Friday, August 31st
Sweden censors website over Islam cartoons
The Swedish government has moved to shut down the website of a far-right political party's newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The site's host, Levonline, pulled the plug on the website of the Swedish Democrats' SD-Kuriren newspaper after consulting with the government...
The Swedish Democrats are a small anti-immigrant party with no representatives in parliament, but a few local elected officials.
[ Afraid of rocking the boat, we give it away. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:44 PM CST [more..]
American government dependent on Israeli lobbyists
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior intelligence officials should not be forced to testify about whether they discussed classified information with pro-Israel lobbyists, federal prosecutors argued in a closed-door court hearing Friday.
But defense attorneys suggested that top U.S. officials regularly used the lobbyists as a go-between as they crafted Middle East policy. If so, attorneys say, how are Rosen and Weissman supposed to know the same behavior that's expected of them on one day is criminal the next?
The list of Bush administration figures subpoenaed in the case include: Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; Iraq adviser David Satterfield; William Burns, U.S. ambassador to Russia; and retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni. The list also includes Kenneth Pollack, who served on the National Security Council during the Clinton administration.
[ Study question: Plato says Democracy becomes oligarchy, invisibly. What's happening here? ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:42 PM CST [more..]
Why China is colonizing Africa (again)
collection of robber barons, imperialist ideologues, explorers, rogues and adventurers - the likes of Cecil Rhodes and the appalling Leopold II, King of the Belgians - carved up the continent in the name of five European powers.
Today, few appear to have noticed that a second "scramble for Africa" is under way. This time, only one giant country is involved, but its ambitions are every bit as momentous as those of Rhodes and company. With every day that passes, China's economic tentacles extend deeper into Africa. While Europe sought direct political control, China is acquiring a vast and informal economic empire.
[ As any student of history knows, this happened once before -- maybe 3,000 to 5,000 years ago. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:40 PM CST [more..]
Web video provider censors Nazi-ish videos
YouTube has taken videos that promote Nazi propaganda off its Web site after Jewish leaders in Germany considered taking legal action.
After coming under intense pressure from politicians and Jewish groups for featuring far-right propaganda on its file-sharing Web site YouTube, Google Germany has agreed to remove the offending videos.
Earlier this week, Germany's Central Council of Jews contacted YouTube administrators and the German Authority for Youth Protection on the Internet to demand that material glorifying Nazi ideology be deleted. A number of politicians called for a legal investigation into the matter.
After YouTube failed to react, a number of Jewish leaders announced they were considering legal action
[ As reported before, Jewish and liberal leaders put the pressure on this company to censor its content. In a "free society," we have passive ways to be totalitarian. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:31 PM CST [more..]
With climate change, food prices skyrocketing
We're used to watching the price of oil mock gravity, but there's an even more essential commodity that's also become scarcer and pricier in recent months: Traders are paying record prices for wheat on world markets, thanks in part to shortages caused by a mix of drought and flooding. Canada, the second-biggest wheat producer after the U.S., looks set to harvest its smallest crop in five years, due to an unusually dry July, while production in the European Union may be down nearly 40% from last year after flooding rains followed long droughts. Growing global demand for biofuels is also eating up grain production, and boosting prices.
[ Most people have no idea our environment is still required to grow food. "It isn't all made out of plastic? Could have fooled me!" Watch some "genius" get an award for figuring out we now need to grow all of our food in sealed greenhouses. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:25 PM CST [more..]
Mesopotamian cities grew without monarch's influence
Contrary to the assumption that ancient cities always grew outwards from a central point, the urban site of Tell Brak in north-eastern Syria appears to have emerged as several nearby settlements melded together, according to researchers' analysis of archaeological evidence.
Experts say that the findings lend support to the theory that early Mesopotamian cities developed as a result of grassroots organisation, rather than a mandate from a central authority.
Ur believes his new findings contradict the impression given by early written texts that the earliest cities typically emerged under the strict control of kings who liked to keep their people as close as possible.
[ Notice these cities died out after growing too big. The answer that they were originally under the control of intelligent monarchs, then had a liberal revolution, grew big and mediocre and then collapsed into third-world status. Good thinking. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:24 PM CST [more..]
Forest depletion a consequence of human use
In drawing attention to regrowth of woodland in a country that was extensively deforested during the 1970s, Hecht and Saatchi call for a renewed examination of social and economic influences on agricultural practices and their effects on forest extent. New growth forests, most often in a mosaic along with agriculture, can buffer declines in biological diversity and are extensively used by old growth species.
[ We can sort of fix it, if we have many years to wait. But with the population always growing, the land will be "needed" soon. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:10 PM CST [more..]
Unions block federal requirement of citizenship to work
The Social Security Administration cannot start sending out letters to employers next week that carry with them more serious penalties for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Ruling on a lawsuit by the nation's largest federation of labor unions against the U.S. government, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the so-called "no-match" letters from going out as planned starting Tuesday.
The AFL-CIO lawsuit, filed this week, claims that new Department of Homeland Security rules outlined in accompanying letters threaten to violate workers' rights and unfairly burden employers. Chesney said the court needs "breathing room" before making any decision on the legality of new penalties aimed at cracking down on the hiring of illegal immigrants.
[ These unions want to block Mexican trucking so they can import those Mexicans, make them de facto citizens, and have them drive trucks in the USA -- and pay union dues, of course. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:08 PM CST [more..]
NAACP claims fraud on voters who moved from Louisiana
The NAACP filed a civil rights lawsuit challenging a purge of Louisiana voters believed to have registered in other states following Hurricane Katrina.
In the federal court action, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People contends that the purge has already begun without the necessary pre-approval of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Because of its history of racial discrimination before the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, voting changes in Louisiana and other Southern states must be approved by federal officials.
[ I don't know who's right. What I do know is that it doesn't matter -- this debate would be happening anyway. Multiculturalism doesn't work. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 11:02 PM CST [more..]
"White power" chants greet pro-Spanish discussion
The classroom discussion started with the question: Why do students need to learn Spanish?
At least one e-mail sent to 9NEWS said that at least one student started a chant of “white power” and some said that all Mexicans should go back to Mexico.
The Archdiocese says they did not expect something like this to happen in their system, which has embraced its Hispanic students. Archbishop Charles Chaput has come forward several times in support of the Mexican community.
[ Remember stuffy, uptight, conservative types in the 1950s? Now we have stuffy, neurotic, uptight liberal types in the 00s, and the kids hate you too, because your dogma is a failure. We're sick of this failing society on every level, but kids feel it most because they still have a choice about how to enter it. Note that multiculturalism is failing Hispanics as well, so they chant "Brown Power," yet the media finds this too awkward to cover. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 10:59 PM CST [more..]
More difference between races than individuals
This total genetic variation can therefore be divided into the differences in gene frequencies found between individuals from the same group, and the differences in gene frequencies found in different groups. The portion of the genetic variation in which there are random differences between individuals of the same race is larger than the portion that is patterned by race. As we saw above, the proportions are approximately 85 percent and 15 percent, which is to say that 85 percent of the genetic variation among people of the same race is equally random when compared to people of different races. For all this variation, therefore, there are no patterns that indicate whether someone is a Pygmy or an Eskimo or a European.
It is in this sense that Prof. Lewontin is correct: Within each racial group, there are more DNA sequence variants that are random than there are DNA sequence variants that show a racial pattern. It is therefore correct to say there is more genetic variation within races than between them. The anti-racists twist this fact to imply that individuals of different races are (or can be) more similar to people of other races than to people of their own race.
In fact, since there are no racial patterns to 85 percent of human genetic variation, that is theoretically possible. Purely random variation in these areas could conceivably make two individuals of different races more alike than two individuals of the same race. However, in the remaining 15 percent—the genetic variation where consistent racial differences are found—they would be as different from each other as any two typical members of the different races. Theoretically, a Chinese could be found who was indistinguishable from a Frenchmen in large parts of their DNA, but this would not make them particularly similar. This Chinese would not have the gene variants that contribute to producing light-colored eyes or hair, or Caucasian facial features, for example.
[ Statistical analysis shows why race is important. See also a more recent confirmation in "Racial differences proven in major newspaper". ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 10:56 PM CST [more..]
Gaelic news channel proposed
Gaelic communities and creative groups have been asked to join an "online conversation" on plans for a dedicated digital television channel for Gaelic.
The Gaelic Digital Service is to be run as a partnership between BBC Scotland and Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig (Gaelic Media Service).
The online discussion started on Thursday at www.gms.org.uk
[ National channels for all ethnic groups! Now that we have BET and the Gaelic channel, we're got a start. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 01:11 AM CST [more..]
White nationalist convicted of resisting arrest
Vanguard News Network's Alex Linder was conviced yesterday of resisting arrest and sentenced to six months suspended provided he remains of good behavior during that period.
Charges of disorderly conduct and property destruction were dropped against Linder in exchange for his payment of a $250 fine and court costs.
Linder had been arrested after confronting police before a rally he had planned against black crime in protest of the rape-murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsome in a Knoxville neighborhood.
news on 08.31.07 @ 01:08 AM CST [more..]
Cell phones probably give you brain cancer, mutations
New research claims that cells can react to a GSM-like signal in as little as ten minutes - though if whether this could causes cancer remains open to interpretation.
[ No one tested this before it got sold to the public? Oh, right... profit motive again. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 01:06 AM CST [more..]
Immigrants forging residency papers in Finland
Finnish police say that an increasing number of foreigners are gaining residence permits under false pretences.
They say there have been more cases recently of misuse of residence permits granted to students and more forged documents submitted to gain residence permits.
So far, police have discovered nearly 100 cases in which a foreigner has been granted a residence permit to study in Finland, but has actually come here to work.
[ Anything to get into a richer nation, and contribute less while taking more. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 01:05 AM CST [more..]
Genghis Khan's laws prohibit homosexuality
Chinese researchers have claimed that Genghis Khan's code of laws "probably" contains the earliest ban on male homosexuality, AP reports.
[ Often successful leaders aren't "tolerant," and it has nothing to do with them being afraid of being gay. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 01:03 AM CST [more..]
Government quietly adding cameras "for your security"
Houston police quietly have moved to install new red-light cameras at 20 intersections already monitored by the system, allowing citations for motorists traveling in the opposite direction, officials confirmed Tuesday.
The move to add more cameras, which had not been publicly disclosed, appears to conflict with the terms of a contract the City Council approved in 2006 with American Traffic Solutions Inc., the private company that installs and monitors the cameras.
[ The governments based on "freedom" become the worst abusers because, unlike a National Socialist state, they have no goal but profit and control. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 01:00 AM CST [more..]
States crackdown on driver's licenses for illegals
The handful of states that issue licenses to illegal immigrants are stepping up efforts to combat fraud and identity theft. That means stricter rules for ensuring immigrants live in-state and are who they say they are.
In the last year, North Carolina and Tennessee stopped issuing licenses to illegal immigrants altogether. Meanwhile, New Mexico’s motor vehicle agency enlisted the Mexican government to help the state check the identity of would-be drivers. Maine is working to start limiting licenses to in-state residents, after decades of resisting.
[ In a sane world, they would have been doing this since the beginning, which is so obvious that most of us assumed they knew it too. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 12:58 AM CST [more..]
1 in 3 online daters has sex on first date
Women who date online are likely to take precautions to protect their personal safety when first meeting a man face-to-face, but often are much less careful about protecting their sexual health once that encounter moves to the next level, a Houston-based study has found.
While the women who were surveyed went to great lengths to screen online acquaintances before meeting them, nearly a third reported having sex on the first date and three-quarters of those said they did not use condoms, according to the study by The University of Texas School of Public Health.
[ No longer any reason to believe in anything, so chase that happy moment and... then what? It'll be another twenty years of this, and then you're too old, so you get to be prematurely celibate and bitter like Democratic senators. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 12:57 AM CST [more..]
How to hire cheap aliens while avoiding Americans (video)
You'll see a panel discussion that looks like a sit-down with "the families" on The Sopranos, only instead of talking about organized crime these lawyers are discussing the ins and outs of helping employers side-step immigration law.
The objective, says Lawrence Lebowitz, vice president of marketing at Cohen & Grigsby, couldn't be more straightforward.
"Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified U.S. worker ... our objective is to get this person a green card," Lebowitz tells his audience.
And if despite looking in all the wrong places a gem of an American candidate pops up anyway?
"If someone looks like they are very qualified, if necessary schedule an interview; go through the whole process to find a legal basis to disqualify them," he says.
[ A society based on profit will eat itself. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 12:47 AM CST [more..]
Sociability masks our desire to lie to ourselves
When was the last time you said something but meant another, or embellished the truth just a bit? Even the most honest and straightforward of us do it from time to time.
I suspect that most of the time we're trying to save ourselves from something unpleasant by telling ourselves it's for the other person's good.
Call them euphemisms, embellishments, little white lies, spinning the truth, exaggerations, whatever you like. They're common in the workplace and everybody's guilty. You can either admit it or not, but if you say "not me," we all know you're lying.
[ No need for a conspiracy. Between money, social factors, and political factors, we're not paying attention to reality at all, as a society, and the results are glaring. ]
news on 08.31.07 @ 12:29 AM CST [more..]
Wednesday, August 29th
Unions seek to block NAFTA trucks
The Teamsters Union said Wednesday it will ask a federal appeals court to block the Bush administration's plan to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States.
The union said it has been told by officials in the Transportation Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border Saturday.
[ Suddenly, it has become fashionable to note that Americans will be displaced by this new SPP, or north American union renamed. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 11:16 PM CST [more..]
Black officials "schemed against white voters"
In a case that marked the federal government's first use of the Voting Rights Act to accuse African-Americans of discriminating against white voters, a judge on Monday ordered a Mississippi county Democratic Party and its chairman to forgo election activities until 2011.
U.S. District Judge Tom Lee issued the order as a remedy in the 2005 lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. "The court is convinced that Ike Brown, and the NDEC under his leadership, have engaged in racially motivated manipulation of the electoral process … to the detriment of white voters," he wrote.
[ It's ethnic war at the ballot box, and whitey's not to blame. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 09:24 PM CST [more..]
Open ethnic conflict in America
But Eyewitness News learns a group of black teenagers allegedly retaliated by smashing windows in the man's truck and home. Four hours later, six black teenagers apparently abandoned a stolen car near the intersection as a group of white men and teenagers allegedly attack. Montgomery's son was stabbed in the leg and another teenager was hit with a shovel.
"Six to eight white boys had shovels...bats, knives. Both of 'em, intermixed. They both had weapons. Swinging, throwing bats," said Lee Anne Grigsby.
[ Crime and racial tensions escalate every time. Multiculturalism is the enemy of all races. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 09:22 PM CST [more..]
US schools re-segregate
Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, according to report published on Wednesday.
Part of the reason for the resegregation trend is the rapidly expanding number of black and Latino children and a corresponding fall in the number of white children, it said.
Contrary to popular belief, the surge in the number of minority children in public schools was not mainly caused by a flight of white students into private schools.
[ If we're all equal, why are they worried? ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 08:01 PM CST [more..]
Museum exhibit spurs race debate over Egyptian "Africanness"
The King Tut exhibition has drawn a steady stream of protesters since it opened in Los Angeles. Speakers said the exhibition on display upstairs gives the false impression that King Tut was white.
But as anthropologist Nina Jablonski points out, it’s hard to say exactly what ancient historians meant when they described the skin they saw as “dark.” And she says much of the archeological evidence points to a different conclusion.
“When we look at the representation of the Egyptian royalty on the walls of tombs, we see a range of sort of moderate, tan-colored skin on the royalty,” Jablonski said. “This probably is a fairly close approximation of what skin color these people actually had.”
[ Oh for crying out loud. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:59 PM CST [more..]
British dumb down science tests so more pass
Examiners will have to set easier questions in some GCSE science papers, under new rules seen by The Times. A document prepared by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), which represents awarding bodies across Britain, says that, from next year, exam papers should consist of 70 per cent .low-demand questions., requiring simpler or multiple-choice answers. These currently make up just 55 per cent of the paper.
The move follows growing concern about the .dumbing down. of science teaching at GCSE and grade inflation of exam results, which critics claim is the result of a government drive to reverse the long-term decline in the number of pupils studying science.
[ Backwards logic: adjust the test to fit the population, so the same amount pass. We'll recalibrate IQ next. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:56 PM CST [more..]
"Free" government has point and click wiretaps
Building off the design mandates of CALEA, the FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device"
[ Government has to spy on its enemies. Only unrealistic people say otherwise. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:55 PM CST [more..]
Humans de-oxygenate oceans, slowing fish reproduction
Low oxygen levels in coastal waters interfere with fish reproduction by disrupting the fishes' hormones, a marine scientist has found. Incidents of seasonal low levels of oxygen, known as hypoxia, have increased dramatically in coastal waters throughout the world over the past few decades, largely as a result of increased run-off from human agricultural and industrial activities. Hypoxia's long-term impact on marine animal populations is unknown.
[ More damage for mass popularity. If we limited our population, this wouldn't be a problem. But that's unpopular. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:54 PM CST [more..]
USA rounding up criminal illegal aliens
Operation Lake County Gang Search 2007 has been under way since Sunday in Waukegan, coming in the wake of last month's major immigration rights rally and the decision by police to apply for special training to deport violent criminals.
"This is not part of 287(g)," Waukegan Police Chief Bill Biang said, referring to the federal enforcement authorization. "It could be as long as two years before we even get that program in place. We do these type of big roundups all the time."
[ Why do we keep any criminals in our society? Deport the native born rapists, grand thieves, muggers and robbers also. Mexico can have 'em -- cheap labor! ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:48 PM CST [more..]
Modern gadgets deplete sleep
According to a new study by The Sleep Council, teenagers are increasingly sleeping less and experiencing lower quality sleep due to a huge increase in entertainment gadget ownership. In the study, almost all of the 12 to 16 year-olds reported having either a phone, music system or TV in their bedrooms, with two-thirds having all three. Additionally, 58% of 12 to 14 year-old boys have a phone, music player, TV and video game console in their bedroom. According to the research, this plethora of entertainment options is causing teenagers to lose sleep, with 30% saying they get just four to seven hours sleep, instead of the recommended eight to nine hours for this age group. Almost a quarter admit to falling asleep watching TV and/or listening to music or with other gadgets still running more than once a week.
[ But it's more convenient, even if you are a sleep-deprived zombie who thus acts like a total moron. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:43 PM CST [more..]
USA ridden by corruption in Iraq effort
Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchase and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies and other matéel to Iraqi and American forces, according to American officials. The officials said it amounted to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered in the conflict here.
The inquiry has already led to several indictments of Americans, with more expected, the officials said. One of the investigations involves a senior American officer who worked closely with Gen. David H. Petraeus in setting up the logistics operation to supply the Iraqi forces when General Petraeus was in charge of training and equipping those forces in 2004 and 2005, American officials said Monday.
[ Oligarchs rule the country, and will even after this next election. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:42 PM CST [more..]
Italians make laws against immigrant misbehavior
Illegal immigrants in Italy earning a few coins by washing windscreens at traffic lights could face up to three months in jail after Florence launched a crackdown and other cities said they might follow suit.
Foreigners are also blamed for much of the street crime in a relatively safe country. Most people wielding sponges on street corners are Romanian gypsies, often young women and children.
But word got round quickly in historic Florence that city hall had introduced new rules enabling police to bring charges against window-washers, confiscate their equipment and start prosecutions that could end in fines and a prison sentence.
[ Europeans are gently forcing out the worst of the foreigners, and will force the rest out sooner. It's probably not a problem to have a few wandering around, but mass immigration is genocide. ]
news on 08.29.07 @ 07:40 PM CST [more..]
Tuesday, August 28th
Technology industry buys democratic party
Now that the Democrats are the dominant party on the hill in Washington, tech companies and venture capitalists are contributing more to that party than they are to congressional Republicans.
For the first half of this year, almost two-thirds of the contributions from the political action committees of Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Google and other tech companies went to Democrats and Democratic committees, according to the Mercury News. That.s the reverse of what it was last year.
[ If you're surprised, you weren't paying attention. Our last Democrat president allowed tech companies to over-inflate themselves, resulting in spectacular profits in IT and entertainment, and a consequent crash in 2000 that was devastating. They'll do it again and blame the next Republican president yet again. Democracy is a scam. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 11:15 PM CST [more..]
Human behavior determined by social pressure
From an atheist perspective I had always tended to view religions as clear and distinct sets of axioms; but operationally the practice seems far more subject to social consensus and individual rationalization. This isn't only an issue with religions, I have known of environmentalists who drive SUVs, self-proclaimed social conservatives who are heavy users of drugs and indulge in non-standard sexual practices, and so on. I'm sure most people can repeat such examples. Years ago when I found out that George H.W. Bush had switched from being pro-choice to pro-life, as had Ronald Reagan to some extent (Reagan's pro-choice period was more that he simply signed laws decriminalizing abortion in California as governor), I assumed this was conscious political opportunism. The same for Al Gore or Jesse Jackson, who made the inverted transition. And surely some aspect of political calculation was at work here on the ultimate level, but what about the proximate cognitive processes? Humans are good at rationalization, and I'm not sure anymore that the elder Bush or Reagan were insincere in their rather fortuitous conversions. Or, at least part of their minds were pretty convinced that their change in opinion had more to do with reflective shifts in the underlying assumptions and values and not an exogenous push due to circumstance.
In short, humans beings perceive themselves to be reflective beings shaped by essential axioms open to conscious inspection. But the reality is that human behavior and psychology seems to exhibit a great deal of contextual contingency which shape a host of cognitive processes insulated from conscious inspection. We regularly seem to make up, and believe in, stories which reinforce our self-perception that we are rational beings with free will who make decisions and form beliefs by carefully taking into account data filtered via our avowed norms. But cognitive psychology shows that humans can be easily influenced by priming inputs which they are not conscious of in regards to the choices they make, all the while happily regaling researchers with their theories that sketch out the underlying causal factors behind their behavior. Yet it seems here that as in the case above the reason is posterior to the act; constructed post facto to give intellectual support to decisions made via other means.
[ Kaczynski, Nietzsche and Hitler noted the same thing: Democracy is designed to fail. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 11:13 PM CST [more..]
Leftists slander opposition to silence them
But days after the book appeared, Lynn Conway, a prominent computer scientist at the University of Michigan, sent out an e-mail message comparing Dr. Bailey's views to Nazi propaganda. [B]y the end of 2003, the controversy had a life of its own on the Internet. Dr. Conway, the computer scientist, kept a running chronicle of the accusations against Dr. Bailey on her Web site. Any Google search of Dr. Bailey's name brought up Dr. Conway's site near the top of the list.
The site also included a link to the Web page of another critic of Dr. Bailey's book, Andrea James, a Los Angeles-based transgender advocate and consultant. Ms. James downloaded images from Dr. Bailey's Web site of his children, taken when they were in middle and elementary school, and posted them on her own site, with sexually explicit captions that she provided. (Dr. Bailey is a divorced father of two.) Ms. James said in an e-mail message that Dr. Bailey's work exploited vulnerable people, especially children, and that her response echoed his disrespect.
[ Obviously, they don't trust the merits of their own beliefs to stand alone. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 11:11 PM CST [more..]
Monkeys made choice to evolve
Ted Evans at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, who led the study, says that the new findings add to a growing body of evidence that some non-human primates possess greater control over their actions than many scientists had previously thought.
[ They're not as smart as we are, but it doesn't mean they're less complete in ability to will things. Long ago, primates began wanting to get better, so they began the path to human-ness. Some humans want to get better, but others want to hold them back. What's after humanity, and will we ever get there? ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 11:09 PM CST [more..]
Unions are pro-immigration
Immigrant workers are more likely to fill out their union cards than U.S.-born employees, according to a study released Tuesday by Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank.
The number of immigrant wage union members grew by 30 percent between 1996 and 2006, while the number of native-born union workers fell 9 percent during the decade. U.S.-born membership in unions is declining as baby boomers retire and manufacturing goes overseas, said Richard Shaw, secretary-treasurer of the Harris County AFL-CIO Council. He said that leaves immigrant workers for organizing.
[ Everyone's using immigrants for their own profit, including immigrants. Who's thinking about the health of the country? ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 11:07 PM CST [more..]
Black residents continue to blame whites for succeeding
Levees and floodwalls are being repaired and fortified; washed-out neighborhoods are repopulating. But on the eve of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is grappling with fallout from the storm that could prove even harder to repair: ever worsening relations between the city's white and black residents.
[ The poor areas in NO were mostly black. The storm hit, the city was unprepared, the state was unprepared, and then they failed to call in the federal forces. As a result, it was a giant mess, and those who were poor are still poor. What do they do? Ask for handouts and blame the giver, as that's the easiest course of action. This isn't about black/white; it's about poor versus those with enough money, brains and dedication to get their act together. Those with less, given a choice, will always leech off those with more. And, multiculturalism fails. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 11:06 PM CST [more..]
Americans breed for dollars
"I think through time, hot women and rich men have proven that they are attracted to each other," says Jeremy Abelson -- and yes, he's totally serious.
To test his theory, Abelson, 27, organized the first-ever Natural Selection Speed Date: Rich Guys & Hot Girls event, which took place February 7, in New York City.
Women, meanwhile, needed to be supermodel-hot, as judged by celebrity matchmaker Janis Spindel. Of the 40 men and 40 women who were selected for the event, Abelson claims it was a smashing success, with over half the attendees having some sort of post-event connection.
[ Women spread their legs for money because this society spreads its legs for money. Before you go blaming Jews, Catholics, Negroes, whites, corporations or Nazis for your problems, consider this basic failing of your social design. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:55 PM CST [more..]
Technology designed to be "good enough," not good
Not by a long shot. We're surrounded by miraculous machines and services, most of them calibrated to a level software engineers have long called "good enough." In the right circumstances, good enough is great for the entire economy. A marketplace that's not hung up on fail-safe standards is open to risk and innovation, and drives down prices. Ever since the dawn of the PC--the archetype for a good-enough machine--inventors have been freer than ever to piece together and launch their visions. Some are brilliant, some are half-baked, many are a blend of the two. A precious few are up and running 99.999% of the time--Bell's old standard. But they cost far less to build.
The rise of good-enough technology raises different questions for do-it-yourselfers and major corporations alike. It's no longer whether we can afford a technology, but more often whether we can afford the disruption if and when it fails. Is it critical? Do we have backup in place? Many of us face this question every time we venture from our office with a cell phone. We don't have "one machine that works all the time," says Dave Morgan, chairman of Tacoda Inc., a New York advertising company. "We have lots of alternatives that work most of the time."
[ Capitalism encourages sloppy work because it's a superior product. In the end, the people suffer for the stuff that doesn't work as advertised, and are afraid to tell others because they'll be thought incompetent. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:53 PM CST [more..]
Offices reward the anti-creative, part MCLVII
Morning people] tend to be of a certain personality: they favour the tangible and concrete, they trust their experience and the observable over intuition and feelings; they have an attention to detail and a preference for logic. They are respectful of authority, care about social conventions and are rarely politically radical.
...
In contrast to morning types, evening people preferred the symbolic over the concrete, were creative and risk-taking, and tended to be non-conformist and independent.
[ We need a less rigid work environment so some of those evening people contributions get caught up in the 9 am boardroom meeting. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:51 PM CST [more..]
African migration occurred much earlier than thought
The African origin of early modern humans 200,000--150,000 years ago is now well documented, with archaeological data suggesting that a major migration from tropical east Africa to the Levant took place between 130,000 and 100,000 years ago via the presently hyper-arid Saharan-Arabian desert. This migration was dependent on the occurrence of wetter climate in the region. Whereas there is good evidence that the southern and central Saharan-Arabian desert experienced increased monsoon precipitation during this period, no unequivocal evidence has been found for a corresponding rainfall increase in the northern part of the migration corridor, including the Sinai-Negev land bridge between Africa and Asia. Passage through this "bottleneck" region would have been dependent on the development of suitable climate conditions. New evidence based on absolute uranium series dating of carbonate cave deposits (speleothems) supports the idea of a wet climate in the region at that time.
[ They keep trying to tell us it was more recent, out of some politically correct idea that it makes a difference. It doesn't. Evolution continues no matter what splits occurred. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:48 PM CST [more..]
Sacred Mexica Traditionalist text translated
Be careful, because you come from a great family, you descend from them, you are born from illustrious people. You are the thorn, the offshoot of our lords. The lords have left us, those who governed; they are standing in line there, those who came to take command in the world; they gave renown and fame to the nobility.3
Listen. Much do I want you to understand that you are noble. See that you are very precious, even while you are still only young. You are a precious stone, you are a turquoise. You have been formed, shaped; you have the blood, the color; you are the offshoot and the stem; you are a descendant of noble lineage.
[ All cultures are shaped around nobility, tradition and ethnic-cultural nationalism. Support the right of all cultures to continue in this way. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:40 PM CST [more..]
Environmentalist sentenced for Holocaust denial
Well-known environmentalist Dr. Johannes Lerle, 55, was sentenced in mid-June by an Erlangen court to one year in prison for alleged "racial incitement." The charge stems from his "public denial or minimizing of National Socialist atrocities in a manner designed to disturb the peace."
Asked in an interview with the Catholic publication Kreuz (Cross) if he was a "Holocaust denier," Lerle said that such a question belongs in the realm of religion. He pointed out that while one could deny the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection of Christ, the so-called Holocaust had become a state-mandated article of faith in which questioning of the manufacture of bars of soap and lampshades out of
human tissue by the National Socialists had become a punishable offense.
[ Of course, it's postwar propaganda by a side trying to demonize its superior but outnumbered enemies. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:38 PM CST [more..]
YouTube accused of anti-Semitism for not censoring videos
The Central Council of Jews in Germany wants the government to begin a criminal investigation into Google and YouTube for airing neo-Nazi and Nazi videos they claim violate Germany's strict laws against inciting hatred toward minorities. Salomon Korn, VP of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, called for an investigation of YouTube for allegedly allowing the spread of anti-Semitic propaganda. They include World War II Nazi propaganda clips, as well as recent clips from neo-Nazi groups active in Germany. German journalists said one of the YouTube-aired clips was viewed more than 400,000 times in eight months, despite pleas from several German groups to take it down.
[ I thought the whole reason the NWO was "morally superior" to the NSDAP was that it allowed freedom and didn't kill Jews. But it can't take criticism of its own views. The NSDAP was more honest in that it never pretended it would tolerate outright attacks, but was relatively tolerant of constructive critique. ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:36 PM CST [more..]
LNSG interview: Chris Stevens at Arabian Monkey
Chris Stevens of LNSG interview at Arabian Monkey. Topics covered: race, the presidential election, popular culture and UFOs.
news on 08.28.07 @ 10:31 PM CST [more..]
Lame duck media urges us to accept black candidates
Thompson was also widely respected when he was the top U.S. attorney for the northern District of Georgia. Democrats and Republicans both like him, and that’s a good thing today.
Another plus? He’s African-American.
Sure, people should be appointed based on qualifications, but he has that. His race is an added element.
First, Thompson would be the first African-American to serve as attorney general, and Bush has already had a couple of firsts (Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State). Second, Bush would get someone who he already knows, and can trust to get through what some are already calling a tough confirmation hearing.
[ This is a case of someone feeling very self-important for having pitied a black person and lifted him up as a candidate for the highest office in the land. You're delusional! ]
news on 08.28.07 @ 12:20 AM CST [more..]
Sunday, August 26th
Gov't employee fired for un-PC website
According to the Contra Costa Times, Senior Airman Travis Gruber of Sacramento - who's been Major Gen. William Wade's aide for a year - didn't actually provide handy tips on how to kill people, but rather
let rip against "African-Americans, Jews, Asians, women, gays, and people with physical handicaps".
[ I thought we had "freedom" to not like any one we didn't want to like. Oh no, the Nanny state is fascist! I'll take Nazi over Nanny -- at least the Nazis were honest. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 11:21 PM CST [more..]
Award-winning Holocaust director was pedophile
But Gailey was also a schoolgirl who kept pet rats and had a Spiderman poster on her bedroom wall.
Polanski said afterwards that Gailey had quickly assured him she was feeling better - after which, he maintained, "very gently, I began to kiss and caress her".
But the 13-year-old girl's account was different.
She insisted that she told the director she wasn't feeling better, and when he kissed her she told him: "No" and "keep away".
In the next few minutes, according to the girl, Polanski raped and sodomised her.
He later described them as "making love" but Gailey violently disagreed.
When asked if she resisted, she said: "Not really - because I was afraid of him".
[ Modern society picks another sociopath to praise. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 06:48 PM CST [more..]
PBS guilted into Hispanic film week
The Lopez film is one of five Latino projects that PBS is airing in the weeks before the start of Burns' "The War" on Sept. 23. Advocates were angered that the Burns epic did not feature the contributions of Latino soldiers, and their protest this spring forced PBS' best-known documentarian to add such material to the film.
[ Guilt is not the weapon of those with strong cases. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:55 PM CST [more..]
Israel declares itself a National Socialist state
Israel's decision to close its doors to asylum-seekers from Darfur and all other non-Jewish refugees has Israelis and Jews around the world struggling with their distinct identities of Israel: a Jewish state with a Jewish people, or a state born from the Holocaust with a determination to challenge future genocides and succor their victims.
[ Every ethnicity must preserve itself and its culture. We welcome our Jewish brethren in this realization. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:37 PM CST [more..]
Sanctuary for illegals means unprosecuted crime
Two weeks ago, illegal aliens Jose Carranza and Rodolfo Godinez, one an MS-13 gang-banger-- forced three college bound teens to their knees before assassinating them in Newark, New Jersey. It’s been called “The Newark Massacre.”
Two years ago, illegal alien Gomez Garcia executed Denver Police Officer Don Young in the back of the head.
What do the two crimes share in common? Both events and criminals enjoyed “Sanctuary Policy” in those cities. That policy disallows any information as to a criminal’s illegal immigration status. It protects them from the rule of law. Denver police stopped Gomez-Garcia three times while letting him go each time. Carranza and Godinez sported rap sheets a football field long including rape of a five year old girl.
[ You don't want anyone exempt from law, or taxes, or accountability, but our "phantom labor" seems to be. It's like a black market in human time. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:28 PM CST [more..]
Dollar to fall to record low
The dollar may decline to a record low against the euro in the next six months because U.S. economic growth will slow, forcing the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
From the current level of $1.3568 per euro, the U.S. currency will weaken to $1.43 per euro in the next three to six months, Goldman Sachs said in a research note yesterday. New York-based Goldman, the
world's biggest securities firm by market value, lowered its dollar forecast from a prior estimate of $1.35. The dollar set a record low of $1.3852 per euro on July 24.
[ Build a nation on hype, then lose a war, then get inundated with immigrants... I'd have no faith in the currency either. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:25 PM CST [more..]
German government under pressure to ban nationalist parties
Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming under mounting pressure to ban Germany's main neo-Nazi party following a brutal attack on eight Indian traders who were chased and beaten by a mob screaming racist abuse.
A leader of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) was charged with inciting racial hatred yesterday after he proposed Adolf Hitler's former deputy, Rudolf Hess, for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hours after Udo Voigt made the remarks in a speech in Jena marking the 20th anniversary of Hess's death last Saturday night, the Indian men were chased through the nearby town of Mügeln.
[ This is "freedom," remember, to think what your leaders are thinking or be thrown in jail for making a suggestion otherwise. I like the governments that are realistic and don't pretend "freedom" exists, because they're not so manipulative and dishonest as our current governments. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:22 PM CST [more..]
Make a law against illegals, and they leave
Tens of thousands of Hispanics have left the Tulsa area. And, a law designed to crack down on illegal immigration hasn't even taken effect yet.
East Tulsa is where the majority of Hispanics ended up settling. They came by the thousands and now they're leaving that way, too. And, it's all because of one word -- deportation.
[ They're only here because we -- sorry, our meatpacking and construction industries, I mean! -- invited them. Rescind the invitation, and they go home, which is best for Mexico anyway. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:19 PM CST [more..]
Book critical of Israeli lobby prompts massive campaign
The controversial book "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by two political science professors, Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer, makes a simple argument: The U.S. lobby that supports Israel - a Jewish lobby as well as an evangelical Christian one - is very powerful and is charting a foreign policy for the United States that is favorable to Israel, but is not in America's interests.
Walt and Mearsheimer's view has not yet trickled down to public opinion. Opinion polls show the Israeli position to be as stable as ever, and the administration and Congress are no less friendly than before. Only a week has passed since a new, generous, 10-year aid agreement was signed.
[ No foreign lobbies or business owners should interfere with the nation. How can they not have dual loyalties? ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 04:09 PM CST [more..]
American students are unable to understand simple tasks
More than half of students at four-year colleges — and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges — lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found.
The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips.
Without "proficient" skills, or those needed to perform more complex tasks, students fall behind. They cannot interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
[ Tell them they're special, lower standards for multiculturalism, feed them psychiatric drugs and television, and now we're surprised they're vegetables. ]
news on 08.26.07 @ 12:42 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, August 25th
Liberals use immigrants to balance Conservative numbers
Population expert Nick Eberstadt recently speculated in The Washington Post that a principal reason for America's high fertility rate compared to Europe's is its religiosity. Well, that leaves liberals out.
The Democratic Party is in the fight of its life against a conservative demographic trend. Its only hope is to gerrymander America to make the poorest half of Mexico a state. Only a massive influx of criminals, wards of the state and rioters can save them.
This is why Democrats are obsessed with giving two groups the right to vote: illegal aliens and felons. With Arellano, they get two for the price of one. To liberals, building a wall across the Mexican border is a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Democrats are counting on illegal immigrants to be the future of their party, their border guards for the new socialist state. At least liberals have a clear mission and know what they're fighting for. Their plan is to destroy America.
[ As much as it surprises me to agree with this source, she's correct. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 06:29 PM CST [more..]
Oklahome expelling illegal aliens
Thousands of Hispanics have fled the Tulsa, Okla., area in the shadow of a looming state law that limits benefits and mandates deportation for illegal aliens, according to a report from KTUL television in Tulsa.
The state of Oklahoma recently approved a new law that requires deportation for illegal aliens who are arrested, and limits benefits and jobs to those individuals. The report said in East Tulsa, where a community of Hispanics has grown over recent years, there's been a sudden drop in population.
[ States are stepping in where the federal government cannot or will not. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 05:17 PM CST [more..]
Katyn massacre established as work of Soviets
The commission's conclusion supports the testimony of elderly witnesses in the nearby village of Bykovnia, who said they saw trucks dripping blood en route to the site in the 1930's, before the Nazis occupied the area.
Unofficial estimates put the number of bodies in the grave at 200,000 to 300,000.
Villagers in Bykovnia broke five decades of silence to accuse Stalin's secret police after the Ukrainian government erected a monument in May 1988 blaming Nazi occupiers for the crime. The villagers in December forced Ukrainian authorities to establish the commission, saying three previous investigations had covered up the truth by blaming Nazi troops.
[ This is an atrocity blamed on the Nazis for sixty years, and yet this story gets almost no mainstream coverage. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:44 PM CST [more..]
"Free speech" in the democratic police state
German police have charged the leader of a far-right political party with inciting racial hatred after he recommended Adolf Hitler's former deputy for the Nobel peace prize.
If convicted of incitement, Voigt could face a jail term of up to three years or a fine, police said.
[ Yes, you have "freedom," whatever that is. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:35 PM CST [more..]
Blacks and Hispanics file more insurance claims, have less credit
The study found credit scores effectively predict the number of claims consumers file and the total cost of those claims. However, it also found that black and Hispanic consumers tend to have lower scores than non-Hispanic whites and Asians. As a result, consumers in those demographic groups, on average, end up paying more for car insurance.
[ Multiculturalism isn't working for Hispanics and blacks, either. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:33 PM CST [more..]
Turk persecuted for discouraging race-mixing
When Sascha reached the covered escalator, the two men grabbed him, first by his tracksuit and then by his right arm, and threw him onto his back.
"You know why," said the father, Muharrem E, even though he and Sascha had never met before.
Sascha, a 19-year-old blonde, his hair cropped short, a boy who liked playing football and was learning the interior decorating trade, had just packed his tape measure, a pair of scissors and his lunch into his bag. As was usual at this time of the day, he was on his way from his apartment to school, wearing tennis shoes with loosely tied shoelaces. And yes, he knew what they meant.
He was a German who had been dating Fatma, the family's youngest daughter, for two years. The couple had been living together for the past few weeks. Sascha felt the men's hands on his back and saw the car, with the mother sitting in the back seat.
[ They did the right thing. Germans marrying Turks will ruin the Turkish bloodline! ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:30 PM CST [more..]
African uses race card to avoid neighborhood rules
Kris Gounden, who is Guyanese, said his white neighbors have tried to run him out of his big new house in Hamilton Beach since he moved there 17 months ago.
Councilman Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach), however, accused Gounden of playing the race card after getting written up for an expensive building violation.
"He knew Howard Beach. He knew its history and he used it to try to get around the building code," said Addabbo. "If he had done things up to code, no one would have bothered him."
Inspectors went to Gounden's home nine times in the past year, according to Buildings Department records. Seven of the complaints resulted in fines totaling $10,500. Two complaints were unfounded.
Neighbor Mark Troia, who said Michael Hussey Sr. smacked him with a bat last August, nonetheless blamed Gounden for the strife. "This had nothing to do with color," Troia said. "He's just a low-life that's making all kinds of waves around the neighborhood."
[ Make an easy out, they'll take it. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:20 PM CST [more..]
Affirmative action builds careers, wealth -- for whites
Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative action—and indeed, among those who were not.
Easily the most startling conclusion of his research: Mr. Sander calculated that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions—about 7.9% fewer by his reckoning. He identified the culprit as the practice of admitting minority students to schools for which they are inadequately prepared. In essence, they have been “matched” to the wrong school.
The committee members didn’t formally explain their decision to deny Mr. Sander’s request for this data (in which no names would be disclosed), but the root cause is clear: Over the last 40 years, many distinguished citizens—university presidents, judges, philanthropists and other leaders—have built their reputations on their support for race-based admissions. Ordinary citizens have found secure jobs as part of the resulting diversity bureaucracy.
[ The "diversity bureaucracy"? Sounds like people making big cash through dogma allegiance, just like in the Soviet Union. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:17 PM CST [more..]
60% of Germans wouldn't have worked against Hitler
In 1952 only 20 per cent of the German population approved of the Nazi resistance. That figure has now increased, according to a survey in 1994, to around 40 per cent.
[ In 1952, they still remembered how nice it was to have healthy order imposed on an otherwise dying time. Now they remember what was on TV last night, but they can still only fool 2/5 of the people. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:15 PM CST [more..]
Media crucifies people, then abandons them
A life has been destroyed after the abduction of Madeleine McCann. Perhaps two, for we do not yet know Madeleine’s fate, and perhaps we never will. But for Robert Murat, the one-time suspect whom much of the British newspaper industry and parts of the Portuguese media casually decided to convict, a life lies in ruins. There is no redemption for Mr Murat now, not if the Angel Gabriel should appear on television to exonerate him. The name alone brings a shudder.
But nobody closely involved with this case believes any longer that Mr Murat is anything but an innocent man. For the rest of the world, however, glancing in passing at headlines and skimming news reports over its coffee, the name Murat is now synonymous with “creepy oddball and obvious suspect”.
His reputation will not now be rescued even by the arrest and conviction of anyone else.
[ The "free" press -- given license to wreck whatever it touches. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:12 PM CST [more..]
Multiculturalism raises British handgun death rates
Despite a ban on handguns introduced in 1997 after 16 children and their teacher were shot dead in the Dunblane massacre the previous year, their use in crimes has almost doubled to reach 4,671 in 2005-06. Official figures show that although Britain has some of the toughest anti-gun laws in the world, firearm use in crime has risen steadily. This year eight young people have been killed in gun attacks: six in London and one each in Manchester and Liverpool.
[ With no culture in control, it's just commerce now. The UK is as bad off as the USA. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:10 PM CST [more..]
64% of Americans distrust mainstream media
The internet news audience is particularly likely to criticize the performance of news organizations; fully 64% of those who get most of their news from the internet say news organizations are politically biased. Roughly two-thirds (68%) also say that news organizations do not care about the people they report on, and 53% believe that news organizations are too critical of America.
[ Of course. First, the media is a business; it makes money by selling controversy, not health. Second, of course it's biased, it has paying advertisers and paying customers to which it panders. Finally, of course they're too critical of America... as any drug addict knows, being self-critical is easier than fixing the problem. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:08 PM CST [more..]
Child victims of leftist murder discovered
Russia may have uncovered the remains of the last tsar's son, the heir to the throne, and a daughter missing since the seven royal family members were shot by a communist firing squad almost 90 years ago.
A Communist firing squad shot Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and five children in the basement of a nobleman's house in 1918 in Yekaterinburg, 1,622 kilometers (1,000 miles) east of Moscow.
[ Leftist revenge impulses show clearly again. The news isn't psyched about covering this one. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:05 PM CST [more..]
Comic strips censored for offending Muslims
The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post.
[ Of course, no one can be offended in modern society... they're all paying customers. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 12:04 PM CST [more..]
Hispanic woman is Miss Teen USA
Miss Teen Colorado Hilary Carol Cruz received her crown from outgoing Miss Teen USA Katie Blair at the conclusion of the two-hour competition at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium broadcast on NBC-TV.
[ Why are the dramatic, neurotic media trend whores so pro-immigration? Oh, that's right: self-hatred. They like to hate themselves and others and reach out to exotic solutions because it's easier than facing why they hate themselves. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:58 AM CST [more..]
Armenian guilt lobby defeats Jewish guilt lobby
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League bowed to pressure from both the Jewish and Armenian-American communities yesterday and officially acknowledged the genocide of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks more than 90 years ago.
In doing so, Abraham H. Foxman reversed years of ADL policy and a position he had reaffirmed as recently as Friday when he fired the ADL's New England regional director, Andrew H. Tarsy, for defying the national organization and acknowledging the genocide.
[ When wrestling gets boring, you can watch dueling oligarch lapdogs on TV! ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:55 AM CST [more..]
US childbirth death rate rises
U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
[ Those who are too fat to be healthy, and doctors getting greedy with the c-section notes are helping out here, but the real story is that America's health care system is disintegrating. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:48 AM CST [more..]
US states denying services to illegal immigrants
Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range of public services to illegal immigrants have thrust two northern Virginia counties into the nation's immigration debate. The measures passed in July in Prince William and Loudoun counties join a flurry of recent efforts by local governments nationwide that believe the federal government has not done enough to stop illegal immigration.
But while other jurisdictions have focused largely on landlords and employers who knowingly rent to and hire illegal immigrants, the Virginia resolutions take a more direct approach. The National Association of Counties says the two counties are the first it knows of to pass measures aimed at denying services.
[ They pay no taxes and use a disproportionate amount of public services, and seem to cause additional costs. Why would anyone give them services? Even more, the East Coast is starting to realize that it might want to stay mostly white, even after years of saying the opposite. As the old saying goes, "Diversity is great but not in my backyard." White liberals are notorious for cheering Martin Luther King, Jr. and then sending their kids to 99% white private schools! ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:45 AM CST [more..]
MLK, Jr monument outsourced, panic results
The selection of a Chinese sculptor to carve a three-story monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall is raising questions about what part of his legacy should be celebrated.
A loose-knit but growing group of critics says a black artist — or at least an American — should have been chosen to create the King memorial between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials in the nation's capital. They have been joined by human rights advocates who say King would have abhorred the Chinese government's record on religious and civil liberty.
[ But if we have freedom, the Chinese can choose whatever society they want, and we can pick a Chinese artist without blaming him for Chinese religious and civil liberty foibles. Oh wait... we have "freedom," not freedom, because true freedom doesn't exist. True freedom would mean that any idiot could do whatever he wanted, and that would destroy us. Is destroying is. Well, you see the problem. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:42 AM CST [more..]
Meatpackers used immigrants to become monopoly
Family ranchers in the Midwest and West are hoping Congress can help them fight the gradual consolidation of the meat industry, which they say is hurting their business. A handful of large meatpacking companies slaughtered 80 percent of steers and heifers in 2005, up 30 percent from 20 years ago.
[ All that money saved -- stolen, taken out of the economy in which you participate -- through immigrant labor has enabled these meatpackers to become megacorporations. They will now discard their immigrant labor and leave you to pay for the consequences. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:37 AM CST [more..]
USA collapsing in debt
Bad credit has supplanted terrorism as the gravest immediate risk threatening the economy, a key national research group reported Monday.
Borrowers' withering ability to pay their bills and the subsequent fallout in the credit markets this summer topped the list of short-term risks on peoples' minds, according to a survey of 258 members conducted by the National Association of Business Economics.
[ Build a society on illusions, and don't be surprised when your citizens act like dolts. ]
news on 08.25.07 @ 11:35 AM CST [more..]
Friday, August 24th
Race row ends show, Yahoo news caption does one worse
The next series of reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother, which sparked a racist bullying row involving Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, has been axed, broadcaster Channel 4 said Friday.
During the series, Shetty was referred to as "Shilpa Poppadum" and rowed with some of the contestants in response to derogatory comments about the eating habits of Indian people.
Director of television Kevin Lygo added that Channel 4 stood for "liberal toleration."
[ Racial tension is inescapable. We all want to be who were are. The profit whores want otherwise. ]
Photo caption from Yahoo news: Celebrity Big Brother winner Shelpa Shitty waves to a crowd at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:53 PM CST [more..]
Nietzsche notebooks transcribed
The notebooks of Friedrich Nietzsche have been transcribed and translated for study by those who find his philosophy meaningful.
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:49 PM CST [link]
Our brains work mathematically like music
The long supposed connection between mind and music has been further demonstrated by an international collaboration of physicists led by Simone Bianco and Paolo Grigolini at the Center for Nonlinear Science at the University of North Texas. A statistical analysis reveals a remarkable similarity between the distributions produced by music compositions and brain activity.
[ The universe: a massively compact, efficient design far surpassing anything humans have created. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:43 PM CST [more..]
Human races evolved recently with radical change in genes
A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa.
[ 10% is a huge change, and it looks like the branching of the three races happened after one group left Africa and split into Europeans and Asians. Africans remain mostly as they were, according to this study. It shows us how genetic history lives with us today. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:42 PM CST [more..]
Delinquent behavior is genetic
A unique study appearing in the June issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that, in children, a highly reactive autonomic nervous system, which regulates our cardiovascular, digestive and respiratory functions, paired with a stressful family environment leads to increased instances of maladaptive personality change.
[ Like most things, 80% of the equation is genetics, and the rest is nurture. This means you can take good designs and subject them to stress, but that it's very rare to get a bad design to work well at all. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:40 PM CST [more..]
UK awash in rats and bugs
Rentokil has announced it will deploy "James Bond-style technology" to battle the UK's burgeoning rat population - estimated by experts to have risen by 39 per cent in the past seven years and now totalling up to 100 million individuals.
Kenrick elaborated: "There is more rubbish on the street, discarded burger and kebab boxes, and bins are not collected as often. But there's also the weather. The milder winter means more wasps, rats, and mice are surviving, and with the wet weather mice are more likely to seek shelter in the home."
[ Sounds like a descent backward into third-world status to me. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:38 PM CST [more..]
Monkeys commit sexual assaults, violence for food
In the small village of Nachu in Kenya, a group of vervet monkeys is using sexual harassment to intimidate women and children, who are responsible for growing maize, potatoes, beans and other crops for their farming community, causing them to lose their main food supply so they now are dependent upon famine relief to survive.
While it was not unusual for the monkeys to harass the women and be less afraid of them than they are of the men, according to the Kenyan Wildlife Service, the service had never before heard of monkeys making sexually explicit gestures as a form of communication to humans. Despite their new problems with the monkeys, it is a criminal offence to harm or kill any of them, so the besieged villagers must figure out a way to outwit the monkeys instead.
[ The really primitive organisms don't bother you. Neither do the really intelligent. It's the ones in the middle, half-stupid and half-smart, that know enough to cause problems but not enough to see how destructive lifestyles are pointless. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:37 PM CST [more..]
Pollution destroys wildlife
A new study provides some of the first evidence that albatrosses in the North Pacific may be affected by environmental contamination. Alterations in the immune function of the black-footed albatross were associated with elevated blood levels of nonpoint source contaminants. Non-point source pollution comes from a wide variety of sources such as farms, cars, roads and highways, and lawns. This kind of pollution is ubiquitous and can pose a significant threat to wildlife.
[ More from the "it's obvious but idiots will claim it is not obvious" file. Of course dumping toxins into the environment kills plants, animals and eventually, the ecosystems they comprise. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:34 PM CST [more..]
Pizza chain provokes uproar with Hitler ad
The Hell pizza chain is removing its billboards of Hitler saluting with a pizza slice after complaints from the Jewish community.
The Nazi leader is shown in a Heil Hitler salute with pizza in his hand, next to his quote: "It is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell."
[ Symbols are more offensive than reality, which we're ignoring because in it, our society is failing completely. ]
news on 08.24.07 @ 11:33 PM CST [more..]
Wednesday, August 22nd
Whites failed the left, thus must be destroyed
It is noticeable how aggressive many Leftists have become against whites, parallel to Muslim immigration. I think the Leftist logic goes something like this: We failed to achieve our Socialist society during the Cold War. The “white,” Western culture blocked our goals. Since a Socialist society is good, those blocking it are evil, hence whites are evil and need to be subdued and destroyed, even if this includes our own sons, daughters and grandchildren. Utopia requires a Villain Class to be smashed and sacrificed. In the global, Multicultural Utopia, this appears to be whites in general.
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Has this ever happened before? That members of a nation deliberately want to eradicate their own people, genetically and culturally, and harass those who resist? There isn’t even a word for this because it is so unique. Auto-genocide, perhaps? Or what about inverted Nazism? Western Multiculturalists, too, just like Nazis, give a special role to whites, only this time, it is a negative one.
[ Of course: the crowd wanted revenge on the aristocrats, then on the professional class, and now they want to eliminate all "privilege," namely the privilege of having been born a native son with certain abilities. They want to destroy you. They hate you. They hate you because they perceive nature granted you rights and abilities beyond their own. It's envy, it's hatred, and every other inward-facing emotion that humanity has coming out in this one. The one thing it's not is a legitimate ideology. ]
news on 08.22.07 @ 11:21 PM CST [more..]
Whites failed the left, thus must be destroyed
It is noticeable how aggressive many Leftists have become against whites, parallel to Muslim immigration. I think the Leftist logic goes something like this: We failed to achieve our Socialist society during the Cold War. The “white,” Western culture blocked our goals. Since a Socialist society is good, those blocking it are evil, hence whites are evil and need to be subdued and destroyed, even if this includes our own sons, daughters and grandchildren. Utopia requires a Villain Class to be smashed and sacrificed. In the global, Multicultural Utopia, this appears to be whites in general.
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Has this ever happened before? That members of a nation deliberately want to eradicate their own people, genetically and culturally, and harass those who resist? There isn’t even a word for this because it is so unique. Auto-genocide, perhaps? Or what about inverted Nazism? Western Multiculturalists, too, just like Nazis, give a special role to whites, only this time, it is a negative one.
[ Of course: the crowd wanted revenge on the aristocrats, then on the professional class, and now they want to eliminate all "privilege," namely the privilege of having been born a native son with certain abilities. They want to destroy you. They hate you. They hate you because they perceive nature granted you rights and abilities beyond their own. It's envy, it's hatred, and every other inward-facing emotion that humanity has coming out in this one. The one thing it's not is a legitimate ideology. ]
news on 08.22.07 @ 11:21 PM CST [more..]
Computer simulation predicts human behavior
New Scientist has a post on a patent filed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), seeking to control a new potent predictive simulation. The patent outlines the process, which may someday allow researchers to accurately predict the behavior of observed subjects. They're not there yet, but not for lack of trying. It already works in some military war game scenarios, says the patent.
'Parunak says his model can successfully detect players' emotions, and then predict future actions accordingly. He believes the technique could one day be applied to predict the behavior of adversaries in military combat situations, competitive business tactics, and even multiplayer computer games. The patent application gives an interesting insight into DARPA's goals. The agency has pumped a lot of money into AI in recent years without reaping major rewards. One day computers may find a way to accurately second-guess humans, but I suspect we may have to wait a little longer yet.
[ Would be optimal for controlling a population via computers, cameras and remote tasers. ]
news on 08.22.07 @ 10:56 AM CST [more..]
Oligarchs in the oil industry
Nearly two dozen gas station owners in California sued Shell Oil Co., Chevron Corp. and Saudi Refining Inc., on Tuesday, claiming the companies conspired to fix prices for 23,000 franchise owners nationwide.
Like the previous case, the plaintiffs in this case say chairmen of the three oil companies met privately nearly every month starting in March 1996 for the "purpose of forming and organizing a combination." The lawsuit alleges executives destroyed documents from the meetings, and a now-defunct joint venture violated U.S. antitrust laws and caused artificially high wholesale gas prices in nearly every state from 1999 to 2001.
[ If it were true, it would surprise no one. ]
news on 08.22.07 @ 10:53 AM CST [more..]
Highest number of people ever leave dying UK
More people left the UK last year than in any year since current records began in 1991, statistics show.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate that some 385,000 people left the UK for the long term in the year to mid-2006.
Long-term migration into the UK, meanwhile, was 574,000.
[ Oligarchs: Our real citizens are too demanding, so we'll replace them with Poles and Haitians. They're cheaper wages, buy more stuff, and don't care so much about what we steal in the background. ]
news on 08.22.07 @ 10:46 AM CST [more..]
Future diseases now predictable through genetic test
Because they can map an individual's DNA, researchers now use a simple blood test to check for different genetic flaws that often give rise to the eight treatable diseases that kill and cost the most, including skin, lung and colon cancer, high blood pressure and heart disease.
"We could identify people who are at risk early in their life long before they become overweight or become inactive or start smoking," said Colleen McBride of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
[ Get the bad news early. You will soon be required to take these for insurance purposes. Higher profits that way. Still believe capitalism and democracy are more "human" than fascism? Guess again, grasshopper! ]
news on 08.22.07 @ 10:41 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, August 21st
Census personnel demand immigration raids cease
Immigration officials sharpened their message a day after being coy about whether they would agree to halt enforcement raids during the 2010 census. "We won't entertain any request to scale back our efforts," Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Kelly Nantel said Friday.
Census officials had planned to speak with immigration agents about curbing enforcement during the population count, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an interview earlier this week.
Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them in the headcount, Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite had said.
[ Sounds like some whining going on, while others are simply trying to do their jobs. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 08:52 PM CST [more..]
Germany rediscovers Nazi ideas
Support for Nazi ideas in Germany is making people fear for their lives, a government minister said on Tuesday.
"Slogans are being chanted in Germany that remind us of the years 1939 to 1945 [World War II].
"We can't have this on German streets, we can't have this in schools and at the workplace."
Last year crimes committed by neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists reached their highest level since 1990.
In Muegeln's state of Saxony, the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) entered the regional parliament in 2004 after winning more than 9% of the vote in an election.
[ If you stop suppressing Nazi ideas, they will not feel a need to rise through violence. But you people never learn. Because you are passive-aggressive, you will never tolerate these ideas, and you will persecute them until they are forced to crush you through violence. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:53 PM CST [more..]
Groups don't fight when not in competition
A U.S. researcher says experiments show fighting, hating and contempt between groups is not a necessary part of human nature.
People join groups to find a place of trust and security. She says when people are secure about their own identity and that of their group, and there is no competition for resources, conflict is not normally a problem.
[ Multiculturalism creates this tension, thus creates racism. No multiculturalism, and people trade and interact normally. But force them together, in inherent competition for cultural supremacy, and the hate really starts. Stop multiculturalism now! ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:31 PM CST [more..]
Individuals differ by 0.1% of their DNA
Humans, for example, have 3 billion letters in our code. Between any two of us, 99.9 percent of those letters are the same. But it's that last 0.1 percent of difference, peppered throughout our DNA in the form of single-letter changes, that accounts for our unique identities--from eye color to disease susceptibility.
But physical traits are typically affected by multiple SNPs that interact in sometimes unpredictable ways -- much like the way an .e. at the end of a word can change its pronunciation.
[ Differences between races are larger than individual differences between members of the same ethnicity or race. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:09 PM CST [more..]
Whites read more than blacks or Hispanics
Whites read more than blacks and Hispanics, and those who said they never attend religious services read nearly twice as many as those who attend frequently.
There was even some political variety evident, with Democrats and liberals typically reading slightly more books than Republicans and conservatives.
[ Realism - in the form of atheism - helps people see through the facade of modern society. More Christians should try realism. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:06 PM CST [more..]
Germans re-awakening to Prussian pride
Germans are starting to rethink their negative views about Prussia, the state which ruled much of northern Germany for centuries and which has been viewed for decades through the prism of Nazism. In particular, a book by Australian historian Christopher Clark has stirred a debate about Prussia which Germans have vilified since World War Two for representing the militarism, discipline and blind obedience that helped Hitler rise to power. "The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1946" challenges the widely accepted negative view of the era in Germany and tries to present a balanced account of the north European territory which grew to be a major 18th and 19th century European power.
[ As the conquerors prove to be vicious insane liars, and their form of society a failure, people are re-awakening to the same truths to which Hitler re-awakened. They existed before him, and they are tradition among whites, but he was the only one to resurrect them. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:05 PM CST [more..]
White youth expect different things to make them happy
From their relationships to their jobs to their money . even from they time they first roll out of bed . young white Americans are happier with life than their minority counterparts.
[ Read the article and you'll see cultures in collision. The white youth want abstract things, emotional and idealistic things. Other races see it differently, and their articulations take the form of revenge against whites. Multiculturalism doesn't work. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:01 PM CST [more..]
Immigrant cash sustains home nations
Around the world, millions of immigrants are sending billions of dollars back home.
Experts tracking the phenomenon told The Associated Press they have gotten a much clearer picture since the 9/11 attacks, when authorities trying to cut the flow of cash to jihadists began taking a harder look at how immigrants move their money around.
Mass migration, they say, has spawned an underground economy of staggering proportions.
Globally, remittances—the cash that immigrants send home—totaled nearly $276 billion in 2006, the World Bank says. Remittances have more than doubled since 2000, and with globalization increasing the numbers of people on the move, there’s no end in sight.
If these guest workers incorporated as a company, their migrant multinational would rank No. 3 on the Fortune 500 list, trailing only Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil in annual revenue.
[ Not good for our long-term economic prospects, all this money leaving the country and having to come back in through imports... ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 07:00 PM CST [more..]
Immigration reduces American wages
Pay in construction and hospitality, sectors known for relying heavily on immigrant labor, have not grown as quickly as pay in other areas, state Department of Labor and Employment figures show.
Average construction wages rose 1.2 percent from 2001 to 2005, after adjusting for Denver-area inflation. Hotel, motel and restaurant pay increased 4.2 percent. Contrast that with the finance and health care industries, which saw inflation-adjusted gains of 6.3 percent and 8.9 percent.
[ So everything else goes up 6-9%, and immigration-affected industries lag behind. That means Americans are getting paid less in any industry that immigration touches. It's not just crop picking anymore, is it? ]
If farmers saw a 25% increase in their cost of production as a result of having to hire only Americans to do the work and only their wholesale price rose accordingly, consumers would see food prices rise 5%, but more likely a higher fraction of the 25% would be passed up the chain likely resulting in a 10-15% rise in food prices.
[ 10-15% is going to happen anyway as a result of the greater insurance needed to defray fears about poisoned food from China, and more E.Coli explosions from Mexico. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:57 PM CST [more..]
Ancient Europe developed culture long before other continents
American archaeologist Nicholas Conard is convinced Swabia’s tradition of innovation goes back a long way: 40,000 years, give or take a few thousand. Excavating in caves east of Tübingen, a medieval town 20 miles south of Stuttgart, Conard has unearthed expertly carved figurines and the oldest musical instruments in the world. The finds are among the earliest art ever discovered, and they’re extremely sophisticated in terms of craftsmanship, suggesting a surprising degree of cultural complexity.
Conard claims his finds are evidence of an intense flowering of art and culture that began in southwestern Germany more than 35,000 years ago. Although older art and decorations have been found—including geometric patterns on stones and personal ornaments in South Africa, as well as drilled shell beads on the shores of the Mediterranean—the figurines and instruments in Conard’s caves are symbolic representations that reflect a state of mind with which modern humans can easily identify. “Figurative art began in Swabia, music began in Swabia,” he says. “It couldn’t have developed elsewhere, because the dates are just later elsewhere.”
If he’s right, it could change the way we look at the development of humanity.
[ This makes sense. 45,000 years ago in Russia, people crossed from Asia and into Europe. There they evolved. 20,000 years ago, they showed up in India, and more recently, began appearing through the mediterranean, although it's likely some remained in their ancestral homes in Finland and Denmark. Funny, wasn't that what Spengler said in 1919? ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:53 PM CST [more..]
Nanomanufacturing ready to poison planet with new pollution
A new analysis of byproducts discharged to the environment during production of carbon nanotubes -- expected to become the basis of multibillion dollar industries in the 21st century -- has identified cancer-causing compounds, air pollutants and other substances of concern. The data could help the nanotechnology industry avoid unanticipated health and environmental problems that have plagued other technologies, the researchers say.
[ Industry: detached from the process of life, focused on profit, socialize the costs even if they kill nearly all of us and destroy our ecosystem. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:51 PM CST [more..]
Immigration brings toxic, contaminated food products
As the immigrant community in Houston continues to expand, so does the number of local ethnic markets where exotic . and sometimes contaminated or untreated . food products are sold, authorities say.
[ People from other places have different ways and standards. Now we can't agree on a standard for ourselves. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:47 PM CST [more..]
Minorities more likely to get lung cancer
If you light the occasional cigarette or puff through a few every day, your risk of getting lung cancer may depend a lot on your ethnicity.
"There are big differences in lung cancer rates among the races," said Dr. Christopher Haiman, study author and assistant professor at the University of Southern California.
Looking at these differences, Haiman found that low-to-moderate smokers who are African American or Native Hawaiian have a higher risk of lung cancer than whites who smoke the same number of cigarettes. At the other end of the spectrum, Japanese Americans and Latinos have the lowest risk of lung cancer from smoking cigarettes. The results of the study were published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Interestingly, while African Americans tend to have a higher rate of lung cancer, they also tend to smoke fewer cigarettes a day than whites.
[ There are physical differences between races. If there were black leaders leading black communities, they could do something about this problem, but multiculturalism blocks the path as always! ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:46 PM CST [more..]
Half of black applicants fail test, "racism" must be the answer
More than half of black and Hispanic applicants for teaching jobs in Massachusetts have failed a crucial state licensing test.
Since the start of the test nearly a decade ago, 52 percent of Hispanics and 54 percent of blacks failed the writing portion of the test compared to a 23 percent failure rate among white applicants.
Blacks and Hispanics also fall behind white applicants in other test subjects like English, history and math.
Some deans of education schools are raising questions about whether the lower results among minority applicants shows the tests are culturally biased and whether the quality of education that minority applicants receive is good enough.
Some minority applicants say the tests includes questions that white applicants and those with liberal arts backgrounds can more readily identify with, such as questions about ancient literature or investing in the stock market.
A Cambridge lawyer said he's planning to file a class action lawsuit against the state Department of Education and the testing company on behalf of three minority teachers who failed the test multiple times.
[ More completely insane behavior. It's a test. You learn the stuff that's on the test because you're going to need to teach it to your students, and they will need to pass such tests. We are now making exceptions for incompetent people, whether they're minorities or not. Would you allow an incompetent white person in such a position? I wouldn't, and I wouldn't allow an incompetent minority either. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:44 PM CST [more..]
Bank removes eagle after people complain of Hitler allusion
Barclays' iconic eagle emblem that has stood on top of one of its major buildings for 30 years has been removed - after reports that it looked like a Nazi symbol.
[ Symbols and emotional reactions are more important than reality. Society has gone insane. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:40 PM CST [more..]
Suppressed taboo thoughts come out in web forums
But we've discovered TalkBack also provides something else: an opportunity for the hateful to express themselves to a wide audience, after years of being largely suppressed by the majority of civil society. As one member of The Star's reader advisory council put it some weeks ago, we unintentionally are providing a "bathroom wall" for expression.
That's obviously not helpful to a rich, public conversation. It insults some, puts others up to humiliation and can even harm reputations. It discourages many from participating in the debate.
[ See, in a democracy we're so concerned with public appearance that we're all hypocrites, and when the truth comes out we're shocked, shocked I say, at what it suggests. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 06:39 PM CST [more..]
Rap music stops fooling white kids, sales plummet
Today that same market is telling rappers to please shut up. While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were once the tent poles at rap labels are posting disappointing numbers. Jay-Z's return album, Kingdom Come, for instance, sold a gaudy 680,000 units in its first week, according to Billboard. But by the second week, its sales had declined some 80%. This year rap sales are down 33% so far...
[ If you're white, listen to classical, folk, country, metal or the better keyboard bands. If you're black, I'd guess you would want to listen to jazz. Rock and rap and techno are garbage designed for moronic mass tastes and low IQs. I wouldn't listen to that. ]
news on 08.21.07 @ 12:41 AM CST [more..]
Monday, August 20th
Christians are behind pro-Israel agenda
A recent poll found that 59 percent of American evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
"If it wasn't for what the Jews brought to Christianity, there would be no Christianity," Christofaro said. "There is a promise to those who bless Israel to be blessed. Those who curse it will be cursed."
Christofaro and Baras are part of a growing alliance between evangelical Christians and Israelis.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates 85 million evangelicals believe God tells them to support Israel -- more than six times the world's Jewish population.
Christian Zionists often converge on Washington by the thousands to lobby members of Congress in support of Israel.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut, was among the speakers at last month's convention of Christians United for Israel.
[ It's fine to have a religion, but if you're European, it should be a transcendental one, as that is the religion of our people. These middle-eastern faiths are colliding against everyone who isn't a materialist with dreamy-eyed visions of eternal life in the sky. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:45 PM CST [more..]
Youth want traditional families
Spending time with family was the top answer to that open-ended question, according to an extensive survey . more than 100 questions asked of 1,280 people ages 13-24 . conducted by The Associated Press and MTV on the nature of happiness among America's young people.
Next was spending time with friends, followed by time with a significant other. And even better for parents: Nearly three-quarters of young people say their relationship with their parents makes them happy.
"They're my foundation," says Kristiana St. John, 17, a high-school student from Queens in New York. "My mom tells me that even if I do something stupid, she's still going to love me no matter what. Just knowing that makes me feel very happy and blessed."
[ Sanity is possible, but our entertainment industry, media and government don't seem to want us to have it. Why might that be? ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:43 PM CST [more..]
Pedophilia is a physiological condition
Men with the sexual condition have reduced concentrations of nerve cells in key areas of the brain, according to a new study - the finding could have legal implications.
[ Biological determinism explains all ill-health, and outside of abuse cases, all psychological health, since the brain is a physical organ. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:41 PM CST [more..]
Americans strung out on painkillers
The amount of five major painkillers sold at retail establishments rose 90 percent between 1997 and 2005, according to an Associated Press analysis of statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
More than 200,000 pounds of codeine, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and meperidine were purchased at retail stores during the most recent year represented in the data. That total is enough to give more than 300 milligrams of painkillers to every person in the country.
[ As people get more neurotic, they're sweeping themselves under the carpet in a cloud of oblivion. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:40 PM CST [more..]
Europe also exterminating its dolphins
Researchers from the wildlife conservation charity Marinelife are extremely concerned about what it is NOT seeing this summer in the Bay of Biscay. The BDRP surveys have detected more than 20 species of whale and dolphin in the Bay of Biscay and counted over a hundred thousand animals. However, this summer there has been a very obvious and worrying dearth of sightings, which is significant given that the Bay of Biscay is of European importance for dolphins and other cetaceans.
ScienceDaily
Scientists declared China's Yangtze river dolphin extinct Wednesday after weeks of searching failed to locate even one in 1,000 miles of the busy river. The study said shipping and accidental injuries from fishing lines were the most likely causes for the extinction of the freshwater dolphin with pale skin and long snout.
ScienceDaily
[ Industry spreads because population grows, and now we're exterminating close relatives. Humanity can't control itself. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:39 PM CST [link]
Israel doesn't serve US policy interests, say experts
A majority of top US foreign policy experts say the world is a more dangerous place for Americans today than just six months ago, thanks largely to the war in Iraq and a failing US war on terrorism, a new survey shows.
Some 14 percent of US foreign policy experts say Israel least serves American interests.
[ Isolationism, and alliance with our kin in Europe, is the ONLY thing that serves our policy and other interests. Isn't this obvious? ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:37 PM CST [more..]
Europe faces more crime than USA
It is obvious that ”Homicides/Murder” and “Theft, totally” happened about twice as often in Sweden than in USA. “Rape” happened about 10% more often in Sweden compared with USA. And “Offences, totally” happened more than three times as often than in USA.
[ Not as much open rural space in Europe, and more recent immigration, plus no ability to defend yourselves with weapons. Not a good mix. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:34 PM CST [more..]
Blue-eyed people better at abstract thought
Success lies in the colour of your eyes, and those with blue ones are likely to achieve more in life than their peers as they tend to study more effectively and perform better in exams, says a study conducted by US scientists. The study did not mention anything about people with black irises.
The tests showed that brown-eyed people had faster reaction time, but those with lighter eyes appeared to be better strategic thinkers.
Louisville University professor Joanna Rowe, who conducted the tests, said the results suggested an unexplored link between eye colour and academic achievement.”It is just observed, rather than explained,” she said. “There’s no scientific answer yet.”
[ There have been scientific answers for years, until the populist crowd decided to be clever and redefine "science." ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:06 PM CST [more..]
Immigration agitator arrested outside sheltering Church
An illegal immigrant who stayed in a Chicago church for a year to avoid separation from her 8-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, was arrested Sunday and being processed for deportation.
[ "Activist" means anyone who causes problems for the rest of us for their own selfish needs. There's nothing wrong with Mexico, but it's easier to get high wages here, so thanks to American greed and Mexican apathy, we've got a problem. But they call her an "activist" for demanding her selfish way, and call anyone who objects a bigot. That's insane, like the religiously delusional people who sheltered her. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 08:02 PM CST [more..]
Government views conservative religions as "fundamentalist"
I think it's a very hard term, fundamentalism, as you're obviously finding. Historically, it's a term that described Christians who believed that everything that was in the Bible was exactly so. But now it's been used to describe everybody in the three Abrahamic religions who is conservative or reactionary.
[ Anything which does not agree with the crowd-motivated populist sentiment of "freedom" and let tomorrow suffer the consequences, by its very nature, must be: extremist, fundamentalist, probably Nazi, probably insane, etc. etc. It's easy to see through this facade, but most people are sleepwalkers so they won't even notice if we spray-paint it across their foreheads. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 07:57 PM CST [more..]
We have created impossible working conditions and killed creativity
The reality is that you'll never get to the bottom of your to-do list. The way our work world has evolved, it isn't humanly possible anymore. It's not just information overload; it's opportunity overload -- there are always a million things to do. And please, forget multitasking. It doesn't increase efficiency at all, and it taxes brain cells in the frontal cortex, which has a terrible impact on performance.
CNN
[ This means that you will forever be helpless, unless you change the system. Do you want to be an overworked neurotic person, or someone with a sensible life? It's your decision. If you choose to serve, you deserve to be a slave! ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 07:56 PM CST [more..]
Corporations easily manipulate "independent" internet news
Dozens of similar examples of insider editing came to light last week through WikiScanner, a new Web site that traces the source of millions of changes to Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
NY Times
But the Internet also favors innovative new startups that do cool things, and the biggest growth in the news sector comes from what the report calls "nontraditional news outlets." This is a category that includes portals and search engines (Google News), aggregators (Digg), aggregators with attitude (the Drudge Report), bloggers (Daily Kos), and community sites (Gothamist). All featured soaring growth rates; Digg's was so substantial the report's authors had to leave it off one their charts.
While all these outlets might lead to fragmentation of the news audience, the report points out that the biggest players in the online news business actually have far greater clout online than they do offline. The New York Times, for instance, commands a huge amount of online attention.up to 10 percent of the online news audience. though its print version has less than five percent of the print news market.
Ars Technica
news on 08.20.07 @ 07:54 PM CST [link]
Men and women inherently prefer different colors
Researchers found that women really do prefer pink -- or at least a redder shade of blue -- than men do. This is the first conclusive evidence in support of the long-held notion that men and women differ when it comes to their favorite colors.
[ But remember, we're all equal except for discrimination, not different according to some natural plan bigger than humanity's desire for "equality" so we can all do business. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 07:51 PM CST [more..]
No one knows why minorities have bad health care habits
Doctors' unconscious racial biases may influence their decisions to treat patients and explain racial and ethnic disparities in the use of certain medical procedures, according to researchers from Harvard Medical School. Their study is the first evidence of how unconscious race bias among doctors affects their clinical decisions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820112820.htm
In one of the first studies to focus on the relationship between racial discrimination and health risk behaviors, researchers found African-Americans experiencing racial discrimination were more likely to report current tobacco use or recent alcohol consumption and lifetime use of marijuana and cocaine.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820121955.htm
[ Why think too hard when it's easy to blame "discrimination"? We've seen in other articles how Minority health care woes are not the result of racism, but people who want easy answers keep flogging the same dead horse. The system isn't racist. It's anti-racist. But in doing so, it is destructive to those who want to escape the obligations of the masses and rise above and do great things, so the anti-racist system is leading us to regression. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 07:50 PM CST [link]
Business proves its amorality by catering to swingers
Lifestyles Organization, the nation's largest swinger services company, has annual sales of about $15 million.
Swingers also bring in millions of dollars to specialty clubs and hotels in the United States as well as Jamaica, Mexico, France and elsewhere.
"We're talking about a lifestyle, but in reality we are also talking about a business," Robert McGinley, 73, the president of Lifestyles Organization, said during its annual convention in Las Vegas, which attracts about 900 couples.
[ Yes, this is a helpful activity. It will make life on earth better. It will encourage more healthy families. No, it does none of those things, but it makes a buck, so we all bend over so business can have its way with us -- in the name of liberal "freedom," of course. ]
news on 08.20.07 @ 07:48 PM CST [more..]
Saturday, August 18th
US gov't official warns of "Rome-like" failure of US
The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned.
David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country’s future in a report that lays out what he called “chilling long-term simulations”.
These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.
Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”.
[ Get paid to state the obvious, but people will be grateful for someone finally breaking taboo. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 02:37 PM CST [more..]
Realistic children's book
Satire of the dysfunctional American family and its neurotic predilection for avoiding reality becomes an underground Inernet phenomenon. The world's most disturbing children's book is mainly disturbing because it's so close to the reality we know, but can't publically admit.
news on 08.18.07 @ 02:19 PM CST [link]
Meatpacking remakes small American towns
Dodge City ... Cactus, Texas ... Fort Morgan, Colo. ... Postville, Iowa: For more than a hundred years, this region provided a bucolic idyll and a ready example of American life and values. Today, iconic farm towns struggle with a new economic model, one that requires a workforce that is poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic.
It's not easy. The immigrants who have flooded these communities are stretching schools and law enforcement. Still, at a time when other rural towns are slowly dying, Dodge City and meatpacking towns like it boast thriving economies.
But many of his fellow citizens seem lost. Randy Ford and his wife, Betty, have lived in Dodge City for 35 years. They no longer attend the city's Independence Day events. They can't understand what the singers — Spanish crooners singing Latin favorites — are saying.
"We don't go anymore because we don't want to be Mexican," he said. "We want to be American."
Eventually, mom-and-pop meatpackers were swallowed up by giants like Tyson Foods Inc., Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., Swift & Co. and National Beef Packing Co.
Their massive slaughter plants today routinely sit on the outskirts of rural towns. Huge feedlots stretching at times beyond the horizon now dot the wind-swept prairie where buffalo once grazed.
When the wind blows just so, the stench can be overpowering.
Dodge City's per capita income of $15,538 in 2000 may be an improvement, but it still remains far below the $21,587 national average.
news on 08.18.07 @ 02:12 PM CST [more..]
The end of globalism: first world debt crisis
A single day, 9 August 2007, will go down in history as "debtonation day" - the beginning of the end of the deregulation and privatisation of finance that marks the era of globalisation.
It is a moment that I (alongside many others) had long predicted, most notably in an article for openDemocracy written in 2003 (see "The coming first world debt crisis" [1 September 2003], and my book of the same title [Palgrave, 2006]).
[ Cute. She's correct, but she makes two mistakes. History is not linear; this is how many other civilizations have eliminated themselves. Second, lack of regulation isn't the problem. The problem is an economics-based society. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 01:54 PM CST [more..]
Most believe Jews more loyal to Israel than Europe
The findings released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today revealed that half of the Europeans surveyed believe Jews are not loyal to their country and more than one third believe that they have
too much power in business and finance.
Attitudes Toward Jews and the Middle East in Six European Countries, an opinion survey of 3,000 adults - 500 in each of the six European countries --Austria, Belgium, Hungary, The Netherlands, Switzerland,
and the United Kingdom -- conducted May 29 - June 18, 2007, found an increase in negative attitudes toward Jews and a decrease in a very few instances from its 2005 findings.
[ Jews should be more loyal to Israel than anywhere else, and they've had great success in business, finance and the media. Sounds like praise more than anti-Semitism. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:57 AM CST [more..]
UNICEF "blackface" ad draws cries of horror
What do you get when you gather a group of adorable blond German kids, use mud to paint them in blackface, and then slap the pictures all over Deutschland? Lots of pissed off liberals for starters.
UNICEF Germany is the offending organization behind these PSAs showing "four German kids who appeal for solidarity with their contemporaries in Afrika." Originally meant to draw attention to Africa's education crisis, the ads have been pulled following public outcry.
[ Who thought this was a good idea? But it's a shame it's taboo to mention the obvious, namely that skin color is different and exotic to us. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:55 AM CST [more..]
Russia resumes nuclear patrols, threatens Europe again
Russia is resuming a Soviet-era practice of sending its bomber aircraft on long-range flights, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Mr Putin said the move to resume the flights permanently after a 15-year suspension was in response to security threats posed by other military powers.
[ Hitler was right. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:51 AM CST [more..]
Muslims beating up Jews in France
A 23-year-old Jewish woman was attacked Thursday in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, by two youths who beat her and shouted anti-Semitic slogans, said the French National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism.
They shouted "You dirty Jew" at the woman before stealing the mobile phone she was using and beating her violently about the head and body, the EJP reported. She suffered several bruises.
[ Multiculturalism works for no one. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:46 AM CST [more..]
Middle-class girls regret holiday flings
For Claire, the diagnosis meant an emergency five-day course of antibiotics.
Two years on, she is still angry and regretful that she might have jeopardised her fertility with such an ill-advised and tawdry fling.
Such regret seems depressingly rare among a generation of young women who have come to regard foreign trips as an excuse to drink themselves senseless and sleep with as many men as possible.
They admit they take far more risks than they ever would at home - willing to shed inhibitions simply because they are on holiday.
And the disturbing reality is that these are middle-class women - the daughters of professional and wealthy families
Forget any notion of romance: what passes for seduction in such circumstances is generally a slurred conversation conducted over thumping music, and a drunken acknowledgement that this person will do as your sexual partner for the evening.
But how will she feel if she becomes a wife and mother to remember that she gave herself so cheaply to all those men who cared nothing for her?
"You can let your inhibitions go when you're abroad and forget the constraints of normal life," she says.
[ Feminism makes women monsters who, because they no longer understand fidelity in any form, stagger through broken marriages and end up alone with dysfunctional families. Is a fling worth that? ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:44 AM CST [more..]
West divides reality by taboos and is incoherent as a result
Today there is a growing tendency to divide society into those who cause offence, those who are easily offended, those who can be easily ignited by offensive words and those who need to police the public in order to minimise such speech.
[ Not just on the issues of race and religion. Most critique that actually would inspire change is taboo. And then there are some sensible taboos, like pedophilia. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:39 AM CST [more..]
USA deports Lithuanian for serving in German army
An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a 92-year-old retired factory worker because he lied about his part in the Nazi destruction of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto in 1943, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Immigration Judge Wayne R. Iskra ordered Vladas Zajanckauskas sent to his native Lithuania, according to a news release from Alice S. Fisher, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's criminal division.
[ Let's beat up old men. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:29 AM CST [more..]
HS students forced to pick "major" for adult pretense
As reported in the NYTimes, high school freshmen at many high schools across the nation are now being forced to pick a major. Starting this Fall, 9th graders in Florida will have to choose to major from among a set of state-approved subjects, while some students in Mississippi will have to follow one of nine designated career paths. High school administrators hope that having students declare majors will lead to greater student interest in school until graduation.
[ They're not interested in school because it's boring and conformist. This stupid "fix" won't change that. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:27 AM CST [more..]
"Popular" kids take more drugs
Students who consider themselves popular were more likely to use drugs, drink or smoke than students who do not view themselves as popular.
[ Popularity is a trend, and does not reflect the intrinsic value of a person. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:26 AM CST [more..]
Censored "fascist" composer comes back into vogue
It was (and, to some extent, it still is) fashionable among "politically correct" musical opinion-makers to belittle and patronise Respighi's music.They considered it to be strident or derivative and accused Respighi of being just a pasticheur lacking a distinctive, personal style. Most damaging of all, he was accused of being a supporter of Mussolini.
The truth is that the shy and retiring Respighi was not interested in politics; he much preferred to be left alone to get on with his music. Yet he was condemned because his music was associated with the fascist cause.Even in 1979 his centenary celebrations met with Italian political opposition. It was only in 1986, on the 50th anniversary of his death, that the tide began to turn.
[ To Germans, Italians and Japanese, the choice of fascist, traditionalist or neo-Nazi governments was like picking Republican over Democrat in the USA. The guilt parade is wearing thin, as this article shows. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:25 AM CST [more..]
Clovis people were exterminated by comet explosion
The NSF has released a study that strongly implicates a comet explosion over North America roughly 13000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Californina at Santa Barbara with the help of a National Science Foundation grant visited many Clovis sites around North America. The abrupt cooling trend of that time is known as the Younger Dryas or 'big freeze' and the collapse of the Clovis has been the subject of much debate over recent years. Samples from 12 Clovis period sites yielded high concentrations of Iridium, nano-diamonds, and buckyballs (fullerenes) that contain gases which indicate extraterrestrial origins. From the article: 'The team concluded that the impact of the comet likely destabilized a large portion of the Laurentide ice sheet, causing a high volume of freshwater to flow into the north Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.'
[ Early America was a boiling pit of ethnic groups, which eventually merged and declined to a primitive state (falling off of ancient empires like Hopi, Inca, Aztec and Maya) and were in a weakened state when Europeans arrived. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:17 AM CST [more..]
America rejects smart breeding
Fewer than four-in-ten American adults (38%) now say that sexual relations between a man and woman before marriage is always or almost always wrong compared with nearly six in ten (59%) who say that it is only sometimes or never wrong. Not surprisingly, premarital sex is even more accepted as morally OK by adults who have themselves engaged in it. A recent Pew survey found that about a third of all adults (and more than four-in-ten adults under age 50) have, at some point in their lives, been in a cohabiting relationship with a person to whom they were not married. Among this group only 21% believe that premarital sex is always or usually wrong. Demographically, cohabiters are more likely than the rest of the adult population to be younger, black, and secular rather than religious.
[ The more we behave this way, the less women are treated with respect and the less we all come from satisfying family lives and are able to have satisfying family lives. The cities are littered with single people in their 40s who have nothing to do with their time, and are missing out but are deathly afraid of acknowledging it. Cowardice! ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 04:03 AM CST [more..]
Modern education fails gifted, overspends on failing slow kids
Since well before the Bush Administration began using the impossibly sunny term "no child left behind," those who write education policy in the U.S. have worried most about kids at the bottom, stragglers of impoverished means or IQs. But surprisingly, gifted students drop out at the same rates as nongifted kids--about 5% of both populations leave school early. Later in life, according to the scholarly Handbook of Gifted Education, up to one-fifth of dropouts test in the gifted range. Earlier this year, Patrick Gonzales of the U.S. Department of Education presented a paper showing that the highest-achieving students in six other countries, including Japan, Hungary and Singapore, scored significantly higher in math than their bright U.S. counterparts, who scored about the same as the Estonians. Which all suggests we may be squandering a national resource: our best young minds.
[ Modernity in a nutshell: feel better about yourself by feeling sorry for others. And if anyone steps out of line and goes above the crowd, crush them -- they're dangerous. No wonder idiots rule. ]
news on 08.18.07 @ 03:58 AM CST [more..]
Wednesday, August 15th
Russian neo-Nazis create parody of jihad beheading videos
This video has gotten the attention of the authorities recently and the news media, but the only reason we mention it here is that its irony is lost on most. It's a re-enactment of the jihad-related beheading videos from Iraq, but with Muslims in Russia as the victims.
Russian Beheading Video
While the LNSG does not necessarily endorse such actions, we felt we needed to mention what the mainstream media will not: that this is not a random action, but a response to what is perceived as cultural warfare.
Our position as always is that the Middle East should be Islamic, and Europe should be Pagan, and Israel should be Jewish, and the three should not meet except in soccer matches.
news on 08.15.07 @ 09:54 PM CST [link]
American politician notices American politics dysfunctional
"These aren't debates," the former Georgia congressman said. "This is a cross between [TV shows] 'The Bachelor,' 'American Idol' and 'Who's Smarter than a Fifth-Grader.'"
"What's the job of the candidate in this world?" asked Gingrich. "The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous."
"Go look at all the analysis," said Gingrich. "Why are people starting early? Because you can't build the organization. What are you building the organization for? So you can raise the money."
At the same time, he said, any candidate who dares to change position on an issue during a two-year campaign risks being labeled a "flip-flopper" -- an epithet used to undercut 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry and one being waved at current Republican hopeful Mitt Romney.
"You begin to trap people," Gingrich said. "As the campaigns get longer, you're asking a person who's going to be sworn in in January of 2009 to tell you what they'll do in January of 2007, when they haven't got a clue -- because they don't know what the world will be like, and you're suggesting they won't learn anything through the two years of campaigning."
"For the most powerful nation on Earth to have an election in which Swift Boat veterans versus National Guard papers becomes a major theme verges on insane," said Gingrich, referring to 2004 campaign controversies that targeted Kerry and President Bush. "I mean, it's just -- and to watch those debates, I found painful -- for both people. They're both smarter than the debates."
[ He's right. The oligarchs own American politics, and have for awhile, but now it's finally clear to everyone. It takes them so long, but now they know. Will they act? Voting won't help. Get a rifle! ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 08:49 PM CST [more..]
Reggae musicians persecuted for hateful beliefs
Reggae was once associated with politically conscious lyrics, Rastafarians and the palm fringed shores of its native Jamaica. But forget Bob Marley and Peter Tosh singing about peace and love; these
days some of reggae's biggest acts are just as likely to be advocating the killing of homosexuals in their music.
[ I don't advocate the killing of homosexuals, but in our "free" society, shouldn't they be able to sing whatever they want? Surely our society has no problem with the killing of whites being advocated, or the killing of non-Jews, so why not let these African-Americans sing out against homosexuality? ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 08:47 PM CST [more..]
Genes determine personality
Genes do, however, seem to play a role. About 15 percent of babies are born with what is called an "inhibited temperament" -- meaning that they react stressfully to new experiences. They might cower at the sound of a bursting balloon, for instance.
[ It's only news to people living under the shadow of the illusion that we don't die, aren't biological, and owe nothing to history. Common sense! ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 08:46 PM CST [more..]
Successful ancient civilizations also drove selves to ruin
Now obscured by vegetation and low-lying clouds, the ruins spread over 1,000 sq km and were made up of thousands of houses, roads, manmade ponds and canals, researchers from Australia, Cambodia and France said in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Angkor Wat was built in the early 12th century, while the settlement existed between 500 AD and 1500 AD, Evans said.
"What we can see, even on a preliminary basis, is that several hundred thousand people must have lived in the Angkor area ... which is defined by the infrastructure, the roads, the canals, huge embankments," he added.
The researchers believe the settlement was abandoned around 1500 AD because of overexploitation and deforestation.
[ Several hundred thousand people... massive cities with giant buildings... overexploitation and deforestation. Who says history doesn't repeat itself? Except this time, we're gambling with all of humanity, not just Angkor Wat. Oh well, I've got sports on my wide-screen TV. That'll do as a substitute for life. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:41 PM CST [more..]
Life forms as mathematical property of geometry
According to a new simulation, electrically charged dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another.
It was already known that this system can produce regular arrays of dust called plasma crystals, and some experiments have even generated spiral structures. Now, Morfill's simulation suggests that the dust should sometimes form double helixes.
Like DNA, the dust spirals can store information. They do so in the scaffolding of their bodies, as they have two stable states - one with a large diameter and the other with a small one - so a spiral could carry a series of wide and narrow sections.
[ Life is not as rare as we thought. It's an inherent property of the universe. The real question is how life, when it becomes self-aware, directs itself. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:39 PM CST [more..]
Men and women think differently on physiological level
Men and women do think differently, at least where the anatomy of the brain is concerned, according to a new study.
The brain is made primarily of two different types of tissue, called gray matter and white matter. This new research reveals that men think more with their gray matter, and women think more with white. Researchers stressed that just because the two sexes think differently, this does not affect intellectual performance.
Psychology professor Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine led the research along with colleagues from the University of New Mexico. Their findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence compared to men.
"These findings suggest that human evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior," said Haier, adding that, "by pinpointing these gender-based intelligence areas, the study has the potential to aid research on dementia and other cognitive-impairment diseases in the brain."
[ Different thoughts, different roles, different zones of comfort. Modern society doesn't want to accept that because it might become deprived of soulless, brain-dead zombie workers. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:37 PM CST [more..]
Diversity is a marketing imperative, not a good idea
Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has seen the power of diversity in industry.
"It is a bigger deal now and more of a plus," he said. "Most companies are under pressure to look like the customers they are serving -- and most customers are not white guys."
[ It's profitable, who cares if it destroys the nation, take your retirement cash and go to Mexico so you can watch the mess burn. Smart. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:34 PM CST [more..]
Immigration issue makes states more powerful than feds
A Mexican businessman, a legal resident who has made Hazleton home for 16 years, told the court that his restaurant folded after customers felt intimidated by a police car that often parked across the street. The leader of a local Hispanic group . a U.S. citizen . got hate mail. And the publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper, also a U.S. citizen, had to be escorted by police from a rally of the measure's supporters after the crowd turned on him, shouting "get out of the country."
That's just some of the collateral damage in one small city. Around the nation, about 40 communities and at least a half dozen states . from Arizona to Oklahoma to Georgia . have passed immigration laws, some imposing draconian fines or other harsh sanctions on those who hire illegal immigrants or rent to them.
On one level, those responses can be seen as reasonable. They are actions directed at curbing illegal behavior that the community sees as harmful and that the federal government has failed for decades to address. Illegal immigrants stream across borders. Others who enter legally overstay their visas. Businesses ignore laws against hiring them, and today, the nation is home to about 12 million illegal immigrants, many of whom place a burden on local schools and hospitals.
[ The federal government is too corrupt to act. State governments, who are going to bear the collapse more immediately AND have a better chance of surviving even if the nation as a whole goes down, are taking the lead and so becoming more powerful than the feds. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:33 PM CST [more..]
Minority health care woes not result of "racism"
Prevention saves lives, but Hispanics and other minorities aren't getting the message. In two new studies, researchers are finding just how much minorities lag behind whites in using preventive services, and how the reasons aren't just socioeconomic.
In the first, which found that increased use of just five preventive services would save more than 100,000 U.S. lives a year, Hispanics, blacks and Asians used them at the lowest rates. Hispanics used them less than blacks and whites in 10 of 11 services.
[ Factors for possible disparity in health of minorities and whites: behavior, culture, genetics, language, racism. Factor we are assured is the real culprit: racism. New research reveals that such assumptions were wrong from the beginning. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:32 PM CST [more..]
Americans believe their country is collapsing, are probably right
The survey shows Bush's approval ratings at 35 percent, and Congress' even lower, 25 percent. Only 27 percent of those polled said the country is headed in the right direction, and 39 percent said they support the Iraq war, with 58 percent opposed.
[ You can't fool all of the people all of the time. No remaining culture, run by oligarchs, corrupted to the bone and now surrounded by enemies, the People's Republic of the North America is going down toward third-world status. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 06:30 PM CST [more..]
Editorial: Being English is persecuted in name of multicult
England is in the middle of a profoundly disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy, a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population.
In the name of cultural diversity, Labour attacks anything that smacks of Englishness.
[ People want to seem profound, so they take on these "Progressive" stances that are totally destructive. They don't care about the outcome, but they care about their self-image. ]
news on 08.15.07 @ 01:07 AM CST [more..]
Tuesday, August 14th
Help activists stop BP from dumping toxins in Great Lakes
British Petroleum wants to dump 1,584 pounds of ammonia and 4,925 pounds of industrial solids into Lake Michigan every single day. Their plan represents a massive setback to decades of work to clean up the lake. Over 5,000 people -- including you -- have already emailed BP CEO Bob Malone to ask him to stop this terrible idea in its tracks. We know the company is hearing us because it has started running ads in Illinois newspapers to defend polluting the lake.
[ Companies are owned by shareholders who only care about what the stock is worth, not how it gets that way. This is why Hitler stopped the stock exchange in Germany and returned the country a real value system of appreciation. In the meantime, let's do what we can to stop another psychotic corporation from murdering another thing of natural beauty: it's what Hitler would want us to do. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:47 PM CST [more..]
Research obscures racial distinctions
There's a troubling psychological phenomenon that just about everyone has experienced but few will admit to; having difficulty distinguishing between people of different racial groups.
In a series of experiments, Miami University undergraduates were led to believe that they would view the faces of fellow Miami students (the in-group) and students from Marshall University (a perennial football rival, making them the ultimate out-group) on a computer screen.
In reality, none of the faces, all of whom were white, were students at either university. By merely labeling them, however, the participants better recognized faces that they believed were fellow Miami students.
[ Let me list their errors: first, they used students of the same race, so they were easily remembered. Next, they labelled them specifically as part of a campus group in which the participants had a particular future. Finally, they showed them these people on a computer screen as part of an experiment. Is this "research" junk science? You bet it is. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:43 PM CST [more..]
Inbreeding a problem in lab mice
Nearly all FDA-approved drugs on the market were tested first in the descendents of these mice. Much of the basic research behind those drugs, the explorations into physiology and pathology, were conducted in mice. When scientists want to know what a gene does, they tweak that gene in mice and see what happens.
Mice have been bred to exhibit everything from Alzheimer's to obesity to fragile X syndrome. But beneath their seeming diversity, an uncomfortable truth lurks: these millions of mice are awfully similar to each other. They're descended literally from a handful of specimens. And as a result, all this research isn't as useful as it could be.
[ You have to take only a handful, breed them for thousands of generations, before it becomes a problem. Hilariously, this article illustrates how different individuals and groups can be, but that commentary is absent from the article. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:39 PM CST [more..]
Birds inherit knowledge of flight
A researcher has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors. It is widely known that birds learn to fly through practice, gradually refining their innate ability into a finely tuned skill. However, according to a psychologist these skills may be easy to refine because of a genetically specified latent memory for flying.
[ What else is inherited? And in humans, culture? ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:37 PM CST [more..]
Asian nationalist activist imprisioned
A former columnist and self-described Asian supremacist who applauded the Virginia Tech slayings has been sentenced to a year of mental health treatment for waving a hammer at a neighbor’s face and threatening to kill her and her family.
Last February, Eng was fired from the San Francisco-based weekly newspaper AsianWeek for writing a column titled “Why I Hate Blacks.”
Three months later, in a Village Voice interview, Eng gloried in the slayings of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech and fancifully speculated that his own writings might have inspired the killer, Seung-Hui Cho.
[ Apparently, someone sicced a dog on him, and that was all the law needed to put him away. He understands that multiculturalism sucks, so it is fortunate if he can be made to look insane. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:27 PM CST [more..]
Immigrants commit one in five crimes in London
More than one in five crimes committed in London in the first six months of this year were carried out by a foreign citizen, new police figures have revealed.
[ When you make up 1-2% of the population, and commit 20% of its crime, it's time the real natives kick you out. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:23 PM CST [more..]
Rosa Parks was a publicity stunt
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision more than a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the same, has died at 90.
[ Figured out you've been conned yet, America? Rosa Parks was the media stunt. What she did was not unique. Nor did it lead to anything but more revenge-taking, aided by white liberals and Christians. And what has it made better? ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:20 PM CST [more..]
Integration busing doesn't help grades, wastes time
Many social reformers have long said that low academic achievement among inner-city children cannot be improved significantly without moving their families to better neighborhoods, but new reports released today that draw on a unique set of data throw cold water on that theory.
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.
[ Fond intentions, total illusions, and now billions of dollars later, who suffers? The kids who were higher performers. Let's dumb ourselves down! GOOD THINKING ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:12 PM CST [more..]
Genital infections are racist
Risk of a common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears to escalate when even one partner is African-American, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study presented August 11 at the 34th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Boston.
[ Nature is racist, too. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:07 PM CST [more..]
Corporations expect huge profits in toy sales to minorities
Bolstered by the success of Nickelodeon's popular bilingual children's character, Dora the Explorer, and the spending power of the nation's growing minority population, toy retailers across the country are filling their shelves with dolls whose skin colors and facial features reflect the girls and boys who play with them.
Although black and Hispanic dolls have been around for decades, the newer incarnations try harder at authenticity, rather than simply tinting the hair and skin from "white" doll molds.
About one in three Americans is a minority, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Between 2006 and 2011, the spending power of the country's blacks, Asians, Native Americans and multiracial shoppers is expected to grow 38 percent, to $1.9 trillion. Meanwhile, Hispanic buying power alone is projected to grow a formidable 48 percent, to almost $1.2 trillion, according to data from The University of Georgia's Selig Center for Economic Growth.
By 2050, minorities will account for half of U.S. residents, according to Census Bureau projections.
[ It's not "being nice" or "progress" that has immigrants here. It's profit, like every other destructive thing. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:07 PM CST [more..]
Another ancient European culture found in artifacts
Archaeologists have discovered a more than 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb perfectly preserved in the hills of Tuscany with a treasure trove of artifacts inside, including urns that hold the remains of about 30 people.
[ Turn off the TV, and you'll see that your own people produced all of the exotic lore you need. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:03 PM CST [more..]
Fight back against PC police, and they pay you to return
Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract and is negotiating with New York's WABC radio to resume his broadcasting career there, according to CBS and a person familiar with the negotiations.
Imus and CBS Radio reached a settlement that would pre-empt the dismissed radio personality's threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said Tuesday.
[ Stop being shy. If your needs are violated by the PC state, fight back with the law. Don't do anything extreme and you'll win. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 09:02 PM CST [more..]
Americans realizing China is an enemy
More than a year before the 2008 election, China - occasionally as partner, more often as adversary and potential vote-getter - is also rising as an issue among the candidates for president.
[ The American voter is borderline retarded. All those cheap goods bought from China? Yep, made China stronger. Just like all that cheap immigrant labor means your kids get worse jobs. Is anyone thinking out there... Hello? ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 08:59 PM CST [more..]
USA lifestyle makes immigrants drug users, drunks
Adoption of American culture and lifestyle makes Hispanic immigrants to the United States more likely to use illegal drugs and abuse alcohol, a new study suggests.
[ Cut off from their culture, they are unsure of what to do, and end up on alcohol and drugs like white Americans cut off from their culture. The enemy is not Mexicans, the enemy is multiculturalism. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 08:58 PM CST [more..]
New York City to protect immigrants
Bloomberg has said repeatedly that immigrants are important contributors to the city's economy and crucial to the city's survival. Asked Monday about the idea of New York City as a sanctuary for immigrants, Bloomberg said, "let 'em come."
"I can't think of any laboratory that shows better why you need a stream of immigrants than New York City," he added. "I don't know what to tell anybody. They just . if they don't believe that immigrants add a heck of a lot more than they cost, they just aren't looking at the numbers."
[ This man is a billionaire. He profits from cheap labor. ]
news on 08.14.07 @ 08:56 PM CST [more..]
Monday, August 13th
People befriend, mate with similar people
Researchers report that as individuals develop, genes become increasingly important in influencing how they choose their peer groups. The findings offer insight into which individuals may be at risk for future substance use or other externalizing behaviors such as conduct and antisocial personality disorder.
"As we grow and move out of our own home environment, our genetically influenced temperament becomes more and more important in influencing the kinds of friends we like to hang out with," said Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and human genetics in VCU's School of Medicine and lead author on the study. "The study shows how genetic and family environmental factors influence the ways in which we create our own social environment as we grow."
http://www.physorg.com/news105636987.html
Unions of "like" individuals are more advantageous from an evolutionary perspective, says Emlen, because they are more stable. This is beneficial because humans require long-term relationships both to produce a lot of children and to ensure that they survive to adulthood.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3887
[ This surprises no one who hasn't drunk the mass media kool-aide. ]
news on 08.13.07 @ 05:29 PM CST [link]
Offending people now illegal in UK
Peterborough City Council said using insulting or offensive language was an offence, even if it appeared in print.
[ The nanny state will drive us all nuts sooner or later. ]
news on 08.13.07 @ 04:42 PM CST [more..]
Open ethnic warfare in Chicago
Chicago police are trying to determine whether race was a factor in the fights. Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the fight included mostly black and Hispanic teens. Residents said black youths were fighting white youths from the neighborhood.
[ Multiculturalism making everyone get along as usual. ]
news on 08.13.07 @ 04:40 PM CST [more..]
Parasites control our minds
A common parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says. About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, which is contracted from eating raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingesting some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat.
"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.
"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls."
[ Maybe this explains our downfall... or maybe, it explains how the weak-willed are controlled. ]
news on 08.13.07 @ 01:14 AM CST [more..]
Sunday, August 12th
Black columnist notes double standard on white pride
Did you know that the terms "Black Power," "Black Supremacy," and "La Raza" (The Race) are all trademarks that have long been approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office? Even the Black Panther Party's slogan "Burn, Baby, Burn" (which still evokes the threat of rioting and mayhem), had no problem winning official trademark recognition. And then there's "African Pride," "Black Pride," "Chippewa Pride," "Cuban Pride," "Indian Pride," "Jewish Pride," "Red Pride," and lots more -- all aimed at acknowledging a race or ethnicity. And all terms approved by the U.S. government.
As Reported by American Renaissance and Free Republic, when Justin Moritz, a former law enforcement officer, applied to trademark the phrase "White Pride Country Wide," he was rejected in no uncertain terms. Registration of the words was not only denied, but the phrase was ruled "offensive" and "immoral." More succinctly, the trademark office claimed, "... the proposed mark consists of or comprises immoral or scandalous matter."
A "White Pride" T-shirt is deemed a threatening symbol, whereas a "Black Supremacy" slogan on a button or garment is viewed as an understandable, albeit angry response to undeserved past abuses. Any public effort to promote a white theme is doomed to failure, even if the proper bows to racial diversity are adhered to. Whites learn early to censor themselves, in order to comply with the rules of the race game.
The white who does not learn how to keep his head beneath the radar could wind up smeared with the "racist" label -- a potentially ruinous accusation. He who slips and fails to follow the politically correct race protocol could find himself in a turbulent situation. Given the existence of "hate crime" laws -- ambiguous statutes conceived primarily to entrap whites -- it is best to keep any socially unorthodox thoughts to oneself. As several cases demonstrate, punishment for Thought Crime has arrived in America.
[ Right on, Elizabeth. Multiculturalism doesn't work, as whites are about to find out. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 08:10 PM CST [more..]
Liberals turn viciously on Jewish/Israel lobby
I n November, the American electorate repudiated Bush's Iraq debacle and established Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate promising to bring this "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" to a decisive end. Bush vetoed their withdrawal timetable, but voters urged their leaders to hold the line and not be bullied. In the end, though, 37 Democratic senators capitulated and gratuitously gave the President his $100 billion no-strings- attached blank check . . . enough money to pay tuition and fees for 1.3 million college students for four solid years!
Deep disappointment set in. Cindy Sheehan, the liberal icon, was so demoralized she resigned and returned to private life. In June, a CNN poll reported that "respect for Congress" plummeted to the lowest level "ever recorded."
Bloggers called them "traitor Democrats", and the descriptor is apropos. At the time of the vote, sixty-two percent of the American people favored a time-table for a withdrawal, but, more significantly, "seventy percent" of Democrats were so inclined. Voting against this burgeoning tide of anger betrayed the will of the people and party that put these Democrats in office.
Curiously, all of the traitor democrats were huge career recipients of funds from the Israeli lobby. If we took ten Democratic apostates and compared them to ten Democrats who stood by the voters, pro-Israeli PAC contributions were "ten times" greater for the turncoats than those who stayed with their constituencies ($322,000 versus $34,000 on average).
To be specific: Carl Levin, outspoken critic of the war and, we thought, a loyal supporter of the new regime to end it, defected and blithely turned his back on his Michigan support base. Despite his strident anti-war rhetoric, the Grand Rapids Independent reports Levin has supported Bush all the way "consistently funding the war and not introducing any meaningful legislation to bring it closer to an end." Practically unknown to his constituents, Levin is one of the largest beneficiaries of Pro-Israeli PAC funds collecting $600,000 in career contributions according to the Washington Report on Mideast Affairs.
Barbara Boxer, Denis Kucinich, and Earl Blaumenauer, all opponents of the war, collectively got $73,000, but turncoat-democrats, Dan Durbin, Max Baucus, and Frank Lautenberg scooped up in excess of a million plus untold benes like travel funds.
What comes out in the wash is the best PAC money can buy: Three months before we invaded Iraq, a New York Times poll showed only 30 percent of the American people favored an all-out invasion, but the Israeli lobby (AIPAC) did, and it prevailed. Hardly a sprinkling of Americans favored the "surge", a meager fourteen percent, but AIPAC did, and the surge is surging as we speak. Fewer than thirty percent of Democrats supported that no-strings-budget, but AIPAC did, and the conclusion plays out another hackneyed chorus of "Whatever AIPAC wants, AIPAC gets."
[ Multiculturalism doesn't work. Jewish interests and American interests are not the same, so you cannot blame them for manipulating those who are cowlike enough to allow themselves to be led around by lobby money. Of course, the USA could fix this, if we spent less time worrying about the Jews and more time fixing our system. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 07:54 PM CST [more..]
Early humans came from Asia too
Early human-like residents of Europe may have arrived out of Asia, rather than just Africa.
An international team of researchers reports in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that Asians appear to have played a larger part in the settlement of Europe than did Africans.
The team led by Maria Martinon-Torres of the National Center for the Investigation of Human Evolution, in Burgos, Spain, reached that conclusion after analyzing more than 5,000 fossil teeth from early hominins, an early form of human predecessors.
[ Science still knows so little about early humanity we might see this as a small step back toward realization of what is most likely to have happened, which is a series of overlapping parallel developments across the globe. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 07:33 PM CST [more..]
"Greatest Canadian" was firm believer in eugenics
Thomas Clement Douglas, "Father of Canadian Medicare," the leader of the first socialist government elected in North America and founding leader of the socialist New Democratic Party. A CBC contest, conducted among the 10 percent of Canadians who watch the federally funded network, bestowed the "Greatest Canadian" title upon Tommy Douglas two years ago.
"The Greatest Canadian," up to his mid-30s, like many others of the Canadian and American left, was a passionate believer in eugenics. After Hitler showed the world how eugenics would work out in practice, the left made a panic-stricken flight from the cause, often adopting new organizational names, such as eugenicist Margaret Sanger's "Planned Parenthood of America."
Applying good eugenics doctrine to his chosen land, the Scottish-born Douglas described at length and in painful detail his solution for Canada's economic problems. Canadians must be bred scientifically, he said. People of lesser intelligence or deficient morality – natives, criminals, adulterers are specifically designated – should be sterilized.
[ This guy had his head screwed on right. It's not that he "hates" those people, it's that the population is much healthier without defects floating around. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 07:25 PM CST [more..]
Small changes in gene regulators trigger radical changes
The DNA sequences that help regulate genes evolve far more quickly than the genes they control, according to a study published this week in Science. The findings suggest that evolutionary divergence between species may be driven mostly by mutations in these sequences.
"You look at humans and chimps, and we're 98.5 percent identical in our gene sequences, for instance, but we're very different physically," Michael Snyder of Yale University, senior author of the study, told The Scientist. "We're suggesting that these differences between species -- and not just in mammals, but in general -- are due more to changes in gene regulation and not the genes themselves."
[ Gene regulators are like start/stop types for types of growth. For example, if a gene regulator changes so that another five years go by before the STOP GROWING BRAIN instruction is issued, the organism is smarter. This is one of the many ways that species with 0.0001% genetic difference can be radically different in appearance and ability. ]
The striking differences between humans and chimps arent so much in the genes we have, which are 99 percent the same, but in the way those genes are used, according to new research from a Duke University team to be published online on Sunday, Aug. 12, in the research journal Nature Genetics.
news on 08.12.07 @ 07:23 PM CST [more..]
Bipolar disorder is genetic, study finds
The probandwise concordance rates were 0.43 (95% CI=0.10 to 0.82) for monozygotic twins and 0.06 (95% CI=0.00 to 0.27) for dizygotic twins. The correlations in liability were 0.85 and 0.41, respectively. The model with no familial transmission was rejected. The best-fitting model was the one in which genetic and specific environmental factors explained the variance in liability, with a heritability estimate of 0.93 (95% CI=0.69 to 1.00). CONCLUSIONS: The high heritability of bipolar disorder was demonstrated in a nationwide population-based twin sample assessed with structured personal interviews.
[ All traits are genetic, whether positive or negative. These can be enhanced or destroyed by what happens after birth, but the potential is always there. For strong traits, like insanity, very little matters -- only 0.07% of the kids genetically inclined toward bipolarity were turned away from it, and we don't know if that is lifelong improvement. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 07:18 PM CST [more..]
Cost of raising US children well skyrockets
Families making more than $74,900 a year will spend a whopping $289,380 to raise a second child born in 2006 through age 17, estimates the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Higher-income families in urban areas in the West will spend the most, $304,740.
Though not as steep, the figures for lower-income families are just as unsettling: $197,700 for families earning $44,500 to $74,900 and $143,790 for families making less than that. That breaks down to
nearly $15,800 a year from birth to age 2 for families in the $74,900-plus income bracket. This is no back-of-the-envelope guesstimate. The survey involves interviews with about 5,000 households, four times a year.
[ Most of this money goes toward buying your way away from the parasites. They infested the neighborhood school? OK, we go somewhere else. The hospital is awash in them? We pay for preferred care. Public education shot to hell? They're going to need lessons. As our public services decay, costs rise, and why is that? Could it have something to do with our dependence on cheap globalist/multiculturalist labor? ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 07:16 PM CST [more..]
Test for reading ability is "racist"
A literacy test used to screen Georgia-Pacific Corp. applicants discriminated against blacks because blacks were far more likely than whites to fail the test, the federal Labor Department said.
Utility workers at a paper mill don't need to read well, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
[ That's backward logic: because blacks fail it, it's racist? I thought they were equal. This insanity will not be good for whites, or blacks. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 12:26 PM CST [more..]
USA continues descent into third world
For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles.
[ A decline in in education, health, intelligence, and middle class population matched by an increase in corruption, crime, illiteracy, hard drug use, disease and perversion (pedophilia, extreme porn). Guess democracy is the best way after all. Go USA!!! ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 11:18 AM CST [more..]
Why humanity is worth saving
Some ask: so what if humans pass into history? It's not just a tragedy for us, but also one for nature. Without us, there is no one to witness its infinite beauty; no one to marvel at a sunset, revel in a view, or thrill to the breaking of a wave on a beach. As the late astronomer and author Carl Sagan once said, "we are a way for the universe to know itself".
But we also deserve to continue because we have created things greater than ourselves. Not only scientific and engineering knowledge, valuable as this is — we have also created new and beautiful ways to see the world through art, music, literature and performance.
[ Life is worth living. Forward, not back. ]
news on 08.12.07 @ 11:09 AM CST [more..]
10 Things you can't say in US politics
They call it retail politics. It's a politic that has to appeal to an awful lot of people, but it doesn't have to appeal to them all that much.
The successful presidential candidate wants to establish just enough passion for their political stances that voters will waddle down to the polling place on the first Tuesday of November and vote for them (or send in the appropriate form). Too much passion could be a dangerous thing, because it probably indicates that the candidate has moved off of the acceptable boilerplate messages of the retail campaign and has introduced ideas and possible political solutions that are both novel and challenging. Winning presidential candidates don't want to be any more challenging than blockbuster movies.
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12: Question Israel's Authority
Dear candidate. You may not seriously question or challenge any of Israel's military policies or actions. My fellow Jews in Israel can, and they do it all the time, but you can't. (Nyah nyah!) I guess it's sort of like with black folks and the "N Word." Except this is kinda like about war and peace in the Middle East and the future survival of humankind and stuff. Mazel Tov! Signed R.U. Sirius, a Jew.
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14: Let's Have More Democracy!
Now, direct democracy scares the crap out of me unless the power of the people is mitigated by a robust, libertarian system of rights protecting us all from the majority.
news on 08.12.07 @ 11:06 AM CST [more..]
Friday, August 10th
Multiracial nations have no unity, NH politician says
Latino people remain free and welcome to come swimming at Naticook Lake at Wasserman Park, but they are not going to find any Spanish-language signs to tell them the park rules.
The town council last night voted 5-0-0 to update the park rules only in the English language, ending a two-week debate that captured national attention and hit at such nerves as public access and immigration.
"My concern is that multi-lingual nations have a history of problems, and have no mechanism for unification. If you look to the north, Quebec made a move to secede from Canada, and the vote only failed at 49 percent. I don't think we want that."
An identification in the English language enables unity, shared values and public safety, a protective message that was similarly presented by councilor Michael Malzone, and resident Dennis King.
[ State the obvious, break a taboo, become a hero. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 03:52 PM CST [more..]
Denver less than 50% white
Denver’s white population has slipped below 50 percent for the first time, making it the largest county in the nation to experience that change in the past year, census figures released today show.
But for State Demographer Elizabeth Garner, the big news is that 2006 marks the first time in 17 years that Denver has had more people moving in than moving out. And some residents who might have been inclined in the past to move out are choosing instead to move up.
[ Happening all over the country. And simultaneously, living standards are plummetting. Maybe all this cheap labor gets us cheap goods, but makes our time less valuable? Gee whiz, officer, I didn't think of that. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 03:48 PM CST [more..]
More people realizing armed revolution is necessary
From this writer’s perspective the absolute best thing to come out of the Presidency of George W. Bush is the fact that so many liberal Democrats have changed their position on gun control. It’s as if the scales were lifted from their eyes, they realized that government itself could no longer be trusted, they witnessed the election of 2000 hijacked, and four years later they saw the same thing happen again without nary a word of dissent from the Democratic candidates. Former gun grabbers in the hundreds of thousands no longer feel the intense desire to disarm their fellow citizens in the name of a better society, in fact many of them have since armed themselves and joined gun clubs and gun lobbies. Good for them. These liberal Democrats now understand the true nature and purpose of the Second Amendment, it was never designed to enable us to obtain wild game whenever and wherever we liked, it was always about being able to defend ourselves from a corrupt and evil government. Guess what? That government is here!
[ Democracies end in oligarchies, with the people dominated by a few thousand elites, unless those people overthrow the false elites and replace them with better ones. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 11:58 AM CST [more..]
African-American migration to the suburbs
African-Americans are moving to the South in large numbers and trading some northern cities for their suburbs. Those are among the population trends highlighted by demographic data released today by the Census Bureau.
“The new theme for blacks this decade is that they’re moving to places that had been primary destinations for whites,” Frey says. “They’re moving to the suburbs and … fast-growing areas.”
[ Affirmative action is working in this sense, but failing in others: the result will be distrustful suburbs, which we can already see in the extensive growth of the exburbs, or suburbs more than 50 miles outside the city. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 11:53 AM CST [more..]
Plastics cause retarded children, may harm adults
A federal advisory panel on Wednesday found no strong evidence of health hazards from a chemical commonly found in plastics, but left the door open for further investigation.
But when it came to exposure for fetuses or young children, the panel found what it called "some concern" about links to neural or behavioral problems, ranking the evidence midway on a five-step scale, said Michael Shelby, the toxicology program's risk-evaluation chief.
[ Read between the lies. There are some links to neural problems, even with the primitive short-term methods used in this study. And while there's no strong evidence that it harms adults, think about how many things you know that don't harm adults but harm kids. Any? What they mean to say is that less harm occurs to fully-grown people, but that harm still exists. And this study doesn't take into account the lifetime perspective, such as whether having plastics around means you die of cancer. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 11:31 AM CST [more..]
Diet foods don't fool body, make you eat more
Led by David Pierce, researchers at the University of Alberta studied the eating habits of young rats, and found that they tended to overeat when they were fed "diet" foods. Though the new study was conducted in animals, it adds to a growing body of research in humans that suggests a diet-foods paradox: the more low-calorie (or even zero-calorie) sodas and foods you consume, the more your body demands payback for the calories it was deprived.
[ All of modern society's "convenient" shortcuts are nitwit lies. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 11:29 AM CST [more..]
Whites find multiculturalism less than media promised
Whites are now in the minority in almost one in 10 U.S. counties.
And that increased diversity, fueled by immigration and higher birth rates among blacks and Hispanics, is straining race relations and sparking a backlash against immigrants in many communities.
[ Gee whiz Marge, I guess it wasn't all the cheap lawns and colorful ethnic displays of culture they promised us on TV. We really are strangers in our own land, and the newcomers seem to dislike us and our way of doing things. They're alright people, but maybe the idea of Multiculturalism is just insane since two cultures can't occupy the same space and have their own ways, so we're sort of doomed until we fix this. ]
"In the presence of [ethnic] diversity, we hunker down. We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just that we don’t trust people who are not like us. In diverse communities, we don’t trust people who do look like us." --Harvard professor Robert D. Putnam
news on 08.10.07 @ 11:24 AM CST [more..]
Those protesting neo-Nazis: white youth
At least a full hour before the rally, close to noon, a group of 50 to 60 protesters, mostly young and white, mobilized in Bronson Park. Bystanders joined them.
Shaundell Jackson, the Loy Norrix student who had joined the protesters, questioned why the supremacists should have protection and the people of Kalamazoo should face restrictions.
Then he concluded, "I think we caused a bigger problem by coming over."
[ As usual, white people use race as a method of seeming profound to others. It has nothing to do with the minorities in question; it is a technique for mediocre white people to feel better than others. The crowd at NS-related protests is normally 90% white college kids who are "unsure" of their degree programs. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 11:15 AM CST [more..]
Both parties hoping to import friendly voters in power grab
Democrats hold an edge with Hispanics in national elections, but Latinos' growing tendency to register as independents and split their vote between parties is buoying Republican prospects for 2008.
[ Democracy in a nutshell: manipulate groups of people so you have power over others, and from that, profit. Who cares what happens to the people who founded the nation and their descendents. What matters is that some group gets ultra-rich and runs with it. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 10:57 AM CST [more..]
Nation's Fourth-Largest City Now Part of Mexico
In a powerful sign of the region's growing diversity, more Hispanics than Anglos now live in Harris County as it led the nation in growth of minority residents, according to Census Bureau estimates to be released today.
This historic demographic shift reflects persistent immigration, high birth rates among Latinos and ongoing migration to outlying suburban counties, experts say. And a dramatic increase in Harris County's black population is partly attributed to an influx of residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
[ This is the nation's fourth largest city and second-largest port. It's also one of the fattest cities in America, has a high crime rate, is spread over many square miles, has more freeways, tons of fast food, is inefficient, etc. In short, another multicultural success. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 10:56 AM CST [more..]
Closer to one world new age religion
The Rev. Charles Kennedy travels the country preaching the brilliance of L. Ron Hubbard's words. Children in his after-school program learn with the Scientology founder's methods; church members study one of his books. The minister calls Scientologists the kindest people he's met and their programs the best he's found.
He and his congregants are not Scientologists. They are Christians. The Glorious Church of God in Christ here is among a number of houses of worship across the U.S. - how many is not clear - that have begun to embrace some of the Church of Scientology's programs.
Scientologists say their interfaith partnerships show people of all faiths clamor for solutions to real-world problems. Detractors say it amounts to a cloaked effort to burnish the oft-maligned church's image and attract new members by appearing less clandestine and more diverse. And the clergy that have adopted aspects of the Scientologists' outreach say they're simply making use of programs that work.
[ All popular religions are the same. You've found a secret, and it guarantees you success and possibly immortality of various forms. All you have to do is keep promoting the secret by telling other people they don't know it. Religion is a sales job, excepting the saner ancient religions, which actually help the smarter people. Popular religions help sustain the dumb, the sick, the weak, the failed, the perverse, etc. Don't trust someone "just because" they say they are a "good Christian," white, conservative, etc. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 10:54 AM CST [more..]
Oceanicide happening faster than we thought
Coral reefs in much of the Pacific Ocean are dying faster than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday, with the decline driven by climate change, disease and coastal development.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill found that coral coverage in the Indo-Pacific — an area stretching from Indonesia's Sumatra island to French Polynesia — dropped 20 percent in the past two decades.
About 600 square miles of reefs have disappeared since the 1960s, the study found, and the losses were just as bad in Australia's well-protected Great Barrier Reef as they were in poorly managed marine reserves in the Philippines.
[ You can't take steadily from something, growing your own population, while dumping that increased waste into it and not have it become less well. In healthier times, "less well" was recognized to mean "damaged," but someone might be offended if someone says that. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 10:51 AM CST [more..]
Industrial revolution steadily covering earth in greasy ash
Around the middle of the 19th century the Arctic took a sooty turn for the worse, according to researchers studying how humans have affected the climate.
Soot can darken the snow, causing it to absorb sunlight, warm up and melt. That, in turn, can add to local climate warming by exposing darker ground which absorbs energy from the sun that the white snow would have reflected.
Ice cores from before about 1850 show most soot came from forest fires. But since then, black soot in the snow has increased several times over and most now comes from industrial activities, according to a paper in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
[ But with the industrial revolution, we all got to be kings who lived lives of leisure with 3 hours of work a day, no disease, no social problems and other grand Utopian visions... right? ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 10:48 AM CST [more..]
Genetic factors guide formation of life-long friendships
As people mature, genetic factors may strongly influence who they choose as their friends, a U.S. study finds.
The study, which was published in the August issue of the journal Archives ofGeneral Psychiatry, tracked more than 1,800 male twin pairs from mid-childhood to early adulthood between 1998 and 2004.
"As we grow and move out of our home environment, our genetically influenced temperament becomes more and more important in influencing the kinds of friends we like to hang out with," lead author Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler, professor of psychiatry and human genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine, in Richmond, said in a prepared statement.
[ It affects nation-building even more, which is why inexperienced people make disastrous political suggestions, where those who've been through life and had to support themselves and a family make radically different statements. ]
news on 08.10.07 @ 10:46 AM CST [more..]
Wednesday, August 8th
Japanese start eugenic loan plan
A financial services firm in Japan has begun offering lower mortgage interest rates to "intelligent" customers.
If a couple are both employed in the 20 "high-value" professions listed by the company, they will be entitled to a major rate reduction.
[ Most loans are dysgenic. This is a nice change. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 11:31 PM CST [more..]
Gov't expands secret powers while America watches TV
Congress acted quickly over the weekend to pass a warrantless eavesdropping bill that would expand the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) before Congress adjourned for their August recess on Monday. The Protect America Act of 2007 (S. 1927) was passed by the Senate on August 3 (Roll Call 309), followed by the House on August 4 (Roll Call 836). President Bush then signed the bill into law on Sunday, August 5.
The Protect America Act gives the federal government the authority to monitor American citizens' phone conversations and e-mails, providing they are corresponding with persons "reasonably believed to be located outside the United States." This bill, which was drafted mostly by the White House, is in response to the 2005 scandal where President Bush was ridiculed for authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct a secret wiretapping program targeted at persons within the United States who were believed to be in communication with al-Qaida, or members of other terrorist organizations. A lower court ruling later found that program to be unconstitutional.
[ Obviously, "freedom" is an illusion, but you should not hand absolute power to democratic oligarchs! ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 08:23 PM CST [more..]
USA dumped nuclear waste into bay
Fishing boats from ports up and down the coast kept reporting that they were hauling up barrels and broken concrete containers of waste in their nets.
One fisherman from Gloucester remembers when a little something extra came up in his nets some years back.
“We got a barrel in the net so we opened it,” he recalls. “Right away it started burning everyone’s eyes. A little of it spilled and it started to corrode the deck; we got scared and threw it back.”
During the ’80s and ’90s, government agencies conducted several surveys of the ocean floor using the latest high-tech gadgets available at the time. Yes, the EPA did find about 10,000 to 20,000 barrels in the foul area — the state’s main ocean dump site — and yes, about half of them were corroded, and yeah, there is some sediment that showed radioactive contamination — but according to the EPA there is no risk to human health and no imminent ecological threat.
[ As you die of cancer, be thankful these people got famous and rich by throwing nuclear waste a mile from shore. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 08:05 PM CST [more..]
Infidelity causes degenerate breeding
Women see masculine-looking men as more unsuitable long-term partners but men with more feminine features are seen as more committed and less likely to stray, researchers said Wednesday.
[ Women are sick of how men behave, so they want nice wimps who won't stray and will forgive them when they do. The sexual revolution... a giant failure, except in increasing the pleasure of the selfish. I'm glad we treat our parasites so well. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:49 PM CST [more..]
Extreme religion reaches out to environmentalists
"I prayed about it, and God really revealed to me that I had a passion about creation," said Kirsop, who has since traded in her family's sport-utility vehicle for a hybrid Toyota Prius to help cut her greenhouse gas emissions. "Anything that draws me closer to God -- and this does -- increases my faith and helps my work for God."
Her conversion to environmentalism is the result of a years-long international campaign by British bishops and leaders of major U.S. environmental groups to bridge a long-standing divide between global-warming activists and American evangelicals.
[ Hitler did this years ago. Ahead of his time in every way. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:47 PM CST [more..]
Liberals are learning: secular humanism is dead
Secular humanism has reached a dead end -- and any liberals who don't recognize that are simply enabling the worldwide conservative reaction of fundamentalism in both Christianity and Islam. The human quest for meaning is innate and ineradicable. When the gods are toppled, new ones will soon be invented. ("Better Jehovah than Foucault," I once warned.
Rock music, which exploded in the artistic renaissance of the '60s and '70s, seems to have exhausted its formulas.
[ What killed secular humanism? It's essentially materialism, which is always based in the self. Me me me! Actually, living for yourself without a greater framework is depressing and kind of boring. It's better to have a cause or a great love, whether atheistic or theistic or in-between. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:46 PM CST [more..]
Capitalism has made work into a dishonest nightmare
Politically motivated and fraught with nonsensical change, it's not a natural fit for ambitious graduates who leave school expecting results from a logical combination of education and effort.
Suddenly, the tenets of success we've followed since kindergarten don't apply, because getting ahead in the business world often has nothing to do with intelligence or exceeding a set of defined expectations.
[ How depressing. I'd hate to live in the society where the above is true. Oh wait... ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:44 PM CST [more..]
Early humanity developed in recursive fan pattern
The two species lived near each other, but probably didn't interact with each other, each having their own "ecological niche," Spoor said. Homo habilis was likely more vegetarian and Homo erectus ate some meat, he said. Like chimps and apes, "they'd just avoid each other, they don't feel comfortable in each other's company," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070808/ap_on_sc/human_evolution
In the new work reported this week, researchers Franck Prugnolle, Andrea Manica, and Françs Balloux of the University of Cambridge show that geographic distance from East Africa along ancient colonization routes is an excellent predictor for the genetic diversity of present human populations, with those farther from Ethiopia being characterized by lower genetic variability. This result implies that information regarding the geographic coordinates of present populations alone is sufficient for predicting their genetic diversity. This finding adds compelling evidence for the RAO model. Such a relationship between location and genetic diversity is indeed only compatible with an African origin of modern humans and subsequent spread throughout the world, accompanied by a progressive loss of neutral genetic diversity as new areas were colonized. The loss of genetic diversity along colonization routes is smooth, with no obvious genetic discontinuity, thus suggesting that humans cannot be accurately classified in discrete ethnic groups or races on a genetic basis.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050310103042.htm
[ Tell us the obvious. One species doesn't end when a new one starts, and a new one doesn't start at the press of the button. Also, if Africa is where we evolved, it's our home environment. Moving to any other environment required a genetic bottleneck so that only those who could adapt would go. Yet these two revelations are a mystery to modern science, which has been so choked on political correctness that it can't face any kind of truth unless pressured. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:43 PM CST [link]
No border cameras, we're broke
More than a year after Gov. Rick Perry announced ambitious plans for a "virtual border watch" in Texas, the project has stalled because of a lack of funding.
[ Immigration is a problem, yes. The bigger problem might be government disintegrating. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:40 PM CST [more..]
Hitler's music collection potentially found
A collection of recordings taken from Adolf Hitler's headquarters at the end of World War II includes works by Jewish musicians and Russian composers, according to a German magazine report.
[ Modern people are so stupid. Hitler wanted Jews out of Germany because it was the right thing to do, not from personal enmity toward them. Did you hear that, television-fed babies? Hitler's plan was not an emotional tantrum. It was plain and simple common sense, in that two cultures cannot exist in the same space without destroying each other. ]
news on 08.08.07 @ 07:39 PM CST [more..]
Tuesday, August 7th
Ethnic pride creates daily happiness for teens
Adolescents with positive feelings toward their ethnic group say they are happier on a daily basis than those who have a more negative attitude about their ethnic identity, said Lisa Kiang, assistant professor of psychology at Wake Forest and lead author of the study.
“Adolescents with a high ethnic regard maintained a generally positive and happy attitude in the face of daily stressors and despite their anxious feelings,” Kiang said. “So, having positive feelings about one’s ethnic group appeared to provide an extra boost of positivity in individuals’ daily lives.”
Although the experience of more daily stressors predicted less daily happiness in individuals with a low to moderate ethnic regard, individuals with a high ethnic regard were protected from these negative effects, said Kiang, who teaches courses in developmental psychology.
[ Not surprising: believing in something bigger than yourself helps you be less selfish, and more motivated toward constructive activity, no matter what the adversity. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 09:44 PM CST [more..]
What group empowers the liberal movement?
[ First, guess: Jews? African-Americans? Women? Mexicans? Christians? Muslims? Gays? ]
It’s Sunday, day 4 of Yearly Kos, the major conference for progressive bloggers, and Gina Cooper, the confab’s organizer-in-chief, surveys the ballroom of the massive McCormick Place Convention Center.
“It’s mostly white. More male than female,” says the former high school math and science teacher turned activist. “It’s not very diverse.”
There goes the open secret of the netroots, or those who make up the community of the Internet grass-roots movement.
Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, who is part Latina, attended a panel on Friday called “The Changing Dynamics of Diversity in Progressive Politics,” organized by Cheryl Contee, an African American woman. Ancona works for Vote Hope, a California-based activist group, and said one reason she came to Yearly Kos was to get an answer to this question: “Why is the blogosphere, which is supposed to be more democratic, reinforcing the same white male power structure that exists?”
Everyone agrees it’s a problem, yet no one is sure how to address it. Historically, the progressive movement has included a myriad of special-interest and single-issue groups, and the challenge has always been to find common ground. The same is true on the Internet, but with an added twist. The Internet, after all, is not a “push” medium like television, where information flows out, but a “pull” medium, where people are drawn in.
[ Misguided, underconfident white males seeking social reinforcement ARE the liberal movement. Stop blaming others -- put the blame where it belongs, and purge us of these inferior white males! ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 09:11 PM CST [more..]
Bottled water drives our economy because we don't trust gov't
Thirty years ago, bottled water barely existed as a business in the United States. Last year, we spent more on Poland Spring, Fiji Water, Evian, Aquafina, and Dasani than we spent on iPods or movie
tickets--$15 billion. It will be $16 billion this year.
Bottled water is the food phenomenon of our times. We--a generation raised on tap water and water fountains--drink a billion bottles of water a week, and we're raising a generation that views tap water with disdain and water fountains with suspicion. We've come to pay good money--two or three or four times the cost of gasoline--for a product we have always gotten, and can still get, for free, from taps in our homes.
[ No one trusts our government. Thus we don't trust our tap water. We also know our doctors have been sold to industry, so we don't trust most of their advice, including that tap water is safe. So we buy tap water that's been bottled, and the profits keep flowing. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:49 PM CST [more..]
Americans agree on only one thing: armed revolution is necessary
I have noticed something recently, both around the "water cooler" at work and creeping into the public discourse.
I keep hearing the same sentiment expressed in conversations between ordinary Americans: "things in this country are only going to continue getting worse until we have an armed insurrection."
[ Government? Dysfunctional. Culture? Destroyed. Multiculturalism? Failing. The nation is run by oligarchs. It's time to kick out those liars we elected, and get someone with some real balls into office. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:47 PM CST [more..]
Federal government unable to take on immigration
State lawmakers are increasingly stepping into the void created by the failure of Congress to approve sweeping changes to immigration policy, a new report finds.
[ They're afraid of losing votes, but they're not brave enough to return the balance to voters who understand them and don't just want to use them. The country is run by lobbyists, and so enters its final stage... ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:45 PM CST [more..]
Competition means you will never have enough wealth
But many such accomplished and ambitious members of the digital elite still do not think of themselves as particularly fortunate, in part because they are surrounded by people with more wealth . often a lot more.
When chief executives are routinely paid tens of millions of dollars a year and a hedge fund manager can collect $1 billion annually, those with a few million dollars often see their accumulated wealth as puny, a reflection of their modest status in the new Gilded Age, when hundreds of thousands of people have accumulated much vaster fortunes.
People around here, if they have 2 or 3 million dollars, they don't feel secure,. said David W. Hettig, an estate planner based in Menlo Park who has advised Silicon Valley's wealthy for two decades.
[ There's no escape from a corrupt system. No matter how much you have, someone else has more, and billions of starving people want what you have, so you'd better get more so you can defend yourself against the morons. 90% of your wealth is to defend yourself. And still you think it's great, coprophages. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:29 PM CST [link]
West's caste-mixing saved it, now dooms it
The New York Times is running a story on Dr. Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" with a new explanation for the Industrial Revolution and the affluence it created. Dr. Clark, an economic historian at the University of California Davis, postulates that the surge in economic growth that occurred first in
England around 1800 came about because of the strange new behaviors of nonviolence, literacy, long working hours and a willingness to save.
Clark's research shows that between 1200 and 1800, the rich had more surviving children than the poor and that this caused constant downward social mobility as the poor failed to reproduce themselves and the progeny of the rich took over their occupations. "The modern population of the English is largely descended from the economic upper classes of the Middle Ages," Clark concludes. Work hours increased, literacy and numeracy rose, and the level of interpersonal violence dropped. Around 1790, a steady upward trend in production efficiency caused a significant acceleration in the rate of productivity growth that at last made possible England's escape from the Malthusian trap.
Why did the Industrial Revolution first occur in England instead of the much larger populations of China or Japan. Clark has found data showing that their richer classes, the Samurai in Japan and the Qing dynasty in China, were surprisingly unfertile and failed to generate the downward social mobility that spread production-oriented values.
[ The mercantile middle class cannibalized the rich. This means that our society is more productive and thus more stable on one level, but since it is leaderless, it is degenerating at an increasing pace. What once saved us will destroy us now, where if we'd just done it sensibly since ancient days, we would be much farther ahead. Good work! At least everyone is equal, because that's the product we've purchased with our instability. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:23 PM CST [more..]
Video education retards children
Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, both at the University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos."
[ This is the problem with Americans: they're not dumb, but they're sleepwalking through life. To distrust means they have to reject everything, so they trust blindly, and then are appalled when their good intentions lead to disaster. News Flash: Your society is dying. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:20 PM CST [more..]
Einstein was a ripoff who wrote unstable science
Einstein is famous for the Theory of Relativity, the theory that gravity is caused by curvature of space, and the equation E=mc2 (that energy is equivalent to matter times a constant, squared).
Recent scholarship questions whether the Theory of Relativity actually was Einstein's work; it may actually have been the work of his first wife, Mileva Maric.
Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933 as a celebrity and was appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. But, from 1905 until his death in 1955, he made no significant contributions to mathematics or physics. His main contribution to the atomic bomb was in just in convincing President Roosevelt to authorize the bomb project; the scientific work was done by Oppenheimer, Fermi, and others.
[ The original article is worth reading, because it assaults celebrity culture quite intelligently. Einstein is well-known as being a figurehead more than a master of hard science, except by the masses, who have no idea why they praise him. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:18 PM CST [more..]
Article on illegal immigrant rape provokes storm of fury
The article and comments describe a 42-year-old white woman courageously rebuilding her life after an 18-year-old immigrant assaulted her in a highly vicious case. The commentary proves what Nazis know and everyone else denies: Race is the elephant in America's room, the topic we cannot discuss unless we reach certain inoffensive conclusions about how awesome multiculturalism is, yet every ethnic group prefers its own. Why is race taboo? Because a grey race of cultureless employees is every rich man's covert dream.
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:13 PM CST [link]
40% of English tots can't read after elementary school
FOUR out of 10 children left primary school this year without being able to read or write, Government figures show today.
[ Multiculturalism means that curriculum slows down for many different ways of doing the same thing, becoming inefficient. Watch the numbers of failures rise in the coming decades. Multiculturalism isn't the only factor: TV, vapid culture, and the democratic unsuitability of complex language come into play here as well. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 08:11 PM CST [more..]
Marketing brainwashes children
Anything made by McDonald's tastes better, preschoolers said in a study that powerfully demonstrates how advertising can trick the taste buds of young children.
[ Why do you tolerate this? ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 07:39 AM CST [more..]
A metaphor for immigration
It was a fantastic opportunity for the underprivileged to travel to Europe. But for 15 of those underprivileged, the Homeless World Cup in Denmark appears to also have been a fantastic opportunity to stay on and go underground in Europe.
[ Yes, it's nicer here. Let's stay. Never mind that we will kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, because we are not that goose. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 07:31 AM CST [more..]
Firefighters forced to participate in gay pride parade
Four firefighters are suing the city of San Diego for being forced by their superiors to attend the annual "Gay Pride" parade where they endured a barrage of sexual taunts and lewd gestures.
San Diego's fire chief, Tracy Jarman, is an open lesbian who called the July 21 parade a "fun event" in which "all employees are encouraged to participate."
But the firefighters said, unlike previous years, they were ordered into uniform to participate in the parade in their fire truck, despite repeated their protests.
[ Minorities and protected groups: not magically "tolerant" of other points of view. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 07:30 AM CST [more..]
American evicted for speaking English
Tom McKenna is a longtime Stuart businessman who speaks only English.
He says that's why he's being kicked out of the storefront on South Dixie Highway where he has run Seacoast Water Care for seven years.
On July 5 — the day after Independence Day — McKenna received a letter from landlord Ivan Munro telling him to consider another location.
Munro said in his letter he wants to have "quality tenants serving the Spanish need in the area."
[ Well, it's just business. Nevermind loss of culture and soulless assimilation. ]
news on 08.07.07 @ 07:28 AM CST [more..]
Saturday, August 4th
New theory of origin of civilization
For decades, school children have learned that human civilization emerged about 5000 years ago along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, along the Nile, and along the Indus River.
Archaeologists working in a broad arc from the Russian steppes through Iran and onto the Arabian Peninsula are finding evidence that a complex network of cities may have thrived across the region in roughly the same era as Mesopotamia, suggesting a dramatic new view of the emergence of human civilization.
[ Next thing, they'll find out that ethnic groups from the north migrated southward to start these similar civilizations. In Europe and the middle east, it was Nordics. In the new world and Asia, it was Northern Chinese or Polynesians. I wonder what these hardy people would think of our bloated, distracted, thoughtless society today? ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:41 AM CST [more..]
GM foods destroy the DNA of everything around them
It turns out that the damage done to DNA due to the process of creating a genetically modified organism is far more extensive than previously thought. GM crops routinely create unintended proteins, alter existing protein levels or even change the components and shape of the protein that is created by the inserted gene. Kirks concerns about a GM crop producing a harmful misfolded protein remain well-founded, and have been echoed by scientists as one of the many possible dangers that are not being evaluated by the biotech industry's superficial safety assessments.
GM cotton has provided ample reports of unpredicted side-effects. In April 2006, more than 70 Indian shepherds reported that 25% of their herds died within 5-7 days of continuous grazing on Bt cotton plants. Hundreds of Indian agricultural laborers reported allergic reactions from Bt cotton. Some cotton harvesters have been hospitalized and many laborers in cotton gin factories take antihistamines each day before work. The cotton's agronomic performance is also erratic.
[ No surprises here. GM foods are based on partial knowledge and a rush to market for profit, not because it's a good idea. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:23 AM CST [more..]
Ethnic differences in health care bound, "discrimination" blamed
A new study examined the rates at which different racial groups develop disability, how differences between groups can be accounted for, and the significant risk factors that predict the development of disability among older adults with arthritis.
The researchers spoke with black women who had babies with normal weights at birth, comparing them with black women whose babies' birth weight was very low -- under three pounds. They asked the mothers if they had ever been treated unfairly because of their race when looking for a job, in an educational setting or in other situations. Those who felt discriminated against had a twofold increase in low birth weights. And for those who experienced discrimination in three "domains," the increase was nearly threefold.
[ Something went wrong -- it's easier to blame discrimination than acknowledge that the people giving birth to unhealthy babies are unhealthy, usually by choice. Did you ask about junk food? Smoking? Drinking? These are more likely causes of low birth weight, in whites or blacks, than "discrimination" as perceived by the subject. It's easier to find a scapegoat than look at the real problem. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:21 AM CST [more..]
Why no good art has occurred in the past fifty years
Pop legend Elton John claims the internet is destroying good music, saying: "The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision. We're talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that.s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet. Let's get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you're lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality. And there are more albums released each week now than there were then.
[ He's right, but it's not the internet to blame. It's the gradual spread of technology letting the masses pretend to be important, while taking over art. Modern art is garbage. Rock music is for the most part simplistic junk. None of it approaches the greatness of the past, but at least everyone gets to have a band, a blog and get local renown for blast-welding a toilet to a microwave oven and calling it "Climate Semiotic Crucifixion, Or How I Love You." Our culture is slowly made into junk by an army of peasants pretending to be kings. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:18 AM CST [more..]
Americans increase globalist power over seas
President Bush urged the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) on May 15, 2007. This treaty, which was originally rejected by Ronald Reagan in 1982, would place the vast majority of the earth's ocean resources under the control of the International Seabed Authority, a subsidiary of the United Nations.
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:14 AM CST [more..]
Ability to think as others do crucial to human growth
One of the unique characteristics of humans that distinguish us from the animal kingdom is the ability to represent others' beliefs in our own minds. New research published in Psychological Science suggests that this ability develops at very young age.
[ It was the necessity of socialization that made humans evolve, not the other way around. But any great strength is also a great burden. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:12 AM CST [more..]
Son of Nationalist leader arrested
A son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has been jailed for five years after being involved in a gang attack that left a man dead, British prosecutors said Friday.
[ His heritage was such a big deal they first suppressed, then announced, the information, getting themselves a nice conviction. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:10 AM CST [more..]
Ancient nationalist leader's tomb discovered
Mexican archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have detected underground chambers they believe contain the remains of Emperor Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus landed in the New World. It would be the first tomb of an Aztec ruler ever found.
The find could provide an extraordinary window into Aztec civilization at its apogee. Ahuizotl (ah-WEE-zoh-tuhl), an empire-builder who extended the Aztecs' reach as far as Guatemala, was the last emperor to complete his rule before the Spanish Conquest.
Ahuizotl's son Cuauhtemoc (kwow-TAY-mock) took over from Montezuma and led the last resistance to the Spaniards in the battle for Mexico City in 1521. He was later taken prisoner and killed. Like Montezuma, his burial place is unknown.
[ This was probably not Aztec civilization at its true height, but as happened in Rome, a final consolidation of strength before decline. The Vandals at Tenochtitlan's door were Spanish Christians who used their face to justify gathering gold. Why we blame the Spaniards, and not their insane interpretation of religion, baffles me. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:08 AM CST [more..]
Capitalism punishes those without money to motivate those with
If some of your products are cheap, you may lose money from customers who would willingly have paid more. So, businesses try to discourage their more lavish customers from trading down by making their cheap products look or sound unattractive. The British supermarket Tesco has a "value" line of products with infamously ugly packaging, not because good designers are unavailable but because the supermarket wants to scare away customers who would willingly spend more. "The bottom end of any market tends to get distorted," says McManus. "The more market power firms have, the less attractive they make the cheaper products."
A firm in a perfectly competitive market would suffer if it sabotaged its cheapest products because rivals would jump at the opportunity to steal alienated customers. The practice is hundreds of years old. The French economist Emile Dupuit wrote about the early days of the railways, when third-class carriages were built without roofs, even though roofs were cheap: "What the company is trying to do is prevent the passengers who can pay the second-class fare from traveling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich."
[ Modern society is based on perception, not reality, and mass demographic manipulation. This will not end will. Why do you put up with it? ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:03 AM CST [more..]
Intel ad draws accusations of bigotry
The ad depicts a white man in casual office attire, arms folded and grinning triumphantly between two row of cubicles. The fella is flanked on each side by three spandex-clad black men crouched in a sprinter's starting position. The advertisement is captioned, "multiply computing performance and maximize the power of your employees."
The ad obviously would have passed through several hands before being ready for publication in the first place. Either the folks at Intel are such wide-eyed innocents that nobody noticed how the ad could be perceived or they are in fact racists and love the idea, or everyone involved was asleep at the wheel.
[ Hi, I'm a Nazi and I think this ad was stupid and unproductive. What's news about this is that the legions of corporate drones who approved it failed to notice, suggesting that they are barely conscious when at their boring jobs. This sort of problem can be avoided by having no multicultural advertising, and/or jobs with less of the pretense politics that make them boring. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 08:00 AM CST [more..]
Workplace success: torment others to assert authority
How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released Friday.
[ Assert authority aggressively even if you have no right to rule, and the monkey fire line will keep passing on down your resume. That we tolerate this system suggests our apathy is borne of deep inner fear and cowed neurosis. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:58 AM CST [more..]
Black Nationalist stronghold assaulted by racist cops
Heavily armed police officers using flash grenades stormed the Your Black Muslim Bakery early Friday, detaining as many as 19 people -- including the organization's leader Yusuf Bey IV -- and seizing a small armory of weapons including shotguns and ammunition for assault weapons.
[ Black pride organization re-organizes rotting neighborhoods, deprives corporate America of a conveniently exploitable underclass. Uncle Tom newspaper editor whines, is given a merciful quick death. Now a small army of feds, which could not be mobilized against regular violent crime in the neighborhood, sweeps in to take out the visible "threat." End result: black people lose, because nationalist racial-ethnic autonomy was not upheld. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:56 AM CST [more..]
The open society means your data is for sale to everyone
As recently as six months ago, online snooping was mostly done surreptitiously or under the polite guise of "social networking." Now all subtlety has been cast aside. An estimated 30% of all Web searches are aimed at finding people, according to industry statistics, and upstarts like PeekYou, Pipl, Spock, and Wink are vying for a piece of this potentially huge market. These free sites work by scouring the Web for any virtual footprints you might have on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Yahoo!, Flickr and elsewhere, and then creating a fresh profile that organizes all that information on one page. Even Whitepages.com recently expanded its phone listings to include business addresses and other contact information culled from all sorts of mail-order marketing lists and business directories.
What makes these sites controversial is that they gather all this information without your permission. The resulting profiles can be embarrassing or simply wrong. And getting those profiles removed or changed can be impossible. While some sites say they will honor your request to have your profile deleted, they steer you toward "claiming" your profile and making corrections to it instead. Even then, you have limited control over the content and the way it is presented.
[ The magical symbolic modern world is created by marketing and popularity contests like democracy. It is not real but has real consequences. What someone posts about you on the internet can affect how you will eat. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:54 AM CST [more..]
Active learning builds memories faster
"Like humans, monkeys benefit enormously from being actively involved in learning instead of having information presented to them passively," said Nate Kornell, a UCLA postdoctoral scholar in psychology and lead author of the study, which appears in the August issue of the journal Psychological Science. "The advantage of active learning appears to be a fundamental property of memory in humans and nonhumans alike."
[ Superhumans, or our ancestors, could discipline their brains to learn however they needed to, but the principle remains sound: it's better to learn by doing or by example, as it makes the learner powerful with the new skill faster than dry study. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:52 AM CST [more..]
Requirement to have legal workers causing whining
Employers across the country may have to fire workers with questionable Social Security numbers to avoid getting snagged in a Bush administration crackdown on illegal immigrants.
[ The mainstream media (MSM) loves a good story, which means something they can cry over. Here, 5% of America's businesses must do paperwork they put off long ago. Instead of pointing out that we could reduce tax paperwork, affirmative action paperwork, and regulatory burden paperwork, the overeducated but underlearned slobs at our major news outlets are crying over immigration, because it makes them feel "giving." ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:51 AM CST [more..]
How good ideas become genetic programming
Using artificial neural networks as model organisms, it is proven that it is possible for an organism to be born with a set of "primed" connections which guarantee that learning part of a skill induces automatic learning of other skill components, an effect known as free-lunch learning (FLL). Critically, this effect depends on the assumption that associations are stored as distributed representations. Using a genetic algorithm, it is shown that primed organisms can evolve within 30 generations.
This has three important consequences. First, primed organisms learn quickly, which increases their fitness. Second, the presence of FLL effectively accelerates the rate of evolution, for both learned and innate skill components. Third, FLL can accelerate the rate at which learned behaviours become innate. These findings suggest that species may depend on the presence of distributed representations to ensure rapid evolution of adaptive behaviours.
[ In nature's brilliant design, organisms which begin to behave as if they had evolved then evolve. A lesson to all of us who want to better ourselves, or our ethnicities: you can't just kill the stupid, but you must also act toward a higher goal. The overman winks from behind an australopithecus exhibit. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:49 AM CST [more..]
As society festers, people turn to self-sufficiency
A dedicated group of vegetable gardeners is ripping out their front lawns and planting dinner. While people have been growing food in their backyards forever, front-yard vegetable gardens are a growing outlet for people whose backyards are too shady or too small, as well as those who want to spread their beliefs one tomato at a time. Many hope their gardens will revive the notion of victory gardens, which by some estimates provided 40 percent of America's vegetables during World War II.
[ Maybe the whole idea of specialization of labor went too far, and we should each keep our own garden, clean our own toilets and make our own weapons. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 07:42 AM CST [more..]
NWO wants rights to DNA of traffic stop citizens
Police in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales are seeking to extend their already world-beating powers to collect and store DNA samples from the general population.
Current powers allow the coppers to collect samples, which are digitised and stored permanently, from anyone arrested on suspicion of, but not neccesarily charged with, a recordable offence. This is normally an offence that would qualify for a custodial sentence.
But now they want to be able to snoop the genetic make-up of those arrested for non-recordable offences, such as dropping litter or speeding.
[ Modern states like to brag about how free they are. They also like to say fascist states are unfree. The truth is that by taking issue with those who do abuse society, and no one else, fascist states are more free -- to anyone except parasites, criminals, liars, cheats and leeches. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 12:15 AM CST [more..]
Original American pledge of allegiance included fascist salute
Originally, the pledge was said with the right hand in the so-called "Bellamy Salute," with the right hand resting first outward from the chest, then the arm extending out from the body. Once Hitler came to power in Europe, some Americans were concerned that this position of the arm and hand resembled the Nazi or Fascist salute. In 1942 Congress also established the current practice of rendering the pledge with the right hand over the heart.
[ In healthier times, this was seen as a healthy gesture of a warlike determination to do what was right. That's why a pledge existed: like a prayer, a reminder of commitment. ]
news on 08.04.07 @ 12:13 AM CST [more..]
Wednesday, August 1st
Dogfighting case divided by race
Like Smith, almost all of the people supporting Vick or holding signs pleading for "due process" and "innocence until proven guilty" were African American.
On the other side was an emotional, angry, passionate anti-Vick group that was overwhelmingly white.
That a case involving dog fighting can break so quickly along racial lines is a testament to how it bubbles below just about everything in this country. We all wish it wasn't so, including both sides here. No one wanted this. Almost no one even wanted to acknowledge it. But it was there, plain as day in black and white.
"I wouldn't say it's a racial thing," said David Williams, an African American, in a hopeful tone. "It's not racial. But for these animal rights people to take one person and crucify him isn't fair."
[ We lie about liking multiculturalism, and then create more appalling lies. Just say it: I don't like multiculturalism. What are they gonna do, call you racist for pointing out that it's multiculturalism and not black people that you dislike? ]
news on 08.01.07 @ 09:06 PM CST [more..]
Pat Tillman was fragged
Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan will always fascinate Americans, but probably most clearly for a reason they won't understand because accepting it, like acknowledging that we're going to die, pops the balloon of simplistic pleasantries we use to disguise life itself. For all the reams of rhetoric and frenetic reporting about his demise, there is one word that will pop that balloon and the media is afraid to use it.
Fragging.
news on 08.01.07 @ 08:50 PM CST [more..]
Local impoverished protest top-ranked University
Cramped by its urban surroundings, Columbia University is seeking to expand into Harlem against a backdrop of protests from residents who say the Ivy League school's ambitious project would destroy their working-class, minority neighborhood.
Opponents say the university is being insensitive to the history of the community, and that its project would displace poor, minority families who have long struggled to earn a living there.
The project echoes another expansion dispute in 1968, when riots erupted over Columbia's plans to build a gymnasium in a public park. The university's proposal to build separate entrances for students and the public struck some in that racially charged era as discriminatory, and the gym was never built.
[ No program to make the poor unpoor has ever succeeded. On the other hand, many of our best and brightest go through Columbia and do good things for us all. So here, people want to sacrifice our best and brightest for people who are going to always be poor, and can do it just about anywhere. It's an inverted principle, and it's not sanity. ]
news on 08.01.07 @ 08:31 PM CST [more..]
Now "dead zones" proliferate in oceans thanks to humanity
For the first time, Texas has generated its own "dead zone" in coastal waters, scientists say.
The 1,750-square-mile area of oxygen-depleted water, stretching from Freeport to Matagorda Bay, is potentially deadly to marine life.
A larger dead zone, caused by farm fertilizers, soil erosion and discharge from sewage treatment plants carried into the Gulf by the Mississippi River, forms annually off the Louisiana coast.
[ Brilliant. ]
A zone of oxygen-depleted water off the Oregon coast, harmful to sea life, has returned for the sixth consecutive year, and scientists say climate change is the reason.
[ There's six more worldwide. ]
news on 08.01.07 @ 08:28 PM CST [more..]
Priest "racist" for noting foreign ancestry of vandals
A Roman Catholic priest who unleashed a torrent of expletives and racist abuse against skateboarders outside his Australian cathedral, only to have the outburst filmed and placed on YouTube, has been put on leave.
Pointing to a skater lying on the ground, Baron is heard telling the youth "Little foreigner there, look at the sleepy eyes, black hair."
[ Stranger, you don't look like you're from around here... what, hate crime? I don't get it. Oh, that's right. Noticing the obvious is offensive, especially if you notice that this foreigner happens to be a vandal. ]
news on 08.01.07 @ 08:20 PM CST [more..]
Global warming melting Siberia
Siberia is experiencing earlier springs, a study of satellite images has revealed. The trend is likely to be triggering more forest fires, say researchers, and to be linked to global warming.
[ 400+ years of industrial pollutants, and a thousandfold increase in population... what did we expect? Nature's getting ready to shrug off the human problem, which means we get to fight it out for what's left. A National Socialist state would have avoided this problem. ]
news on 08.01.07 @ 08:19 PM CST [more..]
Black death in video game sparks outrage
An African women's blog has taken offense to the new Resident Evil 5 trailer depicting a "white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people." The blog post goes on to say that the black people "are supposed to be zombies" and that it's "the white man's job" to destroy them and save humanity. There are some other issues the writer has, but she ties it all up by saying "this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young ... fearing, hating, and destroying Black people."
As the Village Voice notes:
"Though the full details of the storyline aren’t public yet, the trailer makes a few things clear: you play as a white Chris Redfield, the same all-American boy who has been taking down old-school leg-draggers for years. And the zombies? You guessed it: the local villagers. Which means that the hordes of undead you’ll be pumping round after round of ammo into—they’re all black.
But looking again at the trailer, I see a different message: it’s not just that these zombies are black, but that the uninfected black villagers are zombie-like too. See all those spooky shots of the villagers before they get infected? It’s as if race itself were a disease. The white protagonist has to fight back or be infected.
And that’s the other issue with setting a zombie movie in Africa. The whole idea of zombies is based on our fear of contamination. Get bitten by a zombie, or just drop a tiny bit of undead blood in an open wound, and you’re a goner. Soon you too will carry the disease of the living dead."
[ 99% of video games feature white characters killing white characters. That's diversity, folks. The people who protest or whine about this game need to have their one-sided heads examined. As a good fascist, I'd like to note that I'd ban 99% of video games for a different reason: they're uncreative, unredeeming, unpleasant and ugly destruction-based monetary analogues. ]
news on 08.01.07 @ 07:36 PM CST [more..]
Jew throws Quran down toilet, incenses Muslims
Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, both hate crimes, police said.
The Islamic holy book was found in a toilet at Pace's lower Manhattan campus by a teacher on Oct. 13. A student discovered another book in a toilet on Nov. 21, police said.
Muslim activists had called on Pace University to crack down on hate crimes after the incidents. As a result, the university said it would offer sensitivity training to its students.
news on 08.01.07 @ 12:30 AM CST [more..]