The finding from 52,000 UK and US children traced through to young adulthood that the better-looking were some 12 IQ points brighter than the worse-looking (Marie-Claire, 18 i) – probably because of assortative mating by their parents – continued to be largely avoided by prissy peecee MSM.
FROM ‘NASTY PARTY’ TO NAUGHTY PARTY
Good news of the endless ‘modernization’ (aka re-branding) of the Tory Party came as the Sunday Mail revealed the party’s Lords leader, tubby double-chinned half-Belgian multi-millionaire Lord Strathclyde, born as Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith (with a vast estate in Ayrshire), 50 and a close friend of Daft Dave, had been enjoying an 8-year affair with thrice-married blonde toff totty single-mum Roedean-educated socialite (i.e. coke snorter) (and friend of Liz Hurley) Birgit Cunningham, 48 (23 i).
Less good was the news for the Conservatives’ tireless aspirations to ‘family values’ (last resuscitated under their fornicating 1990s leader, John Major) for the wayward peer had hypocritically waxed lyrical in public about his 20-year long ‘happy marriage’ (with three resultant daughters).
{At least Lord Strathclyde was not a shit-eating LibDim sodomite nor a Labour cuckold – for hastily resigning Shadow Chancellor ‘Postman Pat’ Johnson, 60, turned out to have had not only his wife but also his Hull constituency secretary screwed over good and proper by his police bodyguard.
LibDim enthusiast for family values, Chris Huhne, 56, found himself deserted by local Hampshire councillors and doorstep-botherers after he was revealed to have been cheating on his wife of 26 years with a bull-necked bisexual, Carina Trimingham, 44 (23 i).}
RED ALERT FOR HOMOS
Britain’s homosexuals, whose leaders had long tried to make an absolute distinction between homosexuality and paedophilia and to have the latter demonized in return for public acceptance of their own supposedly well-contained post-15 yaggery, found themselves in an unwelcome spotlight as Dr Hans-Christian Raabe, a Manchester GP and member of the Maranatha Community (an inter-denominational Christian movement), was appointed to HMG’s Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) (Observer, 23 i).
(The committee had been plunged into controversy in 2009 when its chairman, Professor David Nutt, resigned after clashing with the government over its decision to reclassify cannabis from a class C to a class B drug.)
Raabe, who stood for the European Parliament for the Christian Peoples Alliance in 2009 but had since left the party, was medical co-ordinator of the Council for Health and Wholeness (CHW), a Christian organisation based within the Maranatha Community.
Briefing documents for MPs produced by Raabe on behalf of the CHW extolled the benefits of heterosexual marriage in fighting addiction. One stated: "Marriage is associated with greater happiness, less depression, less alcohol abuse and less smoking."
The CHW also made strong claims about the health risks of "the homosexual lifestyle". A briefing document stated: "The media and the gay movement portray the homosexual lifestyle as happy, healthy and fulfilled. However, the homosexual lifestyle is associated with a large number of very serious physical and emotional health consequences." It added: "A high proportion of homosexual men engage in a destructive lifestyle, for example contracting HIV/Aids or other STIs, and develop addictions to drugs or alcohol. There is a higher burden of depression, [and] attempted or completed suicide among the 'gay population'."
Raabe also co-authored a paper that claimed: "While the majority of homosexuals are not involved in paedophilia, it is of grave concern that there is a disproportionately greater number of homosexuals among paedophiles and an overlap between the gay movement and the movement to make paedophilia acceptable."
MEMORY LANE
Though the passage of time, computer crashes and the efforts of my enemies have effectively erased many of my efforts from the internet, at least one version of The g Factor NewsLetter still survived -- here. No, I will not resist a quote:
JULY 24, 1996, Edinburgh
The censorship and suppression visited upon me do indeed seem part of a new modern pattern. Today, the censorious PeeCees - strangely called 'liberals' in America - not uncommonly make deep obeisances to the First Amendment while cracking ahead with the new kind of censorship they have in mind.
Thus, recently, Justice Clarence Thomas found himself picketed by 'liberals' who nobly championed his right to speak - so long as he spoke elsewhere, other than at the suburban high school to which he had been invited.
Likewise, liberal protesters did not want conventional censorship of David Irving's latest historical revisionism re the Holocaust: they merely did not want Irving's book to be published by a "respectable" publisher (St Martin's Press of New York).
I am indebted to an anonymous writer in 'Sobran's' (July issue) for these observations. The writer himself observes, reflecting on his own experiences with 'liberals': "[they] would fight to the death for my right to [speak], provided I were stranded, incommunicado, on a desert island."
As it turns out, this has been Wiley's policy with me all along. Claiming to want only to dissociate their name from my 'repellent' views, they have so far kept my book off the shelves for three months and intend to prolong the suppression so long as I decline to put myself at risk of bankruptcy in going to "arbitration" on their terms.
THIS *IS* CENSORSHIP - CENSORSHIP 'A LA MODE'!
According to 'Sobran's' a condemnatory term favoured by American 'liberals' is "noxious." That, too, rings a bell with me. For "obnoxious" was the term selected by my University Principal, Dame Stewart Sutherland, when squeaking to paparazzi about my views (while in ignorance of any aspect of my views apart from their impiety).
Perhaps there are Ivy League Summer Schools for Vice-Chancellors where they learn their lines as to how to defend 'multiculturalism', relativism and ignoracism in the universities of the English-speaking world?
FOOTY MADE TO DANCE TO PEECEE TUNE
Fifteen years after the West’s cowards failed to rally to The g Factor or to my clemency plea for 85-yr-old Nobelist paedophile Carleton Gajdusek, two mega-‘dons’ of English soccer, Andy Gray and Richard Keys, found themselves booted out of their happy 20-yr-long broadcasting sinecures after reflecting privately (but having failed to turn off their microphones) that women seldom understood ‘the offside rule’ and should concentrate more on ‘getting their kit off’ (Sydney Morning Herald, 26 i).
Star presenter Keys had even somehow been filmed jovially asking a fellow TV soccer pundit “Did you smash it?” – apparently well-known footie speak for “Did you have sex with her?” The pious Sun adjudicated (26 i):” It was Stone Age coarseness from a professional earning £1.7million a year.”
{By contrast, the BBC broadcast every weekday morning a whole hour of feminist propaganda, called ‘Woman‘s Hour’ – there was of course no ‘Man’s Hour’ for fear of the sackings or prosecutions that might ensue if any real man so much as opened his mouth. Years of minority-venerating multiculti madness had finally yielded a media tyranny of which the old communist East Germany would have been proud.
The sackings even winkled out of the Quislinggraph an admission that a new level of “intolerance” had been reached in Britain; and the paper’s Simon Heffer called the sackings ‘fascist’ (28 i). Across the Pond, America’s ‘liberal’-left continued to do its own best to silence the voices of Sarah Palin and similar rightists deemed guilty by Democrats of ‘hate speech’ and incitement to murder of the like of Congresswoman Giffords (q.v.).}
MORE MEMORY
JULY 25, 1996, Edinburgh
Sometimes an observation about otherwise baffling social phenomena really hits the nail on the head. Here is Steve Plaut of Berkeley analysing a peecee penchant that most people find peculiar:"Something that has always been confusing is why recycling of refuse has always played such a dominant role in the "minds" of the politically correct. I mean, after all, our PC brethren spend far more time sorting through their garbage and piling up neat little recycling bins in front of their condos than they spend on anything else.
Now, we surely all know that they are not recycling because they still suffer from the delusion that recycling saves resources. Especially since a recent NY Times Magazine had a 10-page piece explaining to them how it actually wastes resources and was entitled ‘Recycling is Garbage. So what is it?’ The answer is clearly the need on the part of the PC cult to find a religious and spiritual symbol to put on their lawns, much as some Catholics place a crêche of Jesus and Mary.
So the real purpose of the recycling bins and trash piles is to serve as a PC crêche, to advertise to the world that the people who placed it on their lawn are caring and compassionate people, concerned about the earth. And putting up a PC crêche is so much cheaper and easier than, say, going out and really learning the skills and knowledge necessary to address and resolve the real problems of the world....
The PC movement is of course a religion, and, other than the crêche, has many other religious aspects, like the constant repetition of the names of the PC Trinity (race, gender, and sexual "orientation"), PC religious slogans and mantras, etc."
MULTICULTI MADNESS
The six-year experiment of Britain’s ‘Conservatives’ with ‘modernizing’ multiculturalislam came to grief as Black ‘Lord Taylor of Warwick,’ 58 (aka Lord Fraud) (the son of Jamaican immigrants), was found guilty (11-1) by a London jury of fiddling his parliamentary expenses (by claiming to live in Oxford, at the address of a brother, when in fact he never went near the place).
Needless to say, no radio listener would ever have learned that Lord Fraud was Black, for that handy descriptor could not be mentioned, even by the Sun (26 i). Lord Fraud had been put in the House of Lords by Daft Dave’s ‘Conservatives’ after his skin colour had cost them a by-election and they were desperate to disprove accusations of Conservatives being ‘racist’ – so, from losing a Commons seat, Taylor had gone on to disgrace both the Lords and the party piously determined to collect token Blacks.
MIDDLE-EAST MADNESS
Fifty-five years after America insisted on taking over the policing of the Middle East from Britain and France (and their ally at Suez, Israel), Tunisia, Egypt and the Yemen were in flames (with their leaders in hiding) and Pakistan emerged as being used as a base for suicide-bomb attacks on Russia (killing 35 in Moscow and injuring 180).
Meantime, grey chainsmoking US Musli President Barry Insane Obarmy lectured his fellow citizens on the wondrous advantages of shovelling more money into non-selective ‘education’ – a policy as likely to be effective as a half-century of shovelling dollars into the Middle East (at $246M annually for tiny and largely traitorous and terror-ravaged Lebanon alone).
MILITARY BACKS ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO DENOUNCE ‘AFFIRMATIVE’ RACISM
In a rare triumph for university free speech which would have been celebrated by libertarian novelist Ayn Rand, the U.S. Naval Academy agreed to a legal settlement with a dissident faculty member after a federal investigation found evidence that it had illegally denied him a merit-pay increase to punish him for his public criticism of its affirmative-action policies (Chronicles of Higher Education, 26 i).
The findings and settlement, announced by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, represented a signal victory for Bruce E. Fleming, a tenured professor of English. He was a civilian employee who had filed a complaint with the federal agency in September 2009 after being denied a merit-pay raise that year.
Mr. Fleming, who had criticized the academy and its affirmative-action policies for several years, blamed the alleged crackdown on him on administrators' anger over a widely circulated June 14, 2009, column in an Annapolis newspaper, The Capital, in which he argued that the academy enrolled minority students through a separate, less-demanding admissions process, and that many of those students struggled academically.
His whistle-blower complaint accused the academic dean and provost, Andrew T. Phillips, of taking extraordinary steps to deny him a raise that had been recommended by the English department's chairwoman.
The academy had unsuccessfully accused the professor of conduct in violation of a 1940 statement of principles by the American Association of University Professors {a statement surely much to the liking of ‘media law’ professor Eric Barendt, q.v. and *} which held that faculty members should be accurate in their statements, "exercise appropriate restraint," show respect for the opinions of others, and try not to appear to speak for their institution.
* Ten weeks after the publication of Barendt’s Academic Freedom, there was still not a single review/comment at Amazon Books on the tired scholar’s peecee sycophancy – apart from my own note on Barendt’s concluding chapter titled “THE CHRIS BRAND CASE.”
CHINKONOMICS
25 years ago it was illegal for Westerners to use the Internet, which was anyhow unheard of and reserved for specialized military purposes. By 2011, any Westerner who reflected too much on genes, race and IQ wouldl be silenced or sacked. In Taki Magazine (19 i), the sage John Derbyshire pondered what the future held for the ‘killer technology’ of genomics, and reckoned China had the edge:
Hong Kong is poised to become an international gene sequencing and genomics research hub, thanks to the work of the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), mainland China’s leading genomic company.
BGI set up its genome sequencing research lab thanks to a 10 billion yuan low-interest loan from the state-run China Development Bank. Ten billion is a lot of yuan (around $1.5 billion), and there is plenty more where that came from.
Chinese genomics research is casting its net wide—wider than would be thought proper in our own gene-shy public culture. One of BGI’s programs is studying the genetic basis for IQ’s heritability, variously estimated by researchers at between 40 and 80 percent. Prevailing dogma in the US, however, insists the correct number is zero percent, so that no such work could be done here, certainly not on billion-dollar soft loans from the feds.
{Meantime, the more humble eugenic experiment of allowing more breeding by the relatively well-educated members of the Communist Party within a 100-mile radius around Peking remained unstudied by even the Galton Institute – which had declined to show an interest despite my promptings in the 1990s.
Altogether, it seemed likely that the Chinese would indeed get more out of Darwin than had the British – even if Peking’s top geneticist, Bruce Lahn (q.v.) stayed located in Chicago pro tem., keeping his views on race and IQ under his hat for the sake of US dollars, and China’s politicos and media folk had still to prove they could cope more manfully than the West with the realism of The Bell Curve and The g Factor.}
REALITY COMES HOME TO ROOST
The first major result of Bleck Berry Obarmy’s ‘foreign policy’ for America emerged as Muslims rioted all over Greater Arabia, dispatching the leader of Tunisia into hiding in Saudi, burning down the HQ of Egypt’s ruling party, triggering copy-cat violence in the Yemen and even worrying the world’s longest-running tyrant, Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi.
Said the Guardian (29 i, Simon Tisdall): “{Billary} Clinton .... struck a lopsided note. "Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable and is looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people," she said. Against a backdrop of street battles, beatings-up, teargas, flying bricks, mass detentions and attempts to shut information networks, her words sounded unreal, even foolish.”
Insane Obarmy’s first act as President of the breakaway religious-maniacal republic of the USA had been to visit Egypt to explain he was an Africa-born Muslim who hated Britain (he returned a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House) and the West and only fawned on Jews so as to keep their money propping up the mega-bankrupt country which had idealistically elected to solve its racial problem which it had been fanning for years by welfarism, single-parent breeding and mass immigration.
By 2011, even the dull Egyptians (mean IQ 83) had got the message that America, despite pumping $1.5B annually into illiterate Egypt (there was scarcely a bookshop in Cairo, the ‘intellectual capital’ of the Arab world) in its chosen version of post-Suez empire-by-bribery, was a pushover and that a few days of vandalism against their US-backed dictators would allow them to have Sharia law, re-start fighting the Jews and above all get their claws into each other in pursuit of the Sooloony-Shitite split which was the long-running essential feature of Mohammedanism. Whether Turkey would use its vast army to re-establish the Ottoman Empire remained to be seen.
MULTICULTI CRACK
One of the hilarious divisions in the multiculti world of illusion was exposed in Uganda as a top yag was murdered and a Black pastor called on homosexuals to repent and accept divine punishment (Guardian, 29 i).{To follow: high-taxing Left with so-far-cowardly feminists in tow versus Muslim family life / polygamy / wife-beating.}
Meantime, in not-so-post-Labour Britain, homosexual tyranny continued, with scores of yag couples persecuting the Cornwall b&b owners who had tried to avoid renting double beds to homos, and with local councils ‘offering’ lesson schemes to their teachers which would embed LGBTs within maths, history and geography lessons as if LGBT-ery were entirely normal and widely practised (D. Telegraph, 22 i).
NAUGHTY “NEUROSEXISM”
“Pick a gender difference, any difference. Now watch very closely as – poof! – it’s gone.” Such was the daring academic conclusion in 2010 of Cordelia Fine (The Real Science Behind Gender Differences, Icon Books, £15) – though the glittering and youthful (if chubby) psychologist (from Oxford to Cambridge to hotbed-of-leftism Melbourne) did not seem to trouble herself (at least, judging by the review in by Carol Tavris in Times Literary Supplement, 26 i 2011) to discuss the sex differences in intelligence distribution and tender mindedness set out by Richard Lynn and myself (The g Factor, Chap. 1).
{For a dismissal of the book’s ‘heavily politicized, archaic feminist ideology,’ see the review by Alex Drummond at Amazon Books. Even a keen supporter of young Cordelia wrote merely: “Fine doesn't prove that there are no differences between male and female brains but she provides a fantastically sarcastic commentary on the literature which aims to prove the opposite.”}
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