'LIBERATING THE FUTURE' NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
How to reverse the Left's (entirely hypocritical) bullying of the West? My (lengthy but oh-so-substantial) 1998/9 essay, submitted for a prize offered by Berlin's Goethe Instiute, was published thanks to Brisbane's John Ray. See here. The answer? -- A bit of truth-telling about how to preserve a free society from the likes of Hitler and Rev. Bliar!
And a fine and succinct analysis of PeeCee, i.e."cultural Marxism," and its connections with multiculturalism, deconstructionism, state tyranny, affirmative racism and theft, was provided in American Daily (12 ii).
BNP ZOOMS TO SCORE (ALMOST)
As well as providing full and fine condemnation of the exploitation of gobby ignoramus Jade Goody by Britain's righteous `anti-racists' (who had driven Jade's pal, busty "racist"* Celebrity Big Brother housemate, Jo O'Meara, to suicide threats) the British National Party rocked multicultis by almost winning a Labour-held council seat in Bedworth (near Coventry), polling more votes after a big canvassing effort than the `Conservatives,' Liberal Democrats and UKIP put together. The BNP then actually went on to beat Labour in the contest for a council seat in Burnley - even though the seat was won by the Liberal Democrats after a smear campaign over a loose-talking alleged bomb-maker, Robert Cottage,** who feared a racial civil war in Britain but had in fact been expelled by the BNP for unreliability and eccentricity and exposed to police by his still-BNP wife.
* By this time, `victim of racism' Shilpa Shetty herself stood accused of `racism.' The Bollywood star had apparently taken part in a TV comedy sketch based on `The Black and White Minstrel Show' (banned from British TV in 1978), in which she laughed at an actor with a "blacked-up" face and Afro-style wig.
Britain's grovelling Government, eager to make amends to the beauty for being called "Shilpa F***awallah" and "Shilpa Poppadum" by housemates, had promptly arranged her a UK work permit - something for which other applicants have to wait months or years.
** Strangely, the UK media showed little interest in this ongoing court case, leftie journalists probably fearing that Cottage's tough talk about third-world immigration and its ills might easily turn out to have rather wide appeal - not least when it was appreciated that no bomb had actually been made and that the chemicals stored by him and a dentist pal could have entirely innocent explanations (e.g. for use in teeth-whitening).
BLAIR et al. `IN DENIAL' ABOUT RACE
Faced with a spate of murderous gun crime in South London, Rev. Bliar and Dopey Dave Cameron tried to talk toughly and even conservatively about the need for longer sentences and a regeneration of (two-parent?) family life. It was only the brave columnist Janet Daley who pointed out that the problem was largely limited to Black or other non-White young males and that there would be no solving the problem until the police were allowed to stop, question, detain and search youths on suspicion (powers which they had largely lost as the Macpherson Report of 1998 moved against their `institutional racism').
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Monday, January 29, 2007
ANTI-RACIALUNACY LATEST
As Britoid `anti-racist' hysteria re Jade and Shilpa (see previous Diary/Blog) was met by Channel 4 handing a review of the offending programme, `Celebrity Big Brother,' over to a three-man committee, another of Channel 4's programmes, `Shipwreck,'* came under attack for besmirching the airways with `racist' comments (Metro, 22 i; Daily Mirror, 23 i; Sun, 23 i; Metro, 23 i). In this case, an upper-crust crystal-accented independent school product, pretty blonde Lucy Buchanan, 18 and a tennis champion whose parents lived in Edinburgh's New Town (though Lucy had been privately educated in York** and was to go to Bristol University after completing her gap year), had said she didn't much care for Blacks though she wouldn't mind having some as slaves.. "When I look out at what Britain is, it's just a complete mess. I don't appreciate how people come into our country and take over our country," she said. She called Blacks "really bad" and lesbians "sinister."
Her public school education had also failed to advise her not to make any public criticism of fat people (the latter "really bring you down" and should have their stomachs stitched, said Lucy..). As `anti-racists' learned of the outrage, complaints to OFCOM over three days soared to 430. When told by `shipwrecked' island mates that they did not like racists, brave Lucy replied, "Well, you've got one here," thus becoming (along with myself) one of the few Brits declaring racist beliefs of some kind or other to the media; so I wrote to the Daily Mail to congratulate her.
Bristol LUniversity promptly announced it would reconsider its offer of a place to Lucy. From their 500,000 pound London Street flat, Lucy's parents, 45+, the father an IT executive and the mother a former model, blamed her "loose talk" on being a "naive teenager" and something of a loudmouth; but Asian MP Keith Vaz (who backed censorship of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses and later hit trouble in Parliament over improper business dealings) called for Channel 4 boss Andy Duncan to be sacked.
Several previous participants in reality TV shows told the Scotsman that nothing interesting appears on Big Brother without substantial orchestration and selection by the programme makers. Attempting to placate the howling red-tops, Channel 4 said viewers would see Lucy's opinions change in later episodes - thus revealing that `Shipwreck' episodes were shot and edited some five months before they were screened. However, quotes from Lucy's later episodes showed only that she had become a little more accepting of lesbians, not of Blacks.
* The show sees two groups of nubile, easy-on-the-eye but lazy young people placed on desert islands in the South Pacific living as castaways. They compete to stay in the tropical paradise and win a 70,000 pound prize.
** The headmaster of St Peter's School, York, founded in 627, spoke highly of Lucy's record as a pupil. And the school had experimented with having a Black (Guyanan) head for a term to demonstrate its commitment to `anti-racist' hysteria; so Lucy would supposedly have been "severely punished" if she had stepped out of the school's `anti-racist' line (Edinburgh Evening News, 23 i).
LIBERTY DEFENDED
After weeks of British politicians, archbishops and media pundits uniting in an orgy of `non-discriminatory' wailing on behalf of distressed Bollywood princesses being called poppadoms, distressed Blacks being invited to consider slavery (as an alternative to drug addiction, unemployment, welfare dependency and imprisonment) and distressed homosexuals redirected from one bed-and-breakfast to another - weeks in which the only ordinary freedom defended was that of declining to assist homosexuals to adopt children - a fine defence of the essential liberty to think, talk, act and associate as one wishes so long as one does not interfere with the life, liberty or property of any other was provided by Britain's robust and clear-sighted libertarian leader Sean Gabb here
The route of becoming a private adoption agency was not open to the Catholic Church since a 1948 Act had put all adoption in state hands, allowing agencies to do only the associated social work. Telegraph correspondents called the Government's `sexual orientation regulations' totalitarian, undemocratic and sinister; and pointed out that Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter of animals is exempt from the general law that animals be rendered unconscious before being killed. Again, Britons' liberty to eat pork does not mean that Muslims and Jews need to assist them.
As Britoid `anti-racist' hysteria re Jade and Shilpa (see previous Diary/Blog) was met by Channel 4 handing a review of the offending programme, `Celebrity Big Brother,' over to a three-man committee, another of Channel 4's programmes, `Shipwreck,'* came under attack for besmirching the airways with `racist' comments (Metro, 22 i; Daily Mirror, 23 i; Sun, 23 i; Metro, 23 i). In this case, an upper-crust crystal-accented independent school product, pretty blonde Lucy Buchanan, 18 and a tennis champion whose parents lived in Edinburgh's New Town (though Lucy had been privately educated in York** and was to go to Bristol University after completing her gap year), had said she didn't much care for Blacks though she wouldn't mind having some as slaves.. "When I look out at what Britain is, it's just a complete mess. I don't appreciate how people come into our country and take over our country," she said. She called Blacks "really bad" and lesbians "sinister."
Her public school education had also failed to advise her not to make any public criticism of fat people (the latter "really bring you down" and should have their stomachs stitched, said Lucy..). As `anti-racists' learned of the outrage, complaints to OFCOM over three days soared to 430. When told by `shipwrecked' island mates that they did not like racists, brave Lucy replied, "Well, you've got one here," thus becoming (along with myself) one of the few Brits declaring racist beliefs of some kind or other to the media; so I wrote to the Daily Mail to congratulate her.
Bristol LUniversity promptly announced it would reconsider its offer of a place to Lucy. From their 500,000 pound London Street flat, Lucy's parents, 45+, the father an IT executive and the mother a former model, blamed her "loose talk" on being a "naive teenager" and something of a loudmouth; but Asian MP Keith Vaz (who backed censorship of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses and later hit trouble in Parliament over improper business dealings) called for Channel 4 boss Andy Duncan to be sacked.
Several previous participants in reality TV shows told the Scotsman that nothing interesting appears on Big Brother without substantial orchestration and selection by the programme makers. Attempting to placate the howling red-tops, Channel 4 said viewers would see Lucy's opinions change in later episodes - thus revealing that `Shipwreck' episodes were shot and edited some five months before they were screened. However, quotes from Lucy's later episodes showed only that she had become a little more accepting of lesbians, not of Blacks.
* The show sees two groups of nubile, easy-on-the-eye but lazy young people placed on desert islands in the South Pacific living as castaways. They compete to stay in the tropical paradise and win a 70,000 pound prize.
** The headmaster of St Peter's School, York, founded in 627, spoke highly of Lucy's record as a pupil. And the school had experimented with having a Black (Guyanan) head for a term to demonstrate its commitment to `anti-racist' hysteria; so Lucy would supposedly have been "severely punished" if she had stepped out of the school's `anti-racist' line (Edinburgh Evening News, 23 i).
LIBERTY DEFENDED
After weeks of British politicians, archbishops and media pundits uniting in an orgy of `non-discriminatory' wailing on behalf of distressed Bollywood princesses being called poppadoms, distressed Blacks being invited to consider slavery (as an alternative to drug addiction, unemployment, welfare dependency and imprisonment) and distressed homosexuals redirected from one bed-and-breakfast to another - weeks in which the only ordinary freedom defended was that of declining to assist homosexuals to adopt children - a fine defence of the essential liberty to think, talk, act and associate as one wishes so long as one does not interfere with the life, liberty or property of any other was provided by Britain's robust and clear-sighted libertarian leader Sean Gabb here
The route of becoming a private adoption agency was not open to the Catholic Church since a 1948 Act had put all adoption in state hands, allowing agencies to do only the associated social work. Telegraph correspondents called the Government's `sexual orientation regulations' totalitarian, undemocratic and sinister; and pointed out that Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter of animals is exempt from the general law that animals be rendered unconscious before being killed. Again, Britons' liberty to eat pork does not mean that Muslims and Jews need to assist them.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
NEOSOCIALISM EXPOSED AS TEACHERS VOTE WITH FEET
Reflecting the uselessness of NuLabour's education `policies' - mixing the daft with the bright, tolerating aggressive behaviour and kindred rudeness and threats to teachers, and endlessly inspecting schools, giving tests and setting `targets - early retirement among state school teachers leaped 93% from its 1998/9 level of 5,580 to a 2005/6 level of 10,270 (Sunday Telegraph, 14 i). By contrast, frequency of retirement by teachers in the independent school sector over the same period rose only 33%.
Confirming NuLabour's incompetent persistence in egalitarianism, environmentalism, bureaucratic bullying and neglect of the g factor, teachers were becoming less interested in promotion. The National Association of Head Teachers' General Secretary said: "Readvertisement rates for heads' jobs have gone up massively. People are not prepared to follow them to fill the posts because of the aggressive level of accountability that head teachers now face."
Despite Britain's dumbed-down education system producing ever worse results (when comparison was possible - e.g. in English, Science and Maths), the largely uneducated Education Minister `Postman Pat' Johnson announced he would raise the minimum leaving age for pupils in England and Wales from 16 (14 in liberated 1945) to a tyrannical 18.
MULTICULTURALISM MEETS ITS MATCH
As Western PeeCee/Multiculturalism/Relativism scaled new heights, with a top ballerina persecuted for the mildest of reservations about mass immigration, the Church of England -- which had long previously installed anti-elitism, anti-racism, anti-misogyny, anti-homophobia and dysgenics as central to its faith - found its project facing disaster as its top bishops in Nigeria threatened immediate schism if the Episcopalians of America did not bring their yags and kindred `liberals' under scriptural control (VirtueOnline, 15 i): yes, whereas femininnies had obliged the church by going easy on Black rapism and Pakistani enslavement of women and children, the Blacks of Nigeria, famous for their seven-child families, were not prepared to go easy on the West's mincing wooftahs.
`FAR RIGHT' GETS FUNDED
Backed by the votes of of 23 million Europeans, the radical-nationalist parties in the European Parliament announced their formation of a formal bloc, entitling them to up to 700,000 pounds p.a. in funding from Brussels (BNP News, 16 i; Independent, 16 i). MEP Bruno Gollnisch, a Professor of Japanese at Lyons University and a leading member of the French National Front (awaiting a court verdict on charges of Holocaust denial), publicly announced that he managed to gather the 20 members required to form a parliamentary group. The caucus would be formed by seven French in the National Front, including Le Pen and his daughter, glamour model Marine, Austrian Andreas Moelzer, from the Liberty Party, three Belgians from the Flemish party Vlaams Belang, two Italians, including Alessandra Mussolini, one Bulgarian (who accused gypsies of selling 12-year-old children into prostitution), five Romanians and Mr. Ashley Mote - an independent representing South East England (suspended from UKIP after facing charges - probably politically motivated -- of housing benefit fraud in 2004).
It was anticipated that MEPs from Poland's nationalist movement will also join. Notable in the policy statements of the new group (called `Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty' (ITS)) were welcome commitments to the family and freedom (as long urged in the William McDougall NewsLetter and this Diary/Blog) but they sadly felt it politic to avoid the topics of race, IQ and eugenics.
In view of the Eurorightists' support for Christian values and traditions and their apparent continued anti-Semitism, they looked quite well placed to pick up middle-of-the-road moralistic Muslim votes - as urged by America's Dinesh D'Souza who reckoned Muslims' main beef against the West was simply against the `liberal'-left obsessions to advance pornography, contraception, abortion, homosexuality (and kindred kinks) which they saw constantly paraded in the media (National Review, 16 i). They would probably need to make such an appeal unless they could promptly develop their promise of freedom - especially lower the age for voting, school leaving, sex, marriage, smoking, drinking and drug-taking to a realistic mental age of 12.
The setting-up of ITS was met by Germany's justice minister, Bridgett Zypries, moving to outlaw denial of the Holocaust, the parading of Nazi symbols and racist speech across Europe - but this new draconianism (which would have jailed Prince Harry along with David Irving) was rejected by even Guardian correspondents (16 i) and elicited a fine rebuff from columnist Timothy Garton Ash (who nicely observed "Free expression is a unique and primary good in free societies; it's the oxygen that sustains other freedoms") (Guardian, 18 i).
OWN MEDICINE FOR MULTICULTURALIST
The PeeCee revolution turned to devouring its own as short-sighted, Cockney-talking, toothy-smiling broadcaster and left-wing high priestess, star of the Mirror group, BBC and Channel 4 and editor of the centre-left Independent on Sunday from 1999 to 2002 (still `editor-at-large' in 2007), Janet Street-Porter, 57, who professed "strong anti-racist views," was arrested by Islington police and bailed to face possible charges of `racist abuse' of a Black woman neighbour (Daily Express, 17 i). According to neighbours, in a row over parking outside her œ1.5M Clerkenwell house, JS-P had screamed and called the neighbour "a stupid Black bitch" (Daily Mail, 17 i). JS-P was notorious in the area for her short fuse, whereas the Congolese-born woman, Julie Mbemba, 36, had a reputation as "a lovely person, not one bit troublesome." JS-P, who had apparently been "distraught" after the funeral of her "beloved sister," apologized for swearing at her neighbour but denied she had done anything `racist.'
ACADEMIC FREE SPEECH ATTRACTS WHAT PASSES FOR ACADEMIC SUPPORT
Four weeks after the launch of `Academics For Academic Freedom', the protest movement continued to gather two or three signatures per day from Britain's spineless academics who had done just about nothing to support Geoffrey Sampson (Sussex), Frank Ellis (Leeds) or myself in our race realism. Times Higher carried quite a few letters, mainly in favour but some urging the hopeless `balancing' of free speech with responsibility/sensitivity etc. which is always bound to end free speech, especially when the judgment of `being offended by another's speech' is in the hands of alleged victims. One letter made the novel point that even paranoid tyrants would be wise to tolerate free speech - so as to learn what is really going on. The organization `Liberty' (which had never lifted a finger to help me) was said to be orchestrating an attempt to define free speech - but there was no immediate sign of this at Liberty's website.
BLAIR'S BRITAIN EXPOSED
As effigies were burned in India and complaints raised in the House of Commons over `Celebrity Big Brother', where three grim British females, including the repulsively ugly, stupid* and ill-mannered Jade Goody, had taken to bullying** a beautiful, pneumatic, doe-eyed and refined if a little haughty Bollywood actress who had millions of adoring fans (especially among young Indian men), the two main achievements of Blair's Britain were exposed to the world at once on TV: the destruction of Britain's education system and educational expectations (for Jade, 26, had won celebrity for her ignorance under Blair, who had accelerated the dumbing-down of educational standards) and the advance of anti-racism to top*** religious status (for viewers who objected to the bullying of upper-class Shilpa Shetty took Jade's female jealousy and rudeness for `racism' despite Jade announcing that her biggest ambition was to get the autograph of Black singer Jermaine Jackson [brother of Michael Jackson]).
The episode ended amicably enough in housemates apologizing for rudeness and apparent racism while a cheery Jade (presumably still knowing nothing of outside reactions to her behaviour) denied she had said anything racist at all; Shilpa graciously accepted this But this apology (presumably induced by `Big Brother') did not prevent Jade being unceremoniously booted out of the Big Brother House escorted by a police guard for her protection from hysterical anti-racists whom she obliged by saying she was "disgusted" with herself; and showing her command of true Britoid religion, she volunteered "I'm nasty, but I'm not a racist." The British TV regulator, OFCOM, said that it had received more than 40,000 complaints about Goody's remarks, the most that had ever been filed against any program in the history of British broadcasting.
On the same day further disgrace for Rev. Bliar occurred as his top secretary, Ruth Turner, was arrested by police at 6:30a.m. and questioned with an eye to charges that she had `perverted the course of justice' in the matter of the virtual sale of knighthoods and peerages to people making big donations (disguised as loans) to Labour Party funds.
* Jade thought Sir Winston Churchill was the first Black President of the USA and believed herself the 25th most "inferlential" woman in the world etc. She herself had part-Black ancestry via her Jamaican father and had claimed to have suffered `racist abuse' as a child. Such was the public animus against Jade that even the none-too-brave Telegraph got near to raising the issue of Jade and her fellow witches' intelligence - calling the trio "cretins" and "morons."
** Suggesting she was a "thin" "dog" who couldn't speak English, lived in a shack and ate with her fingers etc. Shilpa at one point remarked she found such comments racist; but the beauty later retracted the allegation - by then widely believed by a public clamouring for Jade to be thrown out of the `Big Brother House' whether for ignorance, bullying, racism or all three. Jade too denied her remarks were racist, saying she only called Shilpa a `Popadum' because she couldn't offhand think of the name of any other Indian food.
*** Times columnist Jane Shilling noted the new moral subtlety with which Jade had failed to cope (19 i): "She behaves as she does because she inhabits a culture in which clever, powerful people in the media have taught her that it is fine to call a person a c*** , but not to call them a Paki. She, less Jesuitical than her manipulators, can't tell the difference between one line of foul abuse and another, and in her hapless stupidity exposes the glaring flaw in their casuistry."
HERITABILITY LATEST
2006 ended with a handy new summary of the best modern empirical estimates of h2 :
height 85%; weight 70%; g 60%; personality 50%; interests 40%; social attitudes 35%; job satisfaction 30%; love styles 0%.
(In NewYork Review of Books, 30 xi, by psychologist Frank Sulloway, `Parallel lives,' pp. 39-42 -- reviewing Nancy Segal's new book on identical twins reared apart, Indivisible by Two.)
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Comments? Email Chris Brand.
Some history.
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Reflecting the uselessness of NuLabour's education `policies' - mixing the daft with the bright, tolerating aggressive behaviour and kindred rudeness and threats to teachers, and endlessly inspecting schools, giving tests and setting `targets - early retirement among state school teachers leaped 93% from its 1998/9 level of 5,580 to a 2005/6 level of 10,270 (Sunday Telegraph, 14 i). By contrast, frequency of retirement by teachers in the independent school sector over the same period rose only 33%.
Confirming NuLabour's incompetent persistence in egalitarianism, environmentalism, bureaucratic bullying and neglect of the g factor, teachers were becoming less interested in promotion. The National Association of Head Teachers' General Secretary said: "Readvertisement rates for heads' jobs have gone up massively. People are not prepared to follow them to fill the posts because of the aggressive level of accountability that head teachers now face."
Despite Britain's dumbed-down education system producing ever worse results (when comparison was possible - e.g. in English, Science and Maths), the largely uneducated Education Minister `Postman Pat' Johnson announced he would raise the minimum leaving age for pupils in England and Wales from 16 (14 in liberated 1945) to a tyrannical 18.
MULTICULTURALISM MEETS ITS MATCH
As Western PeeCee/Multiculturalism/Relativism scaled new heights, with a top ballerina persecuted for the mildest of reservations about mass immigration, the Church of England -- which had long previously installed anti-elitism, anti-racism, anti-misogyny, anti-homophobia and dysgenics as central to its faith - found its project facing disaster as its top bishops in Nigeria threatened immediate schism if the Episcopalians of America did not bring their yags and kindred `liberals' under scriptural control (VirtueOnline, 15 i): yes, whereas femininnies had obliged the church by going easy on Black rapism and Pakistani enslavement of women and children, the Blacks of Nigeria, famous for their seven-child families, were not prepared to go easy on the West's mincing wooftahs.
`FAR RIGHT' GETS FUNDED
Backed by the votes of of 23 million Europeans, the radical-nationalist parties in the European Parliament announced their formation of a formal bloc, entitling them to up to 700,000 pounds p.a. in funding from Brussels (BNP News, 16 i; Independent, 16 i). MEP Bruno Gollnisch, a Professor of Japanese at Lyons University and a leading member of the French National Front (awaiting a court verdict on charges of Holocaust denial), publicly announced that he managed to gather the 20 members required to form a parliamentary group. The caucus would be formed by seven French in the National Front, including Le Pen and his daughter, glamour model Marine, Austrian Andreas Moelzer, from the Liberty Party, three Belgians from the Flemish party Vlaams Belang, two Italians, including Alessandra Mussolini, one Bulgarian (who accused gypsies of selling 12-year-old children into prostitution), five Romanians and Mr. Ashley Mote - an independent representing South East England (suspended from UKIP after facing charges - probably politically motivated -- of housing benefit fraud in 2004).
It was anticipated that MEPs from Poland's nationalist movement will also join. Notable in the policy statements of the new group (called `Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty' (ITS)) were welcome commitments to the family and freedom (as long urged in the William McDougall NewsLetter and this Diary/Blog) but they sadly felt it politic to avoid the topics of race, IQ and eugenics.
In view of the Eurorightists' support for Christian values and traditions and their apparent continued anti-Semitism, they looked quite well placed to pick up middle-of-the-road moralistic Muslim votes - as urged by America's Dinesh D'Souza who reckoned Muslims' main beef against the West was simply against the `liberal'-left obsessions to advance pornography, contraception, abortion, homosexuality (and kindred kinks) which they saw constantly paraded in the media (National Review, 16 i). They would probably need to make such an appeal unless they could promptly develop their promise of freedom - especially lower the age for voting, school leaving, sex, marriage, smoking, drinking and drug-taking to a realistic mental age of 12.
The setting-up of ITS was met by Germany's justice minister, Bridgett Zypries, moving to outlaw denial of the Holocaust, the parading of Nazi symbols and racist speech across Europe - but this new draconianism (which would have jailed Prince Harry along with David Irving) was rejected by even Guardian correspondents (16 i) and elicited a fine rebuff from columnist Timothy Garton Ash (who nicely observed "Free expression is a unique and primary good in free societies; it's the oxygen that sustains other freedoms") (Guardian, 18 i).
OWN MEDICINE FOR MULTICULTURALIST
The PeeCee revolution turned to devouring its own as short-sighted, Cockney-talking, toothy-smiling broadcaster and left-wing high priestess, star of the Mirror group, BBC and Channel 4 and editor of the centre-left Independent on Sunday from 1999 to 2002 (still `editor-at-large' in 2007), Janet Street-Porter, 57, who professed "strong anti-racist views," was arrested by Islington police and bailed to face possible charges of `racist abuse' of a Black woman neighbour (Daily Express, 17 i). According to neighbours, in a row over parking outside her œ1.5M Clerkenwell house, JS-P had screamed and called the neighbour "a stupid Black bitch" (Daily Mail, 17 i). JS-P was notorious in the area for her short fuse, whereas the Congolese-born woman, Julie Mbemba, 36, had a reputation as "a lovely person, not one bit troublesome." JS-P, who had apparently been "distraught" after the funeral of her "beloved sister," apologized for swearing at her neighbour but denied she had done anything `racist.'
ACADEMIC FREE SPEECH ATTRACTS WHAT PASSES FOR ACADEMIC SUPPORT
Four weeks after the launch of `Academics For Academic Freedom', the protest movement continued to gather two or three signatures per day from Britain's spineless academics who had done just about nothing to support Geoffrey Sampson (Sussex), Frank Ellis (Leeds) or myself in our race realism. Times Higher carried quite a few letters, mainly in favour but some urging the hopeless `balancing' of free speech with responsibility/sensitivity etc. which is always bound to end free speech, especially when the judgment of `being offended by another's speech' is in the hands of alleged victims. One letter made the novel point that even paranoid tyrants would be wise to tolerate free speech - so as to learn what is really going on. The organization `Liberty' (which had never lifted a finger to help me) was said to be orchestrating an attempt to define free speech - but there was no immediate sign of this at Liberty's website.
BLAIR'S BRITAIN EXPOSED
As effigies were burned in India and complaints raised in the House of Commons over `Celebrity Big Brother', where three grim British females, including the repulsively ugly, stupid* and ill-mannered Jade Goody, had taken to bullying** a beautiful, pneumatic, doe-eyed and refined if a little haughty Bollywood actress who had millions of adoring fans (especially among young Indian men), the two main achievements of Blair's Britain were exposed to the world at once on TV: the destruction of Britain's education system and educational expectations (for Jade, 26, had won celebrity for her ignorance under Blair, who had accelerated the dumbing-down of educational standards) and the advance of anti-racism to top*** religious status (for viewers who objected to the bullying of upper-class Shilpa Shetty took Jade's female jealousy and rudeness for `racism' despite Jade announcing that her biggest ambition was to get the autograph of Black singer Jermaine Jackson [brother of Michael Jackson]).
The episode ended amicably enough in housemates apologizing for rudeness and apparent racism while a cheery Jade (presumably still knowing nothing of outside reactions to her behaviour) denied she had said anything racist at all; Shilpa graciously accepted this But this apology (presumably induced by `Big Brother') did not prevent Jade being unceremoniously booted out of the Big Brother House escorted by a police guard for her protection from hysterical anti-racists whom she obliged by saying she was "disgusted" with herself; and showing her command of true Britoid religion, she volunteered "I'm nasty, but I'm not a racist." The British TV regulator, OFCOM, said that it had received more than 40,000 complaints about Goody's remarks, the most that had ever been filed against any program in the history of British broadcasting.
On the same day further disgrace for Rev. Bliar occurred as his top secretary, Ruth Turner, was arrested by police at 6:30a.m. and questioned with an eye to charges that she had `perverted the course of justice' in the matter of the virtual sale of knighthoods and peerages to people making big donations (disguised as loans) to Labour Party funds.
* Jade thought Sir Winston Churchill was the first Black President of the USA and believed herself the 25th most "inferlential" woman in the world etc. She herself had part-Black ancestry via her Jamaican father and had claimed to have suffered `racist abuse' as a child. Such was the public animus against Jade that even the none-too-brave Telegraph got near to raising the issue of Jade and her fellow witches' intelligence - calling the trio "cretins" and "morons."
** Suggesting she was a "thin" "dog" who couldn't speak English, lived in a shack and ate with her fingers etc. Shilpa at one point remarked she found such comments racist; but the beauty later retracted the allegation - by then widely believed by a public clamouring for Jade to be thrown out of the `Big Brother House' whether for ignorance, bullying, racism or all three. Jade too denied her remarks were racist, saying she only called Shilpa a `Popadum' because she couldn't offhand think of the name of any other Indian food.
*** Times columnist Jane Shilling noted the new moral subtlety with which Jade had failed to cope (19 i): "She behaves as she does because she inhabits a culture in which clever, powerful people in the media have taught her that it is fine to call a person a c*** , but not to call them a Paki. She, less Jesuitical than her manipulators, can't tell the difference between one line of foul abuse and another, and in her hapless stupidity exposes the glaring flaw in their casuistry."
HERITABILITY LATEST
2006 ended with a handy new summary of the best modern empirical estimates of h2 :
height 85%; weight 70%; g 60%; personality 50%; interests 40%; social attitudes 35%; job satisfaction 30%; love styles 0%.
(In NewYork Review of Books, 30 xi, by psychologist Frank Sulloway, `Parallel lives,' pp. 39-42 -- reviewing Nancy Segal's new book on identical twins reared apart, Indivisible by Two.)
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Comments? Email Chris Brand.
Some history.
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Monday, January 15, 2007
BNP BALLERINA DEFENDED
As principal dancer Simone Clarke, newly outed as a member of the British National Party, took to the boards at the London Coliseum as ‘Giselle’ while ‘anti-fascist’ fanatics bayed outside, a fine defence of artists’ political freedoms was given in Eursoc (for a Democratic Europe) (12 i), especially pointing out the many frothing leftists who had been tolerated and funded in the British art world over the years. (Take a bow, Vanessa Redgrave, Harold Pinter and Ken Loach!) But, ignoring such calls for restraint, some 40 noisy ‘anti-racist’ demonstrators turned up to yell outside the English National Ballet’s Coliseum home – “Ballet, not Bigotry,” “Dance against racism” etc. (Reuters, 12 i). British National Party member Richard Barnbrook, the BNP councillor for Dagenham and Barking, was also at the theatre with some 30 non-balletic-looking supporters, where he was greeted with shouts of "racist dog" and "Nazi scum." Two ‘anti-fascists’ gained access to the auditorium, where they disrupted the performance with boos when Simone appeared; but they failed to interrupt the performance, and the pair were met with cries of "shame" from the audience (which possibly included Mr Barnbrook), before security guards bundled them out of the auditorium.
Before being silenced by ENB, Simone had said: "Sometimes it feels as though the BNP are the only ones willing to take a stand. "I have been labelled a racist and a fascist because I have a view on immigration, and I mean mass immigration, but isn't that something that a lot of people worry about?" she said. The ENB said it fully supported “the democratic right of people to mount a legal protest” and was "proud" of its ethnic and cultural diversity. It added that “any personal view expressed by one of our employees should not be considered as endorsed by the company;” but there was no mention of any commitment to political freedom for its staff – nor did it take the trouble to mention that the publicity for Simone’s views and BNP affiliation had been entirely the work of the Grauniad and was not attributable to Simone Ballet lovers were divided: as users of an Internet chatroom debated whether the dancer's private views had any bearing on her job, some saw Simone as misguided, but many were sympathetic.
So why did BNP leader Nick Griffin not attend? Possibly Simone had asked him for a low profile to help her keep her job; and perhaps he had agreed, thinking it best to let the ‘anti-fascists’ shoulder the blame for the rumpus. Or perhaps he was torn between accepting Simone as a valuable figurehead on the one hand or placating his older-fashioned anti-miscegenation followers on the other. (Simone had apparently not known of the BNP’s anti-miscegenation policy when she joined, believing the BNP to be chiefly concerned with reducing mass immigration and taxation.)
Mr Barnbrook claimed to have no objection to Clarke’s relationship with her Chinese-Cuban partner Yat-Sen Chang; but he expressed the hope that the couple would not have children – evidently not knowing that they already had a 4-year-old daughter, Olivia (kept with Simone’s parents in Leeds).
The leftists specially clamoured for Simone to be suspended while investigation took place – the same reasonable-sounding tactic they had used against me in Edinburgh in 1996 and against Frank Ellis in Leeds in 2006, but in fact putting the employer under a blackmail threat of renewed disruption if the outcome is not to the left’s liking.
BRAVE NOBELIST BACKS EUGENICS re IQ
Interviewed in the January issue of Esquire magazine, Nobel Prize-winner James Watson (co-discoverer of the ‘double helix’ structure of DNA) courted controversy by expressing his commitment to eugenics (Newsmax, 10 i). Watson, 78 and living in Cold Harbor, New York, said his own politics had evolved from the left to libertarianism. He said he "turned against the left wing" because "they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have had bad genes." Watson complained that the poorer classes were having more children than the richer, more intelligent classes. “I think now we're in a terrible sitution where we should pay the rich people to have children." He said that, if we didn't encourage procreation of wealthier citizens, IQ levels would most definitely fall
As principal dancer Simone Clarke, newly outed as a member of the British National Party, took to the boards at the London Coliseum as ‘Giselle’ while ‘anti-fascist’ fanatics bayed outside, a fine defence of artists’ political freedoms was given in Eursoc (for a Democratic Europe) (12 i), especially pointing out the many frothing leftists who had been tolerated and funded in the British art world over the years. (Take a bow, Vanessa Redgrave, Harold Pinter and Ken Loach!) But, ignoring such calls for restraint, some 40 noisy ‘anti-racist’ demonstrators turned up to yell outside the English National Ballet’s Coliseum home – “Ballet, not Bigotry,” “Dance against racism” etc. (Reuters, 12 i). British National Party member Richard Barnbrook, the BNP councillor for Dagenham and Barking, was also at the theatre with some 30 non-balletic-looking supporters, where he was greeted with shouts of "racist dog" and "Nazi scum." Two ‘anti-fascists’ gained access to the auditorium, where they disrupted the performance with boos when Simone appeared; but they failed to interrupt the performance, and the pair were met with cries of "shame" from the audience (which possibly included Mr Barnbrook), before security guards bundled them out of the auditorium.
Before being silenced by ENB, Simone had said: "Sometimes it feels as though the BNP are the only ones willing to take a stand. "I have been labelled a racist and a fascist because I have a view on immigration, and I mean mass immigration, but isn't that something that a lot of people worry about?" she said. The ENB said it fully supported “the democratic right of people to mount a legal protest” and was "proud" of its ethnic and cultural diversity. It added that “any personal view expressed by one of our employees should not be considered as endorsed by the company;” but there was no mention of any commitment to political freedom for its staff – nor did it take the trouble to mention that the publicity for Simone’s views and BNP affiliation had been entirely the work of the Grauniad and was not attributable to Simone Ballet lovers were divided: as users of an Internet chatroom debated whether the dancer's private views had any bearing on her job, some saw Simone as misguided, but many were sympathetic.
So why did BNP leader Nick Griffin not attend? Possibly Simone had asked him for a low profile to help her keep her job; and perhaps he had agreed, thinking it best to let the ‘anti-fascists’ shoulder the blame for the rumpus. Or perhaps he was torn between accepting Simone as a valuable figurehead on the one hand or placating his older-fashioned anti-miscegenation followers on the other. (Simone had apparently not known of the BNP’s anti-miscegenation policy when she joined, believing the BNP to be chiefly concerned with reducing mass immigration and taxation.)
Mr Barnbrook claimed to have no objection to Clarke’s relationship with her Chinese-Cuban partner Yat-Sen Chang; but he expressed the hope that the couple would not have children – evidently not knowing that they already had a 4-year-old daughter, Olivia (kept with Simone’s parents in Leeds).
The leftists specially clamoured for Simone to be suspended while investigation took place – the same reasonable-sounding tactic they had used against me in Edinburgh in 1996 and against Frank Ellis in Leeds in 2006, but in fact putting the employer under a blackmail threat of renewed disruption if the outcome is not to the left’s liking.
BRAVE NOBELIST BACKS EUGENICS re IQ
Interviewed in the January issue of Esquire magazine, Nobel Prize-winner James Watson (co-discoverer of the ‘double helix’ structure of DNA) courted controversy by expressing his commitment to eugenics (Newsmax, 10 i). Watson, 78 and living in Cold Harbor, New York, said his own politics had evolved from the left to libertarianism. He said he "turned against the left wing" because "they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have had bad genes." Watson complained that the poorer classes were having more children than the richer, more intelligent classes. “I think now we're in a terrible sitution where we should pay the rich people to have children." He said that, if we didn't encourage procreation of wealthier citizens, IQ levels would most definitely fall
Sunday, January 14, 2007
MOVING BLACKS TO NICE AREAS PROVES USELESS
A major hope of do-gooder utopian US sociologists from 1990 was to solve Blacks' problems by literally moving them physically from their ghettos to nice suburban areas. Federal authorities were persuaded to spend $16 billion on this wheeze - only for Harvard researchers to report in 2006 that, when Black mothers had used the proffered vouchers to move area, though their girls were a little and less obese, their incomes did not change significantly and their boys behaviour (crime, smoking, drug taking) actually got worse by a factor of some 20% (perhaps because they did not like their schools, felt outclassed and were readily noticeable by suburban police). - American Renaissance and Wall Street Journal, 28 xii 2006 (though no announcement was provided of what punishment sociologists would suffer for their latest heredity-ignoring extravaganza).
NEOSOCIALIST NOOSE TIGHTENS
Britain's hyper-regulatory NuLabour Government was allowed to take a new step towards authoritarianism and away from freedom of conscience and choice as, on 9 i 2007, the House of Lords voted 199-68 to let `gays' join the list of sainted groups against whom `discrimination' was illegal: despite a torchlit protest by around a thousand Christians at the Palace of Westminster, yags gained similar rights to races, sexes and faiths - not to be given special treatment and, in all likelihood, not to have a word said against them and their practices on pain of the critic being closely targeted as a likely discriminator.
Speaking in the debate, Lord Morrow warned: "The regulations make it possible for homosexual activists to sue people who disagree with a homosexual lifestyle because of their religious beliefs. They require religious organisations to choose between obedience to God and obedience to the state. ..The regulations threaten to override the conscience and free speech of Christians and others who object to homosexual practice."
On the Isle of Skye, brave B&B proprietor Tom Forrest said in reply to the Government's new regulations that he would maintain his rule of offering gay and lesbian couples single beds only, not doubles - but he realized he risked prison for such traditional Christian morality.
The Christians had evidently left their protest too late - `liberal' advocates of freedom of thought and expression having long previously given up the ghost rather than be called `fascist' by the left's shock troops.
In another last-ditch measure before the planned abdication by Bliar (wanted by 70% of the 4,000 correspondents of `This is London'), the Education Minister, the largely uneducated Postman Pat Johnson, announced state schools would no longer be allowed to select pupils by any kind of test or interview of themselves or their parents, by interests or hobbies, by parents' jobs or by demanding that parents buy uniforms or contribute to the costs of school trips; in fact, Johnson urged schools to select by lottery as the most obvious way to avoid selecting by address (which he was banning because the previous thirty years had seen `middle class' parents, in reaction to the left's destruction of the grammar schools, buying the increasingly expensive homes near higher-quality schools). (Yes, NuLabour thus wanted to introduce the `busing' of children to far-away schools that had been rejected in America of the 1980s.)
Yes, the culmination of NuLabour was to be the public exorcising of any use of either discrimination or intelligence and the dragooning of the population into uniform anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-elitism and anti-homophobism by the legal method that had first been proposed as the answer to old-fashioned `right-wing' authoritarianism by leftie Manitoba social psychologist Bob Altemeyer (Enemies of Freedom, 1988). Yes, Rev. Bliar and cronies had found that, just as in China, it was possible, at least for a few years, to sustain capitalism and use it to support not only the party and its corrupt bosses but also a wider system of egalitarian neocommunism, behavioural supervision and control, and extinction of liberty.
The 1.2-million-strong Evangelical Alliance announced it would continue to discuss with Government how to balance a ban on discrimination with freedom of Christian conscience
PAEDOREALISM FOR ROYALS
The truth that unharassed paedophiles make a useful contribution to society reached the Royal Family as the favourite history teacher of Princess Beatrice (the 18-year daughter of Princess Anne) at top œ18K p.a. St George's School, Ascot, Berkshire, was charged by police in Belgravia with inciting a child via the internet to under-age sex (Sun, 10 i). The alleged paedophile, Richard Findley, 42, was said by shocked head girl Beatrice to be "an excellent teacher."
Meanwhile, in Vietnam, glam rock paedophile Gary Glitter, 62, was to be offered early release after being chosen as `a model prisoner' by staff and inmates (Sun, 10 i) - though, as and when returned to Britain, he would be hounded by the Sun as much as possible for `sex tourism.'
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A major hope of do-gooder utopian US sociologists from 1990 was to solve Blacks' problems by literally moving them physically from their ghettos to nice suburban areas. Federal authorities were persuaded to spend $16 billion on this wheeze - only for Harvard researchers to report in 2006 that, when Black mothers had used the proffered vouchers to move area, though their girls were a little and less obese, their incomes did not change significantly and their boys behaviour (crime, smoking, drug taking) actually got worse by a factor of some 20% (perhaps because they did not like their schools, felt outclassed and were readily noticeable by suburban police). - American Renaissance and Wall Street Journal, 28 xii 2006 (though no announcement was provided of what punishment sociologists would suffer for their latest heredity-ignoring extravaganza).
NEOSOCIALIST NOOSE TIGHTENS
Britain's hyper-regulatory NuLabour Government was allowed to take a new step towards authoritarianism and away from freedom of conscience and choice as, on 9 i 2007, the House of Lords voted 199-68 to let `gays' join the list of sainted groups against whom `discrimination' was illegal: despite a torchlit protest by around a thousand Christians at the Palace of Westminster, yags gained similar rights to races, sexes and faiths - not to be given special treatment and, in all likelihood, not to have a word said against them and their practices on pain of the critic being closely targeted as a likely discriminator.
Speaking in the debate, Lord Morrow warned: "The regulations make it possible for homosexual activists to sue people who disagree with a homosexual lifestyle because of their religious beliefs. They require religious organisations to choose between obedience to God and obedience to the state. ..The regulations threaten to override the conscience and free speech of Christians and others who object to homosexual practice."
On the Isle of Skye, brave B&B proprietor Tom Forrest said in reply to the Government's new regulations that he would maintain his rule of offering gay and lesbian couples single beds only, not doubles - but he realized he risked prison for such traditional Christian morality.
The Christians had evidently left their protest too late - `liberal' advocates of freedom of thought and expression having long previously given up the ghost rather than be called `fascist' by the left's shock troops.
In another last-ditch measure before the planned abdication by Bliar (wanted by 70% of the 4,000 correspondents of `This is London'), the Education Minister, the largely uneducated Postman Pat Johnson, announced state schools would no longer be allowed to select pupils by any kind of test or interview of themselves or their parents, by interests or hobbies, by parents' jobs or by demanding that parents buy uniforms or contribute to the costs of school trips; in fact, Johnson urged schools to select by lottery as the most obvious way to avoid selecting by address (which he was banning because the previous thirty years had seen `middle class' parents, in reaction to the left's destruction of the grammar schools, buying the increasingly expensive homes near higher-quality schools). (Yes, NuLabour thus wanted to introduce the `busing' of children to far-away schools that had been rejected in America of the 1980s.)
Yes, the culmination of NuLabour was to be the public exorcising of any use of either discrimination or intelligence and the dragooning of the population into uniform anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-elitism and anti-homophobism by the legal method that had first been proposed as the answer to old-fashioned `right-wing' authoritarianism by leftie Manitoba social psychologist Bob Altemeyer (Enemies of Freedom, 1988). Yes, Rev. Bliar and cronies had found that, just as in China, it was possible, at least for a few years, to sustain capitalism and use it to support not only the party and its corrupt bosses but also a wider system of egalitarian neocommunism, behavioural supervision and control, and extinction of liberty.
The 1.2-million-strong Evangelical Alliance announced it would continue to discuss with Government how to balance a ban on discrimination with freedom of Christian conscience
PAEDOREALISM FOR ROYALS
The truth that unharassed paedophiles make a useful contribution to society reached the Royal Family as the favourite history teacher of Princess Beatrice (the 18-year daughter of Princess Anne) at top œ18K p.a. St George's School, Ascot, Berkshire, was charged by police in Belgravia with inciting a child via the internet to under-age sex (Sun, 10 i). The alleged paedophile, Richard Findley, 42, was said by shocked head girl Beatrice to be "an excellent teacher."
Meanwhile, in Vietnam, glam rock paedophile Gary Glitter, 62, was to be offered early release after being chosen as `a model prisoner' by staff and inmates (Sun, 10 i) - though, as and when returned to Britain, he would be hounded by the Sun as much as possible for `sex tourism.'
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
BEAUTY OF THE BNP - LEFT GETS WORRIED
In the Observer (7 i), columnist Jasper Gerard dismissed the efforts of `anti-racist' `community leaders' to get principal ballerina Simone Clarke, 36 (and due to play `Giselle' at the London Coliseum from 8th January), sacked from English National Ballet because of her membership of the BNP. Apparently such sacking would be a bridge too far for JG's branch of the `liberal'-left, which should not show itself guilty of "taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut;" so the diversity dogs needed to be called off.
Simone's affiliation (which allegedly annoyed several of her ENB colleagues and Black and Muslim community leaders once the Guardian started phoning around) had been discovered and publicized by an undercover Guardian snooper and disrespecter of privacy, Ian Cobain (more - including pictures of the beauty -- at American Renaissance, 4 i and Canada Free Press, 5 i). She had joined the BNP in May, 2006, after she and her Chinese-Cuban (born in Cuba to Chinese parents) boyfriend (of seven years) and co-dancer, Yat-Sen Chang, in their luxury apartment in West Kensington, saw the BNP on television winning council seats in Barking.
She told the Daily Mail (31 xii): "We went on to the computer and we looked them up and I read their manifesto. I'm not too proud to say that a lot of it went over my head but some of the things they mentioned were the things I think about all the time, mainly mass immigration, crime and increased taxes. Those three issues were enough to make me join so I paid my 25 pounds there and then." Simone's lack of animus about good-quality immigration was further attested by the revelation that almost all her top ballet dancer colleagues at ENB were non-English (indeed, non-British). Nick Griffin could hardly have hoped for a better recruiting officer.
PEECEE POLICING CONTINUES IN 2007
As the distinguished retired civil servant, Sir Andrew Green, announced (Daily Telegraph, 3 i, pp. 1-2) that his organization MigrationWatch had completed a review of immigration literature* and concluded that immigration to Britain had a net economic value* to each Brit of only 2 pounds p.a. (compared to HMG's more cheering estimate of around 80 p.a.**), he promptly found his organization described as "right-wing" by the BBC. Evidently the appeals in 2006 by the Prime Minister and others for `proper debate' of immigration and multiculturalism had fallen on deaf `liberal'-left ears at the Beeb.
* The relevant literature presumably did not include the social, cultural and political drawbacks and risks of the mass immigration which NuLabour had allowed. Nor did it especially focus on the special drawbacks of low-IQ immigration.
** Assuming HMG, in claiming immigration to be worth 4 billion p.a., had been using the normal modern (American) definition of a billion as a thousand million.
MUGABE ADMITS ZIM NEEDS WHITES
In a spectactular U-turn in Zimbabwe (average IQ 66, and facing starvation and economic collapse), despot Robert Mugabe offered hundreds of White farmers whose land he had stolen to return to their farms, where he would grant them an apparently free 99-year lease (Guardian, 3 i).
CHRISTIANS TO FIGHT LUNI FOR RIGHTS
Exeter University Christian Union, banned from using student facilities (including its own bank account), announced it would take its luniversity to court for demanding it be prepared accept committee members refusing to attest traditional Christian values (and in particular refusing to denounce homosexuality as sinful) (BBC, 5 i; and this Diary, xii 06). It had gained the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that affirming traditional Christian values should not be treated like Holocaust denial. Dr Rowan Williams said the refusal by some student unions to recognize evangelical Christian groups looked like a "fear of open argument." ECU would ask the High Court for judicial review of the luniversity's actions. Similar action against luniversities denying freedom of speech, expression and association was thought likely to follow in Birmingham and Edinburgh.
DIVERSITY DOUBTS SUPPRESSED
It transpired that the Harvard professor who had found area diversity associated with distrust (even when countless sociological variables were controlled) (see DIVERSITY - PSYCHOTICISM LINK ADMITTED, this Diary, x 2006) had actually suppressed his findings for five years and was furious when the Financial Times published his main observations (after an interview with him). -- See Steve Sailer, `Fragmented Future,' American Conservative, 15 i 2007, for a fine discussion of how multiculturalists like Prof. Robert D. Putnam will do just anything to maintain piety about diversity (at least, anything but admit that multicultural society works reasonably well among people of above IQ 92 and of Christian faith and practice, as found in the US Army [where selection ensures that even Black soldiers average IQ 102] and in American football [where coaches commonly lead their teams in prayer]). The original reports of the embarassing findings are here and here.
FRENCH INTELLECTUALS ISLAMIFIED
As 2007 opened with the French high-school philosophy teacher who had criticized Islam, Robert Redeker, still in hiding, it became clear that the twenty French luminaries who had defended his right to free speech (FRENCH SUPPORT FOR FREE SPEECH, this Diary, x 2006) had in fact been able to do little more than defend his right to life. An impressive article by a friend of Redeker's, Christian Delacampagne (Commentary, i 2007), detailed how the French universities and press had been largely unsupportive - as they largely were, apparently, to anyone not sharing their rampant anti-Americanism and to anyone showing the slightest sign of Islamophobia. Redeker himself told Delacampagne that he had been "astonished by his fate" - as I had been in Edinburgh of 1996-7, when hardly anyone campaigned for me to be allowed free speech (except for a group of Trotskyite youngsters in Glasgow University..). "I never thought that such a thing could happen in our old Republican France," Redeker wrote to Delacampagne in a short, stoic message.
Yes, the alliance between the Left and Islam which I envisaged in American Renaissance in 2005, was well under way in France. The Left which had brought the French Revolution, a million dead Catholics, the Napoleonic Wars, strikes, Communism, pacifism, wymmin's `lib,' homosexuality, mass third-world immigration and PeeCee to the West was on track to deliver its next trick: Islam.
Meantime, in London, the Left-Muesli conspiracy strengthened as London Mayor `Red' Ken Livingstone was seduced into allowing `radical' Muslims a vast mosque in East London - provoking protests from representatives of intimidated Slunni moderates in the Spectator (6 i).
BIOLOGY BECKONS
In a slight shift from its normal obdurate environmentalism and facile utopianism, the Economist admitted the case for genetic influence on human abilities and personality had been strengthening and especially summarized the case of sex differences as in the observations of Larry Summers and Simon Boring-Cohen - though the case made by Richard Lynn and Phil Rushton for a (modest) IQ difference remained unmentionable.
CHRISTIANS vs GAYS (UPDATE)
Pleas (signed by thousands) to the Queen to use her powers to revoke the Government' legislation (imposed in 2006 on Northern Ireland and planned for Britain in 2007) banning businesses, clubs, agencies and service providers (including even home-run bed-and-breakfast set-ups) from discriminating against homosexuals were announced as being orchestrated by the 2,000-strong Lawyers' Christian Fellowship which had also been helping Christian Unions fight the likes of Edinburgh LUniversity for freedom of speech and association (instead of university Christian Unions being obliged to have yags on committees and to tell their members of the delights of promiscuous sodomy - see this Diary, December, 2006).
Apparently, the Happy New Year of 2007 would see some serious fun on these issues. The Queen was to receive the petition against the Sexual Orientation (Provision of Goods and Services) Regulations on 9th January, the day on which the House of Lords would debate the Rev. Bliar's plan to secure his `legacy' via choirs of prancing yags cooing his praises. A torchlight parade through Westminster was to follow, which Muslims were urged to join by the Islamic Medical Association. Andrea Minichiello Williams, of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship, which was organising the London demo, said: "The regulations not only force people to assist and promote activities contrary to the historic teachings of their faith, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, but also censor them from speaking freely about their beliefs."
Catholic bishops looked for the exemption of church organizations from the leglislation, saying that, for example, their adoption agencies would close rather than supply babies to yag `civil partners.' The Board of Deputies of British Jews also urged the Government to respect freedom of conscience.
Holding the hot potato for the Government was `Communities Minister' Ms Ruth Kelly, a devout Catholic and mother of four from The Queen's College, Oxford.
In Blackpool, a Christian couple won a 10,000 pound compensation payout and 60,000 costs from Wyre Council after it had set the police on them as `homophobic' after they had asked the council to exhibit Christian alongside yag-backing literature and told council officials they thought homosexuality "morally wrong." Wyre Council also found itself under attach from the Navajo Indians of Utah for claiming that the Navajo had traditionally been tolerant of homosexuality and kindred perversions (Sunday Telegraph, 7 i).
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In the Observer (7 i), columnist Jasper Gerard dismissed the efforts of `anti-racist' `community leaders' to get principal ballerina Simone Clarke, 36 (and due to play `Giselle' at the London Coliseum from 8th January), sacked from English National Ballet because of her membership of the BNP. Apparently such sacking would be a bridge too far for JG's branch of the `liberal'-left, which should not show itself guilty of "taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut;" so the diversity dogs needed to be called off.
Simone's affiliation (which allegedly annoyed several of her ENB colleagues and Black and Muslim community leaders once the Guardian started phoning around) had been discovered and publicized by an undercover Guardian snooper and disrespecter of privacy, Ian Cobain (more - including pictures of the beauty -- at American Renaissance, 4 i and Canada Free Press, 5 i). She had joined the BNP in May, 2006, after she and her Chinese-Cuban (born in Cuba to Chinese parents) boyfriend (of seven years) and co-dancer, Yat-Sen Chang, in their luxury apartment in West Kensington, saw the BNP on television winning council seats in Barking.
She told the Daily Mail (31 xii): "We went on to the computer and we looked them up and I read their manifesto. I'm not too proud to say that a lot of it went over my head but some of the things they mentioned were the things I think about all the time, mainly mass immigration, crime and increased taxes. Those three issues were enough to make me join so I paid my 25 pounds there and then." Simone's lack of animus about good-quality immigration was further attested by the revelation that almost all her top ballet dancer colleagues at ENB were non-English (indeed, non-British). Nick Griffin could hardly have hoped for a better recruiting officer.
PEECEE POLICING CONTINUES IN 2007
As the distinguished retired civil servant, Sir Andrew Green, announced (Daily Telegraph, 3 i, pp. 1-2) that his organization MigrationWatch had completed a review of immigration literature* and concluded that immigration to Britain had a net economic value* to each Brit of only 2 pounds p.a. (compared to HMG's more cheering estimate of around 80 p.a.**), he promptly found his organization described as "right-wing" by the BBC. Evidently the appeals in 2006 by the Prime Minister and others for `proper debate' of immigration and multiculturalism had fallen on deaf `liberal'-left ears at the Beeb.
* The relevant literature presumably did not include the social, cultural and political drawbacks and risks of the mass immigration which NuLabour had allowed. Nor did it especially focus on the special drawbacks of low-IQ immigration.
** Assuming HMG, in claiming immigration to be worth 4 billion p.a., had been using the normal modern (American) definition of a billion as a thousand million.
MUGABE ADMITS ZIM NEEDS WHITES
In a spectactular U-turn in Zimbabwe (average IQ 66, and facing starvation and economic collapse), despot Robert Mugabe offered hundreds of White farmers whose land he had stolen to return to their farms, where he would grant them an apparently free 99-year lease (Guardian, 3 i).
CHRISTIANS TO FIGHT LUNI FOR RIGHTS
Exeter University Christian Union, banned from using student facilities (including its own bank account), announced it would take its luniversity to court for demanding it be prepared accept committee members refusing to attest traditional Christian values (and in particular refusing to denounce homosexuality as sinful) (BBC, 5 i; and this Diary, xii 06). It had gained the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that affirming traditional Christian values should not be treated like Holocaust denial. Dr Rowan Williams said the refusal by some student unions to recognize evangelical Christian groups looked like a "fear of open argument." ECU would ask the High Court for judicial review of the luniversity's actions. Similar action against luniversities denying freedom of speech, expression and association was thought likely to follow in Birmingham and Edinburgh.
DIVERSITY DOUBTS SUPPRESSED
It transpired that the Harvard professor who had found area diversity associated with distrust (even when countless sociological variables were controlled) (see DIVERSITY - PSYCHOTICISM LINK ADMITTED, this Diary, x 2006) had actually suppressed his findings for five years and was furious when the Financial Times published his main observations (after an interview with him). -- See Steve Sailer, `Fragmented Future,' American Conservative, 15 i 2007, for a fine discussion of how multiculturalists like Prof. Robert D. Putnam will do just anything to maintain piety about diversity (at least, anything but admit that multicultural society works reasonably well among people of above IQ 92 and of Christian faith and practice, as found in the US Army [where selection ensures that even Black soldiers average IQ 102] and in American football [where coaches commonly lead their teams in prayer]). The original reports of the embarassing findings are here and here.
FRENCH INTELLECTUALS ISLAMIFIED
As 2007 opened with the French high-school philosophy teacher who had criticized Islam, Robert Redeker, still in hiding, it became clear that the twenty French luminaries who had defended his right to free speech (FRENCH SUPPORT FOR FREE SPEECH, this Diary, x 2006) had in fact been able to do little more than defend his right to life. An impressive article by a friend of Redeker's, Christian Delacampagne (Commentary, i 2007), detailed how the French universities and press had been largely unsupportive - as they largely were, apparently, to anyone not sharing their rampant anti-Americanism and to anyone showing the slightest sign of Islamophobia. Redeker himself told Delacampagne that he had been "astonished by his fate" - as I had been in Edinburgh of 1996-7, when hardly anyone campaigned for me to be allowed free speech (except for a group of Trotskyite youngsters in Glasgow University..). "I never thought that such a thing could happen in our old Republican France," Redeker wrote to Delacampagne in a short, stoic message.
Yes, the alliance between the Left and Islam which I envisaged in American Renaissance in 2005, was well under way in France. The Left which had brought the French Revolution, a million dead Catholics, the Napoleonic Wars, strikes, Communism, pacifism, wymmin's `lib,' homosexuality, mass third-world immigration and PeeCee to the West was on track to deliver its next trick: Islam.
Meantime, in London, the Left-Muesli conspiracy strengthened as London Mayor `Red' Ken Livingstone was seduced into allowing `radical' Muslims a vast mosque in East London - provoking protests from representatives of intimidated Slunni moderates in the Spectator (6 i).
BIOLOGY BECKONS
In a slight shift from its normal obdurate environmentalism and facile utopianism, the Economist admitted the case for genetic influence on human abilities and personality had been strengthening and especially summarized the case of sex differences as in the observations of Larry Summers and Simon Boring-Cohen - though the case made by Richard Lynn and Phil Rushton for a (modest) IQ difference remained unmentionable.
CHRISTIANS vs GAYS (UPDATE)
Pleas (signed by thousands) to the Queen to use her powers to revoke the Government' legislation (imposed in 2006 on Northern Ireland and planned for Britain in 2007) banning businesses, clubs, agencies and service providers (including even home-run bed-and-breakfast set-ups) from discriminating against homosexuals were announced as being orchestrated by the 2,000-strong Lawyers' Christian Fellowship which had also been helping Christian Unions fight the likes of Edinburgh LUniversity for freedom of speech and association (instead of university Christian Unions being obliged to have yags on committees and to tell their members of the delights of promiscuous sodomy - see this Diary, December, 2006).
Apparently, the Happy New Year of 2007 would see some serious fun on these issues. The Queen was to receive the petition against the Sexual Orientation (Provision of Goods and Services) Regulations on 9th January, the day on which the House of Lords would debate the Rev. Bliar's plan to secure his `legacy' via choirs of prancing yags cooing his praises. A torchlight parade through Westminster was to follow, which Muslims were urged to join by the Islamic Medical Association. Andrea Minichiello Williams, of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship, which was organising the London demo, said: "The regulations not only force people to assist and promote activities contrary to the historic teachings of their faith, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, but also censor them from speaking freely about their beliefs."
Catholic bishops looked for the exemption of church organizations from the leglislation, saying that, for example, their adoption agencies would close rather than supply babies to yag `civil partners.' The Board of Deputies of British Jews also urged the Government to respect freedom of conscience.
Holding the hot potato for the Government was `Communities Minister' Ms Ruth Kelly, a devout Catholic and mother of four from The Queen's College, Oxford.
In Blackpool, a Christian couple won a 10,000 pound compensation payout and 60,000 costs from Wyre Council after it had set the police on them as `homophobic' after they had asked the council to exhibit Christian alongside yag-backing literature and told council officials they thought homosexuality "morally wrong." Wyre Council also found itself under attach from the Navajo Indians of Utah for claiming that the Navajo had traditionally been tolerant of homosexuality and kindred perversions (Sunday Telegraph, 7 i).
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Friday, January 05, 2007
FREEDOM FOR THE B.N.P.
A welcome critique of the Bliar Government's ongoing persecution of the British National Party was provided by the fine Libertarian Alliance Director Sean Gabb here. e.g.:
"..Since lying about the BNP does not work very well in the age of the Internet, the gentler forms of destruction are being supplemented by stronger. Its leader has just been acquitted after a trial for speech crimes that did not exist when I was a boy. Its known members are losing their jobs in public bodies up and down the country. It has trouble getting its material printed. Banks are being persuaded to close its accounts. The legal machinery is in place to deny it access to the ballot in elections. ..
Much of this would be happening if there were a Conservative Government. But the intensity of the persecution faced by the BNP is peculiar to Labour. There has been a strain of antinomianism in our politics since 1997 not seen in centuries. From Tony Blair down, the Ministers believe passionately that they can and therefore must turn England into some kind of multicultural love feast. Their vision of a transformed England is not very clear. But, as with an impressionist painting, vagueness of detail is compensated by vividness of colour. These people cannot imagine that anyone of good will could fail to believe as they do. Therefore, all opposition is evil, and may rightly be put down without regard for traditional norms of right and justice and common decency. See, as an example of this, how Peter Hain defends as a Minister police state measures that he used to condemn when used by the South African Government. To the Saints of New Labour, all things are lawful."
Of course, even Sean's excellent piece only dealt with the tip of the iceberg of NuLabour oppression: for example, the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, had to endure not just one but a repeat trial for `hate speech' (against Mueslis) before he was cleared by a second jury; and the English criminal justice system was, while Sean Gabb wrote, in the process of bringing to jury trial two other articulate `far right' activists and race realists for anti-Semitic remarks on a website. See here.
The Hebrews, Mueslis and Frogs all deserved fair criticism. Though they were each over-represented in creating the attractions of PeeCee, female enslavement and petit pois respectively, they had each shown disrespect to Britain and thus deserved the chaotic fate that awaited them as their love affairs with a fundamentally erratic, disloyal and oh-so-democratic America, enmeshed in its race-free idealistic delusions (albeit followed close behind by the ludicrous Rev. Bliar), came to grief.
A fine riposte was provided by the BNP to Rev. Bliar's `New Year Honours List' with its countless awards for `services to diversity'.
STRONG SUPPORT FOR STREAMING
76% of U.K. adults told pollsters that brighter children should be streamed so as to push them on; Sir Eric Anderson (Provost of Eton and Tony Blair's former housemaster at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and once named by the P.M. has having been his favourite teacher) said "the 40-year experiment with comprehensive education has failed"; the right-ish think tank which produced these observations called for a 20-fold increase in Government spending on "very able" children; and the Conservative Party responded that it would indeed aim to reintroduce streaming by ability in state schools (it is currently operative only for some 35% of children in maths and sometimes English) (Daily Telegraph, 2 i 2007, pp. 1-2). {No mention of IQ or The g Factor (1996) and its pro-`track choice' Chapter 4 [published independently in the journal Intelligence (1996)] - that would be too much New Year good cheer to expect from the intimidated mice who make up Britain's great-and-good!}
CHRISTIANS vs GAYS -- LATEST
Pleas (signed by thousands) to the Queen to use her powers to revoke the Government' legislation imposed in 2006 on Northern Ireland in 2006 banning businesses, clubs, agencies and service providers (including even home-run bed-and-breakfast set-ups) from discriminating against homosexuals were announced as being orchestrated by the 2,000-strong Lawyers' Christian Fellowship which had also been helping Christian Unions fight the likes of Edinburgh LUniversity for freedom of speech and association (instead of university Christian Unions being obliged to have yags on committees and to tell their members of the delights of promiscuous sodomy - see this Diary, December, 2006). Apparently, the Happy New Year of 2007 would see some serious fun on these issues. The Queen was to receive the petition against the Sexual Orientation (Provision of Goods and Services) Regulations on 9th January, the day on which the House of Lords would debate the Rev. Bliar's plan to secure his `legacy' via choirs of prancing yags cooing his praises.
FREEDOM vs PEECEE
After a 5-year girl was savaged to death by her skinhead uncle's pit bull terrier during family jollifications in her St Helen's home at 4.30a.m. on New Year's Day, thoughtful Telegraph columnist (and anti-paedohysteric) Andrew O'Hagan (2 i) wondered why there were no laws providing serious punishment* for dog owners whose oh-so-affectionate (as owners unfailingly say) pooches take chunks out of people - or indeed other pooches. Blairite Britain had got around to banning guns, banning smacking, banning most `hate speech,' banning foxhunting, monitoring people by videocamera more than in any other country on earth, and, for 2007, banning smoking till age 18 (wonder how Britain's many 17-year old soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will like that!...); and yet no punishment seemed to lie ahead for the offending uncle of St Helen's - even though he had previously been issued with a written `warning' from police to control his dog after neighbours had filed complaints of the mutt's irritable and savage nature. Sadly, all too many dog lovers shared HM Government's peecee delusion that there were no genes for anything - certainly not for aggression in dogs (the very breeds of which were not agreed between the Government and the Kennel Club); so, rather than dealing realistically with pitbull fans, Bliar's legal-eagle neosocialists had spent the previous ten years fooling around introducing controlling statutes that didn't work so as to appear the successful environmentalists they would actually never be.
* As the law stood, the uncle, Kiel Simpson, 23, a hoodie-sporting convicted drugs dealer who gave V-signs to reporters, faced only a maximum penalty of six months imprisonment and a œ5K fine for keeping a proscribed dog. A neighbour said (Sun, 3 i): "He used to take it on a playing field and let it off the lead with no muzzle. It was his intention to intimidate."
MULTICULTI FRANCE IN FLAMES AGAIN
Dissatisfaction of French Muslims with the arrangements made for them (including an extra 25,000 police on duty, including 4,500 extra in Paris) spilled over into 2005-type levels of violence on New Year's Eve, with 400 cars set on fire and 250 arrests made. {Ongoing Muesli rejection of the policy of `integration' might have given some pause for thought to Britain's NuLabour politicians, including P.M. Rev. Bliar, who had spent 18 months tentatively moving at a snail's pace from `multiculturalism' towards `integration' as the method of choice for handling Britain's low-IQ Blacks and non-English-speaking Pakistanis..}
NEW YEAR HOPE FROM SADDAM
Only one country in the world went into official mourning over the execution of a 69-year-old ex-ally of both America and France who had done his best to avenge the Muslim overthrow of the dignified Shah of Persia, to stop Shitite woman-enslaving fanaticism from spreading uncontrollably across the Middle East, to seek allies variously in France, Russia and (most successfully, America) and to keep his own ethnically divided country of Iraq together and pumping oil. Yes, it was the Libya of Dictator-Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi which alone declared a 3-day suspension of New Year jollification as Iraq's Shitites executed their former President who had tortured and gassed them only in pursuit of the objective of national unity which had in turn by 2006 become the only objective of the American and British invaders of Iraq as they hoped against hope to remedy the state of evidently undreamt-of turmoil which they had heedlessly created by refusing to divide the country into its ethnic groups (as proposed by Jim Woodhill and myself back in 2003).
Just as it was only Libya that had learned realistically from Saddam's experience not to hold or try to hold or pretend to hold `weapons of mass destruction' while America had a strong President, so Libya had learned an even more important lesson: that the only way to hold a `multicultural' country like Iraq together was by sheer brutality - as Saddam's hero Stalin had always known, but as the West was only beginning to find out as it demolished its classic rights to free speech and association and spent its money jailing the likes of David Irving and Ernst Zuendel, wasting the skills and knowledge of the likes of Andrew Fraser, Frank Ellis and myself, arming the police to the teeth, turning airports into torture-and-extortion chambers for passengers and monitoring daily in Britain alone some 2,000 active Muesli bomb plots. Yes, Gaddafi and his bodyguard cheeky-girls had learned from Saddam and were truly grateful. Hopefully the West would soon follow suit in realizing that pacific multiculturalism was simply not an option, at least when lots of people around Iraq's IQ of 87 were involved.
Saddam's death was promptly followed, within the day, by the killing of 80 (including six U.S. servicemen) in Shitite areas of Baghdad (presumably by Slooni Mueslis); by silence from Rev. Bliar as he basked outside the luxury ultra-private beach home of a pop star in Miami; and by Rev. Dubya of the Church of the Latter-Day Morons, undaunted by three years of worldwide obloquy, announcing his determination to make one more push to achieve success for his multicultural mission in Iraq - a mission by then vastly more costly than all the partial ethnic cleansing of 1990's Yugoslavia and the ongoing international military enforcement of that cleansing's non-completion (for the Americans alone had by then lost 3,000 men in Iraq and taken many more casualties while pursuing their peecee pipedreams).
ARAB BOXER STRIPPED OF M.B.E.
Naseem Hamed, 32, featherweight `British' champion boxer, of Yemeni* parentage, had his 1999 Membership of the Order of the British Empire award withdrawn by the Queen on emerging from a 15-month prison sentence for dangerous driving (Sun, 1 i 2007). Hamed had been known during his boxing career for arrogance, argumentativeness and exhibitionism. His crime had been of driving his œ320K sportscar at 90mph on the wrong side of the road, resulting in a head-on collision which broke every major bone in the other driver's body. The cost of this exercise to his adopted country remained uncalculated by British newsies; nor was any news given of any plan by Hamed to compensate his victim.
* IQ in the Yemen was estimated by Lynn & Vanhanen (2002) to be 83.
RACISM REVIVAL SCHEDULED FOR 2007
Actor-director zillionaire Mel Gibson, already in trouble with the peecee pietists for airing his reservations about the English (in his film `Braveheart') and the Jews (to a Los Angeles Jewish cop who stopped him for drunk driving in 2006), turned out to have produced a film, `Apocalypto,' that stressed the violence of the Mayas of c. 700 Mexico more than their advanced achievements of those days in hieroglyphic writing, calendrical accuracy, astronomy and mathematics. Ignacio Ochoa, the director of the Guatemalan Nahual Foundation which promoted Mayan culture, told the Sunday Telegraph (31 xii): "Gibson replays, in glorious technicolour, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans [c. 1500] and thus they deserved, in fact needed rescue."
Apparently the mediaeval Mayans went in for mass decapitations as part of their religious sacrifices; though they did not go as far as their 13th-century conquerors, the also-Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs who liked to tear out their living victims' hearts. The Aztecs were in turn conquered by Hernan Cortes. Under Catholicism, the Mayans and Aztecs converted to agriculture and by 2006 worked chiefly as day labourers or in tourist resorts giving displays of traditional dancing in head-dresses and face-paint. Apparently, their blood-lusting ethnic group had gone into decline rather as had once the enslaving and warmaking Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Greeks. The Telegraph published a picture of Mayans in 2006 which made Borat's Kazakhstan look a model of advanced civilization.
Gibson found he had an admirer in David Irving (newly released from his totally unjust 400 days of solitary confinement in Austria for `Holocaust denial) - though precisely for what remained unclear, since both men still unfailingly denied to the courts and media that they were racists.
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A welcome critique of the Bliar Government's ongoing persecution of the British National Party was provided by the fine Libertarian Alliance Director Sean Gabb here. e.g.:
"..Since lying about the BNP does not work very well in the age of the Internet, the gentler forms of destruction are being supplemented by stronger. Its leader has just been acquitted after a trial for speech crimes that did not exist when I was a boy. Its known members are losing their jobs in public bodies up and down the country. It has trouble getting its material printed. Banks are being persuaded to close its accounts. The legal machinery is in place to deny it access to the ballot in elections. ..
Much of this would be happening if there were a Conservative Government. But the intensity of the persecution faced by the BNP is peculiar to Labour. There has been a strain of antinomianism in our politics since 1997 not seen in centuries. From Tony Blair down, the Ministers believe passionately that they can and therefore must turn England into some kind of multicultural love feast. Their vision of a transformed England is not very clear. But, as with an impressionist painting, vagueness of detail is compensated by vividness of colour. These people cannot imagine that anyone of good will could fail to believe as they do. Therefore, all opposition is evil, and may rightly be put down without regard for traditional norms of right and justice and common decency. See, as an example of this, how Peter Hain defends as a Minister police state measures that he used to condemn when used by the South African Government. To the Saints of New Labour, all things are lawful."
Of course, even Sean's excellent piece only dealt with the tip of the iceberg of NuLabour oppression: for example, the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, had to endure not just one but a repeat trial for `hate speech' (against Mueslis) before he was cleared by a second jury; and the English criminal justice system was, while Sean Gabb wrote, in the process of bringing to jury trial two other articulate `far right' activists and race realists for anti-Semitic remarks on a website. See here.
The Hebrews, Mueslis and Frogs all deserved fair criticism. Though they were each over-represented in creating the attractions of PeeCee, female enslavement and petit pois respectively, they had each shown disrespect to Britain and thus deserved the chaotic fate that awaited them as their love affairs with a fundamentally erratic, disloyal and oh-so-democratic America, enmeshed in its race-free idealistic delusions (albeit followed close behind by the ludicrous Rev. Bliar), came to grief.
A fine riposte was provided by the BNP to Rev. Bliar's `New Year Honours List' with its countless awards for `services to diversity'.
STRONG SUPPORT FOR STREAMING
76% of U.K. adults told pollsters that brighter children should be streamed so as to push them on; Sir Eric Anderson (Provost of Eton and Tony Blair's former housemaster at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and once named by the P.M. has having been his favourite teacher) said "the 40-year experiment with comprehensive education has failed"; the right-ish think tank which produced these observations called for a 20-fold increase in Government spending on "very able" children; and the Conservative Party responded that it would indeed aim to reintroduce streaming by ability in state schools (it is currently operative only for some 35% of children in maths and sometimes English) (Daily Telegraph, 2 i 2007, pp. 1-2). {No mention of IQ or The g Factor (1996) and its pro-`track choice' Chapter 4 [published independently in the journal Intelligence (1996)] - that would be too much New Year good cheer to expect from the intimidated mice who make up Britain's great-and-good!}
CHRISTIANS vs GAYS -- LATEST
Pleas (signed by thousands) to the Queen to use her powers to revoke the Government' legislation imposed in 2006 on Northern Ireland in 2006 banning businesses, clubs, agencies and service providers (including even home-run bed-and-breakfast set-ups) from discriminating against homosexuals were announced as being orchestrated by the 2,000-strong Lawyers' Christian Fellowship which had also been helping Christian Unions fight the likes of Edinburgh LUniversity for freedom of speech and association (instead of university Christian Unions being obliged to have yags on committees and to tell their members of the delights of promiscuous sodomy - see this Diary, December, 2006). Apparently, the Happy New Year of 2007 would see some serious fun on these issues. The Queen was to receive the petition against the Sexual Orientation (Provision of Goods and Services) Regulations on 9th January, the day on which the House of Lords would debate the Rev. Bliar's plan to secure his `legacy' via choirs of prancing yags cooing his praises.
FREEDOM vs PEECEE
After a 5-year girl was savaged to death by her skinhead uncle's pit bull terrier during family jollifications in her St Helen's home at 4.30a.m. on New Year's Day, thoughtful Telegraph columnist (and anti-paedohysteric) Andrew O'Hagan (2 i) wondered why there were no laws providing serious punishment* for dog owners whose oh-so-affectionate (as owners unfailingly say) pooches take chunks out of people - or indeed other pooches. Blairite Britain had got around to banning guns, banning smacking, banning most `hate speech,' banning foxhunting, monitoring people by videocamera more than in any other country on earth, and, for 2007, banning smoking till age 18 (wonder how Britain's many 17-year old soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will like that!...); and yet no punishment seemed to lie ahead for the offending uncle of St Helen's - even though he had previously been issued with a written `warning' from police to control his dog after neighbours had filed complaints of the mutt's irritable and savage nature. Sadly, all too many dog lovers shared HM Government's peecee delusion that there were no genes for anything - certainly not for aggression in dogs (the very breeds of which were not agreed between the Government and the Kennel Club); so, rather than dealing realistically with pitbull fans, Bliar's legal-eagle neosocialists had spent the previous ten years fooling around introducing controlling statutes that didn't work so as to appear the successful environmentalists they would actually never be.
* As the law stood, the uncle, Kiel Simpson, 23, a hoodie-sporting convicted drugs dealer who gave V-signs to reporters, faced only a maximum penalty of six months imprisonment and a œ5K fine for keeping a proscribed dog. A neighbour said (Sun, 3 i): "He used to take it on a playing field and let it off the lead with no muzzle. It was his intention to intimidate."
MULTICULTI FRANCE IN FLAMES AGAIN
Dissatisfaction of French Muslims with the arrangements made for them (including an extra 25,000 police on duty, including 4,500 extra in Paris) spilled over into 2005-type levels of violence on New Year's Eve, with 400 cars set on fire and 250 arrests made. {Ongoing Muesli rejection of the policy of `integration' might have given some pause for thought to Britain's NuLabour politicians, including P.M. Rev. Bliar, who had spent 18 months tentatively moving at a snail's pace from `multiculturalism' towards `integration' as the method of choice for handling Britain's low-IQ Blacks and non-English-speaking Pakistanis..}
NEW YEAR HOPE FROM SADDAM
Only one country in the world went into official mourning over the execution of a 69-year-old ex-ally of both America and France who had done his best to avenge the Muslim overthrow of the dignified Shah of Persia, to stop Shitite woman-enslaving fanaticism from spreading uncontrollably across the Middle East, to seek allies variously in France, Russia and (most successfully, America) and to keep his own ethnically divided country of Iraq together and pumping oil. Yes, it was the Libya of Dictator-Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi which alone declared a 3-day suspension of New Year jollification as Iraq's Shitites executed their former President who had tortured and gassed them only in pursuit of the objective of national unity which had in turn by 2006 become the only objective of the American and British invaders of Iraq as they hoped against hope to remedy the state of evidently undreamt-of turmoil which they had heedlessly created by refusing to divide the country into its ethnic groups (as proposed by Jim Woodhill and myself back in 2003).
Just as it was only Libya that had learned realistically from Saddam's experience not to hold or try to hold or pretend to hold `weapons of mass destruction' while America had a strong President, so Libya had learned an even more important lesson: that the only way to hold a `multicultural' country like Iraq together was by sheer brutality - as Saddam's hero Stalin had always known, but as the West was only beginning to find out as it demolished its classic rights to free speech and association and spent its money jailing the likes of David Irving and Ernst Zuendel, wasting the skills and knowledge of the likes of Andrew Fraser, Frank Ellis and myself, arming the police to the teeth, turning airports into torture-and-extortion chambers for passengers and monitoring daily in Britain alone some 2,000 active Muesli bomb plots. Yes, Gaddafi and his bodyguard cheeky-girls had learned from Saddam and were truly grateful. Hopefully the West would soon follow suit in realizing that pacific multiculturalism was simply not an option, at least when lots of people around Iraq's IQ of 87 were involved.
Saddam's death was promptly followed, within the day, by the killing of 80 (including six U.S. servicemen) in Shitite areas of Baghdad (presumably by Slooni Mueslis); by silence from Rev. Bliar as he basked outside the luxury ultra-private beach home of a pop star in Miami; and by Rev. Dubya of the Church of the Latter-Day Morons, undaunted by three years of worldwide obloquy, announcing his determination to make one more push to achieve success for his multicultural mission in Iraq - a mission by then vastly more costly than all the partial ethnic cleansing of 1990's Yugoslavia and the ongoing international military enforcement of that cleansing's non-completion (for the Americans alone had by then lost 3,000 men in Iraq and taken many more casualties while pursuing their peecee pipedreams).
ARAB BOXER STRIPPED OF M.B.E.
Naseem Hamed, 32, featherweight `British' champion boxer, of Yemeni* parentage, had his 1999 Membership of the Order of the British Empire award withdrawn by the Queen on emerging from a 15-month prison sentence for dangerous driving (Sun, 1 i 2007). Hamed had been known during his boxing career for arrogance, argumentativeness and exhibitionism. His crime had been of driving his œ320K sportscar at 90mph on the wrong side of the road, resulting in a head-on collision which broke every major bone in the other driver's body. The cost of this exercise to his adopted country remained uncalculated by British newsies; nor was any news given of any plan by Hamed to compensate his victim.
* IQ in the Yemen was estimated by Lynn & Vanhanen (2002) to be 83.
RACISM REVIVAL SCHEDULED FOR 2007
Actor-director zillionaire Mel Gibson, already in trouble with the peecee pietists for airing his reservations about the English (in his film `Braveheart') and the Jews (to a Los Angeles Jewish cop who stopped him for drunk driving in 2006), turned out to have produced a film, `Apocalypto,' that stressed the violence of the Mayas of c. 700 Mexico more than their advanced achievements of those days in hieroglyphic writing, calendrical accuracy, astronomy and mathematics. Ignacio Ochoa, the director of the Guatemalan Nahual Foundation which promoted Mayan culture, told the Sunday Telegraph (31 xii): "Gibson replays, in glorious technicolour, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans [c. 1500] and thus they deserved, in fact needed rescue."
Apparently the mediaeval Mayans went in for mass decapitations as part of their religious sacrifices; though they did not go as far as their 13th-century conquerors, the also-Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs who liked to tear out their living victims' hearts. The Aztecs were in turn conquered by Hernan Cortes. Under Catholicism, the Mayans and Aztecs converted to agriculture and by 2006 worked chiefly as day labourers or in tourist resorts giving displays of traditional dancing in head-dresses and face-paint. Apparently, their blood-lusting ethnic group had gone into decline rather as had once the enslaving and warmaking Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Greeks. The Telegraph published a picture of Mayans in 2006 which made Borat's Kazakhstan look a model of advanced civilization.
Gibson found he had an admirer in David Irving (newly released from his totally unjust 400 days of solitary confinement in Austria for `Holocaust denial) - though precisely for what remained unclear, since both men still unfailingly denied to the courts and media that they were racists.
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Friday, December 29, 2006
IQ REACHES NYTWITS – RETURN OF THE REPRESSED!
IQ got a surprise mention in the ever-Commie-loving New York Times (28 xii, Michael Wines, ‘Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa's Future’) as that gruesome and famously Stalin-supporting ‘news’paper declared Ethiopian adults to be”shorn of as many as 15 IQ points” thanks to malnutrition (especially iodine deficiency) – though the full horror of Ethiopia’s actual average IQ of 63 (IQ & the Wealth of Nations, 2002, Lynn & Vanhanen) could not be mentioned to pious readers for fear they would choke on their breakfast Muesli.
Update
"[Malnutrition] may be much less important than has been suggested. Consider, for instance, a study carried out in Holland by Stein and co-workers.* They collected test scores, at the age of 19, of some 20,000 Dutch army recruits whose mothers, during the German occupation, had been subjected to severe starvation in the crucial months around the time of the birth. These recruits showed no lasting general retardation when compared to 100,000 recruits whose mothers had not suffered starvation...." -- Hans Eysenck, 1981, in Intelligence: the Battle for the Mind, Pan Psychology.
* Elsewhere, Eysenck gave the reference as: STEIN, Z., SUSSER, M., SAENGER, G. & MAROLLA, F. (1972). Intelligence test results of individuals exposed during gestation in the World War II famine in the Netherlands. T. Soc. Geneesk. 50, 766-774.
IQ got a surprise mention in the ever-Commie-loving New York Times (28 xii, Michael Wines, ‘Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa's Future’) as that gruesome and famously Stalin-supporting ‘news’paper declared Ethiopian adults to be”shorn of as many as 15 IQ points” thanks to malnutrition (especially iodine deficiency) – though the full horror of Ethiopia’s actual average IQ of 63 (IQ & the Wealth of Nations, 2002, Lynn & Vanhanen) could not be mentioned to pious readers for fear they would choke on their breakfast Muesli.
Update
"[Malnutrition] may be much less important than has been suggested. Consider, for instance, a study carried out in Holland by Stein and co-workers.* They collected test scores, at the age of 19, of some 20,000 Dutch army recruits whose mothers, during the German occupation, had been subjected to severe starvation in the crucial months around the time of the birth. These recruits showed no lasting general retardation when compared to 100,000 recruits whose mothers had not suffered starvation...." -- Hans Eysenck, 1981, in Intelligence: the Battle for the Mind, Pan Psychology.
* Elsewhere, Eysenck gave the reference as: STEIN, Z., SUSSER, M., SAENGER, G. & MAROLLA, F. (1972). Intelligence test results of individuals exposed during gestation in the World War II famine in the Netherlands. T. Soc. Geneesk. 50, 766-774.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
TIMES HIGHER HELPS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR FREE SPEECH
Just ten years after my own free speech case in Edinburgh LUniversity came to a head (resulting, after a year of inquisition and tribunalizing, in my dismissal in August, 1997), the Glasgow Herald (Alan MacDermid, 22 xii) kindly expressed the hope that I might draw consolation from a recently launched campaign in UK academics' weekly newspaper Times Higher to re-instate free speech in British academia.
Nice to be remembered! (I had always had a soft spot for the Glasgow Herald, which had faithfully reported student protests on my behalf in 1996/7; as for Glasgow Uni which awarded my wife a Ph.D. in 2006.) - However, the 64 "influential academics"* (including E.LU.'s mature philosophy postgrad Dan Dennis) little knew as they demanded "unrestricted liberty" for academic speech just what a mountain they had to climb after E.LU. had got it established by a High Court judge in 1998 that it had no more duty to support free speech than did a biscuit factory (see my 6 xii letter to the President of Exeter University Christian Union** and the events at the London School of Economics in May***).
* `Academics for Academic Freedom' (http://www.afaf.org.uk/blog/_archives/2006/10/24/2442478.html#809892), led by Dennis Hayes (President of the University and College Union), included Oxford's Roy Harris (who had once encouraged publication of The g Factor), Tom Ogg (of my second Oxford college, Nuffield), Guardian philosopher A.C.Grayling (Birkbeck College, London), Vincent Egan (Glasgow Caledonian U., my Ph.D. student who had defended me re IQ) and Glen Newey (Keele U., who had defended me in the Independent re paedophilia).
** "..In 1998, Edinburgh University successfully argued (against me and my counsel) before a Scottish High Court judge that any duty that it had to support free speech took second place to its need to support its own reputation and income. In a particularly astonishing passage among complex legal proceedings, it was argued by the University that it had no more duty to support free speech than did *a biscuit factory* -- and this argument was essentially accepted. I honestly advise that [Christian Union] lawyers look carefully at http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/McDNLArch3b.htm for more (FIND 'Decision of Mr T. Gordon Coutts QC') to see what they would be up against."
*** After LSE bosses pounced on an academic after he had (at their invitation) given a presentation at an Open Day which alluded to the School's weaker as well as its stronger features, the academic wrote: ".academic freedom and the freedom of speech are threatened by the commercialization of education. We must reaffirm [our] rights before we are all turned into salesmen."
Just ten years after my own free speech case in Edinburgh LUniversity came to a head (resulting, after a year of inquisition and tribunalizing, in my dismissal in August, 1997), the Glasgow Herald (Alan MacDermid, 22 xii) kindly expressed the hope that I might draw consolation from a recently launched campaign in UK academics' weekly newspaper Times Higher to re-instate free speech in British academia.
Nice to be remembered! (I had always had a soft spot for the Glasgow Herald, which had faithfully reported student protests on my behalf in 1996/7; as for Glasgow Uni which awarded my wife a Ph.D. in 2006.) - However, the 64 "influential academics"* (including E.LU.'s mature philosophy postgrad Dan Dennis) little knew as they demanded "unrestricted liberty" for academic speech just what a mountain they had to climb after E.LU. had got it established by a High Court judge in 1998 that it had no more duty to support free speech than did a biscuit factory (see my 6 xii letter to the President of Exeter University Christian Union** and the events at the London School of Economics in May***).
* `Academics for Academic Freedom' (http://www.afaf.org.uk/blog/_archives/2006/10/24/2442478.html#809892), led by Dennis Hayes (President of the University and College Union), included Oxford's Roy Harris (who had once encouraged publication of The g Factor), Tom Ogg (of my second Oxford college, Nuffield), Guardian philosopher A.C.Grayling (Birkbeck College, London), Vincent Egan (Glasgow Caledonian U., my Ph.D. student who had defended me re IQ) and Glen Newey (Keele U., who had defended me in the Independent re paedophilia).
** "..In 1998, Edinburgh University successfully argued (against me and my counsel) before a Scottish High Court judge that any duty that it had to support free speech took second place to its need to support its own reputation and income. In a particularly astonishing passage among complex legal proceedings, it was argued by the University that it had no more duty to support free speech than did *a biscuit factory* -- and this argument was essentially accepted. I honestly advise that [Christian Union] lawyers look carefully at http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/McDNLArch3b.htm for more (FIND 'Decision of Mr T. Gordon Coutts QC') to see what they would be up against."
*** After LSE bosses pounced on an academic after he had (at their invitation) given a presentation at an Open Day which alluded to the School's weaker as well as its stronger features, the academic wrote: ".academic freedom and the freedom of speech are threatened by the commercialization of education. We must reaffirm [our] rights before we are all turned into salesmen."
Saturday, December 16, 2006
LYNN & VANHANEN LATEST
(Updated)
A warm welcome was given by Phil Rushton to "IQ and Global Inequality", which extended the work reported in "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" (VDare, 7 xii). For example: "In my view, [Richard] Lynn and [Tatu] Vanhanen have made what is arguably the most important contribution to economic understanding since Adam Smith showed that free markets promote economic development. They have shown also that national IQs explain much of the variation between nations in a wide range of economic and social phenomena -- not just income levels. Their book extends the explanatory power of the concept of intelligence in a way that makes a major contribution to the integration of psychology with the other social sciences."
Alas, the prospect of a Nobel Prize for these authors and their mail-order-published book is sadly remote. It is not just that this book largely repeats, with slight extensions (e.g. getting Israeli IQ up from 94 to 95) the review already provided in the authors' 2002 "IQ and the Wealth of Nations". The main problem is the authors' failure to solve convincingly, or even decisively the problem of which of their national variables (IQ, literacy, take-up of tertiary education, health, longevity, wealth, income etc.) are actually causing which.
The authors provide many 'regression coefficients' (the favoured technique of econometricians): but regressions only give the degree to which one variable (or more) can be used to calculate others within a data set; and of course, in L&V's data set, IQ 'predicts' wealth but wealth also 'predicts' IQ. Thus the authors stumble into a morass of "positive feedback loops" and fall into the ultimate scientific fallacy (normally appealing chiefly to desperately environmentalistic proponents of 'complex interaction effects') that X causes Y and Y causes X - invariably a clear sign that more work is urgently necessary.
What should that work be? Well, the first task is to pinpoint X-Y relations where causation can, within reason, only go one way. Thus Touhey (1972, Br.J.soc.clin.Psychol.) found that IQ was strongly related (r = .50) to whether adult testees had in their lives been upwardly or downwardly socially mobile from their fathers' occupational levels - a relationship only readily explicable by saying that IQ causes upward social mobility (for IQ itself changes little from age 8 and, of necessity, the left's beloved variable of SES does not explain inter-generational mobility).
Likewise, I pointed out (in a 2002 review of IQ&WoN at Amazon Books) that national IQs collected around 1980 were correlated with countries' economic advance (or, in African cases, economic decline) over 1983-1996: "Of the world's 21 countries which steadily tripled their GDP from 1983 through 1990 and 1993 to 1996, none was on or near the African mainland; whereas of the 27 countries whose GDP decreased by 50%, ten were African (Angola, Burkina Faso, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Sao Tome & Principe)." It would plainly be bizarre to envisage backward causation from such changes to IQ. Yet Lynn & Vanhanen largely decline to focus on such crucial exercises. Most surprisingly of all, Lynn & Vanhanen make no use of factor analysis - a technique ideally suited in non-experimental data to identifying the most likely causal factors among the variables as a whole, in this case certainly headed up by a big factor highly loaded by g but with substantial loadings for all the other national variables.
Amidst their 400 pages of stumbling (pretty repetitiously) around the issue of causation, the authors occasionally show glimmers of appreciation of the true picture: e.g. the correlations between national g and longevity are spectacularly high (around .80) - indicating a relation which can hardly be explained by anything other than g being causal to longevity (doubtless via self-chosen 'lifestyle' features). But few journalists and no Marxite critics will have the patience to wade through the authors' inconclusive meanderings -- the indecisiveness of which perhaps reflects disagreements between the authors, for Lynn's own writing is normally a model of clarity.
All this borders on tragedy, for these hard-working, knowledgeable and fair-minded authors supply an excellent path analysis (on p. 248 of the book) which makes entirely clear a most plausible hypothesis in which national IQ, economic freedom (i.e. capitalism) and natural resources all contribute causally to 'measures of human conditions' - with IQ as the main contributor (as also envisaged in IQ&WoN). Sadly, the surrounding text does little to explain how the model was derived or whether it is or is not held to be the model of causation that would be favoured by the authors if they could put their "positive feedback loops" behind them. Thus I stand by what I said in 2002: that L&V's work could prove to be of really great significance; but, for the moment, it needs a sympathetic and methodologically informed reader - and the media-dominating peecee 'liberal'-left will gladly accept L&V's lame 'loops' of causation and denials of full-blown hereditarianism and settle for ignoring the volume, as they did in 2002.
Lastly, it is notable that the authors continue with their 2002 idea that it would be a good idea to raise African IQ (whether via their own favourite of improved nutrition [strangely they make no mention of remedying iodine deficiency], or via whatever vast new sums of money from UK Chancellor Dr Gordon Brown and his neosocialist ilk, or perhaps via the polygamy recommended for Africans by William McDougall). Yet the Africans who have done best over the past 300 years are surely the slaves who were lifted out to the USA - where their economic level is far higher and even their IQ (c. 85) is today a substantial improvement on that of Black people in Africa (c. 70) despite these Americanized slaves having been originally the criminal riff-raff of their Black societies, which, with encouragement from Muslim traders, decided to sell them off.
Perhaps the best Africans can hope for is that the Chinese (whose 1970s experiments in Malawi etc. came to grief in oceans of mutual misunderstanding, but who are now desperate for natural resources and no longer committed to egalitarian ideology) will in future take the trouble somehow to enslave Blacks once more. If such a process replicated the American success story for Blacks, it would suggest that people of all start-out levels of IQ can flourish economically over time in a well-run hierarchy - a possibility in which L&V are strangely uninterested.
(Updated)
A warm welcome was given by Phil Rushton to "IQ and Global Inequality", which extended the work reported in "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" (VDare, 7 xii). For example: "In my view, [Richard] Lynn and [Tatu] Vanhanen have made what is arguably the most important contribution to economic understanding since Adam Smith showed that free markets promote economic development. They have shown also that national IQs explain much of the variation between nations in a wide range of economic and social phenomena -- not just income levels. Their book extends the explanatory power of the concept of intelligence in a way that makes a major contribution to the integration of psychology with the other social sciences."
Alas, the prospect of a Nobel Prize for these authors and their mail-order-published book is sadly remote. It is not just that this book largely repeats, with slight extensions (e.g. getting Israeli IQ up from 94 to 95) the review already provided in the authors' 2002 "IQ and the Wealth of Nations". The main problem is the authors' failure to solve convincingly, or even decisively the problem of which of their national variables (IQ, literacy, take-up of tertiary education, health, longevity, wealth, income etc.) are actually causing which.
The authors provide many 'regression coefficients' (the favoured technique of econometricians): but regressions only give the degree to which one variable (or more) can be used to calculate others within a data set; and of course, in L&V's data set, IQ 'predicts' wealth but wealth also 'predicts' IQ. Thus the authors stumble into a morass of "positive feedback loops" and fall into the ultimate scientific fallacy (normally appealing chiefly to desperately environmentalistic proponents of 'complex interaction effects') that X causes Y and Y causes X - invariably a clear sign that more work is urgently necessary.
What should that work be? Well, the first task is to pinpoint X-Y relations where causation can, within reason, only go one way. Thus Touhey (1972, Br.J.soc.clin.Psychol.) found that IQ was strongly related (r = .50) to whether adult testees had in their lives been upwardly or downwardly socially mobile from their fathers' occupational levels - a relationship only readily explicable by saying that IQ causes upward social mobility (for IQ itself changes little from age 8 and, of necessity, the left's beloved variable of SES does not explain inter-generational mobility).
Likewise, I pointed out (in a 2002 review of IQ&WoN at Amazon Books) that national IQs collected around 1980 were correlated with countries' economic advance (or, in African cases, economic decline) over 1983-1996: "Of the world's 21 countries which steadily tripled their GDP from 1983 through 1990 and 1993 to 1996, none was on or near the African mainland; whereas of the 27 countries whose GDP decreased by 50%, ten were African (Angola, Burkina Faso, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Sao Tome & Principe)." It would plainly be bizarre to envisage backward causation from such changes to IQ. Yet Lynn & Vanhanen largely decline to focus on such crucial exercises. Most surprisingly of all, Lynn & Vanhanen make no use of factor analysis - a technique ideally suited in non-experimental data to identifying the most likely causal factors among the variables as a whole, in this case certainly headed up by a big factor highly loaded by g but with substantial loadings for all the other national variables.
Amidst their 400 pages of stumbling (pretty repetitiously) around the issue of causation, the authors occasionally show glimmers of appreciation of the true picture: e.g. the correlations between national g and longevity are spectacularly high (around .80) - indicating a relation which can hardly be explained by anything other than g being causal to longevity (doubtless via self-chosen 'lifestyle' features). But few journalists and no Marxite critics will have the patience to wade through the authors' inconclusive meanderings -- the indecisiveness of which perhaps reflects disagreements between the authors, for Lynn's own writing is normally a model of clarity.
All this borders on tragedy, for these hard-working, knowledgeable and fair-minded authors supply an excellent path analysis (on p. 248 of the book) which makes entirely clear a most plausible hypothesis in which national IQ, economic freedom (i.e. capitalism) and natural resources all contribute causally to 'measures of human conditions' - with IQ as the main contributor (as also envisaged in IQ&WoN). Sadly, the surrounding text does little to explain how the model was derived or whether it is or is not held to be the model of causation that would be favoured by the authors if they could put their "positive feedback loops" behind them. Thus I stand by what I said in 2002: that L&V's work could prove to be of really great significance; but, for the moment, it needs a sympathetic and methodologically informed reader - and the media-dominating peecee 'liberal'-left will gladly accept L&V's lame 'loops' of causation and denials of full-blown hereditarianism and settle for ignoring the volume, as they did in 2002.
Lastly, it is notable that the authors continue with their 2002 idea that it would be a good idea to raise African IQ (whether via their own favourite of improved nutrition [strangely they make no mention of remedying iodine deficiency], or via whatever vast new sums of money from UK Chancellor Dr Gordon Brown and his neosocialist ilk, or perhaps via the polygamy recommended for Africans by William McDougall). Yet the Africans who have done best over the past 300 years are surely the slaves who were lifted out to the USA - where their economic level is far higher and even their IQ (c. 85) is today a substantial improvement on that of Black people in Africa (c. 70) despite these Americanized slaves having been originally the criminal riff-raff of their Black societies, which, with encouragement from Muslim traders, decided to sell them off.
Perhaps the best Africans can hope for is that the Chinese (whose 1970s experiments in Malawi etc. came to grief in oceans of mutual misunderstanding, but who are now desperate for natural resources and no longer committed to egalitarian ideology) will in future take the trouble somehow to enslave Blacks once more. If such a process replicated the American success story for Blacks, it would suggest that people of all start-out levels of IQ can flourish economically over time in a well-run hierarchy - a possibility in which L&V are strangely uninterested.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
CHRISTIANS vs YAGS - LATEST
The Archbishop of Canterbury, bearded theologian Dr Rowan Williams, wrote (in Times Higher) urging compromise by saying that all groups surely must have the right to criticize the chosen behaviour of others and that Christians' spiritually informed criticism of homosexual acts should not be treated as 'hate speech' (Ulster TV, 7 xii; Pink News, 7 xii). He especially said:"It would be very bad ..if the idea were allowed to gain ground that a student {guild or association} could be an arbiter of publicly acceptable belief."
His statements came after several Christian leaders had spoken out against the new Sexual Orientation Regulations {being introduced in Northern Ireland by Government fiat}, claiming they were an attack on "freedom of conscience." He seemed just about game for confrontation with the likes of E.LU., expressing his belief that the banning by universities of religious groups threatened 'the integrity of the whole educational process'.
Several London medical schools were said to have joined E.LU. & ilk in backing yag 'rights' to disrupt Christian Union meetings by their tireless questioning of the Church's position(s) on homosexuality (This is London, 6 xii).
The National Secular Society prepared for battle, saying Bullying Christians Demand the Right to Mistreat Others On Campus (7 xii) and reckoning Edinburgh's Christian Union would soon launch legal action against E.LU.
Edinburgh and Exeter LUnis were named and shamed on BBC Radio 4's flagship programme 'Any Questions' (8 xii) for their attacks on their Christian Unions.
The director of Share Jesus International, the Rev Dr Rob Frost, criticised the university bans on Christians which he called "a great tragedy". He told Christian Today: "The loving, serving and gracious ways in which the Christian Unions have carried out their ministry over the last 80 or more years is to be applauded. "The fact that they are now being pushed off of university campus property, and out of the mainstream of student life is a great tragedy." (Christian Today, 9 xii)
E.LU.'s compromise offer to its C.U. of 'a room with a health warning' for the PURE course was rejected by C.U. officials (Scotsman, 9 xii).
Pretty Mid-Bedfordhire MP, Nadine Dorries, 39, backed the C.U.'s against the lunis (10 xii). "Any moves to impose on the leadership teams of CUs individuals who do not share their beliefs should also be opposed," she said as she tabled a C.U.-backing motion in the House of Commons.
Pink News recorded E.LU. to be "deadlocked" over the PURE course. Said LUni PR personages: "This is a complex and delicate matter and the university is working to strike a balance which will be acceptable to everyone involved, and is staying in close touch with Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) in this regard."
MULTICULTURALISM IS DEAD! LONG LIVE PEECEE!
Just eight years after announcing himself a champion of the multiculturalism which had been Labour policy since 1976, Prime Minister Blair announced that this particular game was over and that 'integration' and 'balanced multiculturalism' were now the flavour of the month (Daily Telegraph, 8 xii). Rev Bliar thus brought welcome annoyance to Muslim 'leaders,' who feared he would insist that females should have full access to mosques; but others* were understandably cynical, noting:
(1) that NuLabour's enthusiastic admission of millions of third-world immigrants had - while generating temporarily a boom economy based on slave-for-the-time-being labour - undermined all possibility of serious integration occurring into the British way of life (itself under attack by Labour, which had weakened the family, eroded free speech and provided the conditions for yag domination) and
(2) that producing 'integration' out of his hat was as likely as Blair ever realizing his former promises of 'education, education, education' or peace and democracy in Iraq. Bliar might also turn out to have upset Christians themselves by saying that "No culture or religion supercedes our duty to be part of the UK." Anyhow the likelihood of the new 'policy' resulting in much more than occasional withdrawl of funds from some mad mullah's favourite 'charities' looked slight - for Muesli slave women would be unlikely to respond to any legal liberation of them, never having produced any noticeable Muslim feminist movement in a generation. And Bliar's demand for acceptance by all of the 'British' value of tolerance could well prefigure an actual intensification of peecee pressures to disallow insensitivity to the sensitized.
Bliar's policy change, whatever it might turn out to involve (and 'Opposition Leader' David Cameron - praised by Blair for not 'playing the race card' -- needed to press Bliar urgently for details), was made in a lecture to the Runnymede Trust, which had been working for a 'multi-ethnic Britain,' but with increasing realism; and the change was accompanied with the usual 'celebration' of diversity, which had merely to be 'balanced' with integration. In the left's hands 'integration,' like multiculturalism, could actually have big dangers for Whites - resulting in busing, forced cohabitation and even eventually state-funded pressures for intermarriage as called for by Black Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson in Rituals of Blood.
However, the Labour-backing Daily Mirror tabloid's interpretation (in agreement with the Torygraph) was that some genuine positive change was underway: "His words are a clear sign Labour fears it is alienating working class voters who feel ethnic minorities are a higher priority;" and the Sun said Blair's patience with extremist immigrants had "snapped." The Guardian said the Government had "announced a crackdown on foreign imams by requiring them to have a proper command of English before they are allowed to enter the UK."
* See e.g. the correspondents who wrote in to the Sun newspaper, 11 xii.
Amusingly, Rev Blair's effort had been anticipated a week previously by BNP leader Nick Griffin, who had told followers in the BNP's top Barking & Dagenham constituency that 'multiculturalism was dead - killed by the BNP.' The Rev's advice to immigrants to Britain that they should 'like it or bugger off' was also splendidly reminiscent of the favourite advice of the French National Front to immigrants about France, 'love it or leave it' ('Allez-la ou quittez-la'). Evidently, having bullied the 'Conservatives' into silence on race, immigration, crime and the lunacy of comprehensive schools, NuLabour wanted to move into the political space that the terrified Tories had left wide-open. Rev. Bliar, always supposedly concerned with his 'legacy,' was making sure that Labour would win another election and that he himself would surely go down in history as a political, if no other kind of genius.
It transpired that Mr Blair agreed with a windy and self-contradictory November letter from some 'New Generation Network' in the Grauniad which, while protesting belief in "freedom of expression" went on to advocate the elimination of all prejudice against Blecks, Mueslis, yags etc, (20 xi) - no prize for guessing how such elimination would be achieved. Having bullied the (admittedly timorous) Whites into silence about race, the lordly 'moderate' left suddenly favoured free discussion so as to disguise the rampant 'anti-racist' anti-White authoritarianism which they had permitted until it succeeded. Now, apparently, was the time to put knives back in sheaths and pretend that all was sweetness and light in the oh-so-decent immigrant-slave society which lefties had created, despite that society spawning thousands of new welfare-dependents daily with the importation of ever more slave-women from Pakistan and drug mules from Jamaica.
In the Observer, dotty-leftie columnist Mary Riddell quickly arrived at her own preferred version of Tonyman's new 'integration' proposal: "This is the opportunity to defuse the public power of all gods, to ban religious schools of every hue, to end the cross-contamination of faith and policy and to move towards a secular state." This was the opportunity to get the bishops out of the House of Lords, thought daffy Mary (10 xii, 'Integrate? Tell that to the Christian church, Mr Blair').
Rev Bliar's demand for 'integration' by Mueslis was accompanied by a fresh attack on the family as he announced a crackdown on 'deadbeat dads' who declined to support runaway wives and accompanying useless children. Fathers who thus rejected marriage break-ups were to be 'named and shamed' on the internet (this modern version of the pillory being introduced after twenty years of successive governments persecuting fathers who had no wish to finance their wives' adultery and desertion). No wonder it seemed that the Blairite house of cards must soon tumble, even if the wretched 'Conservatives' were incapable of lifting a finger to help the process!
The pseudo-drama of Rev Bliar's pseudo-conversion was captured by columnist Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times (10 xii): "Immigrants to this country have a "right to be different" and a "duty to integrate", according to Tony Blair. I think this means clear off if you don't like it here, but one can never be entirely sure with him. For example, he also said multiculturalism had always been about a balance between conformity and difference, which is a breathtaking assertion - a little as if he had announced: "There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - and, y'know, we never said there were." Government-sponsored multiculturalism for 30 years insisted there was no imperative to share the core values of society - if there were core values of society, which there probably weren't. People who disagreed were branded "racist". If Blair had made his speech 10 years ago he'd have branded himself "racist", which would have been fun to watch, I suppose."
The Torygraph also made good points (9 xii): "True, the ideology which Mr Blair now decries has been advanced chiefly by his own party. Given his readiness to apologise for ancient wrongs, it would perhaps have been appropriate to acknowledge this more recent mistake. Still, we are delighted that Mr Blair has come round to the view that this newspaper has always held, and that our countrymen have clung to through decades of official bullying and hectoring. What, though, are these "British values" that Mr Blair wants everyone to accept. It will not do to carry on about freedom, fairness and tolerance: admirable as they are, these virtues would serve equally well for Ecuador or Finland. British values, surely, are bound up in our institutions: common law, a sovereign parliament, habeas corpus, counties, army regiments: the very institutions that have often been traduced by this ministry. Perhaps Mr Blair might devote his final months to reparing some of this damage."
Top columnist Simon Heffer was still more scathing: "Saying you want people to integrate but remain multicultural is like saying you want them to stay sober but still drink a bottle of vodka each night."
America's National Review welcomed Blair's 'bigger than babyish' steps away from classical Labourite multiculturalism, but noted that he had not dissociated himself from voices in his party wanting still further free-speech-dampening laws against 'stirring up religious hatred' (11 xii).
In the Guardian, columnists Madeleine Bunting, Faisal al Yafai, Simon Woolley [Black] and Dave Hill whinged that Blair's speech had shown insufficient appreciation of the hard times that Muslims had in Britain, especially because of the Government's joining the War on Terror, and virtually denounced as 'racist' Blair's saying "Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here."; but they met with rather little support from correspondents, who tended to reckon Blair was sensibly reining in PeeCee so as to halt Labour's slide in the polls.
Rev Bliar found himself fortified in his turn-around by his former Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, revealing that Britain had argued hard in Washington not to disband Madman Insane's half-a-million-strong army, and not to cast equally into unemployment the further half-a-million state servants (doctors, teachers, nurses etc.) who had joined Saddam's Ba'ath Party not as convinced ideologues but only because there was little alternative except emigration. Some high-ranking American civil servants backed up Hoon, saying the USA had simply ignored British advice. The possibility thus emerged of Blair re-branding himself as a pseudo-true son of the Empire - if only he could resist the temptations to make pseudo-apologies for slavery (in which the English had never engaged on their own soil until they allowed the importation of Pakistani brides into forced marriages).
LYNN & VANHANEN LATEST
A warm welcome was given to "IQ and Global Inequality", which extended "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", by Phil Rushton (VDare, 7 xii). For example: "In my view, Lynn and Vanhanen have made what is arguably the most important contribution to economic understanding since Adam Smith showed that free markets promote economic development. They have shown also that national IQs explain much of the variation between nations in a wide range of economic and social phenomena-not just income levels. Their book extends the explanatory power of the concept of intelligence in a way that makes a major contribution to the integration of psychology with the other social sciences."
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, bearded theologian Dr Rowan Williams, wrote (in Times Higher) urging compromise by saying that all groups surely must have the right to criticize the chosen behaviour of others and that Christians' spiritually informed criticism of homosexual acts should not be treated as 'hate speech' (Ulster TV, 7 xii; Pink News, 7 xii). He especially said:"It would be very bad ..if the idea were allowed to gain ground that a student {guild or association} could be an arbiter of publicly acceptable belief."
His statements came after several Christian leaders had spoken out against the new Sexual Orientation Regulations {being introduced in Northern Ireland by Government fiat}, claiming they were an attack on "freedom of conscience." He seemed just about game for confrontation with the likes of E.LU., expressing his belief that the banning by universities of religious groups threatened 'the integrity of the whole educational process'.
Several London medical schools were said to have joined E.LU. & ilk in backing yag 'rights' to disrupt Christian Union meetings by their tireless questioning of the Church's position(s) on homosexuality (This is London, 6 xii).
The National Secular Society prepared for battle, saying Bullying Christians Demand the Right to Mistreat Others On Campus (7 xii) and reckoning Edinburgh's Christian Union would soon launch legal action against E.LU.
Edinburgh and Exeter LUnis were named and shamed on BBC Radio 4's flagship programme 'Any Questions' (8 xii) for their attacks on their Christian Unions.
The director of Share Jesus International, the Rev Dr Rob Frost, criticised the university bans on Christians which he called "a great tragedy". He told Christian Today: "The loving, serving and gracious ways in which the Christian Unions have carried out their ministry over the last 80 or more years is to be applauded. "The fact that they are now being pushed off of university campus property, and out of the mainstream of student life is a great tragedy." (Christian Today, 9 xii)
E.LU.'s compromise offer to its C.U. of 'a room with a health warning' for the PURE course was rejected by C.U. officials (Scotsman, 9 xii).
Pretty Mid-Bedfordhire MP, Nadine Dorries, 39, backed the C.U.'s against the lunis (10 xii). "Any moves to impose on the leadership teams of CUs individuals who do not share their beliefs should also be opposed," she said as she tabled a C.U.-backing motion in the House of Commons.
Pink News recorded E.LU. to be "deadlocked" over the PURE course. Said LUni PR personages: "This is a complex and delicate matter and the university is working to strike a balance which will be acceptable to everyone involved, and is staying in close touch with Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA) in this regard."
MULTICULTURALISM IS DEAD! LONG LIVE PEECEE!
Just eight years after announcing himself a champion of the multiculturalism which had been Labour policy since 1976, Prime Minister Blair announced that this particular game was over and that 'integration' and 'balanced multiculturalism' were now the flavour of the month (Daily Telegraph, 8 xii). Rev Bliar thus brought welcome annoyance to Muslim 'leaders,' who feared he would insist that females should have full access to mosques; but others* were understandably cynical, noting:
(1) that NuLabour's enthusiastic admission of millions of third-world immigrants had - while generating temporarily a boom economy based on slave-for-the-time-being labour - undermined all possibility of serious integration occurring into the British way of life (itself under attack by Labour, which had weakened the family, eroded free speech and provided the conditions for yag domination) and
(2) that producing 'integration' out of his hat was as likely as Blair ever realizing his former promises of 'education, education, education' or peace and democracy in Iraq. Bliar might also turn out to have upset Christians themselves by saying that "No culture or religion supercedes our duty to be part of the UK." Anyhow the likelihood of the new 'policy' resulting in much more than occasional withdrawl of funds from some mad mullah's favourite 'charities' looked slight - for Muesli slave women would be unlikely to respond to any legal liberation of them, never having produced any noticeable Muslim feminist movement in a generation. And Bliar's demand for acceptance by all of the 'British' value of tolerance could well prefigure an actual intensification of peecee pressures to disallow insensitivity to the sensitized.
Bliar's policy change, whatever it might turn out to involve (and 'Opposition Leader' David Cameron - praised by Blair for not 'playing the race card' -- needed to press Bliar urgently for details), was made in a lecture to the Runnymede Trust, which had been working for a 'multi-ethnic Britain,' but with increasing realism; and the change was accompanied with the usual 'celebration' of diversity, which had merely to be 'balanced' with integration. In the left's hands 'integration,' like multiculturalism, could actually have big dangers for Whites - resulting in busing, forced cohabitation and even eventually state-funded pressures for intermarriage as called for by Black Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson in Rituals of Blood.
However, the Labour-backing Daily Mirror tabloid's interpretation (in agreement with the Torygraph) was that some genuine positive change was underway: "His words are a clear sign Labour fears it is alienating working class voters who feel ethnic minorities are a higher priority;" and the Sun said Blair's patience with extremist immigrants had "snapped." The Guardian said the Government had "announced a crackdown on foreign imams by requiring them to have a proper command of English before they are allowed to enter the UK."
* See e.g. the correspondents who wrote in to the Sun newspaper, 11 xii.
Amusingly, Rev Blair's effort had been anticipated a week previously by BNP leader Nick Griffin, who had told followers in the BNP's top Barking & Dagenham constituency that 'multiculturalism was dead - killed by the BNP.' The Rev's advice to immigrants to Britain that they should 'like it or bugger off' was also splendidly reminiscent of the favourite advice of the French National Front to immigrants about France, 'love it or leave it' ('Allez-la ou quittez-la'). Evidently, having bullied the 'Conservatives' into silence on race, immigration, crime and the lunacy of comprehensive schools, NuLabour wanted to move into the political space that the terrified Tories had left wide-open. Rev. Bliar, always supposedly concerned with his 'legacy,' was making sure that Labour would win another election and that he himself would surely go down in history as a political, if no other kind of genius.
It transpired that Mr Blair agreed with a windy and self-contradictory November letter from some 'New Generation Network' in the Grauniad which, while protesting belief in "freedom of expression" went on to advocate the elimination of all prejudice against Blecks, Mueslis, yags etc, (20 xi) - no prize for guessing how such elimination would be achieved. Having bullied the (admittedly timorous) Whites into silence about race, the lordly 'moderate' left suddenly favoured free discussion so as to disguise the rampant 'anti-racist' anti-White authoritarianism which they had permitted until it succeeded. Now, apparently, was the time to put knives back in sheaths and pretend that all was sweetness and light in the oh-so-decent immigrant-slave society which lefties had created, despite that society spawning thousands of new welfare-dependents daily with the importation of ever more slave-women from Pakistan and drug mules from Jamaica.
In the Observer, dotty-leftie columnist Mary Riddell quickly arrived at her own preferred version of Tonyman's new 'integration' proposal: "This is the opportunity to defuse the public power of all gods, to ban religious schools of every hue, to end the cross-contamination of faith and policy and to move towards a secular state." This was the opportunity to get the bishops out of the House of Lords, thought daffy Mary (10 xii, 'Integrate? Tell that to the Christian church, Mr Blair').
Rev Bliar's demand for 'integration' by Mueslis was accompanied by a fresh attack on the family as he announced a crackdown on 'deadbeat dads' who declined to support runaway wives and accompanying useless children. Fathers who thus rejected marriage break-ups were to be 'named and shamed' on the internet (this modern version of the pillory being introduced after twenty years of successive governments persecuting fathers who had no wish to finance their wives' adultery and desertion). No wonder it seemed that the Blairite house of cards must soon tumble, even if the wretched 'Conservatives' were incapable of lifting a finger to help the process!
The pseudo-drama of Rev Bliar's pseudo-conversion was captured by columnist Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times (10 xii): "Immigrants to this country have a "right to be different" and a "duty to integrate", according to Tony Blair. I think this means clear off if you don't like it here, but one can never be entirely sure with him. For example, he also said multiculturalism had always been about a balance between conformity and difference, which is a breathtaking assertion - a little as if he had announced: "There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - and, y'know, we never said there were." Government-sponsored multiculturalism for 30 years insisted there was no imperative to share the core values of society - if there were core values of society, which there probably weren't. People who disagreed were branded "racist". If Blair had made his speech 10 years ago he'd have branded himself "racist", which would have been fun to watch, I suppose."
The Torygraph also made good points (9 xii): "True, the ideology which Mr Blair now decries has been advanced chiefly by his own party. Given his readiness to apologise for ancient wrongs, it would perhaps have been appropriate to acknowledge this more recent mistake. Still, we are delighted that Mr Blair has come round to the view that this newspaper has always held, and that our countrymen have clung to through decades of official bullying and hectoring. What, though, are these "British values" that Mr Blair wants everyone to accept. It will not do to carry on about freedom, fairness and tolerance: admirable as they are, these virtues would serve equally well for Ecuador or Finland. British values, surely, are bound up in our institutions: common law, a sovereign parliament, habeas corpus, counties, army regiments: the very institutions that have often been traduced by this ministry. Perhaps Mr Blair might devote his final months to reparing some of this damage."
Top columnist Simon Heffer was still more scathing: "Saying you want people to integrate but remain multicultural is like saying you want them to stay sober but still drink a bottle of vodka each night."
America's National Review welcomed Blair's 'bigger than babyish' steps away from classical Labourite multiculturalism, but noted that he had not dissociated himself from voices in his party wanting still further free-speech-dampening laws against 'stirring up religious hatred' (11 xii).
In the Guardian, columnists Madeleine Bunting, Faisal al Yafai, Simon Woolley [Black] and Dave Hill whinged that Blair's speech had shown insufficient appreciation of the hard times that Muslims had in Britain, especially because of the Government's joining the War on Terror, and virtually denounced as 'racist' Blair's saying "Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here."; but they met with rather little support from correspondents, who tended to reckon Blair was sensibly reining in PeeCee so as to halt Labour's slide in the polls.
Rev Bliar found himself fortified in his turn-around by his former Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, revealing that Britain had argued hard in Washington not to disband Madman Insane's half-a-million-strong army, and not to cast equally into unemployment the further half-a-million state servants (doctors, teachers, nurses etc.) who had joined Saddam's Ba'ath Party not as convinced ideologues but only because there was little alternative except emigration. Some high-ranking American civil servants backed up Hoon, saying the USA had simply ignored British advice. The possibility thus emerged of Blair re-branding himself as a pseudo-true son of the Empire - if only he could resist the temptations to make pseudo-apologies for slavery (in which the English had never engaged on their own soil until they allowed the importation of Pakistani brides into forced marriages).
LYNN & VANHANEN LATEST
A warm welcome was given to "IQ and Global Inequality", which extended "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", by Phil Rushton (VDare, 7 xii). For example: "In my view, Lynn and Vanhanen have made what is arguably the most important contribution to economic understanding since Adam Smith showed that free markets promote economic development. They have shown also that national IQs explain much of the variation between nations in a wide range of economic and social phenomena-not just income levels. Their book extends the explanatory power of the concept of intelligence in a way that makes a major contribution to the integration of psychology with the other social sciences."
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
INTEGRATION REALISM
After years of claiming to `integrate' Blacks and Muslims into the French Republic, France found itself faced with a Black police officer in Paris shooting into a crowd of 100 White football supporters who menaced him after he tried to stop them harassing a visiting Israeli football fan whose team had just beaten the French team Paris St Germain 4-2 (MetroNews, 25 xi). As inquiries began into the resultant killing of a PSG supporter, breast-beating about the country's multicultural achievements raged in France's media and Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy swore to stamp out racism in football even if French soccer stadia were left half-empty.
Any French ideas that they could exert control over Black genocidal tendencies was undermined as the French ambassador was expelled from Rwanda after he called for President Paul Kagame to go on trial for his share of the 800,000 Tutsi killed by the Hutu.
Within days of the PSG incident, the soccer fans of once-Liberty-loving France found themselves barred from all matches unless they purchased tickets from official fan clubs which would be obliged to monitor them for `racism' (Guardian, 28 xi). PSG itself agreed under government pressure to close its 2,000-seater `Red Boulogne' stand where `racist' fans had been known to congregate.
`ANTI-RACISTS' AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS
A planned London love-in (at 700 pounds per head in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, all bills footed by taxpayers) to celebrate 30 years of British multiculturalism was disrupted as `Red' Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, refused to share twiglets with Commission for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips - the latter top Black Bliar toady having given offence by casting the occasional teeny aspersion on multiculturalism and thus put himself, said Ken, `in line for membership of the BNP' (Observer, 20 xi). {Amidst the jollifications, it emerged that NuLabour had arranged no less than 50,000 jobs for its cronies in Britain's race relations industry.}
{Amusingly, Phillips himself had once thrown BNP slurs around at fellow lefties, in 2004, saying to David Goodhart, the Prospect author who had got around to pointing out that relatively `diverse' countries do not have much of a welfare state: "Is this the wit and wisdom of Enoch Powell? Jottings from the BNP leader's weblog?" (Guardian, 24 ii 2004). Likewise, the lordly Goodhart himself surely took the view over the years that I and The g Factor were well beyond the pale.}
RACE UNREALISM
On a day when two Black youths were given life sentences from the Old Bailey for murdering a gifted young White lawyer* in London for just 20 pounds and his mobile phone, Tory MP Bob Spink found himself carpeted by Not-the-Conservative Party leader Daft Dave Chameleon for explaining in email to a constituent that Black males were, pro rata, over-represented in the criminal fraternity (Daily Telegraph, 28 xi; Black Information Link, 4 xii).
* Thomas ap Rhys Jones, 31, had a First Class Degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was also a talented amateur violinist. When police found him dying in a pool of his own blood, a list of wedding guests was among his belongings for he and his lawyer girlfriend, Adele Eastman, 32, had been planning to marry a few months later. The mighty Boris Johnson MP felt moved to advocate the death penality but held himself back because Adele and the Jones family, though devastated, did not seem to want to restore hanging.
BLACK-WHITE IQ GAP DECREASING?
The American Enterprise Institute hosted a fine scholarly debate between its own Bell-authoring Charles Murray and political philosopher-turned-psychometrician James Flynn* who had maintained since the 1980's that IQ was rising and that Blacks would surely soon somehow benefit from an extra score rise of their own.
No victor seemed to be declared in the media - though commentators** did note critically Flynn's heavy dependence on the Eyferth-originating study of (illegitimate) children of Black US servicemen growing up in Germany (for the apparent near-equality of these half-Black children with Whites was easily explicable by the US military not accepting personnel of under IQ 90 and by German girls in post-Hitler days being unlikely to have had sex with Blacks unless the Black soldier himself was extra-presentable and well-monied). One suggested compromise (made by Steve Sailer) was that the B-W gap had been narrowing a little among children but not among adults (perhaps because of schools' limitless concern to ensure children pass tests). Another possible explanation for the Flynn-Murray difference could have been in the different IQ tests used (Education Week, 6 xii).
What was notable was that (apart from Flynn himself hailing from Ireland and New Zealand) the whole exercise and its media coverage were so exclusively American, rather confirming that, in the aftermath of The Bell Curve's publication, my being sacked and British psychologists and journalists subjected to a reign of terror by their university administrators and editors, the London School of Psychology had possibly moved Stateside -- a new book from Richard Lynn (Ulster) and Tatu Vanhanen (Finland), IQ and Global Inequality, was on its way, but brought out by Washington Summit Publishers, Augusta, Georgia.
* A good friend of The g Factor, it should be said; and just as nice and reasonable on his two visits to Edinburgh as he evidently was in New York.
** John Derbyshire in National Review, 29 xi; Ronald Bailey, 1 xii. Surprisingly, commentators did not note in particular the recent Rushton & Flynn 2006 summary of the totality of evidence, showing the B-W difference virtually unchanged over the past 30 years -- Rushton, J. P., & Jensen, A. R. (2006). `The totality of available evidence shows race-IQ gap still remains.' Psychological Science 17, 921-922.
BLACK-ON-BLACK SLAVERY
Responding to Prime Minister Blair's assertion that he felt "deep sorrow" about the slave-trade, the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore made many excellent points (that Britain had been the first country to end slave-trading and to stop others - the French Revolutionaries outlawed slavery in French dominions but Napoleon quickly reintroduced it; that slavery was alive and well in Mauritania and Sudan - where the local Arabic word for `Black' was the same as for slave; and that the principal British anti-slaver, William Wilberforce, had been a political conservative, not a radical). However, one did wonder whether British `idealism' was not at least partly the result of American Independence and the subsequent 30-year war with Britain - public protests in Britain at the slave trade seem to have begun in 1787.
RACISM - I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT CAME OVER ME
Bruce Jones, a star of Yukay's top TV `soap,' `Coronation Street' (where he played `Les Battersby'), admitted and apologized for a `racist remark' against Asians [i.e. Pakistanis] while he was addressing a charity gig, blaming drink and the impending death of his father (News of the World, 3 xii; Sunday Mirror, 3 xii). The Corrie star, not unknown for alcohol problems, thus joined Hollywood's Catholic star and multimillionaire Mel Gibson who, when arrested by a Jewish police officer earlier in 2006 for apparently drunk driving in California, had produced an anti-Semitic tirade - sentence: 3 years probation. In neither case were newspaper readers allowed to hear the precise criticisms that these celebrities had in mind about the racial groups in question,* so imperative was it for the West's peecee-crippled media to avoid the slightest discussion of race (even when the meanderings of these `drunken' celebrities could presumably have been quite easily lampooned by a half-competent scribbler). Although the Western tradition had long been not to accept drink as an excuse for anything, inebriation was coming to be the easiest way of explaining otherwise inexplicable glimmers of race realism.
* Jones had apparently joked that the `Asians' he saw in the charity-bash audience had presumably come because they were waiting for passports which they could then sell in their `market stalls', but no inquiry was made into Jones' actual beliefs that had furnished the basis of his merry insult.
PAEDOHYSTERIA SPECIAL
"Frantic" oral, hand-job and straight sex for several months in 2002 with two 14- and 15-year-old virgin boys, friends of her son, led to the downfall of a busty, blonde, glamorous (Daily Torygraph picture, 5 xii), strong-shouldered and thong-wearing British mother and businesswoman, who employed them at her bouncy castle emporium, Yvonne Renton, then 35: Yvonne made the mistake of dumping the older of the readily zip-opening youths (a boy `not equipped to cope' - later diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic), triggering self-harm by him and herself being sentenced in Kent in 2006 to 18 months jail and general ruin for naughtiness and intimidation. {Of course, had she been a man 'preying' on 14-15-yr girls, the sentence would have been more like 10 years.}
{In Devon, the 79-year-old Abbot of Benedictine Buckfast Abbey, a monastic settlement since 1018 and famous for its cider, was forced to resign following allegations that he had occasionally importuned choirboys of under 14 between 1972 and 1981 (Sun, 6 xii). Just what had happened to the perhaps-lucky choirboys was not a matter which Britain's hysterical media-folk could allow themselves to explore. In the Kent court, the judge made a point of not blaming Mrs Renton for her impressively-penically-endowed but flawed young partner's paranoid schizophrenia.}
EXETER CHRISTIANS TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Following the announcement that Exeter University's Christian Union would pursue legal action against the LUni, I sent the following letter to the CU leader, copied to other Christian groups.
PS The latest from Edinburgh University is a compromise offer of accommodation for the Christian Union's (allegedly homophobic) PURE course so long as information (which the University would itself supply) is prominently displayed to the effect that some groups (telephone helplines supplied) think homosexuality is just fine. However, no such 'health warnings' were planned to oblige the Islamic Society to explain that its Hamas speakers were anti-Semitic, or to point biology students to creationist points of view about the origins of life. Rather than litter its clubs and courses with health warnings, the University would surely do better to put up a sign at its Old College HQ declaring 'Anything said in this university may be rubbish -- especially the University's own unprincipled and fast-changing views on freedom of speech.'
The University's Student newspaper carried a fine letter (from Scott George McCombe, 5th December) pointing out the classic error of calling for 'free speech so long as it is responsible/sensitive/inoffensive/balanced etc.': for there is simply *no need* to provide 'freedom' for speech that wouldn't upset anyone -- a point that was made unavailingly to Edinburgh University as it aimed to placate its 'anti-racists' and feminazies back in 1996/7/8.
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Comments? Email Chris Brand.
Some history.
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After years of claiming to `integrate' Blacks and Muslims into the French Republic, France found itself faced with a Black police officer in Paris shooting into a crowd of 100 White football supporters who menaced him after he tried to stop them harassing a visiting Israeli football fan whose team had just beaten the French team Paris St Germain 4-2 (MetroNews, 25 xi). As inquiries began into the resultant killing of a PSG supporter, breast-beating about the country's multicultural achievements raged in France's media and Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy swore to stamp out racism in football even if French soccer stadia were left half-empty.
Any French ideas that they could exert control over Black genocidal tendencies was undermined as the French ambassador was expelled from Rwanda after he called for President Paul Kagame to go on trial for his share of the 800,000 Tutsi killed by the Hutu.
Within days of the PSG incident, the soccer fans of once-Liberty-loving France found themselves barred from all matches unless they purchased tickets from official fan clubs which would be obliged to monitor them for `racism' (Guardian, 28 xi). PSG itself agreed under government pressure to close its 2,000-seater `Red Boulogne' stand where `racist' fans had been known to congregate.
`ANTI-RACISTS' AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS
A planned London love-in (at 700 pounds per head in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, all bills footed by taxpayers) to celebrate 30 years of British multiculturalism was disrupted as `Red' Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, refused to share twiglets with Commission for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips - the latter top Black Bliar toady having given offence by casting the occasional teeny aspersion on multiculturalism and thus put himself, said Ken, `in line for membership of the BNP' (Observer, 20 xi). {Amidst the jollifications, it emerged that NuLabour had arranged no less than 50,000 jobs for its cronies in Britain's race relations industry.}
{Amusingly, Phillips himself had once thrown BNP slurs around at fellow lefties, in 2004, saying to David Goodhart, the Prospect author who had got around to pointing out that relatively `diverse' countries do not have much of a welfare state: "Is this the wit and wisdom of Enoch Powell? Jottings from the BNP leader's weblog?" (Guardian, 24 ii 2004). Likewise, the lordly Goodhart himself surely took the view over the years that I and The g Factor were well beyond the pale.}
RACE UNREALISM
On a day when two Black youths were given life sentences from the Old Bailey for murdering a gifted young White lawyer* in London for just 20 pounds and his mobile phone, Tory MP Bob Spink found himself carpeted by Not-the-Conservative Party leader Daft Dave Chameleon for explaining in email to a constituent that Black males were, pro rata, over-represented in the criminal fraternity (Daily Telegraph, 28 xi; Black Information Link, 4 xii).
* Thomas ap Rhys Jones, 31, had a First Class Degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was also a talented amateur violinist. When police found him dying in a pool of his own blood, a list of wedding guests was among his belongings for he and his lawyer girlfriend, Adele Eastman, 32, had been planning to marry a few months later. The mighty Boris Johnson MP felt moved to advocate the death penality but held himself back because Adele and the Jones family, though devastated, did not seem to want to restore hanging.
BLACK-WHITE IQ GAP DECREASING?
The American Enterprise Institute hosted a fine scholarly debate between its own Bell-authoring Charles Murray and political philosopher-turned-psychometrician James Flynn* who had maintained since the 1980's that IQ was rising and that Blacks would surely soon somehow benefit from an extra score rise of their own.
No victor seemed to be declared in the media - though commentators** did note critically Flynn's heavy dependence on the Eyferth-originating study of (illegitimate) children of Black US servicemen growing up in Germany (for the apparent near-equality of these half-Black children with Whites was easily explicable by the US military not accepting personnel of under IQ 90 and by German girls in post-Hitler days being unlikely to have had sex with Blacks unless the Black soldier himself was extra-presentable and well-monied). One suggested compromise (made by Steve Sailer) was that the B-W gap had been narrowing a little among children but not among adults (perhaps because of schools' limitless concern to ensure children pass tests). Another possible explanation for the Flynn-Murray difference could have been in the different IQ tests used (Education Week, 6 xii).
What was notable was that (apart from Flynn himself hailing from Ireland and New Zealand) the whole exercise and its media coverage were so exclusively American, rather confirming that, in the aftermath of The Bell Curve's publication, my being sacked and British psychologists and journalists subjected to a reign of terror by their university administrators and editors, the London School of Psychology had possibly moved Stateside -- a new book from Richard Lynn (Ulster) and Tatu Vanhanen (Finland), IQ and Global Inequality, was on its way, but brought out by Washington Summit Publishers, Augusta, Georgia.
* A good friend of The g Factor, it should be said; and just as nice and reasonable on his two visits to Edinburgh as he evidently was in New York.
** John Derbyshire in National Review, 29 xi; Ronald Bailey, 1 xii. Surprisingly, commentators did not note in particular the recent Rushton & Flynn 2006 summary of the totality of evidence, showing the B-W difference virtually unchanged over the past 30 years -- Rushton, J. P., & Jensen, A. R. (2006). `The totality of available evidence shows race-IQ gap still remains.' Psychological Science 17, 921-922.
BLACK-ON-BLACK SLAVERY
Responding to Prime Minister Blair's assertion that he felt "deep sorrow" about the slave-trade, the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore made many excellent points (that Britain had been the first country to end slave-trading and to stop others - the French Revolutionaries outlawed slavery in French dominions but Napoleon quickly reintroduced it; that slavery was alive and well in Mauritania and Sudan - where the local Arabic word for `Black' was the same as for slave; and that the principal British anti-slaver, William Wilberforce, had been a political conservative, not a radical). However, one did wonder whether British `idealism' was not at least partly the result of American Independence and the subsequent 30-year war with Britain - public protests in Britain at the slave trade seem to have begun in 1787.
RACISM - I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT CAME OVER ME
Bruce Jones, a star of Yukay's top TV `soap,' `Coronation Street' (where he played `Les Battersby'), admitted and apologized for a `racist remark' against Asians [i.e. Pakistanis] while he was addressing a charity gig, blaming drink and the impending death of his father (News of the World, 3 xii; Sunday Mirror, 3 xii). The Corrie star, not unknown for alcohol problems, thus joined Hollywood's Catholic star and multimillionaire Mel Gibson who, when arrested by a Jewish police officer earlier in 2006 for apparently drunk driving in California, had produced an anti-Semitic tirade - sentence: 3 years probation. In neither case were newspaper readers allowed to hear the precise criticisms that these celebrities had in mind about the racial groups in question,* so imperative was it for the West's peecee-crippled media to avoid the slightest discussion of race (even when the meanderings of these `drunken' celebrities could presumably have been quite easily lampooned by a half-competent scribbler). Although the Western tradition had long been not to accept drink as an excuse for anything, inebriation was coming to be the easiest way of explaining otherwise inexplicable glimmers of race realism.
* Jones had apparently joked that the `Asians' he saw in the charity-bash audience had presumably come because they were waiting for passports which they could then sell in their `market stalls', but no inquiry was made into Jones' actual beliefs that had furnished the basis of his merry insult.
PAEDOHYSTERIA SPECIAL
"Frantic" oral, hand-job and straight sex for several months in 2002 with two 14- and 15-year-old virgin boys, friends of her son, led to the downfall of a busty, blonde, glamorous (Daily Torygraph picture, 5 xii), strong-shouldered and thong-wearing British mother and businesswoman, who employed them at her bouncy castle emporium, Yvonne Renton, then 35: Yvonne made the mistake of dumping the older of the readily zip-opening youths (a boy `not equipped to cope' - later diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic), triggering self-harm by him and herself being sentenced in Kent in 2006 to 18 months jail and general ruin for naughtiness and intimidation. {Of course, had she been a man 'preying' on 14-15-yr girls, the sentence would have been more like 10 years.}
{In Devon, the 79-year-old Abbot of Benedictine Buckfast Abbey, a monastic settlement since 1018 and famous for its cider, was forced to resign following allegations that he had occasionally importuned choirboys of under 14 between 1972 and 1981 (Sun, 6 xii). Just what had happened to the perhaps-lucky choirboys was not a matter which Britain's hysterical media-folk could allow themselves to explore. In the Kent court, the judge made a point of not blaming Mrs Renton for her impressively-penically-endowed but flawed young partner's paranoid schizophrenia.}
EXETER CHRISTIANS TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Following the announcement that Exeter University's Christian Union would pursue legal action against the LUni, I sent the following letter to the CU leader, copied to other Christian groups.
To: The President, Exeter University Christian Union
Re: 'Students Consult Lawyers After Refusal to Reinstate Exeter Christian Union'
(The saga started in May this year when one student felt the CU's requirement that members attest biblical principles was too "exclusive" for him -- probably in its not condoning homosexual behaviour.
Full account: here and here)
Edinburgh, 6th December 2006.
Dear James Harding,
It's great to gather from the media that UCCF and Exeter University Christian Union have the will to fight for freedom of belief, speech, expression and association in Britain's universities. Freedom is a most important cause, as is support for traditional family values; and both causes have been abandoned by many British academics over the past twenty years. Times Higher recently reported that 80% of British academics said universities had sacrificed the principle of academic freedom (26th October).
But I write principally to urge a little clever caution in view of press reports of your planned legal action. In particular, I suggest your legal team should not put much reliance on the 1986 Education (No. 2) Act, for this statute only *appears* to oblige universities to support free speech.
In 1998, Edinburgh University successfully argued (against me and my counsel) before a Scottish High Court judge that any duty that it had to support free speech took second place to its need to support its own reputation and income. In a particularly astonishing passage among complex legal proceedings, it was argued by the University that it had no more duty to support free speech than did *a biscuit factory* -- and this argument was essentially accepted. I honestly advise that UCCF lawyers look carefully at http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/McDNLArch3b.htm for more (FIND 'Decision of Mr T. Gordon Coutts QC') to see what they would be up against.
Of course, Edinburgh University's attitude to free speech was and is disgraceful; but I imagine, in view of all the trouble that Exeter University has given your Christian Union so far, that Exeter will follow suit. One way forward could be to publicize the inadequacies of the 1986 statute via the media, for I'm sure there would be wide public sympathy once it was realized that British universities had spinelessly accepted legislation actually undermining their historic duty to defend free speech. Alternatively, it would be important, apparently, to gather evidence that allowing expression of 'homophobic' views would not diminish, and might actually enhance the reputation and income of a university.
Sorry if this is initially dispiriting; but I want you to win, not lose! You're welcome to let me know if there is anything else you feel I can do to help.
I am yours sincerely,
-- Chris Brand (psychologist, author of 'The g Factor').
PS The latest from Edinburgh University is a compromise offer of accommodation for the Christian Union's (allegedly homophobic) PURE course so long as information (which the University would itself supply) is prominently displayed to the effect that some groups (telephone helplines supplied) think homosexuality is just fine. However, no such 'health warnings' were planned to oblige the Islamic Society to explain that its Hamas speakers were anti-Semitic, or to point biology students to creationist points of view about the origins of life. Rather than litter its clubs and courses with health warnings, the University would surely do better to put up a sign at its Old College HQ declaring 'Anything said in this university may be rubbish -- especially the University's own unprincipled and fast-changing views on freedom of speech.'
The University's Student newspaper carried a fine letter (from Scott George McCombe, 5th December) pointing out the classic error of calling for 'free speech so long as it is responsible/sensitive/inoffensive/balanced etc.': for there is simply *no need* to provide 'freedom' for speech that wouldn't upset anyone -- a point that was made unavailingly to Edinburgh University as it aimed to placate its 'anti-racists' and feminazies back in 1996/7/8.
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