Wednesday, April 30th
Making a killing from the food crisis
Much of the news coverage of the world food crisis has focussed on riots in low-income countries, where workers and others cannot cope with skyrocketing costs of staple foods. But there is another side to the story: the big profits that are being made by huge food corporations and investors. Cargill, the world's biggest grain trader, achieved an 86%
increase in profits from commodity trading in the first quarter of this year. Bunge, another huge food trader, had a 77% increase in profits during the last quarter of last year. ADM, the second largest grain trader in the world, registered a 67% per cent increase in profits in
2007.
Nor are retail giants taking the strain: profits at Tesco, the UK supermarket giant, rose by a record 11.8% last year. Other major retailers, such as France's Carrefour and Wal-Mart of the US, say that food sales are the main sector sustaining their profit increases. Investment funds, running away from sliding stock markets and the credit crunch, are having a heyday on the commodity markets, driving prices out of reach for food importers like Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Agricultural policy has lost touch with its most basic goal: that of feeding people. Rather than rethink their own disastrous policies, governments and think tanks are blaming production problems, the growing demand for food in China and India, and biofuels. While these have played a role, the fundamental cause of today's food crisis is neoliberal globalisation itself, which has transformed food from a source of livelihood security into a mere commodity to be gambled away, even at the cost of widespread hunger among the world's poorest people.
[ There is a game like chess going on here and it looks like a possible check-mate by the international financiers and big corporations. They don't care about the billions of pawns they bred over the last few decades any more. Now they are in a position to possess the world. There's no reason why other than a twisted megalomania. Nature will sort it all out eventually. ]
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Second thoughts by politicians about banning NPD incase it makes them stronger
Germany has long talked about banning the neo-Nazi NPD party. But an attempt to do so is about to fail because Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives say such a bid could strengthen the party.
Germany's second attempt to ban the far-right National Democratic Party looks doomed before it has even begun because a number of conservative-ruled states are refusing to cooperate in mounting a legal bid against the party.
Germany tried to ban the NPD before, in 2003, but the country's highest court threw out the case because it was based partly on testimony from informants in the NPD recruited by the domestic intelligence service.That failure was a major embarassment to the government and emboldened the NPD which did well in several subsequent regional elections, crossing 5 percent hurdles to win seats in the eastern state parliaments of Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
NPD flags and symbols are unmistakably similar to Nazi paraphernalia, and party members are on record praising Hitler and his henchmen. And in a bid to broaden its support, the party has been recruiting members of the violent neo-Nazi scene into its leadership and has joined forces with the far-right German People's Union (DVU) party.
[ Nationalism cannot so easily be defeated, and is getting ever stronger. ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 09:05 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Jewish cemetary requiring state-funded refurbishment is conveniently vandalized
One of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries, the Weissensee cemetery in Berlin, has been attacked by vandals who knocked over 23 headstones and 10 short pillars on Monday night, police said on Tuesday.
The cemetery in the eastern Berlin district of Weissensee contains 115,000 graves and elaborate tombs, most of which predate World War II.
Reports of attacks on Jewish cemeteries are not uncommon in Germany, where synagogues and other Jewish institutions are often under 24-hour police guard.
[ How many people realize that synagogues are under 24 hour armed guard? Maureen Lipman, a Jewish comedienne, said that they are so paranoid that if anyone drops something in a synagogue everyone is terrified a pogrom has started. ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 09:00 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Barmy reasons to choose Obama
Nevertheless, the debate that has now begun comes too late for Hillary Clinton. The superdelegates, who can vote for the candidate of their choice without taking voter preferences into account, in fact have no other choice but to nominate Obama. They will have to suppress the growing fear that the Democrats cannot win the election against
Republican candidate John McCain in November if Obama is their candidate. Still, as long as Obama can hold onto his slight lead in the number of pledged delegates, he will be the inevitable candidate. In fact, there is now almost a national political obligation to nominate
Obama. A vote by superdelegates against Obama would set off shock waves within American society, with incalculable consequences. Young people would be outraged, intellectuals would be bitter and violence could erupt in predominantly black urban neighborhoods around the country.
[ So we're voting for some idiot so black people don't riot? What is this insanity? Who assumes that all black people riot? How racist! ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 08:53 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Forty years on, France still fascinated by May 1968
Forty years after May 1968, France is enjoying a wave of nostalgia for the student revolt that rocked the streets of the Latin Quarter in Paris, fuelled by a never-ending debate about what it all achieved.
Television debates have pitted supporters who say the 1968 protests helped free up a hidebound society against critics who say they undermined vital institutions and opened the way to social breakdown.
But many conservatives say the carefree picture of youthful protest hid a malign disrespect for social institutions that has spawned ills ranging from high divorce rates to the violent riots that hit France's poor multiethnic suburbs in 2005.
[ Like all hippie revolutions, it was selfishness, now others pay! ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 08:46 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet
Struggling with mounting debt and rising prices, faced with the toughest economic times since the early 1990s, Americans are selling prized possessions online and at flea markets at alarming rates.
At Craigslist, which has become a kind of online flea market for the world, the number of for-sale listings has soared 70 percent since last July. In March, the number of listings more than doubled to almost 15 million from the year-ago period.
[ The overconsumption is slowing. ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 08:41 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Girls' Mags take on role to educate children on all manner of sexual experimentation
RIVAL teen magazines Dolly and Girlfriend have joined forces to defend
their sex-related content, saying they are giving readers important
information they want and need.
"Teenagers are always going to be aware and wanting to know more about these issues because that's the time their bodies are changing,'' Dolly editor Gemma Crisp told the Senate committee inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the media.
Tasmanian Senator Stephen Parry said he was concerned readers as young as 11 were writing in for answers to questions on anal and oral sex.
"For Girlfriend it does become really hard because it does depend on when they get their period, when they get their boobs, a lot of it is about their body - that is when they start to seek out this information and that is when we play an important role,'' Ms Sheffield said.
[ They make out they are doing a social favor when really they are corrupting children and laying the foundations to make them into neurotic consumers of fashion, cosmetics, surgery and pornography. ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 08:32 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Makeover Urged For Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
German copyright law dictates that an author's work enters the public domain 70 years after his or her death, and that deadline is fast approaching. Hitler killed himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945.
Before that anniversary, historians want Bavaria - which controls the copyright because Hitler's last official address was in Munich - to authorize an annotated version of "Mein Kampf." They say a thorough, academic presentation that places Hitler's work in historical context would be the best defense against radical right-wing groups and neo-Nazis who might want to use the book to advance racist agendas once the copyright expires and anyone is free to publish it.
[ Imagine such an "annotated" version of "Das Capital", commenting on how twisted Karl Marx was. That would be just as stupid. It is quite likely the annotations of "Mein Kampf" would be counterproductive, since they would probably be so obviously ridiculous. Eg. "This paragraph is proof that Hitler was the evilest man in history". ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 02:36 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Chinese children sold "like cabbages" into slavery
Thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like "cabbages", to work as labourers in more prosperous areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
[ Can you be sure this isn't the future for your descendants? ]
nationalist on 04.30.08 @ 02:10 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Even the homeless in US produce double average global per-capita of carbon emissions
An MIT class has estimated the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide
variety of lifestyles -- from the homeless to multimillionaires, from
Buddhist monks to soccer moms -- and compared them to those of other
nations. The somewhat disquieting bottom line is that in the United
States, even the people with the lowest usage of energy are still producing, on average, more than double the global per-capita average.
While it may seem surprising that even people whose lifestyles don't appear extravagant--the homeless, monks, children--are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions, one major factor is the array of government services that are available to everyone in the United States. These basic services--including police, roads, libraries, the court system and the military--were allocated equally to everyone in the country in this study. Other services that are more specific, such as education or Medicare, were allocated only to those who actually make use of them.
[ The system produces carbon emissions on your behalf just because you live in the country ]
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Tuesday, April 29th
Few dare criticise Israel
There are few political relationships more fraught than that between American Jews and Israel. As the national emblem of Jewish identity, Israel is seen by many Jews as sacrosanct. Some Jews passionately identify with Israel and its policies and angrily reject any criticism
of it, often attacking critics as anti-Semites or self-hating Jews. But even those Jews who privately harbor misgivings about Israel's policies often keep their opinions to themselves because the subject is simply too charged. Anyone, Jewish or not, who dares to say or write anything critical about Israel quickly learns that they have poked a hornet's nest.
What makes the subject especially sensitive -- and keeps many people, including most journalists, from going anywhere near it -- is that, far more than any other issue, it splits the progressive and intellectual community. Speaking more plainly, it divides one's friends and
colleagues -- sometimes even one's family. Jews have always played a prominent role in America's progressive and intellectual circles. And if you have a connection to those circles and you criticize Israel, you are almost certain to deeply offend or anger someone whom you respect, like, and have many things in common with. Small wonder that, as former Israeli official Daniel Levy told me, most people, Jews and non-Jews alike, "decide to sit this one out. It's more of a headache than it's worth."
[ Considering they believe themselves "God's Chosen People" their self-esteem seems rather fragile. They see all criticism as validating their paranoia that everyone is out to get them. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 01:41 PM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Politicians don't dare campaign on immigration - although it could win them the election
In Western North Carolina, as in many parts of the nation, immigration is a hot topic.
But presidential hopefuls aren't saying much about the issue.
They don't think it's a vote-getter, said Steven Camarota with the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports stronger enforcement of immigration laws. In general, there's very little incentive for them to talk about it. It hurts them politically.
[ It hurts them politically if they talk about it because the pro-immigration powers would make sure they are demonized. It hurts them less if they don't talk about it, despite the fact that the electorate would support them. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 09:58 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
How Blue or Green Eyes Appeared
Only 200 million people are believed to have light eyes. This means less than 4% of the world's population. This genetic type is not associated strictly to what we call Whites, but with a specific type, the Indo-Europeans, which spread it 6,000 years ago from Central Asia or Caucasus Mountains to Europe and northern India, and from Europe, during the colonial era, to other areas.
[ As blue eyes disappear, so do all Nordic qualities. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 09:49 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Hundreds of Billions
Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually and, besides the well-documented areas of education, jail and medical care, the money is being spent on manpower for overwhelmed government agencies charged with combating the crisis.
A renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal immigration and published numerous reports and articles, recently published an alarming book on the subject that is sure to incense most Americans. In his book, Edwin Rubenstein exposes the
gargantuan costs of illegal aliens, according to one recent review.
Titled "The New Americans: Economic, Demographics and Fiscal Effects of Immigration" the book supports previous reports of U.S. employers of illegal aliens raking in billions of dollars thanks to the cheap labor while American taxpayers subsidize the ordeal.
[ Until enough people wake up to this and withdraw consent from the establishment, the exploitation of the American taxpayer will continue. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 09:40 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Mexicans confused by US attitudes to immigration
The hypocrisy. We have two signs on the U.S.-Mexican border: "Keep Out" and "Help Wanted."
The opportunism. Too many politicians are trying too hard to portray themselves as tough on illegal immigration.
The simple solutions. "Build A Wall." "Deport All Illegals." A quick rule of thumb: If it fits on a bumper sticker, it's not a workable policy.
The naiveté. People ask why Mexico won't help stop illegal immigration. Hint: Last year, Mexicans in the United States sent home $25 billion.
[ There is a conflict of interest between those who want to end immigration and all the destruction it causes, and those who just want to profit from the cheap labor. The Mexicans are ignoring the fact that this division of interest exists. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 07:11 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Alleged 'Heil Hitler' comment lands German lawyer in court
Michel Friedman, 52, whose past posts include deputy chairman of Germany's national Jewish body, was hired by a magazine to interview Horst Mahler, 72, who started out as a communist extremist in the 1970s as a founder of the Red Army Faction terrorist group.
During previous prosecutions, Mahler has been unrepentant about his praise of Nazi rule and use of the stiff-armed Heil Hitler salute. Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany. In 2006 he arrived at jail to serve a sentence and did the salute at the gate.
[ Why do all the English football hooligans not get prosecuted when they taunt Germans by doing such salutes in Germany? They seem to pick and choose who to apply the law to. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 04:02 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Controversial "rightist" to become a German state's minister of education and culture.
Krause is a quiet, cultured man with a doctorate in philosophy. But politically he's poorly regarded. In 1998 he worked as an editor for a right-wing weekly Junge Freiheit, or "Young Freedom" -- for two-and-a-half months according to his version of events, for half a
year according to the paper's editors. After that he worked as a freelance writer for the newspaper, and for another called the Ostpreussenblatt, or "East Prussian Paper."
"I wasn't familiar with Junge Freiheit as being on the extreme right," he continued in the 2004 interview. Technically, he is correct. After the paper successfully sued at Germany's highest court in Karlsruhe to have its name removed from reports compiled by the German government's domestic intelligence agency on right-wing radicalism in the country, the media can no longer use the labels "extreme right" or "right-wing radical" to describe the paper. Instead, it's now considered the main organ of the so-called "New Right" and it articulates a political stance somewhere between democratic conservatism and the far right. A number of
politicians and public figures have been sharply criticized for giving interviews to the paper.
[ The Liberals insist on dominating the moral ground. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 03:45 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Soap operas cause population decline in Brazil
A study by the London-based Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) says that Brazil's national addiction to soap operas is to blame for a drastic decline in fertility rates there over the past four decades.
The small families depicted on the soaps, the study says, are causing real women to want fewer children of their own.
The shows, produced by top commercial network Globo, definitely have a "sizeable but not huge effect" on how many children Brazilian women want, one of the study's authors told the AFP.
Census figures and other data show that the fertility rates in Brazil have plummeted from 6.3 children per woman in 1960 to 2.3 children in 2000.
[ The extent of social engineering through tv shows is shocking. It is a good thing that it is having this effect in Brazil, but it makes you think about how molded people generally are by what they watch on the box. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 03:21 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Moves to end the hate-fuelled practice of healthism
In an overwhelmingly overweight nation that worships thinness, many describe prejudice against the obese as one of the last socially acceptable biases. Advocates for the plus-sized, particularly activists in the "fat acceptance" movement, want obesity to become a category legally protected against discrimination, like religion, race, age and sex. But not everyone agrees.
One such law, to ban discrimination against weight and height, is pending in Massachusetts.
"I think it would help mostly because it would send a message that fat people are equal citizens. It's not in the litigation rates, but the rights consciousness that comes after legislation," said Anna Kirkland, an assistant professor.
[ They want it to be acceptable to engage in self-harming activity - and hate-filled discrimination to show disapproval of it or seek to prevent it. ]
nationalist on 04.29.08 @ 03:07 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Iran's establishment says imports of Barbie dolls are part of "Westoxication".
Imports of Barbie dolls and other Western toys will have destructive cultural and social consequences in Iran, the Islamic Republic's top prosecutor was quoted as saying on Monday.
Iran's conservative clerical establishment often rails against the perceived dangers of U.S.-inspired culture and consumerism, branding it "Westoxication."
[ "Westoxification" is an apt description. Good luck to them in resisting it's seductive draw. If only our own people would release themselves from it! ]
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Sunday, April 27th
Le Pen repeats crime of calling gas chambers a "detail of history"
"I said the gas chambers were a detail of the history of World War II: that, to me, seems so obvious," the 79-year-old Le Pen told Bretons magazine.
Le Pen was fined 1.2 million francs ($290,000) for making the initial remarks in a radio interview in 1987.
When the Bretons journalist told him that the Nazis "deported people to camps simply to kill them," Le Pen replied: "But that is what you believe. I don't feel obliged to adhere to that view."
"I observe that in Auschwitz there was the IG Farben factory, there were 80,000 laborers working there. As far as I know they were not gassed, anyway, nor burned."
[ Let's hope he get's away with it this time! But then, truth is no defense when you question the Holycaust. ]
nationalist on 04.27.08 @ 12:19 PM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
"Obama Delegate" with racist motives behind Texas polygamy hoax.
Thirty-three year-old Rozita E. Swinton was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colo., and “charged with false reporting to authorities in connection with the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints case in Texas,” reports the Houston Chronicle. Swinton is listed as a Precinct 269 state delegate pledged to Barack Obama, according to the El Paso (CO) County Democratic Party, a fact first reported by some conservative blogs.
Investigators say Swinton, who is black, is "obsessed" with the polygamist cult. "She knew it was a racist cult," says Linda Walker, who runs the Child Protection Project, run by a former member of the FLDS members. "We know that these kids are very frightened of black people. … The Texas Rangers told us she was obsessed with the FLDS. They confiscated tons of material on the FLDS. She even gave real addresses and real names of FLDS people." Police say Swinton was charged with falsely reporting abuse to authorities in connection with a separate incident in Colorado Springs two months ago.
[ The police should investigate if there has been any incest going on in her family. ]
nationalist on 04.27.08 @ 09:42 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Sharpton vows to 'close this city' after officer acquittals
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the
Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the
acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed
a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.
"We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."
Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell -- a black man -- and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.
[ Imagine if all the officers involved were white! Presumably the justice system is seen as being against the interests of blacks and that's where the blame is being laid. They need their own state so they don't have this problem. ]
nationalist on 04.27.08 @ 09:32 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Civil rights marchers intimidated with nooses
A teenager pleaded guilty Friday to a federal hate crime of threatening and intimidating civil rights marchers near Jena, Louisiana, last year by displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck.
I-Reporter Casanova Love, 26, was visiting his family in Louisiana and said he witnessed the event and sent a photograph of the truck to CNN.
"If the police had not stepped in, I fear what might have happened,"Love said.
[ Presumably he means the teenager could have got lynched for his loopy behavior. ]
nationalist on 04.27.08 @ 09:19 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Saturday, April 26th
Plan to reverse global warming could backfire: study
A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth's stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said on Thursday.
They said trying to cool off the planet by creating a kind of artificial sun block would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by 30 to 70 years and create a new loss of Earth's protective ozone layer over the Arctic.
"What our study shows is if you actually put a lot of sulfur into the atmosphere we get a larger ozone depletion than we had before," said Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, whose research appears in the journal Science.
[ Trust humans to blunder from disaster to disaster. ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 12:24 PM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Brazil "soy king" wants more deforestation to produce food
More of the Amazon rain forest should be cut down to make way for farmland to help ease the global food crisis, the governor of a big Brazilian farming state was quoted on Friday as saying.
Blairo Maggi, the governor of Mato Grosso state and Brazil's largest soy producer, was quoted in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper as defending deforestation.
"With the worsening of the global food crisis, the time is coming when it will be inevitable to discuss whether we preserve the environment or produce more food. There is no way to produce more food without occupying more land and taking down more trees," said Maggi, a farming pioneer in the vast western state who is widely known as the "King of Soy."
[ The man is an absolute retard to say this. These are the kind of people who make the big decisions in the world today. ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 12:16 PM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Norway is changing law as prostitution increases
But although the prices are high in Oslo, they have been pressed down in recent years because of the flow of foreign women into the market.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian government has put forth a plan to make purchase of sexual services illegal in Norway, as well as in other countries.
The proposal has not yet been made into law, but it has a majority support in the parliament.
"People are not commodities," said Justice Minister Knut Storberget, "and criminalizing the purchase of sexual services will make it less attractive for people-traders to look towards Norway."
[ Nordics are traditionally averse to prostitution. It's a racial characteristic. ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 11:59 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Viking women were stronger than the women of today
Revelations from Viking age.
The Oseberg ship is considered one of the most important finds from the Viking age.
The results of DNA and x-ray studies of the two women buried in the Oseberg ship in the year 834 have revealed startling discoveries.
The two women were powerful figures in their day but still lived a hard life, and they were stronger than today's women. The tests also established a surprising landmark.
"We see here the first known case of cancer in this country," said Per Holck, Professor of anatomy at the University of Oslo.
[ Civilisation cheats the quality controls of natural selection. We need eugenics! ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 11:36 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
What's this? Ron Paul tops McCain?
Some weird things happened at last Saturday's Clark County Republican convention at Prairie High School, where it was demonstrated that democracy is too important to be left to party activists.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, who will be the Republican presidential nominee and who was the choice of local voters in the Feb. 19 Washington presidential primary, was left in the dust by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, the anti-Iraq war, anti-tax, anti-big government libertarian.
Highly motivated and disciplined Paul supporters outnumbered McCain forces and thus will send more delegates to the state convention in Spokane next month. Never mind that in the statewide primary two months ago McCain carried Clark County with 44 percent of the Republican votes to 27 percent for Mike Huckabee and 20 percent for Mitt Romney, with Paul getting just 6.5 percent.
[ Maybe more people have voted for Paul, but the vote counts are rigged. ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 10:46 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
U.S. Weighing Readiness for Military Action Against Iran
The nation's top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" as one of several options against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.
[ Iran has been negotiating truces and ends to violence in Iraq. But that fact gets in the way of the warmongering. Both the US and Iran approve of the Maliki Govt in Iraq. ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 10:30 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Studies show criminality is highly heritable
Studies have shown that up to 62 percent of antisocial and criminal behavior is "heritable," a rough measure of a genetic contribution. And in a few cases, courts have allowed arguments seemingly akin to "My genes made me do it."
The Supreme Court of South Carolina reversed a murder conviction for a man who shot a shopkeeper in the head, concurring with the killer's attorney that his actions were an outgrowth of severe, genetically rooted depression -- essentially saying that what he did was the result of an inherited disease rather than an act of free will.
[ All deliberate criminal acts are a product of the kind of person the criminal is. They should not be considered less culpable because of that! What this shows is that eugenics is necessary - especially preventing worthless and harmful people from multiplying. ]
nationalist on 04.26.08 @ 12:42 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Friday, April 25th
Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.
The chemistry of the atmosphere is changing, and there is a high-enough risk that "true believers" like Al Gore are right that world economies need to wean themselves off fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases, he said.
The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century, Moore told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. There isn't enough potential for wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal or other renewable energy sources, he said.
[ How safe would you feel in a third world America with many nuclear power stations? Sounds scary! I don't think this man has looked at the demographic changes and made realistic predictions for the economy. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 01:05 PM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Scandinavian split on sexist ads
Sweden has decided not to ban sexist advertising, saying it would risk undermining the country's cherished right to freedom of speech.
But the decision puts the country at odds with its Nordic neighbours. Norway and Denmark have strict limits on the use of such images for commercial gain.
In Norway, sexist advertising has been banned since 2003. The ban forms part of a much broader package of legal limits on advertising, protecting the depiction of religion, sexuality, race and gender.
In Norway, ads can use sexual images but they must be relevant.
[ It has been found that sexual imagery works well to get men, in particular, to spend unwisely because it triggers a primitive response in the brain. This manipulation is a dirty trick. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 12:46 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Invasion of the mutant black squirrels
Mutant 'testosterone-fuelled' Russian black squirrels in Cambridgeshire are giving their grey cousins a taste of their own medicine and driving them from their homes.
"The abrupt switch from a delicate silver toned squirrel's coat to a dense black pelt occurs as a result of melanin pigments deposited in them during their development.
"A single genetic mutation can upset this balance, resulting in the over-production of the darker pigment and the birth of a black squirrel."
The unusual black form has spread to the county from North Hertfordshire and is the biggest change in squirrel demographics since the last indigenous red squirrels disappeared 50 years ago - as a result of the population explosion of the bigger and more aggressive greys.
[ Were there ever blonde squirrels? Sounds like a steady downward progression --
greys wipe out reds, who are smaller but smarter; blacks wipe out greys, who are nicer. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 12:26 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Mexican restaurant sickens 180 students
About 180 people at Kent State University became ill after eating at a restaurant that the company closed and state health officials are investigating.Authorities say by the time all is said and done, they expect about 200 people to report illness connected to Chipolte Mexican Grille in Kent.
[ Good food hygiene would be considered fascist no doubt. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 08:54 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
"Black people, please, turn your life around."
Judge Marvin Arrington had seen and heard enough.
The parade of black men and women " criminals and mothers of criminals" he saw every day frustrated him.
"You guys are destroying your lives," he admonished" after asking the few whites present to leave his Atlanta courtroom. "Black people, please, turn your life around."
[ The judge is Black and has turned his own life around after previously being a "thug". Blacks should start behaving with more pride so that they gain the confidence to be separate. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 08:48 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Food Rationing Stuns Customers Across U.S.
At Costco stores across America, store managers have said no to shoppers wanting to purchase more than their allotted amount for certain food stuffs. “Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting purchases based on your prior purchasing history," read one sign in a store in Mountain View, California. In Queens, New York, quotas are being imposed on oil and flour purchases.
For over 12 years the Trumpet has predicted that food shortages would eventually grip the United States; now, they have arrived. As Joel Hilliker stated in his column last week, "It’s easy to click away or change the channel when you’ve got plenty to eat yourself. But America is hardly invulnerable."
Author Monica Davis also warned of the susceptibility of U.S. food supplies to shortages in the present market: "Even the United States is not immune from the potential for food shortages, food riots and food insecurity. We are just blind to the possibility."
[ It will do most Americans good to tighten their belts. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 04:49 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Prison gangs, racial tension volatile mix
In the racially divided world of prisons, even the slightest misstep may lead to trouble.
A Hispanic gang sells drugs to a white gang's customers. A white guy uses the black guys' urinal. Someone sits at the wrong table.
So it came as no surprise to those who study the nation's prisons that racial slurs aimed at blacks by a group of white supremacists may have set off the riot that left two dead at a Florence prison Sunday.
"It's an incredibly volatile mix," said Mark Pitcavage, director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, who has studied prison gangs and extremist groups. "You can have people killed, literally, over nothing." Racist comments, he added, would be considered among inmates as "a definite provocation."
[ The races should be segregated if they want some stablility. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 04:44 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
R. I. P., great shopping spree
Transfixed by unruly financial markets, we may be missing the year’s biggest economic story: the end of the Great American Shopping Spree. For the past quarter-century, Americans have gone on an unprecedented consumption binge " for cars, TVs, longer vacations and almost anything. The consequences have been profound for both the United States and the rest of the world, and the passage to something different may not be an improvement.
To say that the shopping spree is over does not mean that every mall in America will close. It does mean that consumers will no longer serve as a reliable engine of growth. Consumption’s expansion required Americans to save less, borrow more and spend more; that cycle now seems finished. The implication: Without another source of growth (higher investment, exports?), the economy will slow.
[ Such consumption is unsustainable and is coming to an end. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 04:39 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Israel teaches Palestinian children to hate them
"The only difference is that these canards are now made by Jews in order to justify Israel's slow-motion genocide against our people."
Nago Humbert, Head of the Swiss Medecins du Mond Agency, lashed out at the immense brutality and savagery being inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli state and army.
"Closure of schools, storming orphanages in the dead of night, destroying bakeries, confiscating food and clothes, throwing orphan kids onto the street…What is happening here? What is the lasting image Israel is going to leave in the minds of these kids when they
grow up?"
Humbert, who spoke in French, said he couldn't really understand what the Israeli army's ultimate goal by acting in this manner."
"How can we teach Palestinian children non-violence when Israel is doing to them all this, when Israeli soldiers are throwing kids from their orphanages onto the streets. Israel is destroying all our efforts."
[ It would have to be a lot quicker genocide to keep up with Palestinian births - but it is almost as if the Israelis want to keep the conflict going for some tactical reason. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 04:12 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
In the new world order, energy scarcity will dominate our lives
Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at $3.35 (or more) per gallon. Diesel fuel at $4 per gallon. Independent truckers forced off the road. Home heating oil rising to unconscionable price levels. Jet fuel so expensive that three low-cost airlines stopped flying in the past few weeks. This is just a taste of the latest energy news, signaling a profound change in how all of us, in this country and around the world, are going to live -- trends that, so far as anyone can predict, will only become more pronounced as energy supplies dwindle and the global struggle over their allocation intensifies.
Energy of all sorts was once hugely abundant, making possible the worldwide economic expansion of the past six decades. This expansion benefited the United States above all -- along with its "first-world" allies in Europe and the Pacific. Recently, however, a select group of former "third-world" countries -- China and India in particular -- have sought to participate in this energy bonanza by industrializing their economies and selling a wide range of goods to international markets. This, in turn, has led to an unprecedented spurt in global energy consumption -- a 47 percent rise in the past 20 years alone, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
Rising reliance on coal (especially in China, India and the United States) means that global emissions of carbon dioxide are projected to rise by 59 percent over the next quarter-century, from 26.9 billion metric tons to 42.9 billion tons. The meaning of this is simple. If
these figures hold, there is no hope of averting the worst effects of climate change.
[ If China, US and India were going to change their ways out of concern for the environment that would already be happening - but instead they are just carrying on producing emissions at ever higher rates. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 12:21 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Los Angeles 'is a Third World city'
Los Angeles is becoming a "Third World city" with immigrants making up
half its workforce, says a new study.
A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 per
cent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute
found.
It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California's
fastest-growing occupations, such as computer software engineering and
nursing. The organisation added that as the so-called baby boomers reach
retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the US.
Ernesto Cortes Jr, of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a think-tank that
specialises on social change, claimed Los Angeles was at a crossroads.
"The question is are we going to be a 21st century city with shared
prosperity, or a Third World city with an elite group on top and most on
near poverty wages?" he said.
[ What measures would allow the first possibility? The immigrants are not going to be turned into skilled workers. ]
nationalist on 04.25.08 @ 12:02 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Thursday, April 24th
EU defends biofuel goals amid food crises
The EU Commission on Monday rejected claims that producing biofuels is a "crime against humanity" that threatens food supplies, and vowed to stick to its goals as part of a climate change package.
"There is no question for now of suspending the target fixed for biofuels," said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.
UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is "a crime against humanity" because of its impact on global food prices.
[ While mass starvation may in fact be a blessing in an overpopulated world, there is no doubt that biofuel production is playing an enormous part in that. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 07:50 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
UN official: Biodiversity loss hurts medical research
The world risks losing new medical treatments for osteoporosis, cancer and other human ailments if it does not act quickly to conserve the planet's biodiversity, a senior United Nations environmental official said Wednesday.
Earth's organisms offer a variety of naturally made chemical compounds with which scientists could develop new medicines, but are under threat of extinction, said Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program.
[ Get a feeling of deja vu with news sometimes... But it's a message that need repeating. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 06:53 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Spy case poses questions on size of Israeli ring
The case of an 84-year-old New Jersey man charged with passing secrets to an Israeli agent a quarter-century ago has created speculation that more Americans may have been serving Israeli intelligence than previously thought.
Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, was arrested by FBI agents in Washington D.C. in 1985 and pleaded guilty to spying charges, receiving a life sentence. Now, retired U.S. military engineer Ben-ami Kadish faces similar charges.
The link between Pollard and Kadish is a now-defunct Israeli intelligence agency enigmatically known as the Scientific Relations Office. The office was run by Rafi Eitan, a former officer of the Mossad spy agency who is now an octogenarian Israeli Cabinet minister in charge of pensioners' affairs.
[ Given how faithfully the US government serves Israel it is surprising that any such spying is even necessary. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 06:49 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Immigration minister threatened for attempt to keep foreign strippers out of Canada
Security has been tightened around Immigration Minister Diane Finley following threats related to Conservative efforts to keep foreign strippers out of Canada.
Numerous threats, of an escalating nature, have been made against the minister in recent weeks, several sources told The Canadian Press.
The exact nature of the threats was not revealed, but sources say they are directly linked to Bill C-17, the government's anti-stripper legislation, and hinted at an organized crime connection.
[ Even if politicians don't bow to bribery, these gangsters will still make them an offer they can't refuse. Immigration is their lifeblood. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 06:38 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Congressional candidate speaks at Hitler birthday party.
A congressional candidate is defending his speech to a group celebrating the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth, saying he appeared simply because he was asked.
Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana's 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.
"I'll speak before any group that invites me," Zirkle said Monday. "I've spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta."
[ That is very fair and balanced, unlike other politicians. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 06:33 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Congo penis theft panic
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
[ Is this the kind of culture the west wishes to import? ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 06:23 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Organized crime attempts to control energy resources and financial markets
"The activities of transnational and national organized criminal enterprises are increasing in scope and magnitude as these groups continue to strengthen their networking with each other to expand their operations," said FBI Deputy Director John Pistole.
[ Gangsters already control America, but they can always get more greedy and less worried about repercussions as their power grows. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 06:13 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
The Baltic Sea Is Threatening to Collapse
SPIEGEL: When it comes to economic growth, unemployment and general living standards the Nordic countries are much better off than almost any other region in the EU.
Halonen: Yes, but we also have one of the largest environmental problems in Europe on our front porch. The levels of toxic pollution in the Baltic from farming, and the levels of sewage from places like St. Petersburg, are distressing. The Baltic Sea is threatening to collapse, and the fishing industry is in desperate danger. We need a radical change in direction.
[ No one is getting "better off" in realistic terms. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 03:30 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
People gravitate towards similar people to themselves
The more diverse America becomes, the more homogeneous it becomes.
No, that's not a misprint; it is the thesis of "The Big Sort," Bill Bishop's rich and challenging book about the ways in which the citizens of this country have, in the past generation, rearranged themselves into discrete enclaves that have little to say to one another and little incentive to bother trying. "As Americans have moved over the past three decades," Mr. Bishop proclaims, "they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs and in the end, politics."
[ This is a natural phenomenon that drives speciation. America is rather a centrifuge than a melting pot, despite desturbing levels of miscegenation. ]
nationalist on 04.24.08 @ 12:01 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Wednesday, April 23rd
Racial tension between Blacks and Jews in US
Nearly 17 years after riots tore Crown Heights apart, the recent beating of a black college student by Jewish assailants has exposed rising tensions between blacks and Jews in my neighborhood.
Cops and city officials have quietly gone on high alert, worried that another riot could be in the works.
Nowhere in the city will you find more devout religious people than in Crown Heights, yet it has come to this - shortly after Easter and the Pope's visit, and in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days.
Can't we all just get along?
[ No, we can't all just get along: we want our own cultures, and our own identities, so we can find a consensus that works for who we are genetically. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 12:55 PM CST [more..]
Israeli soccer teams favor Jewish players over Arabs - says Arab
"It's more difficult for Arab players to make the national team, and when they do make it, they have to make double the effort in order to stay there. The Jewish players can make less of an effort and be assured that they will also be called up the next time. Every time, we need to prove ourselves anew."
If my name were Moshe or Yossi, I would have been on the national team a long time ago.
[ Ethnic nepotism is only natural. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 12:17 PM CST [more..]
Cambodian Kids Get No Free Breakfast as Rice Aid Cut
April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Thirteen-year-old Pin Oudam gets a free breakfast of rice, fish and yellow split peas every morning at his school in Kampong Speu, Cambodia's poorest province. Next week he won't.
The World Food Program cut off rice deliveries to 1,344 Cambodian schools last month after prices doubled and suppliers defaulted on contracts. Schools will run out of food by May 1, depriving about 450,000 children of meals, the WFP estimates.
[ Every day there is some news about imminent famine around the world. They are born because of food aid and when it stops they die. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 12:08 PM CST [more..]
Immigration, taxes, crime darken Houston Area Survey
Harris County residents increasingly carry negative views about immigrants, saying they burden tax-supported services including schools and hospitals while contributing to crime, according to the 2008 Houston Area Survey.
The survey found 63 percent agreed that new immigration should be limited, up from 48 percent in 2004. Meanwhile, 61 percent of those polled said illegal immigrants are a ''very serious" problem, up from 43 percent in 2006.
''Whenever there have been large waves of immigrants arriving in the country " the Irish in 1840s and 1850s or the Greeks, Italians and Poles at the turn of the century " Americans have always responded with antagonism and fear," he said.
[ Basically such comments suggest reasonable concerns are really irrational neuroses. The immigration level is ruining the environment and has to be stopped. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 11:59 AM CST [more..]
Gun owners are contented
In 1996, gun owners spent about 15% less of their time than nonowners feeling "outraged at something somebody had done." It's easy enough in certain precincts to caricature armed Americans as an angry and miserable fringe group. But it just isn't true. The data say that the people in the approximately 40 million American households with guns are generally happier than those people in households that don't have guns.
The gun-owning happiness gap exists on both sides of the political aisle. Gun-owning Republicans are more likely than nonowning Republicans to be very happy (46% to 37%). Democrats with guns are slightly likelier than Democrats without guns to be very happy as well (32% to 29%). Similarly, holding income constant, one still finds that gun owners are happiest.
[ Is it contented people who like to buy guns, or is it owning the gun that brings them contentment? The ant-gun lobby must be unhappy with this news. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 11:35 AM CST [more..]
Globally, food prices have risen 40 percent since mid-2007
Globally, food prices have risen 40 percent since mid-2007. Haiti, where most people live on less than $2 a day, is particularly affected because it imports nearly all of its food, including more than 80 percent of its rice.
Much of Haiti's once-productive farmland has been abandoned as farmers struggle to grow crops in soil decimated by erosion, deforestation, flooding and tropical storms.
[ Will enough people starve to save the plantet from the ravages of global overpopulation? ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 10:45 AM CST [more..]
Growing Muslim anti-Semitism worries Israel
A new Israeli study of anti-Semitism with Muslim roots has concluded that the phenomenon is growing, even in Jordan and Egypt, which have peace treaties with Israel, and that "Anti-Semitism and the accompanying hate industry are a strategic danger for Israel and the Jewish people."
The study was conducted by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a research institute under the aegis of the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), an NGO which commemorates the fallen of Israel's intelligence services.
According to the findings of the study, "generations of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are brought up hating the Jews; the peace process is damaged and obstacles to the normalization of Israel's relations withthe Arab countries of the Middle East are erected; indiscriminate Palestinian terrorism against Israel is made palatable, as is Hezbollah's Shi'ite terrorism and that of Al-Qaida, when directed
against Israel and Jews around the world."
[ What a pity that Jews have a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 09:48 AM CST [more..]
American Army engineer gave nuclear secrets to Israel in 1980s
Environment Minister and former senior security official Gideon Ezra said Wednesday that he does not believe Israel's relations with the U.S. will suffer in light of revelations that an American Army engineer spied for Israel in the 1980s.
"Our strategic relationship with the United States is stronger than this," Ezra, a former deputy head of the Shin Bet security services, told Israel Radio.
[ It would be hard to imagine anything could harm America's friendship with Israel, unless the Americans offended Israel by reducing the billion dollar handouts or something. ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 09:38 AM CST [more..]
Black man in UK boasts he infected 1500 women with AIDS
A SERIES of sickening videos have been posted on the internet showing a man who claims to have deliberately "infected" thousands of women with AIDS.
Calling himself 'Trashman' and speaking with an American accent, the masked man says he has infected between 1200 and 1500 unknowing victims with the devastating disease.
"So if I call your name and if you just happen to be on my 'I got the AIDS from that n***er' list', then God bless you."
[ Assuming these women were not raped, they have only themselves to blame for their lack of discrimination. They should pick up a "Darwin Prize". ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 09:22 AM CST [more..]
UN refugee agency criticizes Greek asylum practices
The United Nations has sharply criticized Greece for its treatment of asylum applicants and its rate of approval of asylum claims of less than 1 percent, urging the country to reform its practices.
The European Commission is expected to discuss in September whether to increase funding for those countries harboring large numbers of refugees.
[ It should not be anyone's business but the Greeks how many asylum applicants they accept. Globalist policies are incompatible with the charade called "democracy". ]
nationalist on 04.23.08 @ 05:06 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, April 22nd
Reports of "martial law training" in three US states
Federal law enforcement agencies co-opted sheriffs offices as well state and local police forces in three states last weekend for a vast round up operation that one sheriff's deputy has described as "martial law training".
Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism initiative" involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local agencies.
Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the initiative saw officers from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism".
WREG Memphis news channel 3 reported that the Sheriff's Department arrested 332 people, 142 of whom were fugitives, or "terrorists" as they now seem to be known.
[ Plato was right. Democracy leads to tyranny. ]
nationalist on 04.22.08 @ 09:27 AM CST [more..]
UN Report Reveals Glaciers Melting at Record Speed
Glaciers across the globe are melting faster than at any point in the last century. Many could disappear within decades, and their decline could cause droughts and chaos for billions of people who depend on rivers fed by glaciers.
This was the sobering message delivered Sunday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), along with a plea to international leaders to act swiftly and drastically to address climate change, which the UNEP says is to blame for the glacial melt.
According to Haeberli, glacier thickness declined by an average of 0.3 meters a year between 1980 and 1999. But since 2000 the average annual ice loss has increased to about 0.5 meters (20 inches).
[ What good news. ]
nationalist on 04.22.08 @ 06:53 AM CST [more..]
Lifespan shortens in parts of the US
For the first time since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, life expectancy for a significant proportion of the United States is on the decline largely because of an increase in chronic diseases related to obesity, smoking and high blood pressure.
Although life expectancy for all other Western nations and for most of the U.S. has continued to improve over the past several decades, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Washington say many of the worst-off here are getting much worse.
"It is what you would expect to see in a developing country, not here," said Dr. Majid Ezzati, a Harvard professor and lead author of a study published in the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
[ How many times do we hear that the present day is so wonderful because people live longer and healthier lives? It is nonsense, some are living longer medically assisted lives (healthier!?) and more and more people are not even salvagable. ]
nationalist on 04.22.08 @ 05:54 AM CST [more..]
Carter: Hamas will accept Israel
Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbour next door in peace".
After meeting Hamas leaders last week in Syria, he criticised the US and Israel for refusing to meet the group.
Hamas had reiterated its position that it could accept an Israeli state within its pre-1967 borders and live in peace with Israel, he said
[ Hamas still will not formally acknowledge Israel, and later in the article it says that Hamas is "dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza" so the headline here is confusing. Both sides should negotiate separate states. ]
nationalist on 04.22.08 @ 05:18 AM CST [more..]
Afrocentric school planned in Toronto
A shower of passionately negative e-mails flooded the inboxes of Toronto school board trustees following the decision to create an Afrocentric school in Canada's largest city, according to documents obtained under access to information laws.
"I am grieved to see Toronto try to turn back the clock to those ignominious times of separation," wrote Ellen Nichols, who is white and now lives in Toronto.
[ If the motivation for this was racial separation, allowing Whites to be taught in a Eurocentric way this would be considered utterly unacceptable and the sort of thing that justifies world wars. But the motivation is to allow Blacks a better education than they have now, so that's alright then! What hypocrisy. ]
nationalist on 04.22.08 @ 01:30 AM CST [more..]
Monday, April 21st
Liberals hate white men
But now there are two and we're facing Pennsylvania and whom are we kidding? This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don't mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can't even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder -- after all this, they turn out (surprise!)
to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn't believe any of those articles.)
To put it bluntly, the next president will be elected by them: the outcome of Tuesday's primary will depend on whether they go for Hillary or Obama, and the outcome of the general election will depend on whether enough of them vote for McCain. A lot of them will: white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them. And
McCain is a compelling candidate, particularly because of the Torture Thing. As for the Democratic hope that McCain's temper will be a problem, don't bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what's more, they think it's normal.
[ As a Jewess, it would seem likely that Ephron has schizophrenic ideas about what a "white man" is. Attempts to drive a wedge between white men and women, labeling the latter as a "minority" is a vicious strategy of hate. ]
nationalist on 04.21.08 @ 07:29 AM CST [more..]
How many Arabs are there in Israel?
The latest publicly available brochure on ethnic distribution from Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics is for the year 2003. It shows 15.6% of Arabs are aged 0-4, and 9.1% of Jews are in the same age group.
In 2007, Jews were 5,470,000, and Arabs - 1,449,000. Accordingly, the number of Jews younger than five years is 5,470,000*9.1%=498,000; Arabs are 1,449,000*15.6%=226,000. In 18 years, therefore, Arab voters would be 226,000/498,000=45% the number of Jews.
There are also 4.4% of other peoples in Israel, or approximately 7,241,000*4.4%*9.1%=29,000 younger than five. That makes the Jews approximately 498,000/(498,000+226,000+29,000)=66% of Israel's young population. Jews already lost the supermajority status required for many legislative acts.
[ Israel needs Jewish National Socialism if it is to survive. ]
nationalist on 04.21.08 @ 06:47 AM CST [more..]
ACLU weighs in on Texas polygamist custody case
The Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said it was concerned that the basic rights of the children and mothers connected to a Texas polygamist ranch were violated during a recent raid and custody hearing.
[ For once the ACLU is doing a good job, but they forgot all about Waco. ]
nationalist on 04.21.08 @ 06:42 AM CST [more..]
Study shows Finns seriously overweight in all parts of the country
The most distinct differences were detected between the cities and the countryside. Eating more vegetables and fruit than other Finns, city people are slightly less obese, even though they also have excess body fat.
As many as 66 per cent of Finnish men and around 50 per cent of women are overweight, while women are more frequently suffering from abdominal fat than men.
[ What is wrong with their willpower? Surprising though that the city dwellers are less likely to be fat than the countryside folk. ]
nationalist on 04.21.08 @ 06:18 AM CST [more..]
Modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study " carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt " has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.
[ Added to this we don't know what serious health problems will later come to light as a result of GM crop consumption. ]
nationalist on 04.21.08 @ 02:21 AM CST [more..]
Sunday, April 20th
World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq
The people who sold us Iraq did so as if they were today's Churchills. They were wrong.
In that case, how can we be sure that Churchill's war was a good war?
What if the Men of Glory didn't need to die or risk their lives? What if the whole thing was a miscalculated waste of life and wealth that destroyed Britain as a major power and turned her into a bankrupt pensioner of the USA?
The other is one I hear from an ever-growing number of war veterans contemplating modern Britain's landscape of loutishness and disorder and recalling the sacrifices they made for it: "Why did we bother?"
Don't read on if these questions rock your universe.
[ It really marks a turning point when a high profile journalist and author is having views such as this printed in a mainstream newspaper. ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 03:10 PM CST [more..]
Climate change leaves the poorest Egyptians unable to afford food
Rising global food prices have plunged Egyptians into a desparate daily struggle for survival. Many are unable to feed their families, and the hungry have taken to the streets. Is more violent unrest to come?
[ One country after another is in crisis as food prices are rising fast. We will see mass starvation on a scale that has never existed before - and humanitarianism is largely to blame, breeding surplus populations with aid. ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 09:58 AM CST [more..]
Chinese troops are on the streets of Zimbabwean city, witnesses say
Chinese troops have been seen on the streets of Zimbabwe's third largest city, Mutare, according to local witnesses. They were seen patrolling with Zimbabwean soldiers before and during Tuesday's ill-fated general strike called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
China's support for President Mugabe's regime has been highlighted by the arrival in South Africa of a ship carrying a large cache of weapons destined for Zimbabwe's armed forces. Dock workers in Durban refused to unload it.
[ Mugabe can do what he likes there then, since the west presumably isn't going to want to send troops to confront the Chinese. ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 09:45 AM CST [more..]
Congressman Tancredo Blasts Pope for urging more US immigration
Even though Tancredo attended the pope's birthday reception, he was not happy with Benedict -- at all.
The pope on Wednesday called for welcoming immigrants to the United States and even issued a statement in Spanish telling the Latino community he would urge President Bush to grant legal status to illegal immigrants living in the states.
[ It's consistent with the universality of Catholicism that the Pope would favor open borders. ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 09:19 AM CST [more..]
Texas becoming Mexico
Inexorably, Texas is becoming a Hispanic state. Although natural increase remains a significant component of overall growth, much of it can be attributed to the Hispanic birth rate. In the nineties, the Hispanic population here grew by 53.68 percent, the Anglo population by just 7.61 percent. Anglos ceased to be a majority of the state’s population in 2005, although they still outnumber Hispanics by some 3.2 million. This will not last. Between 2000 and 2040, Texas’s Anglo population is projected to grow by a mere 4.2 percent, while the Hispanic population will grow by 77.6 percent. If net migration continues at the rate of the past fifteen years, Texas will become a majority Hispanic state by 2030.
[ What Mexico couldn't take by war, or by cruelty, is now taken by the inattention of Texas and American politicians. ]
news on 04.20.08 @ 06:14 AM CST [more..]
Immigrants drain US economy for twice deficit cost
[ Remember that article about how immigrants "might" pay $9bn in taxes but that's only if we assume that every incorrect return belonged to an immigrant? ]
U.S. taxpayers are giving more than $9,000 a year in cash or benefits to each immigrant, a third of whom are in the country illegally. That's $36,000 for each immigrant household of four.
Because the U.S. has 37 million immigrants, legal and illegal, the national cost was more than $346 billion last year, which was twice our fiscal deficit. The cost of immigrants is so high because, as Rubenstein writes, "Immigrants are poorer, pay less tax and are more likely to receive public benefits than natives."
[ As usual, immigration is a hot button because the neurotic people scream that it's unfair to discriminate against newcomers, forgetting that these newcomers will replace them and not be their lapdogs as they hope. "But we did such favors for you!" Yeah, well, demographics and biology always trump good intentions. ]
news on 04.20.08 @ 06:09 AM CST [more..]
UK bin men ordered to search through dissidents' trash
But the bin-searching instruction was deemed so potentially damaging to community relations that councils simply refused to carry out any sort of spying.
Police chief Andy Hayman hosted the secret summit with council officials
Bradford City Council leader Kris Hopkins said: "We were asked to snoop on our own residents by getting our binmen to rummage around people's rubbish.
"But the idea that our binmen should be rooting around a wheelie bin to see if they can spot dodgy bits of paper or funny wires is ridiculous.
"Our binmen aren't there to act like the secret police. They're there to empty our bins.
[ Bizarre cost-cutting measure! ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 06:07 AM CST [more..]
Ability, not location, determines academic ability
Researchers examining what happened to 4,248 families that were randomly given or denied federal housing vouchers to move out of their high-poverty neighborhoods found no significant difference about seven years later between the achievement of children who moved to more middle-class neighborhoods and those who didn't.
"Research has in fact found surprisingly little convincing evidence that neighborhoods play a key role in children's educational success," says one of the two reports on the Web site of the Hoover Institution's journal Education Next.
[ Intelligence is not changed by economics. Nor is drive to succeed. But those are convenient fictions for the prole masses allowed temporarily to believe they're in control. ]
news on 04.20.08 @ 06:01 AM CST [more..]
Analysis of Jewish origins
According to the Tel Aviv University historian, Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of “Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi?” ("When and How the Jewish People Was Invented?”; Resling, in Hebrew), the queen’s tribe and other local tribes that converted to Judaism are the main sources from which Spanish Jewry sprang. This claim that the Jews of North Africa originated in indigenous tribes that became Jewish - and not in communities exiled from Jerusalem - is just one element of the far- reaching argument set forth in Sand’s new book.
In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century).
[ This is really interesting. Many populations were formed by either displacement and accretion, or by having collapsed inward and become multicultural, producing a mixed but evenly mixed population afterward. Gypsies, for example, were Muslim mercenaries ejected from India, who wandered the world picking up genetics, and are now more Mediterranean European than anything else. Jews are mostly European at this point as well. What a fascinating insight into origins! ]
news on 04.20.08 @ 05:57 AM CST [more..]
Equality chief warns of race 'cold war'
THE head of Britain's race relations watchdog says lack of control over immigration has led to a racial "cold war" among rival ethnic communities.
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), believes that the failed policy risks inflaming racism among millions of young mothers and working professionals.
[ It's all Enoch Powell's fault, according to Phillips. Powell discredited the idea of immigration controls when he showed how nasty he was by warning of "rivers of blood" if we didn't have stricter immigration controls. Hmm. ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 05:47 AM CST [more..]
Fear of racial violence pervades UK
Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor tensions are likely to spill over into violence, a BBC poll has suggested.
Of the 1,000 people asked, 60% said the UK had too many immigrants and half wanted foreigners encouraged to leave.
But the proportion of people describing themselves as "racially prejudiced" was down to 20%, compared with 24% in 2005.
[ Mix random elements, so that they compete, and then add to it a government bias toward the newcomers, and soon, we see conflict everywhere -- but it can't be spoken of, so lies become the new truth. Multiculturalism never works. ]
news on 04.20.08 @ 05:45 AM CST [more..]
Iowa safe haven for minority criminals
Governor Culver has signed into law a bill that will require lawmakers to look at the impact proposed sentencing laws will have on racial and ethnic groups.
The new law comes as Iowa tries to shake the reputation of having the greatest prison racial disparity in the nation.
Culver says the Minority Impact Statement Bill is the first of its kind in the nation. He says it's another step toward the goal of equal justice under the law for every Iowan.
[ If there is racial disparity amongst criminals it is the fault of racists it would seem! ]
nationalist on 04.20.08 @ 03:15 AM CST [more..]
Saturday, April 19th
Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam
Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa.
The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called a "genocide" and passes almost unnoticed. Sudan sits atop lakes of oil. It has large supplies of uranium, and other minerals, significant water resources, and a strategic location near still more African oil and resources. The unasked question is whether the nation's Republican and Democratic foreign policy elite are using claims of genocide, and appeals for "humanitarian intervention" to grease the way for the next oil and resource wars on the African continent.
[ Yes, and once again it is an excuse to criticise Chinese foreign policy and to try to limit China's grabbing of Sudan's resources. ]
nationalist on 04.19.08 @ 03:04 AM CST [more..]
South African dockers refuse to unload China arms shipment for Zimbabwe
South African dockers are refusing to unload a Chinese cargo ship carrying 77 tonnes of small arms destined for Zimbabwe.
The arms, including three million rounds of ammunition suitable for AK47s and 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades, were ordered by the Zimbabwean military at the time of the March 29 election" which Britain and other Western powers have accused Robert Mugabe of trying to rig.
The arms arrived at Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday aboard the Chinese-owned An Yue Jiang and must be taken by road to landlocked Zimbabwe, where the Government has been accused of arming rural militias before a possible run-off vote for the presidency. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has even accused Mr Mugabe's Zanu (PF) of preparing for a "war" against the people.
[ The US would be delighted at this action. They are concerned about China's growing influence in Africa. Could this be the real reason for this seemingly conscientious objection? ]
nationalist on 04.19.08 @ 02:27 AM CST [more..]
Modern imperialism in Africa will be less benign than the old colonialism
Fifty years ago the decolonisation of Africa began. The next half-century may see the continent recolonised. But the new imperialism will be less benign. Great powers aren't interested in administering wild places any more, still less in settling them: just raping them. Black gangster governments sponsored by self-interested Asian or Western powers could become the central story in 21st-century African history.
But a solution beckons: buy your own gang. You hardly need visit and are certainly not required to administer the gang's territory. You simply give it support, munitions, bribes and protection to keep the roads and airports open; and it pays you with access to resources. You dress up the arrangement as helping Africans to help themselves. The French, who have been doing this in their former African possessions for years, lead the way. But it is when China, then America, and perhaps even Russia or India follow, that the scramble for Africa will truly be resumed.
Hypocrisy, they say, is the homage that vice pays to virtue. During the last scramble for Africa, colonial administration was the homage greed paid to responsibility. But greed may be less sentimental during the next. From a resource-starved industrialised world in the 21st Century, reponsibility for Africa will get no more than a passing nod.
[ Europe gave up Africa and colonisation because of a political change of heart which involved a switch from the masculine outward movement, to the feminine absorption and taking in (ie taking in immigrants) as a way to relate to the world. This has suited globalist commercial forces, creating low wage workforces in Europe. Now, as resources in Africa are required by these same commercial forces they are all for going back there to take them. ]
nationalist on 04.19.08 @ 01:33 AM CST [more..]
Children's book on cosmetic surgery - sick
A new picture book about plastic surgery aims to explain why mom is getting a flatter tummy and a 'prettier' nose.
[ This just further entrenches the idea that cosmetic surgery is a necessity. Why is this so much more acceptable than eugenics, which makes people beautiful and smart painlessly? Plenty of reasons from lack of profiteering to fear of a preference for nordic features - I know. ]
nationalist on 04.19.08 @ 01:06 AM CST [more..]
Friday, April 18th
German banking structure under threat of collapse
Germany is mired so deep in the subprime crisis that its entire banking structure is under threat of collapse. As writedowns continue to mount and government guarantees wear thin, experts warn that losses could soon reach €30bn (£24bn) - and possibly more.
It is the long-suffering German taxpayer who will be handed the final bill, just at a time when German industry and employment as a whole is on the up.
[ Banksters are always spoiling things. Why do we put up with them? ]
nationalist on 04.18.08 @ 09:59 AM CST [more..]
Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."
Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the veracity of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
[ Pretexts to do that are good for Israel. ]
nationalist on 04.18.08 @ 09:51 AM CST [more..]
Down's syndrome boy with mental age of five is charged under UK race act
When two police officers came to interview Jamie Bauld, a polite, friendly Down's syndrome boy with a mental age of about 5, he welcomed them with a big smile and a handshake. As the officers read him his rights and charged him with assault and racial abuse, he agreed with everything they said, then thanked them for coming to see him.
The officers, Mr Bauld said, were very pleasant and told him not to worry "because the case would come to nothing". They told him they would explain to the Procurator Fiscal that Jamie had Down's syndrome, and that the Asian girl had admitted that she had scratched her own face to mark it and referred to herself as "blackface".
Shortly after the visit came a letter from the Procurator Fiscal in Hamilton saying that the authorities now had enough evidence to charge Jamie.
[ The truth is no defense - but being a Mongoloid, this boy will most likely be found innocent because of his precious condition. ]
nationalist on 04.18.08 @ 08:32 AM CST [more..]
German Business Warns of Pushing China too Far
As calls increase for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games ceremonies and sanctions against China, German business leaders are starting to worry about the possible effect on their business dealings in China.
Protests in many European cities against China's crackdown in Tibet a month ago and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's insistence that she would be prepared to meet with the Dalai Lama again (more...) have given German industry leaders the jitters; they worry that Beijing may start having second thoughts about doing business with German companies.
[ They are right to expect that. Merkel is more interested in pleasing the neo cons of the US who resent the power of China, than in protecting the German economy. Human rights has nothing to do with it. ]
nationalist on 04.18.08 @ 05:55 AM CST [more..]
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency . a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
Expanding the DNA database, known as CODIS, raises civil liberties questions about the potential for misuse of such personal information, such as family ties and genetic conditions.
[ So much for democracy being about freedom. ]
nationalist on 04.18.08 @ 05:50 AM CST [more..]