Tuesday, July 31st
Illegal immigration problem is fault of those who hire illegals
We already knew we had broken borders. And when Congress chickened out on immigration reform and showed that it's not equipped to tackle anything more challenging than pork or pay raises, we knew we had a broken branch. Now it's clear that we have a broken dialogue.
We like to think of ourselves, and our communities, as innocent victims of sinister forces that are beyond our control. Concerned that there are too many illegal immigrants in the United States, that our culture is getting too spicy, and that the country is becoming too Hispanic, we blame Mexico or mega-corporations or what one commentator ominously labeled "socio-ethnic centric groups" such as the National Council of La Raza.
You see, illegal immigration is always someone else's fault. At least that's what we tell ourselves. It's easier that way.
[ This man tells the truth. People want cheap labor, cheap chicken and cheap vegetables, and they don't think about the consequences, much in the same way they tolerate the environment getting torn up for profit. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 08:09 PM CST [more..]
Americans in denial of mortality
"In the U.S., I don't think we do death very well," said Dr Christina Puchalski of George Washington Hospital.
"Most Americans don't really believe they're going to die," Lynch said. "This is where so many of the problems start.
[ "Me culture" doesn't handle death, or life, very well. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 08:07 PM CST [more..]
Hispanics begin open race warfare on whites
The Corle brothers, who are white, say they and a friend had driven to Los Jilbertos, 2812 North Ave., about 1 a.m. Sunday to grab something to eat and were sitting outside the restaurant when a red Honda pulled into the parking lot and a group of young Hispanic men got out.
Nathan Corle, 16, said the men began yelling at them, calling them “white boys” and asking them what they were looking at and if they wanted to fight. He said he laughed because he thought it was a joke.
A fight ensued between the Corle brothers and their friend and what they estimated to be six to eight Hispanic men. During the fight, Nathan Corle said he heard the Hispanic males yelling “‘We’re going to teach white boys a lesson. White boys are going to die.’”
Police arrested two men, Cesar Javier Haro, 18, and Edward Portillo, 19, on suspicion of ethnic intimidation, a felony, and third-degree assault, among other charges.
The brothers said they have heard from friends of similar attacks on whites by Hispanics in Grand Junction.
[ Good for these Hispanics. They haven't forgotten ethnic pride, and a sense of competition, while whites are too busy watching TV. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 08:04 PM CST [more..]
Europe is racist unless Africans given free pass
Sarkozy has angered many Africans with his policy of limiting immigration to France based on skills and qualifications, which attracted heckling and criticism during previous visits to African countries as interior minister.
You'd think he was here to teach schoolchildren. We already know all that. What we want is development plans ... and access to Europe for Africans," said science student Fallou Fall, 20.
[ What does Europe have that Africa does not? Oh, wealth, created by Europeans. And now everyone else wants that. Hmm... ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 07:57 PM CST [more..]
American troops frag war hero
He was shot three times in the forehead at close range with an American M-16. This was after he was shot in the chest, legs and hand. And this was after he screamed to the “friendlies” that he was Pat Tillman and please stop shooting him. But they didn’t; they executed him. They were Americans.
There wasn’t even an “enemy” around; not only was nobody shot by “enemy fire,” no equipment was shot by “enemy fire.”
[ "American" no longer means much of anything. He was inconvenient and they wanted him gone, probably not for the reasons this paranoid article mentions, but a simpler one: he showed others what bravery was, and so they hated him. Same thing happened in Viet Nam. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 07:51 PM CST [more..]
Hyperwhite
What is a nerd? Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been working on the question for the last 12 years. She has gone to high schools and colleges, mainly in California, and asked students from different crowds to think about the idea of nerdiness and who among their peers should be considered a nerd; students have also .reported. themselves. Nerdiness, she has concluded, is largely a matter of racially tinged behavior. People who are considered nerds tend to act in ways that are, as she puts it, "hyperwhite."
[ White people are nerds. Who are we kidding? 
]
news on 07.31.07 @ 07:46 PM CST [more..]
Environment affects higher castes less than poor
The heritability of IQ at the low end of the wealth spectrum was just 0.10 on a scale of zero to one, while it was 0.72 for families of high socioeconomic status. Conversely, the importance of environmental
influences on IQ was four times stronger in the poorest families than in the higher status families.
[ The poor are more effected by environmental/nurture components to upbringing than the rich, who appear to be mostly formed by genetic inclinations. A timely justification for a caste system like that used in ancient Europe and India. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:38 AM CST [more..]
Anti-Semitism rising in England
The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain increased by 34 percent last year, according to records collected by the Community Security Trust, a charity that monitors anti-Semitism in Britain and is regularly cited in government reports for being more comprehensive than police data.
That was the biggest annual increase since 1984, when the charity began collecting figures. Based on current projections, the number of incidents this year is on track to equal last year's.
Many of the physical assaults on British Jews are committed by Muslim extremists who blame all Jews for the conditions of Palestinians in Israel and Israeli-occupied areas. According to a poll in the London Times in December 2005, 37 percent of Britain’s 2 million Muslims agreed that all 268,000 members of the Jewish community were legitimate targets because of Israel’s policies.
[ I'm not sure this is effective behavior, at least not as effective as simply motivating a voting block to end multiculturalism entirely. Why should Jews suffer for being in the wrong place? ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:34 AM CST [more..]
Genes operate more like computer code than shopping lists
Last month, a consortium of scientists published findings that challenge the traditional view of how genes function. The exhaustive four-year effort was organized by the United States National Human Genome Research Institute and carried out by 35 groups from 80 organizations around the world. To their surprise, researchers found that the human genome might not be a “tidy collection of independent genes” after all, with each sequence of DNA linked to a single function, such as a predisposition to diabetes or heart disease.
Instead, genes appear to operate in a complex network, and interact and overlap with one another and with other components in ways not yet fully understood. According to the institute, these findings will challenge scientists “to rethink some long-held views about what genes are and what they do.”
Biologists have recorded these network effects for many years in other organisms. But in the world of science, discoveries often do not become part of mainstream thought until they are linked to humans.
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Because donor genes could be associated with specific functions, with discrete properties and clear boundaries, scientists then believed that a gene from any organism could fit neatly and predictably into a larger design — one that products and companies could be built around, and that could be protected by intellectual-property laws.
This presumption, now disputed, is what one molecular biologist calls “the industrial gene.”
“The industrial gene is one that can be defined, owned, tracked, proven acceptably safe, proven to have uniform effect, sold and recalled,” said Jack Heinemann, a professor of molecular biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and director of its Center for Integrated Research in Biosafety.
[ You can't tell the degree of difference between ethnicities or species by counting genes. That should've been obvious. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:32 AM CST [more..]
Divorce solves no problems, but creates new problems
Findings from the first scholarly study of unhappy marriages challenges conventional wisdom. Conducted by a team of leading family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, the study found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced were typically any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.
Even more dramatically, the researchers also found that two-thirds of unhappily married spouses who stayed married reported that their marriages were happy five years later. In addition, the most unhappy marriages reported the most dramatic turnarounds: among those who rated their marriages as very unhappy, almost eight out of 10 who avoided divorce were happily married five years later.
[ Arranged marriages are often happier than marriages of choice. What does this tell us? We grow up as we age, and we need to meet the other person halfway. Find a compatible partner, but the rest is work! However, it is a challenge that in victory brings happiness, where divorce is in most cases running away. Obviously, abusive spouses are another story, but they're the minority. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:15 AM CST [more..]
Breast ironing in West Africa
"Breast ironing" -- the use of hard or heated objects or other substances to try to stunt breast growth in girls -- is a traditional practice in West Africa, experts say.
A new survey has revealed it is shockingly widespread in Cameroon, where one in four teen-agers are subjected to the traumatic process by relatives, often hoping to lessen their sexual attractiveness.
"Breast ironing is an age-old practice in Cameroon, as well as in many other countries in West and Central Africa, including Chad, Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, just to name a few," said Flavien Ndonko, an anthropologist and local representative of German development agency GTZ, which sponsored the survey.
"If society has been silent about it up to now it is because, like other harmful practices done to women such as female genital mutilation, it was thought to be good for the girl," said Ndonko.
[ If feminists were serious, they'd get machine guns and go stop this practice. However, it is likely that the source of some of Africa's instability is Western wealth, which is why the LNSG has for ten years taken the stance that western interests need to withdraw and stay out of Africa! ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:11 AM CST [more..]
Genetics reveals humans radically different from chimps
As Sikela and co-workers explain in a paper published online 31 July in Genome Research, they compared the DNA from more than 24,000 known human genes to the DNA from chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, orangutans, gibbons, macaques, baboons, lemurs, and marmosets. Applying CGH, researchers take one stretch of DNA as a target--in this case, each human gene--and then check which complementary strands of DNA will stick to it. "We don't think anyone has looked this comprehensively at gene gain and loss over time," says Sikela.
All told, the researchers found more than 4000 genes that showed lineage-specific changes in copy number, with the numbers steadily increasing over evolutionary time. Humans, for example, only had 84
genes with increased copy numbers over those of our closet relatives. In contrast, lemurs, which have evolved for 60 million years, have 1180 genes with extra copies. "This is further evidence that genomic
differences between humans and other primates is far, far more complex than we originally imagined they might be," says Ajit Varki, who studies human/chimpanzee differences at the University of California, San Diego. "However, many of the differences may or may not be relevant for explaining 'humanness.'"
[ It's good we found hard science for explaining the obvious. Next we'll find out that differences between races, and then ethnic groups within them, are bigger than we've been told. The scientists who rarely get headlines are the ones who labor for truth, but the ones who get big financial reward are those who take a popular attitude and edit science to support it. Dishonest, but so is this time. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:08 AM CST [more..]
Prostitution forms model for modern dating
Dan Ariely of M.I.T., one of the researchers who computed how much extra money a male online dater needed to compensate for being the wrong height or the wrong race, figures that men can get by with less money if they’re trying to win over a colleague at work or someone at a social event. “ My guess,” he told me, “is the race wage gap would be there in every way of meeting people, but it might be lower in more social exchanges when people have more or different information about each other.”
[ So people can be bought into liking someone with no compatibility, because everyone's afraid of the money monster. This means pretty girls with ugly guys, spreading their legs for money. Sounds like a terrible plan. ]
news on 07.31.07 @ 12:04 AM CST [more..]
Monday, July 30th
Day workers plagued by wage theft
Wage theft is widespread among mostly illegal immigrant workers, especially those who are recruited on street corners and work in the shadows of the American labor force. And that work-related exploitation appears to be growing along with the country's immigrant population.
In the nation's first comprehensive study of day laborers, called ''On the Corner," UCLA researchers interviewed 2,660 workers at 264 hiring sites in 20 states, including Texas and the District of Columbia. The 2006 study concluded that almost half of all day laborers experienced at least one instance of wage theft in the two months prior to being surveyed.
[ More proof: they are tools of industry, we are tools of industry, and no one's minding future direction so it all falls apart from there. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 11:32 PM CST [more..]
Immigrants bolster failing housing market
With rising purchasing power, the nation's growing number of foreign-born residents are keeping the bottom from falling out. And amid slow demand from an aging and slow-growing native population, immigrants are fueling predictions of a rebound.
Assuming Congress doesn't impose further restrictions, immigrants — both legal and illegal — and their native-born children are forecast to provide the bulk of coming years' growth in homebuying demand, nudging the market back up and aiding the broader economy.
[ Corporate interests demand we sell the nation. Now that we've sold it, it has lost value -- much like the stocks we sell. It will need to be sold again, for ever-lower values, until people come along again who can restore its value. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 11:29 PM CST [more..]
Immigration costs 100 times higher than thought
Each of the announcements listed above was, in part, a recognition that the number of arrivals in recent years has been too great, yet no preparations were made to accommodate them. The issue now is how the country, and especially those parts of it wilting under the strain of a growing population, can continue to absorb immigrants at existing levels when it can hardly cope with the most recent wave.
[ It's a salesman's promise: they'll earn you money. And only later do you learn: and that money, and more of your money, goes to pay for the costs to society at large for having them. And what happened to your culture? "England" is now a subdivision, not a culture. Good going, idiots! ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:53 PM CST [more..]
Aggression explains higher male wages
These differences, Babcock and other researchers have concluded, may partially explain the persistent gender gap in salaries, as well as other disparities in how people rise to the top of organizations. Women working full time earn about 77 percent of the salaries of men working full time, Babcock said. That figure does not take differing professions and educational levels into account, but when those and other factors are controlled for, women who work full time and have never taken time off to have children earn about 11 percent less than men with equivalent education and experience.
[ Our genius society's conclusion: well, make women more aggressive then! They can be just like men, and finally equal! ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:50 PM CST [more..]
Religion is profitable mind control if administered through media
Participants primed with religious concepts gave their partner an average of $4.22, compared with only $1.84 in the control group. But those who declared themselves religious before the study were no more generous than non-believers.
[ Fill heads with garbage, then make suggestion, then appeal to ego. Manipulating human beings is no big deal. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:48 PM CST [more..]
New US aid to Israel incenses Muslims, preparing for jihad
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a new $30 billion US defense package to Israel Sunday and voiced satisfaction over Washington's plan to supply state-of-the-art weapons to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states as a counterweight to Iranian influence. The aid boost to Israel has been widely seen as a US bid to help allay Israeli concerns over a package of arms sales, that could be worth some $20 billion over the next decade, which Washington is preparing for Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
[ 9/11 happened because you sent aid to Israel, and not to Arab countries. You could get by with no aid to either. 20-to-30 compromise is better but still will provoke ire. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:47 PM CST [more..]
While democracy distracts, elites are in control
USER-GENERATED content — from Wikipedia to YouTube to open-source software — is generating waves of excitement. But the opening of innovation to wider numbers of people obscures another trend: many of the most popular new products, like the iPod, are dominated by a top-down, elite innovation model that doesn’t allow for customization.
To be sure, experts like Eric von Hippel, a management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argue that the proliferation of “user-generated” designs signals the “democratizing” of innovation. Armed with inexpensive digital tools and networks, ordinary people, he says, can band together to push their own innovations. They also can hijack existing technologies, taking them in directions only dimly envisioned by the original creators.
[ Did you really think WikiPedia and YouTube amounted to anything? Haha, while you were distracted, they owned you. Morons. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:45 PM CST [more..]
National Socialist style buffer spaces decrease pollution
Riparian buffers -- the vegetated border along streams and wetlands -- may decrease the amount of nitrogen that enters water bodies and the width of these buffers may have a positive relation to a decrease in nitrogen levels.
[ The National Socialist government of Germany used these extensively around roads, urban areas, factories and military areas. No wetland or stream would have come in direct contact with human society. The USA could have learned a lot from such people, but you were too busy killing them because you were afraid your "freedom" would go away. What immature brats! I guess you SUV-driving, McDonald's-munching, Iraqi-killing morons deserve to have "extremists" fly planes into your overpriced, underconstructed giant phallic towers. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:43 PM CST [more..]
Global warming doubles frequency of deadly storms
The number of tropical storms developing annually in the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the increase taking place in two jumps, researchers say.
[ Humans: we don't want anything to do with reality. Nature: you're part of reality, and you're going to have to do it. Humans: we'll pretend otherwise, and kill anyone who disagrees. Nature: All right, I guess it does take a tragedy... here comes the death. Humans: oh noes, we're pwnt! ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:40 PM CST [more..]
Congo setting new records for sexual horror crimes
Sexual atrocities in Congo's volatile province of South Kivu extend "far beyond rape" and include sexual slavery, forced incest and cannibalism, a U.N. human rights expert said Monday.
[ Looks like the multiculturalist, humanitarian agenda is failing as usual. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:38 PM CST [more..]
Pedophilia is a physical brain corruption
Pedophilic perpetrators show structural impairments of brain egions critical for sexual development. These impairments are not related o age, and their extent predicts how focused the scope of sexual offenses s on uniform pedophilic activity. Subtle defects of the right amygdala and closely related structures might be implicated in the pathogenesis of pedophilia and might possibly reflect developmental disturbances or environmental insults at critical periods
[ They can't be cured. They are are literally a product of poor breeding, and our society is producing more of them than ever before. There is no sense locking them up, or having a punishment at all: they need to simply be removed with a gunshot to the forehead, like one would do to any rabid animal. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:36 PM CST [more..]
USA drops pollution enforcement
Fewer U.S. criminal investigators are tracking polluters these days -- down to 174, from the 200-agent minimum required by Congress, yet the EPA's budget has risen nearly 25 percent, to $48 million.
[ What they know that you don't: it's too late. The rich will retire to space station style housing, and the rest of you will become cancerous chimpanzees. Too bad you were too stupid to read Plato and see this obvious consequence of democracy. ]
news on 07.30.07 @ 07:33 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, July 28th
70% of Americans despise "immensely profitable" porn
A large 70%-majority of Americans reject the idea that "nude pictures and X-rated videos on the internet provide harmless entertainment for those who enjoy it"; only 27% agree; in general, opinions about pornography have become slightly more conservative over the past 20 years. Currently 41% agree that "nude magazines and X-rated movies provide harmless entertainment for those who enjoy it," while 53% disagree. The number saying such material is harmless has fluctuated, declining from 48% in 1987 to 41% in 1990 and then varying by no more than four percentage points thereafter. The pattern is more mixed for other values related to freedom of expression.
[ Tell us the obvious: open the door to pornography, or even "erotica," and soon the perversion comes out of the woodworks and we all suffer as our society decays. 30% think porn is OK, and about half of those are probably regular viewers, and 0.002% love it because it has made them rich where their character makes them more fit to be sewage arrangers in an apocalyptic wonderland. ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 09:51 PM CST [more..]
Liberals seek to censor those who dissent
Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.
[ The media is already liberal. Not because it is owned by liberals, but because liberal platitudes like "we're all equal" and lots of tearjerking sells to the mostly underemployed, clueless audience. Fox was a slightly dodgy but nonetheless non-groupthink standout, so they're working to crush them. That's democracy, where you have "freedom," remember? ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:31 PM CST [more..]
Democracy fails as people avoid jury duty
Courts across the country have been going to extraordinary lengths in recent years to get people to report for jury duty -- a cornerstone of democracy and a civic responsibility that many citizens would do almost anything to avoid.
[ Our fellow citizens are mostly morons and we don't want to have to argue it out with them after days of boring testimony. Democracy doesn't work, as usual. ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:29 PM CST [more..]
Israeli intelligence controls Wikipedia
I had learned from a recently released U.S. National Archives file that Shin Bet, the Israeli Security Agency, had infiltrated the PFLP and helped the Entebbe hijackers (Israeli commandos rescued the hostages in Uganda in 1976), so I wanted to learn more about the link between the PFLP and the PFLP-GC. I also wanted to learn more about allegations made by David Colvin, the first secretary of the British Embassy in Paris, concerning the rather bizarre collaboration between the PFLP and the Shin Bet.
As I could not locate the article in which I had learned about the allegations, I consulted the article on the Entebbe Operation on Wikipedia, where I knew the story had been noted. To my surprise, I found that all references to the alleged collaboration between the PFLP and the Shin Bet had been suppressed. Moreover, it is no longer possible to edit the page.
[ That our country is so clueless and naive as to assume this won't happen suggests we're idiots, or acting like them. ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:21 PM CST [more..]
Press panic manipulated easily by USA government
The press has been the worst culprit in "enabling" the erosion of sane US domestic and foreign policy in the wake of 9/11. From that day, the entire American print and TV news corps resigned en masse, and took new assignments as dealers in unfiltered government propaganda.
[ Whatever turns a profit, and whatever wins elections, dominates over truth in capitalist democracies. That's why Plato says they all turn into oligarchies, and then Communist-style authoritarian states. Pick your favorite gulag now! ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:18 PM CST [more..]
"Innocent" lynching victim was attempted murderer
Roger Malcom, according to the FBI synopsis of the case, had been jailed 11 days earlier after stabbing a white farmer, Barnette Hester, in the chest. Witnesses told authorities that Malcom suspected Hester had slept with his wife, Dorothy.
Cohen of the SPLC said many killers have died unpunished and "everyone has a sense that the clock is ticking."
[ So we're supposed to cry over another violent criminal the media declares "innocent"? ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:16 PM CST [more..]
American hero killed for crowd-unfriendly views
It has been widely reported by the AP and others that Spc. Bryan O'Neal, who was at Tillman's side as he was killed, told investigators that Tillman was waving his arms shouting "Cease fire, friendlies, I am Pat (expletive) Tillman, damn it!" again and again.
The chaplain said that O'Neal told him he was hugging the ground at Tillman's side, "crying out to God, help us. And Tillman says to him, `Would you shut your (expletive) mouth? God's not going to help you; you need to do something for yourself, you sniveling ..."
[ One lone man goes ahead and talks about reality, so they shoot him, and because letting the world know that he was killed for telling the truth might wreck the US army, everyone from privates to presidents helps cover it. What a pathetic nation-- in the sense of deserving pity, for its fall is gonna be gross. ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:13 PM CST [more..]
Human expansion destroys environment, not incandescent bulbs
The 1000-square-kilometre Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project has shed light on how species will suffer as the forest breaks up. Now it too in danger of fragmentation, says William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Brazil (Nature vol 448, p 409).
The nearby town of Manaus has grown rapidly since being declared a free-trade zone in the 1970s, with a population of 1.7 million people. Settlers are now moving onto the land around the project and criminals raided a research camp last year. A fire lit by the new arrivals also destroyed several study plots.
[ The price of "freedom" -- something you are told to desire from fear of being told what you are doing is unreasonable -- is that most people will do something unreasonable, and they will wreck everything we share, including society, environment and culture. Would I give up some "freedom" for sanity? Yes, I would, especially considering that "freedom isn't free" -- you have to constantly fight wars in Iraq and Viet Nam for it, apparently, and there are still things that if you say 'em in public, your job gets taken away and you can't get another and end up suffering at the command of this society. "Freedom" -- doesn't exist. ]
news on 07.28.07 @ 08:10 PM CST [more..]
Thursday, July 26th
Free Speech Hosting
List of Free Speech and Anonymous Web Hosts
[ Don't trust your government? Can't trust your media not to make you an evil villain for talking about reality? Use anonymous, free speech hosting! ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 09:15 PM CST [link]
Outsourcing ONLY occurs in giant multinational corporations
Why Small Tech Companies Aren't Outsourcing
Many are focused on product innovation.and that's difficult to shift overseas
The leading outsourcers have actually been large corporations such as General Electric (GE), Citibank (C), and American Express (AXP). Many of them sent abroad their IT systems, which are different from the innovative software products that tech companies develop. In fact, few tech companies outsource
core product development, because it just isn't practical to send this type of innovation offshore.
[ Why is it the bad guys are always the big corporations with no allegiance to any local area, culture or land? Ponder, ponder. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:45 PM CST [more..]
Dangerous ideas need to be considered
Is the average intelligence of Western nations declining because duller people are having more children than smarter people?
Would unwanted children be better off if there were a market in adoption rights, with babies going to the highest bidder?
Would lives be saved if we instituted a free market in organs for transplantation?
Should people have the right to clone themselves, or enhance the genetic traits of their children?
Perhaps you can feel your blood pressure rise as you read these questions. Perhaps you are appalled that people can so much as think such things. Perhaps you think less of me for bringing them up. These are dangerous ideas -- ideas that are denounced not because they are self-evidently false, nor because they advocate harmful action, but because they are thought to corrode the prevailing moral order.
[ Pinker, a Jew, is an advocate of biological determinism and a good ally to our cause. He is right in attacking the moral illusion created by organized religion, globalist business and witless liberals. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:43 PM CST [more..]
Dumbed down jobs are frequently blown off by bored workers
Americans who feel bored and underpaid do work hard -- at surfing the Internet and catching up on gossip, according to a survey that found U.S. workers waste about 20 percent of their working day.
[ I think they have the figures reversed. We've dumbed down jobs so anyone can do them. Now they bore us. Good thinking. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:41 PM CST [more..]
Anti-immigration law "takes power" from federal government
A federal judge on Thursday struck down the city of Hazleton's tough anti-immigration law, ruling unconstitutional a measure that has been copied around the country.
[ The reason given: it challenges federal power. Reminds me of our last civil war. When will they ever learn? They think they can control us, when we are telling them of a literal reality: we don't want to be wiped out so some insecure idiots with power and money can have job security! ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:40 PM CST [more..]
Attack on biracial stripper angers some
Jude, who is biracial, was beaten by group that included off-duty police officers, who accused him of stealing a badge from Spengler's home, where they were partying.
Jude, a stripper from Appleton, had accompanied a black male friend and two white women to the party in the early-morning hours and was leaving when the beating took place.
[ Sounds like a winner. Again, multiculturalism stresses all parties and doesn't work. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:34 PM CST [more..]
Renewable energy "not a solution" for raging global warming
Renewable energy could wreck the environment, according to a study that examined how much land it would take to generate the renewable resources that would make a difference in the global energy system.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070726/sc_livescience/studyrenewableenergynotgreen
Nevada is among the states with the most dramatic increase in average temperatures the last 30 years, according to a new study that examines the impact of global warming across the country.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070726/ap_on_sc/warmer_nevada
Southern Europe is sweltering under the summer's second major heat wave as firefighters battle blazes raging in Greece, Italy and Macedonia.
The day's high of 113F outside Athens approached the 114.8F reached in the region's first major heat wave of the summer late last month. High pollution, humidity and stagnant air compounded the misery for residents and tourists in the capital.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/26/heatwave.europe.ap/index.html
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:34 PM CST [link]
Rural students perform better in science, reality
Rural students perform better in science than their urban counterparts, and rural teachers are generally happy with their schools, a federal study says.
That could be because kids get their education in real-world settings as well as classrooms, says Marty Strange, policy director of the Rural School and Community Trust, an advocacy group. "Rural life is a little closer to nature," he said.
[ Closer to reality = better at reality. Our cities breed people who are good at BSing each other but poor at making things work in something as complex as real life. Idiocracy, indeed! ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:31 PM CST [more..]
Third front candidate unites left and right, reviled in press
The Paul campaign has been interesting to watch. The problem is that the people he is attracting are fringe lefties and righties who have no where else to turn. A substantial portion of the groups believe that 9/11 was an inside job and rabid Israel haters.
[ You can't like anyone who doesn't toe the party line without admitting that the system doesn't work and needs replacing, and that threatens everyone who's "making do" within the system. Ron Paul and Ralph Nader and Ross Perot all received the same reception. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:28 PM CST [more..]
Interracial marriage provokes threats
The Boise State running back who scored the winning points in the Fiesta Bowl, then proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television, says he has hired security for their wedding because of racial threats.
Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white, are due to be married Saturday in Boise.
[ You don't like diversity? It doesn't feel good? Yes, because you're looking at elimination of yourselves as an ethnicity, culture, and eventually language. This isn't progress. It's decay. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:26 PM CST [more..]
Russians concerned about self genocide
Demographers have provided dire statistics depicting a sharp decline in Russia’s population in the next few decades—and said that St. Petersburg, which loses an average of 70 people every day and has the lowest birth rate in the nation, could be hit hardest.
But “the real concern in Russia’s official circles is about an extinction of Russians as a race, rather than population decline in its traditional sense,” says Dubrovsky, adding that it was one of the factors that prompted President Vladimir Putin last year to adopt a special policy aimed at “calling ethnic Russians abroad back home, but restricting migration for other nationalities.”
[ From communism to capitalism, learning that left and right are bunk, and you need a third way. Try National Bolshevism. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:24 PM CST [more..]
Conservatives, unions, liberals demand immigration
US businesses are bracing for a possible major crackdown on illegal foreign workers, as the government seeks to give immigration authorities more power to punish companies hiring undocumented workers.
“It’s going to put businesses all over the nation in a bind,” said Tamar Jacoby, an immigration expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute.
Immigrant advocacy groups, labor unions and a coalition of national business groups have criticized the proposal.
[ Our hippies agree with our corrupt unions who agree with our corrupt politicians that immigration is vital to the economy. In the meantime, people who have their act together are unconcerned whether chicken costs $0.50 a pound less or not, causing business to freak out as it sees potential profits fly away. Liberalism is a smoke-screen for callow self-interest, as is "conservatism" -- what do they conserve, again? -- at this point. Go third way: National Socialist, Libertarian Socialist or National Anarchist. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:22 PM CST [more..]
Most Americans oppose gay marriage
Fewer than four-in-ten Americans (37%) support gay marriage, while 55% are opposed; support had dipped to 29% in an August 2004 poll, after peaking at 38% in July 2003. Since 2004, support has fluctuated between 33% and 39%. Gay marriage is opposed by most groups in the population; exceptions include young people ages 18-29 (56% support), liberal Democrats (72%), and secular individuals (60%). Democrats continue to be divided on the question (49% support, 43% oppose); Republicans overwhelmingly oppose gay marriage (75% vs. 20% support), with 51% strongly opposed.
[ Back in reality land, marriage is for the purposes of long term heterosexual union for the foundation of families. It's a sensible, natural design. However, government has stepped in and granted so many luxuries to married people that gays want part of the action. Solution: less government. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:19 PM CST [more..]
Women don't expect society to curb sexual harassment
Two-thirds of people responding to an online survey say they have been sexually harassed on the subway, but only 4% reported the incident to authorities.
[ Signs of a dysfunctional Kali-Yugan end time... ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:18 PM CST [more..]
Modern society persecutes reader for "fire hazard" of books
Authorities in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., condemned John Puchniak's apartment this year when a routine inspection raised concern the bookstore owner's collection of nearly 3,000 texts could cause a fire.
Even if he can restore the apartment to acceptable living standards, Puchniak has said he cannot afford to appeal the city to reopen his home.
[ In the meantime, 4 million people stored paint thinner next to space heaters, frayed wires, and haphazardly deep-fried foods in flammable oil. Our priorities are garbage because we have so many specially protected groups. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:16 PM CST [more..]
Civilw ar mug shocks and offends
A coffee mug used by Department of Public Safety Commissioner John A. Danaher III showing the Confederate flag in a Civil War battle has angered black leaders who said it was insensitive to display a symbol of hate, particularly when the state police have been under fire for complaints of racism.
[ Once again: two cultures can't coexist in the same society without parasitizing each other. We like our history, and they're not going to see it our way, and vice versa. ]
news on 07.26.07 @ 08:10 PM CST [more..]
Wednesday, July 25th
Kinglike character is inborn
The capacity to resist peer pressure in early adolescence may depend on the strength of connections between certain areas of the brain, according to a new study. Findings indicate that brain regions which regulate different aspects of behaviour are more interconnected in children with high resistance to peer influence.
[ What role you can fulfil is inborn; the ancients were right in having caste systems that separated us into thinkers, artisans and laborers. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 09:07 PM CST [more..]
Immigration may bankrupt city
The area in southeast Michigan where 2,000 Iraqi refugees are expected to resettle already has 169,000 people out of work. Some fear the influx will push the state's unemployment rate even higher.
[ We have all these people in the USA, but very few actually do anything... but those who do will pay for the rest, even if they're useless. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 09:05 PM CST [more..]
If your soul is empty, add "diversity"
The Unlikely Friend: "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive," Anais Nin wrote. My friends -- some twice my age, others half, some rich, others homeless, some black like me, others Korean, Mexican, Caucasian -- have added richness to my life that only variety can bring.
[ This particularly nutty article describes unpaid therapists who are "friends" but serve a purpose and are only important when that purpose needs fulfilling. Sound bleak? That's the kind of dual reality that dominates the West. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 09:04 PM CST [more..]
"Renewable energy" a rape of nature
Ramping up the use of renewable energy would lead to the "rape of nature", meaning nuclear power should be developed instead. So argues noted conservation biologist and climate change researcher Jesse Ausubel in an opinion piece based on his and others' research.
Ausubel says the key renewable energy sources, including sun, wind, and biomass, would all require vast amounts of land if developed up to large scale production ? unlike nuclear power. That land would be far better left alone, he says.
Renewables are "boutique fuels" says Ausubel, of Rockefeller University in New York, US. "They look attractive when they are quite small. But if we start producing renewable energy on a large scale, the fallout is going to be horrible."
[ No, children, we'll have to actually change the way we do things, not just switch to more convenient fuels. And all those people who now want to live first world lifestyles? We either tell them NO or we all die. Good luck. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 09:02 PM CST [more..]
We need a "safe" hero who doesn't like violence
Paul Greengrass, Damon's director on Universal's "Bourne Ultimatum" and its 2004 predecessor, "The Bourne Supremacy," agreed that Bond is a relic from a different era.
"He's an insider. He likes being a secret agent. He worships at the altar of technology. He loves his gadgets. And he embodies this whole set of misogynistic values," Greengrass said. "He likes violence. That's part of the appeal of the character. He has no guilt. He's essentially an imperial adventurer of a particularly English sort.
"Personally, I spit on those values. I think we've moved on a little bit from all that, the martini shaken, not stirred."
[ Those may be values in your culture, Mr. Greengrass, but not in ours. We like our warriors to be free from paradoxical good intentions that result in confusion and greater brutality. Go in, fight the bad, promote the good, and go home. I didn't like Bond's sexual habits either, but those were exaggerated by Hollywood, not the writer (Ian Fleming) who wrote Bond as a cold-blooded killer who believed he was helping people by keeping away sadistic evil. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 09:00 PM CST [more..]
City offers illegal immigrants IDs
Dozens of people lined up at City Hall on Tuesday for municipal identification cards, the first city-issued ID cards specifically designed to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows and give them access to community services.
The mayor said the federal government had failed to address immigration-related issues, forcing cities to find ways to manage them. New Haven is simply acknowledging the people who already live there, he said.
Bob Luciani, a teacher from Woodbridge, said he is concerned that that other cities may do what New Haven has done. "It's going to metastasize across all over the country. I think this is totally illegal," he said. "If we don't go by laws, then we're going to have anarchy."
[ My advice is to send every illegal to New Haven, which has for years nourished a black underclass that liberals pity but don't actually help, and every other bit of "diversity" we can find. Liberals respond when you interrupt their pity, or their lattes, so let's aim for the latter. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 08:58 PM CST [more..]
"Racist" beating was caused by suspect, not "racist" cop
A former police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a man in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina was acquitted Tuesday by a judge who heard the case without a jury.
"I didn't even find this a close call," said District Judge Frank Marullo. "This event could have ended at any time if the man had put his hands behind his back," the judge said.
Davis testified Tuesday that he was headed to buy cigarettes in the French Quarter when he asked a police officer what time a curfew took effect that night. Before the officer could answer, a different officer cut him off, Davis said. His assailant uttered a racial epithet during the attack, he said.
[ Multiculturalism failing again. One officer's life was ruined by the accusations. It won't end until the races separate. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 08:53 PM CST [more..]
American schools freak out over loss of forced integration
Jefferson County School Board Chairman Joe Hardesty said the community was disappointed with the ruling but hopes to come up with a new way to protect diversity without mentioning race—perhaps by considering income or home addresses.
The fact that many U.S. schools remain starkly divided by race despite integration attempts is mostly the result of America’s starkly divided neighborhoods, said John Powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Ohio.
He said many blacks are shut out of better white neighborhoods by systemic housing discrimination and since U.S. school funding is based on local tax receipts, poor neighborhoods beget poor schools.
[ What does integration bring to the students? Are they better educated? Test scores say no. Are they happier? No results say yes. Schools are segregated because each ethnicity wants to teach according to its values, not some mishmash! ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 08:43 PM CST [more..]
Ireland city's Nigerian mayor upset at Irishness of population
THE country's first black mayor has criticised a letting agency which published an 'Irish people only' ad on a property website.
"We've achieved in 10 years what has taken America hundreds of years to achieve. Here is a country that looks beyond colour, creed and religion," he said. However, he added there was still a long way to go towards full integration.
[ I think the Irish would like to remain Irish, sir. They can't do that if they're half-black. Then they'll be something else, and about as Irish as the average Wal-Mart. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 08:42 PM CST [more..]
Advertising is pure psychological manipulation
In a new study, researchers demonstrate how advertisements can be manipulated to cause overemphasis of a particular feature, and increase the likelihood that a certain product is chosen. Their finding runs contrary to economic models, which assume that choices are based on stable preferences and should not be influenced by the inclusion of inferior options.
[ It took scientists to tell us this? Here's advertising: put assurance of evolutionary reproductive success next to the product, and imply correlation. It has nothing to do with the quality of the product. You can buy fine wine for the same price as a Coke, but do you? Ask yourself why. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 08:41 PM CST [more..]
Altruists are judgmental
A new study reveals that people who regard themselves as humanitarians, are even more likely than others to base donations to the poor, on whether they believe poverty is a result of bad luck or bad choices.
[ Truly nonjudgmental people do not concern themselves with poverty, as they know it will always exist and their job is to avoid it and avoid creating it unnecessarily. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 08:39 PM CST [more..]
Modern people afraid of suffering because lives are meaningless
People in the pews want to know why, if God is loving, the innocent suffer – and they aren't always happy with the answers from the pulpit.
One factor, observers say, is a culture that no longer accepts suffering as a means to spiritual growth. Long gone are the Middle Ages, when the faithful typically viewed human trials as a divinely given process of perfection and a holy pathway to the next world.
Christians in America today tend to pay a hollow lip service to others' misery – to hold it at arm's length rather than live and minister among those in the midst of it, says Elaine Heath,
[ Religion, too, is a matter of convenience. If you suffer, it's because you didn't work hard enough at God's job to afford God's top quality drugs. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 07:59 PM CST [more..]
Nationalists disrupt Tour de France
Two small explosive devices have detonated on part of the Spanish route of the Tour de France.
The caller told a highway authority that ETA had planted several bombs along the route of the Tour de France.
Devices were inside plastic food containers and involved "a small amount of explosives", said a local official.
[ Symbolic actions designed to disrupt what's now a corrupt race. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 07:58 PM CST [more..]
Multiculturalism brings 75% increase in STDs -- in one year
The number of cases of syphilis infection in Sweden has risen by 75 percent in just one year, leading doctors to fear a local outbreak. The rise is due largely to a large increase in syphilis transmitted through gay sex among men in the Stockholm area. Chlamydia is also on the rise, new statistics show.
Chlamydia also rose dramatically in the first half of 2007. During the period, 22,610 cases were reported, an increase of 52 percent compared with the first half of last year. This was largely due to better diagnosis of a new variant of the disease discovered in Sweden in the autumn of 2006. Most transmission was heterosexual, while the largest rise was among the 15-19 age group, in which cases were up 72 percent.
[ You can't blame gays, or even immigrants, for this. This is a culture losing ground and so people are doing what seems convenient, and later, paying the price. Ick! ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 07:57 PM CST [more..]
German extremist right is rising
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to combat right-wing violence, which last year rose to its highest level since reunification in 1990 but critics say campaigns to draw people away from radical ideology are still inadequate.
The government said on Wednesday around 50 skinhead concerts, traditionally a recruiting ground for far-right groups, took place in the months April to July this year.
The number of participants increased to about 6,000 from around 4,500 in the first quarter of the year.
[ We understand the sentiment, but can we get a practical political movement instead, please? The NSDAP weren't thugs. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 07:55 PM CST [more..]
Decaying England sends sex tourists to Baltic
Riga, with its beautifully preserved Old Town and the nearby sandy beaches of Jurmala, was a popular holiday spot for members of the Politburo during Soviet times. But the opening up of the country to the West, a process accelerated by the arrival of low-cost airlines, has spawned a very different kind of visitor and a proliferation of late-night pick-up bars and strip clubs.
Over the next month, Latvian girls will be asked to consider very carefully whether they should agree to have sex with a visitor in return for a drink. The campaign also suggests that "sex tourism" should more accurately be called "sex terrorism".
In Krakow, another east European city that has been inundated with badly-behaved Britons, local leaders earlier this year said they wanted to control the excesses of stag party revellers. And in Slovakia earlier this month, a British groom-to-be who stripped off and jumped into a fountain in Bratislava was given a jail sentence.
[ Modern society turns love into sex and makes it a cheap commodity. No respect, no sanctity, ...no hope. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 07:54 PM CST [more..]
Americans increasingly wary of "diversity"
But research suggests that faith in diversity is being sorely tested. New studies confirm earlier evidence that, at least in the short- to mid-term, diversity weakens civic ties, fostering mutual mistrust and detachment. Beneath all the "happy talk" about diversity, many Americans harbor a deep ambivalence about where it will lead.
"Most everybody says, 'Yes, I'm in favor of diversity and I really like multiculturalism,' but if there's nothing to pull people together they get kind of nervous. And they really can't articulate where to draw the line," said Joseph Gerteis, a sociologist with the University of Minnesota's American Mosaic Project, which is probing how Americans think about questions of diversity and solidarity.
The Mosaic work is complemented by a massive national study by Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam, who reports that in the face of large-scale immigration, many Americans are overwhelmed by diversity. Putnam calls it "socio-psychological system overload."
With stunning regularity, he found Americans in more diverse locales tending to "hunker down and pull in like a turtle," suspicious not just of the new or different, but of everybody.
"They don't trust their neighbors or shop clerks, they are not as involved in the community," Putnam said. "The only two things that go up as diversity rises are protest marches and TV watching."
[ Multiculturalism is globalism. Globalism is profit for multi-national corporations. Both liberals and traditionalists agree that multi-national corporations destroy local areas, ruin nature and corrupt people. What are we waiting for? Time to end this mess. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 12:01 AM CST [more..]
Terrorism result of US bias toward Israel, says CIA chief
As pessimism grows in the US about Iraq, the American commander there has warned that the war will take many years to win and a former top CIA officer has told a Sydney conference that defeat is inevitable in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit until 2004, said the West was losing the global battle against Muslim insurgents. Scheuer said the US and its allies had failed to commit enough troops to win and did not understand the grievances motivating Muslim insurgents – which include American bias in favor of Israel.
[ The Mideast conflict can only be won by granting nationalist autonomy to all parties. ]
news on 07.25.07 @ 12:00 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, July 24th
Wikipedia identifies Jewish financier of American revolution
He was the paymaster-general of the French military forces in the early years of the United States. It is asserted that more than $10,000 which he advanced was never repaid. He lent the young United States government about $600,000, and at his death about $400,000 of this amount had not been repaid. This sum was in addition to what he had lent to statesmen and others while performing public duties and trusts. Jacob Bader Marcus wrote in Early American Jewry that the sum owed to Solomon was $800,000. That amount in 1785 is equivalent in purchasing power to about US$22 million in 2005 dollars. [1]
During the American Revolution, Solomon went to France and raised an additional £3.5 million from the Sassoon and Rothschild banking houses and families. He spoke eight languages. When Solomon was in France, he passed himself off as a French diplomat.
Solomon came to New York in 1772 and joined the Sons of Liberty. He was a brilliant financier and one of George Washington's personal friends. In 1776 he was captured and sentenced to death by the British, but he used his knowledge of German to convince his Hessian jailer to let him out and desert to the American forces. He then escaped penniless to Philadelphia. It was during this period of incarceration where he contracted tuberculosis.
[ Jews have been looking for a homeland for centuries, until the political viability of Israel was achieved. On the way, this Jew helped achieve a mixed bag: a new nation with greater freedoms, but by its lack of explicitly inherent culture, despite its Anglo-Germanic mix, a nation which would eventually head toward political confusion as it has. We all owe Haym Solomon a big thanks forever for helping start the USA! ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 11:58 PM CST [more..]
Climate change caused political chaos in ancient China
The wars and rebellions that punctuated China's ancient dynasties have
inspired epic books and films. Now it seems the course of the nation's
history may have been influenced by a rather more mundane force: the
weather.
China's archives track the lives of the country's clans over the last
millennium in voluminous detail. This inspired David Zhang at the
University of Hong Kong and his colleagues to scour the documents for
links between conflict and climate. They found that periods of cold
weather preceded 12 of the 15 major bouts of warfare they studied.
The link makes sense, they say, since cold weather would have prompted
food shortages in what was then an overwhelmingly agrarian society.
Peasant uprisings would follow, destabilising governments and inviting
invasions from neighbouring regions (Human Ecology, vol 35, p 403).
news on 07.24.07 @ 08:45 PM CST [more..]
Video mocks US border impotence
Well, the sharp folks behind Grassfire.org, an emerging conservative grassroots organization, are using the geriatric tactic to push for tighter enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border. The group has produced a video circulating on YouTube in which three elderly women cruising in a vintage car stop along the border.
One woman looks out the passenger window and remarks at the desert view: "It certainly is a big border." The driver chimes in: "A very big border."
An announcer then reminds viewers that Congress authorized 700 miles of fence along the border last year. That prompts the trio to demand: "Where's the fence?" Then the ladies shout the same question at three men, presumably illegal immigrants, scrambling across the road.
It's a perfect Web video: funny, short, catchy and uncomplicated.
Video - Where's the Fence?
news on 07.24.07 @ 08:43 PM CST [more..]
Overpopulation destroying fish species
Boris Worm, an Assistant Professor in Marine Conservation Biology at the Biology Department of Dalhousie University in Halifax is reporting that as of last year, 29% of fish and seafood species had collapsed, that is, their catch had declined by 90%, and that all fish and seafood species were projected to collapse by 2048. This finding was reported in the 3 November issue of the journal Science."
[ Ecosystems are complex, humanity's response to them: simple. And destructive. Since we couldn't limit anyone's "freedom," we couldn't limit our numbers, and now we will not only not have fish but probably destroy these wonderful creatures in the wild. Good thinking, humanity! ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:21 PM CST [more..]
1/8 of city people have diabetes
The diabetes epidemic is taking a large and growing toll on New York City, a new Health Department report shows, as death rates, debilitating complications, and hospitalization costs soar. Some 500,000 New Yorkers -- one out of eight adults -- have been diagnosed with diabetes. Another 200,000 have diabetes but don't yet know it. The death rate from diabetes rose by 75 percent between 1990 and 2003.
[ What additional "proof" is needed to "convince" you that the city lifestyle is not healthy? Aliens spraypainting it on your buttocks? ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:19 PM CST [more..]
Bi-racial people find themselves cultureless
And therein lies the paradox in which I find myself. It is as if I signed a pact, at birth, to represent the liberal ideal of two races coming together in the best of human possibilities. It just makes you want to burst into a chorus of "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony".
I had spent much of my life in a vacuum of cultural isolation, not quite fitting anywhere, whether it be the gay community, the Asian community, the immigrant community, the women's community or the bohemian community. I was constantly having to explain myself and feeling that my friends would never begin to understand where I was coming from. At any moment I might have to defend one group from another. I identified with subcultures I didn't even belong to.
[ This is why traditionally assimilation has been done by the more genetically diverse group, which is usually the browner one. If this woman had grown up Thai, she would not have had this crisis. Instead, the poor thing is a neurotic mess. ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:18 PM CST [more..]
African-Americans killing more cops than ever before
Nationally, blacks made up 40 percent of all cop killers from 1994 to 2005, even though they are only 13.4 percent of the American population.
New York police killed nine civilians in 2005, for example, all of whom had attacked the officers first, compared with hundreds upon hundreds of black-on-black killings. But blacks can shoot whites—police officer and civilian alike—without anyone’s organizing a street demonstration about it, much less daring to point out the pattern. Perhaps such incidents are just dog-bites-man stories, too much part of the normal order of things to be considered noteworthy.
[ Rap music in the hands of Hollywood might be a bad idea. How about a $5 tax on every rap CD sold to create a fund for these policepeople's kids? Oh wait, that's not "fair." ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:17 PM CST [more..]
Guilt is social conditioning
New research suggests that although it feels bad, guilt plays a critical role in promoting prosocial behavior. That worried feeling in our gut often serves as the impetus for our stab at redemption. However, psychologists have trouble agreeing on the function of this complex emotion. On one hand, the punitive feeling of guilt may keep you from repeating the same transgressive behavior in the future, which psychologists call "withdrawal motivation." Conversely, some researchers view the function of guilt in a societal context, in that; it keeps people's behavior in line with the moral standards of their community.
[ Translation: guilt is a way for others to control you. If you let them control you, they win. And they mean to win, because they do not have your best interests in mind. ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:14 PM CST [more..]
No shortage of talented labor exists, no immigrants needed
The little-known truth in corporate America is that there is no talent shortage, just a severe shortage of people and systems that recognize, recruit and retain talent. Hiring managers have been told repeatedly that there is a talent shortage across all industries and that they should lower their expectations.
[ But we can import people who are cheaper and more devoted to us, and you native Americans want to have lives, so we're gonna go get those cheap immigrant H1-Bs. ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:12 PM CST [more..]
AIDS is caused by discrimination, not indiscriminate sex
Experts at an AIDS conference in Sydney also warned that HIV infection rates were rising among men who have sex with men in developing countries because of discrimination and lack of access to health services.
[ Reality calling? I can't hear you! ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:10 PM CST [more..]
Modern society wastes all of your time
While experts disagree about whether Americans are working more than in the past, they agree about the mindset of the modern American worker. Plagued by job insecurity, rising health care costs and weakened pension plans, the modern American worker tends to take leisure in snippets.
People often don't have time to participate in city or social organizations or even cook for their families, says Christopher Edginton of the World Leisure Organization.
[ But you're all equal and free, so it doesn't matter that you have no lives. ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:09 PM CST [more..]
West pimping Africa in pity party, ignoring African needs
Such campaigns, however well intentioned, promote the stereotype of Africa as a black hole of disease and death. News reports constantly focus on the continent’s corrupt leaders, warlords, “tribal” conflicts, child laborers, and women disfigured by abuse and genital mutilation. These descriptions run under headlines such as “Can Bono Save Africa?”
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head—because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself.
[ Liberal means "egotist" or "solipsist" in a dictionary of sanity. ]
news on 07.24.07 @ 07:06 PM CST [more..]
Monday, July 23rd
Innocent liberal converted to anti-immigrant stance by experience
If John Stirrup’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he has been a county supervisor since 2004. He proposed a measure to take action against illegal immigrants, and the county board passed a scaled-down version of it last week. The resolution that supervisors approved empowers police to check into the immigration status of anyone who is arrested and directs county agencies to determine which services they can deny to illegal immigrants.
What compelled Stirrup to act was the sense that his new home is changing in ways disturbingly close to what he experienced in Arlington. “Not in my neighborhood,” he says, “but when I visit the 7-Eleven, it’s the same feel as we had in Arlington”—a sense of being a stranger in his own community.
In his resolution, Stirrup summed up that sense in one word: “lawlessness.” But with the county’s crime rate falling steadily in recent years, I asked what exactly he meant.
“Lawlessness was a good word, because it really describes what people are enduring here,” he says. “They wake up in the morning, and the house across the street has nine or 15 people living there instead of four. There are unregistered vehicles in the driveway and trash in the yard. We’ve seen a significant increase in rats. These individuals get in their cars, without license or insurance, and drive on our roads to get to jobs where they are paid off the books and under the prevailing wage, without benefits. On the weekends, there’s extensive consumption of alcohol, loud music, and the comments women have told me about from the men are really unbelievable.
[ Immigration turns good people into a bad influence, and turns good natives into bigots. Multiculturalism is the problem. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:57 PM CST [more..]
American students forced into "diversity" indoctrination
Kent County high school students this year will learn about topics not likely to appear in MEAP tests: racism and acceptance.
County superintendents back a plan to send all freshmen to diversity and cultural sensitivity, aimed at getting city and suburban students to better understand each other before they start meeting on the athletic fields in 2008.
[ Hippies and corporations and good liberals agree: you must toe the line, or you're out of the kool kids klub. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:55 PM CST [more..]
Professor arrested for comparing races
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is considering whether or not to launch a criminal investigation into comments made by Professor Emeritus Tatu Vanhanen in an interview with Kuukausiliite, a monthly magazine supplement of Helsingin Sanomat.
In the interview Professor Vanhanen, a former Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampere, said that evolution has made Europeans and North Americans more intelligent than Africans. Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said on Wednesday that he regrets the controversy sparked by Tatu Vanhanen, who is his father.
[ And what does this action help? If we deny reality, and people's dangerous opinions, maybe they'll go away like death did when we started denying that. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:53 PM CST [more..]
Fingerprints reveal race
Standard methods for collecting fingerprints at crime scenes, which involve powders, liquids or vapors, can alter the prints and erase valuable forensic clues, including traces of chemicals that might be in the prints.
Now researchers find tape made from gelatin could enable forensics teams to chemically analyze prints gathered at crime scenes, yielding more specific information about miscreants’ diets and even possibly their gender and race.
[ But I thought our hippies, scientists, politicians, and large multinational corporations who never lie assured us that race "doesn't exist." ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:50 PM CST [more..]
"Brown is the New White" tshirt dropped, apologies flung
Macy's stores are no longer stocking a T-shirt because the company said the piece of clothing may have offended potential customers, according to MyFoxDFW.com.
The shirt — part of a clothing line exclusively aimed at Latina shoppers looking to express cultural identity through fashion — reads "Brown is the New White," across the chest.
[ This stuff always cracks me up. What we want to talk about can't, because someone might get offended and that's bad for business. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:47 PM CST [more..]
No translator, so no conviction for child rapist
The prosecutor in the case of a Liberian native charged with repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl said Monday that he is filing an appeal of a controversial judge's ruling that dismissed all charges because an interpreter who spoke the suspect's rare West African dialect could not be found.
[ I understand the need for an interpreter, but this shows you the problems with admitting people who can't speak the language AND like to rape seven-year-olds. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:46 PM CST [more..]
TV determines next president
While voters will likely have to wait until February 2008 to learn the winners of the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, there is no question a woman will be the commander-in-chief in prime-time Monday nights.
When the thriller "24" returns for its seventh season in January 2008, actress Cherry Jones will occupy the Oval Office playing President Allison Taylor.
President Taylor may be a reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York. You might recall that President David Palmer led the nation on "24" long before Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, appeared on the national scene.
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:25 PM CST [more..]
"Ghetto Bus Tour" romanticizes black Nationalism
For the woman with the microphone, the "Ghetto Bus Tour" is the last gasp in a crusade to tell a different story about Chicago's notorious housing projects, something other than well-known tales about gang violence so fierce that residents slept in their bathtubs to avoid bullets.
"I want you to see what I see," says Beauty Turner, after leading the group off the bus to a weedy lot where the Robert Taylor Homes once stood. "To hear the voices of the voiceless."
[ Reading between the lines, what she's saying is this: it may have been violent, impoverished and terrible, but it was OUR society, a black neighborhood, and now in the name of eliminating crime it has been turned into more faceless modern society concrete jungle garbage. This woman is a hero for standing up for black autonomy and black Nationalism in their neighborhoods, and if you're a white Nationalist who doesn't see these people as brothers in your struggle, you're missing the point: we all just want to be what we are, and we don't really care about the material details! ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:23 PM CST [more..]
Globalism depleting fishing stock faster than thought
Mauritania's octopus shortage is the result of the global trade in fishing rights between rich countries and poor. Impoverished nations like Mauritania have been selling access to their seas to European and Asian nations that have fished out their own waters. As a result, small fry like Mr. Samba must compete with huge trawlers from Spain, Russia and China. These days, at least 340 foreign boats are licensed to fish off Mauritania.
[ Wherever there's something we can consume for cash, we'll do it. We're not thinking about how someday we'll run out, or worse, lose the ability to produce more. We're not thinking, except about profit and the short term. We're in denial. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:21 PM CST [more..]
Subsidized US farm exports create third-world poverty
By making it possible for American farmers to sell their crops abroad for considerably less than it costs to grow them, the [US government] farm bill helps determine the price of corn in Mexico and the price of cotton in Nigeria and therefore whether farmers in those places will survive or be forced off the land, to migrate to the cities -- or to the United States.
The flow of immigrants north from Mexico since NAFTA is inextricably linked to the flow of American corn in the opposite direction, a flood of subsidized grain that the Mexican government estimates has thrown two million Mexican farmers and other agricultural workers off the land since the mid-90s.
[ Before you blame a Mexican, realize it's white politicans with bad values who brought them here by allowing their country to be raided by international, global, multicultural corporations. You don't see the profit. The Mexicans don't. The corporations do. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:19 PM CST [more..]
Easier lives make us lazier, weaker, stupider
For every Net wonder that increases our productivity, there's another one that saps it. And, oddly, sometimes it's those very productivity gains that do us in.
But it's not just Net-enabled distraction and multitasking that trips us up. There's also the paradox of ease. Online banking turned a big task into a small one -- which is great, except for the fact that small tasks are easier to put off. Perhaps the paradox of ease is at work in another Net mystery. Email, IM, Net telephony and a host of other services should let us communicate with family and old friends much more easily. But it can be startling to realize how long it's been since we last IM'ed that pal whose name is waiting patiently in our Buddy List, or that family member whose email address will be automatically filled in by Outlook.
How is it that the ability to communicate more can leave us communicating less? Blame the fact that keeping in touch is now a bite-size, anytime task. Getting out a pen and paper, stamp and envelope takes planning. So, to a lesser extent, does sitting down to call that old friend. Dropping a line via email? Piece of cake -- I'll get to it any minute now.
[ The more we automate our lives, the less we can think. Will...growing...weaker...Sauron...very...strong... ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:15 PM CST [more..]
Soft totalitarianism: employers fire you for taboo ideas
Nearly ten percent of companies have fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, and 19 percent have disciplined an employee for the same infractions, according to a new survey from Proofpoint, a messaging security company.
Almost a third of companies "employ staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound email," while more than fifteen percent have hired people whose primary function is to spy on outgoing corporate email. A quarter have fired an employee for violating corporate email policies. Twenty percent of the companies and almost thirty percent of companies with more than 20,000 employees had been ordered by a court or a regulator to turn over employee emails.
[ These aren't even ideological fascists. They're just making sure no one is offended. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:12 PM CST [more..]
Mass media, big corporations push hard for Barack Obama
Obama's neighborhood rich in diversity
High achievement and diversity are hallmarks of his Hyde Park-Kenwood community, technically two adjoining neighborhoods but usually referred to collectively. The community has been home to a long list of well-known residents, from the nation's first black woman senator and Chicago's first black mayor to legendary Scopes Trial defense attorney Clarence Darrow and an assortment of Nobel Prize winners and business magnates.
[ "Diversity" is his only qualification, since he hasn't done anything else of note. Why, you might ask yourself, do both hippie activists and large multinational corporations want a black president? ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:11 PM CST [more..]
Indian eco-rebel murdered
A notorious bandit known by many Indians as a local Robin Hood who defended forests against illegal loggers and poachers was shot dead Sunday in northern India after 32 years on the run, police said.
[ In a world of fools and corrupt self-serving people, this guy seemed alright. RIP ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:09 PM CST [more..]
Problems in computerizing Africa
Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/od_nm/nigeria_pornography_dc#hitler_rules
Terracom's tale is more than a story about a business dispute in Rwanda. It is also emblematic of what can happen when good intentions run into the technical, political and business realities of Africa.
Attempts to bring affordable high-speed Internet service to the masses have made little headway on the continent. Less than 4 percent of Africa's population is connected to the Web; most subscribers are in North African countries and the republic of South Africa.
A lack of infrastructure is the biggest problem. In many countries, communications networks were destroyed during years of civil conflict, and continuing political instability deters governments or companies from investing in new systems. E-mail messages and phone calls sent from some African countries have to be routed through Britain, or even the United States, increasing expenses and delivery times. About 75 percent of African Internet traffic is routed this way and costs African countries billions of extra dollars each year that they would not incur if their infrastructure was up to speed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/business/yourmoney/22rwanda.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&truth=hitler_was_right
[ Why don't you liberal do-gooders admit the only reason you're trying to computerize Africa is so they can become consumers for the products of companies in which you own stock, so you can afford a comfy retirement at the expense of others? ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:08 PM CST [link]
Politicians to court every special interest group equally dishonestly
Tired of being seen by religious voters as too secular or even hostile toward
religion, the Democratic Party and its presidential candidates have launched an
all-out effort to win their votes.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/22/democrats.religion/index.html
As they competed Sunday to woo Hispanic voters, Hillary Clinton touted her
personal connection to the community while Barack Obama emphasized the
intertwined struggles of black and Hispanic Americans.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_hispanics
[ They do it for the votes. The voters are easily fooled with promises. This is why every democracy disintegrates over time into an auction of a nation's value, for the promise of personal profit. You're only an idiot if you keep supporting it. ]
news on 07.23.07 @ 09:00 PM CST [link]
Interview with Craig Smith, LNSG
Brave soul Paul Cooijmans likes to interview people who are thinking outside the box as far as a fix for humanity's gigantic dilemma, namely its collapse. He took the time to write an interview with LNSG writer Craig Smith, who answered his questions in a lengthy interview touching on national socialism, ancient ethics and future technology.
news on 07.23.07 @ 08:09 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, July 21st
Glaciers melting is causing searise
Don't worry too much, for now, about rising seas caused by melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica. The big threat this century could come from small thawing glaciers, researchers reported Thursday.
[ Ecosystem means all parts connected to all other parts. You can just make little changes and hope they have no impact. Humanity's finally going to face what the Revolution wrought: people indulging selfishness while acting like peasants, and creating vast damage. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 02:33 PM CST [more..]
License plate monitor can scan a street in seconds
New York's Long Beach Police Department is among a growing number of law enforcement agencies using the roof-mounted license-plate reader, the Mobile Plate Hunter.
Bleeps and alarms are emitted as the device's two infrared cameras scan license plates at a rate of 15 to 25 a second, said North Carolina-based manufacturer Remington Elsag.
Those plate numbers are sent to a database in the police car trunk and compared with a digital list of vehicles wanted for crimes, traffic violations, reported stolen cars and vehicles linked to alerts for kidnapped children, authorities said.
The infrared cameras, which work like supermarket scanners, can record the plates of moving or stopped cars.
[ Look for more of this in the future. The database makes law enforcement easy, and getting in good graces difficult. Add to that trial by media, and you've got the perfect police state, without totalitarianism. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 02:16 PM CST [more..]
Military voting right wing but not Republican
It is no surprise that the Republican Party has received more campaign contributions from employees of the military than the Democratic Party. However, it may surprise a lot of people to find out that, according to FEC numbers, Ron Paul has received more campaign contributions from military
members than any other single candidate.
[ It's always instructive to see who the members of our military support, because unlike most of the rest of America, they're thinking about practical solutions to the problem of politics, not feelgood band-aids that fall apart the instant they're put into place. Liberal government sounds good on TV, but conservative methods work best. Right now, they're defecting from the neo-conservative neo-liberal republican party and seeking people like Ron Paul, who are far more realistic than the big parties. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 02:15 PM CST [more..]
Tiny brain no obstacle to French civil servant
Intelligence tests showed the man had an IQ of 75, below the average score of 100 but not considered mentally retarded or disabled, either.
[ Government literally hires retards. These are the people deciding whether you're on the terrorism watch list, and implementing multiculturalism. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 02:12 PM CST [more..]
US industry tries to restart immigration
President Bush sharply challenged critics of his stalled immigration-overhaul efforts on Thursday, suggesting that failure to pass a guest-worker program could trigger a labor shortage in the United States.
[ Immigrants are cheaper workers that are interchangeable, thus higher profits for industry. This has nothing to do with morality, civil rights, justice or conservative politics. It's all profit -- that you won't see. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 12:46 PM CST [more..]
Unions are parasites
Officials of all three have said they need labor cost parity with their Japanese rivals, mainly Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Studies have shown the Detroit automakers make around $2,000 less per vehicle than their competition, with much of that due to labor costs.
[ American labor has had this problem for years. While abuses existed in the workforce, unions were a terrible solution, because they obliterate competition and replace it with the handout state, which not surprisingly makes awful cars at high prices. The only reason American cars still start at all is competition from the Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s. Unions are parasites. Bad employers can also be. If we weren't tied up in a web of legalese and deception, we could see that and act accordingly. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 12:18 PM CST [more..]
Out of Africa theory still being debated
However, John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison says the paper is "mistaken." A major flaw is that the current research is largely based on skull variability. "You can't find the origin of people by measuring the variability of their skulls," Hawks told LiveScience.
Differences in skull features are related to genetics, and genetic variation depends on how much mixing occurs with other populations. "The main problem with the paper is that it takes some assumptions from genetics papers of 10 to 15 years ago that we now know are wrong," Hawks said.
[ We've been saying something similar for years: it's impossible to distinguish mixture from evolution when looking back through the genetic log, although corroborative factors can help. However, doesn't all of this miss the point? We've evolved in different ways since then and it's essential we preserve and understand those. This, like most modern arguments, is symbolic and not literal: we want to feel symbolic unity if we all came from Africa, nevermind those 1.6 million intervening years, or we want to feel disunity and a different origin from Africans. Neither is good science or good rational response. ]
news on 07.21.07 @ 12:16 PM CST [more..]