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 Universit