Underage prostitution protected by political correctness
In fact, it's believed as many as 5,000 under-age British girls have been groomed for prostitution by ruthless criminal gangs.
It is a sinister and deeply uncomfortable scenario, not least because these crimes frequently have a racial element: in many of the identifiable cases, the pimps come from the Asian or Afro-Caribbean communities.
As such, the parents of some young victims claim the authorities are reluctant to tackle the issue for fear of upsetting race relations in areas with large ethnic minorities.
[ Reality might offend someone, so let's get delusional. ]
news on 03.26.08 @ 07:49 PM CST [more..]
Humans in Europe longer than thought
ANTHROPOLOGISTS delving into a cave in northeastern Spain announced today they had uncovered the earliest known remains of a human in Europe, a find that they dated to as much as 1.2 million years old.
The exceptional fossil strengthens the theory that humans, after emerging from their African home, struck out towards western Europe far earlier than thought, they said.
[ More divergence than we thought in the human family tree. ]
news on 03.26.08 @ 06:05 PM CST [more..]
Modern society makes us neurotic, insane
America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5 million - have taken antidepressants.
[ If this is diagnosed correctly, what a horror. If it's misdiagnosed, our medical system is a ruin; also a horror. ]
news on 03.26.08 @ 04:20 PM CST [more..]
Germany persecutes NPD for bad free speech
The Berlin public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday it was charging [NPD leader] Voigt with incitement for publishing a leaflet in 2006 opposing the selection of a black player for the German national soccer team.
The NPD has called the charges absurd. "The charge document makes one thing clear: any criticism of over-immigration in Germany and of multi-cultural society is being turned into a crime. The trial has major
political significance," Schwerdt said in a statement posted on the NPD's Web site.
[ No one -- and I mean no one -- really believes in free speech. We're all intolerant of anything we see as destructive or subversive. In the West, right now, we indulge the pretense that we have free speech. Really what we have is free inconsequential speech and everything else is censored. ]
news on 03.26.08 @ 04:12 PM CST [more..]
Modern western values repulse Muslims
The Gallup data also show that Muslims make a keen distinction between modernity and Westernization. The surveys found that Muslims have a profound respect and admiration for the West's technology and for its work ethic; both are regarded as tools of modernity and avenues of social and economic progress for Muslims (p. 97). Having presented this finding, however, the authors warn it must not be taken as eagerness for Westernization. "[W]hile acknowledging and admiring many aspects of Western democracy," the authors write," those [Muslims] surveyed do not favor wholesale adoption of Western models of democracy. Few respondents associate 'adopting Western values' with Muslim political and economic progress."
[ Modern western values can only be associated with decline and degeneneration. At least the Muslims realize this ]
nationalist on 03.26.08 @ 12:54 PM CST [more..]
Ethiopian Jews want separate schools in Israel
Ethiopian community activists say the school proves the success of a homogenous student body. “Integration has failed,” Roni Akela, head of the educational association Fidel, says. “Forcing integration on students who can’t manage with it and don’t want it only leads to dropouts. We must think differently. Integration is not a sacred concept,” he added.
[ Correct! ]
nationalist on 03.26.08 @ 07:10 AM CST [more..]
Germany sparks Polish anger with war museum
BERLIN - Germany on Wednesday unveiled plans for a museum to document the fate of millions of Germans forced out of eastern Europe after World War Two following a years-long row over the idea with neighboring Poland.
Ties between Germany and Poland have been difficult since the war, in which six million Poles perished, and the long battle by Germany's League of Expellees for a permanent centre on the expulsions has aggravated underlying tensions.
[ It's a good sign that the Germans forced out of their homelands are going to get sympathetic recogniton of what they suffered ]
nationalist on 03.26.08 @ 04:20 AM CST [more..]
"A long, ugly, deep recession" is expected by top financial experts
“A LONG, ugly, deep recession.” That was how Chrysler's chief financial officer Jerry York described his outlook for America's economy at a recent gathering of fellow finance executives. The latest poll of over 1,000 chief financial officers conducted by Duke University, Tilburg University and CFO, a sister publication of The Economist, largely supports this view. In America economic confidence is in short supply, with pessimists outnumbering optimists by a nine-to-one margin in the first quarter of 2008. In Europe, pessimists outnumber optimists by six to one. And to add to the gloom, finance chiefs in Asia are now more pessimistic than optimistic for the first time in five years.
[ The tower of cards has to fall some time ]
nationalist on 03.26.08 @ 04:04 AM CST [more..]
Bhutan reluctantly becomes democratic
Leaders of both the parties have said they would prefer to have remained under the former monarchic system. Many voters said they were casting a ballot—with a heavy heart—simply because this was the wish of their recently-abdicated ruler, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk.
Few elected governments could boast of the king’s record. Accelerating a reform process begun by his father, whom he succeeded in 1972, the king transformed Bhutan from one of the world’s most reclusive poor countries to one of its more enlightened.
[The people fear a significant rise in corruption and are pessimistic for the future. Quite right. ]
nationalist on 03.26.08 @ 03:36 AM CST [more..]
Muslim leader concerned about pimping White girls
A muslim leader has accused the police of failing to tackle Asian gangs suspected of prostituting young white girls.
Officers are accused of being "over cautious" when investigating Muslim criminals because they fear being branded racist.
Last night Mohammed Shafiq, director of the Ramadhan Foundation, said the police were differentiating between criminals on the basis of race.
[ Fear of race riots, as Shafiq agrees, means that the police turn a blind eye to serious crime. Multiculturalism does not work.]
nationalist on 03.26.08 @ 03:06 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, March 25th
Whites are 75% of US Iraq deaths
Percentages by ethnic group: White: 75 percent; Hispanic or Latino: 11 percent; Black or African American: 9 percent; Asian: 2 percent; multiple races, pending, or unknown: 1 percent; American Indian or Alaska Native: 1 percent; Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 1 percent
[ So much for the myth that poor minorities are dying for whitey. ]
news on 03.25.08 @ 09:44 PM CST [more..]
Liberal media bias
A survey conducted late last year and released Monday, by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, confirmed the obvious -- that compared to the views of the public, conservatives are under-represented in national journalism while liberals are over-represented.
Only six percent said they considered themselves conservatives and only two percent said they were very conservative. This compares with 36 percent of the overall population that describes itself as conservative. Most journalists, 53 percent, said they're moderate. 24 percent said they were liberal and eight percent very liberal.
Only 19 percent of the public consider themselves liberal. And it's not much of a leap to presume many of the 53 percent who describe themselves as “moderate” are really quite liberal.
[ Not a shock, but it's more crowd-pleasing than a clear-minded liberalism, and even that is dangerously close to crowd-pleasing, a lot like our demagogue "conservatives." ]
news on 03.25.08 @ 09:38 PM CST [more..]
Welfare produces parasites
Known as the "Shameless" family among horrified neighbours, the McFaddens "boast" three generations of adults who are not working.
All ten members of the clan share a council house and live off benefits amounting to around £32,000 a year. And very happy they are, too.
But the really disturbing aspect of the McFaddens' lifestyle is that they are far from alone. Six million Britons are living in homes where no one has a job and "benefits are a way of life", according to a report by MPs. Shock figures also revealed that 20,000 households in Britain are pocketing more than £30,000 a year in state benefits.
[ The liberal state produces a bumper crop of parasites by encouraging pointless inactivity. ]
news on 03.25.08 @ 06:27 PM CST [more..]
Anti-Semitism flap for Obama advisor
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Tuesday to remove military adviser and national campaign co-chairman Gen. Tony McPeak from his team, citing past statements McPeak has made about the Middle East that the RJC finds troubling.
“Gen. McPeak resorted to old stereotypes and unfortunate language by blaming the lack of progress with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on the undue political influence of American Jewry. The problem, said McPeak, is ‘New York City. Miami. We have a large vote ... here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it.’ ”
[ Racism from all angles! ]
news on 03.25.08 @ 06:19 PM CST [more..]
Social decay brought by immigration
In June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President's guest worker amnesty plan; and they wanted tax-paid services to illegals stopped.
The annual cost for uncompensated emergency care to Mexican Border States ( California , New Mexico, Arizona and Texas ) is $200 million. California taxpayers paid $79 million for illegal alien health care. Four major Los Angeles hospitals were bankrupted and shut down in 2004. Texas paid $74 million. Georgia ran a $63 million deficit for 64,000 unpaid doctor visits in 2002. Cochise County , Arizona spent 30% of its annual budget on uncompensated care to illegal aliens. University Medical Care in Tucson , Arizona spent $10 million on uncompensated care to illegal aliens. 77 hospitals in the four Border States now face financial emergencies.
Over 300,000 pregnant women enter the nation illegally every year. Taxpayers pay for food, housing medical care and school. The average annual cost per child for education is $7,161, totaling $109 billion to educate illegal aliens annually. The average cost of bilingual education is $1,200 per illegal student. U.S. schools annually educate 1.1 million illegal children. Schools have become over crowded and unruly. Teacher shortages (especially those who speak Spanish) are a growing problem for local school districts.
[ This money could have gone to solving social problems, not making more of them. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:53 PM CST [more..]
Nationalists win in Taiwan
Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalist party, or Kuomintang (KMT), won by a landslide in presidential elections in Taiwan on Saturday March 22nd.
Taiwanese turned out in high numbers.about 200,000 alone poured back from mainland China to vote. They gave Mr Ma over 58% of the vote, a 17-point lead over his rival, Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and returned to power through the ballot box a party that had once ruled Taiwan by force.
[ Worldwide, people are recognizing the value of the organic state. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:48 PM CST [more..]
Income disparity increasing not decreasing
New government research has found "large and growing" disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.
One of the researchers, Gopal K. Singh, a demographer at the Department of Health and Human Services, said "the growing inequalities in life expectancy" mirrored trends in infant mortality and in death from heart disease and certain cancers.
[ The end result of capitalism, freedom, democracy, tolerance... is wage slavery? LOL, how easy it is to fool you people! ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:47 PM CST [more..]
Education should return to teaching, play
Schools should return to an early 1980s style of liberal education with more time for play and less rigid methods of teaching children to read, according to the largest teachers' union.
Citing mounting evidence of a crisis in children's happiness and mental health, the National Union of Teachers will today debate calls to scrap the most restrictive elements of the national curriculum and reverse a government order that literacy be taught through phonics.
[ Why not teach unpoliticized education to those who can learn, and let the others go where they're going anyway? Take care of those with potential FIRST. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:43 PM CST [more..]
Simple pollution as bad as the complicated stuff
Soot produced by burning coal, diesel, wood and dung causes significantly more damage to the environment than previously thought, according to research published today. So-called "black carbon" could cause up to 60% of the current warming effect of carbon dioxide, according to the US researchers, making it an important target for efforts to slow global warming.
Around 400,000 people are estimated to die each year due to inhaling soot particles, particularly because of indoor cooking on wood and dung stoves in developing countries. These deaths are mainly among women and children.
[ What kind of pollution is "good," again? ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:38 PM CST [more..]
Climate change will bring ethnic warfare
According to the climate change scientist James Lovelock, this is the beginning of the end of a peaceful phase in evolution.
By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine.
The people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain.
We will, he says, have to set up encampments in this country, like those established for the hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the conflict in East Africa.
Lovelock believes the subsequent ethnic tensions could lead to civil war.
[ Hitler was worried about this. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:30 PM CST [more..]
The "news" is an illusion
When I joined CNN in 1989, I was ecstatic. To be part of an organization that could spend 24 hours a day covering important issues around the world was a dream come true. While the vision didn't always comport with reality, it matched up much of the time.
As time went by and competition emerged, we all know what happened. Ratings began to drive agendas and heat over light became the norm. In recent years, the lip gloss quotient (it works for both genders) has become more important than IQ. The definition of fair and balanced has nothing to do with truth and is satisfied if voices from the far left and right are encouraged to spew their dogma in angry debate.
The anchors are there to simply fuel the fire with no duty to steer guests to substantive conversation, much less to insist on facts over fatuous rhetoric.
[ Couldn't say it better ourselves. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:26 PM CST [more..]
Blacks were not injected with Syphilis
One peculiar footnote of the Jeremiah Wright controversy has been the repetition -- by educated black men on national television -- of a stubborn myth. That the U.S. government "injected black men with
syphilis."
Rev. Wright said from the pulpit, in a video clip shown on Fox News: "The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment! They purposely infected African-American men with syphilis!"
In the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," federal researchers refused to treat a group of black men who already had syphilis, long after a cure had been found.
[ Just a little reality in the midst of the rhetoric. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:22 PM CST [more..]
Liberalism is the West's death urge
The strength of the West measured in terms of freedom -- of Prometheus unbound and its creative spirit unleashed soaring upwards despite risks -- resides in its assimilative capacity and openness to share its freedom with those beyond its cultural boundaries seeking the same.
Muggeridge again: "Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the incursion of barbarian hordes; ours has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of its own intellectual elite."
In every culture there are to be found some dissidents or skeptics questioning its legitimacy and moral authority as those in the former Soviet Union -- Andrei Sakharov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and others not as well known -- did. They exposed the lies of a system that rationalized the organized effort of tyranny to extinguish freedom, and their sacrifice eventually contributed to its demise.
But the oddity about skeptics in the West, as Muggeridge wrote about them and their liberalism, is the death wish to undo a culture where freedom, having sunk deep roots, thrives. They would replace this culture with a pale shadow of one negating all that is noble, life affirming, uplifting and founded on the values celebrated by the Christian church.
[ Liberalism is a death wish. Let's stop growing, compliment ourselves, and make ourselves feel better for being nice to the less fortunate. But whatever we do, let us not strive for grand goals; they might inconvenience us. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:16 PM CST [more..]
The racial pacification bargain
But whatever [Geraldine Ferraro’s] motives, she was right: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Barack Obama is, of course, a very talented politician with a first-rate political organization at his back. But it does not detract from his merit to say that his race is also a large part of his prominence. And it is undeniable that something extremely powerful in the body politic, a force quite apart from the man himself, has pulled Obama forward. This force is about race and nothing else.
How to turn one’s blackness to advantage?
The answer is that one “bargains.” Bargaining is a mask that blacks can wear in the American mainstream, one that enables them to put whites at their ease. This mask diffuses the anxiety that goes along with being white in a multiracial society. Bargainers make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America’s history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer’s race against him. And whites love this bargain—and feel affection for the bargainer—because it gives them racial innocence in a society where whites live under constant threat of being stigmatized as racist. So the bargainer presents himself as an opportunity for whites to experience racial innocence.
[ Whites are trying to buy off blacks with guilt, and that's why Obama is popular. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:11 PM CST [more..]
Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted ethnonationalism
Dr. King’s death also stopped him from carrying through on a plan that would have charted a new and highly controversial course for the civil rights movement, according to Mr. Watkins. In his book, he wrote that Dr. King shared his frustrations about the economic inequities blacks faced in America over dinner at a hotel after his speech. He then whispered to Mr. Watkins what he hoped to eventually do, something the former Augustan decided not to put in his book.
But after 40 years of secrecy, and initially saying he would probably take it to his grave, he revealed what it was: Dr. King was going to propose a separate state for blacks so they could eventually achieve economic parity that he believed wouldn’t happen on its own in America.
“It nearly scared me to death,” Mr. Watkins wrote of the idea.
[ Anyone who looks at this issue with honesty will come to this conclusion: ethnic groups need self-rule and their own culture and people surrounding them. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 04:00 PM CST [more..]
I thought we had been talking about race
Thank God for Barack Obama. For until his “More Perfect Union” speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race.
Here I’d been under the impression that every major university (and minor one for that matter) in the country already had boatloads of courses—often entire majors—dedicated to race in America...Were all of the corporate diversity consultants and racial sensitivity seminars mere apparitions in a dream?
In fact, doesn’t it seem like the majority of people begging for a “new conversation” on race are the same folks who shout “racist!” at anyone who disagrees with them?
This sort of disconnect between rhetoric and reality is the kind of thing one finds in novels by Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Milan Kundera.
[ People like illusions, and passive activities that make them feel better without solving problems. ]
admin on 03.25.08 @ 03:57 PM CST [more..]
Immigrants needed to suppress the wages of skilled workers
Many in Congress -- including allegedly labor-friendly Democrats -- are pushing to increase the importation of foreign labor just as the USA slips into what may be its worst recession in decades.
Why? Because the greed of a handful of multinationals is demanding more and more access to "skilled" foreign labor.
Sure, we hear bogus "studies" that claim garden-variety foreign programmers will save the U.S. economy. But former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently admitted the real agenda:
"Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers . would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality."
In 2007, he further opined that, "Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world. If we open up a significant window for skilled (foreign) workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."
Since 1990, Congress has allowed U.S. and multinational businesses to use foreign "nonimmigrant" visa programs to drive down wages and displace American workers. What began as a short-term fix for a supposed "short-term" shortage of programmers has turned into another elitist feeding frenzy for greedy people at the top of the food chain.
[ Clearly this is putting the state's agenda above the (charade of the) democratic wish of the people - and the state is run by an elite that sees people as merely a resource for their own globalist money-making and power. National socialism eschews democracy and runs the state entirely for the benefit of the folk. ]
nationalist on 03.25.08 @ 02:39 PM CST [more..]
Raising a child costs middle income families $204,060
Middle-income families can expect to spend $204,060 on feeding, housing and schooling a child born in 2007 until his or her 18th birthday, the U.S. government reported on Monday.
Child care and education costs will represent a larger share of costs for raising the '07 baby through adulthood than they have in the past, the Agriculture Department said in an annual study on child-rearing costs.
[ This is one reason why the middle class has fewer children and can't compete with the over-fecundity of typically impoverished people: it costs a fortune to raise kids well. ]
nationalist on 03.25.08 @ 02:26 PM CST [more..]
Swedish feminists discover neoconservatism
The modern feminist movement has clear left wing tendencies, with many feminists assuming that market economies are built upon structures that oppress women.
But is this necessarily true? One could make the argument that market economies actually create opportunities for women, while public monopolies within welfare systems limit women's careers.
Feminist intellectuals in Sweden have become rather influential. Their ideas are supported by the state and incorporated within all levels of public education and research. However, although suggestions such as a "man tax" have been brought forward, feminist ideas have in many cases not been translated into public policy.
[ It's no surprise if careerists prefer the free market to socialism. ]
nationalist on 03.25.08 @ 02:15 PM CST [more..]
British Councillor calls for compulsory sterilisation for parents on benefits.
A Tory councillor has sparked outrage by claiming parents on benefits should be sterilised to stop them having more than one child.
Cllr John Ward, of Medway Council in Kent, has faced a rash of calls to resign after making the comments in a discussion about the hunt for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.
Mr Ward said Shannon's family - which includes seven children fathered by five men - was an example of "Breakdown Britain"
Writing on his personal website, the councillor said: "I think there is an increasingly strong case for compulsory sterilisation of all those who have had a second child - or third, or whatever - while living off
state handouts.
"It would clearly take a lot of social pressures off all concerned, thus protecting the youngsters themselves to some degree, and remove the incentive to breed for greed, ie for more public subsidy."
[ People who can't manage their own lives should probably not be breeding, or we'll get more of them. ]
nationalist on 03.25.08 @ 01:59 PM CST [more..]
All Revisionism is Labeled "Distortion"
Baker will restate, sardonically, facts that are already powerfully implicit in his anecdotes: "Twelve million people still held to Franklin Roosevelt's basic principle of civilization: that no man should be
punished for the deed of another. Franklin D. Roosevelt was not one of them."
He'll steer the reader toward certainty about hugely controversial historical points (e.g., that America baited Japan into attacking; that Churchill's aggression made Hitler's violence worse; that a workable peace might have been had, at several points, in lieu of total victory; that pacifism was the best response), all of which his unorthodox method, by its very nature, can't honestly support, given that it denies all the traditional hallmarks of historical argument: direct comment, abstract analysis, deep engagement with the existing scholarship.
And so Baker sometimes lapses into the crime he means to correct: He simplifies the narrative he's trying to complicate, distorting the truth as badly as any pious acolyte of the Greatest Generation myth.
[ The victors write history; that doesn't mean they're right. The problem is that badly researched and biased revisionism discredits itself. ]
nationalist on 03.25.08 @ 01:23 PM CST [more..]
Monday, March 24th
Democracy creates self-cannibalizing society
For years, Americans have reveled in profligate, load-up-the-back-of-the-SUV-at-Target excess, much of it paid for by credit cards, home equity or other loans. The binge has produced some supposedly healthy economic growth and provided everyone lots of nice stuff. But now debt collectors from around the world are knocking. That's why today's turmoil in U.S. financial markets will end in a massive transfer of wealth from America to the rest of the globe.
One effect has been to depress the value of American assets, such as shares and property. This alone is impoverishing the average American. Housing price futures are predicting a more than 20% decline in Los Angeles home prices over the next 12 months. Christopher Wood of brokerage house CLSA recently wrote that the financial meltdown will "produce the most devastating wealth destruction" in the U.S., "which conventional monetary policy will be powerless to prevent." Americans are already getting poorer by the day.
As the financial crisis in the U.S. persists, the combination of decreasing asset prices and a weakening dollar will make the U.S. cheaper and cheaper to foreign investors. Irresistibly cheap. The U.S. is, after all, still a highly desirable place to own property, companies and securities. Foreign investors will see the crisis as a golden opportunity to buy prime pieces of Americana at bargain-basement prices. So all those dollars in banks around the world will flood back into the U.S. to buy stocks, bonds and property. Debt-burdened Americans, desperate for fresh cash, will be only too happy to sell — or be forced to sell. The U.S. will become one giant garage sale, where the buyers are Japanese banks, Chinese state-run investment funds and oil-rich Arab sheikdoms.
[ Oh stop. Americans are just enjoying their freedoms. Those freedoms destroy them, you say? What are you, a goddamn racist commie? ]
news on 03.24.08 @ 10:07 PM CST [more..]
Democracy makes it fashionable to be stupid
In her controversial new book "The Age of American Unreason," author Susan Jacoby argues that the "scales of American history have shifted heavily against the vibrant and varied intellectual life so essential to functioning democracy. During the past four decades, America's endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been grievously exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism, feeding on and fed by an ignorant popular culture of video images and unremitting noise that leaves no room for contemplation or logic."
In other words, she argues, it's become fashionable to be stupid.
[ No one argues with stupidity. It's harmless. Right? ]
news on 03.24.08 @ 10:01 PM CST [more..]
Sunday, March 23rd
Multiculturalism feminizing black men
Griff's most famous role in that long career is minister of communications for Public Enemy, the pioneering hip-hop revolutionaries fronted by his childhood friend, Chuck D. But Griff (born Richard Griffin) has made his own name in the world as well, separate from but always in pursuit of the same agenda that drove Public Enemy: empowering black people, countering media dissembling, fighting the powers that be.
Artvoice: How did you become involved with Turn Off Channel Zero?
Griff: Opio Sokoni was at the Black Holocaust Conference in D.C., and listening to all the speakers speak, it came to him that in order for us to balance this all out and to produce the next group of black leaders that are going to come up and speak on behalf of black people, young black students need to see strong black men.
And we're just not seeing this. When we went to go find them, the majority of them had been bought off by this government, co-opted. They don't really speak black, they don't speak for black people. This is a problem, because we don't see ourselves in the educational system. I mean, when you start talking about Little Black Sambo and Ten Little Niggers—these were books that were being used to educate black people. It's not healthy. We could not find a strong black man.
And then the whole aspect of the effeminization of the African male. It's ridiculous: Every strong black male figure that goes to Hollywood has to put on a dress, with the exception of Dave Chappelle and Denzel Washington. Dave Chappelle turned down $50 million, just to say, "No, I'm not doing it," and we don't know what Denzel Washington turned down. But you can't find too many black men in Hollywood that didn't put on the dress.
[ Sensible speech from this ethnonationalist activist. Black and white solidarity to remove multiculturalism is a must. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:56 AM CST [more..]
Ethnic DNA differences greater than expected
"Until recently, scientific dogma told us that genetic similarity between two unrelated healthy individuals was about 99.9 per cent," says Dr Charles Lee at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. "The 0.1 per cent of known genetic differences were primarily in the form of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) – single base-pair changes in the DNA."
The International HapMap Project, for example, has found millions of SNPs in the genomes of 270 people from four populations: the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Japanese, Han Chinese and people of northern and western European ancestry living in Utah.
At the other end of the scale, very big changes in the genome are rare, but relatively easy to detect as they can be seen under a microscope. But what of intermediate-sized variations – deletions or duplications of pieces of DNA ranging in size from 1000 bases of DNA to tens of thousands of bases? The frequency of such structural changes to the genome, and their importance in normal human variation, was largely unknown.
The new map of these variants, produced by the Structural Genomic Variation Consortium (a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and 12 other centres) not only shows that the variants are frequent and widespread, but also indicates key roles in human diversity, health and disease.
"One can no longer consider human traits as resulting primarily from single base-pair changes or influenced only by SNPs," said Professor Lupski. "With all due respect to Watson and Crick, many Mendelian and complex traits, as well as sporadic diseases, may indeed result from structural variation of the genome."
[ LNSG has endorsed this concept for ten years. Genes are computer code, and so small changes can result in different functions to large blocks of the code. Our previous attitude was like looking at the code for a database and a word processor, and assuming they were basically the same. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:53 AM CST [more..]
Puberty hitting faster
A study in the April 1997 journal Pediatrics found that among 17,000 girls in North Carolina, almost half of blacks and 15 percent of whites had begun breast development by age 8. Until that study, puberty at age 8 was considered an abnormal event that should be investigated by an endocrinologist.
Today, the medically suggested definition for abnormally early breast development is, according to experts, 7 for white girls and 6 for black girls.
The average age in the United States for beginning menstruation is now 12.5 for white girls, 12.06 for black girls and 12.09 for Latinas.
Puberty starts with the development of breasts, leading to growth of pubic hair and then menstruation. Black girls are experiencing these signs on average one year earlier than their ethnic counterparts and are the reason for the change in age of what is considered abnormal, Cesario said. A lower socioeconomic status could be the blame, since malnutrition during pregnancy can lead to premature babies, who often later mature sexually quicker, she said. Physiological differences and the use of human-placenta-based black hair products are also being considered as factors for the discrepancy.
[ Read the whole article; a number of factors are mentioned, none of them good. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:50 AM CST [more..]
Judge OKs law dismantling Affirmative Action
A federal Judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Proposal 2, a state law that bans preferential treatment based on race or gender in government hiring and university admissions.
In dismissing the suit, Lawson said the plaintiffs failed to prove that the amendment was created to target minorities.
"This is racially targeted legislation of the worst kind," said George Washington, an attorney for BAMN who has argued that the measure was designed to exclude black, Latino and Native American students from higher educational opportunities.
[ An honest meritocracy is seen as unfair. What's wrong with this picture? With entitlement, guilt, revenge and other parasitic emotions waiting in the wings. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:45 AM CST [more..]
White people romanticize and falsify the black experience
The appeal of Seltzer's work lay in the way she positioned herself between America's two races, black and white: She claimed to be a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up poor in a dysfunctional black world. In fact, she is the daughter of a white, upper-middle-class California family. And her story is only the most recent in a long line of literary narratives, entertainments and ethnologies in which white people put on blackface to act as messengers to their white brethren, telling them what life is or was like in the 'hood or on the plantation. The messages they bring back are of black dysfunction, crime and violence, but also of black sexuality, athleticism and soulful musicality. These stories may then reaffirm white audiences' perception of black dysfunction and allow them to use blacks as a negative counterpoint for their own images of normalcy and to affirm their sense of superiority.
Stories written by blacks about blacks, on the other hand, don't seem to offer the vast white reading public that same sense of well-being. Like Seltzer, I write about dysfunction. My own memoir, "That Mean Old Yesterday," actually mirrors some scenes that Seltzer described in her bogus book -- being sexually and physically abused, carrying my possessions in trash bags from foster home to foster home, enduring painful hair-braiding rituals, handling illegal guns.
[ What sells is what's important. Truth? Would be nice, if it paid the bills. So we get a romantic vision of African-Americans, like the "noble savage" vision of American Indians, and truth is far far away. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:43 AM CST [more..]
Liberal revolution has failed
Some, who once dreamed of a better future, have simply given up. Others espouse a bitter maxim: unless you relearn you won't earn. The French intelligentsia, which had from the Enlightenment onwards made Paris the political workshop of the world, today leads the way with retreats on every front. Renegades occupy posts in every west European government defending exploitation, wars, state terror and neocolonial occupations; others now retired from the academy specialise in producing reactionary dross on the blogosphere, displaying the same zeal with which they once excoriated factional rivals on the far left.
[ The liberal revolution failed because it did not address the right question, and so came up with the response of humanism, which exacerbated the condition. Now people are running from it as they see it has become a disaster that empowers parasites to obligate the rest of us to take care of idiots. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:41 AM CST [more..]
Multicultural state destroys families
The Hispanic family is changing. In the past ten years the birth rate among unmarried Latinas has risen from 89 to 100 per 1,000. It is now much higher than the rate among black or white women (see below). Late last year came a significant but little-noticed announcement: probably for the first time, half of all Hispanic children in America were born out of wedlock.
[ Under multiculturalism, every culture is a fish out of water. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:37 AM CST [more..]
"Typical white person" not offensive, "typical black person" is
Obama said: "The point I was making was not that my grandmother...is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction...that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"We doubt this story will have legs, but wonder if Hillary Clinton referred to a 'typical black person,' would we ever hear the end of it?" Dan Gross of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote on his PhillyGossip blog.
"Seriously, Barack Obama basically called all white people racist. ... Is this guy kidding?" wrote Taylor Marsh on Huffington Post in midafternoon.
[ Race is a one-way street: white people bad, anyone else good. It's the revenge of alienated white people and minorities who resent what others (normal, healthy white people) made for themselves, and they want some justification for a free piece of the pie. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:34 AM CST [more..]
Whole families benefit children
"What troubles me is that children today are being raised in an era of increasingly flexible definitions of parenthood, definitions that often serve the interests of adults without regard for children.”
Marquardt has solicited the views of donor children from across the world. These “babies” are now grown up (one of the most vocal voices is pushing 70) and many are very unhappy. “They tell me that their early attempts to make sense of their origins were made more painful by the people around them who insisted that it shouldn’t matter,” Marquardt reports. “That they should be glad to be alive. That they shouldn’t torment the parents who raised them. That they are silly and deluded for thinking that some guy who went into a little room with a dirty magazine holds a key to their identity.”
But where is Marquardt coming from? The child of a broken home, she has argued in a previous book (Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce) that Western society underplays the effect of divorce. She claims to feel kinship with the offspring of donor conception who, similarly, are “not supposed to have a story” because it might conflict with the reproductive “rights” of the individual: “This debate is dominated by adults’ rights: the rights of same-sex couples, the rights of infertile adults, the rights of singles. But we also have to hear and respond to children’s pain when they lose the ability to grow up with their own mom and dad, whether it’s due to donor conception, or parental abandonment, or divorce.”
[ You mean in this, as in everything, nature did it best, first? You don't say! ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:11 AM CST [more..]
What motivates evolution?
There is general agreement that Homo erectus, the precursor to modern humans, evolved in Africa and gradually expanded to Eurasia beginning about 1.7 million years ago. Anatomically modern humans—humans that more or less looked like us—arose in Africa at least 130,000 years ago.
By 100,000 years ago, several species of hominids populated the Earth. H. sapiens—us—lived in Africa, H. erectus in Southeast Asia and China, and Neandertals in Europe. Around 50,000 years ago, there was a sudden explosion [sic] of human migration out of Africa [by some estimates, numbering only in the hundreds], and by about 30,000 years ago, we were the last ones standing.
One school of thought argues that Homo sapiens emerged with the abilities needed to be modern, and it simply took 70,000 years to hone the technological and social skills needed before they could successfully venture out and populate the rest of the world.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0220_030220_humanorigins2_2.html
Researchers have found evidence which suggests that evolution drives animals to become increasingly more complex.
"If you start with the simplest possible animal body, then there's only one direction to evolve in . you have to become more complex," said Dr Matthew Wills from the Department of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath who worked with colleagues Sarah Adamowicz from from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and Andy Purvis from Imperial College London.
"Sooner or later, however, you reach a level of complexity where it's possible to go backwards and become simpler again."
"What's astonishing is that hardly any crustaceans have taken this backwards route. Instead, almost all branches have evolved in the same direction, becoming more complex in parallel."
"This is the nearest thing to a pervasive evolutionary rule that's been found."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317171027.htm
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:07 AM CST [link]
Socialism opposes organic principle of family
According to UN projections, Latvia will lose 44 percent of its population by 2050 as a result of demographic trends. In Estonia, the population is expected to shrink by 52 percent, in Bulgaria 36 percent, in Ukraine 35 percent, and in Russia 30 percent. In comparison with these figures, the projected population decline in Italy (22 percent), the Czech Republic (17 percent), Poland (15 percent) or Slovakia (8 percent) looks like a small decrease. France and Germany will lose relatively little population, and the population of the United Kingdom will even see a slight growth -- thanks to immigrants.
To put it straightforwardly, and perhaps a little cynically, in the past children used to be regarded as investments that provided their parents with means of subsistence in old age. In Czech the word "vejminek" (a place in a farmhouse reserved for the farmer's old parents) is actually derived from a verb meaning "to stipulate": in the deed of transfer, the old farmer stipulated the conditions on which the farm was to be transferred to his son. Instead of an "intergenerational" policy, there used to be direct dependence of parents on their children. This meant that people had immediate economic motivation to have a sufficiently numerous and well-bred offspring - whereas today's anonymous system makes all workers pay for the pensions of all retirees in an utterly depersonalized manner.
This system enables huge numbers of "free riders" to receive more than what would correspond to their overall contribution in their productive life. Those with incomes way above the average, on the contrary, are penalized, as the system gives them less money than they contributed to it. This is referred to as the "solidarity principle".
[ Actually, the reason there are fewer children is that your society is falling apart, not that we lack a way to financially motivate parents, but this is a great criticism of socialism. National Socialism fixed these problems and problems in capitalism, but it's taboo to mention that we want working solutions. ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 09:02 AM CST [more..]
Obama's holy "race" speech: entitlement part II
Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism. Obama says, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country," and then he proceeds to do precisely that. What lies at the end of his recital of the long train of white racial assaults from slavery to employment discrimination? Jeremiah Wright, of course.
This contextual analysis of Wright's venom, this extenuation of black hate speech as a product of white racism, is not new. It's the Jesse Jackson politics of racial grievance, expressed in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law nuance. That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination.
But Obama was supposed to be new. He flatters himself as a man of the future transcending the anger of the past as represented by his beloved pastor. Obama then waxes rhapsodic about the hope brought by the new consciousness of the young people in his campaign. Then answer this, Senator: If Wright is a man of the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness? This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well. Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?
[ Krauthammer is a neo-con of Jewish heritage, so he sees this different from conservation third fronters like the LNSG. Our view: Obama is a con man, of course, but the racial problem has no solution, because race is inherent to humanity while all this feel-good "justice" rhetoric is just advertising for the new world order of capitalist liberal democracy with a powerful media. And that will never work, if by work we mean "not destroy the best of humanity." ]
news on 03.23.08 @ 08:54 AM CST [more..]
Saturday, March 22nd
"England" tattoo "intimidating" -- in England
PATRIOTIC squaddie Craig Briggs has been barred from joining the police — because he’s got an ENGLAND tattoo on his arm.
The Iraq veteran, 22, had wanted to be a cop since childhood and was advised to join the Army to get experience first.
But when he applied he was told: “Unfortunately, some people feel intimidated by the word England.”
He said he was told in a phone call by the Manchester force’s senior recruitment consultant: “A family who aren’t of English origin who see England on your arm could feel you might discriminate against them.
"We live in a diverse society and try to ensure we give everybody equality.”
[ If you move to England, why would you expect the people there to not want to be English? ]
news on 03.22.08 @ 10:38 AM CST [more..]
Friday, March 21st
English only signs OK in the USA
The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English, a city panel ruled yesterday.
In a 2-1 vote, a Commission on Human Relations panel found that two signs at Geno's Steaks telling customers, “This is America: WHEN ORDERING 'PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH,' ” do not violate the city's Fair Practices Ordinance.
[ People who've made this country do not want to pander to people who come for to profit off the wealth it now has. ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 09:25 AM CST [more..]
Abstract belief makes people happier
People who believe in God are happier than agnostics or atheists, researchers claimed yesterday.
A report found that religious people were better able to cope with disappointments such as unemployment or divorce than non-believers.
The research, presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference, echoes academic studies that have found religion can improve people's sense of wellbeing.
[ It's not religion, per se: it's believing in something that doesn't directly benefit you and is a process of life in which you have a place. Originally, we called that Tradition. Religion is what we have left of it. ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 09:11 AM CST [more..]
"Offensive" sign removed by Nanny State
A sign most people find offensive is finally off the wall of a Jacksonville laundromat after 30 years.
The sign that reads "Unattended Children Will Be Sold As Slaves" has hung on the wall of the business for decades until Wednesday. The owner of Soap Opera Coin and Laundry said it was there when he bought the place and he just never took it down.
[ No evidence is presented to say that most people find it offensive, and contrary evidence suggests that no one complained until recently. This is more of the pretense of people who want to consider themselves entitled. Good unbiased reporting there, WFTV. ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 08:50 AM CST [more..]
"Green" lightbulbs are toxic waste producers
Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry officials and some environmental scientists, who warn that the bulbs’ poisonous innards pose a bigger threat to health and the environment than previously thought.
All CFLs contain mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause kidney and brain damage. As long as the mercury is contained in the bulb, CFLs are perfectly safe. But eventually, any bulbs — even CFLs — break or burn out, and most consumers simply throw them out in the trash, said Ellen Silbergeld, a professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University and editor of the journal Environmental Research.
“This is an enormous amount of mercury that’s going to enter the waste stream at present with no preparation for it,” she said.
The amount is tiny — about 5 milligrams, or barely enough to cover the tip of a pen — but that is enough to contaminate up to 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels, extrapolated from Stanford University research on mercury. Even the latest lamps promoted as “low-mercury” can contaminate more than 1,000 gallons of water beyond safe levels.
[ We're in such a hurry to sell "green" products, so we can buy new things and not change our lifestyles or tell people to stop breeding, that we are willing to unleash toxins upon our world en masse. Good thinking! ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 08:47 AM CST [more..]
Illegal immigrant labor more likely to spread fecal bacteria
Americans are eating more leafy greens than ever. Consumption rose 9 percent between 1996 and 2005, according to a report issued this week by the Centers for Disease Control. But the bad news is that leafy-green-associated outbreaks of foodborne illnesses went up much more: 39 percent since 1996.
Researchers say they are not sure exactly why the rate of illness has increased more than consumption, but they do note that many foodborne disease outbreaks can be traced to a local food preparation source. Of course, in outbreaks that were widespread, the contamination was likely to have originated at the farm or in the processing plant. (Think of the 2006 recall of spinach due to E. coli contamination that was traced back to the farms where it was grown.)
[ So since 1996 and 2005, what group of workers displaced those who previously did these jobs, to the point where they are almost exclusively the labor force that does this work? Maybe there is some wisdom to domestic labor which is not desperate for income to send back across a border and living in perpetual hiatus. ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 08:39 AM CST [more..]
Many news reports are paid infomercials
A VNR is a short clip of marketing propaganda produced in the language and style of real news. P.R. firms send news stations thousands of such videos every year, the most sophisticated of which are virtually indistinguishable from honest news, featuring interviews with (paid) experts and voice-overs by (fake) reporters who subtly pitch products during their narratives. Surprisingly often, news channels broadcast these videos as real news; many times, CMD has found, the only edits that a station will make to a paid clip is to cut off the disclosure noting that the video was sponsored by a corporation.
VNRs first gained notoriety early in 2005, when the New York Times reported that many local stations aired prepackaged segments produced by federal agencies under the Bush administration. The VNRs cheered the war in Iraq, the Bush Medicare plan and various small-time programs. But Diane Farsetta, a researcher at CMD, says that private VNRs far outnumber federal videos -- and once you start looking for them, they seem to pop up everywhere.
On CMD's Web site, you can watch dozens of local news segments lifted directly from VNRs. The effect would be comical -- four stations ran a piece on how to incorporate Bisquick into your plans for National Pancake Week, to take one example -- if the lying weren't so determined.
[ The news isn't fake because it's a conspiracy. It's fake because it's for sale to the highest bidders. ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 08:32 AM CST [more..]
Europeans flee to last open frontiers
If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.
But there is little sign that Rudd has credible ideas about how to rescue the country's 455,000 "indigenous people" from their tragic cycle of poverty, drunkenness, disease, illiteracy and dependency.
The unhappy truth is that the Aborigines are less victims of wilful white Australian brutality, than of finding themselves flotsam on the beach of a ruthlessly advancing civilisation.
[ Advancing toward the same ruin as others, but perhaps there's time it will avoid it. The UK should pay attention to what has gone wrong: unlike Australia, it is obsessed with trying to make failing multiculturalism work. ]
news on 03.21.08 @ 08:28 AM CST [more..]
Sunday, March 16th
Poor nations must also cut emissions
China, India and other developing nations must join industrialized countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to avert a global warming disaster, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said at a climate change conference Saturday.
"The dilemma is this: how to cut a deal that has b
