LOONY-LEFTIE-LEZZIES ‘NO PLATFORM’ VETERAN QUEER-LIBERATOR

The officerette for LGBTs at NUS [National Union of Stupids....] demanded veteran yag campaigner Peter Tatchell should not be allowed to address students at the University of Canterbury – saying she would withdraw her own services if he did so [Observer, 14 ii]. Tatchell had offended lezzies by backing a Northern Ireland bakery which had declined to produce a wedding cake bearing a message favouring gay marriage. Tatchell thus joined star feminoid Germaine Greer as a star ‘progressive’ ostracized by students for favouring free speech.

    A London correspondent writes, “Poor old Tatchell. Having been religiously peecee all his life, he finds himself suffering the fate of of all people who become completely captured by an ideology -- they are eventually left behind by the following generations of disciples who become ever more extreme to show they are the truest of believers.”


FEMININNIES ANSWERED

  Cambridge University provided a riposte to femilezzie puritanism as some twenty of its gals paraded their wares before an enthusiastic audience of 1K in the city’s Corn Exchange. Notable among the young beauties was Pippa Bull, 20 [centre], an art history undergrad who hailed from Stephen Hawking’s college, Gonville and Caius, which had hosted the CRB vs Darkest Howe debate in 1997. After acclaimed topless performances, Pippa moved on to modelling bondage gear [Sunday Mail, 14 ii].




AUSTRO-GERMAN SPLIT AS ‘SYRIANS’ SURGE IN

 The lines of pan-German civil war began to be publicly drawn as Austria declared itself fed up with the A/A invasion which Führerin Merkel’s idealism had unleashed. Austria demanded Macedonia ‘completely stop’ the flow of migrants across its border from Greece after saying it had nearly reached its ‘maximum’ intake [Daily Mail, 12 ii]. Macedonia had erected metal fencing topped with razor wire along the border at the main crossing point from Greece for migrants coming through the Balkan peninsula en route to western Europe. Austria, which received 90,000 asylum requests in 2015, had set a limit of less than half that number for 2016.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz had urged Macedonia to halt the influx and warned that Vienna would soon have to follow suit and block refugees on its own frontiers. Speaking on a visit to the Macedonian capital, Skopje, Mr Kurz said: ‘Most probably in the coming months our maximum number will be reached, so Austria will have to stop the migrants at its own border. Macedonia must be ready to completely stop the entry of migrants on its borders.’

By contrast, Berlin continued to demand that A/A invaders be given free passage through Macedonia – and for that matter Bulgaria and Austria so the rapefugees and jiheadists could reach Germany’s Promised Land. In response, Austria said it would henceforth entertain only 80 asylum applications daily [though there was already a queue of ‘Syrians’ waiting in Slovenia] and allow only 3,120 daily to transit through Austria to Germany – both in defiance of ‘human rights’ emanating from Brussels and Strasbourg [Guardian, 19 ii]. [Just why UK PM Daft Dave did not similarly just defy the Eurocracy in his alleged ‘battle for Britain’ was unclear.]


MULTICULTI SPURNED

 The ideals of passable respect for all races and religions – drummed into the West by a generation of vicious peecee ‘liberal-leftists – seemed to have had limited influence on the Oxford University Labour Club, where the chairman resigned in protest against many members “having problems with Jews” [sometimes calling them “filthy Zionists”] and where the Oxford Jewish Society had gleaned evidence for eight charges of anti-Semitism with which it persuaded HMG to institute an immediate inquiry into the naughtiness [which was specially prevalent among Corbynistas] [D.Telegraph, 18 ii].


TRUMPING PEECEE  

Called “unChristian” by the Pope for wanting a fence to keep Mexican pumigrants out of America and a ban on new Muesli arrivals, Presidential hopeful Donald Trump shot back that the pontiff was a “disgrace” who should be on his knees praying for a Trump victory to protect the West and his faith [D.Mail, 19 ii].

At a stroke The Donald thus swept past the lily-livered supplicants ooops diners of Brussels, the pathetic ‘academics’ of the LSE who acquiesced in student demands for cancellation of a lecture spelling out the heritable aggression and criminality of some British welfare dependents, and perhaps even Vladimir Putin himself – who had failed to spell out his game plan of backing relatively White Shitites against the darker, more authoritarian and hysterical Arab Solunnis. Trump went on to win the Republican nomination in South Carolina, forcing Latino-loving Jeb Bush to withdraw from the US Presidential race.


CHINA TO PRESERVE CIVILIZATION

 A handy introduction to the last fifty years of the psychometric study of group differences in race and sex was provided in an account of his own involvement in it by star researcher and eugenicist Emeritus  Professor Richard Lynn [AmRen, 19 ii].

Admittedly, Lynn’s concern with the psychology, heritability and educational implications of g  differences was slight; and his attention to the pretty small superiorities of East Asians [over Whites] and of men [over women – a difference which may be just in spatial ability] rather squeezed out the dismally low IQs of sub-Saharan Blacks and thus stopped Lynn seeing that the left’s hostility to g and ‘racism’ occurs largely because of the frustrating failure of its fifty years of multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer-funded efforts to show the slightest achievement for its beloved social environmentalism.

But his reluctance to think that the West might actually overthrow environmentalism as it faced down mounting invasion by low-IQ hordes was at least paired with optimism that the Chinese – despite their current shameful addiction to Western universities [aka nurseries, with their ‘safe places’ and political correctness] – might maintain a semblance of civilization; and his visual aids of selected colleagues were excellent.

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CARRY ON PEECEE DINING – WITHOUT EVEN SPEECHES!  

As February brought an extra 350K Syrians surging towards Europe, and a Geneva-outlawed ballistic missile test was held without Western hindrance by North Korean enslaver-dictator Kim-il-Pong, ex-Labourite columnist Rod Liddle properly noted the apparently unopposed infiltration of the UN by left-wing twerps [Sunday Times, 7 ii].

"Scarcely a month goes by without some damning indictment of the UK by one of the UN’s proliferating panel of Third World lawyers on the make. Usually some fourth-division neo-Marxist halfwit, such as the Brazilian UN “rapporteur” Raquel Rolnik who worked herself into a frenzy about the bedroom tax [which required UK council house denizens to pay for any spare rooms].

Let me tell you about Raquel. She once sacrificed a live chicken to the ghost of her hero Karl Marx, while studying in a Paris bedsit. No, not kidding. Quite what gives this idiotic Brazilian commie, surrounded by teeming disease-ridden favelas, the right to lecture us about housing policy escapes me.

Still less the Argentinian rapporteur Juan Mendez, who decided we were quite wrong to try to scrap the Human Rights Act, or indeed a UN panjandrum called Joseph Cannataci who ordained that the UK should stop its surveillance of possible terrorists. But then this is an organisation that sees not a scintilla of irony in having, on its Human Rights Council, delegates from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Russia and that bastion of democracy Togo.

It is also an organisation to which we are the fifth-largest donor, providing more than 5% of its income. Money it spends on left-wing lawyers and academics to eviscerate the only countries in the world that even pretend to give a monkey’s about its fatuous adjudications. Incidentally, we fork out almost 7% of the cost of the UN’s peacekeeping operations. Hell, that’s money well spent, isn’t it?

The latest UN verdict concerns the WikiLeaks nerd and megalomaniac Julian Assange. Three members of a UN panel — from those vibrant democracies South Korea, Mexico and Benin — decided that we had detained Assange wrongly and that he should be “released” and paid compensation.

Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy for 3½ years because he does not wish to face charges of sexual assault in Sweden. I assume the Ecuadoreans, even though they are lefties, are heartily sick of the man by now, tapping away at his computer, emerging only to beg for another plate of nachos and maybe some grilled armadillo.

Plainly, we have not detained him. He is free to go. This is not detention, this is “hiding”. Assange himself described the UN panel’s decision as a “victory of historic importance”. But then in Julian’s mind, everything he does is a victory of historic importance — picking his nose, going to the lavatory, talking to Guardian journalists and so on. He is still full of himself, even though many cretinous Brit luvvies, such as Jemima Khan, deserted his cause after he skipped bail and fled to the embassy.

Obviously, we should take no notice of the UN panel’s decision — apart from maybe reviewing our membership. The real question is how did the United Nations — like so many of our own institutions — come to be captured by these First World-loathing liberal lefties?"

To which a correspondent helpfully added

"The UN is not the only institution taken over by left-wing ideologues. Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Oxfam, the RSPCA, and many others have gone the same way. They are started by people with good intentions who generally want the world to be a better place, but those sorts of people too often lack the resolve and staying power to withstand the more determined entryism of the Left, who, having failed to get any sort of democratic mandate for their discredited doctrinaire views, look for half-open back doors to sneak through".


PEECEE ‘POLICE’ EXPOSED BY FACEBOOK [D.Telegraph, 6 ii]

An Iraqi migrant has admitted raping a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Austria because he had not had sex in four months and it was a “sexual emergency”.

The 20-year-old man is accused of attacking the boy in a cubicle of the Theresienbad swimming pool in Vienna, telling police he had “followed his desires”.

The victim had to be hospitalised following injuries inflicted by the suspect, who worked as a taxi driver after arriving in Austria via the Balkans in September, and who has a wife and daughter back in Iraq.

After the attack, the suspect left the cubicle and went to enjoy himself by springing from the three-metre-high diving board while the victim alerted a lifeguard, Austrian newspaper the Kronen Zeitung reported.

An ambulance was called immediately and police arrested the man at the pool.

He told police during interrogation that he knew he had made “a huge mistake” and that he had left a “big scar on the boy”.

But he said he had “followed his desires,” adding: “I haven’t had sex for four months.”

The man explained that before coming to Austria he had been with a woman in Iraq who wasn’t his wife, who he said had been constantly ill since the birth of their daughter.

In Austria, he had “not withstood not having any sex because he had a marked surplus of sexual energy”, he said in interrogation.

The man said he knew that having sex with 10-year-old boys was “forbidden in any country of the world”, the Kronen Zeitung reported. The man is currently in custody.

The attack took place on December 2, but police said they did not release details to “protect the victim”.

But police have now officially announced the details of the crime after reports emerged on Facebook, with the Kronen Zeitung reporting the incident in December following unofficial confirmation.


g FACTOR FOUND IN DOGS

Egalitarians received a rude surprise as psychologists reported that dogs who did well at one problem-solving task also did well at others – as happens for humans on mental tests, yielding differences in general intelligence [MA/IQ] [Daily Mail, 8 ii].

"Researchers at the London School of Economics and the University of Edinburgh tested 68 border collies – normally considered the most intelligent dogs and thus having restricted g range. The tests included navigation, measured by timing how long it took to find food hidden behind barriers, and if the dogs could tell the difference between different amounts of food. They were also assessed at how well they could follow a human pointing to an object. The researchers found that dogs who did well on one test tended be better at the other tests – suggesting that intelligence is ‘generalised’ in dogs, as it is in humans. Furthermore, dogs that did tests faster were likely to do them more accurately.

Dr Rosalind Arden, a Research Associate at LSE, said: ‘Just as people vary in their problem solving abilities, so do dogs, even within one breed.This is significant because in humans there is a small but measurable tendency for people who are brighter to be healthier and live longer. So if, as our research suggests, dog intelligence is structured similarly to ours, studying a species that doesn’t smoke, drink, use recreational drugs and does not have large differences in education and income, may help us understand this link between intelligence and health better. In addition, dogs are one of the few animals that reproduce many of the key features of dementia, so understanding their cognitive abilities could be valuable in helping us to understand the causes this disorder in humans and possibly test treatments for it.’

Dr Mark Adams, Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, said: “This is only a first step, but we are aiming to create a dog IQ test that is reliable, valid and can be administered quickly.  Such a test could rapidly improve our understanding of the connection between dog intelligence, health, even lifespan, and, he jested, be the foundation of ‘dognitive epidemiology’.... Dogs are excellent for this kind of work because they are willing to participate and seem to enjoy taking part.”

In order to get a large sample of dogs from similar backgrounds the researchers recruited working border collies, which meant that there weren’t big differences in how they were raised. The dogs were tested at Kinloch Sheepdogs.

‘A general intelligence factor in dogs’ by Rosalind Arden and Mark James Adams doi:10.1016/j.intell.2016.01.008 appears in Intelligence 55, March–April 2016, pp 79–85, published by Elsevier."


RHODES REPRIEVED  

After naughtily pondering whether Oriel College’s statue of its mighty benefactor might be replaced by one of Zimbabwe [Southern Rhodesia] dictator Robert Mugabe, Private Eye [5 ii] turned to considering whether the Oxford University Student Union [where lefties had voted 81-5 to bring down the statue] should seek removal of London statues of Ndebele-slaughtering Sir Hiram Maxim*, Russian-slaughtering Vladimir Lenin and eugenics inventor Sir Francis Galton.

And why not of the fifteen pictures of Galton held by the National Portrait Gallery?

But in the end the Eye reprieved Oriel as a listed building.

The Eye concluded “....the childish ‘Rhodes must Fall’ campaign combined with the initial wetness of Oriel threatens to open a Pandora’s Box of modern, posturing iconoclasm – barbarism, in fact.”

[An epic ten-part TV series, ‘Rhodes,’ had been provided by the BBC in 1996 – somewhat ungainly and exaggerating evidence of Rhodes’ homoexuality/paedophilia, but fair to his liberalism, to his wanting negro enfranchisement, and to his dislike of apartheid.]

* During the Battle of the Shangani, 700 soldiers fought off 5,000 warriors with just four Maxim guns. It played an important role in the swift European colonization of Africa in the late 19th century. The extreme lethality was employed to devastating effect against obsolete charging tactics, when native opponents could be lured into pitched battles in open terrain. As it was put by Hilaire Belloc, in the words of the figure "Blood" in his poem "The Modern Traveller":

Whatever happens, we have got

The Maxim gun, and they have not.


FÜHRERINPRINZIP REMARKED  

Surprisingly in a pro-establishment newspaper, correspondents to the Times could be found venting their fury at the mad authoritarian idealism of Germany’s Mutti Merkel. An example [10 ii] –

"....Oxford’s Professor Sir Paul Collier, in an interview with Die Welt, saw no meaningful reason for her actions in the migrant crisis, even going so far as to state that, far from saving a single Syrian life, she has the many deaths on her conscience, as there was no need for one single Syrian to make the dangerous journey to get [to Germany].

In other words Merkel has in every way damaged Germany, such that there is no going back. And in going it alone, in the tradition of the Kaiser, the Führer, and now Mutti herself, she has once more asserted German dominance and power, negating the whole of German policy since Adenauer, which was designed to make Germany into a reliable partner for the rest of Europe. She is, in other words, the greatest catastrophe since Hitler and will have destroyed Germany and Europe as once the Kaiser the Führer did -- differently, but just as effectively. Happy days are here again!


‘REVOLUTION’ TO ROCK EUROPE – TRUMP  

Fresh from more than doubling the vote of any other Republican candidate in the primary elections in New Hampshire, bumptious billionaire Donald Trump forecast that Europe would not escape its own 9/11 and would respond to the treachery of its idealistic peecee politicos with revolution – which he said his German friends now dreaded [D.Telegraph, 11 ii]. This prognostication was reinforced by the first report – from Turkish authorities – of migrants from Syria/Iraq trying to head towards Europe with suicide vests and grenades [D.T.].


SURVEILLANCE, SOCIETY AND SALVATION  

Believing oneself monitored by an all-knowing and sometimes punishing God was associated with being more co-operative and more generous to co-religionists. Such was the finding of researchers in evolutionary anthropology and international relations from the universities of Oxford and British Columbia as they quizzed and experimented on 600 subjects from eight countries and a range of religious/irreligious beliefs [Nature, 10 ii].

The finding was in line with empirical demonstration of the importance of surveillance in controlling crime [Brand, 1971, New Society], with historical suggestions that the first human societies involved a genetic leap into the paranoia of thinking oneself watched and addressed [Jaynes, 1976, The Origin of Consciousness], and today’s likelihood that criminality fuelled by drugs, dysgenics and darkie immigration had only been – however partially – controlled by a massive increase of surveillance by videocamera and internet.


WIN FOR INTELLIGENCE  

The g factor among children of the same age was found to predict educational success in adolescence four times more strongly than all other human factors put together. In data from 4.5K twins, the ‘Big Five’ personality dimensions beloved of cowardly g-avoidant psycholoshits, plus a fashionable measure of ‘grit’ [determination/persistence], plus estimates of home and school excellence were quite outclassed by g. The biggest predictor of GCSE success was intelligence, which accounted for roughly 40 per cent of achievement [Daily Mail, 12 ii].

A further 50 per cent of success could not be predicted, the King’s College London researchers said. The study’s first author, Kaili Rimfeld from the Institute of Psychiatry said: “Until now there has been very little evidence about the origins of differences between children in ‘grit’ and its influence on academic achievement, despite the fact that it plays an important role in UK and US education policies.”

The result came in as Britain’s ‘Tory’ government committed itself to a wide range of antiquated liberalistic tinkering hoped to yield heaven on earth in schools [where grammar was being taught to the IQ80s....], prisons [where ‘rehabilitation’ was the rage – as it had been off and on since the 1930s], hospitals [where obese sociologized nurses were to provide unused 24-7 service] and businesses [where dyslexics demoted for mistakes could sue employers] – anything rather than treat people in accordance with their wishes and abilities.


WIN FOR WEST THOUGH LOSS FOR LOVE

Pitiless Muslim attitudes to modern Western and Christian love – and especially to love and marriage being self-chosen and not ‘arranged’ by parents or priests – went on remarkable display among Muesli politicos, preachers and street protesters. Pakistan's president denounced St Valentine's Day, saying the festival had no connection with Pakistani culture and should be avoided. President Mamnoon Hussain told students that it was a Western tradition and conflicted with Muslim culture. His remarks came after a district in north-western Pakistan banned Valentine's Day celebrations altogether as “obscene.”

Peshawar – Pakistan’s oldest city, pop 3.5M -- also passed a resolution to ban celebrations of what it called a "useless" day. In the run-up to the festival, one conservative newspaper described it as a "festival of obscenity", asking if Pakistanis would next start celebrating the Hindu Diwali or the Christian Christmas.

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 RHODES DEFENDED

Britain’s known intellectuals had turned out to be either so converted to, or terrified of PeeCee that they could do nothing as colonialist colossus Cecil Rhodes was insulted in a Black-led attack on his High Street statue in Oxford (see January); but a correspondent to the Guardian was more robust, as follows:

"Give it a break with your puerile, ill-informed, 'war criminal" drivel! You've previously tried to link Rhodes’ sponsorship of the Jameson Raid, which was reprehensible and undoubtedly catalyzed the 2nd Boer War, to culpability for what transpired in the camps as a consequence of Roberts and Kitchener's ‘scorched earth’ tactics.That is historically inaccurate rubbish. It is also highly improbable that either of Kitchener or Roberts, whilst acquainted with Rhodes, would have sought his advice on military strategy after his actions during the siege of Kimberley. If you are looking for a "hidden hand" behind Roberts or Kitchener then Milner, who was Governor at the time and a close confidante of Roberts, is a far more likely candidate.

Accumulating a fortune through being an astute businessman does not make one a war criminal. There were no indigenous peoples forcibly removed from the semi-arid landscape around the de Beer's farm that became the focus of the diamond rush that was already in full swing when Rhodes got to Kimberley and where he made his fortune by buying up small claims and consolidating them. Not stealing but purchasing with money borrowed from financiers.

The reason that the statue is has nothing to do with Rhodes political views or attitudes but simply because he left an amount of around $3billion in today's money to his alma mater Oriel on his death in 1902.

If you want to get your knickers in a knot over statues or memorials to politically incorrect people there are plenty to choose from. In the hypocritical Mr Qwabe’s home province in South Africa, Shaka Zulu [the borderline psychopathic Zulu leader who killed two million around 1820] is memorialized by having an airport, complete with statue, named in his honour. This is a man who laid waste to an area the size of France during his bloody rise to power having murdered his half brother who was heir apparent. He certainly had no qualms about executing vanquished foes or even 7000 of his own people when he deemed them to be insufficiently distressed at the death of his mother Nandi in 1827. Rhodes was a veritable choir boy on the genocide front compared to him. Our Mr Qwabe is curiously silent on this statue but perhaps that is because his ancestors, the Qwabe clan, re-invented themselves as relatives of the Zulu during Shaka's rise to power.

Closer to home, there is of course the magnificent Wellington memorial on Pall Mall. A brilliant general, Arthur Wellesley, but also vehemently opposed to extending the franchise in the Reform Act of 1832. That wonderfully politically correct monarch Henry VIII adorns St Bartholomew, and there are any number of statues of Roman emperors scattered around Europe including the UK and notably one of Caesar, conqueror of the Gauls, in front of the Louvre"


PEECEE SUPPRESSION OF INCONVENIENT NEWS ADMITTED BY GERMAN MEDIA SUPREMO

A retired media boss at a major German state broadcaster has admitted his network and others take orders from the government on what — and what not — to report.

National public service broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), which was recently forced into a humiliating apology for their silence on migrant violence and sex assault, is being drawn into a fresh scandal after one of their former bureau chiefs admitted the company takes orders from the government on what it reports. He said journalists received instructions to write news that would be “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”.

Former head of ZDF Bonn, Dr. Wolfgang Herles, make the remarks during a radio event (from minute 27) in Berlin where journalists discussed the media landscape. Moving on to the freedom of the press, the panel chair asked Dr. Herles whether things in Germany had got “seriously out of whack”. With an honesty perhaps unusual in Germany, Dr. Herles replied that ordinary Germans were totally losing faith in the media, something he called a “scandal”. He said:

“We have the problem that – now I’m mainly talking about the public [state] media – we have a closeness to the government. Not only because commentary is mainly in line with the grand coalition (CSU, CDU and SPD), with the spectrum of opinion, but also because we are completely taken in by the agenda laid down by the political class”.

Worse than the mainstream, government controlled and poll-tax funded media in Germany just agreeing with the ruling coalition, the stations actually took orders on what was and was not to be reported on. He said:

“…the topics about which are reported are laid down by the government

“There are many topics that would be more important than what the government wants. But they, of course, want to deflect attention away from what doesn’t happen. Yet what doesn’t happen is often more important than what does happen – more important than gesture politics”.

While these orders are sent to media companies from unspecified places in the government, they are communicated to individual journalists by news executives using a new-speak jargon. Dr. Herles explains that while “there are, in fact, instructions from above”, when the editor in chief of ZDF communicated these instructions to his juniors he would merely say reporting should be framed in a way that “serves Europe and the public good”.

There would be no need to add in brackets that this actually means it should be reported “to Ms. Merkel’s liking”, as this would be understood as the true meaning.

“Today, one is not allowed to say anything negative about the refugees” said Dr. Herles, concluding: “This is government journalism and that leads to a situation in which people no longer trust us. This is a scandal.”

There has been very little reporting of the comments in the German media, and what there was has been critical of the remarks. Focus reported the comments of one centre-left media figure, Der Freitag newspaper editor Jakob Augstein who, when asked whether there had ever been such “instructions from above”, said: “No, I deny vehemently there has ever been commands from the top”.

That the German mainstream media is not free and routinely obscures or bends the truth has been a key criticism by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe (PEGIDA) movement, which has coined phrases like Lügenpresse — the liar press — to express their frustration.


IQ RETURNS IN CAMBRIDGE

As HMG prepared to thrust ever more of its comprehensively miseducated schoolchildren into taking rote-memory-based ‘A’-Level exams so as to qualify for university entrance, Cambridge University announced it would re-introduce its own examinations for the first time in a generation and that these would include testing of “thinking skills” for which no preparation would be necessary – i.e. they would test intelligence/IQ/the g factor. Responding to the Telegraph’s report (2 ii, Tom Morgan), one correspondent rejoiced as follows.

WELL DONE CAMBRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A & O LEVELS ARE RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not something worth arguing over, for those of us who have for years been bemoaning the trashing of standards. All you have to do is compare a recent (say) Physics paper with a 1960's Paper. It's enough to make you weep. -- Another triumph for the hard Left Party and its relentless trashing of anything that works.


REVERSE RACISM REJECTED

 As none other than Yukay PM Daft Dave decided to advertise his ignorance of deep-seated race differences by squealing that Oxbridge – under student pressure to denounce Cecil Rhodes’ outstandingly successful British imperialist -- should admit more Blacks, he was answered firmly by top columnist Charles Moore [Spectator, 6 ii].

"Give it a break with your puerile, ill-informed, 'war criminal" drivel! You've previously tried to link Rhodes’ sponsorship of the Jameson Raid, which was reprehensible and undoubtedly catalyzed the 2nd Boer War, to culpability for what transpired in the camps as a consequence of Roberts and Kitchener's ‘scorched earth’ tactics.That is historically inaccurate rubbish. It is also highly improbable that either of Kitchener or Roberts, whilst acquainted with Rhodes, would have sought his advice on military strategy after his actions during the siege of Kimberley. If you are looking for a "hidden hand" behind Roberts or Kitchener then Milner, who was Governor at the time and a close confidante of Roberts, is a far more likely candidate.

Accumulating a fortune through being an astute businessman does not make one a war criminal. There were no indigenous peoples forcibly removed from the semi-arid landscape around the de Beer's farm that became the focus of the diamond rush that was already in full swing when Rhodes got to Kimberley and where he made his fortune by buying up small claims and consolidating them. Not stealing but purchasing with money borrowed from financiers.

The reason that the statue is has nothing to do with Rhodes political views or attitudes but simply because he left an amount of around $3billion in today's money to his alma mater Oriel on his death in 1902.

If you want to get your knickers in a knot over statues or memorials to politically incorrect people there are plenty to choose from. In the hypocritical Mr Qwabe’s home province in South Africa, Shaka Zulu [the borderline psychopathic Zulu leader who killed two million around 1820] is memorialized by having an airport, complete with statue, named in his honour. This is a man who laid waste to an area the size of France during his bloody rise to power having murdered his half brother who was heir apparent. He certainly had no qualms about executing vanquished foes or even 7000 of his own people when he deemed them to be insufficiently distressed at the death of his mother Nandi in 1827. Rhodes was a veritable choir boy on the genocide front compared to him. Our Mr Qwabe is curiously silent on this statue but perhaps that is because his ancestors, the Qwabe clan, re-invented themselves as relatives of the Zulu during Shaka's rise to power.

Closer to home, there is of course the magnificent Wellington memorial on Pall Mall. A brilliant general, Arthur Wellesley, but also vehemently opposed to extending the franchise in the Reform Act of 1832. That wonderfully politically correct monarch Henry VIII adorns St Bartholomew, and there are any number of statues of Roman emperors scattered around Europe including the UK and notably one of Caesar, conqueror of the Gauls, in front of the Louvre.


EUROPE AWAKES

 On February 6, anti-Islam groups from across Europe simultaneously demonstrated in 15 European countries in defence of "Fortress Europe" – the first time there had been a genuine pan-European demonstration against Islam. The chief co-ordinator of the rallies was Dresden-based PEGIDA [Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West], the English branch of which aimed for a peaceful, silent, non-face-masked and non-alcoholic march in Birmingham, where most police leave was cancelled. This rally was Pegida’s second in the UK, with the first held in Newcastle last February. The event was been organised by the noisy and often-briefly-imprisoned founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson.

The largest rally was in Dresden, where police estimated numbers at 8K. "We're demonstrating against the Islamisation of Europe, we're demonstrating against immigration, against an invasion," Robert Winnicki, leader of Poland's far-right Ruch Narodowy (National Movement), told demonstrators in Warsaw. Sporadic attempts were made to attack buildings thought to house A/A ‘refugees’ – a status expressly denied them by the President of Nigeria, who added that it was pointless for Nigerians to try to migrate since their criminality was so well known in the West [D.Telegraph, 6 ii].

Pegida’s objections to the pumigrants were probably to jiheading, torture and execution by crane, raping, stoning, robbing, veiling, female segregation, female enslavement, halal food and extermination of non-believers [‘kaffirs’]; but many of Pegida’s supporters probably struggled to suppress a cheer for ‘radical’ Islamic attitudes to Jews and homosexuals.

Despite its share of breakaways and romantic tiffs, Germany’s ‘Alternative for Germany,’ led by the winsome Frauke Petry, 40, and increasingly seen as the political wing of PEGIDA, was polling around 12% and calling for “traitorous” politicians like Führerin Merkel and her EU oligarchs to be “lined against the wall and shot” [Observer, 7 iii].

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A return to the fray

Chris has had a few problems lately so there was a hiatus in his writing.  Below is his latest offering -- JR

As the numbers of Arabian invaders of Western Europe through the Balkans swelled to 2K daily – the previous winter it had been 2K monthly – good and interesting news for realists was in short supply. Naturally, politicians and public intellectuals were reluctant to respond to the invaders’ rough-and-ready ways of groping, robbing and raping with talk about the bizarre idealism that had welcomed the stream of sturdy beggars who would likely trigger a new Thirty Years War in Germany; let alone how peoples like the Syrians [mean IQ 82] could be expected to contribute to civilization.

But they were helped in their mega-denial by the police and press – the former doing their damnedest to cover up the ethnicity of Europe’s new hooligans (in Sweden marking as ‘291’ the many reports that officers were forbidden to discuss), and the latter dwelling on every trivial story of children, animals and possible medical breathroughw rather than examine the funding of the invasion (about which the Beeb was anyhow super-cool, carrying memoirs of Franz Boas who had first denied the existence of higher civilizations).

Sure, there were half-bits of half-fun. But Ian Deary’s latest massive research linking IQ, genes and health in oldies had to be ‘reported’ along with health warnings that environmental factors were probably jolly important (which Deary’s team had expressly not found).

Oxford University’s Oriel College’s decision to keep its statue of liberal imperialist Cecil Rhodes overlooking Oxford High was merely to appease irate old-boy benefactors and involved not a single full appreciation of Rhodes himself and his ambition for a federation of Nordic peoples.

And the prediction of a celebrity German psychiatrist that ‘narcissist’ Führerin Merkel was close to mental breakdown had still to be backed up by conspicuous signs of planes readying to take her and her Fourth Reich entourage to Chile.

As repression and confusion deepened, race realists were going to have to look to Mr Putin for the analysis of ‘what was going on’ that Mr Trump sought.

MSM and its peecee-terrified cronies were determined to avoid all realistic discussion – the policy that had emerged as the most skin-saving during the days of The g Factor (1996/2000).

True ongoing hilarity would have to be gleaned from MSM’s finest exercising themselves over such a fifty-year-old question as why Blacks were under-represented in decent universities – apparently, schoolteachers had to be blamed as usual....

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