Primor, the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, reportedly asked: "Where in the world has one ever seen a nation that erects memorials to immortalise its own shame?" He answered himself: "Only the Germans had the bravery and the humility."
[ It's true -- Germans always try to do the right thing. The NSDAP was 90% of the right thing, and 10% error. Right now, we're 90% error and 10% the right thing. Communicating to Jews that nationalism does not imply extermination is an important step toward 100% the right thing. Heck, if we don't reach an accord soon, it's going to be Muslims versus Jews across Europe. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:09 PM CST [more..]
People don't know how to grow up
And let's not forget that my generation was, and still is, regarded as being fairly developmentally retarded. We are allegedly the generation of delayed adolescence. Many men I know have no children and play video games. They still wear teenagers' clothes, or expensive versions of teenagers' clothes, they obsess about pop music and juvenile films and value themselves and their leisure activities over family, society or responsibility.
But it turns out that next to the current crop, we were/are pillars of society.
[ "Growing up" means participating in this mess of a society that's delusional as to its own fatal flaws. That's why people resist. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:06 PM CST [more..]
USA mulls thought police law
It looks like the term “thought police” just might take on a whole new and real meaning. This depends on what happens in the U.S. Senate after receiving House bill H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This act (now S-1959 – Senate version) is now being considered by Senate committees and, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, will become law. Common sense would indicate that something this vague and dangerous would not make it out of committee, but considering that the House passed it on October 23 with 404 ayes, 6 nays, and 22 present/not voting, I’m not holding my breath.
The most disturbing aspects of this bill, and there are many, are the definitions noted in Section 899a. The three offenses defined in this document that will warrant prosecution are:
“Violent Radicalization: The term ‘violent radicalization’ means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.”
“Homegrown Terrorism: The term ‘homegrown terrorism’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
“Ideologically based violence: The term ‘ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs.”
Any citizen at any given time could be considered a terrorism suspect and accused or prosecuted for “bad” thoughts.
[ As Plato predicted, the transition from democracy to tyranny via fear is right on schedule. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 01:02 PM CST [more..]
Minority racial "tolerance" groups are hate groups
During the segment, Gilchrist compared the National Council of La Raza, which identifies itself as the "largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States," to the Ku Klux Klan. He claimed that a sign in downtown Los Angeles identifying "La Raza Plaza" "is perhaps a racist sign," and asserted that "La Raza and MEChA [the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán] are, in my opinion, the largest organized racial supremacy group in the United States today. And if we're going to have a La Raza Plaza sign, what's next? A KKK Plaza sign, a Black Panther Plaza sign? This goes right to the heart of free speech."
Later during the segment, Gilchrist said that the "Anti-Defamation League, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, are professional fundraising groups" and asserted that "if they can proliferate hate by using people like Mark Krikorian and the Center for Immigration Studies or Jim Gilchrist, Minuteman Project, as a target for their hate, they can raise millions of dollars." After Brooks replied, "They monitor hate groups," Gilchrist asserted: "They don't. They participate in encouraging and proliferating hate. These are not groups that you want to get -- you rely on for any valid information."
[ The best way to hide hatred and revenge is to call them "tolerance" and accuse, by suggestion, your enemies of "intolerance." ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:59 PM CST [more..]
Hispanic racial power group wants no criticism on major networks
The head of the country’s largest Latino civil rights organization called on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News to stop providing a forum for pundits who consistently disparage the documented and undocumented Hispanic immigrant population.
[ They want to be beyond criticism. How Stalinist. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:57 PM CST [more..]
Students unaware of recent history worldwide
Most Norwegian high school students (65 percent) don’t know who Pol Pot was or what the Gulag means (64 percent). A new survey shows Norwegian 15-20-year-olds are sorely lacking in their knowledge of 20th-century history.
A 2007 poll in Sweden showed that 90 percent of the students had no idea what the Gulag was and practically none had heard of "The Great Leap Forward" or "Bolshevik".
In a new poll of 10th and 11th-graders in Brandenburg, Germany, only half knew when the Berlin Wall was built and just as many believed that East Germany was not a dictatorship, wrote Stanghelle.
[ Democracy will save us, even though the voters are unacquainted with any of the major issues. Uh huh. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:56 PM CST [more..]
EU wants Hitlerian style power scheme
A Conservative MEP yesterday found himself at the centre of a controversy after he was accused of likening a plan drawn up by the German president of the European Parliament to the law that gave Hitler absolute power.
[ Dear ingenues, any sensible leader is going to want Europe to act as one for economic and military reasons. You're surrounded by enemies in the middle east and Eurasia, and you bicker like squabbling brats and can't unify. You need to be united and strong, not disparate and weak, even if the EU is not the entity to do that. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:53 PM CST [more..]
USA denies need to find missing nuclear weapon
On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet.
In a 2001 report on the search and recovery of the bomb, the Air Force said that if the bomb is still intact, the risk associated with the spread of heavy metals is low.
In 2004, Duke detected high radiation in shallow water off the coast of Savannah. Government officials investigated, but concluded that the radiation readings were normal for the naturally occurring minerals in the area.
[ It's unlikely the bomb will explode in a nuclear reaction. It's likely, however, that it will leak extremely toxic radioactive materials, and that if its explosives go off, it will create a "dirty bomb" effect of a massive proportion. Why would a sane government leave it there? ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:52 PM CST [more..]
Jews who fought for Hitler
Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or "partial-Jews" (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought--perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals.
As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the "race" of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers.
[ This author is currently touring the country promoting his book. What this means: the ideological pursuit of exterminating Jews is silly. What Hitler wanted to abolish, before things got way out of hand, was the "Jewish ideal" of a materialistic, personal, individualistic religion, which is not unique to Judaism but can be found anywhere cosmopolitanism creates its own philosophy of self-satisfaction. Clearly Jews belong in Israel, but pogroms and Holocausts and snide anti-Semitism are not only not effective but somewhat mean-spirited. Many Jews fought and died for the Nazis because they believed in the transcendent idea of National Socialism, which is an antidote to the failings of the modern time. If more WNs and neo-Nazis saw the truth of this, they would worry less about "naming the Jew" and more about "fixing the white people" so that parasites of all colors would not find a home here. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:50 PM CST [more..]
Atheist children's book offends every religious person
The German Family Ministry is pushing for the children's book "How Do I Get to God, Asked the Small Piglet," by written by Michael Schmidt-Salomon and illustrated by Helge Nyncke, to be included on a list of literature considered dangerous for young people.
The rabbi is drawn in the same way as the caricatures from the propaganda of 1930's Germany; corkscrew curls, fanatical lights in his eyes, a set of predator's flashing teeth and hands like claws. He reacts to the animals by flying into a rage, yelling at them that God had set out to destroy all life on Earth at the time of Noah and chases them away.
The mufti fares little better. While he greets both animals at first as a quiet man and invites them into his mosque, he soon changes into a ranting fanatic. He assembles a baying Islamic mob and holds the animals up in a clenched fist while condemning them to everlasting damnation through bared teeth and an unruly-looking beard.
The bishop, a pale fat man with a clearly insinuated predilection for child abuse, makes up the unholy trinity which eventually convinces piglet and hedgehog, after they have survived the long search in the maze of religions, that nothing of any importance has been missing from their lives.
[ Do we trust any religion that thinks it is above criticism? Among other tidbits here, Schmidt-Salomon is clearly partly Jewish, so it's not anti-Semitism as much as Jews and Christians rejecting all religions. Maybe we just need better religions, or at least, to keep European religions in Europe and Semitic ones (like all three slandered here) in the middle East? Either way, it's good daily fanaticism comedy. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:44 PM CST [more..]
Lost German WWII demi-fleet found
The submarines had been carried 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Russian shipping during the Second World War, but were scuttled as the war neared its end. Now, more than 60 years on, explorers have located the flotilla of three submarines off the coast of Turkey.
In two years, the fleet sank dozens of ships and lost three of their number to enemy action. But in August 1944, Romania switched sides and declared war on Germany, leaving the three remaining vessels stranded.
With no base and unable to sail home - the Bosporus and Dardanelles were closed to them because of Turkish neutrality - their captains were ordered to scuttle the boats before rowing ashore and trying to make their way back to Germany.
[ If you're reading this site, you probably don't mind a little history news. We have no political commentary to offer on this item. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:40 PM CST [more..]
Six degrees of separation, "global village" disproved
Kleinfeld assumed that Milgram’s study must have been replicated for his results to have been so widely and enthusiastically accepted. Confirming the validity of a finding by repeating experiments is, after all, a hallmark of the scientific process. Kleinfeld scoured the academic literature but found only two follow-up studies, one done by Milgram himself. And neither one, Kleinfeld says, substantiated the six-degrees claim. “I was disappointed in Milgram, who was one of my idols, for avoiding the limitations of his research in the arresting and well-written article he had published in Psychology Today,” Kleinfeld says. “My students, however, were not surprised. The results supported their notions of the limitations of social research.”
Kleinfeld’s interpretation of all this—which she also published in Psychology Today (March/April 2002)—is that Milgram was so in love with the idea of six degrees that he overlooked the weak statistics backing it up. And worse, he promoted his sketchy results to an unsuspecting public. Not that she thinks the public minds. In talking to others about their coincidental experiences running into friends and friends of friends in unlikely places, she’s become convinced that the idea of six degrees has deep psychological appeal. “The belief in a small world gives people a sense of security,” she says.
[ Fear of death, again. Ho hum. The "global village" idea was based on this six degrees illusion and it, also, is an illusion. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:39 PM CST [more..]
Driven out by other states, immigrants flood Texas
Illegal immigrants are flowing into Texas across its long borders. But they aren't just swimming across the Rio Grande from Mexico or making dangerous treks through the rugged desert.
Instead, a new rush of illegal immigrants are driving down Interstate 35 from Oklahoma or heading east to Texas from Arizona to flee tough new anti-illegal immigrant laws in those and other states.
[ The anti-immigrant laws work. Unless you don't have any, like Texas. ]
news on 02.03.08 @ 12:37 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, February 2nd
Rainforests being exterminated at record rate
From Brazil to central Africa to once-lush islands in Asia's archipelagos, human encroachment is shrinking the world's rain forests.
The alarm was sounded decades ago by environmentalists — and was little heeded. The picture, meanwhile, has changed: Africa is now a leader in destructiveness. The numbers have changed: U.N. specialists estimate 60 acres of tropical forest are felled worldwide every minute, up from 50 a generation back. And the fears have changed.
Experts still warn of extinction of animal and plant life, of the loss of forest peoples' livelihoods, of soil erosion and other damage. But scientists today worry urgently about something else: the fateful feedback link of trees and climate.
[ Not surprising, saddening. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 10:40 PM CST [more..]
The new face of the BNP: friendly, competent, normal blonde/blue lady
Committed to civic improvement, she's just as determined to mend broken swings in the park as she is to stop teenagers hanging around the local corner shop in the evenings.
The mums here call Donna - a warm, blue-eyed beautician, who offers facials at very reasonable rates - one of their own, which in itself is something of an accolade.
"She raised money for the school, helping them buy laptops, and she's forever talking about how we've got to do something for the youngsters, to stop them loitering at the local convenience store every night."
A little bit of internet research - carried out, it seems, more through curiosity than anything else - revealed that nice blonde, friendly, efficient Donna was, in fact, a member of the British National Party, and a very active member at that.
[ She sounds like she'd be good in any political party, but it's no surprise the BNP has attracted someone not addicted to euphemism and corruption. They're the only realist party in the UK. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 10:39 PM CST [more..]
Destitute USA government sends billions in AIDS aid
A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas — arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency — may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal.
President Bush wants to double and House Democrats want to triple spending on a program that is now treating 1.4 million people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where he will visit in two weeks.
Democrats also want to slash spending on a multimillion-dollar component that emphasizes sexual abstinence. And that has conservative groups furious.
[ Democrats have it half right: third world breeding strategies do not include abstinence. But if we take that realization further, third world behavior does not lend itself to not getting AIDS, having stable governments, or any other form of large scale organization. Take this money and use it to pay off the US debt instead. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 10:36 PM CST [more..]
Gay marriage rate falls after legalization
Initially, thousands of gay and lesbian couples held ceremonies. However, a survey by the Local Government Association found that all the 40 councils across England they surveyed had experienced a fall in the number taking place - the figures show an average drop of 55 per cent in 2007 from 2006.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics confirm the downward trend. They show that while 16,100 couples formed a civil partnership in the UK in 2006, at an average of 4,000 every three months, just 4,060 did so in the first half of last year.
[ The purpose of gay marriage is to allow gay people to get benefits from their spouse's employer. This should be legalized. "Don't ask, don't tell" lets heteros live without bad sexual role models for their kids, and gays live without intervention. What we should really be doing is going after the virtual army of child molestors flooding our nations, hetero and homo alike. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 10:34 PM CST [more..]
50 to 70% of Americans affected by infidelity
"An estimated 50% to 70% of Americans are victims of infidelity. Factor in emotional infidelity, cyber infidelity, same-sex infidelity and female infidelity, and the number jumps to nearly 85%."
"One study found that 70% of married women and 54% of married men had no idea their spouse was having an extramarital affair."
"The 2007 iVillage / MSNBC Lust, Love and Loyalty survey found that less than 30% of cheaters get caught.."
[ Signs of the decline. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 10:30 PM CST [more..]
Multicultural state drives out ethnic natives
Government figures set to be released later this year will show that an astonishing 250,000 people fled Britain in 2007.
That’s 684 A DAY—or ONE every TWO MINUTES.
And it’s a massive 21 PER CENT increase on the 207,000 who went in 2006—and up nearly 70 PER CENT from the 149,000 who left in 1997.
Meanwhile, huge numbers of foreigners are pouring INTO the UK, with 591,000 settling here in 2006.
And there has been a 90 PER CENT increase in immigration over the past ten years—from 327,000 in 1997 to an estimated 620,000 last year. Emigration expert Paul Arthur believes the numbers leaving will continue to rise.
Typical of those leaving are plasterer Damian Barrett and wife Alison.
The couiple, both 37, who are emigrating from Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs, with kids Holly, eight, and Joseph, six, to Auckland, New Zealand.
Alison said: “We’re tired of Britain, with its unfair tax system, crime, and live-to-work ethic. There are also too many foreigners coming in and using up all our resources. We want a better life.”
[ No surprise. Globalism = death to all good things. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 03:29 PM CST [more..]
Documentary "Spin" shows inherent corruption of democracies
[ Politicians are paid to create illusions, not solutions. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 03:25 PM CST [link]
A new Dark Age of dogma replacing truth
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 should be true." It sounds bad. How much trouble are we really in?
[ Oversocialized people use dogma instead of truth to sell each other garbage. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 03:23 PM CST [more..]
Moms more important, talented than career women
"I've had three or four different careers," she told an interviewer in 1989. "I consider being a wife and mother a career. I have great respect for women -- both those who go out and do their thing and those who stay at home. I think those who stay at home have a lot more courage than those who go out and get a job."
[ Feminism made displaced, not empowered, women. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 03:22 PM CST [more..]
Less risk-taking, and less creativity, with global data
That would be nice, but I have my doubts. When we all have equally precise, equally up-to-the-second information on traffic conditions, the odds are that we'll all respond in similar ways. As we all act in unison to avoid one bottleneck, we'll just create a new bottleneck. We may come to look back fondly on the days when information was less uniformly distributed.
That's the problem with the so-called transparency that's resulting from instantly available digital information. When we all know what everyone else knows, it becomes ever harder to escape the pack.
At the same time, though, transparency is erasing the advantages that once went to the intrepid, the dogged and the resourceful.
[ Insightful. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 03:20 PM CST [more..]
New president won't be able to change corrupt system, say Americans
They are less certain, though, about the president's ability to change how things really work in Washington: 55 percent think it's possible; 44 percent are doubtful, no matter who's elected.
The 39-year-old Democrat thinks the next president has an opportunity to change things for the better. But probably only by moving quickly -- before inevitably being sucked down by the undertow of Washington's special interests.
"No matter how high they aspire to be, the pool in which they swim is going to taint them sooner or later."
Voters begin this election year with a grim assessment of the status quo. Roughly three-fourths say the country is on the wrong track.
[ You don't change a corrupt system by electing a new lead corruptor. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 03:18 PM CST [more..]
Democracy self-reduces to simplistic icons
For all the millions the presidential campaigns have spent, it still comes down to this: Ask people what they think of Hillary Rodham Clinton and they say female and feminist. For Barack Obama, it's inexperience. Mitt Romney is known as a Mormon, John McCain for his military service.
[ Glad to see the voters are carefully considering all the issues before making their decisions. Democracy is like shopping: I remember that commercial, maybe it's good . ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 02:57 PM CST [more..]
Immigration destroying Mexico
Hundreds of thousands of farmers clogged central Mexico City Thursday with their slow-moving tractors, protesting the entry of cheap imported corn from the United States and Canada.
[ You send your workers north, we make corn cheaper, and then destroy your economy. I guess all those "envio dinero a Mexico" weren't free, hmm? ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 02:01 PM CST [more..]
Globalist morality must replace patriotism, UK says
Patriotism should be avoided in school lessons because British history is "morally ambiguous", a leading educational body recommends.
[ Morality is morally ambiguous, since it seems to destroy good things and replace them with slimier ones. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 02:00 PM CST [more..]
Divorced women face new risks
As a result of the soaring divorce rate, and because it's the case that women who are divorced in middle-age no longer feel confined to a celibate future, more and more women are inadvertently putting themselves at risk.
He says that women in their 40s, 50s and even 60s are extremely vulnerable as they are so naive - certainly none of the four women he is currently treating is promiscuous.
"It has taken them a while to get over their separation or grief, and when they do start dating again, they have no idea of the dangers out there," he says.
"The message of the need for safe sex has passed them by, and they do not think to use a condom. In two of these cases, I think the women have been targeted by younger men, who care nothing for their own health or that of the women they meet.
[ Sexual liberation means that when you age, you're suddely worth less and can be replaced. How you like them apples, ladies? ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:58 PM CST [more..]
Job stress kills
Work really can kill you, according to a study on Wednesday providing the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body's internal systems.
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.
[ We work boring jobs out of servitude to the Crowd. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:57 PM CST [more..]
Michigan limits licenses to citizens
Michigan will no longer let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses, a practice just seven other states continue to allow.
Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, who oversees the motor vehicle department, announced the new policy Monday and said it takes effect today.
The new policy also bars people who are legal but not permanent U.S. residents from getting licenses.
[ Consistency among laws... new concept. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:54 PM CST [more..]
Neocons are all Jewish, may bring about anti-Semitism
First, neoconservatism is a Jewish movement. That should have been clear to everyone by now, but references to the Jewish basis of the movement have been noticeably missing from much of the mainstream media, to the point that Bill Kristol was introduced as a columnist at the New York Times as simply a "conservative." This is critical because the neocons have now become the conservative establishment. When Kristol (or Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity) hold forth at Fox News, most people have no idea that they are tuning into the public face of a fundamentally Jewish movement that elbowed out more traditional conservatives.
Secondly, Jewish neocons not only have a strong Jewish identity, they also have strong Jewish interests. This is obvious from their involvement in pro-Israel activism, their personal relationships with Israeli leaders, and close ties with other Jews and with the wider Jewish community. In fact, I have argued that the neocons are more strongly identified as Jews than the mainstream liberal/left Jews — that the neocons form the vanguard of the Jewish community. After all, neocons were the first segment of the Jewish community to strongly condemn the USSR, both for its domestic anti-Semitism and for its alliances with Arab governments. Prominent neocons like Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz began their political careers by making alliances with Cold War hawks like Henry Jackson This was at a time when the Jewish left was prominently involved in defending the USSR, apparently blind to the fact that the status of Jews as an elite in the USSR had changed greatly following World War II.
[ Note that the American left is already beginning to attack Judaism as racist, Nazi, etc. Be careful! ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:50 PM CST [more..]
Humans redefine earth climate
Human effects on the planet have reached the point where many scientists think we have entered a new geologic epoch.
Instead of the Holocene Epoch, defined as about 11,500 years ago to present, we may be already a couple of hundred years into the Anthropocene Epoch as human effects begin to dominate the planet.
Humans are now the largest earth-moving force on the planet. There are the rising sea levels linked to global warming and the wave of extinctions being seen around the world. There is even a carbon isotope difference in today's sediments, caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
Some researchers argue that the change came when coal arrived on the scene, around 1800, followed by steam engines that dramatically increased the power of humans to reshape the surface of the Earth.
[ We should think carefully about how we do this, then. We only get one Earth. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:46 PM CST [more..]
Jews must defend race to survive
Race is a taboo question to ask in this politically correct era but for Jews interested in the survival of the state of Israel, it must be confronted. Because the “right of return”––the principle that Jews have a right to immigrate to Israel and become citizens if they can verify Jewish ancestry—depends on it. In the age of DNA, we can now answer that question with some assuredness.
According to Hammer and numerous other scientists, Jewish and Christians, Jews are one of the most distinctive populations—a term scientists use rather than the folkloric notion of “race”—in the world. On our male side, approximately 70-80 percent of Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestry back to ancient Israel. A vast majority of Cohanim even trace back to one man who lived approximately 3300 years ago—perhaps Aaron, the first High Priest, if he indeed existed.
[ Jews must defend their race, culture and language. So must every other ethnic group. Hitler was a Zionist. Support Zionist, National Socialism, Black Power and the American Indian separatist movement! ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:44 PM CST [more..]
You inherent religious feelings from your parents
All in all we find that parental religious inputs significantly affect individuals' religiosity BUT the route of intergenerational transmission is from mother to daughter and from father to son. Women are not affected by paternal religiosity and men are unaffected by maternal religiosity. Current religiosity is also affected by own exposure to mass services during childhood - own experience has a more pronounced effect on the private/intimate activity of prayer than on the social/public activity of church attendance. Current mass participation is more affected by parental than by own mass attendance during childhood.
[ Interesting. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:42 PM CST [more..]
Fashion industry favors fantasy: tall, white, beautiful models
Models were a homogeneous bunch—overwhelmingly white, bony and often blond. Along with the obvious—and serious—issue of racism, some wondered whether it wasn’t all becoming just a little boring. Which is why, when Fashion Week opens tomorrow at Bryant Park, observers won’t just be looking at the clothes—they’ll also be looking for a serious change in who’s wearing them.
“Some shows had just one black model,” Barker [Nigel Barker, the photographer and judge on TV’s “America’s Next Top Model”] says, adding that he found the shows monotonous, visually unexciting and depressing. “Fashion is about fantasy, and everybody’s fantasy is not to be 6 feet and white.”
[ This fashion industry also discriminates against ugly, stupid, fat, retarded and limbless people. That's racist...or something. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:41 PM CST [more..]
Immigrant births overwhelm UK hospitals
The NHS is spending £350m a year to provide maternity services for foreign-born mothers, £200m more than a decade ago, the BBC has found.
Immigration has raised the birth rate so fast that some units have closed, so that midwives could be moved to areas of urgent need.
When Labour came to power, the NHS spent around £1bn a year on maternity services, with one baby in eight delivered to a foreign-born mother.
Ten years on, spending has risen to £1.6bn, with almost one baby in four delivered to a mother born overseas.
While the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by 44,000 a year since the mid-1990s, the figure for babies born to foreign mothers has risen by 64,000—a 77% increase which has pushed the overall birth-rate to its highest level for 26 years.
[ Looks like the natives are getting replaced. For better or for worse? Well, for starters, the countries they come from are messes, and the UK is now looking more like those countries. Multiculturalism always fails. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:37 PM CST [more..]
Mexico: in denial of its European parentage and dying state of Aztecs
If this country had been conquered by the 300 Spaniards of Cortes with ten starving horses and some ancient blunderbusses, it ought to make us ashamed just to talk about it. The “Conquest” was the result of indigenous hatred of the barbaric savagery of the Aztecs. The fall of Tenochtitlan [9] was the result of a massive popular revolt.
Independent for just a hundred years in 1521, the Aztecs had oppressed their subject nations with extremes of savagery never reached by the Nazis. The schoolboy version that “Mexico was conquered by a foreign power” is childish, ridiculous, and damaging in the first place to the Indian Nations. If 300 Spaniards really had conquered a city that had a population of half a million in the midst of a territory with a population of 20 million, truly they would have been Gods.
However, 1) Mexico could not be conquered because it did not exist. 2) Spain was nothing more than a small country recently freed from a thousand years of Arab domination. 3) It was not only Spaniards, but also thousands of Native warriors who, oppressed by the reign of Aztec terror, took Tenochitlan and razed it with all the hatred and fury imaginable.
[ The modern Mexican is descended from the slaves of Aztecs and Maya, both dying cultures, who rebelled against their masters with the help of the Spanish. The modern Mexican is also part European. This shows the terror that caste- and race-mixing causes. Do you want the USA and Europe to be more or less like Mexico?
As a further note, there are good people in every tribe, and we all benefit when those tribes implement some form of natural selection or eugenics, so the good people win out over the idiots, criminals, perverts and lazyboneses. Mexican nationalism -- the formation of a new Mexican identity -- is the solution to Mexico's woes. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:35 PM CST [more..]
Performance ability gene linked to IQ
A team of scientists led by School of Medicine psychiatric geneticists has gathered the most extensive evidence to date that a gene that activates signaling pathways in the brain influences one kind of intelligence. The researchers confirmed a link between the gene CHRM2 and performance IQ, which involves a person's ability to organize things logically.
"This is not a gene for intelligence," said Danielle M. Dick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and lead author on the study. "It's a gene that's involved in some kinds of brain processing, and specific alterations in the gene appear to influence IQ. But this single gene isn't going to be the difference between whether a person is a genius or has below-average intelligence."
[ There is no race gene. There is no intelligence gene. Both are produced by collections of genes, and mixing destroys them. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:31 PM CST [more..]
Polish criminals given free reign in UK
HUNDREDS of Polish criminals who fled to Britain could be freed – because it is too expensive to take them home to face justice.
The villains, including violent offenders, burglars and drug dealers, were arrested in the UK on warrants issued by Polish cops. But now authorities in Poland have admitted they can’t afford to have them returned after the backlog grew so long.
[ Multiculturalism working again! ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:30 PM CST [more..]
Race is not visual
For most of her life, Georgia State doctoral student Erin Harper thought of herself as African-American with French ancestry.
But through a DNA analysis project in her biopsychology class last spring, Harper learned her ancestors traveled out of east Africa, through Asia and over the Bering land bridge to what is now North America, a lineage often carried by Eskimos.
"What this project says is, `Race doesn't exist,'" [Decker] said. "Any observable differences between us are climatic adaptations. We all have the same emotions, thoughts and decision-making processes."
[ No, what it proves is that race in mixed-race people cannot be determined by looking at skin color! ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:20 PM CST [more..]
Each continent needs its own form of leadership
Although Kenya has a strong economy, the botched elections that recently took place in Kenya have placed this beautiful country on the "Failed State" list with other African countries that are using the western style democracy to elect its leaders.
Africa needs a form of government that speaks its culture and traditions. In many areas of Africa, the influence and importance of Tribal Leadership cannot be dismissed. Any system of democracy that is developed must take into consideration the reality of tribalism.
Africa needs a think tank comprised of "the best minds" that can develop a form of democracy that speaks uniquely to the African experience, in the best interest and consideration of tribalism inclusive of advice from the Elders. In tribal tradition, when one of the "sons" of the tribe is running for office, it is expected that most members of that tribe will support him.
[ Maybe tribalism would be better for Europeans, too, but people get insulted when I say that. Is tribalism inherently more primitive than democracy? No, because it takes into account more factors of real life and not this fantasy world of politics and economics. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:16 PM CST [more..]
Race denial zombies demand more tasty brains
And as hundreds of volunteers crowded into Columbia's convention center and watched overhead screens with news reports attributing the win to the southern state with the second highest number of African-American Democratic voters -- Georgia is first -- the crowd shouted in unison, "Race doesn't matter. Race doesn't matter. Race doesn't matter."
Axelrod said the voters who have supported Obama in Iowa, where he won the state's caucuses, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina cut across racial and political dividing lines. "There is an appetite for change in this country," he said. "It is in red states and blue states. It is among independents and Republicans."
[ It's a pleasant illusion that we're all equal and acceptable, and so we extend it to others as a means of protecting ourselves. Then life gets clotted with garbage and unneeded complexity, and we wonder why. Racial denial is just the latest of the zombie-tactics. ]
news on 02.02.08 @ 01:14 PM CST [more..]
