MULTICULTI MADNESS RESUMES
After two years of being bought off by soft policing, job creation programmes, equal opportunities legislation, training programmes, affirmative action and government largesse to imams,* Muesli mobs from grimy Parisian tower blocks once more showed their multicultural mettle in suburbs 12 miles north of Notre Dame, injuring 77 police and a journalist in a single night (5 critically), torching dozens of cars and setting fire to a police station and two schools (Sun, 27 xi). The night's violence was even more intense (though less widespread pro tem.) than the three weeks of Black rioting two years ago, said police official Patrice Ribeiro. Police were facing "genuine urban guerrillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," he told Associated Press.
North African youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. Angry residents said the police left the scene of Sunday's crash without helping two unhelmeted teenagers whose stolen, unlicensed and speeding moped had collided with their police car. Police, who made six arrests, said they had been attacked with guns and petrol bombs and that kids as young as ten were being used as spotters and police radio scanners to give advance warning of police movements (BBC, 27 xi). Prime Minister François Fillon called the attackers “criminals who would be treated as such.” Some youths, interviewed in French newspapers, claim to have "declared war" on the cops and wanted two dead.
At stake here was whether the French model of multiculturalism – with its clear and dogmatic separation of church and state – was finally unravelling as Mueslis declined to offer loyalty to even the most important element of the French constitution, the police. The parents of the dead teenagers called for calm and were invited to meet President Sarkozy (lately alleged to have a glamorous eleven-year-younger girlfriend) on his return a trip to Peking. Meantime, a half of France’s 85 universities remained closed by striking students….
* A note re 2005 from Bits of News, 27 xi 07: “The riots were eventually put down and limited government concessions relating to immigrants' status and legality to work were introduced by Nicolas Sarkozy, then minister for the interior, who, ironically, had argued for a reduction in the separation of Church and State and for government subsidies of mosques. This went some way towards placating the immigrant community in France and, for the timebeing, the barricades were removed and the philosophers and booksellers came back out on to the streets of Paris. The concessions, however, were no more than a sticking plaster.”
Monday, November 26, 2007
OXFORD DEBATE REPORT
First pictures
Only 500 protesters turn up 7p.m. -- barely exceeding the 450 with tickets to attend the debate.
Novelist Anne Atkins is one of four main speakers
Leftists break into Oxford Union. Leftist thugs get through police cordon to barricade themselves in and stage sit-down protest
Union security officers said the protesters got into the building by jumping over the wall while others created a diversion by gathering and crushing at the front gate. The sit-down mob at the gate prevented about half the students who had tickets from getting in to the debate.
Incompetent police, their Thames Valley force headed by a womyn, finally restore a semblance of order -- After a delay of about an hour and a half, the debate finally got under way -- at about 10 p.m., to much rejoicing from the BNP.
Different speakers had to speak from different rooms -- thanks to police inability to get them across a quadrangle to be together.
Indie fesses defeat: the liberal-left Independent’s headline as dawn broke was Debate ends 40 years of solitude for the far right But the Socialist Worker’s headline was 1000 anti-fascists wreck Oxford’s sham debate.
The BNP declared (27 xi): “University debating chambers have been lining up for several years to invite Nick Griffin and other BNP spokespersons to address their students. All of the organisers have given in to threats of violence, disruption and campus ostracism. Oxford Union have broken the mould and the door is now open for other universities to follow Oxford’s lead. Despite death threats delivered to Luke Tryl, the President of the Oxford Union, was bold enough to go ahead with significant backing from fellow members of the Union.”
For the Guardian (27 xi), Micah Smith said Irving and Griffin had “a shamefully easy ride” in such debate as had been possible in the confusion; and he added “On his blog, student Jonny Wright described the chaotic situation. As it unfolded before my eyes, I wrote the following thoughts down: "I am sat here feeling threatened by my own side ... this is theatre alright, but it's the wrong side playing the thugs." Their actions will be exploited by Irving and Griffin, to paradoxically paint anti-fascists as the real fascists.At the end of the day, Irving and Griffin were handed exactly what they wanted by simply being invited to the Union. Unfortunately, those few protesters who chose the path of aggression provided them with the cherry on top.”
After the night of furious disruption, delay, chaos and disgrace for the forces of law and order, police congratulated themselves and all students on their good behaviour and said no arrests were made because no criminal offences had been committed. But Liberal-Democratic speaker Evan Harris MP criticised police for “failing to put a cordon around the Union” and giving protestors the chance to storm in. Mr Harris said he was “disappointed” in the police response to the anti-fascist rally, adding “The failure of the police is outrageous.”
One Times correspondent wrote: “The right will recall the events of tonight as an example of leftwing democracy for decades to come. Tonight the morality of the left went into the red.”
A happy outcome was that students at the University of East Anglia voted 75% in favour of abandoning the National Union of Students’ policy of ‘No platform for fascists and racists’ (Guardian, 27 xi) – and they were supported by Britain’s minister for higher education, Bill Rammell. And Times correspondents who had attended the debater were thankfully horrified at the authoritarianism of the left (28 xi).
First pictures
Only 500 protesters turn up 7p.m. -- barely exceeding the 450 with tickets to attend the debate.
Novelist Anne Atkins is one of four main speakers
Leftists break into Oxford Union. Leftist thugs get through police cordon to barricade themselves in and stage sit-down protest
Union security officers said the protesters got into the building by jumping over the wall while others created a diversion by gathering and crushing at the front gate. The sit-down mob at the gate prevented about half the students who had tickets from getting in to the debate.
Incompetent police, their Thames Valley force headed by a womyn, finally restore a semblance of order -- After a delay of about an hour and a half, the debate finally got under way -- at about 10 p.m., to much rejoicing from the BNP.
Different speakers had to speak from different rooms -- thanks to police inability to get them across a quadrangle to be together.
Indie fesses defeat: the liberal-left Independent’s headline as dawn broke was Debate ends 40 years of solitude for the far right But the Socialist Worker’s headline was 1000 anti-fascists wreck Oxford’s sham debate.
The BNP declared (27 xi): “University debating chambers have been lining up for several years to invite Nick Griffin and other BNP spokespersons to address their students. All of the organisers have given in to threats of violence, disruption and campus ostracism. Oxford Union have broken the mould and the door is now open for other universities to follow Oxford’s lead. Despite death threats delivered to Luke Tryl, the President of the Oxford Union, was bold enough to go ahead with significant backing from fellow members of the Union.”
For the Guardian (27 xi), Micah Smith said Irving and Griffin had “a shamefully easy ride” in such debate as had been possible in the confusion; and he added “On his blog, student Jonny Wright described the chaotic situation. As it unfolded before my eyes, I wrote the following thoughts down: "I am sat here feeling threatened by my own side ... this is theatre alright, but it's the wrong side playing the thugs." Their actions will be exploited by Irving and Griffin, to paradoxically paint anti-fascists as the real fascists.At the end of the day, Irving and Griffin were handed exactly what they wanted by simply being invited to the Union. Unfortunately, those few protesters who chose the path of aggression provided them with the cherry on top.”
After the night of furious disruption, delay, chaos and disgrace for the forces of law and order, police congratulated themselves and all students on their good behaviour and said no arrests were made because no criminal offences had been committed. But Liberal-Democratic speaker Evan Harris MP criticised police for “failing to put a cordon around the Union” and giving protestors the chance to storm in. Mr Harris said he was “disappointed” in the police response to the anti-fascist rally, adding “The failure of the police is outrageous.”
One Times correspondent wrote: “The right will recall the events of tonight as an example of leftwing democracy for decades to come. Tonight the morality of the left went into the red.”
A happy outcome was that students at the University of East Anglia voted 75% in favour of abandoning the National Union of Students’ policy of ‘No platform for fascists and racists’ (Guardian, 27 xi) – and they were supported by Britain’s minister for higher education, Bill Rammell. And Times correspondents who had attended the debater were thankfully horrified at the authoritarianism of the left (28 xi).
Friday, November 23, 2007
OXFORD UNION STANDS FIRM FOR FREE SPEECH
After a month of mounting protests from thousands (including some top Labour bigwigs) at his having invited BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust-sceptic historian David Irving to discuss ‘the limits of free speech’ on 26th November, Oxford Union President Luke Tryl, a Conservative, was standing his ground over the invitation (Independent, 19 xi). Jewish Oxford West Liberal Democrat M.P., Dr Evan Harris, had also agreed to take part in the debate -- defending his involvement on free-speech grounds and gaining the support of national Liberal leadership candidates Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg. Leftists planned rowdy protests in central Oxford in the evenings of 20th and 23rd November to intimidate the Oxford Union into cancelling the debate. However, Raghib Ali, one of the founders of the Oxford Islam and Muslim Awareness Project, said there were dangers in depriving Griffin and Irving of a platform.
{Over the previous ten years, cancellation rates for ‘controversial right-wing’ speakers had been 100%, beginning with my being barred from addressing gatherings in Edinburgh (1996) and Oxford (1997) after police advice to conveners that staff serving the gatherings could not be protected. – My 1997 Cambridge debate had gone ahead only because it was organized by leftists who turned up early at the debating hall and filled it so I could be defeated in the final show of hands; thus the 30 police surrounding Gonville & Caius College had been assured by the left there would be little or no serious trouble.}
I wrote to the Oxford Mail as follows (published 20 xi):
Only 100 left-wing goons turned up 20 xi at Oxford Town Hall to protest the Irving/Griffin visitation (Oxford Mail, 20 xi) – but they still won the support of Oxford’s right-on pacifist and atheist Lord Mayor, John Tanner, who was leading an overwhelmingly left-wing Council (where Conservatives had only two seats out of 48). Stephen Altmann-Richer, co-president of the Oxford University Jewish Society, told the BBC News website that, while freedom of speech was important, it was “overshadowed in this instance".
The Guardian’s Padraig Reidy protested that there was no ‘right to speak at the Oxford Union’ – without considering that there was (surely) a duty to let a university-chosen speaker be heard. The Archbishop of Canterbury, fresh from presiding over the dismemberment of the Church of England over yag rights to leadership also joined the thousands who had objected to the debate.
President Luke Tryl thought he had 75% of Oxford Junior Common Rooms behind him; but David Irving, noting O.U.’s cancellation of seven debates in the past few years thanks to Jewish pressure, said he had provisionally accepted a speaking engagement in Liverpool for 26th November.
The Jewish press (Totally Jewish, 22 xi) cleverly reckoned that, whatever happened in Oxford, the outcome would be a victory for the ‘far right’ – vindicating the general Jewish policy of maximum silence about the suppression of racial outspeakers (as had eventually been achieved in my own case at E.LU., where the LUni paid up rather than go to court against me). But its columnist Jonathan Hoffman had no compunction about calling for cancellation (22 xi).
I wrote to Nouse (the York University student newspaper, where sporty blonde Comment Editor Stephanie Dyson had backed the debtate) (22 xi) and Oxford Mail (published 22 xi):
FLYNN BOOK A YAWN
Jim Flynn’s new book on intelligence (What is Intelligence?, Cambridge University Press, saying secular gains are erratic across test-types, may well not continue, and that genes have some of their effect by influencing a child’s environment) was reviewed by neuroscientist Richard Restak in The American Scholar (xi 2007) – revealing it to contain no arguments not already considered in The g Factor (1996) and by the rest of the London School.
After a month of mounting protests from thousands (including some top Labour bigwigs) at his having invited BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust-sceptic historian David Irving to discuss ‘the limits of free speech’ on 26th November, Oxford Union President Luke Tryl, a Conservative, was standing his ground over the invitation (Independent, 19 xi). Jewish Oxford West Liberal Democrat M.P., Dr Evan Harris, had also agreed to take part in the debate -- defending his involvement on free-speech grounds and gaining the support of national Liberal leadership candidates Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg. Leftists planned rowdy protests in central Oxford in the evenings of 20th and 23rd November to intimidate the Oxford Union into cancelling the debate. However, Raghib Ali, one of the founders of the Oxford Islam and Muslim Awareness Project, said there were dangers in depriving Griffin and Irving of a platform.
{Over the previous ten years, cancellation rates for ‘controversial right-wing’ speakers had been 100%, beginning with my being barred from addressing gatherings in Edinburgh (1996) and Oxford (1997) after police advice to conveners that staff serving the gatherings could not be protected. – My 1997 Cambridge debate had gone ahead only because it was organized by leftists who turned up early at the debating hall and filled it so I could be defeated in the final show of hands; thus the 30 police surrounding Gonville & Caius College had been assured by the left there would be little or no serious trouble.}
I wrote to the Oxford Mail as follows (published 20 xi):
In the eighteenth century, top British philosopher David Hume could not get a job in any Scottish university because he was rumoured to be an atheist. Ten years ago, I was fired by Edinburgh University for too much free speech about race, intelligence, feminazism and paedohysteria. This year, Nobelist James Watson was sent to the doghouse for his own scientific racism. This week, even such victims of anti-free-speech hysteria as Nick Griffin and David Irving face being disinvited from even discussing free speech itself at the Oxford Union. As British leftists take the country back to the days of the Inquisition, one just wonders whether they ponder the determination of Queen Elizabeth I 'not to make windows into men's souls.' The Martyrs' Memorial, just a minute away from the Union in central Oxford, should daily remind them.
Only 100 left-wing goons turned up 20 xi at Oxford Town Hall to protest the Irving/Griffin visitation (Oxford Mail, 20 xi) – but they still won the support of Oxford’s right-on pacifist and atheist Lord Mayor, John Tanner, who was leading an overwhelmingly left-wing Council (where Conservatives had only two seats out of 48). Stephen Altmann-Richer, co-president of the Oxford University Jewish Society, told the BBC News website that, while freedom of speech was important, it was “overshadowed in this instance".
The Guardian’s Padraig Reidy protested that there was no ‘right to speak at the Oxford Union’ – without considering that there was (surely) a duty to let a university-chosen speaker be heard. The Archbishop of Canterbury, fresh from presiding over the dismemberment of the Church of England over yag rights to leadership also joined the thousands who had objected to the debate.
President Luke Tryl thought he had 75% of Oxford Junior Common Rooms behind him; but David Irving, noting O.U.’s cancellation of seven debates in the past few years thanks to Jewish pressure, said he had provisionally accepted a speaking engagement in Liverpool for 26th November.
The Jewish press (Totally Jewish, 22 xi) cleverly reckoned that, whatever happened in Oxford, the outcome would be a victory for the ‘far right’ – vindicating the general Jewish policy of maximum silence about the suppression of racial outspeakers (as had eventually been achieved in my own case at E.LU., where the LUni paid up rather than go to court against me). But its columnist Jonathan Hoffman had no compunction about calling for cancellation (22 xi).
I wrote to Nouse (the York University student newspaper, where sporty blonde Comment Editor Stephanie Dyson had backed the debtate) (22 xi) and Oxford Mail (published 22 xi):
Congratulations to Stephanie Dyson on her robust defence of free debate at Oxford! When British universities have suppressed the race realism of six of their academics in the past ten years, it would ill behove the Oxford Union to join the ranks of PeeCee. All students have a duty to support free speech in universities at this critical juncture before it is finally whisked away. One's heart goes out to O.U. President Luke Tryl, faced as he is by hysterical leftists (whose political forebears actually did nothing to oppose Hitler c. 1933-41) and doubtless by spineless modern Oxford 'academics' (who have done precisely nothing to contribute to debate about race, intelligence and the problems of sub-Saharan Africa over the past generation). Luke's position is even more precarious since the recent withdrawal of the 'scholars' of London, Bristol and Edinburgh from hearing the race realism of Nobelist James Watson. Luke is a brave man and it is lucky for today's shamelessly ignoracist and Enoch-denying Not-the-Conservative-Party that he has got his eye on leadership -- hopefully taking the party towards the national liberalism of Palmerston and Lloyd George, including free speech for Englishmen. One hopes the gals of Oxford will make it all worthwhile in time-honoured fashion for their fine President-with-Balls.
PS to Alan Page: Sorry 'The g Factor' is a bit rebarbative. Just enjoy Hans Eyenck's 'The Inequality of Man,' to which TgF is merely an updated academic footnote.
FLYNN BOOK A YAWN
Jim Flynn’s new book on intelligence (What is Intelligence?, Cambridge University Press, saying secular gains are erratic across test-types, may well not continue, and that genes have some of their effect by influencing a child’s environment) was reviewed by neuroscientist Richard Restak in The American Scholar (xi 2007) – revealing it to contain no arguments not already considered in The g Factor (1996) and by the rest of the London School.
CONSERVATIVE OUTSPEAKER DEFENDED
As a Birmingham Tory MP candidate came under fire for Powellite sympathies, I wrote in to defend him (as did 500 others in the first six hours of the Sunday Telegraph carrying the story on the net) (published 4 xi):
However, after criticism from party toffs George Osborne and (once-supposed-right-winger) David Davies, Hastilow resigned within hours of his Powellite concerns becoming widely known - despite his continuing to enjoy the support of his Halesowen constituency party chairwoman (BBC, 4 xi). The alternative presented by party chairlady Comrade Caroline Spelman had been for Hastilow to denounce his own remarks as "incredibly stupid" and to accept future gagging from Not-the-Conservative Party Central Office.
Infuriated at the Cameroonian backtracking on the gains of the few previous weeks (as the Conservatives had embraced a little tax-cutting and found themselves surge ahead in the polls), the Daily Telegraph's top columnist Simon Heffer said it was hard to spurn a candidate who merely said Enoch Powell had spoken the truth about mass immigration (as he had about the need for monetarism, the danger to the UK of devolutionary experiments and the unacceptability to the UK of the EU) and denounced David Cameron as "playing his part in the great betrayal" of Britain (7 xi), promptly sparking an enormous postbag (1000 responses, mainly agreeable, in the first 16 hours) and probably civil war in the Conservative Party. I joined in as follows:
At the same time, Labour `antiracist' busybody Keith Vaz accused Prime Minister Brown of `risking fuelling racism' by promising `British jobs for British workers' (Scotsman, 7 xi).
BREAST-FEEDING IQ BOOST TRACED TO GENE
The gain of perhaps as much as 10 IQ points that children enjoy if breast-fed (summarized in The g Factor, 1996, pp. 143-4) turned out to depend on have a gene, FADS2, that helps break down fatty acids - one child in ten lacks the gene so gets no IQ gain from breastmilk, found London researchers (BBC, 6 xii). {The researchers supplied no information as to the racial distribution of FADS2.}
SPECCIE CHASTIZED
Responding to the Spectator's feeble efforts `defending' James Watson and Nigel Hastilow, I wrote:
ILLITERATE KIDS TO BE NAMED AND SHAMED BY NEO-SOCIALISTS
In a new manifestation of its environmentalunacy and addiction to `training,' Grumpy Supreme Leader Brown announced he would identify illiterate schoolchildren (80% of whom have low IQs) and oblige them to stay behind at school for an extra hour each day to receive special `help' (Daily Telegraph, 8 xi). So, having been refused during the day the slower-paced teaching that they need, these victims of non-streamed education were publicly humiliated and treated as only seriously naughty children were treated in the past. {The latest miseducational wheeze was accompanied by the further announcement that children would be bullied by the criminal law to stay in Britain's wretched socialist `schools' till age 18; and government adviser Sir Cyril Taylor further reminded Britain's few remaining thinkers of the environmentalunacy of the Brown regime by demanding that 17,000 teachers should lose their jobs for failing to meet the government's preposterous targets of every child being `first class' and getting to university.}
ANTI-PAEDOHYSTERIA RECALLED
I got a mention in despatches from `Hiro Protagonist,' 11 xi, who recalled my ordeal over child sex hysteria, about which it was even more dangerous to be realistic than about race.
NYTWITS WORRIED BY RACE-BIOLOGY LINKS
As discoveries of DNA differences between races increasingly leaked from laboratories into the public domain, New York Times columnist Amy Harmon told scientists (11 xi) they must prepare to put such race-realist discoveries "in perspective," i.e. downplay their significance as compared to social factors -- especially if, as rumoured by a Manhattan blogger, called Half Sigma [see 10 xi], there were DNA variations which linked race and IQ (see this diary/blog, GENE LINKED TO IQ - RESEARCHERS, iii 2007). "Research is exploring how DNA explains racial differences, but it could give discredited prejudices a new potency," said Harmon.
FULLER FIGURES VINDICATED
Fuller women may have smarter children because hip fat contains fatty acids critical for the development of the foetus's brain (New Scientist, 9 xi).
FLYNN EFFECT PARTLY DUE TO SMALLER FAMILIES
An article by top German psychogeneticist Volkmar Weiss included an explanation of the Flynn effect, namely that smaller families have provided relatlively better (more attentive) upbringing for their children:
{A negative association between family size and child IQ had been asserted/confirmed by Eysenck & Cookson (1971, Br.J.educ.Psych.), Ross & Simpson (1971, Br.J.educ.Psych), Marjoribanks (1975, Br.J.soc.clin.Psych.) and Zajonc (1983, Psych. Bull.) (who claimed the effect obtained regardless of parental SES).}
Weiss's suggestion formed part of an impressive and wide-ranging article documenting the eugenic upswings and dysgenic downswings of human societies. Just how such swings begin could be that the higher-IQ have evolutionary advantages and greater fecundity during harder times but that, as the economy then succeeds, the society tends to pull in slave labour which eventually wrecks the human environment until the higher-IQ once more have an advantage. But, be that as it may, Weiss was making the same prosaic empirical point as Lynn, Flynn and myself: that there was no genotypic 20th-century secular rise in Western intelligence. If so, action to maintain IQ (or to improve it, as in China) is urgently necessary - Weiss himself was minded to forecast doom for the West by 2030. And what about race? Yes, Weiss was not shy to back Dr Watson:
MUESLIS and TROTS FALL OUT
From New Party Newsletter, 9 xi:
PEECEE GOON RETRACTS
Cash-spinning self-promoting peecee-pansy geneticist Craig Venter, fresh from studying his own genome, announced that he had underestimated human genetic variation by a factor of seven: humans differed on average not by 0.1% but by 0.7%, he admitted - while still denying that there were any important genetic differences between races (World Science, 3 ix). {It had long been known that humans share 50% of their genes with the average pickled onion, so an average difference between humans of 0.7% was massive - easily allowing the striking observed human differences in IQ, pulchritude and dong size.}
PEECEE CANADA EXPANDS
Ontario's `College of Teachers' stripped lecturer Paul Fromm of membership, and thus of licence to teach in Ontario (Toronto Star, 10 xi). Fromm had come to Jewish attention for his anti-Semitic views.
PEECEE LOON `EXPLAINS' BLACK-WHITE IQ DIFFERENCE
Worried that poverty might not be the explanation of Black underperformance at school (where Blacks do far worse than White even when SES is equal), top California education bureaucrat Jack O'Connell explained to 4,000 assembled `experts' that Blacks suffered "cultural ignorance" because they learned to clap and chant in church and thus did not attend properly in school.. (VDare, 13 xi). O'Connell's bottom line? - Blacks should be taught at a slower pace than Whites.... (San Francisco Chronicle, 12 xi)!
MATTHEW PRINCIPLE CONFIRMED
"To him that hath shall be given.." says St Matthew's Gospel, a principle sometimes noted by Arthur Jensen. Anyway, so it turned out as British education researchers found that `improved standards' in schools since Labour took office, when not due (as for two-thirds of the changes) to grade inflation and to pupils working harder, were attributable to investments in schools having pupils from better-quality families (Guardian, 13 xi). By contrast, children from poor families proved largely unresponsive to the squandering on them of Government largesse, according to research at Lancaster University which shocked Ministers to demand an urgent review of Labour's policy of renaming useless schools `academies' and showering them with new buildings, visual aids, computers etc.
PAEDOHYSTERIA CASTIGATED
As 80-year-old William Manahan, former Abbot of Buckfast Abbey (R.C.) in Devon, was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to eight charges of sexually assaulting boys at the Abbey prep school in the 1970s, a fine condemnation of such inhumanity and waste of police time was provided by top columnist Mick Hume in the Times (13 xi). A correspondent helpfully added:
MUSLIM `VALUES' APPEAL TO WESTERN TRAITORS
As the British Government failed to win its 5-year-long wars ooops conflict situations in Iraq and Afghaniland (supplying 93% of the world's heroin despite endless footling efforts by HMG's `drug czars'), it transpired that the National Health Service had supplied 24 free hymen reconstructions in 2006 to bashful Muslie damsels in Britain wishing to `maintain their families' honour' and deceive their marital partners (Daily Mail, 15 xi); and that King Abdullah bin Fahta of Saudi Arabia, welcomed at Buck House by Queen Brenda and Grumpy Gordon for his `vaaalues,' had been busy consigning to imprisonment and 200 lashes a 19-year-old Saudi girl who had been gang-raped - the rationale being that she had been seen, prior to the rape, sitting in a car with a single man.
WONDERS NEVER CEASE
American intellectuals were amazed to find that Slate columnist William Saletan was allowed to write an article doubting racial equality in intelligence (18 xi), e.g. including:
NYTwits were also allowed to be advised of the importance of genetic factors by a correspondent, Marty Nemko (18 xi).
As a Birmingham Tory MP candidate came under fire for Powellite sympathies, I wrote in to defend him (as did 500 others in the first six hours of the Sunday Telegraph carrying the story on the net) (published 4 xi):
Dear Nigel Hastilow, Well done to have the courage to speak out! Feel free to call on me to do what I can to help. You may like to prepare for your interrogation from Comrade Spelperson by looking at my article on Enoch at http://www.charlesmartelsociety.org/toq/vol1no1/cb-powell.html. Yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (psychologist, author of 'The g Factor,' sacked by Edinburgh University 1997 for undue realism).
However, after criticism from party toffs George Osborne and (once-supposed-right-winger) David Davies, Hastilow resigned within hours of his Powellite concerns becoming widely known - despite his continuing to enjoy the support of his Halesowen constituency party chairwoman (BBC, 4 xi). The alternative presented by party chairlady Comrade Caroline Spelman had been for Hastilow to denounce his own remarks as "incredibly stupid" and to accept future gagging from Not-the-Conservative Party Central Office.
Infuriated at the Cameroonian backtracking on the gains of the few previous weeks (as the Conservatives had embraced a little tax-cutting and found themselves surge ahead in the polls), the Daily Telegraph's top columnist Simon Heffer said it was hard to spurn a candidate who merely said Enoch Powell had spoken the truth about mass immigration (as he had about the need for monetarism, the danger to the UK of devolutionary experiments and the unacceptability to the UK of the EU) and denounced David Cameron as "playing his part in the great betrayal" of Britain (7 xi), promptly sparking an enormous postbag (1000 responses, mainly agreeable, in the first 16 hours) and probably civil war in the Conservative Party. I joined in as follows:
Re Paula Smith, 17, 08:41
The 'immigrants' to Britain of c. 1000+ years ago were drawn from the dynamic aristocratic military elites of their European tribes/races. The Anglo-Saxons brought the 'witan' (council of wise men) and a rich art and literature and soon converted to Christianity. The Normans (Vikings), with an empire spreading into the eastern Mediterranean, brought the castle and stable government, working closely with the Church.
By contrast, all too many immigrants of the past 50 years were people who could not find work or wealth in their homelands such as Jamaica (mean IQ 71), Pakistan (84), Somalia (68) and Iraq (87). (Figures from R. Lynn, 2006, 'IQ and Global Inequality.') Understandably, many of these immigrants pose problems that will surely not be experienced from students from Poland (IQ 99).
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand (author of 'The g Factor').
At the same time, Labour `antiracist' busybody Keith Vaz accused Prime Minister Brown of `risking fuelling racism' by promising `British jobs for British workers' (Scotsman, 7 xi).
BREAST-FEEDING IQ BOOST TRACED TO GENE
The gain of perhaps as much as 10 IQ points that children enjoy if breast-fed (summarized in The g Factor, 1996, pp. 143-4) turned out to depend on have a gene, FADS2, that helps break down fatty acids - one child in ten lacks the gene so gets no IQ gain from breastmilk, found London researchers (BBC, 6 xii). {The researchers supplied no information as to the racial distribution of FADS2.}
SPECCIE CHASTIZED
Responding to the Spectator's feeble efforts `defending' James Watson and Nigel Hastilow, I wrote:
There's too much beating about the bush here. Rod Liddle's article doesn't even mention Blacks, Pakistanis, criminality, female slavery or IQ. Yesterday, I found I was barred from contributing to the Torygraph's 1,500 responses to Simon Heffer's defence of Hastilow, apparently because I mentioned that the average IQ in Jamaica was 71.
The right is failing to realize that, since Labour has seized the territory of religion (today providing the piety of political correctness, handily combinable with the world-slavery operation of economic 'globalization'), it needs to seize as it never did in the past the authority-giving territory of science -- which is unfailingly right-wing about race, crime, illiteracy, single-parent families etc. Science says let's go with what we know; let's select, encourage, breed for and genetically engineer high IQ -- whereas peecee piety says let's pray for utopia and burn the heretics. Time to take all Grumpy Gordon's cash for quangos, managers and welfare-dependents and give it to the scientists like the 'controversialist' Dr Watson (whom the Speccie hardly dared to mention)!
Recall: it was Britain that furnished Hume, Darwin, Galton and Churchill (all [scientific] racists to the hilt, of course). Now that the world and even the Labour Party has nominally accepted British idealism (plagues of lawyers, non-property-owning democracy, 'human rights', belief in similar `comprehensive' (mis) education for all) it is time for the Tories to offer complementary British realism (families, freedom, fighting and fun -- run only by a Parliament in which the Prime Minister would put in a 40-hour week).
ILLITERATE KIDS TO BE NAMED AND SHAMED BY NEO-SOCIALISTS
In a new manifestation of its environmentalunacy and addiction to `training,' Grumpy Supreme Leader Brown announced he would identify illiterate schoolchildren (80% of whom have low IQs) and oblige them to stay behind at school for an extra hour each day to receive special `help' (Daily Telegraph, 8 xi). So, having been refused during the day the slower-paced teaching that they need, these victims of non-streamed education were publicly humiliated and treated as only seriously naughty children were treated in the past. {The latest miseducational wheeze was accompanied by the further announcement that children would be bullied by the criminal law to stay in Britain's wretched socialist `schools' till age 18; and government adviser Sir Cyril Taylor further reminded Britain's few remaining thinkers of the environmentalunacy of the Brown regime by demanding that 17,000 teachers should lose their jobs for failing to meet the government's preposterous targets of every child being `first class' and getting to university.}
ANTI-PAEDOHYSTERIA RECALLED
I got a mention in despatches from `Hiro Protagonist,' 11 xi, who recalled my ordeal over child sex hysteria, about which it was even more dangerous to be realistic than about race.
NYTWITS WORRIED BY RACE-BIOLOGY LINKS
As discoveries of DNA differences between races increasingly leaked from laboratories into the public domain, New York Times columnist Amy Harmon told scientists (11 xi) they must prepare to put such race-realist discoveries "in perspective," i.e. downplay their significance as compared to social factors -- especially if, as rumoured by a Manhattan blogger, called Half Sigma [see 10 xi], there were DNA variations which linked race and IQ (see this diary/blog, GENE LINKED TO IQ - RESEARCHERS, iii 2007). "Research is exploring how DNA explains racial differences, but it could give discredited prejudices a new potency," said Harmon.
FULLER FIGURES VINDICATED
Fuller women may have smarter children because hip fat contains fatty acids critical for the development of the foetus's brain (New Scientist, 9 xi).
FLYNN EFFECT PARTLY DUE TO SMALLER FAMILIES
An article by top German psychogeneticist Volkmar Weiss included an explanation of the Flynn effect, namely that smaller families have provided relatlively better (more attentive) upbringing for their children:
".. in a representative study of the National Institute of Demography of France (Gille et al., 1954) it was shown that in any social stratum the average IQ of later-born sibs is lower than the IQ of first- and second-born. In any social stratum the seventh child of a sibship has an IQ that is about 10 points lower than the IQ of the firstborns. It is not that in any stratum the least intelligent parents have the most children; but if parents have to distribute their care and money among a larger number of children each later-born child gets less. From this we can conclude that on its own the decreasing and smaller size of sibships in the general population may have contributed heavily to the past phenotypic IQ increase appearing as the Flynn Effect."
{A negative association between family size and child IQ had been asserted/confirmed by Eysenck & Cookson (1971, Br.J.educ.Psych.), Ross & Simpson (1971, Br.J.educ.Psych), Marjoribanks (1975, Br.J.soc.clin.Psych.) and Zajonc (1983, Psych. Bull.) (who claimed the effect obtained regardless of parental SES).}
Weiss's suggestion formed part of an impressive and wide-ranging article documenting the eugenic upswings and dysgenic downswings of human societies. Just how such swings begin could be that the higher-IQ have evolutionary advantages and greater fecundity during harder times but that, as the economy then succeeds, the society tends to pull in slave labour which eventually wrecks the human environment until the higher-IQ once more have an advantage. But, be that as it may, Weiss was making the same prosaic empirical point as Lynn, Flynn and myself: that there was no genotypic 20th-century secular rise in Western intelligence. If so, action to maintain IQ (or to improve it, as in China) is urgently necessary - Weiss himself was minded to forecast doom for the West by 2030. And what about race? Yes, Weiss was not shy to back Dr Watson:
"He who believes . . . . that it would be possible to establish civil society in the Congo by general suffrage, shows only that he is a prisoner of the current spirit of the age. The same incapability misguides world hunger assistance and prevents proper action against mass immigration into the First World. In the last decades we have seen economic boom, just as with Europe before 1890, in states with authoritarian governments and a high average IQ, for example in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, or at least high variance of IQ as Malaysia."
MUESLIS and TROTS FALL OUT
From New Party Newsletter, 9 xi:
"It's always nice to talk about good news for a change, and so the end of the marriage-made-in-Hell between George Galloway MP and his Muslim fan-club on the one hand and the witless Trots of the Socialist Workers Party on the other is especially welcome.
A number of SWP members have apparently been expelled from Respect, although others are now claiming that Galloway himself has left the party. In fact, Galloway has seized control of the party office, changing the locks, while the SWP faction appear to retain control of the party website. So much for the Unity Coalition. Both sides are planning to hold their own party conference. Meanwhile the Respect group on Tower Hamlets Council has split, with the SWP group looking to join forces with - wait for it - the Liberal Democrats.
You couldn't make it up."
PEECEE GOON RETRACTS
Cash-spinning self-promoting peecee-pansy geneticist Craig Venter, fresh from studying his own genome, announced that he had underestimated human genetic variation by a factor of seven: humans differed on average not by 0.1% but by 0.7%, he admitted - while still denying that there were any important genetic differences between races (World Science, 3 ix). {It had long been known that humans share 50% of their genes with the average pickled onion, so an average difference between humans of 0.7% was massive - easily allowing the striking observed human differences in IQ, pulchritude and dong size.}
PEECEE CANADA EXPANDS
Ontario's `College of Teachers' stripped lecturer Paul Fromm of membership, and thus of licence to teach in Ontario (Toronto Star, 10 xi). Fromm had come to Jewish attention for his anti-Semitic views.
PEECEE LOON `EXPLAINS' BLACK-WHITE IQ DIFFERENCE
Worried that poverty might not be the explanation of Black underperformance at school (where Blacks do far worse than White even when SES is equal), top California education bureaucrat Jack O'Connell explained to 4,000 assembled `experts' that Blacks suffered "cultural ignorance" because they learned to clap and chant in church and thus did not attend properly in school.. (VDare, 13 xi). O'Connell's bottom line? - Blacks should be taught at a slower pace than Whites.... (San Francisco Chronicle, 12 xi)!
MATTHEW PRINCIPLE CONFIRMED
"To him that hath shall be given.." says St Matthew's Gospel, a principle sometimes noted by Arthur Jensen. Anyway, so it turned out as British education researchers found that `improved standards' in schools since Labour took office, when not due (as for two-thirds of the changes) to grade inflation and to pupils working harder, were attributable to investments in schools having pupils from better-quality families (Guardian, 13 xi). By contrast, children from poor families proved largely unresponsive to the squandering on them of Government largesse, according to research at Lancaster University which shocked Ministers to demand an urgent review of Labour's policy of renaming useless schools `academies' and showering them with new buildings, visual aids, computers etc.
PAEDOHYSTERIA CASTIGATED
As 80-year-old William Manahan, former Abbot of Buckfast Abbey (R.C.) in Devon, was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to eight charges of sexually assaulting boys at the Abbey prep school in the 1970s, a fine condemnation of such inhumanity and waste of police time was provided by top columnist Mick Hume in the Times (13 xi). A correspondent helpfully added:
"The late Dr Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and writer, stated that he never found that molestation was the primary cause of trauma; the damage came from the shame and rejection engendered by concerned adults. Action taken on behalf of a traumatised child within reasonable time scale is very different from such global trawling. Organisations for children are falling apart for lack of supervisors, choir training requires "chaperones", many choirs etc. are folding or have folded, with no taint of molestation, merely the loss of men willing to be accused. Though many children die in house fires, no smoke detectors are needed by UK law. This shows what we really think of child welfare. Yes, sex is profitable for media folk and frightens politicians into over-reaction. That, alongside fat compensation payouts, is what drives this obsessional, prurient farago."
MUSLIM `VALUES' APPEAL TO WESTERN TRAITORS
As the British Government failed to win its 5-year-long wars ooops conflict situations in Iraq and Afghaniland (supplying 93% of the world's heroin despite endless footling efforts by HMG's `drug czars'), it transpired that the National Health Service had supplied 24 free hymen reconstructions in 2006 to bashful Muslie damsels in Britain wishing to `maintain their families' honour' and deceive their marital partners (Daily Mail, 15 xi); and that King Abdullah bin Fahta of Saudi Arabia, welcomed at Buck House by Queen Brenda and Grumpy Gordon for his `vaaalues,' had been busy consigning to imprisonment and 200 lashes a 19-year-old Saudi girl who had been gang-raped - the rationale being that she had been seen, prior to the rape, sitting in a car with a single man.
WONDERS NEVER CEASE
American intellectuals were amazed to find that Slate columnist William Saletan was allowed to write an article doubting racial equality in intelligence (18 xi), e.g. including:
"..The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied "that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn't a scientific leg to stand on[6]." I wish these assurances were true. They aren't[7]. Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and there's strong preliminary evidence that part of it is genetic. It's time to prepare for the possibility that equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, will turn out not to be true."
NYTwits were also allowed to be advised of the importance of genetic factors by a correspondent, Marty Nemko (18 xi).
Saturday, November 10, 2007
PEECEE MASS INDOCTRINATION DISCOVERED AT LUNI
An "Orwellian" scheme of "treatment" to induce political correctness, multiculturalism and White guilt in 7,000 students was revealed at the University of Delaware by the Foundation for Individual Rights in education (1 xi). Among many ideological lunacies, Delaware students were being instructed in compulsory propaganda sessions that only Whites could be `racist.' The programme had been exposed by London School heroine Linda Gottfredson and publicized by the horrified Philadelphia Inquirer.
A specimen of the LUniversity's "Life Diversity Facilitation Training":
As press amazement at the programme became evident, the LUniversity said it would suspend and review the programme..(American Thinker, 2 xi).
U.S. CHRISTIAN-FUNDAMENTALISTS CONDEMN DARWIN AS RACIST
Emboldened by James Watson having to retreat from `racism', Michael Craven, the Founding Director of the Center for Christ and Culture, called on other biological scientists to dissociate from Darwin (Crosswalk [The Intersection of Faith and Life], 1 xi). After linking Watson and the Cold Spring Harbor lab (quite correctly) to Galton and eugenics, Craven further noted (quite correctly) the racism of Darwin himself:
FEMININNIES PLAN PUTSCH
Evidence mounted that feminist academic were pestering the U.S. Congress for a big increase in their promotion prospects regardless of merit. As witnesses, Congressmen, and a crowd of over 100 people had gathered in October on Capitol Hill for a hearing on women in academic science and engineering, not a single Committee Member or panelist challenged the presumption behind the hearing -- that discrimination was the primary cause of women's underrepresentation among science and engineering academics; rather, they just turned straight to consideration of government-mandated solutions to the perceived problem. Following the hounding and resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers, mentioning deep-seated sex differences had become as problematic for U.S. public figures as discussing race.
THIRD BLACK-AFRICA-WRITTEN ARTICLE BACKS WATSON
AllAfrica's Nigerian columnist, Idang Alibi, announced (1 xi) that, following some 500 supportive phone calls and text messages saying that Africa needed to learn the `home truths' that James Watson had mentioned, he would aim to write a book on the topic. He declared:
I sent email to AllAfrica in Nigeria (published 1 xi) congratulating Idang Alibi and suggesting he look at the Cambridge Debate (http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/late/cb_camb.html) and IQ and the Wealth of Nations.
The mighty rightist John Derbyshire was allowed to give Watson's recantation a blast in National Review Online (1 xi). Modest support for free speech, as against PeeCee, was found among the residents of Cold Spring Harbor village (Newsday, 27 x). A full and up-to-date defence of pre-recantation Watson was provided by Jason Malloy at Gene Expression (1 xi).
Yet more Black realism re Watson came from the Nigerian Tribune ["the oldest surviving private newspaper in Nigeria"] (Nosa Osaigbovo, 2 xi):
Even Modern Ghana admitted (4 xi) Africa's lack of progress - though seeming to prefer to attribute this to a `lack of confidence,' induced by the likes of Watson and preventing Africa from giving up Western ideas and returning to rural socialism..
ITALY MOVES AGAINST GYPSIES
The Italian Government announced that its prefects (local representatives of its Interior Ministry) would be allowed to deport summarily any foreigners deemed to be a threat to security (Guardian, 2 xi). The move came after hideous rapes, robberies and beatings carried out by Romanian immigrants - probably including slitting the throats of Giovanni Reggiani, the 47-year-old Protestant [Waldensian] wife of an Italian navy captain, and a British female student. The Roman Catholic charity Caritas put the number of Romanians in Italy at 556,000 -- less than 1% of the population; yet, according to the Interior Minister, 5.6% of those arrested for murder were Romanian. Gypsies, mainly illiterate, had poured into Italy from Romania after E.U. accession had been agreed in 2002.
Promptly, the prefect of Milan signed deportation warrants in respect of four Romanians who were living in one of the numerous wretched camps on the outskirts of the city. Within hours, thousands of Romanians had been rounded up and their shantytown homes were bulldozed though E.U. law required no targeting of ethnic groups and delays and court hearings before individuals `seriously threatening one of the fundamental interests of society' could be returned to their national homelands.. Nello Rossi, the head of Italy's National Magistrates Association, said that each expulsion would have to be justified, and that "there cannot be mass indiscriminate expulsions". But the Italian Government said it would get shot of 5,000 Romanians `within weeks.'
A spokesman for a newly founded far-right group, Fabio Sabbatani Schiuma, said he condemned attacks by masked men on Romanians but called them 'the product of a climate of exasperation'. Anti-foreigner graffiti on the walls of the surrounding, working-class area echoed his words. Apparently the authorities feared a spiral of vendettas against gypsies, Italy's largest immigrant group. Caution about hasty deportations was urged by the Pope and churchmen; but 83% of Italians supported the authorities actions after five years of increasingly unwelcome immigration by gypsies.
SOCIALIST EDUCATION WORSE THAN USELESS
The authoritative Cambridge Primary Review of reading levels in Britain's primary schools since Rev. Blair's NuLabout introduced `reforms' (made from 1998, such as a daily `literacy hour') found no improvement by 2005 and clear evidence of children feeling stressed by tests and losing interest in reading (Times, 2 xi; Daily Telegraph, 2 xi). The report said: "500 million pounds was spent on the National Literacy Strategy with almost no impact on reading levels."
{In children, reading age correlates at .70 with intelligence and is probably highly heritable, around .65 (e.g. Bates et al., 2004, Australian Journal of Psychology. Such facts have been routinely ignored by educational improvers for forty years - e.g. in America's massive 2002ff. `No Child Left Behind' handout of multi-billion dollars to pie-eyed ideologues.}
ECONOMIC VERDICTS COME IN ON PEECEE
As the British NuLabour Government announced it would give œ70M to Muslim `moderates' to help them damp down Muesli extremism in mosques, gyms, cafes and on the internet* - a policy akin to King Ethelred the Unready buying off Vikings with Danegeld and NuLabour itself buying off the IRA with plum ministerial jobs at Stormont - the London Stock Market crashed to its lowest level for four years after traditionally conservative American bank `Mother' Merrill Lynch appointed an `adventurous' Black CEO, lent money at wondrous interest rates to poor Blacks (who were soon, as per type, laid out on drugs or in clink) and saw its shares devalue 8% in a single day (2 xi). {The `stark dependence' of peecee `liberal and welfare state values' on `the local success of capitalism' had been noted on p. 136 of The g Factor (1996). But I had not anticipated that businessmen themselves would believe ignoracist propaganda and put their money more than nominally into Black hands.}
* `Communities Secretary' wee dahlin' Labour loyalist arselicker Hazel Blears said that new tactics by extremists required "a new, bolder response." 70 million was to be spent promoting community leadership to withstand extremist tendencies. That would include 25 million on national schemes including training for English-speaking imams, and setting up citizenship lessons in madrassas (mosque schools).
CONSERVATIVE OUTSPEAKER DEFENDED
As a Birmingham Tory MP candidate came under fire for Powellite sympathies, I wrote in to defend him (as did 500 others in the first six hours of the Sunday Telegraph carrying the story on the net) (published 4 xi):
However, after criticism from party toffs George Osborne and (once-supposed-right-winger) David Davies, Hastilow resigned within hours of his Powellite concerns becoming widely known - despite his continuing to enjoy the support of his Halesowen constituency party chairwoman (BBC, 4 xi). The alternative presented by party chairlady Comrade Caroline Spelman had been for Hastilow to denounce his own remarks as "incredibly stupid" and to accept future gagging from Not-the-Conservative Party Central Office.
Infuriated at the Cameroonian backtracking on the gains of the few previous weeks (as the Conservatives had embraced a little tax-cutting and found themselves surge ahead in the polls), the Daily Telegraph's top columnist Simon Heffer said it was hard to spurn a candidate who merely said Enoch Powell had spoken the truth about mass immigration (as he had about the need for monetarism, the danger to the UK of devolutionary experiments and the unacceptability to the UK of the EU) and denounced David Cameron as "playing his part in the great betrayal" of Britain (7 xi), promptly sparking an enormous postbag (1000 responses, mainly agreeable, in the first 16 hours) and probably civil war in the Conservative Party. I joined in as follows:
At the same time, Labour `antiracist' busybody Keith Vaz accused Prime Minister Brown of `risking fuelling racism' by promising `British jobs for British workers' (Scotsman, 7 xi).
BREAST-FEEDING IQ BOOST TRACED TO GENE
The gain of perhaps as much as 10 IQ points that children enjoy if breast-fed (summarized in The g Factor, 1996, pp. 143-4) turned out to depend on have a gene, FADS2, that helps break down fatty acids - one child in ten lacks the gene so gets no IQ gain from breastmilk, found London researchers (BBC, 6 xii).
`INSENSITIVITY' PIETY CLAIMS NEW TOP VICTIM
According to Arts Council sources, at an Arts Council lunch, U.K. Opposition leader Mr David Cameron quipped to his hosts: "I hope you won't be giving grants to too many one-legged Lithuanian lesbians," supposedly prompting embarrassed looks all round. A senior Labour official said the Tory leader was guilty of "crass insensitivity" after the comment was leaked to the Mail on Sunday. The peecee accusation of insensitivity followed the 2007 silencing of Henri Guaino, the speechwriter to France's President Sarkozy, and of American Nobelist James Watson. {Previously silenced in Britain were Sussex University's Professor Geoffrey Sampson (2001), Labour/UKIP politician Robert Kilroy-Silk (2005), Leeds University's Dr Frank Ellis (2006), Imperial College's Armand Leroi (2006), the London School of Economics' Satoshi Kanazawa (2006) and Oxford University's David Coleman (2007).}
SUPPORT FOR PRE-RECANTATION WATSON
As a deathly hush resumed over politics and academia, at least American conservative thinker Pat Buchanan offered Nobelist James Watson some support (Human Events, 30 x):
Human Biodiversity Group leader Steve Sailer also deplored Watson's retraction, while noting that he had received far less support from `the righteous right' than had been available thirteen years previously for The Bell Curve (VDare, 28 x). Steve also gave a fine, Jefferson-respecting answer to a critic who thought society could not handle the idea/finding of groups of people being unequal in intelligence (29 x).
Watson had once opined, in 2002: "I suspect that multiculturalism has reached its peak, because it's crap." - Quoted in Times Higher, 26 x, Matthew Reisz.
IGNORACIST ROSE SLAMMED re WATSON
Though Edinburgh LUniversity's Student (30 x) carried a full-page article condemning James Watson as "disgraceful" etc., thus joining with Marxist biologist Steven Rose, the postmodern leftist dogma that `there are no races' and thus no explanations in terms of race, was ably refuted by Luke O'Farrell (28 x), who particularly observed that, like races, languages are really different - typically to the degree of being mutually incomprehensible - despite having important common features such as the use of consonants, vowels, stress and intonation.
As attention turned to the gifted Watson's fundraising techniques, it turned out that Watson had won $1M `earmarks' for his New York lab from Congress by the simple expedient of giving a few thousand dollars to leading Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton (Washington Times, 30 x).
NEW BLACK BACKS WATSON ON INTELLIGENCE x RACE
More support for realism about low Black IQ and attainments came from Africa (Daily Trust [Abuja], Zainab Kperogi, 29 x):
TOP BLACK IS PART-JEWISH
As the sages of Washington meandered on at the American Enterprise Institute discussing high Jewish IQ (first mooted by Hans Eysenck in the 1970s) and the decline of Spain and Portugal being due to their kicking out Jews (first mooted by William McDougall in the 1930s), it transpired that top Afro-American writer and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. had had his DNA checked, revealing that he had a Yiddishe moma (Washington Post, 30 x).
FROM MULTICULTURALISM TO MONOCULTURALISM
An interesting take on why the mainstream British left (Phillips, Reid, Brown) had been wanting to `move on' from multiculturalism was offered by Canadian columnist Jonathan Kay (National Post, 30 x): having used liberalism and multiculturalism to infiltrate the church and win support for homosexuality (quite the biggest breakthrough of 2007 in Britain), early sex, abortion, female equality and mass immigration, the left wanted to consolidate its gains and secure them from the conservative force of Islam by defining a new monoculture (of right-on PeeCee) which - as a new `Britishness' or `Canadianness' -- Muslims would be pressured to support or at least tolerate.
MORE SOCIALISM TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF SOCIALISM
After ten years of useless `New Labour' rule, rocked by reckless underestimates of Britain's immigration figures, and languishing in the polls after the Conservative Shadow Chancellor accidentally said he might cut inheritance tax on family homes, Supreme Ruler `Grumpy' Gordon Brown - apparently no reader of TgF despite being personally acquainted with its author -- announced that every school had to produce "first class" results for all pupils and that he would move swiftly to close hundreds of failing schools that were not shining advertisements for the equality of man.. (Classic FM Radio, 31 x; Grauniad, 31 x).
An "Orwellian" scheme of "treatment" to induce political correctness, multiculturalism and White guilt in 7,000 students was revealed at the University of Delaware by the Foundation for Individual Rights in education (1 xi). Among many ideological lunacies, Delaware students were being instructed in compulsory propaganda sessions that only Whites could be `racist.' The programme had been exposed by London School heroine Linda Gottfredson and publicized by the horrified Philadelphia Inquirer.
A specimen of the LUniversity's "Life Diversity Facilitation Training":
"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination. (This does not deny the existence of such prejudices, hostilities, acts of rage or discrimination.)"
As press amazement at the programme became evident, the LUniversity said it would suspend and review the programme..(American Thinker, 2 xi).
U.S. CHRISTIAN-FUNDAMENTALISTS CONDEMN DARWIN AS RACIST
Emboldened by James Watson having to retreat from `racism', Michael Craven, the Founding Director of the Center for Christ and Culture, called on other biological scientists to dissociate from Darwin (Crosswalk [The Intersection of Faith and Life], 1 xi). After linking Watson and the Cold Spring Harbor lab (quite correctly) to Galton and eugenics, Craven further noted (quite correctly) the racism of Darwin himself:
" According to the theories, there are significant evolutionary differences between the races, and essentially the race that was closer to apes (Blacks, according to Darwin) was less intelligent and inherently inferior to whites. Darwin stated, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races." Of course this ignores decades of research suggesting that race is not a meaningful concept and that there is no biological basis for race. This underscores the biblical position of only one race, the human race."
FEMININNIES PLAN PUTSCH
Evidence mounted that feminist academic were pestering the U.S. Congress for a big increase in their promotion prospects regardless of merit. As witnesses, Congressmen, and a crowd of over 100 people had gathered in October on Capitol Hill for a hearing on women in academic science and engineering, not a single Committee Member or panelist challenged the presumption behind the hearing -- that discrimination was the primary cause of women's underrepresentation among science and engineering academics; rather, they just turned straight to consideration of government-mandated solutions to the perceived problem. Following the hounding and resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers, mentioning deep-seated sex differences had become as problematic for U.S. public figures as discussing race.
THIRD BLACK-AFRICA-WRITTEN ARTICLE BACKS WATSON
AllAfrica's Nigerian columnist, Idang Alibi, announced (1 xi) that, following some 500 supportive phone calls and text messages saying that Africa needed to learn the `home truths' that James Watson had mentioned, he would aim to write a book on the topic. He declared:
" I must confess that I am pleasantly surprised because it is completely contrary to what I had expected. It is not what I had dreamt of at all. I was waiting for a storm of very angry reactions from pseudo- intellectuals, and 'patriotic' black men who are usually very touchy when they think the dignity and pride of the black race have been assaulted. I expected that there will be many of such who will accuse me of being a sell-out or a self-hater. We are not a people given to deep introspection. We take things as they come and have an incredible capacity to endure wrong things for so long and not get angry with ourselves or with anybody else with a view to changing things for the better. ..The fact that we who ought to have regarded Watson's testimony about our inferiority as an insult on the basis of pure emotion are saying that what he is saying is a painful truth gives me confidence that our mindset is changing for good. ..Our home-grown variant of democracy is pure euphemism for thuggery, rigging, violence, manipulation, falsehood, injustice, unfairness and our apparent inability to govern ourselves."
I sent email to AllAfrica in Nigeria (published 1 xi) congratulating Idang Alibi and suggesting he look at the Cambridge Debate (http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/late/cb_camb.html) and IQ and the Wealth of Nations.
The mighty rightist John Derbyshire was allowed to give Watson's recantation a blast in National Review Online (1 xi). Modest support for free speech, as against PeeCee, was found among the residents of Cold Spring Harbor village (Newsday, 27 x). A full and up-to-date defence of pre-recantation Watson was provided by Jason Malloy at Gene Expression (1 xi).
Yet more Black realism re Watson came from the Nigerian Tribune ["the oldest surviving private newspaper in Nigeria"] (Nosa Osaigbovo, 2 xi):
" The troubling truth is that Dr. Watson's contempt for black Africans is not completely undeserved. The talk about black achievements in ancient times-the construction marvels of Monomotapa and Zimbabwe, the vision and valour of Hannibal, a `black African', etc-is self-comforting nonsense. What has black Africa achieved in the last 500 years? Black Africans were made a race of slaves by Europeans and Arabs. About 12 million Africans worked as slaves on plantations in North and South America and in the Caribbean. Arabs were said to have captured and enslaved almost 20 million black Africans. ..
Nigeria was a colony for 46 years and has been independent for 47 years. Has it made more progress in freedom than in captivity? Many people who were adults at independence in 1960 say life was better under the British than it is now. The country is richer than it was under the British, but millions of Nigerians live in dignity-destroying poverty. Nigeria imports almost everything. It imports razor blades and pins. It has no technology to speak of. It needs Asians to operate its imported mobile phone technology. The oil industry depends on foreign expertise. Some of the engineers and technicians are from the Philippines, a developing country like Nigeria. .. Thugs now rule in many universities, which look a bit like slums. The halls of residence and lecture rooms are overcrowded and libraries and laboratories are bare. Seminality has been replaced by seediness. The universities in their present stunted state cannot put Nigeria on the technological map. China has put a man in space and has sent a rocket to the moon, but Nigeria could not successfully run a car assembly plant. Corruption crushed its steel and machine tools plants. The political leadership is steeped in corruption."
Even Modern Ghana admitted (4 xi) Africa's lack of progress - though seeming to prefer to attribute this to a `lack of confidence,' induced by the likes of Watson and preventing Africa from giving up Western ideas and returning to rural socialism..
ITALY MOVES AGAINST GYPSIES
The Italian Government announced that its prefects (local representatives of its Interior Ministry) would be allowed to deport summarily any foreigners deemed to be a threat to security (Guardian, 2 xi). The move came after hideous rapes, robberies and beatings carried out by Romanian immigrants - probably including slitting the throats of Giovanni Reggiani, the 47-year-old Protestant [Waldensian] wife of an Italian navy captain, and a British female student. The Roman Catholic charity Caritas put the number of Romanians in Italy at 556,000 -- less than 1% of the population; yet, according to the Interior Minister, 5.6% of those arrested for murder were Romanian. Gypsies, mainly illiterate, had poured into Italy from Romania after E.U. accession had been agreed in 2002.
Promptly, the prefect of Milan signed deportation warrants in respect of four Romanians who were living in one of the numerous wretched camps on the outskirts of the city. Within hours, thousands of Romanians had been rounded up and their shantytown homes were bulldozed though E.U. law required no targeting of ethnic groups and delays and court hearings before individuals `seriously threatening one of the fundamental interests of society' could be returned to their national homelands.. Nello Rossi, the head of Italy's National Magistrates Association, said that each expulsion would have to be justified, and that "there cannot be mass indiscriminate expulsions". But the Italian Government said it would get shot of 5,000 Romanians `within weeks.'
A spokesman for a newly founded far-right group, Fabio Sabbatani Schiuma, said he condemned attacks by masked men on Romanians but called them 'the product of a climate of exasperation'. Anti-foreigner graffiti on the walls of the surrounding, working-class area echoed his words. Apparently the authorities feared a spiral of vendettas against gypsies, Italy's largest immigrant group. Caution about hasty deportations was urged by the Pope and churchmen; but 83% of Italians supported the authorities actions after five years of increasingly unwelcome immigration by gypsies.
SOCIALIST EDUCATION WORSE THAN USELESS
The authoritative Cambridge Primary Review of reading levels in Britain's primary schools since Rev. Blair's NuLabout introduced `reforms' (made from 1998, such as a daily `literacy hour') found no improvement by 2005 and clear evidence of children feeling stressed by tests and losing interest in reading (Times, 2 xi; Daily Telegraph, 2 xi). The report said: "500 million pounds was spent on the National Literacy Strategy with almost no impact on reading levels."
{In children, reading age correlates at .70 with intelligence and is probably highly heritable, around .65 (e.g. Bates et al., 2004, Australian Journal of Psychology. Such facts have been routinely ignored by educational improvers for forty years - e.g. in America's massive 2002ff. `No Child Left Behind' handout of multi-billion dollars to pie-eyed ideologues.}
ECONOMIC VERDICTS COME IN ON PEECEE
As the British NuLabour Government announced it would give œ70M to Muslim `moderates' to help them damp down Muesli extremism in mosques, gyms, cafes and on the internet* - a policy akin to King Ethelred the Unready buying off Vikings with Danegeld and NuLabour itself buying off the IRA with plum ministerial jobs at Stormont - the London Stock Market crashed to its lowest level for four years after traditionally conservative American bank `Mother' Merrill Lynch appointed an `adventurous' Black CEO, lent money at wondrous interest rates to poor Blacks (who were soon, as per type, laid out on drugs or in clink) and saw its shares devalue 8% in a single day (2 xi). {The `stark dependence' of peecee `liberal and welfare state values' on `the local success of capitalism' had been noted on p. 136 of The g Factor (1996). But I had not anticipated that businessmen themselves would believe ignoracist propaganda and put their money more than nominally into Black hands.}
* `Communities Secretary' wee dahlin' Labour loyalist arselicker Hazel Blears said that new tactics by extremists required "a new, bolder response." 70 million was to be spent promoting community leadership to withstand extremist tendencies. That would include 25 million on national schemes including training for English-speaking imams, and setting up citizenship lessons in madrassas (mosque schools).
CONSERVATIVE OUTSPEAKER DEFENDED
As a Birmingham Tory MP candidate came under fire for Powellite sympathies, I wrote in to defend him (as did 500 others in the first six hours of the Sunday Telegraph carrying the story on the net) (published 4 xi):
Dear Nigel Hastilow, Well done to have the courage to speak out! Feel free to call on me to do what I can to help. You may like to prepare for your interrogation from Comrade Spelperson by looking at my article on Enoch at http://www.charlesmartelsociety.org/toq/vol1no1/cb-powell.html. Yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (psychologist, author of 'The g Factor,' sacked by Edinburgh University 1997 for undue realism).
However, after criticism from party toffs George Osborne and (once-supposed-right-winger) David Davies, Hastilow resigned within hours of his Powellite concerns becoming widely known - despite his continuing to enjoy the support of his Halesowen constituency party chairwoman (BBC, 4 xi). The alternative presented by party chairlady Comrade Caroline Spelman had been for Hastilow to denounce his own remarks as "incredibly stupid" and to accept future gagging from Not-the-Conservative Party Central Office.
Infuriated at the Cameroonian backtracking on the gains of the few previous weeks (as the Conservatives had embraced a little tax-cutting and found themselves surge ahead in the polls), the Daily Telegraph's top columnist Simon Heffer said it was hard to spurn a candidate who merely said Enoch Powell had spoken the truth about mass immigration (as he had about the need for monetarism, the danger to the UK of devolutionary experiments and the unacceptability to the UK of the EU) and denounced David Cameron as "playing his part in the great betrayal" of Britain (7 xi), promptly sparking an enormous postbag (1000 responses, mainly agreeable, in the first 16 hours) and probably civil war in the Conservative Party. I joined in as follows:
Re Paula Smith, 17, 08:41
The 'immigrants' to Britain of c. 1000+ years ago were drawn from the dynamic aristocratic military elites of their European tribes/races. The Anglo-Saxons brought the 'witan' (council of wise men) and a rich art and literature and soon converted to Christianity. The Normans (Vikings), with an empire spreading into the eastern Mediterranean, brought the castle and stable government, working closely with the Church.
By contrast, all too many immigrants of the past 50 years were people who could not find work or wealth in their homelands such as Jamaica (mean IQ 71), Pakistan (84), Somalia (68) and Iraq (87). (Figures from R. Lynn, 2006, 'IQ and Global Inequality.') Understandably, many of these immigrants pose problems that will surely not be experienced from students from Poland (IQ 99).
Sincerely, -- Chris Brand (author of 'The g Factor').
At the same time, Labour `antiracist' busybody Keith Vaz accused Prime Minister Brown of `risking fuelling racism' by promising `British jobs for British workers' (Scotsman, 7 xi).
BREAST-FEEDING IQ BOOST TRACED TO GENE
The gain of perhaps as much as 10 IQ points that children enjoy if breast-fed (summarized in The g Factor, 1996, pp. 143-4) turned out to depend on have a gene, FADS2, that helps break down fatty acids - one child in ten lacks the gene so gets no IQ gain from breastmilk, found London researchers (BBC, 6 xii).
`INSENSITIVITY' PIETY CLAIMS NEW TOP VICTIM
According to Arts Council sources, at an Arts Council lunch, U.K. Opposition leader Mr David Cameron quipped to his hosts: "I hope you won't be giving grants to too many one-legged Lithuanian lesbians," supposedly prompting embarrassed looks all round. A senior Labour official said the Tory leader was guilty of "crass insensitivity" after the comment was leaked to the Mail on Sunday. The peecee accusation of insensitivity followed the 2007 silencing of Henri Guaino, the speechwriter to France's President Sarkozy, and of American Nobelist James Watson. {Previously silenced in Britain were Sussex University's Professor Geoffrey Sampson (2001), Labour/UKIP politician Robert Kilroy-Silk (2005), Leeds University's Dr Frank Ellis (2006), Imperial College's Armand Leroi (2006), the London School of Economics' Satoshi Kanazawa (2006) and Oxford University's David Coleman (2007).}
SUPPORT FOR PRE-RECANTATION WATSON
As a deathly hush resumed over politics and academia, at least American conservative thinker Pat Buchanan offered Nobelist James Watson some support (Human Events, 30 x):
" In the England of Henry VIII, heretics were beheaded and their heads put on spikes. Many men, like Thomas More, did not recant.
From the time of Tiberias to the 17th century, men gave up their lives rather than renounce a belief in God. Others gave up their lives rather than renounce a disbelief in the Church. Why could Watson not stand up for his disbelief in the ideological myth of the inherent equality of all men, cultures, creeds and civilizations?
In 1990, the respected journal Science wrote, "To many in the scientific community, Watson has been something of a wild man. ... Colleagues tend to hold their collective breath when he speaks out."
Too bad the wild man was denatured and domesticated."
Human Biodiversity Group leader Steve Sailer also deplored Watson's retraction, while noting that he had received far less support from `the righteous right' than had been available thirteen years previously for The Bell Curve (VDare, 28 x). Steve also gave a fine, Jefferson-respecting answer to a critic who thought society could not handle the idea/finding of groups of people being unequal in intelligence (29 x).
Watson had once opined, in 2002: "I suspect that multiculturalism has reached its peak, because it's crap." - Quoted in Times Higher, 26 x, Matthew Reisz.
IGNORACIST ROSE SLAMMED re WATSON
Though Edinburgh LUniversity's Student (30 x) carried a full-page article condemning James Watson as "disgraceful" etc., thus joining with Marxist biologist Steven Rose, the postmodern leftist dogma that `there are no races' and thus no explanations in terms of race, was ably refuted by Luke O'Farrell (28 x), who particularly observed that, like races, languages are really different - typically to the degree of being mutually incomprehensible - despite having important common features such as the use of consonants, vowels, stress and intonation.
As attention turned to the gifted Watson's fundraising techniques, it turned out that Watson had won $1M `earmarks' for his New York lab from Congress by the simple expedient of giving a few thousand dollars to leading Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton (Washington Times, 30 x).
NEW BLACK BACKS WATSON ON INTELLIGENCE x RACE
More support for realism about low Black IQ and attainments came from Africa (Daily Trust [Abuja], Zainab Kperogi, 29 x):
"Over several years, almost every other race in the world has evolved from the animalistic level, but the black man is rather descending further into it. Whenever debates like this crop up, instead of us to pull back and reflect on the reasons why such a statement is made, our first and instinctive reactions are misdirected indignation and denial.
We're very good at putting blames for our underdevelopment at the doorstep of any other person's, but not at our doorstep where they squarely belong. We often blame slavery and colonialism for our backwardness but we were not the only ones that have so suffered. India was also under British rule but unlike us, they are not only a nuclear power but one of the world's leaders in Information Technology. Again, their population is much higher than ours, and they're also multi-religious like most Black societies. The same goes for China. I'm not comparing these countries with Nigeria alone; I'm talking of the whole Black race.
..In almost all parts of the world where blacks are in the majority, one is bound to find that their resources are not properly being harnessed. When the Dominican Republic and Haiti were one country, their development was slow. The Dominican Republic people who look more like Asians, decided to separate from Haiti and they have never looked backed in terms of rapid development. Haitians who are mostly blacks have on the other hand retrogressed further than they used to be. Their roads and other infrastructures are not better than what we have in many villages in Nigeria. How can we explain this?
Papua New Guinea, which is close to Australia and New Zealand, is a country constituted of black people that were never enslaved, according to historical facts, but they have never developed either. All these factors would make anybody who's not black to believe that there must be something very wrong with the genetic make-up of us black people.
We have continued to argue that whites seem more intelligent because of their nutrition, environment and social make-up. Why can't we create similar things for ourselves? On the whole, even though I don't believe that Dr Watson is completely right, I can't help feeling that much of his words are true. Among white supremacists, it's always bandied around that if you do not want blacks to know something, put it in a book."
TOP BLACK IS PART-JEWISH
As the sages of Washington meandered on at the American Enterprise Institute discussing high Jewish IQ (first mooted by Hans Eysenck in the 1970s) and the decline of Spain and Portugal being due to their kicking out Jews (first mooted by William McDougall in the 1930s), it transpired that top Afro-American writer and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. had had his DNA checked, revealing that he had a Yiddishe moma (Washington Post, 30 x).
FROM MULTICULTURALISM TO MONOCULTURALISM
An interesting take on why the mainstream British left (Phillips, Reid, Brown) had been wanting to `move on' from multiculturalism was offered by Canadian columnist Jonathan Kay (National Post, 30 x): having used liberalism and multiculturalism to infiltrate the church and win support for homosexuality (quite the biggest breakthrough of 2007 in Britain), early sex, abortion, female equality and mass immigration, the left wanted to consolidate its gains and secure them from the conservative force of Islam by defining a new monoculture (of right-on PeeCee) which - as a new `Britishness' or `Canadianness' -- Muslims would be pressured to support or at least tolerate.
MORE SOCIALISM TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF SOCIALISM
After ten years of useless `New Labour' rule, rocked by reckless underestimates of Britain's immigration figures, and languishing in the polls after the Conservative Shadow Chancellor accidentally said he might cut inheritance tax on family homes, Supreme Ruler `Grumpy' Gordon Brown - apparently no reader of TgF despite being personally acquainted with its author -- announced that every school had to produce "first class" results for all pupils and that he would move swiftly to close hundreds of failing schools that were not shining advertisements for the equality of man.. (Classic FM Radio, 31 x; Grauniad, 31 x).
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